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Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

n FRESHLY plowed field az
IA San Marino, Calf, obliters
ates the scene but not the meme
ory Of the death of Kathy Fiscus.
For SO hours last weekend
millions hoped - and prayed
that 3-year-old Kathy would be res
cued alive from the abandoned well
into which she had stumbled.
Volunteers, using expensive well
drilling outfits that ordinarily rent for
$500 a day, worked round the clock
sinking shafts down to the 100-foot
depth where the child's body was
lodged. When they reached her, Kathy
was dead.
Doctors said she had died within an
hour or two after the fall. One said
she might have lived if her knees had
not been jammed against her chest,
Her jackknife position in the 14-inch
well casing made breathing difficult.
A preliminary autopsy report said
suffocation was the cause of death.
The Collins Case
Something like this happened once
before. In 1925 Floyd Collins was
trapped in a Kentucky cave, and for
days the story of attempts to rescue
him was on the front pages of every
newspaper in America. But Collins
was grown man. Kathy was tiny and
helpless.
Newspapers in Stockholm, London
and Melbourne, Australia, held presses
for news of Kathy. Only behind the
Iron Curtain was the story snubbed.
The Czech news agency banned il as
purely sensational, without signii-
canoe and without educational value
But across America, telephone
4 switchboards at newspaper offices and
3 radio stations were jammed with calls
t from the moment the chiJd's plight
became known Chicago newspapers
: reported it brought more calls than at
any time since the nd of the war.
The story rated attention in Con-
gress. Rep. Donald L. Jackson (R-
Calif) declared that only in things
like the Kathy crisis do industry and
j labor find common cause. Perhaps, =
he said, ''the words of the Scripture
will prove true: "A little child shall
lead them.
Waves of Feeling
The Los Angeles Chamber of Conn
merce set up an overall committee to
consolidate funds contributed to re-
ward the sandhogs and engineers who
braved death III the vain rescue at
tempt. Some will be recommended for
: Carnegie Hero Medals.
: H. E. (Whitey) Blickensderfer
e foreman" of the volunteer rescue
squad, said, Were not heroes. It wa:
: Just a matter of simple humanity"
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

Pull En- All Out, Sir?

British dentists are pulling teeth
and filling cavities by the stop-watch.
It's a test to determine how much
time they spend treating each patient
and why dentists, under the new So
cialized Health Program, are earning
such high salaries.
The Ministry of Health ordered the
experiment. Five hundred dentists
working under the health program
are doing the timing. Another so den
lists in private practice are filling out
the same records as a check. They
were chosen at random.
Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan's
calculations on the costs of "free'
dentistry were thrown completely out
of whack by the fat paychecks col
lected by dentists. Bevan Immediately
cut in half all gross payments over
4,800 pounds ($19,200) a year because
of the urgency of the situation"
Bevan fixed the rates at So for an
extraction, $4 for simple filling and
Sc for a complicated filling. He figured
dentists could work 33 chairside hours
a week and, at these rates, earn a
gross annual income of $15,200.
Many dentists, however, apparently
work much faster than Bevan calcu-
lated.
There is nothing in the law to pre-.
vent dentist from working day and
night. Some apparently do.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Strategic
Stopping the Leaks

Stopping the Leaks
The government is trying to check
mate the stealthy shipment OF stra-
tegic materials tC countries behind the
Iron Curtain.
Last week in Houston, Tex, Gus
toms agents seized a $150,000 ship
ment of carbon black that had made
mysterious roundabout trip from
Texas to Mexico and back-ostenslbly
en- route to Rotterdam, Holland.
Carbon black gives long-lasting
qualities to rubber used for tires or
industrial purposes and is one of the
items on the government list Of goods
denied Soviet Russia.
Further investigations are under
way in other parts of the country,
dealing with other materials.
The Commerce Departments Office
of International Trade (OIT) has re-
voked some licenses for export OF GER
tain goods to Marshall plan countries
because of suspicious that they were
to be moved on to the Soviet bloc.
One recent instance includes ship
ment of rubber-treating chemical to
Switzerland, which OFT feared would
wind up in Poland.
The Economic Cooperation Admin
iStration, handling Marshall plan aid
often does purchase carbon black Enc
longer in short supply in this country
for the Dutch. ECA, however, hac
nothing to do with the confscatec
shipment.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

