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ENTRENCHED ABOUND NAVAL BASE at Rio Santiago, these troops, loyal to govern
ment of Argentine President Juan Peron, are firing on rebel positions. (International)
Oregon Liquor Probe Resumes in Portland Friday
Portland U.R) There was
a lull in testimony before the
Multnomah County Grand jury
today but it planned to resume
its probe into affairs of the Ore
gon Liquor Control commission
in earnest tomorrow.
District Attorney William
Langley said members of the
OLCC staff would be called be
fore the jurors to tell what they
know about charges of bribery
in the commission affairs. On
Monday, Oregon Attorney Gen
eral Robert L. Thornton will be
Invited to present "legal evi
dence" of so-called law viola
tions among commission person
nel. It was Thornton who recently
charged that Gov. Paul L. Pat-
terson had suppressed evidence
of bribery accepted by OLCC
employees. Gov. Patterson de
nied the charge and himself ap
peared before the grand jury to
report the findings of an inves
tigation he had ordered into com
mission affairs.
The probe was interrupted last
month by a legal technicality but
resumed yesterday with the tes
timony of two former FBI agents
now involved in the controversy.
Howard Bobbit, former feder
al agent now practicing law in
Portland, was one of two at
torneys who conducted the gov
ernor's investigation. He . did
not disclose the nature of his
testimony.
Also before the jury yesterday
was C. C. spears, anotner form
er FBI man who is now a special
prosecutor for Langley in con
nection with the OLCC case.
Fescue Growers' Vote
To Wait Ballot Boxes
Salem (U.R) Counting of
votes in the fescue commodity
commission referendum now in
progress will not get under way
until all ballot baxes reach
Salem, the State Department of
Agriculture said today.
Balloting started in 15 coun
ties yesterday and will continue
through tomorrow. J. F. Short,
director of agriculture, said it
would probably be Monday or
Tuesday before all ballot boxes
reach Salem.
Family Sought
In Montana
Hungry Horse, Mont. (U.R)
Efforts were being made to
day to locate a construction wor
ker, his wife and their three-year-old
daughter missing from
their home nearly eight weeks.
At the same time another
"missing persons" mystery was
cleared up.
Sheriff Dick Walsh said Ray
Phillips had been missing since
Aug. 8 when he left here to
meet his 27-year-old wife who
had been hospitalized in Spo
kane. . Two older children were left
with friends here when Phillips
and the three-year-old left for
Spokane.
Walsh said he was "sure" Phil
lips did get his wife at the hos
pital and that the three left
Spokane. But nothing has been
heard from them here since Aug.
8 although Phillips had planned
to return that night.
Another western Montana
mystery was cleared up when
End ward Plummer, 38, Kelso,
Calif., called Walsh to report he
was safe and "didn't even know
I was supposed to be missing."
A search was scheduled to start
for him after he was reported
missing on a trip he began from
Yakima,Wash., which he began
Sept. 12 Plummer told Walsh
he just "stopped en route."
Sixty-five to 70 per cent mois
ture is the desirable level for
crops, according to the North
Dakota agricultural marketing
service. Both quality and feed
value depend on correct, mois-
Nickel Lost Under Bed
Brings Fire Department
Long Beach. Calif. (U.R)
The next time nine-ytar-old
Marie Peary loses a nickel
under her bed she'll leave it
there. -.
When Marie lighted a match
to look for the nickel Wednes
day, the cloth covering on the
bed's springs caught fire. Nine
pieces of fire equipment rush
ed to the house, but the fire
had burned out. The only job
left for firemen was to re
trieve the nickel.
Chris Shempp Named
By Beverage Group
Gearhart (U.R)' James W.
(Woody) Sannes of Portland was
elected president of the Oregon
Licensed Beverage association
yesterday at the concluding ses
sion of the group's 18th annual
convention here.
Sannes succeeds C h a rl e s
Schuss of Klamath Falls. '
Other officers named were
Ralph Younger, Milton-Freewat-er,
vice-president; Al Harris,
Portland, treasurer, and Miles
Brandson, Portland, national di
rector. Elected alternate for Ban
don was Chris Schempp of Med
f ord.
Among resolutions adopted by
the association were one support
ing Gov. Patterson proclamation
urging observance of Constitut
ion Week, and one authorizing
the secretary - manager to rec
ommend to all liquor licensees
that they close on Christmas eve
and from noon to 3 p.m. on Good
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Indian Timber at Gold Beach Sold For $1,175,1
Portland (U.R) Two North
west Indians today are ' worth
half-a-million dollars apiece as a
result of yesterday's auction of
their Oregon timber holdings.
