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,' ,'."'
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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
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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 !
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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