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Said Under Water
families Evacuate
Coquill Lowlands
Coquille Wi Flood con
ditions eased in Oregon today
but Highway 101 was under
water six miles south of here
OO CKt&, State Police reported the
O CWfte still closed. Traffic was
(defoured from Charleston to
JJandon over Seven Devil's rd.
S-'ate Police Sgt. James Joy
(reported that Highway 42 east
to'Roseburg was open and free
of water Sunday, 101 to the
north was open, and traffic on
T T : u o r . -r- i 4.
normal.
Coquille Falling Slowly
The Coquille river Sunday af
ternoon was at 21.8 feet, less
Qhan a foot below flood stage,
but falling slowly. Lowlands ad
jacent to the river were flooded
with up to nine feet of water in
some areas. About five families,
22 persons in all, were evacuat-
Qed at their own request from
farms in the Arago district on
the south side of the Coquille
river over the week end.
At Newport, State Police re
ported the Coast highway clear
Bus and truck traffic on the
Cape creek bridge 12 miles
north of Florence, weakened by
a Friday slide when a large tree
tore out a pillar, resumed Sun
day, although the heavier veh
icles were crossing one at a
time. State highway crews work
ed to have the bridge complete
ly shored up by tonight.
Coast Guard and state police
rescue teams along the coast
remained on call for possible
flood relief duty, if new storms
should break out.
Willamette Crest Waited
In Portland, the U. S. Weath
er bureau said Sunday the Wil
lamette was expected to crest
near 12 feet tonight, six feet
below flood stage.
O OThe Willamette river was
down to 17.1 at Corvallis this
morning after passing the 20
foot flood mark during the week
end. The river dropped 4.1 feet
in 24 hours at Corvallis and 1.2
feet during the same period at
Albany where it was .2 under
the flood mark this morning.
The Santiam at Jefferson was,
at 11.1 feet, a drop of three feet
from Sunday morning.
The, weather bureau said that
most rivers would continue with
a slow to moderate fall for the
next one to two days.
Jhree-Year-Old Falls
From Car Near Provolt
Three-year-old Joseph Elmore,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles El
more, Applegate, was hospital
ized at Osteopathic hospital Sun
day with multiple cuts and
bruises on the head and face
and fractured left arm after he
fell from the family car near
Provolt, according to reports.
The boy is under observation
at the hospital and was report
ed "greatly improved" this mor
ning.
BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
HELP FIGHT TB
Hatfield Answers Demo
Administration Critics
Salem OP Secretary of State
Mark Hatfield replied today to
two critics in the Democratic
administration, Tax Commission
Secretary Richard Eymann and
Agriculture Director Robert
Steward.
Hatfield had been criticized by
Eymann for pressing for return
of S600 Eymann owed the state
for an advance on his 1958 leg
islative salary. Eymann has paid
the money and ex-Rep. Robert
Klemsen has made a down pay
ment on his S600 debt.
Hatfield objected to Eymann's
letter which said it was a "per
sonal matter" between the sec
retary of state's office and him
self. Hatfield claimed "it is not
a personal matter in any sense
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52nd Year
Medford
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Jacksonville Man
Killed in Crash
At Bybee Corner
One person was killed and
another injured in two traffic
accidents in Jackson county on
icy highways over the week
end. Several minor mishaps
hampered traffic in and out of
the Rogue valley Saturday and
Sunday, state police reported. .
Ted Low Hewlett, 35, of 701
South Third st. Jacksonville was
killed early today when .the car
he was driving overturned on
the Jacksonville highway, ac
cording to investigating officers.
It was Jackson county's 26th
traffic fatality this year.
An accident on Highway 99
south of Ashland hospitalized
Mrs. Bessie B. Nunn, 71, of
Wheeler. She suffered a broken
en collar bone and cuts and
bruises when a car driven by
her husband, Gilman Barry
Nunn, 73, Wheeler, slid on icy
pavement and overturned, po
lice said.
Hewlett, an employee of Tim
ber Products, was driving alone
toward Medford shortly after
12:30 a.m., according to officers,
when the car left the icy high
way near Bybee corner. It was
foggy at the time, police said.
Survivors include his wife,
Jean, Jacksonville city record
er, and a daughter, Holly, about
lVfc years old. Funeral arrange
ments will be announced by
Conger-Morris funeral home.
Most Children Get
Third Polio Shot
The majority of Jackson coun
ty school children have received
the third shot of Salk poliomyeli
tis vaccine, according to Dr. A.
Erin Merkel, health officer.
The last of the third shots
were given to Griffin Creek
school children Wednesday, "he
said, for a total number of 4,467
that have received the third shot
of the tax vaccine.
