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i i Oakland Tribune, Friday) Dec. 23, 1955 REPORT COUNTIES GASH FOR CROSSWORDS a voc Widens Winneri Take Holid ay so Areas Goes to $330 lop Pri Answer4 to Puzzlo FoHoictng is an explanation the more difficult clues ifvMst week's Cash for: Crotsibords -contests Most often rs3ea were ivo. across t-lajsi noi mvsi, iuo. 10 across-Strfiages, not Ravages; 4 4oifn Mode, not ACROSS uf'Ml' 1 5iiPOT is best. A differetN -1 -V-1 "1 i II: Mil "it iv -Is It iicte f' JI5 pioTt JmHo IE A.R-! pff DMA A isjP EjN 0 -J 1 HML IE AiVjA 6)tS a 5.

AJRCjE TDd IpG Ft ejr KjS CR A Njt7 nlM jpHs 11 I SHOT would reveal only ONE i weakness his inability to sb straight. Being in a diffii SPOT might reveal SEV -weaknesses. -j 5 LOST cities is apt since embraces ALL LOST cities. MOST is an understatement. 4t one time or another, there hafef Dcen interesting dooks wnuen about every city in the world; ,9 FEAR can definitely act a challenge a challenge tof a roan to overcome that FEAft.

FEAT is far too vague. Whet if sort of FEAT are -we talkiagf 11 "If you're, the carefvit LUCTANT to SPEED-you-juaf Eleanor, Weott, Klamath and Klamath Glen were reported in undated and i pracucaiiy destroyed as Air Force and Coast Guard planes and helicopter awaited dawn to resume- rescu operations. Emergency shelters were let up by the American Red Cross in flooded areas. Civil Defense, officials; verified one death, possibly two but were unable to confirm ireportr that-30 persons had perished in the flooding Cut Off by the high watersl were dozens of communities, in-j eluding Hoop a. Fernbridse.1 Meyers Flat, Fortuna and Mad? River Beach.

Airborne rescue teams re-! ported sighting residents hang-f ing onto bushes by the Klamath! River to keep from being sweptj utnert cumbered to.tha! roofs of their homes a tha? water! poured -into the dweil4 ings: The Eel River, which has alJ ready wiped out twa yillageaj con unuca 10 wreak the greatest havoc Tides flunif- bv thaJ Sale against the down-svirgini current prevented Coast Guard 0013 irom entering th Eer mouth. i Nearly the entire Etl Vail was inundated as the water uverxioweo tne Kedwood Val4 ley Dam on the upper river and loc jam develnn! lower river near Femhrid The structure, longest concreta bridge in the world when coni structed, was center of blastin 1 utuuui eemng 10 free thf Twenty-five-'io I "50: bomei have, been reported een floati ing down "the Eel Rivr neture, you 11 be reluctant to SPEND money at II a "Iii.i III mi I "FEW styles are liked; by ment. "NEW styles are liked by i ft 1 fr SAVAGES best fits the, now, it 'Taking the blame for mistakes around here isn't enough the boss wants me to select a Christmas gift for his wifeF of the word, we definitely KNOW that RAVAGES ARE 1 uKiuuwuve. vve re nuv MS surf THINK of SAVAGES as being; Home! 1 a Presumably he is responsible for the PRODUCTION of the weak FARCE in which can expect few compliments. He might take over command, whip it into shape.

Compliments then be forthcoming, 22 "Particular favirs! AGE ''stone IaGE," for ex arnple. Anthropologists jvould study APES as a species, not individually- as one APE. I 1 1 't T23The fact that he aciallyiSEEKS to avoid committing himself quite probably indicates thfct he lacks confidence, put ff only SEEMS to avoid committing himself we-cannpt, en such Scotia and Rio DelL twovaeu. doubtful evidence, assume that hf CLUES DOWN ''il TOFFEE best fits the! flu iMiich states that you hand jit before asking the people,) if? they. want Having some TOFFEE, you might well hand; ii, 'round and find that most people would accept a piece, dut you would ASK people if they wanted COFFEE, and then hand it 'round AFTER they had accepted.

