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Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 14, 1955
PRICE 5c!
No. 293
Canada Citizens Fight Delaying Action
With Bank Bandits, 3 Suspects Held
VANCOUVER, B. C. Three
suspects were captured Thursday,
one with a bullet in his leg, after
unarmed citizens fought a delaying
action with a trio of masked, shoot
ing bank bandits. '
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
officers said "almost all" the $10.
000 stolen at gunpoint- from the
suburban Burnaby branch of the
Royal Bank of Canada half hour
earlier was recovered.
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CHICAGO. Jan. 11 After work
today I went out to the Auto Show, i
It is held at the International
Amphitheatre near the stock!
yards. This is the building where;
the 1932 nominating conventions
were held; and it is spacious
enough for the display of cars and
trucks, and offering of a stage
show twice a day. The trip out
Halsted street by street bus re
minded me of my first visit to
Chicago, before the turn of the
century, via freight train to the
stockyards, then after our car of
livestock was sold a trip by street
car down Halsted street to the
business center. My recollection
of that street is -of block after
block of two or three story build
ings, and its character hasn't
changed much since. I looked
around near the stockyards en
trance for Jack Knife Ben's place.
No, that wasn't' a bar; it was a
place where knives, precious to
a boy, and other cutlery were sold.
I didn't locate it, and a cop knew
of no such place now. So there
have been changes.
f As for the" auto show: All the
makes and models . of American
cars are there and a few of for
eign make. They are the same
flashy numbers you see in the
showrooms at Salem and on the
streets, only arranged in dazzling
display. Something has been add
ed, however: glamor girl models.
They really knock your eye out.
I'm not sure but what they are too
distracting. The girls are a lure at
the convertible! and even take a
hand at ,tbe imM giving sales
spiels for the cars they represent
The stage show is x inter spered
with a showing of the models (both
cars and girls). The car dashes up
the runway onto the stage, the
girl alights
(Continued on editorial page, 4.)
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Flier Missing
LOS ANGELES i Speed flier
James B. Verdin. 36, was 'reported
missine Thursday night after his
Navy A4D Skyhawk jet crashed on
the Mojave Desert near Victor
vitle, a Douglas Aircraft spokes
man said.
Verdin, a Douglas test pilot, set
the 752.9 m. p. h. record for the
three - kilometer aircraft sprint
course.
He radioed Edwards Air Force
Base on the Mojave that be , was
abandoning the plane near , the
base.
, Search planes shortly afterward
located the wreckage.
Ground parties were dispatched
from the air base and the sheriffs
office after a parachute was re
ported seen in the area.
'
Cautious 'Dry9
Forecast Made
i
A dry 24 hours may be In store
for Salem today, the McNary Field
weatherman predicted cautiously
early Friday. -
' Skies over the city will be partly
cloudy today, the forecast indi-
, cated, and the clouds will thicken
tonight. Rain isn't expected until
tomorrow, however. Today's tem
perature is expected to rise to 48
in the afternoon, .with the low to
night predicted for 36.
WHALES HEAD SOUTH
DEPOE BAY W Gray whales
axe making their annual south
ward migration. Some are moving
close enough to shore to give view
ers at this coastal resort a good
look at them. Oae group of 12 was
reported this week. -
ANIMAL CRACKERS
V WAMIN GOOORICH
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Navy
Speed
A fourth man, picked up in the
action, was released.
The. robbery was the first bank
holdup in the Vancouver area in
just over a month. Dunne a six-
week period in November and De
cember, eight banks were robbed
at gunpoint of funds estimated at
$86,000. .... j
Threw by Gasmen
The RCMP and city police, who
joined in the gunfight and capture,
said the $10,000 was scattered out
side the bank and in rugged bush
land nearby where it was thrown
by the gunmen as they fled.
Police said the holdup happened
this way:
Three men, masked and carry
ing-a sawed -off shotgun and an.
automatic pistol, parked near the
bank just after it opened. They
ran inside and ordered the bank
staff and four customers onto the
floor, gathered the money into a
bag and fled.
Bandits Opea Fire
xThen their troubles began. Spot
ted entering the bank, tney were
confronted by Martin Letang, 40,
who ran at them with a hammer.
One of the trio opened fir;, two
shots passing near him.
