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AMI 5 u II Disarmament Pact, Reunified Germany Sought Indirect Rep!yQ To Notes Agreed Paris (IPI The NATO summit conference agreed today to con tinue pressing Russia for a con trolled nuclear disarmament agreement and a free, reunified Germany. At the same time, it agreed on an "indirect" reply to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's re- cent flurry of notes to the West In which he combined threats with hints of appeasement. NATO Secretary-General Paul Henri Spaak announced that the reply will be contained in the communique to be issued at the end of this week's heads-of-gov-ernment NATO council meeting. The decisions were reached at a second working session of the delegation leaders here this after noon against the background of the successful launching of an Atlas missile by the United States, an event which greatly strengthened President Eisen hower's hand in these talks. Unanimous Agreement The summit working meeting lasted for nearly three and a half hours. During it, heads of jroyernmen reveiwed the draft of papers prepared at a morning session of the 15 NATO foreign ministers. These papers will form parts of a joint declaration to be issued at the end of the his toric parley Thursday. Spaak told a news conference afterwards that the summit lead ers: Agreed unanimously to con tinue pressing for a reunified Germany. 4 Recorded their unanimous support for the West's latest dis armament proposals which Rus sia rejected without even study ing them. Agreed on the critical Mid Eastern situation. Began drafting a declaration stating NATO's Interest in Africa. Agreed A the "indirect" reply to the recent Bulganin letters to include it in their final communique. Talks With Soviet Their decisions on all these Issues formed part of a two-way program on which the U.S. and its European allies are nearing agreement. High NATO sources said this morning this calls for exploration of Yiew East-West talks with Moscow and simul taneous bolstering of the Atlan tic alliance with missiles and other modem weapons. Spaak said the missile bases question was not discussed by the conference today. He said, however, it will be on the agenda for Wednesday. UAL Plans Jet Use On West Coast Lines Seattle (IP) W. A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, said today his firm plans to put 11 Boeing 720 medium-range jet airliners into operation on the West Coast in August, I960. Patterson said that in addition to the medium-range Boeing jet, United has purchased 10 long range Douglas DC-8's. These pur chases augment a previous order for 30 DC-8's. The Boeing 720 has a speed of 600 miles per hour and can carry 100 to 125 passengers, the com pany said. The new medium range jet will be capable of land ing and taking off at any airport now served by United Air Lines piston-engine planes. j Governor Backs Forestry Board in Tillamook Sale Salem itPI The State Land Board today thrashed out a sale of forest land in Tillamook county which State Treasurer Sig Unander had . charged cost the common school fund some $24,000. Gov. Robert D. Holmes back ed State Forester Dwight Phipps and the State Forestry Board in their handling of the sale. Legality Questioned Unander had questioned the legality of a sale of land along the Miami river to William Schmitz, Tillamook. An error of more than a million board feet was discovered and the sale was then cancelled. At a second sale Schmitz bid $24,000 less and got the land. Forester Phipps said the low TO "No, Name's Sherman Adams And I Just Work Here" (Her block Is New York Transport Strike Comes To End New York New York i City's subway trains were run ning on time today. An eight day strike of motormen, longest and costliest transit tie-up in the city's history, was voted to an end at 7:30 p.m. Monday, and the motormen immediately re ported back to work. They had gone on strike at 5 a.m. last Monday, defying a court injunction and the elev enth hour jailing of four top leaders, to protest their forced representation b.r the giant Transport Workers Union. Traffic Snarled The strike cut subway service to less than 50 per cent of nor- Indonesia Grabs Dutch Cargoes Jakarta, Indonesia W The Indonesian government seized cargoes of Dutch ships today and took action to restore commer cial shipping along this nation's many islands. Prime Minister Djuanada or dered cargoes taken from ves sels of the KPM Royal Dutch Insular Shipping company and placed aboard Indonesian Na tional Perlni Line ships for trans fer to ports which they were destined. The Dutch ships have been held in Indonesian ports since the company was placed under government control as part of a reprisal campaign for the refusal of The Netherlands to give West New Guinea to Indonesia. Reports said the Premier's or der went out several days ago but workers had refused to car ry it out immediately. The re ports