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Newspaper Page Text1 32nd Year ME Uniud Pres Full Leased Wir- 20 PAGES Dag Hammarskjold Gives Backing to Col. Byron Leary Jordan Asks UN to Remove American BY WALTER LOGAN United Press Correspondent United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammerskjold gave his full backing today to Col. Byron 'Leary, whose removal as head of the UN truce supervision or ganization in Palestine is de manded by Jordan. Jordan demanded removal of the American Marine colonel on grounds he was "partial" to Israel in his investigation of the latest series of border incidents Involving Israel and Jordan. The latest incident was report ed in Jerusalem when an Israeli .spokesman said armed Jordan- ians opened fire on Israeli farm ers Sunday after several unsuc cessful attempts at kidnaping border residents. Israel also accused Syria of opening machine-gun fire on an Israel village, killing one Israeli and injuring several others. Isra el demanded an emergency meeting of the Israeli-Syrian Armistice Commission the first such meeting requested by Isra el in two years. Won't Deal With Leary Jordan's call for the discharge of Leary from his sensitive post came after a week of increasing tensions between Israel and Jor dan. Jordanian Foreign Minister Samir Rifai told newsmen his country would no longer deal with Leary. Leary succeeded Canadian Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns as acting head of the truce super vision group when Burns took over the United Nations Emerg ency Force. Hammarskjold in effect reject ed the Jordanian complaint and suggested that a Jordanian rep . resentative discuss it with him personally. A statemtnt issued by the UN in New York said "Colonel Leary continues to en joy the full personal confidence of the secretary-general." Result of Incident The complaint arose beacuse Jordan was annoyed with Leary's handling of its com plaint that armed Israeli sol diers penetrated Jordan last week and kidnaped a Jordanian farmer. Israel has said only that It captured an "infiltrator" In side Israel. Sports Bulletin Portland iH Roseburg bowler Bus Eatom today set a new record for the number of consecutive games bowled. He finished game No. 388 at 12:38 p.m. at the Columbia Bowl here to better the 387 game mark recently made in Medford by Grants Pass bowl er Dennis Dunham. He kept on going and observers ex pressed belief he might pass the 400-mark. Eaton was averaging about ISO pins per game and had knocked down 62.007 through the 388 games. Ms Sputnik Rocket Observed By Some Medford People The third stage of Sputnik No. 1, or "Alpha One," was report ed to have been sighted by a number of Medford residents this morning. L. B. Pierce, 516 West Jack son st., reported this morning that he and some others sighted the rocket about 6 p.m. Sunday from his residence. Sighting the object with him were his wife, George Barker, Mrs. Bessie Hubler and Mrs. Calvin Smith. Pierce said he saw it travelling from northeast to southeast. He said it appeared as bright as a north star when it reached a spot directly overhead. "It looked as if the sun had hit a mirror. It sort of flashed up." Pierce said. The Pierce family was holding an early Thanksgiving dinner when they interrupted their activities to see the star. Ronald Sherman, 1728 Peach st. reported he sighted the rocket at Klamath Falls "a little Bedford Stores W5 DFORD Third Judge Selected From Kelly Family; Bernard to Jacksonville The Edward C." Kelly fam ily of Medford will soon have a trio of judges, according to Jacksonville officials. Bernard P. Kelly is expect ed to be appointed municipal judge of Jacksonville at the next council meeting there Dec. 3, according to E. D. Mc Intyre. Jacksonville council man. The city council ap proved the appointment at Tuesday night's city council meeting, Mclntyre said. Kelly will replace Frank DeSouza, former Medford postmaster, who held the posi tion until he became ill ap proximately three months ago, Kelly's duties will consist of handling traffic violations and violations of the Jackson ville city ordinances. Kelly's father. Edward C. Kelly was appointed circuit court judge in June, and his sister and law partner, No reen, was appointed Medford municipal judge in January. As far as is known now, the Kelly family is the only one in the state having three judg es all holding their positions at one time. Elections Slated For Directors in Rural Fire Areas Medford and Central Point rural fire protection district elections are scheduled Monday, Dec. 2, with three positions to be filled on each board of direc tors. Mrs. Dorothy McOuat, Clif ford It, Howard and H. Chand ler Drew have filed as candi dates for Medford district posts and Harold Gebhard, B. Sam Taylor and Claude Thompson seek terms on the Central Point board. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. Medford district polling place will be Oak Grove school. Residents of Central Point dis trict will ballot at the fire sta tion at Central Point. Moves From District Mrs. McOuat seeks a three year tenure, filling out the un expired term of Lou Martin, who has moved from the dis trict. Howard is running for a two-year term and Drew for five years. Both were appointed during the past year to fill of fices of directors who resigned. Drew was named to succeed A. O. Walker and Howard to take the post vacated by Mrs. Charlotte Fogelquist. In the Central Point election Gebhard, Taylor and Thompson are candidates to succeed them selves. Gebhard is running for a five-year term, Taylor for two years and Thompson for one. Taylor and Thompson were ap pointed during the past year to fill the respective terms of Al Bohannon and Bert Smith, who resigned. Carl Norris and Asher Neff are holdover directors in the Medford district and Claude Hoover and Ray Vogel remain in office in the Central Point district. after 6 p.m." Saturday when he and his father, George Sherman, also of Medford, were about to return home from duck hunting. "It was considerably larger than the north star and moving in a southeasterly direction," he said. E. MacCracken, professor of science at Southern Oregon col lege in Ashland said the rocket would probably become even more visible before it breaks up. He said there would be little danger of anyone being struck by fragments as they would dis integrate before reaching the earth. The third stage was sighted by 15 Grout grade school stu dents in Portland at 5:56 p.m. Saturday. Robert Boardwell, teacher at the school and head of the "moonwatch team," said the rocket traveled in a north west to southeast direction and was visible for 'almost a full minute." MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NC German Minister, Dulles Agree On NATO Consultations Nations Should Hold Regular Conferences Washington (IP German Foreign Minister Heinrich Von Brentano and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have agreed on the urgent need for regular political consultations inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. Brentano Sunday wound up two days of preparatory talks here for the NATO Council "sum mit" meeting in Paris next month. The U.S.-German discus sions centered on finding ways and means for achieveing closer political cooperation among NATO allies. Although it was not spelled out specifically, Brentano's con cern stemmed from the Tunisian arms crisis that erupted last week when the United States and Britain sent arms to Tunisia over violent French objections. Politics The Key Brentano believes the United States shares the German view that NATO's principal problems are political rather than military, informed sources reported. Bren tano is said to have pointed out that NATO's militarv situation has remained unchanged since the 1948 Communist coup m Czechoslovakia. Brentano and Dulles said they were well satisfied with the out come of the talks. The German foreien minister said the discus sions had helped "strengthen the bonds of confidence and under-; standing." Top Level Talks Seen One result of the Paris meet ing, foreseen by Brentano, was a heads of government directive to the alliance's foreign ministers to study closely what can be done now to help evolve such a un ified policy. Brentatno and Dulles also dis cussed closer scientific coopera tion in NATO to coordinate west ern efforts to catch up with re rent Soviet scientific advances. French Foreign Minister Christ ian Pineau proposed such a "brain pool" during talks here earlier last week. Before leaving Idlewild Air port in New York for Rome Sun day Brentano held a surprise meeting with Pineau. The two men evaluated the information they had gathered here on U.S. policies. Sick Prisoner Said In Better Condition A 31-year-old man who told city police officers that his stomach hurt him while in jail Sunday morning, was reported in "better condition" about 11 a.nu Monday by Rogue Valley hospital authorities. Police said LeRoy Clark, 217 South Riverside ave., who was arrested on charges of being drunk in public about 2 a.m. Saturday, told the desk sgt. dur in a 9 a.m. jail check that he did not feel well. Police said a doctor called to examine Clark told them Clark not not have a fever and had not been vomiting. When Clark told them he had been in the hospital recently for treatment of stom ach trouble, he was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Med ford Ambulance Service for fur ther examination. Spofs of Ice Reported On Some State Roads Salem (W Spots of ice were reported on roadways at Govern ment Camp, McKenzie pass, Bend and Santiam pass by the state highway department today. Highway officials in the morn ing report of road and weather conditions also noted ground fog at Portland, Wilson River sum mit, Sunest summit, Troutdale, Astoria, Salmon river, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford, Cave Junc tion and Seneca. Santa Rosa, Calif. Wi A five-year-old girl who suffered severe burns in a fire which burned to death her father and two young brothers fought for her life to day, although given a slim chance of survival. 