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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1959 Conservatives Hammer Angle Of Summit Talks London-(UPD-The Conserva tive party hammered at the summit meeting issue today in an attempt to flatten the booming Labor party bid to return to power in the Oct. 8 general elections. Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan all but told the voters it would be suicidal to send anyone but himself, to meet with President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the summit. Congratulations Sent The prime minister Monday nieht sent messages of con gratulations to Khrushchev nad Eisenhower on their joint communiaue regarding the week end talks at Camp Da vid. Md. He told them that he hoped to meet them soon-ob- viously at the summit. And in the speech, in West London Monday night, Mac- millan took some of the credit for arranging the Eisenhower- Khrushchev exchange visits. "Do you .think Mr. Khru shchev and President . Eisen hower would have been pro moting and discussing togeth er at Camp David if I had not decided to break the ice and go to Moscow?" he asked a Conservative rally. r Proud of Help "We are on our way to the summit. I am proud that Brit ain has helped to clear the way." Leaders of the Labor party, which has shown a steady gain in popularity in newspa per-sponsored public opinion polls, did not neglect the sum mit issue but they continued to attract huge crowds throughout Britain by concen trating on domestic issues. Some Booms Blamed For Noise in Portland . Portland-flJPD - A series of loud booms over the Portland metropolitan area Monday night were thought to be sonic booms.' . However, Portland Air Base said none of its planes were flying at the time, about 10:23 p.m. - Many residents- in an area from Oregon City to Van couver, Wash., reported win dows and dishes rattling. No Injuries or damage were re ported. 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Lined areas represent a cloud over map. -(NASA Photo-UPI Telephoto) NATO Allies OnvSted for Briefing on Conferences Washington (DPD Repre sentatives of the 15 NATO al lies were invited to the State Department today for a brief ing on President Eisenhower's talks with Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev. Livingston T. Merchant, as sistant secretary of state for European affairs, and Foy D. Kohler, the deputy assistant secretary, were to fill in the foreign diplomats on the dis cussions at Camp David, Md. In Line With Promise The consultation was m line with Eisenhower's prom ise to keep America's allies fully informed of conversa tions with the Russians on Berlin, disarmament and other international issues. Secretary of State Christian Herter gave similar informa tion Monday to representa tives of the SEATO pact na tions. However, it was report ed that Eisenhower ana Khrushchev .touched only Air Pollution Meeting Sfafed A progress report on Rogue valley air pollution abate ment has been called Oct. 20 at 1:30 p.m. by the Jackson county court. ' j Among those summoned by the court are Dunbar Carpen ter, representing fruitgrow ers, George Flanagan, repre senting lumber operators, and representatives of City Sani tary service , which operates garbage dump near Jack sonville. Others invited include Ted Gerow, state sanitary engin-j eer, ' , Orie Moore, Jackson county sanitarian, Jack Eaton, county planning technician, Rudy Tetreault of the Jack sonville planning commission, and Medford city officials. Local Man Waives Preliminary Hearing Reginald Mayer, 40, of 1966 Ross lane, Medford, waived preliminary hearing in district court Monday and was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of "draw ing a bank check with insuf ficient funds to pay same in full." .. ' He was committed to Jack son county jail . in lieu of $1,500 bail, court records showed. briefly on Far Eastern matters. The briefings of Allied dip lomats were viewed as a nec essary prelude to substantive negotiations on the Berlin problem and a proable Big Four summit meeting this winter before Eisenhower vis its Russia in the spring. No Agreement V Informed sources said that Eisenhower and Khrushchiv reached no agreement during their week end talks on where the Berlin negotiations should start, or when or at what dip lomatic level. The President told his news conference Monday that Tougher Policy Promised in Draft Portland -(UPD- State Selec tive Service headquarters warned today a "get tough' Dolicy may be adopted" if draft-eligible men do not sign up on time. Lt. Col. John H. Neilson, deputy state director, said there-- have been - increasing failures to register on tune for the draft. He said this waff creating headaches for many Oregon boards and could lead to heartaches for those failing to sign up. Normally, draft registration in Oregon runs between 1,200 and 1,500 per month. In the past two months the figure has dropped to only about 800, he said. "This indicates that about 700 a month failed to regis ter," Col. Neilson said. ' The law says that all young men must regsiter within five days after becoming 18 years of age. Hubbard Man Killed In Fall From Silo Hubbard-(UPD-Frank Kout- ny, 56, Hubbard, was killed instantly Monday when he fell from a silo. . . . The accident, occurred on the farm of Manton A. Carl, Hubbard, where Koutny had been building the silo. For a party punch bowl, freeze a fruited ice ring. Drain canned fruit cocktail, and-save the syrui' for the punch. Spoon the fruit -into ring mold, fill with cold water and freeze solid. Un mold and float in the punch. his discussions with the Soviet leader removed and cleared the threat of force over Ber lin and cleared away most of Eisenhower's objections to a summit conference. . United Nations, N.Y.