Floods; tSDizzaiirdls Iflireata'' Europe;
AoieirDiDaoii Tiroops Seadloedl for GSesciuie
London U.R) American
commanders in Europe alerted
VS. troops to be prepared for
mass rescue and evacuation
operations today in the face of
' threatening floods in several of
the continent's mightiest rivers.
Since Saturday at least 25 per
sons have died in the severe
storms buffeting Europe. -
All three German-based squad
rons of the U.S. Air Force's Air
, Rescue Service went on a stand
by alert at midnight on basis of
reports - that European rivers
were rising dangerously to lev-
' els near those of last year s dis
astrous floods.
Serious Threats
Serious floods were threaten
ing in the Rhine, Danube, Seine
and the Saar. .
Sailors of the U.S. Navy's
Rhine River patrol readied res
cue boats and stockpiled sand
bags. ,
The Rhine was reported al
ready out of its banks in many
places and was lapping at the
foundations of the West Ger
man ' Parliament building at
Bonn. : .
" The U.S. Army's Southern
Area Command headquarters at
Munich dispatched the 54th En
gineer battalion with 700 sand
bags to shore up a dike at Er-
bach, - Germany. And .the 93rd
VS. Bridge company was called
out to rescue three Germans
from an , isolated -house near
Ulm.
New blizzards swept Northern
Europe in the wake of rains,
snows and heavy thaws which
sent rivers up to danger levels.
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Seven vessels radioed distress
messages off Northwest Europe
in storms at sea so severe that
even the huge American Liner
United States had to slow down
and delay its arrival in South
ampton by 24 hours. It had been
due tomorrow from New York
with 404 passengers aboard.
In Britain, airplanes trying to
supply Scottish communities
which have been cut off from
four to six days by snowdrifts
were grounded by heavy new
snowstorms.
In France scores of Burgundy
villages were isolated by flood
ing streams. . ;
London itself was recovering
from a black Sunday of 'destruc
tion which brought an "end of
the world" scare to parts of the
city.
. A freak smog blotted out the
sun and turned London's mid
afternoon light to the darkness
of night. , : ";
During the five-minute black
out a bearded man stalked the
streets of suburban ::, Croydon,
shouting "the end of the world
is nieh." Women fell on their
knees to pray and thousands of
frightened mothers hurried their
children into doorways.
A f our-engined British Over
seas Airways Viscount passenger
plane crashed in the gloom at
London airport on takeoff but
only, the pilot and an American,
Willard Irle of Lakeville, Conn.,
were injured.
Bill To Permit
Appeals Planned
Salem (U.R) - Decisions of
state administrative boards 'can
be appealed to the district courts
under a bill slated for introduc
tion into the legislature here this
week. . . .
Exempted in the bill is the
state industrial accident com
mission. The proposal has the blessings
of the Oregon State Bar Associa
tion and will be sponsored by the
house judiciary committee.
The bill has been named the
Administrative Procedures Act.
It sets up standard general rules
for administrative bodies, but
will be flexible enough to allow
boards and commissions to make
secondary rules pertinent to
their work.
Under the present law, some
agencies allow the right to ap
peal, but from others, there, is
only the right of review.
The new bill would allow an
appeal to be filed in either the
county where the petitioner
lives or in Marion county.. The
appeals could be made to a cir
cuit court and carried from there
to the Supreme court if desired.'
Another clause provides that
agencies .. shall provide for . a
hearing, after a reasonable no
tice,, over pending directives.
JAPAN JOLTED
Tokyo (U.R) The heavily
populated Tokyo-Yokohama area
of Japan was jolted sharply by
an earthquake early today. No
casualties .or serious damage
were reported.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United PrM Future Writer
Washington (U.PJ Speaker
of the House Sam Rayburn
pitched a hoe-down over the
weekend. '
m All of the in
vitations went
out special de
li v e r y to
wheels and a
lovely lady in
the press coop,
who w o u 1 d
just as soon
not be men
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she hails from
Harmon Nichols Texas.
Anynow, the - lady reporter
happens to Jive on a side street.
So what happens: At 10:30
the other night the Post Office
calls her and says it has a spec
ial delivery letter for her and
how the heck can the delivery
man find her house?
"Heavens," she says, "Don't
you have maps around there?"
The man on the nhone said
he had maps but even a map
didn't help. - v '
"But," the man said," we can
tell you what it is all about.
Sam Rayburn has invited you to
a party. We can read it rieht
through the envelope." , .
The cover on the invite was
transparent. It finally was de
livered and the happy ladv re
porter show up, dressed fit to
kill.
lynite Ag committee member
bragged that he was a "window
box" farmer: What he raised, it
turned out, was petunias.
A full-size electric eel eight
feet long and thick as a man's
leg can build up , a 600-volt
charge and release almost 1000
watts of power for a split sec
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The Burough of Brooklyn,
N.Y., at long last has a "dirt
farmer", on the House Agricul
ture committee. He is Democrat
Rep. Victor L. Anfuso, who owns
a plot of land outside the city
limits. Trees grow , there, just
like they do in Brooklyn, and
Anfuso also ' grows things that
can be eaten.
It's been a lone time since a
green Ihurrib from Brooklyn has
been on the Ag committe'e of the
House. '
There were a lot of Jokes
some time back when one Brook-
Lt. Col. Joseph J. Kapral of
Augusta, Ga., is sympathetic to
ward servicemen who are look
ing for a raise in pay. The colo
nel has retired after 29 years of
service. He was a private in the
old days and he had a system
for padding out his service pay,
which was $21 a month then.
