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New York To Try
Cloud Wringing
To Obtain Water .
Undertaking Slated
For Next Wednesday
New York, Mar. 15 U.R
One week from today, if the
heavens are ripe, New York City
will gently nudge a cloud. It
may rain. Snow may fly.
Mayor William O'Dwyer and
the city fathers came up today
with a $50,009 appropriation in
a sly plan to urge rain clouds
over Rip Van Winkle's Catskills
into new and greater efforts.
Might Be Answer
City officials decided yester
day that scientific cloud-wringing
might be one of the answers
to the city's critical water short
age. In a six-month "noble exper-
iment," the city will sow the
seeds of cloudburst or, at least,
of April showers into every
likely lonely cloud that floats
over a 1,000-sauare mile area
that comprises New York City's
watershed.
Mayor O'Dwyer decided on the
program with the help of a six-
man advisory committee on rain
making, composed of scientists.
The man they hired to tickle
clouds with dry ice and silver
iodide smoke is Wallace E. How
ell, research meteorologist at the
Harvard Blue Hill observatory.
Dr. Howell planned to go af
ter some man-made rain or snow
fall in one week. In an inter
view after the board meeting,
he said it was entirely possible
some man-made moisture might
fall next Wednesday.
To Get Warning
Dr. Howell will command an
outfit that includes air crews,
two police department amphib
ian planes, a ground-control ra
dio station in the Catskills, ra
dar capable of "seeing" rain de
veloping in a cloud, and two
ground units with cars operat
ing silver iodide smoke genera
tors. Dr. Howell said he expected
to have four to 12 hours warn
ing from his weather department
that the clouds are ripe for "the
art of rain stimulation." The
planes, operating from Floyd
Bennett field in New York City,
will reach the likely clouds in
about an hour. Each plane will
- arry about 60-pounds of dry .ice
and one gallon of silver iodide.
The dry ice will be crumbled in
a hand-grinder to cakes one
fourth to one-half inch in diam
eter. Miner Killed At G.P.;
Family In Air Mishap
Grants Pass, Ore., Mar. 15
(U.R) A placer gold miner was
crushed to death under four feet
of rock following a dynamite
blast here yesterday, and five
of his family escaped death at
the Grants Pass airport when
their plane overshot the field
and made a pancake landing.
John Henry Brunswick, 50, of
Hillsboro, Ore., was killed when
four feet of mud and rock buried
him after a blast was set off by
his two companions, Leslie and
Earl Picren of Grants Pass.
The brothers said they did
not know their partner was near
the section of bank they had
blasted.
None Injured
Last night a twin-engined, five
passenger Cessna piloted by
Ruth Wikender overshot the air
port landing strip, but none of
the craft's five passengers from
Hillsboro was injured. They flew
here to claim Brunswick's body.
The passengers included
Brunswick's widow, Myrtle: two
brothers. Paul and Neil; ann
Neil's wife
Miss Wikender said I
rfhe misjudged the field in the
f'arkness despite the portable
'ights and automobile headlights
that were used to partially il'
luminate the field.
15 Persons Hurt As
Plane Hits Snack Bar
Las Vegas, Mar. US (U.R)
A P-51 Mustang smashed into
snack bar at the Las Vagas air
base while attempting a landing
today and 13 persons were
injured.
Air force officials said no one
was killed but 10 of the 15 in
jured, including the pilot were
in serious condition. Ihe air
force said no names were avail
able immediately.
The plane tore a big hole in
the side of the snack bar in
which "many" air base person
nel were eating, according to an
air force spokesman. The pilot
was trapped inside the plane and
had to be cut out, but there was
no fire.
Zoo Keepers Injured By
Maddened Polar Bear
Melbourne, Australia. Mar. 15
(U.R) Two keepers were in
jured today in a running fight
with a maddened polar bear in
the Melbourne zoo.
A third attendant finally
killed the beast with a rifle bul
let through the head.
V The bear escaped from an In
'."if cage and attacked a keeper
cleaning its outer pit. The man
was dragged through an open
door into the zoo's garden's.
MEDF0R&
44th Year 18 Pages
Five Desperate
Federal Prisoners
Escape At Atlanta
Two Others Seized
Inside Boundaries
Atlanta, Mar. 15 (U.R) Five
"desperate" federal prisoners
were hunted today after they
slugged and gaged a Fulton tow
er guard .slid four floors on
sheets and scaled a 30-foot wall
to freedom.
