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PAGE 4 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY. APRIL 12. 1959 Smo!(es,Bomb Both Promote Lung Cancer ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. AP)- ClgirettM ind nuclear bomb fall' out may together present an in. tensifwd lung-oncer hazard, a team of St. Louli scientists tald Saturday. This new twist on tha highly controversial aubject of whether cigarette amoklng is a cause of lung cancer was offered by Doc tors V. Suntieff, E. V. Cowdry and A. Cronlnger, all of Washing ton University medical school. Experiment! with mice, they tarn, suggest me touowing: That the combination of cigar ette tar and fallout radiation can produce tissue damage over and above what might be expected from the sum of the two agents together. That is, they told the 50th an nual meeting of the American Assn. for Cancer Research, the experiments indicate a "syner gistic effect a phenomenon in which each of two materials en hances the action of the other. In a preliminary report they aaid their conclusions to date are based on tests in which skin can cers were produced In mice by a combination of cigarette tar and radiation from strontlum-90. The latter is potentially the most dan gerous product in nuclear bomb fallout. Production of skin cancers on mice by cigarette tars alone was done a number of years ago by another group of Washington Uni versity researchers. And that ear lier experiment was one of the things that touched off the pres ent controversy over whether there is a link between cigarette amoklng and lung cancer in man. Scientists who argua that there Is no present evidence of any such link contend, for one thing, that conclusions about lung cancer in man can net be drawn from skin cancers In mice. ..- Daylight Time Bill Given Mew Chance 1 SALEM (AP) - The Senate State and Federal Affairs Com inittee,: reversing Its action of a week ago, agreed Friday to send the daylight saving referendum bill to the Senate floor for action The Senate probably will vote on It noxt Wednesday. - The committee voted a week ago to let the bill die In commit tee. But Friday, five members voted to send It to the floor with, out recommendation. Two mem. Sen reummended passage. Monitors voting . without roc ommendatlon ' were Sens. Boyd overnuise (O-Madras), chairman Harry Bolvln (D-Klamath Falls) Anthony Yturrl (It-Ontario), Dan Thiol (D-Astoria) and carl Fran cis (R-Dayton). , Recommending passage were Sens. Jean Lewis (D-Portland) and R. F. Chapman (D-Coos Bay). As the House passed it, the bill would let the people decide in November of 1960 whether they want to set their clocks one hour ahead from the last Sunday in jpru unt'i tne last Sunday in Sep. tember. Tha Senate committee, how. ever, added an amendment which would retain standard time in that part of Oregon In the moun tain time zone. This includes Mal heur County. Under the Senate amendment. uie enure state would have Pa. cific daylight saving time during Plane Burns; All Escape JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)-A four- enginoa airliner from Seattle, at tempting a landing at the Juneau Airport, crashed and burned Fri day. The 10 persona aboard es caped serious injury. The landing gear of the Pan American World Airways Stralo cruiser collapsed when the wheels hit the runway, Pan Am officials said, and the plane skidded for im yards, one side of the airliner burst into flames. The five passengers and three members of the five-man crew es caped through emergency hatches on ine side opposite the fire. Pilot John McDonald and co- pilot Bert Roswold, unable to beat their way through tha flames In tha main cabin, escaped through an emergency hatch in the cock' pit. Sen. Qualifies Success Wishes WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Richard Neuberger (D-Ore) wish es personal success for Sen. Thruaton Morton (R-Kv). But the Oregon senator said he wished Morton no political sue. cess. Morton was tapped by President Elsenhower Friday for the post of national cnairman oi tne Re publican Party. . Neuberger later commented that Morton was a man of high ethics and unimpeachable char acter who would not indulge in personal epithets or character as sassination In the GOP post. INJURIES FATAL VANCOUVER. Wash. (AP)-A woman Injured In a traffic acci dent Feb. 18 died in a