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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Thanksgiving Will Mark End of Era in Two Vermont Towns By CARL COBB United Press International GRANBY. Vt. (UPD-Thanl giving marks the end of candle light, Kerosene lamps ana wuuu stoves for two tiny hamlets deep in the northern Vermont woods. This town and neighboring Victory, situated about 50 miles Oil ith nf thn Canadian border, were to get electricity on that date, uie iasi iwu ui u, 9W tnwns to move into the "modern" era. Power lines were strung across miles of rugged terrain under conditions described with typical Vermont taciturnity "difficult." Tthough the Nov. 27 deadline was set tentatively, Harold L. Durdn. president of Central Vermont Public Service Corp., said; "That's what we're shoot ing for. We're going as fast as we can. ,, Total Cost He estimated total cost of brinelnc in electricity at $127,- 000 for which the approximate ly 90 townspeople wiu pay 3 cents per kilowatt hour com pared with 2.5 cents charged in residential areas of towns or cities. It would be cheap at any price. Most of the residents wrestle with their own power plants or wood and coal-burning stoves and furnaces during the hard winter. "Our light plants cost about $800 and they only last a few years," Mrs. Rodney Noble of Granby explained. "And we're always having to go out In the cold to fix it In the morning or at night." "A little supper" was planned to celebrate the first night of electric light, 1 Annual Festival The annual Victory-Granby "Holiday to the Hills" fall fes tival, originally started to dem onstrate the powerless plight of the communities, was to be ded icated to the Northeastern Ver mont Development Association and to press, radio and televi sion for their help. The towns had a total treas ury of 67 cents when they first began their fight for electricity In 1958. Gov. Philip H. Hoff , also cred ited with helping, expected to attend the ceremonies. Grange News Residents weren't quite sure what electricity would do for the remote area aside from making life more comfortable. However, Melvin Henderson planned to build a tourist home and Mrs. Vera Bishop was go ing to begin selling lots with log cabins for tourists. Most of the townspeople work at lumbering or on small farms. Neither town has a store and the only school is the Granby Elementary School. Former Attorney Is Found Guilty PORTLAND (UPI) -Former Multnomah County Deputy Dist. Atty. James Collins was found guilty Wednesday of unlawfully entering a motor vehicle with intent to steal. A Circuit Court jury returned the verdict and Judge Herbert M. Schwab ordered a pre-sentence investigation. Defense at torney George Haslett said the verdict would be appealed. Collins, 44. of Lake Oswego, was a deputy district attorney from 1951 to 1953. He resigned from the Oregon State Bar to January, 1963. 10-Year-Old Boy Reflects Tragedy Of Family Deaths By WILLIAM CLAYTON United Press International MONT BELVIEU, Tex. (UPI) Last Labor Day, Troy Odom was a traffic statistic. Today he is a towheaded youngster with a face full of freckles that almost conceal the scars. Troy is a shy 10-year-old and his pensive face reflects the tragedy that is listed to the record books as "worst traffic wreck in America, Labor Day, 1963." Ten persons died in that two car collision at Dayton, a small town 40 miles east of Houston and only a few miles north of Troy's hometown of Mont Bel-vieu. The wreck killed six mem' bers of the Odom family, in cluding Troy's parents, his brother and sister and an aunt and uncle. Four persons died in the other car. Troy was badly torn. His jaw was shattered. His face was cut. There was fear of brain damage. Troy came out of it the man of the family. He had to make a man's decision and then try to erase from his memory the tragedy. He had two sets of grand parents. He had to choose one to live with. He decided to live with his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Odom Sr. They live in Mont Belvieu. His maternal grandparents live away from the town he grew up in. Returns To School Troy went back to school. He adjusted well. His grandmother said, "He missed too much of this semes ter to get a report card, so when they came out his teach er just wrote us a note, 'He is doing real good.' "He dreaded to go