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o o 4 T3f?C a- jwt tew Armed iiglt -i , V7v I i i o IT. J 4 WARM GREETING is given China's Mao Tse Tung (left), as he in Moscow, by Soviet Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev. arrives in Moscow, by Soviet Mao will participate in celebration of fortieth anniversary of Bolshevik revolution. (International). India Pians To Go To General Assembly With Conference Plan United Nations, N. Y. W- Indian delegation sources said today they would go directly to the General Assembly with their plan to expand disarmament con ferences despite western opposi tion, o The plan, designed as a "com promise" between the East and West, was not presented Wednes day to the main Political Com mittee which gave substantial backing the western disarma ment proposals. U. S. Surprised. Pleased The U. S. delegation was sur prised but pleased at the top- heavy vote'. It also was gratified at the heavy votes against Soviet pro posals to expand the member ship of disarmament conferences and to call an unconditional five-year moratorium on the use of nuclear weapons. The General Assembly's main political committee, by a vote of 57-9 with 15 abstensions, Wed nesday endorsed the 24-nation resolution supporting th West ern disarmament plan worked out in London this year. The resolution called on the 12-member Disarmament Com mission's five-p o w e r subcom mittee to resume discussion of it "as soon as feasftle." Soviet Opposed Only the Soviet bloc voted against it. The abstentions came mostly from the Afro-Asian group, including India. Western experts said the 48 vote plurality was the result of Two Hearings Set For Council Today Qrhe Medford city council will hold two public hearings at its (7 7:30 p.m. meeting toaay. une is W -i X -1 ' T A a zone cnange uuiu tiasa single family, to class IIIA. com mercial, for property on Crater G Lake highway at Delta Waters rdO ' q The (other hearing is on vaca G tion of an aljey adjacent to and south of S5ars, Roebuck and company property at 10th st. Therouncil also will consider an ordinance proposing a closed circuit television system fran chise in the city, and on a pro posed amendment to the city or dinance on firearms. The latter would make a license from the police chief necessary before any firearms could be dis charged within the city. Council consideration of the - city's proposed subdivision ordi- nance is not expected tonight, W -according 1 city hall sources. The proposed ordinance was discussed at an informal meet ing of thcouncil and planning commission recently, and sev eral relatively ittjnor changes were suggested. Date For Argumwits Set in Nunn Appeal Oral arguments for the appeal of the vEilly Junior Nunn mur der case before the state su preme court have been sched uled for Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. in Salem. A. Allan Frankze, deputy) district at torney, will present the state's case. Nujmj 'was found guilty in Jackson county circuit court Aug. 1, 1956. to the first degree murder of Alvin William Eacret, 14rof Klamath Falls. There was norecommendation rit leniency by the jury so h received the mandatory sentence p&eath in the gas chamber. Gal!i0rd launches Crash Program To Rescue Tottoring Economy of France Payis (IP) Premier Felix Gaillard launched a crash pro gram today to save the French enconomy with a $600 million loan from the Bank of France. He was expected to get ap proval of his emergency stop-gap measure from both the National Assembly and the Senate today. Gaillard lost no time in secur ing authorization from his cabi net to borrow 250 billion francs (S600 million) from the bank to meet France's domestic and for , O irffrnilTUn Party reaction against Russia's threat to boycott arms talks with the West unless more nations par ticipate. India sought to meet the Sov iet '"ultimatum" by proposing that the Disarmament Commis sion be expanded from 12 to 21 nations. The United States and France, in private conversations, turned the idea down. Britain was luke warm and was understood to be willing to talk about adding two or three nations. Canada was re ported in favor of it but the four nations presented a united front in rejecting it. Apportionments of Funds Being Made Salem Oregon State High way Engineer W. C. Williams has been advised by Congress man Charles O. Porter that ap portionments are now being made of forest highway funds for the fiscal year 1959-60. Ore gon' allocation is about $4,300, 000. he said. The figure represents an in crease of about $173,000, more than anticipated because of new regulations establishing the ra tio for apportionment. The ap portionment is now made on the basis of 75 per cent for the area and 25 per cent for value. The previous basis was 50-50. It is anticipated that funds be ing apportioned will be allocat ed to various sections of the forest highway system in Ore gon before the end of