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4 SECTIONS
(32 Pages)
67th Year, No. 43
Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 21, 1955
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Price 5c
ReviewBoards
For Classified
Stale Service
Ways and Meanj
Group Prepares for
Barrington Plan
By JAMES D. OLSON
Two review boards to hear com
plaints on salary and classifica'
795 Bills Now
In Hopper With
500 More Due
Record Number
Looms Teachers'
Morals Bill Passes
By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr.
( Atsocialed Press Correspondent)
WIDOW MOVES INTO MURDER VICTIM'S HOME
Find No Ni
Mystery ot (user Murder
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tion recommendations made by
the Barrinston Associates, one to
cover the classified service and
the other unclassified service, was
set up Monday by the Ways and
Means subcommittee on salaries.
The state civil service commis
sion will serve as the' review
Persons convicted of felonies or
morals offenses would be bajined
from teaching in Oregon's public
schools under a bill passed by the
House Monday and sent to tne ben-ate.
There were 20 votes against the
measure. Opponents argued that
prison sentences should be forgiven
and placed in the same status as
The bill prohibits issuance of
teachers certificates to persons
boards for all civil service "H those who are free of guilt
Harry S. Dorman, director of fin-
, u""'"al,"""."'.1""'"convicted of felonies, which are
W. Terry director of civil service crjmes unishab,e by penitentiary
and Dr John Richards, assistants jj,,,, and to those who nad
cnanteuor ui iiigner cuuwanuu .u
bear complain Is by unclassified
employes.
At a meeting between the com
mittee and department heads Mon
day, the procedure for hearing
complaints' was outlined by Rep.
Orval Eaton, chairman.
Any state employee, he said,
could send in a complaint provid
ing such complaint is accompan
ied by factual data to show that
his job has not been properly clas
sified under the proposed plan.
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Senate Quiz
For Mafusow
WASHINGTON Wi-Harvey Mat
usow, self-described ex-Comn.uiiist
and liar, was called for question
ing today by Senate R -i hunters
checking into his repudiation of
tworn testimony he gave them.
The public hearing b,' the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
was aimed at separating fact from
fiction in Mntusows statements.
Matusow, 28, testified as an ex-
communist and former FBI in
former in four investigations con
ducted by the subcommittee in 1952
including a probe in which he now
says he gave false testimony
against Owen Lattimore.
Lattlmorc is a Far Eastern af
fairs specialist who is under in
dictment on periury charges grow
ing out of the subcommittee probe
but not directly related to Matu
sow's testimony.
Matusow also gave testimony
which he now says was false to
the House Un-American Activ
ities Committee and as a paid gov
ernment witness in the trial of 13
second-string Communist leaders
convicted on conspiracy charges in
1953.
been sent to jail on morals charges.
As the lawmakers returned for
their seventh week, then learned
that more than 500 bills still are
being drafted for introduction. The
bill introduction deadline, already
passed, doesn't apply to these bills.
there have been 793 bills Intro
duced. The present record for bills
2t3, set two years ago. this
appears certain to be surpassed.
The Senate passed and sent to
the House a bill to require permits
to take minerals, including oil and
gas, from ocean beaches.
The State Land Board now
issues permits to take sand and
rock from the beaches, but it has
no authority over minerals.
Sen. Philip Lowry, Medford, said
that two men had discovered gold
on a beach, and that the bill would
make it possible for them to get
permits to take it.
fie also pointed out that some
body might want to get a permit
to drill for oil or gas.
A bill approved by the House
would let the State Board of Health
regulate farm labor camps.
(lonunjed on rage S Column 4)
Mardi Gras Riot
At New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (UP) - One of
the most dazzling Mardi Gras sea
sons in years erupted into a series
of riots, in which six were injured
and caused 100 arrests and sub
jected police to a bombardment
of ice cubs at clos range.
Suddenly, the gendarmes wers
faced with the biggest uprising in
the history of the festival.
Things got started at 12:19 a.m
deeD in the famous New Orleans
French Quarter when the police
chased an automobile theft suspect
into the crowd.
The suspect shouted to the crowd
"I'm a federal agent. The police
are putting me in jail for nothing."
