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0. 0 0 IN IN mm m Jordan Said To Need s50 Million Yearly From U.S. Amman, Jordan W For eign Minister Samir Rifai said today Jordan will need an av erage of $50 million a year in aid from the United States for five to ten years. He said Jordan would de pend on U. S. friendship "not to let us down." Rifai told the United Press in an exclusive interview that half of the sum was needed for economic development and the remainder for maintenance of Jordan's armed forces. No Longer Influenced Rifa", who is also deputy pre mier and strongman of the Jor danian government, also made the following points during the interview in his office at gov ernment headquarters: The Jordanian government has gained so much strength the country can no longer be in fluenced by EgyptiaS and Syrian "threats" which were a real danger. "The people can no longer be bluffed," he ,said. The government intends to maintain stability and order "at any cost" while working for the country's economic develop ment. Martial law will be lifted when what Rifai described as Egyptian and Syria "intrigues" to incite rebellion have ended. Jordan will continue to fight against Communism, not because the United States fights Public Meeting Set On BLM Programs A public meeting, conducted by the bureau of land manage ment, will be held in the audi torium at the county courthouse Jan. 14, starting at 1 p.m. to present and discuss the access road and timber sale programs in the Medford district during the comin year. Bureau officials indicated that the meeting is not a public hear ing and will be conducted on an informal basis, primarily for the purpose of enlightening the pub lic regarding the bureau's pro grams and giving the public an opportunity to offer suggestions for improvements in the pro grams. The 1958 timber sale plan for the-dford district calls for the sale oan estimated 160.300,000 board feet of timber distribu ted throughout the district dur ing the year. The access road program for the fiscal year beginning July 1, will be a topic of interest for discussion at the meeting. It calls for the instruction of 18 miles of mainline road in Klam th county. When finished this road will connect the Buck lake area with the Green Springs highway near Keno. Two Men Hold Up Bank in Arizona Show Low. Ariz. V Two men held up the Valley National Bank branch in this small east ern Arizona town during the noon hour today and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. The nn walked into the bank and herded bank employees and customers into a basement at the rear of the bank. They then cleaned out the only teller draw er which was unlocked. Manager LaMar Welker said he thought the drawer contained several thousand dollars in cash, but he was unable to make an accurate estimate until an audit was completed. Red Skelfon Has Close Brush with Death In 'Cardiac-Asthmatic' Attack at Home - Santa Monica. Calif. OTi Co median Red Skelton was report ed improving "very rapidly" in St. John's Hospital today fol lowing a "cardiac-asthmatic" at tack which nearly cost him his The famous rcdl haired comic was hospitalized in serious con dition Monday night after being stricken at his Bel-Air home. He was found groaning and gasping on the floor by his 10-year-old daughter. Valentina. Graphic Example His physician, Dr. Garth Gra ham, described Skelton's condi tion when he was found with a graphic example. "Suppose there are 10 steps to death," Dr. Graham said. "Skel ton had taken nine of them." Skelton's wife, Georgia, sum it but because It is against Jor danian traditions. She also will work for Arab unity and shun military alliances such as the Baghdad Pact. Rifai also said he hoped the Soviet Union would support a move to confine Israel to the boundaries established by the United Nations in 1947 because "that might wake up the West." In discussing U. S. economic aid, Rifai said Jordan will need more in the next fiscal year beginning April 1 than the $40 million promised by the United States since last spring. "For five, six or even ten years we will need an average of $50 million each year from the United States," he said. ' Council Authorizes Agreement For 99 Freeway in Medford The city council authorized Mayor John Snider and City Re corder Darell Huson to enter into an agreement with the state highway commission for con struction of the Bear Creek-Hawthorne park route of the High way 99 freeway at a special council meeting yesterday after noon. The council also adopted a supplemental ordinance which provides the state highway commission should extend the planned northbound exit ramp at Court st. from the Medford Corporation railroad tracks to the present city street system. The suoplemental ordinance also gives the city option for con struction of the southbound exit at Jackson st. . The city felt the exit ramp at Jackson st. mi?ht interfere with, traffic from the planned shop ping center at Jackson st and Biddle rd. City officials said they would first see how much traffic the new shopping