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Officials Disown African Student 0
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LAST TO LEAVE All five of the Fischer
quintuplets have now left Ihn hospital at
Aberdeen, S. D. Photo shows Mary Ann,
Final Two Of
Quints
ABERDEEN, S. D. (UPD
The Andrew Fischers took the
last two of their new babies out
of the hospital Saturday and had
all five of the quints home for
Christmas.
The last two to leave, Mary
Ann and Mary Catharine, sot a
quick feel of the cold world it
was 11 below here wtion iney
were carried to the family s
slalion wagon.
Mrs. Mary Ann Fischer, the
molhcr, cradled Mary Ann, nor
namesake. Mrs. Fischer's mo
ther, Mrs. Elmer Brady, car
ried Mary Catharine.
Andrew Fischer had backed
the station wagon up to the
ambulance entrance to minim
ize the exposure to the cold
South Dakota winds.
Waiting for little Maty Ann
and Mary Catherine were mom
and dad Fischer and eight
brothers and sisters.
The two girls were the last of
the quints to make the big
jump from the hospital nursery,
where they have been since
their historic birth Sept. 14, to
the makeshift nursery In the
Fischer's nine - room rented
house.
Two cribs were ready for the
girls in th bedroom where
pace-setter James Andrew and
sisters Mary Margaret and
Mary Magdalene already are
quite at Home.
The quints were the first to
survive in the United Slates.
James Andrew, the only boy
quint and largest of the five,
went home Nov. .10. The two
nlhcr girls followed Inst week
end. .
A spokesman for the family
said Die Fischers have "planned
nothing special" to celebrate
the quints' first Christmas. The
family definitely will spend the
holiday at home, he suid.
"Where can you go with five
little ones only three months old
Russian Family
Visits Supermarket,
Sights In
pnivrsMntlTll. Ohio (Ul'IU
A Russian family of (our visiled
, . a i . ,
a supermarket and kept hus
on olher sightseeing junkets Sal-
nrriay on a week-long visit l
this Ohio River city.
The Viktor Po.dneev family
from Moscow was, here for a
"
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"Ivuical American Chrislmas
visit" as an international good
sponsored by "" -
Junior Chamber of
will gesture
Portsmouth Junior
Commerce.
Pozdneev, his wile. Nina, and
their children, Anatoli, 17, and
Olea. 6. appeared to lie enjoy
lug themselves, despite a busy
sccdnle mapped for them dur
ing the holiday visit They ar
rived here laic Thursday niglil
and spent Hie following day
meeling local citizens and al
lending a Chamber of Com
merce lunch.
However, a high school has-
kelhall game Hie family was
supposed lo attend Friday night
was postponed until Saturday
night.
Pnzrinocv. who cannot speak
English, was presented a key to
the city at Hie lunch attended
ny more man joo coainoer
members and olher guests.
"I hope this will be a key lo
Ihe hearts of everyone in Piuls
motith," Ihe Moscow aulo work
er replied Ihrough an interpret
er, Nadia May of Huntington,
W. Va. "We are delighted to be
in your great country and we
feci lucky we were chosen lo
come here."
Mrs. Podneev, a Moscow
English teacher, was Ihc only Summer swimming passes
one of Ihe family able to speak are available for Christmas
Knglish. However, young Ana- gifts in (he Medfurd Park and
toli appeared (o be gelling past ; Recreation Department office
the language barrier wilh Hie at Ihe city hall,
son of the host. Porlsmoiilh in- The passes may be cyi haiiged
sniancc man Jim McKeiuie. for season passes ,il HawHioine
Anatoli and Philip McKeniir.or Jackson pools when Ihey
14, poinled wilh (heir fingers open In June,
and managed In convey their j Swimming insltiiclions as
Ideas. They will allend a has-j well as innl admission 41 e in
kelhall gime at Philip's school I eluded in Ihe pass. :
Leave Elo
especially in this cold weath
er," the spokesman asked. The
temperature in Aberdeen has
been below zero since Mary
Margaret and Mary Magdalene
left the hospital.
