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TERRIFYING ORDEAI Jean Margett, 18, of Sunnyside, Calif., is comforted by her mother, Mrs. Lawrence Mar gett, in hospital in Salt Lake City. Jean spent nine days trapped under wreckage of an automobile as her fiance, James B. Hixon Jr., of Salt Lake City, lay dead 15 feet away. They were to be married in September. Jean is in critical condition. A log kept her from being crushed. Congressmen Fly To Air Crash Site Grand Canyon Village, Ariz. ;U.R) Nine congressmen arrived here today to make a personal investigation into the crash of two airliners that took 128 lives. The crash has aroused a na tionwide demand for improved air traffic regulations since it apparently followed a collision in air of the Trans World Air lines and United Air Lines planes. More evidence was re ported found Thursday that the planes collided in flight. , Also scheduled to arrive today was an eight-man team of Swiss mountain climbers who will aid in removing bodies and wreck age from the spot on a high ledge where the UAL plane fell. Two Plead Guilty in Circuit Court Here Robert Paul Bryant, 22, 81312 Grant St., and Byron Everett Craven, 24, Trail, were arrested this week by city police on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Both men pleaded guilty in circuit court to the charge and sentencing is pending the arrival of FBI reDorts. Girl Trapped Nine Days in Auto Wreck Continues to Show Progress Salt Lake City "U.R; Doctors reported today that 18-year-old Jean Margetts was continuing to recover "satisfactorily" from the ordeal of being trapped in a car wreck for nine days but she still could not discuss the accident. A formal statement issued by Latter-day Saints hospital today said the plucky patient was "not quite as alert" mentally as she was Thursday and so far she could only "answer simple ques tions." She was trapped in the car and her fiance, James Hixon Jr., 22, was killed June 24 while re turning here from a fishing trip. The Sunnyvale, Calif., girl was not found in the concealed wreckage until Tuesday evening. The hospital said Miss Mar getts could still recognize her parents and doctors "interpreted the absence of crying to mean she was free from pain and hun ger." Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Margetts, have re mained at the hospital con stantly. Doctors for the first time dis cussed specific injuries the girl Laughs of the Day . . . Springfield, 111. U.PJ Lester D. Plummer asked a judge to annul his month-old marriage on the ground that the divorce of his first wife in April left him so "emotionally upset" he didn't know what he was doing when he remarried. Chicago !U.R) Brookfield zoo official, despo.iied a blonds mat from iha tropical foreiU in ih cas of tha zoo's two-toed .loth, but the male lloth iloth fuly declined to come down from hii perch. After setting out a love feast of dandelions, lev luce and grapes. Zoo Director Robert Bean predicted "in the cool of the evening Mr. Sloth will come down from his ivory tower, cuddle up to that blonde and they'll peel a grape to gether." ord, I broke my leg changing over." Inglewood, Calif. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. David C. Fisher got a municipal court judge's congrat ulations for saving their money but a $100 fine for their method of doing it. The fins was for il legal possession of a slot ma chine the Fishers claimed was used as a piggy bank in their home. suffered. They said she did not appear to have a frontal skull fracture, as believed earlier, but did have some superficial gang rene of the toes, especially on the right side, due to exposure. She was trapped under the car on her right side. Generalized Contusions Examination found the girl had generalized contusions and abrasions over all her ex tremities. Members of the hospital staff said no newsmen had been per mitted to talk to Miss Margetts and that "as far as we know," she had not discussed the acci dent with her parents or told them how she survived the nine days before she was found. Friday, July 6. 1956 MEI'FORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Truman Believed Triggered for Premature Attack on Stevenson By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Some of former President Truman's po litical pals are fearful that he is t r i ggered for a prema ture give-'em-hell blast against the Democr atic nomination of Adlai E. Stev enson for pres ident. These politi cal pals were associates of Mr. Truman when he was in the White House. They are convinced HST hopes to ob tain the nomination of Gov. Averell Harriman of New' York. They hope to prevent anyone in the Stevenson camp or else where from doing or saying anything which would cause Mr. Truman to shoot from the hip against their man. They believe Stevenson will pile up such a large first-ballot plurality in the Democratic National Convention that his nomination will be as sured, barring the unpredictable. That's Mr. Truman unpredict able. He has been impulsive on occasion, and if impulse put him on public record opposing Stev enson's nomination before the convention got going, his pres tige might swing the party away from the man from Illinois. Thoughts Make Sense That's what some of Mr. Tru man's long-time political pals are thinking, anyway. And it makes sense. The impression that Mr. Truman favored Harriman Knoxville, Tenn. j(U.R) Mrs. Doris Hamsher, 30, in court on a car theft charge, told the judge why she was limping. She had been dancing to "The Tennessee Waltz," Mrs. Hamsher explain ed, and that when the juke box flipped to a "rock and roll rec- Flint. Mich. (U.R) Surgeons removed an open pen knife