10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 7, 1950
DELAKE'S 'JUGHEAD'
Smelly Nelly or Monster?
Sea Legends Dime a Dozen
DeLake, Ore., Mar. 7 (U.PJ Experts and legend lovers have
probed the shaggy expanse of a 1500-pound mass of marine flesh
on the DeLake beach since Sunday to determine whether they
had a genuine sea monster or something less wonderful.
Thousands of visitors have streamed into this small coastal
-fishing town for a peek at "Jug-
head," the beast or part of a
beast that washed in with a
strong tide Saturday.
You couldn't easily .knock
down the sea monster story in
Delake, where the people have
grown up with the legend of
nearby Devil's Lake. The story
goes that the lake, connected to
the ocean by the world's shortest
fresh-water river, the Dee, har
bors a hoary old monster that
surfaces in the moonlight and
once capsized an Indian chief's
daughter s canoe with the daugh
ter abroad.
That's why it's called Devil's
Lake.
Army Hospital
Closure Halted
Washington, March 7 VP) De
fense Secretary Johnson told
congress today he is halting un
til April 1 transfer of equipment
of armed services hospitals he
has ordered closed or reduced
in size.
Exceptions, he told a house
armed services subcommittee,
will involve transfer of equip
ment that is needed in hospitals
that are being expanded to care
for transferred patients.
He declined a committee rec
ommendation that his cut-back
order be suspended until the
committee completes its investi
gation of the order
He said a turn-down of the
committee suggestion was nec
essary because part of his order
already is in effect. This part
provides that affected hospitals
should accept no new patients
after February 15.
The secretary s views were
given to the committee verbally
by an aide.
Johnson's reply was received
at the end of a committee hear
ing devoted to the effect the cut
back order will have on naval
hospitals.
Most of the testimony in
volved the 1,500 bed Long
Beach, Calif., naval hospital,
which has been ordered closed
Rear Admiral Clifford A
Swanson, surgeon general of the
navy, said he would prefer to
have Long Beach remain open.
He added, however, that closing
Long Beach would have less
serious effect on the navy than
the closing of any other naval
hospital of similar size.
Sharman Douglas Says
Lawford Just Friend
London, March 7 (U.R) Shar
man Douglas said today when
she arrived by plane from the
United States that she and Peter
Lawford were just friends and
were going to stay just friends.
Dispatches from New York
reported she said approximately
the same thing yesterday when
she left there after Lawford
gave her a farewell kiss.
The blonde daughter of U.S.
Ambassador Lewis Douglas de
nied she and the movie actor
were romantically inclined.
"He may come here to make
a film," she said, "and then again
he may not come here to make
a film. But there's no romance,
no engagement."
As for Jughead, the world
abounds with sea monster leg
ends.
Probably the most famous is
the old reliable at Loch Ness.
Scotland. The latest observer to
see Ncssie was J. W. McKilloD
a sober man, who said he sighted
it traveling diagonally across the
locn.
Some experts look beyond the
lore and legends and make sea
monster hunting a business. An
ton F. Brunn, Copenhagen zoo
logist and explorer, set out last
year to plumb the deep pastures
ol the seas for strange marine
serpents.
In 1948 a dozen passengers of
a steamer claimed they saw a
80-foot sea serpent in Georgian
Hay off Lake Huron. There's
the oft-reported sea monster off
Whiskey Run Reef. Orecon.
wnicn is supposed to have Ions-
lasnea eyes and a mouth that
smacks when it anoroaches a
boat.
J. Fordan, master of the steam
ship Santa Clara, reported he
saw a monster with a snake like
head rear out of the sea about
30 feet off the starboard bow
of the vessel off the North Caro
lina coast in 1947.
New England's favorite sea
serpent supposedly has made
more or less regular calls at
Gloucester, Lynn and Nahant
since 1815.
The Indians at Wallowa Lake.
Eastern Oregon, passed down a
story through generations that a
particularly reprehensible mon
ster drowned a honeymoonine
young chief and his princess by
upsetting tneir canoe.
