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.News of the prospective Invest
ment of outside - capital to the
amount cf a million or a million
aiid a half dollars :ii welcome in'
any city, and particularly in thore
of Salem's size, or even much
larger. That is what is promised;
by spnosors of a project covering ;
two blocks on Norths Capitol i
street Retail stores, a. market, aj
fill ie g station and generous park
ing space are planned. A zone
change is required and the legal;
process to obtain that is now
being pursued.'
While we all welcome the de
velopment, criticism may be
voiced as to location. . However,
the majority of property owners
within the 300-ft limit have ap
proved the change in zone to .com
mercial. The tract is "kitty-corner"
from the Jour-block area
proposed for the capital building
group, but the board of control
has interposed no objection.
Another complaint may be
raised to what may be termed a
splitting of the major business
district. Obviously- this is not
"good city planning. But it seems
a logical outgrowth of existing
conditions. Some types of stores
call for liberal parking space as
an attraction tocustomers. Prop
erty owners in 4he , central busi
ness district thus far have made
no provision lor supplementary
parking, save In few private
venture. Moreover, owners of
property -the fringe of the cen
tral buinx section either will
not put a price on" their holdings
or put it so high as to be prohibi
. tive to those needing a consider
able area. In this instance effort
was made to accumulate property
closer in, but sufficient land was
unobtainable at satisfactory price
po the sponsors looked around
outside the fringe. The probabil
ity is that if the "development
does- not go in where now con
templated it will go to, some other
location even farther away.
I confess I hate to see such a
spotting of commercial develop
ment, and regret one coming into
proximity with the probable path
- of expansion for the capitol
jrroup; but I recognize the factors
which have prompted election
of the particular tract. Unless ad
justments are made downtown or
in the close-in district we can
expect further decentralization,
perhaps until the whole zoning
system becomes pretty much
broken down. -
Navy to Check
Bikini Sailors
NEW YORK, May 22 -()- The
navy's order for blood counts on
all its Bikini atom bomb person
nel still in active . service may
clear up some medical questions
whether there can be any bad
effects from even slight expos
ures to atomic rays.
The medical evidence to date
Is all to the effect that there is
no possibility of serious results,
and probably not even of incon
sequential effects. But this is the
world's first and perhaps last
chance for a check-up on many
thousands of human guinea pigs.
Press correspondents, and hun
dreds of other men, went aboard
warships, after the explosion,
where there were signs to keep
way or not linger more than
n hour or two.
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Salem.
Trapshooters
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Gunners from western states are gunning for trophies and prize money at the Salem gun club on
airport road In the -Amateur Trapshooting association state shoot being held until Sunday. Shown
above, third from left. Is Earl Colson. Tacoma. who Thursday hit 92 oat of 140 birds to tie with
three others for first place tn the Oregon state doibles championship. Others, left to right, are W.
M. Ilaff, Spokane; J. C. Wilson, Pertland; Colson; Cal Ray, Eugene; and Walt Nosom, Qnincy, Ore.
(Phot by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) (Story on Sports page)
$750,000,000
GermanvFood
BERLIN, May 22-)-Part of
a "fleet of 116 ships from America
unloaded food In German ports
today and U. S. economists pre
dicted American taxpayers would
have to foot a ,$750,000,000 bill in
1948 for feeding 46 000,000 hun
gry Germans in the British-American
zones.
Col. Hugh B. Hester, chief of
the food and agricultural branch
of the American military govern
ment, declared he believed the
peak of the food crisis in western
Germany had passed. He said
gradual but substantial Improve
ments was expected between now
and the next harvest.
U. S. economic sources at
Frankfort who predicted the big
tax bill for Americans said they
believed that Britain,, short of
dollars,- would be compelled in
the next few months to ask the
United States to pay England's
dollar share, of German food im
ports. . - -
U.S. Considered
Idea of Atom Bomb
Preview for Japs
- KANSAS CITY,' May 22.-P-Secretary
of War Patterson dis
closed tonight that officials con
sidered demonstrating the atomic
bomb to the ; Japanese on some
uninhabited spot before using It
but decided that would not in
duce them to surrender.
