Cnty Mews UBirneffs RETURNED ON CHARGE Ernest Krake, Red Bluff, Calif., was returned to Salem Tuesday to face a charge of larceny by bailee, on a Marion County District Court warrant. He was brought from Medford by Wayne Stevenson, Marion County sheriffs deputy V and was held in jail here In lieu of 2,000 bail. Fresh lulled turkeys for New Years Dinner. 39c a pound. Orwigs Mar ket, 3975 Silverton Rd. Phone 4-5742. ' Landscaping and designing. No Job too large or too small F A. Doer fier and Sons Nursery, 250 Lan caster Dr. at 4 Corners, Phone 2-2549. YOUTH HELD A 16-year-old Selah, Wash., youth was apprehended by city police at a downtown store after he reportedly attempted to pass a bad $23 check. The boy told police he and a 15-year-old companion left their' Selah homes Monday morning and were headed for Cali , fornia. The youth was being held ( by police and his companion was sought Tuesday. Still Cold Days Ahead Jackets marked down at The Boys Shop 267 No. High. See the Rose Bowl game on TV at Nohlgrens, New Year's Day. CHECK ON ASSAULT City police were still checking Tuesday on a reported attempted assault on a 12-year-old girl in North Salem. The girl told officers she was grabbed by a man when she left her house Monday night. She broke free and ran to a neigh bor's house. Sale on all ready to wear, 20 off. Open until 7 p. m. Lorman's, 1109 Edgewater. . SOCIETY TO MEET The Salem Begonia Society will meet Thursday at 8 p. m. at the YMCA. Ernest lufer will be guest speaker. His topic will be "Ferns." Everyone Is invited. Eliminate window sweat and leak age. Install Alsco Storm windows. Call 2-2780 for estimate. MEETING CANCELED This week's meeting of Salem Retail Credit Association has been canceled. However, the associa tion nd Salem office of Credit Bureau has announced an open house at the bureau office' this afternoon. Call Mathis Bros. 3-4642. Free es timates on your Roofing problems. Hard Surfacing of Crooked Finger Road Requested ? Extension of hard-surfacing on Crooked Finger Road southeast of Scotts Mills was asked Tuesday of Marion County Court by a delega tion from the area. The court said part of the road Is on the tentative oiling program for 1954. The delegation reported , that strawberries had become an im portant crop in the Crooked Fin ger area since the road was surfa ced a few years ago for about three miles from Scotts Mills. Heavy logging traffic over the graveled portion has created a rough condition harmful to ber ries being transported, they added. Births RUSHIN To Mr. and Mrs. "Lee Rushin, 2395 Cherry Ave., a son, Tuesday. Dec. 30, at Salem Gen eral Hospital. BARBER To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barber, 2180 N. Front St., a daughter, Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Sa lem General Hospital. NALLY To Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Nally, 3456 Abrams Ave., a Bon, Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Salem General Hospital. GRXNDLE To. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Grindle, Corvallis, a daughter, Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Sa lem Memorial Hospital. ANDERSON To Mr. and Mrs. Itobert Anderson, 1830 Childs Ave., a son, Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Calem Memorial Hospital. THRELKEL To Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Threlkel, 2275 Trade St., - son, Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Salem Memorial Hospital. JOHNSON To Mr. and Mrs. Russell M. Johnson, Stayton. a daughter, Monday, Dev. 29, at Sa lem Memorial Hospital. