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Newspaper Page Textk IPay for fiiwaft Wrt Liu n OuuS Big Three Auto Firms Accused of Rigging Prices Congress Urged To Require Explanation Washington W Walter P. Reuther accusedi the big three auto firms today of rig ging prices to insure fatter profits without regard for de mand. He urged Congress to require major corporations to explain their need for price hikes before putting them in effect. Reuther, president of the , AFL-CIO United Auto Work ers union, also suggested that Congress set up an "independ ent office of consumers' coun sel" to protect consumer in terests before all government agencies. Denies Responsibility The UAW leader made his proposals in testimony pre pared for the Senate anti monopoly subcommittee head ed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn). He denied that wage boosts for his union were responsible for the re cent hike in car prices. Prices have gone up $5 for every $1 advance in wages. Reuther contended. The UAW plans to seek a share of in dustry profits as well as wage increases during negotiations with auto makers this spring. Reuther was called as the first witness as the subcom mittee opened hearings on prices in the auto industry It looked into steel prices last year. Auto industry heads will testify later. No Punitive Purpose Kefauver said in an open ing statement that the new inquiry has no "punitive pur pose and the subcommittee does not aim to "mediate a wage dispute" by making rec ommendations either on pro fits or wages in the auto in dustry. He said his group is con cerned with preserving com petition and voiced confidence . and understanding of auto price-making will help Con gress and the public. Ike To Attend Funeral Rites Washington (1PI The White House announced to day that President Eisenhow er will fly to Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday to attend brief funeral services for his brother, Arthur, who died Sunday night. The President will be ac companied by his brother. Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins university. They will arrive at the Kan sas City Municipal airport where they will meet anoth er brother. Earl, LaGrange, 'ill. The White House said it did not appear likely that the third brother, Edgar, would come from his home at Ta- coma. Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower will not go to the funeral. The three Eisenhower broth- " ers will drive from the Kan sas City airport to the Arthur Eisenhower residence to pay their respects to the family. Then they will motor to the Stein and McClure Fun eral Parlor for chapel ser vices. j. lie ricoiuciiL nui icavc immediately afterward for the airport and take off for Washington. He is expected back at the White House by 7 p.m. (EST). DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York HP) Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 industrials 448.67. up 0.21; 20 railroads 107.25, off 0.49; 15 utilities 72.55, up 0.28, and 65 stocks 152. 83, up 0.02. Sales today . were about 2,030,000 shares compared with 2,320,000 shares Monday. Ike's Education Program Claimed To Be Inadequate Washington IIP) The Na tional Education Association and two Democratic leaders in education complained to day that President Eisenhow er's billion dollar school pro gram is inadequate. Will Raise Standards But administration officials predicted the space-age plan to produce more scientists and engineers to meet Russia's challenge would raise the na tion's basic standards of edu cation in all fields. The NEA drew a bead on failure of the administration to include '"enough space in our schools" to allow every student to attend a full day GREETING AFTER 51 YEARS are Waclow Debicki and his mother, .Mrs. Antonia Gzik, 79, in Gary, Ind. He was kid naped by a baby-sitter in his native Poland when he was three days old. (International Soundphoto) Planners Get Report On Sevage Disposal A report on a survey of the sewage disposal in Jackson county was given to the Jack son county planning commis sion last night. Jack Eaton, planning technician for the commission, made the report. Members of the commis sion decided to defer action on the survey until they had a chance to study it. Further action will be considered at the next meeting when it may be referred to the county court. Chairman John Pletsch said the survey would be made public then. It was made in cooperation with the sanitarians of the county health department. Eaton said his survey shows that Ashland is operating a sewage disposal system far beyond its capacity. The re cent annexation to the city has made the situation there even worse, he said. Future Annexation ,.-.-.