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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1954)
s I t i 1 - r , ::rf t ;f,I,f i i 8 Sc Stetofmem, Salm Ore.. Thurs Jan. 7. 1954 JVeio Succeeding Arthol S. Benson as Court, Frederick M. Sercombe, above with Dorothy Cornelias, his first day at the new job. court for 52 years. (Statesman Quef Qerk of High Court 2 Coal Miners Trapped Near ! Seattle, 1 Saved SEATTLE (-? two coal miners ere trapped , I 300-feet below ground in a cave-Jn at the Lands burg mine neat Ravensdale 30 miles southeast of here Wednes day, but one wai rescued alive our hours after the- accident, 1 mine , officials reported Wednes day evening. 1 1 The man who? was rescued is " Roy Coutts, about! 28, of Ravens dale. SUll trapped! in the mine is Harry English, 40, of Black Dia mond. Rescue crews are digging toward the spot; ? where he was trapped but said; they had no dication whetherj he was anve. Grouped about the mine ; en The accident t occurred about trance, relatives, friends and oth- 10:30 a.m. while ivouus ana Eng lish were digging5 coal. Thirty-five men were working;; at the time but none of the others were endan gered. " I J Rescue experts ;trom me reaerai ; Bureau of Mines ) and the State j Department of Labor and Indus- j tries were at the scene. j Leg Injury j I Coutts received a possibly brok- ,i i i : i : : t j 1 en leg ana snoca ana is uemg treated at Enumclaw hospital. 432 FartM Units To Be Keady in Columbia Basin sisting of 41,608 sacres will be op- hours. ; S3?for homcsliading and sale -She said she had lived around this year on five! reclamation proj-tthe mine all her life and I know uiis jmi c. what accidents are in the mines. Tne scheduledjtand openings in,! I dont hold out any false hopes, dude- I j Dut Im pramg. The miner's two sons, Jim 16, the Columbia Basin Project inland Gerald, 11, were not at the ilahtp'rmne- ' ! u. i, vrvinrv and Marrh: And as fkrms in the North Side PumDin2 Division! of the Minidoka, Proiect in Idaho;.! to be opened in;Mnv Knrpp illlftpn i February. ll - White Star TU1IA " Reg. 33c 2J45(i SAVING CENTER MARKETS PRESCRIPTIONS FREE DELIVERY CHAPMAN'S DRUG 140 Candalaria Blvd. Phonei 46224 Long Distance Dial 3 3131 "Our Reputation la 'Your Security" ' Trcmfer-4 Storenyia 883 N. Liberty for Hauling chief clerk of the tate Supreme former Portland attorney, is shown deputy court cierx. inonoay Benson retired alter serving ine pnoto.) Mine officials said late Wednes day night they expect rescue crjews to reach the spot where English last was seen about 1 a.m. At 8 p.m. (PST) there still was 30 feet of dirt to tunnel through. ! j Although the accident happened at 10:30 a.m., it was not discovered until 1 p.m. when officials became concerned over the failure j of Coutts and English to show up for lunch at the regular time. Only two rescue workers can dig at one time in the narrow mine shaft. A number of volunteer work in-!ers alternate at the tedious ;task. er miners stood in an eerie ; light cast bv floodlights glaring i into heavily banked fog Rain has been I falling steadily all day. Ravens- dale is in the Cascade Mountain foothills. Not All Explained Only fragentary information could be obtained about the acci- dent and it was not explained why Coutts was dug out quickly while .. i j . ... uigusn remained Durieu. J. H. Morris, manager ot the Palmer Coking Coal Co., which! owns the mine, said English i and Coutts apparently were working together when a "sloughing off of coal" covered them. Mrs. English, the trapped min er's wife, waited at the mine en trance several hours but was tak- as tak-1 : I Kiirrnnfln s I InrPSt. 