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State Fair Attendance Figures for First Four Days Total' 121,128 to Pass Former Record for Full Week i V,e h , ..; i r - ? V ' , ..',.1 i v v V r cri . . - - i The big nmr 1 Pi IP'-1" 1J; i - - . : - -- i - n . ; 1 !. fyV 1 ' 111 t frfy- T "ar- I m " "" ''1 ; I -"sffywsswssww-- I i i fc . 1 1 n. miXm..X I , -tVV'--'-V i. 1 : .. . 777 T 1 I ' - f 1. ,i -V' T t 1 Cwi wth hf t fa4 Mid with this Animal ready to shear Fruit, seeds, vegetables and; flewers In eelorfnl array are features f i ' i ni at Um staU fair fer twe-year eld Diane Jenes. Tort- elese to tS penads Z4-inch mohair - - flfnre It ont for yenrselyes. - the Benton eonnty exhibit at the stote fair. ProdacU f the eoan- 1 ' -V; ft ' -jv. 1 1 -i-- Mt,ini lh- -i-.K-- mi mir ,mtm ' ! iwani 7 uaa mhwh ij iirann, vixnaras, iieias. lorcsis ana muis are sei en ny a Blue ribbon for top ewe of ail breeds at the Fa tare Fanners' show a to a Dareesew owned by II. C Andrew of Sandy. She Insisted It nennein sae.Te, nepnew ei auaie, is snown nere naekoop plctaiinff Mary's peak, TIIE monnUIn of Benton county. alls. Pictured above is Affolter-shewinr his ewe aad the ribbon. was a rpMpoT." nutmaw Farm photo j J 1 I . . holdlnr theroat. Statesman Farm j rhoto. i Statesman-MeEwan photo. she won. (SU teaman Farm photo). I Off 0330003 The Pennsylvania turnpike, built on ( an unused railroad grade, has been a very successful tretrh of roadway. It runs 160 miles (rum Carlisle to Irwin, cross the , western portion of the state, and operates as a toll road. Now New York state is going U build S ytem of thruways following roughly the route of the New jYork Central railway from New York to Albany to Buffalo and along Lake . Ontario to the Pennsylvania state line. Offihout Jhruwsy will be the New ErigUjnd. Berkohire and Nia gara setUtfid, the two former running into New England and the Utter i connecting with the trtdge at Niagara Falls crossing into t'arvridw. The thruwsy length will be 486 miles, the estimated cost $202,000,000. This road will be toll-fiee beiauwe New York state ha hwif a billion dollars in surplus fu'Vtl in its treanury. The road will be a real super highway surh as engineers dream about but few have the chance to construct. IThe minimum right-of-way; willj be 202 feet. From end to end there will be ho intersec tions st gmde. Bridges or under paaes Willi be used to separate traffic on intervening highways and' railroads. No traffic lights will interrupt the flow of ve hicle. Access and egress will be limited to specially constructed facilities, and at these junctions acceleration! and deceleration lanes will be provided (Continued; on editorial page) 4-H- Sale Todayt Truman Cool To Demand for Extra1 Session WASHINGTON. Sept 9.-V Demands! of labor and other groups for a tpecial session of con gress to act further on price con trol and housing were virtually rejected today by President Tru man. The chief executive told his news conference that "there Is no emergency hieh warrants a spec ial session, and 'tha,t he haa no thought of calling one. , Moreover he remarked, the con. grcsxmen are entitled to campaign up to election dar without inter ruption. To a: further question, he made It clear that he is not con sidering a specis! session , after election day, either. State Fair By Isabel Chi Ids Kosebraagh i City Editor. Tho Statesman' ; On hundred ninety-six f first quality lambs, steers and hogs go onto, the auction .block at I this morning's fat stock sale which. In a way, climaxes the biggest 4-H club show In Oregon state fair history The entire fait' has already drawn a bigger crowd than the record week of 1940. when some 118,000 persons paid admissions. n , , S Set for 10 a. raV the auction 'Iri the show ring area near the live stock barns will draw business- TODAT AT TIIE FAIB j , j 15 ARMY DAY p t ajsu gates open. s i t 16 a.nu fat stock sale, near er In lives tosj. barns. . 