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7eather Max. MiruPreclp. 7 M Trace 71 53 .02 59 50 Trace 80 57 Trace taleaa . Portland -San Francisco ; i ? i i ! f , -- U?f ill r-f r r a t i t r r t b T Chicago New York .. M 53 .01 FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem : Partly cloudy today and tonight. Little change In temperature with high today near 78 nd low tonight near 50. - - SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. I This Year- Last Year Normal 4 7 . 42JU : 36.17 ' AV ' : Hi; t : i i ; CmwtW to tie Crewtft ef 0rt-M; POUNDDD 101st YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Stcrtes-nan. Salem, Orecoxu Tuesday, June 12, 1351 4 PRICE 5c No. 73 Gangway for jSwimmers! Pools Opened on Nice Warm Day; Too Policies I I t J IU is: ,? JS I I I I 1 I I I I I l I X I J II II II I I 1 I I I I I M V ; 1651 .-.-.' 1 Quit Korea, Break o . Wedemever Pr tHD ODDS Coming downtown Monday morning I noticed workmen were placing the roof trusses for the new SC John's Lutheran church at Court and 14th streets. They ivp nnt lifting the members by simple block and tackle. Instead a long jack-knife crane haa picked them from the carrier and hoisted thorn into rjosition. The trusses themselves had been prefabricated by Timber Structures at fomana This instance is lust an illustra- tinn of the chanee that has oc curred in the building industry in recent years. Tn contrast when the old Wash ington school was torn down there were laid out lonz timbers. UD to about 40 ft, in length, which of course had been erected by ine hand labor relied on in 1883. Me chanical power has greatly altered the construction industry. ' Mnt huildintsi other than resi dences are made of reinforced concrete. Very few steel frame buildings are nut uo in the west because of the high cost of steeL Brick masonry is almost prohibi tive in cost save for a veneer farin? of concrete walls. But con crete is no longer prepared as once It was, by men working with hand shovels mixing sand, gravel, ce ment and water and conveying the mix by wheelbarrow to the forms. Even the cement mixer of a Quar ter century aeo has given around. Now cement is mixed at central mixing plants, conveyed in revolv ing drums (to keen it from set ting) to the site of the building; and for tall buildings the batch is noised by elevator to the level for dumDine. All use mechanica power to lessen the hand labor nnm roiiiri In Vie framing and finishing of a building bench power saws have pretty well supplanted the hand saw. So-called "built-ins" are no longer built in (Continued on Page 4.) : Reserve Corps Branch School Planned Here Plans for establishment of Salem branches of the army organized reserve corps school at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., were announced Monday through the unit instruc tor's office. First meeting to out line the program, provided suffi cient interest -is evinced, will be at 8 pjn. Thursday in the reserve armory, with all interested reserv ists asked to attend. According to the plans, Salem would act as a pilot or on a trial basis for a branch school. The schools slated for here would be command and general staff and infantry. Other courses probably would be added later, and specialist courses for enlisted men are anticipated, said Capt A. J. Brown, instructor. They would be operated by re servists of the Salem area but would be designed to provide more specific training than the present reserve program, in order to keep officers abreast of service developments and in readiness for promotion or active duty. The Thursday session will be in charge of four leaders at Van couver Barracks Col.4Carlo Piluso, commandant of the ORC school; Col. W. F. Schultz, direc tor of training; 'Capt. S. H. Laine, Instructor, and CoL Thomas J. Counihan, senior army instructor for Oregon military district COUUEE REACHES MARK PORTLAND, June lMtfVGrand Coulee dam for one hour today averaged more than 2,000,000 kilo watts for the first time in its his tory. The Grand Coulee figure for 11 ajn. to noon was 2,018,000. Animal Crackers 8y WARREN COODRICH t WHyppij:P-gpT "Now, don't ttl me let mo guots Ira you animal, vtgttaUa or fninar all" W" m-,. k t . . yi, ,. -v ... : - . .... .1 C. ! 1 , r 1 : 1 i i i f ''"t 'If J . FPC Refuses To Postpone " Dam Hearing PORTLAND, June 111 The Federal Power commission refused a state bf Oregon request today to postpone hearings! on the con troversial Pelton darn- ) The Portland General Electric company wants to build the $22, 000,000 hydro-electric project in a canyon Just below the confluence of the Deschutes and Metolius rivers in central Oregon. 