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Power Outage Halts Rushing Commuters On Long Island Line New York (U.R) A power breakdown Jn tunnels used by the Long Island Railroad, the country's busiest commuter line, stranded 50,000 passengers Tues day for almost three hours. Some 20,000 perspiring com muters jammed Pennsylvania Station. Others crowded nearby air-conditioned bars and restau rants to escape the 90-degree heat andt housands resignedly Oregon Income Tax Collections Tolal $56,822,294 Salem ftl.PJ-Oregon income tax collections for the biennium ending June 30, 1955, totaled $56,822,294, slightly in excess of receipts for the previous bien nium, according to Ray Smith, , chairman of the State Tax Com mission. Collections for the 1951-53 biennium totaled $56,334,163. Of the total collections, $42, 798,459 were paid by personal income taxpayers as compared with $41,522,927 in the 1951-53 biennium. Returns from corporate excise taxes fell slightly below the col lections during the previous two years. The total was $14,023,835 as compared with $14,811,236. Commissioner Smith pointed out that last June was the first month in which personal income tax collections were higher than during the same month in the previous biennium. In all other months of the last fiscal year, the collections had lagged. A drive on distraint warrants on employers who collect with holding taxes from employees and fail to remit such funds to the tax commission has been in progress for several months. Smith said. It has not yet become a prob lem," Smith said, "but we are doing our utmost to prevent these delinquencies from piling up." Minister Sought To Wed Couple in Plane Minneapolis (U.R) A Min neapolis model and a Kansas City millionaire who plan to be married July 30 in a lavish cere mony aboard an airplane over Iowa faced the down to earth problem today of finding a min ister to officiate. The Rev. George Butters, Minneapolis, who had registered in Iowa to perform the cere mony, bowed out Tuesday, say ing some of the plans for the wedding were not included in the original agreement. Flans called for Miss Marion Sutton, 27, and Edward L. (Doc) Williams, 52, to be married over Northwobd, la., in a chartered airliner. Aboard would be 43 guests, who would share in champagne toasts and watch a skywriter spell out "Just Mar ried" and draw arrow-pierced hearts In the sky. Deepest gorge in all of North Americ ais believed to be the Grand canyon of the Snake river located in Idaho. IP BUY THE NEW G E AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -AH Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN - HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer GENERAL O ELECTRIC Water Heaters. squeezed themselves into already-packed and steaming sub ways to take a round-about trip home. Severed Power Line The Long Island Railroad said the breakdown of its commuter trains was due to a severed pow er line which halted traffic in two tunnels under the East river. The break occurred at 3:58 p.m.. just in time for New York's daily elbow-your-neigh- bor commuter jam, and was not repaired until 6:22 p.m. Service was back to "normal" by 7:30 p.m. During those hours, huge Pennsylvania Station was a bed lam. The rush of commuters en tering the station, who did not yet know of the delay, ground against the rush of commuters leaving the station who knew only too well. The tie-up also reached across the Hudson river into Newark, N.J., where five inbound Penn sylvania Railroad trains had to discharge about 1,000 passen gers because there was no track space for the trains in the New York station. An ear-piercing loudspeaker added to the din at Penn Sta tion, informing would-be com muters of the trouble and ad vising them to take the subways "They can advise all they want," one woman said, "I'm not going to get on those sub ways, Some of the Long Islanders placidly accepted the delay as one of those things and took it as good-naturedly as the swelter ing heat would allow. Many 'of them waited in the station for restoration of service rather than face the subway jam But others surged against the Pennsylvania Station informa tion booth and heaped words of indignation on the hapless at tendants, the Long Island Rail road, the Transit Authority, the weatherman and anyone - else they could think of. Florida Aqiapop Files Divorce Suit Miami (U.R) Russell G Tongay, imprisoned for his aqua tot daughter's diving death, sought a divorce today in a suit that said he tried to hang him self in his cell. The burly ex-Coastguardsman filed the suit Tuesday in the Dade County Circuit Court charging his wife Betty, of Tarpon Springs, Fla., with mental cru elty. Tongay, serving a 10-year manslaughter sentence for the death of 6-year-old Kathy Tongay in May of 1953, said he tried to commit suicide in Raiford state prison because of despondency. He charged his wife has ceased loving him, has lost her desire to remain married to him and has visited him only once since he went to prison. They were married here in 1942. 