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The Weather TO RECAST (from U. S: Weather Bureau McNary Field, Salem): Cloudy with occasional rain today, tonight and Friday. Little chance in temperature with highest today near '12. lowest tonight near 36. Tempera ture at 11:01 a.m. today was 43. IALEM MECIPITATIOM Since Start f Weather Tea Sept 1 Thii Year Last Year Normal i. J7 40.93 3S.lt ; - - poUnddd 1651 105fS Year 4 SECTIONS-36 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 21, 1 955 PRICE 5e New 15 (SSM- v v v yyvvy - ." . ... $ -: .i" -- . ... . OtP SS3ZED8 One of the hot issues in Con gress is whether to exempt so called independent producers of natural gas from rate regulation by the FPC. It's an old Issue. 4n 1938 Congress passed an act giv ing the FPC power of regulation over operators of interstate gas pipelines. This gave some exemp tion to independent, producers (those who sell gas to pipeline companies). During the Truman administrations the producers who include some of the big oil com panies, sought a law making it clear that their sales' of natural gas were not under regulation. President Truman vetoed th bill. Later the FPC decided it had no authority under the 1938 act to regulate such .sales of gas. The Supreme Court, however, decided the FPC did have such power. Since then the FPC has been try ing to work out methods of dis charging its dutyj The independent producers are back seeking a fresh exemption under a new act of Congress. Recently representatives of oil companies have urged Ore gon chambers of commerce and others to .endorse such legislation. A study of the subject discloses that it is very complicated. "Reg ulation" has a favorable ring to it, and consumers are apt to re gard it as necessary for their own protection. It isn t so simple as that, however. First, consider the various in terests involved. Pipeline com panies, which carry natural gas to various markets, often own some gas wells. But the most of the natural gas reserves are held by corporations not in the gas (Continued on editora! page 41 Price for First terian Church Agreed Salm'c Fircr Prhvtrinn "fSmrrii was settled Wednesday at a meet ing of that State Board of Control with officials of the church. They agreed to a compromise figure of 332,769 for the church property at Chemeketa and Winter streets, in a block that eventually Will be part of the Capitol Mall. Three appraisals showing dif ferent figures were studied prior to the agreement reached at the Capitol Wednesday. The congrega tion of the: -Presbyterian Church must authorize the sale. The state board decided also to ask the Legislature later this week to appropriate money to buy the church. Under present plans the - con gregation would be allowed to occupy the church on a monthly rental basis pending completion of a new church. Two members of the church" committee. William L. Phillips and Rcbert Elfstrom, predicted that the congregation would vote to accept the. new price. The church would be used to houe state activities. A ways and means subcommit tee recently rejected a request for a $250,000 -appropriation to pur chase more property in the capitol mall, this board was advised. The appropriation was asked by the board of controL Approximately $36,000 of frozen funds at the MacLaren School for Boys were' released by the board - i . j t a or control at weanesaay s meet ing. '. '. Approximately $10,000 of this will be used in erecting a small chapel - at the school. School officials were authorized " to negotiate with the Slat Hiohwav Department for a supervisor to direct an improve ment program involving new high ways and other grounds improve ments, v EISENHOWER ' RETURNS WASHINGTON "" President Eisenhower returned to Washing ton Wednesday after a nine-day work-play vacation at Augusta, Ga. Presbj GOP Eageir to Start ; By ROBERT E. GANGWARE . - ; City Editor, The Statesman The kind of political campaigns Oregon will see in 1956, arid who will carry them to the people, are far from decided now, but just about everyone is expecting a terrific fight. Republicans will be out to regain lost ground. Democrats will redouble the efforts that made the last campaign their most success ful in years. In both parties there are signs of earjy organization for the '56 campaigns, but there is. more talk than strategy at this mo ment. - ' . . t To see if any trends of campaign organization are taking form yet, a check was made with leaders an'd strong followers in both political parties, inside .and outside the Capitol, in Portland as well as in the Salem area. . ( .;;.. , -.... . ;,; - This isvwhat turned up: T ' ' " 1 A surprising large number of individual Republicans seem to be chafing to get started on the campaign. This attitude is by do means confined to those who hope to become candidates. Republican