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1 I Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Page 22 Mon., May 19, 1952 Truck Derails Freight On C&O 59 Cars Pile Up; Three Teenagers Hurt " SAWYER, Mich. W) Fifty nine cars of a Chesapeake & Ohio freight train were derailed here Sunday night as a pickup truck whammed into the middle of it at 1 crossing. Box cars were scattered all over this town of ISO population. Three teen-age occupants of the truck were hurt, none critically, The train srew escaped. THE TRUCK hit the train at a crossing a mile north of town, but the heavy train dragged the pick up into town before the train started falling apart and tumbling box cars in all directions. A warehouse was wrecked and two other commercial buildings damaged. Power lines feeding the town's electric system were felled, but no. fires broke out. ' NO ONE WAS found injured anjong the jumble of wreckage in the town itself, but a fireman said: "God only knowswhat we'll find n"daylight. A one story brick warehouse along the tracks was demolished. Two others were damaged. As many as six cars piled one on top of 'the other at one spot. ,' 5?he terrific noise woke up the whole town. Fallen pqwer lines Y'ijre a hazard to the wandering curious, some in ; pajamas and dressing gowns. JTELEPHONE service was af ieoted, but lines still were usable, although noisy. fplice believe the train wreck likely was caused by a truck-automobile collision on a railroad grossing a mile north of town. It happened shortly before the train was"due. Three' persons were in jured in the collision. fl'he wreck happened at 11:10, tiojrears toppling in all directions from the main street crossing of the-G. & O. tracks. The freight ivjjiTen route from Grand Rapids tojChlcago. i e Consumes Dexter Laundry J5EXTER The laundry of the Horseshoe Trailer Court here, burned to the ground from un known cause Sunday about noon. , Jhe owners, Mr. and Mrs. Vie to Copper, were away on a fish Jn"trip and returned about 4 p. m -.Neighbors called the US En gineers fire truck at Lowell. The fjiemen were able to save adjoin ing- buildings. This is the second recent fire at the court; about three weeks ago a cabin occupied by-two Mexican laborers burned to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Copper revealed that a new automatic drier, plumbing, and sationary tubs which had just been installed, . were destroyed, at a loss of $1000. The frame building housing the equipment and the roof of the ad , joining bath-house, were destroy ed. They made no immediate es timate of the total damage, and were uncertain Sunday whether the building was covered by in Eurance. Susan Kay Olson .Y. Susan Kay Olson, 22'4-months-bld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har old Olson, 1880 Coburg Road, died Saturday, May 17, 1952. She was born June 29, 1950, in Eugene. Surviving are her parents: two brothers, Michael and David; her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cramer of Monroe, and Mrs. Gyneth Olson, of Coburg. Funeral services will be Wed nesday, at 2:30 p.m. in Simon. Lounsbury Mortuary. Rev. Berlyn V. Farris will officiate and inter ment will be in Rest Haven Me morial Park. TWINKLE, TWINKLE Flashing Map Gaudy Show Of U.S. Life Bv ARTHUR EDSON Amocl.t'il rren Wrllrr WASHINGTON (P) Flash ing lights on a big map of the United States illustrate how life starts and stops in this country. The map is in the lobby of the Department of Commerce Building. The lights give a theatrical picture of the nation's-steadily increasing popu lation. Every nine seconds a sort of bluish light lights up. Another baby has been born. Every 21 seconds a purplish kind of light blinks on and off. someone has died. Another blinking light, which comes on every two minutes, shows that another immigrant has arrived. Every 17 minutes still another light shows that someone has left this country. Every 13 seconds a bright white light goes on. That means the U. S. population has just had a net gain of one. At the same time a sort of population speedometer across the top of the map turns an other notch so that, in theory, you can get the exact popula tion of the U. S. at any given moment. Like any other gadget, this huge pinball machine has its troubles. The other day, for instance, people kept on being born but death took a holiday. The lights showed nobody was dy ing. "Must be a fuse," said a cen sus bureau man. Everything soon was righted. When I arrived, the popula tion speedometer showed 156, 757,704 people in the U. S. Be fore I could take some meagre notes and leave, it had hit 156, 757,718. The pop. business is booming. Lawyer Seeks Free Legal Aid By FRED SCHNEITER Senior