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Weather fair cold Wednesday, High temperature, 37; low, 19. Complete neither on paie I ED Centralia-Chehalit, Washington I A 3 I Wednesday, February Twenty Page. 1956 Series LENTEN GUIDEPOSTS PERSONAL MESSAGES INSPIRATION AND FAITH AN ANNUAL DAILY CHRONICLE FEATURE TUs is the first in a series stories appearing as special Dally Chronicle features each weekday Easter. The series Includes personal aid faltk, as tali by famous and successful Americans. THE LIGHTS IN THrfHALLlDAY HOME By MARK MARTIN Star el "South Pacific" and "Peter Fan" Shortly after we were married, my husband, Richard Halliday, was rummaging through some old papers and keepsakes of mine when he came upon a yellowed card, and on in the scrawl of a schoolgirl, was written: "1 would be true, for there are those who trust me; 1 would be pure, for.there are those who care; i would be for there is much to suffer; 1 would be brave, for there is much to dare; I would be a friend to all--the foe --the friendless; 1 would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for 1 know my weakness; I would look up--and laugh and lov and lift." Plan Course Of Action in Middle East WASHINGTON (fl--Amer can, British and French diplo mats resumed their talks Wed nesday on a possible course oint action to prevent war in On the other tide of the card was a faded violet, a note in the game childish acrawl: "Mrs.

Alvii read this poem to us girls today, and hope my Heavenly Father will al- let me live by this creed." Bad It Framed Mrs. Alvis -was my teacher In Weitherford Junior High In Texas. As sxm as he found it, Richard framed the creed in a glass panel, so that the words on one side, and my priyer to abide by Oiem on the other, could both be visible. It is on a table in the library of our home in Connec- ticul, where it is always seen and often read aloud nine years ago I was rehearsing a play called Song," which hid a Chinese setting Richard, i some research on background ot "Lute found i anonymous proverb: "If there Is righteousness in the beart, there will be beauty in the character. If there be beauty In the character, -there be bar nooy to family home.

If there Is ttie wil be order in the nation. When there Is wfter to tfcs nation, there'wili peace 'to the world." Il A Kcf Tbe proverb is embroidered In a petit band I'm not doing anything you'd be ashamed of." "I would be true, for there are those who trust Larry is In the Air Force now in England and is married to a girl with the lovely name of Maj. She's Swedish and a dress designer in London, and she wrote us a ful description of their wedding care mony in a Swedish church in London. Proud of Him "You would have been terribly jroud of -your son," she said "When he discovered I had only a Swedish Bible, he gave me an English one. He doesn't read Swed Ish." Mary Martin point rug, which my bus' designed for our living room.

It took me over three years to make the nig. But I did. In the rug Is also a view of our home In winter; the cherry tree In the yard which our 14-year-ol daughter, Heller, loves so much a figure of Heller when she was live and acting and traveling with us hi "Annie Get Your Gun," be- cause we wanted her with us; and my son Larry's field of yellow mustard and red rosas, and his favorite guitar. In one corner are a pair of clasped hands: mine and Richards'. The creed and proverb are the real lights In the HallMay home; the lights we try to live by.

All the parents I know, Including myself, face the frightening and frustrating feeling of losing all contact with their children when they are In their teens. Stayed Out Late At Larry came home on a holiday and got our permission to attend card party with his friends in New York City. At 2 a.m. he had not returned. The next hour was an agony.

At 3 a.m he phoned and said: "I didn't realize was so late because we were having such a good time. We're in this girl's apartment." He gave us the phone number and address, and added, Larry's letlers are amazing and wonderful because he's pouring back all the things now we though we couM never teach him: "I'm beginning to understand all thi anxious moments I've caused you and Richard," he writes, "and all your problems and hopes." there Is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the Heller is beginning to pour bad the things we never thought wi could teach her either. During th Los Angeles run of "Peter our most exciting venture, Helle cracked her toes badly'while play Ing one altemoon. They DMn'J But she performed that night and every night singing and dancing, and we never' knew about her cracked toes' until mud liter. .1 read-the'creed on television once arid a fow later received this'letter from minister; in Wilmington, Delaware "The creed you-quoted, 'I Woul Be was written by Howard Walter, a colleague of mine diirin the first World War.

