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The Weather Mia. after 44 JM iut Portia San Fraaclaca It Chicago M CWCalX M 43 Ntw York . BO W WUUmttu RlTir N fut XO i FORECAST Cfrom V. . WNtkn ktrrai, MeNtrr field. Salaam): Con tinued fair and warm today, tonight and Saturday. High today 92 to 4, low tonight 41 to U. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. was St degrees, r POUNDDI 103RD TEAR 4 SECTIONS32 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon. Friday, September II, 1953 PRICE 5c No. 165 Fair Housekeepers 'Hide' Trash of Daily Cleaning Durkin Resigns Labor Post, Asserts Ike Failed to Fulfill L, .-. : ,-,! vA i J Racing forms, popcorn bags, dried up flowers and half-eaten ham burgers all these items and many more can be found in this moon tain of debris being formed just outside the southwest cor ner of the State Fairgrounds. Fair cleanup men make nightly . rounds of the grounds and buildings after closing time, picking up era5 SHJJJJJB KPCD IliQBI Soon the colleges and univer sities of America will open their doors for the start of a new aca demic year. Again the curve of attendance is pointing upward, following the dip when the GI student crop was graduated. And from here on the numbers en rolled in higher institutions will show steady gains. The wider dis tribution of wealth, the spread of secondary education to more youth and the growing apprecia tion of the value of college edu cation combine to induce more of the country's young men and women to go on to college. In this age of brands a college label is a genuine asset. ' Perhaps too many rate the val ue of a university education in terms of the added compensa tion expected and often received by the college graduate. The practical-minded will take this into account, but for the whole society the university serves a broader purpose. It is the fountain-head of learning, essentially an organi zation of scholars whose duty and desire are to keep on learning and to impart knowledge to oth ers. This quest does not stop with poring over the lessons of the past. It extends to probing into unexplored realms of nature and of the mind. For the true scholar learning becomes an end in itself, and if what he learns can have practical application in the business of living that is merely an extra dividend. In real ity, except for those discoveries which are stumbled on, progress in invention and discovery de pends largely on the accrual of knowledge in the so-called pure sciences. The September issue of Scien tific American is devoted to a group of articles on the central theme of "Fundamental Quest ions in Science." The introduc tory article by Warren Weaver, president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a spirited argument (Continued on Editorial page, 4) Son Born to U-Year-Old' Coquille Girl COQUILLE Ufi A son was born Aug. 22 to an 11-year-old girl at her Southern Coos County home. James Leonard, county juvenile of ficer, said Thursday. Leonard said neither the girl nor her parents knew she was preg nant She was alone at the time but a neighbor later took her to a doctor, who found her and the child in good condition. After releasing the information, Leonard said a 17-year-old boy, whose name he withheld, went into. a closed session of the juvenile court on a charge of immoral con duct. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH - -tsK If IV- f Um you &eh ah OSTBlCH ANfftttH3 AW DESCRIPTION ? " Youngsters Take At Fair; Saturday By LILLIE L. MADS EN Farm Editor, The Statesman As the 88th Oregon State Fair enters its seventh day with only one more to go, youngsters take the spotlight, with sales, style re vue and other activities. Some 240 top-grade 4-H and Future Farmer's fat lambs, steers and hogs go on the auction block at the annual youth fat stock auc tion Friday at 10 a.m. Included in the stock auction are 67 steers, 68 lambs and 83 hogs. Consumers as well as commercial buyers may bid at the sale. At 4 p.m. 135 girls, all winners of county elimination contests throughout the state, will model the clothes they made in the an nual championship style revue. The girls in the revue will pa rade before a Hawaiian back ground of palms and flowers to Island music carrying out the fair's "Welcome Hawaii" theme. Cash prizes offered in the revue total $550, given by the Oregon Bankers Association, and a 10 day expense-free trip to the na tional 4-H Club Congress in Chi cago. "Lost" Average at 50 An average of around 80 "chil dren" between the ages of 18 months and 89 years, turn up at Attendance Comparison At Oregon State Fair Thursday 1952 1953 Gate 15,924 17,197 Races 2473 2,198 Rodeo 2,220 1,976 Revue 3,703 3,761 Pari mutuel $74,507 $85,864 Total for fair to date Gate 151,580 149,865 Races 16,406 16,555 Rodeo 24,695 21,712 Revue 21,609 21,983 the first aid station in the fair grounds daily as "lost," reports Mrs. Agnes Lamb, matron in charge. The fairgrounds police bring in the most of the strays, but occasionally some folk walk in by themselves to report "I'm lost" An 18-month old was brought in by the police around 11 o'clock at night, with the frantic parents just a few steps behind. Twins Make It Habit Some youngsters are repeaters in getting lost One pair of six-year-old twin girls showed up Thursday at the "lost and found" section for the third straight year. The first aid station also handles casualties, and Mrs. E. J. SET b heeiT braised knees, and yellow jacket stings from the most common of these. "Trophy, trophy, who's got the trophy!" is a game that the Harms youths have been playing for the last three years. The trophy which has been passed around is that for the champion swine showman, donated by Oh ling Brothers, Linn County. Keep It In Family Last year Mike Harms, Canby, won the senior hog showman title and also the grand champion swine showmanship title. Thurs day, his cousin Richard, Canby, captured the titles. Richard won ;' in 1951 also. Another Harms, Jerry, 10, Can by, is getting into the game also: He was top junior showman Thursday. Barbara Hoiyiin&r North Bend, won the championship ribbon in the 4-H special jam and jelly exhibit contest, earning a $100 college scholarship. The night revue found itself just even financially with last year Thursday night On Wednes day night this year's count was $129 behind a year ago on Wed nesday night Thursday night the revue brought in just $129 more than Thursday last year, evening the the score. SALEM PRECIPITATION I Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept.;i This Tear Last Tear Nerval refuse and carting it away to this pile which by the end of the fair should have reached mammoth proportions. After the fair closes the debris will be burned when weather conditions permit. (Statesman photo.) Gas Blast Rips Busy Street In Cleveland CLEVELAND to A gas explo sion under a three-quarter-mile long section of West 117th St late Thurs day killed a woman motorist and injured 50 persons in rush hour crowds, some seriously. Mrs. Katherine Szabo, 40, died in St. John's Hospital pf injuries received when she was pinned in a concrete-crushed automobile on West 117th St. near Berea Rd. Flying conrete and popping man hole covers caused injuries that sent 20 other motorists or pedes trians to St. John's Hospital, 17 to Lakewood hospital and 13 more to three other hospitals. Fire Chief Elmer Cain said "many things underground were broken among them gas mains." but he would not pinpoint a cause for the blast which firemen at first said resulted from a broken natur al gas main. An East Ohio Gas Co. spokesman said he was convinced sewer gas and not gas from his company's lines set off the explosion. Damage is expected to mount above one million dollars. Robert TTottnow, said he was driving on West 117th and had stopped for a traffic signal when "the street went up then fell in." "There was a car stopped next to us." Trottnow said, "and the car flipped right up in the air and landed top down on our car near the back. We crouched down and didn't get hurt, and the other driv er was only shaken up." The explosion, ripped down the center of West 117th St. between Berea Rd. and Lake Ave. Near the place where Mrs. Szabo was injured fatally, a wall cave in pinned Angelo Rinaldi, 26, and his wife, Eleanor, 24, of Lakewood, in their automobile. Rescue crews worked more than S !. MfB. father James H. O'Brien administ ered last rites of the Roman Cath olic Church. She is in Fairview Park Hospital, critical, with mul tiple fractures. Her husband, who escaped with cuts, said "there was a big crash like a loud clap of thunder. Stuff flew all over the place. I couldn't see anything." Scores of automobiles were dam aged. Some windows were blown out, including one at a supermarket Transmission Equipment to Arrive Soon For Salem's Proposed Television Station Transmission equipment for Salem's television station KPIC is scheduled to arrive "within two ; or three weeks," and if full antan- nae facilities can oe obtained promptly "the station will be on the air next month, as we plan ned, The Statesman was Inform ed last night Joseph Brenner, Beverly Hills, Calif., attorney and vice president of Westways Broadcasting Com pany, parent firm for KPIC and other TV stations owned by Law rence Harvey, said via telephone that he planned to be in Salem to morrow night and Sunday "to look over downtown studio sites.1 With Brenner, will be Harold Spotlight Last Day Today at the Fair Friday, Sept 11 v 8 a.m. Gates Open 9 a.m. 4-H Exhibits, Demon strations and Judging, all day 10 a.m. Band Concert 10 a.m. Joint 4-H and FFA Auction 1:15 pjn. Horse Racing, Lone Oak Track 1:30 p.m. Food Preservation, Canning and Freezing Demonstration, Foods Dept 