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Truman Points to Statistics to
wShbv Americtin
WASHINGTON W . President
Truman made public Monday fig
ures he. said confirm his claims
mat the American people "are to
day better off than ever before in
our history. . i-
The President said he had re
ceived a letter from Roy V. Peel,
director, of the Census Bureau, re
porting that durL- Truman's -administration
the Americ -n people
have' .made fains 'unparaneler' In
American history. C
The President, in a series of in-
jterviews with correspondents, m
'.recent documents ana in tne state
; of the Union message he is send
inf to Congress this week, seems
?to be summarizing the record of
bus administration for stud by fu
ture historians as well as for Us
own satisfaction.
: PeeTs letter stated: .
- "During your administration, the
people of the United States have
-made tremendous gains in their
(Incomes, standard of living, edu
cation. housuuT. and in numerous
ether ways which have been re-
fleeted In census figures, tut e
gains are unparalleled in Ameri
can history."
: the letter said that the las', cen
Isus. April 1. 1950. showv that
there were nearly 151 mil? peo-
Jole in the United States. T-ouped
sin 43 million households with 44
million dwelling units at tLeir dis
posal.
- Over half of all dwellings were
66.4 per cent were free of mort
gage. While the total of s.eoo.ooo
farms was smaller than in 1940,
there were 78 million more acres
demoted to farming.
Peel said three quarters of all
farms are now operated by their
ewners.
"Never before in history have
'so many farmers had the help of
modern facilities, machinery and
Biirglar Provides
Tax Deduction
i LOS ANGELES IB ' While
Peter Nuccio and his wife were
figuring their 1952 income ta a
burglar provided them with a 1953
deduction.
' Nuccio told police that whOe he
and Mrs. Nuccio were studying
forms downstairs Saturday night,
a thief jimmied a lock, entered
their home and stole a $2,000 mink
coat from an upstairs bedroom.
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Nan Grey
Alan Baxter
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Prosperity
equipment, he reported.
"In 1950, over S million una
ers reported sales exceeding 22
billion dollars, an all-time ' V -The
letter went on to say that
the census o manufactory r cov
ering operations in 1947, enum
erated 241,000 establish -nts
"with value added by mennfa Sr.
amounting to 74.5 billion dol
lars," whOe last year, according
to tneiannuat survey of trends,
"value added was about 102 bil
lion dollars.
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GAB Decree
CHICAGO UFi United Airlines
said Tuesday it would ignore a
Civil Aeronautics Board order to
start operating its DC-4 coaches
with at least 64 passengers. It also
asserted a congressional investi
gation of flight regulations might
be in order.
The CAB . in Washington, told
United it must comply with the
order immediately or charge full
first-class fares on the coach-type
planes.
W. A. Patterson of Chicago, Unit-
eds president, said "in the public
interest. United Airlines plans to
continue operating its coach ser
vice with the limited seating ca
pacity."
United reduced the number of
passengers in the coach - type
plane to 54 last November 22.
Patterson said then research indi
cated that survivors of a crack-up
of a Jammed tourist plane, might
oe unable to get out in the event
of fire.
United began a practice of keep
ing the middle seats of three
abreast seating arrangements em
pty until the planes could be mod
ified.
Compromise
In Tax Dispute
PORTLAND (IT The State
Tax Commission and Multnomah
County reached a compromise on
an assessment dispute Monday.
The dispute was over a tax com
mission order lowering some -assessments
made by the county.
In the compromise both skies
agreed that for 1953 property
would be assessed at 55 per cent
of cash value. Spokesmen said this
would leave all assessments ex
cept those on merchandise, at the
1952 level. Merchandise tuss
ments will go up about 2 per cent,
the spokesmen said.
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Hoax Telegram
Said Traced to
Seattle Man
SEATTLE tn A Seattle furni
ture salesman was arrested Mon
day on a charge of sending a hoax
telegram to the Washington State
Prison to delay the executions of
Turman and Utah Wilson. , .
