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. -J I - PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1953 1 1 DENNIS THE MENACE" W". City Fotiers Exhaust-ed; LA Fumes As Detroit Burns Over Big, Little Car Spat 'Don't try cwMGiN'wfWjyoowN the chimney.' lie HIM IKCt: IN THc DACK yAKO. Boycott Hit By Reverend PORTLAND (AP) - The Rev. Willis Whalen says the Multno mah County Labor Council hit a "new low in boycotts" in placing Central Catholic High School on Us unfair list. . The action taken Monday night by the council, said the school had refused to sign a con tract with a union elected the bargaining agent of four janitors. "There is no dispute over wages or working conditions," the Rev. Mr, Whalen said. "The statement 'three out of four of our present custodians still want to join the Union is 'utterly false." 1 Council President Glenn Blake laid he expected union members to withdraw their children from the parochial school, which has more than 900 students. Said Father Whalen, the school principal: "When Mr. Blake ur ges Central parents to withdraw their children from school, he has hit a new low in boycotts. "I feel this action will be re pudiated strongly by responsible labor leadership and the public at large. Said Blake: "After the election, two of -the men were harassed until they left, and now the others are being In timidated. "We have made an exhaustive effort to reach an agreement and have been more than fair." Pickets may be placed around the high school, Blake said. The size marked in a man's hat means that is the diameter of the hat. In I OPEN 4I3D P. Mi ." " " rev we 0 Mickey oHAUGUMmr, MERRILL "A NICE LITTLE DANK 71 IAT SHOULD DE ROBBED WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mayor, Nor i is Poulson of Los Angele called Monday for a consume: boycott of big cars to force tin automobile industry to find a waj to reduce the harmful elfects ol exhaust gases. Poulson told a news conterence that exhaust fumes from three million cars in Los Angeles were the chief cause of the smog that plagues the city. Poulson was nere tor a conter ence on health problems. He ac cused the Kisenliower administra tion of yielding to pressure from the aulo industry and backing away from a nationwide fight against air pollution. Poulson said he would carry on his own anti-smog campaign by using a Rambler instead of a Cadillac in his official duties. He said he had cancelled the city's, order for a Cadillac in protest against the auto industry. the big auto makers, tne may or declared, have spent only one million dollars a year on research aimed at curbing harmful exhaust lumes although their sales total more than 20 billion dollars. "I recommend we get iiltle cars, Poulson told reporters. II car uses one third as much gas there will be one third as much exhaust fumes in the air." "I despair of getting anything done at the federal level, he said after attending the conference conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Poulson said his speech asking for action to limit air pollution was applauded by other delegates The mayor said a representative from the American Cancer Soci cty also pointed out the health dangers from air pollution. -This Flying Fetes Birthday 55 NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) 55th anniversary of powered flight brought a prediction today that the United States will send a pilot ed aircraft into the fringes of space within a year. Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D- Oklai linked the prediction with praise for Orville and Wilbur Wright, who made the first suc cessful flight in a powered air craft in 1803. Monroney's speech was pre pared for a luncheon marking the anniversary of the event, which look place at Kitty Hawk, near here. "With the same courage and vision as the Wright brothers,' Monroney said, "modern pioneers will strike through the chains that hold man to the earth s atmos phere just as Orville and Wilbur Wright broke the chains which held us to the ground back in 1903." Tracing the progress of aviation since then, Monroney said: "This year we will put a man into outer space, some 100 miles above the earth, in a man-piloted aircraft. The X15 will be flying before the next Wright Day is observed. . ." The Air forces X15 space re search plane is expected to start test flights sqon. TIDAL WAVE STRIKES HUASCO. Chile (UPI)-A tidal wave carried away more than 45 yards of the sea wall in the har bor area of this north Chilean port Tuesday, causing consider able damage lo the docks but no reported casualties. V I FIRE rfajr J U fist H AND U GUNBLAST I write history at outlawry's dead end I Rum mm Sy fi. o R0BER1 HUTTON JOHN CARRAfllJiE CAROtf MATHEWS Annual Christmas Lighting Contest DETROIT. Mich. (AP) De roit's .Mayor Louis Miriani fumed londay over Los Angeles Mayor Vorris Poulson's