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Newspaper Page TextII u O 52nd Year Recommended A feature story about a new tP of business fashioning stone Into bolo ties Is described n Pe 14 of today's Mail Tribune. Price 104 Subscribers Medford To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-141. Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 10 JO a m Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. RIBUNE Urird Pres Full Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 60 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1957 No. 190 Ike's Condition Good, Assumes More Duties Gettysburg, Pa. OP) Old army man Dwight D. Eisenhow er cheered on West Points foot ball team in front of a TV set Saturday as he continued his "excellent" progress toward re covery from his mild stroke. The president also underlined his increasing resumption of of ficial duties by ordering into full operation the new development loan fund for U.S. allies. But most of the day he de voted to watching the annual Army-Navy football game on TV Hearings Delayed On Car Charges, o Morgan Announces Salem Additional public hearings to determine the charg es of rail shippers that Southern Pacific is not cleaning box cars in southern Oregon prior to de livery to shippers have been postponed, Public" Utility Com missioner Howard Morgan, has announced. The hearings were postponed because the railroad has filed pleadings which complain that the PUC order does not state the ground for the investigation, Morgan said. They were sched uled to resume in Salem Dec. 9 Morgan said the hearing was scheduled to investigate numer ous complaints by shippers that Southern Pacific is not cleaning box cars before delivery, and it must be interrupted because of the company's demurrer to the original PUC order scheduling a resumption of the hearings. Morgan said the hearings were to hear testimony concerning preferential car cleaning service to a limited number of large shippers in contrast to the com pany's failure to clean cars in southern Oregon. The "schedul ed hearings were to have been nothing more than a continua tion of hearings on the same subject which have already been held," Morgan said. Prior hearings were held in Eugene and Roseburg during September with several shippers from all parts of southern Ore gon appearing and testifying about unclean car service. One shipper testified that- Roseburg Lumber company spent $13,000 annually to clean out some 25 dirty freight cars a day, Mor gan said. Hawaii Braces Self For Hurricane Nina Honolulu (iff Hawaii brac ed itself for the first full-fledged hurricane in its recorded his tory Saturday night, following reports that Hurricane Nina was expected to blast the island., with winds, of at least 80 miles .in hour early Sunday. Air Force reconnaissance planes spotted Nina 325 miles southwest of Honolulu at 5 p.m. (HST) (10 p.m. EST) today. The storm was reported bearing down on Hawaii at 20 miles an hour. A Weather Bureau advisory said, "if Nina continues on its present course it will pass near the Island of Oahu." It said that winds of 55 miles an hour ex tended 150 miles out from the storm's center. The advisory said, "there may be some moderation in winds as the storm nears the islands but average winds will run up to 45-70 miles an hour with gusts up to 85 miles an hour as the storm passes through the islands sometime between midnight and 6 a.m. (HST) Sunday." If the storm hits the islands as solidly as currently expect ed, it probably would be the worst ever to occur in this area of usually placid climate and the only one in recallable history to be given a name. Mailmen Coiled Total Of $1,135 A total of $1,135 dollars was collected by 23 off-duty Medford mail carriers in their "March for the Muscular Dystrophy associ ation" Tuesday evening, accord ing to Mrs. Mayloa Watson, vice president of the Jackson county chapter of MDAA. She said the carriers, who vol unteer their time for the march, made a number of collections despite the heavy fog blanket ing Medford. Those who have not been contacted by mail car riers can make their donation by writing John Duffy, local treas urer of MDAA, 1104 East Ninth st, Medford. and to relaxing with his grand children. Army lost the game 0-14. There was no immediate word on the president's reaction. President Feels Fine White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told newsmen before the game the president appeared to feel fine and was in "a very good" mood. He also passed along this re- port from Maj. Gen. Howard Mcc. Snyder, the president's phy sician: "The president had another good night's sleep and his pro gress continues to be excellent. The president and Mrs. Eisen hower arrived at their Gettys burg farm by car Friday to spend a few days with their grandchildren while