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Three Accidents in Northeastern Oregon Take Lives of Five By UNITED PRESS Three separate accidents in northeastern Oregon late yester day took the lives of five per sons. In each of two of the acci dents, both near The Dalles, two persons lost their lives while in another accident near Pendleton a single victim was claimed. Two members of The Dalles city police force lost their lives m the Deschutes river when their boat was caught in rapids and capsized. Poilce identified the men as 270 Belgian Miners Said Trapped in Fire Maxcinelli, Belgium (U.R) More than 270 miners were re ported trapped by a fire in the Amercoeur coal mine here to day. The fire-melted cables and blocked a pit elevator. Twenty five miners were res cued immediately through a new tunnel still under construction. Rescue teams rushed into the pit to release the others. Marcinelle is a coal mining town of about 25,000 population in Hainaut Province near the Sambre river. Jl KUBLA KHAN Combination Chines Reg. Dinner Chew Mein Fried Rica Chep Suey Pkg. Reg. Pkg. Reg. Pkg. Reg. Pkg. 85' 43 47 39' AT MOST SAFEWAY STORES Detective Sergeant James Eck ton and Patrolman Odell Nolan, each about 30. A witness to the tragedy, George Williams of The Dalles, told officers he saw the two men and a woman put out into the stream, about 15 miles east of The Dalles. He said he shouted a warning to them that the water in the area was treacherous and they returned to shore and disem barked the woman. The two men then put out into the stream again and were caught by the swirling current and dashed over a rapid. Two painters employed at The Dalles dam were killed when their car collided with a loaded cattle truck about one mile east of The Dalles. Dead were Robert Wellborn and Jack Stricklen, both of The' Dalles. Wellborn and Stricklen were pinned under the trailer of the truck which overturned, spilling 45 head of cattle onto the highway. Two other men in the car Charles Sanders and Henry Trip lett, were injured in the accident which occurred at the intersec tion of Highway 30 and The Dalles bridge. , Mrs. Cora Ruth Cowan. 37, wife of Helix City Marshal Or- ville Cowan, was killed about one and one-half miles west of Athena. Police reported that she was alone in her car when it side- swiped a county truck driven by Raymond Fay Johns, 25, of Pen dleton. She was the mother of four school-age girls. The acci dent occurred on the Athena- Holdman secondary, 14 miles south of Pendleton. Headless Carp Caught In Tennessee River Savannah, Tenn. (U.R) headless, two-pound carp caught in the Tennessee river last Sat urday is being kept alive and on display at a Savannah store. Fishermen said the wound where the head was severed. presumably by a motorboat pro- pellor, has healed. The fish ap parently sucks food into its body through the end of the gullet left exposed when the wound healed. i Wednesday. August 8. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE I GONE WITH THE WIND The home of John Reapsummer is a mass of rubble after it was leveled by a tornado which struck Girard, O. Living in the basement for six years while the house was being completed, Reapsummer, his wife and three children were not injured. They were to move upstairs in a week. Sourdoughs Schedule Portland Sessions Portland lU.fi) Portland will be the scene of the 25th anni versary reunion of Alaska sour doughs from all over the world next week. Hosting the 1956 anniversary celebration Aug. 16-19 will be the Alaska-Yukon Society of Oregon. Mrs. Sarah Berthelsen of Portland is first vice presi dent of the international organi zation. International president of the sourdoughs is John J. McNeill of San Francisco. McNeill is a mar iner. His ship is due in New York from Europe next week and he is expected to fly to Port land from New York for the convention. The associate editor of the Alaska Weekly, Miss Lulu Fair banks, who is also international secretary, has announced that 1750 invitations for the Port land reunion have been mailed to Sourdoughs throughout the world. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday- 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other davs 5:30 orevious day NOW! IT COSTS NO MORE! TO BUY THE BEST! 1 Petri California SWEET RED PURE GRAPE WINE fltll WINI CO.. SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Crater Beverage Company a-Praver Service Welcomed Portland, Me. UR Port landers are calling SPruce 4 C981 at the rate of 1,000 per day to hear a prayer read over the telephone by a Baptist minister. The Dial-A-Prayer service be gun this spring has outstripped all expectations. Rev. William J. Mcllhenny be gan the service rather specula tively, but within a month's time his study phone began to ring at the rate of 756 to 1,000 times every 24 hours. Rev. Mcllhenny has a new message ready each day, but the phone rings so constantly he has a hard time changing the rec ords. The minister would prefer to read the messages personally but that is impossible. A tele phone answering machine per forms the task for him. The demand for the service is so great that' about nine times out of 10 the minister's line is busy. But that doesn't daunt the callers, who keep trying. . A sample prayer text goes as follows: "This is Reverend Mcllhenny, reminding you that whatever your need may be, prayer will help you. The Psalm has said, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Won't you believe that, my friend?, ! want to pray for you now." Bride Welcomes Mate Home After Funeral Durban, South Africa (U.R) A young bride who attended her husband's funeral three days ago hysterically welcomed him home Tuesday. . Theresa