hospital here Tuesday. She was Mrs. Julia Coltonware, 78, of La Center, Wash. I iPhU TM. feg. U4.NL Oft ' VjS xn m fry ma wm, W &y& 4M "I guest in time I'd forget Mom and Dad, but there's whole gallon of oherry-vanllla left in the freezerl" Speculative Jitters Jar Activity In Stock Market NEW YORK (UPI) - The market suffered from speculative Jitters last week. Stocks were unable to generate any kind of a sustained rally al though they tried several times. This was a nervous market and there was always just enough selling to keep it off balance. Over-all, about ft billion was lopped off stock valuations. Gains outnumbered losses by a small margin on Monday and by a sllihtly larger margin on Friday. Losses predominated in the three Intervening sessions. The economic news remained highly favorable last week, with a greater than seasonal decline in unemployment the best news of all. The auto industry is doing very well and a Ford official on Friday predicted sales of 1959 model cars would hit 6 million units, up 30 per cent from 1858. Steel operations held at a rec ord level but the possibility of strike grew last week when tne United Steelworkers of America rejected as a "publicity stunt" a steel Industry request for a wage freeze for one year. The current three-year contract in the steel In dustry expires at midnight June 30. Strength In rails on Monday Father Wields Bat, Kills 3 SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) An aeronautical engineer Saturday beat hit three children to death with a baseball bat. severely bludg eoned his wife and killed himself with a butcher knife at his home Police Identified him as J. B Matthews Jr., 40, employed by the Federal Aviation Agency. He was the son of the staff di rector of the Senate Investigating Subcommittee headed by the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) The slain children were Stephen Matthews, 13, Stephen s twin sis ler, Sharon, and Ann Susan Mat thews, 14. ' Helen Matthews, 42, was beaten severely about the face before she broke out of the ' house and ran into the street screaming for help. Neighbors called police who found Matthews with his throat slashed. Officers said he still was berserk and they had to overpow cr him before they could rush him to a hospital in Alexandria. He died there shortly afterward. Soft Drink Firm Named In Suit. DORRIS-Suit for $15,150 damages by Nancy Chase. year-old daughter of Judge and Mra. Los Chase, against the Pepsi-Cola Company of Mount Shasta through her attorney, Har ry Hammond -of Yreka, it was learned here today. The complaint aliegos that the plaintiff drank "cattail plants and rodent hairs" with a bott'e of the soft drink purchased on Febru ary 28 at Dorrls, causing her to become extremely 111, Legislative Pay Bill Supported SALEM (AP)-The Senate State and Federal Aflalrs Committee gave its support Friday to an at tempt to let the Legislature fix us own salaries. It approved a bill to increase legislators' 8600 annual salaries to $175 a month. The monthly salary would be paid throughout a legis lator's term. The Constitution fixes the salary at $600, but legislators hope the Supreme Court might rule it would r constitutional for the lawmak ers to set their own salaries, Burglars Enter District Tavern Burglars sawed out the rear door panel of the Sunrise Tavern. Con ner of Main and East Main streets, sometime between 1 and 4 Satur day morning, city police were told. Tavern owner Jack Thomas said approximately $20 in one dollar bills and change appeared to be missing. The entry was discovered by the building Janitor, Thomas said. Thomas said some beer might also have been stolen, and Friday accounted for the market's fair showing on those two days. This group was helped by forecasts of sharply higher lirst quarter earnings and comm. ued gains in freight loadings. The big factor behind the mar ket's nervousness all week as the raft of warnings to Investors to stop-look-listen before Investing. The major stock exchanges and the Securities ai Exchange Com mission have Issued statements designed to cool speculative ardor. The SEC said it Is trying to track down the tips and rumors that have been pouring out of the financial district at an Increased pace. These warnings have made In- vestors a bit more cautious which accounts for much of the market's ragged showing last week. Also, same