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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION CITY EDITION KEWSPAPCtt CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 24,521 EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947 NO. 141 " LANE COWirs HOME MaxLevies .; (.(nr!nn(iplrl 1 IJUII,,3I,V 1 II I .i CI it.unr uro.es Touts at Polls r.CTtT.TV Regis- , here will ballot U vot here w VrZ i 'ner cent limit felid voters may partici Kereareno property fSTSE" carries V . tl MB will Vfi includes $15,000 Kbtr voted laS Lcont.nu'? ..hwould PTL bv the balloting. A "Z he comin? fiscal. f tl2.353ouUidethe Hi. f "ijrmnroval of the budget. .. i7 - r- .,,. Anlv have more fetetter trained personnel in P . . nt hut we also leased revenues have made total I - ' gar v5& vV 1 -wftiSaagaXtM ... .ill . , j. . I DAW X'T or vruAir,'i vt ' . w .. ... I. "Y.inwr inn January deii) ana city Manager Dearie Seeger , was voted last year. PARK AND PLAYGROUND Director Don January (left) and City Manager Deane watcn tne nrst turning of dirt at Lawrence St. playground, where J. Ira McNutt of McNutt Brothers - " . nui. iui me wauiiig poui. tvivic ciuuB, uiwr unions ana other croups will donate money and labor for making the two-block area into a park and play ground. (Wiltshire photo and engraving.) ' For Continuing War Student Troubles, Military Reverses Bring Forth Statement on Status Quo NANKING (AP)-Chiant. Kal.Siiek. beset with new elisor, over city problems demands for peace, new student troubles and new military Have money in ;sciuai.ua, ucnaicu we guveiiiiiieir, is reaay to ena ininas Itt new m "7 , ' icivii war u tne communists mi! snow tneir sincerity bv Lv and increased salaries; uj. ' ' Eeirpe J AaL Aff A ew feet outside the con- KaXmanager, account! WnnnC WfirKPK ference hall police and 6000 tteM6,43S increase in the new ( wwesas " w" ".defiant students battled with Lnting budget over the current: ' . LritT officials say. m 1- H? It MAP W Lane, manager or tne . r-. . ... y Mr - rT.T.-.T. . . Lm war. Part of the budget: Elbe for a city manager, ana Lfict mat ne - of - the Vmbef of Commerce, reminded hot who lack transportation fall the Chamber office and b trill be provided to taice mem md from the pons- MUnar olaces are: ward One. Wit High" School on Mill St.; irdTwo, City Hall; Ward Three, IMst Episcopal Church, Sixth HC Sis.;" Ward Four, ' Union School, Tenth and H Sts.; ftd five, Brattain School, Tenth Low humidity is resulting in some stoppage of logging opera tions In Lane County, the Willam ette National Sorest said Wednes day. State law, applying to all timber activities in western Ore gon, requires that operation's stop when humidity, falls to 30 per cent. During hazardous fire weather, logging operations are shut down ardless of the humidity, and c in.; vweafevrare id v bis. r- . iihvc uueu siiuk uuwu n tcw iiuuts a day. . . Operators Check . ' Humidity is forecast by the weather bureau,, and ' is alsov re corded on instruments that each logging operator is required by state law to keep at the scene of his operations. Readings are taken through the day, and operations cease as soon as humidity falls to the 30 per cent mark. The Willamette office declared that a fire hazard exists now on exposed south slopes, in slash areas, and in old, dried out burns. The hazard is not bad yet in green timber areas. ... Streaks of low humidity are ex perienced each spring, the Wil lamette spokesman said, fend are not unusual this early in the year. At Salem, State Forester Nels Rogers said the forest fire situa tion in Oregon was' "critical," United Press reported. He said the situation was particularly dan gerous in long slashes and old burns such as Tillamook. Low humidity Tuesday was combined with high temperatures oyer the state as Medford reported 92 degrees; Portland, 80; Eugene and Roseburg, 83; Bend, 84; Brookings, 86; and Klamath Falls, 82. Mfourteeath ani jrt Case Goes Male Jury i nEENVuXE, S. C. (U.R) Mt J. Robert Martin,- Jr., irfi a jury of white textile mim and farmers at a mass ta trial Wednesday not to per il tare prejudice to enter in their txritionj of the guilt or in kain'bf 28 men' charged with kbl a Negro. Statin read slowly and dis ntly from a 40-page charge be ll lending the all-male jury to mine the fate of the defend- pi accused of beating, gun teping, stabbing and shooting pEarle to death the night Feb. IS. 