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Newspaper Page TextTCWE WML pur r w c Salem Jihimlina KinrTY-SIXTH YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salm, Oregon. Thursday. June 13. 1946 Price Sc No. 6 ' .' i i' y : One of Nation's Largest Canneries Well Underway m - -i? V " "1 - t AWti shews the architect's drawing ef the new Faalas Brothers niMrr mw aaaer eeaatrertlen at 14th aad Oxford ati-rets Mar Ike I baa I ally llssita of galea. TW new plaat, six seres wader 'MMjQS UtD QuDCg Stat- Grang emaster Morton Tompkins In his address to the tat franca reeornmended open ..primary elections. By this means a person could toU for the nomi nation of a man not of his own crty. Thus a socialist could vote la the primary for. a republican or a republican could vote for democrat Tney nave rucn a sys tem In Washington state.. In Ore r the registered voter will re- xrive only, .lb primary ballot of th party in which he is regis tered, though at the general elec tion he can vote as he jleaes and disregard party lines If he -wants to. The theory of the open primary Is that It gives the voter freedom tn determining nominees, regard less of party.! Thus good men could go together to nam good men and to defeat bad men who stand for office. By the same token, however, bad men could gang together to defest the good candidates. The experience In 'Washington Is "not at all convinc ing that the open primary or blanket ballot gives sny better results In terms of officials and good government. California goes another way in the direction of open primaries and permits cross-filing. ' Thus Governor Warren, a republican. filed tn his own party end In the democratic party. Robert Kenny, ' attorney general, demo crat, running against Warren, cross-filed f or , the republican nomination. Warren won his own party nomination and th demo cratic rjomination, too. The con sequence is that Warren la as good as elected now. and the (Continued on editorial page) Fireworks- Ban May Be Lifted Legal fireworks In Salem on the "Glorious Fourth1 were constder- i ed a possibility today. Mayor I. ' XL Dough ton indicated Wednes day that he might favor a lifting cf th wartime restriction, despite the tact that th nation Is still technically at war. That wont mean, he warned, that the June 7. 1S39. ordinance prohibiting ue of fireworks In the downtown business section will be repealed r even considered for repeal. Animal Craclccrs . B WAtlCN GOOOCICH Tllcll your not, kLUHcr come that gat? from across th valUyr WSKU - rejgon NUNDID t&Sl Paulus Brothers Building Big Plant The great oak grove at 14th and Oxford streets in Salem was a veritable bive of activity today, with construction work on the new Paulus-Brothers cannery well underway. Walls for the huge warehouse are partially up, retaining walls for the loading platforms and spur tracks are rapidly nearing com pletion, and considerable storage space Is expected to be ready late Airport Labor Housing Units To Open Soon Part of the airport housing project for Itinerant .darm labor ers will be opened to early cher ry pickers next week. It was re ported to Salem chamber of com merce directors last night by Guy N. Hickok. a chamber director and s director of the newly formed Salem Agricultural Hous ing. Inc. Water lines have been extend ed and remodelling of army bar racks is underway, Hickok said. Th group empowered the cham ber of commerce executive com mittee to fill the housing Incor poration directors 'acancy left by the death of Ralph Campbell. Douglas McKay, who presided last night in the absence of cham ber president E. Burr Miller, told directors that the city's long range planning, commission has begun preparation of a comprehensive progress report that will be pub lished In late summer to inform the public of its work to date. It is believed, he said, that the report will'W the first of its kind in any American city. Prisoners Saw Bars, Escape McUINNVILLE. Ore., June 12 OP)-Two prisoners who sawed through barred windows of the Yamhill county Jail yesterday are still free. Sheriff George W. Man ning reported. Three prisoners remained in th cell block, the sheriff report ed, but Stanley L. Smith.22. ac cused of robbery, and Fred Gord ley, $4. parolee from Illinois, fled down a fir escape. Those who stayed in th cell are William Warren McMinn- viUe; Leonard McKay. St Paul. Or., and Ernest Huff, held for Portland police. Employment Status Cheeri But Prospects Poor for Fall By Isabel Childs Kssebrsagh City Kdttor, The Statesman Greater unemployment than in any other year since 141 win visit the mid-Willamette valley this coming fall and winter, the VS. employment . service labor market bulletin for Marion coun ty predicts today. The forecast follows a cheerful summary of conditions current and anticipated for summer months, however, and suggests that "alert employers are already planning on the year-end months to pick up and complete those odd construction, cleanr-up, reno vating, fence-building, etc.. Jobs