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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, August 25, 1955
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rPAn vn i in run npru Thic crhnni hue ?t,
ripped from its chassis, lies beside railroad track near
Spring City, Tenn., after a fast freight tram struck it on
grade crossing. Ten of its small school children occupants
were killed. The driver, Raymond Moore, 38, was charged
with manslaughter. Slightly injured, he said, "I stopped at
the crossing but didn't see the train. When I started across
the tracks, I saw it and heard the engineer blowing the
whistle. I prayed I would make it but I knew I was too late."
A Nkhol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United fm Fajtaf Writer
Washington (U.R) Fred M.
Pownall is the only man I know
silly enough to build a boat in
his basement,
and smart
enough to get
it out without
tearing the
house down.
"I did it on
purpose," the
68 - year - old
professor says.
"It wasn't a
very big boat."
Pownall ex-
Human Nichol plained that
the boat was only 10 feet long
"and not wide enough to scrape
the doors in the cottage."
My friend of over a quarter
of a century has just retired as
director of university publica
tions and publisher of student
publications at the University of
Iowa.
The building of boats and
book shelves and the like are
Just a sideline with the bounc
ing, lovable old timer. He is 68.
Wife Is Newspaperwoman
Dorothy, his attractive wife,
is a newspaperwoman. She, in
her day, has done everything
from chaSe fires to answer let
ters to the troubled in love.
Currently she edits the woman's
page for the Iowa City Press
Citizen, in the home city of the
university.
Fred Pownall's roots are in
Iowa. He was born in Center
dale. He always liked to fancy
himself as a reporter, which in
deed he was, and still is.
"I'll never be happy behind
a desk," he once told Mrs. Pow
nall. But happy or not, he spent
35 years behind one. It must be
said, though, that he didn't sit
on a chair for very long at any
one time. I never saw such a
O bouncer in all my life. He would
be in one spot one second and
10 blocks away a moment or so
later.
Looking back, the professor
O thinks tht his biggest thrill as
o a working newsman came in
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traveling preacher. I was sent
to cover the Villisca ax murder
for the Register."
Popular With Students
Fred and I always got along
fine. Maybe it was because he
didn't have much of a chance to
boss me. I. did take one course
under him, I recall, and he was
kind enough to let me slide
through.
That endeared me to him.
Fred and Dorothy always were
popular as chaperones at fra
ternity and sorority parties.
Even if we had to talk the Pow-
nalls into cancelling some other
invitation.
We liked the Pownalls for a
few reasons. One was they were
affable and mixed well in any
company. Next, they were good
conversationalists. And they
weren't snoopers.
I don't think either took a
drop of anything stronger than
the cherry punch in the bowl
during the days of prohibition.
Dorothy was always busy being
nice. Fred's thick eye-glasses
couldn't see around a corner at
a freshman taking an illegal
nip. People like that didn't grow
on trees, as the fella said.
Anyhow, I hope the Pownalls
will be happy in their little
cottage on Upper Eau Claire
Lake in Wisconsin. And if Fred
decides to build a bigger boat I
hope he'll build it outside. Their
cottage is rather small.
G had joined the Des Moines Reg-
ister.
u "In Ml 2, eight people had
0 been murdered in Villisca. By
o 1917, the state thought it had
enough evidence to convict a
Slate May Qualify
For Defense Funds
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Salem U.R) Evacuation
Gand reception plans developed
Ciin Oregon during the past year
G should qualify the state for fi
Qnancial assistance from the fed
eral government, State Civil De
fense Director Arthur M. Sheets
said yesterday.
O Congress recently appropriat
ed $12,000,000 to help evacuation
planning and testing in the na
tion's 70 critical target areas.
State highway and civil de
fense officials said, during a
Gmeeting with Russell W. James
Oof the U.S. Bureau of Public
Roads, that tentative evacuation
plans fog the Portland area have
been completed and will be test
ed in late September. Traffic
control points have been estab
lished on the perimeter of Port
land and throughout the adja
cent counties.
Home Lighting Said
Neglected Feature
Chicago (ll.R) "Before you
buy that dream house, go back
and look at every room and
closet after dark."
That was the advice issued by
the American Home Lighting
Institute which said that light
ing is the most neglected feature
in the average home building
and home furnishing plan.
