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3 t? O an o O Bern Bitter Fight on Responsibility Cause of Action May Be Asked To Form New Cabinet Jerusalem, Israel IP Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and his five party coalition govern ment resigned tonight in a bitter fight over Cabinet responsibilty. An official communique said Ben-Gurion had been unable to resolve the crisis started when the left wing Ahdut Avoda party leaked plans for a top secret arms mission to West Germany. Therefore it added, his formal resignation will be submitted to President Itzhak Ben Zvi not later than Tuesday morning. Could Enforce Demands The President is expected to ask Ben-Gurion to form another government. If he is successful, Ben-Gurion will form a new Cab inet without the Ahdut Acoda. In this set up, he could enforce his demands that all coalition partners accept unconditional responsibility for Cabinet deci sions adopted by a majority vote. The left wing parties had re fused to accept thl stand for fearnt would curtail their right to publicize their own views on issues in which they disagreed with the majority. The announcement caie after a day of maneuvering at two seperate Cabinet meetings in which attempts were made to save Israel's shaky coalition gov ernment. Local Moose Lodge To Sponsor Tree Lift Members of the Medford Moose lodge again will sponsor a Christmas tree lift in parts of Jackson county to benefit ,the March of Dimes, John Keener, general chairman, has an nounced. The lift will take place Sunday, Jan.. 5, with trucks scheduled to leave .the Moose Lodge building at noon. Persons wishing to have their trees picked up are asked to leave them on the front porch or in the front yard, and should affix a donation to' the March of Dimes in an envelope on the tree. The sophomore class of Med ford High school's Teens-Against-Pcio group will assist in the pickup. Keener said. Chairman for the participat ing communities as announced by Keener are Leo Webster, Med ford; John Summerfield, Central Point; John Baldwin and Charles Long. Ashland and Tal ent; Jimo Weter, Jacksonville, and Dewey Gearin, Phoenix. o Court Action Delayed In Transit Deadlock New York OP) Court action to halt by injunction a subway strike set for midnight New Year's Eve was postponed today in hopes the Transit Authority and the Transport Workers union may reach a settlement in their contract negotiations. The authority was expected to make a new wage offer to the union in negotiations scheduled for late this afternoon. The strike, which could pro vide the city's worst transit tie up, was voted unanimously Sun day night at a meeting of the AFL-CIO union headed by M chael J. Quill. Officials of state and city CIO councils attended the meeting and pledged their support. Spokane OP) An Air Force F-86D fighter plane .crashed and burned near here Sunday. Tale of Long Wins Liar's Club Award Burlington, Wis. OP) A tall tale about a mighty long farm field in South Dakota today won the Burlington Liar's Club award for 1957. Traded Equipment The field was so long that the farmer went out last spring with a tractor, 'plow and a drill and when he got to the other end of theield he traded in the equip ment for a combine and harvest ed on the way back. Not only that, but he was gone so long his wife drew three widows' pensions, thinking he had been plowed under. Harry Berogan, Mission, S. D., was named the winner by O. C. yribm), 52nd Year Medford Unite Press Full Leased Wire 12 PAGES NATO Exploring Link With Other Free World Pacts Dulles To Discuss Proposals in Turkey Washington flft The North Atlantic Atlantic Treaty Organi zation (NATO) is already explor ing the possibility of closer links with other free world regional defense pacts, it was learned to day. Offifcial sources said the ex plorations are being undertaken by Paul Henri Spaak of Bel gium, secretary general of NATO. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles will have an oppor tunity to discuss proposals for such ties with th Baghdad Pact when he attends a meeting of the pact council in Turkey next month. Mtudy Up To Officials However, officials said the main burden of studying possible new links between NATO and the Baghdad Pact, the Southeast Asia T r e t y Organization (SEATO) and the Interamerican Defense Alliance is up to NATO officials. Dulles said last week that the NATO nations had agreed tt their recent Paris meeting on the desirability of closer liaison between NATO and other free world defense groupings. He spe cifically named the Baghdad Pact, SEATO and the. Inter american Alliance but did not elaborate on the nature of such liaison. Officials here said pending full discussions between NATO officials and -representatives of the three other groups it would not