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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. June 13. 1356 IV. J JU'.i V - . 1c i I i I ill f t anirf 'X v hi ADDRESSING HAT, MILLINERY WORKERS in New York, Gov. W. Averell Harriman literally tosses gray fedora hat into ring, announcing he now is active candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination. He is rated strong contender. (International) Advance Guard Keeps Trained Eye On Tempests Born in Caribbean Washington (U.R) At the first sign of a tropical hurricane contemplating a northern vaca tion this summer or fall, the Joint Hurricane Warning Cen ter will- speedily alert areas in danger. From its Miami, Fla., head quarters, the advance guard keeps a trained weather eye on Caribbean-born tempests which in 1955 wrought more destruc tion and death than in any year in American history. Veteran weathermen have said that the eastern seaboard can expect no respite in annual lashings by the storms. The Wea ther Bureau says that a shift in upper air currents, which began a generation ago blows the ocean twisters into middle and upper Atlantic states where they for merly had been rare. Last year the heavily popu lated regions in the newly form ed hurricane belt sustained loss es of at least 1,578 lives, and $2,500,000,000 in property dam age. How II I Don A recent announcement from the U. S. Air Force's Air Wea ther Service said that little can be done to abate the fury of the storms other than early warn ings. To this end the U. S. Wea ther Service cooperate in alert ing areas expected to be in the path of hurricanes. Storm infor mation and warnings are cen tralized at the Hurricane Warn ing Center in Miami. The USAF report said that the general public, industry and bus iness will receive warnings from the Weather Bureau. The Air Force warning service provides for Army and. Air Force instal lations and for certain civil ag encies. The U. S. Navy forecasts for naval Installations and ships at sea. 1 When a hurricane report is re ported, the Air Force said, the Miami center goes on 24-hour watch. Since the official hurri- IMPORTED mtjt.m. aa !., i 1 1 wmuii' ft? Ml iiaTgn ii mi i iini in j 6 YEARS OLD mma wuiun muskt. i mm. t reus hi. K I ftUOf SCHEMA KHUHS &, 1 1. C. cane season extends from June 1 until about Nov. 15, vacations for the watchful watchmen are out of the question even though the center increases its staff from 15 to 19 workers. Special Reports Weather planes of the Navy and Air Force fly daily missions over 1.500,000 square miles of ocean adjacent to the east coast. The data they gather is relayed to the center over USAF and Civil Aeronautics Administra tion teletype circuits. Though the planes police a fix ed "beat," they rush to storm areas for special hurricane re-l-orts. These reports, giving tem perature, pressure and humidity within and outside the storm's eye, are sent to the center. There an Air Force officer checks it for accuracy and may ask AWS ground stations near the storm area to make special ground ob servations and baloon runs. The center pieces this intelligence to gether to determine the storm's probable path as accurately as possible. Four special bulletins are re leased from Miami each day of the storm. Several more may be issued to report new or contra dictory information. These bul letins give the storm's location arid forecasts its expected movements. i -.Vv , tuiHIMM.i" J fin , SUFFERS STROKE Evelyn Nesbitt, a woman who played a big part in murder case fifty years ago, is reported in good condition following cerebral stroke in Los Angeles, Calif. She was wife of the late wealthy playboy Harry Thaw in 1906 when he shot and killed architect Stanford White. Miss Nesbitt is shown at left in an early photo and at right as she appeared in 1955 at age of 7L Bachelor Learns Fatherhood Art Aboard Navy's 'Diaper Special' Atlanta (U.R) The bach elor in charge of the Navy's "diaper special" vowed today that he had learned just about every problem connected with married life in a five-day, cross-country trip with 123 children, 99 mothers, 12 dogs and two parakeets. "We've had our share of trials and tribulations," said Lt. David J. Martz of Wash ington, D.C., in what husbands would call a masterpiece of understatement. Martz is in charge of a 15 car train hauling dependents of crew members of the car rier Franklin D. Roosevelt to Jacksonville. Fla. The train left Bremerton. Wash., Satur day while the Roosevelt sailed around Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America. "I'm learning fast what it would be like to be a father' Martz said. He was just about the only one on the train awake when it pulled into union station here at 5:30 a.m. Martz, who except for a small crew of Navy personnel, is surrounded by women, 37 of them pregnant, and chil dren. 80 of them under three years of age, has carried out fatherly duties ranging from burping babies to changing diapers to baby sitting. Lack of diapers was just about the only