: ' r ; - : i - - - i ;-v ; - ;: -.. j-- -; - - - . I ' i - 4 .. - .. ; . . 'v. ':-...)....,; .. - ,-. . . . .. , '. t. . ; ...... " i -!-. J Eaiculty of Pacific U. Asks President Quit FOREST GROVE CB The faculty of Pacific University Tues day demanded the resignation of President Walter C. Giersbach in the climax to long dissatisfaction over his leadership. " Giersbach.' who was appointed to the state Legislature to fill the seat left vacant when ; Paul Patterson, Hillsboro, became governor, was la Salem at the time. He was expected to return here Tuesday night for a possible meet ing with the faculty members. . Two of the faculty members were absent. ., Forty had , signed the resolution 7 before the meeting adjourned. Earlier, the 103-year-old Univer sity announced that a reduction in the staff and an increase in tuition was under consideration, because of financial conditions. . '. ' The resolution, which said a bill of particulars would follow, was telephoned to State Supreme Court Justice George Rossman, chairman of Pacific's board pf trustees,. , -. lC2nd TCAB 14 -PAGES Th Oregon Stcrtesmaru Salem, Orgoxu ednesdar, FebruorT 1953: PBICE Sc No. 842 Lambs, Flowers Give Valley Springlike Loolc f .- r i - The resolution ... also was tele- The vote on a resolution asking f phoned' to Dr, Giersbach in Salem. Giersbach's dismissal was 42 to LI He had no immediate comment. fj..:i,k''(V ::. ' , fV ,: r v - UK; i Pen Riot Blamed on Old (Locks; Probe Underway By PHIL SLOCUM Staff Writer The Statesman Warden Virgil O'Malley of blamed antiquated locks and a Monday night's four-hour riot by He also called the segregation inadeauate and Doorly planned." Five hostage guards grabbed vui n i9ni between hizh and low water along the ocean, estu- aries and navigable streams is vested in the State of Oregon, save where sales have been made. Vnr- sn however, nrlvate eon- ZFCP to cms I . . 1 . . " .. i Mnrtt rivpmiv me State Land Board has been check- tog on such use and has begun to collect rentals from such users. Some companies, feeling they had a vested interest irom tneir wmg use, were very reluctant to pay Ieek reUef through legislative ac- Hon. Representatives Dyer and Eaton of Clatsop County have Intro- duced a bill HB 345 wnicn would sdve owners of shore or uDlands bordering on tidelands who have built or constructed ac least 10 years prior to Jan. 1, 1953 permanent and suDstanuai installations and improvements on the UDland or shoreland "the right I " When cuch an owner petitions the State Land Board the latter is required to offer such tidelands for sale and the owner has the prefer ence. The act would not apply to tidelands fronting the Pacific Ocean. The State of Oregon ought not to part witn its utie to mis lana. "b k', ,i usuallv is small and with only A Kt (inna rha r9 nvcirm I one bidder, in all likelihood, the amount realized would be smalL ("The nresent law specifies a mini- mum of $5 an acre on sales of 6UU1 uuiu. w minii wvuiu wuuuut h m wu- i siderabie sum wnicn wouia go to i f h mmmnn school fund. I rnnririen'nv tho wn-v our Bchool I land heritage was dissipated in the cerns made use ox sucn lanas zor i uuu puaiciu ucuiues nugai d log dumps, boat landings, etc. needed to prevent future such oc .rithnut navinir anv romoensation I currences. Also we talked about ceriod of Oregon settlement ltioul kthuc, nas repeated ner vie- benooves tne present generauon i (Continued on editorial page, 4) ValsetzMan Killed by Log Statessuui Nws ferric DALLAS A Valsetz Lumber in the woods near Valsetz Tues- day morning when a huge log rolled down a hill and crushed him. He was identified as Thomas I K. Bundrich, 32, a powder man tn h rorrmnnv. - Urftnaccoa aM 'RiinHri ranlWOn by Gerald DarbV. 12. urn nf tvi 9A Imm tha I in front of the rolling log be-1 fore it caught up with him. Tvwue ' 01 IAr- Rna Mrs ttm. MnmVv nnfv.a-r mm- James Downes. Route 3. Silverton. pany employe, was standing be- tj J-Tk iTTT.