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SATELLITE ORBIT TRY MAY FAIL
Scientists Won't
Be Surprised if
Failure Results
No Official Word
Given on Firing
Cape Canaveral, Fla. TP
Scientists indicated today
they will not be surprised if
the tiny test satellite to be
carried aloft in the Navy's
Vanguard rocket fails to or
bit. The second launching
attempt is expected this week.
There has been no official
word on the firing, but there
were strong indications it
will come this week if weath
er conditons are favorable.
Officials have made it clear
to the scores of newsmen and
photographers here that there
will be no advance notice un
less there is an official policy
change in Washington.
The Baltimore Evening
Sun reported Monday night
that this week's satellite at
tempt would be made with
the Army's Jupiter-C missile.
There was no indication, of
this here.
Main reason for the news
blackout surrounding the
Vansuard is that officials
want to avoid another serious
blow to the nation's prestige
such as resulted from the
failure Dec. 6 to orbit an ar
tificial satellite with the Van
guard. It was emphasized before
the December launching that
chances of the six-inch test
satellite going into orbit 300
miles in the sky were "re
mote." Still officials evident
ly feel, U.S. prestige suffered
from fanfare given the na
tion's failure to produce a
satellite to match' Russia's already-orbiting
Sputniks.
Navy Secretary Thomas S.
Gates Jr., pointed this up in
Washington Monday night
when he appealed "to the i
public and to the information
media to lend us every assist
ance in keeping this test in
perspective."
Three Nominated
For Academies
Three Jackson county and
two Josephine county men
have M been nominated for
service academies, according
to Congressman Charles O,
Porter (D-Ore.). Service acad
emy selections were made by
a special committee in Eu
gene Jan. 6.
David Spangler, route 1,
box 364, Talent, is first alter
nate for West Point. Michael
Wells Travis. 1042 Mt. Pitt
ave., Medford, and Stanley
Love, box 15, O'Brien were
recommended for the Air
Force academy. Approved
Merchant Marine applicants
were Gary Meredith, post of
fice box 94, Cave Junction,
and Robert E. Ayres. 26 South
Orange st., Medford.
The selection board, ap
pointed by Porter to advise
him on academy nominations,
convened under the chair
manship of Dr. Robert D.
Clark, dean of the college of
liberal arts at the university.
Other members of the com
mittee are Dr. Elmo Steven
son. Ashland, president of
Southern Oregon college; Dr.
Wesley Nicholson, minister of
the First Congregational
church of Eugene; Dr. Robert
Campbell, assistant professor
of economics at the Univer
sity of Oregon and a gradu
ate of the Merchant Marine
academy; and Donald Farr,
former mayor of Coquille and
current president of the Ore
gon Retail Distributor's asso
ciation. Keith D. Skelton, Eu
gene, district representative
for Congressman Porter,
serves as executive secretary.
Morse Reaffirms Backing
Of Holmes for Reelection
Portland OP Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.), late Monday
reaffirmed his support of
Gov. Robert D. Holmes in his
bid for reelection.
Morse telephoned his state
ment here in answer to a re
port by a Washington corres
pondent that a meeting of
Oregon's Democratic congres
sional delegation considered
Holmes "weak" on the party
ticket.
"As chairman of the recent
meeting of the Democrats in
Oregon's congressional dele
gation, I am amused by Ore
gon newspaper rumor stories
concerning that meeting,"
Morse said. "Let me make
Police Arrest 'Con'
Man Who 'TonMn'
n if It n rr.3
Robert
ton, New .
who has a
other posei
philosophy,
cfne, an Ida!
ficer, a "C
youth
worker, and official of a
so-called "Canadian Boys'
Town," was arrested last
night by city police.
He was accused of defraud
ing an innkeeper, and this
morning pleaded guilty. He
was sentenced to 30 days in
jail and fined 5100.
While he is in jail, Med
ford police officers will at
tempt to piece
together furth
er details of a
career which
has included
extended per
iods in a num
ber of jails and
prisons in both
the United
States and
Canada, a long
record as a
" confidence "
man, and a
highly plausi
ble manner
which has
"taken in"
many persons
includ
ing members
of a Medford
church, and
many of the
students and
faculty m e m
bers of the
Medford high
school.
Meunier
spoke for clas
ses at the high
school yester
day, and at a
church the night
before
posing as a Canadian Boys
Town representative. He was
interviewed by the press, and
entertained in Medford
homes.
