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ir !4'hV" JAI. . MEDFORDKli Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021, Yreka VI 2 4077, and in Grants Pass GR6 6173 before 6:45 pm. daily and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleas notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Tribune A story about Santa Claui and his good deeds in Medford ap pears on pat 14 of today's Mail Tribune. . , United Pre International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 62 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1959 No. 222 Paraguay Attacked By Rebel Forces Asuncion, Paraguay-UPD-A rebel invasion army crossed into Paraguay from Argen tina before dawn Saturday and clashed with strongman President Alfredo Stroess- ner's government troops in a series of fierce jungle fights. T h e government claimed complete victory after seven hours of fighting along the banks of the rivers that form the frontier. It said an un specified number of men were killed and wounded. But the Rebel radio, which said the invasion army num bered 3,000 men led by Maj Juan Jose Rotella, was still broadcasting and still claim ing rebel gains, It said the rebels estimated seven beachheads on the Par aguayan side of the Panama river, bombed the border city of Encarnacion, and captured number of villages outside Encarnacion. It did not repeat earlier claims of controlling the port zone of the city and did not mention the fate of a column earlier reported to have cap tured Puerto Iguazu. 125 miles to the northeast. The government said the the capital of Asuncion, 175 miles northwest of the fight ing, remained calm. No clash es had been reported there the news of the invasion reached the capital early Sat urday. : The only Independent ac count of the fighting avail ' able here came from the Ar gentine newspaper El Terri torio. It said five rebel col' umns crossed the frontier river in small groups. Some were stopped on the Argen tine side by police. Rotella led the largest, 200 men. ,The crossings were made along a 125-mile stretch of the river from the Argentine city of Posadas, - directly across from Encarnacion, to the point across from Puerto Iguaz. The territory is one vast area of tropical jungle, with clearing only where lumber camps are operating. - Willamette Pledges "Retcve Probation Salem - (UPD - Willamette university officials said Sat urday that 31 pledges to Phi Delta Theta fraternity had been put on probation. They aid-the action involved dam age to the fraternity's living quarters, intended "prank." WEATHER FORECAST: Partly sunny and cool today. Clearing and colder tonight; fog patches during the morning b o n r s. Increasing cloudiness Monday with rain by afternoon. High today 45. Low tonight near 20. High Monday 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday 41 Lowest this Morning 30 Preclp. to IS p.m. Saturday .57 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow The Moon rises . 7:33 a.m. 4:09 p.m. today, appearing very near the star, Aldebaran. On the west coast H passes in front of Alde baran in the early evening, hid ing the star for nearly an hour. The Moon Is also in Apogee to night and its distance from the Earth is 252.600 miles, the great est since last May. Firm Claims Governor Aiding Union Albert Lea, Minn - (UPD - Wilson and Co. charged Sat urday that Minnesota Gov. Orville L. Freeman declared martial law here only to help striking union members and said it would file suit against the state. , Freeman, a Democrat, an grily denied the charge at a news conference in St. Paul, and said he would visit the strike-torn town Sunday to try to resolve the bitter labor dispute. The meat packing company, angered over Freeman's deci- A.F. General Sets World Speed Record Los Angeles - (UPD --Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Moore, a grandfather twice over, Satur day claimed a new world air speed record of 1.216 miles an hou for the U. S. Air Force. ' Piloting a Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet, combat equipped, Moore broke the French record of 1,100.425 miles an hour over a 100-kil-cmeler closed course at Ed wards Air Force base Friday. Moore's claim has been ac cepted by the National Aero nautics Administration, the Air Force said Saturday night. .iu,;.,,,,...- .... MWWg.nm r- ; ' - - iiiiiiiidiiilMiffriftiiaffi '" -i Ms. W (UPI Telephoto) ALFREDO STROESSNER ' Government in Trouble Youth-Held On Weapons Charge Angle Inge Ingle, 18, 1978 Table Rock rd., was arrested by city police Friday night on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. At 6:29 Friday evening city police were called to 1978 Ta ble Rock rd. on report of a family disturbance at that ad dress. On arriving they found Angle and his father Oliver B r i a n t Ingle fighting over some, guns that the boy want ed. City police advised the fam ily that the boy should prob ably leave home for a while until things cooled off. Angle Ingle agreed and polioe offi cers escorted him to a place where the boy told them he could find a place to stay for awhile. , At 7:50 the same evening sheriff's deputies, state and city