One man dropped the money and
when he turned to pick it up, wa3
surrounded by : bystanders. He
grabbed the bag and shouldered
his way clear i
Costa U'xcm War
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Action Dwindles
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica W5) The fighting in Costa Rica's three-day-old
war dwindled Thursday as a U.S. Air Force plane rushed a
five - nation commission here to investigate the government's com
plaint of aggression from Nicaragua, i i
The general staff announced no contact had yet been made with
the rebel force of 200 to 300 men around La Cruz, a short distance
south of the Nicaraguan border on
the Inter-American Highway.
A press officer said the rebel
advance appeared to have stalled
after moving a short distance south
of La Cruz in the northwestern tip
of the country, but that loyal gov
ernment forces were Seveloping a
movement according to plan to de
feat them.
The rest of the country was re
ported quiet, with the government
in control of its territory. - i
Authentic Voice
A radio, identifying . itself as
The Voice of the Authentic Anti-
Communist Revolutionary Army"
was heard in nearby San Salvador
announcing- that Teodoro Picado
Jr.. son of the former Costa Rican
president, had assumed command
of the rebel forces. The 23-year-old
Picado is a graduate of West Point
and married to an American wom
an j
The broadcast called upon the
anti-government partisans to burn
coffee plantations, and claimed 50
prisoners ' had been captured at
La Cruz.
Nicaragua is stoutly denying
Costa Rican President Jose Fig
ueres' charges that the rebels have
based in that country.
Reports Ridiculed
The Venezuelan general staff
also issued a communique from
Caracas Thursday night ridiculing
reports that Venezuelan planes
carried out widespread bombing
and machine-gunning attacks on
Costa Rican towns Wednesday.
An attack on Villa Quesada. 50
miles from San Jose, on the first
day of the trouble, was declared by
Figueres to have been made by an
air-borne force.
The attacking force in the La
Cruz area, however, would- have
to come by boat or by overland
infiltration through the jungle from
Nicaragua. ;!
Peace Flights
On the northwestern front, loy
alist troops moved up from Liberia
in an effort to engage an opposi
tion force holding La Cruz, on the
Inter-American highway 35 miles
to the northwest, and some villages
in between. Col. Marcial Aguiluz,
Loyalist commander, reported he
hoped to establish contact soon.
The OAS asked for olanes to
make "pacific observation" flights
over Costa Rica and the United
States agreed to supply them: Two
U. S. . Air Force "planes ; arrived
here and others 'stood by in the
Panama Canal Zone for use if
needed. -
(Story also on page 2, sec 1.)
Somoza Still
Prefers Duel
MANAGUA. Nicaragua ul
President Anastasio Somoza said
Thursday he still thinks a duel
with President Jose Figueres of
Costa Rica would be a good way
to settle the differences between
the two countries.. , -
Somoza, a champion rifle and
pistol shot challenged Figueres
Wednesday to meet him at the
fronter and shoot it out with pis
area. But he said he understood
tols in order to bring peace to the
area. But he said be understood
Figueres had rejected the offer,
The - two ' presidents have been
feuding since -1948, and Somoza
charged that Figueres hired assas
sins to make an attempt on his
life in 1954. Figueres asserted that
current righting in Costa Rica was
started by an invasion from this
country.
Then the trio found that bulldoz
er operators John Howie and Ernie
Astells i had: trapped their car
against, the curb with their huge
vehicle. Two pistol shots forced
them to back, up, freeicg the geta
way car; .-. , j . . .
Track Leaves Read 1
Telephone lineman Fred Sharp
chased the car in his repair truck,
forcing it up to 90 miles an hour
and it left the road, on a curve. -
Then, Sharp dove for the ditch
as police arrived i shooting.
One shot hit a suspect in 'the
leg and he fell close to a handful!
of scattered bills; f
A second man was captured
when he walked out of some bushes
into the sub-machinegun muzzle
of Detective SylvCr Armeneau. An
RCMP tracking ;dog flushed the
third suspect from a thicket
Mae Released
A fourth man was released after
police found him hiding nearby.
Asked why he ran, he replied:
"I'm just allergic to sirens."
Letang, a. veteran of j Italian and
German war campaigns, ducked
behind a car to escape the bandit's
bullets. I I
"I've been shot at before and
wasn't too worried about the gun,"
he said. "I thought I could knock
him out." ; I
Astells, whose bulldozer blade
delayed the bandit car. said:
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Third Planeful
Of GIs Forced
To Parachute
FAIRBANKS, Alaska un Thirty
three men participating in the Army-Air
Force j "Operation Snow
bird" were forced to bail out of a
crippled transport plane over Ladd
Air Force Base Thursday night.
