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i t-&c lV-StotMaos. Salem, Ore WeL, Nor. 17, 1S54 $25,000 A-Prize Given to Dr. Fermi WASHINGTON UH The Atomic Energy Commission Tuesday an nounced iU first special award in the iradear field 5,000 win so to Dr. Enrico Fermi. He is the Italian born Nobel Prize winner who built America'! first nuclear reactor which made the A-bomb a reality.' .r - i I - ABC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss Slick Streets Bring Flurry Of Accidents A truck driver, an 1 8-year-old boy tad a Cbemawa Indian school i -- a a siuoeni were injured m separate motor vehicle accidents in Salem Tuesday as slippery' streets and poor visibility, brought a flurry of traffic mishaps in the city. The truck driver, William F. Dobson of 1950 Market St.; was ' knocked unconscious in a collision at the intersection of -Saginaw and Owens streets. His , pick-up truck collided with a ear driven by Frank C. Stannard, 590 E. Madrona Ave- about 2 p.m. I Dobson was taken to Salem Memorial Hospital after the acci dent Attendants there said Tues day evening that he had regained consciousness and appeared in satisfactory condition. He was held for observation and x-rays were taken to check on his head injuries. -; ! j' Driver Cited ! f - Stannard was cited by city po for a traffie sign. i Johnny Mills, 8, of ,555 Penn way Dr., sustained leg bruises in an accident at the intersection of 21st and Center streets about 3:15 p.m. when his bicycle collid ed with a truck driven by David Korb, 407 N. 21st SL I ; The boy told city police he lost control of the bicycle and skidded into "the rear of the truck. HIS in-, juries were treated by a physician and were listed as non-serious. Chemawa Student j I ( In an accident on North Port rand Road Tuesday! morning, Chemawa school student Reynolds Roanhorse suffered cuts and bruises of the forehead while rid ing in a car driven by another Chemawa student, Gene Bak Peon. . . - ffi , . Their ear collided with a car driven by Edward Franklin Chid- aey, 4275 Auburn Rd., after Chid- sey slowed to make a left turn in the 3400 block on Portland Road, ear apparently skidded on the wet street, striking, the rear of Chid- sey s car. The accident occurred about 11:45 a.m. i ; f Roanhorse's wounds were clean ed and -dressed by city first aid- men, who said he was not serious ly hurt. -hi. j. Cart Towed j I Another traffie accident Tues day resulted in damage to cars driven by Albert Lawrence Scott, 960 Parrish SL, and Rex William Bentley Jr.. 2180 N. Fifths Both cars had to be towed away after they collided at the intersection of High and Marion streets about rm - i j..v p.m. xucxe were no . in juries. : - i In an accident in the 1000 block on Mission St Tuesday; night two parked cars were damaged when struck by a car driven by William Luchau, 244 N. 12th St jCity police said Lochia told them ha was blinded by the headlights lot an oncoming car. The accident oc curred about 10 psa. - i r ! said Fermi also will receive a special , citation noting his contri butions to basic ( neutron physics and the achievement of the con trolled nuclear - chain reaction. , The atomic energy 'act passed by , Congress this1 year authorizes the AEG to , make awards for "especially meritorious contribu tions for the development use, or control' of atomic energy," Fer mi's award was recommended by the AEC's General Advisory Com mittee' and approved by President Eisenhower. f i Strauss, in a1 statement noted that Fermi designed and directed the construction of the. first nu clear reactor and headed the ad vanced -physics! division at Los Alamos, N.M. , . I ; Fermi is now; professor of phy sics at the Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chi cago. I In Chicago. Fermi said in a statement be was "deeply honored and; gratified by the award." "I am certainly I aware." he said, "that whatever scientific achievements I may have obtained would not have been possible with out the help and collaboration of many younger men. i i i t Rites Thursd For Barrymbre BOLLYWOOD tfl Lionel Bar ryroore, patriarch of the Ameri can theater's moat famous family. will be buried Thursday morning in the Roman Catholic faith of his - actress mother. if ?i h 1 $ Barrymore, 78, died i Monday. NOW SHOWING! Two Top Thrillers! I Ttctmcoiot Technicolor Co-Hit r i UK fnr' C of C Adds 5 Directors Five additional members of the new board of directors for Salem Chamber of Commerce were announced by the chamber Tuesday, following the election of 15 directors by the , general memDersnip. - s The five added directnn re Sm one 10 to be designated hv organizations representing vari ous Business districts ox the city. Chosen to date from the dis tricts are R. J. (Dick) Schlup and Virrit Duff ilnvntnvn Sa. lem ' Merchants Association; El mer Ber?J Canitnl Shonnin? Ten. ter; Carroll Meeks, J Hollywood Business Association and C. A. Vibbert, South? Salem Progress Club. It is exoected the rest nf the organizations will name J direc tors before the end of the week. Illness Fatal to Retired Salem Police Officer MM.