police were ail caiiea to the home on report that the boy was again assaulting his family, this time with a gun. On arrival police were told that Angle had come back to the home again, this time with a shotgun. He had not shot at anyone the family told police .but had been pointing the gun at his father and fired a shot into the ground. Angle gave him self up to city police without a struggle, and was lodged in the county jail. Bearded Sikh Names Son for Eisenhower - New Delhi -fiJPD- Gurcharan Singh, a beared Sikh from the Punjab, today proudly be stowed the name "Eisenhow er" on his new-born son in honor of the visiting Ameri can president. The infant was born Dec. 9 just as the President was ar riving at India's presidential palace from Pakistan. The only trouble, said the proud father, is that "Eisen hower Singh" may be hard for Sikhs to pronounce.- He said he may change the name to "Ike Singh." Members sion to halt production at a strike-bound plant, earlier said it would seek a restrain ing order Monday in federal court. ' Two companies of National Guardsmen marched into the town Friday, dispelled crowds of strikers who had threat ened some 500 non-union workers and closed the plant to all but clerical and super visory personnel. Municipal officials had ap pealed to Freeman to put an end to "a state of ' lawlessness, rioting and insurrection" af ter strikers massed at plant gates and stoned and spit at the non-union men. Four times within 48 hours groups of up to 1,000 men had gathered in the plant area, and officials feared the situ ation might reach the shoot ing stage. The firm charged in a bit ter statement Saturday that "it has become increasingly apparent that the Albert Lea plant was seized and shut down ... to assist the strik ing United Packinghouse Workers of America in their strike against Wilson and Co., as much as for the purpose of maintaining law and order." The statement termed the governor's action a "flagrant, one-sided application of gov ernment authority." D.A. to Appeal Overload Ruling By Judge Bashaw District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said Friday he would appeal a decision by District Court Judge E. Roy Bashaw last week on combination overload penalty cases. . The decision involved seven cases in which combination overloading of logging trucks was charged. According to state law, weight limitations for all trucks are set on loads carried on each wheel, each axle, each set of tandem axles, groups of axles and a weight limit on a combination of all axles. The cases applied to over loads on all four sets of axles on logging trucks, the two axles on the front and the two on the back. Ruled Unconstitutional Bashaw ruled it is uncon stitutional to penalize logging trucks with combination over loads any more than trucks carrying other, commodities which have combination over loads. The legislature did not de cide it is more dangerous to the traveling public to haul logs and that a weight limita tion is more dangerous when logs, poles or piling are be,ing carried. According to state law, this has no relationship to pulic safety and "is con fined to preservation of the public highway," Bashaw wrote. "It may be that since the legislature has permitted a logging truck to carry more weight than a commodity truck the increased penalty is a form of compensation," Ba shaw stated in his written opinion. "This distinction fails where there is a charged combina tion '.. vehicle overload," Ba shaw wrote, "in the absence of issuance of a permit. The complaint charges a combina tion vehicle overload but al leges no permit was issued." State law limits both class es to the same weight from the standpoint of combination overloads where no permit has been issued, he said. Greater Penalty It might be assumed that overloading a log truck is more profitable than over loading a commodity truck so a greater penalty is needed to discourage the practice, the judge continued. However, logs are not sold by the pound so this would not be true. A court has held in another case that certain classifica tions have justified difference in penalty on the basis of fre quency and heavy traffic ex pected over public highways from particular types of ve hicles. If this is the purpose of the law, a more appropriate approach would have been to limit the amounts which could be carried by logging trucks more strictly than com modity trucks. The judge sustained a de murrer entered by an attor ney for one of the plantiffs. The district court judge enter ed a judgment for the defen dant. Titan Explodes On Launching Pad Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPD A Titan intercontinental bal listic missile exploded in flame and black smoke on its stand Saturday in the third straight failure to fire the U.S.'s "new generation" ICBM. The 110-ton bullet shaped Titan missiles most $2 million each. An automatic shut -off de vice saved the Titan which ex ploded Saturday from destruc tion on its stand only two days ago. A Titan blew up in a premature- launching acci dent here Aug. 14 in the most recent firing attempt before this week. In both blow-ups, the Titan