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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE 5- 6 VTT imii n'"r-r'-1' KiJi'St s .mil tft , HI f Gsr1 WHERE FIREFIGHTERS PERISHED New York firemen look over the scene where six of their fellow firefighters were killed when the marquee and wall from a one-time tneater fell on them. The building was being used as an artificial flower factory. Five other firemen were injured in the mishap. It was the largest toll of firemen lost battling a blaze in New York since 1932, when eight were kil'ed. Hitchcock Urges Greater Concern Salem (U.R) Phil Hitch cock, candidate for the Republi can nomination for U. S. sena tor, today urged greater govern mental concern for "the prob lems of the individual." Hitchcock told a Kiwanis club luncheon that "ideas about peo ple as 'the masses' are blinding us to matters of vital concern" to people as single human be ings. He said "issues can enslave just as thoroughly as can dicta tors. We got so concerned with things we call 'issues' that things happen behind the screen of issues to rob us of our liber ties." "The real issues are the things that concern people as individ uals," Hitchcock said. GP Meat Firm Asked To Return Subsidies Portland U.R) The govern ment filed a civil suit in Federal District court here yesterday asking return of $12,000 paid to the Grants Pass Provision com pany in the form of meat subsi dies. Joseph J. Blunk and George W. High of Grants Pass and Charles A. Parlier of Medford, partners in the firm, were ac cused of failing to keep slaugh tering records and the govern ment says they must return the $12,000 subsidy. Complaints on similar charges were filed against Frank L. Smith, Portland meat packer, for $29,000 and against Irish & McBroom, Eugene, for $1200. The subsidies were paid short ly after World War II. Tfiornfon Rules on Rural Road Grading Salem" (U.R Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton ruled today that the owners of lancl abutting a public road in un incorporated areas may petiiton the county court for the grading and graveling of such land. The attorney general said the cost would be assessed against the land and that if the road is taken over as a county road it could thereafter be paved by the county out of the general county road fund. SCHOOL NAME PICKED Portland (U.R) The Port land school board decided last night to name the new high school under construction at Northeast 82nd ave. and Alame da sts. the James Madison high school. The school is due to open in the fall of 1957. If During The Crush Of The Opening Day Crowds We Were Unable To Properly Serve You . . . We Invite You Back Again For The Many Great Savings That Are Left . . . Many Items Will Be Reduced Until Cleared! Rock Creek Provides Rural Charm for Washington, D.C Washington Boulder-strewn Rock creek, tumbling 'through the heart of Washington, D.C, is being cleaned up and im proved with new roadways and picnic grounds for the spring time enjoyment of hometowners and visitors. The 31-mile-long scenic stream has captivated the fan cies of many prominent men. "There is nothing comparable in any capital city of Europe," said cosmopolitan James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States from 1906 to 1913. Presidents John Quincy Adams and Theodore Roosevelt roamed its primitive course. William Jennings Bryan fol lowed its meanderings on horse back. Robert Fulton, legend says, used Rock creek to test a model of his steamboat, the Clermont, which was later to revolutionize n a v i gation. Generations of Washington boys have reveled in the stream's swimming, holes and watched the birds along its banks. Rises in Maryland The- sparkling stream emerges from underground water on a farm just south of Laytonsville, Maryland, 22 miles north of the District of Columbia line. Woods and open farmland of grain and cattle pasture frame the creek's first slow gropings southward. A few miles further, no longer quite so sparkling, it flows near housing developments of metro politan Washington. Occasional ly the creek flares into- rapids against brown boulders, then quiets down to sluggish progress. The stream twists through Rock Creek Park's 1800-acre recreation site in Northwest Washington. There, rocks and bold cliffs form the wind- and water-worn remains of moun tains that were three to five miles high aeons ago. The creek recalls historic scenes. Nearby Military road was constructed during the Civil War to connect Forts Ste vens, DeRussy and Reno of the capital's defenses. It heard the echoes of Confederate General Jubal Early's guns during his unsuccessful raid on Washing ton in July, 1864. Long before, war whoops and hunting cries of Algonquin Indians resounded across the stream's valley. Arrowheads, axes and spear heads have been unearthed on its banks. Roaming toward the Potomac; the creek passes the Army Medi cal Center (Walter Reed General hospital); the National Zoologi cal park; Dumbarton