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-.S 1 i-"--' r- i - .-" :" -. ' '' ' i ! .. -.., mm- m mm n , , , . Clinton Quits State Civil Service Post it rifii M i;' I ii ill f iiiir iiifiiii - j- kii-i P-.1 i -- r I ill iiii ii r -J i iiiiii-i State Civil Service Director James EL Clinton turned in a let ter of resignation Thursday be cause he said his job "was becom ing too much of a personal prob lem for me to bear. ' Clinton said he actually would leave his job about next April He said he had no "definite" plans for the future, other than to get into "seme other line of work." He said he fa not quitting his job through bitterness or hostffl : ity. .- -i ' - . I "I believe," he said, "I can v achieve greater job satisfaction in other employment This job (of Civil Service director) has be come too loaded with responsibi lity and grief. For my own physi cal well-being I think I had better get out now." :--, In a letter to Philip A. Joss, Portland, chairman of the State , Civil Service Commission, Clinton made some suggestions for a bet tor civil service system in Oregon. Clinton plugged for a higher salary for the man who succeeds him. He said his department does n. have adequate funds to oper ate. The,' civil service merit sys tem, he advised, should be placed in the state constitution. The last State legislature should have ap proved a salary raise far state employes. "I believe," said Clinton, "that Oregon has one of the best civil service programs in the nation one of the top three or four. I Jets? Guns Terrorize Pennsylvan ia Town FARRELL, Pa. (j5V-A U.S. Air Force F84 jet plane terrorized this western Pennsylvania town Thursday with an accidental burst from a machine gun that sent bullets crashing into buildings and autos and whining past pedestrians. OtP blMJUJJS WDQuQGa "7 Editor Robert W. Ruhl of the Med ford Mail-Tribune can't figure out how it . is that Harris Ellsworth goes on getting re-elected in the Oregon lourth district wnen ne was running at the same time as Frank-las lin D. Roosevelt, "both were miles ahead of their competitors wnen the votes were counted." The mys 'tery to Ruhl is that with their po- litical Views so wide apart both ! would win in a poll of the same Voters. And he can't figure out why Ellsworth continues to be re elected in view of bis voting record.- . r - . Ruhl offers the explanation that Ellsworth ia a , "nice guy" . . ., conscientious, friendly (at 1 e a s t when campaigning) and inconspicu ous.' He is at the same time "1000 reeular . Ruhl cites as a second reason: "Apathy indiffer ence both nublie and political. I do not feel able to add much to the. analysis offered by Ruhl, except this that voters often face two ways. It is a familiar fact that voters at one time may oe neu bent for liberalism, and at anoth er time they may be equally strong for conservatism. What is less often recognized is that they may in cline both ways at the same time. Thus, they wanted Roosevelt re turned to office, either in apprecia tion of past services or out of the belief that his program was desir able. At the same time they may have wanted to "hedge their, (Continued on editorial page 4) 'Phone Gut Off Hits Mill Gty i Mill City telephone service was cut off for about three hours Thursday morning, according to Elmer Ferglund, Salem manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. ' The interruption was report edly caused by a vehicle knock ing down a pole in the Lyons area. A repair crew from Salem restored, service to the commu nity. : Bloodmobile Gets 137 Pints in City The Red Cross bloodmobile col lected 137 pints of blood at the regular drawing Thursday at Sa lem Armory. About 150 persons showed up. Yesterday's total was some 17 pints higher than last month. Animal Cracker Cv WARREN GOODRICH DENTIST CAM 10CATI TKCUtlt; . ' Vw' tj ,) : Stfiflr ' M y LJ.:Z James E. Clinton (above) who .announced his resignation as state civil service direct! 'Thursday. . hope these suggestion will make it better." ; Clinton said he has had contro versies with state officials over the merit system, the civil service payroll and "political appoint ments," but that most of these have been settled. (Additional details on Page 7, Sec 1.) Police Chief Jonn j. stosito saia there was considerable property damage but no casualties. He said the plane was based at the Vienna Air Force Base near Warren, Ohio, and had been on a routine flight 1 , . "Something happened to one of its machine guns," Stosito told a newsman after a conference with Maj. A. F. Martin Jr. of the Vienna base. An officer at the base said controls for the firing mechanism apparently tripped accidentally. Resident said the plane passed over the community once then circled a few times. The 50 , caliber slugs struck 12 automobiles, setting two afire, and 