1 The Stateeman, Salem, Oregon, Wdn day, Jury 16, 1952
Salem Skywatchers Lacking;
Other Posts Well-Staffed
"Operation Skywatch" is limping along in Salem but Im going full
blast in several other Marion County observation posts.
Despite pleas for volunteers, only a handful of Salem citizens have
responded to the call for men and women to watch the skies for hostile
aircraft in compliance with request from the Air Force.
Robert Geddes, Marion County coordinator for ground observer
Zoners Favor
Two Business
Area Changes
(Story also on Page 1.)
Proposed new commercial zones
on State and on Pine Streets re
ceived favorable action from Sa
lem Planning and Zoning Commis
sion Tuesday night at a meeting in
City HalL
Zoners recommended to the City
Council, after a hearing last night
at which no opposition developed,
that a restricted business zone be
created at 1515 State St. for chiro
practic and naturopathic clinic of
Dr. J. A. Rombough, provided the
outside sign be limited to 2 by 4
feet and give only his name and
profession.
Preliminary approval was given
and public hearing set for Aug. 19
on a request for change from
apartment to business zoning for a
large lot on the north side of Pine
Street near the Pacific Highway.
Petitioner is L. H. Periman. Pro
posed use of the property was not
mentioned.
Other zoning action last night:
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Moore ad
vised to appear in person regard
ing their request that the name
Gahlhar Road be changed to
Kingwood Drive one block. Most
zoners said the change did not
appear logical.
Recommended to the council
was a street name change from
Trancis Street to Prospect Place,
off Ben Vista Drive.
Preliminary approval was given
Luther Cook for a plat and road
dedication in West Salem between
Gehlhar Road and Forest Hills
Way.
Deed was recommended accept
ed from J. M. Taylor for exten
ion of Childs Avenue as a 40
foot street north from Sunnyview
Avenue.
In the absence of any zone
change proposal, commissioners
voted to back up the city engineer
ing department in preventing a
pread of business operations to a
residential zone adjacent to How
ser Bros, rent-a-tool business at
12th and Cross Streets. Neighbors
have complained that tool main
tenance is being performed on residential-zoned
property west of
the business building.
Truman Calls
Economy9 of
Funds False
WASHINGTON (JP) - President
Truman Tuesday signed a bill
lashing deeply into his budget re
quests for foreign aid and eco
nomic stablization. But he called
it "the falsest kind of economy."
The 1 1 billion dollar supplemen
tal appropriations bill cut his for
eign aid proposals by 25 per cent
and reduced funds for the stabili
zation agencies from the request
ed 193 million dollars to 60 mil
lion. The President called the reduc
tion in funds for the Point Four
program "short - sighted," espe
cially the reduction from 178 mil
lion dollars to 67 million for South
Asia, including India, Pakistan,
Burma and Indonesia.
"The cuts In our mutual secur
ity program have allegedly been
made in the name of economy,"
the President said. "To me, this
li the falsest kind of economy. I
m convinced that such cuts will
in the long run cost us much
more."
Taking sharp issue with the ac
tion of Congress in reducing his
request for civil defense appropri
ations "by more than 90 per cent,"
Truman said:
"This repeats the gross error of
the last two years by postponing
once again the construction of key
helters in our most vulnerable
cities and stockpiling of ade
quate medical and other supplies
to save and sustain life in case of
attack."
Harold Hastings,
Former Resident
Of Salem, Dies
Funeral services for Harold
Thomas Hastings, who died Sat
urday, will be held Thursday at
2 n m In th Vircnl T ( Inlrtnn
chapel.
Hastings, who spent most of his
life in Salem, had for the past
three years lived in Springfield.
He and his family were on a pic
nic and Hastings was swimming
when he suffered a heart attack.
He was dead upon arrival at
Eugene hospital
Born in Salem, Jan. 22, 1916,
Hastings moved with his wife and
children to Springfield around
1949 to take a job in a mill.
