The Oregon statesman., January 21, 1950, Page 1, Image 1

Oregon to Abandon
Grading of Butter;
Laws Ruled Illegal
Cancelation of all state butter grading regulations was announced
Friday by State Agricultural Director E. L. Peterson.
Peterson's announcement followed a court decision earlier in the
day by Judge Earl C. Latourette which declared state laws authorizing
butter grading to be unconstitutional.
iJitjurett. sworn in Thursday as state supreme court Justice.
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The state department Is chang
ing its position relative to Franco's
Spain. Secretary Acheson an
nounced Friday that the United
States will support a move in
United Nations to repeal the re
solution of three years ago urging
nations to withdraw ambassador?
from Madrid because of the fascist
character of the regime. Britain
will Join In the move, as will a
number of Latin American coun
tries, though the Russian bloc will
probably oppose.
Acheson says that, this shift
doesn't signify appro'al of the
Franco government, but merely
Indicates a desire to resume nor
mal diplomatic intercourse with
Spain. He observed that the regime
there seemed securely established
and Intimated this government
would consider extension of cre
dits to Spain for specific and eco
'nnmlrallv tustifiable moiects.
This decision will touch off
rreat hue and err among anti
Franco elements. They are not all
communists or socialists, ay any
means. They include most all
Invor of liberty who re eretted to
gee Franco win the Spanish civil
war in the lirst place iwnicn ne
AA with the heln of Mussolini
(and Hitler) and who believe that
his rule has been oppressive of
freedom ana stming to me coun
trv'a economy.
These charges are true; but the
western allies lost the ODDortunity
they had in 1945 to push Franco
off his seat or power, men a de
mand from Britain and the United
States could have displaced the
generalissimo. -Instead, Britain
both under conservative ana
(Continued on Editorial Page 4)
Brotherhood
Week Organize
Salem committees for obser
vance of Brotherhood week, Feb
ruary 19 to 26, will complete or
ganization and plans at a meet
ing Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.. Chair
man Joseph B. Felton announced
Friday.
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speakers and programs for schools
X is sponsored by the Na
onference of Christians
The committees, which will meet
at Salem branch of the First Na
tional Bank of Portland, Include
the following:
Churches and synagogues, the
Rev. Brooks II. Moore and Dr.
Harry Brown; service clubs, Fel
ton; schools, Dr. Robert D. Gregg;
press, Eric Bergman; radio, R. J.
Schmidt, Dave Hoss and Richard
xason; movies, Leo Jienaerson.
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page 10.)
Employe of
Brink's Held
BOSTON, Jan. 20-hWVA Brink's,
Inc., employe who failed to report
for work on schedule caused a
flurry tonight In the search for the
bandits who robbed the firm of
$1,500,000 last Tuesday.
: An alarm was broadcast at 9:05
p.m- EST, for William L. Manter,
49, by Boston police and, within
an hour, he was located at his
home in suburban Waltham.
Waltham police took him to
headquarters to await Boston au
thorities who had said they wanted
him for questioning.
There was no charge - placed
gainst Manter.
Police gave no explanation for
the fact Manter was at home when
the alarm was sent out.
Animal Craclccrs
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ruiea rriaay, in nis last aecision
as a circuit judge, that permitting
graders to decide on flavor of but
ter by taste could lead to abuses.
Peterson said he would not ap
peal the decision. The attack on
the butter regulations, naming Pe
terson as defendant, had been fil
ed by the Albany Creamery asso
ciate .n.
The case was argued Monday in
Marion county circuit court. La
tourette, in issuing his opinion,
said,
Accordinr to Caprice
"The department, according to
the whim or caprice of its officers,
under such in act, would have
authority to classify butter as
sweet, sour, pungent or in any
other respect that the taste buds
of the taster Indicated.'
"It is obvious the department of
agriculture is given a wide dis
cretion in butter classification
without any rule for its guidance
in exercise of such discretion," La
tourette said.
The complaint attacking butter
grading rules, filed by Attorney
Ralph E. Moody of Salem, charged
that federal regulations were ade
quate to prohibit sale of ungraded
butter.
Into Three Classes
I. Grading regulations classified
butter into three grades, A, B and
C, according to flavor, texture,
odor and acidity, Peterson said Fri
day night
He said the regulations enabled
the public to know what quality
of butter was being purchased and
provided a penalty for misrepre
sentation of grades by producers.
An offense was classified as a mis
demeanor. Peterson said a bill seeking to
repeal the law authorizing butter
grading was introduced during the
last legislature but was defeated.
