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EIGHT MAIL TRIBUNE - Friday. February 10, 1956 Four-Car Accident Injures One Person Al Four Corners Miss Doreen Venelle Straus, 23, of route 2, box 400, Gold Hill, suffered a cut forehead and bruised knee when the car she was driving was involved in a four-car accident about 6:27 'P.m. yesterday at Highway 66 four corners north of here. Other cars involved were driven by John Charles Snook 39, of route 2, box 38, Central Point, and Delia Spray Mann 64, of route 3, box J3, Central Point, and one , registered to Charles H. Carr, 855 East 10th St., Medford, according to state police. - Police said the vehicle operat ed by Delia Mann, headed east on the 401 market road, pulled across the highway in front of Miss Straus' vehicle, which was headed north on Highway 62. Fenders Engage Right rear fenders of the two , cars engaged, police said, spin ning the Mann vehicle around, and sending Miss Straus vehi cle into the parking lot at Hunt er's tavern where it hit the parked car registered to Carr. The impact started the Carr vehicle rolling backward onto the southbound lane of Highway 62, where it and the Snook car, which was traveling south, col lided. . Dolice said. Snook told police he . was aware, of what was happening, -appiied tne brakes' and was able .to slow his vehicel to prevent extensive damage. " Police said Delia Mann was cited for failure to .yield the . rieht of way. - : In an accident in Central . Point Wednesday morning, cars operated by Edward Francis Harman, 439 Litway ave., Ash land, and Mrs. Blanche Cheney, Portland. Police said .Harmon was stopped at the Highway 99 stoplight, and was struck from behind. y Wholesale Coffee Prices Go Higher, New York -(U.R) Higher re tail prices for both, instant and regular coffee loomed today as several big processors : hiked their wholesale prices, for . the second time in a week. General Foods Corp. an nounced a three-cents-per-pound boost . on vacuum-packed Max well House Coffe. ' Wholesale prices on its Instant -Maxwell House and Instant Sanka were upped two cents a two ounce jar and six cents per six-ounce jar. Standard Brands, Inc., has scheduled a two-cents-a-pound boost on its vacuum-packed Chase & Sanborn brand, effec tive next Monday. . Albert Ehlers, Inc., said it will raise the wholesale price of its regular , coffee three cents a pound "in the next few days." A boost in its instant coffee price also is planned, an official said. Lesl RUSSIANS IN ROME Rome (U.R) The. first Rus sian tourists in Italy in 40 years Thursday visited St. Peter's Ca thedral and took pictures of each other under the windows of the palace of Pope Pius XII. The 102 visitors spent almost two hours in the Vatican museums, driwdd tvh . LEGAL NOTICES inVVRTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received by the Oregon State Board of Higher Educa tion at KOOm ZUd. rsenson noiti. run land. Oreeon until 9:00 A.M., Pacific ctonHarH TinriA nn Tuesday. March 13, ieal Education Building for Southern Orinn rolleee of Education at Ash land. Oregon. Separate bids will be re ceived for General Work, Electrical Wnric anit Mechanical Work. Work included for the basic bid has a floor area of approximately 47.000 square feet. Structure is composed of concrete lootings, xounaauun wus, floors and walks, and concrete mason lie wnnri studding, wood floors, slued laminated beams, and wand rnnf. Drawings, specifications and forms of contract documents may be obtain ed by prime bidders only from the of fice of Howard R. Perrin, Architect, 1121 Main Street, Klamath Falls, Ore gon, upen a deposit of ?2o.00 per set. Such deposit will be refunded upon the return of the drawings, specifica tions and forms of contract documents in good condition by the actual bid ders within two weeks after the open ing of bids, but to nonbidders only if returned no later than one weeK prior to bid opening. The drawings, specifications - and forms of contract documents may be examined at the Builders' Exchange in Portland. Salem, Eugene, Chico. Sacra mento and San Francisco, at the Daily Pacific Builder Plan Room. 465 Tenth Street, San Francisco, California, and at the office of the Architect. All bidders must comply with -the laws of the State of Oregon relating to the qualifications of bidders. Chapter 279, Oregon Revised Statutes.' No bid will be : considered unless fully completed in the manner provid ed in the "Instructions to Bidders-' up on the bid form provided by the Archi tect and accompanied by a certified check or a bid bond executed in favor of the State of Oregon and the Oregon State Board of Higher Education in an amount not less than ten percent (10) of the total amount of the bid, to be forfeited as fixed and liquidated damages should the bidder neglect or refuse to enter into a contract and provide suitable bond for the faithful performance of the work in the event the contract is awarded to him. The Oregon State Board of Higher Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all infor malities. No bidder may withdraw