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I .' . - ' "-! - . ' ' ft o-dDoooiidl mrea mt Mmm U ACS - By Garber Davidson LAS VEGAS, Nev, Feb. 2-JPh Like an earthquake, the fourth atom blast in a week shook Las Vegas today. Concussion was the heaviest yet, and a big window in a furniture store shattered under the strain. One witness said other windows "bulged in and out like balloons. I thought they were all going to go." v , - i: : The third? shock, '' yesterday, brought only a ho-hum reaction. But today there was some concern in this city famed up to now chief ly for wide-open gambling and six-week divorces. The man in the street wondered out loud what the Russians think about it alL Some citizens- thought today's shock was about as much rocking as the. city could take without ex- Embargoes Tightened on Kail Freight; Travel Threatened same imp cms Sumner Welles was one of the ablest men we have had in our diplomatic service and state de partment in the past quarter cen tury. He was under secretary of state through much of the Franklin Roosevelt administration, and ser ved as acting secretary during the absence or illness of Cordell Hull. It was unfortunate that his ser vices were lost to the country, reportedly because of some fric tion between Welles and his su perior. Welles was a personal friend of the president's and that may have proved embarrassing all around. At any rate Roosevelt accepted his resignation. Mr. Welles has been writing a book "Seven Decisions that Shap ed History" which will be pub lished this spring. Part (of the book appears in an article '"Roose velt and the Far East" in Harpers Magazine for February. He re lates and explains the develop ment of Roosevelt's foreign policy with regard particularly to Japa nese aggression and dwells much on the president's "quarantine speech" of 1937 in Chicago where he urged that the decent members of the society of nations "quaran tine" the aggressors. That speech, Welles reports did not receive popular support. Many within the administration fold did not ap prove of it. So the situation in the far east progressively deteriorated until Pearl Harbor. Welles seems to believe that if the policy out lined In the 1937 speech had been pursued and. supported by the armed might of the countries that had signed the Nine-Power treaty, "our troops would not presently be fighting in Korea" and China to day might be free of foreign domi nation and "able to join in an international attempt to bring into being a free, a peaceful, and a prosperous Asia." At this date one can hardly say. As it looks now if the powers (Continued on editorial page. 4) Latest Quads Doing Okeh BOSTON, Feb. 2 -IP)- Four babies . were born today to a policeman's wife who had "bought clothes for one" and by their first night feeding tonight were a fam ous four with a "wonderful chance." The rare quadruple birth of two boys end two girls occurring only once in 512,000 births and listed only once before in century old Massachusetts records dazz led and delighted the Robert J. Aliens. : - Allen, 41, is six (eet two and a patrolman, who takes home $53.03-a-week. The boys at headquarters aid he is known as the "deacon" because "he's so easy going and quiet" His wife, Helen, 31, and 110 pounds, was awake and chipper shortly, aftei the arrivals of her tiny youngsters. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "OH. for foWntH Ml"iop vH- lr - - - tensive damage. Even; the city's low buildings were jarred, and a four-story hotel trembled violent ly. At one of the plush hotels with glass doors, , the bug-eyed night clerk reported they swung open and shut in the concussion as If tripped by an j electric j eye. i Commented a farmer: "If it gets much stronger; it will do a lot of damage. It might knock some of the old buildings down." The white flash, quickly turning to orange and finally fading in a reddish yellow: core, came at 5:49 a. m. (Pacific Standard Time). It took six minutes for the concus sion to reach! here, putting the distance at roughly 75 miles. As dawn came, a "dirty-brown cloud could be observed. Jt drifted toward Las Vegas but disappeared in about two hours in the clear desert air. Informed sources said i Embargoes on parcel post and railway express shipments to many eastern points put new hob bles on the Willamette; valley to day as Southern Pacific train crews joined switchmen on the "sicklist" at.Salem. I I The spreading work stoppage of rail workers threatened to affect passenger trains in the Pacific northwest today, but there was no evidence it would involve SP trains. S An SP spokesman "guessed", however, that; company officials might be operating the road's crack Daylight on its southbound run today. i 2,000 Workers tdle The Associated Press reported an estimated . 