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Bricker Amendment II t
The first danger arising from
the Bricker amendment is to de
stroy 'or greatly minimize the au
thority of the executive 11 the
conduct of foreign affairs and to
exalt the Congress, a legislative
body, a most unwieldy agency for
handling foreign affairs.
The second danger which is
written into the Bricker amend
ment is to "cut in" 48 states in
the conduct of foreign policy.
When you read the amendment
you will not see this, but it is
there and intentionally there.
What is aimed at is best ex
plained by an illustration: i
To prevent the decimation of
ducks, Congress once passed a
regulatory law; but this wis de
clared unconstitutional, as being
a subject reserved to the states.
Later, a treaty was made! with
Canada in which both countries
agreed to regulate the hunting
of ducks. Congress passed a law
and it was upheld by the Su
pre me Court as carrying out a
treaty agreement. Thus, say the
Bnckerites, the constitution was
circumvented. I
But was it? Migratory r birds
recognize no state or national
boundaries. International action
clearly was necessary to preserve
the duck population of the whole
continent Is the government of
the United States so impotent
that one state could veto legisla
tion of such importance?! Even
without the Canada treaty it is
more than J
(Concluded on Editorial Page 4)
Dallas Logger's
Riot Injures
Three Persons
1
Statesman News Service
DALLAS, Ore. A cafk-boot-
ed logger went on a one-man riot
here early Sunday causing severa
injuries to three persons, includ
ing two policeman sent to arrest
t ' r m - . .
mm, Deiore ne was janea on
three charges. j
i Dallas Police Chief Paul Kitz-
nuller said the man was I James
iiusseii Jones, Z4, Dallas. Kitz-
miller said Jones entered the
Spot Cafe -in North Dallas short
ly after midnight Sunday and at
tacked the owner, Ben Helms,
.beating him very severely about
the head. I
Policeman Marvin Tookief and
William LaFountaine who were
j summoned by Helms' wife were
unable to subdue Jones and
iTooker was hospitalized with
bead and groin injuries from the
young logger s calk boots!
Elmer Masiker, police dis
patcher, also called to the scene
suffered a severe forehead
j wound from Jones' slashing feet
I before the logger was manacled.
Jones continued to struggle en
route to the Polk county jail and
did considerable damage! to the
police car, and caused the driver
to lose control at one point, kpo
lice said.
Jones was held on charges of
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Qisorueriv cuuuuci. aaanuii aim
battery, and resisting arrest
Missing Skier
Found at Home
GOVERNMENT CAMPj Ore. UR
The search for Richard Holli
day, 18, a novice skier reported
missing on Mt. Hood, was called
off Sunday night when the youth
showed, up at his home in Forest
Grove. I
Holliday, a freshman at Oregon
State College, was supposed to
have met his companions at 1:30
p.m. for the return trip to Cor
vallis. I
When he had not turned up in
the skiing area at 8:30 p.m. three
search parties were organized.
Holliday said he had been un
able to locate his companions Sun
day afternoon and had hitchhiked
home. I
360,000 Fire
In Portland Cafe
PORTLAND UH Firemen es
timated damage at $60,000 from a
blaze which destroyed Chase's Din
ners, a restaurant on the outskirts
of Portland. Sunday night
Hie fire was believed started by
faulty electric wiring. I ,
The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Chase, said they I had only
$25,000 insurance.
Animal Crackers
to WARftfN GOODRICH
"r worried. Doctor? he's not
Ernest Teske. YeUow Cab, M. . .
it's the bank."
Drivers
Suggest
Changes
By VAN EISENHUT
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Salem's one-way grid system
was both praised and sharply criti
cized this week during interviews
with a dozen commercial drivers
who daily wheel their vehicles in
the one-way district
While a ' majority of those
polled favor the expanded grid,
many suggested improvements.
Lee Friesen, who drives a tractor-trailer
combination for Russel
Pratt's Capital City Transfer, de
clared, "We can get around town
in about half the time now."
Don't Read Signs
Favoring the one-way grid
without reservation, he added,
"Too many drivers are like cows
going into a barn. They don't
read the signs."
It's the bunk!" was the blunt
opinion of Yellow Cab driver Ern
est Teske.' A driver in Salem for
28 years, he added, "Streets are
plenty wide enough here without
making them one-way. We'd prob
ably better leave it the way it is
now, though. If we tried to
change back, it would be mass
chaos."
