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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
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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.
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Valley news !. Jl 17
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; Comics . , 4
V Crossword puzzle ...... 5
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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
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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
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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.
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. 60
. 71
. 75
. 65
Min.
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54
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56
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76
71
Precip.
Trace
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Trace
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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. -
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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.
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