The. last tim I saw him was in Bombay i August, 1918. He had come to todi io work; in, spite of the doctor' warning that the condition of hi heart and lungs was such that hL chances of survival were very poor. "One morning he read me a tele gram that had Just come from his wife, saying that she and their chil dren were down with severe cases of the flue In Lahore. ''Howard said: 'I must go to La bore at once.

There is no doctor nurse available in that city, and he Middle East. Asst. Secretary of State Georg Allen, specialist in Middl East affairs, met French Ambas- Maurice Couve de Murvill tnd British Minister John Coulson Francis 0. Wilcox, assistant sec elary for United Nations affairs oined the meeting. A total of abou a dozen U.S., British and Frenc aides also were there.

The was a pointed re- ection of- Russia's attempt- Mon day night to deal the Soviet Unio on any action chosen by th Vestern Big Three to keep th falestine truce. Mast Report by March 1 They are under orders to recom mend by March 1 "the nature he action which we should take either the Arabs or Israel try to force the truce lines. 'Thos orders were laid dowi. by Pres dent Eisenhower and British Prim Minister Eden In their Wsshingto conference two weeks ago, ind a cepted by the French. March 1 is considered a ke date because Israel has served ice that unless the Arabs hav agreed by then to joint develo ment of the Jordan River, the Is raelis will go It atone.

If that ha pens, Syria has indicjte'd it ma act militarily to prevent diversio of Jordan waters which flow froi Israel into Syria. Furthermore, soon after Marc I Egyptian forces are expected to be trained in the use of new weapons acquired from the Soviet bloc. Adlai of State Fatality Reported When Flood Hits Hot Springs, Ark. HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Ifl--A flash flood surged through wort city before dawn Wednesday, running about eet deep on ome downtown streets for several One death a 38-year-old Nome, Alaska, woman who swept by raging waters from the top of a ar where she and her husband had sought refuge.

Her usband escaped. They were identified as Mr, and Robert Barker, who had been' YESTERDAY AT SEATTLE Adlal Stevenson, center, showed ne signs of Monday escape when snow tractor la which be riding overturned on Mount Hood In Oregon as be smilingly shakes hands with Goodwin Chase, at left, of Ellensburg, bead of the Washington Slate Stevenson for President clubs, upon his arrival by plane. At right is Henry Carstensen, Seattle, state Demo party chairman. Stevenson, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke In Seattle last night. AP PHOTO.

Former Centralian Is Said One of Two Lost on Flight President Is MOULTRIE, Ga. IT! President Eisenhower arrived here by pJane A former Centralla builder and contractor, Harry 42,1 was said by Associated Press dts- tatches Wednesday from Baker, to be one of two men believed down in a private plane in the ins of Eastern Thi report said 29, lennewick, took off from Halfway, Ore', 40 airline east of Baker, "Tuesday en bute to Pasco by way of' Fendle- on. Rutledge was also of Kenne- wlck, although he left Centralia Wednesday for a week's vacation kte last year to move to Moses at Georgia plantation--with His wife and.two daughters all are down with this awful Two days later I receive word of his death from flu. "We loved him greatly. Jlls in fluence In India was quite wonderful.

reading his poem U- evidence that it still continues." Things never die, do they: A timeless link Is forged vwith the lovely words and, thoughts written by missionary in a friend in Wilmington who cannot forget him, and a school girl In Texas who loved the teacher for the sake of the creed she taught. TOMORROW "Babe" DHrik- son Zaharlas, world famous golfer and athlete, tells how the prayers of many persons friends and people she didn't even know -helped her In her most desperate contest against cancer. plenty of opportunity to mull over an optimistic medical report in deciding whether to seek re-election. The. President, in was accompanied by Mrs.

Eisenhower arid her- mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, and by a small.staff including James- C. Hager.ty, press secretary. The President planned to get In some qusil hunting- sn'd perhaps some golf.

How he feels after tramping the woods and fields in pursuit' ol birds may determine his decision as lo whether to run again. From six physicians who examined him, the'verdict was that he ire at Kennewick now. and the Jutledges operate a -'trailer lot here. Well Known Here Rutledge is well known in Cert- tralia, having lived in the city nbst of his life, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs; Homer Rutledge, route 2, Centralia.

