Child, 7,
Under
Dies at
CHEHALIS, Wash. (JP)
ned beneath a small drawbridge
today, cried pitifully that he
help could reach him.
The youngster, William Siefner, had been playing with an
other little boy and girl in the lumber yard.
PLP
Homos
rum ana
Attorney General Thornton found
an answer to the conundrum fac
ing the state board of higher edu
cation in the recent decision of
the Supreme Court in the Dental
school case. The board had gone
on the theory that the Dental
school was a part of the University
of Oregon; and that if it were not,
it was a new "institution" which
would require a vote of the people
for validation outside of Marion
county. The Supreme Court inter
preted the statute accepting the
Dental school as making it an
autonomous unit of the state sys
tem of higher education. Thorn
ton took the next step and said
if the Dental school is a "depart
ment" of the state system of
higher education, along with the
University, State College, Colleges
of Education, it is not an "institu
tion" within the meaning of the
constitution.
Now friends of Portland State
college take one step more and
say that this opens the way for
the state board to make Portland
State a degree-granting "depart
ment. There again the previous
view was that a vote of the people
would be required. ' This in
terpretation makes it possible for
the state board to set up autono
mous "departments" of higher ed
ucation wherever it wants to and
gets the money for them. Whether
all thi sis inherent in the Supreme
Court decision would
(Continued on page 4.)
85-Year-Old
Tivins Meet
Distant Cousin
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.
Two 85-year-old twin sisters met
their distinguished distant cousin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, for the first
time Sunday.
Mrs. Julia Link Wine of Mt. Syd
ney. Va., where the President's
mother was born, and Mrs. Martha
Link Quick of Staunton, Va.. were
presented to the President when he
stopped here to place a wreath on
the grave of Mary Ball Washing
ton, the first President's mother.
What did they chat about with
Mr. Eisenhower?
"I really don't remember what
he said," said Mrs. Quick. I was
just so scared."
The Link twins went to school
with the president's mother. Mrs.
Ida Stover Eisenhower. Mrs. Eis
enhower died shortly after the
close of World War II.
Car Crashes,
Kills Soldier
KELSO, Wash. W A soldier
from Arkansas was killed early
Sunday when a car skidded over
a 100-foot embankment on the Pa
cific Highway near here. Police
identified the victim as Sgt. Rob
ert M. Moss, 26. Forest City,
Ark., stationed at Fort Lewis,
Wash
The driver. Pvt. Jesse T. Belew,
20, Lexington. Ala., escaped in
jury. They were returning to Fort
Lewis when the accident happened.
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
At Salem 4. Trl-City 3
At Spokane 3-5. Edmonton 2-3
At Lewiston 13-8. Calgary 18-7
At Yakima -3. Wenatchee l-
COAST LEAGUE
At Los Angeles 2-4. Portland 4-8
At Oakland 11-S. Seattle 5-10
At San Diego 6-2. Hollywood 12-3
At Sacramento 2-2. San Francisco
4-1 (2nd game 10 inn.)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Baltimore 2. Cleveland 1 (10
inn.)
At Chicago 2-0. Detroit 3-0 (2nd
game called 10th. darkness)
At New York 1-1. Philadelphia 4-1
(2nd called th. darkness)
At Boston-Washington, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Philadelphia 1. Brooklyn 3
At Milwaukee 3, Chicago 5
At Pittsburgh 1. New York 5
At Cincinnat 7-6. St. Louis 10-5
ANIMAL CRACKERS
V WARIICN BOODRICH
"You'd think 9od winter.
rttt would mako him fool bet-
TV.
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Pinned
Bridge,
Chehalis
A 7-year-old Chehalis boy was pin
in a freak lumberyard accident
"couldn t breathe, and died before
His companions, upset and con-
fused over the tragedy, could not
tell exactly what happened. They
said the Siefner boy apparently
stepped on a loose plank at the
entrance t a shed and fell through
the floor. Then somehow the me
chanism lowering the drawbridge
was tripped, and one end dropped
on their playmate.
He cied out once that he "could
n't breathe," and then became
quiet.
