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Tht attention of the public to
ward matten pending in Congress
has been devoted chiefly to mat
ters in high controversy, such as
federal aid to education, foreign
aid, national defense (planes and
missiles). Other bills o( impor
tance have been under considera
tion, however; and one of them is
measure to stiffen penalties on
those guilty of selling heroin to
Juveniles. This bill was the out
growth of hearings held over the
country to study the extent of use
and peddling of narcotics. Sen.
Pr'ce Daniel of Texas was the
principal sponsor of this legislation
In the Senate. His bill would have
made the death penalty mandatory
on certain offenders caught for the
third time dealing in heroin, the
deadliest of the narcotic drugs.
The House bill was sponsored by
Rep. Hale Buggs of Texas who
was author of another bill on the
ubject in 1951. Its provision mak
ing the death sentence permissive
won the approval of the conference
committee. ' .
Boggt stated that the bill as
agreed to by the conference com
mittee will set up the world's
stiffest narcotic code. If enforced,
it will "dry up" the drug traffic
in the United States "if penalties
and enforcement mean anything."
Stiffer penalties are provided on
persons convicted of selling, trans
porting, smuggling or importing
any narcotics. First offenders face
mandatory sentences of two to ten
(Continued aa editorial page, 4.)
Ike Gaining
But Remains
'Convalescent'
GETTYSBURG, Pa. I - Pres
ident Eisenhower's physicians an
nounced Saturday his recovery
"has gained momentum" but that
he will still be a convalescent
when he returns to the White
Home next week. .
The exact day of his return was
uncertain. Presidential press sec
retary James C. Hagerty said it
could be as early as Sunday night
or as late as Tuesday morning.
Hagerty and reporters engaged
in a sometimes sharp question
and answer session on (1) Why
Maj. Geo. Leonard D. Heaton. the
surgeon who operated en Eisen
hower, has been staying at the
Presidential farm for two weeks;
(S) Why the doctors hats held
only one newt conference, which
took place shortly after the Pres
ident's abdominal surgery June .
and (I) Why the President Isn't
gaining weight.
Hagerty insisted Heaton is pri
marily just a house guest; that
the doctors had held an hour news
conference and don't intend to
hold any more; and that they are
rot concerned by the President's
Stationary weight.
Eisenhower will be returning to
the White House some five weeks
after his intestinal attack, which
was his second brush with death.
The first was the heart attack of
last Sept. 24.
Sewer Crew
Seeks Body of
Kidnaped Tot
WESTBURY, N. Y. (AP)
Work crews Saturday began
pumping out catch basins on the
chance they might yield a clue
or the body of kidnaped Peter
Weinberger.
Two crews of three' men each
started with two basins nearest
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Weinberger, where the 3-week-old
baby was stolen from a rear
patio 10 days ago.
The 32-year-old mother, still
pathetically certain her baby is
alive and will be returned, was
called to a precinct police ststion
Friday night to try to Identify a
man picked up for questioning.
Sh had never seen the man, a
vagrant, before. Police released
him after questioning.
The kidnaper left a ransom
not demanding $2,000 for the
baby's return. Later, in telephone
calls the father was convinced
came from the kidnaper, the ran
som demand was raised to 13,000.
The Weather
Max. Ml. Prerlp.
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Portland
Pakar .
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Mfdford
as s .no
North Bend S7 M .00
nurture m S3 IT .on
San franclsc 70 M .00
Lot Angeles SO SI J0
Chicago as i .oo
Haw York 80 11 M
Willamette Blvar, -1 T fret
FORECAST I from U. S. Weather
Bureau. MrNarr Field. Snlml:
Moitljr fair Sunday and Monday
with light night and morning rloudi
nan. Little chant in tamperature
with tha high Sunday nar 79, th
low Sunday nlfht near II.
Tamparatur at 1101 a.m. today
was IS
SAI.IM PaiCrflTATIOrf
Silica Start ml Weather Yaar laps. 1:
Tail Taar Lt Yaar Narmal
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Boom in Boating
One. of every 10 American
families owni a boat. The
ratio in the Willamette Val
ley is even greater. , For
interesting data on the
greatest boom in sportt, sea
Sports Editor At tightness
Dory en Page 22, Section 4.
Oregon Income Tax
Form Simplification
Said 'Not
Governor Urges Study Continue
Despite Adverse Report by Board
A' simplified state income tax form based on federal
tax would create more problems than it weuld eliminate,
according to a special State Tax Commission report, but
Gov. Elmo Smith said Saturday he will continue efforts
to ease the taxpayer's task of filing returns.
