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Die, Girl Hurt
PORTLAND un An Airi Force
F94 jet plane crashed in te east
Portland suburbs Tuesday) after
noon, killing its two occupants,
injuring a little girl and damaging
lour or five houses.
The plane came roaring in low
from the southwest hit a fir tree
anc exploded with a bias heard
over a wide area. i
Barbara Lee Cox, 4, playing in
the back yard at her home, was
hit by a fragment of the plane
and rushed to a hospital here
where attendants described her
condition as serious. She suffered
skull fracture and head' cuts;
"The dead were identified by fhe
Air Force here as 2d Ltf James
Kennedy of Richmond, fa., the
pilot, and 2nd Lt. J. A. Reid,
Peoria, III, radar observed An Air
Force officer at the scene aid tney
were of the 497th Fighter Inter
ceptor Squadron based here.
Lebanon
As Auto
The officer said it appeared that
Kennedy was trying to miss a
house possibly after losing power
in a flame-out and crashed into
the tree, one of a clump sfttting
the area.
A huge fragment the turbine-
ripped through a wall of the Loyd
Konkle residence. Mr. and Mrs.
Konkle were seated in the living
room and Mrs. Konkle threw her
self to the floor, thinking a bomb
had exploded. Plane fragments and
live machinegun ammunition were
found in every room and the house
was badly wrecked.
There was no fire, although the
explosion put a huge puff of smoke
and dust into the air.
The plane's wreckage was scat
tered qper a hundred yards or
more. The. bodies of the victims
were found 50 yards apart, one in
N. E. Holladay Street and the
other behind a residence.
Mother Killed
i
Collide
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103RD YEAR
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The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday, January 27, 1954
Reds
PRICE
No. 303
Agrb Conditionally to lccept 21 PWs
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U.S. Rejects Red (China as
To Run Again
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' Stttsmin Newt Service
LEBANON A 34-year-ol Lebanon mother of three was killed
outright and a Stayton jpentist injured in a car-freight train crash
here Tuesday night in yhich ;six freight cars were derailed.
Killed was Mrs. Frances Canoy of 1357 Grove St., a nurse for
Dr. Boyd Van Santan ho recently moved his offices to Stayton
from Lebanon. I ij
Dr. Van Santan, driver of the
car, suffered broken ribs. His
condition was not considered
critical at Lebanon Community
Hospital.
Police said the Van Santan
1952 Cadillac was demolished
when it slammed into the mid
dle of a westbound Southern
Pacific freight train.
Brakeman Herb Miller said
six of the cars were derailed
one of them squashing the front
end of the Cadillac.
The accident occurred at 6:05
p.m. on an unmarked crossing
about seven miles north of Le
banon on the Lebanon-Scio road.
It has been the scene of several
mishaps in recent months.
Mrs. Canoy is survived by her
husband, Virgil, and three chil
dren, Craig, 10, Kent, 7, and a
daughter, Michele, 4.
vS
Tomorrow evening four
groups of women volunteers will
conduct a block-by-block can
vass for funds for the March of
Dimes. It will be a fporchlight
rather than a torchlight parade,
"with lights turned on in door
ways where the good ladies are
invited to stop and tick f up a
contribution for this worthy
cause. This appeal fs so well
known and touches the heart so
deeply that no special empha
sis from this columnist jseems
' needed to encourage! a liberal
response. t f !
There are some facts,! how
ever, which the public fchould
know. The disease, j polio, has
not been "whipped.'! Extensive
research has been carried on
for years. Gamma globulin is
, credited with having isome bene
ficial effect in reducing the dan
ger of permanent crippling. This
year extensive tests of a new
vaccine will be tested across the
$ country. But until its preven
tive or curative powef is proven,
victims of the disease will con
tinue to require long and ex
pensive special treatment jto save
their lives and to preserve their
use of their muscles. I
The Marion County Founda
tion has lone a great tleal in
providing for the care of those
afflicted with polio A treat
ment center is maintained at
Salem Memorial Hospital, fur
nished with the necessary equip-
. ment. The YJICA summing
pool is used in restoring; muscu
lar controls. Trained personnel
are at hand to give the approved
treatments. Iron lung facilities
are available. f
i All of this is very expensive.
The National Foundation -has
(Continued on Editorial page, 4)
Bank Robbers
Get $61,000 '
8th Grade Girl
Top Speller
At Perrydale
PERRYDALE Mary Barth,
13, whose hobbies are coqking
and sewing, is spelling champion
of Perr y d a 1 e
WASHINGTON Oregon's senior
U.S. senator, Guy Cordon, an
nounced Tuesday he will seek
re election this year.
