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THE N Y S S A GATE C IT Y JO UR N A L, NYSSA, OREGON. T H U R SDAY. NOVEM BER 13. 1952
Nyssa Chamber Passes Resolution
Opposing Telephone Rate Increase
On Protest of Financing Methods
Firemen Routed
Out Twice In
Early Hours
Nvssa Chamber of Commerce went
on record Wednesday noon opposing
a rate increase which has been ask­
ed by the Malheur Home Telephone
Co. through the public utilities com-
mis-lon. It was emphasized by
Five-minute speakers at the Fri­
Chamber officials that the opposi­ day -morning meeting of Nyssa
tion is based on the method used by Toastmasters club will be C liff Main.
the telephone comparfy-’Ho- finance Bill W ahlert and Dick Yost, each
its capital investment by issuance speaking on a subject o f his own
o f stock in the company, which it choice.
is claimed requires an 8 percent
Introductions will be made by Ken
annual dividend. Instead of by fi- Renstrcm, toastmaster, and their
r-ancing such improvements with efforts criticized and evaluated by
bonded indebtedness. It was assert­ Gus Liming. Mistaken use of gram-
ed that such bonded indebtedness mer will be pointed out by Tom
would result m a considerable sav­ Jones.
ings to the company.
The table topic, on which all tires-
Harold Heuig son, city attorney for ent wm comment, wiU be presented
Nyssa which earlier opposed the in­ by C liff Mink, tepicmaster.
crease, explained that the Malheur
Home Telephone Co. is principally
controlled by the Mountain States
Telephone Co. which owns a ma­
jority of its corporate stock and
funds borrowed from the parent or­
ganization are paid back with stock
in the Malheur Telephone Co.
According to information avail­
able, Henigson said, the public utili­
ties commission suggested that the
No admission o f polio victims to
telephone company assume a 40 per­
cent bonded indebtedness by issuing the Malheur Memorial hospital since
treasury stock to finance capital Wednesday of last week, no patients
improvements instead of financing in isolation and only 16 remaining
the borrowing from the Mountain in convalescence, indicated this
States. By this method, the interest week that this area's polio epidemic
paid on bonds would be a legitimate is subsiding. John O'Toole, manager
income tax deduction, while earn­ o f the hospital, ilia ted that extreme
ings paid as dividends on capital optimism is not evident, however,
stock issued to the Mountain States and "W e all have our fingers cross­
cannot be deducted, it was explain­ ed, hoping the epidemic will soon be
over, but anything can happen on
ed.
very short notice.
Henigson said that financial re- ,
The last patient to be admitted
ports have not been made available,
although such reports have been for polio treatment was two-yeav-
requested from the Mountain States
headquarters in Denver.
Gene Grasty, Nyssa manager of j
the Malheur Home Telephone C o .'
said the capital investment in M ai- i
heur county is approximately $1.- [,
000,000. Henigson stated that al­
though depreciation is taken each
year on the basis of this investment,
the amount has not been usad fo r
capital improvements, but is placed
Next Monday has been set as
in the general fund.
opening day for the 1052-53 Rea
Another protest brought out in Feather, Oregon chest drive in M al­
discussion at the Chamber meeting, heur county, according to co-chair­
but not specified in the official pro­ men JBernard H. Rader and J. W
tect o f the organisation, is that pre­ Leslie, both of Ontario.
vious inform itton had indicated that
Th<? county goal ^
^eri set
toll charges between the three towns $5eoo and the Nyssa area quota u
3 Speakers Listed
For Toastmasters
Nyssa firemen were routed out
twice during the early hours of
Thursday to combat two rtfral fires,
both starting in hay stacks.
First alarm was sounded at 3 a. m.
sending fire equipment on a 15-mile
run to the A R Roberts and Nor­
man Hipp ranch in tire Owyhee dis­
trict. Eight tons of hay burned to
the ground, but firemen succeeded
in saving adjacent buildings. Cause
of the fire was thought to be a faul­
ty electric fence control.
