8 Capital Journal, Salem,
Digging Out the Dead Survivors of the Ecuadorean earth
quake dig out their dead from the ruins of the town of Pelileo.
Hundreds died amid such desolation. Violent earth move
ment shook off plastered walls and tiled roofs and collapsed
the homes. (AP Wirephoto)
Widow to Be Guest
I Of Barkley Sunday
i St. Louis, Aug. 12 W) Mrs
Carleton S. Hadiey of St. Louis
t will Be the guest of vice Fresi
dent Barkley Sunday at Padu
; cah, Ky., at a hometown cele
! bratlon in his honor.
f She will be accompanied by
J her 17-year-old daughter, Anne
. The vice-president's son-in-ii
law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs
Max Truitt, are to come with
: him from Washington.
Their plans for the week-end
J were reported in Washington
yesterday and confirmed here by
I friends of Mrs. Hadiey.
'. The Paducah airport will be
i rededicated and renamed for
i the city's favorite son.
t
Hares run faster up hill than
down because their hind legs
are longer than their forelegs.
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, The Plaster Casts on 10-year-old Girad Parker's legs are a
temporary inconvenience, but soon will be discarded. The
corrective surgery was made possible through Catholic Chnri-
ties, a Red Feather agency of the Oregon Chest. (Courtesy,
The Oregonian)
Catholic Charities Gives
Red Feather Service to Boy
Girard Parker, like other 10-year-old boys, wants to run about,
play games. But Girard has been content to watch up to now.
Now he is waiting, looking forward to active participation in
the fun of his schoolfellows. Toes, bent backward toward the
arches of his feet, are straightening out.
Girard doesn't object to the
plaster casts from his knees
down. He realizes they are but
temporary inconveniences. Gir
ard is a vivacious, chubby
youngster with reddish-blond
hair. He has freckles on a nose
that wrinkles when he smiles.
He has blue, expressive eyes
that sparkle with imagination
and hope. Girard is planning to
play games, not just watch.
Currently he is in a conva
lescent home, soon to return to
his foster family. His condition,
usually described as "claw foot,"
Is congenital. As he grew older,
ipecial orthopedic shoes were
provided. These helped but
were not enough.
Uider the supervision of
Catholic charities, offering Red
feather services as a member of
the Oregon Chest, Girard was
afforded expert care at Docrn
becher hospital.' Through surg
ery, a tendon was transplanted
Oregon, Friday, August 12, 1949
Hop Picking Starts
Aurora Bud Wormdahl and
Earl Owen of Needy, began
picking their 90 acres of early
and late hops August 10. In the
Macksburg area, Carl E. Kalb
will start picking around August
15. H. H. Hansen will start
picking about August 15 also.
Eilers' peach orchard, Road 217
from Aurora, have announced
Rochester and Jubilees now ripe.
FROM RIFLES TO WATCHMAKING
Johnny Pipkin's Sharp Eye
Still Lets Him Shoot Straight
Warrenton, N.C. (U.R) Johnny Pipkin uses his sharp eyes and
steady hands for precision watchmaking now, but those qualities
once ranked him among the nation's top military sharpshooters
Born in Virginia during the Civil War, Pipkin became a regu
lar in the Virginia Volunteers when he was 12 years old.
In 28 years of service he ad
vanced from private to captain
and retired as a major.
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on each foot to counteract his
handicap. He remained at
Doernbecher five weeks. Part
of that time, he suffered pain.
Nurses commented on his fore-
bearance, some of them "auto
graphing" the white plaster
casts on his legs.
Girard is awaiting results pa
tiontly. He is going to walk
and play, like the others. Re
cently he drove his wheelchair
too near a driveway, and coast
ing down took a tumble. It did
not bother Girard too much. He
has spirit. He has eyes on the
future. He knows he has friends,
through the Oregon Chest, who
will remain Interested in him.
HOSIERY AND SWEATER
MENDING . . .
