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rn jwlKJi J"L Pact Divides n J04TI YEAR FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 18 -We arrived here at 8:30 p.m. on a Saturday night with a Cold en Days celebration in progress, and the Shrine Circus arriving from Anchorage to thrill the Northland with its first circus and found our hotel reservations mixed up. Fortunately, the Uni versity of Alaska, situated a few miles from the center of the city, is permitting a .dormitory to be used as. a summer hotel, so we were comfortably accommodated for the night only it was quite warm, the closeness to the North Pole being offset by the long hours of sunlight ; - : : En route, we stopped at ML McKinley Park - Hotel: but the name is deceiving. It is located on the edge of the park but the big mountain, highest in North America, is many miles away and cannot be seen from the vicinity. For that matter, the tour which went 66 miles into the park fail ed to get a 'glimpse of the moun tain. It seems that it is enveloped in clouds much of the time, and really gets its snows in summer because the cold winters are dry on the mountain. The nne-dav stoD. however, was not without profit if only to breathe the mild air, soft and fresh. Then,, via the illustrated lecture of the park naturalist, we learned ouite a little about the flora and fauna of the region. At a distance the ground cover on the mountainside looks an unva ried green; but actually the Vege tation is highly diversified with many flowers and shrubs. The animals subsist largely on vegeta tion here berries, roots, browse of jsmall frees and shrubs, bark. Nature preserves a balance: as the rabbit population increases (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Canada Wages Waroi WINNIPEG UrV-Manitoba waged "i war Tuesday on worms. Except in : greater Winnipeg, the worms ap peared to be ' winning. Prof. A. V. Mitchener of the Uni versity of Manitoba's Department of Entomology identified the in vaders as army worms ' which reach a length of 1 inches and can strip whole fields of vegeta : tiOn. : - .-" : ' They" travel in columns, like an army on the march hence their name. ' - J. A. Tooth. Agriculture Depart ment agronomist, said calls have been coming in Ty the dozen from the Wbitemouth area 63 miles . east of Winnipeg. Mrs. G. Erskine of Whitemouth said the district is "alive with worms." "People here are terrified,' she said. "The worms are crawling in homes, and millions of. them can be seen creeping along the pave ment" , . ; - Government sprayors in many areas have been at work, but dam age is heavy. . WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Salem . Victoria 1 At Yakima 3-2, Tri-Clty t-1 At Lewistoa 3. Wenatchee 2 v At Edmonton, Vancouver (rain) COAST LEAGUS ' At Seattle, San Diego (rain) At Portland. Sacramento (rain) At San Francisco 2-0. Hollywd 5J At Los Angeles 3. Oakland 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE ' . At Cincinnati L New York 2 At Chicago 3. Brooklyn 2 . At St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 2 Only games scheduled. . AMERICAN LEAGUE - At New York 4. Chicago 1 At Boston S, Cleveland 4 At Philadelphia 0-3, Detroit 13-4 At Washington 9, Baltimore 1 Animal Crackers "Go ahead, ask him to say fprunesV. (DtP 9331006 TO) 1103 tivoirm 1 .-- 2 SECTIONS-16 PAGES Pine Belt Possible By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Possibility of the 30-day-old Pacific Northwest lumber strike spreading to the region's pine industry was seen in an announce ment by AFL : union officials Tuesday. ; . Kenneth Davis, secretary of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Northwest Council, reported after a meeting of the union s policy committee that district councils in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana have been authorized to strike where pine operators refuse to make wage offers. The lumber strike, a joint action by ; the AFL union and the CIO Woodworkers so .far has been generally confined to the Douglas far belt of Oregon and Washington. Meantime, three settlements involving nearly.. 400 striking workers were reported Tuesday. : Other developments included a vote against local negotiations with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. at Springfield, a report of violence on the Springfield picket line, and a step-up of work behind a picket line at Redmond, Ore. The settlements were at Cottage Grove and Medford. In Full Production The W. A. - Woodard Lumber Co. was back in full production with 250 men returning to work. AFL union officials said they went back pending consideration of a com pany offer of a 5-cent hourly wage increase. But Carlton Woodard, company president said the men returned at the old rate with pay to be adjusted to any level reached in a regional settlement . The Cottage