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52nd Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended 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 arrive ihortly after you call please notify office thu eliminating special messenger service. A feature itnry about con struction and development at Southern Oregon college to meet tncreaied enrollmenta appear on page 14 of today' Mall Tribune. A: Ci United Press Full Leased Wire TJniter' Jed Wirt 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1958 No. 243 C2 C3 MEDFORD RIBU 5IP Qlrlsly U IJzz. Li i . i Congratulations Sent By Russians After Launching New Feats Predicted By Red Scientists Moscow (U Soviet scien tists Saturday greeted the launching of the American earth satellite as "good news" and offered congratulations. But popular jibes at the small ness of the American satellite were expected. (In London, the Evening News quoted Moscow Plane tarium Manager Valentine Lukasil as saying the an- nouncement that Russia's Sputnik III has been launched could be expected "any day now." The newspaper said it contacted Lukasil by phone) Vitali Bronstein, scientific consultant and lecturer at the Moscow Planetarium said in the capital that the Russians would launch another Sput nik "in the future, but we cannot give you an exact date," Bronsiein also added his congratulations to Ameri can scientists. Late in the day, Moscow ra dio broadcast an interview with Soviet scientists Anatoli Blagonravov who was instru mental in Soviet Sputnik de velopment and was visiting Washington when Sputnik I was launched. , Blagonravov said the Unit ed States had .chosen a "most fortunate orbit" for its Ex plorer satellite and sent his "congratulations" to the Unit ed States. He said he regretted the satellite would not pass over Soviet territory so Rus sians could see it. Russia's answer to the Am erican Explorer satellite un doubtedly will be a crash pro gram to hit the moon a project Soviet scientists have admitted they are working on. After the launchings of Sputnik I last Oct. 4 and the firing of Sputnik II on Nov. 3, Soviet scientists reported progress on plans to send a rocket to the moon. Some pre dictions were that an unman ned rocket would reach the moon within a few years a manned rocket possibly within a decade. Superficially, Russia would still appear to be ahead in the space race. Its first Sputnik, at 184 pounds, was six times the weight of the American Ex plorer satellite. Sputnik II was nearly 40 times heavier. But Russia knows that tech nologically, the United States is supreme. In the past, no matter who made the initial scientific break - through penicillin and radar were British, for example the achievements had been im proved and then mass - pro duced in the United States more quickly than anywhere else in the world. It is considered certain to be the same in the age lof space at least for the next 10 years. In the past six months, I have spoken to scientists from many countries involved in space flight including -Rus sians. Many of these were gathered at the International Astronautical Congress in Barcelona when Sputnik I went up. Prof. Leonid Sedov, a wide ly respected authority on gases, 'hinted that Soviet sci entists were moving swiftly ahead in the knowledge that the United States would make desperate efforts to retrieve Its great propaganda defeat which was made the more em barrassing by the failure of the original American satel lite in the Vanguard rocket last December. There were reports at the time that Russia would try to hit the moon with a rocket carryinj? a hydrogen warhead containing red dye that would stain the surface of the moon and offer a visible demonstra tion to the world below of So viet pre-eminence. Portland (IP) Conduct or Theodore Bloomfield of the Portland Symphony Or chestra Friday signed a con tract to direct the orchestra ior another year. NEW CLINIC The second of two buildings in Professional Center, 836 and 842 East Main st., is nearing completion, and phy sicians and dentists have started to occupy the building, according to Cliff Lovejoy of Professional Properties, Inc. One build ing was completed late last year. The new building, at the left in the picture, in Merger Proclaimed For Egypt, Cairo W The presi dents of Egypt arid Syria roll ed back the centuries Satur day and proclaimed, a mer ger of their states' into a single new nation called the United Arab Republic. The proclamation, to be ratified by their legislatures next week and by nationwide plebiscites later this month, set off wild celebrations here j and in Damascus. President Gamal Abdel j Nasser of Egypt and Presi- dent Shukry Ey Kuwatly of Syria hugged and kissed each other in Moslem fashion af ter the signing at Quobbeh palace. Their proclamation reflect ed dreams of even bigger things a united Arab world from i