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tMmA m "Wait, Here, PIeae Pierce Display Is . Judged Winner of Jaycee Competition A display at the A. C. Pierce residence, Pierce Heights, was sweepstakes winner in the an nual Medford Junior Cham ber of Commerce Christmas lighting contest, Del Landing, project chairman, announced today. A display at the Pierce resi dence won last year, but both entries have been different, Landing pointed out. s The Pierce display this year featured the traditional Na tivity scene, with the Babe in a manger having a lighted halo. Near the child are three gifts of the Wise Men, and livo lambs and a live burro. Flanks Main Window The Nativity scene flanks the main window of the home which features the traditional Christmas tree. The house is trimmed with lights and spe cial Jigh ting effects-are used to set off the outside display. Other winners in the light ing contest: Northwest area: Mrs. L. B. Pierce, 516 West Jackson st., first; Charles Bottjer, 3350 Jacksonville highway, second. ' Northeast area; Thomas Cardona, 224 Saginaw dr., first; Mrs. J. J. Pyle, 2480 Roberts rd., second. Southeast area: Clark Rawl Ings, 131 Vancouver ave., first; Dr. O. A. Welsh, 1300 East Main st., second. Southwest area: Mrs. Burr E. Tye, 102 Misletoe ave., firs; W. D. Mattson, 1036 Mt. Pitt ave., second. A drawing for six prizes will be held from those entries which were not judged as first or second place winners, Landing said. Landing pointed out that there are many beautiful Christmas lighting displays, Snow Reported on Mountain Passes Snow was reDorted on ma jor highways out of the val ley this morning, according to state police. Four inches of new snow was reDorted on Highway 99, on the Siskiyous, with four inches on the roadside, and Highway 66, the Green Springs, reported ;three inch es of new snow. Kif?hwav 230. Diamond Lake cut-off, has 10 inches of new snow, and state police reported that it was still snowing in the area. Two in ches of new snow is reported at Union creek, police said. New Leads Being Checked by Police In Disappearance of Martin Family Portland UPD Two new leads were checked today in the search for the Ken Mar tin family of Portland, miss ing since Dec. 7 on a Christ mas tree hunting expedition. Spotted Twice Late Wednesday a Portland truck driver, Leo Workman, told authorities he had spot ted what appeared to be a station wagon off Highway 97, 10 miles south of Kent in Sherman county, Dec. 8-the day after Mr. and Mrs. Mar tin and their three daughters vanished. He spotted it again Dec. 22 while he was travel ing that route. " State police attempted to check out the report as direc tions were relayed front Port land by Workman. Workman told Multnomah but because they were not entered the contest, they could not be judged. Entries in this year's con test were almost double those of last year. Landing said. More than 70 entries were received this year, com pared to 39 last year. Accused Slayer Of Boy Critical Astoria - (UPD - The condi tion of Robert L. Slater, 53, Portland labor leader charged with 'the fatal shooting of Larry Banyard, 16, Tigard, Tuesday remained critical to day. , Slater was removed to St. Mary's hospital here, late Wednesday from Seaside hos pital, where he was taken aft er shooting himself in the head : minutes before he was arrested by state police. Authorities have been un able to find a motive for the shooting, which occurred near Elsie on the Sunset high way when Slater stopped his car, flogged down the - Ban- yard boy and his 14-year-old brother, Benny, and accused them of "following" him. Slater has been secretary of the Construction and Labor ers Union No. 320 in Portland for 18 years. The Banyard brothers were en route from Tigard to Sea side to visit their father over the holidays. Their parents are divorced. Shooting Victim In Fair Condition Today Ray Edward Reid, 34, of 1850 Barnett rd., was report ed in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital today. Reid was shot Thursday evening at the 90 and 9 Tavern on South Riverside ave. . v An accident victim, George Washington Childs, 61, of 16 Portland ave., remains in poor condition, in Sacred Heart hospital, hospital of ficials reported today. Childs was hit by a truck Monday evening at the, inter section of East Main and Cot tage sts. New York DPD Negotia tors attempting to end a 16- day deliverers strike that has halted publication of nine major daily newspapers took a holiday recess today amid an air of guarded optimism. county detectives he first spotted the corner of a sta tion wagon off the highway after observing 40-foot skid marks leading off the road. He reported the matter to the county authorities Wednes day after his wife urged him to do so in event the informa tion might solves the disap pearance of the Martin fam ily. Another area being search ed today is a deep canyon near Rowena Point. Hood River County Sheriff Rupert Gillmouthe said information on the area came from a man and wife at Bonneville who said