carried a "live" sec ond stage which was to be fired in .flight for the first time. ' As yet the U.S. has not suc ceeded in achieving a success ful test of the second stage in flight. The second stage . is designed to give the Titan full 100,000-pound thrust to carry it over a range expected to reach 9,000 miles when fully developed, its first stage gen erates 300,000 p o u nl s of thrust. Brigitte's Hubby Gets Army Reprieve Paris-dM) - The French Army granted a year's "re prieve" from Army serv ice Saturday to the hand some young husband of "sex kitten" Brigitte Bar dot. The decision of the Army Medical commission meant the temporary end of the brief but sensational mili tary career of draftee Jac ques Charrier, 23. himself a movie star. According to reports he received a merciless teas ing from other recruits, who all had pin-up pictures of Brigitte beside their bunks. Herler En Route To Paris for Summit Meeting London-(UPD - Secretary of State Christian A. Herter ar rived Saturday night in the midst of a growing NATO family quarrel to pave the way for President Eisenhower at a Paris western summit conference. The secretary landed at London airport for an over night stay when fog at Paris diverted his airliner. He 'will go on to the French capital Sunday to cope with: French anger at charges by U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman' Gen. Nathan Twin ing that Franch was dragging its feet on NATO commit ments. Economic squabbles among the western European allies now divided into two separate trade blocs. The future of NATO. How to meet the current Russian sweetness and light campaign and evaluate it. The results of the Eisen hower peace tour. Ridegland, S.C.-(UPD-Vaca-tioning A d 1 a i Stevenson charged Saturday that Presi dent Eisenhower's current tour represented a "new low" in America's world leader ship. He said the tour will be followed by disillusionment. Newsman May Be Held in Cuba for 'Weeks' Havana - (UPD Revolution ary government sources Sat urday night predicted at least "several weeks" more deten tion for Miami Herald report er James Buchanan while au thorities - investigate his al leged links with American soldier - of - fortune Austin Young. The sources said Army in telligence' agents were trying to find out in what ways, if any, Buchanan was involved with Young, who escaped from Pinar Del Rio shortly after a court had sentenced him to 30 years for conspiracy only to be recaptured. The two North Americans" were arrested the day after the escape in a Havana hotel, although at separate- times. Buchanan had left Young's room after an initial inter view when Young was arrest ed. Buchanan then was seized I Mouthful .V Turkey, Poland To Split Term On Security Council U.S., Russia Agree To End Deadlock United Nations, N.Y. ttJPD The United States and Russia agreed Saturday night to di vide the deadlocked Security Council election between Tur key and Poland with each country serving one year of the 2-year term. U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said after a 45 minute conference with So viet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov that agreement had been reached with Poland to serve the first year of .the term before mak ing way for Turkey. The Security Council elec tion had been deadlocked through 51 ballots. It had threatened to delay adjourn ment of the Assembly's 14th annual session, scheduled for Saturday night. General Assembly President Victor Andres Belaunde sum moned Lodge and Kusnetsov to his office to thrash out a solution to the deadlock that has plagued , the Assembly through seven sessions since Oct. 12. It was not immediately clear what conditions, if any, were attached to Russia's ap parent concession to agree .to split the 2-year term between Poland and Turkey. Kuznetsov had insisted that split-term agreement must include a reaffirmation of 1946 "gentleman's agreement' which allocated one council seat to eastern Europe-specifi- cally, the Communist bloc, The United States contends that -agreement was for one term only. 77 Salem, Ore.D-SalenTcIly attorney Chris Kowlitz said Saturday that the Oregon Su preme Court ruling on the legality of free-play pinball machines does no affect this city s ordinance against pin balls, free-play or . not. as he returned to the room with some iodine and bandag es, apparently for Young who suffered cuts and bruises dur ing the jailbreak. Buchanan and Young have denied ever' meeting each other until Thursday when the reporter got a tip in Miami where he could find the sol- dier-of-fortune and arrived in Havana to get the, story. They were put into the same cell together behind Army intelligence sources in the fashionable Miramar sec tion of Havana. Some unofficial observers feared the government plan ned to make uucnanan an "example" to other North American newspaper report ers and wire service men whom the Castro regime blames for spreading bad propaganda against it. MAUL&Ht , It, in rutiusr Drug Prices Under IKE RECEIVES GIFT President Eisen- be highly pleased with the success thus far hower, left, examines the table piece pre- of his 11-nation peace tour and