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r - f f , , . ' ' i 1 ', I ; r ' t ' i 1 : - " I 1 ident Arrives Pres - '!'' 1 t ' POUNDBD 104TKvYEAR 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES The Oregon Ddaeiha Area Truck Crash Kills Logger Stateamaa Newi Servict . A IDANHA A Mehama logger died Wednesday afternoon of in juries received when a truck driven by his son left the road and dropped into the North Santiam River about three miles above Idanha. . The victim was Floyd II. Mon roe, 65. He died in the Santiam - Memorial Hospital, S t a y t o n, where he was taken after the accident The truck involved in the acci dent was taking a crew of work men to an area being logged by the Parkett Lumber Co. of Me hama. It was driven by Mon roe's son, Ifarry Monroe. ! Soon it will be time for Oregon voters to do their home work on measures to be voted on at the November election. They will be confronted with eight measures on the state ballot. Marion county voters will also have one measure to vote on and voters in Salem four measures. - : It is timely to list these mea sures. During the weeks before the election they ' will be discussed more in detail in The Statesman. State Measures i The Legislative Assembly: sub mitted to the people five questions. Four are proposed constitutional amendments, one a legislative act. 1. State Property tar- change. This amendment would remove the state from the present six per cent limitation on increase Jn tax levies. It would then impose a lim it of six mills on the dollar of as sessed valuation for state pur poses, with two exceptions, levies which may be required for debt service and levies authorized by vote of the people. i 2. An amendment permitting creation of subdistricts within a county or a legislative district for election of senators and repre sentatives. Thus Marion County might be divided into senatorial or representative districts instead of having all candidates stand for election before the voters of the whole county. ; 3. An amendment to permit the Legislative Assembly to fix sal aries of members. 4. An amendment increasing the number of signatures required on initiative petitions for changing the constitution. The present Continued on editorial page, 4.) Court Rejects i Indian Claim SAN FRANCISCO ( The fed eral Circuit Court of Appeals turned down Wednesday the dam age claim of Tommy Thompsor, Celilo, Ore., Indian, who contend ed the construction of a Columbia River dam at The Dalles, Ore., would take away ancient fishing rights. . . i In affirming dismissal oi the case by a district judge in Port land, the Circuit Court said fed eral law doesn't authorize a suit against the United States for an ticipated damages. "It said the damage, if any. Is in the future. SPEED CHANGE ASKED A - resolution from the Oregon Highway Commission, rescinding the speed limit of 35 on the por tion of the Pacific Highway lying north of the Pudding River bridge and the north city limits of Au rora, was received and filed Wed nesday by the Marion County Court. i AMERICA LEAGUE At New York 3. Washington 0 At Baltimore 1. Detroit 4 -At Cleveland 3. Chicaco 1 Only fames scheduled. NATIONAL LKAGCK i At Brooklyn 3. New York 0 At Milwaukee 3. Cincinnati 1 f At Chicaco 3. St Louis C At Philadelphia 12-5. Pittsburgh 1- Animal Crackers "iV-WAHHtN GOODRICH ANNUAL TMi ytor tef s'ge pUict mum r vt t tfcerji . e rs no. pe ple? Dale CrandalL secretary of the lumber company, said Wednes day night that the accident ap parently happened as the truck was passing a state highway de partment bulldozer. Harry Monroe was hospitalized with . injuries received in the crash. Hospital attendants said Wednesday; night his condition was good. ' Also injured in the accident were Otjs Marks, ; Ray Morgan and Troy Ladd. They were given first aid treatment at Santiam Memorial Hospital It could not be determined Wed nesday night whether Monroe's death occurred in Marion County. If so, it would bring the1 County's traffic toll to 10 for the year. Segregation Hearing Set December 6 1 WASHINGTON The Su preme Court Wednesday fixed Dec. 6 -for the start of arguments on how to end public school segrega tion. -The timing raised a possibil ity that final decrees may not come until about the time for the spring windup of classes. :i The new arguments will pick up not only the question of how to order the end of school segrega tion which : was unanimously de clared unconstitutional last May 17. Another; major question will be the timing in final orders for de segregation i i ; The court's opinion last Mav asked interested attorneys to dis