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Rlilf Control
Hearing: Due
Age BeforeBpauty
Irf Legislature
A hearing cm proposed repeal or
redaction of state milk control Is
one of the focal points this week
for the Oregon legislature. Week
end developments were concerned
principally with budgetary prob
lems, both Income and outgo.
One bill for discussion at Friday-
night hearing would repeal
the entire state milk control act
while another would modify dras
tically its present provisions. The
hearing will be conducted by the
dairy and food committee consum
er representatives from Portland
and many other sections of the
state were expected to play an im
portant role in the discussion. The
recent reauest for milk Increase
prices in Portland has added fuel
to the legislative investigation.
Only bill for final passage in the
house Monday provides machinery
for payment of $600 a year to leg
islators as approved by the voters
at the last general election. Pro
vision is made in the bill that pay
ments be made on January 15 of
each year.
Designates Game Fish
In the senate twa bills, by the
game committee, will receive final
consideration. One designates Ma
ckinaw or Lake trout to be game
fish, subject to game restriction
laws. The other makes it unlaw
ful to angle for game fish in any
lake with snags, gaff hooks, set
lines or lines having more than
three hooks, excepting floating
bass plugs. It also would be un
lawful to fish in streams with
lines having more than two trac
tor blades or three hooks.
Agitation for an increase in state
Income tax rates was revised
among legislators over the week
end following reports of gaining
opposition against Gov. Douglas
McKay's proposal to eliminate fed
eral deductions in computing state
Income levies.
Tax committees of both the sen
ate and house have arranged
meetings for this week to study
the over-all financial situation as
It involves the largest state budget
ever presented to an Oregon legis-
T Resume Study
A subcommittee of the joint
ways and means group will re
sume its study of state employes'
salaries Monday. Outstanding pro
posal before the committee in
volves continuance of the $10 a
month cost-of-living increase ap
proved by the state emergency
board last November. This increase
expires February 28 unless con
tinued by legislative action.
Cost of continuing the increase
through the 1951-53 biennium was
estimated by State Director Harry
Dorman at $3,649,920, in revised
figures released Saturday. Ap
pro&imatelyw $1,824,960 would
come from the general fund.
Several committee members in
dicated a reluctance to vote for
continuance of the increased un
less there is more department con
trol involving the number of em
ployes and operating practices.
Sentiment for drastic curtail
ment of the state building pro
gram, involving both state institu
tions and higher educational facil
ities, apparently is inc reasing
among ways and means committee
members. Building reauests for
the next biennium already exceed
$30,000,000.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo Jan. 21 Six teen-months -old MarUnn Bach pretests
with tears as 105-year-old Gustave Brenek takes the first blta ef his
cake at a surprise birthday party for Brenek. Brenck, whs came
from Germany in 18G9. said it was his first birthday party and "well
worth waiting for." Mariann's grandmother and the staff of the St
Louis city Infirmary, where Brenck is the eldest patient, cava the
party. (AF Wlrephotp to the Statesman).
Mysterious Turnabout9 Plane
Baffles Veteran Airline Pilot
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 21-(P)-A veteran airline pilot tonight told
of seeing a strange aircraft last night that dad something "you just
can't do with airplanes of today."
Larry W. Vinther of Kansas City, Mid-Continent airline pilot
who has been flying 17 years and has been with Mid-Continent seven
years, said the incident occurred over Sioux City, la.
He described the strange plane
Nobel Prize
Winner to Talk
AtWillamette
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, a Nobel
prize winner in physics,: will speak
at the Willamete university student
convocation Thursday morning at
10 o'clock in the gymnasium.
James T. Brand, chief justice of
the Oregon supreme court, will
introduce the speaker. . "Two Su
preme Elements in Human Pro
gress" will be topic of Dr. Mil
hkan's address, open ;to towns
people as well as students and fac
ulty members.
The internationally known sci
entist and speaker on social ques
tions began his career as a teacher
of physics at Oberlin college in
Ohio soon after graduating there
in 1891. He later received his doc
torate from Columbia university
and studied at the University of
Berlin and at Gottingen in Ger
many. Since 1948 he has been vice
president of the board of directors
of California Institute of Technol
ogy as well as trustee Of Hunting
ton library.
