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.3 TEW MEDrOHD, (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. August 10, 19S5 o G O O e3 3 a S 9 8 Change in Soviet Censorship Hinted For Western Papers Moscow !U.R; A top spokesman for the Soviet For eign Ministry hinted broadly yesterday there soon may be a dramatic change in Soviet cen sorship regulations for Western " newspaper correspondents. The possibility was not ex cluded that censorsnip would be dropped entirely, the spokes man implied. Cabl Underlined 1 United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney filed the dis patch from Moscow yesterday reporting a possible easing of censorship but the cable was not delivered to its London destina tion until today It is assumed it was held in censorship although dispatches filed by other corres pondents on the same subject were delivered more promptly. Leonid F. Uyichev, Soviet briefing officer for the press at the Geneva Big Four confer ence and previous international ineetings, met a group of cor respondents today. He now is chief of the Foreign Ministry Press Department. Asked whether and when cen sorship would be lifted, the Press spokesman said: , "We will live and we will see.' Reports Denied He smiled broadly as he made this comment, and denied re- ports abroad that Communist Correspondents no longer had to submit news copy to censorship. "Rules are the same for all," fce said and asked "what obstruc tions" correspondents in Moscow Jrad met while trying to file dispatches. The United Press reporter re plied that the most important stories were still killed in whole cr in part by censorship. Also 'valuable time and energy was lost in having to type dispatch es that otherwise could be dic tated immediately by telephone to foreign bureaus, although some dispatches concerning of ficial stories were exempt from this control. Some Experts Say Leaning Tower of Pisa Will Collapse Before End of Century Pisa, Italy (U.R) Some pessi mistic experts are predicting that the Leaning Tower of Pisa, about to celebrate its 781st birth day, wont' live out the 20th century. One of these years it will lean all the way over, they sav. and that will be that. But if you plan to camp near by with a camera to catch the tower's spectacular finish, there are the optimistic experts to contend with. They say the tower has at least 300 years of Tourist Site Opened At Mountain Cavern Cody, Wyo. (U.R) Wyoming's newest tourist attraction, Spirit Mountain Cavern, opened offi cially this spring. The cavern, discovered in 1908 by Ned Frost while he was hunt ing on the slopes of Cedar Moun tain, has been favorably com pared to the famed Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico. The name derives from a local Indian legend. The Indians call ed the cavern "Spirit Mountain" because of the mists that rose from the numerous hot geysers, now long extinct, that once flow ed here. The city of Cody has awarded I 20-year lease to Claud Brown and his associates to develop the site as a tourist attraction. The property originally was held by the National Park Serv ice but was turned over to the city of Cody last year. SUMMER SPORTS, TOO Starlet Kathryn Grani-aff has some summer fun at Sun Valley, Idaho, a place noted for its winter sports. Left she lets fly an arrow during archery practice. Center she proudly shows off her trout catch, while at right she limbers up with a game of tennis. Clues Revive Search For Missing Woman Ponca City, Okla. (U.R) Two meager clues in the disappear ance of wealthy Mrs. Lydie Mar- land, widow of former Gov. E. W. Marland, revived a - three- year search today. State Crime Bureau Agent Sid Wilson sought to identify a parr tial dental plate and a Bulova wrist watch found on an uniden tified body in an Oregon river. New Type Drain Inlet Saves Street Costs Urban, 111. (U.R) Two University of Illinois engineers have designed a new type of drain inlet that can save up to $1,000 per mile on the con struction cost of city streets. The conventional type of drain costs from $100 to $125 and : about 10 of them are required per mile of city street to take water from gutters for storm sewers. Prof. John C. Guillou of the University's civil engineering department and Norman W. Nester, civil engineer of the rhysicar plant department, say 'their new "funnel type" pre-cast inlets cost half as much as the CldP ones. Furthermore, they said, the QPew inlets, which have been tested on the university cam pus for three years, are more ef ficient than the old style rec tangular drains. The new - type drain inlets streamline the flow of water in to the sewers and trap less de-1 bris in catch-basins, thus re-1 during the cost of cleaning the i basins, the designers say. Dead line Sunday Classified u at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day. Personal, Corporate Tax Collections Up Salem (U.R), The State Tax commission said today that nearly $500,000 more was collect ed in state personal