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TTN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. July 10. 1957 f w-T' -n 2 RIOTERS PROTEST AIR BASE EXPANSION Steel-helmeted Japanese police disperse some 1000 demonstrators at Tachikawa Air Force Base where the angry mob smashed through a barbed wire fence surrounding the American base in protest against the proposed runway expansion at the field. The demonstration forced U. S. authorities to curtain operations at the field for six hours. Cool Atlantic Breeze Brings Some Relief To Sweltering Europe London IW Coolin? breezes from the north Atlantic today brought a measure of re lief to Europe, which has swel tered in the grip of a 10-day heat wave that claimed more than 400 lives. Only in Italy, where police estimated at least 200 persons had died, were temperatures in the 90s forecast. Elsewhere weathermen reported tempera tures dropping rapidly as the cool air front moved inland. Homes Become Death Pits Italy was hardest hit by the scorching sun which sent the mercury soaring to record highs The heat turned three homes Boaters Said To Favor Tighter Laws Chicago W A survey by the Outboard Boating club of America reports boaters are in favor of stricter enforcement of present laws and want more education for "common sense afloat." As an example of "common sense afloat," Farry Fey of the club cited a case in which a friend sailed his 36-foot cruiser 15 miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and met a fam ily in a 16-foot runabout. "The gentleman was just slightly confused," Fey said. "He couldn't see, or for that matter, didn't know the direction of land. To add to his confusion, he didn't have a compass." Fey said the survey revealed that 65.5 per cent of the more than 24,000 answers said en forcment of present boating law was inadequate or non-existent. And, of the existing laws, some were "just plain ridiculous." Fey noted that in one state there is a boat motor limitation of five horsepower. "If you put a five-horse motor on an eight-foot boat," he said, "you'd swamp it, while with the same motor on an 18-foot boat, you'd spend 10 days traveling five miles." There is a brighter side to small boating, however. Fey said information from the Bureau of Vital Statstics. revealed fewer small boat accidents now than five years ago. even with the in creased interest. for the aged in Milan into death pits for 65 men and women Tuesday. Shocked civic authorities ordered air conditioning equip ment installed in the homes as soon as possible. Coming after the deaths of 16 other aged in homes in Venice and Bologna, the Milan tragedy sparked demands for reapparisal of the buildings housing old folks. Vienna police reported 46 persons died from sunstroke, drownings or in accidents attri buted to the heat during the past week. Crops Burn in Fields Millions of dollars of crops were burned in the fields by the blazing sun. In Vienna, which recorded a record 104 degrees Monday, temperatures" dropped sharply during the night to 75. lemperatures in Switzerland also dropped, particularly in the Alpine regions. Police reported more than 35 persons drowned over the week end while seek ing relief. West Germany counted at least 25 dead as a result of the heat. Belgium reported at least 30 deaths. PUBLISHER DIES Ottumwa, Iowa API John Huston, 76. publisher of the Ot tumwa, Iowa, Courier, died Tuesday night in an Ottumwa hospital. t Opportunities for Teachers Doubled Champaign, 111. UPl Op portunities for college teachers 'ave doubled in the past two t ears, according to the Uni versity of Illinois placement office for jobs in education. Joseph V. Totaro, head of the office, said that the heaviest demand or teachers at the col lege level are in the fields of science, business administation, English, speech and drama, psy chology, professional education and women's physical education. Totaro said even instructors without experience were being offered $4,00 to $5,000 a year, depending on their training in these fields, while those with a doctor's degree and some tea ching experience would receive more than $5,000. Meanwhile, he said, there has been little drop in demand for qualified elementary teachers at beginning salaries ranging from $3,600 to $4,000. He also reported a major shortage of high school teachers in science, mathematics, English and girls' physical education. Theirs alaries range from $3, 800 to $4,500. Cottage Grove Youth Dies in Auto Crash Cottage Grove OP Nor man Theodore Blake, 17, of Cottage Grove, was killed Tues day when the car in which he was riding went out of control on a curve and was shattered against a power pole on Lorane road six miles west of here. Police said young Blake was thrown out of the car when the right front door was ripped off and his body was found under a wheel. Larry Ronald Kelly, 18, Cot tage urove, driver ot the car, and two passengers, Sharon K. Kotrc, 15, and Karean Adina Lobek, 17, both of Lorane, are all in fair condition in hospitals. Sailors Believed Seeking Escape From Punishment Long Beach, Calif. KPi The Navy said today that two sailors who jumped overboard to their deaths from the cruiser USS St Paul, apparently were attempt ing to jump ship to escape pun- ishment for offenses aboard ship. The two seamen, Connie Evans Rice, 19, Alliance, N. C, and Howard Vernon, 21, Lumberton, N. C, jumped overboard to their deaths Monday as the ship left Monterey. Calif. Capt. Allen L. Reed, command ing the St. Paul, said both men had been restricted to quarters for offenses. He said one of the victims was awaiting approval of court-martial sentence of six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge and the other was awaiting a court-martial. "The only motive seemed to be a reckless attempt to desert ship," Capt. Reed said. "The men apparently thought they could escape punishment for their of fenses. Two shipmates saw the pair dive overboard. The Navy said an ammunition can containing clothing was found in the water near the victims' bodies, indicat ing the seamen tossed the can overboard before diving into the water. Tomahawk Back From Australia Albany, N.Y. (IP) Joseph Brant's tomahawk has come home from Australia. Brant was an Indian leader of American Revolutionary days. According to the story, he gave tne tomahawk a curious com bination of weapon and peace pipe to Sir William Johnson, the