of the selling has been attributed to investors who have to raise cash to pay tneir income taxes. Some brokers said feara th Federal Reserve might further tighten margins which regulate the amount of cash a purchaser of stock must put up was another restraining influence. The "fed usually meets on Thursday. When that session passed without any action having been taken, the tone of the market improved on Friday. The chemicals finished the week on a lower note. Du Pont lost 8Wi points to 223, which hurt the industrial average. The drugs were strong during the week. Bristol Myers rose 7 points. American Home Products SVt, and Vlck 9 points. Polaroid jumped more than 5 in the cameras, Philadelphia & Reading, a wide mover, ran up more than 15 points. It was helped by news it had completed a major acquisition program in the soft goods field. Bavuk Clears. engaged in a proxy contest, rose 3 in the tobaccos. The steels were Jower as a group. Ford was up more than 3 but Chrysler and General Mo tors eased. Non ferrous metals were aoft. Curtlss Wright and Bendix wore up mora than 3 each in the air- crafts, the former on reports of a new design in vertical aircraft. Atlantic Coast Line was ud almost 2 in the rails. International Paper lost 5V'4. The weekly Dow-Jones averaacs showed industrials down 5.06 points to 005.97,- rails up 0.89 to itu.ii utilities down 1.29 to 92.59 and 65 stocks down 1.54 to 200.23. The daily average volume last week slipped a bit more to 3.123.222 shares, the lowest since the week ended Feb. 13, 1959. The previous week's daily average vol ume was 8,128,476. Ford was the most active stork last week, followed bv General Motors, Aluminum, A m,e r i c a n motors, Pan American, Standard Oil (N.J.) and AVCO. Rubber Strike Talks Closed NEW YORK (AP)-No further bargaining talks have been sched uled in the strike of 27,000 produc tion workers against the U.S. Rub ber Co. The strike shut down comnanv plants in 11 slates from coast to coast. Picket lines were set up Friday after expiration of the con tract with the United Rubber Vi orkers. Eighteen plants are affected. Wages are not an Issue They are scheduled for later negotiations. It was the first U.S. Rubber strike since 1955, when there was six-day walkout. The union claimed ' the com pany's pension plan Improvements offer fell "far short in-many re spects to benefits which auto work ers and steel workers now have." The other maior Issue in the walkout was what the union de scribed as contract terms that could lead to a production speed up. YOUTH KILLED GRANTS PASS (AP) - Harold David scnuck. 22, Mcdford, was killed Instantly early Saturday when the car In which he was riding was wrecked on the Rogue River Highway (formerly u. 8. 99) about 11 miles southeast of Grants Pass. Circus Killer Doomed To Die Before Public HUGO, Okla. (AP) Dorothy the doomed circus elephant will give her last performance Sunday. She is to be executed before scores of curious onlookers. Officials of the Carson and Barnes Circus say Dorothy is too dangerous to let live. She has killed one trainer and. injured an other by crushing them under her head. Last ' November near Port Ar thur, Tex., she killed James Lloyd, 28, of New York, a trainer with Hagcn Bros. Circus. Then two weeks ago she flipped over on Richard Shipley, elephant superin tendent for Carson and Barnes. Dorothy s speciality is a head stand on a barrel. She has per formed before countless thousands in circus tents across the nation, This talent was turned on Lloyd and bnipiey. After Dorothy did the headstand on Lloyd in Texas, she was sold to Carson and Barnes for $5,000. Joe Sullivan, circus spokesman. said his firm hoped to rehabilitate Dorothy and put her back in the ring. For three months the big 25-year-oid Deast ocnaved, ne said, Then two weeks ago she turned on Shipley at the circus' winter quarters here. Shipley, who was employed only recently, knelt to adjust a leg band while on an inspection tour of the elephant barn. Dorothy went into a nosedive. pinning the trainer. Freddie Lo gan, a handler, tried vainly to drive her away. Then he gave the signal for the end of her act and she rolled clear. State highway patrolman Ed Vandergrlff agreed to kill Dorothy with a deer rifle. Circus offi cials said the execution will be open to the public. Lions Speech Contest Won By Weed Girl WEED Seventeen-vear old Christy Kersey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Kersey of Weed and a senior at Weed High School, was named winner of the Lions Club regional speaking contest Fri day night at the Mt, Shasta Ski Bowl lodge on the slopes of Mt. Shasta. . The other two contestants at the regional level were Julie Townley of Yreka and Pat Banks of Al- turas. .v Topic for' this year's speaking contest was uomplacency Dan ger to America? 