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o EIQKT nSDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 14. 1955 Neuberger Asks Funds For West Rainier Dike Washington U.R) The office of Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.), said today that he had asked the Bureau of the Budget to include funds from a West Rainier, Ore., dike in its 1957 budget. Neuberger asked $500,000 for the project which would pro vide the only protection for four miles of a drainage district along the Columbia river. The only protection now is a railroad embankment and Neu berger said "a similar embank ment, collapsing in 1948, result ed in washing away of Vanport city and caused the most dis astrous flood damage in half a century in the Pacific Northwest." Italy and Germany To Sign Manpowei Pact Rome (U.R) Italy and Ger many will sign an agreement in Rome next week under which Italian manpower may be used in German factories eventually. No transfer of Italian workers is contemplated immediately. But the two governments con sider it possible in the future if Germany's booming industry de velops a manpower shortage and Italy's unemployment problems continue. SUGAR RAY CELEBRATES New middleweight champ' Sugar Ray Robinson sips champagne with his wife, Edna, in Chicago to celebrate his victory over Carl (Bobo) Olson. Robinson knocked out Bobo in the second round of their championship fight. Butter From Sandwiches Aids in Escape Effort Portsmouth, England U.R) Police said today two convicts who escaped Tuesday apparent ly greased their wrists with but ter from their lunch sandwiches and slipped out of their hand cuffs. The escapees were' part of a group of 28 prisoners being transferred by bus from a main land jail to the Isle of Wight When the bus stopped at the harbor to meet the ferry, the two men got away, Michigan's coastline is equal in length to the Atlantic coast line from Maine to Florida. The AMAZING NEW 2-D00R- FREEZER Plus REFRIGERATOR! 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APPLIANCE STORE Phone 3-5433 New Location 225 E. 6th formerly Craln & Mohr Hardware Tending Airplane Beacons Found To Be Tough Job Albany, N. Y. (U.R) The beam from an air beacon stab bing the darkness from a distant mountain peak has become a fa miliar light in this flying age. But few people know about the men who keep these sentinels flickering without fail. In eastern New York State, a man named William Conlon, who works for the Civil Aer onautics Administration has the job of tending 15 of the beacons. Fifteen doesn't seem such a lot until you learn where some of them are located. For example, the one atop Black Mountain towering above Lake George. On a mid-winter dawn, Conlon, a heavy-set man in his 50's, pulls on snowshoes and starts up the peak with a 25-pound pack of tools, beacon parts and a few candy bars. Part - way up he hits frozen snow and his snowshoes have to be fitted with screws on the bot toms to keep him from slipping back on the icy glare. At the top of the 2,600-foot mountain, he finds an, ice-encrusted fire tower. To reach the beacon, he has to chop his way up iron stairs into the vacant ob server's lookout and through a trapdoor to the roof. With the mercury at 20 below and a northwest wind whipping by, Conlon takes off his gloves, cleans and repairs the light, and then climbs back down. He used to have to make the trip at least once a month. Now, it's every two months. Once a year, in summer, he also hauls six 300-pound tanks of acetylene to the peak. He uses a tractor as far as possible up the trail, then has a horse pull the tanks one at a time the remaining mile and one-half straight up. The job usually takes a week. At one time, Conlon also tend ed the beacon atop the highest part of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. Once he climbed 648 feet above the Hudson river to fix it but when he climbed down he got a com plaint. He had forgotten to turn on the light. Along with the beacons, Con lon cares for boundary lights and teletype machines at Albany Airport. He makes no bones about his preference. "Teletypes are messy," Con lon says, "I'd rather climb a mountain and fix a beacon any day." Portland Defective Head Takes Federal Job Portland U.R) Detective Capt William Browne, head of Portland detectives, said today he would leave Dec. 30 to accept a job as a consultant to federal agencies. Browne said the. position may be only temporary but that if it lasted through March he would probably apply for retirement from his Portland job. He has accumulated time off until then. BORSCHT REPORT Hartford, Conn. QJ.R) TJ. S. Sen. William A. Purtell (R-Conn.) back from a trip behind the Iron Curtain, said he didn't think much of Russian cooking. "Even the borscht isn't as good there as it is in America," he said. CHRIS THE TAILOR NOW at 36 North Bartlett Made-to-Measure Clothes Alterations Repairing Remodeling PH. 2-8473 ACME HARDWARE - BLAST RIPS UNION OFFICIAL'S AUTO Shown above is the explosion shattered auto of Charles Clark, president of Local 746, IUE-CIO, Columbus,' O. The car was bombed as Clark addressed a mass meeting of some 3000 Westing house strikers at a drive-in-theater a mile from the blast scene. Tips on Care Of Hafs Offered New York (U.R Rabbits are scarce, so hat prices are on the rise. Here are some tips on pre serving men' hats from an ex pert, Thomas Beff, hatter: Don't let a hat accumulate dust. One drop of rain and you have a hard-to-remove mud spot. Brush daily with the nap, using a medium bristled clothes brush. (Never use a whisk broom). Don't use dry cleaning fluids on spots. Doing this always leaves a ring. Use a dry rubber