Among other things which
officers will investigate is
what connection, if any, he
has with a Canadian "dope
smuggling" racket, which he
discussed with them in con
versations after his arrest at
a Medford bus depot last
night, just as he was start
ing to leave town.
His arrest came on the
complaint of the Holland ho
tel, where he had cashed a
Canadian check, and then
sneaked his belongings out in
the middle of the night.
Arrived Saturday
Meunier reportedly arrived
in the county Saturday after
noon, having hitched a ride
with a logging truck driver,
and introduced himself to a
Central Point resident as a
representative of the Canad
ian governmnet surveying
youth agencies and education
al institutions in the United
States.
Later he was introduced to
a county youth leader who
sent him to the YMCA where
he mingled with young peo
ple a the building and told
staff members he had organ
ized a boys' town which now
had 8,200 residents. Sunday
morning he attended services
with one of the Y staff mem
bers, and spoke to groups of
the congregation.
Monday Meunier accomp
anied a Presbyterian youth to
Medford High school where
he met faculty members and
visited classes. Last night he
was a dinner guest in a Med
ford home, returned to the
high school building to ob
serve evening acuviues ana
was later taken to the bus
depot by a group of students
where police picked him up.
clear again that I think Bob
Holmes' outstanding record as
governor clearly entitles him
to reelection. I shall be at his
service in his campaign."
Morse continued: "He and
I campaigned shoulder to
shoulder in the historic 1956
campaign. I am as strong for
him now as I was then. In
supporting him I wish to
make clear that I respect the
right of any Democrat to run
for any office he cares to in
the Democratic primary. I
am confident that the vitality
of the Democratic party un
der Bob Holmes' leadership
has the confidence of the vo
ters and will lead us to vic
tory in November."
Js lug
apparently jvcuments showing
to have a doctor of liter
ature degree from the Uni
versity of British Columbia
and a bachelor of arts from
New Brunswick university. In
conversations with Medford
residents he claimed to have
a degree in psychology and
claimed he was working on
a doctorate in law. Police
said that apparently Meunier
has been in prison about 18
years out of the last 20, and
quoted him as saying four
ROBERT MEUNIER
"Con" Man Arrested
months was the longest per
iod he had been out of jail
at any one time. He was re
leased from New Brunswick
prison Dec. 13, he told offic
ers.
Many Medford adults who
came in contact with the Can
adian said today they were
suspicious of his claims and
statements, but were reluc
tant to begin an investigation.
Central Point Man
Brought Into Court
Raymond Richard Koch,
Forest Acres, Central Point,
was brought into district
court this morning on a war
rant. Koch was scheduled to ap
pear in a district court jury
trial on charges of illegally
holding a game bird in cap
tivity, according to district
court records.
He was arrested by state
police Sept. 11 for holding
pheasants in a cage on his
property, officers said. On
Sept. 17, his attorney, O. H.
Bengston, Medford, appeared
in his behalf and entered a
plea of not guilty. The case
was set for a jury trial in dist
rict court Jan. 14, according
to District Court Judge James
Main. Koch was free on $25
bail.
Koch has filed as Demo
cratic candidate for county
sheriff.
Runaway California
Youths Caught Here
Two runaway California
juveniles were apprehended
by state police last night at
the same time the mother of
one of them called the local
police office to report her son
a runaway.
An officer brought the two,
one 17 years and the other 16,
to the station for routine
checks while the desk officer
was talking with the mother
of the 16-year-old in Lincoln,
Calif. After the officer fin
ished the conversation, he in
quired about the boys, and
called the mother right back,
police reported.
The boys were taken to the
juvenile detention home.
Their parents were to pick
them up, police said.
Ministers' Meeting
Unlikely Before Spring
Washington (IP) Diplo
mats said today an East-West
foreign ministers meeting to
prepare for a "summit" con
ference is unlikely before
April or May at the earliest.
Ike Alerted To
Expect Opposition
To Single Chief
Congressmen Fear
Vesting of Power
Washington (TP Repub
lican legislative leaders told
President Eisenhower today
to expect some opposition in
Congress to any proposal for
a single powerful staff chief
for the armed services.
Senate Republican leader
William F. Knowland said aft
er a White House conference
that the leaders told the Pres
ident congressional objec
tions have been "voiced
against vesting too much
power in the head of the joint
chiefs."
Strong Central Control
The President in his State
of The Union message said
he was determined to main
tain strong central control of
the Defense Department and
to wipe out interservice bick
ering. Knowland said he ex
pects the President's detail
ed proposals to go to Con
gress "in the not too distant
future."
