INT r t i-ru-i r.'t'i in i Jflflrn '! CtsrtJ t fit Cmr tf . C.tjta TOD V V v xis vv 100th YEAB 18 PAGES The Oregon Stcrtesmaru Salem, Oregon. Thursday. February 15. 1851: PBICS 5e Kot23 i i i v ' - a ' Proposals have .fceen made for discontinuing the Voters Pamph- . 14- .V- Innnvatinn of the OT6" con system' of direct legislation in which the people themselves through the initiative and rel erendum became co-equals with the legislative assembly in law making. The pamphlet goes to every registered voter. There is heavy wastage because of non delivery of pamphlets through change of address, etc. Some have questioned whether the study of the pamphlets by the voters was sufficient to justify the expendi ture of well over $100,000 a bien nium. - One could easily get into an argument over the study ques tion and over the question of whether voters vote "intelligent ly." If they vote "our way" we presume they have studied the issues and "voted intelligently." If they vote the "other way" we conclude they haven't studied the questions and have voted "ignor antly." It all depends on one's point of view. It would be possible however, " to make a survey to determine how thoroughly the pamphlet is read by the voters. Certainly be fore it is abandoned such a sur vey should be made. Last fall I suggested to Gordon Sabine, the new dean of the school of journalism at the state university that here was a worth while project for investigation. He-agreed, but the time was too short and no funds were available for doing the job. Howeverf he did do some "sampling," chiefly in the Eugene area to see what he might turn up. Fifty persons were interviewed, far too small to afford a basis for any con fincira tpstin?. But observations based on this small sampling showed, reports Dean Sabine: 1. Of those interviewees who read anything, there apparently was excellent readership in depth if the interviewee read any part "of"? (Continued on editorial page, ) JReapportion Bill Planned by House Group By Lester F. Coor Staff Writer, Th Statesman The house reapportionmesi committee' voted Wednesday to introduce legislation calling for legislative reapportionment and a constitutional amendment to knock out the provision that the legislature must be - apportioned every 10 years. - The committee voted to use population as a reapportion basis, but it is not expected to agree on any, measure which would appor tion strictly by population. Rep. Giles French, Moro, has expressed violent opposition to population apportionment because it would strip eastern Oregon of about one- half ox its legislative representa tion. If the legislature were appor tioned on a basis of population Portland would end up with more than a third of the state's senators and representatives. Eastern Ore gon legislators contend this is wrong because their thinly-populated area contains a great amount of wealth and should have more representation per person than urban areas. The senate voted for a house bill which will allow cities to ex ceed the 5 -per cent limit on bond Issues for defense purposes. The present law prohibits cities from issuing bonds totaling more than 5 per cent of their assessed valu ations. The senate also sent to the gov ernor a bill to increase the salar ies of Marion county officers. Sent to the house by the sen ate was a bill which would let cities with annexed territory get larger portions of state highway -and liquor revenue money. The additional population annexed by af city would be added to the city's existing population when the state figures how much money the town will get, These funds are distributed on a population basis. ine house approved and sent to the senate a bill seeking re Eai of the existing butter grad l law which was declared un constitutional recently. ine senate resolutions com mittee voted 4 to. 1 for a house approved memorial which would retract a 1949 memorial askinz congress to work for a world gov eminent through the United Na tions. The issue will be debated in the senate later this week, probably Friday. r 'vr The senate law committee voted to introduce a bill which would take away the governor's power to pardon convicted murderers or to commute their sentences. It proposes that the state parole board, plus the governor, would have joint authority in pardon and commutation cases. A unani--mous vote . of the entire group would be necessary to change a death sentence to life imprison ment. -' Loggers and transfer companies registered protests against legis lative