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y o Colin Kelly III Receives Highest Scouiing Award Concord ville. Pa. UB Col lin P. Kelly III, whose father won this nation's highest award in World War II, proudly wore today the highest award of the Boy Scouts. q The 15-year-old red-haired "Corky" was presented with a sash signifying his elevation to the rating of Eagle tScout last night in a ceremony here. Numerdjjl Difficulties - The youngster, who lives with Cyhis mother and step-father in Chester Heights, Pa., stood at at tention as Judge Willfam P. Toal of Delaware County Court pin ned the badge to his khaki uniform. He then saluted smart ly and returned to his place at his mothers side. Judge Toal observed that "a son who bears the mantle of a great father is pitted against nu merous difficulties that are not easy to ovejrcome." "Young 'Corky,' through per severance and integrity, has earned the nation's highest scput award. He has lived with a grea ideal and tonight he is not found wanting." His father's heroic death in crashing a crippled B17 bomber ' into a Japanese battleship at the outset of the war' prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to write to "the president of the United States in 1956," asking that Kelly s son be considered for appointment to West Point when he became eligible. The boy told reporters he was undecided on whether to enter West Point or the Air Force Academy. He said he first want ed to complete his high school studies and then might attend " college for a year before making his decision. Leak in Pipe Leads Pj&ce T- Hidden Liquor q Tuskegee, Ala. (U.R) Offi cers who searched Ola Mae An derson's car in vain for illegal whiskey finally found a pungent clue to her secret. AjIeak in a copperpiping led sheriff officers to a five-gallon tank welded under the Negro cafe operator's" car. The system was equipped with an electric motor to pump whis key through a tiny spigot con cealed under the dash board. 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Q 1 SI v -Hi pmmmmmmmm o ' - " . Young Gun .Victim Fights for Life; Spurned Boy Dies Kittaning, Pa. U.R) A 15-year-old girl fought for her life today in the same hospital where a 17 -year -old rejected suitor who wounded her and killed her parents and uncle died last night. The youth, John Fallone, was fatally wounded yesterday when he traded shots with a 35-man posse and wounded one police man. Condition Cziiical Officials at Armstrong coun ty Memorial hospital said the condition of Gladys Smail was so critical that the bullet lodged in her chest could not be re moved. The policeman, Gus Za nos of Apollo, Pa., was in satis factory condition with a head wound. Police said the lovesick youth, an above average student, had bought the death rifle and am munition with money given him by his mother to buy his father a Christmas present. Never Caused Trouble Fallone, described by his stunned parents and high school principal as a boy who never caused trouble, plotted the deaths of all 10 members of Gla dys' family because the girl re jected his pleas to 'go steady." "I can't understand it," sobbed his father, Ernest, a farmer. "He never gaye us any trouble. He was home early every night. John was a good boy." Klamath Document Theft Brings Arrest Klamath Falls (U.R) An uni dentified man was apprehended yesterday as he attempted to purloin documents from the Cir cuit Court bench of Judge David R. Vandenberg. The incident - occured while the court was in recess. Sheriff Murray Britton en tered the courtroom as the man. was removing the papers. The man, when questioned by Brit ton and District Attorney Rich ard Beesley, said he had spent considerable time in a veterans hospital at Roseburg. He was held in the county jail pending an investigation. KELVINATOR'S PHICE $299.95 OUR PRICE A NichoV's Worth of . . Comment On By HARMAN United Pm Washington U.R I had heard the government was hard up for coppers, so I went down tor of the mint. IfT vSrt? 1 vour troubles" f S -ALJy W 1 I said- "Here are a couple of Lincoln pennies from Nichols.' William H. Brett, the mint Karman Nichols director whose office is here at the Treasury Building, said he didn't think my idea was very, funny. I told him it wasn't meant to be, I just wanted to do all I could. And what about this talk of a shortage of pennies? What started it all? What is the end result? It is true, said Brett, that pen nies are disappearing from cir culation as fast as the mints at Denver and Philadelphia can turn them out, which is at the rate of 8,000,000 coppers a day. A bank advertised in the Rut land, Vt., Herald it would put up $1.05 for each 100 pennies. Change For Cigarettes "Look at the figures," he said. "From Jan. 1 through Nov. 30 of 1954 we turned our 374,000, 000 pennies. Over the same per iod this year we produced 799, 000,000 coppers. And in Septem ber, October and November of this year we kicked out 365,603, 929 pennies." The current shortage isn't too acute, Brett said. But it's a head ache. A couple of hurricanes are to blame, partly. "Take Pennsylvania for in stance," he said. "When thous ands were made homeless by the backwhip of that one, the Legis lature passed emergency legisla tion upping the tax on cig arettes. In . that state now you put a quarter and a nickel in a machine