Two others were captured be
fore they could make it over
the wall.
The five escapees manhandled
a motorist in an attempt to com
mandeer his car. but three of
them finally fled to a nearby
parked taxicab and threatened
the driver into taking them to an
outlying area.
Escapees Armed
Police said all armed them
selves with pistols' after escap
ing. Fulton County Sheriff A. B.
(Bud) Foster said the five, all
held at the county jail on federal
firearms possession charges, were
Eston Anderson, 33; Joseph L.
Mauldin, 23, and his brother Roy
J. Mauldin, 28, and Luther Mas
ters', 28, all of Atlanta; and Earl
Curtis Taylor, 22, of New Or
leans. Foster said TayliS asked Dep
uty Jailer J. C. Williams about
8 p.m., if he mighT use a tele
phone. Williams lettfcim, and was
returning the prisoner to the cell
when Taylor turned on him and
knocked him down.
The others were hiding near
by, Foster said, and joined lay
lor. in the assault on the guard; -
Death Feared
"I thought they were going to
kill or smother me," Williams
said.
The men then stuffed a rag
into Williams' mouth and tossed
him into a cell. They hastily
fashioned a rope of bedsheets,
sawed through their cell-window
bars (how, officers did not know)
and let themselves 75 feet to the
ground below.
A Negro trusty sounded the
alarm after noticing the dang
ling rope. Deputies Frank Davis
and Paul Lambert caught Mal
colm Rudd and Harold Echols as
they tried to follow their five
fellows up the wall on crude
steps made from piled-up oil-
drums.
Absentee Voters Can
Cast Ballots In May
Members of the armed forces,
students, travelers, invalids or
others who will be unable to go
to the polls in their home pre
cincts May 19 for the Oregon
Primary election, were reminded
today that they may cast absen
tee ballots by applying for them
at least 60 days before the elec
tion May 19. The deadline is
March 20.
Mrs. C. L. Hopkins, vice-chair-
man f ,ne rePub.llc?n county
leuirai cuiiiiiuuee, lunay ouereu
to assist persons needing absen
tee ballots or information about
registration for voting by mail.
Students who are away from
home, she said, may register at
the county clerk's office nearest
them and cast an absentee bal-
yot. Invalids, by securing a doc
tor s certificate, are not required
to travel to the polls and absen
tee voting arrangements can also
be made by workers unable to
reach the polls on election day
and by travelers outside their
home counties at election time.
They should contact the coun
ty's clerk's office before March
20.
Defendants Ordered
Sold Or Destroyed
Salem. Ore., Mam 15 (U.R)
The Marion county circuit court
has solemnly ordered a group of
defendants partly destroyed and
partly sold.
The defendants included 24
decks of playing cards, some
poker chips, a light globe and
some furniture confiscated in a
recent raid at Detroit, near the
site of the Detroit dam being
built on the North Santiam river.
The state has sued the equip
ment, asking court authority to
sell it.
Judge George R. Duncan or
dered the playing cards and
poker chips destroyed. He ruled
that the furniture and light
globe can be sold by the sher
iff's office. The proceeds will go
to the county common school
fund.
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FORGIVE ME Kneeling over the man he struck down In Detroit, Mich, with his car. John Carrol asks
forgiveness ol Lebrun Nelson. The victim, wrapped In blankets and raincoat, suffered minor cuts and
bruises, and refused to sign a complaint against Carroi,
Nation's Coal Bill
To Be Higher Due
To Union Contracts
Pittsburgh, Mar. 15 U.R)
The nation s coal bill will climb
more than $84,000,000 this year
as a result of new labor con
tracts signed with John L. Lew-
..us,, -a. coalindustry -spokesman
said tort JJ. .--..
Price 4-icrcases by producers
include M estimated $72,000,000
for bituminous coal and $12,000,
000,000 for anthracite at the
mine.
Additional Boosts
Additional boosts by coal re
tailers to cover higher shipping
and labor costs were expected to
push the total cost to consumers
millions of dollars higher.
The industry spokesman said
price boosts will average 20
cents a ton at the mine on an
estimated 1950 production of
360,000,000 tons of soft coal and
60.000,000 tons of anthracite.