the year, Williams said. At least one highway project in southern Oregon, the Medford- Klamath Falls highway by way of Lake of the Woods, may well be benefitted from this alloca tion of funds, it is believed here. Final decision on its inclusion in the forest highway program is scheduled for the near future, according to reports from Salem. Radar Equipment To Be Discussed A proposal to secure radar speed checking equipment for the city will be discussed at a meeting of the Medford Safety council Friday noon at the Jack son hotel. Police department representa tives will attend to answer ques tions regarding the merits of radar in reducing the toll of ac cidents caused from speeding and to discuss various types of equipment available. Other business will include a report on the Southern Oregon Safety Fair scheduled Nov. 16 in the National Guard Armory here. William Bell, of the state industrial accident commission, program chairman for the Fair, will give the report. Those planning to attend the luncheon are asked to telephone Miss Josephine Swayne, SPring 2-6504 for reservations. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Dow-Jones final slock aver ages: 30 industrials 438.91, up 3.09; 20 railroads 108.55, up 0.98; 15 utilities 64.97, up 0.01. and 65 stocks 148.03. up 0.92. Sales today were about 3.510.000 shares compared ilh 2.550,000 shares Thurs day Portland OP) The 62nd an nual Oregon Wool Growers con vention opened here today. eign obligations. Approval was given at the first meeting of the cabinet following Gaillard's in vesture by the National Assem bly early Wednesday. The Assembly planned to vote on the stop-gap loan this after noon. The Senate then will meet to confirm the ratification. With the pressing financial problem out of the way, Gail lard will be able to turn his full attention to other priority legislation; 52nd Year IWII 1 1 I i II I 1 U I 1 X $UV4fcv United Press Ful Leased Wire 30 PAGES Eisenhower Urged To Be Frank in Science Address Humphrey Urges Congress Be Called Washington (IP) Congress men of both parties urged today that President Eisenhower tell the nation frankly in his radio television address tonight where the United States stands in the missile race with Russia. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D Minn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said "much more is needed" than Radio-TV Highlights President Eisenhower's ad dress on science and security tonight will be heard over station KMED (1440 kc) and KWIN (1400 kc) at 5 p.m.. over KYJC (1230 kc) at 7:30 .p.m. and over KBES-TV at 8 p.m. a 'generalized pep talk by the President." He urged Eisen hower to summon a special ses sion of congress. Sen. John Keeney (D-Mass.), another member of the Foreign Relations Committee, demanded that Eisenhower "tell us square ly where we stand" and with hold the "pious beatitudes of faith and hope." The president is expected to give as frank an appraisal as pos sible, within the bounds of se curity, of this country's current missile progress and to call for new programs to increase scien tific and engineering manpower. But it was not known whether he would announce any dramatic new scientific achievement to take away some of the propagan da edge gained by Russia with its two Sputniks. Rep. Walter Rogers (D-Tex.) said the President should "let us know what the score is. . .if we have slipped behind the Rus sians, the sooner we know it, the better. Among Republicans, 10 first term GOP House members sent a telegram to the President say ing: "The people want and must have the facts about our missile program and the effect the Rus sian achievements have on our national security." Ask Ike To Give Facts They called on the Chief Exec utive to lay the facts "on the line regardless of how serious or unpleasant these facts may be," Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis.) commented that "the time is past when the President can get by with generalities." He said Ei senhower should "tell the people what we are up against and the sacrifices we are going to have to make." A similar view was taken by House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He said in a statement issued from his Bonham, Tex., home Wednesday that Americans are "troubled and distressed" by re cent world events and "feel cer tain that Russia has taken the leadership in science and espe cially in the ballistic missile field." County Tax Payments Taper Oil Slightly Payment of county taxes has tapered off slightly, according to tax officials today Lines were reported earlier this week in the tax department at the county courthouse, but today not wait ing was reported. A steady return of the some 33,000 county tax statements mailed out last month was also reported being received by mail. Deadline for payment is Nov. 15. If payment is made before then a 3 per cent discount will be given, officials reminded res