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Newspaper Page Text4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or. Friday, Sept. 11, 1959 "Xveryooc te Southern Oregon BCW1 U mU AltVWUW Published EVilly except Saturday b M? JJFOrtD PRINTING CO 33 North 1i St Pb SP 8-6141 ROB&RI W BUHL. Editor HERB GR Advertising Manager GEP.AU LATHAM Buiinea Mgr ERIC W ft I. UN JR. .. Managing ifcmor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHTPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JKAfcETT Sport Editor OLJVE ST ARCHER Women a Editnr PALE ERiCKSoN Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter al Medfor Oreeon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' B; Mil in Advance Copy lOe. Da 11- and Sunday 1 year f 15 00 - Daily and Sunday 4 moa. , 8 0C Daily and Sunday 3 moa . 4.25 - Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. AshJand Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill . Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes . Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18 00 .Daily and SunCay 1 mo 1M ' Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cast In Advance Official Paper of City ef Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International FnO Leased Wire "MZMBE OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: , WEST HOLIDAY CCv INC. Of ! flees in Ne-n York. Chicago. De ' troit, San tvancisco, Los Angeles. 1 Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At f Isn't- Vancouver. BC, NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Z7 kJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot Th NAail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sent. 11, 1949 (Sunday) Ray J. ; Schumacher, Med ford realtor, is elected prest- dent of the Oregon, association of Real Estate Boards. .- Medford issues itself a building permit at city hall for finishing construction of the new municipal swimming pool. . ' - 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1939 (Monday)' . Over $600 worth of watches and rings are stolen in a bur glary of Larry Schades' jew elry, store. 1 From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A full suar-bowl. and six sacks of same in the pantry, was the basic urge of the Older Girls last week." . SO YEARS AGO Sept. II, (Wednesday) The Jackson county . fair ope-: with 3JD0O persons at tending. . ' A band of gypsies is given its marching orders' by police here. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1919 (Thursday) The board of equalization reports few taxpayers file protests this year. ' Badwell Fruit company sells a batch of Hill orchard Bartletts in New York at the record price of $7.20 a box. 50 YEARS AGO' Sept. 11. 1909 (Saturday) Porter Brothers gets the contract for constructing the P and E railroad. Medford residents are urg ed to boil well water as a precaution against t y p h o i d fever, i What's Yesr I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is tuperiet ; seven er eight is excellent; five et six is good. 1. In the King James ver sion of the Bible, are there more chapters in the old or New Testament?. , 2. Did the 20th century be gin on January 1, 1900, or January 1, 1901? 3. With what evangelist do you connect the . expression "bitting the sawdust trail?" 4. What is the next line fol lowing: "Listen, my children, and you shall, hear"? . 5. Is Hungary the home of v Slovaks, Magyars, 'Czechs, or Slovenes? . 6. Who was the i Florentine merchant after whom the New World of America was named? ' : 7. With what large Ameri can city do you associate the "Tweed King"? ' 8. Do greyhounds hunt by sight, scent, or both? , 9.' On which of the Philip pine Islands " is the city of Baguio? 10. Correct the following. "The butchery of prisoners were universally condemned. . Answers: 1. Old Testament. 2. Jan. 1, 1901. 3. Billy Sun day. 4. "Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." 5. Magyars. 6. Amerigo Vespucci. 7. New York City. 8. Sight. 9. Luson. 10. ". . . was universally con demned. FORMER TREASURER DIES Darien, Conn.-DPB-Alexan-der R. M. Boyle, 71, former treasurer and director of the Tehn and Fink Products Corp, died. Thursday, . 1 The Same Old Story The friendly Southern Pacific is up to. its old tricks again. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is merely continuing its long-range program of downgrading passenger service to the point of extinction despite its obligation to the peo ple of the areas it serves. It is evident that there isn't much use fight ing it. The SP's plans are too well-laid, too well financed and too persistent. But it is worth noting the current develop ments in this long-range program. w ITEM The Shasta Daylight, the once-splendid streamliner which runs between Portland and San Francisco in one day, is beginning its "win tertime" schedule, three days each week instead of daily, next Monday. . Item Without much of any advance notice of publicity, the SP now refuses to accept unac companied passengers aged 12 or less. - These items don't signify much in themselves. But they are straws showing that the wind is blowing in the same old direction, toward the discouragement of passenger travel. ,.'