The bill was introduced by the
Oregon Dairy Manufacturers asso
ciation and the Oregon Dairy as
sociation, he said.
Pay Increase
Due for 2,055
State Employes
Bigger pay checks will be re-
deved at the end of this month by
approximately 2,055 state employ
ees.
This group. Including some 700
in Salem, is earmarked for annual
merit salary increases averaging
about $10 monthly, it was stated
Friday by James M. Clinton, act
ing director of the State Civil Ser
vice Commission.
Clinton emphasized that all
pay increases were granted on the
basis of. above average service.
It was not a blanket increase, as
only about 20 per cent of the state's
employees are affected.
The civil service official also an
nounced plans for thf first state
civil service examinations for hos
pital workers, affecting about 600
state employees, mostly In Salem.
(Additional details on page 2)
Don't Get Hurt;
Hospitals in
Salem Crowded
Don't fall in the slush hard
enough that you have to go to a
hospital they're too crowded.
At Salem General hospital Fri
day wards were already crowded,
and Superintendent Lillian Mc
Donald said all of yesterday's sur
gical cases would be put to bed
in the hallways, joining some pa
tients already there.
Similar conditions were reported
at Salem Memorial hospital. About
a dozen patients were bedded in
halls there. Facilities have been
overcrowded since the holidays,
the superintendent's office said.
SLAVS ASK SECOND LOAN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -V
Yugoslavia has appealed to the
United States for a second Ameri
can government load, diplomatic
officials disclosed today.
Coates May Relocate Proposed Capitol-Zone
Apartment House on Hollywood
Br Robert C Gangware
City Editor, The luttimu
The proposed North Summer
street apartment house which stir
red capitol zoning controversy may
be relocated in the Hollywood dis
trict. It developed Friday.
Robert Coates, Portland builder
who obtained a Salem construc
tion permit for a seven-story 36
unit apartment structure, told May
or K u Elfstrom yesterday he
would transfer the project to prop
erty he owns In the Hollywood
area of north Salem If the FHA
financing commitment can be
transferred. I
The controversial site on the
west side of North Summer street
between Marion and Union streets
falls within four-block area
which has been recommended for
state purchase to provide land for
expanding tho capitol group north
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Monmouth Water Supply
Cut; Creek Fed into Lines
OCE Classes
Close, Dallas
Area Flooded
luttimin Newt Service
MONMOUTH, Jan. 20 Mon
mouth was a city without water
today, amidst a veritable sea of
snow and slush, after the weather
had dealt a double blow to its
supply line. x
But late tonight water was be
ing pumped into the city system
from a creek on the nearby Riddle
farm.
Monmouth's water troubles be-
Monmouth Twice-Dry,
Still Needs Water "Wagon
MONMOUTH. Jan. ZO-PhDe-spite
being doable-dry already
Monmouth city fathers made
plans today to go one step fur
ther, The city charter prohibits sale
of Intoxicating beverages; a
break in a supply line cat the
city's water snpply; and on top
of that plans went ahead to put
Monmouth on the water wagon.
Faced with icy classrooms if
water wasn't supplied to the
boilers at the school here, city
fathers borrowed 'the wagon
from Independence to haul wa
ter to Monmouth.
gan Thursday when an ice-laden
tree crushed the pipe line near
the intake on Tee I creek. Crews
battled deep snow drifts this morn
ing to. reach the break and had
completed repairs at 3:30 p.m. Just
a half hour before floods carried
away the old Bridgeport bridge
and with it another section of the
line.
City officials estimated that the
new break at the bride site could
not be repaired before Saturday
night. The city had earlier con
structed concrete piers for a sus
pension bridge over the Luckia
mute at Bridgeport and work was
being sped to swing the pipeline
across.
Meanwhile Monmouth was faced
with getting along on half a sup
ply of water which the Riddle
farm pumper could get into the
lines. The water will be heavily
chlorinated, and hand bills were
being circulated in the city for
water users to boil it before drink
ing. Oregon College of Education was
forced to suspend classes Friday
because no water was available
for the boilers in its steam heat
ing system.
The 175.000 gallons in the City
reservoir were kept there, for use
in case a fire should break out. A
fire late Thursday night drained
heavily on the reserve supply. The
blaze did about $2,000 damage to
the Mark Partlow residence.
Dallas was having its water
troubles Friday too, but it wasn't
a lack of it. Melted snow flooded
a theatre, furniture store and
beauty shop. Power failures in the
area stopped sump pumps and
permitted the water to rise In the
buildings.
Weight of snow collapsed five
small buildings at Dallas and ice
coating on wires disrupted power
and telephone service in that area.