1 Dr.' William Letcher, denutv dis trict governor of the Lions Club for the region, conducted the meet ing. . Judges for the contest were Gwin Bland and Mike Graban from the Shasta Junior College at Redding ano Mrs. Eugenia Aftmann of the Mount Shasta High School faculty. The dinner meeting was attend ed by Lions Club members and their families from all over Northern California. Miss Kersey will enter the dis trict competition to be held at Richardson Springs on May 16. Ike To Finish Golf Vacation AUGUSTA. Ga. (AP) Presi dent Elsenhower plans to resume his vacation here immediately aft er keeping two Washington en gagements early next week. Eisenhower himself made that known Friday in bidding goodbye to visiting Republican leaders at the Augusta National Golf Club. The leaders came here to hear formally what they already knew that Eisenhower has settled on Sen. Thruston Morton of Kentucky to be the party's new national chairman. "I am coming up (to Washing ton) Monday afternoon and I am coming back here the next after noon." Eisenhower told them. The President's two Washington engagements are a speech Mon day night at a Republican Women's dinner, and taking part Tuesday morning in dedication of a bell tower at the capitol to the late GOP Son. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Elsenhower didn't aav how Inns he would remain in Augusta after returning. But the guessing is un til a week from Sunday. Since his arrival Tuesday he has played 18 holes of golf every day. Car Shortage Study Begins SALEM (AP) The governor's emergency transportation commit tee, consisting of 12 shippers, met here Saturday to begin its job of trying to avert a shortage of freight cars this summer. Russell J. Hogue. Mcdford lum berman, is chairman.. The committee discussed re sponsibility of shippers to load cars to capacity. The committee blames the ex pected shortage on the fact that Eastern railroads are using many cars owned by Western lines. Oregon has had similar com mittees since 1955. TRUCK TAXES VP SALEM (AP) - Weight. mile taxes paid by trucks in the first three months of this year totaled 10 per cent more than in the same period of last year. Public Utilities Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said Saturday. At the same time, he said, col lection costs dropped 1.3 per cent. Crumbling Old School Revived As Town Center FORT JONES The "new" city hall, once a charming but crunr bling hull, is teeing more action these days than at anytime since It was retired after serving for decade as the city's elementary school. The rebirth of the old structure as a community center is remark able. Wizened oldtimers, not long ago, were predicting its fate at the hanfs of wreckers. Siskiyou Coun Stone Caster Once Sought Royal Duel TOKYO (AP)-The unemployed commoner who stoned the roval wedding procession once wanted to challenge members of Japan's Im perial family to a duel. Police said a notebook found in the apartment of Kensetsu Naka yama, 19, carried the following no tation addressed to members of the imperial family. "I challenge you to a duel on April 10." It was dated March 26. Nakayama wilt be turned over to the Tokyo district prosecutor's office Sunday for indictment, po lice said. A charge of "commit ting violence," carrying a maxi mum penalty of two years impris onment, will be recommended. Nakayama hurled a stone at Crown Prince Akhito and Princess Michiko Friday as they left the Imperial Palace after their mar riage to ride through cheering throngs in an open carriage. The stone narrowly missed the prince. Police pounced on Naka yama seconds later as he vaulted onto the aide of the moving coach in a lunge towards Akhito. Last month, Nakayama sent the imperial household a letter in which he demanded to see the Em peror. ' Police quoted him as saying he intended to disrupt the wedding by dragging the prince and prin cess out of the carriage, but that he did not want to hurt them. "I have hated the Emperor and Empress ever since my primary school days when my teachers forced me to bow deeply in the direction of the Imperial Palace, police quoted the youth as saying, "It was outrageous that the im perial family was using taxpayers money to build a palace' for the crown prince when there are peo ple like myself who are having such a difficult time." Police investigation revealed that Nakayama recently failed en. trance examinations to three Japa nese universities. 