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Some parents and children are
chafing at the bit this week be
cause of the delay in the opening
cf the public schools; and pre
sumably the schoolboard gets
rapped on the knuckles because
It ordered the postponement at
the urgent request, of those in
terested in the harvesting and
Ecessing of local crops, particu
ly snap beans.
What, then, is the situation?
Was this week needed for the
completion of the harvest? The
frank testimony of growers and
packers is that the extra week
has saved them and the com
munity from very heavy losses.
Monday receipts were 5000 tons
of beans, and the run is expected
to continue all this week, though
by the weekend, the harvest will
be 95 per cent completed:
This 5000 tons will return to
the growers nearly $60,000; and
the pickers got $27,500 of that
In addition, labor in transporting
and in processing the beans de
rived substantial sums in wages.
Not only did the young people
help out in bean-picking but older
youth made "hands" in the can
series. There has been a shortage
of cannery labor which may in
crease when these young people
return to high school. Canneries
still have runs on other crops:
beets, sweet corn, prunes, pears
and later crops like carrots and
quash.
Tuesday I visited a cannery
and found it busy processing corn
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Doctors to Try
To Separate
Siamese Twins
NEW ORLEANS ? A team
of surgeons matching their
skilled scalpels against death will
try to separate Louisiana's Siamese
twin girls Thursday at New Orleans
Foundation Hospital.
The 8-week-old girls, joined near
the base of the spine, face a big
gamble never before have both
twins survived this operation.
Hospital spokesmen voiced cau
tious optimism about the infants'
chances for normal life.
V The twins, daughters of Mayor
and Mrs. Ashton Mouton of Lafay
ette, a south central Louisiana city,
were born in the Lafayette Sani
tarium July 22.
Carolyn Anne and Catherine
Anne are "bright, alert and per
fectly normal in every respect, ex
cept for the connection," officials
said.
The operation will take from two
to three hours.
The children weighed 11 pounds,
S ounces at birth and hospital of
ficials said they have gained about
three pounds since then.
Deputies Check
Drivers on Routes
Of School Buses
Motorists driving in the vicin
ity of outlying schools . around
Salem were warned Wednesday
by Marion County Sheriff Denver
Young to slow down and watch
for school buses.
Young said he had received
several complaints concerning
drivers who were not stopping for
school buses and were exceeding
tpeed limits in school tones.
He cautioned particularly about
Keizer School which is temporar
ily -now maintaining two shifts a
day.
Sheriffs deputies are being
sent to school areas, said Young,
and will issue court citations to
motorists violating traffic regula
tions. Fence Post Holes
Offered for Sale
EAST ST. LOUIS tfi The new
telephone directory here carries an
advertisement announcing the Suth
erland Lumber Co. has for sale
"creosoted fence posts and holes."
Not so, an official of the firm
explained Wednesday. It was a
typographical error. The items
featured by the firm are creosoted
'fence posts and poles.
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
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Mammoth
Sprawling, impressive, new South Salem High School this week
passed the half-way point in construction, reported Schools Super
intendent Walter E. Snyder Wednesday. Aerial photo above shows
how the big school, due to open a year from now, is linked to Les
lie Junior High School (pictured in right foreground, facing How
ard Street). Wings on either side of Leslie Auditorium will open
into the junior high, will house shops, commercial department, mu
Disputed Pole
Near Airport
To Be Removed
The 100-foot pole erected near
Salem's McNary Field last week
will be removed, according to J.
Harold Davis, city engineer.
He reported Wednesday that
Carl R. Staats, president of the
River Bend Sand and Gravel Co.,
has agreed to remove it The com
pany put up the pole as part of a
gravel pit project.
Staats declared that after
watching airplanes In the land
ing pattern' at the airport, he was
convinced it is a hazard.
A survey by the city engineer's
office determined that the pole is
62 feet higher than is permissible
at that location, according to air
port zoning laws.
Pen Escapee
Nabbed, Along
Witb Arsenal
TERRE HAUTE. Ind.UV-Charles
Stephen McCabe. 25. who state po
lice said admitted escaping from
the Oregon prison in July, was
arrested Wednesday on U. S. High
way 40 in a stolen automobile.