i 2 START is more apt When 'STARS are scheduled to appear, the excitement ia NOT suppressed. In racing, for example, the excitment is usually suppressed until the race actually STARTS. I iij 4 1 4 MODE needs the words fjofjlbehavior," whereas they" a re one-it1iiojs where CODE is i true of a DEAD LEAD is heavy but tnrfc-is no reason at au ort KkvieT that it-realiy 'tJ: j' 1 1 I1 l-PLACE is best. The PEACE (quietness) would be not Just miff h' shattered. -4 ICU -1 i NAPA I Although.

tht Napa River rti ceded three jfeet during the night, clearing all street and highways, Napa residents still ara- standing by as more raia began falling about 4Vrh; todayl High "tide today could mean a peak of 5.7 feet, bringing th water even higher than yes terdayi when it atoed three feet deep in some "Places. About 300 families have been! evacuated rom the city and I the entire business district hast been sandbagged to protect buildings from lappinjf at the doorways. 1 if Re4 Cross, set up four mer4l gency headquarters, after theira were flooded out yesterday, i Fifty U.S. Navy men brought I pumps Skaggs Island and! are working pumping out bast-1 ments and sandbagging. PLUMAS ij The North Fork of th Feathetf River has.

flooded part of Chesif ter and residents are being shelif tered in afchurch and Forest Service i haH installed a "field! kitchen to feed th homelesiil Hard rains last night sent th Feather River spilling into thai west part of Oroville with! water six feet. high in some of! 5-tIt -is true heavy fain? mignt easily ruin HAV but not alHAT. If' damaged itijmight possibly Jbereblocked; -n. there are manv trees of HATS ithat are impervious to ram. 17 SPARES for jthe typewriter, might well be considejred, I ACES is the wrong word spacing would be better.

5,1 "Impress' favors an1 enormous' FISH shown to you by angler. An enormous FIST -branished in your would Siticlceh Here i is a county-by-couAty report 01 aloon conditions SANTA CRUZ. Three persons are deadq and 12 more! as missing in the City of Sata (fruz, where the police department teletype machine todaj? appeared to be one of the links between the flooded; city and "the outside' world." A teletype received via Sicra- mento at 8 a.m. today byi the San Francisco Police Dept. kaid "Three knciwn dead, 12 missing, whole towr is flooded.

An earlier teletype report from SantaCruz Chief Al Hants- man, thejiflirst word received from the leacoast resort town since 1:30 said there Were nearly i "exposure quartered in the Mission -high School and Branceforte Gram mar School there, "urgently in need of blankets and medical aid. -t The message added that there was nearly-six feet of water in a major! portion of the city! and a 1 1 v. A. A -1 i A. tnat damage is esumateu in uie millions! National Red Cross headquar ters at San Francisco reported that they have dispatched three "top disaster specialists" into the area-; to detergtune the amount: of i emergency aid re quired.

They were expecting contact momentarily, with aj mo bile radio runit being sent into Santa Cruzlfrom Salinas. At the mobile! unit had been -unable to get any where meAf the area" due to high waters and slides. A Red Cross i ielif representative re ported bylamateur radio' that he -was! in contact with off cials at Fort Of trying to an ange transDortation of blankets, fold ing cots aftS other needed sup plies into Santa Cruz, Fort I Orii? is' reported tp be operating sA amphibious "ducks? inr tht vicinity of Santa Cruz; i "1 I The RedlCross said they wld have to dron supoliea by air plane, sinde. all roads leading into the I "fcity are apparently San Francisco iPoiice vmeI j. a-.