The commission, in a report asked by the governor,
also pointed out that four of seven states that have tried similar
proposals have given them up and two of those currently using
a system based on federal tax have had only short experience.
The governor said efforts to lighten the job of computing tax
and reduce the cost of administering the law will continue through
discussions with other state agencies and other Interested groups.
The Tax Commission In Its report also stressed that it is always
looking for ways to make the job easier for taxpayers.
Per Cent of Federal Tax Suggested
The two proposals the governor asked the commission to study
were calculating state income tax as a per cent of federal tax
paid, and applying Oregon rates to adjusted gross income as shown
on federal tax returns.
Problems seen by the commission are:
1. Question of constitutionality, because of delegation of legis
lative authority. ,
2. Shifting of tax burden to lower Income group, by differences
between state and federal laws.
3. Record keeping would be simplified for only about 10 per
cent of Oregon taxpayers by either proposal, because requirements
in this respect between date and federal laws affect few persons.
Would Not Affect Short Form Users
4. Returns would not be simplified for the 70 per cent of Ore
gon taxpayers who use the short form, because the small amount
of information asked on the short form would still be required for
state records.
5. Because the federal government audits only a' small number
of its returns. Oregon would lose a substantial amount of tax that
It now recovers through its own auditing system.
Utah, New Mexico, South Carolina and Georgia have experi
mented with similar proposals and dropped them.
Montana and Iowa are currently using system based on federal
tax but have not been doing so long enough to draw any conclu
sions from their experience, the commission said, while the popu
lation and economy of Vermont, the only state with extended ex
perience, contrasts sharply with that of Oregon, it pointed out.
Navy Making
Able to Hit Eurasia Targets
WASHINGTON The Navy
launched atomic missile, now in
target within nine-tenths of the vast Communist domains of Europe
and Asia. That assumption is based on ability of the launching ships
to get close enough.
Senior officers backed up their optimism for the 1. 500-mile Jupiter
'Eye for Eye'
Warning Told
By Cypriots
NICOSIA, Cyprus Wl Greek
Cypriot rebels warned the British
Saturday that from now on their
policy will be eye for eye and
tooth for tooth.
Leaflets distributed in Nicosia
said that for every Greek child
killed by British security forces
the rebels will kill a British child,
for every Greek woman killed a
British woman will be slain.
The leaflets bore the typed sig
nature -"Eoka. the leader Dig
hrnis." Eoka is the underground
of the movement fighting for un
ion of this British island colony
with Greece. The British say Dig
henis is Greek Col. George Grivas.
Available records show two
Greek children have been killed
since violence erupted in April
1955.
Last December the Greek gov
ernment officially protested to
Britain the death of a Greek wo
man on Cyprus. The Greeks
charged she was shot when a car
in which she was traveling failed
to halt at a challenge from a Brit
ish sentry.
Blaze
Inj
ures
36 Firemen
NEW YORK tfl-A spectacular
fire destroyed one of two old
abandoned Wanamaker depart
ment store buildings in lower
Manhattan Saturday. At least M
firemen were injured.
The fire broke out in the five
story building late in the after
noon. Flames shot up an air well
In the "building's center, spread
out on the roof and then ate back
down through the rest of the
structure. Cause of the fire was
not immediately known.
Thirty-six firemen were treated
for smoke poisoning, bums and
cuts.
Boy, 4, Unaware That He Has
Only Three Days of
By MART DEL VILLAR
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)-Uttle
Mike Sibole is enjoying his last
three days of sight snd he does
n't know it.
The bright, energetic 4 year
old son of a Baptist minister will
lose his remaining eye Wednes
day to I cancerous tumor but
he has not been told yet about
the operation.
It's a question of blindness or
death.
"I don't know how we ll tell
him," said his mother, Mrs.
James M. Sibole (sigh-balir.
"We'll have to tell him befqre the
operation but oh, I'm Just all
gone."
She pressed her hands to her
forehead.
But Mike was not conscious of
her worry. He was splashing
around in his little plastic swim
ming pool in the yard of the
So Simple'
Atom Missile
has told senators that a new shln-
the making will be able to hit anv
missile wiui statements that the
Navy has already started design
ing and preparing vessels to handle
the new weapon, now under de
velopment with the Army.