be known what form of co operatiaon is possible or desir able. One method, it was suggested, would be assigning official rep resentatives of one pact group to sit with the others. Officials said NATO itself is anxious to establish closer liai son. They said it is unknown yet to what extent the other region al group want closer ties with NATO. Flowering Cherry Trees Being Planted Japanese flowering cherry trees, Daybreak, have been planted along Fairview place, and are expected to arrived to day for planting on Country club drive, according to mem bers of the Medford landscape committee. Mrs. Roland Hubbard was in strumental in organizing Fair view place to obtain trees to plant along the street. The pro ject is part of the city's over-all program for planting trees along the streets. Planting was expected to get under way along Country club drive today, and should be com pleted this week end, members said. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York nn Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 431.78. off 1.12; 20 railroads 96.05. off 1.34," 15 utilities 68.66, up 0.01. and 65 stocks 144.69, off 0.59. Sales today were about 3, 705,000 shares compared with 2,620,000 shares Friday. Farm Field Hulett, who founded the Liar s Club here in 1929 and has been president since. Honorable mention went to "Hickory Bill" Simmons of Mad isonville, Ky., for his lie that '"Last summer it got so hot down here that the lizards crawled in to the fire to get in the shade of the skillet." Number of Standouts Hulett said there were a num ber of other standouts among the 1,000 to 1,200 lies submitted this year. A lie from "Shorty" in Nephi, Utah, complained that it was so cold in the Antarctic they had to use two thermometers to keep track of the temperature. Ccabiiniett Ceso MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1957 COAL MINE BLAST KILLS 11 Rescue workers carry mine blast victim into morgue of Pocahontas Fuel Co. in Amonte, Va., where 11 miners died of flash burns and concussion in a gas explosion 500 feet underground. Fourteen other men were trapped in another section of the mine, but were freed and reached the surface unhurt, ' Gunmen Holding Six Hostages Surrender To Cordon of Police Inglewood. Calif. (IP) Two masked bandits held six hostages captive in a barricaded bar here today for more than two hours before they surrendered when police bombed the bar with tear gas. Their siege followed an abort ed holdup of the bar. They held more than 150 po lice, FBI agents and sheriff's deputies at bay while detectives Juveniles Arrested For Thefts in Area State police Saturday arrest ed three juveniles in connection with a recent series of breakins in the Medford area. The boys, aged 14, 15 and 16-years-old, all of Central Point, were detained in the Jackson county detention home pending action by juvenile authorities. Police said the youths, in a signed statement, admitted breaking into several homes, the Top-Notch cafe, Tom Thumb Market at Four Corners, shop lifting from several stores and petty thefts from cars. One youth had in his posses sion a .38 caliber revolver taken from a car in Jacksonville, po lice said. They said the arrests were made after a series of in vestigations. ' Garcia Takes Oath as Philippine President Manila (IP) Carlos P. Garcia was ?worn in today as the fourth president of the Philippine Republic. He pledged in his inaugural address to pre serve The Philippines' "historic relations of friendship" with the United States. The 61-year-old Garcia took the oath of office at impressive inaugural ceremonies at Luneta Park fronting on Manila Bay at high noon. A few minutes earlier Dios dado Macapagal, 47, was sworn in as the country's first opposi tion vice president. Garcia s a member of the ruling Nactionalist Party. Maca pagal is a member of theopposi tion Liberal party. Seattle Man Rescued From Creek Near Salem Salem (IP) James L. Hobbs, 32, Seattle, was rescued early Sunday after his car plunged off the Salem by-pass into Mill creek, State Police reported. He was unconscious when tak en from the creek and was hos pitalized at Salem General hos pital. Police said the accident occurred as Hobbs was trying to pass a car traveling north. United pleaded with them to surrender. But they refused, threatening to open fire on police and more than 50 newsmen who ringed the cocktail lounge. When it. be came obvious that they would not surrender, police fired the tear gas bombs. . Both men walked out of the building meekly, their hands raised above their heads. They were followed by the hostages who included one woman. Police finally fired eight tear gas bombs into the building shortly after 10:05 a.m. The bandits and the hostages stum bled out of the building seconds later after one of the men