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NEW POLICE RADIO Believed to be the first of !t kind, this new
radio receiver, worn by patrolman Floyd Lee Is examined by Police
Chief Charles Pray, of Portland, Ore. The radio, which may toon
become regular equipment for Portland patrolmen, receive ordera
direct from police radio headquarters: call are answered by tele
phone call box.
Student li Recovering
After Mountain Rescue
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK,
Mont Sept. 7 .P A huskv Uni
versity of Washington student ts
recovering In a Whilefish, Mont,
hospital after a spectacular res
cue in the Montana rookies.
Thorn Moulds, 23, of Santa Bar-,
hara, Calif., was carried down
from the foot of an ice field on
9.147 foot Reynolds mountain
where he had lain injured for
more than 2 hours.
It took 29 men. supplied 'by a
pack siring, all day Monday to
reach the point where Moulds fell
down the snow-covered mountain
aide lale Saturday and carry him
on a stretcher eight miles to a
highway.
The 190-pound Washington ath
lete suffered a broken right foot
and lacerations of the right arm.
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er an amhulanre met the rescue i
party on GoingTo-TheSun high
way which crosses the Continen
tal Divide.
Harvard U. President
Visits Hanford Plant
RICHLAND. Wash.. Sept. 7
(!P) Dr. James Conant, president
of Harvard university, arrived
here Tuesday to visit the Han
lord plutonium works.
He left immediately on an In
spection of the plants and was
expected to be there all day. He
was accompanied by Fred C.
Schlemmer, manager of the Hni
ford project for the Atomic En
ergy commission.
Dr. Conant is a member ef the
General Advisory committee on
atomic energy. This is his first
visit to Hanford since July, 1945.
Canada has 144 ports of entry
which handle vehicles, 48 for
railways and 81 at airfields.
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CUSTOM-BUILT TOOLS
Whoa you put th May Harrta Pony
to work on your ploc you'r In tor a mw
kind of mall-tractor parfonnanc. You'r
"boil" ot a kTly 62-cubic-inch nqino
with Kiqh-comprMaicn ... "big tractor"
power that romp atoog at 2t ot 3
m.p.h. with a 12- or 14-inch plow. Ton got
smooth, quick-ripondinq cononrical pow.
r . . . you cultivate mor rows, turn morn
farrows, disc morn ocras on och tank of
hinL
Partners with th Pony In pnrtonnoncn,
oonomy and oasn of handling am a conv
plntn Hnn-up of nasily mounted tools
plows; disc barrows; spring, trip, spring
tooth, and finld cultivators; pianists
and mowsrs. Each dssignsd to do good
j work, built for tong bin and ng.nsrs4
099 us soon tor ms coaptot dtaiw
on tbs Pony . . . got on on and art
It for a nsw thrill in power fanning.
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Employes Fund
Will Be Tapped
For New Building
SALEM. Sept. .7-UWThe new
$2,500,000 state office building in
Portland will be financed bv bor
rowing from the State Employes
Retirement fund, the state Board
of Control announced.
The money will be repaid to
the fund by rentals assessed
against department! using the
building. The fund will receive
two and one-half percent Interest.
The board said it does not yet
know If the proposed 10 -story
building can be built for $2,500.
000. It might have to settle for a
smaller structure.
It will take four or five months
to draft preliminary plans, and
another six weeks. to advertise
for bids. The board said several
contractors already have asked
for plans.
The board deferred action on a
letter from the Portland Central
Club council of Portland, asking
for an investigation of state In
stitutions. Members of the coun
cil want to do the Investigating
themselves.
Governor Douglas McKav said,
however, the request is "ridicu
lous." The council charged that sane
persons are being committed to
the state hospitals, and that cur
ed persons are being kept there.
Secretary of State Earl T. New
bry said that patients are com
mitted to the hospitals by the
courts, and not by the board.
Prison Warden George Alexan
der asked the board to build a
$200,000 correction cell block. It
would contain 56 cells, and would
be used for the worst prisoners.
Wheat Commission Will
Send Analyst To East
SALEM, Sept. 7 UP The Ore
gon Wheat commission has de
cided to send its market analyst
east "to get the true facts about
the possible industrial uses for
wheat."
The analyst is Richard Baum,
Pendleton, who plans to go first
to Minneapolis to confer with
General Mills officials. Baum
said the firm already has con
ducted a survey on coast mar
kets where wheat might be used
industrially.
He also will discuss production
of starch and gluten and conver
sion of wheat starch Into dextrose
and glucose at the USDA regional
laboratory in Peoria, 111.
Baum said he then would talk
with Department of Agriculture
officials in Washington and bank
ing company officials in New
York.
Actress Seeks Divorce
From Jackie Cooper
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8. m
Actress June Home wants .
divorce from Jackie Cooper, 27,
one-time film juvenile player,
claiming he has caused her "an
guish, pain, humiliation and em
barrassament." The 30-year-old actress, In her
suit filed Friday, said she has
"conducted herself with kind
ness and affection" but Cooper
has treated her cruelly.
