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at? It sx -S 1 - " ; 1 ! -5 J " - m The Weather The Department of the Inter-; ior, which has been raked fore and aft by; public power propon ents in the Northwest for run-S ning out on a federal Hells Can-, yon dam, i$ under fire in the Mid west for alleged desertion of REAs. ! The latter attacks stemmed out of an order for the latter to estU mate their nnwpr iwodt frnm anvi ernment projects and contract fr them by Jan. 1, 1954. An? surplus after that date would be sold to private distributors. f Immediately the REAs and their political allies screamed to high heaven that they were being crucified. I The department made a partial retreat by extending the time for decision nd making re visions of demands possible at five-year intervals. That didn't end the clamor, however, and presumably it will be amplified in the coming political campaign. The REAs have a friend in court in the person of Sen. Ml Langer of North Dakota who not only cultivates controversy but thrives on it, especially if it givfes him a chance to pose as the farm er's friend. In ; this instance he was a ready accomplice because the spokesman! f6r the Interior Department was Fred Aandahl, former governor of North Dako ta who gave Langer a pretty good race in the last senatorial elec tion. While Langer was coaxed off objecting to Aandahl s ap pointment as assistant secretary, he could see in the 1 (Concluded on' Editorial Page4) Foes of Grid i i Lead But Slin In Percentage The battle-of-the-votes oni Sa lem's one-way traffic grid wai al most a standoff Thursday. Of j the 508 new ballots cast, 256 opposed the grid and 252 favored it! The one-day count left oppo nents still well ahead in the Over all tally. It was 1499 to 1185.(But their margin stood at 55.8 j per cent instead of the 57.6 per jeent of the j previous day a drop of 2.2 per cent j j An increasing number of votes' were- thrown- out Thursday!-because of duplications or other ir regularities. I j Of the 1499 votes urging sthat the grid be abolished, 308 were eastt by persons residing more than 5 miles from Salem. I Of the 1185 votes favoring re tention of the grid, 129 were; cast by persons residing more than 5 miles from Salem. 1 Several votes came to j The Statesman office in the form of a petition. V One, representing an informal luncheon "club," had 28 signatures. One business office had another with seven, j The ballot for The Statesman's informal poll appears for the last time today -(page 10, section 1). Deadline for voting is midnight tonight Ballots postmarked or! brought to jThe Statesman office J after that hour win not oe coum ed. Final results will be given in The Statesman Sunday. ! i Johnny Cries At Divorce JUAREZ I-W Crying jJohnny Ray wept i Thursday as his wife Marilyn Morrison Ray wasj grant ed a Juarez divorce. j The singer broke into tears as Miss! Morrison filed her (petition charging incompatability. The' di vorce was ; granted in Juarez First Federal Court by Judge Fernando Romero Figuroa. f "l don't j think any man -likes to see a marriage go on the j rocks." Ray said.! "I hope some! day to marry again and have a home and kids." - i ! Miss Morrison said the! divorce was very i unpleasant. J "This will be my first and last," she said. I I Asked if she planned to marry again, she said "we'll sek." Redmond Winds Cause Damage REDMOND ( A 4$-mile an hour wind with gusts to 65 hit this area just before noon Thursday, causing minor power linjs breaks. The blow preceded the first of a series of cold fronts expected in Central Oregon. The temperature, which was 42 Wednesday night, dropped to 33 and wet snow start ed falling. - ' V Animal Crackers ;v Warren Goodrich ?Hwrry, dor, unpack th kids. 103RD YEAR First Graders Check Their Guns at the Door h Checking gns at the door of their -.h li.' :i ' ,te p i I p , i ; .. i '- i"M'- ' ? " , - , A ver School took part in during "Cowboy Day" Thursday. Originator of the "Cowboy Day" idea, Mrs. Wayne Jordan, first grade teacher, is shown above relieving first graders Beverly Loomis and Robert Foote Jr., of their six shooters before starting the day's studies which emphasized cowboys and ranch life. (Statesman photo.) Ike Asks, Social Security Expansion Solons Vote Tax Cut for Dividends By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTON (JB The House Ways and Means Committee, bow ing to a long-time plea from busi ness circles, approved Thursday a three-year program of sharp re ductions in taxes on income from dividends. Staff experts said the proposed changes would mean a saving of 240 million dollars for about 4 mil lion taxpaying stockholders the first year. The ultimate loss in revenue was estimated at from 500 million to one billion dollars annually, when the cuts reach full effect. A majority of committee Dem ocrats reportedly resisted the move, but were voted down in a closed-door committee session. First Controversy This marked the first substan tial controversy in a committee j project aimed at