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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1949)
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This new Mendar mermlnr paper, every- Monday mem i nr. eoapled with &i Statesman's new iff pare comic and tea tore Senday seeUea rembine to keep- year family-newspaper the FUST newspaper ta the mid -valley regie, (ffcet by Dea Dili. Stotesasaa sUff photecrapher.) EHT 8CEI)Q8 No sooner had the air force port on the flying saucers appear ed than folk at Klamath Falls started "seeing thint in the sky. One of them , was Andy Collier, prominent KF business man. well known for his reliability. He re ported that he and his wfte saw smoking objects trailing across the aky. A local schoolteacher made the same observation. The mystery faded however when information came that ranchers were jusing war surplus flares to frighten geese way from their fields. Before the explanation was civ en n astronomer said possibly they were meteors. Meteors are Identified by the flaming trbii they leave behind them. As the meteor comes in out of space, and strikes a layer of denser air (between 10 and 80 miles above the earth) it compresses the air psrticles ahead f it. That air" cap gets hot under pressure, the heat is transferred to the meteor which begins to vaporize. What we see .from the earth is the red-bot cap of air and the incandescent vapor of the me teor. It burns itself up that is why so few meteorities strike the earth. 1. All of this sighting the skies, seeing flying saucers and strange Meets, points the need lor edu eating people about the sky. There re three layers or atmospnere surrounding the earth. The "tro- rphero is the first layer, about miles high at the, equator and give miles (Continued on editorial page) War Wound Costs Woo(lluriiVetS157 In Missing Wallet A Woodburn veteran complain ed to -city police Sunday that World War II was still costing him money. . ; AI Sylvester. Woodburn hotel, reported- to detectives that pain from a leg wound Incurred in the army caused him -to faint "while he was sitting in a local theatre. After being carried to the lobby and revived. Sylvester discovered bis wallet -containing S 157. was missing. Animal Crackers . By WARREN GOODRICH ! i i - ',.. j pig . - - ,n ' h s , J s. :: r r Demo Solons to Join GOP Economy Wave WASHINGTON. May 1CP Five democratic senators said today republicans will get their help in attempts to tuaq a surprising economy wave in the senate Into a real money-saving surge. f i 1 Senator George (D-Ga) and four others said in separate inter views that they intend to cut government expenses wherever they think reasonable economies can be made. sin Auto' Wreck PRAIRIE CITY, Ore.. May Sixteen-year old Stanley Teague was killed and three other youths sent to a hospital early today when the car they were riding left the highway and crashed against a telephone line pole. State police reported the victim is a native of Arkansas and has been-living with' relatives argiear by Seneca. His parents resi&e at Harrison, Ark. Injured were Charles Parish, Glen Lesier and Rodney Baropt. They were unconscious when ad mitted for treatment at the hos pital here. Their car piled into a ditch be tween Prairie City and John Day about 3 a.m. today after striking the pole. in Woods Found Alive COLVILLE. Wash., May 14fVA two-year-old boy lost in the woods all night was found alive .early to day by a former Coast Guard res cue dog. called in after a 100-man search party had failed. The boy. Dary! Webley, was al most .nude and badly scratched when the dog led rescuers to him. He was cold and wet alter his 14- hour experience during which rain fell and the temperature d roped ! to 35. - ; i Otherwise he was apparently ! unhurt. 3 ! Mure than 100 neighbors and , police officers searched the woods j in vain until midnight last night iter (oi-ciuiu pwmu irnwicu , that he had wandered away from the family home yesterday after noon. Rent Law Explanation Scheduled Today WASHINGTON. May I -jJFV The government this week ans wers the big question for 14.000. 000 renters: Does the new law let my rent go i up? Housing expediter Tighe Woods provides the "yes or no" late Mon day with an official statement of policy under the newly -enacted law extending federal rent ceilings to July 1, 1950. ip. S PeriUMMt It :4S & I raoctace 3 ' I 6a Otcazo i It SS Wt!wke r' 4 M 4 a s - rottfcCASr tirem Ul rther bu reau.' Mi7 t4. 