Two of Teske's companion driv
ers were both in favor of the sys
tem. Peter B. Stroh of Shorty's
Radio Cab Co., said the new grid
is "100 per cent okeh the way it
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is huw. nuu appruvuig was auu-
ert Hinkle of Yellow Cab. "The
one-way grid is fine but drivers
aren't obeying signs or getting in
proper lanes before making
turns," he maintained.
Trouble in Portland
"We had the same trouble and
comments in Portland when one
way traffic first went in there,"
said MerlyiKA. Bryan, Portland
laundry truck driver who covers
the downtown .Salem area three
times a week. "I have heard quite
a lot of opposition against Salem's
system over around Monmouth
and Independence," he added.
It takes me twice as long to
get around town," declared Dav
id Madsen, deliveryman for the
Salem Auto Parts. "I go out about
30 times a day," he explained,
"usually on the motorcycle. Once
in a while I can save time by cut
ting through an alley but a lot
of the alleys are usually blocked."
Henry Overman and Warren
Welton, drivers for Consolidated
Freightways, approved the one-:
way grid but with some reserva-j
tions. Both drive nearly every
day in the downtown area.
Too Many Streets
"One-way traffic isn't needed
on some of the streets they've
got it on now," Overman said
and listed Church, Winter and
Cottage streets as examples. "Oth
erwise I've got no complaint
against it."
Welton's comments were mostly
favorable but he added, "One
thing about it now, you don't
know when a car is going to dart
out in front of you." Driver ed
ucation, he felt would solve most
of the problems created by the
one-way system.
"I came here from Rockford,
IlL," said George Kaehler of Jud
son's Plumbing and Heating, "and
they've had one-way streets for
12 years. It's about time we got
around to it out here."
Better street markings would
improve the situation, according
to David Brown, reUef driver for
Mayflower Dairy. "The new sys
tem doesn't speed up my deliv
ery at all but there doesn't seem
to be as many bottlenecks now,"
he said. "Except at Capitol and
Court, of course. .
200-Foot Span
Falls Again ,
PAINTSVILLE. Ky. UP Repair
crews stood by helplessly Sunday
while a 200-foot bridge fell for the
second time in nine months. -
The span, which crosses the Big
Sandy River on U.S. 40, bad been
closed to traffic since last April
8 when it collapsed under the
weight of a trailer-truck. Burtis
Wicker of Greenup was killed in
the crash.
Temporary underpinnings had
been constructed to bold the re
placed span in place. High water
and debris caused the underpin
nings to give way at 6 a.m. and
the, structure dropped 60 feet to
the water - below.
Henry Overman, Consolidated,
"... annecessary on some
atreets."
103RD YEAR
12 PAGFS
Indian Warns
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U.N. Against
Freeing PWs
PANMUNJOM tft Indian Lt.
Gen. K. S. Thimayya fold the U.
N. Command Monday it will vio
late the Korean armistice if it
frees anti-Communist prisoners
after they are returned beginning
Wednesday. '
Thimayya, chairman of the Neu
tral Nations Repatriation Commis
sion, said in f a letter to U. N.
commander Gen. John E. Hull
that the Allies apparently "mis
understood" his decision to turn
back the prisoners.
In what he called a "clarifying"
statement, Thimayya repeated the
Indian view that neither the U. N.
Command nor Communists can
free captives unless:
1. Both sides agree how to settle
the problem or;
2. A Korean peace conference
decides their fate.
The U. N. Command insists the
armistice agreement provides the
prisoners be freed Jan. 23 as ci
vilians. The Reds maintain they
should be held until the peace con
ference takes up the question.
Thimayya did not say what ac
tion would be taken if the Allies
go ahead with their announced
plan to free the prisoners Jan. 21
Plans Laid for
Transition at
Catholic High
Tentative plans for transition
from Salem's: present one-Catholic
high school setup to two on com
pletion of the new Serra High
School has been announced.
Beginning next fall freshman
and sophomore boys will enter
the new school, first classroom
building of which is underway
near Lancaster and D Streets,
east of Salem. Subsequent fresh
man classes will be enrolled until
the cycle is complete with the
first graduating class set for 1957.