The Navy disclosed some of Ms
war plans for the Jupiter, as well
as for missiles and attack planes
already in the fleet, ia hitherto
secret testimony before the Senate
Airpower Investigating Committee
headed by Sen. Symington (D
Mo. Aunaat All Covered
Rear Adm. C. D. Griffin, speak
ing for the chief of naval oper
ations, testified that "all of Eur
asia except a portion in the cen
tral section is covered" by Navy
plans for the use of Jupiter mis
siles carrying nuclear warheads.
Griffin and the deputy chief of
naval operations tor air. Vice
Adm. Thomas S. Combs, stressed
the Navy's ability right now, even
before Jupiter is ready, to carry
a missile offensive to enemy
shores. They said 10 ships are
now equipped to launch the 500-mile-range
Rrgulus missile with
atomic or hydrogen warhead.
They said a longer range Regulus
with a speed equal to or faster
than sound has already been flight
tested.
War Plaa Ready
Adm. Combs emphasiird the
war plan status of the Navy's
shipborne air and missile power,
saying that upon the outbreak or
threat of war "all forces know
exactly where they are to go and
how to get there, and when they
get there they know what they
are to do."
Com 6s revealed that under the
master war plan the 6th Fleet in
the Mediterranean has the specif
sian satellite fighter and bomber
bases in southern Europe.
Oregon Demos to
Elect Chairman
CORVALLIS l The Oregon
Democratic Central Committee
will meet here Sunday to select
a new chairman.
Candidates for the post are Bob
Bnyer of Medford and Chet Lowry
of Aloha. Howard Morgan of Mon
mouth, the present chairman, is
not seeking re-election.
Other state officers also are to
be elected.
small one-story cement block
home.
This will be one of the last
rights he'll remember.
"I can see under water," he
exclaimed. "It looks all blurry."
The lad, who will be totally
blind after Wednesday, came up
grinning and blinking the water
off the long lashes thst shade his
remaining left eye. The right was
taken out two year ago, It, too,
had been cancerous.
What was he looking at this
bright sunny day snd what will
ht his last visual memories?
Among them will be the flow
ers and the tnmato vines and a
watermelon plant in the little
garden tended by his father,
paMnr of the Forrest Park Bap
tist Church.
Mike has one brother, Jerry,
20 months, with whom he shares
s bedroom. They have twin beds
and the room is decorated ranch
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Dallas
Names
Queen
Brunette to Rule
Over Smileroo
In Polk Town
lUUwu Km Service
DALLAS. Ore. An attractive
brunette, Lonna Hershfelt of Dallas,
was chosen Saturday night to reign
over the Dallas Smileroo.
First official act of Queen I was
to read a proclamation designating
Dallas as the "City of Smiles." Her
tenure will continue through the
main celebration July 27 through
29.
Master of ceremonies during the
coronation program was Mr. Moon
of television fame, who also led
the kids' fun parade earlier in the
evening.
Judged aa Pals 1
The princesses were Judged on
poise, appearance and talent. They
were interviewed by Henry Dalpez,
president of the Dallas Chamber
of Commerce.
Ably assisting Queen Lonna in
her regal duties are Princesses
Anne Vanderhoff, Independence,
Jean Down; Valsetz, Joetta Wilson,
Prairiedale, and Maryanne King,
Falls City.
Faa Parade
The youngsters commanded at
tention during the fun parade.
Among the winners were Anita and
Jimmie Schwager, uniformed as
Queen's Guards; Susie Doyle,
dressed as Tinker Bell; and the
hit of the parade, Karen Crider
accompanying the smallest pet, a
toy French poodle; Bobby Wood
man, a TV clown; and Caroline
Pliler, who represented Buelah of
television.
Entertainment at the coronation
program included an organ inter
lude, numbers by the city band
and dances by Mr. and Mrs. Wu
liam Hendrickson of Salem.
Wendell Wyatt
Re-Elected by
Oregon GOP
(Pirtara m Page I. See. 1)
PORTLAND I The Republi
can State Central committee,
holding its biennial organization
meeting Saturday, re-elected
Wendell Wyatt of Astoria as chair
man. Also re-elected without opposi
tion were Mrs. Margaret von Lub-
ken, Portland, vice chairman, and
Mrs. Frederic W. Young, Port
land, secretary.
Walter H. Evans Jr., Portland,
was named treasurer.
Speakers included Douglas Mc
Kay, Republican nominee for U.S.
senator. He criticized the Demo
crats for charging that his cam
paign was financed by a slush
fund."