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Free Midway Show 4 pun. 4-H Style Revue, Ballroom 5 n-m. Helene Hughes Stage Reyue, Grand Stand t p.m. Christensen Bros. World Championship Rodeo, Stadium 9 pjn. Old Time and West ern Swing Dancing. Grand Coulee Sets Record Of Production BOISE, Idaho W Grand Cou lee Dam in Eastern Washington broke its own world's record for power generation Wednesday, Reg ional Director Harold Nelson of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said Thursday. Between 9 and 10 a. m., the big Columbia River dam turned out 2,234,000 kilowatts of power. In a 24-hour period ending early Thursday, it produced 52,780,000 kilowatts. Grand Coulee operates the larg est power plant in the world, with an installed capacity of 1,974,000 kilowatts per hour. Nelson said the record genera tion was made possible by favor able conditions including a full res ervoir and low water at the base of the dam. This provided a max imum head, or fall of water. Cyprus Temblor Claims 40 Lives NICOSIA, Cyprus UD Forty per sons were killed and about 100 in jured by an earthquake in the Pa phos district of this British colony at 6:10 a.m. Thursday. Bids on Two Turbines Opened for The Dalles PORTLAND OB Army Engi neers Thursday opened bids for two turbines at The Dalles Dam ton the Columbia River. Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wis., at $626,475, was low of four bidders. Jury, chief engineer for Harvey's TV interests. KPIC is to be a (JHF station on Channel 24. Both Brenner and Jury will go to Seattle Sunday night to attend meetings of the National Associa tion of Radio and Television Broadcasters. . There was no announcement as to network connection but indi cations pointed to an affiliation either with ABC or Dumont or both. Brenner said both the trans mitter equipment (1 kilowatt in itially, 9 more within a few months) and 300-foot antannae mast were being shipped within the next few days; that plans for, Promisesfor Police Yield Seized Salmon to Indians THE DALLES (JP) State authorities-seized 30 tons of salmon at the Celilo Indian village Thursday, but aroused Indians laid siege to police and forced them to turn the fish over to Indians hours later. The fish, valued at about $3,000, , was seized in a morning raid that John C. Veatch, chairman of the Oregon Fish Commission, said was aimed at stopping "fish bootleg gir.g in closed seasons." The Indians may fish in the Co lumbia River at any time, pro vided they use the fish to feed themselves. Veatch said there have been numerous complaints the fish was being sold to white men and wound up in canneries. Arrest White Man Police arrested Myrl A. Rowley, Yakima, a white man, on a charge of illegal possession of the salmon. He was freed on $300 bond, only to be arrested later on a charge of disturbing the peace. Sgt. C. A. U'Ren of the state police said he was inciting the Indians to make trouble. The Indians set up road blocks and about 300 of them milled around 14 state police when four trucks were brought in to try to move the fish out. U'Ren said the fish had been seized as evidence. Fish Packed in Ice U'Ren said the Indians insisted the fish was theirs, and that Row ley was merely storing it for them. U'Ren said Rowley had fish in 26 large wooden boxes, packed in ice, and had 50 more unfilled boxes nearby. U'Ren said the Indians grew threatening, and that finally it was agreed to turn all the fish over to them except 45 pounds, which po lice plan to use as evidence in Rowley's trial,' scheduled for jus tice court here Friday. It was about 9 p.m. by the time the agree ment was reached. The Indians at the village, 16 miles east of here, then removed the road block, and the state trucks were allowed to leave. Pair Thrown Clear as Auto Falls off Cliff NEWPORT, Ore. Iffl Two men were thrown clear as their car rolled several hundred feet down a bank before plunging over a 500 foot cliff into the ocean at Otter Crest, 10 miles north of here, Thursday. The two, owners of an automo bile sales agency here, escaped serious injuries. Richard Thompson, the driver, suffered minor hurts and shock. James Mueller had a broken leg and minor injuries. Thompson was thrown out first. Mueller was hurled clear just before the car dropped off the cliff to the ocean and smashed up on rocks. Thompson and Mueller were driving to Portland when the car went out of control and left the Coast Highway. Cause of the acci dent was not immediately deter mined. Today's Statesman Section I General News 2, 5, 11, 12 Editorials 4 Fair News 10 Valley News 12 Section II , Sports News 1, 2 Picture Page 3 Section HI Food News 1-7 Society News 8 General News 10, 11 Section IT Market News 1 Radio-TV 1 Classifieds 2-4 the transmitter building at the 1118-foot tower site five miles out of Silverton were in the hands of architects "for starting work very shortly, and that -"if we can