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I Market Quotations Crippled Navy App'ng certifies
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND ai'I'- I'SDA) -Livestock:
Cattle 300: good choice steers
Monday 26 50 28.75; two head at
!9; good heifers Monday 26-27.23;
itility cows IB-17: canners-cutte
'3-14.50, few IS; few utility bulls
3-23 25; light cutters 18-22 50.
Calves 100; good-choice vealcrs
iteady at 26-29 50; few 30; 53-heud
ot 326 lb. good-mostly choice mix
d stock steer a id heifer calves
S, with 13 head at 28.
Hogs 450: 1 and 2 butchers 190
25 lb. 16.50: 23-head lot 225 lb
6 75; 1. 2 and 3 graJe 15.50-16.
Sheep 750; steady; choice near
y spring lambs mostly 20; good
hoice 1S-19 50; few utility . good
7-95 lb. 17 18 50; ewes 2-4.50.
PORTLAND DAIRY
PORTLAND il'Pl'
market :
Kggs To retailers: Grade AA
extra large. 50-53c doz.: AA largo.
47-4!ic; A lame. 4417c: A me
dium. 37 -4iic ; A A small. 23 2HC.
titrtons l-3c a'l liuural.
Butter To retailers: AA and
raJe A prints. Kttc li. ; carton, lc
higher; H prints. 64c.
Cheese 'medium cured i To
retailers: A g aJe cheddar single
daisies, 4151c; piocessod Ameri
can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 4u-43c.
one
Dairy Safely At Hilo
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CAUGHT IN MID-AIR
Bonnie Scott of La Grande demonstrates the form that won trophies in diving for
her at the Spokane Chronicle Swim meet and the Pasco meet. Bonnie is a member
of the La Grande Swim Team. (Observer Photo)
'The Oregon Trail' Opens
At Local Theatre Tomorrow
"The Oregon Trail," a Twen
tieth Century-Fox release open
ing Wednesday at the Granada
theater, is a big story with a big
cast.
Fred MarMurray, Nino Ship
man, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull,
end John Cairadine start along
with Elizabeth Patterson, John
tiierkes. aJmes lfc'll, John San
lord. Tex Terry and Arvo Ajala.
"The pietuie is about people,
their hopes, fears and ambi
tions," producer Richard Einfeld
said. "It happens to be laid in
an era ot covered waiions, Ind
ians and outlaws but except for
costumes and modes of tr.mspor
t. (ion, it is as modern a story as
you could write today."
"The Oregon Trail" tells of the
Vnited States' efforts to protect
its citizens who have undertak
en the long trek to Oregon and
of the government's negotiations
vith England over the area in
determining which nation will
control it.
MacMurray plays a newspaper
man sent to report to his paper
of developments In the territory.
William Bishop is an Army of
ficer, traveling incognito, on his
way to help protect the settlers.
Nina Shipman and John Carra
dinc arc members of the wagon
train and Gloria Talbott is a
half breed Indian girl who falls
in love wipi MacMurray. Henry
Hull is the wagon train boss.
Five large sets were used in
the production including two
sound stages, the wagon train
set, the Ft. Laramie set and the
production of the town ot West-
port, jumping off place in Mis
souri for trains headed west.
In reproducing these actual
I'leaces. the Twentieth Centry-Fox
research department spent days
determining just what Ft. Lara
niie, Wyoming, looked like at
the time.
An example of .the detail
work which went into making
"The Oregon Trail" is found in
the use of one pistol in a scene
for the picture. Einfeld manag
ed to borrow from the Colt arms
company a Whitney Walker, six
shot Colt revolver, one , of two
which are in existence today. It
it valued at $5,000.
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STARRING Fred MacMurray and Gloria Talbott play
loading roles in the Twentieth Century-Fox produc
tion of "The Oregon Trail"
Pluitors Nabbed
On Morals Charge
CINCINNATI, Ohio (UPl' The
four platters, a nationally known
singing group, we-e to appear ir
Municipal Court here todny on
morals charges after police ar
rested them at a hotel with four
19-year-old girls early Monday.