"Apparently they think a cam
paign can be won with money.
They want to make it appear that
we have vast resources, and that
they are operating on a shoe
string. The fact is that we cannot
match the money they are throw
ing into this campaign. Nor would
we if we could," McKay said.
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NORTHWEST tSAGUI
At Eusena 1, Saltm f.
At Lewlaton IS, Wanatrhrt I.
At Spokane 0-14, Yakima
PACiriC COAST LCAGUB
At Portland 1. Ban DIo 4.
At Loa Anftlaa 1, Saattla IS.
At San Franrtaro II. Hollywood I
At Vancouver 1-4, Sacramanto -l.
NATIONAL LCAOI'I
At Cincinnati 0. Philadelphia I.
At Mllwaukra i Brooklyn I.
At Chlcaso t-t, Plttiourih I-l.
At St. Louis I, New York i
AMERICAN MAfll'l
At Wa.hm-ton I. Detroit .
At Baltimore I, Kanaaa City 1,
At Naw York S. Cleveland 4.
At Boiton 4, Chlcaso S.
Sight Left
stylye. -They have a collection of
teddy bears and pandas.
Mike weighs about 37 pounds
and has s build , normal for a
child of his age. He has short
brown hair, and he's, quick snd
gay.
"I'm going to kindergarten
when I'm five," he announced
importantly. "I can spell my
name now."
But Mike won't be going to
kindergarten. He will attend a
special pre-school training class
for blind children in Miami.
Some person called to tell the
anguished parents that they
should not permit the operation.
"The operation must he done
at once," said Mrs. Sibole. "If
not, he will soon begin to suffer
terrible pain when the optic
nerve is affected." .
She made it plain th choice
was betweea her son's sight and
his life. .
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it chell People Search for
Flood-Scattered Belongings
Fiery Crosses
For Jurists
Bring Arrest
WASHINGTON ( - Police
charged a 24-year old Arlington,
Va. man Saturday in connection
with the burning of crosses out
side a hotel where Chief Justice
Earl Warren lives and also out
side the home of Justice Frank
furter.
The crosses were burned Fri
day night. Other ,rosses also
were set afire outside the resi
dence of Solicitor General Simon
Sobeloff, and in front of the home
of Mrs. Douglas King at nearby
Beltsville. Md. She is an official
of the National Assn. for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
Admits Fires .
Deputy police chief Edgar E.
Scott said that Ronald Eugene
Rowley, had admitted setting the
fires at the Sheraton-Park Hotel,
where both Warren and Sen. Leh
man ID-NYi live, and also in
front of Justice Frankfurter's
home in the Georgetown section
of Washington.
Signs found near one of the
burning crosses had indicated re
sentment over the Supreme Court
decision against racial segrega
tion in schools. ,
Says Dec 1st aa Wrong
Scott quoted Rowley as saying
"I wanted to influence the
greater populace of the wrongness
of the Supreme Court decision."
Rowley, aa electronic engineer
ing student, surrendered voluntar
ily. He was charged on twe counts
of kindling a bonfire betweea sun
set and sunrise, and forfeited $10
on each count.
Rowley wu traced after I door
man at the theraton-Park Hotel
took the license number of a car
seen leaving after a cross had
been act afire near the hotel.
Police said Rowley did not di
vulge the names of two men re
ported to have been with' him
when the crosses were burned.
Scott said the FBI, called In
with the approval of President Ei
senhower and the metropolitan po
lice, would continue their invest
tigation to locate the other men
involved. '
$500 in Guns,
Tools Stolen
At Silverton
SUUuaaa News Service
SILVERTON Approximately
$500 worth of firearms and tools
were taken from the Cascade Farm
Machinery company here some
time Friday night or early Satur
day morning, the Marion County
sheriff's office reported Saturday.
Deputies said that it was the
second time the firm has been
burglarized within a month.
Taken in Saturday s theft were
two 20-08 rifles, a box of machine
tools, two sets of socket wrenches,
two sets of end wrenches snd other
assorted tools, the sheriff's office
said.
Entry was apparently gained
through a broken window at the
rear of the building. The burglary
took place between 10 p. m. Fri
day and 2 a.' m. Saturday, the
sheriff's office reported.
Forest Fire
Hazard Grave
PORTLAND un Central and
Eastern Oregon are facing the
most serious forest, fire hazard in
the past IS years, John C. Hunt,
of the Bureau of Land Manage
ment fire control office, reported
Saturday.
