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. 2 The Statesman, Salem.? Orew Salem School -Teacl ring Staff Nearly Filled (Story also on Page 1) Teaching staff for Salem public schools which reopen next month Is all but filled. Superintendent Frank B. Bennett told the school board Tuesday night The board authorized the offer r of teaching jobs to five candidates recommended by Bennett If these n h staff will be comoiete. Staff actions taken by the board included hiring Jay T. Rorick, Burns teacher, as a social studies teacher at Salem High; accepting resignations of Mrs. Joan Lynch, Prinele teacher, and Mrs. Rose Harrington, recently hired as a . new teacher for this coming year, Also approved by the board was admittance of Mrs. Gladys Wil liams, Englewood teacher, to reg ular tenure after completion ox her three year's probation. ' Bleachers Approved The board approved the pur chase of movable bleachers for the ends of Salem High gymnasium from S. E. Williams Co., Burien, Wash, at $4,608. These "Wayne bleachers would seat 346. Several bids ranging to over $6,000 were studied. Also authorized was renewal of a lease for use of Waters Field for football games, at $800 a year for three years. The lease will be arranged with saiem senators Baseball Club. It was decided to recap some old bus tires with sawdust tread for trial use during slippery weather this winter, American Sunday School Union was permitted to again rent Middle Grove School for Sunday use in the coming year. A request from Jehovah's Wit nesses for use of the cafeteria and auditorium facilities of Salem High Oct. 17-19 was approved, provided rental of $375 fee paid and a school cafeteria supervisor be kept in charge of the cafeteria. The group expects 2,000 for the regional meeting. Wire Screening Emergency fund appropriation was approved for providing heavy wire screening outside west win dows of the high school gym where glass brick has been broken, fre quently by stones thrown from the vicinity of the nearby rail' road tracks. The superintendent was in structed .to confer with: Mark Astrup. chairman of the new Sa lem Public Parks Advisory Board, relative to planning for. landscap ing of such school-owned areas as the playground on Baker Street. Board and administration mem bers ateo will study other land scapinng for new schools. One point of study will be the proposed use of shrubbery and other plant ings which may be salvaged from i the site of the new South Salem High School. V The board met last night at the home of Gardner Knapp,; chair- znan. xne ousiness session ioiiowed a dessert at which wives of the members joined in the party. I SENTENCED TO PRISON ROSEBURG (avCircuit: Judge Carl E. Wimberly sentenced James David Church, 22, Myrtle Creek, to 20 years in the state penitenti ary Tuesday on a rape charge. It is the maximum sentence. Church pleaded guilty to the charge, in volving a nine-year-old girLi Executive Board Plans Chest Drive i. I The Marion County Community Chest executive board met Tues day evening to discuss plans for the Chest drive which opens in September. i .Vice presidents of county areas made reports on the progress of drive activities, and what still will be needed. There was also discus sion of the budgets for; Chest agencies. . j $4 IN PLANE CRASH ! I IUO DE JANEIRO, Brazil The Meridional News Agency re ported Tuesday night 24 persons were killed when a plane belong tag to the Viacao Aerea Brazil crashed near Palmeira. Details were scanty. " V-' Italian in Iran to Talk ofOil Deal) TEHRAN, Iran W-Count Ettore Delia Zonca, head of an Italian oil company, conferred with Pre mier Mohammed Mossadegh Tues day and was reported to have dis cussed the purchase of Iranian oil which this near-bankrupt nation "!! anxious to sell. Tehran newspapers said two representatives of a French oil company had also arrived to begin similar negotiations. ; TO INSPECT AIR BASES CASABLANCA (JP) Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, U. S. Army chief of - engineers, arrived Tuesday to In spect U. S. air bases in French Morocco - ! - Wednesday. Augurt 13. 1952 AFL Drive Seeks Vi T-H Act Changes V ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. OP) Leaders of the American Federa tion of Labor Tuesday decided their drive to get a new labor law should inclhde a united effort to get the Taft-Hartley law amended. AFL President William Green said the executive council for the eight-million . member union had assigned to its Taft-Hartley Com mittee the job of unifying attempts to get amendments through Con gress. Green said this will not divert AFL efforts from their main goal a completely new labor law. Doctors to Get Draft Forms WASHINGTON CP Pentagon officials say draft questionnaires are gomg out to all male doctors under the age of 50 who have no prior military service. They are estimated to number zz.ooo. The officials said the first of dentists under this Priority III classification are expected to be called up before the end of this year and physicians by next March" or April. Up to now the armed forces' needs have been met by Priority I and II doctors. They