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New East Salem
Given Charter Night Send-off
By Charles Ireland
' t Btatt Writer. The Statesman
- Nearly 200 Lions club members and guests from Salem and the
valley, gave Salem's fourth Lions club the East Salem Lions a big
end-off Tuesday night at a charter-night banquet at the chamber of
commerce. - . .
Stearns Cushing. Jr., was installed as president of the new group
by Frank White, district governor from Gardiner. Cushing also ao
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FiveBukars
Indicted for
Spying for U.S.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb.-Sl-ff)-The
communist cress announced
. the indictment of five Bulgarians
on charges of spying for the Unit
ed States and termed the: AmerU
can legation here a spy . nest.' The
action came a few hours before
the United States broke diploma
tic relations with Bulgaria today.
One of the Bulgarians. : Michail
'Shipkov, 39, was quoted Las say
ing he hid in the legation attic
for several months before; his ar
rest. . . I '
Washington's decision to end re
lations broke a 32-day impasse
touched off January 19 when Bul
garia declared U. S. Minister Don
add R. Heath personna non grata
(unwanted) and demanded his re
call. The United States threatened
at that time to break off diploma-
i rclitimt iidImi th AmmmnA
was withdrawn. ;
Heath's1 name has been men
, tioned repeatedly in the I trial of
Traicho Kostov, former vice prem
ier who was executed in Decem
ber for treason. Prosecution wit
nesses declared Heath was impli
cated In plotting against the sec
urity of the communist state. ,
The newspapers told of the in
dictments under : this heading:
States in Sofia center of plots
and espionage against the peo
ple's republic of Bulgaria."
The five Bulgarians were charg
ed with transmitting political,
' economic and military information
to the American intelligence ser-
. .vice. ) ..I''
Heading the list are Shlpkov,
former legation interpreter, and
, Phone operator at the legation.
The indictment said Shipkov
: testified in a pre-trial confession,
that Heath "every day and at
very separate occasion sowed
among the employes of tne lega
' tion j the idea that the ' present
communist-led government soon
would be. chanced. :
Latourette to Seek
U. S. Senate Post
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PORTLAND, Feb. IMflVHo-
ward F. Latourette, 66, Portland
attorney and former democratic
national committeeman for Ore
gon,, today announced he. was a
democratic candidate for the UJS.
senate. : . I
He is the first democrat to
announce candidacy for the seat
now held by Republican Wayne
Morse. He said h would file
Thursday.
"Latourette last was a candidate
in 1942, when he lost the demo
cratic nomination for governor to
Lew Wallace. 1
A native of Oregon City, he
was a member of the 1935 state
legislature and speaker of the
house in its special session.
MISSOURI TREES j
COLUMBIA, Mo. -(INS)- Miss
ouri farmers have planted more
than eleven million forest tree
seedlings in the past ten years.
In 1949 more than fourteen hun
dred 'farmers participated in the
program, planting 772,000 trees
nd two million multiflora
plants.
Crystal Gardens
; .Music by
Pep Edwards
. Old Tlma and Modern
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CRYSTAL GARDENS
TONIGHT
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Lions Qub
cepiea tne ciuo's cnarter irom
White on behalf of the 42 mem
bers.' . -
"Ltonism is Just another way of
saying living to serve others," said
Glen Wade in the night's main
address. He said the "glory of
Lionism was in helping with the
organization's civic projects which
include community betterment,
education, safety programs, aid to
the blind and youth activities.
Cushing said the east Salem
club was inheriting "not only the
good name of Lions! everywhere,
but also the opportunity and res
ponsibility that went with it."
- .Gifts presented to the new club
from other Lions organizations in
cluded an American flag from the
Hollywood club, a pen from the
West Salem dub, a speaker's stand
from the Salem club, and a gavel
and beu from district 36.
Edward A. Handle of the Holly'
wood club was tall-twister for the
occasion and kept the program
Uveiy.
.Past district governors intro
duced by Toas toaster A! Crose
were Harry Scott. R. W. (Joe)
Land. Robert M. Fischer. Jr.. and
Merrill D. Ohling. all of Salem,
and Dr. A. L. V. Smith of Silver
ton. Also introduced were Dr. Floyd
South, governor of the Portland
district; Burton Dunn of Corvallis,
deputy district governor; and
Frank Powell of Silverton, zone
chairman.
Other clubs represented were
Dayton, Heedsport and Mill City.
The new club was sponsored by
the Salem Lions club. A. E. uan
ielson was In charge of arrange
ments for charter night.