tossed out a .32 caliber revolver. . Officers immediately searched the pair and found $242 in cash, believed to have been taken in the aborted holdup. The two were then whisked off to the Inglewood jail. Police at first feared that the men might have killed one of the hostages as the heard a shot shortly before the pair gave up. However, officers wearing gas maks, searched the . bar and found only ' a small Christmas tree atop the bar its lights glit tering brightly. Men Identified An officer who talked with the two men through a screen door earlier identified the men as Dick Sullivan and Sid Bruner, both about 30. However, the men gave their names as Howard Lee Scott, 19, and Roger Hoskins, 20, both of Inglewood, when they were booked at the police sta tion. At one time they demanded they be furnished a getaway car in exchange for the hostages. At one stage, one of the men at tempted to leave the building with a gun at the head of the woman hostage, a waitress. But he retreated when he saw the small army of officers. Colombo, Celyon (IP) U. S. ships and planes are speeding toward Ceylon with emergency relief for victims of floods that have killed 300 persons and made another 300,000 homeless. WEATHER FORECAST Valley foe form ing after sundown and con tinuing through Tuesday noon. Above fog clear tonight and increasing cloudiness Tuesday. Low tonight 30. High Tuesday 40. Temp. Hiffhest Yesterday 47 Lowest This Morning 32 Our Skies Tonight The Sun rises . 7:41 a.m. and sets j. 4:48 p.m. The unseen stars in its back ground are now those of Sagit tarius. The Moon sets Tuesday 2:28 a.m. and will be Full Jan. 5 EVENING STAR Venus, sets 7:23 p.m. Now nearly stationary among the stars of the constellation, Capricornus, it is less than 35 million miles from the Earth tonight. gun Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire No. 214 Four Oregonians Die as Plane Hits Ridge Near Shasta Medford Flier Had Part in Air Search Mounta Shasta , Calif. (IP) Authorities investigated today a plane accident whch killed an Oregon family of four when their single-eniiied Bonanza crashed on a mountain ridge a mile northeast of here. The bodies of Robert Beach, 41-year-old Cottage Grove, Ore., lumberman, his wife, Marion, 40, and their two sons, Rex, 19 and Vernon, 15, were recovered from the wreckage of the plane Sunday and taken to a mortuary in Mount Shasta. A daughter, Mrs. D. L. Rataley, identified the bodies. Rex was a student at the San Jose, Calif., Bible Col lege. Killed Saturday Siskiyou county sheriff's dep uties said the family apparently was killed shortly after noon Saturday. Their plane slammed into the north ridge of Spring Mountain after taking off from Mott Field, three miles south of here, in overcast weather. Two of the bodies were found in the plane. The other two had been thrown from the plane by the impact. George Milligan, 38, chief pilot for Mercy Flights, Inc., of Medford, . said he was searching in his plane along the California Oregon border about 12:30 p.m. when a radio call came that the wreckage had been sighted by a farmer. Known To Milligan Milligan, who had known the family for about a year, theo rized that Beach, an experienced pilot, had probably been trying to climb over the 5500-foot butte when the plane "iced up and went-into a stall." Beach had not filed a flight plan when he took off but a search was begun when a sister in Cottage Grove reported the family was overdue. Beach owned the Beach Log ging Company at Cottage Grove and was a partner in a lumber company at Hayfork, Calif. His son, Rex, was a sophomore at the San Jose Bible College and Vernon was a freshman at Cot tage1 Grove high school. Cellar Calls on Ike To Quit Temporarily Washington (IP) Chairman Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.) of the House Judiciary committee has called on President Eisenhower to resign temporarily if he has to continue being a "President in name only."-. Celler charged that a "palace guard" made up of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and a few cabinet officers "men never elected to serve" was running the government. Celler, whose committee for two years has been studying leg islation that would determine when a president was disabled, urged in a statement Sunday that Congress act on the prob lem this year. Boys' Bodies Found At Crescent City Crescent City, Calif. (IP) The bodies of two small boys, missing since Dec. 12, were dis covered face down today in pond behind a sawmill about one mile from here. They were identified as Timrriy Turner, 6, and Patrick Surgeon. 