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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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Brown yesterday cited costs ol
wages, steel and other materials
as reasons for raising prices.
He did not propose a specific
figure or say when the increase
should take effect.
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