they were in the Row ena Point area Dec. 17, and were attracted, to the Hog Canyon area by a flock of buzzards, flying low between Highway Traffic Death Toll Starts Upward Climb Safety Council , Predicts 620 Deaths By United Press International Americans rejoiced together today in churches or laughed together under Christmas trees in a holiday from the ballistics, brinks and block ades that have beset the cha otic world of 1958. But on the nation's high ways and- streets, an esti mated 620 persons were ex pected to meet violent death. That was the number the National Safety Council fear ed would be killed in auto crashes during the 102-hour period which began at 6 p.m. (p.s.t) Wednesday and ends at midnight Sunday. Highway Toll founts At 7 a.m. (p.s.t.) a United Press International count showed 104 persons dead in h61iday accidents, with' 89 killed on strets and highways, five in fires and 10 in other accidents. - California had 12 highway dead, Texas 11, Illinois 9, and Indiana and New York 7 each. Five other persons were killed and eight more criti cally injured just before the holiday, began in a two-car accident near Tikeston, Mo. Tough Sledding ' Santa Claus and thousands of little boys found tough sledding this morning as the weatherman failed to deliver nature's gift to Yule tradition -a white Christmas. Sparse snow flurries were forecast in the Rockies from Montana into Colorado and from the Dakotas across the Great Lakes into parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Elsewhere it was a green Christmas with rains predict ed in Southern Texas, Florida and the Pacific Northwest, partly- cloudy skies across the Gulf States and clear skies from Southern California into the midlands, Three Injured in Highway Mishap Three persons were report ed in 'fair condition at .Jose phine General hospital today following a two-vehicle acci dent Wednesday about 4:55 p.m., a mile north of Rogue River on Highway 99, state police reported. Two other persons were treated and released, hospital officials reported. Confined to the Grants Pass hospital were v Richard V. Taylor, 20, of 303 NE W St., Grants Pass; Mrs. Rachel Amanda Fritz, '75, Fresno, Calif.; and Mrs. Venus Lyle Billeter, 57, also Fresno. Tay lor, who is said to be suffer ing from head injuries, was reported to have had a "poor" night by hospital officials. ,.. According to state police, a convertible traveling south on Highway 99 skidded broadside of the road on a right hand curve and hit a north-bound sedan head-on. The converti ble, registered to Taylor, was thought by police to have been operated by him. Mrs. Billeter was operator of the sedan, police said. Pas sengers in the California car were Guy Alois Billeter, 58, and Mrs. Fritz, mother of Mrs. Billeter. Passenger in the other vehicle was Robert Has tings, 21, of Rogue River. Billeter and Hastings were treated at Josephine General hospital and released. Both automobiles were demolished,-police said. It was reported that the California residents were trav eling to Salem to spend the holiays with relatives. the canyon walls, an unusual sight. . - Sheriff Gillmouthe said the canyon apparently had not been searched. He also obser ved that Martin was known to have taken his family on other outings to Memaloose Park, about three miles be yond Hog Canyon and on the same road. Canyon Deep The steep canyon is sever al hundred feet deep off the road leading to the point that overlooks the onetime Indian burial spot on Memaloose Is land in the Columbia river. The Bonneville couple decid ed to report the buzzard inci dent after disclosure Tuesday that Kenneth Martin bought gasoline with a credit card in Cascade Locks Dec. 7. 53rd Year Medford 20 Pages Inner By FATHER GEORGES PIRE Writer for UPI Huy, Belgium - (UPD .- For the past 1958 years the angels have been singing the encour aging words known to all: "Peace on earth and goodwill towards' men." Without this assurance we might doubt that peace is possible after finishing a year like this and finfciing ourselves before the unknown of 1959. And espe cially when we see what little progress humanity on the whole has made. Nevertheless, the immense mail I have received since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize of 1958 has shown me on one hand there are thous ands of human beings on earth awaiting peace and- on the other hand many more who Ashland Resident Killed When Hit Late Wednesday Ashland - Charles Johnson, 82, of Ashland hotel, was kill ed about 5:55 pjn. Wednes day while crossing, East Main st. at the intersection of Oak st. to return to the hotel, Ash land city police reported. The man was struck by an automobile operated by Ken neth Theodore ' Wenaus, . 