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American, Mexican Boy Scoufs To Carry Torch to Chicago Chicago - (LTD A 3,000 member team of American and Mexican Boy Scouts will carry a torch to Chicago this summer. It's the Light of Friendship that will be used in the two-week Pan-American Games to be staged here Aug. 27 through Sept. 7. The games, are an offshoot of the Olympics and tradition demands they be started with a torch - a torch brought Hoffa, Bridges Hold Conference Washington - (LTD - Team sters President Jam ft R. Hoffa and West Coast long shoremen's leader Hafty Bridges conferred here last week, a teamsrs spokesman confirmed today. The spokesman sjid they discussed automation in the transport field. The meetings were held Wednesday and Thursday. Bridges is presi dent of the International Longshoreman and Ware houseman's ttniqn. Visitors Here Mr. and Mrs. William Kocina, with their daughter, Marlene, and son, Wayne, Colorado Springs, Colo., visit ed in Medford last week with Mrs. Julia Vakoc, 519 South Riverside avenue. The Kocinas and Mrs. Vakoc formerly all lived in Verdegre, Neb. The travelers continued north to tour Washington. L4 Sister Here Miss Jeanne Swayne, who taught school in North Bend last year, is in the valley to spend the summer with her sisters, the Misses Hazel and Josephine' Swayne, Medford, and Mrs. Hugh Barron, Ash land. This fall Miss Swayne will 1 teach in Milton-Freewater, Ore. CALENDAR Monday . 7:30 p.m,.-Licensed Practical Nurses, Sacred Heart hospital, social room. 7:30 p.m.-Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of World War I, dance at Camp White dom iciliary. , 10:30 a.m.-Kiwanian Dames, home of Mrs. Robert G. Little, 1700 Lenora dr. from Mexico City, home of the 1955 games. And it must be brought on foot. Work in Relays That's where the Boy Scouts come in. Mexican Scouts working in relays will carry the Light of Friendship from Mexico City to the U.S. border at Laredo, Tex. Then the American , Scouts will take over to carry the torch to Soldier's Field, Chicago, headquarters of the games. It will be history's biggest relay race, covering well over 2,000 miles. The first group of American Scouts will take up the torch at the border at dawn on Aug. 4, to carry it at Scout pace - run 50 steps, walk 50 steps - to the next relay team, which in turn will pass it on to another. The Scouts will carry the torch through five states -Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois at the rate of five miles per daylight hour. ' Each of the states' gover nors and their highway police will accompany the boys. Mayors and chiefs of police in 121 cities, towns and vil lages along the route will join in. The Light of Friendship will be displayed at each stop of the route and then throughout the Games. Atomic scientists at Ar gonne National Laboratory, Lemont, 111., have been asked to come up with a1 material light enough for- the torch bearers to carry yet sturdy enough to burn - and burn and burn. All scouts involved will be over 14 and will undergo ad vance physical examination. In order to let a maximum number of youngsters take part in the honor, individual assignments of less than a mile will be in effect much of the way. Each participa ting Scout will receive a special badge commemorat ing the event. On the long run from La redo, the Scouts will take seven and one-half days to cross Texas on U.S. 81, 77, 75 and 69, passing through San Antonio, San Marcos, Austin and Waco. They will cross into Oklahoma at Deni son, going through on U.S. 75, 69 and 66 'and entering Kansas at its southeastern corner en route to Joplin, Mo. The Scouts will go up U.S. 66 through Missouri and Illi nois. . MAIL TRIBWI, Mtdford, Or. 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Christensen Resident of Hong Kong Describes Recent Storm The recent storm which drenched the British crown colony of Hong Kong and took many lives in that area was described in a letter from Mrs. John McClelland, nee Elayne Leach, which was sent to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Leach, 1228 Cor ona avenue. Mrs. McClelland ,teaches speech in a school in Hong Kong. Her husband is an electronic technician with the British air force. Her letter of June 1 reads in part: "Well, we had a nice week end so are paying for it now. Woke up this morning to the sound of a, downpour, plus Gromyko Declares West Must Yield Moscow-fllPD-Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said Sunday he still saw a possi bility of success for the Ge neva conference but he made it clear the West and not Russia must yield. Gromyko, in a 15-page state ment on the conference, main tained the stand he took at Geneva and gave no indica tion the Russians planned any concessions that would break the deadlock over Berlin, Ger many or European security. He said the first part of the conference - it is in a three week adjournment was use ful because it pinpointed dif ferences and attempts were made at bringing , East and West closer together. 