Extreme Cold
Sets Records
In Midwest
Weather Blamed
For 60 Deaths
Bt tnllnt Pieti International
Another shock wave of cold
buffeted the nation Monday
breeding tornados in Georgia
and Alabama, road -jamming
snows in the north, and warn
ings for more snow and below
lero weather for the Midwest.
The icy weather was blamed
for more than 60 deaths across
the nation.
New low temperature records
were set throughout the frozen
Midwest while freezing tempera
tures endangered the multimil
lion dollar citrus and winter
vegetable crops in Texas' Rio
Grande Valley and Southern
California.
Thousands of dollars in dam
age to homes and farms was
left in the wake of a series of
tornadoes which danced over
South Georgia, Alabama and
northwest Florida Sunday., Sev
eral persons were injured but
there were no deaths.
Thruway Blocked
Heavy blowing and drifting
snow forced officials in Buffalo,
N. Y., to block 110 miles of the
state thruway in western New
York. Visibility dropped to zero
and scores of cars had to be
towed out of the area.
Below zero readings were
logged from Nebraska to Ohio,
including 41 degrees below at
Black River Falls, Wis., and 38
below at International Falls,
Minn. -
An 80-year-old temperature
record was equaled in Chicago
when the mercury dipped to 15
below, the lowest in the windy
city in three years. Springfield,
111. recorded 14 below, a new
record and the coldest reading
there in six years. Indianapolis,
Ind., had a record 8 below.
Ice Blocks River
Memphis, Term., shivered in
14 degree weather while El
Paso, Tex., registered a low of
18.
Ice jammed Cottonwood Creek
in Buena Vista, Colo., diverting
more than a foot of water into
a dozen homes. Volunteers and
city employes had worked all
day Sunday loosening blocked
ice and opening sluice-gates of a
dam in the town.
Extended temperatures in the
20s would deal a multimillion
dollar blow to plants in the Rio
Grande Valley Monday. Last
weekend's freeze ruined toma
toes, sweet peppers and dam
aged others crops. The valley
suffered an estimated $50 mil
lion loss last January.
The loss in Southern Califor
nia has been estimated in the
millions, and included 50 per
cent of some crops.
Dickie Enters
Innocent Plea
BOISE (UPD Theodore Thom
as Dickie pleaded innocent Mon
day to a charge of murdering
10-year-old Carolyn Rae Oldham
of Boise last fall.
Judge Merlin S. Young set
Feb. 4 as the date to set a trial
date for the 22-year-old Dickie.
Dickie also is charged in El
more County of knifing to death
Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, and her
2-year-old.son, Daniel, last April
10. Airman l.C. Gerald M. An
derson is being held by au
thorities at Mountain Home
AFB on that charge.
Dickie allegedly admitted rap
ing and strangling to death the
Oldham child the night follow
ing an escape from the Ada
County jail. He also has admit
ted he killed the Johnsons.
Anderson's attorney, Robert
McLaughlin, said he expects an
announcement soon that Ander
son will be freed by Air Force
authorities.
Six Children Killed
AUBONNE, Switzerland WV
Six children perished Saturday
when a building of the Lavigny
Home for Epileptics burned
down.
Two children managed to es
cape from the wooden structure.
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Harpo Marx
Addresses
Audience
PALM SPRINGS. Calif. Wl
For the second time in 46 years
Harpo Marx spoke to an audi
ence. What he said was to confirm
the announcement his comedy
associate had just tearfully
made: after more than 50 years
in show business, 74-year-old
Harpo is retiring.
It came about rather casually
Saturday night.
Harpo the ever-silent Marx
brother with the wild wig, harp,
capacious 'raincoat and honking
cane was dining with his wife.
Afterward he was to do a show
at the Pasadena Civic Audi
torium. "Mrs. Marx said, 'Why are
you doing this?" Harpo recalled
Sunday. "She said, "you've been
in the business a long time.
What are you trying to prove?
Why don't you quit?'
