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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1958
No. 243
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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.
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