Falls City was without telephone
service until Friday forenoon.
Scattered outages of power nad
telephone plagued residents
throughout Thursday night and
Friday.
Rep. Chine Igren Told to
Vacate Fair Board Post
State Rep. Herman - H. Chind
gren, Molalla, will have to give up
his post as a member of the
Clackamas county fair board. At
torney General George Neuner
ruled Friday.
In an opinion for District At
torney Leonard L. Lindas of
Clackamas county, Neuner ruled
that holding both jobs violates the
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from Center street. Coates was ask
ed to withdraw his project before
it became an expensive obstacle
to state purchase.
Coate's Hollywood property is at
the northwest corner of McCoy and
Hunt streets. Coates acquired these
two properties and a third one in
south Salem, all for eventual con
struction of apartment houses.
Mayor Elfstrom, af tet conferring
In Portland with Coates, praised
the builder for his "reasonable at
titude in this matter." Elfstrom
said, "I feel sure Mr. Coates will
work with us in relocating the
apartment. He is a very fair-minded
businessman."
Coates told Elfstrom that If FHA
commitment can't be changed to
the Hollywood site in the same
amount and rent class ($63 to $73),
he would consider further an al
ternate site near the state capitoL
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Operation Snowsliovel XSLZZZSZ
Salem eity street crews are busy removing as much snow from streets
as possible before gutters and basements are swamped. At left is a
Vi shin sky Calls Acheson
Administration Beats Down House Rules Change
By Roger D. Greene
"WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -WV
By the comfortable margin of 53
votes, the Truman administration
today beat down a proposed
change in the house rules which
threatened vast segments of the
president's "Fair Deal" program.
The vote was 236 to 183 on a
roll call.
The Victory was sweet to Mr.
Truman, coming just a year to the
day from his inauguration for a
full elected term as president. He
had thrown his full weight against
the rules change, and told a White
House visitor the result was high
ly satisfactory.
To those southern democrats
and republicans who favored re
storing bill-blocking powers to
the rules committee, the outcome
was a decided setback.
The margin of the victory
startled even the administration
leaders who engineered it.
Cheers burst from the demo
cratic side of the chamber and
from the packed galleries as the
outcome was announced.
The final count showed 64 re-
mblicans and one Amcrican
aborite Joined 171 democrats to
defeat the proposed change.
On the losing side were 98 re-
Eiblicans and 85 democrats, the
tter chiefly southerners interest
ed in throwing up a new barrier
against "civil rights' legislation.
After the heat of tbj voting was
over, members of both parties
agreed that the test, though im
portant, didn't guarantee the suc
cess of President Truman's legis
lative proposals in ' the months
ahead. 1
The vote simply means that the
rules committee, which is domi
nated by republicans and south
ern democrats, will not have ab
solute say-so over what measures
reach the house floor.
LIQUID CONSUMPTION CUT
PORTLAND. Jan. 20 -ifr)- Ore-
gonians didn't drink quite as much
liquor last year, the state liquor
control commission reported to
day. The drop amounted to 7 per
cent $37,680,824 in sales compar
ed with 1948 sales of $40,487,761.
District Site
Coates plans to visit Salem Mon
day to view some sites suggested
by the board of control or offered
to him directly by local property
owners. The site would have to be
similar In size to the 66 by 166
foot lot on North Summer street
which Coates bought for approxi
mately $12,000.
Elfstrom said Coates indicated
he would not expect reimburse
ment for extra costs in designing
and engineering to adapt the pro
posed building to a new site.
If Coates la able to put up his
first Salem apartment house in
Hollywood, he probably would hold
his North Summer street lot until
the 1931 state legislature acts on
proposals for further state expan
sion northward, according to the
mayor.
Tha Oregon Statesman, Salem.
3 Pen Con victs Die after
Drinking Wood Alcohol
The death of three state penitentiary convicts from drinking wood
alcohol was reported Friday by Warden George Alexander.
Dead are: Samuel E.tMalone, 43; Daniel W. Rivenbark, 42; and
Edward H. Reese, 24. All were employed as cooks.
Alexander said Malone died Thursday about 6 p.m., Reese died
four hours later and Rivenbark was found dead in his cell Friday
morning.
Marion County Comer L. D.
Howell investigatied the deaths
and attributed the cause to poison
ing from the alcohol.
Alexander said Reese, who was
cooking for the prison hospital,
admitted taking alcohol Wednes
day night from the hospital labor
atory. Some alcohol was found in
Rivenbark's celL
Malone, serving his fourth pris
on term, entered the penitentiary
April 27, 1948, from Douglas coun
ty to serve three years for forgery.