Survivors include the widow,
Sylvia of Springfield; a daughter,
Miriam, and son, Tommy Hastings,
both of Springfield; parents, Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Hastings of Salem;
sisters, Mrs. Hannah Gaughnour,
Salem; Mrs. June Barry, Florence;
Mrs. Eva Zwicker, Salem; Mrs.
Marjorie Morley, 'Salem; brother,
Norman C. Hastings, San Diego,
Calif.
Interment will be at Belcrest
Memorial Park.
PArs
PARCEL CHECK
Opening July 21st
IBS S. LIBERTY
corps, said only enougn voiuieers
were available in Salem to man
the observation post atop the Llve
sley Building until midnight.
In Woodburn, however, Chief
Observer Ralph Sebern said the
post there was being manned
round-the-clock. He said the post
is operating six four-hour shifts
daily with mostly women doing the
watching and with mostly one per
son to a shift.
A similar story came from Sil
verton, where farmers and towns
people have volunteered in suffi
cient numbers to watch on a 24
hour basis. Women watch during
the day and the men at night.
The observation post at Shaw is
not operating despite earlier "e
ports to the contrary. Lack of vol
unteers was given as the reason.
At Stayton, the Rev. Nick Neu
feld, defense coordinator, said he
had received no instructions to
man the observation post there.
"We are ready, though, if needed,"
he said.
No reports were available Tues
day from other county posts at
Aurora, Brooks, Mill City and Jef
ferson. Geddes said earlier this
week all these posts were in oper
ation. Ike Assures
Grass Roots
Cooperation
DENVER (JP)-Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, moving to rally grass
roots Republican campaign work
ers, called on them Tuesday night
to lead a fight for true world
peace and rejection of "the false
doctrine of Communism."
And the GOP presidential nomi
nee pledged to such workers that
all of them "are going to be an
integral part of this united effort,
this drive to total victory" in the
November elections.
Eisenhower made the promise
in a telegram to Rep. Edward H.
Jenison of Illinois on the occasion
of the opening of his re-election
campaign in Springfield, 111.
Eisenhower headquarters here
said the Jenison rally Tuesday
night amounted to a nation-wide
kickoff of the Republican drive to
capture control of Congress this
fall.
The general dispatched his mes
sage after deciding to leave here
Thursday for a relaxing week of
trout fishing at a secluded ranch
near Fraser, Colo. ,on the western
slope of the Continental Divide.
The message obviously was an
other move to allay any concern
of party workers that he might
by-pass regular party organiza
tions. Sparks Cited
As 4th Man
In Robbery
Three eye - witnesses Tuesday
put the finger on Everett Barton
Sparks, 25, in a Portland police
lineup as the fourth man in the
Chuck's Tavern holdup near Gates
June 26.
The fourth man in the crime
has been the object of a statewide
search since the three men origin
ally captured in the $200 holdup
insisted that there was another
involved.
Sparks, who got out of the peni
tentiary last May after serving a
bad check charge, was picked up
by Multnomah County police last
week for questioning. They found
on his person a newspaper clipping
of the Gates robbery. Washington
County authorities say they also
want Sparks on a forgery charge.
The other three men, Frank
Brewton, 19; Pete Graves, 31, and
Raymond Knight, 19, have been
sentenced to 10-year prison terms
for their part in the robbery.
UAL DROPS MERGER
CHICAGO (;P)-United Air Lines
announced Tuesday that "explora
tory" negotiations concerning the
possible acquisition of Capital
Airlines has been unsuccessful and
terminated.
This Coupon worth ONE MAN'S SPORT SHIRT
or a $2.00 CREDIT on och $15.00 purchas in
our store th rrTc of July 14 to and Including
July 19th.
KAY WOOLEII HILL STORE
260 S. 12th 2 Blocks So. ol Stat on 12th
Salem Man Loads 100,000th
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WITH 45th DIVISION IN KOREA Battery B, 160th Field Artillery
Battalion of the 45th Infantry Division, has fired its 100,000th round
of ammunition in Korea. Handing op the shell for firing is Sgt. Rob
ert L. Pendertraft, 5640 Qulnaby Rd.. Salem, Ore. Others pictured
are Pfc. A. R. Serna (ri;ht), Robstown, Tex and 1st Lt. J. J.