Detective Harold Roseberry said
the car contained nine guns, sev
eral sets of license plates and 56
boxes of ammunition. McCabe was
captured after a report was broad
cast that a hitch-hiker had been
robbed and stripped near Indiana
polis. Neuberger Not
Planning to Run
For U. S. Senate
PORTLAND UFi Full-time pub
lic office has no present appeal
to State Sen. Richard L. Neuber
ger. The Portland Democrat, com
menting on a suggestion by Demo
cratic National Committeeman
Monroe Sweetland in Chicago that
Neuberger may oppose Sen. Guy
Cordon, Republican, next year,
said:
"My intentions now are what
they always have been to try to
end the one-party Republican dom
ination of Oregon's state govern
ment and congressional delegation.
I have no plans at this time to
run for any full-time public of
fice." IKE. LANIEL TO TALK
DENVER U President Eisen
hower and French Premier Laniel
will confer in Washington this fall
about "matters of common inter
est" to the United States and
France, the summer White House
announced Wednesday.
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Wednesday aboard the Queen
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather
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bureau. McNary field. Salem): Patch
es of morning tot. otherwise partly
cloudy today, tonight and Friday.
Highest today near 73. lowest tonight
near 43. Temperature at 11 t a.m.
was 44 degree.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since start of Weatner Tear Sept. 1
Tfeic Tear Last Tear Normal
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High School Project Passes Halfway
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Liberty School
Registration in
Liberty School will open for classwork two days late on Wed
nesday but registration of pupils there and throughout Salem
School District will proceed on schedule this Friday.
Superintendent of Schools Walter E. Snyder yesterday ordered
the delay in operating. Liberty School because delivery of asphalt
tile for the new building at Liberty is behind schedule. Olsen Floor
Co., the flooring contractor, said
the shipment was expected Fri
day and four days at the very
least would be required to com
plete the floor work.
To Affect Other Students
The Liberty School delay will
affect two groups of South Salem
students - both the full liberty
School population and the older
Morningside students who were to
have attended Liberty until their
brand new school, also late in con
struction, is completed. They win
use soon-to-be-abandoned upstairs
rooms of the old liberty build
ing, adjacent to the new Liberty
construction.
For registration between 9 and
10 a.m( Friday, however, all Morn
ingside pupils will report with
parents to the Salem Heights
School playroom. At the same
time Liberty students will report
to their school and similarly the
pupils of all 25 elementary
schools of Salem district will reg
ister at their own schools.
At Junior Highs
Expected to register at the jun
ior highs Friday are only the 7th
graders and pupils new to Salem
At Salem High, registration
Friday is for only those who did
not register at high school last
spring.
A new feature for Salem High's
new girls this year is an "informa
tion tour" through the school un
der Girls' League sponsorship.
This is available from 1 to 3 p.m.
today or 1 to 4 p.m. Friday.
The delay at Liberty School
will not affect Morningside's first
and second grade children, who
are to be taken by bus to Rich
mond School until the new Morn
ingside School opens.
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American League
At New York 3-3. St. Louis 5-2.
At Boston 3. Detroit S.
At Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 7.
At Washington 4. Chicaco 2.
National League
At Milwaukee 7. Pittsburgh 3.
At Cincinnati 3. New York 4.
At Chicago 7. Philadelphia 4.
At St. Louia 5. Brooklyn 4.
WEST
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The two-bridge through way
across the Willamette River at
Salem, probably coupled with a
related one-way street grid, will
, begin operation about Oct 1, if
planning by the State Highway
Department proves accurate.
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sic rooms and Little Theater. Classrooms and offices will .fill build
ing unit seen at background, to face Church Street with main en
trance in center. At left shows large gymnasium' unit for 3,500-seat
gym, two smaller gyms, locker rooms, classrooms. Inside the "IT
will be practice football field and paved area for buses to circulate.
Donald Mi Drake Construction Co., general contractor, is now con
centrating on finishing roof. (Statesman-McEwan phofo.)
to Open Late;
Salem Friday
Missing British
Envoy's Family
Disappears
GENEVA, Switzerland (A The
wife and three children of missing
British diplomat Donald Maclean
'have disappeared mysteriously
from their home here and police
speculated Wednesday night that
they may be behind the Iron Cur
tain. A telegram purporting to have
been filed from Territet early Wed
nesday by Mrs. Melinda Maclean.
