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ForurpIus Flow
Washington (U.R) Church
lexers will appeal to President
Eisenhower to break a bottle
neck that is restricting the flow
America's surplus food to
Qhungry families overseas, in
formed sources said Saturday.
The bottleneck is a shortage
of funds to pay ocean freight
on the surplus farm commodi
ties the agriculture department
. has offered to give to relief
agencies for distribution abroad.
Informants said less than $5,
00)00 is now available in the
special fund Congress voted last
year to pay ocean freight on re
lief shipments of surplus foods.
Congress provided that Presi
dent Eisenhower could enlarge
the fund at his discretion by
q transferring to it any money that
was appropriated, but not spent,
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Fines Coming In
Redding, Calif. aU.R) Judge
Joseph F. Aleck Jr. complained
Saturday that the courtroom
jam caused by his cramped quar
ters is creating a serious prob
lem. '"Some motorists have been
detained so long paying parking
fines that they have another
ticket by the time they get back
to their cars," the Judge said.
Workers Agree To
Hourly Pay Increase
Klamath Falls (U.R) Em
ployees of the McCloud River
Lumber company at McCloud,
Calif., have accepted an average
S-zi cents an hour wage increase,
the Pine Industrial Relations
council said it had been in
formed Saturday.
The wage hike, to be applied
on a graduated basis, is retroac
tive to Dec. 1.
CIO International Woodwork
ers of America local 664 which
represents the McCloud work
ers said the wage increase was
approved by a 73 per cent ma
jority.
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Protestant, Catholic and Jew
ish relief agencies, which took
the lead in organizing the "share
our surplus" program, are now
planning a joint appeal to the
President to exercise this power.
They will tell him that a rela
tively modest diversion of funds,
say $10,000,000 or $15,000,000
out of the current overall for
eign aid budget of more than
$2,500,000,000, would make it
possible to double or triple the
flow of surplus foods to needy
people in all parts of the world.
They also will point out that
any extra funds which the gov
ernment spends on ocean freight
will be recovered in the long run
run by saving iarm surplus
storage charges.
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Salem (U.R) The State
Highway Department awarded
five contracts yesterday for road
jobs in. scattered sections of the
state.
They included:
Traffic signals at Stewart ave.
and Pacific highway in Med
ford. Awarded to Steek Electric
Company, Roseburg, S6600.
Grading and paving 6.13 miles
of the Sherman highway be
tween Moro and Grass Valley.
Awarded to Roy L. Houck &
Son, Salem, $386,230.50.
Production project on The
Dalles-California highway, 10
miles southeast of The Dalles.
Awarded' to. C & W Crushing
Company, $22,400.
Grading 'and oiling 2.42 miles
of McMinhville airport Dayton
junction section of Three-Mile
Lane secondary highway,
Awarded to Roy L. Houck &
Sons, Salem, $238,301.
Grading 9.02 miles of North
Santiam highway near Sublimity
and Stayton. Awarded to Durbin
Brothers, Eugene, $211,888.50.
New Transformers
Installed by BPA
Vancouver, Wash. U.R)
The Clark county PUD announ
ced here Saturday that the ser
vice capacity of its McLoughlin
Heights substation would be
doubled with activation of a
new bank of transformers in
stalled by the Bonneville Power
administration.
The Bonneville transformers
will channel power through the
PUD's substation on the heights
and the one at Vancouver ship
yards. Cutover is scheduled for
early Sunday morning.
Capacity will be increased
from 12,000 kilovolt-amperes to
24,000 KVA.
Pellet Pistols Said
In County Schools
Pellet pistols, highly danger
ous weapons which . cannot be
classed as toys, have been re
ported in various county schools
recently, according to the coun
ty schools office.
Law enforcement officials said
the pistols, which sell locally
for $5.98, possibly have been the
cause of broken street lights and
other lights in some areas, and
are potentially highly danger
ous. Two 14-year-olds were appre
hended by one school principal
who discovered the weapons in
their clothing.
He said it is possible to fire
lead pellets at a rate to pene
trate leather.
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Is That So?
What in the world has hap
pened to our old-fashioned snowy
Christmases, anyway. And with
it, those delightful Christmas
card scenes of snowy roads,
frosty windows, and eves drip
ping with icicles?
Looking into the far past we
know of course that some 20,000
years ago half of North America
was buried under a great cover
of ice while the remainder of the
continent, quite likely, shivered
in each winter's cold grip. Only
one thing made the icecap re
treat warmer weather. But
bringing the subject down into
our own lifetime, winters have
actually been getting increasing
ly genial neither are they as
severe nor as long. as they were
in grandfather's day. Particular-
ly along the eastern third of our
continent.
Weather reports from such di
verse points as Montreal, Can
ada, Washington, D. C, and Bos
ton Mass., bear this out. In Mon
treal, Quebec, snowfall which
averaged 130 inches 75 years
ago is today averaging around
80 inches; the frequency of sub
zero temperatures of the turn of
the century go below zero only
about half as often. In Washing
ton, spring weather has moder
ated considerably; during the 20
years from 1872-1892, there were
a total of 354 days of freezing
temperatures that averages
17.7 each spring; in the 20 years
from 1913 to 1933, there were
only 237 freezing days, averag
ing 11.85, almost a third fewer.
And this same trend toward win
ter mildness holds in Boston.
There the duration of snow on
the ground has lessened seven
days during the past 50 years
and the mean winter tempera
ture for December, January and
February has risen three-and-one-half
degrees in the last 100
years. To return to Montreal for
the moment, the mean tempera
ture there for March has gone
up even . more, nearly four de
grees. '
Would Bring Ice Age
For those who may think this
3 to 4 degree rise in temperature
trivial, weather experts hasten
to say that a drop of only 10 to
15 degrees Fahrenheit would
bring back the ice age!
