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Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 14, 1954
PRICE 5c
No. 290:
Car Topsy Turvy After Wreck, Driver Urjhurt NaVV DllC
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One car, shown above, landed on its top and a second received major front end damage resulting from
' a collision Wednesday afternoon at N. jCottage and E Streets. Driver of the overturned vehicle, lisle
F. Dempewolf. 1840 N. 23rd St- who was going south on Cottage Street, told police he rolled over in
the seat just before the collision and escaped injury. Car in the foreground was operated by Max V.
Medford, 1010 N. Church St, who was headed west on E Street City Patrolman Leonard E. Skinner
(inset) inspects the license plate of the Medford vehicle which was imbedded in the left door of
Dempefolf s car. (Statesman photo.) ; j
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By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON Iff) - The Navy,
fitting its fleet to the military new
look and to economy, said Wednes
day it will pull 50 fighting ships
out of service in the next 18
months, I
The announcement, even before
the scheduled submission1 of the
new defense budget to Congress
Jan. 21, caught many Congress
members by surprise, but; two Up
members of the House Armed Ser
vices Committee said the plan
would not impair national securi
ty. I
Chairman Short (R-Mo) said "it
won't take away any of our major
striking power," and Rep. Vinson
(D-Ga, ranking Democratic mem
ber, agreed.
There has been no hint of the
size of the Navy's proposed new
budget, but it is known (that the
Navy has been called on to take
a sizeable part of proposed reduc
tions in military spending.
First to go into ; mothballs will
be the heavy cruiser Quincy, "the
least modern of the Nave's active
cruisers, the Navy said. That
13,600-ton ship, built m 1943 and
now at the Long Beach, Calif.,
Navy Yard, "will be inactivated
at an early date."
The Navy did not say What oth
er ships would be laid Up. There
has been speculation they would
include most or all of ) the four
huge 45,000-ton battleships, the
Missouri, Iowa, New Jersey, and
Wisconsin
Oregon L iquor
Board Chairman
Plans to Resign
PORTLAND l William A.
Spangler, Klamath Falls, will re
sign as chairman of the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission as soon
as a successor is appointed, Port
land newspapers reported Wednes
day. , , .j
Gov. Paul L. Patterson, attending
a meeting in Boise, confirmed the
report in a statement tost reporter,
He said he is not yet ready to
make an appointment At Klamath
Falls Spangler refused to comment
A second column on the Lewis
and Clark Journals:
In the Sunday column 1 re
ferred to the penetration of trade
among the Indian tribes across
the northern part of what is now
the United States, as disclosedvn
the Journals. Manufactured arti
cles, metal wares, beads, cloth
. were traded by the whites to the
Indians for: beaver and otter
skins. The two principal sources
of wares at the time Lewis and
Clark made their journey, 18054,
were the British trading posts on
Lake Winnipeg and on the Cana
dian rivers: and British and
American ships calling at points
on the Northwest coast and trad
ing with Indians there. Some
penetration also occurred from
the Spanish settlements far to the
South.
Commerce among the Indian
tribes became a matter of import
ance; and the tribes themselves
fought to control it For this In
dians in the gorge of the Colum
bia occupied a very strategic
spot Capt Clark gives this de
scription of one of the Indian
villages located-there:
. "This is the great mart of all
the country, ten different tribes
visit those people foe the pur
" pose of purchaseing their fish, and
the Indians on the Columbia and
Lewis's river the Snake) quite
to the Chopunnish Nation (Nez
Percesl visit them for the pur
pose of trading horses, buffalow
j robes for beeds, and such articles
as they have not The Skillutes
(the local Indians) precure the
most of their cloth knives axes
and beeds from the Indians
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
McKav Bureau
May Take Over
Yamhill Locks
SUtesmam Newt Service
DAYTON Yamhill locks and
dam at Lafayette may be taken
over by the Department of Inter
ior according to a report recced
Wednesday from Secretary of In
terior Douglas McKay.