The following officers also were
installed: first vice-president, Roy
Stewart: second vice-president.
John Riches; third vice-president.
A. E. Danielson; secretary, Wil
liam Pero; treasurer, Louis Law
rence; lion tamer, Joseph Tomp
kins, tail twister. Clayton fore
man; directors, Maurice toner.
Ace Fish, Harold Godkln and Vir
gil Pade.
SearchTurns
To Sea for
Lost Airmen
VANCOUVER. Feb. 2l-(CP)
Search for five missing United
States airmen moved out to sea
today after the finding of an
abandoned life raft led to the be
lief that at least one of the men
landed in the water.
Search for the men had been
concentrated on Princess Royal
island, ' 400 miles northwest of
here, where' 12 of the 17-man
crew were found.
Latest clue to the possible fate
of the airmen came today from a
crew member of the fishing boat
Cape Bathurst which picked up
the raft in whale Channel be
tween Princess Royal and Gill is
lands. R. C. A. F. spokesmen are re
assessing search techniques that
up to now have been based on the
assumption that all the crew hit
dry land when they bailed out of
their flaming B-38 last Tuesday.
Indications are that an airman
inflated the small raft after he
hit the water. Its supply of pro
visions had been opened. One
theory is that the flier paddled to
shore and then abandoned it.
The dinghy will be sent to Van
couver for identification by Capt.
Harold Barry, pilot of the plane,
and two of his crew. The men
flew here from Fort Worth, Tex.
to aid in the search. .
Meanwhile, four parties of 150
men are combing the rugged.
gaie-swept lsiana for further tra
ces of the men.
Many Scales, Gas
Pumps Discovered
To Be Inaccurate
A large number of scales and
fuel pumps in Oregon were found
to be giving short measure dur in
1849, the state agricultural de
partment reported Tuesday.
Approximately 20 ner cent nf
the heavy dutv scales tested h
the department were condemned
aiong witn 7.75 per cent of the
small scales.
Of the retail gasoline fuel pumps
tested 11 ner cent wer tmmA tn
be giving short measure. Twenty-
per cent or wnoiesale fuel
Pumps also were fatirui -rifjwtiM
Approximately 25 per cent of the
fuel Dumns tested ww oivin
customers more gasoline than they
tuougm iney were receiving.
Hello Friends
Used to be harms Almond Duck
only one In hrUe while now able to
let duck every day on account of
awfully doep iroeM machinery mow
in operation so wo are having al
mond Duck every nlte. allUmt. You
order, you like. Much hard cook,
taka loos time, many operattoaa
but wa settum almost ready in day. .
time then when you order at nits
we finish up pretty quick so yon
are not watting lone time. You
order, you like. Ohl yea I'm aayine
that before but I am so very aura
you order, yon like I am saying It
repeatinc. Maybe you dont want
ing so much to eat you like order
noodle, we make best Chinese
Noodio in Free Country (XT. 8. A.)
lots pork, lots es ra. lots creen on
ion, evetyUunf very best make
very fine oat. You come up shake
my hand, you then be my friend I
cook for you anything yon want,
I'm very fine cook, beat tn country,
very modest excuse pis ass. but,
very tine cook. You try. you liks.
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(that's my name, sure)
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This vacant 1st at the soatheast corner of Capitol and Center streets may be site of a new service station
If a xoninr commission recommeadaUon of Tuesday night Is accepted by the etty cmbcO. Tbe lot Is
pictured from Capitol street, looking across Center street to the now-ballding Owl Drag Co. boilding
in the Capitol Shopping center,
Parking Relief for Statehouse
Area Called for by Gty Zoners
(Story also on page 1.)
Automobile parking relief In the statehouse area was called for
Tuesday night by Salem city zoning commissioners in response to
preliminary suggestions of the new state capitol planning commission.
The city zoners also showed resistance to proposals from Salem
school district 24 for vacation of 10 streets and alleys which have
been dedicated in properties now owned by the school district.
"Parking near the statehouse
will have to be relieved if It
takes parking meters or one-hour
limits to do it" predicted City
Manager J. L. Franzen as the local
commission conynented on pos
sible purchase of four or more
city blocks north of Center street
by the 19S1 state legislature.
Favor Purchase
Several zoning commission
members said they favored im
mediate state purchase of four city
blocks, on a block by block basis.
If the state legislature accepts a
plan for extension of a capitol
zone on north from Union street,
lots in that area should be acquir
ed as they are offered from time
to 'time, it was stated.