proposals that would re move the over-weight allowances on axle load ' limits and would provide stiff penalties. : The present load limit is 18,000 pounds per axle and -gietirg law Allows truckers to carry 10 per cent more than tht The protests were made during a joint meet ing of the senate and house roads and highways committee. ; Both the house and senate will rieet at 10 a. m. today. CLegislaUve news also on page 3) urn 10,593 Communist Casualties Listed in Single Day of Fight . By Olen TOKYO. Thursday, Feb. lS - .claimed a victory in central Korea's bodies of four smashed Chinese red divisions. The reds had failed in two days of heavy fighting, and at terrific cost, to eain their objective: a breakthrough. More bodies of a wiped -out Car Smashes Into Front of Brick House An auto careened Into a brick house on South High street Wed nesday night, i causing extensive property damage but no serious injury. Front of the Emmett Kleinke residence, High . and Superior streets, was nearly demolished in the crash. James Humphrey, 16, of 1730 Fairmount St., a passenger in the car, suffered face cuts. Police said James Stephen Mc Clelland, 16, Of 205 N. 21st St., was the driven He was not cited. Officers quoted him as saying he was driving at a modeate rate of speed when! the car suddenly swerved, jumped the curb, and struck the front of house. Mrs. Kleinke and her daughter, Joan, 12, were alone in the rear of the house when it was hit. "I thought the furnace had blown up," Mrs. Kleinke said. "Now I know how it feels to be bombed." Police said the impact knocked many bricks into the basement. splintered floor joists, and knock ed out the studding on the front side of the house.. 1 Kleinke said the car, a 1935 Ford convertible sedan, would not be removed until carpenter braced the house. He did not estimate damage, but Said he thought it would be- at least several thou sand dollars. : yuarter-Lent Raise Given to Bean Pickers Bean picking will bring 2Vt cents a pound, compared with 24 cents last - season, and the one-quarter-cent bonus also will be paid for pickers working the en tire season at one patch, it was de cided by the Oregon Bean Grow ers association Wednesday. More than 100 growers met 'at Mayflower hall. Elected president was Cornelius Bateson of Pratum, who succeeds E. R. Liggett of Leb anon. Re-lected secretary-treasurer was Harold Elbert of West Salem. ; j The increase In picking prices approximates 1 1 per cent. After' endorsing organization of the newly-formed Willamette Farm Labor council, the bean growers, by areas, chose the fol lowing to the j bean-pea commod ity committee of the council: Willis Carter, Lebanon; W. F. Grenz, Albany John H. CornweU, Woodburn; Gordon Walker, Inde- pendence: Jack Wlkoff, Salem; W. J. Maxwell, Dayton; and C. C. Gavette, Marion. f .. Bateson was named a council di rector. ii j J ge Claims Salem Attorney Both Lobbyist, Clatsop County Judge Guy Bov- ington Tuesday accused Eugene Laird, Salem attorney, of lobbying for truck r and bus interests and working for the state public util ities commission at the same. time. In a letter to all members of the legislature, Boyington attacked the trudc lobby and said that big truck interests arent paying their share of highway construction and maintenance costs.5 j "May I emphasis that Mr. Laird has been acting In a duel capacity." Boyington said. "He has been representing trucks and buses as a lobbyist; and under contract with the public utilities commissioner's office, at the same timer - -'.- i : -i r -.. ' Laird has been attorney for the PUC during hearings on the Pa cific Telephone i and Telegraph company's requests for rate in creases.. He said he has been rep resenting' bus interests since 1949, but denied any connection with truck companies.'. t Boyington said Laird and . Wil liam Hedlund, petroleum com pany lobbyist followed the 1949 highway interim committee around Clements CPJ - United Nations troops today snow-clad mountainslittered with North Korean regiment were piled up on the south side of the Han river near Seoul. The regiment metl bloody disaster in the first phase of a red attempt to pierce the western front. United Nations ground forces yesterday killed, wounded or cap tured 10,593 reds on the Korean! battlefront. It was the biggest day's toll since the U. S. Eighth array jumped off 22 dags ago in a drive aimed primarily at finding and killing communists. Enemy casualties for the first 21 days were estimated officially at 96,894 better than 4,600 a day. That