Mary Ann Fischer, Hie red
haired mother of the quints, has
hired a helper lo assist her in
caring for I he rambling house
12 Hospitalized
After School Bus,
Two Autos Collide
PRARIE CITY, Ore (UPI) -
Twelve persons, most of them
Prarie City High School stu
dents wore hospitalized Friday
night when a school bus and two
auto were Involved in a crash
on U. S. Highway 2(i.
None of the 11 studenls was
injured seriously. Another nine
were treated at Blue Mountain
Hospital in John Day and re
leased. Stale Police said the students
all lived In the Hates area,
about IB miles east of Prairie
City. They had gone to Prairie
City lo see the Prairie City
Hereford basketball game and
were on their way home when ,!
Hie accident occurred. I
Police said a westbound car :
driven by Dennis Barrel!, in, of j
Prairie City struck Ihn rear of j
a car containing Mr. and airs.
Lclnnd McClirr, Long Creek. The
Barrett car Ihen bounced into
the palh of the bus, which went
over the top of il.
Barrett, who sultored multiple
fractures, was translerred lo a
hospital ut Caldwell, Idaho.
Hospitalized at John Day were
Ohio
, lonighl, since
Hie Russian boy
is N""',s la." , l(, ,
Mclsellle. his wife and five
Lm(ml hv(, m ., n . ,,
I ,)M)lP ,n, .m vnliiiilooi oil to
net as hosls in Hie "Peace on
j Karlh" project.
Ministers to Take
.Darf Itl PTVIfP
f 01 1 III JCIYILe
j Five ministers will participate
; in the Christinas eve service
planned for the intersection of
Main and Rallied Streets at 7
p.m. Tuesday.
The program, arranged by n
group of private cilicns, will
include Or 1). Kirkland West,
Capl. Kenneth Angel, Jack Will
cuts. Ihc Rev. Robert E. Cull,
and Mrs. Katharine Hnsworlh
William Johnston will be mas
ter of ceremonies, ,-iecording li
, jmv M(,0.nm.k M o d ( o r d
High School student who is
chairman. Assisting her as co
chairman is John Cillierlsou. a
freshman at Southern Oregon
College. Mrs. Bettv .lean Mr
iarlane. Mrs. ,li It Coiup
agnoni. Mrs. ( ecilia I' winner
ami Mrs Arthur McCornack
j The program will last aboul
I'? hours and will include gioup
singing of Christmas carols.
jSwimming Passes
'Available in City
left, and Mary Catherine Fischer as they worn
dressed Saturday to go home and join the
family for Christmas. (UPI)
Fischer
and the quinls. Her molher also
has been staying with the fam
ily and helping care for the in
fanls.
The quint's father, Andrew,
returned to his job with a
wholesale grocery firm several
weeks ago. Me will be at home
wilh his big family Chrislmas
eve and Christmas Day.
Robert Frazicr, PI; Diane Phil
lips, 15; Jacqueline McChesney,
l;t; Patricia McChesney, 17;
Michael Phillips, 14; Elizabeth
Thompson, 14; Alice Vincent, 18;
Harvctla King, 12; Linda Hen
stone, 14; Linda Coalwell, 14;
and Susan May 14.
Hospital attendants said Mi
chael Phillips had a fractured
arm. The others were suffering
from cuts, bruises or shock.
Treated as outpatients and re
leased wore Charles Workman,
Phransic Raines, Billy Joe
I Raines, Gunthor Clark, Carol
Heed, Bruce Blume, Charlene
Bliimc. Jams Rhppance and
Snnja King.
The accident occurred one
half mile east of Prairie City.
Tho bus was driven by Dan
Warn of Prairie City and car
ried about 30 studenis.
Judge To Rule
On Hoffa Case
Motions Shortly
NASHVILLE. Toon. (UPI)
l'. S. District Court Judge Frank
W. Wilson Friday promised to
rule on pre-trial millions in the
jury tampering trial of Tenni
sler President James R. Hotfa
as soon as possible.