. . A LONG the SP line south of Eugene and north " of Dunsmuir through southern Oregon, tac tics such as this are familiar. They're not quite so familiar to areas which still have passenger service, but they're going to become more familiar. When this newspaper, in, the company of the Ashland Tidings and the Koseburg News-Review, protested the final end of the long-neglected. pas senger service to this area, people and news papers in other areas scoffed. They pointed out that it was a marginal and money-losing run any way, and asked why should the SP be expected to live up to its long-time obligations if, in doing so, it "lost money." . Now, however, they are finding that the end of passenger service on the Siskiyou line, instead of being an isolated instance of curtailment for economy purposes, at "little if any inconven ience' to patrons, was only one step toward even tual and total; elimination of passenger service, THIS the SP probably will deny. . J.- . But we have seen it happen here, and today we are seeing it happen on the Cascade line.- It is ,a slow process,, to be sure. It took the SP about 20 years to kill passenger service in this area. But the pattern is the same. The serv ice slowly deteriorates, schedules are inconven ient, patronage as a result drops, the service be comes a bookkeeping "loss" to the company, and then they go running to the public utilities offices to plead for relief. If denied they, go 4o court. And, in the fast-changing pattern vof Ameri can life, with autos and planes- taking up the slack that the railroad usually make the change TTHE day is coming when the last two north r south SP trains between Portland and San Francisco will t be gone. Klamath Falls, Dunsmuir be in the same position, service, as Koseburg, Grants Pass and Ashland. It is rather sad to see corporation, which owes to its npw-dead pioneering spirit (assisted by generous grants of public abandon its enterprise, its imagination, its feel ing for, public service. It may be difficult told you so" when the last passenger train rolls along the Cascade "main line." E. A. It Will Save Money It is now possible to drive from Medford to Portland in less than six hours without violating the basic rule, or incurring any particular risk. In addition, the trip is far smoother -and shorter than it was only a few years ago. Jt saves the. traveler considerable money, both for gaso line, and maintenance and upkeep. ' . How much of a saving, of course, depends on car and driver, but it mounts up. TTWO main segments are still sub-standard between Gold Hill and Grants Pass, and be tween Eugene and Albany. When; these are brought up to freeway standards, the trip will be a breeze perhaps 414 or 5 hours. These segments will now be completed, due to the recent action, of the Congress in hiking the federal gasoline tax by 1 cent. If it had not been for this, completion of the freeway would have been delayed interminably. - . The ultimate savings in gasoline, upkeep and maintenance will far exceed the extra penny-per-gallon tax to say nothing of the much greater safety the new roads will bring, and the time which will be saved. E. A. Let If the Southern Pacific takes note of the two editorials above, it may feel inclined to point out that tax money is building the roads, and tax money builds the airports and subsidizes the air lines, and that these are their chief forms of competition. Well le.t 'em. They received heavy subsidies in their early days,' too, and agreed to maintain convenient pas senger service as a result. They still could compete with autos and planes if they used the imagination and gumption some other , railroads are using, and offered a decent,' fast and convenient. service. E. A. has relinquished, they stick. ' Then Salem, Eugene, "and points south will regarding rail passenger a giant, money-making so much of its wealth land in the early days), to restrain a muffled "I 'Em Dennis the Menace Xsr&.neto.-wiTji.gi KXK Gflg WAS WCKE0...SO I Safety of Children Riding School B uses Placed on Drivers Chicago - (OPD r The nation al Safety Council today put the, safety of the 11 million students who ride school buses, squarely in the laps of bus drivers and the authori ties that, hire them. The council, commenting on the deaths of seven chil dren in a bus-train collision at Oakland, Md., Thursday, listed a three-point program to safeguard school bus pas sengers. Above all, the council said, "schools should have a person with direct authority for 'es tablishing and administering a safety program for school bus drivers." Training Recommended . - The three-point program in cluded: 1. Selection and training of school drivers. 