that have been deferred from year to year because 'of labor shortages.' All operations In logging snd sawmill industries sre st full ca pacity and all qualified available men for these Industries are working, th ' bulletin declares. adding that 37 unfilled orders were on hand In the Salem office 7r w , -w Plant Granted Repreive reef." will constitate the largest cannery In the northwest and one ef the largest la the nation. It Is scheduled to be finished by the end ef this year, (BtsbejMederne pbeto). this summer. The Austin company holds the general contract. The cannery building will be 580 feet long and 400 feet wide. including loading platforms, with 232,000 square i feet on the first floor. Th second or mezzanine floor will constitute sn additional 21,600 feet, primarily for offices. The entire structure will be of steel and concrete construction. Recreation Area. Planned The 28-acre site formerly was owned by the American Can com pany. Only the trees In the way of actual construction are being removed, and a large share of the. area is to constitute a retrre tional park for employes. Plans for the plant were evol ved after long study of similar operations throughout the nation, and company officials have de clared every effort is being put forth toward employe comfort, sanitation and efficiency, with special attention; to such factors as adequate lighting, ventilation, lunch rooms, dressing rooms and locker facilities. Has Own Disposal riant 1 A modern refuse and garbage removal plant Is to be installed, and the latest methods of rodent control are being incorporated throughout. In addition to the regular cut ting room, th company is pre paring a complete laboratory for the inspection of fresh fruits and finished products, as well as for the development of new products. Waiting time will be materially reduced, officials said, by the use of adequate receiving and storage areas, scales and power lift trucks. Refrigeration equipment will enable the plant to hold and condition 1500 tons of fruits and vegetables. Veterans Head Cempaay The- Paulus Brothers cannery is under the management of Rob ert C. Paulus. president; George B. Paulus, William H. Paulus and Chester I. Chase, vice presidents; R, J. Davey, secretary-treasurer, and Loren Kitchen, superintend ent, all veterans in the production and sales of canned and dried fruits and vegetables. The present Paulus Brothers cannery . at Trade and High streets will handle this yesr's production of canned goods, in cluding berries.:: cherries, beets, beans, prunes, pears and carrots. of the employment service at beginning of June. Most of shortages are said to be in the, the the Santiam area, particularly where .no housing faculties are prom ised. Some 1100 to 1200 dwellings will be completed this year in, the Salem area, despite difficulties in obtaining materia). This number includes approximately 200 units in the veterans' colony on South 16th street By the end of June the food processing Industry in Marion county should be employing dou ble th number who were on plant payrolls (1207) at the be ginning of this month, employ ment service statisticians figure. Fewer newcomers sought em ployment here Jast month, th employment office handling only 38 per cent the number of such cases in Msy as In April. During th month 278 World war II vet erans made first applications for employment in the office, com pared with 341 In April. atesmatt Soviet Planes Practice Fire At U.S. Airfield VIENNA. June 12 -UP)- Rus sian fighter planes twice staged target practice over the Amen can airfield at Tulln today, with one plane swooping down to fire a burst at a red flag over a radio tower, and Gen. Mark W. Clark protested immediately each time to the soviet command. The soviet fighters fired st a target sleeve towed by another Russian plane directly over the fjeld but no damage was report ed either time. In the first incident, at 8:15 a.m., one fighter dived down over the American radio tower and fired a burst at the red flag on U-p of the antennae. U. S. sol diers in a nearby shack watched the plane. Col. GenJosef Kurisov, Rus sian commanding officer in Vien na in the absence of Marshal Ivan Koniev, "Said he had no knowledge of either incident but promised art immediate investigation. Zone Change Wins Approval Of Commission In the absence of objections at a public hearing last night, the city planning and zoning com mission speedily approved and passed on to city council a re quested change to zone III at Wil son snd South Commercial streets where Dr. O. L- Scott seeks to construct a combined chiropractic clinic and residence. Commissioners tentatively ap proved a petition by Elizabeth F. Marcus and others for establish ment of zone III at State and Hth streets where Mrs. Marcus Is considering erection of s service station on the northeast corner. Public hearing on the matter was called for 8 p. m. Thursday, June 27. The commission received from Otto K. Paulus a letter recom mending