All were soon accounted for. -
The plane later landed success
fully. : 1 I"
The big C119 flying boxcar car
rying paratroopers ; radioed the
control tower at the air base it
was experiencing- engine trouble
It dumped its passengers as it
flew over the; field! but some of
them drifted a considerable dis
tance. I I
There were 1 six crew members
aboard and all stayed with the
plane to the ground.: The pilot was
1st Lt. Robert Bruckner and his
co-pilot 1st Lt Herbert P. Crews
The plane was from the 745th
Troop Carrier Squadron of Charles
ton. S. C. i ;
The paratroopers all were from
the 503rd RCT Support Company
of Camp Campbell,! Ky.
The ship was en route from
White Horse, jY. T. to Anchorage.
When it was 10 minutes out of
Nenana one engine failed and the
plane changed its i destination to
and at Ladd. f
It was the; third plane load of
paratroopers forced to jump. since
the exercise involving 3.000 men
started from Sewart Air Force
Base. Tenn.. Monday.
Tuesday one plane dropped 38
men over the air base in Tennes
see and 33 more jumped over Miles
City. Mont. Two crewmen died in
the Sewart accident but all were
accounted for in Montana.
More than 100 planes are parti
cipating in toe maneuver.
Can't Comply Because
Oregon Scenes Too
Beautiful for Words
It looks like some people . in
Indiana might think the people
of Oregon aren't Americans.
A letter came Thursday to Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry
from Decatur, Ind., asking for
some pictures of Oregon.
At the end, it said:
RS. Write in English."
'Meek Little Lady' Strides Onto Floor
Congress, Rebuffed in Plan to
WASHINGTON j (UP) A "meek
little lady"; slipped unnoticed onto
the floor of the House of Repre
sentatives Thursday, strode down
the aisle, and asked Speaker Sam
Rayburn to recognize her for a
five-minute speech.
- Rayburn ordered her removed
from the chamber. She went quiet
ly, j
The red-coated woman, who was
in her mid-40s and said she was
from Pennsylvania, slipped away
before ' anybody could cet her
1 name.
The episode occurred so ouick-
ly and quietly that few persons in
the House chamber were aware
at the moment that anything wis
SfTUSSV v I - .
Zcakt W. Johnson Jr., sergeant
"I thought I could block their
car. . . I had it completely pinned
down by the time they came out
and pointed their artillery at me.
They told me to back up and one
of them fired two shots in our di
rection. I backed up slowly."
Nearby, 200 children in a school
missed part of their lunch hour as
they were kept indoors for their
own protection.
4-Year Draft
Extension on
Ike's Program
WASHINGTON W) President
Eisenhower sent Congress his blue
print Thursday for maintaining "a
military force that we can support
for the. many years that may be
necessary to dispel the shadow of
Communist threat.;
Congressional leaders promised
to give it careful study. -The
President called for a four-
year extension of the draft law,
an increase in pay and allowances
for the "experienced hard core
of regular fighting men, and a
modified form of compulsory mill
tary training to create a powerful
reserve of young men ready for
instant mobilization.
Pay increases, ranging up to
more than 20 per cent, would go
only to men serving longer than
the minimum time on active duty
three years for officers and two
for enlisted men.
"We are losing too many men
trained in leadership and techni
cal skills the experienced hard
core of a modern fighting force,
the President said.
Asserting that the atomic jet
ase has "drawn our services into
new dimensions of hazard and un
certainty." the President also pro
posed extra, hazardous duty pay
for airmen, submarine crews, par
achutists, demolition ' crews, deep
sea divers and certain other spe
cialists, nc uiu out gu uuu wu
of the amounts.
He also urged special allowances
to' men forced to leave their fam
ilies, better medical care and hous
ing for service families and other
benefits.
(Additional detaili on page t,
sec. 1.)
Detroit Area
Ranger Chosen
Statesman Kws Service
DETROIT, Ore. Selection of
Alvin L. Sorseth as Detroit Dis
trict ranger was announced
Thursday. He will succeed S. T.
Moore effective Sunday.
Sorseth has been district ran
ger of the Drewsey Range in
Malheur National Forest since
1953 and formerly worked at the
Detroit and Oakridge Ranger Sta
tions. The new Detroit ranger is 35,
married and has two sons. He was
a Navy pilot in World .War II
and graduated from Oregon State
College in 1948.
STORE LOCATION TOLD
EUGENE (Jl The W. K. Grant
Co. chain plans a new department
store here. The firm's architect
John S. Bolles. said Thursday that
construction of a two-story build-
in will start in three or four
weeks.
