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o o o O O TWELVE MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. August 24. 1955 o Flood Ravaged States Tackle Work of Reconstruction o o o o O o o o Q O Q O O O O G o o o o o o o o u Q n o fc O O G O ( i i t G G G O o W G O o O O G o G o O o G G o ( ) G G G O Q O o Q o o O o o G O o G f? j o o o o O O O O O o e G O o o o o o o o is 9 9 OS fefer Council Reque,., ReeaSe( fliCf'S Portland UR) An investiga tion of recent Portland Housing Authority personnel changes has been called for by the AFL Port land Central Labor council. Delegates voted Moday night to appoint a committee to study a shakeup in which director Floyd Ratchford was dismissed and other officials resigned in protest. The committee said it was not leveling charges at the PHA but merelye wanted some questions answered. AMERICAN Finance Corp. now offers DEBT CONSOLIDATION SERVICE $1,000.00- 24 Mos. PAYMENTS $53.88 Mo. AUTO FURNITURE SALARY Phone 2-8886 123 WEST MAIN Skull Fractured Ascom City, Korea (U.R) Lt. Guy H. Bumpas, pilot of the un armed trainer plane shot down by Red gunners last week, suf fered a "bad fracture" of the skull in the crash, an Air Force spokesman said today. The 23-year-old Air Force of ficer from Jackson, Miss., was released by the Communists yes teday. At thp same time, the Red delivered a wooden casket holding tve hodv of Armv CaD. CMrle W. Brown, West Louis- i ville. Ky. Brown, a nassencer I in the nrorjeller-rlriven T6 j trainer plane, was killed in the i crash. ' Bnrnno was under' treatment : at thf 12'st Evacuation hosnital j here for th injuries he suffered when his plane was shot down ! hv Coi-nrriiri'st anti-aircraft enn I ners when it strayed over the I demilitarized zone. "His condition is fair and he is resting well." the Air Force j spokesman said. Desnite his injuries, Bumnas ! was able to walk across the line in the demilitarized zone to a ', small grouo of United Nations j officers. He was brought to the j exchange spot at Korisil in an i ambulance, his head swathed in bandages. Two Communist Ko rean nurses rode with him. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Mondav for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. Reviewer Says Timon Good Entertainment Despite Difficulties Many things can go wrong on ean fans, since he is written as the opening night of a play, and i a weak, small-minded man un- O SMORGASBORD - $2.25 Includes Barbecued Spareribs O WONDERFUL DINNERS Special Prime Ribs of Beef O ALA CARTE MENU DINING INN CENTRAL POINT FOR RESERVATIONS Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 one of the worst calamities which can befall an actor hap pened last night when -The Life of Timon of Athens" opened on the stage of the Oregon Shake spearean Festival theater in Ash land. The actor playing the title role lost his voice. Richard T. Jones, beset by throat difficulties for the past two or three weeks and exhausted by day and night re hearsals and performances, spoke his lines in a hoarse, rough whis per which occasionally cleared to near normalcy and then again failed completely. Audience Appreciates Work Actually, the production suf fered less from the mishap than might have been supposed. Jones' sound stage training stood him in good stead and his excellent method of projection carried his hoarse voice even to the back rows of the theater. His rough tones were sometimes a little nerve-wracking but his efforts to "carry on'' were so sincere and his audience so sympathetic that applause broke out from time to time after some partic ularly brilliant effort on the part of the actor. Everyone else in the cast was also keyed up to the emergency and their anxiety to carry the play through the difficulty some times resulted in over-projection of voices and over-dramatic touches to speeches. Since Jones has "looked good" in rehearsals and gave so cred itable a performance last night under such unfavorable circum stances, those who attend the second production of this little played Shakespearean work next week can look forward to an in teresting evening. Of course, the character of Timon is not a sym pathetic one with Shakespear- able to nudge real friends or friendship during times of pros perity and a man incapable of rising above adversity. Some of the best lines in "Timon" are those which come from the lips of Apemantus, the acid-tongued philosopher and Donald Soule made the most of his opportunities in this role last night. Soule's performances throughout the season have brought praise from both his fel low actors and from the play goers. Jones Well Supported Jones was well supported last night by such actors as Richard Graham, who makes a truly im pressive soldier in both bearing and voice, and Mike Kasdan as the devoted steward serving Timon. Kasdan's diction is es