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However, the only high that counts is the one that comes DOW-JONES AVERAGES Kw York UPD Dp w. . Jonas final stock avrags: 30 " industrials 678.97, up . 4.74; 20 railroads 154.02, up 0.30; 15 utilities , 87.35, up' 0.06, and 65 stocks 218.81, up 1.06. Sales Wednesday were about 3,680.000 shares compared with 3.020,000 shares Tuesday.- ' Wednesday's prices on selected stocks: " ' Atlied Chemical l.ll',' Alum Co. Am 106 ,t American Can 43 American Motors A T & T .....v..:-....i. Anaconda Copper 83 'i 78 63 76 72 5 54', Armco Steel. ........ Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air .'. Caterpillar , Corp.- Chrysler Corp. Continental Can . 3H, 33'!, 68 ! 463. Crown Zellerbach Curtis Wright Dow Chemical EKi Pont Eastman Kodak - 33 31 - 98 ft ..264 -107 Firestone (xd 136 i General Electric 88 ij General Foods 105 54 '.i 49 - 2J4 J 205, General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Paige . Greyhound - -Gulf Oil -110' Homestake Mining Idaho Power I. B. M. ' Int. Paper Johns Manville - 43 - 47 'i ..439 V 135 48ft 5 ft .. 96', - 32 V 24 Katy Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Co. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDFORD A HOME OWNED INSTITUTION i DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO SAVE 29 NORTH IVY STREET ANNOUNCES DIVIDEND -f . . PER ANNUM FOR THE. PAST HALF YEAR, PAYABLE TO INVESTORS 3 DECEMBER 31, 1959 Investment Made by , the Tenth of the Month Earns Dividends as of the First. Iffi nut u'K5 VJ Montgomery Ward 53 ft '."'.Z.7ZZ.7Z 28ft . 64 121 15ft 69 .. 78 . 37 50 85 41ft 39 ft 22 ft 1 , 50ft Nafl Biscuit New York Central Pac Gas & EIec Penney. J. C. Penn RR Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway Sears Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern. Co Southern Pacific- Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J. Sun Mines - Texas Co. Texas Gulf Sulfur Tex Pac Land Trust Transamenca Trans World ' Air Tri-Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific . United Aircraft United Air Lines U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel ... Youngstown S & T Mothers Learns of Daughter's Death Silverton -TCP!)- A Silverton mother who had gone . to Louisiana is en route home after finding out only Tues day that her '16-year-old daughter was killed in a traf fic accident 12 days ago. Funeral services for. Jean- ette Kaser were Monday. The services had been postponed in an effort to reach the mother, Mrs. Floyd Kaser. She was in telephone con tact with the family in Sil verton from Sidell, La., Tues day and learned of the trage dy then. Ike's Granddaughter Marks Fourth Birthday Gettysburg, Pa. TOPD Mary Jean Eisenhower, the young est of President Eisenhower's four grandchildren, celebrat ed her fourth birthday here today. Six years ago, only 4 per cent of all U. S. families own ed a second car. Today, the figure stands at 17 per cent. 44 ft 49 ft 7ft 85 V, u 19ft 23 li 18ft 38 ft , . 146 30 'i 40' s 36 ft ; 62 ft SB ft 132 ft OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Herbert C. Grey President John Niedermeyer Vice President John E. Myers Secretary Treasurer B. L Nutting Director Harry C. Skyrman Director Robert F. Kyle Manager Mary Jane Myers Assistant Treasurer About 38,000 Die In 'Safest' Year On Nation's Roads Chicago (UPD About 38,000 Americans died in traffic ac cidents in 1959. But the year was the safest in the history of the nation s highways. These contradictory figures were released today by the National Safety Council, which estimated the 1959 traffic death toll at between 37,500 and 38,000 - almost 1,000 more than last year. But the year's mileage death rate was 5.4 for every 100 million miles traveled - the lowest on record. "There is good reason to hope that the upward surge of the traffic toll in the early months of this year has been definitely stopped and that the nation s streets and high ways will become safer and safer," a council spokesman said. Probably the most tragic figure was the 1,400,000 per sons disabled by auto smash ups. This was an increase over the 1958 total of 1,350,' 000 disabling injuries. Safety Council officials first feared a record-smashing total of 40,000 or more traffic deaths during 1959. From January to August, American motorists killed themselves off at a record pace 1 to 8 per cent more than during corresponding months of 1958. But safety took over during the last five months. TURBINE EXPERT DIES Philadelphia (UPD Harvey Birchard Taylor, 77, former vice president and director of the Cramp Shipbuilding Co. here and an expert on hydraulic turbine machinery for development of water power, .died Wednesday. I960 Expected To MakeSoggyDebut In Most of Nation By United Press International The 1960s will make a soggy debut Friday with rain or snow covering more than half the nation, the Weather Bureau said today. The bureau said snow was expected for New Year's Day north of a line from north western Oklahoma to north ern Illinois and from the Rockies into the Pacific north west. . Rain was forecast . over eastern Oregon and Washing ton and from the southern plains into the ; middle and lower Mississippi Valley. Snow Belt Snow fell Wednesday night along the middle Appalachi ans through Pennsylvania and New York states into Ver mont and New Hampshire, around southern Lake Michi gan and from eastern Wash ington