Eisenhow er is recovering from the mild stroke he suffered last Monday. Chilly weather and rain kept the chief executive indoors Sat urday morning, preventing him from repeating the tour he made of his farm Friday. Before settling down to watch the football game, he dispatch ed telegrams to both the Army and Navy football teams at Phil adelphia wishing them both good luck. However, as a former West Point football player and general of the Army, he made clear his hope that Army's luck would be the better. Decorating Contest For Christmas Time Planned By Jaycees The Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor its second annual residential Christ mas decorating contest here this year, Jim Anicker, chairman of the contest committee announc ed Saturday. The contest is being prompted to spread the spirit of Christ mas by means of decorating with light, he said. Winners will recieve a variety of local prizes and awards. First place winner will be entered in General Elec tee's $5,000 nationwide Christ mas decorating contest. Every one is urged to enter the light ing contest as there will be priz es for both large and small light ing displays. Entry blanks will soon be available at several downtown locations. Booklet Available For those who would like to enter the contest and would like some ideas on docorations, the Medford Jaycees have a book let on "New Ways to Say Merry Christmas with Decorative Light ing," that may be obtained free of charge by writing P.O. Box 251. Medford. Jim Anicker, in announcing the Christmas decorating contest stated, "our community will re ceive a great many benefits from an all-out effort to decorate our homes. This contest will provide pleasure for everyone participat ing, it will help beautify our city at this season of the year, and it will foster a friendlier community spirit." Those assisting Anicker on the committee this year are Greg Orr, Dick Lamont and Emil Johnson. Football Scores WEST Colorado St. University 20, Air Force 7 Brigham Young 14, New Mex ico 12 Arizona St. 47, Arizona 7 EAST Navy 14, Army 0. Holy Cross 14, Boston Col lege 0 SOUTH Georgia 7, Georgia Tech. 0 South Carolina 26, Wake For est 7 Tennessee 20, Vanderbuilt 6 Virginia 20, North Carolina 13 Clemson 45, Furman 6 Mississippi St. 7, Mississippi 7 Auburn 40, Alabama 0 LSU 25, Tulane 6 Florida 14. Miami (Fla.) 0 Florida State 21, Tampa 7 MIDWEST Noire Dame 40, Southern Cal ifornia 12 Tulsa 24, Wichita 0 SOUTHWEST Rice 20. Baylor 0 Texas Christian 21. Southern Methodist 0 Oklahoma 53, Oklahoma St. 6 HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFFS Jefferson 12, South Salem 7 (A-I) Vale 13, Seaside 6 (A-2) Stanfield 46, Powers 0 (B) SAMPLES SHIPPED The first of two shipments of product samples from southern Oregon left by air for England Friday on the first scheduled over-the-pole flight made by Pan American airways. The package, con taining fancy-wrapped pears and jams from Bear Creek orchards, went to the director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brief To Be Filed On Railroad Case State Sen. Philip B. Lowry said last week that a brief in the passenger service abandonment case against the Southern Pacific railroad will be filed in a week or two. His statement followed issu ance of a news release by Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan which stated that he has been waiting since the Aug. 19 deadline for the brief, to be filed by Senator Lowry on behalf of himself and two others protest ing the SP's abandonment of passenger service on the Rogue River line in August, 1955. Senator Lowry said the delay Carolyn Tiegs Wins 4-H Scholarship Corvallis Miss Carolyn Tiegs, Talent, has been awarded one of six national $400 college scholarships to 4-H'ers in the county for her outstanding 4-H achievement in poultry and all around club work, a spokesman announced. The college scholarship was presented to Carolyn at a special dinner she attended at the na tional 4-H club congress in Chi cago, Dec. 1. The dinner was held in the French room of the Sheraton-Blackstone hotel. Carolyn, 16, started her poul try project in 1951 with 50 white leghorns; at the year's end she'd made S3 1.68 profit. By 1957 she had built her flock to 675 birds and cleared $210.84. Dairy, junior leadership, and forestry are her other 4-H in terests. This year she was elected president of the Jackson county Teenage council, an organization of 4-H teenagers and junior lead ers. Carolyn's parents are Mr. and and Mrs. L. S Tiegs, Talent. Her club leaders are Paul Reaneau and Merle Cook, both of Talent. Carolyn and 24 other 4-H club members in the Oregon delega tion will return to Portland, Dec. 8 at 715 a.m. aboard the Union Pacific streamliner. Simple Rules To Speed Christmas Mail Handling Tha amount of Christmas cards and parcels lost at Christ mas time