rewriting almost all the nation's tax laws with a view to simplifying and clarifying them and removing alleged ine quities. The committee is acting page-by-page on recommendations draft ed by treasury and congressional staff experts, after. months of la bor. A Democratic move to require deduction of taxes at the source of dividend payments, much as tax es are withheld from wages, was beaten. Members said this was a straight party-line vote, 15 Repub licans against 10 Democrats. Weald . Cut Revenue The new proposal eventually would relieve about one third of the 4 million taxpaying stockhold ers from paying any federal taxes at all on their dividend income. It provides that individuals will pay no income taxes on dividends up to $50 in the case of a tax able year ending between next July 31 and Aug. 1, 1955. For later years, individuals would pay no income taxes up. to $100 of dividends received. The committee also approved new sections permitting workers to deduct transportation expenses. even those incurred in the work er's home town, as a business ex pense. This means workers could take the standard 10 per cent deduction allowed for such per sonal expenses as charitable con tributions, medical expenses and so forth, and still get a further deduction for transportation ex penses incurred at work. It does not apply to expenses of commut ing to and from work. Illegal Parking Costly in Portland PORTLAND tf Police records show that in December 499 motor ists wher parked between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in downtown tow-away tones paid more than $4,500 to re gain then cars. . LL John Pittenger said 72 of the vehicles were from outside - Ore gon. The $9 average penalty per car was divided about equally be tween parking fines and towihg charges. The daily average of towed cars so far this year has been 17, Pit tenger said. 2 SECTIONS-32 PAGES ' ' ' - II ' i t -- -- ivr i vf M , I . ! - - - ' Vn iJ vv .- i - Miiimnr-r " -- first grade class room was one of Nash, Hudson Consolidation Plan Approved DETROIT in Consolidation of Nash Kelvinator Corp. and Hud son Motor Car; Co. was approved Thursday by directors of the two companies subject to stockholder approval. Stockholder meetings will be held in March. The resulting corporation will be known as American Motors Corp. Under the plan Nash, Hudson and Kelvinator will operate as separate divisions of American Motors. The dealer and sales or ganizations will retain their sepa rate identities. Hudson and Nash Kelvinator together had assets of more than 355 million dollars and working capital in excess of 100 million as of last Sept 30. Their combined sales for the year ended last Sept 30 were in excess of 680 million. The Nash r Hudson consolida tion, if completed, will be the sec ond move of its kind in the auto industry during the past year. Last spring Kaiser Motors purchased Willys - Overland Motors for 62 million. That leaves only Packard and Studebaker -as single entities among the car makers. McMirinville Gusts Black Out Town Statesman Newt Service McMINNVILLEL The entire city of McMinnville was blacked out for 24 minutes shortly before 4 a.m- s, Thursday, when wind gusts shorted two 2,400-volt pow er lines, burning outlines in two spots. Teletypes were affected and the West Coast phone company switched, to batteries until repairs were completed. Do You Drive a Car or Herd It? (Starting today The Statesmaa is posing questions, both common -and uncommon. 'to which drivers should know the answers and apply them. Both questions and answers - arc checked with traffic experts). Question: If 1 am driving in the left-most lane of a . one-way street or am just' right of the center lane of a two-way street, can I turn left into a one-way street against a ted light?. Answer; Yes, you should, after stopping and giving right-of-way to cars or pedestrians already on the one-way street into which you are turning. The same is true of Tight turns on a red light, ' whether you are on one way or two-way streets. 1V FOUNDED the first activities pupils at Hoo WASHINGTON UB JL President Eisenhower urged Congress Thursday to boost social security benefits quickly for America's older citizens and give 10 million more people protection from "the fear i . . of destitution. Eisenhower also asked that the amount of income taxed for pen- j sion purposes be raised from $3,-1 600 to $4,200. and ithat retired I persons be allowed to earn more at part time jobs without losing social security benefits. The President proposed that a beneficiary be allowed to earn up to $1,000 a year and still get his pension. Above that, he would i lose a month's benefits for each extra $80 of earnings. Changing the tax base would mean that workers making more than $3,600 would find up to $12 mure a year in Kuciat security deductions coming lout of their pay -checks. Their employers would have to match the amounts. (Additional details on page 2, section 1.) I Nudist (groups Divide, Claim Raiv Deal CORVALLIS Wi f- The Willam ette