cuss whether decrees should re quire admission of Negro children "forthwith"; j to schools nearest their homes, or whether i there should be an "effective, gradual adjustment i , i The five cases directly involved in the May decision those from South Carolina, Virginia.' Kansas. Delaware and the District of Co lumbia have been allotted a total of ten hours on the Decem ber argument schedule. Atty. Gen. Brownell was given an hour. Col. Fleming Convicted of Collaborating FT. I SHERIDAN, 111. (A - Lt. Col. Harry Fleming Wednesday was convicted of collaborating with; the enemy in a North Korean prison camp, the first u. S. Army officer ever court-martialed on this charge. ' i 1 . The white-haired, 46-year-old in fantry officer was cleared of two other charges informing! on other ' prisoners ! under his com mand and of conduct unbecoming an officer in allegedly stepping on the foot of a soldier, also a pris oner of war. . The maximum penalty could in elude dismissal from the service. loneitureof pay and life tmpns onment at hard labor. The law does not provide for any 'minimum punishment but, in effect, it would be a reprimand. Autiimh to Bring o Fair Weather i5 1 1 ' Autumn will celebrate its ar rival in Salem today by acting like summer, the ilcNary Field weatherman indicated early Thursday, The season begins at 5:56 a.m. For the first day of the fall, the forecast calls for an after noon high temperature -of about 75. A few clouds will ben hand during the day, but no -rain is expected. The temperature will drop to about 45 tonight, the fore cast said. s -, FBI Chief Reports Crime Rate In Nation Jumps 3.5 Per Cent WASHINGTON a - FBI Direct tor J. Edgar Hoover said Wednes day the national crime rate jumped another 8.5 per cent in the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 1953.; ' i AndJ he added, if this trend con tinues I major crimes will reach a record high in .1954. i i In a semiannual issue of the bu reau's Uniform Crime Beports based on police reports from all parts of the country. Hoover esti mated that 1,136,149 major crimes were committed during the first six months 'of the current year, up 83,850 from a year ago.. The report tooted that during the 1954 1 period "a major crime was committed every 13.8 seconds. The FBI's summary of the police reports asserted: "Each day during the first six months of 1954. it is estimated that an average of 33 people were felon iously slain and 252 other felonious assaults -were committed; 48 rapes were committed; 608 cars were stolen: 197 robberies and 1,454 bur glaries were committed. - - 1 . I 1651 Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Russia ects Entries UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UB The Russians, balked Wednesday at discussing the admission of Laos and Cambodia to the U. N. until a satisfactory settlement is made in Indochina in accord with the de cisions of the Geneva conference. The U. N. Assembly's Steering Committee voted 12-0 however, to recommend that the 60-nation As sembly debate a proposal by Aus tralia to give Laos and Cambodia a place in the U. N. Russia and Czechoslovakia abstained. The Soviet . Union still has the upper hand for it can veto in the security council the admission of Laos and Cambodia regardless of what the Assembly does. The Soviet opposition to debate now made it clear the Russians will demand that the U. N. pay attention to the decisions of the Geneva conference which was held outside the U. N. Takes Floor Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky took the floor early at the first meeting of the Steering Committee and said he did not want the As sembly to take up the applications of the two Indochinese kingdoms until the Geneva i settlement has been completed. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles also may touch on the Gene va conference Thursday when he speaks to the Assembly and gives the: 59 other country's a report on the state of the world as the United States sees it. Dulles put the finishing touches on bis speech Wednesday night. He began his drafting at his island retreat near Watertown, N. Y., last weekend. Consultations have been in , progress between Dulles and Washington as the speech de veloped. Court Orders Dallas to Cut Fee on Trucks 1 Statesman News Icrvlct DALLAS. Ore. A circuit court judge told the city of Dallas Wed nesday it could , not charge- an ex orbitant .fee to ! an out-of-town bakery making bread deliveries in deliveries in Dallas'. The judge added, however, that the fee ordinance itself was not unlawful. Dallas City Attorney C. L. I Marsters interpreted