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(Pneumonia Strike Thousands; Schools Closed Asian Flu Noted In Dozen States; Work Force Cut By United Preu International An outbreak of pneumonia and influenza felled thousands across the nation today, clos ing schools and cutting into the work force. Asian flu was detected in at least a dozen states. The Baltimore (Md.) Public Health Service said it did not foresee any immediate decline in a four-week epidemic. At Its peak, 300 men in Balti more's 3,740-man police force were stricken. Kentucky State Health Com missioner Dr. Russell Teague said it appeared the state was in the "beginning of a good epidemic." He said he was fairly sure it was the Asian flu strain. Emergency Hoomi Jammed Trigg county schools in Kentucky were closed Tues day when 18 per cent of 2,000 enrolled students failed to show up for classes. About 400 patients jammed the emergen cy rooms at the Louisville, Ky., General Hospital. The "Sweetheart Dance" at Bevier, Mo., tonight was called off along with all sched uled basketball games after 86 students and 7 of 17 teach ers became ill. School was dis missed for the rest of the week. A wave of absenteeism swept Indiana's Floyd, Clark and Harrison counties. Health Officer Dr. Sam Adair said the wave in Clark county was the worst in 30 years. The flu reached epidemic proportions in Floyd county. Hundreds of students were absent in Cory-don, Ind., alone. Allan Flu Confirmed The U.S. Public Health Service in Washington and the Federal Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Ga., confirmed that Asian flu had broken out, and there were rashes of other respira tory ailments. The PHS also said the over all pneumonia-influenza death rate of 108 cities checked weekly has been higher than normal for the past four weeks. The PHS said Asian flu had been confirmed in Maine, Vermont, Delamare, Mary land, Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois and Kansas. Arizona, New Jersey and Kentucky also reported definite cases of Asian flu. Stocks Move Ahead; Auto Section Active NLRB Ordered To Study Portland Strike Evidence San Francisco - (UFO - The Ninth U S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday ordered the National Labor Relations Board to consider new evi dence In the 3Vi-year-old Port land newspaper strike. The court granted a petition by the Oregonian Publishing Co. and the Journal Publish ing Co. The petition asked that an article written by a Portland unionist be consid ered in the publishers' charges of unfair labor practices against the stereolypers union. The publishers filed unfnir labor chargrs against the union after the strike started in 1950, claiming the strike was illegal because it was not based on economic mo lives. Both Sides Appealed NLRB trial examiner Mar tin S. Bennett agreed, but the NLRB later reversed Bennett and found for the union on three of four counts. Both sides appealed. The new evidence which the publishers wanted intro duced was an article in the December. 1062. issue of the International Stereo typcrs and Electrotypers Union Journal written by James A. Thompson, a member of the union's negotiating committee in the Portland strike. Thomp son allegedly admitted in the article that the strike was based on a work rules dis pute, not on an economic motive. New York - IUPI) - Stocks moved ahead today. Chrysler gained nearly a point and then eased back to its starting point under profit taking pressure. However, all others rose fractions with Studcbaker and American Motors the most active. Steels idled narrowly, in ternational oils firmed behind Gulf which ran up a point, and most chemicals gained fractions. IBM, Polaroid and Xerox were up between 1 and 2 points but most electronics and glamor specialties could add no more than small amounts. Rails and utilities gained nominally. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York-WPIi-Dow Jonei final stock averages! 30 in dustrials 676.62, up 1.88; 20 railroads 151.86, up 0,28; IS utilities 136.42, up 0.48, and 65 slocks 240.74, up 0.66. Sales Tuesday were about 3.71 million shares compar ed with 3.88 million shares Monday. Tuesday's price on lelected stocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co Am American Air Lines American Can American Motors ... A T A T American Tobacco -Anaconda Copper ... rmco Bendix Corp Bethlehem Steel .... Boeing Air Brunswick Caterpillar Corp .... Chrysler Corp Coca Cola CBS Columbia Cias Continental Can .. Crown Zellerhach Crucible Sleel Curtlss Wrloht Dow Chemical .... Du Pont Eastman Kodak .... Firestone .. Ford General Electric General Foods General Motors ... General Portland Georgia Pacific .... Greyhound Gull Oil .... Homeslakn Idaho Power ... 44 ... .'i4i ... II)', ... 48', ... 32 ...ra'i ... 20 , 4V ... .12", ... IM'i 1(1 J, ... 3(1 ... !.', ... ... IIP, ... 112 'i ... 41)', ... 27', ... 4.1'. ... 411 , ... 