1 J V ; To Cancel Visit KAMPALA, Uganda m - Queen Elizabeth's proposed visit to this African protectorate next ! April cr needs additional treatment. The should be cancelled unless the; sit- torcn look through the band uation in the native kingdom of ae to :see how the injury is com Buganda improves soon, a high jlg j police officer said Wednesday. ipr'ayn bandage, based on He thought it inadvisable to ex- bakeute vinyl resins, is produced pose the Queen to any risk of hos- by tte Aeropiast Corp., Daytoni tile demonstration m Buganda, 0hio The dressing was developed whose King Mutesi II was expelled j 0,. -m cooperation with the by Britain in November for seek ing transfer of his state from con trol of the Colonial to the f oreign Office and independence frqm, the- it's' since been used to cover rest of the protectorate. ; ! 'surgical incisions, such as appen 0 " j I ! dectorhies, skin grafts, compound Rifle Accident I fractures, and other injuries. Skin . patch tests of more than 1,000 per Tntprrnntfi I ,iirPn sons showed it does not cause al- .1 i I . PORTLAND UP) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doig and their small son were sitting down for lunch Tues day when a bullet crashed through a window and barely , missed the boy. - ' I Police lined up the trajectory of the bullet and found that it came from a nearby apartment There a frightened 13-year-old boy ad mitted his .22-ealiber Title had accidentally ' discharged. ' OPEN HOUSE for Walnut ami Filbert growers AM Wetovt w F9bwt Cmm m imMteaiMJflMNortlwtilNal Grown' Op Hews, SotfrdoV, $m mm4 lmptt mmr mmm Pm kod quart an. Mm td Jr ' awl ploal in Mw m4nrf. NOKTHWCST NUT GROWEXS : 101 M. C Bhni. Perinanence of Timber Supmy By LILLIE L. MADSEN . Farm Editor, The Statesman WALDO HILLS While he disclaimed any attempt at crys tal ball; gazing, j Dan Robinson, associate professor of forestry at Oregon State College, - said Wednesday night that the tim ber industry was confident of a permanent operation in Oregon. . Robinson, who addressed the fifth annual meeting of the Silver Creek Soil Conservation district, is former farm forester. He declared that the new me thods of processing and produc ing timber had made prolonged operations possible by develop ing means of using smaller mat erial and bjr ! putting large amounts of trees "back into the forest" to create; a constant sup ply. i "A few years ago we used to burn as , waste much of the ma terial we now consider valuable because j we have means of pro cessing it The timber industry has also found many new uses for the i so-called wood wastes," Robinson explained. Over 160 Attend The RrcT'cm was preceded by a turkey dinner, served by the Home Economics Club of the Waldo Hills Grange, with Mrs. Theodore Riches as chairman. More than 160 were in attend - LeRoy Rue, chairman of the Said Assured district board presided at a reported Wednesday. 1 be layou ; A north wind, howling at 80 miles brief business meeting, when j rate rose from 18 per 1,000 sm-n hour, ripped down a 50-foot-Roy Brown was elected to suc-'Ploves ln October to 24 in iMovem-ihigh bridge crane on the Trieste ceed himself as board member.,' er- ; j waterfront and piled layers of Other members introduced were j At the same time, the bureau re- j sn0w in Venice's gondolas. Victor Hadlev, ! Adam Hersch, ; ported, the hiring rate at factories . Police shoved jeeps through Louis Pflaum, Herbert Barnes and Vernv Scott t Hum? VLwnuj , jcucmij ui ' fka Aicirlt rrn ttia annual fA. ' port showing that during 1953 a 2s were sticking to them more j only a fraction of Italy's sec total of 435 acres had been cov- Tnelt.rate.vf persons t vol-, ondary line trains were running er-cropped, 263 acres had been Warily quitting their jobs, lojper, and service on the main lines was seeded to pasture, 125 acres f 000 workers in November. was hours delayed. ! placed Uifcwoodland manage- wer for the month than in Jany j the rest of Europe felt the blows ment, and that there are now 13 Post-war year except 1949. of winter but less sevcrdy. farm ponds and 65,520 feet of The "oted hat aJ"s Britain, Germany, Belgium and tile drainage in the district. usually rise in November witte the France shivered in their lowest Familv Changes timing of cold weather, but the temperatures of the season; tv ;i .1, a increase this November was some-i T than any one other institution Maris Mcckmore, former A--m ae.