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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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
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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.
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