independence from Moscow. Included
in the shipments have been scarce
oil drilling equipment for which
Tito is in dire need.
Last weekend in a major policy
speech, the Yugoslav premier charted
his course. It would be crime against
his socialist. state, he declared, not to
trade with the weston business
basis.
Boldly defiant, Tito accused former
comrades in Russia and the Comm
form of trying to iquidate him by
stirring up civil war. He decried their
efforts as anti -Marxist and anthem
mist defamation.
It was Tito's first major address
since New Years Eve and one of the
few he has made since last June when
the Cominform expelled him and his
party on charges of nationalism and
pursuing anti-Soviet policies.
Tito, resplendent in braided blue
uniform, spoke for two hours and Il
minutes to $500 delegates at the
Third Congress of the Peoples Front
He was greeted by chants of "TitC
Hero" "Tito Hero"
He stressed the independent theme
declaring that Yugoslavia was no
sailing in imperialist Waters bu
building Socialism successfully anC
with assurance.
Delegates passed a resolution con
demning the campaign of lies ant
Slander" directed at Tito and th
Yugoslav government by the Comm
FORM
A complete departure from tradi
tion was the absence of huge picture
of Stain from the stage decoration.
Stalin's pictures have been disappear
ing since the break with the Comm
form.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
SideIiqhts

O Britons have been warned to be
on the lookout for "hominy grits,
since under the new ECA appropriaA
ton is per cent of all corn shipped
to Europe must be milled into meal or
grits. The English just don't eat corn,
except for few eccentrics who buy
roasting ears once or twice in sum-
mer. The British climate is too cold to
raise much of il. "Grits aren't as bad
as they sound comforts The London
Daily Herald Americans down south
use. it in place of porridge or chips
(potatoes)."
. In Crawford, N j., a feed merchant
put down a $1,000 sidewalk in front
OF his store The township council
passed an ordinance banning displays
on sidewalks stretching from curb to
store. The feed merchant was the only
one with such a sidewalk. Next day,
the merchant rented an air drill, took
up his new 81 900 improvement Now
it's business as usual-with a display
of plants, seeds and fertilizer outside
the window.
q In Bloomfield, N. j., a driver ex-
planned why he left the scene Of an
accident--it was one man against four
ladies. each six feet tall or over. The
other car held four members of the
Amazon Club, which starts its mem
bership at the six foot level.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

examples of gross ineficiency and
waste. He said the Air Force wanted
to build 910 family homes in Alaska
at a cost of $58,350 per house. In its
budget requests for 1850, the Army
wants funds to modernize 102 tanks it
doesn't have, at cost of 100000
each, he said.
The report brought to light a $780,
100000 clerical error in National
Guard appropriation request for SO
155-millimeter howitzers. The cost of
the guns was quoted at $39,0OO,O 900
but later it was discovered the figure
SO" had been added through mis-
take in tipping.
Other instances of extravaganza or
needless requests for funds cited by
the report included:
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
FINANCE: AirIines in the Red

Joseph ]. O'Connell, Jr., chairman
of the Civil Aeronautics Board, ad-
mitted that substantial government
aid will be needed to help some air.
lines become economically sound.
"But," he told the committee,
neither CAB nor the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation favors a general
bailing out of financially distressed
carriers"
O'Connell said CAB and RFC are
pretty much in agreement on policy
for airline finance. The CAB believes
RFC might loan up to 100 per cent on
the value of new equipment, bat RFC
holds it is not legally possible to loan
more than so to 20 per cent of value.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Archaeology
Heort of Gold

f1eOrI OF SOtO
The wife of an Egyptian temple
scribe who lived $500 years ago was
buried with a heart of gold, arche-
ologists discovered last week.
Under the custom of the era, the
heart and other vital organs were re-
moved from the body before burial.
They were put in jar and placed in
a tomb with the coffin. These organs
were replaced in the body by golden
replicas.
The Memphis temple scribe, whose
tomb was discovered March 26, was
identified as Kanrufeir, which means
beautiful personality"
Ali Ayoug Bey, Egyptian minister
Of education, watched archeologists
delicately lift the lids of the Lebanon
cedar caskets in the rock-walled
tombs 100 feet below ground in the
Sakkara cemetery. about 10 miles
south of Cairo.
Several hours were devoted to the
opening of the first four of 10 collins
found in the tombs. As each was
opened, Photographic experts of the
u. S. Navy and Cairo medical re-
search center took colored movies and
still pictures.
AS the lid was lifted from one cas-
ket, gold leaf mask glittered in the
glare of electric lighting. It was the
coffin of woman. The age-blackened
mummy had a covering over the
breast carrying gold, red and yellow
inscribed characters. The remainder
of the body was covered with net Of
light blue and black small beads.
Curiously, the psychologists found
three mummies without coffins. Two
of these were intact but the third hac
been crushed, probably by rockfall
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

