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Killer Tornado in Southeast; Plains Get Snow, Strong Winds By UNITED PRESS " ;A line of thunderstorms ' and a killer tornado lashed the Southeast Tuesday, and 'a. new storm, described as one of the spring's worst, rumbled . out of the Rockies into the . . Plains. The western storm began ' pushing eastward Tuesday night, dumping four inches oT snow at Sheridan, Wyo., j and lashing other sections rtwith strong winds and thun- derstorms. - Weathermen issued warn ings to stockmen and travel lers today of snow, rain and high northerly winds in por Ejtlons of South Dakota, Neb "raska and Kansas. - Rain continued in the East 1 during the night in the wake of Tuesday's squall line that sent three and possibly four j tornadoes slamming into South Carolina. Twister Kills Boy H - A 5-year-old boy, Willie Ed- ward Cater, was killed when a -twister near Summerton, y S.C., crushed his family's concrete cinder block home. 3 The victim's sister was in- Jured seriously. Other twisters were report- i the mercury tumbling to the ed at Kingstree, and in a rur al area in Orangeburg, S.C., and a possible tornado was reported near Sumter, S. C. No serious damage was re ported in the other twisters Rain ranged from North Carolina into New England, with locally heavy storms soaking Washington and Balt imore, Md., with more than one-half inch of water. Wind up to 50 miles an hour whipped up towering dust clouds in the Southern and Central Plains. Consid erable blowing dust was re ported from the Southern Plains into Western Texas, and in portions of Nebraska and Kansas. Mudballs in Sky Omaha, Neb., was hit by a combination of rain and blowing dust Tuesday night and a pilot said he saw mud balls about 10,000 feet over Goodland, Kan., due to rain mixed with dust. In Colorado, heavy snow obscured the Rocky Moun tains in the vicinity of Den ver. The northerly winds sent IN OUR SO1? YEAR (APRIL 9, 1909) of Complete INSURANCE SERVICE The R. A. Holmes Agency The House of Insurance Cole and Grace Holmes Dick House THE HOLMES & HOUSE INSURANCE "Where Insurance Is a Business Not a Sideline" NO REAL ESTATE NO LOANS - NO NUTH'N But EVERY KNOWN FORM of INSURANCE and BONDS 116 South Central SP 3-3659 30s from the northern Rockies to the northern Great Lakes overnight. Weathermen said the cold could be damaging to stockmen in the midst of calving and lambing opera tions on the plains. Showers in Northwest Scattered thunderstorms oc curred in advance of the storm from the Central Plains ,to Missouri. Showers also were reported in the Pa cific Northwest and in the northern Great Lakes and Upper Ohio Valley. Forecasters said colder wea ther was expected to over spread most of the Plains to day with showers in the southern portions spreading eastward across the Mississip pi Valley and into parts of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes by night. Generally fair weather was seen for most of the Middle and South Atlantic Coast states with some rain likely in the North Atlantic region. Woodburn Slaying Due Grand Jury Woodburn OP) A 14-year-old neighbor boy has admit ted firing a shot which killed 15- year- old John Edward Manning at his farm home near here Monday night. Police said Edward "Rick" Ferschweiler told them the shooting was accidental. He tearfully admitted his .22 cali ber rifle went off when he changed hands with the ham mer cocked. The lad, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard. Ferschweiler, was not being held as State Police and Marion county sheriff's deputies completed their investigation. District Attorney H a 1 1 i e Bratzel said in Salem that she would present the matter to a grand jury Thursday after noon or Friday morning to de termine if charges should be filed. Manning's horrified par ents returned from a Parent Teachers' Association meet ing about 11:15 p.m. Monday to find their adopted son sprawled in the front yard with a bullet through his body. He had been outside do ing farm chores wnen xney left at 7:30 p.m. The shooting occured at St. Louis, a small community about one mile north of here, as the boy's sister, Mary Ann, 12, and Virgil Klinger, a cousin of Mrs. Manning, sat inside viewing television. Mm ill f v ' 1 ' - "; Two Arrested in Connection With Theft of Bonds New York !U Federal au thorities were closing the gaps today in a story of internation al intrigue stemming from the largest bond robbery in North American history. The FBI arrested two men Tuesday in connection with the tracking of part of the $1,789,400 in negotiable bonds stolen Jan. 25 from La' Societe Nationale de Fiducie in Mon treal. Edward Loree, owner of the Trojan Paper Mills, Inc., of New York, was arrested in Miami with $36,000 worth of the bonds in his possession, the FBI said. Police Alerted John D. Greco, owner of the Puritan Paper and Pulp Co., Inc., also of New York, was SPUTNIK REPLICAS The nose cone of a rocket, con taining replica s of Russia's two "Sputnik" satellites, is inspected in the Soviet pavilion at the