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Price 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended Medford RIBUNE United Presa International Full Leased Wire To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021, before 6:45 p.m. dailv and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A atory aboot why Medford I retarded as a "problem area" when it comet to higher educa tion appeara in today's Mall Tribune on page 14. United Praia International Full Leased Wire 62 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER , 20, 1 959 No. 228 54th Year 4 nr 'Old Reb' Dies Houston, Tex. -IDPD-Walter) (Old Reb) Williams, the last of the four million men who fought the great war between the states, died Saturday. He was 117 years old. Williams succumbed to his fourth attack of pneumonia within a year which he had amazingly fought almost to a standstill for 13 critical days. ' His death closed a chapter in American history. It was the signal for President Er senhower to proclaim a day o national mourning. The White House said noti fication of Williams' death had been sent to Eisenhower in Paris. A spokesman said that because of the time differen tial he did not expect the President to sign the procla mation before Sunday morn ing. "He just quit breathing," Dr. Russell Wolfe, the physi cian who had cared for Wil liams for the last six years, said. The tough old soldier passed away quietly m the back bed room at the modest white frame home of his devoted daughter, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles, who had cared for him day and night as he lay bedridden for five long years. A Confederate flag -under which Williams served as a cavalry forager with General J. B. Hood-hung draped on the wall across the room from Williams' bed. It was flanked -by a United States flag and the Lone Star flag of Texas. The street outside was quiet. Small clusters of relatives called at the little five-room house set in a cluster of syca more and oak trees. Mrs. Bowles, a widows in her 90s, asked once more to Me her father before his body was taken to a funeral home In downtown Houston.' Man Injured During ibfjJSgnalCrash-- - One person was injured in a rear-end collision Saturday morning at the intersection of the - North Pacific highway and Pine rt. at Central Point, Central Point police reported. Injured was Roy Porter Blair, 22, Portland, who was treated by a Central Point physician for back, neck and head injuries, police said, and released. He was a passenger in a car driven by his brother, Forrest John Blair, 20, Port land. The Blair car stopped for the red traffic signal at. the intersection when it was struck in the rear by a car driven by Kill an Mathias Dols, 51, Oakland, Calif. . No citations were issued and only minor damage was reported to both cars, police aid- Teeth Expensive; Parties Abandoned Knoxville, Tenn.-UP-Clyde E. McCloud swore off Christ mas parties Friday. "It costs me too much in teeth," he told police. McCloud lost his false teeth when the car in which he was riding from a party struck a utility pole. He was charged with drunkenness. He said he lost another set of teeth in an accident last Christmas. Gossage Will Direct County Dimes Campaign Clarence Gossage, Jackson county insurance man, has been named county campaign director for the March of Dimes, it has been announced by Mrs. Harold Gilbert, head of the county chapter of the National Foundation, Gossage is organizing all communities in the county in anticipation of the fund rais ing campaign, which runs from Jan. 22 to 31. "The New March of Dimes gives us an even greater op portunity to help the handi capped than at any time in the past," Gossage said. 'The addition of birth defects and rheumatoid arthritis to polio in the program enables us to broaden our scope of assist ance. The National Founda tion's program based' on pro fessional education, research and patient aid in these three cripplers gives us a three pronged attack on disease and it is only through the gener osity of the people during the January campaign that we can hope to advance in our attack," the director said. "Polio is not eradicated and will not be until every man, woman and child has re- "Let me see him just one more time," Mrs. Bowles cried. She was led back to the 12 by 18 foot bedroom. "I'm going to miss you so much," she sobbed as she looked down at the body of the wizened old soldier. I never did get tired of taking care of you." Two Executed by Castro Regime; Total Near 650 Havana, Cuba. DPD Cuban Army firing squads executed two counter-revolutionaries in nearby Pinar del Rio Satur aay in tne first death sen tences to be carried out in six months. iwo lormer non-commissioned officers in the army of ousted Dictator Fulgencio Ba tista, ex - sergeant Jose An tonio Morffi Reyes and ex- corporal Luis. Lara Crespo, were backed up against