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Tbese happy girls were found Monday morning taking their - first
awinuning lesson during the TMCA's 34th annual "Learn to Swim"
campaign. The week long series of beginners' swimming classes
for various age groups at the MY" pool will end Friday. Over 300
boys and girls started Monday. (Statesman photo)
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The interim commission which
has been studying the question
of constitutional revision voted
last week to recommend that the
next Legislative Assembly con
vene a constitutional convention
to undertake such a task. The
margin in the committee was
narrow, seven to six, and this
may be upset when the mail
ballots from three absentee
members are received. The dif
ference in opinion is not over
the need for a revision of the
97-year-old document, but whe
ther the whole instrument
should be rewritten and submit
ted to the neoole. or a series of
corrective amendments
submit-!
ted piecemeal. Some feared that
a comprehensive revision might
be defeated, so the labor would
be lost, whereas some of the ser
ial amendments would be approv
ed. The later method has been
followed in the near-century the
state constitution has been opera
tive. the amendments are
said to number 110.
A revision of the
tion is due, for it contains con
siderable deadwood. The descrip
tion of state boundaries, for in
stance, makes the Columbia and
Snake rivers the boundary on the
North and East to the mouth of
the Owyhee River, which would
give us the counties or Walla
Walla, Columbia, Asotin and Gar
field in Southeastern Washing
ton. We'd like very much to have
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ihm hut thev are Dart of the ;
State of Washington. Also there
are obsolete sections on deter
mining the seat of government
and
(Continued on Editorial page, 4.)
TV Installation
Kills Two Men j
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EUGENE 0T Two men at-!
tempting to install a television an-j
tenna were killed outright Monday
evening by electric shock. 1
They were Thomas Ross Witt, 1
SO. and Bill Jamerson. about 50, ;
both of small McKenzie River
communities east of here.
The 30-foot antenna pole, which
they were attempting to set up
near Jamerson' house, came into
contact with a 7,200-volt power 1
line.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
V WAR REN GOODRICH
Whn he $oys, 'poy deed
FLAY DEAD!"
Jury Convicts
John Ramoz of
Manslaughter
Statman News Service
DALLAS John Ramoz, 48, was
found guilty of manslaughter
Monday in the death of William
Lee Riggs, who was shot during
an altercation at the Ramoz home
in Grand Ronde last Dec. 30.
Sentence is to be pronounced
at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday by Cir
cuit Judge Arlie Walker.
Defense Attorney W. A. Wiest
said he planned to file notice of
appeal on the grounds that Judge
Walker erred in instructing the
jury to disregard Ramoz' mental
competency at the time of the
shooting.
The verdict was reached by the
circuit court jury in 40 minutes.
Jurors had a choice of two otner
verdicts second degree murder
or ,nncent The manslaughter
verdict was unanimous.
Riggs died in Barnes Hospital
at Vancouver on March 19.
VAN FLEET REPORTS
WASHINGTON Gen. James
van Fleet reported to President
Eisenhower Monday on conditions
he found in the Far East, and left
j the White Hodse to return immed-constitu-!
iately to that area for further ob-
servatiens.
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Willamette River -OS leet.
FORECAST ( from US. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem):
Mostly cloudy with occasional
light rain this morning. Partial
clearing and a few scattered show
ers this afternoon. High today near
65. Mostly cloudy tonight with a
low near 46. Partly sunny and warm
er Wednesday.
Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
was 51.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start of Weather Year Sept. t
This Year Last Year Normal
42.52 42.80 38.17
Sen. McCarthy Claims 2 Prominent Demos
Stirred Up Charges in Attempt to Split GOP
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON UPi Sen. Mc
i Carthy (R-Wis charged Monday
the Army accusations against him
and his aides were instigated by
two prominent Democrats in an ef
fort to make the Republican Party
commit suicide and wreck the two
party system.
In an angry reply. Sen. Syming
ton (D-Mo). one of the Democrats
named, blasted McCarthy as a
spreader of "terrible" unfounded
doubts as to the loyalty and in
tegrity of the U.S. armed forces
and the whole Eisenhower admin
istration. The McCarthy-Symington clash
bitterest yet to arise between them
also brought in the name of Clark
Clifford, onetime chief aide to
former President Truman.
