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PAGE 4 A HERALD A NT) NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24, IflSH MARKETS and FINANCE Stocks W ALL STREET NEW YORK lAP) The stock market closed lower today as blue chips weakened in a late spurt of trading. The ticker tape was late. Volume for the day was esti mated at 2.800.000 shares com pared with 3.030.000 Monday. Gains of fractions to a point were made by leading carriers. New York Central and Pennsyl vania Railroad were up a point each. Southern Pacific rose about a point. General Electric was up around two. Plizrr added more than two and Zenith more than one. Lord- lard and American Motors were other one-point gainers. American Telephone dropped about two, and Union Carbide and Du Pont more than a point each. Gulf Oil was off about two and Texas Co. about a point. Jones & Laughlin posted a small Sain. North American Aviation and Phelps Dodge lost a point. U.S. bonds rallied alter two weeks of declines. NEW YORK STOCKS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Admiral Corporation Alaska Juneau Allied Chemical Allis Chalmers Alcoa American Airlines American Can ' American Cyanamide American Motors American Smelling American Tel & Tel American Tobacco American Viscose Anaconda Copper Armco Steel Atchison Railroad Bcndix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Co. Borden Co. Borg Warner Burroughs Corp. California Packing ' Canadian Pacific Caterpillar Tractor Celanese Corporation Chrysler Corporation Cities Service Consolidated Copper Consolidated Edison Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Douglas Aircraft Dow Chemical Du Pont de Nemours Eastman Kodak El Paso NG Emerson Radio Firestone Tire Ford Motor General Dynamics General Electric General Foods General Motors Georgia Pac Corp. Goodyear Tire Great Northern Great West. Sugar Idaho Power Illinois Central International Nickel International Paper ' International T & T Johns Manville Kaiser Aluminum Kennecott Copper Libby, McNeill & Libby Lockheed Aircraft Loew's Incorporated Montgomery Ward National Cash Reg. New York Central Northern Pacific Pacific American Fish Pacific Gas & Electric Pacific Tel & Tel Pan American Airways Penney (J.C.) Co. Pennsylvania R.R. Pepsi Cola Co. Philco Corp. Phillips Pet. Polaroid Pugct Sound P & L Radio Corp. of Amer. Rayonier Incorp. Republic Steel Reynolds Metals Richfield Oil Safeway Stbres Inc. St. Regis Scott Paper Co. Sears Roebuck & Co. Shell Oil Co. Sinclair Oil Socony Mnhil Oil Southern Pacific Spcrry Rand Standard Oil Calif. Standard Oil N.J. Studcbaker Packard Sunray Sunshine Mining Swift & Company Texaco Thompson Products Transamerica Corp. Twentieth Century Fox Union Oil Company Union Pacific United Air Lines United Aircraft United Corporation United States Plywood : United States Smelting United Stales Steel Walgreen Stores . Warner Pictures Western Auto Supply Western Union Tel. West ins-house Air Brake . Westinchnuse Electric Woolworlh Company 3 Vi 93 Vi 28 '.- 92 '.'4 23 V4 48 49 38 48 4 219 V, 94 364 59 63 26 70 48 45 20 Vt 37 39 V, 48 Vi 29 85 Vi 28 Mi 50 Vi 59 34 19 Vi 61 Vi 56 54-V4 26 56 74 '. '200 Vi 141 35 15 Vi 131 48 i 63 76 74 Vi 47 V4 49 Vi 115 50 29 : 48 48 'i 86 115 61 48 Vi 41 Vi 96 Vi 11 62 V4 20 Vi 40 M 78 26 Vi 48 V4 10 Vi 61 145 Vi 22 Vi 109 18 26H 24 ' 46 96 33 43 21 Vi 72 4 73 96 i 40 , 44 71 , 39 81 '7 64 h 47 14 62 23 57 '2 55 14 "4 26 7 4 33 Vt 8.1 67 29 35 44 35 i 28 58 i 8 U 40 33 Vi 89 47 24 Vi 2.1 31 .11 70 v, 52 -x IIROC1ILRE DOltRIS A new 12-page bro chure highlighting Siskiyou Coun ty's recreational business potential and airport facilities will he olf the press soon Harry Crebbin. sec retary of the coordinating council of Siskiyou County chambers of commerce, announced. Crebbin said the brochure, replacing the Hi edition with lour less paces will update pertinent economic in formation about the county, .and will place particular emphasis upon the development potential of the county airport at Montague. The new brochures will be mailed to industrial plant location firms, hanks and key chambers of com merce throughout the United States. Livestock KLAMATH FALLS LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET December 23, 1958 Receipt: Cattle 217. Hogs 92. Sheep 5. Compared last Monday cows .50 higher; all othei classes steady. Fed Steers: Sid., 23.70-24.10. Fed Heifers: Good-Choice, 25.00 25.80; Std., 23.50-23.90. Several good heiferettes, 950-1050 lbs., 24.25-24.50. Cows: Std.. 20.75-22.60; Cmcl., 20.