The crowd surged to his aid.
Within a short time, a second riot
of no connection with the first
broke out in front of the Dixie
Musix Bar on Bcurbon St.
Then a third uprising flared at
famed Pat O'Bren s Bar. a popular
tourist spot in the same block
on St. Peter where the original
trouble started.
In addition to the normal flood
of Mardi Gras visitors, the French
Quarter was loaded with additional
thousands last night for NBC's na
tional network television coverage
of the festival.
Senate to Pass
Salary Raise
WASHINGTON W-Leadcrs con
fidently called on, senators today
to vote themselves a 50 per cent
pay increase from $15,000 to $22,
500 a year with a minimum of
sound and fury.
One influential senator, who de
clined to be quoted by name, said
at least 60 of the 96 lawmakers
already had promised support. Op
ponents were certain of only a
handful of votes on the politically
touchy . issue.
The strategy was to approve the
Senate version of a pay boost for
Hie 531 members of Congress .an.!
some 400 federal judges and then
let a friendly Senate-House cj
fcrence committee adjust differ
ences between it and a l.iore lib
eral pay boost bill that shot
through the House last week
118.
283-
To Introduce
Milk Price Bill
A bill is being drafted this week
for the House Food and Dairying
Committee which would establish
a minimum producer price on
milk.
Sponsors of the measure said
the bill would help prevent any
possible price war on milk.
The minimum price would be
based partly on the average paid
farmers m the three neighboring
states rather than on the cost of
production.
Distributors would set up pro
ducer pools and negotiations would
be made for an annual contract
on a base quota for fluid milk.
At the end of the year new quotas
would be set up based on produc
tion during the four lowest ship
ping months.
$250,000 Fire ?
In Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE (fl A seven
alarm fire one of the worst in
Milwaukee's history raged out of
control for 3 & hours Monday
morning before being conquered
by more than 200 firemen labor
ing in sub-freezing temperatures
and against wind gusts ranging up
to 30 miles an hour.
The fire, of undetermined origin.
broke out In a furniture store in
the business section of a north side
residential area, and the store own
er estimated his loss at $250,000.
No one was killed. Two firemen
were hurt. One was overcome by
smoke. The other suffered a hand
wound.
Fire Chief Edwin Wischer said
it was the worst blaze he had seen
in 34 years service. He called in
all available off-duty firemen.
The fire destroyed the two-story
Brick Meyer Co. furniture store
and the adjacent W. H. Theis
Plumbing Supplies Co. Meyer Lu
botsky, owner of the furniture
company, said loss to the building
and contents would run $250,000.
No estimate of damage to the
plumbing store was available.
Nixon Favors
Junking FOA
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UP)
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
has recommended that the Eisen
hower administration junk the for
eign operations administration,
formed sources said today.
The sources said the vice pres
ident's tour of Central America
has convinced him that Harold E.
Stassen's agency and the United
States Information Service are
duDlicating and sometimes com
peting with the work of American
embassy personnel.
Nixon, half-way tnrougn nis
tour of Central America, was re
ported convinced that technical
aid programs lor unaerucvopea
countries must be continued and
even expanded under permanent
agencies. He is said to want the
range policies of the state, com
merce and treasury departments.
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S1LVERTON Mrs. Mary Louisa Kascr, estranged wife of
Ervin O. Kascr, 49, who was slain by an unknown rifleman
Thursday night at his homo three miles south of Silvcrton,
took possession of his home Sunday, as his sole heir. Above,
shows moving van which had just been unloaded by Virgil
Boyd, her son-in-law. Lower photo shows Mrs. Kaser and her
daughter, Phyllis Boyd. Diagram of murder scene and escape
route of killer is on Page 2, Section 3.
Ike Talks on High ways
With Congress Leaders
WASHINGTON (ffl President
Eisenhower, in- an unusual move,
called a group of Democratic and
Republican congressional leaders
to the White House Monday for
discussion of a domestic matter
the administration's . controversial
highway construction program.
In announcing the conference.
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty
told newsmen in reply to a question
that "so far as I can remember,"
this is the first time Democrats
Public Offices to
Observe February 22
Except public offices, including
the Post Office, there will be no
shut-down of business Tuesday be
cause of Washington's Birthday.
