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City’s Tax Rate
Insecticide
is the Odor
Wheat Dives
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To New Low
tor and state GOP re-registration
York, engineer, said their plane
Storm Perils
Atlantic Coast
davits
Second Wreck
and Zakynthos, two other of the
coast.
We had just as many lights.
lives without them.
the advisory.
• IMPORTANT!
4 Millions Are Idle in French Strike
weatherman sees only fair skies might be eliminated. (Page 13)
establishments as the gigantic strike
The well blew out Monday as
wave
workmen were pulling easing
on
rolled on in France.
Today’s Pollen Count
Grasses 30. Pigweeds 20.
SH 29, which is about 300 feet
W hat's inside
Hourly Temperature
producing this year, it was aban
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Alleging a “substantial portion”
nt absentee ballots in Oklahoma
First
statien.
Two Others Killed
As State Toll Soars
—for Oklahoma City’s
owners—in November.
Fear of Allotments
End Sparks Plunge
North Carolina Seen
Ar Hurricane Center
Mercury to Climb
To 93 Here Today
PARIS, Aug. 13— (P— New walk-
outs were called Thursday in the
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U. S. May Hold
250 RedPWn
When moking your check lilt
for this yeor, vacotion, don’t
forget to inelude your Okie-
homan and Timest Twa special
servicet are ovoiloble f« you
M thet you toe enjoy your
Seme newspaper oH vocotion
Twa Madill policemen were
out of a job Thursday after a
woman transient claimed they
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mate of the dead and injured
among the 120,000 people of the
three islands.
1. At your requnt your paper,
will be mailed anywhere in
the U.S. et no estra cost.
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with their legs.
Anyway, August is the month
crickets get wings and the time
said, charges will be filed.
Meanwhile, under powers grant
the time the Madill man was al-
lowed to visit her cell.
Cook said the woman and her
chairman, sai’ party workers were
[denied access to Canadian county
absentee records.
At the same time, Twist wrote
James V. Phelps, Canadian coun
Fire Destroys $90,000
Building Atop Pikes Peak
swer seems to be that more
bonds have been paid off than
have been voted and assessed
against the taxpayers. (This
page)
STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1953 t date, 297; August, 21
1952 te date, 337; August, 21
Of the Day
Cricket Pickets Make
Squeamish Girls
Late to Work
GOP Says
Canadian County Ballots
Destroyed Too Fast,
Twist (Haims
An investigation is underway.
(Thia page)
Jobs Protected
flew over Kefallinia Wednesday „ . . c.
afternoon and the stricken island ileat tO tay
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Editorial Page
David Lawrence says the So-
viet H-bomb is good news for us.
ilar attempt to organize an FOP (landing by off Italy. The heavy
lodge here 10 years ago, cruiser Salem, flagship of the U. S.
Chief L. J. l bert, who labels sixth fleet, already is at Argosto-
City Wednesday night and thou-
sands still covered sidewalks and
walls of office buildings Thurs-
day morning.
In a number of isolated cases,
the buildings appeared to be
crawling with them. Some
squeamish stenographers were a
little late to work because they
refused to cross the sidewalks
1 until the paths were cleared.
As janitors fought the black in-
sects with brooms and water
hoses a professor of entomology
at Oklahoma A&M college, Still-
water, explained this is just a |
good year for them, that’s all.
day and 5 a m. Thursday,
Other Cities Hit
The disaster centered at Kefal-
linia but also struck hard at Itha-
displaced cliffs.
American personnel at Kefallinia
Bad Votes Fires Sweep Over Trembling
Land Hidden by Dust Clouds;
TIP98
MARLOW, Aug. 13—R-A nat-
ural gas well blowing out of con-
Is Cut by $1.80
News of Reduction Surprises Officials
But Recheck Shows That It’s Correct
port. was "beginning to sink under water.”
The Athens newspaper Katherini quoted reports from
By HENRY BURCHFIEL
Oklahoma City property owners are in line for a $362,-
847.81 saving when they pay their local tax bills at the
county treasurer’s office next November.
The saving is based on an anticipated $1.80 drop in the
tax rate on each $1,000 of assessed valuation, said Jim Kerr,
Crosswerd Puzle
Markets ........