Air Force plans to build 828 houses
on Guam at a cost of $4,000 each and
1880 houses in the continental United
States at $4,000 each.
POint-by-POint Attack
Royal said the Hoover Commission
received a letter last month pointing
out 10 errors in the task force report
but they never were corrected.
Royal made a point point at
tack on the task force report. He said
the 102 tanks had been shifted to the
Marine Corps after budget requests
had gone in. He. said the task force
had been informed in plenty of time
about the now-classic $S0,000,000
typist's error but had ignored these
and other mistakes in its scoops to
the press"
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

In forwarding the pact to the SEN
ate, Mr.. Truman asked its approval
as "only one step although a long
one-on the road. to peace. = He stressed
the theme that neither this country
nor any other nation can achieve
peace independently.
Long Road Ahead
"No single action, no matter how
significant, will achieve peace" said
the President. ''We must continue to
work patiently and carefully. advanc-
ing with practical, realistic steps in
the light of circumstances and events
as they occur"
Without referring directly to Rus
sia, the President declared that peo-
pie of the North Atlantic countries
have seen solemn agreements broken,
rights of small nations destroyed and
people of small nations deprived of
freedom by terror and oppression.
"They are resolved" said Mr.. Tru-
man, that their nations shall not, one
by one, suffer the same fate"
Actually there is broad base OF
SENATE SuppOrk 1Or Tie H6dty' LdSs
June the Senate approved the Van
denberg resolution which favored this
country's participation of regional Sc
curity pacts within the framework Of
the United Nations charter.
Crux Is Military Aid
Focus of the debate will be on the
cost of military aid 70 European men,
bers. There is widespread agreement
that the arms project is essential il
the pact itself is to have any lasting
effect.
Critics say the arms aid will run t.
billions of dollars but some experts
counter that actual military supplies
will be limited tc whatever the Amer
lean chiefs Of staff declare to be sur
plus.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
In the National Interest

In the NoiionoI Interest
Why have the airlines been losing
money at time when almost every
one else has been prosperous?
The question was posed by Sen.
Edwin johnson (D-Colo), chairman
of the Senate Commerce Committee
studying finances and operations of
is of the nations largest commercial
air carriers.
The government handed over 55
million dollars in subsidies to. these
lines last year to get them out of the
red-about double the government
stipends they received in 1947.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
w ar
Not Easy to Discuss

Not Easy to Discuss {
A Swiss government spokesman
predicts it will be unlikely that the
Soviet Union and its satellites will
take part in drafting a new conven-
ton for the protection of civilians in
any future war.
The Swiss government, whi C h
called an international conference in
Geneva for April 81 to revise the Ge-
neva War Conventions, said it has
received reflections from Yugoslavia,
Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Forty-eight nations have accepted,
including all the western powers and
the scandinavian countries.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Open g. Shut Case

Open g. Shut Case
The customs court in Washington
has ruled that a Upper is not a ma
chine-and thereby hangs tale with
mechanical teeth.
Customs agents had classified some
imported zippers as mere imported
metal instead of imported machines.
1t meant more tariff for the govern
ment.
The importer objected to paying the
higher rate. It took two judges seven
pages to wrap up their decision estab-
fishing what a Upper is by defining
what it isn't,
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

In policy has been
publicly announced
but some scarce
American equip
ment and machin-
cry which is denied
other eastern Euro
pean countries has
been shipped to
Yugoslavia with
government ap-
proval.
More will follow
later if Marshal
Tito maintains his
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Quotes

Sen. Warren G. MagnusOn Cd
Wash) parrying questions about
his rumored impending mar
riage to actress June Millarde:
II have no comment to make
about my private life or the
private life of a charming lady"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.,
whose wife, the former Ethel du-
Pont, arrived in Reno to estab-
lish residence for divorce: Il
never discuss my private life in
public"
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Senate TO Consider
North Atlantic Poet

