i" ' I ll ";i i i I-' 'r i - !; ' ' ; i : ' : 1 p '.!- ; I : ;..!." .-: - m . ! ; ." I ' n ' I' I ' J ' ' '1 ; POUNDID 1651' . ! ii .; i-"'-- Patter son to Join ' Dr. 'Martin Gumpert, writing in the New York Times Magazine, says that in our civilization "Mid dle age is closer f o death than old age." tie asserts war u a man reaches the age of 60 be "can al most count on reaching the age of 80 or more." And he sets tip. a gallery of ten "grand bid men" who have shiwn powers of sur vival, both mentally and' physical ly. .His' selection of an honor roll of age is interesting: j - ' Frank Lloyd Wright, who at 84 is- still the revolutionary in archi tecture and culture. Besides lec turing and wHting he j recently . set ud an exhibit of. his work in New York, produced a radical de sign for a museum, and proposed a daring plan for a bridge of re inforced concrete across San Francisco Bay; . j - Abraham Flexner at 87 is act ive though officially retired. He was a generator of ideas for the application of private wealth' to projects of human betterment Perhaps . hisf greatest ) achieve ment was his; report on the coun try's medical schools, made over . 40 years ago1, which resulted in the vast and rapid improvement of facilities Sn medical, instruc tion. . r - . " Sir Winston -Churchill is 79, has rallied from a stroke he suf- 4 nwrtA lef mst i KfinliiKf ..great efforts; toward removing dangers of another world war. Bernard Berenson"one of the last specimens of profound hu- manistic training and spirit," is 88, but he still "has no peer i Pnnplndert n FHitnrial Tt A. Morningside School Opens Tomorrows .After several false starts, the '184 students living in the school . zone of Morningside School are scheduled to: head for school Mon day morning and really go to the new Morningside structure in the 3300 block of South 2th Street. I Adverse weather, unexpected Doumers o mammotn propor tions and other delays' have halted the previously scheduled AlUkninff flof Ac et (ka 19 AAA structure, During a series of delays since! last fall, pupils have attended classes at Hoover, Gar field and Richmond Schools. , Another " delay, which proved a costly one to -Marion County, occurred when property owners in the Morningside area com plained to the school board and county court that the 12th Street hill was unsafe for youngsters to walk along jen route to classes. After much debate I a steel guarded walk was' constructed along the road, which also serves as a truck by-pass for Highway 99E. at an I approximate cost of $7,500. Warping signs and yellow markers, defining the! area as a school zone; are to be! placed by the county engineering depart ment j , I Robert Dj Morrow, Salem, was contractor on the school project and William I. Williahns, Salem, the architect Suburbs Pian Temporary Bus Service PORTLAND UFi Residents of some suburban areas southwest of Portland arranged Saturday for makeshift bus serviceV now that the line serving that area has quit business, i j The- Tualatin Valley stage line . shut down Friday, leaving such communities as Tualatin. Metzger, Garden Home and Multnomah without service. Neighborhood meetings ar " ranged temporary service for some of these areas. ' Operators of the Tualatin Valley line and Charles Heltzel. state pub 1 i c utilities commissioner, are scheduled to meet Monday on the problem. The operators indicated they would resume business - Heltzel would grant them a nickel increase to .20-cent fares. 50 DIE IV; AVALANCHE TEHRANl Iran ifi The news paper Poste Tehran said Saturday 50 persons! died ia an avalanche which swept away the village of Seej in mountainous Azerbaijan. Bishop Family Gift f I! A new health center building will .be provided for Willamette University! as . a gift from the descendants of Charles P. and Fanny Kay Bishop, It was an nounced Saturday by University President SG. Herbert Smith. This will be the third building in a new construction program of the university. A fine arts building and auditorium and a women's residence hall are planned in connection with a Million Dollar Challenge Fund being raised by the , university. The health building win be worth between $60,000 and $80,- 000, estimates indicate. The health center : is .being de signed by Salem Architect James L. Payne as a one-story building with brick veneer