57 "irate 'Whew! At First I Thought It Was Sent Up By One Of The Other Services" " King Mohammed V To Arrive in U.S. Today Washington OP King Mo hammed V of Morocco arrives today for his first U.S. visit in which he will attempt to iron out some problems and see the na tion and its people from Presi dent Eisenhower to Joe Smith. The three week tour will in clude a three-day official state visit here which is expected to further cement Moslem ties with the West. From the time R -enters this nation King Mohammed will get the deluxe red carpet treatment. President Eisenhower will greet him personally at the airport, an honor accorded only heads of state. The King and President will ride in a motorcade to the White House from the airport. Mo hammed V will lunch privately at Blair House and will meet the press during a reception later in the afternoon. Tonight President and Mrs. Eisenhower will entertain King Mohammed and his official party at a state dinner at the White House. During his visit the King is expected to confer with the President at least twice. He will also talk with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Mohammed V, leader of a po tentially rich nation of nine mil lion souls at the western end of the Arab bloc, is one of the most respected statesmen of the Mos lem world. While in the United States King Mohammed wants to look at an American supermarket. He will visit a department store and some average American homes as weH. In his talks with U.S. of ficials King Mohammed and Foreign Minister Ahmed Bala frej are expected to try to win support for the joint Moroccan Tunisian offer to mediate the three-year-old nationalist rebel lion against the French in neigh boring Algeria. The question of U.S. bases m Algeria will probably come up because the agreement original ly was negotiated with France. Negotiations have since been conducted with Morocco on a smooth but slow basis. There may also be some dis cussion of U.S. economic aid to Morocco and of continued opera- tin of a Voice of America trans mitter in Tangier. While here King Mohammed will do some sightseeing around Washington and historic Wil- WEATHER FORECAST Variable high clouds above lot in valleys tonight and Tuesday morn ing. Fog clearing Tuesday aft ernoon. Low tonight 30. High Tuesday 46. Temp. Highest Yesterday 49 Lowest This Morning 30 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .... Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:14 a.m. Sunset 4:43 p.m. Moonset 8:54 p.m. First Quarter Nov. 28 PROMINENT STARS Betelgeuse. low in east 8:17 pm. Aldebaran, hiEh in south 12:28 a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, below the Moon. Jupiter, rises 4:07 a.m. Mars, rises 5:52 a.m. Be Tribune liamsburg and Jamestown, Va. From there he will fly to Dallas, Tex., take a side trip to the famous King Ranch and the Kingsville, Tex., Naval Air Sta tion. He also will visit Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif., Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Niagara Falls, N.Y., and New York City. Rural School Board Gels $49,400 Check A check for $49,400 was re ceived last week by the Jackson county rural school board from the secretary of state, according tc. county treasurer, Karl Jan ouch. The check, he reported, is for half the amount of the tax offset for each school district that was approved at the regular session of the state legislature. The check represented the state's share in the increased amount per pupil based on the school census and goes toward basic school support. Total amount for the district apportionment from state school support fund here will be $98, 801, Janouch said. Rural schools and the amount each will receive is: Jackson ville, $4,739.64; Griffin Creek, $3,161.17; Ruch, $1,200.40; Lone Pine, $2,479.86; Talent, $6,069. 08; Rogue River, $5,519.24; Ap plegate, $994.93; Elk-Trail, $1, 516.65; Prospect, $3,624.60; Ev ans Valley, $1,325.55; Shady Cave, S2.113.46; Butte Falls, $2, 065.90; Pinehurst, $375.44; and Howard, $3,428.53. The non high school districts will receive for the transportation and tui tion fund of $10,785.55, Janouch reported. London (IP) Informed palace sources today dismissed as "silly" reports of a rift between Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth II over Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Air Force Awards Contract Of Reconnaissance Satellite Washington (IP) The Air Force has awarded a contract for "studies" of a reconnaissance satellite which may be built and launched in the early 1960's, government sources said Sunday night. The contract for the project, dubbed "Pied Piper," went to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Bur bank, Calif. Government sources described the project as definitely being in the "study stage" at this time. They indicated Lockheed would gain considerable information for the project from studies of its three-stage X17 rocket. This is an Air Force project (iesigned to help solve the prob lem of bringing ballistic missiles back through the atmosphere at tremendous speeds without hav ing them burn up like meteors as a result of friction with air particles. Government sources took ex peon UnutioD .-'dock ToinsDglhft Price 10- Unrrtd Press Full Leased Wir No. 185 Dr. Teller First Witness in Senate Probe of Program Says U.S. Fell Back In Race into Space Washington (IP) Dr. Ed ward Teller, "father" of the H bomb, said today that Russia may have or soon will have an intercontinental ballistic missile accurate enough to hit American cities. He said the U. S. fell behind in the race into space because it waited until it had a nuclear warhead for its long-range mis sile "and by that time it was too late." Teller was the first witness as the Senate Preparedness sub committee opened its investiga tion of the U. S. missile and sa tellite programs with a warning that the nation faces a greater crisis than at Pearl Harbor. