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0 G EIOHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 8, 1956 Estimated $161,815 Damage In Six Mile Area Near Murphy M An estimated $161,815 damage to land, equipment, livestock and other property was sustain ed in a six-mile area between (aiurphy and the fish hatchery on the Applegate river during the recent flood. The report was given late last week at a meeting of the Rogue soil conservation district board of supervisors. Harold Gebhard, Central Point, chairman of the flood sur vey committee, told the board an Estimated 80 miles of the Rogue and Applegate rivers and Bear creek were flooded, with a stream width average of 40 rods 1,923 Acres Flooded , The committee survey indicat ed that 1,923 acres had been flooded in the six-mile area. Re sults from a total survey of 16 "square miles in the Applegate district will be compiled soon, Gebhard said. Other committee- men are Bill Jess, Dodge bridge area, and Francis Kraus, Mur phy. They were assisted In the Murphy canvass by 10 volun teers. Studies of conditions along Rogue river and Bear creek also are to start soon, and informa tion will be forwarded to Ore gon's congressional delegation and the secretary of interior. The survey report is to serve as "a justification for federal aid to flood control work," a spokes man said.Q Resolution Presented Also presented at the meeting was a resolution drawn up by the land use committee, which be sent to the state associa tion of soil conservation districts. GQrPD DEER DEED Cornish, N.H. U.R) School boy Eugene Demers saw two bucks in a brook. Their antlers were hopelyess locked. One buck had drowned. The other buck, the victor in the fight, faced a similar fate. The boy and Con servation (Off ice Jesse Scott rop ed the surviving deer and freed him. WRONG PLACE HartfordConn. U.R) An automobile had to be repainted at a cost of $125 because a five-year-old girl tried to clean it. She used nail polish remover. PAINT WITH U MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Formerly Burgess Paint and Wallpaper Store Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 It expresses the wish that local persons be allowed to attend meetings of the state highway planning commission, "in the hope of bringing about better consideration of economical use of good farm land in relation to road construction." The group set the annual meet ing for 8 p.m. Feb. 2, (at the Central Point Grange hall. Speakers will be Robert Root, who will discuss activities of the new water resources board, and State Sen. Philip Lowry, who will speak on the question of land use. Edson Completes Flood Inspection San Francisco U.R) Rob ert C. Edson, top disaster trouble-shooter for the Ameri can Red Cross, was amazed Sat urday by the "comparatively low loss of life" in the Christ mas week flood tragedy. Edson, who ranks the California-Oregon-Nevada floods as the fifth worst flood in U.S. history, recently completed a six-day inspection tour of the California flood region. A Red Cross official since 1942, Edson has managed re lief work in tornado lashed cit ies of the southwest, in Texas City, Texas, which was virtu fally levelled by explosions in 1947 and in hurricane- ripped New England towns. From the standpoint of de struction, the recent east coast hurricane and the West coast storm of 1951 are the two larg est of Edson's experience. The 1927 and 1937 Mississippi floods also rank above the Christmas disaster. Edson said Pacific coast flood relief is unique because of the 'difficulty of transportation and communication, especially in Humboldt county. So long after the disaster," he added, "it is extraordinary to continue using air mission to drop food. Remarkable, too, in view of the widespread nature of the disaster, is the comparatively low loss of life," Edson said. THROWING HIS WEIGHT This smiling fellow is store keeper Pierre Poujade, whose sensational gains in the French general elections made him a power in French politics. Poujade vowed he will call "tax strikes, labor strikes and any other kind of strikes" if France does not "reform." He did not say what reform he feels is needed. Says U.S. Willing To Withdraw Forces Tokyo (U.R) The United States is willing to withdraw military forces from Japan im mediately if the Japanese gov ernment requests it, Admiral Arthur W. Radford said Satur day. However, he said Japan will be unable to defend itself alone even if its projected military buildup is completed in I960. Radford, chairman of the U-S. joint chiefs of staff, told a news conference that the United States "will be delighted" to have Jap an assume responsibility for her own security. "We will withdraw anytime at the request of the Japanese gov ernment or when their defenses are adequate whichever is soon er," he said. Radford arrived in Tokyo Fri day as he neared completion of a world tour. He plans to fly to Korea Monday. Followers Of Sect Head Picket Jail Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Seven barefoot followers of Krishna Venta, master of the wisdom- knowldege-faith-love cult, picket ed Alameda county jail in the rain Saturday where their lead er is serving a five-day sentence for non-support. Before answering the call to organize his cult, the 44-year-old master was an Oakland me chanic named Francis Hiends- watzer Pencovic. He was sent to jail Friday on a contempt of court charge Superior Judge Wakefield Taylor ordered him to pay $100 a month support to his divorced wife, Luycle, for their two chil dren. Krishna Venta refused to do so on the grounds he had no property and that everything be longed to his group. His wife however told the court he had been on gambling trips to Nev ada several times after founding hit cult. The pickets maintaining a round-the-clock-schedule, carried signs which read: "Penalized for life long dedi