In addition to the Nobel prize in
1923. Dr. Millikan has been hon
ored with many of the highest
awards in the scientific field, in
cluding the Edison Medal of he
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers and the Faraday medal
of the London Chemical Society.
HARRISON PLATT RESIGNS
PORTLAND, Jan. 21-UP-Harri-son
Gray Piatt, 84, Portland attor
ney and former chairman of the
state textbook commission, died in
s hospital here today. One of the
founders of the University club
here, he was a former chairman of
the board of trustees of Pacific
university, Forest Grove.
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Portland Boy
Rescued from
Laundry Chute
PORTLAND, Jan. 21-(P)-Fire-
men were called tonight to rescue
11-year-old Tony Prag, trapped in
the laundry chute of his home for
three-quarter of any hour,
Tony, a bit on the chunky side
at 115 pounds, started down the
chute feet first to retrieve a pock
et knife. Stuck with his head three
feet below the opening and his
arms pinned to his sides, he bang
ed around with his feet until his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E.
Prag, found him.
The parents tried pushing from
the bottom and pulling from the
top but couldn't budge the boy.
They called firemen who: used a
table leaf to shove Tony! up out
of the chute.
He suffered a slightly wrenched
shoulder and bruised fingers. His
feelings were injured, too,, because
he didn't get the knife.
as about "one and a half times the
size of a B-29, with a long, slender
fuselage, long straight wings set
farther forward than a B-29's."
"There were no engine mount
ings on the wings and. I saw no
exhaust glow," Vintner said. "The
wings were straight, not swept
back like on the B-47 and other
jet bombers, and there were no
jet poods visible."
Vintner said the craft was seen
by his co-pilot, James F. Bach
meier, Kansas City, and one of
the 11 passengers aboard.
"As I was getting tower clear
ance to take off from the Sioux
City field at 8:26 o'clock," Vintner
said, "the tower asked us to
check on the strange light in the
sky.
We spotted the light and climbed
in that direction. We saw the plane
had some sort of navigation lights,
in addition to a strong white light
underneath the fuselage. The lights
all blinked off and on five or six
times as we drew nearer."
Vintner said his DC-3 was doing
120 miles an hour and the other
craft was goirfg faster than that in
the opposite direction.
"I had just turned my head
irom waicning nim go past our
wing when there he was again, fly
ing right beside us about 200 feet
to our left, going in the same di
rection we were," he said.
Vinther said that's what mysti
fied him because "you just can't
turn an airplane around that fast
at that speed."
The strange plane flew along
side about four seconds then eased
off below the DC-3 "and we lost
him, " the pilot said.
Vintner's flight stayed overnight
at Omaha. He said he checked the
air base at Offutt field there and
learned there were no air force
jet planes scheduled in that area.
KiiuteRo clme'sl
Son Shot in
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WICHITA, Kas.. aJn. 21-P-A
man who authorities said identi
fied himself as William D. Rockne,
son 01 the late Jtnute Kockne, zam
ous Notre Dame football coach.
was shot twice last night after 01
ficers said, he forced entry into a
Wichita home. He was reported in
"critical" condition at bt. Fran
cis hospital.
Latex Shenix Lockett said he
had talked with Mrs. Rockne at
South Bend and that she had con
firmed the wounded man was her
son, positive identification, he said,
was established by a scar on one
leg caused by a burn when Kockne
was a boy.
Sheriff. Ty Lockett of Sedgwick
county and Criminal InvesUaater
Clyde Madden said papers lound
in the man's- possession gave his
next of kin as Mrs. K. K. Kockne,
of South Bend, IncL, where Notre
Dame is located.
At South Bend Mrs. Rockne told
reporters she had a son, William
D, whom she had not seen for
two years. She gave his age as 35.
The wounded man told ouicers he
was 32.
Report of Shooting
Lockett and Madden gave this
report of the shooting:
Rockne tried twice to enter the
home of Joe Novacek, 33, a used
car dealer, who lives just outside
the city limits. Novacek ordered
him away once, but he returned
later and succeeded in getting into
the house. Novacek struck him
with a board and ordered him to
remain until police arrived. In
stead. Rockne tried to escape. No
vacek grabbed a pistol and fired
three times at the fleeing man.
