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i t . . .- J ' . . . ,,.. . ' - : Ak Time for POUNDHD 1D3RD YEAR 12 PAGES . Th Orocjon Statesman. Sajcm, Oregon, Monday, March 8, 1954 : : : ' WW TW PRICE 'ic No. 343 JL V Q JniJLJL sBhhb raffiCDQra From time 'to time alarms 'ire raised over the shortage of teach ers. Numbers teaching only on emergency certificates are cited; and then a real fright is raised when statistics are poured out on the growth of student popula tion. Where the reaj crisis is de veloping is in the field of science teaching. Both in high school and college all but a dedicated few "diselect". to' take more than a minimum of science courses, and those usually of a general or sur vey character. Those who do be come science majors know that , many paths lead from the college I laboratories: to research for pri- vate corporations and founda tions, to government employ menC to practical work in en gineering and manufacturing as well as to teaching. And those who prepare for teaching may re gard work at the high school lev el merely as preliminary to teaching in college or university. Dr. Fletcher G. Watson of the Harvard graduate school of edu cation, writing in Scientific American for February, says the prospect for obtaining enough science teachers is "truly alarm ing." Now the schools need about 7,000 additional science teachers each year and soon the need will be for 10,000. "In the face of this need the sources of teaching strength are drying up. Last year fewer than 5000 potential science teachers were graduated from colleges. And the shortage in quality is as serious as the shortage in quantity. In many schools teachers dgu ble in courses they teach, such as coaching and physics and chemistry, or mathematics and science, or -even stranger com binations like languages or Eng lish and science. The chances are that in such doubling up the quality of science instruction is what suffers. It takes an able teacher to make science come alive to stu dents; and such a teacher can be a real inspiration to youtn. i re member very well my own high school teacher in some science courses who later became state geologist in North Dakota. He was such a brilliant teacher that (Continued on Editorial page, 4) Death Takes Will Hays, 74, Ex-Movie Czar SULLIVAN. Ind. (to Will H. Hays, 74. who left President Hard ing 1 cabinet to clean up movie morals in the roaring 20s, died of a heart condition .at his Sullivan home at noon Sunday. The one-time. Republican nation al chairman and postmaster gen eral, who served 24 years as movie "czar." had returned ill from his New York residence last October. At his bedside were his wife, Jessie, and his son from a previous marriage. Will H. Hays Jr.. a pro fessor of English at Wabash Col lege. As GOP chairman, his reorgani zation of a badly-split Republican Party was widely credited with Harding's landslide victory in 1920 following the famous "front porch" campaign. Harding made Hays his postmaster general State Senate Seat Sought By -Lafferty PORTLAND (JB Veteran cam paigner A. W. Lafferty announced aunaay ne nas cnangea nis mum and will run for Republican nom- : Earlier the 78-year-old Lafferty declared for Republican nomina tives seat now held by Homer Angell. -Lafferty will oppose Sen. Guy Cordon in the May primary. DUKE, QUEEN AT iHLKCH WARBURTON. Australia U a Queen Elizabeth and the Duke - -1: l L t. 1 I : .A Cm ' day in the tiny church of St An- drew's here. Thirty thousand resi dants of the region turned out but enly 130 could be seated within the church. Animal Crackers v WARREN COOORICH 378 Salem mi . - I c - rS'- -? ;i - - V - " VX'1 Cii " vr- Jrrfi . ; . 7 H- . -T-n n i li - - i i mm li i.m , ,i in . n m i n iZ.i.X. 1 -11 .in i , . I , , i wmT: y j - i 'hJi. - V"-" ;:" j v - ; - fi""""1 u-v Thousands of U. S. youth, including ; in Salem, are observing Nationan-H Club Week, beginning March JL Pictured are 'repre sentative Salem members engaged In some of the club work offered here. UPPER LEFT Darlene Cummings, 1& and David Vineyard, II, health club members atthe State school for the blind are shown making puppets to use in a safety play. UPPER RIGHT Fifth year advanced entomology club member Paul Boal, 14, is shown admiring his prize insect collection. LOWER LEFT Salem Pair Hurt as. Car A m rv xunis uver A voung Salem pair was! In . jured Sunday wYten their bor rowed car rolled over an embank ment near Buell while they were enroute to the beach. In" Salem - Memorial Hospital with back injuries was Geraldine Messmer, 16, daughter of Mr. nd Mrs. Joe Messmer of 2930 N. Front St Hospital officials said her injuries were