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2 (Sc. 1) Stcrlsmcm. Salem. Or.. Tutu. May 25. 1954 Committee New Salen Salem's $2Vi million city budget for the year starting July 1 was given final approval with only minor changes by the City Bud get Committee Monday night The budget now goes back to the City Council for enactment into law after a June 28 citizens' hearing at City HalL The Council is permitted to make limited adjustments afte the bearing. Rep. Stover May Replace Sen. Hitchcock KLAMATH FALLS tf Wyatt Pagett. chairman of the Klamath County Republican Central Com mittee, said Monday that State Rep. B. A Stover of Bend was being considered as a possible re placement for State Sen. Phil Hitchcock. Hitchcock, a resident of Klam ath Falls, recently announced he soon will resign to join the staff of Lewis and Clark College in Portland. Pagett said that State Rep. Ed Geary had been considered as a possible replacement, but that Geary had rejected the plan as he wishes to continue his campaign for speaker of the House at the next session. State Rep. David Baum also is seeking the speaker ship. Hitchcock's district is composed of Klamath, Lake, Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. His replacement will be choseji by party committees of the five xoun ties. Hit-RunDriver Dents Gesner Auto Again Richard Gesner, of 859 Gaines St, is beginning to believe his car is jinxed and destined to be banged into at periodic intervals by hit-and-run drivers. Gesner suffered his second hit run damage in the past year Mon day night while his car was park ed in the 300 block of North Commercial Street. He said be parked the car and went to work at about 4 p.m. and upon returning at 10.30 p.m. he discovered considerable damage to the rear of the car and to the trunk. He explained that there were large amounts of blue paint and primer paint scraped along his car near the damaged areas, apparently from the other car. There was no identification of the hit-run driver'- car, but police were investigating Monday night. Four Corners Barn Burns Statesman Newi Service FOUR CORNERS A fire of unknown origin late Monday night totally destroyed a barn located about 50 yards behind the home of Mrs. William C. Howard, 3810 Center St. Mrs. Howard said she was asleep when she suddenly realiz ed there was quite a glow in the back of the house. L o o k i n g through a rear window she dis- covered the blaze and called the Four Corners Volunteer Fire De partment. The one-story "barn, which Mrs. Howard said cost $1,800 to build three years ago, was partially in sured. She said that there was a bale of hay and a neighbor's pow er saw in the barn, but no ani mals. Naw . to . Convert Plane Carrier into Copter Transport WASHINGTON The Navy announced plans Monday to con vert an aircraft carrier into its first "assault helicopter transport." Rear Adm. Bernard E. Manseau, acting chief of the Bureau of Ships, told the Senate armed services ap propriations subcommittee the ves sel would be able to launch a Marine combat unit for assault op erations. The committee is work ing on the Navy's part of the de fense money bill for next fiscal year. Two Forest Fires Quelled in Oregon Oregon had two forest fires over the weekend, one of which burned 15 acres of slashings on Evans Creek in Josephine County. The other, caused by burning sawdust east of Lowell in Lane County, was put out quickly be fore causing any damage. Oregon had 26 forest fires this year through May 15, burning over 62 acres. That is 39 acres less than in the same period of last year. STARTS TODAY CONT. 1:45 "RETURN TO PARADISE" Technicolor Gary Cooper Co-Hit "VICE SQUAD" Edward G. Robinson Paillette Goddard Passes Budget This proposed budget after five committee meetings ended up just about what it had started out to be a tight, balanced budget reflecting but few changes or in novations over present city works and operations. The allowable 6 per cent in crease in tax revenue is taken, but no part of the budget is to be referred to the voters for an extra levy. The total estimated city costs in 1954-53 come to $2,528,888; compared with this year's $2,560. 