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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1952)
1 Th Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday; August 19, 1952 Sun Provides Canada Fires VANCOUVER, B.O, (JPhA blaz ing sun Monday sent shimmering heat waves drifting up from 40,000 to 60,000 acres of timberland blackened by tthe Burns Lake fire in north-central British Columbia as firefightef s tried to stem the 45 square acre inferno. They , ot no help from the sky. , The weatherman predicted con tinued clear skies. There has not been a heavy rainfall in the prov ince for 26 days. Cooler weather helped the 100 men on the fireline halt the huge Kiims i jikp lire uu iu wcow futvi south flanks but it was still eating east and north. The new estimate on the extent f the 10-dav-old fire, started by single bolt of lightning, came from the provincial forest service ai Victoria. The previous high esti mate was X5.000 acres. It was by far the biggest forest fire m British Columbia in nearly Hvari Th worst last vear was the 35,000-acre fire near Campbell River on Vancouver xsiana. , Altogether, 1,253- men were fiahtinv 137 fires throughout the province. This was 200 men and 12 fires less than on Friday. No communities were in immed iate danger from any of the Ores, Court Blocks Astoria Pickets ASTORIA (fl- A court order Stimulus for . Monday stopped the Columbia River fishermen from picketing the big Columbia River Packers Association cannery. The union, which is on strike for higher fish prices, then posted pickets at several other plants, previously ignored. The - CRPA obtained a tempo rarv order nffainst nirketinff from circuit court. Its suit also asks $50,000 damages. The CRPA said cannery workers refused to cross the picket lines and fish inside the plant spoiled. . The suit also asks $5,000 dam rages a day, dating from Aug. 1 . :i ai l j i : ik.i uiiui me tuuii ueierumies mai damages cease. Eugene Drops Mill Gty, 6-5 MILL CITY -(Special)-Miu City, host team for the state soft ball tournament here, was drop ped from the undefeated class Monday nght when Eugene scored two runs on a wild pitch in the tory. Two walks by Davidson, who went all the way for the losers, set , , up the seventh inning debacle. Eu gene's Willis gave up only three bits but four team errors behind him helped Mill City to an early lead. The losers scored three times in the first inning and twice in the third only to see the lead go in the wild finale. Mill City meets the winner of the Salem -Corvallis mix tonight while Eugene enjoys a day off. Mill City 302 000 0 5 S I Eugene . 010 300 2 6 S 4 Davidson and Carey; Willis and Walker, Moore (3). Woodburn Pair Hurt in Wreck Statermaa News Serrle WOODBURN Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams of Woodburn Route 1 were taken to Salem Memorial Hospital Monday evening after an auto accident overturned their pickup on Highway 99-E in Wood burn. The Williams were driving with their 12-year-old granddaughter when the collision occurred. The girl was unhurt. The other car in volved was driven by Coast Guardsman Harry Lee Ortner of Downey, Calif. Salem Memorial reported that the elderly Williams were -in a "good condition, but that Mrs. Williams was suffering an emo tional upset as well as being badly Druisea. TRUCE RECESS CONTINUES MUNSAN W-The Korean arm istice talks went into their fourth straight week of recess at the sug gestion of the United Nations Mon day after a plenary meeting of one beur at Panmunjom. 1A)oodroe9& SAN SHOP FRENCH FRIED SHRIMP 95c Tonight! W. L League Class "A- BASEBALL SALEM SENATORS VANCOUVER Waters Park. 8:15 P. M. Father Jailed as Boy Tortured for Taking Cookie SAN LEANDRO. Calif. ufl The 51-year-old father of five children was jailed Monday after his 11-year-old son tearfully told police his father held his hand against a red hot stove, then poured salt on the burned flesh all because he took a cookie from the kitchen. Alec Louis, an unemployed weld er, was held for investigation of child neglect Police Captain Steve Lagomarsino said Louis admitted he burned the hand of his son, Jo seph, because the boy had "mis behaved." Doctors said plastic surgery might be needed to restore the boy's hand. Clues Slim in Kaiser Boat Sabotage Case TAHOE CITY. Calif l . Police uncovered a few slim leads Mon day but indicated it may be a long Job finding