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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
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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
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program went through. 1 around S2S2 billion. It Hrnnnirt
Byrd said, the bill would be $43 .some after the war, but now It
billion, and the average for fed- sticks.
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Water Everywhere
But Little to Drink
JETMORE, Kan. (U.R) Be
cause there was water nearly ev
erywhere, there was less of lt
to drink.
The explanation:
Keoord rainfall brought Buck-
ner Creek brimming full (or a
protracted period and raised the
water table in Jetmore's water
wells some six feet above pumps
and motors.
That resulted In constant pump
ing to prevent Inundation of the
equipment. Then quicksand flowed
In. The walls of one well set
tled. One of the pumps was
ruined.
The abundance of unusable wa
ter has caused such a shortage
In the lisuable supply that the
city fathers frsr consumption re
striction may be necessary.
McKAY TO YAKIMA
SALEM (,7 Governor Hong
las McKnv leave Salem nn Tn
jdy night for Yakima, Wash., to
attend sessions of the Columbia
Uiism inter - Agency Committee
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