Defending the attacks on Hiro
shima and Nagasaki, Patterson
said . in an address for a meeting
Hf the Lawyer! association - cf
Kansas City:
"Despite the facts, we still have
our wishful thinkers who grasp
at straws and say that Japan was
about to surrender anyway. There
is not a shred of evidence avail
able that the Japanese had any
thought of surrendering.
Telling of alternatives consid
ered by the United States, Patter
son said:
There was the possibility of
describing the bomb to the Jap
anese and demonstrating it to
them by bombing an uninhabited
spot, with the threat to use it
against them if they did not sur
render. This conceivable solution
was ' carefully considered and re
jected. Senate to Vote Monday
On Delay of Tax Cut Bill
WASHINGTON, May 22 -C"P)
The senate will decide Monday
whether to delay action on the
proposed $4,000,000,000 income
tax reduction until June 10. A
close vote is in prospect.
Agreement to vote on the democratic-sponsored
p o s t p onement
motion at 3 p.m. (eastern stand
ard time) Monday was obtained
today by Senator Millikin (R
Colo), chairman . of the finance
committee and manager for the
bill.
FOUNDED 1651
Oregon. Friday Morning. May 23,
Out Gunning for Trophies
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Stay ton Vote Backs
Union High School
STAYTON, May 22-One
hundred forty voters tonight
unanimously favored forma
tion of a Stayton union high
school district, provided that
24 smaller districts, half in Mar
ion, half in Linn county, choose
to cooperate.
A large majority, 132 to 2,
decided to transfer Stayton's 21
acres at the city limits edge,
from the city to the union high
school district. T .
Eugene Leavy,
20, Drowns in
Pudding River
WOODBURN. May 22 Eugene
Francis ' Leavy, 20, of Donald,
drowned while swimming in the
Pudding river at Pat's Acres, just
west of Barlow at about 1p.m.
yesterday. The body of the boy,
who: could not swim, was recov
ered soon after the accident and
removed to the Clackamas coun
ty coroner's office in Oregon City
and was taken to Ringo chapel in
Woodburn yesterday.
The funeral will be at 9 a. m.
Saturday In St. Luke's Catholic
church, Woodburn. Interment will
follow at ML Calvary cemetery,
Portland J Recitation, of the Ros
ary will be at .750 o'clock : to
night in the Ringo chapeL
He was the son of Mrs. Ella
Leavy and lived on the family
farm near Donald. Born May 10,
1927, - at Donald, ' Eugene Leavy
was a graduate of Woodburn high
school, class of 1945. He enlisted
in the navy after graduation. In
school he was vice-president of
the Future Farmers of America
in his junior year and played on
the baseball team for three years.
Surviving are his mother and
five brothers at borne, Mathew,
Joseph, Luke, Leonard and Ed
ward; two sistesr, Patricia at
home and Mary Brosseau of Port
land. ...
Plan for Memorial
Rites Set Aside
COOS BAY, May 22 -(Special)
Plans for a memorial service here
Sunday for Mrs. Beatrice Walton
Sackett have been set aside,
members of the family said to
day. Mrs. Sackett. long promi
nent in state affairs, died last
Saturday. Interment was in Sa
lem on Tuesday.
HOMESTEAD LAW CHANGE
WASHINGTON, May 22 HJP)
The senate today agreed to house
approved legislation which, will
require a war veteran to spend
only seven months in residence
to acquire a public lands home
stead instead of the present seven
months each year for three years.
Weather
Max,
Vln.
Precip.
J00
.00
J00
Salem "
Portland
San Francisco
.S3 44
. 80 48
. 70 48
77 49
Chicago ,
Willamette river -1.7 feet.
FORECAST (from VS. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Continued
favorable dusting and spraying weath
er with no prospect of rain for an
other 48 hours. Little temperature
change indicated with highest today 83.
Lowest tonight 45. Continued clear
weather forecast fortoday and tonight.
