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SIX MXDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tutiday, January 8, 1957 r AIR FORCE "STRONG MAN" New polar mobility for the U. S, Air Force is seen when Lockheed "Ski-130" Hercules propjet goes into operation. This artist's concep tion shows the Hercules modified to accept unique 4400-pound knee-action skis, which can be alternated with tandem landing wheels. The new Air Force "strong man" is expected to have payload near 20 tons whether using paved runways or improvised Arctic ice and snow runways. Ticket Sales Lagging for Ike's Second Term Inauguration Party Washington (U.R With less than two weeks left to prepare for President Eisenhower's second-term swearing in, the inau gural committee today wrestled with a variety of problems, in cluding: ' Road-testing" an elephant. Too many Uncle Sams. Not enough ticket sales. Lagging ticket sales especi ally concerned the inaugural committee. A spokesman said to day ticket booths will be opened soon in downtown Washington department stores and in five American Automobile Associa tion offices in an effort to boost business. The committee also sent out ' a request to local businessmen to "keep prices at normal lev els" during the three-day cele bration beginning Jan. 20 so visitors will leave town with ' a complete feeling of friendli ness." Program Unveiled The official inaugural souvenir program was unveiled Monday. It boasts on its front cover por traits by artists Norman Rock well, of President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. On the.back is the Presi dent's 1953 inaugural prayer. Both covers are "highly suitable for framing." The souvenir program is loose leaf notebook size and priced at SI (10 cents additional for mailing). It carries the full schedule of inaugural events, biographies of President and Police Experts Check Handwriting in Hunt For New York Bomber New York (U.R) Police hand writing experts today studied several Westchester auto license applications on which the writ ing resembled that of Manhat tan "mad bomber" whose homemade explosives have in jured 15 persons and touched off a nationwide bomb scare epi demic. Can't Narrow Search The applications, culled from 175.000 examined since last weCk.- were turned over to the New York police laboratory. Of ficials emphasized, however, that none of the specimens was dis tinctive enough to narrow the search to one person. The search for the bomber cen tered on suburban Westchester on the basis of seven letters he has written bearing White Plains postmarks in which he used a plumber's term peculiar to the county. By week's end. New York de tectives and Westchester authori ties hope to have checked out more than 350.000 license appli cations against the bomber's handwriting. Also being checked are thousands of Westchester court and legal records. Poiice officials reported that the deranged bomber indicated he may be ready to declare a truce in his 16-year war during which he has planted at least 32 pipe bombs in public places in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Twenty-two of the devices have exploded, but there have been no fatalities. Indication in Letter An indication that the mad bomber might be prepared to call a truce was contained in a letter written by him to the New York Journal-American. Police declined however, to disclose the contents of the letter, which was written in response to a per sonal notice the paper addressed to the "Mad Bomber." The paper is trying to make further contact with the bomber through another public notice. While House Winter Social Season Due Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower will open the White House win ter social season tins month with a diplomatic reception. The formal social season is the first scheduled at the White House in more than a year be cause of the President's heart at tack. The season will open on the night of Jan. 24 with a reception for chiefs of mission and high ranking members of the diplo matic corps. Southwide Meeting Called in Atlanta On Bus Integration Atlanta (U.R Negro leaders of bus integration drives in three key cities have called a south wide meeting in Atlanta this week to spur their movement and to discuss the problem of racial violence. The two-day meeting starting Jan. 10 was announced by the Revs. M. L. King of Montgom ery, Ala.: C. K. Steele of Talla hassee, Fla., and F. L. Shuttles worth of Birmingham, Ala. They invited leaders of other drives to end bus segregation and from other "troubled areas" of the south. They will discuss how to spur their campaign and "violence Sirected. toward the Negro communities." Drivers Responsible The Tallahassee City Commis sion Monday hurriedly adopted an ordinance giving bus drivers the responsibility of assigning bus seats so as to "distribute the weight of passengers" and to "preserve good order.'