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iWLAXT 52nd Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141, Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1230 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notifv office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Tribune A feature story about how many persons are emploved by the federal government in Jackson county, and what they do appeari on page 14 of taday'i Mail Tribune. United Prexi full Leased Wire United Press Full Leaned Wirt 66 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUND 0 No. 225 : Peacetime Likely For Washington 0P1 Presi dent Eisenhower's first budget request of the newly-convened congress a missile - age measure for strengthening the nation's defense headed Sat urday toward swift passage. Beep Beep Signal Mystifies Listeners Ai Monitor Posts Helsinki, Finland (W A sputnik-like "beep beep" sig nal mystified European radio operators Saturday. ' There were these known facts: Soviet officials said there had been no major rocket fir ing. The beeps were on the wavelengths of the two Soviet satellites launched last fall. But the satellite radios are dead. There were these theories: The beeps were a hoax. A radio teleprinter or a radio picture transmsmitter was emitting the signals. The Soviets are ground testing a moon rocket or satel lite radio on the ground. A space rocket has been fired again. It was anybody's guess. The British broadcasting corporation's listening post at Tatsfield, England, said it had been picking up apparently similar signals daily since Dec. 31. In Stockholm, a Swedish government radio spokesman said the signals may have been nothing more than pul ses from a radio teleprinter or a radio picture transmitter. Sweden picked up the signals on the 20.049 megacycles frequency. And others on a frequency of 20.030 mega cycles. The spokesman said they did not appear to be com ing from space. "It seems like a great mystification or, a mistake to me," the Swedish spokesman said. Youths Charged With Cat Killing. One 13-year-old boy was lodged in the city jail Satur day night and two other youths, aged 13 and 14 years old, were released to the cus tody of their parents after they were arrested" on charges of maliciously killing an ani mal, according to Medford police. Police said the boys had tied a cat with a rope and shot arrows at it until it was apparently dead. The boys then took the cat's body to the Washington school grounds where they tied a hangman's noose around the cat's neck and hung it, police reported. Killing an animal malic iously is a violation of a state law and is a felony, according to police. They said further action will be taken by ju venile authorities. Kapers Scheduled By Kiwanis Club Medford Kiwanis club's an nual Kapers, a show of songs, gags, skits and dancing, will be held Feb. 26, 27 and 28 and March 1 in the Medford Senior High school auditor ium, General Chairman Glen Allen has announced. First group to go to work on the show will be the pro gram advertising committee. Kick-off of its task will be on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Frank Kennedy and Gordon Mac Kenzie are the co-chairmen of this committee. Team cap tains are Jim Ambler, Byd Budge. Bruno Rath, Paul Kit chell. Bill Clark and Donald E. Faber. Kurt Nesheim and Fred Morlan are vice chairmen of the general Kapers commit tee. Soldier Sentenced For Auto Accident Reykjavik, Iceland An Icelandic civilian court Sat urday sentenced a U.S. sol dier to 60 days in prison, re voked his driving license and ordered him to pay all med ical and legal costs for knock ing down a man on a bi cycle with his car. Record Budget The house armed services committee tentatively ap proved a half-billion dollar emergency fund for dispers ing strategic air command bases, expanding air force missile work, and develop ing a system for detecting en emy missiles. The committee is expected to give its final approval Monday after writing in min or amendments. The measure is linked with Mr. Eisenhower's request for $1,260,000,000 in additional appropriations for the de fense department for the cur rent fiscal year which ends next June 30. To Send Message The president will send to congress Monday a budget message outlining the govern ment's proposed spending plans for the 1958-59 fiscal year starting July 1. Inform ed sources said he would call for nearly 74 billion dollars a peacetime record. More than half of the to tal about 40 billion dollars would be allotted to the de fense department, with pri ority going to development and perfection of new weap ons to meet Russia's missile space accomplishments. Reliable sources said the president 11 would call for a sharp cutback in some non defense programs, such as housing, federal aid to states and flood