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ff 4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford, Cf9oit, Monday, Novo-por 17. 138 Nelson Rockefeller Richest Man To Hold Public Office in U.S. Editor"! Bote: Following if the first of three article on the life on Nelson Rockefeller, who recent ly defeated Averell Harriman for the governorship of New York. By JACK V. FOX TJPI Correspondent New York - (CPD - Them as , has, gits, the old saying goes. I But for Nelson Rockefeller it ; hardly seems worthwhile. Rockefeller, today the '. brightest star in the Republi , can Party, has a new job as governor of New York with rent free and a yearly salary of $50,000 starting Jan. 1. That is almost as much as he now makes in a week. And the governor's mansion may not impress a man who already has a 32-room apart ment overlooking Central Park, a home on the 3,000 acre ancestral estate near Tarrytown, N. Y.; an 860-acre Venezuelan farm where he now is vacationing and a sum mer "cottage" at Bar Harbor, Me. The words Rockefeller and money are almost inseparable, Nelson is by far the richest man ever to hold high elective office in America. Fortune Inherited His personal fortune is esti mated at more than $100 mil lion, the bulk inherited from the estate of the fabulous John D. Carefully invested at 4 per cent, that amount would re turn $4 million a year or about $80,000 a week. But Nelson's share of gifts by the Rockefeller clan- figures out to about $20,000 a week so he only has a net of $60,000. If he paid straight income tax on that, it would be sliced way down to only $6,800 weekly. Accepting the governorship means he will have to resign the two board chairmanships which in the past few years have occupied most of his time. One is head of Rockefeller Center, Inc. The great cluster of skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan is now valued at $125 million, but is not for sale at any price. Operations Varied The other is chairman of the International Basic Econ omy Corp., a sort of personal Quotes From By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Torrejon Air Force Base, Spain-Former Broadway produ cer Richard Aldrich, about the late actor Tyrone Power, who died Saturday: "H was the first gentleman of the stage and screen. His death is a great loss to a profession to which I used to belong." Hollywood - Edward Small, producer of "Solomon and Sheba," the movie Power was making at the time of his death, on the agreement by actor Yul Brynner to replace Power: "It is a time like this when the true spirit of show busi ness shines through." St. Johns, Mich.-Patrolman Lyle French, on the death of six persons when their speeding car blew a tire in a police chase: "I was doing 105 miles an hour and ihey were pulling away from me." New York-White House Press Secretary James C. Hag erty, on information "leaks" and "background stories": "You haven't heard me kick about it other than to say that sometimes it does cause me some trouble and some embarrassment." Fuchs Plans To Go To East Germany After Prison Term Editor's note: Dr. Klaus Fuchs. the German-born British scientist who gave Russia the secret of the atomic bomb in 1959. is serving a 14-year sentence for the crime. He still gives no real reason for acting as he did and expresses little If any remorse. In an interview he say he will go behind the Iron Curtain after he is released. The dispatch follows: London - (CPD - Dr. Klaus Fuchs. the atomic scientist who turned valuable nuclear secrets over to the Russians, says he will go behind the Iron Curtain when he is re leased from prison. The bespectacled, 48-year-old scientist, serving a 14-year term in Wakefield Prison for espionage, said in an inter view with London Daily Ex press that he would go to Communist East Germany when he is released, probably within a year. His decision to leave the West and go behind the Iron Curtain was made despite an evident mellowing in- his views on Communism. Fuchs would not answer di rectly whether he would do the same thing again if time were set back. Changed His Views "That is a terribly difficult question," he said. "No, I dont hold exactly the same views now." But he did not elaborate. The remainder of the inter view went in part as follows: Q.-Are you still, today, a convinced Communist? A-"I am still a convinced Marxist. But I can't now ac Point Four program. It runs supermarkets in Italy, sells instant coffee in Salvador, makes automation devices in New Jersey, builds housing projects in Puerto Rico and finances small auto loans in Venezuela. Last year it showed a pro fit of $1,214,891. Rockefeller owns most of the $16 million worth of stock. His main income still comes from Standard Oil stock but he has no role in running the company more than the vot ing power of a large stock holder. Many people still come to the Rockefellers mis takenly with criticisms and ideas about Standard Oil. Nelson is also a member of 18 boards of .directors. He owns 1,500 pieces of primitive art and a large collection of modern paintings. Money a Tool It took an hour's conversa tion with his father, John D, Jr., on the evening of Dec. 10, 1946, to get $8.5 million to purchase land on New York's East Side and donate it as the site for the perman- ent headquarters of the United Nations. One of his few setbacks came last year when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles despite his offer to donate $3 million toward building a new stadium for the team. . His father is estimated to be worth more than $500 mil lion. Each of his four brothers and his one sister are believed to be just about as wealthy as Nelson. Rockefeller says taxes now are such that no one again will ever amass such a for tune as his grandfather did, but he is not interested in money as such, anyway. "I personally think money is a tool," he says. "If used constructively it can be of tremendous assistance in fa cilitating the accomplishments of a great many things. Money can also be a sharp destructive tool. It all depends on the way you use it." Nelson Is still a close man with a buck. During the recent campaign he went into a Jewish delica the News cept everything they do and say." Q-Did the revolt in Hun gary have any effect on your outlook? A.-"This was much more complicated than it was made to look. For the Russians to do what they did was power politics. It is a necessity for them. "But I can't accept the . . . glossing over . . that what they did was a counter-revolution. It was put down, wasn't it, with the bayonets of the Red Army." Q -Where would you like to go when you are free? A.