assertion that jig car cxnausts are the main cause 01 smug. Describing big cars as the No. 1 air pollution problem in Los An qeles, Poulso.i announced in Wash inglon Monday he had canceled his Cadillac order and would buy saia ne nupea uiners wouia iouow suit. The whole thing is silly, to say the least," the Detroit mayor wired Poulson Monday. "Suggest- boycott of larger cars is almost as fantastic as if Detroit and the Middle West boycotted movies and television snows out of Los An geles to preserve the public eyesight." The motor city s mayor conced ed, however, that autos unques tionably contribute to smog. Miriam s chief air pollution In spector, Morton Sterling, suggest ed what Los Angeles needed, in effect, was-niore new automobiles. "The age and the condition of the car is just as important in the smog problem as the size of the car. A'.i older car will spew great er amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere than will newer cars," he said. All the big-car makers have De troit area plants. American Mo tors moved all automotive opera tions to Kenosha and Milwaukee, Wis., although it still maintains headquarters in Detroit. ( )roof Name . Address . Telephone ......... mall lo: ' (Check one or more) ) lawn ( ) porch ( ) window Jayceet P.O. Box 407 Klamath Falls Light display 6 to 11 p.m., December 21 and 22, for judging. Must be postmarked no later than midnight, December 20. Juveniles Slated For Jury Duty Ore. THE DALLES, veniles will serve on Municipal Court juries here under a ruling passed Tuesday by the City Coun cil. The six-person juvenile juries will operate initially on trial basis, probably starting in Janu ary. The youngsters, to be selected (AP) Ju-,by the high school prlnciptl, win only recommena sentences, ui fenders will be sentenced by the judge. The juvenile traffic court will convene once a week. ' Invention of the rocking chair is attributed to Benjamin Frank lin about 1760. Several Army Inductees Could Sing Enemy To Death By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent ' HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Private Russ Tamblyn stopped by Movie town for the first time since be ginning of a two-year hitch in the Army and said, "the country Vire Service Names Veep NEW YORK (UPD-Frank Tre- maine was elected a vice presi dent of United Press International at a meeting of the board of di rectors Monday. Tremaine, 44, is general man ager of United Press International Newspicturcs and a member of Ihe board of directors of UPI. A native of Deiroit, he began his news career with United Press in Salt Lake City in 1936 after re ceiving his degree in journalism from Stanford University. Subsequently he was manager of the San Diego bureau, assist ant foreign news editor in San Francisco of the service to Ha waii, The Philippines' and the Ori ent. In 1940 he was named head of the Honolulu bureau and later filed the first eye-witness story of Ihe Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. . During World War II, he was a-lwar correspondent, in the Pa cific, later was bureau manager in Tokyo, Mexico City and Los Angeles. In 1952 he became assist ant general manager of U.P Newspicturcs and in 1955 he was appointed general manager. Judge Drops Indictment WOODBURN (AP) Justice of Peace Irving Brown Tuesday dis missed a charge of failure to keep a minor girl in school against Clarence Schneider of Woodburn. The indictment was dismissed on the condition that Schneider en roll his 15-year - old daughter, Sharyn, in school within 30 days or otherwise satisfy the Marion County school system education requirements. Sharyn left school last year to join her 21-year-old sister, "Shir ley, hi a Woodburn grocery store business. The girls said the store has grown into a $250,000 a year gross business. Sharyn, a superior student, told Brown she became bored with school. Sharyn now is a full part ner in the store established by Shirley several years ago when their father suffered a heart attack. Coughing Cure Stopped By Army FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI) -r-The U.S. Army has stopped fly ing German children to high alti tudes in attempts to cure whoop ing cough. An Army medical spokesman said Monday "there is no scien tific basis for the belief that fly ing children up to altitudes of 15, 000 to 20,000 feet will permanent ly cure them of whooping cough." Such flights may prolong the illness, the spokesman said. k J L M 1 I -1 Door nTTTTI P Jt Irii i 0pcn L i 1 7 1 It . Navy Machinist Nearly Faints; Wife Has 4 More SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Delano Currington, 20, a Navy machinists mate, expected multiple offspring, but... "I like to fainted when they told me it was four." The quadruplets were born Tues day to his wife Mac, 22. Mrs. Currington has three sons and a daughter ranging