7. both of Crescent City. The pair disappeared from their homes after spending most of the day playing together. Approximately 200 persons and bloodhounds participated in a massive search during the first week of the disappearance Later the log-filled pond was dynamited in an attempt to sur face the bodies. London OP) ( Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, still ailing from a liver ailment that necessitated surgery in the U.S last year, left a seaside sick room today and went to a. country cot tage in southern England. That's Odd They Get Answers This Way On TV" Er'i' mm 1? I Slip J ' jgl jl f Cff fj l jt Porter Sees Of War by Accidental Nuclear Explosion Washington (IP) Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) said today the world should be told that a nu clear war could be started by accident. Porter suggested at a news conference that accidental explosion of an atomic bomb could set off a panic chain reac tion ending in war. The congressman said the Strategic Air Command takes elaborate precautions against ac cidental detonation of any of its weapons. But he said Maj. Gen Herbert B. Loper (retired), atomic assist ant to Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, agrees with him that an accidental explosion some day is "more likely than not." More Likely by Accident Porter continued that "it is far more likely that nuclear war will come through an accident, here or elsewhere, than by in tention." ..... ... Porter made public a letter in which he expressed his fears to Rep. Carl T. Durham (D-N. C), chairman of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee. In the letter, Porter said he has been "deeply disturbed by the prospect of an 'accidental' atomic war." "An accidental nuclear explo sion in this country is probable, not merely possible, the repre sentative said. "We have thou sands of nuclear weapons .and hundreds of men, fallible human beings like you and me, in direct control of them. "Aside from mechanical defect and madvertance the cause of such an explosion could be drunkenness, mental breakdown, misguided idealism, or treason." Porter said he was briefed re cently by top Strategic Air Com mand officials at Of fut Air Force base, Neb. He said he has the "utmost confidence" in SAC. He also conceded that the danger of accidental explosions is re duced by the fact that many men must work jointly to detonate a nuclear explosion. Should Inform Citizens But he insisted that the dan ger exists a,)'5, hat the Defense Department t,-ir.uld immediately "inform our citizens and the Precipitation Above Normal in Medford Heavy rainfall Friday and Sat urday brought precipitation for the Medford vicinity above nor mal for the season, the1 Medford station of the U.S. weather bur eau has reported. A total fall nt .75 of an inch was recorded Friday at the air port weather station and .24 fell Saturday. This precipitation brought the total to 8.64 inches since Sept. 1. Only a trace of rain fell yesterday but the sea son amount still stood at .46 of an inch more than normal. Rain fall this month has been 4.22 inches which is 1.27 above normal for December. Five-day forecast is for only moderate rain in western Ore gon. Two Patients Escape From State Hospital Salem HP) Two patients in the maximum security ward of the State hospital forced bars on a window and escaped early today. The men were identified as James Johnson, 22, Milwaukie; and Verne Street, 38, Lake Grove. Danger world that accidental nuclear ex plosions are probable despite elaborate, safeguards." Porter said that one factor reducing the chances of acci dtal explosions is that SAC bombers now carrying nuclear weapons must land before the bombs can be activated for attack. But he i said that as the nation increases the number of nuclear weapons m its stockpile, the margin of error also increases. Franzke Accepts Job in Portland A. Allan Franzke, Jackson county deputy district attorney, will take a position on the Mult nomah county district at torney's staff sometime in Janu ary, according to District At torney Tom Reeder. Franzke resigned in order to acept the position in Port land at a substantially higher salary," Reeder said. The district attorney said he will have Franzke's successor appointed by the end of Janu ary or the first of February. Reeder stated that Franzke "has been a good and valuable assistant" and is sorry to lose him. . Franzke has been in the dis trict attorney's office here for about 18 months. He is a gradu ate of Willamette university law school. Franzke's home town is Portland. 