Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 1

r-N HOMi EDITION December Average Net Paid Circulation Daily and Sunday ni92 (That Over 44,000 Readers) Ten Paget Price 5 Centt mm, ClmBQ Is 57th Year No. 271 Associated Press Leased Wire CASPER, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1949 KVOC 1230 on Your Dial WASHINGTON'. Jan. Senate Republicans today elect! Senator Wherry of Nebraska as their floor leader. Senator Tober of New Hampshire told reporters th vote was 28 to 14.

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3. (p) The new Democratic-controlled congress met today. Administration men promptly rammed through the house a new rule aimed to ease the way for President Truman's legislative program. Although there were squawks from Republican leaders and some Democrats, the rule went through on voice approval after a 275 to 142 test roll call vote. Voting for the rule change were 225 Democrats, 49 Republicans and one Amerlcan-Laborite.

Against It were 111 Republicans and 31 Democrats. SHOWS TRUMAN POWER The test was generally regarded among the legislators as a measure of Mr. Truman's increased power on Capitol Hill since his election victory. What the rule does is this: It takes from the rules committee some of its power to keep legislation from coming to a vote on the house floor. That committee has blocked some administratoin measures in the past because Republicans and Southern Democrats on the group have worked together to form a majority.

HOW CHANGE WORKS The rules committee decides what measure be considered by the house. Under the new rule If the rules committee does not fiend a bill to the hou.se floor within 21 days after a legislative committee appioves it, the chairman of the legislative committee can move on the floor to take up the bill. A majority vote by the members present then would place the bill before the house. Some Republicans grumbled that Blizzard Hits Cheyenne Area CHEYENNE, Jan. 3.

(JP) A blinding blizzard whipped by a wind which reached as high as 50 miles an hour paralyzed southeastern Wyoming today. All highways east, south, west and north out of Cheyenne were closed to traffic. Highway department plows trying almost futily to battle wind-piled drifts. Air service to and from Cheyenne also was not operating because of the storm which closed the municipal airport. Union Pacific railroad officials said the transcontinental trains were operating east and west out of Cheyenne but were running late.

Visibility conditions were extremely poor from the Nebraska State line toward Cheyenne and west of Cheyenne to bevond Laramie. UP TRAINS LATE Colorado and Southern railroad service north and south of Cheyenne was ai a standstill. Drifts at least three feet deep between Fort Collins, and Wendover, caused annulment of that lines north and southbound passenger trains last nighl. The Union Pacific reported it was 200 Travelers Are Stranded Here by Slorm Winter's first icy blast of the New Year 'paralvzed travel in southwestern vo-ming as it isolated Casper from the south and east by highway, rail and air traffic. The storm covered the entire mid-western section of the United States, extending as far south as Texas, as far east as Indianapolis, and snow has been reported on the west coast.

200 STRANDED HERE Approximately 200 travelers were stranded in Casper because of lack of transportation facilities. Many are students who are attempting to return to colleges in Laramie and Boulder. The weather bureau at WardweU field predicted that the snow would stop sometime late Mondav afternoon and that extremeiv cold plane were running around crazily and I helped quiet them. "I saw one man with his hair on fire, screaming and moaning." The impact and explosion split the right side of the plane. Some escaped by scrambling through the broken fuselage; others through the door.

Firemen struggled to attach cables to the battered plane so it could be hauled from the hangar, where a new Boeing stratocruiser stood loaded with 2,000 gallons of gasoline. They pulled loose the tail section and rear fuselage portion, but the front part was jammed in a charred mass against the revetment. TRY TO IDENTIFY BODIES Hours after the wreck rescuerers still were removing burned bodies and trying to identify victims. Thirteen were taken to hospitals soon after the crash, several badly burned. Some left the scene unaided, adding to difficulty of determining the number killed.

Although a full night shift was working inside the hangar, none there was injured. Workmen inside the hangar were first to reach the wreckage. They braved fierce flames in brinering out survivors. LEFT WING DIPS There was no immediate explanation for the mishap, except for the slick runway made icy by freezing rain and snow. Brown said both plane engines appeared to be functioning as the plane lifted.

