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Newspaper Page Texto 52nd Year Price 10 Cents ys U. Medford United Presi Full Leased Wire RIBUNE United Presi Full Leased Wire 20 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957 No. 181 O ISMOVEi Condition Follows Meetings Between Officials, Pineau Minister Confers With Stevenson Today Washington OP French 'foreign Minister Christian Pin- (eau conferred with Adlai E. Stevenson today amid strong in dications that strained U. S. -French relations are rapidly im proving. ne big stumbling block U. S. arms shipments to Tunisia ;)ipeared to have been reduc ed substantially with word from ''official quarters that the U. S. has no- immediate intention of sending any more guns to the newly independent country. Stevenson, Democratic party leader and the state deartment's special NATO adviser, met with Pineau at the French embassy, presumably to discuss the forth coming "summit" mtinj in Paris to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty alliance. Touch on lasuv Pineau an Secretary ot State John Foster Dullet touched on the Usui Tuesday hi their wide eaning conference en Angle JTrench affair. Before levinf foe Nur York (ehroute home thia afternoon, Pineau had lunch with Defense O Secretary Neil H. Mcllroy end other top defense officials. Their talks were expected to center on 'McElroy's plans for deploying 1.500-mile ballistic missiles in Western Europe. Pineau apparently wi leaving town in much happier frame of mind than he had on arrival. His biggest complaint was the diiipments of U. S. and British (arms to Tunisia, a move that touched off angry resentment in France and threatened breach in the allied solid front. Bo Intention U. S. officials reported that j this country has no immediate j intention of sending Tunisia more arms. Moreover, they said, if and when more shipments are planned, France will be consult ed first and Tunisia will be re quired to give new advance as (lyirances that the weapons will not fall into the hands of Al rgerian rebels. w Stevenson, twice - defeated Democratic presidential candi . date, was to fly to Chicago later today with Dulles, who is mak ing an evening address to the Chicago Council of Foreign Re lations. A state department spokesman said Stevenson, who sat in dur ing part of the three-hour Dulles Pineau talk, was present only for matters dealing with the NATO conference next month for which he is helping the U. S. develop means to strengthen the allies against Russia's new mis sile danger. FiyeMen Appointed For Sewer Advice A committee of five has been appointed by Mayor John W. Snider from the Grandview-Ken-wood district to advise with the administration on construction and design of e sanitary sewer planned for the area. The mayor appointed Elwood B. Hedberg, 1690 Grand st., Roy P. Wilkes, 1863 Crater Lake Cave., Wayne Wakefield, 1018 Woodrow lane, Henry Padgham, 2707 Springbrook rd., and Mil ton A. Lor os, 1862 Delta Waters rd., to serve on the committee. City Manager Robert A. Duff, said the committee would be only for the purpose of consult ing with the administration and would not be in effect after con struction is competed. Duff said the committee would meet some time next week. Reports of the committee with city officials will be given to the city council for their consideration. A preliminary study of the project has been made by the Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merrifield engineers, of Corval lis. The report outlines sewer design and estimated costs. WEATHER FORECAST: Fog or low clouds with occasional drizzle to nieht and Thursday morning. Clearing partially Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 30. High Thursday 48-50. Temp. Highest Vesterdav 45 Lowest this Morning 42 Tree, to 10 a.m. Today OS Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:09 a.m. Sunset 4:45 p.m. Moonrise Thursday 7:07 a.m. New Moon Nov. 21 PROMINENT STAR Fomaihaut. due south 7:06 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in south west 6:45 p.m. Mars, rises 5:52 a.m. Jupiter, in the southeast at rise. "Watch Where Ycu Soviet Union Moves To Bring Egypt into Its Economic Orbit BYW ALTER LOGAN United Press Correspondent The Soviet Union has moved to bring Egypt into its economic orbit along with Syria. Russia accompanied the prom ise of economic aid to Egypt with new accusations today against the United States and Israel and said they were plot ting war against Syria. It said Tax Returns Still Being Processed; Officials State Individual county tax returns are still being processed in the tax department, according to of ficials. It was reported this would continue for three or four weeks before all returns have been processed. Officials said that the only corporation returns that have been processed are for the three companies that submit the larg est checks. They are California Oregon Power company, Pacif ic Telephone and Telegraph company, and' the Southern Pa cific railroad. The three com panies paid a total of 5705,141.41 in county taxes. Largest check of the three was from the power company, it was repsrted, with its check for $421,147.04. The other checks were for amounts of $212,269.72 from the telephone company, and $71,724.65 from the rail road. It is not known at this time if the returns will yield a larger amount of money for the county this year than last, officials said that the majority of returns would have to be processed be fore any trend could be deter mined. Tax officials said