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Asthma Sufferers Hard Hit by Smog In New Orleans Area New Orleans (U.R) Two asthmatic patients died and more than 200 others were treat ed at hospitals between midnight and dawn today as atmospheric conditions, including smog, touched off one of the worst con ditions for asthma sufferers in many years. A Charity Hospital doctor de scribed the condition of the pa tients as "unusually severe" and said the rush in the emergency room was the worst in memory. Attacks Severe Dr. George Ramsey of the Charity hospital emergency staff said the attacks suffered by the esthma victims were severe and added: "It's a miracle we didn't lose more." ' The dead were identified as Jules Glapion, 65,. a Negro, and Joe Adams, about 60. The Orleans Parish coroner's office said that it was "purely coincidental" that the two who died during the attacks had been asthmatics. However, a spokes man admitted that one died of a Court Upholds Verdict in Dalles Pineapple Incident San Francisco U.R) The U.S. Court of Appeals has af firmed a lower court verdict awarding the Hawaiian Pineap ple company $201,274 .in dam ages against the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's union for union activities during a 1949 dock strike. The court alsfi upheld a lower court verdict freeing more than 100 individuals of responsibility and ordering the pineapple com pany to pay court costs and oth er fees. The suit was filed after Ha waiian Pineapple bypassed a dock strike in the islands and sent a bargeload of pineapple to The Dalles, Ore., behind a tug. Pickets from the ILWU local protested the unloading of the barge. In an ensuing disturb ance, they dumped, four truck loads of pineapple into the Co lumbia river. The fruit was finally moved to the -company's San Jose, Calif., cannery. . ' A jury in Portland Federal1 court awarded Hawaiian Pine apple damages, but it refused to place responsibility on any one individual. The union appealed the damage verdict, and the company appealed the court cost verdict. The appeals court said "There was probably an inconsistency in the verdict" but upheld it anyway. heart attack, which could have been brought on by the breath ing difficulty. An autopsy was to be performed on the other. Charity doctors, however, em phasized that their deaths were brought on by the asthma. ' The weather bureau reported a loss of fog and smog during i the cool night. A spokesman said the condition was unique . be cause there seemed to be a con siderable amount of dust late yesterday afternoon and through the night. Dr. Ramsey . said a sudden change in the weather usually is the cause of a rush of asthma victims. But he said last night was the worst he had ever seen. Smog rolled into the northeast section of the city again last night for the seventh consecu tive night. Hundreds of trapped motorists sat glumly by their cars on a stretch of the main highway to Mississippi for several hours last night and early today waiting for the smog to lift. New Orleans police tried to shepherd cars through, but only a trickle was able to roll. Magnuson Questions Cannery Sanitation ' Seattle U.R) Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) said to day he had written the commis sioner of the Food and Drug Ad ministration asking an investiga tion into allegations that fish products canned aboard Japan ese cannery ships are processed under sanitary conditions. "It seems to me that if these allegations are true the Ameri can consumer is entitled to know the facts so that the American housewife, in shopping for fish products, would be fully advised of the possible hazard to health attendant on the use of foods that are not produced under the high standards maintained by our American canning indus try," Magnuson wrote commis sioner George P. Larrick. Newbry Protests Illinois Violation Salem (U.R) Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry today sent a vigorous protest to Illinois Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier for that state's vio lation of terms of a reciprocal agreement last Sept. 1. Eldon Bonner, an Oregon trucker hauling a load of to matoes east, was held up in Compton, 111., with a demand that he purchase an Illinois li cense plate costing $447. Newbry asked that Bonner's truck be released to continue under terms of the agreement between the two states. - Wonderful Way CO in CAunimt RETURN fll KOITHERH ROUE Or reverse the direction. 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The fight started as soon as an improvised Trieste was returned to Italy under the Italo-Yugo- slav agreement of October, 1954, after 11 years of, first, German and then Allied occupation. The Italian government, which has controlling interests in all leading shipping lines, refused to return the merchant fleet of the Lloyd Triestino to Trieste as long as the city was not part of Italy. It awarded the ships to Genoa, where they added to that port's thriving traffic. Two Liners Returned By last October, Trieste was in the throes of its worst ever economic crisis. No sooner was the city reunited to Italy than it started clamoring for the ships. The government took a first major step towards meeting Trieste's requests when it 're turned the liners Saturnia and Vulcania