not seriousj Larry Pcd of 5230 Portland Road, driver of the car, suffered bruises but was not hospitalized. Ped said the brakes of the 1940 Mercury coupe, owned by Allen Flesher of Salem, failed andf he failed to negotiate a curve. He said the car rolled over twice, throwing both of them out ; be fore landing right side up at the bottom of the eight-foot embank ment The car was demolished. The injured girl was brought Ambulance following the 12:30 p.m. mishap. DOCK STRIKE MAY END ! NEW YORK UB Longshore leader William Bradley said Sun day he believes he can pull his men back to work Monday land end a crippling wildcat dock strike. A-Power Plants li'l rt I iicuti icily aum tut aii iiuuo WASHINGTON American air bases i in the remote Arctic, such as Alaska or Greenland, imay be equipped with air-trans-ported "package" atomic power plants to provide electricity without relying on fuel oil or coat - r The Atomic Energy Oraimiion announced Sunday that at the re quest of the Defense Department It is canvassing private firms to see what ones would be willing and able to build an experimental; ver sion of such a smalt nuclear pow er plant." Companies .-have jbeen asked to participate under a fixed price arrangement" submitting of fers by March 20. ? The AEC said the nuclear re actor, of comparatively simple type would be "constructed at an ap propriate military base or AEC in stallation in the Continental United States." This would be a prototype Youths Observe National 4-H 2 New Machine Said to Solve Logib Problems I SOUTH HAD LEY, Mas. UP)-A. Mount Holyoke College philoso phy professor has come up with a "thinking machine.' And don't get it mixed up with the mathematical type of mechanical 'brains' 1 or computing machines. ! I . Prof.i Roger W. Holmes says his machine can solve' almost any problem in a book on fundamental symbolic logic. Salem Feels First Rainfall in 8iDays ! Rain, the first in eight days, started falling in Salem Sunday evening and by midnight .44 inch es was recorded at McNary Field. ! Weathermen expect continued rain showers today and tonight with more rain predicted Jor Tuesday. Slightly warmer tem peratures are forecast today with the high ranging near 55 and the low near 43. CAR KILLS WOMAN I ! VANCOUVER. Wash. Ul Mrs. injured fatally Sunday night when she ran in front of a car driven by Martin Bueler, 26, of Portland, the state: patrol reported. TEACHERS END STRIKE BAYONNE, N. J. W-Bayonnes 560 striking school teachers have got their pay raise and will go back to their classrooms Monday. May Provide A -al-a a I rl(? for "nuclear power plants hi ter tain remote Arctic military instal lations, the announcement said. This phrasing suggested the pro totype unit might be assembled at any one of the several big AEC in stallations like those at Pittsburgh. Schenectady or at the AEC test installation near Idaho Tails,' Ida ho, then shipped in sections by air plane for trial under actual Arctic .conditions at one of the polar air basest f 7 ; ; ' Id some areas. Ilka Thule in Northwestern Greenland, fuel for power and heat is a major prob lem. Because of Arcticf ice tanker ships cannot go there except dur ing two months out of, a year. The nuclear plant being consider ed, said: the AEC. is. based on a preliminary design study made at the Oak Ridge, Tenn. AEC lab oratory, j : . ... f " Members of the breakfast club-are shown watching, a buscult mak ing demonstration by Janet Anderson, ll and Marlys Hann, 11, (facing camera), at one of their regular meetings. LOWER RIGHT Senior high school 4-H'ers are shown at a jregular sewing meeting hemming Carolyn-Bishop's dress. Penny! Albright junior high school, stadent, looks on while Sandra Smith marks ike hem line. (Statesman Photos) - - - ! And if you ask, "what's that to me?" Prof. Holmes will answer: "We need logic much more fre quently than mathematics, and most of us,, most of the time, use logic only primitively." Machine Complex Prof. Holmes says his machine does for logic what an adding ma chine does for arithmetic. This machine, which Prof. Holmes planned and built himself, is about the-size of an old-fashioned table-model radio. It's a complex hookup of electrical circuit and switches One ( of the simpler kinds of things it will do is to show which conclusions: follow necessarily from a certain set of premises. Like this: j (1) The Senator is aiding either the U.S. or Russia. (2) It is impossible for him to aid the U.S. and at the same time give comfort to the . Communists. (3) if he, were not giving com fort to the Communists, then he would be attacked by Pravda. Not Being Attacked In addition to these premises, a