At the Post Office all windows
will be closed and there will be no
city or rural delivery of mail. Of
fices at City Hall, the Courthouse,
and the State buildings will be
closed, except, of course police,
sheriff's office, and fire depart
ments. Parking meters will not be
checked by the police.
Salem Public Library will be
open as usual
Nuclear Bomb
Test on Tuesday
LAS VEGAS. Nev. m The sec
ond test of the new nuclear series
was rescheduled for Tuesday
morning after an Atomic Energy
Commission weather briefing
Monday.
The AEC testers were hopeful
thev would be able to unleash a
big predawn explosion on Yucca
Flat. But in case the weather
should turn fickle again, they read
ied another smaller shot under
their "d'll capability" plan. It
was indicated this, too, might be a
tower shot.
If the big shot goes, a battalion
of Camp Desert Rock soldiers is
ready to take up trench positions
approximately 4.000 yards from
ground zero and participate in the
first maneuvers of Exercise Desert
Rock VI. the military s atomic in
doctrination program.
Democrats Approve
$20 Income Tax Cut
Five Sailors
SAN FRANCISCO W Two
sailors were killed and three were
missing and presumed dead in
battery explosion and fire aboard
the submarine Pomodon at San
Francisco naval shipyard Sunday
night.
Four other sailors were injured
seriously and two civilian rescue
workers were hospitalized alter in
haling poisonous gases. One of the
Navy injured underwent surgery
at Oak knoll Hospital.
Only a few sailors were reported
aboard at the time of the blast.
Normal complement of this
snorkel-submarine is about 85 of
ficers and men.
The Navy identified one of the
injured crewmen as Seaman Bob
bie D. Pulliam. He was burned on
the face and arm.
The civilian workers, taken to
Marine Memorial Hospital, were
identified as Howard F. Swift. 36.
South San Francisco, and Robert
E. Williams, 24, Oakland, Calif.
All other names were withheld.
Pond Dragging
Blizzard Piles
Deep Snow in
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A blinding blizzard, termed by
the Weather Bureau one of the
winter's worst storms, whirled
northward out of the Great Plains
today and into Canada with mod
crated intensity.
It left behind snowfalls up to
Duluths 28 inches; snowdrifts as
deep as 12 feet ii. Nebraska:
blocked highways in at least four
states; at least 17 persons dead
and four missing.
The storm had not lost all its
punch, however. Strong winds were
piling snow in deep drills in the
Manitoba province of Canada,
where police reported "hundreds"
of persons were stranded on
blocked highways. Winnipeg got 7
inches of snow.
Below the border the five deaths
each reported in Colorado, Utah
and Montana, and two in Wyoming
were caused mostly by tratlic
accidents in visibility zero condi
tions during the driving storm of
the past three days.
But authorities feared for three
Nebraska ministers who left Goth
cnburg Saturday afternoon and a
Wessington Springs, h.u.. rancher
who braved the shrieking blizzard
at 2 a.m. yesterday to see if his
sheep were all right. None of the
men have been seen since.
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Air Raids Fail
ToCheckReds
At Taishanlsle
TAIPEI. Formosa'' Three
straight days of Nationalist air at
tacks have failed to stop the Red
buildup o the Taishan Islands
threatening nearby Nanchishan.
reliable reports said today.
A second Communist buildup has
begun on the Fukicn province
coast opposite the strategic Matsu
Islands 100 miles west of Formosa,
the Defense Ministry's information
service said.
Meanwhile, Nationalist officials
set up 26 civil air defense cen
ters here to work out plans to
minimize bombing casualties it
war comes.
These developments followed
roe straight days of naval and
'rial pounding of the Taishan
group and nearby waters in which
the Nationalists now claim these
totals;
Friday 1 submarine, 21 gun
boats, landing craft and armed
junks sunk.
Saturday 15 armed Junks sunk,
damaged.
Yesterday One 1.000-ton gun
boat "disappeared" after a direct
hit, S landing ships hit, 1 prob
ably sunk.
aei
have been invited to the White
House to talk over a domestic pro
gram since Eisenhower took of
fice.