46 Granite st., Ashland. Police said there is still a question as to whether. Johnson was in the crosswalk at the time of the incident. ; 'A The traffic fatality is the first in more than two years within- the Asblaad-rCity lim its, police said. Johnson's death brings to 22 '"the num ber killed in traffic accidents within the county this year. This time iast year 26 persons had lost their lives in automo bile accidents in the county. January Critical In Test Ban Talks Washington -flJPD- U. S- of ficials said today the first weeks of January will be crit ical in determining whether the United States, Britain and Russia reach, a workable agreement on a nuclear test ban. .. .. , .. . -.. The big three .talks resume in Geneva Jan. 5 after a hol iday recess which came as the Russians were showing some willingness to meet the west ern position. , American officials pointed out that major hurdles remain and hard bargaining lay ahead. They believe Russia will aeree by March to a test ban including controls and in spection if there ever is to be such a pact. The Russians suddenly changed their attitude early in December and began to talk in earnest about the subjects which led to agreement on the first four articles of the pro posed treaty. ' . i 1 r Development Loan Fund Budget Cut Washington -flJPD- President Eisenhower, in his budget-cutting Droeram. was reported to day to have slashed $300 mil lion from the State Depart ment request for the Devel opment Loan Fund. Informed sources said that Eisenhower had decided : to ask Congress in' the: 1960 fis cal vear budget for $700 mil lion in new funds for the de velopment loan program, al though C. Douglas Dillon, Un dersecretary of State for Eco nomic Affairs, has advocated $1 billion for the program. The fund provides loans . to underdeveloped countries. ; The disclosure of the loan fund allocation came as Dem ocrats and Republicans con tinued to debate the Presi dent's budget plans. v Girl First Christmas Baby in Portland Portland-tUPD-The first baby born on Christmas day in Portland was a daughter, born to Mr. and Mrs. Gene G. West berg, at St. Vincent hospital at 12:35 ajn. winner MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBR 25, 1958 Peace feel the need to believe that someone believes in them. v I have received many let ters saying, "thank you for your faith in mankind.". Let us, therefore, have reasonable faith in mankind and let us all during the year to come make an effort for peace. During my last audience with King Alav V of Norway, in Oslo Palace, he said to me "peace begins in the heart of every man." . It is with this sentence in mind that I write my Christ mas message for United Press International. Everyone who reads this message is therefore a deposi tary for some part of the peace. Those thousands of people who write that they need Asserts in Yyle Iik-v tl a M&iW&i SHOW STEALER - A "co-star" in the Lone Pine school Christmas play Idst Friday may never win an oscar, but her appear ance on stage proved to be one of the highlights of the evening's performance. The "actress" " was a fluffy white burro named Chiquita, shown above with Court enay Odell and ' Harold 'Simon who played Mary and Joseph in the production. Court- Thousands of Pilgrims Gather At Holv Shrine of Christendom Bethlehem - (UPD - Thou sands of pilgrims worshipped today in Bethlehem, the small town nestled in the Judean hills where Christ was born. Bethlehem, once part of Palestine and ' now in West Jordan, contains the holiest shrines of Christendom and more than 13,000 pilgrims from throughout the world visited here this Christmas season. ... As is the custom once , a year,' Mandlebaum.Gate in Jerusalem, five miles away, is opened for the pilgrims to pass from Israel into Jordan. For many living in countries still technically at war it was a once-a-year chance to gath er with relatives. Planes have been landing at Jerusalem Airport at the rate of 20 a day for several days. Passengers included 200 members of the U.N. Emer gency Force from the Gaza strip, a reminder that peace on earth is still an unaccom plished goal. One procession headed by Catholic patriarch Alberto WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing clou diness tonight. Occasional rain Friday. Low tonight 32. High Friday 45. Low Friday night 35. . . . Temp. Highest Yesterday 43 Lowest this Morning 28 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .45 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:39 a.m. Moonrise today 4:54 p.m. Full Moon tonight 7:54 pjn. PROMINENT STABS Regnlus, rises 9:38 p.m. The Twins, high above Begnlus. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, high in south 8:50 p.m. Jupiter, rises : - 4:46 ajn. Ussenftiol and hope for peace must not expect too much of it from an exterior source. This "ex terior source" may be a con gress or a meeting of poli ticians. Instead each of us should look inward and begin this peace within himself by liv ing in internal harmony, peace, calm, by dominating his passions,' in justice, good will and service and in seren ity. This inner peace must reach out to friends, neighbors and kinsfolk,- ill humor with foundation , must disappear and vanity be crushed. . This is the first step to wards peace. Begin by inter ior peace, and you form a sort of island from which its soft light can radiate out- Gori arrived in Bethlehem on Thursday escorted by an hon orary guard of Jordanian cav alry police. The pilgrims prayed in st. Catherine's church and then at the Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christ was born. Bells' of a carillon in the tower of the Church of Na tivity sounded at midnight to announce the most solemn night of the year for Christ ians everywhere while tiers of choir boys sang sacred mu sic. There were services a mile Two Christmas Babies Born in Valley Today Two babies, both girls, were born on Christmas day at valley hospitals.' ; Parents of a girl born at 5:47 a.m-at Rogue-Valley hos pital are Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Tosh, 1422 Dixie lane, Med ford. She weighed 53i pounds. The other baby is a daugh ter of -Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Beydler, route 1, box 199, Tal ent. She was born at Sacred Heart hospital at 6:12 ajn. and weighed 8 pounds. Trurhans Gather for Christmas Observance New York -flJPD- Former President and Mrs. Truman will observe Christmas today at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Daniel. - The center of attention un doubtedly will be the Tru- mans' grandson, Clifton Tru man Daniel, who will be cele brating bis second Christmas Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 237 wards. By multiplying these islands of peace we can hope one day to see a world peace. Let us disarm. But let us all dis arm. We are all in a hot war or cold war either inside our selves or with those who sur round us. Why dream of an interna tional peace when partly .be cause of our own fault we lack inter-individual peace or interior peace. An uplifted soul uplifts the world. The Nobel Prize winner of 1958 wishes you all a happy feast of the peace. He hopes to contact a great many of you. Write simply to me, Boite Postable 10 Brussels, Belgium.: He - will answer quickly and see what together you can do for peace. enay is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Odell, 1824 Brookdale rd., and Harold is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Simon, 2105 Roberts rd. Chiquita, like most burros, is cautious of strange surroundings and had to be pushed bodily across the storm grat ing near :the outside stage entrance. The burro is owned by Mr.- and . Mrs. Simon. - away along the road which leads from Bethlehem to Jerusalem at the well of the Magi where tradition says the Wise Men stopped to drink and saw the reflection of the star which led them to the manger where the Christ child lay. . Airlines Mechanics Accept Proposal Miami (UPD Eastern Air Lines' striking mechanics have voted to accept a new com pany proposal. But there still is little indication when the company's grounded planes will fly again. . A union official said Wednesday night reports have been received from all sta tions showing that "the great majority" of the company's 5,300 mechanics favor accept ing the new contract. But the walkout now in its 32nd day - will not end until at least Monday when the rank-and-file votes are of ficially tabulated, said George Brown, local president of the International Association of Machinists. Meanwhile, pilots striking against American Airlines withheld agreement on a pact that could have put the na tion's biggest air carrier fleet back in operation for the holi days. Salem -UPD- A total of 12,- 376 acres was burned on state forest land during " the 1958 fire season. Noon Edition Help us build new Euro pean villages in which wc can provide a human life to hu man families. It does not mat ter if these families come from Eastern Europe and are now in the West He would do the same for any family from any corner of the world which found itself destitute in another corner . of this world which must become more fraternal. Unite our goodwill. I to help you and you to help me. Increase my range of action, the warmth of my island of peace. May this message, writ ten without a literary touch but the depth of my heart reach you all and bring you some joy on this Christmas of 1958. Pope Takes Role Of Parish Priest To Recite Mass Vatican City-OIPD-Pope John XIII took the role of a parish priest this Christmas Day, re citing mass, visiting the sick and sending his blessing to the, Roman Catholic; faithful around the world. . The. Pontiff recited mass for thousands of Romans and visiting pilgrims in the Basili ca, of St. Peter, the largest church in Christendom. After the mass, he appeared on the central balcony of the massive basilica to pronounce a Christmas blessing "Urbi Et Orbi"-"to the city And the world"-for his flock. '- Thousands Receive BlestingV Thousands In St. Peters square below, many kneeling, received the Pontiffs blessing, as he moved, his hands slowly in the' sign of the cross and intoned the Latin words. ; Pope John was in" high Christmas spirits as he left the Vatican after the mass to visit the sick in his favorite role as a pastor to his flock. First stop on the schedule of his visits to the sick was Bambino Gesu (Infant