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(Editor' Note: How far in 1th
future ii a. rocket to the mribn?
Not far, says a top-ranking scien
tist Here, in one of the most s
ficant stories of the year, is Wis
plan) . : i. .
' By RENNIE TAYLOR
- AP- Science Reporter
A AuAlMii uu waif
ing American scientist says he will
be ready in a few months to sloot
projectiles into outer ipace mis
siles which never willf return to
earth. . I j I
The scientist is Dr. Fritz Zwi,
one of the country's top expert! on
jets and rockets. He ii an astro
physicist of the California Institute
of Technology here and the ar
negie Institution in Washington,
whose centers of operation are
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TODCGEO
Those who know their Oregon
history know that th4 first faf
ficial "charting of the Northwest
V. coast was done by Lieut. Chailes
Wilkes of the United States Nivy
in the year 184L That howefer,
was only a minor incident in the
voyage of the expedition he cf m
manded which spent lour yexs
in scientific exploration', much; of
it in Antarctic regions. The stpry
of his rather turbulent and? in
some respects disappointing
career is given in a jfresh bio
graphy, "The Hidden Coasts,! by
Daniel Henderson I (Willjara
Sloane Associates, N.Yj). :
One event w hie hj brought
Wilkef into prominende was ?his
action as commander of the "San
Jacinto" in the early part of jthe
Civil War, stopping the Brigsh
ship Trent and removing from St
the Confederate emissaries, Ma
son and Slidell and their fam
ilies. This became an international
incident, bringing threat of f ar
with Britain. President Lincbln
resolved it by putting the way
laid commissioners a b o a r tf a
British ship in a Maine pfrt
Wilkes then was assignedto iid
in the blockade of Southern po-rts
but missed his big chance wlen
he failed to locate and sink the
British-built, Confederate-opefat
ed raider, the "Alabama." ;
The Wilkes expedition waf :a
i,7l nn,1lAl in triA T u'fl sriH
naval parallel to the Lewis and
Clark expedition of 1804-06, fex
cept that the vast store of in
formation it accumulated relaled
only in !
(Concluded on Editorial Fage4)
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Editor Probe
Suggested
By McCarthy jj
WASHINGTON in Sen. fc
Carthy R-Wis called on a grfp
of newspaper editors Saturdayjlo
Investisate his charge that Jagifes
Russell Wiggins, managing editor
of tha Washington Post an a,
pritic of McCarthy, has "prosltii-
ted and endangered ireeaoanfiwi
the press. : , -flf
Wiggiiis immediately issued! la
Statement saying nothing w(4d
please him more than to havfSia
Study made of the Post's "iU,
accurate and fair news coverage
of and editorial comment on pe
public career of Senator $fc
Carthy." He accused McCarthy of
"evading the issues." "
Wiggins was.chairman of a Spe
cial committee of the American
Society of Newspaper Editaps
IASNE which studied the ques
tion whether McCarthy's closjed
door questioning of James I A.
WechsJer. editor of the New Yfhrk
Post, threatened freedom of lie
press.
The 11-member ASNE comiiH
Ue issued a report earlier mae
week -saying in effect that, alter
two months study, they had fafed
to agrees on any dear-cut answer.
However, four of the editorsjih
eluding Wiggins, submitted a fep
araie statement calling the inter
rogation of Wechsltr a defilite
threat la-freedom of the pres
(Additional details on pagej 2,
Pec. 1). v :
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JTUNNELj DEMOLITIOS J
MADRAS tn Army Engines
foon will begin tunnel demolition i
pxpenmeats at abandoned snas ;
rest ofiicrr. The work, which iHI
rortimie two to three months. iriHl
fee in tunnels formerly used Sy
th Oregon Trunk Railway IE.
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II
Western International I.-
At Victoria -S. S1m 1S-11 ?
At Spokane 1-10. Wenatcbcc 1-4;
At Edmonton. O-S. Calftarr 4-J I 1
At Vancouver S. Yakima 11 ;s
At Lwistoa 2. Tn-City 0 . h-
Coast Leagne
At HoUywaod 4. Portland 9
(13 inn.!
t It naklarul 4 .
At San Francisco. X Sacramentdf
At San Diego 4. Vo Anselea 11 i
American League . ;i
At Philadelphia S. New Vork if;!
