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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.
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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
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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.
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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.