Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 22, 1960, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextIFS.1 .-Soeks fionfession From k .Airplane Crash Spears Soviiefi docket Test Washington-fUPD-The super rocket Russia fired into the Pacific might have been the prototype, of a war . missile able to carry the nuclear equivalent of five million tons of TNT. - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev claimed long ago to have such a weapon that could be fired approximately the distance traveled in Wedesday's Pacific shoot. Fraction of Power A five megaton Russian war-head would pack two or three times the destructive force - of America's battle ready Atlas intercontinental missile. But the Soviet war head still would have only a fraction of the bomb . and guided missile power carried by a U.S. B-52 jet bomber. The enormous payload ca pacity of the Russian missile could be developed to carry a smaller warhead plus a group of decoys to confuse defense radar. Splashes Into Target Area In their first Pacific test, Soviet scientists fired their rocket 7,766 - miles. They claimed their radar, optical and acoustical apparatus showed the dummy nosecone splashed into the target area less than 1.2 miles from the aiming point. The U.S. Defense Depart ment said in a terse statement that the rocket apparently came down in the 20-by-175 mile target area Moscow staked out Jan. 8. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates said the shot was "good" if the rocket landed within 1.2 miles of its goal. President Eisenhower told Congress in his State of the Union Message that the last 15 Atlas missiles tested land ed within two miles of their targets more than 5,000 miles from the launching pads. Valuable Data Yielded Moscow insisted the multi stage rocket was fired in a program to produce boosters for heavy satellites and inter planatary space voyages. Whether it was a space or a weapon project, the rocket yielded valuable data to the Russians on guidance accu racy and atmosphere re-entry. Ms, This data would be equally useful for warfare or scienti fic space -exploration. Except for the ill-fated American Vanguard, all artificial satel lites have been launched with military boosters. : For' the most part Washing ton was taking the Soviet feat calmly. Officials insisted there was no need to consider any change in U.S." military planning: One author of that ' view was Gates, who called the Russian shot a "normal inter continental missile test" and said it was "not particularly" surprising. But a powerful contrary view came from Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) who nor mally does not comment on the annual administration- Congress debate on U.S. de fenses. Rayburn said the ad ministration was "just too complacent." Kennedy Pledged To Two Races Omaha, Neb. - (UPD - Sen John F. Kennedy, challenging all comers, was pledged today to a neck-and-neck presiden tial primary race in Wisconsin and a midwest popularity test in Nebraska. The Massachusetts Demo crat entered himself on both primary ballots Thursday and admitted that the Wisconsin race, in Sen. Hubert Hum phreys "back yard," could end his chances for the nom ination. Humphrey (D-Minn.), who previously had challenged Kennedy to debates in Wis consin, welcomed the battle in a statement from Wash ington. It could be a race to keep his nomination chances alive, too. Should Kennedy garner support of 30 of Wisconsin's 31 delegates to the Demo cratic National Convention in Los Angeles, it would be a blow to Humphrey's "home country" pride, as well as an indication of Midwest lean ing. Ivgrsi S 3 i Plymouth cellared! MedfordTribune Regional Edition Page 2 Airplane Crashes Fail to Dampen Public Enthusiasm By United Press International Passengers jammed airline ticket counters across the country today despite reports of plane crashes which killed 145 persons in four days. Airline spokesmen said tick et sales were as high or high er than .before. A majority of the airlines questioned said not even the usual seasonal drop in sales at this time of year seems to be affecting business. Cancellations Reported But Pan American .Airlines in Hartford, Conn., said reser: vation cancellations had pick ed up and that three couples who were to fly to Jamaica Thursday cancelled out. The couples said they had friends aboard the Avianca airliner that crashed at Mon- tego Bay, Jamaica, early Thursday, killing 37 persons. A travel agency in Hart ford said that "cruise busi ness has picked up tremen dously in the past few days. We've had a half dozen calls cancelling flights and chang ing to cruises." But that was the only com pletely negative report. In San Francisco, spokes men for Trans World Air lines, Pan American, Ameri can, and United Air Lines all said the backbone of air transportation is the business man, traditionally a calculator of odds. He believes the odds are high against cracking up. At Kansas City, where a TWA plane circled the city Thursday for an emergency landing,- airline, bus and rail ticket sales were considered O DeSoto O '(Good' normal and not affected by re cent crashes. "Crashes don't have the ef fect on people as they used to have," said Jic Ricketts, assistant reservation manager for Continental