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Th Oregon Stateamcm Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 25 1952
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For a couple of years the city
council has been considering a
general business license tee in
order to supplement the city's
revenues.. Specific increases in
present fees have been ordered
though the matter of business li
censes is by no means settled. Hie
council does have a problem to
make its revenues stretch, in view
of current inflated costs and ex
panded services part of which
were required with extension of
city boundaries. Nevertheless it is
well for the council to study its
budget carefully, and prune it
diligently in order to avoid extra
levies on business.
Comparisons are never fully de
pendable as guides, but they are
at least informing. Citizens will be
interested in the way city reve
nues and expenses have shot up
in the past ten years. For the year
1942-43, according to the city
treasurer! figures, total revenues
for the dty were $427,183. In
1950-51 the total had increased to
$1,483,810, an increase of over
three times. Receipts from taxes
were just about double: $360,173
In 1942-42 and $723,474 in 1950-5U
Meantime the treasury had the
benefit of new or enlarged sources
of revenue, as follows:
1942-43 1950-51
Licenses and fees $20,109 $124,948
Fines 32,109 123,694
State beverage tax 5,424 22,894
Parking meters none 111,755
State share
for streets none 241,747
Airport none 12,722
Because of these added revenues
from sources other than the direct
tax on property and because of a
near-doubling ot tne assessed val
uation the property tax levy has
(Continued on Editorial r-ageej
Buell Chooses
7tk JSradeE as
Top Speller
BUELL Twelve-year-old Roy
Petersen of the 7th grade has been
adjudged the champion speller in
Polk countysip
Buell school and '
will compete in a ?
semi - finals con- -
test at Dallas..
Junior High on
March 26.
Roy was certi- V
fled for The Ore- Z
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KSLM Spelling
Contest by hisr
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principal a n A , .
teacher, Lenna K. r07 Petersen
Waddingham. He
is the son of Mrs. Rosalie Petersen
of Route 1, Sheridan. His hobby
is constructing model planes.
Robert Hamilton, 13, son of Mr,
and Mrs. S. A. Hamilton, Route 1,
Sheridan, won secoond place and
Donna Shenk, 12, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Kenneth Shenk, Route 1,
Sheridan, was third. Both are in
the 7th grade.
Certificates of merit will go to
the three winners, signed by
Charles A. Sprague, publisher of
The Statesman, and Glenn Mc
Cormick, president of KSLM.
Buell was the first of 84 Marion
and Polk County schools to for
mally announce its winners.
A-Powered Carriers
Predicted by 1960
WASHINGTON UP) Adm. Wfl
liam M. Fechteler predicted Thurs
day night that the United States
may have huge, atomic-powered
aircraft carriers on the high seas
by 1960.
The chief of naval operations
said these warships would not tra
vel any faster than conventional
carriers, but that they would be
able to maintain their top speed
"almost indefinitely.
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Tax
House Group
Rejects Plan to
Kill Program
WASHINGTON (-President
Truman's . Ian for a drastic, over
haul of the nation's tax collecting
service survived its first test in
Congress Thursday.
The House Expenditures Com
mittees rejected a proposal to kill
the reorganization program, which
would abolish virtually all polit
ical appointments to the Internal
Revenue Bureau and put tax col
lection under Civil Service.
Declaring the "very solvency of
our country" depends in part on
the integrity of its tax collectors,
Mr. Truman sent the reorganiza
tion plan to Congress Jan. 14 in
the wake of a series of scandals
involving the Internal Revenue
service.
Many Officials Ousted
More than 160 tax officials and
employes have been fired or for
ced to resign from the Revenue
service in the last year. The char
ges ranged from bribery to office
misdemeanors.
Some members of Congress le
ceived the President's plan coolly,
and Rep. Hoffman, (R-Mich), a
minority member of the Expendi
tures Committee, sponsored a res
olution to reject it.
The report of unanimous action
against the resolution indicated
that Hoffman did not support it
when it came to a vote.
Hoffman said earlier, however,
that his . purpose in offering ' the
resolution was to force a vote by
the full House and that he was
not committing himself to opposi
tion to the plan.
Recommends Passag-e
The vote means the committee
will recommend that the House
allow the reorganization to go
through.
Under the government reorgan
ization act, Mr. Truman's pro
gram will go into effect automat
ically March 14 unless the Hours
or Senate disapproves. Adminis
tration leaders are confident that
the House will not reject the plan,
but there is some doubt about
what the Senate will do.