1947
Price
CPA Approval
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Notice Filed
For Hollywood
District Bank
First step toward actual organ
ization of the long-planned Hol
lywood district bank is taken to
day with publication in The
Statesman of legal notice of for
mation of the Willamette Valley
bank with capital stock of $60,
000. The notice over the names of
Glenn M. Slentz, Ronald E. Jones
and Earl H. Mootry states appli
cation is being made with the
state superintendent of banking
for authority to organize the
bank.
The capital stock will be divid
ed into 600 shares at $100 par
value, with an additional paid-in
amount of $30,000.
Principle obstacle to establish
ment of a bank in the Hollywood
shopping district was eliminated
by the 1947 state legislature when
a bill passed to permit state char
tering of banks of the $50,000
class if located more than a mile
from the city's main post office.
Girl Slain ill
Hood River
HOOD RIVER, Ore., May 22
(,P-Police conducted an autopsy
today on the body of Mary Lou
ise Sparks, 18, mysteriously shot
Tuesday, but refused to discuss
any findings.
Dr. Howard Richardson, Port
land, of the state police depart
ment, performed the post-mortem,
but said only that the bullet,
which appeared to be a .45 cali
ber slub, passed through the body
without striking a bone. The bul
let has not been located.
The high school girl was found
Tuesday afternoon behind her
home with a bullet hole in her
left side, below the ribs.
Reminiscences Mark Silver Anniversary
Banquet of Salem Lions Club Thursday Night
In an evening packed with the
reminiscences of a quarter cen
tury, the Salem Lions club Thurs
day night celebrated its silver an
niversary with a banquet in the
same Marion hotel mirror room
where the club received its char
ter just 25 years ago.
Lions, wives and guests, num
bering 235, witnessed and took
part in skits depicting highlights
of the local club's history, from
its' charter presentation . down
through minstrel shows and bond
rallies. Heading up the entertain
ment were the two charter mem
bers remaining in the club. Mer
rill Ohling as narrator and Har
ry Scott 8s toafttmaster.
Nineteen of 25 past presidents,
including several now living in
other cities, were present to re
ceive the club's recognition. Ed
ward Majek, this year's president,
was honored with presentation of
a senior master key for obtaining
25 new Lion members.
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No. 49
Projects
In Salem
Mounting
Final permission for construc
tion of a $1,583,637 treatment
hospital at the prettnt state mcn-
slate by the civilian production
administration reviewing board !
reviewing
in Washington, D. C, Sam B.
Gillette, purchasing agent for the
state board of control, stated
Thursday night after conferring
with Portland CPA officials.
The CPA last week approved
construction of a $650,993 custo
dial building at the state hospital's
cottage farm and City Engineer
J. H. Davis' office Thursday is
sued a building permit for a
$180,000 tunnel under Center
street connecting the state hos
pital's grounds.
Construction Near
Immediate construction on the
new $1,500,000 state office build
ing to be located almost directly
opposite the front of the capitol
building, is awaiting a conference
between the state board of con
trol and state highway commis
sion officials, the board said
Thursday. The site is on Court
street near Capitol street.
: The five-tory building as now
planned would provide two floors
for the state highway commission.
However, the recent legislature
authorized the highway commis
sion to build its own building. If
the highway commission plans to
go ahead with its building then
the plans for 'the office building
would have to be changed.
The board also indicated It
would have a cafeteria in the new
office building, and. that it would
close the restaurant in the base
ment of the capitol.
Other action by the board
Thursday:
To Call for Bids
Agreed to call for combined
bids on three projects at the Fair
view home for feeble minded
persons. The projects, to cos-t
$1,000,000, are a patients' cottage,
employes' cottage, and a laundry
building.
State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott
and Secretary of State Robert S.
Farrell, jr., said they plan to go
to Pendleton next week to in
spect the $145 000 nurses' home
at the eastern Oregon state hos
pital, which will be completed in
a few days.
Delayed adoption of a policy for
retiring state employes who reach
the age of 65, the new. legal re
tirement age. Employes who reach
that age can be retained upon
application of their department
head. Board members said some
employes would have to be re
tained upon reaching that age be
cause of the difficulty in getting
young men to accept low-paying
jobs.