DEMONSTRATION leaders confident that the Senate
r. tualy will ray North Atlantic treaty but long debate
expected reaches the Senate floor The step will be pub
hearings conducted by Foreign Relations Committee These
hearings give opportunity supporters and critics of the pact
outside of Congress-to express their views.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
People

Tito, Bold & Defiunt
For some time the United States
has been quietly easing restrictions
on trade with Yugoslavia. No change
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Dates
Monday Anril 1R


Anniversary (43rd) San Fran
cisco fire.
Tuesday, April 19
Patriots Day ,(Me. & Mass.).
Thursday, April Fl
Passover, last day.
Anniversary (5lst), start of the
Spanish. American War.
San Jacinto Day (legal holi-
day in TexaS).
international conference to re-
wise war conventions opens IN
Geneva, Switzerland.
Sunday, April "a
Daylight Saving Time begins.
World Fellowship Week starts.
U.s. Canada Good Will Week
starts.
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22

tAu Rlghts Rsssrvsd. AP Ne,Osteaturesl
Milford chronicle., 1949-04-22
Death e
A Child

n FRESHLY plowed field az
IA San Marino, Calf, obliter.
ates the scene but not the meme
ory Of the death of Kathy Fiscus.
For So hours last weekend
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19
Wedding of Miss Janet Hitler and
Dorance E. Fritts Event at Church

In a pretty, informal wedding,
Miss Janet Ann Hitler, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton E.
Hitler, 400 Hartford ST., Kenne-
wick, and Dorance E. Fritts, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer d. Fritts,
Yoder, Wyo., were married Sat-
urday, May IA, at 2 o'clock in
the Madonna room of the First
Methodist church in Pasco.
Pink and white blossoms and
candles, which were lighted by
Chester Henson, of Prosser, de-
corated the mantel and baskets
of pink snap dragons and white
stock were on each side of the
fireplace to form background
for the bridal party. The wedding
march was played by Donald
Sanders of Kennewick.
Miss Hitler wore a pastel pink
tailored sharkskin suit with white
hat and shoes, and she carried 8
bouquet of white roses and lilies
Of the valley. Matron of homo,
was her sister, Mrs. Hamilton H
Sandvig of Prosser, who wore ar
aqua blue tailored sharkskin sui
and carried pink and white car
nations The brides small nieces
Carolee and Marjorie Henson, il
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19

in docking the Queen Elizabeth
end other giant transatlantic
liners. They are powered bv L.
cylinder, 2-cycle General Motors
Diesel engines and 1900 XIV gen
orators. were designed by Tams.
Inc. of New York and built at
the Levingston Shipbuilding Cor
roration at Orange. Texas.
According to Mr.. Codrington,
General Motors Diesel electric
drive for vessels is fast becoming
as popular ss GIN Diesel-electric
drive has become for railroad
locomotives throughout the coun-
try. It's marine popularity follows
its wide use by the Navy durinR
World War II, when hundreds OF
vessels were powered by this type
Of drive a developed by Genera l
Motors.
Besides the Moran Towing
Company, other New York har-
Dor users of GIN Diesel-electr lie
power include the McWilliams
Blue Line: Pennsylvania. Erie
and Lehigh railroads; Electric
Ferries. Card Towing Company
and the Mystic Steamship Com
pany. Mr.. Codrington added that
many additional New York tug
boats will b equipped soon with
Diesel-electrie propulsion.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19

NEW YORK - The "Grace
Moran" most powerful and
modern harbor tugboat in New
York harbor, was greeted by q
flotilla Of tugs and fireboats upon
her arrival in New York after a
day trip under her own power
from Orange, Texas. where she
was built.
The traditional New York har-
Dor welcome took on . carnival
atmosphere when fireboats sent
up cascades of spray as miscel-
laneous harbor craft saluted the
newcomer with whistle blasts in
q marine demonstration compar-
able to . Broadway ticker tape
welcome.
Described by George w. Cod
rington, vice president Of General
Motors and general manager Of
the corporations Cleveland Diesel
Engine Division, as "the finest
harbor tug ever built" the
"Grace Moran" is the first Of five
sister tugboats to be delivered to
the Moran Towing and Transpor.
tation Company. making the fleet
Of that company, the largest II
the world. practically 1902 Die
sel-electric.
The new tugboats will replac!
elder steam tugs and will be uset
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19
From the Past
lsSs-lo YEARS AGO

