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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1957)
o a (1 America Shows Decadence Signs, Winner of Nobel Prize Declares Chicago m Cr. Harold C. Urey, not pioneer in nuclar chemistry, contend tfcat Amer ica is growing ig.ns ct decad- nce. Uj't?, who wop th Nobel Priag for hi! discovery of heavy wate, tf.h these ether point in j& Interview: &-T!b Bfttioo acheol yatm $ed overhauling, and it muit c6 4on through the federal gov rnflt. flffe mini! program might not iff La$f inf a it is if the gov ernment had not fired acientistg J. Robert Oppenheimer an Id ward U. Condoo at aecurity risks. TTja Smfricta people need a "blood, fweat and tears" lee- Portland May Get Special Treatment Portland UPl Increasing un employment that could qualify Portland for special treatment from the federal government in awarding contracts was reported here today by the Portland of fice of the Oregon Employment Servicfi The offic said its latest tabu ) latiom ihowed 22,900 out of wor tgnd seeking jobs in the Portlgid metropolitan area as of No. J for an increase of 6,600 or tf Oct. 15 figure. Thg) would mean 7 per cent Q Portland's total work force we out of jobs. In order to qual ify a !gn area with a "substan tial Igbor surplus" an area must have per cent of its work force idle. Th city is now classed as one with simply a "surplus" of labor. Ray Snde?on, labor market analyst for the employment serv' ice, said he would stick with his earlier prediction that unemploy ment in Portland would reach 30,000 by mid-January. He as serted that the situation would get worse before it gets better, exceeding last winter's unem ployment by 35 to 40 per cent. Warm Springs Man Victim of Sfabing Portland (IP) Leonard Nor man Starr, 41, Warm Springs, was in serious condition in a lo cal hospital today with a stab wound. o Sheriff Joe Shobe of Clacka mas county said Jimmie Spino, 22, WSrm Springs, Starr's step son, was being held on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Ben Palmer, 45, also of Warm Springs, was held as a material witness. Shobe said the car the three men were in ran into a ditch near Sanday Monday night and that Starr was stabbed after an argument. MOTHERS ASK AID Fort Lauflerdale, Fla. (IP) A grief-stricken mother Tuesday asked federal authorities to prosecute her 17-year-old son for (Stealing $65 from a letter in her mailbox. Mrs. Louis Bragg said her son, Jesse, is "incor rigible" and she feels legal pun ishment might help him. Do Your Christmas MS Shopping I m HEar jaramui medfobd, meson! A Wide Selection of Gifts for Everyone Shop All 3 Floors MAIN FLOOR, BALCONY & 2nd FLOOR OPEN NIGHTS 'TIL 9 P.M. "The Stere of a Thousand Thoughtful Gifts" ture by a top government lead er, but will get "nothing more than soothing syrup" from Presi dent Eisenhower. Urty said "tail fins and big, gtudy cars" are signs of Ameri can decadence. "These over-powered gas-eat-eri are an idiotic waste," he said. "Some day we'll wake up in a lerious conflict with our left handed friend behind the Iron Curtain and we won't be able to get oil out of the Middle East. Maybe then we'll regret the waste of our resources on use less horsepower. "And just think of the money, materials and engineering talent that go into retooling for model changes to make last year's car obsolete and hasten it to the junk pile." Urey said Oppenheimer and Condon are "two of this coun try's most brilliant scientists." He said he knows Oppenheimer mostly by reputation, but he knows Condon "quite well, and there's no more honorable, up right man in the country." "McCarthyism is dying," he Proper Sleeping Bag Suggested lor Season Los Angeles (IP) A lot of boys may spend their camp ing trips shivering because well meaning parents give them warm-weather sleeping bags un suited for chilly nights. Percy Friedman, president of Canvas Specialty Manufacturing Co., shakes his head over such a prospect, although he empha sizes the well-meaning parent doesn't know what he's letting his boy in for. Friedman said "the average parent wouldn't dream of send ing his boy on a mountain hike in sneakers, yet will buy his boy a summerweight sleeping bag and send him out to shiver on the cold ground." His advice to parents who want to buy their sons such equipment includes the recom mendation to decide first where it will be used and at what sea son. Another suggestion is to avoid sleeping bags that are to small. Most youngsters will outgrow the child's size in one season, and really need a full-size. The best covering for wind and moisture-resistance is closely woven