He said the left wing appeared to dip; then the craft dropped, bounced and swerved. The state patrol reported only one wheel track showed on the runway at the point of impact. On the plane, and unaccounted for early today, was William F. Le-land, Seattle, owner of Seattle air charter. The pilot was William Chavers, Seattle, and the second officer, Kenny Love of Seattle.

One of the survivors was John Roderick of Seattle, a star end on the Yale football team in 1947. He was able to walk from scene of the crash. NEBRASKA HIGHWAY SNOWBOUND: Some 50 vehicles qued up behind a stalled truck on U. S. Highway 275 northwest of Omaha, The truck, the first vehicle ot lower right, plowed into a drift left by sleet and snow storm.

Because of broken telephone wires, this picture by a newspaper photographer was the first report to reach Omaha of the truck's plight (AP Wirephoto). rfh i .1 Cold Reaches Far fo South (By Th Associated Preaw) Truck growers in the Florida Everglades survej-ed frost-wrought damage to their crops today as a whistling blizzard harassed livestock producers over most of the high great plains region. With reports still incomplete on the extent of the frost and freezing temperatures in Florida Saturday night, it is known to have been heavy in many sections. Wrarren O. Johnson, chief of the Federal-State Frost Warning service, said some crops of corn, sweet potatoes, squash and new beans were killed and that lettuce, cabbage and other crops were damaged, some extensively.

Temperatures had climbed into the 50s throughout the south and southeast today. MIGHT HIT CITRUS BELT The blizzard which came out of the Rocky Mountains into western Kansas, western Nebraska and western Oklahoma last night is of the solid variety which might carry with diminishing effect into the citrus fruit belt of the Rio Grande valley and Texas Gulf coast, said W. M. Percy, Federal forecaster at Chicago. Percy said the heavy snow in the plains would be whipped into drifts by strong winds throughout most of today and that visibility was at or near zero.

The winds were lashing along at upwards of 45 miles an hour in western Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to as high as 60 miles an hour in the western Dakotas. SNOW AT EL PASO Most of the area already had received from one to six inches of new snow. The cold wave is expected to hold temperatures to near zero in western Nebraska, 5-15 above in western Kansas, and 5-10 above in northwestern Oklahoma. Sub zero was reported in the mountain-plain region. Snow was falling as far south as New Mexico and El Paso, Tex.

In eastern Colorado and Wyoming, where the snowfall was the heaviest of the winter, deep drifts slowed or stopped train and motor travel. Some plane flights were cancelled. Approximately 200 motorists were stranded at Nunn, where many of them were housed in a public hall. All roads in southeastern Wyoming were barred to all traffic except highway patrol cars which were dispatched to rescue stalled motorists. BUS MAROONED A bus driver and his 11 passengers were marooned at Twin Springs, awaiting arrival of four national guardsmen with a rotary plow to dig them out.

Subnormal temperatures also stung the Pacific coast area, except extreme southern California. The northeast dug slowly out of the wage of flood waters which took at least five lives in a New Year's (Turn to Pare 2, Col. 2) Go si? I ST GOV. A. G.

CRANE Crane Becomes Chief Executive CHEYENNE. Jan. 3. (JP) Acting Governor A. G.

Crane signed his own proclamation today declaring himself head of Wyoming's state government for the next two years. As secretary of state. Dr. Crane issued a proclamation at 10 a.m. declaring that he had at that hour succeeded Gov.

Lester C. Hunt as chief executive of the state. At the same time in Washington, Hunt was taking his oath of office as Wyoming's junior U. S. senator.

He had set the time of his resignation as governor at 10 a.m. today in order to keep his continuity of office. He has served 16 consecutive years in public office. Dr. Crane's proclamation pointed out that Governor Hunt's resignation had become effective, and that under Wyoming law the secretary of state was charged w-ith succeeding the governor when a vacancy occurred in that office.

