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10 Tho News-Review, Roieburg, Ore Thun. Oct. 17, 1957 Planned Skyscraper Goes Abegging For Financing NEW YORK W A planned 411 story Manhattan skyscraper is a victim of the tight money market. Excavation has been halted f;r the building at Park Avenue and 53rd Street until its sponsor, Vin cent Astor, can raise more money to carry out the project. A spokesman said yesterday that Astor is willing to pay i'h per cent interest for more funds but no lend er has offered to supply the money needed. REAUV 6000 fist Presbyterian Church Sets Bible Study Hour The second In a six-week series of Christian Belief classes will be held Sunday at 6 p.m. in the social hall of the First Presbyterian Church. The class is under the leadership of the Itev. John E. Adams, is edu cational in nature and designed to answer the questions raised by the study of church history and Chris tian heritage. All interested per sons are invited, and no church membership is required. A baby sitter will be provided in the church nursery. Church attendance is receiving special emphasis this month, with each member or friend of the church invited to make a special effort to attend one service each Sunday during October. A special part of this emphasis is a Bible study hour each Wednesday even ing at 7:30 with the Kev. John Adams. U. S. Savings Bonds Sales Drop In September U.S. Savings Bonds sales drop ped substantially in Oregon in Sep tember, according to George W. Alimnaugh, state director of the savings bonds division of the U.S. Treasury Dept. Sales of bonds in Douglas Coun ty were up to $82,411 in Septem ber however, compared to sales of $(ifi,8:il in September 1956. Sales through Sept. 30 were $735,273 though, showing a considerable drop from sales through Sept. 30, 1956 which were S843,8i(. Girl Fails In Try To Free Boy Friend TACOMA lifl An attempt by a 16-year-old girl to intimidate jailers with a rifle and free her boy friend from the Pierce County jail was disclosed by sheriff's dep uties Tuesday. Criminal Deputy Sheriff Dick McCreadie identified her as Ja nette Passmore, of a rural Puyal lup address. She said she was a member of a "rebel" gang. Caught after she ran from the county courthouse after scuffling with a woman deputy, she was ordered held for the superior court and Prosecutor John G. McCutch con said he would file charges. AlcCreadie said the girl told him she was attempting to aid Harry .Miles Gordon, 16, also of Puyal lup get out of jail. She had known him only three months. Tuesday was visitors' day and the girl came to the jail two hours early. Jailer Bert Overholt paid her little attention. She went into the radio room in the lobby of the sheriff's office and stood behind Deputy Dorothy liickok, radio operator. "Suddenly 1 noticed she had-a rifle," Mrs. liickok said. "It was all too fast. I don't know what happened, but I grabbed the gun and wrestled it away from her. Then she ran out of the door." , She was captured outside. Sputnik's Life May Prove Short WASHINGTON I A govern ment scientist says Russia's Sput nik which has circled the earth for 12 (lavs mav nlnnup frnm its orbit and burst into flames within a week. That view, expressed by Robert jasirow ot Hie jvaval Kesearch Laboratory here, generally runs counter to other Western predic tions that the satellite might re main aloft for several months, pot- siniy a year. Jastrow, a theoretical consultant at the laboratory, also said last night there were indications Sput nik was losing altitude. Oh a re cent pass over Washington, he added, the satellite's altitude was estimated at 147 miles. Most previous estimates have had the orbit ranging from 170 miles up to about 560 miles. "Based on its altitude, the way it looks at the moment the satel lite might burn out in a week," he said. "It. most probably will disintegrate and burn up, depend ing on its design and altitude." A report broadcast by Moscow Monday night also indicated Sput nik likely would fall from outer space in a week. Jasirow said in an Interview that electromagnetic forces might possibly -explain variations in Sputnik's orbit which have baffled some scientists. Garden Valley Garden Club Sets Guard Station Talk APPLE PICKERS NEEDED YAKIMA Wi The Stale Em ployment Service here called Wednesday for 150 additional pick ers to help harvest the WinGsap spokesman said they were ur gently needed. By ADDIE SCHNEIDER Mrs. Virgil Woodruff will pre sent the Garden Valley Garden Club program when it meets at the dome ol Mrs. All red urjaua uci. '.23. Mrs. Woodruff will give a brief resume of their summer at the guard station on the Callahan Trail at Lander's Mountain. She will also AUTO WRECK FATAL BAKER Wi". William Van Auken, 32, of Lime, Ore., was killed early Wednesday when his automobile was struck by a Union Pacific- freight train at a Lime grade crossing. . Harvest Festival Of Riversdale Grange Set Authentic smorgasbord special ties and a wide variety of hand made gifts will be featured at the annual Harvest Festival of the Riv ersdale Grange Nov. 2. Booths will offer noveity gift items, party aprons, practical ap rons, and dry arrangements ready for use. A ham dinner will be serv ed beginning at 6 p.m. Mrs. Walter Norris, home economic leader, is general chairman with Mrs. Eric Trozelle assisting with the dinner, reports Addie Schneider, corre spondent. Four Persons Perish In Big Boston Blaze BnCTAN i Pour nersons Der- it-harl 1'jct nifhl wltPTI 8 tWO-alami fire swept a three-story tenement in the Koxnury section. Three of the victims were iden- ;r;.wl ac RnnslH Rpnnpft. 20. and his two children Carl, 4, and Sher- re 2'j. . . A woman, tentatively identified as Alice- Ford, 70, died of smoke inhalation. I tell about the wild flowers found at I the top of the Coast Range, eleva jtion 2404 feet. Visits Grandparents I Miss Margaret Lllen Phillips, Portland, spent the weekend with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford McKay and her great grandmother, Mrs. D. P. McKay of Wilbur. The Clifford McKays took her to Eugene Sunday eve ning and visited Mrs. McKay's brother, Roy Russel, and wife be fore they returned home. Rev. John B. Ellingson has re turned to Garden Valley from Long Beach. Calif., where he has been studying ft) prepare himself foil; missionary work in norway. He will return to Long Beach early next,week, taking with him his wife and Janice Foster to attend the convention of the California Evan gelistic Churches. , Rev. and Mrs. Clarence Harms, Portland, came from Eastside to spend the weekend with Rev. and Mrs. Ellingson. Rev. Jfarms gave the services at the Garden Valley Community Church Sunday. 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