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Aftedford Stores W5DD Be peim UmiftnD 'Clock Tomioglhift RESERVE CENTER - This is an architect's sketch of the proposed U. S. Army Reserve Center for the intersection of McAndrews rd. and West Jackson st. Bids will be called on or about Jan. 26, according to word from Oregon's Congressional delegation at Widespread Dissension Seen In Red China Over Communes Tokyo- (UPD -Peiping Radio indicated today that the bee hive-like communes which have swallowed up most of China's half-billion peasants are a source of widespread dissension in the Communist- conquered country. A Peiping broadcast said 99 per cent of China's farm population is now living in communes, while "some ex periments have begun in the cities." It added, however, that large-scale development of city communes is likely only "when the skeptics and doubters have been con vinced." "In the cities, intellectuals still have misgivings about the establishment of com munes . . ." the broadcast said 'The urgent task at present la to quickly achieve unity of views . . . among all mem bers of the party and among the people." This appeared to mean that Communists as well as non Communists oppose the crea tion of the new institutions, which in effect are little more than forced labor camps. ToysDonafed Al Coffee Event Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Greeters com mittee held its annual kaffee klatsch with firemen and Medford Lady Lions repre sentatives at the central fire station this morning in honor of the toy project. The proj ect provides for children who would otherwise receive lit tle, if anything, in the way of Christmas gifts. The Medford Arthur Mur ray Dance studio has an nounced a charity dance which will also provide gifts for needy youngsters. The event is set for 10 p.m., Fri day, Dec. 19, at the Jackson hotel. Dress is to be semi formal and all adults inter ested may attend. Price of admission will be a wrapped toy for a child with the gift marked whether it is for a boy or girl. Approximate age of the youngster who should receive the toy is to be shown. Toys will be given to the Medford Welfare com mittee. Probation Out For Two Men Two men appeared before Circuit Court H. . K. Hanna this morning for probation revocation. Sentenced to 18 months in the Oregon state penitentiary was Ralph Wendell Wier, 22, of route 4, box 375, Medford. His parole was revoked. Ronald Henry Morgan, 20, of Portland, also appeared. He had been previously charg ed with burglary not in a dwelling. Probation was con tinued by the court. UMC Deficit Reduced; Total Now At $127,378 The United Medford Cru sade 1958 deficit has been reduced to $3,652, campaign leaders announced today. Total collected so far is $127, 378. The goal is $131,030. A total of $10 was collected when Christmas cards con taining cash were received at campaign headquarters, Dick Travis, campaign chairman, reported. An additional appeal is go ing out for more Christmas cards and cash gifts to com plete the $131,030 campaign. The cards are to be forward ed to the child care agencies of the Crusade to brighten Christmas for the less fortun ate, spokesmen said. Medford area residents are asked to add one of the chil dren at the child care agencies Despite these shortcomings, the Red radio said, the Com munist Central Committee in China indorsed the commune system at the meeting Dec 10 at which Mao Tse-tung de cided to quit his job as presi dent of Red China. There has been speculation that Mao actually was forced to resign because of serious opposition to the communes. The fact that the Reds wait ed more than a week before making a public announce ment of the committee's in dorsement of the system ap peared to suggest trouble be hind the scenes. It waited almost as long to announce Mao's resignation, apparently in hopes of easing the shock to rank and file members of the party. Recent travelers in Red Chamber Board Elected Today Eight new members of the board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce were announced today, following tabulation of mailed ballots sent in by members of the chamber. The new men on the 24- member board are Frank Be- nesh, California Oregon Pow er company; Hugh Coleman, Crater Lake motors; Ron Gan- dee, Mail-Well Envelope com pany; Gordon Hudson, Hud son's pharmacy; Gene Orr, Weeks and Orr furniture store; Paul Selby, Selby's Glass company; Bert Thierolf, Big Pines Lumber company, and Dick Woodcock, Pepsi- Cola Bottling company. Each will serve a three-year term. New officers of the cham ber will be elected by the board early in January. Otto Frohnmayer is the outgoing president. NATO Reaffirms Stand on Berlin Paris (UPD The United States and its 14 NATO allies tonight reaffirmed their de termination not to yield to Soviet threats against Berlin. The western resolution to stand firm came in a commu nique released at the conclu sion of the three-day meeting of the NATO Council