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Knowland Plans To Offer Bill (or Harbors, Rivers Washington (IP) Senate Republiacn leader William F. Knowland said he plans to introduce a new "clean"' riv er and harbors authorization bill today which "should be acceptable to everyone." On April 15 President Eis enhower vetoed a bill au thorizing $1,500,000,000 for river, harbor, and flood con trol projects. To Exclude Projects " The President said the bill contained 28 projects costing about $350 million which he could not approve "without destroying some of the most important governmental poli cies in the field of water re sources development." The new bill will not contain those projects. Knowland announced plans to introduce the measure aft er having breakfast with the President at the White House. He would not disclose wheth er the President favors the new bill but said "the matter was discussed." Kuchel Co-sponsor Knowland said Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R.-Calif.) is co sponsoring the new measure. Kuchel had said earlier he was prepared to support any efforts in Congress to over ride the President's veto of the original bill. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF SID SKOLSKY is puzzled by the gowns blonde movie stars are flashing in Hollywood hot spots these night. He can't seem to tell whether they're inside the gown trying to get out, or outside trying to get in. Bright lad with a fantas tic IQ read in his history tome that Abe Lincoln, in his boyhood, walked twelve miles just to get a new book , to read. "So how come," the lad asked his mother, "they close the libraries on Lin coln's birthday?" Resident manager of a sedate Philadelphia hotel was horrified to discover that a suite had been given for a long weekend to a couple who had registered as "W. E. R. Notman and Wife. Norfrom, Conn." Walter Dryer tells about an alumni club lush who asured its bar tender, "This Scotch on the rocks is out of this world. My compli ments to the iceman!" 1958, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. , nd Gusts Blamed for Deaths ratroopers in Kentucky JumD Residents Donaie $6,376 fo Heart Portland Jackson county contributed a total of $6,- 376.07 in the 1953 Heart Fund campaign, according to the Oregon Heart association. The state total showed an increase of about 25 per cent over the 1957 total. The state total in 1957 was S53.943.12 and in 1958 was $67,676.05. John Adams, chairman of the fund-raising project, said about 30 per cent of each dol lar will go to heart research in Oregon and about 25 per cent will go to national heart research. The remainder of the total will be divided be tween professional and pub lic education, community pro grams, administration and cardiac rehabilitation, he added. Ft. Campbell, Ky. OPI Freak gusts of wind were blamed today for the deaths of five paratroopers, fatally dragged by their billowing parachutes in a mass jump of 1,300 men. More than 100 others were hospitalized after the jump Wednesday. The injured and dead all landed at the extreme northern edge of the big drop zone where gusts dragged helpless paratroopers over rocky terrain, dotted with irees. The accident happened dur ing the 101st Airborne Divis ion's war game exercise "Eagle Wing." j Some of the dragged para troopers were traveling at such speed that spectators were unable to overtake their chutes and cut them loose. Maj. L. A. Breault, infor mation officer for the division, said five of the men were dead on arrival at the base hospital. Victims Listed The Defense Department at Washington identified the vic tims as Pfc. Michael E. Robles, son of Michael Robles of New York City; Pfc. Alfonso L. Martinez, son of Mrs. Julia P. Martinez of Santa Fe, N.M.; Pvt. Elliott F. Morley, son of Mrs. Olga Roberts Morley of Miami, Fla.; S3c Carl G. Payne, husband of Mrs. Phyl lis Ann Payne of Clarksville, Tenn.; and Pfc. Danny J. Ruf fin, son of Danny J. Ruffin Sr. of Hamilton, Ohio. Breault said 137 men were hospitalized but that none of these appeared to be in criti cal condition. "There were a few broken bones," he said, "but most of them just had cuts and bruises and should be released within a few days." Maj. Gen. W. C. Westmore land, division commander, made the jump with his men, his 70th. And like them he wrestled with a ballooning parachute. 'Successful Jump' i Before word of the accident had reached headquarters, the general reported a "very suc cessful jump." Westmoreland anno unced that a full investigation would be conducted. But . he said it was apparent that the jump safety officer, who gave the paratroopers a go-ahead to jump, could not be held re sponsible for the accident. Officers said another jump scheduled here Saturday will be carried out unless weather conditions force a postpone ment. Witnesses said the speed of the wind on the ground was recorded at about 12 miles an hour during the jump, well within the maximum safe speed of 15 miles an hour The much stronger gusts ap parently built up in a single section of the sprawling jump area, which was without com munications. "It was just one of those quirks," one officer said. , Washington (IP) A mem ber of the House Armed Serv ices Committee said today the committee should investigate a Ft. Campbell, Ky., para trooper tragedy which claim ed five lives and injured 137 other jumpers. Rep. Walter JNorblad (R Ore.) said it should be deter mined if "negligence" was in volved in Wednesday's death marked mass drop. "I'm not trying to place blame," Norblad told the Unit ed Press, "but a tragedy of this magnitude is worth check ing into. There is an error of some kind obviously in volved." i The congressman said he thought an investigation might be delayed by the current hearings on Defense Depart ment reorganization. Banfield's Sister Dies in Portland Portland (IP) Funeral serv ices will be held here Friday for Alice M. Banfield, only sister of the late T. H. Ban field for whom the Banfield Expressway was named. Miss Banfield died at her home here Monday. MARCH WAS THE BIGGEST SALES MONTH IN Rambler HISTORY MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Oregon, Thursday, April 24, 1958 11 - Holmes Requests Umatilla Flood Aid . The governor, acting on the advice of Oregon State Civil Defense Director Arthur M. Sheets and requests of Uma tilla county officials, sent the request to Col. Myron E. Page, District Engineer at Walla Walla. Salem OP) Gov. Robert D. Holmes Wednesday night re quested the Walla Walla dis trict office of the U. S. Corps of Engineers to assume prose cution of the flood fight against overflowing streams of Umatilla county. Although the level of flood ed streams was falling, new threat was posed in the form of a heavy snowpack and high water content in the Blue Mountains. 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