The other two children ran to
a nearby house for help. Firemen
were summoned, but by the time
they arrived the Siefner boy was
dead.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Siefner, Chehalis.
Radio Reports
Blaze Until
Station Out
NEW WESTMINSTER. B.C.UR
A radio announcer and his control
engineer stood by in a burning
building here Sunday, broadcasting
a running account of the $1,000,000
blaze until they were burned off
the air.
Destroyed in the fire, one of the
worst ever to hit this Fraser Val
ley city of 33,000 was the five
story Swan Wright Building con
taining eight firms and radio sta
tion CKNW.
First estimates of damage were
set at $750,000, but were later re
vised upwards.
"We kept broadcasting until the
flames ate through our main
wires and the fire chief ordered
us out of the building," said Bill
Duncan, chief control operator at
the station.
He and announced Sid Lancaster
were alone in the station when the
blaze broke out. Lancaster turned
in the alarm.
Only injury reported was to Fire
Captain Gordon Hardman, taken
to hospital suffering from smoke
poisoning.
Employes of one of the finance
companies saved files which held
records of more than $1,500,000 in
accounts owed the firm.
Crashed Duo
Still Stranded
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (if Res
cue planes were balked again by
bad weather Sunday morning from
reaching a pilot and his wife who
have been stranded high on Mt.
McKinley since last Thursday.
Thick clouds and fog cut visi
bility to zero as two small Army
reconnaissance planes tried vain
ly to spot the marooned couple,
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Collins.
Another rescue attempt was
to be made later in the day.
Collins' light plane cracked up
later in the day.
Collins' light plane cracked up in
trying to land Thursday at about
the 8.500-foot level of the moun
tain. He and his wife were attempt
ing to fly in food and other sup
plies to five mountain climbers.
They were uninjured in the land
ing, but were not believe dto have
been able to rendezvous with the
climbing party.
Good Will Built
By Demos Said
Disintegrated
WASHINGTON I Sen. Mag
nuson (D.-Wash.) said Sunday that
20 years of international good will
built up by the Democrats had
disintegrated in the past two
weeks.
He made this apparent reference
to Secretary of State Dulles' ne
gotiations at the Geneva Far East
peace conference during a Dumont
TV debate on Meet your Congress.
Youth Confesses to Killing of
88-Year-Old Bremerton Widow
BREMERTON. Wash. W) A
young Navy shipyard worker con
fessed Sunday, Bremerton police
said, to the barbarous slaying of
an elderly widow Friday evening
in a berserk assault with his fists
and a knife.
Police Chief Charles Lewis said
the confession was contained in a
statement signed by 22 year - old
LeRoy N. Alter.
Alter, who came here about a
year ago, was quoted by Lewis
as saying he "went crazy" and
had no reason for the attack on
Mrs. Pauline K. Dahl, 82. Robbery
had been considered earlier a sa
possible motive after nearly $300
was. found pinned inside Mrs.
Dahl's blood-sodden clothing.
Tw Were Neighbor
The two were neighbors. The eld
erly woman lived in a small rented
bouse on the same property where
Alter had his apartment.
Lewis said Alter related in bis
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Both Big Toes Held as Celebrities Visit
it
With a Arm hold on each big (and uninjured) toe, James Morrow, aged 5, faced the celebrities
and the flash bulbs Sunday. Despite his afflictions, which he admitted were pretty much his
own fault, young James was a bright spot on the tour of Salem General Hospital's new pediatric
and obstetric wing. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray . Morrow of 577 N. 23rd St., he's waiting to
see whether he's going to get sympathy or chastisement from Sec. of Interior Douglas McKay
and Milton Meyers, chairman of the Hospital's board, for his tales of woe. James was admitted
Saturday for treatment of an ear, badly battered in a tangle with a bicycle. The fact that his
arm was in a cast was traced to a previous engagement in which he tumbled from the garage
roof. (Statesman Photo.)
New Hospital
Dedicated:
Principal Speaker
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT Jr.
