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XnriETY-nGIXTH YEAH 28
Geo rgia
A Salem resident, who served
In the British .army in the first
world war but is now an Ameri
can citizen, has sent me a clip
pine from British paper that
had been sent him by his brother,
a former British naval officer. It
is entitled Letter to Any Ameri
can (from an Unknown Briton)".
I regret it is too lengthy for re
printing because it gives in moving
style the tpiring of the ordinary
Brton with reference to the shift
of power across the Atlantic. -
It Is quite true as the Briton
says that -the British navy provid
ed the "umbrella'' under which
the United States grew to maturity
and prosperity. Though we de
lighted for decades to twist the
lion's tail, clear through the first
world war we respected and
profited by the peace maintained
by tne fcsriusn navy, jmow, inrougn
exhaustion of two- great wars,
through loss of former colonies
m i a J I I
culty.'To the yet unskilled hands
of Americans have passed the
reins of power.
How shall we use this power,
for our own protection and for the
world's good? This "Unknown
Briton" appeals to Americans to
take up the torch long held by his
countrymen and "Build the Pax
Americana." ,
It is well for "any and all
Americans to realize the role now
thrust upon them. It is not for us
to abuse this power, to throw our
(Continued" orr editorial page)
Orphan Girl
Pawn in U. S..
Russ Dispute
BERLIN, Aug. 2S-0P)-A 14
y ear-old crippled orphan girl be
came the innocent pawn tonight
In the latest dispute between the
United States and Russia.
Soviet officials demanded cus
tody of the girl, Helena Korelen--ko,
who is in a Catholic hospital
in the American sector of Berlin.
A Ukrainian orphaned by the war,
-she - needs an operation to ever
walk again. o
The United States refused to re
lease the girl pending an lnvesti
" gation and stated in no case would
she be turned over the Russians
without the consent of the inter
national refugee organization.
A Soviet doctor and ambulance
. crew were turned back when they
arrived at the hospital. American
public safety officials blocked the
transfer. A further conference
will be held with Soviet officials
Monday after consultations with
the IRQ. -v-.'W . -
State Fair Shortcut
To Knowing U S. $
- ST. PAUL, Minn, Aug. 28-AV
Randolph HublalL. here ., from
British Guiana to enroll at Mac
Alester college, asked the shortest
cut to learning all about Ameri-
- Dr. Kenneth Millard of the col
lege student : personnel service
glanced at the calendar and placed
a telephone call.
Today Hublall went to work at
Minnesota's 10-day state fair. '
Animal Cracftcrs
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Hfeat Spell
CHICAGO, Aug. 28-iaVCon-tinued
warm and humid Sunday;
very little relief Monday.
Federal forecasters could give
no better news than that today as
deaths from the summer's long
est heat spell rose to. 123 -in
the eastern half of the nation.
A cool - air mass which kept
Canadian border temperatures in
in the 50s showed no indication
of moving southward toward the
heat, belt extending from the
Mississippi river to the Atlantic
coast.
The majority of deaths attri
buted to the hot spell resulted
from heat prostrations. The re-,
maining victims drowned as soar
ing temperatures sent crowds to
the beaches for relief.
A few widely scattered thun-
dershowers failed to break the
heat.
Baltimore reported a reading
of pt 101, LaGuardia Field, New
"r l aa OV.no41nViio Oft
XU1A, uau aa, uuuulju-i -
S& 95 Chicago 89
The mercury rose past the 95
mark today in Nebraska and parts
of Kansas. It hit the low 90's in
the gulf area.
Most comfortable spots in the
nation were the west coast, which
had temperatures in the 60's, and
the extreme northwest portion of
Minnesota and North Dakota,
where readings were in the low
er 70's.
Safecrackers
Skip Shortcuts
SEASIDE, Aug. 28 (fl3) The
safecrackers made entirely too
much work of it, the E. B. Hanna
Lumber company said today.
There was a window strategic
ally placed at the lumber company
office. But the robbers cut a hole
through the wall to get in.
- The safe could be opened with
a turn of the dial. But the robbers
blew,' it open With two charges of
nitroglycerine.
Fcf- their efforts they got $70 in
cash.
an
For Campaign
BLAKISTONE ISLAND, Md
Aug. 28 (JP) - Sun-tanned and
cheerful, President Truman is
eager to be off on a presidential
campaign tour expected to cover
every section of the nation.
