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OMAHA, Nebr. (JP) Missouri River savagery, which President
Truman aims to see first-hand Wednesday, intensified Tuesday night
in this flood battered midlands area, America's valley of misery.
The number of farms, of towns an doc acres smashed by the un
washed power of millions of tons of rolling water climbed higher.
The Red Cross reported Z 1,640
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Travel Letter No. t
Between Coquille, Ore., and
Eureka, Calif., is a distance of 150
miles, unserved by line of rail
road. This throws the transporta
tion burden on trucks and hence
on the single line of highway
which is improved along the
Coast U.S. 101.
It was interesting to note the
volume and direction of this travel.
Down to Gold Beach the prevail
ing movement of logs and lumber
was northward to railhead at Co
quille or shipside " at Coos Bay
(which now is the leading lumber
shipping port in Oregon and Wash
ington). From Gold Beach south
the movement was chiefly south
bound. Logs didn't go farther than
Ukiah, but lumber trucks kept on
rolling for delivery to wholesale
yards in the Bay area or even to
Southern California. The railroad
line from Eureka also handles a
big volume?" tut" OUeka are carry
ing Dig quantities of Oregon and
Northern California lumber to the
great California consuming centers.
Throw all this on a tortuous
two-lane highway built to modest
standards and you see at once the
problem both for highway depart
ments and for highway users. The
tourist season is not yet under
way; but already the use is heavy,
especially from Eureka south.
The Redwood Highway is hailed
as a scenic wonder and tourist at
traction. I fear it will lose much
of its charm as tourist cars com
pete with log and lumber trucks
for use of this highway which
abounds in twists and grades.
The only public transportation
provided on this
(Concluded on editorial page 4)
Judge Forbids
Rau Walkout
CLEVELAND (P) A federal
judge Tuesday forbade three rail
road unions to strike against the
government, but said the courts
should not be used "to impel col
lective bargaining."
Spokesmen for the unions en
gineers, firemen and conductors
said they would appeal the pre
liminary injunction ordered by
Judge Emerich B. Freed.
One union officer linked Tues
day's ruling with the government's
seizure of the steel industry, and
denounced "present seizure tac
tics." The judge said his injunction
"is not the solution to the dispute
over wages and working condi
tions which has exited for a pe
riod of three years."
Finding a solution, he continued,
was the duty of "the government,
the railroads and the unions in
volved." Animal Crackers
8v WARREN GOODRICH
"I'm getting tired el that Husbandly
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families, or more man uo.auu per
sons are homeless because or Mid
west floods.;
Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska
announced he will call a special
session of the Nebraska Legisla
ture to consider flood emergency
appropriations.
But Omaha and Council Bluffs,
la. with the worst due Thursday
morning still were ahead in the
dramatic fight against nature. The
levees and flood walls still con
tained the swirling, chocolate col
ored water: that pressed against
them higher and harder than their
builders ever had dreamed.
Ghostly City
Fully two-thirds of Council
Bluffs, a city of 45,000, stood in
ghostly silence, abandoned to the
flood that may or may not bit it.
That was' the picture as the
White House in Washington an
nounced that President Truman
has asked seven Mid - Western
governors to meet with him here
Wednesday to discuss measures
for dealing with the flood emer
gency. '
The list of governors was just
about a roll call of states in the
throes of flood troubles, not only
from the Missouri River, but also
from the upper Mississippi River
and the Red River of the North.
Involves 87 Towns
An Associated Press check
showed a minimum of 87 towns
and cities ih the upper Midwest,
either flooded or threatened.
A Red Cross report listed more
than a million acres flooded in the
Missouri and Mississippi River
valleys, with at least 34 towns
inundated. Heaviest damage to
date has been in the Dakotas and
Iowa, the agency said.
Stay By Prediction
River forecasters stayed by then
prediction of a 31.5 crest. Tues
day's reading passed 27 feet. The
previous record high was 24.6
feet in 1881. Dikes and flood walls
were designed Originally to with
stand a 26.6 foot crest. A mighty
effort to add two feet and more of
topping to the levees was just
about complete Tuesday night.