1:45 Seesnd Infantry band eoneert. I , v j 11 e.m. midway eatertalameat 1:1S p.as, horse racing, Lone! Oak track. - t . j t p.m. horse shew and rode1 In aiadisun; night: reme !ia grandstand. ' ' 1 16 P.BB. state fair' nance. f IX midaUht gates ctose, The? weather: Clesdy, eontinn ed showers. -.' t.i i' ATTENDANCC ' ' . tS4t.. It41 Monday ; IJ.toS tt.l4t Tnesday , 1 6.721 H.tM Wedneaday . Il.ttt 15.7M Tbnrsday iJt2J6t H,01 Total first fear days 1J1.126 72.61 Surplus Paint, Varnish IIoiifrd at Troutdale Some 100 000 gallons of surplus paint, varnuh, lacquer,, dryer1 and filler are available for inspection at the Troutdale, Ore . warehouse, preliminsry to a sale at fixed prices. Portland WAA headquar ters announced Thursday. Pur chase offers will be confirmed September ll. Nearly 100.000 yard of blue and red wool-facing cloth is now on sale to pri ority buvers at Umatilla ordnance depot. WAA 'added. Animal Crackers By WACKEN GOODRICH c run out of things to worry about and it's worry ing him to death." men of the state. The Salem Lions club and Salem Chamber of Com- mercL sponsoring . organizations have made sure of thaU Sixty. steers, 6 iambs and 70 hogs re mained to be sold after the sift ing at the, completion of Judging Thursday. More than 150 beys and girbt figured In the prize money. i Cerrallls Bey Wins ; H David Oliver! lof Corvallis won the grand championship in the -H sheep division with his cross bred fat Iamb; the reserve grand championship went to the South down i lamb entered by Nadfne Da vies of Jackson county, while Connie Rae Larkin of Benton county, who had earlier won first In Southdown -Shropshire showT manship. won the grand champi onship in sheep showmanship. . j: . Despite the "cloudy . L . showers' prediction of the weath erman. . the fat stock sale arid army day events are expected to draw good crowds to . the fair grounds today. Army day observ ances actually started at ' suit down Thursday as Second division men stood retreat near the flag pole at the north' end of the mid way and the Second infantry band played. hi First Aid Men Beay if City first aid men. working out of fairgrounds headquarters this weekend, had their busiest hour between 10:30 and 11:30 last night: One woman was struck by one of the "rides" in the midwsy; one was slugged with a bottle; one toil ard broke her glasses In the fall; one was stricken with sudden illness, all within a matter of minutes.... , . - i 1 1 1 -i . iaP 3e trofFTY-SIXTH TTAB ljB PACES Salmm. Ofqon. TAday Morning, Scptomber 6, 1946 Pric Sc. No. 138 arren Plane Wreckage and Lone Survivor IS Ht-4: M .' Iff I 3 - - i : ., i.. ... i I 1-1 'I 1 ' 7' - r ; ! I - ' ' f . 1 1 . ! taaai ' " S - 'A. " v- v .. a i Motherj KiUed Bytecombtiye Saves Children MARBISBURG, Ore; Sept 1 5.- 0P-A mother trying frantically to rescue ner children from stalled automobile was killed by a South ern Pacific locomotive here today. Mrs." Elsie Ann Pearce. 30, of Harrisburg. is dead, "Her two chil dren, i James Allen.! 8. ' and Bev eriey Ann. S. were hurt and taken to a Eugene. Ore., hospital. Two other Occupants of 4 the automo bile) Mrs. Pearce's mother and s third child. Cls Jean Howe,! S, were not hurt., - i-t Walter Xropp, deputy coroner. said : Mrs. Pea nee 's automobile stalled on the train track. She tried to ' push it away from the ap proaching train, but felL Recov ering, she attempted to pull the children to safety. She was thrown 100 feet slnd died almost Instantly. 1- r-- C of C Invite Congress Delegation to Lunch j Oregon's ' entire i congressional delegation haa been Invited to ap pear before the Salem i Chamber of Commerce at its first fall lunch eon meeting September 23, Man ager ; Clay Cdchran stated Thuis day. : Some ofj the congressmen al ready have Indicated they will at tend. That meeting t will resume the chamber's regular weekly luncheons which have been sus pended during the summer. West Salem to Hi !.- To Survey Water Needs of leEneineer f I By Margnerlto Gleesott Valley - Editor. The Statesman WEST SAT .KM. Sept. 5 The City council, which has just ap proved purchase for $7,000 of the Albert Bouffleuer well, tonight authorized the city water depart ment to employ an engineer to make a survey of the water needs of the city and recommend Row the problem should be handled.! i This action was taken upon re quest of the water department conveyed by L. 1. Sloper, secre tary of the water board. . The board Is not empowered to ex pend more than $200 for any item without authorization of the city council. Preparation of an ordi nance empowering the water de partment to enforce its rules and regulations was also ordered by the city council. This action brought .out the acute - water situation which has prevailed until the last few weeks. Councilman Donald Kuhn objected to enforcement by fines, as was suggested until the water supply was more definitely se cure. .h ' j ;'. ' Regsrding the lack of water one of the residents protesting loudest