2 Sec. 1 Statesman, Salem,
City Planners Ease Front Yard
Restriction in Zone Regulation
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT ,
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Salem . Planning Commission
voted Tuesday night to ease resi
dential front yard limitations in
the city's zoning code, but reject
ed an amendment to liberalize
regulations for neighborhood
business buildings.
The Commission recommended
to the City Council that front
yard requirements be limited to
35 feet, a change from the pres
ent ordinance requiring setbacks
at an average of those homes
within 200 feet on either side.
The amendment would apply to
both R-l and R-2 residential
rones. ' "
A proposal to allow variances
School Board Considers Plan
To Sell West Salem Property
By VINITA HOWARD
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Salem School Board Tuesday
nisht discussed the possibility of
selling the West" Salem Junior
High School site acquired some
years ago, but delayed action on
the matter until further study
had been made.
The site, located on 8th street
between Gerth and Patterson,
was acquired at a cost of $32,850
but the board now has about
$60,000 in its development
Supt. Walter Snyder told board
Accuracy of
State Worker
Surv
The Barrington survey of state
salaries and classifications was
declared "unacceptable" Tuesday
by the Oregon State Employes
Association. The group SDoke
through its legislative committee.
The committee, chairmanned
by Don Parker, said it agreed in
principle with the Bjrrington re
port in its recognition of the
need for matching jobs with re
sponsibilities equally in all state
departments, raising minimum
wage levels and raising pay ceil
ings, broadening pay schedule
range for each classification, and
a need for salaries based on
equality and justice with empha
sis on career" service in state
employment.
"However," said the committee
report, "we cannot give a blan
ket endorsement of the proposed
changes recommended " by Bar
ringtonif . !
Question Accuracy
"We believe the contract with
Barrington Associates was made
by the legislative interim com
mittee in goodN faith, but-we
question " the " completeness ' and
accuracy of the survey.
We feel that the Legislature
is mindful of the salary prol
lems and desires to be fair with
the state's employes ... but that
it does not have time to acquaint
"Itself fully with the details and
must rely on the executive branch
of the government for such data
and for administration."
"The Barrington recommenda
tion," said Virgil O'Neal OSEA
president, "not to make any pay
reductions for a year merely
means that the state" will be en
eouraging its career-minded and
best employees to take better
jobs elsewhere.
"Too many well-trained, and
efficient state employes have
been leaving the poorly-pauI state
service for years. This costs the
public a lot of money and we
will not stay silent and see this
condition made worse by further
cuts in pay." '
O'Neil recommended thaj the
"worthwhile" parts of the Bar
rington survey be salvaged, that
a "fair salary schedule on a pay-
"equal work basis be made at
once." and that the Legislature
consider appropriating "sufficient
funds" to get the job underway.
O'Neil said OSEA was "abso
lutely opposed," to the Legisla
ture's holding the Barrington re
port over for two more years of
study.
Members of the OSEA legisla
tive committee meeting Tuesday
with Parker and O'Neil were Lin
coln Pfeiffer. Gordon Shattuck,
- E. A. Banford, Gertrude Cham
, berlin, all Salem state emploves,
and James May of Portland. Also
present, was Forrest Stewart,
OSEA executive secretarj'i of
Salem.
Youth Returns,
Search Ended
Arlo Fisher, 12. subject of a
Keizer district search late Tues
day, returned home at about 11:30
p m.. according to his mother,
Mrs. Willie Fisher, 770 Dearborn
Ave.
; At about 9 p. m. she informed
the sheriffs off ce he hadn't been
- seen since 5:45 p. rn. when he
left to collect for bis Journal paper
route.
ey Eyed
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With Piper Laurie
Oregon, Wed., March 9, 1955
unwards from the 2.500 sauareiwest of Prinele Road and north
foot limitation on Class I busi-1
ness buildings was voted down by
Commission members. A variance
atdione change committee re
port recommended against adop
tion on the grounds that the
amendment would tend to, in
effect, give C-2 classification to
these areas intended for extreme
ly limited business use."
Tentative Approval
Five plats in. the Salem area
won tentative approval from the
Commission, and a sixth, a 12 lot
Jarvill Gardens addition in south
east Salem, was given final ap
proval. The Jarvill Gardens addition,
totalling 3.83 acres, is located
members that shifts in the char
acter of the area with develop
ment now primarily industrial,
makes him believe the site would
be wrong for any future junior
high school development.
