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The Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Jun 18. 1952
Dr. Newburn Asks State Build,
Rent Houses to Fraternities
PORTLAND (JP) Dr. Harry W. Newburn, president of the Uni
versity of Oregon, proposed Tuesday that, the State Board of Higher
Education go into the fraternity housing business.
He said a fraternity, which he did not name, had asked the college
to build a fraternity house and then rent or lease it
Newburn said the request was the latest of several from living
organizations, including fraterni
ties and sororities, who are find
ing it difficult to finance new
buildings or maintain present
ones.
He said if the plan were adopt
ed it eventually would take in all
fraternities and sororities at state
supported colleges and would
mean a considerable investment.
Under the proposal, gifts for
construction would be made to
the University. The fraternities
teel that more money would be
forthcoming under the plan as the
monev would be tax free, he said.
He 'added that the plan called
for the board to lend its credit for
ponds to pay for one-half of con
struction costs with gifts paying
for the other half.
Tax Arraagement
Some arrangement would have
lo be made to provide college
el tie with revenue now obtained
from taxes on the fraternity
bouses, as the buildings would be
.taken off the tax rolls under the
proposal, Newburn said.
Chancellor Charles D; Byrne
asked that the proposal be put in
writing for further study.
The board meeting will con
tinue Wednesday. On the agenda
Is the proposed appointment of
Dr. Willard B. Spaulding, former
Portland school superintendent, to
the extension division staff. The
appointment is recommended by
Byrne and Dean J. F. Cramer.
Spalding is now dean of educa
tion at the University of Illinois.
Expenditures Due
The board's building committee
approved expenditures of $318,000
for building projects at two col
leges and the University of Ore
gon. Projects included:
$84,330 for field construction,
planting and other preliminary
work at the Oregon State College
stadium project.
$111,000 for converting a pavil
ion structure at the OSC gymna
sium for use by a new filter sys
tem for men's and women's swim
ming pools.
$84,500 for remodeling labora
tories at the Medical School.
$29,000 for rehabilitating physi
cal education and athletic facili
ties at Oregon College of Educa
tion at Monmouth.
The committee accepted an of
fer of the Fairmount Church of
Christ, Eugene, to sell for $45,000
two buildings and two lots within
the boundaries of tWe University
of Oregon campus.
It postponed until Aug. 13 the
bid opening date for the medical
school's proposed teaching hospi
tal. East Oregon
Milk Price
Rise Ordered
PORTLAND (JP) The State
Board of Agriculture Tuesday is
sued orders which will increase
the price and reduce maximum
butterfat content of milk in Union,
Baker and Malheur Counties.
The new regulations are to go
Into effect July 1 in Baker and
Union Counties and as soon as
possible in Malheur County.
The fat content of milk will be
reduced to a maximum of 3.6 per
cent from the present maximum of
J.8 in Union and Baker Counties
and 4.3 in Malheur County.
Most dairies in the area have
been selling 3.5 per cent milk.
The orders also raised the mini
mum price of milk 1 cent in Union
and Baker Counties to 20 cents a
quart wholesale and 22 cents re
tail. In Mahleur County the new
wholesale and retail prices will be
19 and 21 cents respectively 2
cents higher than the present price.
Prices paid to producers in Un
ion and Baker Counties were rais
ed to $1.02 a pound for butterfat
and $2.1$ a hundredweight for
milk, compared with 94 cents and
$2 paid now.
Producers' prices in Malheur
County were set at 94 cents a
pound for butterfat and $2 a hun
dredweight for milk. Malheur pro
ducers now get $1.28 for butter
fat. The new orders also establish
allocations of market quotas to
producers on the basis of hundred
weight of milk and pounds of but
terfat. Previously, allocations have
been made on the basis o butter
fat poundage.
-Large Throng
Sees Circus
, A capacity Salem audience Tues
day night thrilled to the roar of
lions, tigers and trumpeting ele
phants at the Clyde Beatty Circus.