of Min isters. The communique said the council gave first place to the question of Berlin during its comprehensive study of the international situation. It said a solution of the German question linked with European security arrange ments and an agreement on controlled disarmament are essential. It added, the NATO governments will continue to seek a just settlement of these problems. to their Christmas card list and add a dollar for the UMC fund. Each . card should be addressed to UMC, Box 5000, Medford, Ore., Richard Travis, campaign chairman said. All cards will be forward ed to Albertina Kerr homes, Boys and Girls Aid Society, Childrens' Farm Home, Our Lady of Providence Nursery, the Waverly Baby Home and other child care agencies un der the United Medford Cru sade. The "Merry Christmas to Medford" idea was originated by Mrs. Carl Wimberly, 30 South Barneburg rd., Med ford, when she placed the UMC on her Christmas list and sent Christmas greetings and an additional check to the UMC. Washington, D. C. Installation is estimated at a quarter million dollars. Plans call for a main building with offices, supply rooms, classrooms, an attached assembly hall and a two-bay maintenance shop. China have reported much dissatisfaction among the peo ple over the commune system with its forced labor and de struction of the family life that has been the backbone of Chinese culture for untold generations. Ashland Man Dies In Traffic Mishap; 21st County Death George Theodore Cook, 84, of 153 Granite st., cabin D, Ashland, was killed outright Wednesday at 5:50 p.m. when he was struck by an automo bile on Highway 99 approxi mately a half mile south of Phoenix. State police reported that Cook was walking north in the middle of the outside lane at the time of the accident. Joe Edwin Rutherford, 20, of 581 East Main st., Ashland, operator of the automobile, told police that he did not see him in the highway due to the heavy fog. Cook was re ported to be wearing dark clothing. The body was taken to Lit- willer's Funeral home, Ash-! land. Twenty-one traffic fatalities have occurred in the county so far this year. For the same period in 1957, 24 persons lost their lives in traffic accidents. Buttram Held For County Grand Jury Lendel Carl Buttram, 21, Shady Cove, appeared in dis trict court Wednesday after noon and was bound over to the grand jury by Judge James M. Main. He is charged with burglary not in a dwell ing. Buttram, who is being held in county jail on $5,000 bond, waived the right to a prelim inary hearing at the court ap pearance. He is represented by O. H. Bengtson, Medford attorney. Buttram was one of two men arrested Dec. 4 by valley police following a high speed chase. Arrested at the same time was Homer Cloyd Brooks, 39, of Pueblo, Colo. They were arrested in con nection with the theft of ap proximately $687.55 from the safe of Crater Finance com pany, Central Point. Brooks was bound over to the grand jury earlier this month and is being held on $25,000 bail. 350 Children Call Up Santa Approximately 350 chil dren of the Medford area tele phoned Santa Claus with their Christmas orders, Ki- wanis club members reported this morning. Kiwanians are sponsoring the Santa phone service in cooperation with Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph com pany. Cards acknowledging the calls were mailed today to 220 youngsters whose names and addresses Santa was able to obtain. The service will be avail able again this evening and Friday night. Santa will an swer between 7 and 9 p.m. Telephone number is SPring 3-7353. Those calling are asked to dial carefully in or der to avoid ringing the phones of PTT patrons who have similar numbers. Washington-(DPD-America's civilian space agency plans to set off a whole new family of rockets to boost space explora tion within a few years to a point where men will fly be yond the earth's atmosphere. Soviet Deputy Premier To Visit United States Journey To Be In Unofficial Capacity Washington-(DPD-The State Department announced today that Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan will be permitted to visit the United States in an unofficial ca pa city. Department Press Officer Lincoln White said the Ameri can Embassy in Moscow has been instructed to give Mi koyan a visa for the purpose of coming to the United States "as the guest of Soviet Am bassador Mikhail Menshikov." Visa Requested He added that the deputy premier will be given a visa of the type ordinarily grant ed diplomats "visiting the United States temporarily for unofficial purposes." The Soviet Foreign Minis try requested the visa for Mikoyan from the American Embassy in Moscow Wednes day. White said the U.S. Em bassy has been instructed "to inform the Soviet govern ment that it is authorized to issue a visa for Mr. Mikoyan." The Soviet Foreign Minis try said Mikoyan intends to come to the U.S. "at the be ginning of January" and stay for "about two weeks." No Plans Made White said