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1 New Defense Secretary Faces w With Congress Over Missile Washington - d'PD - Thomas S. Gates Jr. took over as de fense secretary today and pre pared for a new congressional fight over the threatened gap between American and Rus sian missile strength. The 53 - year - old Philadel phian wa3 to be sworn in as Neil H. McElroy's successor at a White House ceremony, becoming top director of the administration's emba 1 1 1 e d military program. Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas, a Chicago at torney, was reported to be a frontrrunning possibility for deputy defense secretary, the post Gates held for' the past seven months after a two year atint as Navy secretary. To Direct Budget The new defense chief has his work cut out for him, as M C E 1 r o y demonstrated in' spelling out military policies and budget plans at a farewell news conference late Tuesday. For much of the first half of next year, Gates will direct the Pentagon's presentation to Congress of a new $41 billion military budget that honestly could be said to please hardly anybody. A priority task will.be to try to convince a skeptical Congress that America has such diversified and large quantities of other weapons that it can afford to let Russia build up a superiority in long range ballistic missiles during the early 1960s. Says Minuleman Superior McElroy brought the con troversial "missile gap" back into the news Tuesday when asked if Russia would have more of the globe - spanning nuclear weapons than Amer ica. "If they built what they could build and if we build what we intend to build, we think they will have more missile capability for the La Pointe's in Mm, m pvM; -:- . fri . v f Mw$w period 1961 through 1962 and maybe into 1963 than we would have," McElroy'said. At that time the solid-fueled, rapid - firing American Minuteman ballistic missile will come into service, he said. He described it as. so superior to current ballistic missiles that no more of the present missiles should be built than are ."absolutely required." Americans' Fate Rests in Hands Of Cuban Jurists Havana -(UPD- The lives of two Americans, one of whom was carried into court on a stretcher, rested today in the hands of revolutionary trib unials that were asked to sentence them to death by a firing squad. A five-man court martial in the western province of Pinar del Rio was expected to announce a verdict today in the case of Austin Young, of Miami, one of the Amer icans' for 'whom the govern ment demands death. Death Penalty Asked The prosecution ' also has asked the death penalty for Fernando Pruna, a Cuban co defendant in the Young case. Peter J. Lambton, a British born American from the Ba hama's who ' is also on trial in Pinar del Rio, faces a pos sible 30 years in prison. The three men, with 36 Cu ban companions, have been charged with membership in an anti-government guerilla band and with the murder of a soldier killed in a clash shortly before their arrest. MEDFORDjTRIBUNE Rogue Valley Edition Page 2 Industrials Lower; Rails Move Higher ' New York - d'PD - Industrial shares slipped low,er today af ter an early attempt to rise. Railroads moved higher. Trading in the general mar ket slipped off as selling for profits brought some of the chemicals, oils, motors, elec tronics , and special issues down. , The market for industrials had risen in the previous ten sessions during which nearly 30 points had been added to the average. There were many individual bright spots in all groups. In the chemicals, Allied Labora tories and American Cyana mid advanced while DuPont, Allied Chemical, Eastman J'o dak and Union Carbide de clined. Todav's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 119 Alum Co. Am 107'8 American Can 41 3a American Motors 833e AT&T 78 i Anaconda Copper 621'3 Armco Steel 117s Bendix Aviation 77 '4 Bethlehem Steel x 54 ij, Boeing Air 323i Caterpillar Corp 31 s,'a Chrysler Corp 64 Continental Can 48 Crown TeHc-bach 543i Curtiss Wright .. 33 U Dow Chemical 253 3 Eastman Kodak 108'i Firestone 132 3i General Electric 91 'a General Foods 102 General Motors . 513i Georgia Pacific 48 Graham Paige 23i Grevhound 203i Gulf Oil 110 Homesrake Mining 42 7i Idaho Power 48' i I. B. M 442 Int Paper , 136 Battle Program Johns Manville 51' Kennecott Copper 933 Lockheed Aircraft 307 Montana Power Co 263 Montgomery Ward 505 Nat'l Biscuit 52' New York Central 28 5 Gas & Elec ... 61 3 Pennev. J. C ....122 Penn RR 153 Radio Corporation 70 5, Richfield Oil 78 Safeway 35 1 Sears 48 3, Shell Oil : 773 Socony Mobil Oil 403 South Co 31T Southern Pacific 22" Standard California - 473 Standard Indiana 41s Standard N.J 483 Sun Mines 6' Texas Co 83 1 Texas Gulf Sulfur 17? Tex Pac Land Trust 18'. Transamerica 51. Trans World Air . U15 Tri-Continental :. 3!.' Union Carbide 1 13 Union Pacific 2u-' United Aircraft a 39' United Air Lines 363 U. S. Rubber .. 603 U. S. Steel 983, Youngstown S & T 126 MUSIC TO BURN BY New York -(UPD- Patrons of the Harbor Inn restau rant held their tempers while the juke box played "When You and I Were Young, Maggie," over and over for 30 minutes. Finally, the customer who kept play ing it left. Another customer put, his coin in the machine and punched his selection -"There'll Be A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The juke" box then caught fire. The expense of locating Oregon's territorial roads ("internal i m p r o vemerits") was, after 1857, shifted to, the various counties. the ROSETTA DUNCAN HURT Stan Ziobron views the wreck ed auto driven by Rosetta Duncan, 58, one of the famous Duncan Sisters vaudeville team, after it smashed into a guard rail on the approach to an overpass in Chicago Tuesday. Miss Duncan is in serious condition at a Chicago hospital. (UPI Telephoto) Improvement Pfan for Ashland Plaza Outlined Ashland-A plan to improve the appearance of a section of the Ashland