. TThe president is looking for
ward to the campaign with a great
deal of zest," Presidential Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross report
ed today. "It Is going to be , an
extensive one, as you know."
Ross talked with reporters in a
visit aboard the press "yacht Wan
defer in which reporters have cov
ered the chief executive's nine day
pre-campaign cruise, - :
The cruise is due to end at S
pjn. (EST) tomorrow when the
presidential yacht Williamsburg
docks at Washington.
ening,
By LClie I Hadsen
: Tarm Editor. Tb Statesman
' With painting and construction
completely finished and nothing
left to do but sit back and watch
the barometer, . Leo Spitzbart,
manager, said Saturday that . the
83rd Oregon State Fair wm be a
record one "if the weather - be
haves itself."
In - every department of live
stock, entries are large. Kenneth
J ennings, poultry superintendent,
reports that his division will be by
far the largest since the late war.
Rodeo Superintendent, Henry
Christenson of Eugene, reports
that even more top bronc busters
than ever before will be on hand
for the local horse-rodeo competi
tion. Christenson adds that com
petition in all divisions of the Ail
American cowboy race is very
keen and competitors are eager to
gain points in the fall productions.
Entries closed August 23, in the
horse show division with a record
number, of out of state strings on
hand."--'-- '"-.-
In addition to the extensive in
dustrial and agricultural exhibits:
fair officials kavt ttt tr? tha cost
Ready
State Fair Official Re
Grand Op
POUNDDD 1651
Oregon Stat
Commit Probers Accuse
White House of Refusing
To Protect U.S. Security
Bv Donrlas
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28 -
formally accused the White House
the national security. - ' - . .
In a report on "communist espionage In the United States govern
ment," the house un-American activities committee said:
Its inquiry has been "hampered at every turn by White House
Blamed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2t Atter
. ney General Thomas C Clark,
who was accused by eensres-
sienal spy investicstors today ef
"failure" to enforce laws against
spying "as vigorously as lie
should."
Dallas Garden
QubWiiisPdlk
Fair Award
MONMOUTH, Aug. 28 Polk
county's 29th annual fair was
brought to a eiese at 10 p.m. to
night and moat ef the exhibits
were dismanteled as exhibitors
departed.
Dallas Garden club took first
place for community exhibits with
Its large floral exhibit which fea
tured sumer flowers with a few
fall blooms..
- Sunbeam Thimble club of Mon
mouth and Presbyterian Needle-
craft of Independence were sec
ond and third in the community
exhibits which are always a fea
ture of the Polk county fair.
Forty Oregon Journal juniors
from Portland rere here today
to entertain the crowds In the
grandstand with music and tap
dancing numbers. The fair closed
at 10 pa tonight, the Portland
Juniors having left earlier.
Many of the prize winning ex
hibits will be shown at the Ore
gon State Fair.
( Additional Details on Page 14)
Union Leader Give
Truman 'Good Chance9
SPOKANE, Aug. 28-WV-Hugo
Ernst of Cincinnati, head of the
AFL's third largest union, said to
day that he things President Tru
man has "a good chance" to be
elected. ,
Ernst ,1s president of the , Hotel
and Resturant Employees and
Bartenders , International union
which claims 40,000 members.
ady for
Barometer
varied entertainment roster in the
exposition's history. .
Free midway acts will be feat
ured three times daily. The Eugene
Municipal' band, the fair's official
musical Organization, will play in
concert several times daily. After
noon horse races on the pictur
esque Lone Oak track is another
of the fair's fun agenda.
Two top productions headline
the nightly schedule during the
week ef September 6 to 12. Helena
Hughes of San Francisco will pre
sent the state fair Showboat each
evening in front of the racing
grandstand. The fast moving, mu
sical features vaudeville acts, Ed
die Peabody, the longe time banjo
king. Day, Dawn and Dusk, a re
cent Las Vegas . sensation, and
many other acts are included on
the Showboat Itinerary, s
Tuesday, September T, will be
observed as Farm Organization
day with the r Oregon Purebred
Breeders association banquet in
the vening In the junior dor
mitory on the grounds.
Culinary, textile and florrl divi
sion entries da not close unta Sep
tember 4w -
' i
Eve
Salvia, Orvgoxw Sunday, August 29. 1943
erted forMurripane
B. Cornell
PV - Coneressional spy investigators
tonight of refusing to help "protect
to supply information.
