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(Mm ft?tlfl J00 Ylflfl CwuW. to tko Growth Orooa ,1 uiiuuuuy KUNDID 1651 r if SM!l 100th YEAR 2 SECTIONS 24 PAGES The Orecon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Friday, January 26, 1351. PRICE 5c No. 306 fli 4-Lane State Fair Spitzbart State Agriculture Director E. L. Peterson Thursday rehired State Fair Manager Leo Spitz bart, whom he fired for "insub ordination" two weeks ago. After being rehired, Spitzbart filed his resignation to be effec tive at Peterson's pleasure. They issued a joint statement today saying they have discussed their respective relationships to the fair. Spitzbart added that he would leave Peterson free to "exercise Spectacular Fire Razes Old Silver Falls Sawmill Statesman Newt Service SILVERTON, Jan. 25 The old Silver Falls Timber company saw mill tonight was destroyed by a for 30 miles across the Willamette valley. Several thousand valley residents flocked to the north edge of the city to watch flames leap hundreds of feet in the air in consuming the sawmilL The blaze was reported seen as far north as Oregon City Dtp 6H33HB The pages of history are full of Quarrels of victors over the spoils of war. Achan, the son of Zerah got himself stoned to death by the Israelites because he held out spoils of "a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight." He wasn't the first to covet spoils nor the last. Only nowadays it is nations rather than individuals. The United States has set a pretty good example of not en gaging in grabbing from a defeat ed enemy, though now I note the Oregonian is laying claim to For mosa by right of conquest. But we do not want to see Russia grabbing up loose real estate ei ther. A prime example of the dis sension among victorious allies was that which developed at the Congress of Vienna where the rep resentatives of the powers of Eu rope were trying to rearrange the jigsaw map of Europe after Na poleon had mixed it all up. Rus sia was out to gobble up previous ly partitioned Poland and Prussia wanted to absorb the Kingdom of Saxony whose king had sided with Napoleon. Clever Tallyrand, the French ambassador, contrived an alliance of Austria and England and France to foil the greed of Prussia and Russia. Such was the contention that it nearly led to a war among the victors. At last it was settled by compromise with Prussia and Russia getting small er bites of the apples they coveted. President Roosevelt saw the danger ahead in trying to keep the (Continued on Editorial Page, 4) Salem Considered As Army Reserve Corps School Site Salem is being considered as a possible site of an army organized reserve corps school, CoL Gordon E. Roberts of Washington, D. C, said here Thursday. CoL Roberts is chief of the field liasison branch of the office of re serve affairs. He spent Thursday in Salem talking with local army reserve officers and men. Today he will leave for Klamath Falls. Roberts commended the local units for the "excellent shape" they are in. Animcl Crackors By WARREN GOODRICH Route to Portland to Start This Wear Director Rehired whatever action he believes best j for the fair." . i And Peterson said "Whatever ! differences we may have had are j in no sense personal." j After he was fired, Spitzbart j asked for and was granted a civil service hearing. He want- ! ed his job back. The hearing was to be held three weeks from now, but Pe terson said Spitzbart had agreed to drop the appeal. Spitzbart managed the fair 15 years. spectacular fire that could be seen ! The structure, purchased by the Oregon Pulp and Paper company in 1945, has not been used since 1948 and was in the process of being torn down. All machinery and other equipment had been re moved from the mill. Silverton firemen were unable to determine origin of the blaze, although a wrecking crew had been working with blowtorches at the building late this afternoon. OP & P officials said it would be impossible to estimate damage. Only the bare shell of the mill was standing when the fire broke out. It was burned to the ground. The loss was mostly covered by insur ance, officials said. Silverton firemen kept flames from spreading to nearby shacks and buildings. The blaze attracted spectators from nearly every mid-valley point and could be seen clearly from Salem. The Oregon States man received dozens of phone calls about the fire. City and state po lice reported many more calls- Construced in 1914, the mill be gan operating in 1916 and contin ued through World War II. At peak capacity 250,000 board feet of timber could be processed in an eight-hour shift. The mill was Silvertons largest and one of the biggest in the Willamette valley. Housewife Says Child Threatened Over Milk Issue PORTLAND. Jan. 25--Tr William Earhart, one