was using sufficient water to caie for 40 families as shown by the meter reading. Mayor Guy New-" gent told council members. ' The water department at a Joint meeting August 14 with the West Salem city council contract ed to purchase the Boueffleur well for $7,000 of which $1,000 was paid in cash. The balance Is to be paid at the rate of $600 a month, minutes of the meeting showed. I 1 (Additional details on page 2.) F.LKO, Ner.. Sept.; SV-Seene ef the air liner, crash near here today which took the ttres ef XI persons, bat miraeuleasly spared Peter Link. I, (left) who watches the easBeramaa f rem his heapltal bed. f (AP Vf lrephetos) . ' , Plan Crash to 21, Boy Miraculously Saved 4 ELKO,: Nev Sept .-(flVDisaster struck from, thick fog today tp send a westbound trans-luxury airliner from New York crashing to earth in hilly northeastern Nevada country, killing 21 persons but somehow sparing one passenger, a blue-eyed blond boy of two. : li The youngster, Peter Link of Brooklyn, N. YV waa found sitting on the ground, crying dazedly, about 100 feet from the wrecked plane, ripped apart when it plowed Into Drys' a' low mil two miles west of the Elko airport. ' Other passengers' bodies were described ss "terribly mangled,' but the little boy apparently es caped with only slight injuries of the chest and arm. 17 BedJes at Town The bodies of three women and a iaby boy about six months old were! among 17 brought to Elko. Newspapermen counted four oth er bodies in the smashed nose of the plane. : : The baby apparently was a brother- of the surviving boy. Their parents, Paul Edward Link of the U. S. navy, and Ann Link, were among the identified dead iFire swept the: front, section o the plane and smoke still wreath ed up from the wreckage hours sfter the crash, which occurred" about 2 a. ; m., Pacific Standard Time. .;, 1 . ' f: The plane was due to land at San Frsncisco st,3:4S s. m., PST, after leaving New York yester day .morning. "' Chris H. Sheer In, Elko newspa per editor, said "ine d o a i e s thrown out were terribly man gled, I counted at least four oth er, burned bodies inside the front part of. the plane. Foggy Weather The hill has a beacon light but the weather was so foggy the pi lot may no,t have been able to see It. lor he might have thought he was coming into the Elko airport." The area is treeless and barren, pocked by barren, low hills. Elko is about 225 miles airline north east of Reno. Mastodon Bones Discovered by Silverton Farmer PORTLAND, Sept t.- UP) - "Probably the most important paleontological discovery in the state" was credited to Psul Pin- son, Silverton farmer, today by Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the University of Oregon geology de partment, s. - . i . . while digging for water to un gate his cucumbers Pinson found a large quantity of fossilized bones probably belonging to an ancient mastodon,' Dr. Smith said. He said It is possible a complete skeleton may possibly be assem bled with, more careful scientific excavation. One tusk specimen is seven feet long and nine inches in diameter. Teeth, leg bones, a piece of skull and teeth have also been unearthed, all at a depth of about four feet. 4 - : Snell to Push Air Line, Drive Renewed action toward having the civil aeronautics board recon sider its decision against direct air service between the Northwest and Hawaii is in the making, and Gov. Earl Snell is expected to take the lead In a four-state drive for re consideration. The governor Thursday said he was considering a plan of action, when he conferred by telephone with Portland Chamber of Com merce representatives who were in Salem meeting with Rex Kim mel, assistant attorney general. They said new evidence is now available and it is their aim to receive a hearing on September 9, when CAB will reconsider the Los Angeles to Hawaii air service application. The Weather Salem Max. SI S7 - S3 St Uio. M 7 so Preeip. IS .04 trace .00 JM Portland San Francisco Cbicaao Nw York ..... 71 Willamette river - J S feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, scattered showers In morn in. Highest temperature 7. low est 4S. Fail In Petition Attempt Local option for prohibition. In Marion county lacked more than 100 petition signatures of getting on the county ballot in November when County Clerk Harlan Judd cnccKed over tne last "dry" pe titions submitted to his office just before the filing deadline expired at 5 p.m. Thursday. But local "dry" supporters re fused to concede defeat. Mrs. S. M. Laws, co-chairman of the sig nature drive, told The Statesman last night that a total of 3,966 names appeared. on submitted pe titions and indicated that a re- check of signatures would be sought snd the issue might be taken to the supreme court. 