the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian gulf. It invited other Arab states to join the new republic. Nasser is expected to be come president of the new state. Its capital will be in Cairo. The merger will unite Sy ria's 3,500,000 people with Egyp't 24,300,000 under one government with proportion al representation. Physically the republic will be separated Visit Scheduled For Bloodmobile The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Medford Wednes day, Feb. 12, the Red Cross has announced. Goal for the February vis it is 290 pints, officials said. A total of 350 donors will be needed, they added. Appoint ments may be made by tele phoning the Red Cross office at SPring 3-3813. The Bloodmobile will be at the new Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne ave., Medford, between 1 and 6 p.m. "Ev'rybody, Now In Time, In The Good Syria into two parts with Lebanon, Israel and Jordon in between. Egyptians left their jobs and shops and declared an impromptu holiday. A half million of them cheered wild ly as Nasser and Kuwatly rode standing in an open car from the palace to the presi dency. The ' proclamation . itself made it clear the-two presi dents considered the merger only a beginning. "The conferres, deciding on unity of the two countries, I declare that their unity seeks to unite the Arabs and em phasize that the door to unity is open toevery Arab coun try desiring to join with it in a form of unity or feder ation," it said.i . Washington .(IP! Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles declared Saturday that the United States and the pro western Baghdad pact nations of the middle east "stand unitedly to bar Soviet armed aggression from the north." He made the statement on returning from a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, of the five Baghdad pact members. The United States is not a formal member of the pact but be longs to its military, econom ic and other committees. Dulles landed at Washing ton National airport in a snow storm at 2 p.m. (est). He had spent the night in Bermuda. Dulles .made no comment on the merger of Egypt and Syria proclaimed in Cairo Saturday. Both of these na tions are opponents of the Baghdad pact and the bene factors of Russian aid. But the state department later issued this statement: "Obviously there are a number of steps "yet to be carried out before the union is completed and therefore it would be premature to com ment tentatively. The Good Old Summit Old Summit Time " " cludes medical and dental offices, and a dental laboratory. The building is heated by a Westinghouse air-to-air heat pump system, which takes heat directly from out side air, condenses it, and distributes it throughout the building. The same is true on cooling the structure, Lovejoy said. Discussion Set On Camp White Hospital Plan A. H. Birch, 2802 Crater Lake highway, Medford, com mander of the Department of Oregon, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will discuss the Camp White hospital proposal at the mid-winter conference of the organization in- ' Washington, D.C., this week end. Several organizations, in cluding Jackson county Granges and the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, have urgrd using fa cilities available at Camp White to make a 400-bed gen eral and surgical hospital for veterans. , Birch will appear before the, United States House of Representatives Veterans Af fairs committee with Richard L. Roudebush, Indianapolis, Ind., national commander of the VFW. Tuesday evening, Birch will be host with other members from Oregon to senators and congressmen from Oregon at the annual VFW congressional dinner at the Sheraton Park hotel in Washington. Main purpose of the mid winter VFW conference is to formulate final plans for the legislatives program to be pre sented to Congress, Roude bush. Columbus, Ohio (IP) Dr. Andre Crotti, 84, world fam ed surgeona nd goiter special ist, died Friday. Sports Bulletin Central Point Medford high's Black Tornado roar ad out to batter the Crater Comets hare Saturday night in Southern Oregon confer ence .basketball. The Tor nado pulled away after a 13-alI deadlock in the sec ond period and led 30 to 17 at halflim. Third quarter score was 52 to 30. Bilbee Lane had 26 points for Med ford and Bill Whit 11 for Crater. ASHLAND Big Bill Hollingiworth dropped in 10 for 10 from the field Sat urday in a 25-poinl scoring spree to lead Southern Ore gon college lo a 98 to 61 win over Eastern Oregon college. The point total was the highest this year for the Raiders. SOC lead at the half, 44 io 26, and was nv er headed. BASKETBALL Gonzaga 79, St. Martin's 43 Stanford 69, Oregon st. 55 San Francisco 105, Pepper din 59 BYU 67, Montana st. 53 Arizona (Temp) st. 65, Texas Western 65 Cal Poly 75, Whittier 64 Nevada 66, Cal Aggies 43 Chico it. 60, Sacramento st. 55 Arizona 68, New Mexico A&M 66 PREPS Grants Pa 