Notice of this was given to State
Representative Carl Francis by
Brig. Gen. E. C. Itschner, Army
Corps of Engineers.
According to the general, the
engineers plan to abandon the in
stallation Feb. 4 as an economy
ruovei Aroused farmers who irri
gate 1,800 acres from the dam pool
appealed to McKay to intervene
.after navigation interests failed to
convince engineers that the con
tinued operation was necessary.
Job-Providing
Projects Asked
By Governor
Gov. Paul L. Patterson asked
the (Oregon Development Commis
sion i Wednesday to help plan for
providing of temporary jobs for
the Unemployed.
The governor asked the five-man
commission to meet with him soon.
He suggested it name a subcom
mittee to survey unemployment
and to make the plans.
About 12 per cent of the workers
insured by the unemployment com
mission were out of jobs on Jan. 1,
with half a dozen cities reporting
unemployment of more than 22 per
cent
Seasonal Decline
The decline in the lumber and
other seasonal industries is blamed
for the big jobless list.
Gov. Patterson said he is ask
ing the highway commission to see
if any projects could be started
immediately to provide new jobs.
Hie also is requesting the State
Forest Products Laboratory to
make a study to see if it can start
any job-providing projects.
"Utilize Every Agency"
"1 propose to utilize every
agency in the state that can aid
in j providing temporary employ
ment that will carry the unem
ployed over until logging and other
industry resumes in the spring.
'Through concerted effort on the
pah of representatives of state
agencies, together with industry in
the state. I feel certain that some
relief can be given to people who
find themselves out of emplbyment
at .this time, through no fault of
their own." Gov. Patterson wrote
in; a prepared statement.
Planners Seek to lASdd
Btealm, r Atom- to Atela's
Hydroelectric Power
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Stack Rises at TB Hospital
By PHIL SLOCUM
: Staff Writer, The Statesman
Search for State Prison guard Victor Harry Williams, 40, who
mysteriously' disappeared last April 3, was reopened Wednesday
night! when state police learned he may have worked at an Aurora,
I1L, sanitarium recently. (Picture on page 2, sec. 1.) j
State Police Captain Ray Howard said William's father, who
lives in Turner, received his son's withholding tax statement Wed
nesday from Mercyville Sanitari
um, a Catholic institution in Au
rora, 111. j
The statement-i-for 1953 was
addressed to Williams in care of
his father. i
The Associated Press in Chica
go reached the sanitarium's man
ager at his home! in Aurora late
last night but he i was unable to
remember if Williams had work
ed at the institution. The manager
said he would check his records
today.
Capt Howard said prison rec
ords indicated Williams had pot
left the penitentiary tor any
length of time between his em
ployment in July, 1952 and his
disappearance last April.
This led police; to believe Wil
liams may have worked in Aurora
after he dropped out of sight for
unknown reasons.
Williams, whose wife and chil
dren live at Salem Route 4, Box
192, vanished the night of April
3 after he left his home, presum
ably to go to wflrk at the prison.
Gothing Found
The next morning his guard coat,
hat. tie and wallet were found on
Highway 99W three miles north of
Rickreall. The following day his
abandoned car was found in Port
land, j
Police then checked a tip that
a man fitting William's descrip
tion had bought a bus ticket in
Portland April 4 for Ft. Smith, Ark.
Nothing turned up and family and
friends have not; heard from him
since.
Tuesday, state; police and Port
land police investigated a tip from
a Portland woman that Williams'
body was in a well on her former
farm five miles porth of Rickreall.
Covered 10 year
Capt Howard said the well had
been covered fori 10 years and that
a check of several other wells in
the area .yielded nothing. I
He said the tip was "completely
unfounded" and was probably
"dreamed up" bv the woman who
had read newspaper accounts of
Williams disappearance.
