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- 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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