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A Imm Sap 11 Ms m mfot to S wife LUNCHEON MEETING. Preildont-eloct Dwight D. Eisenhowor with ethor GOP Senate leaders and mambart of tha Eiianhowar staff at a luncheon meeting at Eiienhower'i New York City headquarter!. Left to rights San. Leverett Saltomtall of Maii achuiotti, who will be chairman of the Armed Service! committee; Herbert Brownell, who will be Attorney General In the new cabinet; Sen. Stylet Bridget of N. H., unoppoied at Senate President protem; Eiienhower; Taft; Gov. Sherman Adamt of N. H., Eitenhower't special as sistant; Son. Milton R. Young, N. D., member of the Agriculture committoe; and Tom Stevent of the Elsenhower staff. Hy FRANK JKNKINH A New York psychiatrist apeak lint: "New Yeur' reaolullona are PHONY solution of problems. They're )ut word magic. They don't work for moil people, and even If they did they might not be wise. "Consider what a person doea when he make it rcaolutlon to net rid of whnt he call a bud habit. Me really inakee two people out of himself. Cue aide of hi per sonality acta up rulea fur the oth er aide. Th" other aide la KK.HI8 'I ANT nhd usually munagea to sab otage the resolution. The reatill la that he bullda up ao much tenalon Inside hlmaelf ttinl he's likely to blow up." Poohl Pooh! Budt You're Jual Baying big psychla trlai word. What you mean i that when the averaite aap make a i TNrw Year reaolullon he doean't MEAN It. Because he doean't MKAN It. he doean't KEEP It, Ko If a a uhnny. People who lull Into the habit of dealing In phonic do themselves narm Ituiead 01 gooa. This I'll bet my ahlrl on: If EVERYBODY, on New Year'a Day, mad good reaolullon and KEPT them, everybody would be belter off and Ihla would be a bet ter world to live In. How' Ihla for a New Year'a reaolullon: "During all of Ihla year. In every transaction with my fellow men. I will do to them aa I would want them to do to me in similar cir cumstance." I'll waller that If vou'd make that reaolullon and KEEP IT you'd come out ahead In every way. New Year'a note-from oversea: The non-ommunll nation of Europe are planning to welcome the New Year In a big way. The picture runa aomrthlng Ilka Ihla: In Parla. reataurant prices rang ing up to (250 lor dinner NOT Including cnampagne. in weai uer lln. the average celcbrator I ex pected to spend (M tor wine and champagne. That leavea mn cold. A an American taxpayer. I feel that I'm footing quite a little part of the bill. Fooling the bill for other people'a New Year'a celebration lan't my Idea of a good time. Thla one from Italy, however, haa Us pointa: In Italy, many peraona are ex pected to follow the old custom of toaalng some of laat year's pota and pans out of w'r'nwa. The law aaya NOT TO DO IT. but many are expected to follow the custom just the same. I'd alwaya thought that Amerl run, were PECULIAR In that, when somebody psaae a law for bidding thcdolng of some particu lar thing, their, Instinctive Inclina tion la to go out and do It PRONTO. I'm relieved to hear lhat oth i ft ' f People have the same reprchen- nlble Impulses. Besides There are limes when that aeems a belter way of disposing ot dirty ' pots and pans than gelling out the rtlshpan and disposing of them In the more conventional mnnner. A serious word In closing: Secretary of Slate Acheson tells a congressional committee this morning tint employment of Amer icans of QUESTIONABLE LOYAL TY at United Watlona doesn't con stitute a threat to our national se curity because UN workers don't handlo matters Concerned with our national defense. He mav be technically rlRht. Whnt endangers us Is the fact that we have leaders who will TOLERATE employment n UN or elsewhere) of people of doubt lul loyally. ' That 18 dangerous. Bidault Fails To Get Help PARIS Iff France rings out the eld year today In the throoa of chronlo government crista which has seen three Cabinets fall In 10G3. tihe will ring In the new year with out a premier at her helm. President Vincent Aurlol combed the lank of political leaders today In search of a man who could put Prance'a humpty-dumpty govern ment together again. II fell apart a week ago when Premier Antolne Plnay resigned rather than face certain defeat on his 1PA3 budget policies, Georges Bidault, two-time vet eran In the premiership, gave up yesterday his efforts to get enough support to put him In the office again. He failed when several leod , lug parties refused to back his wemsnd for wider powers whloh 'fcould end the elcge of continuing crisis. Threatening GOP issues Ironed Out in Meeting By MARVIN L. AltltOWHMITII NEW YORK Prealdonl-elect Elsenhower