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- - ... CRASH SETS STREET ABLAZE Firemen's helmets Be on sidewalk where they fell in ' spectacular intersection crash in Newburgh, N. Y., involving this fire engine and fuel tank truck. Blazing oil from the tanker set fire to seven parked cars. The truck driver was killed and six firemen were injured. The firemen were on their way to another fire. City-Financed Parking Facilities One Way To Solve Traffic Problem Editor's note: This is the third In a aeries on how American cities are meeting their staggering postwar traffic problems. By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN United Press Correspondent New York U.RJ Every city from Boston to Los Angeles is bursting at the seams with auto mobiles, and next to keeping them all moving the big prob lem is what to do with them when they're parked. The' City of Pittsburgh needs 27,000 parking spaces to accom modate the number of motorists who drive into the business district every day. Bight now there are about half that many available. Two Bitter Pilli ' All major U.S. cities are in the throes of a postwar traffic jam. It is more acute m some than in others. But a 20-city sur vey by United Press indicates car owners may have to swal low two bitter pills. before the parking dilemma is cleared up; 1. More motorists will have to leave their cars .at home and ride buses, .trains and trolleys downtown. .. 2. The era of pulling over to the curb and parking is ending in crowded business districts. Even the parking meter has out lived - its usef ullness on streets where every foot of space is needed for moving traffic. Can't Handle Demand Since the end of World War II city planners have realized that curbside parking and pri vately owned parking lots and garages cannot begin to handle the tremendous demand for city parking ' space. City financed parking facilities are the only way out. Chicago has approved a $50,- 000,000 bond issue to finance parking lot construction. Cleve land has authorized $3,000,000 for off-street parking facilities and the mayor is asking for $4, 000,000 more. Detroit is considering a $15,- 540,000 municipal parking sys tem involving seven garages and six lots. Boston is spending $10,- 000,000 on municipal parking facilities and officials say this will "pretty nearly" fill the de mand. Pittsburgh set up a "public INSURED INVESTMENTS Investments made by the 1Gh of the month earn - divi dends as of the First. 27 1 parking autority" five years ago to try to increase storage capa city in its "golden triangle" downtown area. Two garages were opened two years ago, a third as just completed, and a six-story underground garage will open soon. Parking engineers also recog nize that part of their job lies in diverting cars to parking spaces outside the main business areas. Detroit's Department of A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington (U.RJ A man in California "was found guilty of "litterbugging." That is, throw l n g things out of his car and messing up the country side. In his case, it was empty beer cans. The untidy character was sen tenced to (1) pick up all beer cans along a quar Herman Jfichol ter mile of highway and (2) sit in the jailhouse for 28 days. That is the sort of thing that prompted a lot of folks, including the American Automobile Asso ciation, state legislatures, and of ficials to. form Keep America Beautiful. Inc. Boy Scouts have gotten into the act. They have adopted a creed: "I will treat the great out doors as a heritage to be' im proved for our greater enjoy ment." ; . v Waterproof Sacks The Girl Scouts have gone along with this, too, and pledge themselves to keep trash and garbage out of America's waters, fields, woods and roadways. . The "litterbag" thus came' into being and is being distributed around the country. It is a water proof little sack, distributed by the AAA and others. 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NICHOLS Feature Writer one I saw came from the Inland Automobile Association, which distributed it in cooperation with the Spokane Daily Chronicle. There is a big sign on the out side of the waxed bag. It says: "This is your trash bag. Please use it as a container for your waste paper, tin cans, bottles and other debris." Where To Put It There is some other literature. It suggests that if you are travel ing you can deposit the bag in garbage cans when you stop for lunch along the highways. Or find a can where it can be dumped at motels, or gas sta tions. Never on the highway. A lot of communities already have joined the drive. Newspapers, like the Los An geles Mirror and others have printed editorials charging that J "terbugs are messing up the roads again.1 The New York Herald Trib une titled its piece "For a Clean er America." Tour of Redwoods My first tangle with the anti litterbuggers came a little while back when I took a motor trip across the country with Mike Frome and Jerry Fisher, a cou ple of much traveled gents who work of the AAA. ' Neither - of them had any license to tell me what to do, but they were all over me from coast to coast. - Going through the redwood 2-9147 m DAs, Sheriffs Pick New Officers, Ask Law Clarification Portland U.R)M. Keith Wil son of Wallowa county was elect ed president of the Oregon State District Attorneys Association and Allen E. Birch of Tillamook county was named head of the Oregon State Sheriffs Associa tion Friday at final sessions of their annual conventions here. Ask Law Clarification The district attorneys adopted resolutions calling for strength ening and clarifying certain laws and amending the statute gov erning district court judges and justices of the