Franzen said the growing park
ing pinch in the statehouse area
should dictate that one whole
block north of Center street be
turned over to parking for state
employes. The other three blocks
should be converted to park
grounds until needed for state
buildings, Franzen said.
Asked if he thought state work
ers in the Capitol or Court street
office buildings would leave their
cars three blocks distant, the city
manager responded that the lack
of parking space for people trans
acting business with the state soon
would make it necessary to fur
ther restrict parking along Court
and nearby streets.
Other zoning commission busi
ness last night at city hall:
Accept Preliminary
Accepted preliminary overtures
from Paul F. Murphy and William
E. Healy for change from class I
to II zoning for an apartment
house project on a 150 by 163-foot
lot at South High and Kearney
streets.
Referred to the zoning code gen
eral revision committee a prelim'
inary request by Attorney Otto
Paul us, representing Deena Hart,
for business zoning on the west
side of North Capitol street from
the two lots Just north of Madison
street on to Hood street four
blocks south. The Hart property
is near snippmg street.
Set a March 21 hearing at city
hall on long-deferred zoning of
new city area west of the river.
Recommended that the city
council take favorable action on
a state highway department rec
ommendation of 40-foot setback
lines on .Portland road from the
underpass nortn to city limits.
Vacations Coaslierod
The school board request that
10 streets and alleys bo vacated
was taken under consideration by
the zoners, pending a March 27
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Today!
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(sutesman pnetoj.
public hearing set by the city
council.
City Attorney Chris Kowitz
pointed out that some of the va-.
cations would involve valuable
property, including a 1.3 -acre
area In west Salem, where a 44
foot street one-fourth mile long
on schdol property is considered
as a future school building site.
The attorney said a school
board letter had asked the vaca
tions at no cost other than an
$800 sum which the city was to
match in purchasing a $1,600
right - of - way to substitute for
Raynor street. The latter street,
subject of a vacation controversy
between the school board and
property owner Myrl G. Clark for
many months, lies across one end
of the Leslie Junior high school
cinder track, but never was open
ed to public use.
No Objections Voiced
City law now enables the city
council to charge "benefit fees
where streets are vacated to the
advantage of abutting property
One commissioner suggested that
it might be advisable to have the
city pay the entire $1,600 right
of-way cost near Leslie school
and then charge the school board
for benefits in the other vaca
tions. No objections were voiced to
vacating streets already occupied
by the Bush, Highland and old
high school buildings. Questioned
were three streets and alleys in
west Salem and three in the
layground area north of Salem
igh school. Remonstrances from
property owners near the latter
site at Pearl and Baker streets
were anticipated.
BRITISH DELIGHT
HOLLYWOOD -fINS)- Para
mount studios was surprised when
Bob Hope's. "The Paleface." was
named the Number One comedy
in is in a recent British poIL
The comedy is strictly American
humor.
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Smoke Report
May Be Clue to
Missing Plane
LETHBRIDGE, Alta., Feb. 21-(CP)-Bad
weather today forced
a U. S. army plane to turn back
from a projected sweep over the
mountains near Waldo, B. C, to in
vestigate the possibility that puffs
Of smoke seen there were signals
from survivors of a misting U.S.
transport.
The plane, a U. S. army Sanson,
came to Lethbridge today from
Cutbank, Mont- and headed for
Cranbrook, B. C. The weather
closed in forcing it to turn back.
An attempt will be made to re
sume the search tomorrow.
The transport, a C-54 carrying
44 persons, was bound for Great
Falls, Mont- from Anchorage.
Alaska, Jan. 26 and last reported
by radio at Snag, Y.T.
There have been repeated ru
mors, in the Waldo-Kingsgate area
that a big plane was heard over
there the same night.
A government road foreman re
ported seeing puffs of smoke from
a mountain near Waldo, close to
the international border in south
eastern B. C, on Feb. 2. He said
the puffs were repeated at inter
vals.
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FromAcheson
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -(Ph
Secretary of State Acheson today
flatly denied that -a spy ring is
operating in the state department,
as charged by Senator McCarthy
(R-Wis.)
Acheson, at the capitol to open
the administration's drive for con
tinuation of the European recov
ery program, was asked by a re
porter if there is any truth to the
charges McCarthy made in a five
hour tpcech to the senate last
night.
"There is none." Acheson re
pl'rd firmly.
The reporter asked whether
Ache.on plans to reply to McCar-
"I don't intend to get Into an
aigument with the senator,' Ach
eson answered.