further fact is known: He is not being attacked by Pravda. The machine records the neces sary i but not the obvious con clusion: The senator is aiding Rus sia j. . j Actually, the control board of the machine . doesn't take - the ques tions, themselves. Its 22 dials are marked with , logic symbols, seven small white lights reporting the ac tions of; master relays and a red and a green light in the -upper corn er. On ! the side it a series of switches by which the truth-value of each variable can be changed. The operator puts a proposition into symbolic form:, like this "If P implies Q and Q is true, then P is true." Then he sets the dial for each Tariahle CP and 'Q') and each re lation: between them. If -the prop osition is valid, the green light will flash. U it is invalid,. thered one li?hU up. '- V " ' ' ' ' Pre. Holmes thinks a larger model would - be invaluable in military or industrial plan ning or crime detection,, or any solution in which increasingly com-1 plex problems must be analyzed rapidly and accurately." -V Club Week MortrTh an 420jRotarians Register Here 1 i , ; ; Over 420 persons from Oregon and . Southern Washington reg istered Sunday for the annual conference, of Rotary Interna tional District 154 which got un derway m Salem Sunday and will continue; today and Tuesday. Continued registration this morning is expected to run the total over 450, according to Elton H. Thorhpson, chairman of the registration committee. Following a pioneers break fast this4 morning at the Marion Hotel, the first plenary session is scheduled at 9 o'clock at the Elsinore? Theater. Highlight ad dress of the three-day : session will be j given this morning by Prentiss; A. Rowe of San Francis- co, personal representative - of Rotary International President Joaquin Serratos Cibils. The second plenary session will get underway at 2 o'clock this afternoon followed bv the con ference banquet at ff:45. p.m. in the Salem Armory. The banquet address will be given by Gov. :terson, past president of sboro Rotary club. The Paul Pa the Hil conference ball jt the Marion Hotel tbnight will conclude to day's activities. - ? The third plenary session is scheduled for 9 a.m., Tuesday with adjournment set for 1:30 p.m. following a luncheon ' for Ladies pf Rotary at the Senator STORE FOUNDER DIES ENGLEWOOD, N.J. W - John J. Newberry, founder and board chairman, of a huge national chain of variety stores, died Saturday night at his home after; a long, ill ness. Hi was 76." j " " ' ' BANK PRESIDENT DIES HAMMONTON. .N. J. Ml Wil liam JJ Smith,: 98, oldest bank president in the United States, died here Sunday. Smith was -born In MiUhndge, Maine, in 1855. He re sided in; Hammonton for 93 years. VaDey News ..-...i 3 Editorials, Features 4 Society, Women's News ,.i 6 Radio, TV "j .... 7 Sports News ..2.-Z, 9 Classified Ada ..10, 11 Today's Statesman vj :tt i i if li Puerto IKJico Police Kouffidicig Up Reds ' By JULIO RIVERA SAN JUAN, Perto Rico UP) The Puerto Rican covernment in iti second swift move in 24 hours to round up fanatical political groups here, arrested seven local Communist leaders Sunday. But the big four of the party were still at large..-. ' Police said the arrests were made without violence, in contrast to the blazing gun battle which accompanied Saturday's seizure f of River Yields Body of Lost 9-Year-01d SAN FRANCISCO (JVThe body of a ' boy identified as James Reibeling, 9-year-old amateur ra dio operator missing since Jan. 27, was recovered Sunday from Lake Merced, in southwestern San Francisco. ' Police had been searching for James since his mother, Mrs. Cynthia DeLauney, reported his disappeaiance on his way home from school. It was thought i he might have bitch-hiked o Ore gon to visit "ham' radio opera tors he had contacted. J Police -said the boy's step father, Melvin DeLauney, identi fied the body. He was wearing the same black jeans, grey jack et and tennis shoes as when he disappeared. - James, nearirg his 10th birth day, had been wanting to take a qualifying examination for novice radio operator's license. Both 'his mother and stepfather operate amateur radios and the boy was intensely interested in the hobby. When James disappeared, Mrs. DeLauney began radioing descrip tions of " im to other radio ama teurs on the West Coast I Spell Finalists Chosen; Sixth Bee Tonight a Eight girls and two boys were assured today of places in Uhe Grand Finals of The Statesman KSLM 1954 Mid-Valley Spelling Contest The 10 contestants comprised the top spellers in each of live semi-finals held last week in Dal las, Keizer, Salem, Turner jand Dayton. j Another 10 will be chosen at five semi-finals this week -i at Woodburn, Independence, !Mill City, Greenwood and Mt AijgeL The first 10 finalists chosen; iri .alphabetical order are: j V n d r a Anderson, 13.1 8th grade, Parrish. , j Judy Baker, 13,. 