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McKay Opens -Water Level Columbia Route TROUS'dXlE, Ore Aug. 20-W) -Gov. Douglas McKay' clipped a ribbon that opened today the new water-level section of the Colum bia river highway east of here. " The. dedication ceremony was completed amid spectators' amaze ment at the new scenic panora - mitt viewed from the river level. Gov. McKay predicted the road would become as important a route for tourists viewing the gorge as it is assured of being a vital commercial artery between eastern and western Oregon sec tion of the Columbia basin. The section opened to traffic to day stretches east from here to Bridal Veil. It ts live mues snon- er than the older route over Crown ' Point, and eliminates curves on the old road amounting to 26 com plete circles in ascending and de- th nhstarle. The second section, toward Dod- ' aoni will be opened in six weens i a third "nortion. westward, from "VrP. will- be opened next spring Highway Commissioner Charles 'TCvnoids said he hopes the re maining 41 miles from Dodson to The Dalles will be built in the future. 1 Mother Drqwns IiiTubWliile Bathing Girls 1 SPOKANE, Aug. "20 -tfrh A young- mother bathing her two small children slipped and fell in to the bath tub tonight and was drowned. Mr. Hallie Poulton, 35, was pronounced dead of drowning after a lire department jnhalator quad worked for more than an hour in an effort to revive her. Sheriff Ralph Smith said the woman was standing by the side of the tub administering a Satur- day night batn to two of the chil dren, Tommie Ann, 6, and Kay, 2. He said she apparently had a fainting spell and slipped head first into the half filled tub. 1 The terrified- screams of the two small girls aroused another ' child, Harry, 8, who was playing ; outside. He ran to a neighbor's house for help. Smith said Mrs. Poulton's hus ; band was working on a construc tion job tonight. Arrest I Follows j Appearance of Watch! in Store I I -it SILVERTON. Aug. 20 -(Spe cial)- Richard Lyle Jensen, 25, of Silverton was charged with larceny in a dwelling Saturday, following his arrest by local au thorities. ! if The charge involved theft of a watch and several dollars in cash from a Silverton residence on July 4. Jensen was apprehended after he took the watch for repairs to the same Jewelry store Where it had been purchased. f He was confined at M a r 1 b n county Jail in lieu of $2,500 bail. tiate Sports - Shoot Classic Opens Monday ' B Frits Howell VANDALIA. O . Aug. 20 -0P-Heavy wind swept across the Amateur Trapshooting associa tion's home grounds today, hold ing down scores in preliminary events to Monday's opening of the Golden . Grand American trap shoot. Joe Hiestand, the Hillsboro. O., farmer who won the national dou bles crown in 1935 and 1936, cap tured the top prize in a 50-pair event today with a score , of 96 and 100. In fourth place were C. D. Ray of Eugene, Ore., and Hob Allen of Des Moines, la., with scores of 92. In a 16-yard, 100-target event, Wayne Wilson, 37-vear-old contractor from Che yenne, Wyo., was the victor with 100 straight M. W. Rayr 55-year- old cattle rancher from John Day, Ore.r broke the second 100 straight of his career to tie Wilson. But Wilson won the 25 tar get shoot- off with a perfect score. Mexican, US Moguls Talk FORTH WORTH. Tex., Aug. 20 . -(-Relations between organized baseball and the Mexican league once bitter rivals have vast ly improved, representatives of the two aereed here today. George Trautman, president of the minor leagues, and Dr. Edu- ardo Quijano Pitman, president of - the Mexican league, held a six b'ir conference. Dr. Pitman said that upon re turn to Mexico he will plump for the formation of a federation of Mexican teams and leagues simi tar to the National association. Neither party mentioned in the rnnouncemer.t to the press of re sult of the conference whether affiliation of the Mexican league with organized baseball was dis cussed. Steeljlndustryj Reclaims Slagt Manganese! 1 CLEVELAND-(INS)-A process which would reclaim millions of dollars of 'manganese from cum bersome stag piles may prove to be a bonanza to the steel industry. George Sylvester, Cleveland metallurgist who developed ihe process, claims that the discovery will prove of immense value to our national security. ?1 f Manganese is the kingpin of steel and ; is indispensable to Ihe industry. There is no satisfactory substitute.' j Mostly Imported According to steel t officials, barely 10 per cent of the 1,332,000 tons of this material the United States consumed in the peak year 1947 wasproduced in this, coun try. ! t ' V Up until a few years ago. ine third of our imports of manga nese came from Russia. The jfest is Imported by long sea voyage from India, South Africa the Af rican Gold Coast and Brazil, f Within I the last