Three hours later firemen were
routed out again on a call to the
George Huss ranch. >ix miles out on
Imperial avenue. Sixty tons of baled
hay were destroyed by the flames
set. It is believed, by an electric
fence after the hay pile toppled onto
it. One out-buildmg was partially
destroyed also.
Eight-Day Period Sees No Polio
Admissions to Hospital; No Patients
In Isolation; 16 Convalescing
Solicitation for
Oregon Chest to
Start on Monday
inJ
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WOUW
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ted
when
dial
systema
a^e ?
lnsta
lcd. ini Fur-
ther information is that toll charges
now cost the company one and one-
h alf cents more than the revenue,
Henigson said.
even
Grasty pointed out that ____
though cost for toil call« to the
company is now greater than the
revenue, an additional investment
o f approximately $50,000 would be
necessary for cable. In addition to
that, the Increased calls to other
towns would be terrific, if there were
no tolls, thus increasing the com­
pany’s expense, Grasty said.
Henigson said that the Malheur
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Journal Staffer
Speaks At Adrian
Dick Yost, member of the Gate
City Journal staff, will speak to the
Adrian high schccl sociology class
ad 12:45 p. m. Friday He has been
invited by the class to discuss char-
itaible organizations and the func­
tions o f the Community Chest and
the United Fund Drive.
W hile In Tacoma, Wash., Yost wag
secretary o f the board for five years
o f a Chest agency, the Tacoma Res­
cue Mission, and was for 18 months
public relations director of another
social welfare agency, the Tacoma
Goodwill Industries.
Just prior to coming to Nyssa last
July. Yost was appointed publicity
director for the newly-incorporated
United Fund Drive of Tacoma, but
chose to return to newspaper work
instead
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plan« three
to complete the
drwevS with the
VVIthln w days
j
I Funds collected w ill be used for
l Oregon’s child welfare agencies sup-
ported
____ by this united fund, and for
^he ^rs^ , servin* " len in the ®rr" ed
force*. The co-chairmen stated Unit
during
a total of 13 Malheur
county children received a total of
3,668 days of care from the child
welfare agencies and there are now
more than 25,000 Oregon men In the
armed forces.
The campaign plan will combine
personal and mail solicitation and
volunteer workers are sought for
each community. Volunteers are
asked to get in touch with the local
chairman for each community who
will assign them campaign duties.
As of Thursday morning, no chair­
man had been chosen for Nyssa, ac-
cording to information received from
Ontario. In Ontario, men heading
the dr.ve are I ___ P Patrick, Hap
Lcgue and Don Lynch. Vale's chair-
man is Charles W. Crittenden; Jor­
dan Valley, Domingo Yturri, and
juntura, F. G. Gurney.
JOB'S D AU G H TERS TO
SERVE M ER C H AN TS’ LUNC H
Ny. a Jc'b’s Daughters will serve a
merchants’ lunch Saturday from 11
a. m. to 2 p. m at the Masonic hall,
it was announced by Miss Doris
Rigney, honored queen. Under su­
pervision of the guardian council,
the project has met with excellent
response in the past and provides
funds
the Job’s
Jnb\ n
a.
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...
fund.s for
for the.
Daughters’
ac­
tivities.
Henneman Hdwe. Stock Goes on Sale;
Bracken's Will Occupy Building
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ty _ _ l _ _
| In a move to expand his fast-
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growing dry goods and wearing ap-
parel business, Fred Bracken this
week announced that the entire
stock o f Henneman Hardware C o,
T h e fourth annual Cancer Dance which he bought early in September,
will be hold Saturday night in the will go on sale this week at dras­
tically reduced prices.
Nyssa Eagles hall.
Th e complete stock of Henneman
Sponsored by the Nyssa Aerie,
Fraternal Order of Bagles, the dance Hardware C o, Bracken s*1d. -ha*
to being promoted for the purpose of been placed In the hands of the
raising money for the Runyon Can- I E A - Crockett At Co., liquidators of
cer fund.
! Seattle, with instructions to close it
Music wiU be furnished by M a e ' out completely.