ON Reports ......
Radio Log ....
Sports ......--
Town Talk
Vital Statisties ..
Women’s Peges .
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lights attract them when its dark , ____. .
out in the rural areas. This may COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug 13-
Chinese Go Home
The allies have sent back the
last Chinese prisoner who wants
to go home—despite Red threats
to hold UN prisoners on war
crimes charges. If the U. S. holds
back any PWs in retaliation. *
will have to be North Koreans-
and the Chinese who run the
show in Korea don’t care about
them. (Page 5)
Wheat Dilemma
The vote of eastern former*
will probably decide the fate of
wheat quotas. Very little wheat
is grown in the east A minority
of farmers could end allotments
in tomorrow’s voting since a two-
thirds majority is needed to
keep quotas. (Page 12) Mean-
while wheat plunged to the low-
est price in six years in Chi-
cago Thursday. (Thu page)
Board Named
A bitter critic of Truman's
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HORDES OF field crickets in-
I vaded downtown Oklahoma
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ed to Cook as commissioner of ..._________
charities and corrections, the two are cast illegally, state Republicans
l are questioning witnesses u n d e r Thursday called on the attorney
oath. general to remove the cloak of se-
Cook said he had “never run into crecy they say now hides absentee
a case like this anywhere else in voting records in Canadian county.
erTwasernjohena°mondsa9, tnrPFk’ECVCOmRTaxCut
miles west of Maysville, when an-
other vehicle, driven by Lee Ed Tvlctap Rain
gar Magers, 69, Lindsay, made a 1 WISWCT IdIII
left turn in front of Hooper’s car.rT. A i
Hit Arkansas
A few officers have confided in all (j. S. equipment and supplies
newsmen about their active parti- would be made available for the
cipation in the move, although emergency.
were fired for a aim The U. S. carrier Roosevelt was
The Weather
Unitea states Weather Bureau
LOCAL— Fair and somewhat
warmer today, tonight and Fri-
day. High today, about 93. Low
tonight about 72. High Friday, in
the 90s. -
STATE-Fair Thursday night
and Friday; little change in tem-
perature; low Thursday night
generally near 70; high Friday in
90s.
Comic Dictionary
Converation-The art of bear
mg as well as being heard.
Ay . y Liana nuuuen DY LuSl wiou-S»
Concealed, Ships Ready for Mass Rescue
Ea"amSHrMbIKm Charges May Be Filed
—. . . . , . , ........ . . . The commissioner said Barnes
Thursday S cricket invasion produced scenes like this all over downtown Oklahoma called him in on the case Wednes-
City. This picture was taken at NW 8 and Broadway. day If the facts warrant it, he
foreign economic policy commis-
sion. The president was reported
Thursday to have picked seven
men to complete membership in
the 17-m ember commission,
(Page 5).
More Taxes’.
If you’re in a low income
bracket, surprise awaits you on
New Year's day. You’re going to
pay more federal taxes despite
a 10 percent cut in income levies.
The reason—an automatic in-
crease in social security taxes.
(Page 26)
Money Saver?
A way to save state tax dollars
by spending them slower may be
contained in an attorney gener-
al's opinion issued Thursday. It
gives state agencies 90 days long-
use on
MEIN53?
Aecidents to August 1 .16,975
injured to August 1 6,147
Deed to Augusr x,-. 297
Phone CE 2-1211,
toeme te vacatien
service.
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There was one bright develop: hours. Building trade were mightshave togorqn doingssowfoe donedas estimated the well is -l
2. You con buy your Oklo-
homon end Times from
newsdealers in most oreas
Oklehomans prefer to visit.
auditor for the county clerk.
Nai Yet Official
Kerr said the rate on all city
property will drop from 564.3047
last year to $62 4974 this year for
a net saving of $1.8073 on each
$1,000 of taxable valuation. Drop-
ping the fractions, the saving is
$1.80.
