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V Ulnn Mmtm Car m Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1955 No. 217 Russian Stores Draw Throngs; Oualitv Poor (Editor', note: Thii is another in a serin of articles prepared by Medford'a school superintendent following his recent three - week trip to Russia. The series deals with Russia's "Seven Year Plan," and is based on Soviet books, maga zine articles, and personal inter views with the ministers of edu cation of the Russian and Ukranl an republics, the deputy mayor of Moscow and the mayor of Tbilisi.) -By DR. LEONARD MAYFIELti Medford School Superintendent One of the most impressive experiences encounter ed when first visiting a large city in the U.S.S.R. is the crowds. The downtown streets and stores are filled with people, morning, noon, and night. Usual store hours are 9 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Most of the sidewalks are 20 to 30 feet wide, completely filled with people. One has to "el bow his way in" most of the stores whether they be food, clothing, book, or of a mis cellaneous type. ' Waiting in line appears to be a pattern which the people accept. In general they al ways apeared orderly- and would wait their turn. We did learn that if one wished to get service from a clerk, it was necessary to speak up and request it. Apparently there are so many "window shoppers" that experience has taught clerks not to waste time and effort on those just "looking". This surprised us in that a worker's salary is on basis of a minimum norm plus a bonus for producing or selling above the norm. Inferior Quality Stores were well stocked. Almost everything we exam ined was inferior in quality to that offered in American markets. Both food and clothing prices were approx imately double the price of equivalent merchandise sold in Medford stores. We would classify most fruits and veg etables as seconds or "re jects". Almost every retail store would have a cashier, usually located in a booth. Purchasers must pay the cashier the price of the merchandise, receive a Teceipt, present it to the clerk, who in turn either wraps the purchase in a poor quality or . used paper, or gives it to you as is. Such items as bread were not wrapped. It is a common sight to see people come out of food stores "with a whole or half loaf of bread under their arms. . The fact that many factor ies were on a two-shift basis probably accounted for many persons being on the streets . day and night. There is little or no credit or installment It was buying in the Soviet New Falangist Salute H er block is away Medltf ird S reported that one large store in Leningrad and one in Mos cow (G.U.M.) had established credit accounts. However, at the G.U.M.'s we were told credit could only be obtained on merchandise which was on the store's "slow-moving" or "white elephant" list. Western Customs Most Americans would have to completely change their buying habits and expecta tions in terms of quality, var iety, and price if our stores were to adopt U.S.S.R. prac tices. We observed that Soviet people are adopting western countries' customs in dress style' and appearance. This was especially true with wom en in their clothes and make up. One exception is that slacks are frowned on as wearing apparel for the ladies and are seldom worn by Rus sian women. Women working at construction jobs, sweeping streets, and driving buses wore dresses. Smoking by women is also frowned on and seldom seen in the U.S.S.R. beauty shops - a recent inno vation - are to be found in the first class hotels and larg er stores. Many of the larger 'c r-lothins stores hold seasonal style shows which in clude clothes, hair styles, and make-up as features of their program. (Continued on Page 12) Junior Achievement Official Is Speaker Richards A. F. Ballou, west ern regional representative for Junior Achievement Inc., San Francisco, arrived in Medford today for several speaking engagements. - He will speak Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 a.m. for a breakfast meeting of a group of businessmen, civic officials and educators. The breakfast will be held at the Rogue Val ley Country club to discuss ways and means of chartering a Junior Achievement pro gram in the Medford area. Ballou will speak Tuesday noon at a meeting of the Med ford Rotary club. He was also the noon speaker today at the weekly Chamber of Com merce roundtable., Arrangements for the Bal lou's appearance here were made by a group of local resi dents who are exploring the feasibility of establishing the I youth program locally. tt uwis Pom-Dim riue to UUutst Price JO Cents Tribune Hermiston Murder Suspect Escapes By Beating jailer Manhunt Launched For Wilfred Ogden Pendleton (UPB A murder suspect escaped from the Uma tilla county jail Sunday night after beating a jailer. A large-scale manhunt was on north of here for Wilfred Ogden Jr., 28, Pasco, Wash., who was scheduled to- enter a plea Tuesday in connection with the Oct. 8 fatal shooting of Hermiston, Ore., Policeman Ronald Kilby. Jailer John Garrett, 52, was hospitalized with bruises and lacerations. Police said Ogden apparent ly somehow managed to short ciruit his jail cell lock and then jumped Garrett. Gar rett was beaten with his keys. Police said that later a car was reported stolen here and that after a chase at a high rate of speed on Highway 395, the car was abandoned near Cold Springs Grange about- 25 miles north of here. Then, police said, a well driller's truck was stolen and deserted. About 35 law enforcement officers converged on the area. Search was centering near the Glen Thorne ranch in Cold Springs Canyon north of Pendleton. Ogden and Walter Wicken, 25, also Pasco, had been ar rested earlier for the slaying of Kilby. Wicken was not involved in the escape. New Fair Building Being Considered A new fair building is be ing considered for the county fair grounds south of Medford, it was reported today. The proposed building would replace two metal buildings next to the exten sion of Stewart ave. which now house cattle and rabbits during the annual Jackson County 4-H and FFA fair, a fair board source said. The all-purpose building would be constructed of concrete blocks. Enclosed eating and office spaces would make it possible for use the year around, it was explained. Portable cattle tie racks would be placed along the walls and would have a five inch granite fill for flooring. The. poultry and rabbit ex hibit space would be on a concrete slab as would the office and eating spaces. The Jackson county fair board would pay for part of the building costs and the county court the rmainder, it was indicated. The fair board plans to meet with the county court Wednesday afternoon to ex amine plans further and to discuss possible financing of the construction, it was re ported. Warren-President Group Organized Eugene - (UPD - Formation of a Warren - for - President Committee was announced to day by a group of University of Oregon students. The committee said it hoped to place the name of Chief Justice Earl Warren on Ore gon's 1960 May 20 president ial primary ballot. It is com posed of law school and politi cal science students. Doug Shephard, committee chairman, said petitions would be circulated through out the state during the Christmas holidays. ' A total of 1,000 signatures would be needed to put Warren's name on the ballot. Joint Session Due In Newspaper Strike Portland (UPD Federal Mediator Elmer Williams said today a joint negotiation ses sion has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday between the striking Stereotypers Union and mangement of the Oregon Journal and "the Oregonian. teres .Willie Oregon Traffic Accidents Snuff At Least 6 Lives Wreck Near Goble Leaves Five Dead By United Press niernaiional - Oregon highway traffic ac cidents took at least six lives from Friday night until Sun day night. In addition a Fri day morning crash took two other lives. Five persons were killed in a two-car collision late Fri day night near Goble, Ore. Driver of one car involved was identified as Clarence G. Gallia, 25, St. Helens. Killed in the second car were Robert Wayne Long, 18, Longview; Nick T. Tsbides, 52, Centralia; and Jerry Don Yarbrough, 19, and Alvin Monro Hamm, 18, both of Kelso. Barbara Christina Swigert, Bandon, was killed Saturday north of Shedd when the car in which she was riding at tempted to pass another and went out of control. 1 Two Troutdale women, Margaret Helen Smith, 31, and Dorothy D. Read, 75, were killed Friday morning 'when their car went out of control and over a 30-foot embank ment 20 miles north of New port. General Assembly Delays Debate on Issue of Hungary United Nations, N.Y. -UPD- The General Assembly today postponed its new debate on the Soviet - suppressed 19 5 6 Hungarian revolution to per mit its Main Political Com mittee to finish its Algerian debate. The Hungarian debate, vigorously opposed by Russia and its satellites, now is scheduled to start in the As sembly Tuesday. Originally, the start had been listed for this afternoon. The U.S. and 23 othej pow ers previously submitted a resolution to the Assembly deploring the "continued dis regard" by Russia and Hun gary of U.S. appeals for the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Free Elections Refused The resolution also de plores Hungary and Russia's refusal to allow free elections in Hungary and the refusal by those countries to allow a special U.N. representative