3ulmi; Itotijr rlouey rto i showers today and to RSit; htfte tsirprrauire rvr. Ktet t - en. Vvi 'an'rM f tape til timWr tnm-t farm acUvittea. today. .. auj raKctrrr tiov h : itaa Seat. I t stay t ; TTas Tar Lt Yr rersge .a.t At th same time. George and Senator Wherry (Neb), republican floor leader, said they feel the gi ant military budget can be cut be cause of lower commodity prices. Meanwhile, the senate faces a new test tomorrow of its surpris ing fund slash of last- week. What it did was to send the $2,400,000,000 labor-federal secur ity money bill back to its appro priations committee with orders to chop $11,440,000 off the total. This was a rarely used procedure. The vote was 44 to 37. Eight, democrats voted with 38 republic cans for the cut. Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn) of the appropriations committee has announced he will ask someone to make a motion to reconsider to morrow. Chairman Tsft (Ohio) of the senate GOP policy committee pre dicted republicans will stick to gether solidly; In their efforts to force a slash In spending. Senator Douglas (D-Ill), Sena tor Byrd (D-Va), Senator East land (D-Mias) and Senator Mc Clellan (D-Arkl-have Indicated they will .support cuts In spending. i - ) i , Pioneers, Descendants Brave Rain to Attend -Oregon'd 'Birthday Ppry' Picnic at Champoeg BvgLester Cear . Valley Editor, The Statesman Rain and winds failed to damp en the spirits of more than 300 I persons, including some Oregon I niAnaare la-h avavrat atm kvwt tka fwa-aa uw va uaiivi avva uiV annual Charopoeg day ceremonies (and picnic Sunday at historic Champoeg state park. The colorful program, commem- orating the 106th anniversary of Champoeg. Oregon's birthplace on the Willamette river 25 miles north of ' Salem, was in charge of the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pi- oncers, The slightly chilled audience ap plauded enthusiastically as Robert Ortnand Case. Portland author and principal speaker, rapped what he called increased federal controls. "Our present day socialistic gov ernment would fill Champoeg's founders with ludicrous amaze ment,' Case- ventured. The men who settled here In 1843 did so be cause they wanted only a mini mum of government-" t Taxes Skyrocket "Too many people today look to the federal- government as the source ' of their blessings.' Case continued. Our taxes are sky rocketing because we are spend-! ing billions for cradle-to-grave se curity which also means cradle-; to-grave regulation. ' Case sf N "ly critic it ed the pro-' posed farm price support plan and national health Insurance program handed to congress by the Truman administration. : 'We cannot get front the gov ernment' more than we put in. Case stated. "We are doing all right now, but the bill collector will be around eventually. He urged a re turn to the rugged individualism of Qltampoeg"s pkmeers and , more rights for the states. ' Adam. Catch SLC ! Vice A dm. Thomas E. Catch, re tired World War II naval hero now living in Portland, was master Reviews J et Planes By the Associated Press Discord- between communist and non-communists was the keynote in world-wido May day observ ances Sunday. Chinese communists claimed, a great victory" at arms in the Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow area south of the Yangtze and declared eight nationalist armies had. been "wiped Tout." i Pope Pius XII bestowed his May day blessings on the "entire world of workers." A froup of cannery workers from Naples saw the pon tiff af the Vatican. He told them the church "blesses the contract of labor, defends the Just salary . . and blesses all the world of the workers.' He said the church offers not "vain words" but a "powerful, just and efficient" pro tection of the workers' well be ing. . In lands dominated by commun ist governments and parties the SHANGHAI. May l-lAVTraf-fte ea the last railway escape hatch frem communist-menaced Shanghai to south Chin a was suspended Monday If indicated the red offensive had carried farther than had been supposed. The semi-efficial Chinese Cen tral Neks agency said service had been suspended the Hang-chow-Nangchew, railway. Bang chew, hitherto believed the goal ef the main eesnmanist offen sive., is ISO air miles southwest 0t Shanghai. demonstrations were vast, orderly and impressive. Most spectacular was in Mos cow's Red Square where Prime Minister Stalin, surrounded by the Politburo and party leaders, re viewed a smart parade mili tary and civilian in bright sunshine. Foreign military observers said the military parade was featured by the appearance of new jet planes overhead. Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, new defense minister, declared in an address that American: "reac tionaries" were striving to! start a third world war, against Russia. New Soviet attacks were made on the Atlantic pact. But outside the iron curtain, riv al working class movements lash ed out at each other In hundreds of wordy demonstrations 1 on the day set in 1889 by the second so cialist international congress in Paris as a clay on which to mark world labor solidarity. In London's Trafalgar Square, fist fights broke put when a dozen men and women carrying red flags tried to violate a police ban on political parades. An angry crowd broke up the demonstration be fore police could come to the pro tection of the demonstrators. Dldest persea af plaaeer stack at mas' J.' I. Ccambreaa. ft, bora lasjda 1 the )asteaTer stockade March 3W shews here with Oregaa Pliwrrr as cU ilea's Misa - Ore tea. Mary Elizabeth Meek, treat gra nddaagfate ef atoaeer ' Ja r ek Meek. Mksa Meek. 17, is the daaghter of Mr. and Mrs. F-d I Meek, rartlasd. (Tbmtm by Dea DiS. Statesman staff awtacrapacr. (Other pktares aa page IX) j FaiBemi PM Trafficblocked : - 31 Hours After Hit-Run Crash KEIZER, May l-(Special)-Moxe than 200 homes were blacked out and the North Rivet road closed for S la hours here tonight after a hit-run driver felled two power poles. ' f - ! Fred G. Starrett, Portland Gen eral Electric company manager, said the power went out at 6:52 p.m. and was restored, at 10:25 when crews wired around the break. The poles fell directly across the roadway just north of Keizer school, completely blocking all traffic until crews rolled them away. State police said marks on one of the poles indicated it had been struck by an auto. They were looking for the driver- late tonightJ Residents of the area flooded the PGE office with call safter the ac cident. Some housewives were caught in the. middle of dinner hour. Those depending on electri city for heating sat in cold houses. New poles will be Installed tomor row, j - ; West Salem Council to Vote On Assessment WEST SALEM, May 1 Sev enth street and its environs is ex pected to loom large on the fegenda at WeSt Salem city council meetins Monday night at 730 in city hall. Up for consideration is the as sessment to be made against prop erty oWners along 7th street be tween ; Patterson avenue and Wal laee road for the cost of curbing the new paving installed last fall by the state and city. . Theiroposed opening of 7 th street west from Gerth avenue to Rosemont or Piedmont, as a sec-: ond arterial through the city, will also be discussed. . The council is expected to sched ule the first budget meeting of the year. I PIPE LINE SURVEY OTTAWA, May l-tP-Engineers have started survey work on the construction of more than 1,00ft miles Of pipe lines which will carry? natural gas to the Pacific coast from northern British Columbia and Alberta, Frank McMahon of Calgary, Alta, said today. r J t ft s hi lt. u the CTaasBpaeg celebratlasi Saaday., ;1 Oregon Snails Too Lazy To Satisfy CHICAGO, May 1-F)-What If you were getting big four-inch live snails in your mail every day? That's the plight of Dr. Ed mund M. K. Ceiling. He is a pharmacologist at the University of Chicago. He feeds snails ra dioactive vegetables. Then he gives . the snails to frogs and toads. It's all part of an experi ment. He said the folk of Benton 7 Men, Woman Escape Blazing Tug on Columbia THE DALLES, May l-C-P-Seven men and a woman escaped from a burning tug in the Columbia river rapids east of here tonight. The boat caught fire in the John Day rapids, was beached and then gutted by fire. The seven crewmen and the woman cook Jumped to rocks and later were picked up by another tug. The Tidewater Shaver Barge company reported the tug engine room caught fire about 8:03 p. m. (PST). The wooden housing burn ed away, leaving the steel hull. An oil barge was saved by push ing it onto the