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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Girl's Attacker Sought by MPs Nuernbtrg. German;. L.5. j U.S. military police conducted a : bar;K to bunk search of barracks in the Nuernberg area today in i ?arch for an American soldier i who attacked a 19-ear-old Ger man girl in a city park Tuesday ; ni?ht. i The latest act of violence in-: yoking U.S. troops and German civilians was reported.' shortly alter German officials met with U.S. military officials to discuss bitter complaints registered by tne German population. The young nurse said the sol dier threw her to the ground and tried to rape her.- but he fled when she called for help. She said she bit the GI s arm, and military police be;an a search for a soldier bearing tell tale teeth marks. The recent death of two Ger man civilians in brawls with GIs and the rape of a young girl by a 2ng of soldiers prompted a meeting between Nuernberg city officials, German newspa per editors. Army Area Com mander Col. T. Ft. Kimplon and military police officers. Kimpton told the Germans he believed the German press ox- asgerated reports of the current i series of incidents. ! School Construction Bill To Stay Dead Washington (UP. Congres sional leaders predicted today the federal school construction bill will stay dead this year despite President Eisenhowers attempt to breathe life into it. The House killed the SI ,600 -('00. (100 school aid bill by a 224- 194 vote early this month. The President made a second appeal for the bill's revival Tuesday as Congress rushed toward adjourn ment. Chairman Graham A. Barden (D-N.C.) of the House Educa tion committee commented: "Sciene has developed some wonderful machines called pul motors, but so far as I know it has not come up with anything powerful enough to bring that bill back to life." Top House leaders privately j agreed. 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L . tiie winner of this week's award of the liO-volume set of the Encyclopedia Ameri cana. "The ranger said that although access to the "outside" was cut off we would be safe if we stay ed "put" in this clearing in the woods. Before he left us, promising to return with help as soon as pos sible, our ranger took us around and showed us how to dig a trench and roll up in wet blank ets if need be, so that the fire could pass over us without hurt ing us. There was a spring in the clearing and plenty of water for our needs. We hauled our beds outdoors and prepared to watch and wait. Just before he left, the ranger had seen a skunk. He told us that these small creatures were very curious and that we were not to be alarmed by their presence: that if we did not rush 'at them but permitted them to j look around and investigate as tney saw. fit, tney would not bother us. We were, in the next three weeks, to remember his admoni tions on this point many times for we had a mother and father skunk and several little baby skunks as close neighbors all this while. They behaved with quiet dig nity, accepting us although never deigning to regard us closely. For the first day or two, they insisted upon going through our cabin, carefully inspecting each item that attracted their attention. Finally, they took up residence under the shed. I am sure they watched the fire at night with as much con cern as we did but they seemed to have the calm assurance that everything was going to be all right for they never seemed the least bit excited. Joined by Other Families As four other fimilies were burned out, the four women and their 11 young children joined us. The men and older boys re maining to fight the on-coming fire. All the forest creatures, dur ing this time, gradually seemed to move down around us. We found tracks of a large bear one morning, although we didn't see him. Cougar tracks. Wildcat. Hundreds of rabbits and grey squirrels. Once we caught sight of a timber wolf. One night 1 was awakened as something brushed across my nose. I looked up to see in the glow which was now lighting the whole sky over head a large deer which quickly pounded off. Snakes slid by. Owls by the dozen screeched. All the forest creatures were on the move. to ward congregating with us dur ing the night. We knew that hundreds of creatures were close by many of them natural enemies but there was no token of fear of each other then. All of us. hu man and animal, and reptile were bound in those hours by a common concern. A great and terrifying menace had stricken off the record for the moment that we w ere supposed to be shy with each other and all war be tween us was at a standstill. Wall of Flame Adrances Then the fire approached. Within a few hours a wall of flame more than a hundred feet high advanced within 50 feet of our clearing. It was awful and relentless. The little skunks under my bed huddled together but there 323 E. Main I Wednesday, July 18, 19S8 By IUGENE BURNS Rjngtr-Naturaliit ' was rio whimpering. Every crea ture, human and animal seemed contained with quiet. Waiting. What next? The wind which had caused the advance at the rate of 15 miles an hour sud- : denly turned back on itself and the fire like a whipped thing ate into itseif and died down : and suddenly the forest crea ! tures knew that it was safe and j there was stirring and move ment and mysterious rustlings land we knew that the hundreds of animals and birds and rep tiles which had come to our clearing "the safest place for miles around" the ranger had said were departing to resume their former lives in the woods not burned at our back yard. And then the rangers and help came and told us we were safe. But we knew it already. 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