into Idaho and JVIon tana. . Light rain was recorded in the lower Rio Grande Valley and along the Oregon-Washington coastline. Rain in California The Weather Bureau said the snow area would spread today from the upper Ohio Valley into inland New Eng land and over a vast area from the Dakotas and New Mexico westward over the Rockies to the West Coast. Rain will fall in the south western states and California, the weather bureau said. A slight warming was fore cast over the midlands today and in the upper and middle Mississippi Valley and New England on New Year's Day. Temperatures warmed as much as 20 degrees : today over . Utah and Nevada, but freezing readings were re ported as far south as Missis sippi and Alabama. . Ten Years Bring Fascinating Enabling Editor's note: Certainly the most spectacular and probably the most significant - development or we 1950's was man's escape from his earth-bonnd state. For the first time, he was able to hurl objects and living creatures beyond the environment of the planet on which he lives. He had entered the Age of Space. The following dispatch tells of the miracles that have been wrought so far in this era when miracles are triggered by a man counting backwards from ten to zero and of what lies ahead. It was written by Martin Caidin, an authority on missiles, rockets and space. By MARTIN CAIDIN (Written for UPI) Ten years ago Florida's Cape Canaveral was a flat, monotonous wasteland of wild animals and a lonely Coast Guard lighthouse. Ten years ago space flight was a subject of fancy to which no "serious scientist" would lend his name.. Ten years ago the Age of Space seemed to be more than a century in the future Today Cape Canaveral is unrecognizable. In the past decade, the most fascinating ten years in the history of mankind, the barriers to space have been hurled aside. Ca naveral has been reshaped into a fascinating and often frightening center of blinding lights and ear-splitting thun der. Great towers rear into the sky, and beneath the scrub and sand there is an intricate network of cables and wires carrying messages and elec tronic commands to hurl giant missiles, and even larger sci entific rockets, into the empti ness of space. Others Join Canaveral From the launching pads on the Cape there has roared into orbit about the earth, or be yond the moon into orbit about the sun, the Explorer, Vanguard, Pioneer, Soore.and other satellites. There have been lunar probes and sun probes. And Canaveral has been joined by others. . Nearly 3,000 miles away on the West Coast of the U.S. is Vandenberg Air Force Base, where Discoverer satellites have rushed on flaming pillars into orbit at 17,000 miles per hour. " ; From secret launching cen ters within the Soviet Union, even larger giants have boomed into space, Sputnik I on Oct. 4, 1957, exploded the world into the midst of the Space Age. Then came the second Russian satellite with its live dog as a passenger, and then Sputnik III, a mas sive space laboratory weigh ing 3,219 pounds and still or biting the earth. USSR Successful The USSR has led the world away from its surface. Three Russian lunar probes have been enormously successful. Lunik I is perpetually in orbit about the sun. Lunik II exhi MEDFORD&jrRIBUNE Regional Edition Page 2 Services Scheduled At Valley Churches On New Year's Eve Many Jackson county resi dents will see 1960 in at Watch Night services sched uiea tonight at various churches in the area. Special New Year's Eve services, at which thanksgiv ing prayers- will be offered for favors and blessings re ceived during the past year, are scheduled at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Sacred Heart Cath olic church. ' All parishioners and their friends are invited to attend. Friday, the regular Sunday mass schedule will be fol- followed ' with masses sched uled at 6, 7, 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Jan. 1- is the feast of the circumcision on the Roman Catholic calendar and is a holy day of obligation for all Catholics. A- potluck dinner at 6 o'clock will begin the New Year's Eve events by the Sal vation Army Medford Corps this evening. At 7:30 p.m. a service will begin with Briga dier . Alfred Sous, evangelist for the Salvation Army in western United States, speak ing. Mrs. Sous will be soloist. Apostolic Faith Church Services will begin at 8 o'clock tonight at Apostolic Faith, North Central ave. at Third st.; Foursquare church, East Jackson St., and Biddle rd.; Grace Lutheran church, Frances lane. Ashland; and Talent Methodist church, First and Wagner sts. Eastwood Baptist church, North Keene Way dr. at Ridgeway ave., and Zion Lu Man To bited v fantastic precision In control by crashing near the center of the moon. Lunik III even now orbits about the earfh and the moon, swinging around our planet once every two weeks. .. This is but the beginning. New satellites will soon be come familliar. There will be Sentry, Notus, Atlas-Able, Centaur, Midas, Nova, Saturn. There will be Mrs. V. Orion, Transit, Scout, and many oth ers all the new messengers of space. But these are of the future. Now that ten years of space have passed the beginning of the space age goes back to February, 1959, when an American rocket reached 252 miles above the earth what has all this tremendous effort brought to us? Formidable Opponent Perhaps the most important result of the Age of Space is not even scientific. We have