Grove pact was the first major- settlement 'in the Eugene area. - The AFL union and the CIO Woodworkers went oa "strike for 1 12 -cent hourly increase. Most employers have refused to - offer any boost. V Te Resume Outpnt The Medford Door Corp. and the Medford Veneer and "Plywood Corp. - were ready to . resume production a f t e agreement between the companies and 140 striking AFL men. Davis said they received increases of 5 and 7 cents, with some workers getting one figure and some the other. At Springfield, it was reported that 600 s of .800 striking CIO employes of the Weyerhaeuser Timber ! Co.'s sawmill division voted 3-1 at a closed meeting Monday night against negotiating on a local basis. They decided to have the union's 1 regional com- 'II 1! . A 11 mmee conunue to represent mem. Weyerhaeuser recently notified its employes throughout the Northwest that it no longer will negotiate company-wide. Worker Beatea George Weyerhaeuser, Spring field plant manager, said a non union worker, Magnus Bolken, was beaten as he tried to walk through the picket line Tuesday morning, He said Bolken, whom he called a semi-supervisory employe, suf fered a badly cut eye and damage to the nose when struck by ; a picket and that Bolken was sent Lto .- a doctor for treatment and r x-rays. - -, - Weyerhaeuser said the union doubled the size of its picket line when back-to-work sentiment de veloped after Monday night's meeting. Some 200 supervisory employes -and, 300 AFL ; Pulp Workers, under a separate union contract are at work in - the Springfield . operation, which in cludes a sawmill, a plywood plant and a pulp milL Workers Retora ; At Redmond, where some CIO. Woodworkers .went through their union's picket, line Monday to resume work a0 the Ponderosa Lumber Sales plant more workers returned - Tuesday despite an increase in the number of pickets to about 35. A company spokesman estimated that about 75 workers, all of whom were en the payroll when the strike was called. crossed the line without incident He said some of the pickets are company employes and some are from locals at Bend or Pnnevule. Operators reported Tuesday the summer strike Iras drastically cut into the stockpiling, of logs for winter. - Blow: Dealt to Paris Motorists PARIS UPK Police Tuesday dealt Paris motorists the crudest blow since the . stoplight was in vented. : " In a city whose honking horns inspired . composer, George Gersh win's "An American in Paris, the police prefect said the tooting had gone too far: He ruled: No honking of horns except to avoid serious accidents. Walkout PCUNDDD 1651 Th Oregon Statesman, McCarthy CoEim's E3es.gnat.oei By DOUGLAS CORNELL ' '. WASHINGTON WV Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) Tuesday reluct- antly accepted the resignation of Roy Conn as chief counsel of the Senate investigating subcommittee and transferred Donald A. Sur ine, another aide who has been under fire. I The moves came in advance of a showdown session of the sub committee, a majority of whose members had demanded a "house- President of U.S. Chamber To Sneak Here Clem D. Johnston of Roanoke, Va., president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, will ad dress a regional ' dinner meeting of Oregon business men and wo men at the Marion Hotel in Salem on- Wednesday night. Sept 15," it was disclosed Tuesday. His topic will be on national affairs. The announcement was made at a luncheon at the Marion, attended by Harry A. Lintz of Portland, manager of the national chamber's northwest district, and Salem chamber and civic leaders. Johnston, ; regarded as one 61 the most dynamic speakers in the nation, will speak in Portland and Spokane on the evenings immed iately preceding his appearance in Salem. With him will be a panel of national chamber staff members handling various departments of the organization. A question and answer period will follow the talk. William Hammond, president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. will preside and moderator will be Charles A. Sprague, nominally chairman of Johnston's appear ance by virtue of being chairman of the Salem Chamber's-national affairs committee. Members1 from nearly 30 cham bers of commerce in Western Oregon will be invited , to the no host meeting which is open to the public. " . - :-:x::-- Johnston in private life 4s pres ident of the Britol Grocery Com pany and an officer and director of several .other large business organizations. Eisenhower To Dedicate McNaryDam PORTLAND President Eisenhower will dedicate McNary Dam on the Columbia River late this summer, The Oregonian said it had 'learned Tuesday. The newspaper reported that the President's speech even has been written for the occasion. It said Eisenhower's appearance is expected to be a high point in Republican Senator Guy Cordon's campaign for re-election. Demo