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The Bulletin, Monday, July 15, 1963 Husband fells about worrying over his wife's air expeditions cuiiuks NOTE: About n woman took off from Fr.sno, Calif. Saturday and spent th weekend flying across the coun try in the annual Powder Puff Derby, a transcontinental race for women fliers. Back home were their husbands, fixing meals, caring for their children and worrying about their flying wives. Here in an interview one of the husbands tells what it Is like to be married to an aviatrix. By Elisabeth H. Zakroff UPI Staff Writer LEONIA, N.J. (UPI) -Walter Cronan is married to a woman who's been up in the clouds 23 years. He used to be up there too. Mrs. Selma Cronan, 50, of 209 HiUcrest Ave., is a member of the Ninety-Niners, an internation al organization of licensed women pilots. "She's been flying since World War II," Cronan, 53, said. "Dur ' ing the war Mrs. Cronan was a member of the WAAFS," the Women's Auxiliary Air Force Service. Now Mrs. Cronan is in charge of public relations and a com petitor In the all women's trans continental air race the Powder Puff Derby. The race is sponsored by the Ninety-Niners. Cronan, a consulting encineer Riots tell warden prison theory wrong SINGAPORE (UPI) - "I know they can turn into a vicious mob if they choose to, but I feel it will never happen." These were the words of Dan iel S. Dutton, the tall, erect Eng lishman chosen three and one half years ago to make the penal settlement on Senang Island into a model, modern rehabilitation colony. But Dutton was wrong. Today the island's barracks and storerooms are smouldering ruins, the wall-less prison settle ment shut down perhaps forever and Dutton himself dead, the victim of one of the most brutal murders imaginable. Most ot the islands 400 in mates, some of them convicted killers, rioted Friday and trapped Dutton and his deputy superin tendent, Australian J.W. Tail ford, in a radio room in the main administration building. While the two men desperately radioed for help from Singapore, 10 miles away, the prisoners, mainly Chi nese, set the building on fire to drive them out. When Dutton emerged he was seized, his eyes gouged out and he was doused with kerosene and burned alive. Tallford was slashed with knives and burned, but he sur vived. His face was twisted with horror' when the reinforcements from Singapore put him ashore an hour later. Nobody is sure why the riot oc curred. Dutton ran the prison without walls and his 30-odd guards were unarmed. But two of the guards were killed and four others injured so seriously they were put on the critical list. Only one, who managed to hide in the bush, escaped any Injury whatsoever. Thirty of the prisoners escaped from the 200-aere island during the half-hour of carnage. But a police boat recaptured eight of them a short time later. Sought Longview soldier appears FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI) A young American soldier sought in connection with the street-fight death of a Frankfurt teenager surrendered to U.S. mil itary police early today. Spc-4 James Michael Smith, 20. of Longview. Wash., stationed at Gutleut Barracks in Frankfurt, said he was the civilian clad American who punched 19-year-old Harald Vilanann in the stom ach Wednesday night, an Army spokesman said. Vilimann was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital a few minutes later. Former Naval aide passes WASHINGTON (UPP Rear Adm. Gilbert J. Rowcliff. Ret. who served as White House naval aide to former presidents Theo dore Roosevelt and William How ard Taft, died Sunday at Bethes da. Md., Naval Hospital. He was 81. TOOK IT HARD LINCOLN, England (UPI) -Employes of the Lincolnshire Road Car Co. went on strike for two hours today in protest of the firing of bus driver Roy Baker. Baker. 35. killed himself last week, five hours after losing his job. for 25 years, used to fly too. "After the war, we bought an old crate and Mrs. Cronan taught me how to fly," he said. "1 dabbed in it off and on." Injured in Crash In 1951. a plane Cronan and a friend were flying crashed. Both were seriously hurt and Cronan was hospitalized for several months. That ended his flying career. "We decided that with two chil dren one of us had to stay alive. I have no desire for immortality." The Cronan twins Thomas and Jefferson are 17 years old. Although the boys have been up several times with their moth er, they're more interested in driv ing cars now," he said. The boys often flew with their mother when they were babies. Life around the Cronan hnno. hold starts getting hectic two months before the race. Every day," Cronan said "there are conferences and more conferences. Maps are spread all over the house with women sprawled all over them speaking some lingo I can't hoDe to under stand. Then as quickly as they all appear they disappear, taking Mrs. Cronan with them for a month. Usually Eat Out "We eat at home when we can stand it and go out the rest of the time. Although we have a maid she's as lost as we are. By me time airs. Cronan comes home, a house chuck full of dirt is waiting for her." Cronan used to worry about his wife's flying. "But not now," he said, "it's been such a long time. Every thing is pretty much