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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1953)
IThe Statesman Salem. Oregon, Saturday, February I i. J 953 McKay Relates Life ! Of Cabinet Officer At Oregon Banquet . By ROBERT A. SMITH I Statesman Correspondent j ; 1 WASHINGTON The secretary of the interior was Just plain Joug McKay Friday night to 300 members of the Oregon Jgtate So ciety in Washington who gathered to honor him and celebrate the 94th birthday ox their state. , The former Oregon governor delighted his listeners with anec dotes of life in the cabinet, then enlightened them with a report on Police Catch Escap eesin Speedy Chase Eight escapees of the MacLaren School far Boys in Woodburn were captured by police early Friday .morning after a few short hours of freedom, but not before they had stolen- three cars and led police on a wild 90-mile-an-hour chase. Their escape was discovered about 1:15 a.m. after two of the youths' had overpowered a guard, grabbed his keys and locked him to a celL 'The two released six others, all of them TttyTimiim security prison ers held in the segregation ware, and then split up into groups of five and three. All have records of car theft and one was due for transfer to the Oregon State Peni tentiary. I Three walked side roads into Woodburn and stole a 1942 Dodge coupe and headed south. After a half-mile the car broke down and they abandoned it and walked back to Woodburn, police reported. They then followed railroad tracks to Gervais where they stole tl940 Ford owned by William neale. ; ' A Salem police officer spotted the trio in their speeding car about I a.m. and stopped them. Meanwhile, the other five youths stole a 1938 Plymouth in Gervais belonging to Ronald Schott. . State police officers Arthur Jenks and Floyd Morrill spotted the car coming into Salem from the north and gave it a 90-95 mile-an-hour chase through Salem streets, in chidine: a wrong way on Center Btreet The. escapees were cornered by city and- state police cars on Coburn Street in Candalaria Heights. Four were apprehended, but one fled on foot. He was picked up about a half-hour later at the corner of East Nob Hill and Rural Streets by a patrolling city officer. Escapees were Lawrence Atter- bury. it. Lebanon; Ronald Ed wards, 18. Eugene; Floyd E. Ham mond. 15. Portland; diaries it. Knox, 17. Springfield; Arlie G. Lyle, 16, Cottage Grove; and Ralph Welker, 17. Lebanon. Keizer Group Favors Bonds For School . Keizer school district residents indicated in discussion Friday night they favored a proposed $154,000 bond issue for a new seven-room school. Some 50 persons turned out for the meeting In the Keizer School - auditorium. School Board Chairman Sam Orcutt said "nearly everyone there eemed to favor the bond issue. Discussion of the bond issue was sidetracked during part of the meeting, however, when prospects at consolidation with the Salem school district were up for lively debate. - ; A special election on the bond Issue is set for Tuesday, Feb. 24. The bonds would be paid off in to -rears. The present building at Keizer Is filled to absolute capacity, Or- sutt saidi . An estimated 126 increase In the school census for next year will bring double-shift classes unless extra rooms can be acquired, he said. - , AMPLE DROPPED PORTLAND The Portland Symphony Society confirmed Fri day that James Sample will not return next season as director of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. conomvooDS Dane Every Sat NHa V TOMMY KJZZIAH And His West Ccast : Ramblers A new snap's floe fr year dancing pleasare. Dancing t to 12:19 A 01d Tim , -Banco Every - V . SaL Ilighl : Over Western Auto , 233 Court L xxczra OHCHE3TCA ildaau C3c Inc. Tax 1 - .,-:,;. rthe state of the State of Oregon as he left it when he resigned to come to Washington. i I don't know where they scared so many Oregonians out of the brush, McKay chuckled as he sur veyed the largest i crowd ever to gather for the annual state