2. The "failure" of Attorney
General Clark to enforce laws
against spying, "as vigorously as he
should" is largely responsible for
"the growth and power . of the
cornmiunist conspiracy1 in Ameri
ca.
S. Laws must be passed to crack
down on spying and communist
activities.
4. It is making no "specific
charges of perjury" at this time.
Burden of Proof en Hiss
5. In the sensational controversy
between Alger Hiss and Whitta
ker Chambers, it believes the bur
den of proof "has definitely shift
ed" from Chambers to Hiss. Cham
bers has said, , and Hiss has de
nied, that Hiss, a former state de
partment official, was a leader in
a pre-war communist underground
in Washington.
Up to now, the committee, "the
verifiable portions of Chambers
testimony have stood up strongly;
the verifiable portions of the Hiss
testimony have been badly shak
en."
Spy Rings at Work
6. It has been established defin
itely that during and since the
war "numerous communist espion
age rings" were at work in the
government, using the American
communist party and its agents to
relay to Russia "vital information
essential to our national defense
and security," There is reason to
believe such groups still are oper
ating in the government.
7. The committee at times must
run the risk "that a few innocent
people may be temporarily em
barrassed" in order to protect 140,-
000,000 Americans against being
"permanently enslaved."
Airplanes Flee
From Storm
ROANOKE, Va, Aug. 2S-(P-
Forty-six marine airpianes,evacu
ated from the Cherry Point, N. C,
air base because of the threaten
ing hurricane, landed at Roanoke
today. , .
They were one unit of more
than 200 planes evacuated from
the base to avoid possible damage
from the big blow, now off the
Florida coast. Others were sent to
Cleveland and Youngstowni Ohio,
Nearly 100 marine Cyerf,who
brought the planes here, .were
quartered in downtown hotels.
Most of the craft were fighter
planes.
J
Absent Minded
Expectant Father
Just imagine his surprise! ' "' .
Clerks in the admitting -office at
St Joseph's hospital here said an
expectant father arrived in great
excitement only to find he had
forgotten his wife.
The man had carefully placed a
baby's crib in the family ear and
dashed off to the hospital all
alone. " - -
He made another trip to bring
bis wife. 1
Stratojet Test
Phase Finished
SEATTLE, Aug. 28-CAVThjB sec
ond phase of testing of the new
swept-wing stratojet bomber has
been completed' by an air force
crew at the Moses Lake base, the
Boeing Airplane company reported
today. .;, . "-
- The air force took command of
Boeing's first XB-47 July .
x During 28 flights, almost tS
hours of flight was logged with the
six-jet bomber. Boeing pilots pre
viously had flown the plana S7tt
hours during the first phase of
testing;.
Weather
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reau, VicNary field. 8lm ) : Scattered
cloudiness today and toairht, becoming
partly cloudy tomorrow. High today S8.
low tonight IX Weather excellent tor
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No. 144
Of Storm
MIAMI, Fla Aug. 28 -UPi- A
small, . violent hurricane moving
up the Atlantic seaboard but
still 500 miles at sea tonight
was slowly increasing In inten
sity and losing' its forward pace.
Storm forecasters in a 10:15
pm. (EST) advisory continued to
alert the Georgia-Carolina coasts.
The storm has changed its di
rection slightly and is moving in
a - west northwest direction. Its
position -was given as latitude
28.9 north and longitude 72.0
west, or about 350 miles south
east of Daytona Beach, Fla.
Winds have increased from 113
to 120 miles an hour at the cen
ter, with hurricane force winds
75 miles an hour or more cov
ering an area of about 100 miles
in diameter about the storm.
The advisory said the storm
should continue a slow move
ment towards the west north
west to northwest for the next
12 hours, with some intensifi
cation.
Ships in the two busy sea lanes
along the coast hurried to safety
as the storm advanced. -
A navy observer declared It
had "the most beautiful eye ever
seen in a hurricane. The eye,
or vortex around which the vio
lent winds spin, is perfectly
round like a whirling disc, said
Lt. Comdr. Charles Dale of Nor
folk, Va a radar expert. This
was an indication of its vio
lence, he said.
Need Gathers
Momentum
A late season has delayed peak
demand for harvest workers un
to well along in September, state
employment service officials re-
Dorted Saturday.
Director Earl K. Loveu in his
weekly survey of 29 local of
flees pointed to Ontario, ued-
ford and Portland districts as in
most urgent need of workers.
while beans and hops in the Wil
lamette valley will require, hun
dreds of families in the next few
weeks.
