2 (Sec 1) Statesman, Salem. Of Th'uraw Doc, 9, 1354
Polk, Yamhill Counties
Irrigation Plan Studied
Statesman Newt Service
RICKRE ALL Farms in two
sections of Polk County may be
irrigated at a tentative annual
cost of $11.50 per acre , under
plans now being investigated by
the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
and Polk County Water Develop
ment Committee.
The tentative cost was outlined
by George Van Santen, RickrealL
representative of the bureau, at
a public meeting at the Grange
Hall here Wednesday night
The meeting was conducted by
State Legal
Officers Blast
Segregation ;
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
S. Va. W) A national conference
state legal officers opened Wed
nesday with a blast from Georgia's
attorney general at the Supreme
Court's ban on race segregation in
public schools.
Atty. '- Gen. Eugene Cook, who
also heads the National Assn. of
Attorneys General, described the
high . court decision as! "judicial
usurpation of legislative power
and abridgement of- state sover
eignty in utter disregard of prece
dent and stable constitutional gov
ernment" Cook didn't read aloud, bow
ever, a portion of his prepared
address in which be declared "the
fires of racial tension", have been
rekindled by the decision and
called on Congress to curb the
Supreme Court's powers.
Similarly he skipped though
he put the whole speech into the
conference record a forecast
that, "totalitarianism" will result
if the court continues on its pres
ent course. "
"If the Supreme Court has the
authority to invade the fields of
conservation, taxation and educa
tion," Cook's prepared speech said
"Then it has the authority to set
tip a police state which will regu
late ever phase of our lives and
every facet of our existence."
The Georgia official told news
men lack of time kept him from
delivering the whole address to
attorneys general from most of the
states and territories. . , .
2 High Demos
KANSAS CITY m Two rank
log Democratic leaders Wednes
day night criticized President Ei
senhower vigorously one for
what he said was condoning "the
big lie" technique in politics and
the other for a "lack of 'the ca
pacity to govern and unite the
American people."
Gov.-elect Averell Harriman of
New York, the. featured speaker
before an applauding victory din
ner audience of 600. said "We
have got to stop avoiding holding
President Eisenhower responsible
for th act'ons of his lieutenants
and or the Republican Party." ;
And Paul M. Butler of Indiana,
newly-elected national chairman,
told the 7.30 a date Jackron
County diners Eisenhower "seems
to have been unable to bring to
the task of civil government the
qualities that made him such a
renowned , military leader." , I
Harriman was , Introduced , by
former , President Truman, who
spoke only briefly.
New Bonovet
Causes Rash
MILWAUKEE ( If you could
le?rp hi - Entity before authori-
ties do.: there's a certain florist
in ?.- -v-
the kind of bouquet to send to
people you He-" I
, There's poison ivy in 'em. ' '
The florist, whoever he i. ap
parently doesn't know it,, thoush.
University of Wisconsin! botanist
Philip B. Whitford made the iden
tification of a sample branch
bearing waxey berries - Wednes
day, after the recipient of a bou
quet broke out in a rash.
Whitford said the berries ap
parently had been picked and
handled by someone immune to
poison ivy, possibly because of its
similarity to bittersweet. He said
the bad berries were still effec
tive although dry.
NOW! 50c Till 5:00
cay c&afti sea uriisa
2nd Great Hit
Plan to Attend Saturday
Nights 3-Hit Showl
Bonus Featur
j Starring
. Will Rogers ,
Criticize Ike
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the Polk Water Committee. The
$11.50 figure has been estimated
as the cost to bring water to
farms in the HopeweU district in
northern Polk and southern Yam
hill counties. : f ; j
It is believed the Dallas, Inde
pendence arid Monmbuth areas
may be , irrigated at a similar
cost through the construction of
an irrigation canal and laterals
to bring Willamette River water
from Buena Vista. j
The' water committee had cir
culated questionnaires at a meet
ing , Monday night, at Central
High School, which is located be
tween Monmouth and Independ
ence, and at the meeting Wed
nesday ' nightj circulated them
again.f -; .. ' !"
