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Evening star., 1953-07-15

was estimated that about 10000
were on hand this morning.
Twenty special trains were ar
riving today. Their passengers
plus other travellers coming by
other means, add another 1000
boys to the aggregation. Scout
leaders expect almost $4,000 boys
and lealers in camp when the
Jamboree opens.
Arrivals scheduled today in
cluded groups from New York,
Illinois. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Michigan, North Dakota, Indi-
ana. Alabama, Mississippi. Wash
ington, D. c.; Virginia, Ohio
Tennessee, Louisiana. New Jersey
and Florida.
These hills near Newport
Beach, swept by brisk ocean
breezes, already are dotted with
thousands of tents.
Each troop of IS boys and lead
ers has a site 80 by 80 feet. A
familiar sight in each section is q
long line of boys at the medical
tent. They are required to be
examined by a doctor within "a
hours after arrival.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Board of Recreation Elects
Gichner as New Chairman
SmuIIwood, !, New
Member, Chosen
Vice Chairman

The District Recreation Board
jolted last month by the resig-
nation Of its chairman, today
had a new chairman and a plea
for teamwork.
Henry Gichner was elected
unanimously to the chairman
ship yesterday. sGrahame T
Smallwood, jr.. new member ap-
pointed yesterday, was elected
vice chairman.
Mr.. Gichner fills the post left
vacant by the sudden resigna-
tion June 9 of Col. Frank H,
Collins. Col. Collins quit both
the Craftsmanship and the board
with a blast at the reappoint-
ment Of Mrs. Alice c. Hunter,
colored member, who yesterday
was reelected secretary.
The new chairman and Col
Collins were on opposite sides on
the boards racial policy. Col
Collins, in major controversy
opposed ending race bars al
Rosedale Playground last year
and again at the Rosedale pool
this summer, and Mr.. Gichne1
voted with the majority against
the ex-chairman on both issues
Makes Brief Statement.
Officially the board is COM
mitted to gradual relaxation OF
racial barriers at city play areas
and Mr.. Gichner, unlike Col
Collins, has given indications OF
being in full sympathy with this
policy.
The new chairman made only
brief statement after his elec-
ton. He said he felt the board
now had a good team and called
for it to work together to i'm
prove recreation facilities.
He also said he hoped to en-
courage citizens to keep city
parks in better order. Picnickers
and other park users are strewing
too much trash around, he de-
clared, indicating the Recrea-
ton Department might crack
down on careless citizens by
withholding picnic permits.
Mr.. Gichner. At, joined the
board less than a year ago
General manager of the Fred s.
Gichner iron works. he is well
known as an amateur photog-
rapher, sandlot ball enthusiast
and Community Chest and Boy
Scout leader. He is a graduate
of Cornell, is married and has
four children. His wife is a
leader of United Community
Services.
Public Member.
Mr.. Smallwood, "a, fell heir to
the boards vice chairmanship
when Mrs. o. G. Hankins de-
clined to be nominated. He and
Mrs. Hankins are the boards
only other public members be-
sides Mr.. Gichner and Mrs
Hunter, and law restricts official
posts to public members.
Col. West A. Hamilton, new
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Nation S Scouts Pour
Into Jamboree Camp
On California Coast
BY the Associated Press

JAMBOREE CITY, Calf, July
15.-Boy Scouts of all sizes, COL
ors and creeds are flowing like
an endless stream from the far
corners of America today into
Jamboree City, their mecca for
1858.
BY special trains and buses,
auto caravans and single cars
they are piling into this camp
site on the shores of the Pacific
in Southern California for the
third National Boy Scout Jambo-
rec which opens Friday.
Since the first official con-
tingents began arriving Sunday
this 3,000-acre camp has been
growing by leaps and bounds. It
Evening star., 1953-07-15
HealY Elected Chairman
Of Planning Committee

Francis F.. Healy. District sur
veyor, has been elected chairman
of the Co-ordinating Committee
of the National Capital Planning
Commission, the first new chair
man since 1881.
The post has been held for %
years by Edwin A. Schmitt, who
retired as head engineer in
charge of the Water Supply Di-
vision, District Office of the Army
Corps Of Engineers, earlied this
month. He had served 43 years
with the Office.
The Co-ordinating Committee
is made UP Of Federal and Dis
trict government department
heads concerned with construc-
tion and planning.
The committee also decided to
rotate the Craftsmanship among
the various members each year
from now on.
John Nolen, jr., planning di-
rector of the NCPC, was re.
elected vice chairman.
Evening star., 1953-07-15