37. Ashland 33 Phooxux 54, Etgl Point 40 Mid-Air Crash ' Spews Fiery Parts Over Norwalk City Crew and Passengers All Reported Killed LosAngeles (IP) A four engined military transport plane and a smaller aircraft collided over suburban Nor walk Saturday night "in a tremendous explosion" that spewed burning .wreckage ov er a heavily populated area. First reports said that ap parently were no casualties on the ground, but all 35 passengers arid the crew of six aboardt he large C-118 Skymaster were believed kill ed. Flaming bits of the . planes were scattered over a square mile area and Lt. R. M. Wig gins of the Norwalk Sheriff's substation, which was hit by a huge chunk of wreckage, said "it was only a miracle" that many persons were not killed on the ground. "If the main wreckage had hit 100 yards south of where it did, at least 100 persons would have been kiled," he said. The smoking ruins of the plane, a prototype of the DC-6 used in commercial flying, crashed in a large block square vacant lot. The smaller plane crashed into open acreage two miles northwest of the transport. The military air transport service C-113, only half filled and primarily with military "hitchhikers," took off from the Long Beajjh Municipal air port 10 miles west or the col lision scene at 7:08 p.m: (PST) enroute to McGuire Air Force base, New Jersey. The crash occurred at 7:15 p.m. and the transport was identified at 7:30 p.m. when it failed to make a . routine "take-off" report. Plans Shaping For Exchange Of Students Plans for the annual stu dents exchange program in Medford are . taking shape, Mrs. H. D. Christensen, chair man of the local American Field Service committee, has announced. Four . names of Medford High school students have been submitted to the New York office of AFS for selec tion of one to represent this area in the "Americans Aboard" summer program. Dr. and Mrs. Brandt Bar tels, 35 Valley View dr., Med ford, have been selected as foster parents for foreign ex change students under the AFS program for the 1958-59 school year, she announced. Recently the local AFS com mittee interviewed 12 appli cants for the "American Abroad" summer ' program. The list was narrowed to four, whose names were submitted to the AFS selection commit tee. Medford Qualifies for sending a student abroad by sponsoring a foreign student in the. high school here. ine At s selection for a Medford student to travel abroad will not be known un til March, .Mrs. Christensen said. The student who will .'live with Dr. and Mrs. Bartels will not be known for several months, she said. The student will be sponsored by the Med ford Rotary club and will spend the 1958-59 school year at the Bartels home. This year's AFS student is Margaret Larsdotter-Aulin of Sweden, who is living at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bash. David Frohnmavpr. Medford High school student, spent last summer in Europe under the summer program. Kansas , City, Mo. (IP) Sen. A. A. Mike Monroney said Saturday night that the administration's foreign poli cy couples the "massive rig idity" of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a "re tread" of the ideas advanced by former President Truman. No Signals Received By Radio Hams Here Medford amateur radio "ham" operators reported up to Saturday evening they had been unable lo receive signals on. either of the two frequencies from t h Army's Explorer satellite put into space Friday night. On ham operator. Earl Casebolt (W7VIL), said h thought he heard signals on the 108 megacycle location, however, he said he could not be sure if the signals were from the satellite as no one in the area has heard the ones being transmitted. Another ham operator, Everett Cuffell (W7VPH), said he expected to receive the signals sometime today. He attempted lo receive lh signals Saturday between 5 p.m. and sundown when lh satellite was said lo b NEW METER PATROL City Patrolman Roy Erickson, seated in the Cushman "Jeep" cycle, receives operating in structions on the first of two such new' vehicles which will be used for meter patrol. Jack White, of White's cycle shop, shows Erickson how to operate the machine which has red lights, siren, radio and a large rear trunk for carrying supplies and first-aid equipment. The department made the purchase of the light-weight equipment because of its low operating costs and easy maintenance, according io police officials. This is the second of eight new-police-vehicles to be delivered to the department. Medford police received an unmarked, four-door . sedan Thursday . afternoon. , The unmarked car will be used for the detective division and for traffic control, they said. Decision Coming Soon On Teamster-AFL Miami Beach, Fla. (IP) The AFL-CIO high command will decide here in the next 10 days whether to turn its cold war with the Teamsters union into' a hot one.