Demos Ask
Governor Call
Extra Session
Animal Crackort
v WARREN GOOOftlCH
RED TRAINS ADDED
TOKYO Vh Peiping "radio said
Thursday through passenger and
freight trains would begin running
this month from China to Russia,
Poland, Czechoslovakia and other
Iron -Curtain countries.
PORTLAND UH Gov. Paul L.
Patterson was urged Wednesday
by Oregon Democratic Party offi
cials to call a special session of
the Legislature to meet ''the deep
ening economic crisis.
In a letter to the governor, they
called Oregon's unemployment
"the most critical of all 48 states."
They said a special session could
do these things:
1. Authorize emergency works
projects to be ready! for "the
depths of unemployment predicted
for March and April."
2. Appropriate funds to aid
county welfare work. V
3. Protest to Congress and to
Interior Secretary McKay against
threatened increases in the basic
wholesale power rates for Colum
bia River Power."
4. Instruct the Board of Control
to intervene against f the Idaho
ower Company's petition for per
mission to build low dams at Hells
Canyon on the Snake River.
The letter was signed by Monroe
Sweetland, Democratic national
committeeman; Lilian Burton, na
tional committeewoman; Howard
Morgan, state chairman, and
Gladys Last, state vice chairman.
Morse Fails to
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Get on Major
Committees
WASHINGTON LB The Sen
ate Wednesday turned down, 59-26,
a third effort to put ) Sent Morse
(Ind-Ore) on the two major com
mittees from which he was
bumped last yearf j
Morse told the Senate before the
vote that he was the; victim of a
"political horsewhipping" last ses
sion because he opposed the pres
idential candidacy of Dwight D.
Eisenhower in 1952. j
Morse supported Democrat Ad
lai Stevenson against Eisenhower
and quit the Republican Party.
Sen. Anderson (D-NM) and 12
other senators sponsored an
amendment to the Senate rules to
restore Morse to the Armed Ser
vices and Labor Committees.
Anderson told the Seriate it was
only "common justice" to put the
Oregon senator back on the two
committees on which he served
for several years prior to Janu
ary last year. i
But Sen. Knowland of Califor
nia, the Republican: leader, and j
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas,
the Democratic leader, both fought :
the Anderson amendment.
Knowland said the Senate would
be "playing with fire" if it decid
ed to vote on the floor to assign
individual senators to committees
instead of letting them be named
by party caucuses as is the pres
ent system. !
The Republican conference of all
senators Tuesday approved com
mittee assignments which left
Morse on the two lowly commit
tees, Public Works and District of
Columbia, to which he was rele
gated last year. - ;
On the showdown vote, three
Republican senators, Langer and
Young of North Dakota and Case
of South Dakota. oted with 22
Democrats and Morse -to give him
back his former committee seats.
Opposing were 36 Republicans
and 23 Democrats, j
Sen. Cordon (R-Ore.) opposed
placing Morse on the major committees.
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Governors,
Basiii Group
Plan Studies
A 72-foot steel smoke stack, shown above, was lifted into place Wed
' nesday over the central heating plant at the Oregon State Tuber
f culosis HospitaL Weighing 7 tons and 42 inches in diameter, the
I stack will take care of a 250 horsepower boiler expected to go in
' to operation about Feb. 1. The new boiler will provide heat for a
new dormitory and the two new floors of the hospital unit, David
T. McKeown, business manager, said. (Statesman photo.)
KNOWS BITTER TRUTH
NEWARK. NUI. (if) A thief
knew the bitter! truth Wednesday.
That case he stole from a parked
truck at the Great Atlantic k Pa
cific Tea Co. warehouse Tuesday
contained 24 bottles of bitters.
Attempt to Pick) Big 4
Parley Site 'Collapses
fWhoi o day for picnfcP
BERLIN tfi Russian and West-
em officials broke up in disagree
ment Thursday after trying unsuc
cessfully for a week to agree on
preliminary details for the Jan. 25
Big Four foreign ministers conference.
i They could not even agree on
Which Berlin buildings West
and East should house the ses
sions., v.