lsss-lo YEARS AGO
Nearly 200 cars were put
through the testing lane in one
day. City's police car driven by
Mitchell Kershaw, accompanied
by Mayor c. A. Crawford, were
first in line.
The Episcopal church was the
scene for the wedding of Miss
Elizabeth Barnes and Floyde
Weitz.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Simmelink
and family and 35 other relatives
enjoyed picnic and reunion at
the city park.
The sophomore class and their
advisor Harold Stringer enjoyed
a picnic at the Prosser park.
Mrs. ]. G. Pratt and Mrs. v. w.
Bird attended the P.TA. conven-
ton in Wenatchee
$3.50 YEARS AGO
p. A. Combelic and Jay Perry
united to form the company of
Combelic and Perry, carlot ship
pers and packers of produce.
Dan Carter and Lester Foraker,
All club members, gave dem
onstration on dairy herd improve
ment in connection with demon
stration train from Pullman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Libby
went to Naches where MIR. Libby
was to work in a barbershop.
1880 YEARS AGO
Kennewick's first crate o.
strawberries were shipped tt
Spokane and sold for $40.
County agent Lee NJ. Lampsor
had arranged for a packing schoo
for pear and apple packers.
Mr.. Dyer, a Seattle man, wa
to drill 5000 feet in the hopes o
finding oil here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19

brides sister, Mrs. Chester Hen
son, serving the wedding cake;
Mrs. Rodney Travis of Prosser,
coffee, and Mrs. w. F. Gander of
Richland the punch. Miss Beryla
Bafus of Kennewick had the care
of the gifts and Mrs. R. J. Sho-
gren of Richland had charge of
the brides book.
| Mrs. Fritts, native daughter,
! is a graduate of Kennewick high
and was d member Of the Honor
society. Fritts attended school in
Yoder, Wyo. He and his bride
both are employed by Richland
Patrol.
Their wedding trip takes them
to Wyoming and Colorado for
two weeks. On their return they
plan to live in Richland.
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frocks of pink and white organdy
and carrying small bouquets Of
white bachelor buttons and blue
delphinium, were the flower
girls. The bridegroom was at
tended by his grother Wayman
FrittS as best man.
. The single ring service was
read by the Rev. Charles T. Hat
ton and the bride was given in
marriage by her father.
The brides mother was gowned
in navy floral crepe with which
: she wore a corsage of roses and
white carnations.
Following the ceremony MIR
and Mrs. FRITZ greeted their thir
ty guests ct a reception, with the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19

Girl Scout activities this week
include a lookout" in the city
park on Thursday for Miss EV-
ans and Mrs. Palmer's group.
Mrs. Duffy's group will have
skating party Friday evening and
Mrs. Byrd's group will have In
vestiture Wednesday at the kind
ergaten rooms followed by pic
mic at Sacajawea park.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-19
MATCHES are one Of the
W most delicate and intricate
!. pieces of mechanism known.

MATCHES are one OF the
W most delicate and intricate
pieces Of mechanism known.
Many Of the parts Of a watch
are so exact that they are meas
ured by the thickness Of q hair.
Some of the parts and screws
are so small that 10000 OF them
will fit into an ordinary
thimble.
The adjustment Of the bal
ance wheel and hairspring u
what makes your watch keep
time" Most trouble comes from
some derangement Of the bal
ance wheel.
70 turn your watch over TOR
renairs, to anyone who may dis
play = sim aWatch Repairing
. ike stopping the drst man
YOU meet and asking him Tor
medical attention. You should
be sure that your watch Is
handled only BY . skilled
vatchmaker-a man who thor
ouehly understands his craft.
Many people have sried to re-
nair watches and In some cases
the results have been disas-
trous. Only q qualified watch.
maker, after many years OF
study, IS fitted Tor TINS oenca'e
task.
To help you find and identi-
~ vorlsmen Of this calibre, the
Watchmakers of America have
Formed a National Association.
The United Neurological Asso-
citation Members display the
emblem of their association
with pride for it is an insignia
which cannot be bought IS
awarded only to those who can
qualify.
When you entrust your watch
repairing to a member OF the
United Theological Association
Of America you are assured OF
satisfactory dependable work
manship-at a fair price. 9th
ore NAV sometimes offer to 90
the work for less-but seriously
IS IT WORTH THE GAMBLE 3, 2;
YOUR WATCH AGAINSi LIE -;
SMALL DIFFER ENCE In
PRICEf
= Won Value Your Watch.
Look for This Sign OF
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