Air Lines. "People apparently have be come accustomed to them, like auto accidents." Smallpox Flare Noted in Russia Moscow -(UPDr A blitzkrieg against a smallpox outbreak was under way today and ar riving tourists were being asked at transportation ter minals to receive vaccina tions. Although foreigners were only invited to have vaccina tions, they are compulsory for all traveling Russians coming into the U.S.S.R. The Kremlin reported that nine Soviet citizens are suffer ing from smallpox and that one other has died from the disease, American and British tour ists can visit doctors at their embassies. Dr. D. C. Martin at the U.S. Embassy said 120 Americans have been vacci nated within the past two days. In response to an inquiry, the Russian government as sured the World Health Or ganization in Geneva that "all necessary steps" are being taken to vaccinate everyone who might have had contact with the disease. Valiant KNEW HUSBAND ALIVE "I have been awake two weeks, you can't live with something like this," Mrs. Robert W. Spears said as she admitted she has known her husband is alive since Jan. 7. Dr. Spears, who was taken into custody by the FBI Wednesday in Phoenix, Ariz., had been presumed killed in an air crash Nov. 16. -(UPI Telephoto) Stock List Strong Support New York -(UPD- The stock market met strong support during the first hour today. Gains jumped from frac tions at the opening to more than a point in some of the top grade issues, stocks used to compile the averages. Of these DuPont, Westinghouse and . International Nickel all showed gains running to 1 or more. Steels were strong with Youngstown and Republic up more than a point each and Bethlehem and U.S. Steel up a half or more. r3 Finds DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (I'PD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 645.43, up 1.74; 20 railroads 155.44, up 0.31; 15 utilities 85.72, off 0.40, and 65 stocks 212.12. up 0.26. Sales Thursday were about 2,700,000 shares compared with 2,720,000 shares Wednesday. Thursday's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 108 V4 Alum Co. Am 983, American Can 42 American Motors 85 sb AT&T 82 Anaconda Copper 65 3t Armco steel 69 Bendix Aviation 69', Bethlehem Steel 513,i Boeing Air 30 y2 Caterpillar Corp 303,i Chrysler corp 633,'s Continental Can 43' a Crown Zellerbach 49 Curtiss wrignt 28' Dow Chemical 93 Ti Du Pont 246 Eastman Kodak 101 Firestone 132 General Electric 90 General Foods 101 General Motors 50' Georgia Pacific 47 V Graham Paige 3 Greyhound 20', Gulf Oil 33 'A Homestalte Mining 41 idano 47-ii I. B. M 420 Int. Paper 122 74 Johns Manville 46 Vi Katy 6 Kennecott Copper ' 94 Vi Lockheed Aircraft 29 Montana Power Co. 22 Montgomery ward 49 Natl Biscuit 54 wew York central 29 v. Pac. Gas Sc Elee. 61 Penney, J. j. 120 Penn KR 16 Radio Corporation 62 Kicniieia uu 77 Vi Safeway 36 Sears 477s Shell Oil 40 .' Socony Mobil Oil 39 Southern Co i.. 40 Southern Pacific 22 Standard California 47 Standard Indiana 40 Standard N. J 47 V Sun Mines 6 Texas Co. 77 Texas Gulf Sulfur 18 Tex Pac Land Trust 17'2 Transamerica .... 2674 Trans World Air 16 Tri-Continental 37 Union Carbide 144 ,i Union Pacific 29 United Aircraft 38 United Air Lines 31 U. S. Rubber. -. 57 U. S. Steel 93 ' Youngstown S & T 124 Weather FORECASTS Medford. and vicinity: Variable cloudiness through Saturday. Chance of a few light showers near mountains. Little temperature change. Low tonight 35. High Sat urday 52. Western Oregon: Occasional rain and periods of partial clearing to night and Saturday. A little freez ing rain at times near Columbia gorge. Slightly warmer in north interior. Low tonight 35-45 except 30 in vicinity of Columbia gorge. High Saturday 35-45 in north and 48-58 in south. Northern California: Scattered showers in extreme northern por tion tonight and Saturday. Snow in mountains. Slightly cooler. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 53; above normal 15. Record high this date 68 in 1919. Record low this date 14 in 1922. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month 2.07 inches, .36 inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 4.40 inchei, 5.67 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest vesterday 28, highest this a.m. 81. High 4:00 24- City Tester- a,.m. nr. day Low Free. Brookings - 59 49 .26 Crater Lake 30 23 ' Grants Pass 63 37 Klamath Falls 43 34 T MEDFORD 59 42 Portland 40 31 T Seattle . 46 36 . Spokane 23 19 Yakima 31 6 Eureka 61 52 .30 Red Bluff 47 45 Sacramento -. 51 47 San Francisco 55 ' 52 .19 Los Angeles 66 58 - T Phoenix 63 39 Denver 24 6 Chicago 18 - 10 Miami Beach 60 38 New York 32 26 Washington, D. C. 32 20 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through Jan. !7): Western Oregon - Western Wash ington Temperatures averaging near normal. Precipitation mode rate with showery periods through Wednesday. Highs generally in 40s and.