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends for the help and sympathy given us in our recent loss. Mrs. Wayne Blaco, Joel, Loreh and Dennis Mr. and Mrs. E. G. McMillan Mr. and Mrs. Ray Garrison Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Blaco Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Blaco ? CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heartfelt lanks to our friends and neigh ors for their many kindnesses ind floral offerings during our re cent bereavement. Kitty E. Towle Geo. E. Towle and family COURSES IN ACCOUNTANCY TO BE J OFFERED 111 SALEM! .' -7 " ' - : -' -" - The PACIFIC ACADEMY will offer courses in accounting, such as Public Accounting, Tax Consultant, Cost Accounting, Controller, Executive, C. P. A. Coaching and General Mo tors System.; ;.. -; " - YOU DO YOUR STUDY AT HOME AND CALL ON OUR CONSULTANT A QUALIFIED C- P. A. WHEN YOU NEED HELP. YOU CAN "LEARN WHILE YOU EARN!" For particulars writ Statesman Box 249," or phone 21 141 , after 6 P. M. .... , ... - - . FEW DISEASES LISTED Except for seven cases of tuber culosis in institutions, no more than one new case of any com municable disease wes reported last week to Marion County health department, it was announced Tuesday. The cases included one each of broncho pneumonia, Ger man measles, impetigo, influenza and mononucleosis. Corsages, floral arrangements, pot ted plants, dish garden plants. Pemberton's Flower Shop and Greenhouse, 1980 So. 12th. WILL RE-ENTER PRACTICE Dr. Will J. Thompson, who for merly practiced optometry in the Oregon Building and retired sev eral years ago, Said Tuesday his health had much improved and that he had decided to reopen his office at Riverdale on the South River Road. Capitol Lumber & Fuel announces the opening of their new office St fuel sales at 198 So. Com'L on December 26. Formerly located on Cherry Ave. Moving-storage. "Across the street, across the nation." Call Russ Pratt, Capitol City Transfer. BO YES FINED Henry Eary Boyes, 3970 Auburn Rd., was fined $50 in Marion County district court Tuesday on a charge of shoplifting. The lar ceny complaint was issued by El mer Berg, proprietor of Berg's Market, 1 177 Center St. Boyes was arrested by city police Tuesday. Public Records PROBATE COURT John Henny estate: Final de cree. Letitia E. Abrams estate: Final hearing set Feb. 2. William Wallace Patterson es tate: Final order. John and Charles Taylor guar dianship: Guardian authorized to accept compromise offer of $1,800 from Albert L. Melvin in full set tlement for alleged claim for in juries' sustained by wards in auto accident July 26, 1952, near Au rora. Alice A. Coolidge guardianship: Sale of real property authorized. Matilda Korb estate: Final ac count approved, and distribution ordered. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Elmer S. Morgan, 42, sales man ager, Seattle, and Elsbeth Phyllis Kaser, 41, saleslady, Portland. Daryl Melbern Davis, 23, stu dent, 1340 Hall St., and Lora Lee Tiger, 22, secretary, 645 N. Win ter St. DISTRICT COURT Henry Boyes, 3970 Auburn Rd., petty larceny, pleaded guilty, fined $50. CIRCUIT COURT Pacific Machinery and Tool Steel Co. vs. E. R. Cotter and C. H. Stevenson, doing business as Waco Manufacturing C o.: Plaintiff authorized to file am ended complaint to Include John W. Norwood Jr. as party de fendant. Gerald E. Ruby vs. State Indus trial Accident Commission: Judg ment, upon stipulation of parties, decrees plaintiffs disability to be equal to loss of use of 35 per cent of a hand. Joan Madsen, administratrix of Gertrude Doebler estate, vs. Fred F. Doebler: Case dismissed, on plaintiffs motion, as settled. M. H. Dodge vs. James W. Sannes and others: Default order and decree of foreclosure against d ndants of Dec. 1, 1951, set aside on defendants' motion. Lawrence T. and Jeanette T. Ep ping vs. Robert and Carol Mae Schwab: Case dismissed on plain tiffs' motion as settled. Stat vs. Arthur James East: Defendant w a i - e s indictment, charge reduced from sodomy to attempted sodomy on district at torney's information, continued to Jan. 5 for plea. State vs. James Edward Stan ley: Defendant sentenced to coun ty jail for six months on charge of threatening commission of a felony. State vs. Charles Roberts: De fendant waives indictment, pleads guilty to charge of obtaining mon ey by false pretenses, continued for pre-sentence investigation, bail reduced to $250. Portland - Pendleton Motor Transportation Co. vs. Charles Hj Heltzel: Judgment declares in creased state truck tax effective Nov. 4, 1952, and enjoins defend ant from attempting to enforce act for any period prior to that date. Lucille C. Bohanan vs. Lloyd C. Bohanan: Complaint for di vorce alleging cruelty seeks