'Space Men' May Expect Test Hops WASHINGTON (AP)-America's seven Mercury astronauts will take comparatively short test hops to the edge of space before one of them is chosen for a shoot around the world. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Friday the test hops will shoot the men 20 to 25 miles up from the Cape Canaveral, rla., rocket range. Their capsules, propelled by Army Redstone rockets, will come down perhaps 100 miles away near the Bahama Islands. Plans call for the capsules to come down by parachute and be recov ered by boats stationed in the landing area. Only one man will be chosen for the first attempt at the big flight, which will shoot him into orbit around the earth at a height of 100 to 150 miles, possibly some time in 1961. He'll complete a circuit .of the earth about once every 90 minutes, orbiting at 18.000 miles an hour. The reactions of the seven on the preliminary test flights may play a part in which man Is se lected. They all say they want to be first. Police Seek Golden Car MILLBURY. Mass, (AP)-Thls is one stolen car police feel sure they'll find. . A thief stole a $4,600 Mercury sedan Thursday night from Mill bury Motor Co. He also took the dealer's registration certificate, his plates and $42. What encourages the police la the car has a completely gold in terior. TIME PAYMENT -MOUNTAIN HOME. Idaho (AP) Ex-newspaper carrier Art Pos tlewaite said he received a $3 check from a former customer in Newburg, Ore. Seventy-five cents was fo.' a month's newspaper delivery. The other $2.25 was for 27 years interest. FOR SALE Factory Block Yood Phone 4-9639 or 2-2533 $2 Load at ty supervisors for a time discussed its potential as a home for the aged. But community spirit, on a de cisive upswing in town, arrived In the nick of time for the rescue, The building was purchased by the city last December. It has since become a meeting place for the city council, the Volunteer Fire Department, the Scott Valley Ir rigation District and the Women's Club. Dancing classes are held there, and sometimes It is used for private parties. The hall also houses the Fort Jones branch of the county library. The three-room 'schoolhouse Is familiar to generations of young and middle-aged Scott Valley peo ple. Archie Kindig, a longtime Val ley resident, was principal and teacher of grades six, seven and eight for years before his retire ment in the early 1950s. His wife, Daisy, taught the three intermed iate grades. The school was built by the Fort Jones Elementary School District during the 1930s. It was replaced in May, 1957, by a spanking new, low, modern building in the south section of town that is equipped to handle swelling elementary en rollment In the Fort Jones end of Scott Valley. Groups of civic-minded folk have gathered recently to paint and spruce up the old building still sound as a dollar, and mighty com. fortable to those who were schooled in it. Cypress, once tortured by droves of whittling, scrambling children, have swept up Into graceful trees since the school's retirement, They lend an aura of graciousness to the semi-Spanish style building. Lower Lumber Freight Rates Study Topic WASHINGTON (AP) Low ered freight rates on lumber ship ments from the Pacific Northwest to California and Arizona will be considered at an Interstate Com merce Commission hearing In San Francisco May 12. Testimony will be taken on rate reductions put into effect Jan. 26 by railroads operating north of Portland. Ore. The Question is whether these substantial reduc tions on southbound lumber were justified. Washington State lumber In terests support the reductions, contending thev were necessary to restore competitive relation ships. Reductions on California Nevada shipments originating at Portland and producing areas south of Portland last Dec. 21 up set the rate