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52nd Year Recommended Recommenced reading In to davs Mail Tribune is a story about a one man campaign to have shoe labelled at to the materials they are made of. The Jtory which appears on Page 1 tells how Wilbur Gardner is working to have shoes contain ing imitation leather or paper so labelled. Price 10f Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford pnone SP 2-6141 Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p m daily and 10 :30 a m Sunday If regular delivery arrives short ly after vou call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. lViEDFORD RIBUNE United Pres Pull Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 50 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1957 No. 213 i i r 4 PTtn O G O Searchers 11 (Bodies Amonate, Va. w Coal min ers groping through rubble and poisonous fumes 500 feet under ground found the bodies of 11 fellow workers at dawn Satur day 13 hours after gas explo- Transit Workers Hold Strike Uote Over II.Y. Tie Up New York V The threat of New Year's eve transportation paralysis in New York sharpen ed Saturday with an announce ment by transit labor boss Mic hael J. Quill that he saw "little hope" of fjeverting a subway bus strike over wage demands. Quill, fiery president of the AFL-CIO transit workers union, led his union in bargaining ses sions Friday and .Saturday that resulted in two different wage offers and two sharp rejections. Quill said that 32,000 workers would b authorixed to take a strike vote today. He has set a strike deadline of midnight Tues day the moment the new year begins. The first offer rejected by the union called for wage increases of eight cents an hour now and five cents in a year. The second spurned offer called for 10 cents the first year and eight cents the second. c The two-hour negotiating-ses-sion Saturday afternoon was de scribed as friendly. Both sides were said to be bargaining in good faith. They agreed to meet again Monday. Quill went into the negotiating session after meeting with the 45-rftan executive board of his union's Local 1 00. The meeting 1 broke up with Quill renewing his threat of a New Year's eve strike. Quill also disclosed that 140 bus drivers in the local have voted to strike against the Yonk , rtF9) Railroad company, which op (f'.i feeder bus lines from sub- rfN terminals in the Bronx to .SVtjwbtn Yonkers. H9 aifl the transit authority, jrtoicfl operates the 228-mile city oftrnttt Subway system, Friday offfrS a two-year contract with fan iht-cent raise y?e first year wpi& fivf-cents the second. Uiltonian Idealism Deeded by Nominee Rialto, Calif. (IP) Paul Zif fren, California's democratic na tional committeeman, said Sat urday night the 1960 democratic nominee for president must com bine Wilsoniart idealism with realism. Speaking before the Wilsonian club of San Bernardino county at its 37th annual Wilsonian banquet, Ziffren said the party needs the quality of leadership "which inspired our nation in the memorable days of Woodrow Wilson and his distinguished disciple, Franklin Delano Roose velt. "There never were more ex citing things to speak up for and to stand for than there are to day. We only need to feel the 'tingle of leadership' and the bold spirit of adventure symbol ized by Woodrow Wilson-" Sports Bulletins Central Point Torrid shoot ing Coquille high overrun the Crater Comet cage qunit 67 lo 42 here last night. The Red Dtrvils had quarterly margins of 19 lo 9. 37 to 20 and 52 lo 29. Jim Jarvis scored 18 points to yace the victors. Jledford high cagers nudged 4atori 53 to 49 in overtime here lsjst , night. Score at the ef regular playing time M 4lach. Bilbee Lane ial- field goal and Tom BtcaUa f. free toss in the extra GtoMlea. Araoll Curtis, Astoria, -waft lif It point man with 21. feet It. The visiting Fish- led 19 lo 7 at the quart er tl at lo 23 at halflime n4 Medford was on lop 40 lo 3t three periods. COLLtGE n Joe 71. Arizona St. 52 Sn Francisco 60. Oklahoma City 45 California 60. Dayton 55. ov ertime Wichita 63. Los Angeles St. 61 Temple 91. Seattle 73 Willamette 67. Cal Aggies 38 Washington 66, Yale 51 UCLA 98. Ohio Stale 78 San Diego 60, Redlands 50 PREP Coquille 67, Crater 42 Medford 52. Astoria 49 (ov ertime) Oregon state 65. Utah 63 Uncover Dn Mine sion in a mountain coal mine. Fourteen other miners, trap ped for six hours after the muffled explosion in Amonate Mine No. 31 of the Pocahontas Fuel co., protected themselves from poisonous gas by stretch ing canvas over shaft openings. They walked out unscratched when rescue