800 Oregon rail workers are off their; jobs with 1,200 laid off in other industries due to the rail slowdown. The Seattle port of embarkation, which handles cargo for Korean troop"s,.xeported 67 yards of freight waiting to be brought into the port. j S The railway express embargo bans shipments, except by air, from all valley points to 14 north eastern states,: Florida' and these cities, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwau kee and Washington, D. C. Stops Shipments j The mail embargo stops ship ments of parcels by third of fourth class mail from western postof fices to states northeast of Illinois and these cities: Chicago, St. Lou is, Washington, Atlanta and Jack sonville, Fla. Both embargoes make a few ex ceptions including medical sup plies. First class mail Shipments are limited to eight ounces. Air mail is not affected, i 1 Freight-train movement in Sa lem is expected to come to a vir tual standstill today when an Ore gon Electric embargo on north bound freight takes effect. Sickness Spreads The SP Salem yardmaster's of fice said engineers, firemen, brake men and conductors joined switch men on "sickcall" here Friday night. i : At Portland the walkout spread to the terminal company handling passenger trains. There was no im mediate effect on passenger serv ice. Union Pacific spokesmen at Portland expressed fear passen ger train crews may begin staying away. i Spokesmen for. both UP and SP, however, said crews were still re porting for Friday night passenger runs. ' i 'Air Attacks' Aimed at NW PORTLAND; Feb. 2 -(IP)- A large number, of low altitude "strikes" will be launched in the Pacific northwest Saturday and Sunday in the windup of the four-day western aerial defense maneuvers, it; was learned here today. j ; Weather permitting; residents of the Pacific coast area may get a look at the planes participating in the maneuvers. j J The week-end flights will test the efficiency i of a secret radar network and its air force civilian component filer centers and volunteer-manned ground obser vation posts. j Legal Action, Pleas Tried In Effort to End Walkout i By The Associated ; Press 1 The government applied both legal action and persuasion Friday in an effort to end the switchmen's "sick call" strike that is progres sively paralyzing the nation's rail service and crippling; industrial production, t i -t The White House said the work stoppage is "directly injuring our national security' and that "the American people can tolerate' no other outcome" than a return to work. i j 1 Saying he was speaking? for President Truman, Joseph Short, presidential press secretary, told reporters that the switchmen "can not be justified in preventing; the flow of food ) and fuel for; our, people and supplies for our sol diers, r j : '-'.,1 In Chicago, .leaders ot the key union in the walkout, the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen, were summoned into federal; court on a contempt citation. j , The government took steps at the . contempt i hearing! to obtain the names 1 every switchman it was dust stirred up by the det onation. An A EC statement ampli fied, referring to the blasts Satur day, Sunday, yesterday and today: "We are able to say that no levels of radiation have been found any where which could conceivably produce any damage to humans, to animals or to water supply." At the same time, in New York, an AEC announcement said it was investigating a report that snow falling in Rochester, N. Y, was "measurably radioactive." But it added: "There Is no posibility of harm to humans or animals." Strengthening the opinion that today's flash was brighter than any heretofore was the report that it was seen: as far distant as Cald well, Idaho, 530 miles. It also was reported from the San Francisco bay area, 450 miles away, and hundreds saw it in Los Angeles, some 300 miles distant. Radioactive Snow Termed Harmless ROCHESTER, N. Y Feb. 2 (IP)- Scientists reported today they had detected radioactivity in snow that fell in upstate New York this week, but they said the amount was too small to harm anyone. The radioactivity presumably was the aftermath of atomic blasts at the atomic energy commission's big test range near Las Vegas, Nev. The U. S. weather bureau in Chicago pointed out that the radioactive particles could have been carried across the country by week-long prevailing west winds.' Wage Freeze Eased to Give Merit Raises WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-7P)-The government tonight unfroze wages and salaries of millions of workers to permit pay hikes for merit and length of service. However, the wage stabilization board said employers can't raise prices to offset pay increases they may grant under the new regula tion. Another government order gave retail coal dealers permission to boost their prices as much as 25 cents on soft coal and 90 cents on anthracite tomorrow. Ceilings May Give Meanwhile, a former OPA of ficial told congress he doubts the present ceilings on meat prices will hold in view of great