ACTING UNTIL 1951 Dr. Crane will be acting governor and secretary of state until January, 1951, when his term as secretary of state and the unexpired term of Governor Hunt end. The assumption of the permanent duties of governor by Dr. Crane gives the Republican party complete control now of the five state elective offices. Governor Hunt was the only Democrat among the five officials.

Although he has made no statement regarding his plans for making appointments. Dr. Crane will have an opportunity in some instances to make changes in a few offices which will change the political complexion of those offices. The office of State Land commissioner is an example. The acting governor also will have an opportunity to make a number of nominations to the state senate before it adjourns to fill terms expiring on a number of boards.

Transfusions Fail To Save Her Life A 22 -year-old mother, to whom several Casper residents gave blood in a vain effort to save her life, died Sunday evening at Memorial hospital. Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzsimonds, of Riverton, underwent surgery for the removal of an appendix about two weeks ago. Christmas week end her condition took a turn for the worst and the appeal for additional blood was broadcast throughout Casper. Despite the help of additional blood, the young mother died Sunday evening.

Her husband is Harry Fitzsimonds. They have a four-month-old child. The body will be taken to Riverton for final services and interment by the Bustard funeral home. Cafego Reported to Join Cowboy Staff LARAMIE, Jan. 3 (JP) George Cafego, former all-American at Tennessee, will join the coaching staff at the University of Wyoming.

University officials said today the university board of trustees will act on Cafego's appointment at a meeting here tomorrow. Approval is expected. Cafego will replace no one on the present staff, but will -be an additional coach, the officials said. He has been at Furman university since last February. U.

S. Warns Israel to Hold Raids on Arabs LONDON, Jan. 3 (JP) A responsible source said today the United States has warned Lsrael that American diplomatic recognition of the Jewish state may be withdrawn if she attacks neighboring Arab states. The source refused to be identified even by nationality. A.

U. S. embassy spokesman said he could not comment officially on the report. Miscellaneous accidents, including fires, falls, asphyxiation, exposure and gunshot, caused 96 deaths. The deaths by states (highway traffic and miscellaneous, respectively: Alabama, 2-0; Arizona.

3-3; Arkansas, 2-1; California, 14-4; Colorado, 8-1; Connecticut, 2-2; Delaware, 0-0; Florida. 8-1; Georgia, 3-0; Idaho. 0-0; Illinois. 17-8; Indiana, 9-4: Iowa. 5-0; Kansas.

5-2; Kentucky. 5-1: Louisiana. 0-2: Maine, 0-1; Maryland, 1-1; Massachusetts, against a control tower earning. There were 30 aboard when the non-scheduled transport hired by 27 Washington and Oregon Yale students to take them back to New Haven, sped down an icy runway at 10 p. m.

16 escaped, some badly burned. IGNORED WARNING R. D. Bedinger, regional administrator of the CAA. said the pilot, William Chavers of Seattle, was warned twice that conditions were "below minimums" required for a takeoff.

Witnesses said the field was glazed with ice and there was a light fog. "Both visibility and ceiling were below the minimums required for a takeoff," Bedinger said. "This was told to the pilot when he asked for clearance to taxi for a takeoff. That was tantamount to telling him the field was closed." Witnesses said the big plane had barely risen from the ground when a wing dipped and scraped the concrete runway. Then the ship tipped the other way, dragged its left wing, and veered into a Boeing Airplane company experimental hangar at 80 to 100 miles an hour, and burst into flames.

Relatives, sweethearts and friends, who had just bidden the students farewell after a happy holiday season, watched in horror as the DC-3 went up in flames. The plane roared down an icy runway just at 10 p. m. Ten feet off the ground it faltered, struck the ground and crashed into the end of a Boeing Airplane Co. experimental hangar.

HITS REVETMENT Lynn Brown, a Boeing field employe, estimated the plane was going 80 to 100 miles an hour when it struck the hangar revetment and burst into flames. "I ran over to the burning plane and helped some of the fellows who were on the ground there," Brown said. "Others from the crashed Plan Wildcats In Basin Region Some untested structures along the flanks of the Big Horn mountains are going to be explored for oil in 1949. Development already begun in 1948 in the Big Horn basin is expected to continue through 1949. An active drilling program last year pushed the production of the formerly small Torchlight field near Basin from 250 barrels daily to the present rate of 1,330 barrels per day.

