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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1947)
O O ED C3 O O O ODD O O D O D&D O O O D O ODp ODD O OE3 O D O O O O O E3D ; D C " I: t - syKnr 41) 2 Yanks Reported Drowned Stricken mesmau Near POUNDDD 1651 V MOWS EDSDKl , . SI ! SMltPT MIPS , - , ; 160 mph i Gale Coastline i i KINETT -SEVENTH YEAR EmpfoyeslMorm- at Fairview Assured State Off ice (SuiBding May Top $2 iBOiora Construction of the proposed state office building here may cost in excess of the authorized $2,000,00, state board of control man-' bers predicted Tuesday. They suggwed that construction-either wait added funds or be cheapened tolcome within the limit. ' tv. Knar4 nnmvd revision of clans for the buildinr. , princi pally a 30 per cent increase in window area of the five-story structured FPGDCDQC8 EN ROUTE; EAST Fresh snow on the crest of the Rockies serves s a sign of the approach of win ter a welcome sign for the long-parched midwest which suf fered two ordeals of weather this year: First severe floods and sec ond prolonged drouth. Relief has come In the i way of rains and , coolness but too late to save the ' corn crop In the central corn slates. The passeng er I list on the UP streamliner 4 Is julte different than observed on some of my previous travels across country: Only one man In uniform! And I ran into no 1 buyers bound for eastern markets wrong season lor them, probably. Their fall stuff Is bought and it's much too arty for spring. This is mora of a student spe cial many young people are go ing east to college.. Robert Ben bow of Dallas is en route to Yale lor iradtut work; Pttt Tugman of Eugene is I following paternal footsteps in attending Harvard; a bevy of girls "going to Northwest ers. Also aboard is the rearguard of vacation erf. Talked with an insurance man from Columbus who had been visiting a brother in Portland. Want to know what impression . of our country stuck in his-Jnind? "Of course yourcountry and gar dens are beautiful," he said. "The rains make things green. But what impressed me most was the abundance of, wonderful fruits and vegetables in your big mar kets." I asked him about their experi ence with motor car accidents, (Continued on editorial page) Police. Arrest Taft Pickets LOS ANGELES, Sept, 1 BHD Senator Taft? R.-Ohio) strode smilingly through a Jeering union picket line tonight to declare be fore a group I of republican or ganization members that the fun damental issue of the 1948 cam paign is "freedom versus totali tarianism' The Ohio senator, making one of the principal speeches of a western political sounding tour, was greeted on his arrival at the Los Angeles Elks club by massed boos frpm 300 AFL and CIO pickets who had been marching in a block-long line before Taft's appearance. I ! Police had previously arrested five pickets. Officers said they would be charged with violating a city ordinance forbidding mas querading. They wore paper masks over their faces. Animal 1 Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH . ATMf 1 thank I'd just a EE (at as a pis "u : t t t ' - j 1 : 10 PAGES. Aiiu lupiuvcu were vnauKci ui roof and elevator, plans for the treatment building under . con struction; at the state hospital here. The changes, to cost ap proximately $10,000, are neces sary, architects said, because of a shortage of certain materials and the new state elevator code approved since original plans for the structure were completed. Plans for the office building were prepared by Whitehouse, Church, i Newberry and Roehr, Portland architects. The struc ture would be of concrete and marble, with 101,000 square feet of office space, designed to house the industrial, accident commis sion, unemployment compensa tion commission, state police, public utilities commission and board of control. The board approved final pay ment by the state flax industry for the 1946 flax crop, on the ba sis of $15 a ton for No. 1 flax and $12 per ton for No. 2 flax, mak ing a total of $00 per ton for No. 1 and $48 per ton for No. 2. Final payments total $46,300. - The board rejected two bids, of $6,207 by Stanley Fagg and of $6,809 by L. H. Hoffman, for pav ing a parking strip abutting the new hospital treatment building. U.S. Gunfire