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UNITED NATIONS, New York,
Dec. 14 New York is getting all
dressed up for Christmas. Other
cities across the country are doing
the same to be sure, but here,
especially in the stores, the deco
rations are on a more lavish scale.
The central feature of outside dec
orating may be found at Rocke
feller Center. There in front of the
RCA building a tall fir tree has
been set up, gaily trimmed with
luminous plastic balls, a myriad
of tiny lights, and with silvery
ropes looping among the branch
es. On the promenade leading fr6m
Fifth Avenue to the skating rink
rows of tall white candles topped
with lights search along the strip
i where in summer the waterfall
i plays. And fronting the scene,
across the avenue in the lighted
front of Saks-Fifth Avenue Store,
figures of carollers line the second
story.
Most interesting of the store
windows are those at Lord Ac Tay
lor's where animated figures per
form: gay skaters on a rink of
mirror ice, a ferris wheel, domes
tic scenes with figures busy at
sewing and cleaning. Macy's have
given over a long stretch, of their
34th St. windows to a Lionel train
exhibit. Other stores of course
have very attractive windows. The
prevailing color is white rather
than red and green, even the
"Uoos are lacy with frost and
ice.
Along Park Avenue, which our
hotel faces, thirty Christmas trees
were set up in the parking strip
in the center, and were lighter to
night. They were raised in memo
ry of those who c 'ed in World
War II and in the Korean War,
And down in front
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New 600,000
State Agriculture
Building Sought
The State Board of Agriculture
decided Wednesday to ask the
1953 legislature for an appropna
tion of $600,000 to construct a
new state agricultural building.
It vas proposed that the struc
ture be located on the fringe of
Salem, where adequate parking
space would be available. Board
members said the current build
ing, located in the capitol group,
is inadequate to meet the increas
ing demands of the agricultural
department.
The department, under the pro
posal, would repay half of the
money appropriated by the legis
lature through a levy on licenses
and service fees not to exceed two
per cent annually. Fred Cockell,
Milwaukie, presided at the meet
ing. OLDEST MAN DIES
DES MOINES Of) Ben Tay
lor, 114, a former slave who re
fused to brag "about be in' de old
est man in Iowa and maybe in de
whole world 'cause de Lawd
don't like braggin' ", died of pneu
monia at a hospital Here Wednes
day. .
Animal Crackers
Bv Warren coodrich
"Just give me a lug of me
thoii. and fet m loaf."
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102nd YEAR
Benton County
Men Arrested
In Surplus Deal
PORTLAND UP) A charge of
conspiring to commit fraud in
connection with the purchase of
war surplus trucks put five Oregon
men under bond Wednesday.
Three of them are prominent
Benton County lumbermen, one a
logging truck driver, and the other
a sand and gravel company em
ploye.
They were charged under a Los
Angeles indictment, accusing them
of being involved in a transaction
to buy trucks from the War Assets
Administration for re-sale, Marshal
Jack Caufield said.
He said that one of the five
Francis W. Fetherston, Eugene,
logging truck driver who formerly
lived at Corvallis, is charged with
buying several trucks under the
guise that they were for his own
use. As a veteran he could make
such a purchase.
Actually, the government con
tends, the trucks were bought for
re-sale. The other four are charged,
as purchasers, with conspiring in
the transaction.
Arrested and released under
$2,500 bail each, besides Fethers
ton, were Ben Ellis and George
Edward Shroyer, Corvallis lumber
mill operators, and John M. Fields
of Philomath, an employe of the
Corvallis Sand and Gravel Co.
Rex Clemens, head of Clemens
Forest Products Co., Corvallis,
owner of the largest lumber mill
in Benton County, was indicted.
but was not placed under arrest
because he was in a hospital with
a heart attack.
Karl Huston, his attorney, said
he would post the $2,500 bail for
Clemens. Huston, who also repre
sents Ellis and Shroyer, said the
three told him they were unable
to explain the indictments.