-21.10: Utility, 18.10-19.90. Can- ners and Cutters, 13.40-16 60. Bulls: Utility and Cmcl., 23.75 24 50 : Feeders, 22.50-23.30. Hvy. Killer Calves, 26.90; Baby Calves, 26.00-34.00 per head. Stockcrs and Feeders: Steers. Good-Choice, 550-600 lbs., 26.10 27.75; Holstcins, 500-650 lbs., 22.50 24.75; over 700 lbs., 21.25-22.50. Heifers, Good, 550-750 lbs.. 23.80 25.00; Common-Medium, 21.50-23.60. Steer Calves, Good-Choice. 350-450 lbs., 29.00-30.50; Medium, 26.75 27.75. Heifer Calves, Good-Choice. 300-400 lbs., 28.00-30.00; Common Medium, 24.50-27.00. Feeder Cows, young, 18.70-19.30; aged, 14.20-15.20. Stock Cows, Common - Medium, 157.50-170: Good, 215 per head. Hogs: US. 1 & 2 (180-220 lbs.), 18.50-18.90. Sows, 13.85-14.00; Wean- er Pigs, 8.50-14.00 per head; Feed ers. 18.35-21.10. Sheep: Fat Lambs, Good, 18.00. Reported by Ray Peterson, coun ty extension agent. CHICAGO (AP) -J- (USDA) - Hogs 9.000: butchers 25 to 50 low er; 2-3 200-225 lb butchers 18.75 19.25; a few lots 2-3 220-225 lbs down to 18.50; a few hundred head 1-2 190-220 lbs 19.50-19.60 ; 22 head Is 190 lbs included at 19.60; mixed grade 2-3 230-250 lbs 17.75- 18.75: 2-3 260-280 lbs 17.25-18.00; a few lots 3s 290-340 lbs 16.25-17.00 mixed grade 330 - 400 lb sows 14.50-15.75; 400-550 lbs 13.25-14.50, Cattle 8.000; calves 100; slaugh ter steers steady to 50 nigher: a few loads prime 1,075-1,275 lb steers 29.25-29.75: bulk choice and prime 1.300 lbs down 26.50-29.00; high choice 1,505 lbs 28.65; choice and mixed choice and prime 1,375 1.535 lbs 25.50-27.00; good steers 24.00-26.50 according to weight; some good heavy steers at 24.00. under 1,000 lbs up to 26.50: mixed choice and prime heifers 28.25 28.50; good and choice 25.50-28.00; a load of standard 970 lbs 24.50; utility and commercial cows 17.00- 20.00; canncrs and cutters 15.00 18.25; few heavy Holslcin cutters 18.50; utility and commercial bulls 22.75-25.00; vealers 32.00 down; a load of good and choice 925 lb feeding steers 26.50. Sheep 2,000; slaughter lambs fully 25 higher; good to choice 100- 110 lb wooled lambs I8.0u-20.0n: around 500 head 105-107 lbs includ ed at 20.00; a double deck choice 120 lb wooled lambs 18.50; cull to low good 15.0O-17.SO; several ship ments mostly choice 99 . 113 lb shorn lambs No. 1 pelts 18.50; a double deck mostly good mixed yearlings and two-year-old 110 lbs at 15.00; cull to choice slaughter ewes 6.00-7.50. . PORTLAND (AP)-(USDA) Cattle salable 125; includes two loads fed steers plus few slaugh ter cows: other classes scarce; trade active; unlimited tupply; steady' (in represented classes; Monday truck lot average to high choice 1025 lb fed steers 28.35: one load good and choice 1,145 lb fed steers 27.00; load good 1102 lb 26.50; utility and commercial cows 17.00'19:50; canners and cut ters 14.00-16.50; low utility bulls 22.00-22.50. Calves salable 25; few good and choice vealers steady at 28.00 31.00. ..; Hogs salable 200; fresh receipts increased by holdover of 80 head from Monday; trade moderately active, steady; mixed No. 1-3 180 235 lb butchers 18.50-20.00. some 1-2 20 25-20.50; few 350-450 lb sows 14.00-16.00. Grain CHICAGO (API High Lqw Close Prev. close Wheat Mar 1.96' 1.94:l4 1.94VU 1.96'k May 1.92'j 1.91 1.91-91V 1.92'j ,lly 1.83 1.81 1.81 1.82' Sep 1.84 1.83 1.83 1.84 Corn (old 1 Mar 1.13'i 1.13V4 1.13-Vi 1.13 Corn (new) Mar 1.13 1.13 1.1.1-ii 1.13 May 1.15 1.15 1.15- 1.15 "y 1.17 1.16 1.16 1.17 1.17 1.16 1.16 1.17 Sep Oats Mar May My .65 .6.1 .60 .61 .64 .62 .60 .61 .64-65 .62 .60 .61 .65 .63 .60 .61 1.31 1.26 1.20 1.21 Sep Rye Mar May iiy 1.31 1.30 1.30 1.26 1.25 1.25.' 1.20 1.19 1.19 Sep 1.20 1.20 1.20 ' Soybeans Jan 2. 17 2 16 2.16- 2.17 2.19 2.18 2.19- 2.20 2.21 2.20 2.20 2.21 2.21 2.20 2.20- 2.21 2.13 2.11 2.11 2.13 Mar May My Sep PORTLAND (AP) - Coarse grains. 