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I m 5 j ; Malt : s : ii i. Hi Uf'm' Air Force Calls V 9 N i j i r ' ! j; To Meiv ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -(ff)-The air -force announced tonight the suspension of enlistments ex cept for personnel with previous air force service, A spokesman said the action Was taken due to heavy enlist ments and overcrowding of faci lities at air force indoctrination centers. He said it is hoped the suspension can be lifted about February 1. ? There are three exceptions to the order, he said. Still being accepted are personnel with prior air force service, applicants for the Womens Air Force (WAF), and young men who have been appointed to aviation cadet courses for pilots and navi gators. The air force spokesman told a reporter that it is hopedVto have the new Sampson air force base at Geneva, N. Y., ready for operation by February. He said this would greatly facilitate handling of enlistees. The AF re Washington Airliner Crash Kills 10, Including Salem-Bourid Pair ED WALL, Wash., Jan. 16-JP)-A twin-engined paisenger plane carried 10 persons to their deaths today as it hurtled gown through the snow and crashed near an eastern Washington farmhouse. All aboard the plane died seven passengers and three crew members. 1 Pilot Lloyd Rickman of Seattle said in his last radio message he DtP The country has been fed so many integers followed by ciphers in discussions of budgets, of costs of rearming, of taxes required that the people are in a daze. The pres ident's budzet submitted Monday totaled over $71 billion. We had i been told a few days before that rearming would push expendi tures up to $140 billion though that computation may have cov ered more than one year. Tax lev ies has been increased to provide from $5 to $8 billion more money; and the president calls for addi tional levies, perhaps as high as $20 billion. We simply can't com prehend spending on the scale now talked about. One reason for the increase is inflation. In the rush to stock pile essential materials and in the panicky forward buying of pri vate interests demand has out raced supply and prices have shot up. Another round of wage in creases and recurring rounds of price increases boosts prices and now these are hitting government in the face as it steps out to buy guns, shoes, uniforms, foodstuffs for an enlarged army. So fearful has the treasury department been of an increase in interest rates because of the added cost it would impose -on the government for its borrowings that it has resisted pressures of the federal reserve board to raise interest rates as a brake on inflation. The result is that where the government has saved pennies on interest it has lost hundreds of "dollars on higher prices due to uncontrolled infla tion. Yet tightening the money (Continued on Editorial Page, 4) Hit-Run Car Kills Elderly Sublimity Man State and county authorities early today sought a hit-and-run driver who fatally injured an el derly Sublimity man shortly be fore midnight Tuesday. State police identified the vic tim as John G. Halfman, 81. Of ficers said Halfman reportedly was struck as he crossed highway 222 near a .grocery store in Sub limity. Police said a witness to the ac cident chased the death car to Mill City before losing the trail. Halfman apparently was killed in stantly, according to officers. EISENHOWER TS LISBON LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 16-UP) Gen. Dwignt D. Elsenhower arriv ed tonight on the southern leg of his tour of Atlantic pact powers. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "CwtUn't w Kav ear mim chn9d trom Ctssdy? T) lids keep t2q tM HoplonsT PDQTjra kid ftWMYtMBT5i.(.iW, W- Enlistments cently took over this base which was a naval training station in World War If. The spokesman sid the prin cipal indoctrinationl center is the Lackland air force! base at San Antonio, Tex.., andf this base is badly overcrowded jnow and un able to handle further enlist ments at present. Both the navy jand the air force have been running far ahead of their quotas for volun teers. Early in January both ser vices limited tneir quotas of en listees to about l,OpO a day. Figures on current strength of these two branched of the serv ice are not available. In November an fpfficial state ment said air for eel strength was 540,000. Enlistments were heavier in November, December and thus far in January than were ex pected. The quota vf 1,000 a day set for the air force would in dicate its strength at around 600,000. was at an elevation? of 6,000 feet and "in trouble. t The Northwest Airlines plane a Martin 202 capable of carrying 36 passengers crashed and burn ed on the L. E. Buidy farm near this little Lincoln I county town about 20 milts west of Spokane. It had taken off from Spokane 15 or 20 minutes before on a flight to Seattle. The passengers aboard were list ed by the company jas: C. Edwards, Yakima, Wash.; W J. Craft, San Francisco; Robert R. Mann, 2509 No. Junette St. Taco ma, Wash.; Mr. arid Mrs. G. J. Milligan, Fairfax, Va.; Charles Wood, Seattle, andlW. H. Good- lowe, San Franciscan The crew members were Rick man, 