de mand. The witness, J. Kenneth Gal braith, onetime deputy director of the office of price administration, said that even if the meat prices held, the attempt to meet demand would be a heavy drain on feed supplies. Rising feed prices would in turn force up prices of milk, poultry and eggs, Galbraith said. Galbraith said the key dangers to wage-price stability were in a relatively few items food, basic clothing and rent. "None of these latter is now securely controlled," he said. Must Follow Pattern Tonight's wage order relaxed the . general wage freeze which was clamped on last week. The wage board specified how ever the increases must follow "established patterns" in effect in 1950. Officials further stressed the thaw in the freeze will not per mit general across-the-board pay hikes. Estimates are that millions of workers virtually all of the hour ly wage earners in the country will be affected by the relaxation. MARTINSVILLE FOUR DIE RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 2-(IP)-The first four of seven Martins ville negroes condemned for the orgy-rape of a white woman were electrocuted here today and a clamor for clemency continued for three others who are to die Mon day. who took part In. the December walkout, in its effort to prove that the work stoppage was a concert ed action and not the result of sickness. These are the highlights of the fourth day of the strike: 1 : Hall links between major cities of the nation were breaking apart, Twenty-five major through trains from New York to the west and five New York-Florida trains were cancelled.; More passenger trains also were dropped in other cities. . . . . . ; 2 The army Quartermaster de pot in Chicago reported 250,000 combat rations for American troops in Korea began moving out after a three-day delay. ' 3 The number of industrial and mine workers made idle by the strike shot well above .130,000. , ; 4 The 'Railway Express ageaey extended the express embargo it imposed 'Wednesday. It stopped immediately the movement of ex press to -and from many points within the 14 state area hardest bit by the strike. :.:. - . 100th YEAB 10 PAGES .Dec! sioii Denied; Red Allied Artillery Checks Red Counterattacks TOKYO, Saturday, Feb. 3-(V Night - long allied artillery fire broke up small Chinese red coun terattacks last night on the frigid western Korean war front where United Nations troops Friday scor ed gains of more than two miles. The temperature dropped to 25 below zero after a thaw. It was he coldest it had been since the start of the nine-day-old UN. of f ensive," swhich has gained 20 mi les. A dispatcK from AP Correspond ent Jim Becker said parachute borne flares kept the front north of Suwon lighted while thousands of shells burst among the masses of Chinese. troops. Suwon is 17 air miles south of Seoul, the fallen capital of republican Korea. Heavy fog and rugged terrain hampered the cautiously-advancing allies Friday. One tank - led spearhead pushed to undisclosed points north of Anyang, eight mi les south of Seoul. Becker said the Chinese manag ed attacks at two points. One was 10 miles northwest of Suwon, the orher about eight miles north of Suwon. In one attack, the reds gained a small hill occupied by Turkish troops the last two days. The attack then shifted to the east and was broken up by U. S. troops, the Eighth army said. Under Red Fire The allied positions eight miles north of Suwon were under red mortar, machine gun and small arms fire from dusk until dawn. Showing signs of life after two nights -of comparative quiet, the Chinese tried to mount small counterattacks at several points, Becker reported. But allied 105 and 155 millimeter howitzers smashed the concentrations before the reds could get their attacks under way. The announced purpose of the allied push In the west is to drive the enemy from all his positions south of the Han river, which flows through Seoul. "Unusually large numbers' of enemy vehicles were on the move throughout North Korea Friday night, U.S. Fifth air force pilots reported. The traffic, they report ed, was abnormally heavy along the east coast. Most of the traffic was headed south. Winter Holds G East rip on By the Associated Press Millions of Americans shivered Friday under a frigid wave that smashed long-standing cold rec ords in some areas. Sharp cold punished most of the nation but the hardest blows land ed on the midwest and Kentucky. The 35 below zero at Greens burg was the lowest ever official ly recorded in Indiana. It was two degrees under the previous . bot tom, a -33 reached at La Fayette In 1887. The extreme cold forced some natural gas companies to cut down the flow of gas to big industrial customers. Some factories closed. The number of weather deaths during the week deaths from exposure, motor vehicle accidents and related causes, rose to 169. Florida took its turn at winter's whipping post. Snow fell on Gaineville and Jacksonville Fri day. The thermometer sank to 19 above zero at Tallahassee Friday morning. . TURKEY ADDS TROOPS ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 2 Turkey decided tonight to send an additional 600 troops to rein force its brigade fighting with United Nations forces in Korea. PLJEVEN TS CANADA OTTAWA,' Feb. 2-F-PremIer Rene Pleven of France arrived here today on a brief official visit. He came here from a. similar visit with President Truman in Wash ington. Learn to Spell! 