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SIOUX FALLS, S. D. (JP)-The
predicted photo-finish South Da
kota Republican presidential pri
mary went down to the wire with
Sen. Robert A. Taft and Gen.
D wight D. Eisenhower neck and
neck.
Only 16 precincts remained
with Taft holding a razor-edge
lead of 591 votes. The latest tab
ulation: Taft 64,700.
Eisenhower 64,109.
Nearly all the unreported dis
tricts were in the remote rural
territory; west of the Missouri
River.
Taft's percentage was 50.23,
Eisenhower's 49.77.
Taft's ; Washington headquar
Ike's Opponents Point Finger at
Talk's 'Generalities'; Taft Silent
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WASHINGTON (JP) Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio declined Wed
nesday night to comment on the speech in which Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower launched his campaign for the Republican presidential
nomination.
Taft aid he had not had opportunity to read the general's text
and did not know when he could get around to it.
E333TJH
Considerable surprise was ex
pressed when Justice William O.
Douglas polled more votes than
Governor Stevenson of Illinois in
the Oregon Democratic preference
primary. Douglas had taken a page
ad in the voters' pamphlet to urge
Democrat not to vote for him.
Stevenson ; had also renounced any
candidacy yet he was considered
a "reserve'possibility for the nom
ination. Senator Kefavuer won the
race by a wide margin, but Doug
las was second.
The reason Douglas ran so well
is that: he Is regarded as the lega
tee of the Roosevelt new deal. He
didn't get off the reservation as
did Henry -Wallace; also his Ideas
on world problems with particular
reference to Asia have commanded
attention. The core of the left-wing
made a serious effort to promote
the candidacy of Bill Douglas. His
own disavowal of candidacy did
not dampen their ardor though it
did defeat their purpose.
Douglas must be credited with
positive ideas relative to Asia and
the Middle East, ideas which are
based on personal trips across
Southern Asia where he had con
tact with people in the .villages.
He has summarized his observa
tions and conclusions in books and
addresses. The challenge he throws
out to Americans and the warn
ings should not be discounted
merely because Douglas is rated
a politicals radical. ( He was con
servative enough, or radical, to
join in denying "inherent powers"
to the President).
In an address before the Amal
gamated Clothing Workers" con
vention at Atlantic City recently
Douglas put his finger on the di
lemma' which the
(Continued on editorial page, 4.)
Lebanon Fete
Starts Today
LEBANON (IP) - The Lebanon
Strawberry Festival will begin its
three-day run here Thursday .The
. annual parade will be held Friday,
the children's parade Saturday.
Also on schedule are a flower show
and street platform programs in
the afternoon and evening.
ATOMIC BLAST SCHEDULED
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (JP) - The
eighth atomic blast of the spring
series is expected at dawn Thurs
day at the Nevada proving
grounds.
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
"I was proud of you tonight, dear.
tou mode a perfect ass of yourself."
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ters were confident Eisenhower
could not accomplish that feat
and on that basis claimed victory
for the Ohioan.
Former Gov. George T. Mick
elson, head of the Eisenhower
slate, declared: "We're still not
conceding the flection to Senator
Taft. That small margin out of
approxinately 128,00 Republican
votes make the results of the of
ficial canvass still very much in
doubt."
"Actually, Michelson said,
"the election was a defeat for
Taft and a victory for Eisenhow
er. "It disproved to very conclu
sively Taft's claim to great sup
port in the Midwestern states."
But Sen. Robert Kerr of Okla-
homa, campaigning for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination, said
he was not sure but what Eisen-
hower was in effect -criticizing
m
'One of the men kept in high
position while we were in power i
was Gen. Eisenhower himself. He
now should detail the items of
which he speaks so generally, if
only to show that he is not criti
cizing himself."
Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr., of Penn
sylvania, an Eisenhower backer,
called the general's address "a
fighting, middle of the road speech
that is evidence that the people
will not have to guess where he
stands."
House Democrats refrained from
comment, but Rep. Reece of Ten
nessee, a leader of the Taft forces,
said:
"It looks like he (Eisenhower)
is pretty much for mother, home
and Heaven."
