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Flight o' Time
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. u
and 50 vean oe.
10 YEARS AGO
9.. 1950 (Saturday)
A Eugene truck driver nar
rouwly escaped death or lerl-
ous in ury lasi ms " --
the Dodge bridge on the Sam.
Valley highway collapsed Be
neath his truck, plunging him
Into the Rogue river.
Five Medford persons sus
tained minor injuries last
night when a car in which
they were riding collided wl h
a passenger train at the Sixth
l. railroad crossing.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1940. (Monday) .
Searchers are scouring the
Umpqua forest area north of
mil,, fnr a Medford couple
believed crashed in their pri
vate plane. : '" , ' v.
Arthur Perry i "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: Ob
servers predict a 'decisive
crisis' in European affairs In
mid-January. In this state,
about that time, a session of
the legislature impends, , and
no way to get out of It."
30 YEARS AGO ,
Dec. 2. 1930 (Wednesday)
Ballot irregularities in the
West Medford and Oakdale
precincts are charged by de
feated mayor candidate.
Medford milk Is now all
oraHp A. a change made neces
sary by a recent city ordi
nance designed to protect the
health of the public.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1920 (Friday)
The local Christmas Seal
...i.. is now underway.
PreclDitation in Medford
during November totaled 9.23
Inches,
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 2. 1910 (Friday)
The members of the Med-
fmd Typographical union
have completed arrangements
for a grand ball and supper
nt the Nalatorium hall on
.Inn 9.
The Saturday Evening Post
this week has a story about
John D. Olwell, Mediora, wno
almost single-handedly organ.
lzed a fruit trade between
Oregon and Europe. -
What's Your I.Q.?
Nln at tin correct Is tuetritr;
lovan 91 eight ll ticllltnt) Nve
six it good.
1. A quarter section of land
is made up of how many
acres?
2. Which stale was settled
first, Florida, Massachusetts
or Delaware?
3. What is the area of
triangle whose base is three
feet and its altitude five leei
4. If you walk one mile
at the rate of two miles per
hour, and ride four miles at
the rate of eight miles per
hour, how long will it take
you to cover five miles?
5. With what type of cases
does an appellate court deal?
6. How many cubic feet are
there In a cord?
' 7. What city in the United
States is known as the largest
railroad center?
8. Who wrote the "Just So"
stories?
9. What is fallow land?
10. Under what federal de
nartment in the Bureau of
Public Roads?
Answers: I. 160 acres;
Florida; 3. IVi square feet;
4. One hour; 5. With appeals
from lower courts; 6. 121 cu
bie feel; 7. Chicago; I. Rud
.b.IwnPlcrop.9; Vo?dD.p
meni of Commerce.
:' Centred African Parky
The real need for the political leaders of the
Central African Federation, according to the Brit
ish press, is trust. . '
"The Guardian" suggests specifically that po
litical leaders of the Commonwealth take a part
in the London talks starting Dec. 5 to promote a
feeling of mutual confidence. "If the black and
white leaders in the Kfioaesias coum De urougm
to talk to the black and white leaders of the Com
monwealth," the British journal points out, "it
seems likely that some confidence between them
would emerge. ... A new racial experiment in
Central Africa would have a much better chance
if it were underwritten by the multiracial Com
monwealth ; and if the Commonwealth cannot try
to help an afflicted junior member, what can it
do and what is it for?"
The Federation, created in 1953, consists of
the self-governing British colony of Southern
Rhodesia and the British protectorates of North
ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Southern Rhodesia
is a white settler community, much influenced by
the Union of South Africa, from which many of
its white farmers came. It
ent member of the Commonwealth today had it
not chosen federation.
The British scheme-
Nyasaland, a poor protectorate which grows to
bacco and tea, and Northern Rhodesia, a pros
perous protectorate, a main source of the world's
copper and rich in other minerals. The idea is
that Nyasaland will supply the bulk of the labor,
Northern Rhodesia the raw material, and bouth
ern Rhodesia the financing and brainwork.
THE trouble is that Africans outnumber whites
1 14 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia, 39 to 1 in North
ern Rhodesia, and 250 to
nationalists understandably fear a white-domi
nated federation. Dr. Hastings K. Banda and
her nationalist leaders
on : Banda is supposed
thusiasm to the idea or joining an Jiast Africa
federation proposed in Tanganyika.
