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Page 2 Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Frl., June 6. 1952 Rainmaking Try aid Ineffectual "CONDON, Ore. () Wheat farmers who paid $50,000 to cloud-seeders in an Eastern Ore gon area last year did not get their moneyes worth, an Oregon State College meteorologist re ported Thursday. 'Robert Beaumont, asked by the Oregon Wheat Growers League-to study the rainmaking attempt, said the area got less rainfall than surrounding areas, which had 100 ta 200 per cent of normal rainfall. JTHIS WAS the second annual report by Beaumont on the effect of rainmaking attempts in Gil liam, Morrow and Sherman Coun. ties of Eastern Oregon, where farmers hired the Water Re sources Development Corp. of Denver to seed clouds. 'The previous year Beaumont reported rainfall was above nor mal for other areas as well as. the tri-county section and he could draw no conclusions. iThis year he said the tri-county area got an inch less than could bi expected in comparison with rainfall in other areas. Lewis O. Grant, research direc tor for the Denver cloud-seeding firm, said the weather pattern in the Pacific Northwest was not normal in the rainy season with I storms veering southward from their usual path in this section. This meant his firm did not get enough clouds to work on, he said. The reports were made at the 'annual meeting of the farmer or- cloud-seeders. But following the report, the or ganization voted by a narrow mar gin to negotiate with three other Pacific Northwest farm groups for a 1952-53 cloud-seeding contract. PRESIDENT Ralph Crum of lone, Ore., said the four groups, which last year paid a total of $170,000 for cloud-seeding, had received bids ranging from $65,000 to $73,000 for this year. The three other areas with which the Tri-County group will join in a regional cloud seeding operation are Horse Heaven and Big Bend areas in Washington and the Blue Mountain area of Oregon. Announcing . . . KENDALL MOTOR CO.'s ; Driving School f DUAL CONTROLS EXPERIENCED INSTRUCTORS ' Phone 4-1471 for Appointment bob I; V !S.4-r.. ntssBi. jmt. uf iiw. KilWWjllWMllijSBlillililMOTlllllWllllla Sabres Destroy 7 Commie Jefs Bombers Plaster Rail Installations SEOUL. Korea (P U.S. Sabre pilots shot down seven Rus-Isian-built MIG-15s and damaged two Friday as the Red jets swoop led on Allied fighter-bombers i blasting North Korean rail lines Inear Manchuria, the Air Force announced. The MIG kills were the first re ported since Saturday. Five were shot down and two (damaged in a battle Just before Inoon between a screening force of 36 Sabre jets and 16 Red fighters. PILOTS REPORTED one MIG knocked down In a separate fight at about th same time between 27 Sabres and 12 MIGs. A check of gun camera film later showed a second MIG was destroyed in the battle. U.S. Fifth Air Force said its planes to date have destroyed 316 MIGs, probably destroyed 58 and damaged 507 in the Korean war. Allied losses in Friday's fight ing, if any, will be announced In a weekly summary. In pre-dawn darkness, United Nations B-26 bomber pilots dam aged two locomotives and de stroyed six box cars In attacks on trains on the line running through Kangye, in mountainous Central North Korea just south of the Yalu River boundary with Man churia. B-26 PILOTS also attacked Communist rolling stock between Cong-ju and Pakchon In North west Korea and at Wonsan on the East Coast. They destroyed 45 supply ve hicles on main roads. In the heaviest fighting Thurs- day, dug-in North Koreans blast-j ed Allied raiders on the moun-j tainous eastern front with gre nades and an artillery and mortar barrage. Possibly 300 Reds on a moun tain finger northeast of the punchbowl fought off the raiders in a seven minute battle. - J x, ' '"3 f AT WlreDhotol SEN. JOSEPH MCCARTHY (R-Wis) (left) and Sen. Wil liam Benton (D-Conn) (right) sit ready for opening in Washington of pre-trial hearing in McCarthy's two million dollar libel-slander suit against Benton. With Benton at the hearing in the Senate office building is his attorney, G. P. VanArkle. More Spuds Due On Market Soon WASHINGTON (AP) The government reported Friday that wholesale prices of white potatoes shot up as much as $2 to $4 per hundred pounds overnight after the removal of price ceilings. By FRANK O'BRIEN Aitoelated Frcti