center would create before adding traf fic from the freeway. Federal Rules Under current federal rules for highway construction, fed eral funds cannot be used for construction of the portion of the Court st. exit ramp from the Medco tracks to the present street system. City officials said the ordinance provides the state would furnish funds for this sec tion of the access road. The next step .in the freeway construction will be up to the state, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. He said the state will draft final plans and start right-of-way purchases. They have already agreed to the city's supplemental ordinance provis ions, he said. The ordinances, which passed by a six to one vote, were made possible when . council pre; cedure rules were waived to permit the council to act on the ordinance without the usual two appearances on the agenda be fore action. The only objection to the agreement came from Councilman Stanley Jones who objected on the grounds a num ber of minor points were not list ed in the general agreement but' on separate letters and memos. Help Available for Federal Taxpayers Portland OH Ralph C. Granquist, district director of internal revenue, said today that 18 field officers in Oregon would have special crews on hand to help taxpayers in fil ing returns from Jan. 2 to April 15. moned the fire department res cue squad when her daughter hastily called her to the room where the comedian lay stricken. Firemen said Dr. Graham's quick diagnosis that Skelton's lungs were filling with liquid probably saved his life. They rushed him unconscious to the hospital. Under Oxygen Tent After clearing Skelton's lungs, hospital attendants kept the co median under an oxygen tent even after he had regained con sciousness and dropped off to sleep. Mrs. Skelton and the comic's business manager, Milton Weiss, stayed at his side until Dr. Gra ham instructed them to go home for the night. It was the second time in about Oregon Considers Suit Against U.S. On Forest Receipts Would Prevent Change In Distribution By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The state of Ore gon is considering filing suit against the federal government to prevent a change in formula for distributing national forest receipts, according .to Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.). Porter said Gov. Robert . D. Holmes and Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton are evaluat ing the state's position legally preparatory to taking action de signed to give Oregon a greater share in the fund for forest high ways. In November the departments of agriculture and commerce de cided to modify the long-standing formula by which states divided the highway money, 50 per cent on the basis of each state's na tional forest area and 50 per cent on the timber valuation. The formula was changed to 75 per cent for area, 25 for value. Would Have Received Congressman Porter pointed out that if the formula had not been changed, Oregon would have received $1,693,885 more in fiscal 1959 than it now is scheduled to receive under the altered formula. When advised recently that funds under the new formula had not yet been obligated for specific road projects, Porter called on the two departments to hold up further action and hold public hearings on the whole issue to permit Oregon and other states to submit their views. Officials of Washington, Montana and California have joined in protesting the changes. The commerce secretary, Sinclair Weeks, turned down the request for a hearing. However, the bureau of public roads, meantime, promised not to obligate any of the funds until March 1 of the coming year. Porter said with this much time in which to act, the state could go into federal district court here in the - District " of Columbia, naming Weeks and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Ben son. He said he has been, advised that the state might seek an injunction or a declaratory judg ment. He conferred at length with Thornton by telephone last week. Ben-Gurion Asked To Form New Cabinet Jerusalem, Israel (IP) Israel Premier David Ben-Gurion sub mitted his resignation today and was immediately asked to form a new cabinet. Ben-Gurion had been so confi dent President . Itzhak Ben-Zvi would ask him to continue as Premier he already has started holding political consultations on the make-up of the new gov ernment. Hi resigned today in a politi cal move to drive two rebellious left-wing parties out of his gov ernment. Ben-Gurion was unable under the constitution to dismiss the Ahdut Avoda (unity of labor) and the Mapam (united workers) ministers so he decided to sub mit the resignation of the en tire cabinet." Murder-Kidnaping Suspect Captured Miami, Fla. OP) Wayne Carpenter, 21, wanted on mur der and kidnaping charges in Washington, was picked up as a vagrant Monday night in West Palm Beach. The partner of Henry Clay Overton, 44, who was killed Monday in a flaming head-on collision in Georgia while trying to escape police, meekly identi fied himself after his arrest. a month