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o Bfl nt lit u Meteor Space, turned o o c. isenhower To 59a k Tonight Oklahoma City To Be Scene of Second Address 'Future Security' . To Be Speech Topic Washington W President Eisenhower flew to Oklahoma City today to deliver the second of his series of "chins-up" speeches on U. S.. military and scientific might. The address will be carried on radio and tel evision tonight. The President was scheduled to spend about four hours in the Skrivin Towers Hotel before go ng to the Municipal Auditorium for his speech. 'Future Security' Topic The address, to be made at 7:30 p.m. p.s.t. will be on 4,Fu ture Security." Eisenhower spent the morning in his White House office con ferring with staff aides and working on his talk. He is expected to emphasize to the nation tonight the import ance of maintaining a strong for eign aid program for friendly nations and of making a sub stantial improvement in U. S. Radio Highlights President Eisenhower's se curity address from Oklahoma City tonight will be heard over stations KMED (1440 kc) and KWIN (1400 kc) at 7:30 p.m. and over station KYJC (1230 kc) at 9 p.m. scientific education to keep pace with Russia's technological ad vances. In the first of his talks last week, the President conceded that Russia may be ahead of the U. S. in some phases of missile development. But he said the U. S. and the Free World are still militarily superior to the Soviet Union. Asked To Give Facts He also outlined a five-point "program of action," climaxed by the appointment of Dr. James R. Killian, president of the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, as a scientific czar, to meet the Russian challenge. In advance of tonight's speech, Rep. H. R. Gross (R-Iowa.) urged Eisenhower to deal with "rough facts" and speak with "more con viction." He said the public should be told about the "inter service rivalry over the produc tion of missiles." i o Police Discontinue Search in Siskiyous State police late Monday dis continued a search in the Sis kiyou mountains south of Ash land for two men who are be lieved to have stolen a car in Medford Sunday night. Police checked two persons re ported near a railroad tunnel early Monday. They were not held, police said. oThe car was found abandoned ong Highway 99 two miles '$Duth of the Blue Star Memorial park. Officers believe the occu pants left it shortly before it was discovered. Both front doors were left open. The car is owned by Curtis Butterfield, 813 Minnesota st., Medford, who went after the car Monday. It contained several hundred dollars worth of anti- biotics, officers said. Portland OPI Oregon ap parently has passed the peak of its worst influenza ' epidemic. The State Board of Health re ported today that last week's confirmed total of 4999 cases of influenza was the lowest total (fence the week of Oct. 13-20. Space Experts On Launching Washington OPI Two top O rmy space-missile experts have IjSen summoned here for urgent conferences Thursday on the launching of an American-made tellite. ytpons Ready At the same time, the United "States is pounding home that at 3 (S)cy locations all over the world it has nuclear weapons ready on instant notice to deliver a "mas sive counterblow should Russia launch a surprise attack with ballistic missiles. The two developments put the nation farther out in seizing the (propaganda offensive from Rus sia as President Eisenhower (prejared tonight to deliver a CURT BUTTERFIELD Heads County Drive Curt Butterfield Named Chairman 01 MOD Campaign Curt Butterfield, 813 Minn esota st., has been named county chairman of the March of Dimes campaign to be held from Jan. 2 through Jan. 31. The appoint ment was announced by Jerry Gastineau, county chairman of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. The March of Dimes is the fund raising portion of the NFIP, which during the past 20 years has spent millions of dollars in research, care and rehabilation of polio patients. Butterfield is married and has four children. He is active in the Medford YMCA, vice pres ident of the Jackson Toastmast ers, past president of the Med ford 20-30 club and a member of the Rogue Valley Country Club. He is southern Oregon represen tative for Pfizer Laboratories. 'Survival Not Enough' The 1958 March of Dimes drive will be built around the theme "Survival is Not Enough," Butterfield said, carrying out the foundation's policy of assisting in rehabiliation of polio patients. Fewer than half of those in the polio susceptible age group in the United States have had at least one shot of Salk vac cine, he said, adding that even fewer have had the full series of three shots. American Legion Seeking Property The Medford American Le gion post last night voted against purchases of the Walker property on East Main st. at Bear creek bridge for a new hall, and decided to seek prop erty and construct a new build ing. The post has been meeting at the Medford YMCA since the hall at 531 South Riverside ave. was sold recently. The