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Oregon Mercury
Readings Higher;
More Rain Seen
By United Press International
Mild temperatures and at
least a temporary halt to
heavy rain highlighted Ore
gon's weather picture today.
A new Pacific front was
expected to bring more rain
to the northwest part of the
state Tuesday.
Astoria got 1.85 inches of
rain, during the 24-hour per
iod ending at 4.30 a.m. and
Newport had 1.68. Inland
Portland had 76 and Salem
.56. The brunt of the latest
storm hit in western Wash
ington where slides, bridge
washouts and high water was
reported.
No .Major Roads Closed
State police said no major
road closures were reported
in Oregon.
The weather bureau . pre
dicted slight to moderate
rises in the lower reaches of
principal Willamette river
tributaries today. The San
tiam river at Jefferson rose
4.5 feet in 25 hours and was
about a foot and half under
flood stage this morning.
The weather man said at
9 am., today a high pressure
ridge should force the storm
track north of Oregon for 36
to 48 hours. However, the air
mass remaining over the state
is so moist that any substan
tial clearing during the night
would be followed by fog in
a few hours.
2 Reporters Join
Mail Tribune Staff
- Two reporters have joined
the Mail Tribune's news staff
in recent days.- . .
Greg Nokes has been as
signed to the city hall beat,
covering city of Medford af
fairs, as well as other assign
ments of a general news na
ture. He succeeds Eric Went-
worth in the post. Wentworth
is now a reporter for the
Portland Oregonian. .
Robert Walters, who joined
the staff this week, has been
assigned to supervise and
edit the news from the area
of the Mail Tribune's cover
age outside of Medford.
Nokes is a 1959 graduate of
Willamette university in Sa
lem. He is married and the
father of a baby daughter. ,
Walters has worked- pre
viously for the Eureka, Calif.,
newspapers, and an English
language publication in To
kyo, Japan. He is unmarried.
SNAKES FOR IRELAND
Washington -flJPD- Officials
of, the Washington Zoo admit
they don't know what St.
Patrick would think of their
latest project. The '.Washing
ton Zoo has a surplus of
snakes, and is shipping the
extra reptiles ' to the Dublin,
Ireland, zoo.
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Electronics Pace
Firm Stock Ma rke t
New York-CPD-Strength in
leading electronics, paced a
firm and moderately active
stock market today. i
Zenith featured in its
group with a gain of nearly
1
Mother Held on
Charge of Murder
Oregon City -UPD- A young
mother of three children was
held on a first degree murder
charge in connection with the
fatal shooting early today of
her husband, Sheriff Joe
Shobe reported. " . ' ..
The victim was Travis Bar
nett, 24. Being held in the
county jail here was Char
lotte Barnett, also 24.
Shobe said Barnett had
been shot once through the
neck with a hunting rifle. He
said the sheriffs office got
the call about 1:45 a.m. after
the woman had called authori
ties in Portland to report the
shooting. He said she blamed
marital difficulties.
The couple's three small
children were taken to the
women's protective division
in Portland.
The couple lived near Port
land, just over the Clackamas
county line.
5. IBM and Motorola padded
more than 2 each, and Varian
tacked on more than a point.
Ampex lost more than 4 on
profit taking after a 12-point
run-up Friday. Texas Instru
ments lost around 2.
Universal Controls, listed
on the American Stock Ex
change, rose Va to 21.
The steels, which rose and
fell as hope of a steel settle
ment waxed or waned last
week, continued to labor un
der the steel uncertainty.
Bethlehem and U.S.. Steel
while Youngstown eased.
Thiokol rocket fuel was
strong in its section rising
more than 2 points. Minnesota
Mining, a feature last week,
advanced more than 3. Ritter
dropped more than 2 and
Revlon more than 1.
The autos were mxed.
Correcton Given in
Auto Accident Story .
Kathryn Asher, 5923 Har
ris rd., Central Point, was
cited by city police for failure
to yield right of way, as the
result of an accident last
Thursday on Table Rock rd,
The Mail Tribune earlier
reported that Ruth Mary
Knutzen, Jacksonville, the
operator of the other auto,
had received the citation.
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being held in the Tijuana, Mexico jail. The junior college
student was arrested last weekend along with Delores
Mary Cavallaro, 23, daughter of bandleader Carmen Cav
allaro. They were picked up on a narcotics charge.
