1 Sc 1) Statesman, SajwnJOrt.. Tut. Jan. 26, 1954 140,000 Housin Public g Units in Eisenhower Plan By STERLING F. GREEN f WASHINGTON tf) President Eisenhower Monday called for in overhaul of the nation's housing program, putting chief reliance on 'private enterprise but asking 140, 000 new public housing units in the next four years. f In his fifth special message to Congress, Eisenhower urged a Substitute fori One Advocated Way Grid (Story also oa page 1) ! A four-point traffic improve ment program to substitute if or the one-way grid was advanced Monday night at a public hear ing before Salem City Council. A. R. Mefford, chairman qf a grid protest committee and a ser vice station operator at Court and Church Streets, offered jhis program: ' - . j 1. "Discard the grid and stop the confusion, the embarrass ment and the inconvenience cre ated by if j ; 2. Relieve congestion by mark ing State Highway 22 traffic; straight through on Center Street "instead of running its twice across the center of Salem as it now does." Bypass Completion a f 3. Urge early completion qf byl pass route east of Salem. I 4. Enforce existing traffic; and parking laws. Mefford summariied the bppo? sition of many businessmen' and citizens in his talk befor4 the Council, and it was he who- chal lenged the Council to make a i May ballot issue of the contro versy which has developed (since : one-way traffic grid started in downtown Salem in October, j One Northbound Artery J T. H. Tomlinson, attorney and ! also a leader of the citizens' committee, declared the biggest defect in the grid is that Liberty Street is the only northbound artery all the way through Sa lem. It has become further con- - - gested, he maintained, since High , Street was marked for south f bound traffic only. j j i i : J il.i ii .a nm mRnn nrppn inxi KTrifT like Church and Cottage and Winter be left for two-way traf- ' fic .11 ! Other points stressed by the opposition included additional driving reauired bv one-wav streets and dissatisfaction of out-of-town customers and tourists. ' Oppose Grid . j Speakers against the grid in cluded Harry Robinson,' Earl Cook, Andy Foster, NorVal Ed wards, Art Peters, Mrs.J T. i S. Roberts, Gil Ward and -3D. H. WalL I Lloyd LeGarie weed a Mav vote on the issue, yes or no, and Raymond O'Neil maintained that since the grid has both good and bad features, any vote should be on stated parts of the 1 traffic system. 1 Elmer Amundson, who had served on a committee which ori ginally recommended the grid over two years ago, defended the -present system. J William Hamilton, presenting a petition from Capitol Shopping Center merchants, said theyi be , lieved the Council had jicted in tne puniic interest and conse quently had "hot complained jvhen one-way highway, traffic (near the center) was ordered. The petition asked, however, that the highway one-wajjr system be repealed "if, becausf of tht protests of some private business I "new and experimental', liberal ration of federal mortgage insur ance to help wipe out slums and make home ownership possible for millions. He stressed twin goals: "Good housing in good neighborhoods' for -all Americans; and a contin ued "high level of housing con struction" as a bulwark of pros perity. I Though he asked for 35,000 sub sidized dwelhngs a year, com pared with 20,000 now permitted. Eisenhower spoke against any program that would "make our Citizens increasingly dependent upon the federal government to supply their housing needs." ISO Millies Dvllan ! Nevertheless he asked Congress to earmark 950 million dollars for grants and loans to help cities renovate slums or eradicate them. I The long message also recom mended: Easier Federal Housing Authority borrowing for repair and maintenance; liberalized credit on the purchase of old houses; more flexible interest rates on FHA and GI home financing, to insure that mortgages remain an attractive investment; and a gradual with drawal of government from, its role as a supporter of the mort gage money market. Plaa Less Specific The 8-point White House pro gram was less specific than the Dec. 15 report of the President's Advisor Committee on Housing, on which it was based. The committee, headed by Hous ing Administrator Albert M. Cole called for this kind of experimen tal program which, if successful, might eventually replace subsi dized housing: No-down-payment, 40-year-to-pay mortgage insurance by the Fed era! Housing Administration on in expensive homes. This would be coupled with a lease-and-purchase plan whereby FHA would help builders put up rental dwellings whose occupants, when financially able, could buy them without down payment, paying for them like rent. Less Radical Eisenhower's request was less radical. He asked "long-term loans" presumably longer than the 23 and 30 year repayments now permitted and "a low ini tial payment" on both new and old houses. Families displaced by slum clearance would be eligible. Not until these programs "have been fully tested and by actual performance have shown their success, he told Congress, should the nation drop public housing. Within the next lour years, he said, the need for continued pub lic housing will be reviewed. Meantime, he added, Cole will propose revisions to correct de fects" not specified in the present low-income public housing program. Deetz Dairy Hearing Held 'Under Glass9 v -'V.N, Qty Council Reviews Two ZoningRulings BPA to Keep Important Rota in West's Progress, Pearl Sqysk Bartlett