Halts Slavs - i TRIESTE, Sept 16 JP) A warning burst of American ma chinegunj fire at a tense moment today in the birth of the free ter ritory of Trieste . kept Yugoslav troops from crossing into the area. MaJ. Gen. T. S. Alrey, British commander in Trieste, said cool headed action by a dozen Ameri cans at- a border outpost pre vented an incident with 36 Yugo slavs which might have led to bloodshed. Gen Alrey declared that Yugo slav entry into Trieste would have been a "breach of the peace treaty which I ! would have resisted to the last." The British and U. S. are in control of the north section of the city and the Yugoslavs in the south. Charles Bollinger On GOP Committee Charles F. Bollinger, Salem, Is a member of the general commit tee in charge of the Oregon Re publican.1 clubs' state convention at Gearhart hotel September 26 and 27, It was disclosed here Tues day. Other convention committee members include Robert M. Fisch er, Jr., membership, and Joseph B. Felton, nominations, both of Salem, and Robert Glenn of Cor vallis, resolutions. The Marion county republican club has chosen mora than 23 delegates! to the convention. Volunteer Health Workers at Model Some 1 85 volunteer women workers for the Marion county public health association, repre senting 19 cities and towns In all sections of the county, were in Salem Tuesday for an all-day in stitute and workshop stressing the place of volunteers in serving the health needs of the community. Meetings were held in First Methodist church. ' Success of the institute, first of its kind for volunteer health workers in Oregon, was acclaimed by Mrs. Ruby Bunnell, executive secretary of the county associa tion, as the forerunner of similar workshop ! programs over the state. Conducting the discussion groups and general meetings were state and local association leaders, assisted by County . Health Of ficer W. J. Stone and members of his staff. Salem volunteer leaders on the program included Mrs. Barbara Stumbo, Mrs. Dora Sta cey, Mrs. Pauline Cohen and Mrs. Bessie Edwards. ' Discussion topics and ' demon strations j centered around local programs,; organizations, seal sales, social hygiene, health education, health department and X-ray clinics- Th Orogon Statesman, Salem, Or.- WdzMaday, Sept. 17, 1947 Schools To Get 5 Buildings Construction of a three-unit employes' dormitory at Fairview home and preliminary expendi tures for five buildings to be con structed by the state board of higher education were approved Tuesday afternoon at a Joint meeting of the state board of control and the state emergency board. A $208,994 bid by W. C. Smith, Inc., Portland, 'was approved for the Fairview building whose to tal cost is estimated at $222,994, including architect's - fees and other incidentals. The vote was unanimous, by the three board of control members and by five of the . seven on the emergency board. Senators Dear Walker and Marshall Cornett of the lat ter group 'were absent, A previous bid of $400,980, covering cost of a six-unit dor mitory, was rejected. Construc tion of the 48-employe dormitory will start as soon as possible. Expenditures of 4.2 per cent to cover preliminary costs, such as engineering and architects' fees, on the education buildings were estimated by Charles D. Byrne,, board of higher education sec retary, at between $80,000 and $100,000. Projects listed by the board of higher education Included a dairy building at Oregon State college, $400,000; home management building at Oregon State college, $50,p00; library addition at the University of Oregon, $750,000; music building addition at the University of Oregon, $195,000, and laboratory and administrtion building at the University of Ore gon medical school, $523,000, a total of $1,920,000. The money will be taken from the $4,000,000 state board of higher education building fund. The state emergency board au thorized up to $13,000 to replace a boiler at the state dental col lege in Portland, t ' Reconditioning of Armory Near End A $6,000 renovation Job at the Salem armory is expected to be completed by the end of this month, Al Crose, chairman of the armory board, said Tuesday.. Redecorating, repainting , and refinishing is now going on.j Re conditioning of the