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71 39 .00
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68 33 .00
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Calem u
Portland .
San Francisco
Chicago ...
New York ..
m Willamette River 3 J feet
FORECAST (from U. S. leather
Bureau, McNary Field, Salem): Con
siderable high cloudifeess today and
tonight. "High today near 63, low to
night near 38. Temperature at 12:01
an was 44 degrees
102nd YEAH
Stevenson Mows Out of Mace
Pickets Appear
t.., i - 1 s.-isr;- r 1 - '--
irnsi 5
Xhlm is part of the force of local Telephone Workers Union employes who picketed en masse Wednesday
the Salem offices of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Union workers plus some non-union
employes also remained off the job in the newest flareap in the telephone strike. Balloon in back
ground was used by cagey pickets
Travel Letter No. 3
San Francisco Spring is late
in California but it finally ar
rived on Easter Monday. Easter
Sunday was cool and rainy, in
fact the heavens opened up at
noon, just as the crowds were
leaving the last morning services.
There were mad dashes to cars
at the curb to escape the dousing
f Easter bonnets.
San Franciscans complain fre
quently that spring, or summer,
nsver arrives, so constant is the
chilly fog. I do not agree, though
rny testimony is of limited value.
I have visited S. F. in all seasons
at intervals over the years and
uniformly encounter good weather.
The City it still is the City for
all who live in the suburbs has
its unique charms, which have
been written up so often there
is no point in repetition. Just now
the stores are a main attraction
for shoppers, as they display their
fresh spring merchandise. San
Francisco sets the "high" style
for the West Coast, as Los Angeles
(Hollywood) sets the "low" style
(sports clothes, battling suits, etc.)
A visitor from Oregon, however,
finds a brake on his purchasing
power in the sales tax: three per
tent state, one-half city. He rea
sons: why buy this merchandise
here and pay a sales tax when one
(Continued on editorial page 4)
State Board to Ask
Replacement of
Hospital Building
Largest ?tate construction proj
ect now proposed by the State
Board of Control for the next
three bicnoiums involves replace
ment of the main building at the
Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
Officials estimated the cost at
approximately $8,000,000 and said
the work would be under three
separate contracts with one
third of the construction during
each of the three bienniums. First
reconstruction would involve the
center section of the structure
which includes the dining room
and kitchens.
Animal Crackors
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En Masse at Phone Building
te noiss suite car as into we sir.
150 Telephone Workers
eed Strike
Approximately 150 union em
ployes of the Pacific Telephone
and" Telegraph Company's Salem
installations stayed off the job
Wednesday and brought a return
of picketing to the State and Court
Street offices.
Telephone officials said regular
service was not seriously curtail
ed, despite mass picketing by
about 25 employes.
Meanwhile a local dispute be
tween the Salem Building Serv
ice Employes Union and the
Livesley Building put a picket in
front of the big office building at
State and Liberty Streets.
Salem's two other struck busi
nesses, Pacific ; Greyhound Lines
and Western Union, remained
closed without pickets.
Mass picketing Wednesday by
telephone employes here grew out
of the 10-day old telephone strike,
conducted by Western Electric
Employes.
Orders from Portland
Orders for the Salem Telephone
Union members to stage a no
work program and picketing came
U.S. Navy Ship
Escapes Heavy
Commie Attack
SEOUL, Korea (-The Navy
said Thursday the American destroyer-escort
Silverstein recently
escaped unharmed from what was
"probably the heaviest attack of
the Korean War against a United
Nations warship."
The delayed report from naval
headquarters in Tokyo said Red
shore batteries splashed 45 shells
within 200 yards of the ship.
The Silverstein was on daylight
patrol south of Hungnam on the
East Coast when the Reds opened
up with two guns at 6,000 yards.
Three more guns joined in as the
Silverstein began maneuvering
away.
The navy said "rapid and accu
rate changes in range deflection
indicated the " Reds were using
modern fire control equipment."
In all the Communists fired 60
rounds at the ship.
On the ground front star shells
bathed the Western Korean Front
with brilliant light early Thursday
during an artillery duel. Red prob
ing attacks in the hills were re
pulsed. Alaskan Husky
Takes 10-Day Trip
Down Willamette
If dogs could talk, "Mush" might
have quite a story to telL The 9-months-old
Alaska Husky disap
peared 10 days ago from the Crois-an-Creek
home of. Mr. and Mrs.
Carroll R. Nelson -and turned op
at the old Canby ferry- landing . 30
miles down the Willamette River.
