The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 21, 1951, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texts - f I I .... J k - W Fiires E&t Temperature 98 in Salem : In Portland! Eases Salem's official tempera tar crested at a: stsxlia $M de ; trees Meaday, JfcNary field weathermaa reverted. Wktt'i mere the? predict It will climb a degree today Aa there's ae relief ta sight threagn Thursday. - i 5 , I Hat as U wu Monday. It was better last aunt amd the aaoata ' feefere. J air's peak was a f the 11th. Jane's was tSJ oa ( j J PORTLAND. Ore, Au( 20-UP)-TiT ripped through the forests of western Oregon and Washington today. And to Uie south In Cali fornia, fire fighting teams were being rushed in; from nearby states to help control major uncontrolled blazes. i in Oregon and Washington, some SO scattered fires ate into huge OTP scbjjoos 1KDQDQCE It was my privilge last week to spend two days with rangers of the forest service visiting selected portions of the north part of the Willamette National forest. This vast domain of one and two-thirds million acres spreads along the .western ridge of the Cascades through Marion, Linn and Lane counties. The Detroit district, with headquarters at Detroit embraces 175,400 acres of which 137,600 acres are commercial forest area and 70,000 acres old-growth forest area. It covers primarily the head waters of the North Santiam. For est Ranger S. T. Moore of the De troit district was our host, but Jack Smith of the Eugene head ouarters. and Ranger Jack Sau bert of the Cascadia district spent a day each with us on tne tour. The other guests were Lawrence Spraker of the Stayton Mail and W. M. Hamilton 01 saiem. - At this period of the year we are aDt to think of men in the forest service as busy primarily with fire prevention and suppres sion. That is only part of their duties. This year all men in the forest service are jittery, because of the dry season. Detroit is par ticularly vulnerable because of the extensive clearing in progress for the dam reservoir and the pwer line up the Breitenbush. The forest rangers really are forest managers. Their responsi bility extends -more and more to- forest ' development ' and -. utiliza tion. With the depletion of pri vately owned forests on the lower dtltudes pressures are increasing for the cutting of timber in na tional forests. This Is timely; be cause many stands In these 'for ests are mature and ripe for the harvest, i , Marked changes have taken place in the way forests are cut Instead of starting at the bottom of a creek basin and working up, cut ting all the merchantable trees on the floor and ridges, cutting, at least on public lands, is done se lectively. In the fir region , (Continued on editorial page, 4) Youth Drowns Near Lyons SUtesasaa Ntws Btrrtes LYONS, Aug. 20 James Court ney, 15, drowned in Jordan creek while boating near the Jordan dam this evening. Linn County Coroner Glenn Huston said reports at the drown ing scene indicated that young Courtney Jumped into the water .from the boat, swam a few strokes : and then cried for help. A younger brother and a third boy in the boat held out an oar which the . drowning boy couldn't reach, then Jumped in after him. ' When they couldnt find Court ney in the six-feet-deep water they attracted three men working nearby, John LIglinsky, Henry Huburger and Jerry Silbernagle. They located the body within a few minutes but neither their ef forts nor those of a Mill City fire department, resusicitation ' crew were successful. The drowning . victim was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Court ney who live on Thomas Creek road near Jordan. Ten brothers and sisters also survive. Animal Crackers y WARREN GOODRICH Ne tWj, Tat UiZ bay mjuT . i - its Fi nurmouiy was oown u iu per cent in some of the woods areas and the foresters of both states kept all logging operations shut down. That put 35,000$ men out of work. The western Oregon clo sure was "until fau rains come." There has been no ram of con sequence since May. 1. A half dozen of the fires were major. Others were minor. .Two communities, one In each state, were threatened but appar ently escaped. I North of Seattle the ; town of Newhalem in Whatcom county was menaced yesterday, names MONDAY WEATHER i TABLE I I Derree) S i, 8S.4 i : 99.7 Time : 1:3S p. am. f 2:3t p. m. 1 3:30 p. m. 5 4.3 p. m. S:te p. m. i 5:31 p. m. ..93.4 -S7.1 .98.4 ..97.1 ..96.S .89 .S I :3I 1 we p. m. p. an. backfired awa from the town- were halted by 300 firefighters after they, had raced over 2,000 acres." - f - i : South of there In Skaeit coun- tv a blaze estimated at 1.800 to 2,000 acres was called the worst in that state. 