2. Inspection and prevent ive maintenance of school buses. 3. Establishment of legal standards for the behind-the-wheel performance of school bus drivers through driver licensing. "Further," the council said, "each school bus should have a 'patrol boys a monitor to keep discipline among stu dents, thereby allowing the driver to concentrate on his No. 1 job - driving." i No one had been, declared responsible for the Oakland crash. A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train slammed into a stalled school. bus contain ing 26-28 children The seven kiUed ranged in age from 8-16 Nineteen other students were injured, 11 seriously enough for hospitalization. - Warning To Parents The council issued the fol lowing warnings to parents Lawsuit Filed in Death of Janitor Baker - (UPD - The adminis trator of the estate, of a de ceased H u ntington, Ore., school janitor filed a suit in Circuit Court here this week asking $20,000 damages from the Northern School Supply Co. of Portland and Harold Laswell, a salesman of that firm. v The complaint by Mrs. Blanche Behner of Baker al leges that Desair Suire was killed in an explosion at the Huntington school June ,10, 1958, which originated in paint and varnish remover supplied by the company. The suit charged negligence for alleged sending of flamable paint and varnish remover in containers on which the cau tion tags had been covered with shipping labels. Try and By BENNETT CERF- JIMMY DURANTE takes a dim view of suburban life, but - one Sunday a friend lured him out to his estate, and to add insult to injury made him look at his beehives. "I stuck my face into one of the hives," avers Durante, "and when those bees gotta, load of my schnozzola, the queen bee hollered, "Run for the hills, boys: it's an anteater!' " Durante also tells us he's figured out what to do in case "there's ever an air raid while he's playing in Las Vegas. 'Til just hide under a slot machine," says Jimmy. "They ain't been hit for. years." ' The way Hollywood moth ers tell it to their tots, "there once was a mania bear, a papa bear, and a baby bear named Goldilocks by a previous marriage." ', - . "My wife's learning how to drive,' a, harrassed gent informed his druggist, "so I'll need a big supply of those new vitamin pills." My doctor tells me they're just the thing for run-down people." O U6fc if Bwuutt Cut. Distributed by Bu Tattnne Svadkete CAM? WO0& TUB HOUSE of children who ride school buses: 1. If your child, rides a school bus, make sure he doesn't indulge in "horseplay on the bus. 2. See that he gets to the bus stop on time so he won't have to run. , 3. Remind him of the im portance of keeping his head, arms and hands inside the bus. ' , Case Enabling Convict Release Will Be Appealed Salem - (DPD - A case which brought about the release of a man from the state peniten tiary Wednesday and may result in many similar at temps by convicts to gain freedom - will be appealed to the State Supreme court immediately, Attorney Gener al Robert Y. Thornton said. t Freed was John M. Fal coner, Brooks. The case hinged on a 1957 legislative amendment to the larceny statute which put the dividing line between a mis demeanor - which carries a county jail sentence - and a felony - which carries a pen itentiary sentence at $75. Freedom Ordered Falconer had written a bad check for $18 and was put on probation. He violated his probation and was then sen tenced to three years in the penitentiary. ' Last month he brought ac tion against the warden on grounds that he should have received a county jail sen tence for a misdemeanor, not a penitentiary, term . because of the larceny statute amend ment under which he was charged. . Circuit Judge George Dun can agreed and freed Fal coner. ' Ten other cases based on this technicality are pending so the attorney general is seeking supreme court action as soon as possible. TRAINS, PROFITS SMALL Chicago -(UPD- There are 524,000 miles of railroad tracks in the United States, but only 390,000 are capable of returning any revenue, a railroad - magazine said. The other 190,000 miles of tracks are owned by model railroad hobbyists, according to the magazine - Model Railroader. It said most of the toy train owners are adults. Stop Mo Mi Communications - Letter tp the Editor must beai e name and address ol the writes although under cer . tain circumstance tne use ot a pen name hi initial for publica tion is pe-missihle The Mail Tribune reserves" the right to edi" ail letters with an eye to clarification' and condensation . Letters submitted for publica tion must ant exceed 400 words Not a 'Spendthrift' To the Editor: Senator Neu berger has sent the following telegram to Governor Hat field: "Reports in press have quoted Republican State Chairman Peter Gunnar as la beling me as The King of Congressional Spendthrifts.' Press