- - Medford will operate at 100 per cent of its capacity with possible future annexations, he said. Central Point has a screening process and the dis posal wastes flow into the Medford system. Gold Hill is in the best shape of all the cities in the county, he point ed out. It is operating its sew age disposal system at only 50 per cent of its capacity, and it has been designed for many years to come. Eaton said a county sani tation authority which would bring all municipal sewer sys tems under one operation would probably be feasible. The existing systems could be integrated and enlarged to provide for population growth for some years to come, he said. It would be much less expensive for the individual home owner if sll systems were tied into a metropolitan Lions Club Beats Kiwanis in Race Medford Lions club won its March of Dimes race against the Kiwanis club Saturday and Lou Martin, chairman of the event for the Lions, re ceived a IVi block ride to United States National bank with Frank Dorigan, Kiwanis chairman, pushing. Approximately $350 was collected for the fight against polio with Lions soliciting about S200 in donations. The two service clubs, start ing at Eighth st., moved their wheelbarrows north on Cen tral ave. one yard for every dollar collected. At the end of the two-hour time limit Lions were about 2 blocks north of the starting point and Kiwan- ians were about 45 yards be hind. in uncrowded classrooms Declaring the President's program "greatly underesti mates" existing needs, NEA Executive Secretary William T. Carr said there should be a top priority on not only building more classrooms but also improving teacher sala ries. Urge Bigger Program Chairman Lister Hill of the Senate Education Committee and Rep. Carl Elliott, head of a House Education subcom mitte, both Alabama Demo crats, urged a bigger program than the billion dollar, four year plan President Eisen hower sent Congress Monday. or county sanitation author ity, Eaton suggested. Further study would re quire aerial mapping of the county, Eaton suggested. From such a survey a population density map and a sewer map could be made. Such an aerial survey could also be used in a future county road and highway program. Serious Problem Sanitation in the county has become a serious prob lem, Eaton said. Estimates show the county population is increasing about. 2 per cent per year. Solution of the prob lem will take time and re quire financing, he said. Reporting on the proposed zoning of the Oak Grove area for a residential district, Eat on said he had only one pos sible objection. Such zoning would be spot zoning and the bureau of municipal research believes that such spot or dis trict zoning can lead to de teriorated areas developing between the zoned districts. However, it seems to be worked out so zoning of this district does not conflict with the master development plan for the county, Eaton com mented. Eaton said it may be pos sible for the Jackson county planning commission to ob tain matching funds through the federal government for all county planning projects. Planning Construction Such funds would not cover preliminary planning nor con struction, he explained. Eaton told the commission he would write to L. R. Durkee, area representative for Urban Planning Assistance to see if Jackson county would qua lify. In other business the plan ning commission formally ap proved renaming Aspen drive Niedermeyer drive, as re quested by the residents of the area by petition. Pletsch explained that the plat had not been filed when Aspen drive was used as a temporary name. Residents of that area wanted the correct name on the plat when it was filed, Pletsch explained. As to any further action on the proposed county subdivi sion ordinance, it was agreed to wait until Medford had conferred with a planner from the bureau of municipal re search on the city's subdivis ion ordinance. Ed Gebhard was elected president, Don Whalin, vice president and Lloyd Selby as secretary. Selby was appoint ed chairman of the budget committee, Stuart McQueen and John Niedermeyer as committee members. Baghdad Nations Adopt Defense Plan Ankara, Turkey (IP) The military committee of thej Baghdad Pact nations has ad- j opted a NATO-type concept of j aeiense bolstered by U. S. promises of military aid, Am erican sources said today. The military committee was making its . formal report to a meeting of the ministers of the five member nations and to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, sitting in on the crucial meeting as an of ficial observer. The American sources said the military committee had adopted the NATO concept that a Communist attack on one member would be consid ered an attack on all, even though the pledge is not spe cifically written into the pact. n.n Prisoners Refuse Work in Shops; Meals, Heat Oif Guards Appear To Control Situation Deer Lodge, Mont. (IP) More than 230 defiant con victs, ignoring cold and hun ger, refused to return to their individual cells in the Mon tana State Prison today or end a day-old sitdown strike. It was the latest disturbance since last July 30 when the convicts rioted. The strike began after breakfast at 8 a.m. Monday. The prisoners refused to work in the prison shops. Returned to the cell block in which they rioted about six months ago, the defiant convicts jammed benches be tween the walls and doors of their individual cells so guards could not close them. Food To Be Withheld Convicts won't be fed until they comply with the order to return to their cells. If hun ger doesn't work, guards hoped to freeze the convicts into submission. Heat was re ported shut off in the cell block shortly before midnight. Guards appeared to . have the situation under control. They reported a calm and quiet night. Warden F. O. Burrell