is ground action alone. Ad ditional but uncounted thousands of red casualties have been inflict ed by allied planes. Have a Victory "As of this moment, we have a victory," said a high staff offi cer of a U. S. division in central Korea. The aivisicn bore the brunt of attacks by elements of nine Chinese divisions along a 20- mile front from Chipyong to Wonju. The Chinese divisions were knocked out around Chipyong. Banzai attacks failed to break the perimeter of a French and Amer ican force surrounded since Tues day in that town 35 miles south east of Seoul. Two more Chinese divisions, trying to slip past the east flank of the allied perimeter at Wonju, were surprised and smashed by hidden allied artillery. Firm Grip Kept Wonju and Chipyong remained firmly in allied hands today, bar ring the way to the main Chinese goal, the lateral highway leading west from Wonju behind 100,000 U. N. troops around Seoul. There was not late report of the South Korean amphibious opera tion at Wonsan on the Korean east coast more than 130 miles north of the central front. This force was last reported occupying two is lands controlling the bay entrance to the post, with others on the mainland at the outskirts of the city. The navy confirmed yesterday's landings today without saying whether the commando-type oper ation was still in progress. The South Korean move, pre sumably of a hit-and-run nature. was directed against one of the big points of supply for the reds. Wonsan is 90 air miles north of the 38th parallel. County Judge Hurt in Wreck Marion County Judge Rex Hart ley was slightly injured Wednes day when his auto and a station wagon collided at an intersection. Hartley incurred a cut on the side of his head and was treated at a Salem clinic, city first aid- men reported. Driver of the station wagon was listed as George Parris Haley, (276 N. 14th st. The front end of the Haley car and one side of Hartley's sedan were damaged in the collision at Church and Cen ter streets. Police said neither driver was cited. PUC Employe the state while It was holding hearings. The judge declared, that lobby ists for: large commercial truck Interests bragged during the 1949 session that they had put one over on the legislature which passed house bill 188, the truck tax' 'bill,' v ! . - !-:; "Information furnished by the 1949 highway committee, the state highway department or by truck and bus representatives was faulty," t Boyington eon tended. "The tax load was shifted from the large commercial bus and truck operators to the small trucks and log trucks." . Boyington said the 1949 law has made a great deal of money for the big, interstate trucks, but that cities, counties and the state have lost. : , T--v.-- - .. ...j- -- V : . "The big companies made great er profits,"! Boyington stated. "The small trucker paid ' the bills. ) I charge the public utilities com missioner's office should have presented mors - factual data to the highways - committees and should not' have yielded to pres sure. ' Valentine Twins 10 Years Old A decade of being twin valentines for their parents Is the distinetien belonging te Norman and Norma Nuxoll. above. The twins were born Feb. 14. 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. George Nuxoll. 815 Harris rd. Norman and Norma are now in the fourth grade at St. Joseph school. (Statesman photo.) Britons Offered Reindeer Meat LONDON. Feb. 14-CflVUnrat ioned reindeer went on sale for the first time In meat-shy London today, but housewives were doubtful about its taste and shocked at its price. Said one butcher: "Women are suspicious about it and I think the price is too high for them. Possibly their prejudice will be overcome when" they try it" Retail prices ranged from one shilling sixpence (21 cents) for the cheapest cuts to four shillings sixpence (63 cents) a pound. Senate Group Approves Draft Of 18-year-olds WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-()-A draft of 18-year-olds plus exten sion of all service! terms to 26 months was approved unanimously by the senate armed services com mlttee today. ; Those are the immediately con troversial sections of a long-term program of universal military training and service which the committee recommended to the senate IS to 0. The measure is essentially the same as the plan rewritten from defense department proposals by a preparedness subcommi ttee headed by Senator Lyndon John son (D-Tex). W i When the senate will act was not immediately sure. Present plans are to hold it up until the