idents. Renewal of emergency pow I ers to fight the rebellion in Al ! geria. A recovery act designed to give the French executive wide authority to intervene in the na tional economy. Passage of a new revised "home rule" bill for Algeria. If these measures can be pushed through the parliament, the government is expected to open a drive for constitutional reform and revision of the elec toral laws. w High Court Upholds Refusal to Dismiss Five Indictments D'Autremont Case Opinion Is By Lusk The state supreme court Wed nesday upheld a Jackson coun ty circuit court refusal to dis miss five indictments pending against Hugh D'Autremont. D'Autremont was convicted on a sixth indictment for first degree murder' following the at tempt by him and his brothers to rob the mail car of a Southern Pacific train in a Siskiyou tun nel south of Ashland Oct. 11, 1923. The first degree murder charge carried the recommenda tion for life imprisonment. D'Autremont's two brothers, Ray and Roy, were permitted by the court to enter pleas of guilty to second degree murder on one of the outstanding indictments and be sentenced to life in the state penitentiary. This was done with the agreement by the three D'Autremonts that they would spend the rest of their natural lives in the penitentiary and that the remaining outstanding indictments against them would not be prosecuted. The indictments would be kept pending to assure that each of the three men would spent the rest of his life in the peniten tiary and thus- not .be eligible for parole consideration. Hugh this year claimed the in dictments have been used to pre vent him from receiving consid eration for parole. The brief for appeal by the state was prepared by Deputy District Attorney Allan Franzke. D'Autremont's attorney is Ber nard Kelly, Medford. The opinion was written by Supreme Court Justice Hall S. Lusk. Business License Hearing Postponed The hearing for Richard G. Shafer, 60 North Quince st., who is charged with conducting busi ness without a license at Shafer Electric shop, 142 North Front st., was postponed in municipal court this morning pending court action on a similar hearing on which briefs were submitted Tuesday. Shafer is one of three Med ford businessmen charged with conducting business without a license. City officials indicated that the hearing for M. J. Olsen, Arnold lane, owner of Tick-Tok Time shop, 34 North Bartlett st., will be postponed. The hear ing is scheduled Tuesday. Briefs were filed by the city and Ray DeMarrs, 708 West Second st., owner of Ray's Bar ber shop. 139 North Central ave., on Tuesday. At the arraignment of the three men DeMarrs said he did not mind paying the license fee but felt the ordinance was un constitutional. A third brief was filed in the DeMarrs hearing Tuesday by Jeannette Marshall who represents a group of Med ford businessmen who believe the ordinance is unconstitution al. Crash in Fog Fatal To Eugene Man, 20 Corvallis (IP) A Eugene man was killed 10 miles south of here today when his car crash ed into the rear of a school bus stopped on the highway in dense fog. Bobby Jess Helton, 24, of Eu gene, was pronounced dead on arrival at a Corvallis hospital. None of the 20 children aboard the school bus was hurt. Police said Helton was en route to Corvallis where he was em ployed as a ticket clerk at the Greyhound bus depot. The school bus had stopped to pick up two children and was just starting up when Helton came upon it from the rear in the fog. He swerved to the right and struck the rear of the bus. His car was badly smashed. ME SDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1957 4GDXDUsly AwCSltS Mck Chins Basic School Support Bill Passes House, Sent To Gov. Holmes Salem (IP) Debate on House bill 1. amended to cut slate in come-taxes 30 per cent instead Oregon Senate this afternoon. Up to noon, 10 senators had hour and a half of debate. The Democratic bill originally called for a 10 per cent lax cut as it passed the House. Salem (W The House today concurred in Senate amend ments to the $10 basic school increase bill and sent it to the governor for signature. Vote on the measure was 48-7. Seven of the negative votes were cast by Republicans and two by Democrats. The h.ill raises basic school support from $95 to $105 per census child. Senate amend ments put the extra $10 in a property tax offset fund so that 100 per cent of it would be used for property tax relief. Duncan Sees Further Work Opposition to the bill was cen tered in Portland and- smaller eastern Oregon districts. ' Rep. Robert Duncan, Medford Democrat, said the bill was about the best that could be enacted during the special session. He said that further work could be done on the school apportion ment formula during the regular 1959 session if all were not satis fied with it. Duncan said that under the bill every school district in the state would receive a flat grant of $11.88. Rep. Allen Tom, Rufus Repub lican, said the bill would not act ually reduce taxes as it was de signed to do. He also maintained that because of the formula of Woman Suffers First Degree Burns in Fire Opal L. Silva received first degree burns on her hands and face in a flash fire about 6:10 p.m. yesterday in a trailer house at 833 West Jackson st., city firemen reported. Firemen who gave her first aid said that the pilot light on a gas oven had been on and the door closed. The oven was turn ed, on but did not ignite until the door was opened, they re ported. The injured woman was taken to Sacred Heart hospital for treatment. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness through Friday with chance of a few light show ers mainly in mountains. Low tonight 35. High Friday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday-.. 59 Lowest this Morning 27 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise - :52 a-m- Sunset 4:58 p.m. Moonrise 5:13 p.m. Last Quarter Nov. 14 . VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets 6:03 p.m. Venus, low in south west 6:39 p.m. Jupiter, rises 5:00 a.m. Mars, rises 5:58 a.m. (Late in January Saturn will be seen near Mars) Tribune eft T Up of 10 per cent continued in the spoken on the lax measure in an distributing the money, all tax payers in the state were not treated alike. Negative Votes Voting against the measure were Republican Reps. Robert Bennett, Shirley Field, John Goss, Graham Killam and Fred Meek, all of Portland; Stafford Hansell, Athena; and Tom, along with Democrats Emil Stunz, Nyssa, and Katherine Musa, The Dalles. The bill was one-half of Gov. Robert D. Holmes' taxs reduc tion package along with a bill to reduce state income taxes 10 per cent. Local Orchardist Dies From Injuries La Grande (IP) Rupert James (Jim) Henry, 39. well known Medford orchardist died early today from injuries suffered In a fall from a third story window of the Grande Ronde hospital here, police reported. Authorities said Henry, a pear orchardist, had been admitted to the hospital Monday. Attendants said he appeared very nervous Wednesday night and that a nurse had checked him 10 min utes before a second man in the ward summoned her at 10:45 p.m. She found the window and Screen open and Henry was found on the ground outside. He died at 12:10 a.m. Police said a note was found in his effects. Mr. Henry had been on a hunting trip in eastern Oregon, according to friends here. The family home is at 1883 Cunning ham ave. Survivors include a wife, Lorraine, and a son, R. J. Henry Jr. Mr. Henry was owner of Sunnycliff orchard. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Perl funeral home. Dog in Sputnik II Claimed Still Alive London HP) Radio Moscow said tonight that the dog in Sput nik II is still alive. The broadcast, quoting the of ficial Soviet Tass news agency, said: "Surface telemetric equipment continued registering the main physiological functions of the animal, observations of solar and cosmic rays, and data on the temperature of the surface and inside of Satellite II. Price 10e United Press Full Leased Wir No. 170 AAini Moscow Silent As Speculation on Attempt Continues No Apparent Attempt During Eclipse of Moon London (IP) Will they do it? The whole world wondered whether the Russians would try to fire a rocket to the moon to day in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. There was no comment from Moscow which displayed today Bulletin Washington (W The De fense Department Research and engineering chief said to day that the Russians now are capable of launching a man-carrying satellite. a wealth of new rocket weapons including field artillery rockets 50 to 60 feet long. But still the world waited. There also has been specula' tion the Russians might already have fired a rocket timed to hit the moon with a hydrogen bomb during an eclipse earlier today. They apparently hadn't. The New York Herald Tribune quoted Soviet United Nations delegate Arkady A. Sobolev as telling a guest at a U.N. recep tion Wednesday night in New York Russia hoped to send a rocket to the moon today. Eclipse Televised And the National Broadcast ing Company televised the moon's eclipse and was ready to show the blast of any lunar explosion. In Washington Sen. Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.) proposed the appointment of a "missile and satellite program coordinator" to eliminate waste and duplica tion and regain leadership in the field. Reports poured In from around the world of new sight ings of Sputnik II and with them fanciful reports of myster ious lights in the sky, of myster ious objects flitting through space and mysterious objects falling to the earth. Soviet scientists have stated throughout the week they had the capability of sending a rocket to the moon with new superfuels but they have steered clear of outright predictions. Moon Launching Soon Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysi cal Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., predicted that either Rus sia or the United States would launch a sub-satellite to circle the moon within a very few years. One of Britain's top scientists differed with the predictions. He was Prof. Richard V. Wooley. Britain's astronomer royal and head of the Royal Greenwich observatory. "Why keep on filling kids' minds with nonsense?" he asked. "Getting to the moon just isn't a feasible project in the near future." Automobile, Truck, House Trailer Involved in Crash An automobile and a log truck collided on Highway 62 about four miles south of Pros pect, state police reported. There were no serious injuries. According to police, an auto mobile driven by Warren Dale Govenor, 22, Prospect, was hit by the log truck when the car swerved to avoid hitting vehicle stopped to make a left turn into Nina's Cafe parking lot. A passenger in the automobile, Gladys Opal Govenor, Prospect, received , a bump on her head and a leg cut, police reported. The truck with loaded trailer, operated by Clarence Hedgepeth, Trail, was traveling north when it hit the automobile near the right front door, knocking it backwards through a fence into 'Mystery' Rocket Included Among Various Weapons Western Observer 'Thunderstruck' Moscow (IP) Soviet Russia paraded its new armed might through Red Square today, in cluding a "mystery" rocket which an informed American ob server said he believed was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The official Soviet Tass news agency commented indirectly on. the huge 60 to 75 feet long rocket, saying: "Models were shown at the parade of new types of artilJsry weapons based on the principle of jet propulsion. Jet artillery and rocket artillery moved along the square. Have Necessary Rockets "The artillery has been re placed by rockets. We now have all the necessary- rockets, long range, medium range and short range. The ICBM has been cre ated. The country has a right to be proud of its sons who created and mastered such weapons." The American, who cannot be identified further, said he had seen an American ICBM al though it was under wraps with a covering on it, and that the configuration of the Soviet ver sion was. almost exactly the same. Many New Weapons He said he was "thunder struck" that the Russians had shown it in public. Other Western observers be lieved that the mystery rocket was a single-stage ' overgrown version of the World War II German V2. They believed it probably was a rocket of intermediate 1,500 mile range. The mystery rocket was hur ried through Red Square as part of a wealth of secret new weap ons displayed in ceremonies commemorating the 40th anni versary of the Bolshevik Revolu tion. Observers also noted a huge 200 millimeter cannon which was believed capable of firing an atomic shell similar to the U. S. Army's "Atomic Annie." The hour-long parade was the longest since the war. Top Dignitaries Present The thousands watching In Red Square were joined by the top dignitaries of the Commu nist world including Mao Tse Tung of Communist China, Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland and Ho Chi Minh of Communist North Viet Nam. Malinovsky, a former Czarist sergeant who replaced Marshal Georgi Zhukov as defense minis ter, spoke from a terrace above the Lenin - Stalin mausoleum flanked by Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrush chev and other members of the Presidium. Pea-Soup Fog Hangs Oyer Northern Oregon By UNITED PRESS A soup-like fog smothered aJe) and marine traffic from Vancou ver, B.C., to Roseburg, Ore., to day and highway traffic moved with difficulty in some areas. Portland International Air port halted operations at 10:25 p.m. Wednesday but some flights were able to clear through the suburban Troutdale airport. Still other flights were diverted to Pendleton, Yakima and Spokane where passengers were put on trains and busses. Visibility was zero, ceiling zero at nearly all points west of the Cascades. Several ships were fogbound in the Willamette and Columbia river and river pilots said some ships were even unable to make harbor moves in Portland. Roseburg HP) In Roseburg, citizens have refused to include the Russian word Sputnik in. their vocabulary. Here they refer to the new space satellite as "Little Orbit Annie." a driveway. The truck continued out of control, police said, when the front bumper became wedged against a front wheel. The truck went off the highway, knocked down 50 feet of fence and tore through a portion of a parked house trailer before running into a ditch and turning over. The house trailer, owned by David M. Chandler. Prospect, was un occupied at the time of the ac cident. Police said tSte right side and transmission of the auto mobile were damaged. The ex tent of damage to the log truck was not known. Govenor was cited by state police for failing to operate on the right side ol the highway.