The peacetime army of soldiers,
engineers, civilians and construc
tion men mobilized in the Omaha
Council Bluffs levee-holding ef
fort reached 8,000.
While the scene of flood crisis
moved southward with the crest,
bringing Missouri and Kansas
squarely into the picture, the big
question still hung over the Oma
ha and Council Bluffs levees.
Will they hold up under the
historic assault?
The answer from engineers was
guarded but optimistic.
"We have a good chance to
hold," said Lt. Gen. Lewis A.
Pick, chief of Army Engineers, al
ready on the scene.
A-Blast Visible
For 75 Miles
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (JP)-The sec
ond nuclear blast of the Atomic
Energy Commission's spring ser
ies flashed quickly Tuesday in the
Southern Nevada sky.
The "device" t the AEC's term
for an experimental weapon - was
dropped over Yucca Flat by an
Air Force B-29 Even in the bril
liant morning sunshine, the explo
sion Was visible in Las Vegas, 75
miles away. . '
But it was ; neither felt nor
heard here. There were no reports
of damage. To observers here the
burst appeared- larger than the
series opener two weeks ago, but
the nuclear cloud was quickly dis
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Woodburn Seeks
Sewer Line Bids
Statesman News Sendee
WOODBURN AiithnriintlfiTi
for bids for a $150,000 sewer for
the city was given Tuesday by the
Woodburn City Council. Bids are
expected to be open about May 6.
Bids also were called for drilling
a 12-inch well to supplement the
city water supply. The well is ex-
nected to h! in nnfratinn Ktr Tiilv
21 and is Xohe located in western
Woodburn on a city-owned tract.
DEFENSE PACT AGREED
LONDON itP Britain agreed
Tuesday to enter Into a 17-year
mutual Gere rise accord witn West
Germany and Italy.
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Government to
Consider Pay
Raise for Union
WASHINGTON (TP) - Federal
mediation efforts in the seized
steel industry's pay dispute broke
down Tuesday and the govern
ment announced it will "proceed
promptly but not precipitately" to
consider whether to give the CIO
Steelworkers a pay raise over
management's head.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer,
government manager for the seized
mills, announced shortly after the
breakdown of the talks:
"Inasmuch as the negotiations
which had been going on between
industry and labor have ended, I
shall proceed promptly but not
precipitately to consider the terms
and conditions of employment as I
was instructed to do in paragraph
three of the President's executive
order.
"I have nothing further to say
on the subject at this .time."
At the same time a conference
of more than 100 business execu
tives, called here by the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and the
National Association of Manufac
turers, called on Congress to undo
the action, which it described as
"a step which places the freedom
of every American in jeopardy."
Cancer Society
Plans Torchlight'
Fund Campaign
A "lights-on crusade," consist
ing of a house-to-house canvass
will take place in Salem Thursday
night from 7 to 9 p.m. by volun
teers in the American Cancer So
ciety fund drive.
Householders desiring to make
a contribution are asked to leave
their porch lights on. The crusade
has two objectives," leaders said:
Fund raising and cancer educa
tion. Funds gathered in the April cru
sade will be used to further the
Cancer Society's program of re
search, service and education.
About 250 workers will cover the
Salem residential area Thursday
night
Tax Collection
At Record High
Oregon state Income tax collec
tions in the nine months ended
April 1 were at an all-time high
of $41,864,408, the State Tax Com
mission said Tuesday.
The nine months' total was $12,
500,000 more than for the same
period a year ago.
Personal income tax collections
were $26,351,181, up 5 million from
a year ago. Corporation income
tax collections totaled $15,513,227,
a gain of $7,500,000 over a year
ago.
The number of personal income
tax returns also set a record of
211,406, a gain of 18,000. There
were 3,098 corporation tax returns,
a decrease of 152.
PAY BOOST AGREED
PORTLAND (&) - CIO Wood
workers of the Weyerhauser Tim
ber Company's pine operations in
the Klamath Falls area are to re
ceive a 7Vz -cent hourly wage in
crease, a union official reported
Tuesday.