The third round of the shots
was started in the schools Nov.
18 with the schools scheduled
throughout the month.
Dr. Merkel stressed that this
number does not include all chil
dren who have received the se
ries of shots. Many families had
their private physicians adminis
ter the vaccine, he said.
He added that there is still
tax vaccine available to persons
up to 20 years of age. The shots
will be given at the health clinic
all day Tuesdays and Friday
afternoon.
The doctor said that those who
have not taken advantage of the
program should start immedi
ately so that the third shot may
be administered prior to the
summer months.
Berkeley Mother, Child
Leave for Home Sunday
Mrs. James Chan, Berkeley,
Calif., and her week-old daugh
ter left Medford Sunday eve
ning for their home.
Mrs. Chan was taken to Rogue
Valley hospital by Medford am
bulance from the airport during
an unscheduled stop of an United
Air Lines plane in Medford Dec.
16. Mrs. Chan was a passenger
on the plane.
of the word.
Steward objected because Hat
field blamed the Board of Agri
culture for not providing leader
ship in the mouse infestation
problem in southeast Oregon.
"While there may be no express
law to direct you to go out and
kill mice, it would seem that
there is clearly a responsibility
that lies with the Department
of Agriculture to provide lead
ership and coordination in help
ing farmers cope with a major
agricultural problem," Hatfield
wrote Steward.
Steward said rodent control
was the burden of the Federal
Fish and Wildlife Service and
County Extension Service rather
than the Agriculture Department.
Ease;
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 429, 1957
! 1
PATHFINDER The icebreaker USS Glacier plows
through the ice at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, making
a path for supply ships.' The vessels bring in needed
materials for members of Operation Deep Freeze EI.
ristmas
Be Judged Tonight in
Medford, Other Towns
Entries for the Christmas
decorating contests in Central
Point and Eagle Point will be
judged tonight, according to
sponsoring groups, the Central
Point Junior Chamber of' Com
merce and the Eagle Point Lions
club.
Homeowners may register un
til 5 p.m., with judging begin-
Homes entered in the Med
ford Junior Chamber of Com
merce Christmas lighting con
test will be judged tonight, ac
cording lo Jim Anicker, chair
man. More than $300 in prizes
will be awarded for the best
eight entries. The top winner
will be entered in the National
General Electric contest with
prizes totalling $5,000.
Forty homes had registered
by noon, Anicker said.
ning at 6 p.m. Homes should be
lighted until 11 p.m., those in
charge said.
More than $200 in prizes,
with a $75 cash first prize, will
be awarded the 12 best entries
in Central Point. Top winner
will enter the National General
Electric contest.
The Eagle Point Lions club is
offering $25 in prizes to the
four top winners.
Judges Listed
Judges in Central Point are
Bob Bailey, Donald Lacy and
Bill Colley. Eagle Point judges
will be Mrs. Olive Floyd, presi
dent of the Oregon Federation
of Garden clubs; Mrs. A. C.
Lewis, district flower show
chairman; and Mrs. I. D. Fitz-
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (IPI Dow-Jones
final slock averages: 30 indus
trials 428.08, up 0.88; 20 rail
roads 96.00, off 0.92; 15 utili
ties 67.93, off 0.02, and 65
stocks 143.60. off 0.07. Sales
today were about 2,790.000
shares compared with 2,500,
000 shares Friday.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Generally cloudy
with occasional light showers
of rain or rain and snow mix
ed in valley, snow showers in
mountains tonight and Tues
day. Patches of valley fog.
Low tonight 30. High Tuesday
45. Temp.
Highest Yesterday 41 .
Lowest This Morning 29
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 10
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 7:38 a.m.
Sunset 4:43 p.m.
Moonset 7:39 p.m.
First Quarter Dec. 28
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus, low in
southwest 6:03 p.m.
Jupiter, in the
southeast 5:05 a.m.
Mars, rises 5:41 a.m. and this
week will be seen . moving
among the stars of the constel
lationi Scorpio.
tores WolD e peon Until 9 o'clock Tosnnglhift
Rivers
United
Lights to
gerald, district director of Sis-
kiyou Garden club. Mrs. Otto
Nagel, assistant district director
of the Siskiyou club, will assist
in case of absence. .
