SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, March 23, 1 955
Vicious Weather Leaves 43 Persons
Dead; Floods and Wind Bring Damage
By UNITED PRESS
Blizzards, winds and floods of
spring left thousands of persons
homeless and more than 40 dead
across the nation today. Damage
was counted in the millions of
dollars.
The young season's first storm
whipped into eastern Canada
after burying the Midwest under
a blizzard, sending wind storms
and tornadoes whistling through
the Ohio Valley, and unleashing
some of the worst floods in a
half century on the South.
,But a new major snow storm
roared into the Dakotas and
parts of eastern Wyoming early
today. There was six inches of
new snow in northern Wyoming
and winds were rising in the
area.
The floods, storms and cold
weather took at least 43 lives in
Flan of NationaBSst
Leader
Taipeh, Formosa U.R) Gen.
"Tiger" Wang Shu-Ming, Nation
alist Air Force commander, said
today he would recommend air
strikes against Communist main
land jet air bases now under con
struction when they become a
threat to Formosa.
Wang told United Press he
will urge the Taipeh government
to destroy Red China's air
strength before it can attack For
mosa or the offshore islands of
Quemoy and Matsu.
May Be Ready Soon
Wang said the Communists
may be ready within a month
to move jet planes into two re
constructed fields within easy
flying distance of Nationalist
China.
"As soon as they move in that
Sams Valley-Beagle
Soil District Meets;
Work Reports Given
George A. Loftin, Beagle, has
been reelected to a three-year
term on the board of supervisors
for the Sams Valley-Beagle Soil
Conservation district.
Loftin was reelected at the
district's annual meeting, held
this week at Eagle Point Grange
hall.
The board will reorganize at
the next regular meeting of the
district. Present members of the
board, in addition to Loftin, are
L. E. James, Sams Valley, chair
man; R. Bruce Grieve, Prospect,
vice-chairman; Earl B. Day. Cen
tral Point, treasurer; Frank
Straus, Sams Valley; A. T. Wat
tenberg. Eagle Point, and B. L.
Dodge, Medford, supervisors,
and W. B. Tucker, Medford, sec
retary. The program for the annual
meeting, which was attended by
about 40 district members, in
cluded a report by Lester James ;
on district accomplishments dur
ing the past year.
These included 1,023 acres in
conservation crop rotation, 720
acres in crop residue utilization,
217 acres in cross slope farming,
914 acres in fertilization, 2,567
acres in proper use of pasture,
and 9,245 acres in soil surveys.
Water-use work done by the
district during the past year in
cluded seven irrigation reser
voirs with a combined capacity
of 1,573 acre feet; 425 acres un
der improved water application,
603 acres under irrigation water
management; 1.75 miles of open
drain ditches, 563 acres under
sprinkler irrigation; .17 miles of
streambank stabilization, and 2.2
acres of waterway development.
The district's 1954 program
also included start of two certi
fied tree farms containing a com
bined total of 345 acres.
The district had 144 cooper
ators to Jan. 1; 121 applications
for assistance, and 68 applica
tions for assistance.
Robert C. Baum, executive
secretary of the state soil conser
vation committee, reviewed bills
affecting soil conservation dis
tricts which are now before the
state legislature. These include
a measure which would allow
the Sams Valley-Beagle district
to change its name.
Other items on the program
included a discussion of soil
sampling, by County Agent W.
B. Tucker; a talk on minerals
and present day prospecting
methods in Oregon, and a mo
tion picture on the history of
plant and animal life, shown by
Lester V. Davenport, Grants
Pass.
CAP Cadet Earns
High Test Rating
The Medford squadron of the
Civil Air patrol presented a cer
tificate of accomplishment to
Cadet Jerry Ross Conners at the
regular Monday night meeting.
Conners completed a test cov
ering weather in the CAP study
manual with the highest grade
of any cadet in the Medford
squadron. Cadet Conners is one
of the newer cadets in the
squadron and it required out
side studying and work to pass
the stiff test with such high
honors, CAP officers said.
The certificate was signed by
the training officer, Lt. Cecil
Davis, aeronautical instructor,
and by the commanding officer,
Capt. Marella Luschen.' Captain
Luschen presented the certifi
cate to Conners.
Annual UMC Dinner
Tomorrow Evening ,
The annual dinner meeting of
the United Medford Crusade
will be held at the Medford
YMCA building at 6:30 p.m. to
morrow. Frank Lockman, secretary of
the Springfield Chamber of
Commerce will be the principal
speaker, and will be introduced
by G. R. (Spike) Durham, Salem,
of the Oregon Chest.
A. R. (Tony) Manno, presi
dent of the UMC, will preside.
Election of directors will be
held after the dinner. Some 175
to 200 persons are expected to
attend.
Cub Pack 44
A meeting of Cub Pack 44 will
be held Thursday, March 24, at
7:30 p.m., at the Lone Pine
school. Cubs and parents are in
vited. Howard J. Veal
Committeeman.
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is the time for us to strike," he
said through an interpreter. "We
should hit them before they get
off the ground."
Asked if he would seek top
military approval for mainland
attacks against Communist build
ups, he replied, "yes, we will
recommend that the government
do that."