Sen. Cordon
Plans to Seek
Re-Election
Oregon Flax Textiles Plant! Inspected
School and will
compete in the
semi-finals
the 1954 Ore
gon Statesman
KSLM Contest.
Mary, who is
in the 8th
grade and the
daughter of
Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Barth of
Route 1, Box
354, Dallas,
WASHINGTON tfi -Guy Cordon,
Oregon Republican, will seek re
election to the Senate.
He issued a statement Tuesday
ending the doubts that had existed
for a number of weeks. The doubts
were j first raised when he said
he'd like to retire from the Senate.
Then he said of course he would
not retire if he felt that would
threaten loss of a seat by the
Republicans.
His statement:
"After thorough consideration of
all the factors involved. I have
concluded to be a candidate for
reelection. I place my candidacy
0 i squarely upon the record I have
maue in unite Mine cumins iu uie
Senate in March of 1944.
"I feel deeply that the voters of
Oregon should have an opportunity
to express themselves on questions
of fundamental political philosophy
which necessarily will be a major
issue in the coming campaign. I
shall be happy to abide by their
decision."
5-Power Meet
Next Spring
BERLIN un "The United States
scathingly refused Tuesday to ac
cept Red China in a Big Five
conference on world problems as
proposed! by Soviet Russia.
Secretary of State Dulles told
the Big IFour Berlin conference:
"The United States will not
agree to join in a five-power con
ference with the Chinese Commu
nist aggressors for the purpose of
dealing generally with the peace
ot tne world.
The United States refuses, he
said, "not because it denies that
the regime ' exists or that it has
power. . .we do not refuse to deal
with it where occasion requires.
"We deal with it today at Pan
munjom in our effort to bring
about a Korean peace conference.
It is one thing, however, to recog
nize evil as a fact. It is another
thing to take evil to one's breast
and call it good."
Unshaken by the rebuff, Soviet
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M.
Molotov submitted a written mo
tion to the three Western minis-
ers that the conference witn
China be held in May or June.
Dulles hurled back the charges
of menacing world peace which
the jut-jawed Russian made
against the U. S. government at
the opening; session Monday.
But Dulles and French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault, tempo
rary chairman, led the West in
accepting Molotov's agenda
with discussion of a Big Five con
ference the top point. They did
so in order, "not to waste time."
Together : with Britain's Anthony
Eden, they had agreed over a
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a long word battle about the con- ine mia-vaney puiieu on us wiuw uwu xuy uu tuncv
ference work schedule by letting digging out from under a soggy blanket of slush and snow, patched
Molorbv talk on China first, then ' "nd repaired telephone and power lines and kept an eye on the skjr.
get on to1 their own objectives: ' 11 was a holiday for hundreds of school kids, but a rugged work
normanv'c unification and An.' day for emergency crews and scores of other citizens. ::
l cut tne weamerman is oucring a suraewnai Drignier quuooK.
on page 2, j Warmer temperatures and wide
spread rains are expected in tne
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J. R. (Jack) Millar, chairman of the board of National Automotive Fibres of Detroit, Mich., is shown
above (nearest machine) inspecting the Oregon Flax Textiles plant an affiliate of the fibres firjm
in West Salem Tuesday. With him is Clyde Everett, local plant manager. Following the tour, a liinch
eon was given for Millar and a few Salem friends. (Statesman photo.)
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Crews Busy Repairing;
Valley Storm Damage
' SPRINGFIELD. Mass. 'j Two
young men armed with sawed - off
shotguns held up the Brightwood
Branch of the Union trust Co.
Tuesday and escaped with $61,000
in cash only 10 minutes before the
bank's closing time.f J
The men, dressed in military-style
fatigue clothes, fled: after barri
cading six bank employes," four
customers and a small; boy in a
small rear room. j
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Mary Barth
was certified for the contest by
her principal, Hugh Hanna. Her
teacher is Mrs. Frank M. Watson.
Eleanor Nazarenus, 13, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Naza
renus, Route 1, Box 320, Dallas,
won second place at Perrydale,
and Donald DeJong, 12, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard DeJong,
Route 1, Box 54, Amity, won
third. Eleanor is in the 8th grade,
Donald the 7th.
Certificates of merit have been
sent to all three winners.
Do Yon Drive a
Car or Herd It?
Question: Comes the snow, how
much of an advantage are tire
chains?
