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Educational Bud . get Asks Larger Glasses For Oregon Colleges Classes in Oregon Lte col leges and the university would have to be slightly larger under a state higher education budget plan recommended Monday by a ways and metns subcommittee. The full committee ' ordered legislation drafted in line with the subcommittee report, but withheld final decision on what to recommend to the State Leg islature. Sen. Gene Brown's ubcommit tee cut $900,000 from the budget's demand on the state general fund, but recommended that this nundib 1651 : " 105th Year Statesman, Salem, Ort., Tuesday, April 26r 1955 (Sec . 4) 1 No. 30 Brick Building Aicaits Atomic Destruction Cleanup Job on Front Lawn .. 'As fW.. 1 it .;' a . DENVER, Colo. Russell Lloyd Jr., 21, gets out the vacuum cleaner to rid the front lawn of fine sand and dust at his home in Thorn ton, Denver suburb. Strong winds during the night spread dust and tand. (AP Wirephoto) Senate Passes Basic School Fund Action Opposition to Foreign Aid to India Heard By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. 1 Associated Press Writer A measure to give future increases in basic school aid to local districts on the basis of equalization was passed Monday by the Sen ate 18-12. Opposition to the bill came from senators from Multnomah and Eastern Oregon counties, which wouldn't share in the future school l fund increases under the bill. This increased revenue would go to the more needy districts. The fund increases each year as the school population , increases, because it is based on $80 per year per school census child. The Senate voted Monday for a new relative responsibility law, under which citizens are compell ed to support their needy rela tives to keep them off of the welfare rolls. Replace Law The bill, which goes to the House, would replace the law which recently was declared un constitutional by the Multnomah County circuit court At the same time, the Senate killed a bill to have five assist ant attorneys general to prose cute welfare frauds. The vote was 18-12. This probably will be re considered today, however. The Senate completed legisla tive action on a bill to give the state engineers authority over drilling of wells and the use of air ground water. A bill to designate the secre tary of state, as reciprocity offi cer, with authority to work with other states to facilitate interstate movement of trucks and other motor vehicles, was passed by the House and sent to the governor. Primary Change The question of changing the primary election date from May to the fourth Tuesday in June was headed for a Senate-House conference committee. The Sen ate had voted for the change, but the House elections committee eli minated it from the bilL As passed by the House Mon day, it merely would have pre cinct officers elected in the No vember election. Now they are elected in May. A proposed interim committee to study the workmen's compen sation law was killed by the House. WASHINGTON (UP) Senate .Republican Leader Willjam I F. Knowland questioned Monday whether U. S. foreign aid funds should be alloted to India in view of that country's neutral position in the cold war. His attitude reflected a viewpoint widely held i in Congress among members who are questioning or objecting to the continued inclusion of India in the foreign aid pro .. gram. . Knowland gave his views to re porters in commenting on the line ""taken by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Afro Asian conference at Bandung, Indor nesia. He expressed the belief that the conference had "backfired" on the neutral Nehru and ' Red Chinese Premier Chou en-lai because the anti-Communist countries in Asia had made an effective case against "the dangers of Communism.". Knowland also -said he thinks those countries were more willing to make their ' case because the Southeast Asia pact ,-and other treaties save them "a sense of stability." r I Meantime, "Sen. Hubert Humph rey (D-Minn) urged Ja reassess ment of this nation's Asian policies. He said the Bandung conference has provided background "which we have not had before" and from it "we can better measure the ef fectiveness of our own policies." Humphrey, a member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement th conference has showed "how terribly import ant it is" for the-United States to work with its "allied partners" in forming policy in the Far East. Conviction of NYC Officer Upheld by Supreme Court WASHINGTON UrwThe Supreme Court, dividing 6-2. Monday upheld the contempt conviction of a for mer New York City policeman who refused to tell a grand jury wheth er he had taken bribes from gam blers. .N ' The majority decision, written by Justice Reed, hinged on a waive - of immunity against prosecution signed by Michael J. Regan on March 7, 1951, 20 days before he resigned from the force.