runs into the thous ands," Moore Hamilton, Medford postmaster, has noted. Many are due to improper or inadequate addressing, he said, or use of mailing practices that make it impossible to return cards or to notify the senders of parcels. These losses can be avoided by accurate addressing, which in cludes the postal zone number. A good practice is sending cards at Christmas by using three cents first class postage instead of the unsealed two-cent circular rate, he said. The postal zone number des ignates the specific section of the city in which the postal pat ron lives. This speeds up the processing at the post office. Since many streets, avenues and roads have the same or similar names, the postal zone number can prevent delay, resulting from sending a letter or parcel to a similar address in another sec Vf-r y jM J - W has been occasioned in part by the illness of former State Sen. Paul Geddes, of Roseburg, who with former State Sen. Gene Brown, Grants Pass, joined Sena tor Lowry in filing the complaint with the PUC. Additional delay was caused by the recent special session of the state legislature, he said. Requests Dale Change On the date of the deadline, Aug. 19, Morgan said that Frank McColloch, counsel for the South ern Pacific, requested that the date be set ahead so that Sena tor Lowry's brief could be com pleted, and that both the SP brief and that of the complain ants be field simultaneously. Morgan said the extension was granted, and that no further ac tion has been taken since. In a letter to Senator Lowry last week, made public by Mor gan, he asked for "some indica tion of what you expect to do relative to the filing of a brief, as well as your desires concern ing final disposition of the case." Senator Lowry told the Mail Tribune he hopes to have the brief completed soon, and that the case will be followed through. The complaint attacks the rail road for dropping passenger serv ice between Eugene and Ash land, and alleges that service was inadequate even before that date. It asks that adequate serv ice be provided. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy today and tonight, few showers this afternoon, clearing Monday, high today 48, low tonight 28, high Monday 50. TEMP. Highest Ysterdav S3 Lowest this Morning 21 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:21 a-m. Sunset 4:40 p.m. Mnonset Monday 2:4S a.m. EVENING STAR Venus, low in south west 6:41 p.m. This planet, almost identical in -size with the Earth, will con tinue to grow more brilliant this month. Outlined By Postmaster tion of the city. One advantage of the three cent first class stamp is that the Christmas card is returnable to the sender. The two-cent, third-class circular postage is not. Also, when the addressee has moved out of town, the three cent first class Christmas card will be forwarded. "There are also human values to be considered," Hamilton com mented. "An undeliverable card at Christmas time can in some cases mean a lost friendship." Since as many as 18 postal employees may handle a letter or package, all addresses, return address included, should be print ed or written legibly. - During 1956, more than 2t million letters went to dead let ter offices, Hamilton said. Of these, about 19 million were de stroyed for want of reclamation or legible return address. In the detroyed letters more than $240, 000 was found and turned over to tihe United States treasury, the postmaster pointed out. jmv London to be placed on display there along with other Oregon products. Above, Don McNeil, secretary of the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce sees that everything is in order while Airline Clerk Eileen New ton checks the package in at the Medford airport. Concrete Proposals For Boosting NATO Set For Congress Washington (IP) The Eisen hower administration will sub hit to congressional leaders next week the concrete proposals for strengthening NATO that it will make at the forthcoming West ern "summit" meeting in Paris. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred on the administration's plans at Dul les' home Saturday morning. Congressional leaders of both parties will go to the White House Tuesday and Wednesday for a briefing on all foreign and domestic problems facing the na tion. The NATO program also will be discussed. It was still indefinite whether President Eisenhower will pre side at the White House brief ings. Presidential Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said Sat urday he would not "speculate" on that. If the President docs not at end, Nixon will preside. Nixon also will represent the United States at the Paris meeting if Eisenhower does not go. He also said it would "not be proper" for him to comment on chances of Adlai E. Stevenson being in the U. S. delegation to the Paris meeting. He said the