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Newspaper Page Texto 52nd Year Recommended A feature itory about a rim paign to create a veterans ho pital at Camp White in related on Page 1 of lection 3 of to day's Mall Tribune. Price 10f Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1030 ajn Sunday If regular delivery arrive short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. BFORD RIBUNE ull Leased Wii- United Press Full Leased Wir 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1957 No. 196 Me Pre' G O Fiery Object Said Not Sputnik Rocket Fairbanks, Alaska The Iierjf object, seen falling into the confines of Ft. Greeley, Sun day was not the rocket from Sputnik 1, officials at the Uni versity of Alaska Geophysical Institute maintained Saturday Ft. Greeley is 100 miles south of here. Scientists who saw the flash mg object fall in the area of County Tax League May Form Here, Meeting Scheduled AUJackson county taxpayers interested in joining or learning about the Jackson County Non Partisan Tare League ire invited to attend a public meeting in the Hedrick junior high school cafe teria in RIedford on Monday evening, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m., ac cording to Russell DeForest, co chairman of the local yroup. Principal speaker of the even ing will be Mrs. Josephine Kit- tredge of Klamath Falls, chair man of the Oregon Non-Prtiian Tax League. DeForest said that an outline O of both the county and state league activities Would be given at the mjaeting and tht a gen eral discussion of county and state taxes wouI4 follow. This will hs Mr Kittredge's 0 seoend visit to Jackson county 0in recent weeks; Htr previous appearance beforjt the Jackson county chamber of commerce roundtable led a group of inter ested taxpayers to begin forma tion of a county tax Itegue, De- Fofcct said. One of the matters on the agenda Monday evening will be the selection of two persons to represent the county at the first meeting of the state tax league, to beCBeld in Salem on Dec. 14. DeForest stressed the fact that the local chapter is still in its preliminary stages, and that he and his co-chairman, M r s. Dwight Houghton, are serving until permanent chairmen can be named. "We feel that it is improtant to have as many taxpayers as possible affiliated with our league from the outset," he said. . He said that the purpose of the county tax league would be primarily educational, with its ultimate aim being recommend ations of tax reforms and govern ment economics both on the state and local level. DeForest said that he hoped the Jackson county chapter Qwould follow the pattern set by others in the state, and have in its memebrship representatives of business, agriculture, labor, education annd other economic groups. Presley Records Restricted OhKBOY Radio station KBOY, Medford announced Saturday it would restrict playing Elvis Presley's Christmas album records to re quest show's and on Saturdays. The decision followed a poll taken Saturday morning on "Shall we continue playing rec ords from Elvis Presley's long piay Christmas album? Station officials said there were 1.490 votes, all by tele phone, in the 3 V hours of the poll. There were 857 voting in ivo oT playing the records, Snt tJT voting against playing .tni, fficiais said. All votes Oittrg tiKen on two telephones between i m. and 12:30 p.m., t,tion officials pointed out f f ifny Jdults voted in favor ct trin4c" the records, and rrtir.y youngsters voted against them. They said the young peo- pff) expressed a desire to hear other Presley records, but not the Christmas records. They said there may have Gbeen more than 200 requests to hear Bing Crosby's "White Thristmas but requests for thfr Christmas songs were few. The poll is an outgrowth of a dispute in Portland, where a Hisr iockev was fired because hp violated a radio station's pol irv rder not to play records from Presley's Christmas album. Local station officials decided to restrict playing the records because they "were impressed the negative attitude" of the many votes. London (IP) Actress Vivien Leigh drove off with her ex husband Friday while her pres ent husband. Sir Laurence Oliv ier, calmly waved goodbye. The scene promptly set gossips to gossiping again. the Army post Sunday said they are certain the object was a giant fireball or meteor. An aerial search was conduct ed to locate the fallen object without success. Officials said there is no damage to trees or brush in the area to indicate anything crashing to the ground. Skywatchers in three states and Alaska reported Saturday they saw something flash across the northern horizon at the time the Russian's claim their Spi.t nik rocket fell to earth. No Concrete Proof But none of the reports provid ed concrete proof of Commun ist party boss Nikita Khrush chev's charge that the rocket came