Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 12, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextG o MISSING IN PACI7IC Shown above are six crew members of Pan American Airways' Stratocruiser, "Romance of he Skies," miss ing and believed down in the Pacific ocean StSWIiiDSM o Medford No. 174 MEDFORD, ORE Westover ios N on-Stop Flight Trip Points Out Manned Bombers To Stay Around Distance Record Set Without Refueling Buenos Aires OP) Gen. Curtis E. Lemay flew a giant jet tanker plane 6,350 miles to a new non stop long distance world record without refueling today in a dramatic demonstration of U.S. airborne nuclear striking power. The four-jet KC135, the mili tary version of Boeing passen ger jets due to go into service late next year, took an elapsed time of 13 hqurs and 2 minutes for the trip. ' The plane - left-Westover Air Force" Base, Mass., at 1:48 p.m. (PST) Monday and landed at Buenos Aires Ezeiza Airport at 2:50 a.m. (PST) today. The history making flight was made in observance of Argen tina's National Aviation week. News of the epic was splashed (icross the front page of Argen tine newspapers and did much to restore U.S. prestige in this part of the world, where it had been shaken by Russia's Sput niks. Lemay himself, vice chief of staff of the Air Force, said the flight demonstrated that manned bombers will be around for a long time. "The day of long distance manned bombers will not be over in the foreseeable future despite the progress of guided missiles," Lemay said. "Maybe at some time in the future guided missiles may re place some types of planes we now have in operation." He said the powerful jet flew mostly at altitudes between 35,- 000 and 40,000 feet, and reached a maximum speed of 550 miles an hour. Lemay will fly the KC135 on a direct line from Buenos Aires to Westover Wednesday on a route that will cover about 5,500 miles in an attempt to set a new speed record. The 6,350-mile distance cov ered today and the shorter dis tance planned for Wednesday both are longer than the 4,665 miles from New York to Moscow. Chicago IIP) The demand for engineering talent has drop ped off sharply, according to employment experts. Several Attractions Are Planned for Safety Fair The role adequate vision plays in prevention of traffic accidents will be demonstrated t dis play by the Medford Safety Council at the Southn Oregon Safety Fair at the trmory. here Saturday, Nov. 18. The Safety Councit"viIl oper ate two orthorater vision icreen ing devices secure through the Southern Orejon Optometric ' Society. Drivert ill b invit ed to "have thir tyei examined for depth perception, visual acu ity and coloP perception. The test will b tame given re cently to several, employee groups byne Safety Council. The allfly Ji, which i ex pected to ?.t More than 60 ex hibits, iemoattrstions and other attractions i fteing sponsored by the Southern Oregon Region al Safety committee in coopera tion with the state industrial accident commission, accident prevention division. f?"0iS VsMlsa Committee Progress (Disappoints Howry Salem (IP) With Senate and House conferees in a stalemate over the tax reduction bill. Sen. Phil Lowry, Republican member of the conference committee, told the Senate today he was "somewhat disappointed over progress being made in the ef fort to reach a solution." , Sen. Ben Musa, The Dalles Democrat and also a conference committee member, said he agreed with Lowry. Lowry said House members Police Radio Jamming Report Cleared Up Boise (IP) The mystery of the unidentified" voice" broadcast which seriously interferred with the Idaho State Police radio last week has been solved. State police headquarters in Boise said today that the broad cast came from Caracas, Vene zuela. Thomas Harper, radio opera tor at State Police headquarters, said the mystery was solved by Sgt. Jack L. Bates of the Poca tello police department, who, Harper said, spoke nine differ ent languages. Harper said Bates informed the state police that he had a long talk with the Venezuelan station Monday. The State Police radio net work was jammed on three separate occasions last Friday for periods of five minutes each. North Korean Bid For UN Seat Loses United Nation, N. Y. (W The U. N. Political Committee, today defeated a Soviet-Indian effort to gain a non-voting seat for the Communist North Koreans m the annual debate on the unifi cation of Korea. The 82-nation committee then approved 44 to 15, a resolution by the United States inviting the Republic of South Korea to par ticipate in the debate without a vote. Indian Ambassador Arthur S. Lall made the. move to bring in North Korea after Rep. Walter H. Judd (R-Minn.), speaking for the U.S., had formally moved to invite the Republic of Korea. The Fair take the place of an annual safety