this to mean, that the city could ask the bakery for a lower fee. -Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holm an made his decisions known in a let ter to Marsters.1 Involved was the Marckx Bakery of Gresham which sends two delivery trucks into Dallas three times a week. The city had sought to charge the bak ery an operating permit fee of S15 per week for each truck. Judge Holman said, that since one truck only netted $16 a week profit before the fee was taken out and the other truck $21 per week, the fee sought was a prohi bition against the. plaintiffs doing business, i , The fee ordinance, as it stands. said the judge, was unenforceable because the Dallas city charter did not give tb& city the right to prohibit but only to regulate. Judge Holman also found on several counts for the I city. He declared invalid the bakery's con tention that the fee was a guise to prohibit competition with local merchants. The judge also declared the bakery comes within the usual definition of a peddler and as such falls within the scope of the city's peddlers license law. AGREEMENT SAID NEAR XONDON LD Yugoslavia and Italy, under strong American prod ding, ; were reported Wednesday near a complete settlement of their dispute over the Free Territory of Trieste. "It is estimated that during the period a crime of murder, man slaughter, irapeor assault to kill was committed every 4.3 minutes. FThe timetable for crime during the first half of 1954 is as follows: One murder or negligent man slaughter every '40.9 minutes, one rape every 298 minutes; one rob bery every 7.3 minutes; one aggra vated assault every 5.7 minutes; one burglary every 59 seconds; one larceny every 23.5 seconds; one auto theft every 2.4 minutes. i'-Kobbery jumped 204 per cent while burglaries rose 13.2 per cent and larceny 9 per cent. "Estimated murder figures rose .09 per cent and aggravated as saults showed no change. Rape of fenses declined 1.2 per cent and auto , theft and negligent man slaughter were down 2.3 and 3.9 per cent, respectively. i"Urban crime rose 7.2 per cent. Rural crime increased 11.9 per cent. . i , I "Although a decrease is noted over the first sixiaontiu of 1323, Thundery, September 23, 1354 Cheese' 'Made in, Salem1 ?'vfiv lMy V .,.i.ijl. --. , xf "T-'-J' S Whipping up a 450 -pound batch of cottage cheese,! A. J. (Andy) Fischer is shown above in a new addition to the Curly's Dairy here. The only cottage cheese manufacturer is Salem, the dairy will produce about 3,000 pounds a month. (Statesman Photo) Salem Dairy Adds New Cottage Cheese Operation to Facilities - - ; , . .By THOMAS G- WRIGHT ' j Staff Writer,' The Statesman Little Miss Muffet's curds and whey have come a long way. I In a clinical new addition to its facilities. Curly' Dairy of Sa lem, is now producing some 3,000 pounds of cottage cheese, first such operation for the dairy and the only cottage cheese manufac tured in Salem. i j Today little Hiss Muff et can have her Curly's curds, large, Log Supply j LoW in State, Surveyl Shows Gov. Paul L. Patterson an nounced Wednesday that the state wide survey of log supply; made jointly by the Oregon State; Board of Forestry, the U. S. Forest Serv ice, and the Bureau of Land Man agement, disclosed there were ap Droximatelv 475.000.000 feet less logs in cold decks at Oregon saw mills and plywood plants on Sept. 1 of this year than a year ago. The Governor said the total logs on hand this year are roughly 25 per cent less than last year's due to lost time in the woods and at the mills because of strike con ditions, i i The survey was conducted by these agencies at the request of Gov. Patterson, Secretary ; of the Interior Douglas McKay and Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Ben son, with i a view of accelerating timber sales, programs. i Gov. Patterson said he! hoped 500,000,000 feet of government and state-owned stumpage could be placed on the market -to offset, so far . as : possible, the current log shortage, and insure operation of the mills, i I i auto theft continues as a major criminal ' problem in . the f United States. During the first six months of 1954, an; estimated 110,060 cars were stolen as compared with 112, GOQ in the same period last year. "Victims of killers in the united States totaled 6,380 while more than 54,000 other individuals were feloniously assaulted by potential killers or rapists. Robbers jeopar- uizeu uie uvea vi m,wu nauuu.. The report noted that as of last April 30, there was an average of 1.8 police for each l.ooot lnhatn tants. i In a recap of 1953 data, 'the bu reau reported that 63 police em ployes were killed in line of duty during that full year, and that nine out of ten homicides! in 1953 were cleared up by arrests. Police similarly settled by arrest 73.5 per cent of all crimes against the per son. such as murder, rape, negli zent manslaughter and agzravat ed assault. In contrast, only 22.9 per. cent of property crimes were solved and arrests made. PRICE 5c No. 180 mall or possibly low calorie. ? - The firm has tentative plans for adding the low calorie pro duct to its present month -old operation. 