'i court of .law recognizes no ' no creed," he said. "There-1 p I instruct you that under "oatns as jurors you aire not lilOW allV UMallarl venial I-... later into your deliberations in weue in any respect." Jemen on trial stretched in "f row before Iho R ives and a few of v.i o-sat quietly as the jurist Pompany, City Ready Area P n - or inllux of Mill Employes RflPH &D ADCTJ A til L" Coffee Pot Creek area POalrndge fallers and buckers ri work for Pope and Talbot, r tender, choker setters and rf Pinks clamber over rough gs are snaked up the K57ard!d beside the spar Rtaed on trucks and taken V ZL pond near Oakridge. Fta'tany mill pond. LTata are building i ne (or winter oneroiin... canes, fire hoses, bamboo stones and fists. An Associated Press correspon dent, mistaken for a student, was Chdnqchun Encircled - NANKING A Besieged Changchun, capital of Man churia, is now completely en circled by Chinese Communist forceSiK-Nationalist dispatches reports Wednesday, , Government troops, however,' ' were credited with reentering Kwichulihg?- 3 miles ' id -IBS' southwest. Fighting was report ed in the streets. . In Changchun ' itself, Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces began digging trenches and .setting up machine-gun nests. They made other prep arations for a possible fight in side the city. Mrs. Truman May Recover Doctor States GRANDVIEW, Mo. W President Truman's personal physician Wednesday gave his 94-year-old mother a chance for recovery, if she , maintains her present gradual improvement. . ' Brig. Gen. Wallace H. .Graham said everything depends on Mrs. Martha E. Truman's will to live. The presence of the President at her bedside, he said, has been an important factor in the slight improvement noted in the past 48 hours. Graham In a newsronference In nearby Kansas Cuy, empha sized over and over again that he was "an optimist." ; He said the elderly patient had a very tired heart and a gener ally weak body and that she was fighting a terrific uphill struggle against overwhelming odds.. He said that if the, ipreserit''; rate, of progress can be main tained for another two days th Jjossiplhty-of-tht President's re turn to Washington might even be considered. : , Foreign Relief Funds Bill Approved, Sent President Further Cuts In Agriculture Budget Urged Loan Tenth of Output, Abroad, Stassen Bids, Schools Levy Ruling Puzzles Budget Makers The county court and budget committee felt like cheering for awhile Wednesday but later their faces took a more serious turn. Cause of their temporary jubi lation was an announcement by the State Tax Commission that the usual tax levy of $10 per cen sus sshool child would not have to be made this year, as there is sul- r ' . i v. . " . . iiciem munc in me mtuiue ma surplus for the state to "bail the counties" out and put up this money itself. Four Mills .JJSTJrE U22 rPproac7o thrsiruaUon s and would be the equivalent ol GOP Candidate Urges 'Realism' JEFFERSON. Ia. OP) Former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, candidate for the Re publican nomination lor President in 1948, advocated Wednesday that the United States devote ten per cent of its total national pro duction of goods and food for the next ten years "to building for world-wide peace and plenty and freedom." "It should not be a sharpstei lending program. It should not be a light-headed give-away pro gram. It should be a practical, sound, long-visioned business-like beaten by police and some 80 PO' lice and students were injured . Chiang; said the Communists need merely "to abandon their attempt to seize power by armed force, to halt their military op erations for restoration of na tionwide communications." A truce embracing all of those points was signed by the govern ment and Communists 16 months ago but quickly was violated and the civil war increased in inten sity. Each side accused the other of having signed with no intention of living up to the agreement, Students Demonstrate As Chiang addressed the. peo ple's political council, a solely ad visory body holding its final ses sion, the 6000 defiant, striking students demonstrated outside. They sought futilely to present to the council their demands for in creased food allowances many are partially government support ed; IS per cent. of the national budget for education, and imme diate cessation of the civil -war. Their demands were Inspired in part by China's terrific inflation, in part by appropriation of con siderably mdre than half of the budget for military purposes, and in part, government officials charged, by the Communists. The demonstrators dispersed at