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Newspaper Page TextO Mil PF1 DM fFl Ul on IM O Warships Brave Atlantic Storm As Safety Patrol U.St) Destroyers Caught Off Portugal London HP Three British warships raced into an Atlantic gale today to help the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard operate a "safe ty patrol" for President Eisen hower's flight from Washington to Paris. The storm, which has raged throughout the North Atlantic for three days, was centered off the coast of France this morning. It packed surface winds up to 50 miles an hour over a 700-mile radius but gradually was de creasing in intensity. Warships in Trouble It was not enough to interfere with regular commercial trans atlantic flights, but four U. S. warships not on guard duty were in trouble off Portugal. Other British ships stood by to aid another four U. S. destroy ers caught in the storm off Lis bon. The Manley was heavily dam aged and one of its crewmen killed instantly when a huge wave hit broadside and smashed the superstructure. It was limp ing slowly toward Lisbon. Short of Fuel Three accompanying destroy ers McCard, Vogelgesang and Gearing radioed that they were desperately short of fuel and were unable to take on oil from a tanker because of the rough seas. A U. S. Navy spokesman said the Gearing had enough fuel to last-until this evening and the McCard and Vogelgesang could last a bit longer. If they are un able to take on fuel by then they may be taken in tow by the light carrier Tripoli and the troop transport General Hodges, he said. Southland Hit by Sub-Freezing Cold By UNITED PRESS A sub-freezing cold wave, the worst in more than two decades, gripped the Southland for the second straight night, claiming a heavy toll in lives and damage to crops. Dixie residents shivered in temperatures in the teens as far south as eastern Georgia early today. Temperatures plunged O into the 20s in upper Florida O where crop damage was esti mated in the millions of dollars. The two-day cold wave, the bitterest southern freeze since 1934, was expected to break to day with the advance of a west ern warming trend. The cold snap has been blamed for more than 50 deaths, at least 35 of them in fires as southern er overtaxed heating units in an effort to keep warm. Others died from exposure and in traf fic accidents on snow-slicked roads. WEATHER FORECAST: Thickening and lowering high clouds and oc casional gusty winds tonight. Cloudy with occasional rain Saturday. Low tonight 40. High Saturday 45-48. Temp. Highest Yesterday 35 Lowest this Morning .. 32 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today, trace. Our Skies Tonight Snnrise 7:32 a.m, Sunset 4:39 p.m. The Moon rises Satur day 12:15 a.m. and is in Perigee Last Quarter 9:45 p.m. PROMINENT STAR Alhebaran. in the east 8:30 pjrt. SHOOTING STARS The Geminid meteor shower is now at its height. . Crowded Conditions Are Deported at Hospitals Istremely crowded conditions been reported the last two day by the three local hospitals. Sacred Heart hospital had 112 patients Wednesdy night, accord ing Ao Glenn Keyes, hospital business manager. The hospital has 98 beds, he added. Keyes explained that the hos pital was mainly cramped as to O space since other beds were u available and were set up in the hallways on the second, third, and fourth floors and all private rooms had two beds. He said every bed and mat tress owned by the hospital was used, and additional equipment was on a stand-by basis by Med ford Ambulance service. One pa tient was treated on the ambu lance seretcher, Keyes reported, but was sent home later. Friday morning the number of patients had efropped to 96. Keyes said many of the patients were accident cases caused by Clhe fog, medical cases, and a heavy surgery schedule added to the load. Wednesday night the hospital had to cancel soma scheduled Washington' S T-jfc V (Herblock Is School Board Votes To Advertise Bonds The Medford school board this week voted to advertise bonds totaling $600,000 to begin the two-year 51,786.000 building pro gram approved by district voters last month. Preparations are under way to call for bids for classrooms and facilities needed next school year, school officials said. Planned to be ready for next school year are a science, shop, homemaking and five or six classrooms at Medford High school; elementary schools at the Grand ave. site in the north east area, and at the Siskiyou site in the southeast area; reno- 1,000-Pound Satellite Declared Possibility Washington (IP) William M. Holaday, Pentagon missile boss, said today that the United States plans to and can put a thou sand-pound satellite in orbit. But he told the Senate Pre paredness Subcommittee that he does not want to disclose the proposed date for the launching. Holaday