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Snake Problems Are Embarrassing But He's Not Investigating Now By PETER J. HAYES UPI Staff Writer SONOMA, Calif. " LIM I.loyd Morain hopes the natural antip athy that a king snake harbors for a rattler will e'ear up a "darn embarrassing situation'1 at his mountain retreat near here Morain is a San Francisco bus iness advisor and occasion world traveler. lie and his wife took a trip to Africa some time ago and invited friends to use their sum mer home on weekends while they we:e gone. One day the friends saw a three-foot rattle snake wriggle under the house. And Morain noted on his return that the cus tomary heavy mouse population had dwindled to nothing. These two factors added up to a disquieting conclusion for Mor ain a rattler had taken up resi dence in his summer house. "It was a darn embarrassing situation. Mo-am said. "We like to have guests in for a barbecue and some ix-ople are a little squeamish if they think there's a rattler around." Help Wanted Moriin took steps to evict his unwelcome tpnant. He placed an ad in the classified section of the Sonoma Index-Tribune reading "Wanted large king snake for interesting task. Price to be ne gotiated. . ." Morain explained that the king snake is the natural enemy of the rattler. It will kill the rattler by wrapping its coils around it and strangling it. Then it swallows the ratller. The king is immune to the rattler's poisonous bite. Mrs. Ted V. Kirtley of nearby Glen Ellen responded to Morain's ad. It so happened, she said, that her son, Dick, had a king snake. A few days later Morain stopied by to see young Kirtley 'J-';ttf. . ' J v$'-- ft - - :"H Lwl a?L .......'Ml MUM . V IN TANDEM Two heads are better than one when It comes to winning on unusual hat contest. Laurie Ornish, 9, and her mother, Mrs. Kilwin Ornish, of Dallas, Tex., won first prize. Laurie wears a water skier trailing the boat on her mother's hut Wagon Train Leaves Old Oregon Trail THE DALLES (VIM I - Ore gon's modern pioneers said good bye to the Old Oregon Trail this morning at their Biggs Junction rnmn site and steered the Cen tennial wagon train to a gala noon parade here. The wanons pushed out at 6 a.m for the 18-mile trip. The Biggs encampment on the banks of the Columbia river was the last Ore- eon Trail stopover for the train. The seven Conestogas will camp here until Monday when they will be loaded o.ito a barge of the Pacific Inland Navigation Comnanv for a trip down the Columbia to Portland's Willamet te nark. The wagons will remain alwnrd the barge at Willamette park Monday night and at dawn Tues day they will travel the Ilills-dale-Beaverlon highway to Ilills boro for encampment. Pioneer Misfortune In 1843 members of a pioneer wagon train which crossed the Oregon trail also took the river route down the Columbia. Then pioneers Jesse and Lindsay Ap plegate each lost a son by drown ing in a river accident. Plans for a big celebration next Saturday at Independence were being made. The wagon train is due outside Independence next Friday. It is scheduled to be in Amity next Thursday and Dun dee on Wednesday. Portlandors wauling to get a view of the wagons at Willamette park here Monday night were told that parking conditions would be difficult and that traffic prob ably would be heavy. They also were advised that the wagon train personnel will want to get some sleep. j 1 v ' d 'i U who, at the age of 13, is some thing of a reptile expert. He owned three king snakes, five gopher snakes, one stried racer, cne baby boa constrictor Hhat might reach 13 feet on maturity. he said i 12 garter snakes, a spectacled cayman alligator and a few salamanders. Morain and the boy soon agreed on a price of $6 for a 46-inch king snake, figuring $1.50 a foot. The businessman took his pur chase home in a shoe box and released it down a rat hole in the kitchen floor. Walk Softly Morlain himself isn't bothered by snakes, except at night. Some years ago, he said, he saw a rattler looking through a hole in the floor at him. He killed it with a shovel. But whether the king snake he sent in under the house carried out his assignment is still un known. "I'm certainly not going to crawl under the house to investi gate. It's too narrow anyway," he said with a grin. "But I do know that some snake is still under there. There's no sign of mice around here. But we can't tell whether it's the rattier or the king snake." Meanwhile, until he can get some positive proof, Morain treads lightly. He also keeps a long stick handy, just in case it develops that the rattler escaped his executioner and decides to ROSEBURG Continued From Front Page Neuberger called on President Eisenhower to give federal help to the stricken city, which lies 200 miles south of Portland. National Guardsmen guarded against looting and radio stations broadcast repeated warnings that pilferers would