Two performances were given
by the circus, one at 3 p.m. and
the other at 8 pjn. The show was
staked near the 18th Street en
trance to the Fairgrounds with the
animals and equipment unloading
Tuesday morning from the rail
road near Smith Street at the Fair
grounds. Portland Wheat
Prices Decline
: PORTLAND (JP) First bids
posted on the Portland Grain Ex
change Tuesday for 1952 crop
Wheat were 16 to 18 cents a bushel
below the last bids a week ago on
old crop wheat.
- The initial bid for soft white
wheat for 15 day shipment was
$2.32 a bushel. Hard red winter
was bid at $2.33 and hard white
baart at $2.35.
Karnes Took
Money From
Victim's Purse
(Story also on Page 1)
THE DALLES The pasty-faced
farm laborer who .said he killed
Mrs. Susan Litchfield of Salem
took between $25 and $30 he found
in her purse after the slaying.
Salem police reported Tuesday
night after Albert William Karnes
signed a 14-page confession.
But when Kames was arrested
in The Dalles three days later, he
had only one cent in his pocket,
police added.
Karnes' statement said he left
the Salem axe slaying scene June
7, went by bus to Portland, then
to The Dalles, arriving here about
11 p.m.
It was here, two days later,
that he attacked Mrs. Ben Calla
way with a hammer when she
Reporter's Long
Vigil Rewarded
It was a whopping 12-hour
day in the Wasco County Court
house at The Dalles Tuesday for
Statesman staffer Tom Wright
whose graphic story Albert
Karnes' confession to the mur
der of Mrs. Susan Litchfield
appears in this moraine's
Statesman.
Wright arrived there before
the Salem police, at 11:19 a. m,
and kept a reporter's eye on the
developments until 11:30 p. m.
when he finished phoning his
story to The Statesman news
room. Wright also took news
pietures of Karnes at The
Dalles.
surprised him in a bedroom at
her home a few blocks from down
town The Dalles. Karnes fled the
house after the attack and hid in
some brush but returned to the
basement of the house to get out
of the wet, cold weather. He was
captured there the next morning.
Cases Similar
It was the similarity between
the two cases which led Salem
police to suspect that Karnes may
have been involved in the Salem
murder. When a receipt book was
discovered in the Litchfield home
showing that Karnes had once
been a roomer in the house he
became prime suspect in the baf
fling case.
Warren, with the three wit
nesses, Salem detectives David M.
Houser and Wayne Parker and
Patrolman Charles Creasy, came
to The Dalles Tuesday morning,
but did not begin Interrogation of
Karnes until about 6:30 p.m.
Present also -during the ques
tioning were Deputy Sheriff Hen
ry Re, of Wasco County, and The
Dalles Police Chief Jack Lyons.
Present during earlier investiga
tion also was State Police Ser
geant Charles H. U'Ren.
Sig-ned Statement
Karnes signed the 14-page long
statement admitting his guilt about
10:30 p.m. Tuesday night. He ap
peared willing and relieved when
photographed by newsmen a few
minutes later. He was returned to
his cell in the county jail here.
Following the break in the case.
Warren said he couldn't say enough
about the cooperation he received
from the various police agencies
involved in the case.
Karnes, who, until recently, was
employed on a mink farm near
Astoria, was born at Portland,
April 23, 1928. His mother resides
at Astoria and his father at Port
land. He is divorced and has one
child about a year-and-one-half
old.
Ike Predicts
Victory Over
Robert Taf t
By DON WHITEHEAD
DENVER (P)-Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower told a small hand-
picked group of correspondents
he will win the Republican presi
dential nomination in Chicago next
month over Sen. Robert A. Taft
of Ohio, whom he called an "iso
lationist.'
This statement was made at an
almost-secret luncheon arranged
by a few reporters. Others heard
of the meeting and crashed the
party.
Reliable reports from the lunch
eon and from other sources in
Eisenhower's official party dis
closed that Eisenhower stated:
1. He favors government pump
priming and federal works pro
jects to bolster the nation's econ
omy in time of depression.
2. He does not favor any more
generals at this time being raised
to five-star rank.
3. He does not believe a foreign
policy plank can be drafted for
the Republican party platform
which would be acceptable both
to himself and to Senator Taft.