15-day shipment, bulk, coast dclivcrv: Oats No. 2, 381b white 52.00. Barley No. 2, 45-lb. western 52.00. Corn No. 2, yellow, eastern ship ment 54 25-54.75. Wheat (bid) to arrive market, basis No. 1 bulk delivered coast: Soft white 67.00 Solt White (hard appl.) 2.00 White Club 2 00 Hard Red Winter: Ordinary 2 00 10 per cent 2 nfl 11 per cent 2 00 12 per cent 2.00 Hard White Baart: Ordinary 2.10 10 nor cent 2 13 11 per cent 2.13 12 per cent 2.13 Car receipts; Wheat 9.1: Barley Flour 26; Corn 4; Mill feed City Wants Snow (Continued from Page 1-A) Girls. School milk cards nil be provided for those who need them Ihrough the Kappa Phi sorority Christmas doll project, r.pps Unit, American Legion Auxiliary con tributed to the gift shops at the veterans hospitals. A capacity crowd heard the ren dition of Handel's Messiah by a community choir and special so loists at the elementary school auditorium on December 14. Da vid Leighlon directed this special Christmas musicale. The children were not forgotten in Dunsmuir. School let out for two weeks on December !9 with a school party in every room at the Dunsmuir Elementary School. The high school halls echoed with spontaneous carol singing and the juniors gave a special assembly on rnday. Christmas in Dunsmuir is all of this and much more. Obituaries I.EVENTON Mrs. Nettie Levenlon, 89, native of California and pioneer resident of Lookout, died December 24 at her home in Lookout following a lingering illness. She was the moth er of Mrs. Hilda Morrison, 1812 Portland Street, this city and had spent several winters here with her daughter. Funeral services have not been announced. Survi vors include three daughters, Mrs. Morrison, .Klamath Falls, Mrs. Itha Fulcher, Mrs. Joyce Weldon and one son, Donald Leventon, all of Lookout'; also many grandchil dren and great-grandchildren. SISTER THERESE MARY Funeral services were held Monday, December 22, in Tacoma for a former Klamath Falls resi dent, Sister Therese Mary, 21, of the Order of St. Francis, who died Deceber 19 following a lingering illness. A requiem high mass was sung at 10 a.m. in the chapel of St. Joseph's Hospital. Final rites and interment followed in Calvary Cemetery. Tacoma. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKil lip, Klamath Falls. Sister Therese went to Tacoma last July for treat ment from the Novitiate of the Sis ters of St. Francis in Portland. She was born in Nebraska and came to Oregon in 1939 and en lered the religious order of her faith three years ago. She made her religious profession last Aug ust. During the years she was in school in Mamath Falls she at tended Sacred Heart Academy, leaving in her junior year. Be sides her parents she is survived by a brother, Capt. Wayne McKil lip, serving with the Air Force in German: and thiee sisters, Mrs, A. L. Todd. Sherwood, Oregon Mrs. K. E. Osborn. Portland, and Mrs. Edmond Mahan, this city Funerals BUCK Funeral services for Willis El gie Buck, 79, who died here De cember 2,1, will take place from Peace . Memorial Church, 4431 South Sixth Street, on Friday. De cember 26, at 1:30 p.m., with the Rev. Andrew Jarvis officiating. Concluding services and interment will follow in Klamath Memorial Park. Ward's Klamath Funeral Home in charge of the arrange ments. WATAH Funeral services for Kenneth John Watah, 31, will take place from the Bcatty Methodist Church on Friday, December 26, 1958 at U a.m. and 1 p.m., the Rev. Har ley Zellcr officiating. Concluding services and vault entombment in the Piute Cemetery. Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. POTATOES SAN FRANCISCO (UP1FSMNS) Potatoes: Russets U.S. 1A 2-inch minimum Klamath 3.50, Deschutes 3.25; long whites U.S. 1 5-pounce minimum Kern County 4.25. CHICAGO (AP) Potatoes: ar rivals 52: on track 194: total U.S. shipments 348: supply moderate; demand good: market for Russets steady; Round Reds slightly weak er; carlot track sales: Idaho Rus sets 3.45-3.50: Idaho Bakers 3 8.i: Colorado Red McClures 2.75; Min nesota North Dakota Red River Valley Pontiacs 2.15-2.55. Livestock STOCKTON (UPI-FSMNS) Livestock: Cattle salable 25. Utility cows 19-19.50, canners and cutters 15.50 18.50. Calves salable none. Hogs salable 25. Good and choice feeder pigs 50-120 lbs 22 29. under 50 lbs to 30. Sheep salable 50. Market untest ed. Potato Shipments Seasons 1957-58 1958-59 Daily Iruek-Ore. 7 16 Daily rail-Ore. 2 7 Daily trurkCnl. 0 13 Daily railCal. 