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Tops 14-PointList
By NORMAN" WALKER
WASHINGTON" President
Eisenhower Monday proposed that
the government give workers a
secret-ballot chance to veto union
strike plans, jit was part of a 14
point prograih sent to Congress
for amending the Taft-Hartley
Labor Relations Act.
Eisenhower program brought
praise from Republicans general
ly and criticism from union lead
ers and som4 Democrats.
Freedom of ! Choice
The President's key proposal
was that the governmentold elec
tions among Workers to determine
whether theyi approve of a walk
out. J
Going out !on strike with loss
of. pay is so! important to the in
dividual worker, Eisenhower said,
that he should have an opportunity
to "express his choice by secret
ballot held under government aus
pices." Eisenhower's message to Con-
0MBQB
.A fresh miracle of the loaves
and fishes bn an assembly belt
basis is called lor by the Popu
lation Reference Bureau after
taking a look at its projection
for the world's population in
1980, 2000 and 2050. Its Bulletin
says that if j the present growth
rate of abobt 70,000 daily per
sists, the wbrld population will
pass 3.5 billion in 1980; 4.1 bil
lion in 2000) and nearly 7 billion
in 2050. It worries 'over how
these added minions are going
to be fed. j
This accelerating rate of growth
is comparatively recent Though
humans have trod the earth for
many thousands of years their
r.umbers increased but slowly
tp to the jmiddle of the 17th
century. Wars, pestilence, fam
ine ''mowed) them down." Infant
mortality rates were very high.
Few persons lived to ripe old
age. After 1650 thejrpwth in
numbers became rapid: "it is
clear that the world has sus
tained a fourfold increase in its
population ih the last 300 years."
: There aie reasons. Better
health; cures or preventives of
Infectious disease; better nutri
tion; technological progress per
mitting increase in food produc
tion and transportation of prod
ucts to areas of need. Disease
control will! continue; and as the
backward peoples catch up in
sanitation, j child care, preven
tion and treatment of disease
their death! rates will fall, life
will be prolonged; and if birth
rates remain the same the result
ing population increases will
:bear heavily on food supply. The
doctrine, of, the economist Mal
thus will really get into opera
tion at some date. With half
the world's:
(Continued
on Editorial Page 4.
San l?raricisco
MayGiveUp
Its Cable Cars
SAN FRANCISCO W San
Francisco's public utilities com
mission voted Monday to abandon
a large part of the city's world-;
famous California street cable carj
'system. j
from an estimated 140 spectators
crowding the meeting room, the
: commission approved the cable
car scrapping after first agreeing
to the action in a private session.
However, the commission deci
i sion is not the final word but
' almost. It can be upset only if
9 of the 11 members of the county
: board of supervisors vote to re
' tain the system.
CORN STOCKS DOWN
WASHINrjrrON LP The Agri
culture Department reported Mon
day that stocks of corn on farms
on Jan. 1 totalled 2.138.000.000
bushels, or about 1 per cent below
a year ago but 5 per cent above
average, j
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
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poll
However, actual legislation in
troduced in Congress by Chairman
H. Alexander Smith R-NJ) of the
Senate Labor Committee to carry
out the administration plan called
for polling by the National Labor
Relations Board NLRB only
after, not before, a walkout began.
This provision of Smith's bill
seemed to surprise Secretary of
Labor James P. Mitchell. He told
newsmen he had "read Smith's bill
earlier and hadn't understood that
the striker poll was to be : con
ducted after a strike was in prog
ress. Majority Action
. Smith's bill provides that "un
less a majority of employes eli
gible to vote casts their ballots
in favor of a continuance, such
strike x x x shall cease to be a
protected concerted activity with
in the meaning of this act,"
Under Smith's bill if a strike
began in. a plant with 5,000 em
ployes, the NLRB would hold an
election as promptly as possible.
Illegalize Strike
If a majority, or in this I case
2,501 of the employes, voted
against the strike, it would ; then
be illegal. The 2,501 approving ma
jority would be required even - if
only 3,500 of the 5,000 workers took
the trouble to vote. !