I The 'matter now has been re
ferred back to the governments
of the United States, Britain,
France and the Soviet Union.
i Observers said inability to pick
a site might delay the conference
on the future of Germany and
Austria.
i The West asked that the Big
Four talks be held in the Allied
Control Authority Building, a pre
sumably neutral island in the U.S.
sector of West! Berlin.
An American! spokesman report
ed Soviet delegate Sergei Deng in
said the Allied Control Authority
Building had no four-power char
acter since 1948, and insisted that
the talks be established on a basis
of one for one one meeting in
the East, sector for every one in
the West
The .American - informant said
that, because of this Russian in
sistence on 50-50 treatment we
pointed . out that this was not
conference of only two powers
but it made no difference.
(In Washington, : immediate re
action made clear that the United
States will continue to try to reach
satisfactory solution on the prob
lem of where in Berlin to bold the
conference
Man Shoots Judge to
! Death in Courtroom
WARREN, Pa. (yP) A 26-year-old construction worker cited for
non-support payments to ms wue snot to aeain sine presiaeni juage
of Warren County Wednesday before the horrified eyes of six court
room witnesses 51
State police chased Norman Moon of Connellsville, Pa., for six
miles before a j hail of bullets brought Moon's ear to a halt west
of Warren.
'Space Helmet?
Flies Children
To Anesthesia
WASHINGTON UP 4 Navy doc
tors have perfected a "space hel
met" for children to wear on
flights into anesthesia! i
The helmet has been developed
at the Bethesda, Md.. Naval Medi
cal Center to take the fear out of
being put to sleep on an operat
ing table. It was named:! after its
popular counterparts in comic
strips and television programs.
The helmet, which has a built In
tube for administering anesthetics,'
was first tested on 4-year-old
Jimmy Bowden, son of a chief hos-
pitalman at the Bethesda Medi
cal School t i
Young Jimmy had steadfastly
refused to submit to an operation
on his tonsils until told that he was
going to make a space trip and
that the helmet would prepare him
for a "blast-off" from earth. Up
on coming out of the anesthetic.
minus his tonsils, Jimmy com
mented: "Pretty sharp trick.
Vote Tabulates
School Choice
Of SHS Seniors
Only 61 of next year's high
school seniors living in the South
Salem High district, out of a pro
posed class of about 300, elected
this week to continue their
studies at the north school. .
Seniors were given this choice
so that they might not-break up
planned studies when Salem be
comes a two high school city
next fall.
Latest figures of the present
enrollment for the new high
school were given as 348 sopho
mores: 309 juniors and 254 sen
iors, a total oi vii. 2upt. ot
Schools Walter E. Snyder said
that the present enrollment at
the north school' is "just under
2,000" and when, the new school
opens it will leSve about 1,100
north. if-
Daily Speller
Following are 2t words from a
list of 1000 which wffl form the
basis for semi-final and final oral
competition in The Statesman
KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Cm-
test for 1954, In which S3 schools
are participating, j . f j
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interior: miscellaneous
studious proclamation
conclusion , retirement
whisper ' proportion
scurrilous ' liberal
compliment affectionate.
senator . scissors -liquid
i convention
preerence weapon
respectfully attegianct
Today's Statesman
! SECTION 1
Editorials, features
Society, women's
SECTION X
Sports j.-.'.-.J
Farm and Valley news ..
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Classified ads L 6,
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Girl Winner of
First School
Spelling Title
McKEE Donna Leder, 12-
year-old 7th -! grade student at
McKee School ;m Nortnern Mar
ion County, is
the first school
spelling champ
ion to be cert
ified i n the
1954 States
man - KSLM
Mid - Valley
Contest. j
Donna, whose
hobby is col
lecting dolls, isrA:SWv4
the daughter of Donna Leder
Mr. and Mrs.! Carl B. Leder,
Route 2, Box 277, Woodburn.
Her teacher and principal is Mrs.