appeared today to have .lallafied Hen. Robert A. Tuft and other Benale Republican leader on two Issues which tnreaienra 10 cause the new administration trouble In Congress, The Issues il) Procedure for Job appointments by Elsenhower and i'i) farm policy were threshed out at a a'i-hnur conference the leaders had with the general yes terday, Tuft told newsmen ofterwarda he wan alnnding by his Dec, 3 state ment thut Elsenhower's selection of Democrat Martin DurVln as "Incredible." But the Ohio lawmaker, slated to bo Senate, mujorlty leader In the new Congress convening Sat urday, said he fell a "general understanding" had been reached with Elsenhower on future ap pointment. The understanding said Tuft, call tor "adequate consultation" witn acnaiora in aavance 01 ep- potnlmcnla. The other lasue which threatened 10 make trouble lor Elsenhower cropped up Just before yesterday' conference started. Ben. Milton R. Young of North Dakota, secretary of the Kcnulo OOP Policy Committee, told re porters he would oppose Senate confirmation of Era Taft Benson Elsenhower's choice for secretary of agriculture unless Benson came out llatly for permanent government price support of basic farm commodities at a minimum SO per cent of parity. Parity Is a formula designed to assure farmera a fair return for their crops In line with the price Copco Power Plan .Opposed WASHINGTON l Rep. Mack (R.-Wash.l. Wednesday opposed construction of a tranamlaalon line which would virtually link the Hon nevllle Power Administration with California's Shasta Dam aysiem. The proposal, outlined recently by the Callfomla-Oregon Power Co. la being studied by the Fed' era! Power Commission. Mack aald he la agalnat any plan which might transfer Northwest power Into California "at least while there La a shortage of power In the Northwest." The Copco proposal 1 contin gent upon commission approval of it application to build the Big Bend No. a hydroelectric project on the Klamath River and Its pre liminary permit for a dam on the McCloud River In Northern Calif ornia. Under these conditions, the com pany informed the commission It would consider construction of a 230-kllovolt transmission line hook ing up with the Pacific Oas & Electric Co.'a aystem at Delta, Caul. The heavy voltage line would tie In with the Bonneville aysiem at Klamath Falls and at Delta- would be only 40 miles from a connection with the Shasta aysiem. Such a line. Mack aald. would encourage new power-using Indus tries to locale In California rather than In Washington or Oreuon. near the source of the power. This, he said, "would bo uneconomic." Industries using large blocks of power, Mack said, should be lo cated near the source ot the pow er "to save the financial cost and unnecessary use of scarce mater ials required to build transmission lines and to save the power lost when It Is transported long dist ances." i Red Agent Fails In Plane Piracy Try TAIPEH, Formosa. Wl A Red agent fleeing Ihe Philippines Tues day shot and killed two crew mem ber or a passenger plane In a desperate but futile bid to reach sanctuary In Communist China. Nationalist Air Force fighters forced the plane down on Qucmoy Island, a Nationalist outpost Just IS miles from the Red mainland. The agent, Hurtg Tsu-Chun, was brought to Talpcn under heavy guard Wednesday night, along with seven passengers who survived the bizarre attempt at aerial piracy. Hung, 33, and good looking, ap peared unconcerned on his arrival here. Ho smiled several times and ap peared in remarkably good humor. During 'lie fantastic flight, the plane flew over part of the main Inland. Communist antl . aircraft opened up, but. caused no damage. A final ironic touch was added when the plane, a DO-3 of the Philippines Air Line (PAL) taxied to a halt on Quemoy. Miss Mary Alice Ireton, Bethel, O., a passenger, said Hung appar ently thought the co pilot had landed In Red territory. He was startled to find himself aurrounded by Nationalist soldiers, Another passenger. Carlos Bar- rnnda, 87, an Insurance adjuster, snid trouble started lust after the plane took off on what waa sup posed to be a routine trip from Laoag In northern Luaon to Aparrl, about 100 mile to the east. and Son. tor Robert A. Taft lit of things they buy. Atler the mentlng. Young said he had talked to Elsenhower about the matter and to Benson ny telephone and that he had decided not to oppose confirmation. Young aald both the general and Benson had assured him they are lor price support at 90 per cent of purity through IBM. provided under the present law. Hie senator said Elsenhower has "an open mind" aa to how the mailer should