President "would make the final decision" on that. U. S. proposals for the NATO meeting were whipped into final shape this week. Officials ex pect only minor alternations be tween the congressional confer ence and the council meeting Dec. 16. Establishment of nuclear stockpiles in Europe and deploy ment of intermediate range bal listic missiles (IRBMS) on the continent are expected to be the two major military problems the United States will bring up for discussion in Paris. Washington (IP) Small to moderate increases in unemploy ment were reported this month in three - fifths of the nation's major industrial centers. During the same year, the postmaster said, about a half million parcels and articles were found loose in the mails and the treasury received some $254,000 from public auctions of contents of these packages. First class mail requiring three-cent postage may be seal ed, may contain writing, will be forwarded and will be re turned, the postmaster summar ized. Cards mailed with two cent stamps cannot be sealed, and cannot contain writing. Weight and size limitations on parcel post packages include the following specifications: Pack ages addressed to the local, first or second zones may weigh up to 40 pounds. Packages address ed to any place in the third to eighth zones may weigh no more than 20 pounds. The weight lim its do not apply to agricultural products. These packages may weight as much as 70 pounds. The packages must not measure more than 72 inches (length plus girth. - Rocket Has Fallen To Earth, Smithsonian Scientist Says The Big U.S. MISSILE PROGRAM (Herblock Is Pentagon Considers New Emergency Fund Washington IIP) The Pen tagon Saturday debated whether to ask congress next January to pump an emergency appropri ation into the speed-up missile program. The first question to be de cided is just how much more money will be needed. Last week's order to put two intermediate range ballistic mis siles into production the army's jupiter and the air force's Thor is likely to increase mil itary spending for the remain der of this fiscal year consider ably. Originally it had been planned to order only one of the two into production. Just how much it will cost to produce each weapon for oper ational use never has been an nounced. But a good estimate is that the cost will be one million dollars per missile coming off the assembly line. Three Plans Outlined Sources said the Pentagon budget experts are considering three plans for meeting the add ed cost for the remaining seven months of this fiscal year: Ask congress in January for an emergency appropriation. Take money from the Pen tagon's existing emergency fund. Revise other programs to save money . . . The Pentagon faces the prob lem of finding funds not only for production of the two missiles but for their continued testing. Sources said the Pentagon's emergency fund might not be able tot withstand the drain of All Pound Puppies Placed In Homes All of the puppies as well as four grown dogs and a Siamese cat lodged in the Humane So ciety kennels on Table Rock rd. have been placed in homes, ac cording to Mrs. Perry Duncan, secretary of the Society. Attendant Mrs. Robert Garri son said that from the number of calls received they could have placed three times as many ani mals as they had available. Peo ple were especially interested in the boxer puppy that was pic tured in the Mail Tribune Thurs day, along with several others. The kennels are now empty of all stray pets and there is a waiting list for several differ ent types of dogs, Mrs. Duncan said. According to law, the ani mals would have had to be des troyed if not claimed within five days. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS HELP FIGHT TBI ' I I I I BJ I Question CopTrtKht, 1957. The Pulitzer Publishing C St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Vacation) new missile spending. And they said the army would strenuous ly resist revising its already pared activities. County Tax Lev Totals $5,757,437, Rises 11. 7 Per Cent Taxes levied in Jackson coun ty for the current fiscal year total $5,757,437, an increase of 11.7 per cent over the 1956-57 levy, according to the Oregon Tax Research, a statewide tax payer association. Of the total, $4,575,790 was for school purposes, compared to a school levy of $4,212,056 last year. The total tax levy in Jack son county last fiscal year was $5,153,464, the association re ported. Despite lower property taxes in 12 of Oregon's 36 counties, property owners will pay a record-breaking $167,015,491 in property taxes, including assess ments and per acre fees, the as sociation noted. The all-time peak is $7 million higher than the statewide total of $160.1 mil lion levied last year. On a per capita basis, the as sociation reported, it amounts to $96.12 for each man, woman and child in the