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the subcommittee chairman, said in opening the hearing that Rus sia's challenge with Sputniks I and II demand from the nation "the greatest effort in American history". Teller told the investigators he believes the Russians have developed and tested intercon tinental ballistic missiles as they claim, but he added a hope that they have not produced them in sufficient numbers to be put in to operation. He said he believes they either have "or will have in a . short time ICBMs which are accurate enough to hit such American cities as Houston, Tex." The scientist, now associate director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned that unless the U.S. steps up its military missile program "there is no doubt that the Russians will leave us behind and way behind." Under questioning by special council Edwin L. Weisl, Teller said continued testing of nuclear weapons is "absolutely necces sary." Teller said Russia's space sat elites have "very great signifi cance," both militarily and scien tifically, because they show Rus sian technological progress. The said the Russian Sputniks of themselves were not positive proof that the Soviets have the ICBM. But he said it would be a "great mistake to proceed un der the assumption that they are only bluffing" in claiming to have developed the long-range missile. Teller said the U.S. did not embark on a really vigorous program after the war because, as He understands it, officials felt the needed high explosives were not available and they were not sure missiles would be used in the next war. ' He said this country has since embarked on "an excellent and an excellently managed pro gram" that came too Urte. Sutton, W. Va. (IPl Gasolineg used accidentally in a coal heatj ing stove was blamed today for a fire that destroyed a rural home Sunday, killing a mother and three of her children. ception to a reported launching schedule for the reconnaissance satellite which was published Sunday by "Data," a private publication dealing with govern ment research and development information. The publication said in a spe cial letter to its subscribers that Lockheed was slated to have an unmanned test vehicle ready for launching next year. It added that "Air Force sources reveal hope" of having a manned recon naissance satellite in space by 1960. Government sources said the unmanned satellite was much too early and that a manned satellite was much further in the future. "Data" said the unmanned satellite was expected to be "massive and elaborately equip ped to orbit between 800 and 1,100 miles from earth with television scanners and trans Macmillao File To Paris Talks Paris HP) British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ar rived today to confer with French Premier Felix Gillard in talks aimed at restoring the Anglo-French alliance which was badly torn by American and British arms shipments to Tuni sia. Macmillan's plane from Lon don landed almost two hours be hind schedule at Orly Airfield southeast of Paris after being diverted from Le Bourget Air field northeast of Paris. Fog at Le Bourget caused his delay and change in flight plans, but Macmillan emerged into bright sunshine at Orly Field. The 63-year-old prime minister was greeted with a hearty smile and a firm handclasp by Gail lard, at 38 a full generation his junior. In , Paris, one right-wing group called for anti-British demonstrations in the Place de la Concorde near the U.S. and British embassies. Macmillan flies back to Lon don this evening, so his en counter today with Gaillard was to be a brief one. But the agenda was heavy with crucial issues which affected the whole West ern alliance and the Dec. 16 NATO summit conference. Here are the main topics up for discussion: Tunisian arms. The French are still angry over the "token" delievery of rifles and subma chine guns to Tunsia by Britain and America. Algeria. France wants assur ances of British support again this year when the Algerian crisis is debated in the United Nations. This may not be forth coming since Britain feels Gail lard's plans for Algeria are not sufficient to end the rebellion and that the rebellion threatens NATO. NATO. France claims that Britain and the United States Signed Statement Issued By Youth Alfred Fosdal Jr., 18, of route 1, box 398, Medford, was ar rested on charges- of attempted armed robbery by Medford po lice and lodged in the Jackson county jail Saturday night, ac cording to police. . .. . ... . .... .. Fosdalv in a signed statement, told Medford police and county sheriffs that he had attempted the holdup of two 15-year-old Medford girls on South Front st., near 10th st., about 9:45 p.m. Friday. He also told police that he had pointed his gun, la ter found to be a B-B pellet type weapon, at another girl but had not asked for money. The girls reported to the po lice Friday that a ranch wagon had stopped beside them and a man jumped out and ordered them not to turn around. They said the man pressed his weap on against the back of their necks and asked for money, ac