At netroit a. cmcaito
At Bonton Washinrton. 5-4
Only game scheduled. ; 1 1
National League ,
At Brooklya 14. Pittsburg
At Oucato 0. Milwaukee 1
At New Vork 4-3. Philadelphia
II
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At SUXoula 10, cmclanaU 4 li
Planning tb Firm
Into Outer Space
omar Mountain and ML Wilson ob
servatories. ? He is the discoverer of superno
vae, the almost unbelievably vio
lent explosions in which stars de
stroy themselves in a few days. He
says, of his plans:
' L Some of, the rockets may strike
the face of Die moon, causing vivid
flashes which can be seen through
large telescopes.
2. Others may reach and set fire
to the" combustible atmosphere of
the planet Jupiter, more than 400
million miles away. Some may be
shot out to Venus or Mars, which
are much closer. Still others may
go angling off in the upper atmos
phere to become short-lived satel
lites of the earth.
3. Many of these man-made me
teors will flash through the skies
close to earth, much as do natural1
Returnees Told to
fteport Good PW
Gamp Treatment
FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea
Uft Liberated Americans re
turned from Red prison camps
said Saturday Chinese had threat
ened to halt their repatriation un
less the Americans told Red Cross
workers their camp treatment was
good.
The Americans said that a Chi
nese interpreter threatened them
at Kaesong, the last North Korean
stop before their delivery for re
patriation at Panmunjom.
Other American repatriates add
ed to previous returned prisoners'
stories that some of their buddies
haa been held back from repatria
tion at Camp 1, on the Yalu Rivet
North Korea, on flimsy charges
lodged against them by their cap
tors. (Additional details on pajge 11,
section 2).
Center of Huge
Storm Misses
OkinawaBase
NAHA, Okinawa 'Ji One of
the wildest typhoons ever recorded
in the Pacific by-passed Okinawa
and the key American air base
Sunday after slapping it overnight
with winds' up to 78 miles an hour.
i At 3 a. m. Sunday (11 a. m.,
! PST, Saturday), Air Force weath
I ermen said that thp tvnhoon center
was moving into the China Sea at
' . - . i . , . .
is xnois aooui ju rnnes soumwesi
of the island. Winds here had
dropped to 46 to 53 miles an hour.
On its present course, the storm
center will hit the Chinese main
land about 120 miles south of
Shanghai, forecasters said.
Before the course of the storm
changed overnight, weathermen
had predicted winds of 140 mph
would whip the island Sunday.
The American Superfort bomb-.
er and most of the fighter planes
based here were flown to other
bases until the winds died down.
American base personnel and
their families were housed in con
crete, typhoon-proof shelters!
The island's 600,000 farmers gath
ered in all possible crops, tied
down as best they could all move
able buildings and retired to their
squatty, thick stone nouses, built
with the knowledge of generations
on the vulnerable island to with-
stand tne annuai typhoons
U. S.Xarrier
Joiis Greek
Mercy Fleet
ATHENS, Greece W The U.S.
aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roose
velt joined the international mercy
fleet off the Ionian Islands Satur
day to serve as a floating base for
air relief of the quake-stricken peo
ple. The 45.000-ton giant from the U.
S. 6th Fleet and seven supporting
ships dropped anchor at Argostol
ion, the ruined chief port of Kefall
inia. to help ease the misery left
there and on the neighboring is
lands of Ithaca and Zakinthos by
earthquakes estimated to have
killed more - than 1,000 persons.
More than 40 other ships Amer
ican. British. Israeli and Greek
were already on the scene, with
labor details, medical.teams and
kitchen crews seeking to bring ord
er from the chaos.
Vice Adm. John H. Cassady,
commander of the Sth Fleet, said
the situation "still is serious." but
the relief operation now is func
tioning smoothly and the tempo is
increasing
Boy Drowns in
Yamhill River
SHERIDAN, Ore. JB Waiter
Foster, 13. drowned Friday in the
South Yamhill River three miles
south of here while trying to rvrtm
75 feet across the stream.
The body was recovered two
hours later and taken to Portland
for funeral arrangements.
The boy, who had been living
here this summer, is .survived by
the father, Wilbur Foster, four
younger brothers in McMinnvQle
and the mother in Portland.
10 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK
. MANCHESTER, England Cf)
two speeding commuter trains col
lided headon Saturday on a bridge,
killing 10 persons, injuring 58 and
tossing one smashed coach 80 feet
into the shallow Irk River.
meteors, giving astronomers hith
erto unobtainable data about , the
upper air and the earth's magne
tism and electric field. '
4. These things will be the little
cousins and forerunners . of
space platforms and interplane
tary rockets.