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Symbol of pioneer spirit . . . symbol of consideration for the
fellowman . . . symbol of tolerance, understanding and harmony
. . . and symbol of Christian dedication to community welfare.
With these terms, and in the name of one of its pioneer phy
sicians, Salem and Marion County dedicated its new million dollar
Salem General Hospital Wing Sunday.
Atomic Pool
Plan Stalled
WASHINGTON OP U.S. Soviet
negotiations on President Eisen
hower's atomic - for - peace plan
were reported Sunday night to be
temporarily stalled on Russia's in
sistence on atomic disarmament
without inspection.
The Russians have been preach
ing an atomic ban for years
ever since America put forward
the "Baruch Plan" in 1946. But
they have never agreed with U.S.
contentions that any atomic pro
hibition must be properly policed
to see that there is no bootleg
production.
Officials close to negotiations on
Eisenhower's Dec. S proposal to
pool atomic know-bow and materi
als said "concrete proposals" put
forth by the United States last
March 19 have brought a Russian
response.
The Red reply, they said, was
given by Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov to Secretary of State
Dulles at the Geneva Far East
peace conference shortly before the
JJS. official returned home.
But the reply, it was reported
was the same old Russian line that
atomic weapons must be barred.
confession .that be had been drink
ing Friday after having five teeth
pulled. That evening he went to
Mrs. Dahl's door, grabbed and
chocked her when she answered,
then "sort of blanked out" and
found himself in his own room.
.About 15 minutes, later he re
turned to the Dahl house, "grabbed
her and beat her.' it seems like I
went crazy and I struck here with
a knife."
Makes Another Rwad
Then be made another round of
taverns and was picked up for
questioning the next day after
Mrs. Dahl's body was found in
the blood spattered house.
He finally broke after hours of
grilling, Lewis said. The bloody
clothing Alter wore the night of
the attack was found later at a
cleaning establishment where he
had left it
The patrolman who arrested Al
ter said the young man told him
he felt "mad at the world."
Tho
Wing
McKay
Even while it was being dedi-
cated in a brisk, but modulated
ceremony, the hospital was
carrying on the functions for
which it had been planned and
for which all the people con
tributed. Patients occupied its beds and
cribs, or received treatment in
its many new facilities. Mothers
and their newborn babies were
being cared for while others
awaited the hour for new babies
to be born.
Gives Principal Talk
Sec. Douglas McKay, home
a combination speaking and va
cationing jaunt from his Interior
Department duties in Washing
ton, gave the principal address.
He compared the spirit with
which citizens rallied to build
new hospitals with the spirit of
the pioneers who rallied to help
stricken neighbors in the early
days of the west
But Sec. McKay warned, "This
hospital wing is just a beginning.
There will be others to build in
the future, but they will be
easier because of this fine ex
ample." "When I went to Washington
I found the Interior Department
has some exterior things, too,"
McKay said. The department
administers and operates hos
pitals in various territories and
mandates, he related, "and I be
lieve the government would be
better off to contract for hos
pital service than to build its
own."
Family Doctor
The former Oregon governor
recalled that the late Dr. Willis
B. Morse became the McKay's
family doctor when they moved
to Salem in 1927. He also re
called that Morse, in whose name
the new wing was dedicated,
was active in a variety of civic
pursuits in addition to taking a
prominent role in founding Sa
lem's first hospital and nursing
it along the way. to the present
Salem General standard.
McKay shared speakers roles
with Gov. Paul L. Patterson ho
introduced him, Salem Mayor Al
fred Loucks, Milton Meyers,
bead of the Salem General Hos
pital board, Marion County Judge
Rex Hartley, Dr. Robert Heil
man, representing the Oregon
State Board of Health, and Dr.
Robert Wulf, representing the
medical staff of the hospital.
(Additional details on Page S,
Sec. 1.)
Mother's Day Charm
CINCINNATI 11 Last Mother's
Day Mrs. Betty Albers of Cincin
nati gave birth to her first chad,
a girt.
The second child, a boy. came
Sunday. Mother's Day, 1954.
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Salem to Host
Educational
TVMeetToday
Salem will be host to a citi
zens conference on educational
television sponsored by the West
ern Interrtate Commission for
Higher Education.