29 business places and homes. Mrs. Joseph Frank was ironing a bullet tore through the' wall of her home and landed at her feet She collapsed and was placed under' a doctor s care. , Twelve persons standing in front of the gate of the Sharon' Steel Corp. plant narrowly were missed by slugs that tore into an auto, setting it afire. rv The steel company's employment office also was sprayed by bullets that narrowly missed office work ers and punctured a filing cabinet Another bullet crashed through the roof of a truck. Four more slugs hit a feed mill and still an other went through a window at a bakery. . Flax Growers Claim Record JEFFERSON A world's re cord for fiber flax production was claimed for the Jefferson area Friday. Edward and Clause Ammon produced five tons of flax straw per acre on a seven-acre field on their Linn County diversified farm. Oregon State College author!- j ties said the previous high yield was AVt tons per acre. The re cord was achieved with the Cas cade variety flax developed' by the OSC experiment station and released in 1945. Mamie to Launch Atomic Submarine WASHINGTON ( The Navy will launch its first atomic sub marine next Jan. 21 with Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower as sponsor. The launching date was disclosed Thursday when Mrs. Eisenhower accepted an invitation to christen the revolutionary new vessel now building at Groton, Conn. It is to be named the Nautilus. The Nautilus will be the largest submarine ever built by this coun try as well as the first vessel of any Kind to be driven by nuclear power. TAX CHECK SUCCESSFUL PORTLAND m Results have been "very successful" in a door to door check to uncover delin quent taxpayers, Ralph C. Gran quist, Oregon internal revenue di rector, said Thursday. . DDIS OF INJURIES HEPPNER ) Automobile ac cident injuries caused the death Wednesday of Archie McCowan, 55, Heppner. He was riding in a car that was hit by a truck Mon day. v . hH N: m Alii 'Mil , 'Max. Min. Pre&p. Mien . m 47 jsi Portland 60 48 . ?S San Francisco 6S 37 .01 Chicago 79 .. 50 J Nw York SO ' S7 S Willamette River -1J iee. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNarr field. Salem) Hi rtly cloudy with scattered show ers today with -increasing cloudi ness tonight High today near 57 and low tonight near 43. Temperature ai i oi aunn. was 4 aefrees. SALEM PRECiPlTAT10r Since Start ei Weather Year Sept. This Yea Last Year Normal S 144 103BD TEAR Pact Witt Relief of Cold War Tensions Aim of Studies By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON U) Adlai E. Stevenson reported Thursday that President Eisenhower is very much interested" in the idea of a non-aggression pact with Russia as a means of relieving tension in Eu rope. .The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate had lunch at the White House and said afterwards Eisen hower was giving close study to the possibilities of an East-West non aggression agreement; along with other methods of abating the cold war. , : See.. Dulles Present Stevenson proposed a non-aggression pact in his recent Chicago speech and brought the subject up again when he called on the Presi dent to report on the world tour he took earlier this year. Secretary of State Dalles also was present at the White House conference. "If Russia were unwilling to ac cept the proposal" Stevenson said, "it would be rather apparent that her peaceful professions arerft as sincere as they might seem." K It. would put the Russians on the spot with respect to their intentions, he added. He then went on to say he thought Eisenhower feels some what the same way about it At Stag Luncheon Stevenson spent half an hour with the President and Dulles, then sat down to a stag luncheon in his honor attended by the President and 16 other high government offi cials, i After eating with "great re straint" what he called a very fine lunch, Stevenson conferred with the President in the latter's office for another 15 minutes. Small Gains For Burglary Of Post Office LEBANON, Ore. 141 A burglar got only 75 cents from a teacup in the attempted burglary of the Lacomb Postoffice, -eight miles north of here. . The postoffice was entered through a window and a fruitless attempt was made to open the safe. Sheriffs officers, state po lice and William Andrews, postal inspector from Eugene, investi gated. ' A week ago Dick's Grocery across the street from the post- office was robbed of $1 and a pair of nylon stockings. Several hundred dollars, was stolen in the burglary of the post- office at Crawfordsville, 20 miles south of Lacomb. Mailmen Seek Help in Fighting Route 4 Jungles' This is National Newspaper Week but if the postal depart ment had its way it also would be Keep the Mailman Dry Week. Start of the autumn-waiter rains has disclosed just how luxu riant a growing