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United Nations, New York, Dec. 10. 1952-If you look on the map of Africa you will see on the south side of the "hump a section bor dering on. the Atlantic Togoland. It has this resemblance to Ger many and Korea: it is divided. Be fore the first world war it was a German colony having been seized by that European country during the race for the partition of Af rica. When Germany lost that war It lost Its overseas colonies. In a burst of virtue (Wilson's Fourteen Points), the former colony of To goland was not restored to Ger many nor was it handed over "in fee simple" to any of the victors Instead it became a land admin istered under the mandate of the Leaeue of Nations. But since it bordered on British and French colonial possessions each was eiven a chunk under the League mandate. After the dissolution of the Leaeue of Nations United Na tions set Toeoland up as a Trust Territory; but the country re mained divided between the Brit ish and French for administration, under treaty agreement . with United Nations. Today the" fourth committee heard three natives of Togoland make a plea for the unification of their country with a view to its Independence. They complained of the boundary which separates their people who are chiefly of the Ewe tribe of Negroes. One sneaker was particularly critical of the colonial administration oft France. Last fall a visiting mis sion of UN Trusteeship Council visited Togoland, but its report stated there was lack of (Continued on editorial page 4) Insurance Rate - Cut Reverts To Last July 1 Insurance rates on nearly all property in Salem other than residential were lowered retro active to July 1, 1952, and appli cable o policies issued on or after last May 1, the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau informed city offi cials Saturday. But there was no indication what the saving would be. Guesses were that it would be between 10 and 20 per cent. A. J. Snow, man ager of the bureau, said the re ductions would vary considerably from building to building and that bis office has not estimated a gen eral percentage figure. The city was informed of the rate reductions through a letter from Snow. He said new insur ance rates should be in the hands of insurance men early this week. Rates will be reduced on all types of properties other than dwellings and buildings equipped with automatic sprinkler systems. The rates on some buildings have not been reduced, Snow con tinued, and some rates have been Increased. He said increases are due to changes which have been made in the construction, occu pancy or hazards of building since the last previous inspection. The insurance bureau, which is a division of the Pacific Fire Rating Bureau, commended the Salem fire department which it said made the re-rating possible. The reduction of insurance rates in Salem was the first of major proportions since 1939 when the construction of outlying fire sta tions brought a re-rating. Hit-Run Driver Strikes Woman Miss Ivy Whitney, 7, of 1100 Chemeketa St., received a possible fractured back early Saturday evening when" she was struck by T hit-and-run driver while cross ing Center at 12th Street. She was treated by first aidmen and taken to Salem Memorial Hos pital where her condition was con sidered "good" Saturday night. Witnesses to the incident told police the car continued west on Center Street after hitting the woman and knocking her. to the ground. Police are investigating suspects described by people who saw the auto. Bible Reading in Schools Sought PORTLAND m John C. F. Merrif ield, Portland, recently elected state senator, said Satur day he would try to get the next Legislature to pass a bill requiring daily Bible reading in public schools. A .board member of United Church Men, he returned from a meeting at Denver, where the group urged the Bible reading in 'schools. i- ;, He said 12 states cow ! require it, nine forbid it, and 27 others have taken no action. In :cr. Statesman There's a lot of interesting reading in your Statesman to day, particularly - A. Robert Smith's story on Got. Douglas McKay's- new i bailiwick in Washington, D. C. (page 12, section I) and Don Whitehead's AP story on the resurgence of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (page 10, section II). High-Ranking Russ Employe Fired by U.N. Due to Spying unitjoj nations, n. x. uv highly placed Russian employe the American State Department. He is Nikolai Skvortsov, who was personal and confidential aid to Constantin . Zinchenko, a now-absent U. N. assistant secretary- general who was the highest ranking Soviet national in the Secretarial Retiring David W.Eyre yy-wi'ijwwi'.iiwi'i'iiiwi.,i'irii jL linn C. Smith 2 U.S. National Vice Presidents To Retire Jaiul Major changes in the executive personnel