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2 (Sc 1) Statesman, Salem, Or Thurs.. May 13. 1954
Was Alligator Seen
In Columbia River?
KENNEWICK, Wash. OH "Yes
sir. it was an alligator. All of 14
feet long. too. Right there on the
banks of the Columbia," 0. B.
Cunningham said.
"Where?"
Corporate Tax
Rate Kept in
Revision Plan
WASHINGTON Lf" The Senate
Finance Committee confirmed of
ficially Wednesday it haj tenta
tively approved several important
sections of the omnibus tax revi
sions bill including a year's exten
sion of the 52 per cent corporate
tax rate.
The committee issued its first
statement of its actions after sev
en days of closed-door hearings on
the 875-page bill. Several weeks of
additional sessions are in prospect.
Chairman Millikin R.-Colo said
any further interim reports are
contingent on newsmen making it
clear that sections all are subject
to reconsideration.
Reporters had been informed
privately in the past weefc of sev
eral of the major committee de
cisions. One of these was the extension
for a year, to April 1, 1955. of
the 52 per cent corporation tax
rate. Without the extension, it
drops to 47 per cent.
More Revenue
The administration asked for this
to bring in an extra $1,200,000,000
of revenue in the next year. This
will largely offset, in the first year
of operation of the measure, the
$1,400,000,000 of revenue losses
caused by various other sections.
Among other provisions tentative
ly approved were:
Allowance to farmers of a tax
deduction for specified soil conser
vation expenses up to 25 per cent
of gross income. The finance com
mittee modified this to make clear
the provision applies to earthen
dams not subject to depreciation,
and to construction of water
courses and ponds.
Granting of full split income ben
efits to widows and widowers with
dependent children and single peo
ple with very close dependent rela
tives. The Finance Committee mo
dified this to make a taxpayer
eligible for the benefit if the de
pendent is a 'grandchild, one of
whose parents is dead.
Lists Deductions
Increasing the allowable deduc
tions for charitable contributions
to 30 per cent instead of the pres
ent 20 per cent. The house made
this additional 10 per cent applic
able to religious orders, education
al institutions, hospitals, churches,
and conventions of cnurches The
Finance Committee struck "reli
gious orders" from this list.
Elimination of the basic rate
of 20 per cent income tax on
$1,200 of retirement income. The
House reduced this credit if the in
dividual earns more than $900 a
year. The Finance Committee
knocked out the $900 limitation for
persons over 75.
Permitting taxpayers to deduct
medical expenses above three per
cent of gross income instead of 5
per cent as in present law. The
provision also doubles the present
ceiling and makes it $2,500 per
person and $10,000 per family.
The Senate group knocked out
of the bill a House provision per
mitting the taxpayer to deduct in
terest charges up to 6 per cent
of the average unpaid balance on
an installment buying contract.
Under present law, he may deduct
the interest only if it is separately
stated in the installment contract.
Lipstick on Hankie Not
Grounds for Separation
QUEBEC LP Lipstick on a
husband's handkerchief doesn't es
tablish grounds for a legal separa
tion. Justice Oscar Boulanger has
ruled in superior court.
The judge said a wife did not
have grounds for separation sim
ply because at a dance a husband
could not resist the temptation to
taste his partner's lipstick.
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"On the banks of the Columbia,
about a mile upstream from the
Pasco - Kennewick bridge. I
thought it was a log until it began
to move and I could see it had
four legs, and a tail."
His wife and son saw it too, he
said.
Cunningham, a resident of Ken
newick, told his story to the Tri
City Herald. The Herald, feeling
that such an event had news value,
printed the story. Scoffers hooted
and hollered in derision, suggest
ing the name of several local eye
glass vendors for Cunningham.
But not George F. Epley of Pas
co. Xossir. He said 'gators in the
Columbia are old stuff and he
helped capture two of them 38
years ago.
"I was about to step on a log,"
he' recalled, "when it started to
move. It turned out to be a 7-foot
alligator."
He said he and three other men
later found the 7-footer sunning
himself on a railroad trestle. 'It's
a wonder there are any survivors1.
They captured it and another one.
trussing them up with a coil of
rope. The 'gators thea were given
the Portland Zoo, he related.
Epley said the theory was ad
vanced at the time that the alli
gators came from tropical regions
by boat to Portland and then up
stream to Pasco by train. A circus
playing in the region at the time
denied any knowledge of the toothy
creaUires
Epley figures Cunningham's big
one could be related to the other
two, growing seven feet in the 38
years.
Cunningham and Epley pooh -pooh
any suggestion that what
Cunningham saw might have been
a giant sturgeon.