The new production was found in the Tensleep and Madison formations. SILVER TIP IS NEW Silver Tip a field which didn't exist a year ago is now producing at the rate of nearly 1.000 barrels per day. It is located west of Elk Basin, Wyoming's biggest producing field, in Park county. Many oilmen are of the opinion that the major companies will increase wildcat activity should congress pass an excess profits tax. The effect of severence tax, should it be passed by the Wyoming legislature this month, may enter into the picture, however.

BURLINGTON AREA LEASED In Big Horn county Whistle Creek, Foster Gulch and Little Dry Creek structures are unexplored. The Grey-bull Valley structure between Otis and Burlington is expected to be one of the first testing grounds. Deeded land southeast of Burlington has practically all been leased. Part of it is checkerboarded by Amerada and Superior. Major companies are said to have spent half a million dollars in geophysical search in this area.

PAINT ROCK EYED Another untested structure extends from the Gapen-Mercer ranches on Paint Rock creek tr. the Broken Neck anticline, wbjch may be one of the first to be tirilled in 1949. Wyoming Oil Co. aid associates, which brought in a small producer in the Nowood anticline in section 8-43N-90W, is planning a deep test in section 7, in the same structure. This test may be drilled in the spring.

Government lands in the area south and east of Torchlight remain to be tested on two structures, and much of the federal land west of the Big Horn river has been leased. HyiDAV By Associated Press The death toll from traffic and other accidents during the New Year's week-end of holiday revelry had climbed to more than 30 today with total fatalities in a Seattle plane crash still undetermined. At least 14 of the 27 passengers and three crewmen aboard the plane were known to have died when it erashM and burned in attempting to ttJl JUSiX All We EM- the power to recognize committee chairmen would make Sam Ray-burn of Texas, the newly-installed DemocraUc speaker, a "czar over what legislation is considered. WILL PLUG PROGRAM Rayburn, when taking office, indicated he will go down the line for what he considers to be the Democratic party's mandate from the election. He told the house that congress would be united on matters of international affairs but "On many Democratic issues we will divide.

The Democratic party has been called to solve them. Well miss our mark if we do not live up to the expectations of the American people." Both house and senate adjourned until Wednesday when President Truman will deliver personally his "Stale of the Union" message. On the senate side, pre-session maneuvering gave that Chamber's "Old Guard" Republicans a crushing victory over a group of self-styled GOP "Liberal" senators. OLD GUARDS MUSTERS The "Liberals" were out to force a change in the party's leadership. They wanted Senator Lodge (Mass) to take over from Senator Taft (Ohio) as chairman of the GOP Senate Policy committee.

To keep Taft in, the "old guard" had to put through a party rule change, knocking out one that said no man could hold the post more than four years. Taft has held the Job for the last four years. At a party meeting, a vote of 29 to 13 lifted that restriction. That paved the way for re-election of Taft to the post. The actual election of Taft and other Republican leaders in the new congress was deferred because it was time for the senate to meet.

But the vote had knocked all the fire out of the "liberals" rebellion. AWAIT MESSAGE The house convened promptly at 10 a.m. (MST). John Andrews, chief clerk, presided until a speaker could be elected. The members recited the Lord's prayer, led by the veteran house chaplain, the Rev.

James Shera Montgomery- The gavel for the opening senate session also fell at 10 a.m. sharp. Behind all this maneuvering for position was the almost certain knowledge that President Truman will throw a wide range of proposals at congress in a 30-minute personal appearance on Capitol Hill at 1 p.m. Wednesday. No one had any doubt that the President will ask repeal of the Taft-Hartley Labor law, a boost in the minimum wage, health, education, anti-monopoly and housing legislation, firmer farm price supports and extension of the reciprocal trade program.

