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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1953)
S (See. 1) Statesman, Salem, Ore Friday Oct 16, 1SS3 icalA. Nedrs at RICHLAND. Wash. UB Amer ica's first practical atomic power plant, a tremendous source of en ergy, may be only five years away. -: .1 ' The president of one of the coun try's industrial giants. General Electric Co., announced Thursday application will be made to the Atomic Energy Commission with in a few days to go ahead with a "gigantic" atomic reactor. The plant would be the first large scale attempt to- convert atomic energy to electric power production. , GE President Ralph J. Cordiner did not tell his news conference the exact amount of power such an atomic reactor would produce. But be gave an indication by saying it should supply enough to run the huge plutonium-producing plant at the nearby Hanford Works and also be a "substantial contributor" to the Pacific North west Power Pool, which now Man Unhurt In Train-Auto Crash Here Lady Luck rode with a Salem man late Friday afternoon when his car was plowed Into by an Oregon Electric Railway train and carried 200 feet along the tracks, taking out a telephone pole and wires on the way. Oswald G. La Coste, 1885 S. River RL, escaped without a scratch, but bis 1941 Buick was completely demolished. A deputy sheriff who investi ntH the 5:30 D.m. accident at a private crossing near Minto sid ing off South River Road said tne car was "turned into an S curve." . - La Coste told the deputy he saw the southbound train a switch engine pushing 10 freight cars just before it hit his car and lay down in the front seat La Coste's crutch was broken hnt he was unhurt A wooden telephone and tele graph pole belonging to the railway was snapped off by the car as it was carried down the tracks. Wires were wrapped around the rear of the car. Railroad telephone and tele graph service between Salem and Eugene was out for about six hours before crews repaired the lines. It took a wrecker about a half- hour to haul the crumpled car from the tracks, j Indian Meted ' life in Prison For Murder KLAMATH FALLS (fl A fed eral court jury Thursday convicted Elwey T. (Toy) Brown, 57, of the first degree murder of his ex-wife on the Klamath Indian reserva tion. Sent 19. 1952. ; 1 The jury recommended that there be no death penalty. Judge James A. Fee at once sentenced Brown to life imprisonment. Brown was indicted on charges of killing his ex-wife. Kate Marie Godowa Brown, 57, and her daugh ter. Florence Christens en Head, 37, with rifle shots. He was tried for Mrs. Brown's death, and offi cials said they now had on plans to try him on the daughter's death. The jury deliberated 2 hours before bringing in a verdict Tiny Hunter 'Bags' Bird BOYNE CITY. Mich. W The Barents of 2-year-old Kenneth Nel son smiled Wednesday when the youngster picked up his double barreled popgun and said: "I'm going hunting." ' Mrs. Nelson wrapped her son In warm clothes and sent him out into the backyard. The father. Dor win Nelson, looked up from his ' paper long enough to smile at his con. Tne smile soon changed to a look of astonishment ' Young Kenneth came into the living room dragging a partridge behind him. The bird, apparently, broke its Beck when it flew into wires sear the Nelson home, Mrs. Nelson said. Byrd Campaign Chief Faces Tax Inquiry RICHMOND, Va. W Sidney S. Kellam. a leader in the Byrd Democratic organization, in Vir rinia. resigned Thursday night as director, of the party's guberna torial campaign in the face of a federal grand jury income tax in dictment FREE ESTIMATES ON CUSTOM MADE DRAPERIES - CAPITOL SHADE & DRAPERY SHOP (Formerly Belnholdt ft Lewis) 569 S. 21st , Ph.2-3639 i mho W3. Plant Hanford serves numerous cities. At present Hanford Is a huge user of pool power. As an apparent result of the an nouncement' GE stock jumped 3 points at 78 on the New York Stock Market Thursday. It was the most active issue, with 19.300 shares traded. ' The announcement was made in connection with a western tour of G. E.'s board of directors, dur ing the company's 75th anniver sary. . Cordiner said the company can start work whenever the AEC ap- Iproves and Congress appropriates the money. He could not divulge the expected cost, commenting: We have an exact figure in mind, but it will be up to the AEC to make any disclosure. The AEC now has an experi mental power reactor in operation at Acco, Idaho, but on a much smaller scale. Reactors are also being built to power submarines and several power companies are working on plans for larger, in stallations. - Wilfred E. Johnson, general manger of the Hanford operation, also addressed the news confer ence. He said the reactor would be efficient enough to produce elec tric power as cheaply as by the present means, provided the cost of the reactor is not included in the figures. Johnson also said the Hanford Works expects to double its pres ent production