routine. Be sides, Mrs. Cronan is a very skilled pilot." Cronan is a member of the Forty-Nine and a Halfers, a club formed by the Ninety-Niners for their husbands. "We even get a certificate," he said, "a certificate of doubtful competency. I guess it means we're not as good as women." Being married 28 years to a woman constantly getting publici ty, Cronan said, means he's al ways asked questions which are impossible to answer. ' It's sort of like being married to a race horse. What can you say?" Court ruling . hints at new Profumo doings LONDON (UPI)-A court ruling hinted today at new sensations in the Profumo case with the revela tion of a mysterious tape record ing made by play girl Christine Keeler. The possibility of further dis closures In the scandal that forced the resignation of War Minister John Profumo arose when a court granted an appeal to a Negro jazz musician who was convicted of beating up Christine. The appeal was based on the argument that there was "important new evidence" in the tape recording Christine made when she was "high as a kite." Two policemen were sent by the court to take possession of the tape recording made by Christine, whose relationship with Profumo had threatened to topple the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan. Macmillan met today with op position Labor party leaders in the face of the new development. Tonight he meets with the 1922 Committee, a powerful group of members of Parliament from his own party, which is expected to challenge his leadership. In formed sources said the commit tee would tell Macmillan that a majority of Conservative party MP's want him to quit before the next ecneral election, which must come before October. 1964. Aloysius 'Lucky) Gordon, 31. the Jamaican musician, was not in the Court of Criminal Appeal today when three judges granted attorney Ashe Lincoln's plea for permission to appeal his convic tion of beating Miss Keeler, which carried a three-year sen tence. DISORDERLY CONDUCT City police Saturday apprehend ed Jasper Clyde Sumpter, 33, of 224 E. Emerson Avenue and book ed him on a disorderly conduct charge. Bail was fixed at $100. Arrested Sunday on charges of being intoxicated in a public place was William Howard McLaugh lin, 52. of Herkimer, N.Y. His bail is $27.50. ' Now open to serve Central Oregon BEND CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC DR. B. G. Spurlock, Chiropractic Physician Laboratory X-Ray Physiotherapy 321 Greenwood Bend 382-5422 1 X A FINANCIAL FIGURE FOUND SLAIN Authorities remove the body of Mervin Gold, shown at left, missing Cleveland, Ohio, financial figure, from the trunk of his car. Gold was Missile companies trying to close gobbledegook gap By Leon Daniel UPI Staff Writer CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI)-A couple of companies instrumental in the success of the Minuteman missile are making a determined effort to close the space indus try's "gobbledegook gap." The war on this game of verbal hide-and-seek, sometimes called "weasel wording," is being waged by the Boeing Company and Space Technology Labora tories (STL). According to Kenneth L. Cal kins of the Boeing public rela tions department, this type of writing "often clothes itself in a protective sheath of jargon and can be identified by its artful way of saying nothing." Calkins' crusade is aimed at the people within the industry indus trial writers and other employes whose job it is to write letters, memos and reports dealing with the extremely complicated busi ness of making missiles. Here is an example of the kind of writing Calkins hopes to elim inate: "Man-machine require ments in this system environ ment impose severe visual acuity problems." Can't See Panel This translates "he can't see the instrument panel." Calkins said that about a year ago STL project manager Ivar M. Holliday looked over some Boe ing and STL reports and corre spondence on the Minuteman pro gram and although he is quite familiar with the missile he couldn't decipher some of them, Holliday decided that what was aeeded was some quality control of the hundreds of pages written about the Minuteman. Partially as a result of Calkins' and Holiday's efforts, Boeing and STL employes have attended classes aimed at lifting the fog from their writing. Calkins believes that unex plained, unfamiliar abbreviations have no place in a field that al ready is highly complex. In a top story In an Air Force command newspaper he counted 60 unex plained abbreviations. Typical Air Force writing leans heavily to the use of unexplained abbreviations, but Calkins said Air Force manual 10-4 reads, "the space saved by using abbrevia tions docs not begin to compen sate for the loss of clarity that may result ..." Needed An Aid Calkins said he knows of one Ranch worker to get sentence for 1962 shooting RENO, Nev. (UPI) A 19-year-1 old itinerant ranch worker was scheduled to go before a panel of three judges here today to be sen tenced for the fatal shooting of an Oregon man last August. Lester E. Morford III has plead ed guilty to the fatal shooting of Jack Foster, 23, Medford, after he kidnaped the victim and his bride of two days, Patricia, from a Reno motel. He forced them to drive to Lake Tahoe where he shot Foster in the back