society dinner, "I guess It must get in your blood, living in Washington. But rm going back." McKay said he still had his house on Jerrls Avenue and a lot besides, so no matter what hap pened as he was going back to Oregon when he was through. He was heartily applauded by the so ciety, most of whose members are now permanent residents of Wash' tngton. ; "I got my first paycheck," Mc Kay reported, "so I Know they have me on the payroll. You know when I got this Job grandma asked me how much it paid. I told her I hadn't asked, because when Uncle Sam gets through with it and she pays for trips back to Oregon to see her five grandchildren, there won't be enough left to count. So why worry what the salary Is." The interior secretary has a plan, however, for cutting those expensive trips home, according to Mrs. McKay. She said he told her: "Grandma, when you get home sick, just get out your viewmas ter, prop your feet up at the win dow, and put in a slide of Mount Hood." After his speech, during whlca he gave a progress report on Ore gon industry and state problems, McKay, won a sack of Klamath Falls spuds, one of many door prize donated by Oregon busi nesses. Gifts bags of walnuts presented by the Salem Chamber of Com merce were won by ex-Senator Rufus Holman and Rep. Walter Norblad, among others. Prior to the speechmaklng. com ic gifts were distributed to the Oregon congressional delegation, j Congressman Norblad got . a cap with a visor to keep the rain and snow out of his eyes when he "picks up a few tips" carrying newspapers again, as he did last winter when his son was ilL Sen. Wayne Morse received a toy horseshoe, which Toastmaster Keith Hall said was for his horse, but the controversial maverick re torted with a laugh: "An I wish to say .is that I'm going to need the luck of the horseshoe. Sen. Guy Cordon got a copy of last years hefty federal budget, along with a tiny folder for the first skinny budget the new ad ministration sends to congress. And newcomer Rep. Sen. Coon got a pink baby hat, for being the baby congressman of the group. Pr. G. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette University, was in troduced at the dinner. He will speak this morning at dedicatory ceremonies at the U. S. Capitol when Oregon's two historic statues of Dr. John McLoughlin and the Rev. Jason Lee will be formally presented to the United States gov ernment for permanent placemen4 in statuary hall of the capitol. Before returning to Salem, prob ably next Thursday, Dr. Smith said hi is going to New York in search of several faculty members for the language and mathematics de partments. Leslie M. Scott, chairman of the Oregon Historical Society,, did not arrive in time for the dinner but is scheduled to participate in the statue ceremony today, along with Dr. Burt Brown Barker, Univer sity of Oregon vice president and chairman of the Oregon Statuary Committee. McKay win present the statues on behalf of Gov. Paul Patterson to Vice President Richard Nixon, receiving them for the United States. Pre-Camp Meet - Bids Officers of Reserve Groups : Three officers from Salem units will attend a pre-camp confer ence of 104th Division units this weekend preliminary to the annu al summer camp training, schedul ed this year, for July 28 to Aug. 9 atoFort Lewis, Wash. r " 1 Attending -the conference at Vancouver Barracks, will be Ma. KusseU I JOaynes, 1065 N. 22nd St, executive officer of the divis ions' 929th Field Artillery. Battal ion's 929th Field Artillery Battal- Edgewater St, battalion plans and training officer; and 1st. Lt. Trans P. Larson, 630 Wild Wind Dr, commander of E Company, 413th wxantry ttegunent. - - . WOMAN MISSING - " Statessaas Hews Srrfc DALLAS Mrs. Mary - Bialik. 23, of Route 2, Box 206. Dallas; was reported missing from her noroe .Friday by ber busband. AU:.lSVIllE-:; PAviuo:i DANCE Every Sat. Nite Tea Hue) S. Cast el Sales LZssie By IYIS AND i::s v.tstt:?iae:i3 . - Broadcast E5L21 ' . 