After the 1956 class, Sacred
Heart Academy will return - to
the all-girl ! status it occupied
prior to World War II. While
Sacred Heart operated by the
Sisters of the Holy Name, will
become a girls school, it is pos
sible the new school may become
coeducational, officials spokes
men say.
Civil War Vet
Critically 111
AUSTIN, Tex. I One of the
last five surviving Civil War . vet
erans in the United States, Thomas
Evans Riddle, 107, was critically
ill Sunday night of pneumonia.
Riddle became ill Sunday morn
ing at the state Confederate Home
for Men at! Austin, where he has
lived four years. The pneumonia
followed an attack of influenza.
Riddle is lone of two JConfeder
ate veterans still living in Texas.
The other, I Walter W. Williams,
111, lives on a farm near Frank
lin. Two other Confederate vet
erans and one Union Army veter
an are living.
Daily Spoiler
Following are 20 words from a
list of 1009 which will form the
basis for semi-final and final oral
competition in The Statesman
KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con
test for 1954, la which S3 schools
are participating.
cafeteria
abroad
jHtragraph
tackle
balloonl
datcn I
calendar
ability!
ballot
gather I
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physical
imitate
glider .
delicate .
partner
sentiment
acceptance
bass
;. same -vpstairx
David
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Brown. Mayflower,
fewer bottlenecks.
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Seeing-Eye Dogs Get Tags
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Marion County's two top dogs get
ters call at the clerk's office at the courthouse in Salem to pick
up their 1954 licenses. The two dogs, both German shepherds, en
joy : top position because they are the county only seeing-eye
dogs and therefore are licensed without charge. Their blind mas
ters are Iva Speed, Chemawa (left), and Carl Greider, Salem.
Deadline for licensing dogs in the county is March 15. (Statesman
Photo.)
2,000 Inspect
New Hospital
An estimated 2,000 persons in
spected Salem General Hospital's
new $978,000 obstetric and pedia
tric wing during open house Sun
day afternoon.
Greatest interest was shown in
incubators j designed for ; prema
ture babies, according to Miss
Lillian McDonald, hospital su
perintendent, and a close' second
were the portable croupettes, a
plastic shroud with a medicated
fog which aids breathing!
Nearly all who attended the
open house expressed high ap
proval of the ultra-modern three
story structure, the first of three
such wings planned at Salem Gen
eral Hospital Miss McDonald
said. I
Mrs. Ruth T. McHargue has
been named supervisor of the ob
stetric division with Mrs! Elmera
Richardson as her assistant
Argument Over
33 Cents Fatal
I
LOUISVILLE, Ky. UH 4 A part
time bartender was charged Sun
day with lulling bis roommate in
a argument over 33 cents.
Brack Ridge Cayton, ? 41. who
said he is a construction worker
employed now as a bartender, told
police he shot Arol Carl Deacon,
39, in self-defense. .
Max. Mta. Prerfp.
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36 38 J
56 44 M
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Salem.
Portland .,
San Francisco
Chicago ,,
New York
3S 16 Trace
Willamette River 10.4 feet.
FORECAST (from U. S- weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem):
Mostly cloudy with occasional snow
and rain today, tonight and Tuesday.
Little chance la temperature with a
high today near 38 and low tonight
near 30. Temperature at 12:01 was 35.
SALEM mECOTTATlOV
Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Tear Last Tear "mul
t A
David Madsen, Salem Anto
Parts, '. . . takes twice the
time.f
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Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday January 18,
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acquainted here while their mas
PrisovElocks
News $tory
JACKSON, Mich. OPl Southern
Michigan Prison put a damper on
freedom of the: press.
In a front page box, the prison
newspaper I The Spectator
named the informant whose tip
led to the capture of three of the
13 long-terjn convicts who recent
ly escaped in (a mass break.
About 800 copies rolled off the
press before prison officials saw
the item and decided it was un
wise to put a finger on the tip
ster. The story Was jerked, the 800
papers were destroyed and the
run was started over again.
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Committee to Tackle
Moores Memorial Problem
A new Mayor's Committee to
select a pioneer memorial for Sa
lem is going to be able to make
up its own mind without outside
partisan interference.
