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BOUND FOR SAN MARINO, their native land, on mission to oust Communist influence, 44
Detroiters give V sign for victory. Small nation, surrounded by Italy, is only nation this side
of Iron Curtain controlled by Reds. Ballots will be cast at national election. (International)
(Government Launches Plans
To Distribute Vaccine Funds
Washington (U.R) The
government Saturday launched
a Droeram to distribute 530,000
000 to the states for their Salk
nnlin vaccine Droerams.
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between now and next Feb. 15
under a bill signed into law
by President Eisenhower Fri
day.
The measure authorizes fed
pral grants to the states of
enough funds to provide free
vaecine for one-tnira oi tneir
itill unvaccinated children and
expectant women.
This will cost about $60,000,-
000. Congress, when it came to
G putting up the actual cash, vot
ed S30,000,000 as the govern
ment's share.
Each state's share of the $30,
000.000 allotment was determin
ed bv a formula based on. the
number of still unvaccinated
persons in the state, the cost of
the vaccine, and the states per
capita income.
The law is an emergency mea
sure designed to make sure that,
while Congress is not in session,
no eligible person is deprived of
tile polio shots because he or she"
cannot afford to pay for the vac
cine. Both the House and the Sen
ate have promised to see what
more should be done when they
reconvene in January.
Federal grants will be under
the . supervision ' of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
Of the $30,000,000, $25,000,
000 is available for the purchase
,of vaccine, and $5,000,000 may
be used for the costs of planning
and conducting of polio immun
ization programs or for the pur
chase of vaccine. The funds are
to be used by Feb. 15, 1956.
Separate from Voluntary
O The polio vaccine assistance
act is separate from the volun
Logging Firm Head
"Killed in Accident
Eureka, Calif. (U.R). Dean
W. Langford, 38, owner of the
Klamath Glen Logging com
pany, was killed Friday and
two persons seriously injured
when Langford's pick-up truck
was hit by the rear of a truck
trailer on Highway 101.
Police said Langford's ve
hicle was struck head on, near
the Humboldt-Del Norte county
line, by an axle-whee! assembly
which broke loose from a truck
driven by Leonard E. Hamblin,
Crescent City.
The Injured, passengers in
Langford's truck, were Robert
Arts and Roy Blake, both of
Klamath.
AKINS-JONES BOUT
Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R)
Virgil Akins of St. Louis, the
fifth ranking welterweight, has
signed to meet Harold (Baby
face) Jones of Detroit, in a 10
round outdoor bout here, Sept.
31.
POSTPONE MATCH PLAY
A team match between Rogue
Valley Country club and Grants
Pass Country club golfers sched
uled at the Rogue Valley club
Aug. 21 has been postponed and
probably will be played" Oct. 2,
Al Williams, RVCC pro, has an
nounced. tKJLO TEAM WINS
Oswego (U.R) The Port
land polo team defeated San
Francisco, 7-6, in a match here
Friday.
Q Dr. Robert E. Lee
Optometrist
Moved from "BIG Y"
Market Building
to a
Down Town Location
- 309 East 8th
Between Bartlett & Riverside
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tary plan for distributing vac
cine during the period of short
supply.
Under the voluntary alloca
tion plan, the Public Health ser
vice allocates the supply and the
states have the responsibility for
distribution through both com
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SITTING BESIDE BED, Mrs. Mary Hagelstein, North Wey
mouth, Mass., visits daughter, Jeanne, 4, in Boston hospital
where she is undergoing treatment for polio. Boston has more
than 270 cases, Massachusetts 684 in greatest outbreak in his
- tory. Twenty-one state deaths are reported. (International)
Massachusetts Lists Another Polio Death
Boston U.R) Massachusetts
reported- another polio death
Saturday as officials predicted
a leveling off in the state's epi
demic. Dr. Roy F. Feemsler, chief of
the State Communicable Disease
Division said that the drop in
the number of new cases was
"encouraging." He said that af
ter two days of comparatively
fewer cases of polio "we natural
ly suspect a leveling off."
Friday night the disease claim
ed another death. Seven - year
old Richard Lund of Springfield,
died at Barnstable County Hos
pital. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Lund were notified by
Springfield police.