earlier this year, mak ing Trieste the starting port of their run to New York. Some smaller ships followed. Tempers in Genoa blew up re cently when reports spread that the Lloyd Triestino motorships Asia and Vittoria, serving the Far East route, also would be re turned to Trieste. A delegation of Genoese ship ping operators, led by a former merchant marine minister, Paolo Cappa, rushed to Rome and asked Premier Antonio Segni to stop the transfer. Segni assured them that no decision had been made and that the matter would be carefully considered. Genoa Fears Damage The Genoese argument is that the ships are no use in Trieste, which has no hinterland left. Only effect of the transfer, the Genoesa said, would be that for eign shipping lines would re place the Italian lines on the runs from Genoa, thus damaging Genoa without helping Trieste. Genoa's competitor, the French port of Marseilles, also would benefit from the removal of the Italian ships to far-away Trieste, the Genoese claimed. The port of Genoa serves a wide hinterland including the in dustrial areas of Milan and Tur in and all of land-locked Switz erland. Railway connections from Genoa to central and north ern Europe . also are better and faster than from Trieste. The shortest railway line from Tri este to Vienna passes through Yugoslavia, which has no inter est in helping Trieste's traffic by easing tariffs. ' . Genoese, businessmen - who have poured considerable sums into a project for construction of an airport near the city said the airport too would be of no use if Genoa lost it maritime connections. Trieste's answer to these ar guments was: "We need the ships to over come our economic crisis. And besides they're ours." Wednesday, October 26. 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Upper Colorado Project Will Go To Congress Again, McKay Says Denver (U.R) Interior Secre tary Douglas McKay has assured backers of the huge Upper Colo rado Storage project that the four - state, multi - development program will be resubmitted to Congress next session with the full support of the Eisenhower administration. Ike Hasn't Wavered After a 25-minute bedside conference with the President here yesterday, McKay said "Mr. Eisenhower hasn't wavered an inch'' in his support of the proj ect. The Upper Colorado author ization bill was shelved by the House last session. The interior secretary said he expected the Upper Colorado project, along with the Frying Pan-Arkansas project in south ern Colorado, to be included in the President's State of the Union message early in January. "If the projects aren't includ ed in that message," said McKay, "they probably will be the sub ject of a special message short ly afterward.'-' McKay said the Interior de partment was continuing its sup port "of the original bill." The Senate-passed version called for a billion dollar program and in cluded the controversial Echo Jury Selection in Fong Trial Stalled Rabbits Targets Of Hanford Gunners Camp Hanford (U.R) Sol diers who man the giant 75 mil limeter guns and Nike guided missiles guarding the Hanford atomic plant were plinking away at rabbits with .22 caliber rifles today on specific orders of the Army. - It seems, according to an Army order issued to the 5th AA Group, the rabbits are "destroy ing the esthetic appearance" of the camp's gunsites. The guns are located in the desert around the sprawling atomic reservation and the sol diers have gone to a lot of trou ble to plant corn and wheat and grass anything green to hold down the central Washington dust and make the isolated gun sites a little more livable. But the rabbits have been keeping the pretty green things chopped off at the ground. Not only that, but the Army says there are "hordes" of the crit ters. So the Army issued a direc tive calling for "extermination of all rabbits." Television Permit Sought at Coos Bay Washington (U.R) Koos, Inc., has requested authority to build a channel 16 television sta tion at Coos Bay, Ore. KOOS had filed for this same authority three years ago but withdrew its bid. Its new appli cation, filed before the federal communication commission late yesterday, came only a few days after Pacific Television of Eu gene, Ore., had applied for the same construction permit. Pa cific TV owns KVAL-TV at Eugene. Portland (U.R) Final em panelling of a jury to hear the second trial of Sherry Fong on a first degree murder charge was stalled here today when two of the 12 jurors chosen earl ier were excused. Attorneys had previously cho sen a panel of eight women and four men.- Late this morning, however, Doris E. Farrell tele phoned that she was ill and Judge Alfred P. Dobson excus ed her. Laveta F. Goulder was drop ped by stipulation of attorneys on the basis of a letter from a physician that she needed to be near her husband who is ill. Mrs. Fong and her husband, Wey Him, were convicted last spring but the verdict was over thrown and new trials were or dered. They chose to be tried separately. The jury was dismissed after it was chosen yesterday but will be locked up until the end of the trial, which may take about three weeks. About 80 per cent of teachers hi U.S. public schools are wom en. Park dam phase bitterly attack ed by conservationists. 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