Sir Roy Welensky, prime minister of the Fed
eration, continues to urge
is growing sentiment in
secession motivated by the fear that Africans
would dominate the Federation politically.
1MUCH of the talk in London will be based on
"the report of the Monckton Commission, a
governmental study of the Federation constitu
tion released Oct. 11. It gave a little to both sides,
and so excited extremists on both sides.
The Commission urged political parity for the
6 million Africans and 300 thousand Europeans.
Sir Roy on Nov. 12 declared that Britain had a
firm obligation to reject a further Commission
recommendation, which is
sion within five or seven
-r-be written into the constitution.
The conservative "Daily Telegraph" of Lon
don makes a strong case
Report and the Federation: "What the confer
ence must examine ... is the Monckton Commis
sion's gamble that rapid constitutional advance
within the Federation will
session against it. It is admittedly difficult to ful
fill simultaneously the duties of standing by our
fellow countrymen and of responding to African
nationalism. Federation
why its demise would be
Progress
The name "Bali" conjures uo a vision of a
romantic South Pacific isle populated by cavort
ine native dancers. But the hospital ship SS Hope
was scheduled to arrive
confront uglier aspects
malaria, tuberculosis and intestinal parasites.
For the past two months the floating medical
school has been carrying aid and instruction in
the healinir arts from the
people of Indonesia. The response has been grati
fying. When the gleaming white vessel docked
at Jakarta, '.President Sukarno closed the only
college-level nurses' training school in the nation
for two weeks and sent the entire student body
and staff to the SS Hope
""THE first aim of Project Hope is to teach, not
treat. Patients generally are accepted in limit
ed numbers, but the main purpose is to train
native medical workers in the rudiments of public
health and medical treatment. In Indonesia, even
today, acute appendicitis is a leading cause of
death and the typical
fracture is amputation
SS Hope will be anchored at Bali for about
three weeks while the ship's 15 doctors and 24
nurses train native counterparts in the latest tech
niques. After four more months in Indonesian
ports, the ship will move on to Viet Nam for a
four-month stay, and then return to the United
States. If the present venture is successful, other
ships may be sent on teaching missions to Asia,
Africa and South America. It is noteworthy that
the year-loner cruise is beine supported largely
by contributions from
groups, and individuals.
The one-time Navy hospital ship seems to be
fulfilling its role as an impressive symbol to the
Asians of the good .will of Americans as indi
viduals .and as a nation. As the English language
"Times of Indonesia
nesians) commented editorially: "The East for
gete many things, but never, never, loses its rever
ence for a teacher." E.R.R.
would be an independ
links the colony with
1 in Nyasaland. African
would scrap the federa-
to be listening with en
the union. But there
Southern Rhodesia for
that the right of seces
years of independence
for both the Monckton
erase the African ob
could do so, and that is
a tragedy." E.R.R.
of Hope
at the island today, to
of Bahnese life yaws,
American people to the
for instruction
remedy ior a compound
of the limb.
U.S. corporations, labor
(owned wholly by IndO'
Dennis the
'HOW COM Oil TELL PEOPLE XXI 0ONT WORK? '
Konrad Adenauer of Germany
Selected As Man of the Week
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The man of the Week:
Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer of West Germany.
'' The place: Bonn.
The Quote:'"My authori
ty lasts only as long as I
am present, and not one
day longer. But I have my
Communications
Letter to the Editor must
bear the titime and address of
the writer although undei cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name oi initial for publics
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all tetters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Rock Formations
To the Editor: The mythical
state of "Jefferson" compris
ing the northern counties of
our neighboring state Cali
fornia and southern Oregon
has the unique distinction of
having some unusual rock
formations.
One of the outstanding sen
tinels serving as a landmark
to the early emigrants was
Pilot Rock, designating both
the Cascades and Siskiyou
mountains ranges. Some two
decades ago when the new
Highway 99 cuts were made
over the present site near the
California stale border some
symmetrical round hard rocks
were imbedded in the right
of way and later were photo
graphed and pictured in Fate
Magazine of Eyanston, 111., a
magazine of true and strange
stories.