to visit Hungary. The United States and 23 other nations joined in spon soring the resolution after Sir Leslie Minro of New Zealand, the special U.N. representa tive on Hungary, reported the "framework of repression" remains unchanged in the Russian satellite and more trials and executions of 1956 rebels were expected there. Voting Today in Water, Fire Districts . Polls will remain open until 8 o'clock tonight for voting in a number of county water dis tricts and rural fire protection districts. Polls opened at 2 o'clock. Voting for the boards of rural fire protection districts will be held at the following places: for the Medford rural district at Oak Grove school; Central Point rural, fire sta tion on Highway 99; Shady Cove-Trail, Shady Cove fire hall; and Rogue River, Ed Lilly's Service Station, Rogue , river bridge on Highway 99. Elections jwill be held in tlfc Charlotte Anne water dis trict, at Camp U-Rest, 3761 South Pacific highway; Kings Highway, Wayne Troxell resi dence, 1833 South Peach st; Jacksonville Highway district, Oak Grove school; and Maple Park district, Graham 'Electric store, 1205 Sage rd. Election Department Members to Meeting Three members of the coun ty clerkls office will attend an instructional meeting on elections Thursday and Fri day in Eugene, reported Coun ty Clerk Marvin Madden. Madden, Afton Carter and Grace Bohl will hear Jack Thompson, state director of elections, secretary of state's office, explain new election procedures, and changes in election laws. ' ' ' ' ' '' X PAKISTANIS WELCOME IKE Crowds line the streets as President Eisenhower, left, and Pakistan President Ayub Khan ride, in a carriage en route to the presidential palace after Eisenhower's arrival at Karachi today. Eisen- WASHINGTON AROUSED TO ACTION BY PEARL HARBOR 1 8 YEARS AGO TODAY By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-OIPD-Sunday is a day off 'for Washington newspaper people, or most of them. Washington cherishes the entire week end. This par ticular Sunday not only was a day off, it was glorious. Winter had not yet settled on the Atlantic seaboard. Defense Bill Passed The biggest week end local news had been the formal re port of the Secretary of Navy that our Navy was "second to none." Earlier in the week the House of Representatives had passed the Third Supple mental National Defense Ap propriations bill, a matter of $8.2 bililons. The vote had been 309 to 5. President John J. Jouett of the National Aer onautical association just had reported that within 12 months our production rate would exceed 50,000 airplanes a year. Washington felt it had rea son to be what it was: Safe, warm and comfortable. In Griffith Stadium, Washing ton beloved Redskins were playing the season's last pro fw ional home game. A great many admirals, generals and high civilan brass were watch ing. Others were playing golf. The community was out in the open, but for lag-abeds, the hung-over and the ill. Day of Infamy That is how it was on that day of infanmy, the Seventh Day of December,' 1941, in Washington, D.C. Shorty after 2:35 p.m., Steve Early, White House Press Secretary, asked Louise Hachmeister to set up a simul- Pressure Exerted In Steel Strike Washington - (UPD - New pressure for an early settle ment of the steel strike was exerted on union and manage ment negotiators today by fed eral mediators and members of Congress. Federal Mediation Director Joseph F. Finnegan planned to hold a joint bargaining session with the two sides although neither was optimistic about chances of agreement. Finnegan conferred Sunday with top aides to discuss the next step in mediation efforts. The union and company nego tiators met Saturday in a joint session described by Finnegan as constructive. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and continued cool tonight and early Tuesday. Increasing cloudiness late Tues day. Low tonight 20. High Tues day 50. t Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:28 a.m. Moonset tomorrow .... 1:08 a.m. Full Moon Dec. 14 PROMINENT STARS Betelgeuse, low in east 7:30 p.m. Fomalhaut. sets 9:16 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, in the south east S:23 a.m. Mercury, between Venus and the Sun. pen taneous conference telephone call to the press association. "All on?" Steve asked ur gently, and called the roll. "This is Steve Early at the White House," he said with as much composure as he could summon. "At 7:35 a.m., Hawaiian time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The at tacks are continuing and, no, I don't know how many are dead." Call Goes Out That was about all Steve had then. The time of await ing events had ended. By tele phone, broadcast and loud speaker, the call went out. Idle caddies raced