city action to effect re routing of the Southern Pacific's Trade street feeder line tracks in order to provide for future ex pansion and beautification of the Willamette university campus. Paulus' letter was placed on file and a copy ordered sent to th long-range . planning commission. Approval Granted To Build Clinic A $35,000 clinic proposed by J. R.i Humphrey & Associates, Sal em, received approval for con struction by the civilian produc tion administration in Portland Wednesday, Associated Press stat ed, CPA rejected the application of George N. Hawkins, Salem, for a $7000 restaurant. j NEW CHARGE BROUGHT ; Henry Otis Pitts, who paid a $50 fine and served a 20-day Sen tence In the Marion county jail on a reckless driving charge, was turned over to a VS. marshal Wednesday on a charge of ille gally wearing a discharge but ton. Weather Max. Mln. 41 Freelp. jSS .as Saleaa Portland Saii TraavcMce Chtcaeo .. - 7S if New York M SS Willamette rtvr .1 feet. , FORECAST (from US. wcatber bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy Uita morning, becomtng cloudy UUS afternoon, followed by rain In th evening. Highest temperature today 10 decrees. Work To Continue To Dec. 3 1 Salem's government alumina plant will continue production of ammonium sulphate for fertiliser at least until Demher 31. it was assured Wednesday when the re construction finance ' corporation authorixed the extension from June 30. when fertilizer manu raeture was scheduled to cease Fertilizer production here will be more than doubled as a re sult of the RFC action, it was stated by A. W. Metzjfer, per sonnel manager of the plant, up on receipt of the news released by the Associated Press last night. Metzger said the present capa city of 120 tons of fertilizer per day will be upped to 250-300 tons now that the go-ahead signal has been received. Fertilizer Shortage " RFC cited a shortage of fertili zer in the Northwest as reason for its extension of the local pro duction period. Moreover, Metz ger slated, the fertilizer is in great demand for foreign use. with 50.0O0-75.0OO tons already called for by UNRRA. Increased production here, he said, has been planned to meet part of UNRRA's demand. Employment at the local plant will remain at its present level of between 250 and 300, despite the production increase, Metzger stated. He explained that alumina production, still In an experimen tal stage, is tapering off, and workers in that operation will be shifted to fertilizer production tasks. Materials Short Shortage of accessible raw ma terials has hampered production and threatened to close the Dlant. but steps . are beirur taken bv the government to investigate use of gypsum irom Nevada or Alaska in place of the sulphuric acid now used, it was reported to Sa lem chamber of commerce direc tors last night. Oregon's chamber of commerce representative in Washington notified the local grouD that this may lead to reduced operating costs. Kail shipment of materials from the east is a heavy expense iactor in local production, It Is maintained. RFC men have been in Salem inspecting the alumina Dlant and conferring with chamber of com merce officials regarding th plants future. Official announce ment of the extension was made by RFC to Sen: Guy Cordon in Washington yesterday. VFW Favors State Bonus A cash bonus by the state of Oregon to World war II veterans, based on length of active service. was advocated by members of Meadow Lark post 8102, Veterans' of Foreign Wars, at a meeting Wednesday night. A resolution to this effect will be carried by the post's delegates to the state VFW encampment in Corvallis June 29 The membership also recom mended that the city council set up a housing- office to list avail able houses, apartments and rooms to help solve the local housing shortage. Humane Societies May 'Picket' Bikini POWELL RIVER B. C, June 12 Ut- Protest has beh nt President Truman along with a warning that a "picket line" may be established at Bikini atoll dur ins the atomic bomb 1m1 in which it Is planned to subject ammais to the effects of atomic radiation. The Powell River branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals suDDorts a suggestion from two of its mem bers that humane groups charter boats to picket the Bikini srea If livestock are used. Senators Vote OPA Limitations WASHINGTON, June 12-JP) Senators of both patties, bent upon curbing OPA's j authority, pushed through today an a mend -met requiring the agency to add increased costs to prewar prices in fixing ceilings. By the over whelming vote of 4 to 29, the proposal was written info the measure to extend OPA's life un til July 1, 1947, despite Democra tic Leader Barkley's plea against changing the formula for ceilings now. Downtown Salem Well To Air-Condi lion Bank A well at (he site of tbe new First National bank building. Lib erty and Chemeketa streets, with a flow of 11 gallons per minute and temperature of 6.5 degrees will satisfactorily provide means of air-conditioning the new bank