"Sturgeons also look like logs."
Epley said, "but I've yet to see
one with legs climbing a river
bank."
Or. for that matter, sunning
itself on a railroad trestle, eh,
Epley?
Ike Praises
Bipartisan U.S.
Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON IV President
Eisenhower Wednesday expressed
firm belief in a bipartisan foreign
policv and the Democratic leader
of the Senate said his party was
willing to go "more than half way"
to achieve it.
"As Americans interested in the
preservation of our country, I
think we should be able to work
together in any area of foreign
policy where we are in agree
ment," Sen. Lyndon Johnson D
Tex told the Senate.
At the same time, chairman
Leonard W. Hall of the Republican
National Committee accused "a
few disgruntled Democrats. . . .
men of little faith" of "attempting
to talk us into an international
panic."
Eisenhower entered the heated
debate over bipartisanship with an
assertion at his news conference
that he thinks the foreign affairs of
the United States are handled on a
bipartisan basis so far as possible
and practical.
He said he was a firm believer
in the system, and that conferences
with bipartisan groups go on all
the time at the White House and in
other branches of government.
The President had been asked
how much of the recent Democrat
ic attack on administration foreign
policy he ascribed to election year
politics and how much to genuine
concern over world affairs.
He said he never attacked an
other's motives.
Gordon McRae
To Headline Two
Rose Fete Shows
PORTLAND IfP Gordon McRae,
radio and television singing star,
will headline two Rose Festival
night shows here June 10-11.
The Portland Rose Festival
Assn announced Wednesday Mc
Rae had signed a contract to sing
on "Starlight Serenade," a festival
musical presentation on a Thurs
day and a Friday night.
He is the second name attraction
lined up for this year's festival.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans,
famed Hollywood western couple,
and their horses will lead the big
annual parade June 11.
Meters to Replace
Hitching Posts
EUGENE iJPi Landmarks of the
hnrse-and-bueev days here two
hitching posts have been ordered
torn down by the City Council.
Appropriately the posts, which
have been little used in recent
years, will be replaced on the
county park1 block downtown with
parking meters.
Cash $25.00 Weekly
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Extortion Letter
Sent to Mavor
Of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO Uf Mayor
Elmer E. Robinson' received an
extortion letter possibly frojn
a woman demanding $20,000 on
pain of death, police admitted Wed
nesday. Police and FBI agents guarded
Mayor Robinson as he dedicated a
downtown garage Wednesday.
Presence of so many officers and
plainclothes men caused newsmen
to ask questions.
"We think we know who sent
the letter." Police Chief Michael
A. Gaffey told them. "We think
it's a woman."
The mayor had this comment on
the case:
"When police are ready to crack
it, there will be a good story."
He said he had not read the let
ter, received by his wife at his
home Monday, but had turned it
over to police immediately.
French Planes
Blast Reds in
River Delta
By LARRY ALLEN
HANOI, Ipdochina UFi Big
squadrons of French Privateers
and B26 bombers Wednesday again
blasted Vietminh troops in the Red
River delta, which a French gen
eral called "the route to all of
Southeast Asia."
The planes, dropping 1.000-pound
high explosive bombs, hit rebel
bases in the southern and south
eastern delta. The French fear
that the area may be the Commu
nist - led Vietminh's new No. 1 tar
get now that Dien Bien Phu has
fallen. Rebel troops which took
part in the long siege of Dien Bein
Phu were reported moving toward
the western edge of the delta.
The planes hammered rebel
jtrpops entrenched in villages not
flCff' from the railway and hiehwnv
linking Hanoi and Haiphong on the
coast. These routes are the main
supply line for French Union forces
in Northern Indochina.
Carefully avoiding the Vietminh
troops concentrated in the hills
around Dien Bien Phu, the bomb
ers also roared northwest and
blasted five big gaps in key high
ways over which truck convoys
with supplies and Vietminh troops
were moving east.
The air force also hit a big Viet
minh munitions base at Yem Bay,
on the upper Red River 80 miles
northwest of Hanoi, touching off
big explosions and fires.
The heavy aerial assaults slowed
the shifting 0f Vietminh troops out
of the Dien Bien Phu area east
toward 'the perimeter of the Red
River delta.
Although French authorities said
they felt it would take six to eight
weeks for the Vietminh to shift
into the delta, the French war
planes were doing all thev could
to slow down that schedule.
Salem Firms
Low Bidders
On Road Jobs
PORTLAND MV-Oregon's state
highway commissioners Wednes
day expressed considerable doubt
over a proposal put 'orward by
Glen Jackson, Medford, as spokes
man for the State Industrial De
velopment Commission.