of the head with a .22 cali ber pistol and dragged his body off the road. He later allegedly criminally assaulted Foster's wife twice be fore she was able to jump out of the car at Carson City and es cape. Morford, whose parents live in Santa Rosa, Calif., was arrested near Carson City in a gasoline station. Police said he may have been sniffing glue at the time of the killing. They said they found 12 tubes of plastic cement and air plane glue in his motel room. Sev eral were open. lA ' Yflff ' 7 Boeing employes who collected source material to help cope with the abbreviation problem, includ ing a sheet entitled "AF (Air Force) abbreviations used on the Bomarc program." "It is this kind of non-writing that pushes the cost of corres pondence up to $20 a memo." Calkins said. He keeps battling away at tlie use of four-bit words and "cir cumlocution," which he defines as "saying nothing in 25 addition al words or more. One of the ways he docs this is to ask Boeing employes If they ever heard of William Gibbs. Us ually they haven't. Gibbs laid the foundation of physical chemistry that led to the present develop ment of tlie plastics, rubber and steel industries. Gibbs set down his ideas in a paper called "On The Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances." It was almost easier to rediscover the principles of physical chemis try than it was to read the pa per. Calkins said Gibbs came within a whisker of keeping all that knowledge to himself. Pilot spots climbers of Mt. McKinley TALKEETNA, Alaska (UPI) - Seven mountaineers from Har vard were continuing their climb up 20,230 foot Mt. McKinley to day, no longer the objects of an air search. Veteran bush pilot Don Sheldon popped his light plane through a cloud cover at the 17,000 foot level Sunday and spotted the climbers for whom a search had been conducted since last Wednesday. Sheldon reported that all mem bers of the expedition were in good condition and that they ap peared to be in no danger. Concern for the members of the expedition arose when the climb ers could not be located on the mountain. Dense clouds en shrouded the slopes, hampering efforts to locate the . climbers from the air. Among those participating in the air search was Lowell Thomas Jr., son of the famous commentator. He was in another plane at a lower level of the mountain when Sheldon located the climbers. Five members of the party be gan their ascent June 18. Two others followed June 25, reports said. MEETS WITH RABBI MOSCOW (UPI) The official Soviet news agency Tass said Fri day that the chief rabbi of Mos cow met with touring American women and described t h e "im provement" in Jewish life since the Bolshevik revolution. Tass named only one woman in the group, a Mary Bower of Cali fornia. 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Rackets figure, Alex "Shondor" Birns, right, is being sought in connection with the case. U.S. producing millionaires faster than ever WASHINGTON (UPI) - The na tion is producing millionaires at the fastest clip since the get-rich-quick era of the late 1920s. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in its latest tabulation on the subject reported today that 398 persons filed returns show ing $1 million or more income in 1961. This was the largest number since 1929 when the stock market was at the peak of its stratos pheric binge, and the total of $1 million taxpayers h 1 1 a record 513. Ninety-two new faces were added to this select group in 1961, the biggest increase since 1928 when the number spurted by 221. The IRS statistics show onlv those who reported earning $1 mil lion or more during the 1961 tax year. Authorities on the distribu tion of U. S. wealth estimate there are a lot more Americans who are worth $1 million today. Some have placed the number as high as 100,000. Government tax reports, of course, mention no names. But from these studies, it is possible to get a statistical profile of the average $1 million taxpayer in 1961. It would look something like this: The average top-bracket taxpay er had an adjusted gross income of about $2 million. He paid about $800,000 in income taxes. Most likely he was on a pay roll, althouch his income from salaries was a drop in the bucket to him, anyway. The biggest chunk of his earnings came from profits on the sale of such items as stocks and property. The IRS Millionaires Club ac counted for about .8 per cent of all taxes paid in 1HB1. By contrast, those in tlie $6,000 to $7,000 brack et paid 8.4 per cent of all taxes collected that year. Miss Universe contest starts MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Some of the most beautiful women in the world practiced poise and pulchritude today for the opening of the week-long Miss Universe Pageant. Although actual competition does not begin until Tuesday night the 97 beauties began receiving instructions from old hands and contest officials, learned in the art of beauty review. Miss Universe of 1963 will be crowned before a national televis ion audience at Convention Hall here Saturday night. The title is based on beauty and carriage. No talent is involved. One of the voung women rep resenting all of the United States and countries around the glolic will be crowned by Argentina's Norma Nolan, reigning Miss Uni verse. The winner will receive $7,500 in cash and a $10,000 per sonal appearance contract. Miss U.S A. preliminaries will be held Tuesday and one of the American beauties will be crown ed Wednesday night to compete with the global contestants In the Miss Universe preliminaries Thursday. AUCTION ouMTurr tux ir okom of oam of Dinicioas S1I0.OO0.00 (VALUATION RICHFIELD WOOD PRODUCTS 15 Ml. S. el F1 Bluff Hifhr saw CUT UP DPT. 