- The city charter provides .that any employe who refuses to waive his immunity against subsequent prosecution upon any matter of an official nature about which he is asked to testify shall lose his job and become ineligible to hold any other city post. '-'About 30 per cent of college-age people in Utah are in College, but the percentage in Michigan is 17, and in the Carounas, 10. amount be made up. by higher student fees - and other charges made by the System of Higher Education. Recommendation Made In order to hold : another amount of $674,0 in the higher education budge' for salary raises in the next two years, the sub committee recommends that the number of additional faculty members be held in the coming bienniuin to 95, rather than 173 as advised by the Board tf High er Education. This would mean a ratio of more pupils per professor than at present -The change would vary, but in most cases iv. would mean one or two more students per class. The subcommittee's recommen dations on the extension services of higher education haven't been made yet Reduced Figure In the M nday recommendation on higher education budget the subcommittee reduced the overall figure $1,123,000 under the gov ernor's budget request of $45.9 million. The governor had hopped a million from the state board's budget before approving the budget The general fund of the -state would have to produce about $32 million toward the higher educa tion program, under the commit tee plan. No particular services under higher education would be abol ished, under the subcommittee plan. But seve 1 specific chan ges are recommended, including making the dormitory buildings completely self-liquidating. At present the state absorbs utility costs.' Consolidation Suggested Consolidation of certain admin istrative function; of the Dental School with the University of Oregon Medical School also was suggested. Ihe committee said it felt a separate registrars' of fice, business office, and certain other functions, was unnecessary. The subcommittee recommend ed that the cumber of foreign student sc! Warships be cut in half with the remainder of these scholarships being awarded to residents of Oregon. It was recommended that the 2 and 10 per cent scholarships be restrict ed to resident students. No in crease or decrease in the num ber of scholarships was recom mended. The market news report would be eliminated under another recommendation with a saving of $50,000. The committee recommended that the cherry di-eases and farm production specialists' activities be permitted, but from available funqs. ! il Income Tax Boost Beats Off Attack by Sales Tax Backers ; ; (Story also on Page 1.) : Sales tax advocates fought with determination for 2'i hours in the Oregon Senate Monday to defeat or send back to committee the higher income tax bill which finally emerged successfully with the big majority vote of 24 to 6. : : Leading the unsuccessful fight against the income tax bill were two dissenting members of the Senate tax-committee - Sen. Phil Medf on, and Lowell ; rJ,, '-:C Ll I.' i , -r- ' .... - - - - .t " '.JT m... - ,., 1 - 4.U SURVIVAL CITY, Nev. A comfortable looking two-story brick house standton the desert waiting for the fiery ordeal of an atomic explosion Wednesday. Civilian defense officials and other observers toured the test site in a final ins lection of the facilities which comprise the target town. The bomb will be exploded on the tower in background. ( AP Wirephoto) Army Tank Men Ready For Atomic Maneuvers By ROBERT BENNYHOFF United Press Staff Correspondent ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UP) ough Army tankers will stage the first real life atomic tank maneuver in U.S. military his tory at dawn Wednesday. Weather Dispersal of v U.S. Airplane Plants Sought WASHINGTON (ft - Secretary of the Air Force Talbott has told Congress an effort will be made to check further expansion in the number of aircraft workers on the Pacific Coast, it was disclosed Monday. Both Talbott and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, were among defense officials testifying recently before a house appropriations subcomm i 1 1 e e Their testimony was made public Monday. Twining was asked: "Do you have any control over or do you agree with this concen tration of aircraft production on the West Coast and Southwest of the United States? "No sir," Twining answered "we do not like that. We would like to have the aircraft industry dispersed. Secy. Talbott interjected: "We are taking steps to do that. We are going to try not to allow further expansion on the Pacific Coast of personnel, where they have more people. Tides in Maine's Passamaauod dy Bay average 19 feet, says the National Geographic Society. Need Told For Aircraft Spotting Posts LAS VEGAS, Nev. An ur gent need for more fulltime 24- hour around the clock Ground Observer posts to increase air craft spotting surveillance and improve the air defense warning network . was outlined here by Maj. Gen. Kenneth F. Bergquist The Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Continental Air Defense Command, and one of the survivors of the .Pearl Har bor sneak attack in December 1941. was speaking ' to arrivals scheduled to witness the explos ion of the latest atomic device. General Bergquist said, "Our perimeter air defense warning lines are now so thin that we ur gently need more fulltime posts in our present skywatch area, plus an increase in depth that can be provided only by pro grammed additional skywatch sectors." Now Vulnerable "We are vulnerable to low al titude attacks and don't let any body convince ; you that the jet bomber age will eliminate this vulnerability. Jet bombers can come down low for penetrations and most likely will do so if we remain vulnerable. A vital fac tor in decreasing this vulnerabil ity is a 24-hour operational Ground Ozserver Corps in depth, particularly in this stage in the growth of the air defense sys tem." "I do not