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. Few outdoor pleasures can be
so stimulating and refreshing as
swimming. Many's the time I've
peeled off my fishing clothes,
taken a cool dip with my part
ner, lunched on a sandwich,
dried prunes and chocolate,
stretched, out in the shade to
study the wildlife, and then
th.nkfully picked up my box
of flies and rod and finished out
a perfect day.
But unfortunately this sum
mer, as in all summers, swim
ming accidents will occur most
of them unnecessary. So right
now, resolve to do something
about it. And I mean, resolve
not just to learn how to swim.
but how to avoid a broken neck,
or perhaps how to save your
friends lue. Remember, even
the best swimmers can and do
get into trouble.
The person who cannot swim
should get instruction, prefer
ably from a competent instruc
tor in a supervised pool.
You'll be amazed how quick
ly you can learn to swim. That's
because the human comes by it
naturally, as do all mammals. It
is not unusual for a child to
learn to swim faster than he can
learn to walk!
Learn How To Float
First, learn how to float.
You'd be surprised how many
people will have to be rescued
this summer because they could
not float. Others will drown,
simply because in their panic
they forget to keep hands and
arms under water, and do what
comes naturally float. (For a
few persons, it is impossible to
float they've got big bones and
heavy muscles. This may even
include some of the world's
greatest swimmers. So, if you
can't float, don't worry.)
Once you learn to swim, learn
the backstroke. Many a tired
swimmer might have collapsed
had he not known the back
stroke to rest fatigued muscles.
And now, because drowning
persons might often enough be
rescued; and because would-be
rescuers are all too often drown
ed, here are some common-sense
rules I learned when I was a
First Class Scout and before I
became a forest ranger. They
are still good.
Before you go to the rescue,
strip to your shorts. Remove
your shoes. Practice beforehand
taking your camp clothes off in
a hurry. I used to do it before
bedding down for the night. At
first, it may take you 45 sec
onds; then 30 and, eventually.
you'll trim it down to 15 sec
onds without losing a button.
Because most accidents occur
near shore, see if you can ef
fect the rescue with a stick,
branch, or your shirt knotted to
your pants leg.
If you must get into the wa
ter, always jump in feet first.
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Never dive. In strange water
you never know what may be
sticking up under the water to
break your neck. Practice jump
ing in beforehand until you can
get under way without even get
ting your head wet.
Because many a frightened
person in frenzied panic grasps,
claws and pulls at a would-be
rescuer, approach the drowning
person from behind. Assure him
calmly: "Take it easy, we'll be
out in a minute."
Better yet, and for your own
safety, learn to swim with your
shirt in your teeth. Then, as you
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approach the struggling person,
throw the shirt end to him and
tow him in.
Many Lives To Be Lost
Many a life will be lost this
summer in sinking boats, rafts,
or upset canoes. A wind may
spring up, the craft may develop
a leak, or become waterlogged.
Again, if dressed, peel off your
clothes and shoes. Then, by all
means, stay by your craft. Even
when full of water, a wooden
boat without an engine, a can
vas and wood boat, or a wooden
canoe, will hold up more people
in the water when full of vater
than it will carry when empty.
Keep all those who were in
the boat from trying to swim
ashore. Right the boat. If neces
sary, let the weakest swimmer
remain in the boat. Then keep
ing as low in the water as pos
sible, the others can grab hold
of the boat with one hand and
swim with the other to safety.
For a safe swim, I must add
these precautions."' Memorize
them.
1. Always jump feet first into
water over your head in depth. I
2. Learn to swim fifty yards. 3.
Never swim alone. 4. Wait until
two hours after a meal. 5. Never
dive into strange water. 6. Nev
er take a dare to show off; or
JUMBO CAUSES JAM
Chicago (U.R) State police
didn't quite know what to do
Sunday when called to clear
a suburban traffic jam caused
by a 9,000-pound elephant. The
elephant and the police just
stood there until the animal's
handler, George W. Boone, ar
rived to explain he went for
help after using the elephant,
Big Babe, to haul his stalled
truck off the street.