shore. Lou ; RusselL sr., company gen eral manager, said the tug was bound, upriver with the barge in tow from Linnton, Ore., to Attalia, Wash. Rescued were Capt. J. G. Van Ness. First Mate Hansel Wildes: Assistant Engineer Seely Morgan, all of The Dalles; First Mate Carl Schultz, Vancouver, Wash.; Wil liam Lihdblom, Wallula, Wash.; Ward Holiday and Tom Stinnett, .both of UmaUIla, Ore, and a Mrs. Smith. Portland, the cook. r The mishap , occurred in the north channel of the middle rapids about 80 miles east of here. Ne wberg Woniaiv Crushed to Death, Cai- Leaves Road TIGARD, May 1-tfVAn elder ly Newberg woman was crushed to death ! when a car in wnicn sne was riding plunged off highway 99-W and struck a pole today. State police said Mrs. Maggie Chapman, rt. 1, Newberg, was dead when pulled from the wreckage. She was 77 years old. The car was driven by Jack Mc Nabb, rt 3, Sherwood, a grand son. He escaped Injury. The im pact broke the pole. She is survived by six sons and four daughters.. One son Jack Chapman, Salem. ceremonies. He was Introduced by Ormond R. Bean, Portland city commissioner and president of the Sons-and Daughters of Oregon Pi- Other speakers were Gov. Doug las McKay and. Dr. O. Herbert Smith, president .of Willamette university in Salem, the first col lege established west of the Rocky mountains. Dr. Smith's subject waa "JThe Pioneer University . Masts rarahasd The Invocation was given by the Rev. W. G. Eliot, jr.. Portland, and Dr. Robert M. Gatke, Willamette university, pronounced the bene diction. Music ; was furaished by the Willamette universilyvband led by Professor Maurice Brennen and TPacific college. Maj. Gen. George Rilea, Oregon adjutant, led the flag salute. -'1 :; - The oldest pioneer attending the gathering was J. J. Chambreau. 92. Vancouver. Wash. Chambreau was born March S. Inside a stockade at Vancouver In the old Oregon territory. " The youngest member of pio neer family introduced was Mary Elizabeth Meek. 17, Portland, who was j chosen "Misa Oregon! for Champoeg day; f Ships Collide in j New York Harbor NEW YORK. May 1 -UPy- Two large steamships collided' in a thick fog outside New York har bor tonight, but neither .appar ently was hr dangx- , - : y r - -: , The Marine Leader. 4. 40,050 ton tanker, and the 7C0-ton Jal aketu. an , Indian-registry freight er, collided as m dense fog shroud ed the entire harbor area.. Neither ship rrported any- casualties, i BacEs OA'S: WeviMm Researcher county. Oregon, are snipping him the snails. "I guess it started when Iwas out in Oregon recently," Ceiling explained. "A truck farmer gave me a bottle of the big fellows, ' Now everyone must think I need them. "The Oregon snails are lazy, They wont eat my radioactive side dishes. ; "I dont want 'em. they can have 'em, they're too big for me." Tornado Toll Raised tpj) In Southwest By the Associated rraaa Tornadoes that roared through Texas, Oklahomr and Kansas Sat urday night left nine dead and IS Injured persons in their destruc tive wake. In Oklahoma, ripped, by 10 rapid-fire twisters, damage may go over $2,000,000. Norman, site of the University of Oklahoma, had at least 50 mjured. although the five Oklahomadeeuis were In rural towns. f Bodies of a man his wife and their grandson were found near Bonhanx Texas. Sunday morning after their - farm home had blown away. Another man died in Texas, apparently of a heart attack, as he crouched in a ditch to escape the storm. Seven members of the J. C Owens family in Bonham were in jured and numerous homes and buildings were destroyed by the Texas twister. In western Kansas, Garden City and Oakley , received minor dam age in other storms. Despite widespread destruction in Oklahoma there was no single large disaster area. 'The tornadoes swooped down and away at widely scattered1 points. First aid and re lief wer handled on a local basis. Local Bowler Rolls Second Perfect Game in 8 Days Trank Evans. 19a N." 33rd st- Salem, pulled the "Johnny Vander Meer" of bowling Sunday on the Capitol alleys by notching his sec ond perfect "aOO" game in j the space of eight days.' - i Evans roUed the first aU-strike game Saturday, April SS. He re peated Sunday. ,. Playing in a friendly "pot" game with' Evans Sunday his foas picked up their bowling balls and went home when he blasted hhftwelfth straight sthke. j Evans is the first bowler In Sa lem to roll a perfect game since 1939. And he's the fourth In the history of.