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Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1956 8 Pages r fry ! - fl i ' ? S'J V Pi 1 . ' & : r""f f HOLLYWOOD BOUND China's leading movie ac tress Lj. Li-Hua poses pret tily on rail of SS. President Wilson on arrival in San Francisco. She's in the U. S. under refugee act and is on her way to Hollywood under contract to CecD B. DeMille. She is accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter. Miss Li made 63 movies before fleeing to Hongkong when Communist armies swept across China in 1948. Rock 'n Roll Beat Stirs Up Midsummer Madness Among Teen-Agers of Nation Chicago (U.P.J From coast to coast, rock 'n roll has stirred up a sort of midsummer mad ness in these United States to day. Rock 'n roll, it seems, keeps getting reactions as pronounced as its beat. It's been banned in Asbury Park, N. J., to prevent teen-age riots such as rocked that resort community last month. Jersey City Mayor Bernard J. Berry also banned a rock 'n roll con cert scheduled for tonight for the same reason. In the nation's capital, rock 'n roll is banned at the armory because a riot tore up property and injured spectators. Dig That Hooby Dooby In Denver, where it hasn't been banned but where disc jockeys have been "selective," arf Indignant citizen wrote to the Denver Post: "This hooby dooby, coop-shoop ootie ootie boom boom deaddy boom scoodledy goobledy dump ... is trash." The National Piano Tuners convention at Kansas City said rock 'n roll music has brought the first broken bass chord wires the big ones down at the business end of the piano they've ever seen. Piano tuner U. G. Jeffers of Charleston, W. Va., said "Rock 'n roll has a fixed place in society now be cause there's something wrong with society Record stores report skyrock eting sales of rock 'n roll platters and in Pittsburgh, a downtown nitery that failed in several pre vious tries now is going strong by specializing in rock 'n roll. Relieves Teen Frustration In Chicago, Dr. S. Kirson Weinberg, Roosevelt University sociologist, said rock 'n roll gives the adolescent, an outlet for his frustration at being in secure. Last Saturday night at San Jose, Calif., police had to break yf :'v 'fWsVifcAs vop whip since J NESBITT'S t Your Favorite GROCER Personal Income, Corporation Taxes Total $85,171,132 Salem flJ.R; State personal income and corporation excise taxes totaling $85,171,132 were collected for the 1955-56 fiscal year, the State Tax Commission has reported. Commissioner Ray Smith said the receipts for 1954-55 were only $56,822,219. Smith attributed the big in- crease to imposition of the sur tax, reduction of personal ex emptions and dependency credits to $500, increase in withholding rates to two per cent and better economic conditions in the 1955 calendar year. Income Taxes Cain Personal income tax collec tions in 1955-56 reached $68. 779,863 a gain of $25,984,504 or 60.7 per cent over the pre ceding year's figure. The with held part of personal income tax receipts increased from $18. 050.540 to $24,244,503 while withholding refunds dropped from $2,707,918 to Sl.334.951. The increase in the withhold ing rate from one to two per cent applied to collections from only -one quarterly period in the fiscal year, Smith said. The rate change became effective Jan. 1, 1956 and employers made their first remittances at the new rate in April. Corporation excise tax collec tions totaled $16,382,477 this year an increase of $2,355,616 or 16.8 per cent.over 1954-55. MUDDY SURVIVAL Lebanon, Ore. (U.R) Bill Paestch, a 28-year-old logger, will have no more complaints about Oregon's wet winters. Paetsch was helping unload logs recently when one rolled off a 1 , 1 1. . 1I irucK ana rouea over nim. dui the log pushed him down into i mud, and he escaped with only a minor injury to his left ankle. up their own party at the civic auditorium to send 35 or 40 men to the Palomar Gardens, where teen-agers attending a rock 'n roll dance got out of hand and started slinging pop bottles. Band leader Fats Domino turned off the torrid rhythm and switched to three-quarter time. Not even his trumpet could be heard. Fifteen rioters and two policemen were injured, 12 teen agers were arrested. There. A whole storm about rock 'n roll without once en countering Elvis Whatshisname. Linn Nightspot Raid Nets Youths Albany, Ore. ,'U.R) Eight Portland agents of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission Wednesday night took into cus today 23 teen-agers outside a Linn county nightspot and charged them with illegal pos session of liquor. The youths, ranging in age from 14 to 18, were from Salem, Corvallis, Lebanon, and Marcola, the agents said. Twenty of the youths were either released to their parents or released on $50 bail each. Three were still in custody. All 23 were scheduled to appear in Linn county juvenile court. No charges were brought against operators of the nightspot. Portland (U.R) A price of $27 a share has been set on an offering of 343,550 shares of Pacific Power & Light common stock to present holders of the company's shares. Medford Men Plan to Attend Annual Meet Eugene Harold C. Brown and William A. Saladi of Phoe nix Mutual, Medford, will be on the university campus Thursday and Friday to attend the fourth annual Life Underwriters' Con gress. Feature of the two-day meet ing will be an address by Grant Taggart, California Western States Life, Cawley, Wyo., who will speak at a policyholders luncheon on Thursday. More than 200 insurance men are ex pected at the meetings. JANITOR AT 94 Riverton, la. (U.R) Berry Roberts thinks that, at 94, he is the oldest school janitor in the nation. He has been on the job for 28 years, but admits he hasn't done much cleaning for four or five years. "But I'm still able to make the bell ring," he said. Annapolis, Mr. (U.R Mary land requires a fine of at least $100 or 30 days in jail for drivers convicted of speeding more than 70 mi'es an hour. In the court's descretion. the fine can be as much as $1,000 and the sentence as long as a year. The penalties are for a first offense. DIAL DEAL Madison, S. D. (U.R) Nearly 8,000 rural residents of South Dakota will have a modern dial1 telephone in 1956 for the first time. The installations will be made by 13 telephone coopera tives, 12 of them financed by the Rural Electrification Admin-: istration, which already has electrified a majority of the state's 'farm homes. 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