Promoting Party Organization 2 Most Republicans think there's a lot of basic party organiza tion work, or reorganization, to accomplish right now. They fear the Democrats have, them out-organized and out-popularized now; most Democrats are inclined to agree with this, of course. , v , 3 Oregon Democrats, stimulated by having an even stronger base in Congress than the Republicans, seem to be getting .along Power Rates Sliced Electric power rate ' reductions which win effect a large portion of the mid-Willamette Valley are provided in an order signed Wed nesday by Public Utilities 'Com missioner Charles H. Heltzel. " The order provides for a $302, 000 annual rate cut by Pacific Power and Light Co. for its Coos Bay and Willamette Valley divis ions. The firm services ; Linn County, much of Polk County in cluding the cities of Independence and Dallas, and eastern Marion County. The new rate schedules will be come effective April 22, 1955, to provide savings to customers in the Coos Bay district of Pacific Power h Light Co. of approxi mately $242,000 annually and in the Willamette Valley districts of approximately $60,000 annually. The new schedules will provide uniform rates in the coast districts of the company. The reductions are in keeping with the commissioner's order is sued in April, 1954, permitting the merger of the Pacific Power Jc Light Co. and Mountain States Power Co. . Salem Woman Charged With Embezzlement A larceny by embezzlement charge has been lodged against a middle-aged Salem woman after an audit of her former emplover's accounts disclosed a $14,356 shortage.- The complaint, signed Tuesday by Dr. Edgar S. Fortner, charges Mrs. Thelma Jones,. 680 Wild Wind Drive, with embezzling $172. - Mrs. -Jones committed herself: to the State Hospital April 14 for examination. The embezzlement charge was filed against her five days later, . The woman had been employed in Dr. Fortners office since 1950. She was fired Jan. 17 of this year, police said, after admitting theft of $1,027. She executed a promis sory note for that amount plus interest and had paid a total of $40 on the note, police reported. Police said Mrs. Jones admitted verbally Wednesday that she managed thefts by cashing checks requiring no receipt and entering less than the face amount in the daily ledger. Her husband, she told police, knew nothing of the money. The district, court warrant will be served on her later this week when she is scheduled to be re leased from the state hospital after further examinations. The city police investigation was launched at the request of Dis trict Attorney Kenneth Brown. 3 Corvallis Policemen Admit Theft CORVALLIS Un The city fired three of its policemen Wednesday after they had pleaded guilty in district court to theft charges. Fined $30 each and paroled from 90-day sentences were Noble C. Stewart, 28, A. E. Bodekerf 41, and James J. Gundry Jr.. -32. . They werjs suspended from the force Monday after Police Chief Cecil Fruitt said they stole a power saw and some inexpensive articles from a store where they went to investigate an open door Sunday night. Underweight Loaves " PORTLAND un : Managers of nine Portland bakeries, were fined $25 each Wednesday in district court on charges they put on sale underweight loaves cf bread. o So Marion County Districting Bill The bill to v divide Marion County into two districts for the election of representatives comes up today for consideration by the House.' : ' This bill stood approved Wed nesday by the House elections committee after an 8 to 1 vote to recommend that the House pass it with an amendment that would require the approval of Marion County voters to put it THURSDAY HEARING On bill to raise unemploy ment benefits House labor and industries committee, Capitol Room 6, at 7 p.m. into effect It would be submit ted at the general election next year. Under the plan, two of Mar ion's representatives would be elected from Salem and several suburban precincts, making up about half the county popula tion. The other two would be elected from remainder of the county. The Oregon Legislature already has passed a bill to divide Mult nomah County into five such dis tricts, after a bipartisan study. Marion and Lane Counties were taken out of that bill when re sistance to their districting plans developed. Voter Information Other major action at the Leg islature today will be considera tion in the Senate on two House approved elections bills that would require voters to verify their addresses by signing poll books and would require addi tional information on voter regis tration cards. In a major development Wed nesday, the Legislature's joint ways and means committee gave its approval to a $14,904,658 state construction program, just as outlined last week by a sub committee. The Legislature win caucus at 7:30 p.m. Friday to hear an ex