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Railroads Drop Passenger Trains In Rapid Order Washington (DM The na tion's railroads are dropping unprofitable passenger trains as fast as they can. An Interstate Commerce Commission survey showed today that the railroads have discontinued 41passenger trains since an administrative short cut was approved by Congress one year ago. In addition, the lines have started proceedings to elimi nate 60 more interstate pas senger runs and 40 interstate trains. Track Abandoned The ICC also gae railroads permission to abandon 4,664 miles of track from 1954 to the start of this year. The trend appeared to bear out a warning by ICC exami ner Howard Hosmer that in ter-city passenger train serv ice would be dead by 1970 if roadroads continued their current practices. The flood of discontinued trains followed approval of the 1958 Transportation Act which eliminated tne previ ous regulatory red tape sur rounding route abandonments Must Give Notice Under the act, a railroad must give 30-days notice of plans to abandon passenger trains. The ICC then has 20 days to block the proposal by susDending the discontinuance for four months pending an investigation. . Previously, proposals to abandon passenger train serv ice were handled by less sym pathetic state regulatory com missions. Now, if a state com mission fails to act or denies a discontinuance, the railroad is free to petition the Policeman Fails To Revive Infant Portland-flJPD-A 5-week-old girl died early Monday, ap parently of suffocation. The victim was Kim Lee Boljat. Her mother, Helen Bol jat, said the infant may have been suffocated by a plastic material used as trimming around her crib. A policeman, James L. Rog ers, gave the infant mouth-to-mouth respiration from the time he arrived until she was brought to the Good Samari tan hospital, but was unable to revive her. " . . "An autopsy was planned. HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAridrawt at Court Phone SP 3-9068 IMJOTDCE! As of August 1, 1959, Lloyd E. Haynes has disposed of his interest in the Illinois Valley Logging Co., Timber Haulers, Inc., and K & H Logging Co., and Henry A. Keisecker is the sole owner of these com panies. Signed: ' Lloyd E. Haynes Henry A. Keisecker Merit Equipment Company is open today for your in spection. Come in and see the new, versatile VOLVO Tractor. Merits Equipment Company has been chosen as the official VOLVO tractor dealership in Southern Oregon. See this amazing vehicle today at MERIT EQUIPMENT COMPANY'S Grand Opening. FREE COFFEE and DOUGHNUTS MERIT EQUIIPEOT C. 3629 So. Pacific Hiway jfefe: w0m uv ' r. w oj-; . mp'A Y ------- - vT ' I ' BURNED AREA This map indicates the approximate boundaries of the fire which has swept some 5,000 acres of brush and timber land in the hills above Ashland. The fire began near the top of the shaded area, by Jackson Hot Springs, and worked its way south. Ashland creek forms the southeast boundary. Desperate, crews backfired up the side of the creek canyon Saturday night, and saved the Blast at Roseburg Affects 187 Jobs Salem-dJPD-The Oregon Em ployment department said to day that some 187 persons were employed in establish ments destroyed in last Fri day's explosion and fire in Roseburg. Another 510 were working for firms temporarily dam aged. Commissioner David H. Cameron said that "while a brief jump in unemployment can be expected, the surge in unemployment insurance claims will' be curbed some what by employment in dam age cleanup." ? The Roseburg office of the employment service was itself condemned and moved to emergency quarters at 414 Casper st. It will be open. 24 hours a day if necessary to alleviate the emergency, Cam eron said. One leg Is longer and stronger in the average adult person. The skin of the abdomen has twice the elasticity of skin on the back. Grange News Eagle Point Grange At a recent meeting of the Eagle Point Grange, the birth days of Mrs. Lester Wertz, Mrs. Ida Kent, W. El Davies, Robert Bitterling, and Delton Stephenson were honored, as well as the 35th wedding an niversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Davies and the 44th anni versary of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel. Mrs. J. D. Brown announced that the next meeting of the Home Economics committee will be a potluck luncheon at the home of Mrs. Lester Wertz, Climax rd. ' C. C. Hover, chairman of the community service com mittee, has been advised that the Veterans' administration at Camp White reports a good return on the trees planted as part of the Eagle Point Grange project. Hoover also announced that a plaque will be presented to the Reese Creek 4-H club in recognition of their tree planting project. The program, under the di rection of Clifford H. Moore, lecturer, consisted of skits performed by Mrs. Lester Wertz, W. E. Davies, Robert Bitterling, Robert Meyer, Del ton Stephenson, and Dewey Babcock. Upper Applegate Grange An nnen meetine of interest to residents of the area will be held in Upper Applegate Grange hall at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, under auspices of the Grange, to provide informa tion regarding the proposed Copper dam on the Applegate river. Renresentatives from the Army Engineers, who are completing the survey and as I KE 5 - I1E city's outskirts as well as its filter plant and lower reser voir. Other hard-battling crews kept the fire from the vital reservoir-just beyond the finger protruding near the bot tom of the burn-and from the watershed above it to the south. Crews today were mopping up, with the remaining flames confined by f irelines. sembling plans for the dam, are expected to be present to explain various aspects of the project and to answer ques tions. Following