Answer: Extra traction and
stopping power. National Safety
Council says tire chains cut stop
ping distances about half and
give four to seven times more
starting and climbing traction
ability.
Millar Praises
Operation of
Textiles Plant
tria's I independence.
(Additional detail's
sec. 1.)
Missouri Boy
Kills Parents,
Grandmother
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. it A 15-year-old
boy told police Tuesday
that he killed his father, mother
and grandmother in their Sher
burn, Minn., home Monday night
and was on his way to get a cow
boy job in Texas.
Detective Chief Verne Starmer
said Richard Wisdorf readily ad
mitted the triple slaying when he
was arrested here Tuesday after
noon. Killed were Tony J. Wis
dorf, 47; his wife. Myrtle, 44, and
her mother, a Mrs. Larson, 70.
The boy said he was angered
because his parents had told him
earlier be had to stay home in
the evenings for a week and could
not go to wrestling matches in
Fairmont, Minn., Monday night.
The punishment was imposed be
cause he was late getting home
from school.
Trailer Blaze
Fatal to Young
Albany W
oman
Statesman News Service
ALBANY A young Albany
housewife was burned to death
in her trailer home here Tuesday j much of their local service re
next 36 hours for most of the val
ley.
Monday's storm, which dumped
up to a foot of snow on higher
elevations around the valley and
an official 1.2 inches iii Salem,
was still hard felt in soine spots.
Stayton grade and union high
schools will be closed again Wed
nesday. Local Service Restored j
North Santiam Canyon re
mained cut off from telephone
contact late Tuesday
though individual towns had
f
$2,500 Blaze
Discovered as
TV Set Quill
Fire starting from an electric ;
wall heater in the bathroom did .
an estimated $2,500 damage Tues-
J. R. (Jack) Millar, chagrman
of the board of National Auto
motive Fibres, paid high tfibute
Tuesday to the operations of
Oregon "lax Textiles anil its
manager, Clyde Everett.
Millar is on a tour of subsid
iaries of the fibres firnji, of
which Oregon Flax Textiles is
one. The Detroit executive also
commended Salem for its ("pro
gressive strides" and said it was
one of his "very favorite cjties."
Millar and 20 Salem friends
were guests at a luncheon in his
honor Tuesday noon given by
Joe Randall at Randall's Cater
ing Service, 1525 Mill St
Guards Okeh
Transfer) of
All Prisoners
By FORREST EDWARDS
PANMUNJOM U The Com
munists agreed conditionally Wed
nesday to accept j 21 captured
American soldiers who renounced
their homeland at a press confer
ence and asked to j live as "free
men under Red rule.
By radio. Red China and North'
Korea said they had granted a
request of Communist Red Cross
workers to take custody Thursday
of the 21 American, 1 Briton and
325 South Korean prisoners and
help them obtain "the right of
residence."
But the broadcasts said the Com
munists still believed the ultimate
fate of such war prisoners must
be passed on at a future Korean
peace conference "or at any other
related international conferences."
Proposal Okehed
Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya of In
dia Wednesday approved the pro
gram for transferring the POWs.
H? said records of the men would
be turned over to the Communist
Red Cross Thursday by the Indian
Red Cross. The former Allied sol
diers may be .taken out of their
unlocked camp in the neutral zone
singly and turned over to the Com
munists, he said.
The 347 prisoners have been vir
tually men without a country since
Jan. 23. On that date, the U. N.
Command set free 22,000 anti-Red
prisoners. The last of more than
14,000 anti-Red Chinese arrived in
Formosa recently. The 7,500
North Koreans were sent to South
Korea.
Troops Leave
Indian custodial officials opened
the gates of the pro-Red camp
Jan. 23, pulled-out 200 troops and
said they no longer had any re
sponsibility. The Communists then
refused to take back their prison
ers, saying to do so would be to
join the Allies in violating the ar
mistice. Wednesday, however, the Red
radio said the Communist Red
Cross had decided "out of humani
tarian consideration" to seek cus
tody and the request was granted
by the Red command.
The Communist made it clear
that it was the Communist Red
Cross not the Communist govern
ment that was assuming respon
sibility, f
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Dr. Olson to Run
afternoon when she poured fuel
into an oil stove and it exploded.
State and county police iden
tified her as Pauline Zentz, about
22, who) lived with her husband,
a county employe, in the Tower
Grove trailer court, Salem road,
on the north edge of Albany city
limits, i
Polic said Mrs. Zentz was
alone in the trailer when the ex
plosion : occurred about 3 p.m.
Neighbors called firemen who
put out the fire before the trailer
was destroyed.
