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Gun Accident Fatal To Aumsville Boy Miai JT I II I 1 U MM, Statesman Newt Service AUMSVILLE Eleven-year-old Roger Williams was accident ally shot in the back of the head while playing with a companion near his home Monday late aft ernoon and died three hours lat er in a Salem hospital. The shooting occurred in a bushy area near the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bishop. Aumsville Route 2. Box 12, while he was playing with a neighbor boy, David Lindgren, 12. The Lindgren boy told investi gating state police and Marion County sheriff's deputies that he had his rifle laying across his lap when it accidentally dis Vote Result Silverton Statesman News Service SILVERTON Formation of a Silverton Union High School District was approved by a wide margin Monday night by rural school districts in the Silverton-Mt. Angel area. Complete returns from 10 of the 12 districts involved showed 830 votes in favor of the new district and 259 opposed. Leading, and considered virtually elected to the school board y33IjQS Several county and city mea sures are being submitted to vot ers at the time of the primary election on May 21st. Three of the city measures call for fresh bond issues. One of the county mea sures calls for a special tax levy of two mills and a continuing levy of one-half mill for a five-year period. I think we should examine proposals for increasing our debt and taxes with great care lest we pile too heavy a burden on prop erty. Already the tax levy in Sa lem has reached 88 mills (1953 rate', the school necessities are not getting fewer, and there re mains the imminent possibility of a levy on property for state purposes within the next biennium. At the same time each proposal should be considered on its merits. Let us take a look at the charter amendments on the City of Sa lem ballot. Measure No. 51 would allow the city council to lease municipal airport property not presently needed for that purpose for ler iods longer than five years which Is the time limit in the present charter. The idea behind this seems to be to let the city lease out some of the land at the air port. The merit of this is not ap parent. Five years is a long enough term for leasing any land out there. If a longer term lease is desired or required there is plenty of other property available. The citv should not be in competi tion with private owners of land for any permanent non-airport in stallations. A negative vote is recommended on No. 51. The next proposed amendment, No. 52. is to authorize the city to Issue bonds in the amount of $100,000 for acquisition of the former (Continued on editorial page 4.) State to Order Tons of Beads Contractors and suppliers were wondering Monday if the state of rr.mn had clans for resuming trade with the Indians, or sending . .hin tn th South Pacific to m 4iu( - - hart with the natives. Among quotations fori purch ases for which bids were opened Monday by the purchasing divis ion of the state's department of finance was one for supplying 68,000 pounds of glass beads. A purchasing agent pointed out that the state had no Manhattan Island deals up its sleeve but was merely buying the beads for, the State Highway Department which uses them for traffic line strip ing. Western International At Victoria 7. Tri-City 5 At Wenatchee 2. Yakima 0 Pacific Coast League No James scheduled American League At Philadelphia 3. Chicago 14 At Washington. Cleveland, rain (Only fames scheduled) National League At St. Louis 8. New York 2 At Milwaukee. Brooklyn, cold (Only fames scheduled) ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAMNCN GOOOKICM "Marry mt. bo by, and if all yours!" charged about 4:30 p.m. He said he first became panicky when Williams slumped oyer and he threw his rifle into the bushes before running to Mrs. Bishop telling her "something" was wrong with Roger. The youngster was rushed to the hospital by 0. N. Bishop, a brother-in-law living at the Bi shop home, and was taken im mediately to surgery. He never rallied or regained conscious ness and died three hours later. When police arrived on the scene at Aumsville the Lind gren boy admitted what happen ed and led them to the hidden rifle. (Additional details on page 2. sec. 1.) Approves Union High of the union high district, were Robert Humphreys, Victor Point, with 919 votes; Fred Schwab, ML Angel, 898; John Seims, Central Howell. 