cation to God" "His religious rights violated," and "What has happened to the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom?" Senator Will Have Farmers Join Plan Or Lose Supports Washington (U.R) Sen. Allen J. Ellender said Saturday farm ers should be deprived of gov ernment price support benefits if they do not participate in a soil bank program. Without such a mandatory feature, he told the United Press, the program would not take enough surplus acreage out of production to ease the farm price depression. The Louisiana Democrat, as chairman of the Senate Agri culture committee, is a key fig ure on farm legislation. Special Message President Eisenhower's new farm program, which, he will outline in a special message to Congress Monday, is built around a soil bank plan. But Republican congressmen who have had a glimpse of it, said farmer participation would be voluntary. The farmers would be paid in cash or "in kind," the same commodity form the present huge surpluses, for taking out of production acreages of corn, cotton,' rice and wheat. Such land would be planted to con servation crops such as grass. Democrats and Republicans in Congress generally are agreed on the desirablity of a soil bank but they differ on details. Congressional Democrats were primed in a special memorand um from the Democratic Nation al committee to claim the ad ministration's tardy espousal of the soil bank concept has been costly to farmers. "Democratic Program" The memo says the soil bank idea is the "revival of a pre-World-Ward II Democratic pro gram" conducted under a 1936 law. The memo r.lso comments that twice in 1955 the administration opposed bills to establish a soil- bank. Since then, it continues, the parity ratio has dropped four per cent and farm income has fallen by some $700,000,000 a-year. "The administration's delay in adopting these Democratic pro posals has been costdy to farm ers," the memorandum asserts. RECORD PAIR December Klamath Falls (U.R) The 6.42 inches of precipitation in December in Klamath county was the largest on record, ac- cording to figures released by the Klamath project office of the Bureau of Reclamation. Previous high for the month was 5.30 inches in 1939. Normal for the period is 2 inches. HEART ATTACK FATAL Tokyo (U.R) Yoshisuka Wa tanabe, president of the Yawata Iron and Steel Co., biggest in Japan, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 67. Browned Indicates Ike May Run Again Washington (U.R) Attorney General Herbert Brownell jr., was reported Saturday to have indicated to republican fund raisers his conviction that Presi dent Eisenhower will seek re election. Some widely varying first and second hand reports circulated as to how far Brawnell, one of tha administration's crack polit ical operators, had gone in in dicating his belief. 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Attorney John Burggraf, 29, shaken with remorse, admitted firing the bullet, telling police he thought the boy was a burglar. He was released on 500 bond. Doctors gave the youngster a good chance to survive. SCIENCE AT WORK By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Somewhat , to the surprise of everyone, American men and women are displaying a passionate interest in tranquility. Physicians and the people in the drug-making and drug-packaging trade are talking about it. "Why?" they ask, with an air of astonishment. "Who would have thought it!" they comment, with an air of resignation. The passionate interest is as sumed because no group of drugs ever commanded so much public attention as the comparatively new "tranquilizing drugs" which promise to pile high the profits of pharmaceutical houses. If the public wants to know everything about drugs which are said to tranquilize spirits and minds and demands those drugs, then it must be tranquility it seeks. Dr. Erwin Di Cyan, one of the country's best known consulting chemists and, perhaps, the most articulate, called these drugs "psycho - pharmaceuticals" for the mind. Not only is the interest in them widespread, he said "the need may even be come acute." But the viewers-with-alarm and the seers-of -deep-implica tions need not worry, he added. These drugs are not going to make "our intensive culture an impassive one." Neutralizing Effect "Our interest in tranquilizing drugs may be said to be an at tempt to neutralize the vehem ence of today's living," he said. "The frantic nature of our ac tivities is due partly to the need to carry our social demands, partly a reaction to the political and social climate and only part ly due to the competitive nature of one's work. "The intensity 0? our activities today is in a considerable meas ure a cumulative frenzy draw ing from all these areas the social, the environmental- and the financial in the framework of which the competitive spirit asserts itself. The resulting dis orders in the intellectual as well as the emotional spheres make the need of psycho-pharmaceuticals a real one." It is interesting but not neces sarily significant that the pub lic's attention was drawn to the tranquilizing drugs by their widely publicized power to re duce the raving and violent in sane to states of comparative calm and to keep them calm for just as long as they are given the pills. Now these drugs are becoming more and more avail able to the sane majority of the population, provided it can find an M.D. to write a prescription or a druggist to dish them out from under the counter. No Pill Can Do It This writer is in a position to know the views of certain per sons of the highest, scientific standing in body chemistry and in psychiatry. Therefore, he knows they think the public is being "sold" on "tranquility-by-pill" and that they intend firing large numbers of scientific Ro man candles if the "selling" is pushed much farther. The truth is that genuine tran quility is