1 In PortUnd Hills i Fire in Portland's west hills partly within the city's municipal forest and partly in Multnomah and Washington county - timber caused a score of families to flee their homes last nighti Today, though, they moved back as 600 firefighters kept the flames from the community of Bonny slope, and reported ia trail around it in the steep ground rising up behind the Willamette river. ? ; Nearly 200 1 r lies to the south the Vincent creek fire worst in the region between Eugene and Coos Bay since the Smith river fire of 13 years ago was report ed at 10,000 acres this I morning and still t Dreadinff. ! . At Eugene,?; Ray Oglesby, the western Lane county fire patrol warden, called for 50 sets of ex perienced faliers to go into the fire and cut down naming snags. 8mkt Jumpers Ready I The federal forest service as sembled 38 smoke jumpers at Il linois valley airfield in southern Oregon for use as needed. Some of them were sent in against 24 fires that sprang up In j Jackson county within the Rogue Rivet: national forest. - 4 S On Hubbard creek, 20 miles north of Roseburg. 300 men were making little ' headway against a fire that spread out overman esti mated 5,000 acres. - ; On Days creek another southern Oregon' fire blackened 250 acres. Lightning storms tonight, start ed new forest fires in northern California, adding to blazes which have swept over some 25,000 acres since the week end. t 5 The forest service pulled In fire fighting teams from Idaho, Mon tana, Utah and southern 5 Califor nia to combat the worst outbreaks. I (Additional details on page 7) Circii&Pardde Available for 1 .... . 1 l; Early Riser? Salem folk wining to turn out about 5 am. Thursday may find that circus parades are not entire ly a thing of the past. For when the big Ringling brothers circus hits Salem in the early hours that day, it Will un load from railroad siding at the state fairgrounds, then move all the way across town to the city airport property to set up Its tents. This means a motorized cara van will move the circus equip ment, three or four wagonsload per truck or tractor, through the heart of ' Salem, probably over North Capitol, State and 25th streets starting at about; 5 ul, according to advance circus repre sentative W. L; Carr. s The circus will play at city prop erty along the east sides of 25th street at its approaches ! to the airport administration- building. Parking area will be provided on the opposite sloe or the road. Circuses in recent years have appeared in Salem usually at the state fairgrounds parking area. but this week's circus was de nied that location because of the nearness to state fair opening. : 1 1 1 State Sen. Vernon Bull Discharged by Railroad PORTLAND, Aug. 20-VState Sen. Vernon Bull, La Grande, a Union Pacific trainman, has been released for a rule violation, rail road officials said today. They declined to amplify the statement, a company spokesman said. Bull la a democrat. S MORE CADETS LEAVE WEST POINT, N. Y Aug. 20- (iTV-Three more cadets left West Point , today, bringing to '81 the number banished thus far for aca demic cheating. H Norn Vk-W V . - 101st YEAH Hospital Inmates Process Beans State hospital Inmate Monday started processing1 beans In the state penitentiary cannery as convicts still refused to return te work. The strike, which will be a week old today, showed no real signs of ending, although 41 trusties returned to their Jobs Monday morning. (Statesman 'photo.) Korean Truce Talks Head into New Crisis I . By Don Hath MUNSAN, Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 21 -(JPh Deadlocked Korean truce talks appeared headed into a new crisis today because of a shooting in the neutral zone near Kaesong, site of the conference However, MaJ. Gen. Henry I. Hodes and Rear A dm. Arleigh A. Burke held jub-committee talks as usual today at Kaesong on the tangled armistice buffer zone issue. . .. . County Clifest X-Ray Survey To End Today The Willamette Valley Chest X- ray survey will end today for most of Marion county residents. Two units stationed in down town Salem will close down at 8 pjn. The units will then Join others - to begin " the ' survey in Clackamas county Wednesday, s. "Those who have not yet been X-rayed should take advantage of their last chance today,' said Jason Lee, Marlon county program chairman. r A total of . 