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6 Claude Haggard's Electric Safely Talk Due Friday Claude C. Haggard, director of safety for the California-Oregon Power Co., will make sparks fly at Southern Oregon college on Friday, March 25, to demon strate safe handling of electri- j city, which has become an in-! creasingly important hosehold medftm and now plays such a big part in our everyday lives. His demonstration will be given at the child safety con ference all day there. Haggard has received nation al recognition for his investiga tions into the effects of electric hock. His work has been aim ed at further reducing hazards. Thanks to safety precautions taken by power companies, total number of deaths from this cause in the United States is limited to less than one per cent of the approximate 90,000 acci dental deaths annually. Four Death Causes There are four general causes of death from electric shock, Haggard has pointed out; severe burning and damage to vital or gans, stopping of breathing, dis turbing the rhythm of the heart, and by indirect methods In which a mild shock may cause a person to become unbalanced and fall to his death. One of several demonstrations will be to show how a child flying a kite may be seriously injured if the kite comes In contact with a power line. Haggard's demonstration at Child Safety Conference is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. follow ing the luncheon. The confer ence will begin at 9 a.m. Friday with registration in the adminis tration building at Southern Oregon college and will continue throughout the day and evening. Other prominent speakers on the program are Dr. Harry F. Dietrich of Beverlv Hills, Law rence Beauchamp of Camas, Wash., and H. W. Heidenreich of Medford. i Pickin' Pears By SID HOLL1NGSWORTH The great game of baseball is In the twilight of its existence as the national sport, and some thing will have to be done by the owners to make it mora in viting to the players as well as the public. This is the gist of the discus sion held between two old tim ers of the game recently at Grants Pass. They were Frank White of Camp White, formerly with Cleveland, and Ken Wil liams, star outfielder of the St. Louis Browns for many years. Williams gave up baseball aft ri 16 year career in the Am erican league in 1930, and re turned to his home at Grants Pass. He started his career as one of the top outfielders of the day when baseball itself was tops. Looks About Same "Williams spends his time tak ing life as it comes, putting in his days at his place of business and at the Elks and Legion club. He doesn't do much to remind the town of his big league days. He looks about the same as he did when he led the league in ; batting lanky but now quite gray," White declared in com ' menting on his interview with Ithe star at his home where he j spent several days. "There is one thing certain : today, and that is that people don't have to go to the games. The tax is too heavy and there ;are other uses for their money. .They will have to make the game more attractive." ; This was the thought Williams .expressed to White. Concerning :the player angle, White said Ken : Williams was in agreement with Dale wood (even at "icebox temperatures"!) They'll Do It Every BUSMER.TrlE ROOKIE VV & V L HE DON'T VfSNflli ! BALLPLAYER, LIVED QTj jLjfc ( J f W ( KNOW WWEKl J dangerously wtwout -&fZA?r Tt QUrr' V fc Tmem comes r'7&-& &V( u-LLBZO r0-t-M- GuroFTMlYoWs, fi JIM STEVENS 2g Polec and Poultry ... One of the most cheering newspaper pictures that these old eyes have looked at in many a day simply shows Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwell of Lacomb, Linn county, Oregon, and a plain pole of their new poultry house all together. They look happy indeed, and they should, for with home grown poles and shakes they have built themselves a poultry building 1,600 feet square equip ped to house 400 hens, at a money outlay of less than $600. The picture appears in that fine journal, "The Oregon Far mer," with an article that states the Cornwells could not have made a start with poultry this year, had it not been for mat- News and Notes From Camp White him regarding the need for in centives, from a monetary stand point, for young players, as well as a greater interest on the part of the clubs in furthering their careers. Suggests Change White, a scout for many years, stated that such conditions as the refusal to permit the signing up of high school players with promise before they graduate from school should be changed. "They will have to give these youngsters more money, other wise they will continue to work at jobs that pay them more than baseball, while they are waiting to advance to big league status," White says. He and Williams are in agreement on this point. "They've got to do something for the kids or there won't be any big leagues as we knew them," he declared. Williams is now in his 60's and looks back on 10 years of high caliber playing the outfield for the Browns. He started with Cincinnati in 1915 and finished with Boston in 1929. He was out of the game in 1917 with the Army. A -glance at his record shows that he batted over .300 every year from 1918 on, with the ex ception of 1926 when he drop ped to .280. In the year he left Boston his average was .346, one point below his high mark of .347 in 1921. REAPPOINTED Salem U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson said today he has re appointed Charles H. Reynolds of La Grande as a member of the State Highway commission. His three-year term begins April 1, and ends March 31, 1958. is easy to spread, Time tllinlHWKI. erials, plans, and "do-it-our-selves" ability to employ pole frame construction with some good technical assistance and neighborly aid. Oregon State College Agri cultural Engineer L. W. Bon nicksen was the technician who lent a hand, and neighbors who wanted to see pole-frame con struction in the raw turned out to help string the rafters. The Home Treatment . . . No pole for a building that OSC engineers have anything to do with is going to escape some brand of preservative treatment. They prefer the pressure treat ment, of course. But in cases where it is built at bedrock cost or not at all, they will cooper ate in a home brew deal. En gineer Bonnicksen and the Cornwells rigged up a double- barrel treating unit, sunk in the ground. There the poles were benta-soaked. A minimum grade of siding was nailed on the 2x8 inch Doug las fir rafters, under the "right use of the right grade in the right place" recommendations of the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation. Other lumber and shakes were salvaged from an ancient barn of the pioneers. Part of the Cornwell's ten acre farm is given to the grow ing of 2000 planted Douslas fir seedlings for the Christmas tree market. They are in three-foot cneck rows for easy cultivation. Pole Silo . . . The "Washington Farmer" also has a pole-frame building story in its current issue. It tells of a pole-tyne surface silo 20 feet wide which costs about $12 per lineal foot to build or from $6 to $7 per ton capacity. A silo of this type, built on Purdue University specifications with construction taking four working days for three men. would thus cost from $1200 to $1400. The job begins with trenching. tiling and pouring of concrete for silo floor and drainage with holes provided for the pole fram ing. Each pole is ten feet in length, with six-inch top, and pressure treated. Treated planks with tongue and groove provide the walls. Size of cilo ii ficureH on a basis of silage stacked from five to six feet high, then the width for each cow or steer. Then the length of the silo is calculated on the number of feeding days per season. For self-feeding a pole is plac ed across the top of the silo, with a gate hung by chain or heavy wire. Plans mav be secured from Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., for 25 cents. NOW ONLY 22 By Jimmy Hatlo Gas Explosion Kills Italian Coal Miners Morgano, Italy (U.R) A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine near this hilltop village 50 miles north of Rome today. Authorities at the scene esti mated 22 persons were killed, 16 injured and three missing. The explosion, the worst since a blast in the Riboila coal mine killed 42 last May, brought death to nearly every family in this village of 400 persons. Crying women and grim men kneeled or stood with bowed heads at the entrance of the mine as more than 100 police and scores of miners and vol unteers dug for survivors and the bodies of the dead. The blast took place at about 6:15 a.m. when workers of the second night shift were about to leave the pit. Miners descend ing into the mine to replace them brought out the first news of the disaster. RESCUED FROM GIRDER Detroit U.R) Jean Claude Simard, 23, was rescued from a girder 80 feet above the traffic level of the Ambassador bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont. Simard was booked for il legal entry into the United States. Canterbury TEA Relax with a cup of Canter bury! Notice that golden amber color sunshine in a cup! Taste that lively, brac ing flavor . . . feel Canter bury's bright refreshment bring new vigor and life. 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