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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1953)
Small Boat Bests Storm, Chiropractors Slwicn New f Ticist? I Statetmon. Salem, Ore Scrturday, Nor. 21 1953 (Sec Gains Harbor State Papermdkers Confer .... . i , .- . Russell Vicary (center). 1695 S. High St. state president of the Oregon Pulp and Paper Makers Council, looks over a program with two other ranking anion chiefs daring convention in Salem Friday of the Joint Council of Paper Makers and Palp Workers. The other two leaders are Al E. Brown (left), Portland, and John Sherman, Tacoma, Wash. (Statesman Photo.) Morse, Ballot On Agenda of Union Session Election of officers and Sen. Wayne Morse will close the an nual convention here of the Ore gon Joint Council of Paper Mak ers and Pulp Workers this after noon in the Salem Labor Temple. Sen. Morse will speak on labor's future at 3 p. m. This talk is open to the public at the Labor Temple. A debate on the union referendum vote will take place at 9:30 a. m. today. Forty delegates from pulp and paper maker unions over the state convened Friday morning under the direction of Russell Vicary of Salem, state chairman of the Oregon Pulp and Paper Makers Council. Speakers Friday were Al. E. Brown, Portland, vice-president and regional director of the Inter national Brotherhood of Paper Makers, AFL, and J. D. McDon ald, Portland, president of the Oregon State Federation of Labor. Brown urged closer harmony among labor unions and McDon ald stressed the need to keep labor strong. Friday afternoon John Sher man, Tacoma, Wash., member of the executive council of the In ternational Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, outlined problems of union merg ers. A panel on seniority took place, followed by reports of locals and a dinner meeting. Margie Leonard Editor of Collesian j - Margie Leonard, of Silverton and a senior at Willamette Uni versity, was elevated this week to editor of "The Willamette Col legian," weekly campus publica tion. Stanley Nelson, graduate stu dent from Tillamook and the present editor was drafted into the U. S. Army. Nelson had been appointed editor of the paper for the school year. SEATTLE Unk two-day battle against coastal storms was com pleted Friday by the 34-foot auxili ary sailboat Hedra, from Vancou ver, Wash., with an assist on the last leg by the Coast Guard. Coast Guard headquarters said a patrol boat from the Point Adams lifeboat station towed the battered Hedra across the, Colum bia River bar Friday afternoon to the Hwaco, Wash., harbor.' - Tne three men aboard came through the buffeting of the storms uninjured.' They were the owner, Tom Bennett, a passenger. A. W. Burton, and a crewman, Dave Con- nard, all of Vancouver. Bennett told the Point Adams Coast Guard crew that the Hedra was caught in. a violent storm Nov. 18 one day after leaving Grays Harbor and was blown backward 25 miles north of the harbor's mouth. Emergency repairs made to broken rudder and quadrant en abled the trio to nurse the sail boat down coast She was spotted Friday morning by a Coast Guard search plane two miles from the Columbia River lightship. An alarm had been sounded aft er the Hedra failed to report in at Astoria, Ore., as scheduled. Plan to Seize U. S. President Told by Red DETROIT W A Communist of the 1930s testified Thursday that he and other American party members were taught in a Mos cow "civil warfare" class to ab duct the President of the United States in event of a "revolution. Members of the President's cab inet also were to be seized and held as hostages with the Presi dent, the witness said. The testimony came from ex Communist William O'Dell Nowell, 49, consultant to the U.S. Immi gration and Naturalization Serv ice. Nowell, a Negro, is a former Detroit auto factory worker. He is a government witness in the conspiracy trial of six Michigan Communists charged with teach ing and advocating violent over throw of the government Nowell, a "witness at previous Smith Act trials) including the 1949 New York trial which sent 11 top Communist leaders to prison, said he never before had testified about a plot to capture the president. Substandard Convalescent Homes Rapped PORTLAND tr) Substandard nursing homes came in for sharp criticism at Friday's