The all-day session, called by
Gov. Paul L. Patterson, will be
held in the State House. Repre
sentatives from business, labor,
industry and education have
been invited to participate.
The session will open at 9 a.m.
with Kinescope recordings on
educational television shows pro
duced in other states. Governor
Patterson and Paul A. Walker,
former chairman of the Federal
Comunications Commission, will
speak later in the day.
The conference was called,
Governor Patterson said, t o
study the potential use of edu
cational television in Oregon. A
proposal that the state take ad
vantage of TV channels reserved
for non-commercial stations was
shelved by the 1953 Legislature.
Morning Glouds, "
Clearing Later
Forecast in Area
Clouds this morning with some
clearing this afternoon is fore
cast or the Salem area today, ac
cording to weathermen at McNary
Field. Similar weather is expected
Tuesday.
A trace of moisture fell in Sa
lem Sunday but continued dry wea
ther poses a possible threat to for
est lands. State Forester George
Spaur reported Sunday night Tim
ber areas are exceedingly dry but
no forest closurers have been re
ported, he added. A few logging
companies have shut down a few
times because of low humidity in
certain areas but this has not been
g'eneraL
No grave danger is seen unless
a prolonged east wind hits the
area, he explained.
CAR KILLS MAN
OREGON CITY (JB Joseph
Scafati, a 58-year-oJd farm worker,
was fatally injured when hit by a
car as he walked along a highway
north of here Sunday night.
Max. Mia. Precip.
Salem
Portland
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51
43
S2
4
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Baker
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69
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North Bend
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San Francisco
Chicago
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-64
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49
J09
New York
-S3
Willamette River 0.4 feet.
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem):
. Night and morning cloudiness with
mostly sunny afternoons both today
and Tuesday. High today near sa ana
low tonight near 42.
Temperature at 12:41 a.m. today
was S3.
SALEM PUCIPITATION
This Year Last Year Nermal
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3 Dead
In Crash
Of Plane
OAKRIDGE. Ore. UPt Three
persons were reported killed Sun
day in a plane crash in the Cas
cade Mountains east of here. A
badly burned man, Wallace Asker
of Drain, stumbled out to Highway
58 about 20 miles east of here,
and reported the crash. Asker said
he thought the three aboard were
dead.
He was taken to Sacred Heart
Hospital in Eugene for treatment
of his burns and shoulder fracture.
State Patrolman Gene Hulitt
said Asker told him when he left
the plane wreckage it was a ball
of fire. He said his companions
were his brother, Bernar Asker.
and the brother's wife, Joy, and
Orville Mattoon, who had bought
the Stinson plane only Saturday.
All were believed to be from
Drain.
Asker said they had taken off
from Sutherlin on a flight to Lake-
view when the plane crashed.
Hulitt said he didn't know what
caused the crash, but he under
stood clouds were hanging low in
the mountains.
Police immediately organized a
ground search party and started
for the wreckage.
Fighting Starts
At De Gaulle's
Visit in Paris
PARIS (Jl A number of civil
ians and 11 police were injured
in a fight that broke out on the
Champs Elysees Sunday after Gen.
Charles de Gaulle paid a ceremon
ial visit to the tomb of France's
unknown soldier at the Arch of
Triumph.
About 15,000 spectators were
gathered around .the big circular
plaza in the center of which is the
arch and the tomb. s
The area was swarming with an
almost equal number of police
ordered out in expectation that a
population, tense about the loss of
Dien Bien Phu in Indochina, might
pick the time for a demonstration.
It was sometime after De Gaulle
left that a crowd of about 400
broke through the Barrier at the
Place Franklin D. Roosevelt, half
way between the Arch and The
Place de la Concorde.
Police blocked them and a fight
followed, with police clubs swing
ing...
One group of demonstrators,
among them a few paratroopers
who had had service in Indochina,
led a march toward the Arch shout
ing "De Gaulle au Pouvoir," (De
Gaulle to power). Their paratroop
er leaders stopped them at the
archway where the flame burns
near the tomb, and the crowd broke
It was later that the fighting
broke out half way down the two-mile-long
Champs Elysees.