George, Heily teletyped anbffer of rqeni and equipment to ssist Huntsnian.jbut Huntsman sent a return teletype at 10:30 a.m which readii "I At present time we arrt get- tins' alomril right. Flood has receded. bt it.is-sUll raining We may nied help later. If so, we Will contact you. Thanks, Healy said he had a stand-by, detail of a captain, a lieutenant, two serceants and 25 patrol men "in storm gear and wait- mg to go if we're who managed to establish radio contact with the Watsonvill tPolice Dept." shortly alter a.muifaia in nis leieiiype message: iThis is a major flood and both1 bridges are out? It was not i immediately kriown what bridges i he referred to, The Red.

Cross said they are relying solely on amateur radio operator 1 or, tueir cumniuiiita' tiofts with the- area. A radio set at their offices at 1550 Setter San Francisco, has been manned by- since noon yesiexuay The Coast Guard reported they had vai telephone' contact with Santa Cruz Police Chief Huntsman4late last night, but that the telephone "suddenly went dead" Early-1 reports from the area said San Lorenzo Creek, which cuts through! he center of Santa Cruz, boiled over its banks (last, night and mandated 20 square blocks i of Hhe city's i downtown section. Z. The water: was reported cl be rising nearly ja foot an hpurl shortly Defore midr.ight aid had reached 'a depth of 12 feet in some partSrOf the city. All avail able manpower was being ultil lzed to evacuate1 residents! to higher ground.

In the i town of Soquel, four miles to the east, homes there were reported to be flooded with four feet water. Lack ofjoommunications left relief organisations coordinating rescue, operations from San Franciscoj frith rumors and completely the darir about where; their help was needed the most. I The whether bureau said heavy rains will continue through and occasionally tonight, the Rainfall to be especially i heavj in the central coastal mountains with flooding expected alcerg the Salinas ajnd Pajaro Rivej-s during the nixt 24 hours. 1 1 1 3 HUMBOipTt DL NORTE AND MENDOCINO Damage a estimates' continued to mount mto the- millions of dollars as irampaging rivers of Del Humboldt and Men docino Counties were driven back onto coastal towns by a gale whipping the Northern and Central California coastal area. Communication with the three stricken counties was limited entirely to atnateur radio operators king through armed forces and "civilian defense net works.1 Additional hundreds Jof persons wer evacuated todjay albng Eel River at mouths of all major strckms and rivers in the three nort'iwestern counties.

The; ton of Pepperwood, lighten or intimidate you; "impress" would be an understate i-nt. This is the-big holiday season sure enough, all the win ners in The Tribune's Cash for Crosswords took a holiday from winning that is. There are NO WINNERS this week to take home the-Christmas present old E-Z-Winn had setjaside for So next week the prize money goes up to a maximum of $330. This is your last chance of 1955 to play and win and old E.Z., the mentor of this game-for money, hopes you won't let another year go by without going for the. cash prize.

He had his. Santa Claus suit all ready and his ngle bells all It's Time postcard bearing the winning entry in The Tribune's Cash for Crosswords cfbibtest is worth an additional $15 next week. tuned up and was Justi waiting to take off in great glee with the, money bag for the winner or winners when the word came no one made it this week. But don't despair next week is just as good fori winning purposes and the prize is even larger it grows every week that no one wins. This is as enticing as having a gaily -wrapped package waiting under the tree and' not knowing what is in it until Christmas.

Only in this case the gift is known it is the recipient that is the mystery figure WORTH WAITING FOR And the nicest thing is that it is so delightful to have something Ito look forward to when an trie Christmas gins are opened and, that surprise element is removed. The basic prize this next week is $150 which goes to the winner or winners who submits the correctly worked puzzle by Monday's deadline. This is the plain present that goes to whoever turns in the right puzzle and NOTHING ELSE. Bui that present will come brightly wrapped in gift paper with tinsel and ribbon of! the DOUBLE DIVIDEND which is worth; twice that much to the person who adds a subscription to The Tribune along with the prize-winning puzzle. That will be $300i for the winner or win i OTHER GIFTS aretwo additional "stocking" gifts of $15 each.

