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! Missing Yank, Family Said In Red China Father Arrives 'in Macao From States To Help in Search MACAO W A high police offi cial today said he is almost cer tain a missing American business man and his family have gone to Red China. The official, who refused to be quoted by name, said he is defi nitely satisfied Donald J. Black wood. 25, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Seoul, his Korean wife and their .8-month-old son are not in Macao. He added there was no other place for them to have gone but Red China. VANISHED APRIL 27 The family dropped from sight : April 27, leaving behind an un paid hotel bill and two suitcases. They had been due in Hong Kong 40 miles away, the next day but did not arrive. Blackwood's father James, a Cincinnati restaurant owner, ar rived in Macao tonight to help in the search for his son. Blackwood, a former V. S. air man in South Korea, had been working for a clolhing house in Seoul. Police said they had discovered that after coming to Macao, he met a Chinese man he appeared to have known before and later dined with him. That was one of the last times the family was seen. BLANK WALL Police and American consular Investigators acknowledged they had reached a blank wall in their hunt for the family. The Ameri cans said they did not discount the story of a Chinese cook that he saw a family answering to the Blackwood's description on near by Communisl-hold Lappa Island (he day after the trio disappeared from Macao. Police said it would be easy and cheap to hire one of the hundreds nf junks lining the waterfront for the trip across the 500-yard chan nel separating Macao from Lap pa. The Portuguese authorities add ed if the Blackwoods did go to Lappa, they probably are not there now. They said the Kwang tung government, which has juris diction over the island, is under orders to move any "intruders" to, Canton at once. Buried Socks Started It All L -4 "i W (Mi i KLOR Studio TTli Offered for 3 Education TV 7" I PORTLAND tUP) Education al television in Portland received a new boost here today when George Haggarty new owner of the merged commercial stations i KPTV and KLOR. ofrered to lease the now vacant KLOR studio building' for educational TV pur poses. Haggarty said he had had offers ' from commercial interests for the building but "I would prefer, if the time element isn't too long, that this local educational tele vision take over." ! Haggarty has moved his merged operations to the KPTV studios. Mrs. Robert E. Stearns, presi dent of Community Television, line, said the offer of the studio I building meant that educational Channel 10 could be activated as soon as operating expenses could I be guaranteed. She said the time i element stressed by Haggarty places another element of ur gency" on the drive for funds that would be supplemented by the Ford Foundation. U.S. Judge Makes Teamster Files . Available to IRS SEATTLE wi Financial rec ords of Local 174, Teamsters' Un ion, for the years 1943 to 1953 will be made available to the Internal Revenue Service under an order signed yesterday by U.S. District Judge John C. Bowen. Asst. U.S. Atty. William A. Hel sell said the records figure in an investigation of income tax re turns made by Frank W. Brew ster, president of the Western Conference of Teamsters, and his former wife, Dorothy, $50,000 Asked For Damages From Accident A traffic accident of Jan. 1, 1957 approximately two miles south of Lebanon on Highway 20 has re sulted In a (50,000 damage suit being filed in Marion County Cir cuit Court. Plaintiff in the' case is Betty Pauline Freeman who charges that she received numerous in juries when the car which she was driving was struck by one under control of Paul F. Roberts. Alma L. Roberts is named co-defendant Capital Journal, Wed., May 8, 1957, Sec. 1, Page 9 -- by virtue of being part owner of damages and a total of $1,399.55 the automobile. special damages, including medl- The plaintiff asks $50,000 general cal assistance and loss of wages. 