'Mr. Legislature Harvey Wells Dies Portland (U.R) . Harvey Wells, Oregon's "Mr. Legisla ture," died here yesterday after noon at the age of 75. The veteran of 15 regular and special sessions of the state house of representatives was elected last year to serve what would have been his 14th regular ses sion. He resigned a week before the session started because of ill health. Wells, who was a Portland in surance man, served as state in surance commissioner in 1915-17. He effected codification of in surance laws and created the post of state fire marshal. Born in Emporia, Kan., he came to Portland with his fam ily in 1888. Whisk them away with granular form of Free Parking SPECIALISTS Iff MEDFORD . i iJ"""""'"" i 1 ' OFFICIALLY OPENED Walt Disney (right) seated in front of the Fantasyland Castle, officially opens his 17-million-dollar Disneyland on a national TV broadcast. Over 30,000 guests jammed the amusement park for the formal opening. As We Live THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO THE BUDGET PROBLEM Every problem has two sides to it. In a recent column I wrote about a man who complained that his wife skimped on the family meals so she could have money for clothes. The following letter, from a woman, points out why this may have been neces sary for the wife, as it is for the writer of this letter. She says: (Q) "I wonder if the men who do the complaining about the way their, wives spend money are fair in the management of family" f i j nances. I can xen you oi my own situation and I dare say the ones who do the most compl a i n i n g never accept the present day get a specified Dr. Herlock cost of living. I amount to lake care of the table. a good many household needs, clothes, doctors, and personal items, such as a permanent when I can afford it. My husband has the balance of his salary to pay the taxes, insurance, etc., but has enough to bank and buy bends and anything his heart desires. Yet, try and get any more from him and there's a sob story. Everything is for the proverbial 'rainy day.' "I try to explain to him that we may never live to see that rainy day, for we are both middle-aged now. When a woman gets a specified amount and must stretch that amount, she has to economize some place. I have never been able to save on meals, so naturally I do without a great many things. So, you see, there are two sides to every story and I haven't liked mine, but I could do nothing about it." 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The temperature of the healthy human body averages between 98.4 and 98.6 degrees fahrenheit. .-- - ' Uim ' " ROCKET" BNGINB CO) DAMIELL Shoemaker Moves To $8,000 Mark On TV Quiz Show New York (U.R) An Italian- born shoemaker with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of op era reached the $8,000 mark Tuesday night in "The $64,000 question,, television show. Gino Prato, 55, won the option of taking $8,000 or a chance on $16,000 next week, by correctly naming Manrico, Count di Luna and Leonara as the tenor, bari tone and soprano roles of the Verdi opera II Trovatore. Earlier in the CBS program he won $1,000 by naming the cello as the instrument Arturo Toscanini first played. He dou bled his money to $2,000 by naming two ' operas besides "Faust" in which the devil had a part and doubled that to $4,000 by naming the manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Next week, Prato returns to the show to announce whether he'll take the $8,000 or try for $16,000 with an even tougher question. Should he miss the $16,000 question the program's sponsors will soothe his feelings with a Cadillac convertible as a consolation prize. Bayard D. MacMichael of Se attle, Wash., reached $4,000 on Tuesday night also by answering questions concerning opera. Mac- Michael will try for $8,000 next week. Grange Pomona -Grange Jackson County Pomona Grange will meet Saturday, July 2, with the Griffin Creek Grange members as hosts. The meeting will be held in the Griffin Creek School gymnasium, and is sched uled to open at 8 p.m. The lecturer's program will include material prepared by Roy LeVander, chairman of the agricultural committee, a talk on taxes, arranged by Mrs. Anna Scott, chairman of the education committee, and a number pro vided by Mrs. Emily Glockler, lecturer of Griffin Creek Grange. Members attending should bring sandwiches or cookies. GO DVD mm ii a r m seasa 3 VISIT THE "ROCKET ROOM". . . AT YOUR OLDSMOtlU DIALtX'SI HILLER COMPANY, 415 S. Riverside - Phons CO AHEAD i .DRIVE IT Wednesday, July 20, 1953 John Snider Heads Legion Committee John Snider was recently ap pointed chairman of the Amer ican Legion's Post 15 American ism committee, according to Bud Fisher, commander. The members of the commit tee are Frank Van Dyke, Phil Lowry, Chet Hubbard and Earl Bigalow, with a sub-committee headed by Ray Huson to see that "every business house has a flag to display on holidays and other suitable occasions," Fisher said. Others on the sub-sommittee are Jack Crawford, Gene Orr, Clark Walker, and H. U. Mitchel. Snider said he was "very much interested" in the program of Americanism, especially in our schools, and would soon have a complete program to an nounce. Fisher added that Snider has "high hopes" of bringing the Phil Jackson Trophy to Medf ord next year. The $1,500 trophy was given by the late Phil Jack son of the Oregon Journal on a perpetual basis to the post in the state with the best American ism program, Fisher said. 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