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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January 8, 1958 Camp Cooke Base May Be Missile Launching Center Los Angeles OH Camp Cooke Air Force Ease may become a future launching site for the U. S. satellite pro ject and a firing range for intercontinental ballistic mis siles. rrt. - - ine Air force has an nounced the camp would be used eventually as an ad vancel training base for mis sile crews. However, it was emphasized no firings were scheduled in the immediate future from the base, located 163 miles north-northwest of here. The announcements came from Gen. Thomas S. Power, commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command, and Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schrie ver, head of ballistic missile development for the Air Force. Camp Cooke will be head quarters for the Air Force's first missile division, headed by Maj. Gen. David Wade who assumed command Fri day. It was believed the Atlas ICBM, manufactured by Con vair, Astronautics at San Di ego, Calif., might be among the missiles fired from the base. Air Force spokesmen declined to say when firings would start over the 5,000 mile range extending out in to the Pacific ocean. The 100 million dollar base is not yet completed. It was stressed there would be no danger in the firing to coastal residents. Spokesmen said firings would be infre quent and cnly dummy war heads used in the training of the missilemen. Air Force officials pointed out the site will not be turned into a research and develop ment range such as at Cape Canaveral, Fla., but will be primarily for training pur poses. They said crews will be trained to handle the Thor 1KB 11 missile but no firings will be made at Cooke since the Thor and the Jupiter are slated for firings in England within a year. It was noted unofficially the site might be used as a launching site for the satel lite project now planned by the Air Force. Glen Ridge, N. J. W Charles O. Heydt, 81, Mont clair, N.J., an adviser and in timate of the Rockefeller family, died Friday at a hos pital here after a short ill ness. Heydt, who began his career with the Rockefellers as stenographer to John D. Kockefeller Sr., in 1897, con ducted the negotiations for the building of Rockefeller Center. . p if Urvti M K?J -w' -I L , f. f C .life &.&h& Lucille BaH-Desi Arnaz Show Trips on Own Heels Br WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York 0P The Lu cille Ball-Desi Arnaz special one-hour show Sunday tripped on its own heels. It presented five characters Lucy, Desi, the Mertzes (William Frawley and Vivian Vance) and Fred MacMurray set them off on a hunt for uranium, then let them think they had struck it. But the trouble with the principal characters is that they were all unprincipled. DIVA WALKOUT IRES ROME Fiery soprano Maria Meneghini-CaHas walks past an unidentified cast mem ber as she returns to her dressing room at the Rome Opera where she refused to go on for the second act of Bellini's "Norma." Her sitdown strike caused a near riot and police were called to restore order. Miss Callas said her walkout was due to "hoarseness,' while others at tributed it to temperament and boos from the low-priced top-gallery seats. Finland Continues To Keep Neutrality In Troubled Europe Helsinki (W Whatever the merits or drawbacks of the Soviet plan for troop with drawals of East and West from Central Europe, the fact remains that a military neu tralized area already exists in Europe. It is Finland. Finland does not belong to NATO. She turned down an invitation to join the Warsaw Pact. There are no foreign troops on Finnish soil. And Finland has managed to re tain friendship with East and West through an uneasy post war period. Soviet diplomats have pri vately admitted that they would have had more friends if they had treated Central Europe as they treated Fin land. Peace Price Heavy The price for peace with Russia in 1944 was a heavy one a reparations bill equal to a full year's Finnish gov ernment budget, loss of 10 per cent of her territory, al most half a million persons to resettle, drastic cuts in armed strength, and the uncertainty of what lay ahead. The Leningrad military dis trict continues to send ama teur spies across the border, and the Finns just as regular ly arrest them and apply one or two-year jail terms. Finland is shunned by Iron Curtain refugees who know Finnish authorities would have to send them back if picked up. Finnish-Soviet trade is reg ulated by five-year pacts. Finland's armed forces total less than 42,000 with no tanks, bombers, guided missiles, submarines or large naval craft. Postwar Policy Pattern All these are the pattern of postwar Finnish Soviet policy. But there are other aspects, too. Finland kept her independ ent republican form of gov ernment. There are no occupation forces. Britain is still Finland's biggest trading partner, al though the Russians run a close second. Finland is a member of the United Nations and also a member of the Nordic Coun cil, which links five northern European states. Despite the irritations, So viet policy toward Finland ap pears to be one of genuine desire to make friends. There is no indication that Mothers On Way To Visit