of the Ladd and Bush branch of the U. S. National bank were announced Saturday in re gard to the impending retirement of two vice presidents of the par ent organizations David W. Eyre and Linn C. Smith. The retl-ements are effective Jan. 1. Named to succeed Eyre as man ager of the Ladd and Bush branch is Rex Gibson, now manager of the West Salem branch. Sherman P. Bostrack, assistant manager - of the Salem branch, will become manager of the West Salem branch. ! E. H. (Tommy) Thompson, who has been manager of the Klamath J Falls branch, is to join the staff of the Ladd and Bush organization. Eyre, now 70, regarded as the "dean" of bankers in Oregon, is a native of Illinois but has been in the banking business in Salem for 48 years. He is manager of the Ladd and Bush branch as well as vice president of the entire U. S. National organization, and a lons-time civic leader. . Smith's a' native of Oregon, has been in banking in Salem for 41 years. He became vice president last January, and has taken a lead ing part in the development of Salem industries for many years. He will be 65 on Dec. 30. Ei C Sammons, president of the U. S. National Bank, said "the en tire U. S. National organization salutes Dave Eyre and Linn Smith. They have been important aids in building not only the bank but of their community. Their busi ness and civic standing is a credit to this institution. We feel that the Salem braneh will go ahead creditably under the management of Rex Gibson with the assistance of Tommy Thompson, Roy Nelson, Leo Page, Jake Furher and other officers m the Ladd and Busn Salem branch, x x x We are sure of a good record on the part of Sherman Bostrack at West Salem. (Additional details page6) 0MS Seeks to Abandon Runs Abandonment of Its Salem-Dallas-Falls City run by Oregon Motor Stages will be discussed at a Public Utilities Commission hearing Dec. 30 at 10 son. in the Public Service Building here. 'The stage line has also asked for permission to 'give up its West Salem to Dayton run, and claims lack of patronage is responsible for bout requests. ?v - - Charles HeltzeL public utilities commissioner, .said that another bus line was interested in receiv ing the Salem to Falls City fran chise if the request of Oregon Motor Stages is approved.' There tre presently no plans to substi tute another bus line on the West Salem-Dayton run. . , Dayton, however, is now served by Greyhound Lines on its through run from Corvallis to Portland. j , t ' ' in "'"r" ""iii T. '" f . . V". ' , X'' &: I li iA Z $ Wm 1 i 4 f rne united Nations has tired a who was tagged as a Soviet spy by here. Skvortsov was boss of the So viet's state farm system before he came here in 1950. Russians have always held the assistant secretary - general post for security council affairs since the council first met in 1945. This means both Zinchenko and Skvortsov were in position to see some of the most restricted U. N. political documents from the council's Atomic Energy Commis sion, the Military Affairs Com mi t ,tee, and the Disarmament Com mission, which have held many closed meetings attended by se lected personnel. The United States, however, has made clear that it never furnished the U. N. confidential military or atomic information. There was some talk in the U. N. last sum mer that Secretary-general Trygve Lie was restricting Zinchenko' s activities then. The U. S. State Department said that Skvortsov was fired by . e U. N. after the department told Lie that Skvortsov had "violated a U. S. law." Lie was told in September, a State Department source said. ' Atomic' Cloud Hovers Over Canada Plant CHALK RIVER, Ont. U) A pinpoint leak in Canada's . atomic pile and a quirk of the weather were blamed Saturday for a dan gerous radiation cloud that set the sirens screaming here Friday. The alarm emptied the govern ment atomic energy plant of its workers without mishap. Dr. C. 'J. Mackenzie, president of Atomic Energy of Canada, said the atomic reactor may be out of operation for some time. Other op erations at the $40,000,000 plant 140 miles northwest of Ottawa won't be delayed as long, he said. About 350 workers were evacu ated when the 100 sirens sounded the warning that atomic particles were present in dangerous propor tions. Conditions at the plant seemed -normal Saturday but a careful instrument check con tinued. Dr. Mackenzie said a pinpoint size, hole, in.' tha reactor caused greater - than - usual " radiation to escape up the 200 - foot - high stacks that carry, on radiation; then heavy overcast and humidity kept the atomic cloud from dis persing as it normally does and a down draft brought it about the plant site. Instruments detected the cloud immediately. Workers and scientists left the plant's 100 buildings in an orderly manner. Many were taken by bus to their homes, about seven miles