also has described Mr. Gunnar as your personal choice for chairman of your party. . . "By far the "largest spend ing items I have voted for during five years in the sen ate have been - requests of President Eisenhower in field of military appropriations and foreign aid. Congressional Quarterly survey shows me as among leading supporters of Eisenhower foreign policy be cause of these positions I have taken as a responsible mem ber of the senate. ; ''Extremely disturbing now to be labeled as 'King of Con gressional Spendthrifts' by your Republican party chair man in view of fact that big gest spending items I havev voted for have been your own President's military and for eign aid requests. "Only today in connection with foreign aid matters, I told the senate I thought the President was sincerely inter ested in World peace. Senate is soon to' debate foreign aid budget for fiscal 1960. Appro priations committee has rec ommended $3.3 billion. Presi dent objects to any further reduction, is urging appropria tion of larger sum. I intend to support President's position. "Will your handpicked state chairman denounce me as a spendthrift for such action? Would appreciate your com ments." - . Lawrence Hobarg ' Legislative Assistant to Senator Neuberger Washington, D.C. . No More Monkeys To the Editor: I would like to suggest to "that kwazy monkey man" that he attempt writing about something else. Naturally, the monkeys are on strike. They're sick 'and tired of the whole mess. There are plenty of other animals that we can have fun yakking about but, please, no more monkeys. Shall we call it quits, Mr. Acklin? '. Sharon Dixon 693 South Modoc ave, Medford Itinerary for Soviet Premier's Visit Revealed Washington (DPD Soviet Premier NiKita Khrushchev's crowded U.S. schedule will take him from a white tie White House banquet to a farmhouse lunch and from an agriculture experiment station to a Hollywood movie lot. The Russian leader, who ar rives here Tuesday, .also will speak to the National Press Club and the U.N. General Assembly, dine with union, financial, political and civic leaders, and visit an IBM plant and a university during his 13 day U.S. tour. A detailed itinerary of Khrushchev's first 13 days in the United States, released by the White House late Thurs day, showed that Mrs. Frank lin D. Roosevelt, former New York Gov. Averell Harriman and corn farmer' Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, were the only private citizens scheduled to - entertain the Soviet boss in ; their own homes. No Capitol Visit Conspicuously absent from the schedule was any visit to the Capitol. The Senate and House are trying to clean up their business and adjourn be fore Khrushchev arrives to avoid the ticklish problem of whether to invite him to ad dress a joint session. .The agenda for the first nine days starts with Khrush chev's arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Mary land at 7:30 ajn. (p.s.t) and ends with his arrival at Pitts burgh at 7 p.m. (p.s.t.) Wed nesday, Sept. 23. ' The rest of the schedule, to include private Eisenhower Khrushchev talks at the Presi dent's heavily-guarded Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, will be made public later. Quentin Parolee Seized in Ontario - Ontario -(DPD-" A San Quen tin. prison parolee whom Cali fornia authorities said vio lated his parole was arrested here . Thursday night. Police identified the man as William Alvan English, 29, who has been working at a local hotel. -He was paroled after serv ing part of a term for forgery. Allied Invasions of Russia B a c kg ro undforPresenfFea r By-RICHARD SPONG Nilpta Khrushchev comes to this country next week as the merchant of a hypothesis that stands in want of proof: that the only alternative to peaceful coexistence is. war a war in the rocket and H bomb age that would be "fraught with the most dire consequences for all nations." The major, premise of the hypothesis appears to be that the leaders of the West-the "bourgeois countries", are subject to the influence of, or at least give ear to, a mys terious group "Who believe that war is to their benefit." These schemers, the Soviet Premier charges in his article in "Foreign Affairs", "con trol considerable material forces, as well as military and political levers." There is "no Macmillan's Election Call Said Well Timed By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain. The place: London. The quote: "Important in ternational negotiations lie ahead. It is clearly ri g h t that the peo ple should have tne op p o r tunity of deciding as soon as prac ticable who are to repre sent them in these negotia Phil New torn tions." On Tuesday, Sept? 8, Mac millan announced general elections would be held just one month hence," on Oct. 8. His reference to forthcom ing "important, international negotiations" was a statesman like presentation of an un doubted fact. ' Conservatives