cus tody of minor child and $50 mon thly support. Married July 30, 1950, at Silverton. Ralph Bilyeu vs. State Accident Commission: Judgment finds plaintiffs disability equal to loss of use of 60 per cent of an arm. Robert Eugene Holden vs. Erba Ruth Holden: Robert L. Holden appointed guardian ad litem for plaintiff. Complaint for divorce alleging cruelty seeks restoration of defendant's former name of Wilson. Married Oct. 1, 1951, at Stevenson. Wash. Marjorie Jean Dyer vs. David Edmond Dyer: Divorce decree grants r plaintiff custody of two minor children and ownership of household furnishings.' jury Panel v Selected for January Term Selection of grand jury and panels for the January term trial jury panels in both Marion County Circuit and District Courts was announced Tuesday by County Clerk: Henry C. Mattson. - The grand jury, who first meet ing has not been set, comprises Irene G. Smith, Winifred Hockett and Arwin Strayer, all of Salem; Marie B. Lbar, Silverton; Crelgh ton B. Jones, Gervais; Edward J. Manning and Henry D. Miller, both of Woodburn. They were chosen from jurors who served during the most recent term of Circuit Court. Foreman will be appointed by the judge at the first meeting. On the Circuit Court regular panel, to report Tuesday, Jan. ft, at 9:15 ajn, are: Archie. Claggett, Dorothy D. Ul ery. Admiral D. Brundidge, Lewis Leroy Dills, Daphne C. Baum, Nellie E. Chapin, Robert T. Rus sell, John F. Correll, Albert R. Darr, Emma L. Peters. Otto A. Eucker, Margaret C.Burt, Lois Fer ris, Gerald A. Resher, Vernon E. Canfield, Oliver H. Herring, Marie T.Wolfe, Jesse Agan, Effie W. King, Mary V. Will,Grover W. Hillman, John H. Blosser, Tullus E. Kirk lin, Floyd A. Besley, Lois M. Scott, John H. Adamson, Lillian Barker, Willard A. LaFlemme, John W. Black and Ellsworth C. Cassell, all of Salem. A. Bernard Wolf, Margaret Schaefer, Stayton; Irma C. Lind quist, Helen A. Hayes, Hulda E. Lowrie, Aurora; Herman Schmid, Sublimity; Bertha H. Hannon, M. J. McCormick, Rupert A. Rogers, Woodburn; Ray ford W. Hiatt, De troit; David Bartholome, John Griesenauer, Brooks; Donna Brown, Helen Qreen, Silver ton; Anthony Bigler, Mt. Angel; Florence Jarman, Louis J. Hen ies, Turner; Elaine I. Abbott, Hub bard; Elsie D. Edwards, Marion; Delmar A. Davidson, Jefferson. On the reserve panel, to be on call, are Clara C. Bloom, John J. Herberger, Edith McCoy, Chris tana Cladek, Walter E. Lund, Jack Bender, Ernest R. Rodewald, Al vin L. Finn, Ida C. Johnson, Jes sie S. Brock, John Haselton, Faye Alexander, Robert' P. Badmm Barnwell, Lois M. Speck, Alma F. Cupp, George E. Gregor, George R. Maynard, Lawrence C. Doer fler, Raymond A. Palmer, Bertha L. Bergman, Mary C. Stewart, Esther Daue, Sarah Cook, Theo dore W. Oison, Franklin Burke, John T. Burris, John H. Anglin, Sr., Merrill D. Ohling, all of Sa lem. Benjamin O. Belden, John H. Rock, Stayton, Grant Jones, Hub bard; Anna M. Powell, Earl John son Adams, Grace M. Hudson, Os car Henry Loe, Silverton; Edward Holmquist, Aumsville; Paul Good ing, Martin J. Alberts, Clarence A. Eldriedge, Andrew M. Fry, Au rora; Minnie H. Rehm, Donald; Margueritte M a r 1 a 1 1, Jefferson; Robert J. Blanchette, Wendell E. Barnett, Gervais; John E. Eng land, Thelma A. Janz, Turner; An ton John Ettlin, Scotts Mills. The district court list for Jan uary, to report as called, includes: Otis Edwards, Albert J. Hilfiker, Robert M. Richardson, George R. Ireland, etty Frahm, Harry E. Crawford, L. Maude Bentley, Kenneth Young, all of Salem. Wayne W. Watkins, Mill City; Gladys C. Smith, Woodburn; John Bischoff, Aumsville; Ethel Blin ston, Jefferson; Enos D. Yoder, Silverton; Frank D. Baechler, Gates; Fred D. Rogers, Hubbard. Services for Lucille Hagen At Silverton Statesman News Service SILVERTON Funeral services for Lucille Hagen will be held Wednesday at 1 p. m. from the Memorial Chapel of the Elman Funeral Home. Burial will be in Bethany Cemetery with the Rev. G. E. McGarvey officiating. Mrs. Hagen was born at Silver ton April 21, 1918. She died in Portland Dec. 26, where she has been living in recent years. