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oo o o Tuesday, December 20, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Bitter Winter Weather Shoves Eastern States Farther Into Deep Freeze "Oregon Education Meeting Delegates Report on Sessions Portland (U.R) Three Ore- gonians who attended the recent White House conference on edu cation told the Portland Cham ber of Commerce yesterday that federal aid to education was5 the big issue and that it still was unresolved. Eugene Marsh of McMinn ville, chairman of the Oregon delegation, said the eonference approved the principle of fed eral aid for school construction without federal control to states which don't have enough finan cial resources for their own schools. He sjd delegates were about evenly aivided on wheth er federal aid should be given for school operation. Federal Aid Unresolved Marsh said that still unje solvec was the question of whether federal aid should be given to all states on the basis of so much money per school child or whether aid should be only to those who cannot main tain proper standards otherwise. Another delegate, Hubert Leonard of Portland, said "No state has demonstrated its finan cial inability to provide good I education but some states have shown they lack the political de termination." Leonard is chair man of the Portland chamber's education committee. Children, Teachers Rescued From Island London (U.P.) Rescuers pull ed 120 school children and their teachers off a rocky island in the North Sea today after their ship ran aground in a thick fog off Germany. The rescue was he most dra matic incident thus far in the first icy grip of winter. Scandinavia was swept by blizzards. Many small villages were isolated by snow, and at least 10 persons were reported dead in Norway and Sweden. The rescued youngsters and their teachers had completed a four-week vacation on the North Sea's Langeoog Island. They were en route to Bensersiel, a small Frisian port about 30 miles east of the Dutch border, when their ship grounded. Miss Martha Shull, the other delegate, said the conference did not spend its time voting on resolutions but tapped grass roots opinion on education and tried to reawaken interest in education matters. Neuberger Lauds 'Christmas Spirit' Portland (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told the Portland Americanization Council yesterday that the "deed of Harry Holt of Creswell, Ore., more truly and nobly symbol izes the Christmas spirit than a million bargain sales and com mercial offerings." The Oregon Democrat was re ferring to the adoption by the Holt family of eight Korean war orphans. He sponsored a bill in Congress to permit immigration of the children. 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In other midlands areas, forecasters predicted the mercury would struggle into the 10s and 20s. In the east, however, cold wave warnings were posted for New York and Pennsylvania. And the Pacific Northwest weathered another kind of win try blast hurricane rains and blizzards which left flood dan gers in their .wake. With winter officially two days away, ijae temperature was below freezing early today from northern North Carolina to south ern Arkansas, northern Texas, and across the Western plains. Low temperatures included 13 below at both International Falls and Redwood Falls in Minnesota and a frosty 11 above at Dalhart, Tex. Rash of Fires A rash of disastrous fires, many of them caused by over heated stoves, accompanied the bitter cold. At Springfield, O., an explod ing oil stove touched off a blaze which killed five children and the mother of two of the vic tims. Another fire burned down four buildings on the main street of Appleton, Wis., early today and the five-below cold was so intense that water changed to ice almost as soon as it left the firemen's hoses. The cold was also blamed for a mounting list of deaths by ex posure and exhaustion. One of the latest victims was a Belmont, Wis., truck driver whose body was discovered frozen in a foot and a half of creek water. Elsewhere, Americans showed widely-varying reactions to the weather. At Toledo, O., a judge loaned a freed prisoner his spare over coat when he discovered that the man had entered prison with only a summer-weight suit on his back and the temperature was currently 15 above. Nudists Ignore Weather A Kansas Nudist club applied for a state charter while the mercury read three above at Topeka and a railroad conductor refused to pass up his daily swim in Lake Michigan at Chicago, even though the temperature was nine above. To the