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2 The Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday. Tub 21, 1351 Dairy Go op , Told Operating Margin Cut By Iillie L. Madsen farm Editor. Th Statesmaa -The milk distributing margin is tmnner this year than it has been in Jong time and some distribu tors are apt to fall by the way side before the year is out. Eu gene Keller, Mayflower dairy plant official, told some 50 mem bers of the Daiiy Co-operative association. Salem unit, holding its 'quarterly meeting at May yllower hall Wednesday night. . To. some folk small fractions 5on'l ;mean much, he continued, "but the 310 cent reduction in price ; of - milk gives a - $6,000 " a month less margin for operation in the Mayflower plant. In addi ction to this, beginning May 1, i we have a 15-cent hourly labor ' Increase which figures out 'an' ad ditional $8,000 a month to sub tract from the margin." t ; ' To combat this, 5 Keller stated, the co-operative is trying to in crease the work units per man hour and to "do some extra work in the marketing and sales end 'of the business. , Leads Counties -. Marion county leads all Oregon counties in number of milk cows and even here the milk supply has dropped three million gal lons of milk in three years, Ray Hobson. Amity, said. Hobson, a dairyman in the Amity area, is a director of the co-operative. The reduction of dairy products found in Marion county is gen eral throughout the state, Hobson pointed out as he said Oregon's cow population had dropped 23, 000 head in the past three Tears. Richard Barnes, Silverton, vice president of the Salem unit, open ed the meeting in; the absence of S. BJ iTorvend,1 president. Ted Jenny ' manager : of the Salem plant, serves as secretary. Must Decide ,. 1 1 M f ; Hobson 'stated that Oregon dairymen have come to the cross - roads in dairying" and must: now decide whether they want to stay in the business themselves or let the milk be imported from Idaho or California to supply the local markets at a higher price. "Dairy business has been one of the staple industries of the Galley,? : Hobson : pointed out, f we don't want to see,, it, fade away, but we will have' to cuttevery corner; in economy to keep it here. , j : ; ; : r A number of dairymen present reported selling dairy cows this week to beef markets and.umak . Ing lO to 15 per eent more than if we .had sold '.them for 'dairy cows. Crover Poe, also of the May flower Dairy firm, the only other speaker, told of methods to im prove milk production. He said that 53 per cent of the producers lor the Dairy Co-op produced milk under 20,000 bacteria count which! "is most remarkable.'" - j. Following the program co-op officials served strawberry short cake to the members in attend ance. Riderless Car Said Involved In 99-E Crash Collision of two cars on high way 99-E five miles north of Sa lem confused the state police Wed nesday night. Patrolman Russell I.: Haynes said that a car Owned by Waldo Vincent Haxdman, Salem route 2. apparently rolled riderless down an inclined driveway on into the path of northbound Thomas Mar vin Maguire of Vancouver, Wash. However, Hardman was charged With failure to leave his name and address at the scene of an accident pending more complete investigation as to whether he was in the car at the time of the ac cident He posted $50 bail. DiSalle Rebukes Measure Banning Price Rollbacks WASHINGTON, June 20-V Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSal le said tonight adoption of a sen ate committee amendment barring future price rollbacks would cost the American public at least $2, 500.000,000 a year. He said it could only mean a rolling forward of prices. a DiSalle said that the committee action would reward "those who by their conduct and disregard of the national emergency made so Imperative the imposition of direct controls." The senate banking committee Jesterday voted to bar rollbacks elow prices prevailing last Janu ary 25. This was an amendment to new economic controls legislation oeiore congress. Valley ObiCnarieo FLORIAN J. OPFEK SILVERTON Funeral services f or Florian J. Oppek. 