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Donna Huwalt, Portland; two sons, Lloyd Hagen, Salem and Edgar Hagen, Portland; her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lester Waltman, Logs den; a sister, Mrs. Freda Miller, Logsden; and one grandchild. PARCELS AWAIT RED OK HONG KONG (P The British Red Cross reports more than 35, 000 food parcels for British Com monwealth prisoners -of-war in Korea are here awaiting clearance by the Chinese Reds for delivery. CONSTABLE TAGS OWN CAR WINNIPEG, Canada - An elderly police constable while on his regular beat here recently tagged his own car. The car had been driven downtown . and parked by his son. Announcement Charles A. Goodwin Public Accountant Announces Offices Located at - 415 Masonic Building Salem, Oregon I I ' Window Disvlay Wins Store I1 'V'"" ""'F "v ."' 1 '' 11 r j " s t;- J 1 t . - . . s i " ' ' . r 1 y -:: ,, . !," ; ; -. ; V V-v , t I inn minima ill f n i ami i u "1 ' " "i "i i i n m f N ..''i-4"i i Klehard L. Cooler (right) of Bishop's Clothing store congratulates Craig Carver, store window display man, on the winning of a window display award recently In nation-wide contest Bishop's' entry, featuring a clothing display, won third place In the contest sponsor ed by Daroff Company, a suit manufacturing firm. In the back ground Is the display and the award certificate Issued by True magazine. Heltzel New Chairman of Hospital Board Charles Heltzel, state public utilities commissioner, has been elected chairman of the Salem Memorial Hospital board of di rectors replacing Loyal A. War ner, chairman for the past two years. Heltzel has been a board mem ber for the past six years, serving as secretary-treasurer for one year. During the past year he was vice-president. Floyd K. Bowers, partner in the accounting firm of Bowers, Davis and Hoffman, was elected vice president and C. Ronald Hudkins of Charles Hudkins real estate firm was re-elected secretary- tXCcLSUlTdr Retiring chairman Warner will continue to serve on the board as a member of the executive com mittee. County Judge Rex Hartley was elected to the board for a three year term, filling the vacancy created by the expired term of William E. Beaver. First objective of the new offi cers will be to let the bids for the new $300,000 addition to the hos pital. Federal matching funds have already been approved and the project is now up to the Wage Stabilization Board for study. Oregon Draft Call to Include 19Year-01ds PORTLAND ( Oregon has been asked to supply 631 for the February draft call. Col. Francis W. Mason, Oregon deputy director of selective service, said Tuesday. He said about half the total, the largest number called in a year, would be 19-year-olds. This will be the first time any big number has been called from that age group. Mason said that the January call of 515 men would deplete the 20-year-old group. He added that the state is nearing the end of its selective service manpower reser voir. After the February quota is filled, Oregon will have about 2,000 men remaining in the 19-year-old class. Mason said. James Hunt New Kiwanis President Presidency of Salem Kiwanis Club passed Tuesday from Carl Greider to James Hunt, Portland General Electric Co. employe. Hunt and other new officers were installed by Loren Douglas of Newberg, club lieutenant gov ernor, and W. J. Braun, Salem, past lieutenant governor. Douglas said the club's North west district this year has gained nine clubs and 726 members, in comparison to a gain of one club and loss of 403 members during 1951. U.N. Observer to Address Salem i Quakers Meeting I The American Friends Service Committee announced Tuesday that I Gerald Bailey, English Qua ker who has been representing the Friends as an observer at the last three meetings of the United Na tions General Assembly, will be in Salem Tuesday, Jan. 13. He will address a chapel meet ing at Willamette University that morning; and in the evening at 8 o'clock will speak at a public meeting at Waller Hall on the Willamette campus. Bailey was organizer and chief political spokesman of the British Quaker mission which went to Russia in 1951. He is regarded as a specialist on the general prob lem of relations between the So