It came after the last 25
available monitored telephone
GENEVA W) Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov clearly
dominated the negotiations for
peace in Indochina Monday night
on the eve of a conference session
which may provide the key to the
future of that war-troubled region.
Molotov, after six weeks of futile
debate, was expected to make an
important statement of Commu
nist policy at Monday's 17th ses
sion on Indochina.
His declaration may have an im
portant bearing on the deadlocked
peace talks here. It may decide
also the future of Premier Joseph
Leniel's government in Paris and
the head of the French delegation
R'Ha iH
Molotov talked to Bidault for
ori o K.,r Th.v rficc th
long debated subject of a neutral
commission to police the hoped for
cease-fire in Indochina, but failed
to reach agreement on its com
position, sources said.
Bidault was reported prepared
to make one concession that the
neutral nations supervision com
mission might include one Com
munist nation.
The Communists earlier had
asked that the supervisory com
mission for Indochina should be
modelled after the Korean com
mission, -which consisted of Po
land, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland
and Sweden.
The United States pointed to the
unimpressive record of the Korean
commission and rejected this setup
for Indochina.
Now apparently the Communists
have reduced their demand to one
Communist "neutral" on the com
mission. Bidault was reported as
being persuaded that a body with
three Asian nations, one Commu
nist and one Western nation might
be the solution.
'Mr. Peepers'
Really Weds
BOZMEN, Md m Wally Cox,
who took a bride on bit "Mr.
Peepers" television show recently,
slipped away Monday and really
got married.
His bride was 20-year-old Mari
lyn Gennarc, a New York red
haired miss who a week ago left
the cast of the Broadway hit "The
Paiama Game."
They had tried to keep it a sec
ret and "Mr. Peepers" shooed
away photographers and report-,
T?JXS befor.e..tve CeT!;!tZ-
"Ill deny it, he said. This is
too important an era in my life.
There s not going to be a story.
It is too sacred a thing.
A few minutes later he ex-
changed vows with Miss Gennaro j
on the lawn at Mayport, the se-1
eluded waterfront estate of Donald j
Seawell, New York lawyer, who
has many theatrical clients and
has been a friend of Cox for sever
al years.
Cox listed his age as 29 on the
application for a marriage license, j
Cornerstone
Stolen, Found
DECATUR, 111. UPi Millikin
University's pilfered 400 - pound '
cornerstone was found in back of
the college's football score-board
Monday night.
The stone was sealed up and ded
icated at solemn ceremonies on the
hcampus Sunday at the school's new
Scovill Science Hall. But, Sunday
night some -unknown stone-collector
swiped it and left a soapbox in its
place.
Dean of Men C. L. Miller said
at first "he just couldn't believe
that anyone would filch a corner
stone." After the stone was found
Miller opined "I think it was a col
lege prank. I plan no investiga
tion." calls were introduced as evidence
ill the televised hearings on the
row between McCarthy and Army
officials.
These calls disclosed, among oth
er things, that Secretary of the
Army Stevens took a personal in
terest on at least three occasions
in the Army career of G. David
Schine, drafted McCarthy aide.
Transcripts of Stevens' own calls
showed:
1. Stevens spoke of making "ev
ery effort" to get a special investi
gating assignment for Schine as
soon as the wealthy young New
Yorker completed basic training.
A dispute developed over this call
did Stevens phone Schine, or did
Schine call Stevens? In any case
Schine, who took part personally in
the argument, never did get stich
an assignment. He's still a priv
ate, as McCarthy has pointed out
several times.
Salem Man, 4 -Others,
Die in
Asia Air Crash
(Picture on page 2, sec. 1.)
Donald W. Eastridge, a Salem
electronics technician, was report-
i ed missing and presumed dead
along with four others Monday
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Marine Flying Boxcar off
! South Korea
A civilian employe of Philco, a
U.S. radio engineering firm, East
ridge was the husband of the for
mer Marilyn Archibald, 1985 Mar
ket St., and the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Eastridge, Albany.
His 27th birthday is today.
Eastridge had been in the Far
East since last November, as a
civiMan employe of Philco in con
nection with government contract
work of a confidential nature. He
made his headquarters in Korea
and traveled the Orient on many
business trips by plane, according
to the family here.
Others Also Lost
Associated Press reported from
Tokyo Monday night that the Air
Force headquarters said an Air
Force officer, Capt. C. L. Ber
nasco, Trenton, N. J., and three
Marines also were presumed dead
in the plane crash. "Search has
been discontinued," AP reported.