old build ing was a converted home, and sufficient space to handle post meetings and other activities was not available. Keegan Townsend, post com mander, said the post plans to purchase about an acre of prop erty just inside or outside the Medford city limits. Such a lot would provide sufficient park ing facilities. The posttplans to construct a building which would include a main meeting hall, kitchen, stage and facilities, and two small meeting rooms. Legion members felt the post would benefit more from a new building than purchasing the Walker building. One of the main drawbacks to the Walker building, members felt, was lack of parking facilities, and the possibility of the new High way 99 freeway in the vicinity. Called For Conference American-Made Satellite second "chins up" science and security speech at Oklahoma City, Okla. Called to map plans with the Pentagon and the National Academy of Science on the satellite effort were German born rocket scientist Dr. Wern her Von Braun and Maj. Gen. John B. Mendaris, commander of the Army's Huntsville, Ala., ballistic missile center. Reason Not Given There was no indication whether their presence would mean a speed-up in the placing of a fully-instrumental satellite up with the Soviet Sputniks. That is scheduled under the Navy's non-military '"Vanguard" Jet Bombers Fly Non-Stop To Manila In Strength Show Practice Flights To Support SEATO Washington 'IP Gen. Cur tis LeMay landed his four-jet tanker plane at 12:35 p.m. (p. s.t.) at National Airport today after a record-setting non-stop flight from Buenos Aires. The mammoth craft, built to refuel U.S. H-bombers, com pleted the trip of about 5.000 miles in 11 hours and 8 min utes. He and his crew of 18 had taken off from the Argen tine capital at 1:27 a.m. (p.s.t.) Manila (IP) A flight of three twin-engined jet B66 bombers flew 8,100 miles non-stop from California to Manila today in a show of U. S. global strength. The United States Air Force was following up this flight by sending 40 fighters on a trans pacific flight in "Operation Mo bile Zebra," an operation to show how the United States could help friendly nations in volved in "brushfire wars.",. Attract Attention Three bombers arrived over Manila at 3:30 p.m. en route to Clark Air Force base outside the Philippines capital for three weeks training exercises. A fourth bomber was expected in about four hours. The planes attracted wide at tention as they swept over Man ila at 4.000 feet, and crowds swarmed into the streets to watch them. Nine B-66s began the flight from George Air Force. Base, Calif., but five turned back when they missed a rendezvous with a refueling plane. A sixth gave up at Wake Island. First Streak Over The first three to arrive over Manila streaked in from Wake Island where they refueled. They were less than five min utes behind schedule on the less than 17 hour flight from the United States. The bombers were of the Tac tical Air Command and will work out in the Philippines in practice flights supporting the Southeast Asia Treaty Organi zation. The second part of the opera tion started today when 32 F100 fighters and six of the new Voo Doo F101 speedsters began tak ing off on an island-hopping flight to the Philippines. First Appearance The mission marks the first appearance in the Far East of the Voo Doo reconnaissance jets, reputed to be among the fastest planes in existence today. They are of the type believed ready to try any day now for a trans continental U. S. record of 2Vi hours or' less. $105,000 Raised in Medford Crusade A total of 5105,000 has been raised toward the $123,130 goal of the United Medford Crusade, according to reports given yester day by campaign chairmen. The amount is about 86 per cent of the goal. General Chairman Bob John son said progress in the campaign the goal would be reached soon. He added, however, that there "still is a lot to do and all solicit ers are urged to finish up solici tations as soon as possible." Chief sources of funds last week were the Home Crusade, which brought in $3,000, or S500 more than the estimated goal, and the football program sale at the Grant Pass- Medford game Friday night, which net ted S300. . Earlier, UMC officials expres sed the hope the goal would be reached by this week. Washington (W A federal narcotics agent today linked racketeers in the 50 million dol lar a year New York garbage hauling business with the Mafia underworld. project for next spring. Launch ings of six-pound test satellites are set for next month. Vanguard officials, who had to design their own propul sion equipment, said the United States could have beaten Russia in the satellite r ce if they had an Army Jupiter-C rocket from the start of the International Geophysical Year project in 1955. To Work Out Size Mendaris and Von Braun were expected to work out with officials here the size, shape and weight of the satellite they will hurl into space with their pow erful Jupiter-C, a test rocket which has been used in atmos phere reentry experiments. 