Then there is the history of
the Siskiyou Rain Rock found
on the Klamath river road in
1947 by a county road crew
working near Klamath near
mouth of Beaver creek. The
huge rock is reported to be
of soapstone and the several
Indian tribes knew of its
magical powers as the rock
had been buried several gen
erations ago to prevent fu
ture flooding of the Klamath
river.
These are only a few odd
bits of natural history. If all
the weird and obscure rock
formations of northern Cali
fornia and southern Oregon
were classified, inspected and
commented upon, the contents
in historical Importance and
value would fill a brochure
of no small edition.
Perhaps some of the local
southern Oregon present sites
historians will in some near
future be Interested to under
take such a fascinating sub
ject to compile the accumu
lated matter in book form.
There Is a vast amount of
material and geologic mater
ial to be investigated right In
the midst of this area's Sis
kiyou Wonderland.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford, Ore.
Not Let Down
To the Editor: We want to
thank you for the fine edi
torial and article you wrote
about Sacred Heart hospital.
It Is wonderful to know
that the community has not
let the Sisters down after all
their years of service here.
The employees at Sacred
Heart wanted the Sisters to
continue as their employers,
as they contribute to the hap
py atmosphere rather than
one of tensions. This In turn
makes it much more pleasant
for the patients. If the Sisters
had left, it would be like
losing part of one's own fam
ily. Everyone will have to work
toward the goal of answering
the Sisters' prayers for a new
hospital.
Carol Coslello
Margaret Riley
Isabell Lewis
Verna Hylton
Edna Teney
Irene Brophy
Sacred Heart Hospital
Menace
1 wr
eye on certain men who
might some time take oyer
my office. I am testing
them."
It was a revealing state
ment from the tough old chan
cellor who next month cele
brates his 85th birthday.
It confirmed a belief long
held that in Adenauer's mind
no man is so fit to lead Ger
many as Ade
nauer himself,
until death or
a far - off in
f i r m i t y do
them part.
It was a
part of that
a r r o g a nee
which has
both endeared
puii newsqm him to his fol
lowers and infuriated them.
If proof were needed, it
also was further evidence
that in Adenauer's mind he
and West Germany are one,
and that he will carve his
niche in eternity by, if pos
sible, handpicking the man
who must some day follow
him to carry on his policies.
. It is a rare day that Ade-
Fastest Growing
Industry May Be
Making Loopholes
By DICK WEST
United Press International
Washington -IUPII- Although
I have no figures to back up
this statement, it seems safe
to say that
one of the
fastest grow
ing industries
in the United
States is the
man ufacture
of loopholes
The largest
loophole fac
tory is, of
course, the
U.S. Congress, which has
managed to apply the mass
production technique to this
ancient handicratt. 1 .would
estimate that Congress spends
about one-third of its time
passing laws that open loop
holes, and about one-third
passing laws that close them.
What it does with the other
third is anybody's guess.
The legislative output is
carefully sifted by private
prospectors, who hope to dis
cover hidden loopholes that
will turn a quick profit. The
market value varies widely,
but finding a major loophole,
particularly in a tax law, is
tantamount to striking oil.
Foreigners Are Experts
Some of the more ingenious
loophole experts are foreign
ers who have a rich lode to
mine in the American tariff
laws. Numerous examples of
ttreir work can be seen in a
10-volume study recently sub
mitted to Congress by the U.S.
tariff commission.
I was especially intrigued
by the volume on shoes be
cause it showed a rare sample
of a loophole within a loop
hole, or rather an open loop
hole within a closed loophole.
On two occasions, the com
mission said. Congress has
passed laws "to close a loop
hole in the tariff laws by
which foreign producers are,
by artful manipulation of a
product, avoiding an import
duty imposed specifically for
the protection of the rubber
soled footwear industry."
But in both cases, it added,
the legislation was "so com
plex and ambigious as to be
unintelligible to persons not
familiar with the background
and legislative history, and
troublesome and difficult
even for those who have
knowledge thereof.
In other words, the closed
Rockefeller Indicates
Get Himself Reputation, Run for
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington-flJPD-What Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller seems
to be trying to tell Vice Presi
dent Richard
Nixon is that
Nixon should
an eet him-
H self a reputa
tion. Perhaps
R o c k e feller
thinks that
Nixon now
should run
for governor
to prove his vote-appeal. Nix
on is not going to do that.