said the cargoes included foodstuffs and other items essen tial to outlying islands. The Indonesia Maritime Board met today to discuss the threat ened shipping crisis. . The military administrator for West Borneo was reported to have ordered mobilization of sailing vessels for inter-island commerce. .J er amount reflected the error in the original cruise. He said steps would be taken in the future to double check cruises before ad vertising bids.. After extensive questioning of Phipps, Unander said he was "clarified but not satisfied." Forester Acted Wisely Gov. Holmes said "in my op inion the State Forester acted wisely. It would have been a dereliction of duty to clip the buyer of this land on the basis of a wrong cruise." He added further that allega tions of any nature against the Forestry Department reflected on him as Governor. Phipps took the position that the Forestry Department should do all it could to back up the accuracy of its land cruises. OepTTUcbt 1957. The Pulitzer PutiltsHlng Co St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Vacation) mal in its first few days. The search for alternate transporta tion by five million daily riders snarled the city and its suburbs in a mammoth tangle of surface traffic. And the riders who stayed home caused losses esti mated at $25 million to the tran sit system, the city, and depart ment store Christmas sales. The striking motormen acknowledged they hadn't beat City Hall but claimed a strike won victory in public awareness of their problems and the pro mises of city and state officials for consideration of their two-year-old demand for a chance at craft union representation. -"Winner-Take-All" Election ' The TWU won a "winner-take- all" bargaining election for sub way and other city transit work ers Monday, as had been expect ed. But Michael J. Quill's big in dustrial union received less than one-third the eligible vote as compared with about 75 per cent in a similar 1954 election. A decisive factor in the motor men's back-to-work vote was the promise of Republican State Sen. MacNeil Mitchell of Manhattan New York of legislation that would transfer determination of union representation from the city's Transit Authority to the state labor relations board. The TA is a state-established agency with members appointed by the governor and the mayor, both presently Democrats. The Mitch ell legislation seemed as certain of passage in the Republican controlled legislature as was Quill's election victory over one ballet contender and eight splin ter or craft unions which ceived write-in votes only. re- Autopsy Report Is Received by County An autopsy report on Leo Jef ferson Culley, 62, Medford, has been received . from the state crime laboratory in Portland, District Attorney Tom Reeder said today. Reeder said this morning that he will prepare a complete re port on the cause of Culley's death in city jail Nov. 23, tomor row after he has also received a report from the local patholo gist who performed the autopsy. Culley was lodged in the city jail Friday, Nov. 22, City Police Chief Charles B. Champlin said. He did not appear to be sick at the time. Culley was found dead when police checked him after observing him lying on his bunk in an unusual position later that night. WEATHER. FORECAST: Variable cloudiness and showery through Wednes day Patchy valley fog Wednesday mornine. Low to night 35; high Wednesday 48. Temp. Hiehest Yesterday 5fi Lowest this Morning 37 Free, to 10 a.m. Today 51 Our Skies Tonight The Sun rises 7:35 a.m. sets ... 4:40 p.m. and it is one of the shortest days of the year here. In the Southern Hemisphere the oppo site is true. At Wellington, New Zealand, for example the Sun rises today at 4:42 a.m. and sets at 7:52 p.m. The Moon rises Wednes lay at 4:50 a.m. Medford 18 pages United Have DC Ashland District Voters Defeat Bond Issue by 5 to 1 Official Canvass Is Slated Wednesday Ashland Patrons of Ashland school district yesterday defeat ed a $1,263,000 bond issue al most 5 to 1. The unofficial total was 1,087 votes against the pro posal and 296 yes. ' An official canvass will be made at a school board meeting Wednesday, Dec. 18, according to Howard Balderstonet school superintendent. The proposal included plans for an addition to the Bellview school, construction of two new elementary schools, two junior high schools, and demolition of the present junior high school except the gymnasium. Largest in History The bond issue proposal was the largest in the school dis trict's history. The last bond is sue, about five years ago, fi nanced construction of a physi cal education plant, an extra wing on the high school and one addition to an elementary school. Balderstone said the school board Wednesday will decide what action should be taken now. He said it is possible a smaller bond issue might be submitted to district voters next spring. Such a bond issue may include only additions for