When officers arrived they found
Rockne on the around near the
house, shot twice. One bullet had
pierced his right side; the other
his thigh. The first wound neces
sitated an emergency operation to
day.
The officers said KocJcne had
been drinking and that a partly-
consumed bottle ox liquor was
found in his pocket.
Truck Driver
Sheriff Lockett said Rockne had
spent the night at the police tta
tion as a "sleeper" about a month
ago, recently be had been working
as a truck driver for the Salvation
Army
Lockett said papers in Rockne 1
possession indicated that he bad
recently been in Texas. Arizona.
New Mexico and California. De
partment of justice records ihow
ed, Lockett said, that Rockne had
been charged with passing bad
checks in Los Angeles in 1945 but
that he was released on probation
when he made restitution of the
amount involved.
Rockne's condition prevented
his being questioned in detail. He
was well dressed when taken to
the hospital, officers said. In his
pockets was about $5. No charges
have been filed against him.
Knute Rockne was lulled on
March 31, 1931, when an airliner
on which he was enroute to the
west coast crashed in nearby Chase
county.
Sheriff Lockett said the Nova-
ceks both said they "had never
seen Rockne before, and couldn't
imagine why he forced entry into
their home."
Gervais Rites Today forifcW
if VI,
Last Granddaughter
Of Gen. Joseph Lane
llihin New Bcnrtc
WOODBURN, Jan. 21 Grave
side services for Mrs. Alice K.
Willis, 94, last granddaughter of
Gen. Joseph Lane, a territorial
governor of Oregon, will be held
at 4 pjn. Monday at Sacred Heart
cemetery at Gervais.
Mrs. Willis died Tuesday in
Port Angeles, Wash., where fu
neral services were held Friday.
Daughter of an early pioneer.
Judge Mosher, she formerly re
sided at both ; Wood burn and
North Howell. Survivors include
a nephew, A. G. Cowan, Wood-
burn.
Funeral arrangements are be
ing handled by the Ringo chapeL
REDS BOOST "PEACE
BERLIN-(.'P) "Little Peace Dove
Fly Over the Roof," Is the latest
communist song for kindergarten
children in Soviet-occupied East
Germany. At a recent student fes
tival at Magdeburg, the children
sang the new tune while 30 live
doves were turned loose. "They
flew eastward," reported the com
munist newspaper "Volksjtimme,"
"to where the bulwark of peace,
the great and mighty Soviet Union,
lies."
Canby Man
Arrested After
Wife Wounded
OREGON CITY, Jan. 21 -V
Mrs. Myrtle Iverson, 61, was in
hospital here with serious knife
wounds today and her husband,
Louis, 72, was in jail, charged with
assault while armed with a dan
gerous weapon.
State Policemen Gerald E.
Hampton and Paul Bowman re
ported they were called to the
Iverson home on route 2, box 232,
Canby, Saturday night by neigh
bors. The officers said they found
Mrs. Iverson with chest and arm
wounds. Iverson had minor self
inflicted wounds on the head and
chest, they said.
FIG WILLOWS
KENT, 0-(INS)-If it weren'
for ah Englishman's taste for figs.
neither Britain nor America migh
boast any beautiful weeping wil
lows. In the early 18th century,
Alexander Pope received a basket
of figs from Turkey, according to
Martin L. Davey, jr., the tree ex
pert. One little twig, about to bud,
was in the basket. Pope planted
the twig, and was rewarded by a
fine tree, the grand daddy of all the
so-called Babylon weeping wil
lows in England and here.
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BOOK OFFERING
ROME (INS)- Pope Pius XII
will be offered hundreds of books
gifts of publishing houses
throughout the world by dele
gates of the First International
Pilgrimage Congress of Publish
era of books and magazines which
will meet in Rome December 6th,
8 th and 10th.
Federal Budget
Includes Salem
Area Projects
A half-million dollars in Sa
lem area facilities of the north
west federal power system are
Included in the president's pro
posed budget for the fiscal year
beginning next July 1, according
to cnarles Dunn, Bonneville pow
er aamirustration district mana
ger.
