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Pro-Western Forces Fight Way Ahead Slowly in Laos FIRST PAYMENT AFTER MARCH 15th ill; , Wl'Si SCALP DISPLAYED Lincoln Park Zoo Director - Merlin Perkins, left, shows newsmen be that of a 200-year-old "Abominable Snowman." The scalp was acquired by famed British explorer Edmund Hillary, center, on a recent expedition is Khumjo Chumbi, Nepalese act as a guard of the scalp. the expedition, had been supervising a hunt for the "Snow man." Stocks Find Mild Support in Deals New ' York-IUPIl-Stocks met mild support in the early trad ing today. Cameras, business machines, vendings and other special Is sues showed gains running past a point in many instances ,. Superior Oil of California, a high-priced issue, spurted 25 to 1,140 during the first hour. Ford was active trading on an opening block of 24,819 shares at 64 H off Vt. Chrys ler, up around 2 at the open ing, lost half of the rise in subsequent trades. , Texas Instruments added a point in the electronics, Good rich a point in the tires and Polaroid more than 1 in the cameras. Steels were narrow ly mixed. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (CPU - Dow Jones final stock avenges: 30 Industrials 611.72, of! ' 0.22t 20 lallroads 126.74, oil ' l.lll 15 utllltias 87.65, up v0.37. and 65 stocks 202.73, ' off 0.19. Salts Tuesday war about 3.5 million shares - compared with 3.02 million shares Monday. Tuesday' ; prices elected tocKs: . . ' JVIlfurf Chemical- 3331 Alum Co. Am : flMi American tsn j American Motors ...... AT T: .'. !. Anaconda Copper .. 3(1 !i Armco Steel ...... 66 Bendix Corp 631 Bethlehem Steel 40 Boeing- Air 38M, Caterpillar Corp. 3H Chrysler Corp 40 Continental Can 34 U Crown Zcllerhach , 4fl,4 Curtlss Wrlht 16 Dow Chemical (xd) .. 74 ' Du Pont :.Bi Eastman Kodak llJiJ General Electric (xd) 77 Si General Fooda ... 74 . General Motors ..' 41 Georgia Pacific i 5H' Graham Paige 1 Greyhound 20 Cult oil son Hnmestake Mining 47 Idaho Power M j. b. m sua li Int. Paper 02l,S Johns- Mnnvllle SB Kcnnccott Conner 7S Ijockheed Aircraft 27 Montana Power , 20 'A Mnntaomerv Ward 27 t Nat'l Biscuit 72 V. New York Central .... 16 Pnc Gas Ac Elee .-. 70 Pcnnev. J. C I...... 43 Penn BR U't Radio corporation xa oava Richfield oil aav Safeway : 37 sears .. .. no Shell Oil 3BV, socony Mobil on . 37'. Southern Co 47 Si Southern Pacific .-. 30 - Standard California 49 Standard Indiana 44 Standard NJ 3B't . Sun Mines 61s Qonveniently . Located for 4ny I Neighborhood wongerkMorris ' FUNERAL DIRECTORS - - Wtit Main at Sixth Hi Member NtHowsl Selsxts-d Morticisns by Invitation tl at Chicago a scalp believed to to the Himalayas. At right guide, who is in Chicago to Perkins, who accompanied (UPI Telephoto) Texas Co. ... 80 ... 17 ... 26 .. 14 Mi ... 36 ..120 .. 27 i', 17 .. 36 .. 44 .. 75 Texas ttuir sulfur Tranaamerlca Trans World Air ... Tri-Contlnental Union Carbide Union Pacific Union Aircraft -. United Air Lilies ... U. S. Rubber , u. s. steel Youngstown S & T .. FAA Head Called By Investigators ...... Washington-(UPD-The house investigation of the effective ness of the government's air safety regulations today call ed Elwood R. Quesada, head of the Federal Aviation agency. Chairman John Bell ' Wil liams (D-Miss) of the Aero nautics subcommittee said he thought Congress should get Queaada's views on the opera tion of the two-year-old agen cy before the former , Air Force general left govern ment service at the end of the Eisenhower administration. Quesada has angered many airline and private pilots with his safety and other direc tives. One of his most unpopu lar orders was to ground all airline pilots over 60 years old. The subcommittee also sum moned witnesses from the air lines and aircraft manufactur ing industry to get their views on how the safety record of American aviation could be improved. Williams said that perhaps Congress should consider some "minor changes" in the organization of the FAA but declined to spell them out. COSTLY CHRISTMAS TREE St. Paul, Minn. -IUPII- Ger ald T. Wilson has an $89 Christmas tree. Wilson was fined that amount for sawing off the top of a Colorado blue spruce on someone else s prop erty. Police followed a trail of fallen branches and needles to Wilson's home; The armament carried by one of - today's supersonic fighter-bombers equals the de structive power of an entire World War II bomber formation.' Soviet-Supplied Leftists Offer Stiff Resistance Vientiane, Laos - IUPII - The pro-Western forces of Gen. Phoumi Nosavan battled their way slowly toward the center of Vientiane today against stiff resistance of Cap. Kong Le's Russian-supplied leftist forces. The indecisive fighting took on some of the characteristics of the war in Korea with Rus sia flying in mortars and oth er ammunition for the pro Communist forces trying to hold the capital against the assault by pro-Western troops Building Set Afire The fighting centered around army headquarters and the Ministry of Defense and at one point Phoumi's ar tillery set fire to the army headquarters building. But Kong Le s fighters held firm Gen. Phoumi s right - wing forces, identified by the white armbands they were wearing, sent armored cars and infan try Into the area but were met with heavy fire from mortars and machine-guns flown in earlier by Russian planes. Near Crisis Point The battle for the admini strative capital of this tiny kingdom was bringing South east Asia to the crisis- point and threatened to draw out side Western and Communist military forces into the civil war. The fighting broke out Tuesday when Phoumi's troops launched an attack from the eastern fringes of the city and moved into the center of Vientiane. Kong Le's Red troops retook the central portion of the city during the night. Fighting swirled back and forth but neither side appear ed to have a decisive advant age. The Southeastern Asian Treaty Organization already had branded the Soviet