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.
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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
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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.
Equal to Building
Lomen said the tunnel would
provide rental space equivalent
to a four-story building with an
overall space of 3,500,000 cubic
feet
We are living in an age
where storage of records with
absolute protection is vital, not
only for bombing, but against
fire, flood or any other disaster,"
Lomen said.
This tunnel plan is not a war
measure; government statistics
prove that a business that loses
its records by fire loses its blood
and brains."
Lomen said the conversion
work on the tunnel would cost
some millions of dollars" but
would not require the use of
steel. Papers would have to be
waterproofed before being
placed in the tunnel, he said.
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Bering, whose name was to be
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passage between Siberia and
Alaska. He did not suspect that
North America lay a few miles
off his beam.
Although freight car builders
turned out 110,229 cars during
a recent 16-month period, the
nation's fleet of freight cars in
creased by only a quarter of that
total. Worn-out freight cars had
to be retired.
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been so intensely cultivated for
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