- Family Drowns In Boat Mishap Gold Beach A family of four drowned Saturday about noon in the Rogue , river and two men were rescued after the boat in which they were riding capsized in rough wa ter about 22 miles upriver from Gold Beach at Little Canyon. Missing are Ted Meserbey, 45, his wife, Amy Lou,. 43, and two children, Emily 12, and Ted, 5. Two passengers, Junior Lowery, 29, Gold Beach, and Woodrow Lee Frv. 20. believed to be from Powers, were rescued about four miles from the scene of the accident. According to information reveived from Gold Beach, the family lived near the riv er in the wilderness area up stream from the town. The six persons were re ported riding in a 20-foot boat operated by Meserbey when a high wave flipped the boat over. The boy was not seen again, it was reported, but the other five managed to hang onto the boat. The girl, Meserbey, and Mrs. Meserbey, all were washed from, the overturned boat during the next mile and a half, it was reported. A rancher living on the river, John Adams, heard the shouts as the boat passed, and he and his son. Dick, rowed to the Dirk company logging camp for help. They reached the overturned boat at Slide Creek, four miles from the teens of the accident. passing about 839 miles Southwest of Portland. Medford hams reported ih 108 and 108.03 mega cycle locations ar between th ranges of the most fre quently used ranges by ama luers and some Medford hams do not have equip ment to receive th signals. Most hams said they were standing by with lap re corders on which Ihey plan ned lo record the signals. Russia's two satellites broadcast their radio signals on a lower band which can be picked up by almost any short wave set, they ex plained. Other hams taking pari in attempting lo locate th signals Saturday were John Phillips (W7NE). Dwight Al bright (W7HLF) and Char les Thurston (W7BEG). Relations The question will come be fore the federation's 29-mem-ber executive council at Its first meeting since the Team sters were booted out at the AFL-CIO convention. So far the AFL - CIO has officially severed all ties at the national level with the 1,400,000-member truck union and ordered its state and local bodies to do the same. But It has done nothing about re quests from several Team sters' locals for direct AFL CIO charters which, if grant ed, would be considered -the opening shot in a labor war. The council is expected to re view those requests at its an nual midwinter work - play session. The federation followed up expulsion of the Bakery work ers and Laundry workers by setting up a new union and a new "council" to siphon off members from the -outcast organizations. There has been no attempt to enlist Team sters opposed to the reign of James R. Hoffa, who took over control of the union last week. AFL-CIO sources said one way to hit at the Teamsters would be for th council to ban mutual aid pacts between expelled unions and AFL-CIO affiliates. ! Such pacts create machin ery for joint organizing drives and the AFL-CIO Carpenters, Operating Engineers, Labor ers, Machinists, Butchers and Upholsterers' unions all have signed up with the Teamsters. AFL-CIO President George Meany ruled out a similar pact which the ' Teamsters, then in. good standing, . tried to make with the outcast In ternational Longshore m e n's association after the ILA was bounced for corrupt leader ship in 1953. Several powerful council members are known to oppose any curb on the pacts. Many hone that the truck union will return to the fold before long. Another Dm Two ;Monthe: . Washington (IP) America's first satellite, working perfectly, rifled through meteoric dust and cosmic radiation high above Russia's Sputnik Saturday. Jubilant Army scientists announced they will launch a more complicated space laboratory, carrying a tape record er, in the next two months. "Explorer," America's and the Free World's first entry in the space race, was blasted into orbit from Cape Canav-. eral, Fla., Friday night by rocket using secret, Exotic fuel. Saturday, the 30.8 - pound, bullet-shaped satellite hurtled around the earth once every 113 minutes, its two radios sig nalling information on some-of the mysteries of inter-planetary space. Dr. Wernher Von Braun, the Army's chief rocket scien tist, said the United States is still five years behind Russia in both satellite and missile rate of progress is "frightening." Explorer, he said, is only a fraction of the size of Sputnik I (184 pounds) and Sputnik II (1,120 pounds). Sputnik I, launched nearly first U. S. satellite, burned out early last monh. Sputnik II, carrying its now dead dog passenger, still circles the earth every 99 minutes, 138 to 1,000 miles out in space. Explorer soared Saturday in an egg-shaped orbit 1,700 to 200 miles : above the earth, at about the same speed 18,000 miles per hour as the Russian satellites. Unless it dips much closer to the earth, it will stay up