Cook and her orchestra, according
A representative o f the liquidating
to Ben Storm, dance chairman.
; company, in Nyssa this week to con­
duct the sales prom otion personally,
said the sale would commence at 10
a. m Friday and would continue
until the hurt, piece of merchandise
is sold.
Announcement o f the purchase of
Incomplete returns on the Boy-
Scout fund drive tor the Idaho-Ore­ the hardware stock and building
gon Area Council. Boy- Scoute of
Amertea, co «duc ted Oct. 15, reveal Sept 11. The vale Is being conduct­
that » V I 60 were raised in Njtssa. in ed to empty the building so that it
a statement made Wednesday by can be occupied by Bracken’s D e­
partment Store in an expansion
Mel Berk, local drive chairman
A full report on the area drive move.
Following nr. extaneive remodeling
ha* not been made available to the
Journal. Ooai for the drive was M0 - pr gram, she new store is seised*lei
to upas early m January.
r.agies Lxxncer Dance
Set for Saturday
$691.60 Raised for
Boy Scouts In Nyssa
old Robert "Jo e " Gowey of Adrian,
who was the 78th to be admitted
during the current epidemic, and
his condition is reported to be good.
Several of the 16 remaining patients
are expected to be released Satur­
day, O'Toole stated.
The eight-day interval with no
admissions is the longest period of
time with no new cases since the
epidemic started the forepart of
July, the hospital manager said.
Polio h it first in Ontario where
three children afflicted there were
hospitalized at Nyssa where special
attention is given to such diseases.
Other cases came in from outlying
areas and from adjoining counties,
including Payette county in Idaho
In September the epidemic moved
to Vale and during the past few
weeks several Nyssa area youngsters
and adults have been admitted here
for teatment.
During the epidemic, special nur­
ses have been imported to assist the
local staff and it has been necessary
to ship iron lungs from Portland to
take care o f many o f the cases. Dur­
ing this time, hospital personnel
have disregarded “ hours o f work"
and remained on duty to take tare
of the patients under treatment.
Holmes Renamed
Grange Master
Robert Holmes was elected mas­
ter o f the Oregon T rail Grange to
succeed himself Thursday evening
at a regular meeting and annual
election of officers for the organiza­
tion.
Other officers named by the
Grangers are Frank Sherwood, over­
seer; Frank Parr, lecturer; George
Cleaver, steward;
G arrit Siam,
a.sslstant
steward;
Mrs.
Alice
Holmes, Chaplain; Lloyd Adams,
treasurer; Fern Runcorn, secretary;
Nelson Herrman, gate keeper; Mrs.
George Cleaver,
P mona; Mrs.
Frank Parr, Aries; Mrs. Fern Run-
con, Flora; Mrs. Wilson Winter,
musician, and Tom Jones. LeRov
Herrman and Alva Goodell, execu­
tive committee.
During the entire meeting the
charter was draped in memory of
the late Mrs. E L. Jamieson.
During the business meeting Loyd
Adams told o f meeting with the
public utilities commission at its
hearing on the requested telephone
rate increase and Mrs. Alva Goodell,
newly elected home economics chair­
man. told of plans for a card party
to be held Dec. 9.
Leona W inter told o f plans for
booster night scheduled for Dec. 4
with potluck dinner T h e event Is
in connection with 4-H achievement
night.
Frank
on a
a
r l “ ‘ * Sherwood reported ™
mysterious cattle disease thought to
be caused by cattle licking grease
and oil from tractors and other
farm machinery. O ecrge Cleaver re­
ported on a PM A school which he
attended at Ontario end announced
that hand books will soon be avail­
able.
t
Garrit Stam told of a speech
given by Sen. Cooley who cited the
profit made by the government on
buying surplus commodities,and ex­
plained a new law on welfare work.
FOURTEEN PAGES
Launch Campaign for More Readers
Bicycles and Cash Await
Boys, Girls Who Work In
Subscription Campaign
With a list of prizes attractive to all boys and girls— young
and old— The Nyssa Gate City Journal today announces a
three-week drive and will start Saturday of this week, No­
vember 15th and ends Saturday, December 6th.