planation of the program, which will be introduced in five bills covering 26 proposed projects. The program includes $10,305, 000' in new state institution con struction, and $3,975,000 for uni versity and college buildings. S Per Cent Sales Tax The House Taxation Committee worked again Wednesday on its 3 per cent sales tax program. The committee will resume its work today, hoping that the House can consider it early next week. The Senate tax committee, meanwhile, scheduled four meet ings for today and promised to have its decision on the income tax increase bill before the night is out. This bill would raise income tax, probably, about 60 per cent. The sales tax, in the House plan, would go before the people soon as a possible alternative. (Additional legislative news on Page 11, Sec. 1.) Truman Plans Portland Talk WASHINGTON un Former President Truman will address a Jefferson-Jackson regional dinner of Democrats m Portland, Ore., June 11, National Committee Chair man Paul M. Butler announced Wednesday. The Democratic committee is sponsoring the fund-raising dinner of Democrats from Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and Montana. Truman addressed a $100 a plate party dinner here last Saturday night honoring Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. . . Vote Today Work on 2956 well with party organization in the counties and seem td be less hampered by factionalism than has been the case in many recent years. ... .. , -: ; . - " ; - Many Top Positions at Stake in Next Election The Republicans elected the governor and three Congressmen last fall; Democrats elected the U.S.: senator, one Congressman, and state labor commissioner. The stakes coming up next year are a U.S. senate seat, the four U.S. House seats, state treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general posts. It will be a presidential election year and this, plus the fight Sen. Wayne Morse, now a Democrat, has promised to put up for re election, will mean a heavy emphasis on national issues in the 1956 campaigns. ; . . , .. ' "The Democrats already are beating their drums on the power issue and other issues," said one Republican leader who wanted to see earlier action in Republican organization for the next campaign. "We Republicans, should start sounding off with some positive is sues of our own." : He was one of several Republicans who expressed themselves strongly that election candidates and issues should be developed im mediately' in a buildup for '56. . On the other hand, one top official in the Republican party organization, expressing the apparently traditional view, said: "The organized party has no business mixing in the Legislature, but after the session well have to appraise the results and sec what bearing they have on next year's elections." , . , , .- .Military Chief Flies 'Minute Men' Salem's National Goardsmen, and t. f. - ?; . 1 M : , r Ill j i . nesday participated in a preparedness alert to test their speed in manning strategic installations. Salem's units, which within a con pie hoars had about 250 men in the field, had infantryman guards Home, Garden ns at 7 p.m. Tonight The Salem Downtown Lions Club's Home ' and Garden Show opens at 7 p.m. tonight at the state fairgrounds grandstand pa vilion and continues Friday night and Saturday afternoon. ' Seventy exhibits, in contrast to last year's 56, are lined up. Pur pose is to display the most re cent trends and developments in home furnishings, garden equip ment and interior and exterior decorating. Admission is free. Professional talent from Port land will put on a free 25-minute show each of the three days. The Friday show opens at ,7 p.m. and the Saturday show, at 1 p.m. Each day it will run as long as the crowd demands. Sponsor is the Downtown Lions Club, but the East Salem Lions Club and its auxiliary will be in charge of the concessions. (Additional details on page 9 of Home and Garden section, 3.) Today's Statesman Sec. Page Show Ope Classifieds . ..IV 2-4 . : Comes the Dawn . I 4 o Comics I 12 Crossword ..IV . 2 ; Editorials . I 4 Farm 1 1 . 4 Home, Garden ..111 Homo Panorama I 6 . Legislative . .J. I 11 Markets ... IV 2 Sports II 1, 2 Star Gazer I .. 13 TV, Radio I 12 Valley I I . 