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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943
ON STREETS 5e NEWS STANDS 5e
NO. 113
FLEEING CRIMEA P
EMMS
M Bombers Batfer Leipzig-
inks Blast Factory Center
LOpw, n the ei hth time this month, smashed
L Germans sew rf Ruhrs
L- the Dig t4v r- -
ELiit industries have moved.
JMrA time this week while other bombers ranged
the tniru w p-i-v. .
Undespreaa . bombers, the
Iiminum-Clay
jjecf 4gon
xedbyWPB
..... nr was elven
rune county luminum
L with the .pproval Thurs-
r . li.llM llASMf
4 the ww pruuv..
-.traction of an aluminum'
KlW demonstration plant
nhere in the northwest.
i, jbout-face ot the board 3,
l previously ordered discon
i .ii oluminum-from-clay
cto in the country, came after
sen of congress from Oregon,
nton and Idaho, headed by
,n'j Representative Angell,
sted the action.
!a was gathered to convince
ward that ample labor was
kble in the nortnwesi to con
f init operate such a plant at
lariouj places being consid
er the site.
n and his committee pro
to the board that the sup-
of bauxite from which alum
is now made would be ex-
:ti in this country in less
three years and the nation
i be entirely dependent upon
ra supplies.
e objection of the war pro
m board to the construction
ich a plant had been based
alleged manpower shortages
It northwest and an over
ly of existing aluminum, The
I of the board now assures
oture of the aluminum Indus
lor the Pacific northwest,
11 raid in commenting upon
PPB approval.
proval for the aluminum
means that Oregon has won
M round, the battle now be-
to have the plant located at
oi the Oregon sites. Repre
live Harris Ellsworth has ex
ad confidence that the alum-
toy deposits at Hobart Butte
Cottage Grove are among the
la the northwest It is also
the largest deposits.
rl McNutt, president of the
he chamber of commirp n
tag of the WPB approval of
illot plant construction said
was a thing of great merit
fce whole northwest and the
I rap was to see that it was
kgically located. "W .hnu
thank our representatives
AMMTMJM CLAY STORY
ta Seize Two
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cases of whiskey
? Fu8h freight truck
J from California were
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Air
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same number as in the last big
raid on Hannover Monday. Eight
bombers were lost in yesterday's
raid by Flying Fortresses on the.
metal plants at Dueren. These
losses indicated the nazi destruc
tion ot 60 Fortresses over
Schweinfurt a week ago may have
been only a break ot luck for the
German defenders.
The big attack on Leipzig, un-
bombed since the sixth raid ot the
war November 23, 1940, came
while the Germans, in sharp con
trast, sent a tiny force of bomb
ers over England to give London
its fifth successive night alert and
kill six persons with a handful of
scattered bombs
Leipzig, Germany's sixth indus
trial city, is situated in the middle
of the country, 100 miles south
west of Berlin and almost on the
Czechoslovak border.
Leipzig has one of the world's
largest railroad treminals on lines
linking it with other important
industrial centers like Berlin,
Regensburg and Kassel, also re
cently blasted by Britain-based
allied bombers.
It was the first big attack of the
war on the city and represented a
round-trip lUght of more than
1000 miles for the raiders.
with a population of more than
700,000, the city manufactures air
planes, munitions, chemicals, tex
tiles, rubber products and ma
chinery.
The American daylight assault
on Dueren and the collateral
bombing of Gilze-Rijen airbase in
Holland which led the Leipzig at-
lacic yesterday in a round-the-
clock double blow . at Germany,
brought out the largest escort of
American fighters ever put up
and was supplemented by RAF
Spitfires. ' ,
The powerful guard took the
starch out of the Germans' de
fensive atacks, returning fliers
said in an enthusiastic report of
the results ot the bombing.
-
Brown Resigns
As OPA Chief
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. r
President Roosevelt accepted to
day the resignation of Prentiss M.
Brown as price administrator.
Brown turned in his resignation
in a six-page letter dated last
Tuesday, in which he said he
thought the price control program
was well defined in laws and in
presidential orders and the main
task now Is one of administration.
The president is expected to
send to the senate soon the nom
ination of Chester Bowles, general
manager of the office of price ad'
ministration, to succeed Brown.