Valley now is! going to have two nudist colonies A disagreement j over purchase of property on which the Ever green Lodge nudi$t camp is lo cated in the hills south of Philom ath caused more than half of the Evergreen members j to resign, Wayne Weathersby, a lodge direc tor, reported Thursday. He said IS quit land will set up their own colony f in the Eugene area. They filed; supplementary article of incorporation in the county clerk's office here under the name "the Willamettans." The articles specified location of a new camp and main office at h.ugene. About 10 will remain with the Evergreen Lodge! group Weathers by. said. j The nudists have had headquar ters at the Philomath camp about three years without incident In the summer of 1942 a Northwest nudists' meeting wai held at the camp. Daily Speller Following are! 29 Words from a list of 1000 which will form the basis for semi-final and final oral competition in i The Statesman KSLM Mid-Valley - Spelling Con test for 1954, in which 83 schools are participating, j stationery lieutenant puncture accordance twentieth youth excellent responsible speedometer discussion disagreeable gradually enormous pleasing ornament I instrument quotation s miacle librarian I opponent Tin Oregon, Statesman, Salom, Oregon, One Vehicle! Tows Another Away j After Two Collide i ! Two vehicles collided at Lib erty and Center streets late Thursday afternoon) and one obligingly towed the other away. It happened to te a wrecker. f -- The wrecker, owned by ,pa vidson's garage, was, driven! by Donald M. McCue, 4805 Bailey Rd. I ! Police said a car operated by John Roop, 1365 N. 18th SU hit the side of the wrecker and re ceived a smashed front end.! No one was hurt. j I The wrecker, which received minor damage, then towedithe car off to a garage, j Wilson New President of Salem Chest Otto J. Wilson was elected pre sident of Salem Community: Chest Thursday as the chest board of directors plunged into its 1954 program. (Pictures; on pige 2, section 1). ! j The board whittled down agen cy funds in final approval; of the current funds distribution; de cided to expand the annual tours to state chest-supported agencies for child care and other func tions; ' agreed to j ask national chest leaders to confer with lo cal officials; initiated organiza tion of the 1954 fund campaign. Other officers elected are Har old D. Robertson, ;first vice pre sident; Herbert E. (Barker,) second vice president; Arthur Bi Bates, treasurer. C. A. iKells was re elected executive Secretary. The current fund report show- j ed $119,615 has been raised for' this year's support of the variou youth and character building or ganizations, i j On the basis of this fund report and the expectation that some additional donations will be re ceived, the board approved alloca tion to local agencies which are the same as each group; has re ceived from the chest in each of the past two years, plus (a distri bution of $4,442 which was over paid last year and must come out of the current fund. i Two special I appropriations n.iI:i u.;ii nLA mnn. intn o'Four foreign ministers conference nue wnen it opens its new build- ing and $700 Salvation Army rMt tnA i Leaders also reported! the new Christmas Bureau established with chest offices as headouar- ters last' month: provided clear ing house for a list of 374 needy familife iv inrli iiluotc and 1 organizations usiH thp list in Hi. ! recting their Christmas! charities Tne Dulk 0f fUnds raised by the cnest gocs to th(se salchr groups - . YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts, Girl J Scouts' Catholic! Charities, Salva- inn Armw r-.mn EN..- -;.!, Gamma Globulin Fights Pplio in Aleutian Isles NEW YORK (if) - The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said a lone doctor in the tiny Aleu tian -island of; St. Paul began Thuisday injecting the entire popu lation with gamma globulin j to combat a rising polio .epidemic. There have been two polio deaths among the 360 i Aleut $eal hunters and U. S. agents on the island. 800 miles west of Anchorage. Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, territorial health officer at Juneau, Alaska, told the foundation by telephone that a portable iron lung and 3.000 cc's of the scarce blood fraction were flown directly to St. Paul from Anchorage Thursday. j Later 3 000 cc's and other sup plies were rushed from New York to Anchorage to be landed or para chuted onto the island. Missing prison CuaM Worked On Illinois Sanitarium Farm Missing State Prison guard Vic tor Harry WUliams, 40, worked as a farm hand at Mercyville Sanit arium, Aurora, III.,! for a short time after his mysterious dis apearance from Salem last April 3, state police said; Thursday. State police Capt.l Ray Howard said he received a telegram yes terday from! the institution stat ing that Williams worked there from July 14 to Aug. 2. 