back, you know. But after a while, he even started getting anxious for the school bus to come every morning." Troy's grandparents live a few miles out of town, and Troy has had to meet new neighbor hood friends. "There are some boys just across the fence," his grand mother said. "Troy jumps over every time he gets a chance and plays with them." "We took him trick-or-treat-Ing on Halloween," she said. "His mother was so good to him that way, and I am trying very hard." Life has other delights for Troy. The Dayton mortician gave him a heifer calf that his grandparents keep in a pen be hind their rural home. Troy looks in on the calf often and helps his grandfather feed it. Remembers Accident Does he still think about the wreck? "He can talk about it now and it does not bother him too much," Mrs. Odom said. "But he can still remember all the details, and when we go over that road he knows just where it was and can tell you every thing, Once he woke up at night and called, 'Mother,' and we think he must have been dreaming. "We go by the cemetery sometimes. The first time, we let him to go up to the graves alone. He went around and looked at all of them and came back and was crying. But he dried his tears and said to his grandfather, "Thank you, Paw paw, lor bringing me.' " Troy must go through even more grownup ordeals before he can once again be just a uuie ooy in a mtie lexas town. There are more treatments to come, to make sure he suf fered no lasting physical or meniai damage. Doctors must see whether nlastin snroarv ie needed to erase the scar tissue mat underlines one eyebrow and tuffs at one side nf hie chin. Troy must experience '.ne legal lecnnicauties of insurance matters still to be cleared up. Search Continues For Missing Pilot SPOKANE (UPI)-Search ef forts continued today for some trace of 1st Lt. Robert Boucher, 25, Spokane, whose F89J jet fighter crashed in North-central Washington near the Canadian border one week ago. About 40 men took part in a ground search Wednesday and 40 planes were involved in an aerial search. An Air Force in vestigation team reported it found no evidence that Boucher went down with his plane. Boucher's radar observer, 1st Lt. Rollin Deschane, 27, Spo kane, was rescued uninjured irmay. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Poland's Thousand Years Are Reflected In People's Jokes Bv RICHARn romoAin t,.ij ... . ... THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1M3 ' Bv RICHARD RROWAi n United Press International A current joke in Communist ruled Poland tells of the cus tomer who entered a cafe and asked for a cup of tea. "Chinese or Russian?" the waiter asks. Customer: "I don't want to get involved in politics. Give me a cup of cocoa." The joke concerns the current ideological split between Mos cow and Peking. But more than that it also mirrors Poland's thousand years of mostly tragic history. In the year 966 Prince Miesz ko introduced Christianity to Poland and formed the first territorial Poland. For the next 700 years, Poland rode a bumpy path to European greatness, repelling hordes of invading Mongols and Tartars and earn ing the name, "The Wall against the Pagans." The Roman Catholic religion early won a firm allegiance among the Polish people that still holds, with 96 of every 100 Poles members of the Roman Church despite the Communist government. Depressed Economically Between the two world wars, the nation began slowly moving toward industrialization. But it was a time of economic depres sion and then autocratic repres sion. And to the West rose Nazi Germany. To the east lay Josef Stalin's Russia. The two giants fell on Poland in September, 1939. About 320,000 Polish soldiers perished in the short, bloody blitzkrieg that began when the German battleship Schleswig- STURDY RUBBER NEW YORK (UPI) - Gener al Electric has developed a new type of rubber capable of with standing flames hot enough to burn holes in steel. The new rubber, produced as a liquid, al ready has been used to seal the Mercury space craft which car ried U.S. astronauts into space. Holstein opened fire against the small Gdansk fort that housed 185 troops and not a piece of artillery. Millions of Poles perished in the wartime occupation,, in the Jewish uprising in Warsaw in 1943 and in the general War saw rebellion the following year when Red army legions