At least that is the plan of
Mayor Alfred ,0. Loucks who Sun
day declined, to disclose! the
names of the five-man commit
tee appointed to make a recom
mendation oni expending the fund
willed to the bity by the late Car
roll B. Moores. 1
Two previous committeesj one
selected by the mayor and one
appointed byj the Pioneer Trust
Co. in wbose trust the fund was
left, have failed to come up with
a public acceptable recommenda
tion, . j . . . ;
Mayor Loucks said Sunday the
week-old committee bad held one
meeting and. Would continue work
to bring in a recommendation. It
was indicated that a national con
test with open competition might
be set up toi find a suitable me
morial for the city, i .; ; j -'
Moores, ait elevator operator in
the Supreme Court Building for
I inaiiy years-beiora.hii. death in
pv i fit
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George Kaekier, Jadson's
Plumbing and Heating. about
time we got around to itr i
195
Three Traffic
Wrecks in U.S.
Total 20 Dead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three separate highway; crashes
in Missouri, California and North
Carolina killed 20 persons over the
weekend and critically injured five
others.
Seven . . .
AZUSA, Calif. Ufi Seven per
sons, including six young people
returning from a high school dance
were killed early Sunday in the
head-on collision of two autos on
U. S. Highway 66 just east of here.
In addition, three adults were
critically injured.
Sheriffs deputies reported that
apparently the 1939 model sedan
in which the young people four
girls and two youths were riding
crossed the center line at high
speed. I
The impact hurled several of the
victims onto the pavement
. . . and Six .' . .
IMPERIAL, Mo. I A speed
ing car, carrying six teenage boys
and traveling at speeds j up to 83
miles an hour, crashed head-on in
to a bridge abutment north of here
on U. S. Highway 61 early Sunday,
killing all six youths.
... and Seven More
SANFORD, N. C. UP) ; Seven
persons, including a young couple
and their daughter, died as the
result of a headon collision late
Saturday night and two were in
jured critically.
Threats Against
Silverton Water
Supply Reported
Statesman News Service
SILVERTON City police here
and deputies from the Marion
County sheriffs office investigat
ed a possible threat against the
city water department Sunday
afternoon. j
Several water department cus
tomers received mysterious tele
phone calls Sunday morning ac
cording to City Manager R. E.
Borland, telling them to draw
enough water to last for 48 hours
because something will; happen to
the water system about 4 p.m.
Sunday.
Efforts to trace the calls failed,
Borland said, and guards were
placed at both the downtown of
fice and at the dam about seven
miles southeast of Silverton. No
attempt had been made to dis
rupt the system late Sunday
night, he added.
1938, left the fund with the stip
ulation that it be used for a suit
able pioneer memorial. The fund,
about $25,000 at the time, became
available under terms of the will
during World War II, but the
city postponed any action at that
time. The fund has now grown
to some $33,000.
A wide variety of; suggestions
has been offered for spending the
growing fund, ranging from
swimming pools to classic stat
uary. The first committee of
Chandler Brown, Carroll Meeks
and David Duniway received
many suggestions including a
museum building, moving of the
old county courthouse and pio
neer essays.
The most recent! committee,
composed of Brown,' Pietro Bel
luschi and Charles A, Sprague,
ran afoul of apparent; public sen
timent with the recommendation
and near-purchase of Renoir's or
iginal Venus Victorieuse. The
statue's nudity, plumpness and re
moteness to pioneer history, how
ever, raised a storm of opposition
and the project was dropped.
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Merlyn A. Bryan of Portland,
. . . we went throngk the
same thing.'
Weft
To
All
Blustery winds with gusts up to 43 miles an hour accompanied
by wet snow hit the mid-Willamette Valley Sunday night on the
heels of the weekend storm which dumped over five inches of
snow on the area.
Forecast for today and Tuesday is for occasional snow and
rain with gusty winds and chilly temperatures, 'according to weath
ermen at McNary Field.
Much of the snow disappeared
in Salem Sunday night when wet
snow and rain totalling over a
half inch fell in the early eve
ning. Schools to Operate
All public schools in the county
will operate on schedule today
according to Harry B. Johnson,
assistant superintendent of
schools.
Two inches of fresh snow south
of Salem Sunday night added to
motorists' troubles, state police
reported. Several cars were stuck
on Jackson Hill about four miles
south on Highway 99E and police
cars were kept busy aiding
stranded vehicles. Chains were
needed between Salem and Al
bany, police said.
Major Roads Open
All major roads in the state
were open police said but warn
ed that chains should be carried.
Power and telephone compan
ies worked through the day Sun
day restoring service disrupted by
the weekend storm.