Snyder said the Board should
give consideration to selling the
land now and to acquiring a new
site. At present the land is used
for recreational facilities.
Teachers Heard
The board Tuesday night also
heard a delegation of 14 teachers
from the Salem Classroom Teach
ers Association. The Association
praised the salary schedule drawn
up by the Board for next year,
but took exception to basing pay
on 190 days rather than the usual
185 school days. ' 1 ,
Teachers also urged the board!
to give a double increment for
the first year along with two in
creases in the bachelor degree
training bracket for those with
five years training.
-The board authorized Supt. Sny
der to let out contracts for new
teachers under the new pay
schedule with a rider attached
that the salary is subject to ap
proval of the voters. The term
of teaching days in the contracts,
the board decided, would remain
at 185 days.
Other Action
Other, board consideration
Tuesday night included refusal
to allow use of the multi-purpose
room of Morningside School for
a square dance group and per
mission for Salem Academy to
use the baseball field on the
West Salem Junior High School
site this spring if they will agree
to pay for upkeep of the field.
' Board members also approved
graveling a strip of land off D
street across the railroad tracks
from Parrish Junior High School.
The area will be used for unload
ing and loading for four Keizer
school . buses transporting chil
dren to Parrish. i
. The buses have been unloading
on D street creating a traffic
problem since vehicles on D mustf
then stop for 8 to 10 minutes
to comply with the law requiring
drivers to stop when school buses
are loading or unloading chil
dren. Several drivers in the area
have been ticketed recently by
police for failure to stop. -
Payments Authorized
Payments of $11,420 to James
L. Payne, architect for Candalaria
School, and of $24,232 to Star
Builders for work on Auburn
School were authorized.
Personnel actions included ac
ceptance of the resignations of
Miss Ann Carson, Leslie Junior
High School teacher, and Mrs.
Marilyn Wickert, Morningside
school teacher, effective at the
end of this school year.
Four teachers were hired for
next school year. They were
Miss Naomi S.iBelman, Harold
Cook, Mrs. Elnora Grimsbo and
Miss j Florence Hart. Employ
ment of Helen S. Beck, Lester
Jain and Floyd Wittemaii for
spring term in adult -vocational
education also got board ap
proval. ...!,.
Woman's Death
Ends Work Wliicl
!
Infirmity Could'nt
PORTLAND t A 70-year-old
woman who refused to let age .and
extreme infirmities prevent her
from operating a cookie bakery
alone died after an heart attack
here Tuesday.
She was Mrs. Hilma Ric. Her
husband died in February, 1951,
and she was forced to make her
own way. Despite handicaps which
included the loss of both legs sev
veral years before and cataracts
on both eyes, she set up her own
bakery and operated it until she
suffered the heart attack Monday
The city of Portland refused to
accept a fee for her license.
One son, Arnold, of Portland
survives.
CRASH VICTIM DIES j
TOPPENISH un Mrs. Rachel
P.. Wilson, 71, Outlook, died Tues
day of injuries received March
when an automobile in which she
was riding overturned near Wa
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ADMISSION ADULTS 11.00
of Vista Ave. near Hill and Dale
addition which is already under
development.
Bella Vista Court addition, pro
posed by Marvin Girrard of 2620
S. Summer St., was given tenta
tive approval on the condition
that Girrard widen proposed
street in the addition from 30 to
40 feet The addition is located
west of Liberty Road and south
of Madrona Ave: southwest of
the city.
Street Asked -
Largest of the proposed new
developments includes a sizable
acreage in the "Y" between St
Paul and Clear Lake Roads about
a mile north of Keizer. Tentative
approval was granted on condi
tion that a north-south street be
included in the north half of the
addition. Plans for the develop
ment call for subdivision soon of
the south portion of the area into
10,000-squart foot lots.
Three other plats considered!
were from Burt and Leonard;
Wittenberg east of Lancaster
Drive and south of Silverton
Road, from Glen Hamilton east
of Liberty Road and south of its
intersection with Mize Road, and
for a nine-lot addition west of N.
