Downward Trend
In Unemployment
Fund May End
Salem (U.R) Increased em
ployers' contributions resulting
from higher average tax rates
and wider coverage may lead
to an end to the downward trend
of Oregon's unemployment trust
fund. '
State unemployment compen
sation officials said yesterday
that for nearly eight years the
fund has been shrinking steadily
from a high of $86,000,000 in
1948 to just over $48,000,000
this spring.
Last month, $321,678 was add
ed to the Oregon fund under
provisions of the Reid bill pass
ed by Congress in 1954. The
amount represents about one per
cent of the $33,000,000 surplus
accumulated by the federal gov
ernment.
Loans To States
Under the bill, the national
fund will be maintained at
around $200,000,000 for possible
loans to states whose unemploy
ment reserves are depleted.
The surplus fund is expected
to increase considerably in fu
ture years.
Unemployment officials said
that while employers' payments
have not been completely tabu
lated, predictions were that re
ceipts for the second ha.'i of 1956
may pass $9,000,000, bringing
the year's total to about $15,000,
000. Taxable payrolls may be in
creased more that $150,000,000
this year by extension of cover
age to employers of two or more
workers and by raising individ
ual annual pay coverage.
TO HEAD KGW-TV
Portland (U.R) Walter E.
Wagstaff, Idaho radio and tele
vision executive, will become
manager of KGW-TV on Sep
tember 15, it was announced
yesterday by Gordon Orput,
president of Pioneer Broadcast
ing Company.
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EGYPTIAN TEACHERS LEARN NEW LESSONS At the teacher's club in Gezira,
Egypt converted into a military training camp, Major Kamaieddin Russein (white
suit), Egyptian Education Minister and Commander of the National Guard, gives in-"
struction in the use of small arms to group of teacher-recruits. Egyptian President
Nasser and his Cabinet met in emergency session to decide on the forthcoming Suez
Canal conference in London.
Princess Margaret Nears 26th Birthday
As Matchmakers About Ready To Give Up
London (U.R) Princess Mar
garet reaches her 26th birthday
a spinsterish age for royalty
Aug. 21 and the royal matchmak
ers, official and unofficial, are
about ready to surrender.
The little princess has now
met almost every eligible male
in the kingdom without a visible
spark. Two years ago Bucking
ham Palace sources predicted
she might never marry. The
most incurable optimists are
now ready to concede this is
very possible.
If the matchmakers are wor
ried, the princess isn't. She goes
to cocktail parties, the theater
and nightclubs just as she al
ways did except the people she
runs around with these days are
"amusing" rather than eligible.
Danced, Sang At Party
The other day she sang and
danced to phonograph records
'til early morning at a small
party in the flat of art student
Gerald Bridgeman, 26, who also
cooked dinner. Bridgeman is a
clansman of the Earl of Brad
ford family motto "Neither
Rashly Nor Timidly."
Then she attended a party at
which guests included Ameri-
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can screen and TV people. One
American actor who shall re
main nameless raced through in
troductions. "Margaret who?" he inquired
when he was presented.
The hostess nearly collapsed.
A close friend of the princess
confided recently that she did
not believe she has ever been
really in love. The Group Cap
tain Peter Townsend episode is
being described in the dwindling
Margaret set as "a serious in
fatuation." Preparing for Journey
At the moment the princess is
preparing for a six-week air-sea
journey to the Indian Ocean and
: Africa starting late next month.
Recently a report was widely
! circulated that she would also
i visit Hollywood late this year.
; This is not true. The princess
j would like to visit the United
I States but such a trip is not yet
possible.
As she approaches 26 the prin
j cess is a miniature lovely (five
I feet 95 pounds) whose photo
I graphs do her little justice.
Cece Barker of Los Angeles,
producer of the Red Skelton
television show and connoisseur
of beauty, was presented to her
New Traffic Laws
Adopted in Portland
Portland (U.R) Police "re
luctance" to do business in di
vided courts resulted yesterday
in two new city traffic laws.