Many local boys and girls will find circulation building
campaign a source of education, pleasure and financial gain.
------------------------------------------------ Th e object of this campaign is to
collect on old subscriptions and to
add new readers to the present
large list o f The Nyssa Gate City
Journal.
Candidates who will take part in
Plans have been made by the Nys- the campaign will be boys and girls
sa Parent-Teachers association for who reside in the territory served
I a harvest party to be held Nov. 20. by the Journal.
i 8 p. m., at the high school gymnas- No Losers In Campaign
I ium A short program and games
There will be no losers, as the
are planned for the evening of fam ­ number o f candidates is limited
ily fun.
and each active candidate is guar­
Admission to the funfest will be anteed one of the major prizes of
food, accordmg to co-chairmen, Mr latest model bicycles or a liberal
cash commission.
and Mrs. Grant Rinehart, such
pies, cakes, frozen foods from lock-
This Campaign will not start
i ers. or such farm produce as 25
until Saturday, November 15th,
pounds of potatoes or onions, eggs,
and no candidates will be allowed
chickens, butter and other dairy
to start until that time. However,
products. Anyone without food for. any boy or girl interested in be­
admission will be fined, they further
ing one of the workers in the
stated.
campaign should call at the Jour­
nal office as soon as possible.
A small charge to participate In
Under the campaign rules each
various games will be made with
entry may get one subscription
food donations as prizes. Unusual
before Saturday, but that is all.
ways of bidding on food will com­
Any candidate who gets promises,
plete the evening.
or does any advance work on the
All proceeds will go to the P.-T.A
fund to promote other activities for , campaign before Saturday (ex­
cept getting the one subscription
the remainder of the year.
allowed by the rules) will be bar.
red from the campaign. This rule
is made in fairness to all candi­
dates and It will be strictly en­
forced.
JOHN O ’TOOLE, M ANAGER, M A LH E U R Memorial hospital,
F111 r i t i f f 1 ?
On another page o f today's paper
is shown at the right in teh top photograph receiving a check i l j a o d
iiU illiy
1L
Is a large advertisement telling all
about this campaign. It shows what
for $100 from Violet D ij’dale, president, Future Homemakers
the prizes are; how the prizes will
of America. Others in tne picture are Sylva Jayo, vice presi­
be awaTded, number of votes given
dent, and Clyde Snider.' J 11 the bottom photo O ’Toole is bein^
There were 2,352 people x-rayed in for each subacrlptlon and other de­
presented a check for $200 from Jim Kirby, vice commander.
Nyssa during the 12 days the port­ tails.
Vale American Legion post No. 96 Looking on is Edward able and mobile x-ray units were Enter Now!
Enter your name immediately by
Howe, Vale. The donations were made to the hospital’s polio operating here, County Health Nurse
Edna Faris announced Wednes­ filling in the nomination coupon
fund.— Top photo by Schoen, lower by Yost.
day. T h e county total Is 7,089 at the and bringing or mailing it to the
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present time and a report from On­ Journal office. I f you are one o f
tario’s portable unit Nov. 8 Is still those to become active and work
to come in, Miss Faris said. In the throughout the short campaign, you
entire county only 17» (retakes" are sure oif one of the prizes or
were necessary and 34 failed to ap­ commissions.
Do this now— you know there will
pear
for a retake.
National Future Homemakers of bers was planned for this Thursday.
be only as many candidates allowed
The
largest
number
to
appear
In
America week. Nov. 9-15, is being
One o i the club's most recent pro­
to enter this campaign as there are
observed by the Nyssa high school jects Is a reading program for polio any one day was O jt. 17( the first prize* and commissions. Aot at once,
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day
of
the
campaign
when
the
port­
FHA in projects chat center about patients at the hospital. Each day
able unit x-rayed 348 people at Hen- for we do not want you to blame us
Malheur Memorial hospital.
an FHA member goes to the hos­ neman Hardware During the four- if you put off ¡ending in your nom i­
Fir t, and prcbably the most out­ pital to read to some patient.
day period there a total of 867 were nation until after the campaign is
standing, feature c f this week of
under way.