0 ( Dully Total Ore. It Cnl. " 45 Monthly Total 892 664 Season Total ' 3010 2633 mm , hit No Drugs Cure Cancer, But Diseased Patients Experience Longer Life By JOHN R. HELLER, MD Director, National Cancer Institute WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two of the most promising areas of mod ern cancer research are chemo therapy treatment with drugs and vigology the study of viruses as a cause of cancer. Within the past decade a num ber of chemical agents have been developed that are temporarily ef fective in the treatment of such malignancies as leukemia. Hodg kin's disease, cancer of the breast, and prostate gland. To date, no case of human can cer has been cured by treatment with drugs alone. However, manv cancer patients have experienced prolongation of life and relative freedom from suffering owing to therapy with anti-cancer drugs. One of the most dramatic re sults of cancer chemotherapy is the suppression of a rare form of uterine cancer, chordocarcinoma, by the drug methotrexate. This disease usually kills the patient within a year; but a few women, whose disease had spread to the lungs and brain by the time drug treatment was started,..has shown no evidence of cancer for months. One of these patients has mani fested no sign of the disease for 2 years. The federal government, inde pendent research institutions, col leges and universities, and Ameri can industry are now joined in a massive, nationwide research pro gram aimed at developing safe, effective anticancer drugs. This undertaking was begun in 1953 when Congress allocated one mil lion dollars to the National Can cer Institute of the U. S. Public Health Service for a centrally di rected research program in the chemotherapy of acute leukemia. In 1955, the Cancer Chemothera py National Service Center was created in the National Cancer In stitute, and was given the respon sibility for developing a coopera tive chemotherapy research pro gram in laboratories and hospitals throughout the United States and abroad. For the present fiscal year, the appropriation for the center is 23. million dollars. The research program of the chemotherapy service center is now in full operation after com pletion of a three-year "tooling up" period. Essentially, there are three phases in the program: (1) the acquisition and initial testing in mice of thousands of chemicals each year to identify those few that possess anticancer activity: (2) further testing in animals -and the laboratory to learn more about these chemicals and to develop safe procedures for their use in humans; and (3) evaluation in ex tensive clinical trials with patients in hospitals of the still fewer drugs that are safe and show promising anticancer activity. The magnitude of this research effort is reflected by the fact that each year some 40.000 different materials are being tested in ani mals for anticancer properties. Experience has shown that only about one in a thousand sub stances tested will find its way ul timately to clinical trial, and even then, many will prove to be in adequate for use in treating hu man cancer. At the present time, there are about 60 drugs undergoing clinical evaluation in about 150 hospitals throughout the country that are cooperating in the chemotherapy research effort. In these studies, drugs already well known to the medical profession, such as metho trexate, nitrogen mustard, and the sex hormones, are used as refer ences to determine the effective ness of newer materials. One of the most important as pects of the national chemothera py program is the active partici pation of private industry. Many pharmaceutical, chemical and al lied firms, with their special fa cilities and talents for carrying out drug research, are making an invaluable contribution to the pro gram. The chemotherapy program will accelerate the search for antican cer drugs and may make it pos sible to develop additional, more effective, perhaps curative chemi cal agents for the treatment of malignant disease. The suggestion that cancer may he a virus disease such as polio or influenza, was first made more than 50 years ago. and is today the basis for another important, rapidly expanding area of cancer research. Many investigators have demon strated conclusively that some forms of cancer in animals are caused by viruses. Within the past few years, scientists at the Nation al Institute of Health, at Bet lies do. Md., found that a single virus, obtained from the tissue of a leu kemic mouse, causes a wide vari ety of tumors, not only in mice but also in