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J., in six hours Sunday night. More than an inch of rain hit Curtis, Neb., in less than a half hour. Cooler air pushed in over the upper Midwest, where tempera tures dipped into the 50s during the night. Blythe, Calif., which simmered in 116 degree heat Sun day, cooled off during the night to 104. Several storm -born tornadoes were reported In the West and South Sunday but caused no seri ous damage. Two funnel clouds were re ported north of Yodcr in south eastern Wyoming while a severe weather warning was in effect. Imperial, Neb., also in the dan ger area, was battered by hail stones. A small tornado ripped ott a roof, tore down television anten nas and uprooted a garage five miles north of Elizabeth City in eastern North Carolina Sunday. No injuries were reported. Reds launch Laos attack VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI) -Communist Patlict Lao troops, supported by artillery and ma chinegun fire, were reported to day to have launched an attack on neutralist torccs entrenched southeast of the Plain of Jars air strip. Neutralist mililary sources here said the Communists fired 70 rounds of shells Sunday night at neutralist positions about two miles southeast of the airstrip. The sources added that Pathet Lao infantry supported by me dium machincgun fire, launched an attack against the neutralists. There were no immediate re ports of casualties. Tastewell SALAD Campbell's SOUPS All Varieties 31 00 Soflin 400' t FACIAL TISSUE No. 300 Joan of Arc Light KIDNEY BEANS Vi Gal. Elastic LIQUID STARCH Va Gal. Purax BLEACH Quart Bruct's FLOOR WAX Limit Rights Reserved CONGRESS THRIFTWAY 210 Congress Titanic TV vaudeville act misses top twenty cities By Doc Ouigg UPI Staff Writer BOONVILLE, Mo. (UPI) - There arc still giants in this land. Often you have to get out of the big cities to see them clearly. I refer, in this instance, to the finest Harrigan and Hart vaudeville-type act now rampant on television. It is composed of Jerome Han- na Dean, commonly known as Diz zy, and Harold Henry Reese, commonly known as Pee Wee, and they broadcast "The Game of the Week" on Saturdays and Sundays on about 50 per cent of the CBS network. The unlucky half of the network that doesn't get them includes all the major league cities, which means 20 of our biggest towns are bereft. They do a running comment on what is going on at the baseball game of the moment, throwing in accounts of their own titanic ca reers in the baseball of yore, and divers other matters, while you look at tlie game. (Anytime Dean says the word "yore, incidental ly, he's pronouncing the word "your.") . I took it all down for about four innings one day, and I still don't believe it. However, I offer the following fragments: Dizzy: "Yeah, that pitch I used to throw had a vapor trail." Pee Wee: "Really? That was pretty good, Diz." Dizzy: "Yep, a lotta times the umpire hadda call 'em by tlie sound." Two Bump Heads Dizzy: "Look at that! I never seen two ball ketchers butt heads in my life hardcrn they did. They're laid up, all right, they're hurt but boy, it was somep'n to see on television." Pee Wee: "He has a three, point, five-eighths earned run av erage." (I can't swear to this one, but it sounded like three, point, five-eighths.") Dizzy: "He dove back in there. If he'd a-slud, he'd a-made it." Dizzy: That batter's shakin' his head he don't know. I don't know what he don't know, but I know he don't know. Look at them um pires, they don't know neither, Thev re talkin to each other and shakin' their heads like they don't know. And that third base coach he's liftin' his hands he don't know. And I don't know. If knowed what they don't know, I'd tell ye. 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And George, if you're listening in today, I wanta tell you, you was right. I was a g-r-e-a-t pitcher..." Ditzy: "Folks, reason we had da laugh up here at that was that if that guy hadn't swang and hit it, it woulda hit him r-i-g-h-t in the belly." Dean is meticulous in his lin guistics and never would commit the grammatical gaucherie of us ing "like" as a conjunction, when all the other broadcasters use the more tidy "as." Like the follow ing, on a windy day: "That high fly was blown right in from cen ter field, as you seen on your screen." Tacoma girl gets state honor VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI)-A 20 -year -old coed from Tacoma will represent Washington in the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City. N.C., this faU. Blonde-haired Mardl Hagen, a' student at the University of Wash ington who competed as Miss Se attle, was selected Miss Washing ton at the closing session of the three-day Miss Washington Pag eant here Saturday night. 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