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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1960)
,yi 'fc.H i y .. ' 1 - a- MEDFORD, Tribune Regional Edition Page 2A Business Slump in First Six Months Off 1961 Predicted ' Washlngton-IUPII-Tha U. S. Chamber of Commerce has forecast a mild business slump in the first six months of 1961, with higher unemployment becoming a "troublesome" factor during the year. Emerson P. Schmidt, chief economist for the business or ganisation, said Sunday that the downturn would be "only 1 or 2 per cent" in total out put of goods and services. Spendable income of indi viduals will "decline even less," he predicted. B u t he said, "unemployment is likely to average higher than In 1960 and be troublesome." The economist made his TRAIN DERAILED A Great Northern freight train of a broken rail. Heavy snow on the east side of the Cascades, 100 cars was partially derailed near Bend Saturday. Many where the crash occurred, has slowed repair work on the of the cars burned. Cause of the derailment was said to bo tracks, which were torn up by the accident. (UPI Telephoto) Low Pressure Areas Promise Cold, Snow in Region of Central Plains By UniUd Press' International I slaught W Icy temperatures Dakotas and into western Cold weather mustered be- and wind-driven snows. hind three low pressure areas in the nation's central plains today threatening a new on Post Office Fight 'Very Much Alive' : Salem-IUPII-Attorney . Gene ral Robert Y. Thornton said today Oregon's fight, against the post office lepVtment for its transfer of regona,l::Post office headquarters xrafrr Port land to Seattle is "very much ' alive.".- - Thornton returned to Sa lem from Washington, D.C., last weekend after an unsuc cessful attempt to get a tem porary resstraining order to halt the move. Post office officials moved the headquarters to Seattle last week. Thornton's request for the restraining order wai turned down by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington declined, to over turn the district court ruling. Red Document To Be P"'osed T uesday ..m -IUPII- The Commu nist itinnlfcsto apnrnvcd by the Red summit In Moscow last Week probably will be published Tuesday, it was re ported here today. The, document, hammered out'by the 81-momber Commu nist conclave in Moscow in three weeks of highly contro versial discussions, will lay downline future course of In ternational communism, ac cording to informed sources. EXPLORER DIES Now York -IIMI- Saul Bllck- man, : 74, manufacturer, phi lanthropist and patron of the Explorers Club of New York who Journeyed in Africa, South, America and India, lo photograph and hunt jungle animals, died Saturday of a heart'.' attack. Blizzard warnings were in effect early today from cen tral Nebraska through the Stocks in Narrow Trading Range ; ; New ; York - IUPI) - Stocks moved within a narrow trad ing range today with price holding at or slightly below Friday's close. . General Foods was a blue chip standout with a gain of around- 2 points. Union Car bide picked up around a point while Du Pont dropped around Steels favored the down side with losses of a half or more in U.S. Steel, Republic and Bethlehem, Youngatown bucked Ih" general downtrend with a gain of more than Vi. Minnesota Mining fell more than a point in its division, Proctor. & Gamble added around 1 in the foods. Nation al Dairy ran up 1 in its sec tion and Northrop rose more than 1 In the aircrafts. Mo tors Incited lower. PRISON NAME Albany - In 1825 Sing Sing penitentiary was known as Mount Pleasant prison. LITTLE TIN A tin can has only about one-half of one per cent tin, Minnesota. The Weather Bu reau warned that cold Cana dian air poised to push south ward into the area could bring six-inch snows and winds from 30 lo 60 mph. A second storm ' center dumped soggy snow on Colo rado, Utah, Wyoming and parts of Montana as snow plows fought to keep-mountain roads open. Snow depths ranged from four to eight Inches with 40 mpti .winds in some areas causing!' heavy drifting. -:,::: Touches Off Showers A third low pressure area, advancing before cool Pacific coast air, cut the nation in half early today touching off showers from the Dakotas southward through Illnois and the Mississippi valley into Texas. The Intense low In the cen tral plains was expected to shift slightly eastward today, bringing heavy snow and bliz zard conditions to upper Mis sissippi valley and parts of the plains. . The arctic air mass near the nation's northern, border should shift southward today, the Weather Bureau said, dropping temperatures sharp ly in the northern plains. Enjoy Indian Summer Showers were expected to continue falling from the up. per