that Skelton had been hit by injury or illness. He fell down a staircase at his home last month and sprained ah ankle. Death also has stalked the Skelton's son, Richard, 9, who is suffering from leukemia. Skel ton took the boy, to Europe last summer in a highly publicized trip which ended in sharp criti cism by the English press. Dr. Graham, who said Skelton' has been suffering from asthma for years, planned more exami nations and tests today to deter mine the extent of injury, if any, to his patient's heart. Weiss said that Skelton's ill ness would not force cancella tion of the comic's weekly tele vision show which has been filmed. A. 52nd Year Medford United press Full Leased Wire 12 PAGES Top By UNITED PRESS Auld Lang Syne will ring out boisterously around the land this New Year's Eve, with cele brants paying about the same price as last year to wake up with the same sized hangover. A United Press survey indi cates that the cost of ringing in the New Year on the town tonight will be little changed expensive and the free-spending crowds also will beabout the same large. $37.50 In New York ' Prices range from S37.50 per at high class bistros in New York and Los Angeles with top name entertainers, to the regu lar prices at the neighborhood bar featuring color television. Mingling with the din of mer rymaking will be the peal of church bells calling the devout to church services, many of them Mansfield Voices Good Chance for Congressional OK .Washington (IP) "Too little" was the chief cry raised today against - President - Eisenhower1 space-age school program. Congressional reaction was mixed but generally favorable toward establishing 10,000 schol arships a year for four years to send bright students to col lege the major proposal in the program. "In Right Direction' Assistant Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) called it a "step in the right direction" and with a "good" chance of congressional passage. But assistant House Democratic Leader Carl Albert (Okla.) said it should have provided 20,000 scholarships a year instead of 10.000. He called the admin istration's seven-point program "much too small" to meet the "critical challenge" of Russia's scientific advances. The program, announced by the White House in Gettysburg, Pa., Monday, calls for federal aid to states to identify and direct talented high school stu dents to college, plus a federal scholarship program to help 10,000 such students annually attend college who otherwise could not afford to do so. Far Below Needs It also calls for federal aid to states to improve teaching of science and mathematics, steps to improve language teaching; and other moves to promote edu cation of scientists, engineers and youths generally to meet the needs of an increasingly complex world. Tne National Education Asso ciation, speaking for most of the nation's elementary and sec ondary school educators, called the program "far below a realis tic appraisal of the needs which our schools confront." Portland Hotel Clerk Robbed of About $200 Portland (IP) Marcus C. Bell told police today that a pair of robbers locked him in an office at the St. Francis hotel here where he is a clerk and robbed the establishment of $200 in cash and checks. Bell said one of the men was armed with an automatic pistol. WEATHER Forecast Variable hijh clouds tonight and Wednesday, thick ening and lowering Wednes day afternoon. Rain likely Wednesday night. Low tonight 30 degrees; high tomorrow 45 degrees. Temp. Highest Yesterday 47 Lowest This Morning 25 Our Skies Tonight Sunrfse 7:41 a.m. Sunset 4:48 p.m. Moonset Wednesday 3:28 a.m. Pull Moon ..." Jan. 5 MORNING STARS Jupiter, rises 2:15 a.m. Mars, rises 2:38 a.m. Saturn, rises 6:33 a.m. and is now more than 935 mil lion miles from the Earth. soraiL mum TO -HAVE TOO Mr MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1957 Year Celebrants $37.50 Price For all night watch -services. Another somber note was in jected by the National Safety Council which warned as many as 130 persons will be" killed in grinding traffic wrecks, with drunken drivers contributing heavily to the toll. Weathermen warned of pos sible heavy snow, rain and sleet in much of the Midwest today. Hazardous driving conditions could send the traffic fatality count skyrocketing. Standing Room Only For those willing to take the risks of holiday traffic and tem porary bankruptcy, here's a spot check of what the situation will be in various parts of the country: New York: It will be stand ing room only on famed Times Square with extra policemen on hand to control the crowd and firemen watching fireboxes to 'Any Prospect of Negotiation Over Here?' Eisenhower Has No Plan for Resignation Gettysburg, Pa. (IP) Presi- House yacht or long holidays in dent Eisenhower has no inten- tion of resigning. He doesn't even think in such terms these days. He sees no reason' why he should resign. As far as his physical condi tion is concerned he feels more than adequate for the job. His doctors concur in this confidence today. Not 'Part-Time President' Eisenhower