basement boil er and heating system has already been done at a cost of $1,000, Crose said. The' present Job which began three weeks ago, includes com plete revamping of the indoor rifle -range, refinishing of audi torium, basement floors and -walls. NO RAISE FOR BUTCHERS PORTLAND, Sept. loH5) Consumer resistance, to meat prices is so high that, no wage increases can be granted butch ers now, the Portland Indepen dent Meat Dealers association as serted today. Valonteer health workers attending the Marlon county public health association workshop Tuesday at the first Methodist church were familiarised with child health problems In a model clinic set up for the day's session. Shown above being told the Important link between their own and neighbor chil dren and other persons of the community In the fight against common diseases are, left to right. Mrs. . George Edwards, 2445 Hasel a ve county volunteer chairman; Mrs. Frank Jirak, 1290 S. 14th st American Legion auxiliary volunteer; Mrs. J. F. Wikoff, Middle Grove, community club health chair man; Mrs. Wallace Riches, and her son Frank, acting aa patient. Turner, and Mrs. Berniee Yaary, Marion county superintendent of public health narses, delng the explaining. (Photo by Den Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Cobb Sets 394 mph Land Speed Record (Picture en sports page) SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. If -;P)-Jhn Cobb of London established new world speed re cords of $94,196 for too mea sured mile and 393.825 for the Kilometer, according to aa of ficial announcement broadcast late today frem the Bonneville salt flats. The cheerful Briton, after being dogged for more than a month by Engine and other troubles, thus attained the fast est speeds man ever reached on land. As broadcast by KSL (CBS), the London far broker exceeded the much sought after 400 miles per hoar for the measured mile on his northbound run. His speed was 403 plas for the mile and 399.80$ for the kilometer. On his southward ran over the 103 More Pupils Start School in District; Quonset Hut for Bush Salem public schools added another 103 pupils Tuesday to bring enrollment to 6,335, while plans were readied to erect a quonset hut to house a class at Bush school, where 91 registered for the fifth grade. ' The new building is expected to be ready within 10 days to two weeks. For the present, part of the class is meeting in the music E. G. Clay New Rent Control ! Representative Ernest G. Clay of Corvallis be came area representative for the Salem defense rental area Tues day, succeeding Clare A. Lee, It was announced by E. Daryl Ma bee, Oregon rent director, who was in Salem to acquaint Clay with the local rent control office. Ma bee said Clay's appointment is in accord with the recent gov ernment economy move, as he will continue to serve as Corvallis area represenative, dividing his time between here and Corvallis. One inspector also will serve both Salem and Corvallis . areas, he added. Also disclosed was the appoint ment of John Heltzel, Salem attor ney, to replace Attorney Ralph Moody on the citizens' ' advisory board for the Salem tent area. Ill ness occasioned the resignation of Moody, who now is in the hos pital here. Mabee said Tuesday that all eight new advisory boards in Ore gon have passed from organiza tional stages and are working to place full administration of the federal rent act on their local lev els. SALEM WOMAN INJURED PORTLAND, ORE., Sept 18 (JP) Miss Mildred Hamrick, Sa lem, was in the Good Samaritan hospital here tonight with in juries suffered in a traffic acci dent at Newberg. The hospital says she may have suffered a fractured Jaw. . V -i L-J U f , . ... j . ir I -x. i2CN. "S '. , -.r ' tr , - w . ' . - -"SS?' , - ' ' y TV - L , I d L-i U I ' 4, I Prlc 5c No. 148 14i alile straightaway h i s speeds were announced as 385. 