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TEW MBCSTOB fcMWQOm MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 21, 1955 Last Day of Autumn Leaves High s Tame ncoming Winter Mark for o Sub-Zero Cold Continues Grip on East Coast, Plains ByUNITED PRESS Fall made its farewell appear ance today 2nd set a high mark of sub-zero cold and icy stcfrms forjtjie oncoming winter to shoot at. . ONev Sngland and the North era Plains were a sub-zero ice O box." A new Alaska storm threatened rain battered North ern California and a two-day snowstorm buried autos and piled up two feet of snow on the famed tfci runs of Sun Valley Ida. Paratraayer Bought th isruiTgton, three snow weaself pushed into the moun- tains in rrch of a downed para trooper whoae chances for sur- 0 vival r "fading with every The death toll rose elsewhere in thiPacific Northwest, where flood waters killed two persons, and in the frostbitten East. In addition, some of the iciest wea ther in European history was blamed for 22 deaths. The storms and cold provided a fitting end for the fall of 1955, which will give way to winter at precisely 10:12 a.m. (EST) to morrow. The last full day of fall G today as also the shortest day of the year, since the sunshine will start lasting longer after winter's arrival. Eastern Cold Wave The East was feeling the bite of the season's bitterest cold wave, with temperatures well below zero throughout New Eng O land's interior and near zero along the Atlantic Coast. Mile-high Mt. Washington in New Hampshire was the frosti est spofcin the nation. The mer cury dipped to 26 below there early today, adding to the miser ies of fou Boston television en gineers who were marooned on the peak following a Sunday program. The eastern cold was too much for a 20-year-old Texan who nearly froze while trying to hitch hike back to his home state. The chilled westerner, James A. Jones, Wichita Falls, O used a dime of his last 20 cents to telephone Rochester, N.Y., state police to "lock me up on any charge. Just put me some place where it's warm." Kindly Policeman I The kindly policeman rescued Jones from the 10-above cold Qand put him in jail for five days on a vagrancy charge. In the West, a new Alaskan storm, moved into Northern Cal- ifornia in the wake ,of flooding 'rains which caused $2,100,000 Qmage. The storm threatened to send more pounding rains, even as an estimated 150 families were returning to their homes O along the falling Russian and Eel rwers. Mean while, temperatures eased in the Midwest and shot up dramatically into the 60s and 70s in Colorado and New Mexico. The warm chinook winds in the West weren't precisely welcome, since they all but ruined any chance for a white Christmas LEAVING for Japan and Ko rea, Francis Cardinal Spell man will spend Christmas with American troops as has been his custom since start of Korean War. (International) Eugene Extortion Plot Revealed Eugene (U.R) An "amateur ish" extortion attempt against the manager of a Eugene Safe way store was disclosed yester day and police today were checking out several local sus pects. Howard D. Barnhart, manager of a west side store, foiled the extortion attempt when he called police and notified them of an extortion note left in his store last Saturday night. Contents of the note were re vealed yeserday. It read, "Barn hart, we are holding your wife, Vera. She left the house on a fake call. We picked her up. We want your week-end re ceipts. . Talk to no one. No phone calls, no tails. We'll be back in an hour telling you where to pick her up. Be stupid and you'll pick her up in the river." Police Chief Vern Hill said the extortion try was "amateur ish" and that several persons were being checked. Store em ployees reported a man in the store acting suspiciously the day before the attempt. Damage Suit Case Filed In Court Here A suit for damages totaling 59,079.13 was filed in circuit court yesterday by Dee P. Hord, Ashland, against Emmett M. Tucker, Tucker Snocat corpora tion, Donald S. Flackus and Thomas A. Edwards, all from Medford. Hord was involved in an acci dent April 13 involving his pick up truck, a station-wagon oper ated by Tucker and a pick-up driven by Flackus and owned by Edwards. He asks S123.50 for medical care; $1,150.63 loss of wages; S7.500 general damages; and $300 damage to pickup. New York Theater Group In Russia for Plays Moscow (U.R) The-New York Everyman Theater Co. ar rived Tuesday to present a series of performances of George Gershwin's '"Porgy and Bess." The tour will begin in Lenin grad and move to Moscow in the second week of January. Saem Woman Killed When Struck by Car Salem (U.R) An 88-year-old Salem woman died in a hospital here yesterday, two hours after she was struck by a car in north Salem. The victim was Mrs. Nellie Yana. She was Salem's seventh traffic fatality of the year. Stevenson's Son Seriously Hurt Goshen, Ind. (U.R) Adlai Stevenson's son, John, 19, was seriously injured in a car-truck collision today which killed two Harvard University classmates riding in his car. The dead were William