be handled after that, and thut Benson had promised to atudy Ihe problem. Besides Taft and Young, those present at the conference with Elsenhower were: Sen. Btyics Bridges of New Hampshire, prospective presiduig olllcer of the Senate in the ab sence of the vice president: Sen. Leverett Sultonslall of Massarhu aetta, a member ot the Senate GOP Policy Committee: Herbert Brown ell Jr., who will be attorney gen eral In the new administration: Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, assistant to the President-elect, and Thomas E, Blcph ens. special counsel lo the general. Elsenhower called the confer ence primarily for discussion of the legislative program he will submit to Congress shortly alter he takes office Jan. 30. Taft Indicated, how ever, that a good part of the ses sion was devoted to the Job ap pointment lasue. Tall auld he believed Elsenhow er's main purpose In arranging the meeting was to assure the Senate leader of hla wholehearted co-operation, adding he had "every expectation" Eisenhower and Con gress will work together harmon iously. Taft said the conferees went over Ihe whole Held of possible leuls lutlon, including whether wsge- Krlce controls should be continued eyond April 30. when the present law expire. He added there had been no conclusion and "no Indi cation of policy aa yel" regarding controls, . - Ike May Rule On Rosenbergs NEW YORK Wt-The fate of the dooiiK-d atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg polbly mav rest eventually with Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower a president. Or an appeal for executive clem ency may be decided by President Truman before he leavea office. The New York City couple Is scheduled to die In the electric chair the week of Jan. 11. Elsen hower does not take office until Jan. 30. Federal Judge Irving R. Kauf man, who reserved decision yester day on a clemency plea. Indicated he migni aeiay the execution date lo allow time for the appeal. In any event, he promised, the de fense would have "plenty of time" to take the case to the .White House. Kaufman, who Imposed the death sentence 30 months ago. said at the close of yesterday' hearing: that he would re-examine the evidence In the case carefully. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vlrlnlty and Northern California: Inrreaslnr cloudiness Wednesday nlshl with occasional now late al night and Thursday. Illih both days S3. Not quMe ao cold tonight wnn a low or za. tilth temn yesterday 33 Low laat night . 11 I'reelp yesterday ............... .21 Since Oct, 1 .5.34 Normal for period 4.S0 "About 15 minutes out of Laoag I heard two mulilcd noises," he said. "I thought they came from the engines, but altcrwards I realized they were shots. Immediately as the shots were fired, the plane plunged crnsily as If out of control. "Then It righted Itself. "The next thing I saw was the flight purser, Eduardo Dlago, kick ing the door to the crew compart ment. Then I heard two more allots . . . fired through the door. "Dlago spun half around, then collapsed right In the cabin. "Blood was spouting from him. "I Was told afterwards that the Communist had gone Into the com partment, locked the Uoor and or dered the pilot. Capt. Pedro Perlas, to head tor Communist China. "Captain perlas objected and the Communist fired two shots Into hla head. Those were the muffled noises I heard and that's why the plana seemed suddenly out of con trol. "It was ok again when the co pilot, Capt. Felix Oaston, took over ihe controls, "Right to the lime he landed, four and one half hours Liter, the Communist kept his revolver stick ing Into Gaston's neck." Barrenda said Huncr had two 4B calibre revolvers, but he could not confirm a report that the Red scent also carried two hand grenades. He said the Communist around fire missed the air liner. The only Price Five Cents 10 Page President Says Peace Hope Better WASHINGTON Wl President Truman aald Wednesday the out look for world peace Is better now than II was a year ago. Truman explained, at his last news conference of the year, that he was referring to the outlook for the cold war In all part of the world. He said no new plan for hasten ing the end of the Korean war has been submitted to him. But he added that obviously be could not talk about such a plan even if one existed, unless It was something to be put Into operation Immediately. Truman announced he will ap pear on radio and television Jan. 15 from 7:30 to 8:00 p.m., EST, to report to the people on the slate of the nation. This address, he aald. will con tain some material In addition to what he will give Congress in his formal