his "soft sented to him by India's President Prasad, sell' approach to peace-with-freedom that right, at New Delhi. Eisenhower was said to has won him the adulation of India. (UPI Telephoto) Indians Mob Party To Meet President New Delhi -(UPD- American and Indian security agents with locked arms ran inter ference for President Eisen hower Saturday through , a crowd of 8,000 Nabos, Maha rajas, officials and gate crash ers who turned a palace lawn party into an uproar. Women screamed as the trains of their green and golden saris were trampled underfoot: -The 800-acre" Mo gul Gardens of India's Ras- trapati Bhavan presidential palace were churned up like a football field. But old West Point halfback Eisenhower did not appear to mind and chatted amiably with his host, President Rajendra Prasad. It was an "easy" day on Eisenhower's strenuous . tour of 11 nations. Only the "at home" lawn party by Prasad and a quiet dinner given by Eisenhower for Prime Minis ter Pawaharlal Nehru at the U.S. Embassy residence were scheduled. The President coughed lightly several times during the day, but was in fine fettle. Sports Bulletin Eugene Crater High school posted its third vic tory of the season here Sat urday night by beating St. Francis 40 to 32. The Com ets of Central Point led 28 to 12 at halftime. Dave Sharp of Crater was the game's high scorer with 11 points. Eagle Point - Pleasant Hill bounced Eagle' Point high's cagers 58 to 52 here Saturday- night. Larry El liott put in. 19 points and Bruce Bradshaw 18 for the Billies while Steve Geren collected 19 for Eagle Point. North Bend North Bend high basketball team out scrambled Medford 42 to 36 iere Saturday night. Med ford headed 11 lo 7 at the quarter and 21 to 20 at the half. Third quarter count was tied at 28-each. The Bulldogs went in front to stay at 35 to 35 on a bucket by Jeff Allen with about 3!2 minutes left. Coos Bay Marshfield cagers drubbed Grants Pass high 74 to 45 here Satur day night as Mel Counts piled in 31 points. Cave Junction Myrtle Creek high hoop quint pull ed away in the third quart er Saturday night to sub due Illinois Valley 60 to 48. Fred Earwood chalked up 23 markers for the victors. Rogue River-Rogue River high, with David Carter poking in 27 markers, whipped the Canyonville basketball crew 67 lo 33 on Saturday night. Chico State 76, Southern Oregon 53 Washington 77. WSU 52 Oregon State 78, Mon tana 58 Oregon 67, San Francisco U. 58 Evansville 79, SL Miry'i (Calif.) 74 Aides said he was having "the time of his life." Not some of the aides and newsmen with the party. There was a rash of colds and 'intesitinal complaints. Secret servicemen . nursed bruises suffered pushing back the teeming throngs who have turned out for four straight days to hail Eisenhower. More than 1,000 gate crash- ers added to the jwoeJthfiJAnotoer.Jsolution bearing scarlet-robed attendants and servants at the Mogul. Gar dens party. Many of the in vited dignitaries grumbled that too many people were there. Tne two presidents sat in wicker settees in a green oasis of the garden, protected by a wall of security men. When they got up for a stroll, Aides joined the guards in carving a path through a wall of humanity; Capt. E. P. Aurand, Eisenhower's naval aide, had to help push back the crowd trying to get close, enough to shake Eisenhower's hand or ask his autograph. Rainfall Eases Dry Conditions Rain Friday and Saturday eased dry agricultural condi tions considerably while snow slowed traffic late Saturday in mountain passes. The Medford station of the U.S. Weather Bureau reported .03 inch of rain fell in the Medford area Friday and .57 inch of rain Saturday up to 8 p.m. The general weather out look is partly cloudy weather today, increasing cloudiness Monday with some rain along the coast early in the week. Heavier rainfall was report ed in the hills, according to a local irrigation district mana ger. Little water runoff was observed, he said. State police reported chains are required on the Green Springs highway and it was snowing Saturday. - Chains were also required in the Sis kiyous. Chains were required on the Diamond lake highway with travel discouraged. All roads were reported open to the south. Cyprus To Vole For President Nicosia, Cyprus - (UPD - Cy priots today will elect a presi dent to govern them when their revolt-ravaged island be comes an independent repub lic Feb. 19. More than 238,000 islanders are expected to vote after two weeks of heated campaigning in which political debates of ten were followed by fist fights. Candidates are Greek Or thodox Archbishop Makarios, 46, once exiled from Cyprus by the British, and 72-year-old lawyer John Clerides. Both are Greek Cypriots. By agree ment, a vice president to be chosen" will be from the Turk ish Cypriot majority. Fire in Hearings Nixon Rapped by U.S. Communists- New York-flJPD - The Com munist party of the U.S.A. charged Saturday that big business is "on the warpath" against labor. A resolution adopted at tihe 17th national convention of the party cited the flurry of current strikes and ' said the "intensity" of these battles is shown by the steel dispute. on me itso election