10 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, December 6, 1949
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May Be Last Trip for Patty Critically 111 Patty Owens,
4, is carried by her father, Robert Owens (center) from his
car to the train in Oakland, Calif., which took her and her
mother (right) and two brothers to Chicago where, doctors
ay, she may not live to see Christmas. Patty wears an oxygen
mask while a technician (left) carries a tank of oxygen
which the child must use almost constantly because of a
lung disease. (AP Wirephoto.)
Patricia, 4, Goes Home for
Xmasand Almost Sure Death
Oakland, Calif., Dec. 6 u.R) Four-year-old Patricia Owen
was en route home for Christmas today and almost certain
death from a rare disease of the lungs and pancreas.
The little girl was placed aboard the luxury train City of San
Francisco Sunday night, which finally pulled out of the Oakland
mole 28 minutes late because-
time was needed to load emer
gency oxygen and other medical
supplies aboard the train.
Patricia, accompanied by her
mother, Marguerite, and two
brothers, Robert Jr., 8, and Rog
er, 2, Is returning home to Chi
cago where she will be placed
in the University of Chicago
hospital.
Her father will remain in
his job here to pay the heavy
medical bills.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen brought
their daughter to California a
year ago in hope the climate
would help her. The small girl
was placed in the University of
California hospital in San Fran
cisco, but she failed to show
Improvement.
Patricia, who is unaware that
she has only a few weeks to
live, gleefully declared as she
was put aboard the train "I'm
going home for Christmas with
my dolly."
Only a few minutes before,
the child had been gasping for
oxygen while en route to the
tram.
"She almost died," her moth
er said, explaining that Patricia
cannot go more than 15 minutes
without her oxygen mask.
Doctors said the younester is
dying of fibrocystic disease.
They said that her lungs are
being filled by accumulating
material which cannot be re
moved and that the strain of
breathing in time will prove too
much for her heart.
Lewis Posted with
$500,000 Suit Note
Alexandria, Va., Dec. 6 (U.R)
John L. Lewis was notified yes
terday through a paper nailed to
his door that his United Mine
Workers' union is being sued
for $500,000.
Lewis wasn't home, so Deputy
City Sergeant Edward Sillex
tacked up the notice of the suit
filed in Richmond circuit court
by the Laburnum Constructon
company of Richmond.
The comrvn,. cii-J l
two construction contracts in
Breathitt county, Ky., last sum
mer because 75 to 100 armed
men appeared at the jobs and
demanded that employes join
the United Construction Work
ers. Defendants are the UMW,
UMW district 50 and the Con
struction Workers' union, a
UMW affiliate. Hearing on the
suit is set for December 22.
Being King Is Tough Racket,
Reporter Notes on Shah's Tour
(Editor's Note: The shah of Iran has completed his "official"
tour of the U.S. During the three weeks of the tour, a United
Press correspondent was the only American reporter to ac
company him. In this dispatch, the correspondent gives his
impressions of the king.)
By EDWARD V. ROBERTS
Los Angeles, Dec. 6 (U.R) Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi,
Shahinshah of Iran, works at the job of being king. It's a tough
racket.
A king can't relax. Dignity is his stock in trade,
I heard a girl in Michigan sigh: "I feel sorry for him. He looks
so lonely
Birthday Celebrated
BrooksConnie King cele
brated her 15th birthday with a
dinner party at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Kitter. Guests were Patsy
Smith and Henry Duree of Gari
baldi, Carolyn King and Mr. and
Mrs. Ritter. Following the din
ner a theater party was held.
I've seen him stand at atten
tion like a rock while military
units paid him the respects due
a king: four ruffles and flourish-
the Iranian and American
national anthems, a 21-gun salute.
At San Diego, the shah and
his party were standing right un
der the big guns of the U.S.S.
Valley Forge when they fired.
Members of his retinue ducked
into cars and rolled up the win
dows.
The shah stdbd stiff as a board
while the blast rocked his slim
figure.
.
On the one occasion that he
relaxed at a square dance in
Arizona he seemed to unfreeze
by degrees. He seemed embar
rassed at first, but finally he was
bouncing around like a kid,
chanting "Put your little foot,
put your little foot," with the
best of them.
(His majesty spends today rest
ing in his hotel suite. Tomor
row he goes to Sun Valley for a
week's skiing. Then he will go
to New York, where he has a
dinner date with Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, before leaving for
Iran.)