slate-bf-the-union message early next week. He will not ap pear before Congress In person. The President began his meet ing with reporters by expressing sharp regret that Secretary ot Ag riculture Brannan has had to make additional restrictions on imports of dairy product as announced Tuesday--under requirement of the defense production act. niiuAii This Is the wrong thine to do. Truman said, adding that be is not in lavor or it at an. But he said Brannan was ob lined to Impose the new restric tions under the law. Truman avoided comment on two controversial Issues Gen. Doug las MacArthur's latest bleat at him and the status oi diplomat John Carter Vincent. He had only a soft voiced no comment when asked about Mac- Arthur suggestion last week that the President waa using the "bloody drama" or Korea "aa a means of self-glorification." MacArlhur's statement stemmed from Truman's own quoted remark to an Interviewer that the general "wanted to Involve us In an all-out war In the Far East." MacArthur retorted that he had not proposed to extend the Korean war nut only to end It. In the Vincent matter, Truman said only that the case of the ca reer diplomat has not reached him yet. (HI counsel, Charle Murphy, is xnown to Be siuaying tn case) Oregon State Road Report 8ALEM l The Oregon High way commission s I a.m. roaa re' port Wednesday listed the follow inff conditions: Spot of Ice at: 'Government Camp, Timberline, sunset Summit, Warm Springs Junctlor, Bend, sis ters, Lapine, Lskeview, Mitchell. Ochoco Summit, La Grande. Baker, Ontario and John Day. Santlam Pasa Pavement bare in exposed areas. Willamette Pass Packed snow. sanneo. Chemult Packed snow, sanded Klamath Falls Spots of Ice, foir. Bly Packed snow, sanded, 1 inch new snow. Keno Packed snow, sanded. Meacham Packed snow, carry cnains. Austin. Seneca, Burns Fog, parsed snow, sanoea. I damage to the plane, he said, came from machine gun bullets fired by the Nationalist Interceptors wno forced it down. Philippine Intelligence agents flew here from Manila to question Hung. A government spokesman In' the Philippine capital aald he would be released to Chinese Nationalist authorities after Interrogation. Other passengers besides Hung, Miss Ireton snd Barrenda were Marshall Nunn of Ban Francisco, a Chinese father and his son, and Miss Araceli Barrera, 33, a high school teacher from Ilocos Norte Province. The two Americans are employ ee of the United States Informa tion Service In the Philippines. The passengers and Captain Gas ton fie from Quemoy to Talpeh In a Nationalist Air Force transport, protected by a screen of .fighters. The PAL' plane, with the bodies ot the two dead crewmen, landed a short while later. Gaston said he was glad to he alive, but was hesitant to discuss his spine-tingling experience. Capt. Ku Chung-Chleh, pilot ot the Nationalist plane that Inter cepted the transport, got a hero's welcome here. The Nationalist air force main tain blockade against the Red China coast and tries to Intercept all planes and ships headed that way. , -t KLAMATH FALLS, OlthGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1952 if " .'''' iii.iii--W"""'"l-t k imw "5 AT iff -i fill sHjH f . s 1 ilia li5v- . ' i HOW'S THE WEATHER DOWN THERE? Washington, D C. Zoo's newest arrival, 150-pound, 4-foot baby giraffe Harriet, gets an affectionate "kiss" from her mother, Kitty. Harriet is the seventh giraffe to be born in Washington and replaces Harry, 7-months-old male who died recently after suffering a broken leg which wouldn't heal. . ' World's Champion Liar r Wins Wiih Ancient Tale BURLINGTON, Wis. Wl The World's Champion Liar of 1952 was announced today by the Bur lington Liars' club, and the winner of the 33rd annual Ananias Award I not surprisingly a Texan. After 13 months of sorting through mounds of prodigious tall tales, the club selected Airman 3 C. Harry V. Ciimmlngs of Dallas for hla tall tale about Japanese mos quitoes.' Cummings. stationed at Johnson Air Force base near Tokyo, is We third Texan to win the crown In recent years, but he had to draw on foreign material for this win ning whopper: "One night In July I had just turned in for the night when I heard the door open. At first I inougm it was one ox trie otner guys who slept In the room with me. When I got better look I saw It was two mosquitoes. They stood nearly 6 feet tall, and believe me, I was too terrified to move, so I Just lay there when they ap proached my bed. "I heard one of them say 'Do you think we should eat him hr.e, or should we carry him home?' - "After a moment's consideration, the other replied. 