The auditor said the figures are
accurate but not yet official. They
DES MOINES. Aug. 13-m—Del anzhody bac k"sin the prisonnreeis
egates tonthennationalzconvention going foPward, but tha ti Ch.
of the DanishaEvange ticalutu nese communist group involved in
£ ran IM here wdneday to Pfisonncampj crimes will be held
change the church's name to the unti the “ :
American Evanselisa Lutheran Well That
Went Wild Capped
After 70 Hours
°klhomman and a male compan. .In aletter to. Mac,. William-
taws ™
WASHINGTON. Aug 13-V-
Army Secretory Robert T. Stevens
said Thursday that about 250 Chi-
nese communist prisoners sre in*
volved in various crimes and may
be held until the last of the prison-
- - navy section in Greece, left in an
but prohibits strikes, has been amphibian plane with Charles
proposed a number of times Yost. U. S. chsrge d'affaires, for
in police circles by individual Patras to set up a headguarters
to coord.nate all American aid and
olficers:.. e .. n.... rescue efforts. Yost ordered the
tight Fired netora heads of all three U. s missions
But for the first time in 10 years to Greece—diplomatic, economic
a concerted, active move is under and military—"to put aside all
way to organize and charter a other work and concentrate all ef-
lodge. forts on plans to assist the Greek
A number of books, citing the government and the Ped C:ee —
order's by-laws and purpose, have coping with the disaster.”
been circulating in the police de Carrier Stands By
partment since officers' hopes for Maj. Gen. Charles Hart, chief
pay raises were dashed by Okla- ot the U. s military mission, as-
homa City’s financial plight. sured the Greek government that
The invasion didn't come ear- 1 "High tides and dangerous winds
still another accident Wednesday Sinking FundLonimn Dipunt, lrrkeessxalangustbnowusgrowon anaindndatvdrgoniatheapeorthsctron
HUte.lH was the third «t the voEe $782,060 Pad and separat wings. They Spend most 01 their this afternoon and said
day school bonds in December, 1951,
He was identified as Airman 1-cyet, its sinking fund levy this year
Billy Gene Hooper, Clemscot, on will hea half mill lower. than.last
leave from Lackland airforce base, year because old bonds have been
San Antonio, Texas. P“BothTold and new sinking fund
vvomene 97, ngUred 1 , — -I ■
night early this month, lock-
ing a Madill man in a jail cell
with her.
A Buck Cook, state commissioner
■ of charities and corrections, and
B ■ Marshall county attorney O. C. I
B Barnes, are questioning witnesses
I under oath to see if the fired of
I ficers had operated a love nest be
I hind bars.
Cook declined to name the dis
I missed policemen until “the inves-
B tigation is complete." Neither did
I he identify the Madill man who
I was allowed in the woman s cell. I
yet iu snkng zunu sevy yeas That doesn't mean their rack- Storm warnings were up from
will be a half mill lower than last et, uh, song isn't played practi- Myrtle Beach S C.. to the vir-
cally from the time they’re ginia capes, at the mouth of the
hatched. They make their music Chesapeake Bay.
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cegerseegggeggvgvme0g
to 90 at the airport station. The
Wednesday night low was 67 down-
town and 68 at the airport. Thurs-
day night, the low is expected to
be about 72.
Warmest temperature reported
in the state Wednesday was 98 at
Fort Sill where .01 inch of rain
was measured, apparently the last
to be reported from the storm
which crossed Oklahoma Tuesday
night. -
er in which to spend money ap-
propriated by the legislature for
a specific fiscal year. That way.
Oklahoma is all washed up as last-minute wasteful spending
far as rain is concerned. The just before the end of the year
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and warmer temperatures for the
next two days.
By late afternoon, the mercury
should be hovenng near 93 degrees
in Oklahoma City and in the upper
90s in the western part of the state.
companion both were transients
and that the city policemen had
arrested them four milea outside ty attorney, that some of that coun-
ty‘s absentee ballot records have
PLEASEEVRNT° Love Nest been destroyed, instead of being
kept a year, as the law requires.
Prosecution Is Asked
Twist reminded Phelps that such
an incident subjects election board
i members to penalty for law viola-
t: n.
ment for thousands of annoyed discussing the calling of a walk-
tourist*—custom agents quit their out. ______
jobs in ever increasing numbers at, A few train* were running continue their walkout r
the port as saying some sec-
tions of the town’s waterfront
were being submerged slowly.