76, who died . early Wednesday will be bald from the Ekman. Memorial - Funeral home Friday at 2 o'clock. Oppek was born April 18, 1874 in Aus tria and had lived in the Silverton area for approximately 15 years. Survivors are the widow, Marie; two sons, Joe and Bunny Oppek. Salem; four daughters, Mrs. Dos dall. Bay City, Wis.; Mrs. Dorothy Smith, Grants Pass; Mrs. Eleanor 'Countryman, Molalla;. and Mrs. Smily White, Backduck. Minn.; 12 grandchildren and one . great grandchild,' ,'."' fr- CETTINC ilN THE CROOVE Singer Perry Come drives while TV star Dagiaar. acting as caddy, baerves farm dsrinr National .Celebrities Coif Teonuuneat, Washiartea, D. C. Rent Control Extension' Voted By House Banking Committee I M ! I By Harold W. Ward I .. : WASHINGTON, June 20-)-The house banking committee ap proved a one-year rent control extension today with specific rules on where the curbs may be applied, and turned down two adminis tration requests for new weapons to fight inflation. - It acted, as CIO President Philip Murray accused congress of devoting its attention to a "vicious system of slander-mongering and Russ Offers To Discuss Its Defense Pacts 'IM if- 'M- " PARIS, June 20 -JF- Soviet Russia offered today to talk about her .-own defense pacts in a big four ministers conference and de clared she could not understand why the West refused to put the Atlantic Pact and U. S. bases on the agenda. . ' '.r . The ' Russian government ; has mutual , assistance i treaties with communist China, Poland, Czech oslovakia, Hungary" R o m an t a, Bulgaria, Finland, France and Bri tain. .. ! .;. "The Soviet ', government, It said in identical notes to the Unit ed States, Britain and France, "has no objections that miy - of tfcese threaties be I subjected to discus- sion at a conference of foreign ministers, should the powers so desire. j : ! ' The Russians made their own offer in a reply amounting to a rejection I to ' Friday's western proposal that the ; Big Four get on with a I meeting to resolve EAST-WEST differences on the basis of topics ' already accepted by Big Four deputies here for the agenda. j ' i f . The West) suggested, that; the formally expressed disagreements over the north Atlantic treaty and U. S. bases be "taken into : ac count" by the foreign ministers themselves when they meet. ' : The deputy foreign ministers meeting here to lay the ground work for the conference are dead locked overt Russia's insistence that the treaty and U. S. bases be a formal item on the agenda. ' Phone Strike. Vote Takten Salem telephone workers con ducted a strike vote Wednesday night at the Senator hotel in the dispute between telephone union members and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. : r ; Results of the vote will not be known until tabulation early next week, said JJ G. Byrne, chairman of the strike : committee of Salem local 9204, CIO communications workers union. ! if - - Other locals; throughout ttx state are also : conducting strike votes, in the dispute: in which the union is asking for a wage in crease "of at least 10 per cent" and improved working conditions. Pleads Innocent to Charge! of Illegal Meat Possession Statesman New Scrric MILL. CITY Stanley F Wal czak of MiU City pleaded innocent to charges of illegal i possession of venison, at a hearing before Jus tice of the Peace Harlow Weinrick at Albany. Trial will be held next month. 1 j Walczak was arrested by ; State rouce oincer Charles McKehrey on the basis of reports that Wal czak had k81ed a deer on his property. The officer reported he found a deer; carcass under : a log on Walczaks place. ! Walczak de- niea knowledge of taedeer.i j Uo Hill Be Open I) Every Friday Evening (SlorUrj Jci3 22) Till 9 0'Ckd: To Show You tbo Lcdast Patterns for TJULOH-MADE Seat Covers. Drop lit and Look at the New Velon. Lumila, and Sealhxt Plastics. "Eemember Out Work Is Guaranteed," COII'L SEAT COVEB CO. S33 N. Commercial Street. 4j scandalizing of President Truman and his advisers while allowing inflation controls to wither. The, CIO leader spoke at an anti-inflation rally of his or ganization in which CIO General Counsel Arthur A. Goldberg hint ed broadly that labor leaders may again refuse to go along with thrf stabilization: program "if wages arc controlled tightly while ctber controls are weakened. Thee committee voted 18-6 for the rent control provision, with administration to be under the Economic Stabilization Agency (ESA) headed by Eric Johnston. The house version, like tnat in the senate, provides for rent con trols to be restored in any areas certified by the secretary of de fense and the office of defense mobilization as critical defense areas. ; ; , 5 But the house committee added three conditions for classing an area as critical: 1 The area must.be the site of a defense plant or military in stallation which has been reopen ed or expanded: : 2 A substantial -migration" or labor must result;, and . 