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Wednesday, December 28. 1955
Biggest Little Stories of Year
Hold Spotlight in U.P. Roundup
New York 'U.P.) The biggest
little stories of the year (pack
ageLand labeled for placement
in tne broad sweep of history):
Nature: In January, i Owen
$3und, Ont., a lady phoned Con
stable W. C. Crawford that a
iikunk was in her cellar. He told
l-rd 3 then kit for the skunk
o follow it out. She did. Soon
r,:e got another call. Same lady.
ttNow I've got two skunks in my
fellar," she said.
Drama: In March, in Ventura.
Calif., a villain lay in ambush, a
hero walked toward death.
Frank Stretch, 11, couldn't
standit. He leveled his BB gun.
He fired. The villain disap
peared. So did the hero. So did
theTV tube.
Conscience: In April, in Chi
cago, the Internal Revenue Bu
reau got, anonymousljc, S400.
The sender said it would apply
- . , . t -n TT
on a SlUUU overdue tax diu. ne
added: "If I still can't sleep, I
will send you the balance."
Wild Frontier: In June, in Mt.
Clemens. Mich., police got a call
to rescue from a tree "a boy in
a Davy Crockett hat." They
found an indignant raccoon.
Outrageous Fortune: Same
month, in Philadelphia,. Mrs.
Walter Bradhering wasn't home
when they called to tell her she
had won a trip to Spain. She was
in Spain on vacation.
Machine Age: In July, in De
troit. Mich., the air conditioning
got Mayor Albert Cobo's office
so cool that a thermostat turned
on the radiators. The office got
up to 90 degrees before they
could get the heat off.
Circumstance: Also July, in
Los Angeles, a policeman waved
a red light violator to the curb.
I'm Sergeant Friday," the cop
said. "And I'm Davy Crockett,"
said the driver. Then Sgt. Lester
uotes i-rom
the News
By UNITED PRESS
San Francisco Willam Ward, Contra Costa county civil de
fense chief, on the condition of the levees holding back the flood
ing San Joaquin river:
"If we can hgjd what we have got until Thursday, we are over
the hujnp, barring another storm or a southwest wind."
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Leningrad, Russia An unidentified Russian actress after a
performance of the sex-laden American folk opera "Porgy and
Bess":
"Porgy and Bess makes sex stronger than sentiment."
Washington The Senate Security subcommittee in a 100-page
handbook designed to "counteract current misinformation' about
Communism:
"We earnestly believe that, given a more accurate knowledge
of the Communist conspiracy, fewer Americans will fall victim
to its wiles."
Chicago Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety
council, on the "Black Christmas" highway massacre:
"How much longer will a civilized nation create or endure such
mass mayhem."
Callander, Ont. "Papa" Oliva Dionne, charging that the four
surviving quintuplets have broken away from home:
"Lately they have been treating their brothers and sisters al
most with contempt."
Montreal Yvonne Dionne, when asked by a Montreal Star
reporter whether rumors of a family split were factual:
"Don'Obelieve it. It's not true."
Raleigh, N.C. Basketball Coach Frank McGuire of North
Carolina, a coach noted for his court strategems, plotting how he
will play arch rival North Carolina State:
"It depends on what develops. We may even let the air out
uof the ball."
New York John Boning, president of the Bartenders School,
(Ihc.. on having a morning-after "hair on the dog" drink to cure a
hangover:
"That's a little like pouring gasoline on a bonfire."
Friday got the facts. David W.
Crockett, 20, got a ticket.
Genius: Again July, in Mem
phis, Tenn., barber Doug Rut
ledge announced he'd solved the
age-old problem of how to get
those itchy hair clippings off
customers' necks. He uses a
vacuum cleaner.
Cosmos: Once more July (a hot
month), in Oceanport, N.J., there
was cosmic reaction to the gov
ernment announcement that day
that it would launch a satellite
in space. "Another Moon" won
the ninth at Monmouth Park.
Commerce: In August, in the
Panama Canal, traffic jammed.
Cause: A cow swimming in Ga
tun Lock Chamber. Officials
towed her' ashore and advised
her that bathing in that area
was restricted.
Hope: In September, in Char
lotte, N.C, Judge J.E.D.J.N.S.W.
E.D. Henderson turned 76, stuck
with his initials, and told a sad
story: His mother had named
him after all his uncles, hope
fully. But uncits Jackson, Eze
kiel, David, James, Nathaniel,
Sylvester, Willis, Edward and
Demosthenes had all passed on
without leaving him a dime.
Politics: In November, in Co
lumbus, O., on election eve a
man poked his head into a diner
and shouted: "Vote for Sensen
brenner!" "Who was that guy?"
a customer asked. "That was
Sensenbrenner," said the pro
prietor. Next day, Mayor May
nard Sensenbrenner was re
elected. Frailty: In November, in Bev
erly Hills, Calif., actress Gloria
Rhodes told police 18 pairs of
panties stolen from her clothes
line were worth S150. Why? Be
cause they're embroidered with
a fig leaf and have rhinestones
on them."
Purposeful Action: In Decem
ber, in New York, a New Jersey
man wrote to the editor of The
Daily News: "I'm sick of this
Taft-Hartley bill. I say we should
pay it and get it over with."
Russia 'Takes Noler
Of Foreign Criticism
Moscow (U.R) Russia ad
mitted today that foreign criti
cism of bad housing, poor town
planning and wasted manpower
in the Soviet Union was correct.