Mr. Truman proposes to abolish
the offices of the 64 collectors of
internal revenue, which have been
political plums for many years. In
their stead would be 25 district
officers under Civil Service.
Draft to Pass
Younger Men
WASHINGTON (P)-State draft
boards were instructed Thursday
to try to fill their February quotas
with men who will be at least 21
years old, when they are inducted.
This means that some 19 and
20 year olds who were due to be
called in February will be able to
stay in civilian life somewhat
longer. ,
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
Selective Service director,? said the
order were issued to help state
officials "level oil the average
induction age in each state.
Because of unequal distribution
of manpower by ages within states.
some boards have exhausted their
supply of older men and are tak
ing 19 year olds, while other
boards are still inducting 22 year
olds.
The change will result in the
call of some childless married
men in February and March, Her
shey s statement said.
NW States Fail to Agree
On Truck Reciprocity
PORTLAND UP) - Representa
tives from Oregon. Washington
and Idaho failed to reach final
agreement on truck and bus li
cense reciprocity at a meeting
here Thursday.
They scheduled another meeting
in about 10 days.
Spell-Down!
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ansoar those which may be used
in the 1952 Oregon Stateaman
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finals and finals. They are from
standard textbooks' and ' are'
published as m guide 1st intra-
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department personnel aetutg oat the procedures a sea In the eluue Here demons tratlnc use of proper
toys for children of different aces while waiting at the elln to is -Mrs.- Bernlc Yeary, seated right, di
rector ef nurses, aided by Mike Shannon, 5, and his mother, Mrs. Edward Shannon, center, both ef
Aurora, Volunteers watch from background. (Statesman photo.) -
Jury Doubles
Highway Offer
For Property
DALLAS A circuit court jury
here awarded $33,000 to nine de
fendants almost double the
amount had been offered. in a
condemnation proceedings brought
by the State Highway Commission
for property, in west Salem.
The jury in Judge Arlie Walk
er's court was out five hours. Tes
timony showed the defendants had
refused a $17,500 offer prior to
the trial.
The major defendants were Earl
C. and Eunice O. Burk, Pearl C.
Couey, and Clyde and Modella
May Rogers. Others were Ted J.
Patzer, C. O. and Hazel Galloway
and E. J. Winkenwerder.
Property involved includes 8.34
acres between .Edgewater street
and the Willamette River which
the highway commission will use
for access streets and approaches
to bridges.
Touch of Spring
Comes and Goes
That touch of spring weather
Thursday was just too good to last,
as well as being somewhat un
expected. The Weather Bureau predicted
cloudiness, rain, and morning fog
for today, although the tempera
bare is expected to reach a warm
ing 53, just two degrees less than
Thursday's 55. The coldest weath
er tonight will be near 40.
Heavy fog settled over parts of
Salem during the evening Thurs
day, and was expected to be gen
eral throughout the city tbis
morning. '-!
Portland Gas and Coke Seeks
Three Cent Increase of Rates
An Increase in Portland Gas and
Coke Company rates for Oregon
is sought in applications filed
Thursday with the Public Utilities
Commission. -
A slmiliaf application was filed
In Washington, with the changes
in the two states estimated to yield
some $350,000 annually. The com
pany said the boost is asked to
care for increases in pay scales,
federal taxes and other operating
expenses. - f
The proposal would apply gen
erally to the initial or minimum
portions of the rate schedules and
also apply an increase of three
cents, per thousand cubic feet on
all other gas used. according to
Charles H. Guerffroy. company
usidering Re
Revision Passes Test
Marlon County health department's
Hefty Twins Born
To European DPs
CLEVELAND (P)-Twin girls
born to a displaced persons'
couple Monday had a combined
weight of 19 pounds, five ounces.
The parents, Josef and Ver
nonica Jablonski, have been in
this country only five months.
They came here from Germany.
The first twin weighed eight
pounds, eight ounces; the second
10 pounds, 13 ounces.
Merchants of
Gty Center
Meet Today
Permanent organization for
what is tentatively known as the
Downtown Merchants' Association
is to be effected at a luncheon
meeting at the Senator Hotel to
day at noon, temporary Chairman
Nathan Steinbock announced.
A committee working on the
organization has consisted Of
Steinbock, Dr. Henry Morris, Earl
Heider and Vincent Elliott.
The group is to consider better
parking facilities, transportation,
uniform holiday closing and pro
motion of Salem as a shopping
area equal to any in the North
west in quality, quantity and
economy.
Steinbock said "a great deal of
interest in the plan has been
evinced."