POUNDBO
iiew Piscoverv mmv
Wipe Out
BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (JP) - The end of
polio may be in sight due to a sur
prising discovery that polio strikes
first in our blood instead of
nerves.
The discovery already is used
to prevent polio in monkeys and
chimpanzees.
Two reports of the blood dis
covery, one from Johns Hopkins
University and the other from
Yale, were made Tuesday to the
Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology.
Polio virus was supposed to go
from the stomach, to the nerves.
Monkeys and chimpanzees got
polio virus in their food, the same
as humans are known to do. It
was found a few days later in
their blood. Sometimes it remained
in the blood for 15 days. During all
this time the animals were not
sick in the slightest degree.
This explains why the blood
route of polio went undiscovered
so many years. Nobody looked
there when animals were not sick.
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2 Scio Men Electrocuted
In Well-Drilling Accident
Stftteiman Nw Servlc
ALBANY Two men were electrocuted Tuesday in a well-drilling
accident on a farm near Scio.
The two, L N. Locken, about 35, Scio, Box 245, and Roy Lee Hen
derson, 42, Scio Route 3, were drilling a well on Henderson's property
when the fatality occurred about 1:45 p.m. A wire was being strung
from a tower constructed near the site of the well to the main portion
Saturday Kept
As Opening Day
For State Fair
This year's Oregon State Fair
again will open on Saturday pre
ceding Labor Day and continue
eight days, the State Fair Com
mission decided at a meeting Tues
day. Previous to the 1951 state fair
it opened on Labor Day and con
tinued one week.
Dr. E. B. Stewart, Roseburg, was
reelected chairman of the commis
sion. One of several groups appear
ing before the commission urged
that draft horses be included in
this year's stadium competition,
but no action was taken.
Commission members decided
to appear before the State Emer
gency Board here May 8 and seek
an appropriation to cover the cost
of improving the stadium estimat
ed at between $30,0000 and $35,
000. This action was necessary,
Dr. Stewart said, because of a re
cent order of the state fire mar
shal in which he said the stadium
is unsafe in its present condition.
Leo Spitzbart will continue as
fair manager for another year, it
was decided.
Officials of the Oregon Farm
Bureau Federation asked the fair
commission to consider improving
the 4-H Club housing facilities on
the fairgrounds with funds that
will become available through a
recent amendment to the internal
revenue act creating an exemption
on general admission taxes. The
amendment exempts payment of
admission tax to agricultural fairs
where no part of the net earnings
inures to the benefit of the stock
holders. m m
Polio Threat
For the same reason it was not
found in. human blood. The new
concept of polio is that while the
virus stays in the blood, the blood
makes antibodies to destroy the
virus. But sometimes it does not
make enough of these protectors,
and in that case the virus leaks
into nerves of the spinal cord and
brain.
The polio attacks and destroys
these nerves, causing illness as it
starts the destruction.
This explains probably why
most of us have had polio without
ever knowing it. Our blood anti
bodies stopped the disease in time.
The disease in chimpanzees imi
tates human epidemic polio so
closely that the prospects of pre
venting paralysis are consider
ably brightened.
Humans can get the booster shot
with blood of persons who already
have polio antibodies, and that is
a very large proportion of the
people. There is also a possibility
that a vaccine can be made to
manufacture these antibodies in
our blood stream and so immunise
US to polio.
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of their machinery. Both were
tugging at the wire to put it in
place when the tower, to which it
was attached, tipped slightly, en
ough to hit a Mountain States
Power Company line carrying
about 11,000 volts.
The two were apparently killed
instantly. Two Scio men, Ed Pru
itt and Melvin Everett discovered
the accident shortly after it hap
pened and reported it immediate
ly. They were unable to touch the
two because of the voltage still
traveling through the circuit
Henderson had only recently
moved to this farm in Scio. He had
lived in Jefferson most of his life
and leaves his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Henderson, of Jeffer
son, and his widow and several
children. Locken, a resident of
Turner, is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Otomie Locken, Turner;
daughters, Mrs. May Hermiston,
Mrs. Carlene Oswalt, Mrs. Alice
Lee Harrigan, and Mrs. Patsy
Whitfield,, all of Turner, and a son,
Hubert Locken, Blue Lake, Calif.