33, Edmund J. Gander, 28, the co-pilot, and Joann Tabor, 22, all of Seattle. Airlines officials; in Spokane said they couldn t itell yet what had happened. "There just wasn't anything lett to see, a reporter said. Sgt William Todd of the state patrol said there were no complete bodies found. I The Bundy family was just sit ting down to eat its noon meal when they heard the plane. "We heard this! loud noise. Bunday said. "It sojunded awfully low. Then came Ithe crash. It sounded like it cane right over the house and hit ipbout 800 feet away. j The wind was blowing hard and snow was falling fhen the plane crashed. Ambulance workers re covered everything they could find and left. i two Salem-bound passengers were aboard an airliner that crash ed Tuesday in eastern Washington killing all 10 passenjgers and crew, relatives here reported. Mr. and Mrs. G.jJ. Milligan of Fairfax, Va, who berished, were enroute here to visit her brother, Frank Sexton, Salefn route 5. The Milligans also wer to visit their son, Donald, at Albany, and two nieces, Mrs. Andy Etzel, Four Corners, and Mrs, Chris M. Bart ruff, Keizer. f 'Global Bombers' Arrive in Iiondoii i LAXEN HEATH, Eng., Jan. 16 (JP)Six American f Global Bomb ers" giant B-3Ss which can freight an atom boihb 10,000 miles roared into this air base today from Texas. I They took off Saturday from Carswell base, Fort? Worth, paused at the Limestonej air base on Maine's northeastern tip and then flew a dog-leg coarse across the Atlantic, dropping practice bombs en route, the U. Siair force said. It was the first timip the enormous long-range warplanfes had appear ed on a mission to lEui'bpe. 1 Theft of Doorknobs only Delays Tax Officials : i PEKIN, Til., Jan! 16-OVSome- one in Pekin apparently thought he could stop income tax collec tions here. He succeeded for two hours. Over the weekertd, someone re moved all the dporknobs from doors leading to the office of the collector ol internal revenue. When tax men afrived at .work Monday, it took Itwo hours of jimmying before hey could get back on the job. Spitzbarjt Hearing Set Feb. 14; Bill Seeks New State Fair Board Appeal of Leo G, Spitzbart, dis charged state fair- manager, will be heard before tie Oregon civil service cornmissioa on February. 14, the commission announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, legislation was in troduced in the Oregon senate to. create a state faif board and re move the director , of agriculture's Jurisdiction over tfce state fairi Spitzbart was, fired by E. Li Peterson, state . agriculture direc tor, recently on charges of inef ficiency and : lade I of cooperation, Spitzbart countered that recent fairs have made a good showing and that Peterson's attitude had made management! of the fair dif ficult, i ii 100th YEAR 12 Rex Hartley Rex Hartley, Talbot, left, will be ".:". I on. ; ; . . i ( ' ' 4. i ing. Here Hartley meets some of the courthouse personnel Tuesday afternoon. At right is Ed Brash er, a courthouse custodian, being introduced to Hartley by County Commissioner Roy Rice, center (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) Talbot Area Farmer to Take Oath This Morning Marion county's third county judge in a month, Rex Hartley of the Talbot area, will be sworn into office at 10 o'clock this morning. His appointment was announced Tuesday by Gov. Douglas McKay. Hartley, a farmer, said he would be able to arrange his af fairs to paiticipate fully in coun ty business. He was slated as a member of the county budget committee, whose meetings he sat in on last spring. He stressed that his interest is in "the social Strict Security Blanket Hides Korean Action TOKYO, Wednesday, Jan. 17-(JP)-A tight security blackout was clamped today on the whole Korean front by the U. S. Eighth army. The blackout followed: 1. Entry of a strong tank-led reconaissance force Tuesday into Suwon, 17 air miles south of Seoul. The force routed a small Chinese unit and then withdrew to de fensive positions 500 yards south of the town. 2. Completion by the U. S. Second division of a 26-mile pull back from Wdhju to Chungju in central Korea. AP Correspondent Don Huth, at Eighth army headquarters in Korea, reported in an 11:30 a. m. dispatch: "The United Nations front to day was 'in strict security'." In an overall assessment, Huth said: "Reports from the front indi cated the Chinese and North Kor ean forces massed around Seoul and north of Wonju on the central front are in no hurry to press their offensive against allied po sitions. "Their reluctance is allowing United Nations forces to firmly establish their new defense line, particularly on the central front where Second division forces withdrew from their perimeter south of Wonju." Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, who introduced the state fair board bill yesterday, said the move for such legislation had started months ago and the actual bill had been drafted before the Spitz bart firing. , His bill would set up as a separate body and would include representatives from all of Ore gon's four congressional districts. "As long as we have a state fair we should have a separate fair board," Ellis said. "The en tire state would be represented by the proposed board." Spitzbart had managed the state fair since 1933. He will be rep resented by Attorney Bruce Wil liams at the hearing. ; PAGES The Appointed County Judge 1 1 W v.... Marion county's ne w judge after being- and civic progress of the county." He succeeds Ray J. Glatt, Woodburn, who served only two weeks as successor to the late Grant Murphy, before suffering a heart attack which brought his resignation. Hartley, 50 years of age, is a native of the county. He owns 300 acres at the foot of Ankeny hill and farms another 300 acres. His principal crops are grass seeds and permanent livestock pasture, giving him a great inter est in the development of stock Byrnes Calls for Bombing of China Or Exit in Korea COLUMBIA, S. C, Jan- 16-UP)-Gov. James F. Byrnes, in an inau gural address devoted mainly to the dangers of war, called today for the bombing of communist China, and said that if such action is not authorized, American troops should be pulled out of Korea. He urged, even more emphatic ally, that American soldiers and military supplies should be sent to shore up western Europe. The ceremonies inducting the former supreme court justice and one-time secretary of state into the governorship of South Caro lina brought an estimated 65,000 people into the state house square and packed the streets for eight blocks around it. Four Corners Postal Station Bid Received A single bid for operation of a contract postal station at Four Corners was opened Tuesday by Salem Postmaster Albert C. Gragg and wfll be transmitted to the postmaster general for confirma tion1. The bid came from Frank W. Borden, partner fh a firm that has bought the variety store of Leroy Apple, postal contractor for the past two years. Gragg said he expected Borden would assume the station February 1. The con tract will run unUl June 30. The postoffice also announced than transfer of carriers to the new Hollywood branch office has been completed. Equipment for rural routes 2 and 7, as well as five mounted routes, was moved Monday and for nine city foot carriers yesterday. These words will figure in The SUtesman-KSLM Spelling Con test foErprixes, sow underway for Itk aad Ith grade pupils mt Marlon and Polk ceonties: attend boial chart commence continue custom , deny . discover earliest everywhere object OTftlt owner parent period possible produce purpose recover j encourage Learn to Spell! FOUNDBD 1651 Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oreaon, Wednesday, January 17, i i i 1 3 S 1 1 3 V sworn In at 10 o'clock this morn forage. His farm activities have made him chairman of the county ag ricultural planning committee and past master of Ankeny Grange and Marion county Po mona Grange. He also is a mem ber of the National Cutting Horse association. Hartley was Oregon grand pa tron of Eastern Star in 1949 and is a member of that order and the Masonic lodge at Jefferson. He is a member of the Oregon governor's mounted guard. Down Payment On Stock Hiked To 75 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -(JP)-The federal reserve board tonight raised the required down pay ment on purchases of stock to 75 per cent of the value, effective to morrow. The previous require ment was 50 per cent down. The 75 per cent down payment, another anti-inflation step, will apply to "short sales" as well as to purchases. It was the first change in mar ket credit terms, known as "mar gin requirements," in about two years. During much of World War II, and for a period thereafter, the board required full cash payment for stock purchases. Retail Food Prices Reach All-Time High WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -()-Retail food prices reached a new all-time high during the last two weeks of December, the bureau of labor statistics estimated today. An increase of 1.2 per cent between December 15 and January 2 was enough to establish a record one per cent higher than the previous peak of July 15, 1948. Comprom'ise Winter-Summer Street Plan Utilizes Portion of Both Avenues By Robert E. Gangwsre City EdlUr, Tb Statesman A compromise proposal to bring southbound traffic into Salem on a one-way artery using both Sum mer and Winter streets was for warded Tuesday night by the Sa lem planning and zoning commis sion. Salem city council is now con sidering substitution of Winter street for. Summer as the south bound arterial in the city's forth coming one-way street plan, pro viding this meets with the approv al of the state highway commis sion. The toning commission was ask ed for Us recommendation by Mayor Alfred W. Loucks who met witirthe soners at city hall last night. - ' :; t Loucks. said he had revived the controversial Summer - W i n t e r street issuevonly because of the interest shown by the state board of control and other state leaders in Iigfifof the state capitol plan ning commission's recommenda Deficit Handed to Legislators Car Feared Trapped m Columbia THE DALLES, Jan. 16-OTVHighway crews dug rapidly into huge rock slide on the Columbia River highway near here tonight, in fear that a motorist was trapped under the avalanche. The slide was