9 A substantial r shortage of housing must exist and result or threaten to result in excessive lent increases. The committee agreed to permit 20 per cent rise in rents from the June 30, 1942, level, which Is also a provision ox he senate ver sion. i House Damaged In Car Wreck Damage to a house of $1,500 to S2.000 resulted from a two-car collision at Laurel and Highland avenues Wednesday morning, city police reported. Police said that an auto driven by Lloyd E. Keesling. 4205 Cherry ave., collided with another driven by Ray Allen Lohse, pushing the latter into the house occupied by Thomas HJ Drinkwater at 882 Highland ave. Keesling was cited by police on a charge of failure to .stop at stop sign. Highway Bonds To Go for Work On Vital Routes GRANTS PASS, June 2Hff) The state highway commission in dicated today most of its highway bond money in the next year would co to the heavily traveled stretches, i These 'include the coast. Pacific, rvijmnhia River, and The Dalles- California highways. The commission, now touring the state to determine where the money would do the most good, indicated some of the funds would go to straightening parts of the coast highway. Commissioners, who traveled from Astoria to Ore gon's southern border, heard com plaints all along the route that there were too many curves. The commissioners -visited Grants Pass, Medford and Ash land today. ; They will go north to Eugene tomorrow. A tour of eastern Oregon is planned later. I V3i. PLANE CASUALTD2S TOKYO, Thursday, June 21 - (-Far East air forces said today the allies lost two planes destroyed and one missing in combat since Sunday. Headquarters said one F 51 Mustang was destroyed, an F-88 Sabre Jet was shot down and another Sabre was missing. Salem, Ore. IiSpiarns LastJfliimte TEHRAN. Iran, June 20-WV Iran spurned last-minute' efforts at mediation today and issued or ders setting up her complete (con trol of the Anglo-Iranian oil com pany's operations. Britain abrupt ly recalled her peace mission. empty-handed, with a warning she will protect th lives oi Brit ons if necessary. i Premier Mohammed Mossadegh ordered his government's Iranian national oil company to assume full authority over AIOC opera tions under the nationalization law he pushed through parlia ment 12 weeks ago. He promised to keep the oil flowing. . .. Mossadegh's deputy.- Hussein Fatimi, said Iran would not "shut the valves' on the giant refinery of the billion-dollar, British-owned company at Abadan, as ex treme, nationalists" have threaten ed. A vaguely worded communi que Issued after a five-hour cab inet meeting indicated the gov ernment plans a gradual : take over, i. : i The cabinet held a second spe cial session tonight at Messadegh's home to polish up their plans. AIOC officials declined comment on the government's latest moves, dui mere was some facetious west ern comment on a decision that all signs bearing the Anglo-Iranian name must be replaced with Iranian national oil company signs. A veteran British resident com mented: "Mossadegh will find, out there's more to running an oil company than changing slgnsC" Hussein Maid, a parliamentary firebrand, hoisted an Iranian flac ceremoniously over the Abadan refinery, but stopped short of car rying out an earlier threat to halt the flow of oil. Judge IGmmell Upheld in Farm Property Case The state supreme court Wed nesday upheld Marion County Cir cuit Judge Rex Klmmell in a case tried In the lower court several months ago ' involving lease for feitrrre of farm property. j The high ; court held for ;the plaintiff, Oscar H. Lee, In a suit against S. J. Klein and others. The complaint had sought forfeiture of the lease for failure on the part of defendants to pay rent on the property. : .About 140 acres of land, rented to Klein for seed production pur poses,' was involved. The opinion was written by Justice Arthur D. Hay. it Man Drowns 1 As Tug Tips In Nehalem I : 1 Tillamook. Ore, June 20-iflV High waves at the entrance of the Nehalem river capsized a 28-foot tug from Portland and drowned one man yesterday. Another grab bed a piece of floating wreckage and managed to right nu way through the breakers to shore. ; Allen Ameson, 25, Portland, was the drowning vicxim. his companion, who made It to the beach, was Donald Sather, also of Portland. j Ameson, who was, graduated from Lewis and Clark college earlier this month, and Sather were aboard the tug Marilyn headed for Wheeler, Ore.,: when waves upset the boat, then crash ed it against rocks. The tug went down. 1 The sinking escaped notice Un til two vacationers. Dr. M.