Haeerty said Eisenhower's spe
cial message to Congress outlining
the highway building program
quite likely will go to Congress
Tuesday. Indications were it will
be based mainly on a presidential
advisory committee's call for a
10-billion-dollar construction pro
gram over the next 10 years.
Eisenhower's message original
ly was scheduled to go to the cap
itol Jan. 27, but was postponed.
The Senate public roads subcom
mittee decided against waiting and
started hearings on the highway
situation Monday,
The White House announcement
came after Republicans and Dem
ocrats got in some preliminary
skirmishes "over highways, with
both sides disavowing any thought
of playing politics with the na
tions roads.
(Continued on Page 5 Column 4)
Storm Victims
Being Rescued
OGALLALA. Neb. On Snow
plow crews, weary from long, cold
1IUUIS VII MIC HlgllWUy Willi llu
sleep, struggled through man-
sized drifts today In search ot pos
sible victims of Saturday s buna
ing Nebraska blizzard.
Of 36 persons reported missing,
only three remained to be account
ed for today and it was thought
they may have found refuge in
farm house without a telephone.
The 33 rescued yesterday ii
eluded five small children, who
with five adults, munched on birth
day cake, milk and a few crack
ers while imprisoned for 19hours
in a car nine miles northwest of
here on Highwoy 26.
Still unaccounted for were three
ministers who left Gothenburg in
central Nebraska Saturday after
noon', apparently headed for Pine
River, Wyo. Only two were iden
tified by name. They were the
Revs. Roy McCollend and Jim
Mason, believed to bo from Pine
River.
Reds Violate
Armistice Pact
PANMUN.IOM, Korea W-The
United Nations Command to
day accused the Communists of
vio latins the Korean armistice un
building up Red MIG strength in
North Korea.
It demanded that those respon
sible be punished.
Mnj. Gen. bosiie u. tarter,
senior Allied member of the Ko
rean Military Armistice Commis
sion, made the cnaree. no de
clared the MIGg which attacKed
an American RB45 let rcconnnls-
suiien bomber over the Yellow Sea
Feb. S were evidence of Red air
activities in North Korea since the
armistice which "have mounted
from zero in increasing magnitude
to a high tempo .
At a news conference after the
commission meeting, Carter
quoted the chief Communist dele
gotc. North Korean Lt. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho, as saying the U. N.
charucs were "allegations hastily
manufactured.
For Rifle Used
Proves Fuile
SILVERTON Funeral nerm.
ices were to be held for Ervin
O. Kaser at 2 p.m. Monday as
police continued their search for
the person who shot him from
ambush as he drove into the
driveway of his home near hert
Thursday night, t
Sheriff's officers and state co-
lice who had dragged two ponds
near the death scene over tha
week end were continuing their
hunt for the killer Monday.
The dragging of the ponds
which- proved futile were in
search of a .30 caliber rifle which
was believed to have been used
by the killer.
Kaser, a prominent hop grower
in the district, was shot as he ar
rived home in his car. Four bul
lets went into the car, one pierc
ing his body.
Neighbors who heard the four.
shots also heard a car which had
stopped across the road being put
into grcar and drive away.
The killer' is believed to have
taken back roads to get into Silverton.
Mrs. Mary Kaser, who had sep
arated from the murdered man
and had filed suit for divorce,
moved back into the family home
Sunday. She had been living in
Salem for the past few months.
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FTC Neutral in
Price-Cut War
WASHINGTON tn - The Federal
Trade Commission has adopted a
hands-olf policy toward the grow
ing rivalry between regular retail
stores and price-cutting discount
houses.
In a major decision announced
Sundoy night, FTC rejected a
request that it enforce state "fair
trade" laws on discount houses that
sell to the public at prices
approaching wholesale levels.
FTC advised retailers to meet
discount house competition by
slashing their own prices rather
than seeking FTC enforcement of
state-sanctioned minimum price
agreements.
The action marked the first
official stand taken by FTC on
"fair trade" laws now on the books
in 42 states. Under these laws,
manufacturers and retailers can
set the minimum retail price at
which specified merchandise will
! sold throughout a state.