Accepts Road Position With State W. M. Bartlett, who recently retired as director of the state aeronautics board, has accepted a position in the engineering di vision of the state highway de partment i He served more than six years as director " of the aeronautics board. Bartlett will assume his new. duties Monday. Snow Snarls lranspor In Sale 50-Mile Gusts BringSnow Into Valley (Story also on page one.) Gusts up to 50 miles an hour were reported as Monday's snow moved into the Willamette Valley Wet snowflakes began falling in Portland in early afternoon. Fore casters said there was a possibility several inches would fall over night The storm was expected to chase bitterly cold temperatures from Eastern Oregon. There the mer cury went down to 14 degrees be low zero at Bly, 12 below at Sustin and 8 below at Klamath Falls 7 . - , i 7. 1 cany muiiuay. iuc iuictacia interests and a very small; por- said Tuesday, minimums would ixuii . u.c pupuc, you rani.. from 14 to 2S degrees above zero in Eastern Oregon and from 28 to 38 degrees in the western part of the state. The Highway Department said roads in the Austin area were al most impassable because of the storm. Five inches of snow fell at Tim- berline, four at Government Camp and Warm Springs Junction, three at Ochoco Summit, and two inches on the Sunset Highway. Four inches of snow were re- oorted in the Boring area of Clackamas County Monday night Chains were advised for travel on all mountain roads. uecome convincea toati you should reverse your former ac tion with relation to the grid." Market-Wule Milk Price1 I ! ! Hearing Held PORTLAND UH William S. Weidel, administrator for the milk marketing administration Monday held a market-wide hearing to ob tain additional data on MMNI S444T Starts Tomorrow! Production of corrugated iron Whether I sheets on a commerical basis is the State Board of Agriculture I only about 1W years old. should establish a "platform price a price lor muk wmcn a grocer picks up at the plant Fred Meyer, a Portland chain. and Sunnybrook Farms had pe titioned some tune ago for a regu lation which would permit a gro cer to pick up the milk and re ceive a 14 per cent .discount on the wholesale price A hearing was held on the mat ter last September and testimony taken at Monday's hearing will become part of the evidence. No decision on the matter has been reached. I 1 Several dairymen I opposed the plan at Monday's hearing. These included Richard Kacette, Aurora. R. R. Bullivant, attorney for the Oregon Milk Distributors, said he ovesuoned the board's authority to establish a price foe this type of milk handling. I i Jim Landye, representing the Teamsters Union, indicated that any change in present regulations might upset labor i relations be tween the union and; the; industries Firemen to Man Gasoline Pumps For Polio Drive Salem firemen intend to "feed campaign flames" for the March of Dimes this Sunday by man ning xne waiter ti. zosel and Co. filling station Chemeketa and High Streets, all day with proceeds to go toward the fund. Notice of the contribution of his: station and profits for that day. I which usually finds the business closed, was made Mon day by Zosel to Fire Chief Ells worth Smith. Zosel explained that his em ployes have offered to donate their time to the cause. Chief Smith said that firemen would "man the gas pumps" on this day ffrom 7 ajn. to 6 p.m. The chief also outlined plans for day-long sustained entertain ment program to be held at the station while about a dozen vol unteers take care of customers. anas W 7 ENDS TONTTE! BING CROSBY ("LITTLE BOY LOST" j Also -! I - Vera Batata jjnNTER SERENADE" tation A mArea A glass partition separated some 50 spectators Monday from the principals is the hearing of Elmer Deetx, Canby dairyman, whose application for a grade A milk license was recently denied by (he state department of agriculture. The spectators were, however, provided with load speakers s they could follow the hearing in which Deetx attempted to show why he should not be denied the license. With Deetz, right, Is his attorney Norman D. Easley of Portland. (Statesman photo.) t - i Oregon Milk Law Defended i By Dr. Stone (Story also on page one.) First sparks in the milk hear ing called Monday at the Oregon Department of Agriculture order ing Elmer Deetz, Canby dairyman, to appear to show cause why his grade A milk license should not be denied, flew in mid-afternoon when Dr. (W. J. Stone, Marion County health officer, took the stand. While admitting that "you could have all the equipment from here to Kingdom Come and still have a high bacterial count if the oper ator wasn't careful," the milk san itation law as it now stands "was necessary." Some people, Dr. Stone contend ed "can do a pretty good job with out the equipment, but to set up regulations permitting such a sit uation would be asking for trouble.