west, forecasters prom ised that a double blast of tor rential rains and gale-force winds would abate. But the San Francisco area was still pounded by a terrific downpour, accom panied by rattling gusts of wind. Flood threats mounted rapidly as- the; rain kept coming down. The Russian river in Northern California was expected to crest today and minor flooding was al ready reported. Great Britain Orders Home Guard Retired London (U.R) Britain order ed its Home Guard retired today after four years of cold war alert and announced a sharp re organization of the Army re serve for "global war." War Secretary Antony Head told the House of Commons on his return from the North At lantic Council meeting in Paris that the Home Guard was form ed' of volunteers between the ages of 18 and 65 would be placed on "reserve" status. The Territorial Army, equiva lent to the U. S. National Guard, will be trimmed to two full strength divisions. The two divisions of the ter ritorials are the minimum re quired to meet Britain's NATO contribution. The remainder of the territorials will be assigned to new jobs. Mailers Join Detroit Newspaper Strike Detroit (U.R) Hope dimmed today for settlement of Detroit's 20-day-old newspaper strike when the mailer's union joined striking stereotypers on picket lines. The 550 mailers are members of the Detroit Mailers Union No, 40, a branch of the International Typographical Union. They be came the second of eight unions whose contracts have expired with the city's three major dailies, The Detroit News,. Times and Free Press, to go on strike. Elmer Brown, a representative of the ITU office at Indianapolis, said the mailers voted 354 to 11 last night to officially join the strike. He accused the publishers of forcing the union to strike by "stalling" on negotiations on new contracts. - - - SIDEWALK TRAGEDY Dr. and Mrs. Frank Greider of Decatur 111., are given first aid by police after being struck down on a sidewalk in Los Angeles when an auto jumped the curb. The 65-year-old physician, who later died in the hospital, and his wife were en route to Japan 'to spend Christmas with their serviceman son. Mrs. Greider's condition is critical. Powers Men Give Up In Tax Evasion Case Portland (U.R) Three partners in the Standley Bro thers Logging Company, Pow ers, Ore., voluntarily surrend ered to the U.S. marshal here yesterday on an indictment charging federal income tax ev asion. All three men Noble C. Standley; Robert Wilbur Merch en, and James A. Adamek posted $2500 bail and were re leased by U. S. Commissioner Robert Leedy pending arraign ment. The indictment states that Standley should have paid $112, 959 instead of $27,062 from 1949 to 1951; Merchen should have paid $45,807 instead of $12,299, and Adamek should have paid $34,832 instead of $4,019. Use Tribune Want Ads Quick in results! Just Call 2-6141 CD Texan Slays Minister On Adultery Charge Weatherford, Tex. (U.R) Walter M. Vaughn, 47, a farmer, said last night he killed the Rev. Chester Stevens, 39, because the Baptist minister "committed adultery with my wife." - "Yes, it's true," Vaughn's wife said. She said the minister also made advances to other women in his congregation. The Denver City,. Tex., farmer killed the preacher last Satur day in Stevens' - back yard. Vaughn said he came to Weath erford to see Stevens, who used to be minister, of the church Vaughn belonged to in Denver City. ; "I shot him for coming into my home under false pretenses," Vaughn told reporters. "He came in for the purpose of committing adultery and he did." Vaughn was charged with murder with malice aforethought. NAMED COMMISSIONER Portland (U.R) Mayor Fred L. Peterson yesterday appointed Lloyd Hildreth to a new five year term as a commissioner of the" Portland Housing au thority. The new term will ex pire Dec. 10, 1960. GSA May Seek Transfer of Funds Portland (U.R) A spokes man for the General Services administration said today jthat agency may seek Congressional approval to transfer funds' from the proposed sale of the old Pio neer post office in Portland to ward purchase of the eight-story Interior building here. GSA now leases the Interior building, for a five-year period, for an annual rental in excess of $400,000. Owner of the two block white marble structure in Holladay park is the Lloyd cor poration. The administration several months ago announced its inten tion to sell' the old post office in downtown Portland but ob jections were heard from several quarters that the building should be preserved as a historical shrine. Robin L. 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