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a Lade fi I mmmj if mmw Irks Britain - U.S. EARTH SATELLITE LAUNCHED The Army's Jupiter C rocket, carrying the first U.S. earth satellite, blasts off from its launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The "Don't Ask Me Why Yemen Joins Syro-Egypt Union To Bolster Nasser Cairo (IP) YeDien joins the Syro-Egyptian union to day in a move that will strengthen further President Gamal Abdel Nasser's dream of leading the entire Arab world into "positive neutral ity," informed sources re ported. Yemen Crown Prince Mo hammed Seif al Islam al Badr was driving to Cairo by car from his desert kingdom and was expected some time dur ing the day to declare adher ence to the new united Arab republic formed Saturday by Egypt and Syria. He spent the night in the Saudi Ara bian city of Jeddah. There still was no official announcement on Saudi Ara bia's position. Saudi Ambas sador Sheikh Ibrahim el Sue! eimau called on Syrian Presi dent Shukri el Kuwatly Sun day and then stated that MCing Saud has always striv en for Arab unity." It also was noted that Chains Necessary at Lakeview, Timberline Salem (IP) Motorists were advised to carry chains at Lakeview and Timberline by the , State Highway De partment today. One inch of new snow fell at Lakeview. Portland (IP) The State Board of Health said that more than four per cent of Oregon children show evi dence of hearing loss serious enough to require medical attention. VHEEEE Going down the toboggan slide on a homemade Jed built from a pair of skis, Mrs. R. W. Bradley and her wo children from Rogue River hit a bump at the bottom hat nearly throws them off. Sleds and toboggans, as well as (ther unusual devices for sliding, were in use at Union creek ver the week end. Heavy snowfall during the last week, rhich was slightly softened by warm wind, made perfect liding conditions. O o It's An Old Rituil" Crown Prince Faisal of Sau di Arabia, spent some time in Cairo last month during the Syro-Egyptian-talks. The Egyptian press and ra dio, which has called Jordan's King Hussein a "traitor" and depicted him as .a monkey dancing at the end of an American string, suddenly shut off their attacks on the Amman government today. Hussein was reported in close touch with Saudi Arabia's King Saud but there was no indication yet of Jordan's po sition. Informed sources in Cairo said Nasser is now expected to have a stronger hand in bolstering liberation move ments in various parts of the Arab world, particularly Al geria, which Egypt has sup ported in its fight with the French. Plaque Received For County Home A bronze plaque for the Jackson county juvenile de tention home has been receiv ed, according to the Jackson county court. The plaque includes the name of the building, the date, names of the county court members, the county judges, Mrs. Kay Crowell, as director of the department, members of the juvenile advis ory council and the architect and contractor. The county commissioners reported that the plaque would be mounted at the de tention home immediately. satellite, officialy named the Explorer, or bited successfully and is revolving around the earth once every 113 minutes. Ashland Banker Dies Saturday In Sudden Illness Ashland J. Walter McCoy, 79, 311 North Main st.,' Ash land, long time resident here, died Saturday in Ashland General hospital following a heart attack. Mr. McCoy was born Sept. 30, 1878, in Golconda. 111., where he attended school. For several years ne was asso ciated with his father in the jewelry business in St. Joseph, Mo. He was assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Norton, Kan., from 1904 to 1907. He became assistant cashier of the Bank. of Ash land after moving to Ashland in 1907. He served as cashier from 1910 to 1937, becoming manager of the bank when it was made a branch of the First National Bank of Port land. He served in this capac ity until his retirement in 1940. His activities included presi dency of the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce, of the Ore gon Bankers association and Oregon-American Bankers as sociation, charter membership in the -Ashland Kiwanis club and lifetime member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. McCoy was also one of the four original trustees of the Ben Evans Student Loan Fund which he served on to the time of his death. It was also through his efforts that the banks of this state re ceived assessment adjustment to which they were legally entitled, it was reported. Survivors include his widow, Imogene Wallace Mc Coy, whom he married in 1936; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Norby, Inglewood, Calif., and Mrs. Frances Stay ton, Medford; a brother, George H.; Bartow, Fla., and five grandchildren. His first wife, Agnes Grang er McCoy, died in 1934. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the First Presbyterian church. Entombment will be in the Mountain View Memor ial mausoleum with the Ash land Mortuary in charge. The Rev. B. J. Holland will of ficiate. Astoria Fisherman's Body Discovered Astoria (IP) The body of David Hansen, second of two Astoria fishermen who, drowned last week was recov ered late Saturday near Ilwa co, Wash., at the mouth of the Chinook river. The body of Jack Rogerss, Hansen's! companion, was recovered earlier. C - RIDES SHOVEL Besides serving trays, dishpans, pieces of cardboard and other assorted contrivances used to slide on at Union creek yesterday, a few of the more conventional scoop shovels were also in use, one of which is being dem onstrated by an unidentified man in the picture above. Most of the makeshift sliding devices are virtually uncontrollable and the passenger flies down the hill in a wild ride that usually ends up in an end-over-end spill. Medford 14 Pages MEDFORD, HIGH POWER TURMSTiLf AN7?A ' MiCROMCTEORfTS EROSION GAUGES (UX&TED 'BEHIND him) f 0X Vf7 1 ' PROBE F8SRGLA3S RING 7 , !Fi8RGLASS RfNG AMERICAN SATELLITE This is a cut away diagram of the Explorer, the first U.S. earth satellite. It was lofted into space by the Army's Jupiter C rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and is revolving around Moon Shot Believed Near Washington (IP! Dr. John P. Hagen, chief of Project Vanguard, declared today "We know how to put the things together to go to the moon." All that is needed, he told the United Press, is an of ficial go-ahead plus the time Duties Assumed By DA Assistant Gerald J. Scannell Jr. as sumed duties as deputy dis trict attorney this morning, according to Thomas J. Reed er, Jackson county district at torney. Scannell. came to Medford from The Dalles where he was on the staff of the Wasco county district attorney. Prior to that time he was adjudica tor for the bureau of land management with General Exchange Insurance corpora tion, Worcester, Mass.; and with the General Motors In stitute, Flint, Mich. He was also employed by the Allstate Insurance company, Portland. He was born in Hartford, Conjn., and attended public school in Springfield, Mass., American International col lege, and Boston College Law school. He is married and has two children, a boy 4, and a girl, 1 year old. The family is liv ing at route 1, box 350N on Magnolia lane, Medford. A. Allen Franzke, former first deputy district attorney, moved to Portland last month to assume a position on. the Multnomah county district at torney's staff. Jim Anicker, the new deputy district at torney, was promoted to Franzke's position and Scan nell will move into the posi tion vacated by Anicker's pro motion. Northern Ecuador Shaken by Earthquake Quito, Ecuador (IPi An earthquake shook Northern Ecuador Sunday. In Esmeral das it demolished several buildings weakened', in the huge tremor and tidal wave of Jan. 19. OREGk INTERNAL TEMPERATURE GAUGE (LOCATE'D BEHIND HIGH POWER TRANS? TTERl needed to assemble and pre. pare the necessary "hard ware." Official estimates of the time required to fire off a rocket to go around the moon have varied. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), a member of the newly-created Senate outer space subcommittee, said Sunday night the United States should be able to send a rocket to the moon "within a few months.". A shot to the moon loomed as a possible next major U. S. effort as the first American earth satellite girdled the glote in its third day of exist ence, emitting a stream of in-formalion-laden radio signals. Explorer Prai"d The satellite, dubbed "Ex plorer" by its proud Army "parents" but officially called "1958 Alpha" was reaping a Youngsters Nabbed For Petty Theft A 9-year-old boy was lodg ed in the Jackson county ju venile detention home and an 11-year-old boy was released to the cjistody of his father after they were arrested by Medford police on Saturday evening on charges of petty theft. Police said the youths, both from Medford, said they had taken articles from two cars and one garage during 'the day. They also told police they had recently taken several bi cycles from the alley near, the Craterian theater, later aban doning them in an empty lot. Wreck Near Klamath Claims Two Victims Klamath Falls (IP) Two men were Killed and three others were injured seriously Saturday night in a flaming head-on collision which in volved a third vehicle 4V miles south of here on High way 97. Dead were William A. Ba dorek Jr., 28, and his passen ger, Leonard Allen, 16, both of Klamath Falls. I . r-jj- nose .'