from 7 years to 20 months by a previous marriage. Her quads were two boys weigh ing 4 pounds, 6 ounces each; an other boy 4-11; and a daughter, 2-11. All were reported in excel lent condition. Multiple births are nothing new lo Mrs. currington. She has 13 brothers and 12 sisters. . Board Will Pay For Taxi Ride McMINNVILLE (AP) Linda York, a McMinnville High School junior, will continue riding home by taxi at about $2.50 a day paid by her school board. The Yamhill County non-High School Board decided Monday to hire the taxi daily for Linda when the county boundary board again refused to allow the school bus to cross the Daytoa school district boundary. , Board chairman Ira Rbgers said it would cost only about 53 cents a day for Linda by bus, but the bus wouldn't .take her all the way home. must feel mighty safe with Elvis, me and Lindsay Crosby in the service. "We could sing the enemy to death." 1 The jaunty young star is on a 21-day furlough and dreads re turning to Fort Sill, Okla., fori the holidays. "I guess L should be looking for ward to it," he grinned. "The colonel promised to have break fast with the troops in the mess hall Christmas morning. How're you gonna top that?" . Russ says the Army is working overtime to make a man of him, and at the same time convince the 24-year-old actor that he's no different from other GIs, "When I took basic training an officer called me into his office and lectured me for 20 minutes on how I would be treated just like the other soldiers," Russ re lated. "He said I was no differ ent from anyone else. But I made the mistake of asking him if he was going to call in the other 499 guys for the same lecture. I ended up scrubbing floors for a week." Russ is paid $7S a month, com pared to $1000 a week he earned at MGM while starring in "Tom Thumb." His furlough has been spent touring 11 cities plugging the picture . without pay. You wouldn t believe some of the things that have happened to me in the eight months I've been in the Army," Russ said. "I'm in the entertainment section of spe cial services. But I don't do any entertaining except to hand out programs for a little theater group, and once I gave out cer tificates for children who had read 12 or more books during the summer. 'Oh, yeah. I did so to Wichita Falls, Texas, to crown the fire prevention queen. And the Army gave me a dollar to cover gaso line expenses. During a training session we were forced to charge up a big hill firing empty rifles at a sign reading 'I am the enemy.' We were yelling 'bang bang' instead of shooting bullets. - It struck me so funny I sat down and laughed 'till I cried- ; "Then a big red-faced sergeant rusnea up to me boiling mad. He said, 'that's the trouble with you actors. You all live in a world of make-believe." Then I really oroKe up. Young Tamblyn says there is a possibility he will make Pfc. within the next month or two, but ne isn t excited about the prospect. "All it means is I'll have to sew the stripe on about 30 shirts and jackets. USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT FREE CUSTOMER PARKING OPEN UNTIL 9 P. If She's Particular... Give Her A: ch er Archer tektt pridt to "stockings for forth womtn". . . cAoom from Coour Symphony of shter btauly In hosiery. She will recognit Ihe luxury of the stocking If It's Archer. With or without seams, i 1.35 to 1.95 u ,unft - oDiunnn i-m mini i.imru DMifvvn '- Z. .. m V ... TENDER IN L0VEI fff battleground k.rn I If' ir i ii i i i w rv : ii ijf: i Hir Kansas Minister To Shed Spouse LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)-The Kansas minister-turned-gambling shill is divorcing his wife of 25 years. The Rev. Maurice Dale Tullock, 50, charged his wife Nellie Mae with extreme mental cruelty. Tullock disappeared Sept. 29 from Hutchinson, Kan., and was located last month working as a shill in a downtown casino. A shill gambles with house chips to make the place appear busy. Lost $20 Bill Returned To Bank SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP)- An unsigned letter to the first fed eral savings and loan association here contained a $20 bill and the following message: I found this $20 bill on the floor of your office several weeks ago. If you know the owner, return it; if not, give it to charity." An executive, Gerald Christen- sen, recalled that Virginia E. Rich ards had reported the loss of a $20 bill some time ago. He returned it to her. v introduces a new era of Femininity with Angelique ..... . just in time for Christmas! X,. PROPOSAL PORTLAND (AP)-The Oregon state Board of Higher Education moved Tuesday to ask the Legis lature to provide a means to move or condemn an Odd Fellows Cemetery in the center of the Ore gon University campus. The university wants the area included in the campus. JIAD ENOUGH HAWLEY, Mass. 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