Max. Mln. Precip
44 3S ,1J
Saleam
Portland
47 41
2S- S3 .01
45 2S .03
49 40 J4
48 35 .16
49 41 M
68 43 .00
. 27 1 trace
Baker .
Medford
North Bend
Roseburj
San Franciac
Lo Angeles.
SO
Nw York
32 28 .13
Willamette- Biver 2.6 feet.
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem):
Partly cloudy today; increasing
cloudiness late this afternoon, with
rain tomorrow. High today near 48;
low tonirht near 36.
Temperature at 12.-01 a.m. today
was 37.
SALEM PRECIPITATION.
Siaee Start of Weather Year Sept.
This Tear - La it Tear Normal
17.02 21.71 20.M
at arms, escorted the visitor po
litely out of the chamber, turning
her over to Rayburn s adminis
trative , assistant, John Holton.
However, he failed to give Holton
much of a fill-in and Holton said
goodbye to the woman a couple of
minutes later without even getting
her name. . l--s.
- Holton described the woman as
appearing to be "in her 40s," and
that she "seemed to be very harm
less," On reflection, he added that
he would call her a "meek little;
lady,
Rayburn said she was "a very
nice looking little lady."
Reporters asked whether be ob
tained hr, name.!,- . , , , !
"No," Rayburn replied. He said
be did not favor making her name
On Her Way Back From Polio
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Thursday was a big day In the
Ellingsen. She took, a step her first since entering Salem Gener
al Hospital last December with polio. Hanging tightly to Mrs. Ma
rian Showers, hospital physical therapist, Grace is shown testing a
new leg brace which' will la timeenable her to walk again. The
National Polio Foundation, whose fund raising drive is now in
progress, is helping to pay expenses of Grace's treatment (States
man. Photo) f j . , " . .; " j
Neuberger's Empty
LhairLonsp
WASHINGTON W3) Sen. Richard Neuberger didn't show up for
the Women's National Press Club luncheon Thursday, but the Demo
cratic freshman senator from Oregon isn't afraid of women just
afraid of being conspicuous."
I had to go to a meeting that
he explained when located considerably later in his office, j
Police Arrest
Freight Rider,
Sans Clothing
POCATELLO,. Idaho tfl "J A
sheet metal worker 'waswarming
up in Bannock County jail here
Thursday after officers fished him
sans clothing from atop the Un
ion Pacific freight - train he was
riding in near-zero weather.
Thirty-one-year-old Joseph Kas-
selman told officers he hopped the
freight near PocatelloJ intending to
ride some 80 miles in his birthday
suit to Cache Junction, Utah.
- He told' Deputy- Sheriff Early
Cutler the trip was I meant as a
"self endurance test"! and "tough-ening-up
exercise." I -
Cutler said Kasseiman's ears
and feet were frozen and he was
almost stiff with cola when taken
from the train Wednesday night at
Arimo. some 30 miles away. Most
of his clothing, which he had laid
atop the car beside him. had
blown away during bis ride.
After medical treatment, Kassel
man was placed in the jail while
officers tried to figure out what to
charge him with. . .
Make
public, anyway, eve:
what it was.
Less than a yea
ago, March
1, 1934, four Puerto uucan fanatics
opened fire from the, House spec
tators gallery and i wounded five
congressmen. J ; '
: Later - Thursday night ; it was
learned the woman was a 49-year-old
unemployed stenographer, Mrs.
Grace Jackson Clark of New Ken
sington. Pa. i i
She said .she was "ignorant of
the way the country is run." but
wanted to ask the House to urge,
the country "to stop long enough to
consider whet good Citizenship is."
of
Speech
d if he learned
Airs. Clark had a word about the;
House's' security arrangements:
- "I -don't think they could keep
anybody out of there,1 she said.
MM5JSS IWLHI)IIIII
life of 1M -year-old Grace Darlene
ICUOUS
J j
lasted longer than I expected,"
' f'l was afraid that by; coming
into the luncheon late I would be
conspicuous. There might be some
folks who would say I had staged
it -that way.".
Coincidentally, ! Mrs. George
Malone, wife of the Republican
senator from Nevada, was there.
Katie Malone walked out on a
speech Neuberger was making the
list time he was among the lady
reporters.
Throughout the luncheon, honor
ing Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. am
bassador to Italy, an empty chair
and a plate of ; chicken growing
cold were mute reminders of the
senator's absence.