troops-for-Europe controversy is out of the way. The most optimis tic guess on when they may come up for actidh is a week from to day. The central feature of the sen ate committee's plan, as it con cerns the lowering of the draft age limit from the present 19 years, is a priority schedule for inductions. It puts the 18-year-olds at the bottom of the list, to be taken only if needed after all non-veteran men .without children including those, qualified only- for limited service have been waken from the present 19 through 25 age bracket. When the draft cuts below 19 those nearest that, birthday must go iirst. : - - ! -, - Senator Morse (It-Ore), who vo tedalone against the plan in the sub-committee, continued his fight for changes today; but lost. He said he will try again in the sen ate itself but went along on the vote to report the measure out for senate action, - . ! These words wI3Hmre in The Statesman-KSL2X Spelling Con test for prizes, bow underway for 7th aavd 8U grade pupils of Marlon and Polk conn ties: hour principle response substitute account k amuse disposition equipment generous " load ; objection gome literature ', co-operate , discount edition exceedingly hesitate investigate opportunity Learn to Spoil! 11 Construction ents Raised to 50 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-(ff-The government today ordered 50 per cent cash down payments on a vast range of non-residential construc tion In a new credit-tightening move to combat inflation.. . ' Simultaneously, the administra tion threw out a broad hint that it will soon attempt to stabilize food prices. , Eric Johnston, economic stabil ization director, told the house ways and means committee that legislation will be submitted to congress to "equalize and stabil ize" farm prices and industrial wages. Johnston's disclosure capped a series of protests from labor lead ers, housewives and others against soaring food prices. The stiff new credit terms .for construction were set forth in an order issued by the Federal. Re serve board, effective tomorrow. It calls for half cash down pay ments on construction of new stores, offices, hotels, banks, ware nouses, garages, auto service sta tions, restaurants, theaters, clubs and "other new structures used for non-residential purposes.' The same requirement applies to repair jobs, enlargement, altera tion and reconstruction on exist ing commercial buildings if the cost of the improvement exceeds 15 per cent of the building's ap praised value. . The order also requires that loans must be paid up in 25 years, with the principal paid off in in stallments rather than left for a lump sum payment at the end of 25 years ; ' Exemptions are provided in the case of schools, hospitals, church es, public utilities and "property constructed for use by the govern ment or any political subdivision." SCARLET FEVER GROWS ASHLAND, Feb.' 14-P-Twenty new cases of scarlet fever have been reported in Jackson county, the public health office said to day. This brings to 43 the total reported in the past two weeks. Downpaym Gunman Terrorize g Odaho Town i j 4; por S Hours; 2'KillGdf ZWpuhi&d WALLACE. Idaho. Feb. 14-(ftV A frenzied prowler terrorized a pre-dawn main street for almost five hours today with rifle fire from a hardware store that killed one man and wounded two oth ers before he, himself was killed by police bullets. ; - Police machine sun bullets and tear gas-bombs from a building across the sbreet finally . silenced him. : ; - Then officers crept inside and found him lying on ; the floor, overcome but not hurt. When he made a sudden move, the police fired and he died an hour later without giving a motive. Papers on his body carried the name John Stoddard, 48, and In dicated he once lived in Oakland, Calif. Aside from that, nobody seemed to know anything about him. - - -; - Deputy Sheriff Jim Bean said the man -had his shoes off, was wearing, two .pairs of sox. three shirts and two -coats. The shooting stopped business esoui RevoltAs Mow Farm To tekfc Seasfe A new organization called the Willamette Farm .Labor' council, designed to attract and assure sufficient labor. during the valley's harvest season, will take shape in Salem today or Friday wiuY filing of initial articles of incorporation, - Formation of the group was first announced Wednesday when the -Oregon Bean Growers' association, meeting at Mayflower hall. elected as its representative to the new council's board Cornelius Bateson, .Pratum rancher. Incorporators of the labor coun cil are George