Dunn said the budget estimates,
which total $8,948,000 for lower
Columbia river power grid lines
and other transmission facilities.
were developed prior to the decla
ration of a state of emergency
"and do not reflect impact of an
accelerated defense program but
surveys are being made "to deter
mine possibilities of increasing
capacity of existing hydro plants,
interconnection with other sys
tems, steam plants and other
measures to supply required de
fense loads.
Projects and funds requested
for this area include a Forest
Grove - McMinnville - Salem 115
kOovolt line, $85,000; East Mc
Minnville transformer, $43)00;
Salem-Boyer 115-kv line conver
tion, $55,000; Salem terminal
$106,000; Boyer substation, $219,
000. Boyer is near Grande Ronde.
MALIK "MUCH BETTER'
NEW YORK, Jan. 21-iTVRus-sia's
Jacob A. Malik is "much
better" after a recurrence of an
old heart ailment, a Soviet spokes
man said today. He added that
Malik should soon be able to re
sume his duties at the United
Nations, where he is permanent
Soviet delegate.
Id EWA
Proposed by
Henry Wallace
BOSTON, Jan. 21 -(flV Former
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
today proposed as an alternative
for war a really big PWA pro
ject for the whole world.
The unsuccessful progressive
party candidate for president two.
years ago said his program would
cost $10-billion a year.
This country, he said, was pre
paring to spend "an additional $30
or $40-billion a year for war pre
paration that may continue year
after year."
Wallace said his plan would not
be appeasement .but a-peace-ment"
He recommended the $10-bil-lion
a year be spent through Uni
ted Nations for all people of all
nations but iwtfii eonrflflona. . '
Speaking at the Community
church, non sectarian, Wallace
said to benefit, "the Iron curtain
countries would have to join all
UN agendea.7
These countries also would have
to agree to a! program of disarm
ament, "park! the atom bombs,"
discontinue fifth, column activi
ties and build UN police force
"stronger than the armed might
of any individual nation."
Wallace said: "I would spell out
a really big PWA project for the
whole world! in terms of specific
dams, roads,! bridges, electrifica
tion for towns and farms, irrisa
tion ditches and fertilizer factories
in definite spots."
He said that "all the high com
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NEW DELHI -CSV The largest
number of Voters In history wiQ go
to the potls next April to elect
their representatives to the legis
latures. Nearly 180,000,000 Indiana
almost half of the country! po
pulation voting under adult fran
chise will .elect their representa
tives to the central and state legis
latures under the new constitution.
The election, scheduled to begin on
April 10 next year, will be com
pleted before the end of May.
munis ts are materialists. They axe
for sale if the offer is high
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SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
James Sample, Conductor
SALEM CONCERT
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 8:15
Salem High School
Auditorium
Ernest Bloch, Guest Conductor
All Seats Reserved
$2.40, $1.50, 90c
All Prices IncL Fed. Tax
Tickets on Sale at
Ladd & Bush Bank
Box Office at High School at 7 p.m.
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Dies on Pulpit;
Aide Dies Also
CHICAGO, Jan. 21 -(AP)- A
Chicago minister died on his
pulpit today as he finished his
sermon, and a friend who rushed
to his aid also collapsed and died
a few. minutes later.
The Rev. Howard C. Fulton,
59, pastor of the Belden Avenue
Baptist church for 20 years,
died apparently of a heart at
tack as he concluded his sermon,
"The Touch of God."
His friend, Henry F. Weiler.
52, the church treasurer for 31-
years, collapsed in the pastors
office while talking- to a physi
cian. The physician said he
succumbed to a heart attack,
apparently Induced by the shock
of the minister's death.
CLOTHES KEEPER
NEW YORK -(INS)- The
"clothes keeper" consists of a rack
extended across two poles. The
bottoms of the poles are inserted
into a floor rack that provides
space for overshoes and umbrel
las. The upper rack holds from 30
to 40 garments. All you do is stand
the rack in the closet. Or if you
have hall space, you can stand it in
the hall and create an extra closet
that way.
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