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World's largest Jet Powcrcdflclicdpter -J
Tops Of f icial f Whirlybirds' Speed Record
Boy Admits
Gov. Williams
Bomb Scare
Sf VERN H At'GLAND (especially impressive because of
PHILADELPHIA I .Piaserki 1 tn i of the machine. It is
Helicopter Corp., gave the world's' Inner than the -tirt encine DCS
larsert Jet powered transport hell-1 'rtinef, and virtually the same
copter its first public demonstra-1 'M l" Convair airplane which
tion Tuesday and announced that ' body shape closely resembles,
the huce craft already has ex- iTet Pilot
reeded the official world's speed
record for helicopters.
Don R. Berlin, company presi
dent, announced that the 40-pas-ameer
YHlfiA "turbo transporter"
flew li miles an hour Doc. 1, 19
wiles an hour faster than the of
ficial record.
A Sikorsky XH.T9 helicopter set
the officinl mark of 1S6 miles an
hour at Dayton, 0., last year.
The YHlfiA has flown only 20
hours to date an average of two
hours a week for the last three
months. It also has been flown at
altitudes up to 12,000 feet.
First Demrantratloa
Berlin told 200 guests, invited to
the first air demonstration of the
machine, that it was paced on its
peed dash by an Airlorce air
plane equipped with accurate tim
ing equipment timing devices. In
Its demonstration Tuesday, the
YH16A hovered a few feet off the
ground, turned sideways, moved
from side-to-side and backward
and climbed at the steep rate. of
2,ooo feet a minute.
The accomplishment was
The machine was flown by Pia-
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LANSING, Mich. US-State police
said Tuesday a 14-year-old boy has
HmiHH mnkintf 1 Nov. 2S tele-
seek! test pilot Harold W. Peterson, chief of Army research and de-' pnone ct which touched off a
of Media, Pa., wifh George A. , velopment. Marine U. Gen. Chris- bomb tct Bt the home of Michi
Callahan -of Bridgewater Farms; tian F. Schilt, aviation director j an's Gov. G. Mennen Williams.
1'a.. as co-piloi. mere were no ana assistant commandant of the
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The onlookers included Army , deputy commander of the 18lh Air i
Lt. Gen, James Maurice Gavin, I hurce at Greenville, S.C.
2nd Murder "
Charge Faces'
Hatchet Killer
KfTAfT tt ijb .A twrtfirt mm.
der charge was being prepared Tuesday in a hospital. He w.v
Tuesday against Hatchet Killer admitted three days ago, suffering
Conklyn Meriwether after h I s , kidney ailment.
fPaiipa Joe'
Author Dies
In Colorado
BOULDER, Colo. tr-Charles J.
Scoggins, 67, widely known author,
PAMPHLETS HANDED OUT
NEW YORK W) Two Ntw
York City groups art distributes,
25.000 pamphlets explaining
what right.. a person has in the
event he is arrested. The organi.
zations ire the Bsr Association
and the Civil Liberties Union.
They plan to later prepare a
Spanish-language edition.
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father-in-law, 55-year-old Charles
Mills, died in a Miami 1
of multiple skull fractures.
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Murder Case
Investigation
Turned Down
SPRINGFIELD. III. un - Fed
eral authorities have turned down
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token into custody by state police . ,. ..' day Evening Post. Scoifgins"
detectives on the basis of a -tip Meriwether 17-year-oM former wa, cJlsjd,red to be "P
from another schoolboy who had , p''""" """""V' v"y "
heard the bomb threat discussed mu,c,kw''h ha,$het Nov- ,M
before H became public knowledge. ! Mi'I home at Tavcrnier in the
The boy's name was withheld . '
by state police pending the taking
of a formal statement at state
headquarters. - -
A-uttior "of many books and a
frequent contributor to the Satur-
best
as considered to oe rampa
Joe," a novel. It was published in
1M" and later made into a movie.
Scoggins was born March 17
1R83. at Matatlan. Sina Uia
Mexico, of American missionary
parents. .leflcrsnn Davis and Cath
erine Josephine Minerva Scogqins
He was graduated from high school
What about
Santa's Pack...
His crippled mother-in-law. Mrs.
Ellen Mills, 49, was hacked to
death as she sat in a chair in her
!..,. .ham Hill. .-J u:
, ' . . . . iiviiik i.nrill, mills niiu I1IB MVM,
State police liav maintained a Doi t ...... ......i. ..ji..
24-how guard over the governor's w. :- . .-..Jl at Denton. Te , and studied en
kAHA im.a l rm WiltiaiM raiuvlMI .... 9 nmn.rinn a I Jh
"""7 '"V : ,. skull fracture,
receiving a telephone call Nov. 26 ; ....
that a bomb had been placed in I Meriwether previously, had been
ih hum charged with first degree murder
in ine acain 01 nirs. Aims Tina
Mrs. Williams said she was told
the bomb was hidden in the house
and set to go off that afternoon.
She said sh was Informed the
bomb was hidden two days earlier
while the fami.y was out of the
city.