( C Currie and Jack Stors, both; of Portland, came across sather, ex haused. on the beach. Dr. Currie gave him first aid, and Sather then -was brought to a hospital here, where his condition was called good. 1 I' FOLIO RESEARCH FUND 1 PORTLAND, June 20 -UPH A grant of $5,275 was made today to the University of Oregon medical school to continue polio research studies. I ! Mediation Try AT SALEII ABIIOHY SL50 PES couple ; Tickets cd & Door Plahsjfpr Addition To St Joseph's .: School Submitted Plans for an addition to St. Jo seph's parochial school were sub mitted to (he city building inspec tor's, office Wednesday afternoon. The addition will house two new classrooms, a .heating plant and multiple-purpose room. The struc ture will be 30 by 60 feet of one story and basement. The ! school addition is part of a several hundred thousand dol lar program planned by the St Joseph's parish which will Include a new church. The church will be located at Chemeketa and North Winter streets at thj site of the old St. Joheph's hall now being raxed. Grange Favors County Road Administration thtiwn News Seiike SILVERTON Recommendation for a law to set up a county road administration with an added 815, 000 for each county from state funds was made by the legislative committee of the Pomona grange meeting Wednesday In Silverton. The committee also recommend ed passage by the next leeislature of provision for more exact ac counting of the disbursement of all road funds. ; Guest speaker for the meeting was Drt Vernon D. Olson, health educator for the Marion county department of health, who spoke on the x-ray campaign against tuberculosis. He said that "tuberculosis can be reduced to a minimum." He cited the manner in which malaria in Arkansas has been reduced from 5,000 cases a year to one. case in a period of .14 . years in demonstra tion of . the eradication of disease. Silverton grange was host' for the Pomona meeting of 0 mem bers representing .nine granges. Those represented include North Howell, Stayton, Madeay, Ankeny, Silverton Hills, Union Hill, Rob erts, Waldo Hills and the host Stayton; grange. Hoax!Marged ByfWatclidog' WASHINGTON, June 20-JP)- House f watchdog committee to day urged cancellation of more than 83,000,000 in. military con tracts it said grew out of plan ning by two men while In prison. In a, report 'labeling its find ings as "fantastic, the committee also recommended the firing of two Investigators at the Burning- ham, Ala., ordnance district who checkedj one of the contracts in volved. All were granted to the Elvair Corp. Natchez. Miss. The report said that on the day a 8260,000 contract for canvas tank covers wal . awarded to El vair, the firm had on hand only iThe report added "At no time did it ever have on hand sufficient money in cash to perform its . commitments to the government. Yet it planned to make S1Z9.000 profit! The commit tee is of the 'Opinion it would have been much more than that," COFFERDAM COLLAPSES i .;-- WALLA WALLA, Wash June 20-(P-A thirty-foot section of the cofferdam on the Washington aide of the Columbia river at the Me- Nary damsite : collapsed today, flooding; the enclosure. However no serious delay in construction is expected. ::isz::d Salei Only Hon Owned Theater Now' Shewing Open 8:45 k. . i ' I ttrsr I iifiCTrn a VENGEANCE Comedy Co-Feature! I -MOLLY"" DAYS Housfe Group V C Friday, June 22 9-12 P. M. mta T0III7 And Hhv Ucr! Cczrl BimUsra Sponsored bj re!xer Hons Chzb 10000 IPOSlesS Everycno Uclccna Mickey Cohen Convicted of Tax Evasion LOS ANGELES,1 June 20-flr-Mickey Cohen, whose pudgy fig ure was spotlighted by the Ke fauver senate' crime probe, was convicted today of federal income tax evasion. Denied bail, he was handcuffed and led off to jail to await sen tencing Jury . A Jury deliberat ed only four hours before con victing him on four courts. The maximum co the counts is 20 years in federal prison