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Moscow Christmas Atmosphere Resembles MoscowMCPD-A visitor from outer space landing in Mos cow this week would find the same superficial Yuletide at mosphere of any Western cap italSanta Claus to Christ mas trees. There are the same gaily decorated shops, the last- minute rush of shopping, and postmen loaded with gift par cels and congratulatory tele grams. But there are differences: Santa Claus is really Ded .Moroz, the Grandfather Frost of Russian classical mythol- ,ogy. Unlike Santa Claus, he doesn't travel alone, but de cends from the North Pole on a reindeer-driven sled with 'Progress' Made in Newspaper Strike New York -(UPD- Federal mediators seemed cautiously optimistic today as they re ported "progress" in their ef forts to end the 15-day-old strike of newspaper deliver ers which has shut down nine New York City dailies, caus ing losses running into mil lions of dollars. For the third successive day, representatives of the publishers and the union as sembled this morning in the resume their discussions in agreement. Walter Maggiolo, director of mediation activities, who heads a three-man panel, re ported that, in the opinion of the panel, progress has been made in the negotiations. He added, however, that there still remains a number of substantial problems that must be resolved." Comar 6th Holly Ph. Sp. 2-9321 JJttenb 1 . tfWPTJ-TSf M .mSff 'MM ".'.UUm' tiff li 7 'm)V9K"trfifW7fmn i uy i a i ilium 1 " ' M'.W W-Wl gW.fnet at n tt k i n i im n psj o i wwgcyptf. Any Western City fellow traveler Snegurochka (bis granddaughter snow- maid). Not Legal Holiday It's all done in preparation for New Year's Day, which is a legal holiday. Christmas it self is an ordinary workday. Another difference is that there are no church services on Dec. 25 except at Moscow's lone Roman Catholic church This is attended by Catholic foreign diplomats, Russian Orthodoxy observes Christmas on Jan. 6, in accor dance with the Julian calen dar, when the capital's 50 churches are thronged to overflowing. . For many years worship has been free and unmolested, contrasting to the early years after the revolution when the "League of Militant Atheists' organized anti-religious street demonstrations The league, anti-religious museums and atheists' publi cations were dissolved at the beginning of the war, And the Marxist slogan, "religion is the opiate of the people" on the entrance of the Lenin Museum on Red Square has been removed. But the state and the Com munist party are still as fiercely anti-religious as in 1917. The anti-God campaign is continuing unabated, but mostly by non-violent educa tional propaganda methods. There are numerous , lec tures, articles and booklets "exposing" all religions and plugging the inconsistency be tween Communism and reli gion and ridiculing religious rites and customs. " On the occasion of the Rus sian Orthodox Christmas, new editions will reaffirm the the sis that Jesus Christ never existed, but was a myth con- NOEL We're singing out a very Merry . Christmas Greeting to wish a world of happiness and health to you and your loved ones Erhardt & Gertrude Blind MEDFORD PAINT & WALPAPER GO. ZJnr Clmrcli jured by churchmen in con nection with the class struggle of the disintegrating Roman Empire two thousand years ago. There already is a renewed emphasis on the growing pros perity of the materialistic, Communistic Soviet state now campaigning to overcome America's high standard of living within 15 years. The old Stalinists slogan of "Life will become better and gayer" is regaining currency, and is supported by steady though slow Improvements since the war. "Gum, Moscow s pride and its largest department store, is still far removed from Macy's bargain base ment. But it carries an in creasingly abundant stock at declining prices, and it is colorfully displayed. Murder Charged In Chico Slaying Oroville, Calif. - (DPD, - Au thorities said today they would file a murder charge against s a 22-year-old college freshman who mutilated and killed a woman in her fancy trailer home. The slaying took place in a trailer court a half-mile north of Chico, Calif., Mondaynight when William A. Cameron went berserk and ripped Mrs Vivian Malone, 50, from ab domen to throat with a 13- inch knife. Assisfant District Attorney L.oya MuiKey said two psy chiatrists at DeWitt State hospital in Auburn declared Camero "perfectly sane" after an examination. Mulkey also had Cameron undergo a lie detector test in Sacramento, but the results were not immediately dis closed. " . - Mulkey said he will recom mend that Cameron be tried for first degree murder, with the prosecution demanding the gas chamber for the crew- cut former. Marine. Authorities discounted Cameron's story that he slew Mrs. Malone because she made "lewd suggestions" to him and a friend, and that she called him "vile names." on Christmas D "O, COME LET US ADORE HIM" Let us remember and observe the true meaning of Christmas . . . the birth of the little Child in Bethlehem, and all that is good in the world. Christmas belongs to everyone, for it expresses all that is happy and peaceful in the human heart. Enrich your appre ciation of Christmas by planning to attend the church of your choice. Olga Duncan's Husband Sought By Authorities Ventura, Calif. - (DPD -At torney Frank Duncan, 29, whose mother is accused of master-minding a plot to kill his pregnant wife, was sought today by authorities and a grieving father who will spend his Christmas this year arranging burial for his slain daughter. Elias Kupcyzk, 61, a rail road