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r- :; r-!' I- 5 ffV j 1 OQO CO O O Q. ft j ' ' 20 ddt MDauralin sfe ? ! y. -J v-; dDD ' . - - - j : : t ' " " i ' I ; ' ' ' " , (TTP Blind Thumber I V. Jt jf I jJCDCDDBI y V 1.1 ' M I Eighteen western Oregon coun ties are sharing in $2,201,000 which is 50 per cent of the pro reeds of sales from O&C lands. This is the largest "melon to be cut since the passage ol the 1937 law mverinp distribution of O&C revenues. Its size is directly due to the activity in tne l u m D e marWt and th scramble of loe ' gers for stumpage to furnish hun tnT sawmills. This mar be the -highest income for a, period of years because tne septemoer oi fering brought bidders for only 18 of the 23 parcels or. umoer listed. , ..The distribution to the counties Is on the basis of O&C acreage at the time of re vestment by the government. At the top of the list is Douglas county wnicn win ge $002,388. Next is Jackson to re ceive $408,740, and third is Lane at $335,569. Marlon county is well down the list witn sui-so rom intf At the bottom is Lincoln ttHth tin Bin In the case of the counties with large iniace uvm um swun: getary problems arise. Both Doug fas and Jackson built courthous es cut of the windfall of first rer ceiDts in lieu of accumulated taxes. But they can't build court houses every year. Lane county ruiiiriwl in its estimate of receipts. $100,000 from O&C It will get three times tnat mucn ana more. "What about the excess? Will the county court hurry to spend it? Will it be tucked away in some kitty? Or will it be used ttf reduce the amount of the next tax levy (perish the thought!)? , This news may excite rumb lings of discontent from counties which do not share in this in ,come. In fact at the last session when the : (Continued on editorial page) $15,000 Fire Burns Keizer District Garage ; A fire of unknown origin com pletely destroyed the Chevron service station-garage otU-Winsor Island road in the Keizer-district Thursday night. The station was purchased only last Friday by Thurmon Green. ; Keizer district's school, directly cross the road from the garage, was protected by a northwest wind which fanned flames away from the large frame building. - Former owner, C A. Clark, aid that the plant was valued at about $10,000. Loss of stock and equipment owned by Green and Jack Langford, who has been . f All . I t II t m ll leasing toe tuuuu, wu ruinau at about $3,000. The plant, and equipment owned by Green were covered by Insurance. The blaze was first noticed by B. C McDonald, Salem route 8. He notified the Salem and Brooks fire departments. McDonald said he spotted the fire about 10:45 pjn. At that time, be reported, the east end of the garage was already burning rapidly. It quick ly spread throughout the build ing and firefightirig was confined to keeping the blaze from spread ing to surrounding nouses. Efcorie Union Strike Averted NEW YORK. Sept. 18.-JP-A countrywide strike of 25,000 tele phone workers set. for tomorrow morning was averted today. After all-night negotiations, company and union representa tives met again and compromised. They agreed on a variable pay raise of from eight to 15 cents an hour for the workers, who make telephone equipment. The agreement must be ratified by members of the union, the CIO American Communication Equip ment Workers (ACEW). TVt (intnn negotiated with the Western Electric. Co. for workers in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH mExeus9 me, ma'am, but I hve a rther person ques Vi, 1 NlNETY-tJCirlTtl ItAn IKAbU) r U i II r CHICAGO, Sept lf-Clarence Ped dieord (above).. 3$. who Is blind, arrives la Chicago from his Portland, Ore, home. He is hitch-hlkinr to New York where he will uderge an eye opera tion In hopes of restoring his sight. Feddieord said he left heme with $7 September 10 and arrived In Chicago with 92 cents September 15. (AP Wirephote to The Statesman). Dairy licenses Revoked; Firms Plan Appeals State Director of Agriculture E. I. Peterson revoked the licen ses of five Portland dairies Thurs day for violations of the state milk code. The action followed a hearing in Portland last month of ' cases involving 38 milk dealers. Those losing licenses are Vest's dairy. Alderwood dairy. Silver Crest dai ry. Stockdale dairy and Idlewilde dairy. Sixteen others whose licenses were revoked but with the revo cation stayed on condition they immediately comply with milk or der provisions are: Holbrook dairy farm, Silver Hill dairy. Sunny Brook farms, Alpenrose dairy. Sunshine dairy, Broadview dairy, Rose Dairy, Pleasant Valley dairy, ML Scott dairy, Hazelfern dairy, Maplewood Cream company, A. R. Hollope ter, Dietz dairy, Ideal Dairy; Me ier Dairy farm and Boulevard dairy. Charges against 15 dairies were dismissed, Peterson said. The five dairies which lost "licenses 3 were charged with mislabeling, failure to file reports and. failure to pay dues. PORTLAND, Sept, 16.