structure, engineers declared Wednesday. The well is 312 feet deep. Br-r-r! The nT Salem's two outdoor pools, dinger and Leslie, were opened Wednes day for the summer. But the newly-drawn water was still too cold for prolonged dips -most of tbe boys snd girls were warmer In the son, as shown in this dinger pool scene above. Susanne Small, life guard watches from the roof. (Statesman photo by Bill Scott, staff photographer.) Bevin Threatens to Disregard Russia By Glenn Williams BOURNEMOUTH, England, June -jTVForeign secretary Ernest Bevin won thunderous labor party approval today for a foreign policy which bluntly threatened that Britain would act independently of soviet Russia, if necessary, to speed the writing of European peace treaties. A tremendous, foot-stamping, cheering ovation followed Bevin's speech, in which he declared: 1. Britain will not be a party to "any design or strategy" to attack Russia, but "no nation is going to keep me in a state of war forever with other coun tries" through lack of agreement on peace treaties. Not Immediately 2. Britain regards the immed iate immigration of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, as recommended by the British-American committee report, as inadvisable, but favors an ultimate Palestinian state to give Jews a voice in world af fairs. 3. Britain rejects sanctions against the Franco regime Aimed at America "Regarding the agitation in the United States, and Darticularlv In New York, for lo5a(Jt)0 Jews -to be put into . Palestine, I hope It will not be misunderstood In America If I say with th purest of motives that that was because they do not want too many of them In New York," Bevin de clared. Vote Indicates GOP Control Of Legislature Republicans, according to the official list of candidates nomi nated at the primary election May 17, apparently have gained considerable ground toward con trolling both branches of the 1947 state legislature. State election bureau records show that republicans already are assured senate control, with 10 holdovers and five senators who will not have any democratic op position at the November elec tion. This assures th republicans IS teats fh the senate, which has a total of 30 members. There are four holdover democrats in the senate and one without opposi tion. At the 1945 legislature the republicans controlled the senate 25 to 5. -. There are 23 republicans and only on democrat in th house of representatives without oppo sition at the" November election. Republicans controlled th house st the 1945 legislature $0 to 10. Latest Houne-Authorized Inquiry Hurricanes WASHINGTON. June 12 -VP The house approved today a bill directing the chief of the weather bureau to investigate "fully and thoroughly the internal structure of thunderstorms and hurricanes, with a view to improving storm forcasts and preventing aircraft accidents. OPA Price Boost to Cost Coast Citizens $485 Million Per Year By Marvin L. Arrowsmith WASHINGTON, June 12 -UP The increase of a cent a loaf for bread today pushed retail coast increases authorized by OPA for major food items in recent weeks to about $485,000,000 a year en average of about $3.45 a person.! This figure is the sum of gov ernment economists' estimates on how much more housewives will pay on the basis of price in creases already approved for meat, milk, butter, cheese, other dairy products and bread. Higher prices for all of these important foods have been auth orized since th administration's wag policy was liberalized Feb. 14. Meat prices went up in April a direct result of the policy change. The Increase followed a wage boost of 16 cents hourly for packing house workers. Price hikes for dairy products and bread also were granted under the new policy standards. Milk prices already are up a cent a quart in many areas and will be raised elsewhere shortly. Pools Open j . "tJ Sen. Bankhead Succumbs to Recent Stroke WASHINGTON, June 12-yP)-Senator John H. Bankhead, 72. died today, removing th nam of a famous family of Alabama dem ocrats from the rolls of congress for the first time In 59 years. Bankhead, who stepped aside in the vie presidential race of the 1944 democratic national con vention to start the swing to Harry S. Truman, succumbed fh the U.S. naval hospital at subur ban Bethesda, Md. He was taken there May 24 after suffering a stroke while attending a night session of a senate committee. The senate upon being Inform ed of Bankhead's death, recessed until tomorrow afternoon. Th son of a senator, brother of a speaker, of the house and father of a one-time representa tive, Bankhead came to the senate in 1930 snd bees me prominent nationally as a sponsor of farm legislation in th new deal era. Security Tax Rise Favored WASHINGTON, Jun 12-W)-A 50 per cent increase January 1 In social security taxes from the present on per cent to a new J.5 per cent rate against employes pay and employers' payrolls was voted today by the house ways and means committee. Without congressional action, the security levy