855, and John Plas of the Scotts Mills-Crooked Finger area, 682. With returns still out from three small districts, Felix Wright of Silverton led for the fifth school board post with 600 votes. Next was Iarvey Kaser, Ever green, 587; Albert Overlund, Be thany, 566; Harlan Moe,K Silver ton, 558, and Leslie Brown, But te Creek, 463. Unreported on the school board race were Butte Creek, Crooked Finger and Scotts Mills, all com paratively small districts. Scotts Mills did report on the school pro posal and was, the only district to oppose it The" vote was 17-14. Biggest turnout in the new dis trict came at ML Angel where 461 votes were cast The district was favored 332 to 129 at Mt. An gel. Silverton previously had voted in favor of a union high school with the surrounding 12 districts. Approval of the new district by a majority of the districts means that all schools voting will become a part of it, regardless of the results in separate dis tricts. Army to Check Military Duty Of Athletes WASHINGTON (A Rep. Hess (R-Ohio) said Monday the Army has notified him that hereafter it intends to monitor the service ca reers of inducted professional ath letes to guard against "special as signments." Hess is chairman of a House armed services subcommittee now investigating charges that star ath letes are being "coddled" in the Army by escaping military duties to continue their sports careers. "I am sure." Hess said in a statement, "that some of the infor mation which the Army has dis covered prompted the action" to start checking on the athletes' mil itary assignaments. He said the Army decision was forwarded to him Monday. Nevertheless, Hess said his sub committee intends to begin public hearings Wednesday on schedule to explore the service records of 10 star athletes, including New York Yankee pitcher Edward C. (Whitey) Ford and former welter weight boxing champion Ray Rob inson. He said the athletes themselves are not under scrutiny and will not be asked to testify. The first ten whose service rec ords will be studied also include: Edward J. and John T. O'Brien, college basketball twins now with the Pittsburgh Pirates. U. O. PROFESSOR CHOSEN MODESTO. Calif. ( Roy Clyde McCall, chairman of the de partment of speech at University of Oregon, was named president of Modesto Junior College Monday night by unanimous vote of the city Board of Education. Combined Restaurant, Motel Scheduled for (Picture on page 8, sec. 2.) Plans for a terraced indoor- outdoor restaurant and motel in South Salem were announced Monday by Joe Randall, veteran Salem restauranteur. The establishment will be lo cated on Highway 99-E, two blocks south of the city limits. Randall said the food center will feature a dinner house and outdoor facilities for upwards of 500 persons. - A "backyard patjo" theme will be used in the outdoor dining areas which Randall said, will be terraced on three levels behind the dinner house. Six motel units will complete major phases of the operation which Randall said would be "la the quarter-million dollar" class. The motel units mi) not be start ed this year. Earth-moving phase of the pro 104TH YEAR 2 Scientist i CAMBRIDGE, Mass Prof. Earn est A. Hooton ef the Harvard University faculty, famed as an anthropoligist, , died here Mon day. Prof. Hooton, Anthropology Expert, Dies CAMBRIDGE. Mass. tfl Har vard University Prof. Earnest A. Hooton, one of the world's outstand ing anthropologists, died unexpect edly Monday night at his home. He was 67. The controversial scientists, noted for his pungent comments on man kind, died of a heart attack about a half hour after he returned home from giving two lectures to his Harvard classes. A native of Clemansville, Wis., and son of a Methodist minister, Hooton had been chairman of the department of anthropology at Har vard since the early 1930s. Under his guidance the department be came one of the best in the world. 'Hootonismi' His salty observations on the hu man race known as "Hootonisms" to other scientists once led to a demand for a Massachusetts leg islative probe of "this teaching of inhuman doctrines, contrary to the spirit of American institutions." Hooton. whose best known writ ings were titled "Up From The Apes, "Apes, Men and Morons, and "Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa," held that man was on the road back to the jungle unless he changed his ways. Gadgets Best Men "Gadgets and machines are get ting better and better," he said re peatedly, "while man is getting worse and worse." An advocate of birth control, sterilization of the insane, diseased and criminal element, he preached that a "biological purge" was the essential prerequisite for the soc al and spiritual salvation of the human race." His sense of humor aided in making his anthropolgy courses among the most popular with Har vard and Radcliffe students. He lectured often before a desk cov ered with human skulls. Frost Blamed As Birds Die At LaGrande VLA GRANDE. Ore. ( Thou sands of birds were found dead in this Eastern Oregon city Monday. A weekend frost drew the tenta tive blame. The bodies of the robins, spar rows and other native birds which were killed were found on lawns and streets throughout the city. Burns T. Bailey, county agricul tural agent, and Dr. Ernest Ander son, head of the biology depart' ment at Eastern Oregon College of Education, said the birds prob ably had eaten vegetable matter frozen in the weekend frost. They explained that the freezing of vegetable matter sometimes creates an acid that poisons birds. The malady, whatever it was, did not claim all the birds here. There were many survivors. South Salem ject was nearing