viet Union and the West. 15 Injured as Trains Collide In Arkansas FT. SMITH, Ark. (JF) - A Frisco passenger train and a Kansas City Southern freight train collid ed seven miles south of here just across the state line in Oklaho ma late Tuesday afternoon. No one was killed in the wreck. At least 15 persons injured in the collision were treated at Sparks Memorial Hospital here. Engineer G. B. Neal of the freight locomotive, which was pull ing eight cars, said a mixup in the schedules of the two trains apparently caused the wreck. He said the passenger train was 20 minutes off its schedule, and that his freight train was running 30 minutes late. Neal said the freight was round ing a curve when "we looked up and there was that passenger train right on us." He said that neither train had time to stop. The engineer of the passenger train, W. B. Stewart, was one of the injured. The passenger train was made up of four baggage cars and only one passenger car. The locomotive of the passenger train, which ended up on top of the freight locomotive, caught fire. The eight freight cars were de railed. ANCIENT OBJECTS Unearthed MOSCOW VPy Pottery and other objects belonging to the 10th and 11th centuries .have been unearthed in Tallin, capital of the Estonian Republic. The Tallin Mu seum began excavations in the early autumn with the purpose of discovering the period in which Tallin began as a city. Among the objects already dug up were tips of spears, pottery and arrows. Dresses 8 Students on UO Honor Roll 'EUGENE Eight r University of Oregon students $rom Salem were among the 190 listed on the fall term , honor roll at University of Oregon. . The honor roll includes all un dergraduate students whose grade point average totals 3.50 or higher. These ; averages are figured on a base with A equalling 4, B a 3, C a 2, and Dal. The Salem students were Vivi enne Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Brown, 277 W. Washington St.; Larry Hobart, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Hobart, 375 Salem Heights Ave.; Marjorie MacGregor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. MacGregor, 1990 Cen ter St.; Joan Marie Miller, daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. Vera W. Miller, 1825 Fairmount Ave.; Marijo Ogle, daughter of Mr. C. E. Ogle, 640 S. Summer; Dorothy J. Pederson? daughter of Mr. and . Mrs. A. B. Pederson, 4953 N. River Rd.; B. Jacquelyn Saylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Saylor, 2410 Myrtle Ave.; John D. Templeton, son of Mrs. B. Templeton, Route 3, Box 964, and Mary A. Swigart, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Swigart, 1485 S. Liberty St. Hobart received a Phi Gamma Delta Scholarship for 1952-53. Misses Pederson and Swigart re ceived state fee scholarships for the university for 1952-53. Also included on the honor roll are the following students: Nancy Gerlinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gerlinger, 509 Levens St., Dallas; Robert D. Mc Cracken, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. N. McCracken, 495 E. Vine SW Lebanon; Jane Slocum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Slocum, 472 E. Vine St., Lebanon; Ariyce Lee Hawmanv daughter of W. A. Haw man, Rt. 1, Box 170, McMinnville; Harold Tolliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. IL Tolliver, Rt. 3, Mc Minnville; Karleen Evans, daugh ter of Mrs. G. E. Evans, Rt. 2, Box 4, Monmouth; Elizabeth Douris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Morley, formerly of Salem; and Loris Larson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Larson, Rt. 2 Box 60, Woodburn. Gasoline Sale Increase Noted Gasoline, sales In Oregon for November, 1952, aggregated 43, 113,428 gallons as compared with 40,940,208 gallons for November, 1951, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry reported Tuesday. For the first 11 months of 1952 the gasoline sales totaled 520, 984,470 gallons during the same period in 1951, or a gain of 3.7 per cent. Tax pid on gasoline sales for the first 11 months of this year was $31,258,451 as compared with $30,116,910 in the same period a year ago. Electrocution