-7 le?-. said. She also addressed the "roup; following the dinner. Fifty years ago a family was jr" . j Mn.n t uuuiuic uuu. iiuw ji is a - consumer group, men we naa.. to learn w live Deaceamy wun ,!is!lhVL ,!;i're the number of workers added i 7 1. mir nAtnnor and wp must learn our neighbor and we must learn to live with it as we lived with our next door neighbors a half century ago," she concluded. Ben Eckley of Salem was mas ter of ceremonies during the program and Diane Bye, talent ed young! daughter of the Perl Byes, gave a group of marimba solos. : r 1 C Burns Uses Spray Method NEW YORK - A spray-on bandaee that Duts a transDarent. flexible ! Dlastic film over, wounds i or burns was made available to;! aociors weanesaay. The plastic sprays from a can or bomb just as insecticides are sprayed from insect bombs. The plastic dries quickly, keep-; oorme nut and vital fluids in ! can; be washed. and is Deeled off easily when the wound heals Aero Medical Laboratory, U. S. Air Force,: for' mass treatment of burns. ilergic skin. reactions or harm to the Paper Savs Ike's j Stategy I Calls For A-Bomb Use NEW YORK 1 The New York Daily News says President Eisenhower plans to use the atom bomb on Red. China if that coun try renews the Korean War or in tervenes in Indo-China. V 1 In a Washington dispatch by Ruth Montgomery, the newspaper says its information came from a top Republican senator, who was not named. I I The senator, I the News adds, salt in on a hush-hush conference ear lier this week at the White House. The: news says: - "It was disclosed last night that Ike's jnew strategy calls for an attack on China itself if the Reds renew aggression. His plans for an A-bomb strike, however, did not leak out until today. j TRADE IN i j YOUR OLD WATCH i i Aa $0950 Much as! ' Allowed: I THE JEWEL BOX 1 443 SUte St Salem . j Open FrL Nites Til Volunteers Lr ight to HoldBroken OfltalyRiverDelta MILAN, Italy un Police, fire- men and volunteers fought Wed nesday night to hold the broken dikes of Italy's Po River Delta against tides from the storm-swept flooded six villages and poured killing salt water over hundreds of acres of farm land. The battle against the sea de veloped as snow and ice' glazed most of Western Europe; from Bri tain to Italy. Wind-whipped waves of the up per Adriatic carved three 100-yard gaps Tuesday night in ; the delta dikes that guard Rovigo, 25 miles inland, in the farming area half way between Venice and Bolog na. I Salt water poured three ffeet deep through tiny Maddalena, For- Less Hiring, More Layoffs Continuing WASHLNGTON W) Less hiring and more layoffs in the nation's ber, the Bureau of Labor Statistics y""1"" 'JCI.X'UVV m October to 27 in November. - The report on labor turnover u H. J Indicated that persons who maa !what j'Jf than m recent; were m uie lumuer, luuniuie, , , .. , ,. i .1 i.wu, eiet-iriuai matiiinerj j anu ,chm,"i '"1"Stf"'f The drop in factory hiring swas line with seasonal expectations itthe bureau added this com iuu . declined raDidlJ h. . . TK. . ntKa, (k. 1' Payrolls in November remained ... 1. about one-third below the post- EWorld War II average for month." this Radioactive Sterilization Of Food Dud PORTLAND IP I Radio-asctive byproducts of atomic bomb manu facture may eventually replace the present heat-sterilizing methdd in food canning, the Northwest Can ners Assn. was told Wednesday. Dr. Harold V, Schultz, heid of the food technology department at Oregon State College, told of exten sive experiments now being made m food processing He predicted the atomic byjprod- ucts, aseptic canning, pressurized canning and electronic cooking will revolutionize the food industry in the years to come. f He said of the atomic byproducts that X-rays apparently work! best in cold sterilization of food. There is no loss of flavor or color on fish, but some other products ate af fected. Coffee extract loses Scolor, but retains flavor. Prunes I keep flavor and skin color,! but the flesh is bleached, he reported. He spoke at the final