'Let's est him here. If We carry him home the big mosquitoes will take him away from us. " Final Wilson Ruling Hears PORTLAND, tjfl The fate t Ulan and Turman Wilson, brothers under sentence to hang early Sat urday In Washington's state peni tentiary may be decided within a few hours or be held in abeyance until Friday, Oovernor Langlle said Tuesday. The brothers now are living out their fourth stay of execution since they first were condemned In the summer of 1950 for the kidnap death of JoAnn Dewey of Meadow glade, Wash., near Vancouver. Their last stay was granted in August to give a committee time to atudy the case and make a recommendation to the governor. The report has been submitted to the governor but Langlle said he had not fbiished his study of it. He said he might make the report public. He has received a flood of ap peal for clemency for the brothers and one petition, purportedly bear ing 14,000 signatures was due to reach his desk in Olympla some time Wednesday. SHOOTING HOURS .. January 1 Open 7:07 a.m. Close 3:41 p.m. Another Texan, John 8. Kendelx of Brooke Army Hosiptal at Ban Antonio, won an honorable men tion. He said that as chief engi neer of a hospital ship, be was once faced with the task of getting a large boiler installed In the heart of the ship within a matter of hours. "I went ashore," he lied, "bought 100 pounds of alum, dumped It Into the boiler and filled it with water. When the boiler had shrunk to about the size of a radiator, I lowered it through the hatches, bolted It inta place, washed it out with hot water, and when It had expanded to normal size, fired it up and we took off on time." The judges also gave honorable mention . to Fred Craven of At lanta. Ga.. who said his brother had a well-trained dog. When the orotner carried tne gun on us right shoulder, the dog hunted rab bits. If the Run was on the left shoulder, the dog hunted squirrels. The brother got out new fish ing rod to show to Craven, and in a few minutes the dog appeared from behind the barn carrying can of worms, Elliot Stein of Bristol, Conn., won admiration for his fantasy about lifelong Democrat who switched to Eisenhower. He en tered the voting- machine and grabbed the Republican lever. The GOP lever, unaccustomed to the touch or this through-and-through Democrat, kicked back and broke his arm. Churchill On Way to U.S. SOUTHAMPTON. England W Prlme Minister Churchill sailed today on the liner Queen Marv for talks with President-elect Eisen hower on Korea and other world problems. The 77-year-old British leader, who also Is scheduled to call on President Truman later before he takes a two-week . holiday in Ja. malca. was accomDanled bv Mn Churchill. The huge liner, which left port here at 10:15 a.m. (5:15 a.m., EST) ia uue in new xora Jan. s. Churchill and his wife went aboard Just before midntsht. Thev had travelled to Southampton from ixinaon in tne boat train. Shortly before hi departure from London, the Prime Minister spent two hour discussing with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden the British proposals on Anglo American problems he will lav be fore Elsenhower next week. informed sources said these points fall Into four main cate gories, with Korea and Soviet Prime Minister Stalin's Christmas Eve statement of willinnness to talk to Elsenhower well to the fore. The other two deal with Britain's desire to Join In the recently signed Pacific Defense Pact between Aus tralia, New Zealand and the United States and her wish for close con sultation before the U. S. under-1 takes any new strategy in the Far East that might involve either Britain or France In heavier com mitments, Telephone 1111 No. 2030 Artillery, Air Action Mark War 'SEOUL Wl Rumbling artillery duels and Allied air strikes opened the final day of 1953 on Korea's bleak battlefront after B29 Super forts plastered two vital Red tar gets. A flurry of predawn ground scrapes ended at daybreak. No ma jor engagements were reported. Twenty-one Superforts from Ja pan and Okinawa flew through heavy Communist ground fire and harassing night fighters In their twopronged attack. They dumped more than 300 ton of high ex plosives on a sprawling ore-processing plant near the Yalu River and a key supply center near Sl nanju. Sinanju Is about 45 miles north of Pyongyang, Red Korean capitol NIGHT FIGHTERS Red night fighters offered a se rious challenge to the B29s with repeated firing passes. The Air force did not say whether any bombers were hit Bright moon light helped the Red pilots. Bursting shells filled the sir around the bombers. The Air Force gave no details of damage to the Choak-tong ore processing plant, a 