Gold Beach, Ore., Indian trust
lands belonging to Jasper Grant
of Portland and Harold F.
Thornton of Klamath, Calif.,
were sold by the Indian Bureau
to Evans Products Co., Coos
Bay, Ore., for $1,750,000.
Fraudulent Sales
Four years ago the same lands
were sold fraudulently for $135,
000 and three men served fed
eral prison terms as a result.
The two Indians will split the
proceeds of the sale equally but
control of, their new-found
wealth will be in the hands of a
conservator.
The timberlands had been
held in trust by the Bureau of
Indian , Affairs since 1900. In
1951 they were sold in a sale
arranged by Clyde W. Flinn,
realty officer for the Indian
Sod House Now
Memorialized
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Colby, Kan. (U.R) A new his
torical organization was launch
ed here Aug. 21 to memorialize
the sod house built on the great
plains of mid-America.
"The Sons and Daughters of
The Soddies, Inc.," with V. A.
Kear of Colby as its guiding
spirit, already has membership
requests from coast to coast.
Kear, born in a sod house,
started the organization when
he noticed the unusual interest
in a small replica of one at the
Colby fairgrounds. -
He decided to build a real sod
house and furnish it with the
tools, furniture and utensils
used by the pioneers. Last year
more than 8,000 persons stopped
here to look at the house. So
far this year, 24,000 tourists
have been through it.
More Than a Million
With that kind of Interest,
Kear decided to form an associa
tion to the memory of the sod
structure. Membership is for
those who were born or reared
in a "soddy" or attended school
in one. '
Kear said there were more
than 1,000,000 sod houses built
on the plains during the' west
ward movement, but that there
are only 11 still standing. He
hopes the Colby structure will
become a shrine to that "great
legion of courageous persons
who homesteaded : the treeless
plains." .- .
A sod house was built of
blocks of prairie sod two feet
long, a foot wide and 3V& inches
thick. The sod was laid while
damp with the grass side down,
making walls two feet thick.
Kear said it took 89 tons of
sod to build the house, not in
cluding a layer on the roof.
Long, handmade wooden spikes
were used to secure rafters and
other fittings into the sod.
"Settlers could live comfort
ably in a sod house," Kear said.
"They were cool in the summer
and warm in the winter, and
there was never any danger of
fire, because sod won't burn.
Algae Blamed
For Fish Deaths
Appleton, Wis. (U.R) Techni
cians believe they have found
the culprits responsible for the
wholesale death of fish in some
of the nation's lakes and rivers.
The fish-killers are algae, lit
tle water plants which absorb
so . much oxygen there isn't
enough left for the fish, accord
ing to tests made by the Sul
phite Pulp Manufacturers- Re
search League in Wisconsin.
The league's technical men
began investigating when fish
suffocated without apparent
cause at a Fox river point where
repeated measurements showed
that dissolved oxygen was ade
quate for fish life day after day.
The '- technicians finally re
membered a peculiar ability of
algae. These tiny plants give off
oxygen during sunlight hours
and absorb oxygen from the
water at night.
"We wondered if the algae
could be reducing the oxygen i
under cover of darkness to levels
too low for fish life, and then
restoring the oxygen to less sus
picious levels by the time the
chemists came around for sam
ples," said Averill J. Wiley, the
leagues technical director.
So technicians sampled water
in the Fox River every hour for
one whole day. .
."Sure enough," said Wiley,
"when the sampling started at 6
p.m. the oxygen supply in the
water was 3.05 parts per mil
lion, high enough, to support fish
life."
Wiley said that by 6 a.m. the
oxygen dropped to 0.4 parts,
which is too low for most desir
able fish .species. Then as the
sun rose, the oxygen started up
ward and reached 3.3 parts at
5 p.m.
Farm fertilizers and residues
from sewage ' treatment plants
are increasing algae growth and
creating troublesome problems
Bureau.
He was convicted of fraud and
sentenced to a federal prison
term along with John C. Blan
ford, former Oklahoma attor
ney, and Fred Marsh, Lebanon
timber buyer.
Five Bidders
There were five bidders at
yesterday's sale. The Evans firm
paid 10 per cent of its bid with
a certified check and agreed to
pay the balance within 30 days.
Indian Bureau officials said
there were few precedents for
taxation of such sale proceeds
but they believed that Grant and
Thornton would enjoy their
windfall tax free. Grant is
Thornton's uncle. The original
trust allotments were made to
Grant's parents and sisters. He
and his nephew are the' sole
heirs. Grant is a bachelor but
Thornton has several children.
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