- I To this j Norman D. Easley, at torney for Deetz replied that "be cause some people are careless you want to take it out on a man like Deetz, whom even the depart ment of agriculture admits puts out milk that meets ' s bacteria count standard. The consumer.' the attorney continued, "is only interested in clean milk. He does n't care about how much or how little equipment is needed to get this clean product If Elmer has to put in all this equipment he will have to go out of business. Such requirements will force all of the small dairymen out of busi ness." f O. K.f Beals, chief of the de partment of dairy, OSDA, pointed out on the witness stand that the department could make no excep tion to the law or regulations in any one case. Under questioning by the appli cants attorney, Beals said the state department has made plans to call 1 a hearing on proposed changes in the milk code and probably some consideration would be given at this to the sale of whole raw milk on the farm. He added, however, that this had no thing to do with the Deetz case and had beenjlanned before, this particular case came up. (Story also on page one.) Monday's snow storm snarled transportation in Salem and the mid-valley area, City buses had difficulty late Monday afternoon making the hilly runs : and Candalaria and Fairmount Hills of South Salem were eliminated. If streets are icy there this morning, said City Transit Lines Manager Carl Wendt, the hills again will be eliminated from the runs. Two Salem :; persons were the only motorists reported injured in scores of minor highway mis haps on snow in slick city and county roads Monday. Don M. Thomas, 30, 1070 Barnes Ave., and Geraldine Brown, 30, of 315 Bellevue St., were hurt in a two-car accident on an icy hill be yond Cottage Farm on the Aums yille road shortly after 4 p.m. They were ! rushed" to Salem General Hospital by Willamette Ambulance. Thomas suffered multiple face lacerations ajld possible fractured ribs. His passenger received a nose cut, ankle injury and possible frac tured nose. Both were reported in good condition. State police said both cars, which were coming down the hill towards Salem, were! badly wrecked. The other driver was not identified. While motorists were trying to navigate slippery highways, United Air Lines at ; McNary Field had its troubles. 5 Three flifhts passed over Salem last night when the instrument landing system went out of order. A CAA maintenance inspector is en route from Seattle to repair, airline officials said. " Lights on the north-south runway which have been out of commission since last June were put back into operation last night but only brief ly. A power outage later in the eve ning doused them again. 21PWsGHen Dishonorable Discharges , WASHINGTON W The Penta gon Monday ordered dishonorable discharges for the 21 American former prisoners of war - who have elected to cast their lot with their Communist captors. f. The surprise decision! was an nounced shortly after Rep. Frances E. Bolton (R-Ohio) told the House she was "deeply dis turbed by the Army's move to bring court martial proceedings against Cpl. Edward S. Dicken son. " 5 Dickenson, a soldier! from the southwestern Virginia hamlet of Cracker's Neck, is one. of 23 cap tured Americans who refused to be repatriated. Later he changed his mind. One other American has made a similar switch since. Meanwhile, the Marine Corps set Feb. 16 for the start of a formal investigation into the case of Col. Frank H. Schwable of Ar lington, Va., who as a POW signed a confession j about en gaging in germ warfare but . re nounced it after his rjplease from a Red prison. Mrs. Bolton told the House she was particularly distressed that the Marines had set lip a board of inquiry to investigate Schwable. The colonel, she said. . "went through hell" while in the hands of the Communists, f The Pentagon's decision to give dishonorable discharges to the re maining 21 was a major shift from the Army's original position that the men be given "undesirable" discharges, which are far less drastic. Secretary of Defense Wilson said the Pentagon will stop all pay and allowances to the 21 1 immediately and will cut off any accumulated veterans benefits they may have. The dishonorable discharge might even bar the men from American citizenship. RAF Bomber Missing at Sea NEW HOUSES NEW i YORK (INS) Nearly 4,000,000 homes will be built or modernized throughout the na tion within the next three years. That's the forecast of the Gas Ap pliance! Manufacturers Associa tion which recently completed a survey indicating that a minimum of 2,023,000 new houses will be constructed and an additional 1,941,000 remodeled. THE CIST IN 3-D! men BARROW-IN-FURNESS. Eng land UPi A Royal Air Force bomber vanished early Tuesday after radioing that It was in dis tress in a snowstorm and that the 10 men aboard were preparing to bail out at sea. ! The bomber, bound for the Azores, had been forced to turn back by severe icing conditions. and when the distress message was received the pilot said he was over an inlet of the Irish Sea on the West Coast of j England. (Council news also on Page 1) Two recent Salem Planning Commission zoning decisions were called up- by tne city Council Monday night for re view. It was the first such move since Salem's new toning code went into effect last falL The Council action means both commission orders to waive cer tain restrictions against proper ties will be reviewed at the Feb. 8 council meeting. Formal hear ings may be called and the council may override the lon ers. One of the "variance permits" called tip was a setback waiver to allow James- Callaway to en large a residence and do away with a store building at Kansas and 18th Streets. Alderman David O'Hara cal led for the review after declar ing the Council ought to have more information on the sub "I am adverse to passing on matters without knowing some thing about the subject and I'm not going to be a rubber stamp for the Planning and Zoning Commission, O'Hara declared. Office Cfcaage Alderman Robert F. White said some South Salem