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Recommended 53rd Year , Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141, Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 pjn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating" special messenger service. "Centennial Park" is in the mak ing in the Camp White area. A desert will he converted to tree-shaded pasture land and a lake will be reserved for fishing by "children only." Plans for the development of this tourist attraction are- related on Faf 12 of today's Mail Tribune. DFORD United Press full Leased Wiro United Press ruU Leased Wire 50 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1958 No. 239 Me Tibetan Tribes Reportedly Kill 50,000 Chinese Accounts of Fighting From Several Sources Tokyo fCPD Tibetan tribes men have revolted against Chinese Communist rule and have killed about 50,000 Chi nese in several months of fighting, reports filtering out from the high Himalayan country said yesterday. As many as 15,000 Tibetans, mostly fierce Khamba tribes men, have been killed, the re ports said. There were rumors that the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, might seek asylum in neighboring India. The reports of the fighting came from New Delhi, Cal cutta, Bhutan, Katmandu, Darjeeling, and smaller In dian and Nepalese hill cities near the Tibetan frontier. Commercial travelers and refugees said the biggest flare up occurred between last Au gust and October when the Khamba tribe in the eastern province of Kham revolted, "Autonomous" The Chinese Communists, who invaded Tibet in 1950 and proclaimed it an "auto nomous'.' republic under Pei- ping's control in 1951, tacitly admitted they were having trouble with the warlike Ti betans. Introduction of their new "people's commune" system of abolishing family life has been postponed in Tibet. The Chinese Reds have cancelled a trip to Tibet scheduled by Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru. Although there has been no apparent large - scale fighting in the last two months, travel ers reported numerous small scale clashes. The revolt was reported to have spread from Kham across the rugged coun try where high mountains, narrow trails and the weather combine to give" Tibetan guer illas an advantage. Main Road Closed Reports reaching New Delhi said the main road leading out of Tibet was closed in October when the Khambas booby-trapped it with ditches lightly covered with e a r.t h, Red Chinese vehicles were stuck. Other Chinese trucks were destroyed and blocked the road when the tribesmen rolled huge boulders down on them. The Tibetans, who have re volted in isolated areas on several occasions during the last three years, were report ed angered by an influx of Chinese settlers into their country and the deportation of 5,000 young Tibetans to China "for higher training." Apparently, the Khamba revolt came when the Chinese decided to divide the country in three administrative parts, the central area controlled by the Dalai Lama, the chief spiritual and temporal leader, the west under the spiritual Panchen Lama, and the Kham area in the east under the Chinese themselves. California PUC Grants Rate Cut San Francisco -IUPD- The California Public Utilities commisison has granted a 30 per cent reduction in railroad freight rates on carload ship ments of lumber within the state. The commission acted Fri day following the Dec. 20 re duction in rates on interstate shipments. The interstate rate reduction gave Oregon ship pers an advantage over North ern California lumber mills on shipments to most Califor nia points. The PUCs permission to raise intrastate rates was tem porary, with a decision to come later on whether it will be made permanent. WEATHER FORECAST: Brief sonny periods today with scattered showers daring the morning. Cloudy Monday with a little light rain. High todav 48. Low tonight 38. High Monday 55. , TEMP. Highest Saturday 45 Lowest Saturday 36 Prec. to 10 pjn. Yesterday 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 4:45 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:40 a.m. Moonrise tonight 7:53 p.m. 'VENUS, in the southwest just after sunset, is beginning a sever month appearance in the evenin; sky. MERCURY, In the southeast just before sunrise, is beginning one of its brief appearances as a morning star. MssllllsHskJ' v,v -iyWMIMlMRS88MM8W8?r . .A: TRANSIT ACQUIRED - Miss Jacksonville museum is shown veying instrument recently was the property of Jesse Applegate, early-day settler in this area. Applegate and his three brothers blazed a trail to thjs country in the 1840s. The transit, along with an old Bible, an early-day French horn and museum by Mrs. Sadie Lewis, gate. Mark was the grandson of Jesse Applegate. The transit is a remarkably precise instrument, made of solid brass parts, and is still in excellent condition. Newspaper Strike Settlement Hinges On Balloting Today New York-OIPD-Union offic ials presented the terms of a proposed new contract to striking newspaper deliverers yesterday, but there was no indication whether the men would vote to end their 18-day $34,000,000 walkout against New York's nine major dai lies. The strikers were to vote in a secret ballot scheduled for 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. today. They were prepared to return to work