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Newspaper Page Text32nd Year Price 10 Subscribers To report Improper or non-d -livery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1030 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly alter you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Recommended The once famous wide D'Au tremont track-down and mar der trla appears on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. DFORD RIBUNE United Pres Full Leased Wir- United Press Full Leased Wire 68 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER No. 1T Me '' j A & L. 4 DEADLOCK BRING 1BJOICING All the excitement of the Medford-Grants Pass High school football game here Friday night is reflected in the faces of Frances Flink, Nancy Wilson and Marsha O'Sullivan, left to right, members of the Medford pep group after the battle ended in a 20 to 20 tie. The Black Tornado of Medford came from behind in the last half after the Cavemen had built up a 20 to 0 lead. The deadlock tied the two teams in the District 6 A-l final standings. Medford, which had the edge in net yardage, was named the district representative in state play-offs by a 3 to 1 vote in a conference poll. The Tornado will vie at Beaverton next Saturday in state quarter-finals. (See Sports page.) Energy Packets Hit Moon For Many Years Washington Iff) The Unit ed States has been bombarding the moon for more than a de cade with packets of energy. No one has said yet that this gives the United States territor ial rights to the moon as might be claimed by the first nation to hit it with a rocket. "But we do claim," a naval research scientist told the Unit ed Press, "that the-moon is a fairly high class radio relay sta tion of both military and com mercial value." . ; And, he added, moon research also has es"ta"btrsheot IneperTer" feasffility' of sending adio Conference Slated With British Now On Science Moves Washington W The ad ministration will confer further with British officials before drafting legislation to permit giving U.S. nuclear secrets to North Atlantic treaty allies, it was learned Saturday night. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of , the atomic energy commission disclosed the administration de lay in a letter to a member of the joint congressional atomic energy committee. The congress man had asked just what Pres ident Eisenhower had in mind along this line. Strauss said he will not make recommendations to President Eisenhower until after talks later this month with Sir Edwin Plowden, British atomic energy' chief. (In .London, official sources said Britain will send a team of experts to the United States soon to help organize a joint scien tific staff.) Strauss said he was approach ing the problem on the philos ophy "that it does not make any sense to withhold from our al lies information which, based upon adequate intelligence, is already known to our potential enemies." The president took the same position Thursday night in the first of his "chins up" speeches on missiles and satellites. He and British prime minister Harold MacMillan agreed here last month on the broad outlines of a plan for swapping more nuclear and other military-scientific information among the NATO allies. Yreka Man Honored At Typo Conference Harry L. Young, of Yreka, Calif., was honored at the two day meeting of the Oregon Typ ographical conference, which ended here today. Young is the only living char ter member of the Medford local, which was organized Dec. 1, 1908. The start of the local's 50th year also was observed during the meeting. Guest speaker at the banquet at the Jackson hotel last night was Paul Garton of Vallejo, Calif. Lowell Sorensen, 1300 Winchester ave., Medford, was in charge of local arrangements for the state - wide meeting. About 50 delegates attended the meeting. "commands" to rocket craft In lunar space and of receiving ra dio reports from them. The United States in 1946 be came the first nation to bounce radio pulses off the moon. The British, Canadians and Austral ians have done it since. Moon radio experts here have no evi dence that Russia has yet under taken such research. The most recent and presum ably most productive work on the U.S. "moon circuit" is a mil itary secret. Also secret is the moon's military significance as aly his-year the'-"Cori safely be assumed "that: Broadcasts via the rrioon" would be much harder for an en emy to jam than ordinary high frequency radio communica tions. It would take 'a vast amount of power and much larg er equipment to jam the moon circuit a radio expert said. Even if nuclear war smash ed up existing microwave relay stations, it still would be pos sible to communicate between any two points on earth via the moon. It makes no difference how far apart the earth stations are. In. any case, it is. now pos sible to leap-frog the vast Com munist areas of the world where the free nations have no relay stations. It also has been established that the moon could be used as a relay station for commercial voice and