worker from Benito, Manitoba, Canada, and father of Olga Duncan, 30, who was brutally murdered in a for hire killing, is on his way here, according to Coroner Virgil Payton. Kupcyzk, whose wife, Jessie, collapsed Sunday of a heart attack and shock when she was informed that Olga's body was uncovered in a shallow grave near here, is expected to arrive Christmas Day. The grieving father must find Duncan, a Santa Barbara attorney, in order to obtain a release of his daughter's body from the coroner's custody. Slaving Confessed Coroner Payton said that even though Duncan had separated from his wife two weeks after their June 20 marriage, he was still legally the next of kin and had first say as to what should be done with the body. Duncan has been missing since Sunday when Augustine Baldonado, 25," confessed to authorities that he and Louis Moya, 22, had kidnaped Olga Nov,. 17 and killed her. Both men were laborers and have long police records for petty crimes. Baldonado told police Dun can's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54, promised Jto pay them $6,000 if thqpr killed her daughter-in-law, whom police say she resented and ' had threatened because she was afraid of losing her son's af fections. OBEDIENT CAT Droitwich, England -DPD- At a carol program Tuesday night organist Gordon Ban ner struck the first chord of "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful" and a big black cat jumped out of the organ. . Wv 1 Medford Mail Tribune Smaller Cars With Aluminum Engines Expected Detroit -IUPD- Smaller cars, some with aluminum engines in the rear, are in the auto industry's future. And these are growing indi cations that 1959 may be the year in which these cars are introduced. General Motors appears to have taken the lead in de veloping an aluminum engine which would allow the indus try to make giant strides to ward reducing the weight and Railway Express May Be Dropped By Eastern Roads New York - (DPD - America's major railroads were expect ed today to follow the lead of the New York Central Rail road in cancelling their con tracts with the financially ail ing Railway Express Agency. The Central, largest stock holder in Railway Express, announced Tuesday that it would cancel its contract ef fective Jan. 1, 1960. Alfred E. Perlman, president of the Central, said his railroad was losing $11 million a year on the Railway Express opera tion. Central owns 14 per cent of American Express's out standing stock. To Develop Own Service ... Perlman said the Central would develop a "more ef ficient and satisfactory small shipment service" of its own. According to industry sources, other Eastern lines probably will abandon the industry-owned transportation service too. Clair Roddeweig, president of the Association of Western Railway Execu tives, said the Western rail roads would follow suit if the Eastern railroads withdrew, " Roddeweig said the Railway Express' plight was due to a changing pattern of transpor tation, parcel post and gov ernment subsidized competi tors, and increased labor and other costs. British Plane With 12 Aboard Crashes Bournemouth, England-(DPI)-A. four-engined Bristol Brit tania carrying 12 persons on a routine test flight crashed into a fog-bound field near here today and disintegrated as it hit the ground. Nine bodies vr&ce "taken to Christchurch hospital near the crash scene, police said. There were three survivors. All the dead and injured were British Overseas Air ways personnell, BOAC an nounced. . The prop-jet Brittania had been on a 90-minute flight from London Airport 100 miles north of here and ap parently was coming in for a landing at Hum Airport out side Bournemouth. It had given' no indication of trouble in a routine radio message a few minutes before the crash. Christmas Holdups Carried Too Far Portland (DPD The Christ mas season usually produces a number of holdups but Mrs. Bill Linden said today she be lieved it was .being carried too 'far. She was held up twice Tuesday night. She said a man came into her store about 7:30 p.m. and escaped with $50 after dis playing a pistol. About 9 p.m. a masked man shoved a pistol at her and forced her to open the cash drawer while two men with stocking over their faces remained outside. They got away with about $56. She closed up after the sec ond holdup and told police "I'm going home where things are nice and auiet and the holdups are on television." FOR SPRUCES ONLY Birmingham, i Ala. -flJPD-John Ellis will use the same spruce tree for Christmas this year that has brightened the Ellis living room for the past three years. Ellis said the se cret of keeping an old Christ mas tree young is to hang it upside down .in your basement. Brooks Electric 1016 North Riverside Avenue WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY, DEC. 26 Closed Saturdays Open Mondays till 9 P.M. in Future overall dimensions of the standard production auto. GM has been increasing its output of news announce ments on the advantages of aluminum engines recently and thumping its chest about the first all-aluminum V-8 en gine which its engineers de veloped. Edward Cole, general man ager of GM's Chevrolet divi sion, admitted his company was working on development of a small car with an alumi num engine but he refused to say definitely that the car would be built. However, tools for production of a small car were delivered to Chev rolet this month. Could Be Air-Cooled . Use of an aluminum engine would do more than merely reduce the weight of the car by the difference in the weight between aluminum and gray iron! Because of its better prop erties