Mine Detectors
Seek Royal Watch
j SANDRINGHAM, England UR -Army,
mine detectors were pressed
into service Thursday to - help a
royal search party look for a tiny
wrist watch lost by Queen Eliza
beth II on the royal country estate
Tuesday.
! The queen, assisted by Prince
Margaret and the queen mother,
directed the search party. .
The mine detectors drew sever
al buzzers, but only led to bits of
old metal. ; !
In the Interest
Of Spelling!
Mare than ' 3000 :th- and Sth
grade students of Marion, Polk,
Linn and Yamhill Counties are
competing in the 5th, annual
Statesman-KSLM .Spelling Con
test. Fallowing are among words
being studied: , j .
; legible , ! ictndshield
' aluminum , j volunteer
inconvenience walnut !
circumstance tobacco
. initiate .
reference
scissors
appreciation
rheumatism
. municipal '
luncheon '
trousers
. virtue
scientific
r
I amphibian
; i curiosity '
v 1 dirndend
j' acquaintance
merchandise
bouquet
- reception
WASHINGTON (Jpy Four builders who made "windfall prfits,
under a government housing program have tentatively agreed, to
return over a million dollars, Federal Housing officials reported
Thursday, s
The officials held out the prospect of recovering a further "sub
stantial sum" out of the hundreds of millions of dollars involved.
They also reported they had i
found evidence of possible fraud
and corruption. j
As a result of money settlements
officials said, some tenants of government-insured
housing may have
their rents reduced.
"Windfall Sprofits" was the term
coined by Sen. Capehart
for the money pocketed
ers and promoters when
ment-insured . loans on' their pro
ects exceeded the actual cost of
building. Rents were scaled to the
amount of the loan, rather than the
project s cost. ,
To Hire Lawyers
Thursday's disclosure of a mil
lion-dollar-plus in tentative settle
ments came through the House Ap
propriations Committee, which ap
proved a request from housing of
ficials for 1 $123,000 to hire more
lawyers arid accountants to run
down the excess-loan cases.
The committee made public tes
timony by Frank J. Meistrell, gen
eral counsel of the Federal Hous
ing Administration. -
7,000 Projects
There were 7,000 projects under
the housing program-involved. Au
thorized by Congress to hasten the
postwar building of dwelling units,
it expired in 1950. Capehart's
Banking Committee investigated
543 projects and reported about 80
per cent of them had windfalls.
amounting to a total of almost 80
million dollars.
With 543 cases showing a com
bined total of 80 millions in wind
falls, Capehart calculated the total
on 7,000 projects could run past a!2ried employes, and also reduce
billion dollars
'Could End'
Human Life
SEATTLE UP A Canadian who
formerly j headed the United Na
tions' World Health Organization
warned Thursday that - biological
warfare could wipe out the human
race. j L
Dr. Brock Chisholm of Victoria.
B. C, addressed the "Northwest
Canners Assn. convention here.
He urged support of the United
Nations as a method of blocking
wars, j ..
''With the new weapons of de
structionj" said Dr. Chisholm, "it
is perfectly possible there may
not be any human xace after this
generation or before the end of
this generation."
E. E. Wilkie of Bellingham. pres
ident of the National Canners
Assn., told the convention the can
ning industry does not want gov
ernment! help because it doesn t
want regimentation. '
Leon C. Jones, Caldwell, Idaho,
was elected president of the re
gional group.
Other new officers are Norman
W. Merrill, Salem, Ore., first vice
president and L. D. Jones, Van
couver, Wash., second vice presi
dent. New directors: include H. G
Hohweisner Sr. and William Lin
foot, both of Salem ;: B. C. Blair,
Portland, and Walter A. Hallauer,
Wapatoj Wash.
Neb Fascists
Salute 4Lion?
ROME u A hundred thousand
Romans raised their arms in the
forbidden blackshirt. salute and
roared ! Fascist battle hymns in a
funeral demonstration Thursday
for exMarshal Rodolfo Graziani.
Mussolini's last-ditch commander.
"Italia, Italia." chanted the
throngs as a mile-long cortege of
Neo Fascists bore its flag-draped
coffin through the city. ! j
The old "Desert Lion," who naa
lived in retirement for four years,
died Tuesday after an operation
for an ulcer.
Two Neubergers
Work Together j
3.000 Miles Apart
j - . A . i
WASHINGTON. Wl Although
3,000 miles apart. U. S. Sen. Rich
ard Neuberger D-Ore) and Ore
gon State Rep. Maurine Neuberger
his wife, still are working together.