4th Street and north .of Locust
Street The Hamilton addition
approval was granted on condi
tion of clarification of north
south street plans for the area.
Application Rejected
One application for variance on
house construction was rejected
and a portion of the request for
another was turned down by the
Commission. Rejected in total
was a request by Guy F. Hastings
to construct a single family home
in the Humphreys addition on a
lot below the minimum 6,000-foot
"requirement. A request by Don
Largent for variance on a lot at
1355 D St. was approved by the
commission, but his request for
variance on back yard limitations
was rejected.
A report recommending denial
of . application for variance by
Elmo and Eleanor McMillan for
property near 14th and D streets
was accepted and placed on file
pending a March 15 hearing on
the application. They had asked
that a 20-foot driveway require'
ment be set aside in favor of an
8-foot access route to the interior
lot
Requests Tabled
Two street name requests were
tabled pending approval of some
arterial grid plan for the city
and adjacent area. A third name
proposal for changing Cypress
Street in Polk County to Hem
lock was approved.
Another name change proposal
referred back to the Commission
by the Council was ordered re
ferred again to the Council with
amendments. The proposal would
change the name of Halik Avenue
in the Morningside area to Red
Hill Drive to avoid duplication
with Halik Road in the Fruitland
School area.
Jobs Scarce
For Workers
Past 40 Years
DETROIT VPi Detroit's older
workers, growing in number since
the end of the Korean War. are
finding that retirement often is
both early and involuntary. Thou
sands of Detroiters are learning,
in particular, that jobs for jacks-of-all-trades
are fast vanishing and
that the finding of a new job is
becoming more difficult for the
man over 40, be he laborer or
executive type.
Officials of Detroit's Fortv Plus
Club, whose membership is re
stricted to fofmer executives who
earned morel than $5,000 a year,
say they haven't placed a mem
ber m a year. j
'When older workers find them
selves Competing I with younzer
men for the same job, the younger
man invariably wins out, provid
ing both have the I same qualifica
tions," says O. J, Fjetland. em-
plf-ment service director of the
Michigan Employment Security
Commission.
"It has always been true that
the older worker starts his iob-
hunting with two strikes on him."
rjetiana says. "But while it may
take longer to place him, the 40-
pius worker generally can find em
ployment if he has a special trade
or talent. Trouble faces the older
worker without either."
Winnie, Konrad,
Ike Have Colds
By UNITED PRESS
Colds sidelined a very "big
three" today."
Britain's Winston Churchill had
to cancel engagements because of
a slight cold.
Germany's Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer was sent to bed for three
days rest from grippe.
' And President Eisenhower rest
ed late, with a cold.
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heaters for the outside make a perfect combination for these cus
tomers at a German beer garden, despite the snow-covered ground.
Summer dresses and shirtsleeves provide comfortable if not sea
sonable attire for the patrons at this Munich tavern, where the
newly installed heating devices make the outdoor garden an all-year-round
place of business. (AP Wirephoto)
Salem Youth
Hurt in Fight
Ronald Porter, 16, of 3247 Beacon
St., suffered a forehead abrasion
late, Tuesday In a fight with a boy
whom, he told police, he caught
trying to steal a hub cap from his
car. The car was parked in the
3000 block North Portland Rd.
Rcnald told police the boy first
threatened to run him through with
th screwdriver he was using on
the hub , cap. The fight, which
Ronald said was waged with the
screwdriver, was ended by Ronald
who administered a kick in the
groin. The boy left but a second
one appeared and hit him in the
neck before departing.
Ronald could describe them no
closer than having round, full
faces, dark complexions and dark
hair.
Weather Delays
A-Test at Nevada
Proving Ground
LAS VEGAS, Nev. ( The
Atomic Energy Commission Tues
day postponed the next shot in the
present test series until, at least
Thursday.
Weather conditions were unfav
orable for even a relatively small
shot Wednesday.
Meanwhile, 550 soldiers and 25
marines who had to evacuate the
test site Monday returned to Yuc
ca Flat for an inspection of equip
ment blasted- in Operation Big
Shot.
Eight tanks, a field artillery
piece, several antiaircraft guns,
trucks and jeeps were exposed to
the powerful blast from 100 yards
to 2,000 yards of the SOOfoot tower.