know whether or not war is imminent," Gener al Bergquist concluded, "but we do know that our international situation continues to be tense. We have definite knowledge that the Soviet Union is fully cap able of delivering atomic bombs upon our cities right now." delayed the explosion which had been scheduled for Tuesday morn ing. In the past, American armored forces have participated in simu lated atomic attacks. But Wednes day, the hard steel hulls of 30-ton Gen.' Patton tanks, armored per sonnel carriers and self-propelled howitzers will be put to the acid test against a deadly nuclear ex plosion. And the atomic burst will be no puny puff. It will pack the wallop of 40,000 tons of TNT, or twice the power of the A-bombs which gutted Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ravaged a captive fleet at Bikini a year later. Close To Blast At the same time an experimen tal device to be triggered at 5:20 a.m. PDT atop a 500-foot steel tower showers destruction upon "Survival Town," its fury will be turned also against 85 armoed ve hicles led by 55 sturdy Patton tanks and two smaller M24s. The leading tanks will be only 3100 yards or less than two miles from ground zero, the spot on the desert-like floor of Yucca Flat where the tower stands ominously. Other tanks will be arrayed in battle formation for the next 500 yards and 24 more bulky person nel carriers and four self-propelled howitzers, also heavily armed, will be lined up beginning at-3900 yards. M Newsmen In Tanks Approximately 460 men of the armored task force plus 20 .or so newsmen will huddle inside the tanks and other armored vehicles, all tightly "buttoned up," when the blinding, jarring atomic blast occurs. The maneuver is in some ways reminiscent of Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army tank break through at St. Lo in Normandy during World War II except that an atomic burst instead of con ventional artillery, bombers and fighter planes will tear the gap in enemy lines. The armoed column, dubbed task Force Razor, consists of 800 men from the 723rd Tank Battalion from Camp Irwin, Calif., plus in fantry, aviation and artillery units from the First and Fourth Armored Divisions. House Rejects State Driver Training Bill Driver training in Oregon high schools failed Monday for the second time to win approval in the House of Representatives. By a vote of 29 to 25 two short of. a majority the House turned down a revision of the proposal that failed by four votes on April 13. As amended, the bill would have helped pay for the program by a $1 assessment on each $10 traffic fine. Supporters contend-! ed the assessment would have raised about $375,000 a year. Opponents contended there was no guarantee that the pro gram would pay for itself. They argued driver training in some Oregon schools is costing from $48 to $64 per student, and the bill would reimburse school districts 75 per cent of their ex pense, but no more than $20 per pupil. Advocates said the bill was only an enabling act, but foes ar gued it would make courts the trustees of the fund because they would have to collect the admin istrative costs. . both ART ALLIANCE ELECTS - PORTLAND (UP) Mrs. R. A. Law of Coos Bay was elected chairman of the Oregon Art Alli ance at a weekend meeting here. She succeeds Dr. Wallace S. Bal dinger of the University of Oregon. Kansas Farmer Adds Patterson's Autograph to Collection of 3,000 By GARTH FANNING Staff Writer, The Statesman A Kansas wheat farmer with two books containing nearly 3, 000 autographs that he has col lected himself stopped in Salem Monday. He is Joe A. Feitz, who with his wife is on the 112th day of a trip across the United States, one that they make almost yearly. Feitz has been collecting sig natures since 1925 in cross-country automobile sojourns. Monday morning, he hopped up to the Capitol buildSSg to obtain Gov. Paul Patterson's autograph. Pres ent plans call for a few days' vis it with his sister, Mrs. Esther Seymanski, Silverton Route 1, Box 112. 1 This is Feitz's sixth trip through Salem and he says the town has always been "very hos pitable to us. One of the highlights of the trip this year, says Feitz, whose farm is located in Hays, Kan, is the autograph of a 112-year-old Civil War veteran of the Confed eracy, Walter Williams, Frank lin, Tex. ' Feitz most prizes the signature of Jane Withers, former child movie star. He also has the 1939 signature of Shirley Temple, and signatures of Sen. Joseph Mc Carthy, Oregon's late Sen. Mc Nary, J. Edgar Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, and of pugilists Joe Louis Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jim Jef fries, among others. But Feitz bemoans the fact that he has never yet obtained the autograph of a president of the United States. He plans to keep on trying. He almost got Harry Truman's once, he says.. From January to May ' Feitz usually starts his trips around. January and winds tbem up in May. In his absence, his son-in-law watches over his 80 acre wheat land. Feitz owns more land which, the son-in-law farms. He started in the wheat business 47 years ago. "There's nothing for me to do during the winter months," com ments Feitz. "So I usually make these trips yearly." He has travelled 6,995 miles so far this year, and has never had a serious accident on the road. He has signatures of circus men, strip tease artists, television and radio men, business execu tives