reaffirmed his state ment that this country can launch large satellites "when ever we want them" and said he had detailed information to prove it. But he declined to dis close the information at a public hearing lest it be "helpful to the Russians." Gunman Gels $5,000 From Portland Bank Portland HP) The Foster Powell Branch of the First Na tional Bank of Portland was held up shortly before noon today by a gunman armed with a .45 cali ber automatic. First reports said he escaped with about $5,000. Bank employees and custom ers saw the bandit escape in a car moments before police con verged on the area at Southeast 52nd ave. and Powell blvd. Witnesses described the robber as about 30 years of age, wear ing rimless glasses. Police start ed a search for the getaway car. surgery and placed the cases on a stand-by basis, he stated. Keyes said this was the high est number of patients that have been at . Sacred Heart at one time. He reported that the ma jor, problem Wednesday night was the tight nursing situation. He said the hospital usually has an average of 80 to 85 pa tients. Six persons were turned away Wednesday evening from Rogue Valley hospital, according to Miss B. J. Larsen, hospital ad ministrator. She reported this morning that 50 of the hospital's 55 beds were filled. At the peak, one bed was in the director of nurse's office. Miss Larsen said that accident, medical and surgical patients were at the hospital and 15 were traction patients. "That's our limit," she ex plained, "we just run out of equipment after that many." Osteopathic hospital spokes man reported 13 of the 17 beds there filled this week with an average of 14 or 15 patients each night for the month. Space Project CoDyrtiht 1957, The Pnlltrpr Publishing Co. St. Leal Post-Dispatch on Vacation) vation and additions to West Side and Roosevelt schools, and construction of a district shop. Plans Being Made Plans are now being made to select an architect for the pro posed shool bus shops and dist rict shop and warehouse, board members were told. A progress report on plans for proposed elementary and high school addi tions was given by school admin istrators. Reports given at the meeting included one on exploratory meetings with citizens repre senting industry, business, labor, and others interested in the Med ford area regarding establish ment of an area vocational school; a report on school board and administrator's meeting in Corvallis earlier this week at tended by Board Member Ed Branchfield and Superintendent Leonard Mayfield; and a report on a meeting of Jackson county school administrators and board members with Mrs. Joy Hills Gubser of the state department of education, who is in charge of special education department for the state. The resignation of Mrs. Mar lene Richardson, fourth grade teacher at Jackson school, was accepted. Mrs. Barbara Doolen was hired to replace Mrs. Richardson. Christmas Vacations Scheduled to Start Jackson county schools will dismiss classes for the Christ mas vacation Dec. 23. according to Jackson county school super intendent s office. Most classes resume Jan. 2 or 3, depending on the school district. Classes resume in Medford, Jacksonville, Ruch, Griffin Creek. Phoenix. Ashland. Cra ter, Applegate; Prospect, Evans Valley, Butte Falls and Howard districts Jan. 2. Classes resuming Jan. 3 are in Eagle Point, Lone Pine, Elk Trail, Shady Cove and Pinehurst districts. Talent school district classes will be dismissed from Dec. 23 through 27, and Rogue River schools will be closed Dec. 23 through Jan. 3, school officials said. Speed in Fog Should Be 25 Miles Per Hour Speed of cars during foggy conditions should be kept to about 25 miles an hour or less, according to Medford Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner. Fichtner said most of the time speeds should be less than 25 miles per hour because of poor driving viibility. He noted that drivers of cars going less than the posted speed can still be in violation of the basic rule if weather conditions impair vision of the driver. Hunt Pressed for Two Crescent City Boys Crescent City, Calif. OP) Nearly 100 men using blood hounds, pressed a search today for two small boys who have been missing from their Crescent City homes since 4:30 p.m. Thurs day. The lost boys were Timmy Turner, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner, and Patrick Sur geon, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Surgeon. 