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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREsolf) MAIL TRIBUHE Wednesday, Marcb 5. 1152 March Claims Lion's Share (Solution To Brazil Jungle Mystery Object of Search On Nation's Big Disasters New York (U.R) March may come in or go out like a lamb but it claims the lion's share of major disasters in. this country. That is revealed in a st jdy by historians of the Kemper group of insurance companies which shows that 10 of the worst Amer ican disasters during the past 100 years occurred in March It is nearly one-fourth the cen tury's total of 43 major disasters those, other than mining and marine accidents, in which 100 or more persons were killed. As part of their crusade for safety, the insurance men list the following catastropies as grim re minders of what can happen in March: March March 25, 1911 Fire, Trian gle shirtwaist factory, New York 145. March 25-27, 1913 Floods, Ohio-Indiana 732. March 25-27, 1913 Floods, Brazos, Tex. 500. March 4, 1918 Fire, Collin wood, Ohio, school 175, March 18, 1925 Tornado, Illi nois 606 March 13, 1928 Dam' burst, St. Francis, Calif. 450, March 10, 1933 Earthquake, Long Beach, Calif. 120. March 18, 1937 Explosion, New London. Tex., school 294 f larch 2, 1938 Flood, Los An geles 181. March 17, 1942 Tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ten nessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi 111 Fire and explosion caused 19 of the disasters, wind 14, water 8, and earthquakes 2. April ranked as the second worst month, with seven disas ters; September third with six; October fourth with four. Thus the four top-ranking months (when the sun is nearest the equator) accounted for 63 per cent of all the past century's ac cidents. The Kemper historians noted that none of the catastro- phies occurred in February but they bad no explanation for that. Here is a month-by-month list ing: January Jan. 13, 1903 Fire, Rhoades Opera House, Boyertown, Pa. 169 dead. Jan. 20. 1925 Cyclone in Mis souri, Indiana and southern Illi nois 830 dead Jan. 22, 1937 Floods. Ohio and Mississippi rivers 360, February None. April April 18, 1906 Earthquake and fire, San Francisco 452. . April 21, 1930 Fire, Colum bus, Ohio, penitentiary 320. April 2-7, 1936 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia 402. April 23, 1940 Fire, dance ball in Natchez, Miss. 208. April 12-13, 1945 Tornadoes In Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mis souri 119. April 9, 1947 Tornado, Texas-Oklahoma 167. April 16, 1947 Explosion and fire, Texas City 550. May May 31, 1889 Flood, Johns town, Pa. 2,209. 1 May 15, 1929 Fire. Cleve land clinic 125. June June 30, 1900 Fire, docks and ships, Hoboken, N. J. 145. June 23, 1944 Tornadoes in Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia 159. ' July' July 6, 1944 Fire, circus, Hartford, Conn. 107, July 17, 1944 Explosion, Port Chicago, Calif. 322. August Aug. 17, 1914 Hurricane, Galveston 275. Aug. 16, 1915 Hurricane, Texas 375, September Sept. 8, 1900 Tidal wave, Galveston 6,000. Sept. "29, 1915 Hurricane, Louisiana 500. Sept. 17-18, 1926 Hurricane, Gulf Coast 372, Sept. 12-17, 1928 Hurricane, Florida 1,500. Sept. 21, 1938 Hurricane, New England 682. - Sept. 16-19, 1947 Hurricane, Florida-Louisiana-Mississippi 100. October Oct. 9, 1871 Fire, Chicago 107. Oct. 9, 1871 Fire, Peshtigo, Wis. 1,152. Oct. 12, 1918 Forest fire, near Cloquet, Minn. 438. Oct. 21, 1944 Stored gas ex plosion, Cleveland 135. November Nov. 2, 1927 Floods, Vermont 120. Nov. 28, 1942 Fire Coconut night club, Boston 491. December Dec. 5, 1876 Fire, Brooklyn theater 289. Dec. 30, 1903 Fire, Iroauois theater, Chicago 575. ,-' Dec. 7, 1946 Fire, Winecoff hotel, Atlanta 121. San Francisco's Ferry build ing houses the California State Mining Bureau's museum. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medfrd and vicinitv: Rain nnH r. easional gusty south winds tonight. Becoming showery Thursday. Low to night 35. High Thursday 45-48. Oreeon IWtprni- a feu, ihnw. but considerable clearing tonight and Lows tonight 36-42. Hieha Thurvlav 45-55. LOCAL DATA Temrjerature a vear a an inAav Highest 37: lowest 29. V Total monthly precipitation .12 inches. Deficiency for the month us incnes. Total Drecimtatinn sine Sntpmh., 1. 1951 17.10 inches. Excess for the season 5.22 inches. Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day 74; 4:30 a.m. today 88. voservaiions 'iaKe at 4:30 a.m 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec Boise Boston Chicago Denver Eureka Havre Klamath FaUs Los Angeles Medford New York Omaha Phoenix Portland Reno Eugene Salt Lake San Francisco Seattle Spokane Washington. D. xaxima C. 39 37 34 39 48 16 32 60 42 38 23 65 46 48 47 37 54 43 37 40 46 TOMORROW Sunrise 6:38 a.m.; sunset 6:07 p.m. 27 33 8 37 4 19 41 29 35 12 40 38 24 34 28 38 35 31 35 25 .12 .03 .16 J6 .07 1.00 YOU CAN START. TAKING CASH OFF THAT WOODLOT RIGHT NOW HR HOW YOU PO IT I CAN'T iS. T0WAIT THAT WOODLOT 11 JzMl 1 1 400ZSO I RIGHT NOW MJTtkX Years for V hsrh how There's Gold In Your Farm Woodlot 7fV- w (Tim t ttrin six trtitltt m sictmJ-grttrib fortits m s ilOl M. cmk trt, frtpmtd jr friwstt, Utlt mmd Itdtrsl ftnt tttmtin I . Can you afford to grow a crop of trees on your land? Can you make more money in tree than in (rass pasture or ether crops? The answer may be a resounding TES to both questions, if your land is best suited to forest growth. Oregon and Washington are full of case histories of hopeful settlers who went against nature and tried to convert forest land into crop land. Reason for failure in most eases, so expert soil men tell as. Is that forest lands generally lack some vital mineral and food ele ment which farm crops require. Trees