With a large pear crop the
Medford area will require sev
eral hundred pickers immediate
ly. Lovell declared.
Ontario can use at least zoo
men gathering potatoes, sweet
corn, onions and lima beans. No
space Is available in the labor
camp.
Late caneberries still are com
ma: on in the Gresham area while
the Hillsboro district can use up
to 200 pickers. Beans, hops and
cucumbers are being gathered in
Portland's four-county area-
Albany and Eugene both can
use more bean and hop pickers
up to September 20, but the Sa
lem district's peak demand will
come with late hops starting
about September ff. .
The prune harvest near Iree-
water will need about 350 work
ers until mid-September.
Police Catch
Utah Escapee
SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. li-UP)
-Fred Carl Berge, Jr, 21, who
escaped with two others over a
wall of the Utah state prison yes
terday in a hail of bullets, was
captured tonight. ,
Clarence Dent, chief clerk at
the prison, said Berge was taken
Into custody by a prison guard and
Salt Lake City police at 237 Floral
are. near the city business dis
trict.
He was unarmed and offered no
resistance.
Coke Stevenson.
Leads Texas Vote
DALLAS. Tex- Aug; 23 -UPi
Coke Stevenson tonight was lead
ing Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson 332.-
$28 to 328,733 votes in the race
lor democratic nomination for the
U. 8. senate.- --v,.- . - -
Stevenson, who ran an old
fashioned, easy going campaign
against. the congressman, an ag
gressive 40-year-old navy Vet
eran, gained the lead on a count
by the Texas election bureau of
ISO of the state's 254 counties.
Pile 5c
Ferocity
Increases
HaiestHelp
o complete.
B pie'. Soon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S-JP)-
aeiecuve service is all reaay to
begin registering men 18 through
25 Monday! for America's peace
time arart. t
Only 25-year-olds born in. 1822
after August 30 will register Mon
day. Other age groups will regis
ter on succeeding days, the oldest
signing up first.
Monday also may see the first
draft -callf or 10,000 soldiers.
Secretary of Army Royall is re
ported to have prepared a request
for draft boards to produce 10,000
men for induction between Novem
ber 7 and November 15.
About 20,000 specially arrange
registration centers have been pre
pared by the f 4,000-odd draft
boards to sign up an estimated
nine and a half million men be
tween August 30 and September
IB. ' . i
GIs Need Net Sign
The only Americans in this ase
bracket who need not register, are
members of, the armed forces on
active duty, and foreign diplomats
and members of their Immediate
families.
Draft officials sad that if regist
rants are ill or otherwise can not
sign up on designated days, they
Draft Sign-Up Schedule
This Is the registration ached ale:
Date ef KUrtk All Kertster
19a (after Aac. IS) IS Aw. M
1923 4 Ae. Sl-Seyt. t
iz zj sept, z-s
ms , S Sept 4 er T
m , SI Sept. 8-S
isn t SepC le-11
U2S , 1 Sea. 1S-14
IMS ; u IS Scat. 1S-1S
US (kefere Sept. IS) IS Sept. 17-11
t Before September 19).
Those who, are net IS by Sep
tember 19 aheald register en their
birthdays er within five days af
ter It.
should notify their draft board and
arrange for a later registration.
Punishable by Jail
Failure to register is punishable
by a five-year prison term, a fine
up to $10,000, or both. There is
also a heavy punishment for in
fluencing anyone from register
ing. Registration centers set tm spe
cifically for the August 30-September
18 period will close onvSept.
19 and thereafter registrations will
be handled by draft board offices.
To Send Oat Qnestionnaries
Local boards which have full
control of the draft procedure
will begin sending out classifica
tion questionaries to the single,
non-father, non-veteran group im
mediately after registration.
The board then will use them
to sift registrants into five classes:
Class I Available for military
service. i
Class II Deferred because ef
occupational status.
Class III Deferred because of
dependency.
Class IV Deferred specifically
by law or because unfit for serv
ice, i
Class V Over the age 'of liabi
lity for military service.
Lightning Hits
New Yorkers
ITHACA, N. Y Aug. 28-4PV-
Two persons were struck by light
ning during a thunderstorm here
today and an ambulance sent to
take them to a hospital also was
struck. !
Fred Van Nederynen, 32, of
nearby Kennedy's corners was par
alyzed by the bolt while lying on
a bed in his home. His son Stanley,
received a severe shock.