dusk after an appeal by a liberal elder statesman, Shao Ll-Tze. Mounted police withdrew simul taneously. ' mountain and being ground by a crusher to build these roads. In side the city of Oakridge on a 40-acre site work has started on building two-bedroom houses which will be sold unfinished to Pope and Talbot employes at $2000 to $2500. They can finish inside and paint them and save money, Pope and Talbot believe. Spar Fashed ' Work of constructing a railroad spur to link the mill with the Kuiun- -""sr operations, southern Paciiic main line is db- ttamri f- " ory out inside uaKriage, ltsen, is ousy wim a wuraaries a hue rnld rl v sfwer nrniert and nther nreDara- Li1 ft of logs is! Hons for the anticipatPd increase : otnef soldiers were wiled Tuesday foifo.S .u d ozers' shovels, in, population. - ' j I night when a B-25 crashed in a !.- . "u,er equipment are. raeanwnue engineering ana Pfikilr l'rds of ear,h to form 8es forward under direction of n-irk " " wl hold the Larl Blakley, chief engineers. L ""'nth. nnnj i. . nrrl.r. rpr ami fin, r u ""ca ine, "moat. I At prtlon Hillmiin T.llpHde- ."me work h..!i.i, ., J ... .j -m.t manager for the Northwest area, Two Colonels Among Seven Killed in B-25 CHAMPAIGN. 111. (IP) Two I top Army flying officers and five Soviets Demand Outlaw Atoms LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. W) Russia was expected to renew her demand Wednesday that the United Nations security council outlaw immediately the use of atomic weapons. This move was . indicated by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko when he told the American-Russian institute in New York that after atomic weapons were outlawed the Sov iet Union would agree to inter national control and inspection. The United States and Great Britain are Insisting that before there is prohibition of atomic weapons there must be a system of international atomic control. A new attempt to reconcile American and Russian views on this issue faced the working com mittee on the Atomic Energy Commission, when it met behind closed doors Wednesday for the first time in three weeks. Meanwhile1, a' big five subcom mittee of the commission on con ventional armaments was called into closed session in an effort to iron out a program of work. Here again there is disagreement be tween the United States and Rus sia. The United States is insisting that emphasis be given to control and safeguards in any arms re duction plan. Wounded Drain Man Said in Good Shape equipment are Meanwhile engineering ana; fjed durine: , violent thun scene, moving other planning by Pope and Talbot . derstormi the Army announced Wednesday. The dead Included Col mond t(OTO,V''.,j;;,":iof bootlegging liquor. Army veteran of both wars andr AAF balloon, expert, ana y-ou Whatlev. 45. who had keeps in touch with developments, j served in the Army since 1925 and n Z?.01? m'U at one end David R. Dickson, Drain, was reported in "good" condition Wed nesday at Sacred Heart Hospital after being treated for gunshot wounds resulting from an alleged quarrel between Dickson and Drain's city marshal, Richard Knight. Knight is being held In the Douglas County jail at, Roseburg on charges of assault while armed with a dangerous weapon, accord ing to the Associated Press. Dick- ... son allegedly accused Knight, . Mnu I an.4 Mh enrria nnaralnc Baseball From San Francisco George Pope hd.d lne mobile t-aining unit at Nattonai. Jr., president of Pope and Talbot,' rh..,f. jpi.w nar Champaign. PhiiadHphu . B. E, AM OM Ml 1 0 ..000 110 OOk S S 2 h """nil inn . . it it, . - ... i.-niraaa FWmih.V n are now I wnicnea progress on una iicy., cpi,, wn0 was a Dngaaier - jur,,(Pl, ,nd stmuncki Lade, Rush () Ms ui'5 laoor otj ilia i;uiiiKaIJ. j general in WOriU war IWU, win- ana ocneiung. . At Eueene ana uaKriase ror- i.j r-honni. r m from tutu T llrHllUCU r;e. E'T buntli "asea t0T: L built e unl" newi nsngtr Bill Luraimra, in P Novels are bitin Oakridge District the mill will be, f".iiu ,0 build losoino and Ranger Ivan Crum of the Rig- big "w industry at! ester L. L.Stewart directs forestry.