The five would be removed to
Los Angeles to face the charges
under the indictments The United
States attorney's office at Los
Angeles said seven men were
indicted altogether, but the other
names and details would not be
released until all were in custody.
Grounded Ship
Moves Slightly
ABERDEEN OF) A salvage tug
pulled the freighter Yorkmar "a
length of the ship" on the beach
west of here Wednesday and hopes
ran high for refloating her on the
high tide at noon Thursday.
The 7,200-ton ship has been held
a captive of beach, sands for nine
days.
The Coast Guard reported the
tug Salvage Chief from Portland
succeeded in swinging the ship's
stern on Wednesday's high tide
and pulling it about 400 feet clos
er to the safety for which salvage
observers once almost despaired.
The captain and 37-man crew of
the Calmar Line ship have re
mained aboard since she ran
aground while trying to enter
Grays Harbor on a trip from San
Francisco.
The tug Sea Lion from San
Francisco will be added to the sal
vage forces for Thursday's try. It
passed a tow line to the Salvage
Chief Wednesday afternoon so it
will be able to "brace" the Chief
in the next pulling effort in case
the Chiefs catch anchors should
slip on the ocean floor.
McKay to Occupy
Office in Capitol
- Former Gov. Douglas McKay
will occupy a conference room in
the State Capitol pending his de
parture for Washington, D. C-,
probably about Jan. 1, to assume
his duties as Secretary of the In
terior. McKay said he has a series of
appointments with numerous in
dividuals and delegations prior to
his departure. i
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With his hand npraised for the oath of office, Paul L. Patterson of Hillsboro became Oregon's 26th state
Kuwrn WednesdaT mornlnr. Followinr In the leral saccession noon the resignation of Dourlas Mc-
Kay, former Senate President
Supreme Court (right).
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Siamese Twins Parted
In 12l2-Hour Operation
CHICAGO (JP) The 15 -months-old Brodie boys, Siamese twins,
were separated Wednesday night in a dramatic, unparalleled 12 hour,
40 minute operation that culminated more than a year of medical
planning and preparation.
If the twins live, the operation will be the first successful one of
its kinds in medical history. It will go down as one of the longest on
record involving children.
Doctors said the odds were
against the twins' survival from
the start but that the boys, Roger
Lee and Rodney Dee Brodie of
Moline, 111., were "unbelievably
hearty."
The twins were joined at the
head. Tests before Wednesday's op
erations showed they had separate
brains and separate brain cover
ings, at least in part.
Stanley Oslon, dean of the Uni
versity; of Illinois College of Medi
cine, said the twins still had a
"long way to go" before their su-
vival is assured.
He said the post-operative period
usually is more critical than the
operation itself.
Teams of doctors, representing
five medical specialities, began op
erating at 8 a.m. Announcement
that the twins had been separated
came at 7:30 p.m., but surgeons
continued to work over the twins
as the announcement was made
The hospital spokesman reported
the separation was accomplished
at 6:26 p.m. That was 10 hours
and 36 minutes after the start of
the operation.
Doctors Exhausted
The spokesman said that a de
tailed account of the history-ma'-ing
surgery will not be available
until Thursday morning. He ex
plained: "the members of the operating
team are exhausted."
Two of the surgeons, including
the head surgeon, did not leave
the operating room during the en
tire operation.
The operation was conducted in
the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Insti
tute, part of the University of Il
linois Medical Center in Chicago.
Cost of Wednesday's surgery and
eight previous preparatory opera
tions was borne by the university
without cost to the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Royt Brodie.
Other was Simple
In comparison, the successful
separation of twin girls born Sun
day in Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleve
land, was relatively simple. The
girls were joined at a point where
the chest and abdomen meet by
a thin band of flesh, small vessels
and cartilage. No vital organs were
involved.
Except for the joined skulls the
Brodie boys appeared to be nor
mal.
Weeks before Wednesday's oper
ation, they could crawl, roll and
sit. Roger would stand in a
crouched position when invited to
do so. Both loved to "patty cake"
and could say "Da Da," "Hi," and
"Nightey-Night" They attempted
to mimic whatever they heard.
