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Swimming Classes Registration Set From June 18 to 21 Registration dates for the Hawthorne park pool swimming instruction program were an nounced today by Park Director Darell Huson. Those interested in taking the instruction may enroll between 8 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, through Saturday, June 21, he said. The classes will get un derway on Monday, June 23, and will be held on Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays. First ser ies of the program will conclude on July 16. Minimum age limit is 8 years. By City The program this year will be conducted by the city alone, but will be up to Red Cross stand ards. Teachers will be Dick Camden and Phil Sanders. They are Qualified American Red Cross instructors. Red Cross cer tificates will be issued to those who pass course. There will be classes for non swimmers, intermediates and swimmers. An adult class is planned if interest is sufficient. All instruction will be in the morning. Lessons will be 30 mtn utes each. Fee for the series of 10 les ' sons will be $2 for children and $3 for adults, Huson said. Another series is contemplat ed after July 16. Phoenix Police Chief Resigns Phoenix Curt Fisher, Phoe nix police chief, has resigned, effective July 1. The resignation was submitted to a special coun cil meeting last Friday, called to consider the coming budget hearing and election, June 23 and 24. In his resignation statement to the council, Fisher said, in part, "Due to the general rise in living costs I find it impossible to continue on the salary offer ed, and I am resigning to accept other employment." "... It is with deep regret that I do this and I wish at this time to express my thanks to the mayor, recorder, city council and especially to the police com mittee who have cooperated with me in all things to the full est extent. I also wish to say at this time that I have enjoyed very much working with Judge Frank DeSouza. and also wish to express my thanks to him for ''the cooperation he has given to the police department." Fisher has been police chief for six months and prior to that was a city councilman. He was coordinator of the 1952 Phoenix May festival and as past presi dent of the Lions club at Phoe nix. The council has no appli cants in mind as yet for the post, according to the City Recorder, Mrs. Marie Fisher. Prior to Fisher's resignation, Mrs. Fisher announced that she was takina a three-month's leave of absence beginning July 1. She has no plans made as yet on what she will do after her leave Is up. Foots Creek Foots Creek Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Krouse were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Humphrey and daughter. Phyllis: Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. J. Koepke and son and daughter, and Mrs. Nellie Lohman of Ray mondvllle, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crlmmel had as guests last week Mr. and Mrs. Maure Verrant of Long Beach. Calif. Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Knight and daughter of Talequah, Okla were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Frantz. The E. A. T. Hobby club held it regular luncheon meeting I Thursday at the home of Mrs. it , S. Frantz. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Miller spent the week end visiting their son and family at Portland, ana their daughter and family at Sa lem. R. E. Cook returned home June 14 from a weeks' visit with relatives at Oakland. Calif. He was accompanied by his daugh ter, , Mrs. Floyd Lance and son, Bob of Gold Hill. Arlen Fitzgerald of Ashland spent last week here with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daily. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McLal len with Mrs. George W. Lance visited Sunday, June 15 with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Snelling at Glendale. ARGENTINA GETS SNOW Buenos Aires (U.R) Heavy snowfalls blanketed most of southern and western Argentina Tuesday. A cold wave has chill- i ed the country for more than three weeks. ' ' Many Americans who use them regularly every day have never bought a match. They are among the more than 60,000, 000 smokers who receive free book matches at a rate of more than 1.000,000 books of 20 mat ches each every hour with to bacco purchase. Juvenile Detention Home Seen Feasible; Desirability Debated John Schapps, director of the western office of the National Probation and Parole association, last night told the Jackson Coun ty Juvenile Court Advisory com mittee that establishment o-' a Juvenile detention home here is "feasible," but that a decision as to whether it should or should not be constructed is up to the community and its leaders. Schapps made a preliminary survey of detention needs at the request of the committee and of the groups which it represents more than 30 organizations and agencies of the community. There was no charge for the sur vey, which is one of the "techni cal" services furnished by the NPPA, a non-profit group dedi cated to the improvement of penal methods and rehabilita tion. Three Questions His survey was based on three questions 1. whether there is a need for special Juvenile deten tion facilities separate from Jails: 2. feasibility of such a project, and, 3. the possibility of collabo ration in the Job with