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His parole was revoked.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. '
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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.