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horse-play in the water. 7. Nev
er swim distances without being
accompanied by a boat 8. As a
ranger who has been summoned
needlessly and aged thereby
by boys faking drowning and
calling for help, may I add:
Never call for help unless you
need it. But vhen you need it,
call with might and main, and
keep calling!
(Copyright, 1956.
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Clean Riot Wreckage
Pendleton, Ind. U.R) Prison
ers today cleaned up the wreck
age left by 25 rioting inmates in
the Indiana State Reformatory
mess hall.
Two guards and seven in
mates were wounded, none se
riously, in the half-hour uprising
Sunday. Damage to the mess
hall and an adjoining storeroom
was estimated at $1000.
The riot began during a base
ball game between the prison
team and a
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Stalin Popularity
Prevented Rebuff
During Lifetime
Moscow (U.R) Russia's
Communist leaders said today it
was "no lack of personal cour
age" that prevented them from
opposing Josef Stalin's "cult of
personality" while he lived. They
said the Russian people would
have misunderstood. Stalin was
too popular.
They also slapped the wrists
of satellite party leaders who
had reproved the Moscow leader
ship for not stopping Stalin while
he lived.
The explanation came in a
long declaration by the Commu
nist Party's Central Committee
published in the official party
organ Pravda and broadcast by.
radio Moscow. The statement
covered two full pages in
Pravda. ,
Replies To Criticism
The declaration, adopted by
the powerful committee June
30, replied to criticisms voiced
by Communist parties abroad
against the campaign to dis
credit Stalin. Some foreign
Communist leaders have asked
why the present Soviet leaders
tolerated Stalin. Pravda carried
such criticism this week in re
printing an editorial from the
New York Daily Worker.
It was no "lack of personal
courage" that prevented the
present leaders from "taking an
cpen stand against Stalin and
removing him from leadership,"
the statement asserted.
Say Acts Restricted
It said that "since the success
of socialist construction and the
consolidation of the USSR were
attributed to Stalin . . . any
action against him . . . would
not have been understood by the
people."
The statement claimed, how
ever that during the war years
"individual acts of Stalin were
sharply restricted . . ."
It said that during this pe
riod Central Committee mem
bers and "outstanding Soviet
war commanders" made "in
dependent" decisions "in the
rear and at the front." But after
the victory, it added, "the nega
tive consequences of the cult of
personality re-emerged with
great force."
Bulk tanks have replaced the
old milk pan on at least 15,000
U.S. dairy farms. Most of this
chore-saving change has taken
place since 1951, says the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
squad. A group of prisoners
arose from bleachers seating al
most the entire prison popula
tion of 2300 and stormed the sol
itary confinement building.
It ended when the inmates
emerged from the ransacked
mess hall into a hail of shotgun
fire from guards posted along
the walls. The guards fired low,
inflicting wounds in the legs of
the prisoners.
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Early in the 1920s, when for
est industry at Port Angeles
began to clean up the messes
left by the U.S. Spruce Corpora
tion of World War I and by
the coastal hurricane of 1921,
the national consumption of pa
per was down around 150 pounds
per person each year. Rising to
a couple of hundred pounds per
capita in 1929, paper consump
tion coasted with the economic
depressibn years, then climbed
to 1955 paper use at the rate
of 418 pounds for each man,
woman and child in the U.S.A.
J. D. Zellerbach cited these
figures to the members of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
the other Friday, and hitched
to them the prediction that
paper consumption would dou
ble in the next 20 years. He said
that the guess was, "if anything,
on the conservative side."
And he added, "Just look at
our bumper crop of babies. The
current birth rate in the United
States is seven babies a minute.
To keep up with the needs of this
growing population our Ameri
can economy is pushing through
to ever higher levels of produc
tion. Every baby born today cre
ates a lifetime demand for at
least 15 tons of paper."
Sawmill Leftovers . . .
And even so the prospects
loom ahead for lumber, plywood,
shingles, hardboard and other
wood products. Lumber is hold
ing its own as the basic building
material, according to recent
studies in forest economics
the Stanford University Report,
for example. The president of
the Crown Zellerbach Corpora
tion, in his Seattle talk, looked
to lumber as an essential part
ner in the coming age of paper.