teletype communica tions. It could be used to relay what might be called "slow TV." But, a scientist said, it would not be effective for relaying the kind of fast television 3ft images per second that now comes into American homes. Radar Equipment Boosted Here The Medford Safety Council Friday unanimously approved a resolution recommending purch ase of radar traffic control equipment for use in Medford. Police Chief Charles Champ lain and Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner discussed merits of ra dar equipment at the meeting, pointing out the multiple uses of th equipment in traffic control and traffic engineering. They emphasized the import ance of the radar traffic control equipment in reducing the toll of accidents in other areas whe'e it is used. They noted that the equipment would also be used to secure statistical information necessary in engineering. Primary efforts of the Safety Council will be devoted to pub lic education to the need for coacerted support of enforce ment groups in coping with the problem of speed and highway fai?lities, according to Barry Bigham, vice president of the council. The Safety Council set Jan. 17 as the date for installation of officers and presentation of safety awards. Election of offic ers will be held at the Decem ber meeting. Cape Canaveral, Fla. iff) Scientists here Saturday were reported preparing to make a third launching attempt of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Army Races Navy To Fire Missile Washington OF) Army space experts raced the Navy Satur day in a new all-out effort to be first to shoot a U.S. satellite up with the Soviet Sputniks at the earlist possible moment. The Defense Department's sur price decision to reverse itself and throw Army missile hard ware into the program under lined the determination of the United States to catch up with the Russians and salvage lost prestige. It also showed administration officials are trying to guarantee that a made-in-America Sputnik will' be launched successfully, President Plans To Ask Increases For Govt. Employes Washington (1?) President Eisenhower was reported Satur day to be preparing to recom mend pay increases costing more than one billion dollars a year for military personnel and fed eral civil service employes. A reliable source said the pay raises are not likely to become a casualty of the "budget squeeze" next year, despite pres sure for multi-billion dollar in creases in missile and rocket spending. If the administration goes through with present plans to ask congress for the raises, con gress is likely to approve, as 1958 is an election year. The administration's decision represents an about-face from the stand it took during this year's congressional session. The President pocket vetoed two bills passed in the closing hours of the 1957 session to raise the pay of postal employes and oth er civil servants.. The government, also turned diner Report" plan for a major overhaul of military pay scales. Now it is ready . to go along with most features of this plan and recommend it to congress, even though it will initially add sev eral hundred million dollars to the defense budget. The new expenditures, plus a Sputnik-induced bulge of one to two billion dollars in defense costs, could add up to an over all -1959 fiscal -budget over 72 billion dollars. Major belt-tightening cuts in other federal expenditures to offset these increases were pre dicted yesterday by a key Sen ate Republican, Styles Bridges. Other congressional sources dis counted this possibility. There was general agreement that there will not be an elec tion year income tax cut. The administration's civil ser vice and postal pay raise plan, sources said, call for a general 6 per cent salary increase and adjustment of present "inequi ties." Football Scores WEST Idaho 35, Utah State 7 ' Colorado 20, Colorado St. U. 0 . Oregon St. 21, California 19 Stanford 35. Southern Califor nia 7 UCLA 19. Washington St. 13 Washington 13. Oregon 6 Hardin-Simmoni 26, Arizona 20 San Francisco St. 41. Sacra mento St. 6 Col. of Pae. 21, San Jose St. 6 SOC 25. Ramblers 21 EAST Pennsylvania 33, Yala 20 Army 39, Utah 33 SOUTH Tennessee 21, Georgia Tech 8 Nary 6, Duke 6 Clemson 26. Maryland 7 Tulane 7, Alabama 0 Florida 22, Georgia 0 North Carolina 28, South Car olina 6 Mississippi 14, Louisiana Si. 12 Vanderbilt 12, Kentucky 7 MIDWEST Michigan St. 34. Notre Dame 6 Ohio St. 20, Purdue 7 Illinois 20, Michigan 19 Wisconsin 41. Northwestern 12 Iowa 44. Minnesota 20 Iowa St. 13, Nebraska 0 Oklahoma 39, Missouri 14 SOUTHWEST Texas 7, Baylor 7 -. West Texas St. 12, Abilene Christian 2 Oklahoma St. 39, Wyoming 6 Rice 13, Arkansas 7 Texas A&M 19. Southern Methodist 6 Ariiona St, 43. Texas West ern 7 perhaps in a few weeks. Scientists associated with the U.S. satellite effort said Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy's ord er Friday for the Army to back stop the Navy Vanguard pro gram signaled an early launch ing. But they did not try to guess who would be first. The Army said it