lakes southward through Indiana, the central and lower Mississippi valley and into eastern Texas. Most of the eastern half of Insurance Policies Ordered Cancelled By Castro Regime Havana - IUPI) - The govern ment has ordored confiscated American insurance compa nies to cancel life policies held by refugees from Cuba and turn over the accumulated premiums to the new "re- HOLIDAY $25 to $1500 CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phonal MU. 9-5421, Ashland 111 (nluranc avaitablt on all toani al low group ratet OPEN EVERY SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. TO 12:30 P.M. - 7 Through December 24 the country enjoyed a touch of Indian summer weather during the pre-dawn hours. Fifty degree temperatures ranged as far north as Wiscon sin and 60 degree readings were reported along the Gulf coast. Warmest spo, in the nalion Sunday night was Corpus Christi, Tex., with 71 degrees and the coldest was Fraser, Colo., with zero. Overcrowding at Institution Topic Salem - (UPI) - The State Board of Control took steps today to alleviate overcrowd ing at the State Correctional Institution east of here: Inmate population stands at 350 while capacity is 66 less. The board directed its staff to write a letter to circuit judges stressing the problem and requesting commitments lo the penitentiary instead of the correctional school when ever feasible. The Oregon Correctional Classlficiation Board was ask ed to look into transfer of in mates to the prison to ease the problem. The correctional institution, for first offenders only, has prisoners sleeping in the halls. There is room for an esti mated 200 more inmates a't the prison. covery fund" it was reported today. The edict, dated last Mon. day, also nullified the claims of insuranco beneficiaries who havo left the country and froze commission payments due ref ugee agents or brokers To Submit Reports The order directed govern ment managers of the seized companies to submit dally re ports to the Insurance con trol office on the progress of their Investigstion of life-policy holders. It was not clear how the government expected to en force Its orders against per sons living In the United States who had notified the home office of their American Insurance company of their change of address and were continuing premium pay ments. Thirty insurance companies were among the 166 U. S. en terprises seized Oct. 25. Nois Bombing Continues Foes of Premier Fidel Cas tro continued thoir noise bombing campaign here Sun day night. Sirens on the telzed Esso and Shell refineries shrilled an alarm when bomb went off in the area be tween them. Alarmed residents swarm ed into the st roots and police cars converged on the scene, but no one had been Injured and no damage was done. Sunday Fire Damages Living Room Area Fire burned the Interior and contents of the living room Sunday at the R. V. Chapman residential and business build ing 1132 Court st. Firemen said that the blaze, origin of which was not deter mined, also did major heat and smoke damage through the building. The occupants were at church at the time, Firemen were summoned about 12:50 p.m. EXCITED CONVICT Nottingham, England OJPD Prison officials speculated to day a trustee who slipped away from his guard and fel low prisoners Sunday night "may have been over-excited" by a crime film at a public theater. Mountain Sheep Claimed Essential Washington - IUPD - "It is essential for the future growth of the region that Mountain Sheep dam be built," whether the proposed Canadian stor age agreement is ratified or not, John J. Burke, president of Pacific Northwest Power Co. said today. Burke added, "it would be dangerous to stop or delay de velopment of the high moun tain sheep project because of hope-for benefits from the proposed treaty with Canada." Last week, Elmer Bennett, under secretary of interior, said the proposed Canadian treaty would result in enough added power in the Northwest and that no hydroelectric project is needed now on the Middle Snake river. Echo Satellite Visible at Times Portland-UIPII-The Portland Moonwatch Team said today the Echo 1 balloon .satellite still was visible at times. They said it should be vis ible about 6:16 p.m. today reaching a peak altitude of 81 degrees in' the north sky, trav eling from west to east. It will be visible again. ' about -8:18 p.m. -in the west at an altitude of 65 degrees, but only briefly; On Tuesday it is scheduled to be visible at 5:45 p.m. at an altitude of 80 degrees in the north sky going from west to east, and at 7:53 p.m. in the west sky briefly, at an altitude of 75 degrees. prediction at the chamber's annual business outlook con ference. Schmidt was optimistic but cautious