The soldiers and AEC scientists
had to leave Yucca Flat 10 min
utes after Monday's predawn blast
because of potential radiation haz
ard. No one was injured, however.
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In Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (JP) State
geologists are following closely
developments at two Upper Pen
insula copper mines which may
result in better days for the
lagging Michigan copper indus
try. When it reaches peak produc
tion next year, the White Pine
mine, in Ontonagan County, is
expected to produce 75 million
pounds a year compared to 48
million pounds produced by
Michigan mines currently in oper
ation. The Osceola, another mine,
near Calumet, abandoned in 1931,
is being cleared of some seven
billion gallons of water which
have flooded the shafts. Engineers
expect to extract some 14 million
pounds of copper a year.
But Geologists of the State
Conservation Department feel the
White Pine operation is the more
promising. "It is the first attempt
in Michigan to exploit copper
sulphide commercialy," says H.
H. Hardenberg, conservation de
partment mining geologist "Most
of the world's supply comes from
copper sulphide," he says, "but
Michigan's industry until now
has been restricted to the mining
of native copper."
Volcano Erupts on
Stromboli Island j
; MESSINA, Sicily (j) The bleak
Stromboli Island volcano erupted
Tuesday j for the first time this
year.
Spoke and sparks shot into the
sky and lava rolled down a well
worn path to the sea. There were
no reports of damage or injuries.
Stromboli erupted three times
last year without causing serious
damage.!
Accidents took 91,000 U. S. lives
in 1954. ! .
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Langlie to Call
State Solons to
Extra Session
OLYMPIA m With the Senate
and House stalled on state finan
cial problems, Gov. Langlie an
nounced Tuesday he will call a
special session of the Washington
Legislature, probably Friday.
He will meet with Republican
and Democratic leaders-from both
houses Wednesday morning to set
the time and scope of the extra
ordinary meeting.
A check with legislative leaders
revealed they were in general
agreement the special session
should be called for Friday morn
ing, right after the regular ses
sion comes ; to an end Thursday
midnight j
Virtually all of the leaders were
in agreement that the special
session should be restricted to
matters of revenue and taxation.
The 830 million dollar budget
bill, passed by the Democratic con-
trolled House lastweek. is still in
the Senate Ways and Means Com
mittee where it is undergoing a
complete rewriting job.
And so far no concrete answer
has been provided for raising some
100 million dollars necessary to
balance .the budget, if it were
adopted in the form in which it
passed the House.
Few Attend
Educational
TVHea
c?
Scheduled public hearing on a
proposed $1,200,000 state educa
tional television system adjourn
ed Tuesday night before it
started.
. Only person to appear with in
tention of addressing a ways and
means subcommittee was the
sponsor of the bill. Sen. Robert
D. Holmes, (D), Gearhart.
The crowd in the big hearing
room of the Capitol basement
otherwise contained a half-dozen
reporters and about a dozen
others including a senate door
keeper and a public address
operator.
Sen.' Gene Brown, (R), Grants
Pass, subcommittee chairman,
said his committee could listen
to Sen. Holmes at any of its regu
lar daytime meetings.
Since nobody else wanted to
talk, Brown closed the hearing.
Sen. Holmes said he thought
Portland groups interested in the
television plan may have mixed
up their dates. One such group,
he said, was to meet in Portland
later this week to decide what
to present to the legislative com
mittee. State Gasoline
Dealers Eye Plan
To End 'Wars'
EUGENE Wl Some 80 gaso
line dealers from all over the state
met here Tuesday night to plan
steps to eliminate gasoline price
wars that have broken out in a
number of areas. "
Walter H. Evans Jr. of Port
land, attorney for the Oregon Gas
oline Dealers Assn., said he had
been authorized by those present
"to see what relief could be ob
tained," but he declined to say
what specific action was planned.
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Feline Ends )
CONCORD, N. H. (JP) Teddy,
a 21-year-old ; Angora-tiger j cat
with a love for steak and angel
cake, is dead. He weighed 23
pounds and the giant size'of his
four double paws made him ap
pear even larger. i Jl
' His owner, Mrs. Miriam H. Wa
son, credits Teddy with saving
three lives in a fire when he
awakened her by repeatedly paw
ing her face and running toward
the bedroom door. :
Teddy died shortly before his
22nd birthday when he would
have been feted with his 'usual
birthday diet of steak, peasroash
ed potatoes, angel eake and ice
cream. He turned up his nose
at all conventional cat foods.