1 For Mother On Mother's Day A BEAUTIFUL GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GROWING Blooming Azaleas Rhododendrons F. A. D0ERFLER & SONS Nursery Landscaping Garden Supplies ; Open Week Days 8 6 Sundays 10-4 250 North Lancaster Drive at 4 Corners S PHILADELPHIA Seven-year-old George S. Summers, Jr., left, and his brother, Scott, 5, are held by their parents after their return this morning from spending 16 hours In a wooded section while more than 100 police sought them. The bo.vs had been playing In the area earlier yesterday and being boys they took Mii. Uw, ij.i off their socks and buried them. Their dad sent them back to get their socks and they became lost. This morning they walked home, wearing the socks, with George wearing one of his own and one of Scott's. Vice versa for Scott. (AP Wirophoto) Perkins Hotel Nearly Closed As Fire Hazard PORTLAND un The 67-ycar-old Perkins Hotel, once known to cattlemen all over Oregon, was nearly posted with a closure no tice Tuesday as a fire hazard. The owners, however, won a delay. An- Eastern Oregon cattle rancher. Richard S. Perkins, built the 118-rtmm hotel in 1890 and placed near its top a life-sized statue of a steer. Perkins died in 1902. hut the gilded statue which he dedicated to cattlemen and their industry still stands on a balcony below the old hotel's tiled tower. As the years passed, newer hotels drew away its customers from the rangcland. ' Fire Marshal Dale F." Oilman 'found that danger to residents o' the building outweighed senti ment and ordered it closed by July 1. However, just as he was about to post the notice, agents for Portland Federal Savings and Loan Assn., the owner, asked for a written list of needed better ments. Oilman said he would wait a week for a decision on whether to make the hotel safe, or close it. Natural Gas Bill OKd by ODM Counsel WASHINGTON Ifl The Eisen hower administration Wednesday came out in favor of the new Har-ris-O'Hara natural gas bill pro vided a couple of changes are made allowing tighter federal su pervision over prices. Charles H. Kendall, Office of Defense Mobilization ODM gen eral counsel, gave the adminis tration view as lead-off witness in House Commerce Committee hearings on the controversial legislation. Chairman Harris (D Ark) said Kendall spoke for both the ODM and the Budget Bureau, legislative voice of the White Hogse. A bill to free gas producers From direct federal price control got through Congress last year but ran into a veto from Presi dent Eisenhower. Eisenhower said he approved the general aims of the measure but criticized what he called "arrogant" lobbying tactics in connection with it. The new measure takes a dif ferent tack, providing for control by the Federal Power Commis sion but making "market value" the standard for prices and bar ring utility-type price formulas. Tanker Reaches Eilat AMMAN, Jordan W) A sec ond U.S. tanker, loaded with oil apparently from Iran, has reached the southern Israeli port of Eilat. This was reported today from Aqaba. which is in Jordan a short distance from Eilat at the Jiead of the Gulf of Aqaba. Richards Sees Sultan RABAT, Morocco Wl James P. Richards, special envoy for the Eisenhower Middle East Doctrine was received by the Sultan of Morocco In a formal audience today. Richards arrived in Mo rocco following a 4R-hour visit in neighboring - Tunisia. Dura Plastic Starch stays in through many washings!!! Save time, save work, save money with Dura Plastic Starch. 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The Mail said the beautiful. 22-year-old granddaughter of King Gustaf VI and Robin Douglas Home have agreed, however, to wait two years. A 25-year-old nephew of the Earl of Home, he writes advertising copy by day and plays the piano for a hotel cocktail hour. The advertising agency pays him 15 pounds '$42- a week, the hotel twice as much. -Douglas-Home put in his usual stint at the keyboard last nicht. Among the numbers he played were "Singing the Blues." "Our Love Is Here to Stay" and "I'm in the Mood for I-ove." But he told reporters: "It is nr my place to say any thing. As far as I am concerned this is a purely personal matter between two people." Deer Rescued In Flood Zone NKW ORLEANS nr Coast Guard. National Guard and pri vate helicopters joined forces to day for an attempt lo rescue 500 serving dfer driven from feeding areas bv hieh water. Officials of the Fish and Wild l'le Service said the deer were trapped in marshes near the mouth nf the Mississippi River. 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