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9 J - - - i . J" . 1 (Soc. 1) Statoiman, Salem, Oro- Tut. April 13, 1954 Driver Arrested in Stolen Car After High Speed Chase in City An auto was stolen from down town Salem Monday night, chased by a motorcycle policeman at breakneck speeds along rain slickened streets and wrecked all without the knowledge of its owner, Emory J. Goode, Salem Route 6, Box 170. Driver of the car was Edgar Lewis Sills. 18. of Spokane, Wash. Following his arrest by city po Taxicab Checkup Called by Council (Story also on page 1.) Salem Citv Council heard three industrial requests at its Mon- dav night meeting in City Hall, called for a taxicab checkup in the city and started the 1954 budgetmaking season. These industrial requests were taken under study: That Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. be allowed to build an 18 by 47 foot storage shed in Trade Street adjacent to a boiler room at the mill property. r That Gordon McOilchrist & Sons be allowed to build a ware house over the mill race near Trade and Church Streets. That reconsideration be given to light industrial zoning for the entire area between Trade. Mill, Winter and S. Capitol Streets. Re cent rezoning of the city made R-4 residential in southern half of this area. Request for indus trial zone came from Richard Grabenhorst. Calls for Count Alderman Robert F. White, chairman of the council license committee, called for a check on number of permits held by taxi cab companies but not actually In use now, plus check of why drivers aren't in uniform and what authority the city has to regulate cleanliness and safety factors. He told the council he had reeeived several recent com plaints about taxi operations. The Council elected five men to the city budget committee and set an April 19 meeting for the committee to start looking over the city budget. New members are William H. Hammond, Ever ett Crabtree, Harvey Michaelis, Conrad Paulson and Harold Phil lippe. They will succeed Elton Thomp son, Fred Paulus, Edward Ran dle, James C. Stone and Robert K. Powell. Given Contract River Bend Sand k Gravel was given a city contract to furnish an estimated 900 cubic yards of concrete for this year's sidewalk and curb construction, at a low bid of $9.94 a yard. The Council rejected all four bids for providing light posts at four d-w n tow n intersections where one-way grid signs will be erected over the street. Aldermen accepted a recommendation from City Manager J. L. Franzen that the city do its own work on the project for an estimated S2.845, compared with low bid of $3,470. But aldermen questioned if the city's estimate included overhead items and they asked that a cost accounting be made to the Coun cil upon completion of the pro ject so that they could determine if real savings had resulted. Name Change Blocked Action to change the name of Moody Street to Ellis in East Salem was held up alter Glenn ?.foody appeared to protest that Moody had been the name of the original road there 35 years ago. The Planning Commission was i,sked by the Council to restudy the matter which came up recent ly when city officials said recent extensions resulted in three names Ellis, Park and Moody for successive stretches of the same street. Lawrence Sheridan also ap peared before the Council to question the city's plans for re surfacing of Kingwood Drive. He raid some residents may enter ob jections based on their feeling that the lower section of the street has been damaged in re cent years in connection with city utility projects for which the street was dug up. Steel produced in the United States in 1953 would yield enough finished steel products to build three cities the size of Manhat tan, i RIVE-IN THEATItl ?h. 2-7829 UIISN tAIIINl. W4MWAT tlg Gates Open 6:45 Show at 7 STARTS TOMORROW! Robert Taylor Denise Parcel "WESTWARD THE WOMEN" Also -In Technicolor Esther Williams Van Johnson in "EASY TO LOVE ENDS TONITE All Color Program Rita Hayworth Jose Ferrer ia "MISS SADIE THOMPSON- Also Paul Henreld ia "SIREN OF BAGDAD" Brine the Whole Family Sec a Movie ia Your Car USMUO r. E lice he was placed in jail in lieu of ball on charges of operating a motor vehicle without an opera tor's license, reckless driving and possession of stolen property. City Patrolman Harold Edwards described the incident in his re port this way: He said he was operating his motorcycle in the vicinity of Cot tage and Ferry Streets when he Ex-Farmer Dies at Home In St. Louis Statesman N Service GERVAIS Antone Engel hart, resident and retired farm er at St. Louis, Ore. the past eight years, died at his home at the age of 87 years. Recitation of the rosary will be held at the Gervais Catholic Church Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. with requiem mass said Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in the St. Louis Catholic Church and interment at St. Louis Cemetery. Engelhart was born in Hun gary Oct. 14. 