Friday, health officials re
ported a total of 54 new cases
in Massachusetts, the lowest
mercial and public agency chan
nels. State allotments under the
bills includes Arizona, $209,187;
California, $1,597,864; Idaho,
$138,225; Nevada, $25,541; Ore
gon, $269,8422; Utah, $166,281,
and Washington, $384,315.
daily figure since Aug. 3. The
new figure boosted the state's
tolta to 1158 so far this year.
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St. Louis (U.R) Oliver Open
lander's first day as a school
crossing guard was a hectic one.
Police told him to call the dis
trict three times a day from his
post. He mistook a fire alarm
box for a police call box, opened
the door and pulled the hook.
Openlander pleaded guilty to a
charge of turning in a false fire
alarm but escaped a $50 fine
when he was placed on proba
tion. The average service station
is open 99 hours a week and
sells 13,400 gallons of gasoline
a month.
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W. PEPSI.'
Ike Can Be Satisfied
With Week's Results
At Geneva Conclave
BY ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Correspondent
Geneva (U.R) This is the
balance sheet of the first week
of the atoms for peace confer
ence one of the most remark
able gatherings of scientists ever
assembled.
President Eisenhower, who
first proposed it, can be well
satisfied with the early results.
As he had hoped, scientists from
East and West are mingling for
the first time in years with less
stiffness and suspicion between
them than might have been
thought probable.
' No one from Russia or the
United States is happily slapping
his opposite number on the back,
of course. But the fact that a
Russian can get up in a discus-
Downtown Portland
Bank, Apartment
Buildings Planned
Portland (U.R) Plans for
a new apartment house as tall
as Portland's tallest office build
ing, were announced here Sat
urday. The 15-story structure would
be built by Joe Coleman and
Son, former eastern Oregon
lumber and timber operators,
on the west side of the park
blocks (between Southwest Clay
and Market streets).
The apartment house, if pre
liminary plans are given final
approval, would be the tallest
"skyscraper-type" a p a r t m ent
building in the city. It would
contain 188 apartments. Esti
matde cost is in excess of $2,
000,000. Edmundson, Kennedy and
Kockendorfer prepared prelim
inary plans for the building.
Coleman and Son formerly
held extensive interest in Kin
zua Pine Mills.
Portland (U.R) First Na
tional Bank of Portland Satur
day anounced plans to construct
a $1,000,000 building on Port
land's west side.
The proposed bank structure
would be three stories tall. Its
facilities would include a 30-car
underground parking area, and
drive in banking facilities.
Bank officials said the second
and third floors would include
space for head office depart
ments that are now located in
three downtown buildings.
ARRESTED
Richard Wray Putney, 33, of
125 Nob Hill, Ashland, was ar
rested and placed in the county
jail by sheriff's officers Friday.
He has admitted morals offenses
inolving four different boys
ranging in age from 14 to 16,
over the past two months. Put
ney was in possession of porno
graphic literature when arrest
ed, the office reported.
sion and Question an American
about his paper, and an Amer
ican can do the same to a Rus
sian is certainly a breach in the
Iron Curtain.
Red Paper Praised
Delegates agree the United
States is disclosing far the most
information but Russia's speak
ers seem to be striving to make
a real contribution and some of
their papers have been praised,
even by Americans.
Americans believe, however
that the Russians must be op
erating under a much stricter
security or classification system.
This was evident when Dr.
Alvin Weinberg of Oak Ridge
National Laboratories vainly
tried to pin down D. I. Blokhint
seve of Russia about a molybde
num compound used in an atom
ic power station, proudly de
scribed by the Reds as "first in
the world."
Other Russians have shown
the same elusiveness on oc
casional technical points. But no
matter what they are hiding
and they may have a few cards
in reserve the American dele
gation is certain on the basis of
what it has been and heard that
the U.S. still holds a lead over
the Soviet in every field of
peaceful applications.
On the whole, the ledger for
the first week of the congress of
1,200 scientists from 72 nations
is in the black. The papers read
thus far have made clearer the
outlines of the atomic age on
which an unready world em
barked in the blinding flash over
Japan ten years ago.