Charged with a ding and alet
ling prostitution were Pavkl
Lynch. 30. Kl Cenlro, Calif.: Her
bert A. Heed. 31. Los Angeles;
Sam Williams. 31, Hollywood, and
Ervin liobi, 2G. l'l Centra.
Also npcaring in court were
live girls, booked on charges of
prostitution.
Police said they broke into the
singers' room at the Sheraton
Gibson Hotel and found them
with the girls, three of whom
were nude and one clad only in
a slip.
The entertainers had completed
an engagement Sunday at the
Copa Club In nearby Newport.
Ky., wheie police said they met
the girls.
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'Velocitation'
Very Important
For The Driver
COI.l'MBUS, Ohio (ITII The
new cars built mo-e and more
for safety, are becoming more
and more dangerous for the driv
er who doesn't know what "ve
locitation" means.
The new term stands for the
gradual loss of ability to tell how
last you're going. The bigger and
heavier the car, and the straight
er the road, the more likely this
phenomenon will make you an
other traffic statist.c.
Myron Willison, Ohio Trucking
Assn., safety exoert, warns that
a driver suffering from "velocita
tion" may be clipping along as
much as 20 miles an hour faster
than he thinks he is
The way to avoid it, says Willi
son, Is by glancing frequently at
th? spedomctcr.
"Many motorists on trips g-ad-ually
increase their speed as the
day wears on without being aware
of it," he say.
Railroads End
Trains That
Fail To Pay
By HELEN THOMAS
UPl Staff Writer
WASHINGTON UPI The
nation's railroads are dropping un
profitable passenger trains as fast
as they can.
An Interstate Commerce Com
mission 'ICC I survey showed to
day that the railroads have dis
continued 41 passenger trains
since an administrative short cut
was approved by Congress one
year ago.
In addition, the lines have
started proceedings to eliminate
60 more interstate passenger runs
and 40 interstate trains.
The ICC also gave railroads per
mission to abandon 4.664 miles of
track from 1954 to the start of
this year.
The trend appeared to bear out
a warning by ICC examiner How
ard Hosmer that inter-city passen
ger train service would be dead
by 1970 if railroads continued their
current practices.
The flood of discontinued
trains followed approval of the
1958 Transnortatioi Act h'oh
eliminated the previous regulatory
red tape surrounding rome aua..
donmejits. ,
I'nder the act, a raibjoad must
give 30-days notice of plans to
abandon passenger trains. The ICC
then has 20 days to block the pro
posal by suspending the discon
tinuance for four months pend
ing an investigation
Previously, projiosals to abandon
passenger train service were hand
led by less sympathetic state
regulatory commissions. Now, if
a state commission fails to act
or denies a discontinuance, the
railroad is free to petition the ICC.
NEW YORK i L'PI (-Stocks re
vered a small part of Monday's
ievere loss today.
There were a few standouts in
he list with gains of 3 or more
Toints but on the whole fractional
lains p-edominated.
UuPont was strong in the chem--als,
up around 5 points at its
igh. Caterpillar Tractor ran up
nore than 4 points at its best.
American Home Products, tra I
lg ex-dividend, rose more than c
oints.
Cains of 2 to 3 points or more
ippeared in Brunswick Balke.
oca-Cola. Eastman Kodak. Fire
tone, Great Northe-n Pafx-r.
offrnan Electronics, Litton, Mm
esota Mining. Motor Products.
Motorola, Shell Oil, Texas instru
ments, U.S. Gypsum, and Zenith
The electronics, which paced
Monday's decline, were in the
vanguard of today's recovery
movement. IBM jumped more
than 10 at its best level. Auto
stocks were firm on balance, as
were oils, rails, chemicals, steels,
cameras, and nonferrous metals.