exterior, lacing west and located between the Governor Race In May Gov. Paul L. Patterson, whose topic of much conjecture in jecent months, announced Saturday he would seek election to the governorship post he now holds. : The announcement adds the second candidate for the position, both Republicans. Secretary, of State Earl T. Newbry, now serving his! second term, entered 'his candidacy several j months ago. No I koV. PAUL L. PATTERSON His Hat Is in the Ring j KnowlandAsks Pakistan Get Military Aid WASHINGTON UP - The Eise hower administration was urged Saturday by Sen. Knowland ; (R Calif) to ignore objections by India and extend nrilitary aid to Pakis tan. Knowland. the Senate Republican leader, said in an interview he believes Pakistan . "has the pros pect of becoming another Turkey in: strength and dependability'' for Free World defenses if it is given American aid. The California senator said he has made his views known to Sec retary of State Dulles. Such an aid program would in volve the dispatch of American equipment to build up Pakistanis armed forces. It would not involve the establishment of American bases in Pakistan. "To withhold American aid be cause of the protest of neutralist India would be discouraging to those nations willing to stand up and be counted on the side of the Free World," Knowland declared. Fears Neutralism "These nations then might think it was better to play the game of Indian neutralism than to throw in their lot with -the free nations." The State and Defense Depart ments, have been reported consid ering starting a moderate program of military aid for. Pakistan.- In dia's Prime Minister Nehru has protested publicly against any such course on the grounds that it might upset the balance of power in that section of Asia. Might Restrain Reds Some administration officials have contended that Pakistan's geographical closeness to Russia makes it an area in which a mea sure of increased military strength might restwrtSTpossible Communist expansion in that part of Asia. i Knowland said he regards Pak istan as "one of the key, important countries in the entire world," so far as concerns defenses against communism. He expressed belief that; help could be extended out of existing foreign aid funds. He said only an executive decision would be re quired to start such a program under provisions of the law by which Congress made a blanket appropriation for Asia in the last session. CONFER ABOUT ITALY WASHINGTON tfi Clare Boothe Luce, ambassador to Italy, conferred with Secretary of State Dulles and other officials for 2 hours Saturday on ways of strengthening U.S. - Italian relations. ' J Max. Min. Precip. Salem 51 M A3 San Francisco 53 38 : Trace Portland 52 45 ! JO Chicago . 48 36 Trace New York 45 32 i .00 Wfllamette River 3.5 leet. ! FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem): 1 Showers and periods of rusty wind today and tonight. Possible snow showers early this morning. High today near 45 and low tonight near 33. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. 36. SALEM PRECIPITATIOV Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 19.R8 11.90 18 69 t A new health center bnfldiat, ' Payne's aketdi'aboTt, Is plaimed for addiao to-tas iruumentiw uo rtmuj oc utun sr. mm Primary political future has been the Democrats' have announced, though. State Sen. Richard Neu- berger of Portland has been men- tioned frequently as a possible candidal. In announcing his plan to seek the Republican party endorse ment at the May primary elec tion, Gov. Patterson set " down seven principal objectives on which he would base his cam paign.; At the same time he squelched rumors that he was slated for and would accept a fed eral judgeship appointment ' V 'Challenging Year "The year that I have served as governor of: Oregon has been ed local power and telephone out the most challenging of my life," ages. Patterson said. "My strongest im- Weathermen expected the blust- pression is the; great number of people wining and eager to con- tribute their time and effort to achieve good i government for Oregon. I will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in me aiay primary eiec- tion to further; this goal." Patterson, who assumed the governorship from his president of the senate post on the resigna- tion of Gov. Douglas McKay, said