Sons Hong Kong (W Three American mothers will stop over here today on their way behind the iron curtain to visit their sons in Communist Chinese prisons. The three women, and an American attorney seeking testimony for a sedition trial in the United States, were the first Americans granted valid passports for travel to Red China. They were scheduled to ar rive here at 7:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. EST. Sunday), and leave for neighboring China on Tuesday or Wednesday under the auspices of the China Travel Service. The mothers are Mrs. Mary Downey of New Britain, Conn., Mrs. Philip Fecteau of Lynn, Mass., and Mrs. Ruth Redmond of New York. The attorney is A. L. Wirin, who is defending John and Sylvia Powell. The U. S. has accused them of publishing in their Shanghai magazine claims that the American forces in Korea resorted to germ warfare an old Com munist charge which the U.S. has denied. The three women will travel to Canton by train and then continue north. STOMACH BANK Sedgefield, England (If Doctors at Sedgefield General hospital reported today a monied patient, admitted after he complained of "feeling queer," was doing nicely. Ex amination disclosed that the man, whose name was with held, had 424 coins worth 37 shillings (a little over $5) in his stomach. There was nothing about them or their plight capable of evoking viewer sympathy. All five were dishonest. All five were motivated by greed, and friendship was forgotten in the quest to lay claim to the supposed strike. The materials of comedy are, of course, .frequently based on the less attractive traits of human beings pride, sloth, avarice but there should be a base of softness to offset the flaws. I guess the key word is lovability or at least, likeability a quality found even'in such brittle por traits as Jackie Gleason s Ralph Kramden, Phil Silver's Sgt. Bilko or Groucho Marx' TV personality. The main body of the Lu cille Ball-Desi Arnaz film was hung on a chase scene and the efforts of each of the partici pants to muscle each other into nowhere. The mechanics of the chase were at times, funny, but I found myself not caring who won because I didn't care for any of the characters. And in the final analysis, of course, that means that I didn't care for the show: New Jef Fighter To Be In Action Dallas, Tex. HP) Marine Corps pilots will soon be fly ing the Navy's fastest jet fight er, the F8U-1 Crusader, the Chance Vought Aircraft com pany announced Saturday. First Marine unit to fly the Crusader will be Marine Fight er Squadron 122 of Beaufort, S.C., which has already re ceived the first of five planes to be delivered from the Dallas plant. Delivery of the '.'world's fastest Navy fighter" marks the first step toward jet age conversion of Marine air strik ing power to fighters capable of above 1,000 miles-an-hour speeds, officials said. The first class of six Marine pilots will begin training Monday at Moffett Field, Calif., it was reported. Although VMF-122 will be the first Marine unit to re ceive the Crusader, one Marine already has made avia tion history with the airplane. Chance Vought officials said. Maj6r John H. Glenn Jr. set the first supersonic transcon tinental record in a Crusader last July. Oregon Delegation Cordial at Reunion Meeting in Capital By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Oregon's Democratic members of Con gress, who were suffering some strained relations when they left here last August, met this morning in an at mosphere of cordiality. "Nobody was angry at anyone," observed one of the' 20 or so persons who attend ed "the 90 minute breakfast reunion. It was attended by Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger, who were somewhat disenchanted with one another at the close of the last session, and Reps. Charles O. Porter, Edith Green, All Ullman and top staff members from each member's office. First Regular Pow-Wow The meeting was the first of the regular breakfast pow wgws held by the five Demo crats during congressional sessions. The meetings are closed to the " press -;and To get reports and pictures of the world's news U&a4 Press has at is disposal a force of 10,000 people. usually devoted to legislative and political discussions. Each of the five members gave a resume of his impres sions of conditions in Oregon, based on the recent months most of them have spent in Oregon. One observer as the meeting said they boiled, down to this: 1. Economic conditions in Oregon are bad and not seem ing to get much better. 2. Things look good for the Democrats in the upcoming fall election. , The group plans to meet again Jan. 20 on legislative matters. POTION SECONDED Seoul, Korea OPi A Ko rean distillery boasted today in an advertisement for "re fined Korean chung joo trice wine)" that it is the only Korean alcoholic beverage given special recognition by the vice president, speaker of the National Assembly and five ministers. Restores the Feel of "Newness" to Your Garments We Retex All of Our Dry Cleaning at No Extra Cost Bedford Cleaners Hale & Kathryn Wheeler 34 No. Holly, SP 2-6500 Free Pickup and Delivery Daily's U-Drive J Medford Airport EXPENSIVE DIRT Indianapolis, Ind. 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