79-8:C P. U. Louise Owens Lauded for Snikpoh Role By IAXINR BUREN Statesman Staff - Writer Again the paintings of the Chris Bean were found and sold, and his lowly, but faithful widow made rich from their sale when the ever-popular play The Late Chris topher Bean was produced, by the Snikpoh Dramotic Society Friday eight at Salem High School. The cast was headed by Louise Owens, who gave a convincing per formance' as the appealing mad Amy, who had befriended"' and secretly married the late Chris topher Bean, a poor artist. The Haggett for whom Amy worked included John Davis as Dr. Haggett, Judith Carlson as Susan, Marilyn Isaak as Mrs. Habbett and Dolores Miller as Ada. Others in the case were Tom Sauerwein as Warren, Gerald RempeL Mac Baker and James Boudreau as the are dealers. One of the most often-performed plays of the period. The Late Chris topher Bean provides an excellent opportunty for young actors to show their talents. Friday's pre sentation was well above average of high school performances. Mar garet Burroughs was director. Protestant Pair Ordered Out of Italy NAPLES, Italy fcr Italy Fri day ordered the expulsion of a Protestant American evangelist and tug wife. At least five other American evangelists and social workers have appeals from expulsion ocw ders pending, or are living; in this predominantly Roman Catholic na tion on three-month extension per mits. The Rev. Anthony Caliandro. 54. Italian-born director of the Evan gelical Biblical Institute, an nounced Wednesday that he and his wife were ordered to leave Italy within 48 hours on last Jan. 17, but that he had appealed to Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Friday Mayor Massimo Caprara of Naples personality handed the evangelist a notice that the pre mier had refused to intervene. Guglielmo Cera to, chief of the foreign section at police headquar ters, said there could be no further appeal and that if Caliandro re fused to leave the Ministry of In terior would decide on the next ac tion police would take. Caliandro said: "I will let the police know of my further move ments, but I will do nothing at all about leaving. I consider Mr. de Gasperi's refusal to give his rea sons for ordering my expulsion at least discourteous. The notice handed him said merely that.De Gasperi "has not entertained" the evangelist's ap peal. "I have no Idea why they want to expel us, the evangelist said. "We are assisting people. We art doing much good." He added, however, that the gov ernment was trying to drive sev eral other Protestant evangelists out of the country because there was a lot of pressure on the gov ernment about these things and we know where lt comes from. even though we do not feel free to say." One of the mainstays of Premier de Gasperi's political support in Italy is Catholic Action, a lay or ganization. Scouts Mark Anniversary At Ceremony Boy Scouts of Troop 6 and their parents observed the 43rd Boy Scouts anniversary this week, with a no-host banquet at St. Jo seph's School Hall. A short history of scouting was given by James Kern., field scout executive, followed by enter tainment and presentation of ad vancement awards. The highest award made for the evening was that of Life Scoot made by Kern to James Hoff man. Tenderfoot badges, were , pres ented by Wesley Goodrich of the executive commissioner's staff to Kerry Burke, Craig Broken, Vic tor LaRoche, - William Clay borne. and Max ZAicero. - , - Second-class awards were made to Pat Rarcho, Max Lncero, Gary Greisen, Sylvester Edler, William Clay borne. . Thomas - Heinzle. Ed ward Painter. Gary Herbercer and James - Morris, first-class a was earned by Billy Hamilton, Thomas Hirons, Pat Rascho, Doug Thomp son and Jack Fletcher;' - ' Star awards were sdven to Jerrr Pavelik, John Hamstreet and Dale KOCK. - Federal and State ' TAX RETUHNS PSEPAEZD LEON A. FTSCU3 1589 N. 4tk - Ph. XStZS UEImiy, 0Ct EE . Win be held at the - , las on Tizmx ts czrmn sr.. , C:CQ PJ-L -Local Orchestra Adzcixzlaa 75c tax IncL Suicide Try Blamed