from 12-year-old Lee Reeves' stomach after he accidentally swallowed the knife while lying in bed picking his teeth. New York ;U.R) A grand old American custom was laid to rest in a lower Manhattan court when Magistrate Louis I. Kaplan served notice that henceforth anyone throwing eggs at poltical opponents faces a six-month jail sentence in his court. OUT OF RED Emmetsburg, la. (U.R) Paint ers have changed the color of the doors on a parochial school here. As long as there was a mortgage on the school, the doors were painted red. School Construction Bill 'Good as Dead' Washington (U.R) House Democrats and Republicans agreed today that the defeated school construction bill is as good as dead this year in con- .gress. " . .. ' Each side blamed the other. The House defeated the $1,600,000,000 school program Thursday in a 224-194 roll call vote. Earlier, the House attached a modified anti-segregation amendment after a legislative mixup that resulted in the kill ing of a previously approved stiffer version. The party lineup on the final vote: 119 Republicans and 105 Democrats voted against it: 119 Democrats and 75 Republicans voted for it. 1 One of the principal issues be sides the segregation amendment was whether states should re ceive federal aid money accord ing to their fiscal need or size. over Stevenson began to develop with the appearance of the second volume of his memoirs. In that book, Mr. T. paid off Stevenson for chilling him out of the 1952 presidential cam paign. He was president then and had nominated Stevenson almost single-handedly. Evidence of his political af fection for Harriman has ac cumulated steadily. A recent visitor to Kansas City found Mr. Truman unwilling to, talk presi dential politics. The visitor pressed, however, and Mr. Tru man counselled him to take his questions to Frank McKinney. Fitted Into Jigsaw McKinney is the Indiana banker-politician who was chosen by Mr. Truman in the latter years of his presidential service to be chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee. It was Mc Kinney who revealed that last spring's unadvertised Mid-Western huddle of Harriman support ers had taken place with Mr. Tru man's knowledge. McKinney himself now has been publicly fitted into the jig saw Harriman-for-president puz ble. Harriman headquarters has announced McKinney's appoint ment as Midwest regional chair man. Practical politicians will regard McKinney as Mr. Tru man's man in the campaign high command. The Big Putsch The big problem now develop ing for the Harriman strategists is the timing of the big putsch for their man. They need some hundreds of Stevenson's dele gates to put Harriman over. Their strategy will be to offend such persons as little as possible and to aggravate Stevenson as little as they must, lest he throw his influence elsewhere if knocked out, himself. Stevenson's strength may be so great by convention time as to make a Harriman move both futile and foolish. That's why some of Mr. Truman's old-time associates are eager for him to hold his fire until there is some evidence that Stevenson can be stopped. Stand Against Kefauver Mr. Truman has not taken a firm stand against any likely nominee except Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee. Kefauver sinned four years ago by enter ing the New Hampshire presi dential primary against Mr. Tru man, and licking him good. Mr. T. does not forget. But when he said Thursday in Harriman's presence that he was glad the senator had lost this year's Cali fornia primary, Harriman was quick to disassociate himself from such a statement. - . "Both Sen. Kefauver and Mr. Stevenson are my kind of Demo crat," said Harriman. He doesn't want to offend either Kefauver or Stevenson. To win, Harriman hopes ulti mately to obtain delegates from, both of them. Radio Station To Buy Soft Drinks for State Phoenix, Ariz. U.R) Phoe nix radio station KRUX prepar ed today to set up $50,000 worth of soft drinks for some 1,040,000 persons in Arizona, to make good an Independence day promise. , KRUX disc jockeys- promised the station would buy drinks for everyone in the state if it had a traffic death-free July 4th. The state had no traffic fatalities. THREE KOREANS DROWN Seoul U,R) Three persons were drowned Wednesday when they jumped into the Han river from a blazing boat, it was learned today. FOR RENT or SALE Adding Machines ( Calculators 'NEW - USED George Wilson - Ph. 2-7862 Loan Association Shows Asset Increase An increase in assets of more , than $1,490,000 since June 30, I 1955, has been reported by W. J. Warner, president of Jackson , County Federal Savings and Loan association. ! Warner said the increase in assets resulted from an increase of more than $1,33,3.000 in total savings in the association during the past' year. ! Since July 1, 1955, the asso-1 ciation has made loans totaling j S2, 995.883. 77, according to John j Pletsch, secretary of the associa- j tion. This is an increase of more . than SI, 060, 000 in mortgage loans for the year, Pletsch said. Earnings on mortgage loans made it possible for the associa tion to continue the three per cent per annum dividend to in vestors, Pletsch added. Divi dends paid on June 30 totaled $133,356.93. Both Warner and Pletsch attri buted the increase to growth in southern Oregon in population and new industries. WAR CRIMINALS PAROLED Tokyo ;U.R) Thirty-five Jap anese convicted of war crimes by Dutch military tribunals were paroled from Sugamo War Crimes Prison by Japanese au thorities. The paroles were ap proved by the Netherlands gov ernment. Twenty-eight Dutch sentenced war criminals still re main in Sugamo. 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