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o o 0 0 Suffering Eases in Flood-Stricken Area Under Gigantic Rehabilitation Program Bf UNITED PRESS o Suffering eased in the flood (tfricken fiortheast today under (ine of the most effective re Qfiabilitation programs ever un dertaken in the United States. The hungry were being fed (Kie homeless were given tern porary family shelters, commun ications functioned almost nor mally, most roads were cleared (nd open to traffic. And indus tries began digging out debris Oand drying out equipment in (preparation to resume opera tions. Good Progress The U. S. Army Engineers, (Charged with handling a S100 000,009 government relief pro gram, gave notice that rehabili tation was already well in prog ress. Reports of partial recovery 0ere made as a new storm, hur- (jjcne Edith, built up in the At lantic Ucean about voo miles ($ast-northeast of San Juan, PR. $ was Edith's predecessor, hurri cane Diane, that created weatner conditions causing driving rains that brought on the disastrous floods. Arrtiy Secretary Wilber M. Brucker announced in Washing ton that "all relief requests to the Army have been or are being met." Further plans were made .to , remove debris, health and safety hazards and, restore public facil ities in the six state flood area 1 The Agriculture Department opened surplus food stores in the stricken states for use as ; needed by flood victims. ; Trailer homes, prefabricated ;hogies, factory space and other ; shelters were offered to the : 100,000 homeless. I Funds Pour In Millions of dollars, from the government, the Red Cross, ; unions, and thousands of individ ;ua poured into the flooded : states. Residents of the flood area themselves-' contributed the - greatest effort to the rehabilita : tion. They pitched in to clear debris from factories and businesses ; forced to close by high waters. I Many of them left daytime ; cleanup jobs in industries to per ,'form similar tasks in their own : homes. President Eisenhower's appeal yesterday for "spontaneous" contributions to flood relief rA Everyone admires . pff. , t) : i ' XClOROX-clean clothes , H jJ ! J' 1 ...they're jHy deaner! feS 3A . 8- '. f :: .. . A l ,eis-DtoMH-iuinlt 5" (A S . -1 I When it's CiOnOXcioqnarsSAFill for family health ! RIPPING THROUGH MAIN Conn. In foreground left are where street level formerly brought widespread and imme diate results. The New York Chapter of the Red Cross alone reported 5000 contributions totalling more than $200,000. CIO President Walter Reuther pledged $100,000 from the Uni ted Auto Workers Union. The United Steel Workers (CIO) con tributed $25,000. The CIO Tex tile Workers Union prepared to send a "substantial sum" for re lief and rehabilitation. Union Donations The International Ladies' Gar ment Workers Union (CIO) ap propriated $100,000 for flood victims. AFL President George Meany contributed $1000 and urged affiliated unions to add to this amount. More than 65 entertainers and sports figures, including Eddie Fischer, Paul Witeman, Lauritz Melchior, Sherry Britton, Archie Blyer and Rocky Marciano, rushed to West Hartford, Conn., last night for an all night TV appearance to appeal for aid for flood victims. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day. CLOROX makes linens more than white... it makes them mfef.tool Hum's plenty of reason for pride when cottons and linens are Clorox-clean. For Clorox removes dinqiness. stains...tven scorch, mildew. And Clorox eliminates musty odor. Most important of protects family health. No other home product equals Clorox In germ-killing efficiency! Don't let dulling film spoil your kitchen's beauty! It's so easy to brighten kitchen sur faces with Clorox cleaning because Clorox removes clingy film and unsightly stains . . . makes your kitchen gleam. Clorox also deodorizes and disinfects . . . all without scrubbing. Hundreds of public health departments recom mend the Clorox type of disinfection. See label for directions. STREET like hurricane, flood remains of new sedan. Note two manholes in center,, indicating was. In background right is collapsed house. (International) GAZING OUT WINDOW of private plane Columbine as aide Bernard Shanley marks location in Connecticut on map, President Eisenhower surveys flood area. (International) Ctorox is safe for your finest white and color fast cottons and linens because it is extra gentle, free from caustic . . . made by a pat ented formula exclusive with Clorox. And there are no gritty particles in Clorox, a liquid, to damage your wash, washer or dryer. deodorizes. oil, Clorox laundering during routine If r rSee benefits in Me3& & f QomxsSemnm&l MftS&a tESSEga Jj i-fcowy-wiito liamt . . . Clomr $fffsf wa&B Trr1 mm Bl3SsS'?? ""'J-! Iin....CiornT Mi 6 Wi -tr1- ijl Mr makes shambles of Winsted, Turf Experts Tell Correct Way Used For Growing Lawns Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) If your yard, like so many oth ers, looks more like a hay field than a lawn, and you want to do something about it, turf ex perts will tell you that early fall is the time to swing into action. Early fall being just' around the corner, Stanley R. McLane, consultant for the Better Lawn and Turf Institute, says that lawn owners who follow "four simple steps" soon will be rejoic ing in the new beauty that sur rounds their home. McLane is "superintendent of landscape development in Kan sas City. He has supervised the beautification of the Country club district, an area that a few decades ago was mostly shaggy pastureland. Today it embraces some 20,000 homes and is a scenic show spot of 'the Middle West. Start Clean McLane's four steps to lawn beauty include feeding, seeding, watering and mowing. Here's his advice: Cut the grass and weeds as closely as possible and rake the yard clean .Then apply fertiliz er at the rate of 25 to 30 pounds per thousand square feet. Spread the fertilizer evenly, raking it into the ground. Wet it down and in a few days," work it again to provide a good seedbeed. Use only the aristocrat of grasses Kentucky bluegrass not a mixture, if you want a blue grass .lawn. Sow