The! irrigation project would
cover 500 . farms in ;the Dallas,
Monmbuth ' and Independence
areas.f Purpose of the question
naires is to determine if there is
enough interest to warrant fur
ther action toward securing a
federally sponsored irrigation
system. i ! : . I I ' I
If there is enough interest in
the project the reclamation bu
reau may ask Congress for funds
to make a feasibility survey, it is
understood.
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Fishing Ban !
Ori Blueback j
Salmon Asked
ASTORIA (l Such a small
run of blueback salmon is expected
in the Columbia River next year
that i fishery officials of Oregon
and Washington proposed Wednes
day to prevent any: commercial
catches of the fish. t .
Biologists of the Oregon Fish
Commission and the Washington
Department of Fisheries explained
that a virus disease . attacked the
blueback spawn of 1951. That is
the run: which will enter the river
next summer. i
The biologists said: they expect
only about 60,000 blueback to go
upstream. Thev proposed that fish
ermen use nets with a mesh no
smaller than 54 inches. That
would allow the hlupback jto ?o n
through, but would catch . the
lafpp chinock salmon.
The' experts said their aim lis
to allow at least 100,000 blueback
to escape to upstream spawning
grounds every year. The run next
year will not meet that, even if
every fish gets through, they said.
The meeting was held here to
allow fishermen to give their views
on proposed 1955 fishing regula
tions, si
Disarmament
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (A -
Russia and the Western powers
agreed tentatively Wednesday to
begin private disarmament talks
in : London late in February.
The agreement was reached at
1 meeting of representatives of
the United States, Russia, Britain, !
France and Canada. It was sub
ject to final approval by their gov
ernments. I j ,
While agreeing to? the talks.; So
viet delegate Arkady A. Sobolev
told ' the other diplomats that; the
London and Paris j agreements to
free; and re - arm I West Germany
made it impossible to reduce arm
aments at this time.
(In Washington, i officials said
there was no question but that the
United States government would
authorize its representative to at
tend the proposed meetings next
year at London.) f , i
Storms Batter
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! LONDON m Winter storms
battered Britain : and surrounding
waters Wednesday j snarling traf-
fice on land,-sea and in the air.
One person was killed. s
British Overseas- Airways can
celled its scheduled night strato
cruiser service to ;New York be
cause of storms over the Atlantic.
Two other New York - bound air
lines were rerouted to Iceland.
Talk
Planned
ACTION! . . . MYSTERY! . . . SUSPENSE!
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SHANGHAI . . . Wickedest Cfykitho
ft World . . . Her Playground ... Men . . . Her Destiny!
"THE SHANGHAI STORY"
STARRING
RUTH
ROMAN
Trio's Arrest
Clears Many
(Story also on page 1, section j
Many of the major burglaries
of the ; past two months in the
Salem, area were listed by Salem
police Wednesday as having been
cleared: by statements from Rich
ard Lee Grant, Robert Benjamin
Herring and Robert Leroy Krebs.
The three were bound over to
the grand Jury in Marion County
District Court on one of the
charges, based on the Northwest
Poultry Co. burglary two weeks
agO.- : - !
Others on the list are:
MKN Furniture Co., 1425 Edge
water St., which was burglarized
early Tuesday. The three were
arrested an hour later 'in a pick
up truck witnesses said had been
parked nearby when the firm was
burglarized. -
NuWay Cleaners, Armpriest
Sheet Metal Co. and Mill Supply
Corp., all of which were burglar-,
ized on the night of Nov. 17. I
Keizer School, from which the
safe was stolen Nov. 3i 1 1
St Paul Implement Co., burg
larized late in November.
Payless Oil Co., Dallas-Road,
which was entered early in No
vember. ! I
St Paul High School, in which
the office safe was pried open
on the night of Dec. 1. (
Woodburn High School, which
was burglarized last month.