37, a slim brown-haired native of
Chicago, said "safe and well, don't
worry." It was addressed to her
mother, Mrs. Melinda Dunbar.
Mrs. Dunbar told Swiss security
police tonight she believed the
handwriting on the original of the
telegram was not that of her daugh
ter. A handwriting expert will
check on it Thursday.
The original was brought here
by police from Territet, a suburb
of Montreaux, 60 miles east of Gen
eva, where the family was report
ed to have friends.
Telegrams have not proved fruit
ful clues in the past in the inter
national police case set off by Mac
lean and a fellow diplomat, Guy
Burgess, when they dropped out
of sight at Rennes, France, May
26, 1951.
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Sec. 1.)
Temperature
Starts Downhill
Shades of fall weather seemed
apparent early Thursday morning
with the temperature at 44 de
grees. Prediction by U. S. weath
ermen for today promised patches i
of fog in the morning followed by
"partly cloudy" conditions today
and Friday. Temperatures for
today were expected to be about
the same as Wednesday's, which
rose to 70 degrees.
APPROACHES TO WILLAMETTE RIVER
SALEM.
Residents in the West Salem
area and those who use the!
route regularly have been watch
ing refurbishing of the Center f
Street bridge and the cloverleais
and wondering really "how the
thing will work."
Shown above is a sketch of
No. 171
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West Rejects
Expansion of
Korea Talks
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. OP)
The United States and its 15 allies
in the Korean war decided unani
mously at a closed meeting Wed
nesday to stand firm on the U.N.
decision to limit the Korean peace
conference to belligerents.
Diplomatic sources reported this
development as the Soviet bloc
gave firm notice in the 15-member
Steering Committee of the 8th U.N.
Assembly that the Russians will
fight to the last against any at
tempt Uy the United -States to re,
vise the U.N. charter.
Henry CabotLodge Jr., U.S. del
egate, clashed heatedly with So
viet delegate Jacob A. Mali and
Poland's Julius Katz-Suchy. The
Soviet bloc speakers attacked the
motives of the U.S. and others in
favoring the conference on charter
revision.
Lodge said the U.S. would match
its record in the U.N. with that
of the Soviet bloc any time and
said he was prepared to stay there
all night and answer attacks on the
U.S. and its officials.
A charter conference is expected
to be held in San Francisco after
the 1955 General . Assembly.
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Air Force ROTC
To Serve 2 Years
In Enlisted Ranks
WASHINGTON (Jl Most Air
Force ROTC members graduating
from college next June will have
to serve two years as enlisted men
before they can get commissions,
unless they have signed up for
flight training. Assistant Secretary
of Defense Hannah said Wednes
day. He announced the plan as the
long-sought solution for the prob
lem of an oversupply of college sen
iors in the reserve officer training
program. The situation was created
by budget cutbacks and lowered
personnel ceilings.
QUAKES FELT IN ITALY
COSENZA, Italy 11 Light earth
quake tremors were felt Wednes
day night in the vicinity of Ceri
sano in the southern Italian region
of Calabria. No injuries or dam
age were reported.
OREGON
the system as outlined by the
State Highway Department.
Westboun ' traffic will use the
Marion Street Bridge exclusive
ly. Cars bound for Dallas or
coastal points will veer to the
left at the west end to get into
that lane. Traffic bound for
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In
Production of 6,000
Plane Engines to (Halt
WASHINGTON UB Air Force
Secretary Talbott announced Wed
nesday that production will be can
celled on several thousands of jet
and other aircraft engines with an
estimated saving of 400 to 500 mil
lion dollars.
The cancelled engines, he said,
are "all spares or extras."
Talbott and Secretary of Defense
Wilson both emphasized at a news
conference that the cancellations
will "not affect the production of
one single plane" in the planned
buildup of the Air Force to 143
wings by mid-1955.
A wing varies in size from 30
bombers to 75 fighters.
Talbott said the number of can
Airliner Crash
Fatal to 28 at
Albany, N.Y.