8th, Leslie. MaryAnn Cain, 12, '7th, Tur ner, i Mary Freeman, 13, 8th, Bethel. Charlene Kauble, 12, 7th, jWil lamina. Lonnie Kilmer, 12, 7th, Ball ston. Pauline Kaenxi, 14, 8th, Wil lard. Yvonne Lofton, 13, 8th, Day ton. Sharon McKimmey, 12, 8th4 Ha zel Green. j Frank (Tom) Thomas, 13,! 8th, Cloverdale. K, "Tonight's semi-finals will be at Woodburn, for the school cham pions of Bcoadacres, Eldriedge, Gervais, Hubbard, Parkersville, Pioneer, St. Piul and Woodburn (no other schools certified their champions). The semi-finals! and finals all start at 7:45 p.m.! and are open to the public without charge or collection. j The finals will be at Parrish Junior High in Salem, March 24. GraJiam Brings Evangelism To Persons at Pub in London . LONDON A Bible in his band, Billy Graham took his evang elism into a London pub Saturday and talked to the people. :j The American evangelist,! who has been drawing- spectacular crowds to his crusade at Harrhv gay Arena, went into a typical Eng lish drinking place, his campaign secretary, Jerry Beavan, said Sun day.",. '-'..V v-s'l ; "I Graham had complained to Bea van that he was not, meeting the "real people" of London because he was so busy traveling between his hotel and the arena, where he holds meetings six nights a week. So they drove to the Elephant and Castle, a congested working: class area near ' London's Riverfront on the Old Kent Road. . 1 ,f ; ; ."Billy was delighted, Beavan reported. ; "He met people in the streets and in the open markets. People shouted to him from up wer to Nationalist chieftain, Pedro Albizu Campos and five of his aides. Four more Nationalists Amado Rivera Lozada, Meliton Muniz. Es tanislao Lugo and Elpidio Jimenez were ' arrested Sunday, bringing to 40 the total number of Nation alists seized. One more is' being sought Violates Law f Atty. Gen. Jose Trias told a news conference the Communists were arrested for violation of a local law 'against subversive acts, and belonging to a party which advo cates subversive acts. j Asked if the roundup, bad any connection with the attack by four Nationalists in the V. S. House! of Representatives last. Monday in .which five congressmen wiere wounded, Trias said "that angle is included in the investigation." . He gave the same answer when asked to comment on possible ties between the Communists and Na tionalists. "Just Like Nationalists" But he safri the Communists ad vocate subversive acts "just like the Nationalists." The arrests, began at 6 a. mi at the same hour as the roundup of Nationalists began Saturday. Bail was fixed at $25,000 each, the same as for the Nationalists, and nobody, either Communist or Nationalist, had yet succeeded in furnishing bond. f . The big four of the Communist Party still at large, for whom ar rest warrants were issued, were: Juan Santos Rivera, prarty presi dent; Juan Saez Corales, a local labor union organizer; Cesar .An dreu Iglesias, former party presi dent; and Pablo Garcia Rodriguez, Harvard-graduated lawyer. : Santos Rivera, about 50, was. re ported in Moscow for a year or two several years ago. i . - Boy in Family Car Nearly Takes Dip WEST LINN' U1 Six-year-old William Tuor Jr. was sitting' in his father's car when the brakes gave way and the car began roll ing down a bank toward the Wil lamette River. The boy screamed and Was snatched to safety by his father,, who was working nearby. The car plunged on down the bank and rammed two moored tugboats before it stopped with its front end submerged in the river. ; ndochinaReds Attack in ILSi Airmen Sector HANOI, Indochina Mt iThe Communist led Vietminh carried their war against French Union forces Monday into a sector where American air technicians are work ing. ' " : The rebels made a spectacular raid on Catbi Airport three miles from the north Indochina seaport! oi naipvng. ; Forty-four U.S. Air Force (men work at Catbi servicing aircraft supplied by the United States to the French Union forces. The raid was made two hours before dawn, however, and presumably no Amer icans were involved. j Another 105 Americans are sta tioned at Doson airstrip, 12 miles southeast of Haipong. i Elsewhere in the vital Red Riv er delta, Vietminh troops launched a wide series of attacks Monday against thinly manned French Vietnamese militia posts north west, east and southeast of Ha noi. - t: i stairs- windows. He was invited in to a pub and he went in with his Bible in his hand and he talked to