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Hames Crop Up On Candidate To Run With Nixon Washington-fUPD-At least a dozen names cropped up in speculation today over the 1960 running mate for Vice President Richard M. Nixon if he wins the GOP president ial nomination as expected. Nixon has given no indica tion as to whom he would favor as the vice presidential candidate. He takes the posi tion that speculation over the second spot on the ticket is premature because he hasn't even announced his own plans. ' Some of Nixon's backers have indicated that he might leave the choice entirely to the Republican convention Social Security Deductions to Increase Friday Washington (HPD Starting Friday, Uncle Sam will take more from your pay check for social security taxes. - The 20 per cent hike, which will be felt by virtually every worker and employer in the nation, is designed to bring the government an additional $2 billion a year in revenue. It will be the fourth in crease in social security taxes in the last six years. The present law calls for three more increases spread over the next nine years. ' Higher taxes are needed to cover the swelling costs of the program, which now provides monthly benefit checks to 13,400,000 persons. Now 3 Per Gent Beginning Friday, ; w a g e and salaried employees will pay social security - taxes amounting to 3 per cent of the $4,800 in annual earnings. .That compares with 2.5 per cent this. year. So if you make $4,800 or more, your tax next year will total $144 an increase of $24 over this year, and $49.50 more than the tax was in 195S. 1 Self - employed persons won't be hit, until they file their tax returns in April, 1961. They will pay 4 per cent of their first $4,800 in 1960 earnings, compared with 33i this year. Their maximum tax will climb from $180 this year to $216. Typhoon Heading Toward Philippines Manila - (DPD - Late-season typhoon Harriet roared today toward the northern Philip pines with 140-mile-per-hour winds. The Manila Weather Bu reau said the southern part and eastern coastal regions of Luzon, the Philippines' big gest island, will begin to ex perience intermittent rain and strong winds late this afternoon. next July. But those who have observed him closely in the past feel that he will have the main say on the identity of his running mate. Covers Wide Range The speculation covers a wide range. Among those re garded as possibilities are At torney General William P. Rogers; House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck (Ind.); Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton; Sens. Kenneth B. Keating (N.Y.), Hugh Scott (Pa.), and Thurston B. Morton (Ky.), the GOP national chair man; Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell; Govs. William G. Straton of Illinois, Cecil H. Underwood of West Virginia, and Christopher Del Sesto of Rhode Island; Health, Educa tion and Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming; Treasury Secretary Robert B. Ander son and Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen (111.). Would Eliminate Hatfield Since Nixon is from Cali fornia, his running mate prob ably would have to come from the East or Midwest. This would eliminate such Repub licans as Govs. Mark Hatfield of Oregon and William Quinn of Hawaii. Dirksen also was not re garded as a likely choice. The Senate leader told reporters he was "not interested" in the vice presidency but would not decline it if it were thrust upon him. Rogers, a New Yorker whose legal residence now is Maryland, is one of Nixon's closest personal friends and advisers. . Seaton, a former senator from Nebraska, and Mitchell, from New Jersey, also are among the. vice presidents close associates. Ashland Woman Struck by Car Mrs, Ilia Mae Summerow, 30, of 194 Mead st., Ashland, was reported in good condi tion this morning suffering from injuries received Tues day shortly . afternoon when she was struck by an automo bile on East Main st. between Riverside ave. and the Bear Creek bridge. According to city police, Mrs. Summerow was crossing East Main st. when she was hit by an automobile operated by Dr. Clarence I. Drummond, 2909 East Fairview place, Medford. Witnesses told po lice that Mrs. Summerow was in the crosswalk at the time of the incident. Dr. Drum mond was cited by police for failure to yield right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Mrs. Summerow was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulance service, where she was treated for a dislocated arm and facial bruises. m,tx I fori?' '4ff,r ITl rT'nv . 