Wilson of Challanooga, a spe
cial judge appointed lo sil in
place of Judge Frank Cray Jr.,
heard at ginuciils Itom defense
allorneys in llieir hid lo have
Hie Jan. li trial delayed and
niovcil lo another cilv.
Attorney .lames llaggerly.
Detroit, said an area poll
showed a majority of those who
have formed opinions ill Hie
ease are convinced Hoffa is
guilty.
Haggeity said 4!M persons in
11 middle Tennessee counlies
were questioned in the recent
poll. He said 17:t admitted hav
ing formed opinions 1 r.i said
Hotfa was guilty, It) said he
was innocent.
Hoffa saul six co-defendants
are charged with attempting to
j hi ihe iiithience jurors in his
I'lt'ii! trial here oo conspuacv
; charges, which ended in a mis
, Inal.
j The union leader, il convict
ed, could ivcou e 1!," years in
prison.
Two Plead Guilty
! To Dispensing Drugs
! PORTLAND ( I'l'l - The own
cr ol Hie Prescript ion Shop
ding stoic here and a pharma
cist pleaded guiltv in ledcral
j court Friday lo a chat go of dis
pensing hahil-fnrmmg baibitu
j rates without prescription
j .Mrs Reitha Mayer Holtnnan
and pharmacist Clair Andrew
Van Riper entered their picas
before Judge (ills J Solomon
The intornialioo was died bv
Assl 1' S Ally. Roger 0 Rose
Il said the two sold barbiturates
lo a government informant with
out a prescription
They were released on their
own recogniance and rclerrcd
for pre sentence investigation
pending sentencing on I w n
counts each. The maximum
penally is one year in I'ysoti
land $L(Kl fin on rh cewit.
spstaS
Anii-Soviet
Protesters Will
Have To Leave
MOSCOW (UPI) Ghanaian
officials Saturday disowned an
African student demonstration
in Red Square Wednesday and
said that organizers of the anti
Soviel protest will have to leave
the country.
"We do not expect a sizeable
exodus," one official said, ' hut
those who organized the unjus
tified demonstrations will nat
urally have to go."
This declaration followed a
strongly worded statement by
the official news agency Tass
and published both in the Sovi
et government organ Izvestia
and the party newspaper Prav
da, charging that public order
had been violated in Moscow s
streets and that those who did
not like Soviet laws and regu
lations could leave "at any
moment."
Coard Reduced
The heavy guard around the
Ghana Embassy, meanwhile,
was reduced Saturday to the
usual complement of one militia
man policeman at the door.
There were no signs of fur
ther trouble there or anywhere
and none was now expected.
The embassy also said it has
been decided lo ship the ashes
of medical student Edmund
Asare-Addo directly back lo Af
rica from the Moscow crema
torium. Embassy sources reported
that the majority of African
studenls who converged on
Moscow for Wednesday's dem
onstration now have returned lo
Ihe various Soviet cities where
Ihey are studying engineering,
medicine and other subjects.
Small Group Remains
Only a small group of some
SO students remained behind to
allend the last rites performed
Friday night in the Moscow
crematorium, near Lumumba
University where thousands of
Africans are sludying.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin ap
peared to be Irving lo blame
the West for the African stu
dent demonstrations protesting
alleged Soviet discrimination
against Negroes.
About 4011 Negro students took
part Wednesday in a "march
on the Kremlin" set off by the
dealh of Edmund Asare-Addo, a
2f)-year-old medical student
from Ghana whose body was
found In the snow north of Mos
cow last week. A similar but
smaller demonslration occurred
Thursday.
The official Soviet news agen
cy Tass charged Friday that
"provocateurs" lured the slu
denls to the Ghanaian Embassy
with false promises of Christ
mas presents and then spread
rumors lhat led lo Ihe anli-So-viel
demonstrations.
Western observers said other
Soviet media can be expected
to lake up the charges.
"It is not surprising lhat the
colonizers from lime to lime re
sort to all kinds of provocations
to damage Soviet relations with
friendly countries, to undermine
the training in the Soviet Union
lot national cadres for (hose
J countries," Tass said.