An ambulance. 1 summoned to
bring the two men to a hospital in
Ithaca had Its door burned and
the side windows 'smashed when
another bolt struck lt The driver.
John Bangs, a nurse and an attend
ant were uninjured.
BOX FACTORY BTJBNS
EUGENE, Aug. 28 -VPl-. A Ore
destroyed -the Buck Box factory
today at a lost estimated by Fire
Chief Ed Surfus at 829,000. The
early morning blaze damaged an
adjoining house and several otn-
Dulldings. ,
BiiUding Programs Criticized
For Neglecting Parking Space
The state government and sev
eral' Oregon cities are adding to
their own auto-parking difficul
ties br not providing parsing
facilities along with building con
struction programs, the postwar
development and readjustment
commission and in a report re
leased Saturday. Gov. John H.
Hall would not comment on the
report. v ' :" ' - ' .
Particular criticism was made
of the new state office building
under construction here, at-Court
and Capitol streets. The report in
dicated that the new state oxnee
building proposed in Portland also
would lack parking facilities,
based on the two most discussed
sites now under consideration.
The report also : stressed that
parking meters have not solved
the parking problem. "Revenues
from meters is easy money for
some municipalities,' lt said, land
they place as many of these col
lection devices as possible where
there Is the slightest prospect, of
profiting a few cents.'
Without mentioning names, taa
report charged that one major
community la so anxious to re
ceive this revenue that meters
Elf strom Winner
In Salmon Derby
IXWACa Wash- Aog. 13
UP)' Mayer, R. I Elftarem ef
Salem landed a flrhting XSV4
pound chlneek - te carry back
to the Oregon Capitol the tro
phy his jMxee . town denated
for the annua marars salaaesi
fishing derby today.
.Runner Bp for the event was
Acting Mayor E. A. Schlecht,
Xngview,. Wash- with av 37
pounder. Slayer William Devtn.
Seattle., wax third with a Sf
pounder.' ' .
Mayor Val Faweett ef Taeo
ma, twice defending champion
who fell heir te entry number
13 when ether mayors rigged
the register, took , home a 25
pound salmon. The sponsor ef
the event, Stayer Norman II ow
erton, Ilwaco, took the booby
prize no fish.
Fifteen mmnlctpal chiefs from
Washington, Oregon, Califor
nia and. Montana competed.
Longshoremen
Win Issue of
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28-WT)
The Waterfront Employers as
sociation of the Pacific coast an
nounced late tonight its removal
of the hiring hall Issue, main
stumbling block toward efforts to
avert a shipping tie-up on Sep
tember 2.
Frank P. Foisle, WEA presi
dent, handed the 'statement to
newsmen at the 'conclusion of a
negotiation session with Harry
Bridges, head of the CIO. Long
shoremen's union. It was the .first
announced bargaining session
since July, and was accompanied
by optimistic waterfront predic
tions that a strike would be
averted.
TThe Waterfront Employers as
associatlon has removed the hiring
hall issue by agreeing to the union
demand for continuation of pres
ent practices pending a court de
cision," Foisie said. This Is Iden
tical with the concession made last
week on the east coast which re
sulted in settlement.'
The employers previously; had
held out for an impartial ' dis
patcher for the hiring halls.
Bridges union insisted on reten
tion of a union man, as is present
ly the case, as dispatcher.
Foisle also announced the em
ployers had upped their wage of
fer to an Increase of eight cents
an hour straight time and 12 cents
an hour overtime. Also, be said.
the union s demand for a two
year contract with a June, 13,
1949 wage review was granted:
Crash Lands in
Nudist Colony
PARRYVILLE. Pa- Aug. 2tVP)
John K. Lepper crash-landed his
private airplane for the first time
today and he won't forget the in
cident. The Hellertown (Pa.), pilot was
helped from his disabled craft by
a group of willing rescuers.
He was unhurt but blushing.
Lepper had landed in the midst
of the Sunny Rest lodge a nudist
colony.
U. N. Council
Session Called
LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. 28-4P-
The United Nations security coun
cil today was ordered into emer
gency session for next Monday to
discuss the situation in Palestine.
The session was called by Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob A.
Malin, who la this month's coun
cil president.
tl The council had recessed last
week with the understanding that
no more meetings will be held
until September In Paris unless
an emergency arose.
fringe the postoffico property.