-. . if;': ,,i Troy Branson, 79. a former Sa lem police officer and guard at the State Prison, died; Tuesday in a Salem nursing home where be had been a patient for several months. He ' had been retired for many years. " f - Branson was born in Sheridan. Ore., Dec. 1, 1874. i He was one of 17 children of George Branson, a pioneer Oregon j circuit-riding minister. - t Before entering ' the nursing home. Branson made his home at 1920 S. River Rd. He is survived by a son, Chester Branson, Port land, and a niece. Mrs. Joe Gisler of Salem. W. T. Rigdon Chapel is in charge of funeral arrange ments. ' : GtyHaubs Win Honors Thirty-two 4-H clubs from Salem. with 270 members and 50 leaders, were, honored Tuesday night for 100 per cent completion, of work. ; The ceremony took place at Bush School, and cash awards and sum mer school scholarships were also presented. County medal winners in nauonai 4-n. won were an nounced. . .1 441 summer, school scholarships were awarded to LeRoy, Hedberg and Clayton Livengood for garden project work; to Joanne Gray, Janice Bishop, Gary Douris, cham pion rabbit judging team at the state fair; and to Kay Smith, champion cake baker;, and Marilyn Page, champion bread baker. Awards were presented by Jim Bishop, city 4-H agent, and James Mosou, manager of Sears, Roebuck and -Co. i Cash awards of $3, $8 and $10 went to West Salem garden club members, who won in 4-H com petition sponsored by KSLM and Sears. Winners are Jim Glodt, Larry Sheridan, i Pat Bo nested, Max Boese, Robert Young. Stan ley Neufeld. Franklin LaQua and Bobby Huntley. s County medal winners ia na tional 4-H contests were Penny Albright Dorothy Anderson. Mary Ellen Johnson, Roberta Meusy, Marilyn Page and Janice Pahl, dress revue; Paul Boal. Dean Hul bert and Layton Webb, entomology.- i ' . i Clubs honored, which were pre sented certificates by Jens Svinth, representing the Willamette Valley Bank, included 10 clothing clubs; nine cooking clubs; three entomol ogy dubs; two clubs each in for estry and health; and one each in bachelor sewing, camp cooking, rabbits, vegetable garden, wood working and photography. Over 100 Seek Census Jobs 5 Well over 100 persons rushed in applications at City Hall Monday for part-time city census jobs in the next few weeks. 1 The city had to stop taking ap plications after the supply of U:S. Census Bureau) job- application forms was exhausted. ' Whether any additional applica tions can be taken will be up to the Los Angeles office of the fed eral census bureau, from where a census official will come to supervise the job in Salem. The special census has been or dered by Salem City Council to update the local population count in hopes of obtaining for the city a larger share of state gas and liquor tax revenues that go ,to cities on a population basis. About 75 or 100 win be hired as enumerators. Pay is based on the amount of canvassing done and should average $12 a day, the city has been informed. ' v . ! Secretary ' MI.IIIM II HI I II II IIIMIUI I ' ;. ' '."! ; . .-' -: ! M '.-':,v'..-L. E. J. (Bill)- Ireland f Molalla, ..former state legislator, was ap pointed Tuesday as secretary U the State Board of Catrl to replace Roy Mills who Is retiring. (Story en page one.) f Salem Woman Succumbs to Long Illness f Si t Funeral services will be f held Thursday for Mrs. ! Marearet S. Montgomery, 73, who died Mon- day in a Salem nursing home after a long illness.! i Mrs. Montgomery! had been in the home since February. She had been in poor health since 1949,; when she was injured! in a falL A resident of Salem for more than 35 years. Mrs.! Montgomery formerly served on the staffs of the Fairview Home and the State Hospital. She was a member of the Eastern Star,! the White Shrine, Artisans and thef Re- bekah Lodge. j j She had been active in; the Christian Science movement for more: than 25 years and was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist in Salem. Mrs. Montgomery was ;born Feb. 7, 1881, in Aurora, Ill hhe lived; in Tacoma, Wash., before moving to Salem in 1917 fwith her husband, 'the late Sate S. Montgomery, and two sons.? Suivivoiii include the jsons, Arthur J. Montgomery of Salem and Alfred S. Montgomery of Hines; a brother in Iowa and a sister in California; four grand children and several nieces.' The