Student In Journ.iiim "How can we have equal justice for government-supported Oakridge Man Cited for Crash OAKRIDGE George McAttee of Willamette City was cited for basic rule violation Saturday, May 17, at 11:55 a.m., by state police, after his car collided with a sedan driven by Francis Hayford, of Oakridge. Extensive damage was done to Hayford s car. McAttee is to appear in justice court at Oakridge Monday, May 26, 7 p.m.. , State police report they were called to Wicopee station, on the Southern Pacific Railroad about 20 miles above Oakridge, to quell a. disturbance by two drunks. The pair was thought to have dropped off a freight train at Wicopee, ex pecting to walk up the trail to Fraser Station, where they are em ployed by Southern Pacific. They had been noisy for .several hours after midnight. They were given a choice of go ing to the county jail or going home. They went home. in America when there are many people who can't afford a law yer " That question sums up the stand of Charles O. Porter, a Eugene attorney, who is trying to set up a plan for free lawyer service in Lane County. Porter said in an interview last week that the plan isn't a new idea. At least 100 major American cities now have legal aid societies such as he is trying to get for Eugene. Many Eugene attorneys are op posed to the idea. They claim it is too expensive to set up, and that the time involved .in the program wouldn't justify the number of people who would benefit by it. Porter, who has a broad back ground in legal aid work, claims that local interference is based on the lawyers' ignorance of the plan. THEY'RE AFRAID it'll take away their business. Actually it'll help them, and will be good pub lic relations, which is something our profession needs," he explained. Attorney George T. Langford said he feels there is no need for it in Lane County. "However, the only way to really find out would be to set it up," he added. Lang- ford pointed out that the plan has been talked of here, "probably as long as there's been a bar in Oregon." It wasn't until Porter arrived in January, with experience in the program, that any effort was made to set up a local legal aid society. Neither the proponents nor the opposition look on it as k sociali zation of the legal profession. "It s a trend toward social ends, but not a socialistic state." Porter said. "The inability of several Am ericans to afford legal aid is an argument that the communists have made a lot of use of," he added. THE PROGRAM consists of two parts, the lawyer referral plan to interview applicants and assign attorneys to them and the legal aid itself the free service of the attorney. H. V. Johnson, president of the Lane County Bar Assn. six weeks ago appointed a committee to in vestigate the plan and present its proposals to the group. The com mittee members, Jack Lively, of Springfield, and A. T. Goodwin and Porter, both of Eugene, pre sented a mimeographed outline of the plan at a meeting May 6. Por ter will explain the plan in more detail at a meeting next week. "We'd like to get this going so there won't be a national surge tor it, as with socialized medicine. There's a bill before congress now legal services. ' Porter said. If Legal Aid is accepte'd by the Lane County Bar association, an office will be set up to interview applicants for the service. "There will be a $5 interview fee, which is all they'll have to pay. And we'll waive that if they can't afford it," Porter explained. EACH ATTORNEY would spend a few hours each week .at the of fice on a rotation schedule. The office would be open from 5 to 7 p.m. during weekdays. ' Applicants who have cases would be assigned ah attorney who can handle the case as he wishes, without interference from the society. Porter pointed out that' the so ciety would accept no divorce or bankruptcy . cases, where a fee can be obtained. "If the program is accepted here, we might eventually get assistance from the University of Oregon law school. It would be good ex perience for the lawyers about to graduate," Porter said. Porter has confidence in the success of a Lane County Legal Aid Society, but said there's enough professional opposition to hold up the plan. Street Lighting Discussion Set RIVER ROAD A discussion of the proposed street lighting mea sure for this area will be held at the River Road Civic Club Mon day, before voting takes place Tuesday on the proposal. The Monday meeting will be at 8 p. m., DfT. Voting will be Tuesday from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. DST at the offices of the River Road Water District, 118 Elkay Dr. The proposal will ask the voters' approval to levy an estimated 4 mills for construction and main tenance the