Mrs. Zentz apparently had at
tempted to escape through a win
dow in the trailer, police said.
The front door of the dwelling
was locked and police and fire
men had to break it down.
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Tax Problems Aired at Livestock Meeting,
Governor Notes Jobless Decline Since 1950
stored.
The main line to Detroit was
out and Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph officials said repair
crews counted 20 telephone poles
down between Aumsyille and
Sublimity. J
Service was expected to be re
stored as far as Mill City late
Tuesday night and on to Detroit
Wednesday.
650 Phones Out I f
In Salem arid suburbs, line
trouble knocked out 650 tele
phones during the day and re
pair crews had about half of them
operating Tuesday night. Most
trouble was in South Salem and
Salem-Heights-Liberty area.
Highway travel in Marion Coun
ty, including North Santiam Can
yon, continued ' with little diffi
culty but chains are needed
State Highway
Baker St.
Flames spread into the attic,
destroying a bedroom and fur
nishings as well as clothes and
fishing and hunting equipment.
Emmons said he and his wife
were watching television and
didn't discover the fire until the
TV set and living room lights
went out. By that time the blaze
had reached the attic. If
1675 ror rolk :eat
In Legislature
Dr. O. A. Olson, Wallace
ijnaiLxi
road,
ension
Starts Today
21.
Olson practices dentistry tin Sa
lem and prior to the consolidation
Firemen from central and i of Salem and West Salem iwas a
i North Salem stations were called member of the Salem council for
! at 10:27 p.m. They left the scene several years.
! shortly after midnight i j Also filing Tuesday was
j Emmons said four of jus guns i an Chase, Eugene, for ree
i were destroyed. The house is cov- as state senator from the
! ered by insurance, he said.'
lucsuuy nieu lor Maie represen-; Salem s one-war ert evetom
tative from the 10th representa- will be extended one block this
tive district. Polk County, at the j morning from Cottage to Winter
rtepuoncan primary election, way streets on Ferry street
Trum-
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Willamette River 8.1 feet.
FORECAST (from IU. ! S. weather
bureau. McNary fieldf Silem)-
Cloudy with occasional rain today
through Thursday. JWjjrmer today
with the high 46 to 8 and the low
tonight 38 to 40. Warmer Friday.
Temperature at 12:01.r. was 37.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Slnee. Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
Hilt Year Last Year Normal
2.M U.5i i 23.14
Animal Cracker
WARREN GOODRICH
Simprj
Thert'i nothmd to it.
. count the coloriti.",
By LILLIE L. MADSEX
Farm Editor, The Statesman
Tax equalization and other tax
problems topped the bill of fare
at the meetings Tuesday of the
Western Oregon Livestock as
sociation at its second-day ses
sion of Its annual three-day con
vention which opened Monday
at Senator Hotel.
Gov. Paul Patterson touched
on taxes in his morning address
to the some 200 stockmen and
women gathered at the hotel.
The tax problems were aired
again in a panel discussion Tues
day afternoon with the panel in
cluding Senator Howard Belton,
Canby; Samuel Stewart, state
tax commission, LiaJ Winney,
Alsea, Albert Julian Lyon, and
Arthur Johnson, Astoria, . ranch
ers.
In view of the possibility of
additional real property levy,
Gov. Patterson said it is "im
portant to bring assessed value
in Oregon to an acceptable equal
ity as rapidly as possible even
though this means stepping on
1 somebody's toes.
I The governor also touched
upon unemployment concerning
which he was optimistic.
While having 63,000 unem
ployed people in Oregon cer
tainly presents a problem, un
employment, in spite of the
many reports to the contrary,- is
hot so serious now as it was on
Feb. 1, 1950, or even as it was
a year ago, the governor said.
That is no help to the man
unemployed, the governor said.
It was, he believed, encouraging
to note that the 63,000 unem
ployed compares with 94,000 un
employed in 1950. There are
now 23,000 more people employ
ed in Oregon than there were a
year ago, he added.
That there had to be some
government curtailment x-
pensewise, was also the expres
sed opinion of the governor.
"We "have to try 'to do the
same thing in the government
as you people are doing on your
livestock ranches," he . said.
"Right now you cant go ahead
and build barns unless you can
see it is economical to do so.
"That's true of state depart
mentsr too. When our ! income
begins to slacken we have to use
a high degree of eleetiyitj
putting in only those things
through which we have a rea
sonable chance to cut costs for
the people."
The governor indicated strong
ly that he did feel it economical
ly sound to build the interme
diate institution now being considered.