"Where employes failed to sup
ply the required approving majori
ty for continuing the strike, those
workers who failed to go back to
work could be fired by the employ
er. Normally, striking workers are
protected from being discharged,
unless permanent replacements
are hired.
(Additional details on Page
Sec. 1)
3.
Reformatory
Study Asked
By Governor
Gov. Paul L. Patterson asked
his fellow board of control mem
bers Monday to join him in ap
pointing a committee to recom
mend laws governing the pro
posed $1,500,000 state reforma
tory. The proposed laws would pro
vide methods of deciding jwhich
offenders would be sentenced to
which penal institution. j
The committee would report to
the board of control by Nov. 1
and its recommendations would
be sent to the 1955 legislature.
The other two board members,
Secretary of State Earl T. New-
bry and State Treasurer Sig Un-
ander, approved the idea, j
The big question is whether
circuit judges should make the
assienments of those sentenced,
or if it should be done by the
state parole board.
Construction of the new insti
tution was stymied several 'weeks
ago when Atty. Gen. Robert Y.
Thornton ruled that the legisla
ture had failed to give the board
authority to buy the site for the
reformatory.
The state penitentiary and the
boys' training school now are the
two penal institutions. j
hWay Offers
Arms Problem
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How does a left-handed motor
cycle make out on the left side
of a one-way street when its driv
er is wielding a right-handed tire
marking stick? I
Or would the combination be
better off driving the wrong way
on said one-way street?
Salem police department
would like to know, because its
three-wheel cycles are equipped
with left-hand throttles so the
driver's right hand can be free
to mark tires of cars when they
are checking parking.
But now, Police Chief Clyde A.
Warren reminded the City Coun
cil Monday nignt, salems one
way streets downtown create a
problem if police are to check
the left side as well as right side
of the street
No, a walking patrolman can't
mark tires. The errant parkers
can spot him coming too? easily,
said the chief.
Coic Lends Backing
To Nursery Rhyme
SHAWNEE, Okla, (A 4 Whfle
her amazed owners watched, a
hotstein cow leaped from a second
story barn window, got up and
walked contentedly away Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bryant,
owners of a large dairy farm near
here, said the cow dropped 20 feet
without apparent injury. (
To get to the loft, they theorized,
the animal had to climb a steep
staircase in the barn.
gress did not specify at
point the strike-approval
should be held.
Foil of NLRB
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Flexible Price
Supports Base
For Proposals
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON UP) President
Eisenhower proposed Monday to
build a new farm program on flex
ible price supports, aiming at a
goal of agricultural equality with
the rest of the economy and a
minimum of controls.
In a lengthy special message to
Congress outlining plans for future
government aid to farmers, the
chief executive said present pro
grams I by creating surpluses
and pricing crops out of markets
are "hurtful" to those whom
they are intended to help.
Result of Study
The Eisenhower program is the
result bt nearly a year's study by
farm (organizations, agricultural
educators, and farm officials. It
offered! little that was new and it
proposed to keep much that al
ready is in operation.
In Congress it got a somewhat
mixed j reception. Sen. Aiken (R
Vt.), chairman of the Senate Ag
riculture Committee, said it
"forms an excellent basis to work
out the soundest farm program we
ever had."
Heads lor Fight
But there is bound to be a fight
over the program in the House,
and Rep. Hope (R-Kan.), chair
man of the House Agricultural
Committee, was noncommital for
the time being.
The ;major change proposed by
Eisenhower relates to government
price guarantees for farm pro
ducts. jWhere now they are set at
a fixed high level by Congress,
the President would give the sec
retary! of agriculture discretionary
authority to raise and lower
them.
Surplus Plan
As a cushion : against an abrupt
decline in prices, the President
would; set aside (he called it
"freeze") up to 2 H billion dollars
worth ;of surplus agricultural pro
ducts now held by the government.