Vote Settles
Oregon Motor
Stages Strike
A month-long strike of Oregon
Motor Stage driver and shopmen
was settled Wednesday when a
vote of personnel revealed accept
ance of a management offer based
on a similar settlement with Pa
cific and Northwest Greyhound.
The settlement proivdes for a
4.6 per cent boost for drivers with
additional increases later and a
shorfer work week. Regular serv
ice in Salem is to be resumed by
Friday.
The Oregon Stages strike has
tied up bus service to Western
Oregon points.
U.S. Troops Divide
PW Enclosure
KOJE ISLAND, Korea JP)
American infantrymen supported
by tanks marched into a compound
of 3,340 Communist civilian pris
oners Thursday and threw up a
double barbed wire fence cutting
the enclosure in half.
There was no resistance.
The maneuver was the first
move in Brig. Gen. Hayden L.
(Bull) Boatner's plan to break up
the 17 big compounds holding as
many as 6,000 prisoners each into
units of 500 each.
Airedales Come 'Cheaper by
The Walter Wood family of 565 N. 22nd St. figure their Airedale "Lady" most have been Impressed by
the best seller ""Cheaper by the Dozen," because the pedigreed pet has given birth to an even dozen
paps, extraordinary number for the breed. Here Johnny Wood, 4, rets acquainted with one of the
newcomers while Lady keeps an eye on the other 1L (Statesman Photo.)
Rainfall
Dampens
Debut
By DON WHITEHEAD
ABILENE, Kas. ((P- Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower told a rain
drenched throng of Midwestern
ers Wednesday the Democrats had
been in power too long and he
implied the people must vote
them out of office in November
to bring an end to corruption in
high places.
With this speech, the famous
warrior now in civilian clothes
waded into the fight for the Re
publican presidential nomination.
But his first major homecom
ing address was almost spoiled by
an old-fashioned Kansas down
pour which kept thousands from
the unprotected stadium wner he
spoke and left only a handful of
hardy, sodden souls braving the
weather to hear the general in
front of the flag-decked grand
stand. Other hundreds sat in their
automobiles in the muddy field of
an old race track where the gen
eral spoke.
Eisenhower spoke in a fighting
tone of voice that brought fre
quent applause and automobile
horn blasts.
Most of the applause came
economy in government spending. :
; Unofficial estimates placed the)
crowd in the stands and in the ,
j infield at up to 5 000 or 6,000. He i
I called for an end to waste and!
:t.,anpp ;n nvrnmnt.
spending, a foreign policy strip- ;
ped of all mystery, and con
tinued cooperation with our allies
in the fight against Communism.
No Mention of Names
No once did Eisenhower men
tion the Democrats by name.
Neither did he mention his candi
dacy or his chief Republican op
ponent, Sen. Robert A. Taft of
Ohio.
But there was a strong throw-the-rascals-out
tone to his speech
when he said:
"Political health is endangered
if one party, by whatever means,
becomes permanently or too-long
entrenched in power. The almost
inevitable consequence is graft
and incompetence in remote and
even in prominent places of gov
ernment. "Obviously, this is something
that applies today: One party has
been in power too long in this
country."
Less Foreign Aid
Eisenhower also:
1. Held out the prospect of less
spending on foreign aid. "I be
lieve we can look forward to de
creasing future costs without sac
rificing the essentials of reason
able goals."
2. Spoke out against excessive
taxation and government spend
ing. "Long continued taxes that
are only a little below the confis
catory level will destroy free gov
ernment
3. Argued against the national Lyons placed in solitary confine
government's taking over func- ! ment.
tions that belong to local commun
ities. "Bureacracy helpless to
lead older nations o security and
prosperity will do no better in
America."
4. Said "the settlement of dis
putes and grievances requires
together, of course, with simple
and clear legal processes a cli
mate of good will, an appreciation
of good citizenship and respon
sible concern for all the people
and most important public
confidence in the fairness and im
partiality of appointed agents and
agencies." (Additional stories on
page 2.)
AUTO SALES INCREASE
WASHINGTON (-Reporting a
sharp upturn in auto sales dur
ing May, passenger car manufac
turers Wednesday asked the gov
ernment to permit production of
2,500,000 cars in the last half of
this year " if possible."