1866. lie is survived by fhe widow, Dora Engelhart, St. Louis; one daughter, Mrs. Lena Mayhew, Donald: two grandchildren, Mrs. Howard Noble, Portland, and Catherine Baker, Donald, and six great-grandchildren. P-TA Chooses D. Aleshire Delmar Aleshire was elected president of the Richmond School Parent-Teachers' Association at the group's meeting Monday night. Named to other officer were Jack Snow, first vice president; Mrs. Henry Yoshikai, second vice president; Mrs. LeRoy Montgom ery, secretary; and Ivan Oster jnan, treasurer. During the following program Dr. Maynard C. Schiffer spoke on child development. Buckshot Plague Adds 400 Windshields to Vandal Toll MOUNT VERNON, Wash. The windshield-breaking spree which plagued Whatcom County last month hit Skagit County over the weekend, with 300-400 cars re ported damaged by vandals. Police estimated damage at $10, 000. The outbreak started Friday night, continued al day Saturday and reached a peak at noon Sun day when some 200 cars were hit at Northern State Hospital parking lots near Sedro Woolley. Ammunition used by the vandals ranged from BB pellets to pieces of white rock, officers said. U113 StorrirtQ g lag isJlmm i tan ii" i Vai4B8g fit X sss!SS:S:s varherColor v5555 GUY filADlSON joan weldon ADDED FUN1 "ALOHANUr AND COLOR spotted a 1949 Ford travelling the wrong way North) on the one way Cottage Street. He took chase and ordered the car over. The car stopped and suddealy took off, sliding around the corner and speeding east on Stat Street with the officer close behind. Edwards said speeds exceeded fcO miles per hour as he maneuvered his motor cycle and radioed for help. The officer explained that the car made no attempt to stop at the posted stop street at 12th and State Streets, but in the middle of the intersection the driver suddenly slammed on his brakes, slid back -and forth and headed south on 12th Street. Speeds again mounted and near Mill and 12th Streets the car went out of control, and slid into the opposite lane of traffic so far he forced northbound driver P. H. Everett, 945 Wilbur St., into the west lane of 12th Street. At that, the two sideswiped each on the wrong side of the street and Sills caromed into a parked car owned by Eunice Angel, 196 W. Miller St., smash ing her vehicle into a parked car owned by George Hamilton, Port land. As the ear ground to a stop, Sills leaped from the sprung door and ran into the darkness. Five city police cars converged on thej spot, in response to Ed wards' radio call for help, and a search for the driver ensued. He was found in a few minutes, hiding beneath a Southern Pa cific trailer parked in the field east of 12th and Mill Streets, and taken to the station. All cars in volved sustained considerable damage, but the car Sills was driving had to be towed from the scene. At the station Sills signed a statement admitting he stole the unlocked car from where it was parked "at Trade and Liberty Streets. He said he managed to start the vehicle by crossing the ignition wires with a bit of tin foil Sills told officers he had been released from jail at Olympia, Wash., Monday morning after serving 11 days and had hitch hiked to Salem where he'd stolen the vehicle. Police were checking on his hitch-hiking story Monday right Betty Marsh Reported 111 With Pneumonia Miss Betty Marsh, secretary of Salem Planning Commission and chief clerk at the city recorder's office, is ill with virus pneumon ia. She was atricken over the week end and is now confined to her home, 1220 Cloverleaf Lane, city officials reported. Meanwhile, the windshield break ing died down in Whatcom County, but sheriffs deputies in that coun ty reported a newer and more dangerous version of the buckshot vandalism. Sheriff C. R. Axling said three homes just outside Lynden were hit by .22 caliber bullets Sunday. He said the shots apparently were fired at the homes from the high way. No one was hit. Axnng saia tne shootings were "the work of kids who got their idea from reading about Belling- ham s buckshot gang. O STARTS TOMORROW! CINEMASCOPE AT REGULAR PRICES! SHaEBIiasfSESE blH : i Ml Guthrie Voters Reject School District Merger Statesm&a News Service DALLAS Guthrie School dis trict voters Monday defeated- the proposed consolidation . of the dis trict with Dallas School district No. 2 by a vote of 23 to 17. Voters in the Dallas district ap proved the merger 42 to 1 but a veto from either district could defeat the measure. Council Holds Action After Editor s Blast EUGENE im The Eugene City Council, protesting what it called a hoax perpetrated: by an edi torial attack on the council," ad journed its Monday night meeting without taking action on a number of matters before it. Calvin Crumbaker, council presi dent, said, "It appears the council should not further conduct the city's business until it shall have a chance to make a complete statement exposing. . . an editorial attack" by the Eugene Register Gutrd. Crumbaker said he especially referred to editorial backing of a proposal that a recently passed zoning ordinance be referred to the voters. The ordinance provides for industrial use of a tract between the University of Oregon campus and the Willamette River. William Tugman. editor of the Register-Guard, is using his edi torial column for a ' personal vendetta" and is abusing freedom of the press. Crumbaker said. The council named a committee to draft an answer to the newspa per's charges or arbitrary actions and secret meetings. Mayor V.