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However, their own ears were so alert that the clicking of a light switch within the house was heard by them and they immediately raised their heads and ears and remained perfect ly still for some time. Their beautiful winter coats were quite an improvement over the appearance of the deer seen last falL Truman Asks Quick Action On Tax Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (JP) President Truman called today for a quick $10,000,000,000 tax In crease and alerted congress fox still another increase later this year. His program aroused Instant and sharp republican criticism.. Mr. Truman recommended these immediate addition to the tax load: Individual r..$4,000,000,00 Corporations 3,000,000,000 Excise 3,000,000,000 These increases, if adopted, would raise the total federal tax take to an estimated $64,200,000, 000. The largest amount of taxes collected in any one year thus far was $43,000,000,000 In wartime 1943. Rep. Reed Opposes Although some democratic law makers endorsed the Truman pro gram as sensible and necessary, Rep. Reed of New York, the sen ior republican member of the house ways and means committee, declared: "I strongly oppose consideration by the congress of additional taxes for this administration to squan der until the congressional appro priations committees have cut the fat out of the president's budget." That budget tentatively calls for spending $71,600,000,000 in the next fiscal year beginning July 1. It admittedly is subject to change, depending on the swiftness with which the country can start turn ing out the vast quantities of mili tary supplies and equipment need ed to build up the defenses of the United States and its allies. Another Boost Seen Thus it appeared that the next Jax boosting request will call for a very substantial amount per haps $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000. 000 to achieve the president's aim of a pay-as-you-go prepared ness program. In his special message, Mr. Tru man presented little more than the bare girders of the new tax structure he proposed. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder is to fill in the details when the ways and means committee starts hearings Monday. The president said the personal income tax is and should remain "the mainstay of our federal tax system." He declared small tax payers, as well as big, must shoul der an increase, because the bulk of the personal dncome ; in this country is received by persons in the $2,000-$ 10,000 brackets. By Ister F. Com -" Staff Writer, The Statesman The Oregon senate temporarily reprieved the ' State civil service act governing state employes Fri day, but Indicated the law is in for some drastic changes this session. After three hours of hot debate and legal maneuvering, the sen ators sent back to its labor and Industries committee Sen. Thomas R, Mahoney's proposal to kill the entire civil service law. The re ferral vote was carried by a 16 to IS majority. :.v; Mahoney called for outright ap peal of the civil service law, con tending it is unnecessary, expens ive, is not wanted by some depart ment heads and la making- it diffi cult for state departments to hire competent help, ' Sen. Phil Hitchcock, Klamath Falls, chairman of the senate labor Seonate Kepiroeves W; at if tllits jDacfc 1 1 f I; t 1 hou Charges J.S. Ir TOKYO, Saturd! j Feb. 3-(ff)-Communist China's f Premier said today the "United uates govern ment and its accqfSplices" want war and have "blc'jjced the path to a peaceful settler nt In Korea." Chou En Lai's Element came in a Peiping radio j-oadcast giv ing Red China's fi official re action to the United nations reso lution branding his untry an ag gressor in me ttjoriin war. ine broadcast was monit;-ed in Tokyo. The No. 2 ' man 3 Communist China declared hisegime "will absolutely pay no j&ention" to a U. N. "good! offic committee proposed in the tesojption to help bring the conflict tmbn end. Hits U. N. Action ff . The premier, whf$. also is the foreign minister, sate the resolu tion "in a most nakeXj way proves to the peace-loving people of the world that the Unite! States gov ernment and its accomplices want not peace but war i&d that they have blocked the path to a peace ful settlement." Chou declared the general as sembly's action had encroached on the power of the U. N. fsecurity council. He said the assembly "blatant