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TWO MED FORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. February 3, 1956 Gulf Coast Stales Whipped By Severe Snow, Rain Storms By UNITED PRESS A storm centered over the Gulf coast today whipped Texas again with snow and freezing rain and unleashed thunder storms eastward to the Atlantic coast. . Some letup was forecast for the Texas Panhandle which ex perienced its worst winter storm with 10-foot snow drifts piling up from an 11-inch snowfall. The blowing snow and cold, blamed for. 17 deaths in Texas and New Mexico, nearly trapped 100 or more persons near Plain- view, Tex., Friday night. Only quick rescue efforts by the Na tional Guard and highway pa trolmen prevented motorists from becoming stranded in sub- freezing temperatures. The National Guard used trucks .to bring the travelers to safety after the record snow bog ged down about 75 automobiles, three buses and several trucks a few miles outside the city lim its. Schools Closed The storm disrupted some communications, closed many schools and made travel nearly impossible in nearly two-thirds of the state the past three days. - More than 13 inches of snow was on the ground at Carlsbad, N. M. 'Herds of valuable cattle were threatened on the open range and schools had to close. ; Forty-eight-hour rains to the northeast brought on by the storm caused about 100 families to flee from their homes along the Forked river at Dyersburg, Tenn. Flood warnings were post ed at : Fayetteville, Shelbyville arid Knoxville, Tenn.- '. Generally fair weather pre vailed over most of the rest of the nation. : ; Temperatures were a little warmer in the north-central states. It also was warming in Colorado and Wyoming, with the temperature climbing to the high 30s and low 40s. . Thornton To Speak Here Tuesday Night Dan Thornton, former govern or of Colorado, will speak at the Lincoln day dinner at the Jackson hotel Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. 7 '-' - . ; .: - , The local Lincoln day ' club and the Jackson County Repub lican Central committee are in charge of arrangements. . The ex-governor was a Colo rado state senator and served as a member of the republican platform committee and chair: man of the revision committee. Since his term as governor, Thornton has served as chair man of the president's economic commission to the Far East and as a member of the inter- gov ernmental relations commission as an -advisor to the president . He was recently released by 4he administration to work for .the Republican national com mittee. A former cattleman, Thornton conducted the cattle industry's greatest single sales event in 1947 when he sold his cattle T - a Ann n s r utrra mr oi.uuu.uuu. WAVE FOR FREEDOM The flag of Argentina flies along side the Stars and Stripes in front of the National Press Club in Washington, D. C. to commemorate the return of LaPrensa as a free newspaper in Argentina for the first time in five years. On March 12, 1951 the great Argen tine newspaper was seized by Dictator Peron and used as an outlet for bis propaganda. It has now been returned to Its rightful owner, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White By BILL HURN Walter S. Lee, supply officer of the Veterans Adminstration hospital at Grand Junction, Col., has ' been announced as being transferred to Camp White to become suppliy officer here, re placing Vest Fleeman, who was recently transferred to the Salis bury, N. C. hospital. Eldon Humphries, supervising purchasing agent is acting as sistant supply officer. The Federal Credit Union of VA at Camp White held its an nual meeting Jan. 27 with Don Pulley presiding. He - announc ed a dividend on the 1955 record.':'- Herbert S. Daniels was elect ed president;' Edmund Brown, vice-president; Frank Glonning, chairman of publicity; John Pet erson, program; and Christine Randle, secretary-treasurer and manager. " " The supervisory committee comprises Alice Williams and Jessie Pugsley. The credit com mittee is Dr. Verne Wilson, chairman, Jack Lowe and Rich ard Schultz. The Credit Union was organ ized at Camp White in 1950 to serve as a depositary for savings and as a credit source for both provident or productive services. An application is pending with the Credit Union National as sociation at Madison, Wis. for establishment of Jackson County Federal Union which will em brace all civil service employees in the county. ' 'J -. ', -; '-; With E. K. Ricker, manager, doing the honors in welcoming Panamanian Freighter Aground In Cuba Nuevitas, Cuba (U.R) The Panamanian freighter Dorado, loaded with sugar destined for Russia, ran aground near here Friday night and port authorities said Saturday the ship is in "grave danger." The Dorado, which picked up 70,000 bags of raw sugar in Puerto Padre this week, was on the way here to load an addi tional 20,000 bags when it ran aground. The Nicaraguan freighter Mar garita Aha was standing by to aid in rescue efforts. European Express, Special Train Crash Athens, Greece (U.R) Twenty nine persons were injured Sat urday when Premier Constantine Karamanlis' special train - and the famed International Simplon Express crashed head-on. : ' Karamanlis escaped unharmed in the collision at Domokos in Thessaly. Eighteen other aboard his train" sufered minor injuries; The special train was return ing Karamanlis to Athens from Larissa where he had been cam paigning for the forthcoming general elections." The Simplon Express was en route north from Athens for Paris. ' The Simplon Express is one of Europe's most famous . interna tional trains. It was one of the few east-west trains that manag ed to keep running through the Iron Curtain despite the "cold war." Two Trans-America Banks In Arizona Merge San Francisco (U.R) Trans America Corporation has an nounced that the First National Bank of Arizona in Phoenix, a subsidiary, has merged with the Miners and Merchants Bank of Bisbee, Ariz. The merger was the second recent expansion of Transamer- cia interests in Arizona. Last year the corporation took over the majority of the outstanding slock of the Southern Arizona Bank and Trust Company to