FTC told retailers they could
port. "with Impunity" ignore the state
Total fires of all typos, except j laws where they were not being
ih.. in hniMin.. . nu .mu. regularly enforced. Or, it coun-
cst number in 20 'years except for !?ellcd they could seek enforcement
1944 and 1948. Man caused 212 "" .
Forest Fires
Due to Campers
WASHINGTON (UP) Camp
era caused more fires in national
park areas last year than in any
375 Dead in
Japan's Storm
TOKYO im A violent blizzard
blasted the Western Pacific from
Formosa to the Kuriles Monday for
the third day and left more thon
385 persons dead or missing, most
of them fishermen.
At least four Japanese arc known
dead and scant hope is held for
the others.
In Manila, American President
Lines reported that the luxury liner
President Cleveland went to the
aid of the stricken Japanese steam
ship Midori Maru in the bast Chi
na Sea.
The liner, which stood by until
relieved by the Orion Star, ra
dioed she would be 24 hours late
on the trip from Japan to The
Philippines. The Mindori Maru sent
out an SOS Sunday, reporting it
had waler in the fuel tank and
was unable to proceed. Aboard
were 141 passengers and 25 crew
members.
Another inter-Island steamer
the Nanshu Maru with 171 aboard,
was awnitinz heln from the U. S
seaplane tender Salisbury Sound
which was sent out from Okinawa.
A Japanese freighter stood by.
China Ready to
Invade Thailand
BANGKOK W Prime Min
ister Pibulsonggram said Monday
20,000 so-called Free Thai troops
are assembled in bordering Yunan
province of Red China posted for
a jump-off against inauana.
The Thai field marshal ad
dressed a news conference as
heads of three delegations arrived
for Wednesday s opening oi mc
three-day conference of the South
east Asia Defense Treaty Organ
ization. Pibul told the 220 correspond
ents the Free Thais are headed
by former Thai Prime Minister
Prldi Phanomyong. Ho added that
Thailand could handle aggressive
move by them unless Red Chinese
troops joined them in an aiiacx
The Southeast Asia Dcfenso Or
ganization was formed in Manila
with the aim ot halting commu
nist aggression.
Russia Plans
For Long War
CINCINNATI W Adm. Rob
ert B. Carney, chief ot naval oper
ations, bbiu ki o n a a y nussta s
launching ot a vast naval building
program "Is one of the nMl con
clusive bits ot evidence (hat they
are not contemplating a short
war."
In an address prepared for the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce,
the local chapter of the Navy
League and the Naval Reserve Ad
visory Council, Carney gave his
views of how another world war
might shape up.
"Presumably massive blows
would continue as long as either
side retained the capability," he
said. "With the passing of that
initial phase, and if the Issue is
still unresolved, tough people would
carry on across the radioactive
ashes and water, with what weap
ons are left, , ,
Sea control will be an elemental
consideration in accomplishing
either the follow-through phase of
atomic war or the better appre
ciated chores of a prolonged non-
atomic war."
WASHINGTON on The House I Secretary of the Treasury
Wnv unit Means Committee Mon- Humphrey had denounced the pro-
day approved a Democratic plan posal as "playing fast and loose
for a S20-a-vcar income tax cut with the welfare of 16 million
next Jan. 1.
Members said the vole in the
closed door session was 15-10.
The committee also approved,
by topheavy margins. President
Eisenhower's request to postpone
for one year about three billion
dollars in annual corporation and
excise tax cuts, now scheduled for
April 1.
The administration vigorously
protested the income tax cut reduc
tion.
The committee approved each
action in separate votes. Then it
decided to wait until Tuesday to
take final action on a bill incor- the income tax cut to an admin- of grassland
Dorating all the revisions. istration bill which would postpone' Three fires alone crackled
Approval of the combined bill! for one year scheduled cuts in through about SS per cent of the
appeared certain. I corporation and excise taxes, now 'total acreage burned.
The plan would provide a S20 due to drop April 1. Those cuts A fire -caused by lightning in an
tax cut for each taxpayer and eachiin the corporation and exicse taxes ; inaccessiDie mountainous region,,. nrnrtti. I 04: nnrmii. in.
dependent. House democratic lead- would con the government about of Saguaro National Monument, I n prrripiuiion, . i'J; "'.m.1-
ers plan to bring the bill to the 1 three billion dollars a year in rev- i Arizona, burned 4220 acres of for-
I House floor Thursday. enue. 1 est and brushland.
