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Sunday, January 8, 1956
Estimated $161,815
Damage In Six Mile
Area Near Murphy
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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.
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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. He attended
a meeting Friday of the GOP
finance committee.
One highly placed republican
said he had heard from men who
were on hand that Brownell had
"assured" the GOP leaders that
Mr. Eisenhower would run again
and had indicated he was "auth
orized" to give such assurance.
However, another informant
who attended the meeting, said
any such interpretation would
be a gross distortion of what the
attorney general said. This sou
rce said Brownell certainly did
nothing to discourage hopes that
the president would run again-
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GIVEN CHANCE Duncan Himes, 13-year-old newspaper
boy of suburban Wauwatosa, lies in Milwaukee hospital
recovering from gunshot wound after being shot in the
abdomen while delivering Christmas newspapers. 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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RESOURCES
Cash on Hand and Due from Banks. . ............. .... 149,802,394.07
United States Government Bonds 300,342,048.86
Municipal and Other Bonds , 74,128,957.36
Loans and Discounts Net.... 309,103,253.93
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank. .'. 1 .080,000.00
Bank Premises (Including Branches)......... 8,891.928.35
Customers' Liability on Acceptances 93,654.00
Interest Earned 2,870,01 3.78
Other Resources. 1,399,241.00
" $847,71 1,491.35
LIABILITIES
Capital............ $ 18,000,000.00
Surplus... 18,000,000.00
Undivided Profits... 20,790,555.57 56,790,555.57
Reserves for Interest, Taxes, etc.. 4,238,685.49
Acceptances ; 126'439!50
Dividends Declared 585,000.00
Deposits . , ; ... 78 1 ,492,594.39
Interest Collected Not Earned 4,396,591.80
Other Liabiliti ' gj ,624.60
$"847,711,49115
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