Spring Arrives Over
Much of Nation, But
Weather Damage High
By UNITED PRESS
Spring finally decided to be
have today, sending warm, thaw
ing winds across the nation's
Bnowcovered midwest and north
east. But in the South and South-
Stream Flows Said
Down in Southeast
Oregon This Year
Lakeview (U.R) Farmers
and ranchers in south-central
Oregon depending on natural
stream flows will feel some
shortages this season, but those
served by reservoirs should have
enough for irrigation use.
W. T. (Jack) Frost, Soil Con
servation expert, told farmers
and ranchers at a meeting held
here yesterday that 1955 will be
a "short water year."
Frost said the snow cover in
the region rnnged from 80 to 95
per cent of the 10-year average
in the Lakeview area to 61 per
cent in the Chewaucan River
Basin.
The water content has dropped
considerably in the past few
months, the soil conservation ex
pert said, and soils under the
snow cover are very dry, and
could be expected to soak up
much of the snow melt that
otherwise would join stream
flows.
Larry Zimmerman, river fore
caster for the U. S. Weather Bu
reau, explained that the below
normal snow pack and dry soil
conditions were the result of
small fall and winter precipita
tion. Precipitation during the fall,
he said, was about 50 per cent
of normal; winter precipitation
was 55 per cent.
Blossom Festival Opens
But Many Buds Damaged
Washington U.R) Washing
ton's annual cherry blossom fes
tival opened today with about
40 per cent of the blooms dam
aged by wind and cold.
But officials said the remain
ing buds appear in good condi
tion and should be open by the.
week end if the weather warms.
Lisbon, Portugal (U.R)
French - born actress Corinne
Calvet confirmed yesterday that
ehe will marry American actor
Jeffrey Stone soon.
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west, farmers were still count
ing the multi-million dollar dam
age inflicted by the record
breaking storms and cold waves
of spring's first week.
Known crop damage totalled
at least S54,000,000 and the final
toll was expected to go much
higher.
In addition, spring's cold,
blizzards, wind storms, and
floods had caused at least 82
deaths.
In the southland, where the
entire peach crop was killed,
some growers said flatly that
they were ruined.
Farmers "Wiped Out"
A Cornelia, Gal., orchardman,
C. M. Miller, said "I believe I'm
wiped out. Not only have I lost
this year's harvest, but my trees
are dead. It would take 12 years
to replace them."
Southern apple, pear, grape,
plum, watermelon and straw
berry crops were also hard hit.
In Texas, officials said the spring
cold wave would be known in
history as the "multi-million dol
lar killer freeze."
Federal officials in Washing
ton announced they were already
conducting a 'damage survey
which will clear the way for
emergency loans to stricken
southern farmers.
The last of the big spring
storms blew itself out in upper
New York state and Canada yes
terday, leaving mild weather
over most of the country.
Death and New Snow
Parts of New York state got
seven inches of new snow after
drifts had already piled 14 feet
high. In Canada a two day bliz
zard had killed eight persons, in
cluding an American husband-and-wife
acrobatic team and
their daughter.
Temperatures rose five to 15
degrees today from Texas to the
Northern Plains and Great
Lakes. It was still below freez
ing east of the Mississippi Valley
and north of the Ohio River, but
New York City was told it could
expect temperatures in the 50's.
New York state still had a
winter problem in the giant ice
jam which clogged the Niagara
River.
Civil and military officials fi
nally gave up attempts to break
up the destructive jam with
dynamite after repeated blasts
could only knock loose a few
soft sections.
The officials decided to "let
nature take its course" and melt
away the ice.
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as the blonde beauty's charms are mirrored to infinity.
She's unveiling one of the costumes she'll wear during
special benefit premiere of circus to be held in Madison
Square Garden March 30.
Variety Predicts Winners of Oscars
Hollywood (U.R) Marlon
Brando, Grace Kelly and "On
The Waterfront" will be the big
winners at tomorrow night's
Academy Awards banquet, Va
riety magazine forecast today.
The trade publication's predic
tions were based on a straw poll
of 15 per cent of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
membership. Variety has been
right on better than 85 per cent
of its selections in seven previous
straw polls.
The magazine's predictions:
Best actor: Marlon Brando, as
a dock worker in "On The Water
front." Best actress: Grace Kelly, as
the wife of a broken down actor
in "The Country Girl."