645 for the mile and 388.919 for the kilometer. These marks compared with the world records he set at the Saline course in 1939 of 368.9 for the mile and 369.7 for the kilo meter. As he completed his feat Cobb drove op In front of a stand, leaped to the ground from his giant Railton Mobil special and embraced his wife. He was beaming, for devices In his ear probably had assured him he had achieved his long sought objectives. Earlier today a stronr wind blew over the old lake bed and doubt rose as to whether the Briton would attempt to race. Later the wind subsided. room, taught by Mildred Parsons, transferred from Washington school. A portion of the library had already been converted for use by one of the classes in the crowded school. However, said Superintendent Frank B. Bennett, most classes in the district's schools average from 25 to 32 pupils. "Very few" Inter school changes of pupils have been necessitated as yet, he said. Winston Buck, district transpor tation manager, said a change to improve transportation in the for mer Pringle district had been adopted, with all persons concern ed notified, and that discussions are under way with Keizer dis trict for transportation from Clear Lake. An additional bus is being sent each morning to Liberty ani Salem Heights to take care of the overload on three buses. A bus is to start, probably Monday, picking up students from Macleay district, which has' voted transportation to Salem, said Buck'. Tuesday enrollment figure Includ ed: Senior high school, up 33 to 1.808: ParrUh junior high, up IS to 871; Les lie junior high, up 1 to 621: West Sa lem Junior high, same at 133; Bush up 17 to 476; Englewood. up 2 to 434; Gar field, up 11 to 191: Grant, down 3 to 170; Highland, up S to 376; McKlnley. up 2 to 286; Richmond, up 1 to 258; Washington, up 4 to 168; Auburn, up 2 to 102; Liberty, up 1 to 132: Middle Grove, same at 61; Prtnfle. no report since Monday's 73: Rickey, aame at 32; Swegle, same at 94; West Salem elementary, up 2 to 249. Weather Salem Portland San Francisco . Chicago New York ... Max. .. 67 63 67 . 75 Min. SS 67 64 43 Precip. trace .01 trace .00 .15 76 68 Willamette river -3 8 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonieht with brief periods of clearing In the afternoon. High today near 73, low tonight near 39. Dusting and spraying will be hin dered throughout the day due to w4nds; otherwise weather will be favorable to all farm activities. Clinic Here By Items!! Brines TOKYO, Wednesday, Sept 17-M")-The number of known deaths from typhoon-born floods in creased slowly today, with 2,384 Japanese dead or missing, and there was an unconfirmed report two U. S. soldiers had drowned. Thousands were homeless in the typhoon area embracing two thirds of Honshu, main island of Japan. Property damage was in the millions of dollars. New floods threatened to sweed through eastern Tokyo. Although first accounts had listed no occupation force cas ualties, the public relations offi cer of the U. S. First Cavalry di vision said he was investigating unconfirmed reports two U. S. soldiers were drowned. Various units were stationed in the flood zone. With at least 15,000 homes flooded or damaged in Tokyo alone, armies of Japanese work ers toiled throughout the night to strengthen dikes of the angry Tone and Arakawa rivers north of the capital. The crests of the floods from the two trenmi were expected here at noon, and unless the bat tle of the dikes was won wide sections of eastern Tokyo prob ably will be inundated. The Japanese government crea ted a special relief headquarters to cope with the growing disaster. Stockpiles of food were available in the stricken areas, but clothing was urgently needed. Kyodo news agency estimated 2,300 homes, were swept away, and 166,729 flooded or damaged in the area, which stretches from Honshu's southern shores to the northwest coast of the home island. WU Fall Term Activities to Begin Today Students began filling the Wil lamette university campus Tues day, as dormitories and other liv ing quarters opened for the new school year in anticipation of freshman activities which begin at 9 o'clock this morning. Orientation of the new students will start with a chapel assembly from 9 to 10 a. m., with talks by President G. Herbert Smith, Dean Lawrence Riggs, Registrar H. B. Jory and Director of Admissions Walter E. Erickson. Psychological examinations of the new students will follow, and a further orientation assembly will be held in the chapel at 1:13 p. m., with Dean Riggs, Dean Olive M. Dnhl, Dr. Ralph rur vine. the university physician, and President Stuart Compton of the student body