and corpor ate income taxes during' the fiscal year ending June 30 than in the previous year. Of the $56,822,219 collected, personal income taxes account ed for $42,795,359 paid by 422, 727 persons and families. Total for the 1953-54 fiscal year was $56,334,163. Improvement was due to a 3.1 per cent increase in personal tax collections which was aided by cuts in federal rates which brought greater disposable in come to Oregon families, the commission said. Grasshoppers Worry Union County Farmers La Grande (U.R) Union county farmers were worried about grasshoppers today. According to County Agent Ray Wendel, the insects are com ing down from dry upland hills and eating into greener farmlands. The pests cut a 150-yard swath into an alfalfa field near Cove and have been eating leaves off cherry trees, Wendel said. Spraying is being conducted by ground and air to relieve the situation. Description of the body matches that of Mrs. Marland, 56-year-old oil millionaire, Wil son said. Mrs. Marland, who for merly lived in Ponca City, has been missing since March, 1953. "A reporter on the Portland Oregonian give us the first tip about the Oregon body," Wil son said. "It was pretty badly decomposed and apparently Ore gon officers did not make much of an investigation. They just buried it." Wilson said the Oregon body had a partial upper plate and a Bulova wristwatch. "We are calling all dentists here to see if any did Mrs. Mar land's dental work," he said. "We are also asking jewelers if they sold her a wristwatch." New Facts, Figures Folder Prepared The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce soon will have available a new "facts and fig ures" folder about Jackson county and Medford. . The brochure, which is folded to envelope size, contains infor mation on 39 different subjects, and is designed to provide com plete information to those mak ing general inquiry about the area. It will take the place of several bulkier, mimeographed information sheets, and will save mailing time at the office and postage and will present the information in more attrac tive form, according to the chamber. Among the ' subjects covered arp climate. watpr siinnlipe I ' " population growth, housing, land, wages, employment, trade area, transportation, . business and industrial information, li braries, schools, parks, play grounds, airport, medical facili ties, cultural activities, and so on. BATHING SUITS VETOED- Tokyo (U.R) Tokyo police today ordered coffee shop own ers to stop dressing their wait resses in bathing suits. The po lice said scanty costumes ar;- not for coffee shops even though the . tea cake shops have been packing customers in since the innovation. NEW LOCATION Modern Plumbing & SHEET METAL CO. 613 East Jackson Phone 3-5368 DOUGLAS FIR PINE WHITE FIR LUMBER WANTED ROUGH GREEN W are always in th Market for Rough Green Lumber in All Species. Good Prices Quick Unloading MOGAN LUMBER CO. healthy leaning still ahead. The fate of the 179-foot white marble tower was a subject of general scientific concern on the anniversary today of the laying of its cornerstone. Began Tilling It was on Aug. 10, 1174, that construction of the tower began. An honor guard of crossbowmen stood straight as ramrods at the site, and the architect, Bonnaus of Pisa, proudly gave directions. The tower was one-third up when it began to tilt. Bonnaus washed his hands of the affair and the tower stood uncompleted for 90 years. Then Pisans de cided to finish it anyhow, build ing the upper portion heavier on one side to allow for the lean. The bells, weighing 22,000 pounds, were placed in a spot where they wouldn't aggravate the lean. Since then the tower has stood off hurricans, earthquakes and wartime bombing raids. It has survived the probings of scien tists and the footfalls of panting tourists. What bothers engineers is that the tower leans a little more every year. How long can this go on? Lean Increasing The lean from the perpendicu lar is now 17 feet, two and a half inches, and it is increasing at the rate of about .027 inch a year. This is perceptible only to members of the "Ministerial Commission of Vigilance for the Stability of the Bell Tower of Pisa, who measure it faithfully once a year. But Prof. Silvio Ballarin, di rector of the Geodetic Institute of the University of Pisa, has noted that over the past 34 years the lean has actually increased an average of 0.46 inch a year. In 1907, the tower leaned over a whole 2.75 inches further, and the Ministerial Commission shot thousands of tons of concrete into its base to forestall what seemed to be an imminent col lapse. Similar injections of con crete continued through 1949. Sub-Soil Shift Blamed Although some historians claim the architect Bonnaus devilishly plotted the tower's caprice to confound future gen erations, it is generally belieyed the tower leans because of shifty sub-soil and underground streams feeding the Arno river. 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