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Paintings Found
In California Said
Merely Copies
Naples, Italy (CPD A priest
archeologist claimed today
that one of 10 alleged picto
rial masterpieces discovered
ih the home of an Italian emi
grant in California was mere
ly a "copy of a painting in a
Naples gallery.
Rev. Antenio Bellucci, -a
member of the pontifical Ro
man Archaelogical Academy,.
soid the copy was what Prof.
Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky of
the Chicago Art Museum had
described as the "lost master
piece" of Michaelangelo da
Caravaggio with an estimated
value of $1.5 million.
Believed Merely Copy ;
Father Bellucci said after
seeing photographs of the
California painting that he be
lieved it was merely a copy
of a painting which has been
in the gallery of the Jeroal
mine Friars in Naples for 300
years. Even the original, he
said, is not by Caravaggio.
The painting whose authen
ticity Father Bellucci chal
lenged was one of 10 found
in the home of TV repairman
Alfonso Folio in Pasadena.
The paintings were describ
ed in Hollywood reports as
ancient Italian masterpieces
worth anywhere from $8 to
$10 million. Zlatoff-Mirsky
said one of them was "Madda
lena" (Mary Magdalen), Cara
vaggio's "lost masterpiece,"
and was worth $1.5 million.
Only Restored Paintings
Zlatoff-Mirsky sad howev
er that he had only restored
the paintings and that the
identification was made by
Prof. Amadore Porcella of
Rome.
Porcella told United Press
International in Rome last
Friday that he had positively
identified only seven of the
10 paintings as "genuine mas
terpieces." These, he said, in
cluded Caravaggio's "Madda
lena." Today, Father Bellucci said
the painting in California was
only a copy of a "Maddalena"
which has been in the Naples
gallery since the second half
of the 17th century. v
He said the original is at
tributed "on the basis of safe
elements, through tests and
comparisons,"" to Gian Battis
ta Caracciolo, surnamed "Bat
tistello," a Neapolitan painter
who was born in 1570 and
died in 1637.
Battistello was a contempo
rary of Caravaggio, who was
born in 1569 and died in 1609.
The Neapolitan painter is far
less famed than Caravaggio.
Identification Questioned
The identification of all 10
paintings discovered in Cali-
fornialias been strongly ques
tioned by Italian, and Ameri
can experts.
In Rome, Porcella, when in
formed of Father Bellucci's
statement, told United Press
International that things were
the other way around.
"The 'Maddalena' found in
California is the original and
the painting in Naples is a
copy," Porcella said.
He also reiterated, that
there was no doubt in his
mind that the painting in
Pasadena was a work of Cara
vaggio.
The existence of -copies,
including the one in Naples,
was known," Porcella said.
"The Very fact that copies
were made proves that it is
an important painting."
Knows Work Well
Porcella said the painting
in California was "absolute
ly" by Caravaggio, but sug
gested that the Naples copy
could conceivably have been
done by Battistello from Cara
vaggio's original.
I know Battistello's work
well," Porcella said. "In fact,
some time ' ago I recognized
him as the author of a 'St.
Joseph With Child' in the gal
lery of Lausanne, Switzer
land, which until then had
been attributed to Caravag
gio." .. - I
Afghan Airliner
Crash Fatal to 24
Beirut, Lebanon - (CPD - An
Afghan airliner crashed in
flames onto . a hilltop near
Beirut Saturday night, killing
24 persons including two
Americans. Three passengers
survived.
The Americans were listed
as Gordon Hay Clark, 48, a
Nebraska physician, en route
to Kabul from Rome, and
Frank William Shepherd, 51,
an accountant en route from
London to Kabul.
Both Americans were re
ported employed in Afghanis
tan. Their hometowns . were
not immediately available.
Most of the passengers were
frnm Turkpv (?7:pehoslovakia.
Afghanistan and India. 1
Steel Workers Return to Jobs at Utah's Kennecott Corp. Under Terms of New Contract
Salt Lake City -HPD- The
first of about 2,000 steel
workers of the Kennecott
Copper Corp. returned to the
plant today following ratifi
cation of a new two-year con
tract.
Acceptance of the company
offer by the five Utah locals
was by a "practically, unani
mous" standing vote. -'
The back-to-work proces
sion was expected to be com
pleted by the end of the
week.
fhe company package was
estimated at about 22.3 cents
an hour over the two-year
length of the contract. It in
cludes an across the board
raise of seven cents an hour
for each of the two years.
"It's certainly a union vic
tory as far as I'm concerned,"
Angelo Verdu of the union
bargaining team said.
U3W, locals at Ray and
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