a wall at the Rius Rivera regiment al shooting range at 7 a.m. and shot. They had been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of leading an armed movement against the regime of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. The executions brought the total of so-called, war crim inals executed by the Castro regime since its Jan. 1 tri umph over Batista to near the 650 mark. War criminals were executed at a four-a-day clip by rebel firing squads during the first six months of the year. Lara, 21, and Morffi, slight ly older, were the first anti- government conspirators to be executed since Castro restor ed war crimes courts six i weeks ago after1 - sharp in crease in counter-revolutionary activities throughout the nation. 1 , Until Friday, Lara, had been confident the executions would not be carried out. He had told his jail keepers that the execution stage in Cuban revolutionary history had ended. It was for that reason, he confided, that he made no attempt, to escape from his military cell some 10 days ago when Miami soldier-of- f ortune Austin Young made his break. Fought Rebel Regime Lara had fought the rebel regime for eight months at the head of a band of guerilla fighters operating in the foot hills of the Sierra de Las Organos mountain range of Pinar del Rio province. Meanwhile, attorneys for John V. Martino, 48,. a U.S. electronics engineer from Long Island City, N.Y., and Miami, Fla., prepared appeals to' the supreme war council against his 13-year sentence for anti-government activities. Martino was specifically sentenced by a war crimes court for allegedly seeking to aid in the escape from Cuba of the family of a war crim inal, former police colonel Esteban Ventura. He denied the charges throughout his five-hour hearing. CLARENCE GOSSAGE To Direct Campaign ceived at least three shots of Salk anti-polio vaccine. While the National Foundation has taken on two new fields of disease, we will not neglect one single past, present or fu ture polio patient," Gossage pointed out. IV ! I! Hearing Against . E.P- District Resumes Monday More Testimony On Siphon Is Expected The injunction hearing against Eagle Point irrigation district will continue Monday in circuit court with more testimony expected on engi neering aspects of the siphon. Ted Flury, irrigation dis trict manager, was on the wit ness stand all Friday after noon and under questioning by Mrs. Ann (Howard) Todd, one of the four water users seeking the injunction against permitting 100 cubic feet per second of water or more through a siphon. Engineering reports on the siphon were refused admission as evidence by the court fol lowing objections by George Roberts, California Oregon Power company attorney. Copco is involved in the hear ing since a contract between the district and Copco calls for a flow of 100 cubic feet per second through the si phon. Roberts objected saying he had no opportunity to ex amine the persons who made the reports as to their qualifi cations. Judge Won't Inspect Following her attempt to introduce the engineering re ports, Mrs. Todd suggested that Circuit Judge James Main inspect the siphon. Judge Main explained that a view of the premises could not be considered as eyidence. "The court is bound only to view evidence produced in court either by testimony or by exhibits properly receiv ed," the judge pointed out. Flury testified that the si phon would take 100 cubic feet per second of water. Testifying as to the siphon construction, the- irrigation district , - manager said the. original siphon was built in the early 1920's. Following further questioning, Flury said it is difficult to build a wood siphon without leaks resulting. Flury Not Engineer Further questioning reveal ed Flury is not an engineer. He said his knowledge of si phons is based on experience as irrigation district manager. He said he had not managed an irrigation district before his present job. He said he had been raised on a farm and also had observed wooden siphons in this area. During her questioning of Flury, Judge Main advised Mrs. Todd she could not ask the witness leading questions and -must ask her questions one at a time. While the ir rigation district manager was drawing a diagram of the si- pnon construction on an easel, Roberts made some suggestions to Flury which he said should help speed up proceedings. Mrs. Todd asked who was questioning the wit ness, herself or the Copco attorney. Sports Bulletins ' Medford high, with Jerry Anderson pouring through 26 points, subdued South Eugene's basketball team 73 to 57 her last night to sweep a two-gam week end series with the Axemen. The Black Tornado had quarter leads of 19 to 15, 35 to 25 and 50 to 35. Sandy Nosier scored 18 for South Eugene. Medford junior varsity downed - Prospect varsity 72 to 27 in the pre liminary. Central Point Crater high school's Comets romp ed to an asy 57 to 