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
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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.
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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
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The Rev. and Mrs. Martin
Brown and daughter, Mari
lyn, from Bridgeview were
overnight guests at the home
of Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Knight, Thurs
day.
Dick Knight returned Sat
urday from Lancaster and
Los Angeles, Calif., where he
spent last week on his vaca
tion visiting his son and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. George
Knight, and attending to some
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clause
of Eagle Point called at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Lindsay Saturday morning,
April 12, and later watched
the Pear Blossom festival pa
rade. ;
Friday, April 18, the base
ball game between the Lone
Pine varsity team and the
Eagle Point boys at Lone Pine
was won by a large margin
by Lone Pine. On Tuesday
afternoon at 3, Lone Pine
played the Howard school on
the home grounds. Varsity,
junior varsity, and the girls
team competed. Friday Lone
Pine will go to Talent where
the varsity team will play at
3 p.m.
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Pine school will hold a skat
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way .The school bus will take
the students and bring them
back. Parents are invited but
they must provide their own
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SvmDathy of the school
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mother. Mrs. Mary E. Marsh,
last week. She is back in
school after being absent all
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tending were Beatrice Lind-
sey, Mildred Schwendener,
Edith Thornton, Ruth Bros-
tad. and Frances Henry. Mrs.
Henry was installed as re
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ing year.
On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
about 35 teachers and princi
pals will meet at the Lone
Pine school for the purpose
of planning the teachers' in-
service training for next year,
to be held Sept. 5 at the Ruch
;chool. Lee Merriman is tne
chairman of the. planning
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visited his mother who is in
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