said that the prisoners went to work as usual Monday morn ing after breakfast was serv ed. "After this the word was passed along the grapevine and the sitdown strike began," he said. The warden added that he had no idea how long the strike would last or what it was caused by. "We're going to get on top of this situa tion," he said. Discipline Lacking The warden said, "Not since the July 30 prison riot, when the attorney general ' prom ised the convicts, there would ho nn renrisals for those cre ating the fracas and gave assurance that other desires and demands would be com plied with, have we been able to develop the type of discipline and security re auired for the administration of the prison." The July not enaea auu hostages were released when Attorney General Forrest H. Anderson spoke to the pris oners and assured them their rfomands would be given con sideration by the Prison Board. Sheriff's Deputy Files Damage Suit riMti H. DeBerrv. Jackson county sheriff's deputy, is seeking $7,622 damages in a first cause and $246.52 for from L. V. Pet erson, Medford, as the result of an auto accident m Mea- ford Oct. 13, 1957. According to the complaint, DeBerry suffered severe in iiiries when his car and one driven by Peterson collided at the intersection of fcast Main st. and Central ave. Ttnth cars were travelling west at the time, according to the complaint. Damaees include $122.50 medical expenses, $25 future medical expenses, $7,500 gen eral damaees. $1,576.62 car depreciation as a result of the accident, and personal prop erty damages of $146.52. In the complaint, .Peterson chareed with being negli gent and careless in failing tn stoD or swerve to avoid collision, driving at a greater than reasonable and prudent speed, failing to maintain pro per or adequate control, and failing to keep a proper look out. Roseburg Man Is GOP District Head Roseburg James G. Rich mond, Roseburg, was elected Republican chairman of the fourth congressional district at a meeting here Saturday of officers of committees of the district. He replaces Mrs. Kathleen Bash of Medford,' who ' re signed recently. Polly Boyd of Eugene was named vice chairman. Richmond, Douglas county chairman, said possible candi dates for congressman from the fourth district were . dis cussed, but details of the dis cussion were not made public. f M TANA CVCTS 0E3 STRIEtE 14 Pages Aoray T New Sform Front Expected to Bring More Rain to Area Rivers to Remain Within Banks Today A new storm front is ex pected to move across south ern Oregon today, bringing with it more rain which may cause major streams in this area to overflow their banks, the weather bureau said to day. A storm system hovering over the mountains, of south ern Oregon left 1.24 inches of rain in Medford and great er amounts elsewhere during the past 24 hours. It was the heaviest rain storm in this area this winter. Weather bureau officials said rivers in this area will rise, but are expected to re main, within their banks to day. They added, however, the distribution of rain from an aDoroaching storm front will determine whether rivers will overflow their banks later today and tomorrow. Rain Forecast " The forecast is cloudy with rain through tomorrow morn ing, and showers tomorrow afternoon. Heaviest rain from the storm system was centered in an area around the moun tains from Brookings east ward, weather bureau offi cials said. Brookings reported 2.39 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 10 .a.m. to day, while Cape Blanco had 1.15 inches and Eureka, Calif., 1.28 inches during the same period. Grants Pass naa 1.2 mciiea in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m., and Prospect reported 1.35 inches between 5 p.m. yesterday and 8 a.m. today. Butte Falls had 1.45 inches up to 8 a.m. today, and Crater Lake reported 17 inches of new snow with a water con tent of 1.61 finches. Redwood Highway The Redwood Highway checking station reported 2.32 inches of rain between 5 p.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today, the weather bureau said. The 17 inches of snow at Crater Lake brought the total depth there to 131 inches. Highway 62 was passable this morning, but chains were re quired. The road from Annie Springs to park headquarters was closed, but was expected to open by midday. It was raining on the Green Springs and Siskiyous at noon today, state police reported. Some snow was reported on both passes, but traffic was moving without chains. Yreka Man Killed In Crash Near Weed Weed, Calif. HP) James W. Henry, 82, of Yreka, Calif., died and his wife, Ella, 57, was seriously hurt about 4:30 p.m. Monday when their car out of control on High way 99 five miles west of here and overturned. Both oc cupants were ' thrown from the car. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with rain through Wednesday morning. Showers Wednes day afternoon. Low to night 40. High Wednesday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday" 48 Lowest this Morning 43 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today l.Zl Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:30 a.m. Sunset .. 