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ARMS SECRETARY DISCUSSED Presi
dent elect John F. Kennedy, left, confers
with his Defense Secretary-designate, Robert
McNamara, about appointment of a Secre
tary of the Army. It has been reported that
Georgia Gov. Ernest Vandiver has been ask
ed if he would be interested but has indicat
ed he would not accept the post.
(UPI Telcphoto)
Stocks Extend Wednesday's
Biggest Gain in Three Years
New York-fllPD-Stock Drlces
gamed today after Wednes
day's sharp run-up, the big
gest in more than three
years.
Stocks receiving the big
eest. unside Dlav included mo
tors, steels, chemicals, metals
and a good many defense
slocks,
American Telephone ran
up more than a point along
with Ford while large frac
tions were added by Alcoa,
Du Pont, Anaconda, Republic
Steel, Internatlonnal Paper
and General Electric.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York-UIHI-Dow-Jones
final stock averages! 30 in
dustrials 621.49, up 11.24;
20 railroads 133.71, up 2.65)
15 utilities 100.41, up 0.66.
and 85 stocks 208.03, up
3.26. Sales Wednesday were
about 3,84 million shares
compared with 2.77 million
shares Tuesday,
Wednesday'! prlcei on selected
slocks:
Allied Chemical S3 ' J
Alum Co. Am. 72H
American Can 2iVt
American Motor ., UHs
AT&T in
Anaconda Copper
Armco Slcel 69H
Bcndlx Corp es
Boeing Air . 31)
Caterpillar Corp 32Vi
Chrysler Corp 3HU
Continental Can 3S
Vehicle Destroyed
By Fire Early Today
Firemen summoned to a car
fire about 3 o'clock this morn'
ing at the Cecil Conness place
on Carpenter Hill rd. said that
the station wagon was totally
Involved in flames when they
arrived.
They said that Conness dis
covered the fire in the vehicle
parked beside an orchard shed
and reported that apparent
cause was a short in wiring,
Crown Zellcrbach
Curtlsi Wright
Du Pont
Eastman Kodak ......
Firestone
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Georeia Pacific
Graham Paige ..
Greyhound
uull oil ,
Homeatnke Mining
Idaho Power ....
I. B. M
Int. Paner
Johns Manvllle
Kennecott Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Montana Power
Montgomery Ward ..
Natl Biscuit ...
New York Central
Pac Gas & Elee
Penney, J. C. ..
M
.. 16?,
19
113
34",
.. 72',
70s,
43
54 'i
.. 20 '4
. 53 ,
502
.11 '1
50 'i
.. 7(1 3,
28
32
28
. 72 '1
- 16'S
. 76'.-,
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Penn BB 12
Radio Corporation .. 53
Hicnueid utl Ho";
Safeway 36 'i
Scars - 54
Shell OH -.. 3!)
Socony Mobil Oil 39 M
Southern Co 48?i
Southern Pacific ...... 2 l'i
Standard California 47?:
Standard Indiana 47
Standard N. J 42
Sun Mines 7
Texas Co 8371
Texas Gulf Sulfur ..... !)',
Texas Pnc Land Trust 16
Transamerica 27 ',1
Trans World Air It'.'.
Trl-Contlncntal : 36!i
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
United Air Llnei
U. S. Bubber
U. S. Steel
Youngstown S & T .
..118'
.. 2771
.. 36
.. 47?!
.. 7071
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Belgians Look to
King for Solution
To Civil Strife
Brussels, Belgium - IUPI) -
The Belgian people looked
hopefully lo their young,
newlywcd King today for
some spectacular move that
would end the civil strife and
strikes that have gripped the
nation for two and a half
weeks, v
A power struggle between
Premier Gaston Eyskens' gov
ernment and the Socialist-led
opposition appeared to be
sliding Into a stalemate that
could bet resolved only by
King Baudouln's personal
mediation.
Sees Socialist Leader !
The 30 -year -old monarch
conferred unexpectedly Wed
nesday night with Socialist
party President Leo Collard at
Iacken Palace, just outside
Brussels.
No one would say which
one asked for the meeting but
it was their second talk since
the King returned from a
shortened honeymoon last
week. Baudouin also has met
with Eyskens twice, ;
Although life in this coun
try of 9 million people re
mained half-crippled by left
ist-led strikes, it was clear
Eyskens' govern ment had
enough support to hang on. i
Government Trump Card
The refusal of Catholic la
bor unions to Join the walk
outs was a major, trump card
for the government. The Cath
olic unions claim about 730,
000 members, slightly more
than the Socialist unions.