Watching, it was hard to re
alize that here was the same man
who flew into Washington and
laid down in one. two, three or
der just what his country need
ed to nullify the threat of Rus
sian aggression.
He'd been warned to expect a
rough time from American re
porters and photographers but
he concealed any annoyance.
He fielded the questions, even
about his love life, with the deft
ness of a senator. His marriage
with the lovely Princess Fawzia
ended in divorce. Since, he has
devoted his time almost exclu
sively to his job and his people.
After one question in Ann Ar
bor, Mich., I began to wish the
boys would give him a break.
Somebody, pressing for an an
gle, asked him just what was
his dream of ideal womanhood.
Foster Accompanies
Royal Persian Party
Aurora Albert Foster, son
of Mrs. Walter Fry of Aurora,
and who has been traveling with
the entourage of the shah of
Persia during the monarch's
tour of the United States, has
arrived home for his first visit
in three years.
News dispatchers and radio
announcers have identified Fos
ter as the "official interpreter"
for the Shah. No doubt he may
act in that capacity frequently,
his mother says, for he has been
with the Shah s party most of
the time, and speaks Arabic. Ac
tually he is a representative of
the Arabian American Oil com
pany, who has been stationed in
Saudi Arabia for the past year
and a half, and who came to the
United States with the royal
party.
With Mr. Foster was his
bride, the former Bernita Wil
liams of Portland, to whom he
was married early in 1948 be
fore he went to the near east.
Mr. Foster grew up in Aurora,
graduated from Aurora grade
school and from Woodburn high
school in 1933. Later he attend
ed business college in Portland,
and University of Oregon at Eu
gene. He is now in his sixth
year with the Arabian Ameri
can Oil company.
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In that precise, slow English,
he answered::
"I'm afraid . . . my dreams .
have all been . . . what you call
. chimeras."
Who'd be a king?
Sleel Prices io
Be Increased
Pittsburgh, Dec. 6 VP) Some
steel prices almost certainly
will increase soon, says an in
dustry spokesman.
The spokesman, who asked
that his name not be used, de
clared increasing labor and ma
terial costs are rising. And he
added all steel companies are
surveying the situation with an
eye to price adjustments.
"It may not be a general in
crease but it is almost certain
in my mind that some adjust
ments will be necessary on some
lines," the spokesman declared
His remarks came on the heels
of a statement from the head
of the nation's fourth largest
steel producer which left little
doubt consumers ultimately will
pay more for steel.
Declaring that production
costs are rising, Admiral Ben
Moreell, chairman of the board
and president of Jones and
Laughlin steel corporation, declared:
"It becomes crystal clear that
the increased costs for raw ma
terials, for services and for la
bor which are now being im
posed on us, must be balanced
by corresponding increases in
prices."
Guests In Woodburn
Woodburn A. C. Hickox and
daughter, Barbara, of LaGrande,
accompanied by several friends
from the LaGrande high school,
spent the week-end at the home
of Mr. Hickox's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. V. V. Hickox, and at
tended the championship foot
ball game in Portland Saturday
afternoon between LaGrande
and Grant high schools.
European Countries Spend
Own Money on Recovery Plan
Paris, Dec. 6 VP) European countries, says a U. S. government
survey, have spent almost $3,000,000,000 of their own money on
recovery under the Marshall plan.
The money is part of "counterpart funds" which the fcuropean
countries must put up, in their own currency, matching Marshall
aid from the European coopera-; .
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lar for dollar.
The European money comes
from ordinary government
funds, raised by taxation and
bonds, and from what European
citizens pay for Marshal plan
goods.
The ECA must pass on the
uses to which these counterpart
funds are spent. More than half
of the three billion has gone to
stimulate industrial production,
But Britain and Norway used
their counterpart funds to re
tire national debt.
Other projects underway with
the counterpart money include
these:
The Netherlands! To reclaim
land from the Zuyder Zee. pro
viding new homes and new food
lands for a growing population.
Austria Harnessing of the
power.
Germany Power station In
west Berlin (the Soviet zone
supplies the power now), coal
mine developments and railroad
building.
France Investments In the
steel industry and improvements
in the coal mines and electric
power system.
Italy Drainage, irrigation
and flood control in the Vento
region to reclaim much-needed
farm land.
The U.S. has appropriated
about $9,000,000,000 for the Mar
shall plan but not all of it has
been used to date. Thus the "
equivalent of only $3,030,000,
000 in counterpart funds has
been approved for withdrawl.
Of this, $2,796,500,000 has been
put to use.
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