Bowles prior to becoming gen
eral manager of OPA was the
agency's director for Connecticut.
Brown, former senator from
Michigan who was defeated for
re-election, took over the reins of
OPA from Leon Henderson less
than a year ago.
. . .
City Manager Plan
Found Besf-Etter
The manager plan leads the
trend towards administrative cen
tralization which has been going
on for generations, Orval Etter,
bureau of municipal research, toll
the League of Wpmen Voters in
meeting Thursday afternoon in
discussing forms of city government
Particular Interest centered In
the meeting and program in view
or the appointment of a commit
tee from the city council by Mayor
tusna Large to study city man
ager plans for a report later to the
council. On this committee are
Councilmen A. . C. Farrington,
Louis Koppe, and Calvin C rum
baker. Etter quoted how authorities on
government rank city government
plan's, this tabulation listing the
manager plan as best, followed by
the strong-mayor plan in second
place, the commission plan in third
place, the decentralized or weak
mayor plan, fourth.
He pointed out that the manager
plan has succeeded elsewhere than
in city government in business
corporations, In schools, in colleges
and universities, in the Eugene
Utility system as a local illustra
tion, in institutional admins tra
tion, and in state and federal
bureaus and agencies.
"By a number of tests the man
ager plan is best, even if It is not
SEE CITY MANAGER 8TOEY
PAGE
.
FLAYS ARMY CONTRACTING OFFICERS Presenting a long
list of Items, such aa false teeth, liquor and Juke boxes, Lindsay
Warren, U. S. comptroller general, told the house military committee
In Washington that army contracting officers had allowed hundreds
of erroneous contractors' claims. He blamed practice of contracting
officers "wining and dining" with contractors for making them more
liberal in some cases.
War Contract Padding Charge
Stoutly Denied by Patterson
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (AP) Undersecretary of War
Robert P. Patterson stoutly denied at a house military com
mittee hearing today that war department contracting offi
cers are "inept and inefficient" and are "dishing out the prop
erty and money of the United States with reckless abandon."
His statement was in reply to charges on these counts
made by Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren, who testi
fied in opposition to proposed legislation giving the war de
partment final authority to negotiate settlements of termin
ated war contracts. I :
Patterson said with respect to
the Warren testimony:
"l ma committee ana tne nation j
Outnumbered Yanks Taunt
Timid Japs Into Air Disaster
HEADQUARTERS, South Paific Forces, Oct 20. (U.B Marine
fighter pilots, "bored with the recent docility of Japanese airmen,"
taunted 40 Zeros into a fight over Kahili airdrome on Bougainville
island October 17 and shot down 14 enemy planes without loss to
themselves, it was announced today.
Mai. Gregory Boyington, 30, Okanogan, Wash., accounted for
three Zeros to bring his total bag to 19 and make him one ot the rank'
ing aces of the South Pacific.
A dispatch from the front said
marines circled Kahili until tne
Japanese accepted the challenge
and came up with two-to-one
odds over the 21 American planes.
The enemy failed to knock down
a single allied plane.
Meanwhile Australian , troops,
veterans of the north African
By Vnlted Presa - ; v
A new Aawrlcan bomblnt at-,
tack on the Gilbert islands waa
reported today by Tokyo radio,
which has predicted an all
out United States attempt to
clean up the Japanese Pacif lo
outpost system.
Tokyo's version said that six
bombers madV the assault and
were driven off before they
could Inflict damage. No de
tails of the attack We given
and there - waa no official
American announcement.
desert campaigns, have broken up
repeated counterattacks in 'the
Japanese drive to recapture their
fallen base at Flnschhafen, it was
disclosed today.
A spokesman at Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters said
more than 200 enemy dead have
been counted on the Huon penin
sula in northeastern New Guinea.
The Japanese drive was de
veloping from two directions. One
column, comprised of troops who
fled Finschhafen when the Aus
tralians captured the port on Oc
tober 12, and dug in at Satelber,
10 miles to the northwest was
striking eastward ' toward the
coast. A second force had driven
across the Song river and was
attacking the main allied defenses
at Katika, three miles north of
Finschhafen.