down somewhere in Alas ka last Sunday and the U. S. is refusing to give it up. Several, sightings of a flam ing object in the sky were re ported in the Fairbanks, Alaska, rea. They came withyi five minutes of the time University of Alaska officials had predict ed the rocket would pass over the area. One of the witnesses, Victor Carrado, said the object swoosh ed down, ricocheting between trees and forcing him to duck for safety. The university's geophysical institute, however, said it doubt ed the object sighted was a rock et, judging on its direction and short visibility, a spokesman said it probably was a giant fire ball or meteor. Russia said Saturday night the" burned and broken remnants of the Sputnik I rocket fell "in the territory of Alaska and the West coast of North America" last Sunday. Soviet scientists "re quested" the return of the pieces. (In Cambridge, Mass., Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob servatory, said he still believed the rocket fell outside North America. He said scientists in Alaska told him the flaming ob ject last Sundayrwas a fireball, a rare natural phenomenon. British scientists also said they were "very suspicious" of the Russian report.) The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci ences asked that the pieces of the "not completely burned out" rocket be returned. "The analysis and examination of the not-completely burned out remains of the carrier rocket and the establishment of the site of their fall are of great scientif ic interest," a communique is sued by the Soviet. Tass News agency said. 13-Year-0ld Girl Wins DAY Contest Kathleen Classick, 13. won the seventh annual Disabled Ameri can Veterans amateur talent tournament at the Medford High school auditorium Friday night. She won with a novelty num ber which included acrobatics, dancing and baton twirling. Other winners included Judy Stewart, a student of Mrs. Eva Prentice, in the vocal classifica tion; Robert Heide, member of the Junior High school band, in strumental music number; the five Marsettes, of the dance school of Mrs. Ethel Mars, Grants Pass, won the division for groups. Members of the Mar settes are Dianne Mars. Sheryle Miller, Gail Bowden, Peggy Al len and Beverly Moffit. Marcia Jo Miller, 6, won the junior division twirling the ba ton. She is a student Jf the Thurston school of dancing. The grand prize winner was selected through audience ap plause from the winners of each division. More than 30 acts were en tered in the show. Basketball Scores COLLEGE GAMES Southern California SI, St. Mary's 46 Califronia JV 53, Cal Aggies 36 Idaho st. college 46, Denver 33 Air Force 68, New Mexico 50 College of Pacific 56, Sac ramento st. 45 Utah 72. Baylor 4S Oregon 78, Utah st. 49 . Pepperdine 88, Arizona st. (Flagstaff) 62 Washington 63, B r i g h a ni Young 52 Oregon state 64, Portland 46 Chico st. 65, Alameda Air 53 San Francisco 73, Texas st. 45 Southern Oregon 61, Hum boldt st. 52 Loyola 65, Arizona sL (Tem P) 51 PREP SCORES Ashland 61, Eureka 47 Crater 43, Forluna 40 m 1 "3 SETS UP STREET TREE PROGRAM Ed J. Parsons, 2212 Ruhl way, looks over one of about 40 to 50 trees planted on Ruhl way recently. Parsons said he helped in organizing the street into a tree planting program under the city ordinance passed last spring. The ordinance sets up a formal program for tree planting on city property in Medford. Trees planted on Ruhl way are tri-colored Beech trees. Tree Planting Work In Preliminary Stage Preliminary work has started on planting of trees on O'Hara place on the west side of Med ford, according to Mrs. O. A. Eden, one of a committee of three working with the Medford Action Postponed Gil Subdivision Law -The Medf or d city council Thursday night postponed action on a revised subdivision ordi nance for the city, and Mayor John Snider vetoed a new fire arms ordinance. . Action on the subdivision or dinance was postponed until the Dec. 19 meeting. Mayor Snider said council members just re ceived copies of the revised or dinance and desired more time to study it bef ore" voting. The re visions have been studied and suggested by the planning com mission. Action on the ordinance was postponed last month, and changes were discussed at an in formal council-planning commis sion meeting. Several changes were suggested and have been included in the revised version. A section requiring a contour map and one providing a penalty have been omitted, and there were several changes in wording for- clarity purposes. Mayor Snider, in returning the new firearms ordinance unsign ed, said he compared the new ordinance with the previous one, and felt the older one would give better overall protection to Med ford residents. The council did not override the veto. Councilmen said they felt the mayor acted in good faith and felt his decision was sound. Sports Bulletins