The 49-year-old air chief said
the two major air fields under
construction for the use of jet
fighters and bombers were near
the South China coast. From the
fields to Formosa the flying time
is barely 20 minutes.
He said one field is at Foo
chow, only about 30 miles west
of Matsu island and about 150
miles northwest of Taipeh. The
second is near Luichow, about 32
miles west of the Tachen
Islands which were abandoned
in February.
He said the concrete runway
at Foochow had been lengthened
"and we have seen evidence that
the Communists are building
ground installations needed in
combat operations." The installa
tions include fueling dumps, fire
fighting equipment, ground shops
and anti-aircraft artillery.
"Luichow airfield is still under
construction and probably will
be completed in one month," he
said. He added that some air
craft already had been moved
into the bases but that the main
Communist forces had not yet
arrived from the north.
Seaside Weekly Paper
To Observe 50th Year
Seaside (U.R) The Seaside
Signal will observe its 5th anni
versary Friday and Saturday
with a two-day open house.
Max Schafer, editor and pub
lisher, said the first edition went
to press March 25, 1905, just a
few hundred feet from the news
paper's new plant.
The paper was started by R.
M. Watson who published it
until 1911. It has not missed a
single weekly edition since then.
17 states. "Traffic accidents kill
ed 21 persons; six died in tor
nadoes or wind storms; six died
in floods; two by exhaustion, two
by exposure and two were elec
trocuted by fallen wires. Fires
killed four.
Spring Outdoes Winter
Spring was only three days
old, but its storms had already
outdone winter in viciousness
and destructiveness.
Broken down by areas, this is
! what the first three days of
spring had done to the nation:
The Midwest: Drifts were 10
feet deep in northern Indiana
and more than 14 inches of snow
hit Wisconsin's Fox River Val
ley. Damage was estimated in
the millions in Michigan, where
70 mile - per - hour winds blew
in hundreds of windows and
drove waves from Lake St. Clair
into Fair Haven homes. Hun
dreds of flooded - out families
were receiving care at the Fair
Haven firehall.
The South: Torrential rains
swelled flood waters in Mississip
pi. Alabama, and Tennessee, and
2,000 persons were already
homeless. Red Cross disaster
teams moved in along Missis
sippi's Tombigbee river to avacu
ate lowlanders living in the path
of the worst flood crest in 50
years. A convoy of National
Guard trucks went to Columbus,
Miss., with equipment to care
for 600 families.
Ohio 'Wind-Lashed'
The Ohio Valley: Damage was
estimated in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars in Ohio after
winds hit 70 miles per hour and
a tornado lashed east Masillon.
W estern Pennsylvania and north
ern West Virginia were also
hard hit. A tornado killed a man
at West Chester, Pa., and winds
of almost 60 miles per hour
smashed in windows in down
town Pittsburgh, Pa., hotels and
suburban homes.
The Southwest: The cold wave
proved a boon to parched farm
lands, but was a death blow to
peach crop was a total loss and
damage to plum trees was ex
pected to be as bad.
Humans weren't the only
ones to feel the storm's fury.
The birds had it almost as bad.
At La Porte, Ind., freezing
rain iced the wings of a flock
of robins. They tied up an in
tersection until they were able
to hobble off on foot.
At Hudsonville, Mich., 100
starlings sought shelter next to a
generator. They caused a short
circuit which killed them.
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Two U.S. Chamber
Officials Set Visit
In Medford Monday
Two officials of the United
States Chamber of Commerce
will visit in Medford next Mon
day, to meet with members of
the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce.
They are Lisle Berkshire, San
Francisco, manager of the west
ern division of the U.S.C. of C,
and Harry Lintz, Portland,
northwest representative.
They will meet for a 7:30 a.m.
breakfast with the newly-organized
education committee of
the chamber here, and will at
tend the noon round-table ses
sion open to all members at the
Jackson hotel.
To Work With Schools
Their visit is in connection
with a nation-wide effort on the
part of the U. S. chamber to
work toward better understand
ing of American business and
economics in the schools. The
formation of the education com
mittee, which is headed by Ron
Gandee, a former schoolteacher,
is along the same lines.
Chamber leaders point out
that recent surveys in the
schools have shown a great mis
understanding of the motives
of the business community, and
of the economic system as a
whole. The objective of the ed
ucation committee is to work
toward a better understanding
among American students.
Discussions with the two U.S.
chamber officials will include
this problem, and also national
affairs as they reflect on busin
ess conditions, according to
chamber spokesmen.
57 GREATER
PICTURE CONTRAST
McKay Concerned by
OC Road Fund Slash
Salem (U.R) A slash of
$20,000 from a $2,250,000 re
quest for funds to construct ac
cess roads in O and C lands in
Oregon by the House Appropria
tions Committee is of great con
cern to Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay, he said here
today.
"While this amount is compar
atively small," he said, "none
theless we need every cent of
the requested amount to build
access roads if we are to cut out
vast amounts of ripe timber now
standing on these revested lands.
Unless this timber can be cut
during the next two years much
of it will become worthless."
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