11 if 11 '-Vfc. 4 - V M if- " rHsf 'iMSw p FOUR DIE IN CRASH Four University of who was injured in the collision, remains Washington students en route to see their in critical condition in a Eugene hospital, football team play in the Rose Bowl game Killed were Derwood B. Nordin, 23, Palos at Pasadena, Calif., Friday, were killed in Verdes Estates, Calif.; Myra Lee Taylor, this car crash north of Eugene early Tues- 21, Tacoma; Evelyn Joy Simons, 20, Shelton, day. Their station wagon collided with a Wash., and William Robert Moser, 22, Ta- truck which had jackknifed on the icy pave-, coma. ment. Barbara Jean Hill, 21, of Seattle, (UPI Telephoto) Three Injured in Traffic Mishap , Three persons suffered minor injuries Tuesday when their pickup truck skidded on the ice at the intersection of Highways 234 and 62 and turned on its side in a ditch, state police reported. Driver Roy Gustafson, 22, of Phoenix, Ariz., and his pas sengers, Karlene McGee, 19, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Ga lyn Knight, 13, of Grants Pass, all suffered cuts and bruises, but were not hospitalized. The accident occurred at 12:02 p.m., police said, when Gustafson, heading east on Highway 234, was unable to stop at the intersection. No ci tation was issued. Talent Man Takes Own Life With Gun Harold E. Baldwin, 40, of route 1, box 457, Talent, died Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to sheriffs deputies. Deputies said Baldwin shot himself through the head with a .22 caliber revolver when deputies called at his trailer to question him. Baldwin's body has been taken to the Ashland mortu ary, "they reported. Hood River Youth Injured in Crash Pendleton-nPD - Jackie D. Brasell, 20, Hood River, was in critical condition in a local hospital today with injuries suffered when his motorcycle and a car collided. The accident occurred Tues day night on Highway 730 about 7 miles west of Umatil la. Ellsworth Cresap, 48, Um atilla, the car driver, was not hurt. MedfordPTribune Regional Edition Page 2 Stock List Extends Gains of Tuesday New York -(UPD- Stocks ex tended Tuesday's gains in moderately' active trading to day. The industrial stock aver age rose more than a point during the first hour to move within 4.50 points of the all time high, 678.10 touched Aug. 3. Traders interpreted Tues day's advance, the first signi ficant rise in more than a week, as the beginning of the year-end rally. However, if the industrial stock average is to poke through the peak, it has only today and Thurs day to do so. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (CPU - Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 industrials 672.23, up 2.46; 20 railroads 153.72, up 0.40; 15 utilitiei 87.29, up 0.15, and 65 stocks 217.75, up 0.65. Sales Tues day were about 3,020.000 shares compared with 2,830,000 shares Monday. prices Tuesday's stocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American Can American Motors . AT&T Anaconda Copper Armco Steel Bendix Aviation . Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp. . unrysier uorp Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright selected -114 'i -105 Ti 42 . 80 i . 7734 . 63 4 . 754 . 71?i . 54?i . 30 ?i , 34 V. . 67 ft , 46 54 31 clean-sweep clearance mm SUITS obesses spohsbeab mm SHOP EVERY DEPARTMENT FOR BARGAINS Dow Chemical . DuPont Eastman Kodak Firestone General Electric . General Foods General Motors Georgia Pacific Graham Paige ureynouna Gulf Oil Homestead Mining . loano .rower . IBM Int. Paper Johns ManvHle Kaiser Ind Katy . - 97S ..264 1.5 Kennecott Copper . Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Co. Montgomery Ward Nat'l Biscuit New York Central Pac Gas & Elec 65 Penney. J. C. 122 ..106T. .-....139 96 104 4 43 47 2'4 ZO'i 108 42 T' 47 439 131 46 16 . 5 . 94 'i 31 "4 23 52 55 - 28 ii Penn HR Radio Corporation . Richfield Oil : Safeway , : Sears , Shell Oil .:. Socony Mobil Oil . Southern Co Southern Pacific Standard California Standard Indiana ... Standard- NJ. Sun Mines - Texas Co. - 15", 68 75 ,i 36 49 82 'a 40 .a 39 'i 22 48 43 411 'i 7 84 32 19 29 18 39 Texas Gulf Sulfur Tax Pac Land Trust Transamerica ........ Trans World Air .. Tri-Continental Union Carbide 146 Union Pacific 30 United Aircraft 39 United Air Lines 35 U. S. Rubber 62 U. S. Steel : 98 Youngstown S & T 131 Oregon Cropland Out of Production Portland (UPD About 240, 000 acres of Oregon cropland will be held out of production in 1960 under conservation reserve contracts, according to J. E. McBurney, chairman of the Oregon State Agricul tural Stabilization and Con servation committee. He said some 190,000 acres in Oregon already are out of production under a program and about 50,000 additional acres are expected to be add ed. The land is held back to help ease the farm surplus situation. The government pays an annual rental for the land. Dog's Curiosity Killed the Cat Centralis, 111. - Wya.tt Stulke's curiosity got the bet ter of him when-his dog kept barking after treeing a "cat." ': Stulke shot the treed ani mal and asked the Illinois Conservation department to identify it. It was a bobcat, a rarity in this section of the country. Hate Island Whipped By Hurricane Winds Noumea. New Caledonia- (DPD-Hurrican winds of "fan tastic force" lashed Efate Is land Monday night, flattering 80 ner cent of its buildings and 90 per cent of its food crops, it was reported today. There was no immediate re nort of casualties. The French frigate Compiegene sailed for the island today to take ok 1,200 women and children left virtually without shelter by the savage storm. We Give ttf GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central Underground Nuclear Tests May USe Successfully Midden, Scientists Say Pasadena, Calif.