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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGOK) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, February 7, 1956 J-' 'c3 1 iS j f .HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HEREI Prominent Democrats, left to right, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, former President Harry S. Truman and New York Gov. ! Averell Harriman engage in a three-way handshake at the New York State Democratic : Committee's annual fund-raising dinner in New York City. Peaking jver Harriman's . right shoulder is Carmine G. DeSapio, Democratic national committeeman. Mr. Truman I blasted a number of administration policies in one of his famous "give 'em hell" (speeches before the dinner. Redmond Men Dies From Electric Shock ; Prineville OI.R) Charlie Clark, 51, of Redmond, was el ectrocuted yesterday afternoon when he contacted a 12,.000-volt power line. - - Clark was working as a sub stitute lineman for Pacific Pow er and Light Co. when the ac cident occurred. He and another lineman, Har old Armstrong, were working oh a pole 40 feet in the air at the company's Owl Butte sub-station., Clark contacted the high volt age line and fell across the wire supports. Armstrong and line foreman. Frank Tracey lowered him to the ground. Other crew members attempt ed to revive Clark before he was rushed to a hospital " in Prineville where he was pro nounced dead. - Newspaper Photo Brings Adoption Seoul, Korea (U.R) Four-year-old orphan Kim Ok J a left Korea today for the ' United States and a new family who fell in love with her sad-eyed picture in a Pocatello, Ida., newspaper. When the picture appeared in the newspaper about a year ago, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vincent Carl son, of North Pocatello, quickly wrote the 'orphanage south .of Seoul where the tiny miss was living and began adoption pro ceedings. ' - Legal red tape finally was overcome, and the girl left Seoul City Airport in the care of Tong Suk Moo, a 23-year-old American-Korean student who will at tend college in Oklahoma. The Carlsons also are parents of a six-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl. Edith Green Chosen For Bnai Brith Award Portland (U.R) Rep. Edith Green . (D-Ore.), was chosen to' day to receive the annual Bro therhood award of the Portland chapter of Bnai Brith. . The award will be presented Sunday. The late Gov. Paul Pat terson received the honor last year. ; Suspect Detained In Death of Pair New Orleans (U.R) FBI agents arrested a 22-year-old North Dakota man here last night who they said admitted the brutal hatchet slaying of a Seattle couple on the West Coast. The man, identified as Donald Wyciskala, a native of Bismark, N.D., was still carrying the blood-smeared hatchet he used in the killing in a suitcase when arrested. ' Wyciskala, who was riding to Los Angeles with the victims, said they kept nagging him about his driving. "There was a hatchet on the floor of the front of the car," he said. "I picked it up and hit him over the head with it." When Mrs., Askew screamed, he struck her, he said. Wyciskala left .Washington Feb. 1 with the victims, James B. Askew 49, and his wife, Mary, 43, Seattle. Earth Slide Dumps Train From Tracks Greensburg, Pa. (U.R) Tons of rock and earth crashed down Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at the hamlet of Scott Ha ven early today and, toppled four of eight cars to the edge of Youghiogheny river. Five of the 113 passengers aboard . the train, en route to Washington were taken to.Mc Keesport Hospital,' but only one required treatment. James Stern, 34, Pittsburgh, suffered a sprain ed shoulder. A boulder weighing" about 15 tons struck the middle of the moving train. Three sleeping coaches and a club car derailed and overturned. 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(U.R) Attorney General Graydon W. Smith said today he and Robert Y. Thorn ton, Oregon's attorney general, had agreed to let engineers find the middle of the Snake river, the legal Oregon-Idaho, bound ary. I The chief legal officers of the two states conferred on the mat ter in Portland over the week end. It is of concern because of taxing problems arising from Id aho Power Company's three dam development of Hells Can yon on the Snake. Morrison-Knudsen company, the prime contractor on the job, has to know which state should get the income taxes withheld from the workers and which state will be liable for indust rial accident payments. Truck-Trailers on Great Lakes Proposed Milwaukee (U.R) Shipping big truck trailers "piggyback" on the Great Lakes is proposed by Municipal Port Director Harry Brockel. Brockel said the big trailers could be put aboard ships at Mil waukee and shipped to their des tinations on the Great Lakes, or put ashore at a port nearest their destination. This would cut many miles from regular truck routes which skirt the lakes now. Brockel said Atlantic ports have had the service for some time and it is being introduced at Pacific ports. He said Mil waukee would be a "natural" for piggyback service for trucks operating between Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul with stops at Grand Rapids, Mich., and Milwaukee and Madison in Wis consin. Brockel said he would propose the plan to authorities of the American Asspciation of Port Authorities. Grace Kelly, Prince Plan Double Wedding Hollywood (U.R) Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier II have announced they will be married in a double-feature wed ding in the Prince's tiny Euro pean principality of Monaco on April 18 and 19. The , celebrated couple dis closed their double wedding dates yesterday after lengthy conferences with Miss - Kelly's family' in Philadelphia sfnd the Prince's advisers in his home land. The announcement said they would first be wed in a civil ceremony on April 18 and then would be reunited again in a Catholic ceremony on the follow ing day, probably by the Bishop of Monaco. O&C Timber Tracts Near Roseburg Sold : Roseburg (U.R) Four tracts of O&C timber near Roseburg have been sold by the bureau of land management, it was an nounced yesterday. The 7,851,000 board feet 6f timber'went for a total price of $375,933.70. It had been ap praised earlier at $263,689.15. The Roseburg Lumber com pany, Woolley Logging com pany of Drain, Douglas County Lumber company and the Yon calla Lumber company were the successful bidders for the yield of Douglas fir, . Highest price in any of the transactions was S55 per thou sand bid by the Woolley Com-pany. i4 NEW Q TRANSISTOR! II HEARING AID .1 Just imagine! A finest quality tran sistor Zenith backed by an iron-clad 10-day money-back guarantee ofu satisfaction, yet selling for one fourth the price of many comparable aids. 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He said he would "attempt to further the interests which caused a great senator to eye the presidency re cently, because of, as -he said, being wearied of the shoving and hauling about and around by American monopolies and car tels." He did not identify the senator. Louis J. Lampert of Portland filed for Democratic nomination for state representative from Multnomah county. Arthur P. Ireland of Forest Grove filed for re-election as state representative from the 6th district, Washington and Yamhill counties, on the Repub lican ticket. Derailed Train Smacks Junk Yard Kokomo, Ind. (U.R) A Chi cago to Cincinnati passenger train jumped the tracks last night and crashed into a junk yard, demolishing trucks and other obstacles in its path and injuring 12 persons. St. Joseph Hospital reported none of the passengers or crew men on the Pennsylvania Rail road train was hurt seriously. The two-unit diesel locomotive landed upside down, another car landed on its side, and three others were derailed. The train was picking up speed after leav ing the station and headed acci dentally into a spur line at the Lutz Iron and Steel Co. Engineer Ernest R. Crull, 67, Richmond, Ind., said the wreck was caused by an open switch which sent the train piling into a coal gondola standing on the spur. Sign Tells Reason For Littered Yard Tonawanda, N. Y (U.R) A home owner here got sick and tired of papers, cardboard and trash blowing into his property from, a nearby shopping plaza. Peter Rothwell claimed that two years of pleading with the town board failed to bring any correction, so he decided to try to embarrass the board and the stores into action. He posted a sign on his lawn that read: . '- "Lack of enforcement of town ordinances is responsible for this littered condition." and state agencies, and with lo cal agencies. 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