5:20 p.m. Moonset Wednesday 2:13 a.m. Full Moon Feb. 4 PROMINENT STAR Procyon, rising in the eve ning twilight, will be high in southeast 9:16 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south 5:36 a.m. Mars, low in south east 6:03 a.m. Saturn, above Mara. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1958 "Maybe We Should Propose Shooting This Stuff Across in Rockets" Khrushchev Accused Of View Distortion Washington (IB The United States accused Soviet Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev today of spread ing a "distorted view" of U.S. policies and motivations in world affairs. A statement read by State Department press officer Lin coln White said this shows "the difficulties which would beset a short unprepared meeting of heads of govern ment such as the Soviet gov ernment has proposed." In answer to a question, White said the U.S. view on holding a . summit meeting with Russia remains as set forth by President Eisenhower in his Jan. 12 letter to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. No Answer To Appeal White said that "calls for adequate preparation" at the diplomatic and foreign minis ters level. White read the statement when asked whether the Rus sians have yet answered the plea of U. S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson for Soviet reaction to the Missile Defense By 1962 Possible Washington HP) The Army said in testimony pub lished today that it could es tablish a defense against bal listic missiles by .1962 if its program is accelerated. Maj. Gen. John P. Daley, Army director of special wea pons, gave this target date to the House Armed Services committee in closed door tes timony last Wednesday, Fashioning a defensive sys tem for detecting an enemy ballistic , missile as it ap proaches at 15,000 miles an hour and shooting it down is considered one of the most difficult problems now fac ing U. S. military scientists. Juan Peron on Way To Home in Europe Ciudad Trujillo (1? Oust ed Argentine ex - president Juan D. Peron, driven out of Venezuela by revolution, stopped off here today on his way to Europe. . Peron, who arrived Monday night in a special plane made available by Venezuela's gov ernment to hasten his depar ture from that country, said he would stay only a few days in the Dominican Re public before continuing his journey eastward. Attempt LoiuimiehDini President's letter to Bulganin. White: said there had been no answer to that appeal un less one considered the Khrushchev speech recently in Minsk or his remarks at a Moscow cocktail party Mon day night. "We certainly do not con sider them an answer,". White said. He also noted that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko did not mention the Khrushchev remarks when Thompson asked for a reply to the President's letter. He said it indicated it was not "the considered reply" of the Soviet' Union to the Eisen hower letter. Moscow (IP) Izvestia, the official Soviet government newspaper, said today Russia would welcome any concrete steps leading . to a "summit" conference if they were made in good faith. Western diplomats took the statement as a hint the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss the agenda of such a confer ence in advance as asked by President Eisenhower. The Izvestia dispatch ap peared this morning shortly after Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev renewed his plea for an East-West non agression pact and a summit conference. He made the re marks Monday night while chatting with western diplo mats at an Indian Embassy re ception. Fay Due To Take Stand in Probe Washington OP) The Sen ate Rackets Committee warmed up its witness chair today for Joseph S. (Joey) Fay, former bigtime East Coast labor racketeer and one of Sing Sing prison's most in fluential inmates. Fay, now on parole from an extortion sentence, was ex pected to be called as prob ably the climatic witness of the committee's investigation of the allegedly violence stained Operating Engineers Union (AFL-CIO).: It remained to be seen whether the 66-year-old for mer vice president of the union would do any talking about the charges of fund mis use and personal abuse heaped on him Monday. Members of "Local 542 of PhiladelDhia testified Fay ran their organization wth a whip-1 hand strengthened by bully boys from his Local 825 of Newark, NJ. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 239 Jupiter C May Be Blasted Off Later This Week Vanguard Apparently Undergoing Repairs Cape Canaveral, Fla. OP) The United States may .have a baby "moon" in the sky five minutes after the Army's Jupiter C missile is launched from here, probably this week. The Jupiter C, if all goes well, will take just about that long to blast off from the cape and drop off three stages one by one, and send the final stage payload hurtling paral lei to the earth 300 miles up and at' 18,000 miles an hour into an elliptical orbit. That would be half the time the Navy Vanguard takes to do the job. Vanguard Being Repaired The Army was ordered in November to ready the Jupit er C, for a satellite attempt, but it was not expected to come before another try with the Vanguard, which explod ed op. its pad Dec. 6 in the fort. But the Navy rocket devel oped serious trouble during several attempts to launch it last week and apparently is being repaired. Another laun ching try is expected soon, but