Mush was brought home last
night. He had been taker care of
at the Parzy Rose place near Can
by, then had wandered to the
George R. Webb place. Finally, a
check with the Marion County
Courthouse disclosed his owner
ship. Whether he rode a log to the
ferry landing or was picked up in
a car and ultimately escaped will
long be moot questions.
Call at Salem
from Portland headquarters,
where union leaders charged that
Portland workers who refused
to cross a picket line Monday re
turned to work the next day and
were told they would be assigned
only on a day-to-day basis. Sa
lem union leaders said Wednes
day that company officials had
given the same orders to local
operating crews Tuesday. But
company officials denied "this.
The Associated Press reported
from Portland Wednesday night
that CIO officials had filed unfair
labor practice charges with the
National Labor Relations Board
there.
By late Wednesday afternoon
there were picket lines at Port
land, Astoria, Seaside, Tillamook,
Newport, Albany, Corvallis, Eu
gene, Klamath Falls, Baker, Rose
burg, St. Helens and Oregon City,
in addition to Salem. No trouble
was reported at any of the, ex
changes. Clair Priem, president of the
Salem Telephone Workers local
said he did not know if picketing
would continue today.
At Livesley Buildinr
In the Livesley Building dis
pute union officials said they were
picketing because the building
management refused to hire union
personnel for cleaningoperations
and running the elevators. Nine
jobs are involved.
Betty Frahm, secretary-treasurer
of the building service local,
said the building manager "re
fused to sit down and negotiate
a new agreement in good faith."
In a statement to building ten
ants, R. M. Livesley, operator of
the building, said the building's
employes had voluntarily petition
ed for cancellation of the union
contract.
The barber shop in the building
operated by C. E. Hald and the
Stevens & Son Jewerly store are
not affected by the dispute be
cause they have their own cus
todial service, union officials said.
Operations in the building were
normal Wednesday, including ele
vator service.
Expert Visions Valley as World
Center for Nursery Plant Stock
BY LILXIE L. MAD SEN
Garden Editor, The Statesman
The Willamette Valley as. a fu
ture world center for growing
nursery stock was visibned
Wednesday by Major Peter Barber
of the Rothschild Gardens, Ex bury,
South Hampton, England.
"Your soil, your climate every
thing here is perfect for growing
the finest nursery stock in the
world," Barber stated Wednesday
night as he was having dinner
with his Salem hosts, the Jock
Brydons, and the E. K Petersens
of Portland. Petersen is a widely
known rhododendron propagator.
Barber's chief purpose in being in
America for 14 weeks is to view
rhododendrons and azaleas.
"I have never seen, anything
grow so rapidly as your young
rhododendron plants- in the Wil
lamette Valley," Barber insisted.
He expressed amazement at the
fact that there are no sizeable mi-,
lection of rhododendrons U mis
country.
Rothschild's has the largest col
lection of rhododendrons in the
world. There are 300 acres devoted
to these alone in a garden totaling
mora an 600 acres. From 1919 to
poundbd 1651
Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 17, 1952
Eisenhower
'Very Proud' of
Jersey Result
By The Associated Press
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
plunged the scramble for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination
into deeper confusion Wednesday
with the announcement that he
"could not accept" a bid to be
come his party's standard bearer.
The development came as Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower rolled up
a 150,000-vote victory over Sen
ator Robert A. Taft in a test of
strength in the New Jersey pri
mary election.
In Paris, Eisenhower said he
was "very proud" of the outcome.
Some of his supporters said it
meant the five-star general would
not have to undertake an all-out
campaign to win the Republican
presidential nomination against
the hard-stumping Taft.
Gov. Stevenson's "could not ac
cept" announcement apparently
slammed the door on efforts to
boost him as a counter to the
front-running - Senator Estes Ke
fauver of Tennessee.
'Could Not'
But at least one party chief
tain seized on the fact that Stev
enson said "could not" instead of
"would not."
He declared that if the Demo
cratic National Convention stam
peded for Stevenson as the Re
publican Convention stampeded
for Wendell L. Willkie in 1940
it would be difficult for the gov
ernor to refuse the nomination.
Harriman Mentioned
With Stevenson out of the pic
ture, talk arose that W. Averell
Harriman, now head of the for
eign aid setup, might step in as
the party's "liberal" candidate to
carry on President Truman's "fair
deal" programs.
Harriman will be guest of honor
Thursday night at a testimonial
banquet in New York aimed at
making him the state's "favorite
son." New York has 94 votes at
the Democratic National Conven
tion.
On the Republican side,
Gen.
Eisenhower rolled up a popular
vote of more than 382,000 against
225,000 for Taft and 22,000 for
former Gov. Harold E. Stassen
of Minnesota, in Tuesday's New
Jersey primary.