Later in the day. republican ob
jections temporarily blocked an
administration move for a; inves
tigation by the senate foreign re-,
lations committee into McCarthy's
charges.
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
democratic leader, offered a re
solution calling for an inquiry.
Senator Brewster (R-Me) block
ed action on the proposal because
he said it gave no assurance that
President Truman would lift a
ban against congressional commit
tees obtaining the loyalty files of
department employes under fire.
Acheson said he is satisfied with
the "loyalty and devotion" of state
department employes and plans no
changes in the department's loy
alty check: program.
McCarthy's principal allegations
were that:
1. A "Big Three" two men and
a woman is directing a spy ring
within the state department
2. Eighty-one communists are
current or former employes of the
state department.
3. A member of a communist
front organization who couldn't
get security clearance for a state
department job turned up as a
White House speech writer.
Negotiations Fail to Head
Off Illinois Coal Strike
SPRINGFIELD, m, Feb. 21-()
Union and operator negotiations
failed tonight to avert a strike by
10,000 Progressive Mine Workers
in Illinois. ,
About 45 minutes before the
midnight strike deadline set by
the PMW, the negotiators broke
off talks which had lasted through
the day and night.
AGREE ON TAX REPEALER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-VP)-Committees
for the senate and
house agreed today on an oleo
margarine tax repealer after strik
ing out a senate requirement that
colored margarine sold at retail be
put up in triangular packages.
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Trouble Calms
BETHANY, Okla, Feb. 21-(fl-Police
cruisers guarded the Beth
any high school grounds today.
But there wasn't any trouble
among students over yesterday's
expulsion of five teen-age leaders
in a student walkout.
About 30 students walked out
Friday following a kissing incident
when the basketball queen was
crowned. The "strike" was against
strict school rules in this strait
laced town of 2500 a half a dozen
miles west of Oklahoma City.
Police Chief O. F. McLain said
he sent two officers to the school
"to protec'; school officials," Super
intendent Harry Ed.vards and
Principal Mrs. Alnzo Norwood.
The school board met tonight
and reviewed the affair. Many
j parents who protested , too harsh
"w7re presenU
discipline and control over stu-
Wife-Sharing
Not Verigin
Idea Claimed
NELSON, B. C. Feb. 21-(CPJ-
Michael (The Archangel) Veri
gin, 70-year-old Doukhobor lead
er, did not Introduce the practice
of wife-sharing to the radical
sons of freedom, witnesses testi
fled in court here.
He is charged with conspiracy
and at his preliminary hearing
today Mary Stoochinoff told the
court:
"We exchanged wives and hus
bands before Michael came;1 and,
she said "I never saw him prac
ticing nudism."
Verigin, head of a Doukhobor
colony at Hillers, B. C, on Van
couver island, is charged with en
couraging sect members to assem
ble when nude, and to commit
adultery.
"Our neoDle are not asalnst
God, but against man-made laws
that punish them," Mrs. Stooch
inoff testified.
Other witnesses told of fantas
tic rites of their sect and of
strange baptismal ceremonies at
the height of lightning and thun-
aer storms.
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Party Red Led
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 JPh-
A government undercover agent
in the communist party testified
today the reds control the prog
ressive party in Pittsburgh.
Matthew Cvetlc, 41-year-old
Pittsburgh insurance salesman
identified scores of 'people as com
munists and named numerous or
ganizations he said the commun
ists control like the American
Slav congress. Most of the names
are not widely known.
Cvetic was giving the house un-
American activities committee
chapter 1 of how he Joined the
communist party in 19i3, worked
his way up in it, and all the time
filed secret reports to the FBI. He
said he spent two years , getting
into the party and seven i as an
active member. ,
Tomorrow, he told reporters.
there will be more details 1 about
the progressive party the! third
party created in 1948 by former
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace. -
Then, he said, he will go Into
communist activities in the United
Electrical workers union and the
Isteel and coal industry and wind .
up with the story of red plans for
violent overthrow of the United '
States government
Cvetic said he was appearing
before the committee by "mutual
consent" with the FBI. He wasnt
an actual FBI agent; he said, but
the exact connection will come out
later.
FIXE STUKES COLLEGE
BIG RAPIDS, Mich Feb. 21
-(AVFira raged through Ferris
Institute, a state trade and bus
iness college, destroying the com
merce and pharmacy buildings to
night. Only three of the school's
1,200 students were Injured.
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