His boss was a colonel, who own
ed a police dog a fine pedigreed
mutt, if there ever was one.
Whenever - Kapral got broke,
he now confesses, he would dog
nap the mutt. The owner always
put an ad in the camp newspap
er at Fort Myer.' "$10 reward,"
he always said. The owner did
not catch on for a , long, time,
paying reward after reward. The
owner was the. late Gen. George
S-Patton.
Some rather interesting new
bills .have been introduced in
the hew Congress. One would
authorize the President to issue
posthumously "in the name of
George Washington" a commis
sion as general of the armies.
. Another calls for a joint res
olution the fourth Saturday of
August of each year as "Chil
dren's Day in Sports." - ; . r
Yet another is a resolution in
the House to declare president
ial Inauguration day a legal hol
iday. All have been referred to pro
per committees.
VIRGINIA SHAKEN ..
Farmville, Va. (U.R) A slight
earthquake jarred buildings and
rattled windows in Central Vir
ginia today. The tremor occur
red at 7:37 a' m: It lasted from
three , to five seconds. There
were no reports of damage or
injuries. -
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. -Monday for
Monday: other da v 5:30 previous day.
Legislative Group
Of Chamber Holds
First '55 Meeting
.. The legislative committee of
the Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce met for the first time
in 1955 this morning. The com
mittee plans to have7:30 a. m.
breakfast meetings during the
current session of the state leg
islature. ; Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford
attorney and former legislator,
is chairman. This morning's
meeting was largely devoted to
assignment of members to sub
committees which will study var
ious types of legislation, and then
will report on individual bills
to the full committee.
To Present Policy
: A policy for committee action
will be adopted at next week's
meeting. It is expected to state
that. the committee will make
definite; recommendations only
on bills which have a general ap
plication to the over-all welfare
of this area. It was pointed out
this morning that specific bills
in which economic groups have
an ' interest could not logically
be, supported by the chamber as
a whole, - inasmuch as chamber
members represent all types of
businesses.
Bills on which the legislative
committee recommends action
will probably be referred to the
chamber's board of directors so
that the support ; or opposition
will be from the chamber as a
Whole.
Tells Problems
Bob Root, former member of
the house of representatives, this
morning discussed briefly 'the
problems facing the legislature
this year, pointing out that the
biggest problem to be solved is
a deficit ranging from $30,000,
000 to $60,000,000.
Hammarskjold Duped,
Nationalists Claim
Taipei, Formosa (U.R) An of
ficial Nationalist Chinese news
paper today called U. S. Secre
tary General Dag Hammar
skjold's recent save the fliers
trip to Peiping a "complete
farce."
'It seems Hammarskjold was
entirely outmaneuvered and out
smarted by the Peiping bunch,"
the Kuomintang Central Daily
News said. " ' - v
, "Mr. Hammarskjold, .who had
never . experienced the Commu
nists before, was duped by Pei
ing's sweet words," the news
paper said. "And the great pity
is that he himself does not know
it." , . - -
i The newspaper said it saw
little hope that Hammarskjold's
visit would lead eventually to
release of 11 U. S. airmen held
by the Red Chinese as spies.
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122,000 in Year
Salem (U.R) More than
122,000 convictions on traffic
charges were reported by Ore
gon courts during last, year to
the office of Secretary of State
Earl T. Newbry, he said today.
t The conviction . records, sub
mitted to licensing authorities
as required by law," are entered
in the files of individual drivers.
The information is coupled with
accident reports, to check how
well each driver is able to stay
out of traffic trouble over a pe
riod of time. . .v
. The licenses of 6962 drivers
were suspended during the year,
the majority on recommendation
of the courts or on conviction of.
serious traffic offenses for which
license suspension in mandatory.
Automatic Suspension . v
. Leading violation carrying the
automatic suspension penalty,
was driving while intoxicated,
which grounded 3110 drivers
during the yeaar. Driving with a
previously suspended or revoked
license brought further suspen
sion periods to another 1048 op
erators. Newbry said the convinctions
reported in 1954 represented an
increase of about 47,000 over the
preceding year but he added that
most of the gain was due to in
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TOO THOROUGH ;
Tulsa, Okla. 4U.R) Police de
cided today that a Collinsville
garbage collector was too eager
beaverish when it came to hur
rying . out his duties. . They ar
rested Doule W. Craghead, 47,
for carrying merchandise out of
a grocery store in a sack of meat
scraps.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon -Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day
Nationalist Guns
Cripple Red Ship
Taipeh, Formosa U.R) Na
tionalist guns firing from tiny
Yikiangshan : . in the Tachen
island group crippled a Commu
nist Chinese warships, the Na
tionalists announced today.
An official Ministry of Na
tional Defense communique did
not mention the size of the war
ship but said damage was heavy.
This was the only action re
ported in - the Tachen ; chain to
day. A subzero cold wave hit
ting the islands, some 250 miles
north of Formosa, brought fight
ing there to a virtual halt.
Nationalist warplanes spotted
Communist Chinese MIGs over
the Tachens Sunday but no dog
fights were reported.
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Normal, HI. U.R) Athletic
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time to pay for the cigars he
passed out to honor a blessed
event. He happily handed out
the stogies as Western . Illinois
State - college defeated Illinois
Wesleyan f or its first swimming
victory in 24 years.
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