S. North, 111., 19. Lake Forest, 111. and William C. Boyden Jr., 19, Chicago. The son of the presidential candidate was taken to Goshen General hospital in serious con dition. He suffered a broken knee cap, cuts and bruises. Also injured was another classmate, James Gilligan, 19, Nebraska City, Neb. Police said a truck driven by Fred Gill, 29, Detroit, collided head-on with the westbound Stevenson car. Gill's truck was attempting to pass another truck and was in the wrong lane when it struck the youth's auto, police said. The trucker was not hurt. The accident occured on U.S. 20 about 10 miles northeast of here. Stevenson's car was on an incline approaching a bridge over a railroad. The Harvard students were on their way home from school for Christmas vacation. The car was loaded with ski equipment. Portland (U.R) Contribu tions to date from the recent 16 hour United Cerebral Palsy tele thon here total $63,851, it was reported today. EGG STORY Carmi, 111. (U.R) Guy Bruce, a farmer living near here, re ported one of his white leghorn hens laid an egg with another egg inside it. The outer egg measured ZVt by 93A inches and weighed iVz ounces, Bruce said. GIFTWARE - LAMPS - MAPLE DEPT. - MIRRORS - PICTURES ' DRAPES - HASSOCKS - COSCO STOOLS AND CASTS OPEN EVENINGS TIL 9 PJv l$5$S$iji$ Auto Chains Needed To Government Camp Salem (U.R) Chains were re q'red for motorists traveling to Government camp and Timber line today, the State Highway Department said. Ten inches of snow fell overnight at Timber line and two inches at Govern ment Camp. The North Santiam highway was closed by a slide at Sardine creek, but the highway depart ment said it was expected to be open one way soon. The Bellview-Hopewell high way was closed at Deer Creek (sbecause of high water. The Ump qua highway," closed a mile east of Reedsport.owas expected to be .open by noon. The Pacific high way, closed at Wolf creek, was expected to be open to one-way traffic seon. Spots of ice were reported at Cascade Locks, Troutdale and Willamette pass. Right To Generalize On Future Upheld Chicago (U.R) Historians have both a right and an obliga tion to generalize about the fu ture on the basis of what they know about the past, a Univer sity of Chicago historian says. Prof. Louis Gottschalk told social scientists meeting at the university recently that the his torian is no less a scholar for stepping out of his role as re corder of the past. He said the historian who spe cializes in the history of World War II has an obligation to ap ply his knowledge to help pre vent World War III. And the historian who specializes in a study of the League of Nations is obligated to help prevent the collapse of the United Nations, Gottschalk said. "What would one think of a mathematician or a physicist who, when asked what . he thought about the trends of mathematics or physics, claimed that in so predicting he was not acting as a mathematician or physicist?" Gottschalk asked. "Yet a comparable claim is common among historians," he said. "Depart from your sources, the 'pure' historians believe, and you cease to be a historian. As if the sources had any validity unless checked against the time less realities of human experience." 1 Jy STILL A HRE SELECTION TOYS M;k 1 ristmas Clearance! Li CONTINUES Close-Outs - Limited Quantities - Discontinued Lines - t very Item a Tremendous Bargain! 0 POWER TOOLS REG. ALL AT MONEY SAVING PRICES! 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Hardest hit were holly, nursery and berry and truck farmers. . ' HEADS BERRY COUNCIL Portland (U.R) Marvin Van Cleve, Marion county straw berry grower, was elected presi dent of the Oregon-Washington Strawberry Council yesterday. Doctor Surprises Professor With Quote Otago, N.Z. (U.R) Red-tape restrictions on foreign doctors who want to practice in New Zealand have had some embar rassing sequels, of which the fol lowing is perhaps the best or worst. In order to win the right to practice, an immigrant doctor had to attend the New Zealand university for three years. During an apparently boring lecture, the lecturer, a professor of long-standing, noticed that the doctor was dozing. The mis creant was sharply awakened and asked to repeat what the lecturer had been saying. The "student" doctor as tounded the lecturer and the class by obliging with a lucid precis of all that had been said, and, as an afterthought, gave the name of the medical text book from which the lecturer had been quoting. When the professor voiced his astonishment, the erring student said, "as a matter of fact, I wrote it." Photo Albums, Record J j Albums, Scrap Books Christmas Cards Reg. 98c 75c 2Vrlb. Box Chocolates 1.75 Costume Jewelry Reg. 98c 98 riabardine, Uong S eeve ; 2.,8 washable, i oft tor BY R1DJ1D Reg. 'eras SALE 49.50 23.19 58.19 32.88 7.95 24.50 16.98 7.00 39.12 5.49 25.49 18.50 Leather Wallets Reg. 1.98 Ninety-five per cent of Haiti's 3,000,000 people are pure-blood Negroes, according to census figures. . 69c f 1 . os n J Woughly Actable r J Reg. 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