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Torrential Rains Bring Flood Waters to British Columbia Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) Dan ger signals were up throughout British Columbia today as the province's three major water sheds, the Columbia, Fraser and Thompson rivers, developed flood crests as a result of tor rential rains. Communications were washed out at several points in the prov ince yesterday and two major highways to Alberta and the east were severed by flood waters and snowslides. Highway officials said the Trans-Canada Highway would be closed indefinitely by slides near Golden and the southern trans-provincial was closed by washouts near Creston. Traffic on the southern route, however, was being diverted at Grand Forks. Most serious flooding occurred in the Cariboo district of ' the central interior which was iso lated yesterday as heavy rains of the past weekend built up a record flood crest on the upper Fraser. Rail and highway com' munications to Quesnel, 60 miles south apd downstream from Prince George, were washed out. The Federal Resources De partment said the Fraser had risen more than six and one-half feet at Prince George during the past four days. The cattle town of Quesnel, 300 air miles north of Vancou ver at the junction of the Fraser and Quesnel rivers, was cut off as a series of washouts tore gaps in the highway and railway beds both north and south of the city. Polio Will Remain Problem for Some Time, Experts Say Washington (U.R) Govern ment experts said today it's going to take quite a while to lick the polio problem even with such a weapon as the Salk vaccine. One of the main reasons, as they see it,' is that Salk shots combat paralysis but seem to do little to prevent the spread of the infection itself. Dr. Carl C. Dauer of the Pub lic Health Service said it may be "several years" before the effect of the mass vaccination program is substanitally reflect ed in the nation's polio rates. v. It probably will - be , much longer, other officials said,- be fore the polio program is reduc ed to the easily managed dimen sions of smallpox and diptheria. Live Virus Vaccine Many scientists maintain polio won't really be beaten until there is a vaccine capable of pre venting the infection as well as paralysis. Some think this will turn out to be a live virus vac cine rather than the dead virus type developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk. Dauer, a top authority on dis ease patterns, said Salk vaccine has been used on too few chil dren and for too short a time to produce a definable effect on the polio rate. Work crews were fighting to save the city's water supply which was endangered by the sudden rise in the Quesnel River. Bridges Out ' Creeks swollen by the heavy rainfall and late spring runoff from the mountains went wild and tore out highway and rail way bridges in several areas. Seventeen washouts were re ported between Prince George and Soda Creek, 30 miles south of Quesnel, including a 100-foot gap in the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Railway officials estimated it would be two weeks before the line would be back in operation and Highways Department offic ials would not estimate when road conditions would return to normal in the cattle-raising Ca'ri boo country. MmMmmm OFFERED PREMIERSHIP Professor Antonio Segni (above, during press conference), a Christian Democrat, has been asked by Italian President Giovanni Gronchi to examine possibilities of setting op a left-of -center govern ment After hour-long talk with Gronchi, Segni, an advo cate of land reforms, said he had been offered the premier ship. He will make his report later. Physician To Open Office in 'Ashland Ashland John N. Reid, M.D., will open a medical and surgical practice here on Wednesday, June 29. Dr. Reid, who came from De troit, Mich., will have offices in the Swedenburg building. He plans to be on the staffs of Ash land General hospital and of Community and Sacred Heart hospitals in Medford. In Detroit Dr. Reid was a resi dent in surgery for four years at Harper hospital. He was chief resident in surgery in his last year. He received training in other Detroit hospitals in pedia tric, thoracic, orthopedic and industrial surgery. Dr. Reid received his medical degree from the College of Medi cal Evangelists, Loma Linda, Calif., in 1942. His internship was in Portland Sanitorium and Hospital. He then served for three years as a medical officer for the Coast Guard.' Following his discharge he was in general practice at Goldendale, Wash., for four years. The family is residing at 199 Meade st. Dr. and Mrs.- Reid have two sons, John and Tom. Walter Predicts Approval of Bill Washington (U.R) Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) sajd today he expects quick House ap proval of his bill for a biparti san commission to recommend any needed changes in the gov ernment's employee security program. He felt the House would act with about the same dispatch shown by the Senate yesterday in approving a similar bill. "There is not a great deal of difference between the two bills," he said, "except that mine puts more emphasis on the im portance of a non-partisan com mission. ' Both the Senate bill and the version sponsored by Walter, which has won approval by the Judiciary Committee, would set up a 12-member study commis- Oregon NewJywed Dies In Idaho Car Mishap CaldweU, Idaho (U.R) A 49-year-old Baker. Ore., woman who had been married just a few hours earlier was fatally injured in a traffic accident on the high way about 20 miles northeast of Jordan Valley yesterday. The victim, Mrs. Nelda Lynch Favorit, was .pronounced dead on arrival at a Caldwell hospi tal. Her husband, Lester Fa vorit, 49, was treated for minor injuries and shock. The couple had been married yesterday morning in Winne mucca, Nev. Favorit told officers he swerved to mis a cow on the highway and lost control of his vehicle. sion patterned after former Pres ident Hoover's Commission of Government Reorganization. It would have an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. Tuesday. June 28, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FXVZ Egyptian-Israeli Meet Seeks To End Dispute Gaza, Egypt-Held Palestine (U.R) The United Nations brought Israeli and Egyptian of ficials together today in an at tempt to end the bloody border incidents that threaten to flare into war. They met in a dusty hut along the embattled truce zone separating Israel from the Gaza strip, the finger of land between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea which is administered by Egypt. This area has been the scene of increasingly bitter conflict between the two nations since early spring. Guerrilla raids, re taliatory attacks and sabotage have claimed more than 50 lives in four months, and have threat ened the Palestine cease-fire. Young Prospectors' .. Rescued from Cliff Portland U.R) Fire men yesterday had to rescue three young girls who go stuck on a cliff lN while "prospecting." Diana Fogel. 12; Linda Lou Shty, 13. and Patricia McCor mick started down a clay cliff overlooking the Wilson River Lumber company when ' they became frightened about half way. Lumber plant foreman M. Slyttr noticed he girls cling ing to the bluff and notified firemen. The girls were res cued with ' ropes and taken home unharmed. MANY TONGUES Washington More than 1,200 languages are spoken by Ameri can Indians, some of them by only a few hundred persons. -; EYEGLASS WEARERS Two of three American adults wear eyeglasses. The toe" tells her ' life story! Now the world's greatest woman athlete telli her story! Leant about her childhood, when she practiced hurdling over her neighbors' hedges. 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