-6TV-Dal- rymen whose licenses were order ed lifted by state Agriculture Di rector E. L, Peterson said today they will appeal the revocation to circuit court. Five dairies were ordered to halt sales to consumers. Sixteen? were handed suspended revocations. Samuel B. Weinstein, state milk control board attorney, said the "producers -distributors a f f e cted by the revocations can sell their milk . to other distributors or to creameries. Those orders merely prohibit them from engaging in wholesale and retail milk distri bution.' Legion Head Backs Universal Military Training ASTORIA, Sept 16-CP)-James F. 0Neil, national commander of the American Legion, told the Oregon convention at Astoria Thursday that universal military training should be substituted im mediately for the present selec tive service act. Speaking to some 1,000 f dele gates, as the convention opened, O'Neill called for passage of the Mundt-Nixon bill and suggested an amended version of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing act should be adopted. Dr. M. E. Cooper, Klamath Falls, was elected grand chef de gare, succeeding Charles Eachel, Portland. Walter Kirk, Salem was elected grand commissairo voye geur. . I 1 Weather s Max. .. 13 71 C7 sa Mlru Prccip. 49 I trae 53 M 54 I trace 56 AO 5 M Salts Portland , , . San Francisco Chicago New York il Willamette river -3-2 feet. k FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNaiy field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tomorrow. High today near 73. Low tonight near 45. Weather will" favorable for most farm ac tivities except for moderate winds to the afternoon. - f ) SALEM PaECIFITATIOK (Sep. 1 to Sept. 17) This Year J2 Last Year 1X0 Average .71 t - I ' I I I : 'IPfSbasure' , . Firm Offered Annray Array Using to Move Cargoes SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16-UP) A Seattle stevedoring firm which has made a separate peace with striking CIO longshoremen has been offered contracts to load all army cargoes in san rrancisco and Seattle. It has not decided whether to accept, it told San Francisco! newsmen tonight. The army meanwhile confirmed reports that it has begun to load cargo with its own civil service employes, hired despite longshore picketing this week at the army employment offices. Two army transports were . being worked at the Oakland army base today. No troop were being used. The army also announced transfer of all such longshore! hiring to Oakland; no more will be done at Fort Mason here, i As the independent firm, Grif flths and Sprague, made its an nouncement, CIO President Philip Murray in Washington . was urg ing the army to use Just such com panies, rather than hire its own non-union stevedores. The! CIO International Long shoremen s and Warehousemen's union said yesterday it had signed a satisfactory contract with Grif fiths: & Sprague. Although the con tract calls for a 15-cent pay hike, longshoremen will be willing to work for ; the firm on 'army jobs at pre-strike wages, the union an nounced. ; Most other companies are mem bers of the Waterfront Employers association, which has refused to handle! army cargoes if it meant dealing with CIO longshoremen whose i leaders have not signed Taft-Hartley act anti-communism affidavits. Neon Sign to Note Progress Of Chest Drive A; 1 0-foot neon-llghted ther mometer $Lgn will record progress of Salem's community chest cam paign next month, from the T. A. Livesley building. Drive Chair man; Alfred W. iSucks reported Thursday: He said the sign provided by Martin Bros. Sign Co. will be "serviced? daily by Salem city firemen, to indicate by level of the red neon "mercury' how chest subscriptions are nearing the year's goal of $110,000. Loucks i also disclosed that the chest already has received, un solicited, $3,830 in miscellaneous donations. The drive will open Oc tober 5. Meanwhile, division lead ers will be conducting meetings with' their team captains to organ ize the citywide solicitation. Division leaders this year are: Automotive and transportation, W. L. Phillips, Jr.; contractors and builders, Russell Pratt; out-of-town Corporations, E. Burr Miller; educational, Carl Aschenbrenner; general gifts, Kenneth Potts: gov ernmental, George Alexander; in dustrial, Harold Robertson; indus trial, Joseph Dodd; professional. Henry Kropp; rural, Frank Doer fleTj utilities, Fred Starrett; wom en s, Mrs; Conrad Paulson; West Salens Rex Gibson. Civilians West Salem Extending Murlark Street Sewer V 1 It i 11 1: j) WEST SALEM, Sept 16 Construction of West Salem's sewer line halt for the winter upon reaching 7th street whin Is about twe blocks rrom tne present worx on Moriark street as shown above. The sewer extension will serve the Industrial area In the northeast corner! of West Salem where a half