105-acre tar get 25 miles southwest of UIJ1 on the Yalu, and the 85-acre wollywon supply center. The Air- Force said the plant processed graphite be fore the war, DEADLOCK On the deadlocked battlefront, big guns boomed before dawn. Al lied artillerymen drove off small groups of Reds wh probed ac tively at lonely Allied outposts on the Western and Central Fronts. At many points, and especially In the rugged eastern sector. Allied patrol barged into Red groups and fought abort, bloody scraps by moonugni. The Eighth Army announced 1.814 Red casualties Inflicted in the week ending Dec. 28. Including i.vn luiea, 711 wounded and 11 captured. In the final week of 1951, Red casualties totaled 3.8Kfi A bright sun flashed off the snow covered battlefront as the year drew to a close. Temperatures were higher, hovering in the 40s. Draft Call High In State PORTLAND UH The Oregon draft call wUl be larger than ex pected in February. The Army will need 631 men then. State selective service officials, who earlier estimated between 400 and 500 men would be needed, were notified of the exact number Tuesday. Col. Francis W. Mason, deputy director of selective service In Ore gon, said about half the total would be 19-year-olds. It will be the first time the draft has dipped into that age bracket in Oregon. The January call of 615 men will come lrom the 30-year-old group. Mason said that after February Oregon would have about 3.000 men remaining In the 19-year-old class. po,:7:- W aa '""'V' 17 1 f . 7 - 'I . , , AA i BOB HENRY, operator of Reliable Cleaners, was rattling container (hit morning in hops ef collecting little mora money for tha bird feeding program sponsored by fhe Klamath Spertsmans Association ana the Iziae Walton League. Committee Critical Of State Action By HARRY P. SNYDER WASHINGTON I Secretary of State Deau Acheson contended Wednesday there Is no danger to U. S. "national security" from United Nations employment of disloyal Americans but conceded this country's "national interest" suffers. ' : And be told Congressional Inves tigators "we are doing the best wa can" to get subversive Americans off the U. N. payroll. - Acneson underwent - long ques tioning from a House judiciary subcommittee digging into reports that numerous U. S. citizens work ing for the U. N. displayed Com munist sympathies. For the most part, the exchanges went along calmly but Acheson flushed a time or two when the Congress members took issue with him. Rep. Keating (R-NY) told the secretary he could not follow the fine distinction Acheson was draw ing between "national security" and "national Interest." Acheson argued that national se curity was not endangered because u. n. worxers aid not handle mat' ters concerned with national de fense. , HARMED -But he said national Interest were harmed because "these oeo- pie" have given the "U. s. reputa tion a Dad name and a black eye." Rep. Hillings (R-Callf suggested at one point that Communists In the U. N. were In a position to impede the war in Korea. Sharply, Acheson retorted that the U. N. is supporting the war and that "we are dome our best (Continued en Fag 4) Spud Market Said Better The potato market in this ares, has firmed up a bit the past few days after slumping to a point where some No. l's sold for as little at (3.80 per hundred pound sack. 1 In the Tulelake area this mornln; there were sales reported not uncommon at (3.35, and some re port of as much as (3.40 to the growers. The warming market waa a bright spot In a rather gloomy farm mar ket picture here In comparison with the past year when good prices were received for most, everything offered and the Office of Price Stabilization had to step out with a ceiling announcement because potatoes, were, exceeding parity. The national potato economy waa somewhat revised this year over last, with a much higher production record. However. Ihe total output was nevertheless quite a bit be low the USDA's reports of the av erage annual spud production of the country. Shipments in this area hava stepped up a bit, hitting 00 cars on the outbound tracks yesterday, according to the Oregon Depart ment of Agriculture's shipping point Inspection service here. Total shipments this month as of yesterday were 1.178 as compared . with 1.347 for the same period a year ago. And to date this season shipments are running approxi mately 800 cars behind a year ago. statistics Indicate. Shipments are expected to step up from the average of 44 cars per day so far this season after the first of the year. The entire region should be cleared by early In April, local potato expert feel. 9 (Ydcdi Sparial L f ' at Ik A