immediately after the ballots were counted, if a majority accepted the agree ment. Negotiators for the inde pendent newspaper and mail deliverers union accepted a two-year agreement offered Friday night by the publish ers association of New York at a meeting supervised by the federal mediation and con ciliation service. The agreement, which won the nearly unanimous support of the union's executive com mittee, would provide for a Redwood Highway Crash Kills Woman Grants Pass-fflPD-Mrs. Elsie M. Monnin, 64, Crescent City, Calif., was killed and her hus band, Dover, 56, was critical ly injured yesterday when their pickup truck plunged 275 feet down a hillside off U.S. 199 just south of the California border. Monnin was taken to Jose phine General hospital here. Rescuers worked for more than three hours to bring Monnin out of the canyon. Po lice said the accident appar ently happened early yester day but it was several hours before the wreckage was discovered. Space Authority Reports Pioneer III Proves Man Washington-(UPD-Dr. James A. Van Allen,' leading U.S. authority on space conditions, said yesterday ' the Army's Pioneer III moon rocket prov ed that man could orbit the earth at an altitude of 6.000 miles without danger from radiation. He said that data recorded during the rocket's 63,000 mile high flight showed there are two hazardous "dough nuts" of radiation in space instead of the one which was known about before. But he said that an earth satellite launched in a polar direction could escape these bands and go into orbit in a safe zone between them. Astronautical Society The scientist, head of Iowa State University physics de partment, made his report to the American Astronautical Society at a meeting held in connection with the 1958 meeting of the American As sociation for the Advance-! Mary Hanley, curator of the above inspecting the old sur acquired by the museum which other items were loaned to the wife of the late Mark Apple- $a.i$u wage increase over a two-year period. The publish ers had offered $7 in a pro posed contract which the union rejected Dec. 9 to launch the strike. Negotiators accepted other provisions., in ;place Pf. the $1.70 in wages. These other provisions included an added holiday Columbus day -each year and three days of sick leave a year. : The deliverymen would re ceive a $3.55 weekly wage increase this year and $1.75 next year. The additional holi day, for a total of nine each year, would be granted this year. The three days of sick leave would go into force next year. - The publishers said the pro posed agreement involved a redistribution of the $7 pack age they had offered on a basis of $4 the first year and $3 the second. New Yorkers went for their third consecutive weekend without newspapers with a total circulation of 5,500,000 and a total Sunday . circula tion of nearly 8,000,000.' Total losses in wages and advertis ing was estimated at $34,000, 000. Union officials explained the terms of the proposed new agreement .to an estimated 2,000 of the union's 4,400 members at a 2Vz hour mass meeting. Reporters were al lowed to sit in on all but the first hour of the session. Newspapers affected by the strike were the Times, Herald Tribune, News, Mirror, World-Telegram & Sun, Jour nal American, Post, Long Island Star-Journal and Long Island Press. Nearly 15,000 non-striking employes of the papers were laid off over Christmas. - Could Orbit ment of Science (AAAS). Van Allen, who discovered the earlier-known radiation' belt as well as the new one, told a news conference after making his report that the United States should try next to send a satellite into a pole-to-pole orbit at an altitude ranging from 300 to 40,000 miles. He said such a vehicle, equipped with a 100-pound payload of instruments, could remain in orbit long and ef fectively enough to fill in data that could not be obtained from Pioneer III, which stay ed in the air 38 hours with its 13-pound payload. 'Not Nearly So Bad' But Van Allen emphasized that on the basis of what Pio neer Ill-equipped with two cigarette-size geiger counters -showed, the hazards of radia tion to a space traveler were "not nearly so bad as it first looked." He said this was because Holiday Traffic Death Toll Pace Slows Saturday Safety Council Urges Re-Doubling Efforts United Press International The pace of traffic deaths for the Christmas holiday "definitely slowed" Saturday, and safety officials were hope ful that motorists would pre vent the holiday from becom ing the "Blackest Christmas" on record. The National Safety coun cil, urging drivers to re double their efforts, said the "Homeward rush tomorrow will tell the story." But unless motorists further improved their highway record, council officials fear the traffic toll might approach, and even pos sibly exceed, the four-day "Black Christmas" holiday toll of 712 traffic deaths in 1956. The United Press Interna tional counted at least 456 traffic deaths in the holiday period which began at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and ends mid night today. There also were 85 deaths by fires, 3 by plane crashes ,and 71 from miscel laneous causes for an overall holiday toll of 613. Nine Staled High Nine states accounted for 237, or more than half, of the traffic toll. Cs'fornia with 48 highway deatfa, paced the na tion's highway carnage, . fol