season we've had sidewalk shrubbery has all but taken over the sidewalk in some areas, and tree branches spread over walkways a? just the right height to topple a top hat, So what happens to the mail man with his umbrella and mail sack? He's getting wet, all wet. and Postmaster Albert Gragg is sued an appeal Thursday for a bit of trimming of that foliage." Whether a dryer, happier mail man would bring happier mail wasn't disclosed. DAUGHTER FOR ESTHER SANTA MONICA, Calif. UR Actress" Esther Williams, who is Mrs. . Ben Gage " in private life, Thursday gave birth to a 7 pound, 15 ounce baby girl in the Santa Monica Hospital ' Kuw Farouk O - To Callows By EDWARD POLLAk CAIRO, Egypt in Ex-Premier Ibrahim Abdel Hadi, who rose to power and riches under King Fa rouk I, was sentenced Thursday to die on the gallows for "high treason and conspiracy with a foreign pow er against the security of the state." . A special three-man court, set up by President Gen. Mohamed Na guib's revolutionary government in mid-September, pronounced the sen tence on the pale, 57-year-old form er Saadist Party leader after a three-day trial, held partly in se cret Then, in a two-hour session held wholly in secret the court con demned Ahmad Mohamed Awad, an Egyptian electrician, formerly em ployed by the British garrison in the Suez Canal Zone, to death by hanging on similar charges of trea son and conspiracy. Though the details were not dis- 4 SECTIONS 44 PAGES lEte Dtm voC.es T-IH1 Law i.. SM.es oim NEW YORK (JP) The great port of New York lay paralyzed Thursday as President Eisenhower invoked the Taft- Hartley Law against a multi-million dollar East Coast waterfront strike. At best, however, the strike of 60,000 longshoremen was expected Boyer Resigns AEC Position; Nichols Named WASHINGTON UB Chairman Lewis L. Strauss Thursday an nounced the resignation of Marion W. Boyer as general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, effec tive Nov. 1. Boyer will be succeeded by Ma. Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols, 45, a long time expert on atomic weapons and former chief of the armed forces special , weapons project. ' Boyer, who took the post for a three-year term on Nov. 1 1950, is returning to private business' He is a vice president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jemy. Nichols, now on duty in Washing ton as the Army's chief of develop ment and research, will retire from military service on taking over the AEC post Court Tests Of Induction PORTLAND m A test case on the - refusal of Jehovah's Wit nesses to be inducted into the armed forces may be taken to the high courts as a result of sched uled trials here of 15 or IS Ore gon members of the religious group. - : : ' . Federal Judge Claude McColloch said Thursday 'the trials on charges; of refusing to submit to Induction will be heard consecu tively in late November and early December. Defense attorneys will be Hay den C Covington, New York, chief counsel for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, and DeHmore Lessard, Portland. Assistant U. S. Attorney James W.. Morrell has been assigned to prosecute the cases. " Covington has represented the Witnesses in many other cases including those involving refusal to salute the flag. Thursday two Witnesses from Albany, Ore., Kendrick Mclntyre, 22, and John F. Koepke, 26, under indictment for refusing to submit to induction, pleaded innocent in McColloch's court. , They were indicted after they refused to accept the classification of conscientious objectors. They asked that instead they be desig nated 4-D as ministers. Six Millions Sliced For Oregon Forests PORTLAND 11 Oregon, and Washington received nearly 9 million dollars as their share of national forest receipts for the year ended June 30, Regional For ester J. Herbert Stone reported here .Thursday. He said a check for $6,029,382 has been sent to Salem and one for $3,434,618 to Olympia. Under federal law the states disburse such receipts for public schools and roads. - FRANK MUNN DIES NEW YORK l Frank Munn, 57, former National Broadcasting Company singer known as "The Golden Voice of Radio," died Thursday at his Queens. Village home. ' dosed, high officials declared last month that there was a plot in spired from abroad, to overthrow the government and restore Farouk to the throne he lost July 26, 1952. : The foreign power has never bees publicly identified. Unofficial spec ulation has centered variously on Britain, Russia and "an eastern Mediterranean country related with NATO." The British Foreign Office said last week Egypt had assured it that Britain was not Involved. Hadi and Awad were the first to be tried among about two dozen persons rounded op for hearings before the court headed by War Minister Abdel Latif Baghdady. There is no appeal from the sen