World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium. The baby moon model at the bottom of the cone represents "Sputnik IL" which carried the dog, Laika. Portland Bankruptcy Sale Brings $221,639 Portland (IP) The bank rupt Aluminum Lock Shingle Corporation's building, stock and equipment brought $221, 639 at a liquidation sale Tues day. H. W. Raabe, an east side businessman, purchased the building for $142,500. Hun dreds of buyers attended the sale, some from as far away as Texas. Raabe said he had no im mediate plans for the building. arrested here on charges of transporting more than S5,000 worth of the Canadian bonds from New York to Miami. A world-wide police alert nas been out since the robbery. Police in Montreal recovered $73,000 worth of the bonds in an apartment raid April 9. The Montreal raid also un covered a cache of heroin worth $l million on the re tail market. This led nolice to believe the robbery was tied in with operation of an inter national narcotics ring. Another batch of the bonds turned up in Switzerland re cently in the Possession of a man identified only as Gra zini. He told police after his arrest he had received the se curities as payment from a gambling casino in Havana, Cuba. Skilled Thieves The FBI began its investiga tion when "information was obtained" that some of the stolen bonds were being offer ed in the United States. North Pacific Division Engineer To Retire Portland (IP) Col. Richard F. Ebbs, deputy division en gineer of the , North Pacific Division, Army Corps of En gineers, will retire May 31 after 30 years' government service, the Army said today. The carefully planned bur glary was said to be the work of skilled thieves. They by passed a burglar alarm, set up an alarm system of their own and cut through steel and con crete walls of two vaults to reach the securities. They took only negotiable bearer bonds. However, they missed secu rities worth even more than those they took. In one steel cabinet they found records and documents, but failed to see a fortune in stock certificates behind the legal papers. Board of Education Awards Contracts Portland (IP) The State Board of Higher Education Tuesday awarded contracts totaling $4,859,000 for con struction of new buildings at the University of Oregon and Oregon State college. Also approved was a $33, 945,000 budget for state in stitutions during the coming fiscal year, a call for bids to build the Portland State col lege library and a physics chemistry building at OSC. EXPERIMENTS NEGATIVE New York (IP) Experi ments in air conditioning New York's subway cars have pro ven it too expensive to install on all trains, the Transit Authority said today. Wednesday, April 23, 1958 3 MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Oregon Oak Grove Boy, 5, Object of Search Oregon City (IP) Steve Phillips, 5, Oak Grove, was the object of a search today after he was last reported seen near the Willamette river Tuesday evening. A neighbor told Clackamas county sheriff's deputies the boy had stopped at his home to borrow rope he wanted to tie to an oil drum at the river. The neighbor said he advised the boy to go home and the boy left. Nautilus To Visit West Coast Ports Groton, Conn. OP) The world's first atomic sub marine, Nautilus, leaves Fri day for a trip to the Pacific coast. The Navy said the boat will be on a routine mission to familiarize the Pacific Fleet with the vessel. Its schedule is: Panama, May 4; San Diego, May 12-15; Mare Island, May 17-24; San Francisco, May 24-31; Port Angeles and Everett, Wash., June 2-3; Seattle, June 3-8. Surveys in 35 American cities show that 74.1 per cent of the people travel by auto mobiles as compared with ( 25.9 per cent who rely on pub lic transportation. G R A N D V I E W-LONE PINE Investiture Service Set By LILLIAN KNIGHT Grandview-Lone Pine Boy Scout Troop 44 will hold its first investiture service Thurs day, April 24, at the Lone Pine school at 8 p.m. All par ents and friends are urged to attend this meeting as each boy will receive his tender foot badge. A scout troop from Medford will be in charge. There are 17 boys in the troop. Ray Martin of Med ford is scoutmaster and Clar ence Childers is the assistant scoutmaster. Cake, coffee and punch will be served at the close of the meeting by the mothers of the boys. Summer activities planned for the troop include a fish ing trip on April 26, a day hike on May 10, an overnight er on May 24, and the sum mer camp at Lake O' Woods from July 27 to Aug. 3. The Clarence Childers fam ily is pretty well recovered from the flu they had several days ago. The children are back in school and Childers is able to go back to work ' Hurry! Only A . . Few In Stock! We Still Have A Few 1957 Model WAsms & dryebs Check These LOW, LOW Close Out Prices! HOTPOINT WASHERS 23995 $25995 29995 MODEL LK 23 REG. $319.95... MODEL LK 24 REG. $339.95.... MODEL LK 25 REG. $369.95... MODEL LG 11 REG. $279.95. HOTPOINT DRYERS' : 17995 $20995 $20995 MODEL LB 25 REG. $289.95... MODEL LG 24 REG. $289.95... 2 Only! 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