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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.
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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
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"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.
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