workers reached them about 1 a.m. The 11 victims, fathers of 33 children, were killed by flash burns and concussion. Bodies of the victims were brought up in shuttle cars, warp ped in canvas, and loaded on makeshift tables in a machine shop at an entrance on the West Virginia side of the mine which spans the Virginia-West Virginia border near Bluefield in rugged mountain country. A hushed crowd of about 75 persons, most of them families of the dead men, made the final identification. The muffled explosion oc curred so far underground it was not detected on the surface until gauges showed a ventila tion failure. Elbert Sparks, one of the survivors, who was work ing about two and one-half miles from the' blast scene, said it "kicked up a lot of dust and there was a loud report." About 175 miners, far from the explosion, fled to safety in an elevator. Woodrow Evans, foreman of the 14-man group that was trapped for six hours, said the men remained calm and "some even ate their lunch." W. A. Fullerton, special assist ant to the president of Pocahon tas Fuel co., said between 200 and 215 men were working in the mine at the time but seven of those who died were under notice of a layoff beginning Monday. Notice had been given 500 miners in the area that they would be laid off because of fall ing' coal prices. The mine is only 10 miles from another Pocahontas mine at Bishop, Va., where 37 died in a similar explosion last Febru ary. The worst disaster in U.S. ccal mining history was the death of 119 miners at Frank fort, HI.. Dec. 21, 19. Fleeing Gunman Requires Insulin - Charlotte, N.C. OP) Two gunmen fleeing from a double killing in Washington may try to contact a "friend or relative" in this area, the FBI said Sat urday. Officers said one is a diabetic who may be short of insulin. Henry Clay Overton, 44, and Wayne Carpenter, 22, command eered a car in Washington after killing a nightclub owner and a hillbilly musician. The FBI said Overton is a diabetic of "t h e worst type" who must have 15 units of insulin daily. But he left Washington without his in sulin supply or his hypodermic needle. Washington police said the men, apparently enraged over a $20 bill for whisky at the Jo Del restaurant on 95th street in the capital, shot and killed res taurant owner George P. Kaldes, 33, and hillbilly vocalist Ken neth Harlan Fisher, 38. The killers then forced their way into a parked car occupied by Doris Mattingly, 19, and Pfc. Larry Monteith, 21. Miss Mat tingly was released unharmed in Richmond, Va., , and Montieith was locked in the trunk of his car near Alberta, Va. They ap parently commandeered anoth er car driven by a Negro wom an, Mrs. Arsonia G. Allman of Richmond, and released her at Cheraw, S.C. Chiles said Carpenter has rel atives in Rock Hill and officers felt he would try to contact a relative here. He said Overton could be expected to try to ob tain a supply of insulin. Security Clamp Said Long Planned Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP! The failure of the satellite-carrying Vanguard rocket had "nothing at all" to do with the tightening security at this laun ching center, the Air Force said Saturday. Lt. Col. Sam Bruno. Air Force test center security officer, said the curtain would have been lowered around this hub of the nation's guided missile develop ment program "whether Van guard went or not." After the Vanguard exploded last Dec. 6 in the nation's first attempt to launch a satellite, signs appeared near the north and south ends of the cape pro hibiting cameras, photographic equipment and binoculars. Pace Stepped Up By British Team In Antarctic Race Goal 250 Miles Away For New Zealanders Auckland, New Zealand (W A British expedition Saturday stepped up its pace across "most treacherous" soft snow of a virtually unchartered Antarc tic wasteland in an effort to beat a New Zealand team to the South Pole. There was little doubt that the New Zealanders under Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest, would reach the pole first. The odds were too great for Britain's Dr. Viv ian Fuchs and his 10 compan ions. But he cabled the London headquarters of the common wealth trans-Antarctic expedi tion that he had ordered "step ped up daily runs" with less time spent on scientific study. Fuchs reported he planned to abandon his eight Sno-Cat trac tors one by one at set points to conserve his dwindling supply of fuel. Fuchs cabled that he and his men have developed an "almost incessant feeling of frustration" crossing "probably the most treacherous route over which vehicles have traveled in the