and 840, 000 in fines. Cohen, New York-born but a Los Angeles resident most of his 37 years, was accused in three counts of ! evading! '.8158,123 in taxes for the years. J948-7-S. The fourth accused him of making a false statement; , to j the govern ment. -?'jlf - Asst. U. S. "Attorney Kay JOn nison said that in addition to bis unpaid taxes and possible fine. Cohen Is liable for the amount the government spent In prose cuting him. The attorney said there is a seldom used statute under which a judge may assess costs of prosecution on top of any fine. Kinnison said be was unable to estimate the actual cost of prose cution but it .might run to 850,- 000. He said , an assessment win now be placed against property and assets of Cohen to satisfy the unpaid taxes which, with penal ties, will mount to approximately 8250.000. i Cohen hadnt been behind the bars of the county Jail long be fore he told newsmen be will try to get out. ;Tm sending my at torney to San Francisco to see if the federal circuit court will let me out on bail,'' he said, explain ing he wanted time to make pro vision for his wife. "I dont know what's going to become of her," ne aaaea. State's Forest; Fires Quelled By Th9 Associated Oregon's scattered forest fires were under control today, but the forecast was for continued danger of new outbreaks In the timber land. f I The weatherman said hot. dry days would continue, the mercury climbing into the 90's In Southern Oregon and Into the 80's in the Willamette valley. No new fires were reported yes 2-7C29 , NOW SHOWING! ; Open 8-SUrts at DusaJ "FKEE r(OXY RIDES! Gregory Peck Barbara Peyton Ward Bond la "ONLY THE VALIANT Joseph Cettoa . ValU in WALK SOFTLY STKANGEK j 3i Mat. Daily from IF. H. NOW! And! - I ,i BOY BOGEBS TRIGGER In "TRIGGER, JH." Opea 8:45 T. If. - Walt Disney's "DUIEO" Oeisr ar JOHN WAYNE Laralne Day ba "TYCOOII it Deors Open 8: F. M. . i : NEW s ;" TonqniiOTZ! 2 Socko Action HltsI BervTlfo. 1 Bandolph Scott MarUsto Dietrich i fat LL TOW nan's Ne. t i JON j HALL ' "in it BUFFALO U terday. A Lrnn" county fire that started Monday was under con trol near Sweet Home after spreading over 100 acres. A Yam hill county fire near peavine ridge was held to five acres. A score of fires in the Rogue national forest were under control, as was a small blaze that isUfted in a Central Oregon pine sand. Crasli DoSvus PowerLines Two 4,000-volt power lines were jarred from a power pole. Wed nesday night when the pole at Center and Statesman streets was struck by an auto, city police said. Sylvia . McGilL 830 N. 17th st, driver of the car received a cut chin and skinned knees. Police said she told th-m. she ."doesn't know what happened,'! to cause the erash.!V; ; f H i Ul J . Power combanr linemen renair edthelines.;?-;!)?, ' : : ELSINORE -Where the Big Pictures Play Hurry - Must End Tonight! (Thurs.) -- tayiMffland - John Hodiak - Nancy Davis ki -NIGHT INTO MORNING" j. Whew Tonbimowr The Roaring Successor to "Battleground"! "Co for Broke" means 'Shoot the Works and they shoot the works in lead, love and laughter I HLlim,lll!Jidlilili)lilil!yiyiil; 0 UfllS (iUIO GT? ' ' : t "J? yy - : C T ttarrina . " J m j HIE HEROES if i 442K3 REfillJEIIl Cflllll lEWJ - . Fr Yew ' ADDED ENJOYMENT1 Popeye Cartoon Dblecreas Country Kaee. JOI McDOAKES COMEDY Latest Warner News CAPITOL j Must End Tonlghtl (Thursday) " THI MUDLAJUC" and THE SAVAGE HOXDt 2 Hilaricas Hits Stsrf Tcr.:iTov! i IarifcBll-W -Plus TMs Fva nd love-RUed Co-Ktl fX ooan ' Ifs Joan AK. IWL- J L-v it - 'C3 1 paiAMK err JTf COLOX CARTOON Ul -PUTTY TAT TROUSIE- News Tiff :- .. iuississippi Ob-Sellings Ring Exposed t WASHINGTON, June 20 -W-Investigating senators talked of prosecutions today in reporting on what they called a fvkious job selling racket" in Mississippi poll tics. . - Ringleaders in the peddling of federal lobs, an expenditures sub committee said, were members of a Mississippi group , which took over federal patronage when the democratic national committee withdrew recognition from the regular state party organization. The regulars bolted from Presi dent Truman in 1948 and backed the states rights ticket i The Job-selling has been .stop ped, the cosimitteesaid, and ad ded that there! 1 no evidence that the national committee got any of the money. j (MMB HOW staxring i 'c at her Best .tho season's merriest roman- nrt Extra! J .m Mm. I I) : : ; ; 3