A recent survey showed that
only $32.14 worth of light fix
tures is in the average home
though a minimum of $200 is re
quired, the institute said. It of
fered this six-point check list for
prospective home buyers:
1. Make sure there is at least
one ceiling fixture in every
room, closet and hall.
2. Low for valance or cornice
lighting installations over the
drapery window.
3. Make certain living and din
ing room walls are fully lighted.
4. Check kitchen lighting to
make sure there is an overhead
fixture as well as specific lights
for the sink and other work
areas.
5. Make sure that there is a
ceiling fixture plus lights on
both sides of the mirror in the
bathroom.
6. Check that all stairway, en
trances and garage doors are
lighted as a protection asainst
dangerous accidents and rob- i
beries.
EMBARRASSED '
Wichita, Kan. (U.R) William 1
H. Washburn, one of two in- j
spectors here for the Kansas '
hotel and restaurant board, i
turned up red-faced at his office, j
An apartment building he owns j
and had leased to an operator ;
was found to be without a li
cense and a hotel register as re
quired by law. The lessee's
oversight was quickly corrected.
Jekyll-Hyde Combination
Shown by Buffalo Cop
Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) Motor
cycle Patrolman George E. Marts
of the Buffalo Police Depart
ment is a combination Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde to city motorists.
Of the 106,000 parking tags is
sued in 1954, Mans handed out
10.46 per cent of the total.
But while he's tough with
parking violators, Marts also be
lieves in lending a helping hand.
He carries tools for unlocking
automobiles with him at all
times. And there's no charge
or ticket for aiding motorists
who have locked their keys in
the car.
Marts, who will retire with 25
years' service next fall, holds
another distinction. He has never
taken a day of sick leave.
Plan Drawn To Aid
Molalla Log Crisis
Portland (U.R) Forest Ser
vice and Bureau of Land Man
agement officials today announc
ed a plan for alleviating a ser
ious log shortage irTthe Molalla
area, which has forced some mills
to shut down.
Regional Forester J. Herbert
Stone and BLM area Adminis
trator James F. Doyle agreed
to adjust boundaries of land
managed by the agencies at the
headwaters of the Molalla river.
Forest Service land in the
Molalla drainage would be ex
changed for BLM timber acreage
in the Clackamas river drainage
area, simplifying administration
and making more mature timber
available to Molalla logging operators.
Round Trip Ocean Travel InOne Day Believed Near
London (U.R) Britain now
holds a record "breakfast to sup
per" round trip crossing of the
Atlantic by a Canberra bomber
and there were predictions such
flights would be commonplace
in the near future.
The Royal Aero Club said pilot
John Waiter Hackett, 32, estab
lished a record timing Tuesday
of 14 hours, 21 minutes, 45.4
seconds for the London to New
York and back flight of 6,915.92
miles.
Hackett and Navigator Peter
Moneypenny, 28, guided the bullet-nosed
Canberra at an average
speed of 481.52 miles per hour
although the twin-jet bomber
often exceeded 550 miles per
hour.
Chairman Sir Miles Thomas of
British Overseas Airways sent
congratulations to the crew on
the "historic flight." He said he
was "sorry that the Canberra
was not carrying a payload of
passengers or freight but that
will come."
British newspapers had a field
day of backpatting. The Daily
Mirror agreed with Thomas that
the flight was only a sample of
things to come.
"The fact is that within five
years the most ordinary men
and women- reclining in their
TROJAN TRUCK
New Haven, Conn. (U.R)
Police who had been unable to
sneak up on a sidewalk dice
game finally resorted to a Trojan
horse tactic. They drove up in
a milk truck and caught the
players completely by surprise.
luxury passenger seats will be
doing the same flight in the
same time without the slighest
fuss or trouble," the newspaper
predicted.
Hackett established or broke
three records in the flight. He
took off at dawn from London,
arrived at New York's Floyd
Bennett Field in time for lunch
and set down back in London
in time for dinner.
He set the first there-and-back
record between London and New
York, and broke existing records
for the London-New York and
New York-London laps.
The Royal Aero Club said the
London-New York lap was cov
ered in seven hours? 29 minutes,
56.7 seconds at an average speed
of 461.12 miles per hour for the
3,457.96 mile distanoe.
The return trip was faster be
cause of favorable winds. It was
completed in six hours, 16 min
utes and 59.5 seconds for n av
erage speed of 350.35 miles per
hour.
"A Story
Thai Needs
Telling"
SEE PAGE 8
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