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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.
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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.