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2 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mcdfenf, Oraeoii, Sunday. Jnuiry 11, 19S9 Space CommSttee Asserts Kussoa Mas ffidenong Lead Washington - (UPD -The. House Space Committee as-j serted yesterday that Russia has a 12 to 18 month jump on America in the life-or-death i space race and that the gap is widening. It said it would take the United States five years to catch up, even if an all-out program were begun immedi ately. It added that despite President Eisenhower's call for a balanced budget, "bud get pressures in the short run should not be the primary bas s for decisions on space programs which involve the very survival of the nation." "Outer space is fast becom ing the heart and soul of ad anced military science,' the committee said in its final report for 1958. "It cannot be over-emphasized that the sur vival of the free world-in- deed, all the world-is caught up in the stakes. 'Bold and Dynamic "Only a bold and dynamic program employing the total talents and the greatest strength of the United States and its friends is competent to meet a challenge so over whelming.' Chairman John W. McCor- mack, the House Democratic leader from Massachusetts, said in an accompanying statement that his committee in the last year has dealt with "events which have re cently changed the course of world history and the devel opment of civilization for all time to come." These changes can not be forestalled, he said, "for the growth of these forces is more powerful than any political government on earth." No Specific Amount The committee proposed no specific amount that should be included in the fiscal 1960 budget. It said it sought in its report only to "discuss fac tors which should shape bud get decisions." In the past the committee has suggested that the budget I for the National Space admin-1 Fireplace Screens 95 Select your screen from the wide va riety of sizes and finishes in our large display. 15 and up ELECTRIC HEATERS! Reg. 11.95 SPECIAL 1320 watts of efficient heat. FIREPLACE GRATES Heavy duty grates that t will last for years! I i It Pays to Q SPECIALISTS IN 245 S. Central at 10th 13 istration alone should be about a half-billion dollars. some committee memoera i have proposed more. In its final report the com mittee also: 1. Warned against neglect ing relatively cheap research programs "to save moderate amounts of money." It said Atomic Innards For 1960 Flight Washington fCPD A U. S satellite with atom -powered radio and instruments is ex pected to go into orbit some time in 1960, it was learned yesterday. But it looks as though it will be at least another five years before American satel lites or space probes are pro pelled aloft by nuclear rock ets. . . One atomic power plant for satellite instruments is sched uled for ground tests this year. It probably will be another year before it is test ed in flight. This project, called Snap I, is being carried out by the Martin Co. of Baltimore and ThomDson Products for the Atomic Energy commission Two other atomic power Dlants for running space in struments are being develop ed. They are Snap II and Snap HI. Meanwhile, testing of a ground -based forerunner of nuclear-driven rockets oi me future has run into a slight delay at the atomic proving ground in Nevada. This gad get is the Kiwi-A, a flightless mass of machinery designed to test operation of an atomic reactor at the high power and temperature required of a nu clear rocket engine. Kiwi-A is buttoned up on the test stand. But tests sched uled to start last month have vasn lfrred until ' next month while Kiwi's plumbing is checked further. WEATHERSTRIP, $1.10 For average door or window. Keep out drafts SAVE on heat. 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Tifan Unsuccessful In Pre-Flighl Test Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD -A cloud of smoke billowed up from the Air Force's first intercontinental Titan yester day in the second unsuccess ful pre-flight test of the na tion's most powerful missile. It was the second static, or "hold-down" test of the Titan, America's second ICBM. But the huge weapon's engine was shut down before it ever de veloped the full power sought in such tests. Informed sources said the test was not successful, and that a third test probably would be held before another launching try would be made. The Air Force tried Dec. 20 to get the first Titan off the ground but a failure be lieved to be a broken fuel line hose caused an automatic engine cutoff that halted the launching. PP&L Announces New Facilities; Gosi: $23,500,000 Portland-flJPD-Pacific Power & Light company announced Saturday the construction of new transmission and distri bution facilities for its power system in 1959 will require an expenditure of $23,500,000. PP&L President D. R. Mc Clung said the work repre sents a new high level of con struction for normal opera tions of the company in the five Northwest states in which it has service