- .944 nd !ater was executive FORD FOREMEN STRIKE aspects oi tne project, ouperviour officer. He was born in fori jJUtndg. CCC camn' J. R. Bruckart of the Willamette Tnns,nd. wash. Whatley was a l4 been leased fnr! National Forest takes an interest ',;. Texas. in developments. Their ship was bound for Cha- Ranger Bill Cummins, in whose 'nute Fjeid from Cheyenne, Wyo., at the time of the cracKup. : The Army did not make pupnc fl('to;i!!ain,'0aiwin costidon District in which is most of la 0.0ooini I the Forest Service timber which ""Wamitedfroin, DETROIT (P) An esti mated 369 foremen began s strike at the Ford Motor Co. at 10 a. m. Wednesday. Initial re ports Indicated the strike af fected only Detroit plants. There was no immedate comm"-' from it. , nther five vie-1 the company after the Fore- tims pending notification ol next man's Assn. of Am'. ot 1 ordered It nemberi oil tht Job. I about four mills on the tax ra'e, figuring the county's assessed val uation at an estimated $57,000, 000 Investigation disclosed that ap parently the -county must budget the $235,660 and make the levy to raise that amount but that tne money, actually will not be col lected ' from ' property taxpayers because the state will contribute this sum as a tax offset. See Doubt V; The court and 'committee were happy about that because it ap parently means 4 mills of tax re lief to property owners, but they are in doubt as to how it affects budget-making. Is this levy outside or Inside the six per cent limitation? The group seemed to feel it is inside, and thus must figure in the total amount that can be levied, so that no headaches for the court and committee would be cured, be cause they are having a hard time to stretch the levy they can make to cover necessary expenditures. If it is outside, there still would be no relief for the budget-makers on this score, If it were just ex tra money and did not need to be offset bv an equivalent lew. that Would havn.glv4a)f-sosie4ewa9rt'' about 4 mills, .with which, to meet growing costs; y Pending a decision on this point the court and committee decided tentatively on a general' policy of leaving salaries of county em ployes where they are. They in dicated they could see no way of making increases unless the new school money gives , them some leeway, which they believe is doubtful. , The court and budget committee also have decided to allow the county assessor three additional field deputies .to bring assessed valuations of property up- to date, Crickets Invading' Umatilla County ORDNANCE, Ore. UP) Housewives wielded brooms and mops here as millions of Morman crickets threatened Wednesday to strip this tiny community of the few green ithings residents work ed so hard to grow. The horde of hopping insects, advancing on a 12-mile front, were within 11 miles of Hermis ton and endangered a large por tion of Umatilla County's west end crops, Leroy E. Fuller, assist ant county agent at Hermiston, reported. The crickets, ranging in color from light green and tan to black and in size up to two incnes long, were eatiny practically every thing green in their path and many women recalled husbands from Jobs at the Umatilla Ord nance depot to help combat the invaders. Fuller,, who described the crickets as "definitely out of hand," called for more volunteer poisoned bait spreaders and. scour ed the surrounding area for more trucks .and equipment. Crickets blackened U. S. High. wav 30 for two -liles between Board and Ordnance Tuesday, he reported. Weather V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eueene and vicinity, fair Wednes day night and Thursday. Light northerly wind, slightly cooler. Oregon, fair Wednesday night and Thursday: slightly cooler north portion except coast today and to. night and over state extreme east portion Thursday; local morning clouds or fog near coast; gentle north to norhwest wind off coast. Local statistics: Highest tern perature Tuesday, 83 degrees; low Wednesday, 47 degrees; no rain fall in 24 hours ending 10:30 a.m. total for month, .09 inches; nor mal for month, 2.33 inches; stage of Willamette River at 7:30 a.m., minus 1.4 feet; wind at 11:30 a.m., North 13; - prevailing Tuesday, North 11. 8anrle and sunset (PST)J Thurs day, 4:39 a.m. and 7:38 p.m. Fri day, 4:38 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. SIVSLAW TIDES Tfcarijav Hlah ll:i.a. . lVtvm. tin. Low :0aja. -UO. titlpA Mft. ists in the world today, and what we can foresee in the years ahead," Stassen said. The former Minnesota governor recently returned from a tour of Europe during which he inter viewed Russian Generalissimo Stalin. Cites Extremes Stassen said he believed Amer ica could find a "strong and wise and humanitarian world policy" between what he called two "ex tremes" advocated by former Vice President Henry Wallace and Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. "As I see it the Wallace doc trine would make of America a