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Evening star., 1953-07-15

man Of the boards Military and
Naval Affairs committee; Col.
John Lemp, former chairman of
the committee; Oliver Lloyd
Onion, a military affairs COM
mittee member: James L. Oliver,
whose son is training with the
Guard; William II. Press. execu-
tive vice-president and Bruce
Bryan of the public relations
staff.
The visitors, invited by Mai.
Gen. William II. Abendroth, were
to inspect units of the Guard sta
toned at Fort Miles, 90 miles
north of Bethany Beach.
Evening star., 1953-07-15

alternate member representing
the Board of Education, attended
his first meeting yesterday. Miss
Mary H. Parker is the regular
school board representative.
The other board members are
Edward j. Kelly, superintendent
of National Capital Parks, and
District Budget Officer Walter l..
Fowler. who was absent.
The next board session-on
the budget-will probably be
held within two weeks. The next
regular meeting is scheduled for
September.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Beet Pulp for CottIe

CROOKSTON, MINI. Up. -
Dried sugar beet pulp can be
used successfully to replace two
thirds Of the grain ration for
fattening beef cattle. H. D.
Fausch. animal husbandman at
the Northwest Experiment Sta
ton, said the pulp is q palatable
feed that tends to spur the ami
mails appetites.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
Tell Mother All

Mother should know the
amount Of fathers pay check
don't keep her in the dark. -
urged a group of social workers
who spent a week studying fam
lily problems, in Belfast, North
ern Ireland.
Evening star., 1953-07-15
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Evening star., 1953-07-20
Roin-Moking, Fact or Fancy,
Is Bio Business Out West

stitute Of Technology, one OF
America s: leading scientific in
stitutions. He now heads a firm
called Water Resources Develop
ment Corp.
Mr.. Krick has begun a f1ve-year
project in Spain, designed to. in
crease rainfall to provide for hy-
droelectric development and Ill
timately result in more electric
power.
Conservative scientists believe
that the growth of the rain
making business is too swift in
view of how little is known about
the process. They also say there
seems to be no immediate pros
pect that man can change the
weather on a large scale-such
as turning a desert area into
temperate zone climatically.
But the whole subject is being
hotly disputed. One of the argu-
ments involves an experiment of
DR.. Langmuir's, in which he put
silver iodide into the air on a
weekly basis in the Southwest.
For a time this was followed by
weekly rains in ALBANIA and Ten
nessee. This particular project
| has been one Of the most dis
cussed experiments in scientific
history.
| (Released by the North American
| Newspaper AllianceI
Evening star., 1953-07-20
| 273 Die as Floods
Swallow japanese
Towns;2,O33Missinq
Az the Assoeiafssi Prasa

TOKYO, July 20.-Thousands
of japanese were rescued today
from debris Uttered f1oodWaters
as ground, sea and air teams
worked feverishly to cut the hui
man toll in the nations second
great food disaster in three
weeks.
The sudden flood that started
with cloudburSt rains last Fri
day swallowed whole villages at
Wakayama on central Honshu
islands Pacific coast about 200
miles southwest of Tokyo.
National police headquarters
here e-estimated the toll at 273
dead, 433 injured and 2,033 miss
ing.
Estimate of Toll Reduced.
Earlier, police said more than
5000 were dead or missing, but
a spokesman reported later those
totals listed many Implications
caused by chaotic communica-
tionS.
More than 1000 persons
stranded on rooftops or trapped
in flooded homes were plucked
to safety by rescue teams search
ing the sWirling waters.
United States Air Force planes
criss-crossed the flood scene
dropping tons of food to stranded
persons, While Japanese ships
and ground forces secured the
area for survivors.
Two Days of Cloudbursts.
The rains stopped Sunday
after two days of cloudbursts
sent three mountain streams
laundering down narrow valleys
Flash floods hit valley villages
some before sleeping residents
could flee.
Although skies began to clear
and the rivers to recede on Cen
trail Honshu, new rains hit in the
Tokyo area and the rivers there
rose steadily.
Thousands worked during the
night to plug gaps at river dikes
with sandbags.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
By james {. Roper

