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V-eather news bad, as usual:
Furious iloods ripped a,- Uie
Northeastern states lor tlie second
day in a row. with 141 known
dead and property damage esti
mated in the billions.
Rivers bloated with record-
breaking rains (as much as 12
inches in one day. in places
rolled out of their banks across
seven states, leaving inousands
homeless, roads in shambles and
whole communities in tiebris-cov
ered rum.
I wouldn't think of criticising
Mother Nature who, when the
magnitude of her operations is
considered, does an amazing Job
but if she d Just SCATTER H"
AROUND a little more 11 would
be appreciated.
The rate of increase of our
stored-up wheat surplus is be
lieved to be slowing up a Utile. It
is still crowing, but not so last-
Come next July 1, the wheal
"reserves" are expected to total
about one billion, 56 million bush
els or only 35 million bushels
more than on July 1 of this year.
That would be the smallest carry
over increase since July 1, 1953.
But
Current wheat-stocks are now
about FOUR TIMES the 256-mil-Jion
bushel carryover on July 1,
1952.
Iff a bis. problem," as everyone
knows, with many angles in
cluding the political ones.
But I still think It would be bet
ter to feed the surplus wheat to
livestock at prices competitive
with other feed grains instead of
stashing it away In ever-increasing
quantities to hang like a men
acing thundercloud over the mar
kets. But let's get away from the
crops and the weather and talk for
a moment about MODERN high
ways. We're planning some inter
esting developments along that
line in Oregon.
The Banfield Expressway, lead
ing out of Portlasd to the east, is
a divided highway. In the center
atrip, it is planned to plant a
screen of ornamental shrubs to
shield night drivers from the
headlights of cars approaching
from the other direction.
I think everyone will agree thai
it is a splendid 1 idea. Blinding
headlights are the chief menace of
night driving. On two-lane high
ways, there is no satisfactory so
lution ol the problem. But on mod
ern divided highways a screen of
shrubs in the center will provide
an astonishing amount of relief.
It might as well be added that
the time is coming when all of
our main highways must have four
or more lanes. These multi-lane
highways cost a lot of money, but
they handle a lot ol traffic. There
is a lot of traffic already, and
it will increase steadily In the fu
ture as our country grows.
On the new multi-lane highway
from Portland to Salem that is
inearing completion, another inter
estmz experiment is under consid
eration. It, too, has to do with
planting.
The idea is to plant the sides
of the road, beginning at the
right-of-way fence, witn a heavy
screen of wild rose bushes. As
everyone knows, wild roses pro
duce a tangle of vines. The think
ing is that a car going off the
pavement out of control would be
caught in this tough network of
vines much as a trapeze perform
er who misses his hold is caught
in the protective net beneath and
saved from serious injury.
At any rate, it is an interesting
prooosal, and I hope it Is given a
trial.
Formosa Army
Chief Resigns
TAIPEI, Formosa (ft U. S.
trained Gen. Sun Li-Jen, once
commander in chief of the Nation
alist army, was disclosed Saturday
to have quit as Chianp Kai-shek's
personal chief of staff after ex
posure of a subordinate as head of
a suspected Red China spy ring,
The disclosure ended rumors
which have been staling for weeks
m Tairi ahnul th fmir.star rron.
in Taipei about the four-star gen
eral, a hero of World War II in
Burma.
Gen, Sun, who got his training
at Virginia Military Institute and
is highly rated by American offi
cers, is not under arrest but Ir.ccs
;he possibility of a court martial.
Even if a commission of inquiry
confirms his assertion he had "no
tdca" his long-time subordinate
was tiding the connection tor spy
purpoes. there is no doubt thai
Sun's military career has ended.
The government announcement
said he resigned Auk. 3 as "an
admission oi negligence.''
Wu Nan Ju. head of the Nation
alist Information Bureau, Mud iha:
Sun's subordinate. Kuo-Ting-liang
has confessed using his Jong con
nection with the general lor spying
pctivities dating back to 1948.