1 Sportsmen and fish Interests op pose' the! dam. They say it would reduce fish runs. License to construct the dam has been refused by the state fish coinmission. This action, however, is not binding on FPC. . Arthur Higgs, deputy attorney general, representing the state fish and game commissions, today ask ed the examiner to postpone the hearing for 60 days. He said he had construed the FPC "public hearing"; notice as excluding state agencies.! He said the state needed ad ditional ;time to acquaint itself with the! amended application for an PFC i license to construct the darn, . : Search Halted i r- : For Two Jets ! I i FRANKFURT, Germany, June ll-OiPr-U,. S. air force headquar ters tonight called off as hopeless a search, aong the Iron ; Curtain border for two U. S. jet-fighters that vanished Fridaypossibly in communist Europe. : CoL Barney OldCeld of the air force public relations office said far-ranging planes and helicopters have scoured. the British; and U. S. zones of Western Germany with no success. j ; He said the U. S. made' a rout ine report of the disappearance to the Russian air controller, in Ber lin. . -; i ' - American air force officers spe- cuated" privately the F-84 Thund er-jets may have crashed in com- mimic?-1 - if AfW T)it l s 4rf headquarters refused to comment on this possibility officially. . l'r 17 "s I . ' . , " . -Zf ' j . " . - . - 'i ?. " J-' '-- '': i -; " ' '" Grangemaster Blames Solons for 'Tax Muddle' PORTLAND, June ll-Gip-A iiopelessly muddled financial prob lem was plotted by some legislators to use as a blackjack in putting over a state sales tax in 1953, Grangemaster Elmer McClure charged today. " i Keynoung the annual grange convention, McClure said the leg islature failed to plug obvious loopholes in the state tax system and failed to adopt measures to increase tax revenues. It was no secret, he said, that some of the members had a definite purpose in this: They were "opposed to efforts to work out the state's financial problems this year in the hope that in 1953, when the next legis lature convenes, the state s fi nances would be in such a sorry state that the people would have to vote a sales tax." The grange is traditionally op posed to such a tax and McClure called for continuing this opposi tion. , Turning to one of the hotly de bated public Issues milk market ing McClure said improved pub lic relations was essentiaL Repeal of all milk marketing legislation is threatened, he noted, and said this stemmed from "bungling in our relations with the public. L The grangemaster said that the marketing law repeal would bring "disastrous results to Oregon s im portant dairy industry. Oregon State college and the ex tension service should Join the in dustry in working out a public relations program, he said. He urged grangers to accept price controls on farm products. "We as an organization and as in dividuals must admit the need for price controls as one of the im. portant tools in any program to control dangerous inflation, he said. But he called for continua tion of provisions of the national defense act forbidding ceilings on farm products at less than parity nrices. " He called for immediate federal construction of Hells Canyon, Ice Harbor and The Dalles dams and of the California-Oregon power inter-tie line. Gov. McKay told the grange that the state faces a deficit which may force a tax levy on real prop erty in the last half of this bien nium. He said he doubted that real property could stand much more than its preesnt $96,000,000 tax load. He did cot mention a sales tax as an alternative, however. Salem's two outdoor twlmmlng pools went Into use with a vengeance Monday. Top picture Is the Olinger pool and below It is a group set for the first dip at Leslie Including Tommy 'Hale, Richard Stark, Mike Kolow, Alby Prentice, Butch Ben son, Cabot Clark, Eddie Greer, Jack French, Jerry WUliamson. BUI Schott, John Hale, - Charlene Tucker, .Barbara Dunn, ' Myrna Thlesen,-Jean Haren, Barbara French, Ann Finney, : Joey Harris, Floyd Wilton, Bob Gies, i Ronald Graves, Gerry Amman, James Seits and Bobby '- Judge Medina Given Boost WASHINGTON. June 11 -WV President Truman today promoted the judge who presided over con viction of the nation's 11 top com munists: and he nominated the prosecutor of Alger Hiss to the federal bench. Harold R. Medina, 63, scholarly federal district Judge who drew one of the toughest tasks in legal history in the stormy nine-month commnist trial, was nominated for the Second circuit court of appeals in New York City, i To succeed Medina In the New York district court, the president named Thomas F. Murphy, New York's colorful police commission