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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday January 19 1955 Sergeant's Wife Raped, Strangled In Florida Home Panama City, Fla. OJ.F3 Police began "rounding up strangers" today for questioning about the rape and strangula tion of an Air Force sergeant's attractive young wife in a "ter rific fight" at her home. , Authorities said Mrs. Lou El len Jones, 21, had been dead for six to 10 hours when S-Sgt. Joe Jones, 22, found their three-year old son, Curtis Raymond, trying in vain to "awaken" his mother. Man Scan Ttntnrinrr Sheriff M. J. Daffin said that neighbors saw a man park his car at about 9:30 yesterday mor ning, enter the Jones home, and later drive away at a "pretty high speed. Neuberger. Wants Lower Social Security Age - ; Washington U.R)--Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger, (IM)re.) said he will introduce a bill in the Senate to lower the social secur ity qualifying age for women to 60. .' , - ' Under present : law, women and men are ineligible for social security benefits until they are 65.- , "He hit mama with a knife," the boy told Daffin. ; "I cried and mama cried too." An autopsy showed the wo man had been raped and stab bed but apparently died : of Men Seek To Save Tethered Horse Fairplay, Colo. U.R) A group of ranchers hope to set out today for the high slopes of Mount Silverheels to rescue a tethered horse trapped above timberline for a month. . ' 4 - No one knows how the horse got caught on the mountainside. Binoculars .show", that he has grubbed beneath the snow for grass as far as his harness rope will allow. The horse may have been tied there and abandoned, or may. have . fouled, the . rope while grazing and been unable to work it free. - Without food, and now appar ently unable to reach the ring of snow lying just outside the horse's .tethered reach, the ani mal must die unless: it -is freed and led down the mountainside. strangulation, Daffin said. - He said his men were rounding up "strangers" for questioning. Beliered Surprised . Police speculated that Mrs. Jones was surprised by an in truder while washing dishes. Her wedding, engagement and class rings, which she habitually removed for the chore, lay in the sink drain. . ; Sgt. Jones found the nude body in the bedroom when he returned from ' duty at nearby Tyndall Air Force base, where he has been stationed for about a year. . - ' '- " . Daffin said the woman appar ently, put up a "terrific fight." He said much of the home was in disorder, with furniture over turned, and a vase shattered. -Burns UR) The Edward Hines Lumber Company, Burns, has announced the signing of a new labor contract with its 750 AFL Lumber and Sawmill work ers in its woods and mill operations. Walla Walla (U.R) The American Alumni Council will meet here Jan. 26-27. , Mrs. Neuberger Puis Vet Bill in Hopper Salem (U.R) Rep. Maurine Neuberger, Portland Democrat, yesterday introduced a bill to put a $500 ceiling on fees that could be charged for 'manage ment of the estate of incompe tent veterans. V V. ;. - Similar laws now are in effect in some 40 states, she said. She and her husband, now U.S. Sen ator Richard L. Neuberger, in troduced a similar bill in the 1953 session when he was state senator. It passed in the Senate but died in a House committee. Cornelius Man Burns To Death in House Fire Cornelius (U.R) A 65-year-old man was burned to death : Monday afternoon when the interior of his frame, house here was destroyed by fire. Fred Adams, 64, was found by volunteer firemen on a burn ing daveno.. Washington county coroner Graham Young said the fire was due to smoker's care lessness. Adams was employed as a watchman for a local lum ber company. . : Dead line Sunday Classified to at noon Saturday : 10 a jn. Monday for Monday, other days 5:30 previous day " mm,' ' 1 JCSkw sirs yd J I: 1 1 : B ---'jg A . 1 ' . SRI STOP THE PRESSES That's "what Jantzen model Karlyn Eyolfson of Portland, Ore., is doing long enough to remind you that it is Na tional Printing Week Jan. 16-22. Qncinnaf i To Host Church Conference Cincinnati U.R) More than 1,600 church leaders will come here between Feb. 4 and Feb. 11 for the 1955 meeting of the Di vision of Christian Education of the National - Council of Churches of Christ in the U.SA. I The theme of the meeting will be "Communicating the Chris tian Gospel." Representatives of 39 cooperating denominations will attend. f ; A spokesman for; the group explained , that "this ; country's population is growing .-; so fast and moving around : so much that the church that ministers to it must be constantly studying and improving its methods." - Morse Judged Third Best Dressed in Senate Washington U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon Independ ent noted for sharp and lengthy debate and his strong stands on controversial issues, this ' week made news in an entirely differ- ent way. , Z. - The Oregon senator won third place in a senate press gallery poll . to .determine, "the best dressed member of the United States senate. . - Nixon Will Pump Gas To Aid Polio Fund Drive .. Washington (U.R) Vice-President Richard M. . Nixon was to serve a brief trick as a filling station hand tomorrow to dram atize the "pumping for jolio" program of the infantile paraly sis drive. v; i The "pumping for polio" pro gram is . designed to increase motorists' contributions to the drive by having well-known fig ures take a turn at filling sta tion work." .' : Arrested in Pbrfland - Portland (U.R) Harry F. Rice, 53, a union business agent in Portland . until his expulsion in December, was arrested here yesterday afternoon on a charge of embezzling union funds. Deputy District Attorney Joe Labadie issued a warrant charg ing Rice, with embezzlement of $5,369.04'.' The complaint was signed .by .T. Glenn Smythe, who succeeded Rice as business agent of , the Supercargoes and Check ers union, local No. 40 of Port land, an affiliate of the Inter national : Longshoremen' and Warehousemen union. Crosby Undcrgoss Major Surgery Hollywood U.R) Ring Cros by undergoes major surgery at1 St. John's hosnital in nearbv . 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