Best picture: "On The Water
front," a grimly realistic story of
strike on the docks.
Best supporting actress: Eva
Marie Saint, Brando's girl in
"On The Waterfront."
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Best supporting actor: Edmond
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"The Barefoot Contessa."
'United Press March'
Features Band Program
Lafayette, Ind. (U.R) A
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the Purdue University auditor
ium last night for the National
Broadcasting company's Band of
America program which fea
tured "The United Press March."
Paul LaValle, conductor of the
Band of America, was guest con
ductor of the 110-piece Purdue
symphonic band which played
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Great American Coffee Break
Observed by 36,000,000 in U.S.
(Editor's Note: Between 8
a.m. and the noon hour, when
the appetite cries out for
slake, comes a pause in the
day's occupation that is known
as the coffee break.)
By H. D. QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) Every
working day 36,000,000 Ameri
cans take a brief break at their
place of work to sip the brew of
the bean that Brazil has an awful
lot of.
The figure supplied with a
happy smile by the Pan-American
Coffee Bureau is an up-to-the-minute
estimate of the ba
sis of industrial and business
surveys, and it's up one million
over last year. It does not in
clude farmers or housewives.
The coffee break, starting dur
ing World War II, has come on
with a rush. It's now a full
blown American institution, as
sacred to some indoor toilers as
the Siesta is to the populace of
some sunny climes.
It's No Joke
National jokes have been
built upon it. Romances have
flowered in the steamy fra
grance of the cardboard cups. A
whole new business has been
founded to supply its demands.
The National Safety Council has
given it a pat on the back as a
fatigue-reducer and hence a re
ducer of disabling injuries. La
bor contracts have included it,
in some instances.
A national survey of 1,160
companies disclosed that 80 per
cent of them had had "breather"
periods for coffee and relaxing
in effect only since 1941, the
year the United States entered
the war. Nearly half of that
group had started the time-out
period after the war ended.
In Chicago, a survey of 170
companies disclosed 128 of them
have a policy of regular rest
Rabies Vaccinations
Ordered for Many Dogs
Salem (U.R) All dogs in the
Bly and Beatty areas of Klam
ath county have been ordered
vaccinated this week by the
state veterinarian.
The action followed a report
that a rabid coyote had bitten
several dogs earlier this month.
State veterinarian Dr. K. J.
Peterson said local veterinarians
would tackle the job free with
the county providing the vac
cine. Each dog will receive a tag
and then must be confined for 25
days, Dr. Peterson said.
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periods. And 23 of the remain
ing 42 firms permit employees to
take coffee breaks without a
formal policy of such.
Restaurant on Wheels
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the coffee-break trade is a brisk
one, with its big impetus coming
in the last two years. In New
York, a spokesman for the
Schrafft's restaurant chain said
that firm was into coffee-break
catering "very deeply."
Every morning from the
chain's restaurants special carts,
equipped with waitresses, ther
mos jugs of coffee, pastries,
orange juice, and paper cups,
go out to some 300 client firms.
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They serve some 40.000 coffee
break customers daily in New
York, Philadelphia, and Boston.
The Wall Street Journal
quotes two big New York res
taurant chains as reporting the
coffee-break business is "tremen
dous." It says a Chicago catering
concern hit a $300,000 sales fig
ure last year and cites the suc
cess of Dallas' new Coffee Time,
Inc., and Detroit's like-named
Coffee Time.
Employers differ on whether
the coffee-break is good, bad,
or indifferent as far as product
ivity goes. But it seems to be
here to stay. The bosses like
little break for coffee, too.
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Welfare Recipient
Leaves Some $4,000
Portland (U.R) A 72-year-old
Japanese welfare recipient was
found dead in his parked car
yesteday, leaving behind a mod
est fortune amounting to nearly
$4,000 in cash and valuables.
Hanjiro Kato had received a
total of some $5,200 in welfare
payments, and was receiving $63
a month for his support on the
strength of a sworn statement
that he was penniless.
After his apparent heart at
tack yesterday, officials discov
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$3,000, plus $520 in cash and at
least two diamond rings.
Welfare officials said the
$5,250 in welfare payments
would be attached to Kato'i
estate.
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