1 Walter Hawkins of Coatesville,
Pa, TWA pilot, and Max Scribner,
Great Neck, Long Island, New
A Carter county airman, just re-
covered from a highway accident tirely to the payment of bonded in-
in Texas, died at Tinker airforce debtedness by the three branches -‘m
base hospital here Thursday after of local government.
' Sinking Fund Levies Dip
to cope with the situation by put- ________________________
J 23 ting police, soldiers and even coo- bor federation (FO) ordered work- trucks to replace the-----------
• 2 victs to work cleaning streets and ers in arsenals and other military Paris subwsy and bus system and
n helping sort mail. branches to strike Friday for 24 to service the suburbs. The army
“iferna“ntdnrstthecinpnen
er exchange.
vu. u. u ..... ..........- , --------- - Stevens’ statement, made to re-
be a few days early, but not ill—The $90,000 Summit House porters on his arrival from Korea,
much. atop 14,110-foot Pikes Peak. visited was an apparent counter-move to
in 1935, another good cricket yearly by thousands of tourists, was communist reports that some
year, they didn't show up in destroyed by fire early Thursday {American prisoners hsve been .....
Oklahoma City until August 27. Officials said the fire apparently convicted of crimes and sentenced eight officers
....... .... ... . u started in a large oil heater. There to prison terms which will bar”..... ‘
H°WELL SAYS this has been a was no way of fighting the blaze tha m from being returned with
1- booming year for the insects once it got out of control because other Americans. ----- - ------- , „ .
because of the weather. Its a the only water on the rocky summit' Stevens said charges against the the organization a “union, said lion,
complicated thing, the professor is hauled from below. Chinese prisoners range from mur- ' *' * " " T"
insists, but boiled down for the The building contained a dining der of a United Nations guard in
ordinary citizen, there was just room, curio shop, »un room and ob- a PW compound down to lesser
the right amount of moisture. servation platform. crimes.
There has been enough rain to • He stressed, however, that so far
weather was generally alm.. . proyide proper. foliage.forthe Church’s Name Changed the United States is “not holding
No injuries were reported in critters, but not enough to damp- ® _ . l-he- haek" in th* nrisnner ex-
Clarksville, but the storm damaged en their spirit* if it get* too
some 100 homes, uprooted trees wet, Howell said, cricket dis-
and smashed store windows. Ob- eases hit them and many never I
servers at the College of the Ozarks grow old enough to spread their
said the blow was a tornado. wings. /
Tom Mitchell, publisher of the Bartlesville and Stillwater al- |
Clarksville Graphic, said the storm ready have been swarmed under
“left the town in a mess.” with the creatures. __________, ।church.
Red Cross in steel strike policies has been
Red Cross m chosen by Ike to head the new
A new agency to prevent hin
Ing and firing discrimination on
jobs covered by U. S. contracts
was created Thursday by Ike.
were denied access to absentee bal-fract sold at si75*, lowestt price cwumbneThursday‘morning, no te sbelispedyArimmar KSS
- - ■ for any wheat delivery since Jan -details were reported. I he "wants to expand the pow-
luary, 1947.__.| The MKY observatory registered ers" of the committee. (Pago 4)
22 tremors between 4 pm. Wednes-
? Pen ■ 55 Most ofthe luggage going out postal, telephone and telegraphic by "two Houston troubleshooters,
involving 4,005,000 worker* belonged to fleeing tourists. services continued to be paralyzed.
• - The partially government-subsi- The strikes had spread from na---------- -----
' No end to labor's great upheaval dized French News Agency (AFP) tionalized services like the rail-the No. 1 Paschell in the Knox
was in sight as the unions battled said it expected to be hit by a ways. airlines, mines and post of- field. .....— . .
Premier Joseph Laniers economy strike Friday. fice to private, branches.of.com.
program. Unions ordered pressmen and merce and industry. Behind the
There were no negotiations un- i----let- *“ etrila “ that thera strike
der way between the unions and would be no
dit ion with multiple injuries.