either were educated at government expense or were deferred from military service during world war two to attend medical or dental schools. Egypt Forms Boards to Clear Corruption JL CAIRO WVThe Egyptian cabi net Tuesday night set up seven committees with sweeping powers to clear up corruption in public to CJear up corruption in puouc office dating back to 1939 in the reign ol the abdicated King Fa- rOUk. Previous edicts of the reform government mopping up after King Farouk had provided prose-1 cuuon and punishment only for wrong-doers in the present and future. The drastic new action followed by only a few hours a cabinet de cision in principle to restrict land ownership. It added momentum to the reforms projected by Premier Aly Ma her and the strongman commander in chief. Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib. The purge committees were civ- en extraordinary powers to arrest any person alleged to have parti cipated in widespread grafting. They were given power to en force all administrative penalties. including dismissal from office, compulsory retirement, demotion and tne nung of criminal charges. STEVENSON'S SUCCESSOR SPRINGFIELD. 111. Oft- Lt. uov. snerwooct Dixon was picked Tuesday as Gov. Adlai Steven son's successor to head the Illi nois Democratic ticket in the Nov. 4 election. Medical Examiners to Hold Test Here Oct. 10 i PORTLAND The Oregon State Board of Medical Examiners will meet here Oct. 10 and 11 to Inter view candidates for licenses in Oregon, and the next written ex aminations will be held in Janu ary, it was announced Tuesday. Sixty-six licenses for physicians and surgeons, granted at the last meeting, Included those for Drs. Edwin F. Snider ; and George C Squire, Salem; Leonard B. Han son, McMinnville; Gerald R. Clark and William J. Pyrch, Oregon City and Hans G. E. Nelson. Corvallis. 1 W)ooclrof6. 9 e 6 SAN SHOP FRENCH FRIED SHRIMP 95c BLOSSOMS GLORIOUS BLOOMS ' WIU BE EXHIBITED AT NEHALEM FLOWER SHOW AUGUST 16-17 at Legion Hall " at Nehalem, Ore. COAST BLOSSOMS ARI AT PERFECTION AND THI SHOWING WILL BE FROM OUTSTANDING LOCAL GROWERS YOU ARE WELCOME it'C a coce cunur rate At Forecasts Of Inflation WASHINGTON (JP Secretary of Commerce Sawyer Tuesday crit icized -guesswork" forecasts of in flation. He announced a forthcom ing , survey to obtain "facts" on how the steel strike settlement is affecting prices. Sawyers statement was aimed obviously at retiring OPS Director Ellis ArnalL without mentioning him by name. Arnell has predict ed the steel price increase' will cost the average family $100 a year. In evident reply to this and to ArnelTs assertion that the drought will have "disastrous' effects on the stabilization program. Sawyer "btatements predicting the in crease or inflationary ! pressures which are not based upon facts render a great disservice to the American people." ; Few Increases The secretary released reports from all commerce department re gional offices, indicating that in general there have been "no wide spread price increases as a result of the drought" "I plan to make a similar In quiry of the effect of the recent steel settlement upon our econo my." Sawyer said. "Here again It 'Is important to make sure that facts rather than fancy are presented to the Ameri can people." i Public's Fear Sawyer said one of the Import' ant factors generating inflation Is the public's fear that prices will go up. He cited the "alarming evi dence of this In scare buying" im mediately following the Korean In vasion. It was learned that Sawyer al ready has been In touch with lead ers in xne steel and consumer goods industries, who advised him that only a small part of the 5.65 a ton average steel price Increase will be passed on to consumers in price mark-ups on consumer goods n rj C7. Ike Says MevenSOIl T K-j tn TV,, w DENVER (&) Gen Dwlght D Eisenhower said Tuesday the meeting of Gov. Adlai Stevenson or Illinois witn resident Truman': I cabinet means the Democratic presidential nominee "is subservi ent to the political forces which have too long been In j power In our country." ; j Continuous Maureen 0Hara In Technicolor - "KANGAROO ' ' j Ann Sheridan - In Technicolor "STEEL TOWN" Open 6:45 F. M.e Tale of India! In Technicolor "THE RIVER" j Pat O'Brien "OKINAWA" Sawyer 1 HBaW eW i . iu.!BERMAn reports "yf the mat in mtty tvice the mileage Woman Linked To Theft From West! Salem Store About $46 disappeared some place in the vicinity of Marion Square Tuesday evening, believed disposed there by a young woman who state police said admitted taking the money from the Puma- lite Block and Supply Co. in West Salem earlier. The loss was reported to state police by L. F. Sheridan, manager, when he noticed cash missing from his' register shortly after the wom an had left his store. He told po lice she apparently took, the money while he was In the back of the building filling an order. He reported I the license number of her car to police, who traced her. Police said the woman admitted throwing the money out of her car as she drove towards Brooks. The money could not be found when city and state police search ed the area