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Page 6 Section I THE CAPITAL JOUENAE Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1957 Head-Joined Twins Separated By Surgery, Both Still Thrive WASHINGTON IB-Government scientist have told of a possibly historic operation in which they separated twin baby girls who bad been Joined at the forehead. The House Appropriations Com mittee, which made public the story today, was told this was "the first operation of this kind Jamaica Jolt Began 3-Week Quake Series Temblors Bunched Up After Three Years of Relative Quiet SAN FRANCISCO IB-Seismologist insists that earthquakes do not come in bunches, but heavy tremors in widely separated parts ot tne world have made a lot of large black headlines in the past three weeks. Furthermore, they have oc curred in quick succession after three years of what the experts call a below-normal period of quake activity. The sudden flurry began March 1 with a quake in Jamaica which rated as the heaviest there in half a century. On March' 4 the San Francisco Bay area, sitting on top ef the world's best known earth quake fault, got a mild to moder ate shaking. A big quake hit Greece March 8, destroying 20 villages. The next day another one visited that coun try, which reported one person killed, scores injured, 350 houses wrecked and 10,000 people home less. The Aleutian Islands got the most violent treatment. On March 9 a temblor about the magnitude of the one which destroyed San Francisco in 1906 convulsed the Aleutian trench, a long, deep gash In the bottom of the North Pa cific. Although this quake centered well offshore, the islands of Adak and Umnak were badly shaken. It generated a seven-foot high wave which lapped threateningly at Adak. This wave traveled south ward at 500 miles an hour and caused damage in Hawaii, 2,000 miles distant. Since then the Aleutians hove had at least 14 major altorshocks every one of them big enough to have caused enormous damage II it had hit a heavily populated area. The earth there I still quiver ing. And it has been quivering also In southern California. On March 18 a moderate quake shook Ven tura and Oxnard, between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. To the experts, all this means Is a little bulge in the total pic ture of earthquake activity. "It is true," said Don Tocher, assistant research seismologist at the University of California, "that there has been about three years of relative quiet so far as big quakes arc concerned. But we (till have quakes all the time, and when you add up their total ener gy from year to year the results do not vary significantly." To all the experts the quiet per iods mean only this: "The farther you are away from the last big quake the nearer you arc to the next big one. But nobody can fig ure out where or when the next one will come." In which, at least until the present time, both twins have survived. Dr. Pearce-Bailcy, director of the National Institute of Neuro logical Diseases and Blindness, gave the account of the intricate operation performed last Decem ber on Virginia Kate and Teresa Kay Bunion of Mountain City, Tcnn. The twins then were 4 months old. Today, a little over three months after the operation, the twins were reported in good health." They still are at the clin ical center of the National Insti tute of Health in nearby Bethes- da, Md.. where the surgery was performed. There have been a number of cases where Siamese twins, joined at the head, were separated only to have at least one of the twins die. One of the most famous of these cases involved the Brodie twins of Chicago. Rodney Dee Brodie survived, but Roger Lee, his twin brother, died after 34 days. Torrents Pour On Texas; Five Tornadoes Hit Stale Escapes Serious Damage From Freak Winds, Rains DALLAS IB Torrential rains flooded streams and roads in cen tral Texas yesterday and five tornadoes skipped across portions of the state without causing any major damage. Thunderstorms continued to lash portions of south central Texas to day, but the rain was tapering off in other areas. A freak spring storm blanketed Dalhart in the Panhandle with 3 inches of snow and hail the size of golf balls pounded parts of the hill country in central Texas. A father and son believed drowned when heavy rains caused streams to overflow later turned up safe as the water began re ceding. Plcosanton Arthur Lewis, 42, of Buda, Tex., 13 miles south of Aus tin, was trapped on the Williamson Creek bridge when floodwatcrs stalled his pickup truck. He got out ol the vehicle and clung to a tree until an ambulance crew res cued him. His truck was wnshed away. Some 8 or 10 miles east, his son Burton Lewis, 17, was having similar experience. The boy was on a school bus returning from a track meet when it was caught In a terrific hall storm In Creedmoor, 12 miles southeast of Austin. Win dows of the bus were knocked out and the engine stalled. Young Lewis borrowed a car to go for help and the vehicle stalled in high water on a bridge. He was forced to hang on to the bridge railing until nelp arrived. Heavy rains also fell in north central Texas and along (he Gulf Coast, which was lashed by a storm of hurricane force last weekend. Lighter rain fell in por tions of the drought-scared range country of west Texas. A tornado dipped down at Old- dings, destroyed two barns and overturned a house trailer. The other twisters were reported sight ed at Big Spring, Stanton, Crane and Seminole in west Texas, but there was no properly damage or injuries. Another unconfirmed twister wns reported near Becvillc j in south Texas. j Honnld Christian, about 19. was ; killed and his wife was critically ; injured, when their car hit a cul-! vert in Woxnhaehie during a heavy rain. I Austin got more than an Inch of ' ram in .10 minutes. House Slices Agency Funds Even Decnci WASHINGTON IB - The House! yesterday cut deeper than ils Ap propriations Committee had rec ommended In slicing nearly 5M million dollars from a hill to fi nance 18 separate federal agen cies. The reduction, as approved by the House on a voice vote, wns 9 per cent below Hie $5,923,195,000 President Eisenhower had re quested to run these Independent agencies in the fiscal year starl ing July 1. Last Friday, the Appropriations Committee had suggested the total in the bill be whacked by 3516.9(13.300. But the House went beyond this, trimming another 21 millions. It did this by wiping out a 19-million-dollar fund lor stockpiling atratrgic materials and by snip ping two millions from funds lor the National Advisory Committee lor Aeronautics. As the hill goes to the Senate ll contains 4.tH2,70ri.300 for the - - - ' - , ,1 Itu, ,n,i... -..J .l SS9.B00 for the General Services , i, .,,, ',. V, r 1 Administration, , .9.M5. for ccTng tm the Housing and Home Finance hj5 ,;,( "unmi. mint Agency, and 105 millions for the "tk. i . l .- K-iri I, ,, , . "as mven me III nil hnr U- In H., .... n. schedule from day to day. I there fore have a very grave resrmnsi-1 hility to make certain that those who see Ihe President represent not only different viewpoints but also are responsible spokesmen for his particular cause. "The President is an inveterate render and because of his vast experience ... he personally would see to it that these diverse views were presented to him through people whom he invited tn his residence rather than his office." Shanley was counsel to the president for 25 months and has been presidential secretary for the past Iwo years. In Ihe year 1800 Ihe average work week consisted of 84 hours in centrist to the 40-hour-wcek today, Talace Guard' Doesn't Exist, Says Ike Aide lU'TIIKItKOIlli. N.J. IB-Presl- dential secretary Bernard M. Shanley today denied that anv "palace guard" prevents persons differing with the views of the White House stall from seeing President Eisenhower. Shanley, of Bernardsville. is Ihe White House appointments secretary. In a talk prepared for students at Fnirleigh Dickson Un iversity, he said: "Undoubtedly you have been reading many of the columnists wno now indicate that a so-called palace guard is preventing the President (mm seeing members Christmas for Fi.sh McALESTER, Okla., IB-Grocer Ike Hutchison finally got around to clearing his storehouse ol old Christmas trees and he placed I hem in front of his place to be hauled off. 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