-- I ed rolling irom Its oerch on thelvlu graaers. hill above them. ;. i MuTDhr ducked to one tide, but! his companion ran down the hill in front of .the log. Rollman Funeral Home. Dallax- awaiting notification of relatives. Animal Crackers By WARREN C000R1CH CUT IT CUT. WlitYA. OKI AJE J . . ; V . . the Oregon State Prison Tuesday. "little carelessness by guards" for 20 dangerous convicts. ward where the uprising centered by the cons at 6:30 p. m. feeding I time were released unn armed at 10:40 p. m. after Warden O'Malley I told the rioters he would meet their demand that they get defin ite terms in segregation. Meanwhile, the State Board of Control opened an investigation Tuesday of the prison flare-up and conferred for an hour with War den O'Malley. Gov. Paul L. Patterson, chair man of the board that runs all state institutions, said the warden tola ms story ox-what happened. "The board is goinf to exnlore au angles, tne uovernor said. "and if there is any censure due. we will give it after the investiea- un. Ana n we una oui we iixe the way it was handled, we'll give cremt wnere cremt is due." AIie wvernor saia: we aiscussea wnetner adal 1 1 lliAJ t i . 1 U- i w , iiura uiat uic wai ucn uas uul in fUect to make certain that all men .""5 locked in their cells when be food is brought in." A new segregation building, to pc me present anuquated j unit located in the basement of Med in July or August, O'Malley aalu- uov. Fatterson said the board wouia decide wnat steps need to o wten 10 mue aure that tne Present segregation unit is made seuTe unUl the new unit is built uwv utwu vu page Girl Repeats Spelling Win; Two Certified .tudents. Jnelndfn 1116 mira-place winner In the mn r i u .... . r ' fled Tuesday for semi-finals of The Oregon Statesman-KSLM slHnr- rvmtoct tvi, i schools have chosen their spelling cnampiom 11 KIT IS and 5 DOTS addui o remain tn iiptM Victor Point Msnr TJnHa TWr er now a ripo old IS and in the ? i t vmj i:ixuig V -. cnampion oz UUS i 'Mtrion county 1 S school and will represent Victor Point In the 1953 Oregon States- stnan - KSLM Mary Linda. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Doeruer of Route S, Silverton, was tops in her semi- Mary Linda ""Xs iasi year and placed third ra nnais. sne wiu com- E? !? emi-finals at Iit?0 weanesday night. "t: , Pcipai and tea- r" " carpenter. I Second place at Victor Point wa LT. Bna JUTS. J. tJ- IJarhv KAIitA r Overton, ana tnird by David fiK . 180 placed s?? to,MaiT Unda a year ago. Both Gerald and " St Paul rGerald Alan Martin 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Zen Mar (tin, won top spelling honors in St. (will rrmrkt in " 1-- the semi-finals of The Oregon Statesman - KSLM. Spelling Contest at Wood burn, Thursday, March 12. Gerald, an 8th- grader, was cer-I tilled for the con test by his prin-. j ' cipal and teacher, 4 1 Francis C D r a- Gerald Martin per. - : "- - V . -' - Second-clace winner at St. Paul School was Marion Beta, DeVault, A S -a ( . i i, ana taxing mira piace was Ar mando, Salinas . Bustamante, ' 15. Marion is in the 7th grade. Ar mando the 8th. . t j , J Gerald won second a year aeo. and now" gets his chance for the still higher honors. 7 .- EX-SEN. REED DIES .'. . t SARASOTA. n. A Former U. S. Sen. David A.-Reed, who achieved fame as a soldier, law yer and politician, died Tuesday in this winter resort after suffer ing a heart attack. He was 72. - The Pennsylvania - Republican was stricken while wintering with his wife at Boae Grand Island, 40 miles southwest of ' here - in the Gull of Mexico. 1 At- I Lambs, flowers and lots of sunshine Tuesday gave the Willamette proaening spring win oe use. A eoupie or youngsters, only a few weeks old. were caught romping in the yard of their owners. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Peterson, Salem Route 1 (Wallace Road.) An unusually mild winter has apparently speeded the shrubs and flowers, like the eamelia above, Into leaf and bloom several weeas aneaa or 'Package' Tax BillReady For House Vote By HECTOR L. FOX Associate Press Writer The "package" tax revision pro gram drafted by an Interim com mittee and designed to simplify Oregon's tax structure, goes before the House of Representatives Wed nesday with prospects of easy ap proval. Six bills are wrapped up In tne package, but only one has far- reaching significance. It would put income tax revenue into the gen eral fund instead of using It to offset the state property tax. The tax bills comprise only the third major legislation to reach the House floor since the Legisla ture convened 4Vt weeks ago. First was code revision, which compact ed all state laws into a few volum es, and the second was the $32,- 000,000 highway bonds issue bill. Legislative machinery, slowed after a rapid start, appeared to be picking up again with 18 bills in the House and 18 in the Senate scheduled for final vota Wednes day. Falls by One Vote Senate activity Tuesday center ed on a bill that would remove Oregon Liquor Control Commis sion field men from civil service. The bill failed by one vote 15 to 14, with 16 required but Sen. Rex Ellis. Pendleton, gave notice of re consideration. Kills frequently has fought civil service. The House, with only one dis senting vote, gave a clean bill of health to dog and horse racing, whose demise was sought in two bills authored by Rep. Joseph Har vey, Portland, militant foe of gam bling. Harvey's defeated bills would have outlawed dog racing anywhere in Xh state and "horse racing in Portland. : Among new bills to be introduc ed Wednesday is a proposal by Rep. Carl Francis, Dayton, to let school boards reduce the length of the school year without losing bas ic school money. Purpose is to per mit school children time off to harvest crops. Sweetland Bill Rep. 'Monroe Sweetland, Mil waukee, leader of the fight to com pel power companies to Itemii surcharges on customers' bins, nas nrenared another bill that would order Public Utilities Commission er Charles H. Heltzel to hold an investigation of - the recent sur charges -within 30 days after ap nreval of the legislation. ; " ' ' It further provides that Heltzel would direct refund of the sur charges if he finds them unjusti fied, or ; refund ? part of it , if the surcharge is greater than tne com panies' cost of steam generation. An Increase in the - Highway Commission from- three to live members, one from each congres sional district ,; and the fifth ' at large. Is proposed by Rep. E. H. Mann,; Medford. vil: -C- -The -tax .commlttee-'Wiu intro duce .the governor's bill to require the tax, commission to report all compromised tax claims of more than $500 under both the person al income and corporate excise tax law. vw:.;.w;:vJvji;,; Game Season Bin r The Senate game committee re ported out favorably a bill that would . empower the - governor to close .any and all game and animal seasons -when forest fire hazards deem it necessary. Additional legislative news on page 40 4 v; schedule, (statesman Photo.) rr A 1 t - 1 - LEBANON Ever see rhododendrons blooming earlier? May Is the usual rhododendron time in Oregon, but these are blooming this week at Lebanon where Miss Lenoro Sonle la pictured in her front yard with a bush 18-inehes blsb that has IS cluster of fjowers. City, County Offices To be Qosed on Lincoln's Birthday Only city and county offices in Salem will close Thursday in ob servance of Lincoln's birthday, with other - nubile - agencies re maining open. State offices, however, will op erate with skeleton crews only. The Legislature will be in session, with a joint meeting during the afternoon for a Lincoln program. Business as usual will be the pattern for the Postof fice, schools and banks. " " For Salem and Marion County, only emergency services will be on auty. - 1 - "I " " A-umimission Chief to Resign ; WASHINGTON " Ul Gordon Dean said Tuesday, night he will quit-: in June as chairman of -the Atomic Energy, Cominission. In answer to an inquiry, he an nounced through a spokesman that he would - return - to private life when his three-year term expires . There was no indication whom President Eisenhower , would ap point to the post. But one of the five commission jobs is now -va cant and Eisenhower could name someone to that spot at any time. let the new man familiarize him self with the vast atomic program and then move him into the chair manship -when Dean steps out. ' Besides Dean, other members of the commission are "Thomas E. Murray, II. D. Smyth and Eugene M. Zuckert. . . f - v Dean took over the post as No. 1 overseer of the nation's atomic de velopment program in 1950 after more than a year as a commis sioner, v., - r a -O w ,N 4 He V 1 1 w- d : T- VA1 p my r .