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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.