control, to help make up for the added de fense costs. The budget would be about two billion dollars more than the president originally ask ed for the current fiscal year and about one billion more than the actual spending rate. Will Go Into Red These sources said the pres ident also will tell congress the government will go" into the red about a half billion dollars for the current fiscal year because of higher de fense outlays and tax receipts lower than anticipated. Tax receipts are down because of the business slump. But, counting on a business upturn, Mr. Eisenhower will forecast a surplus of about half a billion dollars for the new fiscal year. He also will ask congress to temporarily increase the national debt ceiling of 275 billion dollars. And he will rule out a tax cut or a tax increase. But he will again urge an increase in postal rates to help pay for higher government spending. The $1,260,000,000 in sup plemental defense appropri ations will be used largeiy to bolster the nation's ballistic missile programs. A bill car rying this amount is now be fore a house appropriations subcommittee. Hearing Scheduled On Expenditure A public hearing will be held in the county court of fice at 10 a. m. Monday on the $14,500 supplemental budget appropriation for the Jackson county detention home. Coun ty Commissioner Chester Wendt said Friday. The supplemental budget expenditure will be used to finance the purchase of such fixtures as beds, the fence around the maximum security unit, drapes, chairs and win dow blinds and other inside equipment. Wendt explained. "We had originally planned to take the required money from the county emergency fund," Wendt explained. "However, when it came time to pay for the equipment a question arose as to the legal ity of such an action. We called the supplemental budg et committee hearing on ad vice of the district attorney.? If nobody objects to the pro nosed expenditure the sup plemental budget item will be passed, Wendt said. Members of the budget com mittee conducting the hearing e Tom Wray, chairman, Medford; Roger Wrath, Ash land, secretary, Arnold Bohn ert. Central Point and mem bers of the Jackson county court County Judge Rodney Keating, Commissioner. Ches ter Wendt, Commissioner Ralph James. Glendive, Mont. flPi The house of the Charles rung family here has been plagued mysteriously by six small fires in about 31 hours during the past two days and the state fire marshal, Art Parson, may be called to solve the mystery. Test Pilots Listed For Space Flight, Aviation Man Says Six Rated Favorites To Fly Rocket Plane Washington OP) The first Americans to fly into space are likely to be six volunteer test pilots, one of whom al ready holds the world's alti tude record, it was disclosed Saturday. Four of the group are in their mid-30's. The other two are in their late 20's. According to a high civil ian aviation official, this half dozen men already rank as "accepted favorites," for the first flights to be taken in the X-15 rocket' research plane now under develop ment. The Air Force has called the X-15 a "manned spacecraft. It is designed to fly to a height of more than 100 miles above the earth at speeds in excess of three times the speed of sound 3,600 M.P.H. The official said the first flights will be attempted "within the next two years." All the tests will be conducted from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. To Hit 50,000 Feet The tiny X-15 will be flown first to a height of 50, 000 feet by a B-52 bomber "mother plane." Then it will be released from the B-52's belly and speed aloft under the power of its own rockets. Scott Crossfield. 36, test pilot for the X-15's builder, North American Aviation, long has been in line as the American most likely to make the first space flight. His job will be to prove the "airworthiness" of the X-15. He may take the plane as high as 100 miles. Mother Appeals For Son's Release Hong Kong rtfl Mrs. Ruth Redmond said Saturday she had appealed directly to Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai to release her son from his life sentence in jail. Mrs. Redmond, of Yonkers, N.Y., told United Press by telephone from Shanghai that she mailed the latter to Chou Thursday in the presence of Chinese Red Cross officials. She had received no offic ial reaction up to Saturday. Her son, Hugh, 38, a form mer import-export executive in Shanghai, was arrested in 1951 and sentenced to life by the Chinese Communists for "espionage." . Mrs. Redmond said she had her second visit with him Saturday a half hour in the jail where he is serving his sentence She saw him on Thursday for two hours, their first reunion in 11 years. It was not known whether the other two mothers who went to Communist China with Mrs. Redmond to visit their imprisoned sons had made similar