most of the individual returns were for an nual tax payments with a few making the first quarterly pay ment. Taxes paid after the Nov. 15 deadline are charged with in terest, they explained. Second tax quarterly payment is due Feb. 15, 1958. Rail Officals Say Speed Caused Wreck Medford, Mass. OPt Railroad and union officials agreed today that a pasenger train that hur tled off the tracks Tuesday kill ing two persons was going too fast. But there was disagreement over whether warning signs about the temporary restricted speed area were in place. Twenty-three persons were injured in the wreck but none was in ser ious condition today. Boston and Maine Railroad authorities said flatly the cause of the Montreal to Boston's Red Wing express' derailment early Tuesday was ' excessive speed in a restricted area." W. Paul Dugan, general chair man of the B and M Local of the Locomotive Firemen and En ginemen's Union, agreed that the train was traveling about 60 miles an hour but maintained that warning signs which should have been posted were not in their placet 'JS Aim Those Things" Israel was massing troops for an attack oij Syria. At the same time Cairo renew ed its campaign King Hussein of Jordan and attacked the United States. It accused Col. James G. Sweeney, U.S. military attache in Jordan, of "eclipsing" Hus sein from Jordanian military af fairs. The Russian economic aid pro mise to Egypt was made Tuesday nisht in Moscow by Premier Nikolai Bulaanin at a reception for Maj. Gen Abdel Hakim Amer,. the Egyptian, defense min ister and commander of the joint Syrian-Egyptian forces. Nothing was said in Moscow on the Soviet-Egyotian military re lations although Amer met with several high military figures in cluding Defense Minister Rodon Y. Malinovsky. But Moscow ob servers noted that Amer visited more Soviet military Installa tions than any other non-Communist soldier. Observers recalled that Syria's decision to link its economic future with Russia followed a smiliar visit to Moscow. Russia is Egypt's largest cus tomer and supplier, but Egyrjt also has talks underway with Britian in Rome and with France in Geneva in an effort to repair economic-relations with the West. Moscow Radio, is a broadcast monitored in London, said Tur kish "provocations" were con tinuing along the Syrian border but it turned most of its venom on the United States and Israel. It said recent maneuvers by the U.S. 6th Fleet "give rise to the belief that Washington has now decided to attack Syria from both sea and land, more precise ly from Israel." Frarizke In Salem On Nunn Appeal Deputy District Attorney A. Allen Franzke left for Salem Tuesday afternoon to present the state's case in the oral arguments on the appeal of the Billy Jun ior Nunn murder case before the state supreme court, this afternoon. Nunn was found guilty in Jack son county circuit court Aug.l, 1956, of the first degree murder of Alvin William Eacret, 14, of Klamath Falls. There was no re commendation of leniency by the jury so he received the manda tory sentence of death in the gas chamber. Nation's Weather Returns to Normal; Storms Kill At Least 32 Over Week End By UNITED PRESS The nation's weather, appar ently exhausted in the wake of three days of flooding rains, tor nadoes and snowstorms, return ed to near normal today in most sections. The succession of violent storms which began Sunday and ended Tuesday night claimed at least 32 lives and left a trail of destruction from the gulf to the Great Lakes. At least nine persons were killed on slippery roads, five per sons died of heart attacks blamed on a Midwest snow storm, five others were killed by week end snows in the West, and 13 were killed in Southern tornadoes and flash floods. NOTED Russia Seeking To Force Summit Disarmament Talks Reds To Boycott New Commission of UN United Nations (W The So viet Union is seeking to force the United States into a "sum mit'' conference on disarma ment, western diplomatic ob servers said today. They said Soviet Deputy For eign Minister Vasily Kuznet sov made this clear when he an nounced Tuesday that Russia would boycott future meetings of the U.N. Disarmament Com mission. Kuznetsov said Russia "will not be here in January" when the commission is expected to resume its talks in line with an overwhelming mandate from the 82-member General Assembly. The Assembly, by a 60-9 vote with 11 abstentions, agreed late Tuesday to expand the present commission to 25 members by adding Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Burma, Czecho slovakia, Egypt, India, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Tu nisia and Yugoslavia. Soviet Proposal It also voted down, 46-9, with 24 abstentions, a Soviet proposal for a commission comprising all 82 U.N. members. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said Russia "cannot suc cessfully disregard this massive expresion of world opinion." But the Russians said they would do just that and western diplomats said it would cost them dearly in world prestige. Kuznetsov said the Soviets would not participate in the commission unless its member ship were evenly divided be tween Soviet supporters and "neutrals" on one side and west ern backers on the other. Communist Party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev told United Press Staff Correspondent Henry Sha piro in Moscow last week that a top-level East-West meeting was the only way to prevent war. Wolfe Found Guilty Of Larceny Charges Willie Woodrow Wolfe, 36, Los Angeles, Calif., was found guilty this morning of grand larceny during a jury trial be fore Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna. Wolfe, who was arrested with two other men last July, was charged with robbing Grady Al len Conner, apartment 6, 724 Victory st., Medford, at gun point. Conner said he was kick ed out of a car after being rob bed on Suncrest road outside of Talent. Reported taken in the robbery was between $500 and $700 cash, a wallet, ring, and wrist watch. The jury returned the verdict of guilty at conclusion of the two day trial. Eight witnesses were called by the prosecution with two witnesses testifying for the defense. Wolfe did not take the stand in his own defense. Wolfe was represented by Alan Holmes, Medford attorney, with District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder and Deputy John An icker presenting the state's case. The trial for Glen Eugene Johnson, 36, Live Oak, Calif., arrested by Grants Pass city po lice with Wolfe on the same charge, is scheduled to begin in circuit court tomorrow. William Lloyd Johnston, 33, Huron, Calif., who appeared as one of the defense witnesses in Wolke's trial, had pleaded guil ty earlier to charges of larceny from a person and was previous ly sentenced to one year in the county jail. The blizzard-like snowstorm swept across the Northeast Tues day night and into Canada. Ear lier, the autumn storm dumped 12 to 16 inches of snow across sections of the Northern and Central Plains and Upper Great Lakes. The storm, whipped by strong wind gusts that piled up, four foot drifts, snarled land and air traffic and forced hundreds of schools to close in the snow belt. Most roads in the Midwest were reported open today after highway crews had worked around the clock to clear roads and free trapped motorists. In the South, clearing weather eased the threat of further flood ing in Missouri, Arkansas, Ten Acre V A. pionee. be used . Branch Exsr.. .s of the will now .ern Oregon -t station for agricultural research, according to Herald H. White, experiment station superintendent. Sale of the acreage located west of Jackson creek on the Jacksonville-Central Point road was completed yesterday noon when the former owners, Miss Claire Hanley, Miss Martha Han ley and Miss Mary Hanley, Jacksonville-Central Point rd., signed the deed to the property. The county court signed the neces sary papers before its members left last weekend for a state meeting in Portland, White said. Total purchasing price was $50,875. Levelling of the property is to be done as soon as weather per- Overdose Blamed For Spicer Death, Reeder Reports The death of -James Vear Spicer, 44, Medford, in the county jail recently, may have been partly caused by a self administeried overdose of med icine, according to District At torney Thomas J. Reeder. Reeder has completed an in vestigation of the circumstances surrounding the man's death, to supplement a post mortem ex amination, the results of which have not yet been received. Reeder questioned members of the sheriff's department, and also each of the prisoners who were in the jail at the time of Spicer's death. He reported that there is no doubt that Spicer had taken be tween one-third and one-half a bottle of some pills that are be lieved to have been prescribed by a doctor earlier. He said, it is believed the pills each contained one-half rain of Large Number He explained the persons he talked to are sure that Spicer took a large number of the pills. He added that the county jail staff had no knowledge of the number of pills the prisoner had taken. The empty pill bottle was found the following morning, Reeder said. He stated it is his belief that the pills were a major contribut ing factor in the death. But, he added, officials are still waiting the results of the toxicologist's reports. The district attorney stressed that in his investigation no evid ence whatsoever indicated any abuse of Spicer or any malfeas ance on the part of the staff. Reeder said no word has been received" from the crime labora tory at the University of Oregon medical school in Portland where specimens were sent following the post mortem examination. Chains Required on East Diamond Lake Road Salem (IP) Chains were ad vised for travel in the East Dia mond lake region today, but otherwise Oregon highways were reported fairly clear. State highway officials said there were some icy spots at De troit, Bend and Senaca but no chains were required. Ground fog was reported at Corvallis and Chemult. 1 DOW JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 433.37, up 1.64; 20 rail roads 100.83. up 2.06; 15 utili ties 65.82, up 0.51, and 65 stocks 145.18, up 1.11. Sales today were about 2.400,000 shares compared with 2,240.000 share Tues day. nessee and Kentucky. About 850 families were evacuated Tuesday in Missouri's Bootheel where swirling floodwaters destroyed prospects for a bumper cotton crop. The evacuees were shel tered in the Kenneth, Mo., Na tional Guard Armory. High winds also diminished across the Southland and a surge of cooler air, blamed for touch ing off twisters in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Ken tucky, overspread most of Dixie. Gusty winds continued Tues day in the Upper Midwest and Northwest. Winds were clocked at 60 mph at Pellston, Mich., and gusts of more than 60 mph hit Waterbury, Conn., Tuesday night chased xperiments mits, White said. First building construction on the new site will be for machine and implement storage, the superintendent ex