One goes to the winner who also is a i Tribune subscriber" and otjher goes to 'the winner thoughtful and helpful enough lo attach the winning puzzle to a postcard for eraf Funds Continued from recognize schools as neighbor hood rAid fin' passage ojf a jjroposed bond issue for school construe tion was pledged. is being done in con nection with I Franklin School will be applied to other school problems," Norris Nash, chairman of the urban renewal committee, declared. Appreciation of the close tie between school and urban newal programs was expressed by W. W. Hoffman, chairman of the Board of Education.

While urban renewal undi can be used for school they will provide recreational centers augmenting school development. Corwin Mocine, city planning director, ph a i that "schools are the centers of neighborhoods, and neighborhoods are the centers of family living." He said! the school and urban renewal programs will combine to lop the current movement of city residents to suburban areas by relieving overcrowding and making city life more at tractive. i William Penn Mott city park director urged particular atten tion to landscaping and other beauty features to inculcate civic pride. Plans for establishment of standards for building improve ment, and, for advice and finan cial assistance to property own' ers were outlined at the meeting which was held in the Kaiser Building, with Nash presiding, India Recognizes Outer Mongolia NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 23 tff The government announced today that India has established diplomatic relations with Outer Mongolia.

Uhe foreign ministry an nouncement srid 1 the Indian ambassador in" Peiping would take on the additional duties for the present and the Mongolian ambassador in the Chinese capital would be accredited Xo India. Oakland Gets Rid MAIL THIS COUPON NOW; FOR DOUBLE DIVIDEND, Havqp known to the outside world. It was -known the Humboldt and Del Norte County disaster organizations were in need of water purification equipment, blankets and medical supplies. Casualties, however, were still to be determined. I The airport at Areata has become the lifestream of a two- county Military planes have been' carrying in supplies, landing at the port even though its runways are Icovered by water.

An Oakland Naval Air Station "Weekend Warrior" bomber made one jtrip to Ar eata late yesterdayl with a ton of -Army blankets. Others were to fly in today. Gov. Knight issued his proc lamation a state of emer gency late yesterday in Los An geles and State Adjutant Gen Earle M. Jones immediately used his authority to call up Eureka National Guard tinits to active duty.

COVERS ALL' COUNTIES The governor's order covers every gives state officials ity to buy without emergency county and the author- calling bids and' to. use any equipment or a mt a employees lor 1100a reuei. Four Northern California counties Humboldt, Siskiyou, Del Norte and Sonoma- already had been declared disaster areas and many other communities were in trouble, some of them cut off from outside communications. with morel hard rains forecast, the Red Cross warned that the already menacing sit uation probably, would become worse. 1 Relief agencies ppined with the Armed Forces, Civil De ense and others in a tremen dous mobilization t( house, feed and protect the health of the many evacuees.

iBecause of disrupted communications and the fast changing I picture, the Red Cross was unable to even guess at "how many x. persons would need help. Nor could any" accurate esti mate of the terrific -financial losses caused by flooded homes and business districts, washed away ranch buildings and dam aged sawmills and other indus trial plants be given. In Humboldt County alone the' loss already was reported in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The total obviously will run much higher, OREGON EVACUATIONS Floods' on the Willamette, the Rogue and other rivers in Ore gon forced hundreds of persons to leave low-lying communities.

Roseburg evacuated 75 families, according to the Red and 400 persons were moved out of Oakridge, southeast of Eugene. Clip this coupon fend mail It to the Oakland Tribuna L5az2de Editors Box "509, Oaklitid 4, Calif. A new sub-) i "-tfption qualifies you for Dpuble Dividend in the Cash irCrosswords puxzle contest which appears in The vnbune every Saturdar ena Sunday. Be cure to read the homes. Cs ruies which appear with ij txtM" you won't be merely RE woft't SPEED.

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C. A.aiera. wi -evacuation center nasi been opened in the Boy Scout center and homeless families are being routed toj private homes south of town. The Lower Feather River's 3uble cnsni hereby authorize delivery ftirrice of the OAKLAND TRIBUNE at the regular subscription price of $2X3 per 'pnth. I have net been an OAKLAND TRIBUNE 'sob- WEATHERMAN CAN'T FORESEE OWN TROUBLE I Even the weathernfan -had troubles with the wind he: had forecast 1 1 -Weatherman" Albert! Oertel, of San forecaster at the -San.