lowed by Texas with 42 and New York 29. Illinois report ed 22 traffic fatalities, Michi gan 21, North Carolina and Ohio 20 each, Pennsylvania 19 and Florida 18. , , Although the rate of high way . carnage dropped some what Saturday, the Safety Council feared its advance prediction of 620 deaths would be exceeded. No Let-Up ; ' Law officers throughout the nation, cracking down hard on motorists during the holi day, promised no let-up as the nation moved into the final stretch. Good weather over most of the nation was expected to serve as a temp tation to drivers anxious to make good time on the return home from the holidays to their jobs. Minnesota reported only seven traffic deaths for the holiday, but a fatal accident near Mankato Saturday boost ed the state's highway toll for 1958 to 686, a new all-time record. Reid, Childs Both In 'Fair' Condition Ray Edward Reid, victim of the shooting Dec. 18 at 90 and 9 Tavern, was reported slight ly improved by Rogue Valley hospital officials Saturday evening. Reid, 34, of 1850 Barnett rd.i was still listed in fair condition. It was reported that he seemed in "better spirits" Saturday. At Sacred Heart hospital George Washington Childs, 61, of 16 Portland ave., was re ported to still be in fair con dition. He was hit by a truck Dec. 22 at the intersection of East Main and Cottage sts. and is reported to be suffer ing from severe chest injuries, Earth Safely "there is a hollow - in be tween" the 2,000-mile thick radiation band starting about 1,400 miles from' the earth and the 4,000-mile thick band lying between 8,000 and 12, 000 miles from this planet. Van Allen reported his find ings after Hugh L. Dryden, deputy chief of the National Aeronautics and Space admin istration, described this coun try's Atlas "talking" satellite as the first step toward world wide television broadcasts. Communications System The NASA official said the mighty 4V& ton missile, off spring of the Defense de partment rather than this ci vilian agency, had opened the way "toward an economically sound, reliable worldwide communications system," us ing satellites as relay stations. Dryden and Van Allen were among hundreds of sectional speakers at sessions of the six -day AAAS convention which opened Friday. LiH Cwirireinicy 'Small World' Hunt Over 'Green Heir Jungle Is Canceled Caracas, Venezuela (DPD Venezuela authorities called off an aerial search for the ballon "Small World" last night because of growing doubts that it had landed in the jungles of eastern Venezu ela as reported. Communications Minister Oscar Malchado Zuloaga an nounced cancellation of the search over the "Green Hell" jungle. He said "at the mo ment it appears the radio mes sage reporting the ballon's landing was a hoax." . Search planes criss-crossed Martin Family Search Parties Stymied by Snow Portland -(UPD- Search for the missing Kenneth Martin family of Portland bogged down yesterday in heavy snow on Silver Star mountain in Skamania county in Wash ington. Jeep units of Multnomah county sheriff's deputies ra dioed headquarters here they were abandoning the search because of heavy snow drifts on the mfiuntain roads. The search had been direct ed in Skamania county be cause it was thought the fam ily may have crossed the Co lumbia river at Cascade Locks to look for Christmas green ery. The family of five has been missing since Dec. 7, when they told friends they were going to look for a Christmas tree. Searchers have combed Clackamas county, Larch mountain and the Columbia gorge areas for the past three weeks without turning up a positive clue. Only material lead that has turned up to date has been a gasoline credit card receipt which placed the family at Cascade Locks on the after noon of Dec. 7. Sporis Bulletins Medford crowded out a fast scrappy Corvallii team ' 57-55 Saturday night here. It was a fast-breaking, all-offensive game from start to finish. Medford was hard put to stop the Spar tans' one man team, Keith Morrow 5-10 guard, who was hitting 'em from all an gles. He was high point man for the game with 25 points. Morrow was closely follow ed point-wise by Jerry An derson, 6-3 forward with 22 points all of them made from field goals. Corvallis-OIPD-Jim Wood land's two-handed set shot with five seconds remaining in the game gave Oregon State college a 49-47 win over the Air Force academy Saturday night in the open ing game of the Far West basketball classic here. Until Woodland's last ditch shot Oregon State had held the ball for 2:48. The Beavers worked the ball for the last shot and called time out with 19 seconds remain ing. Oklahoma City 81, Xav ier (Ohio) 54 (Semi-Finals)v Auburn 104. Florence St. 78 Nebraska 55. Oklahoma St. 48 Purdue 74, Notre Dame 59' , St. Louis 90, Georgia Tech 79 Dartmouth 88, Brigham Young 75 Colorado 63, Kansas 52 Tennessee 79, Virginia 59 Stanford 68, San Fran cisco 53 . California 90. Arizona 46 Bradley 90, Gonzaga 73 Southern California 63. Santa Clara 49 Oregon Slate 49, Air Force 47 over the jungle areas all day but found no sign of the bal loon or the three men and a woman who crossed the At lantic in it. Malchado Zulo aga announced Friday night that weak radio messages from the balloon established it had come down in eastern Venezuela early that day. Last night, however, the communications, minister said he was calling off the