Victim Native Of Albany Area Statesman New Service ALBANY Funeral services are being arranged at Fisher Funeral Home for Everett E. Schlegel, 30, who was electrocuted Monday when a television aerial he was installing struck a power line. The funeral will be at United Brethren Evangelical Church where Schlegel was a member. Time of services will be announced later. Schlegel, a native of Albany, graduated from high school here in 1941, served in the Air Force from 1942 to 1946. He was employed in recent months By Linn Music Co. for which he and Richard Lindley were installing an aerial at the David Vale home on Albany Route 1. Lindley, whose hands and feet were burned, was dismissed from Albany General Hospital Tuesday. The accident occurred when the aerial came in contact with a 12, 000 volt line of Mountain States Power Co. Surviving the deceased are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer SchlegeL Albany; two brothers, Leo L. SchlegeL Montebello, Calif and George Schlegel, now serving in the U. S. Navy at Pearl Harbor; four sisters, Mrs. H. P. Glavin, Joliet, I1L; Mrs. J. C. Muller, Rivera, Calif.; Mrs. C. D. Spencer Jr. and Miss Doris Schlegel, both of Albany BARGAINS GALORE - . i- on All J Shoes Stockings ... Sportswear . . Lingerie v Bags Th- iibtesxnxml feajemj OiK IWedneadaf. December 31; 19S2-J-5 Lane County Recall Election Scheduled EUGENE Circuit Judges G. F. Sky?worth and' 'William East ruled Tuesday that an election seeking the recall of County Judge Day Bayly must be held. - The judges decided that recall petitions contained enough signa tures. A group of Lane County residents living near Springfield started the recall move in a protest to. county policies. , - McKay Delays Appointment PORTLAND (JW Douglas McKay, who will be secretary of interior in the Eisenhower cabinet, inter viewed a prospective assistant Tuesday, hut said no appointment would be announced until the new administration takes office. McKay, who resigned recently as Oregon governor to take the cab inet position, said President-elect Eisenhower himself would make the appointment. McKay interviewed Mil ward L. Simpson, Cody, Wyo., attorney. He said Simpson was one of several candidates being considered, and added that he invited Simpson here for the talk. McKay said he hoped to Inter view, the others later, then make his recommendation to the President-elect. McKay plans to leave for Washington, D. C., next week. Six Months Term Given A six-months county jail sen tence was issued Tuesday in Mar ion County Circuit Court to James Edward Stanley, Salinas, Calif., on a charge of threatening commission of a felony. Charles Roberts, 8(50 Marion St., waived indictment and pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretenses. Pre-sentence in vestigation is slated on the charge, involving a $10 worthless - check passed in November to a Salem oil firm. Arthur James East, transient, waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted sodomy, reduced from sodomy on district attorney's motion. He is to plead Monday. Power Outlook Still Indefinite SEATTLE W The Pacific Northwest power outlook is on a "week - to - week basis," L. E. Karrer, executive vice president of the Puget Sound Power and Light Company, said Tuesday. Power output now is just about keeping pace with consumption, he said, commenting after the weekly telephone conference of the area's public and private power officials Monday. He .added: "Next week's conference may show a completely different situa tion." The winter's peak load for elec tric consumption in the Northwest is usually reached about January 15. J. Frank Ward, superintendent of Tacoma City Light, another of th conferees, said that another power curtailment is not in sight immediately. The mild weather and lowered industrial and private electricity consumption has aided the situation, he added. U.N. Officials Said Angry Over U.SL" Congress Probes UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JP U. N. officials were reported seeth ing Tuesday over U. S. congres sional probes that give the im pression they are lax in dealing wfth the problems of