035. But revenues are expected to be lower than this year. Bond Cost Added One addition to the budget Monday night at a City Hall meeting was $23,000 as the first year cost of a 10-year $20,000 bond issue which voters approv ed last Friday for a 12th Street improvement including curb sep aration of railroad tracks and other features. Alderman Daniel J. Fry. bud get chairman, said he felt the city's budget still came out with too small an emergency fund and perhaps not enough allowance for taxes that won't be collected. One of the biggest arguments was over a $2,540 budget for a city 4-H program, and this was renewed last night although the amount was approved. Some of the bugetmakers said they felt the program is worthy but should hot be financed through city taxes. They reminded the 4-H sponsors that they should be seeking a change in state law so that other than city financing could be ar ranged. By Departments The city budget breaks down by departments as follows: Engineering, $734,426; water, $460,506; fire $402,408; police, $365, 982; debt service, $168,200; street lighting, $80,350; parks and play grounds, $74,160; library,' $42,667; health, $29,128; recorder. $27,249; public buildings, $18,590; airport. $16,980; emergency fund, $16,500; city manager's office, S13;866; city attorney's, $13,329. Treasurer's, $10,358; judge's, $6, 659; procurement, $4,500; mosqui to control, $3,600 ; 4-H. $2,540; civil defense, $3,600; auditing, $2,000; elections, $2,000; cemetery, $1,000; planning and zoning, $1,000; Bush Home museum, $1,200; civil ser vice, $500; mayor-council expense, $1,500. At last night's meeting. Alder man David O'Hara called atten tion to the fact that only three of the nine citizen members of the committee were present! "This may be a legal quorum," he said, "but it shows a marked lack of interest." The committee is made up of the aldermen, mayor and nine citizen members. The latter are William H. Hammond, George Thomason and Harold Phillippe, who were present last night; Rus sell Bonesteele, Harvey Michaelis, Everett Crabtree, Dr. Morris Crothers, Fred Gibson and Con rad Paulson. Man Stricken on T aCatlOll, T lOWll j 7 i HnniP I or lllflraIV & j Statesman News Service SILVERTON Val Eberle, 42, of Mt. Angel was brought to Sil verton Hospital Monday by Wil lamette Ambulance Service after being transferred to McNary Field at Salem by a Red Cross snercy plane. Hospital officials said that Eb erle and his wife were vacation ing in California when he appar ently suffered an attack of ap pendicitis. He was operated on at Silverton Hospital Monday and his condition Monday night was considered "good. RIVE-IN THEATUI ii ph UIISN CAIDIkU. MMMWaY tvf Gates Open 6:45 Show at Dusk ENDS TONIGHT 1 Docm Martin Jerry Lewis in "Money From Home' if . . . Also Toney Curtis Joanne Dra , in 'Forbidden" STARTS TOMORROW! All Technicolor Pro gram Alan Ladd Shelley Winters in 'Saskatchewan" d&lso Rosemary Qooney lack Carson in "Bed Garters Bring the Whole Family ( See a Movie from Tear Car J Crash Victim K4 :M. Eleanor Ann Mcintosh, 18, of Sa lem, who was killed in an auto crash near Dallas early Mon day. (Story on page one.) Molalla Men Hurt in Wreck, One Critical' Statesman Newt Service SILVERTON Frank Lewis and Frank Lowe, both of Molalla, were brought to the Silverton Hospital Monday following col lision of Lowe's car with a Haley and Haley Co. logging truck east of Mollala on Highway 211. Lowe, who suffered head in juries and a fractured collar bone, was considered critical and was trasferred shortly after ar rival at Silverton to Good Samar itan Hospital in Portland. Lewis- who sustained fractures of the ribs and a chipped verte bra, was considered "fair" Mon day night at Silverton Hospital. Investigating Molalla officers said the Lowe vehicle was a total wreck after the collision at an intersection of Highway 211. The loggink truck was only slightly damaged. GI Wrestles Rare Fish to Shore at Coast PORTLAND OH Tom Baker. 20, sard he saw the thing swim ming right between his legs, so he grabbed it and began trying to tow it out of the ocean. "It squirmed a lot and made one pass at my legs with some awfully sharp - looking teeth. wanted to let go of it, but kept tugging, and finally had it onto shore," said Tom. That makes Tom one of the few persons who have raught a hand saw fish, and perhaps the only one to do it with his bare hands. The hand-saw fish was a slender. 