Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1949)
matt JldbDess Pay QDU(sirais odd FdodsiD Spnrali: gtp 0333300 f ULU LUULDl Salem now extends across the river into Polk county. It includes the Kmgwood Heights area pre viously embraced in a water dis trict. The affirmative vote for the annexation recorded last Novem ber is given validity in the deci sion of Judge Charles H. Combs of Lakeview who denied injunc tive relief sought by parties oppos ing the annexation. While plaint iffs say they will appeal the case to the supreme court, which is of course their privilege, the opinion by Judyje Combs is so lucid and convincing that to the layman the chance of a reversal on appeal would seem slight, though certain ly I do not mean to prejudge the case. Meantime the city of Salem is assuming jurisdiction and ex tending city services to the area. The district is in need of muni cipal action. It has become so thickly settled it is no longer rur al but urban. Undoubtedly the most urgent need is for better streets. The winter was severe on its lightly surfaced roads. Perma nent construction is in order; and this now can be done through the plan of local assessment and bond ing under the Bancroft act. Water is supplied through the West Salem system, and this prob ably will not be disturbed for the present at least. Since a connec tion was made with the Salem sys tem the supply has been adequate. Provision of sewers will present quite a problem because of the ir regular contour of the area. Ob viously the circle should be com pleted by the merger of Salem and West Salem. This will permit Planning and installation df sewer nes and a sewage disposal plant (Continued on editorial page) Mrs. Ybarbo Freed by Order Of Gen. Clay FRANKFURT, Germany, April 15 -4JP)- Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo was freed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay to day, because of "many extenuat ing circumstances," from a five year prison sentence for shooting her soldier husband during a drinking party. Mrs. Ybarbo, elated at the news, said she expected to leave by air tomorrow for the United States and a reunion with her 6-year-old son, Jimmy, in New Bedford, Mass. "I want to get home and take cart of my baby," she said in a telephone interview from Bad Wildungen. where she has been detained. "Gen. Clay has never done anything finer in his entire life. I am still numb. I don't ex pect to sleep tonight. I am very nappy. I want to see my boy. I ex pect to return to my nome in Aias sochusetts (Maiden) and live a normal life." She said she will be under guard until she reaches home. Mrs. Ybarbo. 23, fatally wound ad her husband, Sgt. John Ybarbo of Goliad, Tex., during a bedroom quarrel September 1. She pleaded self defense. She charged Ybarbo beat her. Gen. Clay ordered :Mrs. Ybarbo "returned to the United States by the earliest transporta tion to be released." Courthouse Traffis Measure Approved A bill designed to allow the Ma rion county court to control traf fic in the courthouse driveways was given final house approval Friday. It already had been pas sed in the senate. The action- re sulted from a recent fire depart ment protest that parking in drive ways was so congestive that fire apparatus would be greatly ham pered in case of a fire calL FREEDOM FAIR' URGED WASHINGTON, April 15 - (JP) 1 resident Truman today urged all Americans to join in a "freedom fair" in Washington next year marking the 150th birthday of the nation's capital. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "It's simple! Just feed her confetti do this Presto! hard toiled Easier eggs!" to, ' " Church Schedules Crowded By Winston H. Taylor Church Editor; The Statesman Salem Christians will join with others in churches over the world Sunday to celebrate Easter, com memorating the resurrection of ! Jesus Christ. Inaugurating local programs will be the annual union sunrise serv ice at 6 a.m. Sunday on the steps of the capitol. : Annual all-city youth breakfast sponsored by Salem Christian I Youth council will be at 7:15 a.m. at Jason Lee Methodist church. The Rev. Walter Naff will be toastmaster. Other programs Sunday will in clude the following: (details also on pages 8 and 9 ): Bethel Baptist choir will pre sent a cantata at 7:30 p.m. Calvary Baptist sunrise service will be at Dr. Hugh D. Dowd's, followed by breakfast at the church. Services at 11 a.m., ves pers and cantata; at 4:30 p.m.. will include baptism. Breakfast Scheduled Services will be at First Baptist at 9 and 11 a.m. Breakfasts will be for the high school, Baraca-Phila-thea and Victory classes. A can tata is set for 7:30 p.m. At St. Joseph's Catholic, the choir and the children will sing for solemn high mass at 6:30 a.m., low masses at 8, 9 and 10 a.m. and high mass at 11 a.m. The high school choir will sing at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic high mass at 7 a.m.; children will sing Easter canticles at 9 o'clock mass; low mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Court Street Christian breakfast is at 7 a.m. with program by the youth. Services