stay ed a few miles away while the Nazis smashed the Polish re sistance. After the Nazis left, Poland lay shattered, its cities in ruin and its hungry people vic tims of Nazi Governor Hans Frank who said Poles needed to be educated only to the point of "being able to count to 100 and to obey Germans" lay in nea army nanus. By Western standards wages are low in Poland, and many workers are frozen in their jobs. A worker can be fired for be ing 10 minutes late to work, or if he works too slowly. The av erage non-industrial man earns MAN'S PLACE NEW YORK (UPI) - Women still have their place in the kitchen, but have lost their spot in the garden, according to a Union Fork & Hoe Co. survey. It indicated that to the past five years men have taken over the family garden in 55 per cent of the 30 million gardening homes. 1,632 zlotys a month ($67). A worker in heavy industry earns more than twice that and a coal miner more than three times or close to $200. Employers do better. The manager of a state-owned fac tory can earn about $500 a month, but a shopgirl may make as little as $50 a month. The more one aids production, the higher one's salary. But rents are cheap. Apart ments in Warsaw cost only about a dollar or two a room and $6 a month to the new apartment buildings going up in the capital. There are not enough new apartment houses and many families wait for space. ; 7 f J Y 33ICK WEST yWfl Snags Seen in Party Hot Line WASHINGTON (UPI) The task force on NATO unity of the subcommittee on special projects of the House Republi can Policy Committee has just issued its first report. . Opinions may differ as to the most significant portion, but I was captivated by the task for ces proposal concerning the Phoenix Grange Phoenix Grange members learned at the recent meeting that Mrs. Christine Plnsmore won 100 pounds of sugar for her pears in the canning contest. The Grange also won $5 from the Amalgamated Sugar Com pany. The meeting was opened by Master Lloyd Whiteside with the officers seating drill. Officers elected for the en suing year are: Charles John Son, master' VJarran 1 ntt overseer; Fred Meadows, lec turer; Walter Gillette, steward; Mervin Hixson, assistant stew ard; Mrs. Raymond Cyr, chap lain; Leo Thomas, treasurer; Mrs. Robert MenHrtua tary; Raymond Cyr, gatekeeper; Mrs. Charles Johnson, Ceres; Mrs. Leo Thomas, Pomona; Mrs. Sol Cox, Flora; Mrs. Mer vin Hixson, lady assistant stew ard; and Lloyd Whiteside, Olin Poe and Sol Cox, executive com mitteemen. Pomona Grange Is sponsoring an officers fnstnlloli nn Bjirvltt at Central Point Grange at 1 p.m. Dec. 8, starting with a pot luck dinner. Turkey will be fur nished. Salads, vegetables and dessert should be taken. Several Phoenix members were among other Jackson County Grangers who attended uie nauonai vonvenuon in Fort land. Hixson suggested contacting an auctioneer to learn proper time, fnr most- nrnfltakla hut sales. Charles Hockersmlth said uie price of wheat has gone up since the sales to Russia. Charles Johnson stnterf that due to a large apple crop In Washington that is affecting markets pears may have to be held until after the first of the year. Mrs. Thomas said that bulbs could be planted now and told how to prepare other plants ior winter. The legislative report by Mcl vin Lattie was that less snenrt ing will be far more helpful man a saics tax. Mrs. Bert Slancliff was elect ed to represent Phneniv Onnro at a Rogue Valley Memorial nospitai meeting. During the meeting Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Jones received the third and fourth degree work By Whiteside. ' Waller LeRov. Master of Gold Hen EmnlrA ftranffe Clrann Vnl ley, Calif., was escorted to the master's station. Following the meeting re- ments were served by the Frank Fens and the Harry Hamiltons BARRED OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI)-The state liquor control board pro hibits using the words bar, barroom and saloon" in adver tisements for alcoholic beverag es or places what wch bovar- agta a mm m Ljne Cou) Pitt M i Xsajyjr 9o My Ol fib 6 'yS fl . svSjfN Pot Pfla&Li Shown! U CHUCK KOAST Safeway cuts only 6 chuck roasts from each forequarter. Thus Assuring You a Meaty Waste- Free Pot Roast That Is Guaranteed To Please O mL ajik. vL?jji3 I tlng the maximum )rv fcWi I amount of good sating JP J j, if B V I ma 'or your monayt Cranberry Sauce Tomato Juice Instant Soffee gg Nog Stuffing Ocean Spray. 