? The ordinance did not mention bus segregation, which Negroes in Tallahassee have tried to end by mass flouting of a local seat ing law. The buses remained idle by an emergency order issued by Gov. Leroy Collins after an outbreak of violence. An aide said Collins, who will be inaugurated today for another term, has no inten tion of lifting the order soon. Mrs. Eisenhower and Vice Presi- j dent and Mrs. Nixon, and a his tory of past inaugural events. 32 Governors Accept Meantime, it was announced that 32 state governors have ac cepted invitations to the inau gural. Seven governors have "respectfully declined," chiefly because of "pressing business" in state capitals. Nine haven't R.S.V.P.'d yet. . New Jersey's - Gov. Robert Meyner said he will be unable to attend because of his forth coming marriage to Helen Ste venson, a distant relative of un successful Democratic presiden tial candidate Adlai- Stevenson. Those with less romantic reasons were the governors 'of Pennsyl vania. New York, Mississippi, Washington, New Mexico, and Kansas. Needing no invitations were the 2,000 Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls sign ed up for duty as parade ushers; messengers; ticket collectors; aides at first aid stations; and car door openers for dignitaries arriving at inaugural balls. Miss Burma Tested From parade committee chair man Edward R. Carr came a rul ing that "Miss Burma," the semi official Republican elephant, must be "road-tested" to be sure she can maintain the 120-pace per minute rate of march he will okay her entry in the inau gural parade. Confident owner Jack Mills of Mills Brothers Circus, plan ning to test "Miss Burma" at the circus' Cleveland, O., winter headquarters, got a polite no thanks" when he invited Carr to join Burma in a "walkathon. Shooting Threatened Carr also is working out diffi culties with the 40 members of the Buffalo, N.Y. Uncle Sams club who have threatened to march in the parade "if we have to shoot our way." Carr hopes to forestall any shooting.. But since he's promised to cut the parade length, he can't see how more than a half-dozen of the tall-hat marchers can partici pate. While Carr struggles with pa rade problems, the metropolitan police have arranged to bring in 100 out-of-town plainclothes men (from 700 applications for the S30 a day plus expenses as signment) to help local experts protect inaugural crowds from pickpockets. Early Hearings on Irrigation Loan Bills Promised Washington (U.R) Early hearings in both the House and Senate were promised today on bills designed to get under way a federal loan program for small, local irrigation projects. The SI 00 million program was authorized in a bill passed by the last Congress, but President Eis enhower in signing the measure said no loans would be made until what he considered a defect was corrected. The President objected to a provision allowing the House and Senate Interior Committees to disapprove loans under the program negotiated by the sec retary of the interior. Bills Meet Objection Chairman Clair Engle (D-Calif) of the House committee and Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) in troduced legislation Monday they said would meet the objection. They said early action would be taken by both committees. Watkins' bell, while not giv ing the committees veto power, would endorse a 60-day waiting period on loan contracts while the committees "studied" them. Engle's bill would give the committee power to held up ap propriations for the loans, in stead of veto power over the contracts themselves. Under the program, local pub lic agencies can obtain interest free loans on irrigation projects costing S10 million or less. In terest-bearing loans would be al lowed for other facilities in con nection with water projects. 4-H Club News Antelope Cooking Club The Antelope 4-H Cooking club was called to order by Charlotte Bush, vice president, at the Geren home at Eagle Point on Jan. 5, 1957. Mrs. Bohnert, the club leader, gave us our assignments and ex tra books. When Saturday's meeting was adjourned the first year girls fixed trimmings for our soup which our second year girls pre pared. , . The next meeting will be at j was no cause for alarm. Some the Mallproy home Jan. 19, 1957.1 one apparently carted off the Donna Geren, 1 lions from the Killearn Gardens. Keporter Both are made, of stone. Union Oil Lists Price Increases San Francisco (U.R) Union Oil Company of California has announced price increases of 20 cents a barrel for heavy residual fuel oil and 15 cents per barrel for light residual fuel oil. The price increases become ef fective on Friday. Roy Linden, vice president in charge of marketing, said there has been a "continuing shortage" of these commodities on the Pa cific Coast for some time. "These price increases are in tended to bring the supply of residual fuel oils more nearly in balance with the demand," he said. Job Application Seen Murder Clue Webster. Tex. (U.R) Sheriff's officers said today they