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Annual Recruiting Drive Starts by Guard Unit Here The annual pre-Christmas re cruiting campaign of Headquar ters company, 186th infantry reg iment of the Oregon National Guard, Mecftord, will start this week and continue through Christmas, Capt. S. J. Fagpne, company commander, has an nounced. Purpose of the campaign this year, Fagone said, if for the com pany to qualify for the Eisen hower trophy. Headquarters company has so far this year met all the qualifications necessary to win the trophy he said. It Will be presented at the end of the year. . To be eligible for the trophy, Fagone added, the company must increase its number of men from B2 to 99, which is the company's full compliment. The Eisenhow er trophy s the highest award, a guard unit can earn, he said. Requirements for Trophy Fagone said that to earn the t ophy the company must have had a superior at camp, a supe rior or excellent during the fed eral inspection, 90 per cent drill- attendance, 30 per cent men en rolled in extension courses, and a full compliment of men. Headquarters Company was selected as the top unit in the state last July from ratings esta blished during the summer camp at Ft. Lewis, Wash., by sixth Army headquarters in San Fran cisco. This was the third straight year the company has received a superior rating. An official rating has not yet been received on the federal in spection held last month, accord ing to Fagone. However, he said, the inspecting officer stated that "This was the most efficient Headquarter's company he had ever seen." - Fagone said the company pres ently has openings for men in the intelligence, communications Reports of Epidemic Said 'Unfounded' Washington (U.R) The Amer ican Red Cross Saturday re ceived a report that Communist claims of a polio epidemic in war-torn Budapest are "un founded." '' . Te Communist-controlled Bu dapest Radio said Wednesday that polio and amoebic jaundice epidemics were sweeping the ravaged Hungarian capital, jg The American National Red Cross cabled international Red Cross officials in Vienna to cheek the report so they could deter mine whether to try to send Salk polio vaccine and gamma glob ulin to Badapest. spokesman said Saturday a Dr. Pailipson of the Swedish Red Cross cabled from Budapest tat the epidemic reports were "unfouiaded" and that "health conditions are as good as could be expected mnder the circumstances." Workman's Torch Starts Ship Fire Portland (U.R) A small fire broke oat at the bottom of the American Mail Line's freighter American Mail in drydock at Swan iajand here late Frfday. Several pieces of fire equip ment responad to the alarm. Firemen said the blaze was po tentially dangerous because it was just below deep tanks which carry fuel oil. The firemen, said the blaze apparently was started by a workman torch . The freighter is in drydock for repairs ta the bottom, dam aged in grounding when the ship was on its last voyage to the Philippines. Albina Engine & Machine Works here has i $150,000 contract on the ship. ONLY 25 Shopping Days Til Christmasl Hey Santa! Asleep at the Switch? Don't gal caught napping while Big Christmas Bills Pile Up! For CHRISTMAS CASH SEE I PACIFIC , IHDUSTRIAt Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 and pioneer and ammunitions sections. He added the selective service is starting to clamp down on "delinquent guardsmen" and are accelerating induction into the services. Three Boys Arrested After Chase in Car Shreveport, La. U.R) Three small boys armed with rifles be lieved stolen in Texas were cap tured in a truck late Friday aft er an 80-mile-an-hour chase punctuated by gunfire from the fugitives. Sheriff's Deputy A. A. Waller said he captured the boys, rang ing from 10 to 14 years old, in a four-mile chase. Waller said pot shots from the fleeing truck narrowly missed his head. When the truck went into a ditch on a curve, Waller said, the boys emerged, one holding a rifle. The boys, identified as being from Dallas, Tex., admitted stealing the truck in Mesquite, Tex., and driving it here, Wall er said. The boys also admitted stealing the .30 and .22 caliber rifles, along with costume jewel ry and other items, he said. Waller said he discovered the boys lowering a motor boat in a city-owned boat house, and told them to follow him to head quarters. They dashed away in another direction and the chase followed. Mrs. Weinberger Sobs al Trial Mineola, N.Y. (U.R) Mrs. Beatrice Weinberger sobbed Friday when she again heard the voice of the man accused of the kidnan-murder of her infant son ask, "Listen, do you want to see your kid or don't you?" A recorded telephone conver sation between the distraught mother and the alleged kidnap er boomed over loudspeakers in Nassau County court with the voice of a man demanding $2, 000 ransom for little Peter Weinberger. District Attorney Frank Gu- lotta told the jury the voice was that of Angelo John La Marca. La Marca, 31, is on trial charged with abducting Peter from his parents' home last July 4 and abandoning him to die the next day. The conversation play ed back in court occurred July 10. He sat motionless, staring at his folded hands, as the metallic voice recreated his demand for money for the baby's safe re turn five days after he had left Peter to die. Mrs. Weinberger's sobs mingled with the recorded voices. Elderly Hunter Falls In Abandoned Well Roanoke Rapids, N.C. U.PJ An elderly hunter fell into an abandoned well Friday and stood so long in chilling waist deep water he was unable to lower his upraised arms when rescued. The hunter, G. H. Ranhorn, a merchant in his late 60s, was hospitalized and under treatment Saturday for severe shock. Ranhorn went hunting early Friday morning in 25-degree weather and fell into the old well in a field north of here. He called for help, Jmt it was late afternoon before a woman at a nearbv farm hnnu Mn Le.e Wheeden, heard his cries ana summoned Sheriff Harry House. Wind Fans Brush Fire In East Clark County Vancouver Wash rum vir- fanned by a stiff east wind flar- ea over 30 acres of ferns and light brush in eastern Clark county Friday night. Fifteen fire- iignters irom the state's Larch Mountain honor camp were sent in to battle the flames. Dry conditions combined with the brisk wind, swept the flames rapidly westward over an area south of Countv Rnari TJn 19B some 15 miles east of Vancouver and -five miles north of Camas SHORT WAIT Bloomfield, Mich. (U.R) A sign, tacked for four or five years to a tree in front of the home of Mrs. Millie Noch reads "Kittens Free." A neiehhnr rail ed on Mrs. Noch and asked for a kitten. Mrs. Noch apologized "I'm fresh out," she said, "call again in a couple of weeks." Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport tmi ii"i-T-a -i2s. t -! -. - ,...r nun WMmmml,-ammaummllmmmmmA SITTING IN STEKN FACED SILENCE these American delegates to the United Nations reflect the somberness of the trouble m Hungary and Egypt. From right to left they are Senators Hubert Humphrey, and William Knowland; U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, and Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (International Soundphoto) Sunday, November 25, 1958 Charges Made of Clandestine Radio Vienna jll.R) The Soviet imposed Janos Kadar regime charged Saturday the U.S. lega t i o n in Budapest is operating clandestine radio receivers and transmitters. An announcement broadcast over Budapest Radio said the Hungarian Foreign Ministry had lodged a "strong protest" with the legation. The ministry de manded an immediate halt to In a formal note, the foreign ministry charged that receivers and transmitters in use at the le gation were not registered with the proper Hungarian authori ties. It said use of the radios amounted to an "offense against the sovereign rights of the Hun garian people." 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