He said that there has been a
heavy growth of grass and annual
plants in the region. This will re
sult 'in critical fire danger as the
growth cures and becomes dry,
Some 125 lightning-set fires were
reported Friday in Central and
Eastern Oregon. All were quickly
extinguished with little damage.
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MITCHELL. Ore. A broken building (ts right), a stranded aate
Utter this Central Oregon community la the Wwke of a cloMburst Friday evealag. Mate store
snd houses were washed and broke up. ise deaths were report
front slopes and gullies in rear. AP WirephoU.)
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MITCHELL, Ore. A flash flood
Berg, IS (left, la bed) thea tossed hint ap aa sare ground, fcldoa Thoaa, II, aota of Beavertea,
Ore., waded to safety. They tell story here to State Pollcemea Nealsoa aad McAllister. (AT Wire
photo.) .
Mother Sends
Son Back to
Idaho Prison
BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho
woman sent her 24-year-old son
back to the state penitentiary
Saturday ' after she found him
hiding out on the ranch where he
was raised.
Jesse Floyd Erelwine, a trusty,
walked sway from his irrigating
job on a prison farm Thursday.
His mother, who lives in
Mountain Home, suspected that
he had gone to the old ranch,
which is now abandoned.
She made s trip to the ranch,
but tailed to find him. Saturday,
she went again and found him
hiding out among the rocks. The
rsnrh is about nine miles north
east of Mountain Home.
Mrs. F-relwine told 'Associate
Warden Mark Maxwell she gave
her ton a good talking to and
told him to get back to the pen
itentiary. Then the drove him to
Boise,
Morning Clouds,
Fair Forecast
.Salem area ran expect fair skies
and litt'e change in temperature
ajain today and Monday, accord
ing to the MrN'ary Field weather
men. Some light nisht and morning
cloudiness is predicted lor both to
day and Monday,
Probable high today 71, the low
tonight will be near W. Hifo bat'
urday was 71.
Salem, Oregon, Sunday, July IS,
Town; Broken Leg Only Injury
.".v maw i J" ' . ' r.it ,
?y
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which swept this Cenlrsl Oregea
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Paper Says Americans to
Hold Farm Fair in Moscow
NEW YORK n-The New York Herald Tribune said Saturday
the Soviet Union has signed a contract granting V. S. businessmen
the right to stage an agricultural fair in the heart of Moscow.
In a story from Washington, the newspaper said "administration
sources" disclosed that the contract was signed after negotiations be
tween M. V. Nesterov, Soviet Director of the Chamber of Com
merce, and Marshall MacDuffie.i 1
Representative of International a- ir ' . .
Trade Fairs, Inc.. of New York. jMcKaV AppOlIltS
The agreement reportedly calls rv i 1 .
for the fair to be held between
July 4 and Aug. 11. 1837.
Un Moscow last January Mac
Duffie said Soviet Party Boss Nik
its Krushchev and the Soviet Cham
ber of Commerce agreed to the
holding of the fair this summer.
But MacDuffie expressed doubt
then that hit clients could be ready
that soon.)
The contract guarantees the pur
chase by the Soviet Union of IS
million dollars worth of exhibited
goods, including agricultural ma
chinery. There will be no strategic ma
chinery shown at the fair.
Present plans csll for holding
the lair in Gorki Park, the Central
Park of Moscow. The show will be
the first big American exhibit be
hind the Iron Curtain,
Portland Girl, 12.
Critically Burned
PORTLAND im Twelve-year
old Sharon Bell was in critical
condition in a Portland hospital
Saturday from burns. Her dress
caught fire as she was playing
with randies and more than SO
per cent of her body was burned
when she ran into the yard and
the flames consumed all her cloth-
inf.
' PRICI
and pieces ef dwelllags a ad stores
a. . 1 1 swept sown est towa
cowmiualty swept away Brent
IJ8WC20 Mail tO
Lead Campaign
PORTLAND ( Appointment
of Paul H. Hebb, Oswego, as cam
paign director and policy coordi
nator for his campaign was an
nounced Saturday by ' Douglas
McKay, Republican candidate for
senator, Hehb was campaign man
ager for Phil Hitchcock, who Inst
the Republican nomination to Mc
Kay. Meanwhile, McKay's campaign
treasurer, W. L. Phillips. Salem,
challenged a statement by Sen.