The aircrafts were mixed.
Slock Aarket
Decline Over
NEW YOKK H'PIi Stock
'nokers generally a'ircwl today
that the worst of thesnck mar
ket's most severe decline in al
most four years is over. The
shakeout Monday wiped about
seven billion dollars from stock
values.
Brokers agreed that the selling
which sent the industrial average
lown 14.78 points Monday was
principally the result of profit
laking following the market's re
cut suryc to new all-time hiahs
The feeling is that the selling
will set a new base from which
he bull market can resume its
advance. Martin Gilbert, analyst
lor Vanalstyiie, Noel & Co.,
summed up the thinking of (he
majority with the observation:
"the worst is over."
"The market 'has exiieriouced a
;;ood technical correction and
nuw is at a support level from
which it can rally." he said.
REDS INTERCEPT SAMPANS
HONG KONG H'PK - A Com
munist Chinese gunboat Monday
fired on four sampans loaded with
Chinese fleeing lo the Portuguese
island of Macao and captured
three of them, it was reported to
day. One boat with eight Chinese
alMiard made it snfolv in M-in-.n
If you consider Ihsl the purchas harbor, just off the Chinese main-
ing power of the dollar was $1.00 bnd
HILO. Hawaii l'PH The crew
of a crippled Navy patrol bomb
er told tw'ay how they threw over-
I lionrd almost everything, includ
ing tneir paracnuies. auring tneir
I, 000-mile touch and go flight over
the Pacific Monday.
The Navy Neptune P2V with 11
men aboard landed safely at Hilo
after one of the two pro'iellor en
Sines failed approximately 1,000
miles out.
The pla-e was enroute from
Alarnela. CaliJo Barber's Point
mar Honolulu.
"We just figured we would be
too low to bail out anyway." said
Lt. ijj; B. R. Briggs, 27, Mariet
ta, Ohio, "so we just tossed out
.he parachutes, food, galley, gas
tanks, ra.lar equipment and ev
erything else that was loose on
board.
"After the starboard engine
coughed three times, exploded
.'lames and began vibrating, we
dropped like a rock f-om 8,000
'eet to about o..e hundred fee'
over the waves. We used our aux
iliary jets intermittently to ga;n
altitule. hut we would always
drop hack down again.
"We continued this roller-coast-ering
over the whitecaps for alwut
Iko hours before we stabilized at
eei a id came in for the land
iiif!." Briggs said
The plane had less than half
an hour's fuel suuply left when
it made (he emergency landing
here. Crew memtiers gave full
credit to the intercept pla.ies for
bringing them in safely.
Other crew members included
co pilot Lyle Anderson. 2t-, Dululh,
.Minn.; M. It. Johnson, Gulesburg.
III.: L. T. Lowe. Edenton, N.C.;
Russ L. Horn, Oak Harbor,
Wash.; James D. Huff, Schuyler
ville, NY.: Thomas G. Hart.
Grand Forks, N.D ; and Hichard
II. Chambers. Gallipolis, Ohio.
For Tax Voting
SA.EM H'PIi Secretary ol
State Howell Appling Monday cer
tified the signatures cn a petition
referring the major state income
tax bill to the ptople in I960.
The referendum petition was
circulated by the Citizens' Com
mittee for Economy and Equita
ble Taxation, an Albany-headquartered
group.
Appling said he had accented
30.190 signatures more than
enough to have the measure put
on the ballot.
Of the signatures collected, only
522 were declared inval.d, Appling
said.
Gov. Mark Hatfield has said
that even though the measure is
referred, the state should be able
to get through the biennium by
practicing "rigid economies."
The bill to be voted upon would
hike taxes, especially in the mid
dle income bracket, chiefly by not
allowing taxpayers to deduct fed
eral income taxes from state returns.
