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So mm '? PCUND3D 1651 105th Year 2 SECTIONS-20 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, April 27, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 31 u mm Trace Ml 774 ,000 Set J A set-aside fund of $2,774,000 for state salary raises in the com ing two years was recommended to the Oregon Legislature Tues day by the powerful joint ways and means committee, i This committee also took action to recommend that the Legisla ture pass all eight bills in a $14.9 million state building program drawn up a few days ago by a subcommittee. j olons House Chiefs Forecast Passage of Sales Tax By ROBERT E. GANG WARE City Editor, The Statesman A majority of the House tax committee recommended adoption of the sales tax legislation Tuesday, and before the day was out House leaders were forecasting its passage. Tar rnmmitteemen nut the sales tax on the House floor hv a bare majority vote in committee of 5 to 4. Then they approved the Senate-passed income tax version with MM1JU0 Even in death the brain of Al bert Einstein - is dedicated to science. By his will his brain and some of his vital organs were awarded to laboratories for study. After the brain is properly con ditioned it will be examined by neurologists. It will be weighed. photographed,- charted, its dimen sions and characteristics careful ly noted. But the microscope will not re veal the secrets of the brain's functioning. Previous tests have proven that size and -eight alone do not measure the intensity. of cerebral action. Experimentation has shown areas where specific controls reside, but the most dili gent probing has not found the mainspring of the emotions. In this connection one is 're-i minded of the passage in Arthur Koestler'i novel, "Darkness. At Noon, in which bis chief char acter, Rubashov,an old Bolshevik caught in a purge, reflects as.be paces his cell: "What went on in No. I'm ( Stal in' s-ed.) brain? He pictured to himself a -cross-section through that brain, painted neatly with crey water-color on a sheet of paper stretched on a drawing-, board with drawing-pins. The whorls of grey matter swelled to entrails, they curled around one another like muscular snakes," be .came vague and misty like the spiral nebulae on astronomical charts . . . What went on in the inflated grey whorls? One knew everything about the far-away nebulae, . ,. (Continued on Editorial page, 4.) Nancy Stuart Resigns Post At Willamette -. '-,-. (Picture on page 2, sec. 1) " Nancy Stuart for the past five years director of information and alumni affairs at Willamette Uni versity, has resigned effective June 30, it was announced Tues day by President G. Herbert Smith. . ' " Miss Stuart,' a 1947 graduate of Willamette, said her future plans are as yet indefinite. Dr. Smith expressed regret at seeing Miss Stuart leave the posi tion and said a successor has not yet been considered "A native of Portland, the re signing information director was for two years assistant promotion manager at Portland station KEX prior to taking the Willamette post In her senior year at the university she was editor of the Collegian, campus newspaper. Miss Stuart also has been prom inent in Toastmistress circles, last year winning the Northvest title and a trip to the national finals at Louisville, Ky. I PRESS CHIEF RE-ELECTED NEW YORK I 'Robert Mc Lean was re-elected president of The Associated Press Tuesday, continuing a tenure that began in 1938. He is president of the Phila delphia Bulletin. -4 . . ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARKIN OOOKICH "Lotrie'a aa absolute genlas witk a toned saladl" i Aside by for State Of the special fund proposed for salary increases, $1,300,000 would be placed in a state emergency fund, earmarked for making pos sible those salary adjustments to be Recommended after study by the Civil Service Commission and to be authorized finally . by the State Emergency Board. The other $1,474,000 represents the total of amounts to be set aside by state agencies which pro- I but minor disagreement at one point A conference committee of two representatives and two sen ators will thresh out the effective date of the income tax for the approximately 500 taxpayers who are on a fiscal year basis. The income tax as it now stands, just before the House will vote on Senate amendments, calls for an average tax increase of 60 per cent, under a formula of lowering exemptions to $500, us ing present tax rates, applying a 45 per cent surtax. Items Exempt . The sales tax calls for a 3 per cent