-fljPB-Amer-ican scientists said today that nuclear tests, once thought unconcealable because of their vast force, may be effec tively hidden from other na- Expense Account Tax Crackdown Told By Bureau Washington (UPD A gov ernment tax crackdown on ex pense accounts threatens to end the high way of life to which some business execu tives have become accustom ed. The Internal Revenue Serv ice announced Tuesday its long-expected new rules re quiring all employers to re port more detailed informa tion on their tax returns about expense accounts paid to employees. The extra data must be sup plied on tax returns filed in 1961 for 1960 income. Two Types of Dodgers The move is aimed at nab bing two types of tax dodgers: .-Corporations that claim tax deductions for entertain ment, travel, yachts, hunting lodges, club dues and business trip vacations which really are not "ordinary and neces sary" business expenses. -Business executives who do not pay taxes on the cars, apartments, houses, fishing camps, yachts and hunting lodges their employers allow them to use as a form of com pensation. Internal Revenue Commis sioner Dana Latham, who an nounced the crackdown, said an increasing number of firms are paying officers, employees and partners with this non cash compensation. At the same time the firms deduct these outlays from their income tax as an "ordi nary and necessary" business expense, Latham said. LONG HIGHWAY New York - The Lincoln highway, New York to San Francisco, is 3,384 miles long. tions if conducted under ground. A means of disguising nu clear explosions as earth quakes was reported to phys icists meeting here. The reports followed recent conventional explosive tests carried out by the Atomic En ergy commission in a Louis iana salt mine this fall. United States Accused They also coincided - with an editorial in the Moscow or gan Pravda accusing the Unit ed States of conducting un derground nuclear explos ions. Pravda did not specify whether it claimed , the tests took tlac after the 14-monthi- old U.S. moratorium on nu clear tests. President Eisenhower Tues day refused to extend this moratorium, which runs out Thursday. But he gave assur ance that the United States would not resume testing without giving advance no tice to the world. ; Attempt to Pressure The President's move was seen as an attempt to pressure the Russians into accepting a cheat-proof nuclear test ban at the deadlocked Geneva talks, or take the blame, for First Fatality in '59 Was When Year Was l34 Hours Old resumed testing. There has been considerable pressure for . the United States to re sume testing "in order to per fect tactical nuclear weapons and to explore peaceful utili zation of atomic explosions in construction and mining proj ects. One of the recommended areas of testing was under ground, to keep the atmos here free of fallout. Several physicists spoke here on the subject of underground tests. They said that by muffling a blast in a deep earthern cavity scientists could make it appear on far-away seismo graphs that an earthquake was occurring. Salem -Who will be Ore- gon's first 1960 traffic victim? It could be almost anyone. In 1959, the New Year was an hour and 45 minutes old when the state recorded its first traffic death-the first of more than 400 which were to follow in the next 12 months. The victim was a 19-year-old youth who died when he was thrown from a car as it missed a curve at 80 miles an hour. The accident occurred in Jefferson county. Little more than an hour had passed when the second fatality of the year occurred, this time in Wallowa county when a 39-year-old man died as a truck left the road. Two and one-half hours later a third victim, a 27-year-old Portland woman, was killed when a car hit a guard rail and then bounced into a light pole. Previous Years The year before, the state managed to go about eight hours before its first two fa talities took place. They came when a driver who "had been drinking" crashed into a bridge railing and then through a guard rail. He and one of his two passengers were killed. Whoever the first victim is, whenever and wherever it happens, officials say it will pave the way for an expected death toll of more than 400 on Oregon streets and highways. In addition, more than 17,000 probably will be injured and some will be permanently crippled. Not since 1953 has the state managed to keep its traffic toll below 400. In the decade about to end, more than 4,100 people have been killed in Oregon traffic. What the 60's bring in traf fic safety, Oregon safety offi cials say, will depend large ly on how much longer the public is willing to tolerate highwaycide. Public support for needed legislation and cur rent accident prevention pro grams will go a long way to ward reducing the toll during the next decade. Immediate Delivery MULTI-BARK Natural Organic Soil Conditioner & Mulch for Rower Shrubs' Lawns Garden! Alto for Erosion Control KOGAP LUMBER IND. SP 3-6601 Ext. 46 with Choose from our unique se lection of New Year greet ings . . . modern . . . humorous ... and tradi tional . . . all designed to express your thoughts just as you'd say then yourself. C 1 Dj AM mm IS, THE TIME TO INVEST IN THAT PIANO FROM PURUCKER'S THERE WILL NEVER BE A BETTER OPPORTUNITY THAN NOW! Get the Piano YOU WANT! The Quality YOU WANT! At a Price YOU CAN AFFORD! 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