meeting of the State Welfare Commission. ' Bardi Skulason, Portland attor ney and commission member, said of the substandard homes: "It is a reflection on us as a civilized state that our old people are not property taken care of." He said he had received reports of sub standard medical care, food and shelter given in some, homes. Mrs. Loa Howard Mason, wel fare administrator, said a survey now is- under way. She said Ore gon has many fine nursing homes but reports indicate that others are not giving proper care. -'- State Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, In a letter to the commission, de fended the Legislature for opening welfare rolls to public inspection. U. S. to Share Effect Report On A-Blasts By FRANK CAREY . Associated Press Science Reporter WASHINGTON un The United States is going to give Britain and Canada a fill-in on some of the devastating effects of its latest atomic weapons. The Atomic Energy Commission said Friday that arrangements are being made to exchange, with its wartime atomic partners, in formation on the effects of atom ic weapons on human beings and their environment effects which would include those resulting from exposure to blast, heat and radia tion from bombs. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss has hailed the new move as one aimed at "improving our ability to defend ourselves against the effects of atomic weapons, but he said the exchange does not envision any disclosures about the nature of our atomic weapons themselves." An AEC information spokesman said the new move would mean updating" Britain and Canada on the. potential effects of atomic bombs on people and their envir onment as distinguished from the already publicly described ef fects of the original bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. While heffered no amplifica tion, the "updating" term con ceivably means giving Britain and Canada an idea of what effects might be expected from this na tion's improved bombs, perhaps even including the projected H- bomb. Oregon Speed Limit Law Eyed at Meet PORTLAND OR If the present Washington state campaign against traffic violators brings ex ceptional results, Oregon may con duct a similar campaign, Gover nor Patterson said here Friday. But until the results are in, Ore gon will go on its normal way, with no great emphasis on en forcement, the governor told the Highway Lifesavers Committee of Oregon, Inc. That does not mean, though, he added, that there will be any enforcement relaxation. Patterson told a statewide con ference of the Lifesavers that en forcement in Oregon is more, dif ficult than in Washington because the state has no speed limit. He added that the question of a speed limit is now being studied. Patterson, State Police Captain Walter Lansing, Oregon director of traffic safety, and State High way Engineer R. H. Baldock in dicated that a speed limit may be asked of the next Legislature. Lansing told the group that the first and greatest need of the traffic enforcement officer is pub lic support. He . proposed some ' "" ... " Uc ';- t t Dr. J. L. De Rusha, dean o Northwest 'College ol Chiropractic, Minneapolis, explains a point to : colleagues during a lecture at the Oregon, Association of Chiropractic Physicians convention in . Salem Friday. Left to right are Dr. Forrest Goddard of Salem; Dr. John Ahlbin, Salem; Dr. De Rusha, and Dr. F. P. Rutz of Portland, president of the Oregon association. On the table is Dr. JL E. Blinker of Dallas. (Statesman Photo.) 1 Yeggs Meted Prison Terms ROSEBURG m Three men were sentenced to terms in the Oregon prison Friday for blowing up a safe and stealing $450 worth of cigarettes from a market. - George R. Barber, 44. Portland, who has fivq previous felony con victions, received 25 years. Sen tenced to three years, each were John Daugherty, 42, San Fran cisco, and George Schneider, 28, Seattle. The safe, blown Oct. 26, was empty. Russel Duke Arrested for Quiz Bypass J CLEVELAND OP) Russel W. Duke, 46, formerly of Portland, is under arrest here on a contempt of Congress charge for failing to appear before a Senate committee. Duke, once a San Francisco public relations man, is held under $3,000 bond. He had been working at a Geveland automobile agency. The Senate charge, was brought last May a