away at the community of Deep River. The distance is considered suf ficient safeguard against danger ous radiation affecting residents. Decontamination squads, with goggles, rubber gloves, lead-sole shoes and rubberized1 clothing, cleaned up the plant area by Sat urday noon. Buildings least in danger were put back into use, including one where construction is under way on a new atomic pile. The atomic reactor where the leak occurred is considered to be the most efficient heavy - water reactor in the world. It is a boiler like structure 34 feet high and 34 feet in diameter coated with lead. Its concrete walls are seven feet thick. TROUBLE DELAYS FLIGHT TOKYO til A commercial air liner carrying evangelist Billy Gra ham : and 14 other passengers to Korea was forced to return to Tok yo Sunday after developing trouble with its landing gear. Henry Alirens President of County Livestock Association By LJL.LIE L MAD SEN Farm Editor, The Statesman WALDO HILLS Henry Ahrens' of Turner was named president of the Marlon County Livestock Association Saturday night at that group's annual meet ing held at Waldo Hills Commu nity Club' house. The business meeting and program were pre ceded by a dinner served to ap proximately 100 people. . Ahrens replaces J. 'J. Thompson, Salem, who served, as head of the organization this past year. Other officers named were Elton Watts, Silverton, vice "president; "Ben Newell, Salem, secretary-treasurer, and Karl Wipper, Turner, director for two years. Louis Hen nies reported for the nominating committee. Objection to the raising of as sessed valuation of livestock was voiced by the club membership through resolution following a report made by Alvin Hartley, Sil verton, as representative of the Oregon Wool Growers Association. Plans call for assessing lambs, calves and pigs at birth instead of at the six-month age as for merly, and assessed valuation on sheep are being placed at $18 a head, with talk of raising this to $24 to $29, Hartley said, pointing out that breeding ewes were now selling at around $15 and less in 3fc Ijkt&l8S 102nd YEAB 3 SECTIONS DCs5' Old Span Gets Help with Cross-River Traffic After 34 Years j XL Mete The Marlon Street bridge officially becomes part of the Salem scene when it begins carrying traffic both ways across the Willamette River this morning. Top photo shows the West Salem approach, on the left, with the present Center Street Bridge approach, in the cen ter. At the right is the approach which is now under construction. .. If A.-.HfViX i-.- , . t -.x.& Elaborate ceremonies marked the epenlnr ef the Center Street bridge 34 years age, July 30, 1918, as shown in this old postcard photo from the collection ef Mrs. Winifred Rigdon Berrick. The view Is to wards SalemTfrom about the middle of the bridge. To the left of the picture is the old steel bridge, which was moved to that location and served as a detour bridge. It was later torn down. The Center Street bridre win be closed this morning as work continues on new bridge approaches. GEESE FOG-BOUND CALDWELL, Idaho (A Fog in Caldwell was thick Saturday morn ing. Just ask the city police. About 4 a. m. police heard geese. They investigated. Four fog-bound wild geese were strolling down Main Street. their prime. Hartley asked that a committee be appointed , to- carry the resolu tion to proper authoritj and try to effect a change in assessed valuations. Thompson appointed Hartley to represent the beef cattle industry; H. A. Barnes, Sil verton, the dairy cattle; Paul Jacquet, Silverton, the sheep in dustry, and Lyle McKinley, Wood burn, the swine industry. Floyd Edwards, Albany, presi dent, announced the meeting of the Purebred Sheep Breeders As sociation , at Corvallis f Tuesday afternoon and evening.. The busi ness meeting will start at 1:30 and the annual banquet at 6:30, both to be held at Benton HoteL Be sides election of officers the award of the Sheep Breeders Trophy will be announced and made. This award is presented each year to the breeder who has the most typical breed display at the sheep breeders ram sale held In August at Albany. : During the Saturday evening program' hour, violin duets were given by Mrs. Theodore Riches and John SmaH. accompanied by Miss Nadine SmalL Loren Hicks, Salem attorney and breeder of purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle, talked -and showed pictures of his recent tour of Britain, Scotland and other European countries. Tli Oregon g)D1Kg Older Bridge Constructed in World War I There were also two bridges for traffic across the Willamette River when the Center Street bridge was under construction during World War I. A postcard photo from the col lection of Mrs. Winifred Rigdon Herrick shows the two structures. An old steel bridge, the second one crossing the river, was lifted off its piers and moved 10 feet or so north and served as a de tour bridge while the Center Street structure was being built It had crossed the river at about the same location. ' While it was being moved, traf fic used the ferry, which had served the two sides of the river for many years. After the Center Street bridge was completed, the older steel structure was torn down. Its predecessor, built in 1887 at near ly the same location, was washed out in the flood of 1890. 