-' a T . T : Valley a strong hint of what ap- I n Escape Adds Charge Against ers , LEBANON Four teen agers were arrested, charged with escap ing from a police officer, here Tuesday after City Policeman Louis Fenner was shoved from an auto. " 1 Fenner said he was shoved from the car as he was escorting the youths to the police station about 12:30 a.m. The officer,! who was injured slightly, alerted Al bany police , who ''set up a road block and , apprehended the I four within a few minutes. - .v-i 1 The youths were listed as David Homer Blakely, 19, Selma; Rich ard Arlen Rhodes, 18, Corvallis; Floyd Benjamin Low, 19, Philo math; and a 13-year-old Corvallis lad. ' Fenner said he saw the ! four emerging from a tavern with two cases of beer and originally book ed them . on charges - of curfew violation and Illegal possession of liquor. They were , held on $200 bail. ''- .p.-i ': -::-: f f. 4 Teen Aa ' w ' ii w "m f . '1 Max. Mln. Prccip. 4 , 2 A - 50 33 "trace - 60 37 "IM . 40 -S3 ; rtrace Portland San Francisce VUIV.IV mm New York 39 .28 . '.SO . Willamett River 15.S leeC j. ' TOKECAST .from UJS. Weather bu reau. McNary field. , Salem) : i Partly cloudy today, mostly clear Thursday." A little cooler - tonight. High, today near 53 degrees, low near 29. Tem perature at 12 1 jn. .was 33 de- SALEM. PRECIPITATION j Since St-rt of Weather Year 'Sept. 1 Tt lt ' ijr Last Year . Non-jl 23.72 33.02 24-SS Farm Leaders 'Satisfied' After Meet With Bie WASHINGTON (fl Farm Bu reau leaders carried their objec tions to high - level fixed price supports direct to President Eisen hower Tuesday and expressed sat isfaction afterward. "Most satisfactory."1, said Presi dent Allan B. Kline of the Ameri can Farm Bureau Federation as the delegation of 25 from the big agricultural organization left the White House meeting. The session was obviously a move! by the new Republican ad ministration to knit tighter its re lations with a : farm group that has been sharply at odds with Democratic officials for years. The! split with former officials has stemmed largely from the price support issue which the Fed eration leaders pressed in their talk with Eisenhower. Farm Bureau leaders hold that the government market supports should be on a flexible basis rang ing from 75 per cent of parity to 90 per cent, and should be re lated to the level of production. Parity is the price determined by a legal formula to be fair to farmers in relation to the cost of things they buy. The Farm Bureau leaders ar gue that in times of heavy farm output the supports should be low ered to discourage production and prevent accumulation of market- depressing surpluses. When pro duction falls too low they want a higher floor to encourage plant ing. Eisenhower has pledged contin uation of supports at the present level of 90 per cent of parity on major crops while a system for the future is being worked out. The . present program runs by law .through 1954 and a good many of the farm bloc leaders in con gress are urging its extension. Kline told reporters the Presi dent was 4'very much concerned" over a bit of a Joke out of the "talk blaming my administration for the current situation." Frost Damage Orchardists and berry growers in the Salem area did not believe that j the frosts of the past two nights . had injured their crops. they 1 reported Tuesday. When contacted by the States man! Farm Editor late Tuesday afternoon, Don Rasmussen, Mar ion County extension agent, also reported that he felt quite sure that I none of the fruits were far enough along to suffer injury. Strawberry plants are much more advanced than commonly at this time of the year, he said, but, he added, frequently the temperature drops this low in March or early April when the plants are usually this far along in growth, and they are uninjured. . Some reports became current Tuesday morning to the effect that! strawberry plants and or- cnard . trees had suixered from frost Monday night. ' "I don't really