52nd Year medford Tribune United Press full Leased Wire (, United Press Full Leased Wire No. 175 MEDFORD, OREGON, W cMBER 13, 1957 18 Pages ; q Garcia Appears Certain Winner In Philippines Candidate Fails To Carry Vice President Manila (W President Carlos P. Garcia, strongly anti-Communist and p r o-American, ap peared certain today to have won reelection. He had a 209,138-vote lead over his nearest rival, Liberal Jose Yulo, with more than a mil lion and a half votes counted of the estimated five million cast in Tuesday's election. The 61-year-old Garcia's edge thus was growing, since less than six hours earlier his lead over Yulo was only 151,000. Refuses To Concede The apparently successful Nationalist party candidate claimed victory, even though Yulo refused to concede until he saw further returns. Although one of Garcia's supporters said "all is over but the shouting," there was no joy in Nationalist circles over the vice presidential race. Garcia failed to carry his running mate, Jose Laurel Jr. to victory with him. The vice presidency went to Liberal Diosdado Maca pagal, the first time in its his tory the Philippines has had a president and vice president from different parties. Planners Approve Suggested Changes In Subdivision Bill The Medford planning com mission , last night approved changes -suggested in the pro posed city subdivision ordinance made at a joint meeting of the commission and city council Oct. 30. Changes in the ordinance in cluded several relatively minor modifications of sections, some type of distinction for improve ments within the city and out the city, and changes in the minor subdivision provision. A public hearing was sched uled Dec. 9 on two requests for zone changes. Mark Goldy and Hugh Coleman were appointed to investigate the zone changes and to renort back Dec. 9. Changed 'Zones Involved in the change of zone requests is an area south of Crater Lake highway and east of Biddle rd. from class 1A, single family, to class V, light industrial, and for three lots the Narregan addition at Clark and Cedar sts. from class IB, single and two family, to class VI, heavy industrial. The .commission suggested a member of the school board give a report on the dedication of the extension of Siskiyou blvd. at the next meeting. The Medford school district had of fered to dedicate the extension. Roy Bashaw, city attoney, was requested to investigate the operations of the Golden West Paints, Inc., 906 North River side ave. The request was made by R. L. Taylor, owner of the company, after he was notified by the city that the manufactur ing of combustible materials was prohibited within the city limits. The investigation was ordered by the commssion in order to determine the extent of manufac turing done at the plant. Approved at the meeting was the tentative plan of Earhart Park subdivision in southeast Medford. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York UT) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 430.07, up 0.32; 20 rail- . roads 105.33, off 0.70; 15 util ities 64.91, up 0.08; and 65 stocks 145.29, off 0.08. Sales today were about 2,120,000 shares compared with 2,050, 000 shares Tuesday. WEATHER . FORECAST: Generally cloudy thrnueh Thursday. Rain be coming showery; snow level lowering to 5.000 feet. Low tonight 43. High Thursday 52 Temp. Hirhest Yesterday 4 Lnest this Mornini 45 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today 71 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:0(1 a.m. Sunset 4:52 p.m. Moonrise 10:54 p.m. Last Quarter Thursday PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus. high in south 8:10 p.m. Scheat is the upper right-hand star of the Square: the lower left-hand star is Gamma Pe-gasi. AHA IT TM lEREES SEEN m i jiuatory moo 'Dear Boy, Where Have You Been Keeping Yourself?' Meeting to Discuss Vocational School Possibilities Slated Representatives of local bus iness and industry and school officials " "will " meet" with Bill Loomis of the "state department of vocational educational next week to discuss possibilities of establishing vocational or trade schools, in this area. Loomis is conducting a series of meetings throughout the state to determine interest in estab lishing such schools, which would become a part of the state system of education. Plans for the conference were reported at Post Mortem Report On Death Expected In About Four Days Cause of the death of James Vear Spice, 44, Medford; in the Jackson county jail Saturday night, has not yet been deter mined, according to Tom Reed er, Jackson county district at torney. ' However, a report should be available in about four days, according to the pathologist who made a post mortem examination yesterday afternoon. Specimens were sent to the crime laboratory at the University of Oregon medical school in Portland, he said". Reporting on his investigation, Reeder said, "there is no evid ence of any injury, or trauma on Spicer's body. Also, there is no thing to indicate any negligence or wrong doing on part of the jailer.' Appeared To Be Sleeping "He was apparently intoxi cated and appeared to be sleep ing it off," Reeder added. 