believed Mrs. Anna Louise Marsten, 39 whose partlv undressed body was found in some bushes off a farm road, was murdered by a man who answered her adver tisement for a housekeeping job Officers said the man likely lured her and her four-year-old son. Ronnie,' to the lonely road on the preteXjt of giving her. job. The body was found Monday by a Negro chauffeur, who saw the bov wandering along the road crying. The boy told Binety Cobb, .the chauffeur. "He hit mommy." Officers said Mrs. Marsten's jugular vein had been cut. Her dress had been pulled up to her waist and her underclothing lay- on the ground near her head. Sheriff's Lt. Vernon Harris of Houston said tests indicated Mrs. Marsten Jiad not been raped, al though there was evidence she mav have been molested. Education Board Names Press Aide Portland (U.R) Wallace E. Johnson, former news bureau as sistant at Oregon State College, has been named as press repre sentative for the State Board of Higher Education. Chancellor John R. Richards said Johnson will handle the press duties formerly performed by Travis Cross who recently ac cepted a position as adminis trative assistant to Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. Johnson formerly worked for the United Press in Portland and was an associate editor of Crow's Pacific Coast Lumber Digest be fore going to OSC last year. 1 VJ l, 5n 4 Governor's Assistant Joins Staff of Bank Portland ;U.R) Edwin H. Armstrong, who was executive assistant to three Oregon gov ernors, will join the Salem branch of the First National Bank of Portland on January 21, C. B. Stephenson, president of the bank, said today. Armstrong will serve in Mar ion county as a business devel opment representative for the bank. Armstrong served as execu tive assistant to Govs. Douglas McKay, Paul Patterson and Elmo Smith. TARGET FOR TONIGHT Jersey City, N.J. (U.R) A bit of variety proved quite dam aging to Charles Burns' automo bile Monday. Burns told police his car, while parked in front of his home, was struck by an auto at 2 a.m., a taxi at 5:00 a.m., and a truck at 6:10 a.m. Around Hollywood Hollywood 'U.R) Bing Cros by, looking cheerful and a little thinner, is back at work in the movies but the famous voice that made him rich is temporarily on the shelf. For the first time in his gold- plated career, the world's most Aline Mosby durable croon er is turning serious for a picture in which he won't sing a note. Even in "The Country Girl." Bing sang as well as turning in some serious emoting that won him an Oscar nomination. But in "Man on Fire" Crosby w ill be strictly an actor because. "It's a powerful story about the problem of broken homes and children raised under such cir cumstances." Singing Not Needed "Any time I sing in a story, you lose the character I'm trying to portray. I become Bing Cros by, the crooner. I never did want to sing in 'Little Boy Lost.' I thought the picture would have been better without song," he said. ''I've always wanted to act in a picture without song." he ad ded, "but I've never been offer ed one." Crosby had to play stor'y scout. A year ago he saw a tele vision drama he liked. He told MGM he wanted to star in it. The crooner even went to New York with producer Sol Siegel to select unknowns for the movie because, "They make a damatic story more believable." Wrote Dialogue Crosby paused in our inter- By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent view to get ready for a scene. In his dressing room he emoted his lines while looking in the mirror to get the effect. Then he wrote the dialogue on a piece of paper to fix the words in his mind. After the scene, Bing reflected on his new status as a foot-loose performer. No longer under con tract to Paramount, he's able to pick Ms Jobs at various sracrlos. Crosby's CBS radio show has folded because. "We couldn't get a sponsor." His Decca recorcting contract also has ended. But Crosby hasn't given up singing for keeps. "After this picture I would like to go into a musical," he said. "That's what I've been try ing to do the last 15 years, vary ing my work and never getting the same pitch twice." Buster Brown Shoe Store WILL BE CLOSED All Day Tomorrow JANUARY 9TH n preparation lor our of fictionally advertised shoes SALE STARTS THURSDAY -9 A.M. Buster Brown Shoe Store 15 South Central Fluhrer Bldg. To Buy or Sell - Use Tribune Classified Ads Use Tribune Want Ads STRONG-ARMED THIEVES Tallahassee. Fla. (U.R) Po lice and the State Park Service were on the lookout today for two 30-pound lions. But there Builders Supply (CtrwS QUALITY PIIN BLOCKS Bricks. Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Pbone 2-4107 THIS IS THE BIG M FOR 19S7 Styling from drearri-cars 7 foe"" - -Tin iii mim mi I td iir i r ti in urui'tiii arW ri v 3 1 1st i i'A sr k BOLD, imaginative LINES Here is the first dream car you can on the first car you can buy with Dream-Car Design. 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