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New Defense Secretary Faces
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.