5. The know-bow and the means
of doing all this is already at hand
there need be no waiting for
other inventions or discoveries. All
he needs is a little time and a little
money to buy the necessary ma
terials. Dr. Zwicky has commitments
which will keep him busy for an
other six months or so. Then, giv
en a few high altitude balloons and
a minimum of $10,000, he says he
will be ready to go.
(Additional details on page 2,
sec. 1.)
College R0TC
Threatened by
Lack of Bond
The University of Oregon and
Oregon State College face the
loss of government reserve of
ficers training corps property un
less the state makes prqyision for
bonds covering the property as
provided by the National Defense
act, U. S. Representative Walter
Norblad, 1st Oregon District, ad
vised Governor Paul Patterson
here Saturday.
The 1953 legislature failed to
appropriate funds for the bond.
Cost of the premium on the bond
was estimated at $6,000.
Governor Patterson was at
Burns Saturday and was not
available for a statement
Norblad quoted a letter he re
ceived from William E. Bergin,
Maj.-Gen., U.S.A., adjutant gen
eral, which reads in part:
". . . Institutions maintaining
reserve officers training corps
units are required by the national
defense act to furnish bond or
other means of indemnity in the
value of the property issued to
the institution. Since this require
ment as set forth in the army
regulations is statutory, the De
partment of the Army has no al
ternative but to require a bond
in the amount of the value of
service officers training corps
property issued to schools ...
"Upon consideration of the
above situation it will be neces
sary for the Department of the
Army to withdraw the units at
the university and state college
unless a bond or other means of
indemnity is provided in the
value of the reserve officers
training corps department . . ."
Hundreds Die,
Missing in New
Japan Flood
TOKYO Ufi The third devastat
ing flood to hit Japan in less than
a month left hundreds dead, miss
ing or injured and scores of thou
sands driven from inundated homes
in the narrow Kizu River valley
Sunday.
Latest police figures, as rescue
squads waded through hip-deep,
yellow mud were 143 dead. 170
injured and 234 missing.
The stricken area is n ear Kyoto,
in the southern part of Honshu,
the main Japanese island.
The great flash 'flood resulted
from, the breaking of the Taisho
Dam at the head of the valley
and pouring a half a million tons
of water from the reservoir into
the already rain-swollen Kizu Riv
er, which burst its dikes in 700
places.
Rescue workers reported 506
homes completely washed away.
444 others smashed and 24.682 in
undated and filled with the gummy,
yellow mud. One hundred sixty
eight bridges were washed out.
Scores of land slides followed the
wall of water which swept down
the narrow valley.
The disaster struck without warn
ing before dawn Saturday.
Max.
Mia. Prerip.
i .
54 .00
5J trace
64 .00
17 M
leet.
Saleaa
tl
Portland es
San Francisco tn
Chicago 81
New York M
Willamette River
POIttJCAST (from U
S. Weather
Bureau. McNary field. Salem):
Mostly eloudy this morning, beco ru
in ( partly cioudv thi afternoon. Pos
sible isolated light showers this after
noon. High today near 74 to 78. low
ton eht near 50 ot Temperature
at J:01 a.m. was CI dere.
SAl.FM PRECIPITATION
vr"tTL z.
43.S4
42.89
.W.ts
Continued Forest Fire
Danger Likely in State
"By TEE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Continued forest fire- danger
over the week end was forecast
in Oregon by the Weather Bureau
Saturday, although slightly lower
temperatures were in prospect.
It predicted thundershowers Sun
day mornin& In various parts of
the state.' This presented the haz
ard of possible lightning strikes in
the forests, dry from several days
of hot weather.
Lightning started 20 fires- in the
Rogue River National Forest Fri
day. Only one was serious and out
of cbntroL , That ; was .a 20-acre
fire high on Southern Oregon's
tallest mountain.
It started at tiinberline on S400
foot ML MrTonsTi'tn. It cart fire
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1C3RD YEAR
32 PAGES
A New Substitute for Statehouse Coffee Time?
14
It got awfully hot this past week. Statesman Photographer, John Erickson. cruising around town,
discovered that two statehouse girls theught so too.. And they couldn't lhink of anything more
cooling than lounging on the capitol steps in swim suits, eating watermelon. The two girls are
Sally Jo Grimm, left, Willamette University student and capitol tourist guide, and Faye York, state
employe. (Statesman Photo)
Radar to Spot
All Planes in
North Oregon
SAN FRANCISCO tn An im
proved radar system that will spot
the location and flight path of all
aircraft flying within a 30 to 60
mile Radius already is in operation
in San Francisco. Oakland and
Portland, Ore.