ALBANY, N. Y. An Ameri
can Airlines Convair clipped two
radio towers Wednesday and thuif
dered into the ground just short of
a trailer camp, killing all 28
aboard.
The plane exploded into a ball
of flame as it hit near Albany Air
port, searing the bodies of the 25
passengers and three crew mem
bers. A three-way inquiry opened to
determine the cause of the crash.
Joseph Fluett of Washington head
ed Civil Aeronautics Board investi
gations. Airline officials and state police
also studied the charred wreckage.
The CAB report is not expected
for several days.
Some witnesses said the Chicago
bound plane. Flight 723 from Bos
ton, seemed to be having engine
trouble before it struck two 365
foot towers of Albany radio station
WPTR and dived into a lot eight
miles west of Albany. Part of a
wing and part of a tail were found
near the towers, which suffered
only minor damage.
The two-engine Convair had been
circling over the airport area for
about 15 minutes, waiting for
ground fog tq clear. The plane
crashed a half -rifle from the radio
station towers and 3 miles from
the airport control tower, which
said it had maintained radio con
tact witb the plane until a few
minutes before it hit.
Ardent Wooer
Back in Jail
LONG BEACH, Calif. UFi Back
in jail Wednesday was Edward S.
Kropfli, 44-year-old lovesick for
mer postman, who just can't resist
wooing Mrs. La Vera R. O'Betz,
26, a dental assistant who says
she never has encouraged him.
Kropfli was sentenced to 30 days
in jail July 29 on a charge of dis
orderly conduct arising from his
determined wooing. A condition on
his release was that he refrain
from writing or telephoning Mrs.
O'Betz.
But three days after he got out
of jail, Mrs. O'Betz received a 23
page letter. Two other shorter let
ters followed before Kropfli was
jailed again for violating probation.
He was sentenced Wednesday to
serve another 30 days.
Children Killed hy
World War Shell
NAPLES. Italv UFi GiuseDDe
Napolitano, 8, and his brother Do-
menico, 2, became casualties of
World War II Wednesday.
They were killed when an artil
lery, shell they found in a field
exploded.
Nearly 2,000 persons most of
them children have been killed
by such accidents during each of
the eight years since the war end
ed. BRIDGES
West Salem will keep to the
right at the end of the bridge.
Eastbound traffic headed for
Salem will turn onto the
throughway provided off Edge
water Street near McNary Ave
nue and proceed across the Cen
ter Street bridge. Vehicles in
Saiem
celled engines might run as high
as 6,000.
Wilson and Talbott explained that
the engines are no longer needed
for two main reasons:
1. Jet .engines now last much
longer between overhauls the
result of "accumulated know-how"
in operation, improved design and
increased maintenance capability.
2. Attrition rates have fallen off.
For one thing, the Korean armis
tice has marked the end of planes
lost in combat. In addition, Talbott
said:
"Our accident rate has been
gradually decreasing, and we con
sequently have requirements for
fewer engines."
'Trapped' Woman
Screams in Night
DALLAS, Tex. tl Screams of
a woman shattered the sleepy tran
quillity of a block in East Dallas
at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
An alarmed neighbor, mindful
of a house-breaking rapist in Dallas
in recent weeks, called the police.
Squads of officers converged on
an apartment.
The three women occupants were
startled, and then one of them be
gan laughing.
"I screamed," she confessed,
"when I stuck my finger in a
mousetrap."
Anti-Commie
PWsRipOff
Identification
INDIAN VILLAGE, Korea UPi
Rabid anti-Communist Chinese pri
soners ripped off their identifica
tion tags Thursday and threw
them away before entering Indian
guarded compounds in the Korean
neutral strip to hear Red explana
tions why they should return to
Communist territory.
Inside the stockade they angrily
hurled stones and screamed at
Communist observers outside. They
hit no one.
They also refused to give their
names, confusing the transfer by
making identification impossible.
The Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission, which already has
named a subcommittee to study
methods of meeting possible trou
ble, met to consider refusing fur
ther delivery of POWs without iden
tity tags or cards. No decision was
announced immediately,
The 1,000 Chinese delivered to the
Indian guards by the U.N. Com
mand Thursday morning were only
counted by the guards and deliv
ery certified to the U.N. Command
by number rather than name.
