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8 More Apprppriation Get Ways, Means The Legislature's joint ways and means committee Tuesday gave the go-ahead sign, without argu ment, to eight more appropria tions bills, but barely got into deliberation on the $15 million state construction program which a subcommittee has recommended. .Whether the state "could get by with a smaller start on the, new Portland mental hospital than the $6.3 million for a 450-bed unit now proposed, was the center of dis cussion when the committee had to adjourn to get to the regular Senate and House sessions. Ways and means committeemen will get back into the building pro gram at a 9 a. m. meeting today. Besides hearing Architect Glenn Stanton explain cost estimates for the new state hospital in Portland, the committee discussed Tuesday whether the entire program should be submitted to the Legislature in a single appropriations bilL Separate Bills . Sen. Gene Brown R, Grants Pass, served notice he would move for a series of separate bills so the legislators could consider each building project separately. "Anything involving $15 million ought to be -handled that way and ought ' to fee gone over line by line in this committee," Brown said. . The -committee aidn t make a decision on either Brown's sugges tion or on the Portland hospital. New Reformatory That hospital accounts for the biggest chunk of the proposed building program. The hospital, Court's Train g Gels Reversal Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel Tuesday order ed that maximum train speeds in all Oregon cities except. Port land be limited "as prescribed by city ordinance. His order in effect restores the status quo existing before the state supreme court's March 30 de cision which invalidated city or dinances governing train speeds and reserved that power to the public utilities commissioner. ' However, according o word re ceived by fcajem uty Attorney Chris J. Kowitz, neither the court's decision nor Heltzel's ruling are expected to have much effect here. ' Assurance Givea When the court passed down Us ruling; the Southern Pacific's at torney. Frank C. McCulloch of Portland, assured him the railroad did not plan to upset Salem's pre seat speed limits.. Maximum ' speed -limits, - accord ing to the invalidated but still gov erning ordinance, are 35 miles an hour everywhere in the city ex cept between Marion and Mission streets along 12th Street. Ka Complaints Kowitz said he has heard no complaints about those minimums, hence expects no changes especi ally in view of this summer's con templated project of curbing off the railroad along 12th Street and installing drop gates at grade crossings. Heltzel said he would hold hear ings to determine if any changes in tram speeds should be made. City-prescribed minimums range throughout the state from 15 to 50 miles an hour. Bids to Supply Gty Asphalt Open Friday Bids on $,204 tons of asphalt concrete for Salem's summer street paving ' program will be opened at 2 p.m. Friday, Majr6, it was announced Tuesday by City Manager J. L. Franzen in whose office the opening will be be. Completion date is Sept 30. Contractors furnishing the mate rial deliver it to locations, which . ' . Cascade Drive, Parkway Drive to Rosemont Avenue; South Cot tage, Hoytto Judsoa Streets; North 18th, A to C Streets; Ear hart, Hansen to Missouri; Engel Avenue, Kingwood Drive to Mar garet Street; Felton, Hansen to south city limits; Hansen, Crest view to Sunrldge Drives; Hick ory, Hazel to Laurel; Kansas, 17th to 18th Streets; Kearney, Com mercial to Fir Streets; Madison, Kay's Second Addition to North 23rd Street; V " Margaret, EngeUto city , limits; Ninth Street, Murlark to Wallace Road; Rose, Breyman to Cheme keta; Rosemont, Eighth Street to Cascade Drive; South 22nd Street, Mill to SP right-of-way: North 25th Street, Market to Windsor, West Vista, Felton to west term inus of West Vista Street; West Vista, Felton to Earhart; East Nob Hill Street, Hoyt to Judson Streets. . Speed Rulin TYPEWRITER WE GIVE ' the $1,250,000 start on a new re formatory in Marion County and a $1,800,000 agricultural and bio logical science building at Oregon State .College together add up to 63 per cent of the cost of the 24- unit building program. On the 'question of whether the Portland hospital could be started at 200-or-300 bed capacity instead of the contemplated 450-bed size, the architect said the 4504ed plan had been developed after consid erable study as the most efficient and smallest-feasible start' that could be made. ' L500-Bed Capacity That's because basic utilities. roads and land development and other features