Central Point entrants include
C. W. Anhorn, Freeman rd. at
Pine St.; J. W. Beacham, 3622
Table Rock rd.; Mrs. Ray. Brit
ton, 239 Manzanita st.; Don Bur
elson, 45 South Fifth st.; Ted
Donner, 125 South Ninth st. at
Oak st.; Cliff. E. Green, West
Scenic ave.; Victor Van Hoy,
447 Alder st.
Marion Hull, 180 Bigham dr.;
Mitchell C. Hull, 930 Oak st.;
Ronald Lamb, 3450 Robin lane;
John L. McCoy, 3498 Oak Pine
way; A. M. Setness, 733 Pine
st.; Mrs. A. D. Van Horn, 154
South Fourth st .; Mrs. Nola
West, 461 North Fifth st.; Mrs.
Jesse D. Williams, Freeman rd.
at end of Bush st.; and Mrs.
Dick Wyatt, 615 Alder st.
Eagle Point entries reported
so far from Olsen's Confection
ery are Mrs. Ted Hoffman,. Mrs.
Beryl Hickson, Mr. and Mrs.
Don Ashpole, Mrs. Kenneth Por
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hall,
Mrs. Mattie Brown and Mr. and
Mrs. Stewart Hopper.
More entries were expected
before the deadline today, a
Lions spokesman said.
Indian Spending
Plans Approved
. Washington OP) Three of four
Pacific Northwest Indian tribes
which shared more than $26,
800,000 in compensation from
the federal government for the
loss of their traditional fishing
grounds have had the plans for
spending the money approved
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
it was announced today.
Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs, Glenn L. Emmons in an
nouncing the approval Sunday
said:
"All of the plans have provi
sions for protecting the funds of
minors until they reach their
majority and for assisting mem
bers of the tribes who are inca
pable of handling their own af
fairs to make the best use of
their money."
The three tribes which had
their plans approved were the
Yakimas, Umatillas and the Nez
Perce.
Radio-TV Highlights
President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles will report lo the na
tion tonight on last ' week's
NATO conference. The report
will be carried over station
KYJC (1230 kc) at 8 p.m. and
will be on station KBES-TV
at 7:30 p.m.
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Pope Cautions
Against All-Out
Armaments Race
Vatican City OP) Pope Pius
XII Sunday cautioned against
letting Communist technological
advances and propaganda panic
the free world blindly into an
all-out arms race.
The 81-year-old Pontiff, in a
Christmas message broadcast
throughout the world in 27 lan
guages, defended, the right of
free nations to band together for
common defense an obvious
reference to NATO.
But he said the "true friends
of peace" should npt be duped
by short-term Soviet advantages.
Needs 'Breathing Space'
"Let those who observe to
day's competition know how to
reduce the facts to their true
proportion," he said.
"Let them not permit them
selves to be misled by suprema
cies, of very short duration, nor
to be influenced by fears skill
fully evoked to win the interest
and support of others."
He said the world needs a
"breathing space" from the costs
of the arms race. He said he
was confident the free nations
of the , world would band to
gether in the event of danger.
"We are certain that at the
first sign of danger that link
(of solidarity among free nations)
would not fail to be tightened
even more, as some recent events
have clearly shown," the Pope
said.
Suffered Too Much
"But now it is not so much
a matter of taking emergency
measures as of preventing dis
turbances of order and of giving
a deserved breathing spell to
a world which has already suf
fered too much."
He said the basic trouble is
that the world had made great
material gains without assessing
them properly spiritually.
"The preponderant material
progress has shattered the har
monious and happy completeness
of man, has somehow mutilated
his appreciation, of spiritual
values, giving him 'completeness
only in one direction," the Pope
said.
He scored some scientists who
"do their work as if the spirit
were non-existent, and has noth
ing to contribute."
Eisenhower To Light
Giant Christmas Tree
Washington (IPI President
Eisenhower was to take time off
from official duties Monday to
light a giant Christmas tree sym
bolic of the nation's hope for
peace.
The President was scheduled
to throw a switch at 2 p.m.
(PST) illuminating the huge "na
tional Christmas tree" set up in
a park behind the White House
as part of the capital's annual
"Pageant of Peace."
The Chief Executive was also
scheduled to deliver a brief
Christmas message to the nation
and the world.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower opened Christmas week
Sunday by attending church
services and praying for peace.
New Police Vehicles
Expected Jan. 10
' The five new police station
wagons will be put into service
about Jan. 10, according to city
officials.
They said the car dealer ex
pected delivery of the vehicles
about Jan. 1, but several days
will be required to install red
lights, radios and sirens. The
company also will paint the front
doors of the cars white and add
the city poice signs on the side.
City officials have ordered
station wagons for police to pro
vide an emergency vehicle. Cars
will carry rescue equipment and
fire extinguishers in addition to
the standard first aid gear.