His decision on a possible bid for higher taxes remained his own secret, as did the extent of any allocation on price controls he might ask. The Weather By V. S. Weather Bureau Wyoming Clearing with diminishing winds tonight. Colder tonight, low 15-25 below in the mountains, 5-15 below elsewhere; high Tuesday 10-13.

Casper Clearing and colder tonight. Continued cold Tuesday: low tonigBh Pbout 15 below; high Tuesday about 10 above. Sun rises Tuesday 7:37. sets 4:44. COLDER Extreme temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at 5:30 a.

m. Monday: Max. 'Min. Pep. not using snowplows as the wind was keeping the tracks cleared of snow.

However, most trains are being doubleheaded, visibility is poor. Eastbound trains were running from an hour and a half to two and a half hours late. Westbound trains were running even later. STREETS DRIFTED Drifts piled two feet or deeper in some streets by the blizzard which struck Cheyenne yesterday afternoon halted all city bus and taxi operation of cars. Schools in Cheyenne were closed because the storm made it impossible for the students to reach their classrooms.

Military personnel at Fort Warren, living off the base, were excused from reporting for duty this morning. They could not reach the post because of lack of bus service. The Cheyenne Fire department put two crews on duty in the event of a fire. The telephone company urged that long distance calls be restricted to emergencies only when operators were unable to reach their switchboards this morning. HUNT STANDARD CARS Jack Wiley, State Highway Department Public Relations engineer, said the department was doing everything possible to reach motorists that might be stranded on highways in the vicinity.

Several cars were reported stalled east of Cheyenne between Cheyenne and Pine Bluffs, but tb? patrol was making every effort to reach them. The highway patrol worked all night long trying to rescue stranded motorists. Burlington Trailways and Overland Greyhound Transcontinental buses were at a standstill. Five Greyhound and one Trailways bus were held at Laramie last nignt. Other buses were halted at Greeley or Pine Bluffs or further east and south.

Bus passengers in most cases were put aboard trains to continue their journey. CAPITOL STAFF EXCUSED Acting Gov. A. G. Crane notified State house employes by radio this morning they would be excused from work if they could not reach the State house today.

An estimated three-fourths of Cheyenne business houses either were closed or short handed because of the storm. The public was urged to stay home throughout the day. The snow was not quite as severe elsewhere in the state as it was in the Cheyenne. At Laramie about an inch and a half of snow fell. Roads in the area were passable, but the highway patrol wa discouraging all travel.

At 6 a.m. it was 10 below zero in Laramie and by nine o'clock it had warmed up to nine below. Guard Mans Plow To Hunt for Bus BOISE, Jan. 3. (JP) A snow-plow manned by Idaho National Guardsmen is attempting to open a road through heavy drifts to rescue 12 persons stranded at Twin Springs.

The Boise-Atlanta highway was closed last week-end by a heavy snowfall. Eleven passengers and the driver of an Atlanta stage were marooned Saturday at mountainous Twin Springs which is about 43 miles from Boise. Keith Burns, operator of the resort at Twin Springs where the bus passengers are snowed in, said he had enough for four full meals until the rescuers arrive. When word of the stranded stage passengers reached Boise, Gov. C.

A. Robins ordered the National Guard to the rescue. The guardsmen left Boise last night with a heavy snowplow with a rotary attachment accompanied by an ambulance. The ambulance was to be used to sleep in and as a means of keeping warm. Mississippi, 1-2; Missouri, 4-3; Montana, 0-0; Nebraska, 0-0.

Nevada, 0-0; New Hampshire, 2-0; New Jersey, 2-0; New Mexico, 2-0; New York, 7-0; North Carolina, 6-1: North Dakota, 0-0; Ohio, 16-2; Oklahoma, 8-0; Oregon, 0-2; Pennsylvania, 15-6; Rhode Island, 1-0; South Carolina, 2-S; South Dakota, 0- Tennessee, 2-0; Texas. 15-12; Utah, 0-2; Vermont, 1-0: Virginia, 5-0: Washington, 5-15: West Virginia. 3-0: Wisconsin. 4-3; Wyoming, 1-U District of Columbia, o-a. Additional Stories On Storm on Page 2 temperatures are expected Monday mght.

