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55 TPppSRI s" . - J lilfIlF 'V-': ' - : U Jj LJ?: ... ., . , ' jam ' II i. jSj&'V::.:,. i. WATERFRONT FIRE Firemen are silhouetted against flames of blazing buildings on waterfront at Newburyport, Mass. The general-alarm fire completely destroyed two warehouses, damaged three homes and forced five families to flee. The fire is believed to have been started when someone threw a. road construction flare into an empty warehouse. , - Le Me r U rg es Eng i n eers to Consider Gaerky Creek Project - A letter urging the U.S. Army engineers to consider construction of a dam on t Gaerky creek has been sent to the Portland office of the corps of engineers . by Col Paul H. Weiland, local sports man. ' Weiland recently led a "show me" tour of Bear creek to emphasize pollution and lack of water in the stream. ,' His letter reads in part: ' "The average citizen feels that the present survey bemg conducted by the army en gineers will reveal the an swers to all their stream-flow problems.' Of course this is not the case ... Unbearable Mess' , "It is realized that regard less of what is done Bear creek will be an unbearable mess until there is a mini mum streamflow of at least 25 cubic feet per second from above Ashland to the mouth. "It was noted that at each of the irrigation diversion points all water was taken out leaving no streamflow for some great distance . . ... r "Cole Rivers -feels--that r if j Servicemen WITH FLEET Roger E. Carrigan, radar- man seaman, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene B. Car rigan, 172 Freeman rd., Cen tral Point, is serving "aboard the radar picket destroyer USS Rogers operating with the U. S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. ' ; The ship departed her home port of San Diego, Calif., in late May, and has visited Ha waii and Japan. She is due to return to the states in October following calls at Hong Kong, Okinawa and Formosa. Bear Creek is cleaned up and a minimum of 25 cfs stream flow provided that a fishery of 4,000 to 5,000 angler days could be established, "I figure that about 8,000 acre feet of storage might be required in order to be able to release 25 cfs , at Gaerky creek dam site to insure at least 25 cfs below all irriga tion diversions at all times "I figure that in the worst water year recorded, that is 1934, it would have been pos sible to store about 5,000 acre feet at Gaerky creek site, however, the run-off the year before was such that there could have been 15,000 acre feet in storage at the end of May, 1933, and the following -winter conditions of run-off would have permitted at least a 5,000 acre feet carry over "Records indicate that at all other times there would be no difficulty of having at least 8,000 acre feet in stor age on June 1. "The 1927 flood was espe cially damaging in the center of Medford. The stream runs through the center of the city and through the business dis trict. The 1955 flood was quite damaging and. no doubt would have been worse had the stream channel not been cleaned out a few months be fore. "I figure that a 15,000 acre foot reservoir at Gaerky creek site would take off about 28.9 per cent off the peak of a flood such as 1955. . "In my opinion the addi tional flood control . afforded by a 15,000 acre loot reser voir at Gaerky creek site is needed and that the benefits of flood control, pollution abatement, recreation and fishery might be able to jus tify the project. In case pollu tion abatement cannot be used as a benefit it may be that the county could pur chase the water for this pur pose over a long period of years and thus help pay for the dam "In case Lost creek project would not be able to furnish water for irrigation then wa ter from Elk creek and Lake creek projects would prob ably not be available to fur nish water for Bear creek. Further, all the water avail able from those reservoirs might then be, needed , for irrigation. "It is believed that you should consider Gaerky creek dam site as a project and give further study thereof because of this serious pollution prob lem in a heavily populated valley." Awards Delayed For School Students Milwaukee- (UPD -Businessmen in the Milwaukee sub urb of Whitef ish Bay . were iso . pleased with .the, success I of the local high school, bas ketball team that they bought 16 wallets, one for each of the players and one for the coach. . But -when the coach, John R. Plimpton, appeared at the school's athletic awards con vocation, he discovered that such gifts are forbidden to amateurs by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Asso ciation. As a result, only Plimpton received his award. Eight of the players got theirs after they graduated but the other seven will have to wait .till next year-when they get out of high school too. 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' Nu merically, the female advan tage is more than 20,000,000 out of a total population of nearly 210,000,000. Losses Said Higher Soviet war losses previous ly accepted by the West to taled about 7,000,000. But, ac cording to the Population Ref erence Bureau, which publish ed a translation of the cen sus here, losses of two to three times1 that number of males "is closer to the actual tragic fact." ' Robert C. Cook, bureau president,' estimated in the Population Bulletin that Rus sia might now have up to 40, 000,000 more people had it not been for the casualties and a lower birth rata during the war. "For ten years after World War n," he said, "the U.S.S.R. was almost pathologically se cretive about population data The postwar crisis in CLEAN POTS New York - (CPB - Frozen foods are , being packed in plastic pouches that you can boil in water. The advantage is, that you can serve a wide range of dishes without dirty ing a pot. manpower might be the key to this secretiveness, because the U.S.S.R. certainly was aware that the demographic (population study) facts would reveal-' a . serious, inherent weakness greatly impairing her bargaining position a weakness from which she could not quickly recover." Accounts for Behavior Cook regarded the manpow er situation as possibly being partly responsible for Rus sia's "bellicose behavior in postwar years as well as her forceful enslavement of satel lite countries ... . The . widespread use of women in all kinds of labor, from street cleaning to medi cine, Cook suggested, came as much from necessity as it did from the desire to emanci pate" .women. Former Circuit Rider To Retire Denver - (UPD - A minister who once rode 2,500 miles a year on horseback to reach his congregation will "retire this summer. He is the Rev. John L. Spar go,, now pastor of Denver's Cameron Methodist , church. Back in 1914, when Spargo was starting out in the minis try, he had a circuit of six churches which he could reach only by riding a horse. Later, he graduated to an automobile and has driven ADOPT 'SECESSION' BILL Montgomery, Ala.-(DPD-The Alabama senate Tuesday adopted a bill which would permit schools to "secede" from the state public school system if faced with integra tion. The measure provides that any' school threatened with a racial crisis may with draw from the school system and set up its own system to be financed with local funds. There are more than 76,000 part-time teachers in Ameri can Institutions of higher learning. . 300,000 miles without an acci dent or a traffic ticket. WATCH PRESIDENT DIES . Boston (CPU Teviah Sachs, 56, retired president of the Waltham Watch Co., , died Tuesday of a heart ailment. mm 0 300 u :'.;.;;;;::':bv;xv:.i:v . . r -few, 1 ' Williams' Dread really ' :;-:7 IL ' has if for freshness - r- -kBf WW end flavor! 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