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Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 3, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 1 Page 11 si GIRL AVERTS DISASTER Car Goes Crazy In Hill Traffic WINDSOR, Conn. Wl Down the hill it came, hitting 70 or 75 miles an hour a car gone crazy. At the wheel, Cynthia Moran, 17, pounded furiously with her foot on the brake. Her 14-year-old brother David sat frozen to thi front scat. Crowds just a few blocks ahead were crossing Broad Street head ing for church. Traffic Patrolman British Jail Cyprus Girls NICOSIA, Cyprus Wl A Brit ish court sentenced two teen-age Cypriot girls to long jail terms Monday for having a homemade bomb. They were the first girls sentenced for such an offense. Fampitsa Constantinou, 19, was sentenced to seven years and Rita Anthouli, 18, was given two years. The bomb was found in Miss Constantinou's handbag last month when hec car was stopped and searched at a roadblock. . The Greek Cypriot rebels mean while renewed their bombing at tacks on the British after a week of quiet. Three British soldiers were wounded and two military ve hicles were damaged in two bomb attacks Sunday. BrownleeDam Work to Start BOISE, Idaho im With pre liminaries completed, work of erecting the Brownlee Dam on the Snake River will begin shortly, the Idaho Power Co. announced Saturday. " The dam is one of three Idaho Power has been licensed to build in the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake, between Idaho and Ore gon. . The power company said the Morrison-Knudsen Co., the con tractor, has drilled to bedrock in the river's channel and found it "hard and durable." White, Negro Churches End Segregation Robert Christensen was directing I By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS them across. i , . , . Something had happened to the L.10 lare f1?81811' cn8rcSa: car at the top of the hill. Sud- "s- Parated by hundreds of dently the engine had roared up mlles 5nd VJ"" 'editions, have and the car spurted ahead. lowered racial barriers to permit Cynthia couldn't stop it. The "'""" ' chur ch, s -brakes didn't hold. She couldn't T? "''white, the other all Negro get the gears into neutral. Noth ing happened when she turned off the ignition. She leaned on the horn and turned the car onto the center espanade a grassy strip dividing north-south lanes on Broad Street. Patrolman Christensen" shouted at the crowds to get out of the way. Cynthia came to the intersection and by then managed to jam the gears into reverse. The car jolted and spun around, then slammed into Albert Turgeon's car, coming the other way. Cynthia and her brother jumped out. Turgeon, 67, jumped out of his car. The cars, hooked bumper to bumper, began to move again in a slow, crazy circle. Christen sen hopped onto, the car Cynthia had been driving and pulled the wires from the coil in the engine, stopping it. Police said they believed the linkage between the gas pedal and the carburetor in Cynthia's car had stuck. "She did a remarkable job of handling the car, they said. Teeners Get Polio Shots PHOENIX, Ariz, tffl Opera tion Teen-ager aimed at cut ting down the high incidence of polio among Arizona's youngsters starts tomorrow with the first of a series of citywide mass vac- cinations. It is the first such pro gram in the nation. Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, state health commissioner, said some 6.000 students at Phoenix Union High School will be the first to receive the free shots. Later, some 15,000 youngsters at 23 schools in Phoeiix and Maricopa County will be eligible to partici pate. . Free shots will be given to any one from 6 months to 19 years, but the main objective is teenagers. Norstad Says NATO Might Deters Soviet VALLETTA, Malta Wl Gen Lauris Norstad, new supreme Al lied commander in Europe, Mon day said NATO's strength is "so great that war is unlikely except as a matter of accident or misunderstanding." Speaking at a news conference during a 14-hour tour of this Brit ish island base, he added that "part of the deterrent to war with Russia is the Soviet's knowledge of the magnitude of the destruc tion which our forces can wreak on the other side." Asked whether NATO nations would go to the aid of Turkey if attacked, Norstad replied: "Yes. We are agreed to go to the as sistance of any member nation who is attacked." Israel, Plans New Pipeline 150 miles rein Eilat, Israel's southernmost port, to Becrshcba. From there the oil can be trans ported by rail to Haifa refineries. This will facilitate direct lm- JERUSALEM. Israeli Sector W r,, m porcln r.i iih. haUatgdeoilVr,hWftt quiring passage through the Gulf of Aquaba is due to begin I Suez Canal. It may also make this week. Israel less dependent on Imports The eight-Inch line will move oil I from Venezuela Sinatra 111; 2 Shows Missed HOLLYWOOD , Wt-Frank Sinat ra's press agent says the singer Is resting at home with muscular pains in the neck and back that kept him from appearing on two television programs. One was Jackie Gleason's TV tribute Saturday night to Scnat ra's onetime boss, bandleader Tommy Dorsey, who died last Monday. The other was Ed Sullivan's show last night on which Sinatra was to have accepted a movie magazine's award as an entertainer. I Singer Doris Day, similarly hon ored among women performers, accepted Sinatra's award as well as her own. PAKISTAN TO GET GRAIN KARACHI, Pakistan 1 The United States Monday promised Pakistan an additional 275,000 tons of surplus food grains to meet current requirements. X RAY REVEALS FRAUD CHICAGO (DP)-Modern X-ray v techniques havo disclosed a fraud perpetrated in 300 B. C. by an ' Egyptian undertaker. An exhibit, at the annual meeting of the Ra diological Society of North Amer ica showed the undertaker, com missioned to mummify a pet baby crocodile, stuffed the mummy case with a cloth dummy. In Minneapolis, the fashionable Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church opened its doors to mem bers of a small Negro Methodist church which is to be torn down to make way for a redevelopment project. And in the South, an all-Negro Baptist church in Louisville, Ky., nas aamitiea u wnne persons iu us congregaiiuns. . A delegation from the all-white, 4.000-member Methodist church in Minneapolis yesterday told mem bers of Border Negro Methodist Church, "Wo invite you with sin cere warmth." They said the Ne groes need not decide immediate ly whether to accept. Dr. Stanley Coors, Minnesota Methodist bishop, said the invita tion was a proposal of Christian love and fellowship' The integration move In Louis ville was believed to be the first by a Baptist church in Kentucky since slavery days. The 13 white persons joined tne Zion Baptist Church in the past month and the pastor, the Rev. D. E. King, said they "seem to be enjoying themselves." Turkey Denies Strife Designs ANKARA, Turkey Wl Premier Adnan Menderes says Turkey has no aggressive designs .on' any country and wants only "peace, security, and stability." Menderes spoke Sunday at the Inauguration of the big Sarayar hydroelectric plant and dam near Ankara. His statement followed Syria's complaint Saturday to U.N. Secretary General Dae Ham- marskjold that Syria was threat ened by preparation for armed aggression against her by Brit ain, France, Israel, and Turkey, 100 FISHERMEN LOST KUALA LUMPUR W-Launches of the Malayan Marine Depart ment were scouring the South China Sea Monday night to locate more than 100 Malay fishermen caught in a storm. 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