They would be barred from regu
lar commercial channels and re
served for special uses such as
disaster relief. I
(Additional Details on Page 8,
Sec. l)
Johnny Ray,
Wife Agree
On Divorce
HOLLYWOOD UP) Johnny Ray,
26, the weepy singer, and Marilyn
Morrison, 23, separated a year
ago, will be divorced in Mexico
Thursday, Miss Morrison's father
said Monday night.
A financial settlement has been
agreed upon and the decree ,will
go to Miss Morrison, said her
father; nightclub operator Charlie
Morrison. He said he had not seen
the settlement.
Marilyn, here at present, will
leave j Wednesday for El Paso,
where; she will meet Ray, Morri
son said. The case will come be
fore a judge in Chihuahua.
nay: ana miss Morrison were
married in New York May 25,
1952. ,They separated the follow
ing January. I
"I'm sorry, real sorry, but the
marriage is definitely over," Miss
Morrison told newsmen in New
York Jwhen they separated. She
did not elaborate. Their marriage
had been spent almost entirely on
the road, Ray doing five shows
daily much of the time.
Morrison said his daughter will
fly to; Chicago after obtaining the
decree.
Bloodmobile Collects
61 Pints at Stayton
Statesman News Service
STAYTON The Red Cross
bloodmobile here Monday collect
ed 61 pints of blood during the
drawing sponsored by the San
tiam Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Five persons were rejected.
Monday's donors increased col
lections in Marion County to 183
pints: for the month. Only two
drawings were scheduled in the
county during January, Red Cross
officials explained. The county's
monthly quota is 550 pints.
Next drawing is scheduled in
Salem Feb. 4.
Proponents of 1 -Way Grid Narrow
( Margin in Poll; Visitors Opposed
Drivers favoring the one-way
downtown Salem traffic grid out
numbered the opponents in Mon
day's balloting in The Statesman's
informal poll on Salem area senti
ment on the new grid.
The tally of 1,298 votes to date
shows 745 against the grid and 553
in favor of it. The percentage op
posed to the grid is 57.4.
The Statesman counted 219 addi
tional ballots Monday, of which 112
were marked in favor of retaining
the grid while 107 wanted the grid
abolished.
Of the Monday vote, however,
the 39 voters living more than S
miles from downtown Salem split
25 to 14 against the grid. '
Some of the comments from out-
103RD, YEAR 2 SECTIONS
Eamjig Blizzard Paralyzes East
Reds Bid
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By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
PANMUNJOM Wt The Com
munists Monday formally asked
for resumption of talks to set up
a Korean ' peace conference
their first official move here since
negotiations broke up Dec. 12.
The brief note was handed over
in Panmunjom to a U. S. State
Department representative (who
relayed it to Washington and said
he ' was awaiting instructions.
The Reds action came amidst
a swift series of developments, in
cluding a bid by India to recon
vene the U. N. General Assembly
over the Korean question.
The Reds' note was handed to
the U. S. State Department repre
sentative, Kenneth" Young, under
unusual circumstances. Young had
not been advised to expect such
a message "but went to the jarca
strictly on a "hunch." j
The note proposed that liaison
officers meet at 11 a. m. Wednes
day (6 p. m. Tuesday PST)j and
discuss a time for resuming the
talks. i
U.S. Gives G6
Slow Sign on!
U.N. Session I
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. iff)
The United States took a; "go
slow" attitude Monday to an In
dian call for the U. N. Assembly
to reconvene and debate the en
tire Korean problem.
Mrs. Via jaya Lakshmi Pandit,
president of the Assembly and sis
ter of Indian Prime Minister
Nehru, suggested the delegates re
convene Feb. 9. 1
She transmitted to the it. N.
Monday morning an official re
quest from India for the Assem
bly to reconvene sometime before
Feb. 23. the date on which, under
the armistice agreement, India's
responsibility as a member of the
Neutral Nations Repatriation jCom
mission ends.