will grow well on this land which la best suited tor a forest crop. - - - - How much can I make off my forest land? Take the typical case of the Snohomish County farmer In Washington who has made his 0 acres of woodland pay well. In , 1940 he began managing his second growth timber. Since that time he has taken off a total of approxi mately $1,500 in cash from Umber sales, plus ISO cords of fuel foe home use. materials for a new barn. including a cedar shake roof, and enough fence posts for a mile of fence. This amounted to $8.60 an acre from his woodland each year: $2.77 in cash plus an estimated jj.SJ In fence posts, fuelwood and Ibnildlng materials. He estimated Uat it oaj cost Us about U cents per acre per year for taxes, 'fire protection, interest on his invest ment and general costs. He still has his forest in excellent condition. How can you manage a second growth forest for permanent in come? You can sell some products right along as the forest is growing. Thinnings may yield pulpwood, cedar poles, alder and maple bolts, Douglas fir poles and piling and fuelwood. The Snohomish fanner discovered that his woodlands had ' increased in value about 500 per cent from 1940 to 1949 because of the increased volume due to faster growth after thinning, proper care of his forest and increased value of his growing timber. A bonas for good . husbandry. Do you have to wait 50 to 100 years to get a harvest? No. Ton can sell some products right along while the young trees" are growing into saw logs. The secret of getting the most out of your farm woodlot . is to make numerous small har vests at the right Ume and la the right way. You- will then keep healthy growing trees on your land which are making money for you each year of growth. Neat -week well look at a typical young forest with critical eye. .. . (For more particulars write yoar State Forester at Olympla. Washington or Sal-m, Or? con for your free copy of TOUR TREKS A CROP." how to stow and harvest them 1 the DouglaW tit region.) By W. W. COPELAND ' UJ. Staff" Correspondent Rio De Janeiro (U.PJ Brian Fawcett may be. near the end of the trail of what happened to his famous . father, Col. - Pervical Fawcett, or he may be merely adding another chapter in the long mystery. ' In 1925 the English explorer, Col; Fawcett, with h son Jack and another English youth, Ral eigh Rimell, disappeared into the wilds of Brazil in search of a lost civilization.' They never - re turned. Many expeditions and explor ers have sought them ever since, some losing their lives in the quest. The search has become nearly as famous as that for Liv ingstone in Africa. Last year, savage Kalapalo In dians revealed a grave to a Brazilian expedition which they said contained Fawcett's bones. They said he had been killed by now dead members of their tribe. , Bones Not Identified Orlando Vilasboas, leader of the . expediiton, brought the bones back. They were sent to England where anthropologists said they were not Fawcett's. Brian Fawcett, another son, from Carlisle, England, has now come to Brazil to follow up the trail. He does not believe the bones are his father's. He has gone to the Kalapalo territory to talk to the Indians himself, ac companied by Vilasboas. Vilasboas believes the Kala palos killed Colonel Fawcett Vilasboas said Colonel Fawcett's trail has been definitely estab lished to the frontier outpost of Naugua, where his Baca iris In; dian guides abandoned him, afraid to enter the domain of the dreaded Kalapalos. "From there on," Vilasboas said, "I must base my account on what the Kalapalos told me." This is his story: Trouble With Guide Col. Fawcett found a few In dians in the first Kalapalo vil lage he reached. . He picked up an Indian guide named Cavucuira. Several argu ments occurred between them. "After the third incident with Cavucuira," Vilasboas said, "the. colonel was doomed. Cavucuira asked Chief Kaiabi for permis sion to kill the explorer and got it. climbing a bank, he was bludg eoned. Two other Indians attack ed Jack and Rimell. Fawcett was buried, with his knife, while Jack and Rimell were thrown into the river." Vilasboas said he found this out after years with the tribe. He said: "I - slept for eight months in the same hut with Izarari, but even he as chief wouldn't say anything. He was succeeded by another chief who was afraid. For two years we never mentioned the matter. "One night, while chatting with the Indians I playfully bet one of them he could not show me where Fawcett's bones were buried. The Indian said he could. Finally the Indians took me there." White Chief Respected Why would the Indians bury Col. Fawcett and not the oth ers? Vilasboas said Fawcett was buried because of the respect for a white chief. The others didn't count, in the eyes' of the Indians. ... . He said the Kalapalos always made marks on trees to show the height of the white chiefs. They showed him such a mark height of Col. Fawcett, that of a tall man. The anthropologists in Eng land said the femur dug up in the jungle grave was that of a man above five feet six inches tall. Col. Fawcett was over six feet Brian Fawcett said his father had suffered a fractured right jaw but the discovered bones showed no sign of such a frac ture. The British anthropologists also said the teeth did not match Col. Fawcett's record. Brian Fawcett fears his father is dead. He would now be more than 80 years old, if living, and it is doubtful that he could have withstood the hardships of the wilds. It is possible, the son be lieves, that his brother, Jack, may still be alive unless he was killed by the Indians or the ex pedition perished from other perils. Brian hopes to get the answers. 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