Steak he demanded and ; steak
he got s
When the family acquired Skip
py, a toy Boston Terrier, Teddy
mothered him at every' f turn.
When Skippy wandered near the
road, the cat, carried him back
by the scuff of the neck.
The pair worked as a team to
open a rear door to the house,
Mrs. Wason relates. Teddy would
jump atop a small table,,', walk
across a window ledge to the door
and wrap his front paws around
the knob. At the same j time
Skippy would paw the door open.
The door-opening system Jiad
one failing once inside, . the
pair was unable to devise a
system to get out again. ;,
GOP Convention
May be Aired ;'
In Color Video
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) The
National Broadcasting Company
may telecast all or part of the
1956 Republican National Conven
tion in color. i
Davidson Taylor of New' York,
NBC vice president in charge of
public affairs, said it will be pos
sible to obtain the proper light
ing in the mammoth Cow- Palace
for colorcasts. '.
"Whether we go ahead with the
plan will depend upon the:! avail
ability of equipment and the cam?
era locations and the cost," he
said. ;
The convention will bel
in August, 1936. S
held.
SETTLEMENT REACHED f;
PHILADELPHIA iff) The Penn
sylvania Railroad and the CIO
Transport -Workers Union reached
a settlement Tuesday night in a
dispute which had threatened a
strike of 20,000 maintenance work
ers on the nation's largest rail
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Walter Foster. Polk county dis.
trict attorney, esday was elec.
ted chairman of the Marion-Polh.
County Young Republicans. H
succeeds James Hatfield, Salem
who has held the post for th
past two years.
The some 30 at the group's an
nur' meeting at the Senator Hotel
heard State Sen. Les Ohmart. R)
Marion County, talk on bills before
the legislature particularly tax
measures. Ohmart, chairman of
the taxation committee, spoke in
favor of removing the prohibition
on the use of the emergency clause
on revenue matters.
Other officers elected were C.
William Dobson, Salem attorney,
vice-chairman; Judith Woods, Wil
lamette University student, secre
tary; Reed Nelson, Salem ac
countant, treasurer; Frank Ford,
icte representative to "the execu
tive board.
Gtiam Island
Shifts Around
AGANA, Guam (J) Guam has
been put in a lot of places lately.
The Guam Daily News received
a press release from the University
ot Cincinnati a report by Dr.
John Wesley Coulter, geography
professor, on his studies of native
populations in this area. The re
lease was addressed: "Guam,
Philippines."
The Rotary Club of Guam got
a letter from the Jlotary Club of
Kumphur, India. It was address
ed: "Guam, Marianas Islands,
near French Africa."
A six-year-old boy from the
Philippines sent a Christmas card
to an elder brother on Guam. He
addressed it: "Guam, Mindanao
Isar.d." Mindanao is the south
ernmost island in the Philippines.
Hibernators9
Hearts Yield
Information
MADISON. Wis. (U.FJ Two
University of Wisconsin scientists
have looked into some of the mys
tery of how hibernating animals
stay alive when their body tern-
perature drops near freezing.
Scientists have wondered for
some time why ihe hearts of hiber
nators do not stop when the ani
mals get real cold. The hearts of
other animals stop long before
reaching the temperatures at which
hibernators spend the winter.
Profs. Peter R. Morrison and A.
R. Dawe have learned in labora
tory tests that hibernating animals
have super-sensitive hearts. The
slightest stimulus will cause them
to beat furiously at near-normal
temperatures. In deep hibernation
the heart rate slows to as few as
2.2 beats per minute, they said.
The scientists- said their study
conceivably could lead to practical
application in human "deep
freeze" heart surgery, if they could
learn what causes the super-sensitive
hearts.
HEFNER CONDITION GOOD
William C. Hefner, 1124 Green
wood Dr., is reported in good con
dition at Salem Memorial Hospi
tal where he was taken Tuesday
afternoon after being stricken at
the Capitol. He was described by
hospital attendants as suffering
from a hernia condition. Hefner
is legislative lobbyist for the rail
road brotherhoods.
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