Pro-Western Forces Fight
Way Ahead Slowly in Laos
FIRST PAYMENT
AFTER MARCH 15th
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SCALP DISPLAYED Lincoln Park Zoo Director - Merlin
Perkins, left, shows newsmen
be that of a 200-year-old "Abominable Snowman." The scalp
was acquired by famed British explorer Edmund Hillary,
center, on a recent expedition
is Khumjo Chumbi, Nepalese
act as a guard of the scalp.
the expedition, had been supervising a hunt for the "Snow
man."
Stocks Find Mild
Support in Deals
New ' York-IUPIl-Stocks met
mild support in the early trad
ing today.
Cameras, business machines,
vendings and other special Is
sues showed gains running
past a point in many instances
,. Superior Oil of California,
a high-priced issue, spurted 25
to 1,140 during the first hour.
Ford was active trading on
an opening block of 24,819
shares at 64 H off Vt. Chrys
ler, up around 2 at the open
ing, lost half of the rise in
subsequent trades.
, Texas Instruments added a
point in the electronics, Good
rich a point in the tires and
Polaroid more than 1 in the
cameras. Steels were narrow
ly mixed.
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New York - (CPU - Dow
Jones final stock avenges:
30 Industrials 611.72, of!
' 0.22t 20 lallroads 126.74, oil
' l.lll 15 utllltias 87.65, up
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' off 0.19. Salts Tuesday war
about 3.5 million shares
- compared with 3.02 million
shares Monday.
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FAA Head Called
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Washington-(UPD-The house
investigation of the effective
ness of the government's air
safety regulations today call
ed Elwood R. Quesada, head
of the Federal Aviation
agency.
Chairman John Bell ' Wil
liams (D-Miss) of the Aero
nautics subcommittee said he
thought Congress should get
Queaada's views on the opera
tion of the two-year-old agen
cy before the former , Air
Force general left govern
ment service at the end of the
Eisenhower administration.
Quesada has angered many
airline and private pilots with
his safety and other direc
tives. One of his most unpopu
lar orders was to ground all
airline pilots over 60 years
old.
The subcommittee also sum
moned witnesses from the air
lines and aircraft manufactur
ing industry to get their views
on how the safety record of
American aviation could be
improved.
Williams said that perhaps
Congress should consider
some "minor changes" in the
organization of the FAA but
declined to spell them out.
COSTLY CHRISTMAS TREE
St. Paul, Minn. -IUPII- Ger
ald T. Wilson has an $89
Christmas tree. Wilson was
fined that amount for sawing
off the top of a Colorado blue
spruce on someone else s prop
erty. Police followed a trail
of fallen branches and needles
to Wilson's home;
The armament carried by
one of - today's supersonic
fighter-bombers equals the de
structive power of an entire
World War II bomber formation.'
Soviet-Supplied
Leftists Offer
Stiff Resistance
Vientiane, Laos - IUPII - The
pro-Western forces of Gen.
Phoumi Nosavan battled their
way slowly toward the center
of Vientiane today against
stiff resistance of Cap. Kong
Le's Russian-supplied leftist
forces.
The indecisive fighting took
on some of the characteristics
of the war in Korea with Rus
sia flying in mortars and oth
er ammunition for the pro
Communist forces trying to
hold the capital against the
assault by pro-Western troops
Building Set Afire
The fighting centered
around army headquarters
and the Ministry of Defense
and at one point Phoumi's ar
tillery set fire to the army
headquarters building. But
Kong Le s fighters held firm
Gen. Phoumi s right - wing
forces, identified by the white
armbands they were wearing,
sent armored cars and infan
try Into the area but were met
with heavy fire from mortars
and machine-guns flown in
earlier by Russian planes.
Near Crisis Point
The battle for the admini
strative capital of this tiny
kingdom was bringing South
east Asia to the crisis- point
and threatened to draw out
side Western and Communist
military forces into the civil
war.
The fighting broke out
Tuesday when Phoumi's
troops launched an attack
from the eastern fringes of
the city and moved into the
center of Vientiane. Kong Le's
Red troops retook the central
portion of the city during the
night.
Fighting swirled back and
forth but neither side appear
ed to have a decisive advant
age. The Southeastern Asian
Treaty Organization already
had branded the Soviet air
lift of arms to leftist Laotian
forces as "outside interfer
ence."
Reds Make Charges
The Communist North Viet
Nam radio charged South Vi
etnamese troops were help
ing the pro Western forces
with artillery fire. This ap
peared to create a possible ex
cuse for Viet Minh forces to
pour in to help Le - an action
almost certain to bring coun
teraction from SEATO.
The Soviet Union charged
U. S. type helicopters were
flying from Thailand to direct
artillery fire for the pro-
Western forces.
Schools Plan
Holiday Programs
Four elementary schools in
the Medford district will pre
sent annual Christmas pro
grams Thursday and Friday,
Dec. 15 and 16, according to
Or. Justin L. Dyrud, vocal mu
sic supervisor for Medford
schools.