Have Edge But it only partially hid the fact that British elections are based on a cat-and-mouse ar rangement whereby the party in power must call for general elections once every five years but can call them at any other time the party in power feels it has a good chance of win ning. Now seems to be the best time for Macmillan's conser vatives. Public opinion polls gave them a five per cent ad vantage over the Laborites, with the possibility that the Conservatives could increase their parliamentary majority to as many as 100 compared to the present just under 60, The British stock market also reflected confidence the Conservatives would be the first party since World War I to return to power three con secutive times in Britain. Steel Shares Rise Shares in the steel industry, which the Laborites would like to nationalize, rose sharp- Three More Face Dynamite Charge In Little Rock Little Rock, Ark. - (DPD - Three more men were charged Thursday night in connection with a series of Labor Day dynamite blasts. Two other men already had been charged. The three are John Taylor Coggins, 39, an auto sales man; Samuel Graydon Bea vers,. 49, a carpenter, and Jes sie Raymond Perry, 24, a truck driver. Perry was ar rested Wednesday but charged Thursday night. The. three - were charged under . an 1895 law against use oi explosives to destroy public property. It brought to five the number of persons charged . with the same of fense in connection with the bombings. Others Charged Earlier E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, a lumber dealer and Citizens Council member, and J. D. Sims, 33, a truck driver and member of the Ku Klux Klan, were charged earlier. - All were arrested in con nection with three blasts late Monday night which went off in scattered locations in rapid succession. They ripped apart a city-owned station wagon of Fire Chief Gann Nalley, made a shambles of a School Board office, and wrecked the of fice of Mayor Werner C. Knopp in the headquarters of the construction firm of which he is president. Centennial Attracts 6,269 on Thursday Portland - (UPD - Attendance at the Oregon Centennial Thursday was 6,269, bringing the total so far to 1,237,685. The1 Centennial ends next Thursday. v 3 guarantee that some tragic day" they will not attempt to set these forces in motion. Whence the Fear Whence comes this fear , of Western malefactors a fear which elsewhere in the article is specifically denied? Khru shchev gives us a hint early in his discourse ; when he re minds Western readers: "Some people even made an attempt to strangle the un wanted infant (the Soviet re gime) in the cradle." When World War I ended,. Allied and American troops were oil Russian soil, fight ing Russian detachments. The intermittent warfare con tinued through 1910, anj the Allied and American eco nomic blockade even longer. One U.S. military expedi tion was sent in 1918 to pre- ly right after Macmillan's" an nouncement. For the Conservatives, the taks was not to appear over confident. For the Laborites, the task was just the opposite. Hugh Gaitskell, the man who probably would succeed Macmillan in event of a La- borite victory, returned from Moscow and told his follow ers: "I know that we shall win, given one condition, that we fight for it hard and I know that we are going to fight for it hard." But there was. general agreement that at best labor faced an uphill battle. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Laos-which for a very small country is very much in the news these days - is a perfect example of. imperialism, which the communists harp on unceasingly as an example of Western wickedness. -Well . In Laos, communism is mov ing in to take over a little country that wants to run its own affairs. That's IMPER IALISM - which Webster de fines as "the policy, practice ; or advocacy of seeking to ex tend the control, dominion or empire of a nation." WHAT TO DO about It? ' That's where tht rub comes. - United Nations is moving in a hampered, hobbled, ham strung sort of way to do some thing about it. It is sending in a fact - finding commission whose job will be to find out what is going on. After the fact-finding com mission reports on what is wrong, there won't be much that can be done. ws OULDN'T it be wonderful really UNITED nations? : U.N. could then step in, as the policeman steps into - a neighborhood row, and SET TLE IT ALL QUICKLY. Why can't that be done? The answer is simple: Mr. K would veto it - and that would be that. THE U.S. BUREAU of Public - Roads tells us that by the end of this year passenger car registrations in , the United States are expected to total 58,591,000. That means about one passenger car FOR EVERY THREE PERSONS in our country. A thought for Mr. K: , YOU could do that for YOUR country if you'd lav off this world-conquest-for-com- munlsm nonsense. I'll wacer handful of rubles that your people would FAR