be dealt with se verely. But there were no reports of anyone stealing. When the fires were extinguished the city's resi dents turned out in a remarkable display of cooperation to clean up the streets. By night-falt all but the worst-hit area was policed up and the debris carted away. Mayor Arlo Jacklin said the truck load of explosives was legal ly parked. Driver Rutherford had planned to unload part of the ex plosives at the warehouse where he parked and the rest at a Hoseburg rock crushing plant. He was injured by flyin glass in the nearby hotel where he went for the night. The dead included Virginia Kuy kendall, 4, of Itoseburg, who died in a hospital from injuries suf fered in the explosion. Bodies found in the ruins in cluded those of Roy McFarland, assistant fire chief; Harry, Car michael, about 50; James Knight, 20; Dennis Tandy, about 18, and Bonnie Jean Berg, 19 all of Hoseburg. join a Mortain evening. barbecue some 9 A. ALL TOGETHER. NOW tigtailed Italian Diane D'Eete, 26, disdains her beauty. She couldn't care less If people compare her with Brigitte Bar dot. But she was proud whet French President Charles de Gaulle thanked her by letter for a copy of her 64-page book, "Peace and Prosperity." It'a a crusade fur world harmony. NIXON ON TV NEW YORK (I'PI) - Vice President Richard M. Nixon will give the NBC and CBS television networks equal time Sunday in half-hour programs dealing with his recent trip through Russia and Poland. The vice president will give a running commentary of films of the tour and will dis cuss its effects from 7 to 7:30 p.m. e.d.t. on NBC and from 7:30 to 8 p.m. e.d.t. on CBS Fish By-Pass Discussed At Lodge Meet JOSEPH, Ore. 'UPD De tails of a by-pass canal to carry fish pass the proposed high Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake river were discussed today at a meeting at Wallowa Lake lodge. Directors and technicians of fish and game commissioners from Oregon, Washington and Idaho; the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice, and fish biologists from Pa cific Northwest Power Company were present. The meeting is to be followed Friday by an all-day field survey trip into the rugged Imnaha riv er area, including a four - mile hike from the end of the valley road to the mouth of the Imnaha. The group of 25 there will board boats to travel down the Snake river to Lewiston, Idaho. Purpose of the trip is to dis cuss "on the ground'1 the power firm's plan for a 15-mile canal to by-pass the proposed 670-foot high Mountain Sheep structure. The facility would screen the entire flow of the Imnaha, at a point above the short arm of the reser voir, and carry downstream mi grants completely around the lake. Fish headed upstream for the Imnaha would use the same canal. The proposed dam would be up stream from the mouth of the Salmon river, leaving that stream open to migratory fish. Benny Goodman's Daughter Makes Musical Debut NEW CANAAN, Conn. (UPD The daughter of the King of Swing made her musical debut here Friday night playing the piano in a concert with her father. Rachel Goodman. 16-vear-old daughter of clarinetist Benny Goodman, played a Mozart trio with her falher and David Daw son, violist of the Berkshire Slrine Quartet. The performance took place at the Silvermine Guild Hall. Miss Goodman is an ardent fan of modern jazz, but, like her father, she also has a love for chamber music. She is In the sen ior class at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, where she is studying piano. The rale of illegitimate births among unmarried women In the U.S. went from 7.1 per 1.000 in 1940 to 20.2 per 1.000 in 1956. Pilot Claims Trip Boring And Routine FAIRBANKS, Alaska (UPI) The pilot of one of two F-100-F jet planes which made the first fighter jet flight across the North Pole today described their trip as "kind of boring and routine The two supersonic fighter jets landed here Friday after ground crews chased a wandering moose off the runway at Eielson Air Force Base. They covered the 5.- 405 miles from Weatherfield, Eng land, in 9 hours and 37 minutes. "We cruised between about 27, 000 and 37,000 feet the whole dis. ance, said Capt. Robert Titus, Norfolk, Va., pilot of one of the planes. "There wasn't much to do up there. It was kind of boring and routine. The other plane was piloted by Brig. Gen. Charles Blair, Air Force Reserve, and a commer cial pilot on the Atlantic run for Pan American. Blair is a special consultant for the Air Force Capt. Albert Kucher. 