46,033 have been filmed in Marion county out of a potential of 77,750 adults; Lee said. Plans are being : made, he said, for mobile X-ray machines to return to Marion county high schools when school starts. A unit probably will be stationed at the state fair, he said. ! Machines operating in Salem to day are to be at Pay Less Drug store from noon until 8 pan. and at Bishop's men's store from 11 ajn. to 8 p.m. "It is the purpose of this sur vey, said Dr. Willard J. Stone, Marion 'county health officer, "to discover unknown cases of tu berculosis, because if we wait for symptoms to show we may have jvaited too long." It costs about $2,4t0 a -year to keep a patient in a tuberculosis hospital, said Dr. Stone. Frequent ly if the disease is discovered in time through X-rays the hospital treatment can be shortened "or eliminated entirely. ; Man Drwvns In Santiam Statesman News Service SWEET HOME, Aug: 20 The body of John McCoy Wood, 62, apparently a drowning victim, was found in the Santiam river near the Sweet Home water plant to day. ; Coroner Glenn Huston said the body was found by Fire Chief Jack Gilbert and Fireman John Surry in eight feet of water after they dragged the river about an hour. The- coroner said the man appar ently drowned yesterday. : ' Officials were notified about 6 pjn. today by Ben J. Weaver who came upon Wood's clothing and billfold on the river bank near Wood's trailer home. Wood had been woriir-2 for Gilbert Eaton Legging Co. L OPPONENTS LIAKSY CLEVELAND, Av. 23-iTVHe-porter Leah Jacoby has been moved by the Cleveland Press from the police to the suburban news beats. he married Charles Montgomery, a pc!Ic reporter from the rival Cleveli Lews. ikwest -A- 12 PAGES A strongly-worded protest ' by Korean Lt. Gen. Nam II, chief Red armistice delegate; blamed - Allied troops for the slaying of a Chi nese patrol leader Sunday morn ing. Nam demanded a "satisfactory reply" at once. . Vice A dm. C Turner Joy, sen ior United Nations truce delegate, replied from Tokyo today that a preliminary Investigation by a Joint allied-communist liaison group "does not .substantiate the charges you have made." : Joy added that he would reply fully to Nam after he gets a com plete report from the investigat ors.; - - - ' " - A U.N. command, statement Monday night attributed the shoot ing to Korean civilians trying to sabotage the truce talks. The state ment said preliminary investiga tion "failed completely to identify the armed bands as belonging to any United Nations military for mation." . It said, "the possibility exists that the shooting was the work of a politically-guided civilian group operating under instructions to create an atmosphere of .tension which would tend to support the breaking off of the . current mili tary armistice conference.'. Max. M M 72 7S. Mia. SS : , 64 , S6 S3 Precip. .M ' M .00 1.47 trace Salem Portland Saa Francisco Chicago New York Si es Willamette river -3.7 feet. ' FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. MeNary field. Salem : MoaUy clear today and tonight. High today near n. tne low lonif nt near si. SAXXM raXCTMTATION Siaes Start. at Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Tear 49.S4 Last Year 43M Normal -;V V ; - - .i j -1 r r j mmmmmmtmm tmn ini'iMaH,MHMHWMiilMHH( i'tiimin nnf ' r i ft - it tr ' I ' it Cures for Colds, Polio; Rocket Trips 7a Moon Expected Within 75 Year; By Alton L. Blakeslee ' Associated Press Science Beporter NEW YORK, Aug. 20--Lead-lng chemists predict cures for the common cold and polio, rocket trips to the moon, even guarantees of no rain at picnics. How soon? Within the next 73 years. What they see in the crystal ball of the future is told in the Diamond Jubilee issue of the Am erican Chemical Society magazine, chemical and engineering news. The society . celebrates ' its 15th anniversary at a meeting here Sept 3-7. Prof. John C Eailar, University