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Ripe Golden Bananas Sunkist Navel Oranges Sweet juicy Fancy Boiler Onions All-around favorite 3 lbs. 49c 6 ibs $1 29c Right size for creaming, S-lb. bag THE EE BOOK OFj CHRISTMAS VOLUME TWO $ -in "Tha Poaaanlry of lH' Chflilmai" " Volume 1 "The Glory ef Chriilmaj," 49 Hi-Fi Record of Chriilmoi Muilc. I tac, Hi o "hot line" between Washington and Moscow. ' The "hot line," as you know, ' was set up recently to provide instantaneous communication between the two capitals and thus lessen the danger of war starting accidentally. If, for instance, the United States lost control of a missile, which then headed toward Rus sia, President Kennedy could get Premier Khrushchev on the line and say "oops, sorry" be fore it landed. And vice versa. Can Monitor Well, sir, the task force fears that this arrangement may arouse suspicions among our NATO Allies. It has recom mended that the entire mem bership of NATO be "cut-in"' on the line so that they can moni tor any conversations. In other words, the task force wants to change the "hot line" to a "party line." It may have a point there, but I have some doubts that the plan would work. If my memory of the way party lines operate is trustwor thy, such a set-up could lead to a situation something like this: "Hello, is this area code 202 628-1414? "Speaking." "Jack, this is Nicky. Some- ' thing terrible just happened. One of our missiles accidental ly flew off the launching pad and ... " "Hello. General De Gaulle here. Who's calling please? "Charlie, get off the line. I'm tawing to Jack. I've got an urgent. "Oh, good. I've been wantina to talk to Jack myself. Jack. your position on the chicken war is . . . "Charlie, for the love of Len in get off the line. There has been a missile malfunction and Price of Poultry "What has that got to do with the price of poultry?" "It could destroy every home in . . . Home? Yes. this is Prime Minister Home only we pro nounce lt "Hume here in Brit ain." "You won't be able to pro nounce anything if you don't hang up and let me ... " "If you didn't want to speak to me why did you ring?" "Nobodv Is rineinu vnn. T was just trying to talk to Jack about chickens and ..." "This is Jack, fellows. Hold the line a minute while I go to the window. I just heard a loud noise outside." Stanford Professor hddmses Meeting PORTr.Aiurwrrpn a w I n utau- ford Univflrslfv nmMw, J f.wt.uin. oa.U Wednesday more people are be ginning to realize that it is bet ter to have one competent school teacher for a large class than several nnnr fpnrhnm lnoi for the sake of keeping classes smau, Robert N. Bush, who also is chairman nf lh Nnlinnal pli cation's Assocation's Commis sion on Teache: Education and Standards, made the statement as several educators spoke out for hiohei accrnriltatinn olon. dards at the annual meeting of uie uouncu ot Lniei state school Officers here. "Less and less will invnna who wishes be able to wan der in and out of teaching," he sam, remarking that many forc es are working toward stronger teacher certification methods. He called for more coopera tion among universities, state boards of education, professional education associations and legal groups. Dr. Roy Lieuallen, chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, said all rio- partments in a university should have a voice in teacher education standards. "For example, the mathema tics department shmilrl have strong voice in the reqlrements ior a siuaent preparing to teach In that field." He said more strirt arrraMita. tion standards would do much to assure the output of capable teachers. (C) COPrWGHT 163 AftWAY STORES, INCORPOftATtD Meany Re-Elected to Fifth Term to Post NEW YORK (UPI) - George Meany, who started his labor movement career as a plumber, Wednesday was re-elected to his fifth term as president of the AFL-CIO. Meany, who receives a salarv of $45,000 in the post, will serve as president until the next bi ennial convention of the federa ilou in 1965. DOGGY FARMS MINNEAPOLIS (UPI)-Four out of every five American farms have dogs and 82 per cent of them are large dogs, according to a survey by Nu trena dog food here. The sur vey also showed that 33 per cent of the farms have more than one dog, 2 per cent more han four. V