Saturday that rumors concerning a possible judgeship appointment ior mm were untrue, i wisn to assure the people of Oregon that uutiug uV Fici wu- Maertne pyernorsnip my jod ana n eieciea next iNovemoer i Eitric Co.. which reported wind will neither seek nor accept ap- blown p failures in the r".rl lu WU,C1 olu"u U. of O. Graduate uov. Patterson, a native oi Ohio but longtime resident of Oregon, has been active in the state's political affairs since his j graauation irom i niversity oi telephone line, cutting communi Oregon Law School in 1923. He cations to 25 to 30 Pacific Tele was elected to the state senate phone and Telegraph customers in 1944 from Washington County in the Brooks area. and served in the senate until his Ttfnv 9n 10V sec. 2.) Hit-Run Death Added to State Holiday Toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Portland area traffic death, I described as a hit-run fatality, raised the. New Year's - holiday oeaui iou in uregon w inree. Oscar Peter Farsdale, 73, Port-1 '" Junes suffered when he was struck i ... . . Dy a carwnue waiiungin asireei on the outskirts of the city. . rouce oku rrea Anuerson saiu tZVr . ",-:,, r: laier caueu police ncdU4uari ZZZZ. . ..iX" li fi,. ..";" tenTne: " The other holiday vicUms also w:n-4 i .nniHnt. Robert 'Harrison Darnell, 63, Actnria anH tr .T A T.ivinpcf nn " o- f rau parnell wai hit by an automo- Kill a. h waltl orrnw a rnaH at Astoria. The driver, Arnold rhrictonwn Arfnria vii nrt hM Mrs. Livingston was killed -in the plunee of; a car from a nar row road east oi ttoseourg. Polk Political Entrants File Statesman News Service DALLAS, Ore. First filings for political office in the 1954 campaign in i Polk County were made here Saturday. Calvin M. i Barnhart filed for county judge! on the Republican ticket Currently, he is a real estate salesman in Dallas. Present county judge is Jack Hayes of Dallas who has stated he will seek . another six-year term. Also filing Saturday was Coun- ty Commissioner Gay V. RempeL Perrrdale Road resident who will seek re-election as commis - sioner. He is a Republican. Polk County also will elect a state senator, state representa- tif-e, surveyor and county clerk this year. to Bf rpvldb IrOealth represented by Architect James L. 103RD YEAR 3 SECTIONS Tax Revision Piytn to Lob $ ''-.! ! t . I i i is i- - i i I o j ft ' 1 TfltiTI C r Alltlfl Ul - UtllW t VUUU Valley, Gutting Power, Phones Two storms, rolling on gale- force winds and only a few hours a nart. cave the Salem area a one- two Doundine SatUrdav and caus- ery condition to ease off some to- day with some shower activity in prospect A 1,500 foot freezing level early this morning gave rise to the possibility that som snow showers may fall in th Salem area before noon, weathermen said. S The cale which moved slowly across the Pacific Northwest Sat- urdav brought death to one per- son. Lou Bechenhauer, about 64, was electrocuted by a snapped power line at Hicks Lake, five miles east of Olympia, Wash, jnany Outages Hardest hit in Salem by the storms,was portland Gcneral Spongs Landing, Brooks and Mis- dividual outages sDotted about the vallev a PGE pole, blown down in the gale which reached to 51 miles $n hour in gusts, tripped Across sl RepairingLilles i vui nmw miuijwu; iicits tuu noon repairing damaged lines in the area and one telephone crew was splicing the burned-through line at Brooks. The telephone company apparently escaped with only individual troubles else where.' two where poles blew down in Salem. Salem Electric which services much of west Salem and some of the downtown district,' reported only one outage: which might be attributed to the, storm. It occur red when a connector apparently downtown. Citv i nolice reDorted limbs blown off trees but no dam- age. Roads Hazardous Snnur anH r mari wctt-n rwCTo ,iw Ttr.m.i h... ardous, state police reported. cnnvr u ,c t r,n. I ftvil nvdb VI, Adtiaj UU Ul the Gfand Ronde makj rnast hvhv,v ta .iinn. .nn i j, -,.. ,u..u ... ry chains, police warned Sn. , tt ...t of highway 22 and chains were necsesary to negoti- Santiam Pass, police said. tVAt.".