Services for Locken are being
handled by the. Virgil T. Golden
Company of Salem.
New U.S. 8-Jet
Bomber Takes
Maiden Flight
LARSON AIR FORCE BASE (JP)
-America's newest strategic air
weapon, the eight-jet Boeing YB
25 Stratofortress, flew to this cen
tral Washington base from Seat
tle on its maiden flight Tuesday.
Dwarfing two smaller escorting
fighter ships, the huge plane with
its sharply swept back wings and
tails circled over the Larson base
before landing at 2 p. m. It took
off from Boeing "ield, Seattle, at
11:09 a. m., and swept leisurely
over the Seattle area before thun
dering eastward over the Cascades.
"The flight was excellent in ev
ery respect," Boeing Test Pilot
A. M. Tex Johnston said as he
stepped down to the field.
Salem Councilman
Locates City Free
Of Parking Woes
A place with millions of people
but "no parking problems and no
sewers" has; been found by one
Salem alderman.
The City Council had a postcard
from Daniel J. Fry, in Srinagar,
Kashmir, India, that he had found
that land with "a host of interest
ing and struggling people."
He added j that he hadn't yet
tried the spear fishing as pictured
on his card. ;
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Willamette River 3.4 feet.
FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu
reau. McNfery field. Salem): Fair today
and tonight. Wanner this afternoon
with a high temperature neap 70. low
est tonight near 38. Temperature at
12:01 ajn. was 41 degrees.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Year
MSI
Last Year
46-28
Normal
32.71
PRICE 5c
Rarely durinr the past two day has the Marion County Courthouse
been without the lineup pictured here, Last-minat voter registra
tions. It won't be there today, for the aitmap closed Tuesday nlht
until after the May IS primary election. During most of the time, the
lice extended the length of the stairs between second and third
floors, while six or more were being registered at the counter
all day.
Registration at
Courthouse Keeps
Staff Overtime
Marion County Clerk's office
staff kept registering voters until
9:30 p.m. Tuesday night, an hour
and one-half past the official
deadline.
The clerk's office was to have
closed at 8 p.m. but Henry C.
Mattson, County Clerk pro tern,
and staff, patiently agreed to sign
the folks up. At 7:30 p.m. the line
extended from the office cn the
third floor, down the stairs, across
the second floor and partway
down the Church Street entrance
stairway. Nearly 2,000 persons
signed up in the last two days.
It was expected that the accel
erated registration of recent weeks
would push the county's voter rolls
to record heights.
Oregon Files
Suit to Block
Pelton Dam
The State of Oregon Tuesday
filed with the U. S. Court of Ap
peals to try to stop Portland Gen
eral Electric Company from build
ing Pelton Dam on the Deschutes
River.
The petition was filed by assist
ant attorney general for the state,
Arthur G. Higgs. It asks that the
Federal Power Commission's order
giving a license to PGE for con
struction of the dam be set aside.
Objections to construction of the
dam voiced by the Oregon Fish
and Game Commission last June
were declared by federal authori
ties not sufficiently valid to block
a Termit.
In the petition filed Tuesday the
state presents its opinion that the
FPC lacks authority to give a per
mit to a private utility for a dam
on a non-navigable river within
the state.
Control of the stream is given
the state by the Desert Lands Act
of Congress, according to the pe
tition. SEN. KERR DUE IN OREGON
PORTLAND -Sen. Robert S.
Kerr D-Okla., who is after the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion, will speak at a luncheon here
May 8, Monroe Sweetland, state
national committeeman, said Tuesday.
Politics on Parade .
Who's Running for What in the May Primaries !