subversion. They contend they move as fast and as efficiently as cooperation from the U. S. government's ex ecutive branch allows. Charges popping at a Washing ton inquiry into the Justice De partment's handling of a federal grand jury investigation of the problem were regarded here as damaging to U. N. relations with the American public. For the record, high officials would only say "no comment" But they made no secret that they were disturbed. They declared testimony published Tuesday was not new, and that they had at tempted to deal with It before. The nearest star Is 300,000 times as far away from the earth as is the sun. 'Til Dec. on very thing ' Th f lore 40 N. Capitol . , In Open Monday end 2 Prison Seeks Con s Return Proceedings were started her Tuesday to return to Oregon an escaped Oregon State Prison in mate and his wife, j both arrested Monday night at Phoenix. Arir. ' Oregon -Prison ' - Warden ' Virgil 0Malley said Tuesday he had in stituted extradition proceedings to, return to James A. Fogel, ' ,25. who , escaped from the prison last Sept. 9. O'Malley said he has also filed a complaint charging Mrs. Fosel with aiding her prisoner husband to escape. Fogel and his wife surrendered at a Phoenix home to a nine-man sheriffs posse. Both were charged with robbing a Phoenix cab driv er at gun point -In October. ' 'Fogel was serving a 10 -year sentence for armed robbery at the Oregon prison when he - walked awav from the prison annex kit- then where he had been made a trusty. When police checked the Salem anartment of his wife. Billie Jo, it was revealed that she too was missing. She had left her 13-months-old baby with a baby sit ter, Mrs. Gertude Stubberfield of Salem... The baby was. placed in the hands of county "juvenile au thorities and later was returned to , Phoenix, Ariz., by Fogel's mother, . Mrs. Eva Fogel of Phoenix. The escaped convict and his red-haired wife were identified by a Phoenix cab driver as the cou-Dle-who forced him to drive Into the desert and hand over $27 at gunpoint. . Group Formed To Study Tax Members of a state advisory committee to deal with ad valor em tax problems were announced Tuesday by Samuel B. Stewart, , state tax commissioner In charge of the assessjnent and taxation di vision. ' ' ' In the group' are Dr. C. Ward Maev. denartment of economics. University of Oregon; State Rep. . Lee Ohmart, Salem; Herman is.en rli, Eugene, executive secretary of the League of Oregon Cities; Kel ley Loe, Labor Temple, Portland; County Judge Carl HilL Boseburg; W. D. Hagenstein, Industrial For estry Association, Portland, and Mason L. Bingham, Portland. Bingham was elected chairman of the committee at a recent meet- in . It Is the intention or-ine com mittee, Stewart said, to meet t intervals to study and recommend on specific as well as general pro-, blems arising in connection with ad valorem taxes. - " ' T i Hotter Gas Scheduled for Salem in 1953 Hotter gas is coming to Salem. The Portland "Gas and Coke. Company .will spend $445,000 in its 1953 construction program for the conversion of two generators to high B. t. u. (British thermal unit) gas at the company's port land production plant, w rri c h serves the Willamette Valley. The nroiect calls for converting the generators from the present operation of manufacturing Sfr B. t. u. gas to a nigner gas or ap Droximately 1.000 B. t. u. the same heat value as natural gas. Joseph A. H. Dodd, Willametta Valley manager, said de of the. principal ' enefits of dfcpducing hich R t. ii- ?as is its interChance- 'pibility with natural gas. It is planned to utilize the production plant for peak demands and stand-by operation when natural gas comes to this area. An additional $400,000 will bo spent in property additions in-, eluding replacements and exten sion of the company's distribution system, Dodd said. FOR SALE Cutest little BRAND NEW home) in Keiier Never been occupied, . 1 B. R., living room, fireplace, hardwood floors throughout, forced air heat, kitchen very modern, bath. - - Sacrifice price for I , quick tale. Phone 4-3111, Evenings 31st It's In the) star at Inchenfment the Capitol Shopping Confer Fridays Til P. M. i