Rivenbeck was serving 12 years
for assault and robbery while arm
ed with a dangerous weapon. He
was received April 16, 1949, from
Josephine county.
Reese entered the prison June
18, 1949, from Klamath county to
serve 10 years for larceny.
The bodies are being held at a
Salem funeral home pending ar
rival of relatives who will ar
range funeral services and burial.
Explosion Rips
'Big Inch' Line
CALDWELL, O., Jan. 20-6TVA
pre-dawn explosion ripped 150
feet of the "big inch" gas pipe
line ouT of the earth today and
spewed flames from its ragged
crater.
Jagged steel hurtled in all direc
tions. Fire shot upward 500 feet
and burned black a 60-acre patch
of farmland, including a deserted
house and five outbuildings.
The flames, fed by gas piped
from the oil fields of the south
west, raged uncontrolled for three
hours.
But, no one was hurt.
Cause of the explosion was not
determined.
Sheriff Clayton McKee said he
was told enough gas burned during
the three hours to supply New
York City a day or more.
Breaks Ankle
In Fall on Ice
Mysll Wellman, 14, daughter of
Mr. - and Mrs." Rolland Wellman,
2487 Maple ave., was in Salem
Memorial hospital Friday night
with a fractured right ankle in
curred about noon when she fell
on the ice at her home.
The girl was treated by Salem
first aidmen and taken to the
hospital by private ambulance. The
accident occurred while she was
assisting in putting in a supply of
sawdust fuel, first aidmen reported.
Oregon. Saturday. January 21. 1950
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truck being loaded with snow scooped up by loader on South Com
mercial street, and at right is a truck dumping the dirty slushy snow
into Shelton ditch at Liberty and Mill streets. (Statesman photos.)
Blast 'Monstrous Lies'
Load Limits
Reduced on
Five Highways
Load limits were cut on five
highways Friday by the state
highway commission, to prevent
damage by heavy vehicles.
The weight of a loaded vehicle
was restricted to 36,000 pounds on
the following routes:
Silver Creek falls highway from
North Santiam highway junction
to Silverton. r
Woodburn - Estacada highway,
from Pacific highway to Cascade
highway.
All of Three Rivers highway..
Salem-Dayton highway, from
Dayton to Spring Valley road.
The highway commission -removed!
the weight restrictions
from (the Oregon Coast highway.
Coos Bay-Roseburg highway, and
McKenzie highway.
State to Scrap
Timeclocks
Eleven familiar landmarks of
the Oregon secretary of state's de
partment soon will be removed.
Some 800 employes no longer
will face them with great daily
regularity. Some 22 daily "line
ups' will be eliminated.
Due for removal are the depart
ment's 11 time clocks, meticulous
veterans of many year's standing
which Secretary of State Earl T.
Newbry has decided no longer
worth the expense of punching
cards ond maintenance.
No other state departments use
the clocks. The secretary of
state's office is subdivided Into
sections with supervisors, who
will be responsible for their sub
ordinates' work hours after Feb
ruary 1.
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By Eddie Gilmore and
Thomas P. Whitney
MOSCOW. Saturday, Jan. 21-
(,V)- Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky today called "monstrous
and awkward" lies statements by
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson . that Russia is annexing
four northern provinces of China.
.He described Acheson's state
ments, made in a speech at the
National Press club in Washing
ton January 12, as "efforts to hide
behind a slanderous smokescreen
and place on the U.S.S.R. respon
sibility for the failure of his own
policies" in China.
Vishinsky's denial that Russia
is incorporating Manchuria, Inner
and Outer Mongolia, and Sinkiang,
co-incided with the arrival in
Moscow of Chou En-lai, foreign
minister of the Russian-recognized
Chinese People's republic.
The importance attached to
Vishinsky's statement is indicated
by the method of releasing it
Foreign correspondents were
summoned to the Kremlin at 1
a.m. to be handed copies of the
five-page document by Press Of
ficer u. P. Frantsev.
The usual method of answering
accusations by foreign statesmen
is through the government news
agency Taas or the newspapers
iTavaa ana xzvestia.
Vishinsky's denial of aggression
was absolutely categorical. He
said "that in all these declara
tions by Acheson there is not one
word of truth."
Hiss Case in
Hands of Jury
NEW YORK. Jan. 20 -OPV- The
Alger Hiss jury was locked up at
iu: p.m. (EST) tonightt after
failing to reach an agreement.
They debated the perjury char
ges against the former state de
partment aide for five hours and
seven minutes before beinc sent to
bed.