several months, according to initial calculations announced by U. S. scientists. Shortly after the launching, the Army Missile Center Director, predicted that it would stay up a minimum of two and one-half years. Experts assem bled later at the National Academy of Sciences here gave Explorer a shorter life expectancy, ranging from "a consid erable time'? to "several months." ' Dr. Richard W. Porter, chief of the earth satellite pro gram of the U. S. International Geophysical Year (IGY) ex periments, reported at noon (EST) that the satellite's com pact set of measuring -devices and two radios operated well. Steady Signal Sounds A steady signal that sounded like "E-E-E-E-E" on a simple monitoring radio delivered streams of coded telemeter re ports about cosmic radiations and meteoric particles through which Explorer is passing. : - ' . The signal was heard around the world. Congratulations poured la from scientists and statesmen, including Russia's Boris Gerasov, chairman of the Soviet Union's IGY committee, who hailed it as "good news." Dr. James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa, who designed the data-gathering instruments, said "all the re ports are excellent ... we have heard it at every point we expected to ... it worked perfectly." Unlike the Soviet Sputniks, which have crossed all the world's major populated areas, the American satellite was set on a course which takes it over only the earth's mid section. ' It is covering a band about '4,000 miles wide 2,000 miles on each side of the equator crossing the equator at an angle of 35 degrees. , . - This means it will go "north" and "south" only as far as 35 degrees, or to such U.S. cities as Memphis, Oklahoma City, Charlotte, N. C, and Santa Barbara, Calif. It will not pass over Europe or Russia. But its great altitude will make it visible in telescopes over much of the world, including the northern United States. IGY scientists said Explorer which they preferred to call 1958 Alpha (first satellite of the year) wiU not be visible to the naked eye. It presents a narrow silhouette because it does not tumble! It spins on its axis at 700 revolu tions per minute, like a thin, long artillery shell. Its shell actually the outer skin of the last rocket stage is 80 inches long and 6 inches in diameter. Inside is the scientific capsule, a steel shell an 11-pound package of complex gauges, meters, wires and radio transmitters.. The first test satellite to be launched in the riavy-directed project Vanguard is to be a sphere only 6Vi inches in diameter and weighing 3V4 pounds. The main U.S. scientific satellite in the Vanguard project it to be a basketball-size sphere weighing about 21 pounds. ' j " New Vanguard launching-attemptt are expected next week. The Army's launching was a vindication of claims by Army missilemen that the United States could have beaten Russia into space if they had been given the satellite-launching job from the start. The Redstone first stage rocket and the small sergeant rockets used in the Jupiter-C long have been available. Two and a half years ago, a scientific panel recommend- . ed, and the defense department and White House agreed, (See Story on Pag .6) Advice Given For Listeners By UNITED PRESS Here's how to listen for signals from America's Ex plorer satellite: , Tun In on a shart wav radio to 108 or 108.03 mega cycles. You should hear a steady lon, which has a slight fraquency variation. It will not b a bep-bep sound lik Russia's sput niks. If you don't har th sig nal right away, tun in again about an hour later, sine th satellite, may b on the ether side of th glob. Moscow (IP) Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gromy- ko and Polish Foreign Minis ter Adam Rapacki called Sat urday for East-West talks on the Polish plan for a "de missilized" zont i central Europe. Steel n Army Jupiter C four-stage development and that Russia's four months ahead of the Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, weighing 7.5 pounds covering Salem (IP) Public Util ity Commissioner Howard Morgan Friday denied the ap plication of Continental Pac ific Trailways Bus company to abandon passenger service to 27 cities from Portland south to the Oregon-California border while maintaining de luxe express service to eight major cities along the route. WEATHER FORECAST: . Cloudy with fusty winds, . occasional rain today and tonight, partly cloudy with a few showers Monday, high to day 48, low tonight 35, hieh Monday 45. Snow level dropping to 3,500 leet tonight. TEMP. Highest Yesterday . 55 Lowest this Morning 30 Our Skies Tonight Sunday, Feb. 2 Sunrise 7:25 a.m. Sunset J:26 p.m. Moon set Mondny -6:32 a.m. PROMINENT STAR Sirius, in the south east .: j;08 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 12:19 sum. Saturn, low in south east ;;34 ajn. Mars, low in south east - 5:58 am. Venus, rises 6:40 a.m. 4 A