crat Richard L. Neuberger . is opposing Cordon. The senator and several other Republican members of the Oregon and Washington congressional dele gations Monday visited the White House to give Eisenhower a formal' invitation. Cordon said the President showed interest and said he believed H might be possible to make the trip to Oregon during his summer vacation m Denver. Last week Eisenhower said he planned after Congress adjourned, to make trips to : dedicate some dams, although he did not specify any- of them. : v V Employes Given 10 Years to Move Inside City Limits PORTLAND Wl" The Portland City Council Tuesday approved giving city employes 10 years to move into the city. ' Some 800 municipal employes are suburban residents. An effort to force them to move to within the limits in ' five years or lose their jobs was opposed on the ground that they' would suffer financial ; loss. So the council decided to change a ballot measure to a 10-year limit. TcddVs .Statcsr.sn SECTION 1 : Editorials, features : ,4 Society, women's 6 Valley news !. Jl 17 SECTION 2 , Sports - . 1-3 Radio, TV - 4 ; Comics . , 4 V Crossword puzzle ...... 5 . Stargazer 5 - Classified ads -.... 6, 7 i - w , -V,-'. 'i Saltxn, Oregon, Wednesday, July 21, 1954 1 ccepte cleaning" of the staff. Surine, a former FBI agent, was oneof two McCarthy subcommit tee assistants who 'have been re fused clearance by the Defense De partment to handle secret matters. The other, Thomas Lavenia. was kept in his post, at least temporar- kej ily, McCarthy announced that Surine' was being transferred from , the post of assistant counsel to the subcommittee to McCarthy's Sen ate office payroll, i ,. ' Praising Surine in a statement. McCarthy accused ; an unnamed Democratic committeeman of us ing an affidavit of ''a jailed white slaver in an attempt to discredit Mr. Surine. No details were giv en. -.';'.!- This maneuvering beat to the punch members of McCarthy's subcommittee bent on . a ' staff sbakeup. The upshot was that when six of the seven subcommit- ee members met : over a steak lunch in the old Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol 'Building there was nothing that could be done about firing Conn or Surine Ana a aecision on Lavenia was put off until a report comes in from the Defense Department re garding its refusal to grant him security clearance for handling se cret correspondence. StaWuua Nwi Serrle ALBANY A two-year-old At bany boy was critically injured here Tuesday when, he was run over by a truck: after having crawled beneath the vehicle to play.',: ' - ... -:- , The youngster, David John stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Johnstone of Albany, was re ported to have suffered a crush ed chest and several broken ribs. He was given emergency treat ment at Albany Hospital, then rushed to Sacred Heart Hospital at Eugene for .surgery. His condi tion remained critical Tuesday night ' . . According to police, the small boy was playing under the truck parked in an alley at the home of its owner, Jackson Wade, 1147 w. 10th St. one block from the Johnstone home. Wade, unaware the boy was under the truck, movedihe vehicle to make way for another jexe in the alley and one wheel passed over the boy's chest . i -' Police said the youngster ap parently was attempting to crawl from beneath the truck when it rolled over him. r West Germans to Build Ships for Soviet KIEL, Germany tfl The Bus sians have confirmed an order for 14 more fishing vessels to be bunt in West Germany," it was an nounced Tuesday. The order is worth 28 million dollars. Ten ships, known as floating fish factories, are already being built for the Soviet Union in the Ho waldts Werke shipyard in this Baltic port j Boy Critically Hurt by Truck Chief Justice Galls Meeting; to Settle ICl'amatli Court Dispute . Chief Justice Earl C Latour ette announced Tuesday he would meet Thursday afternoon with top officials to try to settle Klam ath County's courthouse dispute. Attending the meeting will be the chief justice. Gov. Paul L. Patterson, Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, and Glenn R. Jack, Oregon City, state bar president Judge Latourette made his an nouncement after a brief meet ing with Gov. Patterson. ' The dispute is between Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg and District Attorney Frank C. Aider son,' both of Klamath Comity. The governor returned Tues day from Bolton Landing,N. Y., where he attended the National Governors conference. Latourette met with him because the gover nor has jurisdiction over district attorneys. f The chief justice said there would be no public statement un til after Thursday's meeting. He also said he has received a report from his administrative as sistant Jonel HilL who spent two days in Klamath Falls investigat ing the controversy. Hill's report wUl be