Among members taking part In x-rayed.
observance wu the presentation last
In the large campaign advertLse-
this
project
are
Mary
Jean
House,
During
the
eight
days
the
mobile
Saturday by Violet Drydale, presi­
dent, of a check for $100 to John Donna Butler, Sylvia Jayo, Irene unit was in Nyssa, a total of 1,485 ment IS also .» nomination or entry
O'Toole, manager of the hospital. Jayo, Kristin Rinehart, Carolyn persons were x-rayed and the lar­ coupon I f you are interested In be­
gest number was Oct. 28 when 286 ing in the campaign see that your
The money, raised by the FHA ■Vaughn and Marlene Bergam.
In presenting the check to the students and school employees were nomination coupon reaches the
merribers on their many projects, is
to be used in the treatment of polio. hc.->pUul, Violet Drydale said: "W e processed at Nyssa high school. Oct. Journal office In Nyssa, immediately.
On Sunday the FHA group at­ feel that donating this $100 to the 31 there were 225 x-ray pictures tak­ Th e campaign will not start until
tended St. Paul's Episcopal church. polio fund is one of the greatest en by the mobile unit at the Amal­ Saturday and no one wall be allowed
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gamated Sugar Co.
A tea for the initiation of new mem­ things that we have ever done.”
The other six days, the mobile
unit was on Nyssa'* Main street.
The first day on Main was Oct 25
when 228 persons were x-rayed. On j _
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Oct 29 and 30, 206 x-rays were taken T o GfO C/Il O a lG
each day and1 on Nov. 5 and 6, 111
Health bonds. In $5, $10, $15 and
wore x-rayed each day. The last day
the motile unit was in Nyssa was $25 denominations went on sale in
la>t Friday when 112 persons ap­ Ny.ssa this week among business
firms in a campaign predating the
peared and were x-rayed.
annual Christmas Seal drive of the
Malheur County Tuberculosis and
Health association, which starts
next Monday.
Gene Stanley has been appointed
Nyssa's total contribution to the by Walter MoPartland. president of
recent Salvation Army fund drive ; the county TB association, to head
was $30« according to figures re- ' the Health Bond drive.
lea-ed this week in the Ontario Ar- 1 MoPartland said Wednesday that
the mailing of the regular $2 sheets
gm-Observer.
Total amount raised In the M al­ of Christmas Seals would be made
heur county fund drive as given by Monday This mailing will be made
Maj R. P. Stevens was $2188 O f this [ from the TB association’s Ontario
nm, 20 percent or $437 60 will be office by Basil Osborne, executive
kopt in the county for emergency secretary.
Those receiving the seals are
welfare use here, 25 percent of
which has been allocated to Nyssa urged to make prompt payment for
STATE POLICE OFFICER G. T. M AGEE, seated in the bow and the south part of the county. them.
Nyssa P.-T.A. Sets
Harvest Party
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2,352 X-Rays In
Day's Visil Here
FHA Week Observed By Local Group
In Service Projects for Nyssa Hospital
TB Bonds, Seals
Nyssans Give $308 in
Salvation Army Drive
of the rowboat in the above photograph, is being rowed to the
middle of Owyhee river where he made unsuccessful attempts
to recover the bodies of Joe and Chet Corfield, victims of a
bridge collapse last Friday —Photo by Dick Yost.
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National Education Week Observed;
Displays in Many Business Windows
All departments of the local school, ranged by a committee Including
system were open fo r inspection j Mi.is Anna Bauman, Mrs. Eva Chad­
Thursday evening when the Parent- 1 wick. Miss Viola FothergilL Miss
Teachers association In cooperation Emma Zwemke, Miss Virginia Voigt.
with the Ny.ssa Education associa­ Mrs. Tressle King and Mrs. Rosa-
tion held the annual school visita­ neille Copeland.
tion night.