John Edward (Tommy) Thom
as. 42. -the father of two children.
was taken into custody by agents
of the FBI and charged with im
personation of a federal official.
He was released on $1,000 bond
and preliminary hearing was , set
for next Monday.
Richard D. AuerbackJ special
agent for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation here. said ; Thomas
had denied the charge-after his
arrest. :- "'. ; j -j -v v-
Auerbach said the telegram was
catted in to the -. Western Union
office here late Friday night from
a pay phone in a tavern, but de
clined comment on now 'the Jriii
decided. Thomas was the sender.
Thomas told reporters late: he
was in the tavern that night with
his wife and had "twa or three
beers." but he denied repeatedly
that he had sent the wire..
He said anyone dispatching such
a telegram would have had an
"emotional interest In the Wilson
brothers," and be had not even
read of the case until afte- his
arrest. -
Thomas said he used1 the pay
telephone in the tavern several
times trying to call his mother-
in-law to ask her to care for their
children until their return home.
Then he added:
"If I were going to se&d a tele
gram like that I certainly would
The telegram, sent Friday night,
was recieved at the prison a few
minutes after the brothers had
been hanged for the 1950 slaying
OF JoAnn Dewey of Vancouver.
The telegram, purporting to be
from UJS. Sen. Warren G. Mag
nuson, carried the signature "W.
D. Magnuson.
It read: "Herewith is ordered a
stay of execution of Wilson Broth
ers by emergency decree, presi
dential authority, delegated
through me as U.S. Senator from
Washington. Confirmation coming
from Olympia."
The telegram previously had
been braced to a call from a Seat
tle telephone booth.
The Wilson brothers were
hanged after a long legal battle
which brought them four re
prieves. They denied their guilt to
the end. -
The output of soft coal in U. S.
mines is about seven tons per man
day, which is an increase of 50
per cent in 15 years.
Ends Today!
(Wed.)
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Battleship Back
In Yellow Sea
T6 Plague Reds .
SEOUL CP) The battleship Mis
souri returned to the Yellow Sea
Tuesday for the third time since
1950 and Joined British warships
in blasting Communist- targets
along ; North Korea's West Coast.
The big battlewagon turned. her
IS inch rifles on gun caves and
fortifications. In the Haeju. Penin
sula area. The British cruiser Bir
mingham Joined in the attacks and
Fireflies and Seafuries from the
British Carrier Glory roared down
on Red supply targets.
American warplanes streaked
across the North Korea, bombing
and strafing rail lines in daylight
Wednesday. :
Allied infantry Tuesday night
turned back several Red thrusts
on the Sniper Ridge and Jane Rus
sell Hill sectors of the Central
front. -More
than 100 Allied fighter-
bombers destroyed at least 28
buildings Tuesday in a raid on a
big Red troop and supply center
SO miles frem Manchuria in North
west Korea, i
Communist MIGs from nearby
Manchurian bases did not chal
lenge the massive air strike, but
Sabre pilots claimed two Red Jets
were damaged earlier In the day.
Revised Plans
For St Paul's
!
Church Okehed
Tentative revised mans tot a
proposed new St. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Salem were approved
at a church vestry meeting Tues
day night and construction may
possibly start next spring.
Glenn S. Paxson, chairman -of
the church building committee,
said that bids will be called for
and. If "everything goes well,"
construction may begin in the
spring. It Is hoped he said that fi
nal figures on the bids may be in
by February.
Paxson said that it Is expected
to complete the new edifice this
year, i& construction begins early
enough. The plans, he said, have
been redesigned to fit in with the
church's means to build. The first
set, he said, found the project
Trunning away" from the church s
financial means.
The church plans to build on
the site of the old Lincoln School
building in south Salem. The re
vised plans do not change the
main floor plan but bring changes
in the upper portion and outside
of the building.