This . month the twins tipped the
scales' at 38 pounds, combined
weight Roger measured 30 inches
long and Rodney, 29 inches.
The, Brodies live on an 87-acre
farm near Moline. Brodie, 34,
farmed the land last summer and
has been employed as a meat cut
ter in a Moline warehouse this
winter.
The most famous Siamese twins
were Chang and En, born in Siam
of Chinese parents in 181L After
prosperous career as showmen
in the United States, they retired
to a North Carolina farm, married
sisters, had children, and lived
until 1874.
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Orecjon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 18. 1952
NATO Leaders
Gut Building;
Plans in Half
PARIS 11 In the face of warn
ings from their military command
ers. North Atlantic diplomatic and
political leaders Wednesday cut to
ribbons the proposed 428 million.
dollar Western defense building
program for 1953.
They said such a sum might
wreck their nations' economic sta
bility. Informants reported the request
by NATO's supreme commander,
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, for 428
millions to spend on building air
bases and ground defense had been
slashed to 210 millions.
They added it might be cut still
further at Thursday's closing meet
ing of the NATO Council.
Ridgway has repeatedly de
clared that his fighting force is
short of airports, radar screens,
communications networks and nav
al facilities.
But the foreign, defense and fi
nance ministers of the 14 NATO
nations concluded, a spokesman
said, that "the risk of aggression
had to be balanced against the
danger of Internal collapse."
Briefing officer Geoffrey Par
sons, head of the NATO informa
tion staff, said eight ministers
spoke and several emphasized that
the economic pressure of the de
fense program already was increas
ing unemployment.
They agreed on a recommenda
tion that the member nations
"make the maximum effort with
out endangering their economic
stability."
in other actions Wednesday,
the ministers approved the stra
tegic guidance outline drawn up by
the NATO chiefs of staff, revised
to take in the added responsibility
and added fighting forces com
ing with the adhesion of Turkey
and Greece to the North Atlantic
pact.
Willamette Basin Meet Talks
Favor More Local Controls
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
A back-to-th.e-s tat e-and-the-
people policy on river basin pro
jects was clearly favored by prac
tically all the speakers at the an
nual meeting of the Willamette
Valley Basin project committee
meeting held at Senator Hotel
Wednesday.
More than 200 people attended
the meetin gand luncheon over
which Elmo Chase of Eugene pre
sided. The Willamette Valley projects
will be developed just as rapidly
as the valley wants them devel
oped, Ronald E. Jones, Brooks,
chairman of the basin commis
sion ,and opening speaker, told
the group. He said development
will be measured "by just how
much you will be able to assist."
The new policy was apparently
due to two causes: that the con
struction period was more than
0 per cent completed, and that it
was time to put to work the pro
vision under the 1950 rivers and
harbor bill, that the army engi
neers cannot start any revetment
and channel bank work unless lo
cal groups provide right of ways
and assure maintenance of the
projects.
Cash outlay on the local and
state level was not expected to1
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Brand of the State
Steel Allotment
For Civilian
Use Increased
WASHINGTON Of) The govern
ment Wednesday authorized mak
ers of automobiles and other ci
vilian goods to increase their use
of steel in the second quarter of
next year up to 70 per cent of the
amount they consumed before the
outbreak of the Korean war.
The Defense Production Admin
istration said this is the highest
allocation of steel since the pres
ent mobilization program began.
It is about 16 per cent higher
than for the third quarter of this
year.
Ralph Trigg, acting DPA chief,
said the bigger allotments should
permit in the second quarter:
1. Production of 1.250.C0O passen
ger cars and 315,000 trucks.
2. Increased construction of
small schools, hospitals, power and
transportation faculties and public
works.
3. The highest rate of highway
construcUon ever achieved in this
country, but still slightly below re
quested levels due to a tight sup
ply of structural steel.