37 vie lorytory over Eagle Point in a basketball gam played her Saturday night. Chuck Turner netted 11 points for the winners while Dick" Wilson paced the losers with 14. Crater enjoyed a 15-9 bulge at the tint quarter, extended it to 32-13 at th halfway mark, and was on top 50 to 21 at th end of th third quarter. Ashland - The Ashland high school Grizzlies mad it two in a row over Doug las of Winston with a 62 to 42 basketball victory her Saturday night. Htiliy Dickarson of Ashland was th game's high scorer with 20 points while Fred Dick over led th Douglas quint with 16. . Ashland led at th first quarter 10 to 7. made it 24 23 . at Tialflime. and went ahead 42 to 27 at th and of th third siansa. Big Yule Party Held For 4-Legged Guests New York-IEPD-Mor than 700 guests turned up Sat urday at the annual Christ mas party of the " Human Society of New York. They were all four-leg-gad. Most of them were cats and dogs, which had been invited. A few rabbits turn ed up, loo. Each year, the Humane Society has a party' for the animals of children who live in poorer sections of the city. The guests were escorted by more than 1,000 chil dren and their parents. For the dogs there were collars, leashes and coats. For the call, there- was catnip. For the children, there was candy. Red China Ready To Jump Formosa, Says U.S. Expert Washington - (UPD - U. S. Ambassador Everett F. Drum- right, an expert on China, said Saturday that Communist China now is militarily ready to "jump off at any time" on its long - threatened invasion of Nationalist Formosa. But he doubted the Reds would strike in the near fu ture. And he said Nationalist President Chiang Kai-shek will not start a war because he knows he would require U.S. military support to re turn to the Chinese mainland, "He knows the United States would not embark on an effort to forcibly liberate the mainland under existing circumstances," the ambassa dor said. Drumright, now envoy to Nationalist China and former head of the big U.S. consulate listening post in Hong, Kong, made this . assessment in an interview. He is here for con sultations at the state depart ment. Sees Policy Shift He saw a major foreign policy shift in Red Peiping's current arrogance toward neutralist India and Indo nesia, in contrast with its earlier efforts to woo South ern Asia. He predicted that Commu nist China's expanionist prob ing of the Indian border will be repeated "sooner or later" on the Chinese borders of Pakistan, Nepal and Burma. 'They now are . showing their teeth to Asia and reveal ing their expansionist inten tions," he said. Why? Drumright frankly confessed that he did not know. But he said that until Peiping has built an industrial base for its military establish-ment-now heavily dependent on Russia it is doubtful that it will press its expansion drive beyond limited, probing actions. No Conflict Seen He saw no serious conflict between Russia's Nikita Khru shchev and China's Mao Tse Tung on the basic issue of whether to risk war. "I doubt that either Khru shchev or Mao wants a major war," he said. "Their pullback from the threat to Taiwan last year shows this. "The Soviet - Chinese alli ance is close. They share a common ideology, a common world objective. In order to get on toward their target of world Communist demona tion, they have to get on to gether. "They constitute, together, a great world power factor. Communist China itself is not a major military power. It must have Soviet support. The Chinese Communists can not produce the wherewithal to carry on a major war." FIREMEN CALLED City firemen were called to the home of Arthur A. Meyers, 2441 Obispo st., Sat urday at 8:49 p.m. to extin guish a minor house fire. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable for; through Monday, parUal after noon clearing. Variable high cloudiness above fog. Temp. Highest Saturday 35 Low Monday 25 Our Skies Tonight. Sunset today . 4:41 p.m. sunrise tomorrow . 7S7 ajn. Moonrise tonight 10:37 pjn. PROMINENT STARS . At moonrise tonight Aldebaran will be high in the south and Sirius will be in the southeast. The bright stars between them form the constellation of Orion. Miss ill ft iXf- ? - "V ) tiCr mM ; ' "" I TSSmm ' m. -" SUMMIT CONFERENCE A western summit conference around a table in Klysee Palace, Paris, Saturday shows,' left to right, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Presi- Steelworkers Sign Pacts With 5 Aluminum Companies Chicago - (DPB - The United Steelworkers concluded new three-year contracts with five aluminum companies Satur- aay granting o,ouu worKers wage increases and fringe benefits estimated by the un ion at 30 cents an hour. Aluminum Company ; ' of America,- bellwether of the in dustry, announced at the same time that it has reached a parallel agreement covering 9,700 employes represented by the AFL - CIO Aluminum Workers International Union. The aluminum