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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1954)
THUnSDAV, JULY 1, 19H4 HERALD AND NEWS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THIRTEEN Traffic Deaths Decrease In May CHICAGO W The natlon'i traf fic deaths decreased In May, the filth cimuecullve month which hai shown & reduction front the cor rospondlflif month In 1963, May death toil waa 1.900, the National Safely Council report ed, a reduction of 3 per cent over May 1093. In the first five months this year, 13,470 persona were kill In traffic mishaps, a decreaae of S per cent over the 14,190 reported In the corresponding period last year. Insure with Norland and Save. 27 Pine 81, i I ii 1 ANANA IfLT Mayor L, Van Sipt, Bonenia, edmlrei the trophy he won in the Merchant's cow milking conteit Tuesday in downtown Klamath Felli. Handing ovor tha trophy it Kaith Moon, praiidant of tha Klamath Marehant'i Association who amcead tha conteit. Admiring too, it Mai Lambert, rodao announcar who wai alio In on tha act. Mexicans Huddle In Hills Above Flooding Rio Grande PIKDUAS NKOHAfl, Mrxliotf Thls wan a town ol sorrow and uncounted dead lasi nlvhl. 11)o urralest Hood In Hip history of Iho Rio Grande rolled down on Plrdras Nrifras and pant luit Irvrn that curled n round II like a pro tecting arm. Thlrty-eluhl prrsoiia are known dead. But lew believed last DlKht these wero all the dend. Uncon United esLliiialca ranged up to 600. Last nn lit compflre tuckered on the rough, mesqultr-covcrfd hilts around what was a thriving larni town o( 30,000 people across Iho nio Oraiide from Eagle Paaa. Tex. These were the Urea ot tile homeless, people who dally trudge back to their ruined houses In search of the dead. At least one half the halt farth est Irom the river of I'lcdraa Ncurns atlll Is Hooded. The down town aectlun was In better shape. It Is high, on the cdue ol iho Kio Grande, and tha water has receded from Its while brick, two-story buildings with spires and shutters of red and blue. Car move through the paved downtown atreela and merchants sadly lake up the Job ol getting back to ruined businesses. Away Iront lira business tcctlon, the pnvlns plays outund Die Mreeta are loblollies or sticky mud down w-hich no automobile can travel. These art Hie sections where adobe houses inched like toy mud hula made by children. Open ceAools- pock the town Uko soroa. There la no pure water In the town. II. O. Walker, a U.S. Public Health Service officer trout Eagle Pass who has inspected Pledraa Ncgraa, said, "Knnltary conditions are horrible. The water system was never adequate and now there Is none at all." At first Walker said, bodies were pulled out of niesqulte bushes and burled quickly. "But listen." he anld, "there are five or six kids In every Mexican family. Those famlllca lake care of their own. They find a drowned kid and they bury him pronto." ''80 who knows how many are dead. Prom what 1 hear, there mav lie onywhere Irom 300 to 6O0. Uul I don't know If that's right and nobody will ever know, nut I'll bet Ihnre arp a hell of a lot of bodies uncounted." Everybody had plenty of warn ing thnt the flood was coming early yesterday and nobody In Eagle Pasa, a town of about 1,100. was lost. "Hut in Pledraa Negras," said J. P.. Bnudifer of the U.S. Iininl uraiion and Naturalization Service, "nobody believed the warning. They wouldn't gel out and those adobe houses plain disintegrated." Walker rubbed a palm over his bald head. "You see that levee over there what la left of a levee? You see how It ataru at the river and curls around the town, kind of like an arm? They built that levee after a big flood In 1032 and they put their faith In II. "And It failed them." ... " iji 'tawn 1 -em 11 iflfr a y NOW AT YOUR FAVORITE GROCER Morton Salt ' e For picnic I Lunch boxssl Table) us I What a convenience.' Individual, rcady-lo-uM Lunlalure thakcri of Morton Saltl Just IVi tnchel high. Shaker lop cloxt light won't leak or spilt In hsndy carlom of 6 at your food store. -" 1 Decline In Farm Prices Reported WASHINGTON lTi Prices lar. mera received for their products nroppea 1 per cent between mid May and mid-June, but the docllno was felt largely by commodities not directly Involved In the con gressional battle over farm prlco aupporta. 1 Moat of Uie decline In the farm price Index announced yesterday reflected a decrease of about 17 per cent In prices of hogs and an over-all decrease of 10 per cent in prices of all meat animals. Prices of meat animals are not supported by the government. ' STRIKE ROME I A hundred Thous- ind Coinmunlat-led farm work era went bsck to the untended fields and gaunt-ribbed cattle of Ferrara provlnco Thursday after a two-month strike that cost an estimated three million dollars. The strikers got rsiaes equal to three cents an hour. I ii WPPY tlTOPS IN QUAUTYlj 11 SEsSz m gl IMITATIONS (Kfif I LOW III PRICE! 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Cello laa H Lettuce Fancy, Firm, large headt Snoboy tucumhers Modford Hothouse Largo Site, Firm Tomatoes Large, red ripe Frotna Com -Red Bluff 1 Each Each Large Ears YE HAVE WATERMELON FRESH OFF THE TRUCK OPEN SUNDAYS OPEN EVENINGS