on -XiOve of Star NEW YORK m Can girl Pat Ward's vain suicide try last year was pictured Friday as the bitter fruit of a broken romance with singer Alan Dale. ' However, her attorney described Dale as an "innocent" acquaint ance of Miss ' Ward along with other celebrities -; . : In Ijblm Vegas, Nev., where be is appearing at a hotel. Dale said. I guess she had a crush on -me. But there was no romance at all. Miss Ward's suicide note was placed in evidence at the cafe society vice trial of 23-year-old Minot (Mickey) Jelke. heir to an oleomargarine fortune. - Defense attorney Sam Segal said outside of court that Dale's name was the only one mentioned in the note although Miss Ward's overdose of sleeping pills once was attributed to her vain love for Jelke. Asked if the note mentioned a broken romance with Dale, Segal replied: "It indicated something like that." Miss Ward's lawyer, J. Roland Sala, also told newsmen she testi fied to making repeated telephone calls to Dale, whose real name was said to be Aldo Sigismondi. Sala himself 'made public the names or movie actor ueorge Raft, sports announcer Bui Stern and television actor Josh Shelley to bolster a complaint that the de- xense nas sponea me mat recora with the names of Innocent men for sinister reasons. For example, the player said. Miss Ward met Stern once at a radio rehearsal and bumped into Raft amid a crowd at a restaurant. Ranking Russ Official Dies MOSCOW LTV Russia announced Lt Gen. Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, a member of the Central Commit- tee of the Soviet Union Communist Party, died Friday after a long illness. His age was given as 63 or 64. He was of Jewish origin. Mekhlis had a long revolutionary background, and was a close friend of Prime Minister Stalin. He. had had a long association with the Soviet leader and possessed his fun confidence. " (Background iniormation on Mekhlis in London said he was one of two or three high-ranking Jews in the Soviet government. Broad cast announcements from Russia said he would be buried with So viet honors). Mekhlis was officially registered only last week as a candidate for a post as deputy in the Moscow city Soviet. His death was announced on Moscow Radio. The broadcast said Mekhlis would be given a state funeral in Red Square. His body will lie in state Saturday in Moscow's Hall of Columns. He wDl be buried in Red Square. Thousands of Muscovites are ex pected to file past the bier while an honor' guard including many outstanding Soviet leaders stands at attention. Health Council Elects Wedel Irwin WedeL manager of Salem Memorial Hospital, was chosen Friday to head the Marion County Health Council, suceeding Haxley Libby of Jefferson. Other new officers named were George Swartsley, vice president; Vernon Olsen, treasurer, and Mrs. Ruby Bunnell, recording secre tary. R. L. Hartley pointed out that the county Is spending about 2 cents per month per capita on health, compared with the opti mum figure of 4 cents, but said the health department here is do ing an excellent job. As to other services the county has been asked to provide, he said the search Is continuing for pro- ner sites for garbage disposal. Hartley also raised the Question as to whether tax funds might well be used for adding to build ings or bed capacity of public hospitals, to help' them meet com munity needs more adequately. Before buying any hearing aid, you owe it : to yourself to try the 1953 75 aiiniil Hoaring Aid - under our 10-day money-back Guarantee! Off asfcm sf twM-tMMi 2rb MmMm mi new ass IZcrris Cpiical Co. BaUerlcs and lupairi tot AH f Hakes ef nearinr Aids ' 444 State St. S-552S Congressmen Promised No j Orient Action! WASHINGTON tfl Secretary of State Dulles ' reportedly prom ised senators Friday that the Ei senhower administr a Uon wiH ct suit Congress and U. 8. Allies ; be fore undertaking j any drastic new moves in the Far East. ' .!. A curtain of ! secrecy around Dulles' testimony. Imposed at; his recruest. developed