Gen. Thomas D. White, Air
Force chief of staff, has told
Congress the Strategic Air
Command "will be going
downhill relative to the Sov
iet threat" two years .from
now because it was denied
$700 million in the new de
fense budget.
Knowland said that wheth
er defense spending is in
creased will depend on inten
sive committee hearings and
on future world develop
ments. SAC will have "a doubtful
situation a year from now for
about a year," White also said
in a censored transcript of
secret-testimony given to the
Senate preparedness subcony
mittee.
But the Air Force chief de
clined to, ; speculate under
committee questioning wheth
er failure to keep up produc
tion of the nation's No. 1 re
tailiatory weapon the hydrogen-bomb
carrying B52
would "imperil" United
States security.
B52s 'Very Necessary'
Instead he said the B52s
were "very necessary," to
provide "additional insur
ance" while ballistic missiles
and the new B58 bombers are
still untested."
Adequacy of President Eis
enhower's proposed $39,800,
000,000 military budget was
to be explored further today
by the missile investigators
in closed session.
Salem (IP) M. E. Knicker
bocker, animal industry head
for the State Agriculture De
partment, and Dr. K. J. Peter
son, state veterinarian, have
left for a series of meetings in
Salt Lake City.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy with oc
casional rain tonight and
Wednesday. Low tonight
40. High Wednesday 48.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 44
Lowest this Morning 37
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 7:39 a.m.
Sunset 5:03 p.m.
Moonrise Wednes
day . 3:45 a.m.
New Moon Jan. 19
PROMINENT STARS
The Twins, rising shortly he
fore sunset, will be high
overhead at midnight.
Procyon. low in east at 6:38
p.m.. will be seen in the
south well below the Twins
at" midnight.
'I'll Let You Know What You
Ought To Look Into"
Request Would
Increase Limit
By $5 Billion
Hike Would Run To
June 30, 1959
Washington W Secretary
of Treasury Robert B. Ander
son today sent Congress a re
quest for a temporary increase
of S5 billion in the public
debt limit.
The present limit Is $275
billion.
President Eisenhower, in his
budget message to Congress
Monday, said the present limit
is "too restrictive in view of
rising defense expenditures
and of the need of more flexi
bility to permit efficient and
economical debt manage
ment." Anderson requested that the
temporary increase run from
the date it would be sigped in
to law until the end of the
next fiscal year, June 30,
1959.
The request compares with
the last temporary boost of
$3 billion approved by con
gress for fiscal 1957 which
ended last June 30, and the
S6 billion temporary boost
authorized by congress for the
two years ended June 30,
1956.
The request came at a time
when key lawmakers of both
parties agreed that the federal
government is heading into a
new peroid of red ink spend
ing despite the "balanced"
budget sent to congress Mon
day by the president.
The public debt, as of today,
is $274,250,766,593.
In the budget message, the
president told congress that
the government will end the
present fiscal year June 30
with a deficit of nearly, $500
million.' But he looked for an
upturn in the economy to
boost tax revenues high en
ough to cover this and pro
vide a S500 million surplus in
fiscal year 1959, which starts
July 1.
Council Approves
SP Agreement
The Medford city council
at a special meeting Monday
approved an ordinance auth
orizing Mayor John Snider
and City Recorder Darell
Huson to sign an agreement
with the Southern Pacific
railroad on the Enghth st.
crossing.
Both the ordinance and
aereement were signed im
mediately by the mayor and
city recorder. Veron Thorpe,
acting city manager, said he
notified the state highway
commission of the action by
telephone Monday afternoon.
The agreement provides the
city with a "perpetual right-of-way"
over Southern Pacific
property between Front and
Fir st. at Eighth st. The
agreement also covered the
warning devices required by
the Public Utilities commis
sion. M. C. Lininger and Sons,
who were awarded the Eighth
st. construction contract, said
they would start construction
of the storm sewer on the one
way couplet late this week.
Dave Beck Fails
To Win New Trial
Seattle OP Dave Beck,
convicted of grand larceny,
was denied a new trial today
and Judge George H. Revelle
said he would sentence the
teamster's president nex'
month.
COMMISSIONS
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SWITCHBOARD This new 18 - position long distance
switchboard, featuring "push-button" dialing, was put
into service yesterday in the recently-enlarged Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph building at 502 North Central
ave., Medford. The new board will give faster service by
allowing the operator to "key-pulse" a call across the
country and it is designed to handle future long-distance
growth in this area, according to Telephone Company Man
ager Jack Creager. Present plans call for the addition of
10 more positions in the board by the end of June, and
52nd Year
Medford
14 Pages
A-Bomb Laden
Plane Crash Sans
Explosion Told
San Francisco HP The San
Francisco News said today the
air force plane bearing an
atom bomb that crashed with
out causing an atomic explo
sion was a B29 smash-up at
Fairfield-Suisun Air Force
Base, Calif., Aug. 5, 1950.