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PHILADFLPHIA The world's largest jet power transport helicopter, the 40-psssenger Piaserhi
YHKA, made its first public flight demonstration Tuesday. Known as the "Turbo Transporter,' the
it weighs snore thaa IS tens and has top speed of about I5 mph. BeiM nearly tt feet long, it is Devadas. said the Russians must
India Paper
Aims Rap at
Khrushchev
NEW DELHI - The Hindu
stan Times, often described as
Prime Minister Nehru's favorite
newspaper, Tuesday deplored Ni
kita Khrushchev's "intemperate
behavior" on his Asian tour with
Premier Bulganin.
The paper, which is edited hy
late Mohandas Gandhi's son
, with attempted murder in the at
tacks on Mills and the boy.
! Mrs. Meriwether, who told -of
ficers her husky husband was sub
ject to fits of violent rage, fled
from the Mills home w ith the Meri
wethers" three children when the
attack on her family started.
Meriwether, who once was on
the roster of the St. Louis Cardin
als but did all his playing in the i
minor leagues, went into hysterics I
at Marathon last Wednesday after j
his attorney had waived a pre
liminary hearing on the murder
charge. He is in jail at Key West.
ginecring . alvthe University
of Texas from lfos until IW7.
Before starting to write novels
and short stories around 1920. Scog
gins was an engineer nn clam and
railroad ".projects in Mexico nnd
Central America. Most of his
novels dealt witli Central American
countries. .
Surviing are his widow, ois
Durham Scoggins: a daughter,
Mrs. Nancy Siuller of Denver; a
sister. Mrs. Wlmiry Wilkins of
Dentbn, Tex., and two grand
children.
The body will be cremated.
'
NF.W CLAIM TO FAME
I NITED NATIONS - Afghan
istan has a new claim to fame.
Afghan Delegate Abdul Hakim
Tabihi told the General Assembly's
60-nalion social committee his
country produces the best opium in
the .world and asked for help in
gettirfrM listed as an exporter in
the legitimate drug trade. j
Woman Embezzler
Placed on Probation
PORTLAND tfi Mrs. Mar jorie
Y.. Ludy, 44. a former bookkeeper
at the Corvallis branch of the First
National Bank who pleaded, guilty
tn embezzlement of hank funds,
Monday was placed on probation
for three years.
She was accused of taking $M6
by changing customers' records
over a four-year period.
large enough U accommodate three Jeeps. (AP Wirephoto)
Louis Till case in Mississippi.
The Illinois governor Monday re
leased a letter from Atty. Gen.
Herbert Brownell Jr.. saying that
no federal offense was 'involved in
the case. .
Stratton said Brownell told him
the only basis for federal jurisdic
tion would have been if slate or
realize they are drawing criticism
j for "misusing their triumphal tour
for. Juatant -attacks' on ibe- West -The
newspaper also criticized
the "hysteria of some commenta
tors of the Rritish ant Amoriivin
unaer us lecnmcai assistance pro- preS8" in using "terms most un-
ROME f A score of nations I part will be provided by the gov
will join in 1956 and 1957 in a ernments contributing to the cam- gram, chiefly in coordinating and ! mmniim.niurv i inH,,
three-continent battle against lo- paign either in cash, supplies or ! supporting efforts of the invaded Th Hitnriai rnnfiiMrf uh on
by providing control teams. The e
include Bahrein, Egypt, France
Iran, Iraq. Jordan, Kuwait. Pakis
tan. Qatar. Saudi Arabia. Sundan,
custs, man's foe since Biblical
days.
For the first time in the centu-
iries-long fiht. aircraft will play
an important role. Delegates to the ' Syria, Turkey, the Cnited King
local officers had been Involved in! United Nations food and agricul-; dom, Yemen and the Arab league.
the crime or if Till had been ab-:ture organization conference, held j fAO will spend about $100,000
auciM ana taken across state lines, i nere recently, approved ana strong-
"All available information, how-j'y 'nursed the campaign.
ver. Indicated that those who per-TTne delegates authorized FAO
petraled the offense were private jCcneral Director Dr. P. V. tardon
persons and that the kidnaping 0' Lo2an- 1 '", 10 continue the
was conhned to the state of Muwis-!,"k""",,,u". t"'"1 "'.
iimi " Rrownell wrole Stratton 'nS international measures againM
"Kiirh hoinff the no thi ftrnarl. locusts
tnnt i. withfuit nnv ,ithnriiv in! In 19. an estimated l'i million
take investigative or any other dollar ' P'nt j? fr
action." paign against locusts. The greater
Stratton had requested the in
vestigation by the attorney fen-.C
eral after a Le Flore County. Miss , O
grand jury refused to indict two
white men on charges of kidnaping
the 14-year-old Chicago Negro boy.
Earlier the two men had been ac
quitted of murdering Till.
, countries in Asia, Atrica and Eu-Jappea to the Soviet leaders to
rope. Aircraft will be used in the!temper ,hfjr attacks and the West
; fight especially lor scouting and jt, reaction. It said the Russian
lor control of immature "hopper" i visit "is after all a goodwill mis-
I swarms in remote areas before jon which will have failed if it
llhey ran t?ke flight in ravaging , does not lead t0 an appreciable
invasions. 'lessening of world tensions."