Almost immediately, they gave
evidence that this was to be no
quick, easy verdict.
Twice, the Jury returned to the
courtroom to clear tip questions
about the testimony. But they gave
no clue to their eventual decision,
Keizer Diking
District Forms
Formation of a Keizer diking
district to deal with flood control.
district to deal with flood control,
drainage and irrigation problems
was authorized Friday by the Ma-
rion county court.
An election of nine district di
rectors will be scheduled in the
area within the next month, the
court said. v- , )
Construction of a six-foot dike
nearly 400 feet in length, between
the Keizer revetment and Cum4
mings lane will be the chief pro
Ject of the new district I
. The dike will be constructed and
maintained by the U. S. corps of
engineers.
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Danger
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Ice in Columbia
Blocks Shipping;
Floods at Coast
By The AaaodaUd Press .
The Pacific Northwest' hlanUo
of snow was turning rapidly to
waier looay ana throughout the
region floods and the threat of
floods were being added to the
winter's oversupply of weather. ,
nam continued to pelt the great
white blanket, adding hourly to
the more than turn InrhM
ed over western Oreenn and
Washington in the last 48 hours.
Temperatures also were rising,
Portland Airline
Flights Land Here
lee on runways at the Pert
land airport forced all United
Airline flights to stop at Salem's
McXary field Friday afternoon
and night and preparations had
been made for all Saturday
flights to land here.
DC-6s and DC-3s rumbled on
to the 5400-foot north-sooth
runway at Salem at a near oae-an-hour
rate Friday and 14
flights were scheduled to sue the
field today. Limousines were
transporting Portland-b ond
passengers from Salem to Tort
land. melting millions of tons of snow
up to the 6,000 foot mark in thV
Cascades. .
The Willamette river was rising
slowly, but there was little threat
of flood in the next two days.
Temperatures at higher elevations
stayed low enough to hold much
of the week's snowfall and tho
weather forecast was only for
showers today and tonight
Only .flood possibility in the
valley Friday armeartd m
shaping!, at Jefferson where the
ou-uooaing anuam was rising ;
toward flood stage. The Willam
ette arSalcm had risen to 8.4 feet
All rivers were below ih fiwl
stage yesterday but the weather
bureau said the Chehalis river will
rwnrh flwf atatr an4 ha 9 f
above bank full at 8 cm. Saturday
at Grand Mound.
Flooding of nartur laiufc la
anticipated throughout the day,
with much of the valley down
stream from Ccntralia suffering.
Traffic interruption la expected
on lowlytng roads.
Slush Clearing
Continued rain, warmer tem
peratures and busy city engineer
crews conspired Friday to clear
much of the snow and slush from
Salem's downtown streets. Highest
reading at the McNary field
weamer, station rriaay was 4B.
The mercury was expected to top
50 today. A total of .57 Inches of
rain fell Friday.
Cross-mountain traffic was at a
standstill in Washington. All east
west highways in the state were
closed to through traffic by show
slides in the Cascade mountain
passes. North-south traffic suffer
ed similarly, with both bus and
train travel reduced to a crawl.
Telephone circuits were out ia
numerous places, necessitating .
much rerouting of long distance .
traffic. About 3,000 telephones
were out of order In Vancouver,
Wash., alone.
Carbon Copy
Oregon reports were much a
carbon copy of her northern neigh
bor. Telephones were out between
Astoria and Rainier; roads wero
under as much as 18 inche of
water between Seaside and Can-,
non Beach: the Spokane, Port
land and. Seattle rail line was
closed by a slide at Brightwood.
Ice on the Columbia river ham
pered traffic and the Interstate
bridge across the Columbia river
could not be opened because of
the weight of Ice which sheathed
14 f.AM .n
Phone and power crews fought
to repair thousands of damaged
lines. Astoria, isolated most of tho
day, got limited phone service re
stored late Thursday.
Two Southern Pacific freight
cara wctc ucraucu at inuwuiiue
above Gilchrist delaying passen
ger trains.
The Kilchls and Wilson riven
overflowed near Tillamook, cov
ering the coast highway but not
making It impasible.
The Columbia river highway
was still closed.
Oregon Motor Stages cancelled
an its Saturday and Sunday runs.
In Anltr ft wrvtM thai hi km that
had been plugging through ka '
and snow for a week. '
Bonneville power admlnistra-
uon suiierea repeatea power iau-
a M a M . f
ures, but most of the lines wera
repaired by lata Friday. The north
Bonneville - Troutdale line went
out when ice floes In the Colum
bia sagged the line crossing tba.
river.
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