1,504 Signers Needed Petitions with 3,504 vslid. signa tures would have brought to a vote the measure proposing a ban on j the sale.bf alcoholic liquors in Marion county according to Coun ty Clerk Judd whose office had found upon checking 3,702 signa tures that only 3,213 were valid. Brought in 20 minutes before the deadline 1 and not immediately checked were 169 signatures, but even if all these proved valid, the total would remain 122 signatures short of ithe required 3,504, Judd said. i . . Wrong Precincts "Feand The clerk indicated that most of the invalidated signatures were ruled out because they , were of persons not registered - as voters or registered in precincts not cor responding with their address. Two other measures may appear on the Marion county ballot this fall. Form of a tax levy for then proposed new court house awaits a September IS public hearing to be conducted by the county court. Petitions for the other bill, pro posing a 1 Marion county public utilities district, are. still In cir culation, with deadline set at Sep tember 15. Rain Hastens i Peach Harvest The recent rains brought on a crisis in the six lsrge peach orchards ' north of Salem where the fruit is drbpping from the trees, the farm 1 labor office re ported Thursday. Peach, bean and hop pickers are in demand at the office every morning. Prune harvest is ex pected to start Monday with a def inite shortage of shakers. The wet weather failed to halt valley harvesting materially, the office said. .Most yards and or chards continued - operations and a promise of fair weather ahead has held the pickers. IPJea ffdDir Trade SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. CP)-The - AFL Sailors union of the Pacific rejected a second government plea for a truce today as it joined the nation-wide maritime strike and tied up at least- 189 srupa along the west coast. ' j Union leader Harry Lundeberg 4bid he had turned down a tele phoned plea from 'Assistant Labor Secretary Phillip Hannah. Laugliing . : mrv CHICAGO. Sept 5 William Hel : rens, confessed triple mnrderer. . breaks into sT laugh In his Cook county jail cell today Jmst prior to bearing himself sentenced to a minimum of (1 years In pris on. (AP Wlrephoto.) -- TWTT tieirens W Escap ins Fight to Electric Chair CHICAGO, Sept 5.-VWil Ham Heirens, a mild-mannered student whose perverted sex de sires made, him the most savage killer In the city's history, won his gamble today to escape the death chair for his crimes., On recommendation" of . the state. Chief Justice Harold G. Ward sentenced him to a series of consecutive terms-which will as sure his serving a minimum of 61 years in the Illinois state peniten tiary for the kidnap-killing of Suzanne Degnarv the fatal sub bing of two women and more than score of robberies, burglaries and assaults. State's Attorney William J. Tuohy, in making the recommen dation, told the court the state did not possess sufficient evidence to assure Heirens conviction in the murder of Frances Brown, 33 year old former WAVE, and Mrs. Josephine Ross, 43-year-old wi dow, land had only a fragment of a fingerprint and a handwriting comparison in the Degnan case. Share Spotlight; at Fair With Choice of Premier Breeder, Exhibitor 4-H, FFA Final Judging By Lillle L. Madsen . Staff Writer, The Statesman With stock judging in the open classes all completed for Oregon's 31st annual fair by Thursday noon. attention was turned to the selec tion of premier breeder and pre mier exhibitor selections and to the finish of the 4-H club and FFA: judging. Harold Whitaker, FFA boy, Albany, won the FFA showmanship ribbon Thursday afternoon. - ' . - - Coveted dairy premier breeder and exhibitor awards both went to the visiting Jersey showman, Alex Lamond of Fairmead Farms, Ltd.,' of Milner, British Columbia. Gath Brothers of Turner won both premier ribbons In the sheep division, while Elmer Stangel of Wilsonville ' was -the winner of both in the swine exhibition. Champion trophies and purple ribbons decorated stalls in the barns by noon Thursday, with late announcements including the two purples in j the Jersey class going to Fairmead Farms on the grand champion bull and reserve cham pion female Ernest E. Gourley it Son of Albany won the female Jersey grand champion ribbon with Marlin Fox of Molalla cap turing ? the reserve in the bull classes.'' I ' !