He pointed out that his com
pany started 30 years ago in
finding ways and means to con
vert sawmill leftovers and ply
wood cores into pulp for paper.
"Today," he said, "these left
overs, some of them from Seattle
area sawmills, provide 99.7 per
cent of -the wood consumed at
our Port Townsend pulp mill.
In our Washington and Oregon
mills alone we are saving the
equivalent of 100 million cubic
feet of standing timber a year
by salvaging the wood residuals
of other forest industries."
The things Crown Zellerbach
is doing in wood research, cou
pled with the equally significant
work of a great many other
forest products industries, hold
much new promise for Washing
ton and Oregon, Zellerbach
said.
"They mean new products,
new payrolls, new capital in
vestments and a constantly im
proving market for your timber
resources, technical know-how
and merchandising skills."
Transition Time ...
From 1912 to 1938 Washing
ton was the No. 1 lumber pro
ducing state, then Oregon took
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the lead while the Evergreen
State proceeded to wrest the
crown for woodpulp production
from Louisiana. .This was a nat
ural process of transition from
old forests to new, and this is
now well stabilized, with ob
jectives clearly in sight and con
trols and guide lines for going
forward in good order.
Seattle's Chamber of Com
merce speaker cited a few items
of business that the city derived
from just one forest property
the Neah Bay Tree Farm. In one
year the tree farm purchased
from Seattle firms $26,000 worth
of wire rope, explosives amount
ing to $15,000, culverts costing
520,000, and $40,000 worth of
truck tires and tubes. And in
Seattle, for the one year, the
Neah Bay Tree Farm spent
$60,000 for trucks and logging
equipment, $65,000 for cook
house and commissary- supplies,
and $130,000 for hardware and
spare parts.
All this from just one tree
farm, spent in one city in a sin
gle year. The record might be
multiplied many times over, in
terms of tree farms large and
small of Western Washington,
in various private ownerships.
And so it would go in relation
to Portland, and to Oregon tree
farms. This is business apart
from that transacted locally in
tree farm towns, where wages
and taxes are paid, supplies are
bought, farm markets are sup
ported, and good works ere
fostered.
4-H Club News
Antelope Dairy Club
On June 26,. the Antelope 4-H
Dairy club held a special prac
tice night at the Bitterling home.
We practiced judging two
classes of dairy cows and then
Ken Bitterling, Linda Malloroy
and Judy Bradshaw gave a short
explanation of how to show a
dairy animal in a showmanship
class. Each of the members pres
ent took an animal and practiced
leading it around the ring and
placing it. Ken Bitterling acted
as judge. After the practice,
punch, home made ice cream
and cookies were served.
Jo Anna Malloroy
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Some States Said
Given School Help
Above Actual Cost
Washington (U.R) Some
states getting federal help for
school buildings near defense
installations received a higher
payment rate than the construc
tion cost. House staff investiga
tors charged today.
They said the U.S. Office of
Education set a higher rate for
federal assistance in some states
than was requested and set a
rate in some, particularly in the
South, to "appease the states"
and "to avoid hard feelings."
Charges Denied
The accusations were denied
by officials of the Office of Edu
cation. They won praise from
House Appropriation Subcom
mittee members looking into the
program.
Under fire was the education
office's handling of the program
of federal school construction
assistance to school districts
near military or defense estab
lishments. The federal govern
ment aids these districts, some
3000 throughout the county, to
compensate for increased school
enrollment resulting from the
federal activity.
Contrary To Law
In testimony before a House
Appropriations Subcommittee
released today, a subcommittee
staff report said in 1951 and
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entitlement rates for the states
were not computed on the basis
of actual construction cost of
school facilities for the preced
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"Rates were established in
some instances to appease
states," the staff study declared.
"In particular, the southeastern
states were given identical or
similar rates to avoid ill feel
ings. "In some instances, states
were given a rate which was
higher than the rate originally
established for the state."
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