MacArthur's headquarters ac
knowledged that the Japanese at
Katika fcad made "some progress,"
and repsrted that 14 enemy
planes attempted to support their
troops with a raid on Finschhafen.
No damage was caused in that at
tack, it was stated.
Far to the northwest of Finsch
hafen, Australian and Japanese
patrols were clashing along the
southern approaches to Madang,
the enemy coastal base overlook
ing the Dampier straits that sep
arate New Guinea and New
Britain.
Latest reports Indicated the
Australians mav have reached a
point within 10 miles of Madang
after killing 72. Japanese in a
series of minor actions between
October 12 and 17. ,
Moscow Urges
Second Front
MOSCOW.vOct. 21. (U.B The
foreign ministers of thr United
States, Britain and Russia held
their third session today against a
background ot renewed appeals
in the soviet' press for a second
front and post-war recognition of
Russia's 1941 boundaries.
Though1 secrecy surrounded the
conferences, two versions of their
work spread among Anglo-American
circles here with the truth
probably lying somewhere - mid
way between them. These two
versions are: .
1. The three foreign ministers
'merely contemplate the fullest
possible exenange 01 views pre
paratory to a definitive meeting
among President Roosevelt Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Marshal Stalin.
2. The conference is standing on
its own feet and is authorized to
adopt certain political and eco
nomic decisions.
U. S. Secretary of State Hull,
British Foreign Secretary Eden
and Soviet Foreign Commissar
Molotov were revealed to have
submitted separate agendas for
discussion with the understanding
that no subject would be taboo.
Renewed emphasis in the con
trolled Russian press on the urg
ency of opening a second front
and the inviolability of Russia's
'1941 boundaries including half
of pre-1939 Poland, the Baltic
States of Lithuania, Latvia and
Estonia and Rumania's Bessarabia
gave a possible clue to the top
ics submitted by Molotov.
CASHIER PLEADS GUILTY
GOLDENDALE, Wash., Oct. 21.
(U.P) C. N. Kuttner, cashier for
the Seattle, Portland and Spokane
railroad, today faced a sentence of
15 years in the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla after he pleaded
guilty to charges of embezzling
$4137 In funds of the railroad.
Subsidy Dispute
Renewal Looms
WASHINGTON, Oct 21, W
Prospective full-dress renewal of
the dispute oeiween tne buiumiio
tmtinn and the congressional farm
bloc over general government use
of subsidies to Keep aown 100a
prices today awaited delivery of
a presidential message on the
subject to capitol hill.
There were indications, how
ever, that the message might be
further delayed for several days,
pending a review of its contents
by the agencies concerned.
Whether the subsidy issue is to
be joined again may depend large
ly on the tone and contents of the
message. However, President
Roosevelt is expected to ask con
gress to give to the war food ad
ministration a signal to proceed
with the genera: use of food sub
sidies, at producer, processor,
wholesale and retail level.
department waste and mishandling
bf public funds. Unanswered,
these charges might shake the con
fidence of the people in the integ
rity and ability of the officers
who are charged with supplying
our armed forces. The facts are
the best answers to these charges."
Majority Approved
He .then stated that Warren's
general accounting office had ap
proved 99.95 per cent ot the vouch
ers submitted to it by the war de
partment for audit, in the four
months ending with August, 1943.
"But the record is even better
than these figures would indicate,
he added. "The majority of sus
pensions by the general account
ing office are merely temporary,
until further supporting docu
ments are submitted, and do not
involve any real question as to the
propriety of the.paymant." '
Aside from items called to its
attention by the war department
disallowances by the general ac
counting office have currently to
talled less than 10 cents per $1000
of expenditures under war depart
ment contracts, Patterson told the
committee.
He asserted that 90 per cent of
the money amount of cases sub
mitted to the committee by the
comotroller general represented
either items subsequently allowed
by him, or items brought to light
hv th war deDartment itself in its
regular audit ; nA-.procesi'.i of
SEE WAR
CONTRACT
PAGE 8 V
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STORY
New Polio Cases Are
Listed;. McCloskey
Issues Statement
Nine new cases of infantile par
alysis, four of them from neigh
boring counties, were reported to
the Lane county health depart
ment during the week ending Oc
tober 21, Dr. C. R. Llndgren, coun
ty health officer, announced
Thursday, as Dr. John McCloskey,
critic Of the polio handling, issued
a statement of his position.
