Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, August 08, 1949, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPage 2, ReglstT-C.uard. Eugene. Ore- Mon., Aug. 8. 194 'ikAjnnr Finds ( I reached him. I hooked my " ------ - IllUQr. phones onto his and asked if ben, ll I CI was ready. He was. The pressure J lOlC V IIIQQG (Continued from Page One) gene area are as scarce as blue diamonds, and after futile phone calling. Mechanical Superinten dent Clarence Comfort decided he'd tackle the repair job him self. He called the Navy and Marine Corps Training Center In Eugene Slid procured a shallow water div ing outfit. That was Thursday. Welders Lon Buford and Comfort took turns descending 12 feet to the broken pipe. Each remained below IS minutes or better, but these husky men found welding and diving not too closely relat' Both returned to the sur face "light headed and slightly sick." 'By Friday, the impromptu dlv ei had decided they didn't like the Navy shallow water outfit (they weren't sure they were us ing the correct dosage of oxygen) and spent the better portion of Friday renovating a home-made outfit that belongs to Merton Nltschke. Eugene. .By this time most of the mill personnel was intrigued by the welders-turned-divers and each time equipment was taken to the site, an inquisitive following came along to watch. Comfort's first attempt to descend on Friday dis closed that water Joined him in side the rubber suit. He wore an Improvised helmet built from the top half of a hot water tank. "I've done welding Jobs since 1922," said Komfort, "but this looks like something I've never seen before." Professional Diver Called Diver Finucane of the North West Underwater Engineering Co., Portland, arrived Sunday morning with three attendants: his brother Sam, John Selble, and Louis Gus tin. He also brought his full deep sea regalia and his own air com pressor. Submerged, he decided a "col Ur bolted around the break" would do the Job better than uhderwalcr welding, 1 This a comparatively easy Job to Finucane. He had performed hazardous work on the Russian hip Ilioh which sank, bottom during war time. It was on this Job that he resuced s fellow diver who had become trapped Jn the Ill-fated ship. . "He was pinned In and his breast plato was being squeezed together by shifting pieces when Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich "That professor! No wonder honovorgoti any calls.".. .You may mist important calls if the telephone It left off the hook... ! Pacific Telephone. r 1 ffllM mmifttiiti ulatM (till s in a t i c MKI-UI LIQUI-CREMlV Now o new Prltmoilc Make-up in lubei (or your punt or make-up hit . , . magic UQUI CIM, Nol o liquid ... not a crtom ... it liqueliet lha ImtoM It torenet your liln. loiti from dofi I dutt to lender do. jirvtwia CA.MI.t lit. fab. If pvi. i iimtttt lit I I II rim Mi. I reached him. I hooked my phones onto his and asked if he was ready. He was. The pressure against him eased up momentar ily and I gave myself all the air my suit would hold. We shot up so fast we just about broke our necks when we bumped into the deck above us. He'll never be any whit er on the day he dies than he was when we reached the surface." The Ellch was cut In two and bisected again to clear the ship ping channel and permit salvage. Finucane has had other "nasty Jobs" such as underwater work on pilings for a warehouse in Ex cursion Inlet, Icy Straits, Alaska. Then there was the two and one half mile pipe line he laid out of Anchorage, Alaska, so ships in deep yater could be serviced at low tide. During floortime he is busy, too. In the northeast area of Portland he's returned floatlnr homes to their proper base. And, of course, there has been the usual underwater work with cars, trucks, safes, and drown ings during his 20 years of div ing experience. He Is 62. Brother Sam has seven years of diving behind him. The two watch closely the work of the other from topside and are quick to have the proper tool ready when the diver breaks surface and reaches skyward with an open hand. A lively banter is continued be tween instructions given over the two-way communication lines. "Is It raining down there?" asks Sam. "No, but I'd sure like to have 14 men and a boy to help me with this wrench, ' Finucane responds, The South Dnkotn-born Irish man frequently whistles and sings while he works below water. Whistles a tune called "Don't Fence Me In.' PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. (U.R) A prospector may have stum-j bled across a discovery of Impor tant paleolithic importance in a remote northern British Columbia valley. I Prospector Luther Elder reports he had discovered "a colony of ancient stone houses" in a re mote valley along the Skeena Riv er in the vicinity of the tiny vil lage of Copper River, 1000 miles east of here. Elder, who claimed he had never been in the valley before, saidj "the houses appear to De maae of immense stone slabs, complete with slab roofs." He said he be lieves the stone houses the handi work of some early type of man, ages ago. Authorities here said if Elder's story is true, he may have un covered the lodgings of a prehis toric group of man which Inhab Itated this still uncharted area of B. C. Five GAR Vets Set Reunion INDIANAPOLIS U.R) Only five of the 17 surviving Civil War veterans will attend the 83rd and last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic which once boasted an enrollment of 350,000. The first encampment was held in Indianapolis in 1866. It was re solved last year In the encamp ment at Grand Rapids that this year's meeting, to open Aug. 28, will be the last. Two of the veterans