Waters' 25 -year -old husband disappeared from a cliff where he was fishing a week ago and was given up for dead. Fun eral services were held Sunday. Waters walked into the dining room of his family's cottage as they were having breakfast Tuesday. "I only know that I woke up 50 miles from the coast last night," he explained. Mustache-Raising Battles Boredom on Front in Korea Near the Western Front. Korea military policeman patrolling the Coon Sees Bright Economic Future Baker, Ore. (U.R) Con gressman Sam Coon pictured a bright economic future for his second district here yesterday in his first public appearance since returning .from Washing ton. He attributed this to generous public works appropriations, in creased timber sales and the new highway bill. ( Coon told members of the lo cal chamber of commerce and service clubs at a joint luncheon that almost one of every 16 dol lars appropriated this year for public works in the entire coun try was for projects in his dis trict, or partly in adjoining ones. He also cited large Forest Ser vice expenditures to build ac cess roads and increase timber sales. (U.R) There is something about Korea that makes you want to grow a mustache. It isn't the frosty weather, be cause, veteran mustache-growers claim one of the biggest draw backs to their art is icing. It isn't the result of any scar city of shaving equipment, be cause front-line post exchanges are well-stocked with razors and shaving cream, v A cartoon in the United States armed forces daily news paper, Pacific Stars and Stripes, tapped one of the real reasons. A clean-shaven arrival from the States bursts into a tent bar racks near the front line and asks a roomful of thickly-mustachioed GI's: "What do you guys do for recreation?" That's it. Recreation. Time hangs heavily in Korea, and mustache raising is becoming one of the most practical ways to battle boredom. The soldier standing watch in an outpost bunker overlooking the truce zone and Communist territory has one. So does the Contracts Ready for Andrea Doria II Rome (U.R) The Italian Lines today signs a contract for a new, bigger and faster Andrea Doria to replace the luxury liner which sank in a collision off Nantucket Island 13 days ago. Italian Lines President Carlo Linch planned to sign the con tract with the Ansaldo Shipyards of Genoa in a colorful ceremony at the headquarters of the In dustrial Reconstruction Institute in Rome. The order for the new $29, 000,000 Andrea Doria II was ap proved by the Italian govern ment at record speed, less than two weeks after the original liner, the pride of Italy's mer chant marine, sank in a mystery collision with the Stockholm of the Swedish-American Line. Shipping authorities here pre dicted that the new vessel will be ready for operation on the, dollar-paying North Atlantic route sometime next year. Three-Year Contract Seen lor Aluminum New York (U.R) Represent atives of the Aluminum Com pany of America and the strik ing United Steelworkers were reported today to be making progress in their negotiations for a three-year contract simi lar to the one obtained by the union from the steel industry. Nicholas Zonarich, chief USW negotiator, said "definite prog ress" was made at a morninjj meeting. He said bargaining would continue throughout the day in hope of completing a pact to end the strike which is in its eighth day at 12 Alcoa plants. The USW also is on strike at nine Reynolds Metals Co. plants, but negotiations with Reynolds will not be resumed until an agreement is reached with Al coa, the nation's largest alumi num producer. The strike of 26, 500 workers has closed smelting facilities accounting for 45.7 per cent of America's . aluminum capacity. off-limits villages in the rear. But it's doubtful the hobby has caught on more completely anywhere than in the 6th Tank Battalion of the U.S. 24th Infan try division. There Ara Obstacles There all the officers and men are hard at the task of cult ivating a General Custer style mustache in the old handlebar fashion of cavalry days. The tankmen like to think of them selves as armored cavalry and mustaches have long been a tra dition with the cavalry. When Maj. Edwin Rhoads of Lakewood, Colo., took command of the battalion last December, junior officers, enviously eyeing his lush mustache, organized a club to see how many could duplicate his lip-warmer. But the mustache - raisers quickly came smack up against obstacles. Here are some: 1. It takes about six months to reap the first harvest of bushy bliss. 2. Vital mustache wax is not available in Korea nor are spec ial mustache cups for drinking hot beverages. 3. Mascara for dying blonde mustaches is hard to come by. 4. Breath vapor causes icing over in cold weather, and no known mustache wax contains an anti-freeze compound. 5. Rain causes even the finest trimmed growths to droop in the high humidity. But despite these obstacles of nature, the mustache is becom ing firmly entrenched among many American GI's in Korea. fim i!lfe1i ALBANY CORVALLIS $9.60 Pu.tax amines jS I i mi i. cats folded save ' Folding Cottage For Vacationers Chicago (U.R) A piece of paper recently David Kropp, an Illinois Institute of Technology student, the idea for a folding cottage for vaca tioners. The walls and roof of this new type of shelter are made from an arrangement of 14 triangular panels which fold into place. The experimental shelterrests on the points of 12 triangles. Students say it can be used for anything from the basis of a sum mer cottage to a roadside stand. Its advantages, Kropp said, are low cost, extreme strength (be cause of the triangular wall roof construction), and easv portability. 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