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."
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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-
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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.
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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. .
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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
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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
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BEKINS AGENT FOR MEDFORD AND ASHLAND
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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!
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