conference. Among other attractions at the Fair will be a like skunk, a display of smokejumpers' equip ment, and. a radar-equipped safe ty car. In addition to exhibits, prizes to be awarded include gift boxes of Rogue valley pears, and first-aid kits. Winners of a safety poster contest in elementary schools in Jackson and Josephine counties will be announced. The contest closes today in the schools, and entries should be submitted to the state industrial accident commission office, 1510 North Riverside ave., Medford, no later than today. Myron Terpening, Grant Pass is chairman of the Southern Oregon Regional Safety com mittee, and O. H. Smeltz is re gional director of the SIAC, ac cident prevention division. t 4 on a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. From lef to right, they are Captain H. G. Brown, Palo Alto, Calif.; Stewardess Marie McGrath, Burlingame; Second Officer W. A. IBUNE 957 18 Pages Aires Made of the committee had suggested that new Senate members be named. He said he would agree to that anytime it seemed bene ficial to do so. But Lowry added that if new Senate members of the confer ence' committee were appointed he felt new House members should also be named, j Both the Senate and House met briefly at 10 a.m. before the conference committee went back to work with tax commis sion experts to try to decide how much of Oregons $70 million surplus should be given back to the people. :- Rep. Clarence Barton, Co quille"Derno'crar and one of the House conferees, said he thought Democrats had gone as far as they could in offering a 15 per cent tax reduction. The Democratic proposals ag gregate a reduction of between 18 and 19 per cent, counting fringe benefits gained from loss carry forward and realistic de preciation. The bill under discussion has been amended by Senate Re publicans with some Democratic support to cut taxes 30 per cent. But the .Democratic controlled House failed to go along with that extensive a cut. Plans Differ Lowry estimated that loss carry forward would bring about $1,200,000 in tax relief and realistic depreciation about $300,000 the first year. The basic Democratic plan is to reduce taxes in the top rate bracket of 11.6 per cent to 10 per cent and then decrease all other rates 15 per cent. If this is accepted by Republicans, Democrats promise to bring Sen ate bill 1 to the floor which takes the state out of the prop erty tax field as well as intro- duce legislation for loss carry forward and realistic deprecia tion. ChairmfUMC ' To Make Reports United Medford Crusade cam paign chairmen were scheduled to meet this noon to hear pro gress reports on the campaign. Last week, officials indicated the UMC may reach its $123,130 goal by this week. Report meetings usually are held each Monday, but because yesterday was a holiday, the meeting was postponed until to day. Last week, $98,804 had been collected or pledged, represent ing about 81 per cent of the goal. The sale of programs at the Grants Pass-Medford foot ball game Friday night, and the Home Crusade were expected to boost the total near or over the goal. WEATHER FORECAST Occasional Tain tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 42; high Wednesday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday 48 Lowest This Morning 43 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today 02 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise :58 a.m. Sunset 4:53 p.m. Moonrise 9:45 p.m. Last Quarter Nov. 14 PROMINENT STAR Capella. low in northeast 6:49 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in southwest 6:42 p.m. Jupiter, rises 4:46 a.m. Mars, rises , 5:56 a.m. Forteribery, Santa Clara; Engineer A. F. Pina tero, Belmont; Stewardess Yvonne Alexander, San Francisco, and Flight Supervisor Jack King, South San Francisco. The plane was mi Invitation Made To Help Prepare Program for NATO Willing To Express Views Publicly Washington (IP! The White House said today that Adlai E. Stevenson has agreed to a con sultant's role in plans for the Paris meeting at which NATO leaders will try to bolster sci entific defenses to Russia's missile threat. Washington ' (IP) The White House said today that Ad lai E. Stevenson has declined an administration invitation to help prepare the American pro gram to be submitted to the De cember NATO meeting in Paris. But Eisenhower's unsuccess ful Democratic opponent in 1952 and 1956, was willing, accord ing to the White House, to give his views publicly on the pro gram after it has been prepared. The administration plans to avail themselves of that offer of Mr. Stevenson's," Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty told newsmen. No Truman Offers Stevenson was not invited to accompany the President to Par is, nor has the White House made -any-- overtures to -former President Truman in connection with preparation of the pro gram. Apparently Stevenson will be informed of the program after it is submitted to the NATO meeting which opens Dec. 16. Security Council Meets The summit NATO meeting was scheduled after President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in a confer ence here called on the free na tions to cooperate more strongly in scientific and technological matters to meet the Soviet mis sile threat. The President, meanwhile, presided at a record-sized meet ing of the National Security Council and a large staff of ad visers. The meeting, called specially, was held as key administration officials began to form definite plans for a new budget sufficient to meet threats to American se curity. Adlai's Second Refusal The White House . statement about Stevenson was in response to questions about reports that he would become a foreign pol icy adviser to the administra tion and possibly accompany the President to Paris. This was the second time that Stevenson has turned down a bid to take an active role in ad ministration foreign affairs. He was offered membership on the U. S. delegation to the United Nations in 1953 but de clined. There also have been re cent reports that the former Il linois governor was sounded out on possible appointment to the new civil rights commission, but Hagerty today referred these re ports to Stevenson without com ment. Street Decorations Being Installed Installation of Christmas street decorations was scheduled to start this afternoon, according to Vernon Thorpe, public works directors. He said he hopes the 40 non lighted, older street decorations and the 20 new candy cane dec orations would be installed by Friday evening. The new decora tions are now being assembled in the city shops, he said. Thorpe said the new decora tions would be installed in the downtown area. Lighting outlets for the new decorations will be connected to the business near est the decoration, he said. New York (IB Singing actress Marie (The Body) Mc Donald fainted today when she arrived at New York Interna tional Airport after a flight from Los Angeles that was interrupt ed for two hours because of her illness. last reported at the "point of no return" and disappeared without a radio message of dis tress or a clue which searchers have been able to find. (International Soundphotos) 'It's Just A Matter of Space" Garcia, Liberaiite Wage Close Fight in Philippine ManilalP) President Carlos Garcia and Liberal party candi date Jose Yulo fought a see-saw battle today on the basis of early returns in the typhoon-disrupted Philippines elections. About six million persons vot ed. At least 11 persons -were killed in violence unrelated to the election. Early and inconclusive returns mostly from Manila, put Yulo in the lead, but Garcia appeared to be closing the gap and pro vincial returns, which in the past have generally reversed the early Manila trend, had not yet begun arriving in the capital. Liberal Candidate 'Cinch' The Manila Chronicle conced ed the "sure election" of Lib eral vice presidential candidate Diosdado Macapagal, who was running far ahead of Garcia's Anti-Hussein Drive Joined by Moscow By UNITED PRESS Moscow Radio joined Egypt and Syria today in attempts to drive King Hussein off the throne of Jordan. Cairo news papers said "King Hussein's fate is sealed." Arab language broadcasts by Moscow Radio beamed to the Middle East appeared aimed at stirring up Palestinian refugees against Hussein in the campaign of assassination begun by Cairo Radio. In Amman itself Hussein mov ed to bolster his shaky throne by receiving a delegation of Palestine refugees and thanking them for "their faithfulness to the throne," Jordan's state radio at Ramallah announced. Moscow said Hussein was an "ally and a friend of the bit terest enemies of the Arab world the USA, Britain and Tur key." It said he had plotted secretly with Israel and was an enemy of Arab unity. Planning Commission to Meet in City Hall Today The Medford city planning commission will meet at the city council chambers at 7:30 p.m. today. The meeting was originally set for last night but was post poned because of the holiday. The agenda remains the same as previously announced. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 42S.7S, off 5.19; 20 railroads 106.03, off 1.45; 15 utilities 64.83, off 0.01; and 65 stocks 145.37, off 1.49. Sales today were about 2,050. 