Cairo (IP U. N. Secretary
general Dag Hammarskjold flew
in here today to spend Christmas
with the UNEF troops in the
Middle East and meet with
Egyptian President Gamal Ab
del Nasser.
"Never Laid A Glove
Where
Multiple-Fatality
Crashes Mar Start
Of Christmas Week
By UNITED PRESS
An outbreak of high fatality
week end traffic crashes marked
a grim beginning to . Christmas
week. Many of the victims were
children.
A United Press count showed
at' least 43 persons were killed
in week end multiple-fatality
traffic wrecks around the coun
try. One of the week end's worst
collisions killed six persons on
U.S. 66 near Holbrook, Ariz. The
crash Sunday involved a pickup
truck and a car containing four
holiday travelers from Indiana.
Dead Identified
Lester Boyd Jones, 44; Frank
E. Port, 17; Carol Mildred Port,
45, and Janet L. Port, about 14,
all of Hobart, Ind., Tsosi Shirley,
45, Sanders, Ariz., and David
Fix, about 40, Pine Springs
Ariz., both passengers in the
truck, were killed.
Five persons were killed in a
two-car collision Sunday near
Lafayette, Ind. The dead were
Keith Weaver, 26, and John Mc-
$2,400 Received for.
Medford Band Trip
Approximately $2,400 has
been received by the Medford
High school Band Booster club
in its drive for funds to finance
a trip by the MHS band to the
East-West Shrine game in San
Francisco this week.
Glenn L. Linn, secretary of
the group, reported today that
the $3,000 needed for the project
is assured if all of the money
promised is received by the club.
He added that they would ap
preciate receiving contributions
prior to the first of the year.
Included in the amount re
ceived was $1.10 in coins sent
by pupils of John Reed at Mc
Loughlin Junior High school.
With the money was a note ad
dressed to I. A. Mirick. It stated
"We the students of home room
34 at McLoughlin Junior High
wish to send you the money en
closed to use to send our band
to San Francisco. We raised the
money and hopie (sic) it will
help you."
The Medford band, which will
participate at the Saturday foot
ball game with bands from
Klamath Falls and Grants Pass,
plans to leave here Dec. 26, re
turning to Medford Sunday, Dec.
29.
Stores, Offices Will
Close Christmas Day
Most valley retail stores, fed
eral, state and local govern
ment offices will be closed
Christmas Day, Wednesday. The
Mail Tribune will not publish
Wednesday.
County commissioners said
today County employees will
be given time off tomorrow to
do any last minute shopping.
Medford stores will be open
until 9 p.m. today, but plan to
close at the regular closing hour
Tuesday.
No Teamster Local
Exempt From Expulsion
Washington (IP) No team
sters local will- be exempted
from the blanket expulsion of
the Teamsters Union from the
AFL-CIO, it was announced today.
On Me.
Am I?"
By The Way,
Cloud. 22. both ' of Lafavette:
Jack McCloud, 24, Monitor; Mrs.
Margaret Ayers, 50, Frankfort,
Ind., and Mrs. Virginia Mae
Rowan, 48, also of Frankfort.
A mother and her three daugh
ters wpw killed near Salinas.
Calif., while returning Sunday
from a Christmas program at
church.
Struck By Train
Mrs. Dortha Martella. 42. and
her daughters. Sallv. 10: Judy.
12, and Barbara, 15, died wnen
their pickup truck was struck
by a train.
Thp three sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Conrad Stork were killed Satur
day as they returned from a
Christmas shorjnine trit in
Breda, Iowa, during which the
boys asked Santa Claus for gifts
they'll never see. The victims
were Neil Stork, 8, and his
brothers Eugene, 10, and Daniel,
12.
Two sisters and a brother rid
ing home from church at Opelou
sas, La., in the back of a pickup
truck Sunday were crushed to
death when a trailer truck jack
nifed and toppled on them.
Beatrice Panillion. 14: her sis
ter, Mable, 10, and a brother,
Rocklyn, 12, died. Their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Papillion, and
another brother, Linus, were rid
ing in the cab and escaped death.
Four Dersons, including a
mother and her two daughters
were killed Sunday wnen a pick
up truck and a semi-trailer truck
collided near Croydon, Utah, on
a snow-covered highway.
Head-on Collision
Mrs. Sally Thurston Rust, 21,
her two children. Max, 1, and
Marie, 2, and Faye Segroves,
Grand Island, Neb., driver of the
trailer truck, were killed.
Mrs. Mary Arelene Terill, Lau
rens, Iowa, her daughter, Diane,
6, and Duane McHugh, Dunlap,
Iowa, were killed Sunday in a
head-on collision near Woodbine,
Iowa.