polar regions." Within 500 Miles Fuchs and his men were with in 500 miles of their goal mov ing through soft snow and over hidden crevasses with generally poor visibility. Hillary, shooting "hell bent for the South Pole," was be lieved less than 250 miles from the goal. Regardless of which party gets there first, both are engaged in an overall effort to trek across 2,000 miles of the frozen con tinent. The two groups will team at the pole and continue on to the coast in a different race, against the elements. .They must complete the dangerous crossing by March, before the Polar winter sets in. At the Pole both teams will rest at a base established by an American ex pedition which flew in. Fuchs and his 10 men have covered 350 miles from Shackle ton bay. Hillary and three other men, using three Sno-Cats, trekked from the Ross sea to a point 400 miles from the pole over terrain that was considerably less diffi cult than that which the Fuchs group had to cope with. Hillary was scheduled to wait at the 400-mile point, but decided three days ago to make a dash for the pole. . Officials still denied the two groups are racing. But both Hil lary and Fuchs themselves in their cables indicated that they know it was a race. Meeting Scheduled On Highway Action The Medford city council will consider action on the Highway 99 freeway with the state high way commission at a special meeting at 4 p.m. Monday in the council chambers, City Manager Robert Duff has announced. The city sought several modi fications in interchanges and ac cess roads along the proposed freeway, which is planned along the Bear creek-Hawthorne park route through Medford. Annual Christmas Bird Count Taken By Birdwatchers of Medford Area A group of a dozen bird watchers from Medford and vi cinity took the annual Christ mas bird count Friday, in spite of early snow and later continu ous rain. They counted 62 species and about 4,467 individuals. The number of species is eight more than last year and constitutes a new record for the present series of bird counts. The num ber of individuals is much less than last year because the robin and starling roost just north of Phcenix where great numbers were seen last year was not in cluded in the area of this year's count. The area of this year's count was a 15-mile diameter circle centering just south of White City. It included an area stretch ing from Medlord to Eagle Point, Old Military rd. to Roxy Ann, and Gold Ray dam to the Gardiner reservoir on Yankee creek. Most of the roads in this area were traversed by the four parties travelling by car and Secret Session Set On Arms Race Status Washington HP! The House Armed Services committee soon will call defense chiefs in closed session' and demand the full, secret story of where the Unit ed States stands in the arms race with Russia. House investigators disclosed plans for the new round of Con gressional hearings Saturday. Soviet Party Will Streamline With Old Pros Moscow (IP) Nikita S. Khrushchev is bringing old and trusted comrades of former days into the top party leadership to streamline the organization and increase its efficiency, informed sources said Saturday. They said the party secre tary's old friends were being brought to the Kremlin from provincial jobs to take top plac es in the all-powerful party pre sidium and the secretariat of the party Central Committee. The turnover in the party leadership as been considerable during the last year. Such fam ed Kremlin officials as Georgi Zhukov, Vyacheslav, Molotov, Dmitri T. Shepilov,- Lazar Kag anovitch and Georgi Malenkov have been dropped. With few exceptions Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Trade Chief Anastas Mikoyan among them the presidium now consists of profsesional par ty officials. Khrushchev has brought skill ed and devoted Communist as sociates into the party hier archy. Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman member of the presid ium, last week was removed from her position on the local Moscow party committee to con centrate on her work as secre tary to the National Party's cen tral committee. Sources said she apparently found it impossible to carry, on her national work and do a regional job at the same time. Another old-line party mem ber brought closer to the Krem lin was Frol Kozlov, the new premier of the Russian Repub lic, the "mother" state in the 15 republics making up the U.S.S.R. Unlike his predecessor,- civ il servant Mikhail Yasnov, who now is his deputy, Kozlov is a professional party official. To take up his new job in Moscow he had to give up his