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U.N. Lists PW's Freed ByC ommies FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea Ufl The United Nations Command re leased the following official list of American prisoners repatriated Tuesday: Pfc. Wilber M. WarriM, Phila delphia. Pvt Louis Kerkstra, Byron Cen ter. Mich. CpL Willie J. Patrick. Hillman, Ark. CpL Harry E. Purvis, York, S.C. SgL Edward G. Anderson, Ala bama City. Ala. Pfc Paul O. Blanton, Brodhead. -Pfc John M. Jankovits, Phila delphia, l - CpL OrviDe R- Mullins. Covins ton. Ky. Sat. William H. White. Greene- Ville. Tenn. Pfc Joe T. Heath, Murfreesboro, Tenn. Pvt George W. Gray, Ogden, Utah. . CpL Pedro A. Herrera, La Ma dera, N. M. M-Sgt Albert L. Howard, Nash ille, Tenn. - Pvt. William G. Moreland, At lanta. Ga. Sfc Walter H. Mitchell, Greene- tille, Tenn. Pfc Earl M. Wiseman, Ronce- terte. W. Va. Pfc Lionel E. Peterson, Black- liver Falls, Wise. Pvt. Juan Osorio-Melendez, Ca tano, Puerto Rico. Pfc Eddie P. ZidaL San Anton io. Tex. 'Pvt. Alexander C. Luther, Toms Creek. Va, Pvt. Joseph Picerno, Jamaica, New York. Pvt Roger Herndon, Jackson ville. Fla. Pfc. Arthur G. Gregory, Mount Vernon, 111. Pvt Juan Rivera-Ortiz, Guaay- nulla, Puerto Rico. Pvt Lester R. Todd, Alliance, Nebr. Pfc Nicholas Jiminez Osorio, Loiza, Aldea, Puerto Rico. Pvt Robert W. Fleming, Mem his, Tenn. Pfc. James L. Ball, BeUburn, W. Va. , Pvt Robert L. Dunn Jr., Musko gee, Okla. Pvt John B. Martin, Tule Lake, Calif. i Pfc John S. Poloch, Detroit. Mich. Pfc Tibor Rubin, Long Beach, Calif. Pfc. Fon Mitchell, Roderfield, w. va. Pvt Jose M. Garcia, Los Angel es, Calif. USS Missouri Arrives Home LONG BEACH. Calif. If) The USS Missouri, with a new skipper at the helm abd 2,300 cheering men aboard, steamed into port Monday after a second 'Korean tour. The 8,000 - ton battleship, en roete to her home port of Norfolk, Va., after six months combat duty, was brought back to U. S. waters by Capt. Robert Brodie Jr., of Chevy Chase, Md. Brodie succeeded Capt Warner Edsall, who died of a heart attack March 26 as the Mo completed her final bombardment of the Ko rean coast. I k II ,4 Combat deaths in Korea average 0,400 a Year. U.S. Auto deaths during Korean War Period average 37,050 a year. Ice Arena Closed Due to Fire Hazard PORTLAND W The Portland Ice Arena, site of the Portland Home Show, was ordered closed at midnight Monday because of what City Commissioner Stanley Earl said was a fire hazard. The show, which opened Satur day, was scheduled to run eight more days. Monday night the show ran on schedule but an extra engine com pany and a double shift of fire men were ordered to be on hand for the performance. Harry Shipstad, arena manager, said work would begin immediat ely to correct electric wiring. Averill Aids Duck Victory EUGENE UH Catcher Earl Averill drove in two runs as Ore gon defeated Washington State 3-1 in the opening game of a North ern Division baseball series here Monday. Oregon counted two runs in the first inning. George Shaw singled and went to third when Don Sieg mund , rapped a s i n h 1 e. Shaw scored as Averill grounded out to third, and Siegmund came home on an error. The Ducks' final score came in the third inning. Jim Livesay. who hit two for four, got a scratch single. Shaw walked, - but was thrown out at second. Siegmund went to second on an error. Live say scored on. Averill's single to center field. a- McCoys Buy State Hotel The State Hetel at 479 State St changed hands Monday. Mr. and Mrs. David McCoy, formerly of Milton Freewater, Umatilla County, are the new owners of the business, but not the build ing itself. McCoy bought the 15-room hot el from Mrs. W. R. Hubka. The new owner said he had plans to refinish the interior in the near future. $200,000 Dial Phone System Now Serving Silverton Area By LDJLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman SILVERTON One chapter was closed and another opened in the 48-year history of the Interurban Telephone Co. at Silverton last week end as three generations of 'the Brown family watched Lowell E. Brown Sr., with an ordinary tin snip, set a $200,000 im provement into use. (Picture on page one). For a split second both the old central and the new dial sys tems were in use, and at no time. not even for the split second, was Silverton without telephone serv ice. The big event for the family- owned business was witnessed by approximately 30 employes and friends of the Browns, invited in to view the brilliant lighting of the boards as the 550 wires were cut Among the watchers were Mrs. P. L. Brown, mother of Brown; his brother, Delmar and rister, Mrs. Earle Stephens, both of Portland, and two of his sons, Lowell Jr., and Norman. The third son, Larry, a student at Oregon State CdUege was unable to be present Begun by Grandfather Silverton' first telephone sys tem was started by Percy L. Brown, father of Lowell Brown Sr. in 1905. His widow is now business manager and secretary. and his elder son, president and physical plant manager. The first telephone switch boards were built in the fall of 1904 with farmers around Silver ton putting up poles and wires for their farmer -owned lines. Now only one of the lines served by the Interurban company is still farmer-owned. This is the Victor Point line, which has put in its own dial phones. In 1922, Percy Brown erected the present brick building at 106 W. Main St It lies, as does much of Silverton, on the land donation claim of his pioneer father