will come by plane James A. Hard, 108, Rochester, N.Y., oldest of the sur viving 17, and Charles L. Chappel, 101, Long Beach, Cal. From Over V. S. Others who have Indicated they will attend If health permits are Joseph Clovese, 102, Pontiac, Mich., the only negro left In the UAH; Hiram K. Gale, 102, Seattle, Wash., the 1948 commander-in- chief, and Theodore Penland, 100, Portland, Ore., who will preside over the final campfire. Other members, too feeble to at. tend, live In Iowa, Oklahoma, Kentucky, New York. Illinois, Idaho, Missouri, Connecticut and California. Indiana's two surviv ors died Inst winter. The handful of veterans will ride in a "twilight parade" through downtown Indianapolis and attend a reception in their honor in the Indiana governor s parlors in the state capltnl building. Band to IMay They will hear a concert by the U. S. Marine Band, sent from Washington by special act of Congress, In the evening a campfire will be llfshted. There they will swap Civil War Yarns and stories of their childhood years. After that the wrinkled, white haired veterans will say their fare- wens Bna pari xorever. i Hiram M. Waldo FLORENCE Hiram M. Waldo, 70, died at Lakeside Friday, Aug, 6. He was born June 21, 1879, at Olivia, Minn., and was a mech anic by trade. Surviving are his widow, Mil dred; his sons, Lyle of Lakeside and Charles of Anaheim, Cal.; a daughter. Mrs. B. E. Sommerdorf, Brown, Minn., and stepson, Bill Harpel. There are three sisters and three brothers. The Waldos lived in Florence for eight years, coming here from the Willamette Valley. Funeral services will be Tues day at Mills Chapel, Coos Bay. Cremation will follow. The fam ily requests no flowers. Army Wants Draft Law WASHINGTON fP) The Army wants the draft law retained! as insurance in case of a sud den outbreak of war, instead of letting it die next June. I The national military establish-j ment says that the matter of ask-1 ing Congress to extend the draft will be considered by the joint chiefs of staff. While the Navy and Air Force haven't made up their minds, Lt. Gen. E. H. Brooks, director of Army personnel, said in an in terview that the ground forces want the law to stay on the books. Congress, Brooks said, might not have time to enact a new se lective service act in case of swift attack. And even after passage of such a law, he added, it would be 60 to 90 days before the neces sary machinery could be set up. Under the present standby law, which has not been used since i January, men could be drafted immediately. Of the three armed services, the Army alone has had need of the draft since World War II end ed. The Navy and Air Force, be ing smaller, have kept up their strength through voluntary en listments. Brooks said the Army feels time would be paramount in the event of anbther war and any delay might be dangerous. At present the Army is more than 20,000 men short of the 677,-000-man ceiling allowed in Presi dent Truman's budget. But Brooks said officials are not worried over the shortage. They expect recruiting, which has been lower than expected recent ly, to pick up gradually. Honoring Picket Lines Ruled Not Secondary Boycott Taft-Hartley ban on secondary boycotts was intended "only to outlaw certain, secondary boycotts whereby unions sought to enlarge the economic battleground beyond the premises of the primary em- striker's ployer. Not Called 'Secondary' "When picketing is wholly at the premises of the employer with ...I u ..ninn ie onoapsH in a portant rulings yet handed down;,abor djsputei it cannot be called in the case of labor unions ac- l.Wnnri,rv.. .ven thouKh. as is WASHINGTON u.R The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that a primary strike does not become a secondary boycott whenever a third person refuses to cross the picket line. Board sources said the 4 to 1 decision is one of the most im- cused of secondary boycotts un der the Taft-Hartley Law. Not Prohibited The board rejected the conten tion of general counsel Robert N. Denham that the refusal of AFL building trades employes to cross a CIO picket line at the Bucyrus Erie Co., Evansville, Ind., amounted to a secondary boycott prohibited by law.' The board majority said the Average American Pays $1 Taxes Out of Every $4.10 By Slgrld Arne WASHINGTON W) This year the average American is paying out $1 In federal, state and local taxes for every $4.10 he earns. Roughly that means that every time he earns a dollar he turns over 26 cents to a tax agent. This estimate, by Senator Byrd (D-Va), Is making fighting words behind the scenes in Washington. Sixty-two senators, despair ing of economy by this Congress, have proposed that federal ex penses be cut 10 per cent by the President. These senators are uncertain how the House of Representatives will react to their plan. They say the real issue is "easy money" that is, congressmen are willing to vote money to please certain groups of citizens without any re gard for the overall solvency of the national government. Needless to say, the senators who make these remarks refuse to be quoted by name. Senator Figures It was Byrd's staff that figured out the average $1 in taxes for ev ery $4.10 earned. On this job it had the help of the Treasury, the Budget Bureau and the Commerce Department. Byrd's report compared tax costs in 1941 and 1949. Here is what his staff found: In 1941 the tax bill to Uncle Sam alone was $7,250,000,000. The year after the war that had jump ed to $36,500,000,000. If the Pres ident s eral, state and local taxes would be $1 for approximately $3.50 earned. Taxes to Uncle Sam never mind taxes to state and city have jumped more than five times