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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, November 10. 1955 I School Echo Problem ofed by B oa rd; To Band Trip Ask OK on TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Firefighters move m to fight flames roaring down the hills within 400 feet of a block of homes at Sunland, Calif. Two Southern California fires destroyed over 1000 acres, moving perilously close to hundreds of homes. More than 1000 firefighters fought the blazes. British Underworld Doesn't Use Guns, But Is Just as Tough as U.S. Gangland By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Correspondent - London tU.R) I once told a New York gangster that the British underworld does not use euns. except on rare occasions and he laughed and said if he could get a passport he'd fly there and take over. He's lucky he never got a passport. Like several other am bitious Americans, including some Army deserters who thought they were getting in on a good thing, he would have wound up as close to hamburger as makes no difference. Instead of guns thugs use razors and knives here, or lengths of bicycle chain wrapped around the knuckle with a few inches lashing loose to gouge an eye or rip a cheek. More than one hopeless crip ple wishes they did use guns then maybe he would be dead and out of his misery instead of being a hulk in a wheelchair, his tendons slashed through by razors. The British public doesn't pay too much attention to its under world or hear much about it. Two gangs will fight it out in the early morriing and perhaps there will be a paragraph in the newspapers reporting that an unidentified man was picked no slashed from ear to ear. No Killing Not murdered, mind you. for the gangs here do not kill. They prefer to mark and maim. A man walking around the streets of Soho with a long scar on his face and throat is a more ef fective warning to other gangs than a small stone in a ceme tery in the suburbs. Right now, however, Britons are getting a look at what goes on in their own backyard and some are doubtless wishing they hadn't been so virtuous about American gangsterism. Several weeks ago Jack Com er, alias Jack Spot and Albert Dimes, known as Italian Albert, waged a bloody .struggle for a knife in a fruit shop in the Soho district which has been head quarters for the London under world for 250 years. Spot is a bookmaker, reputed to control the placing of book makers at race tracks, one of the most lucrative sources of gang income here. At his trial, a venerable clerk in holy orders, Rev. Basil Andrews, 88, came forth solemnly and swore the bookmaker had not wielded the knife. Impressive Testimony Spot was acquitted on this impressive testimony, but then it developed the star witness had a most curious background for a minister. He finally ad mitted he had committed per jury. Britons found to their chagrin that they had their own color ful collection of Damon Runyon characters Sonny the Yank, Moishe Blue Boy, Benny the Kid, Flash Harry, Erny the Gent, Monkey Johnny, Joey King Cross. . Demands arose and are still Scientists Delve Into Fingerling Fish Mystery Seattle, Wash. (u.P.) Science in its relentless probe of the mys teries of physical nature, has de termined the aerodynamic char acteristics of fingerling fish. This new knowledge, gained in a wind tunnel at the Univer sity of Washington, should save the lives of thousands of young salmon which plunge over the spillways of Pacific Northwest dams en route to the ocean. The scientific interest in how well a salmon can "fly" grew out of observations that the height of the dam apparently wasn't the major factor in the survival rate of fish taking a spillway ride. Elwha Dam, on the Elwha riv er near Port Angeles, Wash., is only 100 feet high, but 37 per cent of the young fish plunging over the spillway there were dying in the pool below. Glinis Dam on the same river is .twice as high, but a spillway trip there killed only seven per cent of the salmon run. The fisheries men also knew that fingerling salmon could be planted safely from airplanes flying at 500 feet. Plaslic Models To find out the unknown fac tor for fish deaths, Dr. Eugene P. Richey of the University of Washington made plastic models of fingerlings in various attitudes of swimming. These models went into a wind tunnel and their co efficients of "drag"' through the air were determined. With these coefficients, the professor deter mined the ultimate speed a fish would reach during a free fall through the atmosphere. The calculated results were compared with the speeds of live fish dropped from a 150-foot tower. The live fish demonstrat ed they knew enough to spread their fins and twist