air lift of arms to leftist Laotian forces as "outside interfer ence." Reds Make Charges The Communist North Viet Nam radio charged South Vi etnamese troops were help ing the pro Western forces with artillery fire. This ap peared to create a possible ex cuse for Viet Minh forces to pour in to help Le - an action almost certain to bring coun teraction from SEATO. The Soviet Union charged U. S. type helicopters were flying from Thailand to direct artillery fire for the pro- Western forces. Schools Plan Holiday Programs Four elementary schools in the Medford district will pre sent annual Christmas pro grams Thursday and Friday, Dec. 15 and 16, according to Or. Justin L. Dyrud, vocal mu sic supervisor for Medford schools. Programs are scheduled at Hoover, Jackson and West Side schools Wednesday eve ning, and at Washington school Thursday evening. Christmas programs in other schools in the district will be held next week, Dr. Dyrud said. The "Story of the Littlest Angel" will be presented at Hoover school starting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. "Why the Chimes Rang," a story of the Christmas spirit typified by the taking of gifts to the Christ child by the Wlscmen, will be the Jackson school pro gram starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The program at West Side school will start at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday with kindergar ten children presenting "The Night Before Christmas." The first grade will depict holiday rhythms featuring the Tin sel Dance" and the "Decem ber Surprise." Grades two and three will do their interpreta tion of the season with panto mime and song, and grade four will present an All-American Christmas with the fifth and sixth grades taking part in a choral fantasy. The Washington school pro gram, which will start at 7:30 p.rri. Thursday, -will concern Itself with the joy of a little fir tree in bringing happiness to a little crippled boy. SKELTON RECOVERING Hollywood -HIPD Comedian Red Skclton was reported re cuperating today from abdom-1 inal surgery at Cedars of Leo-1 anon Hospital. He underwent a thrMuhntif nnsratinn Mnn. I day for a ruptured diaphragm. New Storm Takes Shape In Panhandle Highlands By United Press International A new snow and ice laden storm brewed in the highlands of New Mexico and Texas pushed northeastward early today into the Central Plains. The new storm system dumped up to five inches of snow in the mountains before changing to travel -halting freezing rain in the flatlands of northern Texas and Kansas. Followed Earlier Path The storm followed the path of a blizzard that earlier roared out of the Southwest's weather caldron to paralyze the East Coast with Its worst wintry blast since 1957. The old storm was over the Atlantic today, but it left be hind a toll of 268 dead in record - shattering snow and cold. A United Press Internation al count showed New York the hardest hit with 54 storm blamed deaths, including 40 In New York City, New Jer sey, 41, Massachusetts, 34, and Pennsylvania, 26. Other states from Texas to Maine reported casualties. Ice Causes Blackout Near Miamisburg, Ohio, a week's load of ice snapped a 66,000-volt power line black ing out a dozen counties and leaving a million persons without lights in southwest Ohio. New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, noting the storm had created "an emergency situation" in New York City, ordered National Guard Regional Edition Medford, MEDFORD, OREGON,! WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1960 vk. IT'S A WONDlRfUl $TOM JP'y' J i NEW CHRISTMAS HOURS F jl 1 Monday thru Friday 10:00 to 9:00 , f 111 Saturday 9:30 to 5:30 1 11 1 GtfT hi 1 1 ill trucks and personnel to help dig the city out of ice-crusted snow. A cold pocket of air held temperatures in the teens and lower from eastern Tennessee President Enters Army Hospital Washington -IUPII- President Eisenhower was in Walter Reed Army Hospital today undergoing a series of tests to complete the second half of his annual physical checkup. The 70-year-old Chief Ex excutive, oldest president ever to serve, entered the hospital Tuesday night to finish the last head-to-toe physical ex amination he will undergo while in the White House. He was pronounced in "con tinued excellent" health fol lowing the first half of the tests Sept. 15-16. White House press secretary James C. Hag erty said the final series had been put off three months be cause the President has been "fairly busy" in the interval. . Eisenhower was expected to remain at Walter Reed until sometime Thursday afternoon, occupying the same top-floor presidential suite he used dur ing his intestinal ileitis opera tion in 1956 and during his re covery from a mild stroke. Hagerty emphasized that Eisenhower was not ailing and had no symptoms of illness. Page 2A Tribune - lOVRY SEAMLESS liii Citing northward into Michigan and New England. Light pre-dawn snow flur ries fell on the leeward side of the Great Lakes from Buf falo, N.Y. into northern Penn sylvania. Warmer Readings Seen Chill 30 degree tempera tures penetrated southward as far as central Florida, while warm Pacific Coast air thaw ed parts of the northern Rock ies. Montana had a high of 54 degrees at Lewistown and a low of 5 above zero at Drum mond. Warmer temperatures were forecast today from the Mis sissippi Valley into the Atlan tic Coast states, while an in vasion of Canadian air was expected to drop temperatures in Montana, the Pacific North west and over much of Texas and Louisiana. Occasional showers and snow flurries were looked for today from northern Califor nia through the Pacific North west and in parts of the upper Rockies. RETURNING TO OFFICE Bonn, Germany -fflPII-Chan-cellor Konrad Adenauer planned today to return to his office for the first time in 19 days. The chancellor, 85 next month, has been ill with a cold and tonsilitis. 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