and motel operators. Studies Signatures "You know," says Feitz, "I can tell more about a person by studying his signature than I can by study of his appearance. Cer tain slants in signatures reveal personality traits." Feitz is studying graphology and he says with a laugh that he L should n't lack study material In the future, he plans to write a book on his experiences. ) "But I must see Europe first," he says. "You cant write authoritatively about America until you can com pare it with something else." . No U.S. Plea Made for Isle Abandonment TAIPEI, 1 An informed Na tionalist source indicated Tuesday that two high-level U. S. envoys have not asked President Chiang Kai-Shek to abandon the offshore islands of Quemoy and the Matsus. The source said Walter Robert son, assistant secretary of state, and Adm. Arthur ' W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not come to Formosa to discuss "negative" issues. He said they had come to discuss "positive" issues, as events would prove. The source, who revested anonymity, said the trip would re sult in "further strength ning of the cooperation and friendship be tween Nationalist China and the United States." Robertson and Radford . con ferred with Chiang Sunday. Radford was confined to bed Tuesday morning with a cold. Rob ertson, also a guest of Chiang at the President's suburban retreat in scholars forest, spent the morn ing working on dispatches. U. S. sources said the two more or less had completed their mis sion and could leave at any time. , Nationalist - quarters predicted 'they would leave Wednesday. ,. Earlier, Nationalist sources ad vocating an uncompromising stand against communism had given an impression they were disappointed over the mission of Radford and Robertson. Lobbyists Set Legislative Planning Meet Nobody could say Monday just when the Oregon Legislature will wind up its current session, but one lobby group at the Capitol was already worrying about the next Legislature. A group of several state farm, labor and other organizations an nounced plans for a "legislative planning conference" in Salem May 14. Chairman of arrange ments is Dewey Cummins, Polk County farmer who is state vice president of the Farmers Union. He said representatives of sev eral groups will try to work out a permanent organization to keep an eye on future legislative pro posals. Groups expected to join in the preliminary conference in clude the Farmers Union, Grange, AFL, CIO, railroad brotherhoods, League of Women Voters, Oregon Education Association, Oregon Council of Churches and Catholic Rural Life Conference. Police Probe 3 Burglaries Three weekend .break-ins are being investigated by Marion County sheriffs deputies and state police. The Valley Farm store, 3935 Silverton Rd., was entered some time. Sunday night where about $34 was taken. Entry was made through a rear window. The Gatchcll grocery store, 3295 South Commercial St., was entered Saturday nishf. Ten packs of cigars, four to six cartons of cigarettes and about 50 cents i? pennies were taken. Police said entry was through a side door. . The third break-in occurred at Vista Food Lockers, 3095 South Commercial St., but nothirjj was reported taken in this attempt A rear window was forced to gain entrance, police said. Lowry, Steen, Milton-Freewater, Republicans. They were joi- ed in the final vote on the bill by Sens. George Ulett (R), Coquille; John Houn- sell (R), Hod River; 7. O. John son (R), i Tig rd; and Gene Brown (R), Grants Pass. Study Urged Both Lowry and Steen urged that their tax committee restudy the whole t-x problem, including a sales tax proposal. . They gave as their reasons the opinion that the recommended income tax didn't present a bal anced program, might not raise enough revenue for thenex'. two years and hence might lead to a state property tax. At best, they predicted, the measure is only a stopgap and probably wou'd leave the state facing another big deficit in 1957. Sen. Lowry said the committee hadn't studied the possible di verse economic effects of such a high income tax and the psycho logical effect of Oregon's having the highest income tax in the nation. 'Sounder Program' "We should work out a sound er program no matter how long it takes and-no matter what the pressures for adjournment," he said. Sen. Rudie WTilhelm (R), Port land, chairman of the Senate tax committee, said Oregon's tax pic ture would still be better than in many states. "Although our income tax would be the highest in the Unit ed States, nevertheless Oregon wouldn't be paying the highest per capita tax," satf Wilhelm. If you want an income tax ap proach, this one i not unfair to anyone," Wilhelm declared. The tax chairman assured the Senate that his committee would see that the Senate had a chance to vote on any sales tax meas ure the House might send over. The House tax committee has prepared a 3 per cent sales tax as an alternative to the income tax, if the people vote for it Broaden Tax Base Sen. Steen said he felt Oregon should really broaden the tax base because about ore-third its citizens now don't pay any in come tax at all He said present and proposed income taxes hit hardest at tho.se incomes over $6,000 and for that reason any increases should be based to considerable extent on the taxes against incom"- under $6,000. Sen. Paul Geddes (R), Rose burg, said "Tl ' income tax bill isn't going to hurt anybody. The man in the $2,000 