TEW MBCSTOB fcMWQOm MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, December 21, 1955
Last Day of Autumn Leaves High
s Tame
ncoming Winter
Mark
for
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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.
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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."
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7 Oregon Counties
Eligible for Loans
Portland (U.R) Seven coun
(tes in northwest Oregon have
been designated as eligible for
emergency Sbans as a result of
the early November freeze
which damaged crops, the office
of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D
Ore.) said today.
.The Farm Home Administra
tion declared fa&iers in Multno
mah,Clackamas, Polk, Yamhill,
Marion, Columbia and Washing
ton counties eligible for low in
terest loans. 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."
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