completion Mon day. Randall said completion of the dfnner house was anticipated by falL Contractor is George Johnston, of Salem. Randall and his wife are designing toe build ings and landscape. Randall said the dinner house will be of ranch-style construc tion with early American decor and will be 90 by 50 feet in size with full basement A seafood bar and dancing area are planned. Randall said the outdoor faci lities will cater to groups and families. It is planned to sell food delicatessen style to those who wish to use the patio areas, he said. Randall opened the Golden Pheasant restaurant in Salem in 1926 and sold it in 1951. Current ly he is a food caterer. The new establishment will probably be called "Randall's Chuckwagon," the owner reported. ut SECTIONS 16 PAGES Meeting of Indochina At Geneva Reds Launch New Attack at Dien Bien Phu HANOI. Indochina (J1 The French High Command announced early Tuesday Red - led Vietminh forces besieging Dien Bien Phu have launched another heavy as sault on a key position on the west side of the battered bastion. The announcement came on the heels of reports that the rebels were rushine up fresh troops to the French fortress after calling off their third heavy and sustained assault on the shrunken defenses. Hundreds of Molotov trucks were spotted moving into the encircling hills Monday night, their head lights gleaming. The Red-led Vietminh troops un accountably halted their third big do - or - die attack Sunday night, after making savage headway in to the encircling barbed strong points. They overran three strong points and part of a fourth and severely shriveled up the ring of defenses surrounding Brig. Gen. Christian de Castries' central headquarters. (A military spokesman in Paris said three outposts at the isolated strongpoint of Isabell, south of the fortress heart, were lost in the attacks of the night of May 1-2. This was the fourth strongpoint which was partically overrun. (The spokesman said another post was lost but retaken by coun terattack. The center of resist ance of Isabelle is entirely in our hands," the spokesman said.) Vote Defeats Coiinty Rural School Budget Defeat of the Marion County rural school budget appeared cer tain Monday nighf on the basis of 18 school districts reporting to The Statesman. Returns from approximately one-fourth of the districts involv ed showed 493 votes against the budget and 98 in favor. Voting was light in Keizer and other larger districts which made a concerted effort to win approval for the budget in previous years. Most smaller districts have con sistently opposed the county budget The totals do not include votes cast at Mt. Angel where some 400 voters went to the polls, primarily to vote on the Silverton Union High School proposal. The high school ballots were being counted first. ML Angel has voted over whelmingly against the school budget in the past. At stake Monday night was the $1,013,968 portion of the school budget in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. The total budget was 1.251,536. Each iural district will vote on a separate budget if defeat of the county budget is confirmed. Dlstrict Keizer Jefferson Lake'Labish Shaw .. Clear Lake TES 13 18 0 0 0 1 NO 1 S 6 10 56 0 24 28 2 . 0 19 36 22 77 35 X 142 1 493 Stayton Labish Center Eldriedge Fruitland Brooks Sunnyside Aumsville . 3 .22 .. 1 . 0 ...0 ... 1 -11 . 1 - 0 .19 9S Buena Crest ..... Central Howell Evans Valley Hazel Green St. Paul Turner Totals Boy 'Attacks' U.S. Destroyer SYDNEY. Australia UPl A small Loy visiting the U. S. de stroyer O'Bannon took only three minutes Monday to throw the war ship into turmoil. The boy one of 10,000 visitors wandered to the vessel's bridge and pulled every iever within reach. In rapid succession he: Sounded the general alarm, call ing the crew to battle stations. Sounded the chemical alarm, used only for atom bomb attacks. Ordered full speed ahead all en gines with the ship's telegraph. He was just about to send a message on the destroyer's helio graph to the U.S. Carrier Tarawa moored astern when the O'Bannon deck officer sprinted onto the bridge to find out what was going on. The U.S. Naval craft spent four days in Sydney - to ; celebrate the Coral Sea Battle : victory of May, 1942. They sail Tuesday for Mel bourne. POUNDOD 1651 Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Mt. Angel Abbey Library Adds Rare Bible MT. ANGEL Examining what is is Father Barnabas, librarian of rare-book collection. The Bible, printed in 1476, s the work of John Sensenschmid, first printer of Nuremberg. Printed in the German vernacular, the two-volume Bible is considerably noteworthy for its numerous woodcut illustrations. The Bible was purchased from only copy in the Pacific Northwest. 