"There are not a lot more in
mates percentage wise in our
boys' L school now than there
were 1 30 years ago. The differ
ence j lies in the more serious
ness j of the crimes now being
committed. An intermediate in
stitution might save both boys
and dollars, in the opinion of
the- governor.
Following his talk, Patterson
was presented with a model
Hereford trophy contributed by
Ernest Henmngsen of Talbot
The governor was also presented
with a pair of leather work
gloves and an honorary mem
bership to the Marion County
Livestock .j Association, with
Roger Dumdi, president of the
state association, making the
presentation. (Additional de
tail page 2, Sec 1.)
BRIDGE BONDS SOUGHf
PORTLAND. Ufi Miiltnomah
County voters will be asked at the i TOLL ROAD APPROVED
crews from Santiam Pass report
ed 18 inches of new snow, mak
ing a total of nine feet at the
summit
Detroit reported three feet of
snow with more coming aown
Tuesday night
Water service was restored at
St. Helens early yesterday where
crews worked around the clock
to repair a water line which had
been ripped out by a landslide
last Saturday. (Additional weath
er news one pege 2,' sec. 1 and
page 6, sec. 2.)
May primary election to
Department j a 12 million dollar bond
Daily Speller
Following are 20 words from a
list of 1000 which will form the
basis for semi-final and final oral
competition in The, Statesman
KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con
test for 1954, in which 83 schools
are participating. i
improvement priest
scientific
gallon
frequently
scheme
household
imprison
heritage
formal
bayonet
attract
tour'
hasten
membership pefformance
program
occur
illustrate
nctimty
county Board of Commissioners re
ported Tuesday.
City Engineer J. Harold Davis
said it is hoped the extension will
eliminate a bottleneck.
The change!makes Ferry street
one-way from! Front to Winter
street !
r si i ,
i vuv council Dassea an orm-
ection j nance authorizing the extension
Third ! Jan. ll navK exnlainurl it ua
judicial district, Lane County. Dart of the original erid plan but
Chase is a Republican and has j was struck out at the last min-
severai UP
served in the senate for
sessions
approve
ssue for I
OKLAHOMA CITY OP
million dollar toll road program
. 4 . '!., j ,. I linking Oklahoma with three other
a new Morrison Street Badge, the j states was approved byTvoters
Tuesday
election.
in a special statewide
A 150-!
1
About six new signs have been
put up along the one-block ex-
tension.
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Most Polk County Schools to
Reopen Today; Roads Cleared
Statesman News Serjtirei j
DALLAS Most Pollil County ;
schools are scheduled jo reopen
Wednesday morning ijlollowing
numerous one-day closure due
to snow-clogged roads.
All public schools serving In
dependence, Monmouth and Dal
las planned to resume J classes.
Polk County was hard hit by
telephone outages that started
Monday night; service! to Falls
City and Valsetx remained out all
day and had not been restored
late Tuesday night ,f
The large GerKnger Carrier
plant in Dallas was 4dled by the
weather. jj I
About half the 350 j out-of -service
telephones in Dallas were
restored by Tuesday iight after
a busy day for line repair crews.
Heavy snow accumulating on
lines until they snapped account
ed for most of the difficulty.
Fifteen spans of (f telephone
PGE Rates to
Drop for 6,000
Around 6,000 residential and
farm customers of Portland Gen
eral Electric will have approxi
mately $35,000 chopped off their
annual power bill, PGE announc
ed Tuesday.
The 6,000 have the kind of me-
Dallas, with another dozn down te wch ; call r, a S1-20
mourn cAira cnarge n power curl
sumption exceeds 10 kilowatts
during the highest half-hour pe
riod of use.
James H. Pohlhemus, PGE pres
ident said that PGE's application
to eliminate the charge had been
approved by the Public Utilities
Commission.
lines were reported down) in one
spot near Salt Creek, north of
nearby,
About 75 'phones were put ear
ly in the day in Independence
Monmouth area but service was
restored by late afternoon.
A major part of the rural area
served by Mt States Power Co.
at Dallas' was without service for
a time Tuesday while; special
crews of trouble-shootejrs from
Albany and Independence made
repairs. About half of Falls City
ectricity
Tuesday
was reported without e
from Monday night to
afternoon.
Independence-M o n nj o u t h
School District, which
Central High and the three ele
mentary schools. Tuesday, an
nounced that all schools would
operate Wednesday and, barring
another storm, school b;us travel
seemed assured. Dallas schools
issued a similar report
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