He suggested that the highway
commission take over direction of
the tourist promotion business in
Oregon. He said there now were
120 such promotion groups, and
much money could be saved if the
highway commission would unify
the efforts.
The commissioners said they
doubted they had authority to do
that, but took the proposal under
advisement.
Bid action included:
Klamath Grading slope on The
Dalles-California Highway, f o
laws, Salem, $37,000. Referred to
engineers.
Linn Constructing One Horse
Slough Bridge, 84 feet long, on
Lebanon-Crabtree Corner Road
Orland C. Bennard, Portland,
$15,040. Referred to engineers.
Marion Paving .26 of a mile in
DetroU. Warren Northwest, Inc ,
Portland. $7,261. Awarded.
Polk Grading and oiling 3.18
miles of Burns Corner-Suver
County Road, seven miles south of
Dallas. Fred Rouse and Henry H
Miller, Salem, $94,928. Referred to
engineers.
More Sunshine
On Weather Slate
The sun is slated to be on the
agenda for the Salem area
through Friday according to pre
dictions by the U.S. weatherman
at McNary Field.' Highest tem
perature looked for today is
about 72 degrees with a low to
night of about 42 degrees.
Range in Salem Wednesday was
a high of 64 and a low of 42 de
grees. 9 4
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Canada Lauds
Change in U.S.
Power Policy
OTTAWA m Gen. A. G. L.
McNaughton, Canadian chairman
of the International Joint Commis
sion, said Wednesday the United
States is abandoning what he called
its "ostrich-head-in-the-sand atti
tude" to downstream benefits for
Canada from Columbia River pow
er. He also told the House of Com
mons Foreign Affairs Committee
the $423,000,000 Mica Creek Dam
project on the British Columbia
section of the Columbia could be
cleared for construction within a
year.
McNaughton said intense rivalry
is developing between British Co
lumbia and the Northwest United
States over who is going to receive
the benefits of Columbia River
power.
He said the Eisenhower adminis
tration had decided to encourage
the states and private interests to
develop the project. The five states
concerned Washington, Oregon,
Montana, Idaho and Utah were
reaching an agreement on down
stream benefits. If the states could
reach such an agreement, there
was a better chance of the United
States arriving at such an agree
ment with Canada, he said.
Refused Discussion
A year ago, McNaughton said,
the American section of the Inter
national Joint Commission refused
to discuss downstream rights and
was instructed not even to talk
about it.
The Libby Dam would back up
water into Canada for 42 miles,
flooding out agricultural land,
roads, railroads and communica
tions. The United States a year ago
was willing to make a cash settle
ment in compensation for these
losses but refused to give Canada
any rights to the power which
would be developed at Libby. Can
ada is holding out for a share in
the power, or downstream, rights.
May Give Power
'The United States now is mov
ing in the direction of giving power
in exchange for flooded land, not
only cash." McNaughton said.
"The principle of downstream
benefits is coming to be recognized
in the United States. It is no longer
just a pious hope.
"We want only our fair share,
nothing more. We now are in a
more favorable position than a
year ago for our representations
to be dealt with."
The general referred to Mica
Creek below the big bend of the
Columbia as an "astronomical in
vestment." He said there is no
doubt in the minds of commission
engineers that the Mica Creek
Dam should be built. It was up to
the British Columbia government
tp decide whether it would be built
and, if so, by whom.
Sweden Asks
U.S. if Planes
Violate Border
STOCKHOLM 1 Sweden has
asked the United States and Bri
tain to make a thorough investiga
tion of whether any of their air
craft have crossed into Swedish
territory without authority, the
Swedish Foreign Office said Wed
nesday night.
The announcement added the
Swedes are "expecting definite an
swers." The Foreign Office said no sim
ilar request had been made to Rus
sia since the Soviet Embassy hare,
after receiving instructions from
Moscow, voluntarily declared the
planes in question were not Rus
sian. The request to the United States
and Britain follows a series of
flights, over Swedish territory by
unidentified aircraft two weeks
ago.
Army Leads Study
Of Radiation As
Food Preservative
W ASHINGTON OB The Army
has taken over direction of an in
tensified program to determine
whether radiation can replace
present means of preserving food.
An Army announcement Wednes
day said the Atomic Energy Com
mission will discontinue its re
search work in this field but will
cooperate with the Army.
Research to date, the Army said,
indicates radiation may offer as
great possibilities as other means
of sterilizing food, such as chemi
cals, or the use of heat or cold.
