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TEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July 22. 19S7 IS3L ' awt id" Kjr7T 'fit -"'ijtt V " -aWJE - - " ' f PICNIC AREA The last of the external im provement projects planned for the Camp White Veterans administration domiciliary will be dedicated next month. This picnic rea, including barbecue pit and food count er, is being completed. Trees have been plant ed and walks installed. Top soil is being added and 12 picnic tables will be installed. Special attractions include a 7,500 gallon fish pond and a large sun dial. r-lli r w mr . s. ru mJS, ft Riches of Rain To count the blessings of this summer of heavy dew, look back to the summer of 1951, when sunshine beckoned tourists to the green land for weeks on end. The experts counted it as the worst year of forest fire danger since 1922. The Forks Fire, on the north shore of the Olympic Peninsula, was the one bad break, blazing through 20,000 acres of old timber on Sept. 20. At the end of August more than 50,000 Douglas fir loggers had been idle for a month, through layoffs enforced by fire weather shutdowns by Oregon and Washington state forestry chiefs. The loss in wages alone exceeded a million dollars per day. There was a dead loss of many more millions in the overhead costs of shutdowns to the log ging industry. Lumber markets were lost by mills that had fw logs in storage and were forced to close. The depression was on weeping as newsmen question her about reports she is married, Leona Gage, mother of two, breaks down before being disqualified as "Miss U. S. A." in "Miss Universe" contest at Long Beach, Calif. (International) Boys Battle To Tie On TV Quiz Show New York MB Two 11-year-old boys battled to another tie Sunday night on "The $64, 000 Challenge" television quiz program. Robert Strom of the Bronx, N.Y., who previously won $192, 000 on another TV quiz show, and David Junchen, Sherrard, 111., tied at $32,000 when they each correctly answered ques tions about electronics. In an other contest on the CBS show, former "quiz kid" Joel Kupper mann. Chicago, tied at S2.000 with Gregory Simonsen. 58, Philadelphia headwaiter, in a music category. They will com pete next week at the $4,000 level. The two youngsters will meet next week at the S64.000 level. -...T-S.-.-.W " . v v" 1 ""r again in many communities. Only rain was needed to re store prosperity to the region The sun shining in cloudless sky from dawn to dusk was a hateful sight to all. Oregon's Black Hols At August's end in '51, I took a trip to Forest Grove and prowled the trails of the Tilla mook Burn of 1933. It was the season of the big blowup that had struck the big trees dead on 311.000 acres. Millions of giant snags had stood on, each a po tential blowtorch that could be ignited from a spark in time of drought. So fire had swept the Tillamook Burn's 311,000 acres again in 1939, and yet again in 1945. Loggers had been busy in the Burn since early in 1934. sal vaging the billions of board feet of sound wood Inside the char of the standing snags. At last funds were provided by the Oregon legislature to cut down the snags and to plant Douglas fir seedlings In the bracken and brush. Ed Schroeder, now assist ant state forester of Oregon, was then district warden of the Tilla mook Burn area. He had won cooperation of the loggers on the Burn. Fire had struck early in April of 1951. The fern fields were parched. The first blaze spread over 7,400 acres before the state forestry men and the loggers held it. As the siege of drought ran on into July, another 800 acres caught and blazed, then the rim of the fire was held fast. All other smokes were smother ed at their starts. Oregon's black hole had grown no inch bigger when Ed Schroeder, driving on the coast highway, watched a mist breeze in at last and fog his windshield. He didn't switch on the wiper for a long time. The Hills Rejoic .... And so the story of the big heat of 1951 came to a happy ending for the year. The Keep Washington Green and Keep Oregon Green organizations had grown into mighty bulwarks of forest-fire prvention. Radio com munications were so well organ ized in the Douglas fir region that it was a rare smoke that rose without instant detection and radio report . Then tank trucks, low-bed trucks bearing tractors, light trucks bearing fire-fighting crews and tools, and gangs of loggers with power saws, to drop snags in the path of the fire, were sent as needed to concentrate on a given blaze. Most of the truck cabs were equipped with two-way radio. In all these things there has since been steady improvement. Still and all, there is nothing that man can do in 1957 that compares with what the good Lord can do with rain to stop man-caused forest fires. On Chilean sheep farms at the Strait of Magellan, the most serious losses are caused by thick fleeces. In rainy weather the wool becomes so wet and heavy that a sheep that rolls on its back may be unable to regain its feet. There it lies, until res cue or death. Insecticide Fatal To Madras Youngster Madras Ml A 16-month-old girl died Sunday after tasting a potent insecticide in a coffee can Saturday outside her grand parents' home seven miles north of here. The child, Debra Jean Car penter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carpenter Jr., Madras, had been playing outdoors when she found the can, rubbed her hands in it, and touched one hand to her tongue. The grandmother, Mrs. Ray Carpenter Sr., said she rushed Debra into the house and wash ed the girl's mouth and hands with soap and water, but an hour later the child went into convulsions. She died 10 hours later at a Redmond hospital. The lethal chemical, toxa phene, had been kept at the home for use in killing mice, Mrs. Carpenter said, and the can had been used to ladle the liquid from another container. Water is the least expensive yet one of the most important items in egg or broiler produc tion. An egg contains approxi mately 66 per cent water, while a bird's body carries about 55 per cent. CONTROVERSY IS RAGING in Illinois over possibility j-"hu'" ueiu, oi,, may De paroled after serving 34 years for "thrill killing" of little Bobby Franks, son of Chi cago millionaire. Leopold's partner in crime, Richard Loeb (right), was knifed to death in Illinois prison. In center is Clarence Darrow, veteran criminal lawyer, whose eloquent plea obtained life sentence for pair. (International) Portland Teamsters Elect Delegates Portland W Members of Teamsters local 81 took advant age of their right to vote here Sunday and elected four of their members as delegates to the In ternational Teamster convention to be held at Miami, Fla., in September. The local's secretary, William J. McDermott, was defeated by 23 votes in his campaign to be elected a delegate. Rank-and-file' members voted delegates were Fred Couch, Dan Holgate, Cliff Brown and Joe Graber. The four are supporters of a group which seeks to put control of the local in members' hands. The bulkiest of living reptiles is the salt-water crocodile of Australia's tropical streams. Fiercely aggressive, this 30-foot dragon will go out of its way to attack men. Use Mil Tribune Want Ad The Low Cost Wiy to SeU Items You No Lonxer Need Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" FORMER FBI MAN DIES Cincinnati OPi Former FBI official Earl Connelley who helped crack many important cases, Including those involving Roger Touhy and Ma Barker. died Saturday nieht after a lengthy illness. He was 65. j YACHTSMAN DIES ! London OP) Armar Arch-! . ... ' ' Doia, American yachtsman, whose engagement to the Coun tess of Seafield, one of the wealthiest women in Britain, was announced Friday, died in Scotland Sunday. He was 48. VACATION OVER The office of S. Ralph Dippel, Dentist 401 Medical Building Is now open for Appointment calls SP 2-6823 North America's native elk used to range over much of the United States and Canada. In dians called it "wapiti;" Eng lish colonials named it elk after Europe's big deer. Cloudy days and frequent rain in Norway's fjord country rule out drying hay on the ground. The crop is spread on wires like laundry so breezes can get at it. 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