their tails as coming in tnat bcotiand Kara clean up Soho, which Scotland Yard frankly is unwilling to do. The Yard concedes that there will always be criminals and it is far better to have them congregated where they can be watched, in Soho, than to be dis persed all over the biggest city in the empire. to increase "drag" and fall slowly as possible. Here, finally, was proof that a fish falls much slower than does water. That meant that a fish should have a better chance to stay alive in a spillway plunge if it gets separated from the wa ter and falls freely into the downstream pool. Spillway Extensions The fisheries men now have passed the problem on to hydrau lic engineers, who will design spillway extensions which will flip the fingerlings free of the water rushing over a dam. One of these new spillway "ski slides" will be installed at the Mount Baker Dam. The 240-foot structure on Washington's Ska git river has killed 67.5 per cent of the fish which took its spill way ride. Milo Bell, technical coordina tor for the Washington State Fisheries Department, says spill way design is only one part of the fish survival problem at the dams. The fisheries men suspect that turbulence in the pools be low the dams may take its toll of fingerling lives. The wind tunnel studies were a portion of a seven-year re search program authorized by the Washington legislature to in crease the life expectancy of fish. That program is only two years along. If science was able to determine how well a salmon can "fly" there should be re markable progress on the mys teries of fish survival during the program's remaining five years. Advisory Board of BLM Here Slates Heeling Nov. 18 A meeting of the advisory board for the Medford district of the Bureau of Land Manage ment will be held on Friday, Nov. 18, according to District Forester E. K. Peterson. Scheduled for discussion are (1) the plan prepared by the dis trict for offering O&C and pub lic domain timber for sale in calendar year 1956, (2) discussion of possible changes in marketing area boundaries, (3) consider ation of the advisibility of var ious possible grazing improve ment projects, (4) priority for construction of various possible timber access road projects. Also there will be an election of of ficers. L. L. Simpson is chair man and B. L. Nutting vice chairman. New Members: Two new members have been appointed to the local board by Area Administrator James Doyle. They are A. C. Smith, Grants Pass, owner of a saw mill on Wolf Creek, and Ted Wood, Murphy, a partner in the Conifer Woods Products Co. Members of the board reap pointed for another year are, from Klamath Falls, O. K. Puckett and Tim Sullivan; from Medford, Eric Allen Jr.; George Flanagan, Glenn Jackson, B. L. Nutting, L. L. Simpson, Gene Tedrick, and W. B. Tucker; from Grants Pass, F. I. Bristol, Cliff Coleman, and Raymond A. Lath rop; and from Glendale, Tom Mehl Jr. The Medford school board this week voted to employ an acous tic engineer to see what can be done about the problem of echoes in the auditorium of the new Hedrick Junior High school. Since opening of the school, the accoustical problem there has plagued school administra tors, students and the public at tending functions in the audi torium. It was hoped for a time the addition of stage draperies would solve the problem, but the improvement after they were put in was not sufficient, the board decided. To Ask Band Trip The board also authorized School Superintendent Leonard Mayfield to get in touch with the state High School Activities association to request permis sion for the high school band to attend the annual East-West Shrine football game in San Francisco in December. The band recently was invited to make its fifth appearance there in five years, but a recent ruling of the association would prohibit the band's attendance. The board adopted a policy under which school facilities will not be rented for private commercial use. They will still be . available for use by bona fide organizations, trie board stated. Audit Approved In other action, the board ap proved a recent audit of school district finances, and discussed the future needs and problems of the district, including such matters as possible annexation, district consolidation, building needs and sites, curriculum, maintenance and siorage, and bus storage. The board inspected the phys ical facilities of Washington school, and, under a regular pro gram of inspections, will check on Roosevelt school next week. Explosion of a hydrogen bomb is as mild as the falling of, a feather compared to energy re leased by an exploding star, says the National Geographic Society. 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