Emma M. Bisanz, who says she
and her pupils enjoyed the op
tional written test instituted this
vear- ' ' i .
Second place m spelling at
McKee was won by Joann Wein
acht, 13, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Weinacht, and third
place by Madonna Edgell, also
13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Edgell,: both of Route 2,
Woodburn. Joann and Modanno
are in the 8th grade.
All three winners will receive
special certificates of merit
from the sponsors an Donna will
represent her school in a semi
finals contest in March.
Moon shot himself in the throat
as officers approached him with
drawn guns. He was m senous
condition.
Z Bullets Strike Judge
Killed was 51 year old Judge
Allison D. Wade. Two of the five
bullets Moonjifired struck Judge
Wade in the chest He staggered
from the bench towards his cham
bers, holding his chest and moan
ing: i!
" He shot Hie, he shot me."
Moon had been hailed into court
for failing to; pay $30 a week sup
port to his Wife as ordered by
j Judge Wadei ; The shooting oc
curred just as Judge Wade called
: Moon to the bench to explain why
;Moon wasnjfjnaking payments.
Dist Atty JMyer Kornreich, one
of the six witnesses, said he saw
Moon open his coat and whip out
a .45 caliber revolver.
Kept Going if
"I started i to run out of the
courtroom to call the police and
jMoon fired at me. I kept going.
As I was going down the steps to
the first floor, I heard four or
five more shots."
One of the bullets fired by Moon
narrowly missed Mrs. Bernice
Seavy, a court reporter. She faint
ed and had to be treated for shock.
Kornreich; said Moon fled the
courtroom, leaped in his car and
drove away!; State police immedi
ately picked tip his trail after get
ting the call from the district at
torney, fi
After Judge Wade in 1952 ord
ered Moons to make $30 a week
support payments to his wife,
Janet, Moon- appealed to the state
superior court which affirmed the
order last December. Mrs. Moon
left her husband after filing an
assault and battery charge against
him. H
BOISE, Idaho tft The first
step was taken Wednesday toward
long-range planning for integration
of steam and possible atomic
power plants with; hydroelectric
generation in the Columbia Basin.
ltcame at the Columbia Basin
Inter-Agency? Committee meeting
after a rslated group the Pacif
ic Northwest Governors Power
Policy Committee set up an
engineering committee to work on
the shorter-range goal of which
dams should be built, where and
by whom, j
The inter-agency? committee au
thorized appointment of a task
force to make the long-range pow
er study at the suggestion of Chair
man Lesher Wing, San Francisco,
regional engineer of the Federal
Power Commission.
Wing said that ; to date basin
planning had centered on genera
tion of power from dams, and
studies should bej started on the
long-term effects of bringing oth
er types of generation into the
system, j
Atomic Power fi
Answering a question by Gov.
Paul Patterson of Oregon, Wing
said he meant atomic as well as
steam plants, he, noted that the
task force probably would require
a year for its study on the out
look for the next 150 years or so.
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Wash
ington called it I "an excellent
idea," and Gov.fLen Jordan of
Idaho said he hoped it would not
interfere ivith the current FPC
studies into headwater storage.
Wing said it would not duplicate
the work of the governors' power
policy committee.
The power committee, at a
morning Session i which preceded
the inter-agency! meeting, voted
unanimously to have each of its
members name a representative
to an engineering committee. The
engineers win name a paid, full
time engineer to coordinate its
work. I I
To Study .Data I
Concerned primarily with pow
er needs j for the next five to 10
years, the engineers will study all
available i data and report to the
power committee which will rec
ommend IthetprftHity for dams.
Each member of the policy com
mittee will name an engineer. On
the committee are each of the 10
utilities in the Northwest Power
Pool, Montana. Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho, British Columbia, Fed
eral Power Commission, Army En
gineers, Interior Department, In
terstate Compact Commission, and
Public Power Assn.
The Consolidated Smelting and
Mining Corp. was admitted as a
member i since it owns the West
Kootenay Powenand light Co. in
British Columbia.