Estate Sale
Property located ot northeast corner of 13th
and State Streets.
Make your offer to Pioneer Trust Co. or tee your
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Phone 3-3136
Next Christmas?
Plan now fur n even merrier
Chrijtmnin 1956... join U.S.
Nuionil'i Chrislmis Savings
Club. Sive just )0c s week . , ,
11.00 .. . $2.00 whatever
amount you with. Then ihe
entire amount JWf hltrttt will
be youri for prepaid Christ
Bias shopping pest year.
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CHRISTMAS RECIPES
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West Salem, University
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Crnai
MamVet F4nl Vrm bwrfiiw
One-Shot Plan
Studied for
Salk Vaccine
ons urave
Trips Urged
For Mothers
WASHINGTON National
Commander Timothy J. Murphy
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
has called on the. Deiense De
partment nd Congress to . ar
range Immediately for Cold Star
Mothers and widows of world
War II dead to visit the graves
of their sons and husbands over-
A special seas.
In a telegram to Secretary of
. WASHINGTON un
Committee of technical and medi
cal experts will consider Wednes-j Defense Wilson, Murphy laid the
day a proposal that children be' department and some members
given only one shot of Salk polio! of Congress "are. still evidencing
vaccine now so as to speed the' so intent to continue their dila-
protection of a single shot to as tory tactics" on long pending leg
many individuals as possible. ! islation to set up such a pilgrim
Surgeon General Leonard A.
Scheele of the Public Health Ser
vice named the special committee,
w hich will meet in closed sessions
here.
Dr. Scheele and Dr. Jonas Salk,
developer of the vaccine and a
age.
Murphy said this lack of action
is "utterly indefensible."
The VFW chief said he had
been informed "by those in re
sponsible positions" that the rea
son for the delay was that the
member of the special committee, ! cemeteries .overseas had not been
hinted at a meeting of the Ameri-, completed. On the basis of his
ran Public Health Association in recent tour of Europe he said
Kansas City last month that the! this is not so "I have seen the
recommended dosage might be , cemeteries with my own eyes and
changed to one shot temporarily jean say to you without qualifies
in order to spread the limited tion that they are in the best of
aupply of vaccine. condition."
The change would be based on Murphy said either officials
a finding that a single shot was are not really aware of the condi
7J to SO per cent efleclive last tion of the cemeteries "or, they
summer iq preventing paralytic are making a deliberate attempt
polio. - v j to prevent the Cold Star Mothers
The current dosage schedule 'and wives from visiting the
calls for two shots of one cubic; graves for financial reasons."
centimeter each at relatively close j The VFW told Wilson it was
up to his department to explain
the reason for the delay.
intervals, followed by a third 'boos
ter shot some months later.
That schedule still is regarded
as desirable, and any deviation
from it would be temporary until
vaccine supplies are adequate.
-Vreiglilcr Makes
Port Aflcr Attack
Scientist Trips
Sea Serpen I Hone
VENfCE, Calif. -Hopes of
! old! liners along this seacoast that
they had found a real sea serpent
j were blasted Tuesday by a acien
TOfcYO pieping radio said list.
W ednesday the 7-ton British I John Fltrh. Stale marine bioln
vFreighter Hydmloct reached Bed gist, Identified a l-foot "whatsit"
China's port of Foochow yesterday ! at a harmless basking shark.
after being attacked by National
ist planes.
The breadeast said - the Hydra
fairly rare In these waters.
He said Ihe basking shark swims
along th surfaee ef Ihe water and
lock was attacked three times by itrains small sea life through Its
Nationalist fighter planes Monday uln- . r .
.northwe't of the Paichuan White! The shark, weighing approxim
Doji Islands. They are in thc:le!r Pounds. hed ashore
Nationalist Matsu group, 100 miletMtfrfly-- ,-
northwest of Formosa. j .
Peiping said the ship was hit i lr
repeatedly but the broadcast made!lke Honorary
no mention of casualties. The Mat Member of Air Patrol
aus partly blockade the river port .
of Foochow.
GEICER COUNTERS SET
WASHINGTON ( - President
Eisenhower, the only -U. S. presi
dent to hold an airplane pilot's
GENOA, Italy (PI . Geifr;l,f'nr 1 uesaay became an Hon
counters are among the equip-;0", member of the Civil Air
' merit -of an Italian mountain P'rol. - -climbing
expedition assembling' "he certificate of membership
in South America to tackle un-,'" CAP'S Pennsylvania wing was
conquered peaks of the Chilean Presented by Cot. Philip F..Neu
' Andes and Tierrs Del Fuegn.
Geologist Arvedo Decima said
the Instruments .may prove use
ful in checking reports of urani
um la thoM area. 1 -
weuer or Aiientown, wing com
mander. It wi accepted for the
president by his air force aide and
personal pilot, Col, William C.
Draper.
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