Jesus), a children'! hospital next door to the North American Col lege where some 250 Ameri can seminarians live. Eisenhowers Have Quiet Day at Home Washington -JUPD- President and Mrs. Eisenhower observ ed Christmas today like mil lions of other Americans with a quiet day at home and the traditional family dinner. . No affairs of state were on the presidential schedule and the first family planned to en tertain their son, Maj. John Eisenhower, his wife Barbara, and their four children at the White House. Santa Claus will visit the Eisenhower grandchildren at their home in nearby Alexan dria, Va., before they go to the White House for the 5 p.m. (e.s.t.) dinner with their grandparents. But other presents will be exchanged, of course, by the family around the White House. Christmas tree. The White House usually keeps the nature of family gifts se cret. All 36 Aboard French Airliner Survive Crash Vienna-OJPD-An Air France Constellation crashed in flames Wednesday night but the lives of all aboard "miracu lously" were spared. The pilot of the four-engine plane said it entered a "cloud of fog" just before it plunged into a -muddy field a mile short of the airport runway. The plane was en route from Paris to Vienna with one stop at Munich. Wind Spoils Attempt Pierre Candau, French pilot of the plane in which 36 per sons narrowly missed death, said visibility was good around Vienna's Schwechat airport but a strong wind spoiled his first landing attempt. Plane Starts To Fall On the second approach, he Gromyko Declares Reds Would Ask No Reservations Limited Tests for Peaceful Purposes Moscow-IDTD-Soviet Forelrn Minister Andrei Gromyko said today the Soviet Union, was ready to sign at any time." an agreement with the United States and Britain to end nu clear weapon tests "without' any reservations and precon ditions." Addressing the Supreme' Soviet, Gromyko announced to the assembled deputies: The Soviet Government la ready to sign an agreement on' the discontinuation of nuclear weapon tests at any time, even tomorrow, without any; reservations and precondi tions, and to cease from that day on, together with the United States and Britain, the: tests of all types of such wea pons for all time." Gromyko said the Soviet Government was prepared to agree to a limited number of nuclear tests for peaceful pur poses. But he said the Soviets would take it for granted that the number of tests made by the U.S.S.R. "should equal the number of tests made by the United States and Great Britain combined." "The total number of explo sions for every year should be agreed on and limited in advance," he said. Spring Charge The Foreign. Minister ae. cused the West of trying to use surprise attack safeguards as a means of spying into the. Soviet arsenaL . ' "We can satisfy their curi osity in one respect," Gro myko said. "We can assure them once again that the U.S.S.R.- has enough up-to-date arms, both in quantity: and quality,' to provide the country with reliable safe guards against any encroach ment." - ' - He said Russia was willing to scrap its arms "immediately ; after the Western powers agree to sign a treaty on ap propriate disarmament meas- ures." Turning to the Berlin prob lem, Gromyko. said that if the problem were not solved, the city might become a second Sarajevo. The: reference was to the city in Bosnia, now part of Yugoslavia, where World War I was touched off by the assassination of Archduke Francis - Ferdinand of Aua-; tria. Gromyko said the Soviet Government's motives were' being misunderstood and that, the Western powers were looking for a hidden motive which did not exist. The Foreign Minister point-' ed out that no substantial, progress had yet been made at the Geneva conference on the suspension of nuclear wea pons tests. He said this has occurred because representatives of the United States and Britain were apparently in no hurry, to solve the task before the. conference.' Gromyko' said the Soviet Union was always ready to ban nuclear tests and did so unilaterally last March while, the United States and Eng land refused .to follow and; continued their experiments at a faster pace. - Man Struck by Bus . In Portland Dies Portland -flJPD- The MultwK mah county coroner's officer, reported Wednesday night that a man had died in St. Vincent hospital of injuries suffered when struck by a bus Wednesday afternoon. He was identified from' papers on the body as Walter Peerson, about 65. said "we started to prepare for a landing. Suddenly we could see nothing at all. We suppose we entered a cloud of fog. , ' : ; "The plane then abruptly started to fall. The copilot and . I. tried to steady the engines but that did not help." . Plane Explodes Witnesses said the plane ex ploded just after the 30 pas-' sengers and six crew members, had scrambled to safety. Some passengers were treat ed for minor injuries at near-! by hospitals but al had been released by today. Some parts of the plane, were thrown as far as 200 yards away. All four engines' were found in different direc-' tions.
