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6A MAIL TRIBUNE, M4forl, Oregon, Sunday, December 28, 19S8 -- tU!' '-'1 - I ( t.. t l .-n If li Lvsart I 4 4 GIVING CHRISTMAS PARTY for nearly 1,000 members of White House staff, Presi dent Eisenhower presents each with this print of weathered red barn he painted. FBI Reports Opening on List Of 'Ten Most Wanted' Persons Washington - (UPD - The FBI had an opening yesterday on its list of the nations ten most wanted" fugitives be cause one of the underworld's "elite" couldn't stay out of new trouble. The vacancy occurred with the capture in 1 Cajon, Calif., of Daniel William O'Connor, : 30-year-old athletic bad guy who evaded the long arm of the law since 1953 by radi cally changing his appearance. O'Connor, who the FBI said once "mercilessly" beat a Canadian Mounted Police officer, had been working for several years in El Cajon as a handy man. He dyed his hair red, grew a full mustache and added 58 pounds to his already stocky 200 pounds. "Arthur Nelson" He adopted the name "Ar thur Nelson" and was mar ried with two children. O'Connor was unmasked after the El Cajon police de partment arrested him on a San Diego, Calif., police de partment warrant charging him with theft of a trailer. Although he identified him self as Nelson, O'Connor's fin gerprints gave him away when studied by San Diego police and the FBI. He finally ad mitted his true identity. The stocky one-time wrest ler was put on the FBI ten most wanted list April 11, 1955. Smith Appointed To Indonesian Post Tokyo -(UPD The appoint ment of Charles R. Smith as United Press International manager for Indonesia was announced yesterday by Ern est Hoberecht, UPI vice presi dent and general manager for Asia. Smith has arrived in Jakar ta, where he will make his headquarters, and has assum ed his new duties. For the past 15 months, Smith served as United Press International manager in Kor ea. Smith joined United Press in July, 1956, at Richmond, Va. 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Boy Tossed From Car Dies Portland-(UPD-A four-month old boy died in St. Vincent hospital Friday evening after being thrown from a car and pinned underneath it. Dead was Dale E. Falken berg, son of Mrs. Marie Falk enberg, Portland. The accident occurred about 4 p.m. at Harbor Drive and SW Oak street. The child was tossed from a car driven by Mary Jean Klages, 32, Portland, when a car driven by Frederick W. Hayes, Klamath Falls, struck the Klages' car. The mother of the child was also thrown from the car. The child died about two hours after the accident occurred. No installation reauired. Place the portable Jacuzzi in bathtub. Rising water starts it automatically. Flow and direction of water is "toe-controlled." WHAT IS WHIRLPOOL Millions of tiny bubbles whirl in turbulent MACCAKC? water with Penetrating heat. Combined to .tion creates this most beneficial massage. Tertising in Association FbITt Guaranteed ) Absolutely Safe V --w run 1 ' . - taCUZU A. PHON6 SP 2-2939 TO e o WHIRLPOOL0 e2& BATH Siskiyou Hardware 225 West Main Phone SP 2-2939 S&H GREEN STAMPS Merchant Prince Dies in Boise Boise, Idaho-(DPD-Columbus Charles Anderson, who was born in a log cabin and rose in true Horatio Alger fashion to the eminence of a mer chant prince of the West, died here yesterday. He was 85. Anderson founded the C. C. Anderson Store in Boise and developed it into a chain of 221 stores in Idaho, Utah, Col orado, Oregon and Washing ton. He was born in Osceola, Mo., Nov. 2, 1873, and got his start in the retail business at the age of 23 as a clerk in the Golden Rule Store at Boulder City, Colo. A fellow clerk was J. C. Penney. Bundle on Highway Really Boy Who Fell Pacific Palisades, Calif. -(UPD Holiday traffic casually de toured around what appeared to be a small "bundle" in the middle of the road Friday un til an inquisitive motorist dis covered the object was a 5-year-old boy. Mrs. Ruth McCloud told po lice Kelvin Smith, son of Ronald Smith, a missile scien tist, was unconscious when she discovered him. Police said the boy had top pled from a 35-foot embank ment onto the road while walking near his home. Kelvin was taken to Santa Monica hospital with a possi ble fractured skull. DOGS CHEW WOMAN - West Los Angeles, Calif. (DPD - Mrs. Gladvs Johnson. 