the person or persons who sabotaged two of Henry Kai ser's speedboats in what the -industrialist said was an attempt on his life. Tahoe City Constable Harry Jo hannson, in charge of the case, said he and Placer County Deputy Sheriffs William Scott and H. C Bretschneider "developed a few tiny leads that are taking a lot of leg work" in an all-day examina tion of Kaiser's summer home boat house near here. The sabotage was discovered Sunday just before Kaiser was to drive one of the boats in races on Lake Tahoe. Canada to End Battle Against Cattle Disease OTTAWA UT Canada's six months fight against foot-and-mouth disease will officially end Tues day. Experts estimate the econo mic damage from the outbreak may run between 50 and 100 mil lion dollars. All restrictions imposed as a re sult of the outbreak will end im mediately. The announcement, however, will not restore the big United States market for Canadian livestock and meats, barred to Canadian cattle since last Feb. 25. When the American market will be reopened is a question which no Canadian official appears able to -answer. v APARTMENT SET ABLAZE An apartment at 892 N. Winter St caught fire Monday afternoon when a youngster get i a lighted candle too close to curtains at the window. Damage was ; listed as scorched wallpaper and a section of molding around the window, The apartment house Is owned by uuver uoraon. if i. WAFFLES With Hot Maple Syrvp and Whipt Butter EVERY DAY Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner N 2-7CT3 GATES OPEN T Show at Dusk Ends Tonight (Tues.) In Technicolor "BELLES ON THEIR TOES Myrna Lor Jeanne Crala - Plus - THE RACKET" Beb Mitchnm Lixabeth Scott " AIR-CONDITIONED" ;i,uvrftt.in Ends Today Open 6:45 "TEN TALXi MEN" "HAVANA ROSE" - STARTS TOMORROW -DORIS GORDON DAY MACRAE v,1 Moonlight Bay8"!" - CO-FEATURE - Spm-Stcoai AJrtatwnsI U 1 -X I I lfll - j V7 " irusieu uumaii Faces Charge Of Emb ezzling. DIERKS," Ark. (P)-Word that 49-year-old woman whom everybody trusted" was arrested Monday for embezzlement of near ly $73,000 in bank funds stunned the 1,300 residents of tthis south western Arkansas town. Mrs. Opal Simmington, assistant cashier of the Bank of Dierks for 32 years, was arraigned, before U. S. Commissioner Elmer Tackett at Hot Springs, Ark- on a federal charge of making false entries. She was released on $7,500 bond. A shortage of $72,000 was first discovered in her books by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ex aminers on Aug. ll. Described as an attractive brun ette with "dark eyes, neat and conservative in her habits," Mrs. Simmington also was the city treasurer of Dierks. No one "had any idea" what she did with the funds she is ac cused of embezzling. U.S. Stockpile At m Billion WASHINGTON The na tional stockpile of critical and stra tegic materials was valued at $3, 565,390,655 at the end of June, the Munitions Board announced Tues day. In addition, $1,918,964,446 worth of. materials were under contract for delivery to the stock pile. The stockpiling plans call for accumulating $7,753,093,836 worth of materials. The Board reported that some previously scarce materials are now in more plentiful supply. They include antimony, cadmium. lead, zinc and rubber. Still in tight supply are copper. aluminum, and nickel. GAR Veteran 106 Years Old VAN NUYS. Calif. (-William Allen Magee, who sounded reveille for Gen. Sherman's troops on their historic march through Georgia, celebrates his 106th birthday Tues day. confident that the United States is invincible. The peppery old warrior fought Indians, chased Jesse James and Pancho Villa and campaigned in the Spanish American war during an Army carreer of 34 years. He thinks he knows a little about fighting. Open 6:45 P. M. TOIIORROW! Salen Will Jump With Joy! . . . Ai those .Wild, Wacky Para-Droopers! V x"" You'll roar ot f UncU Sam's ' ' -f fwo happltt " V I ntphwt V C V ( ' , ' J c jx j ...thty'r $ CO-FEATUREI False Report of Burst Reservoir Spreads Panic LYNMOUTH. Eng. WVA false report that a huge reservoir had burst and 15 million gallons of water was pouring down spread prmlc in this flood-stricken area Sunday night. Police, who were also taken in. helped spread terror by driving through village streets urging res idents to flee. Valley residents who had seen 41 persons drowned over the week end in England's most disastrous floods for a cen