4. Full development of the atom
ic energy construction program as
planned, along with meeting full
defense needs of defense agencies
5. New housing construction at
the rate of one million living units
annually.
6. Production of 9,000 freight cars
a month, the highest rate since
scarce materials were put under
government control.
Unander Takes
Treasurer Oath
Sigfrid Unander, Portland, who
will become Oregon State Treas
urer Jan. 5, took his oath of of
fice Wednesday.
It was administered by Chief
Justice James T. Brand.
The law requires that the new
treasurer must take his oath with
in 20 days after he's notified that
he has been elected.
NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE
PARIS Iff) An eleventh-hour
effort by the Truman administra
tion to solve the Anglo-Iranian oil
dispute appeared Wednesdry night
to have collapsed.
Official sources said the latest
British - American talks ended
here without "any sort of solution
in sight."
be large, as the federal govern
ment will step in and assist where
any major need Is noted, Jones
added.
While five of the major seven
dams in the basin project have
been constructed, Jones said that
' Senators tell us that it s gomg
to be pretty tough to get these
last two underway without real,
substantial local interest"
However, both Brigadier Gen
eral C. H. Chorpening, assistant
chief of the army engineers, and
Col. T. H. Lipscomb, Portland dis
trict engineer, promise "every co
operation possible in the continu
ance of the project, which it was
essential to . finish" as soon as
funds are available.
During more recent years. Irri
gation in the Willamette Valley
has grown tremedously, Marshall
Dana, agricultural chairman of
the Portland Chamber of Com
merce, said during the afternoon
session. Currently irrigated acres
in Western Oregon was listed at
near 100,000 acres, and the job
of providing irrigation is now ap
proximately one fourth completed.
Water and power shortages, two
things speakers admitted they
hadn't expected to be a problem
in the Willamette Valley, were
now "facts", all admitted.
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Shown above with Got. Paul L. Patterson are Edwin II. Armstrong
(left) who will remain as administrative aide to Patterson, and Miss
Alene (Pes) Phillips, personal secretary to the last three covernors,
who will work in the Interior Department under Ex-Gov. McKay.
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PRICE 5c
lice, MacAljtliUij Discuss
Ways to Achieve Peace
By JAMES DEVLIN
NEW YORK (JP) President-elect Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas
MacArthur discussed across a luncheon table Wednesday the problem
of how to achieve peace in Korea and the rest of the world.
"We discussed the possibility of peace in Korea with particular
reference to the world situation, in which, of course, such Korean
peace would have to be determined," Eisenhower said afterward.
Eisenhower and MacArthur con-
f erred for more than two hours
as guests of John Foster Dulles,
secretary of state designate, in
Dulles' tovm house.
The President-elect described it
as a "very enjoyable luncheon."
MacArthur said it was a "very
pleasant reunion with the President-elect."
The meeting stemmed from a
Dec 5 speech in which MacAr
thur said there "is a clear and
definite solution" to the stalemat
ed Korean fighting.
Neither Eisenhower nor MacAr
thur gave any details on the views
they exchanged nor did they re
veal whether they were agreed on
a course to follow to achieve peace.
Dulles and his two guests
emerged from the house together
after the session, and the two mili
tary men ave an informal report
on it to more than 100 newsmen
and photographers congregated
about the entrance.
Eisenhower spoke in a low voice
that could be heard only by those
nearest to him.
Later, back at Eisenhower's Ho
tel Commodore headquarters, he
gave a recapitulation of his re
marks, as he recalled them, to
James C. Hagerty, his press sec
retary, who relayed them to the
press. They were as follows.:
"I have just met with two old
friends for a very enjoyable lunch
eon. "Our general topic of conversa
tion was peace. We discussed the
possiblility of peace in Korea with
particular reference to the world
situation, in which, of course, such
Korean peace would have to be
determined.
"I hope my former commander
will say a few words."
Eisenhower hau served under
MacArthur years ago In the Philip
pines, and later when MacArthur
was chief of staff.