Oaks, the early 19th century Georgian OUR Tueiday. April 10, 1956 mansion where preliminary dip lomatic talks fathered the Unit ed Nations. In close-by Oak Hill Cemetery is the grave of John Howard Payne, who wrote "Home Sweet Home." Time has altered the stream's force. Its water power once turned the wheels of at least eight mills. One, Pierce Mill, has been restored as a practical museum piece that still grinds meal and flour. The creek's small mouth off Georgetown belies its former size: around 1751 it was navi gable for some distance up stream. Tall masts of seagoing vessels were familiar sights. So important were Rock creek wat ers to commerce that Maryland in 1792 enacted a law forbidding dams or hedges within two miles of the Potomac. Now, with a great city grown up around it, Rock creek's navi gation is limited to the toy boats of children at play. Phone Tip Leads To Body of Girl , Chicago U.R) An anony mous telephone call led police today to a loop hotel room and the body of a nude, teen-age girl with a white flower in her hair. She was identified as 16-year-old Carla Fisher, a student at Thornton High school in suburb an Harvy, 111., and a resident of Lansing, 111. Shortly after midnight, police received an anonymous tele phone call telling them to "go to room 836 in the Planter's ho tel. There's a woman very sick there." A house detective opened the room's locked door and po lice saw the girl lying between the sheets of the hotel bed. She was nude and a white flower, such as might have been bought as a corsage was fixed in her blonde hair. Hotel employees told police that a man using the name "John Miller' registered at 6:30 p.m. for the room where the dead girl was found. 4-H Club News Busy Bees 4-H Club April 6 is when we had our meeting. We had it at Judy An drensen's grandma's house. Judy Andrenson and Diana Ells dem onstrated tuna fish salad and we had Kool-aid and tuna fish sandwiches. Our next meeting will be held at Linda Ells house. Diana Ells, Reporter Waltonians Asked to Help Collect Basin Flood Control Data Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league was asked last night to aid the Oregon State Water Resources board in collecting data on the Rogue river basin. The request was made by Bob Root, Medford, member of the board, and by Ted Watson, hy draulic engineer for the agency. They and Don Lane, executive secretary for the board, spoke to Waltonians at their monthly meeting at the Jackson hotel. Waltonians expressed interest and reacted favorably to the idea although no definite com mitment was made at the meet ing. Assistance Helpful The Izaak Walton league could give a tremendous amount of assistance to the board if members could give some part of a day each week to help col lect information needed on the basin, Root stated. The board does not have sufficient inven tory material on the Rogue wa tershed, Waltonians were told. Root indicated that assistance of the chapter in collection of the data in advance could hasten the time when the board could conduct a survey of .the basin. A letter written to the chapter by Lane, previously, said that the board at this time can not give the Rogue basin priority for a survey. But Root pointed out that, if people want something done in a hurry, it is important that they should start doing it themselves. That's what people in the Umpqua basin did and is one of the reasons a survey is underway in that area today, Root brought out. Stream Flows Watson also spoke of the peo ple gathering factual data in the Umpqua watershed and re marked, "That's what we need people doing their own work." He said that the board needs to know maximum and minimum stream flows along with information or siltation, water quality and temperatures. He stated that a repetition of information on hand is not wanted unless its validity is un der question. The engineer said that final compilation of data already on hand on the Rogue area could probably be done by June 1 and that he could give Waltonians an idea on how he; wants the chapter to help by early June. Root said Watson could come and help decide where stream gauge stations could be located. Root remarked that if the chap ter would be responsible for five such stations, it would give im measurable help to the board. Watson mentioned that the board does not propose to have a large engineering staff and Root brought up the financial limitations of the board and the saving tnat couia be accom plished with assistance by peo ple of the area. Way was left open for help by other organiza tions of the valley. "We want every interest included," Wat son stated. Root spoke on the member ship of the state board, Lane discussed the law setting up the board and the history behind it sX Campers' Delight! Folding Camp Stool REGULAR $2.29 . VALUE ST! U k Compact, easy to carry. Be ready for your A first camping trip. A Jv : and Watson talked on the prac tical aspects of the board. Asks Protection Doug Finch of