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Washington Girl
Awakens From
2-Months Sleep
WHITE SALMON, Wash. (Jp)
Judy Rosevear, the 4-year-old
girl who has been asleep for
more than two months because
of a brain inflammation, has
awakened.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al
Rosevear, said Wednesday the
little girl had been awake for
several days, but they withheld
a report on it until they were
sure.
She was fed through a tube
down her throat during her long
sleep.
Doctors said some damage
may have been done to her ner
vous system by the long sleep.
They hope that exercise will re
store her muscular co-ordination.
Prisoner Hurt
In Rocky Butte
Jail Rioting
.PORTLAND W-One prisoner
was injured in an abortive riot at
Rocky Butte jail here late Wed
nesday night.
Sheriff Terry Schrunk said the
disturbance was put down after a
smoke bomb was exploded. The
prisoners broke a number of win
dows and tore up some of the
equipment in one of the 50-man
"tank" cells.
Jack Matthews, jail superinten
dent, said he received a letter
from the prisoners earlier in the
day listing complaints and stating
conditions under which prisoners
would work.
Matthews, accompanied by two
guards, went to the tank cell to
tell the prisoners he would not
take orders from them. Matthews
asked two prisoners, Pete Santon
is, 21, and Robert Lyons, 23, who
he said were ringleaders, to step
forward. The pair rushed the
guards.
Matthews said he struck San
tonis over the head with the smoke
bomb and then exploded it. That
quieted the prisoner.
Sheriff Schrunk said Santonis
was a trouble-maker. He is serv
in a year for escape from the jail.
Lyons is serving time on a bad
check charge.
Santonis was hospitalized and
scnrunK said tne prisoner had
apparently heard too many stories
about prison riots in other parts
of the country.
French Reds'
Strike Fizzles
PARIS (JP) An angry Commu
nist call for a sit-down strike to
hamstring the French nation in
protest against jailing of the top
Communist leader fizzled dismal
ly Wednesday except for one
sprawling motor car plant.
Steel - helmeted policemen and
gendarmes, at the ready on. orders
of shy but tough Premier Antoine
Pinay, stacked their riot weapons
as most non-Reds agreed this was
probably the worst Communist
flop of its kind in years.
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Canneries Quote 14-Cemt Price
On Berries; Growers
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End of school and str.rt of the strawberry season were simultaneous this week. Here are five youths fresh
from the classroom hard at picking in the Hazel Green district. All members of a picking platoon
organized for the summer harvest season, pickers are from left to right, David Hall, 710 Cross St.;
David Taylor, 525 W. Madrona Ave.; Ronald Welton, 1055 Fairview St.; Larry Evans, 1660 $. Winter
St., and Larry Battles, 3595 Karen SU (Statesman photo.)
Solons Vote to
Take Ceiling
Off Potatoes
WASHINGTON fPi-The Senate
Wednesday night beat down a pro
posal to suspend all wage and price
controls and then killed an
amendment to take price ceilings
off food and all farm products.
But the lawmakers irate over
potato shortages voted to ban all
price ceilings on fresh fruits and
vegetables. Sponsors said this
would apply only to potatoes be
cause no other perishable is under
ceilings.
The Senate labored far into the
night on a broad measure to ex
pend economic controls beyond
June ju.
The proposal to suspend all
wage-price controls called for
them to be reinstated if the cost
of living index goes up three points
or Congress declares war. It was
defeated 57 to 22.
The amendment to kill price
ceilings on farm products was
beaten 49 to 29.
The plan to suspend all wage
and price controls was offered by
senator Capehart (R-Ind) after
the Senate had voted a tight rein
on Wage Stabilization Board inter
vention in labor disputes but de
cided to leave labor and manage
ment representatives on the WSB
instead of making it an all-public
body as the banking committee
had proposed.
WASHINGTON (JP)- Republican
senators from Oregon split thtfir
votes Wednesday night in the heat
ed Senate wrangle over control
measures.
In the vote by which the Senate
approved, 42 to 41, the Ives
Amendment keeping the Wage
Stabilization Board tripartite, Sen.