$10 Million in
State Highway
Bonds Sold
PORTLAND UP) Ten million
dollars worth of bonds were sold
Tuesday by the Oregon Highway
Commission, which accepted the
interest rate of 1.99 per cent
offered by the First National Bank
of Chicago and 28 Assc-iates.
The bonds were the last of 40
million for highway work author
ized by the 195' Legislature.
Commission Engineer R. H. Bal-
ddck said that h ' of the 10 million
would be spent on projects to be
put under contract Jan. 22. The
rest will be spent by May 1. -Fred
Paulson, deputy state
treasurer, said that the Interest
rate was higher than previous
sales. The first two sales were at
a rate of 1.(1 per cent and the
third at 1.63.
The 1.99 per cent rate Is In lihe
with bids for state and municipal
bonds and Is close to the figure
paid by the federal government on
91-day treasury notes.
The bonds sold Tuesday will
mature In Hair-million dollar units
annually from 1953 to 1972.
The commission! also approved a
plan to temporarily Invest surplus
bond money. It was pointed out
that such an investment lor periods
of from three to 18 months could
earn the commission up to $300,000
on the money.
Baldock recommended that the
commission approved a West Port
land expressway-route 9.28 miles
long that would cost $8,896,000. He
said ft would be cheaper than the
proposed Upper Boones Ferry or
Tualatin Tunnel-routes.
FARM POLICT DEBATED
WASHINGTON j A commis
sion named by Eisenhower to help
draft GOP farm policy debated In
closed sessions Tuesday ways of
streamlining tne Agriculture De
partment and its far-flung region
al and local, agencies. r
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and thunder Is the noise caused bv
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Starts Tonight ' : . Open eM5
- Cary Grant. Ginger Rogers
"Monkey Business"
Also
: 'Rose Bowl Story"
Marshall Thompson ,
h Frco Tclsviricn
Ttcriro - "l
Teater Appliance and Tele
visien Ce. Invites yeat and yevr
family to attend their free tele
vision theater every sslrht tH
t P. M. Monday threvra Friday.
The theater la located tight in
'the a4ere.-:;op
S7S CSiemeketa Phone 2-4111
Arrest of Trio
Gears Santiam
Area Robberies
r Two service station burglaries of
last Saturday, one at Mill City
and one at AumsvUIe, were clear
ed tip Tuesday with the arrest of
three young men. in Vancouver,
Wash, police reported. ; I ,
Representatives of the Marlon
County- sheriffs office and; state
police., who went . to Vancouver
Tuesday. Identified the youths las
Gary Glen Blegan. 20;. J ame s
Washington Robb, 19, and Vernon
Ray Crannll, 18. j 1
Officers said the men admitted
burglaries the S. C (Pink) Mason
service station at MCI City and
the Crandle Garageat Anmsville
early Saturday. Seven tires taken
from the Crandle Garage and a
considerable amount of automotive
supplies taken "from the-MlH City
station were recovered. ; t
Cranfm was returned and lodged
In Albany jail on Linn County
warrant charging him with bur
glarizing Mason's station, located
in Una County at .Mill City. , A
Marion 'County warrant charging
burglary of the AumsvUIe garage
win be filed this week, deputies
said. ... ....
Meanwhile Blegan and ! Robb
were taker to Lyle, Wash, to face
burglary charges there, officers
said. j
Miimina Plant
WASHINGTON-(S p e c I a 1)-A
spokesman for General Services
Administration disclosed Tuesday
that disposition of the Salem-Alu-mina
Plant may not be made for
three or four weeks."
The plant built north of Salem
In World War II was recently put
up for sale by the government.
Decision on the federal-owned
property has been shifted i from
the Seattle, Wash., field office of
GSA to Washington, according to
Murray Cramer, and is being de
layed pending an up-to-date ap
praisal of what the plant is worth
on the market today. '
Cramer said GSA has now re
ceived three bids on the plant, one
from the Harvey Machine Co. Cra
mer added the new appraisal is
being made because "all the bids
may be too low."