One out of every seven medical
Till other three were lowed' bills covered bv health insurant-
in the 1947-49 period, then it was i hack to Lappa, the Communist 1 in the U.S. is $500 or more while
worth $268.10 in 1909 and less than commune on the river onoosile more than half fall between siool against names ihrenienmn hnmes
83 cents today. Macao. 'and $499. in Lakeland Village.
Brush Fire
Is Contained
F.LSINORE. Calif. U PP - A
brush fire that started Saturday
when a pickup truck crashed a id
caught fire was contained and
expected to be under cuuliol to
day. The cost was Iwo lives, more
than 50 injure'! firemen, six in
critical condition, and 1.6U0 acres
of valuable watershed o:ice cov
ered with thick bushes and dotted
with scrub oak and pine trees.
One home was destroyed by the
fast-moving blaze. But some 250
others were saved by determined
firefighters who battled the wind
whipped blaze in some cases right
up to the yards of homes
Ben Slater, 31, and Andy
Brooks, 24, both of nearby Santa
Ana, died of injuries Monday suf
fered in a flare-up Saturday as
firefighters made their stand
Timber Blaze
Destroys Five
Ukiah Homes
I'KIAH, Calif. LPI - Fire
fighters early today contained a
timtier and brush fire that de
stroyed five homes and threatened
this city of 12.000 but a second
blaze nearby continued to rage
out of control.
The second fire already has de
stroyed more than 2,200 acres.
State forestry crews and fire
fighting equipment from nine
nearby cities were rushed here
last riaht to battle the first blaze,
which drove terrified animals
from nearby hills into the streets,
and forced the evacuation of
scores of homes.
Two men were spared death
earlier Monday when a helicopter
rescued them from an area sur
rounded by flames. They had
been working on a television
cable to a mountain-top trans
mitter. Five homes caught in the south
easterly path of the flames were
burred to the ground.
Home owners openeds their back
yards to stray pets and horses.
Frightened animals ran wildly
down city streets. One home-owt-er
said he sa a deer and
a bobcat loping side by side in
front ol his house. A young boy
led a. frightened mare down a
patch just minutes before flames
overran the path.
Two other fires were reported
out of control. One has burned
more than 600 acres near Willits,
10 miles north of here. Ukiah is
located in the redwood timber
country.
Portland Boys Killed
By 'Unloaded' Rifle
PORTLAND i LTD A Portland
boy was fatally wounded Monday
with an "unloaded" rifle.
The victim, John William Brad
ford, 9. was shot in the forehead
with a .22-catiber rifle while he
a"d a playmate, 12 - year - old
Michael Mickels were looking at
the fifle.
The Mickels boy told police they
thought the gun was unloaded.
Grandma Likes
TVAppearance
HOLLYWOOD (UPI Grand
ma Emma Gatcwood, the 71-year-old
hiking great grandmother
from Gallipolis. Ohio, tried televi
sion on for size Monday and liked
it.
She apienred ns a special guest
on the Art Linkletter House Party
show here and walked off with
a trio of prizes.
She won $100, a handful of as
sorted corn remedies, and a road
map to Mexico City.
Mrs. Gatewood chatted with
Linkletter and displayed her
crepe soled shoes and battered
umbrella.
She impressed the studio audi
ence with the statistics of her trip
95 days on the road, averaging
22 miles a day all on foot.
The walking grandmother will
return to Portland, Ore, where
she will appear in a special "Ohio
Day" celebration Wednesday at
the Oregon Centennial exposition.
Suffocation Claims
5-Week-Old Baby Girl
FOKTLANU (CI'll A 5-weck-
old baby girl died early Monday.
apparently of suffocation.
The victim was Kim Lee Boljat.
Her mother, Helen Boljat. said
the infant may have been suffo
cated by a plastic material used
as trimming around her crib.
A policeman, James L. Rogers,
gave the infant mouth- to- mouth
respiration from the time he ar
rived until she was brought lo
Good Samaritan hospital, but was
unable to revive her.
An autopsy was planned.
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