no plans have yet been made for Mikoyan to talk with high American officials because he has not requested such conferences. He added, however, that he was certain Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, as well as other officials, would agree to talk with the Soviet official if he wished to meet with them. White pointed out that Mi koyan is a member of the Soviet government and as deputy chairman of the Coun cil of Ministers, presumably will want to pay appropriate calls on American officials. County Jail Gets Thorough Search A pair of pointed scissors, several pairs of clippers, a glass mirror and pills were discovered in the Jackson county jail Tuesday morning during a jail search, the Mail Tribune learned this week. The glass mirror was re portedly found in the felony tank where the barber scis sors and hand clippers were also said to be "available for prisoner use." The mirror was reported to have been replaced by a metal one. The pills were discovered rolled in toilet paper, it was explained, and a pair of fin gernail clippers were found on one of the prisoners. Removed from the jail dur ing the shakedown was a large amount of books, maga zines, and numerous cartons of cigarettes, it was reported. Fugitive Charge Brings Sentence Probation was revoked for Harry A. Helmick, 822 Cedar st., Medford, this morning in circuit court by Judge H. K. Hanna. He was also sentenced to two years in the Oregon state penitentiary. Helmick was arrested re cently on charges of being a fugitive from justice and for grand larceny. Helmick was charged with taking $170 from Blanche Kindrick, Medford, on Dec. 12. On Dec. 3, Ashland police received a warrant from Sherman, Tex., authorities charging Helmick with being a fugitive from justice and for forgery and passing bad checks. He is being held on $2,500 bail on the fugitive charge. He had posted $500 bail on the grand larceny charge. Festival Fund Now$221,127.93 The new grand total for the Shakespearean Festival " fund is $221,127.93, campaign offi cials said this noon. The goal is $275,000. i The report came after the last of the campaign report luncheons in Medford this noon. Ashland held its final report luncheon earlier this week. The new Medford total is $70,378, collected by cam paign workers in this city. The Ashland total is $70, 021.84, it was reported. The campaign will continue until the goal is reached. I Festival officials said. ' fUl ft mm California Brush Fire Said Nearly Under Control Rifleman's Tracer Bullet Gets Blame San Juan Capistrano, Calif, (UPD-Favorable weather condi tions today came to the aid of 2,000 weary firefighters fighting a gigantic brush fire in southern California. Firemen said complete con trol of the blaze which has blackened 60,000 acres includ ing parts of the sprawling Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base was possible by at least Friday if winds and high humidity continue. ' In Deep Areas The five-day fire caused by a rifleman still remained out of control over more than 50 per cent of its 85-mile perime ter but firemen said most of the uncontrolled line was in deep, uninhabited mountain areas. Nineteen homes and sum mer cabins have been de stroyed in the blaze which erupted Sunday and roared through the western slopes of the Santa Ana mountains which run north-south paral lel to the coast about 10 miles inland. Three-County Area The western extremity of the brush and small tree-fed blaze was about five miles from this historic mission town and spreads over a three county area bounded on the north by the small communty of Trabuco and to the south by 110,000-acre Camp Pendle ton. To the east it extends high up into the mountains to "with in five miles of Lake Elsinore. There was no present dan ger to any homes and the fire in an isolated area of Camp Pendleton was almost com pletely controlled. Tracer Bullet Blamed Elwood Stone, U.S. forest fire investigator, said Jerry Stewart, 21, admitted firing a tracer bullet Sunday during target practice. Stone said the glowing-hot bullet touched off a fire which Stewart was un able to beat out. Stone said Stewart was un aware that a tracer bullet was among the shells he was using. No charge have been filed against the man. Flasher-lights Set At Road Work The county highway de partment has placed extra flasher-lights at all road con struction projects throughout the county, County Engineer Paul Rynning reported today. The lights were added as a safety precaution due to the heavy fog, he said. Motorists were particularly warned to be on the lookout for these signals on the North Phoenix rd., Rynning added. The four detours presently in use in that area are well marked with the flasher lights, the engineer said, and drivers using the road should watch for them to avoid pos sible accidents. Regulus Missile May Feel Economy Axe Washington -(UPD Authori ties said today that the Navy's supersonic Regulus II guided missile may be one of the next