The Agriculture Department is
gradually replacing the men who
run the farm program in the
field-the State committeeman
of the Production and Marketing
Administration.
Each State has from three to
five State PIMA committeeman
all serving at the pleasure of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Since Secretary Benson took
control of the Agriculture De-
partment, the entire State PIMA
committees in each of IA States
has been changed. In addition.
Mr.. Benson has appointed new
chairmen in two States. Texas
and Maine. Other shifts will
come.
Put on Part Time Basis.
Secretary Benson also is end
Ing the State committeeman S
status as full-time Federal en-
ployes. Hereafter, they will work
part time, being paid for the
number of days they work,
The change in personnel and
working status is intended to
make sure that State PIMA COM
mittee are real farmers-and
sympathetic to the new Repub-
lican approach to agricultural
problems.
The State committeeman have
a tremendous influence on the
day-to-day operations of the
farm program. They must ad-
minister planting allotments
marketing quotas, price support
operations. and the distribution
of Federal funds to farmers
They work through part-time
county and community PIMA
committees, which are elected by
farmers.
Secretary Benson feared that
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Scattered Rain Helps
Southwest Area, but
Drought Continues
BY the Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Tex. July 20.
-Hit-and-miss heavy rains have
caused flash floods in Texas dur
ing the last week. Yet a Federal
soil expert says the States worst
drought is unbroken.
A similar situation was re-
ported in Oklahoma-eood rains
but not enough.
Louis P. Merrill of Fort Worth.
United States Soil Conservation
Service regional director, said
locally torrential doWnpours have
been Immensely helpful" But
he said it will take more general
rains over a longer period to end
the drought-in its fourth year
In parts of Texas,
Spotty ThunderstOrms.
Some of the heaviest down.
pours yesterday drenched parts
of West Texas, declared a
drought disaster area and eligible
for emergency Federal help.
But the thunderstorms were
spotty.
Mr.. Merrill said he doubted
whether more than Is or 20 of
l52 drought disaster counties in
West, North and South Texas
have had rain.
He explained it is hard to
say just when a drought ends.
But he added that generally you
can call drought broken when
good rains cover a large area
and rainfall becomes seasonally
normal again over a considerable
period of time.
Unless this happenS-and it
hasn't yet, he said-the drought
Is unbroken.
The soil expert said, however,
recent rains have greatly helped
cotton, feed crops and ranges
and have filled dry stock water
Ing ponds.
Big Rains Yesterday.
Yesterdays big rains in West
Texas included 4.8 inches at
Wellington. Sc at Pampa, 5
inches at Jericho and 3.74 at
Lefors. But the rains were not
general. Amarillo in the center
Of the Panhandle received only
04 inch.
Homes were unroofed, schools
and churches damaged and win
doWS blown in by winds which
hit Lamesa in West Texas. A
deluge of rain accompanied the
storm.
At LongvieW in East Texas, an
intense electrical storm set a
dozen small fires. Torrential
downpours flooded four of five
underpasses.
Serious Flood Threats.
Friday and Saturday thunder
storms caused serious food
threats at Fort Worth, Fort
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Sees Israeli Leaders

Sydney Lubarr, a local director
of the recent State of Israel
bond drive here, was received
yesterday by a group of Israeli
government leaders during a
meeting on the country's eco
nomic development. Mr.. Lubarr
is inspecting Israel's industrial
facilities and will later present
his findings to District residents.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Benson Appointees Take Over
Farm Program in Ia States

the State committeemen-ap-
pointed by Democratic Secre-
taries of Agriculture-might
undercut G. o. P. ideas on farm
problems. So now, Secretary
Benson has new State commit
teemen in Virginia. Alabama,
Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Mich
igan. Minnesota, Missouri, New
Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming,
Kentucky, North Dakota and
Pennsylvania.
Get Paid by the Day.
Abolished are full time Jobs
for committeeman. The old
committee members started at
$7,040 per year, with the chair
man starting at $500 per year.
Now there will be a full-time
administrative officer starting at
$7,040 for each State committee,
but the committeeman will draw
$27G7 or (for the chairman
$32.15 for each day they work.
Spokesman for Secretary Ben
son say this is intended to make
sure the committeeman are full
f1edged farmers.
Under the old system" one
G. o. P. aide said, You had a
farmer who quit farming to take
a full-time Government job as
State committeeman. Then you
wondered whether the man was
a farmer after all. This way,
we'll make sure the program is
run by men who continue to
farm"
Adding a full-time admins
trative assistant to each State
committee, however. probably
will prevent any saving in sal
aries that otherwise might result
from putting the committeeman
on a part-time basis.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Democrat Aide to Speok

