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. tlX WtDFOUD (ORECOKJ MAIL TRIBUNE ' Tuesdiy, August 7. 1958 j MPS'MP J&i HIGH SPEED DID THIS! Canadian policeman "ex amines overturned auto as the body of the driver, Curil Dewar, lies atop roof of house in Holland' Landing, Ontario. The freak accident occurred when Dewar tried to take a corner" at high speed. The car flipped over several times, flinging Dewar onto the roof, ending its run upside down on the iront lawn. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS , Parrig Island SSgt. Matthew C. McKeon, sentenced to nine months at hard labor, a bad conduct discharge, reduction to private and fined $270 for leading six Marine recruits to their deaths in a night swamp- march, on fellow Marines who presented him with a check for $275: "I can't say enough for those people, honest to God. The Marine Corps is full of guys like that. That's what makes it a great outfit." Galveston, Tax Mrs. Babe DIdrikton Zaharias. champion ath lete who has fought a courageous three-year battle against cancer, to her husband before undergoing a tough three-hour surgical operation Monday night: "We're not leading the league yet. Guess we'll have to play it ff." Chicago Novelist William Faulkner writing on the racial problem in Ebony magazine as if he were a Negro: "I would say that our race must adjust itself psychologically not to an indefinite continuation of a segregated society, but rather to a continuation as long as necessary of that inflexible unflagging inflexibility which, in the end, will make the white man sick and tired of fighting It." Santa Monica, Calif. Gladys Robinson, who won an uncontest ed divorce and estimated $2,000,000 from actor Edward G. Robin son, en her son, Edward Jr.. who pleaded innocent to drunk driv ing in an adjoining courtroom: "He's my son and I'll always love him and stand by him. He's a great actor and his father's a great actor. They're the greatest." Atlanta Eugene Cook, attorney general of Georgia, on his proposal for a Southern drive to liquidate the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People: , "There is not time for shadow boxing if we are to preserve sovereign dignity as states under a republican form of govern ment." Chicago Former Agriculture Secretary Claude H. Wickard to the Democratic platform committee on parity for farmers: "Farmers and those who depend upon them cannot return to prosperity until they receive for their crops a fair return 100 per cent of parity." Laughs of the Day ; . . Chorley, England (U.R) A railroad clerk sold 83 excursion tickets to the North Wales re sort of Llandudno. Half an hour later he made 83 refunds when the train roar ed through the station without stopping. Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Corinne Fields ran in panic after she turned on her washing machine and heard screams and yowls. Police came to her aid and removed a cat, wet, but apparently un injured, . Gouveia, Portugal (U.R) Maria Coelho, 46, sprang from his bed at the crack of dawn and rushed out to rescue his herd of sheep from wolves. Only af ter falling off a high wall did he realize he had no sheep and there were no wolves. A frac tured jaw and several bumps and bruises were his penalties for a too vivid dream. Miami, Fla. (U.R) Judge Charles H. Snowden found Mrs. Minerva Stein, 50, guilty of squirting her neighbor with a garden hose after a squabble and said her punishment would be as "childish as her act." He ordered Mrs. Stein home to write 1.000 times, "I will not squirt my neighbor with a garden hose." and to return in Silefz Indian Tribes Get Final Payment Portland U.R Members of the SileU Indian tribes have re ceived their final payment from the government, marking the end of federal trust over the tribal members. The Siletz tribe is the first of six in the nation slated for ter mination under act of Congress. Checks totaling 5512,732.50 were mailed out to the B39 mem bers of the tribe in the final payment. Holdings of the tribe have been liquidated by the govern ment through sale of land over the past two years. Creswell Farmer Due Thursday With Waifs Portland U.R Harry Holt, the Creswell farmer who doubles as an immigration expediter for Korean orphans, is scheduled to arrive here Thursday with another group of Korean waifs headed for adoption in American homes. Holt is to land in Portland early Thursday with 20 to 25 orphans. The Creswell farmer has adopted eight orphans brought to this country earlier himself. Somerville, Mass. U.R) Thomas H. Joy has eight chil dren and a newly earned bachelor of law degree from Boston college. Joy had inter rupted his law studies to become an accountant but later decided he'd rather be a lawyer and went back to school. a week so he could her homework. 'grade" Durban, South Africa (U.R) A girl feeding goldfish in the pond at Natal university discov ered two crocodiles swimming among the fish. Male students told police they dumped the rep tiles in the pond because they were getting too big to keep as pets in the bathtub. "They kept jumping out," one student explained. New York (U.R) Irving Benowits purchased a paint ing at an auction but had trouble taking his purchase with him. He attempted to pull the painting from the wall. The frame came but the painting remained; it was a mural with a frame hung over it. Mr. Benowits got his money back $5.50. Educatioo Seen Aid To Alcohol Problem Washington (U.R) A lead ing physiologist says the nation's "teachers and preachers" are better able to wipe out alco holism than doctors. Dr. Andrew C. 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