Other Developments
Scientists have:
Stressed the necessity for
atomic power as soon as possible
because world population is in
creasing by 100,000 people a day
and they must be . given food,
clothing and shelter food and
health organization.
Predicted the world in 2000
A.D. will need eight times the
energy it consumes now Dr. I.
I. Rabi of the U. S.
Pointed out the dangers in pos
sible "runaways" accidents to
nuclear reactors which may
loose clouds of radiation and
poisonous gases over wide areas
C. Rogers McCullough of the
U. S. Atomic Energy Commis
sion. Tacoma Man Involved
In Sword Incident
Eugene (U.R) Robert E.
Potter, 25, of Tacoma, Wash,
has agreed to waive extradition
to Washington to face charges
of assaulting another man with
a sword.
Potter, who is held in city
iail here, was nicked ud at a
local hotel with his wife. He
declined to discuss the sword
incident, and further details
were not available.
The average service station
operator works 72 hours a week,
according to a Du Pont survey.
Sunday, August 14, I95S
Cheaper 'W Turns,
Costlier Illegal
Left, Right Turns .
Portland (U.R) It will
cost less from now on for motor
ists to! make an illegel "U" turn
in Portland, but it will be cost
lier to make a prohibited right
or left turn.
A new schedule released by
police shows illegal "U" turn
assessments reduced from $4
to S2. But fines for improper
right or left turns were boosted
from $4 to $6.
Youth Cleared Of
Extortion Charge
Portland (U.R) William
C. Hook, 18, Portland, was
cleared of an attempted extor
tion charge Friday by Circuit
Judge William Dickson on a
motion from the district attor
ney's office.
However, pre-sentence invest
igations were ordered for two
other rnen involved in an extor
tion attempt against 72-year-old
Solomon Olimansky.
John W. Corbin, 25, and Roy
L. Bower, 44, earlier pleaded
guilty to charges of trying to
extort $30,000 from Olimansky
by threatening to have him de
ported to Russia.
The district attorney's office
said Hook was innocently drawn'
into the affair by the other two
men who asked him to drive
their car.
Troy, N. Y. (U.R) Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute's physics
department is making a research
into the sound absorption prop
erties of materials used in the
manufacture of carpets and rugs.
IT STARTS TUESDAY
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TJIIBU LtVE
World Pays Tribute
To Late Thomas Mann
Zurich, Switzerland (U.R)
The world paid tribute Saturday
to Thomas Mann, Nobel prize
winning "Grand old man of
German literature."
Hundreds of messages poured
into the little post office at
Klichberg, the small town on
the shores of Lake Zurich where
the noted novelist spent the last
months of his life before enter
ing the hospital.
Wat 80 Years Old
Mann, a naturalized citizen of
the United States, died sudden
ly Friday night at the Cantonal
hospital. Death was attributed to
a thrombosis, or blood clot, fol
lowing a period of general weak
ness. He was 80 years old.
At his bedside when the end
came were his wife, Katja, his
daughter Erika and one of his
sons.
Mann was stricken during a
holiday in the Netherlands last
month and was returned to
Switzerland on a stretcher.
Mrs. Mann said that her husband
felt "quite strong and chipper
otherwise."
Only a week ago, Mann-told
callers over the telephone that
he felt quite well and was hop-
QUIET NIGHT
Salt Lake City (U.R) For the
first time in at least 25 years,
Salt Lake City recently marked
up a crimeless night. Lee Acomb,
police clerk, said an entire night
went by without a single arrest
for any cause. He said it was
the quietest night in at least a
quarter of a century.
LUBS-
ing to leave the hospital soon.
The first announcement of
Mann's death brought hundreds
of telephone calls, many from
abroad. Nobody seemed to want
to believe that this man so full
of vitality had left the world.
Until stricken last month, the
famous novelist led a quiet but
active life in his home above
Zurich. He wrote daily, read
with insatiable desire arid walk
ed in his garden every day.
His daughter, Erika Mann,
said her father's funeral will be
held at Klichberg. Survivors are
Mrs. Mann, the writer's wife of
50 years, Erika, who lived with
her parents, and four of the
other five living children: An
gelus, Monika, Elizabeth "and
Michael. The sixth child, Klaus,
also a novelist, died in 1949.
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