later. I Police said Sheridan would sign a complaint for petty larceny against the woman today. Russians Protest Baltic Maneuvers MOSCOW (-Nearly all Soviet newspapers Tuesday; published a report that NATC powers plan maneuvers in the Baltic next month. They said these "const! tute hostile activity In relation to the Soviet Union." The papers said Sweden, which Is not a member of NATO, plans to hold maneuvers in the Baltic at the same time and "if they do not change the place or time of the maneuvers, this action can lead to a deterioration in rela tions between the Soviet Union and Sweden." -AIR-CONDITIONED . Starts Today .Open 6:45 Thel'ILDL'OfiTII rMOTOOMTHK M ' NfwANSCO2r ST EWARTWAmWENDEU. GRANGER-COREY Comedy Co-Feature "GOBS AND GALS" with George and Bert Bernard 2-7C23 Gates Open T Show At Dusk Starts Tonite Wed.) Double-Barrel Action "SAN FRANCISCO STORY! Joel McCrea Pins "MARA MAW Errol Flynn ! Rath Roman 2 (R Ss h . -.. . .... tr : Most of us measure engizw wear by furing the miles sinc8 the overhaul but a mechflnic figures it with a micrometer.1 A mechanic at Timber Products Co.. Medford, Ore., checked the wear records of four engines. Three averaeed .018? wear in 75,000 miles. The fourth, using Heavy Duty "RPM," showed only half the wear in 130,000 miles nearly twice the mileage. Timber Products Co. says, M tRPM cut wear to the point where it more than doubled engine life." Reduce your repair bills! Change to Heavy Duty 'RPM." EdenSpeeds Marriage Date LONDON (-Britain's I dapper foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, 55, and pretty Clarissa Churchill, 32, orphaned niece of the prime minister, will marry in a regis trar's office , Thursday after a three-day engagement, The once-divorced Eden, who described himself as the "happiest man in London," got an extra-cost special marriage license Tuesday to speed things up. Ordinarily, a three-week s waiting period is re quired. I . Si - Registrar James Doomsday Holliday will unite the aristocratic born couple at his Caxton Hall office in formalities which usually take only five minutes. I Later, the couple will fly to Por tugal fora brief honeymoon. STRIKE BAN LIFTED CHICAGO W)-Off icials of the CIO United Packinghouse Work ers Union Tuesday night withdrew a request to members that they stay on the Job at Armour and Co. Packing plants. Contract disputes have closed five , Armour : plants and curtailed operations at two otners. i ; STARTS TODAY! THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS ..THE DARLING OF J , SWANK NOB ! YVONNE De CARLO m RICHARD DENNtNO HENRY OWBU CO-HI Jl STORY OF AN UN-KISSED BRIDEI L0 I ! s ;pv -;- yy: . : , ' k- . ' . ' ' ' ' . v '. . V - :' .'J v- ' Lights Dimmed at Manbrin Gardens A burnt out 11,000 volt feeder line , fell to the ground ;. Tuesday evening, dimmed lights in the Manbrin Gardens area, north of Salem for about 30 minutes. Portland General Electric offi cials said ;' the feeder line ran through a tree on River Road south of Bever Drive. It started a small grass fire when it fell, which was quickly quelled. j PGE crews bypassed j the line until it could be repaired and pow er restored over it. , Steel Production Drop Chronicled NEW YORK (iSVThe steel strike caused production of steel in the first seven months of this year to drop to 46,637,256 net tons, a de cline of 14,351,224 tons from the same period last year, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. ; , j The overall decline istn con trast to the gain of more than Ihi million tons in steel production in the first three months of the year, against the first quarter of 1951. OPEN 6:45 P.M. v DIVES f HILL! , ROCK HUDSON 1 T AUMfftttUNTtMAIION " "ifcll S. 7 - , t - i. . ' ' Gentzko w Hits SilsoxtoWin SILVERTON . (Special) A pair of tremendous homers over the center field wall by Outfielder Dick Gentzkow Tuesday night carried tne SUverton Red Sox to a 9-5 victory over Salem News Agency in second-half action in the State' League. Gentzkow's blows, only the fourth and fifth in history to sail over the 355-foot center field at McGinnls Field, came in the third and sixth innings and . each time one mate was aboard. The Newsmen collected their five runs in the fifth, with Bob Funk's triple knocking in two. Silverton 112 002 1209 9 0 Salem 00 050 000 5 5 5 iSandgren, Flager (5) and Roth; Funk, Holt (7) and Jones. Matinee Dally From 1 P. M. . STARTS TOMORROW! It Makes th Sun Shine In Your Heart! . . . A Love . . . A Song . . A Town That Grew Up With Amerieal m sZzi " in j ' Technicolor DAVID JEAN HUGH WAYNE PETEPS MA&LOWE CO-HIT! LEGEND '-Jr WILDCAT erniwisn COLOR CARTOON a 23rd TRAFFIC DEATH - - " PORTLAND (-Multnomah County counted its 23rd traffic fa-; tality of the year early Tuesday with the death of Junior Roy Fer tig, 26, Portland. He was killed when his motorcycle ran out of ; control and smashed into a power : pole. lAJooJroffe'd SAN SHOP SPECIAL Wednesday, August 13 Turkey Ala King Mashed Potatoes, Cole Slaw and Butter , , ,;, 65c Cnds Today! (Wed.) HIGH NOON" and "Jangle Jim In Forbidden Land" OF THE OLD WISTI mmtxt AIRMAIL NEWS 9 wm We falb better care ofyour car