Six survivors were picked up
at sea.
Mrs. Eastridge received an Air
Force telegram earlier, saying
her husband was missing and a
search was being made. Later
Monday, a telegram from Philco's
Philadelphia headquarters said
their Tokyo office understood
Eastridge was lost off Korea.
Neither telegram contained de
tails. Sisters in Salem
. Eastridge was a brother of Mrs.
George Birrell and Mrs. Charles
Ladd, Salem, and Mrs. Lewis Gil
lam, Prineville.
He was a graduate of Salem
High School and Willamette Uni
versity (1950) who had taken a
year's graduate work in mathem
atics and physics at Oregon State
College. Last year he received
five months' special training from
phiko at Phiiadelphia, prior to
I his overseas work.
i Eastridge was a member of St.
Marks Lutheran Church. During
w M w n he gerved ,
. N radarman.
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taught violin in Salem at one
time and had been a member of
a popular dance band, the West
ernaires. Silverton City
Budget Okehed
Statesman News Service
SILVERTON The city budget
of $231,169. as submitted by City
Manager Robert Borland, was ap
proved Monday night at a joint
meeting of the City Council and
the budget committee.
The budget is $19,585 in excess of
last vear's and is to include addi-
tional funds for road improvement j
and sewer and water line exten
sion. The budget hearing is set
for July 12.
Mayor Harry Carson presided at
the meeting with the budget com
mittee chairmaned by Reber Al
len. Other members of the com
mittee present were J. Carey
Moore, secretary; George Weisner
and C. B. Anderson. Total evalu
ation was reported to be $1,831,164.
2. Stevens went to Allen W. Dul
les, head of the Central Intelli
gence Agency, on his own initia
tive to see if Schine could get an
assignment with this super secret
counter - espionage agency. Noth
ing came of it. McCarthy recent
ly said there is evidence of "Com
munist infiltration" of the CIA, a
charge Allen Dulles has denied.
3. Stevens arranged two weeks
of temporary duty in New York for
Schine. starting immediately after
his induction, for the purpose of
completing work on McCarthy
subcommittee business.
The Army secretary personally
guaranteed to Roy M. Conn, Mc
Carthy's chief counsel and a friend
of Schine, that this arrangement
would go through. He invited Cohn
to call him at once if any hitch
(Additional details on page 8, sec.
2.)
Graduates Adjust Tassels Prior to Ceremony
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Salem High School senior class president Paul Beck and graduating senior Esther Hyatt are shown
above just before last night's graduation exercises which saw 549 graduating seniors receive diplo
mas. Paul is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Beck, 1930 Park Ave., and Esther is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. J. E. Hyatt, 1894 Berry St. (Statesman photo)
SHS Seniors
Graduated
Amid Praise
"An unusual class," Salem
High's Class of 1954, won the
praise of Dr. G. Herbert Smith.
Willamete University president, in
his address before the graduates
at their commencement in a
packed school auditorium Monday
night.
The speaker singled out three
marks of distinction for the class
of 549 graduating seniors acad
emic leadership as evidenced by
many outstanding scholarship
awards to class members; an
outstanding religious, spiritual
and moral leadership; and, third
the historic position of the class
for its strong influence and exam
ple at the outset of Salem's divi
sion into two public high schools.
Receive Diplomas
At the climax of the ceremony
last night the 549 seniors receiv
ed their diplomas from Superin
tendent of Schools Walter E. Sny-rl-r,
who scared the dignitaries'
platform with Principal Edmund
A. Carleton and School Board
President Leroy J. Stewart.
The graduates in their blue
caps and gowns filled half the
main floor of the auditorium
which was otherwise crowded
with an overflow crowd of par
ents, friends, teachers, program
participants.
Discusses Heritage
Dr. Smith, in the only address
on the program, discussed the
American heritage of individual
freedom, contrasting it with the
lot of Russians under a Soviet
dictatorship.
The speaker said human re
sources at work are the basis for
America's heritage spirit of ini
tiative, urge to. create and pro
duce, will to achieve.
The Rev. George L. Holmquist,
pastor of Keizer Lutheran Church
gave the invocation and benedic
tion. Program music was provid
ed by the school orchestra under
Victor Palmason's direction; sax
ophonist Sandra Ann Schori, ac
companied by Karen Johnson; so
loist Ralph Van Horn, accompa
nied by Sandra Owsley.