000 shares compared with 1,540,000 th&xes Monday. Election running mate, Jose Laurel Jr on the Nationalist slate. Although no actual trend was expected for several hours, the early' returns showed this pic ture: For President: Yulo, Liberal, 41,860; Garcia, Nationalist, 32, 213; Manuel Manahan, Progres sive, 31,724. Nationalist Citizens party candidate Claro Recto was fourth and Liberal Independent Antonio Quirino was fifth. Military officials called the election itself the "quietest and smoothest in the nation's brief history, although it was esti mated unofficially that 19 per sons had been killed in preelec tion campaign violence. Troops, Bandits Exchange Fire The day's most sensational in cident was at Cavite, where con stabulary troopers shot it out with a bandit gang. Constabu lary Col. Aureano Naran, seven of his men and one bandit were killed in the fight, which appar ently was not related to the elections. ' In another incident, a Nation alist party leader was shot to death by a policeman in Iloces Norte. Typhoon Kit, which lashed the islands with winds up to 140 miles an hour, killed . another man. Idaho Power's Bonds, Stock Sale Approved Salem (IP) Idaho Power Company today received approv al from Public Utilities Com missioner Howard Morgan to is sue 15 million in bonds and sell 225,000 shares of stock to fi nance construction of Brownlee and Oxbow dams on the Snake river. Both dams are under construc tion at the present time. Open Houses Scheduled in Local Schools To Observe National Education Week Open house is being held in' Medford schools this week to mark National Education week, according to Elliott D. Becken, assistant superintendent. Starting at 7:30 p.m. tomor row, open house will be held in McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior High schools and in the Roose velt annex. Teachers will be in their rooms to meet parents. All elementary schools will hold open house Thursday. Jack son, Washington, West Side and Jefferson schools will hold open houses from 7 to 9 p.m. Roose velt and Lincoln schools will have open houses starting at 7:30 p.m. Oak Grove school will have a chili feed from 5:30 to 7 p.m., it was announced. All Gigantic Search lade for Plant Honolulu OP) A "vacuum cleaner" sweep of the Pacific was begun today in a desperate effort to find traces of the Pan. American . Stratocruiser which disappeared Friday with 44 per sons aboard. Hopes are slight. The Coast Guard search chief, Cmdr. William E. Chapline, said the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea will steam down the intend ed flight path flanked by 15 other ships 15 miles apart in a 200-mile line. Planes Serve as 'Eyes' Aircraft, including helicopters and speedy jet planes from the Philippine Sea, will serve as the eyes" of the search line. The sweep began at ocean weather station November, near the "point of no return" where the Post-Mortem Info Cause of Death of Inmate Conducted A post-morten into the cause of the death of James Vear Spic- er, 44, Medford, in the Jackson county jail Saturday night was to be conducted about noon to day. Meanwhile the district attorn ey's office is conducting a com plete investigation into the cir cumstances surrounding the Medford man's death, District Attorney Tom Reeder said this morning. Reeder said that, thus far, mere is no indication of any dereliction of duty on the part of any member of the sheriff's department, which is in charge of jail administration. Jailed Friday Spicer was jailed Friday night by Medford city police, follow ing his arrest on bad check charges. A Medford physician who examined Spicer in the county jail said the man died about 6 p.m. He had been call ed by state police to examine another patient in the county jail at the time. Jackson county sheriff's off! cers said the man was admit ted tp jail in an intoxicated con dition. Sheriff Howard Gault said that prisoner vomited and fell from this bunk, and the jailer was called by inmates, Whea the doctor appeared, the jailer asked him to examine the man. He was dead then the phys lcian said. Examined Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county public health officer. said he had examined Spicer when he was in the county jail earlier on Oct. 31. Then he com plained of a stomach ailment, Dr. Merkel directed that the prisons should be fed a number of meals a day instead of the usual - two. He said Spicer also suffered from a prior hip in jury. Medford police said he gave no evidence of any illness while at the county jail, although he did request, and was given, some pills he had with him at the time of his arrest. Applications for 35 Licenses Remain Out Fewer than 85 business license applications remain to come in, according to Darell Huson, city treasurer. Huson said 1,226 licenses have been issued since the city coun cil passed the business license ordinance in mid-August. The ordinance provides that all those engaged in business, and profes sional people, must obtain a city business license. Complaints for conducting a business without a license will be filed against firms not ob taining licenses by Nov. 15, Hu son