position as head of the party in Leningrad. Moonshine Charge Faces Eugene Man Eugene, Ore. OP) Lane county deputiesa nd federal rev enue agents arrested a 44-year-old Veneta resident, Gilbert Strasen, Saturday afternoon on charges of operating a moon shine still in his home. Strasen, a mill worker, was taken into custody as he worked at a Veneta lumber mill. Offic ers said they found a still and about 30 gallons of mash locked in a back room of Strasen's home on Bolton rd. He was booked on a charge of illegal possession of liquor mash and held here in Lane county jail. The still, mash and a quantity of the finished liquor was con fiscated, along with a pickup truck believed to have been used in the operation. making many side jaunts on foot. No Rare Species Found No especialy rare or unusual birds were found although there were several not noted in other years. The species found in larg est numbers were Brewer's blackbird, 989, and Oregon jun co. 738. The complete list of birds seen fs Great blue heron, 3; Black-crowned night heron, 7; mallard, 352; American widge on, 2; pintail, 4; ring - necked duck, 14: lesser s-aup: 6; buffle head, 1; ruddy duck, 32; Ameri can merganser, 7; red - tailed hawk, 12; ferruginous hawk, 1; sparrow hawk, 18; California quail, 269; mountain quail, 9: ring - necked pheasant, 91; American coot, 209; killdeer, 44; Wilson's snipe, 7; mourning dove, 325; burrowing owl, 4; belted kingfisher, 5; red-shafted flicker, 79; acorn woodpecker, 27; Lewis's woodpecker, 3; yellow-bellied sapsucker, 2; downy woodpecker, 3; horned lark, 12; Steller's jay, 2; scrub jay, 45; They said the first administra tion witnesses will be called Jan. 10, three days after Con gress reconvenes. The inquiry probably will last several weeks. It will overlap discussion of President Eisen hower's new defense budget as well as the administration's an ticipated request for one billion dollars to speed missile and air force development in the next six months. Secret Hearings Planned , The House hearings will dif fer in one major respect from those conducted recently by the Senate Preparedness subcommit tee headed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.). Johnson's hearings were public. The 37 member House committee head ed by Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), plans to meet behind closed doors "from beginning to end," a committee source said. It is not yet certain what ar rangements, if any, will be made to keep the public posted on testimony which does not wan der too deep into secret infor mation. Meeting Scope Given Committee sources said the re view will cover: 1. The status of missile pro grams particularly the 5,000 mile Atlas and Titan and the 1,500-mile Thor, Jupiter and Po laris. 2. All other facets of defense, ranging . from the Pentagon's structure to the roles and mis sions of the Armed Forces. A key controversy to be air ed is whether there should be changes in the make-up and the functions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ' This four-man group consists of the chief of staff of each ser vice and a chairman drawn from one of them. Currently, the chairman is Air Force Gen. Na than F. Twining. The joint chiefs system has come under fire from' several quarters lately. Lt. Gen. James M.- Gavin, Army research chief, told the Johnson subcommittee that the civilian defense secre tary isn't getting 1e fight kind of advice from 'the military chiefs. Four Billion Given In Aid to Far East Washington (IP) The Interna tional Cooperation administra tion reported Saturday that the United States has put up more than four billion dollars in eco nomic and technical aid for far east nations in the past six years. The agency said the high pro portion of aid for far east na tions demonstrates American ef forts to strengthen Asian coun tries that "are still threatened by a renewal of communist ag gression and are targets of sig nificant communist efforts at in ternal subversion." During the fiscal year ended last June 30 the biggest chunk of non-military aid for the far east went to South Korea. It re ceived $305,664,000 (M). Viet nam got $259,438,000 (M). The other far east recipients were Nationalist China $83,749, 000 (M), Laos $44,458,000 (M), Thailand $34,500,000 (M), Cam bodia $34,480,000 (M), Philip pines $33,908,000 (M), Indonesia $11,718,000 (M) and Japan $2, 297,000 (M). Los Angeles (IP) North American Aviation Inc. an nounced today that it has order ed cost of living wage increases for more than 50,000 employes in January. black - capped chickadee, ' 2; plain titmouse, 4; white breat ed nuthatch, 6; brown creeper, 3; Bewick's wren, 1; long billed marsh wren, 1; robin, 335; var ied thrush, 18; hermit thrush. 