as e speakers. The first day's program closes with an evening mixer for the new comers at 7 p. m. In the gym nasium. The activities schedule Thurs day and Friday Includes other assemblies, class meetings and examinations. Actual registra tion will begin Saturday morn ing for the freshmen and Monday for the upperclassmen. Liquor Swap Talk Draws Board East PORTLAND, Sept. l-(P)-Four officials of the Oregon liquor con trol commission will leave tomor row for the annual convention of liquor monopoly states at Atlan tic City and to confer with feder al officials on Oregon's recent $28,000,000 deal with 11 major dis tileries. The bureau of Internal revenue said it was investigating the deals to see if they violated U. S. law. On the trip will be Chairman George. P. Lllley, Baker; Commis sioner Hugh R. Kirkpatrick. Leb anon; Administration William Hammond, and Attorney Wilber Henderson. Demand for Corn, Onion Harvest Help Heavy Demands for corn and onion harvest workers are keeping pace with requsets for hop pickers, the Salem farm labor office reported Tuesday. Wages for corn and onions av erage from 83 cents to $1 per hour. QUICKIE "I rented the beated apartment' we saw fn the Statesman Want Ads it Includes earanffar . " ;- . " -i .... - i ML NEW TOIK. Sept 11 Farmer New York Mayor F. H. LaGnardla collapsed at has home tonight and his physician. Dr. George Baehr, reported he was la critical condition. Baehr said LaGuardia, who aaak Into a deep stupor tonight, was too critically 1U to be removed to a hospital... Brazil Diplomat Elected Head of U.N. Assembly NEW YORK, Sept. 16-(-The United Nations assembly elected Dr. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil as its president today and began a search for measures to stop the discord between the United States and Russia. Aranha set the key-not of the meeting when he told th. opening session this morning that the question before the delegates was "whether the road will lead to peace or to strife." The truman doctrine and the Marshal plan are due for an air ing in the new session. High-placed American . delega tion authorities cay that if Rus sia does not force debate, the United' States itself may intro duce the subjects. The Idea is that the United States would add to the prestige of the general assembly and build up United States support by sub mitting the two policies to dis cussion. NEW YORK, Sept. INflV Warren R. Austin, permanent U. S. delegate to the United Nations, said tonight the 'American dele gation would "make vigorous ef forts" at the present general as sembly session "toward agree ment on practical ways of inter preting th voting principles of the charter to avoid misuse . of the veto." V' Brighter Lights On High Street First five of 23 new and brighter lights being installed along downtown High street were erected Tuesday, and th entire circuit is expected to be in oper ation in about three weeks, ac cording to Walton-Brown, local electrical contractor. They com prise the first step of an exten sive lighting improvement pro gram in the city. The first group of lights is in the 200 block of North High street where street widening has been completed. Five standards to each block will b placed be tween Center and. Chemeketa streets and between Court and Trade streets. Th graceful 25-foot standards are about twice the" height of present standards. The lights will provide 10,000 lumens each, com pared to the present 6,000 per light. Benefits to Youth Cited as Chest' Starts Drive with Kick-Off Meal Twenty nine hundred and nine ty two youths from Marion coun ty were given a total of 22,929 days of care by character building agencies supported by the Com munity chest during the past year, Sven Johnson of Albany, told 74 workers at the 7 o'clock kick-off breakfast in the Marine room at the Marion hotel Tuesday. Johnson, an officer of the state organization, spoke . in behalf of Irl McSherry, executive secretary, who is ill and of Charles A. Sprague, member of the state board who is in the east Johnson went down the list of state agencies to which the local chest contributes and gave the number of individual cases from Marion county youth had bene fited. Twenty eight Marion county girls were cared for by th Sal vation