bracket would pay $9 more a year, and the man " in the $100,000 bracket would pay $489 more." Sen. Hounsell urgec. the tax committee to go oack to the gov ernor's original tax plan recrn mendation, based on elimimting the federal incom- tax deduction from state tax. Sen. Johi son also recommended this. Some opponents said the tax was unfair because the percent age increase to high-income peo ple was less than to low-income groups. Ready for Sales Tax Sens. Ulett and Steen botfi said they .believed tl Oregon people are now "ready to accept a sales tax." Sen. Lee Oh mart (R), Salem, said even though he has long ad vocated a sales tax, he felt the legislature should adopt a tax that would run the least chance of being upset by the voters. Some senators who fivored the income tax said that the actual effect on many taxpayers wasn't as big as 60 per cent seems be cause the state income tax is de ducted from federal income tax returns. But opponents said Oregon's tax should not be tied to the fed eral tax system and, moreover, there was a move in Congress to do awi.y with the state income tax deduction. The Se ate voted four times on the income tax bill Monday Twice the senators voted down a move to refer it back to the tax committer, ana on a third vote they- refuse V to accept the minority committee report against tne Din Fund Okehed For Purchase Of Church Site The Legislature's ways and means committee recommended Monday the approval of a bill to appropriate $332,000 for the state purchase of First Presbyterian Church, located in a block de signated for future state construction. This appropriation would be separated from funds already on hand for the gradual purchase of residential properties in the ex tended Capitol Mall area. Present plans of the State Board of Control call for tempo rary use of the church for state offices. The church would be able to relocate after selling its present property. Its congregation already has plans to build nearby. Mothers Said 'Forced Out' Of Hospitals SAV FRANCISCO (UP)-Moth- ers and their newborn babies are being forced out of hospital mater nity wards too soon, the head of U Mormon hospitals in Utah charged Monday. Clarence E. Wonnacott, co ordinator for the Utah Hospitals of the Church of the Latter-day Saints, told some 4000 hospital ex ecutives that in the West gener ally, most mothers are forced to leave the hospital within two to four days. He said the average maternity case should be permitted to stay in the hospital for at least five days, and in many cases, for as many as 10 days. Wonnacott made his comments to the first-day session of the 25th anniversary convention of the As sociation of Western Hospitals. He told the delegates that 20 years ago, the average cost of a 10-day stay in the hospital was $65, exclusive of doctor's fees. Today the average cost is $75 to $80 for three or four days, he said. In another address on the prob lem of maternity costs, A. A. Aita, administrator . of the San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, Calif., suggested a change in pre paid insurance coverage. Aita said the maximum of ma ternity hospital coverage could be increased from $50 to $100 by in creasing monhly premiums by no more than 50 cents. , . He pointed out this would permit mothers to remain in the hospital for as long as 10 days. Delegates to the convention came from nine Western states, British, Columbia. Alaska and Ha waii for the four-day meeting. BALLOONS CARRY SCRIPTURES CHAM, Germany ( Ten thousand balloons carrying Bible extracts floated into Communist ruled Eastern Europe Monday un der a project-- sponsored by the International Council of Christian Churches. Within the 'next four months, 90.000 more balloons will soar over. the Iron Curtain. . Expert Tells Potential of Air A-Blast An of LAS VEGAS, Nev. UFi -r- atomic antiaircraft weapon even average size, could destroy a plane up to a mile away from its shellburst, a top level nuclear weapon expert said Monday. The question of how 'effective such a weapon would be, when developed, was asked of Dr. E. B. Doll, director of military effects for the Armed . Forces Special Weapons Project, during a brief ing of civil defense representatives here. Doll replied that an explosion Of a nominal size weapon the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT would down planes up to one mile away. Doll did not say at what altitude the blast might be that effective. The effectiveness of an explosion diminishes with altitude as the air grows thinner. Doll explained that "if a burst occurs in a vac uum you don't have anything to transmit the shock wave." Dynamite Stolen At Baker Mill BAKER (UP) Police said Mon-, day that eight to 10 sticks of dyna mite, six fuse caps and seven inches of fuse were stolen from the Shannon Lumber Company mill here Sunday night. The thieves also tried to set fire to the plant by stacking paper on a desk and lighting it However, the fire burned itself out before causing any damage, police said. Coast Wreck Kills Woman BROOKINGS, Ore. ( A woman was killed and four per sons injured Sunday in a two-car collision on the Coast Highway two miles south of here. ? Mrs. Mildred Molina, about 50, Brookings, was killed outright Her husband and Emfle Stien- hauer, Brookings, were injured as were the two persons in the other car, Ernest Ellis and Clay Vaughn. All were taken to a Cres cent City, Calif., hospital 3 5'