Cordon (Ore.) voted for and Morse
(Ore.) against.
Morse cast the lone Republican
vote for the Douglas Amendment,
to the Defense Production Act
which would continue the present
WSB makeup and dispute-settling
powers. The measure lost 56 to 26.
Cordon voted against it.
Western International
At Salem 7. Wenatchee 2
At Victoria 0-7. Spokane 7-3
At Trl-City 3, Yakima 4
At Vancouver-Lewiston. rain.
Pacific Coast League
At Hollywood 1. Portland 0
At Oakland 0. Sacramento 1
At San Diego 2. Los Angeles 1
At Seattle 2. San Francisco 1
American League
At Boston 13. Cleveland 11
At N-w York 6, Chicago 3
At Philadelphia 4. Detroit 3
At Washintfton-St. Louis, rain.
National League
At Chicago . New York 2
At Pittsburgh 4. Brooklyn 7
At Cincinnati 10. Philadelphia
At St. Louis (, Boston 0
POUNDBD 1651
The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon,
Moving Day
For County
By WINSTON H. TAYLOR
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Moving of offices from Marion County Courthouse will com
mence in earnest today, in preparation for razing to begin June 23.
Doom of the 75-year-old structure was sealed Wednesday with formal
signing of a contract for new construction.
Rapidly getting ready for the influx of departments is the Public
School Office Building three blocks north on Marion between High
and Church Streets. It is getting i
new partitions, paint and off
street parking to handle court
house occupancy for about two
years.
The County Court signed the
$1,672,156 contract with Viesko
and Post, Salem contracting firm,
and set the deadline for moving.
The task will be handled by
Capital City Transfer Co., which
will begin today by moving Judge
Rex Kimmell's Circuit Couit and
some miscellaneous storage items.
To Move Storage
On Friday it will be ballot boxes
and other storage; Monday, she
riff, engineer, election and County
Court; Tuesday, treasurer, clerk
and Circuit Judge George Duncan;
Wednesday, Circuit Judge Joseph
Felton, surveyor and juvenile de
partments; Thursday, recorder.
Already in the school building
are the District Court and Salem
district constable, county agent
and extension offices, assessor and
tax collector, all moved some time
ago. The transfer will not involve
the health department, district at
torney and school superintendent,
all in rented space outside the
courhouse.
Parts of all three floors of the
school building have been leased
by the county for more than two
years, most of the space on a
standby basis. The county is pay
ing IVt. cents per square foot. Ori
ginal contract called for 22,597
square feet, but some 2,500 feet
have been added now because of
need for such offices as civil de
fense. New Parking Area
County crews have been doing
all the refurbishing of the new
location except painting. Biggest
change will be the 56-car paved
parking area, occupying all the
present lawn space north of the
building. Grading was under way
yesterday. The drives around the
courthouse can park only about 35
autos.
As agreed in the contract, the
county salvaged 22 doors and
frames from the courthouse to use
in the temporary location.
A central phone switchboard Is
to be used for all county offices
in the structure, but is not ex
pected to be ready before June 15.
CHURCH KEEPS AFFILIATION
ALBANY, Ore. (JP)-The United
Presbyterian Church, winding up
its 94th annual assembly here,
voted overwhelmingly Wednesday
to retain its affiliation with the
National Council of Churches of
Christ and the World Council of
Churches.
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Thursday. June 5. 1952
Offices
John Allgood,
Dallas Council
Member, Dies
Statesman News Service
DALLAS John (Jack) Allgood,
Dallas city councilman since 1918,
died at his home Wednesday noon
following a heart attack. He had
been ill for several weeks. He was
about 68.
Allgood came to Dallas in 1907
and worked as a printer on the
old Dallas Observer. In 1913 he
started a printing shop here which
he had operated since.
He was on the city park board
and was a leader in the develop
ment of Dallas Citv Park. He was
I a long-time member of the Knights
or fytnias Lodge.
Surviving are the Widow, Julia;
two sons, James D. of Dallas and
John R. in California; and three
grandchildren. Services will be
announced later by the Bollman
Mortuary.
