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o wall, Kansas, Wiped Out by Tornado on May 25, Rapidly Being Rebuilt Volunteer Labor, Insurance Playing Big Part in Task F.dftr't Note: Flash floods have takrn mor than 20(1 lives and left 34.000 families homeless In six North eastern states. The future is inm for the stricken towns and cities. Here ts a report on how a 1isater-struck community fights its way back. O UoJll, Kan. ttJ.FS A new Udair'is rising from the rubble left by the terrible tornado three monthi ago. Valunteer labor In the spirit of the early settlers who helped their neighbors when there was trouble has helped make the ebuTHing possible. The money has come mostly from insurance, the federal gov ertjpent and the Red Cross. Work Volunteer Workmen from Wichita, 20 miles north of Udall, donated their time to pour concrete for a new Citv Hall. Contractors ' charged nothing for the material. This brick building will give Udfll space for a fire station, the public library and offices for the mayor and city clerk. The sight of the new City Hall going up has helped keep up the spirit of Udall residents. It took only one minute, on o the night of May 25, for a twister Oto reduce this town to debris. Eighty persons were killed, one' sixth of the population. Scores were injured. E. B. Harvey, the town black 3 smitbwho also ran an automo bile .'igency, lost his wife in the tornado and spent six weeks in a hospital recuperating from the injuries. Harvey's home and some of 5 new cars were partly cov ered by insurance. With the in surance money and a govern lrient loan he has started to re build. (iWhat's done is done, and ther's nothing I can do about it.so Ijustgoaheadwith my busi rtess and try to be happy in my works' said Harvey. "There are lots of people worse off than I am." Insurance Helps Most of Udall's citizens will be in debt for several years to the government and to banks and private loan companies. Of ficial estimate the indebtedness will fftnount to about two thirds of the total cost of reconstruc tion. Majy were left with only trn? clothing on their backs after the tornado. At least half the popu lation had some kind of insur ancebut it covered only a small part of their losses. One father and two children (the Qnother was killed in the gtorrtS) vere not eligible for a government loan so the Red Cross replaced their small home. Aether family was left home less when the wind reduced a six room frame house to kindling. The house, valued at $7000, has beenQ-eplaced by a new one that costs 11,000. Insurance paid for $45W and the remainder was covered by a personal loan. The Red Cross provided furniture for the new dwelling. Home Drinking Said Foremost Problem Ltn Beach, Calif. (U.R) The President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to day warned that home drinking has become the nation's foremost temperance problem. ft5. Glenn G. Hays of Evan iton, 111., told the WCTU's exec utive committee prior to tomor row's opening of the Union's 81st annual convention that ra dio and television commercials "have turned iceboxes into bars." She called for "greater sup port" of bills in Congress to out law alcoholic beverage advertis ing on radio and TV. 50th Year MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire SECTION TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1955 Pages 1-8 Young Spelling Champion Runs TV Take To $16J New York (U.R) Little Gloria Lockerman, the 12-year-old Negro spelling champ who ran her winnings to $16,000 on a TV giveaway show, rides back home to Baltimore today for some boning up with the diction ary and- family conferences about her TV future. Gloria confidently spelled her way through a nonsense sentence on CBS-TV's "The $64,000 Ques tion" last night to earn a possi ble shot next Tuesday at $32,000. Indications were that Gloria would go for the bigger money. Her divorced parents, James Lockerman and Vivian Single ton, both of Philadelphia, seem ed to favor a go-ahead. Future Important "The important thing is Glor ia's future," said her father, "we don't want the publicity to affect her life in any way." Gloria's mother said: "She has nothing to lose since she had nothing to start with. And she's assured of $4,000 anyway." Mrs. Singleton referred to the $4,000 the producers of the show give as a consolation prize to any contestant who reaches the up per levels in the TV question-and-answer game. Gloria, however, said she didn't know whether she would go on. She revealed that she had stumbled through part of the an swer of her question because "I forgot where I was." The answer on the quiz program was the spelling of: "The belligerent as tigmatic anthropologist annihil ated innumerable chrysanthemums." Mexico Expects Agricultural Imports To Be Lowest in Decade 'Dog Lung' Surgery Performed on Child Minneapolis (U.R) Carey Ann Kutz, 3, Madison, Wis., was reported in satisfactory condi tion in University hospital here early today after undergoing a so-called "dog lung" heart oper ation. University surgeons used the lung of a dog, removed from the dog a short time earlier, to sup ply oxygen to the blood of the little girl while they tied off her heart to repair a hole be tween its chambers Tuesday. Nine airmen from Traux field at Madison flew here to donate their blood for the girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor man Kutz. The hospital said some of their blood was used during the operation. Anti-Sovief Congress Approves Resolution Rio de Janeiro (U.R) The second congress against Soviet intervention in Latin America yesterday approved a resolution calling for all Latin American countries to break diplomatic and commercial relations with Communist countries. The resolution was adopted unanimously