St Paul Episcopal Church, 1440
S. Liberty St, .which was entered
Oct. 14. '
Officers said efforts are being
made to recover loot from the
earlier burglaries. No new items
had been placed in the police
property room Wednesday night
State police and county offi
cials have questioned the three
youths in the city jaiL but there
has been no indication whether
new charges will be lodged
against them.
Estimate Up
WASHINGTON (UP) The Agri-
Culture Department said Wednes
day that the 1954 cotton crop to
taled an estimated 13.569.000 bales.
The estimate, the last of the
year, was up 2.7 per cent from last
month's forecast of 13,206,000 .bales.
The government had hoped the
current crop control program
would hold production to 12 mil
lion bales, but record yields per
acre upset this calculation even
though fanners planted less than
the acreage allotted them.
The estimate, in addition to be-
ins the last of the season, was
the last before cotton farmers vote
next i Tuesday on whether - they
want; to continue federal crop con
trols on their crop next year. The
actual count of bales produced in
1954, based on ginnings, will not
be released until next May.
Secretary Ezra T. Benson had
set a national acreage allotment
this year of 21,379,358 acres, which
farmers had to stay within or pay
stiff fines. ' i
Child Tells of
Being Maimed
By Stepmother
GREENSBORO, N. C. tfl - Step
mother Mae Atkins "didn't treat
me so good she punched my
eyes" blind, 12 year - old Judy
Atkins told a superior court jury
Wednesday.
The child, a student at a school
for the blind in Raleigh, was the
state's first witness in the trial
of Mrs. Atkins, charged with goug
ing Judy's eyes, causing the right
one to go blind.
Judy, a short, chubby sixth -grader,
also charged her step
mother, beat her with sticks and a
poker, twisted her arms and fin
gers, pulled out her hair by the
handful and threatened to kill
her if she tattled.
The girl said Mrs. Atkins in
flicted injuries on her when she
failed to finish, her housework, in
cluding sweeping, making beds
and washing clothes for a large
family.
- Mrs. Atkins pleaded Innocent to
a charge of maiming. -
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Staylon Youth
Admits Theft
Of U.SJ Check
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STAYTON A.17-year-old Stay
ton boy has admitted in a signed
statement the theft of a govern
ment check from the post office
here, police said; Wednesday.
The $25 check was later cashed
in Four Corners. It was the proper
ty of a National S Guardsman and
was made out to him. j
The Guardsman was allegedly a
friend of the boy, who was arrest
ed here' last Friday on the charge
by a secret service agent and
postal inspector..; f
The boy will be arraigned in a
federal court in Portland and
charged with forging the signature
to a government -check.
The date for arraignment has
not been set. The signed statement
was made to Everett , Norfleet,
chief of Stayton -police.
The check was in a rental box
at the post office. j
SoldierlSeeks
MotJwiiHere
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Salem Red Cross officials Wed
nesday searched unsuccessfully for
the mother of a soldier stationed in
EuroDe who wrote he had not seen
his mother since birth and ! had
been told she lived in Salem.
4The soldier, Pvt. Lee J. Brun
ing, said his mother's name is Mrs.
Beatrice Mitchell. i
; Pvt. Bruning says his father has
refused to give him any informa
tion about her, : except that she
lives in Salem. I
; All leads checked by Red Cross
officials proved ! uneventful. One
One '
lead was found which indicated
that the woman lives in Eugene.
The Red Cross office there, how
ever, said it was unable to locate
her. . I
Man Kills Wife,
3 Children,
Self
NEWLAND. N C. (f) A crip
pled watchmaker once a mental
hospital patient shot and stabbed
his wife and three small children
to death Wednesday then mortal
ly wounded himself in the moun
tain town of Minneapolis.