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Westinghouse 33 '.1 rn 4ti 4.1': 3l'i . 34 Two Oregonians Killed in Plane Portland -(DPI)- Two persons from Oregon and four from Washington died in the crash of a Northwest Orient Air lines Jetliner near Miami Tuesday, the company report ed. Among the victims were Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Kelinson of Portland. Kelinson was affiliated with the Kclwin Distributing Co. Other victims included IT. Baldwin, Tacoma; J. C. Moil, Seattle; George A. Enloe, Seattle, and Connie Rae Blank, a stewardess whose mother lives in Spokane. Regional Edition Page 2A MedfordWTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1063 Foreign Briefs FRIENDSHIP MARCH ORGANIZED London-KJPli-The "World Peace Brigade" for non-violent action said today it is organising an "international friend ship march" from New Delhi to Peking. The poace group said the march was being organised at the request of the Indian Pacific group Shanti Sena to establish friendly Sino-lndian relations. HAMBURG SAID CENTER OF SUBVERSION Hamburg, Germany-ilJPTi-Hamburg city councillor and police chief Helmut Schmidt warned Tuesday that Ham. burg has become a center of East German-directed Com' munist subversion in West Germany. Schmidt, a Socialist defense expert, told a news confer ence that scores of Communist agents working with "scien. tific thoroughness" were approaching West German business, men who wish to become rich quickly. RED CHINA RECOGNIZES IRAQ REGIME Tokyo-iUPIi-Communist China has recognised the new, anti-Communist regime in Iraq, Peking radio reported today, The Red radio, in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo, said Chinese Foroign Minister Chen Yi sent a note today to the Iraqi foroign ministry informing the ministry of Red China's recognition. SOVIET MINISTER WARNS SWITZERLAND Moscow-UTIuTho Soviet foreign minister has warned Switzerland that Nationalist Chinese attendance at the com ing International Red Cross conference in Geneva might cause a Communist walkout. Pickering Resigns Primate Position Portland - IUP1I - Dr. Donald Pickering, former director of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center at Beaverton, confirmed Tuesday he has re signed from the staff of the center. Pickering stepped down as director Jan. 5 in a dispute with governors of the institu tion. He was subsequently re moved as principal investiga tor of grants and currently is serving as a senior scientist and head of the Division of Prima tology, Dr. George R. Kerr, assist ant director of the center un der Pickering, also confirmed he had submitted his resigna tion from the staff. Acting Director Dr. Edward West acknowledged he had re ceived both resignations, California Legislators Turning Eye To Motorists Sacramento- (UPD -The Cali. fornia Legislature is thinking about slowing motorists down, raising age limits for licenses and painting luminous strips down roads to keep drivers in the right lane. As usual, the lawmakers arc concerned with the traffic problems of the nation's driv ingest state. And this concern Wiring Difficulty Delays Space Trip Houston -WPD- Wiring trou ble in the Mercury - Atlas flight control system has caused rescheduling of astro naut Leroy Gordon Cooper's 20-orbit space flight from April to mid-May. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration an nounced Tuesday the flight will be attempted in May. A NASA spokesman said a technical management board met Tuesday at the U.S. Air Force Space Systems Division in Los Angeles to plan a schedule of work to rewire the flight controls system. General Dynamics Astro nautics, assembly and test contractors for the Atlas vehi cle, has proposed a new wir ing technique to increase the reliability and safety of the Atlas boosters, NASA said. GLASSY EYED Milwaukee, Wis. - (UPD - A jury saw cye-to-eye with Michael J. Bowen, 25, Tues day when he told them a po lice test for drunk driving should not have applied to him. He was found innocent after he testified police tested only his right eye with a flashlight and decided he was intoxicated. Bowen is blind in his right eye. stretches from the freeways to the scenic backroad drives. Part of it is Gov. Edmund G. Brown's six-point traffic safety program but most of the bills introduced so far are creations of the individual leg islators and lobbies. One of the first to hit the legislature would affect appli cants for drivers licenses. The bill by Assemblyman Milton Marks (R-San Francisco), would require driving tests every 10 years. The Legislature's only wom an. Assemblywoman Pauline L. Davis, (D-Portola) authored a measure to cut the statewide speed limit from 65 to 60 miles an hour. Drunken drivers arc a major target already in the legislature. A number of bills affecting their area have been introduced by lawmakers. Sen. 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