think this could be possible as yet," Rasmussen stated. Crops Escape Vami FleetSavsjSfiSeinisive By JOHN RANDOLPH SEOUL Iff) Gen. James A. van! Fleet turned over his Eighth Army command Wednesday to a fighting paratrooper general and left ; Korea with a ringing state ment that the Allies . can smash the Reds there : now. V Before handing over his com mand to 51-year-old LA. Gen. Max well D. .Taylor. Van Fleet con fidently replied ."certainly" when asked . In an interview whether an Allied ' general offensive in Korea would be successful at this time. Van Fleet was given a , tumul tuous farewell from thousands of cheering, flag-waving Koreans who lined the streets of Seoul and who repeatedly have acclaimed him as their "friend, protector and brother-in-arms." The . actual change in command of the 11-nation army1 the first major " military change in President- Eisenhower's administration - took place I by ."Army custom at the moment Van Fleet de parted. ' ' , Gen. Mark W.' Clark, TJ. N. com mander in the Far East, sent his own plane, from. Tokyo to carry Van Fleet on tthe first leg of the Journey back to the U. S. and retirement. ; - Divorce to Cost Million Dollars, ' To Marry Again LOUISVILLE. Ky. Or) Mil lionaire - sportsman Horace E. Dodge's divorce from Mrs. Clara Tlnsley Dodge, his fourth wife, will cost him around a million dollars. A property - rights agreement filed in Circuit Court Tuesday in her divorce - suit against the. De troit automobile fortune heir pro vides for payment of $750,000 to Mrs. Dodge, The couple was married in Eng land in 1945 when she was an Ar my nurse and he a major. Sep arated in 1950, they have no chil dren. At BeloiL Wis., Gregg Sher wood, actress and model, announc ed Tuesday she ''will marry Dodge Saturday at Palm Beach, Fla. Hobo Slain in Albany Jungle; Ex-Con Sought SteUnua Niwi Itrrk ALBANY A 56-year-old trans ient was slain during a six-day drinking spree - in an Albany "jungle" and police were searching early Wednesday for an ex-coh-vict charged with murder. Linn County ."District Attorney Courtney Johns said police hold a warrant for the arrest on a mur der charge of John Bob SturgOl, 37, also a transient. - i Found dead Tuesday noon In a crude cardboard shack in a hobo Jungle about two miles north of Albany was Lot Hughes Gllmore. Johns said Gllmore had been beaten over the head with a two by four stick, sometime Saturday during a hobo drunk party. Gllmore : and two companions began the spree last Thursday and were Joined by Sturgill, Johns reported. I - - Saturday afternoon, Sturgill, for no apparent reason, said Johns, beat Gllmore over the head with the stick. ! The old man lay In his make shift bed from Saturday until yes terday still alive while his two hobo friends continued to drink, the District Attorney said. Meanwhile, another hobo re ported he saw. Sturgill leaving town Saturday night. Police have definite clue as to his whereabouts. Report of Gilmore's death came when another transient wandered in on the drinking party Tuesday morning and saw the old man lying in the shack, "barely breath ing." ! A check later by this same tran sient found Gllmore dead and he reported it to Pliny Moen, South ern Pacific Railroad dispatcher whose office is about 300 yards from the jungle. He called police. PASSES UP JOB WASHINGTON (ff)-Robert C. Sprague, Massachusetts manufac turer, tapped by the Elsenhower administration to be undersecre tary of the Air Force, passed up the post Tuesday rather than sell his stock in his family-owned elec tronics firm. It was the ; first time Van Fleet had left Korean soil since he took over command of the Eighth Army 22 months ago. Van Fleet's emphatic statement that the - Communists can " be smashed now was made in reply to written questions submitted on the eve of his departure. v Speaking with a frankness he never was able to use as com manding general, the graying field soldier said opportunities for vic tory were lost twice while he com manded and called for a Republic of Korea army with 20 'combat divisions ! (it now has 14) and a million men. ' - - ' 1. (In Washington the Pentagon had no comment on the .retiring