- -:C'"S. .,,ff uiotucu 04iurudy ujkul py laiien . iiid Kcm.jr U4UK. xkv was i wi j u: rfkn.... ko ur:i xiigucsi njuus 111c ut were reported at about 1:30 p.m. when RUStS UP to 51 DllleS an hOUf Were le,cor,ae?, l Dc-aV ,,.ci l of .43 inches of rain fell Sat- urday with most falling late in the afternoon. A 10-degree drop in temperature between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. accompanied the drop in winds and temperatures con tinued zngid through the rain and recurring winds of Saturday night; (Additional storm Jstory pages 2. sec. 1.) on Roast Porcupine, Cottonwood Bark On Scouts' Menu SHERIDAN, Wyo. Wl Roast porcupine and ! cottonwood bark stew were on the menu for a group of Sheridan area Boy Scouts who braved knee-deep, zero weather in a ! two-day Vsurvival hike." The: boys took no food or tents and ' lived off the land They couldn find any game the first day so dined on cotton 1 wood f bark stew. But the second day they were able to kill two porcupines, . For dessert they had one candy bar. dropped from a circling air 1 plane. I UnlTersity campus as a result f 32 PAGES Th Oregon New Lights Add - Brilliance to Bridge Ramp I 1 - 11 MINi-Pllil whhimMIHHMMIMHMRMMH-V 4 ' ' nazzlinr brilliance of new Center W-- witty?? I .. .. . t- ..l.l. II "ID11 1T T" is shown above in this time exposure taken from the West end of the Marion Street Span. Th mercury vapor lamps 30 in all are turned on automatically by a sun switch located on Union Street (Statesman Photo.) Crowds at Japan Palace Leave 16 Dead, 43 Hurt TOKYO W-A vast throng, upward of 700,000 persons, who wanted to wish Emperor Hirohito a happy new year milled inside the Imperial Palace grounds Saturday and trampled to death nearly a score of persons when imperial guards tried to close the main palace gates. Protesting thousands, pressing forward as the gates began to Local Teller Stacksl&OO SilverDbllars The teller at i local savings and loan association had an un usual chore Saturday. She had to count ind stack Some $1,400 in silver dollars. i The sum was brought in in bags by a retired employe of the papermill who said he had been gathering them since 1935. He brought them in lor deposit, he said, fearing that if he died they might not be found. The dollars were brought in in canvas bags. Some were of such old minting that their stack fell short of the height of those of later minting, j Chur chip Open Cornerstone I Box Tonight A small hermetically sealed copper box,, hidden "behind the cornerstone of the old St Paul's Episcopal Church isince 1922, will be opened tonight .at the parrish annual meeting. !. The box was removed Saturday bv a committee of vestrymen led by G. S. Paxson, senior warden of the church and chairman of the building committee. The old structure at Chemeketa and rhnrrh Streets is slated to be levelled sometime this week. The Rev. George Ht Swift nastor since JuneL 1929, said Sat urday that he did not know what the box contained, Dut presumea they would findi historical data and relics of the church at the Sunday evening i opening. The Rev. Henry D. Chambers, now de ceased, was pastor of the old church at its dedication in 1922 when the cornerstone was placed. Several parishioners, however, are members of the church now who were there at the time, the Rev. Swift explained. i He said that contents of the box. wil be examined and then placed with other items of today behind the cornerstone! at dedication ceremonies of the new church, 1444 S. Liberty St, on Jan. 31. a gift to the school from members aui. uunes r siUBopw Statesman, Salem. Oreqon. Sunday, January: 3, 1954 j Street Bridge lights which went on s ; J close.; swept away a police cordon and rushed over a double arched bridge. j " M e n. women and children ' shrieked in agony as they were trampled underfoot in the panic. Emperor Hirohito was greatly saddened by the tragic mishap, a spokesman of the imperial house hold announced. j ' Metropolitan police reported their jlatest count showed 16 dead and 43 injured. Chinese Boy ! Kyodo news agency said one of the fatalities was a Chinese boy. It' said several other children strapped to their mothers' backs, died or were injured in the crush. There was no exact estimate of the number of these children hurt. A Canadian officer! at the scene said he saw people! so flattened that bones protruded from ribs, legs, arms and skin.; Twisted Bodies "It! was remarkable the way the bodies were twisted, "the Canad ian said, "the sharp edges of their bones thrust right out from their skinsi" A