of the lead- j ers in the "housewives' revolt" i against state-controlled milk i prices, said today one of her child- : ren had been "threatened." She said the threat was made in "c"lu"e tdu y a man Who did not identify himself. ,,It certainly would be too bad if anything happened to one of your children because they are not using fresh milk," she reported the caller as saying. Four of the Earhart children are at home. The mother has made arrangements to have the oldest child. Patsy, 6, escorted to school Earhart has organized a March to Salem" for tomorrow to demand repeal of the milk control law. Mrs. Francis McLeUan is to be spokesman for the group at the public hearing tomorrow night. PERON TAKES OVER BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 25-(Jp-President Juan D. Peron put Ar gentina's strike-bound national railway system under military con trol today to make 160,000 strik ing employes go back to their jobs or face courtsmartial. BEVIN IMPROVING LONDON, Jan. 25-fVBritish Foreign Secretary Ernest Eevin, ill with pneumonia, has shown some improvement. Deputy Prime Min ister Herbert Morrison told the house of commons tonight. Re-activation of Camp Adair Regarded as 'Questionable' Statesman Hwt Serrico INDEPENDENCE, Jan. 25 Sen. Guy Cordon, (RJre.) declared in a letter received here that it was believed in Washington "future activation", of Camp Adair as a military base is !very question able." j The comment ;was received by former state Rep. Howard Morgan, Adair area farmer, who had asked Senator Cordon for a clarification of the matter. Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) said (-several days ago the status of Adair probably would not be determined immediately. jj Senator Cordon -wrote that "the military authorities, very nrorjerlr In my opinion, hay the view that Highway Board to Back Mall Oregon's highway commission has agreed to protect an extended capitol mall in Salem from highway traffic, it was through announced Thursday by commis sion officials. The commission decided at a Portland meeting to accept a com promise one-way street plan pro posed by the Salem city council. Under this amendment to the street plan contract between the commission and the city, south bound traffic would use Summer street as originally contracted, but only until such time as the state building group is completed as far north as Center street. Then south bound traffic is to be diverted via Marion street to Commercial street. As the capitol mall expands north toward D street, traffic would be diverted at some point farther north. The change was prompted by the state capitol planning com mission which blueprinted an ex tended capitol mall last year sub sequent to the city-state agree ment on one-way streets as a feature of the "Baldock plan" for Salem traffic. The latter also in cludes a Marion street bridge over the. Willamette, now in construc tion, and highway bypasses in north Salem via Pine street and, eventually, east of Salem. The Summer street revision does not affect the plan to use Capito? street as one-way artery for northbound traffic The one-way street plan is ex pected by State Highway Engi neer R. H. Baldock to be in effect about July 1 this year. Completion of the new bridge is estimated for early next year and reconstruction of the Center street bridge by 13d3. Hubbard wSite Of Spell-Down On March 21 HUBBARD. Jan. 25 Top spell ers from 13 schools will compete at the Hubbard grade school at 8 p.m Wednesday, March 21, the semi-finals of The Statesman KSLM spelling contest, it was : announced today. The public is invited. The schools are Donald. Pioneer, Hubbard. Aurora" St. Paul. Butte- ville, St. Louis. Eldriedge, Gervais, Parkersville. Broadacres. Sacred Heart of Gervais and St. Paul's of St. Paul. Host at the spell-down will be Charles Byers, Hubbard principal. Word-callers and ludzes in the contest itself will comprise im partial observers from the offices of the sponsors and the county school superintendent. The 7th and 8th grade students in each school now are vieing for the right to represent their insti tutions. The winner of the semi-finals here March 20 will compete for war bond prizes with the winners of 13 other similar semi-final con tests (in Marion and Polk coun ties in the finals in Salem, April 20. i was roes 0(5551 Max. ... 54 . 54 57 - 19 41 Min. 48 47 49 Preclp. .1 .13 Slm Portland San Francisco Chicago New York a trace 36 .00 Willamette River 17.4 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem): Rain this morning, becoming partly cloudy with scattered showers and cooler this af ternoon and tonight. High today near 48 and low tonight near 34. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 36.84 24.92 21.57 reactivation should be limited at least in the preliminary stage to those former sites which are either in? federal ownership and standby condition, or which can become cempletely re-established for the least money and with the least dis ruption to present owners." 1 Directors of the Dallas Chamber of commerce have gone on record opposing re-activation. A vote of the membership is to be taken Fri day. Some other groups are known to favor reviving the cantonment. ? Opponents to a full-fledged re vital of the camp declare it would bet unfair to property owners who have taken over 60,000 acres and placed it in production at consid erable expense. About 1800 acres remain in federal control. - j U - r-i v i 1 1 ; : Jefferson Has Own Poster Girl fit "" ' ''If'"! V "X T:. v v - " f ' 6 ; JEFFERSON Dorene VoreU Trefethen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Trefethen, Jefferson's 9-year-old March of Dimes poster girl. Stricken in October of 1949, she is now able to attend school after a course of physical-therapy and hospitalization furnished by March of Dimes money. (Hal Wynd photo.) Story on page 7.) Controls Ready; Unions Oppose Wage 'Freeze' WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-vP)-An eleventh-hour hitch developed tonight in the government's drive for wage-price controls when labor leaders indicated strong opposition to a wage "freeze." It was not expected to delay issuance of the general freeze order tomorrow, however. Informants said wage stabilizer mous vote on wage policy from his nine-man wage board, but that the order might have to go out without complete unanimity. There are three labor representa tives on the board. In another late development, some officials advised newsmen that the widely heralded January 2 date for the rollback on prices was outdated. They refused to say whether the date would be shifted ahead or back. There was unofficial speculation that the new date might be Jan uary 15. Qualified informants said prices of nearly all goods and services will be frozen. They estimated that nearly 4,000,000 businesses and about 8,000,000 individual items including meat and some other foods will be affected. Wages and salaries are expected to go under "flexible" controls. Value of A-Bomb Shelters Doubted LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2S-(JP)-Backyard atom bomb shelters which are breaking out in a rash hereabouts may kill rather than safeguard, an expert said today. He is Dr. Stafford I Warren, medical advisor to the Manhattan project and the atomic bomb tests at Bikini, now chairman of the state planning board on civil de fense. "There are so many variables in the way the attack might come, the shelter might prove a death trap instead of a shelter," he told the Los Angeles Bar association. CHINESE REDS CHOSEN CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 25 -UP)- Communist China was chosen by secret ballot over nationalist China today to sit in a conference of the universal postal union, a special ized agency of the united Nations. The union's executive committee is meeting here to discuss air freight tariffs. DULLES PLANS FOR TALKS TOKYO. Friday, Jan. 26-JPi- John Foster Dulles and members of his ight-man UJS. mission to day began preparations for a eeries of conferences aimed at a quick peace treaty for Japan. Learn to Spell! These words will flmre in The Statesman-KSLM Spelling Con test for prises, new underway for 7th and tth grade pupils ef Marion and Polk counties: elect equator exchange fancy ' attack battery bravery capital certain collection consider course ignorant - dictionary dumb engineer examination speech steer supply Cyrus Clung wanted an unani Automobile Pool Proposed for State Departments An automobile pool for state de partments in the Salem area was proposed Thursday by Harry Dor- man, state budget director. Dorman told the house ways would do away with 30 per of autos now necessary to serve Sa lem area state activities and would save the state $130,000 a year. He placed the original Invest ment, including construction of a central garage, at $250,000. includ ing most, equipment. All cars would service at the central gar age. (Additional details o.i Page 2.) Earth Slippage m rim urn mur tti.tfyvJ"' " 1 " ' '"' " wii mi inn irummm" r ,' ; T"" r . jfc-w LL'iJtjj ... r'-. , v if rt; 1 1 1 - I, - "mm 11 . "" ii.,u ., . ; , - . . , , w .. -.?Z3t . w r. : -- r-wrV'.--, :.$z x' t a rvVirV-;.;:.