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.
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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
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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."
(A) Have you stopped to think
that there might be another side
to your husband's story too?
Have you any evidence that he
actually gets all his heart de
sires and that he must never five
up anything he wants because
he feels he cannot afford it? If
you have such evidence, then
you are Justified in feeling as
you do.
The very fact that you both
are middle-aged would suggest
that your husband is being wise
in saving for a possible "rainy
day." True, you may never live
to see it but, then again, you may
and it would certainly be com
forting to know that you were
prepared for it. The money he
puts into insurance, bonds, and
other investments may someday
come in very handy. Then you
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WELCOMES ARREST
Detroit (U.R) Matthew Wil
liams, 26, a 200-pound six-footer
welcomed police who came to
arrest him at a church yesterday,
Williams needed medical aid aft
er 16 women began beating him
for trying to rob money from the
purse of one of them.
The temperature of the
healthy human body averages
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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.
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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.
Gold Hill Lamb Fair
Scheduled Tomorrow
Gold Hill The annual Gold
Hill 4-H and Livestock club's
community lamb fair, will be
held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to
morrow at the corner of Fourth
st. and Fifth ave.
The fair, sponsored by the
Gold Hill Lions club, is open to
4-H members from Jackson
county. ,
Sheep judging and demonstra
tion will start at 10 a.m., and.
showmanship contest will be
held in the afternoon. The Gold
Hill Lions club will present a
trophy to the grand champion
showman. k
Leonard Kuzman, vocational
agricultural instructor at Crater
High school in Central Point,
will be judge.
A food booth will be operated
by 4-H club members on the
grounds.
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DAHL GETS NEW TRIAL
Lausanne, Switzerland (U.R)
The Federal Court of Appeals on
Tuesday night granted American
flyer Harold Whitey Dahl a new
trial on 'gold-stealing charges.
Dahl, who is at liberty on bail,
was convicted last year of having
stolen $30,000 worth of cold
from a Swiss airplane which he
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Patterson has reappointed Her
man Brookman, Portland archi
tect, and Miss Elizabeth Lord,
Salem, as members of the State
Capitol. Planning commission
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