state. Of the total levied this year, the association noted, $105.9 mil lion, or 64 per cent, was for schools. The 36-county school levy showed an increase of $3.8 million over last year's school levy, despite an estimated $4.9 million property tax offset for schools voted by the 1957 reg ular legislative session. Jackson county's increase was third highest in the state, the association reported. The largest increase was in Sherman county, which showed an increase of 28.5 per cent over 1956-57. Next largest was Benton county, which showed an increase ' of 16.2 per cent. Election Scheduled By Water District Guy D. Corliss, incumbent on the board of directors of the Charlotte Ann Water district will be up for election Monday,' it was announced. Voting is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Camp-U-Rest, 3761 South Pacific high way. The water district extends from Medford to Phoenix, south on Highway 99. Corliss has been chairman of the board since the district was incorporated about four years ago, a spokesman said. Portland (IT) Sen. Richard Neuberger (D - Ore.) told the monthly meeting of the Pacific Northwest Electric Railway as sociation here Saturday night the time time will come when great metropolitan areas like Portland, Denver and Seattle will build rapid-transit trolly lines to take the pressure off city streets and access highways. Destruction Slated For After Midnight, Scientist Says Report Turned In By California Man Cambridge, 'Mass HP) Dr. Fred Whipple, director of Smith sonian Astrophysical observa tory, said Saturday the destruc tion of the Soviet Union's satel lite experiment "may not occur until after midnight." (9 p.m. P.S.T.). He had said earlier that he believed the rocket may already have crashed, possibley unseen, to earth. "It may be down now," Whip ple said later Saturday night. "On the other hand, it may have oriented itself so as to travel like an arrow with minimum resistance, it may stay up until after midnight." He said it may have begun its death plunge shortly after passing over California at 7:11 p.m. (EST) Saturday night and that it "might have lasted a few thousand miles" after it be gan flaming .downward. Whipple said the lack of ob servations and the cloudy skies m southern California made it difficult to determine where the rocket fell. But he added it was a good possibility that it may have fallen into the ocean off either coast of South America. Falls From 90 Miles The third stage rocket which has been circling the earth for 57 days apparently toppled to its death from an altitude of about 90 miles. The . 7,500-pound " rocket had provided the final thrust to the first Russian satellite which was launched Oct. 4. The satellite itself, and dog carrying sputnik II which the Russians shot off Nov. 2, still are whizzing around the earth. The dog is dead. The rocket in its dying hours was circuling the earth about every 88 minutes as compared with 96.2 minutes when it was launched. Scientists said the rocket trav eled roughly 24,624,000 miles in space, or approximately 432,000 miles a day for 57 days. Death Would Come Whipple and other scientists had said that death would come when the rocket dropped to 90 miles or less from the earth. Whipple's statements were based on observations made by a Los Altos, Calif., moonwatcher and a report from Stanford Uni versity which tracked the rocket by radar. Stanford picked up the rocket on radar at 7:11 p.m. EST. Whipple said there was a re mote possibility that the satel lite-rocket could still have been circling the earth for some time after the 7:11 sighting but, "if so, I would be very much sur prised." Whipple said the rocket "con ceivably" could fall on Japan, the eastern part of continental Asia or any country in that area of the eastern hemisphere. Whipple said it was not pos sible to predict exactly where the rocket would fall. He said it was not "impossible" that the rocket would fall on the United States but 'the probability is better that it will fall on the eastern hemisphere instead of the western hemisphere." Work Nearly Done For NATO Meeting Paris (IP) A small army of workers and technicians Sat urday began completing arrange ments for the NATO summit con ference Dec. 16-18, although they could not be sure of 100 per cent attendance. Uncertainty over whether President Eisenhower or Vice President Richard M. Nixon would represent the U. S. did not slow down the work of re furbishing the NATO headquar ters at the Palais De Chaillot and the luxury residence of U. S. Ambassador Amory Houghton where the top American officials will stay. Nearly 60 ministers will at tend the conference in the pal ace situated in the Trocadero gardens facing the Eiffel tow er. Foreign, defense and finance ministers from each of the 15 NATO nations were scheduled to be present.