She asks custody of their son,
Johny Anthony, three. The Coop
ers were married Dec. 11, 1944,
and separated last May 1, her
com-ilaint stated.
State And Private Land
Fires Boosted This Year
SALEM, Ore. (.P There
were 723 forest fires on state and
private lands up to August 15,
compared with 320 In the similar
period of last year, the stale for
estry department reports.
This year's fires burned over
11,971 acres during the period,
compared with 1.626 acres in the
similar period of last year.
The department said that the
fire hazard has been well above
normal ever since June 1.
The biggest fire this season was
near Cave Junction in southwest
Oregon, where 1.000 acres were
burned on July 15.
The iron and steel in the aver
age automobile weigh about 2.600
pounds.
Pntlu SM nsr r,nt if th urotohi
of an average passenger auto
mobile Is steel.
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RED RETURNS-Sovtet Lieutenant Anataly p. B.rT. SI crlihtV
a Russian Air Force deserter who spent seven months In the United
8tates was returned to the Soviet from Vienna, Austria, at his own
request. Baraov fled from the Soviet Ukraine but October 9 with
Peusr PlrlgoT (left), M-year-old Soviet navlaator (pair are shown to.
aether in new American sulu shortly after their flight). pirUtov
the State Department announced, was still In this country happy'
and wanted to remain.
Body Of Man, Drowned
April 6, Is Recovered
MONMOUTH, Sept. 8. (.
The bodr of Robert C. Wood, who
drowned In the Willamette river
April 6, has been recovered
Dy a dredging crew near Kob-
erts station between Independ
ence and Salem.
Wood and W. A. King, superin
tendent of a bridge Job at Inde
pendence, drowned when a boat
overturned as they rigged a ca
ble tcrosa the river for the Val
ley Concrete company plant.
King's body has not yet been
found. A third man in the mis
hap, A. J. Prichard. was rescued.
Quarry tiles, widely used for
heavy duty floors are made
from natural clays or sha hales
mined at or near the factory site.
Camden Slayer
Was 'Mild' Person
Says Ex-Sergeant
PORTLAND, Sep. T .T
Howard L'nruh, the berserk gun
man of Camden, was a cool, qui
et, Bible-reading soldier with a
passion for guns, his war-time
sergeant recalled here.
Norman E. Koehn or Portland
pointed to a picture ot L'nruh,
who killed 13 persons In Camden.
N. J., yesterday, In a booklet
telling the history of the 342nd
Armored Field Artillery battal
ion. "Howard was a quiet kid."
Koehn, his section chief In Bat
tery C. said. "He never associat
ed much with the other fellows,
but he was Intelligent a pretty
smart kid. I don't think anybody
gave him much credit for that.
He was cool, too. Never excit
able." L'nruh wrote long letters page
afler page to hit mother while
overseas In Italy and France,
Koehn said, and spent houis
reading the Bible.
But his hobby was guns: "guns
and bayonets. I've probably seen
that Luger he used, because he
had dozens of guns." His marks
manship was deadly. Koehn add
ed, telling of an experience which
he considered a narrow escape
from Unruh's rifle. He said he
had spotted a wild boar while
seated In a mortar crater in Aus
tria one moonlight night, fired,
then took after it. Unruh, on sen
try duty, challenged him.
"I gave the countersign right
back, quick," said Koehn. "He
would have dropped me In my
tracks if I hadn't. Nothing wrong
with that thought that'i just
good soldiering."
Thurt., Sept. 8, 1949-Tho News-Review, Roteburf,, Ore. S
Bureau Of Mines Begins
New Organization Plan
WASHINGTON. Sept.
The 39-year-old Bureau of Mines
began reorganizing on a regional
basis today.
Harold P. Greenwald. super
intendent of the Pittsburgh cen
tral experiment station of the bu
reau, was appointed director of
the North-Eastern region, with
headquarters at Pittsburgh.
Other regional headquarters
will be set up at Juneau, Alaska;
Albany, Ore.; San Francisco,
Calif.: Denver, Jnki.; Minneapo
lis. Minn.; Bartlesville, Okla. and
Tuscaloosa, A'a.
The Washington staff office of
the bureau also hat been reor
ganized. J. H. Hedges, superintendent
of the bureau's southwest experi
ment station at Tucson, Ariz.,
was appointed chief oi the Mil
erals division here.
Rescue Workers Report
Plane Wreckage Is Gen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 8.
43") Rescue workers reported
yesterday that wreckage ot a C
47 has disappeared completely
since its crash last Friday In
Cook Inlet.
No sign of debris has been seen
since approximately 12 hours aft
er the mid-day crash.
Neither have searchers located
bodies of any of the seven vic
tims. Elmendorf field authorities
branded erroneous a previous un
official report that three bodies
were found.
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