few months Russia has begun to cut off man ganese supplies to us. Realizing this, the government his started to push conservation of the metal to tide the steel industryfover ifin til other sources can be further exploited.! ; . Answer Found Sylvester, weanwhile believes he has found an answer to the prob lem. With Dr. Robert Al Schoen laub, researcher for the Sylvester organization, Sylvester has pro cessed samples of the metal ; re claimed ffom slag and ts seeking patents on the discovery. $ Sylvester said that his process of reclaiming or beneficiating manganese is very simitar toithe manufacture of Portland cemept. The slag is crushed and ground into a manganese fraction and an agricultural stone fraction, f the metallurgist relates. Flotation is then employed, with jnuchjthe same mineral dressing technique as is used in refining gold, silver or copper ore. . I Sylvester and his associates ex pect to recover about $23 worfh of iron manganese alloy by spend White Queen Gets Looked Africa Domain FRANCISTOWN, British Bec huanaland Protectorate, Aug. 20 -tJFl- The 24-year-old British ex typist who some day may be white queen of the Bamangwato tribe arrived by plane from England today for her first view of her African husband's domain. J Tribesmen danced and sang their welcome in apparent disre gard of the squabble kicked up br their elder statesman over Chief-designate Seretse Khama's marriage to the blonde English girl, Ruth Williams. Some of the elders went into exile rather tnan accept her. Ne Interest Shawn The small European colony knew she was coming although she traveled incognito as Mrs. Jones but showed no interest in her arrival. The black and white couple em braced warmly upon her arrival. They were married while he was studying law in England. There were no police or gov emment officials in the welcom ing party. Europe-Style House Seretse chose a European-style house rather than a clay hut for their first tea. Hundreds of tribes men gathered around, chanting and dancing. 1 The 27-year-old chief-designate then left by car for Serowe, capi tal of the 100,900 Bamangwatos. 100 mues away. He refused to taiK with reporters or to answer tele phone calls from London. When they reach Serowe a mod ern home . awaits them. Seretse has obtained a home owned for merly by a British official! and has spared no expense in equip ping it with radio, electric refri gerator and other up-to-the-min- ute conveniences. Chutist Fined $50 for Second Drop into Middle of Manhattan NEW YORK, Aug. 20 -(V A free-lance cameraman with a pen chant for photographing the city from a bird's eye view parachuted today for the second time into the towers of Manhattan. The repeat' performance of his 1947 leap cost him $50 the amount of a fine imposed under a law enacted after his first jump. The law makes it "unlawful for any person to jump or leave from aircraft or any other device in parachute within the limits of the city except in imminent danger." Leonardo D'Attolico, 28, a for mer combat paratrooper, landed safely but precariously this after noon on a pine-story apartment building on 38th street between Park and Lexington avenues. Actually, only the parachute landed, hooking over a chimney of the building and leaving D'Attol ico dangling in midair. Police got him down while a crowd of several hundred looked on. In May. 1947, he also landed without injury, in a backyard. As in 1947. r'Attolico told po lice he pulled the stunt to take movies over the city. He said he shot about 45 feet of iilm this trip. As in 1947, he said the pilot of the light pUiw on which be hitch ed a ride didn't know he was go ing to jump. In 1947, D'Attolocio was charged with endangering other people's lives. But, he said, the judge let him off with a suspended sentence and a warning. A policeman asked him ; the name of the judge. "Magistrate Ramsgate," said D' Attolico, "and I'll never forget him." The policeman said he thought Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate would be sitting tonight in night court where D'Attolico probably would make an appearance. ' "Oh. don't say that," protested the photographer. But Magistrate Abraham M. Bloch was sitting, and levied the fine. Healthy Baby Boy Born to Polio Mother SPOKANE, Aug. 20 -OV An apparently healthy baby boy was born in an iron lung today to a 20-year-old mother seriously ill with polio. i The baby a seven-pound, four-ounce boy wr born to Mrs. William Johnson. The birth was described as normal. The metal and glass respirator encasing the sick woman's body was opened for about 19 minutes during the delivery. She was giv en oxygen by an emergency de vice for that period. Dr. Marjorie Heitman said the mother's condition improved af Ter the baby's birth and that she has a strong chance for recovery. Mrs. Johnson was admitted to St. Luke's hospital Thursday and immediately placed in the respi rator. She is seriously ill with a severe type of polio that has para- Elliott Denies Making Money From Booklet PORTLAND. Aug. 2W.