Gen. Sun. in an interview Satur
day with The Associated Press at
his home, said he and Kuo "fought
in Burma and Manchuria,' that
Kuo became a major under him.
Aoked if iie ever suspected Kuo
was a Communist a gem. Gen. Sun
ha it!:
"t had no iaea. Ii came as a
suiprip to me and I wia very
disturbed about it."
Kuo and others are tinder ar
rest. Hundred Battle
Humboldt Fire
OR1CK. dill. HP' Some 100,
Urefi?htrrs ioday bsttd a lorest
I're lj miles est of the northern
Humboldt County community.
Tne blaie broke out late Fri
day and hy mid-mornirg today
had burned oxer about 40 acres.
However, forestry service crews
were hopeful of controlling the
fire by this afternoon It no ad
verse winds develop.
Riots Blaze
In French
North Africa
PARIS W Nationalist rioting
blazed across North Africa Satur
day and resulted in the killing of
more than 430 Arabs and Euro
peans The violent deaths were in
battles, . bombings and various
armed encounters in Algeria and
Morocco.
Iailamed Arabs demanding an
end to French rule took the second
anniversary of the exile of Moroc
co's deposed Sultan Mohammed
Ben Youssef to set off the worst
wave of disorders since independ
ence became an issue in North
Africa.
White-cloaked Berber tribesmen
fought a bitter engagement with
parachute troops in Morocco's At
las Mountains, and other national
ists clashed with troops and tanks
in the shanty towns surrounding
Casablanca.
SYMPATHY
Later iu the day, apparently in
sympathy with the Moroccans, Al
gerian rebels went into action
some 800 miles away in Constan
tine province of Eastern Algeria.
Large groups of nationalists at
tacked police stations and bar
racks at Fhilippeville, and set off
a series of bombs in Conatantine,
a city of 119, 000. In quick succes-.
sion reports came of attacks
against police stations, postoftice
and railroad depots in towns all
over the area.
The French news agency de
scribed the Algerian outbreak as
"an attempted insurrection" but
said the situation was in hand as
the result 0f quick action by police
and security forces.
FIGHTING REPORTED
A report from the fighting in the
Atlas Mountains of' Morocco de
scribed it as "more like a civil
war than a police operation."
With reports of new clashes
flooding into Paris almost hourly,
a precise accounting was impos
sible. But French sources, which often
are inclined to underestimate cas
ualties in nationalist disturbances,
gave this general breakdown of
the dead in the major clashes:
Aleeria 200 nationalists and
?1 French military personnel and
civilians in the Constantme region.
Morocco 200 nationalists and
Europeans, about 90 of them at
Oued Zem and an equal number
at Kenlfra, and about a score in
the outskirts of Casablanca.
Princess Hurt
At Gay Outing
B ALL ATE R, Scotland (1V- Prin
cess Margaret fell headlong before
a gasping crowd of thousands at
a church bazaar Saturday night.
'T think I have sprained my
ankle, ' she said.
But she got up, limped to her
station wagon, and drove off to
Balmoral Castle nearby.
The incident climaxed a gay.
carefree day during which the
princess and her family joked and
chatted gaily with crowds but kept
ihe closely guarded secret of Mar
garet's romantic intentions.
Tne gay princess will be 25 Sun
day, so aiter midnight Saturday
night she can wed without the offi
cial consent of her sister, Queen
Elizabeth.
Reports ran rife that her heart
was set on 40-year-old Group Capt.
Peter Townsend, a divorced man
and father of two children.
Townsend spent the day at the
gentlemen's races at Ostend. Bel
gium, winning the Cyrano Grand
Prix in
-photo iinish aboard
Cwenda.
I "It is all very dimcult for me,"
1 nsena saia wnen a reporter
laskcd nJm about "s Plans l?r
future. "I .iITt telling yOU all that
can. But 1 cannot make definite
plans."
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A TWO-HOUR BATTLE amid scorching heaf end heavy moke wti waged by the Dorrii Fire
Department in valiant etttmpt to save the Dreder Rexall Drug Store which was destroyed
early Saturday morning. The fire tighten were eble to keep the flames from spreading to the
.adjacent Dyiert Garage end the Baldwin Tavern. Oemege to those establishments was evert
ed by keeping the buildings drenched with weter.