month after Duke re- changes in laws which he said fused to appear at a Washington would aid in enforcement. I hearing before Sen. Joseph Mc- Delegates to Chiropractor Convention Hear Reports A total of 430 chiropractic physicians hold licenses to practice in Oregon, according to Dr. F. L Goddard of Satem, president of the state board of examiners. This information was contained in a report given by the board of delegates to the Oregon Association of Chiropractic Physicians convention being held in Salem, this weekend. ' 1 Friday 85 doctors and over 40 Western Oregon Sees Test Pattern SEATTLE UP) Seattle's KOMO TV said today its test patterns on Channel 4 had been 'picked up this week from British Columbia to western Oregon.' The most distant points report ing good reception of the test pat tern were Royal Oak and Victoria, B. C, and Eugene, Ore. KOMO-TV will go on the air offi cially Dec. 10 as Seattle's second television station. - Carthy's investigating committee. At the time, the committee said it wanted to ask Duke about re ports he had collected some $34, 000 in influence -peddling i cases over a period of 2 years. , Duke said he had been released from the subcomssittee subpoena by a Committee counsel and so did not have to appear at the hearing. members of the auxiliary regist ered for the convention, Dr J. L. Ahlbin, chairman of the publicity committee, revealed. Lectures will continue today by Dr. J. L. De Rusha, dean of the Northwest College of Chiroprac tic at Minneapolis, and Dr. L. P. Roberts of the Los Angeles Col lege of Chiropractic Election of officers will take place this afternoon and the an nual dinner dance will follow this evening. Guest speaker at the dinner will be Sig Unander, Or egon state treasurer. Attending the convention are two national officers of the O. A. C. Pt Auxiliary, Mrs. Cordon V. Pefley, president, and Mrs. Wal ter B. Rich, secretary. Both are from Portland. At the formal dinner dance to night, the centerpiece will be a replica of the Oregon Capitol made to scale from sugar. The model is three feet long, two feet wide and about two feet high. Honking Taxi Starts rOne Woman Riot9 CHICAGO UP) Mrs. Jeanie Fa- sano, 40, dislikes cab drivers who honk. Thursday she showed that dislike so vigorously that she creat ed what police called a "one wom an not. This is the story police told: The trouble started when Mrs. Fasano started to cross State St. at Grand Ave. She was walking in front of a taxi driven by Frank Mayer, 67, when the traffic light changed. Mayer honked his horn. Mrs. Fasano stopped. Mayer honked a little louder and a little longer. Mrs. Fasano started pacing back and forth in front of the cab. A crowd gathered. Mayer then leaned on his horn. " Mrs. Fasano stopped pacing and strode to the side of the cab. May er locked the door, but he didn't get the window rolled up. Mrs. Fasano reached inside and began to pummel him. When Mayer tried to close the window, she grabbed the edge of the glass and shattered it .. - v . Policeman George Goodin came up; Mrs. Fasano turned on him, lashing him with her fists and clouting him over the bead with her purse. Goodin was saved from further damage by a police squad which carted Mrs. Fasano to the station to cool off.'. , And Mayer? "I've gotta go home to bed," be said. "My nerves are unstrung. I've been driving a cab for 40 years, but this is the first time I've ever had a woman take after, me." WE (cDF 0 K(B(criL? HEAR HONORABLE U - - ? I I - , x I Speak Meeti at an Open nq of The Oregon Paper Makers and Pulp ers Council--- Work At The SAT., NOV. 21 AT MS LTDQo t . . . r SUBJECT! "Labor's Stake ;:y.mfJte-fofre Public 99 Cordially Invited! avimg Centers al the fool ci the Bridge 7esl Salem Ilile IIcrlH of Ihe Underp&xs Salem Open Every Day . . 8 a.n. la 10 p. n. Prices Good Fri.-Sai.-Snn. ALL POPULAR BRANDS mm LIMIT Pound SPRY 3-POUIID TUI LIMIT Circus Peanuts 2 59c Free Samples Friday and Saturday Cashews or Mixed Hnls - - 490 GRADE A mm Order Turkeys Uow! si7EE?si?ros Lb. ,C LIMIT EMPEROR Pound LIMIT EATMORE CRANBERRIES Pound LIMIT Radishes and Green Onions Bun. a PAH-READY 4 U Packaged in Pairs EACH SINGLE BIRD S9e EACH Also li-Lb. Fryers - LIMIT Each 75jS PXJRE GROUND BEEF Lb. BABY, Lb. 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