-P-Sher- iff Marion (Mike) Elliott of Mult nomah county asserted today he had made "not one solitary pen ny" from publication of Sheriff's reserve yearbook. I 5 The head of the reserves cri ticized the publication recently, as serting it was packed with profit able ads Jfhd contained virtually no news on the reserves. Elliott, target of a recall move ment, said in a statement deliver ed to newspapers, '"it seems to me we are all victims of a hoax, and rather than attempt to find a scapegoat (which in my case loaned the' newspapers a very op portune chance to further disre pute me) I think we should all endeavor to see that such a state of affairs does not arise again." He further implied that he did not give personal sanction to the yearbook, shifting blame there to one-time aide, Capt. MeaM Till man. Elliott added: "I do not hold Tillman wholly responsible. He went into this with the idea of promoting public good. He was . . . duped." AAF Scoffs at 'Early Model9 Flying Discs WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 The air force said today that two old machines found in a Maryland tobacco shed yesterday '"have ab solutely no connection with the reported phenomena of flying saucers. The announcement ended spec ulation that the contraptions may have been early experimental models of the strange objects that have been reported whizzing through the air from time to time. Special agents made an; inves tigation after Boiling Field here was advised that "some! flying discs had been located in'T&ary land." State police found the relics in a shed near Glen Burnie, Md., about 1 1 miles south of Baltomire. Air force officials at first ex pressed belief they may have been "prototypes," or early models, of flying saucers. Today, however .the air force officially disclaimed any such view. It took the position unof ficially that It could not recognize anything as a "prototype" of some thing that has not been proved to exist. Snake River Canyon Fire : Spreads Fast McCALL, Idaho, Aug. 20-(4VA roaring forest fire in 7,400-foot deep Hell's canyon of the Snake river spread over 600 acres today. Slim Vassar, fire dispatcher of the Payette National forest, said 330 men either are at the scene of the blaze or are on their way to the steep rocky gorge. Steep bulffs are making it a "tough battle", Vassar declared. The blaze is in the upper end of the canyon. Fire Dispatcher Walt Hankins said plans to drop smoke jumpers into the area have been aban doned as too dangerous and ground crews are being trucked into the area from two sides. Hell's canyon is deeper than Arizona's Grand canyon. Meanwhile another TPP men battled 28 other blazes started on the Payette forest by a severe ligthning storm two days ago. And at Spokane. Wash, a forest service official said 82 new fires were burning in eastern Montana, northern Idaho and part of eastern Washington. All were small and not considered dangerous. On another Idaho forest, the Nez Perce, 28 smoke jumpers and 220 others fought 38 more fires. Both the male and female coy ote help out in obtaining food for their young pups. I forested area." 'TiVCtA A wia I -iisiimate , their ceun JL 11 f J JmVeS try has L290.2$0 square miles of In U.S. Still in Good Condition SAN PEDRO, Calif, Aug. 20-(p) Taffy, the pregnant elephant, ar rived aboard the liner President Taft today showing no effects of her harrowing 33 day voyage from Bangkok, Siam. The 20-year-old pachyderm is due for an experience that would make any expenctant mother shudder. Shell have an audience of zoologists and cameramen when her baby is born anywhere from two to eight months hence. The spectators, however, will watch from behind a partition of "one-way" glass, Taffy won't even know they're around. Frank Whitbeck. one of her new owners, said this precaution will be taken to prevent Taffy from killing her biVyShe will have her own jirtfljpe, a non-private, man-made affair which her own ers are preparing for her at near by Thousand Oaks. Here she will give birth to the calf she has been expecting for the past 16 months. It will be the first one bom in. this country since 1917, says Whitbeck. ' An ordinary elephant Is worth about $4000. Whitbeck values Taf fy, in her present condition, at $10,000. She and her baby, if it lives, will be worth 125,000, league Ilolor Company IS GIVING Terrific Deals On Now 1949 Kaiser-Frazer Cars "The Best Deal In Town" WE HAVE THE AMAZING Hew Kaiser Traveler For immediate delivery. Why not treat yourseli to a free trip and take factory deliv ery. We can arrange it Teagne Holor Company 3SS N. Liberty Salem Phone 2-4173 Yes, there Is just