Paulas of Paulus Bros, cannery: John Johnson ot Blue Lake Packers: W. Frank Crawford, Willamette C h err y Growers: C. W. Paulus, hop brok er, and William J. Linfoot of United-Growers. ! Nine Directors The council is to be made up of nine directors, each ; representing specific- crops or organizations and each with a commodity committee working simultaneously, organiz ers said. The directors will come from: m erowers of strawberries and other berries: (2) growers of cher ries: (3) growers of beans and peas; (4) hop growers; (5) grow t of prunes and nuts; (6) grow ers of onion, mint, flax, peaches and miscellaneous Trops; (7) food Drocessors: (8) businessmen; (9) the state employment service, the manager of which will be ex- officio member. The council will cover, roughly. the area in western Marion end Linn counties, southeastern Yam hill county and eastern roue county. i- r The new organization will sup plement work of the state employ ment service, leaders , saiL. and will work primarily at the "com munity level" in order to get val ley residents into farm work. The employment service still will at tempt to attract outside labor at seasons of peak needs. Approved by Growers v The farm labor council, unaer a plan approved by the bean grow ers Wednesday, would be financed by a charge levied against prod ucers, either by the ton, bale or other quantity. The bean growers voted to ask canners to make the collection on other than hops. The hop growers would! pay through their own association. Oraanizers said a full-time man ager to work with the public, schools, and other organizations would be hired and that an office would be operative throughout the summer months." .! It is apparent that a manpow er shortage is approaching," the bean growers were told by spon sors of the farm labor council. "We lost some crops last year and well lose more if we do not en courage and promote Interest in the valley's agricultural harvest season to the point where local people win be willing to help. - 1 ";h: vYQrfiSiQOl Max. Mia. Prcdp S3 -' J St .00 4S M alrat I Portland San rrandseo Chicago New York trace trace 44. i SS Willamette Bivcr 1U zoct. r roSECAST ffrom U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy with little rain today and tonight. Some clearing la the afteroon and evening. Continued mild. Highest today U. lowest tonight 44. j tAubt pmxcxrrrATioN time Start of Weather Tear, f . 1. This Year . . Last Yaar . Kbrmal 402 - - 30-31 s X3X7 i in this mining town of 3,200, about 83 miles east of Spokane. Spec tators some 230 of them stood behind barricades on both ends of the street for elook- , , : . J But Rollie Bnming, a staff mem ber: of the - Wallace Press-Times, slipped into his office right next door ' to the store during the height of the shooting. "- "I hugged a wall; of the build ing to get in the' front door,1 Bruning said, "then I punched a bulletin on the wire (the Utah Idaho Associated Press relay cir cuit) I couldn't heas anything next door except the gun fire. Then I left, hugging the wall to the end of the street.'- - v He later came back to file more details as the shooting continued. Police Chief Mace McCoy said Gordon Hailstone,1 23, a ' miner, was shot and killed as he walked by. Mrs. Mary -Hinton, a cafe waitress Just off shift, was with him. She had hold cf his arm as he lunged forward, .Terrliltd. she Galls sniist Mfemlaini CoMfcssfl Cirl?139 Named AtSt-Paul's Thirteen-year-old Telea Wind- schigl was declared the- champion speller of St Paul's school in Sil verton' I Wednes- rirrf-3 day. She will; meet the best !' , speller . j of the f 7th-8th grades of I Silverton school IV 1 for the ! Division 7 title j in The stales m en KSLM contest. K Telea,. an eighth-grader, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wieam , John Windsehlgl of 300 Grant st, Silverton. She was certified as winner of her school by the prin cipal. Sister Edward Mary, O.SJB. Her teacher is Sister . M. Ger n r w - . Certified as winners of second and "third place at St. Paul's were Agnes Wolf, eighth-grade oaugn ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolf of route 2, box 22, Silverton, and Verna jHlskey, -, seventh grade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verne Hiskey, route 1, box 132, Silver ton. Both Agnes and Versa are 13 years old. . 1 The winner of Silverton's Di vision 7 contest will compete' In the grand finals In Salem in mld AprU. ! . , . 