Wardle, BoUe. Idaho. (U.S. Army Photo.)
Last of Four
Escapees Back
For Sentence
The last of a foursome who es
caped from Marion County jail
May 6 was returned to custody
in Salem Tuesday following can
cellation of a Federal charge of
interstate transportation of a stol
en automobile.
Returned was Albert Louis Pur
ser, 34, of Oakridge, Ore. Purser,
who stole a Salem auto to make
his escape, had previously been in
dited March 28 on a charge of for
gery. Following his escape with three
other prisoners, Wilbam Frank
McCarty, Melvin Leedy and Ed
mund Paul Werner, Purser was
captured May 16 in Denver, Colo.,
by FBI agents. He was recently
returned to Kelley Butte jail in
Portland, where a Marion County
deputy sheriff received him Tues
day and brought him to Salem.
McCarthy and Leedy have been
sent to the State Penitentiary to
serve their sentences and Werner
is under observation at the State
Hospital.
Wreck Victim
Still Critical
A California teen-age girl, in
injured in an automobile accident
near Monmouth Monday, was re
ported by Providence Hospital in
Portland as still critical.
The girl, Mary Eades of San
Francisco, had been taken to
Providence for emergency treat
ment after a checkup following
the accident, in which Richard C.
Stoffal, 15, of Napa, Calif., was
killed instantly.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Stoffal, his
parents, who suffered leg frac
tures, lacerations and possible in
ternal injuries, were reported by
Salem Memorial Hospital as in
"fair" condition.
The four were injured when the
pickup in which they were riding
plunged off the highway
and
crashed into a tree.
JETS REACH JAPAN
YOKOTA, Japan (JPy Fifty-one
F-84 Thunder jets of the 31st Fight
er Escort Wing roared over Yoko
ta Air Force Base near Tokyo
Wednesday afternoon- completing
an historic trans-Pacific massed
flight.
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Mrs. Williams
Funeral Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Caro
line Munson Williams, who died at
her home Sunday, will be held to
day at 3 p.m. in the Howell-Edwards
Chapel.
Mrs. Williams came to Oregon In
the early 1900s with her parents.
They settled in Salem where the
stayed until her marriage o Wil
liam Wallace Williams. The couple
moved to Medford in 1913.
When her husband died In 1937,
Mrs. Williams returned to Salem,
where she had lived since.
Survivors include sisters, Mrs.
W. L. Davis of Salem, Mrs. Nina
Bressler of Monmouth; brothers,
Albert Munson of Imperial, Neb.,
John Munson, Caldwell, Ida., Alec
Munson, Salem; sons, Clarence W.
of Salem and Harold M. Williams
of Portland; two grandchildren.
The Rev. Donald Payne will of
ficiate. Concluding services will be
at City View Cemetery.
SPECIAL NOTICE jpg SPECIAL NOTICE
See the play by play KOCO broadcast of the Salem f " A fory representative for the Siegler Oil Heaters
Senators vs. Spokane Indians baseball game, with Gen "Til Q P T.7 J vviM b in our store Friday and Saturday, July 18 & 19.
Good, Sportscaster, Carl Ritchie and Bob Sewing, Sat- y 1 11 J JTei'Ae Y in and t tha farnou, Slegler Oil Heater demon-
urday night in our window. A real baseball atmo- f C I .ration
spherel Saturday, July 19, 8:30 P.M. I very night except stranon.
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U.S. Cancels
Red Magazine,
Suspends Own
WASHINGTON (AVThe United
States Tuesday ordered Russia to
cease publishing its magazine
"U. S. S. R. Information Bulletin"
and the lesser pamphlets put out
by the Soviet embassy for Ameri
can readers.
The State Departmet at the
same time suspended its Russian
language illustrated magazine,
"Amerika."
Pointing up the retaliatory aim
of the stop order on Russian pub
lishing here, a crisp note told
Moscow that Russia was to blame
for the closing of a last remaining
chink in the Iron Curtain.