Both hard and soft coal pro
ducers signed contracts with
Lewis early this month providing
a 70-cent a day wage boost and
a 10-cent increase in royalty pay
ments to tne united Mine work
ers welfare fund.
'Captive' Price Up
The price of 90,000.000 tons
produced by "captive" mines
owned by steel companies also
will be increased, but the effect
will not be felt directly by the
consumer.
The first major price boost was
announced by George H. Love,
president of the Pittsburgh Con
solidation Coal company, the
world's largest commercial i
producer.
Morse Tells Stand
Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse
is not suffering from "Potomac
fever." At a meeting sponsored
by Jackson County Republican
Women last night, the senator
said there are too many other
lipids of public service outside
the senate for him to stand for
reelection if it means sacrificing
his intellectual honesty.
About 400 persons gathered
in the high school auditorium to
hear the junior senator explain
in unequivocal terms just where
he stands in regard to republi
canism, his relations with his
constituents, and on numerous
domestic and foreign issues.
Denies Bolting Party
Morse classified himself as a
"constitutional liberal," saying
"the liberalism of the constitu
tion is good enough for me."
Denying that he has bolted his
party on the floor of the senate,
he declared his voting record
would prove that he has fought
actively for the principles em
bodied In the republican party
platform that was drawn up at
Philadelphia in 1948.
The senator declared he is con
ducting a political experiment
in Oregon to determine if voters
in this state are Interested in
sending to the congress men who
will vote on the basis of facts In
stead of at the whim of political
expediency. Reiterating his of
ten-stated assertion that the in
ternational situation is "extreme
ly seriously.. Morse declared. "I
will not traffic in political e oe-
diency in this campaign." He I
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
Child Braves Pistol;
Fails To Halt Death
St. Joseph, Mo., Mar. 15 (U.R)
A brave nine-year-old girl said
today she tried to wrest a pistol
from her enraged ex-convict
cousin as he shot to death a 15-year-old
baby sitter because she
wouldn't leave her eight charges
to go to the movies with him.
Ljittle. Patsy Spccr said .she
-watched in horror as Clarence
Speer, 23, fired five bullets last
night into pretty Caryl Johnson
of Rea, Mo., who had been hired
to tend Patsy and her seven
brothers and sisters.
Pushed To One Side
Patsy said Speer pushed her
to one side, scratching her face,
when she tried to defend the
Johnson girl. Then, she told po
lice, he fired six bullets, five
of them hitting their mark.
"Caryl was bleeding all over,"
Deadline For Income
Tax Filing At Midnight
"Beware the Idei of March,"
according to the poet. "They
have come but have not gone."
The Idet of March have in
deed come, and ihe deadline to
render unto Caeiar those
things which are Caesar's is
midnight tonight.
In other less complicated
words, your federal income
tax payment must be in the
mail today, postmarked be
fore midnight, or you will be
subject to a penally,
Seattle, Wash., Mar. 15 (U.R)
Coast guardsmen today reported
they had exploded two Japan
ese floating mines off the Ore
gon coast.
does not wish to sit in the sen-
ate of the United Stales, he con
tinucd, if it means telling his
constituents things they want to
hear rather than facts that they
ought to know.
Attacks Tariffs
Again attacking proposals
heard in some quarters for high
tariff walls against competition
in foreign trade, Morse said the
minority of republicans who "at
tempt to sell you this brand of
economic isolationism are break
ing faith with the Philadelphia
platform."
The senator drew the applause
of his audience when he branded
the administration's deficit budg
et as "an outrage in this year
of 1950." The "false economists"
who claim that a national dcbl
is an inconsequential thing and
no cause for alarm were blamed
(or the tendency of many private
individuals to take a lax and
spendthrift attitude toward their
personal debts.
Urges Economies
For constructive alternatives to
Ihe administration's program,
Morse urged republicans to fight
for the adoption of the major
economies of the Hoover com
mission report and for t revision
of the tax structure as proposed
by the committee for economic
development. These can be the
republican annvrr to the admin
istration's deficit spending and
"sonk-the-rich" tax policies, he
said.
The address concluded Morse s
heavv two-dav schedule in the
Mcdford and Ashland area. Yet-
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15, 1950
NO. 300
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Palsy, who called police, said.