tax on retail sales, with food, rent and some other items ex empted. The sales tax would go before the 'Oregon voters next Nov. 8; if passed, it would re place the higher income tax and, moreover, would eliminate state income tax against most incomes of less than 55,000. . House Speaker Ed Geary said Tuesday it looked to him like the sales tax would pass the House, adding, "but I'm not twisting any body's arm over it." Tax Chairman Loran Stewart said the sales tax proposal result ed from a "growing, sentiment that we ought to put it before the people. It might pass this week, but we're not trying to. ram it down anybody's throat. i Predicts Passage 1 Rep. Pat Dooley, a Democrat member of the tax committee and a sales tax opponent, predicted the House would pass it Meanwhile, the lobbyists of or ganized labor were busy in the Capitol talking up opposition to the sales tax principle they have long opposed. The committee report on the Sales tax will come3 before the House this morning, and probably will touch off the principal de bate. In a briefing session for House members in a caucus early Tuesday afternoon, tax commit tee members explained the sever al bills related to sales tax and answered a few questions.! But final House action on the sales tax may : not come until Thursday. When the four-man committee minority moves to kill the bill, it will be thrown open to debate, probably shortly after 10 a.m. to-4 day. This minority comprises Rep. Roderick McKenzie (R), I Sixes, and the three committee Demo crats, Reps. Dooley, Walter Pear son and Ward H. Cook, ' all of Portland. I Walt LU1 Thursday If their maneuver is successful, the bill will be dead. If the ma jority report on the bill is accept ed, then Tax Chairman Stewart intends to move that the bill be held" over until Thursday for nal action. j The. sales I tax, if passed House and Senate and then fi- cepted at the polls, would go into operation next Jan. 1. Any .higher income tax coming out of this Legislature would be discontinued then, after applying on this year's income. ,- The proposed sales tax provide $24 million a year for distressed school districts:! would offset some local property lax by giving to local units the equival ent of $20 per school census child; would remove the state from property tax field; j would increase income tax exemptions for adults from $600 to $1,200. (Additional legislative news on Page 7, Sec. 1.) Business Near 1953 Peak WASHINGTON I L Business almost, but not quite, climbed back to its 1953 peak during the first quarter of this year, the Com merce Department reported Tues day. I The department's monthly anal ysis of the business situation said very large businesses worth 50 miHion dollars or more , had mostly regained all ground lost during the 1933-54 business down turn, while sales of smaller firms were lagging somewhat - But, the, study added, a revived flow of new orders to small and big businesses alike indicates that broader recovery is in the offing. Pay Raises duce their own revenues and don't require general . fund appropria tions; Civil service and unclassi fied jobs would .' be eligible for raises in either fund. Just which jobs will be paid higher salaries hasn't yet : been determined. Lowest Paid But several members of the ways and means committee insist ed that the full $1,300,000 general fund amount be allocated on the grounds that the raises should in clude some' for the lowest-paid groups in state employment. The salary subcommittee bad recommended Tuesday that the general fund amount be held to $l,000,boo, with its chairman, Rep. Orval Eaton (R), Astoria, dis senting. He said Charles W. Terry, civil service director, had estim ated the higher amount would be necessary to make the salary raises necessary. - Sen. John Hounsell (R), Hood River, and Sen. Gene Brown R, Grants Pass, led the 'move to up the subcommittee figure. Need Appropriatioa "If we hold this figue down, predicted Hounsell, "we "will be penalizing again the lowest paid groups who didn't get a raise at the last session either. I for one don't want the emergency board saying they can't give them a raise because the Legislature didn't appropriate enough money." Earlier reports from the salary study have indicated a high prior ity will go to certain higher-paid technical jobs where Oregon salaries were found lagging be hind those in nearby states. In othe salary- consideration Tuesday, the ways and means committee demonstrated a hold- the-line attitude by recommending against any raises, for supreme court or circuit