come to recognize the USSR as an unexpected and formid able scientific-military oppo nent. For the first time in his tory, the U.S. is far behind another nation in a field of technical developments. And several years of difficult la bor still lie between us and catching up in space to the Soviet Union. The world has, in these first years of the space age, reaped a tremendous scientific bon anza. We have changed our concepts of the world in which we live, ana the space in which it swims, on the basis of what we have learned from instruments carried into orbit about the earth. Not long ago, science looked upon space as a vacuum, bar ren to research. Now we know it as a "radiation en vironment." We have learned of new problems facing man in his attempts personally to leave this world; we are better prepared to meet and defeat the hazards ahead of us; we are even training the men who will make that first voyage. Instruments in satellites have studied the earth . and, for the first time, science is getting a complete look at the weather of our world. We are now oa the way to worldwide weather forecasting that can prove a true boon to the world's people. Many Things Learned We have learned many things about our planet. The Vanguard satellite has taught us that the earth is not as theran church, Fourth st. and Oakdale ave.. have scheduled services beginning at 8:30 o'clock. . . Scheduled to begin at . 9 o'clock tonight are services at Assembly of God churches in Jacksonville and Medford; First Baptist church and First Church of the Nazarene. Services at Community Bible church, Central Point, will begin at 9:15 o'clock to night. Holy Communion Holy communion will close Watch Night services at First Presbyterian church and First Methodist church. Both serv ices will begin at 11 o'clock. New Year's Day at St. Mark's Episcopal church will be marked with a celebration of the holy communion at 11 a.m. commemorating the feast of the circumcision of Christ. Celebrant will be the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's. The epistoler will be the Rev. Duane S. Alvord. "When are Our Years Spent According to God s Will?" is the topic chosen for the New Year's festival service Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Peter's Lu theran church, 1020 East Main st. The Rev. John E. Si mon, pastor, will speak. Metal splints for broken arms, legs, fingers or noses are made of aluminum pad ded with foam rubber. They may be bent to fit and need not be removed for x-rays. Probe Outer Space round as we thought but real ly is pear-shaped.- We have studied the magnetic fields of the earth around the equator, and from pole to pole. We have increased - our knowledge of the sun, of the great electronic storms that sweep across space to smother the earth in invisible particles. From these studies scientists will be able to improve our communications, and give us continent-to-continent static free radio. Scientists have also used space satellites as relay ve hicles for radio and television, the first steps in a giant pro gram to place in orbit about the earth great repeater satel lites. By bouncing television beams off a satellite to a re ceiving station halfway around the world, we will be able to enjoy globalwide TV and radio. There are many other ways to judge the rewards of the first decade in space than simply by counting what we have learned from our satel lites, from our probes to the moon- and the sun, from the monkey named Sam who rode 55 miles into space and came back alive. . American citizens every where will enjoy improved lives at home because of the Age of Space. So demanding are the technical requirements for space programs that all American industry has gained from the need to improve and maintain higher standards of quality and precision. We have learned to fabricate stronger, lighter, more heat- i resistant metals. We have ! learned how to make machin- ery operate under conditions ! which ten years ago seemed impossible. Most Important Result This is perhaps the most important result of the first decade in space exploration. All American industry has benefited; our technological horizons have been raised to unprecedented heights. Today it is no longer hard to believe that rockets will soon be on their way to Mars and Venus, that human beings will orbit the earth at 18,000 miles per hour, or that man ned expeditions to the moon are only a matter of time. There is one final conclusion about this fascinating age in which we live - it is actuaUy a combination of four ages, of four mighty revolutions in mphrey EVIaps Campaign Ill Washington -(UPI)- Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), first acknowledged candidate for the Democratic presiden tial nomination, kicks off his formal campaign with a ma jor speech next Tuesday. Humphrey, who made his official leap into the presi dential arena Wednesday af ter months of stumping, bill ed the scheduled address to the National Press club here as "my own state of the union speech." Jump on Kennedy The Minnesota senator, de scribed himself as the candi date of the "plain people," got a three-day jump in the presidential sweepstakes on another Democratic . hopeful, Sen. John F. Kennedy (Mass.). " Kennedy called a news con ference for Saturday to con 1960 nomination. Kennedy is Poll Indicates Demo Support Declining Washington -(UPD-The Com munications Workers of America