around the golf links calling men back to their desks. Bewildered thousands in Griffin Stadium heard one, another and, final ly, scores of Army, Navy and other government personages urgently paged. As the big shots scrambled, others hur ried away, too. They were the Warmer Weather Is Forecast for Tuesday , Yesterday morning's mini mum temperature reading of 18 degrees at the weather bu reau station here was the low est since Jan. 27, 1957. Low on that date was 11 degrees. The Sunday 18 also tied the record low for. Dec. 6. Eighteen was registered on that date in 1929. Warmer minimum is antic ipated with increasing cloud iness forecast for late Tues day. The five-day forecast for western Oregon calls for rains totaling more than normal and generally one to two inch es inland. Rain is anticipated in western Oregon late Tues day or Tuesday night, but not much precipitation from the storm is predicted for this area of the state. Milk Samplers' License Tests Due Salem-(UPD-The Oregon Ag riculture Department announ ced today that examinations for milk sampler's licenses set by the 1959 Legislature will be held in five cities begin ning Dec. 14. The schedule, with all tests starting at 7:30 p.m. includes; Pendleton, Dec. 14; Portland, Dec. 15; Eugene, Dec. 16; Medford, Dec. 17, and Salem Dec. 2i: Those eligible to take the examination are operators of farm pickup milk tank trucks hauling grade A milk to re ceiving points and designated employees of plants that re ceive grade A', milk in 10 gallon cans. Vancouver, B. C.-UPD-Three northern British Columbia communities were all but cut off from the outside world today following a storm which derailed trains, washed out highways and grounded airliners. Until 9 'Cbek Tomiighli hower pledged that the United work for a just peace for all newspaper and radio men and women who had heard those urgent calls and suspected what they meant. Brakes Screech Radio broadcasts put the brakes screeching on many an automobile within one or two hundred miles of Washington that day, turned the car around and started it home much faster than the law al lows. , Hour by hour, the cruel facts pounded in. Pearl Har bor was a shambles, the an chored fleet a ruin. There were hundreds, now thou sands, dead or wounded. Dur ing 80 minutes in Hawaii the United States had suffered its most crushing defeat at arms. Not unnaturally, by early Sunday evening the gathering at Washington's National Press Club approached presi dential - election night num bers. Newsmen caught in a storm of crisis sought one another's company, one anoth er's comfort in the easy-going headquarters where they were Extension Officials Attend Convention Members of the Jackson county extension office left this morning to attend the the four-day annual conven tion of extension agents at Oregon State college, Corval lis. . Dr. Herrell DeGraff, agri cultural economist, will set the keynote of the conference with a talk on "Food and World Hunger." This will be followed by a talk on "As the Public Sees Agriculture" by Charles Sprague, publisher of the Oregon Statesman in Sa lem and ex-governor. Other talks are "Human Re sources and Education," and "Advances in Domestic Ani mal Science." Leaving from he extension service office were Miss Mary Pat Lucy, extension agent for home economics, Glenn Klein and Miss Norma Hague, coun ty 4-H agents, and Extension Agents Gene Winters, Don Berry, and Earle Jossy. Agricultural Census Takers Expect to Complete Job Before Dec. 12 Deadline Agricultural census takers covering Jackson county and part of Josephine county ex pect to be finished at least two or three days ahead of the Dec. 12 deadline, crew leaders reported today. M. B. Caster, Central Point, crew leader for the eastern section of Jackson county, re ports the field work is done in his area. The census reports will be spot-checked for ac curacy and completeness this week before sending them to the agricultural census center in Parsons, Kans. Harold Sander, Rogue Riv er, crew leader for the west section of Jackson county and the east section of Josephine States and Pakistan would mankind. (UPI Radiotelephoto) accustomed to find such things. Japanese Newsman Sorry A little Japanese newsman temporarily assigned to Wash ington spent the evening in the United Press Bureau, bow ing, weeping and assuring everyone that he, for one, was so sorry. From the grass roots came roaring through the night air the still unanswered questions: , ' How did it, why did it hap- pen?Who goofed? Martin Reward Offer Withdrawn Portland - (UPD - A year ago today, Kenneth F. Martin, his wife and three young daugh ters left their Portland home for a drive up the Columbia river to gather Christmas greenery. A little less than