61. was reported in critical con dition yesterday after . about 30 per cent of her face was chewed away by her two daenshunds. DISCOVER HUGE LAKES Moscow -UPB- Soviet geol ogists have discovered huge underground lakes, said to be the size of Iran, under the semi-desert areas of the re public of Kazakhstan Moscow Radio reported. A broadcast Fridav said the lakes were lo cated 300 to 1,000 feet below Stock Average in Small Gain As Utilities Attain 28-Year High By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York-(DPD-Stocks gain ed a small amount during the Christmas week which was shortened by two trading days. The Dow I n d u s t rial average fin ished at 5 7 2.7 3 off 0.44 from the close of last week when was set at 0 .y)jmmmm h "If- Izer high KUnar Wll the record 573.17. The railroad average rose 2.32 points on the week to close at 157.00, a fraction away from its two-year high set in mid-November. Utilities reached a new high since June 13, 1930 at 89.22, up 0.22 on the week. If one measures the market by the composite of the three averages, the market set a record high. That average closed at 199.24 up 0.63 point on the week and the highest on record. The Standard and Poor index for 500 stocks missed a record by four cents. Sharp Fluctuations Measured by the fluctua tions the market was a stand- Beatnik 'Daddy' Told to Gel Job San Francisco - (DPD - Eric Nord, 40, former high priest of the so-called "beat gener ation" has been ordered by a judge to secure gainful em ployment. '. Nord was sentenced to three years probation and $300 fine Friday by Superior Court Judge Melvyn Cronin for con tributing to the delinquency of two runaway teen-age girls. The 300-pound "big daddy" of the "beatniks" accepted the sentence soberly. He wore mustache, red beard, and sported a beret. After the court appearance he departed on a tiny three-wheel scooter, telling reporters his "gainful employment" would be the production of a movie about San Francisco's "beat generation." off. There were 603 gains and 617 losses while 175 issues held unchanged. A total of 113 set new highs for the year while, only 16 made new lows. On the basis of the forego ing it might appear as if the market was a narrow moving affair. It really wasn't. Industrials fell 1.94 points on Monday while rails eased 0.34. On Tuesday the industrials drop ped 4.94 points on heavy profit-taking and rails about held tneir own with a loss of only 0.06 point. On Wednesday, the last session of this holidav week, the industrials spurted Neuberger Tells Of Proposed Funds For Willamette Portland -(UPD- Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D. -Ore.) said yesterday he has had legisla tion drafted which would authorize more than 51 mil lion dollars for construction and modification of flood con trol projects in the Willam ette river basin. Neuberger said he intends to introduce the measure, in cluding recommendations of the Corps of Engineers made in the controversial "308" re port, early in the 86th Congress. Included in the proposed legislation is construction of a new storage reservoir at Cas- cadia on the South Santiam river at cost of $28,270,000 and at Gate Creek costing $15,920,000. The Fern Ridge reservoir in the Long Tom river would be. modified to provide 15,000 acre-feet of flood control stor age at a cost of $140,000. The bill also includes auth orization for construction of a re-regulating dam and reser voir at the Strube site on the south fork of the McKenzie river, which would cost $6,-685,000. Sen. Neuberger said the North Pacific Division office of the Corps of Engineers has described the projects as "eco nomically justified." SOUNDLY SLEEPING, new-born son is cuddled by actress Jane Mansfield at St. Joseph's Hospital Los Angeles. Tot weighed 9 pounds, Wz ounces at birth. PICK-UP and DELIVERY SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS ? Now at . ACM CLEANERS 1728 North Riverside . Phone SP 2-4263 6.34 points and rails 2.72 points. Strength in the Tuesday session was seen as a normal procedure. Profit-taking was done on the last day it could be done in the regular way to be included in the 1958 income tax returns. Profits realized from sales made from Dec. 24 to the end of the year must be made for cash if they are to be included for the 1958 tax return. Otherwise they go into the 1959 tax year. There were many cash sales oh Wed nesday, and more are expect ed next Week. ' As is usual In a holiday week the volume fell