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VICTIMS OF WAR THEY WANT TO GIVE YOU: -V lffJ 1 1 j.L.L.J. .1 m.n.j,..! I. .1.1 I LI-1. Six Extra 4 1 i ,1 Dars lion? ft" 'If A- OU? IF A he has MAN MISSES TnE RIG to go down to see the trial board Korea's Kids Need 'Parents' BY CLAIRE COX NEW YORK (U.R) The Foster Parents' Plan for War Children today asked Americans to rescue thousands of destitute Korean children. The organization In 16 years ha rehabilitated 72,000 young, victim of both hot and cold wars throughout the world.

Now It seems to have an almost endless task before It in South Korea the most devastated area in the world. MRS. LEXORE SORIN says the immediate need is for "as much money as we can get," to provide housing- and buy rice and shoes for South Korean children. 1 She wants even more urgently to recruit foster parent to "adopt" Korean youngsters. She already has thu crew of the battleship Missouri.

It has become the first mail-order "foster parent" in the Korean project, and Mrs. Sorin hopes thousands of lnd'viduals and organizations will follow the sailors' example. THE WORK in South Korea has just begun. Robert W. Sage has started rounding up destitute children in Pusan.

He and his aides started by helping S00 children they found living In dumps or wandering hungry through the streets. Most have been separated from their parents. From now on, Sage expects children to wander in at the rate of 200 a week. First they will be fed and clothed, Then will come the service for which the Plan was organ- the establishment of a re- 1: onshlp between foster parents in the United States and the children In Korea. UNDER THE plan, a "parent" pays $180 a year to help support the child assigned to him.

He also may send food and clothing parcels to the child. Foster parents and children are -urged to correspond at least once a month. They establish a relationship, she said, that gives a child a sense of security and the knowledge that someone really cares about him, she said. 1 i yyX.Ul IK? i-1 I YOU IIAVE TO KNOW odd facts about smoke COLD NIGHTS tape always talks THE RESCUE Conversation is important BY ARTHUR JUNTUXEN Prw trtm Trsttt Writ HOW WOULD YOU like six extra "vacation days" each year Those backing a plan to reschedule holiday dates and that includes almost everyone In Michigan's huge tourist industry hope you will answer "I would" to the question above. If you respond that way, they are hopeful of putting a proposal on a ballet one of these days.

Your "yes" vote then, they think, would help bring one hundred million dollars extra to Michigan every year. 0 THE WAY THE TOURIST people have things figured out, you get most of these six "free" days now. One of them, as an example, is Thanksgiving. Now you have Thursday off, eat a big dinner and go back to work on Friday. Which does nothing at all for the tourist industry, and little for you.

But, they say, if Thanksgiving fell on a Monday, you'd be able to make something of it. If you have Saturday and Sunday free, the extra day added to the week-end would really let you range far afield during your three-day "vacation." That would be only one of the six "three-day vacations." HERE'S HOW THEY would rearrange the non-religious holiday schedule: 1 PRESIDENT'S DAY would be observed the third Monday in February. It would combine Washington's Birthday (Feb. 22, a Sunday this year); Jefferson's Birthday (now April 13 and a Monday this year) and Lincoln's Birthday (Feb. 12 and a Thursday this year).

2 MEMORIAL DAY would fall on the last Monday in May, ending a long controversy between the North and the South over separate dates. This year it falls on May 30, a Saturday. 3 INDEPENDENCE DAY would be the first Monday in July rather than July 4, which this year is a Saturday. 4 VETERANS' DAY the first Monday in August would combine V-J Day (now Sept. 2, a Wednesday); V-E Day (now May 6, a Friday), and Armistice Day (traditionally Nov.

11 and a Wednesday this year). 5 COLUMBUS DAY would be the second Monday In October rather than Oct. 12. This year it happens to fall on Monday. 6 THANKSGIVING DAY would be observed the fourth Monday in November, regardless of the date.

This year it falls on Nov. 26. They don't want to tamper with the dates of Christmas, New Years, Easter or Labor Day. THOSE BACKING THE holiday plan include the Michigan Tourist Council, the Automobile Club of Michigan and just about anyone else interested in tourists. Their reason, as explained by the Auto Club's Harry N.

Rogan: "Michigan's resort country lies within driving radius on a three-day week-end for more people than any other locality in the United States." If people generally would get interested in the plan, the experts think it would go over with a bang in the 38 states now considering the proposal. Firemen Finally Get Their Sfory Told os They Themselves Would Tell If BY JEROME HANSEN Fm Frwii Staff Writer THIS IS A STORY written to order to the order of Detroit firemen. It's probably different from any other story about firemen you've ever read, but to find out why you'll have to read to the very, last line. The tape was talking as I dropped in at a typical Detroit fire station on an assignment on a cold, wet spring night. The tape always talks a lot on cold nights.