three elementary schools, he added. He said the school board had planned to complete the Bell view school addition by next Septemebr. If another bond is sue is proposed, construction would be delayed a whole school year if a revised issue is approved, he added. Present Building The present junior high school building, he said, is classed as a non-standard building by the state department of . education. The district must now submit an acceptable plan to the state board each year for " improve ment of the building, he said. The junior high building was built in the early 1900s. It is a wood frame structure with a par tial basement and two stories. Because of lack of space else where, one sixth grade class was moved into the building this year, he said. Four classes of sixth graders will be moved into it next year, causing over crowded conditions, he said. Balderstone said he thought "there probably was a little fear of the future among those who would otherwise have voted fa vorably." He said there also was some question over whether the district should have one or two junior high school buildings. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow-Jones final slock averages: 30 indus trials 425.65, off 7.75; 20 rail roads 96.05, off 1.83; 15 utili ties 67.30. off 0.87, and 65 stocks 142.84, off 2.48. Sales today were about 2.820,000 shares compared with 2,350, 000 shares Monday. Road Conditions Highway 99, Siskiyous Five inches new snow, carry ing chains advised; plows oper ating. Sexton mountain No snow, clear pavement. Highway 66, Green Springs Packed snow; carrying chains advised; three inches new snow. Highway 230, Diamond Lake highway Chains required; 10 inches new snow, 30 inches roadside. Highway 62, Proipec t Chains, required; one inch new snow. Crater Lake National park Chains required to rim; hVi inches new snow, 42 inches ' total depth; skiing wet. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1957 tates M Within Two Years BrntSsh Endear Achievement Told Stanford, Calif. OP) British scientists have scored a major breakthrough toward their goal of controlling the power of the hydrogen bomb for peacetime use. This startling disclosure came Monday from Dr. Sterling Col gate, 32, one of this country's top thermonuclear physicists. He spoke at a news conference held during a symposium on magneto hydrodynamics at the Lockheed research laboratory near here. First in Series The symposium was the first in a week-long series of scientific meetings being attended by 700 physicists from all over the world, including Russia. Colgate's remarks about the British achievements tended to confirm reports in British news papers last week that scientists in England had succeeded in cre ating an "artificial sun." This indicated they had achieved stag gering heat and energy with controlled thermonuclear fusion. Neither Colgate nor Dr. Ed ward Teller, so-called "father of the H-bomb" who also took part in the news conference, would reveal exactly what the British scientists had done. They said it was a secret. ' "I can only say here that the British have made a significant contribution to the ultimate at tainment of thermonuclear pow er," Colgate said. Teller added that the actual control of fusion "may take from 10 to 1,000 years." Dealing With Fusion Scientists made it clear that they are dealing here with fusion and not fission. Atomic fission is already being harnessed as a source of power. But atomic fission has two dis advantages. One is that it de pends on uranham, a fuel in limited supply. The other is that fission produces radioactive wastes, the disposal of which is 14 Puppies Available To Deserving Children The Southern Oregon Humane Society has 14 puppies to give to deserving children for Christ mas, the Society announced to day. The puppies include shepherd, beagle, cocker and terrier strains, strains. The Society has absorbed expenses invloved, and is able to offer them free, it said. Children viewing the puppies must be accompanied by their parents and call at the Humane Society shelter, 2910 Table Rock rd., between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday, Dec. 21. Open House Scheduled To Display Remade Toys Open house to display finished toys and dolls will be held by the Medford fire department and the Medford Lady Lions, Friday, Dec. 20. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m at the Franklin Transfer and Storage company. 340 North Fir st. Fire Chief Gordon Barker and Mrs. Alan Jewett, chairman of the Christmas nroiect for the ladv Lions, have invited the pub' he to attend. Keiresnments wm be served. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS HELP FIGHT TB viz Expected To growing ever more difficult. In fusion, the basic fuel is deuterium which can be found in water. It produces no appre ciable amount of radioactive waste. Colgate said that one gallon of seawater contains heavy hy drogen equivalent to 260 gal lons of gasoline. UN Committee Considers Plight Of Hungary Heroes United Nations, N. Y. (IP) A committee of five nations assem bled here today to consider the plight of three heroes of the Hungarian freedom uprising on trial for their lives in Budapest. - The committee also had before it the case of its deputy secre tary, Povl Bang-Jensen of Den mark, who was suspended from his job by the U.N. secretariat for refusing to surrender the names of secret witnesses who testified about the abortive 1956 Hungarian revolution. Alsing Andersen of Denmark, chairman of the five-nation com mittee that last May returned a scathing indictment of Russia's brutal suppression of the revo lution, called the meeting for this afternoon. Three Brought To Trial Hungarian revolutionary sources in Vienna and New York have reported Maj.' Gen. Pal Maleter, Maj. Gen. Istvan Ko vacs and Col. Sandor Kopacsy have been brought to trial by the Moscow-supported puppet re gime of Janos Kadar. All three held important gov ernment posts prior to the upris ing in the fall of 1956. When the revolution broke out, they open ly joined the freedom fighters and the short-lived government of Imre Nagy. Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold told a news confer ence that Bang-Jensen "at a much earlier stage, presented certain allegations" and he as signed Undersecretary Dr. Ralph Bunche to hear him. He said Bang-Jensen, to his knowledge' did not present any evidence. Seven: Elementary Schools District To Present Holiday The seven elementary schools in the Medf or district will pre sent Christmas program .Thurs day, Dec. 19. ' Jefferson school students will present a program "T.he Shoe maker's Christmas" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jefferson audi torium, all children in the first, second, and third grades. The second and third grade children will be chorus, dancers, elves and dancing candy canes. A choral speaking group will be included in the playlet which is under the direction of Mrs. Ann Stoughton. The school band and orchestra will play. "Christmas Is Remembering" is the theme for the program for Washington school auditorium also at 7:30 p.m. The program will include the band, orches tra, and members of the first through third grade students un der the direction of Mrs. Alpha Jane - Butler. Included in the story of Christmas will be the characterization of "The Night Before Christmas" complete with mice, reindeer, and Santa Claus. Several vocal numbers wilfcbe featured as well as choral speaking selections. ' Jackson School The Jackson school children will present an operetta, "The Capture of Santa Claus," Thurs day at 7 pxi. in the Jackson auditorium. The primary depart ment will give the program un der the direction of Mrs. Sara Tribune No. 204 Intermediate Range Missile Due Within Year Secretary of Air Says Warning Lacking - Washington (IP) Secretary of Air James H. Douglas said today the Air Force expects to have an operational intercontin ental ballistic missile within two years. Douglas said the Air Force will have an operational unit of intermediate range missiles by December, 1958. , "I hope it will not be a year after that date," when the ICBM will be in operation, Douglas told the Senate Prepar edness Subcommittee. Earlier, Douglas said he ex pected an operational ICBM in the "not too far distant future." Gen. Thomas D. White, -Air Force chief of staff, said "we hope to have an ICBM very soon" and "are working very hard on it." He said the 5,000 mile range missile has the "No. 1 priority" in the Air Force. No Warning System Earlier, Douglas testified ' that the United States, as of now, would have no warning if Rus sia launched a ballistic missile against this nation today. However, he said, "wep are moving with utmost' urgency to secure" an adequate warning system against ballistic missiles that would enable the Strategic Air Force to wheel into retalia tory action. Douglas also said the U. S. has a rocket engine, supple mented by a second stage boost er, strong enough to put a 1,000 pound earth satellite into orbit. However, he admitted under questioning, the only tests so far have not been successful. Douglas also said the Air Force is developing a plane which will be "a step towards a manned satellite." He said it would fly at a speed of more than a mile a second (more than 3,600 miles an hour) at an alti tude of more than 100 miles. Seattle (IP) Mrs. Vearl In gram of Pocatello, Ida., said doctors who performed open heart surgery on her 6-year-old daughter, Sandra, "all seem very pleased' with her recovery. Watson. Choral speaking and choirs will be represented by se lected students directed by Mrs. Lillian Bohrer and Mrs. Myrna Dean with Mrs. Louella Schnei der directing the vocal selec tions. The school band and or chestra will play. "Children's Dream of Christ mas," a story written by Lincoln School Principal Roy