five month later the body of Sue Martin, 11, was found in the Columbia river near Camas, and that of her sister, Bar bara, 14, was found caught in debris above Bonneville dam. The fate of Martin, his wife, Barbara Jean, and their third daughter, Vivian, 13, has nev er been determined. And today, the . first anni versary of the disappearance, the $1,000 reward posted by relatives and friends of the Martins last Dec. 26 was with drawn. - The action came in a letter from Portland Attorney Law rence Lister, in a letter to Multnomah County' Sheriff Francis Lambert. Cold Weather Delays Eighth St. Bridge Job . Cold weather has delayed work on the Eighth st. bridge, according to Vern Thorpe, city engineer. Thorpe said contractors have been notified by engineers of the state high way department that concrete decking should not be poured until the minimum tempera ture rises above 26 degrees. Completion date had been scheduled for Dec. 15. county,-reports all but three census takers of a total of 12, have their reports in. He es timates his part of the cen sus will be completed by Dec. 10. Caster figures his eastern county crews covered 1,700 agricultural operations and Sander estimates about 1,000. From personal observations, both men say there is a defin ite ' trend toward part-time farming and larger full-time farming units. The term "ag riculture operation" included a minimum of one farm ani mal, 20 fruit trees or 20 chickens or ducks. The east half of the county Greatest Welcome Ever Received by Foreign Visitor Mounted Police Used To Clear Way Karachi, Pakistan (UPII President Eisenhower carried his peace campaign into Asia today and received such a tumultuous welcome from one million Pakistanis that mounted police had to charge the crowds to keep them from engulfing the presidential procession. Eisenhower, on the first trip by an American presi dent to Communist-threatened Asia, pledged that the U.S. and Pakistan would work for Additional Stories, Photos are on Page 2 a just peace for all mankind. A flight of U.S. donated Sa brejet fighters flew 'cover overhead as he spoke. Changes to Carriage After the brief airport cere monies the presidential mo torcade headed into Karachi along 14 miles of roads jammed with Pakistanis who shouted welcome Ike and "good morning" to the Persi dent. Once in Karachi the crowds became so thick that progress became almost impossible. The President 'had changed from a cream colored Cadil lac convertible to a Victorian state carriage drawn by six horses when the crowds be came unmanageable. The mounted police did their work and the open car riage driven by scarlet-clad coachmen moved safely v through the crowd and reached the house of Pakis tani President Mohammed Ayub Khan through the flag waving screeching welcome. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said Eisenhower conferred for 20 to 30 minutes with Ayub on arrival at the presidential pal ace. This could be considered the start of their substantive talks. . " f In response to a question, Hagerty said Eisenhower's physical condition was "fine" despite two days of drencMng in Rome. He said the Presi dent "does not seem tired" despite his strenuous sched ule since leaving Washington. Eisenhower was deeply moved by the welcome, the greatest by far ever given a visitor to Pakistan. Many of their welcome shouts were in Arabic but through the tu mult there came the "Ike, Ike, Ike" he has heard in every country-this time pro nounced as in America. Receives Award The President was sur rounded by more pomp and ceremony at a gala dinner to night. Ayub presented Pakis tan's highest civilian award "in recognition of your nota ble achievement for the Free World and the cause of peace." Ayub made the presenta tion of the "Nishan-I-Pakis-tan" order at a presidential palace ceremony just tiefore they descended to the garden for the dinner. Stayton Woman Hurt In Fall Into Buzzsaw Stayton - (UPD - Mrs. Leoto Show, 42, was in serious con dition in a hospital today with wounds suffered when she tripped and fell into a buzz saw. The accident occurred late Saturday while her husband was sawing wood. She suffer ed a serious shoulder slash and hand cuts. covered the area east of Table Rock rd. and to the south end of the county. The west half of the conuty also included that part of Josephine county to Murphy and up through Williams and Jerome Prairie. On the whole, people have been very cooperative, both Caster and Sander reported. A number of people thought the information was for tax assessments and were reluc tant to give any information, the two men said. One census-taker in the east section Of the county was bitten by a monkey, but otherwise enum erators had little trouble, it was reported.