Philip Stern, research division
director Of the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee, will speak on
the first six months Of the new
national administration before q
luncheon Of the Civitan Club at
1890 pm. tomorrow in the May
flower Hotel. ,'
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Five Seriously Injured In Locomotive Explosion

+. Two persons-the engineer and
a 12-year-old boy taking supper
to his father at work in the yards
were reported in critical con-
dition today. Three others were
reported in serious condition.
Cause of the explosion was not
determined.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Davis. Abilene and Albany. Many
families were evacuated.

Davis, Abilene and Albany. Many
families were evacuated.
Oklahoma rancherS reported
two, weeks Of rain, including as
much as five inches in some Sec
tions Saturday, will revive wilted
grass and fill dry stock ponds.
However. observers said much
more rain was needed to revive
subsoil moisture.
Oklahoma farmers were pre-
pairing soil to plant fall feeds.
Kay County officials have can
celed requests for Federal
drought aid for farmers and
ranchers.
Some Oklahoma cities have
lifted restrictions on water use
as lakes started filling again.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
BY the Asseeia'sd Press

NEW YORK, July 2O.-The
boiler of an oil-burning steam
locomotive blew up last night in
a Brooklyn terminal. Flaming
fire brick lining flew through the
air. injuring eight persons and
setting two fires.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
By Michoel Amrine

A few years ago the world
famous scientist. Irving Lang
muir, said "It will be easier to
change the weather than to pre-
dict what it's going to be-"
Today that statement is al
Most a fact. There is still con-
troversy over just how effective
making can be, but it def
nitely is business. particularly
in the Western United States.
The Weather Bureau, at the
same time, is getting better at
making long-range weather pre-
dictions. In our lifetime, it may
be possible for a man to tell
what the weather is going to do
and also make it rain.
It is estimated that 800 million
to 500 million acres of land in
the West are covered by private
raln-maklng programs. The
farmer or rancher makes a con-
tract with a rain-maker for a
certain acreage-he uses one Of
two major methods to start pre-
cipitation in clouds which look
suitable for it-and wherever it
rains, the landowner pays him
3 to 5 cents an acre.
Little Chance of Shortage.
Contrary to popular under
standing, there is very little
chance that rain made by rain
maker at one place will cause
another place to be short of rain.
There is far more moisture in
the air than ever comes down.
The companies now operating
have names which would no
doubt startle great-grandfather
| if he should return on a visit.
There's the Weather Modif1ca-
tion Co. of Redlands, Calf: the
North American Weather Con-
sultants of Denver, the Grand
River Valley Weather Improve
ment Association, operating over
a wide area. and w. E. Howell
Associates, Inc, of New York.
The last-named firm is headed
by DR.. w. E. Howell. the man
hired by New York City a few
years ago at $100 a day to cause
rain to fall in the metropolitan
area. Some scientists are not
sure that he caused the subse-
quent rains. but New York had a
very wet season. In fact. there
were floods, and some people
sued the city of New York for
having caused the floods.
The most common method of
ain-making is through the use
of a smoke of tiny particles of
the chemical known as silver
iodide. The basic equipment is a
smoke generator. which is not
very expensive. Like the seeds"
of dry ice which were used in
the first years of scientific rain
making, silver iodide in the right
kind of cloud will cause the
formation of tiny ice crystals
which in turn will cause rain.
Clouds Are Vital Factor.
| Ordinarily the temperate zones
of the world do not receive rain
until the temperature of clouds
reaches the freezing point. Ice
crystals form about a nucleus
perhaps a tiny grain of dust
and the entire business of rain
making comes down to finding
clouds which are close to the
ram point. but which lack the
right amount and size of "nu-
cleating agents"
American scientists have been
much interested in a new method
OF spraying water into clouds
and causing rain without first
causing freezing. Prof. E. G.
Bowden has been performing ex-
periments in which fairly large
drops of water are deposited into
suitable clouds. In one series he
found that rain or hail followed
six out of seven. of the flights.
The largest commercial rain
maker is Irving P. Krick, former
head of the department of me-
teorology at the California In
AnVERTISEN6EN
Evening star., 1953-07-20
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-05-08
Lionel West. So.
Poul Fireman Is
Decd: Rites Held