MacArthur told the cluster of
newsmen at the Dulles home that
the discussion centered around
"the problem of peace in Korea
and in the world in general."
He remarked that he had
not seen Eisenhower for six years
and that the meeting marked the
resumption of a friendship of 35
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Shirley Temple
Shuns Publicity
For Daughter
WASHINGTON UP) Ex-movie
moppet Shirley Temple, angry at
what she called an attempt to cap
italize on the presene of her four
year old daughter in a indergar-
ten Christmas play, took her out
of a private school Wednesday.
I have not and will not allow
anyone to commercialize on my
daughter's presence," said the
young mother, now - the wife of
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Black.
Her action, she explained in a
statement was taken after she read
a newspaper story that Linda Sus
an's appearance as a fairy in
"Cinderella" Tuesday at Honey
well school was her stage debut
and that she would make a repeat
appearance Thursday night at the
American University gymnasium.
Then, Mrs. Black said, she was
"amazed" to find that news photo
graphers had been called in to
take pictures of the children Wed
nesday morning,
Shirley said she understood
Thursday's show would be a bene
fit with admissions charged.
Susan, the daughter of Shirley's
first; husband, John Agar, Is just
a year older than her mother was
when she began her sensational
career as a movie star. Her step
father is stationed in the Navy
here.
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TV Hearings
Stalled Again
WASHINGTON W A further
delay in hearings on Portland.Ore.,
television Channel 6 was ordered
Wednesday and further delays on
channel 8 hearings were Indicated,
Federal Communications Com
mission Examiner Elizabeth C.
Smith delayed the two-way fight
for Channel 6 to March 16. And
she indicated the hearing for the
four applicants seeking Channel 8
would be set over from Jan. 6 to
Jan. 26.
Tito Severs
Diplomatic Ties
With Vatican
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia CP)
Premier Marshal Tito's Commu
nist government cut diplomatic re
lations with the Vatican Wednes
day, charging in effect that the
recent nomination of Archbishop
Alojzijc, Stepinac to the College of
Cardinals -was a slap in the face.
The Holy See was accused anew
of hostility toward Yugoslavia and
interference in her internal af
fairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Ales
Bebler called in the Vatican's
charge d'affaires, Msgr. Silvio dl
Oddi, to notify him of the break
and asked .him to leave as soon
as possible.
Yugoslavia has had no diplo
mat at the Vatican since last year,
when Charge d' Affaires Oren Ruz
ic packed up and left an other
wise deserted legation building.
Yugoslavia was - the last of the
Communist nations with which the
Vatican had diplomatic relations.
(Vatican officials reserved com
ment pending the receipt of furth
er information).
The rupture capped six years of
dispute in which the strong
featured, spare-framed Archbishop
Stepinac has been the central fig
ure. Convicted by a Tito court of
collaborating in World War II with
the Germans, Italians and .domes
tic foes of Tito, he was freed con
ditionally last December after
serving five years of his 16-year
sentence.
Now 54, and a "former archbish
op" in the view of Yugoslav -officials,
he is limited to the work
of a parish priest in his native
town of Krasic.
Pope Pius XII named him Nov.
29 among 24 prelates who will be
elevated Jan. 12 to the College of
Cardinals.
But whether he will ever receive
the red hat of a prince of the Ro
man Catholic Church is in ques
tion. He told a reporter recently
he has no plans to go to Rome
for the consistory next month, add
ing "if I did leave, I probably
would not be permitted to return."
Tito himself has blasted the nom
ination as "a hostile act." He
asserted in a speech Tuesday it
was an insult to Yugoslavia "that
the war criminal Stepinac was
named for cardinal."'
IKE SELECTS MASDBURN
LOS ANGELES UP) Lloyd A.
Mashburn, California state labor
commissioner and lonjr a leader in
the American Federation of Labor,
announced Wednesday he has been
offered the post of assistant sec
retary of labor fa the Eisenhower
administration and has accepted.