.. A- ' ' . INNOVATION Above, Susan Yoder and Rebecca Rowan, Medford, try out a set of chrome-plated automobile hub caps on the toboggan- slope at Union creek. The hub caps proved tricky to ride, but were faster than anything on the hill yesterday. By sit ting in one and putting their feet in anoth RIBUNE FEBRUARY 3, 1958 No. 244 rXTRN4L TEMPERATURE NCSE CONE CONE TEMPEWfURE the earth once every 113 minutes. The satel lite is 80-inches long and weighs 30.8 pounds. The rocket's final stage (left) and the instrumented satellite (right) are orbit ing as a single unit. harvest of praise at home and abroad as the first U.S. entry in the space race. While ad mittedly not as impressive as Russia's two Sputniks, ' Ex plorer was a tangible sign this country was in the race for space, and an omen of more exploits to come. Next on the schedule was another attempt to launch a small man-moon via the Navy's Vanguard rocket which exploded at its first launching and has been plagued by difficulties. A new try with the Vanguard was ex pected any day. In addition to the Navy, the Army is said to have proposed using its Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM not to be confused with the Jupiter-C) to hurl a satellite high enough to circle the moon. The Air Force has of ficially revealed it is thinking of using its Thor IRBM for flights to outer space. Sends Strong Signals A spokesman for the track ing center here said Sunday night Explorer was sending back "good strong signals that provided "a lot . of valu able information. Another scientist said, however, the in formation has not yet been processed. Dr. Ernest Stuhlinger, chief of the research project for the Army ballistic missile agency, said the satellite now has ten tatively been determined to be ranging from about 212 miles to 1,828 miles above the earth. It was taking 115.1 min utes to make each round-trip. WEATHER FORECAST Occasional pe riods of rain in valleys and snow in mountains through Tuesday. Gusty southerly winds. Low tonight 38. High Tuesday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday 58 Lowest This Morning 35 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:24 a.m. . Sunset 5:27 p.m. Moonrise 5:18 p.m. Full Moon Tuesday 12:05 a.m. PROMINENT STAR Capella. high overhead 3:31 p.m. Below Capella (in the south) is Elnath and well below Elnath shine the bright stars that make up the constella tion of Orion. er, a certain amount of control could be achieved. Using the hub caps was the "in vention" of Dick Thomas and Mac Durge loh, telephone company employees, who were out for a family ride and didn't bring anything to slide on. Withdrawal of Troops Expected Over Demands Announcement Deals Blow To NATO Unity Paris (W Britain may withdraw more troops from her 60,000-man army of the Rhine because of German re fusal to use any of it S9 bil lion budget to support Allied troops there, high Allied sources said. Britain plans to pull out 13,000 troops and the sources said Britain would not hesi tate to pull out more if Bonn keeps vetoing British de mans for financial help. Brit ain asks S140 million. Spaak Concerned NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak was report ed seriously concerned by his failure to make German cabi net members change their mind during his week end trip to Bonn, NATO officials said. Spaak was said to believe the NATO alliance would be badly shaken if Germany kept its money and Britain its troops. But the sources said Spaak had not given up hope and may appeal personally to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, now vacationing on the Riv iera. France Faces Trouble G e r m a ny , meanwhile. warned NATO it could not raise the 220,000 troops ex pected of it if it had to pay the cost of allied troops in Germany. France also faces budget troubles over the upkeep of its troops in Germany. The German announcement dealt a critical blow to NATO unity. Both the Christian Demo cratic Party and the Socialist opposition fully backed the Bonn government and said continued payments would mean discrimination against the Germans. They pointed out the United States was not demanding support costs for its troops in Germany, France or Britain. Mysterious Airplane Collisions Studied Los Angeles (IP) A doubly mysterious aerial tragedy faced investigators today what caused four planes to collide in two separate crashes in this area -within 24 hours, killing 53 persons? A Cessna 180 with four per sons aboard and a Piper Tri Pacer smashed together Sun day in overcast skies near Yerba Linda, about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles. All five persons in the two planes were killed. Less than 24 hours earlier, 48 were killed when a four- engine Military Air Transport Service (MATS) plane, carry ing 41 persons, and a multi engine Navy Neptune bomber with eight reservists aboard collided over suburban Nor walk. All aboard the transport, a C-118 Skymaster, and six aboard the Navy P2-V patrol craft died. Portland (IP) Another Emperor penguin died at Peninsula park here Sunday leaving a total of 10 Emperors and 6 Adelie penguins alive. New York (IP) Dow Jone1 closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials 453.98 up 3.96; 20 rails 110. CO up 0.96; 15 utilities 72.49 up .22; 65 stocks 154.72 up 1.18. Sales today 2.490.000. BULGAfJIfJ HOTE VETOES PARLEY OF MISTERS Moscow OPt Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's letter to President Eisenhower flatly rejected a foreign ministers conference as a pre liminary to a summit confer ence, it was