er. Murphy, formerly assistant u, S. attorney in New York, prose cuted Hiss for lying when he de nied he slipped government sec rets to a Russian spy ring in pre L World War II days. Storage Batteries Stolen from Police Somebody stole two storage bat teries from the city police depart tnent over the week end. Theft of the batteries from the police ' -radio trarsmitter site in southwest Salem was discovered Monday. Police said the , thief climbed over a steel fence and took the batteries from the emer gency generator house. , 1 : Western International (No games scheduled.) ' : Coast League At Sacramento 4, San Diego L (Only gam acheduled.) - A National League (No g-tas -eheduled.) - American League (No games scheduled.) Brown. ... y- "XtKA.vMKA -X- fr v. Pools Popular As Playground Season Opens Goosebumps were more crowd-1 ed than people in Salem's swim - ming pools Monday as summer piaygrpuna activities got on to a slow start on one of the coolest opening days in recent years. Htiv nnn vnnnnfun Hravoi h miH water, nt nimffor ni Leslie pools to show them still by far the most popular spots in spite oi tne uninviting weatner. A large line-uD at both dooIs was reported few stayed in the water long. The neighborhood playgrounds -.. w- w younger cnuaren. Playground Director ; Vernon uumore expressea sausweuon at : l a a.i m a a tne aay s turnout, consiaenng tne weatner ana tne early start this year for recreation activities. diners were surprised at ine pool i in jeopardy. -attendance - proving so large. All I (Additional details on page 2) agreed mat warmer weatner win bring the recreation program into lull swing. Leslie and Olinger swimming pools operate on regular schedule beginning today, from 10 a.m. to 9 pan.: weekdays and 1 to 9 pjn. Sundays. Playgrounds, mostly at schools. also will operate today on the reg ular schedule from 9 ajn. to noon and l jto 4 pan. Monday through Friday. They are located at High- land, ; Englewood, West Salem (park;, Olinger, Leslie (grove). Bush park (southwest corner), 22nd and Leo streets (park) and Grant.; Blast Hurts Eugene Men EUGENE, June 11 - 6SVA flash explosion in the basement of the Northwest Cities Gas Co. plant used at-ccesrfully experimentally, here this afternoon sent, two menlBlood vessels have apparently still vi oacrea xieaxi nospiiai. They were Robert Hartley and Charles G. Lewis, both of Eugene. Hartley was unconscious on ar- taken from dead persons or ob rivaL No report was available on tained from amputations or opera either man's condition. -. tions. Dring rtersons give ter- The explosion, at about 2:45 pjn. was thought to nave been later. The materials are quick caused by an electric spark, Rob- frozen In liquid nitrogen. Then ert Mollett, a city detective, said, they art dried under vacuum in a Of Mac Backed By Roger D. Greene WASHINGTON, June ll-UPV- The Lieut Gen. Albert C. Wede- meyer today called for the with drawal of American troops from Korea and a break in diplomatic relations with Russia at the same time. In damatic testimony before the senate MacArthur inquiry com mittee, Wedemeyer also declared I would go into full mobiliza tion. And I woud go further, I would go to the real perpetrator of al this, because it is not the Ko reans the crux of this thing is in the Kremlin. A Caculated Risk When Wedemeyer proposed breaking relations with Russia and the Soviet satellites as well Senator Fulbright asked him if that wouldn't amount to a decla ration of war, He replied: "Not necessarily, it is a calcuated risk you would lust take. Wedemeyer said he thought Am erican forces should be pulled out of Korea "now" because, he said: I just don't think we are going to get anywhere there. "Now our military experts say and they, are "much - more know ledgeable than I am, sir that we are buying time. It that's the con sensus of opinion of our military experts, I yield humbly to their view that we should buy more time, to. continue the stuggle in orea. .Wedemeyer spoke In general terms of throwing an economic blockade around . the entire bloc of Soviet nations, and he supported au major points in General Doug asi MacArthurs program. It was late in the day. however. before he got around to endorsing oen. AiacArtnur s . recommenda tion that Chinese Nationalist troops based on Formosa be used against ine reas. To Return Today Wedemeyer acknowledged under Questioning by Senator Saltonstall (K-Mass) that if he knew every thing known to the Pentagon high command It "might change my Views" and "I might not recom mend that we get out of Korea." Chairman Russell (D-Ga) asked Wedemeyer to return for further questioning tomorrow (9 EST.,. Among other thinrs. Wefomover vuiu uie lawmaxers ne would ad vuvdie yuiunz u . . tmona nn -,--- -....19 ev m Formosa if the Chinese National ist were not able to defend the strategic island. - In other late tixtimnn.