"I knew she was still alive be
cause she was moaning. She
looked awful. She had blood all
over her."
Caryl died in an ambulance
on the way to a hospital. She
had five bullets in her head and
neck. -.,.,, .
- Speer, who has a long crimi
nal record which includes nine
jail escapes, gave himself up
to Railroad Ticket Agent Burt
E. Miller an hour after the shoot
ing. Dale Requested i
Detective Chief V. V. Starm
er said Speer, who was jailed
On murder charges, arrived as
the home of his uncle, Ed Frank
Speer, about 6 p.m. The uncle
and his wife had gone to Kansas
City to visit another of their
children, a triplet, seriously 111
in a hospital, leaving the rest of
the children in Caryl's care.
Starmcr said the slightly built
youth, asked Caryl, whom he
had dated previously, lo "take In
a movie," but she told him she
couldn't leave-the children alone.
Speer went to his home and
returned with his pistol. He
again asked Caryl to go to a
movie.
Patsy Awakened
In the argument that followed,
Patsy, the eldest of the children
and the only one awakened by
the fight, tried to knock the pis
tol out of her cousin's hand.
"Caryl threw her rings at
Sneer and told him she was
through with him' and didn't
vant to go out with him again.
btarmer said. "It was then that
he shot her." ,
On GOP,
. terday noon he addressed mem-
Kin ul lilt; mcuiiriu iiuimjr viuu,
speaking with emphasis on de
fense and nationalized medicine.
"Defenses of the United States
are never any stronger than the
economy of the nntion. It is high
time to balance the budget and
get a decent tax program we
cannot continue spending in the
red." he said.
Medical Aid Needed
The Junior senator from Ore
gon delved into the problem of '
socialized medicine, and empha
sized the need for some kind of
nation-wide aid to those who
cannot afford medical services. '
The administration's compulsory
health legislation simply cannot
be reconciled with traditional
American procedure. Senator
Morse staled. In registering his
strong opposition to this ap
proach to the problem on a fed
eral level. i
The Hill and Taft health bills
are part of republican strategy
to forestall the administration's
legislation, and these proposals
open avenues for careful long-!
range studies of the whole mai
ler of health, the speaker point
ed out. What the administration
proposes is another step down
the road to statism, according to
Morse.
This same lnbcl was pinned
upon the CVA bill. "I will not
emphasize this Issue In the pri
mary election because republi
cans generally arc in agreement
against the CVA. If the demo
cratic candidate in the general '
election favors this bill I will ,
certainly welcome it as an is- j
sue," the senator promised. 1
WEATHER
FORECAST: Incrtailng cloudi
ness tonight. Generally cloudy
Thursday with tome light
rain. Warmer tonight.
v Temp.
Hliheat Yesterday 43
Lowest this Morning 29
Switch In Plans
Told By Attorney
In Federal Court
Rights Of Appeal
To Be Lost By Move
New York. Mar. 15 (U.R)
Valentin Gubitchev will leave
the United States for Russia next
Monday as originally planned,
his attorney announced today.
Attorney Abraham L. Pomcr
antz told Federal Judge Sylves
ter Ryan that the 33-year-old
Russian has agreed to the gov
ernment's stipulation that he re
nounce all right of appeal from
his espionage conspiracy convic
tion when he leaves the country
under a suspended 15-year sen
tence. Second Reversal
It was the second abrupt re
versal of plans in less than 24
hours. Pomerantz announced late
yesterday that Gubitchev would
slay in the U. S. and fight for
a reversal of his conviction.
The attorney was accompanied
in court today by Yuri Novikov,
third secretary of the Soviet em
bassy at Washington, who sat
through the trial as Gubitchcv's
official interpreter.
Pomerantz told the court that
when he refused yesterday to
accept the government's condi
tion to the Russian's departure
he was without authority to ac
cept or reject for his client.
Mind Not Changed
' "I have since received authori
zation from Gubitchev lo accept
this further condition," he said,
"and I hereby communicate to
your honor that Mr. Gubitchev
has- not -changed- his- mlndi that
he proposed to accept this new
condition and to sail tor ine so
viet Union. March 20. 1950."
Gubitchev was convicted with
former government girl Judith
Coplon on charges of conspiracy
10 sleal government secrets anu
send them to Russia. Both were
sentenced to 15 years in federal
prison.