. Go get yourself a reputa
tion! That is what a champ
says to a preliminary fighter
who is so impertinent as to
ask for a title shot.
Rockefeller's announcement
this week that he would be a
1962 candidate for reelection
in New York was notable
chiefly for what the governor
said about Nixon. Rockefeller
nauer thinks of himself as
anything but indestructible,
and it was coincidence that
the interview quoting h l m
came out on a day when a
temperature and a cold had
confined him to his home.
For with his own birthday
onjg a little more than a
month away, he could not re
sist a slight boastful dig in
his birthday message to the
8tf - year - old Sir Winston
Churchill.
"I think back on your great
leadership abilities which I
was so often able to admire
at conferences and in conver
sations," the message said.
It was a delicate reminder
to Churchill that Adenauer
still is active politically and
next year enters upon his
fourth national election cam
paign.
But, while Adenauer has
shown himself arrogant and
at times infuriating, he is a
man to whom West Germany
can indeed be grateful.
As vigorously as he oppos
ed Hitler's Nazism and as he
opposes communism today, he
also battled to regain for Ger
many a place in the family
of nations.;
loophole was still rather
porous.
To Close Loopholes
As I understand it, the duty
on rubber footwear is higher
than the duty on leather
footwear. But if the shoes are
made of both materials, the
duty rate of the more expen
sive materials applies and
leather is more expensive
than rubber.
Therefore, foreign manufac
facturers who were exporting
rubber-soled sneakers to this
country began to put strips of
leather between the inner and
outer soles. This enabled them
to pay the leather sole duty
rather than the higher rubber
sole duty. You get the picture?
Later on, they opened the
loophole a little wider by
making sneakers with leather
tongues. This made the leath
er duty rale apply to the
whole shoe rather than just
cne sole.
Congress is expected to try
to close the various tariff
loopholes next year, but by
that time, . I fear, someone
will have invented an electro
nic loophole detector. If so
his fortune will be made.
Watch Asked on
Information Flow
New York -IUPII- Rep. John
Moss, (D-Calif.), has called on
the public and the press to
keep a careful watch on the
incoming Kennedy adminis
tration to see whether it ful
fills its promise of greater
freedom of public informa
tion.
Moss, chairman of the House
subcommittee on government
information, spoke Thursday
at the opening of the nation
al convention of the Sigma
Delta Chi Journalism Fra
ternity where he was present
ed the organi'ation's 1960
Freedom Award. The conven
tion was attended by more
than 500 college students and
professional newsmen.
READY COOKED MEAL
Cincinnati, Ohio-(UPIl-Harry
Muthert went to the refriger
ator Thursday to prepare his
breakfast and found it al
ready cooked to a crisp. A
short circuit had caused a fire
in the unit, doing $150 dam-
ages. Muthert went out for
breakfast. ,
did not mention the vice pres.
ident's name. It was not nec
essary. What Rockefeller conveyed
was that he did not recognize
Nixon as the national leader
of the Republican party.
Nixon's Claim Strong
The governor, of course, is
under no compulsion to recog
nize Nixon as his political
leader nor as the national Re
publican leader. But the vice
president s claim is substan
tial. Nixon has just emerged
from an election in which he
split the presidential vote
right down the middle with
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From London:
Sir Winston Churchill jut
ted his chin this morning, nar
rowed his eyes and said ne
was going to HAVE A PARTY
to celebrate his 86tn Dirtn
day. The press men (as the
English call them) report:
"His doctors auailed before
the look that has chilled the
great statesman's opponents
for more than eu years, oui
thev stood their ground and
insisted that a party would
be too much of a strain.
"Lady Churchill sided with
the doctors. So. . . Sir Winston
had to give in and GIVE UP
THE PARTY."
IN a way, its' too bad.
Over these six long dec
ades, the old warrior has gen
erally done as he pleased, re
gardless of opposition . . .
and, it should be added, re
gardless of DANGER.
It's terrible to be 86-espe-cially
in Sir Winston's case.
rvNE word more.