rather nave an automobile for every three Russians than to have mastery of the world. "' Why don't you give it a try? Timber's Role in State Economy Seen The Dalles-(DPD-Timber can provide at least half of Ore gon's basic economy forever, according to a leading Oregon forester. W. D, Hagenstein, execu tive vice president of the In dustrial Forestry Association, told the annual meeting of -the Mid-Columbia group of the Oregon Bankers association here Thursday night that Ore gon was the nation's No...l forest state. ' ' 'v Oregon, said Hagerstein, has 21 per cent of the coun try's timber and the largest forest payroll in, the United States. He said the forestry, indus try in Oregon could employ some 25,000 more workers if logs were more completely utilized. Hagerstein - said such increased utilization could add $100 million to the industry's annual payroll and a quarter billion dollars to the value of Oregon's forest products. vent the Germans from using Archangel as a submarine base. The U.S. forces engaged in a number of minor actions against Soviet troops, and 109 Americans were killed . in action. , Second Expedition " The other expedition was sent-in 1919 ostensibly to aid some 50,000 liberated Czecho slovak prisoners of war in Siberia, who were reported to be trying to join the forces opposing Germany. Although they did not engage in hos tilities, the American troops stayed in Siberia through March, 1920. And the com manding general of fhe expe dition later reported that the Czechs had definitely decided not to leave Siberia . two months before Japan and the United States decided to go to their relief. The real accomplishment of this force, recognized by Rus sia in its 1933 diplomatic re lations agreement with the United States, was to prevent Japanese occupation troops in the Vladivpstok area from an nexing the land permanently. But no mention was made in 1933 of the intervention in northern Russia, which the Soviets still deeply resent. Whenever the' subject of re payment of the debt of the Kerensky regime to the Unit ed States is brought up, Rus sia raises Us counterclaim for damages resulting from the adventure in northern Russia. Back Anti-Red Leaders The Allies also backed anti- revolutionary leaders trying to overthrow the infant So viet regime. In the South, French troops worked with Gen. Denikin. In the Baltic. British naval detachments tor pedoed two Russian battle ships. After Poland invaded Russia, only to " be defeated and to be itself invaded, France sent asSstance to Po land to repel the Russian troops. ' ; Russia was denied repre sentation at the Paris peace conference, at which much Russian territory was given away. Great Britain and France withheld diplomatic relations from Russia until 1924. The United States did not recognize the Soviet gov ernment until 1U33. So, traumatic as the fears of Khrushchev may seem to peace-loving Americans today, behind the trauma stands a body of solid fact. Paul Douglas, : Veteran Actor, Taken by Death ' Hollywood -DPD- Film star Paul Douglas, 52, died today from a heart ailment, city fire men reported. Firemen were called to the Douglas Hollywood Hills home by his actress-wife, Jan Sterling, 36, at 7:11 . a.m. (p.s.t.). The rescue squad re ported Douglas apparently was dead by the time they ar rived. Douglas' physician, Dr. Lee A. Siegel, was in attendance, firemen said. The star was born in Phila delphia and was active in little theater dramatics while at Yale. He started his career after graduation as a radio announcer and straight man. Douglas also played pro fessional football and acted as a motion picture sports nar rator and writer for 11 years. Douglas and Miss Sterling were married May 12, 1950. It was his fifth marriage and her second. Their son, Adams, was bom Oct. 20, 1955. The actor was. a burly six- footer with a deep, resonant voice. " ; - ' " " Douglas got his acting start in ' "Horn yesterday on Broadway. He played the leading role for 1,024 per formances. ' - His success in the play brought many Hollywood offers, and he made a hit in his film debut in "Letter to Three Wives." A string of movies followed, and in recent years had made films in Aus tria, England and Italy. Portlander Found Dead in Steam Bath Portland - (DPD A 76-year- old Portland man, George W. Williamson, was found dead Thursday in a steam room of local steam bath. His body was found less than an hour after he entered the room. An autopsy was scheduled. The S o c i a 1 Democratic Party captured 52.6 per cent of the vote in West Berlin s six-party election. Helps Yon Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel 111-at-esse because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. so Unproved alka line t non-acid ) powder, sprinkled oa your plates holds them firmer en they feel more comfortable Avoid emtmr rassment caused by loose pistes Get FASXEBTH today st soy drug oountas.