Phoenix Phoenix guard Jim Stout, who scored 20 points, led the Pirates to a 54 to 47 victory over the Yreka, Calif., high school basketball team here Saturday night. The Pirates were behind 34 io 35 at the end of the third quarter but came blazing back to score 20 points in the final frame. Eugene, Ore. OP The Ore gon Webfoots used all three strings Saturday night as they coasted to a 78-49 victory over Utah Slate in a non-conference basketball game at McArthur court. Jl 1 1114 tig J Mm Bill 2aafev m: ilv - j - Mm- -v r nfi" -iT iiir - iw iiri-M-i tiiimii ii immwfiiiiiTiiiiriMiW'riwn DETENTION HOME Pictured above is the new Jackson county juvenile detention home, located east of the Medford armory on the old fair grounds site, which will' be dedicated at a special ceremony later this month. The structure is of planning commission in selection and planning of trees. Residents of the area can plant trees along the street which com ply with the city tree ordinance anytime trees are available, she said. The ordinance permits res idents to plant any type of tree they want on their property but if trees are planted along the street they must conform to the city's program. -.:... T r e e s have been recently planted on Ruhl way. and Valley. View dr.-About 40 to 50 trees were planted in the area, ac cording to Mrs. Eden., The trees planted on the streets are tri colored Beech. The first step in planting trees is for the city engineers ' to es tablish a property line on the street. A contact is made with the planning commission to find which kind of tree is best for the area. Stakes are then driven into the parkings at the required distance and trees are planted by the property holders at the stakes. Other Rules Given Other rules by the city for planting trees require they must be planted at least 25 feet from the curb line at intersections, no trees may be removed from the parkings or from city property without permission of .the city manager and selection of a tree name for a street would-5 not mean that this type of tree must be planted instead of existing trees but would replace older trees because of their condition. The landscape committee has studied each street to find which type of tree would be correct, taking into consideration archi tecture, lot landscaping, contour of land, view and soil condition. This time is donated by the com mittee members. Mrs. William Tucker assisted by John Gribble are now taking an inventory of all existing trees in Medford. A1 map is being kept which tells the ' size, condition, spacing, location and identity of the trees. Paul Jorgenson, 324 South Groveland ave., last spring -was the first person in Medford to organize his street for tree plant ing under the city ordinance which was adopted in mid-February. A few days after Jorgen son organized his street Mrs. James Dunlevy, 4C8 Ardmore ave., organized her street and Lynnwood ave. Under the pres ent street tree planting program South Groveland and 'Ardmore aves. have he most complete plan in Medford, Mrs. Eden said. Freight Rate Boost To Benefit Oregon Lumber Shippers New Order Effective In Period After Jan. 1 The , Interstate Commerce commission recently issued an order to the California Public Utilities commissioner in in crease intrastate freight rates. The order, which will become effective after Jan. 1, will in crease California freight rates to a more favorable competitive basis for lumber industry ship pers from Oregon to southern California markets, according to lumber industry spokesmen here. The action reseulted from a complaint filed by four major railroads, with the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association as an interven er, with the ICC charging dis crimination in the matter of in terstate vs. intrastate freight rates in California. Intrastate rates in California were lower than interstate rates and shippers of lumber from Washington and Oregon had to absorb a $3 to $3.50 freight differential which meant a cut in lumber prices. William Sweeny, examiner for the ICC, found in favor of the railroad companies and SOCTFA San Francisco last March. Th after a week-long hearing in ICC sustained the ruling. Besides testimony by railroad officials and representatives, William Adams, Portland attor ney retained by SOCTFA, pre sented the association's case, along with Paul Hochelle, Port land, rate consultant,, who also was hired by the association. Wit nesses for the association includ ed Russell Hogue, Medford cor poration; James Pack, Moore Timber products. Grants Pass; Al Beals, Klamath Basin Pine Mills, Klamath Falls; and Art Quirin, general sales manager of Willamette Valley Lumber com pany, Dallas, Ore. L. L. (Doc) Simpson, secretary manager and forester for SOC TFA, said the Willamette Val ley Lumberman's association and individual companies as far north as