appeals to Chou. Mrs. Mary Downey, of New Britain, Conn., and Mrs. Phil lip Fecteau, of Lynn, Mass., went to Peiping to see their sons, John T. Downey and Richard G. Fecteau. William Downey, John's brother, also made the trip. Local Minister Amazed At While Reading New Testament Aloud UVi Hours I was amazed at the aud ience response," the Rev. Ray mond W. Hurn, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, said Saturday morning after he completed reading the New Testament aloud at the church. The reading took 17V4 hours. Mr. Hurn started reading the New Testament at 8 a.m. Friday and completed the Book of Revelation at 1:30 a.m. Saturday. He rested for five minutes every two hours during the morning and every hour during the afternoon and evening. Food eaten dur ing the period included hot soup, sandwiches, and coffee, he said. The pastor had the idea for reading the New Testament aloud when the denomina tion started its 50th year ac tivities with a Bible reading emphasize week Jan. 5 through Jan. 11. Focus Attention Campaign L To Sell Fore. Washington W) President Eisenhower launched Satur day a major campaign to sell the American people on fore ign aid to counter Russia's Freedom First Vatican Insists In Reply To Reds Vatican City (IP) Rus sia must establish religious freedom in the Soviet Union before there can be any talk of diplomatic relations be tween the Soviet Union and the Vatican, a high Vatican source said Saturday night. The source pointed out that Pope Pius XII has stated repeatedly that the Holy See is always ready to start ne gotiations with anybody that can help to improve world situation. But he stressed that Pope Pius, like President Eis eihower, has indicated there must first be concrete gest ures of good will if there were to be any negotiations . with Russia. "Before even tentative ne gotiations could start, Russia would have to permit religi ous freedom in the Soviet Union," the source said. "It would also have to show its readiness to accept the Cath olic action movement." Moscow (IP) The Sov iet government has made a bid to establish diplomatic re lations with the Roman Cath olic church, one of the bit terest foes of Atheistic Com munism, it was reported Sat urday. An Italian delegation said Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko told them Fri day the Kremlin would wel- leome voinciai eoniaci-wim the Vatican" in the interests of peace and disarmament." (A dispatch from Rome said a high Vatican source said Russia must establish religi ous freedom in the Soviet Union before there can be any talk of diplomatic ; rela tions between Moscow" and Vatican city. (Soviet affairs experts ' in London considered the Gro myko offer a surprising new propaganda tactic in the So viet "peace" campaign aimed as much at Russian Catholics as at world opinion.) The Italian delegation, a group of leftist "peace parti sons" headed by Communist Sen. Celeste Negarville, made it clear that Gromyko was talking about a reconciliation with the Vatican on an offic ial and not an ideological lev el. Auto Workers Hold Secret Session Detroit (IP) The Detroit News reported Saturday the United Auto Workers has called a 200-man steering committee into secret sessions to pass on a surprise proposal and package of economic de mands to be placed before the Big Three auto companies. The union said yesterday it had an "important" an nouncement to make Monday but declined to indicate the nature. Mr. Hurn explained that the purpose of the reading was to focus attention upon the readability, simplicity and the ease with which the New Testament may be read. Five different translations of the Bible were used throughout the. day. They in cluded the King James Ver sion, . Revised Standard Ver sion, John Wesley, J. B. Phil lips, and James Moffett trans lations. The minister said the majority of the reading was from the King James version as the pulpit Bible at the church was that translation and had the largest print available. He added that he did read several complete Books from the other transla tion. The easiest of the Gospels to read, he commented, was John, while he was pleased the most with the. audience response from First and Sec ond Corinthians. He added V- ..... v.