cording to police. Police said he then told the girls to run when another car was seen approach ing. Police said Fosdal's car was recognized by an off-duty offi cer on Saturday afternoon. A check of the state motor vehicle department was made on the li cense number and city police notified county sheriffs. The youth admitted the attempt in a signed statement before his fa ther when questioned, according to Medford police. DOW-JONES AVERAGES ' New York (IP) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 444.38, up 1.70; 20 railroads 104.35, up 0.89; 15 utilities 67.42, u 0.32, and 65 stocks 149.06, up 0.73. Sales today were about 2.600,000 shares compared with 2,850, 000 shares Friday. - for Studies for 1960 mission facilities." The publication said the Air Force began planning for 'a manned version in 1955. It said the original "Pied Piper" budget of $4 million was increased in 1956 to $12 million. The Lockheed X17 rocket, which was expected to be of value in the "Pied Piper" proj ect, is carried aloft by its first rocket stage. The other two rock ets then return it to earth, de veloping the tremendous speeds necessary for study of the re entry problem. Government sources said that information derived from the forthcoming North American Aviation X15 rocket plane also might prove useful in" develop ment of the reconnaissance satel lite. The X15, expected to fly in 1959, may exceed 4,000 miles an hour at altitudes above 400,000 feet. plan to set up an Anglo-American "directorship" to run NATO. British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd who accompanied Macmil lan today has emphatically denied this. Free Trade. Britain wants other West European nations to agree to a plan which would in clude and supplement the six nation common market. France is suspicious of the British plan, fears Britain would wreck the common market. British political observers said the fate of the NATO sum mit meeting depends to a large degree on the smoothing over of the breach between France and Britain and America. District Attorney Orders Autopsy in City Jail Death District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder has ordered an autoDsv on the body of Leo Jefferson -uiley, 62, of 30 South Central ave., at the request of Medford Police Chief Charles P. Champ lin. Culley was found dead in the city jail Saturday afternoon. Deputy County Coroner Charles Dorrell said the autopsy is scheduled tentatively for lata today. Culley was arrested on charges of drinking in public by Medford police on Friday about 8 p.m. when he was found in a public alley near Front and Main sts. Police said Culley was in a good mood and seemed hap py when lodged in jail. Police officers and other pris oners said Culley mumbled and talked to himself while laying on his bunk Friday until about midnight. The desk sergeant on the midnight to 8 a.m. Sunday shift reported that all prisoners slept during his shift. Culley, according to other prisoners, did not eat breakfast and seldom talked after waking Saturday morning, police said. About 2 p.m. he asked another prisoner to buy him some cigar ettes and pour him a cup of coffee. He was given the coffee and an officer was asked for cigarettes. . When bringing the cigarettes the officer noted Culley was lying face:down cn his bunk and looked unconscious. A prisoner was asked to wake him and when turning him over, said he was dead. About 15 minutes elapsed between the time Culley requested cigarettes and he was found dead, according to a po lice investigation. Champlin said Culley had never appeared to be sick, had not complained to officers or prisoners that he felt ill, nor had he requested a doctor while in jail. Police records show Culley has been arrested several times this year on similar charges. He was a former natient at Camn White. Two Meetings Sef For County Groups The . subcommittees of the Jackson County Water Resources committee will meet at 8 p.m. today in the county court room. Reports will be made by eight sub-committee chairmen, accord ing to Bill Jess, Eagle Point, chairman of the committee, and work will be done on a consoli dated county report to be pre sented at a public hearing for residents of Jackson county Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. Also meeting tonight will be the Jackson County Planning commission which will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting in the planning commis sion office on the third floor in the county courthouse. The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. with Lloyd Selby, Ashland, presiding in place of John Pletsch, chairman, who is out of town. Included on the agenda for the meeting will be a dis cussion of the county traffic study and the county sewage dis posal problems. Accident Victim In Fair Condition Donald Clifford Gay, 21, of 4 Beach ave., Ashland, was report ed in fair condition this morn ing by Rogue Valley hospital attendants after being seriously injured in a one-car accident just south of Medford early Sun day. State police said Gay's car evidently struck a light post in the traffic island at Voorhies crossing. His car was reported damaged beyond repair. The attending physician said Gay suffered a torn spleen, torn left kidney and underwent sur gery early Sunday morning.