For more than three years, re
gardless of agreements dating
back to wartime 1944, and a dozen
official U. S. protests, the State
Department said that the Krem
lin had placed so much "obstruc
tion" in the circulation of "Ameri
ka" that its sales dropped from
50,000 to 13,000 a month.
The principal one of the sus
pended Soviet publications has
been put out monthly by the em
bassy for the past six years with
the avowed aim of telling America
about life in Communist Russia.
It was credited by officials with
a circulation of some 15,000.
Unlike "Amerika," the bulletin
was uncensored and published
laudatory articles on Soviet poli
cies, whereas the American maga
zine had to stick to non-political
discussions of life in the U. S.
The suspension of "Amerika"
left the "Voice of America" radio
as the sole remaining U. S. of
ficial link with the Soviet man-in-the-street.
Russia for years has
been trying to silence the Voice
by jamming.
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GRANGER PARKER
LEIGH-
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Kefauver Thinks
Ike Easier Fight
WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Estes
Kefauver says he is inclined to
think Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
would have made a more formid
able Republican candidate for
President than Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
The Tennessean. who will leave
Wednesday for Chicago to direct
the final stages of his own cam
paign for the Democratic presi
dential nomination, told reporters
he had found many Republicans
"lukewarm" toward Eisenhower as
the GOP standard bearer.
Former Salem
Soldier Dies
Word has been received of the
death of Erroll G. Wright Jr.. in
Chitose, Japan, where he was on
Army duty after four months in
Korea.
The soldier, a former resident of
Salem, had been in the army since
February, 1951. He was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Erroll G. Wright
of Astoria.
Survivors include brothers Nor
man and Donald; sisters, Patricia
Ann, Carole and Eileen; grand
mother, Mrs. Mae Wright, all of
Astoria.
Services will be in Willamette
National Cemetery at Portland at
1 p.m. Thursday.
HELICOPTERS FLY LOW
PRESQUE ISLE, Me. W-Two
big helicopters which flew so
low crewmen said they could see
women on bathing beaches en
route completed the initial leg
Tuesday of the first attempted
helicopter flight to Europe.
Open 6:45 P. M.
Now! And Will Show
Thru Thursday!
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Summer Street
Moving Bids
Granted Okeli
The Oregon State Board of Con
trol at a meeting in the Capitol
Tuesday approved a low bid of
Warren Northwest, Inc., of $39,970,
for relocation of Summer Street
between Chemeketa and Center
Streets.
This is planned as an extension
of the Capitol Mall. Salem City
Council voted vacation of the
street Monday night.
The extension will be carried
out under supervision of the State
Highway Department.
A request from Burt Brown
Barker, chairman of the Oregon
Statuary Committee, asking for a
location for replicas of two statues
on the capitol grounds, was re
ferred to the State Capitol Plan
ning Commission.
The replicas are of Dr. John
McLoughhn and the Rev. Jason
Lee. Original statues are being
placed In the national Capitol at
Washington, D. C.
Since 1800 West Virginia has
produced five billion tons of coal.
Continuous
James Stewart
"CARBINE
WILLIAMS"
Johnny Sheffield
"AFRICAN
TREASURE-
Continuous
Dan Dalley
"PRIDE OF
ST. LOUIS"
Van Johnson
"WHEN IN ROME"
Open 6:45 pjn.
Gene Tlerney
Dana Andrews
"LAURA"
Linda Darnell
"GREAT JOHN L."
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Bandsman
Frankle Carle, nible-flnrer mae
tre of the piano, will bring kls
band to Salem next Thursday
nlxht for an appearance at the
Crystal Gardens Ballroom.
ATR -CONDITIONED
Starts Today Open C:4S
GUnn Ruth
FORD ROM AH
Denise DARCEL
YOUHQhlANwm IDEAS
Technicolor Co-Fern tore
"Flaming Feather"
Sterling Hayden,
Arleen Whelan
Gates Open 7
Show at Dusk
Starts ToniU (Wed.)
Lb Technicolor
"MUTINY"
Mark Stevens
Plus
"FIVE FINGERS"
James Masoa
Summer Is Hera
And All Enjoy
The Drive-In
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