Americans.
numpnrey mei Deninu cioseu . - , . : . , , (hr1,oh,(
doors with the House Ways and " Y ,JC 7n VL m i3,
Means Committee, which aoDear- B.
cd to be set to approve the tax
cutting plan late Monday.
A member who came out ot tne
meeting, while the argument was
still going on inside, said Hum
phrey "violently" opposed the
plan. The member asked not to
be quoted by name.
Eisenhower has argued the gov
ernment's fiscal picture will not
permit a tax cut this year but
may permit one next year.
fires and lightning started 92.
Total lightning caused fires was
the lowest in 20 years except 1946.
Some 9800 acres, about half the
average for the preceding 10-year
period, were burned last year.
This included 4000 acres of forest
The Democratic plan is to add land, 2X00 of brushland and 3000
TRAVELERS RESCTED
WINNIPEG I Snow vehicles
crunched through huge snowdrifts
in howling winds through the night
to rescue hundreds of travellers
trapped on Southern Manitoba
highways by the winter's worst
storm.
Willamette Sells
Portland Property
Willimelte University, according
to Courthouse records in Portland,
has sold a one-story brick, con
crete and tile building on the south
west corner of SW Alder and 16th
Avenue in Portland for $$55,000.
The buyer of the property was
Covey's U-Drive Service. Former
ly the building was leased to Joe
Fisher.
5 Badly Burned Bodies
A t Airliner Wreckage
AFL Criticizes
Ike's School Bill
WASHINGTON Ufl The AFL
Monday criticized President Eisen
hower's school aid program as
"half hearted and pinch-penny."
In teslimony prepared for the
Senate Labor Committee Andrews
W. Biemillcr, the AFL's legislative
representative, said the big labor
federation could not "visualize this
proposa! as the answer to Ameri
ca's criticial school emergency."
"The proposal suomiitco Dy tne
administration is, to say the least,
extremely involved and complex."
Biemillcr told the committee head
ed by Sen. Hill (D-Ala.).
He added:
"lis provisions throw all types
of roadblocks in the path of any
one seeking direct federal assistance."
Americans for Democratic Ac
ton, an organization largely de
voted to the principles of the New
and Fair Deals, tagged the Pres
ident's program ns "a collection
of bookkeeping divices designed
to stagnate direct federal aid for
school construction.
Weather Details
Minimum yrilerilir. 4: minimum
today, 21. TnUl 24-hollf prtr IplUllxtl.
' lllvrr hflrht,: -.4 ot a foot. (Kfport
by V. S. Writhar Uurran.)
Albuquerque, N.M. tf! New
Mexico Stale Police reported Mon
day five badly burned bodies have
been recovered at the wreckage
strewn spot on a mountainside
where a Trans World Airliner
crashed Saturday with 16 aboard.
The search team said there was
no sign ol life "and no possibility
of survivors."
The reports, trickling down by
walkie-talkie from the huge rock
pinnacle in the Sandia Mountains
east of here, said identification
was impossible at this time and!
Airline officials have surmised he
became lost in clouds which
shrouded this area at the time,
and saw the mountain too late
to avoid it. Ho was about two
miles off the regular course which
leads along the east side of the
mountain.
Two search teams, weary and
stiff after a night in sub zero cold
on the mountainside, started at
dawn probing the crannies around
the needle-shaped rock where the
Diane (lit.
rack animals were sianea up
indicated recovering other bodies, from the base camp at the foot of
would be slow going.
The airliner rammed the pillar
in the rugged sno-covered moun
tains just minutes after it took off.
the 10.000-foot mountain to bring
out the bodies and an air drop was
scheduled to deliver equipment for
removal ol the bodies.
Today's Index
Section One
Amusement ... 2
Editorials 4
Locals ... .' ........ 5
Comic . . .... A
Television 9
Section Two
Society 1 -2-3-4
Section Three
Dollar Days 110
Section Four
SporU I
Classified 4 5