three more weeks left to the summer vacation period, and that means just three weeks more before your eyes will again undr go the strain of hard work and study. Many poor school marks can ha traced to faulty vision. Let us catch this possible weakness of your eyes before school startsl 11 ) Dr. Henry E. I lords Dr. Kenneth W. Morris Optometrists At IIOBRIS OPTICAL CO. 444 State St. Phone 3-5528 e Dr. Henry E. Morris Dr. Kenneth W. Morrfe in-PWateJy$13ertof Dr. Heitman said, "the mortal- TRtr CLASSIC LOOMS CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex.. Auf 20 -)- Schoolboy football stars of 1948 from 27 states arrive here tomorrow to open training for the All-American same next Saturday ni(ht The greatest majority of the boys scheduled to take part In the east-west classic at 13,000 ca parity Buccaneer stadium will come by air from points from Maine to California and Washing ton tJ Florida. slag. This will represent a saving and gam? of $10 per ton. a factor that should appeal to the steel in dustry. -i t Federal Aid in Flodd Control Project Sought Federal aid for a flood control program now being conducted by a group pf farmers near Jefferson was asked Saturday by Marion County judge Murphy in a letter to Rep. jUValter Norblajl. Heavy; crop damage and soif ero sion caused by overflowing waters at the confluence of the jtforth and South Santiam rivers prompt ed the farmers to undertake a project Of clearing and straighten ing water channels to preveqt fu ture damage. MurpHy said the group Is mak ing "heeoic efforts" to finisji the project and has improved the situ ation, but he doubts ultimate suc cess without federal help. J The project, if successful, would protect about 5.000 acres of bot tom land in both Linn and Marlon counties! Murphy ald. a ity rate of the bulbar type of polio in pregnancy is so high that we hardly expected Mrs. John son to ' pull through. The 22-year-old husband left his job as a railroad telegrapher at Wenatchee, Wash., when his wife was stricken. The Johnsons have another child, a two-year-old boy. BOWLERS TO FOLLOW NCAA NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20 - (P) The n;xt Sugar Bowl game will be played under the newly pro posed NCAA rules regulating post acnon college football contests. "rank Schaub, president of the Mid - Winter j Sports association which sponsors the annual grid iron classic here, announced today ; the Sugar Bowl's executive com-' 1 mittee had studied the NCAA pro posals for bowl games and would inaugurate the plan at the next game on Jan. 2. Unions Seek to Reapportion; Legislature I PORTTLAND, Aug. 20-P-jLabor opened the move today to reap portion 1 legislative representation in Oregon. i At a meeting called by the AFL State Federation of Labor six groups decided to sponsor an ini tiative measure to go on the bal lot in November, 1950. ' The state AFL organization vot ed at this summer's;! convention to promote the reapportionment Other! groups represented ;today were the State CIO, Young Iemo crats. Young Republicans, the State Grange and the Farmers' union. The Grange and the FarmV I er s union nave noi yet lormany endorsed the idea. A committee was parsed to study procedures for reapportionment. Pastor Silent On Klan at Green's Rites By Bern Price ATLANTAt Aug. 20 -6fV The crosses of the Ku Klux Klan fol lowed Imperial Wizard Samuel Green to his grave today. And so did hundreds of his friends, relatives, unmasked klans men, minor politicians and police men. A stranger, however, would not have known that this crowd had gathered to bury the thin, fana tical little man who preached "white supremacy" for 31 years. Not once did the minister, the Rev. Arthur Van Gibson, mention the name of the 59-year-old phy sician and neither did he mention the wizard's works on 'earth. Dr. Gibson simply asked God to alleviate the sufferings of Dr. Green' family. Otherwise the services were straight out of the Presbyterian book of common prayer. Auto Thief Hits Driver v - .City police early Sunday morn ing . were seeking a man who stole a car from the 200 block of Ferry street and assaulted the owner. Ervin Joseph Sisk, 27. Salem general delivery told authorities the man was in his parked car when he went to get it about 11:45 p.m. When Sisk attempted tor enter the car the man struck him in the face and drove off. First aid men treated Sisk for facial cuts and lacerations at the police station. Conscientious, Dignified J I I Service iniuvia-k laikWTOitf. mm 54S North Capitol f Tel 3-3672 OPEN t VERY FRIDAY MITE TIL 9 77 north liberty i mm rxn S&H GREEN STAMPS ARE YOUR EXTRA SAVINGSl n i l I 1 1 HIM I am ii p , r" P I p. ,6- ill'... 2 I rr ii - i - II - I STvrr-T-C'OOoO'O-" . ' I J II . ' ' sj ii i " t 1 ! - ' ? 1 ' : ' 'fi - ijS-i t ! 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