Th e Junior high window at Brac­
Daily radio programs followed the ken’s wa-s arranged by Mrs. Victoria
national theme, "Th e Child and His Schweize-r and Miss Marie Coate.
believed to have occured shortly a f­ World ” Monday's «speaker was Mrs. Senior high curriculum materials
ter 4 p. m.. just a few minutes be­ Prank Skeen, P -T.A. president, who were d e la y e d in the Nyssa Insur­
spoke on "Th e Child and His Home." ance Co. window by Mias Margery
fore the 4:30 quitting hour.
with the sixth grade singtng under Nlhart and Dwight Wyckoff.
Ktate Police Take Charge
the direction of Mrs. Dorothy Nolen.
Th e Marsheil-WeUs window was in
WWhln minutes state police were
Tuesday Clyde Snider spoke on "The honor of Future Homemaker’s week,
on hand to direct the heavy influx
Child and His Heritage.” with a as well as American Education week,
o f cans attracted by reports o f the
musical number by the junior high and am* arranged by P. H. A. mem­
accident and to help in the recovery
chorus, directed by Patricia Kinter. bers Violet Drydale, Betty H1U and
at the bodies of the two victms.
"Th e Child and1 His Country” was |
One state police officer, O. T M a­ the theme of the talk by Legion Ann House under the supervision of
thrir «poneor, Mrs. Vtrgtai* S tef­
gee, stripped to his short* and dived Commander Dale Bingman.
on fens.
repeatedly into . th*
murky,
cold
„w
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.Thursday. Music wae a choral se-
Visual education material* were
waters new one of the upended sec-
by , group of lhlrd graders
ttons but w m unabto to leeato th* trahiad by M ws Bva Boydell and displayed in the window of the Gate
City Journal by Boren Oox.
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M r . V .to B k e r
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Safety education was the theme
With darkness, all vo*k men* to
Friday. Toes Jones -pekr *a "The
in the window of Powell Service,
a halt until portable poveT plants Child and Hi» OpportmuSy.”
w*re set up at 7 p an by U b power
Dttpfeys at edsigaUceval mei « r ials where safety education materials
•ompany TTvi* lighting arm <mg- »«r e ieatured during th* week in were provided by Dale Overstake,
merit ad tot*v when the power line in* wiudvws at leeel bnttMsa twrem driving instructor, and arranged by
wan
and
*m iag neroe*
The tlr " I T T «k e e l wtttteg U Mneline Kindling. June Coleman
fCnpimuell on Fag* IS)
, th* Idaho Fever Ott «O ft* m o **»-, and Harriet B rumba oh.
Light Showers Bring
End to Long Dry Spell
Chel, Joe Corfield Lose Lives
When Owyhee Bridge Collapses;
Coroner's Jury Fails to Pin Blame
Ny.va's long dry spell wasrbrdken
Wednesday by a "trace” of rain
that was measured at .17 o f an inch,
most o f which fell in light showers
during the early evening hours.
Temperatures for the past week,
Thursday through Wednesday, held
•toady with but eight degree» varia­
tion between the high o f M on S a t­
urday and the low of 48 fckuxUy
Mean average wav 52.5.
Sunday night's thermometer read­
ing was the krweek for the fall at 15
degrees, the highest being 34 W ed-
nesday.
Max. Min
Prec.
53
25
Nov. 6
54
20
Nov. 7
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Nov. 9
11
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Nov. 1»
By Dick Yomi
Tw o brothers, employed by the
state highway department m et
death late last Friday when the
bridge over the Owyhee river col­
lapsed while bring repaired and car­
ried them into the water below, pin­
ning them beneath the wreefcage.
The dead were Chetter E. Corfield,
35. who lived near the Owyhee Junc-
t. * i and Harold Lee (Joe) Corfield.
29, o f N y *a .
Three other workmen narrowly
mtosed the same tale when thsy
were thrown‘ into the river by the
buckling bridge, but managed to
clear themselves and swim to shore.
These were John WeetfgU, Burns,
foreman; Ralph Boyd ol Union aud
Clyde Pollard of LaOrsnde.
W ith some disagreement as to th#
time <J the accident. It t* generally
o