- Edwin Johnson chal lenged the statement that secret meetings had been held. Gurske Named To Labor Post. Paul E. Gurske, chairman of the state industrial accident commis sion, resigned Monday to become director of the Bureau of Labor standards, under the U. S. Depart ment of Labor, and will leave to morrow for Washington, D. C. Gurske was appointed to the industrial accident and unemploy ment compensation commissions by Gov. Earl Snell 11 years ago. His present term on both commis sions would expire Jan. 2, 1956. Gurske, prior to his state service, was businesss manager of the Streetcarmen's Union in Portland for 15 years. Predecessor to Gurske as direc tor of the Bureau of Labor Stan dards is William L. Connolly of Arlington, Va., who recently re signed. . Contest Question 1 i $CA00 WORTH TO BE BROKEN AT Crystal Gardens Dance Wed. April 7 Old Time and Modern' ENDS TONIGHT THIRD DIMENSION REGULAR PRICES Jane Russell in "FRENCH LINE" I $ 7 .HI . Ml-. james whitmore CARTOON , - rm i Army Agrees to Give Advance Charges Against McCarthy By G. MILTON " KELLY WASHINGTON UK The Army agreed Monday to give" investiga ting senators an advance state ment of its accusations against Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and of the evidence to support the charges. The Senate investigations sub committee, which wjU conduct the inquiry at public televised hear ings starting April 22, announced it also has asked McCarthy for similar statements in connection with his accusations against top Army officials. Sen. Mundt (R-SD. who will pre side at the investigation, told a news conference the charges made by each side in the bitter row will be made available to the other, and the subcommittee's special counsel, Ray H. Jenkins said it would be 'normal" practice to make the statements public at the same time. Mundt described the move as intended in part to prevent either side from springing some "suo prise package" of testimony at its adversary in the hearings. But he said it "would not preclude" the calling of unscheduled witnesses 'if it became necessary to bring out the truth in the battle of charges and countercharges. Mundt talked to reporters after a 3U hour meeting behind closed doors with Stevens and Joseph N. Welch, special counsel represent ing the Army in the inquiry. Mundt said he had talked by telephone with McCarthy, who is "somewhere in Arizona." inviting McCarthy to come before the PMONI S-OTOO NOW PLAYING Writer Wanzer's RAW-TRUTH EXPOSE of the PRISON RIOTS! EEEZET -Zutt " ArUed High Tension Thrills rrr I JM? T" T"". f TkrilltMS SALEM COMMUNITY" CONCERT ASSOCIATION Campaign Ends Thursday, April 13th. Call Today! Only 65 Memberships Still Available. Annual Membership Does $6.00 Headquarters at P.G.E. Office 136 S. High JPW. 4-1255 STARTS TOMORROW! AT REGULAR PRICESI mmwi If mm Jl SHOW Best Actor PLUS Best Actress -Audrey Hepburn IN group Tuesday for a similar talk. He said McCarthy replied that "his throat is still bothering him" and that the Wisconsin senator "is not just sure when he will return" to Washington. At McCarthy's suggestion, Mundt said, the subcommittee will meet instead Tuesday with Roy M. Conn, the subcommittee's regular chief counsel, and Francis P. Carr, its chief of staff, whom an Army report has accused along with Mc Carthy of using pressure tactics in efforts to win favored treatment or Pvt. G. David Schine. a drafted associate. Mundt said the Army men had agreed to give the subcommittee a written statement of all their accusations, along with a synopsis of the testimony expectable from witnesses for their side, and of the evidence they will offer. A reporter asked what would be the effect if McCarthy declined to give as full a statement. Mundt said 'that's a contingency we don't expect, and it was not dis cussed" with Stevens. Neither, he said, did they dis cuss whether McCarthy shall have the right to cross examine Army witnesses, or Army counsel be al lowed to cross examine McCarthy. Mundt said that will be decided later. About 90 per cent of U. S. coal is produced east of the Mississip pi River. ENDS TODAY! Open 6:45 "STARS IN MY CROWN" "key largo" tarITtomrw MAUREEN O'HARA JEFF CHANDLER MARROW -Ooau AY-MRAK fcwMltWOMnMM. i i j r in LAST DAY -Highway Dragnet "Dragonfly Squadron" -William Holden IN Technicolor Co-Hit avows At Ihe fool of fhe Bridge West Salem Open Every Day . PRICES GOOD M0HDAY GRADE A A LARGE WA& Jpp! Deviled Meat 5-29' Sausage vib,m DEHIIKOII'S CHILI LARGE SIZE ni Radishes & Gr. Onions 3 10c FRESH, PAN-READY COTTAGE HAMS . GROUND LEAN, WRAPPED lb. each o) lbs. for JOWL Centers 'i Mile North of Ihe Underpass Salem .8 a.m. lo 10 p.m. - 1UESDAY - WEDHESDAY 2-2 for 0 Each c? IE 4l Do:. J M Each ( r ""1 12 oi. I U J rU J h'h f MM : i i i ! 'i