Twin City Area Free From More Snow But Cold Stays Najreirur flurriM Af Nagging flurries of snow nssing Lewis county householders Tuesday, were replaced Wednesday by a slow moving cold front 1 that brought with It an early-morning low of 19 degrees in the Twin City area. The new cold front contained little snow, but it did herald trouble. Youth Fined For Assault a delay openings by one or two hours Wednesday because of icy road conditions. Late opening schools were Onalaska, Pe Ell, Napavine and Jackson Prairie. Snow showers in the Lewis coun- In Lewis county superior court Tuesday, Monte Howard, 19-year.

Pleaded guilty 1 to a charge of second degree assault and was fined $600, plus more than $200 In court costs. Howard was arrested last month by Vacanville, police on a Snow showers in the Lewis coun- petit larceny charge when he shop- ly area Tuesday dumped one inch lifted a pint of liquor from a liquor of snow on eight Inches on Morlor. and six Inches at Pack- wmxl. The state patrol advised extreme caution lo motorists travel- Ing all highway routes in the county. Patches of Ice were on the new Pacific highway and the highways lo the east conlalned compact mow and Ice.

The weather forecast was for cold weather through rhursday. Only one autj accident was reported as rejul; of th, Icy road traditions. Thit occurred Tuesday morning on the Chehalis Napa- rine road four miles south ol Che- nils when a car driven by Leo lerl, Chehalis, skidded on a slick tpot and struck utility pole. Elsie Sickar, a passenger, received a wulseiS elbow, Damage to the ve- Ucle was estimated at state said. store, and was brought back to Chehalls by Lewis county sheriff's officers.

The Tuesday court action before Judge John E. Murray, was fo an incident last November near Pe Ell when Howard assaulted Richard D. Rabbe, a Port Lewis soldier, with his fists and feet. Rabbe suffered fractures of his cheek and jaw, In addition to receiving multiple Injuries of his back and right arm. The Dryad youth bad been fined $350 previously in Lewis county superior court In 1954 for second degree, assault when he struck Cen- tralta police officer Kenneth Payne with a chain, and he served 105 days in the county jail in addition to a $150 fine for assaulting Under- sheriff Henry Valentine In 1953 Howard has also been picked up five times for being absent without )eave from tony unit at Fort Wednesday by Dr.

Mojrris Chekky county health officer, who said the 'first round" of treatment for Twin City grades is completed with 2,450 of them inoculated In a three- week program. On Monday, Dr. Chelsky said Napavine and Evallne graders wil be treated at Napavine. On'Tues day, Morton and Mineral grader will be treated at Morton. The free program was made pos sible by Lewis county physicians who are giving their services fo the inoculations, using vaccine se cured through a federal program The vaccine is assured, Dr Che' sky said, but 'it Is arriving in a variety of quantities, making It impossible tc complete the entire Immunization program quickly.

In any event, the health officer said, it has now been decided that: 1 a school youngsters throughout the county will get treatment first, and as "first 'hots" are given those children timed for second or third injections will get ihsm. 2 A second round of srmTs wi'l frtllrtTM office here said Singhrs last was heard from by radio at 2:15 p.m., Tuesday, heading on a course that would have taken him near La Grande Meachani. Earl W. Snyder, Oregon director of aeronautics, flew Wednesday morning from Sajem to La Grande to set "up search; headquarters. Mercory SUH Down Trie Wednesday rhoming iemper- ature at Meacham hung at zero.

A half-inch-of snow had fallen there in the past day and was still coming in flurries that at times were heavy. Aerial search awaited Improvement in the weather. Singhrs had flown to Halfway in the morning and filed his fligh plan to take him back lo Pasco by 2:38 p.m. He operates a big trailer lot for both sales and parking. He has a wife and four.children and starlet Voters in 15 State Cities Cast Ballots By THE ASSOCMTKD PRESS Voters in 15 Washington citi nominated mayors and other officers and made known the wishes on bond issues and civ improvement projects in prlma elections Tuesday.

