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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
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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.
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