Besides the ' indisputable figr
ures of weather stations, there
are other signs of our temper
ing winter climate. During the
past 25 years, bird watchers
have found a considerable in
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crease in the number of species
of birds wintering in our north
eastern states and provinces
and considerably north, too, of
their traditional ranges birds
such as cardinals, tufted tit
mouses, turkey vultures, blue
winged warblers and Carolina
wrens. And of the mammals, not
ably the oppossum.
There is of course the counter
argument that warm-blooded
birds and mammals can adapt!
themselves to. colder .tempera
tures. But what of trees?. These,
too, seem to be on the north
ward trek. Explorers are bring
ing back reports that larches and
birches are colonizing new
ground well beyond the timber
line in northern Quebec, and in
former areas they are growing
much faster than they did 40
years ago.
Demonstrably, too, northern
waters are growing warmer. For
example, Hudson Bay and Hud
son Strait are now ice-free for
several . weeks longer on the av
erage and West Greenlanders are 1
now catching cod in abundance
750 miles up beyond Cdpe Fare
well, southern Grenland, where
formerly the cod was seldom
found.
To return then to our white
Christmases. As it stands today,
as the winters are moderating,
the odds against waking up to
falling snow on Christmas morn
ing are remote for about three
fourths of the U. S. In the Mis
sissippi Valley it may mean go
ing as far north as St. Louis, Mis
souri; along the Western Coast,
perhaps it may be necessary to
go as far north as Alaska and
even there, to take binoculars to
see it up in the mountains; along
the Eastern Seaboard, as far
north as New York City and
even here, snow has fallen only
seven times on Christmas Day
in the 50 years from 1903 to
1953 and only on seven others
was it on the streets.
Prospect Always Present
Despite the apparent modera
tion of winter; the possibility of
having a good, old-fashioned
Christmas" is always present
and far from being a thing of
the past. After all, Boston had
the most snowy winter of its en
tire history during 1947-48 and,
unfortunately, I happened to be
timber cruising in New Hamp-
shire when the temperature
dropped to 53 below zero,'Jamr
ary, 1934. And me in a tent!
However, the writing seems to
be on the wall. For versifiers at
least. The search must go on to
find words to rhyme with
"green" and not "white" when
it concerns Christmas and out
side of serene and scene they are
not easy to come by.
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Second Accomplice
Portland (U.R) Police Sat
urday were investigating the
possioimy mat William Clarence
Peddicord, 38-year-old blind
man who confessed setting of a
bomb m Meier and Frank De
partment store last April, had
a second accomplice in his abor
tive attempt.
Detective Lt. Len Heller said
Saturday there was a "good
possibility" another man was in
volved in the $50,000 extortion
scheme.
"There is a lot we still have
to get out of Peddicord before
this case is wrapped up," Heller
said. The officer said it was be
lieved Peddicord may have had
a driver.
Implicated with him was his
sister-in-law, 'Joyce Keller, 28.
They were held under S75.000
bond on charges of attempting
to injure persons and properties
with explosives. They are sched
uled to be arraigned Tuesday.
It was disclosed Saturday that
Peddicord had hired Attorney
James Hafey to represent him.
Nicholas Granet, who recently
defended Victor Laurence Wolf
in a murder hearing, said he
also would be connected wiih
the Peddicord defense.
To Be Examined
Granet said that as soon as the
"confusion" was straightened
out he would ask the court to aD-
pomt two psychiatrists to exam
ine Peddicord.
"There is no question but
what Peddicord suffers from a
persecution complex," the at
torney said. '
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Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Highlights of a report by Dr.
Paul Dudley White after examining President Eisenhowex.
Saturday: ,
Health The President's recovery from his Sept. 24
heart attack is "excellent and encouraging." There are "no
symptoms of deterioration" of his heart. His general health
is good and heart action is "fairly well stabilized."
Fatigue The fatigue reported after an' examination in
Washington last Saturday had nothing to do with the
President's heart condition. It ' probably was a "nervous
. symptom" connected with his increased official activities.
Trip South Recommended
Trip A trip south probably to Augusta, Ga., was rec- -ommended
to give the President a chance to get more
exercise. Cold and inclement weather has restricted him
here. The President probably will do some chipping and
putting but will not play a full game of golf. The idea of
more exercise is to prepare the President for resuming a
full work load.
Work Schedule The President should be able to return
to the White House by Jan. 9 and resume a fairly normal
work load. Some time in mid-February he will be examined
again to see how well he stands up to his first truly heavy
work schedule.
Complete Recovery Mid February
Complete Recovery It will be about mid-February
before physicians will be able to tell how complete the
President's recovery has been.
Second Term? White said the President will have to
. decide himself whether to run for a second term, that as a
physician he had no political prognosis.
"The future rests in the laps of the Gods as it more or
less does with all of us. . . " White said, "with average luck
and common sense care it is possible for the President to
live for years and be fully active." o
efforts of the Portland Better
Business bureau to stop the
blind chemist's quick money
making schemes ultimately led
to his arrest Thursday night.
Peddicord, father of five chil
dren, was selling distributor
ships for auto battery additives
and nylon stocking "washes,"
Robert R. Blyth, assistant mana
ger of the bureau, said. His me
thods were so questionable
Blyth called in postal inspectors
The postal authorities got hold
of a typewriter Peddicord had
owned and given to friends. The
machine proved to be the one
he used in writing notes in the
attempted extortion. '.
Peddicord at time of his arrest
had been selling pencils for a
living. Other support for his
family came from state aid to
the blind and aid to dependent
children. He had operated a
chemical works which failed 10
days before the department store
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