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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.