-- " ; ;rr"r -x. !, 1 .. DALLAS, Jan. 23 ImpereepUble fa Its movement trai terrifying In Its the Bert 1. Walker boas lost below the Dallas reservoir threatens creek, at foot of hirh bank- Joss fin dirt behind the reservoir and the move, Bert Walker surreys earth faslt ta his driveway at bottom right, the eraek appearing a few . feet from the house. Heavy rains hare leaked the earth, which baa moved enough te snap water pipes. pea larte boles and cracks la Abel photon.) Work to Start Saleu in Widening the Pacifie highway north of Salem to four lanes will definitely start this year, it was declared Thursday by Ben R. Chandler, chairman of the state highway commission. Chandler told The Statesman that first work on the four-lane project for Highway 99-E between aalem and New Era would be un derway this year, regardless of state legislative action on a pro posed bond issue for some $60 million. The highway commissioner was at the capitol Thursday for a hear ing before the highways commit tee of the house and senate. He said the completion of the pro posed Wilsonville cutoff route to Salem would depend, however,' on the bond issue. Surveys Being Made State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock reported that surveys are still being made, but location for the first widening work on 99-E has been set for the two-mile stretch at Salem's north approach from Lana avenue to Hayesville school. Widening of the highway to four lanes has long been sought by Sa lem and other Willamette valley cities, with renewed emphasis giv en the matter since the New Era to Oregon City link was complet ed as a four-lane highway two years ago. Sought Project Salem Chamber of Commerce organized a delegation to bring the four-lane request before the high way commission last summer. Be sides the large delegation of Sa lem businessmen, headed by Charles A. Sprague, the group ap pearing before the commission in cluded supporting leaders from Portland Chamber of Commerce and valley cities as far south as Roseburg. Even Wilsonville citi zens declared that the 99-E wid ening should take precedence over the Wilsonville cutoff. The state highway department's latest traffic count showed an av erage of 21,000 vehicles a day on the Pacific highway at the ent rance to Salem. This compared with 14,000 daily in 1946, 9,800 in 1940. Driver Too Heavy A Load for Truck NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Jan. 25-(7P)-A truck driver was informed at the state weighing station his truck was overweight by 360 pounds. "But I weigh that much," the driver protested. He climbed on the scales. They registered 360 pounds. The driver was sent on his way. Poses Threat to behind fcease tm top phot. At bottom left an hue cracks opened in above the homse and Walker property, the entire fill also) being en the grand, and dose the read late TOKYO, Friday, Jan. 26 -(AP)- Allied hunter killer patrols with fixed bayonets and tanks advanced today to within 19 miles tf Seoul despite increasing enemy pressure. They boldly hunted for the apparently pulled-bark Chinese communist army. At last reports, they wer within two miles of Suwon which is 17 miles below the red-held South Korean capital. By land, Sea and air, allied forces were stepping up the pres sure on red forces south of the 38th parallel throughout Korea. Thursday the U. S. heavy cruis er St. Paul and two Canadian de stroyers, the Cayuga and Nootka, shelled Seoul's port of Inchon and silenced a communist battery which fired on them from Wolmi island. Wolmi is just off Inchon. In the air, allied planes smash ed at two enemy highway con voys, totalling 250 vehicles, north of Seoul before dawn today. A U. S. eighth army briefing of ficer said that U. N. patrols stab-, bing north around Suwon at one point drove off an enemy force with bayonets. At another point, allied tanks fought reds dug in on a hill four miles southwest of Suwon. The tanks forced the enemy to with draw. One allied unit heard cymbals, whistles and bugles in the past the signal for a communist attack. But the enemy force did not at tack. Southwest of Suwon, reds dress ed in civilian clothing fired on north-bound vehicles of the allied patrols. Another U. N. column was in contact with an enemy group northeast of Osan, which is nine miles south of Suwon. There was little activity report ed on the central and eastern fronts. In those areas, armored U. N. elements have ranged to within 33 miles of the 38th paral lel dividing North and South Ko rea. Some U. S. intelligence officers speculated that the reds have withdrawn for one of three rea sons: To await warmer weather; to supply and re-group for a new offensive; or to await a political settlement of the Korean war by the United Nations. Draft Lowers Requirements WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 JPy Draft standards will be cut to take in perhaps 150,000 men now bar red for physical and mental rea sons, a defense department of ficial said today. Reporting this to congress, Mrs. Ana M. Rosenberg, assistant sec retary of defense, told reporters that draft records may recheck all the 799,000 already rejected for these reasons. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house armed services committee remarked that he had heard re ports of $10,000 a year athletes have been turned down. Mrs. Ros enberg said occupation is not the criterion in passing on a man's ability to serve. Dallas Home eertainty, an' earth slippara abexrt U carry the fconse into LaCtcoIo the Walker place. (Statesmaa and Solons Scrap Over Site of Milk Hearing By Lester F. Cour Staff Writer, The Statesman Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's bill to create a one-house legislature was killed in the senate 25 tc 4 Thursday as Oregon's two housea got into a scrap over where to night's milk control hearing will be held. Neuberger's proposal would have let the voters decide whether they wanted a one-house legislature similar to Nebraska's. Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Port land, opposed the one-house plast and said the legislature would be doing a disservice to the people by submitting the controversial idea to them with the defense emer gency prevailing. A slight tiff between the house and senate took shape Thursday after the house voted 42 to 1C against letting the house agricul ture committee use the houso chambers for its public hearing on a bill seeking repeal of milk price control by the state board of agri culture. Asks Senate Chamber Later in the day, Sen. Jack Lynch, Portland, asked the senate to donate its chambers for the hearing, saying if the house won't let the public use its room "we should be generous and let the committee have its hearing in the senate." Sen. William Walsh, Coos Bay, acting senate president, said he would confer with House Speaker John Steelhammer to settle tho issue. Late Thursday night, Wal?h and Steelhammer hadn't gotten to gether, but Steelhammer said, "they can have the hearing in tho senate that's alright with me."' Hearing- Tonight A room at least as large as the senate will be needed for the hear- . ing which starts tonight at 7 o'clock. More than 200 women representing Portland women's oi- gamzations are expected to plug for abolition of the state milk con- trol board. Milk producers have asked the milk board for a three-cent-a- quart price boost for Portland, and the hike would undoubtedly affect the entire state if granted. The house Thursday temporarily stalled a bill which would allcw ; the people to decide whether they want a third mental hospital in Oregon. The measure was sent to the ways and means committee. -Rep. Giles French, Moro, objected to it because it didn't name the price of the proposed hospital for aged, mentally ill people which would be built within 15 miles of Portland. Refnses Holiday The senate refused to make Co lumbus day a legal holiday but placed it on the list of permissive state holidays, meaning people whe want to could observe it. The senate approved and sent to the house measures which would forbid persons keeping game ani mals as pets and to continue the "Little Hoover" commission until February 28 of this year. The com mittee was appointed by the 1841 legislature to study means to im prove state government in Oregon. Among new bills introduced in the house was one to prohibit cit ies which levy taxes on taverns and clubs from sharing in stile liquor sales money distributed an- . nually to cities throughout the state. Cities receive 60 per cent ef liquor profits. Aprons en Track Wheels Other house bills introduced would require aprons on the rear wheels of logging trucks to cut down their spray; allow judges te impose life sentences on persona convicted of three felonies involv ing violence (four offenses are now : required); and apportion state m highway money to counties on the basis of motor vehicles registered. area and road mileage. It is now distributed on the basis of the number of vehicles in each coun ty. A new senate bill would require the liquor commission to rev eke the liquor license of any establish ment found operating any lottery, slot machine, pinball machine, one-armed bandit, punchboard or other gambling device. Another would license all public account ants under a state board. Other senate bills introduced would permit calling off the state civil service act during war emer gencies when help is hard to geti permit persons working under the) state retirement system to- contin-. ue to work after reaching 65 if they are lit and conditions warrant it; and increase retirement benefits. Both the house and senate will meet at 10 a.m. today. Neither is expected to meet Saturday, Other legislative news on page Cv CIO SIGNS WITH HUDSON DETROIT, Jan. 25-P-Raing to beat-an expected wage freeze, ton CIO United. Auto Workers signed a cost-of-living pay plaar with the Hudson Motor Car Ce today. a