of Illinois, foresees "cures or pre ventives available for infantile paralysis, mental illnesses, aller gies, the common cold. The complex chemistry of can cer, hardening of arteries, and arthritis will be unraveled, adds Dr. It B. Haas, General Aniline and Film corp. New York.. "At least one man will have cir Worests JJBurimg. ! PCUNDQO Th Oregon Statesman, Satan. at Prison Canneries Get Permission to Find Bargains 'WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -("-The Office Of Price Stabilization today gave canners and freezers of most vegetables, fruits and juices a green' light to strike a price bar gain with purchasers subject to adjustment later by price control authorities. i : The agency explained that it has been unable to work out cost formulas on many canned fruit products in time to bring them under the existing regulation for canned j vegetables and fruits. j The agency has established can iners' ceilings on asparagus, spi nach, green peas and beans, cher ries, and apricots at the 1948 price plus increases in labor and mate rials costs since; that base period, i Delays encountered In working out the allowable cost increases made necessary, today's emergency action, OPS said, in order that processors could dispose of fruits and vegetables now being packed. Canned and frozen soups and fruits and vegetable juices are covered by the emergency action. ! OPS called its temporary plan an "adjustable" i pricing policy. It said a canner may use his ceiling under the January price freeze or a price which is agreed upon by himself and the buyer subject' to these conditions: if the price is higher than the one finally ap proved by OPSJ the canner must make a refund; if the price is low er, the purchaser may be called upon to make up the difference. Some of the major canning items are affected, including tomatoes, corn, lima beans, peaches, pears, plums, and a number of other commodities which soon will be reaching the canneries and freez ing plants. ... j TYPHOON HITS. OKINAWA TOKYO, Tuesday, Aug. 2-(3V uniis or tne u. s. zoth air force based on Okinawa were cleaning up today after riding out 61 hours of a typhoon the longest tropical storm since 1943. Because of ad vance warning; there was no loss of life. . . i cumnavigated the moon and re turned safely, Dr. C C Furnaat Cornell Aeronautical Lab, Inc., Buffalo.. - The first moon rocket won't be manned, says Dr. A. V. Grosse, Research Institute of Temple uni versity. "It will be easily observed as It strikes the moon by the flash of magnesium in its head." Liquid hydrogen and fluorine will be a close competitor of atomic energy to drive rockets. ' - -. t . "Not only making rain but pre venting it will be established prac tice," assuring sunny picnics Dr. Gustavus J. Esselen, U. S. Testing Co, Inc, Boston. Autos wCl be of weight-saving plastic-metal combinations, says Prof. JL Mark, - Polytechnic In stitute of Brooklyn. "Housing will make substantial use of synthetics -ell piping will be plastic; most rooling and siding will be coated fabrics . . . Univer sal two-way wireless between ail w 1 165J - i - I 1 Oregon, Taesdar. August 22 flfin r? 'W, on n .ill J; 4'"7i?iiosSdib fall: fi VI mi iJ ! , Court Ruling Paralyzes Washington Finances; Legislature OLYMPIA, Aug. 20-AVrhe state supreme court today threw out the combination appropriations-tax bill enacted 'during the 1SS1 fiscal session. The action virtually paralyzed the state's finances and led to a quick announcement by Governor Langlie that he will call a special session soon. . ; :i ' . The 5 to S decision ruled that the combination appropriations-tax law passed-by the 1951 legislature was unconstitutional. The law car ried the main authorization for various state agencies to spend money to run the state. Atty. Gen. Smith Troy said the decision created an emergency sit uation. Most state checks Issued since April 1 the start of the present biennium now have no . legal backing. Troy said, however, that the legislature could meet in spe cial session and pass a law making good all such checks issued to date. State Auditor Cliff Yelle said he will stop issuing warrants (checks) against the law immedi ately. It may be a temporary shut down, he added, depending on the outcome of an emergency meeting tomorrow with the attorney gen eral and other state officials.. Langlie said the decision of the court "makes necessary a call of the legislature at the earliest pos sible day." In a 5 to S opinion with the ninth justice concurring in part and dissenting in part, the court ruled: 1. The 4 per cent corporation tax portion of the law is uncon stitutional because it violates the uniformity provisions of the state charter. 