not compounded in any pill or any liquid, they believe, And there is no drug which acts curatively on the mind there are only drugs which slow up ine central nervous system in one way or another and thus re lieve some of the more dramatic symptoms of disturbed minds temporarily. The proper medicine for the untranquil is to eliminate the things that rob them of tran quility and for the anxious, it is to remove the causes of anx iety. So say these scientists in pointing out that alcohol and narcotics tranquilize, too, for a time and they would be used much more frequently by many more people if it weren't for their extremely unpleasant "side effects." SATO Military Heads To Meet In Melbourne Washington (U.R) Military leaders of the United States and other Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganziation countries will meet in Australia this month to shape new defense plans for the Asian Pacific area. It was learned Saturday the eight-nation military meeting will be held at Melbourne Jan. 16-21 as a prelude to the SEATO foreign ministers meeting in Karachie, Pakistan, in March. Adm. Felix Stump, Commander-in-chief of. the Pacific Fleet, will be top U.S. representative. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, New Zeal and, Britain and France will at tend the Karachi conference March 6-8. The military meeting in Aus tralia will complete recommend ations to be presented in March to Dulles and other foreign min isters to the Manila council. GOOSE REPLACES DEER Allegan, Mich. U.R) Denver Anderson and Douglas Parker were returning home after an unsuccessful day of deer hunting when they spotted a wild Cana dian goose walking down the street at Allegan's main inter section. They caught the goose bare-handed and dined on it later. TWINS AT 80 Springfield, Mass. (U.R) Twin sisters, Mrs. Delphine Boulrice and Mrs. Josephine Boulrice, recently observed their 80th birthday. Natives of Quebec, they married brothers. But he quoted the attorney gen eral as saying in effect that everyone was grateful that Mr. Eisenhower had recovered from his heart attack and was in a position to resume his duties as president. U.S. Sends Russia $725,000 Bill For Navy Patrol Plane Washington U.R) The United States has plenty of evi dence supporting its demand Russia pay $725,000 for a Navy patrol bomber that Soviet air men shot down last June, offici als said Saturday. Officials said the U. S. note demanding payment was only a highly condensed version of an exhaustive study made by the Navy of the incident. Backing up the U. S. case are affidavits from the plane's crew and pic tures of the wreckage. The Navy patrol bomber was attacked by Soviet jet fighters while flying a routine mission over the Bering Sea between Al aska and Siberia. In the note de livered to the Russian embassy here Friday, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles branded the attack "entirely unprovoked." Dulles insisted that the Am erican plane was never closer than 24 miles to Soviet territory and probably was 53 miles away. He said Russia was entirely to blame for the incident. None of the plane's 11 crewmen was kil led but seven were injured. The total loss was set at $1,- 449,895.36. But the United States agreed to accept a Russian offer last summer to pay 50 per cent The Soviet offer came when relations between the United States and Russia were better than they are at the present. At that time, the nations were look ing forward to the "summit conference in Geneva and there was less tension. In view of the Soviet poor debt paying performance in the past, there has been speculation that the Russians may now claim the U. S. bill is too high and attempt to welsh on their prom ise to pay. Democratic Council Reaffirms Position Fresno, Calif U.R) The executive committee of the Cali fornia Democratic council Sat urday reaffirmed its opposition to endorsing a presidential can didate at its state convention here Feb. 3-5. " The executive committee, which originally took its "no en dorsement" position last Novem ber, said it will urge the coun cil's rules and by-laws committee to vote against any proposed endorsement. Adlai E. Stenvenson, a candi date for the Democratic presi dential nomination in 1956, will address the convention Feb. 4, Alan Cranston, of Los Altos, council president, announced. Cranston said Democratic Sen ator ISstes Kefauver of Tennes see and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York have been invited and "are expected to speak. The 80-member executive council will report final plans for the convention today. WEATHER By United Prest Northern California: Partly cloudy late tonight and Sunday with showers extreme north por tion; snow in mountains 4,000 to 5,000 feet. Freight car loadings in 1954 were 11. 6 per cent oeiow tne totals for 1938. Abbott Trial Goes Into 40th Day Oakland, Calif (U.R) The Burton W. Abbott murder' trial moves into its 40th day Monday with one of two prosecution wit nesses who gave ""bombshell" testimony Friday back on the stand. Mrs. Alma Stegall and Mrs. Bessie Wells dented the 27-year-old accounting student's 'time table alibi for the kidnap-slaying of Stephanie Bryan, 14, last April 28. . Abbott has claimed he had left the Bay area for his Trinity county cabin at 11 a.m. on April 28. Stephanie vanished five hours later and her body was found July 20 buried in a shal low grave behind the Abbott ' cabin. Members of this Association have the advantage of belong ing to a permanent organization of agricultural operators, the management of which fully un derstands and appreciates their problems and opportunities. They are not entirely depend ent upon a localized supply of money, as the association is part of a nation-wide system which enables each organization to tap the money centers of the nation. 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