tury, obeyed. An hour later police learned tne report was a phoney. Thirteen bodies of victims al ready had been recovered after Army engineers blasted and bull dozed their way through boulders, wrecked houses and uprooted trees. Car Prices to Rise Slielitlv WASHINGTON (P)-The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) clear ed the way Monday for slight in creases in retail ceilings on new automobiles by authorizing dealers to calculate their own top level prices. OPS issued an order abandon ing uniform dollars-and-cents ceil ings on new cars sold to the pub lic. Instead dealers will be per mitted to apply their own margins to their factory costs. OPS officials- predicted the change will mean about a one per cent boost in the new car retail ceilings. Strike Closes Rubber Plants AKRON, O. CflVB. F. Goodrich Co. plants in nine cities were hit by a strike of CIO United Rubber Workers Monday while negotia tions for a new contract went in to the eleventh week. Picketing was quiet. At the larger plants it started with hun dreds of workers and then dwin died to a relative handful. Goodrich, fourth largest rubber company in the nation, has 30 plants, but the others involve chemicals and aircraft, whose workers are represented by other unions. The Goodrich strike came as the " major tire concerns found themselves with ample inventor ies. Trade statistics compiled at the end of June showed manufac turers' inventories included more than 10,000,000 passenger tires and more than 3.000.000 true tires. For passenger tires, this was about four times the supply of a year earlier. Ends Today! (Toe.) "Paula" and Captain Pirate" UmUU 'Dead9 Snake9 s Bite Kills Man TALCO. Tex. UPV-A snake he thought he had killed bit Bryant Mcieuon bunday and he died at midnight. ' McLellon. 52. threw the water moccasin out of Whiteoak Creek, wnere ne and a party of men from the East Texas town were netting. Later, McLellon lay down on the bank to rest. The moccasin bit him three times in the right aide. Stolen Auto Demolished Statesman Nawa Service WOODBURN A car stolen Sat urday night from Woodburn was found by state police Sunday night near Halsey, completely demol ished, it was reported here Mon day. The 1939 car. owner! Yrr Mn John Kraemer, Woodburn Route 1, was taken from the Birdseye Can nery here, where it was parked with the keys in it. Police thought the theft might be connected with tne Saturday night escape of two boys from MacLaren School for Boys. Police said the car had been rolled over into a ditch near Hal sey. aDDarentlv bv intention, since there was no indication of Inlurv to its missing occupants. The car was not insured. THREE BOYS ESCAPE Three teen-asera were rennrtml Dy state Police to have escaped Monday from the Mac Laren School for Bovs at WnnHhum Tnrn Portland youths, Lynn McConnell, id, ana uuane secrest, 15, escaped from the home in company with Robert Klum, 15, of Mulino. MULTNOMAH FAIR OPENS G RES HAM UPUThe Multnomah County Fair opened its seven-day snowing Monday with judging centered on 4-H club livestock and textiles. A new feature this year is a Harden house, reflecting the increased interest In landscap ing and outdoor living areas. Continuous Donald O'Connor "Francis Goes To West Point Lizabeth Scott "Stolen Face" I Mat .Daily From 1F.M. ; ENDS TODAY! "Scaramonche" and "Meet Danny Wilson" Toiionnowi r At Those Grand Prices! trn N?Kvs f 'CDDDITJE QiBHSEJg Co-Feature! fL art GmJkm. Open 6:45 P. M. ENDS TODAY! "The River"and Okinawa" , Toiionnowi At Kegnlar Prices! JOHM WAYKE U3NTGC tun j GrmizsT 1 S I I I i j L'ERTlUJ ITIUULJLL,,.,! irTrirrPf7i Oregon School Children Tops j As Dime Givers PORTLAND WVOreeon's school children gave more than those of any other state to the 1952 March of Dimes, E. T. Hedlund, state di rector, said Monday. Their ave rage was 25 cents each for a total gift of $42,000. Gilliam County givers put that county at the top of others for all contributors in Oregon with a 99 cent average. Grant County was second at 76 cents, Sherman and Lane tied for third at 71 cents and Douglas followed at 66 cents. Oregon was fourth in the coun try for state-wide per capita and the total it raised $640,000 was greater than the combined total of tne three states whose per capita contribution was greater. Those three states were Wyoming, Neva da and Idaho, Hedlund said. 322 Jailed in