dozen plants are located Including Allies Linen mills and the Na- tlonaJ Ratterv Corn- slant. (Photo br Don DHL Statesman staff The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Friday. driving Bam SouiglhiH;w7qrreTt off n Wreck Ends with Steam Shovel as Collar for Motorist MA TEW AN. W. Va Sept. 16 Ed Taylor drove into town yes terday to get his mail and park ed beside tracks where a rail road crew was digging a ditch with a clam-shell power shovel. A switching engine struck the shovel car, the boom swung around and knocked down a utility pole. A network of tele phone lines whipped down . on top of Taylor's car. He opened the door and stuck his head up to see what was going on. The clam-shell banged down on top of the car and locked his head4 inside the bucket. The bucket didn't close com pletely, but it took half an hour to get Taylor's head out. He was resting today at Mat ewan clinic. A doctor said he has only a few scratches but is suffering from shock. Vote Sustains North Marion School District HUBBARD, Sept. 18 A move to dissolve North Marion union hizh school district 6 was de feated tonight by a two to one vote in the six districts affected. The move , was disapproved by a majority of 183 and by four of the six districts in the union. The vote by districts was: Hub bard, no 181, yes 14; Broadacres, no 27. yes 15; Butteville, no 13, yes 60; Aurora, no 71, yes 56; White school, no 35, yes 36; and Donald, no 67, yes 30. The total vote was yes 394 and no 211. Voting against the move to dissolve were Hubbard, Broad- acres, Aurora, and Donald. Voting to dissolve the union high school district were Butteville and White school. The union high school was formed after two elections were held a few months ago. The first vote was negative and a second one was sought due to illness which prevailed at the time of the election and alleged lack of information. The second vote re sulted in formation of the district but persons who objected peti tioned for a vote on the move to dissolve the district. Draft Sign-Up Lags in Oregon PORTLAND, Sept 18-UP-State selective service officials warned tonight that many young men 18 to 25 years of age face prosecution because of failure to register for the draft Registration closes Saturday, but the five Multnomah county boards, for example, have registered . but 19,196 of the estimated 38,000 eli- gibles. Col. Francis W. Mason, assistant state selective service director, said the lag in registration was general throughout the state. He said Ore gon was expected to have 102,000 men registered by the September 18 deadline, but the total will fall far short 1. ' xrTi! 1 mL Cargo Job 4-Day Supply Left in Gasoline Storage Tanks SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 16-P) State oil coordinators of four wes- i tern states today urged the public to stop all "recreational and social" driving, to conserve gasoline dur ing the CIO oil workers' strike. Officers of the oil workers In ternational union meanwhile took steps in cross-bay Richmond to prevent any recurrence of strike violence. T'ie coordinators conferred this afternoon with A. C. Stewart, vice president of Union Oil company and head of the industry's alloca tion committee, then issued this statement that said in part: "It is estimated that at least 23 per cent of general automobile mileage is used for recreational and social driving. We urge that' this driving be postponed until the end of the present emergency. PORTLAND, Sept lS-fPV-More automobile service stations were running low on gasoline today, and the state oil coordinary asked the public to use trains, buses, and streetcars where possible. Several Portland service stations reported only about four days' supply of gas left They are re stricting sales to essential cars. Four stations reported they are out of gas. Typhoon Rakes Tokyo; Flood Toll Set at 148 TOKYO, Friday. Sept. 17 -P) A typhoon which brought heavy rains to Tokyo howled out to sea today, leaving at least two Japa - iictc ucau- Ail cauuuiicu 04 uu ing and 63 injured .m the Tokyo 11 . Americans Threats of floods area subsided, au nr.r. mat lthMirri. 