structure, supporters say. Southern Patific rate changes were suspended by the ICC for seven months the legal maxi mum but the new rates became effective at the end of that time, while the ICC still was investi gating. A decision on the rates is pending. . Opposition to the reductions north of Portland comes from the California Forest Products Shippers Assn. of San Francisco and the Southwest Pine Assn. of Phoenix, Ariz. Scouts Begin Cookie Sale WEED The annual Cookie Sale initiated by Girl Scouts and Brown ies began recently in Weed. Exactly 1,320 boxes of cookies were ready for the annual sale with Mrs. Dan Downev servlne as the Weed chairman. Brownies of the local troons paired off and Intermediate Girl Scouts worked individually or in pairs to canvass the entire com munity. Senior Girl Scouts will su pervise a booth sale for the cook ies at a downtown spot during the two-week sale. The local Girl Scout and Brownie units will retain five cents for each box sold to assist initiation of their local programs. The re maindcr, above costs, goes to the council ana is primarily used for camping, campsites, equipment and a better scouting program. Spaniel Gang -Member Jailed PHILADELPHIA W-A 17-year- old boy has been sentenced for participating in a teen-age extor tion ring that police said threat ened Its victims with such words as: '"We'll carve your face so your own mother won't know you." Judge Sydney J. Hoffman sen tenced Melvin Dunson Friday to an indefinite term in the House of Correction. Dunson, police said, was a member of a North Phila delphia gang known as the "Span iels." Police said victims of the gang were forced to pay tribute from wages earned by working after school hours. MOJO the plant M-- 1W ETNA TROOP SS Scouts know their knots. From left, they -i are Charles Clay, Raymond Tickner, Tommy Cooke, Fred ' die Miles and Mickey Cross. The Rev. Crval Clay, Scout master, is In beck. ' Obituaries MOCK MOUNT SHASTA-John Mock 76, a resident of Mount Shasta for the past 14 years, died in tne Mount Shasta Community Hospital Wednesday, April 8. Mr. Mock was a native ot Kan sas. While following painting con tracting during most of his indus trial life, he was an early day Dhotosraoher. At one time, about 1910, ne was oiuciai pnotograpner on top of Pike s Peak,' Colorado, wording for the cog railway that runs up the famous mountain. Mock suffered a fall from a painting scaffold about two weeks ago. He had been confined In the hospital since the accident until the sudden heart seizure ended nis life. Surviving him are two daugh- ters. Mrs. Carmellta Meneni and Mrs. Audrey Penserlni, both of Mount Shasta. A son, f ranx mock, resides in Netarts, Oregon. There are also nine grandchild ren and two great-grandchildren. All of the relatives are In Mount Shasta awaiting the funeral, the arrangements for which are pend ing. The body Is at Noble's Funeral Chapel. ANDERSON Wade William Anderson, Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Carol An derson, Klamath Falls, died here! April 9; besides the parents he is also survived by the grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William Oakes of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. Wade Anderson of Stanley, North Dako ta. O'Hair's Memorial Chapel is in charge Of the funeral arrange ments. Council Plans Clinic Review There will be a meeting of the Klamath County Child Guidance Advisory Council at noon on Wed nesday, April 15, at the Klamath County Health Department, An appraisal of the two-day work. shop held in Klamath Falls the last weekend in March will be given and discussed. Persons attending the clinic at Mills School auditorium on March 27 and 28 were asked to express an opinion concerning future work shops or forum meetings. Mrs, Karl Urquhart has tabulated the cards returned and there will be discussion at Wednesday's meet ing on the subject of future forum meetings. The meeting is called by Mrs E. A. Geary, chairman of the ad visory council. Funeral. WOOD LAKEVIEW Graveside services were held at 4 p.m. on Saturday in sunset rant cemetery with Father Elden Curtiss officiating for James Thomas Wood, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Wood. who died early Saturday morning. Two brothers and three sisters sur vive in addition to parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Wood, Klamath Falls and