(Editor's note: Stories in the Po
Uttcal Parage" are written by or far
the candidates, on invitation of The
Orecon Statesman, and views ex
pressed herein may or may not be in
accordance with the opinion of this
newpaper. The articles are published
la the public Interest, and without
obliratiom on the part ( anyone.).
Today's subject:
KARL B. WIPFER
Candidate for
COMM. (MARION) )
Karl B. Wipper, 45, Republican
AonHitata tnr thu office of Marion
County Cornmissioner, is a native
of the Turner
area where he
has been' engag
ed - in - farming
and sheep breed
ing bis entire
life.
Wipper has
been active in
county and com
munity affairs.
The past 20
years he has
served -conunu- R wipper
ouslj on ele-
mentary and county non - high
school boards. At present he is a
member of the Board of Educa
tion at Cascada Union High
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Dispute Brings
Call for State
Phone Strike
PORTLAND UP-Union offic
ials, contending Communications
Workers of America were "locked
out" of Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company plants, Tues
day called a state-wide strike.
Ame Graven, international-
CWA representative, said the un
ion will file unfair labor charges
against the company.
The current dispute is an out
growth of the strike of Western
Electric Company employes which
began April 7.
When some regular employes,
who refused to cross a Western
Electric picket line in a Portland
plant Monday, reported to work
Tuesday they were told they would
be assigned only on a day-to-day
basis.
The union contends this is a
violation of the telephone work
ers contract which is not sched
uled to expire until July.
The company denied this.
F. A. Dresslar, vice president
and general manager of Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph in Ore
gon, said Tuesday night that the
company had not been officially
notified of any strike action by
its employes.
Also joining the CIO unions in
the walkout were members of the
Independent Order of Repeater
men and Toll Testboardmen.
Graven said the strike will be
spread immediately to cover the
company's exchanges in Portland
and throughout the state.
Teachers at State
Blind, Deaf Schools
To Receive Raise
Teachers at the State Schools
for the Blind and Deaf in Salem
were granted pay increases Tues
day by the State Board of Control
The Blind School teachers will
get average increase of $8.60 a
month. Their salaries will remain
about 10 per cent below the salar
ies paid to public school teachers
here.
The teachers at the Deaf School
will get an extra $10 a month on
the average. Their pay is about the
same as that of public school
teachers.
The increases are effective next
falL
School. He has also served with
numerous county farm planning
groups and has been active in
county and state uvestocic associa
tions.
Wipper has started his fifth
year as leader of a 4-H sheep
club, and has been interested in
the formation of other youth
groups in his community. He is
married and has one son, Jerry,
17. He is a Mason and a member
of the Farm Bureau.
' If elected. Wipper will endeavor
to discharge his duties impartially
and courteously. He believes that
every matter, large or small, com
ing under the jurisdiction of the
county court should receive due
and deliberate consideration.
Ha believes that all persons
having problems for the court's
decision expect, and are entitled
to, an honest and direct opinion.
He does no concur in making
promises that cannot later be kept.
Being a heavy taxpayer, Wip
per is interested in good govern
ment and believes that his practi
cal experience qualifies him for
the office that he seeks. He will
appreciate your support in the
coming election.
(Tomorrow: Denver Young)
General
By JACK BFT.T.
NEWARK. N. J. (vPV-Hf
ing Gen. Dwieht D. Els
Wednesday pocketed most cTKew
Jersey's S3 Republican rinuYf n
uai votes in an impressive X
Seaboard primary victory;
Outdistancing Senator
A. Taft of Ohio after a shaky.
shifting start, the five-star em
swept this industrial state's
publican popularity contest try m
margin that might give torn an
150,000 edge Over Taft in total
vote of about 500,000.
In possibly the Last ontha-haL-
lot clash between the two hebxm -the
July Republican ConventMsa ii&V
Chicago, Eisenhower got mt
boost toward the n nm i n a 1 ion to
which he aspires. 1
Stassea Poor Third
In 3,051 of the state's 3.840
tricts, Eisenhower received
votes to Taffs 1 65 .907; Haroid H
Stassen. whose name wao sfao am
the popularity poll, wma ia ttird 1
place, far behind with 1434.