South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa tPV-South Africa lailed 322 more persons Monday accused of violating segregation laws. Arrested were 205 at Port Eliz abeth, 87 at Grahams town and 30 at Uitenhage. Arrests in Port Elizabeth since a civil disobedi ence campaign against Primer Minister Daniel F. Malan's segre gation (apartheidt) program started two months ago now total more than 1,000. A leading spokesman for the civil disobedience campaign said the campaign is part of a two year clan and that it will be in tensified. We Proudly Announce the Original MERCHANTS lTirsisiyiir Clhes SO Jade Room Beauty Salon Styled ladies haircut or a Fingerwave. Burright's Cleaners Cleaning of a man's suit or ladles' plain dress. Yeager Portrait Studio An 8x1 0'Portrait of any member of the family. 99E Hi-Way Service Co. A complete grease job for the family car. Salem Surplus Store 3 White Handkerchiefs. Yeager Portrait Studio 4 8x10 Baby Portraits. Carlyns Jewelers A watch strap or crystal for any man's watch or a regular non-breakable crystal for any ladies watch. MERLE NORMAN A complete demonstration and advisement for you upon presentation of your coupon. 3.50 The above merchants state frankly that they want your future business and sincerely believe that If they start the ball rolling by each giving you some FREE service they will win your confidence and merit your future business. These services come to you in the form of the "MERCHANTS' TREASURE CHEST" COUPON BOOK which will be sent to your home C. O. D. j , - - METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION ! , , a v Each day a group of names will be selected from the telephone book and the numbers called by our courteous operators. If your name is called, and you would like a "Treasure Chest, simply give our operator your name and address and one will be sent to your home C. O. D. Merchant's Treasure Chesf -231 Ho. liberty - Phone 4-5922 This special offer is sponsored exclusively and cooperatively by the Salem business firms whose names appear in this advertisement. Parents Jailed After Return From Tavern PORTLAND tpY The parents of four children and the mother of three others were jailed early Monday when they returned from a tavern. The children tiad been found unattended at home. Six of the children were taken to Isolation Hospital, possibly with measles, and the seventh, an in fant, was taken to a baby home. Howard Moran, S3, and his wife Colleen, 26, were sentenced to 30 days in jail for disorderly con- duet. Mrs. Billie Kennedy, 27, who said she didn't know where her husband was, was sentenced to 10 days. All also face charges of causing dependency of children. OIL WELL OFF JAPAN TOKYO (JP) - The Newspaper Asahi reported Tuesday drillers struck oil Sunday from a sea-bot torn area near Akita Prefecture in Northwestern Japan. It is Ja pan's first off-shore oU welL lAJoodroe'd SAN SHOP SPECIAL Tuesday, Aug. 19 Virginia Baked Ham Hot Dinner Sandwich Mashed Potatoes and Pan Oravy A?r Cranberry Sauce . wv V FOR THE FIRST TIME IN IN FUN, MERCHANDISI SERVICE FOR ONLY To create a lot of Interest and good will, and to Indue you to get acquainted with their services, the group of Salem merchants listed below are "advertising by giving away" the following goods, services and valuo for the amazingly low price of $3.50. Your Treasure Chest Coupons may be reclaimed up to Dec. 1, 1952. J 1 1 MIT IMP R(W PPP FAMILY! 3 ' Camp Fire Girls to Assist in Flower Sale Salem Camp Fire Girls win assist Salem Chapter 6r Disabled American Veterans, in its annual sale of "forget-me-nots Aug. 30, it was announced Monday by Arch L. Brewster, commander of the chapter. Veterans in charge of the sale to raise funds for rehabilitation work are A. J. Harnsberger, Wil liam A. Shinn and Dean Boyd. miminMM)jji!,m)ii SALEM! COUPON BOOK dliHI l AUG. 22 II CRYSTAL ( If GARDENS i IV '; ' I La Burrights Cleaners Cleaning of a pair of men's trousers or a sweater. Capitol Laundromat 1 machine load of family wash, washed, dried, and folded. Andy Fosters Cameras Cleaning and checking of any camera. Holder's Complete radio tune-up Including alignment of all tuned circuits. Capitol Laundromat On Bedspread washed and fluff dried. Andy Fosters Cameras On day free rental of 3 -8mm films or 2-1 6mm films. Salem Rollerdrome 2 Free Admissions. COSMETIC STUDIO on your personal make-up PLUS fre gift 3.50