Plane Crashes Claim
11 British Crew Men
London, Mar. 15 (U.R) Three
royal air force planes crashed
on training flights over Britain
today, killing 11 crew men and
injuring three others.
Two of the planes were fmir
engincd Lincoln bombers. The
third was a twin-engine Anson
trainer.
The pilot and co-pilot of the
Anson escaped with injuries
when the plane crashed In flames
in Wiltshire. Farmhands dragged
the men from the wreckage.
One of the bombers crashed
2,000 feet up on the slopes of
Carncdd Llewellyn, one of the
highest peaks In Wales.
The air ministry said all six
men ahnnrd perished. Their bod
ies were recovered by an RAF
mountain rescue unit.
Medicine
I Tells Strategy
Referring again to the strat
egy of "bottling up" Ihe admin
istration's health proposals with
the Taft and Hill bills as back
fire measures, Senator Morse
emphasized the need for estab
lishment of some sound and sen
sible health legislation, with
five years of congressional hear
ings and exhaustive research In
dicating the need. The back-fire
parliamentary strategy, under
taken bv highly conservative
senators, provides ample time i
for doctors to present their
views, and continued delaying
action should mean that a final !
bill will emerge safeguarding
Ihe private practice of medicine
with state authority, he said.
Federal aid can be handled
through the states without over-:
all federal control, Senator
Morse claimed, adding that it
has been proven that federal aid
for states can be given with the
government's control limited to
generalized standards of proce
dure It Is high lime for action, not
Just talk, on the matter of gov
ernment economy, the speaker
said in concluding his address,
which was followed by a ques
tion period, John Nicdermcyer,
Jackson County Republican com
ml t tee chairman, Inlroduced
Morse.
Senator Morse left Medford
this morning for appearances In
Grants Pass and Klamath Falls.
He will return here May 19 and
20, when he will open the Armed
Forces day observance as a mem
ber of the senate armed services
committee.
EMMY
U.S. TO ASSIST
ASIATIC LANDS
San Francisco, Mar. 15 (UP) Secretary of
State Dean Achest bluntly warned communist China
and the Soviet UnflSn today to keep hands off the rest
of Asia.
In a forthright enunciation of United States
policy in the Far East, Acheson said that the Chinese
"can only bring grave trouble on themselves ... if
they are led by their new rulers into aggressive or sub
versive adventures beyond their borders."
In a major address before the Commonwealth
club of California, Acheson declared :
"We now face the prospect that the communists
may attempt to . . . use China as a base for probing
for other weak spots which they can move into and
exploit."
Acheson referred to southeast Asia, where com
munists are engaged in guerrilla fighting, and appar
ently to south Korea, which is being subjected to in
creasing red pressure.
Acheson promised the free nations of southeast
Asia that if they undertake to resist communist ag
gression this country will
In some situations it will be military assistance,
he said. "In others, it may be tnants or loans, such as
the recent $100,000,000 credit to the Republic of the
united btates of Indonesia. In stili other cases, the
need may be for technical assistance."
Help To Reinforce Efforts
Others Prepared To Make
Acheson said "these are not new principles nor is the appli
cation of them to the Far East a new departure." But he empna
sized that "our help can only reinforce the efforts which others
are prepared to make on their own behalf."
He lamented the fact that United States help "on a massive
scale" did not bring recovery and peace to China, whose conquest
by the communists he blamed on failure of Ihe nationalists.
"As old friends, we say to the Chinese people that we fully
understand that their present unhappy status within the orbit ol
the Soviet Union is not the result of any choice on their part, but
has been forced upon them," Acheson said.
At the same time, Acheson said that the Chinese soon would
see the aid promised them by Russia under the Russian-Chinese
treaty won't meet their needs.
United States Trad. Important
He said that American trade with China Is far more Important
than Soviet economic help to China's needs, but he set forth con
ditions under which the United States could trade with red China.
"Trade requires certain standards of conduct," he said. "Ships,
planes, and traders must be received under conditions of security
and decency. Contracts must be honored. There must be some
medium of exchange reasonably regulated."
Under those conditions, he said the United States would sanc
tion trade with China. However, he warned that the United States
"does- not propose that 'Americans should sell goods that may be
used to harm us.