rats and hamsters. In another study, a scientist working at the Sloan-Kettering In stitute for Cancer Research. New York City, has developed a vac cine that protects about 80 per cent of mice challenged with a leukemia-producing virus. These two studies are illustra tive of a great deal of virus re- mm search now in progress in the can cer field. Naturally, the question arises: Is human cancer a virus disease? And if it is, will science develop an anticancer vaccine? No one can answer either question at present. As . yet. no form of hu man cancer has been shown to be caused by the action of a virus Therefore, the results obtained in animal cancer-virus research are not applicable to human cancer. However, continued progress in virus research may lead to the discovery of a means of prevent ing some lorms of cancer in man. Both chemotherapy and virus research appear to offer the hope that medical science will be able to find ways of controlling cancer. either by the use of drugs, by pre ventive means, or both. Man Vins Yule Prize DUNSMUIR Lester Gilzean's display of a Christmas candy house on Surrey was adjudged the win ning outside decoration in the chamber of commerce sponsored Christmas lighting contest which was judged Tuesday night. California Oregon Power Com pany presented prizes of $25 to win ners in the four lighting classifi cations. Second in the outside lighting was Del Poe, Beverly Way, with Tom Campbell, Park Avenue, adjudged third. Best window prize was award ed to Mrs. Si Padula, South High way, with second to James Haley corner Oak and Shasta, and third Bob Bectel, Branstatter. Best porch scene was that of Cliff Schwegerl on Castle Avenue. Lloyd Carter, Branstatter, second. and Sid Fischer on Prospect, third. Homer Chappel, Champion Park, was awarded first prize for best tree, and Ralph May, South First, second. Weather Table United Press International Temperatures and rainfall for 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. High Low Rain Albuquerque 56 28 Atlanta 57 49 ,29 Bakersfield . 60 35 Boise 43 29 Boston . 41 32 T. Brownsville 76 63 Chicago 42 . 28 T. Denver 36 22 Detroit 39 26 El Centro 71 46 Fort Worth 67 39 Fresno 56 ' 41 Helena 26 Kansas City 51 27 Los Angeles 66 49 Miami 77 64 Minneapolis 33 27 New Orleans 73 62 .74 New York 48 40 Oakland 60 51 Oklahoma City 56 26 Phoenix 67 40 Pittsburgh 42 30 Red Bluff 49 42 .02 Reno 47 19 Salt Lake City 42 30 San Diego 68 50 San Francisco 58 50 Seattle 46 39 .,12 Spokane 33 28 Stockton 52 45 T. Thermal 74 39 Tucson 65 40 Washington 59 45 California Weather ' United Press International San Franpiirr Rav Arpa- PlnnHv today and tonWh' with chance of light rain tnnicil: nrtlv HnuHv Thursday: high today 55-60; low tonight 45-50; southwest winds 6 12 m.D.h.: chance of rain 10 npr cent today, 60 per cent tonight, 20 per cent Thursday. Ml. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Mod erate rain this afternoon and to night with snow above 3.500 feet; fresh SOtlthprlv WinHc- norlli. cloudy Thursday; little change in icmperaiure. Sacramento Vallev: Rain north portion this afternoon spreading to south portion tonieht:- nthprwicA cloudy today becoming partly ciouny inursaay: little change in temperature: high both days 46 54: low tonight 38-48; southerly winds 1fl-2n mnh Northwestern California: Moder ately neavy rain today, diminish ing tonight and becoming partly Clolldv Thursday liltlo rhanaa in temperature: high today and low lonigni L'Kian 55-45, Santa Rosa 58-40, Napa 60-42; small craft warnings Point Arena northward for southerly winds 20-35 m.p.h. today and tonight, diminishing Thursday. VISITING MOUNT SHASTA The Rev. Ray and Mrs. Wisner, are here from Roseburg to spend the Christmas holidflVS With fnilnt Shaela .).. tives and friends. Rev. Wisner was pastor of the local Evangelistic Tabernacle lor 10 years before ac cepting the pastorage of the Pil grim Church in the Oregon city. VALLEY PUMP AND EQUIPMENT COMPANY COMPLETE PUMPING SERVICE ALL MAKES REPAIRED Coll TU 4-9776 217S So. 6th St. Scribe Tells (Continued fnm Page 1-A) tion. From the hills above the town they brought a tree and trimmed it. Then the time came. There was snow that first year and it was bitter cold. Money was scarce and the packages beneath the tree were filled with more love than richness. Darkness came