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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY, MAY 8, 18M Tornadoes Damage Big Area OKLAHOMA CITY W-Damaee estimates range up to million dollars today in the wake of to.' naaoes and floods which hit Okla homa over the weekend, taking io'ir Uvea and Injuring at least 64. Latest reports showed twisters wtre seen at, or struck, 39 commu nities. A filth death was Indirectly caused by the weather. Billv Shcarlrr, 30, and his 84-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Annie Kubottom, wore killed as they tried to outrun a tornado in a trucic near Grandticm in southwest Oklahoma. The twister catisht up with the truck, demolished it and killed bout occupants. Franki La Fallier, 31. of Miami, Okla., and Shirley Jester, 13. nf Pocasset, drowned in flash floods. A Tulsa woman died of a heart attack as she raced to a neighbor' storm cellar when the sirens begun to blow, warning a tornado was overhead. She was Mrs. Ethel Olive Bowman, 57. The slate headquarters of the Salvation 'Army, which sent rescue crews into the storm areas, esti mated property damage at over a million dollars. The Washita River, which flood ed Friday alter a 10'A-inch down pour in Koger Mills County, flood ed again yesterday. The muddy river poured into the lowlands for 10 miles northeast of Cordell in washita County. Red Probe To Be Held DETROIT, Wi Rep. Kit Clardy R Mich) opens hearings today to determine how far communisn has Infiltrated into education and labor in Michigan. Clardy, chairman of it House Un-American Activities subcom mittee, said be expected to call between 8 - and 10 witnesses the first day, more than half of them educators. He said, however, one "pretty important" witness may be called from the labor field. The white-haired Michigan con gressman, commenting on criti cism by the CIO United. Auto workers, said often the "most trouble Is stirred up before a hearing." He said he thought the union, some of whose membeis have, been subpoenaed, would be one of the chief benefactors of the investigation. The first two witnesses, he said. were Sidney W. Craber, a social studies teacher at a Detroit ele mentary school, and Dr. Gerald Harrison, a faculty member and pnysicist at wayne university. . He said his group is not con ducting a trial arm is not trying "to determine who Is guilty and who is not guilty." He said.it is merely trying to determine how far communism had infiltrated into the fields of labor and education. Ship Building Program Urged WASHINOTON I Robert B. Murray Jr., Undersecretary of Commerce for Transportation. Monday recommended to the White House and Congress a government-backed, 400-mllllon dollar-a-year program almeS at encouraging construction of 60 ships annually in United Slates shipyards. Murray said a joint study by the Maritime Administration and the Defense Department Indicated such a building program was needed to prevent a large part ol the U. S. merchant fleet from becoming obsolete all at once a few years from now. He also said a 60-shtp-a-ycar program was needed to keep a nucleus of 36.000 shipyard workers employed on merchant ship build ing. He said this was considered the safe minimum frr the ship building program which would have to be undertaken in case. of national emergency. The report said workers engaged in merchant marine shipbuilding numbered 23.000 in 1933. would average about 10.800 In 1964. and. on Uie basis of present orders for sl::ps, would drop olf to l.iOO in 195S. It said only three merchant ships were scheduled for delivery Ui 1955 and that there were no orders beyond them. The report said most of the nation's present merchant sea going fleet some J.644 ships of 40.423.000 deadweight tons was built during the war and would become obsolete in the early 1960s, in a block. Merchant ships are generally considered obsolete after 20 years. , Ship Smashes Into Dock ASTORIA W A wheat-laden freighter was -caught by a strong ebb tide and smashed into a dock here about 4:30 a.m. Monday. The ship crashed through about 50 feet of the dock, tearing about a later section of one-half block, and then plunged into a warehouse across the street from the main office of the Columbia River Packers Assn. . The vessel is the Joseph Feuer. owned by Contiship Corp. of Wilmington. De. It was headed for sea with 8.000 tons of wheat. At the helm when the accident occurred was a licensed Columbia River pilot. A. S. Caples. Portland. The vessel backed away from the wrecked dock under Its own power and moved to a berth near Tongue Point where a diver was to check it for damage. Extent of damage to the dock and warehouse was not Immediately determined. R. E. MARKS, former assist ant tx commissioner with t h Southern Pacific Rail road, has been appointed to a new post, that of assistant to the vie president on the staff of Vic President and General Counsel G. I. Bu land. He' will headquarter in San Francisco, Marks started with the road in F20. Asian Battle Said Mistake BONN. Germany Gcimany's World War II governor of northern France and Belgium dcsciibcd Uie French Union's stubborn defense of Dien Bien Phu today as "Uie second Battle of StalUigrad. in which the French are making all Uie mistakes Hitler made.". Former Gen. Alexander von Falkcnhausen told an interviewer: "To insist on holding Dien Bien Phu, like Hitler did his famous fortresses.' gives this battle s propagandist significance which, can have catastrophic conse quences. "Dien Bien Phu has no strategic significance." Before World War n Von Falk hausen was a military adviser to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek. He is considered an expert on Asian affairs. Tile Nazis arrested him in 1944 for alleged complicity in the offi cers' plot against Hitler. After the war the Belgians sentenced him to a long prison term as a war crimi nal, but released him in March 1951. Subfloor Aid Told Owners of basemcntlrss houses can reduce the crawl-space damp ness that often leads to decay of subfloor timbers by laying roll rooting or other moisture barriers on the soli beneath the building, reports an Oregon State College agricultural engineer, L. W. Bonnlcksen says the cheap effective soil cover Is easiest lo apply after the foundation la laid and before the flooring is put down, but it isn't too big a job even on finished houses. . High relative huildlty 15 rcr cent or over In the crawl-space Is responsible for most of the de cay of subfloorlng. This can bo reduced In some cases by better ventilation or by eliminating sources of water under the build ing through grading or Installing gutters and downspouts. But where seepage water is the chief source of moisture. Bonnicksen says, in stallation of a soil cover la a prac tical way of lowering humidity to a sate level. "The most effective soil cov ers Include a single layer of 30 to 110 pound roll roofing, a douolc layer of pound roll tooling, IS i pound asphalt-saturated felt, laml inated reinforced asphalt-saturau-d papers or unmounted aluminum ! foils. First Grey Wins At Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Ky. WI A little grey coll with a terrific appetite and a decided dislike for work Is going after two-thirds of the turl'i coveted triple crown after break ing a Jinx that plagued horses of his color through the 80 years . of Uie Kentucky Derby. No grey ever won America's No. 1 glamor race, and many have tried, until Andy Crevolln'a Deter mine, a mile of a horse out of Al hambra, Calif., came from aecond place in the stretch to hang a length and a half defeat on the swift Hasty Road last Saturday. fifteen other 3-year olds. Includ ing the favored Correlation, were up the stretch eating the dust of the leaders as Determine reached the end of Ui mile and a quarter In 3:03. 1 Determined next atop la the Preakneaa at Plmllco on May 33. Then, according lo present plana ol his owner mid trainer Wllllo Molter, he'll head back West where he bowed to Itasly Ituad by a head In the mile of Iho Derby Trial last Tuesday, llualy Road, a speed demon from Alllo Reuben's Hasty House Farm of Toledo, Ohio, stepped lo the I rout soon alter I lie start Satur day but Jockey Ray York never had little Determine farther back than third, ready to strike when he gave the word, Tlie CrevoMti grey, who resem bles Native Dancer In color, moved within a length or so ol Hasty Road going around the final bend, caught the pace setter at the eighth pole, raced on nearly even terms for another sixteenth and then took command to win going way, llasly Road had Iwo and a half leiigthn on It, W. 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