will nave to oe pui in at the outset, anyway., for the entire hospital project wnicn is now seen as eventually 1,500-bed capacity. Besides, the cost of surgical equipment and other expensive items is a factor of consideration, Architect Stanton said, because this couldn't be kept down much House Passes Teletype Net Advisory Plan Legislation for a State Teletype Network Advisory Committee was passed Tuesday by .the House and sent to the Oregon Senate. But " another bill - to designate state motor vehicle funds for ex panding network was back in the ways and means committee Tues day after meeting objections in the Senate. ' Several statewide law enforce ment, groups have proposed ex tending the present communica tions system to the Oregon coast and to points not now reached in Eastern Oregon. They maintain that speedy law enforcement, espe cially that concerned with check ing up on vehicles, would be expe dited. ' Center at Capitol The state system has been start ed in the past year or two,. with a communications center at the Capitol and with teletype equip ment in city police and county sheriff headquarters at 21 cities of the state. These local units pay a share of leased wire costs and foot their own operating costs. The objections have come from some of the legislators maintain ing that the network represents an added state service at a time when finances should not permit such ad ditions. They say policing author ities can get along with other exist ing communications, like telephone and state police or local radio com munications. ; Returned to Committee - In a bill ' setting forth several budgets which come out of motor vehicle funds, the costs of commu nications is set at $159,000, of which about $53,000 would represent the proposed expansion from 21 to 39 points on the teletype network. It was this bill that the Senate voted to return to committee Monday. The other measure on the1 tele type network, House Bill 661 spon sored by Rep. Alfred W. Loucks (R), Salem, went to the Senate yes terday after House passage with' out opposition. h - It calls for an advisory commit tee of five to be appointed by the director of the motor vehicle de partment for two-year terms. Membership would include one each representing Oregon District Attorneys Association, Oregon State Sheriffs Association, Oregon Police Chiefs Association or the Oregon Association of Police Offi cers, the Oregon State Police and a fifth public representative not identified with the other groups listed. There is no pay or budget for the committee. Saturday Bank ; Closure Defeated The House rules committee re fused Monday to permit introduc tion of a bill to close banks on Saturdays, li The House financial institutions committee bad voted 5 to 4 to in troduce the bill. The rules committee figured that the 99th day of the session was too late for introduction of contro versial measures. t Hostage Penalty Measure Signed The bill to provide 20-year addi tional sentences for convicts who seke hostages was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Paul Patterson. It also provides that when a1 hos tage dies, the convicts involved should be tried for first degree murder. i SEYMOUR HONORED j ".' The House Tuesday passed a memorial to the memory of the late Harry Seymour of Corvallis, a long time 4-H club, and youth worker in Oregon. : Rentals AH Makes Three $fo00 Months EUWTER CO. Bills Approval below an amount serve 430 beds. The ways and means committee tabled two bills that sought to set up an interim study of timber taxation. ' . Budget Increase Committee members advocated upping the parole board budget in order to start a gradual reorgan ization as recommended by a citi zens' committee study. This would create three regional offices with directors to keep close touch with field officers. Case load could be increased by ISO and rehabilitation results expanded, it was predicted on the basis of the study by State Sen. John Merri field (R), Portland, subcommittee chairman reporting the budget This budget, as approved by the committee, would be $508,398, about midway between the $477, 875 recommended by the governor and the $535,213 advocated by the board. The difference was whether the new plan should go into effect at all, whether it should be adopt ed gradually or be immediately effected. j These other budgets were; ap proved and sent to the House: Civil Defense Agency, $39439 as compared with $516,279 recom mendation of the governor; finance department printing (self-sustained), $2,117,318, compared with $2, 148,789; Fish Commission, $1,240, 262, compared with $1,252,000; Board of Geology and Mineral In