BEGORRAH AND BONGIORNO
SPRINGFIELD, O. (JP) - Daniel
F. Casasanta, about 50, past pres
ident of the Springfield Italian
American Society, was named
president of the city's Irish Fel
lowship Society Thursday.
For typical Salem residential
customers it would mean an in
crease of 18 cents per month for
those using gas ranges, $H cents
for cooking and water-heating
customers and approximately $7.60
per year for space-heating custom
ers who use more than 200,000
cubic feet per year. !
On the basis of earnings for
195 1, the company realized a rate
of -return of less than 5 per cent
and is asking the rate relief to en
able it to meet financial obliga
tions and continue operation on a
sound economic basis, said Guef
froy. This is the firm's first ap
plication since 1948 for a rate raise
to- cover increased- operating ex
penses, other than oiL ,..
tarn to Senate
Play Postoffice
Well Child Clinic this week found
Former Pen
Guard Draws
12-Year Term
A 12-year sentence In the State
Penitentiary was begun Thursday
by Francis L. McConnell, who was
a guard there until mid-December.
McConnell, 26, had pleaded
guilty to smuggling dynamite and
a gun to a lifer at the prison for
an escape attempt. The gun and
other weapons were found before
the attempt was made. They had
been taken to Dupree Poe, who is
serving time for the killing of a
Silverton constable several years
ago.
The plot also involved John
Pinson and William P. Benson,
who have been in other escapes
and attempts.
The charge of aiding a prisoner
to attempt to escape was placed
against McConnell Dec. 17 and he
pleaded guilty Dec. 20. He had
been a guard nearly a year.
The sentence was issued by-Circuit
Judge Georga R. Duncan of
Marion County, and McConnell
was taken to the prison Thursday.
(Additional Circuit Court ac
tions on Page 5.)
Help for Teacher,
Trouble for Junior
ST. LOUIS (P)-The kids dont
realize it yet but they were ex
posed to something worse than a
tattle-tale or a truant officer
Thursday.
Pupils studying at an element
ary school had their parents look
ing over their shoulder via TV.
The kids knew their activities
were being televised and some
mugged the camera in elation.
None, alas, seemed to recognize
the terrible possibilities the future
may hold.
Viewers actually could follow
the progress of the childrens' read
ing and anything else that went
on in class.
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: FORECAST (from VJS. breather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem )i Foggy
this morning. . Increasing cloudiness
this afternoon with rain tonight. High
today near 53. and low tonight sear
40. Salem tempera tura at 12:01 aun. to
day was 39.
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President to
Announce Plan
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By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON (JP) - President
Truman opened the door Thursday
to the possibility that he may run
for the U. S. Senate next Novem
ber instead of seeking re-election
to the White House.
He gave no indication, however,
of how seriously he might be con
sidering such a course.
But he did say, at his weekly
news conference, that he expects
to announce before the filing dead
line for the senatorial primary
election in Missouri whether he
will try for another term as Pres
ident. The deadline in that state is
April 29.
In a series of brisk, mainly
good - humored exchanges with
questioners, the President said
also:
1 He regards Sen. Kefauver
(D-Tenn.), who announced Wed
nesday that he wants the Demo
cratic presidential nomination, as
a nice fellow and a good senator
but he isn't endorsing Kefauver,
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois or
anybody else at this stage of the
game.
2 He'd like to see the country
hold nation-wide preferential pri
maries for the office of President.
That, he said, would give n chance
to everybody who wanted to be
President. At present some states
hold presidential preference nri-
manes, others do not. In 32 states
delegates to the national conven
tions are chosen by state conven
tions; in the others they are chosen
in primaries.
3 He Is going to send the Senate
another nomination of a full
fledged U. S. ambassador to the
Vatican and the Senate, he said,
is going to have to assume its re
sponsibilities. Mr. Truman recent
ly withdrew his nomination of
Gen. Mark Clark for the post.
Clark begged off because of the
religious controversy over the ap
pointment. Mainly it was politics the news
men wanted to know about. And,
merrily, the President told them
what he's often said before that
he has made up his mind what he
is going to do and will announce
it when he gets ready.
Would he like to retire from the
presidency?
Mr. Truman said anybody who's
ever held that job knows that It is
the most strenuous in the world.
But he added with slow empha
sis that he is not tired.
And he said he hasn't told any
body his political plans for the
future Including the various po
litical personages who have ex
pressed confidence recently that 1.
he will or 2. he will not run.