Ivar Haglund, sea food pur
veyor in Seattle, once offered
$5,000, dead or alive., for the
"Madrona sea monster" report
edly sighted four times in Pugct
Sound and occasionally in Lake
Washington.
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Watermelons lrom Down Under David Miller, 2'a, gets
first-hand flight information from Capt. Merle Balch of Pan
American Airways who flew 12 ripe watermelons from
Auckland, N. Z., to the youngster in San Mateo, Calif. David
has chronic nephrosis, a kidney ailment, and needs large
quantities of liquid to keep up his strength during treatment.
Juicy meat of the rare-in-the-winter 'melons substitutes for
liquids. (Acme Telephoto)
Woman Tells
Rescue Tries
Miami, Fla., March 7 (U.R)
Mrs. Gladys Laws, 40, lay in a
hospital bed today, too exhaust
ed to talk about her 18 hours of
clinging to a capsized skiff and
her fruitless efforts to save a
companion.
Mrs. Laws was reported in
serious condition from her or
deal, which began late Saturday
and ended Sunday when a Coast
Guard pilot slipped a rope about
her body and pulled her aboard
his plane.
Another survivor, Charles
Sanchez, about 40, swam three
miles to shore.
The two, with William
Mickcls, 46, Miami construction
foreman, had left Sanchez' fish
ing camp at Rock Harbor, near
Key Largo, in a 14-foot skiff. It
overturned about 5 p. m. Sat
urday.
Mrs. Laws managed to tell her
rescuer, Ralph Douglas, that
Kilimanjaro, an African
mountain, springs almost direct
ly from the plains, has no foot
hills, is 200 miles in circumfer
ence at its base, and is said to be
Africa's highest.
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Mickels had slipped from the
skiff several times during the
night, but that she had repeat
edly dragged him back to the
support.
But about 11 a. m. Sunday,
she said, he again lost his grip
and sank into the water. His
body was recovered.
Brannan Will Plug for Plan
Until Better One Comes Along
Denver, Mar. 7 (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Charles F.
Brannan said Monday he would welcome the presentation of a
better farm price support and surplus program than the ad
ministration's . plan. (
But until an improved version comes along, the agriculture
secretary said, he is going to
keep plugging for enactment of
his program.
Brannan flew to Denver from
Washington Monday morning to
speak before the National Farm
ers Union convention.
At a press conference, he said
he hoped that one day some
means would be found to pre
vent a rigging of the market. He
didn't offer any prospects that
market-rigging would be solved
soon, however, and added: "May
be we never will.
Brannan revealed that the
government now has 70,000,000
pounds of dried eggs in storage
and that there is every chance
that the accumulation will con
tinue to grow rather than dwindle.
The secretary pointed out that
Americans increasingly are eat
ing fewer eggs per capita.
He foresaw no immediate so
lution, either, to the potato sur
plus problem. The spuds, he
said, can't be given away to
persons who might re-sell them
because that would only force
the government to buy more po
tatoes. All of the known means of
disposing of the surplus spuds,
such as converting them to in
dustrial alcohol, animal feed, and
the like, have been fully ex
ploited. Brannan revealed that
it would cost the government
one-fourth again to continue
giving the potatoes to industrial
alcohol plants as it would leave
them in their present storage
places.
Meanwhile, President James
Patton of the Farmers Union told
delegates Sunday night that this
country should "strike a bar
gain" with Russia to end the
cold war.
Honor Roll Students
Grand Ronde Eighth grade
honor roll students for the past
nine weeks are Violet Jahn,
Jeannie Gess, Deloris Weaver,
Shirley Perkins, Carolyn Vou
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Practice Teaching
Interests Sheridan
Sheridan Since the beginning
of the second semester, four
practice teachers have been ob
serving and teaching various
classes at the Sheridan high
school. Mr. Bates and Mr. Boro
teach biology and senior health
and physical education. They
are also assistant baseball inu
track coaches. Mr. Worden is
assistant teacher in general sci
ence and teaches world geog
raphy. The sophomore English
and general math classes are
under the direction of Mr. Tidd.
Elephants and lions are found
on the lower levels of Mt. Kili
manaro, Africa.
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