problem he has not had to contend with. The train started out with 12,000 of the disposable kind. Martz said "we've already run Australians Dig Deep in Pockets For Purchase of Lottery Tickets Sydney (U.R) America has its $64,000 question, but Aus tralia has its lotteries. Here, with less brains but more luck, you can win up to 51,100,000. Already endowed with an in ternational reputation as heavy and ready gamblers, Australians now dig deeper into their pockets to buy more lottery tickets. They're going in a big way for the new 51,100,000 lot tery at S56 a ticket. Those who haven't the $56, form syndicates to fill the lottery which has 100,000 tickets on sale. - Promoters report increasing interest overseas in Australian lotteries. They say they'll pay in dollars, francs or pesos if the lucky ticket-holder happens to be outside Australia. All told, 80,000,000 lottery tickets axe sold here every year. This represents an annual turn over of more than $65,000,000 for the business. With the bigger prize money now being offered, this total is likely to hit $88, 000.000 this year. On an average, Australians in vest $85 yearly on tickets in the huge sweepstakes. Tickets are sold throughout the country at the rate of 14 a second every second of every minute, of every working day of the year. The huge new lottery stunned even the most sophisticated Aus tralians who used to consider the earlier $65,000 lottery as "more than one could wish for." With five rival lottery groups, Australians can now invest from 55 cents to S56 to win from $13,- 000 to the monster "half-million-quid.". In every state but one. South Australia, lotteries are run by either the government or private organizations under government supervision. The state govern- ments take approximately one third of the turnover from their lotteries, while- the private con cerns rake in what's left after prize money, expenses and taxes. Although the smallest of the six Australian states. Tasmania, the small island to the south of the mainland, has led the way in presenting mammoth lottery prizes. Arthur Drysdale's Tas-m- lian lotteries, only 18 months old. launched a first prize of $330,000 last year, with an al ternate choice' for the winner of a hotel- worth $440,000 in stead of the cash. Early this year Drysdale started a $560,000 "Sportsman's Special" and followed this Up with the $1,100,000 "Olympic Special," so dubbed to cash in on the fact that Australia is Olym- Studies Under Way On Woodburn Project Salem (U.R) Architecture and engineering studies were under way today on the proposed Woodburn Air Force base project. Walter Isaac of the Leo A. Daly Company has been in Marion and Yamhill counties mis week ascertaining zoning regulations that might affect the new jet base. Isaac said considerable data from preliminary studies and surveys already has been turned over to the Air Force and other information is being assembled at the Daly Company's main of fices in Omaha, Neb. The Air Force has indicated that actual construction of the base may be delayed a year due to a "reduction in scope" of the Air Force's building program. pic host in November at Mel bourne, Victoria. In the face of such solid com petition, the other Aussie lot teries had a problem as they saw potential ticket buyers "going south after the big money. They were all reluctant to raise the ante on Tasmania. The little lotteries or, as they are called, ordinaries, repre sent the greater bulk of lottery revenue, and with a drawing al most every day, New South Wales leads the field with the biggest share of the annual lot tery pie. These lotteries account to a major extent for the 525, 000.000 turnover in this state. The protests of civic and church leaders are lost in the clamor of Australians to invest in the lotteries. Church officials attack the get-rich-quick atti tude of the lottery ticket-buying public as a threat to the social fabric of the nation. But just as their voices were unheeded when lotteries were first introduced 30 years ago, Australians con tinue to ignore them. Lotteries originally were in- Suspected 'Hankie' Robbers Captured Portland (U.R) Three men suspected of being Portland's "Hankie Robbers" were appre hended early today. Police said Theodore M. Logs- den, 20: Kenja Hirata, 23, and Edward Joseph Davis, 21, all of Portland, had admitted robber ies at three establishments the past week. In each instance the robbers wore handkerchiefs tied over their faces and one carried a toy pistol similar to two found in the stolen car recovered at the time of the arrests this mor- troduced as a means of raising1 money for charitable organiza tions and hospitals. But less than half the profit goes to hospitals, and critics are quick to point this out. In addition to lotteries, the gambling Australians try their luck In "art unions' and raffles wh'ch offer automobiles, houses, racehorses and household appli ances as prizes. Hundreds of these operate annually. 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