4 Vr-foot-long member of the vi cious lancet family. It had a mouth eight inches wide, full of knife-like teeth." Tom. an airman third class from Columbus, Ohio, now stationed at Portland, came across the fish in four feet of surf while Tom was at Cannon Beach, Ore., Sunday. He grabbed the slick, scaleless, muscular fish near the tail, and somehow managed to dodge the biting while tugging it shoreward. When he got there, he didn t know what he had. Coastal resi dents said they had never seen anything like it before, either. Fi nally a state game commission expert identified it Monday, ex plaining it is a deep-water fish. rarely found near a shore. Judge Revokes Stay of Execution SAN RAFAL, Calif, im Kid naper rapist caryi cnessman. author of "cell 2455, Death Row" was quickly sentenced to die July 30 after a judge here Monday re voked his stay of execution. The 32-year-old convict wrote his prospective best seller during 6 years of awaiting death m San Quentin's gas chamber. i V Y im i"' '-1 2 v v , r STARTS T0II0BB0W! TWO BIG COLOR HITS A MAN-SIZED JOB... ON A RIP-ROARING FRONTIER! I H , WILL ROGERS, Jr. NANCY OLSON ion chaney COLORFUL CO-FEATURE Purchase of Fire Truck Recommended (Story also on Page 1.) Purchase of a new fire truck by the city was proposed Monday night at a City Council meeting in City Hall, but the truck was lost in a scuffle over bookeep ing, at least until the June 14 Council meeting. City Manager J. L. Franzen and Fire Chief E. L. Smith re commended the purchase of a $12,000 truck, using city, state and federal funds in a civil de fense tie-in. The city's share, said Franzen, would come from , a $9,800 bal ance in a special tax voted two years ago for a fire truck. Aldermen couldn't find the carry-over fund listed in their current budget books, and some of them took the manager to task for the omission. As a result, they tabled further action, until the next session of the council State and federal funds avail able until July 1 for the purpose would equal $5,900. A similar joint financing of a fire truck some time ago accounted for the balance left in the city's special tax fund for fire truck purposes. At West Salem The proposed truck would car ry 600 or 700 gallons of water and pump at 500 gallons per min ute, said Chief Smith. It would be stationed at West Salem and the smaller tank truck there would go into reserve. The aldermen approved the administration's plan to buy 500 feet of IVi-inch fore hose from Munnell it Sherrill, Portland. which bid at $1.25 per foot, less a 2 per cent cash discount Also approved by the Council was a contract for fire protec tion of Hicks Sundry Co. ware house, outside city limits, at an nual rate of $122. Discussion of the city's method of determining rates on such fire protection led to a request that Alderman James Nicholson go to the Salem Insurance Agents As sociation for advice on the mat ter. The city now charges 6 mills of the property's valuation, re gardless of hazard factors. Endorse License The Council gave its endorse ment of William A. Garvison . .in seeking a beer license from the state to operate Jack's Place, 180 S. High St., now owned by Jack Duncan. " Aldermen passed to the State Liquor Control Commission an adverse report on application from Jim Edward Hackett for a beer license at Lone Oak Tavern, 2535 Portland Rd., which be is seeking to buy from Florence V. Millard. A bill was passed to trade pieces of property at 17th and Mission Street so the city can eventually put 17th street through. Archie McKillop is the private party involved in the trade. Hearing on the proposal to re store general business zoning for "Farm Equipment Row" sector of Silverton Road was set for June 14. No One at Hearing Nobody appeared for last night's scheduled hearing on the city's intention to initiate improvement of Trade Street between Cottage and Winter at property owners' expense. Two actions of the Planning and Zoning Commission to allow ex emptions from zone rules for two residential property owners were recalled for re-argument before the Council next month. One per mits Goldie Macaulay to convert a house to two-family use at 1043 S. High St. The other allows Ed ward Salter to put an attic apart ment in his house at 507 N. 19th St. MARTIN PRATT DIES VANCOUVER. Wash. ( Mar tin T. Pratt, 73. sheriff of Multno mah County in Oregon from 1930 to 1949, died here Monday morn ing. He had been in a hospital since April 28 with a kidney ail ment. LAST DAY! "Queen of Sheba" and "Drums of Tahiti' Succumbs nid ' :: v--;i-c.' T. M. Medford, forrter Salem man, who died Monday at a Portland hospital. T. M. Medford, Former Salem Man, Dies T. M. Medford. Safeway