made public after Thurs PRICE Public Hqusing Rejected WASHINGTON () The House Tuesday ' passed a compromise general Housing bill after defeat ing a final Democratic effort to restore President Eisenhower's proposal lto build 140,000 public housing units in four years. ' The bill would permit a much more restricted public housing pro gram a maximum of 68,000 of the low-rent units over , the next two years. . . It would lower down payments on FHA loans and try to prevent further "windfall" profits such as disclosed in the recent bousing in vestigation. ' ; : - It would make many other changes which Rep. ; Wolcott , tR Mich) said would encourage a building industry boom and pro vide for private construction of 1, 250,000 to 1,400,000 new houses a year. j Wolcott chairman of the House Banking Committee and sponsor of the bill, said it would give Presi dent Eisenhower 95 per cent of his housing recommendations. But Rep. Garmatz (D-Md) said the bill, a compromise between earlier, versions passed by the House and Senate, meant only a "lingering, agonizing" death for public housing. . Rep. Spence (D-Ky), senior Dem ocrat on the Banking Committee, said it did nothing to end misery in slums. He predicted Democrats would be returned to power in Con gress for? the next 20 years be cause of the House action. . The compromise permits con struction of 33,000 public bousing units on which commitments al ready have been made for this fiscal year which started last July 1. For the next year, it authorizes 33,000 units but . only where needed to house persons, displaced by pubiiC slum clearance projects. Injury Ends Tour For Student What started out as a student tour of Europe this summer for William T. Schantz ended this week in a bed at Salem Memorial Hospital. I Young Schantz.. son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. , Schantr, 1990 Park Ave;, aggravated an old back injury while crossing the At lantic and was flown back to Portland from London late last week. His parents reported Tues day be was "resting well" jit Sa lem Memorial. . r - Schantz, j a political science sen ior at the University of Oregon, left Salem four weeks ago Europe bound with a group of students, led by Mark Hatfield, dean of stu dents at i Willamette University. After a stop-over in Washington, D. C. and, New , York City, the group shipped out for Europe, While " aboard , ship, Schantz, "somehow or other," re-injured his back. When the . ship , docked in Ireland he; took a plane to London and then enplaned for Portland, arriving early Friday morning. The rest of the touring group "is making it fine " Schantt said The tour will cover much of Western Europe and the travelers expect to return home in Septem ber. . i. ; day's conference, Judge Latour ette said. ; . , Judge Latourette also saidrhe believes the legislature should re quire that lawyers show cause when they file affidavits to- seek replacement of judges In their eases.- v i ': v : "At present the attorneys are not required to show cause when they request removal of a judge. It should not be up to the whim of an attorney as to the judge who hears his case. If there is good cause for . removal of the judge in any particular case, the attorney should be forced to de- Mil juov vauoc mm Aa . HtuiiVf the chief justice said. - : In the Klamath Falls case, things reached an impasse be cause attorneys asked for remov al of Judge Vandenberg and later of Judge Ralph M. Holman, Ore gon City, whom the chief justice sent to Klamath Falls to substi tute for Vandenberg. ". . - Judge Latourette said 'that if attorneys were required to show cause why judges should not hear their cases, it would help prevent such situations as occurred in Klamath County. Europe I 11 5c No. 116 Succumbs ANN ARBOR, Mich. Blair Moody, '.former U.S. Senator from Michigan and Washington, D. C. political writer, who died here Tuesday. ' j 1 Ex-Senator Blair Moodv, Michigan, Dies ANN ARBOR, Mich.! WV-Former U. S. Sen. Blair Moody died at 55 p. m., EST, Tuesday at Uni versity Hospital. He was 52. The death of the former Wash ington political writer came as a shock to his followers who had be lieved he was recovering from an attack of virus pneumonia and soon would resume his campaign for the Dgnocratic nomination as U. S. senator in the j August pri mary. ... - "' Only a few hours before, Moody's campaign headquarters had issued a statement reporting he was re cuperating from his illness. The statement criticized the policies of Republican Sen. Homer Ferguson, who is unopposed for the GOP re nomination. - ;" ' . Moody's death left I Patrick V. McNamara of Detroit unopposed for the Democratic i nomination. Moody's friends had contended since the start of the primary cam paign that he would be the strongd est Democratic candidate to beat Ferguson. : j Moody was stricken last