will be at 9 and 11 a.m. Bible school program will be at 7:30 p.m., including a play by fee junior high group. Dual Services First Christian will have serv ices at 9 and 10:50 a.m., with the choir, directed by Melvin Geist, singing He Is Risen. At the first Edith Fairham will sing The Lord Is Risen and at the later service Jo sephine Albert Spaulding will sing In the End of the Sabbath. The Builders class will have a break fast. The 7:30 p.m. service will in-? elude a sermon; sojp.1 Was the Tree, by Mrs. Denise Murray, hd baptism. Youth will breakfast at 7 at Christian Missionary Alliance. Children will present a program at the Sunday school hour. The choir will sing a cantata at the morn ing service. First Congregational will have 9 and 11 a.m. services with the anthem As It Began to Dawn. So loist will be Robert Gwinn. Choral Eucharist A choral Eucharist at 7 a.m. will begin the day at St. Paul's Epis copal to be repeated at 11 a.m. Music will include Christ Our Passover and Alleluia! Christ Is Risen. Children's service will be at 9:30 a.m. with the Junior choir singing. I Breakfast at 7:15 a.m. will be served at First Evangelical United Brethren, with the Rev. Leslie Parrott as speaker. Mrs. E. A. Young will give lesson at 9 a.m., and the children's program will be at 9:45. The 11 a.m. service will include baptism and reception of members. A cantata will be given in the evening. A service at 10:15 a.m. is slated at South Salem Friends, to include exercises by the children, quartet from the high school, anthems. The Christian Endeavor is in charge at 7:30 p.m. First Sunday Service Holding Its first Sunday ser vices in the new building at Capi tol and Gaines streets. Central Lutheran worship will be at 11 a.m.. and the children's program at 7:30 p.m. Christ Lutheran will have 9 and 11 a.m. services, with the choir, directed by Edvard Skjonsby, singing The Easter Song and I Know That My Redeemer Liveht. The Sunday school program will be at 10:10 a nt. Grace Lutheran church will have an Easter festival worship at 11 a.m. in Englewood school. St. Mark Lutheran plans Luther league and Tuesday Night club breakfasts, services at 7 and 11 a.m. and baptism at 1 p.m. Soloists at First Methodist church will be Josephine Albert Spaulding. singing The Cross at 9 a.m., and Edith Fairham. sing ing The Lord Is Risen, at 1 1 a.m. Cantata Scheduled At Jason Lee Methodist, 9 and 11 a.m. services will include an anthem, a women's chorus and a solo. Hosanna, by Mr$. Glen Hum iston. A cantata will be presented at 7:30 p.m. First Church of the Nazarene at 10:30 a.m. will have a service including dedication of infants. Music will be Open ; the Gates r.l the Temple by Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp, Christ i Arose by Robert Lowry, In the End of the Sabbalh by Willard Friesen, and a male quartet. Special music will also be in the evening. Young People In Cnarge Wesleyan Afethodist evening Easter service will be in charge of the young people. Hayesville Baptist church will use its new sanctuary for the first time Sunday morning and will dedicate the building at 3 p.m. At 7:30 pjn. the choir will sing a cantata. The Golden Dawn, and there will be baptism. 99th YEAR 14 PAGES FOREST Blaze Sears Edge of Idanha, Burns 15 Acres IDANHA. AdHI 15 fSnecial- A --rrttrr KriirVi 4i w K i n n a I I through 15 acres just east of here Friday afternoon, with flames shooting 60 feet into the air. The fire sorched one house and threatened several others on the east edge of Idanha before it was brought under control this eve ning by Canyon Fire patrol, U. S. forestry workers and scores of vol unteers including many boys from Detroit high school. A 20 - mile wind fanned the flames east from here after the fire licked at the read of the Hen ry Hiebert house and swept by within a few feet of the several Merle Seitzinger .cottages for his logging workers. Origin of the fire is not known, but it was first no ticed within 40 feet of the high way, soon after 1 p.m. Six water hoses were laid for a quarter-mile from the river and mill pond into the fire area here to bring it under control. Patrols were keeping careful watch over remains of the fire through the night, however. Plaster Saint Stqps Weeping; Shrine Planned SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 15-JP) The Chancellor of the Syracuse Catholic diocese termed today a "phenomenon" the appearance of liquid drops on the face of a brok en St. Ann statue when kissed by a school girl. No miracle was claimed. Shirley Anne Martin reported that the liquid, which many wit nesses called "tears," no longer ap peared in the eyes of the three inch plaster head when she press ed her lips to it. In the first official statement from the diocesan office since throngs began gathering Wednes day at the home of the 11 -year-old girl, the Rev. Robert E. Dil lon. Chancellor, said: "From the number and the character of the witnesses who have observed the phenomenon, it is certain that drops of liquid have appeared on the face of the statue when the young girl held It and kissed it. The explanation of tbe