Josephine county. His work included inspection of jails and "tanks" in Jackson and Josephine counties, discus sions with police officers and in spection of their juvenile care statistics, and discussions with other community leaders, lay and professional. . He recommended a modest start on the project with the erec tion of a "family-type detention home, and pointed that Jose phine county needs some similar type of facility, and that a con tractual agreement of some sort might be worked out. He recommended against an expensive "institutional" type of project. Other Studies Seen Capacity of such a home would have to be worked out by a de tailed study of needs, and plans and specifications also were not within the scope of his prelimi nary survey, he said. The needs of detained youngsters in health, education and recreation should also be taken into consideration A discussion of his report fol lowed, with several members of the committee bringing up va rious points of view. District At torney Paul Haviland pointed out that under present costs, such a facility would probably cost a minimum of some $60,000, with probable operating costs of $25 000 or more yearly. He suggested that a more realistic approach would be to hire additional Ju venile officers to work with -par ents, and to prevent situations from arising where detention is necessary. He also said that periods of de tention for youngsters ordinarily are not more than a day or two. and that with a remodeling fit a part of the jail, adequate faclli ties could be provided there. If such a proposed "family type' home were established, and were vacant many days each year (as Schapps figures indicated it Goosey New Director Rogue River District Rogue River In the infor mal atmosphere of the school li brary. Monday evening, 145 vo ters chose Leonard Goosey director of district 35, over his opponent, Roy Milton, by a vote of 86 to 58. Prior to Milton's arrival about 8 o'clock, it ' repeatedly stated he would not accept the office. Polls were open from 7 to 9 p. m. and voters wrote their own ballots. The question of contracting $4200 to be included in the school budget for 1952-53, as capital outlay, for the purpose of installing lights on the ath letic field, carried by a vote of 91 to 56. R. C. Gail, retiring board member, stated this spec ial levy will Increase taxes ap proximately $2.80 per thousand assessed valuation. BIRTHS SMITH To Mr. and Mrs. Ed win, Rt. 2, Box 46S, June 15, 1952, a boy, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. WILKINSON To Mr. and John, Shady Cove, June 15, 1952, a girl, 6Vs lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. ODEAR To Mr. and Mrs. Ern est, Jacksonville, June 12, 1952, a boy, 5V4 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. WIESE To Mr. and Mrs. William, 620 South Oakdaie ave-: nue, June 13, 1952, a boy, 7Vi lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. Use Mali Tribune Want Ads FURNITURE WANTED For Auction Buy Anything Used In Home, Including Tools or Guns Bring Cosh In 20 Minutes PHONE 3-2939 Buyer, Den Money might be), Haviland said It would be an unwarranted use of tax payers money. Comments "Heartening" Schapps commented that it was "heartening" to hear a pros ecuting officer state that addi tional juvenile workers are need ed, but said that he feels deten tion facilities can offer construc tive solutions to juvenile prob lems which jails, by their very nature, cannot. He granted that per capita cost would be high, but also stated that it would be Ni J 1 Si SOUGHT California police were alerted to pick up Mrs. Virginia LeTourneau, 28, (left) and 17-year-old high school senior James Sherwin (right), missing from their Burbank, Cal., homes. They are believed to have eloped. Reds' Anti Germ Warfare Propaganda Campaign Seen As Apparently By JACK JAMES (United Press Staff Correspondent Hong Kong (U.R) Bacterio logical warfare charges against the United Stales have been giv en tvp priority in the interna tional propaganda program of the Chinese Communists. There is every indication that it is suc cessful from their point of view. Specific rebuttal from top western scientists and from China's most famous epidemic fighter, Dr. Wu Lien-teh, has not stopped or even embarrassed the Chinese propagandists. Their campaign is still but tressed with exhibits which have been proved "fabricated," de scriptions of methods which have been called Ineffective, and by statements that are consider ed questionable at best. Spread to West The campaign is not confined to China and North Korea. It has been endorsed by such western scientists as Frederic Joliet Curie. It has been supported by published findings of such orga nizations as the International Commission of Democratic Law yers, and the "commission to in vestigate the American crime of germ warfare." A recent release of New China News Agency said that "all stu dent organizations and science institutes in the world" were re ceiving "documentation and evi dence on the use of bacteriologi cal warfare." This propaganda program was sponsored by the International Union of Students, which has a branch in China. Science organizations in China have written letters of ap peal to similar groups in Europe and America, asking them to protest the alleged use of bacter iological warfare methods in Korea. The fact that western scientists