plained. Office and laboratory buildings will follow. Also in cluded in the proposed construc tion will be refrigeration and ripening rooms for fruit. Three Properties Listed The experiment station now consists of three properties, in addition to the newly acquired land. Of these three, the Med ford station located off Kings highway, devoted entirely to horticultural research, will be continued. This consists of 20 acres all in pears. Work now lo cated on the other two pieces of property the old Southern Ore gon station and the experimen tal farm will be transferred as soon as the work there permits, the superintendent explained. The farm is located west of Tal ent and consists of 47 acres de voted to general agricultural re search. The Southern Oregon station consisting of 27 acres is located on Highway 99, north of Talent. White estimates that the com plete transfer of work will take a period of three to four years. Main Research Planned Two major lines of research will be conducted at the new site according to White. These are the general agricultural crops work presently located on the experimental farm west of Ualent and the pear breeding and variety testing work being conducted at the old Southern Oregon station on Highway 99. Commenting on the trans action White said, "This is the result of some four years of study by the station staff and advisory committees represent ing general agricultural and hor ticultural interests of the Rogue valley. Operation of three sites is obviously an expensive, in efficient type of operation, ne cessitating duplication of facili ties and equipment." "More serious, however, is the condition prevailing on two of the sites. Orchard plantings on the old Southern Oregon station on Highway 99 are largely the remnants of more than 40 years of research and no longer adapt ed to modern research methods," he said. "Extensive repair to the irrigation pipe lines and buildings would have to be made in the future." "The experimental farm lo cated west of Talent is the site of an old apple orchard which for many years prior to the dis covery of DDT was sprayed with lead arsenate for control of cod ling moth. Soil under the drip area of the old apple trees con tains a high concentration of lead arsenate which is toxic to many types of crops requiring research. The lead arsenate exists in the soil in an insoluble state and there is no known economically feasible means of eliminating its effect on plant growth," White explained. The Southern Oregon Experi ment station is a branch of the Oregon agricultural experiment station system with central ad ministrative headquarters and laboratories located at the Ore gon State college in Corvallis. It serves the Southern Oregon area, White explained. Its opera tional funds come through state and county appropriations , and from the sale of crops which are a by-product of theresearch con ducted. Physical facilities, how ever, such as land and buildings must be provided by the county in which the station is located. This is county property assigned to the experiment station and as such reverts to the county, when not used for agricultural re search, he added. Fund Established Purchase of the property was financed from a $104,000 sink ing fund established by the county. "The county court, feels this move should greatly improve the facilities of the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment sta tion and will make possible even better service to the area," County Judge Rodney Keating stated. "A substantial portion of the Jackson county economy is based on agricultural income and the prosperity of all the people is directly affected and influenced by the conditions of the agricultural industry lo cally." National Flu Toll Approaches 900 Mark Chicago OP) The national influenza toll today approached 900 with the addition of 34 new flu deaths in Ohio. The spurt of deaths reported in Ohio hiked the nation's count to 878 fatalities attributable to Asian flu, other types of influ enza and complications of both illnesses since the Asian virus began its invasion last summer. 1 R. L. (BUD) PALMER March of Dimes Chairman Palmer Appointed Medford Chairman Of Dimes Drive R. L. (Bud) Palmer has been appointed as the 1958 chairman of the March of Dimes for Med ford, according to Curt Butter field, county chairman for the drive. Palmer said the cost of financ ing of the 1958 program is about $44,900,000. This money is chief ly used for care and rehabilita tion of post-acute polio cases, ie said. The amount also includes continuation of virus research and training of needed medical personnel. He said advances in rehabili tation made it possible for per sons formerly confined to iron lungs and wheel chairs to return to useful daily living. This is a costly program with local chap ters spending 90 per cent of their funds for old cases, even though the Salk vaccine has drastically reduced the number of new polio victims. March of Dimes supported re search will be expanded in 1958 with grants in virology, which led to the discovery of the Salk vaccine, "Palmer said. He said this has opened new avenues of discovery in diseases other than polio, as well as polio-related in lections. He said the officials of the na tional foundation have said that the organization would embark on a new program when polio no longer takes all their time and funds. Palmer, who lives at 2415 Chester lane, is employed by the California-Pacific Utilities com pany as division chief clerk for Southern Oregon and Northern California. He is a member of the Elks, Presbyterian church and on the board of directors of the Medford Safety council. Expenditure Okayed For Civil Defense Ashland A total expenditure of $500 for local civil defense equipment was authorized by the Ashland city council last night, it was reported. Ashland Civil Defense Direc tor C. W. Davis was allocated the money to be used for radiological fall-out testing equipment and two-way radios for operation by two teams in the Ashland area, it was explained. Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, head of the Jackson coun ty Civil Defense, said this is a major step in civil defense for the city. General Hicks, who at tended the meeting, also said considerable ., concern was ex pressed over the open water res ervoirs in Ashland which are ex posed to fall-out contamination. During other business a pub lic hearing was held on the va cation of Melody lane to be used for Southern Oregon College's science building site. No objec tors appeared, it was reported. A ity ordinance is to be drawn up for the city council's approv al at the next meeting. Engineers Working Against Time to Save Residences Seattle (IP) City engineers said today they were progressing well in their race against time to save several homes from toppl ing into Seattle's giant sewer line cave-in. James Robertson, assistant city engineer, said the by-pass sewer line around the damaged section will be completed by early Thursday. While working on the by-pass, the engineering department had another major problem in un plugging the main sewer line be low the area of the break which will be sealed off permanently. Robertson said he hoped an opening could be forced in the sand-filled sewer by Thursday, so the by-pass could function Secretary Appears At Hearing Behind Closed Doors Today Talks With Newsmen; Denies Hurry-Up Plan Washington (IP) Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy said today the United States is in "good shape" on its intermedi ate range ballistic missiles and there "probably" will be a speedup in developing anti-missile missile defenses. McElroy said, however, "there's a good deal we need to know" before going into a rush program on the anti-missile weapon. He denied that a hurry-up program, calling for an outlay of six to seven billion dollars over three years, has been laid before him by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff. A published report had said Taylor laid his "dramatic" pro posal before the joint chiefs of staff. A spokesman for the joint chiefs later issued a one-line statement: "We know of no dra matic proposals made to the JCS as published." McElroy talked to newsmen after testifying at a closed door session of a House Defense Ap propriations subcommittee which is investigating this country's lag behind Russia in missile and satellite work. Money Was Withheld Subcommittee Chairman George E. Mahon (D.-Tex.) told reporters the administration had withheld some production funds voted by Congress for the Air Force IRBM, the Thor. Mahon said this money was withheld despite the fact "we are undoubtedly behind Russia" on the IRBM. Mahon declined to assert spe cifically, however, that the ad ministration erred in its decision to slow production of Thor mis siles pending further testing and elimination of early bugs in the device. He conceded that there was a problem of perfecting the mis sile. But he said he hoped the work could be pressed as fast as possible. May Build Two Types One factor in the decision to delay all-out production of the Thor was an effort to decide whether it or the Jupiter of fered the best prospect. Recent ly McElroy has seemed to hint that production may go forward on both. Ruling Expected On License Case Municipal Judge Noreen Kelly announced this morning that she would rule at Friday morning's session of court on new evidence presented by Ray DeMarrs, own er of the Ray's Barber shop, who was charged with conducting a business without a license. DeMarrs told the court he felt the ordinance was. illegal be cause he believes the notice of the ordinance was not properly presented on the council agenda on the evening it was passed by the city council. He also told tne court he be lieves the ordinance is illegal because the council would have to vote to suspend the rule con cerning advance notice of a pro posed ordinance before introduc ing and adopting it at the same meeting. City Attorney E. R. Bashaw contends that no rules concern ing council procedure on passage of ordinances was violated by the council in passing the business license. He told the court that according to another rule the council did not have to vote to suspend the rules on advance notices if a majority vote was gained in passing the ordinance. (The ordinance was passed by a 7 to 0 vote, one council member being absent.) and eliminate seepage of more water in the area under the 200-by-1 50-foot hole which is more than 60 feet deep". . In another job, the city was erecting towers on either end of the hole. A cable will be stretch ed between t he towers, per mitting workmen to descend on a platform to the crater bottom where they will pump a chemi cal cement into the sandy ooze in order to solidify it and pre vent further underwash. But even when that job is done, probably sometime next week, Robertson said the dozen homes around the hole will not be safe until the hole is filled. Work on that job will begin as soon as the cementing project is completed, he said.