The secretary of state submit
ted a plan to join with the public
utilities commissioner in renting
a building at 17th and Willamette
streets in Eugene.
Bill Would Prohibit
Destroying Surplus Food
WASHINGTON, May 22 -iff)
Aroused by the burning of sur
plus potatoes. Senator Edwin C.
Johnson (D-Colo) and Reps. Reid
F. Murray (R-Wis), introduced
bills today to prohibit the agri
culture department destroying
any edible food.
Murray's bill would authorize
the department to donate it to
charitable and welfare institu
tions and agencies and to needy
individuals.
A souvenir program for the oc
casion reproduced the special sec
tion of a Statesman issue of 25
years ago devoted to formation of
Salem Lions club.
Majek and charter members
Frank Neer and Glenn Gregg
portrayed early organization of
the local club and the present
Lions district. Mrs. William New
myer and several members of the
Lions auxiliary presented a skit
on the women's activities.
Stanley Smith and Floyd Seam
ster put on a miniature minstrel
show featuring close harmony by
a Lions sextet led by Victor Pal
mason. Recalling another past
Lions-sponsored event, Oscar D.
Olson portrayed the ghost of ex
plorer Roland Amundsen. Dr.
F. D. Voigt gave a fiddler's skit
and Arthur Smithers headed a
crew of war bond salesmen, con
ducting a merchandise auction for
bonds as memoir of the recent
war.
Cherries,
Prunes
Damaged
Lebanon Berry
Crop Faces 66
Destruction Soon
Heat Thursday seared crops in
the valley and through eastern
Oregon and conditions were re
ported especially bad in the Leb
anon area, where strawberry
growers predicted a C6 per cent
crop loss unless rain comes with
in a week, the Associated Press
reports. Prunes and cherries have
already suffered serious damage
in the Lebanon area, the report
stated.
More heat, rather than relief,
was predicted by the weather bu
reau for today as soaring temper
attires and low humidity contin-
Clierrv Fruit Fly
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First spraying and dusting
mast be done within 1 days
from Thursday, in accordance
with the cherry fro it fir con
trol order of the Oregon depart
ment of agriculture. S. C. Jones,
Oregon State college associate
entomologist, stated Thursday.
(Story on page 2)
ued to delay lumber production,
endanger crops and keep forest
fire officials on the jump.
Relative humidity below the 30
per cent mark threatened timber
and halted more logging opera
tions. Forest officials reported all
woods in dangerously dry condi
tion and fire ate through five acres
of pine slash in Klamath county,
west of Chemult and while an
other blackened two acres of
slash south of Coos Bay.
Similar conditions reportedly
prevailed in Washington yester
day, also.
The thermometer rose to 83 at
Salem Thursday, 81 at Portland,
82 at Eugene, 85 at Roseburg, and
88 at Medford. Baker recorded a
maximum of 70, Klamath Falls
79. Pendleton 77, Bend 75.
Brooking was the hottest spot
at 92 degrees.
138 Meters to
Permit 2-Hour
Stop-Overs
One hundred thirty eight park
ing meters will be changed to al
low two-hour parking on High,
Liberty and Commercial streets,
between Chemeketa and Center
streets, as soon as an exchange
of the present one-hour mechan
isms in the meters can be made
for two-hour clocks, City Manag
er J. L. Franzen announced
Thursday. An order has already
been placed for the required me
chanisms. An extensive study was con
ducted by Franzen and members
of the police department before
it was decided to make the
change. The city manager said
the change is being made in or
der to allow two-hour parking
within a reasonable distance of
the downtown business area for
persons who need more than the
customary hour parking time.
Cost of parking remains un
changed and pennies and nickels
are still the coins used. The new
mechanism will permit use of
two nickels or ten pennies. Fran
zen said he did not know how
soon the change would be effected.
Larry Parks New
Bobby Sox Idol
HOLLYWOOD, May 2 -WV Ac
tor Larry Parks today received
the "man of the year" trophy from
the Bobby Soxers of America.