From now on, driving with im
proper license plates or without a
valid operator's license will be
violations of city law as well
as state law. Heretofore, they
were only violations of state law,
to be dealt with in Circuit Court.
The city council adopted them
into law yesterday.
During the first six months
this year, only 17 arrests were
made. The divided court system
was to blame, according to the
Portland Traffic Safety Com
mission. Because it often involves tak
ing one violator to two different
courts, the commission said po
lice are "reluctant" to make ar
rests on state matters.
All city traffic matters can
now be handled in the municipal
court under the new laws.
Parents in Colombia
Well, Eugenean Told
Eugene ;U.R) A Eugene wom
an who had been awaiting word
about her parents who live in the
South American city shattered
by a huge explosion Tuesday,
last night heard from her sister
in Los Angeles that the parents
are safe.
Mrs. Inez Moore here talked
to her sister in Los Angeles by
phone last night. iThe sister re
ported that she had just finished
talking with their parents on the
phone, and that they were all
right.
The house in which Mrs.
Moore's parents live was only
seven blocks from the scene of
the explosion which claimed the
lives of several hundred people
when seven truckloads of dyna
mite exploded in the business
section of Cali, Colombia.
SMART POLITICIAN
Cleveland, O. (U.R) William
T. Monroe, a Democratic can
didate for the Ohio House of
Representatives, did not receive
his party's endorsement, but he
has figured out a way to have
his name mentioned at its ral
lies. When he drives his well
postered car to Democratic
meetings, he leaves it parked
with the headlights on. Invari
ably the chairman calls his
name out to tell him his lights
are burning.
Friday. August 10. 195S
MEDFCHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Refugees From Germany Find
America Is Land of Miracles
Omaha, Neb., (U.R) For
Heinz Huetter, America is a
land of miracles, and he didn't
get that impression from a story
book.
Huetter's first contact with
American was in the little Bava
rian town of Cam, just 18 days
before V-E day in 1945. A top
sergeant in the German army,
Huetter, 42, was captured by
Czech soldiers.
Then came miracle No. 1. His
Czech captors were moving him
and two comrades into a woods
for a quick execution when an
American infantry captain drove
up.
Huetter took a chance, despite
a machine gun in his back, and
flagged down the officer. The
captain saved his life, took cus
today of the three Germans.
He was a prisoner of war only
three weeks. Then he located
his wife and two children in
Austria. There followed a long
period of wandering, joblessness
and hunger in Austria and their
return to Germany. His home
town was in the Eastern zone,
which was impenetrable, so they
went to Munich.
Then came miracle No. 2. He
had applied for admission to the
United States and, through the
help of George Peter, Omaha
publisher and travel agency ex
ecutive, he was accepted.
The family, penniless, arrived
in New York in March, 1952.
Huetter loaded his wife and two
children on a Greyhound bus
and headed for Omaha.
Since then, he said, life is a
continuing cycle of miracles.
Huetter, a butcher before the
war, was given a job by Fred
Glaser, Omaha meat packer,
washing trucks. In the four years
since then he has risen to super
visor of the Glaser plant. He has
bought a white house in a quiet
residential area, a car, a televi
sion set.
Life Not At Hard
Even before they learned
English by attending night
school they found life was not
as hard as they imagined it
would be.
Mrs. Huetter, a dark-haired,
attractive woman, said her big
gest surprise during the long bus
ride from New York was that
"everyone had his own little
house."
They have found the Amer
ican economy almost unbeliev
able after the years in Germany
in which buying a pair of shoes
meant weeks of privation.
Asked if they would ever go
back, the family chorused:
"Never."
Said Mrs. Huetter:
"We've never had it M food
as here."
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COOL CUTIES
Salem, N.H. (U.R) When
temperatures hit 95 Thursday
in front of a haberdashery, con
tractor Nelson Tisdale marched
in the five men in his crew pour
ing hot tar and outfitted them
in blue Bermuda shorts and red
knee-length stockings.
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ins
last month and later issued this
communique:
"She's a doll. I rate her better
looking than Princess Grace
Kelly."
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