Francisco interna-fional Airport, said, his week-old six-foot fence blew down last night. nails were pulled iright out," he reported, f. jj "I couldn't have. orecast Vital Link 'Ham' Radio Net One of the vital links in the amateur radio network that is providing the only eommdnica- tion between flood-battered Humboldt and Del Norte Counties and thi-outside world is operated by 15-year-old Oakland High School junior, Stephen Temby, 15,, 'of 12625 Al- ida St I Young Teniby, son oE Mr. and Mrs.

L. in1 terested in, amateur radio las a Cub Scout five years ago. He got: his novice license Nov. 18, 1954, and hia general short wave radio license exactly i a 1 year laten." l- -t 1 Beginning with eryitali sets and commercial band receivers, Terriby soon was building his own short wave -'receiver He has built more than a dozen receivers and one short wave transmitter. I HU: first commerciallvbuilt transmitter 7 was delivered a week, ago just in timej for him to begin operating around tne clock as one of scored of amateur short wave rad enthusiasts who have assisted military and civil defensej authorities in -directing evacuation, relief and rescue operations in northwestern.

California. wnaam w. ward Jrs, director of the Contra Costi County Cin Defense and 1 Disaster "round the clock" woj-k of the volunteer sedio operators. 1 Four operators, mobile radio units in their auto mobiles, covered the Gregory Gardens section and I parts of Walnut Creek where more than 800 persons have bim evac uated irom flooded homes They are James Hilliard, W6CGS; Herry Cameron, W6RUC; Robert Richter, W6HOF, and Jerry Copeland, W6QFE Others, working out of I the sheriff's radio contrfcl center on the Arnold Industrial High way and in the sheriffs at Martinez, include Fred Cau del, W6DEX, and Dick Wallace, W6TCU. jj Operating amateur stations in their homes, according to Ward, are Oscar Peterson, I W6LQW, Alamo; WilDam i Parkin4on, K6IMV, and- Russef Morris, W6VMI, both of Gregory Gar- dens.

i ICuchel Asks U.S. to Aid Flood Victi ms; WASHINGTON. Dec. 23-Ur Senator Kuchel (K, to day requested the Housing and Home Finance Agency to make an immediate surveys Of flood ravaged areas of Northern Cali fornia whether it can said fami lies whose homes-werd damaged fm raci rmrosl i. i The agency advised Kuchel's ofice it might be abluito supply trailers for immediate shelter to homeless persons.

i Kuchel's aides requested Gov, Goodwin Knight in Sacramento to relay details of the extent of the damage from weeks' heavy rainstorms and sugges tions of Federal assistance which they might need. 15,000 In Flood i 1 i i Continued from Page! 1 as "the Army, Navjn and i Air Force rushed men and quip- ment from as far away a Fort Lewis.f San Diego land to the distressed regions." i i v. One of the most tragic reports was radioed to the Associated Press -i in: San Frajiciscoi by Frank BrdWn of Statijon KHUM in Eureka. He saidthjat sheriffs deputies told him of two men being carried to the on a log and shouting helplessly for rescues "There are otiier reports of persons heard ye ling from drifting Brown said. MULTIMILLION LOSS i I The San Francisco District of the Army Corps of snir! that Hnmatfo in Engineers the i Coast area alone would exceed 000,000.

Col. J. A. Grbf, district engineer, stressed that -an accurate estimate was impossible. The i Sacramento District, for flood control in the -Sacramento and 1 San Joa quin! Valleys, said thSjt million dollars" worth of darn- age had been done there to inundated farmland ajone.