10 Campaign; Democrats Answer Call as those throughout the land, Wed 250 Salem Watch Over Some 250 Salem National Guardsmen, responding to a nation wide preparedness alert, Wednesday took up watch at the city's vital installations the Capitol area, communications centers, bridges, the airport and tne waterworks. t - , ; i . In Dallas, the guard unit there mustered up nearly full strength in the same exercise, extending from 5 to 9 p.m. The alert, which the men had f been told would come any time j now, was a test of mobilization speed. . Representatives of each of Sa lem's three companies felt they had done very well in getting guards at their posts within 45 minutes after the alert and anti aircraft guns set up in the Capi tol area within an hour and a half. The units, which draw their men from all over this area, manned their posts after about 60 per cent of their respective strengths had assembled at their armory Salem's two infantry companies at the downtown arm ory and the anti-aircraft gun bat tery at the old armory, 2650 Lee St. Men who turned .up late for the initial manning were either formed into relief details to re lease those first to man the posts or to prepare the unit for a theoretical move-out All companies made arrange ments to feed the men supper. (Additional details on Page 2, Sec. 1.) Max. Mln. Salem ' 49 3S Portland 50 40 Baker 48 54 Med ford 53 ' 36 North Bend 47 39 Roseburg 4 ": 38 San Francisco 55 48 Chicago 7J 30 New York 5 48 Los Angeles 65 48 Willamette River 5.5 feet. Precip. .34 .15 - trace .14 .50 .47 .10 .54 trace .00 Many of the legislators take the opposite view, advocating that party liaison with Legislature should be strong, that potential can didates should be groomed, that some issues should be presented on party lines, with future campaigns in mind. Emphasis on nonpartisan approach to state legislation was all right, they saypin the recent sessions where most of the legislators were Republicans, but that hasn't been, the case this time, with one-third the lawmakers Demo crats. : , Similar thinking is being applied to the primaries. Taaditionally the party has a hands-off attitude in the primary, then is supposed to get strongly behind the candidates nominated. .But more politi cians are now saying" that the party should make sure of . its candi dates, even if it has to take active part in the primaries to do this. Modern Means of Promotion Are Expensive ; Cost of financing campaigns is one reason for this. Modern, ag gressive methods of promotion, newspaper, radio and television use are expensive. Instead of each candidate trying to! raise his own money and develop his own personal campaign organization, some argue, the party would get best results from a highly centralized financing effort and that would require getting together well- in advance on a slate of candidates. . . i j An oldtimer in Republican politics put it bluntly: It's about time we stopped picking candidates with the money of candidates who would be accepted by the people with the campaign money. We should first line up strong candidates who can, win an election, then go out alter the money needed to back them up with a good campaign." : - ; - 4 . ... i National Guard ' . . ..-. u ..'.'ft . i ' 'f : ,!'v "v? i at posts within 45 minntes and anti aircraft guns set up in the Capitol district within an hour and a half. Shown guarding the Capi tol, left' to right, are Privates First Class Lester Miller, Robert LyonsWallace Gibson and Francis Smith Jr. (Statesman Photo) Guardsmen City Sites Hospitals Vie For Brain of Albert Einstein PRINCETON. N.J. (fi - A calm descended Wednesday in the dis agreement over which hospital will get the brain of scientist Albert Einstein, who wanted it left to sci ence. Montefiore Hospital in New York City, which had said it expected to get the brain Tuesday, referred all questions . to Princeton Hospi tal, where the brain is hardening in a solution. Spokesman for the hospital here declined to discuss the subject fur ther. They simply reiterated that the whole thing had been a mis understanding. v Dr. Thomas S. Harvey, patholo gist at Princeton Hospital who now has custody of the brain left by the 76-year-old mathematical wi zard, was reported out of town for a few days. No matter which; hospital . gets the brain, a team of top patholo gists will study, dissect and ana lyze it. . - i ; - - After the removal of the brain and major internal organs, Ein stein's body was cremated Mon day, the same day he died of a ruptured aorta and hardening of the arteries. j f to Formosa Alert Sounds i . , ' v hVa X U.S.'s Citizen Soldiers Alert As Duty Calls WASHINGTON OB - The na tion's . National Guard answered the call to arms in quick time Wednesday night from Florida to Alaska in its first full scale mobilization test. Within two hours after the Penta gon figuratively pushed an "alert" button, guard units in all 48 states, Alaska and the District of Colum bia were moving into action. Some 350,000 citizen soldiers took part. Guard headquarters here said said the turnout averaged 66.7 per cent in the first hour after the alert in 23 states which had re ported. In eight states that reported turnouts within two hours after they received the alert . the per centage was 82.1. Maj. Gen. Ed gar E. Erickson, chief of the Na tional Guard Bureau which organ ized and directed the. test from a Pentagon command post, said he believed this percentage of men who