judges, district at torneys or deputies. Committeemen : also voted to recommend against raising the maximum salary limit, as set by law. for most of the top state elective and appointive officers. Only 10 raises were recommended. I (Additional details on Page 7, Sec 1.) v accme Threatened DETROIT (UP) Parke, Davis & Co. and union officials met Tuesday in an effort to head off a threatened strike which would cut off a major supply of '.Salk vac cine, i ; The talks were broken off last week when an official of Local 176 of the CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union charged the company with refusing to bargain in good faith. The National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis ordered 60 per cent of the 18 million cubic centi meters of the vaccine needed for its "no charge" program this year from , Parke, Davis and Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis, Ind., the two major producers arrtone six firms licensed to manufacture the vaccine. 1 ! DETROIT UP The CIO Chem ical Workers Union Tuesday night turned down by a Vote of 1,033 to .4 a contract offered by Parke, Davis i Co., a ; major manufac turer of Salk polio vaccine. The union s current contract expires Sunday, j I i , i ALI REJECTS INVITATION ' SINGAPORE UH Prime Min ister Mohammed Ali of Pakistan said Tuesday he would not accept an invitation of Premier Chou En- Lai to visit Red China. They lunched together Monday after the end of the Asian-Afoean Confer ence in Bandung, Indonesia. Big Supply of Nearsighted Flier, 3 Others Die as Stolen Craft Hits Homes VALENCIENNES. France W 1 A young nearsighted British Air Force jcorporal. unlicensed to pilot military aircraft, crashed -a stolen RAF trainer in flames on two French houses near! here early Tuesday. The crash' killed four persons, including - the corporal, and injured three others after a five hour flying spree over England and France. The : unauthorized flight started when -the heavy, twin - engine Yickers Varsity took off dizzily Monday night from the RAF's Thorney, Island .Navigation School in Hampshire, 60 miles aaqthwest of London. ' .1 It ended in the French coal min ing Village of Vicq. near the Bel gian border 175 miles southeast of London. The flier was identified by the British Air Ministry as , Leading Aircraftsman Nanik Agnani. 20. a British subject who was born in Karachi, Pakistan. The corporal circled London, banked and dipped as low as 20 feet to buzz houses. He criss crossed commercial airlanei and Patterson Pitches Solons Win TJT I v. CI Gov. Paul Patterson, decked out in lets fir with a southpaw pitch Eugene Emeralds Northwest League opener at Waters Field Tues day night. Maybe the pitch brought charm for Salem went on to win the game, 13-3. (Statesman photo by John Ericksen) Worker Confesses to . Portland Bomb Hoax "' . ' i-i ' "" PORTLAND OP) Edward EY Henson, 20, admitted uesday that he had sent a bombing threat to bis employer, police reported. This. was the first arrest in a series of bombing and extortion threats that has plagued the Pacific ed April 15 in Meier and Frank's department store. . But the school bombing threats continued Tuesday. Four more Rare Blood To Be Flown To Unborn Tot EDMONTON. Alta. U-1 A rare blood which only 25 persons in the world are known to have is sched uled to be flown from here no stop to San Francisco Wednesday to save the life of an unborn child. The two ' bottles of rare blood will be flown the 1,200 miles in a Canadian Air Force T33 jet train er plane for I use at a Redwood City, Calif., hospital where Mrs. Nadine Robertson awaits caesar ian delivery of the child. Mrs. Robertson has lone child ttving but hai lost three by mis carriage. The blood needed by her baby is knowi$ as chromosome de letion, discovered in Edmonton only 1 14 months ago. The bottles going to MrsL Robertson's infant were donated; by two Indians at Marlboro, 130 miles west of this prairie city. 1 STRIKE END SOUGHT ALBUQUERQUE UP) Top flight negotiators headed Tuesday night for Sandia Base, planning attempts to end a strike which kept 2,500 workers off their jobs at the vital atomic installation. ignored radio appeals for three hours. Then he headed toward the coast ! Vicq's residents were awakened as the errant craft roared low and circled for minutes. several frightening Then, just j after midnight, the plane hit two adjoining houses with an explosion that rattled the town. Pieces; , of wreckage were hurled 300 yards. Volunteer firemen who rushed to" the scene found in one bouse the bodies of two children Vladi