"There is no doubt (hat these
purposes are served by Ihe pre
sent provocative ballyhoo raised
in Ihe West around Ihe death of
Ihe Ghana student."
I Israel, Syria
Swap Prisoners
i UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -A
prisoner exchange between
Israel and Syria look place
along the border between the
two countries Saturday, the first
of its kind in recent years, diplo
matic sources said.
Spokesmen for Ihe Israeli and
Syrian delegations continued Ihe
exchange, which look place at
I I :to a in. local lime, on a
budge linking Ihe two counliies
II involved eleven Israelis and
; lit Syrians.
The Israeli spokesman said
the exchange was the result of
a "long endeavor which began
lasl July" and Involved United
Nations mediation.
The U. N. secretariat itself
did not make any annouuee
menl. nor did il comment on
the release of prisoners But Ihe
Israeli spokesman said both
Secretary General Than! and
Undersecretary Dr Ralph
Runcho were directly involved
in mediating between the Israe
li and Syrian delegations here
The Syrian sHkesman merely
cont irmcd the report of the ex
change hut offered no details.
Homicide Hearing
Scheduled Monday
OREGON CITY 1 1 UP A
preliminary hearing tor Datyl
Ice Collins, il, Sandv. oo a
clini ge ol negligent homicide
will be held III District Court
here Monday
Collins is chaiged in connec
tion wilh the liaftie death of
Bobby Gene Bryant, 'I, Port
land Dec. 14. Collins is iift on
iSo.ltofl hml. '
NrMM - Jn :'wWA ft I It- . i
(iREETEl) BY NIECE Richard Honeck is
greeted by his niece. Mrs. Clara Orth. San
Leandrn. Calif., on his arrival in San Fran
cisco. Honeck, R4, was freed from Menard
Slate Prison in Illinois to become a free man
Richard
A Look
Ry JAMES MEALY
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Richard
Honeck, nut of an Illi
nois jail after 64 years, Saturday
got better acquainted with the
20th Century.
The balding 84-year-old con
vict was released from Menard
Stale Prison Friday and stepped
into a wonderland of planes, au
tomobiles and other machines
taken for granted by those who
regularly use them.
Honeck was flown lo San
Francisco where he was met
Friday night by Ihe niece who
will take care of him, Mrs.
Clara Orlh, H2, of San Leandro,
Calif.
They planned to go to her
trailer hime in San Leanrinr to
day after spending the night in
San Francisco.
The si ale of Illinois put Ho
neck away in IRiin, when Wil
liam McKinley was president of
Ihe Uniled Stales and Queen
Victoria slid ruled Ihe British
Empire. Hp had pleaded guilly
to murdering a boyhood chum
in Chicago.
No Mall
For more Ihan a half century
Honeck, called "Ihe loneliest
man in America," did not get
even a Christmas card in pris
on. He had been eligible for pa
role since 11115 but remained be
hind bars an extra 1R years be
cause he had no one lo care for
him on the outside.
Then his widowed niece read
of her lonely uncle and began lo
write lo him. Finally she decid
ed thai she would make a home
for him and his parole was
rushed Ihrough lo make sure
thai he would be home for
Chrislmas.
Al 1:11 p.m. Friday Honeck
walked Ihrough Ihe prison gate
wilh a big hak of mail from
well-wishers and $1110 in state
funds and gifts.
What is the world outside like
lo this lillle. bright-eyed man
who was behind bars durinc
World War I, when Lindbergh
crossed Hie Atlantic, Ihe Japa
nese struck al Pearl Harbor
and Presidents Franklin D.
Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy
died "
"It's jusl like a child's story
book," he said.
"Very Smooth"
Honeck, who prided himself
on being able to control his
emotions Ihrough years of dis
appointments in seeking free
dom from prison, murmured
"strange ... new. . .v e r y
smooth" as he was driven
through Ihc Illinois countryside
in a new car. He said his last
rule as a free man was hy
horseback.