"I hesitated a second and said,
'Okay.' "
At the benefit, Harpo went
on-stage, played a harp and
clarinet and did a comedy rou
tine with a girl singer.
Then costar Allen Sherman,
the current favorite with his off
beat lyrics to folks songs, came
on and told of Harpo's retire
ment plans.
"He got emotional and start
ed crying so all of a sudden I
found myself talking," Harpo
said.
The audience of nearly 2,000
paid him tribute with a stand
ing ovation.
The only other time he ever
speke to an audience except
Saturday night, Harpo told a
reporter was in Toledo 15 or 20
years ago.
Before retiring he'll make
four scheduled benefit appear
ances in New York: Memphis,
Tenn.; Seattle, Wash., and Port
land, Ore.
Violinist Added
To CMA Series
Eugene Civic Music Assn.
members will get a "bonus" at
traction in this year's concert
series.
CMA President Arthur Bailey
announced Monday that the
CMA board has signed a con
tract for a seventh performer,
violinist Marilyn Dubow, who
will present a Sunday afternoon
recital on May 12.
The day is part of Mothers
Weekend on the University of
Oregon campus.
Bailey said Miss Dubow. from
New York City, is a "brilliant
young artist" who recently won
a Russian competition for vio
linists equivalent to the piano
competition which launched Van
Cliburn as a top concert star.
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Winds reached a velocity of 52 miles art hour in Jowa Sunday as
arctic air surged across the state dropping visibility to near zero at
times after a 14 below reading in Des Moines Saturday night. This
scene in downtown Des Moines shows some of the debris blown
about with swirling snow. Few people were out and churches were
closed as driving became hazardous.
Justice of Peace
Arraigned Monday
Springfield Justice of the
Peace Carl M. Lewis, 56, was
arraigned in Lane County Cir
cuit Court Monday morning on
three indictments charging him
with conversion of public funds.
Lewis, of Leaburg, will plead
Wednesday to the charges.
Lewis was arrested Friday
Springfield
Man Given
Prison Term
A Springfield man was sen
tenced to 18 months in the Ore
gon State Penitentiary Monday
following his pica of guilty last
December to a charge of negli
gent homicide.
Russell Irving 'Connolly, 29,
of 155 Nova St., Springfield,
was sentenced by Lane County
Circuit Judge Roland Rodman.
Connolly had pleaded guilty
to one count of an indictment
charging him with negligence
resulting in the deaths of' two
young women in an auto acci
dent Oct. 27 south of Goshen
on Highway 99.
Each count of the indictment
alleged the death of one girl,
and Connolly had originally
pleaded innocent to both counts.
He changed his plea on Dec. 5.
The indictment alleged Con
nolly was driving on the wrong
side of the road and was af
fected by intoxicating liquor at
the time of the mishap.
Killed were Mildred Ann
Eich, 20, and Sharon Anne
Kilian, 19, both former resi
dents of Springfield.
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night after the grand jury re
turned three secret indictments
against him. One indictment,
similar to a district attorney's
information on which Lewis was
first arrested last Monday, al
leges he converted about $1,425
of public funds to his own use
between June 30, 1961 and Dec.
31, 1962.
The other two indictments
charge conversion of specific
amounts, $40 on Jan. 14, 1963,
and $35 on Jan. 11, 1963. '.
Four other men were' "ar
raigned in circuit court Monday,
and two of them entered guilty
pleas: "
Ncal Bishop, 42, of Cot
tage Grove, waived indictment
and was arraigned on a charge
of obtaining money under false
pretenses. He v.'iU plead
Wednesday to a charge alleging
he passed a worthless check for
$25 in a Cottage Grove market
on Dec. 14.
Monte Cole Thor, 23, of
Stockton, Calif., entered a guil
ty plea to a charge of obtaining
money and property under false
pretenses. He was charged with
passing a worthless' $35 check
in Springfield on Nov. 3. A pre
sentence investigation was or
dered by Judge William Fort.
Frank Allen Drew, 21, of
Cottage Grove, pleaded guilty to
a charge of burglarizing the
Northgate service station in
Springfield on Dec. .31. A pre
sentence Investigation was or-
derded.
