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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15. 1956 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE THREE Ford Engineers Working On New Line Of Medium Price Cars In Near Future DETROIT (UP) The safest bets about the new line ol cars Ford Motor Company now Is readying for market are that the cars won't be called Edsels and that no one Is sure yet just what they'll look like. Ever since it became an open secret last April that Ford was planning a new line of medium priced cars, reports have been stirring that the three Ford broth ersHenry n, William Clay and Benson planned to call the line the "Edsels' In honor of their late father. The idea of naming the line Ed sel actually did come up. But It Czechs Burn Border Area VIENNA, Austria Wl Czecho Slovakia Is creating a "scorched earth" no-mans-land along its bor der with Austria to stem the in creasing flight of refugees, Aus trian police reported Saturday. mis ooraej, like Austria's Iron tier with Hungary, once was close' ly supervised by the Russians when they were here as occupa- tion troops. Since the Russian's departure the Hungarians have mined and wired their border, but the flow of refugees Increases. The Czechs are clearing their border to make control easier- leveling whole villages with bull' dozers, explosives, fire. Most of the communities being wiped out were formerly inhabited by Sude ten Germans. . Austrian border police reported Czechoslovak soldiers man the bulldozers knocking down frontier houses. They said the village of Kainrathsschlag was wiped out by Czech demolition squads using ex plosives. The wreckage then was burned. The resulting fire was so big that an alarmed Austrian vol unteer fire brigade rushed to the border, fearing a catastrophe, but was turned back by Czech soldiers. Dimes March Fund Grows Advance gift letters with dona tions to the March of Dimes are continuing to come in to the drive headquarters, announced Jay Kroksh, campaign chairman, today. The following people have sent their donations'. Violet Mesner, Mr. and Mrs. Grant E. March, William C. Hoff, William Kittredge, George Hagelstein, R. T. Van Klecck and Lena M. Dennis. Kroksh urged all Klamath Coun ty residents to mail their contri butions. "If you can only afford to send in a dime, please do so," Kroksh said. "Every contribution helps In the battle against the dread polio disease," he added. ; ' New Portland ; Air Base Eyed WASHINGTON Wl A survey to determine the feasibility of con struction of' a new air base in the Portland, Ore., area for Air De fense Command and Naval Re serve training operations will be gin Monday, the Pentagon said Friday. The House Armed Services Com mittee last spring suggested that the possibility of a new field in the Portland area be explored be cause of congestion at Portland International Airport. The Air Force reserve and the Air National Guard would continue operations out of Portland Inter national. The Air Force would ad minister any new field constructed. Rep. Pelly (R-Wash) requested the Pentagon to give serious con sideration to location of any new base at the Kitsap County airfield near Bremerton, Wash. was discarded quickly. When name finally is picked, it Is a safe bet the public soon will know. The special products division will be renamed after the new line of cars before they are produced to fa miliarize the public with the name. Ford's announcement Thursday that it planned to spend $250 mil lion dollars In the next few years to Introduce the new line of cars stirred new interest in the line But the car itself probably won't be in production and on the mar let for some time. By the time an organization can be formed, the car planned, plants built to produce the cars and other details handled it certainly will not be before the fall of 1957 or could be 1958 or 1959 before the new car will be introduced. The car will fit Into the medium price range. But exactly where In the range Ford isn't saying. With tne wide variance oi costs in au ferent models of a line of cars. it is difficult now to fit medium priced cars into any definite step of the price ladder. The car is designed to compete for some potential sales it can't reach with Us present lines. Gen eral Motors for example has three lines in the medium field Pon tlac, Oldsmobile and Buick which compete closely with each other and on the fringes of tne nigner- priced Chevrolets and lower-priced models f the Cadillac; Just to ready the cars for mar ket will cost a fortune Ford fig ures 250 million dollars. It Is a big gamble, that a product that hasn't been even put together yet will be bought by people throe and four years from now. But the peo ple at Ford are pretty certain there is a market for the car and that the gamble is a good one. Bank Thief Nabs $3000 PORTLAND 11 A holdup man, apparently disguised with heavy face makeup and a false mustache, made off with an. estimated $3,000 from the Multnomah Bank in Southwest Portland Friday after noon. He shouted orders