first year and not to exceed 'A mill annually for main tenance. The lights would be in stalled along River Road on every. other power pole from the Eugene city limits to just north of How ard Ave. Any registered voter in the Riv er Road Water District is eligible to vote. Baptists End 8-Day Meeting Billy Graham Urges Christian Crusade MIAMI, Fla. (IP) The South ern Baptist convention ended the largest meeting in its history Sun day night. The eight-day meeting of the 107-year-old organization was at tended by H,uu.j "messengers" representing 28,289 churches and 7,373,498 members. Another 7,000 visitors attended. A 1,000-voice choir sang at the final services, and tne sermon was by Dr. Baker James Cauthen, sec retary of the Orient of the For eign Mission Board. HIGHLIGHT of the gathering was a youth rally Saturday night when evangelist Billy Graham told a crowd estimated at 20,000 that Christianity was the only ef fective weapon against commu nism and called for a crusade to "raise the flag of Jesus Christ." "We can never stop communism with the atom bomb and we can't buy the friendship of other coun tries with dollar bills," he said. "We must have a crusade . . , We need a revival in America to put the teachings of Christ into prac tice every day. "If there was ever an hour in American history when we need to fall on our knees in prayer and come to God, it is now," he said NO DOVES PANMUNJOM, Korea Oi.R) The swallows of Panmunjom are not counting on a quick Korean truce. A pair of them began building a nest In the pipe of an unused stove In the Allied ar mistice delegation's "temporary" tent. Students Show Original Plays A play, a movie and three songs, all original works of University of Oregon students, were present ed Friday night (May 16) in the Erb Memorial Union building in the "Campus Workshop. A one-act comedy written by Faber DcChaine, senior in speech from Portland, and Gerald Pearce, senior in history from Eugene, satirized the football alum. En titled "Two on the Fifty," the play featured Alan Barzman, Rob ert Chambers, and Betsy inayer, all of Portland; James Albertson of Elgin, and Gordon Howard, Winston. A silent movie parody of Wim liam Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was the feature presentation of the evening. James Blue, senior from Portland, directed and filmed the movie. Featured in the shop were Robert Chambers and Alan Barz man, and Lois Silliams of Eugene, and Martha Stapleton of The Dalles. A student art display was shown before and after the work shop in the art gallery and brows ing room of the Erb Memorial Union. in dollars agents tol Like almost everyone else, you ptot, little thought to the amount ol fire in. forms of property insurance that you c 1 " """ ." Ulnunt seemed n, 1 , ...v, "imoui One.).-., , time to time. Ordinarily that would be a sale thing ( . i. icjjiui-oiuems ana additional mulations, the depreciation ol vour m...j 0 .u , ii,i -"MM With a sharp increase in replacement insurance policies are woefully inadequate..)' i in amount to do much more than pay half in 'event of a disastrous fire, windstorm or eip Obviously, you should have as much Insuiu, the present-day value ol your properly Ui .. 1 .u .. j. . " """"a jjuu iitt? wuojf yyuj iu ucieiuime II. SPRINGFIELD Insurance AGENCY I 500 ij MAIN W( STAND BETWEEN YOU AND l More Casualties Listed WASHINGTON. () The De fense Department Saturday iden tified 97 more battle casualties in Korea. A new list No. 566 reported 14 killed, 81 wounded and two injured. Grace Mae Clow Grace Mae Clow, 66, of 1708 Mill St., died at her home on May 17, 1952'. She was a life long resi dent, of Lane County where she was born, Nov. 13, J 885. She was married to Robert D. Clow at Mapleton, on Nov. 3, 1914. She was a member of the First Christian Church of Eugene. Besides her husband she is sur vived by a sister, Mrs. N. L. Aus tin of Siltcoos Lake. Graveside services will be at Rest Haven Memorial Park Tues day, May 20, at 11 a.m. The Rev. Phil Ryan will officiate. The re mains will lie in state in the Chapel of the Poole-Larsen Fun eral Home on Monday afternoon from 4 to 9 cm., atwhich time friends may call. 1 HI . MNIUl WUIfl a. I II 'fl&sL Money; Saving Offer r on Ver-vi-t . . . General Point's flat, washable, static rubber interior finish. Buy a gallon of Vel-va-tote end git M4 protective drop doth for floors md furniture ...only 4W! Save 12 fO A lIMfTED TIME ONLY ATi General Paint Corp. Famous Gyrafoam washing action Fully automatic No bolting down See it today at . . . APPLIANCE CENTER 70 WEST 10th JPerkaps touJJaue Yjolicecl.., Ornomontol Iron ten Improv tht opptarorwt of a hom front. 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