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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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