Thirteen other cities passed the primaries sia faw which tarSt when two or less candidates hie for an office. But all 28 municipalities will make final decisions in genera: elections March 13. Snow and cold and lack of major issues in some eiiies held down the Civil Aeronautics Adminis-l taking flying iessons last summer. Fire Station Fund Cleared A building fund totaling $120,0001 Pay for Centralia's scheduled appeared fit for 'another 5-to 10 new fire station center, was creaH years in the presidency. TiiotHao htr mm But the doctors offered no ad vice as lo whether he should run again, choice is his not ours' Dr.

Paul Dudley White, Boston heart specialist, said In telling rews conference late Tu about the medical report he am his gsve Eisenhower. Rural Graders To Get 'Shots' Lewis county's free polio immu nization program will shift to rural grade school youngsters starting commissioners also instruct- next Monday, it was announced 1 i ly John Ryan to cal1 i I A Tuesday by city commission members when they adopted ani ordinance providing a special fund lor the construction project. Preliminary plans. are already completed for the new municipal structure, to be located on North street, two blocks from the 'ire department's present quar-, iers. Room they have is needed by other city hall departments.

Work on the new fire station is a stirt in the late spring with' completion due by about Oct. 1. In other action Tuesday, city leads opened bids and awarded contracts on 9,800 feet of piping, all of it for water department use. City commissioners also instruct- for bids on a radio transmitter two mobile receiving units for city water department, with cost of the transmitter estimated at $1,100 and total cost of the receivers estimated at $450. The clerk, was also instructed to call for bids on a gasoline- driven hoist (an engine with a set of double cable drums) for use by City Light at the Nisqually power dam in pulling riprap.

The unit may later be converted for use as a piledriver, officers said. The hoist Is estimated to cost between $5.000 and $6,000. Present-at the Tuesday meeting were Mayor Vern Cain and commissioners Alva Yeager and William Singer. RC Campaign Goal $20,250 A goal of $20.250 has been set will from six to eight weeks for the graders. 3 -Once the graders are.

protected, Immunization will come for high school students. 4 The entire program is set for completion bv the end of May. The health officer said Uie Lewis county program, with outstanding assistance offered by all ot the physicians, makes the a leader la the state counties are or are put- ling into action similar programs, but none has progressed as quick- or tcconpuibtd much. Home Hit by Tuesday Fire Centralia firemen had to fiphl their way through blizzard-like weather at 3:15 a. m.

Tuesday, to put out major fire in home at 609 South Gold street, owned by George Elliot Sr. Firemen estimated the blaze caused $1,250 damages to thft residence and furnishings. Part ol the loss is covered by insurance. A neighbor had spotted the blaze ani turned In the alarm. The fire apparently started from box of kindling, rags and news- in the kitchen, firemen'said it up the wall, burned the kitchen ceiling; charred the attic and went through the door to the living room before firemen could let it control.

Annual Days for Chehalis Are Here Aimlmj to make the customer a most happy one Thursday, and Saturday of ibis week, Chehalis rtUiltrs are announcing their bij Dollar Days values in a special section of today's Daily Chronicle. Celebrating an annual event, merchants are decorating with special colorful Day placards throughout the business district and, during the first day of Dollar nays, free auto parking will be available. This is a regular Thursday feature In Chehalis. For the Days, retailers are clearing many Hems at sacrifice from their shelves In preparation for spring merchandise. Europe Lists 489 Deaths In Cold Snap LONDON Ifl Europe's relent- amping about five miles east here.

The torrent, result ot an early- lorning cloudburst, came at the! tart of the tourist season in this! test Arkansas city of about 00 permanent residents. Estimates of damage to downtown business houses varied. In- urance officials said the loss run about $250,000. Oils Hckson ol radio station KWFC Hot Springs, said a poll less wave had claimed at least owntown merchants indicated the ad Wednesday after two and would total about I mil' Ion dollars. Business Houses Swamped Most of the establishments on (he a hall weeks.

Relief still was not In sight. Subfreezing a stretched across the continent. St. Tropez on the French Riviera play. ity's main street, winding through ground had 16 inches of snow -narrow valley between two steep'heaviest in memory.

illls, were swamped. Merchandise that floated out broken doors and windows littered the street. Business houses and hotels had thick carpets of mud left in the wake of the susbiding flood. Streets here were almost deserted when (he flood struck shortly at- er midnight, a factor that held down the deatht oil. At about the same time the flood hit Hot Springs, a tornatoo-like storm cut through an area 60 miles north of here, killing one man, In.

iuring two and wrecking numerous louses ara outbuildings. The opening of the annual spring racing meet at Oafclawr Park is only 10 days away. Early arrivals already jammed hotels and mwels. Rainfall Is Heavy The which started falling about 1 a. continued for aboui four The National Park Service gauge here registered 5.74 inches of rain.