It said it would "take note"
of such criticism.
Vilis Lacis, chairman of the
Council of Nationalities, told
the third day's meeting of the
Supreme Soviet (Parliament)
that the criticism came from
visiting foreign delegations last
summer.
He said the delegations par
ticularly noted the waste of man
power, inadequacy in town plan
ning and bad housing.
Lacis reported to the council
on the exchange of delegations
between the Supreme Soviet
and parliaments of foreign na
tions. Last February the Su
preme Soviet adopted a declar
ation calling for an exchange
of parliamentary delegations.
Sperry Rand Files .
Suit Against IBM
New York (U.R) Sperry
Rand Corp. yesterday filed a
$90,000,000 treble damage suit
against the International Busi
ness Machine Corp., charging
that IBM has unfairly been caus
ing Sperry Rand business to di
minish steadily.
Sperry Rand charges among
other things that IBM has "tam
pered or interfered with the ef
ficient normal operation" of tab
ulating machines manufactured
by Sperry Rand, the merged cor
porations of Sperry Gyroscope
and Remington Rand.
Thomas W. Watson Sr., chair
man of the board of IBM, issued
a prompt denial of "any viola
tion of the anti-trust laws or that
our conduct at any time has been
adverse to the legitimate busi
ness interests of Sperry Rand
Corp."
Adventists Mobilize
Aid To Flood Victims
Portland (U.R) Oregon Seventh-Day
Adventists yesterday
mobilized 89 welfare societies
around the state to provide
emergency flood relief to vic
tims in Oregon and California.
Elder C. J. Ritchie, confer
ence welfare director, said the
church's welfare- societies in
southern Oregon and California
were already in operation pro
viding clothing, bedding and
some food to flood victims.
Tug, Bridge Span
Collide at Portland
Portland (U.R) A drawspan
of the Morrison street bridge
and a tug collided here yester
day afternoon.
The pilothouse of the 60-foot
tug Dix III was sheared off. Lau
ren McRae leaped from the pilot
house to the deck.
A harbor patrol launch took
the disabled tug under tow. The
pilothouse remained afloat and
was retrieved by the harbor pa
trol. The collision occurred while
the tug was headed downstream
in the flood-swollen Willamette
Survivors of Remote Slide To Get Wish for Little Dog
Roseburg (U.R) Three
children, orphaned by a huge
slide that demolished their home
and killed five members of their
family, were to receive a cocker
spaniel puppy today.
The body of 18-year-old
Tommy Neal was recovered yes
terday from the slide at Remote,
40 miles west of here. Earlier
the mud-covered bodies of the
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Eugene Neal, and two girls,
Mary, 16, and Becky, 20 months,
were removed from the shat
tered house into which they had
moved only 10 days before.
The survivors were Margaret,
13, Billy, 6, and Arvis, 7. The
first two were hospitalized here
and Arvis was brought to Rose-
itish Comet Jet
Sets Flight Record
London (U.R) Britain's Com
et III jet airliner flashed from
Montreal to London in 6 hours
and 18 minutes today in history's
first non-stop Atlantic crossing
by a jet transport plane.
The crew "breakfasted" in
Canada before leaving and
lunched in Britain, as it com
pleted the last leg of a round-the-world
shakedown flight that
covered a total of 30,041 miles in
a flying time of 66 hours and
43 minutes.
The average speed on the more
than 3000-mile flight from Mon
treal to London was announced
at 548 miles an hour.
Veteran pilot Group Capt.
John (Cat's Eyes) Cunningham
said the four-jet Comet hit the
near-sonic speed of 600 miles an
hour at one point over Shannon,
Ireland. He said that was the top
speed for the trip, despite favor
able 50 to 60 mile tailwinds.
burg yesterday by John Cawrse,
a neighbor, who discovered the
tragedy and informed author
ities, i
Margaret, suffering from two
broken vertebrae, shock and
bruises, was interviewed in the
hospital yesterday and was
asked if she wanted anything.
She asked for a "little black
puppy dog." Radio station
KRXL broadcast the request and
almost immediately was flooded
with calls. Mrs. Wilbur McCue
of the Glide area was to bring
in a dog for the children today.
Authorities said it was almost
a miracle that the three children
survived. Billy and Arvis were !
caught in cross-beams as the ;
slide pushed the house some ;
400 feet. The beams trapped
enough air to allow them to
breathe. Margaret, asleep when
the slide struck, was buried up
to her neck in mud for several
hours until freed by rescuers.
The slide apparently Occurred
about 4 a.m. Monday when the
600-foot bluff plumeted down.
Coroner L. L. Powers Id
the five victims probably suffocated.
Bright Ideas for a
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Postman Quits TV
Quiz With $16,000 j
New York (U.R) Roscoe C.
Wright, a New York postman
who got an extra week to make
up his mind because of the
Christmas rush, decided last
night to take the 16,000 he had
already won instead of shooting
for the top in the television quiz
show "The $64,000 Question."
Wright had been scheduled
to make his decision to try for
832,000 or take his $16,000 last
week. But he said he'd been
too busy to decide. He was
given the extra week.
Mabel Morris, 74, a former
New York school teacher i and
social worker, ran her winnings
to S8000 last night by correctly
describing the villainy of three
characters in Charles Dickens'
novels and naming the heroes
who brought them retribution.
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