3E Mia. Precip. M : JM as ' ao 42 JW 22 - tre as jM Salem' 1 ' Portland San Fraacisoo Chicago . , , New York 5S S3 M 2S . 43 . WlHaroetU XUtct 7.4 CMt. . FORECAST (from V. S. Weather Bu reau, McNary 1114, Salem): Totfj thla momiof, becoming partly cloudy 'o fair this afternoon. Tatty again to nlght. High today 4 to 5ft. low tonight M to . Temperature at 12:01 ajn. waa degree. .. v j ' r I SALEM rKCrrTTAT10!C ! Sine Start of Weather Tear SeyC 1 This Tear S.74 Xst Year 20M : Normal 1S.40 42 PAGES POUNDBD 1651 J Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday. December 14, 1952 LsiDDdlS Lower Photo gives a view of both the new and old bridge, looking to. ward Polk County. The Center Street bridge will be closed to traffic this morning and rebuilding work will continue. Piers are presently being built on the Salem side which will carry the east approach to Commercial Street Fog Descends Upon Salem Area Dense fog descended upon Sa lem and vicinity Saturday eve ning slowing shopper traffic and weathermen predicted continued fog this morning and more fog tonight. . i The afternoon prediction by the U. S. Weather Bureau at McNary Field indicated it may be fair this afternoon; No precipitation was recorded for Saturday. McKay to Have Part in Defense Policies as Secretary of Interior By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON Gov. Douglas McKay's participation in top level talks aboard the cruiser Helena with President-elect Eisenhower and other cabinet appointees - il lustrates 'dramatically that' the Secretary of Interior these days is more than a manager of forests and waters. Though no information has been released pertaining to the exact Iiature of the Pacific talks, a high y placed Interior Department. of ficial 'speculated that the uregon governor was called because when he becomes a member of Ike's cab inet: 1. McKay will have jurisdiction over America's vast territorial holdings that stretch far across the Pacific Alaska, ' Hawaii, Samoa, Guam ' and the myriad of .. other lesser known islands. These out posts figure In foreign policy in sofar as they are. links in any mili tary operation that encompasses the Pacific ; Moreover, there has been a backstage power struggle-going on of late months between the In terior Department and the Navy ODD Marion Street Bridge Open to Traffic Today Salem's new, $1,300,000 Marion Street bridge across the Willam ette River will open to traffic this morning, at the same ticno the 34-year-old Center Street bridge closes down for major alteration. No formalities are planned for the Marion Street bridge opening. State Highway Department offi cials said. they hoped to postpone any formal opening of the bridge until after the re-building of the older bridge is completed. The new bridge will . handle two-way traffic until the Center Street bridge work is completed. Then the new bridge will carry westbound traffic,! with eastbound using the older bridge. - During the interim period, all traffic from West Salem will turn right off the bridge at Commer cial Street. Approach to the bridge on the Salem side will be from Marion Street or south along North Commercial St. Length of the structure is 2,561 feet. Its roadway is 26 feet wide. ThereHis also a sidewalk along both sides. The Center Street bridge ap proaches will be rebuilt, with that on -the 'Salem side extended from Front to Commercial Street Piers for that portion are now going up. The, West Salem approach is al ready well-along. It's been i over 34 years since Salem has seen a new bridge across the Willamette. Th Center Street bridge Was officially opened on July 30, 1918, replacing an older steel structure. That bridge cost a fraction of the new one opening today just $240,000. for jurisdiction over some of these islands. The Navy recently won a round in this contest when Presi dent Truman transferred authority over Saipan and Tinian (chief is lands of the Marianas group north of Guam) from Interior to N;vy. Adm. Arthur Radford, Dee's host aboard the Helena, is said to be the power who successfully argued the Navy's case in White House councils. 