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Russians To
Free Three
U.S. Citizens
WASHINGTON Soviet Rus
sia notified the United States Sat
urday she is releasing three more
Americans. wo on demand and
it third voluntarily.
Tne two being freed by request
of he State Department are Army
privates who have been missing
for more than seven years. They
were listed as Wilfred C. Cumish
of Amesbury. Mass., and Murray
Fields, of Bayside, N. Y.
The Army said Cumish and
Fields, the latter also known as
Murray Feingersch, are classed on
its records as deserters and they
will be subject to arrest and trial
upon their return (o American
custody.
THIRD MAN
The third man being released,
identified by the Soviet Foreign
Office as Frederick Charles Hop
kins, was not known by the State
Department from available rec
ord? .
The Soviets simply said a man
by this name will be freed along
with the two soldiers whose return
had been requested by this coun
try in a note July 16.
In the past several years the
Soviets have released five Ameri
cans on specific demand.
The Army said Cumish and
Fields were absent without lcae
nhen they disappeared behind the
Iron Curtain in 1948.
ARMY OFFICIALS
Aniiv officials said in the cases
of some other men who have been j
listed as absent without leave
Mong the Iron Curtain, the Army
has merely dropped them from the
rolls of active duty after they have
been mifsing for 30 da vs.
In the case of Cumish and
Fields, however, they said, infor
mation received from American
military authorities in Europe in
dicated both men left their units
deliberately and their local com
manders had classified them as
deserters.
The Army aaid when, the- two
are turned over to American au
thorities thev will be subject to
he customary investigation that
will determine whether their al
leged offenses are serious enough
to warrant courts martial.
Berkeley Man
Named Governor
FRASER, Colo.. (UP) Walter
A. Gordon of Berkeley. Cain., a
former assistant football coach at
the University of California, will
succeed Archie A. Alexander as
governor of the Virgin Islands.
Both Gordon and Alexander are
Negroes and both are Republicans.
President Elsenhower appointed
Gordon, a lawyer, yesterday at his
Rocky Mountain resort near Pra-
ser just two days alter accepting
Alexander's resignation in the
wake of demonstrations against his
rffimp
The new appointee Is chairman mediate lo-cuu-per-nour wage m
of the Adult Authority of Call- crease effective Sept. 1 and a
fornia and formerly served as a further 10 cent-pcr-hour wage in
Pardon Board adviser to the Call-1 crease elfective April 1. The pres
fornia governor. He served for is 'enl daily wage is $18.25 and the
years as president of the Alameda
County chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
A 1318 graduate of the Universi
ty of Calilorma, he received his
law degree there in 19J2 and
served for 25 years as an assistant
football coach at his alma mater.
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THE NINE O'CLOCK photographer "killed two birds with one
'camera' " Saturday morning at Dorris, California, Dispatched
-there to cover a drug store fire early in the morning, he not
only got the tire pictures, but also at 9 o'clock snapped these
two little girls as they watched the firemen in action. They are
Sharon (left) and Caroline Templeton, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Templeton, of Dorris.
Weather
' FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity. Fair through Sunday and
Monday.' High both days 85; low
Sunday night 55.
, High .Saturday . .
Low at midnight Saturday .... .52
Mine Workers
Win Boost
WASHINGTON W A new coal
contract calling for a $2-per-day
wage Increase was announced Sat
urday night by the United Mine
Workers tUMW) Union and North
ern and steel-industry-owned coal
mine operators.
The UMW said it was the largest
wage contract incrca.se negotiated
in the union's history.
John L. Lewis, UMW president,
said that he expected other seg
ments of the coal industry to agree
to the settlement terms.
The agreement calls for an im
increase would bring this figure
to $20.25.