session of the three-day canners meeting. Traffic Fine$ Total$l,189 CHICAGO (J) A 46-year-old motorist was fined $1,189,501 Wed nesday for 18 traffic violations ac cumulated over four years Un able to pay, Joseph B. Adams was ordered to work out the fine at $1.50 a day in Cook County jail. Judge Joseph J. Butler of Speed ers Court, who levied the! fine, figured. Adams will be free in two years and 53 days. McCoy Area to Keep Post Offipe The fourth class post office at McCoy, slated to be; discontinued. will be saved, according to! a re port received Wednesday j from Congressman Walter Norblad. Receipt of the word was made by Dr. O. A. Olson, chairman -of the Polk County .Republican Cen tral Committee. The post office was scheduled to be discontinued, but residents in the area, the Polk County Re publican Central Committee and Congressman Norblad worked to gether to retain ft The unit serves a large group in the McCoy (arming area. j ) HcCULLOCnS TOWNE EQUIPMENT ICO. 90S Edxewater; j Ph. 4-1541 ti, Pallestrina, Bastementor, - Bo- nelli Levante and Polesine i Cam erini. - i ! Starting " before dawn, i : boats manned by firemen and police car ried 200 residents to safety.' The rescue crews worked on into the dusk Wednesday night to i try to reach at least 300 others who; clung to rooftops or waited for i aid at upstairs windows. ; Speed Evacuation - : t Authorities ordered the evacua tion speeded. They t. warned that Wednesday night's flood tides may be even worse than those j Tues day night. : i Scores of men worked all day to sandbag and reinforce the holes torn through the walls which have guarded the lowland since the dis astrous Po valley floods Of 195L Those floods, which came; from the river itself after weeks of heavy rain, killed more than 100 persons and caused damage es timated at more than 200 million dollars. Triangular Area The worst flooded section Wed nesday was triangular Camerini Island, 12 miles long,rformed be tween two channels' of the Po mouth. It was, almost entirely un der water. Elsewhere from Trieste to Gen oa, the worst January blizzard in 15 years continued its toll snowdrifts to reach farms where they could get emergency supplies of milk for the children of snow- vuuiuvu vi hound Piarn7a anH rrmtn Labeling of j :Meat Asked ; C0RVALL1S iff A 'consumer i committee Wednesday nrppH nni. 'nn. statewide grade labeling of meat. The recommendation was .1 v -i.,. V c ai '", ure8 aiaie ouege ! "vesiocs ana meat marketing ! conference. i The group advocated use of federal meat grading standards under state supervision. I A college survey of 1,225 con sumers in seven Oregon cities showed 54 per cent were unable to identify different cuts of meat, and 88 per cent said they thought labeling according to cuts would be helpful. Another 37 per cent said they suspected sanitary con ditions in meat shops, and wanted state inspection. state inspection. (Earlier story on page 10, sec. 1.) Jack Benny's Daughter to Wed BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. Of) - Jack Benny's daughter Joan will be married in mid-March to Seth Baker. 26-year-old New York stock broker, it was announced Wednes- day. , The 19-year-old daughter of Ben ny and his wife, comedienne Mary Livingstone, is a junior at Stan ford University. Baker is the son of industrialist Harry Baker. PLANE CRASH KILLS 4 : CANAKKALE, Turkey m A Turkish State Airways plane crashed and burnad Tuesday while en route from here to Istanbul. Four persons were killed and five injured in the crash 20 miles north west of here. SEt THE All NEW SILVER JUBILEE DUO-THERM Oil Console Heater at CAPITOL FUEL CO. 198 S. Commercial PL 3-7721 TIRED OF PAINTING? See Kaiser, Aluminum Siding with Permanent Bake Enamel Finish Free Estimates Ph. 2-8058 NEED A ii TRAILER HITCH? Youll Get a Better Deal At Pacific Auto Supply 188 N. Com! Pel 4-301 wifuanu or O cub.no DRS. CT1AN . . . LAM " CHINESE NATUROPATHS DpeUIrm. 241 Nertta liberty.' Otttce tm tsterdu moo. 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