slav Mlynczak, 10, and his sister, Stephanie 9 j .who perished in their beds. In the same house the children's grandparents,-! Martin Moudjack and his wife, were found badly burned but still, alive. ' , Next door the firemen found the charred body of Mrs. IHenriette Gillerand, 55j Another member of the Gillerand household broke a leg in jumping from a window to escape the flames. Several hours after the1 crash. rescuers found a gloved hand in the cooling wrecxage of the plane The rest of the body was burned almost to- she, . ,,M. I " 7" . . ' , is a Salem Senators warm-up jacket, from the mound in the Senators- Northwest since a bomb explod threats were received. No schools were dismissed, however, as officials now have become accus tomed to 'the rash of fake bomb threats. S ; Police said Henson, a shipping clerk, signed a statement admit ting he sent the note to his employer, Dahnken, Inc., a mer chandising firm in the Morgan Bldg. Left Unsigned The . note read:. "Merely a warning.. A bomb will blow up part of your store Tuesday April 26. Nothing else to know." It was unsigned. - j j Henson's statement to police said that he had an impulse to see how a bombing threat would affect the company for which he worked after reading of similar threats made to others, i I : Henson, who denied any part in other bomb threats, was booked on a charge of threatening the com mission of a felony and held on $10,000 bail I : Police Tipped He was picked up after an acquaintance tipped police that he might be a likely suspect in the case. ' Juveniles who want the day off were blamed for the school threats. This' lead Jack W. Edwards, Portland school superinttndent, to say he, might ask the school board to extend the school year to make up any time lost in such affairs. The schools threatened Tuesday included, for the first time a college, Portland State. ' Also threatened were Jefferson and Washington high schools in Port land and the grade school at the Ordnance, Ore., housing project. Big A-Blast Due Today SURVIVAL CITY, Nev. UR Atomic testers decided at a weath er conference Tuesday night to go ahead Wednesday with the big civil defense open shot, weather per mitting at blast time. It is set for 6:15 a. m. (PST) Wednesday. Max. SI 31 - 4S - 4 , 50 48 Mia. Jreclp. Salem ' Portland Mediord t Jl 39 36 35 40 37 43 42 43 J2 .09 .01 J5 40 JOi .00 .49 .It Baker North Bend Roseburg San Francisco 36 Chicago . M New York 48 Los Angeles 62 31 Willamette River 6 0 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem): Partly sunny today, mostly cloudy tonight with rain late tonight and early. Thursday. Partly cloudy with scattered showers Thursday after noon. Continued cool with highest today near M. lowest tonight near 36. . J ; SALEM PKCTPlTATlOJr ' Sine Start f Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 29.4S . 4DS9 S3. 60 School Budget Rejected Proposed Levy Increase Brings Call for Cuts ; . By VTNITA HOWARD Staff Writer, The Statesman Salem School Board members were left with the job of paring down their 1933-36 budget after they joined with the citizen budget committee in refusing to approve the $3,229,381 . figure submitted Tuesday afternoon. The committee and board will meet again today at 3 p.m. in hopes of gaining approval on a reduced budget. The budget, as submitted Tues day, would call for 100.4 mills, an increase of 7.8 mills over the 1954-55 budget. This increase, com mittee members said, would be like waving a red flag in front of the voters. About $1,223,869 of the budget presented, would be outside the 6 per cent limitation and therefore subject to voter-. approval. In " the narlv thrWhour dis cussion, the committee's five men, William Phillips, W. J. Entress, J. H. WUlett, Elton H. Thompson and Coburn L. Grabenftorst, fine tooth combed the 15-page booklet of facts and figures on operating the district s schools. Objections centered primarily on the $176,743 allocated next year for additional teachers and the $115,- 903 for capital outlays. A revised teacher salary sched ule was suggested by budget mem ber W. J. Entress, but no action was taken on it. A large teacher delegation was again present After turning -down a motion by Willett to approve the budget, the board decided to continue meet ing Tuesday night in an effort to cut the budget still further. Board members, however, expressed doubt that they would be able to get it down by the more than $100,000 suggested by . Graben horstX The school election is set May 20. (Additional story on page 2, sec. 1.) Russ Agree to Austria Pact