9 Way Sought to Shorten McCarthy-Army Probe WASHINGTON (&) An Army proposal that the McCarthy Pentagon hearing be limited to testimony by Secretary Stevens and Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) was taken tinder "serious consideration" Monday night in a move to bring the hearings to an end. The speedup effort was decided on at a closed-door -meeting of the Senate investigating subcommittee after Stevens denied, in his Board Boosts Salaries of 6 City Employes By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor. The Statesman Salaries were raised for five city library employes and the airport manager Monday night as the City Budget Committee approved 12 of the 17 departments of the city budget for th coming year. A few minor cuts were ordered but, in general, the committee isn't finding much to change in the city manager's recommended $2M million budget and his budget draft shows little change over the current year's operations. The big police and fire depart ments' budgets were established at last night's meeting in City Hall, and new budget committee members were briefed in the an nual 4-H Clubs budget controversy and the annual complications over the health department budget in which the city sha-es. In approving th. manager's air port budget of $16,980, the com mittee accepted a $124 raise in the airjxrt manager's salary. Since this position is combined with that of purchasing agent, the salary will now be $5,000 a year for Charles A. Barclay who holds both titles. Library salary increases adding $1,032 to the city manager's an nual budget included raises from $297 to $310 a month for the cata loger assistant librarian; $225 to $250 for assistant circulation Ji brarian ( formerly chief desk as sistant); $208 to $225 for desk as sistants. Librarian Hugh Morrow told the committee salaries in his depart ment were low enough that vacan cies are hard to till. He said librar-' salaries started somewhat lower than other departments' and the gap had widened since most city salary boosts of the past dec ade had been percentage increas es. (Additional details on Page 2 Sec. 1.) Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features Comes the Dawn 4 Society, women's 6,7 SECTION 2 Sports '. .1. Valley news 3 Radio. TV 4 Comics 4 Classified ads S-7 Likely Within reputedly the third or fourth illustrated German Bible ever printed Mt Angel Abbey which hat just added the 15th-century Bible to its eighth day of televised public testi- mony, that he was covering up anybody." The Army secretary also dis claimed any knowledge that John Adams, Army counsel, had threatened to issue a "smear" report against McCarthy's chief counsel, Roy M. Cohn, early this year. The announcement that serious thought was being given to con fining future testimony to Stevens and McCarthy was made by Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill), who said he spon sored a motion at Monday night's post-hearing session to have coun sel for all interested parties can vass methods of speeding up the hearings. Chairman Mundt (R-SD) said Dirksen's motion was adopted una nimously. Sen. Symington (D-Mo, saying he spoke for the three Democrats on the seven-member subcommit tee, said howeyer that "we feel that all six principals, having been accused, should be heard. This conclusion was reached, Symington said, after "most seri ous consideration" had been given to the proposal to restrict further testimony to "only two of the prin cipals." The two-witness proposal was advanced by Joseph N. Welch, spe cial counsel to the Army in the dispute. (Additional details on page 8, sec. 2.) Politics on Parade... '' Who's Running for What in May Primaries! (EdHor't note: Storie In The Ore gon statesman's exclusive rouuot Parade series are written by ar tot the candidates en invitation of this newspaper and opinions expressed therein mar or may not be in ac cordance with The Statesman s own policy. Today'! subject: j GEORGE E. CAD WELL Candidate for SALEM ALDERMAN Ward S Vote for George E. Cadwell, al derman; resident of Salem all my life, having operated the Cadwell - i Oil Company xor i the past M , years. If elect- ed. I will work 2- for the best in t r-ftereats of the pedple of Salem :4 and work to get more industries J Ho for Salem t o m p 1 o y more people. George . Cadwell . 1 nave Deen n asked these questions by a great many people tn Salem: (1 Do you favor city manager form of government? The city May 4, 1954 PRICE Sc Combatants an Eastern bookdealer and is the Housewife's Photo Wins Pulitzer Prize SAN ANSELMO, Calif, tin A 39-year-old housewife who said she is "no photographer at all Mon day won the Pulitzer Prize for news photography for a picture she took with "a little old Brownie Re flex." "I'm the kind of person that al ways takes a camera with me on a trip and never takes a picture," said Mrs. Walter M. Schau when The Associated Press informed her that she won the prize. But she did remember to take a picture just a year ago Mon day during the dramatic rescue of truck driver P. M. Overby of Port land, Ore., as he was pulled from the cab of his semi-trailer truck as it dangled over the Pit river bridge north of Redding. The cab caught fire and plunged into the river shortly after the rescue. The picture was taken with film that "was at least a year old," the prize winner said. "Other pic tures on the roll were taken on the previous Mother's Day." (Additional details on page 8. sec. 2.) Cpl. Dickenson Jury Deliberates, Recesses WASHINGTON A jury of eight high-ranking Army "officers Monday deliberated for five hours and 22 minutes on collaboration-with-the-enemy charges against Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson and then recessed until Tuesday without reaching a decision. manager form has been voted in. It is my belief that the city coun cil should have more power to study expenditures and city waste, thus a savings to the taxpayer. 