Banker Bush
Is 94 Today
A. N. Bush, pioneer Salem bank
er, and son of the founder of The
Oregon Statesman, will observe
his 94th birthday today probably
without much fanfare.
Born in Salem, the son of Eu
genia and Asahel Bush, the non
agenarian is in good health. He is
active as president of the Pioneer
Trust Company, coming to the of
fice each day. He has been en
joying good health.
A small family birthday dinner
gathering will take place Sunday
at the Bush home on Mission St.
Present will be Mr. and Mrs. Stu
art Bush and their sons, Asahel
and Samuel, and Mr. and Mrs.
Roderick Livesley and daughter,
Jody.
Stuart is a grandson to the cele
brant and Jody a great-granddaughter.
By April
'Unreal Shortage' of Draftees
Blamed to Service Competition
By DON SANDERS
WASHINGTON (P-An "unreal
shortage" of men for the armed
forces has been created by compe
tition among 'them for recruits,
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said
Thursday.
? Hershey, director of the Selec
tive Service System, described the
current rejection rate as "appal
ling." , - .
He testified before the Senate
Armed Service subcommittee on
preparedness. It Is studying what
the services i have done to lower
their physical and mental stand
ards for recruits and draftees. 1
Hershey said the Army is ""be
ing forced to accept more than its
share of the less desirable type of
man' because a large proportion.
By the Associated Press . ; iff-"
first of three storms hit Northern California5 ThnrarfaV
The
drenching already soaked lowlands and piling more snow; on blocked
Sierra Nevada roads to Nevada. - '
Forecaster R. C. McQueen said a second storm bringing "Strong
wiooi ana raws snouia imata
against the Coast after midnight.
The third storm, he added, might
reach the Coast Saturday.
Fourteen inches of new snow
fell at Norden, Calif., atop Dormer
Summit in the Sierra Nevada. The
total pack at Dormer is now 204
inches.
The Coast Guard tug Sea Wolf
pulled a gasoline-loaded barge off
a storm-lashed reef at Crescent
City, Calif., near the Oregon bor
der. The barge broke loose from a
tow Wednesday night during hea
vy . weather.
Mid-West Shivers .
Large areas of the snow-plagu
ed Mid-West shivered in the cold
est weather of the new year
Thursday, but relief was on the
way.
A large - mass of cold air from
the Arctic was centered over Min
nesota, drifting slowly eastward.
However, the U. S. Weather Bu
reau in Chicago said winds were
shifting and that no more cold
would be drained down from Can
ada for the next few days at least.
Bemidji, Minn., was the nation's
"ice box" with a low reading of
-35 degrees. It was -32 in Alex
andria, Minn., -28 in Fargo, N. D.,
-22 in Minneapolis and -3 in Chi
cago. Mercury Up 10 Decrees
Temperatures rose 10 degrees or
more over the preceding day
throughout most of Montana, Wy
oming, Colorado, Northern New
Mexico, Texas, Southern Idaho,
Western Utah and Northern Ne
vada. The cold air extended south to
Northern Florida and east to the
coast.
Readings over the eastern third
of the nation generally were 5 to
25 degrees colder than on Wednes
day.
Snow plows still were working
full blast to clear highways in
South Dakota, where the worst
blizzard of the season took eight
lives earlier in the week.
Most main highways were re-
hpened, but traffic was limited to
one way in many areas.
K. E. Brown
To Seek DA
Nomination
Kenneth E. Brown, Silverton at
torney and the 1931 Junior First
Citizen of that city, announced
Thursday he would be a candidate
for the Republican nomination as
district attorney of Marion County.
Brown is the second to announce
for that office. First was Hattie J.
Bratzell (R) of Salem. The in
cumbent, Edward O. Stadter Jr.,
has said he would not run again.
Brown is a native of Salem, at
tended Salem schools and was
graduated in law from Willamette
University in 1949. In World War
II he served 18 months with Gen.
Patton's 3rd Army in Europe. In
1948 he was married to Donna Up
john of Salem. Currently he is Sil
verton Municipal judge as well as
a practicing attorney.
His civic activities include chair
manship of Red Cross and March
of Dimes campaigns, membership
on the Silverton Boy Scout Com
mission; Republican Precinct Com
mitteeman, Marion County Tuber
culosis Association, Marion County
Young Republican Club, Lions
Club, Chamber of Commerce, Jun
ior Chamber and Veterans of For
eign Wars.