just get delivery on. the ra diated portion of the antennae plans will develop as we've out lined." - The TV executive also said it was possible both KPIC and Har vey's Saa Francisco station, TJHF Channel 20, would get on the air at the same time. Ground - breaking ceremonies for the transmitter station and tower probably win be held later this month, it was indicated. Reds to Reject U. S. Demands Of POW Lists By SAM SUMMERLIN MUNSAN W The Communists gave advance indications Thurs day they would reject Allied de mands for an accounting of 944 Americans and 2.560 other Allied troops believed still held in Red prisons. While a formal reply to the Mil itary Armistice Commission was not yet in sight, Peiping radio dis missed the Allied list as a "sheer fabrication." A Communist correspondent in Kaesong, Red truce headquarters, even cited Secretary of State Dulles, informal comment to newsmen in Colorado Springs last week as evi dence the Allied list was "faked." Dulles had said he knew of no Americans withheld. Fliers Interned There still was no indication of when the Communists would reply to the Allied demand for an ac counting. Meantime Red propaganda broad casts harped on the theme that tne Allies were sun holding com munist prisoners who want to re turn, , In Tokyo an American Air Force major. David F. MacGhee of Tampa. Fla.. told a news confer ence that the Communists planned to intern 22 U.S. fliers in Manchuria "until the United States recognizes (Red) China." Force Negotiation MacGhee said he had learned from a Chinese Communist who had proved "extremely reliable" in other cases that the Reds in tended to hold back the Ameri cans to force negotiations through diplomatic channels. The Communists have yet to ex plain why Capt. Harold Fischer, a double jet ace from Swea City, Iowa, was not included in the pris oner exchange ended last Sunday. The Reds had boasted of Fischer's capture last spring. Slipper-Clad Inmate Takes Long Jaunt Oregon State Hospital inmate Roy Enberg, 55, of Astoria, who escaped from the institution's tuberculosis ward Tuesday, v was Captured by Canby police Thurs day and returned to the hospitaL Enberg, still wearing hospital slippers, said he had walked all the way from Salem. A- baker who had given the hungry man some rolls and pas try remembered that some one of Enbergs description was wanted and called police, who found him near the Clackamas County Fair grounds. Enberg escaped Tuesday by jumping down a laundry chute. Hospital authorities Thursday night denied published reports that he was dangerous. Prize Palomino Loses Prize Tail Police would like to know who chopped six inches off the flow ing tail of a prize Palomino horse at Oregon State Fair Thursday. So would the horse's owner, Rose Franke Wilhelm of Salem. Perhaps the horse would too. At Spokane 4. Salem S playofi) ' . Coast League , At San ZMcco S-2, Portland S-S (2nd 11 innings) At Hollywood 4. Oakland T At Seattla 12. Sacramento 1 At Saa rranciaco 4, Los Ang le4 . , . I American League At New York 1. Chicago At Boston 14. Cleveland 4 Only games scheduled. National League At Cincinnati a. Brooklyn At St. Louis 1. Mew York Only same scheduled. Change Quits in Anger MARTIN P. DURKIN Resigns From Cabinet Nation Pays Last Tribute to Justice Vinson WASHINGTON Iff! The Presi dent of the United States, a former President and multitudes of plain people mourned together Thursday in a! last solemn tribute to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. Faces etched in grief, the mourn ers joined in well-loved hymns and scriptural passages at simple funer al services in Washington Cathedral on' a sun-flecked hill overlooking the national capital. A small-town boy from Kentucky who rose to the nation's highest judicial office, Vinson died of a heart attack Tuesday. He was 63. President Eisenhower interrupted his Colorado vacation to fly back to Washington for the services. Former President Truman came by train: fro mMissouri to pay final tribute to the man he appointed seven years ago as 13th chief jus tice of the United States. And for the first time since the Jan. 20 switch in administrations, the two met face to face drawn together to pay homage to a man each called his warm personal friend. Secretary of State Dulles and oth er Cabinet members assembled at the cathedral, too. So did members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. Seven of the eight associate Supreme Court justices were on hand .as honorary pallbearers. Mercury Due To Rise Today Hot weather .returned to the mid-valley Thursday and the Weather Bureau at McNary Field said more of the same can be ex pected Friday and Saturday. Fire danger will be high in the forests. The mercury climbed to 89 in Salem Thursday and predictions are it will bit 02 to 94 today. Temperatures moved up to 98 at Redmond and Roseburg, 97 at Medford, 95 at The