- Wedemeyer said: ' . ' 1. He believes war with Rnli is "not Inevitable" He addM think we have to have a showdown witn them, but it does not neces sarily have to involve militarv 1 force. The showdown may come j laeoiogicaiiy, and I am a great aavocaie oi psychological war I iare. . I 2. He thinks "we should try to I operate through the United Na. I tions but "there may come a tim our interest where we have to operate alone . . . that time may I W , . . Urging what he termed "afAr mauve action against the Soviet,' I ?iefmeyer'!4aii o" -ver .v- ..v u 5 rjoops from Korea. At v. eai, w I ting this enem v. this Soviet fnomv I . ' i more or less oetermlne our action, And if we permit them to call the rune to which we shall dance, I our form of government would be Human Bones, Preserved for By Alton L. Blakeslee Associated. Press Science Reporter ATLANTIC CITY. June U-UPh Human bones and blood vessels are being vacuum-packed in glass jars for transplanting weeks or I months later into other people. This simple new method of banking spare parts was shown today to the American Medical association by three navy 'physic ians. They are Drs. G. W. Hyatt, T. C Turner, and Andrew Bassett of the Naval Medical school and Naval Research Institute, Beth- esda, Md. . - i The spare parts apparently can TfMi rvresprvMl thle wa fro- vm I Bonea have been kent wumum. nacked for IV, -rears a far. and been In excellent condition seven months later- I The bones and blood vessels are 1 mission, or their relatives do so : etre-i (frasn ; By Don TOKYO, Tuesday. June 12 - t eastern Korea today to cover a withdrawal forced by the allied victory in the smashed "iron triangle. : - -. i a . Communist resistance faded in iroops pa ir ouea peyona capairea - A 1, . t , , . . Chorwon, the southwest anchor, without finding the foe. - Other allied units moved about three miles northeast of fallen Kumhwa, the southeast anchor be fore smashing into fiercely-defended ridge positions. . Landings Hinted SAN FRANCISCO, June 11-(JP-A TJ. S. navy dispatch to day from the Woman area of communist North Korea point edly said: - "Any suitable Korean beach r harbor may some day be an- ; other Inchon with an army sud- : denly appearing tn the rear f the battle line. This threat -serres to k P thoasands of , communist troops from the; front lines." Red forces southeast of the tri angle, threatened with being out flanked, pulled under cover of hardfighting rear, guards. A pooled dispatch raia "three long columns of red soldiers" re treated north of Inje, a town four miles north of the 38th parallel and 27 miles inland' ' from the east coast. Entrenched north-Koreans covered the withdrawal. AP correspondent . George A. McArthur reported today from the Inje ' area that South Korean troops mopped up ridges "which had been bitterly defended by the communists up to two days ago." "The reds apparently . withdrew yesterday to newly prepared de fense positions north of Inje," be said. . . : ' "There was no contact other than artillery with the enemy lasM night.",-.- Other allied troops rolled back bitterly battling reds and advanced more than two miles north and northeast of Yanggu. a pooled dis patch said. " . Yanggu, on the eastern up ox Hwachon reservoir, is about 10 miles west of Inje. Through Inje and Yanggu run the few roads of retreat and ad vance of use of military forces In the mountainous east Senate Okelis India Wheat WASHINGTON, June 11 -W-A bill to lend India $190,000,000 for hunger relief was passed. by the senate today and speeded to President Truman for his signa ture. ' . The money will be spent In the United States for about 2,000,000 tons of wheat and other basic foodstuffs. Officials of the Eco nomic Cooperation Administration (EGA) promised that the first shipments would be on the ocean in about 10 days after the presi dent signs the bilL The bill gives the EGA author ity to handle the loan with in. structions to try for partial re payment in strategic materials. India has rich veins of manganese, used in hardening steel, and mon- azite sands, a product useful fa atomic work. , - BIG FOUR DEADLOCKED , PARIS, June lMFr-The big four deputies, trying to draft the agenda for a council of foreign ministers meeting, ended their 76th session today as deadlocked as ever. - . Blood Vessels anting deep freeze, v Then they are sealed in glass jars, evacuated of air. There is no water left to decompose the bones or vessels. The arteries and