industry set tlement, coming on the heels of USW settlements with the can and copper industries, gave steelworkers chieftain David J. McDonald a new bar gaining weapon to wield when he resumes talks with the steel companies Monday in Washington. The aluminum agreement, hammered out in 11 days of negotiations here with Mc Donald and key industry ex ecutives participating actively, followed the pattern of con tracts signed earlier this month with major can com panies. It is retroactive to Aug. 1, when the old contracts expir ed, and runs to July 31, 1962. The contracts cover 15,000 Alcoa employes in. 15 plants, 10,000 Reynolds Metals com pany workers in nine plants, 10,000 Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical corporation em ployes in nine plants, and 2,500 employes of Ormet cor poration and Olin-Mathieson Chemical corporation at ad joining plants in Omal, Ohio. Two compames estimated the - overall wage boost and fringe benefit package at 'less than the USW estimate. Alcoa said the package totaled about 28.5 cents an hour . per em- r "He's Burying Me!' Mire ploye, and Kaiser placed the figure at 25.7 cents an hour. The USW said wage increas es for the three years totaled about 21 cents, the same as in the can settlement, with the remainder of the benefits made up of fringe benefits. However, application of - the benefits differed from com pany to company and even from plant to plant within some companies. Touhy's Murderers Still at Large Chicago - (DPD - Attention switched to the so-c ailed "youngsters" in the alleged Chicago crime syndicate Sat urdayeveryone under 50- in hopes of solving the gang land slaying of Roger' Touhy. The "youngsters," in turn, refused to do, or say, a thing without first consulting their attorneys. Touhy's attorney, Robert B. Johnston, charged, however, that the syndicate had insti gated Touhy's killing. ' Touhy, 61, just out of prison after serving 25 years on what he insisted was a "framed" kidnap conviction, was shot gunned to death Wednesday night in front of his sister's home. A companion, Walter Mil ler, 62, an ex-police sergeant who was serving as Touhy's bodyguard, was critically wounded. Throwback .To Capon The entire case appeared a throwback to the heyday of Al Capone. Touhy and Capone were arch rivals for the boot leg beer trade of the ,20's. m Ptos IFraira den Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Charles de Gaulle of France. (UPI Telephoto) Arthur J.-Goldberg, USW general counsel, said at a news conference that the wage boosts averaged "about 5V4 cents an hour for the first year, around 8 cents the sec ond year and 8Vfc cents the third year." Alcoa said its workers would receive direct wage in creases averaging 4.8 cents an hour the first year; 7.1 cents the second year, and 8.9 cents in the third year. It was the "youngsters" who inherited, or hope to inherit, the Capone empire who Sat urday were being questioned on the Touhy killing. Police issued a pick-up or der for Sam Battaglia and took into custody, briefly, Marshall Caifano. No Li Test uauano, 48, insisted on consulting with his attorney before signing any statement or taking any lie test. Battaglia and Caifano are considered leaders of a group of "younger" men attempt ing to gain control of the al leged syndicate from its sup posed current chief Sam Gian cana, reputed successor to Anthony Accardo, who in turn took over from Capone. Miler, in hospital room in terviews, denied getting a good look at the men who ambushed him and Touhy Wednesday night. Police Capt. Russell Cor coran said the pick-up order to bring in Battaglia still held and Battaglia, when found, would be brought to Miller for possible identification. Decoration Contest Entries Said Few Only about 10 entries have been received so far in the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce's Christmas decor ation lighting contest, Kenn Knackstedt, chairman of the event, said Saturday. Entries must reach the Jay- cees, post office box 251, Med ford, by Dec. 24 to be eligible for judging Dec. 26. First and second place win ners in four sections of the city, and surrounding area, will be chosen on the basis of merit, originality and ingenu ity. A sweepstakes winner will be selected from one of the four first place winners. At least one string of out door Christmas lights or . the equivalent must be displayed by the contestant, Knackstedt said. All entries, after the top prizes are awarded, will be eligible for 11 additional prizes. Several merchandise prizes have been donated by Medford merchants.. -. 