and the glow from the blue bulb in the porch ceiling on Christmas Eve shed a halo upon the snow. The children, snug in outing flan nel pajamas, sac upon a footstool listening to their mother's voice retelling the Christmas story. There was no television in those days. The basement door closed and in the later telling of her experience, it was eons of time from the first squeak of the hinges until the vis iting Santa, in red suit and white whiskers and a pack on his back, stood in the living room, in the home of his only child. Santa was slight, not the rotund, jolly old saint of the printed page. His voice certainly did not boom. The children were awed and stood shyly beside him, while he called them by name, gave each a small treat and touched gently the cheeks of his grandson and granddaughter. He declined the hot coffee that night, and disappeared soon into the darkness, up the street, and away. For nearly 20 years that same scene was repeated, each Christ mas Eve, as three other children were born. He saw them as babies, as teen-agers and finally on the threshold of maturity. He wore the same suit that lay tucked away in a hidden recess in that home in the times between Christ mas and Christmas. It became necessary to let the older ones in on the secret, al though they never revealed what had been told to them. They left with their aging grandfather the illusion of secrecy. And he in turn never told where his wanderings took him. Once he left a $10 bill, a new one, tucked upon a branch of the Christmas tree. In later years he tasted the cookies, sampled the coffee and sat a bit longer than on his first visits. He spoke only in generali ties but his gaze upon J he chil dren was that ot a doting grand father. Then one year he did not come. The last of the children was al most at the "telling stage," and that year, weeks after Christmas came without Santa's appearance, the story was told, even to the littlest one. The family has since moved be yond the perimeter of the Klam ath Basin. Permission was given to tell this story. The last trek of Santa is a part of his life left untold. Deputies Quiz Two Youths f Y'REKA Siskiyou County Sher iff's deputies were questioning two Happy Camp youths, aged 16 and 17, on Monday, December 22, as the result of an 85 mile per hour chase which was halted early Sat urday morning with the car plung ing into the Klamath River. The rescue squad of the sheriff's office was alerted for a possible recovery operation until it was learned several hours later that neither of the youths was serious ly injured, although both were al leged to be incoherent after being thrown from the speeding car. The two boys ran from the scene of the wreck, and at one time 40 or 50 people were search ing through the early morning darkness trying to locate them Leo Banta, Happy Camp deputy, had witnessed the accident, as he had been chasing the boy's speed ing car one and three fourths miles east of Happy Camp, when he saw the vehicle skid over the bank and partially submerge in the water. The two boys were ap parently thrown into the river, but escaped before Banta arrived on the scene. Located at his home about five hours later, one youth allegedly suffered "a bumped head." Ac cording to deputies, no charges as yet had been filed against the youths. PRIZE WINNERS MOUNT SHASTA The prizes of fered by California Oregon Power Company for the best decorated homes in the Mount Shasta area depicting Christmas scenes were won by Mrs.- Lucelle Morgan, first, $50; Gary Hincs, second $25, and Dino Pigoni, third with $15. There were six prizes of $10 each given to Mania Seaton, Rob ert Kohn, Lee Barlow, Marie Murray, Mary Orcutt and Robert Persch. The judging of the decorations was done Monday evening, De cember 22, by a committee ap pointed by Mrs. Clarice Vacent, president of the Mount Shasta BPWC, who had charge of t h e event that was sponsored by the Mount Shasta Chamber of Com merce. PRODUCE "BABY" CAR LONDON ( UPI ) Russia is pro ducing a new, four-passenger plas tic "baby" car that will make about 45 miles to the gallon, Mos cow Radio reported today. FRANK McMILLIAN and his daughter, Jeanene, only survivors of a traffic ac cident on Highway 97, 20 miles north of Weed, which wiped out the other mem bers of their family 'nine years ago, send Christmas