- Aid economic offensive. Former presidents Truman and Hoover and his Demo cratic rival for the presidency, Adlai E. Stevenson, may be asked to join in the campaign, which will be carried to the "grass roots." The White House announced that a bipartisan conference of 600 to 700 leaders in all fields of American life will be called here to organize and stimulate public support for the administration's big foreign aid program. The president put Eric A. Johnston, president of the Mo tion Picture Association of America and part-time adviser to the administration, hi charge of arranging the con ference. It will come at the begin ning of the annual congres sional criticism of the adminis tration's multi-billion, dollar aid program for. the new fiscal year. Again this year, congress will be asked to appropriate about four billion dollars for economic and military aid to friendly and neutral countries. Last year it voted deep cuts in the aid program. Johnton said the two-day conference will be held "rela tively soon," but no dates have been fixed. A campaign of this type has no precedent since the famous Marshall Aid plan was found ed during the Truman admin istration. The meeting may produce a permanent organization of citizens to spread the concept of mutual security, Johnston said. Vanguard Firing Scheduled Soon Cape Canaveral, Fla. TO) All sign indicated - Satur day the United States will make its second attempt next week to launch a slim Van guard rocket carrying in its nose a small test satellite which scientists hope will go into orbit around the earth. Best guess for the launch ing is Wednesday but it is strictly a guess. The only thing certain here is that no official word of the Vanguard launching is like ly to be issued until the 72 foot rocket is soaring toward space. -. .' But there are strong indi cations the attempt is near. The rocket which will be used to carry the six-inch test satellite and eventu ally a 20-inch fully instru mented man-made moon into space has been success fully flight tested. But when the Navy made the first highly publicized at tempt on Dec. 6 to launch the rocket with a small satellite in its nose, Vanguard rose about four inches off its launching pad, lost the thrust of its engines, and top pled over in a great bellow of flame. The flop was costly to this country's prestige be cause Russia already had two satellites whirling in space. . Although the Vanguard project is scientific rather than military, emphatic word has been passed down from Washington since the Decem ber failure that there will be "no talk" about the next attempt. Audience Response that Romans also seemed easy to read aloud but this he credited to the fact that it followed Acts which was one of the more difficult Books to read. Always A Listener There were never less than three persons listening during the entire 17 hours Vi of read ing, the minister said Satur day, with the largest number, 22, during the reading of n Corinthians. For the last hour and a half of reading, 14 per sons remained, he explained. "I was pleased to see the group of high school students, who stopped in to listen fol lowing school and during the evenings," Mr. Hurn said. "They seemed particularly in terested in the reading as I was using an unfamiliar trans lation at the time." He mentioned that the ma jority of the listeners follow ed the reading in Testaments that were available at the church. ,,cige Agreement Averts Strike Of Phone Workers Negotiations Ended After Long Session New York (IP) Offic ials of the American Tele phone and Telegraph comp any and the Communications Workers of America (AFL CIO) wound up a marathon 30-hour negotiating session on Saturday , with a new wage agreement averting a nation wide strike of long distance telephone operators. Daily negotiations that be gan Dec. 9 came to an end with announcement of wage increases ranging from $2 to $4 for operators and $1 to $5 for maintenance men employ ed by AT&T in 42 states and the District of Columbia. The contract, covering 25,- 000 workers, 40 per cent of them long distance operators, still must be ratified by un ion members. But the union's chief negotiator gave her full endorsement to the new pact. The union's contract with the company expired at mid night Jan. 3, and the workers have been poised for a walk out at any moment since then. George F. Sparks, assistant vice president of the AT&T, said the new contract would run for 16 months, a month longer than the old agree ment. The union had wanted a 12-month contract. Sparks said the agreement would become effective Feb 10, if ratified by the union membership. It will run un til June 10, 1959. it will not be retroactive to the date of expiration of the old con tract. The terms of the old contract will be in force un til the new agreement goes into effect. The union had demanded a flat $3-a-week wage increase for operators now receiving $43 to $70.50 a week, and a flat increase- of $3 to $5-for maintenance workers receive ing $43.50 to $119 a week. workers covered are em ployed in every state except New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, South Dakota, Ne vada and Montana. Sports Bulletins South Eugene high, with big Charlie Warren record ing 27 points, whacked Med ford 87 to 45 here last night lo sweep its two-game bas ' keiball series with the Black Tornado. The Axemen had 13 to 12, 34 to 20 