fit Plutonium, with payroll increase of only about per cent when new facilities now under construction are com pleted. He attributed it to a "start ling" reduction in production costs. Fireman Shift Leaves Tank Truck Unused (Story also on Page 1) One of two Salem fire inspec tors was put on fire truck duty Thursday after the City Council dictated a fire department reor ganization in the wake of a five- man budget cut July 1. Inspector Warren K. Faynter, 2445 N. Commercial St, is now assigned as a hoseman on the new four-wheel drive pumper at Central Station. He is on one of the three shifts which rotates on 24-hour duty stints. As an in spector he worked regular eight- nour days the past two years. Mayor Alfred W. Loucks said Thursday that City Council mem bers were surprised to read in The Statesman Monday an art icle on fire department operation since July, mentioning that the two-man inspection team had been retained despite a five-man budget cut The Council ordered the city manager to carry out the budget committee's original plan of keep- ling the same number of men on fire truck assignments by using the general duty men rather than specially assigned men for first aid and inspection service. fireman uonaid Kemke was still on fire Inspector duty Thurs day. Neither City Manager J. L. Franzen nor Fire Chief E. L. Smith indicated what the next move would be. Smith already nad reassigned three first aid men to fire truck duty, although the men have been available also for first aid runs regularly since men. The Inspection team of two firemen remained intact after five men were laid off, with a new fire pumper arriving on the scene to take the place of both an old pumper and an old tank truck which went into reserve status. Since the new pumper carried 300 gallons of water, it could double for the tank truck, under tne reorganization plan put into euecz. Under the shift made thli week, Paynter became part of the new pumper's crew. The trues remains In reserve. Walk Through Door Leads to Jail, Too Joe E. Fultz, 31, of Portland, was arrested by Salem police Thursday night for walking through a tavern door on North Commercial Street The only trouble was, police explained, the door was closed and it was made of glass. ' . Fultz, who escaped unscathed, walked into the arms of two po licemen on the sidewalk. He was booked on a charge of disorderly conduct and was being held last night in lira of $35 baiL This Is h Official Pcnstar Remedy Stcro For Marion Count. You win find these preparations of highest quality and guaran teed to bo exactly for what they aro sold and represent ed to b. .SchacferV Drug Store 135. N. Commorcial Open Dally 740 AM.- TM. Sunday 9 AJA.-4 fM. Playground At Englewood Gets Approval - (Story also on Page 1) Start of a new playground fa cility at Englewood Park was ap proved by the Salem Public Parks Advisory Board Thursday at a meeting in City HalL The board called for construc tion of rest rooms at the park this budget year and approved a young children's playground plan prepared by Landscape Architect Arthur Erfeldt, Portland. The de velopment to be carried out in future years would include a wad ing pool, possibly' an artificial creek, playground equipment units, planting to screen the area from a nearby residential area. Englewood Park lies north of Englewood School, between 19th and 21st Streets. The area planned for youngsters' play is now undeveloped,, including an oak grove, at the north end of the park. Rest room construction cost was estimated at $3,000. Other costs have not yet been tabulat ed. Members said they hoped playground equipment for there and for Bush's Pasture would be provided by civic organizations, as some already have been do nated A $3,500 improvement of the lighting of Willson Park at the west of Statehouse grounds also was given approval by board members, but they asked the City Manager? J. L. Franzen. to zind, out lz any of the money necessary for this could come from other budget sources. inese otner items were ap proved for park general improve ment work: before next July -1 with the $30,000 remaining in the city budget for the purpose: Bush's Pasture trails, parking area, pianungs, seeding $10,300: Bush House Museum, $1,000; softball backstop: at Bush's $900: west &aiem .pars: improvetment (leveling, poison oak removal etc.), $1,000; park equipment in cluding central kitchen unit at Bush's $2,000; professional ser vice in planning, $2,000; labor, 2-Price Wheat Support Plan Recommended WASHINGTON 0 - The Agri culture Department said Thursday a wneat industry Advisory com mittee has recommended to Sec retary Benson a two-price plan for supporting the price of .wheat to growers- The recommendations of the in dustry committee are advisory only. ..,. : ' - -. ' Under the plan, the excess over domestic food needs would be sold at free market prices for export or wr teed. i . i Each grower would receive marketing certificate