Staff Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Predictions that the potato soon will be back in its usual grocery bins, and at trimmed prices, followed the government's action Thursday in cancelling price controls on potatoes. But price officials and produce men alike said that be fore the potato price goes down, it will probably go up. A Ummn lorrfc. oactorn cfnvo nVioin sairl' A tuuuw Mujrcnu rrrr-T .,. hv .hell fragment which hurtled A lot of speculators are going to get caugru wi n mgn- , ------ - -j n priced spuds, anu wiicii mv Allies Repeal POW Refusals Nam II Brings Fresh Charges MTINSAN. Korea UP) Al lied truce negotiators said Friday the II.N. command never win ioi- W the nath of "betrayal, force and bloodshed" by bowing to Red rtpmanns for blanket repatriation of some 170,000 Allied-held war prisoners. The prisoner issue Is blocking negotiations at Panmunjom for Korean armistice. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, chief U.N. delegate, said accept ance of the Communist proposal would "mean an abandonment of ine principle ui uuwmi NEITHER NOW nor in the fu ture do we intend to be a party to such a transaction," he- declared. North Korean Gen. Nam II said Allied refusal to repatriate pris oners who do not want to go home "was devoid of any reason, any precedent and any legal basis. . ." He said the U.N. plan would not! be "tolerated by an opposing bel- ligerent who stands on an equal footing with the opposing sioe. Nam's long tirade Included charges that Allied planes have bombed and strafed prison camps in North Korea and that Red prisoners on Koje Island have been slaughtered. BEFORE THE fruitless 58-min-ute session began Communist staff officers filed a formal com plaint that an Allied artillery bar rage landed near the truce talk site, Panmunjom Thursday and that three civilians were wounded Hot Fight on Amendment Vote Postponed on Cont WASHINGTON W) The Sen ate Thursday night put off action on the economic controls bill until Monday in a maneuver by admin istration leaders to stave off a vote on an amendment offered by Sen. Byrd (D-Va). The amendment would request President Truman to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to halt the nation-wide steel strike, which Byrd declared is imperilling the nation al safety. After a hot argument over the proposal, the Senate voted 42 to 38 to put off further action on the 4 pending bill to extnA .l ment's powers t0 c',eh Se,ac,Pfe: Republican-led moves t or curb federal n Dt-? nation's economv 01 HORSE STILL WITH IlT ALBUQUEROIIF v ,. The horse is apparent,;; a comeback in. New Mvi"H were notifiivt nr ,u. .. d saddles in the same nigh" ' ' lil'T' 1 $75,000,000 ! '&J J"" IN RESOURCES Airmen to Try To Top World Glider Record WENATCHEE, Wash. () Two sailplane enthusiasts were poised here Friday awaiting fav orable winds to begin an assault on the world's glider endurance record. With the right winds, they'll spend three days and three nights cruising over this Central Wash ington community in their motor- less two-place plane. Capt. Earl J. Drew, 26, a U.S. Air Force meteorologist, and Mar vln M. Howlett, 24, an accountant who flies glider planes as a hobby, planned to take off Saturday, us ing westerly winds prevalent over a 12-mile long bluff near East Wcnatchee. Their first goal will be the American record of 12 hours, 3 minutes set at Warm Springs, Calir., in August, 1951. Then they'll go after the world's record of 50 hours, 26 minutes set by two ocrmans over Rossitten, Ger many, in 1938. Drew said Friday he is confi dent they will top the German mark and if the wind is right go on to set at "worthwhile record of 76 hours three days, three nights and four hours. Fancher Field here will be headquarters for the flight. At night, the fliers will check Wenat chre city lights for orientation and during the day they'll watch the factory smoke. Drew and Howlett tuned up for the attempt on the world record with a seven hour, 15 minute flight over Wenatchee last weekend. Sieel Stoppage Idles Industries PITTSBURGH (U.R) The five day old steel strike spread a creeping paralysis through the nation's railroad, mining and shipping industries Friday. By early next week unless Washington negotiators can reach some kind of settlement 800,000 workers may be idle in the mines and on