'Lady Chatterley' Film Ban Overruled Washington - (UPD - The Supreme Court today set aside New York's ban on the film "Lady Chatterley's Lover." It said the state "struck at the very heart of constitutionally protected lib erty." , "What New York has done . . . is to prevent the exhibi tion of a motion picture be cause that picture advocates an idea - that adultery under certain circumstances may be proper behavior," Justice Potter Steward said for the court. "Yet the First Amend ment's, basic guarantee is of freedom to advocate ideas." The high court unanimous ly reversed a decision of the New York Court of Appeals upholding the ban. Attorney Protests Bar Listing Names Portland - (UPD - A Port land attorney, Jack McLaugh lin, has protested to priority listing of names by the Mult nomah County Bar Associa tion. The protest followed Gov. Mark Hatfield's appoint ments of Arno Denecke and Judge John T. Murchison to the new Multnomah County circuit judge posts created by the 1959 Legislature. Hatfield announced at the time of the appointments that the Bar Committee . had placed Denecke first and' Murchison second in priority. McLaughlin added that he had no quarrel with the selec tions but merely the practice of priority listing of names by the association. Woodcraft Neighbors To Meet Thursday Phoenix - Neighbors of Woodcraft lodge of Phoenix, will meet at the Grange hall Thursday, July 2, at 8 p.m. Serving committee is Mrs. George Drake and Mrs. Del- bert Anderson. Recently the lodge held a picnic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson for members and families. In cooperation with the Centennial committee, the lodge has placed a display of antiques in the window at the Daniel cafe in Phoenix. The entire display was loaned to the lodge by Joe Cowley of Phoenix. The display will be changed and a new one put in the window shortly after the first of July. thunder storms. It's very dark out. About 8 a jd. the rain let up a bit and three planes came down out of the clouds and landed, then two took off. "They have to- work fast when there is a break in the clouds. The planes usually circle around until they reach the minimum of gas to get to Taipeh and Manila. If the weather isn't clear by then, they have to land some where else." A second letter relates the storm's progress:' "As I said the storm broke late at night June 11 (Thurs day). It raged all Friday a.m then cleared off. Late Friday night it struck again. "Again it raged all night and Saturday 'til about 3 p.m. when it fell to drizzling. We thought that was the end of it. - This morning about 4 a.m. the wind howled, lightning crashed and it start ed again 'til about 9 a.m.' Roads Covered "Since then it's been driz zling and we are waiting to see what happens next! Sat urday was the worst time roads were two feet under water; the water rushes off the mountains so fast that trickles were turned into tor rents in a matter of seconds. "Between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m., seven inches of rain fell, ..almost three inches of that in one hour! The reser voirs are overflowing, land slides have blocked roads and a couple of tenement houses have collapsed. Two people were killed by lightning. It really crackled last night. "They say it is the worst storm in ten years (not count ing a real typhoon of course!) Of course we are in no dan ger, as we stay inside. . The squatters living in shacks on the hillsides are hit hardest. "Friday evening they came to get John for emergency duty in the mountains. We were in the movies so they had to get someone else. "The storm seems to keep wavering over Hong Kong like an undulating snake. Just before it cuts lopse the temperature drops suddenly and the wind raises sharply. It's quite weird, but it ought to be over in another couple of days." On Monday, June 15, she wrote: ; Storm Continues "I would never have be lieved that the storm would continue. This ' morning at 5:30 a.m. the cold blast of wind came, followed by a crash of thunder and a down pour of rain. It's 8:30 now and hasn't let up. "At last count, the death toll is 36, mostly' from old water -soaked concrete and stucco tenements collapsing. Johnny set out for work, but rumor has it that the road is washed out, so the fellows on night watch last Saturday are still up there. : "I'm glad I don't have far to go to school. I suppose you may read about the storm here in the newspapers. When you read such things about Hong Kong, don't worry, few Europeans ever get hurt as they have snug houses and sense enough to stay home! Houses Collapse "Johnny came home about 8:30 a.m. It has been raining steadily; from midnight to noon 5J4 inches fell. I took a taxi to Kai Tak this after noon to see about the boxes. Forded one river, but was turned back by the second and couldn't get through. All police, fire and civil defense are alerted and working over time sandbagging streets and pulling people out of collap sed houses. "Anyone living on a hill side is in danger of land slides. We are far enough away from any danger areas. I don't know what will hap pen if it keeps up much longer. "Rainfall midnight last night to 7 p.m.-10.6 inches! June 16-"Blue sky peeps through the clouds in a couple of places after 29 xz inches of rain since Thurs day. The worst in ,43 years, leaving 7,000 people homeless and 50 dead. 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