for his share used for feed in this country. me value of the certificates, on a bushel basis, would be announced by the secretary before the begin ning of the marketing year and would represent the difference be tween the. estimated support level and the estimated average farm price. The plan proposes that the farm er would sell his crop at the mar ket price and the value of his certificate would bring the return up to the support level for the portion of the crop used in this counry for food. Flour millers would buy milling . AI A m . . certificates from the government lor tne wheat needed and the mon ey obtained from sales of the mill ing certificates would, be used to redeem the producers certificates. Second TV Station Begins Transmission PORTLAND (A Portland's second television station began broadcasting Thursday, and re ception was reported down the Willamette Valley and along the coast. The station is KOIN-TV, operat ing on channel 6. Portland's first station was KPTV on channel 27. Prosecutor of Sacco, Vt&zetti Succumbs DEDHAM. Mass.- (A Freder ick G Katzmann, 78, prosecutor in the world famous Sacco-Vanzetti murder case over 30 years ago. died Thursday night after collaps ing in Norfolk County Superior Court, scene of the controversial trial in 1921. On SALEM'S NEWEST, SMARTEST DINNING ROOM ULixJlru 3555 S. Commercial Street 4 Telephone 2-21 17 For Reservations lIEVnOIRS--- V DAILY 12 Neon 12 Midnight SATURDAYS lSNeeateSAJL SPECIALIZING IN Chinese and LAJtGE PARKING ARIA Salem Man r- FEAF BOMBER COMMAND, JapanAirman ZC Robert H. Fabry (right), Salem, Ore., Is congratulated by Lt. coL Vincent Crane, commander of the UJ5. Air Force 91st Strategic Reconnaisance Sauadron In Japan after receiving the Air MedaL Airman Fabry, a superfort gunner, earned the award for photographic combat work during the Korean war and for "distinguishing himself in aerial flight." His parents, Mr. lem. (U.S. Air Farce photo.) AWOL Charge gainst 2 Salem Men Two Salem men were arrested by city police Thursday on charges of being AWOL zrom the Army. One of them had escaped from the city jail Wednesday night Police said Harold W. Richard son, 20, of 1767 Wilbur St, escap ed from the jail about 6 pjn. Wednesday while prisoners were being fed. He was. serving out a fine on a reckless driving convic tion. Richardson, a trusty, was sup posedly helping to serve the eve ning meal when he made his get away through the main jail door. Detectives arrested him at his home Thursday morning. Police said Richardson had been AWOL from Mt Lewis, Waslu, since last May. He is being held for Army authorities. Also arrested on AWOL charges was Pvt William J. Jeff ers, 21. He was apprehended at the home of his brother at 1349 Mission st and is being held for the Army. He is charged with being ab sent without leave from Ft Lewis since Sept, 28. Babies Share In GE Stock NEW YORK W Let it never be said that the General Electric Co. bites off more than it can chew. The firm nromised five shares of stock to every baby born Thurs day to its employes. It was a stunt to mark GE's 75th anniversary. The company figured on paying off on maybe a dozen or so aids But 92 had been born Deiore tne end of the business day that's 7 times as many stockholders as GE started with 75 years ago And more were expected before the midnight deadline. It figures to cost the company nearly 500 shares of stock worth around $40,000. "General Electric stands firmly behind its offer," was the last. rather frantic report from head miarters. The guy who thought up the idea, incidentally, was a bachelor, Big Bill Hutcheson In Critical Condition INDIANAPOLIS W William L. (Big Bill) Hutcheson. 80, form er AFL Carpenters union presi dent was in critical condition al Methodist Hospital after suffering a heart attack Thursday. Hutcheson was hospitalized Mon day for observation of a stomach aflment He had the heart attack before tha stomach tests were completed. Until the atomic era. uranium was merely a by-product of radium and vanadium mines, use ful for coloring glass, pottery and artificial teeth. " 1 5 Afternoon Teas, Dinner Parties, Banquets J NOON LUNCHEONS American Foods Tjzir Laid A ! i 1 Awarded J s i i ft, 3 and Mrs. Henry Fabry live in Sa Casey Jones9 Saves Crew, Dies in Wreck DECATUR. EL W A locomo tive engineer Thursday night or dered three crewmen to jump to safety seconds before his Bala more ft' Ohio freight crashed into another train, carrying him to his death. The dead man was John Paul Bolin, 49, of Decatur. Just before the collision on a curve near Casner, 7 miles east of Decatur, Bolin ordered three fel low crewmen to jump from the ocomouve. They escaped injury. Sheriff David M. Peters of Ma con County said Bolin's locomotive rounding the curve, struck the ca poose oi anoiner ireigni wmcn naa stopped to take on an additional 1 1 . t i i i car. - , About a half dozen freight cars laden with corn were derailed. The right of way