Other Western airports to be
equipped with the new system are
Seattle Salt Lake City. Anchorage.
Alaska, and Honolulu. .
Charles' T. Haist, General Elec
tric radar equipment specialist
here, explained the new system
Saturday. At Oakland its operators
already have brought planes in
safely in adverse weather condi
tions. Haist said the new system will
assist Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion controllers in directing each
plane via radio through a safe and
efficient traffic pattern. During pe
riods of poor visibility the new. ra
dar can be operated with an air
port's precision approach control
aids.
The system presently is in use
only at the Norfolk, Va., Municipal
Airport.
Haist said the new system helps
the- control tower to; space and con
trol the arrival of -inbound planes
so they can be fed into the precision
approach control system at the saf
est, most efficient rate.
Only moving aircraft show on Me
screen of the new radar. This pre
vents images of stationary objects
such as tall buildings or mountains.
Man Drowns
In Mill Pond
PORTLAND if) A workman
drowned Saturday in the mill pond
of the Coast Veneer Co. here.
He was S.-B. Albertson, 40.
Fellow workmen did not see him
fall into the water. When they
j noticed his cap and pike pole
floating on the pond dragging op-
w'"" wpre bprun- Thc body
'was recovered nan an imui wici.
fighters trouble because there they
have no water and no dirt in which
to dig firebreaks.
Forty men hiked four miles from
the nearest road to the scene in
hope ol digging out some sort of
firebreak in the lava rock.
- The fire was in brush and some
scraggly: alpine fir- The men
worked to prevent it from spread
ing downhill to timber stands. The
blaze is on the southwest side of
the mountain, about 40 miles east
of Melford. s
Lightning , strikes ? also caused
fires in the Umpqua and Willam
ette National, forests. - i
Two other fires - in .' the Mount
Hood National Forest were fought
by crews.
"Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Orecjon, Sunday,
f : i
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Ocean Breeze
Cools Valley
Cool ocean air moved in over
the mid-valley Saturday giving
relief from high temperature to
the tune of 22 degrees in Salem.
Friday the mercury rose to 94.
but Saturday it had cooled down
to 72 degrees. Similar readings
in the low 70's are forecast for
today.
Yesterday's clouds are ex
pected to hang over for most of
today and the possibility of light
showers is seen for this after
noon, according to the Weather
Bureau at McNary Field.
Clearing is predicted for Mon
day afternoon coupled with a
rise in temperature.
PW Son Wins
Race to Greet
Dying Father
RUSKIN. Fla. UPi With a "God
bless you" on his lips, a dying
rather Saturday night embraced
his son who was released as a
prisoner of war by the Commu
nists an Monday.
Sgt. iLawrence Buzbee won his
race against time to see his father.
L. E Buzbee. whose every thought
and hope this week has been that
he could see his soldier son before
be dies.
Thej elder Buzbee is suffering
from a heart ailment and a kidney
disease. The elderly man has said
repeatedly he would die happy if
he could just see his son.
Sgt. Buzbee was led into the half
darkened room where his ailing
father lay motionless on the bed.
They embraced after the soldier's
mother said "Here is Bobby."
They patted one another on the
shoulder and conversed in low
tones. The son told bis dad "Take
it easy" and in response to ques
tions from the father, he replied
"I'm fine."
GIs f rom Lebanon,
Sherwood Died in
Red Prison, Camps
WASHINGTON UP) The Army
made public Saturday the names
of 21 .more soldiers reported by
the Communists to have died in
Red prison camps.
With Saturday's list, the Defense
Department has identified 588 of
the L022 men said by the Com
munists to have died in captivity.
As' it has done repeatedly, the
Defense Department emphasized
that its information is based solely
on enemy reports and that no veri
fication of enemy claims has been
possible.
All those in the following list
are Army personnel.
Oregon
CpL Edward L. Keith, son of
Ora Keith. Route 1.; Sherwood.
Cpl. Phillip J, Todd, son of Mrs.
Grace , E. T0ddf 603 N. Fir St,
Medford.
Sgt. Wilfred E. Woods, son nf
Mr. Ic Mrs. Embree C. Woodsy
709 East Sherman St, Lebanon. "
J If If If !
I
Sec. Benson
Pledges Fair
Wheat Policy
WASHINGTON Secretary
of Agriculture Benson promised the
nation's wheat producers Saturday
that he will carry out the rigid
control program they have voted
for next year's crop "in an equit
able and constructive manner."