Programs are scheduled at
Hoover, Jackson and West
Side schools Wednesday eve
ning, and at Washington
school Thursday evening.
Christmas programs in other
schools in the district will be
held next week, Dr. Dyrud
said.
The "Story of the Littlest
Angel" will be presented at
Hoover school starting at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday. "Why the
Chimes Rang," a story of the
Christmas spirit typified by
the taking of gifts to the
Christ child by the Wlscmen,
will be the Jackson school pro
gram starting at 8 p.m.
Wednesday.
The program at West Side
school will start at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday with kindergar
ten children presenting "The
Night Before Christmas." The
first grade will depict holiday
rhythms featuring the Tin
sel Dance" and the "Decem
ber Surprise." Grades two and
three will do their interpreta
tion of the season with panto
mime and song, and grade
four will present an All-American
Christmas with the fifth
and sixth grades taking part
in a choral fantasy.
The Washington school pro
gram, which will start at 7:30
p.rri. Thursday, -will concern
Itself with the joy of a little
fir tree in bringing happiness
to a little crippled boy.
SKELTON RECOVERING
Hollywood -HIPD Comedian
Red Skclton was reported re
cuperating today from abdom-1
inal surgery at Cedars of Leo-1
anon Hospital. He underwent
a thrMuhntif nnsratinn Mnn. I
day for a ruptured diaphragm.
New Storm Takes Shape
In Panhandle Highlands
By United Press International
A new snow and ice laden
storm brewed in the highlands
of New Mexico and Texas
pushed northeastward early
today into the Central Plains.
The new storm system
dumped up to five inches of
snow in the mountains before
changing to travel -halting
freezing rain in the flatlands
of northern Texas and Kansas.
Followed Earlier Path
The storm followed the path
of a blizzard that earlier
roared out of the Southwest's
weather caldron to paralyze
the East Coast with Its worst
wintry blast since 1957.
The old storm was over the
Atlantic today, but it left be
hind a toll of 268 dead in
record - shattering snow and
cold.
A United Press Internation
al count showed New York
the hardest hit with 54 storm
blamed deaths, including 40
In New York City, New Jer
sey, 41, Massachusetts, 34,
and Pennsylvania, 26. Other
states from Texas to Maine
reported casualties.
Ice Causes Blackout
Near Miamisburg, Ohio, a
week's load of ice snapped a
66,000-volt power line black
ing out a dozen counties and
leaving a million persons
without lights in southwest
Ohio.
New York Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller, noting the storm
had created "an emergency
situation" in New York City,
ordered National Guard
Regional Edition
Medford,
MEDFORD, OREGON,! WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1960
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NEW CHRISTMAS HOURS F jl 1
Monday thru Friday 10:00 to 9:00 , f 111
Saturday 9:30 to 5:30 1 11 1
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hi 1 1 ill
trucks and personnel to help
dig the city out of ice-crusted
snow.
A cold pocket of air held
temperatures in the teens and
lower from eastern Tennessee
President Enters
Army Hospital
Washington -IUPII- President
Eisenhower was in Walter
Reed Army Hospital today
undergoing a series of tests to
complete the second half of
his annual physical checkup.
The 70-year-old Chief Ex
excutive, oldest president ever
to serve, entered the hospital
Tuesday night to finish the
last head-to-toe physical ex
amination he will undergo
while in the White House.
He was pronounced in "con
tinued excellent" health fol
lowing the first half of the
tests Sept. 15-16. White House
press secretary James C. Hag
erty said the final series had
been put off three months be
cause the President has been
"fairly busy" in the interval.
. Eisenhower was expected to
remain at Walter Reed until
sometime Thursday afternoon,
occupying the same top-floor
presidential suite he used dur
ing his intestinal ileitis opera
tion in 1956 and during his re
covery from a mild stroke.
Hagerty emphasized that
Eisenhower was not ailing and
had no symptoms of illness.
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liii Citing
northward into Michigan and
New England.
Light pre-dawn snow flur
ries fell on the leeward side
of the Great Lakes from Buf
falo, N.Y. into northern Penn
sylvania. Warmer Readings Seen
Chill 30 degree tempera
tures penetrated southward as
far as central Florida, while
warm Pacific Coast air thaw
ed parts of the northern Rock
ies. Montana had a high of
54 degrees at Lewistown and
a low of 5 above zero at Drum
mond. Warmer temperatures were
forecast today from the Mis
sissippi Valley into the Atlan
tic Coast states, while an in
vasion of Canadian air was
expected to drop temperatures
in Montana, the Pacific North
west and over much of Texas
and Louisiana.
Occasional showers and
snow flurries were looked for
today from northern Califor
nia through the Pacific North
west and in parts of the upper
Rockies.
RETURNING TO OFFICE
Bonn, Germany -fflPII-Chan-cellor
Konrad Adenauer
planned today to return to his
office for the first time in 19
days. The chancellor, 85 next
month, has been ill with a
cold and tonsilitis. He left his
house for a walk in his garden
Tuesday for the first time
since his illness.
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