The air force disclosed Mon
day that one of ' its planes
bearing a nuclear bomb
crashed and burned in the
continental United States but
caused no atomic explosion.
It refused to say where or
when the accident occurred
for "security reasons."
The News, a Scripps-How-ard
newspaper, said today it
had pin-pointed the crash
from a source that is "an of
ficial one which the News
trusts."
Seventeen persons were
killed and 60 were injured,
many of them civilians living
in a nearby trailer court,
when the B29 crashed.
The B29 had taken off
shortly before 11:30 p. m. on a
Saturday, less than six weeks
after the Korean war began.
Official statements later said
it was headed for a routine
bomb-dropping practice mis
sion over New Mexico.
The News said it was in
formed that the B29 actually
was headed for the Far East.
Brig. Gen. Robert F. Travis,
commanding officer ofFair-field-Suisun,
was aboard and
was killed. The base now
bears his name.
An official spokesman at
Travis Air Force base de
clined any immediate com
ment on the disclosure.
Subdivision Bill
To Get More Study
Additional study of the pro-
nncpri subdivision ordinance
for Medford will be made be
fore action is taken.
City councilmen and plan-
nine commission memoers
yesterday suggested that
Lloyd Anderson, planning
consultant from the League of
Oregon Cities, review the or
dinance.
Anderson said he held a
brief meeting with several
area contractors Monday, and
added he would' like more
time to discuss the proposed
ordinance with them to ob
tain a more workable agree
ment for both the contractors
and the city.
He said he may have the
ordinance ready to present to
the planning commission
meeting in February. If the
commission approves it, the
ordinance will be placed on
the agenda for the city coun
cil Feb. 20.
Another informal meeting
will be held between the
council and the planning com
mission for more discussion
on the proposed ordinance be
fore action is taken.
Salem (IP) Herbert Good
man, Fortland dentist, nas
been appointed to the State
Board of Health by Gov. Rob
ert D. Holmes. S
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1958
Hospital Proposal
To Be Presented to
Legion Officials
The proposal to convert
Camp White to a veterans erage waiting list of 150 vet
hospital will be presented at erans waiting to get into the
a meeting of American Le
gion rehabilitation officers in
Phoenix, Ariz., on J&n. 20
according to Eugene ' Orr,
Medford merchant and nation
al Legion rehabilitation offic
er for Oregon.
The meeting will include
rehabilitation officers of 11
western states. Orr said he
hopes to get the support of
all American Legion repre
sentatives attending the meet
ing. Approximately 200 people
attending a recent stock sale
at Mid-Way Auction yard
went on record approving the
Camp White proposal, ac
cording to reports. A large
number of the people were
buyers from northern Cali
fornia, it was pointed out.
Back Proposal
Those backing the Camp
White proposal argue that
making use of the available
facilities at Camp White
domiciliary would save con
siderable money since a 200
bed hospital is estimated to
cost $20,000 per bed.
Veterans organizations and
the Eagle Point Grange are
proposing that the Veterans
administration establish a
400-bed general medical and
surgical hospital at Camp
White. About 300 beds would
be used for chronic conditions
and 100 beds for general med
icine and surgical conditions.
This would eliminate con
struction of a 200-bed hospit
al once proposed for Klamath
Falls, proponents say. Con
struction of a veterans hos
pital in the southern Ore
gon and northern California
area is not a new proposal,
Orr said, but has been studied
since 1947.
However, the central office
of the Vetreans administra
tion recently mailed a mem
orandum to the Oregon de
partment of the American Le
gion stating "such an under
taking is not advisable. This
is mainly because of the dif
ficulty which would be ex
perienced in obtaining and re
taining professional person
nel necessary to maintain the
desired standard of care and
treatment,"- according to the
VA statement.
"Furthermore, the ques
tion of whether the VA
should be authorized to es
tablish an additional hospi
tal is one of basic policy in
volving among other things,
consideration of the extent of
which the Federal Govern
ment should provide facilities
for non-service connected con
ditions." The report was released
following a visit to the dom
iciliary by a national field
representative of the Ameri
can Legion.
