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Albany, N.Y. - (UPD - New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller was under strong pres
sure today to accept the nun
ber two spot on the GOP
ticket in 1960 while Demo
crats viewed his withdrawal
from the presidential race
with hopeful optimism.
Rockefeller became the
overwhelming favorite for the
Republican vice presidential
nomination with his an
nouncement Saturday that he
was bowing out of the presi
dential race.
Republican quarters viewed
the move as an open door to
the White House for Vice
i Northwest GOP
i Leaders Predict
I Nixon as Choice
Portland - (CPU - Northwest
Republican leaders think that
Vice President Richard Nixon
is virtually certain to be the
Republican Presidential nomi
nee in I960.
This feeling became clear
after Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
of New York announced he
would not be a candidate for
the nomination.
' Gov. Mark Hatfield said he
hoped that with Rockefeller
out of the race for the top spot
he would "reopen the door, to
the vice", presidential' possi
bility." . . ,
Policies Praised
. Hatfield said "the Eisen
hower Nixon administration
has earned the respect of the
entire world and it appears
now that Dick Nixon will
emerge from Chicago -with
solid support, going on to the
White House to carry forward
the policies in which, the peo
ple have expressed their con
fidence repeatedly since 1952.
He added "I would hope
that Gov. Rockefeller will re
open the door to the vice pres
idential ' possibility so that
the strongest possible ticket
might be offered the Ameri
can people."
Morton Seen '
Oregon GOP Chairman Pe
ter Gunnar, Salem, agreed
that Nixon was the logical
candidate. His best guess for
vice president was National
GOP Chairman Thruston Mor
ton if Rockefeller did not
run.
Robert T. Mautz, Portland,
Republican national commit
teeman, said he "would cer
tainly think that Nixon will
get the nomination" with
Rockefeller out.
Mautz said he did not know
if Nixon will be opposed in
1960, but said "it would be
exciting if someone else
would run."
Tonight
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humans
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no place
to sleep
J In Hong Kong the lucky refu
! gee youngsters may find a place
5 to sleep in a hallway or on an
open rooftop. In Calcutta, the
; haggard beggar woman may
; find rest in a dirty, crowded
J street. It's a staggering task
- merely to keep these people
alive on an emergency basis,
let alone improving their lot.
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l gious Overseas Aid is doing
more than its share to help.
I Why don't you give more than
your share ... now in this sea-
son of giving? Give now
" through your faith. .
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President Richard M. Nixon.
Democrats claimed Rocke
feller's withdrawal boosted
their chances for capturing
the presidency in 1960. Thev
said Nixon would be an easier
candidate to beat than Rocke
feller. Pressure From Party
A nationwide survey by
United Press International in
dicated Rockefeller would be
under ever increasing pres
sure from within the Republi
can party, to accept the num
ber two spot on the GOP
ticket.
Republican strategists be
lieve a Nixon-Rockefeller tic
ket would be almost unbeat
able. However, Rockefeller has
repeatedly stated that he
would not accept a bid to run
for the vice presidency. He
stated as recently as last Sat
urday that he would not "at
any time entertain any
thought of accepting" the vice
presidential nomination.
R o c k e feller's apparently
adamant stand on the issue
could disruot hoDes for a Nix
on-Rockefeller ticket. Rocke
feller has a reputation for
meaning what he says.
Secret Weapon
New York State Republican
Chairman Judson Morehouse
calls this Rocky's secret weap
on. In a world of political
double talk he means what he
says.
A large proportion of GOP
leaders have refused to be
lieve Rockefeller's Saturday
declaration. . The UP I survey
disclosed that 17 top Republi
cans in 28 states named Rocke
feller their favorite choice for
the vice presidential nomi
nation: ,
Many ignored Rockefeller's
rejection of the number two
spot. Some said they believe
he would accept if the honor
were offered." Others felt that
an overwhelming demand for
the Nixon-Rockefeller ticket
would find the New York gov-"
ernor j avauaoie. .
Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson, (Tex.)
summed up the general re
action of the Democratic par
ty when he said "Rockefel
ler's announcement nailed
down the GOP presidential
nomination for Nixon.
Other Democrats twitted
the Republicans for their lack
of contenders and underscor
ed the Democratic position of
having at least five potential
presidential contenders.