Weather officials warned that temperatures as low as 15 degrees below zero can be expected. All bus, rail and air traffic to tha east has been halted. A bus, destined for Cheyenne, left Casper about no SJindaJ- At 11 P- m- Sunday mght the bus left Wheatland for the capital city, Seven hours and 55 minutes later at 6 a. m. Monday morning the bus arrived in Chev.

enne. SCHOOLS REOPEN Despite the lorm, wcfiecf -wfTfcfkl in Casper reported that attendance records did not drop noticeablv. No plans are being considered to cancel classes. At 2 p. Casper's temperature was four below, as compared with Cheyenne's six below.

Visibility la central Wyoming was about a mile and a half in Cheyenne visibility was zero. W7inds were blowing at a comparatively calm 20 miles per hour at Wardwell field but Chevenne was shivering under blasts of 40 to 45 miles an hour. BLIZZARD IN CHEVENNE The storm, which struck durin the early hours of the second dav of 1949, hit the southeastern section of Wyoming the heaviest. Chevenne population put on another sweater and buttoned up their overcoats against six degrees below weather coupled with heavy winds which blocked many roads. According to The Associated Press, roads In the Cheyenne area were still closed at 8 ajn.

Monday morning. Snow was drifting two and three feet deep in some of the capital city's streets. In Casper, fine snow continued to filter down upon the area. Unlike the southern sections of the state, heavy snow-drifting winds were lacking. FIVE BELOW HERE At 8 a the weather bureau at Vardwell field reported temperature at five degrees below zero, the low for the night.

A total snowfall of two inches has been recorded here, the bureau reported. All travel south on hiehways out of Casper was halted. Two southbound Western Airliners were grounded and are awaiting for clear-ine weather to takeoff. TRAINS HALTED Train travel southward to Denver, through what appears to be the heart of the snowstorm, was almost at a standstill. Burlington officials reported Monday morninsr that Sunday evening's train for Denver had been annulled, passengers being forced to take succeeding trains.

The northbound train from Denver also was annulled by officials for Sunday and Monday evenings. A special northbound train for Billings was made up at Casper" and was scheduled to leave at 10 a. m. Although the train from Billings is scheduled into Casper on time Monday evening, officials said it was doubtful if the train would leave Casper. Burlington officials said late Monday afternoon that the train due in Casper at 2:10 p.m.

from Omaha had been anulled and the train is sidetracked between Alliance and Lincoln because of th storm. The Cas-per-to-Omaha train scheduled to leave here at 2:45 p.m. has also been anulled. TOO MUCH FOR PLOWS Heavy snow conditions on the Colorado and Southern railroad tracks near Wellington. have kept workers from using rotary plows to clear the way.

(Turn to Page 2. CoL 2) wreckage might be sighted somewhere. "Search win continue In the Immediate area of the plane's last reported radio position 50 miles southeast of Miami," the coast guard said. Deci5ion to "discontinue large scale observations" was taken after six days of extensive operations by air force, navy and coast guard planes failed to reveg a tiio ot Uif, missing S-fef Air Mail Rate Up to 6-Ccnts You can't send that airmail letter for a nickel any more. Airmail rates went up to six cents for first class mail on Jan.

1, explains Postmaster George Hicks, but most patrons still have the "nickel habit." The postmaster got busy Monday morning and posted signs in the postoffice calling attention to the new rates. Some other mailing charges also went up. Airmail post cards are now four cents each. Regular third-class mailing matter the kind you send in unsealed envelopes is now two cents, instead of a cent and a half (for two ounces). Parcel post rates and money order fees have advanced, and special delivery now costs 15 cents, instead of 13 cents as formerly.

But first class mail is still three cents Congress Sees 4-Poinf Request By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 VP) President Truman will tell the Democratic-controlled 81st congress what he wants of it in three messages within the next week. Administration officials predict Mr. Truman will ask: Higher taxes, probably on business, to avoid a deficit in the fiscal year beginning next July 1.