In what tellers assumed to be a French accent. They said they didn't understand much of what he shouted, but they understood the black pistol he waved, and shoved currency at htm. Cashier E. R. Miles said the man raced out of the bank and jumped into a waiting car. He and other witnesses on the busy street could not tell whether anyone was waiting in the car for him. He sped off west. Police were called at once, but It was some time before they got there. They had gone to the Bar bur Blvd. branch of the bank, c mile away, before they learned where the holdup had taken place uiaiue iii Pinbal I Case Dismissed SANTA CRUZ (UP) Conspiracy charges against pinball distributor Sam Miano were dismissed yes terday after he turned state's evidence and told how be .paid $4000 "protection" money to his co-defendant. Raymond Jehl. Miano, speaking in broken Ens lish and with a flourish of ges tures, said Jehl had first asked for a $10-a- machine payoff for protection but then settled for $5- a-macnine and Miano turned over $4000. , Three days after the payoff, Miano said, some of his machines were confiscated on orders of Dis trict Attorney Charles L. Moore jr. Miano also told his version of an offer of $1500 to Moore as a belated campaign contribution. "He appeared to be a fine young man," Miano said of Moore. "I told him that I had never contri buted to his campaign and he told me that he had heavy expense's from the campaign. "I said that I was successful and that I liked to see a boy get ahead," the pinball operator testi fied. "He said he didn't expect anything. I told him this was not bribery and that it would be a campaign contribution." Miano said1 he gave Moore $1500 and told him "I don't want any special favors." The next day, Miano said, the money was returned to him through Jehl, one-time "vice ad viser" to Moore. Jehl's trial is a prelude to the Jan. 19 trial of Moore on a non criminal abuse of office charge which stems partly out of his fail ure to prosecute Miano after he offered the $1500. Judge James Atteridge recessed the trial until Monday when as sistant attorney general Clarence Linn is expected to end the state's case with testimony from one or two minor witnesses. - f. ' Leaping Thief Loots Mail Truck PORTLAND, Maine Wl A thief, balancing precariously on the hood of a moving car, Jumped to the tall-gate of a tractor-trailer and stole three sacks of Iirst class mail Saturday on downtown Som erset Street. Bus driver Fred H. Corbin told police he saw an old sedan pull alongside the mail-carrying ve hicle as It slowed to pass an es cavation. A man leaped from his perch between hood and fender to the tailgate, opened the truck's rear doors and tossed three bags to the street. The car driver quickly picked them up and, after the agile looter got In, sped off. Police and postal Inspectors said they did not know how much money was In the sacks. VISIT? TAIPEI. Formosa tin The in dependent United Daily News said Saturday President Eisennower or his successor should visit Asia and Africa, to wipe out "thr evil influ ence wrought by the visit of Ni kita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bul-ganin." KLAMATH PAkkS. MOON OPEN EVERY DAY AMERICAN CHINESE Feeds mt rhtir bntl Ben B. Lee, Mgr. Ph. 4t For Orders Te Take On Scientist Training Set NEW YORK im Something new In the way of a scientific training program is being launch ed. Its goal Is to produce men end women scientific leaders with knowledge "in many related fields of science." They will be teachers and researchers. It is a project of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which for half a century has been In the forefront of the battle to conquer disease. An institute official said the plan was begun to help meet a critical need for more scientists, particu larly biologists, who are "needed to protect life against the hazards of man-made forces and to shape our man-made environment for the better use of man." Ten brilliant university gradu Btes of 1955 already have been selected as the first class in the program, which will be operated as a graduate school of the insti tute. Others will be added at Inter vals until the full complement of 60 to 75 is reached. They will study both at the Institute and abroad. Their studies will lead to degrees of doctor of philosophy or doctor of medical sciences. Four Wives Lead To Jail WILMINGTON, Calif., (UP) A 53-year-old salesman, who report edly has four wives and 19 chil dren, was held In jail today on a fugitive warrant issued at Salt I.ake City, sheriff s deputies re ported. The salesman, David Brigham Darger, was taken into custody last night at a Wilmington home where he was living -with Virginia Beth McDaniel, 40, an expectant mother, and tneir eight children, deputies said. According to deputies, Darger protested he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs and that, as a member of . the Church of the Latter-day Saints, his multi-mar ried status agreed with Mormon doctrine. The church long ago abandoned the doctrine. Deputies said