Tuscon. . and George Harrington, Rogue Valley Country "club, the spon sor, the Hoosier Hot Shots were at Camp White for a matinee show. - ' ''" ' Grants Pass VFW Post pro vided a game session for Camp White . Friday. George Perry. Clyde Jessup, George Holt and Bob. Gehrke were : in charge. Cigarettes and canteen books were 'the prizes. ., Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: otnerdays 530 previous day Builders Interested In Russian Concrete ' El . Cerrito, Calif U.R) The spokesman for a group of American home builders plan- mug tu viaii. ivuoaiti mis sum mer said Saturday they will be particularly interested in new Soviet uses for concrete. ; ; Earl Smith, immediate past president of the National Assoc iation of Home-Builders, will lead the dozen or so builders to Russia in June for a month long tour. " . , ' The NAHB is sponsoring the trip. It also; sponsored the recent tour of the United States by 10 Russian housing experts. . The Soviets later invited a group of American builders to visit their . country. The El Cerrito, Calif., home builder said Russia and "other European countries" have" turned to concrete because, of dwind ling supplies of timber. One advance he cited was the uses of pre-stressed concrete beams which are exceptionally strong.-: . v : Prosperous Future For Uranium Miners ' Denver (U.R) A prosper ous future for uranium miners, made possible by increasing eco nomic and military demands for their strategic mineral,-was pre dicted Friday by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of the joint Congressional Atomic Energy committee, in a telegram to the National Western Mining con ference. ' The New Mexico Democrat said ". . . Coming demands for peaceful uses of uranium prom ise a healthy market, based on steady and substantial demand, and perhaps a free market price." -ztfwi This set . is su- lt perbly crafred by tpsf i w o i Id famous iff maker.. Each piece , IBf is gunan teed f, against e r i g inal defects in work- IS J . manship and ma- fgf terial. See it! ' Lff jw'mA - - if Wml extra : WILLIAM 80 Wc. ROGERS Service for 8 Silverplate by International SPRING BOUQUET" PATTERN INCLUDING NON-TARNISH CHEST Reg. 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The Air Force Saturday identified crew members killed in a B25 light bomber that crashed at the 10,600-level on the southeast slope of Mt. San Gorgonio north of here. The dead were Capt. Bill F. Shotwell, 31, the pilot, San An gelo, Tex.; 2nd Lt. Alvin T. Stearns, 26, co-pilot, Gulfport, Miss.; Airman 1C Andrew Do man Jr., 26, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Airman 1C Haold Hill, Hut chinson, Kan. Wreckage of the plane, which had been missing for more than a week, was found on Mt. San Gorgonio Friday. A ground search party . that struggled through eight feet of snow to the crash scene verified that a 1 1 crewmen were dead. The plane crashed on a flight from Goodfellow Air Force Base, Tex., to. Norton AFB at nearby San Bernardino. Portland Woman Dies In Auto Accident : Portland U.R) Mrs. Jes syca Moore Bryant of Portland was fatally injured here Friday night when the car in which she was riding struck a traffic divide on Harbor drive at Sputhwest Montgomery. Mrs. Bryant was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, James R. Bryant. He was hos pitalized for a head injury and shock. - Nehru, Hammarskjold In Series Of Talks New Delhi 0J.PJ UN Sec retary General Dag Hammarsk jold visited Prime Minister Ja waharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad Saturday on the first full day of his stay here. Hammarskjold spent nearly 90 minutes with the prime minister in the first of what is expected to be "a series of talks. Man Looks Af $800 Ring; Then Takes It San Francisco U.R) Os borne Mitchell, 44, walked into a jewelry store Saturday, took a look at an $800 diamond ring and said "I'll take it." The clerk wrote up the re ceipt but was surprised a few moments later to find that the ring had disappeared. Mitchell said he didn't know what hap pened to- it, and the clerk called police. ' Inspectors Edward Hall and Edward McLaughlin responded and gave Mitchell a thorough going but futile "frisking." There was only one other pos sibility so they took Mitchell to San Francisco hospital where x-ray .technicians confirmed their suspicions. ; Mitchell had swallowed the ring. A guard was posted over Mitchell, who was released a week' ago after serving a jail term for petty theft, while doc tors prepared a diet designed to recover the ring. . Bulganin Signs Pact With Bulgaria Friday Moscow (U.PJ Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin, who has not been seen in public since Jan. 3, Friday signed an econom ic agreement with Bulgaria, it was announced. The announcement said that Bulganin signed the agreement in the presence of other mem bers of the presidium. Bulganin's absence from di plomatic functions during the past month touched off specula tion that he was ill. Soviet offi cials, however, maintained Bul ganin was in good health, that he was resting after' the exhaus tive tour of Southwest Asia. The agreement provided for 300,000,000 rubles (nominally $75,000,000) in Soviet credit to Bulgaria and an additional 70, 000,000 rubles (nominally $17, 500,000) for technical aid. The credit is payable within 10 years at two per cent interest. Gunman Identified Ax 'Chinese Executioner1 - Phoenix, Ariz. (U.R) A gunman who robbed a Phoenix hotel of $200 was identified by a bystander as being the "Chinese Executioner" and Indiana jail escapee, Leslie Irwin, police said Saturday. ,', Officers said Carl Lang, a guest at the Desert Sun. hotel which was robbed Friday night, . was shown photographs of Irwin and said he was positive the rob ber and the escapee were the same man. . HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Kt. HEALS Station Sundays KWIN 10:15 1400 K.C. I A.M. FOURSQUARE CHURCH East Jackson and Biddle Road Rev. R. H. Mathewson: Pastor - i 9:45 A.M.-Sunday School 4 . 11:00 A.M. Worship: Message by the Pastor 6:30 P.M. Bereans, Crusaders and Cadets 7:30 P.M. 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