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I V. 3 Columbia Accident In Which Six Died State's 1954 Worst Salem (U.R) A Columbia county accident in which six -persons were killed and 13 oth ers were injured has been listed by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry as the worst in Oregon this year. The accident occurred early this month. . , Accidents and injuries still were lower than, those of 1953, but after a series of multiple death accidents, the death toll this year already was at least 401, compared to 391 deaths re corded in 1953. . There were five accidents in each of which four persons were killed. ' Car Leaves Roadway First occurred in February on 1 02nd Birthday Observed With Peace and Quiet Grogville, Okla. (U.R) When Mrs. S. E. Grant suggest ed that she invite some friends over today her father-in-law, James Grant, objected. "Just peace and quiet, that's all I want," Grant said. Mrs. Grant agreed and Grant celebrated his 102nd birthday today without any company for dinner. I Nehraand I niadamc Pandit! a. revealing portrait by -their sister An intimate portrait of India's Prime Minister Xehru and Madame Pandit, by their sister, Krishna. Youll learn : how Nehrti chose his bride and the dif ferences in marriage cus toms in India; why Nehru wears a rose in his button hole. Why Madame Pandit wears nylon saris and mink in the U.S., butonly home spun fabrics in India. Exclusive in the January Ladies' Home Journal. Ocz today on all newsstands. the Scio-Jefferson road in Linn county when a car failed to ne gotiate a curve, skidded off the roadway and overturned. Four more were killed in Des chutes county in March. The Traffic Safety Division said the crash was caused by a driver who was weaving along the highway. An oncoming car swerved to the left in an unsuc cessful attempt to avoid the crash. Four others were injured. Two four-death mishaps oc curred in November. One was in Linn county when a carload of teen-agers ' failed to stop for a stop sign and struck a truck. In Malteur county a car skidded on ice during the Thanksgiving holiday and four persons bound for a family reunion were killed. Plunges Down Embankment This month during the Christ mas holiday a car plunged off an icy highway down a 900-foot em bankment in the Hart mountain area of southeast Oregon and four persons were killed. . Eight accidents, in - each of which three persons were killed, added 24 to the record of high way accident deaths in Oregon. Two each were killed in 25 accidents. Boys Grow Longer, Scientist Discovers . Portland (U.R) Boys and girls both start their rapid per iod of growth about the same time but girls stop growing soon er, according to a University of Oregon medical school scientist. Dr. Edwin Osgood, head of the division of . experimental medicine, said boys and girls start their most rapid period of growth at about IVi years. Girls show an abrupt slowing of the growth process at ages 14 to 17 while boys continue growing un til 16 to 20 years, he said. Dr. Osgood said it had .pre viously been thought that boys grew faster than girls. He re ported his findings yesterday be fore the American Association for the Advancement of .Science meeting at Berkeley, Calif. I 1 MtjUk REPORTING Russian eovern ment has ignored his bill for treating Premier Stalin during last Illness, Dr. Fritz Heese, Ber lin specialist, .threatens to file Uw suit. . (International) Lost Pilot 'Talked In' During Snow Storm Spikane . (U.R) . A pilot flying here from Klamath Falls, Ore., got lost in a snowstorm near his destination yesterday but was "talked in" . to a safe landing at Geiger field. The pilot was identified as A. F. Lawton, who . left Klamath Falls about 10:50 a.m. in a four place Beechcraft plane. The Civil Aeronautics admin istration here said the pilot of the plane radioed abcut . 1:40 p.m. for landing instructions and was placed on a landing pattern for Felts field on the eastern edge of the city, v A few minutes later, the pi lot again radioed to report that he apparently was lost and could see only a grain elevator in the snow. The CAA found that he was over. Cheney, about 15 miles southwest of Geiger, then took down through the snowstorm un til the pilot could see the run way only before the wheels of his plane touched the ground. THE MOPPET VpTE Grand Rapids, Mich. U.R) An expenditure of $5 for lolli pops was listed among campaign expenses of Edward F. Weist, unsuccessful Democratic candi date for state senator in the Nov. 2 election. Wednesday, December 29, 1934. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Fantastic Doings Mark 1954 as Frantic Year New York U.R The sky did not fall. The Communists didn't bury the hatchet with the capi talists. The Dodgers didn't win the series. But don't let anyone tell you 1954 was a ho-hum year. - It was a fantastic year. Man kind, in a quiet sort of way, went off its rocker. It was a year in which a piano player named Liberace got six votes for sheriff in Mesa County, Colo. It was a year in which a farm er in Portugal said the object he saw in the sky was not a flying saucer but a cup. The Wrong House False notes abounded in the music of the . spheres. - Profes sional wreckers at Thorold, Ont., ripped the roof off a house, re moved the doors and windows and were chipping at the plaster when they discovered they were wrecking the wrong house. - Vincent Edward Halliday stabbed a woman at Great Yar mouth, England, and then apolo gized. He had mistaken her for his wife. Was it , an ordinary year for police at Englewood, Calif., who were asked to locate a missing scarecrow? ; ns Contract at Columbia Hollywood (U.R) Actress Rita Hayworth was back in bus iness today with Columbia Pic tures after signing ; ' a - contract calling for two . more pictures with the firm. Exact, details of the contract were not disclosed but studio' of ficials said negotiations were completed last night in Reno, where the red-haired actress, her crooner husband, Dick Haymes and her two children have been living. The new; contract, believed to be worth more than one million dollars for two future pictures starring Miss Hayworth, also dissolved the Beckworth Film Co.', which formerly" made Hay worth pictures for Columbia. 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