since the start of the war. Can we afford It? That depends, according to Byrd, on what we are turning out in the way of work. The President's report says we were turning it out only twice as fast In the spring of this year as we did in spring of 1941, at an annual rate of $250 billion com pared to $125 billion in 1941. So five times' as much taxes have to be taken out of only twice as much work. Work Dropped But the work record Isn't hold ing up. Our peak was in the last half of 1948, when we turned out goods worth $262,700,000,000. Sen ator Byrd points out when we turn out less goods as a people we have less taxes to pay and Uncle Sam collects less. So for the last half year Uncle Sam has had to face lower taxes although Congress, under the administration's drive, has been planning to spend more. Orthodox economists, the world over, say national debt should drop in periods of high employ ment. The U.S. is in such a period, but government figures show that the government debt has hung dead center since early this year Newlyweds' Car Hit at JC SALEM (U.R) Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. John Maulding resumed their honeymoon to California Monday in a borrow ed car after their own new auto, a wedding gift, was badly damaged in a three-way wreck near Junction City Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Maulding (she Is the former Margaret Cooley) were married in Salem earlier' Saturday night. As they mot ored south toward California their car was struck by Theo dore Little of Albany. Maulding saw Little's car heading toward him and pulled to the side of the road, but the impact threw his car around. It took some four hours to clear the wreckage, in which on one was hurt. The Mauldings went on to Eugene, then were able to drive their damaged car back to Salem Sunday. The new auto was a gift from the bride's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Cooley. Sunday night the newlyweds got in the Cooley family car and started out again for their Cal ifornia honeymoon. Weather Local statistics: Highest tem perature Sunday, 72 degrees; low Monday, 43 degrees; trace of rain in 24 hours ending 10:30 a. m.; total for month, 0.05 inches; nor mal for month, 0.46 inches; stage of river at 7:30 a. m., minus 2.6 feet; wind at 11:30 a. m., North 16; prevailing wind Sunday, NNW 7. Sunrise and Sunset (PST): Tuesday, 5:09 a. m. and 7:26 p. m., Wednesday, 5:10 a. m. and 7:24 p. m. 911'SLAW TIDES Tnc.dfty always the case, an object of the picketing is to dissuade all per sons from entering such premises for business reasons," the board said. "It makes no difference whether one or 100 other em ployes wish to enter the prem ises." Had Picket Lines The United Electrical Workers (CIO) called a strike at the Evansville plant July 30, 1948. It set up picket lines around the plant, including a gate through which employes of the Ryan Con struction Co., entered for work on a new building near the struck plant. The Ryan employes re mained until Aug. 26. 1948, when federal judge Robert C. Baltzell issued an injunction at Denham's request forbidding further picket ing of the gate. The injunction still is in effect The Ryan Company charged the CIO union with an illegal secon dary boycott. Denham issued a complaint against the interna tional and Local 813. The board dismissed all of the charges. ICorn Harvest Prospects Good CHICAGO W In the mid west corn is busting out all over. Another national crop in excess or inree minon bushels the fourth in history appears as- surea. mere is a good possibility the crop will set an all-time rec ord for the second year in a row. Some sections of the country have poorer prospects than a year ago notably the northeastern states, where a long spring drought dried up moisture re serve in the soil. But the crop is in splendid condition in the main midwest producing belt. Latest estimates on the crop range liom o,oou,uuv,uuu Dushels made by C. M. Galvin of the grain firm of James E. Bennett and Company, to 3,750,000,000 bush els, made by H. J. Gramlich, gen eral agricultural agent of the Chicago and North Western Rail way. Last year's alt-time record to taled 3,650,548,000 bushels. Gram- Theodore H. Wall Theodore H. Wall, of 250 West 30th St., died Saturday at the age of 47. He was born Feb. 13, 1902 in Kansas City, Mo., spending his childhood in Beach, N. D where he attended school. He, was a charter member of Kappa Xi fra ternity of the Agriculture College of Fargo, N. D., graduating in 1926. He was married to Evelyn Black, Jan. 31, 1926 in Mandan, N. D. Manager of the Western Thrift Stores for over seven years, he established his own drug store in 1947. Besides his wife, he is surviv ed by a son, James, of Eugene; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Wall of Portland; a sister, Mrs. Edward W. Caldwell, Great Falls, Mont; a cousin, Mrs. R. A. Noyes of Beach, N. D. Mr. Wall was a member of Cen tral Presbyterian Church of Eu gene, Star of West Lodge, A. F and A. M., No. 33, N. D., Eugene Scottish Rite, Hillah Shrine Tenv pie of Ashland, Eugene Lodge No. 357 B. P. O. E., charter member and officer of Bethlehem White Shrine No. 4, and Evangeline Chapter No. 51, O. E. S., of which he was Junior Past Patron. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m., Tuesday in the Simon Lounsbury Mortuary with pri vate commitment at Mt, Crest l1,ch teieve, though B, ;der f the J8"' !fible ft,,.; (auction couid Y v i Til's new 511,1 le't -I fer. The new I ?uPPOrt loan n?:'? announce" f i minded I ' SEATTLE.... I I the families of ,tA I pruiessors." Washington. 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