The silver emblem of the esteem
of some 8000 swoon-agers was pre
sented by University of Southern
California coed. Pat Judson, presi
dent of the club.
Previous "men of the year"
choices by the bobby-soxers:
Frank Sinatra, Van Johnson and
Glenn Ford.
A tableau of boy scouts, camp
fiie girls, 4-H members, blind
youths and dog fancier Harry
Willett depicted the scope of pres
ent day Salem Lions activities.
Jack Spong, Richard Cooley and
Julian Burroughs had charge of
sound effects and staging. Mrs.
W. R. Griffith sang.
Past presidents at the party
were Ohling. Scott, W. W. Rose
braugh, A. C. Haag, Newell Wil
liams, Frank Neer, VV. R. New
myer, Oscar D. Olson. Barkley A.
Newman, Daniel Schulze, E. B.
Grabenhorst, A. . P. Ramseyer,
G. H. Gregg. George A. Rhoten.
Virgil T. Golden, Monroe S.
Cheek, Floyd E. Miller, R. W.
Land and Ronald E. Jones.
Other past presidents of the club
are Edmond R. Chastain, Dr.
William B. Mott, Ross C. Miles,
James E. Fitzgerald. Leland Smith
and Kenneth Brandon.
LLBANON-Donna McKJnley, at
tractive daughter ef Mrs. Tern
Mcltinler of Sbedd. whe was
chosen te rale Lebanon's cen
tennial strawberry festival Jane
S. $. 7. J edges were . three
members mt the Oregon State
college faculty. (Eggen photo).
Shcdd Girl to
Rule Lebanon
Berry Festival
LEBANON, May 22.-(Special)
-A large crowd turned out last
night to witness the choice of the
ruler of the centennial strawber
ry festival to be celebrated in
Lebanon, June 5-6-7.
The three Oregon State college
judges chose Donna MeKmnley.
17. vivacious senior at Shedd high
school, to reign as queen.
Wimpy Dow and Pam Ragle,
Albafvy, won the jitterbug contest,
and the waltz contest went to Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Hall of Sweet
Home.
Judges were Mrs. Tracy John
son, executive s e e r e t a rjr OSC
round table; Miss Grace Scully,
instructor of physical education,
OSC, and Miss Percy Gill. In
structor physical education, OSC.
Hyder Gets
LastLmigli
PAWTUCKET, R. I, May 22
(AVSamuel Hyder, 57-year-old
mill worker whose guffaw once
landed him In Jail, was advised
today by a court he could laugh
as freely as he pleased without
fear of again running afoul of
the law.
With a grin. District Judge
William M. Connell ordered the
refund of a $4.60 fine imposed
on Hyder two weeks ago on a
charge of "reveling and wiped
out any court record against him.
Absent from the crowded
courtroom was Police Chief Leon
ard Mills who ordered Hyder
"locked up" two weeks ago for
laughing "when there was noth
ing funny to laugh about."
Today, however, he had some
thing to laugh about and was
making the roost of it.
5 Die as Huge
C-97 Crashes.
DAYTON.- O May 22-AVAn
army air forces transport dived
into the ground and exploded
four miles east of Dayton today,
killing five persons and Injuring
two others.
Officials at nearby Wright field
said the four-engined craft, a
giant C-97 cargo plane- built by
Boeing, appeared to stall as it
roared in for a landing. .
The two survivors of the crash
were thrown clear. The dead were
burned In the fire which de
stroyed the plane.
The death plane was one of the
largest of all four-engined air
craft, an oversized version of the
famed B-29.
Cross-Country
Flight Mark Set
MIAMI. Fla., May 22 V A
new California-to-Miami speed
record for commercial aircraft was
set tonight as an Eastern Air Lines
Lockheed Constellation crossed the
Miami airport tower at 9:52.43 p.
m. (EST) after flying non-stop
from Burbank, Calif, in six hours,
49 minutes and 26 seconds.
The flight, officially timed by
the National Aeronautical associa
tion, bettered the record set last
Saturday by another Constellation
by five minutes, 31 seconds.