94f1 rt thorn H1 woro manvmwl temnnrflrilv in . rrt town .oiithwMt of Tokvo As up to 12 Inches of rain fell last night over Tokyo and adja- nr r nf Wnnshn nnmprnni flash floods were reported. A vaw ---- --- The worst was at Ichinosekl, 240 miles north of Tokyo, where the Kitgami river burst its levees and sweet away or destroyed 2,000 homes. Ten were missing and 50 were injured in that city aldne. Kyodo news agency reported extensive damage to crops, high - ways and river levees in 10 pre- fectures. The typhoon, which moved out into the Pacific north- easi 01 xojtyo. naa n.nuxz. wmoa or oniy ou miies an nour Consequently wind damage was s1'"- IDC U . o. ol lily MJU wuiaj ure toll in Sunday's flash floods on Kvushu had , increased to 148 dead, seven missing and 56 In jured. The last previous toll list ed 127 dead. S900.000 STRAW BURNS WINDOM, Minn., Sept 10 -IPy- Flames fanned by a strong wind raced through a storage yard here tnnieht. destrovinz 45.000 tons of baled straw valued at $900,000. ft 1 ' . I 5 ; 3 ,-5 m1i ?.'mJ'J I r"" extension along Blur lark street will pbotorrspber.) - --lllll II" September 17, 1948 SACRAMENTO. Sept. If -California's Gev. Earl Warren, repvbUeaa candidate far vice-president. Us wife sad daagnter Virginia, peek ing between her dad and aether's shoulders, smile happily as they left Saeramente yesterday en a 31state campaign tear. (Ar Wire phote to The Statesman). (Stories ea page t and ). Lead, Bismuth Induced To Produce Super-Fast Atom Energy Explosion ! ! By Rennle Taylor Associated Prasa Science Reporter j PORTLAND. Ore.. SeDt 16 - CAV than the atom bomb and two new prime Interest' to scientists were xne university or California's famous radiation laboratory. j The high-powered explosion, called fast fission, comes, from sub- srances sucn as lead, Dismutn and 33 Injured as TJ Ofl 13 ; 1 I iiiy 'J30ITlt)S Fall on Troops ELGIN FIELD, Fla Sept. 16 OH- ininy-inree army lniantry I men were nun loaay, 12 or in em 5eu.uui1-'' wne" . 1 WII1U sucks rrom a u-zv ieu in troop I concentration, air force officers I . I said I Those Injured Included a white officer and 32 negro enlisted men They were members of the 3rd battalion. &03th airborne regi ment and Company B, 758th heavy tank battalion from Fort tsragg, . Th troons were taking Dart 1 m a flr power rehearsal when the accident occurred, officers aid Th bombers were from MacDIll field at Tampa, I Qnft man WM nXeased fter treatment at the base hospital. other, were reported to be miff.Hrff frnrn larratinn rtrtiises . n J .UnU ntk.. 4.tnH. mmrmr-m Nut Picking Pay Scale Set Pickers this year will be paid ls cents a pound for walnut har- vesting and 3 cents for filberts, Labor Commissioner W. E. Kim- sey announced Thursday follow ing a conference with Oregon nut I growers. The year's picking price was slightly lower than last season when picking brought Vz to 2 cents for walnuts and 3V4 cents for filberts. At the same time the growers predicted the walnut crops would be 60 per cent greater man. max last year. The new wage scale applies under good picking con ditions and Includes bonuses. Blasts Unites Brooklyn Tube NEW YORK, Sept 16 -VPh- A mt 1 J . M . o . k1a.. 11 uefc below the surface or new rorx narDor unm ujwtjr uucu ww mua of the Brooklyn battery vehicular tunneL hole through the remaining live feet of rock, ending a burrowing job begun in 1940 and suspended three years during the war. Sandhogs greeted each other wiin cneers 10 mu wuv ma cial called the hardest part of a $77,000,000 problem with as many iheadacnes. Price 5c No. 160 Campaign Tour - An atomle enercv exnlosion faster groups of radioactive elements of reported today by reseachers from tantalum rather than from uranium. the parent element of atom bomb material Despite Its viciousness the new nuclear explosion process could not be used in an atom! bomb be cause It Is not self-starting, as tn the case of uranium and Pluto nium. It takes a big atom smash er to detonate lead, bismuth and tantalum. The I new radioactive elements also are creations which at pres ent can be turned out by high energy; bombardment. jThe fission that causes an atom bomb explosion . takes place in a small fraction of a millionth of a second, which is painfully slow alongside the bismuth blast found by Perlman and Goeckerman The new type of fission is mil lions of times faster. I When an atom of bismuth Is hit by a 200-milllon volt particle of heavy hydrogen it quickly turns into another element, polo nium. ; This polonium ! is highly unstable. In a small fraction of a billionth of a second; it throws off about a dozen neutrons, which are components of its nucleus: This leaves the nucleus in such an unbalanced state that It splits Into even halves In an I Incredibly small Interval of time. The j energy released In this spectacular blowup Is I somewhat less than that in the slow fission of uranium or plutonium but the blast Is very hot scientists said. .'The new radioactive groups are made by bombarding thorium, a raw material out of which atomic fuel can be made, with moder ately high voltage particles of heavy hydrogen. j Board Asked to Set t 35 mph. Zone on 12th Street Cutoff A petition from the Salem traf fic improvement committee, ask ing that speed limits along South 12th street be lowered, has been sent by Marion county court to the state Speed control board. The: petition was referred to the board without recommendation of any kind from the county court County Judge Grant Murphy said Thursday. The request sought a 35 mile an hour speed zone instead of the present 55 miles! per hour. Plane Search Centers In Southern Oregon GRANTS PASS, Ore, Sept 16 (AP)- A Grants Pass loggers' re port of a crashing noise two and half miles from- the town of Rogue River centered the search for a ! lost Tacoma flier in that area today. The pilot Syncs R. Doyle,; disappeared Tuesday en route from Medford to Tacoma. A logger said he heard the crash. 