Man Convinced of
Town's itonesty
DULUTH, Mlnii. LP) No one
will ever persuade Arvo Pere, 63,
that Duluth isn't an honest town.
Pere fell to the sidewalk Satur
day night and for a time lay un
conscious. Passersby discovered
him and called a hospital, where
attendants found more than $5,000
in Pere's pockets.
Politics on Parade . . .
m
Who's Running for What in May Primaries!
(Sditer's note: Stories In The Ore
eon Statesman's exclusive Political
Parade series arc written ky or for
the candidates on Invitation of this
newspaper and opinions expressed
therein may or may not he in ac
cordance with Tho Statesman's own
poUey.
Today's subject:
ROBERT WHITE
Candidate fr
MAYOR OF SALEM
Never has Salem had greater
need for leadership that inspires
confidence . . . that gets people
to plan and work together . . .
that has the vis
ion, ability and
political courage
to get things
done.
Bob White of
fers that kind of
leadership
leadershin that
Mean give you
land your family
Ja better future
Kofcert wait , to Salem.
You may never again have op
portunities in Salem as great as
those in these next years ahead.
We have the momentum of growth
into a metropolitan city. New
stores ... new business and in-
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Stateiman News Service
LEBANON A 13-year-old Sweet Home boy was fatally injured
Sunday afternoon when he plunged over a 100-foot cliff jn a remote
and rugged area near House Rock Camp about 42 miles east of
Lebanon on Highway 20.
He was identified by state police as Robert Hurse, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hurse of Sweet Home. The boy was on a picnic
Party Seeks
Youth Hurt
In Cascades
EVERETT lift A volunteer
party of 15 men led by two deputy
sheriffs headed into a craggy,
timbered area in the Cascades Sun
day to bring out a youth seriously
injured in a fall from a tree.
The youth is Ronald Funk. 20, of
Pinehurst, who was hurt Sunday
morning while on a hike with two
companions. Roy Benson, 19. one
of the hikers brought out word that
Funk apparently suffered a broken
leg and a back injury.
The accident occurred near King
Lake, about 9 miles northwest of
Granite Falls and about 25 miles
from Everett.
Time Estimated
The rescue party headed by Dep
uty Sheriffs Ole Strand and Ed
Hedlund left for the scene about
3 p.m. and estimated it would take
about three hours to reach the in
jured youth.
Because of the rugged character
of the country, it was doubtful
whether the party would try to
come back at night. Officers said
that with the youth on a stretcher
it would take seven to nine hours
to make the return trip.
Carries Sedatives
The party carried sedatives and
other medication. Benson told au
thorities that Funk's lower leg was
heavily swollen and almost surely
broken, that he believed the youth
had also suffered a back injury
and ti.at be was in agony. He
said Funk had climbed part way
up the tree when he fell, landing
on his back with a leg twisted
under him.
Officers said the possibility of a
rescue by helicopter had been con
sidered but ruled out because the
country was too rough to permit a
landing. There was no contact by
radio with the ground rescue party.
Daughter of
Walt Disney
Takes Mate
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. J
Diane Disney, 20, daughter of film
producer Walt Disney, was mar
ried Sunday to Ron Miller, 21, for
mer USC football star.
The quiet ceremony, lacking all
the traditional Hollywood fanfare,
was performed in All Saints-By-
The-Sea Episcopal Church at near
by Monteciti. Dr. George Johnson
Hall, the rector, read the service.
Miss Disney was given in mar
riage by her father. The groom
was attended by his brother. John
Miller Jr., as besf man. Guests
consisted chiefly of members of
the two families.
Father's Day?
rATT.A; T.Tai tmt A Dallas
mother received this telegram from
her son, a university student:
"HaDDV Mother's Day. May you
have many more of them. Dad, I
could use $25.
dustry . .. . are paving the way
for new jobs and new opportunities
for everyone.