The thousands of Chinese and
North Korean POWs already in
the neutral zone compounds greet
ed the new arrivals with songs,
cheers, and band music played on
homemade instruments.
From all the compounds Chinese
Nationalist flags and Republic of
Korea banners flapped in the wind.
POWs brought to the camp earli
er already have begun rehearsing
acts of non-compliance they plan
for Red explanation teams which
are to start visiting them about
Sept. 25.
General Dean to
Leave for Home
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TOKYO UFi MaJ. Gen.! William
F. Dean, a prisoner of the Com
munists in Korea more than three
years, is tentatively scheduled to
leave Tokyo by plane for the Unit
ed States next Monday, a Far East
Command spokesman said Thurs
day, i
Dean, former commander of the
U. S. 24th Division, has been under
treatment at Tokyo Army Hospital
for amoebic dysentery since his
repatriation at Panmunjom Sept.
4.
the West Salem area east of
McNary Avenue wishing to cross
the Center Street bridge will
use the access provided at the
juncture of Wallace Road and
Edgewater Street, where traffic
light will remain ' to regulate
traffic
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Violations at
Minimum in
Valley Area
ByPHILSLOCUM
Staff Writer, The Statesman ;
Nearly 500 taxpayers have ans
wered the knock of tax collectors
from the Salem district office of
Internal Revenue and a door has
yet to be slammed in an agent's
face. ..:.. i
"We've had a wonderful recep
tion so far," said a spokesman for
the Salem district Wednesday,
"and people are actually saying
thanks. Frankly it's not quite
what we expected." i
Since Sept 2, when the local
office started looking for tax,
dodgers, 480 taxpayers have been
queried all of them business
people. i j .
Only 39 delinquent returns
have been uncovered and all but
approximately 10 of these were
cases where estimates of expected
income in 1953 had not been filed.
Others had not filed returns.
"In most instances the taxpay
ers were not aware these esti
mates had to be filed," an agent
said. "We have yet to find a will
ful violator."
The heart of Salem's downtown
business district has been can
vassed and Silvertdn is; nearly
completed.. Some checks have
been made in Sheridan. Three
agents are on the job. j
Salem district is responsible
for Marion and Polk counties and
part of Yamhill County, j
Agents expect to complete the
canvass of business firms in two
to four weeks. ' -
No orders have been received
locally to start door-to-door check
ing of homes, but an agent said
such a canvass was a possibility
and pointed out it was being done
in other sections of the country.
Lockheed to
Build Super jet
BURBANK. Calif. (A -1 Lockheed
Aircraft Corn, is to build a let
to end all jets. I
The firm announced Wednesday
it has received an Air Force con
tract to build an "air superiority"
jet fighter plane, the XF-104.
An air superiority fighter, the
firm said, is one designed to es
tablish local supremacy in a given
area by sweeping the sky clear of
enemy planes. j
No other details were announced.
Portland Council '
Shelves Plan to
Change City Name
PORTLAND un Multnomah
may or may not be a better name
than Portland, but the City Coun
cil isn'-t inclined to go to any ex-
rwns tn find nut. I
The Council Wednesday shelved
a proposal spearheaded by Author '
Stewart Holbrook that the city
change its name to Multnomah.
Holbrook, who strongly advocates
use of this region's Indian names, ;
and sometimes humorously, evi
dently gave the latter impression
to Commissioner Ormond Bean,
who said he thought the petition
was "in the same strain." :
Ava and Frankie
Together Again
NEW YORK un Ava Gardner
and Frank Sinatra were back to- j
gether again Wednesday after a I
brief cool spell.
The actress and her crooner has
band were reunited Tuesday night
at the Riviera nightclub in Fort
Lee, N.J., where he is performing. :
She returned from Europe recent-
ly and he was not at the airport
to greet her. He had singing en
gagement then in Atlantic City, N.
J. . . !
A spokesman, said Sinatra's mo
ther arranged the reconciliation.
WARM FALL FORECAST 1
WASHINGTON unf The Wea
ther Bureau Wednesday predicted
below average temperatures for
the next 30 days in most of the
eastern half of the nation and
above normal temperatures in the j
western half. j ,
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