I Andrew W. Sparks, 34 year
old jeweler an.-! watrh re-"-rK''n,
died at Grace Hospital in Banner
Elk Wednesday night frir.i & sun-
shot wound in the forehead. He
did not regain consciousness after
being admitted early Wednesday.
ACE STARTS HOME
TOKYO U) -i Canadian squad
ron leader Andrew R. Mackenzie,
freed by. the Chinese Reds Sunday
after two years in prison, left Tok
yo Thursday aboard a Canadian
Pacific Air Line plane for Van
couver, Canada.'
ACORNS FROM THE
WITH DEL MILNE
BUSY .
BUSY
BUSY
DAYS
Size 10 hose for Great-Aunt Bess
. . . Would a tie be best for Uncle
Les? ... Must remember those
big red candles . . . cant forget
Suzie's silver sandals . . .
Bet every MotherV snowed under
with Lists like this about now...
and shopping (days are certainly
busy days if my wife's telling the
truth! I .
Next time you're downtown all
day ... have Dad and the kids
meet you at the ' Marion for a
delicious dinner. Children's por
tions are just 50c and we take
care of the little tykes so you can
relax! There are crayons and, col
oring mats . . u special menus...
and extra special desserts!
Remember in Salem ift the
HOTEL! MARION
Phone 3-4123
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DRAMATIC 2ND HIT f ' V ' "f Tl T'H ' " I
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Santa Claw9 Pays Off
N.
7
NEW YORK Joseph Conf atone,
gets hag from Susan Quilty at Hospital for Special Surgery in New
York City. Joe in the traditional Santa Clam garb is following a
custom he established 11 years ago providing Christmas cheer
for kids. His home it la Riviera Beach, FIjl, where he owns a mo
tel Each year he dedicates his vacation to aldinr orphans, each
year in a different city. This year he hired himself oat to Macy's
department store as Santa, and already he hat spent $1400 which
he won on a television show, on candy and toys. (AP Wirephoto)
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Neuberger to Keep Oregon
College Graduate on His Staff
PORTLAND UH An Oregon
college graduate will j work each
year . as a research assistant; on
the staff of Sen.-Elect Richard L.
Neuberger,- be announced Wednes
day. '; . v-1
At the same time he chose a
committee to make the annual se
lection.
Richard Judd. 21. Newport, a
Lewis and Clark College senior.
Firemen Galled
To Trailer Home
Firemen from the downtown
Salem station were summoned
about 10 p.m. Wednesday to 888
N. Commercial St, where an oil
stove had overheated in a trailer
occupied by Richard Korpella.
No damage was reported.
new cmTT" ,-T-f
NAZARETH, Israel Wl The
end of Markii '
Wednesday by the laying of the
cornerstone for the new Church
of the Annunciation. It is to be the
fourth built on the. site over the
holy grotto where the angel Gab
rial is said to have 1 appeared to
the Virgin Mary. .
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who was raised la an orphanage,
will serve until the first full-term
graduate assistant is chosen. Judd
will work until next Aug. 31 when
he expects to enter military serv
ice. ' !
According to Neuberger the pro
gram is like that by which U.S,
Supreme Court justices select
young lawyers to serve I as law
clerks. !.''!'
On the selections committee will
be J. W. Forrester, publisher of
the Pendleton East Oregoman;
May Darling, member of the State
Board of Education; Father David
H. Fosselman. chairman of the
University of Portland's social sci
ence department, and John M
Swarthout. head of Oregon State
College's political science depart
ment, i
The senior selected wiQ get
annual .salary of 13,600. Neuberger
said purpose of the program is
"to encourage young people to
take a more active "interest in our
soverninent and to benefit their
communities and our state by
making this exoerience .available
through their future participation
in civic affairs."
Judd is a political science major
and vice president of the Oregon
Young, Democrats. ' ;
At Thq Theaters
Today
'ELSINOK.I
THJTTT- with Judy HeUiday
and Jack Canon.