To attain the maximum of these
opportunities we need to lighten
our tax load by requiring that new
areas annexed to the city supply
the major share of their own wa
ter and sower lines for connection;
build another water intake from
the Turner reservoir; coordinate
city, school district and county tax
planning and fix a long-range pri
ority on large-scale imporvements
to eliminate duplicating heavy tax
loads in one period; and get ev
ery element of the community and
area back of the program for more
jobs through industrial develop
ment Bob White was appointed to the
city council in 1950 and has served
as president for the past two
years. He is" past president of the
Planning and Zoning Commission;
member of the Airport Advisory
Commission; member of the Joint
Salem-County Airport Zoning
Commission; past president of Ki
wanls Club: president of Oregon
Feed and Seed Dealers Associa
tion; and legislative chairman of
Pacific Seedmen's Association.
(Tomorrow: S. Eageae Allei).
No. 44
Fatal to ily
in the area and apparently be
came lost and plunged over the
cliff, police said. ,
Linn County sheriff's deputies
joined with state pplice and for
est rangers in the search for the
missing youth. : Professional
mountain climbers iwere rushed
to the site to aid ih the search
and possible rescue.lthe Associat
ed Press reported. .
The body was discovered short
ly after 7 o'clock '-according to
George Miller, sheriff of Linn
County, but at that' time it was
unknown whether the boy was
unconscious or dead.
The rescue party i reached the
body shortly before midnight
Sunday, state police-said, and re
ported the lad apparently died
almost instantly. Rescuers used
ropes and block and tackle to
reach the spot where he fell
'Joe Must Go'
Club Founder
Subpoenaed
SAUK CITY, Wise.: - LeRoy
Gore, founder of the Joe Must Go
movement aimed at bringing about
the recall of Sen. McCarthy R.
Wis.) said Sunday night he and
the club s treasurer had been
subpoenaed to appear at a Sauk
County John Doe investigation this
Wednesday.
Gore, editor of a weekly news
paper here, said Dist. Atty. Har
lan Kelley informed him only that
the subpoena was in connection
with possible violation of the state's
Corrupt Practices. Act. The treas
urer is Carl Lachmund. also of
Sauk City.
Gore said there was no indica
tion of what the specific charge
was. The corrupt practices act cov
ers a wide field of political activi
ty. 'Attempt to Delay'
"I just don't know what to sus
pect," Gore said. He called the ac
tion an "attempt to delay, an at
tempt to tie hp the officers of the
"Joe Must Go Club.
At Baraboo. Kelley refused to
confirm that Gore had been subp
oenaed, saying only that he never
discloses names of persons called
for John Doe hearings,
Saturday Sauk County Judee Hen
ry J. Bohn reported he had denied
a petition by Roman A. Reuter.
Sauk City, for a special investiga
tion of the Joe Must Go eroun.
Said to Violate Act
Reuter, head of a club opposing
Gore, said the Joe Must Go Club
violated the corrupt practices act
in circulating petitions.
Judge Bohn held that no Dart of
the law was violated because there
is no election, there are no candi
dates and consequently no campign
committee involved in activities of
the Joe Must Go Club.
The judge said the section of the
statutes cited by counsel for Reut
er deals only with elections, candi
dates and campaign committees.
Jordan Says
Israeli Band
AttacksVillage
JERUSALEM m A high Jord
an official charged Sunday a band
of 90 Israelis attacked the Jordan
village of Illin, in the Hebron area.
and fired on an investigating U.N.
earn after two Israeli soldiers were
killed.
He said Jordan national guards
men and Arab legion troopers re
pulsed the attack in which an Is
raeli officer and an Israeli private
were left dead.
The official. Dr. Yousef Haikal,
senior Jordan delegate to the
mixed armistice commission,
asked for an emergency meeting
of the commission Monday to study
two complaint Haikal has lodged
with it. :
Haikal also said v a Jordanian
farmer was , kidnaped by Israelis
and shot dead near Zaboa village,
in Jordns northern sector. Dur-
iig a clash that followed, national
guerds arrested an Israeli who
had penetrated more i than 200
yards inside Jordan territory in a
jeep, Haikal said.
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