Army's White Shield home which cares for unmarried ex pectant mothers; 17 boys and girls from Marion county were placed in th Children's Farm Home, Corvallis; 48 Marion coun ty children wer taken care of by various groups supported by MIAMI, Fla, Sept 17 -W Tbaj breath of howling hurricane wa4t felt along th populous I florida WITH PRESIDENT t TU. MAN ABOARD THE V. S. ft. MISSOURI. Sept. l-vof fl eers f th battleship Mla4MsrL carrying Preside! Traamaa home fram Braxli, wer i alerted Unlcht that they aaay have ts swlac Ml of th path mt a area trepieaJ harrican whirling If th Florida coast j Latest .baerrattoam indicated that if ship and atonal fallow their .present arseaj. ; their paths will erase lata ThorsaUy ff Cap Hatter as, N. C east coast and into th Everglade. early today as th huge storm moved slowly toward the : main- i land. : J Th severe hurricane, estimated to be 120 miles in diameter, will winds over 100 miles and report-; ed up to 160 miles per hour, was) centered at 2:43 a.m. (EST about: 113 miles east of DI Ray beat h. I still moving westward at eight miles an hour. about! i Winds continued to Incre; along th east coast and! barom-J eters went down. At i Miami Xhm wind had reached -60 miles per hour in gusts and th baromet was 29.50. Clewiiton, on the soun shore of Lake Okeechobee, also re ported winds up to 60 miles pe hour. The storm was expected to strike) the mainland between Fort Laud-j erdale and Pompano around nocav Evacnati Trains ' i j t Two evacuation trains, 74 coach- es and box cars, chugged out oi Pahoke shortly before midnight. Pakohe and its twin city of Cana) Point on th south shores of Lak Okeechobee, was a seen of fren- zy as th Red Cross sent out loud speaker squadrons urging evacua-J tion. At least 10,000 persons hadT left the section In automobile. Scores of persons appeared at th! Pakobee railroad station carrying remnants of their household be-j longings.- - - ; '; - ' ' i f t .-' I Out behind th refugee-ruled town of Palm Beach, the waters? Of Lake Okeechobee wer begins ning to swell under th first merriV less prodding of th storm winds ltf Families Register - In palm Bcach'i crowded coun' ty courthouse, more than 100 fam- ilies had registered and th crowd was still swelling at midnight Thcfi had been converted Into a hospi for expectant mothers, i ; Th weather bureau In Its latest advisory said , winds would i crease to hurricane fore over eas Florida from Tttusvill to Miam early today and over th remain-al der of Florida from south of Tam-4 pa-Titusvill lin by afternoon. Woodburn Council' Chamber to Serve As Schoolroom . 'i i.' WOODBURN, Sept IS Thai fifth grade at Lincoln school her! will occupy the city council chamf bers as its school room as soon asj? necessary remodeling isj acctv.n j pliahed. Dean BishopricbL sch oil board chairman, announced Tres day night Consent of the ctc.u,cil was granted after Monday s H roilment crowded th school be yond capacity, largely because of district consolidations of liht spring. j ; Enrolled for the fifth grade ar 47 j pupils. The school's! -et class is the fourth grade, wi' 4t, It will be split Into two sct;c.-s one to occupy th former Itftls grade room, with an added teach er. 11- High school enrollment to:? led 277, compared with 233 in WC. Catholic Charities Children's bureau; i Increased cost of operation oi the various agencies supported by, the community chest was the ex planation given for the 23 per cent increase In the amount sought for the chest in Salem this year. While $80,000 was the goal in 1946, it will be $100,000. thi year with $60,000. the aim of th. pre-campaign solicitation; . The Salem campaign ; wiQ b conducted starting October 7 and) closing October 16, under the di rection of A. C Haag, general chairman. Salem's chest solicitation has) been made easier because thai organization has been maintained from year to year, Jesse Card, former president of th Salem chest organization said. . Card) drove from Portland to address; the large group of workers. Al Loucks, pre-campaign chair man, acted as master of ceremon ies at the breakfast- program. Other ' speakers Included A: C Haag, 1947 chest chairman; Carl Hogg, EL Burr MillerLoyal War ner, Dr. Chester Hamblin and Tinkham Gilbert