4 FIGHTING IN MANCHURIA
NANKING. May 22 -UP)- The
Chinese government rushed war
planes and two armies of rein
forcements to the defense of Man
churia today as communists con
ducted daring raids Inside the
beleaguered capital city of Chang
chun and cut rail links with the
L metropolis of Mukden.
LESS TURRETS ON WAY
PORTLAND, May 22-OVOre-gon's
turkey hatchings last month
were estimated by the U. S. de
partment of - agriculture today as
28 per cent less than in 'April,
1946.
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Snell Prcraises
Aid to Striken
Eastern Oregon
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ORDNANCE, Ore., May 22-V
Oregon's government and swarme
of seagulls from dfstance beaches
came today to the aid of eastern
Oregon farmers battling against
a SOO-aquare mHe army of ad
vancing Mormon crickets.
Governor Earl i Snell promised
state aid in fighting the insert
that are swarming, like a Biblt
cal plague, toward some of Ore
gon's richest farmland.
While this cour.tv fought wit
brooms, mops, and poison beti
Mayor Leonard Quiring of Her
mwtoh appealed to the governor.
"The wheat crop j will be gone if
the crickets get through, he sairC
"If they don't get the wheat crop
this year, they will get it next.
SU1I Advancing j
The crickets, wihich within tw
weeks will begin laying billions?
of eggs, were still advancing on a
12-mile front west of, here to
night. Their lines hammered by
crews spreading poison frosts
trucks with blower-spreaders
were giving a little; but Assistant
County Agent Leroy E. Fuller
said the worst was still to come.
Farmers, already plagued by
drought, pinned hopes on an ai
attack by plane and by seagull.
Seagulls, in large flocks never
seen in the memory of. oldiixnens
of this inland region, began ar
riving here this morning, and
gulping the crickets. I
Hepe for GbU Army I
Residents hoped thl wcu!t
prove the vanguard of . an army
of gulls which would devour ttm
invading horde as the seagulls dkl
for the Mormon settlers in Utah
a century ago. t
If the gulls : don't, perhaps
planes wilL U. S and state de
partment of agriculture officials
were studying plans to spread
poison bait by plane. D.D.T. al
ready used by Oregon planes
against some Insects unfoitu
nately will not kill Mormon
crickets.
The insects have lived In th
John Day sagebrush wasteland,
nearly 100 mile southwest of
here, for years. They have mai
occasional forays Into cropland i a
past yean, but none as devas
tating as this threatens to be
come. rreco-
Aid BilljSigiiecl
WASHINGTON, May 22 -Ol
The United States government
acted speedily tonight to institute
the newly authorized $400,000.00
program of aid to Greece and
Turkey as a bulwark against the
spread of communism and soviet
power in the strategic middle east.
Within less than 12 hours after
President Truman signed the aul
bill at Kansas City, Mo, diplo
matic officials indicated steps had
been taken to obtain a $100,000.
000 loan fund from the RFC to
get the program going within si
matter of hours. The president
failed to name an administrator
for the Greek phase of the pro
gram, as press Secretary Charles
Rosa had said he probably would
do. ."' .'C
Nisei Doctor's
Wife Beaten
PORTLAND. May 22-(VAj
physician's wife was beaten with
a ball peen hammer today by in
truder apparently angered at th
meagerness of his loot. "
A man came to the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Robert H. Shiomi. de
manded money. The woman
purse yielded only $5. The intru
der, looked at it. yanked a ham
mer from his pocket, struck Mrs.
Shiomi on the head.
The attacker fled before Xnm
family maid heard Mrs. Siomi
groaning and discovered the as-
sault. .
Wallace Speaks
At Campus Gale .
BERKELEY, Calif, May
-Henry A. Wallace addressed m
crowd estimated by police at
15.000 fromra crude platform Just
off the University of California
campus today and thanked the
city cf Berkeley "for the use of
its sidewalk.'
University officials had decline!
to permit an on-campus speech
because it conflicted with final ex
aminations and senior week ac
tivities. A group of students ar
ranged for bis appearance at the
west gate. .
Turkev
Our Senalors
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