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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
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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.
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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.
Eight persons have .dived to
their deaths from the upper
reaches of the tower, and one
woman charged with a local
murder contended the daily sight
of the tower had driven her
mind off center.
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