it is not known just when. As in the case of the Van guard, it will take about two hours to determine whether the Jupiter C has put its sat ellite into orbit. The switch from the Van guard to the Jupiter C for the satellite attempt was not plan ned in any sense and has noth ing to do with a "race" be tween the Army and the Navy to put the first U. S. man made moon into orbit with Russia's Sputnik II. Comparative Simplicity Still it is a change from the philosophy of using a highly refined and complex scientif ic instrument the Vanguard to do the job. The Jupiter C depends on comparative simplicity of design and sheer power. Basically, the Jupiter C is a combination of the short range Redstone ballistic mis sile and 15 smaller solid fuel rockets, all of which have been flown time and again successfully and are in oper ational status. The entire as sembly also has been test flown successfully. SfumJbo Clan Awarded $125 Plus Interest Roseburg (IP) The long simmering dispute between the Stumbo clan and the Ore gon Highway Commission was resolved here Monday when a Circuit Court jury awarded the Stumbos $125, plus six per cent interest, since 1946, for a 16-foot strip of land they own astraddle Highway 99 south of here. Control Board Approves Money To Move Church Salem OP) The State Board of Control today ap proved giving the Salem First Baptist church $12,000 to move its church buildings from a site in the Capitol Mall where a new labor and industries building probably will be built. Long Negotiation The decision came after long negotiation with the church which had been asked by the board to move by Jan. 1, 1959 to make way for the new building. Board members said it would cost from $10,000 to $30,000 to wreck the building and both board and church agreed it would be more fair Missile Makers Included in Goal By Two Groups Escalator, Severance Clauses Included Washington HP! Two of the biggest AFL-CIO unions teamed up today to kick off their drive for "substantial" wage increases for 500,000 workers in the nation's air craft and missile plants. The United Auto Workers and the International Associa tion of Machinists publicized their bargaining goals in a leaflet handed out at more than 100 aircraft and missile factories in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to wage in creases the unions will seek "escalator" clauses to raise wages when prices rise and equal pay for the same job in different plants. The leaflet said the two un ions also will demand better severance pay provisions, the union shop, union-management apprentice training and a company-paid welfare plan. Its distribution signals the unions agreement to seek the same goals at negotiations which start next week and continue through June. Lockheed, Douglas, North American, Convair, Republic and Boeing are some of the major aircraft and missile manufacturers the unions will meet at the bargaining table. "Never before have the workers in the aircraft and missile industries been so threatened," the leaflet said. "Politicians in Washington have been attempting to bal ance the budget at the ex pense of the nation's defenses and the nation's defense work ers." It said the work force in these industries was reduced by 100,000 since last April because of cutbacks and stretch-outs in military spend ing. Because the industry is so "sensitive to the shifts of politics in Washington and the see-saw of the internation al scene," workers need sev erance pay to help them in periods of unemployment, the leaflet added. The industry can afford to erant waee increases, they said, because of "high profits guaranteed by the govern ment." The machinists represent the bulk of aircraft and mis sile workers about 400,000. The UAW claims 150,000 others. Atomic Arsenal Request in Works Washington (IP) Congress went to work today on a re quest to give President Eisen hower broad powers in help ing America's allies beef up their atomic weapons arse nals. Proposals for relaxing "un duly restrictive" provisions of the Atomic Energy Secrets Act to share nuclear materials and weapon design informa tion were sent to the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee by Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The committee sched uled hearings on the proposal today. At the same time Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy opened the door wider to seek ing more missile and defense money. He said he "wouldn't hesitate" to ask for more if the $40 billion record peace time . defense budget proves inadequate. Washington (IP) KPOJ, Inc., has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a permit to operate a new television station on channel 2 at Portland, Ore. to move the building intact. Tentative approval also was given to granting the city of Salem an easement to extend 17th st. through the state fair grounds. In return, the city would give the Fair board some 3.4 acres of city land for parking. Unander Wants Agreement Both Gov. Robert D. Holmes and Secretary of State Mark Hatfield agreed -with the proposal, but State Treas urer Sig Unander wanted in cluded in the agreement a statement from Real Estate Commissioner Clarence Hyde that the dollar values in the exchange would be approxi mately equal.