The agreement was reached
Fecrelly between the lb year old
Lewis and Harry M. Moses, presi
dent of the Bituminous Coal Op
erators Assn. Moses represents j urday niaht in an effort to keep
Northern commercial and "cup- the tire from "blowing up." Ful
tive'' mines owned by steel mills. wider snid.
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Oregon Fires
Under Control
i " VALE, Ore. W Eastern Ore-
; iron s two bi forest and range
fires were reported under control
late Saturday.
The largest, which had covered
an estimated 8.000 acres of federal
and private rangeland. near Burn.i,
was to be mopped up Sunday, fire
fighters said.
The other, near the to of Iron
side on (he Vale-John jay High
way, was reported unacr control
most of Saturday.
Ed Porten, Forest Service dis
patcher, mud Forest Service and
Bureau of Land Management
crews will begin the mopup of the
Burns fire Sunday.
He said the fire had burned!
mostly grass and sagebrush and
only a small amount of timber.
There were still some pockets in
side the burns which had been by
passed by the fire, he said.
Derreil Fulwider. BLM's district
range manager, said that 150 men
were on the line around the Iron
side fire. Aiding them were eight
bulldozers and three pumpers.
Three crews with power saws
were felling snags around the fire
lines. Fulwider said no exact esti-.
maie of the size of the burn was
nviiilable. but it was more than
1.00(t acres.
Fire fighters were hampered by
considerable slash from timber
cutting operation.
Crews were setting backfires Sat
if liL :
DENSE CLOUDS OF SMOKE pouring out of the Drader Drug Store at Dorris early Saturday
morning hampered firemen who fought two hours to quell the flames. The building end con
tents, owned by Dr, C. R. Drader, Dorris physician, were destroyed. Dr. Drader said he suf
fered 100 per cent loss. He added he could not estimate the financial loss. The fire was dis
covered shortly before 8 a.m. by Dorrii Fire Chief Bruitt Smith. At he was passing the
pharmacy an eiplesion shattered plate glest windew.
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Soviet Chief
Backs Peace
Atomic Uses
GENEVA l.ti The first world
wide conference on the peacetul
uses of atomic energy ended Sat
urday with a prediction bv Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulgamn that its
work will lead to a "luriher re
taxation of. international tension.'
in a message io coniercnce rres-j
.dent Homl J. Bhabha of India, the
Soviet leader agreed Hh !
earlier expression from President
Elsenhower tnat the exchange o!
information should be continued In
future meetings.
UNANIMOUS
-it is tne unanimous view ol all,
uniiciucu, o ii u ,. un.n.cu.
"that this conlerence has succceo-i
ed beyond all hones and expccla-1
lions.'
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman ol
the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis
sion, called it "one of the most
successful projects in international
cooperation ever undertaken."
The conference. he said, had
exceeded all expectations of the
American delegation.
The Russians Injected the only
sour note when Prof. Dmitri V.
Skobcll&yn, head of the Soviet dele
gation, told a news conference he
wished to expie.ss regret over the
fact that Red China and Commu
nist East Gcimany were not in
vited. DISCRIMINATION '
"This discrimination is iu no
way justified," he said, "and does
not contribute to the understanding
which developed during ihe meet
ing of the four heads of govern
ments in Geneva.'-'
Skobcltsyn also declared:
1. Russia, has been working for
some time on methods oi hurnes-
sing the energy of the H-bomb but
there still is not enough data to
Justify predictions as to when the
problem might be solved.
The United States and Britain
previously had made similar atale
meiy. .
a. Rtissia expects to have atomic
power plants capable of producing
'several- hundreds of thousand
kilowatts" of electric power by
1960.
Prof Willard P. Libby, a member
of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com
mission, declared the United
Stales Is ready to help other coun
tries "proceed as rapidly as possi
ble toward economic production of
power from the atom.
Base Commander
Killed In Crash
WENDOVER AIR FORCE BASE
Utah iPI An F88H jet lighter
crashed in the barren Western
UtHh desert near here early SaU
iirdnv scattering wreckage 5U0
yards and killing the commander
ol Clovls, N.M. Air rorce Base.