Cramer explained that GSA can
refuse to sell even to the- high
est bidder if the top bid Is deemed
insufficient by GSA.
INDICTMENTS SOUGHT
BOSTON Uh Federal prose
cutors are endeavoring to indict
12 men named by the FBI as par
ticipants in the $1,219,000 Brink
robbery, ft waa reported Tuesday
night.
There was no comment' avail
able from official sources.'
Cash
Interest
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Case Delayed
U1DD & DUSH-SALEM DPfl
1ST iSftEtt B1ICI!
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Capitol Area
ect
Of Discussion
(Story also on page 1)
Zoning of the fringes of the
State Capitol Mall was discussed
Tuesday when the Salem Plan
ning - and Zoning Commission
Joined the State Capitol Planning
Commission in a discussion - fol
lowing the latter'a regular meet
ing. .
The two planning; groups
reached : accord over the - general
trend of zoning to be recommend
ed m the reaming of Salem A
zoning commission committee Is
now preparing the big code revis
ion for the consideration of the
commission, the, public (at hear
ings) and the City Council.
Under the tentative plans com
mercial zoning would be made
alone: Canitol Street at the east
fringe of the malL The Capitol
Shopping Center and other busi
ness development already has be
come r established along Capitol
Street near the state buildings.
On the west fringe, along the
west side of Winter Street, mem
bers of both- commissions indi
cated an agreement that apartment-type
residential zoning be
enacted, probably witn a neignt
restriction so that no building be
erected r higher than the: state
buildings along the maL.
Robert ' Stanley, code revision
chairman . for the city zoners,
pointed out that much of the west
fringe Is already established In
character with the telephone
building at Court Street, the Pres
byterian Church probably to be
relocated at Ghemeketa Street, the
new St- Joseph's Catholic Church
in the next block and the big Lee
Apartments at Union Street.
Snow Blows
Across Plains ; .
By The Associated Press -A
snow storm fanued eastward
across the frozen Midwest Tues
day, coating streets and n ds and
slowing traffic in- some sections.
The storm, bringing two to four
inches of new snow moved from
the Dakota s across Southern Min
nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Njrthe.4
Missouri, Illinois and Indiana into
Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.
Another storm, in the Northern
Appalachians, dumped up to six
inches of snow in parts of New
York state and West Virginia.
The temperature dropped below
zero in northern and central sec
tions of the Midwr- and in North
ern New England.-
The mercury still was 5 degrees
below zero at mid-day in Bismarck,
N.D. and in International Falls.
Minn., and Grantsburg, Wis., it
feU to -28.
SNOW, FREEZE IN EUROPE "
LONDON Irl Snow and freez
ing temperatuu.es hit most of Eu
rope Tuesday and the usually sun
ny Mediterranean shiverc under
some of its first Icy blasts of the
winter.
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RESOURCES
on Hand and Due from Banks. ... . . f . J. . .. M .... M M . . .. f 143,123,4753
United States Government Bonds. . . . ,
Municipal and Other, Bonda. .......
Loans and Discounts Net.
Stock in Federal Reserve Ban)c ..............
Bank Premises (Including Branches)
Customer Liability on Acceptances
Earned .
Other Roara)e....-...,.....-.... w.. " 150,935.78
$ 688,4168163
LIABILITIES ,
Capital - . 14.000,000.00
Surplus -r., 16,000,000.00 ,
Undivided Profits. .U 1429.735.19 ; 4429,7359
Reserves for Interest,' Taxes, etc.. . ... ' 2,676.878.78
Acceptances.. ..... 641,856-03
Dividends Declared M .. M ...... ........ M M . 420,000.00
Deposits ; : 63782.93
Interest Collected Not Earned ... . . . . . . . . . '. 314632
Other Llabmtiea . - 60.700.21
V ' ' ' S $ 633,416163
Tkls ttattmtnt I aofadet 40 tranche UOrtgm.