Secretary-General Dag Ham
marskjold ordered the request sent
to all U. N. members and asked
for a reply within 10 days.l
Mrs. Pandit informed the (dele
gates that if she did not hear
from them by Jan. 22, she would
assume they had concurred ih her
suggestion
for
the Assemb!
y to
meet Feb.
9.
KVAN-TV Due
By March 1
PORTLAND IP Vancouver
Radio Corp. said Monday its sta
tion KVAN-TV will be on tlje air
March 15. i
Broadcasting on channel 21. !
KVAN-TV will be Portland's: third
television station .and its second
UHF station. Fred Chitty, general
manager, said he expects the
transmitter and other equipment
to be delivered next month
The studio will be in Vancouver
but the transmitter in Portland's
west hills.
Sheldon Sackett, Coos Bay pub
lisher, heads Vancouver Radio,
which alse operates radio station
KVAN in Vancouver, Wash!
Today's Statesman
SECTION I
General news . . . 2, 3, 5, 8
Editorials, features . 4
Society, women' news .1.6, 7
SECTION II
Sports news L-l, 2
Radio-TV, Comics J . 3
Market news 4
Classifieds i 4,
of-town residents opposing the
grid; 1 j
"Am staying out of Salem until
the one-way deal is abolished."
"That grid system is sure dis
couraging to shoppers why have
it when you have such! wide
streets?"
"We have always shopped for
groceries and clothing and (every
thing at Salem, but we are staying
out as much as we can on account
of one-way traffic is 'dangerous "
From a city resident opposing
the grid: I
"Eliminate double parkers and
meter feeders first."
"I am really afraid of the one
way grid . . . Make it so you can
go around the block to find
a park-
ing space."
14 PAGES Th Ortcjon Statesman, Salem, Oregon,
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For Duty, Country and
Miss Barbara Anderson, Willamette University freshman selected as sweetheart; of the Marine Corps'
Second Oregon Beaver Platoon, is shown above receiving the sweetheart cup from Mayor Alfred
Loucks during ceremonies at the city hall Monday. She will also represent the 75-man platoon at a
banquet in Portland Jan. 21. On hand for the presentation were (left to right) Robert L. Petersen,
Salem, platoon leader; Dennis K. Garland, Salem, squad leader; Mayor Loucks; Miss Anderson, Char
les H. Jepson, Dallas, squad leader, and S. Sgt Robert D. Wilson, local Marine; recruiter. (Statesman
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Council Studies Widening Ferry
I Street, Return of 2-Way Traffic
South Korean
Defense Pact
Asked by Ike
WASHINGTON UPi President
Eisenhower Monday asked the
Senate to ratify a defense pact
with South Korea designed to head
off future attacks against that
war-ravaged far Pacific country.
The language of the treaty made
it clear that the pact would not
require the United States to go
to the aid of South Korea in the
event that country attacks North
Korea in j an attempt to achieve
unification by force.
Eisenhower described the treaty
as a move "to deter aggression
by giving evidence of our com
mon determination to meet the
common danger."
School Merger
Plan j Rejected by
Bethanv Voters
Statesman Newt Service
SILVERTON Consolidation of
Bethany School District with Sil
verton School District 4, was turn
ed down Monday by Bethany vot
ers 66 to 35.
Voters of the Silverton district
approved the consolidation move
by 111 to 11, but the question
needed approval by both districts
to go into operation.
Bethany School District board
chairman L. Meisenheimer said
the turnout of voters was the larg
est he had seen.
Discussion on a possible union
high school for school districts in
the Silverton trading area is ex
pected to be the next issue facing
voters. Bethany district is west of
5 Silverton.
Here are a few of the remarks
from voters favoring the grid:
"A lot of opposition is due to self
ish, personal reasons."
"Let's get out the vote!"
"Those people who think the one
way streets are congested have a
very short memory of what the
streets used to be."
"We city folk had to learn to
drive the one-way grid too, and
I don't think it's impossible for the
farm folk to learn."
"It's marvelous."
"We ourselves have done more
trading in the city since the new
system went in."