3; western bluebird, 119; ruby crowned kinglet, 1; water pipit, 21; cedar waxwing, 12; logger head shrike, 1; common starling 240; Audubon's warbler, 5; house sparrow, 78; western meadowlark, 287; red - winged blackbird, 171; tri-colored black bird, 6; Brewer's blackbird, 989; borwn-headed cowbird, 19; purple finch, 3; house fincn, 9: lesser goldfinch, 36; spotted towhee, 30; brown towhee, 18; savannah sparrow, 13; Oregon junco, 738; white-crowned spar row, 79; golden-crowned spar row, 236; song sparrow, 12. Those participating were Mrs. Howard Bush, Ralph Browing, Maj. Gen. and Mrs J. H. Hicks, Betty Jo Hicks, Mrs. V. A. Tur- pin. Tom Turpin. Mrs. Robert Hubbard, Miss Mabel Moore, the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Mc Camant and Dr. John Reynolds, Report of U.S. Weakness Denied By Administration, Press Secretary States "Boy, These New Cars Will Do Anything" Missile Base Ruling Requested At Meeting Cairo (IP) Delegates to the unofficial 39-nation Afro-Asian solidarity conference Saturday demanded a ban on missile and atomic bases on foreign soiL The proposal criticized the re cent NATO summit conference and United States plans to arm Western Europe with Ballistic missiles. It was made by the confer ence's disarmament committee, which then overrode Lebanese objections to appoint Russia to a five-nation committee to draft a final disarmament resolution. Disarmament chairman Kaoru Uasui of Japan said the group also called for the unconditional and immediate end to all nuclear tests and the destruction of exist ing nuclear stock piles. He said the ban on missile bases was demanded because of the "alarming proposals put for ward at the Paris NATO meet ing earlier this month." Refers to Agreement He referred to the 'NATO agreement in principle on the construction of American inter mediate ballistic missile bases in Western Europe. Uasui said a five-nation board, including 'delegates from Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan and Russia, was created to write the final draft resolution. He said Le banon objected to the Soviet Union's presence on the board because it is not neutral in the cold war and is a producer of nuclear weapons. The committee, overrode the objections after the Russians said, "The Soviets use the atom for peaceful uses only." The Soviet delegation's dra matic offer Friday to provide unlimited economic aid on a "brother to brother" basis seemed to lose some of its glam or following overnight consid eration by the other delegations. India's Anup Singh, one of Nations Rush Aid To Flooded Ceylon Colombo, Ceylon (IP) Na tions around the world rushed aid to Ceylon Saturday to com bat flood and landslide disasters that have taken more than 300 lives. - Police said 300,000 persons had been forced from their homes by rising river waters in central and northern Ceylon and that 50,000 homes had been washed away. The Singapore and Malayan governments announced Satur day they each were sending 10, 000 Malayan dollars for flood victims. India already has sent four planes tto help in rescue work and Israel has shipped medical and other supplies to the Ceylonese government. Russian ambassador to Cey lon Vladimir Yakovlev told Prime Minister Solomon Ban- daranaike that the Soviet union was ready to give any help needed. Similar offers were made by the United States, Britain, and Canada. -"EK.i-o.t MDMUUMtMllWI the conference's main organiz ers, said, "it was a forceful pre sentation . . .. but I think it would have been better without an attack on United States aid." The proposals, he said, "seem to contain some new elements, but they are largely a .reitera tion of the old stand." ' . Water Districts Set Ballot Date Absentee ballots for the Rogue River Valley and Medford Irri gation districts' special election Jan. 14 must be in the irrigation district " offices no ' later than Jan. 6, district officials have an nounced. The election is to authorize the costs to the difricts in tak ing full advantage of the Talent project. Work includes rehabilitation of large areas of the RRVID distribution system and enlarge ment of the canal and lateral systems in the MID. Approval of sums to pay the two districts' share of the Talent project costs also will be sought, which will guarantee to the districts large additional water storage sup plies. The total sum involved is $1, 544.500, to be divided between the two districts. If the proposed contract is