districts. . During the next five years, he said, PP&L expects to ex pend 100 million dollars for transmission and distribution improvements to its system. McClung compared the 1959 activity with the all-time rec ord 60 million dollars expend ed during the past year, when the company completed three power generating plants hav ing a total of 353,000 kilo watts of capacity. Completed and in commer cial operation the past week were the huge 56 million dol lar Swift dam and its 204,000 kilowatt powerhouse on the Lewis River in southwest Washington; a third 45,000- kilowatt generator at the Mer- win powerhouse on the same river; and, in Wyoming, a 100,000 kilowatt steam -electric plant dedicated in Decem ber. . Local Store Takes Part in New Group Home Appliance company of Medford is one of 124 re tailers participating in the largest single purchase ever made of electric appliances by Pacific Northwest retailers, it was reported. A Great Northern train ar rived in the Pacific Northwest with a 167 car loads of mote than 10,500 General Electric appliances. The order was a combined effort by appliance retailers throughout Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho who pooled their buying power last month. It represents an invest ment of more than $3 million worth of 1959 models. Most models will be on display in dealer showrooms beginning Monday, Jan. 12. "This is the largest single train of manufactured goods moved to the Pacific North west in Great Northern's 65 years of service," R. W. West, Great Northern western traf fic manager, said. SCORE BATISTA REGIME Geneva -(UPD- International Red Cross headquarters yes terday criticized Cuba's fall en Batista government for blocking Red Cross aid dur ing the rebellion. Special en voy M. Thudichum made nu merous approaches to the Bat ista regime but finally had to leave Cuba without ful filling his mission, a Red Cross report said. Corn pops as the result of suddenly released pressure produced by steam generated within the kernel. The steam comes from moisture in the grain. Federal Judges Back Integration In Three Cases Atlanta-UPD-A federal judge declared segregation at a Georgia college unconstitu tional yesterday, and inconv ing Gov. Ernest Vandiver ask ed that enrollment applica tions for all units of the state university system be suspend ed. Vandiver, a 40-year-old law yer who takes office Tuesday, said he "suggested" to the State Board of Regents that registrars in all units of the university system stop accept ing applications "until such time as members of the Board of Regents have had an op portunity to thoroughly study the decision rendered yester day. . "I urge that the people of Georgia and all of the offi cials concerned not be stam peded into hasty action," he said in a prepared statement. "The incoming governor and the incoming administration will exhaust every resource of the state to sustain and to up hold Georgia's way of life and her sacred traditions." Discrimination Practiced Federal Judge Boyd Sloan ruled that three Negro women trying to break segregation barriers at the Georgia State College of Business Adminis tration here were prevented from enrolling by discrimina tory practices. Shortly after his ruling another federal judge ordered Little Rock, Ark., officials td proceed with integration of a closed public school. The Little Rock school board was ordered by Judge John E. Miller to take "af firmative steps'7 on its own initiative to integrate Central high school, closed since Sep tember over the integration crisis. Board officials declined to say what steps would be taken. The two cases closed out a week of significant develop ments in the running civil rights controversy. "Further Instructions" Following a ruling by Fed eral Judge Frank . Hooper in Atlanta Friday that local transit segregation was un constitutional, Negroes an nounced a mass meeting Tues day for the purpose of giving "further instructions". The Love, Law and Liberation Movement which had pushed the transit case said the de cision meant "that we, as in dividuals, will ride the buses desegrated." ' Speaker Named For Award Event Orlo Breez .west coast rep resentative . of the National Association of Manufacturers, will speak at the annual Dis tinguished Award banquet sponsored by the Medford Junior Chamber of Com merce, Clyde Wheaton, dinner chairman, announced today. The banquet will be held at the Rogue Valley country club at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Jan. 28. All those persons wishing tickets may call Charles Hen ry at SPring 2-5496 or contact any member of the Medford Jaycees. Tickets also will be available at the door. Nominations for the award closed at midnight Saturday. Several nominations have been received. The Distinguished Service award is a national Jaycee program. The honor is award ed each year to a young man between 21 to 36 years old who has displayed outstanding leadership in community serv ice. Award recipient last year was Jack Holmes, Lincoln school principal. Newly Remodeled and Decorated- . 