Repeal of the Taft-Hartley act and enactment of less extensive labor-management legislation. A spending budget of about highest in peace-time. It will reflect higher costs of the "cold war" and a broad social welfare program. FIRST ON WEDNESDAY Mr. Truman will deliver his "State of the Union" message to congress Wednesday.

He is expected to tell the lawmakers that they start their deliberations at a time of unprecedented prosperity. Income and production. His economic report goes to Capitol Hill Friday. He is expected to say that inflation still is a hazard despite a four-month skid in food prices and a slight, two-month decline in living costs. Whether Mr.

Truman will again ask the strong standby price and ration controls of his old 10-point anti-inflation program is a toss-up. He must make the final decision since his council of economic advisers is divided on the issue. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the council, reportedly believes the business outlook does not warrant severe control legislation at this moment. DEFENSE COST UP But Vice Chairman Leon Key-serling said publicly last week the government must adopt measures to "check the boom so it will not turn into a bust." The third council member, John D.

Clark, is reported to share Keyserling's views. Mr. Truman is faced with National defense costs totaling nearly $15,000,000,000 the next fiscal year about 25 per cent higher than this year's. Foreign aid costs will remain high. These are the major factors which will cause Mr.

Truman in his budget message a week from today to ask for a total budget of around Mr. Truman has said that income will not match such spending in view of he 1948 tax 9V without nw tax ilvaauM. Casper Student to Fly Back to Yale Rob Healy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Healy, is planning on leaving Monday if possible for Denver where he is to meet another group of Yale students-who have chartered a C-46 from Denver to New Haven, Conn.

Mr. Healy was to leave Sunday night by train for Denver and was to join his fellow students in that city early Monday morning. He was held up here, however, because the Burlington train to Denver was forced to cancel its run because of the storm. Mr. Healy planned to board the C-46, which accommodates 52, at noon Monday and would have been back at Yale by nightfall.

He reported Monday morning, however, that the plane, which was to have left San Antonio early Monday, had been weathered in and was not expected to arrive in Denver until much later. He is still trying to make connections to get on the plane Another son of Mr. and Mrs. Healy, Harold H. Healy, left Saturday by commercial airliner for New Haven, where he was to begin classes early Monday.

Man Reports $1,712 Stolen Theft of $1,712 was reported to police Monday morning by Eddie Laird, of 933 West Midwest. Mr. Laird, according to police records, stated that the money was from a bill-fold which he had in h.s trouser pocket. He was asleep when the money was taken, he told police. The was the second robbery which occurred in Casper over the week-end.

A break-in occurred at the Wyoming cafe, 241 East Second, and $115 was taken in cash from where it was hidden in the oven. Thieves missed taking money which was left in the cash register, however. Entrance was gained to the cafe by cutting a screen on the rear window. The money was all in small change and bills. DEATH TOLL BS MOUNTiM HOPE ABANDONED FOR LONG MISSING PLANE Big Piney BUlintrs 29 -2 .28 CASPER (City) 18 -4 WardweU Field 31 -5 .04 Cheyenne 28 -7 .80 Cody 27 -2 .01 Denver 29 3 .43 Douglas 32 -4 .04 Ft.

Bridger 17 -6 Lander Kaycee .24 -4 .05 Laramie 22 .28 Newcastle 36 -2 .46 Rock Springs Sinclair 17 -6 Shrndan 4 13 sengers were Yale university students who had chartered the plane to take them back to New Haven, Conn. After they had spent the holiday vacation at their homes in the northwest. Searchers were digging in the wreckage for bodies of several others unaccounted for. The 205 highway traffic fatalities were 35 more than the estimate of 170 by the national safety council for the period from 6 p.m. Now Year's va to last midnight, local MIAMI, Jan.

3 (JP) Hope was abandoned today for survivors of a charter airliner which disappeared last Tuesday with 32 persons aboard enroute from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. The coast guard announced discontinuance of the "large scale'' search for the missing DC-3 at sundown last night and said the only.