Tory leader for whom Brant organized Indian raids along what was then the American frontier. The tomahawk came into the possession of Robert Clench,, a Schenectady tavernkeeper's son who married Sir William John son's granddaughter. New York state's historian, Albert B. Corey, learned the whereabouts of the old weapon from Brig. Gen. Guy Ormsby Johnson of England, from whom the state recently acquired three Johnson portraits. It had been handed down to Oliver Streeton of Australia whose father, Sir Arthur Streeton, married Leo nora Clench, a descendant of the Schenectady Clench family. The tomahawk will be added to the Johnson Hall historical collection at Johnstown after be ing exhibited here- in the State History Museum. Gasoline Leak Alerts Firemen at Eugene Eugene (W Eugene fire men spent a tense five hours here early today when a railroad tank car developed a leak and 1,000 gallons of gasoline spread over the Southern Pacific switch yards. ; Firemen blanketed the area with a spray from fog nozzles and maintained a vigil against smokers until the spill was clean ed up and the tank car moved. f I I P' HI Consult Jim Metz 1310 Ridgeway Medford, Oregon Phone SP 2-4294 your Equitable representative Barbara Hall Adds To Winnings on TV New York OPi Showgirl Barbara Hall reeled off the an swers to six questions in the Shakespeare category Tuesday night to run her winnings to $96,000 on the television quiz show, "The S64.000 Question." Miss Hall, 24, Pittsburgh, will return next week to try to answer the $128,000 question and thus become eligible for questions that could lead to a top prize of $256,000. Also returning next week will be Capt. Alan Villiers, skipper of the Mayflower II, who breezed through an $8,000 question in his "the Seven Seas" category: Villiers, whose ship is now on exhibit in New York after a re-enactment of the original Mayflower's Atlantic crossing, will shoot for $16,000 next week. Mrs. Muriel Hasbrouck, New York, correctly answered the 51,000 question in the "George Bernard Shaw" category. She, too, will return next week. Grants Awarded By Heart Fund New York (IP) The Ameri can Heart Association said today it has awarded $1,395,285 in its largest group of research grants. With the announcement of the group of 225 grants in aid, the association said it has now allo cated $2,375,000 for the study of heart and blood vessel diseases during the next 12 months. Dr.- Eugene B. Ferris, the asso ciation's medical director, said that approximately $550,000 of the new grants will go to studies in heart muscle action, cell be havior, chemistry of body fluids and enzyme analysis. About $300,000 will be de voted .to- research in'fat utiliza tion in the body, coronary dis ease and hardening of the ar teries; he said. More than $200, 000 was set aside for the study of high blood pressure, hyper tension and the role of the kid ney in heart failure'. Ferris said other studies in clude heart surgery and con genital heart disease, $150,000, and rheumatic fever, $100,000. West Germany Begins Civil Defense Emergency Program Bonn (IPt West Germany, front line territory of any fu ture world conflict, has begun planning for the protection of her 50.000,000 civilian popula tion against atomic attack. Despite its exposed position on the explosive Iron Curtain border, the Bonn Republic so tar nas not so much as con structed a single shelter or slit trench for civilians. But under pressure from wor ried public opinion and nagging by the population Socialists, the interior minister has begun work on a double-barreled emer gency civil defense program. It combines both construction of A-bomb-proof shelters and mass evacuation of civil popula tions. Because of its geographical location, the republic's defense planners know that it not only would be fought over in a fu ture war but its vital industrial centers would become the target for tactical atomic weapons as well. In particular, the smoky Ruhr, industrial heartland of western Europe, and great ship ping centers such as Hamburg would be certain to be singled out for attack. 10 Billion West German experts estimate it would cost a minimum of 10 billion dollars to provide atom- proof shelters for all West Ger many's population. This would cover cost of construction of concrete walls up to 25 inches thick to withstand atomic blasts. Retired Gen. Erich Hampe, former president of the West German Civil Defense Institute, asserted this would be possible. Hampe has proposed con structing such shelters in exist ing buildings as well as special underground bunkers and tunnels. Plans being drawn up by min istry of interior experts provide both for construction of shelters in existing houses and buildings as well as special subterranean refuges. Under these plans West Ger many would be divided into regions of varying degrees of danger of atomic attack. The shelters would be constructed first in those areas considered most threatened. Government experts also are working on plans for mass evac uation of the civilian population In a country such as the Bonn Republic this would be particu larly difficult. Two Stages The evacuation would have to be carried out without hamper ing troop movements, and ex perts believe it probably would have to get underway during the so - called strategic warning period" before a major conflict actually began, Officials are working on plans for two separate stages of evacu ation. 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Rehearing Petition Filed by Thornton Salem OP) A petition seek ing a rehearing of a case in which the State Supreme Court recently dismissed an indict ment against Idaho Power com pany was filed Tuesday by At torney General Robert Y. Thornton. Thornton said the company should have obtained from the Oregon Hydroelectric commis sion a permit for a dam on the Snake river. The firm received a federal permit for the dam. The indictment had been re turned in Baker county. The Supreme Court held that the federal permit was sufficient. High Forest Fire Danger in Washington Vancouver, Wash. (IB High forest fire danger in south west . Washington will force closure of most federal and state lands in Clark county Friday, according to George Beckim, Vancouver district forester. Closed to public entry will be most of the Yacolt burn and 3000 acres in the Lake Merrill area. 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