The old man, who long ig
nored by Ihe world, drew a full
house of newsmen al .son Fian
ciscn Intel national Airport for
Former Oregon
Bishop Is Dead
i.. .lOLi. a, caiit. i urn -
The Rl Rev. William Procler
Remington. 71. Episcopal mis
sionary bishop of Eastern Ore
gon from 1!1J2-I!M5, has died in
a La Jolla hospital.
He had been reined from Ihe
church since I P "fi and had re
sided m Rnucho Santa Fc. Calif.
Hishop Remington w a s born
in Philadelphia March III, ISTll.
He graduated from Virginia
Theological College and held ad
vanced degrees from Ihe Uni
versities of Virginia and Pen
nyslv ania
Hishop Remington left Oregon
to become btshop suffragan of
Pennsylvania, a position from
which he retired in l!l ar-d
moved In California
Funnal nrrvira will h Mon
day in Li Jolla,
Honeck
At 20th
brief inlerview upon his arrival
here Friday night.
"The flight was splendid, It
was very easy. I enjoyed flying
so much," the pink - cheeked
Honeck said.
He seemed even more im
pressed by his automobile ride
rlf '4V' AriT -A ti
; s - tTm- h tig' ivyfr 'f 'L'H
L'. .-h ry,
AT ARR AKiNMENT Robert Reaty Fennell, 21). who carried a
nnie in nis pncKet saying "My immediate goal; Ihe assassination
of President Johnson," is shown here al his arraignment on a
vagrancy charge in Berkeley, Calif. Fennell, an Air Force veteran
and former palienl in an inwa mental institution, was arrested
on the vagrancy charge. He is a self-styled "social" psyrhialrisl.
and is believed In have been in Texas when former President
Kennedy was assassmaled. (UPI)
Last Studebakcr
Car Rolls Off Line
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD
It was all over at Studebakcr
Saturday hat Hie cleaning up.
The last U.S. -made Stude
bakcr car, decorated with tinsel
rolled off Ihe assembly line
Friday afternoon and brought
to an end an era of American
initiative lhat started 111 years
ago.
Someone scribbled "Mom
Chrislmas" on Ihe windshield
of Ihe red Daylona hardtop, hut
it wasn't intended to put the
plant's 8,000 factory and while
collar workers in Ihe Christmas
spirit.
Aflcr more Ihan a century in
South Rend-first in Ihe wagon
manufacturing business and
then til years making automo
biles Studebakcr was pulling
out .
The Suideliaker employes,
wilh Chrislmas only five days
away, were out of work. For
many. Santa Claus is going to
be a hit skimpy.
Bui Studebakcr and most o(
the towns jwple tried lo pre-
UM SU VI. HILL OKAYED
WASHINGTON il'PD - Pres
ident Johnson Saturday approv
ed a hill CIHi'Cl providing SHI.
000 in federal funds for living ex
lionses for a great-granddaughter
of President Andrew John
s?n who succeeded to 0i While
House when Abraham1 1
mi
-ln
was assasnmiled
for the first time in this century. He was
impressed by the jet which brought him to
California, and also hy his ride in a modern
car. Honeck will live with his niece in San
Leandro. (UPI)
Takes
Century
earlier in the aflernoon. It was
Ihe first car ride since he took
a halt-mile trip from the secur
ity hospital lo the penitentiary
proper in lR.-i.t.
He said of his automobile "it
not only ran, it was gliding
somelhing like a cradle."
lend thai history wasn't being
made.
"It's just another car just
( another day," one company
I spokesman said.
The loss of Sludehaker, which
will continue In build cars in
Canada and sell them in the
United States, left a big hole in
Ihe economy of .South Bend.
The firm's weekly paycheck
was running more than a half
million dollars.
Weather Causing
Delay Of Trains
PORTLAND (ITH - Trains
were arriving as much as 11
hours lale here because of the
cold wave tn Ihe East and Mid
west, railroad officials reported
today.
Temperatures as low as 20 de
grees below zero in the north
ern plains stales have frozen
brake steam lines.