Waiting List'
A letter from Charles
(Chuck) Hugeins. department
of Oregon commander, dated
with the 22 positions in the old board, there will be a total
of 50 switchboard positions in use here by the company,
Creager said. Looking over the new installation, above,
are (left to right) Creager, Barbara Norcross, assistant dial
chief operator, Barbara Beadnell, evening chief operator,
and Myrta Otterdale, chief operator. To allow the public .
to view the new unit, as well as other parts of the en-r
larged building, an open house will be held later this year,
Creager said.
i Jan. 3 states, "There is an av-
Portland Veterans hospital.
This is the only general medi
cal and surgical hospital -in
the state and anyone in south
ern or eastern Oregon desir
ing admittance must travel
some 300 miles
"We should join together
in doing what we can to se
cure 200 G M and S beds at
Medford. I am going back to
Washington, D. C, in early
February and I want to per
sonally call on our congress
men and discuss this situation
with them," Huggins said.
Groups sponsoring the pro
posal urge the public to at
tend the open house now be
ing held at the Camp White
Veterans administration dom
iciliary Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday in connection with
the 75th anniversary of the
civil service.' '
"It's an opportunity for the
public to see just what facil
ities are easily available for
a modern veterans hospital
here," a spokesman said.
Zone Change Action
Postponed by Planners
Action on a proposed zone
change for property south of
Crater Lake highway and east
of Biddle rd., was postponed
by the city planning commis
sion last night until the over
all zoning plan for the area
is prepared by a planning
consultant.
A commission committee
was appointed to meet with
property owners on Elk st. to
discuss street widening of the
street.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (IP Dow
Jonei final stock averages:
30 industrials 441.80, up
2.09; 20 railroads 101.96. up
1.09; 15 utilities 70.88, up
0.53; and 65 stocks 149.31,
up 0.95. Sales today ware
about 2,010.000 shares com
pared with 1,860.000 shares
Monday.
Copco Urged To Reduce
Small Commercial Rates
Salem (W Public Util
ity Commissioner Howard
Morgan today urged Calif
ornia Oregon Power company
to reduce its rates to small
commercial users.
Occasion of Morgan's re
marks was the announcement
of approval of a new contract
between Copco and the Rey
nolds Metals company.
Outgrowth of Exchange
The contract provides for
supplying of 65.100 kilowatts
of power to . the Troutdale
aluminum plant near Port
land. It was the outgrowth
of an exchange agreement
with Bonneville Power ad
ministration originally nego-
Price 1 0 Cents
Tribune
No. 227
Holmes Reviews
Achievements of
Year in Office
Salem W Gov. Robert
Holmes today marked the end
of his first year in office by
cutting an anniversary cake
and reviewing the year'
achievements.
The Governor said ha
thought the major accom
plishments since he -was in
augurated last Jan. 14 were:
Safe tax reductions, reorgan
ization of several major gov
ernmental departments and
the stepping up of a state-level
program to secure new busi
ness and industry for Oregon.
"I am particularly proud,"
Gov. Holmes said, "that both
the Liquor Commission and
Tax Commission have been
without scandal or rumor of
scandal, unprecedented in re
cent years.
Reorganization Noted
The Governor also noted re
organization of the State Fish
Commission, Real Estate Com
mission, Department of Fi
nance and Administration, Ag
riculture Department, Unem
ployment Compensation Com
mission, Motor Vehicle De
partment, State Fair Commis
sion, Natural Resources Com
mittee and Board of Pilot
Commissioners.
The Governor noted that
there were no major disturb
ances at the state penitentiary
or any of the other state in
stitutions during the year and
that the state had secured a
new superintendent for Mac
Laren Boys School, Amoi
Reed.
A regular and a special
session of the state legislature
approved 60 per cent of the
Democratic program, the gov
ernor said as he started hij
second year in office.
December Jobless
Figured at 3,374,000
Washington (IP Unem
ployment in December climb
ed to 3.374,000, the highest
for any December since 1949,
the government reported to
day. This also was the greatest
number of jobless persons
since February, 1950, when
there were 4,684,000 unem
ployed. iated to provide power for
the Hanna nickel develop
ment at Riddle, near R o s e
burg. The power will be supplied
under long term agreement
through Bonneville facilities
starting immediately. It runs
until June, 1973.
Careful Study Urged
Morgan said the power
company would make about
$1 million dollars a year in
revenue from the contract and
urged the company to "make
a careful study of its rate
structure with the special pur
pose in mind of revising its
commercial schedules to pro
vide some relief to the small
commercial users."