month while : campaigning at Hancock, Mich., in the upper peninsula. It first was reported he had suffered a heart attack but physicians later said he was suffering from virus pneumonia that caused a conges tion about the heart and created symptoms similar to a coronary attack, -I- Dr. Cyrus C. Sturgis, head of the Department of Internal Medi cine at University Hospital, said. Moody "had extensive involvement of the lungs. He had j been doing very satisfactorily. Then suddenly he suffered a reversal and died." Moody, a former Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, was appointed to the Senate by liov. li. Mennen wiuiams in 1951 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Sen. Ar thur , H. Vandenberg. He was de feated in 1952 -in his first attempt at election by Charles W. Potter, then a Republican congressman from Michigan. - Fire Quelled GREAT YARMOUTH, England un The 3,968 - ton Danish ship Kronprinsesse Ingrid, carrying 301 passengers and a crew of 90, caught fire Tuesday night off this port. Less than two hour? later the ship radioed the fire was out ' When the ship first radioed, sev eral trawlers altered course and rushed to her aid. One of them, the Cockerel, almost alongside the burning vessel, messaged the fire appeared under control and the Danish ship", was in no immediate danger. .Later the Kronprinsesse Ingrid sent this message: ' i , . "Fire out, assistance no longer required. . i Portlander Neiv Tarzan HOLLYWOOD UFi Gordon M. Werschkul. 25, a native of Portland, Ore., has been selected by producer Sol Lesser as the new Tarzan of the films. . i Werschkul, whose film name is Gordon Scott, was offered a screen test after, he was spotted in a newsreel . shot at a Las Vegas, Ne v.; hotel swimming pool where he was working as a life guard. He beat out 15 other contenders for the job. : , -Werschkul is the 11th man. to be cast as Tarzan since the first movie of the series was made in 1918.. . -. 1 f,.WJWWgywv.Wl.l : ' '-i Coastal State Of Viet Nam V By JOSEPH DYNAN V GENEVA (AP)-French and Vietminh officers, enemies for eight years- of bitter warfare in Indochina, signed an armistice early Wednesday. The cease-fire "tfill split the big coastal tate of Viet Nam between pro-Western and Communist-led regimes. The agreement to halt the fight ing on the" jungled mountain and rice paddy battlefields of Viet Nam and Laos was signed by represent atives of the two commands at 3:50 a.m. (6:50 p.m. PST, Tues day). The signing ceremony in a room of the . Palace of Nations, the old home of the League of Nations, be gan at 3:42 am The accords establish the new east-west boundary along the Song Ben Hat River,- which is roughly on the 17th parallel. (Map on page 2, sec 1.) They provide for a French-held enclave above this line around the big northern industrial city of Ha noi and its port of Haiphong.' These two centers - must be progressive ly evacuated and yielded to the Vietminh within 300 days. The Vietminh in turn will hold five small areas south of the line which also will be subject to evacu ation within 300 days. Five Small Areas Neither side is to bring in rein forcements of men or materials. No new military bases can be es tablished either by . the belliger ents or by other nations. This was an obvious reference to the project ed Southeast Asian defense pact which the United States has been pushing. ... To Release PWs V All prisoners of war and civilian internees are to be liberated with in 30 days," and each side pledged itself to assist in the transfer of populations in cases" where resi dents wish to move, to the other zone. - This 'clause . fulfilled one American demand that no one must be forced to live under a Com munist regime. 'immediately' after the : signing ceremony which took place under a battery of kleig lights for the benefit of a handful of photograph ers, Instructions were dispatched to field commanders to carry out the cessation of hostilities. The field commanders are to counter sign the agreements. . . Gen. Georges Deteil signed the two accords one covering Viet Nam and the other Laos on behalf of the . French - Union and the French-Laotian commands, while Gen. Quang Buu signed them for uie vieiminn. . . Exact Date Secret Raymond Offroy, French ambas sador to Thailand and a member of the 'French delegation,, said the exact date for the end of hostili ties was secret for reasons of mili tary security. A Vietnamese official- said the cease-fire orders would be effective July 28 for regular units, with a longer delay allowed to spread the word to various guerrilla forces in isolated, mountain villages.' ' . Officials said the texts of the agreements signed here Wednes day would not be published' for two or three days time to allow them to reach , the scene in Indochina but their .contents already were generally