was torn up for about 100 yards. Police Quiz Workers in Bullion Theft NEW YORK (A Employes ! Riddle Airline, Inc., warehouse at Idlewild Airport in Queens were questioned by police Thursday fol lowing the theft earlier of gold bullion cargo valued at $50,000. The gold, consisting of IS bars weighing 632 pounds, was con signed to the American Smelting and Refining Co. at Perth Amboy. N. J., by the New York and El Salvador Mining Co. The theft was the second such from a Riddle warehouse at the airpon in live montns. ' Police said the warehouse was locked at 2 a. m. Thursday by. an assistant cargo agent An employe who reported work at 6 a. m. found that a sta tion wagon, usually kept inside the warehouse, was missing. Investigation disclosed a break in a window through which some one could have entered the build ing. Canada Denies Union Head Entry for Talk TRAIL. B. C. W Esbury How ard, Alabama regional director of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, was de nied admission to, Canada Wed nesday night by Canadian immi graticm officials at IPaterson, B.C. Howard was scheduled to ad dress a meeting of the union's trail local here the same night ACORNS FROM THE WITH DEL MILNE See you Sunday at the Mar ion" that is getting to be a stock phrase . as hundreds are being convinced that the Mar ion Hotel Dining Room is the place to eat their Sunday din ner. Couples, friends and .fam ilies make up the groups that keep the Marion busy from noon until 8 o'clock (breakfast in the coffee shop starting at 7 o'clock). Now that Mother is getting back on an even keel after getting the children ready for the fall term at school, it would be ah awfully nice ges tore on your part to take her to' the Marion for Sunday diiv ner. We are inclined to just take Mom for granted and over look the important fact that she Is entitled to some pleasures end relaxations, probably snore so than anyone else in the fam ily. If s folly to celebrate just one day a year for Mother. ? In Salem, If a the Hotel Marion Four-Story Addition Set ForYMCA Preliminary sketches "of the new addition to the Salem YMCA were accepted at a meeting of the board of directors Thursday night Robert L. Elfstrom. chair man of the building and planning committee, announced. - A fund drive is slated for sometime after the first of the year, he? said, "And then well know just how much we have to spend 04 the addition.' The proposed building will be constructed on the lot immediate- north! of the present YMCA and will join the old building. It is planned that the addition. o do approximately 165 z 75 est, win nave zour stories in A. M 1 . cluding the basement Elfstrom said, with an entrance on Cottase street i . a snaiiow instruction swim a . . ming pool is planned for the basemenf which will also con tain locker rooms, storage space and showers. On the second floor will be s; gymnasium, snack bar and eigmj or ten craft rooms. The third floor will have oaicony, . chapel and several meeting rooms, Elfstrom reveal ed. It is! planned to keeD the kitchen in its present location in the old building. The fourth floor, to remain un finished for some time. Elfstrnm said, wil eventually 'house dorm itories and a hand ball court The new addition will nrohaMv be constructed from poured con crete, he said, and will be almost entirely turned over to the youth program Business groups will use the older building. . John Van Dis. of the Ymca Architects Service, San Francis co, attend eu the meeting Thurs day evening. After preliminary plans for the building are com pleted they will be turned over to a local architect for drawing, Jiaistrom; said. Wable Admits Slaying Two Truck Drivers GREENSBURG. Pa. im John Wesley Wable, 24-year-old resident of Ohiopyle (Fayette County), has admitted participating in the slay ing of two truck drivers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, state and Westmoreland County officers said here Thursday. The statement came a few min utes after! the closely cuarded man arrived here by train from Al- Duquerque, N. M., where he was arrested last Sundav. Major Andrew' J. Hadock' of the Pennsylvania State Police and LL Alexander S c u 1 0 . . Westmore land Cofmty district attorney, jointly issued this statement: Wable 1 admits particinatinz In both crimes (the two Turnpike murders) 4 There are many details yet to be checked. There-is no further comment ' SHOOT ACROSS LINE , HOF, Germany R Czech in fantry fired across the border on German workers near here Thurs day as the Czechoslovak army be gan its annual autumn maneuvers West German frontier police said. Now Showing Open :45 'STORY OF 3 LOVES" --Techni color Pier Angeli, Farley Granger, Kirk Douglas, Leslie Caron Technicolor Co-Hit "POWDER RIVER" Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet DALLAS DRIVE-IN THEATER GATES OPEN 6:30 SHOW STARTS 7:15 Phone 3841 STARTS TONIGHT Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming in "THE LAST