House of Commons will miss
him today-and are letting it
be known that they will miss
him. He is the DEAN of the
Commons, the last survivor
of the great parlimentarians
who began their careers dur
ing the reign of Queen Vic.
toria. ,
And-
He is the last survivor of
the day when all that was
needed to quell trouble any
where in the world was to
SEND THE BRITISH FLEET.
There was a long period of
peace in those days. It is
known to the historians as
the Pax Brittanica-the Peace
of Britain. It came about be
cause in that period Britain
had the will and the physical
power, to turn over her knee
and spank any upstart who
BROKE the peace.
FROM Salem:
Reports by the secretary
of stati that Senator-Elect
Maureen Neuberger, Demo
crat, personally spent $522 in
her winning campaign for the
post of U.S. senator from Ore
eon. On November 21, 13
days AFTER the election, her
campaign committee reported
that they had received contri
butions totalling $96,208.00
and had spent the same
amount in the campaign.
At the same time, the sec
retary of states' office reports
that Elmo Smith, Mrs. Neu
berger's opponent, makes af
fidavit that he personally
spent $100 in his campaign for
the senatorship. On November
21, his campaign committee
reported officially that they
had received contributions
totalling $89,944.00 and had
expended $84,612.00 in his
campaign.
QUITE a discrepancy?
Y-e-e-e-s. But, in Oregon
I think, no one expects a can
didate for the office of U.S.
senator to spend $80,000 to
$90,000 of his own money to
get elected. If that were the
case, there wouldn't be many
candidates. And the tew who
might be able to spend that
might not be of the type we
would want.
Also
It would be unwise to pro
hibit people from making
campaign contributions to the
candidate of their choice, 1
That's a fundamental right.
BUT
It does seem wise and
sensible to require that cam
paign contributions shall be
reported and the donors iden
tified BEFORE THE ELEC
TION, rother than three
weeks AFTERWARD.
If the voters know how
much was given out, and
WHO GAVE IT, before they
go to the polls to vote they
will be able to draw their
own conclusions and vote ac
cordingly. But three weeks
afterward is too late. By then,
the water has gone over the
dam.
Ted Gambit Estate
Appraised at $812,526
, Portland-WPD-The estate of
the late Ted R. Gamble, prom
inent local businessman, has
been appraised at $812,526,
according to an inventory
filed Thursday in Probate
court.
Gamble died last May II
That Nixon Should
his Democratic opponent,
To say. that Nixon's asso
ciates were shocked If not sur
prised by Rockefeller's repu
diation of their man's leader
ship probably would be to put
it too mildly. The play of the
Nixon camp, however, will be
to play it cozy unless Rocke
feller roughly forces the is
sue.
The showdown must come
in time, of course, and it
should be spectacular. Rocke
feller is properly judged to
be a statesman eager to be
elected president. Nixon like
wise. The Republican party
may prove to be too small to
contain two such lively am
bitions. Won on Platform
Rockefeller bowed out of
this year's contest for the
presidential nomination with
a statement which by impli
cation tagged Nixon as the
choice of the party bosses
whereas Rockefeller, still by
implication, was the choice of
Washington Report
ly WIUIAM
DIPLOMATIC FACE
Washington - What kind of
working-level diplomatic face
will we turn to the world in
the oncoming Kennedy ad-
"sj ministration ?
Will it be the
face of socially-minded
Ivy
leaguers i n -terested
most
of all in wel
farism and
the progress
of liberalism?
This often
was the face
of the field diplomatic corps
of the Roosevelt-Truman era,
even though its most dis
tinguished secretaries of state,
Cordell Hull and Dean Ache
son, were themselves prac
tical men concerned more
with power than with re
formist programs.
Will it be the bluff face of
big business so influential in
the diplomacy of the Eisen
hower years - even though,
here again, Secretaries John
Foster Dulles and Christian
Herter were not themselves
symbols of big business?
Or will the: new working
diplomacy's face be more that
of the trained politician,
tougher and more savvy than
the Ivy league type, and less
tactless than the tycoon type?
mHESE are more basic ques-
tions than they might at
first appear, and perhaps
more basic even than the
identity of the new secretary
of state. For among the new
winds now blowing is a wind
which warns us that a fresh
start at the working diplo
matic level is highly desir
able, in many places at least.