Dispatchers said Northern Pa
cific's North Coast Limited,
jammed with holiday passengers
was expected tn arrive in Port
land about B p m. today. Its
scheduled arrival time was 7
p m. Friday
Grral Northern's Empire
Rudder was running three hours
lale. as was Union Pacific's
City of Portland All run belween
Portland and Chicago.
Union rarifie's Torlland Rose
from Kansas City was about an
hour lali. ' 1
Chou Arrives
Algeria To
n
Seek Support
ALGIERS (UPI) Commu-l
nist Chinese Premier Chou En-'
lai arrived Saturday lo press
Peking's campaign to win Afri
can support in its ideological
struggle against Russia.
Chou and Foreign Minister j
Marshal Chen Yi arrived from
Cairo on the second step of
their extensive African tourj
amid reports that Algeria will
refuse to be drawn into the bit
ter Sino-Soviet quarrel. I
The Chinese delegation's '
chartered KLM jetliner landed j
at beflagged Dar El Beida
(White House) Air Field at 2:05
p.m. (9:05 a.m. EST).
Extraordinary police precau-!
tions were taken to guard
against any terrorist attack. I
Heavy cordons of armed troops
guarded the airfield and sol
diers were posted at intervals
of 15 yards all along the nine
mile route to the city.
President Ahmed Ben Bella,
who banned the Algerian Com
munist party despite his close
ties to the Communist bloc,
headed the welcoming party.
Informed sources said Ben
Bella, who is trying to build
Cuba-style socialism, will con
tinue his policy of non-commitment
to either the Moscow or
Peking thesis, but will accept
aid from both sides.
Chou fired a parting shot at
the Peking - boycotted nuclear
test ban at a news conference
Friday night. He said Red Chi
na, which has no nuclear weap
ons, believes the nations which
have should scrap them.
"We are for complete prohibi
tion through the destruction of
nuclear weapons and the pro
hibition of nuclear war. . ," he
told newsmen.
Soviet Premier N i k 1 1 a S.
Khrushchev made it clear Fri
day the Chinese premier is not
going to have Algeria all lo
himself during his week - long
visit.
Khrushchev, in interviews
with the Algiers newspapers Le
Peuple and Republicain, ex
pressed his support for armed
revolt in colonialist and "op
pressed countries."
He was speaking of Ihe "con
tinued occupation" of Formosa
and South Korea hy "Ihn im
Defense Talks
With Leaders In
Spain Completed
MADRID (UPI)-U.S. Assist
ant Secretary of Stale William
R. Tyler left by plane Saturday
for New York after defense talks
with Spanish leaders.
Saturday morning Tyler met
Vice President Auguslin Munoz
Grandes before going In Rara
jas Airport, where U.S. Ambas
sador Rohert F. Woodward saw
him off.
Tyler slopped off here on his
way home from (hp Allanlir
Tact meeling in Paris In brief
America's Spanish allies on the
latest plans for Western de
fense. He lunched Friday wilh For
eign Minister Fernando M. Cas
tiella. Neither the Spanish govern
ment nor the U.S. Embassy
would say exactly what Tyler
discussed with Munoz and Cas
tiella, but informed sources
said it appeared probable that
the prospective reduction of
U.S. forres in Spain had high
priority in their talks.
The Uniled Slates is expected
In close down Zaragoza Ail
Rase, one of Ihe Ihree big nu-rlear-hnmher
bases Ihe U.S.
Air Force now has in this coun
try. Informed sources said it
probably will he deactivated
within a year.
U.S. fighter squadrons prob
ably will be withdrawn from
Spain, leaving responsibility for
air defense entirely op lo the
Spaniards Two of the three
fighter squadrons now based in
this country are exieeled to
turn their F102 jels over to the
Spanish air force.
Ottman Indicled For
First Degree Murder
PORTLAND (LTD -Floyd
Oilman, fin. Portland, was in
dicted on two counts of first de
gree murder by the Multnomah
County Grand Jury Friday.
