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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
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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
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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.
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