"INDISCRETION Or AN
AMERICAN WIFE" Jennifer
Jones and Montgomery ClifL '
CAPITOL
"BLACK' WIDOW" with Ginger
Rogers. Van Heflin. Gene Tierney.
"THE SHANGHAI STORY"
with Ruth Roman and Edmond
O'Brien. . I
GRAND :
"GARDEN Or EVIL" with Gary
Cooper and Susan Hayward.
"BENGAL BRIGADE" with
Rock Hudson ' and Arlen DahL
HOLLYWOOD
THREE COINS IN THE
FOUNTAIN" -with Clifton Webb.
THREE YOUNG TEXANS"
with Jeffrey jHuntcr.
News Story
Originates in
News Office
LA PORTE
Ind. The La
Porte Herald I Argus had a story
dtimnml riffht in its lan Wednes
day as a guij - toting apprentice
printer awnapea a young woman
reporter from the newa room.
The printer. Robert Panek, 25,
returned the reporter, 22 - year -
old Abbey Johnson, to me news
paper office 'unharmed an hour
and 40 minutes later ana arove
away. ; .
He walked into a police station
and surrendered another hour and
a half later. I
Miss Johnson was too unnerved
to give a clear account of her
experience. She did tell her fellow
workers, however, Panek asked
her if she would marry him and
she told him, "no." r
Associates said they understood
Panek previously had proposed
marriage to Miss Johnson.
She had resigned from the news
paper, effective Dec. 18. and had
planned to return to the Chicao
home of her parents, Mr. ana Mrs.
Charles Johnson. '
Miss Johnson said Panek did
not threaten her at any time when
she was in the car, and when he
let her out of the car he handed
her the .22 caliber rifle which he
had carried I into the newspaper
Office.!
"Here, you take the gun," she
quoted Panek as saying. "I didn't
want to hurt you or anybody else
with it." j
Mill City Theatre
Now! Tburs, FrL, Sat.
"KARAMOJA"
Plus: "Halfway te Hell"
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Two Students
Of Willamette J
Win Honors x
Willamette University speech
majors won two awards Wednes
day in the State Extemporaneous
Speaking Contest at Eugene. -i
Marian Rutledge, junior from
Estacada, won second and a cash
prize in the ! women's division.
Her subject was "To What Ex
tent Did Senator McCarthy In
fluence the 1954 Election?"
: H. Paul Johnson Jr., Albany
senior, won honorable mention
in the men's division. He spoke
4
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on "What influence Will the
1954 Election Have on the Gov
ernment's Pacific Northwest
Power Policy T"
Both students drew their topics
one hour before addressing a
large audience at Northwest
Christian College. Eight colleges
and universities participated.
Prof. Howard jRunkel of Willam
ette University was one, of the
eight judges. I
Romantic Aviator
Proposes by Air'
; BOYNE CITY, Mich. Ul A
romantic aviator curded Boyne
City for about 1 15 minutes Wednes
day in an apparent proposal to
the girl of his choice .by means
of a huge banner streaming be
hind his craft.! .
: The sign read:
"Evelyn, I lbve you. Marry me.
Carl." I
Civil Aeronautics officials at
Boyne City identified the pilot as
Carl Demler, about 40, of Deer
Lake, a professional crop duster.
They were unable to say wheth
er .Demler received an answer. .
oemier rece
. VELTjd 1
REP. VELDS WED
BALTIMORE UP) Rep. Harold
H. Velde, chairman of the House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee, and Mrs! Dolores Anderson,
secretary to the committee, wert
married here Wednesday night
Cinemascope
This Theatre is Comfortably
Heated
THREE COINS IN A
FOUNTAIN"
Clifton Webb, Jean1 Peters,
Maggie MacNamari
"THREE YOUNG TEXANS"
Mitxi Gaynor
Starts Wed., Dec. 15th
"SUSAN I SLEPT HERE
Christmas Day thru New Yean
THE ROBE" in Cinemascope
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