business dis trict and to strengthen the city's business economy was discussed yesterday ty John Weisbrod, Medford business man, with representatives of the city's economic develop ment commission and park commission. Weisbrod'S plan is to change the fronts of stores in the Ashland plaza to Old English style in keeping with the theme of the Shakespear ean Festival theater in Ash land. Weisbrod estimated that the stores' improved, appear ance and unique design would draw more tourists and shop pers. Residents living nearby might want ' to change the Medford Shopping Center Cff general, appearance of their homes to the Old English ar chitecture, too, he added. Plans for the proposed re modeling, designed by a local architect, should be ready by the first of the year, Weis brod said. Different possibil ities for financing the remod elling are being worked out, he said. The plans will be pre sented to the merchants of the Plaza area for their ap proval, Weisbrod added. "A small section would be remodelled' first with pos sibility that the design could be carried into the stores' in teriors and to other stores," Weisbrod explained. The source of the Colum bia River is 2,700 feet above sea level. Synthetic Stock Due Washington -(UPD The gov ernment is about to take a "new look" at the widespread use of a synthetic female sex hormone to fatten up cattle and poultry, it was learned today. The horme drug, diethyl stilbesterol or more common ly called stilbestrol, is known to cause, cancer of the breast in man when taken in large doses, Food and Drug U.S. To Outline Concessions in Canal Zone Tiff Washington -d'PD- The Unit ed States was to formally notify Panama today it is willing to make concessions in connection with the opera tion of the Panama Canal which has -stirred anti-American feeling in the Central American nation. A note detailing the U.S. position was to be delivered later in the day by the U.S. Ambassador to Panama Julian Harrington to Panamanian Foreign Minister Miguel Moreno. Hope To Break Deadlock Officials here expressed hope the concessions would break the long-standing dead lock over the interpretation of 1955 treaty provisions con cerning wages in the Canal Zone and help restore tradi tionally friendly relations be tween the two countries. U.S. sources said 'that in addition to promising Pan ama priority In purchasing supplies for the zone and tak ing steps to improve wages for Panamanian workers, the U.S. may contemplate financ ing the construction of hous ing in the Republic of Pan ama to be used by canal employees. THBPRINTED TAFFETA . I3 ARTY DRESS Fu skirted party dresses of lush printed taffeta idea for the coming round of parties ited gaily with flowers these belittle your waist. make much of your figure High Fashion La Po ir.te's magic price Drug Used to Get 'New Study1 Commissioner George P. Lar- rick said. Arthus S. Flemming, sec retary of health, education and welfare, will announce the new study of the scientific and legal aspects involved in its use in animal feeding at a news conference Thurs day. Flemming kicked off the recent cranberry controversy by announcing that some of the crop had been contaminat ed by weed-killer that has caused cancer in rats. The FDA slopped issuing any new permits for use of stilbestrol after the last ses sion of Congress passed the so-called D e 1 a n e y Amend ment which bans food addi tives found to induce cancer. No Progre ss Made In Pape r Strike Portland-(UPD-A.federal me diator met again today with representatives of the Stereo typers Union and Portland's two daily newspapers in an effort to settle the 23-day old strike against the Oregon Journal and the Cregonian. . Mediator Elmer Williams met in two sessions with both sides Tuesday and reported, "we discussed several issues thoroughly, but unforunately no progress was made." James H. Sampson, interna tional president of the Stereo t y p e r s Union, and Perry Badgley, international repre sentative of the union, took part in the sessions. BLOWN TO BITS Tottori, Japan -(UPD- A bur glar suspect being taken to headquarters in a police jeep for questioning Tuesday blew himself to bits with a stick of dynamite, police reported to day. Four police officers ac companying Katsumi Ota, 33, jumped to safety when they saw the, prisoner lighting the fuse of a stick of dynamite hidden under his shirt. 95 SHOP MONDAY and FRIDAY NIGHTS TILL 9 to Fatten However, the law makes no provision for rescinding permits of those with prior sanction to use stilbestrol. Larrick said there was uo cause for alarm. He said he was still eating meat and chicken, and "feeding it to my children and grandchildren." Conflicting Evidence The FDA chief said there ' still was much "conflicting evidence" on the effects of stilbestrol. He said FDA planned to "marshal the world's literature" .on the subject and the agency's ex perts have started a new in vestigation "to find out where we stand." He reported that r.bout 80 per cent of the livestock raised today are fed stilbes trol. Larrick said that recent sci entific tests have turned up minute quantities of stilbes trol residue in the skin and liver of the chicken. He said no such residue has- been found in meat tissue. Cattle men usually stop using stil bestrol up to 48 hours be fore slaughter. Flynn Estate To Be Sued for Statue Miami -(UPD- The late Er rol Flynn commissioned a gold-plated nude statue of his 17-year-old protegee, Beverly Aadland, to put on the mantle at his Jamaica estate, a sculp tor said today. Sepi Dubroyni said Flynn commissioned him to sculpt the reclining figure shortly before the actor died last month of a heart attack. Dubroyni, who has done Ava Gardner, Jayne Mans field and Linda Christian in brass, said he wants $5,000 from Flynn's estate for the Aadland in gold and will sue for payment. He also had done Anita Eckberg in gold and recently finished Brigitte Bardot.