Elmer Bergknd, manager of
Salem's Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Co. office, said serv
ices had been restored to all
but about 300 customers. All
available M men, including con
struction crews, worked all day
Sunday repairing outages, he said.
Some 1,500 telephones were out
at the height of the storm, Berg
lund reported.
Outages Repaired
Portland General Electric Co.
had all outages repaired early
Sunday morning, Fred G. Star
rett, local manager, said. No new
trouble was anticipated unless
more snow fell, he added.
United ' Air Lines cancelled
three flights Sunday because of
low ceilings and reduced visibil
ity but managed to operate dur
ing the afternoon.
(Additional details on page 2)
Moon Eclipse
Visible (From
Plane) Tonight
A total eclipse of the moon
will be visible in this area to
night but probably only to per
sons watching from a high-flying
airplane.;
The weather bureau at McNary
Field predicts Ught rain and
cloud cover over much of the
area during the time the ecb'pse
is due. ;
The moon will be totally in the
earth's shadow for 30 minutes
starting at 6:17 p.m., according
to Carl P. Richards, Salem ama
teur astronomer. First phase of
the eclipse, when the shadow
first touches the moon, will take
place shortly before moonrise at
5 pjn., he added. At 8:14 p.m. the
moon will again be free of the
shadow.j
Last total eclipse of the moon
visible in this area occurred July
28, 1953, Richards said. A civil
engineer with the state highway
department, he was vice presi
dent of the National Astronomical
League from 1850 to 1931
Today's Stotesmsn '
Editorials, features
4
6
Society, women's
Valley news : 7
Sports 8, 9
Comics 9
Radio, TV 10
Crossword puzzle 10
Classified ads - 10-11
Review of Ike's Year ...... 12
Lee Frelsen, Capital City
Transfer, . . . Bke cows going
into a bar.
PRICE 5c
No. 294
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Boy Takes C
ar
From Hiding
Place Jailed
A 16-year-old Salem youth was
arrested by i city police Sunday
afternoon and charged with steal
ing a car from a downtown used
car lot Dec. 8.
Police said the youth told them
in a signed statement he took the
1946 sedan from the Salem Auto
Used Car Ca, 435 N. Commercial
St., after having a duplicate set
of keys made for the vehicle.
He parked the car in the garage
of a friend for over a month
without driving it, he tpld police,
but occasionally went to the gar
age to start the engine. About a
week ago he began driving the
car in residential areas but stayed
away from downtown Salem, his
statement continued.
Sunday afternoon an alert city
patrolman spotted the car in the
Capitol Shopping Center district
and arrested the youth. He told
police neither his parents or
friends knew the car was stolen.
He was held Sunday night in the
juvenile cell of the city jail
Mother Dies Day
After Giving Birth
To Eighth Child
Statesman New ferric
GERVAIS Mrs. Lelia Mary
Clark, 35, mother of eight chil
dren, died at her home near Ger
vais Sunday morning after giving
birth to a baby daughter Satur
day. Death was indirectly caused
by childbirth, the attending phy
sician said.
Born in Kansas Aug. 22, 1918,
Mrs. Clark moved to Gervais from
Yakima, Wash., about 10 years
ago. She was a member of the
First Evangelical Church of Yak
ima. Surviving are her widower,
Vernon T. Clark of Gervais; chil
dren, Yvonne, Pamela, Sharon,.
Gary, Terry, Donald, Gloria and
the baby, Debbie; father, Emery
Huff, Gervais; brothers, John
Huff, North Carolina, and Homer
Huff, Kenewick, Wash. . i
Funeral f services wfll be an?
nounced later by the Ringo Fu
neral Home.
TURK TO VISIT U. S.
fSTANBUL, Turkey W Tur
key's President Celal Bayar will
leave for an official visit to the
United States Monday. He is ex
pected to jseek continued Ameri
can aid for his country, plus a
short tern) loan to tide Turkey
over her current foreign exchange
shortage, f
Do Y6u Drive a
Car or Herd It?
Question; If a four-lane, ' one
way street suddenly becomes 4
two-lane, ! two-way - street, do I
have to get over in the far right
hand lane? . f , Z, :, . r ; - '
Answer No, particularly if yott ?
want to turn left within a block
or two. But in entering the two
way section be sure-to keep to
the right of the island or the cen
ter line of the street ..
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