For Taft it was a second ie
feat at the hands of Qseasbooaer f
under somewhat similar cirruBQ
stances as those which prevailed
in the nation s first primary la
New Hampshire in March. Against .
this, Taft marked up a wntt-m
victory over the general in ! .
braska's April 1 primary.
Tried to Get Off Ballet
But Taft could claim that -oxaly .
the expected had happened, oanro
he tried unstKrcessfully: to fjet bis?
name off the ballot and did abot .
campaign in the state.
In the little-noticed Demaexati -
primary race, Senator ? JLstes ue .
fauver of Tennessee alone a fijo -
Daiiot ran away mna a scKuews .
field of write-in candidates. X-
fauver polled 112,283 votea aa 3- "
458 districts. 1
But one of the wriie-ln caabrfW .
dates, Gove. Adlai E. Stewm .
of Illinois, seemed more in brae
than Kefauver for support f thsi
state's 32-vote delegation ta tn -Democratic
National Convention. ,
Clarification Due -
Stevenson announced in Spring- ;
field, 111., that he will clarify Wd-
nesday his previous statement tksA ;
he is running only fori re-elmetiom
as governor. " . '
tosennowers new jersey w.ac
tory seemed likely to cement for
him a bloc of delegates from fly '
state, New York and possibly Con
necticut which would rival i ia -Taffs
bloc ins Ohio." Elinors. "Ta-
consin and Nebraska.
Taft still leaaTneawewl-
licly supporting him, Jbut Eaen-
hower s smashing win nere
helD him gain ground in other ;
maries and in state GOP coan
tions. 8
Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll isauet
statement saying:
"What happened -in New
today was a truly remarkable
tory for General Eisenhower.
I might add for the people oil
Jersey and the nation."
Mrs. Evans, 95,
Dies, Leaves '
96 Descendants
A 88 - year - old former
resident, who died Tuesday la SO
verton, is survived by 99
descendants.
She is Mrs. Catherine
Trout Evans, who died early'
day morning at her home hs JSiW
verton. She tad lived in
from 1907 to 1942. She is
vived by eight children, 32
children, 52 great-grand chiMr
and four great-great-grandctul
dren. ' t '
Mrs. Evans was born Au. 12,
1855, in Henry County, Iowa. Sb
resided in Ohio, Illinois, Kantii
and was married to Allen Edwardl
Evans in Missouri in f 1878. They
moved to Oklahoma in 19M sad
then to Salem three years latec
Her husband died in Salem a
1921. The couple had 11 children,
eight of whom are still livingy
Survivors include daughters,
Mrs. Ethel Ritchie of Silverteaa,
Mrs. Henry E. Ritchie of Saltan.
Mrs. Sophia Wood of Wood Xake,
Calif., and Mrs. Blanche Jones f
Brooks; sons, Don Evans f S3
verton, Harvey Evans of Salea
and Fred and W. M. Evans, tola
of Klamath, Calif. r
Funeral services will be hrld
Friday at 1:30 pjn. at the W. T.
Rigdon Chapel with interment am
Pioneer Cemetery near Brooks. .
Spain, Portugal
Form Cbinmbii
Defense Front .
MADRID, Spain WV-Snain mad.
Portugal announced Tuesday nig&x
the formation of a common irem
toward problems of Western 4o
f ense. I -
A communique issued f after a
surprise meeting between: Gener
alissimo Francisco . Franco ami -Portuguese
Premier- -Antonio) &
Oliveira Salazar said .the-r bad
agreed to consider theiXtariaa
Peninsula a i "strategic unity" aa
future diplomatic dealings., .
Franco and Salazar agreed Can
peninsula 1st indivisible- with jee
gard to Western defense, thsr ean
munique said. j
Portugal is a member f Urn
NortK Atlantic Treaty Or-anixa-
tinn: Spain U cot How the.
mcnt will affect Portugal's
mitments to NATO was not ii
diately dear.