The five Lane county cases in
cluded two from Eugene, one from
Junction City, one from Spring
field. The others included two
from Douglas county, one from
Linn county, one from Benton
county.
Attendance at Edison school
continued to show some increase,
despite a campaign carried on by
a minority of the parents to get
others to keep their children out
of school and avoid possible con
tacting of pollomyelils.
Attendance at other schools was
listed as "normal" (meaning that
only a normal number of absences
were registered) or showed defin
ite improvement according to the
city schools office. '
At first of the week, approxi
mately half of the pupils at Edi
son were absent, result of the tele
phone campaign carried on the
past week-end by some parents in
World Peace
Plan Approved
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2100
The senate foreign relations com
mittee approved without change
today the Conally resolution
pledging the United States to
join with tree and sovereign na
tions in the , maintenance of
world peace.
Senator Shipstead (R-Mlnn),
who came out of a closed meet
ing, said the resolution was adopt
ed after proposals by a group of
senators to "strengthen and clarl.
fy" its wording had been re
jected.
As previously approved by
subcommittee, the resolution
reads as follows: .-
"Resolved by the senate of the
United States:
"That the war against all our
enemies be waged until com
plete victory is achieved;
"That the United States co
operate with its comrades-inarms
in securing a just and hon
orable peace;
"That the United States, act
ing through its constitutional
processes, Join with free and sov
ereign nations in the establish
ment and maintenance ot inter
national authority with power to
prevent aggression and to preserve
the peace of the world."
Senator" Clark (D-Mo) .. said
-the resolution-was approved by a
20 to 3 vote, after an amendment
by Senator Pepper (D-Fla) in be
half ot those seeking stronger
commitments, was defeated, 16
to 5. Another similar amend
ment offered by Senator Wagner
(D-NY) also was . rejected.
Majority Leader Barkley -a
nounced immediately that the
senate would begin debate on
the historic resolution Monday.
No Boys, No Whiskers;
No Whiskers, Then No
Whiskerino Dance
' There will be no sophomore
Whiskerino dance at Univer
sity of Oregon this year.
. You guessed it. The gals can't
grow whiskers. '
And the soldier students are
. under army regulations against
chin fuzz.
So there will be a Harvest
Moon dance instead, according
to Marilyn Holden, McMinn
ville, dance committee chair
man.
In previous years sophomore
boys stopped shaving several
weeks before the annual Whis
kerino dance, and carefully
nursed their beards, for a pur
pose. The bushiest chin at the
dance earned a prize, presented
during intermission.
The sissies who shaved were
dunked in the millrace.
Another wartime casualty ot
the annual affair is one,' "Joe
College," Betty Coed, chosen
as "typical sophomore girl," will
preside at the dance as sched
uled, but there are no Joe Col
leges around. So the class will
select a "GI Joe" from the army
students.
;New Italy Drive
By Allies Looms
SEE
NEW POLIO STORY
PAGE S
Hitler Being Brushed Aside
By War Lords, Parley Hints
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Associated Press War Analyst
It looks as though the Prussian
military clique has a foot in Hit
ler's stirrup, if indeed the high
command isn't already In the all
highest's jaddle.
This column some time ago sug
gested that the Prussian war lords
were likely to take' over control
when the military situation reach
ed a point where they saw little
or no chance for victory. I said
they would maneuver for a peace
which would enable them to sal
vage all they could from the
wreckage of Hitler's dream of
world domination.
We already' have passed the
point where Germany's defeat be
came certain. Now the official
German news agency (DNB) re
ports the holding of a conference
which was attended by ranking
officers of the high command,
many commanding officers, and
by "leading personalities ot the
state and party." And that con
ference was called not by the
fuehrer but by Field Marshal
General Wllhelm Keltel, chief of
the high command and essence of
Prussian militarism.
European observers said the
conference appeared to be trying
to shore up civilian morale and
devise means of meeting the mili
tary crisis. Hitler made a speech
after the conference, but what
he said wasn't disclosed.