is"confident" it can carry out the order to "supplement" Vanguard with a scientific satellite launched by a Jupiter experimental missile. The Army was reported to have had a satellite" ready to go for six months at its Redstone Arse nal in Huntsville,.Ala. William M, Holaday, McEl roy's guided missile director, in dicated the decision of who will be first the Army or Navy will depend upon who has a sat ellite ready to launch first. The Navy has been proceed ing along a pre-arranged time table that calls for sending up six-pound test moons next month and a fully-instrumental satellite in March as part of the Inter national Geophysival Year. Holady insisted there was "no race" between the two services. But both were certain to push their programs to completion as fast as possible to get the nod from Holady. The missile director said the Army satellite will be cylindrical in shape like Sputnik II while the Vanguard artifical moon is round, like Sputnik I. Army Rocket Tested The Army's Jupiter C is a three-stage rocket which has flown as far as 3,500 miles from the Cape Canaveral, Fla., missile test range. It has hit speeds up to 12,000 miles an hour or more and altitudes of 600 miles. The speed needed to put a satellite into orbit is 18,000 miles an hour. Vet Groups Plan To Parade Monday A parade sponsored by var ious veterans organizations in this area will highlight Veterans Day activities here tomorrow. The parade is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. with groups par ticipating assembling at the li brary : pari at 10:40 a.m. The parade will proceed east on Main st. to Bartlett st., north on Bart lett st. to Sixth st. and west on Sixth st. to Holly -st. A - breakfast for veterans is scheduled to start at 7 a.m. in the Veterans for Foreign Wars hall, 42 North Front st., and a dance is scheduled at the Cen tral Point American Legion hall at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Federal, state and local offices will be closed, but most Medford retail stores plan to remain open until 9 a.m. tomorrow. Banks will be closed, and the post office will provide regular Sunday and holiday service. There will be no restrictions on log hauling on Oregon high ways Monday, according to state police. Sheriffs Report Man Dies in County Jail James Vear Spicer, 44, of 319 Jeanette st., died in the Jackson county jail about 6:15 p.m. Sat urday, according to county sher iffs. The sheriffs' department said Spicer was lodged in the jail on Friday evening by the Medford city police on charges of issuing a false check. Records show he was recently released from jail on a similar charge, police said. The Jackson county sheriff's said an autopsy would be per formed on Monday. Eight Additional Performances Planned For Shakespearean Festival Ashland The Oregon Shake spearean Festival has extended its 1958 season to about six weeks to include eight addition al performances of the four plays offered next season, Festival di rectors have announced. A total of 39 consecutive per formances have been scheduled for "Much Ado About Noth ing," the season opener start ing July 28, and "King Lear," "The Merchant of Venice," and "Troilus and Cressida." Since about 73 per cent of Festival audiences consist of tourists, directors believe the ex tension of the season will have an immediate impact on increas ing the tourist revenue through out the Rogue Valley and state. Directors Listed The plays will be directed by James Sandoe of the University of Colorado and Robert Loper, a director for the department of In. Of Tb. jrians Jet Planes Fly Over Syrian Coast Towns Damascus iff) Syrian and Turkish .border forces skirmish ed in a 30-minute iirefight Fri day night and a Turkish soldier was arrested on Syrian soil, the government said Saturday. The official statement also charged that two unidentified jet planes flew over Syrian towns close to. the Mediterran ean Saturday. The charge was similar to a number made re cently at the height of the Syrian-Turkish "war crisis." The government said turkish border forces started the battle last night by opening fire on the Syrian villege of Tal Afar and Tal Akqa near the city of Kam eshi (Quamichliye). the commu nique identified the allegede Turkish attackers as a patrol but did not give its size. Xamelshli is in northeast Syria, close to the border. Syrian civilian volunteer guards returned the fire for half an hour, It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties. The Syrian statement said a meeting had been arranged be tween border authorities on both sides to discuss the incident. Syria has accused the Turkish border forces of similar attacks in the past. . Fate of the arrested Turkish and the charges against him were not known. The Damascus regime has complained bitterly about alleg ed violations of its air space by unidentified planes. There were charges last month that ' the planes came either from Turkey or from the U.S. 6th Fleet car riers in the Eastern Mediterra nean. One of the original Syrian charges against