' Haas Orncmt PORTLAND, OREGON . .
SSAMSH Se
Dulles Aide to
Taclde Job of
Reorgahizatic.n
" NEW YORK ! (II President
elect' Eisenhower Tuesday named
an undersecretary of state whose
duties win among c er things.
Include reorganization of the oft-
criticized State Department. ,
Chosen for the post ; was Dooold
B. Lourie of Peru, HL. 53 year old
president of the Quaker Oats Com
pany, a Republican' and an All
America football player at Prince
ton in 1920. .- ; . , - .
' The announcement of ' his ap
pointment raid the purpose of his
job is to relieve John Foster Dulles,
secretary, of state-designate, and
his policy advisers from the bur
den of reorganization and admin-"
lstration." ... L" -v
No further details were given.
.Eisenhower named a Washington
newspaperman as ah assistant sec
retary of state who will head the
"Voice of America" broadcast op
erations another State Depart
ment facility which baa. at times
drawn fire. ;.
Selected for ' this position was
Carl W. McCardle, a veteran news
man who now is in charge of the
Washington bureau of the Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin. .The an
nouncement said he would be pri
marily concerned with public af
fairs In the assistant secretary's
post
Two Wrecks
In Silverton
lUUuua Nwa Serrle ' .
SILVERTON Two motor acci
dents occurred on Silverton hilly
street sections Tuesday.
A truck, driven by Delbert Iver
son and loaded with hog fuel
tipped over on the driveway of
the R. X Fisher home in the West
Hill section. Street traffic wa
blocked for almost an hour.
Fred Crites, a passenger In a
car driven by Fred Kuenzi, sus
tained head and back injuries
when the car In which they were
riding ran into a power pole while
coming down East H11L Crites was
treated at Silverton hospital and
released.
DMCE
TOIJIGHT
Crystal Gardens
Modern & Old Tim '
Music by Pop Edwards
COUDOtlftOD
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PLYWOOD FRIGS P.OOST
PORTLAND m The U and M
Wood Working Company of Port
land, one of the Pacific Northwest's
major Douglas fir plywood pro
ducers. Tuesday announced a ply
wood price increase of about per
cent
By-Pass Job
Bids Sought.
"Bids for grading and surfacing
approximately five miles of the
Turner Road-Battle Creek June
tlon unit of the new by-pass high
way southeast of Salem will be
called for at a State Highway
Commission meeting in Portland
Jan. 2122.-:
Also to be considered will be
bids on paving of about seven
miles of the new Wilsonville cut
off route near Tualatin, and fur
nishing 19,000 cubic yards of
crushed rock and gravel in stock
piles on the Santiam Highway east
of Foster in Linn County.
Multnomah County projects In
cluded in the bidding are construc
tion of a concrete 130-foot viaduct
to carry T. II. Banfield express
way traffic over a connection to
Multnomah Street at 82nd Ave
nue in Portland and the Cereghlno
overcrossing of the Union Pacifia
Railroad Co. tracks on the ex
pressway. ,
MAN DIES IN BLAZE
PORTLAND in A man tenta
tively Identified as Charles Wilson,
76, died Tuesday In a flash fire
which swept through a two-room
shack where he lived with 25 stray
cats.' Death was believed caused by
asphyxiation.
ACTRESS AWAITS BIRTH
HOLLYWOOD (sV-Actress Eliz
abeth Taylor entered Santa Monica
hospital Tuesday to await' the birth
of her first child.
Dr. Monrad Aaberg said the
baby would be delivered by Caes
arian section Wednesday morning..
TICKETS II0V7
Joseph Sztgett, Violinist
Salem High Auditorium
Monday, January It, I:1S pjn.
Tickets At Stevens Jewelers
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900,000.00
774,899.12
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