2VesseIs;j Wallow in High Seas ! NEW YORK, Sept 16-WVThe coast guard and two merchant ships teamed up today In violent seas to rescue 79 seamen from twe vessels in the North Atlantic. Sev en men were believed lost 2 ! j Both rescues took place within a few hours. A badly listing Brit ish freighter was contacted ! 750 miles east of New York while fishing craft, wallowing in the high seas, was reached about 390 roiloa northeast of the freighter. j . Both rescues took place within ew hours In an area about 301 miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland, amid thunderous waves and staggering gales. ( ! j ' The veteran coast guard cutter " Bibb remover 40 crewmen from the Portuguese fishing schooner -Gaspar. One man was lost over board from the Gaspar before res- ' cue of the remaining men by, th ' coast guard. h i 3 Seamen Saved I i The American -freighter Cecil JJ Bean and the Argentine freighter - Tropero took a total of 39 seaman from the sinking British freighter ' Leicester. Six of the freighter's men were presumed lost ' i i Battling the high waves and gale, 20 Leicester crewmen reach- -ed the Bean in lifeboats while It others, including the freighter's captain, H. N. Lawson, were taken 1 aboard the Tropero In similar . fashion. : . '.; m; ; A coast guard spokesman said the Bibb was headed back to its base in Argentia, Newfoundland.:' The spokesman added that the Gaspar will be destroyed, if its captain permits, because of j its ' menace to navigation. - -I ( Capt Edward Serafin of Nor folk, Va on his maiden voyage as commander of the Cecil N. Bean, reported two of his motor life- boats smashed by towering waves. Saw Signals ' ! ' Capt. Serafin said the Bean. beating through the hurricane track in ballast from England for New Orleans, saw the Liecester's distress rockets late last night j ; Heaving to, the Bean stood by until dawn when the hazardous task of picking up the Leicester's men began. None of his crew was injured. One Leicester crewman suffered a minor scalp Injury in the waves' buf f etlngs. j -! j The Bibb, skippered by Capt D. J. Jacobs, former commander ol the coast guard's International Ice patrol, arrived at the Caspar's side today after beating through heavy seas faomj Argentia, Newfound- land. , ; j . j , ' New Woodburii School District ! Budget Valid The state tax commission Thurs ; day ruled valid the August 19 elec- tion In which voters approved the 1948-49 budget for the newly form-: ed first class Woodburn school dis trict 103C. i i i j . The August election, the third; on the proposal, -approved by an 181 to 99 majority, a tax levy $59,-! 320 in excess of the constitutional' 6 per cent limit The total budget! is $79,600. I M i In Thursday's ruling, the com mission said the election was car ried out in conformance with state: law, and ordered the Marlon coun-j ty assessor to place the additional, levy on the tax rolls. i i i The commission on Monday con ducted a hearing on petitions of j some district residents alleging the vote was illegal because the bud-; get board of a newly formed school1 district has no right to authorize a! budget In excess of the 0 per .cent limit ' I ! I ! The commission, however, said budget boards of newly formed districts have full power to formu late tax levies under terms of laws; passed In the 1947 legislature, i j Proposal for a budget of $99,750 was first rejected by a 25 to 14 majority on June 17, 1948. The $79,000 budget was approved: by voters In an election July 14, but; the vote was set aside because the ballots failed to contain reasons for the increased levy. -; ; j Romania Blamed For Recall of U.Si Diplomatic Mission WASHINGTON. Sept 16 -Wn-I The United States today accused j Romania's communist movement of forcing the recall of four mem bers of the American diplomatic mission in 1 Bucharest last week by charging them falsely with spying. ij . j-i The four - two officials of the legation and two women clerks- were detained overnight by Ro manian secret police in the city of Giurgiu. They were reported ly denied food, and water fori 16 hours and otherwise treated In ; a manner which the American gov ernment denounced as "inexcus able. i : ' . - I ! The complaint of espionage was based on a charge that the four had made photographs In a for bidden area,. N BRITISn TO ADD PILOTS J LONDON.! Sept 16-iffV-Air Min ister Arthur Henderson said today the Royal Air force will seek al most 64,000 new reserves in the recruiting drive Britain will open October 1.