Percentage-wise, it was Eisen
hower 60.0 to Taft's 35.8 per cent.
Eisenhower also won 31 of New
Jersey's 38 GOP delegates. Taft
got 4 and Stassen one. Two were
uncommitted but reportedly lean
ed to Taft.
McKay Delays
Time Decision
Gov. Douglas McKay said Wed
nesday he probably would decide
early next week whether to pro
claim daylight saving time for
Oregon. j
The governor said he had re-
ceived a large number of letters
ior ana against last time ana ae- i
sired to give the project further j
study before making an announce- j
ment. State law prescribes a deci- '
sion based on whether the state's
economic interests would be threa-
tened by staying on standard time.
If Governor McKay proclaims
fast time, it would start April 27.
the beginning of World War II in
England, 1,300 new, acceptable
varieties were hybridized in these
gardens alone.
. In England, like in this country.
Barber stated, there is a strong
tendency toward dwarf or lower
growing rhododendrons. The new
bright pink, medium erowing,
Fairy Light," should have a great
future, in his mind. The - same
applies, he said, to the dwarf, red
alpine, Carmen. Few white rhodo
dendrons come in dwarf or low
growing types, but he named
Brick-a-Brack as one of the good
new small white ones.
Besides rhododendrons and
azaleas, the Rothschilds specialize
in orchids, and one of Barber's
reasons for being in this country
was to deliver a new one Rosana
Pinkie to Samuel Mosher of Dos
Pueblos, Santa Barbara, Calif. This
little pseudo bulb, hybridized in
the Rothjchild Gardens, went to
the California collector for $4,500.
"But it takes years to produce
such a plant," Barber pointed out.
"Few people," he. added, "realize
the patience, the time and the cost
which goes into the production of
one new variety.'
- V
Pen Convicts Prepare Props for
ttaWiUaL .'4Si iLiuui Vr.
"On-stage" preparations are brisk
ready for their entertainment show, "Con-Glomerations of 1952, which opens Friday. Those pictured
above are fixing the set for one of the humorous skits. The show plays nightly through April 26 to
benefit the American Heart Association fund.
Army Shows
Off Prowess of
. Newest Tank
ABERDEEN PROVING
GROUND, Md. (VPt-The Army
demonstrated its new M-47 me
dium tank Wednesday and dis
closed ;that it now Jias "many
many tanks ready for issuance to
troops."
While officials of this big Army
proving ground did not disclose
the number of the new 48-ton
mediums ready for combat. Col.
I C. G. Wilhide, commander of the
Detroit Tank Arsenal, told re
porters the Army now has more
M-47s than there are of "all
types of the United States tanks
in Korea combined."
Here are some of the things
reporters saw done:
1. A moving silhouette of a
target tank was hit at the exact
cross line of center at 500 yards
by M-47 op mm. guns.
2. With the new automatic me
chanism the gunner has to aim
only for the first shot. There
after the gun aims itself even
though recoil and tank move
ment raav have moved the muz
zle. 3. Tanks climbed a 50 per cent
grade, too steep for a man to
walk ud without slipping, from
a standing start. J
4. An M-47 ran through water i
so deep only the turret was visi
ble, fifing as it emerged from
submerged position
5. The tank showed a speed of
about 35 miles an hour on the
highway.
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Name on Ballot
PORTLAND OPVState Sen. Ri
chard L. Neuberger Wednesday
protested the candidacy of Robert
F. Elf strom, chairman of the Ore
gon Liquor Control Commission,
for nomination as state represen
tative. Elfstrom, former Salem mayor,
is seeking the Republican mina
tion for one of the fourMarion
County House seats.
Neuberger, a Democrat, made
his protest in a letter to Governor
McKay.
"I must protest emphatically
against the plunging of various ex
ecutive departments of the state
into partisan politics through the
candidacy of executive officials
for legislative posts," he wrote.
Anti-Pari Mutuel
Petitions Distributed
PORTLAND (JrVDistribution of
3,000 petitions to place on the
November election " ballot a pro
posal to ban parimutuel betting in
Oregon was a- "meed, Wednes
day. The : Rev. Gilbert Christian,"
executive secretary of the spon
soring Oregon Council of Churches,
said the petitions have gone to all
sections of the state. He said an
other 2,000 would be distributed
later.
S.4LEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Tear Last Tear Normal
38.SI 4639 32.87
PRICE 5c
at Oregon State Penitentiary this
8 Families Flee Path
Of Rampaging Owyhee
ONTARIO, Ore. JP) Eight farm families were forced from their
homes Wednesday by floodwaters of the rampaging Owyhee River
which washed out one bridge and closed two others.