RUSS DENY CHARGE
LONDON un The Soviet Gov
ernment denied Wednesday a U.S.
charge that American prisoners in
the Korean War had been turned
over to the Soviet Union by North
Korea and Red China.
A normal human ear can dis
tinguish about 333,000 different
tones.
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Salem Firm's
Bid Wins on
Fish Tanks
A low bid of $9,848 by Stevens
Equipment Company, 110 Divi
sion SV, won the company con
tract to deliver three fish libera
tion tank units on government
furnished trucks to the Portland
district, Corps of Engineers.
One other bid of $10,500 was
received from tbe Honeyman
Manufacturing Company, P o r t
land. Unit price bid by Stevens
was $3,283 and Honeyman, $3,350.
Two of the tanks are destined
for duty at the Leaburg Dam
trout hatchery on the McKenzie
River. The other will go to the
Marion Forks salmon hatchery,
24 miles east of Detroit dam on
the North Santiam River.
38 Students
Honored at
Oregon State
CORVALLIS OP Awards went
to 18 students at the annual honors
and awards convocation on the
Oregon State College campus
Wednesday.
Tex. R. Whiteman of Corvallis,
a varsity basketball player, won
the Corvallis Elks senior award
given the junior man judged to
have contributed most to OSC in
three years through student activi
ties, citizenship and leadership. It
is a tuition and cash scholarship
for eight months of the senior
year.
Ethel L. Doyle, Moscow, Idaho,
received the senior woman award
for intellect, spirit and wholesome
influence.
Frances Louise Duryee of North
Bend, Ore., won the Drucilla
Shepard Smith award for highest
scholarship. Her average was 3 96.
Straight A is 4.0.
Among the other awards, Mar
garet Robb. Baker, won the
Clara H. Waldo award for senior
women.
Chiropractor
Removed From
State Board
PORTLAND Orv-Ed Armstrong,
the governor's administrative
assistant, announced here Wednes
day night that Dr. C. C. Dunham,
Seaside chiropractor, has been
removed from office as secretary
treasurer of the State Board of
Chiropractic Examiners.
He said the other members of
the chiropractic board Dr. F. I.
poddard, Salem, and Dr. J. E.
Mitchell, The Dalles, will go to
Seaside Thursday to investigate
matters and protect the interests
of the state.
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Trial Starts
In Portland
PORTLAND UPi Jimmy Valen
tine, 41. telling reporters "this is
the first time I ever was in jail
when I could say I was innocent,"
went on trial Wednesday on a
kidnap attempt charge.
Valentinei who gained eight
pounds while off his narcotics
habit while inJail awaiting trial,
is accused of trying to abduct
George P. Brice III, 9, son of a
wealthy financier, from a fashion
able private school last March 19.
The grand jury indicted him
after the boy's mother and their
maid identified him as the man
who forced them to drive to the
school to get the boy.
Valentine also was indicted for
1 kidnaping the two women but the
current trial involves only the try
against the boy. The abduction
attempt failed when Mrs. Brice
was allowed to enter the school
alone and gave the alarm.
Selection of a jury will continue
Thursday. The first session
attracted an overflow crowd.
ROME WORKERS STRIKE
ROME UTi Rome's industrial
workers went on a 24-hour strike
for higher wages at midnight
Wednesday.
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people who drink
at least six cups a day
want a coffee
that's rich and satisfying.
That's why so many
prefer Golden West Coffee.
Tot Admits Being
Lost, Returned Home
Three-year -old Linda Lyda, 2020
N. Church St, and her black dog
on a lease, gave parents and police
a start Wednesday afternoon when
she turned up missing from home.
Her parejits, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Lyda, called city police. The
youngster, in thevneantime, came
across two grade school girls some
distance from home and confessed
to them that she was lost. They re
turned her to her parents.
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trouble to eat and definitely not
worth your money. OR . . .
a hamburger can be made as
carefully as the most expensive
dishes. It can be made of Gov
ernment Inspected beef which is
ground just before use. It can
be tenderly cooked to preserve
its juciness, and served Vith a
special relish dressing to en
hance the natural flavor of the
meat Then this popular sandwich becomes a rhapsodv in good
eating, and when it's THAT good it's called a SANBURGER.
We sell them for only 35 cents, and they are easily worth it
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Who Froze
Monkey Tail?
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Jh Who
froze the monkey's tail? ;
City zoo officials say ii already
was frozen when he was donated
last November by James Terry.
"Not so," Terry said Wednesday.
The question arose Monday when
zoo officials tried to catch the
monkey and his tafl hit tha cage.
To make a long tail short, the
frozen four inches just fell off.
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