Falling Tree
Limb Kills
Lebanon Man
Statesman News Service
LEBANON Chester Arthur
Rhoades. 54, of Lebanon, was
fatally crushed Monday morning
in a logging accident near Soda
Fork about 25 miles east of Le
banon, Linn County Coroner Glenn
Huston reported. .
Rhoades. an employe of the Wil
lamette National Lumber Co. of
Foster, was falling a 70-foot snag
when the accident occurred, the
coroner said. The falling snag
knocked a limb from a nearby
tree which fell on the logger. He
was killed almost instantly.
Rhoades is survived by the
widow and two daughters. The
body was taken to the Huston
Funeral Home in Lebanon pend
ing arrangements.
Gen. Navarre Admits
Failure of Campaign
By JOHN RODERICK
SAIGON, Indochina (JP) Gen. Henri Navarre admitted Monday
night failure of a five-month French Union campaign intended to
smash Vietminh strength in Central Annam. He said this might pose
an even greater immediate threat to bis successor than the situation
in the Red River Delta.
Navarre described as "pure hysteria" reports that the delta
Joe-Must-Go
Leader Plans
New Campaign
CHICAGO OP Standing before
a 17-foot table loaded with signa
tures urging the recall of Sen. Mc
Carthy (R.Wis.), LeRoy Gore
termed the Joe-Must-Go campaign
"The most successful failure in
history" and mapped plans for
similar drive after the November
election.
Gore, Sauk City (Wis.) weekly
newspaper editor who started the
movement to recall McCarthy
from the Senate, said at a news
conference "we'd be foolish if we
don't follow through."
The petitions carrying the sig
natures of an estimated 300,000
persons, were whisked out of
Wisconsin to avoid having them
subpoenaed. Gore said.
Taken to Minnesota
He said another 50,000 were taken
to St. Paul, Minn., by a friend.
At least 403.904 signatures were
needed to petition for McCarthy's
recall. Gore - announced earlier
Monday that the Joe-Must-Go
Club failed to get that many, but
did not give the exact number of
signatures obtained.
Gore said his strategy now is
to wait until after the November
elections, when he figures that the
total vote cast will be slightly over
a million.
250,000 Needed
On the basis of a million votes,
recall petitions would require
around 250,000 signatures that
is, 25 per cent of the total cast.
Referring to the estimated 350,000
signatures coDected, Gore said:
"We'll have it made. There'll be
a lot fewer people who'll be afraid
to sign."
Gore said present signatures will
be pertinent uf the next drive since
he plans to forward postcard; to
the persons who signed and get
them to sign again and return
them.
Gore said the drive "proved that
anti-McCarthy sentiment would
see him defeated in an election
today."
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
At Slem S, Yakima 4
At Tri-City 8, Wena tehee 4
At Lewiston 5, Vancouver 4
At Edmonton, Calgary, rain
At Spokane, Victoria. rSin
PACIFIC COAST
(No Games Scheduled.)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Boston 3-5. Detroit 2-4
(Only, Games Scheduled.)
NATIONAL, LEAGUE
I At St. Louis S. Brooklyn 7
At Mllwauktc Z. New York 4
!SMii
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, t' t
was in imminent periL Advices
from Hanoi said the rebels were
pushing closer to the delta from
Dien Bien Phu in an attempt to
close a pincers on that northern
most strategic area of Indochina.
Navarre, who has been relieved
as commander in chief in Indo
china, told newsmen the operation
launched in January to seize a
long strip of Viet Nam's coast had
met with no success.
French Union forces established
a beachhead at Tuy Hoa, 250 miles
northeast of Saigon, last Jan. 21 in
what was billed then as their first
large scale offensive not aimed pri
marily at warding off rebel blows.
But Navarre said his troops
mostly Vietnamese failed to de
stroy six Vietnminh regiments on-
erating in the area. Last week the
French High Command said 200
Vietnamese were wiped out and
100 more mauled by Vietminh
troops at Cung Son, 25 miles west
of Tuy Hoa. .
Navarre said the. Central Annam
situation held more potential dang
er for his successor. Gen. Paul Ely,
than the delta.