and 49 to 28 spreads at the quarters. Monmouth Southern Or egon college walked over Oregon College of Educa tion here Saturday night, 69 to 40. Red Raider Bill ' Hollingsworth picked up 27 points for the Raiders vic tory. Halftime scores of the test was 30 to 18. SATURDAY SCORES COLLEGE Eastern Washington 64, St, Martin's 44 San Diego St. 83, Arizona 76 Washington 60, Stanford 54 Wyoming 68, Denver 56 Idaho st. 80, Brigham Young 64 Chico it. 71, Cal Aggies 33 UCLA 64. Idaho 56 California 47. Washington st. 32 PREPS Grants Pass 38, Crater 35 - Klamath Falls 57, Ashland 55 (Overtime) The Gospel of Mark gave me the most difficulty, he explained, "as I was reading from one of the least familiar translations. But the most dif ficult Book was Revelation." Called in Morning Many of the persons who dropped by the church dur ing the day called Saturday morning, Mr. Hum' said, and all of them have become ex cited about reading the Bible. "I definitely feel that the purpose . for the reading was accomplished," he stated. When asked if he would read the New Testament aloud again the pastor said that he would, but not immediately. He commented that he would do it differently the next time by having more than one per son do the reading to create a variety in voices. One amusing sidelight, Mr. Hurn said, was that he found several typographical errors in the pulpit Bible during the reading. Ike Sends Urgent To "Good Now Let's'See Stoa December Recorded High Jobless Month Factors which caused un employment at various times during the summer and fall months joined forces in De cember to produce the high est unemployment of the win ter, according to John J. Pat ton, manager of the Medford office of the state employ- County GOP To Meet Jan20" The Jackson County Repub lican Central committee will meet Jan. 20 to elect a perm anent chairman, it was an nounced Saturday by. Don Stathos, who was named in terim chairman last week by the group's executive com mittee. The meeting will be in the little theater room of the Hed rick Junior High sqhool at 7:30 p.m. , A. E. Piazza.' committee treasure, said Stathos was named by the excutive com mittee to serve until a perm anent chairman could be elect ed at a regularly scheduled meeting of the central com mittee. In announcing the ac tion of the excutive group, he said it was incorrectly stated that Stathos would serve un til after the primary election. Piazza said t the interim chairman' was named to head the party organization in the county because the retiring president, Mrs. Frank Bash, who previously had announc ed her resignation, was anx ious to be relieved of the responsibility. In response to allegations the action in naming Stathos was imroper, Piazza pointed out that such proceedure is explicitly provided for in the new 1957 election law, as well as in the committee's by-laws, which state the committee can delegate authority for such appointments to the executive committee. Three Apprehended On Robbery Charge Central Point Three youths have been arrested in connection with the break-in and attempted robbery of the agriculture building of Crater High school on Saturday night, according to Central Point police. Police said a school janitor saw the youths leaving the office door with the money sack. The three youths, two 17, and one 16-year-old, drop ped the sack and ran, police said. One youth was later ar rested while walking down the street and the other two were arrested Saturday even ing, police added. The boys told police they had pushed open a restroom window to gain entrance to the building and then broke the glass window to the of fice. The money sack was tak en from a file cabinet, police said. The youths were lodged in the Jackson County Deten tion home pending action by juvenile authorities. Summit You Handle The Wheel" ment service The total number of peo ple without work was still below that experienced at the peak reached last January, he said, but was 45 per cent more than unemployment in December, 1956 " The last two weeks of De cember brought layoffs from all parts of the lumber in dustry, he noted, and some firms shut down for annual repairs, others ran out of logs, and others apparently closed because of business conditions. Most of the firms indicated that they intended to reopen following the holi day season if log supplies per mitted. Packaging Completed The fruit industry com pleted its Christmas gift box packaging. A large portion of the gift box packing crews are composed of housewives who- leave the labor market at the end of the season,, and are not counted in those un employed, Patton pointed out. Bad weather caused furth er cuts in construction activ ity, including the Talent pro ject. This was particularly true of jobs involving grad ing and excavation, he said. Work on the Talent