The man on the watch desk froze to attention every time the register started to whirr. First he'd count the taps on the night gong, then count the holes that the register punched in paper tape, then check the number against the running board to see if it was an alarm his com- pany would answer. do they suppose does the cleaning up?" Conversation switched back to the favorite topic, fires. Tins reporter finally got in a word: Why is it that so many rescue stories never get into newspapers? "I'll tell you," said the lieutenant. "Firemen don't like to talk about their work to You do what you're paid to do, and then they go and make a big fuss about it.

"You're not In this business for glory. You're in it because you like It. It's your profession. Y'ou love It." And that's the way firemen are. They don't like to sound their own horns.

To Order AS NOTED earlier, this is a story written to order the order of firemen. And that's why if you look back you'll find out that nobody's name is mentioned from the start to this final period. BENSON REPORTS: A Billion Lost On Food Plan THE TOWN CRIER ON the had so much to say to the woman in window. "People in high buildings aren't hard to handle," one firemen explained. "But once there was a death at a house just an ordinary two-story house.

The woman upstairs was calling for help, but she really wasn't in much danger. "JuNt before someone got to her, she leaped. If that woman had been talked out of her panic, she'd be alive today." Being a conversationalist, it turns out, is a trick of the ladder man's trade. WHAT KINDS of gasses do burning mattresses release Firemen know. They have to.

"Smoke is the greatest danger at a fire," the lieutenant explained. "Some kinds contain several different kinds of deadly gasses. I remember once when we had a new man. It was his first day. The tape talked again.

Another go. When they arrived at the box, It was a false alarm. All told, the company responded to four false alarms that night The fourth was answered as promptly as the first Complaint "YOU HAVE two or three In a row," someone explained, "and the next one is apt to be something big. One night it was a hotel. People were coming out of windows like rats out of holes.

It's funny, but some people get sore when they see you answering a false alarm. Figure you're wasting tax money." That recalled a story. Another fireman said: "We had this captain, I remember, and he was a real fireman. We went on this false alarm and a woman rame up, sore because so many engine arrived. 'So this is what we pay taxen she says.

'All this for "There was a big crowd listening. "The captain said, 'Look, and he pointed up to a nearby house. he went on, 'if you were hanging out that third-story window with a fire toasting your backside, then. Madam, you'd be most happy indeed to see us and darned sorry there weren't twice as many of "You should have heard the crowd laugh. They liked it" i it iuu a JJoniu THAT GOT the conversation going about the public.

"They think," said one. "that it's just sitting around playing pinochle. It isn't. We average over 100 runs a month." Another put In: "You saw hnw dirty a rig is when It comes back from a fire. vhn She Stepped Riirht into Politics number rings out three times.

Before the number was repeated the second time the engine was on its way. And right after it was the ladder. Smoke poured out of the second story window of an apartment building. A woman was calling for help. Opposite her the commanding officer said, "Stretch!" The Bundle THE BUNDLE came off-two lengths of hose, folded.

Enough to reach Into the burning building. The engine started for the nearest fire hydrant, stretching out more folded hose as it moved. The man who took off to "run hydrants" had a valve fitted into place so the driver could connect up instantly and start a "soft suction," to carry water from hydrant to the pumper on the engine. Meanwhile the hose which had been stretched was "broken up" uncoupled at part of its length and attached to the pumper. The man at the playpipe (nozzle to laymen) was ready when the "play away" order MEANWHILE, what of the woman at the window? She was the responsibility of the ladder men.

An engine man's first duty is to put water on a fire. They get ready to do it faster than it takes to tell about it But meanwhile two ladder men had a 30-foot fltraight beam job up to her. Strangely, one of them talked a lot to her In a loud voice as he hurried up the ladder. As he carried her down, other ladder men were inside chopping down a door to get to the flames. The smoke was dense, so much so that It seemed almost solid.

The enginemen got water on the flames in a mattress In a second-floor bedroom. The lad-dermen still had a job with brooms, squeegees and sponges they prevented further water damage. The Talker BACK AT the flrehouse, the men were asked about the talkative rescuer the one who Inside Sfuff Brighton cures bad nerves with a "get It off your chest" club see Page S. 0 How to tour Europe for tZ a day Page S. 9 I someone stealing your mail See Page 8 on how to stop such thefts.

BY MARK BELTAIRE LOOKS LIKE a great political future for ll-month-old Alice Wood whose father, Leonard, is state representative from the 7th district. While Wood was in conference with Secretary of State Pat Cleary and State Police Commissioner Joseph Childs concerning a bill to cen But there wasn't a single go. Time after time the tape talked, the men stiffened into alert silence as the triple check was made and a slide as pulled on the board which showed the number of the company which had answered the alarm. Each fire house in Detroit knows which companies are out on alarms. When ons returns "home" a signal comes through and the slide goes back into place.