Two more Oklahomans died and 100 Homes Damaged;
tiasr Thursday Town Left **“ • Mess’
Ada Attorney Killed 1 (B, United Preno
Cleo G. Miller, 48, an Ada at- A tornado accompanied by heavy
forney, was killed when a pickup rains punched at Clarksville, in
he was driving went out of control Northwest Arkansas, Wednesday,
about 1:15 a. m. three miles east but elsewhere in the Southwest the
BULLETIN
Rex Clifford Hickey, 56,
of Long Beach, Califs
Thursday crashed into a toll
house at this end of Turner
Turnpike rather than strike
an automobile ahead of him
when he found he had no
brake s—a n d ended in
Mercy hospital here suffer-
ing painful injuries. An-
other passenger in the car,
Jerry Justice, suffered cuts
around the face, but two
other passengers in the car
were unhurt.
will become official in the next
few days when the excise board
certifies the various sinking and
general fund levies for city, county
snd schools.
Some courthouse officials ex j pl
pressed surprise over the expected! x
lower tax rate, believing that bond gy at A&M, even suggested that
issues voted in recent years would racket they make isn’t a racket,
boost the rate rather than permit Howell referred to it as "the Thursday night,
a reduction. cricket s song. Its strongest winds were north-
••i am srnrised » said W T Bill Anyway, the insects landed b7 east of the center. Gale force
Hale,* county treasurer. “It’s good thetho wsandssqmillions. even, winds stretched 150 miles out
news for all taxpayers in Oklahoma1 y th p ay-nig , he. |---------- .
_ City ” Joe Pitts, county clerk, was cause they wereattrac tedbythe west and west, and 00 miles to
H4T +, I* another official who double-checked iightstForatimetheywgregi- the southwest.
r 3131 to Airman the figures before accepting them Pa ' The Miami weather bureau in an
The overall reduction in the tax! One Oklahoma old-timer 11 a. m advisory said the storm
bill, due November 1, is based on claimed the cricket invasion is a was moving northward at 10 to 12
city's net property valuation of sure sign o an early winter. If miles an hour and would continue
$200,767,889 The net valuation fig- it wasthe lights, he indignantly t0 move northward or north north-
ure is established after deduction pointed out, there d have been eastward during the next 24 hours
of valustions lopped from assess- just as many of them last month. -
ment rolls by homestead exemp-
tion claims.
Kerr's compilation shows the re-
duced tax rate this year is due en-
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EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY THIRTY-TWO PAGES-500 N BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY,’ THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1953
of Forming Union’ WlahAn M Greece’v wes
There still was no official esti-
Morale Low as Pay Raise Hopes Fade;
Policemen Fired in Last Organizing Bid _____________
Ships of all sizes shuttled stead:
By DBACON NEW ily across the lonisn sea and
-------------- Police department morale is at its lowest ebb in recent brought hundreds of injured to hos-
with slow acceleration in forward years, and some dissatisfied officers are seeking support pitals at Patras, the closest main-
yOWELL, H O W IV i R, hsd SClouds and rain with rising wind for organization of a Fraternal Order of Police lodge here la RearXdm. Ralph Ear of Spring-
Fi more research behind his heralded the approach of the trop- The lodge, an organization of law enforcement officers field. Mass., chief of the U. g
views. He's studied insects for ical storm along the North Caro- which, in effect, gives them collective bargaining power----- ■ - • “ ■
_____ lint coast. ----—-—hasheenl
the city transport unions were - .,--------
meeting to decide if pe would tag 32 million cubis feet of gas
l ureen ulIcIaIS aid, however,
that report! that all Kefallinia was
ipproved "sinking" were greatly exagger-
— .------------- price on ated. They said their best informa-
l next year’s wheat crop will fall tion was that such reports were
—-. — |to 50 percent of parity. Currently, based on excited messages aris-
exvect a" buffeting from the Allan- Twist, who has been ramroddingwheat is supported through govern- ing from the crumbling of quake-
exPectaeou namedI Barbara a GOP drive 10 show need for re- ment loans 1190 percent of parity, displaced cliffs.