Oilman is charged wilh fatal
ly shooting his wife, Nora. 6.!.
and Donald Wymer. H, here
Nov. 29.
stvmps nnwTK.n
XA.MP. Idaho lUPD - Ida
ho residents have donated two
thirds of Ihe trading Damps
needed to purrhas a nw biis
j for Nampa Stale School.
O
perialists of Ihe Uniled Shies,"
hut informed observers here re
garded the statement as an al
lempt lo counter the effects o(
Chou's visit.
One of the main points of de
bate between Moscow and Pe
king is the amount of support
to he given lo revolutions in un
derdeveloped countries. Peking
favors a more militant line than
the Soviets.
The ruling National Liberation
Front (FLN), Algeria's only po
litical party, urged Algerians to
meet the Chinese group with
"joy and gladness."
It described Communist Chi
na, one of the first countries In
recognize the Algerian rebels
after the start of their hil - run
war against France in 1(154, as
a "symbol of cooperation and
devoted self-sacrifice,"
Italy's Premier
Moro Clears
Final Hurdle
ROME (UPI) -Premier Aldn
Moro Saturday cleared his sec
ond and last parialmenlary hur
dlse while his Sncialisl allies
moved further toward disinter
gration.
The Senale approved Morn's
new Catholic - Socialist coali
tion government by a vote of
175 for to 111 against and no ab
stentions. Thirteen prn-Commii-nist
Socialists walked out in
protest before the vote, despite
party sanctions inflicted on col
leagues who had done the same
in the Chamber of Deputies.
A complete rupture in Social
ist ranks and establishment of'
a separate pro-Communist par
ty appeared only a matter of
time.
Suspension Inflicted
The party's disciplinary hoard
Saturday ended four 'days of
frantic negotiations and Hide
cision hy inflicting a one-year
suspension from party aclivily
on 2.1 deputies who boycolicj
Tuesday's chamber vote.
The rebels said Ihey consid
ered the sanction null and void
and indicated they would allend
party meetings all the same,
challenging followers of Vico
Premier Pictro Nenni In throw
them out if they dare.
Party sources said Ihe pro
Communists were preparing na
tionwide battle plans to retain
control of party premises wher
ever they hold a majority and
renting - new offices in areas
where they are outnumbered hy
the Nenni men.
No immediate action was tak
en against the remaining two
rebels because they failed tn at
tend the board's meeling for
justified reasons.
The rebels intimaled in a let
ter that Ihey would not accept
the sanctions and consider the
hoard's action null and void.
Even as Ihe disciplinary
hoard marie ils rilling, ill pro
Communist senators preparer
lo stage a similar walkout in
a senate confidence test.
Indicalinns were that the pin.
Communists would simply ig
nore their suspension and iry In
attend party meetings as if
nothing had happened, chal
lenging the followers of Deputy
Premier Nenni to throw them
out if they dare.
Walkout Planned
Saturday's action made it
clear lhal both sides anticipate a
force the other to make the last
step.
Influenza Cases on
Rise in County
The number of influenza r 3
reported lo Ihe Jackson Cnimtv
Heallh Department took a shgl-.t
rise last week, according In Dr.
A. Erin Merkel, public hnahh
officer.
Twenty-three flu cases ur,a
reported, 10 from Shady Cm,
fi from Central Point, s from
Medford and 2 from Ashland
Fifteen cases of thicken nr,
were reported. 11 from Crnn.,1
Poinl. 5 from Ihe Applegate ami
1 each from Medford. Ashland
and Sams Valley.
Olher communicable disease
reported included one ease of
syphillis, one rase of gonorrhea,
four rases of mumps from Ash
land, one case of infectious tin,,
alilis from Medford. one i a.-e of
measles from Eagle Pn,r.t. m
case of pink eve from K;z'.r
Point, one case of trench mouth
from Medford. two raes of
pneumonia from Medford and
one case of pneumonia bom
Central Point, one ease of scalp
ringworm from Central Tmnt
and Iwn rases of infectious mon
onucleosis from Eagle Point.
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