The government's forceful
security action, including sa
ber charges by mounted gen
darmes, has succeeded in
blunting mass leftwing dem
onstrations and marches in
Brussels and other leading
cities.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1061
Deal Sought To
Head Off Purge
Of Southerners
Washington (UPI Moderate
House Democrats searched to
day for a compromise that
would !ead off a bruising
battle by SpeakereSum Ray
burn to purge party-bolting
Mississippi Democrats from
posts of congressional power.
Informed sources said Ray
burn already has been offered
some concessions but has re
ectcd thorn because they fell
short of the price the power
ful Texas Democrat wants for
a peaceable settlement.
The real issue is whether
Rayburn, leader of the Demo
cratic party in the House; or
Rep. Howard W. Smith (D
Va.), a leader of the biparti
san coservative coalition, is
going to control the House
Rules Committee for the next
two years. Smith is chairman
of the committee.
War of Nerves
Rayburn has passed the
word he will lead a liberal
drive to purge Rep. William
M. Colmer (D-Miss.), a Smith
ally, from the committee un
less the strangle-hold over
liberal legislation held by
Smith, in the last Congress,
is broken through a less pain
ful method. The rules commit
tee controls the flow of bills
to the House floor and can
pigeon-hole measures it does
not like. ' .
Keeping his own counsel in
the "war of nerves" with
Smith, Rayburn announced no
time-table for threatened
purge but let it be known
that it would not be launched
before next week. In the
meantime, the organization of
House committees was at a
standstill.
The proposed compromise.
which Rayburn was said to
have rejected, was put for
ward by an intermediary
anxious to avoid the party
splitting battle. The purge
once started is likely to en
compass three other Missis
sippi Democrats who, with
Colmer, fought the national
party ticket in the November
e 1 e c 1 1 o n Reps. Jaime L.
Whittcn, Arthur Winstead and
John Bell Williams.
The rejected compromise
believed acceptable to
Smith and Colmer would
have kept the conservative
coalition in control of the
rules committee with thesei
two concessions:
No Pigeon-Hole Pledge
A pledge that the com
mittee would not pigeon-hole
any of the five-point legisla
tive program to which President-elect
John F. Kennedy
has assigned . top priority.
These measures would in
clude federal aid for educa
tion and for communities with
chronic unemployment, medi
cal care for the elderly, libe
ralization of the minimum
wage law and expanded out
lays for slum clearance.
A change in rules that
would strip the rules commit
tee of any power to block leg
islation after it has passed
both the House and Senate.
At present, approval of the
rules committee is necessary
before a majority of the House
can arrange for Senate-House
negotiations to iron out differ
ences between bills approved
by the two chambers. The
committee used this power, in
the last Congress, to scuttle a
new federal aid for education
program.
Santa Fe Officials
Review Proposal at,
Chamber Breakfast
The importtince of main
taining competitive rail serv'
ice between California points
and the Pacific Northwest was
reviewed by representatives of
the Santa Fe Railroad at a
meeting of the Mcdford Cham
ber of Commerce board of
directors this morning.
Representing the Sanla Fe
were Henry M. Moffat, Rob-
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ert E. Welk and Frank N.
Grossman, all of San Fran
cisco, and R. T, Patterson,
Portland.
They spoke at the request
of the chamber board, which
sought more information on
Santa Fe's proposal to acquire
control of the Western Pacific
Railroad. Earlier the board
heard Southern Pacific's argu
ments in its proposal to pur
chase Western Pacific.
Applications from both
Santa Fe and Southern Pacific
are before the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which will
call public hearings in several
states on the proposals.
Representatives of Sanla Fe
rpvipwnrl railrnnrf rinudlnn.
ment in the west, and pointed
out that competitive routes
such as those of Santa Fe and
Western Pacific "have with
out question been a prime
factor in the ernwlh nnH rip.
velopment of the entire west."
Thnv nnintrvl n,,l Ihof W,l.
em Pacific lias endorsed Santa
fes proposal, and has author-
izrfl its mnnn0nmnnt in inin-
vene lo assist in seeking for
mal annmiml fit Cnnla ITn'e
application. Great Northern
nauroaa, mey noted, also in
tervened in behalf of Santa
Fc.