fences, but they are subject to the approval of Naguib's revolutionary council, the governing power. Hadi was indicted and convicted on six counts, of which the con spiracy charge was the first Law Expected Aide Condemned by Naguib Court PCUNDDD 1651 Thm Oregon Statesman,' to run into next week at an esti- mated cost to the shipping industry of $1,500,000 a day. Ports were idle from Maine' to Virginia. . The White House set up a board of inquiry, giving it until Monday to report back. Then the way would be clear for a strike-ending court injunction. -Laonched by ILA ' The rackets-ridden ILA kicked out of the AFL only last week launched . the strike at midnight Wednesday to back up wage de mands on deep water shippers. The union's very future was at stake. Its leaders promised to return to work if and when there's an injunc tion. "Until that time the strike will continue," said Patrick J. Connolly, ranking ILA official since President Joseph P. Ryan was hospitalized a few days ago with an illness. Await Injunction Connolly said the Federal Media tion Service called from Washington in the afternoon to sound out the chances of the ILA returning to work at once without waiting for an injunction. , . "I told him we would not return to work until an injunction is is sued." the strike leader informed newsmen. Work Military Ships By land and by sea, ILA pickets roamed the desolate 350 miles ef New York piers, where bustling ac tivity had given way to eerie quiet and sun-splashed loneliness. Only military ships were being worked. . . ILA pickets by the hundreds pa trolled the port of New York in packs, alert for any attempt by rival AFL organizers to breach the strike front. . Bridge Traffic System Open To Full Tpsts The newry paved approach of Marion Street bridge leading to West Salem was opened at 9 a jn. Thursday and police reported traffic flowed without incident Although removal of the Edge water Street approach barricades opens the twin bridge system to full traffic use, the State Highway Department reported there are still some finishing touches before the job is completed. The new Center Street bridge, which carries eastbound traffic, was opened Sept, 23. - Until opening yesterday of the Marion Street bridge approach to West Salem, Wallace Road and Dayton, traffic for those points was routed via the Dallas-Inde pendence throughway. No Indication Of Slump, Says Administration , .. . y WASHINGTON t The Com merce Department reported Thurs day "the pace of industrial activity is being maintained" in the United States despite the predictions of some economists that there, would be a slight slump this fall. It cited as evidence the unem ployment figures for September. The department's Census Bureau estimated there were 1,246,000 un employed persons in : the country last month, compared with the post war record low of 1,240,000 in Au gust of this year. Civilian employment in Septem ber was placed at 62,306,000. This compared with 63,408,000 in August and 62,280,000 in September, 1952. "The decline in employment in September was due almost entirely to the usual withdrawal of students at the start of the school term," said Secretary of j; Commerce weeks. "It is significant that unemploy ment remained practically un changed." - l Spice of Life BANGOR, Wales un -- Mrs. Sar ah, Owen of Caernavonshire under went a throat operation Thursday and said later she enjoyed the ex perience. She is 105. ! ; " Downtown Days! "Downtown Days," a merchan dising promotion of i the Salem Downtown Merchants' Associa tion, presents special offerings f or today and tomorrow in a sep arate section of today's Oregon Statesman. It Is regarded as possi ble that the event will be placed on monthly basis. ' Salem, Oregon, Friday, October 2, 1353 Cascades Get Snow Ram in Valley It snowed Thursday one mile from Salem straight up. Although the flakes turned to rain long, before they bit ground in the Salem area, snow was reported in the Cascade Mountains above the 5,000-foot leveL ! Winter's touch was felt lo cally Thursday. Temperatures hit a brisk 53 for the high mark. And rain pounded down on the mid-valley most of yester day rnnning up a total of .61 inches at the McNary -Field Weather Bureau. Wednesday fall of one inch coupled with Thursday's total brings the water mark up to 2120 inches since beginning of the weather year Sept L. Nor mal fall for the period is 1.56 inches. . Outlook for the weekend is more of the same. Scattered showers today are predicted to give way to heavier rain Sat urday. Sunday looks damp too, says the weatherman. Heat Remains In Central Section of U. S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Summery weather paid another call to the mid-continent Thursday running temperatures into the 90s from Texas -to the' Dakotas. Fort Worm, Tex., had an