would jump au tomatically next year to 2.5 per cent against employer and em ploye. The committee. also voted ten tatively to bring some 200,000 maritime workers under the un employment compensation pro gram and Instructed its staff to present proposals for raising the federal government's participa tion with the states in direct pay ments to the needy aged, depen dent children and blind. SAWMILL OPERATING WOODBURN, June 12 The Livesay sawmill with a capa city of 10,000 feet per eight hour shift. started full operations here today. Logs are being received from Ger- vais and east of Woodburn, and lumber is also being purchased. OPA expects to put into effect In a day or so previously authorized price increases of about 11 cents a pound for butter and six cents a pound for Cheddar cheese. These have been the major price increases, but . there have been a number of others for citrus fruits, cereals, apples, peaches and melons, for example. OPA officials estimated that April meat price increases added about $110,000,000 annually to housewives' food bills. Stabiliza tion Director Chester Bowles, has calculated th added cost of milk, butter and cheese at $250,000,000 a year. The price boost of on cent a loaf for bread, effective immed iately, will cost the public as "much as $125,000,000" yearly, an OPAVfficial figured. To the total of $485,000,000 would be added another $125, 000,000 In Indirect costs, since OPA has acknowledged that the June 1 cut of 10 per cent In the weight of bread loaves without a price reduction actually added a cent a loaf to bread costs. Operators Excluded FromTalk " - :j " : Both Sides to Be Represented at Meeting Todav By Douglas IJ. Cornell V WASHINGTON, June 12 CP) The government wrote it own ticket tonight for set tling the maritime labor dis pute but failed in its first big attempt to persuade union' leaders to accept it. The government had elbowed private ship owners aside in an effort to end the strike threat. - Assistant Secretary .of Labor John Gibon left a two-and-a-half hour conference with union lead ers declaring there would be no settlement tonight. But negotiations jvere resuming again tomorrow morning with NAVY ALERTS t4 RESERVE . OFFICERS IN NORTHWEST SEATTLE, Jane 1-(T)-The 13th naval district aanevneed tonisht it was alerting. t re serve officers residing In its five-state command wh will be the first called U aetire duty" In eas ef a merchant v marine strike.: These officers, all with en gineering and deck experience on cart vessels, reside tn Utah. Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. time running short before Fri day's midnight deadline for an all-coast, CIO shipping strike. For hours tonight, in the hotel room of CIO President Phil!p Murray, Gibson went over th feedral proposal with Union Lead ers Harry Bridges and Joseph Curran. Heated exchanges seeped out to reporters patrolling th . hall. -Operators t Meet . . Both .operators and unions ax to be represented at tomorrow's meeting at 9 ajn, (EST), Gibson said. "That looks as if you have something you can roll out and ask for signatures on," a report- "Well, I wouldn't be that opti mistic,"' the assistant secretary replied. Reports wer circulating-without officii confirmation that the government proposal includ ed: .. - . 1. A basic pay increase of $17.50 a month for seamen fth unions reportedly were holding, out for more). - 2. Overtime payments at sa starting at 48 hours Instead of the present S&; . but seamen would continue to work 56. 3. Adjustment of radio oper ators' grievances by a fact-finding board (but radio operators were holding out for an immedi ate agreement). Longshore Rais 4. A wofce increase of 20 per cent minus one cent an hour for CIO longshoremen as recom mended by a fact-finding board May 13 (but Bridges, head of the longshoremen, was reported seeking a flat 20 per cent In crease.) Until today the war shipping administration bad let private ship companies bargain with th maritime leaders even though the federal agency owns most of the vessels that would be tied up by a strike. Now the WSA apparently has joined forces with the labor de partment to push through a settlement. Woodburn Plans Community Band WOODBURN, June 12 OrgarF ization of a community band to be directed by Kenneth Thomp son of th Woodburn high school staff is under way here. Seven teen local musicians have signed up and the first practice meeting' will be held Friday, June 14, at 8 p.m., st the city hall. Other musicians wishing to join arc asked to attend this meeting, bringing their instruments. Silverton Community Cannery Ready to Begin SILVERTON, June 12 J?. The community cannery Is now ready to operate, Leonard Hudson has announced. Four hundred cans ol peas were processed for the Pra tum church Monday to be used in a relief project in which mem bers are interested. Persons wishing to process vegetables or fruits at the can-' nery are asked to arrange a time schedule in advance with the Hudsons. Our Senators TTJOBI CS 6-2 )