off. Daily average sales for the three sessions amounted to only 2,981,193 shares. In the previous week trading aver aged 3,731,286 shares daily. The past week's average was the smallest since the week ended Sept. 5. Woman Faces Trial For Fatal Stabbing Payette, Idaho - (DPD - Mrs. Pearl Sharp, 45, formerly of Ontario, Ore., yesterday faced district court a c t i o-n on a charge of second degree mur der in connection witbA the fatal stabbing of 49-year-old Wilbur Ernest (Swede) Dick erson of Fruitland last Feb. 23. Her husband, Virgil, 50, is now serving a 20-year sen tence in Idaho State Peniten tiary for the stabbing. Mrs. Sharp was released on $2500 bond. She was bound over to the district court Fri day for trial by Justice of the Peace Calia Settle, who, had taken the matter under ad visement following a prelim inary hearing held two weeks ago. The stabbing incident oc curred during a Fruitland tavern brawl. According to the police, Mrs. Sharp was present during the fracas. DR. FRANCISCO MAGRO Alicante, Spain -(DPD- Dr. Francisco Mas Magro, 79, in ternationally known for his research in the causes of leu kemia, died Friday after a brief illness. London-(DPD-C onvict ap plause changed to frosty si lence Friday when a woman chorister closed a carol con cert at Jentonville prison by saying: "Goodbye, see you all again next year." VlJw M T - GREYHOUND CRASH This Greyhound Scenlcruiser crashed head-on into a truck trailer and burst into flames hear Pulaski, Tenn., killing at least seven persons. The accident apparently occurred when the b.:s tried to pass a slower-moving truck on a i hill. " Bus Passengers Escape Injury Madras-(UPD-An automobile bus collission on Highway 26 about 12 miles west of here Friday night hospitalized the driver of the car but the 15 passengers on the bus were unhurt. An eyewitness to the acci dent said the car had entered the highway near a bridge on the Deschutes river and ram med the bus broadside. The collision knocked the bus from the highway down a 15-foot bank and it came to rest near the river still up right. - John Sampson, Toppenish, Wash., was the driver of the car. He was taken to a hos pital in Prineville with severe scalp lacerations. Hospital attendants describ ed his condition as "fair." Portland Suffers Worst Traffic Jam Portland-flJPD-Portland suf fered one of its worst traffic jams in history Friday. The heavy flow of traffic was caused by the exchanging of gifts the day after Christ mas according to many de partment store officials. The police were forced to take eight men off other as signments and put them on traffic direction. - An appeal was made to the public to stay clear of the downtown area unless abso lutely necessary. SPIRIT HELPS DRUNKS Memphis, Tenn.-flJPD-Touch-ed by the Christmas spirit, City Court Judge Beverly Boushe released 35 persons charged with drunkeness, ex plaining: "These people are all friends of mine. They show up in my court so often I know them personally. I even get Christmas cards from some of them." Furniture stored safely now means money in your pocket later! Don't risk damage and wear to furniture and ether valuable possessions . . . store them where they're protected and cared for. Davis features separate storage vaults for davenports and overstuffed chairs,' separate rug racks, special clothing and wardrobe containers. Items stored this way retain their value ... and this is important to your pocketbookl Call DavisI im i Medford-139 South Fir Ashland-240 4th St, TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. Crating & Packing . Phone SP 2-6273 Phone MU 2-8552 BEKINS AGENT FOR MEDFORD AND ASHLAND AH bine skies, all serene days : : : and always within easy reach . . . everything to make her happy. Little girls expect it to be so. And, if Daddy had his way, it would be like this, always. But even the most ideal childhood planned so carefully by the 'best of parents cannot last forever. , The most we can hope to do is help the youngster grow up strong . . . willing to assume responsibility fc; . able tO( carry burdens with grace and dignity . . ; finding meaning in their own particular lives. But while they are still children there is this that we can do. We can show them how much we depend on weekly worship, by taking them with us, to our church or synagogue. ..OM . RELIGION M AMEMCAN LIFE, UM IX! Medford Mail Tribune the ground.