Stores, Inc., executive and former resi dent of Salem, died Monday fol lowing surgery required after an auto accident in Portland May 14 Medford first came to Salem in 1945 from Klamath Falls where he assumed the position of dis trict manager from the Salem of fice. He left Salem in 1951 and moved to Portland to take over the job of retail sales manager. Friends of Medford said he was slated for his next advance with Safeway on June 6 when he was to have moved to Oakland, Calif. Medford suffered severe frac tures and internal injuries in the auto accident which sent him to the hospital. He never complete ly recovered. Survivors include the widow, Pearley. and a daughter, Theo dora, both of Portland. Announce ment of services will be made later by the Colonial Mortuary of Portland. Bing Crosby's Son Injured in Fatal Wreck SAN JOSE, Calif, on Bing Crosby's singing son, Gary, suf fered a cut nose and bruised knee Monday in a highway collision which killed a man and injured five in the other car. Twenty-year-old Gary, preparing to replace his famed father on the radio this summer, was taken to O'Connor Hospital in San Jose for X-ray examination. Doctors said Gary was not badly hurt and probably would be released Tues day. The dead man was Felix Oliv ares, 24, a farm laborer. E. D. Jones, attorney for young Crosby, quoted the Stanford Uni versity student as saying the other car drove out at an intersection. Santa Clara County Deputy Dist. Atty. Margaret Morten said no charges would be filed. All six occupants of the other car were residents of a farm labor camp. O STARTS in PfV. L :v" ! (Er. 1 I EXCITING CO-HIT - J -NO i ICE r- On Stage --At 8:30 P. M. Free Season Pass Given Away WINNER NEED NOT $1000 CASH BONUS Morse Sees Oregon Demo Win Next Fall PORTLAND l Sen. Wayne Morse came back to Oregon Mon day with predictions the Demo crats will take the top offices in next fall's election. He said he expected Richard L. Neuberger to defeat the Republi can incumbent, Guy Cordon, for U.S. senator, because of what he called the "reactionary record of Cordon." e also said that "as we smoke out Gov. Paul Patterson's private utility support and leanings, the people will realize that... they will have to support Joseph K. Car son." Morse added that, "The defeat of Angell leaves the Republican Party without a single candidate who stands for the people's inter est. ...I am convinced that Mrs. Edith Green (the Democratic can didate can defeat the combined opposition of McKee, McKay and McCall." He was referring to Paul McKee, president of Pacific Power & Light Co.: Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay; and the Republican who defeated Angell in the primary election, Tom Law son McCall. Queen Bee Uses fDope9 to Control Slaves LONDON OP) A British scien tist reported Monday a queen bee controls her subjects by turning them into dope addicts which have to Come to her for their supply. Dr. Colin Butler, head of a bee research project at Rothamsted, announced his finding in a newly published book. "The W:orld of The Honeybee." Dr. Butler identified the "dope, which he calls the "queen sub stance." as a kind of wax which covers the queen bee's body. The worker bees get the stuff by run ning their tongues over her. or by licking other bees which have been in bodily contact with the queen. The author said the "queen sub stance" can be rubbed off with a cotton swab, which then becomes as attractive to bees as the queen herself. Dr. Butle,r said there if evidence that the same sort of ad diction prevails among ants and termites. Re-Check of Count Gives Wells Lead For Nomination LA GRANDE UFi A re-check of primary election figures Mon day gave Harry Wells a 44-vote lead over Vernon D. Bull in their close race for Democratic nomina tion to a state House seat for Union and Wallowa counties. Earlier tabulations had credited Bull, a former state senator, with a four-vote edge. The re-check by county clerks gave Bull 1,243 votes in Union County, 261 in Wallowa for a total of 1,504. Wells had 1,359 in Union, 189 in Wallowa for a total of 1,548. The results were unofficial. The official canvass will be held later. LAST DAY 8 Great Stan -EXECUTIVE SUITE" TOMORROW! Anne BAXTER W Steve COCHRAN BE PRESENT . . . Winner Is Present! m .1 '-.''v- fa k i II " " " Letters on Capitol at Olympia Painted by Lovesick Youth OLYMPIA UP Politicians shout ing "smear campaign" were re lieved Monday when they learned the bright orange lettering on the Capitol dome was the artistry of The Theaters Todav . ELSINORK EXECUTIVE SUITE" with Wil liam Holden. June Allyon. Bar bara Stanwyck. Walter Pidfeaa CAPITOL "RIVER OF NO RETURN- with Marilyn Monroe "SAINTS GIRL TRIDAY" GRAND "THE QUEEN Or SHEBA" -DRUMS OT TAHITI" HOLLYWOOD RETURN TO PARADISE" with Gary Cooper VICE SQUAD" with Edward G. Robinson NORTH SALEM DRIVE IN "MONEY FROM HOME." Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis 'FORBIDDEN" with Tony Cur tis Move to Allow Sparklers in City Studied A move to once again allow Fourth of July sparklers but only the small tots' brand of sparkler was undertaken Mon day night by Salem City CounciL Aldermen David O'Hara and Robert F. White co-sponsored a bill to put sparklers back on the approved list (along with cap pis tols), after the Council received a request for such action from several merchants. Mayor Alfred Loucks said in definite wording about the "sparkl ers" had led to abuse in the past City Attorney said he had pre pared the new bill with a descrip tion of "sparklers with a burning area not to exceed one foot in length." Fire Chief E. L. Smith said even the little sparklers cause fires and burnt fingers and he's against them. The bill will be up for disposi tion June 14. Oil Developers Lease Land in Douglas County ROSE BURG un The Douglas County Court has leased lufasnr- face rights on 62,000 acres of county land to Oil Developers, lac. The lands are scattered over much of the county in parcels varying in size from 20 to 100 acres. The agreement, which leases the land for five years, gives the county 10 cents an acre yearly rental. If oil is found on the land the rental will increase to 50 cents an acre. The county also is to re ceive a one-eighth share of any oil or gas produced. If sulphur is found the county will receive $2 per ton. STARTS Warner Bros: m IE A filAf.lf.lOTH MARAUDER RAGING UP FROM THE CITY'S MURKY DEPTHS! I 3 DIMENSION and "PHANTOM ofTHE RUE MORGUE"-SS KARL MAIDEN (1AU06 DAUPHIN PATRICIA MEDINA STEVE FORREST COLORFUL CO- h - - . y. ..iBM..t.p...; a lovesick college boy trying to impress .a high school girl friend. Thurston County Prosecutor Hewitt Henry sa';d George Doherty Jr.. 19. honor student at SL Mar tin's College, admitted he painted the initials "G D. :i. R." on three sides of the dome early Monday morning. One set of initials six feet high faced the high school, across the street from the Capitol, where the girl could see them from her cl: -s-room. "I had nothing to do with it and I'm sorry it happened." the pretty 17-year-old high school senior told reporters. "But I don't think it will affect my friendship with him." The Prosecutor was not as for giving. He charged young Doherty with malicious trespassing. If con victed, Doherty could be Fined three times the cost of repairing the damage, a year ia the county jail, or both. Henry said. Henry said the youth was ac companied by his 18-year-old brother. Stephen, also a St Mar tin's honor student but the latter will not be charged as he appar ently did not participate in the actual painting. State Patrolmen traced the organize inten-ention against Gau watchman had jotted it down when he saw their, car parked on the Capitol grounds during the wee hours of the morning. Prior to the apprehension of the youths, politicans speculated that the lettering meant: Go Democrat ic, move Republicans. Emergency Board To Discuss State Hospital Project Discussion of whether to go ahead with construction of a $1, 530,000 new building at the Ore gon State Hospital -vill be aired this morning at a meeting of the state emergency boa with the members of the board of control. The emergency board, a legis lative committee, has voiced ob jection to the building on the grounds that an extra $200,000 or more would have to be appropri ated by the next legislature. The emergency board has been criti cal of the board of control .for not constructing the whole thing out of the $1,500,000 appropria tion made by the 1953 legislature. i Poor Circulation? Nerve Tension? A wandrrfal bw meelu.aira.1 ; ! Hnit Massage has ka rl- ; ! op4 thjtt brings relief from I palnfal Bmh cramps, Banburs? . ! cold feet a4 vtker circalatary ; aibnetrU. AIm cmfrts aching ; ; Jolats and sare, stiff mmscles, act- ; ; hig as a bd7 rdttloer. 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