nation of fellow travelers down the wrong road," Stassen said. "It would , , . centralize our economic authority in America and bring about lower and lower production at home . . . "The McCormick doctrine would 'For Peace and Plenty' make of America a nation of cold hearted misers passing by on the other side. It, too, would lead to tragic results for our country. It would make us hated around the globe. It would lead us to boom and to bust and finally to a de fensive war." Pageant Chorus By JEAN W.6RTH ' ' Th. Cfntenntat Paffeant phfirna. like all the other features of the Centennial Pageant, promises to be "bigger and better" .than any which has sung before. Glenn- Griffith, director of the 1941 Pageant vocal music, has been named to act in the same capacity this year, according to Horace.. W, Robinson. Pageant di rector. Wants 500 Griffith has announced that his goal this year is a mighty vocal organ of 500 voices. The last Pa geant had a musical accompani ment of 350 voices. A pinch-hltter for John Stark Evans during the last Pageant, Griffith proved himself so pro ficient at the mighty task of weav ing and blending the voices of several hundred singers into a beautiful unit that Robinson said of him, "This was one of the easiest director-choices I had to make." , Begins Calls The young superintendent of all vocal music in the Eugene school system began his chorus recruit ing campaign Tuesday night by calling or. the Eugene Gleemen during their rehearsal. "It was a small group," he re ported Wminesday, "but of the 40 Gleemen present, 21 signed regis tration cards and turned them in at once, and most of the rest took registration cards and said they'd turn them in as soon as they check up on their summer's plans." Dean Theodore Kratt, director of the Gleemen, said Wednesday that "we are very much interested (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Choker Setter Killed In Woods Accident Grover Wesley Rhodes, 25 choker setter at his father's (John R. Rhodes) logging operations near Booth, was killed late Tues day afternoon in a woods accident, Rhodes left a wife, Janice, and two children, Patrick, two and a half, and Dennis, 10 months old. A brother, John, and a sister, June, also survive. He was a vet eran of 26 months in the Air Force and had lived in Boise, Ida., prior to entering the service. The accident was investigated by the Douglas County coroner. The funeral will be in Boise with p-elimlnary arrangements being made by the Unger Funeral Home, reedsport. Orlando, Now 88, May Head Italian Cabinet ROME (U.p Victor Emmanuel Orlando, 88, one of the Big Four in the first world war, agreed ten tatively Wednesday to try to form an Italian cabinet. Orlando came to the front in the Italian governmental crisis after Francesco Nltti, 79, announced his inability to bring the country's di verse political elements together in a cabinet of aational unity. Gypsy Rose With Clothes Gypsy Rose Lee Is. ho anajto take a postman's holiday, , Famed for her "daring" reve lations of unsheathed epidermis,: Miss Lee confounded,, hopeful McKenzie-area peepers by don ning long underwear and saw ed ; overalls, leaving not a square inch exposed below the neck, while she pursued the river's rainbow trout in a four day visit whlcb ended Wednes day. Gypsy may have been com fortable, but she caught no rain bows. She did bag tome chisel bills. .' ' . The noted elothes-shedder, staying at Log Cabin Inn with her two-year-old son, gathered material for sports magazine articles before leaving Wednes day for further fishing near Spokane and in Wisconsin. -o : : SOLUTION' SEEN FOR INDIA LONDON dan The Daily Herald, official organ of the Brit ish Labor Party, said Wednesday that, Viceroy Viscount Louis Mountbatten would return to New Delhi. Monday with the ."final draft" of Britain's "partition so lution - of the Indian problem. Health Insurance ' Proposal Reappears ' WASHINGTON (AP) Congress sent to President Truman Wednesday legisla tion authorizing a $350,000,000 foreign relief program. Action was completed when the Senate which' had held out for $350,000,000 approved compromise legislation fixing the program at that figurei it acted minutes after the House, ' giving up demands that the program be held to $200,000,000, approved a $350, 000.000 bill by a. vote of 288 to 86. - :. WASHINGTON CO. The House Appropriations Committee members Wednesday reported ad ditional cuts have been ;recom manded to reduce the Agriculture Department's 1948 budget of 11, 