Turkey-was that j ithad" fired- on Syrian border villages and had violated Syrian air space. Turkey denied the charges in a formal note delivered to Da mascus. Syria has charged that Turkey was plotting aggression with the backing of the United States. Turkey also has denied this as has the United States. Flu Cases Showing Small Drop In Area The l.umber of influenza cases reo'orted in Jackson county last week declined slightly, accord ing to the Jackson county health department. A total of 437 cases were re ported, 295 of them in Medford, for the week ending Nov. 8, ac cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health officer. The total compares with 516 cases the week before last and 323 cases for the week ending Oct. 25. Besides Medford, cases report ed.were in Ashland, 62; Phoenix, 39; Prospect, 14; Butte Falls, 10; Central Point, 8, Jacksonville, 6; and Rogue River 3. Eleven other cases of commun icable diseases were reported last week. They included three scao ringworm, and one case eacn of scarlet fever, whooping cough, trench mouth, mumps, German measles, and infectious monon ucleosis, all in Medford; one case of pneumonia in Medford and Central Point and one case of pink eye in Rogue River. San Francisco William W. Chapin, 89, civic leader and for mer newspaper publisher and editor, died Thursday after a long illness. drama at Stanford university. Both men have several success ful productions to their credit. Sandoe will direct 'Merchant" and 'Troilus," and Loper is scheduled to d'rect "Lear" and "Much Ado." Sandoe last season directed "Othello" and "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and Loper directed "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" and 'Henry VIII." The "Troilus and Cressia" pro duction' next season will com plete the canon of Shakespeare's plays at Ashland. Bill Patton, general manager, said he under stood the Old Vic theater in London reportedly will complete the canon also during the com ing season. No more than five English speaking theater organizations have produced all of Shake speare's plays, he said. The Ore gon Festival will soon possess V7v UUU "Thanks a Ike To Get From Army Washington iff) ' President Eisenhower will enter . Walter Reed Army Medical Center to day for an annual, 24 - hour "head to toe" medical checkup, the White House said. The President is scheduled to Lowry Optimistic On Bill Compromise In Salem Session Salem (IP) Sens. Phil Low ry, Medford Republican, and Ben Musa, The Dalles Democrat, conferees on House Bill : .1 pro viding tax reductions out of the state's estimated 70 million dol lar surplus, were optimistic Sat urday that the conference com mittee would agree on a com promise. . . . After meeting less than an hour, both houses adjourned until 10 a.m. Monday to let the second . conference committee work. In a report " to the - Senate, Lowry said : "considerable prog ress" had been made in reaching an agreement.1 ' " But he added that both the senate and house conferees had requested figures from the state tax commission which would not be available until Monday. He said he was encouraged be cause the House conferees were willing to study the Republican plan of changing rates in place of making a percentage reduc tion. Figures on downward rate revisions from 15 to 30 per cent have been requested by the con ferees, Lowry said. Sports Bulletin Central Point Crater high wrapped up its 1957 football tlate last night by thumping Myrtle Creek 38 to 13 here in a nen-league game. Next Year the only complete library of ac tual performance recordings of the plays in the world, Patton said. Reservations Received Advance ticket reservations for the 1958 season are already being received, Patton said, and are greater for this time of the year than at any time in the or ganization's 23 year history. "King Lear" was last pro duced on the Ashland stage in 1951, while "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Merchant of Venice" were produced in 1952 and 1953, respectively. "Troilus and Cressida," a rarely produced play, has never been produced in Ashland. Directors noted that an at tempt is made each year to bal ance the schedule with both pop ular and lesser-known plays, as well as to combine .comedies with serious plays. Irtavy Coirirneir Seorclhi Lot, Fellows" Checkup Physicians enter the hospital late Sunday and return to the White House Monday afternoon, It will be his first complete physical checkup since Oct. 28, 1956, when the examining physi cians reported that he gave "every appearance ' of being- in excellent health," The, pre-elec tion checkup confirmed the President's "physical fitness to serve another four, years in the White House. His physicians indicated con fidence that this checkup will result in another favorable re port. , His personal physician, Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, told ; the United Press that he saw "no reason" why the thor ough, examination should not show the President in good health. . : Snyder said that the 67-year-old