fabric such as poplin, army duck or nylon-cotton, treated to make them water re- pellant. Cotton flannelette is the most popular lining, although another recommended is Milium, or some other insulator fabric. A warm filling, such as duck or goose down, or DuPont Dac ron fiber-fill, also is important. , Elizabeth Toyor Resting Comfortably Hollywood (W Actress Elizabeth Taylor was reported resting comfortably at Cedars of Lebanon hospital today where she is recovering from an ap pendectomy. The lovely wife of producer Mike Todd underwent the oper ation Tuesday. She suffered an appendicitis attack while in the Orient recently. said, "and the country can use men like Oppenheimer and Con don." As for the schools. Urey said the nation's education budget "must be doubled." "We need a thorough over hauling of the primary and secondary schools," he said, "and it can't be done except through the federal government because of the enormous number of hurdles in the way. Local Pressure Groups "A lot of people are suspicious of 'government meddling,' but what would the government do that would be so terrible? It might interfere with local pres sure groups whose children have finished school and who want to cut education costs." Urey said the schools have suf fered at the hands of "profes sional educators, most of whom didn't do too well in school them selves." "A lot of them have little back ground in language, science, mathematics or literature," he said, "but they've got a lot of theories about education." He said more emphasis must be put on grouping students so the brightest can move ahead. Urey said his own projects at the University of Chicago's En rico Fermi Institute are staffed by teams made up in substantial part by foreign graduate stu dents. "A country of 170 million peo ple should be able to produce more of its own scientists," he said. Wash and Wear Suits Developed in Florida Miami Beach (IPI If hubby is the type who splashes gravy or soup on his suit, here's good news. The Florida fashion industry has come up with wash and wear suits even washable dinner jackets. The "wash 'n' wear" theme highlights more than 350 lines of resort fashions shown by the Men's Apparel Club of Florida at its eighth annual international premiere. Rudofker, manufacturer of the washable tuxedo, claims the fully-lined jacket will dry wrinkle-free after a complete cycle in an automatic washer. Also prominent are multiple piece matching beach and swim sets. An example is a five-piece outfit by Arrow which includes a zippered jacket, shirt, swim and walk-length shorts and a cap, all done in multi-colored ivy-league stripes. Another carry-over from wom en's fashions are the father and son outfits with matching beach jackets, shorts and sport shirts. Colors of sports shirts are as wild as ever loud prints and geometrical designs. The most popular colors in the conserva tive lines are gray and canary yellow. For the dandy, the Florida de signers have come up with just about everything except lace. One sport shirt has a fancy piping of gold lurex. There's also a line of "bandanna" shirts with unusual kerchief collars. Fabrics are more feminine, including silks and satins. ll llr f -,- J . MISSING and believed vic tim of kidnaper is Maria Ri dolph, 7, lured from near Sycamore, 111., home by man who offered her and play mate "a nice piggy -back ride." (International) Ike, Dulles May Address Nation Paris fW President Eisen hower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles probably will make a television and radio re port to the American people shortly after they return to the United States from the NATO council meeting here, it was an nounced today. The council will wind up its summit meetings Thursday and the President will take off for Washington at 6 p.m., arriving early Friday morning. White House Press Secretary James C Hagerty told reporters "considerable thought is being given" to an Eisenhower-Dulles report to the nation but it would not come before early next week. The last such Eisenhower-Dulles report to the American peo ple concerned U. S. policy in the Middle East and came at the time of the Suez Canal crisis. Dimick Will Seek Circuit Judgeship Roseburg (IP) State Sen. Dan Dimick, a Democrat, said today he would seek in the May pri mary the Circuit judge position now held by Judge Carl E. Wim berly. Dimick was elected to the Sen ate in 1956 and was a supporter of Gov. Robert D. Holmes in legislation. He is a World War II Navy veteran and a 1937 graduate of the University of Oregon law school. tttttW Ml urn or More FF! ALL TOYS! Including DISHES for the little housekeeper, tricycles, mechanical toys, horses, cars, dolls, games and many others. NOWHERE but at DUNHAM'S will you ever find such a wide variety and such amazing discounts. HURRY! While they last . . . there is a toy or gift for everyone in the family at DUNHAMS. Just check the price tag and deduct 25 that's what you pay . . . and some are re duced as much as Vi Price . . . from the already LOWEST PRICES IN MEDFORD. and HUNDREDS of Others! Atlas Missile Believed Nose Cone Washington (IP) Testimony before a Senate hearing on the U.S. missile-satellite lag indicat ed today that the Atlas continent-spanning missile fired suc cessfully Tuesday was sent up without its nose cone. Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriev er, Air Force ballistic missile chief, told the Senate Prepared ness Subcommittee a complete Atlas was not used in Tuesday's test firing or in either of the two earlier unsuccessful tries. His statement further indicat ed that the major problem con nected with the cone is to pre vent it from burning up when it reenters the earth's atmosphere. "Except for a full-scale, all-the-way test which is proof of the pudding we are fully con fident that we have the nose cone problem in hand," Schriever testified. Call To Unity Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson called upon Americans today to unite and work as they did after Pearl Harbor to put the U.S. ahead of Russia in the missile race. "We have to spend our days and nights trying to get ahead," the Texas Democrat said. The second round of Johnson's subcommittee hearings wound up in a spat of dour warnings, bright forecasts and more fren zied activity at the Cape Cana- Ex-Cotfage Grove Mayor Fined $70 Eugene (IP) Warren A. Ed wards, former mayor of Cottage Grove, was fined $70 in district court here Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of circulating an anonymous pam phlet before the Dec. 3 city charter election in Cottage Grove. District Judge William Beck ett said it was unfortunate that newsmen were present because Edwards had cooperated fully with authorities and had violat ed the election law unwittingly. But Judge Beckett said he as sessed the fine as a deterrent to others who might violate it ma liciously. NEW AERIAL VENTURE Southport, N. C. (IP) Heli copters were to try a new kind of job today hoisting a 1,740 pound lantern to the top of a new 150-foot coast guard lighthouse on nearby Oak Island. lATt (OPEN EVENINGS & SUNDAYS Wednesday, December 18, 1957 in Tuesday veral, Fla., missile test range. New Atlas Readied Technicians began readying another Atlas 5,000-mile inter continental ballistic missile (ICBM) following Tuesday's suc cessful Atlas test amid these de velopments: Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White predicted inter stellar travel within 25 years. Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle Governor Forms Farm Labor Group Salem (IP) An inter-agency committee on agricultural labor was formed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes today in an effort to solve Oregon's chronic farm labor problems. The governor named Mrs. Ce celia P. Galey, chairman of the Unemployment C o m p ensation Commission, as first chairman of the committee. Robert J. Ste ward, agriculture director, was named vice chairman and Joseph Wilson, state employment serv ice, was named secretary. Agriculture workers constitute almost 12 per cent of the state's total civilian labor force with 117,000 persons working full or part time on farms. This in cludes some 16,000 workers who migrate from other states and Mexico to assist in seasonal farm work, the governor said. Will Be in Our Store o - a O Thurs. Dec. 19 a to a r.M. SANTA Vv I CLAUS YY 3 CITY-WIDE FREE PARKING! f SS 1 I "fWfj EIpHONE 5-8771) g HURRY! HURRY! iili iany at Price LXo '1 l i J'"13 Without Test Firing said that by the year 2,000, men will have travelled to Mars or Venus. The sharpest warning of the need for an all-out U.S. weap ons effort came Tuesday at the preparedness hearings from Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, Air Force vice chief of staff. "Unless we do something very radical," Lemay said, "we will become inferior to the Russians militarily in a very short time. The subcommittee, which con cluded its second round of public hearings Tuesday night, will re sume Jan. 6 with at least an other week of hearings sched uled. Ontario Police in Traffic Crack-Down Ontario, Ore. (IP) Motorists using Ontario streets are find ing out that local police have taken Gov. 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