dustries, $255,073, compared with $245,110 recommendation; Justice Department, $204,779, compared with $167,236; Hillcrest School, $548,837, compared with $555,387. Tico Drivers Crash Same Auto Twice Scratches on the Pioneer Trust Building, a flattened parking meter and severe body damage to a parked car resulted Tuesday in downtown Salem when two drivers took turns having wrecks with the same auto. Arriving at the 200 block of N. State Street, scene of the multiple crash at. 3:15 p. ml, Salem police were met by William Walker Clark, 685 Court St., who said: He was about to back the! car, equipped with an unfamiliar auto matic transmission, from the curb. He put it in a forward gear, his foot slipped onto the gas, and the car jumped the curb, flattened the meter and struck the building. A passenger, who Clark said left the scene before police arrived, offered to back the car off the sidewalk, and in so doing struck the parked car of C. T. Calbreath, 663 Sunset Ave., damaging both right fenders and the right side. Clark, whose car was by men smashed at both ends, was told to file an accident report for his share of the accident and have his passenger also file a report. Larry Sterling Wins 2 Honors At Woodburn Statesman Newt Service j WOODBURN Larry Sterling, Woodburn High School junior, received double honors Tuesday when he was elected to head the school's student body next year and named to represent the school at Boys' State. His selection to attend Boys' State, which will be held at Ore gon State College June 12-18, was announced by Melvin Bilyeu, com mittee chairman of Woodburn Post No. 46 of the American Le gion. Truman Baird was named Woodburn alternate. ' Sterling la the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester. Sterling. In addition to Sterling, student body officers elected Tuesday were Homer Wadsworth, vice president; Peggy Doerfler, secre tary, and Rochelle Plank, treas urer. ' - - i: ' OSC Book, Missing 32 Years, Found At Maine College OREGON STATE COLLEGE A book missing for 32 years from this college's library showed up this month in Maine. It had been included in a pri vate gut collection willed to the University of Maine. Librarians there returned the book when they noted the OSC stamp. OSC librarians, who long since had written the book off as per manently lost, were willing to for give and forget The overdue fine, figured at the usual rate of 2 cents a day, would have been $168. The name of the book, by the way, is "Essais Sur la Vegeta tion," published in France in 1809. sufficient to A "DRUG STORE" MAY NOT; BE A PHARMACY! Panel Heard at Socicd WorT Meeting Salem's second annual Labor-Management Social Work Institute was an emphasis on Salem's United. Fond. One feature of the all-day session was a panel discussion titled "Labor And Management Has a Job to Do in Social Service." Members of the panel are shown above. They ale from left to right Dean Pfouts, Elmore Hill, H. E. Barker, Norman O. Nilsen, Al Off en stein and Robert R. Klemsen. (Statesman Photo) i Social Work Institute Told Of UF Work t -.! More than 100 delegates from 47 firms and organizations at tended the Labor-Management Social Work Institute Wednesday at the YMCA to learn, of work being done by United Fund agen cies and to discuss methods of collecting and distributing UF funds. if Morning sessions ! included speeches by Elmer i Berglund, UF president; H. E. Barker, rep resenting labor; Bernard Main- waring, representing ; manage ment; Stanley Grove, Chamber of Commerce manager; Robert Klemsen, St Helens state repre sentative; and a panel discussion which pointed out the advantages of payroll deductions for UF con tributions. 1 i The forenoon session was sum marized by the Rev. Julius Keiser and was followed by lurch with the Kiwanis Club. I Keynote speaker for the insti tute was Paul Elliott, Seattle, who is associated with the Seattle United Good Neighbors. Elliott said that United Fund is now too big for any one group since it now has 1,800 chapters, raising $300,000,000 a year ! for 19,000 welfare agencies. j ; 1 The afternoon session, which was presided over by Arthur B. Bates, included speeches by rep resentatives of all UF agencies and a discussion by i the labor- management committee on the best methods of supporting the agencies. i The best way of support, the panel concluded, is through the chapter plan, which last year was responsible for about 68 per cent of the collection nere. i Dean Robert Gregg, Willamette University, summarized afternoon discussions. The entire meeting was presided over by Norman O. Nilsen, state labor commissioner and chairman of the; labor-man agement committee, j Two to Represent Richmond PTA at j State Convention t - Plans ior Richmond Parent- Teacher Association role in the State PTA convention next week in Portland were discussed Mon day night in a meeting at the school of outgoing and incoming officers and delegates. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hatzen buhler and Mrs. Everett Acree will represent the club. Also attending the convention will be the 16-member Richmond Mothersingers who will join with similar groups in a mass chorus. The choral group is directed by Mrs. Wilma Osborn, sixth grade teacher at Richmond. ' SALK AWARD ASKED AUGUSTA, Ga. im i- President Eisenhower Monday invited Dr. Jonas Salk to the White House Fri day and recommended the discov erer of polio vaccine ; be given a proposed distinguished civilian achievement award. 1 DRS. CHAN and LAM CHINESE NATUROPATHS Upstairs, 401 Court St Office ops Satmrdsy only,' W t. t a.m.1 W 1 pjn. Consultation. 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CAPITAL DRUG STORE HaU Store, 405 State Salem Toy Firm's Products Being Exhibited in East A Salem firm's products are on exhibit this week in Chicago at the National Premium Buyers Ex position, "j Toys made by the All American Toy Company, including log and hauling trucks, tractors, bulldozers, loaders and electrically operated Skagit loaders will be exhibited by the Northwest Scrip Company, national premium representatives for the toy firm. Headquarters for the Scrip com pany have been established at the Conrad Hilton Hotel by E. D. Spencer and HJ R. Houckv The exhibit will close Thursday. Death Qaims James Royse Statesman New Service WOODBURN James E. Royse, 89, died Tuesday at a Woodburn nursing home. - He was born in Maysville, Ky., Dec. 27, 1865, and had made his home in Woodburn for the past 10 years. He was a pioneer farm er, in Oklahoma and was a mem ber of the Methodist church at Kingfisher, Okla. He is survived by two sons, Eu gene, Woodburn; James, Van Nuys, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Betty Bixler, Schenectady, N.Y., four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Ringo-Corn-well Funeral chapel, Woodburn, with the Rev. Ormal B. Trick of ficiating. Concluding services will be at Kingfisher, Okla. fa (on? ifc Mmd , j j S I : i ' '" A - THE FABULOUS STAR CHIEF-' luxury sized. The roomy body is mounted on a 124 i wheelbase. It's luxury-powered. The Strato-; Streak V-8 with optional 4-barrel carburetor puts 200 horsepower up front. IV t luxury- ' styled. Fabrics and appointments match the highest-priced cars. It's beautifully distinctive way out front for future-fashioned smart-: ness. ! And it's a Pontiac which means top most reliability, thrift and resale value. 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Stirton and Dr. Roger Y. Stanier, University of California. The Northwest Science Exposi tion, May 2 to 6, will include more than 500 exhibits prepared by high school and elementary school pu pils in Oregon and southwest Washington. ; Exhibits displayed at OSC will have been. selected from thousands shown at preliminary district and county science shows. Exhibits will be judged April 30. All of the lectures and displays are open to the . public. CAFETERIA SERVICE ATLANTA Iff) An odor remind ful of a fish-wharf in? July crept through the Fulton County Court house and sent a maintenance man on a quick investigation. He found a fish sandwich taped to a light bulb. The heat had burned through the wrapper and into the fish. It was a maid's, idea of keeping her lunch warm. with a 122 ll I YOU g 1 yjLZ Trjr Jt ill AKD C2IYI v TAGGESELL Srarwman, Salam, Or., Wed., April 20, 1955-fSae. 2-5 County PI ans For Education . .. . Meet Weighed .. Plans for "the Marion county regional .meeting of the Gover nor's Committee for the White House Conference' on Education were discussed Tuesday noon in Salem; ' The regional melt will be held Thursday, April 28, in the Maridn County Court chambers and will be headed , by -Arthur Atherton, Salem. , Members of the committee. who were luncheon guests Tues day of Mrs.' Agnes Booth, county scnool -. superintendent, are Dr. Ernest Hinkle, Silverton; Carl Aschenbrennerr . Salem; 'Lyman Seely, Woodburn; Gardner Knapp, saiem; Harry Riches, Saverton; Mrs. Oliver Lester, Woodburn; Mrs. Louis Freres, Stayton; Mrs. Carl Smith, St Paul; Mrs. Glen BriedwelL Silverton; Mrs. Floyd Fox,- Victor Point; Mrs. Harold Rosebraugh,' Salem; Mrs. Booth, and Atherton. Keynote speaker will be Coun ty Judge Rex Hartley, whose ad dress will stress national, state and local school problems. 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