One of the great problems
(and great opportunities) for
President - elect Kennedy is
simply this: To iind ambassa
dors and lesser representa
tives to serve abroad with
tough-minded flexibility and
the capacity to act quickly in
crisis.
There should be no more
automatic obedience to rou
tine state department direc
tives from Washington. There
should be no more unwise
bowing to all the automatic
techniques and attitudes of
the past. The new ambassa
dors should be neither book
ish reformers nor men whose
whole background has been
in commerce.
IT IS TIME to give a chance
to the young politicians,
not the slavishly partisan
politicians who in their Dro
fession have learned how to
deal with people. We need
men not afraid to file and
forget all the timid bureau-
T
ry and
By BENNETT CERF
YOU MARRIED LADIES who worry too much about
masked prowlers and marauders in the night: could it
be that you're neglecting danger from within?
Sociology Professor Ed- v
assembled some startling
statistics which reveal
that a woman is in more
danger of being attacked
by her own husband than
by any other assailant.
Twice as many women
required hospitalization
last year from husbands'
blows as from all the at
tacks by gangsters and
burglars on the police
registers! That shnook of
a husband of yours is
definitely not as harmless as he looks!
,
A top man in our defense department a couple of decades ago
failed to meet the exacting standards of an important English
friend Mr. Winston Churchill. "That fellow L ," Churchill
would grumble, "carries his own precipices around with him."
Another time he voiced the suspicion that "L throws a ban-1
ana peel ahead of himself before walking into a conference." i
CUbyiaBaa0eilBIMribuia4lvlCJriiIW)ira8a4kat
Governor
the rank and file. Later 'as
the convention delegates mill
ed around in Chicago, Rocke
feller yanked Nixon into line
on Republican platform prin
ciples. J
Next day, Rockefeller flew
into Chicago, emerged from
his airplane brandishing : a
copy of th(J) platform propo
sals to which - Nixon had
agreed. Rockefeller .said ito
the welcoming throng:
"If you think these do not
represent my ideas, you're
crazy." .
Nixon pushed the: panic
button 'when. 'he brought
about the huddle with Rocke
feller which produced the
Rockefeller Republican plat
form. If Nixon pushes that
button again between now
and the 1964 Republican na
tional convention, the vice
president probably will cease
to be the party leader. The
new leader could be Rocke
feller of New York. -
S. WHITE
era tic cautions - don't do thiS
thing, don't get mixed up with
that fellow - which flow from
the state department just as
they would flow from any
other bureaucratic center. "
Here is one illustration of
what has been wrong. (And
there are others like it, to
this correspondent's knowl
edge.) In Mexico City we
maintain a vast diplomatic
establishment. It is 10 times
more critical as a post than
it looks. For actually it is
our central headquarters in
Latin America against tha
p e n e tration of imperialist
Communism in all this hemis
phere. And Mexico City is'also the
Soviet general headquarters
for that penetration.
fVR just -retired ambassa
" dor to Mexico, Robert C:
Hill of New Hampshire, isi - ai
politician and, as it happens,
a quite conservative one to
boot. But. he found long ago
mat he could not do his job
there if he listened to every
counsel of carefulness that
came from the state depart
ment. So he went ahead on
his own judgment to get 'to
know all factions in Mexico
i n c 1 u d ing the Communist
stooges who were supposed to
be off his list. -,i
He warned Washington
long beforehand that CastrrP
ism was going to be very naSly
in Cuba and elsewhere. He
did not obtain that intelligence
by playing it safe. He got it
by making it his business to
meet not just the people who
like us but also the people
Who definitely do not. '' '
Hill, of course, is going out;
because the Democrats arc
coming in. This is as it shoulci
be, in our system. But plenty
of Democratic Hills - young1,
industrious politicians with,
drive and guts - will be avail
able to President-elect Ken
nedy, if he wants them. "
(Copyright. 19B0, by United;
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)"
Joseph Youth, 17,
Hit, Killed by Car
Joseph-IUPD-William Percell",
17, Joseph, was struck and
killed by a car Thursday aft
ernoon on Sheep Creek High
way one mile east of here.
State police said Percell
was struck as he Oilked
along the edge' of the high
way. The victim was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Per
cell of Joseph.
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