WHEN THE tape was silent the men talked two or three firemen and a lieutenant and a captain. They talked shop fires, recent and very old. Obviously the man on the watch desk knew the board by heart. "We always check the board anyway," he explained. "Once the department had a man who was proud of his memory.

He never looked at the board. One night a box came In and his memory slipped. His company didn't go." That was all there was to the story. His company didn't go. AU the men had heard the story before.

But you could see each still felt shame for the department. No Excuses THERE ARE no excuses for a fireman. Even in minor matters. Say a man is a minute late getting to the fire house to start his 24-hour tour of duty. He goes down and faces the Trial Board.

Or If his rig rolls and a man Un't on It that means the Trial Board, too. No excuses. One explained: "Only the fire counts. Why, if a man falls off the truck on the way, the commanding officer doesn't even think of stopping. He Just drops off a man to look after the one who fell and goes on to the fire.

Nothing comes ahead of hat." THE TAPE talked again. "It's a go." the man on the watch desk said. The box Van Lopik already has a ropy of the program for the second Boston appearance in 1889. Producer of the first program will receive a pair of tickets for Tuesday's concert plus a backstage chat with Conductor Pierre Monteux. Mouth Too Open CIRCUIT JUDGE Neal Fitzgerald recalls an eager young attorney who was obviously trying just about his first case.

It was an accident mat BY MILT FREUD ENIIE1M Of Oiir Washington Sure WASHINGTON Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson inherited a billion dollars worth of red ink in the United States farm price-support program. When statisticians recently added up losses on butter, potatoes, dried eggs and other products since the program began in 1933 they found the total was over $1,000,000,000. Potatoes accounted for nearly $300 million half of this in a single year, 1949. Dried egg loss was $190 million; butter loss, $48 million; cheese and dried milk loss, $82 million. THERE ARE THOSE, like Commodity Credit Corp.

spokesmen, who say the program was well worth a billion. By keeping prices np these buying program gave growers a relatively steady market, they agree, avoiding the sort of "farmer's depression" that forecast economic disaster In 1920. And many of the lost dollars, they say, represent food that brought nourishment to school children, welfare agency tables and church and other foreign charities. WHATEVER THE PROGRAM'S merits or faults, it presents problems of great complexity. Take butter.

Secretary Benson has it as his principal support and storage problem at the moment because of the weather. After one of the mildest and best-fed winters in history for dairy cows, they are over-producing. That's one of the chief reasons the Government is buying 400,000 pounds of butter a day to keep retail prices up to the present level of around 75 or 80 cents a pound. In below-zero cold right now 124,000,000 pounds are stacked. Of this, 50,000,000 pounds have been allotted to school lunch programs.

The CCC wants to aell another 50,000,000 pounds to the Army at a cut price over the violent protests of margarine producers. THE BUTTER DRAMA could have a happy ending if the experience in 1949-51 is repeated. Then the CCC bought 240 million pounds, gave 100 million to schools and charity. But then butter prices went up and the CCC unloaded its remaining 110 million pounds on the market, paid its storage costs and still cleared $700,000. The CCC found out later it could have done better.

After it was well out of the butter market, prices continued up and eventually butter cost the housewife $1 a pound. tralize the handling of i s' licenses, Mrs. Wood with Alice, Marianne, 6, and Julianne, 8, were watching the House in session. Suddenly Mrs. Wood let out a muffled whoop.

Alice had just taken her first step and on the House floor at that. It's not the first time (3 ter and he represented the defendant. The opposing attorney put on the stand the ga-rageman who repaired the damaged car, only for the purpose of telling the jury what the costs were. It seemed a routine matter until the juvenile legal eagle demanded to be allowed to cross examine. the Wood children have distinguished themselves in public.

When Marianne was very young her mother took her to a movie. Halfway.through the picture, Marianne decided she didn't need her diapers, removed them, and tossed them back over her head. The gentleman whose lap they landed on wasn't pleased. Who's Cot It? START RIFFLING through those old files, folks. Bill Van Lopik, Masonic Temple manager, won't be happy until he finds an original program for the first appearance here of the Boston Symphony orchestra in 1SS7.

Among the soloists was Helcne Hastreiter if that provides a clew. Neither the judge nor any one else in the courtroom knew why except maybe to impress his client. "Did you see this accident?" he thundered. -As a matter of fact, I did," replied thm garageman to everyone's amazement. "Aha! And what did you see?" prodded the factfinder.

Replied the garageman calmly. "Your man running a red light!".