This situation occurs, though not
exclusively, . In Salem, where
meters are installed around two
sides of the postoffico block
with free spaces available for 10
minute parking, v
-With all the modern office
buildings under construction in
downtown Portland not one offers
underground parking storage, the
commission continued. Upstate
residents driving to Portland have
extreme difficulty in finding a
place to park.
- The report emphasized that
either municipalities or- private
enterprise must provide off
street parking facilities.
The commission said 13 states
have approved enabling legisla
tion permitting the use of con
demnation proceedings in obtain
ing sites for off-street parking
and a dozen other ; states have
similar legislation applicable to
rpeclfla cities, towns and coun
ties. .-c
Uultxusmab county la 1947 Toad
a total of 163,829 automobiles with
Marion county second with 34,033
Hiring Halls
Arm
About 800 23-year-old residente
of Marion county, the first of ap
proximately 102,000 young mest
over Oregon, will line up at regis
tration offices Monday morning to
register in America's second
peace-time military draft.
Marion county will have regis
tration offices at Salem, Silvertoa
and Stayton.
The registration schedule re
ported Saturday, includes: Aucust
20, men born in 1922 on or after
September 1; August 31 and Sep
tember 1, men born in 1923; Sep
tember 2 and 3, men born In 1924;
September 4 and 7, men born la
1923; September 8 and 9, men born
in 1926; September 10 and 11, meat
born in 1927; September 13 and 14.
men born In 1923; September 11
and 16, men born in 1929, and Sep
tember 17 -and 18, men born in
1930 before September 19.
The 18-year-old men are' not li
able for induction until they be
come 19, according to information
received from selective service
headquarters, but they must reg
ister anyway. Also exempt from
the draft but not from registering
are veterans of World War II who
served .honorably.
At Salem Armory . I
Registering will begin Monday
at Salem in the armory, at the city
hall in Stayton and at the armory
in Silverton. Hours of registration
at the three towns are from 9 a.m.
to 3 pjn. daily except Sundays
according to Hans (Curly) Hol
stetter, temporary county draft
chairman. '
Polk county elieibles ait ttv reg
ister at the Dallas a rrnorybeK in
ning Monday. Mrs. Fern7 &eaky.
board clerk, Saturday requested
all registrants to observe the
schedule and to register on,
days
slated for their age group.
This
she said, would greatly simplify
the procedure for both the regis
trant and the board.
County Estimate
State selective service
head-
quarters has estimated that (Mar
ion county has about 6,500 men in
the 18-23 age group. Hofsteiter,
however, indicated that the llarpo
number of migrant laborers in the
county now could push the figure
to 15,000.
All registrations are to be rom
pleted by September 18, Hokietter
said. From that date on allien
reaching their 18th birthday imurt
register with their draft board
within five days.
Draft eligible who are residents
of Marion county Luf are oiit cf
the county or out of the state! now
may register in whatever stale t
county they are in, Hofstetter paid.
Col. Francis W. Mason, asWt
ant director of selective servicj for
Oregon, reported Saturday t es
timated 102,000 young Oregon pnen
will regster under the new draft
law.
Dutch Farewell
To Queen Due
AMSTERDAM, Aug. ZMJVThe
Dutch people begin on Monday the
regretful farewell salute to Wil-
helmlna as their beloved queen.
. She will abdicate on Saturday
after a week long celebration ef
her golden, jubilee in the flower
festooned and brightly lighted cap
ital and turn the throne over te
39-year-old Princess Juliana.
The matriarch, tired and worn
after 30 years on the throne, is
laying aside her overburdening
governmental cares, her garden
tools and needlework to come from
her country residence, Ilet Loo, at
Apeldoorn, and receive the final
ovation.!
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Rodd Burns
In Heat Wave
CONOVER, N. C, Aug. 28-TV
The highway caught fire . today
Just as the thermometer hit 63.
State highway foreman Ivey
Curlee found the asphalt burn
ing right atthe intersection ef
state routes 321 and 16.
- After putting out the blaze.
Curlee did some checking and
found an overheated smudge pot.
He also learned two small boys
had passed along shortly before
the fire.
School Insurance Plan
For Qiildren Ready
PORTLAND. Aug. 28-(VTne
Oregon High School Actlvitiee
association said today its, insur
ance program . for school child
ren would be carried out again
this year. -
More than 27.000 students were
covered when they paid the fl
fee last year which entitled them
to limited medical, dental nd
hospital benefits for injuries suf
fered at school or en route to
school. ' .
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