(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
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Johns Manville 4Vi
Kennecott Copper 72',
Lockheed Aircraft 52,
Martin 21,
Merck S.I 'a
Montana Power 37
Montgomery Ward - 33 '4
Nat l Biscuit 47 ,
New York Central 17
Northern Pacific - 43
Pac Gas Eltc 34
Penney J. C 46'i
Penn RR 15-',
Perma Cement IS la
Phillips 48
Procter A Gamble 74
Radio Corporation U31,
Richlleld Oil 42
Safcwav 47'.,
Santa Fe 21
Sears 7.1 'i
Shell Oil - SIM,
Socony Mobil Oil Mil' a
Southern Co 54J.
Southern Pacific 2'a
Sperry Rand
Standard California ...
Standard Indiana
Standard N. J
Stokciy Van Camp .....
Sun Mine,
Texas Co
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Texas Pac Land Trust
Thlokol
Trana America
Trans World All-
Trl-Conllnental 43'i
Union Carhlde Jin '.a
Union Pacific 3-V's
United Aircraft 47
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United Air Lines
U. 5. Plywood
U. S. Rubber
U. S. Sleel
West Bank Corp .
Westinghouse
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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.
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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. Randolph Collier (D
Yreka) introduced a bill to
repeal a 1061 law allowing
judges to waive a mandatory
six-month license suspension
in hardship cases.
Assemblyman William T.
Bagley (R-San Rafael) pro
posed two bills to curb drunk
en driving. One would require
that all applicants for a driv
er's license agree in advance
to submit to a blood test if
arrested on suspicion of
drunken driving. The other
would establish a .15 per cent
blood alcohol test as prima
facie evidence of intoxication.
Assemblyman Joseph M.
Kennick (D-Long Beach) au
thored ,in administration
backed bill to allow the high
way patrol to use radar in
apprehending speeders.-
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