Water flowing into the downtown caused the tlvJ, hills The sheriff's offrce here esti majed that '15 to 100 busines houses were flooded. At one cafe police said, the water forced open the front door, swirled in and car rier. chairs out the door. The flood subsided nearly a voter turnout Tuesday. Only 90,000 quickly as it appeared.

Early Wed of Seattle's 300,000 registered voters braved snow and below freezing temperatures to nominate candidates for mayor and the City Council The turnout was on a similar ratio In other cities. Wins Edge over Seattle Mayor Seattle gave Gordon S. Clinton, 35-year-old attorney and former FBI man, a edge over incumbent Mayor Allan Pomeroy, but both were well ahead in a four-man field and will fight it out in the general election. The unofficial count in the city's 1,062 precincts gave Clinton 35,666 votes to 26,474 for Pomeroy. State! Icepacks slowly forced the on Swedish cargo ship Matilda on- Sweden's rocky Baltic Coast.

Heiicoplers stood by to rescue the crew of 20. The ice also threatened the last tpen sea lane between eastern and western Denmark. People in hundreds of isolated villages in Italy and on lonely Baltic Islands ran short of food and 'uel. Death Count by Nattoni By countries, these deaths recorded from cold, fire, storms, avatanches and accidents attributed to the freeze-up: France 107, Yugoslavia 6S, Italy 63, Britain 45, Greece 30, Denmark 27, Germany 25, Turkey 41, Austria 17, The Netherlands 15, Portugal 14, Spain 12, Switzerland 11, Sweden 6, Belgium 6, Pohnd 4 and Libya 3. More were feared dead in small communities still Uolited.

No complete figures were svjiia.ble for IroruCurUinjeounUies, which were suffering at least badly srn Europe. r.esday morning, only the damagi and wet pavement remained as evidence ot the torrent. Old-timers in the area said the flood ranked second only to the mammoth flood of 1923 when water from a cloudburst virtually wrecked the city. Sen. William Goooloe was Cold Weather Hits Northwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow, wind and bitter cold with and Bob Odman fourth; paris of the Pacific North- gain Wednesday but the! Two More To Take Lie Tests SEATTLE W) Two attorneys arranged to take lie delect or tests Wednesday as Investigators continued efforts to solve an attempt to bribe the State Supreme Court.

King County Prosecutor Charles 0. Carroll said Thomas J. Isaae and Robert Brain, two of five persons involved in a lawsuit on so- oeal to the high court when the bribe try was reported, were to take the tests. Bolh voluntered, as did F. Bert Perrigo, an accountant, and Wilbur Eundel, an attorney associated wi'h Brain and Isaac, who took the tests Tuesday.

Carroll refused to release results im i "CHUICI iiuieitu jieia out some! s. with 0,457. Knnj, fnr roiiof hv tho -f Perrigo was an accountant for Taccma voted to retain the city pet Kenncth Shyms. Seattle juke count was proposed to new charter which BBd roads would have returned the mayor type of government. BelJingham voters, who bucked closed Osanogan County communities.

box telephone system operator, who first offered to take the test but announced Tuesday had changed his mind. Shyvers mid he had been advised errors in evalu- with temperatures as low as -is in northern areas. The Weatheri air front off the Gulf of Alaska! a wind-driven snowstorm, gave John E. Wesiford more, a majority of votes cast in a four- man field and Westford was declared the city's new mayor. Olympia Mayor RenominaUd Olyrr.pia's woman mayor, Wednesda y- was -6 da B.

