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WEDNESDAY. Al'Gl'ST 10, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLA.MAIll rAl.l.V UKKCON PAGE SEVENTEEN Heroic Cocker Spaniel Wins Award For Saving Master's Life In Lake CHICAGO (UP Taffy. little Cocker Spaniel who saved her 3-year-old master from drowning in the icy waters of an Idaho lake, to day received a 11000 bond prize as America's most heroic dog of 1955. Taffy was rewarded by a dog food company, Ken-L-Ratlon, for L D. Good Death Learned PORTLAND I Loren D. Good, a retired railroader, died Monday in a Balem hospital where he had been under treatment for the past lour months: 1 Good, who was 72, retired" seven years ago from the Southern Pa cific Railroad where he had been employed as a hostler for 38 years. A native of Iowa, Good had spent IS years in Klamath Falls. Prior to that he had worked at Baker and La Grande. He came to Oregon in 1913. He Is survived by the widow, Kettle Lee Good; a son, L. D. Good, and two daughters, Mrs. Frances Fairbanks and Mrs. Marie Hough. All live in Portland but Mrs. Fairbanks, whose home is in Honolulu. Funeral services will be held here Friday afternoan. Coon Proves Chicken Thief SUMMER LAKE The mystery of a chicken thief which had re moved nearly all of the chickens from three different ranches near here, was solved this week. The nighttime marauder had been reported by Mrs. H. C. Har ris, Mrs. S. D. Harris and Mrs, Frank Graves who is staying on the Dean Harris ranch. Traps set by H. C. Harris yielded a 30-pound mother coon, the first ever seen in this area. Mrs. Harris reports the animal has a family, so chicken-raisers are closing poultry house doors at niirht ana watching for the appear ance of her offspring. Western Oregon Log Price Firm PORTLAND For the sec ond consecutive year there may be no price dip in the Western Ore gon log market. Demand remains strong and prices firm, the Oregon State Col-i lege Extension Service said in its ; weekly report Tuesday. I Long No. 2. second-growth Doug las fir sawlogs were quoted mostly i at S48-50 a thousand board feet, . with No. 3 priced 15 to $10 lower. Those were prices for truck de-1 livery at Interior mills. Prices on water scale at river dumps were tip to $10 higher. ! Last year a strike kept demand high. This year the weather did it. First rain held back logging. Low humidity slowed the cutting next. VISIT TOKYO (UP) The government announced today that Foreign Min ister Mamoru Shigemitsu will leave Tokyo Aug. 23 for his first official visit to the United States. A Foreign Office announcement said Shigemitsu will stop for three hours in Honolulu and overnight in San Francisco before arriving in Washington for one week's stay. hi L Examine me Blend-Vue lentei are obtainable excluiively hroiioh Dr. Nolti Optometriiti it Colum bian Optical company. 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Housing Boss Fired Monday PORTLAND I Floyd S. Ratchford was fired as executive director of the Portland Housing Authority in a surprise move Mon day. A majority of the seven-member board, which administers some 1.000 dwelling units, ousted Ratch ford from his $12,000-a-year post and hired another man at $8,000 a year. Members said Ratchford's dismissal was for economy. Chairman R. A. DuBay resigned his chair after the closed-door ses sion and said the firing was "ir regular" and "unethical." for ; big cuts of i , v2S!x W . !vr'?m. I CHOICE LEAN BEEF I t i3M ' cmr m t m . i L-rfaaeiiiiiiiiiiivstviear i i - p- . mtir j rr lfn ' m .'- ''w. -':w rfy s. VjJWjJ r 1 Tfkifty Mffllff-iiffliirffs Ratchford's successor will be Clinton S. McGill, 59. an electrical engineer who worked for the hous ing authority for a time. Ratch ford, who was not present at Mon day's meeting, had been housing director since 1950. because mom... &-dssWw iss-nor A N.M E U S E I . t Judges To Be SACRAMENTO (UP) Gov. 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