the railroads. In addition to the 650,000 Steel- workers automatically idled by Philip Murray's decision, thou sands of railroaders have been furloughed . with more scheduled to be laid off Friday. THE PENNSYLVANIA Rail road which laid off 9,000 workers Thursday, scheduled new lay-offs because of the strike. The New York Central also planned a dras tic cut back Friday announcing it woul furlough 8,000 men through out its system. Illinois Central officials said they would shut down operations at the ICs Paducha, Ky. shops Friday. The move will throw 1,000 men out of work. A walkout by 16,000 Minnesota iron miners also resulted in the lay-off of 2,000 Duluth Mesabi and Iron Range workers. IN THE COAL mines, 40,000 workers were above ground most of them In Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. When the Great Northern docks at Superior, Wis., are forced to close, 1,000 workers will join 600 river boat men already given in definite lay-offs. 10th and Wlllamorte SAVINGS PLACED BEFORE JUNE 11TH EARN AS OF JUNE 1ST . BELLINGH AM SEATTLE TACOM A PORTLAND EUGENE Homa OHlca Eiloblhhad 1907 MfMBEHi PaoWaf Soring, onrf Ion Iniuronc Corporation fadarol Homa loon tank Srilaoi Office Furniiure WILLAMETTE STATIONERS Office Supplies Equipmenf Ph. 5-0551 991 Oak St. Third Arrested In Rope Sales HOUSTON m The FBI Thursday arrested a third ranking officer of the Beaumont, Tex., mothball fleet In connection with the theft and sale of government rope. Arthur Lorton, agent In charge of the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation, said Capt. Howard J. Gray, suspended assistant reserve fleet captain, was arrested while1 fishing at the pilot's house at Sabln Pass Thursday morning. Gray has been charged with co operating with Capt. Manuel Gon zalez, assistant chief of the Mari time Administration's ship repair division, with embezzlement and sale of 170.000 pounds of rope. A New Orleans rope dealer, Emilc Schmidt, has also been arrested. dumping begins, these abnor mal prices will soon become history. Three more weeks should see plenty of potatoes in most stores." Price Director Ellis Arnall an nounced the revocation of the gov ernment five - month - old price ceiling on white potatoes. He told a news conference it would be "interesting to watch" what hap pens to potato prices, but refused to make any predictions. Other officials said potatoes have been almost impossible to buy in retail stores in many areas. They guessed there would be a sharp price increase, probably dropping off late this month and in July, when the 1952 crop hits the market. ARNALL SAID the Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) decided to remove the ceiling over potato prices because the Senate had voted to do so, effective July 1. Although the Senate vote would not become law unless concurred in' by the House and approved by the President, Arnall said it would be impossible to administer potato ceilings while Congress threshed it out. The benate vote was on an amendment to a bill extending the economic controls law beyond June 30, when it Is due to expire. The amendment would discontinue price controls over fresh fruits and vegetables. Only white po tatoes would be affected. OPS PUT the ceiling on potato prices Jan. 5, after a rise dating from September that almost dou bled the price. The order became effective Jan. 20. It has been crit icized from the outset by grow ers' associations and Congressmen from potato growing states. Some growers said the price ceiling forced potatoes into the blackmar ket, creating a shortage and lead ing to higher prices. Price officials said there would have been a shortage anyway, due to a 1951 crop about 25 per cent under that of previous years. The 1951 crop was the first produced after the government removed price props from potatoes. AN AGRICULTURE Depart ment survey of potato planting in tentions for this year Indicated farmers would plant even fewer potatoes than last year. A slight effort to ease the pres ent shortage with Imported pota toes failed Thursday when the department prevented the un loading of 6,000 bags from Spain at New York because they were found infested with a plant pest. Allied officers promised an in vestigation. The delegates will meet again at 11 a.m. Saturday, t p.m., PST, Friday. BURCH'S SHOE STORE EXTENDS A