OUTPOST" also Loretta Young in "PAULA" tSCOOP- SPIIIET FlAlIOS And Up Several Floor Models at Great Savings -ALSO Fine Used Uprights c Grands TERMS The Ilnsic Center 470- N. Capitol Capitol Shopping, Center Open Mon. A Frl Tfl 9 PJtf. LEARII TO DANCE Ail types of dancing taught 80c Per Hour Studio Open 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. Jon -Mar Dance Studios 474 Ferry Street Phone 44962 Surprised, Surpris FT. LEWIS (9 During mock combat exercises here Wednesday night, three -soldiers crept up on what they thought was a lone sen try guarding an anti-aircraft in stallation. Deep in the pitch black of the reservation's forests, the trio sur rounded their objective. Then they dropped firecrackers used to imi tate rifle fire into the hideout . It wasn't a sentry that popped out It was a big black bear. A few firecrackers and smoke grenades sent bruin retreating into the woods. Also retreating were the three soldiers: M. Sgt Harold S. Pratt, Auburn, Wash.; Pvt Alfred A. Webb, St Louis, and Pvt Ralph Braskowstd, Milwaukee. owes Drdging Rule For Portland WASHINGTON UJ - The 'Army Engineer Board Thursday ap proved a proposal that Portland. Ore., be relieved of the obligation of maintaining a dredge for use by federal agencies in the Portland port and channel.1 At the same tune the board turned down Portland's request it not be required to sign an agreement holding the government free from damage actions arising out of dredging operations which the government would take over. The board i action now goes to the chief of U. S. Army Engineers for consideration. As 'explained to the board the situation is this: When the government undertook to dredge a 35-foot channel in the Columbia River to the Portland port, the city's port authority agreed to maintain a dredge for government use when needed. The city did this since at that time it was using the dredge extensively to deepen the channel and port and to buud filled land areas. Now the city wishes to be re lieved of the responsibility and the $100,000 annual expense in volved. No other port is required to maintain a dredge for federal use. , relieving Portland of the re sponsibility would add $42,500 an nually to federal costs of main taining the channel. In turning down the Portland request to be relieved of : the clause regarding damages, board members noted that such a clause had been included in all such proj ect agreements In recent years. tmiuE-iuTUEatftC tU iiea ait ixi,tnrjiTtiri Gates 6:45-Show 7:15 NOW THRU SAT. James Stewart Joanne Dra In Technicolor "THUNDER BAY" , Brod Crawford John Derekin fJTUE I ACT DACCC" ins LHJ I rVMK plus - Tonite (Fri.) Color! Cartoon Carnival a vt Army V i STARTS TODAY! FISCAL YEAR'S I BIGGEST , ; 4nniHYV.. I a y-- X About V n C Love ' ,, II IEnillHlGHlfcfYMni I , 2ND BIG HIT -- wmm : : 7 Russia Balks At Settlement Of Trieste Case By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (fl Russia's Andrei Y. Vlshinskv served notice Thursday the Soviet Union-never will agree to a Trieste settlement reached without Mos cow's participation. He gave this blunt warninc to - the ligation U. N. Security Coun cil at tne end of a w-minute Speech in which he charted the United States and Britain violated the It alian Peace Treaty by deciding recently to turn over the admini stration of the American and Brit ish tone, known as Zone A, to the Italians. Henry Cabot Lodze Jr.. chief American delegate, touched off fireworks in the council by charge oing that the Russians brought up the Trieste issue only, to make trouble and spread propaganda. Vishinsky ; angrily lashed back that Trieste long had been on the council agenda and was no sew problem in that body. He charged that the West had nominated per sons to be governor of Trieste but had repudiated them as soon as the Russians approved ihem. It seems our approval is a ta boo or aplague," the red-faced Vishinsky said. Shortly after the council meetins Vishinsky turned up as a guest at a Yugoslav reception. It was the first time the Soviet delegate had attended a Yugoslav social func tion here since Yugoslavia was kicked out of the Cominfonn In 1948. Russia re - established normal diplomatic relations with Yugoslav ia only last month. The first reac tion, of Western delegates to Vi shinsky's surprise appearance was that it was a move to woo Presi dent Tito s government back' into the Soviet orbit. Educators to Hear Ex-UO President EUGENE Hi A two-day re gional conference of the National Association of educational Broad casters wDl open here Friday. The first day will end with a banquet to be addressed by Dr. Harry K. Newborn, former presi dent of the University of Oregon and now head of the Ford Founda tion's educational TV and radio research center at Ann Arbor. Mich. PH0NCa-S47 Robert Taylor Ara Gardner, , . In "RIDsV VAQUZXOr . Also ", Edward G. Robinson to "BIS LEAGUER" ADULTS ONLY! 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