There also was speculation
Rockefeller, at the age of 51,
decided to postpone his presi
dential ambitions until 1964
or even 1968.
Police in England
Appeal for
In Tracking Killer
Birmingham, England (DPI)
Police appealed today to the
frightened passengers of a No.
8 bus to come forward and
tell what they could about the
blood-stained man who board
ed the bus shortly after a kill
er decapitated a YWCA girl
last Wednesday.
British newspapers took up
the cry and tried to shame the
59 still-silent passengers into
speaking up. They called the
killer the most sadistic in the
annals of British crime and
said no one was safe as long
as he remains free.
Only Two Come Forth
So far only one passenger
and the conductor have told
police of seeing the man who
boarded the bus near the
YWCA but neither knew
where he got off. He was
stained with blood so badly
no one would sit by him or
occupy the seat after he left.
Conductor Bill Humphreys
said the man offered his fare
in a blood-stained hand but
refused to give his destina
tion. The most valuable informa
tion thus far "came from Mrs.
Evelyn Peake, 27, who told
police she saw the killer sus
pect waiting for the bus near
the YWCA, slumped against a
wall. .
She said he explained his
blood stains by saying in an
educated voice" "I had a fall.
I'll be all right when I can get
on a bus." - -
American Type Jacket
She described the man as
M Iff
ENGINE DERAILED This is the engine of injuries. The
a three-unit diesel and baggage car that was water and it
knocked into Pudget Sound Sunday even- slid onto the
ing. There were no deaths and only a few passing.
BAGGAGE CAR AT REST
ripped off, the baggage car of
Builder rests on a mud bank
waters of Puget Sound near
train's engines went into the water when a mud' slide knock
ed them from the tracks. -r..UPI Telephoto)
Stocks Advance in
Moderate
New York -flJPI)- Stocks ad
vanced irregularly today in
moderate trading.
Electronics encou ntered
some heavy selling. Chemicals
were firm, steels dull and
rails and oils ' fractionally
higher.,
Ampex continued to react
to the report that General
Electric is coming out . with
a new . process for recording
Help
fair, curly hair and wearing a
hip - length American type
jacket."
The killer attacked friend
less, unemployed 29-year-old
typist Stephanie Baird, appar
ently with a bag of stones,
then beheaded her with a pen
knife.
Margaret Brown, 21, anoth
er resident of the YWCA, also
was attacked but was not crit
ically hurt because her hair,
worn in a thick knot, softened
the blow.
Both Miss Brown and Mrs.
Peake were being kept under
guard for fear their lives
might be endangered.
'Ben Hor Voted as
Top Picture of 1959
New York - (UPD - The New
York film critics voted "Ben
Hur" the top picture of 1959.
The group gave Aubrey
Hepburn its best actress
award for her role in "The
Nun's Story" and chose James
Stewart best actor for his part
in "Anatomy of a Murder."
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MEDFORD FUEL CO.
Ph. SP. 2-21 1 1 - Court at MeAndrews
With its locking connections
the Great Northern Empire
only a few yards from the
Seattle. The Chicago-bound
Trading
and producing sound, sight
and coded electrical impulses.
It lost more than 11 Thursday
and more than 6 in early trad
ing today.
Competitive With Tape
'. The new GE process, called
thermoplastic recording, is de
scribed as being related, yet
competitive with magnetic
tape, a field in which Ampex
plays a major role.
Other electronic losers in
cluded General Time, off near
ly 4; Texas Instruments, down
around 3, and Litton, off more
than a point. IBM countered
with a rise of 3.
DuPont lost all of its open
ing gain in the first hour. Al
lied Chemical was firm. In the
steels, Youngstown and Re
public held to their previous
close. Bethlehem was firm;
U.S. Steel easy. Chrysler and
General - Motors tacked on
fractions in the autos.
Coos Bay Dredge
Permit Requested
Portland - (UPD - Menasha
Wooden Ware Corp., of North
Bend has applied for a permit
to dredge in Coos Bay oppo
site North Bend, Army engi
neers said today.
Dredging sites are on the
north bank of Coos Bay, SOO
feet downstream from the
railroad bridge and on the
west side of North Slough,
200 feet north of its mouth.