4. The general is extremely bit
ter about the whispering campaign
that he says has been directed
against himself and his wife,
Mamie.
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2 Miles Out Turner Road
K. of C. Elects
Lyle Dempewolf
Lyle F. Dempewolf was elected
grand knight of the Knights of
Columbus, Salem council, at elec
tions Tuesday night; succeeding
Roy G. Green.
Other officers elected include
Vernon Raschko, deputy grand
knight; Roy Marker, chancellor;
George Haley, warden; Wesley
Goodrichc, recording secretary;
Herman Eckerman, treasurer; Ben
Summers, inside guard; Arthur
Steimonts, outside guard; Robert
Schreiner, advocate, and Green,
trustee.
Elected to the building commit
tee were Carl Jungblut, M. J.
Raschko, and Richard Schmidt.
About 150 knights attended a din
ner before the meeting.
Potatoes Back
In Good Supply,
Survey Shows
NEW YORK (VThe big potato
shortage of 1952 has passed into
history.
An Associated Press survey
found spuds plentiful Tuesday In
markets from coast to coast. Prices
in many places had dropped as
much as one-third from the highs
reached soon after potato price
ceilings were suspended about two
weeks ago.
In New York, Chicago and sev
real other cities, wholesale prices
already were back at or near the
old ceilings. A nationwide retail
food chair was selling five pounds
of potatoes for 25 cents compared
with 45 cents last week-end and
its average ceiling of 33 cents. two
weeks ago.
Some dealers said the price cut
ting wasn't over yet. And an Agri
cultural Department market re
porter in New York predicted It
might be another week before
prices levelled off and became sta
ble. This view was not unanimous,
however.
"The excitement's over, there's
plenty of good potatoes for every
body and prices generally have
steadied at what you might call a
seasonally -normal level said Fred
H. Vahlsing Jr., of New York, one
of the nation's biggest produce
shippers.
State to Hire
Dietitian for
Institutions
Food served at all state Insti
tutions will be under the direction
of an expert dietitian as the re
sult of action taken by the state
board of control at a meeting here
Tuesday.
The board requested the State
Civil Service Commission to set
up a new classification for em
ployment of such an officer with
a salary sufficient to attract a top
flight dietitian.
Gov. Douglas McKay said the
State of Oregon is feeding ap
proximately 9,000 persons three
times daily in its state institutions
with no overall supervision of
diets.
"I am satisfied that we need a
dietitian through whose activities
the state probably would save a
substantial amount of money by
eliminating waste," Governor Mc
Kay averred.
Proposal for employment of a
dietitian was made by State Trea
surer Walter J. Pearson. He said
largely on discussions of food
his recommendation was based
practices with officials and em
ployes of the various institutions.
He also referred to products
raised on state-owned farms.
Dr. Irvin Hill, superintendent
of Fairview Home, said there was
no cost system in connection with
state farming operations at the
present time with the result that
he and other institution superin
tendents have no way to deter
mine the cost of operations. He
urged the board to approve feed
ing standards for inmates of all
institutions for budgetary pur
poses instead of using the present
dollars and cents method.
Dave Thompson, landscape ar
chitect, was employed to prepare
plans and specifications for land
scaping the extended mall area on
Summer Street between Cheme
keta and Center Streets. Plans for
the mall extension are being pre
pared by the State Highway De
partment and probably will be
completed by the time the city of
Salem adopts legal requirements.
It was estimated by Roy Mills,
Board of Control secretary, that
60 days would be required to com
plete the extension operations and
said the landscape architect shouldJ
be at work on plans for the land
scaping, t f
An allocation of $35,999 was
granted to Fairview Home which
with $125,000 already appropri
ated, plus $11,000 set aside in the
budget for a new root house,
would provide sufficient funds for
additions and alterations of the
kitchen and dining rooms at the
institution. The low bid for this
work was $174,000.
In the Ice Ages it is believed
that eight million square miles of
Europe and North America were
covered by deep deposits of ice.
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North Korean
POFs Flee
From Reds
KOJE ISLAND, Korea (-American
infantrymen cleared 5,200
North Korean prisoners of "war out
of a once-defiant compound Wed
nesday on this prison island.