victims of the current Pentagon effort to hold down spending. B e r 1 i n (UPD Germany's Communists declared today that the Western allies must either deal with them or choose between starvation and war. WEATHER FORECAST Valley fog tonight and early Friday. og iiiuns during morning, becoming cloudy with chance of occasion al rain by afternoon. Low to night 36. High Friday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday : 42 Lowest this Morning 37 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight , Sunset today 4:40 p.m; Sunrise tomorrow 7:36 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 1:25 a.m. Full Moon . Dec. 25 PROMINENT STARS Aldebaran, in the east 6:10 p.m. Vega, low in north west - P-- Procyon, high in south east 11:54 p.m. 1:03 a.m. Arcturus, rises 1:44 a.m. SatO Seating Sen. Morse May Swatch To Independent Status Again Portland-(UPD-A Washington dispatch to the Oregon Journal said today that fellow senators were speculating that Sen. Wayne L. Morse might soon bolt the Democratic party and again become an independent. Morse deserted jthe Republican party and announced himself an independent after the 1952 election He later joined the Democrats and was reelected in 1956 on that party's ticket. The Journal's dispatch said Morse had become an "irritant" to Majority Leader Medford 32 PAGES MEDFORD, East, West Abandon Warning System Talks Little Prospect To Reconvene Conference Seen Geneva -(UPD The East and West abandoned indefinitely today their fruitless attempt to set up a global warning system to prevent sneak at tacks. Delegates to the 10-nation Surprise Attack Conference held a four-hour meeting and then adjourned for an indef inite recess. While the delegates ex pressed hope that the break would be temporary, there appeared little prospect the talks would be reconvened, at least in the near future. Both sides have refused to budge from their conflicting views on what the confer ence should discuss. Agree To Report The delegations agreed in the final session, however, to report to their governments on the substance of the six- weeks talks. Conference sour ces said there was general agreement to attempt through diplomatic channels, to find a frame of reference that would make resumption of the talks worthwhile. Soviet First Deputy For eign Minister Vasily V. Kuz netsov, head of the eastern delegation, later accused the West of using the conference mainly to pry into Soviet mili tary secrets. Kuznetsov told a news con ference the West was trying to step up the arms race and gain a military advantage over the Communist nations through a policy of strength. For such a policy, he said,' probably the only end is complete catastrophe." GP Youth Dies in Fight at MacLaren Woodburn -flIPD- William James, 16, Grants Pass, died following a fight with another boy at MacLaren school- for boys early today. ? Death occurred as an am bulance was carrying the lad to Portland. School Superintendent Amos Reed said the fight oc curred in a dormitory and that an autopsy has been directed. The boy complained of a severe headache following the fight but his condition was not considered serious for sev eral hours. A doctor was then called. DOW -JONES AVERAGES New York-WPD-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 572.38, up 3.00; 20 railroads ' 154.79. up 0.76; 15 utilities 88,89, up 0.41, and 65 stocks 198.43. up 1.01. Sales today were compared with 3.900,000 shares Wednesday. Women buy about 80 per cent of men's neckties and most sales are made around the holiday season. About 300,000 residents of New Jersey commute daily to their jobs in New York and Philadelphia. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1958 'Some Of These Democrats Seem To Have A Dangerous Belief In Democracy" Police Chief Warns Drinking Medford Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin has warned drivers and pedes trians to be alert for drivers who have been drinking dur ing this, "the greatest party giving time of the year." Champlin appealed to hosts at office parties and private celebrations to make it clear to guests that "a holiday party can be enjoyed without over indulgence in, intoxicants. "It; must be remembered that death takes no holiday," he said. He reminded motor ists that Medford policemen would not let the holiday spir it deter them from strict en forcement of the law against driving while intoxicated. PT&T Contract Talks Will Open in March Portland -flJPD- Negotiations for a new contract covering 5000 employees of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in Oregon will open in March, an official of the Comaiunication Workers of America Union said today. United Nations, N.Y. (UPD Secretary-general Dag Ham marskjold leaves today on a new trouble-shooting mission to the Middle East. Portland-(UPD-Brig. Gen. G. Robert Dodson, chief of staff of the Oregon Air National Guard, died today. 