Dalles, 93 at Baker, 92 at La Grande and Pen dleton, 91 at Klamath Falls, 90 at Eugene, 89 at Portland and 88 at Astoria. Prison Fire Loss Estimated Oyer Half Million; One Dead WALLA WALLA, Wash. Uh Mop-up crews moved through the Washington State Penitentiary Thursday to clear away debris left when inmates ripped up their cells after fire destroyed the prison's chief' industry, a metals fabricat ing plant Damage was estimated by Deputy Warden Al Remboldt at half a mil lion dollars. Warden John Cranor, who cut short; his vacation to hurry back to the prison, said 700 prisoners were 'locked in their cells and will stay t there." There was no explanation for the Thursday afternoon fire, which de stroyed the plant which produced all automobile license plates for the state of Washington. More than 600, 000 plates for use in 1354 were lost in the fire, which broke out after the plant had closed for the day. Twq hours later prisoners became T-B in ouie uciiiuurai On Cabinet Steps Down By WILMOT HERCHER i WASHINGTON (JB Martin P. Durkin quit as secretary of labor with an angry blast accusing the Eisenhower administration of breaking an agreement to revise the Taft-Hartley law. Durkin, the only Democrat , la the Cabinet who supported his own party's nominee in last year'i pres idential election, told a news con ference that . he would not label the administration friendly or un friendly to organized labor until it takes a position in the controver sial labor-management law. , ; "I will have to wait and see what it recommends," he said. Returns to Union Durkin, 58, will resume his post as president of the United Associa tion of Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters, an AFL union. Un dersecretary of Labor Lloyd Mash-, burn will act as secretary until u' successor is appointed by Presi dent Eisenhower. : Durkin disclosed that be resign ed in a letter written Aug. 31 and that Eisenhower talked with him for half an hour at the White House Thursday morning in an unsuccess ful attempt to keep him on the job. In accepting Durkin's resigna tion, the President commended his brief ' career as secretary and ex pressed "my personal conviction that the principal key to the strength of our working democracy is the assurance' of both industrial peace' and the vitality of our free labor unions." ; , , . i. . Tells of Agreement ( ! The outgoing secretary said that shortly before the death of Sen, Taft (R-Ohio) his department had reached an agreement with Eisen hower's advisers on 19 amend ments to the Taft-Hartley Act. Dur kin did not lay what the changes were, but he said they included many that Tat hi-.iself had pro posed. i "I considered them fair both to management and labor," he said, adding that they would have brought "fairness: end balance" o the law. j "Now I feel they are not going to carry those agreements out;" Durkin went on. "In fact. I was told so." No Assurance He declined to express an opin ion on whether the President him self had changed his mind on Taft Hartley revisions and he refused to say whether Eisenhower had told him personally that the changes were out. , He saidhowever, that he would have stayed on if the President had told him Thursday morning that the administration's position on Taft-Hartley had been changed, i Just before Congress adjourned this summer a proposed message from the White House suggesting 19 changes in the Taft-Hartley ; Act was widely circulated. ; j Basinets Criticism . '' The message, described by' the White House as a "preliminary draft," never was submitted to Congress. Nevertheless it drew a good deal of criticism from busi ness organizations, which consid ered it too favorable to the unions. Durkin conceded to reporters that he was not sure that Eisenhower had ever approved the 19 changes on which he claimed agreement had been reached. But he said: "It was our belief that the Pres ident had been kept informed. We believed he had agreed to them. Asked if he felt the President hat "let you down, Durkin said "I have no comment on that." disorderly during the evening meal, throwing dishes and breaking chairs. They were herded back to their cells, but the unrest contin ued. Burning mattresses were thrown from windows and cell fur nishings broken 1 Remboldt said the unrest in the cells may have been prompted by failure of the ventilation system when the fire burned out soma of the electrical circuits. He blamed a group of younger prisoners and said a number of older convicts were heard pleading with the young sters to quiet down. When officers moved through the four affected cell blocks to assess damage they found one inmate had strangled , himself with a knotted short. Cranor said, however, the suicide of Elmer Warren Kerr, SO, was not related to the rioting. He blamed It to despondency over Kerr's failure to obtain a parole from a grand larceny sentence. a t 4