residents had asked him to review the other permit allowing Fred Snider to convert to office use an old pumphouse on South Commercial near Superior Streets. The T. A. Livesley Building figured in legislation introduced by the Council Monday night in other business at the City Hall meeting. I When building owners entered a financing transaction recently it was discovered that the build ing actually occupies about 97 square feet on Liberty and State Streets. f Vacation Fee f Vacation of this property, as requested, will be subject of a Feb. 8 council hearing, it was decided. The bill which will come up then for final action sets the vacation fee at $679, based on value of comparable downtown property. I A proposed big business building on Ferry Street ex tending from Liberty to Com mercial also came up to the at tention of the aldermen. They voted approval for tentative plans to bridge an alley at the second floor leveL The build ing is to be put up by C. sL. Corp. of Portland. I Requests for a contract for Salem city fire protection from Anunsen Co. and from Capitol Lumber Co. were referred for study to Alderman James Nich olson and J. S. Lochead. Fencing Contract I The Council approved a con tract to U. S. Steel for $5,615 worth of 6-foot fencing around the city shops area on Howard Street in Southeast Salem. City Manager J. L. Franzen said cost estimates would tt be prepared by next meeting! on proposed widening of Ferry Street from Commercial to Win ter and on proposed surfacing of Trade Street between Winter and Cottage. Property owners participation in the projects would be itemized in the n re port. Permission to use tne city sewer system was granted Tom Sims and Pat Jarvill on Alberta Drive and Clifford Ellis, pear Park and Ellis Aves. The prop erty owners will provide! the necessary connections. The Council ordered no-park-: ins on the west side, instead 0 east side as at present, of 17th Street between D and Market ordered traffic count of Broad way at Columbia where a no parking area on east side of TAmadwav is oroposed: approved a loading space on west side of Fairn-ounds Road at Hunt Street PORTLAND m The Pacific Northwest can be assured that the Bonneville Power Administration will continue to play an important part in: power development of the region, the new Bonneville admin istrator j said Monday. William A. Pearl, just back from Washington, D.C., where he con ferred with Secretary of Interior McKay and was sworn into office, said: j "Secretary McKay and his asso ciates have no intention or desire to dirninish the important role the Bonneville Power Administration has played and will continue to play in power development of the Columbia Basin. I "Secretary McKay emphasized and directed me to assure the people of the Northwest that they need have no fear that the depart ment will relax in its efforts for the orderly development of hydro electric power. This will be done in such a manner which will speed up, rather than slow down develop ment,; by permitting private enter prise, municipalities and local communities to carry their share of the load," he said. He added that the Northwest power pool was a good example of the fsort of federal-local j coopera tions that is wanted. ' I - "We shall do everything possible to continue this cooperation be cause it is an outstanding example of ;what the administration be lieves. It is partnership with local interests in every sense! of the word, he said. j In a previous announcement on the; same subject Ralph A. Tudor, McKay's chief assistant, isaid here in 1 December that Bonneville's days of "planning and promotion were ended. j j Tudor also said a survey team would come to Portland; soon to see if the Bonneville staff could be reduced further. j Pearl said the survey team would be attempting to I improve operations. He said any changes made in the staff would :be in the interest of efficient operation. Father Ruled 1 - in Death Guilty Qf 'Aquatot' MIAMI, Fla. OB Russell Ton gay, burly father-teacher of the famed child swimming stars, "the Aquatots," was convicted of man slaughter Monday for the death of his 5-yearoId daughter, Kathy. He was sentenced to 10 years at hard abor. The six-man jury, which deliber ated 54 minutes, upheld the state's contention that Tongay sent Kathy to her death by forcing her to dive from dangerous heights. The child died last May 6 after diving from 33-foot tower at a Miami Beach pool. Tongay, a big red-faced former Coast Guardsman, showed no emo tion when the verdict was read nor when Judge Ben C. Willard passed sentence. He did not take the stand in his own defense. His wife, Betty, a slender blonde school teacher who had wept on the stand as she described Kathy's illness and death, also received the verdict calmly. Judge Willard denied a motion for a new trial and set bond at $5,000 when de- ense attorney Louis Jepeway said he would appeal. Kathy and her brother Bubba, as the "Aquatots, received wide pub licity in 1951, when their father announced they would swim the English Channel. French and Brit ish authorities refused to let the children try it. Kathy was the second Tongay Child to die a violent death. Russell Jr. died in convulsions in 1945 at the age of 18 months. An autopsy showed his death was caused by an injury and an inquest was held, but no charges were filed. Although whales are mammals they have only occasional vesv lges of hair in adult lorms. 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