quick holes as members of a Senate Foreign, Re lations subcommittee gave news men their Impressions of what he said. Committee members said. Dulles informed them the administration is not planning any action. now toward , a blockade' of Red China. Across the capitol. Chairman Short (R-Mo) of the House Armed Services Committee announced that Gen. James A. Van Fleet, retiring commander of the U, S. 8th Army in Korea, will testify March 4 on his views on the: Ko rean war. ! Short said he bones the public will be able to hear at least part of Van Fleet's testimony "because the public has a right to know. Informants who heard Dulles testify said they understood r the secretary of state plans to keep American allies fully informed; and to consult them, in the hope of gaining unified action in any! fur ther moves In the critical Far East situation. Hasty Dikes Hold Against : Rising Mes LONDON in : The pitched coastal defenses of Britain. Hol land and Belgium held fast Friday night against the first onslaught of dangerous high tides. As the hungry North Sea swept higher toward the critical i tide peaks expected on Monday, ; tens of thousands of troops and volun teers toiled on through freezing winds to rebuild and strengthen dikes wrecked by the disastrous floods, of 13 days ago. There was cautious optimism that the defenses will hold and prevent any repetition of the Feb. 1 flood which drowned more: than 2.000 people. High winds and seas which swept Britain's East Coast Thurs day slowly abated Friday night. Dutch officials said a recurrence of the Feb. 1 disaster caused by combined high tides and gales seems "highly improbable.": But the home secretary; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, told the House of Commons that "the real testing time is still ata come." Holland ordered "military and ci vilian personnel to stand Ey on weakened dikes for the next three days. Belgium has declared a state of emergency along Its North Sea Coast. Britain organized a dramatic four-day airlift to fly five million sandbags to the flood front by Sunday from the United States and eight European countries. t Second Giant Bomber Crashes Near Landing FORT WORTH, Tex. If) Three men were killed and 14 Injured when a B-36 bomber crashed and burned 18 miles from Goose Biy, Labrador, late Thursday night.' The giant' bomber was the sec ond Air Force B-36 lost within the past week. Another crashed in England after all crewmen par- acnuted'to safety. 1 lifmtrfoJO I , T .- iTenlgnt Open ft SPRINGFIELD RIFLE" And "ARCTIC FLIGHT" t Starts Sanday Cent.! 1:45 CalrFemttTscfter lkiMBeairflrlM e:titTrai::::i:cu:.i IXoHrwood Qds LIoSss Today l.-CS t 4.3 PJLL 5 CABTOOIJS SSSIAL Special tbtiaea Fester TOLL OH. TEXAS KOOXI . Key Hercrs & Trixrer nx?f son's , nrxncaAY cake Grerg Walllr, Pete Wedzeweda, Jlmmie Schnlx, Eia FenPas, Rannie Jackson, Nancy Poller, Eric Brown. Larry Lee, Robert. Cummins, SteTea Baker. Steph anie Karl, Robert Dtqaira, Stereo XSonawlta, Larry Wood ward, 2arie EamfordV Harry Coleman, Eeger Shafer, Ted Al llniie Darlene TJn m Jeanette ftlUler, EUxabeth Badgett, ; Ann Zinsser, Lynn Crtsraard. . Mercy Flight Ends Against Japan Peak TOKYO 111 A U. S. evacuation plane flying an -Army wife to s hospital hit the side of a fog- covered mountain r naay noon, killing all seven persons aboard. The Air Force said the plane, an SA-16 amphibian, crashed and burned a tew miles short of Its destination, Ashlya Air Base. The base is about 500 miles south of Tokyo.. ' . f The dead included the woman patient, her sergeant husband and five . crew members. Fight for TV Combine Set EUGENE UFi Competing ap plicants for a television channel in Eugene combined their interests Friday, possibly clearing the way for television to come to Eugene soon. Officials of radio stations KUGN and KORE, who had filed com peting applications for channel 13 in Eugene, announced they had merged their television interest. Also brought into the new com pany, to be