'Quickie Tax Boost Killed WASHINGTON, Fob. 14 - -The house ways and means -committee decided-today to review the entire tax problem before voting any increase e move which re publicans said rules out any quickie" tax boost-. The committee action was i an apparent rebuff to the administra tion. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder had urged a fast $10,000,o 000,000 boost,, followed by -sec ond bite" increase of perhaps $0, 800,000,000 later In the year. t j Strawberries Make j Debut in Portland - PORTLAND, "rob. , 14- () - Strawberries made their appear ance on the market here today the first of the season. . - Six flats were flown In from Santa Maria, Calif. They sold for about 39 cents ' hallock. ' 1 . ran to the cafe and her daughter, Mrs. Virginia McClung; 23 dashed outside. . ;. . .. ' "I ran out and saw Gordon staggering behind a lamp post. Then he fell. There were a few customers in the cafe and they came out; Willis Maltland, 4J, an other miner, ran down and grab bed hold of the man who did the shooting Just as he - stepped out of jthe-hardware "store door.' He was out Just a couple of steps," Mrs.' McClung said, -. : - He "broke away, went back in and shot Maltland who fall be side Gordon's body.", . ' Maitland. wounded and cut by glass, lay in the street for more than an- hour, afraid to move. When he tried to crawl away, a shot rani out. Police finally, were able to cover him and he reached safety,, not seriously hurt. : Than Robert Allen, who had been, eating st the cafe, ran cut. A tyUet grazed his necx,b h? recalled, He wasn't seriously hurt.-- I Alms Best Spellter - V. 0 Ffgsj - n - E 3 for Red to L Avoid Attack On Yugoslavia . WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 JjpL Secretary of State Acheson called today for an international, revolt of communist parties against tfce domination ot Moscow. He advised all foreign commun ists who have the interest of their country at heart to follow the . ample of a group of Italians and ' break ! away from the Kremlin control.- - . f - And, at his news conference, the secretary of state renewed at warning that any communist at tack on Yugoslavia might strain the fabric of world peace te t breaking point. Yugoslavia already has declared its independence x the Soviet. Union. -- - : Acheson said recent develop ments in Italy, where a number cf communist leaders have decided to put their country ahead of their party, are a- matter of great it teret to the United States. He ob served it is encouraging when tbe fact finally dawns on communirts outside Russia that they are agents of a foreign power.: Already Demonstrated - In telling aggressors to eep their hands off Yugoslavia, the secretary of state said this country already has demonstrated its at titude toward aggression in Korea, and in the United Nations. He add ed that it waa this government broad policy, as stated by Presi dent Truman, that "new recourse to aggression In the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace. - Mr. Truman said that in hie message to -congress last July Id after fighting in Korea had begun. - in response to a question," Acheson applied it directly to Yugoslavia, surrounded by heavily-armed So viet bloc nations. ' - tJp-te-Dste Appraisal : Acheson also said it was very important for Assistant Secretary w. n.u.. n.l grade, to - get' an up-to-date .ap praisal of Marshal Tito's regime) and the Yugoslav situation gen erally. . The restatement of the Ameri can ;. attitude toward communifp aggression served as a sequel t& Acheson's charge week ago thaf Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria have broken their peace treaties by expanding their armed forces, He declared then that present world tension is due basically tf the vast buildup of armaments behind the Iron curtain. ; Advertisers to ' Attend Statesman , Luncheon Today Two hundred are expected foe the Centennial luncheon given by The Oregon Statesman today soon at the Senator hotel's Capltcl room. Guests are Salem merchants and advertisers, restored as the principal speak er, wm be Arthur H. (Red) Mot ley, widely - known publisher c New York City, former president of the association of National Sain Executives. Robert Sprague, Ad vertising director of The States man, will preside. Special musicsi numbers have been arranged. - KECOKD SALMON FUCK ASTORIA, Feb 14 The highest price In history 33 cents e pound was paid here to giZaei spring Chinook salmon. Several boats reported catches exceedicj 400 pounds.. ; - By WAftfig COODICH ti t:ir f r profit lijtl L ..... 'j?- i ' l ' .. 4-;f "