1 The cottage cheese is manufac tured in the carefully-protected addition to the dairy. The pre cautions are taten primarily for cleanliness and to keep "wild" bacteria from putting the "tame" bacteria out of work. The tame variety is cultured in an incuba tion chamber of the plant and added to the skim milk to make it clabber. I Bacteria Cultures i Three separate bacteria Cul tures are maintained in the cham ber at all times so if one gets "tired" in the process, another may be substituted immediately without' endangering the batch. Batch sizes run as high as 450 pounds, manufactured in a giant stainless steel sink capable s of handling about one -third more. Only about one-third of the skim milk becomes cottage cheese. The remaining whey (which Miss Muf- fet took right along with ber curds) is thrown away. j Temperature Ideal ' Starting with skim milk (all the butterfat is removed at the beginning of the process) at temperature ideal for growth , of the bacteria, it takes about 15 hours for. the complete process. Curd sizes are determined by the intervals of the knives which chop up the giant curd. Cream is added to bring the butterfat con tent of the cheese back to 4 per cent, about the same as whole milk. The low calorie cottage cheese will be prepared by the same method except in the creaming process the butterfat content will be kept considerable below itne 4 per cent figure. ) Benson Reveals j Accumulation of Butter Stopped I, : 1 NEW YORK U The accurau lation of surplus butter by the gov eminent has been stopped, secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son said Wednesday. ' : ; He said the government now is disposing . of more butter , than it purchases under its support pro gram, f In August, he said, distribution of butter totaled nearly 24 million pounds while the government bought only. 17 million pounds. He attributed the reversal to the government decision holding down the support price for dairy prod- acts to 75 per cent oc parity. In Northwest for . Dedication of Dam County Tax Levy Down During Year The county tax levy for this year has decreased $174,630 from last year's, the county assessor's office reported Wednesday. i The county budget committee has asked for a tax levy of $1, 366,227, compared to the $1,540, 858 asked for last year. The decrease will lower the millage rate to 16.8 this year, whereas it was 18.5 in 1953. Total valuations in the county also show a decrease. Last year, this figure was $83,289,636; while this year it is $81,323,056, a drop of $1,966,580. The assessor's office, which de ermines the valuations, said this was caused by a personal prop erty assessment this year of 25 per cent of the true value of such property.! Decreased Ratio Last year, this ratio was 35 per cent of the true value. The decreased ratio on personal prop erty assessments for this year was made in an effort to bring this ratio closer to the assessment ratio for real property, such as land and buildings, which is about 25 per cent. Approximately $6,700,000 will be collected this year by the var ious tax divisions in the county, such as school, fire and water districts, city and county districts, ndividual schools, etc. Millage rates for 1954 were broken up individually this way by the county assessor's office: Salem levy, 92.2; woodburn, 99.3; Silverton, 80.7; Stay ton, 99.4. For Salem schools. 24.9; county school levy, 50.5. i Chief Jumps , Track at 70 Miles an Hour SAN FRANCISCO JB The Chi cago-bound Santa Fe Chief was de railed, apparently by a. faulty switch, at the Orwood siding, 40 miles east of here Wednesday aft ernoon. There were no fatalities. Ten cars, including the dome ob servation car, and the two diesel engine units of the crack stream liner left the tracks at a speed reported by the , engineer at 70 miles an hour. , About 15 persons were reported hurt, nine seriously enough to1 re quire hospitalization. The derailment was the second mishap experience by the crack Santa Fe streamliner within a month. On Aug. 22, the train was derailed at Lomax, 111. There were 191 passengers on the