ly" adopted the U. S. resolution "slandering China without the participation of the lawful repre sentatives of the Peoples (Com munist) Republic of China." Charges Coercion He asserted the U. N. acted "under the domination and coer cion of the United States govern ment." Communist China has sought the U. N. representation held by Nationalist China. The broadcast was made this morning after two postponements of what had been heralded as an "important announcement." It was monitored in Tokyo. Suprei me LiOiirt Ruling Sought On Prep Frats PORTLAND, Feb. 2 -PV- The supreme court will be asked to rule on the validity of Oregon's law banning high school fraterni ties Parents of students, who were plaintiffs - in an unsuccessful suit to prevent the Portland school dis trict from enforcing its rule against inter-school memberships in social organizations, said today they will appeal a rulling handed down by Circuit Judge Charles Combs last November. The attorney for the parents. C. O. Fenlason, said "the purpose of the appeal. Is to permit a social group of high school children com posed of inter-school membership to meet in the homes of parents after school hours. The attorney for the school board. Grant Anderson said "if the plaintiffs are not satisfied with this (Judg? Combs') decision, the logical step is to appeal to the supreme court." tfi;ic v7c?';f;tQQ 1 Max. 49 49. SS Mia. 31 2S aa -is Precip. .5 .00 . .oo Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago 14 30 New York 23 J00 Willamette River S.l feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy with showers today and tonight. High today near SO and low tonight near 3S. , - . I A JEM PKECIPTr ATION Sle Start mt Weather Teat Sept. t This Year Last Year . Normal 37.4S . asa 30M and Industries - committee - which recommended defeat of the repeal measure, said civil service should be continued, even though the law needs some minor change ' to strengthen tt v-, - . - ' ' ; Under Oregon's civil service law, the commission conducts pre employment tests for employes, hires employes for . all state de partments, classifies employes and conducts further tests to . deter mine whether employes should be promoted. It also conducts hear ings when employes are fired to determine - whether or not they should be reinstated. - Mahoney described - the civil service act as "an Octopus forced on us six years ago by the legis lature." '"---- - V .V "I knew my bin to repeal civil service would never - pass," Lla honey .continued, "but I had hop Preimerl February's, 1951 38tli Parallel Red Voice - f Chou En Lai, Red China premier, 4wha today accused the United States of "blocking the path ta a peaceful settlement In Korea." America Asked By Gpn. Ike -To Take Leadl By John bT Owen WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -(fl5)-General Dwlght D. Elsenhower to night called on Americans to "seize the lead" In building across Eur ope "a wall of security for the free world behind which free In stitutions can live." "That wall," he said, "must be maintained : until communist Im perialism dies of its own inherent evils." i'.,: It will take troops "transfer to Europe of American military units Is essential" but In saying so the supreme commander of the North Atlantic i defense forces sought to de-emphasize this con troversial subject. Materials Chief Need "Our major and special contri bution should be in the field of munitions and equipment," he de clared: It Is Europe's "most Im mediate need" for building thelr armies. j "The Europe nations must, of course", produce and maintain the great bulk of the land forces nec essary to their defense," ha added. Reporting to the nation on his survey of the defense potential of America's North Atlantic treaty allies, the general declared that the war-ravaged continent is not left spiritually bankrupt; the treaty pledging 12 nations to mut ual partnership against commun ism "has notlcably lifted morale, the fundamental element in this whole situation." - Psychological Effect In this connection,' Eisenhower advocated earlier in the day on Capitol Hill that American military units be seat soon to Europe for their psychological effect In launching the vast defense pro gram, j - j- In his address, broadcast to the nation, Eisenhower took direct issue with arguments advanced by former President Herbert Hoover and others that the United'States should concentrate on defending the western hemisphere, r the At lantic and Pacific oceans and Im portant Islands. Hoover has said that Europe! should build its own barrier against Russian aggres sion. I SLATES U. S. TRIP ROME, Feb. 2-P)-Premier Al cide De Gasperi will meet Presi dent Truman in the United States before the end of February. The premier's trip to America will be made after his meeting with Pre mier: Rene Pleven of France, which is scheduled! for February 12 and 13 on the Italian Riviera. ed It would