For; example: . -
The Senator wrote : President
Eisenhower Wednesday urging
continuation of educational bene
fits for military service, despite
the proclamation ending the Ko
rean emergency period insofar as
veteran benefits are concerned. He
also has joined with Sen. Hill XD-
Ala) in sponsoring such legislation.
Thursday in Salem, ore., Airs,
VanKaroop inlfnriiippd a memorial
in the state legislature which
would have the legislature, urge
similar continuance of GI benefits.
(Story on page 3, sec. 4.) 4
Creator of 'Little 1
Annie Rooney' Dies 1
NEW YORK J. Brandon
Walsh. 72. songwriter and comic
strip' continuity writer, died Thurs
day.' ' -
He created the newspaper comic
strift -Little Annie Roomy" and
i wrote its continuity for -- some
I years. . ..
Germ Warfare
46-Page Bill
Would Revise
KHRetirementAct
By PAUL W. HARVEY JRj
Associated Press Writer j
Widespread changes were sought
in Oregon's Public Employes; Re
tirement law in a bill introduced
Thursday in the Oregon Legisla
ture, j '
The bill, 46 pages long, carries
out recommendations of an interim
committee that has studied I the
subject since the 1953 Legisla
ture went home. The measure was
introduced by the joint Ways 'and
Means committee of the .Legisla
ture.. - j
The retirement law was given
an overhauling two years ago,! and
now is in for some more changes.
Under the law passed two years
ago, the retirement program! was
changed so that public employes al
so could draw federal social secur
ity benefits. ' j
15 Major Changes
The new bill proposes 13 major
changes, attempting to carry out
a provision that employes, at age
65, would get retirement pay equal
to half of their salaries. j
It would reduce costs for low-sal
benefits slightly for persons retir
ing at those salaries.
Employes in Jiigher brackets, in
cluding those - in professional
classes, would get bigger benefits
and pay more for them. j
It also provides that when a
county, city, school district or
other subdivision comes under the.
plan, it . couldn't withdraw.
Heads for Showdown
The Legislature appeared head
ed for a showdown . fight! over
whether John Day dam should be
built by the federal government, or
in a partnership between the gov
ernment and state and private
power agencies.
1 Eighteen House Democrats intro
duced a. memorial Thursday call
ing for construction wholly by the
government.
j They , will oppose the memorial .
asking for construction either by
the government or by partnership.
This, latter memorial, sponsored
by Rep. Charles A. Tom.l Rufus
Republican, and supported by Gov.
Paul Patterson, is scheduled for
House action next week.' j '
: But the House voted unanimous--ly
Thursday to ask the federal gov
ernment to continue on schedule
the construction of Chief Joseph,
McNary and The Dalles dams.
Goes to Senate " I
j The memorial, addressed to Pre
sident Eisenhower and Congress,
goes to the Senate. J'
; Rep. Tom, sponsor, said that
"Congress has been quite .consist
ent in' lopping off funds for these
dams,' and then we have to send
delegations to Washington to get
them restored. Plenty of power is
all we want, and we can get the
additional power we need -only by
completion of , these dams.!'
- The memorial, asked by Gov.
Paul Patterson, says that two bil
lion dollars needs to be spent on
new power facilities in the next
10 years in order to supply the re
gion's needs. j
Plea to Congress ' I
A memorial asking Congress for
funds for Green Peter and Cougar
dam projects in the Willametta
Basin also was introduded in the
House by the Linn and Lane Coun
ty delegations. 1
: Three bills tightening up the laws
requiring fathers to support their
children were introduced in the;
Senate by Sen. Carl Francis (R)tl
Dayton.
.'They would increase the jail
sentences in non-support, cases
and require that men convicted
under the law would work out their
sentences at the proposed reforma
tory. Then, if they refused to work,
the governor could transfer them
to the penitentiary. j
Memorials Passed 1
The Senate, after a brief de
bate, sent to the House two me
morials asking Congress to give
statehood to Alaska and Hawaii.
Creation of an Interim commit
tee to make a two-year study of
the Workmen's Compensation law
was asked in a bill introduced in
the House. I
The Legislature will wind up its
first week's work Friday: morning
with plans to adjourn for the week
end after a Senate session at 9 a.m.
and House at 10 a.m. The Senate
has 47 bills and the House 23.
(Additional legislative news on
page 3, section 4). . i - .
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