them." - - ! -, 1 t The Sunday Pictorial, a mass circulation publication with unof ficial labor tendencies, said Graham bad "taken a tip from us. and is going to take his crusade next weekend to Burton wood, the United States Air Force Base in Lancashire. . fi... -:i, r. The Pictorial, along with some other London newspapers, has been carrying stories that vice has in creased in communities where there are Large concentrations of American airmen. " f Graham's headquarters said that fat his first week at Harringay Arena 1,631 persons recorded "de cisions for Christ" more than ever recorded during any Graham cru sade in any one week in the United States. Adlai Denies Split Exists in GOP Party R; . J - . - - j. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. WV-Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) Sunday night demanded equal time on national radio and TV networks to reply to Adlai E. Stevenson's charge the Republican Party is guilty of slander, dissension and deceit In Now York,' the National Broadcasting Co. and the Colum bia' Broadcasting System, said they have received no such re quest from McCarthy yet NBC and CBS were the only major networks to carry' Stevenson's ad dress. Stevenson, Democratic presiden tial candidate in 1952,' alio brand ed the GOP in a speech Saturday night before the Southeastern Dem ocratic Conference as a party "di vided against itself, half McCarthy and half Eisenhower." ; McCarthy called this "an obvious attempt tp create a seal fight with in the Republican Just Isa't So' "That just isn't soTahe Wis consin senator said inps . inter clew after a day of fiiSp off nearby Key Biscayne. "riam paigned for Eisenhower in 19oiid Not that I, think he's perfect uie rresiaeni is ngni s per cemih of the time, which is ,a very . big average. -"-' ; McCarthy described Stevenson's speech as "a very clever; political talk designed to cloud the issues." Networks donated the air time for the address. .i V "The speech reminded me of a story," McCarthy said. "My broth er and I went to my father's barn a long time ago to dean it out We disagreed how it should be done. If Stevenson had been there he. would have kept trying not to clean it out at all." j 'Democratic Mess' "What the Republicans are try ing to do is to clean up the Demo cratic mess. We don't always agree on how the job should be done. But we all azree it rrfust be done. The senator was away from his . hotel most of the weekend, but ad- ! nutted he had . read Stevenson s ' speech carefully --:i .'. n. "I feel that the Democrats really never tried to do any barn clean ing," he said, referring back to his earlier statement - ; McCarthy said he thought what Stevenson - was so "stirred up about' Communists in the Army or elsewhere." j. Was Interviewed j ' , McCarthy was interviewed a few hours after Stephen Mitcheli,Dem ocratic national chairman, told a news conference it was "apparent to me that the Rexmblicans would like to keep Eisenhower with the angels and McCarthy in the muck." Mitchell said of Stevenson and other Democrats: "He and We all intend to make it clear that the Republican Party ' is still trying to run for office and not trying to run the government." They want to talk about commun ism and subversion not about the real problems of economic condi tions, farm prices, - taxation and foreign affairs." i T)emo Group . A. Backs Jimmy For Solon Post -? - LOS ANGELES IJPh- James Roosevelt Sunday won the en dorsement of a Democratic group for his candidacy for, congress-, man from California's "Oth dis trict ; The endorsement came on tbe second ballot of a six-hour ses-v sion of the 26th Congressional District Democratic Council con vention. ' Roosevelt center of a sensa tional separate maintenance suit appeared before the group. ' Without mentioning his mari tal dififculties. Roosevelt 46, said he had decided to run in the hopes of obliterating for the sake of his children the slurs against him and to wipe out forever the ' slurs against the ideals of his father. His estranged wife, Romelle, has aCused him of infidelities with a dozen women. Max. SI Mln. zs 2S 2i 34 -40 , 33 1 39 Tree. .44 .32 M trace " A trace .01 r .00 M Salem Portland Baker 58 S4 , ss 48 33 , 44 Medford NorU Bend Hoseburg San Francisco Chlcafo 28- New If. ork 31 unlnnu, nir 4.5 feet. -1 FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary fi11; Sm)-. - Cloudy with intermittent rain to day beeominr showers tonifht Rain Tucadar. Higli today S3-5S and low tonUnt 43-43. Warmer Tueaday . . Temperature at 11 a.m. today tin FBECIWTATION Since Start of Weather Ytar Sept 1 Thta Yaar lt Year Normal 33.74 Si- ,