Miller'
Downstairs
Rolls Oyer in Bed,
Falls Five Stories
New York, Aug. 12 VP) Sam
uel Goppelberg, 24, one of the
millions suffering from New
York's heat wave, moved his bed
over near a window last night
to get a bit of air.
His shrieks woke the neigh
bors at 4 a.m. today.
Rolling over in his sleep, he
fell out the window to death
in a rear yard five floors below.
During that quarter-century
he was famous on every rifle
range in the south and even to
day he can puncture bullseyes
when he takes time off from his
jewelry businep?.
At 12 he joined the Suffolk
Greys as a "marker" one of
two boys who held flags at cor
ners along the line of march
One day when his company was
on the rifle range a corporal
Jokingly suggested that they see
what the little "marker" could
do with a gun.
But the joke was on the regu
lar riflemen. Offhand, kneeling
and prone. Pipkin nailed the
target dead center and walked
off with the prize intended for
the best shot in the company
"Any man who can shoot like
that belongs in the company,'
said the captain. "Swear him
in."
For the next 26 years Pipkin
won or placed in every state
shooting match and competed
against the country's best mill
tary marksmen at Camp Perry,
Ohio. In. a small chest of me
moirs he has several gold me
dais as proof of his shooting
ability.
He also has one of the best
gun collections in this part of
the country.
The collection includes an
assasin's cane" which shoots a
20-gauge shell, a Revolutionary
piece used in the battle of Great
Bridge, a p a i r of 14-inch
French-made pistols which dou
ble as shotguns, an 1856 'muz
zle-loading revolver, a pen pis
tol and a knife pistol, and a
French pinfire gun, 16 gauge
with cheek rest.
Most valuable is a "Capt.
John Smith" type deuling pis
tol, heavily inlaid with silver
and sporting a 10-inch brass
barrel.
Pipkin has no children to car
ry on his hobby, so he thinks he
may donate his valuable guns
lo the William and Mary uni
versity shrine.
THANK HEAVEN
fCan .
I HEARD EVERY
WORD THE
PREACHER SAID!
"Andoh.what
a blessing it is!
I miss nothing
it church or
the movies.
I never ask
people to re
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haTn Inr mo
when a marvellous free book told me
ill about correcting hearing loss."
You too, should learn the full facta.
Come in for free demonstration today.
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AND ASSOCIATES
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Earthquake Survivors Makeshift tents and cots in a square
at Ambato, Ecuador, serve as a temporary shelter for sur
vivors of the earthquake which devastated a large portion
of this small South American country. Ambato, city of 20,000
population, was in the center of the 4000-square mile area
rocked by the quake. An accurate death toll may never
be known because many of the victims are buried beneath
tons of rubble and most survivors have scattered. (Acme
Telephoto)
7 945 FIGURES SHOWED:
National Conventions Failed
To 'Represent'
Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) The average
at the .1948 political conventions, according to Charles L.
Braucher, University of Nebraska student.
Braucher made a study of
who represents the voters at
national conventions, where
presidential candidates are nom
inated. He wrote a thesis for
his master's degree in sociology
on results ot nis investigation,
made with the help of Dr. Paul
Meadows, faculty member.
Conclusions were based on re
sponses from slightly less than
half of the 3,734 delegates to
whom questionnaires were sent,
Braucher said.
He found none of the three
conventions held last year ac
curately represented the age
groups of the general population,
the number of women voters,
rural people, or the educational
level or occupational group of
the nation.
Braucher decided the average
convention delegate is married
and a father, 45 to 50 years old,
white-collar worker in the
city, has some college education,
and accepts his parent's poli
tical philosophy. He most like
ly is a lawyer or businessman,
the student said.
Delegates to the Republican
gathering were slightly' older
than their Democratic counter
parts, but Progressives were
junior to both.