Benson, who has indicated in the
past a preference for a different
approach to farm surplus prob
lems, issued this public pledge of
cooperation after preliminary re
turns from Friday's nationwide ref
erendum showed that wheat farm
ers favored strict marketing quotas
on the 1954 crop by a 7-1 margin.
The tabulation by the agriculture
department showed that 361.392
farmers voted for the controls,
while only 53,252 registered dis
approval. The agriculture secretary said
he feels the farmers "have made
a wise decision ; a decision in
their own best interests."
He emphasized that his depart
ent furnished the farmers with all
the necessary facts on which to
base a decision and that this was
done "objectively and without try
ing to influence the vote."
That top-heavy 82.2 per cent fav
orable vote set a new record for
wheat referenda. It also was well
above the two-thirds majority re
quired by law.
Italy Finance
Boss to Make
Cabinet Try J
ROME m Italy's post-war fi
nancial recovery boss, Giuseppe
Pella. agreed Saturday night to be
a short-term premier with a soft
pedal on politics to pull the country
out of its budget crisis.
He acknowledged that lust new
government would be short-lived.
Premier Pella named a Cabinet
that omitted former Premier Al
cide ' de Gasperi, who had ; been
expected to be his foreign minister.
De Gasperi had j presided over
eight post-war Cabinets in Italy's
recovery from the Mussolini deba
cle and had been foreign minister
the last four years.
Now, Pella intimated. De Gasperi
wanted a breather from public of
fice before returning to politics aft
er Pella's Cabinet of experts sets
Italy back along tha manifest roaoVj
of prosperity. j
Today's Statesman
Section 1
General news' 13,12
Editorials, features 4
Sports .-- U : 6-7
Crossword puzzle 8
Classified ads J 9-11
Radio, television j . 9
Section 2 j -Society,
women'; j. 1-4J
tr.ll.
.-7
.8
. 9
World This Week
Garden I
iiSection 3
Four-color comics.
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August 16, 1353
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
who fought together in Korea readied virtual agreement Saturday
on a formula to seat Russia at
A three-hour harmony meeting
on the question broke up with
stantial progress.
From some sources, however, it
was learned agreement was so
near that delegates were cabling
home to their governments Satur
day night to approve their ratifi
cation of it at another meeting of
the IS Sunday. j
It was learned that a series of
resolutions on the makeup of the
peace conference has been decided
on. "
Invite Nations
A U. S. -backed : resolution. In
which most of the others would
join, would invite any ot tne 16
U. N. members and South Korea
all of whom had fighting forces
on the Korean front to be mem
bers of the peace conference, rep
resenting the U. N. side.
A second resolution would invite
countries to serve as conference
members in their individual ca
pacities. Separate clauses would
cover Russia and India and let
the entire 60-natioa U. N. Assem
bly make a final decision on each.
The United States would not ap
pear as a sponsor of this kind of
resolution.
Near Agreement'
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief U.
S. delegate, told newsmen Vwe are
rapidly reaching an area of agree
ment on many subjects."
He declined to discuss details of
the near-agreement but he left an
impression that the United States
had backed down on insistence that
the Russians must be nominated
by the Communist side.
Selwyn Lloyd. British minister
of state, and Maurice Schumann,
French undersecretary of state for
foreign affairs, flanked Lodge at
the brief news conference and ap
peared to be in smiling agreement
with him.
Rainmakers
Used Salt as
( Element X5
MEDFORD W Two pilots who
have been spraying clouds over
the -Rogue River Valley for five
years to prevent hail, have re
vealed the nature of their "ele
ment X."
It Ms common table salt.
Harvey Brandau and Eugene
Kooser have been spraying it into
thunderclouds that threatened to
drop hail on the region's multi
million dollar pear crop.
They have kept it secret for five
years, saying they were using a
mysterious ''element X."
They were forced to reveal what
it was by a weather control law
passed by the last Legislature
which required the operator to
state "the method and type of
equipment and type and composi
tion of the material that the ap
plicant proposes to use."
Portland Pair
Injured as Car
Climbs Rock
Statesman Nwf Srrvlr
DETROIT A Portland couple
was injured when their ear went
out of control on Santiam High
way and careened onto a large
boulder in one of two accidents
near here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hegy
were in Santiam . Memorial Hos
pital, Stayton, Saturday night,
but hospital attendants said they
were not seriously hurt
Mrs. Hegy suffered severe cuts
of the bead and body bruises
and her husband received lacer
ations of the face.