but with reserva tions from Argentine delegate Sergio Boton. He said the United States, Britain and France should make the break first, setting the example for the other countries. Mexico City (U.R) Mex ico expects its imports of agricul tural products this year to be the lowest in a decade because of reports of almost uniformly good harvests. Government sources predicted wheat would be the only crop to fall below the 1954 yield. They estimated the value of over-all agricultural production for 1955 at approximately $760, 000,000, an 80.95 per cent in crease over 10 years ago. Mexico imported more than $132,000,000 worth of food pro ducts in 1953, but the figure dropped to $98,500,000 last year, the sources said. The country will not have to buy corn or beans in the foreign market. Earlier, the government had predicted it would not have to purchase wheat abroad in 1955. However, the wheat harvest is now expected to be lower than last year's bumper crop because of losses due to frost in Janu ary and March. More Corn As a result, the economy min istry has asked wheat producers and distributors to meet soon to determine how much of the cereal will have to be imported to meet domestic needs. Although figures for corn pro duction are still incomplete, the yield is expected to be slightly larger than last year's unusual ly good harvest because of a 30 per cent increase in acreage in Nyarit and other west coast states. Good harvests were also ex pected for rice, oats, barley, citrus fruits and sugar. Mexican farmers are expected to take advantage of a poor year for U. S. cantaloupe producers by shipping their fruit north.. The Mexican Union .of Cotton Growers estimated it would pro duce a record crop of close to 2,000,000 bales. The harvest was valued at. more than $300,000,- ooo. -----. The official figure for cotton production in 1954 was 1,300, 000 bales! The cotton growers were wor ried about possible "chaos" in their industry because of mount ing world surpluses of the fiber. Cotton Problem They said they would have a carryover of 150,000 bales from last year after all sales were com pleted. Domestic consumption and exports were estimated at 1,750,000 bales, leaving a sur plus of 400,000 bales for 1956. The growers advised a reduc tion of cotton acreage in Mexico Wilsonville Area May Have Hospital Portland (U.R) The Wil sonville area of Washington county will become the site of a proposed new $14,000,000 state mental institution if the Board of Control adopts a rec ommendation made last night by its site selection committee. The 10-member committee also named two other sites in Wash ington county as desirable alter natives. One is between Hills boro and Beaverton and the oth er is at the edge of Wilsonville. 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See TV listing for time and channel. to eliminate overproduction, measures to increase home con sumption which has remained stationary during the past 10 years while output has increased 400 per cent and opening of new foreign markets. They demanded the abolition of the 22 per cent ad valorem tax on cotton exports, which they said cost them almost $28 on every bale shipped abroad. However, the treasury minis try promptly announced the ad valorem tax would not be changed because profits earned by cotton producers were 70 per cent higher than those of wheat growers. "A substantial reduction in taxes on cotton would result im mediately in an increase in the price of cotton for the textile industry which has just emerged from a long and difficult period," the ministry said. Cat's Curiosity Blamed For Her Many Troubles Detroit (U.R) The cat is the biggest" problem faced by the Michigan Humane Society. Of the 50,000 "cases" it han dled during the past year, most of them dealt with cats. They involved cats stranded on poles and in trees, cats caught in ma chinery and cats which became lodged between walls of build ings. Clifton Johnson, executive sec retary of the society' blames the curiosity of cats for their predic aments. "They do more investigating than most dogs," he said. "That's why they get into more trouble." FIRECRACKERS FOR CROWS Tallahassee, Fla. (U.R) A new state Agriculture Depart ment regulation requires that farmers buying firecrackers file a statement with their county sheriff swearing they will use the explosives only to frighten crows or other destructive birds. Boy Slays Mother To Prove Bravery Los Angeles (U.R) Jimmy Thomson, who shot and killed his mother "to show other kids I was no sissy," was held in ju venile hall today pending a pre detention hearing. The tousled-haired boy shot his mother, Mrs. Hilde Thomson, 51, with a .22 caliber rifle in their East Palmdale, Calif., home late Monday. He told sheriff's deputies "the kids at school kept calling me a square because I didn't steal or get into trouble." Mrs. Thomson was shot in the head three times and her clothes were partly torn from her body. The boy's father, Harry Thom son, and his older brother, John, 18, both were away from home at the time of the shooting. The boy telephoned sheriff's deputies after the shooting, say ing, "I shot my mother. I think she's dead. I'll wait here for you." FIRST AIR ATTACHE Weisbaden, Germany (U.R) Col. John C. Kilborn of Cisco, Tex., will assume duties Sept. 5 as the first United States air at tache to West Germany. The ap pointment of Kilborn, inspector general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, was announced Tuesday; by European Air Force ' head quarters here. PIANO SERVKI PIANO TUNING -REPAIRING - KEY IVORIES RECOVERED Qualified Member American Society of Piano Technician WALTER OLSON Phone Res. 3-3833 or Bus. 2-5702 (Puruckers) PEAT LL-y? 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