bring the . evils of civQ service to the attention, of the legislature and the public." Mahoney charged that civil ser vice is "making drones out of hon est - individuals working for the state. Labor Is privately backing my repeal bfll and hope I win." Hitchcock refuted Mahoney's arguments, saying most state de partment heads do not advocate repeal of civil service and declar ed that any inefficiency among state department employes should be blamed on state officials and not the employes or civil service. "A large portion . of state em ployes are Just as honest as their department ! heads," . Hitchcock told the senate. "The little guy on the bottom today is suffering be cause of the mistakes ot the man oa top." r t Ho. 814 at jyybeJl U.N. Standing Firm on Terms t J - Of Cease LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. , 2 -W-Arobassador Ernest A. Gross, dep uty United States delegate to the United Nations, said tonight there ' has-been no new decision to stop the United Nations armies at the 38th parallel.-He said the United Nations command is standing firm . on its terms for a' cease fire laid down to a U. N. ; cease-fire group in" December. M Gross commented to newsmen on reports from Washington that a decision had been made-there to halt the U. N. armies at the 38th parallel in order to create air at mosphere for peaceful settlement. It was the first definite statement from any. source: since the report was received last night here and produced a furore at U. N. , Gains Some Support ' i The comment : was taken in in- . formed circles here- to mean that the unified . command still baa authority to do what it considers best in fighting ; aggression in , Korea.. ! ". - .Some U. N. delegates unofficial ly expressed their support! for tho idea, and it was known ; tonight they still favor temporary -halt somewhere in mid-Korea. ?! The Americans here pointed to the terms of the cease-fire as stat ed to the cease-fire group bv Gros and Lt Gen. Willis D. Critten berger, representing the : unified command. The second paragraph of these terms; known to hava been drawn up by U. S. ioint chiefs of staff, stated that there shall be established a demilitar ized area across Korea of approx imately 20 miles . in depth with the southern limits following gen erally the line of the 38th parallel. Terms Unchanged . This still stands as the minimum condition the unified command would accept in any cease-fire ar rangement, the Americans: said. It was emphasized that s the stand on the terms has not chang ed but that the 'military situation has. When the terms were issued to the cease-fire group, the U. N forces were being pushed back by the Chinese Communists. Now tha : U. N. forces are advancing against . the Chinese Communists and there -1s a possibility they may reach the 38th parallel eventually. V The U. N. has set up a good of-t flees -committee i to '' try to work out some end of the fighting and a settlement It! was considered significant herei that the unified command still stands on its- term laid down In Pecember as tha rock-bottom, terms it can . accept in the coming negotiations.! Report Start Talk . As the U. N. buzzed with the re ports from Washington, the Re public of Korea's foreign minister said a decision to stop at the parallel would be a betrayal of thousands of U. N. soldiers and; Korean civilians killed in the war. The. Republic i of Korea official, CoL Ben C. Limb, told a reporter he would aek more information in Washington I Immediately and would certainly state his opposi tion there in consultation with Washington officials. ; ' . , k ' Weatherman Caught, , 4 Short by Cold Snap EVANSVILLE, Ind Feb. 2-(T-Stanley Rampy, Evansville's wea ther man yesterday predicted the temperature would drop to 5 be low, zero last night. Later he, re vised it to 8 to 10 below. : Today, his car froze up and the coal stoker at his house broke) down. The mercury dipped to an all-time record -23 at the Evans vilie airport, j : OPS SETS NEW ROCKS.. PORTLAND, Feb. -(VDiree-tor Carl C. lionaugh announced tpday .the Portland district office of price stabilization will be open on Saturdays from. 8:30 a. m. ta 12:30 p. m. Sen. Rex Fills, Pendleton, said he opposes civil service ' because vit denies common tense to state departments through a sal nine ex aminations." He criticized the ewr amination which requires secre taries to know arithmetic and said only recent high school or collere graduates can pass Oregon civil service examinations. Ellis i author of another bill on civil service' which would re move most of the law's teeth by giving department heads the conv plete say over hiring and firinjt employes. - , -A" '- .Hitchcock said he would not agree to any amendments to the civil ' service law which woul J gve department heads the rift) ' hire whom they plea.-, tV -1 the authority frc ta c.J tii lee commi. ,,ra. , . , .... c- - PRICE 5c