Material removed will be
used for fill purposes on the
site of a proposed paper mill
at Jordan Point. Dredging
will be to a depth not to ex
ceed 14 feet below mean low
er low water In Coos Bay and
not to exceed 20 feet below
mean lower low water at the
North Slough site.
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train's track runs close to the
was here where tons of mud
tracks just as the train was
(UPI Telephoto)
Slide Pushes
Passenger Train
Into Puget Sound
Seattle, Wash.-TOPD-A train
load of 188 holiday .travelers
escaped injury late Sunday as
two huge landslides crashed
down on the Great Northern
Railway's Empire Builder on
the outskirts of town here.
Nine cars were derailed.
The two slides, which struck
20 minutes apart, knocked the
four-unit diesel engine and a
combination mail and baggage
car into the waters of Puget
Sound. At least six crew mem
bers and four passengers were
injured but most of the in
juries were considered minor.
Great Northern officials
said the first slide halted and
partially derailed the 13-car
Chicago - bound streamliner.
The second compounded the
damage.
Car Buried
A combination mail and
crew dormitory car was
buried to the windows on one
side by the- slides but it did
not follow the mail-baggage
car into the chill waters.
The two sets of tracks were
twisted in almost braided fash
ion and formed an arch from
the railroad bed to one of the
derailed diesel units. One
diesel unit was pushed about
500 feet from the railroad bed.
Three of the six crewmen
were seriously injured while
the other three suffered in
juries termed minor in nature.
None of the passengers was
thought to be seriously in
jured. '
Motor Carrier
Authority OK'd
Salem-(UPD-The acquisition
of motor carrier authority
held by Roy N. and Wallace
C. Jacobsen by Jacobsen
Brothers, Inc., of Silverton,
has been approved by the
Oregon' public utility com
missioner. The Jacpbsens have been
doing business as Jacobsen
Brothers.
In an order effective Jan.
1, Commissioner Jonel C. Hill
authorized irregular route
service in the transport of for
est products, grain and hops
within and from and to 50
road miles of Mt. Angel, plus
hay with and from and to 150
road miles of the town.
Local cartage service also
was authorized in the trans
port of forest products, grain
and hops within the corporate
limits of Silverton.
The principal railway lines
in Belgium have been a state
enterprise since their construc
tion in 1834.
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entra! Sttcoftes Travelers
By United Press International
Hundreds of Christmas holi
day travelers were., stranded
by a howling blizzard that
knifed deep into the nation's
midsection today, leaving a
trail of winter misery in the
Texas Panhandle and the cen
tral plains states.
The storm, packing winds
of nearly 60 miles an hour as
it moved into the upper mid
west, whipped the snow into
huge drifts that blocked roads
and knocked down utility
lines.
Cars Abandoned
Hundreds of cars were
abandoned in Nebraska, Iowa,
the Dakotas, Kansas, Okla
homa, Texas and New Mexico.
Weary travelers sought shel
ter in farm homes and jammed
Chilly Reception
Seen in Attempt to
Boost Gasoline Tax
Washington-flJPD - A chilly
reception in Congress was pre
dicted today for any adminis
tration request to hike fed
eral gasoline taxes by anoth
er half cent a gallon next
year.
The American Automobile
Association said the extra
levy would be proposed in
January as part of a plan to
raise the tax eventually to
five cents a gallon from the
present four cents. It said the
second half - cent increase
would be asked later.
All-Out Fight
Frederick T.'McGuire, Jr.,
president of the motorists'
organization, noted that Con-
Two Hospitalized
After Accident
Two men were hospitalized
Sunday following a one-vehicle
accident about 2:53 p.m.
on Highway 234 about 2Vz
miles from Gold Hill.
According to state police,
the westbound vehicle was op
erated by Lewis Albert Birk
land, 40, of 1830 Camp Baker
rd., Medford,. when it went
off the highway and hit a
grove of trees. Birkland was
taken to Rogue Valley hos
pital by Medford ambulance
where he was reported in fair
condition this morning. He is
suffering from facial lacera
tions. Taken to Osteopathic hos
pital was Edgar Lee Coghill,
40, of 1289 Coghill lane, Med
ford, a passenger in the Birk
land car. He was reported in
good condition this morning.