after noon reading of 95 degrees; Miles City, Mont, and Pierre, S. D., 93, and Springfield, HL, 90. Afternoon readings in the 80s prevailed from the mid-Atlantic states to the Missouri Valley. . ' Helena. Mont un Miles City, in eastern Montana, reported a maximum temperature reading of 93 Thursday, highest ever recorded in that city this time of the year. The U. S. Weather Bureau in Helena said the previous high Was 91 on Oct 5, 1920. Thermometer, readings varied considerably elsewhere in the state. Missoula reported a high of 55 and Cut Bank 56. Drummond reported an overnight low of 29. Pratum Youth To Face Trial i i . Raymond Wallace Satterlee,-17, Pratum youth charged with, man slaughter will stand trial on the charge, it was decreed Thursday. Marion County Circuit Judge George Duncan denied Saterlee's plea that the teen-ager be turned over to the juvenile court Trial date will be set later. Satterlee was indicted by the Marion County grand jury recent ly following the death, Aug. 4, of a playmate, Kenneth Cross, 4. Both boys were living in a foster home at Pratum. 14 DIE IN BUS CRASH ASUNCION, Paraguay UB A passenger bus went out of control Wednesday and smashed into a building, killing 14 and injuring more than 20 of the persons aboard. Faulty brakes were blamed for the accident, the worst of its type in the city s history. WORK TO CONTINUE PORTLAND I W Work will continue on schedule on The Dalles Dam through 1954. Brig. Gen. E C. Itschner, North Pacific division engineer, reported Thursday. Flurry Neighborhood Posses Seek Slayer of Young Dallas Mother VI. . j DALLAS UR 1 Dallas husbands bought guns, two started a neigh borhood; posse and police threw everything they had Thursday into the search far a rapist slayer who killed a night With I young: mother Wednesday almost her last breath, C Parker, 29, gasped Wed Mrs. H. nesday night that it was a Negro who attacked her and left her dy ing, her throat slashed, under a creek bridge near Dallas' munici pal airport Love Field. She had been waiting for a bus. Said the passing motorist 'who picked ber up as she stumbled onto the street: "It was a bloody, stomach-retching crime. None but a mftHma-t could do such a thing. White1 women have been report ing seeing a nude Negro prowler in Dallas for weeks. One woman was injured critically in a brutal attack ion Aug. 3L . - The I murder cf Mrs. Parker aroused Dallas- PRICE 5c (Guards! : (Spins Quel. 03 jotieiig of An-i-Keds Dii POW Enclosure - ' PANMUNJOM (Jf) Anti-Communist prisoners in the Korean neutral zone Friday staged their second mass breakout attempt in two days and two were killed and five wounded by Indian guards. It brought the total casualties in the breakout attempts to 3 dead ana 10 wounded. The Indian guard force command said two Chinese were killed and five wounded in Friday's riot by 500 PpWs in Indian village. A spokesman for the Indian cus todial' force confirmed the break out try and said quiet was restored. Break from Compound In Thursday's incident, a North Korean anti-Red POW was killed and five injured when 500 prison ers rioted at the sight of Red Polish and Czech medical inspectors in side their stockades. The; Indian spokesman said that Friday the Chinese broke out of a compound shortly before noon de manding that the Indian command er return a prisoner being taken to the hospital for medical treat ments The prisoner had tried to commit suicide with a razor blade, the spokesman said, and needed medi cal attention. Demanded Return Five other Chinese POWs who had gone on sick call with the prisoner demanded he be returned to the compound. Whan the Indians refused, they rushed out shouting at the 500 prisoners in the compound. Theispokesan said Indian guards repeatedly warned the Chinese to stop climbing' over the barbed wire in a mass breakout effort. "First we fired one shot in the air as warning, he. said. "That had no effect so the guards fired six more shots. A total of only seven; shots were fired."' Guards Insured Some Indian guards were injured by prisoners attacking them with stones, sticks and tent poles, an Indian statement said. It did not give the number. Before the 60-minute demonstra tion ended, guards hustled away five inedical inspectors including two doctors from Iron Curtain coun tries. They were escorted to a ''safe area away from the compound," an official release said. Surprises Diplomats The reports of the shooting caused surprise among diplomats at the United Nations in New York. They had been assured only Monday by India's delegate, V. K. Krishna Menon, that the Indian guards were unarmed. ' y The 'flareup of violence graphical ly emphasized the latest breakdown in truce machinery calling for "ex planations" to prisoners balking at return to their homelands. Originally set to begin last Satur day, the explanations were post poned! until Thursday and then de layed again for an indefinite period. Many; prisoners objected to forced attendance at the interviews. Order Drop Lops 50 Off Dallas Rolls DALLAS Jobs ended for ap proximately 50 men at the Ger linger' Carrier factory here Thursday.