and mother, James and Ludnda Da vis Brown. Brown continued to operate the telephone company until his death in the fall of 1933. Lowell was graduated from Oregon State College the spring of 1933, and a year later returned to Silverton to take his fathers place in a telephone company in which he bad never been employee The third generation has now entered the company in Lowell E. Brown -Jr., just returned from the Army. In 1935, when the present man agement was set up, there were 700 telephone subscribers, while Saturday night when the cutover was made, there were 1,700. How ever, where there have been 25 employes, there are now but 10, two of these in the office and the others the regulars in the upkeep division. The 15 operators are no longer needed. At the cutover party Saturday night the large office desk was cleared and centered with a beau tifully arranged bouquet of Dutch iris, tulips and magnolias from Mrs. Percy Brown's garden, and here she presided at the coffee urn. Assisting were her daughter, Mrs. Stephens, her daughters-in-law, Mrs. Lowell Brown and Mrs. Delmar Brown., A little later, when "we are fully settled," Mrs. Brown said, there Will be an open house for the public. YOU CANT WIN PALO ALTO, Calif. (A Easy come and there she goes. Night watchman Dale G. Adams told police two gunmen tied him up and stole $760 he had won at the race track. SURGICAL SUPPORTS Of all kinds. Trasses, Abdominal Supports, . Ebutie Hosiery Expert Fitter PrrraU Fitting-Keoms.-, "Ask Yen Dector" Capital Drug Store 405 State St Corner of Liberty . 8 and H Green Stamps ' - f SHELL)) FUEL j OIL Dial L 3-3132 "Our Reputation Is Your Security LARHER Transfer & Storage B39 N. Liberty Thousands Wait for Word Of Freed GIV By The Associated Press In thousands of American living rooms Monday night the homefolk waited. Eagerly they watched television screens and listened to radios waiting to hear the name of a loved one. They were the families of more than 7,000 Americans captured and held prisoner by the Communists in almost three years of fighting in Korea. For most of the tense and hope ful there was disappointment They could only hope and pray and wait 'wait for another day. Only 35 wounded and sick prisoners were returned Monday night, and 30 Sunday night. But in a few homes there were ecstatic shouts and happy tears. The electrifying news had comet "Our boy! He is safe." In the home of a Covington, Ky., widow there was a typically Amer ican celebration. A son, Sgt. Or ville R. Mullins, 36, had come out Video Dealers r lie-Elect MitcHell - Lew ! Mitchell was re-elected president of the Television Deal ers of Salem at a dinner meeting at the Bright Spot Monday. ; Jim Warnock was chosen vice president: David Blackmer, secre tary, and Mrs. Glenna Baker, treasurer. , ,!;-;f'JJ :i- Named to the board of direc tors were Fred Mattieu. Pat Ry an and Paul Brandon, Earl Heid- er was named program director for the next meeting. Alberta Gas SaleOkehed v EDMONTON. Alia. (I) Imper ial Oil Ltd. has been granted per mission to sell natural gas from several leases in the Peace River district for export outside the .pro vince, the Alberta Gazette - said Monday. ! i The government has -authorized an agreement through which Im perial Oil will sell gas to West coast Transmission Co., Ltd., for export to the Pacific Coast. West coast is at present applying to the U.S. Federal Power Commission for permission to move gas into the Northwest. ; MOTORIST ARRESTED A Portland motorist, Martin X Fossard, 57, was arrested by state police .Monday -. night at North Jefferson Junction on a charge of driving while Intoxi cated. He was held in Marion County jail in lieu of $300 baiL Dulles Insists - . t j . - - . - , ice to P Come WASHINGTON (It-Secretary of Slate 'Dulles said Monday the ad ministration wants to negotiate with - the Communists as soon as possible on the unification of Ko- rea-p-bst not before an armistice is . reached. ,. . He ruled out. In effect, a propos al by Sen. Tatt of Ohio, majority leader in the Senate, that before agreeing to a cease-fire the ad ministration should make every ef fort to get a settlement of such Far Eastern problems as the Red warfare in Indochina and Malaya. American commitments , to, the United Nations Dulles told a news conference, require that the armi stice talks precede any effort to settle ;' political issues in Asia Cease-fire negotiations are, sched uled to be resumed Saturday. The Statesman, Sclem, Ore, Tuesday April 21, IS53 3 TRANSPORT ARRIVES ' """ I SAN FRANCISCO w-The Navy transport Gen. William H. Gordon arrived Monday -bringing 2Q2 Army, Navy and Marine Corps fighting men home from Korea. of 20 months Imprisonment . and would be coming home. He was in the second group of 100 sick and wounded Allied war prisoners to be exchanged. : OrvOle's brother, Jeff, 30, gave his youthfuTlmpreision of the Mul lins family's reactions to the good news: "Everyone went slightly nuts. That went for the three children and the mother, Mrs. Pearl Mul lins, as welL Pcrdval Jcncs By Denkln Bros. . "Can you teach us why more people buy their space heat era at the PROPANlf GAS APPLIANCE CO. than at any other place? Gat Appliances Arm The Best- HIT Fertfawi XA. w 3-5MI ;- Of about 10ft different elements known to modern scientists, only nine copper, tin, gold, silver, iron, . lead, sulphur, mercury and carbon were known to men rho lived before the year one. 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