search "because all evidence points to the messages as being fakes." Talking by Telephone He said he took action after talking by telephone with air port officials at Trinidad and hearing the completely nega tive reports from pilots who flew over Eastern Venezuela Friday and yesterday. The minister said the search had been necessary and justi fied in view of the human lives involved, but he said he was beginning to think "some body planned an elaborate joke in very bad taste." The balloon left the Canary Islands Dec. 12 on a free flight. The four Britons aboard hoped to hit the West Indies. Their radio had not been heard for a week, and radar and lookout stations had been alerted to watch for the balloon. " . Suspicions Aroused t J Malchado Zuloaga said his suspicions were aroused by the position given in the ra dio messages reporting the balloon's landing. He said that j m order for the balloon to land where reported, it would have had to pass directly over Trinidad a few hours earlier. : "Certainly it either would have been sighted from the ground, or it would have de scended under its own con trols," he said. The minister said that be cause of this reasoning, he ordered the search planes to cover a broad area in case the position had been miscal culated. At Port of Spain, Trinidad, weather forecasters expressed doubt that the balloon had reached Venezuela. They said they had not had an advisory on the small world's position snice Dec. 14 and it might be having trouble with unfav orable weather over the mid Atlantic.' Havana -UPD- The Cuban Rebel high command yester day ordered "strategic with drawals" from the key cities of Sancti Spiritus and Cruces in Las Villas province. A ma jor government offensive ap peared underway to prevent the Rebels from cutting Cuba in two. Washington .-(UPD Frederick C. Othman, Washington col umnist for United Feature Syndicate, died last night of a heart ailment. Ten Additional Prizes Given in Lighting Contest Ten prizes were awarded on a drawing basis in the Med ford Junior Chamber of Com merce Christmas lighting con test, Del Landing, project chairman, announced Satur day. The 10 prizes were in addi tion to area first and second place winners and the sweep stakes winner, he said. They were awarded so everyone who entered would have an opportunity to win" a prize and to encourage more peo ple to start outside displays. Winners' Names ' Winners in this year's draw ing section of the contest in clude Mrs. J. P. Naumes, Ter ry Walther, Lawrence E. Duff, Werner E. Weraholtz, Mrs. P. R. Clark, R. H. Holmes, John O'Hara, K. L. Argroves, Cliff F. Horn and Miss Connie Harris. Landing said that on Christ mas night, more than 500 cars drove by the display at the 'Got To Keep Things Violent Downdraff Injures 13 New York - (DPD - A British Overseas Airways corporation DC-7C plummeted 1,000 feet toward the Atlantic and then rocketed 1,700 feet straight up yesterday when it hit a downdraft just as the pilot had started to tell the 32 pas sengers to fasten, there seat belts. Thirteen persons were injured. The passengers and some of tjie seven crew members were tossed about in tne caoin. me only one of the injured who needed hospital treatment was the steward, who suffered a possible skull fracture. Candle Causes Fire in Church A tipsy candle caused "holy smoke" at First Baptist church Friday evening when it fell from a candelabra following a wedding there. A curtain behind the pulpit and the carpet were damaged in the, fire that resulted, fire ment said. Smoke damage to the sanctuary was also re ported. Miss Terry Ann Hughes, 56 North Peach street, Medford, became the bride of Francis Burton Adams, Central Point, in a candlelight ceremony earlier in the evening. Fol lowing the event, a reception was held in the fellowship hall downstairs. Near the close of festivi ties the wedding party re turned to the sanctuary for more photographs, for which the 28 candles were re-lighted. Later smoke was noticed in the sanctuary and the fire was discovered. Firemen said the fire was extinguished by members of the wedding party and relatives. Apparently the candle fell from its holder onto some papers near the pulpit.. A. C. Pierce residence, and police were asked to direct traffic in the area. The Pierce display was sweepstakes win ner, and will be entered in the national contest sponsored by General Electric. Other area winners includ ed Mrs. L. B. Pierce and Charles Bottjer, northwest area; Thomas Cardona and Mrs. J. J. Pyle, northeast area; Clark Rawlings and Dr. O. A. Welsh, southeast area; and Mrs. Burr E. Tye and W. D. Mattson, southwest area. Landing said this year's contest was the most success ful carried out by the Jaycees, which started the project three years ago. Assisting the Jaycees in the contest were Weeks and Orr, Lipperts, Dempsters, Eads, Gates, Trowbridge and Flynn, California Oregon Power com pany and the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association, lrs!lft5irD e sft ir fie Balanced, You Know' in Plane The others were treated by a doctor at Idlewild Inter national airport, after the plane landed. The injured included four crew members and nine pas sengers. Steward Dennis Clay was the only one hospitalized. Ran Into Cold Front The plane was enroute from Mont ego Bay, Jamaica, to New York when it ran into a cold