1 JLf Shaping' (Dp if Mfri Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) and that his lack of party discipline had resulted in "virtually isolating" himself in the senate. His recent open break with Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, the dispatch added, meant that he had walled himself off "from the one man who might have been his most ardent supporter." The upshot may be,- according to the Journal, that Morse will bolt the Democrats "to again become the lone wolf of the Senate." Tribune No. 231 Drivers He mentioned as a case in point the. fact that a Medford man had been arrested early yesterday morning for driv ing under the influence. This man, according to police rec ords, had attended a party for company employees earlier in the evening. He has pleaded guilty and been fined. $100, the records show. Champlin pointed out that "the real menace of the hol iday season" is "the so-called social drinker the driver who has had just enough al cohol to affect coordination, slow reflexes and impair his judgment. "Those who feel they are better drivers after a couple of drinks are merely victims of the influence of intoxi cants,' 'he said. "Party-givers," he added, should bear in mind that cof fee does not help to ,offset liquor. Only time will work alcohol out of the 'blood stream." Those who give parties will be doing their friends a real favor if they see to it that any one who has been drinking rides home with a non-drinking friend or uses public trans portation, the chief concluded. Sears' Medford Store To Be Full-Sized Outlet Chicago - (UPD - Six new major department stores will lead a $50 million expansion program in 1959, Sears, Roe buck & Co. officials an nounced Wednesday night. Board Chairman Fowler B. McConnell and President Charles H. Kellstadt said that six full-size retail outlets-two each in Texas and California, one in Oregon and one in Washington-will be built next year. Th? stores will be in Tor Committee Votes Recommendation To Refuse Seat Write-in Winner May Face Probe Washington (UPD Little , Rock's write-in election of a segregationist congressman was boiling up today into a' national issue almost certain to split the House in a bruis-. ing fight at the opening of Congress on Jan. 7. The issue was drawn by an elections committee's 3-2 recommendation Wednesday that the House refuse to seat Dr. Dale Alford pending a "thorough investigation" of his Nov. 4 election victory over, veteran Rep. Brooks Hays, an avowed moderate on the school integration ques tion. Opinions were divided on -the probable outcome of the House test. There was general agreement, however, it would be difficult now to avoid it, and that sectional and racial considerations, rather than alleged irregularities in the election, might decide the issue. Can Reject Member The House practically al ways accepts whatever mem bers the voters may send. But, it does not have to. Un-; der the Constitution, each house of Congress is the judge of its membership. A clue to the probable cleavage on Alford's seating came in Wednesday's split de cision. Two Northern Repub-, licans and one Northern Dem ocrat voted in effect against Alford while two Southern Democrats voted for him. House Democrats, at their caucus on Jan. 6, also face a probable row over the Al ford case. Caucus Chairman Melvin Price (D-Ill.), did not invite Alford to the party ses sion, presumably because he ran against the recognized Democratic candidate, Hays, who had won the party pri mary. Denounces Decision Alford, in Little Rock, de nounced the committee ac- cision and said, "further ac tion will be taken in my be- , half immediately." He declin ed to say what this action would be. Hays welcomed the com mittee's call for a full inves tigation, but continued to in sist he was "not a contestant." He pointed out that the com plaint was filed not by him but by John F. Wells, a Little Rock weekly newspaper pub lisher. The Little Rock moderate did not close the door, how ever, to the possibility; he might accept the House seat should the House eventually declare him entitled . to it. Liberal GOP Wing Gets Severe Jolt Washington ttJPD The "lib eral" revolt among Republi can senators received a severe jolt today. Sen. Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.) refused to join their drive to capture the Sen ate GOP leadership. Morton announced he would support the "conservative" candidate, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-IU.), for floor leader unless his Kentucky colleague, Sen. John Sherman Cooper, sought the post. Morton was one of the un decided group the insurgent liberal bloc was hoping to corral. rance and Buena Park, Calif.; Midland and Orange, Tex.; Medford, Ore., and Renton, Wash. Forty-six new catalog of fices will be opened together with numerous smaller out lets in shopping centers springing up across the coun try. It will be the 14th consecu tive year, McConnell said, that the company has spent between $24 million and $70 million for expansion.