pecially fine and he somehow has the knack of making the Eliz abcthean English sound as if he used it daily throughout the year, and not only on stage. When producing Director Gus Bowmer failed to show up in the cast lists at the beginning of the season, many were disappointed. But when a bit player suddenly left the company, Bowmer stepped into his roles and when he appeared on stage last night in "Timon" it was as if a good friend had suddenly come to call after a long absence. Many are happy that Joan Ku gell will return to Ashland for the 1956 season, for this busy little actress is extremely versa tile. Miss Kugell plays "Hermia" in "A Midsummer N i g h t's Dream," "Helena" in "All's Well that Ends Well," the "Prince of Wales" in "Henry the Sixth, Part Three" is a witch in. "Macbeth" and has a small role as a little old withered man in "Timon." Marines Vent Wrath On Sergeant's Auto Freehold, N.J. U.P.) Two young Marines were charged Tuesday with venting their wrath against a sergeant by taking it out on his automobile. Marines Wayne D. Young, 22, and Robert Barnes, 20, were charged with taking Sgt. Wil liam Meehana's car, puncturing the four tires, breaking a door handle and the windshield, cut ting the distributor cap and dumping sugar into the battery cells and gasoline tank- Portlander Reelected At Friends Meeting Greenleaf, Idaho The Rev. Dean Gregory, Portland, was reelected general superintend ent of the Friends church of the Oregon conference during the 63rd session of the Oregon Year ly meeting of the Friends churches held this week at Greenleaf, Ida. , Other officers elected are the Rev. Dorwin E. Smith, Star, Ida., presiding clerk; . the Rev. Lela Morrill, Kelso, Wash., president of the Christian, education board; the Rev. Walter P. Lee, Boise, Ida., president of mission board; the Rev. Earl Gefl, Camas, Wash., assistant clerk; Mary Sutton, Newberg, recording clerk; Mrs. Ruth Brown, Greenleaf, whose office .was not announced. She is 'excellent in every char acter. A dozen or so other capable actors Bill Oyler, Jack Colvin, Jack Swanson, John MacPhee, all deserve credit for helping to give this difficult play life and color. And director Robert Loper (who probably gnawed his fin gernails down to the flesh last night) deserves praise for mak ing . "Timon" irtto something worth watching. O. S. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday tor Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. be Big D The Best Oea mestunghouse laundromat 95 WAS $3199S WITH YOUR OLD WASHER GET THE NEW WAY TO WASH SAVE $ oo OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHTS more if your trade-in is an operating automatic CHECK THESE FEATURES: LAUNDROMAT Patented "New Way to Wash" Weigh-to-Save Door Transmission Guaranteed 5 Years Handy new Laundrofile $40 DOWN DELIVERS IT! 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Twenty - five per sons were evacuated from a rest home in South Natick, Mass., and taken to a hospital when cesspools over flowed due to high water. Connecticut received 250,000 anti-typhoid shots from the Na tional Drug Co., in Philadelphia Drinking water, food and dry ice to prevent food spoilage were also rushed into the stricken area. Clear skies ove,r most of the flood area helped the relief and rehabilitation work. The rains which pelted much of the area yesterday and slowed reconstruc tion had mostly ended by mid night. Many areas continued to de pend on helicopters and boats for supplies and mail. Rail transportation near Low ell, Mass., was disrupted ' 1 a s t night when the Boston and Maine Railroad's crack train, the Red Wing, was derailed on a bridge over the swollen Concord river Six persons suffered minor in juries when the passenger train, bound from Boston to Montreal, struck a parked freight car on the bridge. Many Still Missing With the dry weather and re ceding flood waters came hone for knowledge of the scores still reported , missing. In Connecti cut alone 71 persons were still unaccounted for. The revised death toll showed 202 confirmed dead. Pennsyl vania had 115 fatalities; Connec ticut 49; Massachusetts 23; New Jersey 6, New York 4; Virginia 2; Rhode Island 2 and Delaware 1. Damage was expected to reach $3,000,000,000. The National Can Corp., in Chicago offered to supply free cans to packers of food and wa ter "in an effort to relieve the critical food supply situation in the flood stricken area." The CIO United Aiitnmnhilo Workers Union made a $100, 000 contribution for flood vic tims and the CIO United Steel workers", union gave . the Red Cross $25,000. CIO President Walter P. Reu- ther said more, than 50,000 CIO members had lost their homes or jobs because of the flood. Cify Manager's Work Given in Run-Down Chicago (U.R) What does a city manager do? 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