During the move, at least 200
captives broke from the Red ranks
and declared themselves anti
Communists. The break for freedom from
harsh Red rule inside the pens
was made just outside of Com
pound 85 as the prisoners were be
ing marched for transfer into 500
man compounds.
The spot was dubbed "Decision
Corner" as soon as the breakup
of the compound began at 7 a.m.
there, the anti -Communists bolted
from their comrades in small
groups, in pairs and singly.
They ripped off their red-star-caps
and dashed them to the
ground in Koje's now familiar
anti - Communist gesture. Then
they threw up their hands and ran
to American guards who took them
off to a separate compound.
Steel-Making
For Defense
To Resume
WASHINGTON (-"Considerable
progress" toward getting
some steel mills back into opera
tion to meet critical defense needs
was reported Tuesday by the
White House.
The announcement came at a
time when some munitions mak
ers were saying they would have
to shut down this week for lack
of the metal cut off by the nation
wide strike.
John R. Steelman, assistant to
President Truman, made the prog
ress announcement and said it
may be possible by Wednesday to
give out a list of mills to be re
opened. Procedure already has been
agreed upon, Steelman said, to
move certain quantities of finish
ed steel out of plants and -warehouses
to the makers of military
items needed in Korea. He did not
give details but the relatively
small supplies of such steel have
been tied up behind picket lines
Union officials said, when the
strike began 15 days ago, that fhey
would cooperate in production of
steel needed to support the forces
fighting in Korea.
The plans for carrying out that
promise have been under study
by a government-union-management
committee. That group will
meet again Wednesday.
Chiropractic
Clinic Zone
Change Gains
(Story also on page 1)
Salem Planning and Zoning
Commission Tuesday night gave
tentative approval to a zone
change for establishing a chiro
practic clinic at 1515 State St.,
by Dr. J. A. Rombough. Public
hearing was set for July 15.
The zoners recommended after
a hearing last night that the City
Council approve another zone
change which would permit Miss
Mildred Christenson to erect a
duplex on Judson Street near
Mountain View Drive.
Two annexation petitions were
tabled for 30 days. These came
from Percy Pugh and M. T. Hav
erland, seeking to annex 8 acres
at Market Street and Evergreen
Avenue, and from J. W. Watkins,
seeking to annex a tract at Orch
ard Heights Road and Parkway
Drive.
Heirlooms
Put on Exhibit
Murray Wade, president of the
Marion County Historical Society,
has assembled a four-family col
lection of heirlooms in the lobby
of the First National Bank.
The collection, representing the
accumulation of articles from the
families of the Gilkeys, Hales,
Stevensons and Wades, has few
items less than 100 years old. In
cluded in the collection are such
items as a razor used in 1770; the
first telephone used in Salem and
built in 1879; a tin lantern that
Wade's grandfather brought
across the plains from Independ
ence, Mo, in 1844, and early style
trivets used by pioneer women.
Also in the colection are early
neckties, tobacco tags, button
hooks, and photographs of pioneer'
relatives of Wades.
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Will Reveals Paul Wallace's
Disappointment at Failure of
West Salem to
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(Story also on page 1)
Excerpts from the last will and testament of Paul B. Wallace re
veal disappointment that the city did not consider his offer of prop
erty at an earlier date to turn it into a picturesque park.
In the opening phrase of his will, he states that, "On August,
1945, I offered to the city of West Salem, IS lots on Edgewater Street
(now state property) and about 14
tending from the Lawrence Imlah
holdings to the corner where the
river turns West. This offer was
contingent upon the city acquiring
the river frontage owned by a
Mr. Lewis and Earl Burk. This
would have given West Salem a
park with a river frontage of over
a mile and would have given op
portunity for making an unique
and beautiful entrance to the
Capitol City."
Offer Not Considered
Wallace compared the planning
he had for this improvement with
Princess Street in Edinborough
and Michigan Avenue in Chicago,
111. He confessed that,
"The ecity never seriously con
sidered adopting this plan or ac
cepting my offer; but I am sure,
had the council had the vision,
the money spent In acquiring the
additional land would have been
returned ten times over in in
creased value to all the property
in West Salem.