ToKeep
McKay
Program
By WINSTdx II. TAYLOR
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Oregon gained a new governor
Wednesday, as Paul L. Patterson,
52, a Hillsboro attorney, was
sworn in to succeed Douglas Mc
Kay, soon to become U. S. secre
tary of the interior.
The ceremony took less than 10
minutes in the governor's public
office at the Capitol, with more
than 150 state officials and other
well-wishers crowded around.
Patterson Issued a statement of
his intention to continue the Mc
Kay program for Oregon, with the
special objectives of integrity and
fairness, carrying on reorganiza
tion for efficiency and economy,
holding state tax demands to a
"proper minimum."
McKay filed his resignation with
the secretary of state's office at
10 a. m Then Patterson moved
from Senate president to gover
nor with the oath administered
by Chief Justice James T. Brandt
of the State Supreme Court.
"Difficult Decision" :
In a statement McKay said th
resignation ending his service as
governor of Oregon was the re
sult xt a "most difficult decision,"
"It was possible only because I
hoped that I would be of service to
the people of Oregon as well as
to the people of the nation by
active participation In the new
administration," the statement
continued. "Dwight D. Eisenhower
inspires the best a man has to of
fer." been made had I not felt that the
governorship would pass into
qualified and capable hands. The
splendid record of Paul Patterson
in all his distinguished service is
guarantee of courageous and vig
orous leadership. The state will
go forward under his administra
tion. Given Support T
"It would be impossible to thank
all those who worked with me in
the state administration and the
thousands of : sincere citizens
whose encouragement, support and
counsel sustained our effort."
: McKay first' became governor
in 1949 and his current term would
have expired in January, 1955.
. Patterson declared he was tre
mendously pleased with the oppor
tunity to serve the people of Ore
gon as their governor. -
"It is particularly pleasing that
this 1 opportunity was created by
the naming of Governor Douglas
McKay to a position of important
trust in the Eisenhower adminis
tration," Patterson continued. "Hi
appointment symbolizes to the na
tion recognition of integrity, sin
cerity and a common sense of ap
proach to the problems of national
administration which he has so
ably demonstrated in his Oregon
administration. ;
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"The people of Oregin in 19 SO
approved and endorsed the McKay
program for Oregon, It is my re
sponsibility and my Intention to
continue that program.
"Three objectives will have ray
special interest and concern.
"That Oregon shall have a state
government whose integrity and
fairness will justify the unlimited
confidence of the people of the
state. - -
"That we carry on the reorgan
ization of governmental functions
ta achieve a maximum of effi
ciency and economy while at the.
same time recognizing that thor
ough consideration is necessary
to insure that each , change is
souna ana constructive. ;
" i nai nunnir inn iwrioa wnrn
national defense has a first claim -on
our tax resources, state tax de
mands should be held to a proper
rriinimum and that Oregon shall'
guarantee that no one Is required
to pay more than his fair share
because others escape by favor
tism or loopholes of law and ad
ministration." i
Governor Patterson laid he is
not unmindful of the difficulties
that lie ahead in these critical
times.
"I am confident, however, Pat
terson continued, 'That with thjr
aid and assistance of the many fine
people of Oregon who have ex
pressed their desire to help,' I can
succeed in carrying on the work
oz my great preaecessors.
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Night Temperature
To Stay Freezing
Sub-freezing pre-dawn temper
atures, which have struck the Sa
lem area for the past several days,
are expected : to continue today,
according to the U. S. Weather
Bureau at McNary Field. '
But the weatherman looks for
slightly warmer temperatures Fri
day with the possibility of rain.
The mercury has dropped to 80
degffes two below freezing Tues
day and Wednesday mornings and
Is expected by the weather bureau
to repeat this morning. Tuesday's
low was the coldest reading for
this month. ; :
Hanson to Operate
Sanliara Ski Lodge
BEND (A The Santlam CA
Lodge, owned by the U. 8. Forest
Service, will be managed this year
by Harold Hanson of Salem.
Hanson said he expects to have
tow and other facilities opera thxa
for .the Christmas holidays.