said. A maximum find of $100 or 50 days in jail, or both, for each day of violation, could be given those found guilty of violating the ordinance. Salem (IP) The House Rules Committee unanimously approved sending the shrimp tax bill, Senate Bill 11, to the House floor for action. parents have been notified by notes of the various schedules of the open house, Becken said. Medford High school will hold its open house on Monday, Nov. 25, at 8 p.m. A program for the high school event will be an nounced later, according to Becken. The late date is due to a conflict in schedule, it was explained. Special emphasis is being placed on this particular week in all the social study classes, the superintendent said. A television program will fea ture the intermediate grades of Jackson school from 5 to 5:30 p.m. today on the local station, Becken said. "This is a special week at which the attention of the nation 1 and of our community is direct missing "Romance of the Skies" radioed its last position report Friday. Nightlong operations again failed to produce "a single con crete clue" to the fate of the four engined luxury flight, Chapline said. Visibility was good though skies were partly cloudy as the search moved into daylight hours. Fresh trade winds kicked up whitecaps on the ocean. Even as more ships and planes joined in what appeared to be a futile search, Pan American World Airways launched an in vestigation to determine if there was "any element of a crime" in the disappearance of the plane. To Study All Angles "We will go into all angles possible," said a Pan American spokesman in San Francisco. Our first job is to find the plane, of course, but it is also our duty to determine the cause of the plane's disappearance." The plane, a four-engined Boe ing, vanished Friday afternoon while flying from San Francisco to Honolulu with 36 passengers and a crew of eight. So far, every clue investigat ed by the ships and planes tak ing part in the biggest peacetime search in history has turned out to be false. Bicycle Ordinance Will Be Enforced A more rigid enforcement of the city's bicycle ordinance will start by Medford police in about two weeks, Chief Charles P. Champlin said today. He said officers will issue cita tions f, for ordinance violations they observe. In the past cita tions were issued when the rider was driving in a haaerdous con dition. Lighting equipment and prop er arm signals will be given close attention by officers, Champlin said. He reminded bi- . cycle riders to obey all traffic laws when riding bicycles on Medford streets. He said increased enforcement of the ordinance is to prevent bicycle accidents before they take place. Most bicycle-car col lisions last year were at night and when bicycle riders failed to have proper lighting equip ment on their bicycles, he said. A maximum fine for violation is $10 or impounding the bicycle involved up to seven days, he said. Champlin indicated bicy cles would be impounded rather than riders fined for violations. License Hearing in City is Postponed A hearing for M. J. Olson, Arnold lane, owner of the Tic Tok Time shop, 34 North Bart lett st., who is charged with conducting business without a license, was postponed in muni cipal court this morning pend ing the decision of a similar case on which briefs were submitted on Nov. 5. Olson was arraigned with two other Medford businessmen in October when they said .they felt the business license fee was unconstitutional. A hearing for Richard G. Sha fer, 60 Quince st., owner of the Shafer Electric shop, 142 North Front st., was postponed last week pending action on briefs submitted in the case of the city vs. Ray DeMarrs, 708 West Second st., owner of Ray's Bar ber shop, 139 North Central ave. Part of Airplane Wing Falls Into Yard of Home Seattle P) Part of the wing structure of a B-52 bomber fell 42,000 feet into the yard of the Marvin Holm residence at Trout Lake Monday afternoon, but missed several children who were playing in the yard. King County Sheriff Tim Mc Cullough said no one was in jured. He said the section of aluminum weighed 80 pounds. The bomber was undergoing tests at the time of the accident. ed," Becken said. "Special pro visions are being made for re ceiving parents and displaying the work of the children. How ever, we want to be sure that every parent realizes that they are welcome at any time to visit the schools and hope they take advantage of any convenient time to do do." Events to be featured by other schools in Jackson county will be announced later, the county school superintendent's office said. A television program will be held Friday on KBES-TV focusl ing attention on the special week, it was reported. Special displays . have been placed in Walt Young's stationery store and in J. C. Penny's store.