34, Phil adelphia, was Blair's crewman and Lt. George Woody, 28, Horn Lake, Miss., rode with Titus. Col. Sephen Henry, Command er of Eielson AFB, greeted the men when their planes touched down just one minute apart. The jets had to circle the field twice while ground crews shooed away the wandering moose. Titus said the jets averaged about 500 miles an hour during the flight. The airmen stayed at Eileson overnight and will fly the same planes today to Los Angeles. Little Rock's Private School Needs Money LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPH -Little Rock teenagers who don't want to go to school with Negroes will have to wash nearly 270.000 cars in the next four days before the now defunct private school corporation will "consider" open ing up again. A group of students who attend ed the T. J. Raney (private) High School last year started washing cars for $1.50 each Fri day. One group washed Cars under a fluttering Confederate flag. Dr. T. J. Raney, president of the private school corporation, said the private high school could not be opened this year be cause "we're flat broke." Gov. Orval Fauhus closed the four public high schools last year and the nrivnte schmil niuirat.wi on funds donated from throughout me world. But the law Faubus uspH in close the public schools has been voided by a federal court, and the schools are scheduled to open next Wednesday. rJ'iSSSS WvJe. , :V,-4 THEY'LL BE IN '60 CARS Some 50.000 auto frame In etacki cover several acres of the Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant near Detroit. Company officials said the frames were not stockpiled against the ateel strike, but had been processed In preparation fur 1BU0 model changeover. Julie Andrews Takes Last Bow In 'My Fair Lady' LONDON l'PI Julie An drews, who has been "My Fair Lady" to playgoers in New York and London for the past Vi years, takes her last bow in the American musical tonight. Miss Andrews, a 19-year-old un known who was swept to interna tional fame by her role in the show, will turn it over to Anne Rogers. Her original co-star, Rex Harrison, left the cast in March. After a vacation, Miss Andrews will go into rehearsal for "Jennie Kissed me," an American musi cal based on the legend of King Arlhur. The "standing room only" sign is out for Miss Andrews' final ap pearance in "My Fair Lady," it has been for every performance since the show oiiened in London more than a year ago. Observer, La Grande, Ore., Sat., Aug. 8, 1959 Page 6 aL PrtAe Typhoon In South Japan Ike Asked To Declare Island Disaster Area British Extend Plane Service To Far East LONDON UPI) The national ized British Overseas Airways Corporation announced today it will start service on its new trans American route to the Far East in about two weeks. Two Turboprop Britannia 312's will operate each week between London and Tokyo by way of New York, San Francisco and Hono- HONOLl'LU (UPD Acting Governor KiKard Johnston has cabled President Eisenhower to ask him to decla'e Kauai Island a major disaster area. Kauai, exotic locale of "South Pacific'' and other tropical mov ies, was the only island squarely hit by hurricane Dot Wednesday night. Johnson and his staff completed a five hour inspection tour of the hardest h:t areas Friday night and said that damage would be "well over a million dollars. He added that he was "tremen dously impressed with the way people were already pitching into rebuilding and repair projects." 103-Mile-an-Hour Winds The storm belted the island with 103 mile-an-hour ,winds which tore off roofs and flattened power lines. Heavy rains caused rivers to flood some low-lying residential areas. Domestic water supplies were temporarily cut off and all lulu. The U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board authorized the New British service over the protest of North west Orient Airlines, which said it will mean an annual loss of 13 million dollars to U. S. airlines. power failed. The island was cut off from all communication with the outside world excejit by emer gency radio transmitters set up by the Hawaii National Guard. There were no casualties re ported. The storm moved on a north west course along the southeast edges of ' other islands, causing minor damage. Islands also fairly hard hit included Kalaheo, Lawai and Koloa. Past Hawaii Chain Today The hurricane was completely past the Hawaii chain today. Hur ricane and gale warnings were down, but small craft warnings continued for northern Hawaii waters as waves 15 to 20 feet high battered the south and southeast shores of Kauai and Oahu. Johnston today gave Kauai au thorities the go-ahead to begin cleanup work and said funds from a special half-million territorial emergency fund would be used until federal money is available to complete the job. In addition. United States Army engineers said emergency funds of theirs would also be used to help clear debris and rebuild damaged ports a. id flood cuntrol projects. TOKYO 'I'l'I i A typhoon with. 90 mile an hour winds and bat tering rain brought death and de struction today to the Osumi Peninsula area of southern Japan. Twelve persons were dead or missing in the torrential rains ranging from 4 to 26 inches which preceded the howling storm. 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