HEARTY WELCOME To All Elks! ana, u your parade-, feet are giving you troubi Just step into Burch's and on a pair 01 cool, comfoflj; wimnrop snoes for Men In any event, stop by and j, nenoi OPEN TONIGHT TILLI for over ISO renri, Euronfl's LexdlnK Shoe Storo 1060 Willaan Dakota Vote To Be Checked SIOUX FALLS, S. D. (JP) An official canvass by county auditors Saturday will determine whether Sen. Robert A.' Taft or Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower won South Dakota's 14 Republican national convention delegates. Nearly complete unofficial re turns from Tuesday's presidential primary election indicated Taft had won his last vote battle with Eisenhower before the Chicago convention. However, Eisenhower supporters refused to concede a thing. They said they'd wait for the canvass. With only seven of the state's 1,950 precincts missing, Taft main tained a scant 639-vote margin. The count gave: Taft 64,749. Eisenhower 64,110. On that basis, Taft had won! 50.249 per cent of the votes and Eisenhower. 49.751. I A tide is a Drive MAY & MEAD CO. 857 PEARL STREET PHONE 4- TOO MUCH LITCHFIELD, England (U.R) Pvt. Cornelius C. Knight, 28, began serving 42 days In the stockade Friday for going AWOL. Knight said at his court-martial that he married a woman who told him she was 32 and turned out to be 51. "I Just went all to pieces," he said. GOSPEL MEETING CONTINUES Preaching By Clinton L. Storm CHURCH OF CHRIST London, Oregon SUNDAY IS THE BIG DAY! 1 0:00 A.M. Bible Classes for oil Ages 1 1 ;00 A.M. "What Hinders the Growth of the Church?" 1 :00 P.M. Basket Dinner for all Afternoon Service t 8:00 P.M. "Why Be a Christian?" Harriman Postpones Oregon Visit 1 Week PORTLAND (F) W. Averell Harriman, Democratic presidential candidate, has postponed his Ore gon visit for one week. He will arrive June 26 instead of June 19, William E. Sanborn, secretary of the state Democratic organization, said Thursday. Harriman will confer with dele gates to the Democratic national convention in the morning. He will speak at a Portland luncheon and then attend meetings at Leb anon at 5 p.m. and Coos Bav at 8:30 p.m. jMorse Cancels Trip WASHINGTO N iVP) Sen. Morse. (R-Ore.) said Friday he has cancelled plans to attend the International Labor Organization (ILO) conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Morse, a Senate delegate to the conference and one of its sched uled speakers, said the importance ot issues still pending in Congress compels me to cancel the trip. V0 GRADUATE I Your Old Watch WORTH MONEY BuJovct' . Hamilton k Elgin Gruen WyJer 1036 Willamette The Biggest Little Store In the City IT'S A SAD STORY! Every few days we read about a fire lotl In our eommunit Sometimes these statements appear in the article: "Property was partially covered with insurance." "There was no Insurance." "A small amount of insurance was carried." What does this signify? It nresentl the cnld fact thnt nranertv owners M gambled and lost. They not only have lost their properh; they have lost the money to rebuild and replace Think it over you people who peglect to protect Jt assets with fire insurance. Don't put it off! GENERAL INSURANCE tioMP wmM ACeNCY 67 EAST BROADWAY EUGENE J. H. McKinley B. Strassmaier J. D. McBurne, mi rKoolfUd SOFT DRINKS jf NOTICE The following Paint Stores will close Every Saturday of 1:00 P.M. beginning June 7, 1952: Dutch Boy Point Store Latham's W. P. Fuller & Co. General Paint Co. E. J. Lange Co. McKenxie Pabco Paint Mart Pittsburg Paint Store Sherwin-Williams Co. A TRIBUTE TO OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES When you use your phone, turn on the gas, water or electricity, you ore toppi"! the infallible services of one of the greatest of America's industries! Great W'j bines and dynamos and fiery ovens and watersheds and a fantastic network of and operators makes these daily utilities possible. Yet most of us do not stop1' appreciate what a calamity it wnuM h u .... i ii i ...." were t" l.. ,e,om.mlM"nJfo.r one rea$on or another. We have the highest regard for I Public Utilities and the men who head their various departments. We salute industry and faithful adheren tn . u..i tl... ... . Aricen"7 f . - - mi.Mli I I1CV Hrtf TIIHI to VH1 -.---life! xrQ) Parmenter Pontiac H. L. Parmenter, Owner . , Ol m a ' . (lift.! i-eari lllnl o""" iJMM
