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TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. April 22. 1952 irrigation District Officials Seeking Dam Repair Aid Grants Pass Two Grants Pass Irrigation district officials are flying to Washington, DC. this week, to support their re quests for federal aid in the re habituation of Savage Kapids dam. Victor BochI, president, and William F. Johnson, attorney for the district, were authorized to make the trip after Boehl had been told via telefhone from Washington that the Department of Interior's budget is facing "hard sledding," according to the Grants Pass Courier. Repairs Needed The dam was put in shape for the 1952 Irrigation year on Sat urday, Boehl reported, but the hydraulic-gate system, built 32 years ago, has deteriorated, and only 2 of the 16 gales could be raised this year. Thirteen gates have been closed by timbers, he said. The north end of the dam has been undercut, and is in need of repair, he added. Estimated cost of the rehabili tation was recently estimated by the Army engineers at $687,000, plus $207,000 for turbine-intake screens. An application for the rehabilitation funds was made to the bureau of reclamation for a reimbursable loan for the re habilitation, and Boehl was told that the proposal has been turn ed down. Recreation Building Ban May Be Lifted Washington (U.R) National Production Authority officials said Tuesday the ban on build ing amusement and recreation projects may be lifted this sum mer or fall. They said no final decision has been reached and the action may be postponed if the demand for materials for "more Import ant" types of commercial con struction proves bigger than now indicated. AT LEAST 28 PERSONS DIE IN CRASH All that remains of the North Continent Air lines C-46 after it crashed in the Puente Hills near Los Angeles. The non-scheduled airliner, flying from New York to Los Angeles, carried at least 28, possibly 30, persons to their deaths. Colorado Warden, Guards, Indicted Denver (U.R! Colorado State Penitentiary Warden Roy Best, former deputy warden Oran W. Doolen, and seven guards were under federal indictment Tues day, charged with violating the civil rights of convicts. A federal grand Jury, which spent more than a week investi eating the prison's operation handed down the indictment Monday, The indictment Included seven counts conspiracy and alleged beating and torturing of six prisoners who were flogged last July after an unsuccessful prison break in which two guards were wounded. Conviction on all seven counts would make the prison officials liable to seven years in prison and a fine of $7,000 or both. The indictment charged that the nine prison officials conspir ed under color of state law to coerce and obtain information, statements and confessions con cerning an alleged crime." " . . I I SMI . u - IOID IVHYWHIM...IUY TODAY! 1 NOW IN COLORS.?. AT REGULAR PRICES Girl Suffers Minor Hurts in Accident Kay Sutton, nine-yea r-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Sutton, 407 Beatty street, receiv ed minor injuries at about 6 p.m. Monday when the bicycle she was riding collided with a park ed car owned by Oliver Morton 10 West Jackson street, accord Ing to city police. A report filed by Morton slat e,d that the accident occurred near the intersection of Beatty and Lincoln streets. The girl is a fourth grade student at Lincoln school. Priest Tells of Long Questioning, Violence Hong Kong (U.R) A Catholic priest said Tuesday that the Chinese Communists forced him to undergo nine days of inces sant questioning and physical violence in an attempt to make him "confess" to spying and organizing an anti-Communist ring. Father Robert W. Greene, 41-ycar-pld Maryknoll priest from Jasper, Ind., told his story while recuperating from an ordeal that began with his arrest In October, 1950. At that time, he and two other priests, Fathers Gregory Gilmar tin, Waterbury, Conn., and Irwin Nugent, Dorchester, Mass., were placed under house arrest in Kwangsi. Fathers Nugent and Gllmartin were ordered to leave China in April-1951. Father Greene was formally arrested on April 3, 1952. Strike Series Threat Seen for NW Bakeries Seattle (U.R) A scries of strikes against Northwest bak eries seemed certain Tuesday unless current contract negotia tions are successful. Local officials of the Interna tional Bakery and Confectionery Workers union AFL from Wash ington, Oregon and Montana met here Monday. Frank Hoover, secretary of district 10 of the union, announced afterward that strike votes against em ployers in Tacoma, Portland and Spokane already have carried and that Seattle locals 23 and 9 will take strike votes next Sat