The runoff from rapidly melting snows has filled the Owyhee Re
servoir and the overflow from the emergency outlet of Owyhee Dam
inundated farmlands in the narrow Owyhee Valley.
lauuiies living oetween me
dam and the confluence of the
Owyhee with the Snake River, just
south of Nyssa, moved out, taking
most of their belongings and live
stock with them. No serious loss
was reported.
The swift waters washed away a
Reclamation Bureau bridge on the
road to the dam. The bridge on
Highway 201 between Adrian and
Nyssa was closed after supports at
one end were swept away. The
nearby Union Pacific Railway
hririae nn the HnmcHalo Mvcco
hrnrh lim. aUn h loH tn
traffic.
The Snake river at Ontario rose
two feet in 24 hours, flooding the
city's sewers. This, in turn, back
ed sewage in the basements of
some homes, creating a health
problem.
Two families on Falk Island In
the Snake two miles south of here
were evacuated when water inun
dated two-thirds of the 1500-acre
area.
No further damage is expected
by Reclamation Bureau officials.
Brazilian Communist
Ring Said Broken
RIO DE JANEIRO P)-The
newspaper O Jornal reported
Wednesday that a Communist
ring in the armed forces had been
broken with the arrest of 21 com
missioned and non-commissioned
officers.
Five others are being detained
In their Quarters for questioning,
including two Air Force majors,
one Army captain and two Navy
lieutenants, the newspaper said.
Politics on Parade
Who's Running for What in the May Primaries !
(Editor's note: Starlet In the "Po
litical Parade" are written by or for
the candidates, an invitation of The
Oregon -Statesman, and Views ex
pressed herein may or may not ae in
accordance with the opinion of this
newpaper. The articles arc published
In the public interest, and without
obligation on the part of anyone.).
Today's subject:
DENVER YOUNG
Candidate for
SHERIFF (MARION) ()
In submitting my name to the
voters of Marion County as a can
didate for the office of sheriff, I
"""Sdo so in the be
Uef that my rec
ord of service for
the past eight
years speaks for
itself.
I feel that the
office of sheriff
is a full-time job
with many im
portant respon
ds isiomues to tne
f. iwKkJ people of Marion
Denver Young County, and to
that end will al
ways give by best efforts.
The sheriffs duties are many
and among the most important are
No. 21
Coming Show
week as convict entertainers ret
Flash Blaze
Razes Home of
City Patrolman
The second flash fire this week
! " tun
Wednesday destroyed the home of
I another Salem family.
The home of Salem patrolmen
and Mrs. Richard C. Boehringer,
260 W. Wilson St., was destroyed
in a fire which started at about
8 p.m. while Boehringer was on
police duty and his wife and
small daughter were visiting
neighbors. Friends nearby who
reported the blaze said the fire
seemed to start from the back of
the house where an enclosed
porch was located.
Flames, once started, swept
through the two-story, six room
wooden heme, fed by three or
four thicknesses of wallpaper
and the dry, combustible tim
bers. Fire fighting equipment was
called from the central fire sta
tion to assist those already at the
scene from the south station.
Fire reports Indicate that the
fire was probably caused by
faulty wiring. The house, owned
by Boehringer's father who lives
near Turner, was thought to be
partially insured.
The other fire this week Mon
day night- destroyed the home of
Herbert Miller- and family on
South River Road.
the collection and dispersing in
the many subdivisions of "the coun
ty the five and a quarter million
dollars which now represents the
annual tax roll. To this . end I
have maintained an efficient and
J courteous tax department.
Our "Civil department last year
served over 3,060 civil -cases with
promptness and dispatch
Our criminal department, while
few in numbers, I feel has done
an outstanding job in fair, im
partial and courteous law en
forcement, that has helped to place
Marion County in an enviable po
sition as a good place in which
to live.
' The office of sheriff has kept
pace with the rapid growth of
the 'county, rendering service 24
hours of the day, and It Is my
desire to continue this service dur
ing the next term of office. ;
: I have lived in Salem . since
1935, and operated the Capitol
Tile Company until entering the
sheriffs office in 1942. I am a
member of the Elks, Eagles, and
the Salem Lions Club, and past
president of the Oregon State
Sheriffs Association.