-"I shall go to Germany, to East Germy, to my father (Emil Fuchs, 84-year-old the ologian, who lives in Leipzig. No Bitterness Q.-Have you any bitterness about your trial and sentence? A.-"Bitterness? Oh, no! I am not bitter at all. It had to be done It had to be like that It was bound to happen." Fuchs was in England when World War II broke out and was sent to Canada. He re turned in 1942. He became engaged in atomic research and joined the staff at Hartwell Atomic Research Station. His trial in 1950 rocked the West. He turned over atomic secrets to Russia at a time in the cold war when the Western lead appeared unbeatable. tessen and spotted a huge sa lami hanging above the coun ter. He pointed to it and said, "How much?" The proprietor said the regular price was $5 but for Rockefeller he would let it go at wholesale for $3. The sale was concluded and as Rockefeller left the shop, a woman said loudly to the owner: "To a Rockefeller you give a discount, to me never." Tomorrow: Nelson had a 25ent allowance as a boy and the shoeshine concession. Decapitated Body Of Girl Found in Forest Preserve Chicago -(CPD- Discovery of the nude, decapitated body of Bonnie Leigh Scott, 15, in a forest preserve, set police off today investigating their fourth teen-aged girl killing in two years. The body was identified Sunday night by Dr. P. D. Grimes, a dentist, who said it tallied with Bonnie's dental charts. Bonnie was reported miss ing from her suburban Addi son, 111., home Sept. 22. She last was seen in a surplus store next door to the town's police department. Boy Scouts found her de composed body Saturday, on ly a few miles from the forest preserve where the nude, frozen bodies of Sisters Bar bara Grimes, 15, and Patricia, 13, were found two years ago. Six months later, the dis membered torso of Judith Mae Andersen was recoverd from oil drums floating in a Chicago harbor. Lt. James McMahon of the Chicago Horn icide bureau said there were three deep slashes in Bonnie's body, ex tending down the left side of the chest. The longest slash was 16 inches and police the orized they may have been inflicted with a butcher knife. The severed head lay 18 feet away. Decomposition made it dif ficult for police to pin down the time of death, although McMahon said it appeared to have been a month ago. Seaman's Body Removed from Ship Portland - (UPD - The coro ner's office here removed the body of a Portland seaman who apparently hanged him self while serving aboard the SS Columbia Trader while the ship was at sea. The body was removed to the coroner's office when the Slip docked here late Friday The victim was identified as Albert Heller, 56. Heller had been ill and con fined to sick bay aboard ship. An autopsy has been ordered. 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Mitchell was injured in a one-car accident about 5:15 p.m., Sunday on Highway 62, just south of Shady Cove, state police said. His car fail ed to make a left turn and went off the highway and through roadside brush for 129 feet. Elsie Irene Harmsen, 62, Roseburg, was reported in fair condition in Ashland General hospital suffering from cuts and bruises as a re sult of a one-car accident on Highway 99, at Bear canyon. A station wagon driven by Elsie Harmsen was traveling north on Highway 99 when it started to slide on the pack ed snow in Bear canyon. The car went over a 60-foot bank on the east side of the high way and rolled half-way over, state police said. An accident occurred by the Rose motel, just south of Phoenix, on the South Pacific highway, at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday where a double fa tality had occurred Friday, state police said. No injuries occurred. Max well Henry Karp, 59, of Oak land, Calif., was cited for making an improper turn, state police said. The Karp car was attempt ing to turn into the Rose mo tel when it and a car driven by Eldon Levi Elroy McGar ity, 20, of 219 Gibon St., Tal ent, collided. Only slight damage occur red to both vehicles, state po lice said. Driver Brian Richard Schauble, 20, of Shady Cove and his passenger Sandra Jean Farlow, 16, of Little Butte Star route, Eagle Point, received minor injuries as a result of a two-car accident on Crater Lake highway near the entrance to Camp White, state police said. A 1957 pickup truck driven "Yes, sir! Every United Air Lines plane has rad at to give you smoother flying, more on-time arrivals' 9 United is the only coast-tooast airline with radar on every plane in its fleet. This same extra care also typifies United's deli cious meals, thoughtful people, and much more. Yet you pay only the regular fare! MEDFORD - SAN FRANCISCO - LOS ANGELES Lv. 10:40 A.M. or 6:10 P.M. MEDFORD - PORTLAND - SEATTLE Lv. 6:30 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. - 5:20 P.M. 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He removed his trousers and tied them around the buoy light hoping someone would notice the light was out and come to inspect. "Some boats came near and I reached down and grabbed the clapper of the buoy's bell. I rang it so hard that I actual ly worked up a sweat, even in that cold," he said. "Finally it started to rain and I began to swim toward Terminal island again where I thought the Coast Guard sta tion was located." He swam for about two more hours before he splash ed ashore after midnight to fall exhausted on the beach. He remained there for some time trying to regain his strength. High Fence Finally, he said, he noticed a high fence which he thought surrounded the Coast Guard by Albert Leroy Doty, 65, of Camp White, was north bound on Crater Lake high way when it made a left turn in front of a pickup truck driven by Schauble. The two cars struck fenders and the Schauble car went into a four-foot deep irrigation ditch on the west side of the high way where it turned over on its top. UNITED J T station. He climbed the fence in the darkness and walked to a small building and knocked on the door. "When nobody answered I walked in. There was a tele phone in there with a sign beside it that read: In case of emergency dial 222.' "I figured that this wis enough of an emergency so I dialed that number. A voice said, 'Stay where you are. We're coming right down. "Then I heard sirens and in a couple of minutes a bunch of uniformed men rushed in on me with guns drawn. "I stood there in wet skiv vies, shivering from some thing more than the cold," OPEN SHOP THE SALE! Save $3 to ft Ks & m Reg. 2.95 steak set 6 pieces plus chest SALE! 2.78 Saber ground, serrated stainless blades with simulated stag handles. lined gift chest. SALE! 19.95 percolator Makes 4 to 1 u cups auto matically. 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