his bid af ter the hour set for the opening there of until after the elapse of 30 days from the bid opening. OREGON STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION By EARL, M. PALLET. - ... Secretary, Eugene. Oregon. ie irvin Captured; Vows Bnnocesice of Chinese Execution ilurders San Francisco (U.R) Cap tured Leslie Irvin vowed today he was innocent of the six Chi nese execution murders with which he is charged but said he was resigned to face execution in Indiana where he escaped from prison 21 days ago. The 31-year-old boyish-looking killer surrendered quietly to po lice Thursday in a San Fran cisco pawn shop. He said he hitchhiked across nine states, was given rides by "at least 100" motorists, and was stopped "about five times" by state troopers since his escape. Irvin broke out of the suppos edly escape-p roof Princeton, Ind., jail using cardboard keys he made from the covers of paper bound novels. He escaped while awaiting transfer to the state prison to be electrocuted for the murder of Evansville gas station attend ant W. Wesley Kerr the first of six persons slain on his two state homicidal spree. Questioned by Police Irvin admitted his identity Thursday after several hours of questioning by police. "Don't you know who I am," he said. "I'm Irvin. I'm wanted for six muEders in Indiana. I've been convicted of one of them and I'm not guilty of any of them." He said he passed through Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,' Nebras ka, Colorado, doubled back to Wyoming, then crossed Utah, Nevada and finally to California while the nation searched for him. : Asked if he expected to be caught, Irving replied, "I hoped I wouldn't naturally. It's just like I told my lawyers. I wrote and told them the day I escaped that I would come back when they would give me a new trial." Suspicious Pawnshop Ownei Irvin was arrested by Chief of Inspectors James English and three other officers who were called by a pawnshop owner who became suspicious when Irvin tried to hock two rings stolen in a Los Angeles burglary. He at first gave police the name of Victor Davis of Los An geles. He admitted his true iden tity after police determined that the real Victor Davis had been robbed in southern California by a hitchhiker who stole his iden tification papers. William M. Whelan, head of the local office , of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Ir vin would be returned to Indiana on a federal warrant charging unlawful flight. Such a warrant makes extradition . formalities unnecessary. Whelan said Irwin probably would be arraigned on the flight charge , in federal .court here to day and would be held to await the arrival of Indiana authorities. Quebec Prospector Hanged for Slaying American Hunter, 19 Montreal (U.R) Wilbert Coffin, a 44-year-old prospector, walked silently to a gallows at Bordeaux jail early today and was hanged for slaying a young American hunter in the Quebec bush in 1953. . Coffin protested his innocence until two hours before the trap was sprung at 12:19 a.m. (EST). He refused to say a word in his last two hours and left no notes. He was pronounced dead at 12:33 a.m. by the jail physician, Dr. Marius Denis. The blond, wiry prospector, veteran bushman and jack-of-all-trades was executed for murder ing 17-year-old Richard Lindsey of Hollidaysburg, .Pa., whose mutilated body was found in the wilds of the Gaspe Peninsula where he was on a bear-hunting trip. The bodies, of young Lind sey's father, Eugene, 47, and friend Fred Claar, 19, of East Freedom, Pa., were found near by. Police charged that he killed them, too. But he was tried and convicted on the single count of shooting young Lindsey to death with a high-powered rifle that has never been found. Police said he slew them for their hunt ing equipment and about $600 they were carrying. Reporters were not allowed to see the execution which was at tended by a dozen witnesses in cluding jail officials and six doc tors who formed a jury panel for a coroner's inquest. Some de tails of the execution in the star shaped jail on Montreal's north western outskirts were relayed by Sheriff Paul Hurteau. "He said not one word, but walked very bravely to his death," Hurteau told newsmen by telephone as they waited for word at a police headquarters press room in downtown Mon treal. Hurteau said Coffin made no last requests, did not pray aloud at an 18-minute Protestant serv ice conducted in his cell by Pri son Chaplain S. L. Pollard at midnight. See Us For ... SPEEDOMETER TACHOMETER and AUTO RADIO SERVICE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. AUTOMOTIVE Electric Parts Service 245 N. RIVERSIDE' Medford -Pho, 2-4918 PsicsDsa itd gj ft ft o o du Ih) D oil: 1 can wii w wmmm i iMLu.iuiii.u.m.fr,lwuinjji iujimi. a imn i- i i LUgiii.it 1 1. iiwjipjjiiMgM" 1 1 4' 111 ' ' 11111 A short-stroke V8 for every model! Higher powered, higher compression 6's! More power for tight sched ules and tough jobs . . . modern "power that saves you money every mile! 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