2. McKay will become a member of several top policy planning agencies as Secretary of -Interior, notably the National Security Re sources Board and the Defense Mobilization ' Board, which "are both directly responsible to the President in formation of policies relating to national security and the defense effort. Another task is, membership on a board which supervises stockpiling of strategic materials, f - i; '' Consequently, any discussions of "Eisenhower's military end . diplo matic attiudes toward Korea and other worldwide troublespots will be valuable -background for Mc Kay when he assumes his. new office in January . - ; (Additional story on page 12) PRICE 10c No. 234 off McKay Returns; With Ike By DON WHIT WITH nENERAT. rTFMTtnvu. ER (Sunday) W) President-elect uwigni u. .cisennower landed in California last night, nearing the end of his long and momentous trip to Korea. He is due in New York ahnut a. m. (PST) today. He " was non-committal s hm Constellation set down at Edwards Air iforce Base- on the Mejave Desert north of Los Angeles al f voH kA eniAi it a irAnt , 1 . v V- V1U Vtlbv A. A Uill A kJl lJl Ul U SJT fog which closed in Travis AFB near ban r rancisco. Butl aides described him a rnrv. fidentj that his 15-day sur-ey of rvorean ana ar tast war prob lems has paid dividends, despite me criticism of President Truman. He told a crowd of 100 or so which gathered in the clear, cloud-' less desert night, with the temper--ature in the low 30s: "I have no formal statement to make at this time. I'll b- - thing to say later about the trip.. , I expect to be oac at ..... .a 1 New York on Monday," Conference CanceUed Elaborate preparations had been : made for a press conference, but the general's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, canceled t after -the press plane landed. -" Instead, the general stopped briefly as he stepped off the 'plane to wave and smile at the crowd and tell them also: "The trip was full of interesting anecdotes, and I i et lots of inter esting people. All of us were obliged by the hospitality we found along the way."' Smooth Crossing The plane made a smooth cross ing of the Eastern Pacific from Honolulu, traveling at 17,000 feet and at about 315 miles an hour, ' aided by a 30-mile tail wind; Enroute, the general played bridge with John Foster Dulles, his secretary of state-desijrnate; C. D. Jackson, editor of fortune maga zine and one of his advisors; and Lt John Da vies, an army steno grapher who accompanied him. He was wearing a beige camel hair coat, brown suit and hat as ha walked to the headquaners of Brig. Gen. J. S. Holtoner ior a brief conference before starting on a tour of tha base whiLi his plane was being gassed up. It is scheduled to fly non-stop to New York, landing at the Marine Terminal at La Guardia Field. The plane; landed at Edwards at 11:24 p. m., nine hours and 31 minutes after leaving Kaneohe Air-y.. Base in the Hawaiian Islands. The general looked fit after three days of golf in the islands, which follow ed his dramatic batuefront survey and a series of Intensive confer ences aboard the cruiser Helena between Guam and Hawaii. TV Cameras " X - The general blinked in the glare of newsreel and TV camera lights and .popping flash bulbs as he stepped from the big Constellation, He pulled bis hands from his beige overcoat, waved at the crowd of 100 or so, and flashed his famous smile. Many of his listeners stood aboard flatbed trucks for a better look. They included newsmen, sec ret service agents and Some base personnel. Eisenhower added that he ex pects to be back at work in New York on Monday. Then he said "goodnight," to the crowd, wished them good luck and walked through a rope barrier to an office readied for him by tha base commander. Brig. Gen. J. S. Holtoner. With Eisenhower wera his secre- , tary of state-designates. John Fost er Dulles; uov. Douglas McKay of Oregon, who has been named sec retary of interior in the new cabi net: Ma j. -Gen. Roger Harney, Ait j.;. Force operations chief; C. D. Jack son, an Eisenhower adviser who also is editor of Fortune magazine. and James Rowley, chief of the White House secret service details. The. party arrived in C a 1 - if oral a amid reports that Pres ident Truman's charges of "dema goguery" bad cooled personal re lation between the two to the freezing point. Ne Meeting Expected A reliable source said Truman s remark apparently meant "the fin ish of any informal across-the-desk meetings between the two. He said "it probably would be a cold affair" if there were another meet ing prior to Eisenhower's inaugura tion Jan. 20. However, one source said h an ticipated no trouble in an orderly changeover of administrations be- low the Cabinet level, adding there had been no friction. He reDorted that "some strain at the high level" already has O veloDed between the Truman Cabi net and Eisenhower's liaison men. Senator Henry Cabot uocg aca Joseph M. Dodge. The source said Elsenhower Truman relitlons, which ha r' tured as badly strained Crtrt x ) presidential campaign, miL.t la- come coidiy zormai. V