The ballot win be published
daily In j The Statesman thraagh
Friday, j Jan. ' 15. Today's Is on
Pag 5, See. L)
1651
By ROBERT E. GANGWARE
City Editor, The Statesman
Putting two-way, traffic back
on downtown Ferry Street after
widening it is up for City Coun
cil study as newest move in the
controversial one-way grid traffic
issue.
Details of the Ferry Street pro
posal were not mentioned, but
Mayor Alfred W. Loucks said
Monday night the matter would
be taken up with Ferry Street
businessmen. In earlier discus
sions, the Ferry Street widening
possibility was contingent upon
banning parking or actually wi
dening the street at city or at
property owners' expense,
The mayor's brief report came
during last night's Council meet
ing at City i Hall, where several
new one-way grid developments
appeared or came to a head, and
a new campaign against "meter
feeding" was ordered. (Story on
Page 2, Sec. 1.)
For one, the aldermen respond
ed to the recent grid protest move
by acknowledging a letter from
the citizens': committee and set
ting a public hearing for Jan. 25
at City Halt The committee has
launched a .petition campaign
against the grid.
Final action was taken on four
grid changes coming out of grid
studies and agitation of the past
two weeks. These items were au
thorized: I
Restoring two-way traffic on
Church and Cottage Streets east
of Ferry.: Principal tieup here
has been over funeral processions
from Clough-Barrick Mortuary at
Church and Ferry Streets.
Extending one-way eastbound
traffic on Ferry Street from Cot
tage to Winter Street
Overhead llighted or reflector
ized one-way signs for intersec
tions of Church and Chemeketa,
Church and Court, Church and
State and (Cottage and Court
Streets.
(Additional council news on
Page 2, Sec. 1.)
23 DEAD IX CRASH
MEDELLIN, Columbia W A
Colombian: Airlines (Avianca) pas
senger plane trying to reach Man
izales Airport in bad weather
crashed and burned six miles
away Monday killing all 23 aboard.
BLANDY STRICKEN
NEW YORK CP) Adm. W. H.
P. Blandy 63, retired former chief
of the Atlantic Fleet, was in criti
cal condition at a naval hospital
Monday night following a stroke.
Max. Min. Preeip.
4S M .M
4S 31 .00
S5 45 .13
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Salem
Portland -4i-Saa
Francisco
Chicago .-4 i
New York i
23 1 . .62
Willamette River 3 feet.
FORECAST (fiom VS. weather
bureau. McN'ary field. Salem):
Generaur fair today and tonight.
Hi h today sear 4S and low tonight
near 29. Temperature at U41 am.
was 35 degrees.
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Tuesday, January 12, 1954
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British Ground
Comets After
Third Crash
LONDON CP Britain ground
ed all her world-famed Comet jet
airliners for a searching inspec
tion Monday night, after the third
fatal Comet crash in 10 months.
Thirty-five persons, including
two Americans, were killed in Sun
day's crash off Elba. High-ranking
British airline and civil aviation
officials pushed a probe into the
tragedy, i.
The grounding order temporari
ly suspending British Comet serv
ices between London, South Africa,
and the Far East at midnight was
ordered by the government-owned
British Overseas Airways Corp.
(BOAO.
BOAC said it had taken its sev
en four-jet, 500-mile-an-hour plus
Comets out of service for "a min
ute and tinhurried technical ex
amination.! called the action
"a measure of prudence."
Cool Weather
Checks Slides
ASTORIA CP The slide which
has caused 34 families to move
out of their homes on a hillside
here appeared Monday to have
been checked by cool, dry weather.
No slipping was noted. Rain has
not fallen ?for several days.
Meanwhile health authorities an
nounced that drinking water had
not been contaminated by water
and sewef pipes broken by the
slide. Over the weekend residents
boiled water after authorities had
warned there was a possibility it
had been I affected.
