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Burns Faces Floods; Prineville People Move Back to Homes Burns (U.R) Burns be gan having its flood problem Saturday. The ordinarily dry central Oregon city was menaced by melting snows which sent a cas cade of water down Brown's canyon toward the residential area and several houses at the north end are surrounded by water. , Ten families living in the Tucker motel were forced to evacuate late Friday. Six or eight other houses had water all around them, but most of the families were "sitting tight" Unusually Large Personnel Change Expected by Army Washington UJ Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief of staff, has informed Congress that the Army will have an "unus ually large" personnel turnover in the year starling July 1. His testimony, made public Saturday by a House appropria tions subcommittee, indicated the Army probably will step up draft calls sharply. Many Eligible for Release "More than one-half of our personnel will become eligible for release." Collins testified. That would mean that about 750,000 men more than 60,000 s month would become eligible for release in the period. Those who did not reenlist would have to be replaced either with volun teers or draftees. Collins' published testimony contained no estimate of the size of draft calls anticipated in fiscal 1953. Goal lVa Million Army Secretary Frank C. Pace Jr., testified that the Army's goal for July 1. 1953, is 1,652,000. That compares with expected strength of 1,560,000 on next July 1 and an average strength of 1,565,609 during the current fiscal year. Pace said original plans were for an active Army of 21 di visions during the year starting July 1 and an average strength of 1,565,609 during the current fiscal year. Pace said original plans were ' for an active Army of 21 divis ions during the year starting July 1. He said "we now intend during fiscal year 1953 to have only 20 divisions." In explaining the anticipated big turnover, Pace said: "You had an enormously large buildup at the very begin ning of the Korean campaign. Most of those people who came in, came In for a two year pe riod ... we had to take them1 in fast. We have to let them go by law." for the moment. One-Way Traffic State police said one-way traf fic was moving over the' central Oregon highway to Ontario, but waters alongside the road-bed had softened it and caused sags in the pavement. The Bend-Burns highway has been blocked by water for sev eral days, although two buses "plowed" through Friday and it was believed the situation might improve Saturday. Moving Back to Homes Prineville (U.R) Prineville residents were moving back into their water-soaked homes Satur day after the Crooked river, swollen by a heavy snow run off, receded into its banks. Crews building a hew dike parallel to the river estimated they would have the Job finished sometime Saturday. The dike will hold back a crest three feet higher than that of Wednesday night when an estimated 504 persons were forced to flee their homes for shelter on higher ground. The flood waters were three feet deep in parts of the city during the height of the flood. Cooler Weather Gives Hopes Cooler weather gave substance to the hope, that the snow melt would subside and that the flood danger would be over for the time being.. Prineville (U.R) The Prine ville flood was nothing new to Dr. John Cary, a local dentist. It was Dr. Cary's second flood experience. He was among those forced to leave Vanport when the Columbia river roared through a break in its banks in May, 1948. At that time he was a student at University of Oregon dental college in Portland. He moved to Prineville in March, 1951. Mediation Group Called In Metal Trade Dispute Portland -M.PJ The federal mediation service said Saturday it had been called into a dispute over wages and working condi tions between 3000 Portland metal trade workers and 12 ma jor metal fabrication plants. Unless a settlement is reached by Tuesday, the employes have threatened to go on strike. They are affiliated with 10 metal trade unions. Union negotiators are seeking substantial wage increases, ad ditional " paid holidays, longer vacations with pay, preferential hiring of union members and Job security. Important savings of time in heavy metal work on defense production are expected through development by engineers of a mobile unit which combines welding apparatus and a ma chine which employs gas to cut metal. Violence Erupts As New Premier liamed in Tunis Tunis, Tunisia (U.R) Vio lence and bloodshed erupted in this tense French protectorate Saturday as Salah Eddine Bac- couche, nervous and ill-at-ease, took over as premier of a new "'moderate" government demand ed by France to replace the na tionalist regime the French ousted three days ago. Threats of even wider disord ers were made by Tunisians who branded the new premier a "traitor" and charged that his government was imposed through "aggression." The new premier's minister for foreign affairs will be the French resident general, Jean de Hautecloque. Two Reported Killed Two persons were reported killed and two others injured in a clash between- French troops and Tunisian civilians which followed a bombing at Mahadia, near the port city of Sfax. The bomb was said to have de stroyed a civil control station. It was the first violence in the three-day -old crisis. But French troops were alerted