Truman Plans Week-End
Visit to McGrath Farm
WASHINGTON P) - President
Truman is planning a week-end
visit to the Rhode Island farm
home of J. Howard McGrath, the
man he ousted as attorney general
two months ago.
As if to show there are no hard
feelings between the two men, the
President will stop over at Mc
Grath's farm after he speaks Sat
urday morning at New;: London,
Conn., where the keel of the first
atomic-powered submarine, the
Nautilus, will be laid,
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FORECAST (from U. S.l Weather
Bureau. McNary Field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today and tonight, little cooler,
with a high near 75 and the lowest to
night near 45. Temperature at 12:01
ijb. was 69 degrees.
SALEM PRECIPTTATIOV
Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
Tats Tear Last Tear t Normal
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No. 70
Protest
'Starting Price'
Designated by
4 Salem Firms
A iitartin price of 14 cents
17 v r ""Wherries, lowest
since the war, was being quoted
Wednesday to Salem area SrS
growers by geveral large locU
Four large
were listed among those quoS
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firm -a Vi
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was offering 15Vi cents.
The 14Tcent Quotation, thre
brought an expected storm of pro-
iTM m mSt strawb-ry grower,
in this area. C
A Statesman survey of packers
and growers Wednesday night
brought out two important farts
in the price quotations. First, the
listed prices did not come from a
concerted action on the part of
the packers they arrived at their
quotations Independently. Second.
Wednesday's quotations may bm
temporary. The price on berries ta
the farmer could go up in the next
few weeks or down.
Subject to Change
Kelley Farquhar & Co. said its
14-cent quote was "subject ta
change, any time." Starr Fooda
Inc said it was paying 14 cent.
And at least two other large Salem
packers were listed in the 14-cent
bracket.
Wednesday's quotation cracked
the price silence surrounding thla
season's strawberry crop. Growers
met last week and decided they
could not set a permanent waga
for pickers until canners caraa
through .with a buying price
Picking Price Same
Picking in the Salem area is
under way this week and many
growers were paying 4 cents oer
pound, plus a Vz cent bonus. Thm
is the same as last year.
Many growers Wednesday lab
eled the packers 14-cent quotation
as "unjustified." Earlier in the day
several strawberry raisers told
Lillie Madsen, Statesman Farm
Editor, they "did not see how they
could continue the 5 cent picking
wage and still come out financially
If they got less than 17 cents per
pound for their berries- from tha
packers."
Alvin Van Cleave, Salem Route
7, long-time berry grower in this
area, who is paying the S-cent
picking price, gave this illustra
tion: For the berries harvested
at his farm Wednesday he was
paid $300 less than he would hava
received at last year's price. And
yet, he argued, his operating ex
penses were Justsas great as last
year.
Previous Prices
Prices paid by packers for ber
ries in the past five years: 1951,
17 cents; 1950, 22 cents; 1949, It
cents; 1948, 20 cents, and 14.
about 27 cents.
Most packers were reluctant mm
Wednesday to talk about thia ,
year's low quotation. One plant
manager mumbled something
about "general condition of tha
market and high price of opera
tion." Joe Gamroth, superintendent at
North Marion Fruit Co, who said
his plant would pay farmers
"whatever becomes the goinc
pricey said the California priae
also had dropped to around 14
cents from a starter of 17 cents.
He added that the packer this year
must sell processed berries at S
cents per pound under last yeara
price. A large California crop, ba
said, has also helped, bring tba
berry market price dawnt'
Silverton Hills Strawberry As
sociation will meet tonight at lhs
Silverton Hills Community Ball '
to discuss the new packers quota
tion and to set a picking wags.
Picking will start in the large
berry patches in that district next
week.
Salesman Given
Chilly Reception
In Canada Town
TRAIL, B. C. (JP) A. J. Mil
ard, a Vancouver spark phsgT
salesman, got quite a reception
here Wednesday.
"Millard, get out of town,"
proclaimed signs in a picket Una
at his downtown hotel.
Surprised and confused, tha
salesman learned a little later
that demonstrators had tha
wrong hotel, and had meant ta
picket Charles Millard of Phila
delphia, national director of tha "
CIO Steelworkers Union which,
recently lost a bitter election
among Trail smelter workers to
a rival union
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