Tacoma, Wash., contrib uted time and financial backing in the case. Railroads filing the complaint included Southern Pacific, San ta Fe, Western Pacific and Un ion Pacific and all subsidiary railroad companies in Califor nia. Railroad officials and attor neys provided a large amount of testimony at the examiner's hear ing, Simpson said. Tlie case was spearheaded by the traffic committee of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association, which was established several years ago. Pack is chairman of the group. Other members are Hogue, Beals, Carl E. (Bud) Wimberly, Western Lumber com pany, Medford; E. B. DeVoe, De Voe Lumber company, Medford; and Walter Tomlin, Holmes To Fly In For Home Ceremonies Gov. Robert Holmes will ar rive in Medford by plane at 11:25 a.m. next Sunday, Dec. 15, for a luncheon and dedication of the new county juvenile detention home. Jim Redden, chairman of the Democratic Central committee, said Saturday the governor will be met by a group of local Demo crats, and will be guest of honor at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Medford hotel, sponsored by the county Democratic Social club. The public is invited to at tend, but should make reserva tions by sending a card to the E. M. Madden Agency, 103 First st.. Phoenix, or telephoning KEystone 5-1468. Following the luncheon, the governor will be taken to the de tention home for the dedication ceremonies, and will leave' to re turn to Salem the same afternoon. poured concrete and basalt and has a white gravel roof to fit harmoniously into its surroundings. Open courts, enclosed by high wire fencing, will serve as recreation areas for girls and boys being held at the home. (Story on page 14) Air Force Short Of Dangerous Gap (Herblock Is v New Missile Age Pact Planned By Washington (OT The United States and . 14 European allies are drafting a new missile-age pledge to fight back if the Soviet Union attacks any member of the Atlantic Alliance, it was learned. " - A renewed American promise to come to the aid of the Western allies is to be given personally by President Eisenhower at the Dec. 16-18 NATO meeting in Paris. Only a strong stand by his doctors next week will keep the President away from the Sanity Examination Set For Seaver Charles Wesley Seaver, 57, who was arraigned on charges of attempted bank robbery in district court last Friday, has been ordered to a 30-day sanity examination at the state hospital in Salem, according to District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder. Reeder said further action on the case would be determined when results of the examina tion were received. Roy Ed wards, Medford attorney, was appointed by the court as Seav- er's attorney. Seaver was arrested by Med ford police about 40 minutes af ter he is said to have attempted to holdup the Medford branch of the First National Bank of Portland on Thursday evening, Seaver was seen walking on South Central ave. by city po lice and stopped for questioning following the holdup attempt. Police said a toy cap pistol, similar to the one used in the holdup, fell from his coat while he was being questioned. Police said the holdup failed when a teller recognized the gun as a toy and went to sum mon the bank manager. When he returned, the holdup man had disappeared. Seaver made no formal admission to the crime but told police and FBI agents he wrote the holdup note which read, "I want the paper money cr death for you me." County sheriffs said Seaver is being held in the Jackson coun ty jail before being transported to the state hospital in Salem. Missle Intended In Our System Copyright, 1957. The Pulitzer Publishing Co. fit. Lout Poit-Dlspatcb on Vacation) 14 Allies conference, administration of ficials said. The new pledge is designed to strengthen allied unity under the 1949 NATO treaty, which provides that an attack on a member will be met by such ac tion as the signatory 'powers deem necessary, "including the use of armed force." To Hear U.S. Offers The NATO summit meeting also will hear American offers to stockpile nuclear weapons at European bases for joint war time use and a proposal to sta tion 1,500 - mile intermediate range ballistic missiles in Eur ope From British and Continental bases, IRBM's could hit Russia and counter-balance the Soviet advantage in 5,000-mile inter continental and 800-mile range missiles. Administration officials dis closed Saturday that the United States and Britain already have agreed tentatively to begin build ing bases in the British Isles soon for four squadrons of IRBM's. Three of the squadrons would be British, and the fourth would be American. The estimated 84 million dol lar cost of the base construction would be shared by the two countries. There is assurance, however, that Gremany, France or other continental allies will permit basing big