2. The tax Is discriminatory against corporations doing busi ness on a calendar year basis, and is therefore unconstitutional. . 3. The law contains two unre lated subjects and thus violates the constitutional provision that no bill shall embrace more than one subject. The combination tax-appropriations bill was passed by a special session of the 1951 legislature last April. Fire Threat To Meliama Stateonaa News Service MEHAMA Fire, for a time, threatened ' this Santiam river town 20 miles southeast of Salem when a barn at ' the west, edge burned to the ground Monday afternoon. Fire equipment from Ercill Wil son Logging company, district fire warden's office. Mill City fire de partment and Stayton fire depart ment battled the blaze which spread through dry grass and showered sparks oil dwellings. Flames crossed the highway, stop ping traffic for nearly an hour. The fire was completely out by dark. ' t Destroyed was a barn of un determined value and $2,009 worth of household goods stored there. The property was owned by Jack Alloway. No insurance was held on the property. homes with optional television, al so wireless electric appliances." : Foods will be built up syntheti cally, and economically, from car bon dioxide, water and ammonia with the help of the sun's energy. Dr. Grosse thinks. "' A new Industry win make pro teins and fats -from Algea, tiny plants in the sea, says Prof. Harry N. Holmes, Oberlin college, saw dust will supply cellulose to pro duce more beet than farm acre age alone can do. ' - Salt marshes will be farmed with chemical feeding of salt- re sistant plants, and fertilizers will coax more and better food from our land Prof. H. N orris Shreve. Purdue university. And well, get anzxizg water from the sea. Atomic bombardments and pho tosynthesis will help some of the metals and basic chemicals wnicn are raw nv.erials of modern civil ization, Drs. Bailar - and Furnas predict. 1SS1 PRICE tolConvene Dr. Chester W. Hamblin, Salem minister who has been called te - the pulpit of First Presbyterian church of Pale Alto, Calif. . Presbyterian Pastojr JAccepts California Call Dr. Chester W. Hamblin, pastor of Salem's First Presbyterian church the past six years, has re ceived and accepted a call to the pastorate of First Presbyterian church of Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Hamblin will meet with the session of his, church tonight to take first steps : relative to con cluding his term as pastor here prior to accepting the California call. I I ;- The local pastor said Monday night he would make no comment on the call because his first an- noun cement would be made to the church board, j i Since coming i to Salem, Dr. Hamblin has played a prominent part in religious and other activi ties of this fcityrand the state He served twice as president of the Oregon Council of churches and for the I past five years has been president of the Westminster foundation for the Synod of Ore gon. This foundation has .to do with student work at Oregon State college and the University of Ore gon. The pastor also has been chairman of several committees of the synod. -1 . ; I .'.,-r . . i i i i i , v i Couricimen Meet i In Eugene to Talk Over Bus Problem i lit : : Mayor 1 Al Loucks and eight Salem city councllmen journeyed to Eugene Monday held informal discussions With Eugene city of ficials regarding City Transit lines problems and arrived at no im mediate conclusions. The company. ; serving both cities, claims financial difficulties. Mayor LouickS said last night that no conclusions were reached at the Informal discussions but that all chases i of the . problem were discussed for serving the best interests of the public and busi ness. . ! Western International . At Vancouver's. Wenatehee f (Only gtm scbeduled) ' - Coast Leame - , No fames schedoled) , . Xatlonal League At Boston tBrooktm (rain). iOnlr cam scheduled; . American; League At Detroit i Kew York S-1S At Cleveland S, Whlnrto (Otkly gf scaauuled) wm mm m mmm ... . . : : I eJ. v.