-. Grimes Brothers of Harrisburg and Walter Brog of Woodburn di vided honors in the Holstein divi sion with' Brog taking grand cham pion female and reserve champion bull, and Grimes Brothers captur ing grand champion bull and re serve champion female trophies. Edwin Bidder, Sherwood, presi dent of the Oregon Swine Grow ers association, presided over a meeting of its members Thursday afternoon where plans were made for the winter bred gilt sale to be held early in February. Final plans will be made at the Decem ber meeting. Charles Evans, chair man of the 1946 sale's committee, and his committee members, will be in charge of the A 947 sale. The group voted to ask the state fair board ' to obtain . Wade Wells, southern Idaho swine specialist, who judged this year's swine show, to judge again at the 1947 show; if possible. The next meet ing of the swine group was set for October 9 st the Pacific Inter national .Livestock exhibition. Gene ' Hubbard, judging 4-H sheep Thursday afternoon, re marked that in his opinion, the club sheep topped anything in any sheep divisions .at. the fair. Too, he added, the club sheep- showed superior training for the show ring. Lundeberg told a reporter bar had given Hannah the same an swer that he made Seciretaqr of Labor Schwellentacfr last ni.t that the plea came too J kite and he had given the department a3 the facts two weeks ajo.i j Hannah was bein here, by Schwellertbach to make a personal request to Lundeberg to send his sailors bark ito their ships pending an attempt toreth' a settlement in Washington Tues day. " ; - ; Lundeberg indicated iri advance that the Hannah nussiro ou,d fail, asserting it was stiH up to the national wage stab4!izat.ri board to restore the cut; H rride in a wage increase nrgoUiied with ship owners. i Maiatainanee Problem I I Lundeberg went into si coher ence with employers to work out means of maintaining shi in the harbors while the strike is in progress. - i ; He said he had not yet seen a telegraphed request firatn Vice A dm. W. W. Smith, chairman of the msritime commissian; urgir: that hei keep refrigeration ma chinery Operating' on shipboard to . prevent the loss of periacabio food.. j The union leader added, how ever, that his union's decision ta provide necessary Biaietenarcv would take care of Smith's re quest. ' 1 Once-Busy Perta Silent j x ' Few ships moved in aad- out of the once-busy ports of th west, for -every dry carg vessel was affected. Lundeberg deciared the : west csstt walkout was "100 per .cent effective." Lundebergs 8000 sailors struck In concert with seafarers, interr-a--tional union seamen in Atlantic and gulf ports in protest to tfc U. S. .wage stabilization (board's action in reducing the amoer.t of a negotiated pay increase SUP'S raise had been cut from 2Z-Ht a month to $17 JO. j A spokesman for the San Fran cisco Waterfront Employers asso ciation said the impact tof the strike would be : felt irst in Hawaii and Alaska, whose econ omies are entirely dependent up on American shipping, s He said the next effect would . be on the supply of sugar and r -bananas for west coast consum-" ers, who get their sugar bvj water from Hawaii and their bananss by boat from the banana repub lies to the south. - j . " Tied up by the strike vm S3 ships in the San Francisco-Oakland port area, 50 at Seattle. 27 . at Los Angeles, 23 at Portland. one at San Diego and one at ihe big lumber port of Gray's Ha'r- bor, Wash. j PORTLAND. Ore. -Se S JP The AFL Sailors Union of the Pa cific today rejected a plan tm move pickets from dock entrances," to gangplanks so that longshore men could continue dock work. The proposal was ureed br th Waterfront Employers association to enable longshoremen to unload some 200 freight cars. ; j Your 20th Birthday on September 15, Miss?. Salem girls whose 20th birthday falls on. September 15 are being invited to a special birthday party by the Salem Chamber of Com merce In connection with thm ln.- cal observance of the 20th anri- - versa ry of united Air Lines. ! Manager Clay Cochran of the chamber of commerce asks tK&t . girls whose birthday coincodes with UAL's notify him at his of fice. Chamber and local UAL of ficials are to meet this morning to plan the occasion, i . j Our Senatorc i s