greetings to their friends at Weed. Car Victim Never Forgets Christmas Spent In Weed By IJCILE GAYNOR WEED This Christmas story from Weed this year comes not from the tinkle of the Yuletide bells, the glitter of tinsel or the glimmer of colored lights hung with garlands throughout the town, but from the heart of a man and his gift of a generous box of toys sent annually to Dr. H. L. Vid ricksen for distribution to needy children of this area. The man, Frank McMillian, and his daughter, Jeanene, spent Christ mas of 1949 as patients m Weed Hospital, victims of the worst au tomobile accident in this area. The accident claimed the life of Mrs. McMillian, a son and a daughter and the woman passenger of the other car involved. With this year's shipment of toys for Weed children, McMillian wrote to Dr. and Mrs. Vidricksen: "There is so little I can say relative to sending of toys to the doctor each year for children who are not as fortunate as the ma jority at Christmas. Of course, I do have a very special feeling toward the doctor, his hospital and the children of your community. We all have our special cases of interest, but mine is super-special and I wish I could send more. Recalling the particulars of the 1949 tragedy, McMillian wrote: "The doctor may or may not recall that it was nine years ago on uecemoer 17 when he was called and he rushed to the scene of an automobile accident at Grass Lake, 20 miles north of Weed." The writer (McMillian), his son, Frankie, and daughters Charlene and Jeanene were still alive, but his wife, Leeda was dead as well as the woman passenger in the other car. 'We were taken to the Weed Hospital where Dr. Vidricksen no doubt worked day and night to save our lives, although Frankie and Charlene were too far gone to survive. Dr. vidricksen did a mir aculous job, with help of God, in saving me and one of my chil dren, Jeanene. 'The bodies of the other three members of my family were taken to Tacoma, our former home and the funerals were held on Christ mas Eve. "I was not aware of these things in a conscious aspect until days later, although I was aware of one thing: Jeanene was still alive and very low, indeed. It was almost Christmas Day and the children and their parents of Weed were praying for this .( Wish You F7! Witih You A Merry VhriHtma and Happy Xeic Year I0B j og DR. HARRY R. SCRIBNER Optometrist 822 Moin TU 4-7203 'v. " 1 fif jpSMte-r J ! little 3-year-old girl to live. All of her family had been killed ex cept her father and, if I recall, he was not in the most favorable position for long life at that time. 'It seems it was the day or so before Christmas when there came first a Christmas tree, all decorat ed with things the children of Weed had made for little Jeanene. Then the children began coming to the hospital with toys and gifts for the little dying girl. "Her condition was such that she could scarcely realize what was happening at the time, but her father and Dr. Vidricksen were observant of the lift it gave her spirits. We are sure to this day that these wonderful actions and visits by the children of Weed were instrumental in instilling life back into Jeanene and in helping her begin her way back to recov ery. "So, still today. I have a feeling of indebtedness to the children of. Weed and to the doctor which is far beyond any material gesture of appreciation I can ever show. They, with God's help, saved her life and permitted me to have the joy in the years following of hav ing with me one surviving member of my family. "It was a sort ot contagious thing. As she lived, a fight to sustain life and get back to good health became my one and only objective. It took me about a year and a half to recover, during which there were several opera tions, bone grafting, etc. My right leg was saved and I finally left the hospital, hobbling with a eane. ' "I can never in a lifetime re pay all of you up there for what you did during the Christmas of 1949." His daughter, Jeanene, is now 12 years old and a healthy and pretty girl, happy with a new fam ily very close to her and vfth no post-reactions or disabilities. "SIERRA BARON" "SNOWWHITE" Wed., December 24th ARCH THEATER - BLY Thura., Dec. 25 & Sat. Dee. 27 "Harry Black and The Tiger" Cinemascope and Color Starring Stewart Granger ARCH THEATER - BLY .1 II ; i too'