two pounds per thousand square feet. If you sow by hand, sow half length wise and half crosswise. Cut High Sprinkle the seed down, but don't flood it. Use a fine spray and keep the soil moist . all through the 15-day germination period. Daytime watering will not prove injurious. Do not cut the new grass until it has reached a height of three inches. Then trim only an inch off the top. Cut as often as nec essary, but never trim lower than two inches. Follow these steps and watch the crabgrass disappear. Indian Battles Intrigue Tourists La Grande (U.R) The sight of war-painted Indian warriors engaged in pitched battle with U. S. Cavalrymen along High way 30 near here is creating a traffic jam as scores of tourists bring their cars to a halt to in vestigate the strange spectacle. The tourists also brought to a halt production of the million dollar Universal - International "Pillars of the Sky" movie with Jeff Chandler and Dorothy Ma- lone.- Director George Marshall ' didn't mind the tourists so much but the squeals of their children were getting' ' onto the sound tracks. He solved the production hitch by hiring the idle wives of , Indian warrior ' extras to serve as babysitters for the young tour ist palefaces. Red Air Power Leads Honolulu (U.R) Gen. Lau- rence S. Kuter, commander of the U. S. Far East Air Force, told a press conference that Communist air power still out numbers the Allies in the Pac ific today. But Kuter said that despite the numerical odds the United States and its supporting forces continue to maintain the same air superiority over the Reds they demonstrated during the Korean war. "We are substantially outman ned and outnumbered," he said. "We are well below Communist strength. But I feel we have a marked qualitative superiority a superiority which was con wens -for tasty f 'jd YOU'LL ENRICHEDV midget GGD33 Thursday, August 25, 1955 SCIENCE AT WORK New York U.PJ By ques tioning 350 men and women who had been hurt in accidents and hospitalized, two scientists dis covered that: Thirty-eight per cent of them had been hospitalized before for accident injuries, "some severai times;" 33 per cent said that now and then they couldn't co-ordinate their bodily movements ef fectively; 26 per cent tripped and fell more or less frequently; 45 per cent had visual defects, and 24 per cent, hearing defects. These percentages indicated that many accidents have under lying physical causes within the individuals who are involved in the accidents, according to Dr. Peter Gleason, of the University of California (at Los Angeles) Medical School and Marion Gleason, research' scientist at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Medicine. They were trying to interest physidians in a new fertile field of preventive medicine the dis covery of these causes and their medical treatment before they could involve the victims in new accidents that might well prove fatal. Some Questions But the average doctor doesn't have time, to investigate the pa tient thoroughly while setting a broken leg; nor is the patient in any condition for thorough ques tioning. So the Gleasons devised a questionnaire which can be filled out quickly with "yes" or "no" answers. The questions are: "Do you frequently forget what you are doing or saying for a few seconds? Do you some times fall asleep, or become very sleepy, even when you have had enough rest and should feel wide-awake? Con you see out of one eye better than the other? Do you find it hard to hear things that other people seem to hear easily? Does your knee or ankle 'give way'? Does the heat make you 'jittery' when you work in it for a long time? Do you have hay fever or any other allergy? Do you ever take any of the new anti-cold tablets? Are you often 'all thumbs' when you handle objects?" To the trained mind, answers to such a combination of ques tions could point to underlying physical causes of accidents. The Gleasons' investigation demon strated once again that which is well known some people are accident-prone, they re re peatedly involved in accidents. There must be reasons why these people are. , -inti-cold tablets contain anti histamine " chemicals which can interfere with effective body functioning. The Gleasons also pointed out that nicotine intoxi cation, "usually associated with cigar smoking and tobacco chewing," can reduce the keen ness of vision. Or a very slight "foot drop," can cause people to trip and fall regularly. And a very slight weakening of a certain group of muscles due perhaps to an at tack of polio so mild the accident-prone person didn't know he was ill will cause a "foot drop." And episodes of a lack of co-ordination could point to "many hidden disorders," they said for example, inhaling the in Pacific vincingly demonstrated in the kill ratio of MIGs versus Sabre jets" during the Korean war. Kuter referred to Air Force statistics showing that 5th Air Force F86s destroyed 802' Russian-made MIG 15s during "the Korean . conflict against 58 Am erican plane? lost. . PLOWSHARES DEPARTMENT ' ' Chamberlain, S. D. (U.R) Art Priebe, retired farmer, has turned a 50-year-old threshing machine into a violin. Priebe bought the old thresher many years ago for its fine maple wood. He used some of the wood to make the fiddle. ENJOY CIRCUS RINGS or SEASHELLS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor fumes of certain chemicals might cause them, and certain medi cines will cause them in some patients. "Undoubtedly, it would be far better if such disorders could be discovered before a patient had a serious accident," they said in describing their ideas in the New England Journal of Medi cine. "The precept, 'a miss is as good as a mile,' should be kept in mind in preventive control of accidents. There may be only a hair breadth of space or a split second of time between a missed accident and a fatal outcome. In a slight deviation from usual be havior the narrow margin be tween a safe and an unsafe ac tion can be removed." FROM THRIFT MARKET CENTRAL POINT LOCAL SWEET) CORN lL TOMATOES A-n imm. PRIME Ground SBeef . 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