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Both meas ures were approved by the last congress but were ve toed by the President after congress adjourned. It was too early , to tell whether the strong economy stand voiced by the President in his state-of-the-union mes sage might cool the ardor of Democratic liberals for a wide variety of other new spend ing programs. These include federal aid to education and federal grants to help local communities build public fa cilities. Some legislators felt that the heavily Democratic con gress would not push for as many new spending programs as seemed probable last month just after the Demo crats had scored sweeping election gains. Washington - The chair men of the two congressional agriculture committees served notice yesterday they firmly oppose President Eisenhow er's State of the Union appeal for sweeping new legislation to cut farm price supports. Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Agricul ture, committee said, "there seems to be a tendency to beat down prices and I'm not going to be for that. Eisen hower wants to abandon all pripe supports and leave ev erything the farmer buys pro tected." Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D-N.C.) of the House Agri culture committee said the President's comments on the farm problem "sounded as though, he would again ask Congress to lower farm sup ports." That, Cooley said, "would ruin the nation's farmers." The Chief Executive told Congress in his State of the Union address that he would submit shortly his detailed recommendations . for new farm laws to reduce the gov ernment's six billion dollar annual outlay for farm price supports and storage of sur pluses. Washington - Chances yes terday appeared good that the heavily Democratic Con gress would pass a labor re form bill this year, but not necessarily just what Presi dent Eisenhower requested. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack of Mas sachusetts was out with a flat prediction that the House will approve an anti-racketeering bill, probably along the lines of the 1958 Kennedy Ives measure which perished in the last days of the 85th Congress. The Eisenhower adminis tration was reported drafting a stronger bill, including more enforcement authority for the Labor Department. In his State of the Union message Friday, Eisenhower outlined in general terms a four-point program to curb labor - management abuses of Off (mlo) WIT the type disclosed by the Sen ate Labor Rackets Commit tee: 1. "To safeguard workers' funds in union treasuries against misuse of any. kind whatsoever. 2. "To protect the rights and freedoms of individual union members, including the basic right to free and secret elections of officers. 3. "To advance true and re sponsible collective bargain ing. 4. "To protect the public and innocent third parties from unfair and coercive practices such as boycotting and blackmail picketing." Senv John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), rackets committee chairman, agreed in general with Eisenhower's program. Washington Southern forces yesterday voiced satis faction at the size of a first round defeat for anti-filibuster liberals in the Senate's big rules change fighf. Sen. John C. Stennis (D Miss.) said he felt the margin on the first test vote Friday showed clearly that there was support for the present rules from many parts of the country, and not just the South. Stennis said he was "great ly encouraged" by the 60-38 margin by which the liberals were beaten, although ' the vote did not come on the ac tual question of filibusters' themselves. Used to Stall The filibuster has been used on occasion in the past by southern forces to stall legislation affecting civil rights. The first test was a major victory for Democratic Lead er Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. It came on a proposal by Sens. Joseph S. Clark (D Pa.) and Clinton P. Ander son (D-N.M.) for the Senate to reenact all of its old rules except the filibuster rule. Johnson moved , to table-and thus kill - the proposal and won ,handily. Mild Compromise) Johnson is backing a mild compromise to permit cloture by a two-thirds vote of the Senate membership actually present. Another part would spell . out that the Senate's rules continue . from session to session without having to be readopted each time. ; Washington - Senate 'Re ublican Whip Thomas H. Kuchel asserted yesterday that President Eisenhower's civil rights program may be sidetracked unless the Senate amends its anti-filibuster rule. The Californian conceded that liberal supporters of a major rules change face an uphill fight against the com promise coalition forged by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. But he said they had not given up hope. 'The civil rights issue is the key to this controversy," Kuchel told United Press In ternational. 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