' (Tomorrow: Emery Jackson) '
Added
Farmltilid
Engulfed
OMAHA (JP) The Missouri Ri
ver strained mightily but still un-;
successfully Wednesday. t smash '
Omaha and Council Bluffs, la
with the worst flood in their his
tory. - T j z
President Truman flew ewer th
flood area and later conferred with
the governors of eight Midwest
states. (Details on page JL
Upstream and downstream, th
"Mighty Mo" mightier than whit
man ever has seen her was hav
ing its way. f Jf
Still packing the power of a
thousand locomotives, the swollen
marauder engulfed new thousands
of acres and flooded or threatened
new towns as the crisis area aoov
ed southward il
Defiance Shown I i '
But at Omaha and Council Bluffs
there was defiance. The lin of
defense ran along 23 miles lev
ees which had never been expected
to get such a test but, which in
recent days had been bo 1st rod by
a hastily-recruited army eJT 8,000
men. s .
The Omaha River level passed
the 28 foot mark, nearly four feet
higher than ever previously re
corded, with the levees still hold
ing. The crest maximum flow
is due at 10 pjn. (EST) Thursday.
Ghostly vacant but still sale be
hind the hastily-bolstered ' levees
lay nearly three-fourths of Coun
cil Bluffs, a city of 45,000, and
sections across the river includinsr
East Omaha and Carter Lake, la.
100,000 Displaced si
The homeless, nearly 40,66 in
Omaha and Council Bluffs,, wer
among some 100,000 the Re Cross
says have been displaced ; in th
Midwest by rampaging waters of
the Missouri Mississippi, Red
River of the North and th Milk
River in Montana. i n
Little added flood damage was
expected at St Paul and Red Cross
crews and Army amphibious
vehicles moved downstream to
Winona, Minn where a dike fail-
ure could inundate one-third of
the city. L i .
Downstream points th Wiscon
sin and Iowa braced fori; nmn
assaults fn the near future.
At tne twin cities of" Fargo. N.
D., ,tnd Moorhead, Mirn , Ihe Fed
iiiver cf the Ncrth appeared rea-jly
to cre?t some 1' feet over flor-d
stage. H
In MontanS, Army h Engineers
estimated damage from flooding
on the Milk River at f $2,941,000,
most of it in rural areas. '
Elwood, Kas., had given up
about 90 per cent of its 1,200 per
sons and the remainder wer
about to evacuate. Missouri tona
like Craig, Corning, and Forestqu
already had evacuated. II'
Alone the 150 mile stretch tWn
the Iowa line to Leavenwrth
Kas., Army Engineers estimated
60.000 acres Were under watr-
6,000 persons were displaced and
37 levee were breached.' i
Along the lower ' Neru-akst
reaches, most towns were ut of -the
water's reach but nearlyH of
them Nebraska Cirv i Mot
mouth, Rulo, Peru. Auburn,
meha were in some" kind of
sandbag battle to save Utilities or
farm lands. - : -
At Gov. Val Peterson's hicldmj
the Nebraska Legislature j will i
into special session at noon Thurs
day, the fourth such snrnal ses
sion in the state's history. Th as
signment: ri.-od relief. i1-
Congress Told
4YoutIis Not!
Eager to Fly
WASHINGTON (JPi L Th Air
Force told Congress Wednesday i
is getting more and more difficult
to persuade Amerkrani, youths t
man new types of combat airsraft.-
It added that Russia is krrins? '.'
its best youths into flying duty by
onering almost double pay sMad
other benefits., it'-.'-
This testimony came from Air .
Secretary Finletter and GenJZIovt
S. Vandenberg. rankintf Air Tore
officer. : ' jji -!-.
Thev antwsWwl tvfnra
Armed S e r vl c e s subeomsaitte
checking on the extra pay given
servicemen for "extra, .hazard"
duty flying, submarine duty and
parachute drops. ? jL. -jQ
. There have been chargsn
abuses of this pay aystemv and
some members of Congress hav
been talking of reducing thxtr -pay.'
- v; . ' '- I i-jf-V. v
Vandenberg urcin th uuw
not to do this said: i . u : - -
The increasing risk la dampen
ing the enthusiasm for flying. I
would not like, to pi v th tm- '
pression that four youth is losing .
lis sense or autyor Its aesrfvJness.
"But the tmet cannot b blinked
that the Air Force Is meetixx in
creasing difficult in atrrr4mr
sufficient number- of- young- "men
pnvsicauy ana mentally qualified
for flying.' ,,. t ,
ONE. MORE VOlET F6a?ir3 - I
i CHARLOTfE AMALIE, .Virgin. - !
Islands-. OP) -f The .Virgin Island
delegation to the Republican Na- .r .
tional Convention hat bee in-
structed to east its one vat tor '
Gen. Elsenhower on the first thre
ballots. . t - ' . ;
AMBASSADOR ATPROVET
WASHINGTON (JP) Sf-Th Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
approved Wednesday the nomi
nation of Robert Murphy Ims first
postwar ambassador' to Japan,