Smith, outdistanced a Waho at Ephrata and --1 at 1 pe 0ns teln Con311 The tests were called for after ol five and was renominated. She 1lE lensbur 8- Walla Walla had 6, will be opposed March 13 by above Lewision 9, Yakima 13 'Pendleton 8, Burns 13, Everett 10 I Bellingham 6, Seattle 13, Portland 1 judl je ment obtah-ed bv Brain hi Eferett re-elected finance com- 23 and Olympia 18. i A One of the worst snowstorms A 1CC She season hit Coeur d'Alene to Imayor, and Sig McCumby, public, Jworks commissioner. Cold kept all away Irom the polls or fhe 1956 American Red Cross missioner George Culmback and rive in Lewis county, to be held 8 av 'e runoff berths to two other March, Don Phillipi, county incumbents, C. Arvid Johnson, chapter chairman, announced Wed- safety commissioner and acting nortnein Idaho, where tempera- nesday The goal was disclosed at regular monthly chapter meet Tuesdav night and includes -for county use and.

$8,500 for the cltle votlng Tu were national Red Cross lo restore de- BellEVae HoonUm Kirki.nH Dieted disaster reserve funds, Phillipi explained. The national Red Cross normally carries an $8 million disaster reserve frad which was depleted on ihe California, Oregon and Nevada floods, Phillipi said, and Lewis county's share is $4.500 to meet this urgent replacement need. Included in the county's program this year are expanded services to Hotel Flames Ei-hty guests. 'people scurrying to safety aiM 90 when needed and arrange for temporary lodging for families who are made homeless through fires or floods are now underway. dipped below zero.

at Brewster, Pateros, SPOKANE and Omak were In their night clothes! were County by drifting' evacuated safely in freezing weatb- and Ok a nog an er Tuesday night after fire broke juiam, scn001 buse cancelled Iheir runs. I out, in two downtown hotels six Terrace, Normandyl ve inches of snow fell in thei blocks apart P.iri, Port Angeles, Ren-! a Jdah area. Winds up to' A fire at ihe Colonial Hotel at ton. Vancouver anj Yakima. 1 65 an Trere sweeping'Main and Post at 9'35 wjfc ttb 33 YaKlma, the mayor and com-' missioner of public works trailed but were assured of a place in! TM Arctic air mass cutting downj sounded down "th "the the March runoff election.

Northwest has made an ice Palm ii- 'J of western Canada. Six firemen were overcome by hi unofficial returns, 3S31 to 2841. was at Calgary, 6 smoke and one was hurl Smoke commissioner, Laurence George, B. c. and -55 at 1 and fire damage at 1Mb phces was extensive.

Firemen, who said their efjulp- ment was. "spread pretty thin" at the height of Uie fires, reporled the Colonial blaze apparently started in the basement oh a coffee shop. Damage was tentatively es- timatevl at $150.000. The fire at the Palm was bhmed on a leaky oil burner. Mathews led Grant K.

Huey, the Hlver. Alts. Incumbent, 4567 to 2322 prov.tie classes in home nursing, For commissioner of finance baby care, and nutrition. The B. K.

Gage was assured of on" of bleed program has also been spots with the other still" in mented, Phillipi said. jdoubt. rl In addllion, plans lo line up disas-l Yatuma's voters approved a S487 ter chairmen in every bond issue for a swimmmV who will stockpile clolhing and food! Pool and playground by a 140 to'nj Dr Alien Slight Quake Felt SAPPORO, Japan Lfl-A slight was still a good per earthquake was felt In central Hok- kaMo, Japan's noilhernmost island, today. No damage was re- margin. Food Prices Up Blankenship -announced he has resigned as Taco superintendent to take a posUto.V as superintendent at Garv Ini 117 Ui uir TM Would End Service Bradstreet index of wholesale food prices inched ahead this week but the level of a year NEW YORK -'The Dl in ceive $21,000 a year as si.psrintend- 1 ent at Gary.

His'contract there Is! jlor four years. He has been (ceivlng Oa year from the! PORTLAND IR The Union Pacific wants to discontinue daily Is passenger train service between Spokane and Kellogg, Idaho. Official sot th( rail line here they were asking the Idaho II AJ t. a via comparediTacoma school district. aj BC S5.90 a week ago and $6.69 a Dr.

Blankenship a native i Utilities Commission for ported. A stiff earthquake sgo. The figure repreoenlslKosmos in Lewis County came permission to drop the service be- Tokyo yesterday, Injuring eighlithe cost at wholesale of onejTacoiru in IMS from of poor patronage and loss Ol 11 lei revemn..