fact or its significance has not been established." The girl's maternal grandfather. James Secreti, said he would build a shrine for the statue head on a vacant lot alongside his home and that of the Martins, The two houses are back to back. Shirley Anne said that no liquid had appeared on the face of the statue, despite repeated efforts, since she appeared on a local tele vision program last night. Max. Mfn. Precip. SaUm 71 42 .M Portland 7 41 00 San Franclaco 61 S3 trace Chicago 43 35 XT, New York 6S 53 .11 Willamette river 3 feet FORECAST (from US weather bu reau. McNary fiejd. Salem): Cloudy this morning, but clearing partially in the afternoon and evening. High today near 67. Low tonight near vi. condi tions will be favorable for all farm activities with light and variable wind throughout the day. SAI.EM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 to April 16) Thl Year Lat Year Average 37 41 40.23 32 64 U.S. Embassy Demands Czechs Free American Relief Worker By A. I. Goldberg PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia. April 15 -JP)- The United States em bassy demanded today that Czechoslovak authorities quickly release Miss Vlasta Vraz, an American relief worker who now has spent a week in jail. Thus far there has been no reply from the Czechoslovak for eign office to the embassy's note Foreign office attaches said "there is no comment." Miss Vraz. of Berwyn, 111., is head of the Prague office of Amer ican relief for Czechoslovakia. Under the auspices of that or ganization, she has distributed about $4,000,000 worth of food, medicine and clothing in Czecho slovakia since 1945. Police arrested her at her office last Saturday, but told her she would be released later that day after questioning. The American embassy was not notified by the Czechoslovak government. After being held incommunicado The Trees in Full 4 1 y1' S9 '5 V Along Salem area highways and byways are blossaoms ef all kinds, white er pink, on large frees er small. Motorists who take te the roads may view the blossoms which have been unfolding their beaaty for more than a week, to be ready for Salem's annual Blossom day. Members of the Salem Cherrlans have posted routes which will lead south of the city and Into Polk county. The blossoms above are to be seen south on Commercial street between Ratellff drive and the 12th street Intersection. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmt .t4SVm hS-7.. r.A' ''& -7? t-t fTK - r tL. 1 C -ri nri n iii i ii i i i i liter . All the blossoms are not In the country, as Salem residents know, and for the benefit of those persons without automobiles there are hundreds of beautiful trees In full bloom within Salem. This example of blossoms to be seen In town en Blossom day this Sunday is In the yard ef John Koenecke, 1960 Center St. (Photos by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer). Blossom Day Routes Marked for Drivers The blossoms are out In full regalia for Salem's annual Blossom dav this Sunday. Salem Cherrians under King Bing Deryl Myers sponsor the event and will be on hand to guide blossom viewers passing through the city. Don Doerfler is Blossom day chairman. Two loop routes will be well marked with signs and will be for three days, MLs Vraz finally was allowed to see a United States consul. In addition to demanding her early release, the embassy also asked to be advised without delay "of the facts and circumstances surrounding the case, including specific charges, If any, against Miss Vraz." It was understood at the em bassy that Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D-Iil) has sent a letter to Presi dent Klement Gottwald asking for her release and that further action is contemplated In both the U. S. state department and con gress. Both Americans and interested Czechs are waiting to see what welcome a Czechoslovak trade seeking delegation will get in Washington in view of the re cently developed facility of Czechoslovak government offices for losing, forgetting or ignoring representations from the Ameri can embassy. OUNDBD 1651 Orecon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, April 16. 1949 Regalia for Salem Blossom Day mappea on leaiieis to do aisiriD uted by the Cherrians at strategic points in the city, the King Bing announced. (A map of the Blos som day route appears on page 14.) The routes, unchanged from former years include a west loop in Polk county of 15 miles and a south loop of 17 miles extending as far south as the Rosedale and Sunnyside schools. Myers said all reports Friday pointed to an excellent display of blossoms. Uniformed Cherrians will serve as guides Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the state capitol rotunda, at the Capitol-Center streets and Center-Commercial streets inter sections. Only changes in program this year are that the legislative cham bers will be closed to the public and there will be no band con cert. A Cherrian follow-through for Blossom day will be the annual Blossom dance next Friday night at the armory where Claude Bird's orchestra will play and Salem's 1949 Cherryland princesses