throughout the country. Streets of the capital bristled with the bayonets and subma chine guns of steel-helmeted troopers under orders to enforce martial law as the French-approved premier took his oath and began the tricky task of at tempting to form a cabinet. In Brussels, Secretary Gen eral Farhat Hached of the Tuni sian labor federation branded Baccouche a "traitor" and warned that the trade unions "never will accept the decisions of the prime minister." Newspapers in nearby French Morocco expressed doubts that the heavy-handed French meth ods could succeed and warned that as soon as the hundreds of nationalists arrested in the past three days are released sabo tage and assassinations will occur." Union Ordered To Show Cause St. Paul, Minn. (U.R) The AFL General Drivers Union, local 120, of St. Paul, was or dered to show cause Saturday why it should not be cited for contempt of court for violating a temporary restraining order. An attorney for five interstate trucking firms started contempt proceedings Friday against the union. District Judge Alb In S. Pear son, who issued the restraining order, ordered the union work ers to cease striking here in sup port of fellow workers on strike in Kansas City. The union claimed its contract gave it the right to walk out against firms affected by strikes In other cities. TO BE GIVEN AWAY THIS $239.00 rvn UVI DDI ' - ? AUTOMATIC ON THE NIGHT OF APRIL 5th, 7 CALL AT PENNYWISE DRUG FOR FREE P.M. TICKETS FREE Gold Arrow Stamp With All Purchase fmwjiim Drag 323 East Main St. Next to Hubbard Bros. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO PARTICIPATE ' Prizes Galore! - Lots of Fun! PLAN TO ATTEND - APRIL 3-4-5 SEE THE COMPLETE LINE OF NEW BENDIX APPLIANCES AT LEONARD ELECTRIC CO. Army's Eating Habits Studied In Effort To Eliminate Waste Washington UJ9 GI Joe loves roast turkey, milk and banana cream pie, but looks down his nose at turnip greens, candied parsnips and stewed ap ricots. Maj. Gen. G. A. Horkan, Army quartermaster general, recently gave a House appropriations sub committee a briefing on soldiers eating habits and the Army's efforts to eliminate food waste. Streetcar Union Will Meet Today On Strike Delay Portland UJD Members of the AFL S tree tea mien's union will meet here Sunday to decide whether they will postpone their threatened strike against the Portland Traction company for a week or begin it Tuesday as scheduled. Harvey Thomas, business agent of the union, said the executive committee will recom mend that the strike be post poned. But the committee will leave it up to the membership just how long the postponement will be. Two Meetings Set Two meetings have been scheduled for the vote on post ponement. They will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Labor temple. C W. Van Avery, internation al representative of the union, announced Friday he would rec ommend a one-week postpone ment The possibility of an Increase in fares for the traction firm was hinted in an opinion to the city council by City Attorney Alexander G. Brown. He said the council could raise the fares by resolution, requiring only three votes for passage, instead of by ordinance which requires unanimous consent The, general, whose house keeping chore would stagger the average housewife, told the sub committee In testimony pub lished Saturday that a check in mess halls for the past three years has shown: There are certain things sol diers like; there are other things it is practically impossible to put down the soldier's throats They Just won't eat them. - The problem, 'he said, is com plicated by the fact that some soldiers raised in New England won't eat some of the dishes we have in the south, and vice versa." He said the check on appetites has guided the Army in its food purchases since the "chances are the wastage is going to be less... if we buy what the soldiers like." OPS Warns Public On Ungraded Beef Portland (U.R) Carl C Donaugh, Portland district Of fice of Price Stabilization di rector, Saturday warned resi dents of western Oregon against buying ungraded beef from farmers. Donugh said OPS enforce ment officers had reported boot leg, farm-killed beef was being sold by farmers to friends in small communities of western Oregon at upgraded prices. He said the illicit sales were driven underground by a seven-months' campaign waged with butcher shops, hotels and restaurants. Most of the farm kill is dairy cattle or baby beef which is excess in dairy operations, Donaugh said. The beef has been green-grass fed and the bulk of it is "utility" grade and below, the OPS director said, while farmers are getting "good" and "choice" prices for it Daad line on Claulflra Ada: 531 P m for followtnt day: 10 a m Hon. amy. noon Baniroajr lot Sunday a ip day. Muck SO, IMS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TrUBUHE SEVEN Old Rail Tunnel May Be Converted To Bomb Shelter Seattle (U.R) Ralph Lomen has returned from Washington, D. C, where he spent six weeks conferring with government offi cials about his plan to convert an abandoned railroad tunnel in the Cascades Into in atomic bomb-proof shelter for vital records. The Seattle man holds a 20- year lease and special use per mits from the Great Northern Railroad Co. and U. S. Forest Service with a special renewal clause. The tunnel is 2.63 miles long, -16 feet wide and 21 and one-half feet high. 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