known as Eugene Tele vision. Inc., were several Eugene businessmen, headed by Robert P. Booth, who was named president. Booth is an official of C P. Till man Co., a plumbing supply firm. C H. Fisher, president of KUGN, was named vice president of the television firm. Thomas Winn. Eu gene accountant, became secre tary. Lee Bishop, manager ox KORE. was named treasurer. Also In the television company are C O. Fisher, son of C H. Fisher, and Glenn McCormlck, president of KORE in Eugene and KSLM In Salem. TThes officials said they would amend their applications for chan nel 13 into a single application. They said they hoped to get an early hearing by the Federal Com munications Commission, now that there is no contest for the chan nel. If there is an early hearing. the station possibly could be 'in operation by midsummer or early fall, they said. Tentatively viewed as a trans mitter site is Spencer's Butte In Eugene. Earlier this week the FCC granted, channel. 20-in Eugene to W. Gordon Allen, who had sub mitted the only application. Allen. who operates radio station KGAE in Salem and KGAL in Lebanon, said that he did not expect to get his television station in operation for a year. Hey Kids! See Chapter 14 of "Copt. video Today At Ilcon! Cartoons! Prizes! 2 Features! Coatlnaoes Alan Ladd Virginia Mays . . la Technicolor -""Iron Mistress' Tony Curtis Piper Laurie In Technicolor -"Son of All Baba Continuous From 1 F.M. Ends Tedayt - TEXAS CARNIVAL A "WILD NORTH Tononnovn OUTIAWMPS.' AUDIE HIURPIIY YVETTE DUGAY Co-Foiurt!r mmmi t if GAIIT002? IIZV73 Channel Ends ( it- Card Removed As Equipment Firm Officer PORTLAND (B Jen, Card, Republican National Committee man, and two other Oregon busi nessmen Friday were removed as directors of the Interstate Tractor and Equipment Co. - Gard, treasurer of the firm, and Vice Presidents Byrle H. Hunter and George Attstadt, disagreed with' the management policies of Collls Johnson, the firm's presi dent. Secretary C E. Davidson re ported. - He said the- three stated they would .leave the company, unless Johnson removed himself as presi dent. Johnson, a major stockhold er, refused, and the three were re moved at a stockholders meeting. Later at a meeting of the remain ing directors, the three were re moved as Officers of the three mil lion dollar firm which has offices in Portland. Longview, Wash., As toria, The Dalles, Salem, Eugene, Roseburg and Coquille. Davidson said the firm would buy back the stock from the three ex-directors . and that the three would leave the 'Company with "large profitst" Hunter and Altstadt have been with the firm since it was organ ized in 1940. Gard joined the com pany In 1944 after leaving a post with the U. S. National Bank of Portland. . OVER! Continuous TO r 7 mmuSsi na r. fssawTl " 1 1 k .dasfiat rnmr iiuriiArr w w w . JML. ..IN EE DAILY FROM 1 PJf. STMTS TOIIORROU! LIKE A GUN Th Insicfa r Most Daring Doubla-Crossl J03.PAVE PSESTOt Co-Feataxe! ' , SuSCQl Joka CarroQ "Chzzz c! Ec Color Cartoon Poland Chops Catholic Rule WARSAW, Poland (A Poland' Communist regime Friday. IssuH a decree that all appointments 'is the Roman Catholic Church withls this country must be approved bj the government. The decree said all appointee! must be Poles and that they must take an oath of loyalty to the government. It also made govern, ment approval obligatory for al transfers, releases, creation oi abolition of church posts - ana changes in their functions. - The Central Presidium will past on bishops, auxiliary bishops and clergymen -acting for a bishop, while -'provincial presidiums will act on appointments at lower levels. - . Jim Dandy Says "TV la great. How else ean yea get at se many people who can't get at year ' - I ' . , lilt KO t-t A. . 1-4 F. M. Shows Saturday A Sanday ' LAUGH- fc LOVE-HAPPY & HAPPYjr MUSICAUj un was .'umtmi fl r - - r . . 3l . A Ends Today (Sat.) - Treasure ef -Golden Condor A "My Pal Gasy IN YOUR FACE! 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