ticrhurrtcmne nonteining winds of registration of allvoters under a After a littie more than an hour American personnel at Kefallinia
about 95 mile* an hour was cen- new law, wrote Williamson, attor of trading wheat was down 5 to 6 reported to the embsssy here thst
about 95 mi e« an nour “a, nilney" general, that party workers cents a bushel. The September con- two smail villages were seen to
pe n e uwe, k j t tered about 130 miles southeast of denied access to absentee bal- tract snld at 11.7554. lowest price .oim .8 Een
ROF. D. E. HOWELL, head of Wilmington, N. C., at 11 am. and
the department of entomolo- 1 its center was expectedto Pass PIEASFEVIRINMT° Vote Quiz
over or very close to Cspe Hat-______________
teras during the middle part of A. A !•
Dissatisfied City Police
Chargduhid Isles Crumble as Quakes
Kill 1,000; Cities Erased,
State Official Quiz
---------------- Darla Fleeson cites Democratic
in the eastern section it will re- help for Ike’s policies.
main down around 90 until Friday.
when a general warmup is due. Frederick Oth maw likes the
Wednesday, the mercury got no short skirt trend.
higher than 17 at the Classen street
station here, although it climbed
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sliding and splashing into the sea, kept starched by air conditioning
CHICAGO, Aug. 13—n_Wheat they gaid.Elouds, ° rose next Vt*T- A plan to cool the
futures tumbled to the lowest over the earthsdes.. place was thrown overboard
prices in more than six years un Reports Exoggerated? i Thursday at excise board men-
der a heavy barrage of selling on Hawkins said slides of earth bers begin to study county fl-
the board of trade Thursday. could be seen under the water nancial needs. So wai a plan for
Brokers said leading grain ele from the shelf surrounding the is- a mobile county library. (Page 1)
vator houses sold wheat in large land. The higgest settling appeared 1
- a .. . ... . . quantities, touching off the price to be on the northwest and north- Policeman Fired
I To permit either deliberately or bre|g There were reports in the eastern coasts, he added, and huge
through neglect the destruction, wheat pit that private polls of: bare spots could be seen where the
। misplacement or loss of the am- farmer sentiment indicated enough! land had fallen away" into the wa-
[davits and other documents farmers might vote against wheat ter
surrounding those who have voted marketing quotas in Friday's ref-, Greek officials said
by absentee ballot certainly comes । erendum to defeat them.
within the provisions outlined ]( the quotas are not appri
MIAMI, FIs , Aug 13—(—‘ The above," he wrote after citing the the government support price
North Carolina’and Virginia capes penalty: n. na wsm.,
section were wsrned Thursday to _NWing Behind Wliitem^r
he knows about the move to or The Greek navy ministry or-
ganize.....department, but jm aw, Quakes
Hot Time Due
As Rains End
Cliffs Swallowed by Sea
I charged they played cupid one ; , ' ‘
Unions ordered pressmen and merce ana naustry. penna uue from the well, was closed Tuesday
journalists to strike so that there strike wave now was labor s bid afternoon when the wind switched
would be no newspapers next Mon- fn a larze scale rise in al wages direction snd started hlowrnga the
, the xovemnment, whichw trying "Yhe Socialist Workers Force La. The French army manned 900 "The well islocatedir miles east
bor federation (FO) ordered work- trucks to replace the strikebound os Msntoiler nd when it qit
of Ada on SH 12.
Silas Gordon Owens, 76, Caddo,
PiesEEnto, Wreck ’
fopNEws
1 - Anld6sTmesat.6lnce!
ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 13—(P)— Severe earth tremors -------
for the fifth day turned Greece’s pleasant Ionian islands Kimes in Dutch
into a place of terror Thursday. Fifry trw year aM qaarga
Billowing fires swept earthquake ruins and huge slabs Kimes, badman when he waa in
of the ancient mountainous island of Kefallinia, loosened hia late 20s. is at hard labor at
by the tremors, were reported slipping into the sea. Un- McAlester state prison for talk-
official estimates said just under 1,000 persons have been ing.back.to.suards.He’servins
. ... . a 50-year bank robbery term and
Kied... ....... ... .L . • . , • a 2-year escape sentence.
Officials of the island reported to the ministry of in- (Page 26)
terior that Argostolion, a citv of 10,000 and the island's chief
Taxes to Drop
Tax rates will go dawn mt up
tried to play cupid, permitting a
Madill man to enter her jail cell.
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