The failure on the part of the
State of Oregon to adopt the plan
of locating the Capitol on the Wil
lamette Campus was to me a bit
ter disappointment only equalled
by the action of the Long Range
Planning Commission in repudiat
ing their adoption of Division
Street for the location of the new
bridge and agreeing to the Mar
ion Street site.
Bridre Ruins Park"
"The Marion Street bridge has
ruined one of Salems most beau
tiful parks (Marion Park) and
has given a raised roadway be
tween Edgewater Street ant the
river, ending in a mountain of
gravel which supports the tortu
ous and involved approach and
traffic separation structure and
which completely separates West
Salem from all view or use of our
beautiful Willamette." He stated
that, "It seems like exchanging
a Persian carpet for a congoleum
rug."
The land donated to the city
was intended to be an addition to
other holdings in the surrounding
area of the three bridges at the
west bank of the Willamette. The
totality of these holdings was to
have been a park for beautifying
the entranceway to the city. De
cisions were made by the Long
Range Planning Commission to
accept the placement of the new
bridge at Marion Street, thus
changing Wallace's intended plan.
Attorney for the Wallace estate
was E. L. Crawford and notary
public John F. Steelhammer.
St. Helens Store
Operators to Help
In Berry Fields
ST. HELENS (JP) St. Helens
merchants will ease the berry
picker shortage here by closing
their shops Wednesday noon.
Some 150 storekeepers will pick
berries the rest of the day in the
1,000 acres of fields which sur
round the city.
That will bring the picking force
to about 900, but 500 more pickers
are needed, Dorothy Cold well, sec
retary of the Chamber of Com
merce, reported.
Most other strawberry growing
areas in the state reported a short
age of pickers. The Gresham area,
however, reported an adequate la
bor supply.
Oregon Methodist
Conference Opens
PORTLAND (;p-The centennial
conference of Oregon Methodists
opened here Tuesday.
The Rev. Orval M. Whitman re
ported a net gain of 2214 members
since the 1951 conference.
Bishop Gerald Kennedy will
close the six-day conference Fri
day by reading a list of ministerial
appointments.
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Construction
Permit Filed
Building permits Tuesday at the
city engineers office included one
for $1,672,156 for construction of
the Marion County courthouse.
Also a permit for the construc
tion of Salem Memorial Medical
Center at 585 S. Winter St. was is
sued. The cost of the building was
estimated by the contractor, E. E.
Batterman of Salem, at $150,000.
A permit was issued to Ward
Hughes to reroof a house at 1945
Chemeketa, $50, and one to" M. C.
Brooks to erect a home at 465
Lorlda Ave., $10,000.
BAKERS END WALKOUT
TACOMA (JP) - Tacoma bakers
voted 67-39 Tuesday night to end
their 46-day strike after being of
fered a new contract that pro
vides 40 cents an hour premium
pay for Sunday work.
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Labor Political
Party Proposed
At AFL Meet
SEASIDE (JP)-A national labor
political party was proposed at the
Oregon Federation of Labor con
vention here Tuesday.
The proposal was in the form of
a resolution submitted by members
of the AFL Typographical Union
made up of Portland printers.
It said labor is getting no
where with the two major political
parties, which were called "instru
ments of big business." The reso
lution called the present two party
system "a farce" and said there
is little hope of repealing the Taft
Hartley Act, legislation strongly
opposed by labor because of its
restrictions.
The resolution was sent to com
mittee. A proposal by State Sen. Phil
Brady, delegate of Portland taxi
cab drivers, that the state build
an intermediate prison for young
offenders was endorsed by the
federation. Action was taken des
pite the statement by Brady that
convict labor has been used to
build prison cell blocks and that
there is a movement afoot to make
the penitentiary a factory.
Resolutions approved called for:
Higher limits on earnings under
social security.
Accident compensation for ap
prentices. Laws requiring all employers to
carry state accident insurance and
to require insurance coverage of
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Paul E. Gurske, chairman of the
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