Two vehicles were involved
in a collision this morning at
Table Rock rd. near Gibbon
rd., state police reported. A
vehicle operated by Darlene
Lou Dizick, 27, of route 2, box
673A, Central Point, was hit
by a vehicle operated by Jack
ie Lee Turk, 26, 255 South
Fourth St., Central Point.
Police said Turk suffered a
cut forehead in the accident
which occurred about 7
o'clock. The roads were re
ported to be icy at the time
with fog in the area. Turk
was notified by police that a
complaint for violation of the
basic rule would be filed
against him in district court.
AGREEMENT REACHED
Baghdad -(UPD- The Soviet
Union has agreed . to set up
10 technical centers in Iraa
to train students in the fields
of metallurgy, oil and textiles,
it was announced Sunday.
Gene Thomas
Says:
You get extra courtesy
and friendliness when you
get your loan from an in
dependent local company.
hotels and motels in the storm
area.
The Weather Bureau said
the storm was centered in
Iowa early this morning. La
moni, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb.,
had four inches on the ground
and Lincoln, Neb., six.
As the storm pushed east
ward, temperatures dropped
sharply and rain changed to
snow in the Great Lakes area.
Chicago reported a record
high for today of 51 degrees
but the weatherman said the
mercury would drop almost
20 degrees by morning.
Showers Forecast
Elsewhere around the coun
try, showers were forecast
from Florida and eastern Ala
bama northward into Ohio
Valley and central Atlantic
gress boosted the tax by one
cent at its last session and
pledged an all - out fight
against any further increase.
He predicted Congress would
cold shoulder a new request.
McGuire said the effect of
such an increase would be to
repudiate the compromise on
federal highway financing leg
islation which was worked out
"with such difficulty" in the
last session of Congress.
President Eisenhower ask
ed Congress last January for
a lVz cent increase in gas
taxes to help finance the su
perhighway program. Con
gress finally approved , the
penny - a - gallon boost until
July 1, 1961.
Would Be 11 Cents Tax
McGuire said a new one
cent increase, plus the aver
age state tax of six cents,
would mean an average gas
tax of 11 cents and would cost
motorists more than a half
billion dollars a year.
- The AAA did not disclose
the source of its information
on administration plans. How
ever, it normally is well in
formed on highway financing
programs.
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states with snow changing to
freezing rain in most of New
England. Generally fair skies
and warmer weather were in
store for most of the western
half of the country.
New Mexico, the panhandle
region and Nebraska caught
the full fury of the storm Sun
day. -
The blizzard blew into the
panhandle after dumping 8 to
Four Minor Crashes
Reported in City
Four minor traffic accidents
were reported to city police
over the week end, none of
them resulting in iniuries and
only minor property damage.
A car operated by John
Desmond Hearn, 763V4 Posse
Lane, struck a city informa
tion sign at the intersection of
Elm st., and West Main about
4 a.m. Sunday, according to
police. Hearn told police he
fell asleep. No citation was
issued.
Gilbert ' Raymond Daniels,
Antioch, Calif., told police he
was looking for a house ad
dress when the car he was
driving struck a parked car
belonging to Charles N. Lon
gan, 173 Gregory rd., Central
Point, In front of 817 Oak st.,
about 12:04 p.m. Sunday.
Francis Willard Chausse,
87, of 826 West Second st.,
was cited by city police for
failure to yield the right of
way, after his car went
through a stop sign at the
intersection of Eighth and
Holly sts., Sunday afternoon,
and struck a car operated by
Janet Louise Phair, 19, of 325
Effie st., police said.
A hit and run accident was
reported to city police by La
vona Elizabeth Kusler, Myrtle
Creek, who told them her car
was struck while parked at
320 North Ivy St., by a car
which failed to stop sometime
Saturday or Sunday.
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10 inches of snow in eastern
New Mexico during a 10-hour
period. The panhandle was
blanketed by eight inches and
winds of v45 miles an hour
whipped five foot drifts across
highways.
Plows Clear Path
A bus and 30 to 40 cars
were stalled more than two
hours near Clayton, N. M., be
fore snowplows could clear a
path for them. An estimated
600 travelers sought refuge in
Vaughn and Encino, N.M., to
escape the blinding storm
which cut visibility to zero
and forced all highways in a
50 mile radius to be closed.
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