Wayne Morse that McKay "has
one of the largest slush funds ever
raised.'
"We will happily trade 'slush
fund with Morse any time he
wishes," said Phillips. He said the
"vast majority" of McKay cam
paign contributions "range from
$1 to $10."
Ql'EEN CANDIDATE KILLED
SHERIDAN. Wyo. Pretty
Jeanne Mcformark. 17, was killed
Saturday. Her horn reared up
and) fell on her as she prepared
to parade att the grandstand
as a rods quaes candidal.
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No, 110
Road Workers
Check Damage
On Horseback
MITCHELL, Ore. AP)-Th
400 residents of this lumber '
mill town in the Ochoco Moun
tains of Central Oregon
srari'lied for flood-scattered
possessions Saturday as they
began the slow task of clean-up. . .
A flash flood, spawned Friday
night in a tremendous cloudburst,
splintered 11 houses, shifted a
score of others on their tounda
lions, swept a service station from
sight and carried a boy down
stream ia a house that broke up
around him.
No one as killed and only the
boy. Brent G. Berg, U. of Be a- ,
virion, wu hurt. He suffered aa
ankle injury, possibly a fracture. '
He had sprinted from a stalled
car for what be thought was the
safety of the bouse. But the house
lifted on the flood, floated away
and then the roof caved in. Young
Berg wu pulled from the wreck
ago. , - .. . V . ,
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The cloudburst came on the fifth
consecutive night of weather vio
lence in Oregon. The rain fell ht
such sheets that water ' raced
mora than a toot deep every
where along the mountain slop
on which Mitchell lies, turned gil
lies into raging rivers and sent
Bridge Creek, at the bottom of a
canyon, surging up more thaa M
feet in a matter of minutes. k
Within an hour th rain wag
gone, the creek wu back withia
its banks and th towa wu
debris-littered rock and mud field
of splintered and twisted build
ings. . - i
Fewi Deep Mad
Many persons searched thrrf
the night by lantern night for
their possessions. Others were op
at dawa looking through th up
rooted tree and rocks and foot.
deep mud.
Fifty drums of tar were strewa
about; more thaa a hundred auto
mobile tire bobbed on pools re
maining by th stream; broke ,
chairs and tables and shattered
glass were everywhere.
Just after dawn a small boy
was seen poking Into the debris
until he came on a baseball glove. '
He picked it up and turned back
to the houses perched oa th hill
side.
It wu from th hillside that
the broken houses were swept by '
the surging water. At a lower ,
level, along the street stretching
beside the creek in the canyon,
the postoffice floated off its foun
dation and was driven 23 feet or
more. It wu there that the serv
ice station vanished. Th front a(
a church ripped off and mud piled
up three feet deep in a bout be
nd the church.
Ueaae Trailers
The liquor store, a garage and
three house trailers were d
ttroyed.
The major clean-up and repair
calls for heavy equipment which
the town lacks and it may b
two days before th flood broken
road Is opened so th equipment
can be brought ia. Twelve bridge
were washed avt and much of th
roadbed cut.
The state highway department
at Salem ordered men in by horse
back Saturday to appraise the sit
uation and plan reconstruction.
The Red Cross dispatched work
ers and the state civil detent
headquarters said it wu prepared
to aid. Cook sharks at nearby
sawmills had adequate immediate
food supplies.
Car Mraaded - - ' "
in addition to the familes whoa
houses were destroyed, occupant
of more than a doten stranded
cars were here.
Two state policemen, on routine '
patrol, also were isolated here by
the twin flood and it wu their
radio calls which provided th
only early contact with the out
aid when a Forest Service tele
phone line went out along with
the other phones.
Saturday pohre. other officials '
and a few of. the curious came
in on foot to inspect the damage,
walking the last three miles into
town.
Milchrll lies In a Juniper and
sagebrush area close by pine for
ests and dryland wheat ranches.
This wu the fifth flash flood
in its history and when the cloud
burst came, the people fled swift
ly from their homes to safety oa
high ground. '
Prior Floods
MITCHELL. Ore. (II Friday
night's flood was the fifth flood
In history to sweep this llttl
Wheeler County community.
The most recent flood came on
July 26. 1937. when a 16-foot wall
of water swept through the town.
Another flood on July 11. 1904,
clnimrd two live.
Two other floods have been re
ported In the history of thia iso
lated little community. On wu
In 1M4, shortly after tit towa was
established, and th other th
second flood that Tear4n.l90i,