The retiring Commander said the
six Vietminh regiments in Central
Annam could strike southward
from the Kontum Plateau toward
Dalat, only 120 miles northeast of
Saigon, the summer, capital of Bao
Dai, Viet Nam's chief of state.
It is also possible that the Viet
minh could hit toward lower Laos
and Cambodia from the Plateau des
Bolovens east of the Mekong River.
(Indochina stories also on page
5, sec. 2.)
Caliill Trial
Scheduled for
Polk County
NEWPORT, Ore. (Jfi The trial
of Otto Cahill, accused of taking
$750 from funds of a water district
in North Lincoln County, will take
place in Polk County.
Circuit Judge Fred McHenry
granted the change of venue Mon
day after Cahill's attorney. Harry
Hoy, said he feared Cahill could
not get a fair trial in Lincoln
County because of publicity over
a recent vice investigation.
Cahill was identified as a leader
in a group demanding the investi
gation. The grand jury investi
gated, and the only indictment
returned was the one accusing
Cahill of taking the water district
funds. Cahill has denied the
charge.
The date for the trial has not
been set.
PRODUCE BILL GAINS
WASHINGTON Or) The House
Agriculture Committee Monday ap
proved legislation which would au
thorize the sale or barter of mti
billion dollars worth of surplus
farm products abroad for foreign
currencies.
Salem Youth
Among Group
Seen by Plane
PORTLAND Cf) Five students
from the University of Oregon
Dental School, missing over night
on the east slope of. Mount Hood. ..
were sighted Monday by air
searchers.
Later a two-man Air Force res
cue party parachuted into the
heavily timbered region with a
food supply.
The Air Force reported that the
five were unharmed. They were
identified as Kenneth Berg, Eriel
Hinds, James Pinardi and John
Say, all of Portland, and Robert
Pattison of Salem.
(Pattison, graduate of Willam
ette University last year, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Pattison, 291 Kingwood Ave.)
Failed to Return
Tbey left Portland Saturday
planning to fish in Badger Lake
and return Sunday afternoon. A
search was launched when they
had not returned Monday morn
ing. The party was sighted from the
air by Capt. Gordon L. Fonlund.
public relations officer for the
Oregon Air National Guard at the
Portland Air Base, and Lt. Orria
W. Hayes.
Three of the five were approxi
mately 1 v mires south of the lake.
They had spelled out a message
that they were well but hungry.
4 Unaccounted fer
A second party of four men, be-
lieved to be members of a ground
search party were not accounted
for late Monday night
The second party, sighted by
search planes earlier in the day,
was on a snow-covered, windswept
five students.
The search .for this party, was
to continue Tuesday.
At McChord Base, the Air Force
reported that a stove and sleeping
bags had been dropped to the par
ty. The group is expected to begin
the trip out of the area Tuesday
morning.
Wreckage of
Stolen Plane.
Bones Found
Stateiman Newi Service -
LEBANON A light passenger
plane, listed as stolen from Green
Flying Service at Eugene in
March. 1948. was renorted Mnn.
i day to have been found crashed
! in the rugged mountainous area
! about 25 miles east of Lebanon.
Jerry Thomasnn. a timVur
cruiser with Weyerhaeuser Tim
ber Company out of Centralis,
Wash., said Monday he found the
craft where it had burrowed into
Highdeck Mountain in the Syxes
River watershed. He said there
were a lot of bones in the plane,
but he was unable to locate any
positive identification.
The plane, found 15 miles from '
any road in the area. wa m Pi nor
j Super Cruiser, NC7757H, which
was Deiieved to have been taken
by a man named Bosque. Thom
ason told authorities he didn't
believe the craft could be locat
ed by description of direction
and he said he was willing to lead
a party in when he returned to
the area from Washington in
three days.
However, Joseph Gilbert, assist
ant area designee for the State
Board of Aeronautics Air Search
and Rescue, indicated Monday
that he and the coroner might try
to find the craft beginning some
time Tuesday. The plane is de
scribed as badly demolished.
Rusia Seks to Break
Millionaire's Will
NEW YORK OH The Soviet Em
bassy started court action Monday
to try and break the will of a mil
lionaire surgeon who left most of
his money to charity. Two of his
nieces live in Russia.
The action involved the two mil
lion dollar estate of Dr. Max
Einhorn. who died in New York
last Sept. 25.
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