'i Board Asks Both Steel Sides to Renew Hearings Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower's fact- finding board Saturday formally call ed both sides in the marathon steel dispute to renew public hearings here starting Dec. 28 The announcement came on the heels of a summons to union and management offic ials to resume peace talks here next Monday afternoon with federal mediators. There appeared to be no sign of an early settlement, despite the increase in gov ernment activity. Informed sources reported that the gulf between the two parties was wider than ever on the key work rules issue. Increased Demand Also, the steel workers have increased their wage demand in a new proposal announced Friday. The union renewed its demand for company-by-company and threatened to go to court to enforce it. Dr. George W. Taylor, chair man of the Presidential board of inquiry", indicated the hear ings are being reopened to gather material for a required Jan. 6 report to the White House. But he and his two col leagues on the panel John A. Perkins and Paul N. Lehoczky - were expected to do their best to settle the dispute in formal hearings and informal mediation sessions. HELP FIGHT TB CHRISTMAS SEALS Nikita Urges To Agree to Treaty Moscow - (CPD Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, in a letter dramatically made pub lic Saturday, urged West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer to give up his rearma ment program and agree to a German peace treaty. Khrushchev c'o m plained that Adenauer gave the im pression of considering a peace treaty "a petty and in significant affair" and said that German rearmament be lied assurances of "peaceful intentions." The letter, more than two months old, was released just a few hours after Adenauer began Western summit delib erations in Paris with Presi dent Eisenhower, Prime Min- lister Harold Marmiiian and Reds to Receive Peace Program at Summit Meeting President, de Gaulle Have 'Frank' Talks Paris -flJPD- President Eisen hower agreed with the other Western Big Four leaders Sat urday on a "maximum pro gram" of peace to present to Russia at a summit conference next April and then staged a "very frank" showdown meet ing with Charles de Gaulle on their private differences. As the Western summit meeting opened in the Presi dential Elysees Palace. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev injected himself into it by re leasing in Moscow a 2-month-old letter demanding a Ger man peace treaty and an end to West German rearmament. Geneva Possible Sit Both sides thus began to set the stage for an East -West summit meeting which Eisen hower, de Gaulle, West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer and British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan agreed saiuraay should be held late next April. April 25 was mentioned as a likely date and a letter was to be drafted Sunday to Khrushchev sug gesting the time. Geneva was to be the site, although de ixauue would prefer Paris. The four Western leaders, meeting twice at formal ses sions to start their week end conference, started to draw up the outline of a "maximum program" linking d i s arma ment to political settlements which will be presented to Khrushchev. Between the two sessions, Eisenhower was closeted pri vately with de Gaulle for an hour to discuss de Gaulle's reluctance to agree to inte gration of French forces in NATO commands and French anger at America's failure to back France during United Nations debate on Algeria. The While House described the talk as "very frank and -friendly." The meeting had been heralded in advance as a showdown between Eisen hower, backed by the tremen dous successes of his global peace tour, and de Gaulle who seeks a greater voice for France in allied affairs. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty con firmed what Eisenhower and de Gaulle had discussed in general but gave few particu lars. Algeria Discussed He said they talked mostly about "the U.S. abstention in, the United Nations vote on Algeria and the NATO ques tion of integration." The four-power talks Sun day will be transferred to Rambouillet Chateau, 27 miles outside Paris. Eisenhower will have a private breakfast with Macmillan and will receive Adenauer for dinner Sunday night at the U.S. embassy. Monday, the talks will wind up and Eisenhower will con tinue on to Madrid and Mo rocco, en route home. Paris-rtJPD-President Eisen hower will report to his boss es, the American people, on the results of his 11-nation tour next Wednesday night from Washington, it was learned Saturday night- Germany French President Charles de Gaulle. The Soviet Foreign Ministry called a special press confer ence to disclose the Oct. 15 Khrushchev letter, which, it said, was being made public because there had been dis torted stories in the Western press about its content. The letter called for dis armament and lessening of tension to free the peoples of the world from what Khru shchev called "the depressing fear of rockets and nuclear war.". In renewing his call for a German peace treaty, Khru shchev referred again to the Soviet call for setting up a de-militarized "free city" in West Berlin.