will be formally introduced. Cherrins will select the five princesses from more than 15 candidates the night before. Gregg Lancaster is dance chairman. NORTHWEST Ambassador Douglas Too 111 for Bevin Visit SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 15 -if)-Doctors treating U.S. Ambas sador Lewis W. Douglas for an eye injury refused today to approve a visit to his hospital room by Bri tish Foreign Secretary Ernest Be- vin. j flights to and from Salem, giving Bevin telephoned the hospital for j the city air mail, freight and ex permission and was told that the press as well as passenger service envoy is "too ill to receive any ! to the other 79 cities on the air but close relatives. i lines system. Parachute Jump from Bay Bridge Successful SAN FRANCISCO. April 15-W) A red-bearded youth, puffing on a cigar, dropped from the Golden Gate bridge in a parachute today. He didn't even get the cigar wet. Robert L. Niles, an Oakland stunt Jumper, got some rope burns on his hands but otherwise was unhurt. A power cruiser pick ed him up within a minute or two after he hit the strong current that runs through the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco bay Niles was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and com mitting a public nuisance and then lodged in city prison pending set ting of bail. From the bridge to the water is 43 feet. Niles tied a 50-foot rope to the rail, then slid down a ways to clear the bridge girders. He said the "quick action" chute opened at 200 feet. "I planned on an 11 '4 second timing, but I was off half a sec ond." Niles laughed. "It took mc mau PRICE 5c No. 28 Humidity Rises In Oregon, to Lessen Danger By the Associated Press Scores of new fires broke out In Pacific Northwest forests and brushlands yesterday, but weather officials held hope the danger would ease this week end. Humidities rose sharply at many points in mid-afternoon. In northwest Oregon a warm east wind from the Columbia gorge be gan slackening. A south wind, car rying moisture, was expected to replace it. At North Bend on the Oregon coast humidity Jumped from the mid-20's to 76 per cent by 2:30 p.m. High clouds from the ocean were expected to follow with the possibility of showers by Mon day. Meanwhile a few farms were threatened in the fires, the larg est of which blackened a thous and acres of reseeded timber. Most were being brought under control. And some weren't, strict ly speaking, forest fires at all. They were deliberate fires, plan ned by farmers to clear their land. Backfires Started Volunteers backfired on several farms east of Sandy, to keep fire from swallowing farm buildings. The several blaze that started on cutover land in that area were being slowly controlled. A blaze that had threatened the timber of Portland's Bull Run reservoir appeared to be halted. Another near Cherryville was al so under control. The Washington state fire war den's office launched an investiga tion of possible incendiarism in the northwest's worst fire. That was a blaze on Bell mountain, about five miles south of Yacolt, which ate through a thousand acres of re production timber. Every Man Dispatched in norm west Oregon scene of disastrous fires in past years every man from the Forest Grove warden's staff was dispatched to check fires that flared up over wasnington and Columbia coun ties. "But often when the men get there, they find the fire Is entire ly on a farmer'r land, and the farmer wants It to burn," said Milton R. Mitchell, assistant In the Forest Grove warden's office. "They set them almost as fast as we put them out." Only three of the scores of blazes In that area proved to need fire-fighting crews. Fifteen men halted a blaze on Pumpkin ridee after It covered 40 acres: and 30 men stopped a 15-acre fire in Dutch canyon. A crew of 20 was aispaicned to Columbia county, where officials were still strug gling to check how many of the nres were wanted. UAL to Add Salem Flights Two new flights will be added to the United Air lines spring scneauie April Z4, Hal Sweeney, manager ai aiem announced Fri day. The new morning flight will leave Salem at 8:35 a.m. and ar rive in Seattle at 10:20 a.m., stop ping only at Portland. A new south bound flight will leave Salem at 3 p.m. and will arrive in San Fran cisco at 7:15 p.m. The flight will stop in Eugene, Klamath Falls and Oakland. With these additions, UAL will be operating six daily mainliner 12 seconds to hit the water." Only a few persons news paper photographers knew he was going to jump. He tried it March 26 but bridge patrolmen grabbed him before he could go over the ide. They gave him a ten-day suspended sen tence for disturbing the peace. Niles makes parachute jumps and "bat man" falls at county fairs. Last year a stunt man tried a P. jump s 'ro"i " bridge but the 'chute didn't open and he was killed when he smacked the water. Several years ago a girl hurled herself from the huge span. She is the only person officially docu mented to have lived in a free fall from the bridge. Her back was broken but she recovered. Several months ago a man was picked up from the