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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
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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.
As a joke, Thelma Drumh play
fully tacked up a "For Sale" sign.
Along came a man who oflerrd
14 or the lot and Hutchison, shak
en by (he surprise sale, finally
was able to ask what I hey would
be used for.
The man said he would dump
mem in his lake as fish cover.
Explorer Balboa never saw Bal
boa Hill in Panama. He crossed
the Isthmus 120 mllct east of this
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