commander's statements.) Van Fleet" took his stand In an swering nine questions ' asked by the Associated Press Tuesday, Van Fleet said the lost oppor tunities were after the defeat of the Communists In their April and May offensive of 1851, and after the gjindin?;, successful United Na tions offensive that fall. His 'answers implied that he was willing to smash the Reds both times with all-he -had but was held back by policy. - making au thority, , . - ST Reed Leads Fight to Reduce Taxes June 30 WASHINGTON 11 Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee apparently agreed Tues-. day to vote for their chairman's bill to cut personal Income taxes 10 per cent starting June 30. Reports from GOP members ol the committee after a two-hour. private caucus indicated the mea sure by Rep. Reed (Rj-N.Y.) would be approved at an open meeting next Monday. : . Several Democrats on the Waysr and Means Committee.-which must originate all tax bills in Con--gress, have also said they would Join Reed's tax-cutting drive, mak ing committee approval Monday almost a sure , thing. The committee members are fly- ing in the face of the Eisenhow er administration's policy to gok slow on tax reductions until the , budget is . cut sharply a policy supported by most Republican leaders In Congress. . If the Reed bill Is approved Monday, it will still have to fight its way out of the Rules Committee, which normally clears bills for floor action. Majority leaders in the House have indicated .the bill may be held up for six weeks to two months in the Rules Committee'- . Reed said he wasn't going to give up on his bill despite the . White House attitude, and that con-' sultation with the Eisenhower ad ministration ."isn't necessary." .VI don't run away from my own goal line," he told reporters. Congressional staff experts es timate a 10 per cent cut would cost the government $1,800,000,000 in revenue during the fiscal year beginning . July 1. President Eisenhower's policy is to grapple with tax cuts only after some progress has been made in reducing federal spending and bal ancing the ' budget. A legislative Srogram worked out with Repub can leaders at the White House Monday did not include any meas ures for reducing taxes in the next five months. $1,500,000 in Salem School Bonds Sold Sale of a mrnion and a half doL lars worth of Salem school district bonds was awarded to Foster and Marshall of Portland, one of three bidders, at the regular school board meeting Tuesday night. Foster and Marshall submitted their bid In association with Hal- Blair and Company, and Weeden and Company, all Chicago firms. The bonds will pay for the new South Salem High School. .The top bidder for the 20-year bonds offered a total. Interest cost of $327,875, less premium of $919, leaving net interest cost of 3426. 960. An effective Interest rate of 2.7108 was offered with the follow ing breakdown: 4 per cent during 1954-58; 2V4 per cent during 1959 63: 2V per cent during 1964-65, and 2 per cent during the 1966-73. Other bidders were the U. S. National Bank and the First Na tional Bank; of Portland and As sociates. In other financial . matters be fore the board, the members con curred to pay $17,590 to the federal government In repayment of a loan made early in the construc tion of the South Salem High School as well as payment of $41,854 to Donald M. Drake, general contract tor at the project for services to date. (Additional details on page 1) . CAR, TRAIN COLLIDE A 1949 Lincoln driven by Ivan . Kock, .3800 Coburg Rd Eugene, was in collision with a Southern) Pacific freight train at 12th and Center Streets shortly after 11 Tuesday night. Police said the en gineer was not aware he had hit anything. No Injuries were re- ported. Daily Spoiler! (The following words are anions; those from which will be chosen the words for the ItZZ Ortrca Statesman-KSOl Spelling Con test for 7th and ta graders ef Marlon, Folk and part of Yamhill County t j conscientious . hammer danger temper . trespatsing destination changeable 7 'decide captain heaven physician language respectable penitentiary listening popular compliance - perceive Induitrioui TL.