Santa Fe officials said the
company intends to maintain
Western Pacific as "a s nnnrntA
railroad corporation if the pro
posed acquisition by Santa Fe
is approved, nicy added that
Western Pacific would be
maintained in "active compe
tition With the Sniltlinrn P..
cific, which will result in
Benefit to all of the areas
served by the tw railroads
and their connecting carriers."
Santa Fe rpnrnninii,m.
said "The growing economy
in mc west cannot afford sup
pression of competition in rail
transportation, particularly in
thr fnrn nf the fart thai ll,n
present and projected traffic
diyviand is adequate to support
two strong rail systems."
Americans Arrested
In Czechoslovakia
Moscow -llW- Two alleged
American intelligence agents
have been arrested in Com
munist Czechoslovakia, the
Soviet Tass news agency re
ported Wednesday.
Tass Identified them as
Paul Giessler and Christina
Moikovn. It said Miss Mnikovn
was a student from Bratislava
and that both were trying to
reach Switzerland when arrested.
"The preliminary investiga
tion showed that both had
carried out assignments for
the American intelligence,
Tui uid.
Kennedy. Advisers Draft Farm Plans
New York - (UPI) - President
elect John F. Kennedy today
summoned his top economic
advisers and farm experts to
draft plans to pep up the na
tional economy on the farm
and factory fronts.
His first major conference
of the day was with nine
farm organization leaders in
his Carlyle hotel suite. Vice
President-elect Lyndon B.
Johnson, Agriculture Secretary-designate
Orville Free
man, af)d the chairmen of the
House and Senate agriculture
committees, Rep. Harold Coo
ley (D-Nj C), and Sen. Allen
J. Ellender (D-La.), joined the
talks.
Kennedy also called an aft
ernoon meeting to examine
the overall state of the na
tional economy with Dr. PSul
Samuelson of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
Samuelson has been directing
a task force study for Kenne
dy on economic problems that
will face the new administra
tion. A report being assembled
by Samuelson will be an im
portant key to early economic
planning by the new administration.
Th agriculture meeting
dealt with what Kennedy re
garded as a continuing farm
crisis involving a painful cost
price squeeze on the consum
ers as well as the producers
of the nation's food and fiber.
Khrushchev Calls For German Treaty
Bonn, Germany-fUPD-Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Wednesday renewed his call
for "neighborly" coexistence
with West Germany and a
German peace treaty.
In a reply to Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer's New
Year's greeting, Khrushchev
sajd a peace treaty would
"have a particularly fruitful
effect on relations between
our states."
Wost fiermanv maintains
that a peace treaty can only
be signed by a freely-elected
all-German government.
SEAPLANE PATfR)L
Miami-IUPll-The U.S. Coaij
Guard said Wednesday it had
begun daily seaplane patrols
off the 'Florida Keys as far
south as Dry Tortugas to
watch for Cuban refugee ves
sels in distress.
Press Secretary Pierre Sa
linger said Kennedy wbj
"mystified" by reports that
"the pressure" had been
brought upon him by south
ern Democrats to appoint Gov,
Ernest Vandiver of Georgia
to the post of secretary of the
Army.
Salinger said Vandiver was
one of the men still under
consideration. Kennedy and
Secretary of Defense - desig
nate Robert McNamara dis
cussed this at their meeting
Wednesday night but no an
nouncement was expected un
til nejt week. 0
Vaiimver said in Atlanta
today that he is too busy in
Georgia, where his "first
duty" lines, to consider the
Army job. He sent a telegram
to Kenned' asking that his
name be withdrawn from consideration.
A brand new year!
A new manager at Gray's!
meet...
HAROLD "BUCK"
GRAVES
"Buck" Graves is going to lead Gray's to a fabulous 1961 by offering the
best furniture at the lowest prices!
1ST ANNIVERSARY
SALE . . . NOW
IN PROGRESS!
The First of Many Sales in '61
Drop In and meet "Buck" Grave. ... get acquainted with
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your old friend Ernie Hook to make 1961 a truly fabulou.
yearl
"Buck" was manager of Montgomery's Furniture for 3V4
year.. He hope. hi. many friends will come in and vi.it
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