about the second half of 1061. He said the national production rate might hit $915 billion to $520 billion by the end of the year if business firms completed their inven tory' cutbacks by summer. This would be higher than in 1960. Strength Surprising Pinching the economy, Schmidt said, were Inventory retrenchment, a shift in the federal budget from a 1959 deficit to a 1960 surplus, loss of gold and dollars to foreign countries and lack of growth In the money supply. "In the face of these obsta cles, the strength and level of the economy are surprising," Schmidt said. Schmidt, emphasizing that the downturn in business would be "mild" and tempo rary, said 1961 as a whole should exceed 1960 in total business volume. "There is at present no ground for sustain ed pessimism," he said. Boys Apprehended For Gasoline Theft State police apprehended two boys, 15 and 16 years old, last night on charges of gaso line theft, while questioning suspects regarding anoth e r theft case. The- two boys admitted to taking the gas from a car parked near the White City Intersection. Officers said they were investigating the theft of articles from a two-wheel trailer belonging to Charles Myron Reynolds, member of the Veterans Administration domiciliary. The tubeless tire and trailer hitch were stolen while the car and trailer were parked one block from the Super Service station near the domiciliary, state police ex plained. ' ' Shift of Some 11, 000 Votes in Four States Could Have Put Richard Nixon in White House, Republican Election Autopsy Shows Washington-IUPB - The first Republican, autopsy on the presidential' election shows that a shift of some 11,000 votes in &iur states could have put Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the White House. The states are Illinois, wi,h its 27 electoral votes, Missouri with 13, New, Mexico with 4 andn Nevada with 3. Nixon would have carried all four states if he- had received a vote ih each precinct from just one person who voted for Sen. John F. Kennedy. Each' of these states is among those in which GOP National Head quarters has pressed for re counts or investigations of al leged voting irregularities, i Nixon won 223 electoral votes in the Nov. 8 election. If he had carried Illinois, Mis souri, New Mexico and Ne vada, his electoral vote would have been 270, one more than t4e necessary majority. Final and official results show Kennedy carried Mis souri by 9,878 votes, Nevada by 2,493 and New Mixico by 2,294. His margin was less than 9,000 in the unofficial count in Illinois, where the GOP is. still baftling to re verse the result. A preliminary study by the research division of the Re publican National Committee emphasized major shifts away from the Republicans in the big cities and their suburbs and among Catholic voters. POLARIS IRED Cape Canaveral, Fla. - IUPD - The Navy today successfully fired an advanced model Po laris A2 missile more than 1,600 statute miles for the second time in as many at tempts. - ' ' ' Salem-IUPII-The State Board of Control has decided against purchase of Saiem Genera Hospital ky the state. O OPEN EVERY DAY UNTIL 9 P.M. O ' ' i BALLOTS RECHECKED f-. Chicago - (1!PH '- Three dozen "teams" worked today to re check ballots cast in Cook county in the Nov. 8 national election and an election board official said he would call in judges for questioning about the vote in some precincts where GOP leaders suspect careless or illegal work. ""V THIS WEEK'S SPACED FEARS Med ford No. 303 Tin FOR H 00 o o ESTABLISHED 1896 IREEN LSTAtvt o Salad Dressing Plymouth Qt. Bottle Patty Dae CATSUP 14-oz. Bottle FOR 5c Betty Crocker LARGE 2i2-lb. Pkg. PICTURE PRESENTED Salem - H - Crown Prince Akahito of Japan today gave Gov. Mark Hatfield a photo graph of the future monarch in a silver frame. Salem-IUPlWMrs. Jessie Lou Patzer. 35, Salem, has been ruled Incompetent to stand trial for the slaying of her husband and Circuit Judge George R. Duncan ordered her committed to the Stale Hospital. ySQUBGCC $1100 The Dallcs-IUPIMVllbur Le roy Lomax, 42, suffered a fa tal gunshot wound here Sun day afternoon and his brother, William Lomax, 52, was held on a charge of manslaughter In connection with the shooting. Gresham -IUPD- Two bandits robbed a Safeway store Sun day night after going to the manager's home and forcing him to accompany them to open the tor, pollc said. APPLIANCE CO. "Medford's Home laundry Specialists" 406 E. Main St. Phono SP 2-5302 Large 72 Size Calif. Navel ORANGES C frVi P. Carton of 6 Dozen " $3.98 Armour Star T-BONE STEAK Boneless Tip SIRLOIN STEAK $1119 SteWart and Kind Price effec,iv Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day, Dec. 5, 6, 7. limit rights reserved.