- I Mir- a Dr. Hamblin ! j -:v- r N :, ; v , . 4 . r 5 t " - ' ' i . A ;V :; 5c Ho. ia McKay Brands Statements as 'Irresponsible' A handful of Oregon's hungry convicts returned ? to work (and food) Monday, amid reports el an attempted suicide and a charge by Gov. Douglas McKay that irre sponsible statements had pro- ' longed the week-long strike. The convicts have been foodlese five days. Thirteen hundred still are, 5 - . - The governor's i Charge was aimed at State Sen, Douglas Yea er, who previously, said his senate committee on public welfare and ' institutions intended "to prod-th state board of control Into getting a new prison warden. $ Latest development last night was an unconfirmed report that a group of penitentiary guards was -preparing a petition Saying they would resign if Warden George Alexander was fired, - Meanwhile, a regular meeting of the control board was scheduled . today. s i . There was no sign of a general' back-to-work move among the convicts Monday.-,; in . i fact, one prisoner., released at the end of his term yesterday, morning, said the boys hope to hold out an other four days." : They ha vent eaten since breakfast last Thurs day not In the prison dining room, at least They haven't worked since a week ego today. The ex-convict who said the strike would be continued was George A. Mclntyre of Eos ton. Mass, released after a'lo-months . sentence for larceny by bailee who also said a prisoner named Ellingsworth had attempted sui cide by slashing bis wrists Sunday. (Prison officials said last nfrtit ElUngsworth "didn't get hurt enough to be bandaged.") :J - The handful, about 40 convicts who returned to -work (and food) Monday, were trusties.? emnlnved largely in the gardens and driving ' -trucks. s N LegU Statu . I Governor McKay's sssanin of Senator Yeater came on the heels of an Informal opinion by Attor ney uenerai ueorge Neuner that Yeaters committee had no legal existence at the present time and; " therefore, no authority. It is a committee named by Senate Presl -dent Paul Patterson at the start of the last session of the legisla ture, and did not comprise an la' terim committee which would have the right to continue authori-r tatively between legislative ses sions. - .." i-J , Yeater said Monday he did "not think it necessary fori the com mittee to meet at this time. The governor charged Yeater with '- spreading "misinformation and declared the state .board of control had been working on the problem of obtaining: a successor to Warden George Alexander eve since.the legislature empowered lt to do so last spring. Alexander,', under the approved plan, - would continue as prison business ad ministrator, j - " 27 Applications j . Thirty-seven applications, some of them "top-flight men, now are -on file, the governor said, and the board of control "will move to fill the office! as soon as the gov- ernor and State Treasurer Walter ; Pearson "have completed an ex amination of these applications."" Secretary of State; Earl Newbry, third member of the control board, already has studied the list, the w governor said. ' Mclntyre, the convict released Monday, alleged there ; was "no discipline" in the prison; that guards "made up their own rules from day to day and the prisoners don't know where they stand; that medical treatment was inadequate; . and that brutality , was frequent. He claimed the strike ' was not planned and was called because ' Guard Morris Race used a bully v club- on a prisoner to break up a fight The convicts demanded that Morris be removed. ? Continue Beach I ' Prison -officials have denied there was any brutality. In the meantime, guards continued their search for 30 knives: reported missing from the prison cannery. Mclntyre, whose first meal out side the prison was a hamburger sandwich and a glass of milk, said convicts were eating a mixture of hot water, salt and vevptrt called "chicken broth," and . a simple syrup of water and sugar. t Afaay Commente - ' 1 Meanwhile, the governor's cfSca ' reported receiving ' many letters,, telegrams and telephone calls, about evenly divided between per sons wanting prison officials to stand pat and those demanding , the convicts be fed regardless. "