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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-!
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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
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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.
WIDESPREAD search is in
progress for Vincent Gi
gante, ex-boxer, in connec
tion with shooting of Frank
Costello. Xew York under
world czar. (International)
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up to 24 months.
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