British officer who witnessed the crush said two American ma rines: probably saved lives when they 'charged through the mass of people to pick up the injured. The marines were not identified Police reported one unidentified American woman was bruised slightly and released from a hos pital after first aid attention. The newspaper Asahi said the Imperial Police Guard criticized the Tokyo police as being, partly responsible for the stampede. "We have asked for reiirforce ments over and over again, for we are short handed," an Imperial Guard officer told Asahk. "But the reinforcements came after the dis aster." j U.Jp. College Editors Tour Russian Gties : i i MOSCOW W Seven American college editors left Moscow in two groups Saturday fori a two week's tour (inside the Soviet Union. One group went to Leningrad. Minsk. Kiev, Sochi, Kharkov and Tbilisi. j The others flew to Baku in the Caucasus and will! visit Tbilisi, Rostov, Yalta. Odessa, Kiev and Minsk. This group includes David Barney, Reed College, Portland, OreJ i j present gymnasium: and the site for the fine arts building, j The Bishon family has been identified for many years with the Oregon woolen; industry and various business and civic inter est The health, center building will be a memorial to the late Charles P. and Fanny Ray Bishop, pioneer Oregon residents and Salem civic leaders. Participants in the gift, all as- sociatd with Pendleton Woolen Mills, are Clarence M. Bishop, a son; and the four: grandsons of the; Charles P. Bishops. They are Robert and Charles Kay Bishop, sons of the late Chauncey Bishop, and Broughton and ..'Mor.t.osm When he came down, the tavern Bishop, son ' of the- Clarence BishoDS. ! (Additional details on page 5, see, L) liSBillid for the tint time New Year's Eve- f Sabre Jet Sets j . j j 1 : i CoasMb-Coasti NEWORK U) An Air Na tional Guard Commander sped his F86 Sabre jet from coast to coast in a little over! four hours Satur day, nipping five minutes off the record. j f The pilot. Col; Willard W. Milli kan, then landed his trim but powerless j:raft at Idlewild AirpoH four minutes later. He explained he ran out of fuel after crossing his finish line at nearby j Floyd Bennett field. Millikan, 35-year-old World War II ace, zoomed out of Los Angeles at 10:19:55 a. n. (EST), j He touched ddwn at Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base two hours and 15 minutes later, spent about six minutes taking on fuel and was off again. : I The -Air Force announced lie crossed Floyd Bennett at 2; 13 p. jn. (EST), for an elapsed time of four hours, eight minutes and five seconds. . i J The Air National Guard esti mated he averaged 615 miles an hour. Millikan said be hit a top air speed of 740 m.p.h. The record Millikan broke was set on Jan. 26, 1946, by Col William Councill. who covered the distance in four hours and 13 minutes,' aver aging : 584 m.p.h., in shooting star. P80 I Storm Keeps j Climbers From Mtt Hood Peak TIMBERLINE LODGE. Ore.Stfl High winds and blinding snow repulsed all efforts of climbers Ho conquer Mt. Hood . Saturday. Three climbers, Fred Hart i of Corvallis, Art Maki of Ridgefield, Wash., and Lay den Walsh of Olym pia, made it to the top of the 11,245-foot mountain on: the last day of; 1953, but no one has suc ceeded -in what is an annual con test to be the first up in the new year, j f - - ri Four climbers got up to the 10,-000-foot level tFriday night, but' were forced to turn back. They tired to make: camp fori the night there, ) but howling winds blew away two of! their packs. They came back down the slopes when daylight returned, reaching Tim- berime Lodge at 10 a.m. Saturday. They were Andre Iseli. Portland, and three Hood River brothers, Ron, Roger and Rich Getchell.f Iseli. recounting the experience said. '"The first night wasn't bad at all. because we were well dug in. But last night was terrible. We had tried to climb farther .Friday, but had to quit after we lost most of our i gear . . was awfully cold."i - i - He said they had no food except chocolate Friday night! and that they had to melt snow for drink ing water by holding their can teens against their bodies. . I - Iseli is' a 21-year-old junior at Linfield College at McMinnvffle. His home is in Portland. I Bafck Flip Only j Half Successful 1 : "I ' ; -.4- PORTLAND (J A soldier was so .elated at winning a shuffJeboard game in a tavern here that be im- pulsively tried a back flip called an ambulance. The soldier. Lyman Campbell. 