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 24 PAGES Britain Believed To Have CCey To Extracting Power From Sea Washington (IP Authoritative sources said today it is not true that the British have achieved a "break-through" heralding early success of efforts to harness H-bomb forces for peaceful power. Hydrogen power projects on both sides of the Atlantic are still strictly in the research stage, it was learned authoritatively. Chicago (IP) A top nuclear physicist said Thursday night he believes British scientists may have developed a process to tap unlimited power from the seas and that "is more important than Spunik." Dr. Harold C. Urey, University of Chicago physicist, made the" statement in commenting on a "terrific" but secret scientific breakthrough reported in the land that originally rose to power by tapping the seas for trade and exploration. May Have Key to Heavy Hydrogen Urey, who won the Nobel prize in 1934 for his work as the principal discoverer of heavy hydrogen, said Britain may have found experimentally the key to converting heavy hydrogen in sea water into power. If so, the world could draw on a power source equivalent to Detention Home Dedication Slated Sunday Afternoon Judge William S. Fort of the Lane county circuit court, and a representative of the Oregon Prison association, are expected to be among those attending the dedication ceremonies of the new Jackson county juvenile de tention home Sunday. - Judge Fort, who handles most juvenile cases in Lane county, will be principal speaker. Gov. Robert Holmes will give the dedication address at 2 p.m. Sunday. An open house is sched uled at the new building on the Jackson county fairgrounds be tween 2 and 9 p.m. Sunday. The home also will be open for in spection between 2 and 9 p.m. Saturday and Monday. Cost of Building Cost of the new building not including furnishings was $90, 000, according to County Judge Rodney Keating. Of that, $65, 000 was voted by the people in a special tax measure and $25, 000 was provided for the admin istration wing by the county budget committee, Judge Keat ing said. The new building includes a juvenile courtroom, judge's chamber and offices for profes sional staff, quarters for the sup erintendent and his wife, quar ters for the children, recreation room and kitchen. Each pair of the children's rooms has a shower. Each of the rooms is equipped with a bed, desk and stool. The recreation room has a large window wall and will will serve as both living and din ing room for the children. The galley-type kitchen occupies one corner of the living room and is separated from the main room by glass walls so the matron may keep an eye on group activities. Radiant heat filtering through concealed copper tubing in the cement floor heats the building. Coos Bay (IP) Peter Mac Duff, 67, died in a local hospital today from injuries suffered when he was struck by a lum ber carrier at the Georgia-Pacific Corporation mill in nearby Bunker Hill. 50 Per Cent of Funds for Band Trip Are Received Contributions for about 50 per cent of the needed amount to finance a trip by the Med ford High school band to the Shrine East-West game in San Francisco Dec. 28, have been received, according to Glenn L. Linn, secretary of the MHS Band Booster club. So far S650 has been received, he said, from the return of the letters inviting contributions mailed to most business and pro fessional men in and around Medford last week. Other dona tions have been received, and as stated the response from the Mail Tribune clipping has just started. The high school music con cert given last Sunday at the school netted $850 for the trip, according to I. A. Mirick, super visor of instrumental music for MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957 Ike in Good Off To NATO Meeting Washington (IP) President Eisenhower, "in very good spir its," put the finishing touches today on preparations for his momentous mission to Europe. The President was to fly to Paris late today under a doctor's care to throw his prestige be- I hind plans for revamping and Long-Time Resident Of Medford Dies Mrs. Mary C. Warner, 71, of 519 South Oakdale ave., long time resident of Medford, died at home this morning. Mrs. Warner, wife of former Postmaster William J. Warner, was well-known throughout the valley. She was born in Jackson ville Dec. 24, 1886, the daugh ter of the late Judge and Mrs. William Colvig. They were married at the Col vig family home, 8 Laurel st., Medford, July 27, 1907, an ob served their 50th wedding anni versary last July with a recep tion at their South Oakdale ave. residence. Mrs. Warner's mother was a member of the pioneer Birdseye family in Jackson county. She lived the 50 years of mar ried life in homes on South Oak dale ave. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Perl Funeral home. MRS. MARY WARNER Long-Time Resident Dies the high school. He said this amount does not include contri butions taken at radio station KMED, which have not yet been turned in. Linn emphasized that many of the valley organizations have not reported the amounts they plan to contribute. He said that if anyone was "missed" in the mailing of the letter of solicitation, donations may be mailed to him at 119 Washington st., Medford. Size of contributions is not impor tant, he stated, and explained that it is hoped the club will receive many small gifts rather than a few large ones. About 53,000 is needed for the project. This is. the seventh consecu tive year the local band has been invited to perform at the San Francisco game. United 45 billion billion tons of gasoline enough to meet all its needs for all foreseeable time, Urey said. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan revealed in a speech Thurs day that British scientists are at work on a "source of power ab solutely unknown before." He said the raw material "could be got out of the sea itself." The next day the British press charged the exact character of the "terrific" discovery could not be announced because the Unit ed States insisted it be kept secret. Ranked with Nuclear Chain Reaction "It is far more important than Sputnik," Urey said, echoing British commentators. "It is to be ranked with the achievement of the first nuclear chain reaction." Urey said scientists the world over had been working on "the last step" which would lead to the conversion of sea water into a fuel 30 times as potent as gasoline. The breakthrough was "certain to come," he said. About 1 7000th of the ocean water is heavy water or water made heavy by hydrogen. mis Spirits; I revitalizing the West's defenses against Russia's space-age mis sile threat. At Paris he will join leaders of the North Atlantic treaty nations in a "summit" conference. From the time he steps from the Columbine II in Paris Sat urday and makes a short air port speech he will carry the heaviest burden of responsibility for the success of the NATO meeting. An early morning caller, Gha na's Ambassador Daniel Ahm ling Chapman, found the Presi dent "in very good spirits" and looking "extremely well." The President, making what his doctors describe as an "ex cellent" recovery from the mild stroke he suffered Nov. 25, was at his desk by 8:20 a.m. He cleaned up pressing business on his desk, conferred with his im mediate staff, and rested before driving to the airport. Russia's efforts to dull the western allies' enthusiasm for costly and potentially dangerous new defense measures posed a major challenge to Eisenhower's leadership. Safely Council Opens Annual Holiday Drive The Medford Safety Council has launched its annual Christ mas Safety campaign to encour age public officials to step up "the attack on traffic accidents and to stimulate acceptance of personal responsibility for safe ty." The success of the "Back the Attack on Traffic Accidents" campaign last year led the Coun cil to extend it through 1958. The traffic trend is encouraging, the Council noted, but it also warned "that highway accidents and deaths reach their peak at Christmas time." During the first nine months this year, traffic deaths, nation wide, dropped 3 per cent from the same period last year, a sav ing of 800 lives, the Council noted. Speed is a large factor in Yuletide accidents, the Council said, and urged drivers to take into consideration five condi tions to determine a safe speed. They are, weather and visibility, mechanical, physical, and per sonal factors, and traffic condi tions. Autopsy Shows Marshall Died of Hemorrhage John Arthur Marshall, 24, of Kalispell, Mont., died of a brain hemorrhage, according to an autopsy report this morning. Marshall was the city's fourth pedestrian fatality this year when he died Wednesday in a lo cal hospital after suffering head injuries in an accident while crossing North Pacific highway Tuesday morning. Johnny Dio Convicted By Jury in New York New York IP) A general sessions jury convicted labor racketeer Johnny Dio Thursday night of extortion and conspir acy for which he could receive a possible sentence of 31 years in prison. Price 10 Cents Tribune Press full Leased Wire No. 201 Kindergarten in Sicily Crumbled; 11 Bodies Found Palermo, Sicily (IP) A sharp gust of wind crumbled a moun tain kindergarten school in the nearby Altofonte today, bury ing 40 children and their nun teachers in the debris. Italian artillerymen on man euvers nearby dug frantically through the wreckage and found nine children, the mother super ior and another ""woman dead. They brought out the other chil dren alive, although some were injured. The old school building, which had a new roof built only last year, collapsed like a house of straw as the unusually strong gale winds swept across the mountains behind Palerma, capi tal of the island of Sicily off the toe of the Italian boot in the Mediterranean. The roof caved in, plunging the whole second story of the building down on the screaming youngsters and their six