project will resume as soon as weath er permits. t In general, Patton said, the local employment trend seems to be following its familiar seasonal pattern but with lay offs being somewhat greater in size than was the case last year, and coming about a month earlier. The number of unemploy ed in the county as of Dec. 31 was estimated at 2,470, which is 24 per cent greater than November. The figure is still about 8 per cent below January and February last year. Job opportunities decreased in most lines during Decem ber, he said, and the outlook for new jobs will remain poor for the next 60 days. Orch ard pruning was on schedule and maintained a small but steady demand for help. The present amount of un employment is still below the level which existed during the winters of 1948-49 and 1949-50, when extreme cold brought almost all outside work to a halt. There is no reason to expect the situa tion will approach those rec ord levels, Patton indicated. WEATHER FORECAST: Intermittent rain through this after noon some clearing this evening with low clouds or fog forming tonight but . becoming mostly sunny Monday afternoon, high today 4. low tongiht 32, high Monday 45. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest this Morning . 54 PRECIP. To 10 p.m. Yesterday 03 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:40 a.m. Sunset 5:00 p.m. The Moon, at last Quarter 6:01 a.m. Rises Mondy 1:30 a.m. Above it appears the planet Jupiter. EVENING STAR Venus, in the southwest, is the first "star" visible after sunset. It is now setting about five minutes earlier each night. Plea Tak Peace Talks More Important, . President Says Letter Delivery Set -Possibly For Today 1 Washington OH Presi dent Eisenhower is sending an urgent new plea to Rus sian Premier Nikolai Bulgan in to stop talking about a quick summit conference and begin work forthwith on lower-level peace-through-disarmament talks, it was learned Saturday. His plea, administration of ficials said, is the heart of a letter being dispatched to Bulganin now for delivery "within hours," probably to day. The letter also challenges the Kremlin leaders to: Make good on their 1955 promise, at the last summit meeting in Geneva, to permit unification of Germany through free elections. To work more through the United Nations to settle) international disputes. ' Final touches were report- ' ed reliably to have been placed on the letter during a 15-minute telephone conver sation between the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Drafts had been discussed by the two previously, and the letter wai in near-final shape when the telephone exchange took place. The President's letter leaves the ddor open for summit level talks with Russian lead ers later this year if there it any sign on disarmament, German unification or other problems that such a meeting would produce real progress in easing the cold war. But the President is warn ing Bulganin that a quick summit meeting within "two or three months," as urged by the Russians, might do more "harm than good." Careful preparations must be made at a lower level be fore any summit conference is called, according to the let ter. This amounts to a reaf firmation of the cautious Dulles approach which has been under heavy criticism in Western Europe. In his letter, informants said, the President is register ing opposition to Bulganin'i repeated bids for an "imme diate" ending of H-bomb tests, a "de - nuclearized" zona through the heart of Europe, and an East-West non-aggression pact. Instead, the Presi dent favors rapid action in the new, Soviet-boycotted 25 nation UN disarmament com mission or ah attempt to break the disarmament dead lock through a big power for eign ministers meeting. Eisenhower's c a r e f u lly worded "no, not now" an swer on a summit meeting and a parallel new effort on disarmament have the stamp of approval of America's allies in Europe, informants said. The NATO allies also re ceived letters from Bulganin in early December, and again only two days ago while the President was . delivering his State of the Union message to congress. Assistance Ready For Taxpayers Here The local office of the Ore gon state tax commission has announced assistance will be offered taxpayers in prepar ing 1957 forms in room 320 of the Leverette building. During Jan. 13 to March 31 assistance will be offered on Mondays while from April 1 to 15 assistance will be offer ed weekdays except Satur days. Those wishing help in pre paring their form are asked to fill in the form as nearly as possible before bringing it to be examined. Information pertaining to total income for 1957, copies of the 1956 state and federal returns and proof of the amount of state and federal tax payments during 1957 should be brought when asking assistance, according to officials. t