the result of a new wind and rainstorm which swept the northwest Tuesday. The slide cascaded down last night, narrowly missing two auto mobiles. One driver said he feared still another car was caught by the slide. Efforts to clear the road were slowed as the rubble had to be hauled away by truck to avoid blocking the Union Pacific main line, which runs below the blocked highway. William Myers, Portland, a salesman for the Columbia Equip ment company, said he had ob served the tail lights of another Windborn showers dumped another .88 men of rain on the Salem area Tuesday and the weather bureau predicted stormy weather again for to day. Little change in tempera ture is forecast with the mer cury slated to remain above freezing through tonight. Sixty mile wind gusts that slapped the Willamette valley Monday slowed to half that velocity Tuesday and no new storm dam age was reported. eastbound car for several miles last night. Suddenly, he said, his car crashed into the pile of rocks and the tail light had disappeared. He said there was a chance the other motorist had been far enough ahead to avoid the slide. Highway crews estimated it would take two days to clear th road. Hard on the heels of Mondays storm, in which two lives were lost in winds up to 80 miles an hour, the latest storm hit the coast with winds up to 59 miles an hour. High waves blocked the Colum bia river entrance again, and six ships rode out the storm at sea, waiting to get into port. Heavy rains fell along the coast al area from northern California to British Columbia. Rivers ran high in their banks. The weather bureau said western Oregon streams were "sensitive to the rainfall, although no serious flood threatens at the moment. S5 Million Dock, Old Troopship Burn at Baltimore BALTIMORE, Jan. 18 -JP)- A multi-million-dollar fire tonight ate away a wartime ammunition pier, gutted the old troopship which took Wood row Wilson to France in 1919, and brought in jury to seven men. Also lost in the blaze which roared on through the night were a tugboat and barges of equip ment used for Maryland's new Chesapeake bay bridge. The cause of the fire, which started in a shack on the pier, was not determined immediately. The pier was valued at $5,000, 000. An official said the George Washington on which President Wilson sailed 32 years ago couldn't be built new for less than $25, 000,000 or $30,000,000. 'Burma Surgeon' Found Guilty RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 17 (AP) A Burmese special tri bunal today found America's "Burma Surgeon," Dr. Gordon Seagraye, guilty of high treason. It sentenced him to six years' Imprisonment on one count and one year on. another. tions for an extended capitol mall area without through traffic. . "No Summer street residents have ever approached me on this problem," he declared. The compromise plan was offer ed by W. W. Rosebraugh, chair man of the city toning body. Un der it the arterial would enter Summer street from Fairgrounds road, carrying southbound traffic to D street, there switching over to Winter street on a reverse curve. Commissioner Robert Stanley suggested farther that pending the ultimate development of a state mall north to Mill creek the Sum mer street route could continue to Marlon street and there be divert ed west to Commercial street. Both suggestions will be taken op by a zoners committee with the state highway department, be fore further zoning commission. action' scheduled for a special meeting at 7:30 pan. Friday in city halL Rosebraugh. named -to the committee J. L. Franzen, Robert Stanley and Milton lx Meyers. 1951 PRICE 5c of $58 Millio Gorge Slide To Confer WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 French Premier Rene Pleven, who will confer with President Truman on policy matters at the U.S. capital soon. Premier Pleven Of France to Visit Truman WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -;p- Premier Rene Pleven of France will to Washington January 29 for a two-day policy conference wltn President Truman. . A, . A -Announcing this today, the state department said Pleven suggested the conference and that Mr. Tru roan welcomed him to confer on important questions of mutual in terest" Informed government officials said Pleven wants to discuss cold war strategy, particularly the problems of French Indochina and western European rearmament. Presumbly, too, the agenda will in clude discussion of the atomic bomb. ' The announcement of Pleven's forthcoming visit came as a sur prise even to the French embassy here. Knap wcrn.QQ i Max. - 49 - 48 - 53 Min. 14 37 35 19 33 Precip. Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York .7S J7 tracs trace trace Willamette River 12.6 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather Ira- reeu. McNary field. Salem): Showers with occasional clearing today beconv inff cloudy with continued rain tonight. Continued windy and ntUe change in temperature with highest today about 48 ana lowest tonight near 38. IAUM PRECIPITATION Sine Start mt Weather Tear. SevC 1 This Year Last Year Normal 32.57 21.7 lM Arguments favoring use of Sum mer street include the favorable aoDroach off Fairgrounds road, the impressive view of the state capi- tol and the endorsement of the state highway engineer. R. L. Baldock, that the Summer street route is the best plan for one-way southbound traffic. The chaxute to Winter street was suggested to keep through traffic fromihe state buildings area. ' One objection to Winter street has been the cost of a rpedal txaf fic signal to Handle traffic at the Fairgrounds-Winter-Jefferson in - tersectinn. This would ba ellmlnat - ed in the compromise plan, though TTp -4J i - ' , t I- fx rU right-of-way costs at tor D street led a niu to create a state iaa reverse curve site would be hih. icflmmissioa. and. thus would stria Gty officials have Indicated they hope for a decision from the council at its next meeting. Jan. narr 22. in order to get anv nro - posedichange before the hlghwayl Director Leo Spitjbart byiPete-, commission at its January zs meet-1 son last wee. .. t ing m Portland. The city and state! Both the house and senate wfil already have contracted for the! meet at 10 am. today street plan, including use of Sum lOflrr Yflfl tuni to tU Grtwtii el Oregea No. 237 Bill A sks n Racing By Lester F. Cour Staff Writer. Th Statesman Oregon's legislators "went to school" Tuesday to hear about the $58,000,000 budget deficit the state faces because of increased governmental costs and measures voted into law by the people last November. The house and senate sat in a joint session to hear the states budget and tax experts outline tno financial headache they face this session. With Sen. Howard Belton, Joint ways and means committee chair man, presiding, the legislators learned that Oregon will spend $180,490,362 during the next; two years to operate its government. But. even using about Sll&.ouo,- 000 of surplus excise tax funds and paring the budget to the bone, $58,000,000 will be needed to operate the state until July 1, 1953, under the present budget. Of the $180,490,362, a total of $105,041,501 can be financed by taxes within the 6 per cent tax limit. Amount of the deficit must be raised from taxes in excess of the 6 per cent limit. (The 6 per cent provides that no taxing unit's levy in a year may exceed the levy in the preceding year by more than 6 per cent). Authorised by Voters New spending created by the voters in November which has f increased this legislature's budget I is $65,623,520 for the basic school f support fund, increase - and : S3,- 100,000 for the veterans' bonus 3 during the next two years, i i Other outlays contributing Vr i the higher budget are $68,000 for I civil defense requirements dur- f ing the next year and a proposed state building program to cost $24,000,000. Without these two expenditures the budget deficit i would be about $34,000,000. Sales Tax S arrested Some remedies suggested dur- ' ing the joint meeting included re- duced spending, withdrawal of tho 1 state income tax exemption for a4amm1 4aa metis! a vt rt W A eol aa i ICUCiat MACS OiU UU isu oaice x But no reai solution was of- i fered to establish a long-range tax program for the state. Tho j budget committee said its head- : aches are increasing because ma- ; terial costs have increased 8 pes C cent in six months and wage in creases have cost the state $2,500,- ) 000 during the same period. Introductions of new and con- - troversial bills were other high lights of Tuesday's session. Rep. Joseph Harvey of Portland introduced measures seeking a bo- lition of all pari-mutuel horse and dog racing and diversion of rac- , ing funds to the state general - fund instead of allocating them to county fairs and special ac- : tivities. Discontinue Levy Another house measure, jn.tr o- ; duced by Rep. David Baum of i LaGrande, would allow counue " to discontinue levying a $10 tajs per census school child for edu- cation. The tax is now levied but then offset by state property tax funds. Baum fears county taxes ; will be boosted by this amount because, state funds for thETpur-' pose might be exhausted this I biennlum. Other house bills introduced! would allow children between Hi and 18 to discontinue school it circumstances make it "advisabl; require that the parole board give three day's notice before paroUng a prisoner, and allow bus andf taxicab drivers, printers, electro- typers, lithographers ana several s other classifications to become eligible for the state employer; liability act by classing their oe cupations as hazardous. t Under PUC Commission ! New bills Introduced In the; (senate would place cooperatiwav telephone systems operating their own exchanges under ine puuiv I utility commission; include Ce-j lumbus day as a legal holiday;; I prohibit any employer from dis-5 criminating against, women wotx inz for them by Paying them than men doing comparable worts land prohibit companies Wiring; money or real or personal; prop-. - lerty from rpecifyinx .companiea from which Borrowers must outs J their - insurance on the property: 1 involved. ,i i 1 ;s I Three state legislators Introdue Ithe power from StaU Agricultur Director E. I Peterson The diu, Ithe snonsors said was not thai 1 outgrowth of the discharge of Fabr - 1 . (Additional legislative news a