to get a pack, and in the wrapper you get three pen nies change." Other states have similar taxes and together they require a lot of pennies to make change. But where do all of the pen nies go after they are dished out in change? Stored In Piggy Banks The mint man said he didn't rightly know, but he was will ing to hazard a guess. -J . v . ThisnS Tliat W. NICHOLS Futar Writar A lot of them, he said, wind up in kids' piggy banks. They rest there for a long time. "Sometimes we have the same trouble with nickels and dimes," he said. "There is nothing wrong with saving, but coins can be turned into paper money and that way silver and copper can be put back into circula tion." And what can you buy with a penny anymore? That was my question. "Well," the head of the mint answered, "you still can get weighed with one. You also in some cities can park your car for a few minutes by putting a cent in a meter." Uruguay President Shows Improvement Chicago (U.R) Doctors at Wesley Memorial Hospital re ported today that President Luis Battle Beres of Uruguay "con tinues to improve" from a stom ach ailment he suffered Wednes day. Results of laboratory tests were described as "excellent." The tests were undertaken to de termine whether surgery will be necessary to treat what is re ported to be a "gastro-intestinal disorder." The 56-year-cld President be came ill at a private dinner from where- he was rushed to the hos pital. The attack forced cancel lation of his plans to visit Miami, Fla., and Costa Rica. It was expected the President would remain in the hospital at least another five days. Japan War Criminals Released From Prison Tokyo (U.R) Two class-A Japanese war criminals were freed today from Sugamo Prison on parole, leaving only one ma jor war criminal still behind bars. The men were former Marquis Koichi Kido, top wartime ad viser to Emperor Hirohito, and former Lt. Gen. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Nazi Germany. The only major war criminal still in prison is former Maj. Gen. Kenryo Sato, who -was chief of the Military Affairs Bu reau in the War Ministry. The same DELIVERY NOW or DEC. 24th Friday, December 16, 1955 Teen-Age Killer Escapee Captured Pueblo, Colo. (U.R) - A 15-year-old confessed killer escaped from a mental hospital last night after threatening the life of a student nurse but was recap tured without a struggle early today. The youth, Frank Lobato Jr., was being held at the Colorado State Hospital for psychiatric observation, when he and a teen age pal fled the institution. The two forced two male at tendants at the hospital to sur render their keys by holding a piece of tin against the throat of the unidentified student nurse. The second youth, Oscar Roy ball, 18, of Walsenburg, Colo., was recaptured by attendant Henry Puga on the hospital grounds a short time afterward. Lobato, who has been charged with the murder of an elderly man near Fort Garland, Colo., last April 29, was picked up by police at Greeley, Colo., 200 miles north of here, shortly after midnight today. Ingred Bergman To Make Zanuck Movie Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) Swedish film star Ingrid Berg man will make her first picture in six years for a Hollywood movie studio, but her scenes in the film will be shot abroad. The signing of Miss Bergman for the film version of "Anas tasia," the hit play on exiled Russian royalty, was announced yesterday by Darryl Zanuck, production chief of 20th Century-Fox Studio. The picture will be shot in Paris and Vienna, Zanuck said, with Anatole Litvak directing. Miss Bergman's last American produced picture was "Strom boli," which was made in Italy. During that picture she and Italian director Robert Rosselini engaged in their celebrated ro mance. HANDY TOOLS Louisville,-Ky. (U.R) Bur glars used tools stolen in one robbery to break open a safe in another firm. Police had no dif ficulty checking the robberies. They occured'in firms next door to each other in the same building. one that Gretchen uses MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNETHREE PT&T To Add Fifth Story To Seem Building Salem U.R) Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company today said construction would begin soon on the addition of a fifth story to its central office building here. A permit for the 585,000 proj ect was issued by the city engi neer's office yesterday. Traction Directors Will Attempt Sale Portland (U.R) Directors of Portland Traction company, which is due to lose its fran chise Jan. 31, 1956, lsst night announced they will attempt to sell the company. The proposal must be ap proved by directors of two San Francisco holding companies which control PTC. Traction company directors met with City Commissioner Na than Body yesterday. During the meeting a letter was present ed which authorized PTC Presi dent Gordon G. Steele to nego tiate with any responsible party for the sale of the bus line. Steele also was authorized to organize a new group of owners around himself. Before he could do this, however, he would have to resign from PTC, and the two holding companies Portland Transit and Pacific Associates. 0 Reservations Now For the Family's mon DINING INN SPECIAL Christmas Eve & Christmas Day DINNERS Dining Room Open 3 P.M. 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