'Voice' Station
Site Selected
PORT ANGELES, Wash. UP)-A
new seven million dollar short
wave transmitter for the Voice of
America will be constructed at the
base of Dungeness Hook, about 12
miles east of here, the State De
partment announced Thursday at
Washington, D. C.
The State Department plans to
have the most powerful radio sig
nal in the world installed.
The station will- carry tha
broadcasts across the Pacific to
the Far East. Construction will
start within a few days. It is ex
pected to be in operation in about
18 months.
of those who volunteer do so in
the Air Corps, Navy or Marines. ;
The Army, he continued, then
tries "to protect itself by reject
ing large numbers ot less fit men
for physical and mental reasons, f
i Out of a total of about 8 mil
lion men registered in the draft,
Hershey said, Hi million al
most 15 per cent have been re
jected as physically and mentally
unfit. Young men 18 through 25
years old are now eligible for the
drafts ,. - .
The draft director suggested as
pne solution that Congress launch
"immediately' a five-year pro
gram of Universal Military Train
ing to provide the basis for a
"vigorous, up-to-the minute re-
serv orcsv" r, . .
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Missing
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PORTLAND Sherrle Ellen
Kader, 3-year-old Portland girl,
abducted Wednesday ' night as
she and her 4-year-eld sister
played in front of their bom.
AP Photo to The Statesman.)
FBI in Search
For Abducted
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Portland Tot
s
- PORTLAND CPVMore than a
score of detectives still were with
out a trace Thursday rJght- of -
kidnaper and the 3-vpsr-old -irl
he grabbed from a sidewalk hero
Wednesday night. 4 1
The search, centeredlmostlv on
known sex offenders, took new
turn as Det. Capt. William Brow-'
ne disclosed that the father of the .
missing girl was being sought. !v
Browne said the father was -George
V. Dollarhide.i Who had
separated from the mother and
was last believed to be divine in
Los Angeles. ," I If - :
The kidnaping was m a neirh-
borhood where four other; attempts
io snatcn emidren had ieen mad ,
in two months. ' ;t k. . . .
Only witness to th abduction
or sherrie Ellen Kader 'was her "
sister, Wields LaverneTf fT""""" "
Vickie said a man wth a "blue,
suit that zipped all the way,-and
who "needed a bath," grabbed her
as she was playing with her sister .
In the southeast section ? of the
city at about 530 Wednesday
night, , f .
She pulled away and ran. The
man then grabbed Sherrie and ap
parently sped away with -her fas'
his car. She said the man had
"gray hah-just like grandmother.'
The FBI is cooperating' with
city, county and state police in-the
search for the missing child.
Police Thursday rounded us all
known sex offenders for questaon-vM
wg ana began combing vacant fens
and wooded areas. i v-
They ruled out the possibility '
of ransom as the family is almost
without funds and is receiving aid
for dependent childreni f
The father of the children is
George Dollarhide, the 21-year-old
mother said. She told police -ah
was separated from him and had
not seen him for two years. ' Sh
has not seen her first husband,
Frank Kader, for six years, sh
said. i , . .
Mrs. Kader told police she was -certain
neither of the men ' wer
involved in Sherrie's disappear
ance. . a- .
Hiss Claims
New Evidence
NEW YORK (P)-From behind
prison bars, Alger Hiss Thursday
asked another new trial of char- -ges
that he lied In denying he be-'
trayed this nation's secrets to a
pre-war Russian spy ring. He said
he has new evidence. : .:
Me is serving live years, in pris
on. It took two. long and sensa
tlonal trials to convict him. ,
Hiss said the new evidence ln
eludes a custom-built typewriter.
A key exhibit at both previous
trials was an old typewriter on "
which -Hiss was accused of copy
ing State Department documents
for the spy ring. ' . i'-' '
Hiss said engineers have built ,
him a typewriter that wrttes ex
actly the same as the old one.
Like a person's fingerprint, each "
typewriter is supposed to have un
mistakable characteristics of its
own. i
OPS Authorizes
Auto,
WASHINGTON WV-the Of
fice of Price Stabilization Thurs
day .'authorized', immediate . in
creases in basic "retail prices of
1952 automobiles made by Gener
al Motors and Hudson, f ,
. The boosts In. ceilings rsns
xrom sou iq szz on. in iivo gen
eral -Motors makes and. from -to
$143 on Hudson cars
. Simultaneously with ' the CP3
announcement, Sen, lloody (D
Mich) told newsmen the Air Terce
ls releasing enough, aluminum t
jump automobile output to SCO,--000
cars in the second Quarter el '
this year , .- i .
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