-fUPD-Nationalist China condemned the Communist Peiping re gime today for its atrocities in Tibet and the slave labor commune system on the Red held mainland. Nationalist A in b a s s ador Tingfu F. Tsiang said his government welcomed the op- Endless Rows of Wood Coffins Hold - Japan Storm Nagoya, Japan-flJPD-Endless rows of wooden coffins and sodden straw mats for the dying: Stricken peasants mov ing past in never-ending search for their families in this twice dead city. The story of typhoon Vera, most destructive storm to hit Japan in centuries, could be outlined in statistics: 1,799 dead, 1,953 missing, 8,073 in jured, 970,000 homeless. Horror in Faces But its horror lay in the faces of the people, their struggle for food and water, the dysentery which ravaged their bodies, the glazed look on their faces as they search ed the rubble for those who were lost. It lay in the face of an old woman dressed in threadbare Vyj LYING IN INCUBATOR, Siamese twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Schultz, Chesterton, Ind., are in Chicago hospital awaiting possible surgery to separate them. They are joined at abdomen. Schultz and his sister in-law, Mrs. Emma Schultz, are viewing the children. ' Stocks Advance Along Broad Front New .York-ttJra-Stocks ad vanced along a broad front front today with virtually all major groups moving with the tide. Steels were firm for the most part. Lukens was un changed, and U.S. Steel was down around a point. Youngs town advanced more than 1 and Bethlehem firmed.' DOW JONES AVERAGES . Dow-Jones 2 p.m.' stock av erages: 30 industrials. 639.72, up 3.25; 20 railroads 156.86, up 2.09; 15 utilities 87.60, up 0.40, and 65 stocks 212.22, up 1.43 by JOSEPH N. BELL sr? i v A MAN YOU SH0U LD M EET- M r. U. N. As Secretary-General of the United Nations, his delicate job is to : - prevent international squabbles from be coming world wars r October 4th Arriving to take over as UN head in 1953, he.is.greeted by'Trygve Lie. , - i " . Lev of ouldoert took Hdmmarskjold on climb of 9,000-foot Mt. Ruopehu in New Zealand with England's George Smith. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Hatfield Appoints Welfare Officials Salem-!UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field Monday made the fol lowing appointments to pub- he welfare commissions: Mrs. Alta May, Grass Val ley,. Jsherman county, reap pointed. Mrs. Cleon Clark, Prine- ville, Crook county, reappoint ed. " C. F. Noll;' Tillamook, Til lamook county, replacing Mrs. Ida Boquist, Tillamook, whose term expired. Two Men Killed As Auto Hits Tree New Meadows, Idaho-IUPD-Two men died after their car went out of control and hit a tree one mile south of here on state highway 15, Adams county Sheriff Charles Burk holder reported. Burkholder said killed in stantly was Dewitt G. Bowles, 28, McCall. The other victim, James Combs, also of McCall, died about 5 a jn. today in a McCall hospital. Dark Hollow Rd. Widening Starts Widening of Dark Hollow rd. for- about a half mile south of Stage rd. began this week, Jackson County Road Engineer Paul Rynning re ported. Rynning said the widening would make the roadway a full two lanes. Population of the U. S. will increase by about 63 million in the next 20 years, the cen kimono, her lips pressed tight ly against toothless gums, watching intently as the lid of a coffin-like box was rais ed. . She steeled herself and then peered within. Wordless ly and with a slight shake of head she moved on . to the next box and the next and the next. Not Enough Boxes There were not even enough of the wooden boxes to hold the bodies in this city which suffered more than 1,000 dead.. Some of the bodies lay on' straw tatami mats, their faces covered with scraps of cloth. Long lines of survivors trudged past these boxes through the day, wondering when help would arrive from Tokyo. But communications were smashed by -the fury of a storm that set off landslides and floods. The wooden boxes them selves were hurriedly built for the gruesome chore of identification. The head end of each was hinged so it could be quickly opened and closed. Linfield College Loan Gets Approval Salem - (DPI) - The Commu nity Facilities Administra tion informed Rep, Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) today it had approved a loan of $825,000 to Linfield College at McMin ville. . The money will be used to wards construction of a cam pus cafeteria and two student dormitories. - The American Automobile Association estimates that Americans paid out more than 4A billion dollars for auto mobile insurance in 1958. portunity for a full 'debate in the U.N. General Assmbly on the Communist excesses. Pledge Repeated Tsiang also formally repeat ed for the U.N. record Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's pledge of last March 26 that Tibetans will be granted the right of self-determination if and when the Nationalists re capture the China mainland. "The atrocities committed by the Communists in Tibet are even more abhorrent to the Chinese people than they are to the international com mittee of jurists," Tsiang said. "From this rostrum, as rep resentative of China, I de clare that Free China con- Humphrey Warns Against Invoking Taft-Hartley Act Milwaukee (DPD Sen. Hu bert Humphrey (D-Minn.) said Monday night the American people will take "a beating" if the government invokes the Taft-Hartley act to get strik ing steelworkers back on the job.' "W hen big government gangs up with big business, the American people are ,in for a beating, and this is what is in store for all of us if the Taft-Hartley act is invoked at this stage of the steel strike," he said. 'Feeding Flames' Humphrey, a leading con tender for the 1960 Demo cratic presidential nomina tion, said the administration's action in threatening to in voke the Taft-Hartley act is "feeding the flames of infla tion." The administration, Humph rey said,, has not- protected "the reasonable requests" of the strikers and, moreover, has failed to crack down on the "rampant profiteering" of the companies. Steel companies have "re fused to curb their insatiable appetite for higher prices and ever soaring profits," Humph rey charged. demns the Communist atroci ties in Tibet and welcomes any. proposal to examine them in the present session of the Assembly." . . . -Debate Requested . " ,. , Tsiang referred to an in vestigation of the Tibet situ ation carried out by an im partial international lawyers' committee under Indian chairmanship which condem ned Red China's bloodbath in the kindom ruled by the now exiled Dalai Lama. Ireland and : Malaya Mon day night submitted a request for a full Assembly, debate on Red China's suppression of civil rights and religious liberties in Tibet. The As sembly's Steering committee was expected to consider it later this week. Man Bound Over on Larceny Charges . Lee Roy Hancock, 28, of route 3, box 62, Medford, waived preliminary hearing in district court Monday and was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of larceny of livestock. 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