Another triple-fatality crash
killed three Neenah, Wis., teen
agers Saturday when their car
careened out of control on a
rural road and rammed into a
tree. Killed were Judith Bau
man, Marilyn Ahrens and Peter
J. Kemps, all 17, of Neenah and
vicinity.
Mrs. Anne Thompson and her
daughter, Kathleen, 6, were
killed near Elkhorn, Wis., Satur
day when their car crashed into
a truck.
,A Christmas party hayride at
San Antonio, Tex., ended in trag
edy Saturday night when a car
hit the back of the wagon, killing
Jose Angel Martinez, 23, Deguin,
Tex., and injuring 24 persons.
Redding Authorities Probe
Slaying of Newborn Girl
Redding. Calif. (IP) Shasta
county sheriff deputies today
began an intensive investigation
of the brutal slaying of a new
born girl.
The child, found Sunday with
23 stab wounds and a fractured
skull, had been dead about two
weeks and was about two weeks
old at the time she was killed,
a coroner's autopsy showed.
Sheriff John Balma said Mr.
and Mrs. George Taylor, Red
ding, found the body in a card
board box under a manzanita
bush about a half mile northeast
of here shortly before noon
Sunday. A copy of the Dec. 4
28 Crewmen on
British Freighter
Believed Lost
Mercy Fleet Searches
Raging North Sea
London (IP Hope was all
but abandoned Monday for the
28 crewmen aboard the British
freighter Narva which sank in
a North sea. storm as it raced
to the rescue of another ship in
distress.
An international mercy fleet
searched the mountainous seas
but all they found were a
spreading oil slick, an over
turned lifeboat and two life
buoys with their flares still
burning.
Ironically all 14 men aboard
the other ship, the 865-ton Brit
ish coaster Bosworth, were
Saved and the vessel taken in
tow while the Narva was speed
ing to its rescue.
The dramatic battle against
the sea took place in the North
sea midway between Aberdeen,
Scotland, and the southern tip
of Norway.
The Bosworth had radioed an
SOS that it was listing danger
ously. The 1,9991-ton Scottish
owned Narva heeded the call of
distress, shouldering through
the gigantic waves in its 60-mile
rescue mission. Later the Bos
worth reported the list some
what corrected although it was
abandoned.
The Bosworth, with a hole in
its stern, was being towed to
Aberdeen by the British trawler
Faraday. The Bosworth's crew
transferred to the trawler Wol
verhampton Wanderer.
The 6,670-ton Norwegian lin
er Leda arrived on the scene in
time for passengers and crew
to watch the Narva's death
throes from 500 yards away.
They saw the freighter's crew
men hanging desperately to
whatever they could grab on
the Narva's slippery, sloping
decks. The liner dumped 17 tons
of oil into the sea to calm it
but it was no use.
Holiday Mail Said
In Good Shape Here
Christmas mail at the Med
ford post office is in "good
shape" and going through the
office "for the best year yet," ac
cording to Postmaster Moore
Hamilton.
He said early mailing and bun
dling of local and out-of-town
mail by the public has been espe
cially helpful. Receipts and out
going correspondence appear to
be about the same quantity as
last year, when the holiday mail
rush was aggravated by snow
storms in the east.
. Youngsters apparently were
mailing letters to Santa Claus at
a specific address, Hamilton
said, because few letters have
been sent for the local post of
fice to forward.
Glendale, Calif. (IP) Final
rites are pending for Henry B.
Warren, 68, editor of S e a and
Pacific Yachting magazine.
Road Conditions
Highway 99. Siskiyoui
Windy and snowing, chains
mandatory from Yreka north
to Oregon line.
Highway 66, Green Springs
Snowing, chains mandatory.
Three inches of snow on road,
snowing, motorists should
carry chains. Heavy snow re
ported at Prospect.
Highway 199, Oregon moun
tain Rains, pavement bare.
Highway 99. Sexton moun
tain Road slushy, no chains
needed.
State Highway 42, Myrtl
Point Open to traffic with
no delays in travel; several
points open for one way traf
fic. Highway 101, South of Co
quille Open and normal.
edition of the local newspaper
was found in the box with the
child's body.
It was the second mysterious
infant death in the county dur
ing the past 17 months. In July,
1956 newborn twins, a boy and
a girl, were found sufffocated
in a pressure cooker at a county
trash dump about 22 miles north
of here. That killing was never
solved. .
Balma said there was no rea
son to believe the two killings
were connected.
Coroner's deputies said the
stabbing, mostly in the back,
had been done by an ice pick or
a similar instrument.