-! V, O. Williams, manager, said a backlog of government orders had been filled and the night Shift yrz being discontinued. The company had been working three shifts! for more than five years. The" firm, which manufactures fork-lift trucks and lumber -carriers, I still has over 200 men on its payroll, Williams said. Williams noted that the cur rent slump in the lumber business also was a factor in the cutback- He said no further cuts in per sonnel were anticipated. Gun: dealers reported their sales were as much as 10 times the' nor mal number. One said he had 30 customers lined up waiting to buy firearms at mid-morning. Another said he hadcustomers waiting when he opened his doors for busi ness. Two; north Dallas men announced the formation of a neighborhood protective association "to protect our homes. Cash rewards offered for inform ation leading to the conviction of Mrs. Parker's slayer rose. The Dai ly Tunes Herald of Dallas and radio f station KRL together of fered $1,000. , The Dallas Morning News, radio station WFAA and television sta tion WFAA offered $1,000 each. The Terrell Tribune, published about 35 mites least of Dallas, offered $100. The ; Dallas News, with a ' 1500 contribution, launched a separate fund for the support and education of Mrs. Parker's 4 year old son, Joe Bin. No. 186 Yankees Whip am: Mantle Herd NEW YORK on An eighth' in-' ning home run by Mickey Mantle ir "?2U?r on b-:i .?avA the New York Yankees a 4-2-victory over the Brooklyn uodgers in the second game of the World Ser ies Thursday. ' ' , ; , The blast, which broke up a 1-1 tie aaa a -Itcjer's battle j2;.re- l Ed Lopat of New Yprk and Preach er Roe of the Broos, gave the Vs. kees a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Friday the scene shifts to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, home cf the Aa tional League champions, where tie Dodsers will try; to get back into the series. Erskine to Start . Carl Erskine. who nitrfiMf nn inning and gave up four runs Wed nesday as New York won, 9-5, is scheduled to pitch for Brooklyn. Vic Raschi, who has won five and lost two games in past series competi tion, is to hurl for New York. -.mine won one game and lost one last. year in the series with tha Yankees. Both are righthanders. itoe limited New York to only five hits during the warm, sunny afternoon Thursday, and until the seventh inning it appeared to the uuwu oi oo.bb mat ne-might even the series as Brooklyn led, 2-1. . Home Ron by Martin Then he threw a home run ball to Billy Martin to lead off the sev enth inning, and it landed in the left field stands to knot the count at 2-alL Bauer singled with one away in the Yankee half of the eighth, and after Yogi Berra filed out, Mantle slammed his game winning blast into the lower left field seats, 10 rows no. Two bases on balls . and two fly balls had accounted for one tally in the first inning as the Yankees scored without a hit With two away in the ton of the fourth, the Dodgers got their only .runs. Gil Hodges and Carl Furillo singled, and 'both scored on BD w uuc uuume into me leit neid corner. (Full details on Suorts, pages 1-3) Truck Plunere Kills Couple, Injures Son ROSEBURG U) A man and his wife were killed and their young son injured Thursday when their truck plunged 100 feet .into Elk- Creek canyon from Highway 227. Killed outright was Albert O. Weekly of Myrtle Point His wife, Ethel May, 44, died about 10 min utes later. The son, about 9, was taken to a Canyonville hospital with minor injuries. . The Weeklys were en route to Eastern Oregon for deer hunting when they missed a sharp turn on the Tiller Trail highway, about 60 miles southeast of here. Coroner L. L. Powers said. The truck was hauling a .Jeep. Cordell Hull to Mark 82nd Birthday Today WASHINGTON CordeS Hull, who left the office of secre tary of state nine years ago an HI and exhausted man, observes hit 82nd birthday here Friday. Hull ran the State Department from March. 1933, to Nov. 27, 1944, longer than any other secretary. He lives in an apartment betel, takes - daily auto rides into the nearby Virginia countryside.- and keeps up with world affairs through the newspapers, radio and televi sion. Today's Statesmsn Section 1 ! General news i;2, 6, 7, 10 Editorials, features Society, women's . Section 2 Downtown Days Fashions General news . Sections Sports . : Associated Press photos ' World This Wes Markets 13 :'.4 ! 7 -8, Classified ads Farm news 10 Section 4 Food news Valley Radio TV orooks Ag 4 k a ....... .1-U 2,4,6,8 mm. io-n