veins are white, for they have frosting of sugar, penicillin and streptomycin. Vacuum-p a c k e d bones haye been used successfully in some humans, the doctors said. Blood vessels have been transplanted successfully in animals. Humans are to be tried next. The navy doctors also showed long-term storage of skin In liquid banks. The skin is preser ved in a solution of salt , and plasma, and has to ; be kept re frigerated. It still served in human transplants as long as 185 days later. The bones, blood vessels and skin can be tremendously valu able in emergencies, particularly when the spare parts cant be taken from the injured person's body. Transplanted bone is ap parently replaced entirely later on by the living body. Part of the transplanted arteries may be in corporated in new artery growth. Transpl It Huth - Red rear guards fought fierreW In the triangle Itself; U. S. first ecrns r r . ! ives SP Ten-Year I! By Winston BL Taylor I ' Assistant City Editor, The Statesman ' Salem's city council Monday night granted a 10-year franchise-' for Southern Pacific railroad ta operate on Union street and heard a new protest on the procedural for consideration bf liquor licenses. - It also adopted . thoroughfare , and parking regulations for streets u iuc oaiaoca lugnway pian, re turned to the planning and zoning commission for revision a new sidewalk ordinance biU and held a public hearing on a controversial The railroad franchise, given for several years on-only an annual ' basis, was granted over the pro test of Alderman A. H. Gille, who called the Union itreet line "main tenance of a nuiance.n The ordi nance provides for revocation : on" a year's notice. Mayor A.t :W. Loucks said further report on a conference with railroad officials on problems in " Salem will , bo ready in early July. M Supported by Fry r f i Alderman David OUara reg istered his-dissatisfaction with tho way the council sometimes passes on a liquor store license the first night it appears on the floor, with out notice to the public He was supported by Alderman Dan Fry. The mayor appointed Councilmea O'Hara, Gille and Tom Arm strong to review the procedure ana Dnng a recommendation te the next meeting.' j; The question -arose on two' oc casions. ,The first was on a peti tion protesting a tavern license at 3093 Portland rdn recommended by the council at its last meeting, and refused reconsideration last night The second was on the ap plication of Marvel W. and Berna dine M. Olin to move the packago store license of I Salem Vintage store from 224 Hi High st to 559 Court st This was approved. 1 1 ! Regulates Parking The resolutions regarding ; tho Baldock traffic plan, to go into effect nrnhahlv aKnn Cawi . , WW . Hi WTS i, estaDiisn types sand locations of parking along Pihe, Commercial. , Liberty and several other streets in the grid, require a halt by all iraiiic entering Fine street from Portland , road to Commercial, Commercial - from Pine to south city limits, Liberty street from Pine to the Liberty-Commercial Y near Superior. i j The sidewalk bilL which would allow property owners more lee way in neW sidewalk construction, was returned to the planning and zoning commission for "tightening up 10 improve eniorcement, Zone Bill Argued 1 !j Ordinance bill for a residential to business zonei change on tho south side of Center street, be tween lztn and 13th, with build ing setback required, will be up for final consideration June 23, after a hearing Monday night, ?i ine controversy has been over the zoning conrnision's recom mendation that the setback not be waived, which Chairman W.i W. Rosebraugh supported at the hear ing. He said the practics of build ing right to the sidewalk line has proved impractical and should not be allowed without adequate off street parking. Coburn Graben horst and property owner Giles Smith spoke fori waiver of tho setback, urging that Center street can be widened to care for nark ing needs. hI (Additional council news en page 2.) . . :. , -. l ; Rep. Brphm Dravs WASHINGTON, June ll-(ff-Rep Walter E. Brehm (R-Ohio) was imea 3,uuu loaay ior me gaily accepting $1,000 in campaign gifts from a clerk in his office. Federal Judge Bernita S. Matt hews, in passing sentence, sua pended a five to 15 months jail term. She said she .believed Brehm's story he did not know It was unlawful to take campaign contributions from a federal em ploye. '- j - ii' Brehm, 58, is serving his fifth term in the house from the 11th Ohio district. He was convicted by a jury April 30 of five sepa rate violations of the corrupt prac tices act The act makes It crime to take a political donation from a federal employe. j i CouncilG