Kenneth Irving Vincent,
19. who gave a Eugene motel as
his address, was arraigned on a
secret indictment returned last
Friday charging him with know
ingly uttering and publishing a
forged check for $25 at Mar
cola market Oct. 10. He will
plead Wednesday.
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Dem Wants Hatfield
SALEM tfi House Speaker
Clarence Barton, D-Coquille,
said Monday that Republican
Gov. Mark Hatfield won't allow
his name to be put on the net
receipts tax bill.
"As a result," Barton said,
"there is not the enthusiasm for
it on the part of the Democratic
majority."
Hatfield is urging the Legis
lature to pass the bill.
Bonding Plan
SALEM (UPD A plan to con
struct college classrooms by
bonding and to repay the bonds
with student fees won support
Monday from House and Senate
leaders.
House Speaker Clarence Bar
ton, D-Coquillc, said it would be
a "sound practice."
"I am all for building any
buildings by bonding," he said.
Senate President Ben Musa,
D-The Dalles, said, "I can't see
anything wrong with it if it can
be done in the framework of the
law."
'Those who want to be edu
cated, let them pay for it," he
said. ,
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Barton said the House Taxa
tion Committee wants to intro
duce the bill, "at the request of
Governor Hatfield." But Barton
said Hatfield wouldn't permit
this.
"On it be that the governor
doesn't want his name on a bill
that raises taxes?" Barton asked
at a Monday press conference.
He said that since the gover
nor won't let his name go on
the bill, the Taxation Commit-
Gets Support
The plan was suggested Fri
day by Sen. Alfred Corbctt, D
Portland, and Rep. John Mosser,
R-Bcaverton.
It would transfer a specific
amount of student tuition mon
ey into a special fund to be
used to finance bonds for in
structional buildings, laborato
ries, and other classroom facili
ties. The money taken from the
tuition fund would be replaced
with a general fund grant.
The plan is similar to the one
now used to build dormitories.
Corbett said bonding attor
neys have been asked for an
opinion on the legality of the
proposal.
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tee Isn't going to sponsor it,
either.
So it will be introduced Tues
day or Wednesday by individual
Republicans, Barton said.
Hatfield said later at his
weekly news conference that he
didn't think it was good policy
for the governor's name to be
on any bill.
Hatfield said his net receipts
bill would be introduced by
Rep. Victor Atiyeh, R-Beavr-ton.
"Mr. Atiyeh is representing
my point of view, which is
clearly defined," Hatfield said.
He said various parts of his
legislative proposals would be
introduced by Democrats, others
by Republicans and others by
committees.
The net receipts tax is a re
vised income tax. Everybody's
gross income would be taxed
one per cent, and there would
be no deductions. There would
be a sliding scale of rates up
to 5 or 6 per cent.
Barton said "the Legislature
shouldn't have to take the gaff
on this bill all by itself."
But, he added, the Demo
cratic majority in the House is
willing to co-sponsor the bill
with the governor and make a
bipartisan effort out of it.
The Republican-sponsored bill
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This tax would replace part or.
all of the tax on merchandise -
inventories.
The principal sponsor was
Rep. Victor Atiyeh, R-Beavcr-ton,
but Rep. Richard Eymann,
House Tax Committee, is a co
sponsor. Sen. Edward Fadclcy, DEu.
gene, introduced his proposed 1
constitutional amendment to
abolish the death penalty.
But Sen. Thomas R. Mahonoy,'
D-Portland, introduced two bills
that would become law if the
people repeal the death penalty.
One would make persons serv
ing life for first degree murder
ineligible for parole, and those
doing life for second degree
murder would have to serve at
least seven years.
Mahoney's other bill would
permit the death penalty for
first degree murderers who com
mit another murder in prison.
Another new Mahoncy bill
would exempt from taxation the '
first $7,500 of true cash value
of a home of any World War I
veteran.
A bill to prevent suits against
doctors who render emergency
aid to accident victims also was
introduced Monday.
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