have discredited the charges as "fabricated" brings only a counter statement that such rebuttal could be expected from "imperialist" scientists. One of the most recent phases Live In Beautiful New WESTSIDE HEIGHTS Choose your lot now for a choice loca tion, each lot ha several large fruit trees. The streets are being paved, sidewalks, sewer and city water will be on each lot Stop by our office and look over floor plans or bring your own plan. We will build you a home just the way you want it built. FHA or conventional loan. For Further Information or Appointment Call Office 2-2356 from 8 to 5. Evenings 3-3838 D. A. PARKER BUILDER AND OWNER money spent in prevention ol crime, and would pay for itself in the long run. The committee voted to accept Schapps' report, and to appoint a sub-committee to study it and recommend the next steps to be taken by the larger group. If additional studies are deem ed necessary, the committee would conduct them with the as sistance of the NPPA, which would offer its services on a less- than-cost basis. (See story on Page 1) At1 l- Successful of the campaign has been publi cation of "depositions" from two U.S airmen captured by Com munist troops after being shot down over North Korea. The two men, first lieutenants Ken neth K. Enoch and John Quinn purportedly attended a special school in germ warfare methods and carried out raids over North Korea. The earliest bacteriological at tack described by Communist propaganda agencies prior to the purported confessions of Quinn and Enoch occurred Feb. 24 in North Korea. Quinn was captur ed on January 13, Enoch on Jan uary 30, The Communists are leaving no method or medium unused in this campaign. Recorded "con fessions" of both Quinn and Enoch have been played over Radio Peiping. Every organiza tion in China from science groups to peasants associations has issued statements condemn ing the alleged use of germ war fare tactics. Charges Endorsed The American-edited China Monthly Review, still published in Shanghai, has printed articles endorsing the charges. Another magazine, China Reconstructs, slick-paper bi-monthly designed for overseas readers, has also ac cepted the charges Without reser vation There is evidence that the charges are being Increasingly accepted abroad. Trades Union delegations from western coun tries who visited' Peiping for May Day celebrations were all conducted through the exhibit of dead insects and broken bombs which has been prepared In Peiping Visitors to Moscow's recent "International Economic Confer ence" who continued on to China also saw the exhibit. California mills produced 29, 937,000 barrels of Portland ce ment valued at $79,000,000 in 1951. Scientific Meetings Slated at Corvallis Corvallis (U.R) The Am erican association for the Ad vancement of Science, Pacific Division, scheduled 12 scientif ic meetings here Tuesday and a general session Tuesday night In the biggest scientific meeting ev er held in Oregon. The six-day symposium of the association and its 17 membi-r organizations opened on the Ore gon state college campus Mon day. John A. Day, Oregon State physics Instructor, told a na tional meeting of the American Meteorological society that his studies showed that Portland never would have the air pol lution problem prevalent in Los Angeles because of natural topo graphical and geographical ad vantages. WHAT DID HE WANT? Bauvals, France (U.R! Rob ert Brusf, a 51-year-old shep herd, stabbed his wife Tuesday because she had not prepared him a large enough meal. The meal consisted of a steak and six eggs. Roald Amundsen's Vessel Shown at San San Francisco (U.R) A voy age of exploration which began in 1903 has never ended, at least to the romantic who is willing to use his imagination. On the beach of San Fran cisco's Golden Gate Park, her bow some 200 yards from the boiling surf at the entrance of the park, lies the world-famous schooner Gjoa, Capt. Roald Am undsen s 47-ton craft which car ried him over the top of North America through the "North west Passage" in 1905. How the former Norwegian fishing boat, elevated to the glory of a ship of exploration ranking with Henry Hudson's Half Moon or Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind, came to rest on San Francisco's rocky shore is a little-known story. Just Small Boat Small by modern standards, the Gjoa was 70 feet long, had a beam of 21 feet 6 inches and a draft of nine feet one inch. When she pulled out of Oslo, Norway, in 1903, she carried 313 square yards of canvas on her two masts and Jibs. - To guard against becalming, Amundsen had installed an auxi liary kerosene engine of 13 horsepower. Other than that her gear was essentially the same as when she joined the Norwegian fishing fleet in 1872. In this craft, which would make a good sized lifeboat on a modern ocean liner, Amundsen and Ills crew set out on a voyage above the Arctic Circle, through waters never before cut by a ship's keel. It was a voyage that was destined to come to an end three years later at San Fran cisco. ' After traversing the northern straits, the Gjoa entered the Pa cific Ocean and headed toward southern waters on the voyage home. Ironically, after travers ing unknown waters to the north, the ship nearly came to disaster off the Golden Gate. There she encountered a raging NOW! 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