Chief, which left San Fran cisco at noon. . Grahqm Said Replaced as Union Of ficer PORTLAND (I) Ward Graham, business agent of the Salem local, has been replaced as secretary- treasurer of the Oregon Joint Council of the AFL Teamsters Union by Reginald Miksell, presi dent of the council and business agtnt of the Vancouver, Wash., local. ! Mike -Steele, business agent of Portland bakery drivers local, a teamster affiliate, has taken over the council presidency. These shifts, made by the coun cus executive board, were disclosed. Wednesday at the National Labor! Relations Board hearing of unfair labor practice charges filed against the teamsters by AFL Office Workers. Tesumony at the hearing brought out that Graham apparently dis agreed on .policy matters with Jack Schlaht as business agent of Local 162, the council's largest local in Portland. Graham reportedly was replaced by Miksell Aug. 25. There had been no public announcement of the change. (Graham, reached at his Salem home, 1923 S. .High St., declined to comment on the matter Wed' nesday night.) , i Max. is- 68 Min. 54 ' i 48 M ' 37 Precip. . JOO .00 .00 trace .01 .00 JOO M' SUcm Portland Baker Medford North Bend .70 68 . 7 . . M Roue burl 47 SS 48 58 San Francisco Chicago i Near York 71 Willamette River feci rORECASTi ffrom XT. S. weather bureau. McNarr field. Salem): Partly clou today, tonignx ana Fridar. Slishtlr I warmer, witn the highest today nr 7S and the lowest tnmcht near 43. - Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today wit 55. IttTV MtrrTMTATTn! Rinri Start of Weather Tur Sept. 1 Tttis Tear Last Tear i formal XU JB3 100 WALLA WALLA ( AP), President. Eisenhower, making his second stop in a three-day speaking tour of the Far West, landed here at 6:47 p.m. to spend the night.' '- v ' The President left Denver earlier Wednesday, spoke at Missoula, and then flew on to Walla Walla. He will go to McNary Dam, i about 50 miles away, by automo bile Thursday to speak in dedication of that huge concrete structure across the Columbia River. Then he will fly to Los Angeles for another speech. Crowds began lining the streets here 1 Vi hours before ' the plane arrived. The streets were decor ated with " banners and the President and Republican officials who met him 1 at the airport drove slowly from the airport to the Marcus Whitman Ilotel here. Among those greeting the President on his arrival were Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington and Gov. Paul Patterson of Oregon, Sen. Cordon (R-Ore), and Reps. Holmes . (R-Wash) and Norblad (R-Ore). f i Secretary of the Interior McKay accompanied the President on the flight here and was greeted at the airport by Mrs. McKay. Thousands Watch Thousands watched the proces sion into town, and part of the route was lined with torchlights, held by Whitman College students; The President stood up m his limousine as he passed Green Prak Grade School, recognizing that the students waiting there were the ones who had written him a letter of welcome. As he had written to them in reply, he was unable to stop, but waved both arms at the children lined up along the street. At that, the students nearly missed the President. Ilis plane landed early, and the school principal, Erwin Beard, had to do some fast leg - work to round everyone up in timej By the time the President arrived, however, the students were, .in position, bearing i individual letters spelling out, "Welcome. Mr. President." Brief Conference At the hotel the President con ferred briefly-with Sen. Cordon. Rep. Holmes and - Mrs. Marshall Cornett, Klamath Falls, Ore., Republican national committee woman; Then he went to bed. At Missoula, the President told an applauding airport crowd Amer ican citizens are generally better able to look after their needs "than is some bureaucrat in far-off Wash ington, At no point in his brief off the cuff ' talk did the President plug openly'' for election of a GOP-con- trolled Congress in November. But. as he has done before, he stated what he called the "basic policy" of his administration. That is the kind of campaigning he said months ago he would do. Eisenhower did mention one Re publican candidate for Congress by name Rep. Wesley D'Ewart, who is bidding for the U. S. Senate seat of the incumbent veteran, ben. James Murray. ' ; The President referred to D-i Ewart as "my good ' friend Wes," after D'Ewart had introduced him, but the chief executive said nothing about D'Ewart's . candidacy. The official weather forecast for the Umatilla area for Thursday. is sunny skies, westerly winds- 8 to 15 miles per hour. Low tem perature of 48 