He was Col. H.H. (Hank) Nor
man, 38, ol Hardy, Ark.
He was leading a team of four
Jets from Ihe 31Sth Fighter-Bomber
group in Tactical Air Command s
annual gunnery meet here.
The let flamed out and smacked
into the desert about 1.000 yards
hort of a runway, as the colonel
approached for a landing.
He was graduated from West
Point In 1940. He was a veteran
nf ihe African campaign in World
War II and was a prisoner of war.
He had been at Clovls since last
October.
Region Ravaged;
At Least 141 Die
By THK ASSOCIATED I'BESS
The Northeast, staggered by the
most savage floods In the history
of the region, counted the cost in
billions Saturday and at least Ml
persons were killed by the roaring
fury that swirled across eight
stales. '
Scores of communities still were
In turmoil, their communications
virtually cut off, utility services
dead, roads destroyed and uiidi.r
mined, drinking water polluted.
President Elsenhower Saturday
designated six states Massachu
seiU, Pennsylvania, Connecticut.
New Jersey. Rhode Island and
South Carolina - as major dis
aster areis. North Carolina was
designated as such earlier in the
week because of hurricane Diane's
damage.
IIIOII WATF.RS
High waters still threatened in
,,,,, ni,"" .mp,.iallv rinum.
,.eam ,reas along mtljot rlvers.
oraenlly, Ihough. the swollen
,tlMms bei;m m r.cedc Saturday.
Il0nlcallVi not AURUSt alm
made tne glKttIulc ciean-up task
even more arduous..
The wasteland leit behind bv the
aWjnailns waters was "as devas-
,alln( , human mind can Ira,,
aclnp . sam a Woons0ckct, R. I
oiliolnl
The Red Cross set aside two
million dollars for preliminary
flood relief in the area.
Pennsylvania had the most dead
at least 74 and many more nilss
inp. One summer camp near Strouds
burg was literally swept off the
face of the earth, taking 37 women
snd children to presumed death in
the raging waters of a normally
placid creek.
PERSONAL TOUR
Gov. Abraham iHibicoff of Con
necticut, after a personal tour of
he worst-hit areas, said, "It will
take a superhuman effort to re
store this state to the condition It
was in before the torrential rains
struck.
"It has been absolutely heart
breaking to see the devastation."
Evans Clinchy of The Hartford
Times, the first newsman to reach
tiny Wlnsted. Conn.t said people
were "wandering the t streets,
dazed."
F.vcvy store front along the main
street was smashed in and the
street itself, normally a hard,
blacktop road, la now nothing but
a mass of twisted asphalt, concrete
and broken pipe from the clty"s
waier system."
The flood cut off the mnniifactur.
In oily of Waterbury, Conn.; and
Kiuen 13 pprsnns.
PLANT BURNS
At Putnam, in Northern Con
necticut, a burning magnesium
plant added new fear to the horror
of Uie raging Quineabaug and
French rivers.
All night the plant burned fierce
ly and blazing barrels of magne
sium were awept through the flood
ed si reels, exploding continually
like bombs.
New York, Massachusetts, and
KF Housing
Shortage Told
PORTLAND Two representa
tives of the Klamath County Cham
ber of Commerce say this city
will face a serious housing short
age when airmen begin arriving
late this year.
About 1,000 military men and 130
civilian workers are expected to
seek housing in the Klamath falls
area when the new fighter-tnler-
cepior Dnse opens nere.
The two chamber of commerce
members. Frank Tucker and Rob
ert E. Veatch, were In Portland
Friday to talk to Portland real
estate men about housing in the
Klamath Falls area.
Some 300 rentnl units will prob
ably be needed to house the U. 8.
Air Force personnel, they said.
parts of Maryland and Virginia
-uli'ered terrible damage from the
unprecedented deluge. Rural Xarm
land and populous Eastern cities
allie felt the crushing iorce of the
swilt waters..
Some municipalities were under
civil defense or military jurisdic
tion. .
The problem of getting1 clean
water, food and necessities Into
many stricken areas assumed ma
jor proportions.