urday. Hoover charged that employ ers have refused to discuss other issues until the work-week ques tion has been settled. He said the union had been making no progress in negotiations with employers. Most wholesale bread bak eries in Seattle, Spokane and Portland have been compelled to employ crews on Tuesday, although their plants are not in production on that day because of a conflict in union contracts. Out of tiic Woods By J'm fekets Wankesha, Wis. (U.R) Ar thur Healey, 64, swerved his car to avoid a crash with another and succeeded. He got out to sur vey the scene of the near miss, slipped on the ice, was run over by a passing truck and suffered a broken leg. Roller-Rink Slated As Scene of Wedding Wauconda, 111. (U.R) Dorothy Meyer, 19, and Harry Mussared, 22, who met and fell in love on roller rink, will leave for a roller skate wedding May 3. The justice of the peace who will perform the ceremony will wear skates, as will the couple, the maid of honor, three brides maids, best man, ringbearer, flower girl three ushers and an r.slimated 400 guests. King Market It was a fine, fresh morning of spring in Loquille. A sun upper from away back on the farm, I turned out with the truck loggers for an hour of hiking and gabbing around the streets before breakfast. There was no lack of company. Good words had with a gypo who was a na tive of Green Knob. Another, met as he warmed up his truck's motor, hailed from Tincup Creek. Men with the bark on, both. It happened that I sounded both loggers out on their inter est in the nation-wide market for the products of the West Coast log. Each man had an open mind and bright ideas on where and how the money made from log ging originates. Mr. Green Knob knew quite a bit about the national adver tising and trade promotion pro gram of the West Coast Lumber men's association. Mr. Tincup Creek knew enough about it to give it much credit for the fact that grades of logs which had not been salable for a hundred years had at last made the mar ket largely through West Coast lumber advertising of "utility grades" nationally. The night before, at a Co- quille Lions club dinner for log gers and lumbermen, I d met with this same awareness of King Market as the source of logging income, forestry costs, retail trade, wages, taxes and roads on the Oregon coast. Everywhere there was appreci ation of the part advertising has played in winning the favor ct' King Market throughout Amer. ica for the logging leftovers of the years of old yesterday's low-grades and culls. Boss Woodsman At the breakfast counter Ed Stanley joined me in hot cakes and ham steak, with a couple of eggs apiece for flavoring. Ed is a famous native of the Coquille country itself. Boss logger and lumberman, he is now in the popular business of skinning fir for plywood. In no time Ed was swearing by the holy old mackinaw that low-grade logs would still be choking up the West Coast cut overs if it hadn't been for na tional advertising and booklets telling how there was a right use for every cheap grade and item that a Douglas fir sawmill can turn out. "I've watched it work right here in Coquille," Ed declared. "At our mill we handed out leaf lets on how to build with the right lumber grades in the right place, to all comers, and they ate 'em up. Why, I tried them out and saved money myself!" Ten years ago I was around Coquille and Coos Bay for quite a spell without once hearing the national market for wood men tioned. Only a visionary or two in the West Coast Lumbermen's association at that time was dreaming of nation-wide lumber advertising. Now it is a famous fact up Tincup Creek and out around Green Knob. It is enough to flabbergast Paul Bunyan. My sunup hike took me to a favorite spot, the courthouse of Coos county; with its grove of myrtles and mighty oaks. The wood sidings of the old court house looked just as it had looked 10 years ago. I doubt if it has been painted since 1932. The paint is dingy but good. The later courthouse addition, like a nearby church, has stucco walls. Why and how did a desert country type of siding come to be chosen over native wood sid ing of a kind that had served so well in the old Coquille court house? Stucco is fine enough in a dry country but Coos county is not dry in any particular. The answer abides in adver tising and other forms of public information. Once the stucco pro ducers stood out in advertising and promotion. Nowadays the lumbermen are spending money to educate the folks at home as well as in California, Texas and New York on use of the right material in the right place. On our wet timber coast, wood is the right sidewall material. 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