of conduction, an alum inum engine . could 'b e air cooled, instead of water-cooled. This would mean elimin ation of the heavy water jack et. Nor would as much sup porting structure be required. And drastically reducing the weight of the car over - all would improve its economy of operation. Although Chevrolet is re ported in the lead, the experts say Ford is not far behind in the race to produce the first car with an aluminum engine, presumably a small auto. The major auto producers said this year they wanted to see what kind or reception they get with their drastically restyled 1959 models before committing themselves on a small car. ' Although they still cling to their predictions of 5,500,00 sales for '59 mo'dels, there are indications that they are concerned about the portion of the market going to small foreign cars add to the small Rambler and Studebaker Lark. Disappointed "If our new models are sell ing good but the small cars are selling better, we would still be interested in building a small car because this would indicate the market is real," one company official said. The major auto companies were disappointed not only by the slump in auto sales t o 4,400,000 in 1958 but also in their share of the market. The fact that the Rambler, the only small American car on the market in 1958, chalk ed up record sales while the rest of the industry was slip ping badly has left a deep im pression on the Big Three. Body Recovered From Punch Bowl Portland -(DPD-The body of Frances Edward Foss, 42, was taken from the Devil's Punch Bowl east of Bonneville Dam Tuesday afternoon. Foss, who was reported missing by his wife when he failed to return home Monday night, became the object of a search after his car was found parked' near the Eagle Creek fish hatchery early Tuesday. Mrs.' Foss told officers that Foss had left home about noon Monday. Multnomah and Hood River county deputies recovered the body from the 100 foot deep Punch Bowl with the use of ropes. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Sterl Andrew Whitson. Klamath Falls, driving under the influence or aiconoi. sioo. Robert Otis Greb. 18. Butte Falls star route, box 26, Eagle Point, ille gal possession of alcoholic bev erages, S35. Mae crystal schroeder, transient, drunk in public, 20 days. Jesse Frank Graham. AoDlecate. drunk in public, 10 days. Ira Virgil Broxson, general de livery, Medford,. vagrancy, 5 days. Noel William Rather, transient, drunk in public. 10 days. ACTRESS DIVORCED Los Angeles -(UPD- Actress Elinor Donahue, 21, who plays the teen-age daughter in the television series "Father Knows Best," was awarded a divorce Monday from her hus band, Richard T. Smith,' 27. Miss Donahue charged that Smith, a fiirn soundman, drank to excess in their home and ignored her. The couple married May 5, 1956. Pickup Truck Hits School Bus Portland (DPD A pickup truck struck ' the rear of a school bus loaded with Christ mas carolers late Tuesday night in Southeast Portland but only the driver of the truck was injured. Arthur Lewis Lee, 32, Port land, driver of the pickup', was treated for a shoulder in jury at Providence hospital. Multnomah county sheriffs deputies said the carolers, all teenagers from the Powell hurst Baptist church, were preparing to sing in front of a home and were leaving the bus at the time of the colli sion. There were 26 persons in the bus. They had been carol ing all evening. The accident occurred about 11 p.m. Noted Lumber Brothers Succumb By United Press International Two brothers, both well known in lumber circles on the Pacific coast, died Monday within hours of each other. Henry J. Mackin died of a heart attack in Vancouver, B.C., at 4:30 a.m. Monday. Mackin, 73, was a member of the board of Crown Zeller bach Corporation and was re tired president of Canadian Western Lumber Company in Vancouver, one of the world's largest lumber firms. Henry's brother, Raymond A. Mackin, about 61, died sud denly in San Francisco office of Mackin Lumber Company about 2:30 pjn. Monday. He was president of the firm. Both men were born and raised in Portland. QUICK SHAVE Bury, England -CPD- A de partment store Santa learned about occupational hazards Tuesday. The mechanism of a toy automobile became tan gled in Santa's beard and tore away part of it before store employees could come to the rescue Pi! AT MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford-, Or., Sweet Home Mill Destroyed by Fire Sweet Home - (DPD - Fire early today destroyed the Oar Lumber Company sawmill and an adjoining broom handle factory about nine miles east of here. Cause of the blaze was undetermined. Damage to the lumber company was esti mated at $30,000 to $40,000 by Ed Reynolds, the owner. Guy Jepson, owner of the broomhandle factory, esti mated loss at between $10,000 and $12,000. The fire was re ported by Mrs. Gail Caswell, who lives near the mill, when and a Happy Medford-139 South Fir Ashland-240 4th St. r from all of us at DAVIS . . . X if MERRY "CHR1STMAS 7 BEKINS AGENT FOR MEDFORD AND ASHLAND CRATER U Bill and Mary Wednesday, December 24, 1958 S she was awakened by a dog barking about 2:30 a.m. The roof of the mill was col lapsing when she first noticed the blaze. The Sweet Home fire de partment battled the blaze for nearly two hours. Only the sawdust burner and outlying buildings were left standing. The mill had been operat ing only a day after being closed for 10 days to allow machinery installation. It em ployed 13 men. 11 New Year! TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. Crating & Packing Phono SP 2-6273 Phono MU 2-8552 MOTEL Schei