does not regard himself as a "part-time presi dent" any more than the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded himself as part-time be cause of his frequent week ends in Hyde Park, N.Y., or former President Truman and his fond ness for week ends on the White Babson's Forecast Appears Wednesday In Mail Tribune The Mail Tribune will pub lish Babson's Business and Fi nancial Forecast for 1958 on Wednesday. Roger W. Babson, author of the forecast, is a widely-known business commentator and in vestment adviser. A feature of his philosophy has been his lifelong insistence on the im portance of religion and ad vertising in business. Babson, wrhose 1957 predic tions proved 88 per cent cor rect, founded the Babson In stitute for Men, W ebber Col lege for Women, Midwest In stitute of Business Adminis tration and has been active in establishment of other me diums of service to the public and has done much to create an interest in simple busi ness problems. 4TT United Will Pay Revelry prevent false alarms. New York ers will shell out $37.50 per to hear Pearl Bailey at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria. Prices in other night spots will range from $15 to $7.50 per person. Reservations Up Los Angeles: Plush night clubs in Hollywood and vicinity report reservations up some what, with about 900 persons expected to jam the Ambassa dor Hotel's Cocoanut Grove at $37.50 per person. Entertain ment in the Grove and the Am bassador's Embassy Room in cludes Ray Bolger, Freddie Mar tin and Orrin Tucker. Elsewhere the tab runs from $17.50 to $25 per, . including the Moulin Rouge, a favorite of the visiting firemen from Ohio State. Dark ened this year will be Cjro's night club on Sunset Strip, which is closed for financial sad L1TTL Key West, Fla. i Surh is thp hasir nhilosonhv of the current Chief Executive as he is pelted, largely by Demo crats and to a lesser degree by members of his own party, for not stepping out of office be cause of recurrent illnesses and frequent absences from his White House desk. The United Press is able to re port the President's attitude aft er long talks with some of his closer friends and administra tion associates who are in fre quent if not daily contact with him. The President's feelings could change with a heart flutter, but today he does not brood or think of himself as a sick man. On the contrary he is restive when work or bad weather in chill Gettys burg prevent him from gettting out in the open and riding or striding around his farm.' Prospect Man Appears In Circuit Court Here Frank Jantzer, 42, Prospect, was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary for con tributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was sentenced by Judge Edward C. Kelly of the Jackson county circuit court yes terday afternoon. Jantzer was arrested Oct. 11 and pleaded guilty Oct. 29. He was later sent to the state hos pital for observation at the direc tion of the court. Pendleton OPi Lee Swanson, 36, Pendleton city manager for less than one year, has submitted his resignation to accept a posi tion as general manager of Mod ernistic Trailer Industrios of Gardena, Calif. Price 10 Cents Teibune Press Full Leased Wixa No. 215 reasons. San Francisco: Most spots fea ture a package deal which in cludes dinner, noise makers and taxes, but not the drinks or tips. The top price is $17.50 at Bim bo's, while the Fairmont Hotel's Venetian Room and Goman's Gay Nineties offer a $15 pack age. There will be no advance in prices at the Top o' The Mark bar. $25 In Las Vegas Las Vegas: All hotels along the brightly lighted strip charge $25 per person, including din ner and champagne breakfast, and a dazzling lineup of talent that includes Betty Grable at the Desert Inn, Joe E. Lewis at the El Rancho, Judy Garland at the Flamingo, Harry Belafonte at the Rivera, Donald O'Connor at the Sahara, Sammy Davis, Jr., at the Sands, and Dorothy Kir sten at the Tropicana. Russian Progress Told in Attempt To Tame H-Bomb London (IP) Moscow Radio tonight broadcast an official claim that Russia has made the first major break-through in the race to tame the power of the H-bomb. A leading Soviet physicist said in the broadcast that .Russian scientists during 1957 created a test tube thermonuclear Teac tion. An official spokesman for the British Atomic .Energy ..Author ity immediately questioned whether Russia was first in the race, but declared "there is no reason to disbelieve," Soviet progress. -Review of Achievemnets Alexander Terpigorev a mem ber of the Soviet Academy of Sciences which directs all So viet Research, made Moscow's latest scientific claim in a re view of 1957 achievements. Soviet physicists, he said, "for the first time in the world have obtained a, temperature of overt one million degrees.' "They observed under labor atory conditions the phenomena taking place during the explo sion of an H-bomb. "This is the first substantial progress in work aimed at ob taining a controlled thermonu clear reaction." The British official spokes man reacted with a reminder that British scientists at Har well Atomic Research establish ment "have achieved tempera tures well over one million de grees." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 435.66, up 3.88; 20 rail-, roads 96.96, up 0.91; 15 util ities 68.58, off 0.08, and 65 stocks 145.71, up 1.02. Sales today were about 5,070,000 shares compared with 3,705, 000 shares Monday. Watch Night Scheduled in Several churches will welcome the New Year at watch night services throughout the valley tonight. Services at Apostolic Faith church, North Central ave. at Third st., will start at 8 p.m. and continue until midnight. The Central Church of Christ will join the Phoenix Church of Christ at 8 p.m. today with a devotional service scheduled from 11 until midnight. The First Baptist church will have its watch night service at 10:45 p.m. The Christian Youth Fellow ship of First Christian church will hold a New Year's eve party at 8:30 p.m. today, while the First Church of the Nazarene has, scheduled its service at 11 p.m! The service will open with communion followed by a memo rial service for members who have died during the year. The New Year's eve party and watch night service at First Pres byterian church will be held in the 1 fellowship hall starting at 9:30 p.m. A comedy time spon sored by the senior high West- Minster Fellowship will begin the evening with a Moody Bible No Tax Increase In Works? 'Slight' Surplus Expected No Tax Reductions Forecast by President Gettysburg, Pa. dpi The White House said today that President Eisenhower plans to submit to Congress a 1959 bud get which will be higher than this year, but balanced and with "a slight surplus." The announcement followed a conference of two hours and 15 minutes between the Presi dent, Budget Director Percival Brundage, Deputy Budget Di rector Maurice Stans and Dr. James R. Killian, scientific ad viser to the President. Killian also had a separate meeting with Eisenhower. Administration officials said the budget undoubtedly would be above this year's $72 billion, the increase due largely to in creased . spending for the space era. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said he did not expect tax es would have to be raised to keep the higher budget in bal ance. "But there'll be no tax reduc tions," he said with a touch of grimness. Hagerty repeated what the President has said before that the administration will ask Congress to continue present high excise and corporation taxes. Hagerty said the President and Brundage had arrived at a tentative finali budget total, but could not close the books until the President returns to Wash ington and talks over some par ticular defense items with De fense Secretary Neil H. McEl roy at a Cabinet meeting Fri day. To Deliver Message Other news from the confer ences this morning on the Eis enhower farm: The President will deliver an abbreviated State of the Un ion Message to Congress in per son Jan. 9. The bulk of his rec- nmmpnrfaHnnc n a r i i i u 1 9 r. ly those involving domestic leg islation, will be spelled out in detail in his budeet messaee. The budget itself will be submitted to Congress Jan. 13. No definite date for the President's economic report to Congress has been set, but Jan. 20 seems most likely. Fewer Traffic Deaths Chicago (IP) The National Safety Council hoped today that the last hours of 1957 would be consistent with a highway safety pattern established during the first 11 months of the year. Ned H. Dearborn, council pres ident, said Monday that if the pattern remains throughout De- ' cember, about 800 fewer persons ' will have died on the nation's roads than during 1956. Dearborn said the first 11 months of this year showed that 34,880 persons were killed in traffic accidents. If the figure is projected through December, Dearborn said, the yearly total will be somewhere between 38, 600 and 38,800, about 2 per cent . lower than 1956. "Let's keep the New Year's toll down," he said, "so we can start out 1958 the right way." Portland rtPl Potland's meter maids will report for work next Monday at 8:30 a.m. Services Are Churches Institute film "Sermons from Science" at 10:15 p.m. Refresh ments will be served by the . Women's association and about 11 p.m. the watch night service will be held in the sanctuary with communion being served.' Medford Pilgrim Holiness church, corner of East Jackson and Bessie sts., will hold its watch night service starting at 10 p.m. and the Free Methodist church, 1294 South Peach st., has scheduled its service for 8 p.m. Temple Baptist church, 794 Lo- zier lane, will hold a party at the church starting at 9 p.m., which will conclude with prayer at midnight. The feast of the circumcision and name of Jesus service with sermon ana nuijr i.uimnumuu will be held Wednesday, Jan. 1, at 10 a.m. at St. Peter Evange lical Lutheran church, 1020 East Main st. In Central Point a watch night service and social hour will be held at the Community Bible church, from 9 p.m. until mid night. The public has been invited to attend services at any o the churches. f