said today recent polls of its members show a marked decline in support for the Democratic party. In 1948, the union poll was one of the few in the nation which indicated . that Presi dent Harry S. Truman would win his fight for reelection against former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The union said the surveys indicated Democrats still have a decided edge over Re publicans in the eyes of its members but this could disap pear before 1960 elections. "A decline reflecting dis illusionment (with the Demo crats) is definitely beginning to show," the union said in an article published in the current issue of CWA News. See Gradual Shift Changes man's way of life. Today all at once - man is living in the ages of electronics, atomic energy, jets and space. No one of them would be possible without the others. This is the true lesson of the Space Age - it is an endeavor, not by itself, but part of a magnificent development of all science and technology, for the good of all mankind. Our very sincere thanks to YOU for your interest and patronage during our just-completed STOCK DISPOSAL SALE. We were glad to offer such a selection of quality furniture at low sale prices. The success of the sale and your satisfaction was very gratifying. Thank you, too, for your friendship and patronage all during 1959. We pledge to make every effort to please you in 1960 with qual ity merchandise and fine service! All of Us at Lippert's Wish You a . . . HAPPY HEW YEAK! We extend to you our warmest greet ings for a New Year filled to over flowing with health, happiness and prosperity! You can be sure that lipperfs will continue to offer a wide selection of high-quality furniture and accessories. LET US his party's front-runner at this point, well ahead of Hum phrey in tlie public opinion polls. Humphrey's speech will come the day before Congress reconvenes and two days ahead of President Eisenhow er's annual State of the Union message to a joint session on Jan. 7. Johnson Speech Expected Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, (Tex.), one of the Senate's three oth er still "unannounced" presi dential aspirants, is expected to make a session-opening speech of his own. There is little doubt that Kennedy and Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), the other prospective candidates, will do the same in one way or an other. Polls taken since 1958 make clear that there has been a gradual shift among CWA members away from the Democratic party, it add ed. The latest survey was taken among delegates to the un ion's annual convention and through nationwide sampling of CWA members. The latter group closely resembles a cross-section of the U. S. adult population, the union said. Other results showed that rank-and-file, members were disappointed in the achieve ments of the Democratic-dominated Congress, the union 'said. - . . "If this trend, becomes a reality, then the Democratic party is in for a sad awaken ing in 1960," the CWA poll sters said. . . Need Constructive Leadership The CWA said 73 per cent of those surveyed in June, 1958, said they felt theTtemo crats were doing the best job of handling major issues. This figure dropped to 69.9 per cent a year later and fell to 69 per cent last August. In an analysis of these figures, the union concluded: "The Democrats need con structive and imaginative leadership if this erosion is to be stopped." CWA, which represents about 350,000 workers in the telephone and related indus tries, claims that its previous surveys have never been more than 1 or 2 per cent off in their predictions. Come in often to see the beautiful new items that will arrive throughout the year. Be sure to consult with us whenever you plan to furnish or decorate. Join our many satisfied customers who rely on Lippert's to be sure of the. bestl SERVE YOU IN Humphrey conceded in his announcement that he facos an "uphill fight" for the nom ination. He said he would en ter the Wisconsin, Oregon, South Dakota and District of Columbia presidential primar ies, limiting himself to these because he couldn't afford to do more. Transplanted Heart Keeps Dog Alive Stanford, Calif. (UPD A Stanford surgeon successfully transplanted a living heart from one dog to another one week ago and the dog is still alive and healthy. The experiment was per formed by Dr. Richard Lower with the help of Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford's new Palo Alto Medical Center. Transplanting, as attempted by other surgeons has always ended with the death of the dog several hours later, but Dr. Lower achieved success by using a slightly different surgical method. Bandleader's Son Placed on Probation Beverly Hills, Calif. (UPD Brown Jr., 19, son of the band leader, was fined $200 Wed nesday, placed on probation for two years and ordered to refrain from drinking alco holic beverages as a result of his conviction of misdemeanor hit-run driving. HELP We need clothing, shoes, dishes, furniture, end bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPrini 3-7335 Immediate Delivery MULTI-BARK Natural Organic Soil Conditioner & Mulch for Flowers Shrubs Lawns Gardens Also for Erosion Control KOGAP LUMBER IND. SP 3-6601 Ext. 46 1960! CO US! JANUARY CLEARANCE "Women's Only" STOE SALE (ranTire mrtn ftWr We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG . Main and Central 1 220 NORTH BARTLETT Next to Greyhound Depot NEXT WEDNESDAY J