Mean age for the GOP was
51.7, compared to 49.7 for Dem
ocrats, and 36.8 for Progres
sives. The median age of the
United States is 30 years, Brau
cher said.
The highest percentage of wo
men delegates attending the
Republican convention came
from South Atlantic states, fol
lowed closely by North Central
states. The latter area sent the
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Democratic party meeting, with
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The greatest number of pro
gressive feminine delegates
came from the East North Cen
tral and Middle Atlantic states.
Braucher found about 20 per
cent of the GOP delegates came
from rural areas, 17 per cent of
the Democrats, and nine per
cent of the Progressives. But
at no convention, he said, did
they approximate the propor
tion of rural voters in the states
they represented.
Democratic delegates were the
most experienced in party
gatherings. Bruacher said al
most 40 per cent of them had
attended at least one other con
vention, compared to 33.5 per
cent of the Republicans and 8.7
per cent of the Progressives.
The rank-and-file at least had
the benefit of better than aver
age education in their dele
gates. Braucher's study showed
more than 83 per cent of the
Republicans had attended col
lege, 79 per cent of the Demo
crats, and 76 per cent of the
Progressives.
Fingers Are Damaged
Aurora Otto Krueger of Can-
by, suffered the loss of the tip
of his little finger on the right
hand when his hand was pulled
into the wheel of an air com
pressor he was operating in his
home garage. Painful injuries
to the ring finger were suffered
also by Krueger whose small
finder was severad at the first
joint.
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Acreage Alloted
For Linn Wheat
Albany Linn county's wheat
allotment for 1950 is 9,584 acres,
representing the county's pro
portionate share of the 68,900,
000 acres alloted nationally to
be harvested in 1950, according
to George L. Koos, c.bunty AAA
chairman.
Linn county's 9,584 acre allot
ment has been distributed in in
dividual farms based on acreage
and production information fur
nished by farmers who normally
grow wheat. Notices to grow
ers will be mailed from the
county AAA office on August
15. Any grower who is not sat
isfied with his allotment may
appeal to the County Committee
within 15 days or by August 30.
Brothers Break Legs
Silverton Don Thomas was!
reported as having sustained a
fractured leg Wednesday while
at work in the woods. A brother
of Thomas, George Thomas, has
been under treatment at the lo
cal hospital since May 9. for
similar injuries though more
serious than apparently has been
suffered by his brother.
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HURRICANE BLAMED
Big Wind Cut Short
Methuselah's 969 Years
By E. V. W. Jones
(AP Niwjfeiturw Wrltir)
Miami, Fla. Grady Norton can prove to you by scriptural
authority that Methuselah, who died at 969 years of age, actually
lost his life in a hurricane.
Since that ancient day. people have learned to heed hurricane
warnings and the death toll from
reduced by 98 per cent. That
reduction has come only In the
last 20 years said Norton.
"We feel It is entirely pos
sible to take the death sting
entirely out of hurricanes,"
said Norton, who is chief fore
caster in the Federal Storm
Warning Service here.
"But there Is one factor that
worries us. As the death toll
comes down due to adequate
warnings, and as physical de
struction diminishes because
of building codes, a feeling Is
beginning to develope among
persons Inexperienced with
these storms that the hurri
canes have lost their punch.
"They begin to grow care
less, and that will send the
death toll up again.
Norton pointed out that a
hurricane is a vast, natural en
gine which draws its power
from heat energy released by
rain. An average hurricane will
pour 10 inches of rain over hun
dreds of square miles.
Ten inches of rain weighs
723,200 tons per square mile.
This jumps to astronomical fig
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hurricane is measured. One
storm that swept over Puerto
Rico was estimated to have
dumped 2,600,000,000 tons of
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With the rain come roaring
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to be of hurricane force. " Fre
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sometimes more,
An 80 mile wind exerts a
force of 26 pounds per square
foot of surface, while a 100
mile wind has the force of 45
pounds and a 150-mile wind
112 pounds per square foot.
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