'Nor does this government
he added,
stand for.'
to mose wno acciHre
Americans Rush To
Beat Tax Deadline
l-hli.nim Mar. 15 .(U.R)
Americans rushed toclQ to file
Ihnir inpnmn taxes buore the
midnight deadline but few In
dividuals and groups risked im
prisonment by defying the In
evitable. The law requires that tax re
turna Ki In Ilip hands of collec
tors or postmarked by midnight
lonigni except in chscs wiii-ic
taxpayers have received exten
sions.
Race Against Deadlln.
The government, meanwnuc.
was also racing a midnight dead-
Service To Be Ordered
To Visit Loyalty Board
Washington, Mar. 15 (U.R)
Slate Drnartmcnt Official John
Stewart Service a target of Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy will be
ordered to return from India to
appear personally before a de
partment loyalty board.
The state department said to
day that Service will be In
structed to return here as soon
as he land" In India. He sailed
from San Francisco March 8 to
lake a new foreign service post
Ihere.
The department disclosed that
(he civil service loyalty review
board yesterday asked It to take
further steps in the Service loy
ally case.
The civil service agency re
turned the case to the depart
ment several hours atter McCar
thy, Wisconsin republican, had
charged yesterday that he "un
derstood the agency had done
so 10 days ago.
Salem, Jefferson
Win Tourney Games
Kugene, Ore., Mar. 15 (U.R)
Salem and Jefferson of Portland
today won their opening round
games in the 32nd annual Ore
gon state class "A" high school
basketball tournament at Univer
sity of Oregon's McArthur court.
Salem's Vikings, bidding for
their seventh tournament title,
beat a game Scappoosc quintet,
48 to 42, In the second morning
game today. Jefferson previous
ly walloped Dallas high. 51 to 34.
Salrm was playing Scappoosc
In the other morning game today.
Seaside met McLoughlin of Mil-ton-Freewater
at 1:45 p.m. and
Bend plays Grants Pass at 3 p.m.
In games tonight defending
champion Roosevelt of Portland
is pitted against LaGrnnde at
7:.10 and Kugene faciV'entral
Catholic of Portland arf 43.
help them.
propose lo give credits or gifts," '
ineir nosiiuiy 10 us ana an w
line to get legal action started
against the last of 1943 tax evad
ers before the statute of limita
tions bars prosecution.
Throughout the country, Amer
icans by the thousands found the
annual day of reckoning at hand
and hurried to get their Veturns
filed.
In New York City, the rush
was greater than last year. New
York's second tax district col
lected $100,000,000 yesterday
and will take in $250,000,000 by
tonight.
In Chicago, an unmarried
woman filed her return. She had
an income of $1,65.1,293. She
paid $1,164,656 In taxes. She
was left with $486,637. Collec
tors did not identify her. f
Indictments Expected '
At Washington, the justice de
partment revealed it expected to
have Indictments by tonight's
deadline against 149 persons for
trying to evade $10,000,000 in
wartime taxes. There Is a six
year statute of limitation In tax
cases.
A federal grand jury In New
York returned indictments yes
terday against five persons and
two corporations for failing to
report an Income of SI. 091. 231
and avoiding taxes of $805,717.
Nevertheless, some people an
nounced today that they would
refuse to pay taxes at the risk of
poing lo prison.
Sentenced During War
At Des Moines, la., a Quaker
couple and an engineer told the
lax collector they wouldn't pay
because they were pacifists. Both
Ihe Quaker husband and the en
gineer were sentenced as con
scientious objectors during
World War II.
An organization calling Itself
"Peacemakers" planned a noon
time picket of the Internal reve
nue bureau In New York City.
The signs said "your taxes pay
(or the H-bomb" and "refuse to
pav taxes for war purposes."
Arthur Sternberg of St. Paul
figured out for himself that 32
ner cent of his tax goes for de
fense and he withheld that
amount $51 from his pay
ment. Soil Meetings Slated
Today, Thursday
For those not yet sure what a
soil conservation district is de
signed to accomplish or how It
would work in this area may
hear a full explanation of the
proposed district at the Central
Point Grange hall at 8 p.m. to
day or nt the Eagle Point Grange
hall at the same time Thursday.
Films will be shown and mem
bers of the state soil conserva
tion committee will be on hand
lo clear up questions.
A referendum to pass on the
district proposed for Jackson
county will be held March 22.
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