peace so they can levy penalties and fines over the present maximum. The sheriffs-recommended a law licensing and regulating second-hand dealers, junk deal ers and auction operators doing business outside city limits. The law officers also want an amend ment to the law concerning writ ing a check without sufficient funds. McMillin Elected Other officers named by the district attorneys were Max L. McMillin of Josephine county, vice-president; James K. Gard ner of Washington county, secretary-treasurer, and Kenneth Abraham of Hood River county, executive board member. The sheriffs elected Tom El liott of Lake county, vice-president, and Richard Busch of Washington county, secretary-treasurer. BPA To Double Power Output Seattle (U.R) The Bonne ville Power Administration will market double the present kilo watt output within the next six years, BPA Administrator Wil liam A. Pearl said here Friday. Pearl, addressing 80 members of the Washington Public Utility Districts association at their an nual meeting said 6,200,000 kilo watts of federal power will be distributed in the Northwest by 1960. He said power from existing federal dams and those under construction should meet normal load growths of public agencies through 1965. "If the government's power supply seems to be insufficient to meet all requirements of pre ference customers, we will notify them five years in advance, giv ing the public agencies time to find other sources of genera tion," Pearl said. . groves of California, both jumped on me for flicking cig arette ashes out of the window of the car. "Might set a forest on fire," came the chorus. - Once I pitched the butt end of a hot dog out of the window and had to fight it out with my friends. I had to admit Ihat maybe I was cluttering up the scenery. He re's Our... jgiggrgl On These Automatic Washers NOW ON CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Factory SERVICE Al Olufsen, Service Manager City Appliance, Inc. MEDFORD'S EXCLUSIVE HOTPOINT DEALER ' 127 No. Central - Phone 3-5743 Housewife Tackles Escaping Burglar Portland U.R) Cecil Madison Meyers, 46, was in jail under $3000 bend Satur day on a burglary charge after a housewife stopped his get away with a flying tackle. Police said the Richard Sloops returned io their apart ment Friday night to find Meyers prowling their rooms. He fled through a bedroom window, ran across the yard, but stumbled ' after taking a four-foot drop from the yard to the sidewalk. It was then that Mrs. Sloop threw her fly ing tackle, dropping Meyers in his tracks. Sloop told police radios, clocks and jewelry had been gathered near a rear door. Personal articles worth about $58 were found on Meyers by police. Secretary of Navy Says Blockade of Red China Possible Washington (U.R) "Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas said Saturday in answer to ques tions about blockading Commu nist China that the U. S. Navy can carry out "any assignment that isgiven to it." He repeated that statement six times when asked on the CBS radio program "Capitol Cloakroom" if the Navy could carry out an "effective block ade" of Red China. Up To President , Thomas emphasized that any decision to blockade China would be up to President Eisen hower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland has urged such a blockade in an effort to force China to free 13 Americans sentenced to prison on what the State department called "trumped-up" spy charges. t . Mr. Eisenhower, however, said earlier this week a block ade would be an act of war and he was not ready to give up ef forts to settle any differences with the Reds by peaceful means. Could Be Combination Thomas said he thought any blockade, if ordered, would be a "combination- Navy and air" blockade whether it applied to China or another, area. He added "it could be Naval and Naval Air." Asked if a China blockade would stop trade with China completely, he said the question of stopping "everything" was "pretty technical? and "I don't think you could stop everything, on a very large coast line." But he reiterated that "as I think the Navy is in such con dition that it can carry out any assignment that is given to it" WEATHER By United Press- . Northern California: Morning fog in valleys; rain spreading southward into central Calif or-. nia Sunday. Model LH2 Reg; $269.95 Trained Sunday, December S, 1954 Medford Rural Fire The annual election for the Medford - Rural Fire Protection district will be held 'Monday, with a poll open from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Oak Grove school. , ' Two vacancies on the board of directors will be filled.-Harper K. Hamilton is the only candi date for a one-year unexpired term. He is how serving under appointment Mrs. Charlotte E. Fogelquist is a candidate for election to a five year term. She also has been serving under ap pointment. Also to be decided is a pro posal to include Hillcrest orchard within the boundaries of the dis trict. Other Members Holdover members of the board are V. O. Walker, J. A. Neff and Carl W. Norris. G. W. Kellington is attorney for the district. . . The district has a contract with the Medford fire depart- New Chemical Takes I' Dust From Negatives Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) A chemical that wipes dust, finger prints, and scratches from photo negatives, soon will be available. The chemical, a silicone called refr&tasil, will be on the market in a few months, according to the General Electric Corp. It washes dust from a negative when flushed across the surface, dissolves oily fingerprints by a detergent action and fills the valleys in the scratches. 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