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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
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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.
A frog's tongue is fastened
to the front of his mouth.
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Third Section , MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1959
Soviet Manpower Shortage Noted In New Census
Washingtbn-(Science Srv-ice-Far
greater than hitherto
believed, World War II casual
ties have resulted in a severe
manpower shortage ,in the
U.S.S.R., as revealed in the
1959 Soviet census.
For every 55 females in
Russia there are 45 males.
The entire disparity lies in
the 32-and-over age group, in
which there are nearly two
women for every man. ' 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.
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