President "looks fine to us." He said that all the less thor ough examinations in the past 12 months have indicated that he is in good condition. i Indicative of this confidence is the fact that no outside phy sicians have been called in for this checkup. Last year, the examining physicians included the outside specialists and sur geons who treated Eisenhower when he suffered a heart attack Sept. 24, 1955, and underwent an ileitis operation on June 9, 1956. Schedule Open House For Detention Home Open house will be held at the new Jackson county deten tion home Dec. 14, 15, and 16, county juvenile officials have announced. The home, now completed ex cept for landscapping and furni ture, is located at the fairgrounds site south of Medford. The staff has moved in, and the home will be placed in service im mediately after open house, of ficials said. Gov. Robert D. Holmes, Secre tary of State Mark Hatfield, and State Treasurer Sig Unander, who also is a member of the board of control, and all circut judges in the state and others interested in the home have been invited. Dedication ceremonies are scheduled Sunday afternoon, Dec. 15, officials said. WEATHER FORECAST: Rain this morn ing, sun breaking with showers this afternoon and fair this evening, fog Mon day morning, high Uomorrow SO, low 30. TEMP. Highest Yesterday SO Lowest this Morning 30 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:56 a.m. Sunset 4:54 p.m. Moonrise .. 7:41 p.m. Last Quarter Nov. 14 PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus, high in south at moonrise. Alpheratz is the upper left-hand star of the figure: the low right-hand one is Markab. Ocean Area Search By Planes, Ships With Waning Hope Fine Safety Record Of Airline Broken Los Angeles (IP) Navy of ficers late Saturday ordered all members of the USS Philippine Sea to report back to the air craft carrier so it could proceed to the Pacific to help in a search for a missing Pan American Air ways passenger plane. Announcements were made on radio and television stations and at the Stanford -USC football game in the coliseum ordering Honolulu, Nov. 9 (IP) An Air Force C-124 Globemaster searching for the lost Pan American stratocruiser devel oped an oil leak Saturday night and was ordered to re turn to Hickam Air Fore base. The pilot radioed that on ngine had been feathered by ihe plane's condition was not, teriout. Search. - rescue headquarter! at Pearl Harbor said another C-124 was escorting the crip pled plane back to Hawaii. The planes left the search area about 3:45 p.m. HST (8:45 p. ,m. EST). . i officers and men to report to the carrier. A.. Navy officer .at' th Long Beach Naval base where the huge ship is tied up said the carrier would leave as soon as her. personnel had been reas sembled. ; : He estimated it would take from 5-10 hours for all of them to return and another 48 hours to reach the search area. He said, however, that planes could take off irom the carrier a considerable distance from the search area. . . One of the proudest safety records in aviation history hing ed Saturday on the fate of the missing Pan - American World Airways stratecruiser some where in the Pacific. Not since March 26, 1955, has any passenger or crewmember lost his life on an overseas flight operated by an American car-' rier. It was on that date that an other Pan-American strate-cruia-er ditched off the coast of Ore gon. Two crewmembers and two passengers drowned after being safely evacuated from the plane. Planes and Shipc Search Scores of planes and ships combed vast areas of the Pacific Saturday in an increasingly hopeless search for the plane named "Romance of the Slries" that disappeared suddenly Fri day night on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. , The plane, a double-decked luxury craft carrying 44 persons, made a routine radio check at the halfway "point of no return" yesterday afternoon and has not been heard from since. Dozens of planes from the Na vy, Coast Guard and commercial air lines criss-crossed a 100,000 square mile area in perfect searching weather all day long, seeking clues to the fate of the stratocruiser and its 36 passen gers nd eight crew members. At' the same time at least 14 surface vessels .and two Navy submarines were ploughing through the area for traces of wreckage or survivors. Navy and Coast Guard offi cials here were exploring the possibility that the plane had ex ploded in the air. They said the lack of radio' contact and the fact that there were no distress signals on the emergency fre quency added to the fear that the plane might have blown up. Many Theories Given "There are many theories to be explored in the sudden and mysterious disappearance of a huge plane," Capt. Sam Read, chief press information officer at Pearl Harbor said. "However the explosion theory is receiving priority." Cmdr. William . Chapline, chief of the Coast Guard search and rescue section said there was a "potent possibility" that the missing aircraft "suddenly and for an unknown reason went out of control."