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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER
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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."