this presentation, ladies of the Grange HEC will present vaudeville numbers, and refreshments will be served. All Grange members planning to attend are re quested to bring cookies. The regular business meeting of the Grange will follow. A vote of thanks was given Forbes Brown, John Byrne, and Hugh Scovell at the last meeting for their work in completing needed improve ments in the kitchen of the hall. Report of the agriculture committee indicated that farm income for the. current year is running 40 per cent below that for 1958. Farm management is receiving 78 cents per hour, it was stated, compared to $2.13 per hour being received by factory workers. The vacation wishin' roll call which featured the lec ture hour, revealed the ma jority of those present as be ing perfectly happy to "vaca tion" in the Upper Applegate, with Canada receiving the next highest number of votes as the chosen area in which to spend a vacation. Upper Applegate members attending visitation night at Upper Rogue Grange Aug. 6 included Kathleen Scovell, Anna Scott, Vieva Saltmarsh, Edna Sawyer, Pearl Whitney and Verna Culy. Dawson, Canada, in the Yu kon Territory, has an average of about 75 days a year that are frost free. 1524 Steel Peace Efforts Snarled 1 New York - (DPD - Efforts to bring agreement in the four-week-old steel strike were snarled again today with a new sharply critical exchange between union and industry leaders. ' U n i t e d : Steelworkers of America President David J. McDonald, ' who was absent from federal mediation talks here Monday said in Pitts burgh he was "sick of that show in New York" and indi cated he would not return until industry negotiators are replaced by "people of author ity." R. Conrad Cooper, head of the four-man committee rep resenting 12 major steel firms, with which the union began negotiating three months ago today, , retorted quickly that McDonald knows the team has "full authority" to bar gain . Cooper said he would be present at today's mediation session despite the absence of McDonald. "He would be well advised to spend less time character izing us as messengers and more time coming to grips with our message," Cooper said. That message, he' said, is "that an inflationary increase in wages and benefits would be contrary to the best inter ests of all concerned." That message has been re jected by the union since it was first presented by the in dustry, in advance of contract talks; The first furniture uphol stery probably was unpadded leather. Lone Negro To Attend Arkansas' Central High Little Rock, Ark. (DPD The lone Negro scheduled to inte grate Central High school Wednesday said to'day he isn't disturbed about white teen agers warning there will be trouble. Jeferson Thomas, 17,- said "they may throw me out, but they can't keep me out." He is one of the original "Little Rock Nine" that integrated Central behind federal bay onets in 1957. No Foolishness The Little Rock school board said it would not "stand for any foolishness" and promised school officials full support in any move to main tain discipline when the four public high schools reopen. Gov. Orval Faubus, mean while, remained silent on whether he plans to take ac tion to try to prevent inte gration for the third straight year. Segregation leaders said they were confident Faubus would make some move. But they scheduled a rally Wed nesday to urge Faubus to act and instigated a "buyer's strike" against Little Rock merchants who employ Ne groes a move that so far has failed to catch hold. Board To Act The school board approved the integration of six Negro students, three at Central and three at Hall. Some 54 other Negroes who asked to attend Central or Hall, were assigned to Horace Mann (Negro) High school. The board planned to act tonight on requests from 15 that they be re-assigned to Central. Thomas said he probably would be the only Negro to enter Central immediately. Carlotta Walls, one of the two others, is attending summer school in Chicago and will not finish until Aug. 21. Elizabeth Eckf ord, the third believes she has enough credits from correspondence work to graduate and plans to enter Knox College at Gales burg, 111., this fall. Grandma Gatewood Likes Television Hollywood -OJPD - Grandma Emma Gatewood, the 71-year-old hiking great grandmother from Gallipolis, Ohio, tried television on for size Monday and liked it. She appeared as a - special guest on the Art Linkletter House Party show here and "walked" off with a trio of prizes She won $100, a handful of assorted corn remedies, and a road map to Mexico City. Mrs. Gatewood chatted with Linkletter and displayed her crepe-soled shoes and battered umbrella. She impressed the studio audience with the statistics of her trip-95 days on the road, averaging 22 miles a day-all on foot. The walking grandmother will return to Portland, Ore., where she will appear in ' a special "Ohio Day" celebra tion Wednesday at the Oregon Centennial exposition. Appling Certifies Tax Bill Signatures Salem (DPD Secretary of State Howell Appling Monday certified the signatures on a petition referring the major state income tax bill to the people in 1960. The referendum petition was circulated by. the Citi zens' Committee for Economy and Equitable Taxation, an Albany-headquartered group. Appling said he had ac cepted 30,190 signatures -more than enough to have the measure put on the ballot. Of the signatures collected, only 522 were declared in valid, Appling said. Gov. Mark Hatfield has said that even though the measure is referred, the state should be able to get through the biennium by practicing "rigid economies." The bill to be voted upon would 'like "faxes, especially in the middle income bracket, chiefly by not allowing tax payers to deduct federal in come 'taxes -from state re turns. Abeokuta, Nigeria, originat ed as a mud-walled refuge for natives from the interior. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tit Bricks, Flues 727 W. McAndrawt Phone SF 3-4575 or SP 2-4107 JACKSONVILLE w Luncheon Honors Visitor By BETTE HOSKINS Jacksonville A luncheon honoring Mrs. June Wilkin son Dewey of Newark, Calif., was given recently at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Burnfiel, 306 Ore gon st. Hostesses for the event were Mrs. Mary Godward and Mrs. E. C. Moore, sister of Mrs. Dewey. Guests were Mrs. May Man kins Dalton, Mrs. Ida Bowman Henney, Mrs. Maxine Boone Meier. The guests, and Mrs. Explorer VI Carries Secret Rocket Device Washington -(DPD- Explorer VI, the Paddlewheel satellite circling the earth, carries a secret designed to save its life from kibitzers or possible saboteurs. The secret is the frequency of a receiver to which scien tists on earth from time to time send radio commands governing 30 different func tions built into the satellite. One of these functions, which may or may not ever be exercised, is the firing of a five-pound, 14-inch rocket in Explorer's spine. To Prolong Life The rocket was put there to prolong the satellite's life in the event something' went wrong at its birth. Nothing" went wrong, however, and the rocket was not fired. But the rocket is still in place. If it were fired acci dentally or on purpose at the wrong moment, it could doom Explorer VI to a fiery early death. As long as the vital fre quency is kept secret, how ever, there is little chance that the firing signal will be dis patched before Explorer VI has lived out its useful span. The Paddlewheel satellite was launched into an orbit which carries it within 157 miles of the earth at the low end (perigee) and out to 26,400 miles at the top (apogee). Its lifetime is estimated at more than a year, which is what the scientists wanted it to be. May Fire Rocket Toward the end of the satel lite's natural lifes pan, scien tists may fire the kick rocket just as a test. Similar equip ment probably will be used some day to control the course of manned satellites or other spacecraft. But if the rocket were fired at the wrong moment in Ex plorer's 91,140-mile circuit of the earth, the effect could be to throw the satellite out of orbit and send it plunging like a meteor to disaster. Use of Sand Dunes Water Approved Salem -(DPD-State Engineer Lewis Stanley Monday issued a permit to Pacific Power and Light Company to appropriate ground water from the sand dunes immediately north of Coos Bay. The permit approves the construction of 64 wells in an area about two miles wide and nine and one-half miles long. It allows use of about 20,800 gallons per minute from the wells for industrial uses including the manufac ture of pulp and paper. Company investigation in dicates the area may produce 30 .nillion gallons of fresh wa ter per day. The dune area embraces 13,000 acres bounded on the north by Tenmile creek, on the east by U.S. Highway 101, on the south by Coos bay and on the west by the Pacific ocean. The original bill to admit Nebraska as a state was twice vetoed by President Johnson before final approval. Associated Fnnit 0oD REPORT FOR WORK Thursday, August 1 3th WM. At The Packing House, Phoenix Dewey are all graduates of Jacksonville High school and attended all 12 years of school together here. Mrs Hannah Nunn Dalton of Butte Falls was also present. O. L. Dewey of Newark, Calif., spent a few davs in th valley visiting relatives and attendmg the Gold Rush Jubi lee returning home Aug. 4 with his family who spent several days with relatives. According to Mrs. Jean Hewlett, city recorder, any one wishing a building permit must submit an application with floor plans at least 10 days before building is started to Building Inspector Chet PurcelL Mr. and Mrs. Henry How ard of Eugene were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Tuttle recently. Mrs. Frank Apostalo and son, Tony.of San Diego, Calif., are guests this week of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Milam, of Sterling rd. Apos talo is in Seattle attending the Seafair with his ship. Edward Milam, also in the Navy, spent the month of July visiting here with his parents before returning to Bremer ton, Wash., where he is sta tioned. Recent visitors at the Mi lam home were .Mrs. Ethel Keenand son of Central Point, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Toulten of Ashland. Dolph Bevens was a dinner guest at the Milam home last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Low of Troutdale spent a recent week end at the home of Mrs. Jean Hewlett and her ' daughter, Hollie. Mrs. Milton James was host ess for a barbecue honoring Mrs. Carl Hoskins on her birthday Aug. 4. Other guests wer Carl Hoskins, Mr. and Mrs, James Noble, Mrs. Jean Hewlett and daughter,- Hollie, and Henry James. California Brush Fire Contained Elsinore, Calif .-(DPD-A brush fire that started Saturday when a pickup truck crashed and caught fire was contained and expected to be under con trol today. The cost was two lives, more than 50 injured firemen, six in critical condition, and 1,600 acres of valuable water shed once covered with thick bushes and dotted with scrub oak and pine trees. One home was destroyed by the fast-moving blaze. But some 250 others were saved by determined firefighters who battled the wind-whipped blaze in some cases right up to the yards of homes. Some 500 firemen surround ed the 10-mile perimeter of the fire Monday and contain ed it after being aided by water-bombing airplanes. The blaze was in Riverside county, about 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. 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