degrees rising to 64 degrees by 9:30 a.m. with an afternoon high of 80 degrees at 3 p.m. . , Mrs. McNary on Way, lo Ceremony WALLA WALLA (fl - Mrs. Charles L. McNary, widow of the Oregon senator-for whom McNary dam is named, arrived in Walla Walla Wednesday on her way to witness dedication of the dam by President Eisenhower Thursday. Mrs. McNary, who now lives in Washington, D. C, flew to Walla Walla in an Army Engineers plane with Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, who will be master of ceremonies at the dedication. Post Office Entrances to Get Brass Hand Rails Brass hand rails, long sought by many postal patrons, will, be in stalled soon on the outside steps to the west and south entrances to the Salem downtown post officfe. The ' .ails have arrived, said Postmaster Albert C. Gragg. Their installation will make the outside steps more safe in wet weather, he said. ; First Again! LONDON ( The Russians said Wednesday night they have installed a microphone at the North Pole. . ' Moscow radio- in making the claim, said "we are the first coun try in the world to; do so. There was no explanation why. PRODUCTION DOWN PORTLAND on Reflecting the summer-long lumber , strike, Douglas fir sawmill production declined 15 per cent the first eight months of 1954. as compared to the same period last year, the West Coast Lumbermen s Assn. reponea Wednesday. Paper Claims H-Test Made x -r- ---- V - Near Alaska TOKYO un The newspaper Asahi Thursday said Japanese sci entists have "almost conclusive V evidence", that the Russians re cently exploded an H-bomb en an island 500 miles northwest of . Nome, Alaska. , The paper quoted Japanese re searchers at the Tokyo Meteorolog ical Laboratory as estimating the explosion took place in late August or early September on Wranrel Is land. The island lies within the Arctic Circle due west of Pt. Bar row, Alaska. Soviet Russia announced last Fri day it had. exploded an "atomic- weapon to study the battle effect. The brief Moscow announcement said the explosion took place "in the Soviet. Union during recent , days."; Tat Submit Findings Asahi said Dr. Yasuo Miyake of the meteorological laboratory would submit the finding at a weather specialists meeting here Fridays The paper said the Japanese me- - teoroloeists based their conclusion on these recent Japanese weather phenomena: 1. Radio statics direction locators in Tokyo recorded impulses simi lar to those recorded when the Bikini H-bombs went off. 2. Four hours after these statics impulses, abnormal atmospheric ' pressure (wave) caused by a great explosion was registered on a man ometer air pressure gauge. 3. Radioactive rainfall has show ered Northern Japan almost daily since baturday. It was borne by air currents originating on the Si berian mainland. 4. Intelligence reports have in dicated the Russians have been using Wrangel Island as a base for 1 guided missiles and other militarv tests. ! . ' Riots Mark Detroit Strike DETROIT, Mich. tff-Alarmed by what police called the worst vio lence, i rioting and destruction of property in the 100-day Square O Co. strike .Thursday, city officials called a conference to restore law and. order. Mayor Albert E. Cobo ordered police ! commissioner Edward Pig gins to report whether police have found indications of Subversive ac-1 tivities in the-strike. The j company said 400 workers reported for work Thursday and more i were still coming in the back-to-work movement that pro voked the violence. The' main issue in the strike is an iron-clad no-strike clause which the ' company is demanding. The firm charges the United Electrical Workers with 99 illegal walkouts during its past two-year contract. TruckDriver Aptly Named DOVER. N. J. tfl Patrolman Michael Matyola swears by this story. Two cars collided in Dover Tues day while swerving to avoid a trucks loaded with chickens. The name of the chicken driver: Eggy Nester. FDR Jr.' Accepts Demo Nomination NEW YORK (fl Rep. franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. accepted nomina tion Wednesday night for attorney general on the Democratic state ticket headed by Averell Harriman for governor. His acceptance came only hours after he lost the convention floor fight for the gubernatorial nomina tion against the Tammany Hall and state organization leaders who backed Harriman, 62, wealthy New Deal diplomat ' Today's Statesman SECTION 1 - ' Editorials, features 4 Star Gazer -...i..-, 5 Society, women's j. i 8 . Valley news .................8,9 SECTION I Sports 1.2.3 Crossword Puzzle . Farm and garden news 4. S 'Radio, TV Comics Classified ads .....7, 8, 9 1 !