U.S. missiles on their soil. Strong political groups in Europe 'argue that such bases invite Soviet retaliation and only aggravate the cold war. A state department spokesman said the United States had agreed at the Bermuda confer ence in March "in principle to furnish the United Kingdom with IRBM bases and missiles." At the NATO meeting, the Allies also are scheduled to take important new steps to coordin ate and standardize weapons pro duction, to set up a liaison sys tem with other Allied defense groups in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, and to tight en scientific and technical co operation. The Allies are planning to set up a new system of pooling scientific information to exploit the West's brainpower in the technological race with Russia. Safeway Agreement Announced Saturday Washington (IP) The Jus tice Department announced Sat urday .that Safeway Stores Inc., has agreed not to sell groceries at unreasonable cut-rate prices or below cost to destroy compe tition. . Attorney General William P. Rogers said the agreement was spelled out in a consent judg ment entered in federal district court in Fort Worth, Tex. Under a consent judgment, a firm agrees without trial and without formal admission of guilt not to engage in certain practices the government consid ers to be in violation of federal law. Falls Target Two Atlas Missiles Scheduled For Test By Air Force Crew Examination Given Vanguard Recordings Washington (IP) The Air Force announced Saturday night the Thor fired at Cape Canaveral Saturday had "landed short of the intended target area." The nine-word statement was issued at 7 p.m. (EST) without elabo ration. Earlier the Air Force had announced that the test firing itself had been successful. The big military missile rose slowly with a burst of flame and a tremendous roar from a launching pad near the Van guard's and knifed upward through a partial overcast into clear blue sky.. The missile center made this test of the 1,500-mile Air Force missile while technicians were scanning data from telemetering tape to determine the cause of the Vanguard's failure. The Defense " Department in Washington said the Thor test was part of "a series of IRBM and ICBM (Intercontinental Bal listic Missile) tests." Two Atlas missiles. Air Force ICBM's which have never suc cessfully been fired, also are awaiting tests. During the day launchers pulled gantry cranes away from them, apparently to do routine work on them. The Thor has been successful ly tested before and, with the Army's Jupiter, -waPabout to go into .production. Saturday's launching, to the newsmen from a distance, con trasted with the advance tension of the Vanguard attempt because they were told nothing of the "countdown" frustrations and delays, if any. The .huge white missile took off with a brilliant flash Qnd thunderous roar here from the Vanguard's launching pad. O The Thor, one of the most spectacular of the missiles fired here, rose slowly off the ground over a bright orange flash of fire at 5:15 p.m. (EST) It accelerated slowly at first. then gained momentum and shot straight up for some five miles. passing through two layers of white clouds. Nominations Asked For Jaycee Award Nominations are now being ac cepted by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce for the anual Distinguished Service Award, according to Hal Gard ner, Jaycee president. This award will be presented to the young man, 21 through 35, who has made the outstanding Contribu tion to the community during the past year as judged by a panel of three senior citizens. Recent winners have been Clifford Mc- Ginty, Richard Henselman, Otto Ewaldsen and John Dellenback. Nominations may be submitted by any person or organization and official entry blanks may be obtained by writing P.O. Box 251, Medford. Entrants are judged on their contribution to community wel fare during the past year, leader ship ability and personal or busi ness progress. Nominations must be in by Jan. 6, 1958 and the Dis tinguished Service Award will be presented at the DSA banquet to be held late in January at the Rogue Valley Country club. Jack Flanagan, Pacific Motor Trucking, has been appointed Chairman of the DSA committee and will be assisted by Brian Mullin, Jack Foster, Ron James and Don Carlon. WEATHER FORECAST: Valley for clearing about noon, increasing clouds with chance of few showers . this evening, valley fog Mon- day morning becoming fair Monday afternoon, high today 52. low tonight 37, high Mon day 46. TEMP Highest YesUrday . S2 Lowest this Morning 38 PRECIP. To 10 p.m. Yesterday, trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:28 a.m. Sunset 4:39 p.m. 6:32 pan. Moonrise EVENING STARS Venus, low in south west 6:33 p.m. Mercury, low in southwest just after sunset for the next few nights, is now making its last appearance of the year.