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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wdneday. June 11, 19S2 rr??.mti - -"I v!7y r-" I , 1 BACKED BY TANKS, CN aoidlera are cleaning out North Korean prisoner compounds on Koje Island, segregating POWs Into smaller groups. These prisoners are being guarded preliminary to transfer to smaller compound after defiantly flying Communist flags. (International Soundphoto) Tourists Being Given View Of Infamous Paris Sewers Paris U.F) Intruders are de scending again into the sewers of Paris, fabled underground haunt of French cut-throats, grave robbers and inspiration of literary creations such as "The Phantom of the Opera." They are the vanguard of thousands of visitors who an nually peek at the dank rivers of death during half-hour tours con ducted in the summer months. The chief characteristic of sewer visitors is that they turn up their noses. This Is an evil world hiding misdeed and tragedy in 1,000 miles of tunneling, sporadically lighted by the flicker of torches as flat bottomed boats move slowly through the lowest stream of life. The price of admission is ten cents. Sewer Lore Fantastic The keepers of the sewers are some 800 inspectors who double as guides. Their collection of sewer lore is grisly and fantastic. Many of the strangest stories they tell are borne out by po lice records dating to before the French Revolution. Until about 80 years ago, the sewers were hideouts for some famous criminals. There they liv ed and fought among themselves. Gangs of cut-throats crept out by night, committed their deeds and then silently disappeared. Grave robbers and murderers at one time terrorized the city by tunneling from the sewers into the vast Pere-Lachaise cem etery. There are recorded cases of persons disappearing and their bodies showing up later in supposedly empty tomb vaults. During the uprisings of 1870 group of commune ' soldiers fled into the catacombs and sew ers and were never heard of again. Rats a Menace One of the major worries of the guides is that some reckles: member of a party will become separated from the group and fall prey to rats. During the Middle Ages, hordes of the ro dents came out- of the sewers, spreading disease and attacking animals and humans during famine years. Tours enter the sewers at the Place de la Concorde, right at the spot where the guillotine chopped heads during the French Revolution. The exit is a man hole alongside the Madeleine church. For the most part, principal sewers follow the streets above them and are marked with the same names, like the Rue de la Paix and the Champs-Elysees. "We have more sights under ground than they do 'up there. but tourists can't visit most of them." claimed one of the guides proudly. "We have a pit twice as deep as the Eiffel Tower is high and over on the left bank arc the catacombs with 5,000,000 skeletons." . -. Scientists estimate that the earliest Indian occupation in the San Francisco Bay region may have been abou J500 years ago State YFW Official Will Visit in Valley W. J. Ashworth, Portland, state commander of the Veter ans of Foreign Wars, will visit in the Rogue valley next week, local VFW officials said today. He will be accompanied here by his wife, who is state president of the VFW ladies auxiliary, and Paddy Moran, Portland, VFW hospital coordinator. They are scheduled to attend a meeting of District 7, VFW, Sun day afternoon at the Rogue Riv er VFW hall. Monday the state officials will visit the veterans domiciliary center at Camp White, and on Tuesday Ash worth will attend a regular meeting of Crater Lake post No. 1833 at the post's Medford club rooms. Posts taking part in the Dis trict 7 meeting Sunday at Rogue River will include Medford. Ash land, Shady Cove, Central Point, Gold Hill, Camp White, Rogue River, Grants Pass, Glcndale, Cave Junction and Brookings. May Weather Said 'Nearly Average' Weather conditions during May were "nearly average," ac cording to the Medford weather bureau's monthly review, pub lished today. Only exception was fairly heavy precipitation during the first of the month. Total monthly rainfall was 1.27 inches, or .17 of an inch above normal. The greatest rainfall on any day was .61 of an inch on the ,7th. The latter part of the month was dry and warm, which serv ed well for hay curing, but caus ed unirrigated pastures and low er ranges to suffer, the report said. A hailstorm was reported on the 12th, causing some damage to young fruit, although the storm was not general over the valley. Light orchard heating for very short periods ' was neces sary on the 9th and 15th, the re port stated. Warmest temperature was 92 degree on the 27th; coldest was 35 degrees on the 5th; CARS COLLIDE Cars driven by Allan E Wytcherlcy, 53, route 1, box 514, Talent, and Betty Lee Reedy, 26, of 981 Park street Ashland, collided near the Tal ent junction on Highway 99 yest erday afternoon, state police re ported. Both cars received con siderable damage, but no one was injured, the police report said. It added that Wytcherley was cited for driving with a re voked driver's license. Since World War II, coffee imports for Great Britain are handled by the Ministry of Food. Air Ambulance Has 64th Patient The Stinson air ambulance operated by Mercy Flights, Inc., carried the firm's 64lh patient today. The plane left here at 8:20 a. m., and was expected to return this afternoon. Jack Edmonds was the pilot. The patient was a woman be ing taken to Chico. Calif., for possible surgery. She was ac companied by members of her family. A subscriber to the non-prof-fit firm's pre-paid plan, the patient had let her subscription expire May 31. However, she was carried without charge to d a y because the officers of Mercy fights have declared a 15-day grace period for expir ing subscriptions. Those which were due to ex pire May 31 will remain in force until June 15. About two thirds of the subscriptions ex piring in May have been re newed, it was reported Early Indian inhabitants of the "sky city" of Acoma, in Western New Mexico, carried earth from the plain 357 feet below to the 70-acre mesa top, planting peach trees about their homes. Portland Woman, 30'Killed in Accident Klamath Falls (U.PJ Mrs. Rose May Wilson, 30, of Port land, was killed and five other persons were injured when her north-bound car struck a trailer under tow of a south-bound transport truck Wednesday. Her four-year-old son. Glenn, was taken to a Klamath Falls hospital in serious condition with a head injury. Her hus band, James, 30. and three other children, Fred Mason. 2: Linda Mason, 3; and 15-year-old Char nett Easley of San Francisco al so were hospitalized but were not seriously injured. The accident occurred on highway 97 about 50 miles north of here. The driver of the truck was not hurt, although his vehicle skidded off the highway after the mishap. During coal mining operations in Alameda county. California many years ago, ancient plant fossils were found. TRACK RECORD DISALLOWED Oconomowac, Wis. (U.FO Joseph Sydow, 23, did the mile in about two minutes flat on the cinder path at Roosevelt field. He was fined $5 for doing it the wrong way driving his car on the track. Ftifwr's 0y June 1J, 1952 MtDfOtO-J FINEST MEN'S JTOf ( MAIN AT CfNTIAl V FOR M A DAT A i r T . (. ,v. ; -XT 3 : m Jf i Deed line on Classified Adi: 5 30 pm. for fol lowing day. 10 in. Mon day; noon Saturday lor a una ay a MAKE DAD HAPPY ON DAD'S DAY! TAKE HIM TO THE WHAT'S ON YOUR LIST OF NEEDED Home Improvements? 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