funeral will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Virgil T. Golden ChapeL A reader Jrom the First Churc hof Christ Sci entist will conduct; the services. Management Improvement Program Held How one big industry tries to improve its executive manpower was described to nearly 100 state officials Tuesday by William Hart, head of the management develop ment committee of Crown Zeller bach Corp. at San Francisco. His talk at a noon luncheon in the Senator Hotel was a highlight of the opening of a new state gov ernment program for top execu tives which has the same object in mind. - ' The first course is being taken by 20 top state offic:als from as many department?. The morning and afternoon sessions for the group Tuesday will be followed by nine night conferences set up by the State Civil Service Commission and State System of Higher. Edu cation. . ! In the noontime talk, Industrial ist Hart said nisi company is find ing, success in corporation-wide program designed to fmd the high est potential in all its manage ment personnel, from foreman supervisors on up. . Basis of the program, he ex-1 plained, is an annual review of I each executive or supervisor by an appraisal group of three to five men who are the subject's su periors or equals in the company and who are in position to observe his work day ! by day. Strong points and weak points are studied and concrete suggestions on how the company can help the man de velop in his job are made, along with an assignment of who is re sponsible to carry out the sug gestions. H & At The Theaters Today ELStNOEK THREE ! HOURS TO XSX" with Dana Andrews Donna Reed. :i" A BULLET IS WAITING" with Jean: Simmons .and Rory Calhoun, i j M CAPITOL j. ' "HAJJI i BABBA" with John Derek and Elaine Stewart "ADVENTURES OT ROBIN SON CRUSOE." j . . GRAND -:t : V . "SUSAN 1 SLEPT HERE- with Dick Powell and Debbie Reyn olds. - - i "DUEL IN THE JUNGLE" with Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain.j ,' HOLLYWOOD ; -STUDENT PRINCE"' with Ed mund Purdom. I "WICKED WOMEN' with Rich ard,E??n. , . NORTH SALEM DRXVKi IN CLOSED TONIGHT i OPEN FRL, SAT. AND SUN. ' l ONLY , ; . RcGidGii&s Proiost Sifto Of New Service Station H Hans for a service station !at Center and Jason Sts., near 1 a group of ; medical clinics and the Walnut Park residential section, brought a storm of protest to the Salem Planning Commission Tues day night at City Hall. r i The commission took no, action Escaped City Inmate Traced To California .. ' . : Salem police reported Tuesday that an escaped city jail prisoner, James Franklin Beams, had ap parently been 'traced as far as Eureka, Calif. . Reams escaped In September from a work detail at the city dog pound. Police were notified Tues day that his wife, who is being questioned by authorities in Eu reka, admitted: her husband had accompanied her to the Northern California town after bis escape, Mrs. Reams ' said: the had no Idea where Reams is now. He is being sought under a Marion County District Court r warrant charging him with escaping. . ' I , I The flash of an atom bomb is so bright that It can turn your eye fluids to steam and ruin your sight, scientists say. j ' . TLS. Asks. Russia Pay More to C.N. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. l - The United States Tuesday called on Russia to accept an increase in assessments to pay for the U. N.'s expenses. James F. Nash, U. S. delegate to the. General Assembly's Finance Committee, rejected Russia's claim that she lacks American cur rency because of "discriminatory trade practices." He pointed to the U. S. S. R.'s gold supply which he said could easily be converted into dollars. . The Russians, who now pay 14.13 per cent of the V. N.'s budget, are protesting a proposed increase of nearly 1 per cent The United States pays one - third of the total assessments. . Now Playing Open C;45 'Tfcs Stedenl Prince1 : Cinemascope ' il Ana Birth - Edmnnd Purdom . And the singing voice of MARIO LANZA ; ' Plui j j "Wicked ttcaaa" 5'. IT ' it'mmlif'ttr"'ft t-i-Vf 11-1-11 "THE LIST TIUE I SAW PARIS'... ' "it was a city of joy... a nevrendlnj , chimpagne party.Mand I was a partyT girl! 4-ITs TeciBtater miaac starrits DJZAEETH TAYLC2-VA.1 JCISC PALTDf PIDGECn CCTU CO i-'i . COSTING FOX THANKSGIVING TO AEG Committee On Atom Junket HONOLULU m Five members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee arrived unan nounced Tuesday on the first leg of a round the world flight to be gin putting into operation Presi dent Eisenhower's atoms for peace program. Sen. John W. Bricker, acting chairman and spokesman for the group, told a reporter one of the main purposes of the trip was to study "possible utilization" of 220 pounds of, fissionable material al located for the program by the United States. Salem Men See ',: I' ' Radio t requency WASHINGTON ( . Tbe Federal Communications Commission re ported Tuesday, that W. . Gordon Allen and John Truhan, Salem, Ore. broadcasters, had applied for a license to operate, a one kilowatt station in Portland.! Th 1290 kilocycle freauency Is the one formerly used by KUQ, a station which was aoia at aocuon when the firm went bankrupt. 