to ok pot- shots at Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon and Republican Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. A third resolution adopted at the party's 4-day conclave in the Theresa hotel in Har lem advocated full equality for the Negro people. ; "Our party's policy in re spect to the Negro question in the United States is to secure with all speed the complete realization of the genuinely equal economic, political and social status with all other American citizens," the reso lution said. The party attacked Nixon for his views on labor and the cold war and Rockefeller as the spokesman of "oil and fi nance." Two leading Democrats former President Harry S. Truman and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson also were attacked. Man Returns Home After Being 'Lost' . Roy Chester Lilly, 1652 Or chard Home dr., relurned home safe Friday after spend ing the night in his wrecked pickup truck about 12 miles above Butte Falls, sheriffs deputies reported. Samuel Edward Byrd, Cor ral lane, Ashland; phoned deputies Friay morning to tell them his partner in a work project had not returned home. He said Lilly was driv ing his pickup truck a short distance ahead to warn ap proaching motorists . of the truck carrying a bulldozer following him. Byrd was driv ing the truck with the wide load. The pickup truck stalled and Byrd drove the large truck on into Medford. Byrd apparently did not know the pickup truck had gone over an embankment on the Butte Falls-Fish Lake rd. Deputies said a check at Lil ly's residence revealed the lost man had waited until day light, then hitchhiked into town. 8f8??ttf! 'OAYS IIELPF1GIITTB s CHRISTMAS SEALS Senate Committee Hits Upjohn Co. For Hormone Deal Wonder Drugs' Cost Said Way Too High Washington - (UPD - Sen. Estes Kefauver wound up hearings on the pricing of some so-called wonder drugs Saturday and charged that evidence "clearly showi" Americans are being required to pay too much for them. Kefauver closed hearings of his Senate Anti-Monopoly sub committee after investigators reported that Upjohn Co. bought female sex hormones for 14 cents a gram and sold them to druggists for $15 a gram, an increase of 10,000 per cent. He also announced that hearings will resume about the middle of January, touch ing on another product in the drug field. Sources indicated that antibiotics will be next on the list. Kefauver said there is clear evidence that wonder drug prices are too high, and that there is an excessive differ ence between manufacturers costs and retail and wholesale prices. His claim is supported, Ke fauver said, by testimony that the drugs, including arthritis palliatives, cost less overseas and that small, efficient firms sell identical products at lower prices than the major drug houses. Kefauver also cited testi mony showing that over the last three years the drug in dustry's profits have been the highest ia the country - about twice that of any other in dustry. , He said that $750,000,000 spent on promotion and ad vertising by the big compan ies figures out to about $5,000 for every doctor in the coun try, and that this outlay ap pears "much too large. The subcommittee called in representatives of several big drug houses during the week long hearings .along with wit nesses for consumer groups. A spokesman for a group of retired Civil Service em ployes said the high cost of drugs poses a special-problem for older persons, and urged that legislation be passed to remedy the situation. To wind u pthis- phase of the hearings, the subcommit tee Saturday asked Dr. E. Gifford Upjohn, president of the Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., how the company can sell female hormones in Bri tain for $7.53 per tablet while charging U. S. customers $17.90. Upjohn defended the pric ing practices which Subcom mittee Counsel Rand Dixon had described. The drug company head was also asked why Upjohn sold bulk quantities of the arthritis drug to another manufacturer at a price 14 times less than that charged druggists for the finished product. Dixon also pointed out that Upjohn prices for some of its products are six times as much as those charged by smaller firms. The female sex hormone centered on "Progresterone" which can be used both in the manufacture of other drug products and as a separate pharmaceutical. Dixon paid Upjohn bought $3,000,000 worth of Troges- terone last year at the 14 cents a gram price but when it was sold to druggists in am pule form, the cost was $15 a gram. Glendale Woman Hurt in Collision One person was injured in a two-car accident on high way 99 near Savage creek, Saturday morning, according to state police. Mrs. Walter J. White, 45, Glendale w,as taken to Sacred Heart hospital with undeter mined injuries after the car her husband was driving went out of control when he tried to pass a pickup truck. State, police said White's car apparently clipped the rear of a pickup driven by Harry D. McCabe, Gold HilL it tried to pass it, then went out of control and into a ditch. Little or no damage was done to Jhe pickup state po lice said, but the White oar was extensively damaged.