Key Witness in Reuther Case
Given Reward Before Flight
DETROIT tft The missing
key witness in the Walter Reuther
shooting, named Monday as a de
fendant in the strange, tangled
case, was given $5,000 of the
$220,000 reward money, it was
disclosed Monday night
The CIO United Auto Workers
Union, which Reuther heads, said
it paid the money to Elizabeth
Ritchie, wife of the missing wit
ness, Donald Joseph Ritchie, after
he had told authorities a story
implicating four men in the at
tempted assassination.
The four have been charged
with assault with intent to kill and
with conspiracy.
After telling his story, however.
Ritchie slipped from the protective
custody of two policemen in a
downtown! hotel suite and fled to
Canada. -That was last Friday and
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No. 288
Toll of Death
Climbs to 53;
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK A shifting
pattern of sleet and still more
snow Monday night followed the
Northeast's worst snowstorm in
five years, sending the fatality toll
spiraling to at least 53 known dead.
The sleet extended as far south
as North Carolina. It coated heavy '
drifts of snow; with an even more
treacherous surface, paralyzing
traffic and skyrocketing accidents
on back roads and city sidewalks
alike. '
The downfall slackened in mid
evening over much of the area
after piling up for as much as a
foot in some sections since Sunday
afternoon.
No Relief in Sight
Tuesday, late forecasts said,
would be fair; But there was no
end in sight to the bitter cold
which sent the mercury plunging
as low as 27 below zero in Maine.
The raging storm brought death
in a variety of ways to beleaguered
humanity.
Many died of strokes or over
exertion in attempting to shovel
away the piled up snow. Still oth
ers were killed as they attempted
to travel over: it. Some died from
exposure to the blood-chilling cold."
Air Traffic Cut
The great arterial highways that
snake along the coast from New
England south lay lonesome be
neath a restless sea of drifting
snow.
Airlines fought a stubborn but
losing battle against the storm as
their planes were delayed or
grounded.
Schools closed tight in many
areas.
Schools closed tight in many
areas.
At Farmingdale and Port Wash
ington, N.Y., Republic Aviation
Corp. shut down, affecting 29,000
employes. General Motors Corp.
shut its Linden. N.J., plant when
few of the 2,000 employes showed
up.
Philadelphia was hardest hit of
the major cities "with some 10 in
ches of snow heaviest in seven
years. All city schools closed and
many offices and factories limped
along with skeleton work forces.
New York took on a strange
small town look as the storm
dumped 8.8 inches on the city in
the first 24 hours the worst
since the 15-inch fall of 1949. Then
rain and sleet punched the city
anew. f
Some sections of New York
City were abandoned almost en
tirely to frolicking, snow - suited
children. Cars lay half buried at
curbings.
Government Buys
Northwest Pears
PORTLAND CD The U. S. Ag
riculture Department has bought
55 carloads of Oregon, Washington
and California winter pears, its of
fice here announced Monday.
Prices ranging to 2.25 a stand
ard box, f.o.b, shipping point, were
paid for the 'pears, which will go
to the school lunch program and
other outlets. The fruit is U.S. No.
2 grade or better. The Bosc vari
ety makes up 41 carloads.
Daily Speller
Following are 20 words from a
list of 1000 which will form the
basis for semi-final and final oral
competition l in The Statesman
KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con
test for 1954, in which 83 schools
are participating.
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vicinity j
supervisor j
glimpse j
advertise j
nationall j
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marriage
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he hasn't been found since.
Convinced' that Ritchie would
not return on bis own, prosecutor
Gerald K. O'Brien Monday ob
tained an assault-with-intent-to-kiH
warrant against the 33-year-old
Canadian, f i
This, he explained, would bring
Canadian police more actively into
the search for Ritchie. Also, h
said, it would enable Michigan
authorities to bring him back if
the elusive witness is .found. ;
The UAW in a statement, said
it arranged the payment to Ritch
ie's wife through "an attorney of
unimpeachable reputation of Ritch
ie's choosing."!
"This arrangement was worked
out without the knowledge of. the
law enforcement agencies or tht
Wayne County prosecuting attor
ney," the union said.
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