At about the time this meeting
was being held, Swedish news
paper correspondents were re
porting and their dispatches
were passed by the German cen
sor that the Reich was seeing its
blackest days of the war thus far
because of the major break by
the reds through the nazi line in
Russia. The correspondent of the
Stockholm Aftonbladet said If the
soviet forces can follow up this
success, the "Germans realize it
can't meant anything but a catas
trophe that would put Stalingrad
in a shadow."
Over in London meantime south
McIIary Spurs
Economy Pledge
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.
Senate Minority Leader McNary
(R.-Ore.) voiced opposition today
to an increase in individual or
corporation income taxes "until
after congress stops the adminiS'
tration's profligate waste of public
funds." His action was followed
by a report that the administration
will try to cut expenditures.
McNary told a reporter he did
not believe there will be any new
tax bill this year, adding that some
economies in expenditures should
be made to cut the gap between
the government's outgo and in'
come.
Similarly Senator Vandenberg
(R.-Mich.), of the finance commit
tee, said he thought it much more
important at this time to preserve
the national economy than to sad
die an additional tax burden on
citizens.
Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of
the house ways and means com
mittee said he had been given as
surances that the administration
"will make eveVy effort to locate
and eradicate all unnecessary ex
penditures" in the government.
The statement was interpreted
at the capitol as 0 move to save
proposed new tax legislation from
defeat.
The announcement followed the
first ways and means meeting be
hind closed doors to consider tax
plans on which the committee
completed public hearings yesterday.
The chairman did not say from
whom the assurances were re
ceived, but said they pledged that
"everything reasonable" looking
toward economies would be done,
and that they came after he had
been "urging, questioning and de
manding with them."
"They have assured me they
will make every effort to locate
and eradicate all unnecessary ex
penditures," he said.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Oct. 21 (U.B Lt Gen.
Mark W. Clark massed his fifth
army on the Voltumo plain today
for a frontal assault on the new
German defense line . guarding
Rome, and - the British eighth
army pushed, two miles through
the rugged mountains of central
Italy in a bid to roll up the ene
my flank.
As a possible indication - of
things to come, the official Ger-
LONDON, Oct , 21 (U.B
German soldier are deserting
by the detent and selling their
pistols, rifles and uniforms to
Polish patriots, Josef Klondow
skl, a frail Polish Jew who ar
rived from Warsaw after five
months on' an underground
trail, tald today.
He waa the first Jew to es
cape from the Warsaw ghetto
and reach London. Hit wife
and five-year-old daughter still
are tome where in Poland.
man DNB news agency reported
there were signs -that the allies
were planning an assault by air
and sea on Rome soon. It said
air-borne 1 troops were concen
trated behind the. front and ship
ping activity oft the coast of
Italy had Increased.
As the eighth army stabbed
through the towns of Oratino and
Busso on the approaches to Iser
nia, key junction above the upper
end of the German line, the left
wing of the fifth army moved up
to make contact with the nazis
before Massico ridge on the coast
The northwest African air
force threw big fleets of bombers
and fighters into Its most wide
spread assault of recent . days.
Flying Fortresses, Liberators,
Mitchells, night bombers and as
sault planes pounded the German
defenses behind the front and
again visited the Balkans to
bomb the Nis rail junction in
southeastern Yugoslavia.
The main weight of the aerial
onslaught hit the rail and high
way transport lines throughout
the battle zone and northward
beyond Rome,
After days of steady gains
against stiff opposition, the fifth
and eighth armies generally con
fined their operations to patrol-
ing and moving up men and
supplies for the impending attack
on the German line.
ULfii
Reds Smashing !
Ahead in Drive
To Circle Foe .
LONDON, Oct. 21. (AP)
The German armies in thB
Crimea have begun a mass
withdrawal from, the penin
sula via the Perekop land
bridge, Moscow advices indi
cated today, to escape entrap
ment by a powerful Russian
advance threatening their line
of retreat. .
Battling furiously to stem
the steady progress of the red
army troops pouring through
the Kremenchug bridgehead
west of the Dnieper river, the
German command was said to
be throwing all available re
serves into the breach.
' But the soviet drive, hourly in
creasing in momentum, smashed
further to the west through the
Ukrainian steppe country to over
lap tne Crimea on the north, a
Russian communique disclosed.