approved at the Jan. 14 election, costs to water users of the two districts would not increase im mediately, according to the two district managers, Jack Hoff buhr of the MID, and Harold Sexton of the RRVID. Rome Embassy Jewelry Removed Rome (IP) Jewelry valued at $30,000 has been stolen from a case in the dressing room of the U.S. ambassador's wife in the well-guarded American embassy here, officials revealed Satur day. , Embassy spokesman said the personal maid of Mrs. James D. Zellerbach discovered the jew elry missing 10 days ago and Italian police and embassy se curity officers were immediate ly called in. The gems apparent ly were stolen during the night of Dec. 18. All 15 members of the Zel lerbach household staff were questioned. Suspected jewel thieves and Lnown fences were called into police headquarters for interrogation. The embassy, known as the Villa Taverna, has a high wall around it and has a U.S. Marine Corps guard and security system commensurate with its size and diplomatic ranking. Tommy-gun toting Italian federal police also guard the rambling villa and its cypress-studded garden. Lennox, Calif. HP) A 13-year-old boy was fatally wounded Saturday when his best friend accidently dropped a rifle and it discharged, sheriff's deputies report. Printed Stories Citing Report Claimed Untrue Accounts' Main Thenp Not Denied By Hagerty Gettysburg, Pa. OP) The White House denied Saturday that the United States "at this time" is militarily weak com pared with Russia. Press Secretary James C. o Hagerty made the statement in raising slightly the curtain of secrecy around the so-calle9. "Gaither Report" on the future of the arms race. "Stories that have been print ed which indicate the United Washington (IP) - The Atomic Energy commission an nounced Saturday night that Russia Saturday fired an atomic bomb. The AEC said the nuclear shot wai fired "at the usual Soviet test site in Siberia." The American agency made the announcement in a brief two-sentence statement relay ed to news agencies. The nuclear explosion Sat urday means the Russians are continuing their nuclear weap ons tests, according to the AEC. The AEC gave no indication of the power or the nature of the test shot. It also did not reveal the source of its intelligence thai the Russians had fired the shot Saturday. This country, it is known however, has sta tions ringing the communist world to pick up radiation and fallout clues of Russia's tests. States is in a position of weak ness at this time are not true," Hagerty said. "They are not in the (Gaither) report and are completely contrary to the re port." He indicated that President Eisenhower is particularly con cerned about published accounts of the still secret report which suggested the United States al ready is in a woefully weak world power position. Hagerty did not specifically deny the main theme of the ac counts "leaked" to several news papers last week: That the Eisenhower-appointed Gaither committee called for tremen dous increases in spending on defense, civil defense shelters and foreign aid to avoid the "catastrophe" of Soviet nuclear rocket dictation. He made three points: . The Gaither report has been misrepresented in stories suggesting that it describes the United States as in immediate peril. "The president will give in his state of the union message (to congress Jan. 9) his estimate of the military posture of our country as it is now and what has to be done in the future to continue that strength." Q "As far as I know there is no factual information in the been available to the commit tees of congress, particularly the Johnson committee. This refer--red to reports that the senate preparedness subcommi ttee, which has been investigating the U.S.-Russian arms balance, was denied a copy of the Gaither committee's findings and rec ommendations. The subcommittee is headed by senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, . who, since the hearings, has is sued repeated warnings about the United States military po sition. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to day with increasing cloudiness tonight, Monday cloudy with rain in the valley and snow above 3.000 feet, high today 4fi. low tonight 32, high Mon day 42. TEMP. Richest Yesterday 52 Lowest this Morning 36 PREcrp. To 10 p.m. Yesterday .2 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ?:40 a.m. Sunset 4:47 P-m. Moonset Mondy 1:30 ajn. Full Moon Jan. S VISIBLE PLANETS .Venus, in the south west . 5:44 p.m. Jupiter, in the south west 4:44 a.m. Mars, low in south east 6:38 p.m. Saturn, rises 6:40 a-m. O