23, needed treat ment for face cuts and a broken nose. if PRICE 10c No. 279 Measure Aims At Removal ties By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTON Lfl Treasury and congressional , staff experts ' have agreed on major points in a sweeping tax revision proposal providing for almost 1 Vi. billion dollars annually in tax cuts in many .fields. Informed sources said Saturday only minor -details need to be worked out before the proposal can be laid before the tax-writing House Ways 'and Means Commit tee," probably within 10 days. For the first ? tune since 1873. the entire revenue code has been reviewed at one time. Thousands oil pages of tax laws have been rewritten with the aim of giving both individuals and business firms a better break, ending con flicts and confusion and uncertain ty, and removing inequities. Not Major Rates The streamlining program does not deal with major tax rates. But it provides tax cuts never theless for almost all businesses and .individuals in the form of new or bigger deductions for med ical expenses, child carecosts for cal expenses, child carecosts for working mothers, business depre- ciation. dividend income, more lib eral allowances for dependents, and other points. . TriA nnw honAfue urm i irl nrr an- ply to 1953 tax payments due March 15. For Over Year More than a score of experts from the treasury and from con gressional committees have been laboring privately over the project for more than a year. "oja ouu .4ctijo viiuii limn uxnm iel A. Reed (R NY) has pledged it will have first, priority after Congress reconvenes Wednesday. Informed sources said these are the staff recommendations on ma jor points, subject of course to change by Congress: . Medical expenses Under the. present law, medical expenses must exceed 5 per cent of income before thev become deductible. The new proposal would lower this to 3 per cent Further, present limits on the maximum medical deduction would be almost dou bled, i - Child care no deduction is allowed now for the cost of child care for mothers who must work. The new proposal provides that actual expenses up to $300 annual ly may be deducted from income. But it applies only to single heads of households, not to married cou ples, and only to children under seven. Dividends For a long time, business has complained that corp orate income is taxed twice: first under regular corporate income taxes, and again under individual income taxes as profits are passed out to individuals in the form of divideds. The proposal is to let share holders deduct 5 per cent of their dividend income from their tax bill. This is only the first step the percentage would be stepped up by law in future years. Depreciation Businesses, are allowed to deduct from income a figure- representing depreciation of plants and equipment. Under the present law, depreciation usually is apportioned equally over the useful life' of the article 20 years or more. The new proposal would let a business deduct two thirds of the cost of a new asset over the first five years. The aim is to encour age business to invest in modern and more productive facilities; Dependents Under present law you cannot count as a de pendent anyone earning more than $600 a year. The new proposal would waive the $600 income limit and permit dependency credits sa long as you provide more than half the support for the claimed dependent " This applies to all children und er 18 and to children over 18 if they are still in school or college. Dependents would pay their own taxes on income above $600. urownea Jtiunicr s Body Recovered EUGENE OH The body of Paul) G Adams, 26, Springfield, was ! recovered Saturday from Fern ; Ridge Lake, where be drowned last month while on duck-hunting trip. Henry Harrison, who found Adams' oar on. the shore and his kayak floating in the lake Dec 9. also found the body. Harrison . is a Fern Ridge Dam maintenance employe. - . . . Today's Stafesmsn. SECTION 1 Editorials, features ..... 4 Sports .10-11 SECTION 2 Society, women's -1..1-6 ' Garden news ,-... .... 5 Valley news . 8 Crossword puzzle ... 9 Radio, TV ...... ......10 . Classified ads ti 10-11 SECTION S v : rultcolor eomica Of Inequi I i -