- lows 32-42. Total precipita tion up to an inch in interior val leys and one to two inches on coast. Wife Directly Links Husband With Mystery Phoenix, Ariz. -(UPD FBI agents today sought a confes sion from, ex-convict Robert V. Spears for the sabotaging of an airliner that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico killing all 42 persons on board. Spears is suspected of hav ing tricked an old friend, Wil liam Allen Taylor, 58, of Tampa, Fla., into taking his place on the ill-fated plane to collect $100,000 in flight insurance for his wife and two young children. The pudgy 64-year-old be spectacled Spears failed to crack after nine hours of in tensive questioning by FBI agents Thursday and Thurs day night. Spears' young wife, Fran ces, 36, directly linked her husband to the mysterious Nov. 16 crash today when she disclosed she had met with him twice in a Dallas hotel. Once on Jan. 7 and again on Jan. 11. Both times she begged him "to give himself up." She maintained earlier she believed her husband was dead. i "I don't want to hamper in any way the FBI investiga tion," she said. "If my hus band is innocent, I want him proved innocent. If he's guil ty, let the chips fall where they may." She quoted her husband as saying he "was sorry it had to be him (Taylor)." Authorities believe the damaging disclosures made by Mrs. Spears and the finding of a case of dynamite at his hide out and dynamite caps in his luggage may induce Spears to confess. Spears has a criminal rec ord dating back to 1917 and currently is under indictment in Los Angeles on an abortion charge. He has served time in several prisons on charges ranging from fraud to armed robbery. "I asked him if he had done anything to the plane," Mrs. Spears said. "He assured me he had done nothing. Mrs. Spears said her hus band told her that Taylor was on the flight using Spear's reservation because he was running away from his wife. Taylor's divorced wife, Al ice, was reduced to tears when she learned Spears had admitted to his wife that Tay lor was on the plane. "I was hoping, against tre mendous odds," she said, "but I just knew he was aboard." Mrs. Taylor said she pleaded with Taylor to stay away from Spears, whom she described as a "loathsome character," and beseeched him to attend church before he left on what he told her was a trip to Atlanta. "He was so silent that last day. That wasn't like him. I knew somthing was wrong." Mrs. Taylor earlier said she believed Spears hypno tized her husband to get him to board the plane. UN Chapter to Meet Monday Night Two films will be shown at the January meeting of Medford chapter, Oregon United Nations association, Monday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mark's Guild hall. The films will be "Does Disarmament Make Sense" and "A Permanent UN Po lice Force." The first will be narrated by Raymond Massey and the second by Henry Fonda, both well-k n o w n American actors. The films are two of a series of eight made by the Pierce Butler Jr., Foundation for Education in World Law. Election of officers is also on the agenda. Anyone inter ested is invited to attend. FREE PARKING SPfCIJUfSTS IN HOMtWAUtt 245 S. Central at 10th IT'S A WONPCRFUL STORI aturday Check List OF GOOD Knit dresses Only $19.99 . . . should be $25.95 and $27.95. Fine chenille wool 2-pc. dresses in many colors and styles. By famous knitting mills, specially made for the ladies who wear 14V2 to'20V2. Polka dot jacket dresses Only $22.95 . . . instead of $26.95. Pure silk sheath dresses. Sleeveless to wear after 5. Young short cropped long sleeved jacket has wide portrait collar. White polka dots on navy, or white polka dots on beige. Elegant! Jr. cotton dresses Only $12.98 . . . instead of $15.95. Finely woven cotton dresses with full skirts. Soft boxed pleats. Precision tucked bodice, smart cummerbund in set to enhance the small waist. Semi scooped neck, short sleeves. In . new blue. Nylon sleepwear Only $2.99 . . . regularly $3.98, $4.98 or more. January special purchase of nylon tri cot baby doll Di's, DODOver ni's and waltz length gowns. Embroidered sheer nvlon over nylon tricot. Square sleeves. Many other Magic crepe dresses Only $12.98 . . . instead of $15.95. Custom sizes for the shorter figure. Coin type print on, blue background. Easy gored skirt. Tucked bib effect with framed self flange. Square neckline. Short sleeves, very becoming. Flannel pj's Only $3.49 . . . January special. Cotton flan nel with small polka dots, famous brand. Col-, lar with nylon lace trim. Long sleeve gathered into a wide band cuff. Long trousers with elastic across the back. Several styles. Duster robes Only $3.29 . . . nationally $3.98. Lovely multi-color plaids. Soft in colors and gentle in design. Full, slanted patch pockets. Perky braid trim at collar, short sleeves. Baby knit orlon sweaters Kitten soft. Truly full fashioned. Short sleeve pullover only $3.79. Long sleeve cardigans only $5.79. White, pink, blue, mint, tur quoise, geranium, toast, navy, black and many other new spring colors. "Better Than Gold" hose 60 gauge, 15 denier, box of 3 pair. $1.95 . . . that's only 65c per pair. "Better Than Gold" seamless 3 pair of $2.75 . . . that's less than 92c per pair. "Better Than Gold", our pride and joy. Capri pants Only $5.79 . ... early spring colors wel! cut with band top. Back zipper. Woven plaids of crisp cotton. Blues, greens and golds. Coat sale Now only 25.00 and 38.00. Were up to Twice as Much.. This is our clean sweep .fashion clearance. Newest styles. Famous names and fabrics. All sizes. Shop tonight (Friday) till 9. VALUES neckline with small cap styles. Heavenly pastels.