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. Saturday. He had been called to examine another man in the county jail at the time. ... Funeral services for Mr. Spicer will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thurs day at Conger-Morris Funeral home. The Rev. Georg Trobough of the First Methodist ehurch will officiate. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. He was born in Leon, Iowa, Sept. 12 1912. and moved to Med ford last June. Survivors include five broth ers, Gerald Spicer, Worland, Wyo., Herbert Spicer, stationed at Ft. Ord, Calif., Ellery Spicer, Garibaldi, Ore.,' Chester Spicer, Worland, Wyo., Glen Spicer, Cot tage Grove; four sisters, Mrs. Frank Vanoy, Lucerne, Wyo., Mrs. Kenneth Hankins, Los Gatos, Calif., Mrs. Paul Carter, Ventura, Calif., and Mrs. John Schuster, Medford. a meeting of the Medford school board last nighty During the past few" years, school boards, including Med ford, have urged the . state de partment of education to study the advisibility of establishing trade and vocational schools. The school board last night reviewed the recent election in which $1,786,000 worth of bonds were approved for. a two-year building program. Palmer Hewlett and James Jamison, of the Hayslip, Tufts, Hewlett and Jamison architect firm, Portland, were scheduled to meet with school officials this afternoon on the high school program. Planned at the high school are eight additional classrooms on the present buil ding, construction of up to 10 new classrooms on land owned by the district and renovation and relocation work. ' School officials indicated that bids for work on some of the two-year construction program may be let early next year so the work could be completed in time for next school year. The board accepted the resig nations of Mrs. Alice Lynch, fourth grade teacher at Wash ington school, and Mrs. Muriel Acheson Curtis, second grade teacher at Roosevelt school. Mrs. Geneva Myers was elected to replace Mrs. Curtis, and Mrs. Jerry Dyrud was elected to re place Mrs. Lynch on a substitute basis. Improvement School Class Slated Today The second or graduating ses sion of the current series of Med ford's driver improvement school will be held in the city council chambers at 7:30 p.m. today. Police Capt. Clyae Fichtner, instructor for the school, said the class is open to anyone interest ed in attending but a more com plete picture of the driver-improvement suggestion would be received if both sessions were attended. - Fichtner said tonight's class would have five students as signed by municipal court and several volunteers. The session will stress the basic rule, he said. Radio Highlights - A tape recording of the reply of a group of Oregon Republican senators to Got. Robert Holmes' television talk last Sunday, will be heard over station KMED (1440 kc) immediaely a f e r President Eisenhower's talk tonight, about 8 p.m. The recording was made in Portland last night and includes Sen. Phil Lowry of Medford. Price 10 Cents Proposals Include Reduction From 30 to 25 Per Cent Lowry, Musa See Step as Half Way Salem (IP) Senate and House conferees on the tax re duction bill appeared in a more conciliatory mood today and heard a number of proposals in eluding a reduction from 30 per cent to 25 per cent presented by the coalition group of senators Rep. Clarence Barton, one of the two House conferees, said he would ask for a House Dem ocratic caucus immediately aft er adjournment of the afternoon session and it was agreed that the committee would reconvene at 2:30 p.m. Coming Half Way In addition to agreeing to re duce 1957 tax rates by a gross amount of 25 per cent which Sens. Philip Lowry, Medford Republican, and Ben Musa, The Dalles Democrat, said was com ing half way the following proposals were made to be con sidered by the House: Adopt an amendment to allow operating loss carry-forward. Ac celerated depreciation as allow able under the 1954 internal rev enue code. Additional exemptions for tax payers past the age of 65 by either a double deduction or a dollar tax credit at least -equal to the . tax on a double deduc tion in the lowest tax bracket. Credit for Handicapped An additional one dollar tax credit for handicapped taxpay ers. Reduction of the tax rates in each taxable bracket to effect the remainder of the total 25 per cent reduction. And finally they would bring out Senate bill 1, taking the state out of the property tax field, for a vote on the floor. Sen. Musa said at the confer ence meeting that he fully ex pected the House would have some counter proposals and ask ed that the committee make a real effort to compose its dif ferences. Elementary Schools Plan Open Houses All elementary schools will hold open house Thursday in conjunction with National Edu cation week. Jackson, Washington, West Side and Jefferson schools will hold open houses from 7 to' 9 p.m. Thursday. Roosevelt 