known. -Nentralizatlon' , , They provide for a military di vision of Viet Nam the so-called "troop re-assembly" zones rough ly along the 17th parallel of a line about 12 'miles, north of Colonial Route Nine from the sea coast to the Laotian border, and for the "neutralization" of Laos and Cam bodia. -Foreign that is,-Vietminh troops are to withdraw from Laos and Cambodia, and the - present regimes in those Indochina king doms -are to be recognized by the Qommunist states which heretofore have supported Vietminh claims there. ''. ' . ' ' In return, Laos : and Cambodia bind themselves to remain out of any Western-backed Southeast Asia alliance and to forbid Western mil itary bases on their soil. . : ;The armistice is to be supervised by a neutral nations commission composed of India, as chairman. Canada and Poland. Their decisions must be unani mous on points which might lead to a resumption of the fighting. (Additional details On page 2, sec. 1.) : Max. . (1 . 60 . 71 . 75 . 65 Min. S4 54 . 49 56 51 ,53 -.53 76 71 Precip. Trace .83 .00 " .00 Trace M .. -OO .50 .00 M Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend Rosebuf 66 San Franc Iaco 67 Chicago ' 96 New York 91 Los Angeles 79 69 Willamette River J.S feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weatfter Bureau. McNary Field. Saletnr: - Partly cloudy today and tonight. mostly fair Thursday: slightly warm er today, with highest near 68, lowest tonight near 48. Temperature at 12:01 a jn. today wai SO. SALEM PRECIPITATION. Siae Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 45.14 43.28 39.29 . Guns Rumble In Indochina e HANOI, Indochina CP . Guns still rumbled in the Red River delta Tuesday, despite the sews from Geneva that a ceasefire agreement . to end the shooting . which has crackled across this; troubled land for eight years, had been signed. r Some of the key bases and out posts held by each side were sub jected to sharp, quick attacks. 1 Communist-ied Vietminh troops at tacked a Fiench Union post manned by a Vietnamese battalion only eight miles south of Hanoi during the night A French briefing-officer said the rebels made a hit and run assault inflicting appreciable casualties." ' Rebel mortars also bombarded ' Kesat, 12 miles east of Hanoi on the important supply route to the port of Haiphong. The briefing of-' hcer said, the rebels, apparently trying to hit French artillery po sitions, had killed or wounded 10 civilians and destroyed 30 houses. Ten thousand French and Viet namese troops, supported by tanks, pushed mopup operations against rebel guerrillas in the Phuc Yen and Luc Nam sectors 18 miles northeast of Hanoi Tuesday. Mo torized infantrymen have been op erating in mat area for several days pushing guerrillas out of vil lage bases they have been using to harass supply routes to outlying French posts. light clashes with the rebels also were reported jn the.Hung Yen area, 25 miles south of Hanoi. French warplanes bombed and1 strafed Vietminh barracks .and troop concentrations at Winh, 150 miles down the coast from Haip hong, other bombers harassed Vietminh bases along the north- . era, western, and southern edges of the delta's defenses. Bonds Voted At Mill City Statesman News -Service' MILL CITY A $93,000 bond issue for improvement of Mill City streets passed by a majority of close to 4 to 1 in an election held Tuesday. Of 258 ballots cast, 203 were for the issue and 53 against Two were voided. . " The third time proved the charm for the measure, which provides for draining, grading and paving of a number of streets. The bond issue was on the ballot on two other occasions, having lost by only three votes in an election held last year. The 1953 measure did not, however, provide for paving. The program of street improve ments is expected to get under way next spring. - vS To Build Dam SEATTLE () The State Power Commission decided Tuesday night . to apply for a federal permit to construct the 380 million dollar Priest Rapids. Dam on the Colum bia River, The commissioners, voting 4-to-1 for the proposal to construct the 1,590,000 kilowatt power unit, de cided to . begin negotiations with various consultants for preliminary work on financing the project. Tom Quast of Marysville was . the only commissioner voting against the move. The action was taken despite ' strong protests made last week by tbe Grant County . Public ; Utility District, which already has filed for a temporary permit to con struct the dam.. -. ' . Clearing Weather Expected Today Cloudy conditions and a trace of rain were the lot of the Salem area Tuesday and the Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy conditions today and tonight. - But the weather man says it will be mostly fair Thursday. Tuesday's maximum of 63 will be topped slightly today with an expected high of near 63, says the bureau. Despit State seel