Mr. and Mrs. John Highland. Klamath Falls. Ousley-Osterman Funeral Home was in charge of arrange ments. STEWART ' Funeral services for Hazel A. Stewart, 74, who died in this city April 9, will be held in O'Hair's Memorial Chapel Monday, April 13, at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be made in Klamath Memorial Park. JENKINS Funeral services for William Jen kins, 85, who died in this city April 8, will be held In the Sa cred Heart Church Tuesday, April 14, at 9:30 a.m. Recitation ot the Holy Rosary will be in O'Hair's Memorial Chapel Monday at 8 p.m. Monsignor T. P. Casey officiating. Interment will be made in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. CITY OF FISH MONTE CARLO (AP) - A fish city is being built by France in the sea off Monte Carlo. This was disclosed by . Cmdr. Jacques-Yves Coustcau. one of France s top oceanographers. Cousteau said the idea was to create a reserve for rare ocean dwellers where they could develop and be studied undisturbed. NO! I HAVE BUSINESS AS USUAL WHILE REMODELING Use Entrance Next Door NISSEN'S INSTITUTE 1227 MAIN -Si'trT, ni Scouts Plan Camporee ETNA Boy Scouts of Etna Troop 55 discussed plans for a forthcoming camporee, to be held April 18 and 19 on Shackleforj Creek in Quartz Valley, during their meeting April 6. 4 The camporee will involve scouti from the Siskiyou District. ' The boys were assisted In height and distance estimation and knot tying practice by the Rev. OrvaJ Clay, scoutmaster, and Albert Miles, assistant. Boys attending were Mick Cross, Raymond Tick; ner, Tommy Cooke, Charles Clajt and Freddie Miles. ' Next meeting of Troop 55 will bj Tuesday at 7 p.m. The boys will further prepare for the camporeej Hermit, 61, j Lives Alone j And Likes it GRAND TOWER, 111. (AP) - A visit with Dewey Walker is like stepping into the last century. waucer is a bearded hermit whd has. built his own house, makes his own shoes and grinds his own corn with a homemade mil fash' ioned from two pieces of lim! stone. t He is 61 and has lived alone 11 years in a wooded area near the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois. There is no road to the clearing where he has constructed a one-room log house. The bearded woodsman has few complaints, but suffers a shortage of flax thread, which he uses te make his shoes from discarded tire casings. Cotton thread doesn't wear well, he said..'' Walker built his heavy grind stone mill for corn he grows in the clearing. He grows most of his food. Anything else he needs- thread, tobacco or lard he get by bartering with neighbors, x "I don't remember the last time I went to town," he said. He receives no pension or relief money, but once in a while he trades a few hours work for a distant neighbor for a few thing from Grand Tower, a town of less than 1,000. , Walker's house is the work of a 19th Century craftsman. He learned woodworking as a boy and was employed in a sawmill until 1910 not far from where he novf lives. i Until clearing his portion of the woods he worked as a hired hand around the area. .'. He never married, and says he is quite happy. ' I like the feeling of lndepend ence, says the hermit. - Non-Political Tour Resumed! MADISON, Wis. (AP) Sen? John Kennedy (D-Mass) came te this center of Wisconsin Democrat ic strength Saturday for a meeting! with party people, still Insisting he was not laying the groundwork for possible entry in next April's state presidential primary. It was the third day of a Wis consin tour and while Kennedy haj repeatedly insisted he is not a cam didate for the Democratic nomina tion, state party people see in hit visit an indication he will make the run. The Massachusetts sens' tor ended the tour with an ad dress at Appleton Saturday. More than 700 persons crowdet) Into a dinner meeting at whiclt Kennedy spoke at Janesville Fri day night honoring Rep. Gerald Flynn (D-Wls. .' At the meeting, Kennedy predict ed that a strong bill curbing labof and management abuses would be passed by the Senate this monthi At Bcloit College, Kennedy said a Democratic candidate doei need the support of labor but here I mean the working men and wom en, not necessarily the political bosses behind the desks. He remarked that Catholicism was no hindrance in a race for the presidency, adding "It has not been a hindrance to my political career to date." . NOT SOLD . . 1 .