1953. Where Williams' is now the in-' stitutron and police dont know. It is believed he jhas relatives in the Aurora areaj The ex-guard's social security number which ie gave the sanit arium checked out! with the soc ial security! card found in his wallet on Highway 99 W ! near Rickreall the morning after he vanished, Howard 'said. Police have airmailed a photo graph of Williams to the sanitar ium to get positive; identification. If the photo checks out, How ard said police would drop the Friday January 15. 1S54 nowstormj Warning Issued for NortHwest j I : i . I India Plans to Return : fi PWs ! Before Deadline i By WILLIAM C. BARNARD PANMUNJOM VP) India decided Thursday on its own to start; turning back nearly 23,000 disputed prisoners to their captors Jan.: 20 three days ahead of the deadline and said if either side freed! them it would violate the armistice. In Washington, the U.S. Army chief of staff. Gen., Matthew B. Ridgway told a Senate committee "I would think that serious conse-i quences could flow from such an action on the part of custodial forces of India a premature re lease." ' Ridgway said ''I'd be concerned by the Communist reaction to such a release." ' In Korea, the U. N. Command prepared to take back 22.500 Chi nese and North Koreans from the anti-Red camp ; but went ahead with plans to set them free as civilians at 12:01 a. m. Jan. 23. India's announcement drew quick criticism from the Swedish and Swiss members of the Neutral Na tions Repatriation Commission al though both were agreeable to tlirnincr t7tr f Vi o nncnnapf fi Ton 20. i The other members. Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia, did not make any public comment. India acted after the Red and U. N. Commands held firmly to conflicting positions which left op en the possibility the prisoners in the anti-Red camp might break out on Jan. 23 if not released. U.S. Willing to Compromise On Pairley Site WASHINGTON CP) The United States was reported willing Thurs day night to end the wrangle with Russia over the site of the Big in order to get jt started on time j Ja" . f . .. . . . 1 Preliminary talks have bogged down ,n Berlin on the site question but lt was ,"nderstood the United states woul compromise at the next meeting, probably Friday aft ernoon. ; The Russians have been insist in? that half the Big Four talks be 'held in the Soviet controlled East ' 20116 of Berlin and half in the ! controlled Western Zone, - T1,c United States. Britain and France had been holding out for a straight rotation among each of the four powers, thus making it three meetings in the West to one in the East.; inrormed quarters said Thurs day night the United States, in line with a policy to head off any Com munist stall which would delay the foreign ministers meeting, was i prepared to: give in on the site de tail. 1 ne teenng was mat it is much too minor a detail on which to make a stand which would de lay the mOeting. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features ' 4 Society, i women's -6, 7, 10 Valley and Farm 13 ' SECTION 2 Food news 1-4 Business news 8 Comics L .... 9 Radio, TV 9 Crossword, Star Gazer 9 Sports 10-12 Markets ; .13 Classified Ads 13-15 case as 'there is no charge against Williams. Clue to Williams whereabouts came Wednesday when his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Wil liams of Turner, received a tax withholding statement from the sanitarium mailed Jan. 6. . The statement was addressed to the ex-guard in care of his mother, f ' The previous day- police in vestigated what turned out to be a phony tip from a Portland woman that two men had killed Williams and put his body in a well near RickreaH.; : Williams dropped frora sight the night of April 3 when he left his wife and fqur children at their' home on Route 4, Box 192, presumably to go to work at the. prison. The next, day his wallirt, coat, hat and tie were found to High way 99 W and the following day bis carl was discovered ' in Port land. J PRICE Sc Bride SAN FRANCISCO Actress Mari lyn Monroe became the bride of ex-baseball star Joe DfMag Xio Thursday in a civil cere mony performed by a municipal Judge. i Marilyn, Joe Married in j San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO ,Ut Gor geous Marilyn Monroe and Joe Di Maggio were married Thursday in what wasj supposed to have been a quiet ceremony, but wasn't? Judge Charles S. Peery,, presid ing jurist ; of the municipal court, performed; the civil ceremony be hind closed doors in his chambers while an estimated crowd of 500 jammed the corridor outside on the third floor of San Francisco's City Hall.: In an effort to keep their much- talked about but unannounced wed ding plans secret, the film star and the former Yankee baseball slugger didn't even let the judge know he was to perform the; cere mony until early Thursday .after noon. ; j Yet by jthe time they were mar ried the xrowd was so thick that Di Maggio, aided by his best man. restaurant manager Reno Barsoc chini anj Lefty O'Doul, had to el bow a pathway for Marilyn to the elevator. : Joe and Marilyn left on a brief honeymoon for an unannounced destination. "Just driving?' Joe said. J; ' j No Plan! for Movies He indicated the plan to make their home in San Francisco, going to Hollywood whenever Marilyn has a picture to make. Bu, Mari lyn said, she has no plans for movies now. It wai the second marriage for each. Miss Monroe was married at 15 to James Dougherty, now a policeman in Van Nuys, Calif. Her studio . says it "was a short-lived marriage which she pcrfers to forget.'