One-Way Grid Ballot
Passes 2,000 Mark
"With 2,178 votes tallied. The
Statesman's poll on Salem's one
way grid system Wednesday night i
snowed 933 in xavor of retaining
it and 1243 for tossing it over
board. 1 , - I
Opponents of the grid had 57.2
per cent of votes cast, a slight
drop from their; previous margin
of 57.6 per cenf.
. Of the 1243 totes against the
grid, 244 were (from persons re
siding 'more than 5 miles from
downtown Salem. Of the 933 votes
in favor of the grid, 105 were
from persons residing more than
5 miles from downtown Salem.
- There were 1 371 new ballots
counted: Wednesday 169 for the
grid, 202 against it They includ
ed ballots from Jefferson, Hill
City, Sihrerton,; Independence and
Dallas in favor of the grid; bal
lots from Silverton, Turner, Stay
ton, Dallas,! Sublimity, Idanha,
Brooks, Monmouth and Aumsville
against it ;
There was' increasing evidence
of "stacldngt the vote by multiple
balloting on both sides. Many
were thrown out for that reason.
Several lengthy comments ac
companied the ballots. The com
ments, withi names deleted, were
forwarded to the Salem city halL
The ballot (today's is on page
S. section 1) will appear in The
Statesman for the last time Fri
day morning and the deadline
for voting is at midnight Friday
night None postmarked after
that date will be counted. Final
results will be made known in
Sunday's Statesman.
.- (Additional details page 3, sec
tion 1).
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70-Foof (Fall From
Cliff Fatal to Logger
TIMBER, i Ore. IB A logger
carrying his saw through the woods
supped on She edge of a nigh bluff
and fell 70 feet to his death 30
miles weft of Forest Grove
Wednesday;! He was Marvin
Frickey, S3, of Timber, a former
resident of Molalla.
Exp
Industrial
osiiion
Plan Offered
Tentative plans for an Industrial
Exposition in Salem were ad
vanced from the proposed spring to
probably early fall during the
regular breakfast meeting of Sa-
lem's Industrial Development
Council Wednesday in the Marion
Hotel j J
Special guest of the Council was
J. T. Andersonj coordinator of in
ventions,, Portland.
Committee reports were heard
from Edwin Schreder (finance),
Clair Brown (realtors and survey)
and E.j Burr Miller (public rela
tions), i Schreder explained that
there was still $45,000 to be gained
by the council for their five-year
budget ; progant totalling $150,000.
Announcement was made that Ivan
Bloch, industrial consultant from
Portland, is to fce guest speaker at
the Chamber of Commerce during
the Jan. 25 'luncheon meeting.
Bloch's presence is sponsored by
the council. I
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Max.
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Min. Precip.
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30 M
39 .00
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New York Li 11
Willamette River SJ feet. -FORECAST
(from V. S. Weather
Bureau. McNary Field. Salem 1:
Cloudy with gusty winds, rain to
say. tonight. High today near 4S.
Low near; 7. Temperature at 121
ur. today; wa 45.
SALtM PKKCIFTIATIOK
Sine Start mt Weatker Tear Seat 1
This Year I i Last Year Normal
Possible'
InMd-Valley
f f i
PORTLAND to Snow is pos
sible in theg Willamette Valley
Thursday. r
Weather observers said tempera
hires are expected to fall as winds
decrease. Southerly winds moved
in from the ocean Wednesday
night, prompting forecasts of gusts
up to 45 miles an hour through the
Willamette Valley.
The wind is expected to become
westerly Thursday, decreasing in
velocity and! perhaps allowing a
cold front to bring in snow. .
Adm. Johnson to
Succeed Blandy
NEjff YORK Vice Adm,
Felix! L. Johnson, retired Navy
veteran of both world wars,
Wednesday Was named to succeed
Adm.! William H. Blandy as chair
man of the Naval Reserve Evalu
ation' Board, i
Blandy died Tuesday.
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