teach ers. Sister Giuseppina Giordano, 24, the kindergarten's principal, died while trying to shield some of her young charges from the falling debris. Eight of ' the youngsters, aged 4 to 6, were crushed to death along with a 13-year-old girl who was helping the nuns in the school. Caught in Classroom The other woman who died was a mother who had come to the . school to take her child home because of the gale. She was caught in the classroom when the roof fell in. The children were buried in a jumble of roof tiles,' masonry, timbers and tiny chairs and desks. Survivors ran screaming to a battery of the 42nd Artillery Regiment nearby and a lieuten ant led 40 of his men to the dis aster scene to dig through the wreckage. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 440.48, up 2.00; 20 rail roads 101.12, up 0.23; 15 utili ties 68.39, up 0.52, and 65 stocks 147.77, up 0.69. Sales today were about 2,310.000 shares compared with 2.330,000 shares Thursday. SCHOOL World Speed Mark Set by Air Force Pilot of Voodoo Los Angeles (IP) A new world speed record for manned flight was set Thursday by Air Force Maj. Adrian E. Drew, 37, streak ing across a 10.1-mile course at an average 1,207.6 miles per hour. Drew, in a twin-jet F101A Voodoo fighter bomber, broke the British-held world mark of 1,132 miles an hour, set. in March, 1956, in a Fairey Delta aircraft. Clocked by Cameras The flight, at 39,000 feet, was timed by clock cameras at Ed wards Air Force base and certi fied by a group of timers from National Aeronautic Association. It will be submitted to the Fed eration Aeronautique Interna tional of Paris. Thousands Thought Left Homeless in Sub-Zero Weather Lesser Earthquakes Reported in Greece Tehran, Iran (IP) A series of earthquakes thundered across northwestern Iran today in wintry disaster that killed scores and left thousands homeless in sub-zero weather. One unofficial estimate listed 300 dead and 500 injured. , The snow - covered disaster zone was so widespread that no immediate casualty count was possible. Quakes in Greece Lesser earthquakes were re ported in Greece tat the same time. 1 Scattered reports reaching government offices in Tehran said intense earth shocks lasting up to two minides practiially levelled the rountryside in three, northwestern provinres of Kud- . istan, Hamadan and Kerman shah. Thousands were feared home less in the big area which bor ders on Iraq, Turkey and the So viet Union. Even greater tragedy was ex pected from the fact that homes were destroyed in the midst of the season's worst freeze. Tem peratures had been well below zero and the area was covered with snow before the temblors hit. Relief May Take Days It might take days for aid to reach the hundreds of villages in the stricken area. Shah Reza Pahlevi was in formed immediately of the scope of the disaster. He ordered all necessary aid rushed into the three northwest provinces. Iran still was recovering from earthquakes in the Elbruz Moun tains last August in which more than 1,500 persons died. First official dispatches from the area compared the intensity of today's tremors with those of the August quake. Prospects Good for Fog Disappearing Prospects seemed good that fog would start to disappear from the valley sometime this afternoon, the Medford station of the weather bureau reported this morning. Windy conditions were expect ed to help dispel the fog which has plagued the Medford area most of December. Occasional gusty winds are forecast for the vicinity tonight and cloudy wea ther with occasional rain is fore seen for Saturday bringing change in temperature and pres sure conditions. Medford has had fog 11 of the 13 days this month with the latest spell beginning the night of Dec. 6. Weather data brought a re minder that Medford's coldest day on record was 38 years ago today. The mercury dropped to 10 degrees below zero. Mrs. Lester Harris On OEA Commission Portland (IP) Miss Mildred Wharton, president of the Ore gon Education association, today announced members of the new OEA policies commission. Included is Mrs. Lester D. Harris, Medford. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS HELP FIGHT TBI The new record is far below speeds attained by military re search aircraft in flights made without official timers. Faster Flights Made Cpt. Millburn G. Apt set an unofficial mark of 2.100 miles an hour in the Air Force Bell X2 rocket plane Sept. 27, 1956, according to recording instru ments recovered after the plane crashed, killing .Apt. The X2 earlier had reached 1,900 miles an hour with Capt. Frank K. Everest at the controls. The X2's forerunner, the XI, reached 1,650 miles an hour as early as 1953. All these flights were made at extreme altitudes of more than 70,000 feet after the planes were launched from larger planes.