bay. He claimed to have jumped from the bridge. But there were no wit nesses and he couldn't prove it. Wind-Up Expected iit Tonight ' s. By Lester F. Cour Staff Writer, The Statesman The Oregon state seriate late Friday passed j house-approved bills boosting th basic school sup port fund and unemployment compensation benefit j the lat major obstacles to adjournment of the record-long 45th assembly. But more than enough miner issues remained to be ironed r cut, and if the final gavel sounds prkie to the dinner hour tonight is tentatively planned it will tfome as a surprise. Many a legislator expressed belief th. end would come in the early hours of Easter Sunday as it did two years ago. There was no lack of effort Fri day, however. The nouse. fairly well through with its ovn bili. kept in session until almost 6 p.m. to dispose of whatever s business the senate might; send its way,) and the senate worked far 'into the night to catch up. f J- Fate of the projected cigarf-t tax designed to finance a $42. 0O0,(iW(J state ' building program, remained very much in doubt. The house refused to suspend the rules to permit taction on it Fri day, and it will take a two-thirda vote to get final action on it today. Refers Plan to People 1 ' Senate action j dispose of, .he basic school support bill, j boo ting the per pupil aid from $50 to $80 and referring the plan; to the people. The measure wal Just t.a the house approved it. SBut the house will havej to act again on the unemployment compensation measure, boosting benefits from $20 for 20 week to $2$ for 20 weeks, because the senati amend ed the measure j to include only employers of four or mora pen-ons instead of one or more. The senate Friday defeated 19 to 11 the bill appropriating $400. 000 for a new state printing plant on the airport road in Salem hut Sen. Thomas Ma honey said he would move for reconsideration today. i Bills- passed and sent to the governor by the senate Unci uried thce providing $8,000,000 lor state buildings ($2,000,000 for in stitutions and $3,000,000 for col lege campuses), and increasing from $4,500 to $5,500 th salarits . of district Judges in f Marion, Clackamas and Lane counties. Raise for McKay Beaten The house beat down attempts to increase the governors salaty from $10,000 to $15,000 a year, but passed in toto the ways- and means committee recommenda tions for increases in pay of CO other non-civil service state em ployes after defeating Rep. CaiL Francis motion to resolve ItM-lf into a committee as a whole to Ih.-d arh borrt rouM jbe con sidered separately. This and other, appropriation bins still imusl ljm acted on by the senate.! The house Friday passed and sent to the senate an amended till upping the tax on- free-play pin ball machines from $50 to $100 a year, after being assuredJ by f.ifi- ' ponents that amendments would prevent liberalization of atiti-gm- Diing laws. ; Passed by the house and sent to the governor were senate - ap proved bills allowing tavern own ers to demand proof of a cuHo mer s age; letting postmarks be considered as the dates on which documents or tax return are ac tually filed; raisin? circuit Judgts salaries from 5o00 to $8500 a year, and letting sub - standard school districts have a year in which to qualify for participation ift the ba sic school support fund, f , . Balance Estimated i j . ' Meanwhile, the ways and means committee Friday estimated that as of July 1, 1951, the stale would have a balance approximating $22,000,000, including around $18, 500,000 in th. property reduction (income tax) fund (fo which $15, 000,000 is regarded as a cushion), and $3,682,404 in the general fund (including corporate excise tax re venues which go into that fund starting July 1). The $22,000,000 it based on an estimate of the cur rent level of recipts.' i General fund appropriations for the next biennfumj approximate $103,000,000, as against budgeted items of $84,000,000, The differ ence of $19,000,000 i includes the $8,000,000 state building -program and the $8,360,440 j required to make up a deficit. - j An amendment to the propored increase in basic school-; support would delay effectiveness of the increase until July 1,1 1951, there by assuring no further tapping of the state funds for that program until after the next legislative m s sion formulates its new lax pro gram, i i Appropriation bills from : the house kept the senate in session until 11:05 p. m. as ' the jrenatois worked to clear the decks for ad journment today. j J ! The senate resume at ff:30 a. m. today and the house t 1Q, (Additional details on page 3.) "Sold First Day" ! Statesman classified ads tap a big market. Here w jn ad ordered in for six times. It ran once; the car was sold; and the order came "take it out." ! i ; .i 'I 1 " 47 CHEV. Fleet line wrd f(ln, two tone, like new. Mileage llOC. Heater, defrorter. A buy. Fifft own er. Cah S1450. Phor.e . , ( . i ! You can get action too by using Statesman; Classified. The cost is low; special rates for three or six insertibns. ! Dial 2-2441 and ask for "Classified." f ! ; Shop the Statesman Clasfl fied Pages. 1 f I