Gilbertson, will be presented by primary grades at Lincoln school ' gym nasium at 1:15 p.m. Thursday. A special third grade chorus will sing and the band and orchestra will play Christmas music during the program. The vocal music for the production was written and arranged by Gil bertson. An all-school production is scheduled at Oak Grove school starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Entitled "The Little Fir Tree," it will feature Dena Taylor as vocal soloist in the selection "Fairest Lord Jesus." General chairman of the program, which will include the band and orches tra, is Mrs. Lois Seitz. A 45-voice chorus will sing. West Side School Each room will present a Christmas play of its own at West Side school starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The programs, presented by the entire student body including kindergarten, will play Christmas selections and the program will close with the entire student body taking Missile Travels 'Several Hundred' Miles To Target Pentagon Announces Successful Firing Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) The United States successfully launched an Atlas intercontinen tal ballistics missile today, a war weapon capable of dropping hy drogen fury on an enemy target oceans away and a peace-time prospect for orbiting an Ameri can satellite. The Pentagon announced the Atlas had been fired successfully in the third attempt to send up the "Big A" and said it trav eled several hundred miles to land in the prescribed target area. "This' was a limited range test of several hundred miles," a spokesman said of the missile which has a range of up to 5,000 miles. There was no elaboration on the distance of "several hundred miles." Visible To Observers It was noted, however, that in testing big military missible it is not unusual for short range flights to be conducted before the missile is put through all of its paces. After emerging from heavy clouds the Atlas, a thing of im pressive beauty, zoomed into the blue high in the sun-kissed skies. The 90-foot Atlas, trailing a tail of orange flame, was clear ly visible to beach observers long after it broke from its earthly confines, seemingly with reluctance in its slow departure, and departed on its course down the Atlantic tracking range. There was no earth satellite in this missile, which still is being tested purely as a military move. Possibility of Satellite But the possibility arose that the Atlas may be converted for carrying a U.S. moon should other missile prove incapable of orbiting a satellite. J. R. Dempsey, manager of the Astronautics Division of Con vair, makers of the Atlas, said in Washington he believes the missile could put a half ton sat ellite into orbit in a year after getting a government go-ahead. Dempsey said he expects Con vair to get a satellite order soon. The Atlas was gleaming white just before it was triggered. It stood on its launching pad with its blunt nose skyward, waiting for the firing button to be pressed in a thick concrete block house nearby. . When the button was pushed, a huge cloud of gigy smoke rose up around the slim, .blunt-nosed giant apd it looked fo a few seconds as if the "bird" had ex ploded on its pa. But the missile rose slowly skyward. . Minor Difficulty There apparently had been a delay due to some minor difficul ty during the long count-down. On previous attempts to fires the intercontinental missile in June and September, The At& was detonated by remote control from the ground after rising only a few thousand feet. ' London (IP) Moscow Radio said Sputnik I had circled the earth 1,113 times at 10 p.m. Monday. At that time Sputnik II had made 616 revolutions. in Medford Programs part in a musical scene from the life of Christ. More than 300 students at Roosevelt annex will participate in the choral activities at their Christmas program Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Band and orchestra se lections will open the program which will be followed by Christmas music sung by the vo eal department of the fifth and sixth grades. Also included in the music will be solo and en semble numbers. The produc tion is under the direction of Mrs. Eleanor Hamilton and Mrs. Marjorie Blaar. O . Wednesday the first combined Christmas program by second ary schools in Medford will be held starting at 8 p.m. at Hed rick Junior High school gym nasium. 0 The production will include a cast of more than 800 students including 150 piece orchestra and a chorus of 680 voices from the Medford High and Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High schools. Directing the production is Jerry L. Dyrud, vocal music su pervisor of the Medford public schools. He will be assisted by Lynn Sjolund, high school vocal music director; Ray Lewis, Mc Loughlin vocal music depart ment, Bob Anderson also of McLoughlin; Carroll Graber, Hedrick vocal music department; and John Drysdale, orchestra director. 0