2) Do you favor municipal own ership of city transit lines? I do not believe the city should take over the transit lines because in such procedure in other cities they have operated at a loss. (3) Do you favor flouridation of the city water supply? I do not favor shoving this ton the people until they have had a chance to study it and vote on it. i k Tin vmi (vnr th Inns ran a plan for safety on railroad .cross - mgs? Yes I am in lavor of this. (5) Do you favor an increased budget to cover juvenile protec tion by police women? No. The juvenile delinquency in Salem is small in comparison with other cities. We have a police matron and a juvenile officer. The juv enile court has obtained 'a home in Salem to place juveniles await disposition of their cases and not having them detained in jails. Be sure and vote. (Tomorrow: Dem Madison ) No, 39 3 Days Obstacles to ! Peace Parley! Overcome By LYNN HEINZERLING GENEVA (ff The antagonists in the bitter jungle war of Indo china probably will face each; oth er across a Geneva conferences ta ble within the next three days, it was believed Monday. : Official French sources said the two most imposing obstacles tit the peace parley had been removed. The Russians agreed to sen the invitation to the Communist - led Vietminh rebels and the Vietna mese formally agreed to meet their enemies provided no recog nition of the Vietminh regime as a state was implied. The Russian invitation will be countersigned by Red China's For eign Minister Chou En-Lay the French said, but that is a Mace- saving gesture granted to Chou by me soviet union. The Western, and particularly UJS. insistence that Red thina cound not be recognized as in in viting power at this conference was respected. A Soviet source said Monday the Vietminh delegation would be head ed by the new foreign minister of Vietminh, Pham Van Don. The source said Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov woujd pro pose that India, Burma, Thailand and Indonesia also be invited to the Indochina talks. 5 The possible invitation of other countries is to be the first item on the agenda of the nin-party conference. Molotov, however, is not likely to insist on this-point, the source added. The United States is anxious to keep the conference limited to as few participants as possible. Vietnamese Foreign Minister Ng uyen Quoc Dinh was scheduled to leave for Paris Monday night by train for last minute consultations with Prince Buu Loc, preSnier of the war-torn Indochinese tate of Viet Nam. It is understood the leader of the Vietnamesa- peace delegation has not been , selected. LONDON l A Vietmihh dele gation passed through Moscow Monday night on the wajf to the Geneva conference. The delegation, travelling -by plane, was headed by Pham Van Dong, deputy prime minister of the Communist Vietminh regime, Moscow radio reported. Ship Smashps Astoria Dock ASTORIA tifl An outbound freighter, loaded with wheat, crashed into a dock and bashed a warehouse here early Monday. Pilots said a strong ebb tide pulled the ship into the structure. The freighter, the Joseph Feuer, dug 50 feet deep into 6ie dock, ripped up about a half -block length of it and struck ;j a ware house across the street rom the main office of the Columbia River Packers Assn. The vessel was able tojpull free, then went to a berth near Tongue Point, where a diver wai to check for damage. i The amount of damage to the dock and warehouse was not esti mated at once. f The vessel was headed for sea with 8,000 tons of wheat. 4 Light Rainfall Expected TdrJay Clouds this morning in Salem are expected to be followed by light rain this afternoon accord ing to a prediction by . the U. S. weatherman at McNary Field. A total of .07 of an inch of rain fell in Salem Monday and temper atures ranged from a high of 70 degrees to a low of 45. Highest temperature looked for today is 68 degrees with the lowest tonight near 40 degrees. Max. Mi. Precip. MX n " a .is 93 S 44 .00 80 47 M 59 ; 4S trace T7 r 4S tr;ce IS i SO .00 4S 3S trac . 1 S3 -5 77 M JW Salem 1 Portland 1 Mediord North Bend Rose burg San Francisco Chicago Now York Los Angeles WilUroeru Biver -J feet. FORECAST (from Ut S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy this rftorninf. ereactiMT cloudiness this aflen to Jiht T ' Temperature at 1J1:: ajn. today was 47. f SALEM FKEcrrrrATiow Since Start ef Weather .Tear Sep. 1 This Tear Las Tear Normal 41.17 2S.2S ; XS.lt