sponge. Don't place your hat on a shelf unless brim overhangs the edge. This keeps brim from buckling. Turn leather sweat band out overnight during warm weather. This dries hat and pre vents staining. Push out creases, round out dents, turn up brim and stand rain soaked hat on leather until it dries naturally. Don't use ar tificial heat. Don't continually snap hat brim for it will cause shape loss. Hold hat by the brim, front and back, when placing it on the head. This will keep crown crease from popping out. Store hat -in hat box between seasons and keep away from heated radiators. Panamas should always be kept in a cool place during the winter. Finally, when checking your hat make certain it is not thrown in a heap with other hats. Which is easier said than done, if some popular New York gathering places are any example. Fish Sticks Said Major Development Gloucester, Mass. (UP.) Fish sticks are being hailed as the most important develop ment in the fishing industry in two centuries. ' Though the fish stick did not go on the market until late in 1952, it already has establish ed itself as a major segment of the fishing industry. Monthly production rates soar ed throughout 1954, reaching 4, 900,000 pounds by year's end. By last March, the monthly rate had exceeded 7,000,000 pounds. Of about 50 U. S. plants pro cessing fish sticks, 20 are in New England, with Gloucester the principal manufacturing center in the northeast. Fish sticks are made primarily from cod. However, ocean perch (rosefish) and haddock also are used. The raw material is a big block or . slab of frozen fillets. Sizes and weights vary greatly. These blocks are run through high-speed saws to obtain small finger or sticks about SV2 in ches by 1 inch by 3A inch. Still frozen, the sticks are placed on an automatic conveyor that pass es them successively through a prepared batter and a liberal sprinkling of cracker crumbs. Some sticks are removed at this point and packaged to be sold as "raw breaded" fish sticks. These must be cooked by the consumer. The remainder continue through a big tank where they ere slowly fried in deep fat, then cooled quickly in special cooling chambers. Packing is done by hand, us ually 10 sticks to a 10-ounce package, the popular consumer size. Packages are closed and wrapped automatically and then go to the quick freezing room, Easy Credit by Private Schools Eyed New York -4U.R) More stu dents are going to private schools today because they can get an education on easy credit, according to a banking execu tive. Privately controlled elemen tary and secondary schools showed an enrollment increase of more than 725,000 students over last year, said Rudolf Ne burger, president of The Tuition Plan, which handles pay-as-you- go financing of school tuitions and other fees. Total national enrollment for the so-called ex clusive schools, he added, was 4,690,000. A significant portion of the in crease in private school enroll ment, Neuburger said, can be attributed to wider use. of time financing in paying school tui tions and other fees. Total costs at a private preparatory school may run as high as $2,000 a year, he added, although most run well below this figure and many schools offer scholarships which trim the expenses greatly. Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) It was really cold cash somebody stole from James Roaten. Roaten put $1,000 in cash in his deepfreeze for safekeeping. It was gone when he went to look at it. Help Fight TB KKHMSIMASX GREETINGS 1955 College Training Crop Dusters College Station, Tex. (U.R) Texas A.&M. College has started the first college-sponsored train ing course for crop-dusters. Last year an estimated 628,- 000,000 pounds of dust and 91,- 000,000 gallons of sprays were used by agricultural pilots. College officials said the days are gone when an aerial appli cator was a harum-scarum guy who was here today and gone to morrow. There was no assurance in the old days that the crop was treated properly. Aerial applicators of today are responsible businessmen who plan to' be in business next year and the year after. They appre ciate regular patronage as much as the seed dealer. Prof. Fred E. Weick, head of the personal aircraft research center o fthe Texas Engineering Experiment Station, directs the school. The Texas A.&M. College sys tem is sponsoring the school with cooperation from the Civil Aer onautics administration, the Texas Aerial Applicators associ ation and other interested groups. "The shortage of good pilots is always critical," said Gale F Hanson, agricultural operations specialist with the CAA, who is a key figure in the school. Pilots taking the courses re ceive instructions in all phases of their future business from top-ranking specialists in the dif ferent fields. Dr. J. C. Gaines, head of the department of entomology, who has worked with aerial control of insect pests for more than 20 years, and his staff provide in struction in this field. Weick and his as s i s t a n t George A. Roth will provide in struction in aircraft care and service, calibration of equip ment and distribution patterns, seeding and fertilizing and laws and regulations on the subject. The course runs five weeks, with presentation of certificates to those who qualify. ieMISTMASjCREETING Buy Christmas Seals LOT OF MILEAGE Marion, 111 (U.R) Will West brook, of nearby Creal Springs, certainly can't complain about the wear he got from a pair of tan walking shoes. Westbrook bought the shoes for $7 in 1915 from a shoe store here. He wore them only on Sundays and spe cial occasions until 1948, but now he wears them every day. 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