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. Medford high school will hold its open house on Monday, Nov. 25, at 8 p.m. McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior High schools and the Roosevelt annex held open houses last night. Events to be featured by other schools in Jackson county will be announced later, accord ing to the county school super intendent's office. Action Expected by Court On Freeway Interchanges Tentative approval or disap proval of proposed Highway 99 freeway interchanges and over and underpasses affecting Jack son county roads, is expected to be made by the county court tomorrow, Commissioner Chest er Wendt said this morning. J. F. Hagemann, assistant county-city relations engineer with the state highway depart ment, met with the county court this morning where he explain ed maps of the tentative and proposed interchanges and over and underpasses. They are tentative proposals. he emphasized. If the county court approves, the proposals are forwarded to the state highway department for its approval and sent to the Bureau of Public Roads for its approval. Then a formal agreement is made with the county court. They includa Upton rd., north Defense Officials Reveal Story of Historic Event Object Recovered From Outer Spac Cincinnati, Ohio (IP) Top Defense Department officials to day revealed the story of how this nation fired a "man-made meteor" into outer space and then got it back. The "meteor" is the nose cone of a Jupiter-C missile which President Eisenhower showed the American people on television last Thursday night. The only explanation which he offered then was that it had been "hundreds of miles to outer space and back." The nose cone is the . first known object ever to be recover ed from outer space, a feat Rus sia is not yet believed to have accomplished. Defense officials said advanced Army rocketry caused the nose cone to do the following: Glow like a falling star. Think for itself. Expel a parachute to slow It down. Toss out a balloon and inflatf Eject and explode0bombs Turn itself into a radio broad casting station. Light a flashing beacon. Mark its landing spot in the Atlantic Ocean. And, finally, spread shark re pellent so Navy divers could re trieve it. The officials "who revealed the story were Alvin G. Waggoner, adviser to the defense secretary on guided missiles; Col. John H. Swenson of the Army, and as sistant for research and engine ering; and Capt. Leslie M. Slack of the Navy, director of surface weapons systems for naval ord nance. They said the Army's Jupiter C missile was fired from the Air Force's test base at Cape Can averal, Fla. The nose cone later was recovered by the Navy which was "playing outfield" somewhere in the mid-Atlantic. The distance the missile trav eled was kept secret. "We had good reason for want ing it back," Swenson said "No test gear on earth even approxi mates the speed, heat, force of gases and other conditions the cone had to endure." In space, the rocket motors were , blasted from the cone, which began glowing "with the same intensity as a second class star," he said. "It was visible to the eye, like any other meteor." "The cone had to think for it self and determine at least a dozen acts," Swenson said. "At the right time, it slowed itself by ejecting a parachute. "Then it put out a balloon and inflated it. Then a little guillo tine served the inflating tube and the balloon was let out on a tether above the parachute. "Just before it hit the water it ejected and fired some small bombs so the Navy could pick up the nose on listening devices and know the point of the crash." Nine Inches of Snow Reported at Crater Lake Crater Lake National park re ported 2.52 inches of precipita tion in the 24 hours up to 8 a.m. today. There were nine inches of new snow from the storm and total snow depth at the lake was 18 inches. South and west entrances to the park were open this morn ing but motorists were advised to have chains on their cars. Chains were required from Annie Springs to park head quarters. Road from headquart ers to the rim was closed. Portland OPI Charles E. Devlin, 50, managing director of the National Plywood Distribu tors Association, died Tuesday at Miami, Fla. of Central Point, over or under pass; Central Point Market rd. at Central Point, full inter change; Table Rock rd., over or underpass; interchange with Crater Lake highway; Barnett rd., full interchange; Fern Val ley rd., opposite Phoenix, full interchange; Suncrest rd., cger or underpass; Valley View rd., opposite Talent, complete inter change; Valley View rd., be tween Talent and Ashland, oppo site the Jackson Hot springs, over or underpass; Butler Creek rd., hall mile south of Valley View rd, under or overpass; Oak st., in Ashland, complete interchange; Mountain ave., Ash land, under or overpass; Main st. in Ashland, under or over pass; Green Springs highway, or Ashland ave., full interchange; Crowson rd., under or overpass; and tie in with the present high way lVi miles beyond Crowson rd. o O O