Property damage could be expected to add i at least another few millions to this total. Every river. in Northern Cali fornia was over: its banks. The major streams were responsible for the major troublef The Sacramento Eel, Klaniath, Russian, Yuba, Feather, Napa land American ripped out bridges, cut sections out of railroad em bankments and poured millions of gallons over highways. 1 s- iransporiaiion -ueiwfcen vre-gon and California was by air or not at alL All mjor highways were out and the Southern Pacific Co.

was! jforced to cancel its passenger. service be cause of washouts in the Duns muir Iregion I and in Oregon. Trains may be running again tomorrow. MAJOR HIGHWAYS OUT oeyen to zi persqns were known or believed to jbe i dead. H9W high the death ttSll; might go was, unpredictable! as the areas jof Humboldt, Dpi; Norte, Mendocino, Plumas, IBjatte, Sonoma, Napa, Santa Clai-a, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou and Lafce Coun ties, already under i re ceived! additional downpours to day, i 1 i There may be.

a 1 respite in the storm late today, jWeather Bureau experts said thit winds would abate late today and that snow-t-not ram would' fail in the The ifctorm, which; began Sunday, ha come with tropical winds and has dumped water in the high Sierras, causing early ad rapid runoff of the snow pack. UNKNOWN TOLL The1 situation int nojrthwest California was still largely un- Truckee Through RENO, Dec. 23 -The 'storm-divided swollen Truckee River the City of Reno down jhe mid die today as it swept away: two four-lane bridges" in the! center of tovyn and caused the i four remaining bridges to bej closed. All! highways' leading here were reported-closed and downtown merchants have; sandbagged their stores in prepara tion for a flood that apparently will equal the one of 1950, which did an estimated $2,000,000 damage. The "Washoe County Sheriffs Department reported that the center section of the Lake St.

Bridge, a block from the Mapes Hotel, was torn away shortly River Reno tenber curing the petf 33 Xi.l.l 1.. bridges, its approaches' under-j! mined on both sides, has beea' declared by the Stat Division of Highway nd the ij only road remaining open to I Oroville is th Oroville-Chic road. Bulldozers and men Worked! throughout th hight at where four breaks -have oc-j curred in the levee. The Start! Department or Engineers preif aicted tne levee is going tq i break and termed the situation! critical Residents were awak! ened in the early morning hours with warning to pr pare for evacuation. iave order makes following Submitted by mw 'J Defit'cry of The Tribune A 8 I'.

SONOMA ij. Guerneville had 7 relnf orce-J ments in its battle for life today! as helicopter whirred down the! Russian River valley, plucking! stranded householders off roof-f tops, 'and Coast Guard motor! ss Lurlino Delayed by Fog Rampages Street whaleboats from Alimeda')( Government Island battled river gone wild. Lt Comdf." Frank Reily ofl 2454 Lisle Court, San Leandrbvf estimated that Coast Guard and! Air Force helicopters and the! boats' had saved more than 251 persohs from drowning yester-J day. Rescue headquarter reported! thai they were "unabl to ac- co.unt" for a Marine Reservrf amtrack, a land-and-sea trc- tor vehicle, with seven Trees-f ure Island Naval Base znen I I Continued Pag CL 11 mmmmmmmm mm mm I II I i I 1 "I i I i lojCtrUkimtr iJOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 dT) -4Th Matson liner In-bSurtd from San Francisco' I to piek up passengers, for a world cruise, was among shipping 4e layed by a pea soup fog tftat up Los Angeles and Long THE COUNTRY; PARSON if ir n.

i 5 lf ycu want to know whxf I'irs peepfa put Csd, try working en thurch'a financial cl.ive.", before dawn by the onrushing torrent and the nearby Sierra St. Bridge was reported to be "ready to go." The Kietske Lane under construction, was washed away late yesterday As a precautionary measure, all highway bridges connecting the two sections of the city were closed this, morning, leaving two bridges at the cast and west fringes of town toe only means of. moving from one section to the other. The Booth St. Bridge, at the west end, was said to be "getting shaky.

-The Truckee River, six times its normal size and still rising rapidly, poured into some sec tions of the business district early today. 1 I i.