40-Foot Trailer Upsets on Highway A 40-foot house trailer upset on Highway 99 on the south slope of Blackwell hill about 8:45 a.m. today, blocking -three lanes of traffic, state police re ported. . Officers said that Vernon Al len Lloyd, 32, Reno, Nev., own er and operator of the pick-up truck towing the trailer, told them that the trailer started whipping and- that he tried to control it with the trailer brakes. The trailer, however, tugged and flipped, turning the pickup over also, police said. All traffic lanes but the out side northbound one were blocked. Police said that sedans driven by Virginia Bernice Williams, 36, of 119 East Jackson st., and Max Lowell Brookman, 46, of 212 South Grape st., were in volved in a collision about 7:55 a.'m. today on Highway 99 near the Bear Creek orchards plant. They reported no injuries. Oregonians May Face Hike In Auto Insurance Rates Salem OP) Oregonians may be faced with a boost in auto in surance premiums of 30 per cent or more in January. State Insurance Commissioner Hugh H. Earle said today his of fice had received new rate in crease requests from many auto insurance companies. Increases Would Vary If the increases are granted by the commissioner they will vary according to companies and dif ferent sections of the state. Previously the Oregon Asso ciation of Insurance Agents, had warned the motoring public that Federal-Stale Cosf Figured at $1,800,000,000 Scholarships for High School Students Gettysburg, Pa. (lit Presi dent Eisenhower today approved for submission to Congress a plan for expanding scientific education at a federal-state cost of about $1,800,000,000 over the next four years. The federal government would help send 10,000 promising students to college each year. Need as well as ability would be considered in awarding the scholarships. 'Good Preparation' Necessary The plan was submitted to the President this morning by Marion B. Folsom, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The chief executive approved the entire program. It calls for federal college scholarships for high school stu dents who have "good prepara tion" in the field of sicence and mathematics. Eisenhower will touch on the new aid to education plan in his State of the Union Message, then send Congress a special message detailing the program. Soviet Challenge The goal would be to improve teaching and speed up the pro duction of scientists and en gineers to meet Russia's space age challenge. Assuming relatively quick and favorable congressional action, Folsom said it was possible that the first federal scholarships might be granted in time for the start of the new academic year next September. The seven-point program would cost annually about $225 million to $250 million in fed eral funds plus nearly matching state appropriations. Over the first four years the federal gov ernment would put up about $1 billion, the states about $800 million. The seven points: Grant to states on a 50-50 matching basis for aptitude tests of students between the seven and ninth grades. The testing would be conducted by the states. Federal Scholarships Matching grants to states for improved counseling and guid ance of young students in prepa ration for higher education. A program of about 10,000 federal college scholarships a year for four years to be allo cated among the states on a population basis and granted on a basis of ability and need. Schol arships would be granted to all students in all fields of study, but, preference would be given to high school students with "good preparation" in science and mathematics. Provision of 1,000 federal graduate fellowships for the firrt year and 1,500 fellowships an nually for the succeeding three years tocourage more able col lege students to prepare for col lege teaching careers. Graduate schools also could receive direct federal grants up to $125,000 a year to help meet the cost of expanding their capacity, pro vided the school itself matched the federal contribution. Seek More Teachers A 50-50 matching fund with the states to help states and local school systems obtain and keep more and better science and mathematics teachers. . --Federal financial assistance for the establishment and opera tion of training centers to in crease the output of foreign lan guage teachers, particularly in the languages of Asia, Africa and the Near East. An increase of $64,500,000 in the budget of the National Science Foundation for programs to improve the quality of re search, training and teaching in the sciences. Salem (IP) Two inches of new snowfall made chains a ne cessity for travel to Government Camp, the State Highway De partment has reported. higher rates in 1958 were likely if adequate protection was to be provided. If new rates are granted, they would go into effect Jan.27,1958. Earle said most companies are " showing losses on their auto in surance business, indicating that the new rates may be necessary. Death Toll Blamed Portland Insurance Executive Herbert A. Ballin Jr. blamed 'the mounting toll of death and destruction on the state's high ways" for the new rate requests. He said adequate protection could be provided no other, way. Medlfeird Stores Wo 1 He peon U 1 II ffS i II II k I Z. H n