Darger admitted having three other wives and 11 children in Salt Lake City. One wife is the sister of the McDaniel woman, deputies said. Darger will have an extradition hearing in Municipal Court Mon day. He indicated he would fight extradition. . Twenty Die In Swedish Pileup STOCKHOLM, Sweden WV-Twenty persons including 10 school children died yesterday In the crash of a two-coach passenger train and a freight train in central Sweden. Sixteen persons were in jured. - Authorities said the ore-laden freight ran out of control, appar ently after a brake failure, and smashed into the passenger train near Stalldalen. o CYCLOTRON ' TOKYO Uti Japan's largest cy clotron, capable of generating 15, 300,000 electronic volts, has been completed at Kyoto University's Chemical Research Institute, Ky odo News Service said today. ASK FOR PUREPAK BRAND WIENERS LUNCH MEATS TOP QUALITY ' Locally Made, and Unconditionally GUARANTEED! At your local food store Folg'er's' Doorbell Ringers are Back.. .Be Prepared WDC3 Westinghouse TUNE KFJI: Hear Folger's Morning News at 8:45 Monday thru Friday - Starts TOMORROW Over KFJI Jim a r '.-. 4 s v v. 4 -, -- I . I mi:. THE NEW TOMMYHAWK SKI AREA TOW was slated to begin operating today. The new ski lift is located at tho Lake of the Woods-Rocky Point Junction on the West Side Highway. The 1200 foot rope tow will operate weekends and possibly Wednesday afternoons later this season. A second tow for novices is planned by the operators of the lift. The lift was built and will be operated by Howard Pernell, Troy Cook, George Flitcraft and Don Divens. The lift owners are planning five runs in the future with a T-bar Poma-Lift to be added which will ex tend the main ski area to 2S00 feet giving a 650 foot vertical rise. PNW Nurserymen Assured SBA Aid WASHINGTON W The Small Business Administration advised Rep. Westland (R-Wash) Friday it would make low cost loans avail able to Pacific Northwest nursery men who want to salvage stocks damaged in, the November freeze. The SBA was requested after complaints that loans for salvage purposes were being held up by culty. the agency's field offices for lack of a ruling by SBA headquarters. Westland said nurserymen re questing loans to make a complete replacement of damaged stocks ap parently were having no diffi- FBI Claims Brink's Case Solved Yith Confession Of One; Trial To Be Set BOSTON WV Eleven ex-convicts have been Indicted two in absen tia and one posthumously for participation in the $1,319,000 Brink's robbery, the Jan. 17, 1950 "Theft of the Century." A Suffolk County grand jury re turned the indictments 464 in all after listening to Joseph (Specs) O'Keefe, 47, describe yesterday the fantastic planning that went Into the largest cash haul in the nation's criminal history. The FBI listed the case as "solved" Thursday with the arrest of six of the group. Two already were In Jail for other crimes, an other died of natural causes a year ago and two more were missed in the swift roundup. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover asked public aid in apprehending the two suspects still at large James Ignatius Faherty, 44, of Boston and Thomas Francis Rich ardson, 48, of Weymouth. The story told by O'Keefe, him self an oft named suspect In the Brink's robbery, resulted in the Indictments containing 148 counts and 10 alleged offenses against: Stanley A. Ousciora, 36, now in a Pittsburgh jail; Joseph 8. Ban field, 45, now dead; Anthony Pino, 48; Michael V. Qeagan, 47; Vincent J. Costa, 41: Joseph F. McOinnis. 52; Adolph Maffie, 44; Henry Baker, 49; Richardson: Faherty; and O'Keefe himself, who was brought from a Springfield jail to testify. O Keefe told this startling story of the fabulous theft: The robbery had been planned for a year and a half and during that time, the robbers made fre quent visits to the Brink's plant at night to remove locks from doon, have keys made for them and re turn them without the single night watchman becoming suspicious. The robbers didn't need help from the inside no Brink's em ploye was on the job because the group had keys to "every Jock la the joint," O'Keefe said he decided to talk because he didn't get his share el the loot. But, Boston newspapera hinted there were other reasons why he decided to tell all to the authorities. The newpaperi quoted unidenti fied sources as saying O'Keefe feared for his life at the hands of his underworld friends after he was released from Hampden Coun ty Jail in Springfield, where he was due for freedom next month after serving time on an old gun carrying charge. O'Keefe was the target of at least one attempt on his life. In June, 19S4, a machine gun was turned on him In a Dorchester housing project. Police believe the gun was wielded by Elmer (Trig ger) Burke, a New York killer-for-hlre, now under death sentence for murder In New York. Meanwhile, those Indicted and captured were held In high ball $120,000 for McOinnis; 110,000 tor the othersas Suffolk County Diet. Atty. Oarrett H. 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