The accident occurred about 3
p.m. in front of the Big Cliff
Cabins. The Ilegy's car rode up
on top of the boulder and then
slipped backward into a ditch.
The car wa badly "wrecked, wit
nesses said.
About 7 p.m., a car rolled over
on the highway near Detroit aft
er it swerved to avoid an on
coming vehicle. One woman was
slightly hurt I
Trusty Leaves
Prison Annex
State Penitentiary trusty Virgil
L. Crace, 37, escaped" from the
prison annex sometime between
3 and 6 p.m. Saturday, Warden
Clarence T. Gladden said.
Crace, sent up from Washing
ton Coanty for five years for
larceny by bailee, was working at
the dairy barn when he made his
getaway. Gladden said he was
missed at the pan. count
He is described as 5 feet 9V4
inches tall, 158 pounds, blue eyes J
brown hair and slender build.
Crace was received at the
prison March 28, 193L
m
No. 133
(he H United Nations Allies
he Korean peace j conference.
to heal a U.S.-Bntish breach
a
formal announcement cf sub-
IfTEHRAN. Iran (Mi ii ' Premier
ifohammed Mossadegh early Sun
day smashed a military coup led
b a top officer of the. Shah's im
perial guard. .J jj
jrhe plotters ) held Mossadegh's
rifehthand man. Foreign Minister
Hpssein Fatemi, and two other top
o-licials 6Vi hours before surrend-
3ng them. I j j j
The j Mossadegh - forces over
elmed the plotters without
fcfcodshed on either side, according
to Tehran Radio. It added that a
mjmber of ringleaders have been
in prisoned in the Tehran army
jail. (Iran story also on page 8,
section 1. ;
Burglar Takes
ver $1,000 in
M I i ')
ewelry, Bonds
Theft of over $1,000 worth of
jdwelry, government; bonds and
valuable papers Hi including a
marriage license and property
4 ed from the Joe IL Brown
H me, 1640. N. Capitol St., was
ii ider investigation! by . Salem
pblice Saturday, j ,
Stolen was: j a $400 woman's
alver ring with four diamonds: a
j an's gold ring worth $73: a
n an's wrist watch Valued at $50;
n ne , "books olj Green " Stamps
v lued at $20; a metal document
cise containing $600 in govern
nlent bonds, marriage license,
Pfoperty deed and -insurance
pipers;; and several! rare Amer
ican, Spanish and Mexican coins.
Police said there Were no signs
of forced entry and the house had
rvt been ransacked, i All but the
Green Stamps were taken from a
bidroom dresser.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown said they
bith worked days and had been
hpme every night this past week
They said the theft must have
fcurred sometime j during t
he
plst week.
UtiliticsTellof
Higher Profits
PORTLAND (JV-Increased prof
it t for the 12 months ended June
3 were reported Saturday by
r M-tland's two electric utilities.
But the companies said the prof
it i did not come from the contro
v rsial surcharges, a 20 per cent
c arge added to light bills earlier
tl is year. They said the sur
c larges in fact did not offset the
c st of steam production of power
h st winter, jl. ' i.
Portland General I Electric re
p rted gross revenues of $29,238
1! 2 compared with $23,472,648 the
p evious year. ! Net I income was
r ported . as $3,634,970 compared
v ith $3,601,747 of a year previous.
Pacific Power ic Light reported
o erating revenue of $22,673,280
a id a net income of $4,562,826 com
p red with $20,483,562 in the 12
ti onths before. I Si
Ex-Mtiltnomah
( rOP Chairman
FaecsSuit
j , . , i : I jj
J PORTLAND i William C.
Ri bison, who resijned as Multno
m ih Coanty Republican, chairman
La t month, and his I former real'
e t a t e partner Saturday were
gi en until Sept 2 to settle a
c: il suit pending against them.
I Circuit Judge R. Frank Peters
pc stponed a hearing on the suit
in which Mrs. Ednamae Caveny
cc itended that Robison and - Ber
m rd Asheim pocketed $27,500 she
pt id for a house, but never cleared
a $12,000 mortgage or gave her a
dt ed. . I - ; . :;lli -' '
' Don Walker, attorney for
A heim and Robison. told . Judge
pi ters Asheim now is liquidating
tc mt holdings in order to pay; off
tii mortgage and deliver the deed..
; ; rhe judge granted them time to
dr : this : and set Sept. 2 as 1 the
d te for a hearing to determine
Ut it had been settled.
Robison did not apply fori! re
nt wal of - his real estate license.
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