the Butte Falls Gun club appeared at the meet ing and asked Waltonian chap ter support of a proposal to pro tect a small herd of elk which winter on the middle fork of Rogue river. The herd is esti mated at 12 to 20 head in sizes. Finch said that the herd is too small for kill and can't exist without some protection. He proposed a closed season on the middle fork and possibly around the Seven-Mile area. The gun club spokesman said his or ganization feels that the middle fork area can support 100 head. Waltonians voted to call in Charles Shepherd, State Game commission field man, for his views on the matter at the next meeting. Guard Doubled Oyer Unionists i At Convention Chicago (U.R) Police doubled their guard over two "reform" leaders at the tense convention of the AFL-CIO Operating En gineers Union today. One of the reform leaders said he had received telephoned threats against his wife and children since arriving for the convention. The other said a union vice-president advised him to go home. The men are William Wil- kines, East Meadow, N.Y., and Peter Batalias, Ridge, N.Y. Both are informanants of labor col umnist Victor Riesel and were with him shortly before an as sailina threw acid in his face in New York last Thursday. Riesel has charged that the engineers' union is racket-rid den. Batalias and Wilkens are suspended members of the union and Wilkens has charged that convicted extortionist Joseph (Joey) Fay of New York is trying to win control of the engineers at the convention. The two "rebels" were already under guard when they arrived for the convention, but the po lice, detail-was doubled after the reported threats. Advised To Go Home Wilkens said he received an anonymous telephone call at 3 a.m. yesterday telling him "You have a family which you left at home and you better go back right now." Two other union members at tending the convention, which opened yesterday, are also un der police protection. One is Victor S. Swanson, 78, union vice president from San Francisco who says he was once a victim of an acid attack him self. Wilkens has charged that Swanson is Fay's candidate for the union presidency, but Swan son insists he does not want the. job. The other guarded delegate is Lawrence C. Smith of Charles ton, W. Va. 00 This Week Only real handy stooll - Auto Industry Sees More Sales Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) A Ford Motor Co. economist pre dicted Monday the auto industry would sell $16,000,000,000 worth of cars in 1956 an increase of $4,000,000,000 from last year. Stahrl Edmunds, manager of Ford's Department of Economic Studies, also said the gross na tional product would increase from $388,000,000,000 to $550, 000,000,00 in the 10-year period, and he predicted a 40 per cent rise in the nation's disposable income. Edmunds told the 1956 na tional consumer credit confer ence that installment buying credit would rise to $48,000,000, 000 by 1965 and that half of it would be for automobiles. "Consumer credit is a civiliz ed way of making goods avail able to provide a higher stand ard of living to younger people and those less well off," the economist said. He said that auto sales of $12, 000,000,000 last year, was an "un usual" amount and predicted sales this year "a more normal car year" would be about $11, 000,000,000. He said two-car families, now numbering 4,300, 000, would jump to $10,000,000 by 1965. ! . : ; . H f H UiiiM" I is pwsssarasfe . S7iivi li in I ' jSrl ComP,e,e Set Waterless' I 8 eS8Zt XM Cookware Saves- You I I 9 Wsaa3 i i "" ii iii m mil WWiTi i 11 I Time. Fuel. Food . . . H JT" ' v'fmnja and Work! v6i. ' SHS Includes chicken' fryer, a jf " " frypan with cover and B iV Dutch oven, egg poacher, M tBigMwgjj JHr- ' "'mm) griddle skillet, 3 sauce- I 1 VJ Pans with covers, 5 muffin a ' IIMJJYt - ' Weisfield's Jewelers, 122 E. Main, Medford Plesee end me the 60-Pe. Dinnerware Set in Windspray Pattern advertised at 19.88. I am enclosing S and will send t .... per month until the entire amount U paid. Swedish Boat Sinks With Loud Explosion Glasgow, Scotland (U.R) A 5409-ton Swedish freighter load ed with iron ore ran aground in the Firth of Clyde last night and sank with a loud explosion. At least three crew members were killed, four and possibly five were missing. Twenty-six were rescued. The freighter Akka split in two as it hit the rocks. Watch ers on the shore said the ship's sirens still was wailing as it sank beneath the water. Then it exploded. Crude Oil Price Hike Said Overdue Washington U.R) The Inde pendent Petroleum association contends an increase in crude oil prices is "overdue and unavoid able" because of rising produc tion costs." Higher crude oil prices pre sumably would be passeoValong to consumers in the form of higher prices for gasoline and heating fuel. The last increase, in 1953, amounted to about 25 ments a barrel. In a letter to association mem bers, general counsel Russell B. 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