A secondary army column was
racing south toward Krivoi Rog,
Important rail junction and center
ot the south Russian Iron indus
try, and today was reported to be
within 35 miles of that key Ger
man stronghold guarding the last
escape railway route from the
Crimea. . .
More than 1500 nazis were slain
in this advance, the Russian com
munique declared.
Face Encirclement '
Capture of Krlvol Rog would
virtually seal oft, the tens ot
thousands ot Germans huddled in
Dnepropetrovsk and in the
Dnieper bend above Melitopol,
where the Russians were reported
to Be methodically cleaning out
last-ditch nazi units who have
been stubbornly holding out tot
mora than a week. Some ot the
bloodiest fighting of the war was
going on inside the city, with the
red army .spearheads inching
slowly forward at bayonet point
front dispatches laid.
Nasls Counterattack .
North ot Kiev and. south - ei
Rechitsa, the Moscow war bulle
tin said, the Germans were fall
ing back, before determined red
army thrusts across the Dnieper.
The natlt were counterattacking
in the Kiev area, perhaps to cover
reported preparations to evacu
ate the Ukrainian capital, but
these assaults were all beaten
back, the soviet communique
stated.
With the collapse of the entire
German Una based on the
Dnieper river now possible, the
next natural barrier to the west
is along the Bug river, 100 miles
southwest of Krlvol Rog at lt
nearest point, where the nazis are
said to have installed an elabor
ate "defense in depth" to pro
tect the Bessarablan frontier.
SEE HITLER BEING STORY
PACK
Douglas Fir Wage
Hearing Opened
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct.
The long-awaited attempt to
set up industry-wide wage scales
in Douglas fir logging was under
way here today.
The west coast lumber commis
sion opened hearings on the pro
posal, supported by AFL and CIO
unions and opposed by employers
on the grounds that the industry
is too complicated for standardization.
Springfield Flyer
On Exchange Ship
ABOARD THE HOSPITAL
SHIP ATLANTIS AT GOETTE
BORG, Sweden, Oct. 21 WO
Staff Sgt August E. Tornow of
Springfield, Ore., tail gunner In
a Flying Fortress which was shot
down oft Lorient, France, March
t, was among 13 wounded Amer
icans who boarded this vessel yes
terday for the voyage home in the
war's first exchange of disabled
military prisoners between the al
lies and Germany.
Tornow said their Fortress
plunged into the ocean 60 miles
offshore killing two of the crew.
The others climbed Into a rubber
life boat, which had been punc
tured by bullets.
"A couple of the boys not
wounded kept the dingy afloat by
constant pumping," he said. "Af
ter 10 hours a German boat found
us. We landed at Brest I spent
four months In a hospital 35 miles
from- Munich for treatment ot
hip wound."
War In Brief -
By United Pres '
ITALY British eighth arms
captures towns commanding Is
ernla road In threat to turn flank
of new German line; General
Clark's fifth army forces move
ahead through difficult country;
allied planet shatter rail lines and
knock out bridges north of Rome;
Germans predict air-sea . assault
on Italian capital.
JUGOSLAVIA Partisans smash
German counterattacks and take
offensive in central Bosnia; heavy
fighting near Centinje.
RUSSIA Red army advance
guards cover one-third of distance
across Dnieper river bulge mov
ing to cut off 1,000,000 German
troops; Russians within 27 mile
of Kriol Rog; heavy forces move
into position to last five miles Into
Kiev.
WESTERN EUROPE British
bombers attack Leipzig and make
fifth raid of month on Berlin; sev
enteen planes lost; American
bombing fleets lose eight in raid
on Duren.
PACIFIC Japanese report
American air raid on Gilberts;
Australians repulse repeated Jap
anese attempt to retake Finsch
hafen; 14 enemy planet shot down
In Solomons. '
Weather
U. S. WEATHER FORECASTS
Oregon Scattered showers today,
continued cool today and tonight
with heavy frost or freezing
temperature tonight, east ot the
Cascades.
LOCAL STATISTICS: MinN
mum temperature Thursday morn
ing, 47 degrees; maximum tem
perature, Wednesday, 59 degrees;
precipitation over Wednesday to
10:30 p. m., .37 ot an inch. .
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