front near Nassau, the Bahamas. Airline officials said downdrafts often accompany cold fronts. John Thomas, 24, a sales representative of Toronto, and his bride, Eileen, were return ing from a Jamaica honey moon. He suffered a slight headcut when he was thrown into the aisle. He told how the big four- engine plane went down and up as though it were a yo-yo on a string. Valve Out of Order The pilot notified . us on the public address system that one of the valves (tubes) on the radar apparatus was out of order and that while they were repairing it they could not plot the weather by ra dar," Thomas said. He said the pilot reported that a storm might be ahead and told the passengers to fasten their seatbelts. "But before he could finish his request, we just dropped," he said. "My head struck the ceiling and the next thing I knew, I was on the floor in the aisle between the seats. Many others were also thrown out of their seats, particularly in the rear of the plane behind where we were sitting. Accident Victims' Release Expected Grants Pass - Mrs. Rachel Amanda Fritz and Mrs. Venus Lyle Billeter, both of Fresno, Calif., are expected to be re leased from Josephine gen eral hospital here today, hos pital officials reported. The two women were in jured Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision north of Rogue River. Also injured in the accident and in fair condition at the hospital is Richard V. Taylor, 20, of Grants Pass. Two other persons, Guy Alois Billeter, Fresno, and Robert Hastings, Rogue Riv er, were treated following the accident and released. Cyrus Eaton Enjoys Busy 75th Birthday Montebello, Que . (UPD - Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton had a busy 75th birth day yesterday. He skiied with his grandchildren, received a congratulatory wire from Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and told a news conference Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is a "I an-atic n mi s France Devalues Franc, Bringing Action by Others Policy to be Effective With Bank's Opening London -(UPD- Western Eu ropean nations, led by Britain swept away currency restric tions yesterday in the biggest swing back to monetary and trade freedom since World War II. The United States hailed the move by the 10 nations to allow "external convertibil ity" of their currency, permit, ting foreigners to convert cur rency received in commercial transactions into the money of their own country. . The United States, which has pumped billions of dollars into Europe's economic blood stream, called the currency adjustment a big step toward substantial improvement in international trade. The easing of restrictions on European currencies from the British pound sterling to the Norwegian kroner result ed from devaluation of the French franc. France deval ued its inflated unit of cur rency 17.55 per cent effective Monday, making it worth 493.70 to the dollar against the old rate of 420 to the dol lar. This put the French cur rency on a more competitive basis for the start of the Euro pean common market Jan. 1. 'External Convertibility France went along with Britain. Wt Rermanv. Ttj1v , w 1 1 Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Benelux States in an nouncing "external convert ibility" of currencies effective with bank openings Monday. The decisions means for eigners holding currencies of these nations in commercial dealings will be able to con vert them to the money out of their own country. Convertibilitv of the noiinif sterling in Britain means an American businessman with an account in London payable in pounds will be able to con vert them to dollars at the of ficial rate of $2.80 to the pound. France did not immediately announce how far it would go in its convertibility program ; with the newly-devalued franc. But it was believed it would go as far as its allies in making it externally convert ible. 'External Accounts' The British treasury an nouncement of the converti bility of the pound sterling said authorities would take steps to merge transferable American, Canadian and reg istered accounts. In the future they will be known as "ex ternal accounts," the treasury said. The treasury disclosed that the decision to revise the cur rency regulations was made a i a recent secret meeung in -Paris by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heath cott Amory, French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay and West German Finance Minis ter Fritz Etzel. They commun icated with other govern ments and all synchronized their announcements. Residents of each country involved are not affected bv the convertibility of their own currency, only by the curren cies of other nations. Only Foreigners The external convertibility does not - mean that anyone holding pounds sterling will be able to change them in London to other currencies. Only foreigners holding pounds sterling as a result of commercial transactions will benefit. But it was a major step to ward complete convertibility and restoration of the pound sterling as second only to the dollar as the currency for in ternational trade. Washington-IUPD-Rep. Charl es O. Porter (D-Ore.), said yes terday that he would intro duce legislation next month to put the post office depart ment under the commerce de partment and demote the postmaster general from cabi net rank.