Lionel West. $50 Harrington 81,
died In Ancksr hospital Saturday
May 2. He was a member Of the
81 Paul Fire Fighters Association
and n veteran of World War J.
Funeral services were held at
2 p. m. on "wednesday. May 9. at
the Brooks Funeral Chapel with
Rev, Floyd Massey, Jr., pastor Of
Pilgrim Baptist church. Of which
he was o member. officiating Mrs
R0samond johnson was SoloiSt
Members ~ the 81 Paul Fire
Fighters Association were the ac-
tive pallbeaTeTA
Survivors include hts mother,
Mrs, John West one sister. Mrs,
Gertrude willis. both 0f ~ Paul
and q niece, Mrs Marjorie AcKin'
my Hops u Chicago. H.
Burial was IN Oakland Gene
terry Brooks Funeral Chapel was
IN charge ~ arrangements
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-05-08

Last week Mr. and Mrs Chester
Odsn, sr, $50 Fuller Ave, filed
suit for divorce, Both charged
mental cruelty in their complaints
Odsn who 10 connected with n
liquor st0rs. and restaurants
charged his wife with mental
cruslty and anguish to the extent
that Il caused him 10 he ~
Mrs OdTn who croas-fi
charged IN her complaint mental
cruelty and asked for n property
settlement.
This Ia the SECOND time that d.
vOrcr proceedings have been start
ed by the couple
The FIRST time they were dropped
and the couple resumed their mar.
itaI status
The pair have bern married
about seven ysarA and their are
no children from this marriage.
however both parties have chill
drsn from previous marriages.
Together they opened a bar
bsciIs restaurant At West Central
and Western Ave. which became
very EuocssafuI
Both the OdcnR ne well known
IN the Twin Cities and members
Of old ~. Paul families
Mrs. Odsn operates y beauty
shop nj 82t ROndo
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-05-08

Twin CITY Chapter ~ the
Frontiers OF America will hold
their Annual Artistic Recognition
luncheon on Saturday. May 9Th
promptly NJ ons O'Clock IN the
Saint Paul Hotel. Honorsd guests
win b. Shorty" Patterson u
North High School IN MinnTspo-
lie and Dick BlAksiy Of Marshall
High In ~. Paul and their
coaches.
George a. Barton, prsHIdsnt Of
the National Boxing Association
and Chairman Of thu MinnsS0tA
STATE Artistic Commission has
been invited 10 address ths club.
Frontier ucs-prssidsnt James y.
G1fnn sports editor Of the spokss.
man and Recorder IL In charge Of
arrangements for the nesting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-05-08

for him from Williams. enough
for 295 capsules that sell 10 ad-
diets for 50 per capsule.
Known on the Northside as Bob
Marcy. "a Canadian safe cracker. "
the agent testified and Smith
collaborated, that Smith was per
suaded to buy from Williams be-
cause the stuff he was getting
from Carl Boyd was inferior
boyd was convicted at the same
time AS smith and Is now serving
q prison SentenceD
Arthur ID. CASweII, another mar.
cotIc agent, testified that he and
other agents had been trailing
william for several months and
that he was extremely hard Ia
trail.
The agent testified that the
narcotics bureau knew Williams
was peddling dope,
Addicts were hanging around
his house and in 1850 he told VIII
Iiams. we're going to put you
in the pentitentiary are you'n
starve to death an q peddler."
Williams would make illegal U
turns in the middle Of the street
and numerous other traffic vio-
lations when he knew he was be.
ing followed by narcotics agents
the agent testified.
on one occasion, Caswell SAID
Williams told him. You're going
to make me do something To you
that III regret the rest Of my
life"
The government rested its case
Tuesday and Wednesday the de-
Tense took over.