disclosed today. Instead, the Soviet Premier suggested that the agenda and procedural questions could be proposed through diplomatic channels once the Starkweather Pleads Innocent To Two Murders Lincoln, Neb. (!P Mass killer Starkweather pleaded innocent today to two charges of first degree murder. The swaggering, 19-year-old con fessed slayer of 11 was ar raigned in Lancaster County Court. The pint-sized redhead entered his plea in a low, barely audible voice after Judge Herbert A. Ronin .asked if he understood the penalties and the charges. Starkweather looked direct ly at the judge, but his eyes were moist and his lips tense. He was flanked by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Stark weather. Only once did he glance briefly at his father. To all questions he either said "yes" or merely shook his head. Under Maximum Security The bow-legged gunman was taken to the county jail from the courtroom. After being booked, he was re turned to the state peniten tiary "maximum security" section. Starkweather was charged with first degree murder with premeditation and malice on one count and with first degree murder and per petration of a robbery on second count. The charges were in con nection with the rifle shoot ing of Robert Jensen, 17, and his girl friend, Carol Kine. 16, both Bennet, Neb., high school students. - Kidnaper's Suicide Frees State Trooper Paducah, Ky. IP) Mis souri State Trooper William Little, 31, who gave himself for 28 hours as hostage to two gunmen to protect a young woman, was free and unharm ed today because one of his kidnapers preferred suicide to another prison term. One of the kidnapers, Carl Edward Burton, 24, was still at large. The other, Harold Wayne Davis, 33, was in critical con dition at a hospital here from a self-inflicted bullet wound in the abdomen. "I thought I was a goner," said Little, as he described the harrowing hours during which he drove at gunpoint through three states, had his hat shot out of his hand dur ing a wild chase through Pa ducah streets Saturday night, and lived for almost 24 hours in a farmhouse at nearby Melber, Ky., much of the time shackled with his own handcuffs. SOFT RIDE The condition of the snow at Union creek yes terday was such that anything with a smooth surface would serve as something to slide on. Above Ellen Ward nS Dnnn ft??? bth f-Central Point. -me dUndlS on an inflated automobile inner tube. The main thing to avoid here was slipping through the hole in the middle. Fair weather and ideal snow conditions drew hundreds of peoplo into tin mountains over the week end. great powers agree to a meet ing at the summit. Delivered Saturday Bulganin's latest letter to Eisenhower was delivered in Washington Saturday. The text was released here today. The Bulganin letter was in reply to Eisenhower's answer to earlier Soviet proposals for a conference, of the heads of state. The Soviet Foreign Minis try released theBulganin note as a possible agenda for the conference. These already have been given in numerous previous Soviet declarations and annnouncements. They included: Termination of the use of nuclear weapons by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. 'Atom Free' Zona Creation of an "atom free" zone in Central Europe. A non-aggression pact between NATO and Warsaw Pact powers. . Reduction of the number of foreign troops stationed in Germany and other European nations. Discussion of questions connected with . preventing surprise attacks. Expansion of interna tional trade. Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Ashlend Two burglaries were reported in Ashland early Monday morning, ac cording to Ashland city po lice. Arrested at the scene of a burglary at Cook's Recep tion Beer parlqr, 66 East Main st., was Arthur Raymond Huff Jr., 21, formerly of Phoe nix and Ashland, who was re leased from the Oregon state penitentiary Jan. 21. The second burglary was reported at Ideal Super Mar ket. According to police, a Da- trolman during a routine check spotted Huff in the tavern. By cutting through the Oregon hotel the police man caught Huff as he escap ed through a rear window. Police reported that a pin- ball machine had been pried open in the building and some small change taken. Huff was arrested by Jackson county sheriff's deputies in 1956 and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary on 14 counts of burglaries. The super market was re ported to have been entered through a ventilator on the roof. Nothing was reported missing to police. Officials re port that this fis the second time during the week end the store was entered. Three Youths Arrested By Police at Klamath n Klamath Falls (IP) Three midwest youths who crossed the country in what police described as a "carnival of burglary" were arrested here Sunday night. Benjamin Lee Haase, 20, of Lebanon, Ind., and two juvenile companions were turned over to juvenile authorities. Police said they admitted stealing a safe at Lakeview and burglarizing a place at Bly. t