actually turned out of. all guard units would prevail across the country. More Rain Seen Foi Salem Area Road conditions in the moun tains were bad because of packed snow Wednesday and cloudy weather with occasional rain is forecast for Salem through Fri day. McNary Field weathermen pre dicted little change in tempera ture with the highest today near 52 and the lowest tonight near 36. The occasional rain was pre dicted for today, tonight and Friday. Show New - Found Un ity Another Republican who has handled top party assignments in recent years and who is in the anxious-to-get-started class; gave this opinion: "Frankly we face a unified Democratic party with a lot of eninusiasm leu over irom me election oi luck xseuoerger tor tne Senate. The Republican party will have to start getting behind some strong candidates for 1956, and we don't yet see any Republicans head and shoulders above the crowd as candidate possibilities. We need to develop some colorful candidates like a Dick Neuberger." New Type Strategy Croup Being Developed On the organization line, Republicans are in the process of de veloping a new type strategy committee for the state central com mittee and are faced with selecting a new Multnomah County chair man soon to replace Philip Englehart who resigned because he would be out of the state several months between now and the 1858 elec tions. . ; " , . .." ., " Some party leaders think these development are overdue and also think liaison with the national party organization has been weak. Sen. Guy Cordon's defeat last November showed some party organi zation weakness, they say, that still hasnt been corrected. But one of' the top elected Republican party officials said he wasn't too concerned, "because there is always rumor of dissension in any political party." , i ; In contrast a behind-scenes campaigner long identified as a source of Republican strength said: "The only way to get out of the rut and really get going is for Gov. Patterson to take command of the party organization and make it tick.". . Sudden Trip Due to Tense Situation9 1 By WARREN ROGERS JR. WASHINGTON v The nation' top military man and the State De partment's Far East specialist sped Wednesday to Formosa for on-the-scene consultations about the "tense . situation which con tinues" there. But Secretary of State Dulles said "no crisis is involved" in the sudden travel orders . for Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Wal ter S. Robertson, assistant secre tary of state. As if to emphasize his words, Dulles himself left for a few days vacation at his island retreat in Lake Ontario. Robertson and Radford are due about noon Sunday in Taipei. Na tionalist China capital. Their visit will mark the second time the United States and Nationalist Chi na havf rnnsnlfpd linrlpr thpir mu tual defense treaty. Dulles himself held the first consultation at Taipei last March 3. . Statement Issued A statement issued by the State and Defense Departments about two hours before Robertson and Radford actually took off said the consultations were ordered "in view of the tense situation which continues in the area. The . statement added that peri- iwn. vuuici cutx9 uuuci uie uccuy can be expected "so long as the Chinese Communists indicate by deeds and words their purpose tc take Formosa by force." . Moderate Stand The sudden dispatching of Rob ertson and Radford comes at a time when Dulles has disclosed re ports of a Red air buildup oppo site Formosa. It also coincides with the surprisingly moderate statements by Red Chinese Pre mier Chou En-Lai' at the Asian- African conference of 29 -nations at Bandung, Indonesia. Robertson told newsmen at Washington's National Airport the trip had been talked about "for several days." He said the idea originated with Dulles, who had talked to President Eisenhower a Hsu if St of Atimicf 12 1f Cim. day. ,; -,. . v mwwm cMAMAfcAf was., uuv uuir Nothing New ? v Robertson, who developed the defense ' treaty with Nationalist China in secret negotiations last year, said there was nothing new in the tense Formosa situation. As iu nucuici ma uiu futuivra s visit resulted from an increased air buildup, he said that was "just a phase." J ' v Radford said he had made plans to go to Europe for North Atlantic Treaty, Organization (NATOJ com mand exercises. . "When I got orders to go to For mosa, he said with a smile, I was all set. All I had fo do was to turn around and go the other wav. " Radford said he believes the Red Chinese buildup is "methodi-' cal" and proves they "have not deviated from their intentions to take Formosa by force." Both men said they expect to talk to Chianff Kai . Shek and other leaders of the Nationalist China government during their three or four days at Taipei. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARRCN OODRICM Ml "I lub you, 4m! "