200,000,000 by almost 40 per cent. The subcommittee in charge of the bill met in closed session. Members told reporters privately they were asked by GOP party leaders to find new places in which to make cuts. Bealth Insurance New version of the Wagner- Murray-Dlngell compulsory health insurance bill was introduced in Congress meanwhile. ' ' Like its predecessor which died last year despite the endorsement of President Truman, ' the new legislation provides for' a-nationwide system of prepaid medical and some dental services and fed eral grants to states lot expanded public health care. i : ; . Sponsors ot the bill, all Demo crats, are Senators Wagner (NY), Murray ? (Mont),' cnavei . tNM), Pepper (Fla), Taylor (Idaho): and McGrath (RI)r and . Rep,, Dingell- (Mlch). -- ,,. ' The program would be financed primarily by an annual approprla tion equal to three per cent of the earnings, up to $3600 a year, -of every employed person;.. The money presumably would come from social insurance premiums to be levied half on employers arid half on employes, but this point would be left to later legislation. Merger Flan ' Chairman Gurney (R-SD) said the Senate Armed Service Com mittee has "tentatively agreed" to a provision setting forth the baste alms of President Truman's bllV to unify the armed forces. He hopes the committee will act finally upon it Thursday, Gurney told newsmen after a committee session- behind closed doors. "No specific .amendments were actually adopted," he said, "but a clearer definition of the secre tary's power was, quite generally tentatively agreed to." The section of the bill' under discussion deals with the author ity of a proposed secretary of na tional defense. 'Oregon Boot' Used on Boy To Prevent Escape f rom Jail Fifteen-year-old Herbert Hjggins, who has twice escaped from Lane County's aged jail, was wearing !'the Oregon boot"-Wed nesday after using - the hacksaw blade of a well-wisher to sever one-inch bar in his cell. Sheriff C. A. Swarts ordered the 18-pound weighted "boot" put on the boy after Higgins managed to pound the county's oniy,.set of leg shackles so badly out' of shape they had to be cut from his legs before his arraignment -earlier this -week on five felony charges. Used Gun The first time he escaped, he used a gun. The second time he wriggled through a 7 by 11-inch rectangular space in his cell door. He tried to get out a third time, by sawing through a window bar, but was caught before he could even start to saw through the two-inch bars In the second of the two rows guarding his window. It was after the attempt with the hack-saw blade, slipped to him by an unknown visitor, that the leg shackles were used. He bent the shackles by pounding them togeth er. Said Humane The sheriff said the "boot" was scientifically designed to be abso lutely humane, but it would "slow the boy down" if he started any where again. Higgins was lying on his cot Wednesday morning' with the metal ring on his leg and the "boot" on the floor. He refused to comment on the "boot" or to be photographed. The space through which he crawled to make his second jail break is used for putting food through the bars and was one b- Leo.fore used at a means of exit. Sheriff Swarts said that elght years ago a man who has since served his time and "gone straight": man aged to squeeze through the same space. . . ' . v Higgins Is scheduled to enter his pleas In circuit court Monday, ' ', - 5- May Claims Calls Were Part of Job; WASHINGTON M Andrew J. May told a federal Jury Wed nesday that his wartime author ity as chairman of the House' Mili tary Committee gave him the right- to intercede at the War De partment in behalf of Munitions Makers Henry and Murray Gars- son, , ; May's counsel placed In evi dence at the former Kentucky congressman's war. fraud , trial copies ot House resolutions em powering the military committee to investigate various phases ot the war program. ; "Under authority of the 'com mittee and as Its chairman I made all the telephone calls and wrote the letters referred to in this ease, as well as many other similar in quiries," May declared. ; ' The government charges that May took $55,000 in bribes from the Garsson brothers, co-defendants at the trial and former key officials of a $78,000,000 munitions empire. i May also told ' the jury that checks received from the Gars sons and deposited to his personal bank account were used to pay expenses ot Kentucky lumbej ccannanT. .(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3).