The 1st Army sent a fleet of nino
big 14 - passenger helicopters to
comb ihe submerged areas, pick
ing up families still marooned.
RESCUED
Hundreds had been rescued by
rowboat. Army amphibians and
helicopters from deluged summer
camps, villages and farms.
For each known victim of the
flood, there were more missing
and unaccounted for. Most of the
deaths were from drownings. A
few were from storm-caused traf
fic accidents or electrocutions from
fdowned power lines.
The known death toll by states
was:
Pennsylvania. 74; Connecticut,
41: Massachusetts,' 13; New Jer
sey, 5; New York, 4; Virginia, 3;
Rhode Island. 1.,
East Hunt
Camp Hit By
Flood Water
BTROUDSBURO, Pa. W State
Police rcportea Friday that appar
ently only three persons survived
when flood waters rose to the attio
floor of a 'J 2 story home before
the building collapsed, tumbling 40
terriiied women and children Into
churning, debris laden Brodliead
Creek.
The bodies of 11 have been re
covered, while 26 persons are atlll
missing.
The worst single tragedy In EasU
em Pennsylvania's worst floods In
history wiped out the 14 -cabin
Pocono Mountatn vacation spot
known as "Davis Camp."
The three who escaped were
Mrs, Jennie Johnson oi - Jersey
City, N.J., bxr 18-year-old dugn
ter, Nancy, an4 ,lJ-yoar-old.VBeth-Liddle.
present address not
learned.
TURBULENT TIDES
They were swept withlhe others
Into the turbulent lides In the
blackness of Tflursday night's tor
rential rains. The downpour sent
the creek, which feed into the
Delaware River, over Us banks.
Six young girls, residents of
Davis Camp, also were found safe.
But they were not at the site when
the flood waters came, They left a
short time earlier to Visit friends
at neamy Pine Brook, Thej-e they
stayed when Uie storm broke with
all Its fury.
Mrs. Johnson, fighting back tears
as she teld of her shocking ex
perience, said she feared her two
sons Roy, 14, and David, 10
were lost in the water. They are
among llio missing.
WALL OF WATER
She reported she was sitting with
her three children hi their cabin
when a "wall of water hit the
bungalow and started to rip It to
pieces."
The children and I rushed up
to the winter house (the home of
camp owner, the Rev, Leon Davis,
a retired Baptist minister ot Nan
uet, N.Y.) and with the 37 other
people at the camp we made our
way first to the first floor, then to
the second and finally to the attic.
"We were terrified, but we could
n't do anything but watch the
water come up toward us. It kept
getting higher and higher.
"When it reached the attic floor
we felt the house give a shudder
and the whole house collapsed.
It Just fell np.iri, and the 40 of us
went tumbling into a Jumble of
water, boards and screnms."
HUSHING W .VI KltS
She was able eventually to clitnt
to an Island ol debris piifd up by
rushing watcra. Little Both alMt
was thrown SKiiinst this lieup and
the two clung to it until rescued
the next morniiiir-
A: the flood waters backed down,
13 Navy helicopters were pn-ssed
into service around Stromhbuig, a
Pocono Mnuntaii, vacation report
whrrp at lrast 56 lost their lives.
About 50 others are missing.
The helicopters nhiitted more
than '250 persons, including an ex
pectant mother.
Six Killed In
State Crashes
B) Till; ASSOC.. I I I) I'ltLSS
Six persons died in accidents re
ported in Orcein Saturday.
One wa killed in an airplane
rra.-h, onp drowned, a losper died
in a spectacular sin.T-hvip in Ore
(ton Cuy and traffic mishaps
clfuiii"d three other.
Kohrt J. Short. '2b. of Yamhill
wj killtd Saturday when his run
away lo truck smashed into the
retaining wall ol the new munici
pal elevator at Ormion City.
The brakes of hi.i truck appar
rntlv failed an he came down a
grade leadtnfc to the bridge which
connects Oregon City and West
Linn, The truck raced out of con
Irol arross the bridge toward Ore
Son. City,