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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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