-the city, as far as is known.; ' ; DEATH DEMONSTRATES TALK BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May (0P) -Dr. Louis Claiborne . Posey. St, made a talk on heart disease last night, A few minutes later he was dead of a heart attack;; Western Iateraatieaal. Leagne , At Salem. Vaaeauver irabi) j ' At' Taoxaa. Spokane (ratal ' i At YtkUna VMterla S-S ' ! , A kumtw, WcMtckM iralat) ' " ' j Pacific Coast Leagna . At OakUnd Portland a-J At HoUywoed. Seattle S-I At Saa Oteee S-. Saa rrannsce S-4 At Sacrament t-S. Va Anccica S-S r- "- Nauenal Leagae ' ' At notion S-4. New York S-I At CrucKoX St. Lout S - ! .i , At Hrookijrn 1. fhi!aJlphla i . At Pntsmrgh Cuxinaau -S " - I 'American Leagva ' ; ' . At Hew Verk X. Barton II At -C'ievalana 3. Orrot ' Af su uoumv s-ii. uutm t-ir At PnUadciphia l-7, a asnipgtna 9-9 Dasoball Scores i 1.30 Inches of Rain Falls on Salem Sunday Salem, like the rest of the north, west, was drenched with torren tial rains Sunday the first day ' of May after "emerging strom tha driest. April since 1939. 1. U. S. weather bureau! records showed that 1.30 inches of damp ness fell May day; Sunday. Tha figure is JO of an inch-more thn the total of I inch for the en tins month of April. The last "arid April, was id 1939 w hen only .39 of an inch was measured, St laches af Snow . At ML Hood, only 80 miles from Salem, the weatherman had a dif ferent story .to report. Timber line lodge ski resort attendants said 20 inches of mow piled Overnight there, an odd occcurance there for early May. - ; j Salem was the wettest soot in the valley Sunday, but at Break ings, cn the coast. 1.3 inches t-1 rain fell In six hours. At Portland. Catholic laymen and clergymen ft uregon ana south west Vtashingtcn paraded under umbrellas as tha Kmghts of Columbus held a tnatm and communion and breakfast.! al-' ly. In other cities Mar day trlr- brations were cancelled or moved M'ndoors. . Craft Warnings ordered small craft warnings rt n tinued for 24 hMira from Ta torch. Wash., to North Bend, Ore, and in the strait of Juan de Fuea. An April weather- summary for tha Salem area showed! that tha average temperature Ks IZt which is l.S degreed above normal. The highest temperature was ' HO degrees on April 14, while the low , of 31 Was recorded the night pt April 3. There Were only six rear 'days, but 10 were parOyicloudy and 14 cloudy. Three Tow tern per blur readings were below 33 degrees. The most rain to fall during tha month was .32 of an inctj on April ; 30 when the current wet! spell got started. - A check of weather year figures since Sept. 1. 1843. show that 39.71 inches of rain have fallen to dte. This, is two IncheiNless jthan last year's total for the same period, but six inches more than: normal. Due at Beach NEWPORT. May l-JPhUntCfn county beachea jwitl be equipped: with tide warning flags for swim- ' mers this sOmroer and a life guard will be sutioned at DeLake. The program is being sponsored by the county water safety com- . mittee with funds from the county Community Chest. I 1 ; . . Red flags will be posted at out going tide hours and yellow flag lor incoming tides. Here Ti Your MoiiflaV Statesman! j Beginning today, your ttatea- aaaYbecome the mid-valley's FIEST COMPLETE seven-day .(newspaper with inauguration cf the Monday edition. It is a step your newspaper has long want ed to take, believing so firmly as it dpes : in tha present and potential of the : great area it serves. We hope ' you, too, will welcome the move. There Is no basis increasein irice the small addition mere y providing for at least four extra issues-per month. In ef fect,' the rates for six editions per week remains the same. The Sunday issue, with its new 16 page comic-feature sect ton, takes its normal place, as the week's premium edition. And in line with The States Baaafs policy of. constantly freshening its content,there be i glnS today on the women's pa ges the new "Seereta af Charm" feature by John Robert Powers, sponsor of the world-famed Powers models. Tt will acpsa daily. . i : )- 7 Today's Stateaaa will be a collector's :j Item for some. For thousands .of others we hope it fills the need fir - COMPLETE news coverage. ;Your Me.nday Statesmaa is here!. J . Warning Flags -1 - , hh .f.4 1,