40et8Tetes Past Chiefs' ' Marion County's volture 153 of the 40 et 8, fun making group of the American Legion, enter tained passe chef de gares at Chuck's Tavern Tuesday night Passe chefs present were Robin Day, Waldo Mills, D. E. Owens, Chuck Zumwalt, Ira Pilcher, Charles Huggins, Al Feilen, Luther Jensen and John Crcckatt j ' ! Tribute was paid to six de ceased chefs. Some 50 attended the meeting. 1 South Viet Nam Armv to Receive ' U.S. Trainirip: I SAIGON. Viet Nam tfl Gen. J. Lawton Collins said Wednesday the United States plans to take over the training of South Viet Nam's national ' army from . the French. .!''' - President Eisenhower's special ambassador told his first news conference since his, arrival 10 days ago that the training plan is being discussed with the French and Vietnamese governments. Womaii Wins Law, Suit for1 False Arrest M. - I : S.N DIEGO, Calif. M) The 38 - year - old wife of a former University I of Oregon music pro fessor was awarded $7,830 dam ages Tuesday for her mistaken identity arrest" here in 1932 on charges of cashing forged payroll checks, j I j : . j I ; The superior court jury deliber ated nearly ; five hours! before re turning a , verdict against Harold R. Haberman. a food market own er who signed the t complaint against Mrs. Mary Ellen Allton. Earlier Judge Dean Sherry re lieved San Diego Polfce Xhief A. E. Jansen and Gydf McCain, for merly: employed al a, clerk by Haberman. of liability ia the case. Mrs. Allton was exonerated of the check charges and; later an other woman admitted cashing the forged checks passed here in 1952. k Mrs. Allton and her hashand are now living ; in Los Angeles and teaching in private schools. CAR STOLEN j The theft j of a 1954 Oldsmobfie sedan was reported t Salem po lice Tuesday by employes of the Loder Bros.: used car lot, 436 Cen ter. The Car, valued at $4,000, was apparently taken some time before the ' lot . opened. Tuesday morning, j j , Dulles Doub i - NecdforPolicy Reappraisal WASHINGTON tf-Secretarv of State Dulles said Tuesday be sw no neeo tor a full cress reappraisal of American policy toward Russja, as proposed by Senate Republican leader Knowland of California. "I do not mvself see anv 5 re mediate emergency which requires eruier tnat review or discussion should be I on any different bias from what it normally is." Dulfes told his news conference. The State Department authorized di rect quotation of the secretary on this point. ! ' if Dulles ah-o stated, in what was a fresh warning ; to the Chinese Communists, that any attack on the Chinese Nationalist stmnffhihA of Formosa would mean hostilities with the United States. : , (Story also on page 3, section 3.) . . : i c SAT. NITE i Crystal Gardens Good Music Big Crowds 74c Old Time Modern 74c ACORNS FROM THE 1 in the matter, but heard out the objections as outlined by at least 24 of the crowd of 100 at the hv formal hearing. , i 'Actually, the tone change per mitting service stations in the area took place last year in the city zone code revision and Stan dard Oil Co. of California already has taken out a building permit. Meanwhile,- the protesting resi dents have entered a lawsuit in a move to nullify the tone change. Remain Residential - Objectors reviewed; their pro tests, based mainly on their de-. sire to keep the area mainly resi dential in character. ; f- . Alderman Chester Is Chase of the City Council appeared before the, planners to suggest that if an additional business center east of Center and 17th Sts. were consid ered ' necessary, it should be lo cated east of Park Avenue, be tween Center and. D' Sts. To Study Matter Planners agreed to give the pro tests study and report later to the City Council. , In other business the planners recommended favorable, Council action on two tone change re quests that would permit deepen ing the business zone at 12th and Howard Sts. . where the new Ladd's Market is being built and establishing al barber shop ' on Broadway it, near Columbia. Planners also granted a variance permitting Mrs. Hazel Taylor to convert a house at 1563 Court SL to a two-family rental building. WITH DEL MILNE Gee Whiz... I Almost Forgot ! 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