! I Joe was divorced from Dorothy Arnold.l a film actress. They had one son; l Miss I Monroe and Dil Maggio have been virtually hiding put here for more than a week, primarily to keep: their marriage plans sec ret i I Orchid: Corsage ; - She was bare headed, I wearing a dark brown broadcloth suit with a wide white ermine collar. She carried a corsage of three white orchids. ; ; i Di Maggio wore a dark blue business suit, and long before the ceremony began consider able of Marilyn's lipstick. Joe ' kissed Marilyn, somewhat bashfully but very weDi for the photographers. He did it repeated ly without too much urging. Judge Peery missed out Later, he explained, "it was my first meeting with her. I didn't want to bejtoo forward." I Max. Mia. Free!, 51 JS JI 49 SI J3 S7i 35 .00 33 23 . X2 Salem - Portland j , San Francisco . Chicago j- Kew York j... .33 17 tract Willamette River 1.4 feet. iFORECAST itor V. S. weather bu reau. McNarjr field. Salem): I Rain with rusty winds today, turn ing to snow flurries tonight. High to day near 45. ; low tonight near 2a. Temperature at 12:01 ajn. was 42. No. 291 3 to 6 Inches Predicted for Seattle Area SEATTLE ft i Moisture laden clouds moving toward the Pacific Northwest are expected to bump into a cold front near Seattle Fri day and dump from three to six inches of snow on the Puget Sound region, the Weather Bureau ad vised in a special storm warning Thursday night, j. Blizzard weather comparable to that which hit this region four years ago Jan. 13 are apossibility. the weather man said, and it would Only Snow Flurries Forecast for Salem Weathermen I at M c N a r y Field, Salem, are forecasting rain and gusty winds today with snow flurries late tonight. They predict the Salem, area won't be hit by the main force of the storm moving in from the north. However, another storm off the coast may: move in Satur day, bringing freezing rain for a short period. ; L take "a near miracle'' to head off very heavy snowfall. Accompany ing temperatures are expected to range from 24 to 32 above in West ern Washington. To Move Into Oregon Winters icy blasts, headed to ward the Puget Sound area in a three-pronged advance, will cover the entire state and move into Ore gon by late Friday night, the Weather Bureau believes. Rainfall was seen for Northwest Oregon until late Friday or early Saturday when the slowly moving cold front takes over with its load of snow. ; Special FarecasU In special forecasts, the Weather Bureau said: ! 1. Zero to 10 above cold should hit Northeastern Washington and the extreme northern part of Idaho Thursday night, and extend possi bly all over Eastern Washington and Northern j Idaho Friday. 2. A storm which has centered over Vancouver Island has started moving slowly southward and rain in the Seattle-Tacoma area Friday should turn to snow, with a fall of 3 to 6 inches ' expected by Friday evening. South to Newport 3. Storm warnings were ordered continued at all Washington coast al stations and south to Newport, Ore. New southwest storm warn ings were raised along the Oregon coast from Newport to Cape Blan co. ; Northeastern Washington and Northern Idaho also are expected to receive snow and strong winds that will bring drifts on highways. The storm moving south from Vancouver Island bore occasional rain and strong west to southwest winds Thursday night, but they will change! to snow and strong northerly winds over Washington state Fridayi On the coast, west to southwest winds 30 to 40 miles an hour will shift to northerly winds during the day ; Friday, with gusts to 50, the forecast said. Listing Ship Drops Cargo SEATTLE m The steam schooner Lumberlady was .forced to jettison its deck cargo of 20,000 feet of lumber Thursday when it developed a dangerous list off the Oregon Coast, the Coast Guard re ported Thursday night The 253-foot schooner is owned by the Owen-Parks Lumber Co., Los Angeles. The Coast Guard has dispatched the cutter Bonham from Coos Bay, Ore., to the point 47 miles to the northwest which the Lumberlady gave as its posi tion. ! Heavy seas blown up by a wind which reached gusts of - 50 miles an hour further complicated the 2,333 ton vessel's difficulties. The latest report from the Lum berlady said it was in no immedi ate danger. Cause of the list was not given. GRAND SLAM MADE MONTE CARLO Ml Capt Ben O. Homsson of Spartanburg. S. C, bid and Imade a grand slam in diamonds Thursday at the final session of the International Bridge Tournament at which an American team of experts won its fourth straight world title. 1 SALEM raiCIPITATION Sine Start of Waatker Tear Sept. 1 TMa Ytaf Last Tear . Neraul . m. mm mm ak a r All I , .W.W