Parley May 2 MOSCOW UR The Soviet Un ion agreed Tuesday to a meeting of the Big Four ambassadors in Vienna May 2 to spell out final terms for an Austrian state treaty. This date was proposed by Bri tain. France and the United States. Austrian representatives will take part. In notes to the three -Western powers, the boviet government said it did not believe a confer ence on the ambassadorial level was necessary. It took the posi tion the Big Four foreign min isters could quickly settle the final details and sign the long-delayed treaty. But it added that since the West wanted the ambassadors to go ever the ground first, the Soviet government is agreeable. The am bassadors will fix the date for the foreign ministers conference with top Austrian leaders. Ml NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem 13, Eugene 3 At Yakima 3, Wenatchee 4 At Lewiston 1, Spokane 5 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Portland 0-1. Sacramento 140 At Seattle 6. San Diego 5 At Los Angeles 3. Hollywood 6 At Oakland 3, San Francisco 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 3. Milwaukee 3 All others rained out. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 3, Chicago 0 Boston 8, Kansas City 7 Cleveland 3. Washington 2 Detroit 3. Baltimore 3 Morrow Submits Low Bid for Addition at Riclimond School - J : Robert D. Morrow, Salem con-1 tractor, submitted low bid of $58,673 for the Richmond School addition at the Salem School Board meeting Tuesday night Bids were opened after a legal technicality forced delay, for near ly half-an-hour because ' of the board's change from a S p.m. time for receiving bids to 7:30 jj.m. All bids on the 6,700 square feet addition were . referred ; to the board's building committee. Other bidders were: H. G. Carl Company, $60,540.; R. L. Forster and Son, $67,392.: Raymond W. Lillie, $6281.; Mills Construction Company, $61,837.; and Smith and Nelson Company, $63,821. Morrow's low bid would mean construction of the four class-room WASHINGTON ( AP) the door wider Tuesday for ceasefire talks with Red China and backed away from its insistence that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists must be present at any meeting. Secretary of State Dulles took the position that this country , wants a ceasefire in the Formosa area and doesn't care by what mechanics it is attained. He said Nationalist China would not have to be present at any ne gotiations on a ceasefire. But he said the Nationalists certainly would be brought in as equal par ticipants in any talks which sought to dispose of any territory in the area., Dulles said the United States in tends to try to find out whether Premier Chou En-Lai of Red China is sincere in wanting a peaceful Formosa settlement or is "merely playing a propaganda game." The Dulles remarks at a news conference contrasted in a major respect with a statement put out Saturday by Undersecretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. with the approval of President Eisenhower. That statement, issued in response to Chou's bid for talks with the United States to "relax tensions" in the Far East, said: ". . . Of course the United States would insist on Free China par ticipating as an equal in any dis cussions concerning the (Formosa) area." The Saturday statement was re ported to have met a bad reac tion among some friendly nations, and in this country Sen. George (D-Ga) said the absence of Na tionalist China from the confer ence Jable should not prevent American peace talks with the Communists. i . - Threat Brings Evacuation of Senator Hotel The state's spreading epidemic of bomb hoaxes reached Salem Tuesdav evening as an explosion was threatened at the 160-room Senator Hotel. Approximately 200 guests and employes were nuicklv evacuated by city police but the purported bomb failed t6 go oft at the appointed time of 8 p.m. j An intensive search of the hos telry iauea to uncover any ex plosive and indicated the scare was the work of a crank, officers said. I The threat, made from an out side telephone by what was de scribed as a "deep man's voice,' came into the hotel switchboard about 7:30 p.m. Desk girl Lois Matherly. 19, Salem, said the voice asked: "Is this the Sena tor?" When told it "was the Senator." the caller announced, "A bomb will explode in half an fibur." There was no demand for nioney, Miss Matherly said. Police, Firemen (Report of the call sent city police and firemen from the nearby City Hall into a whirl wind of action. A totaTof 32 off duty officers, attending a first aid rlass at Citv Hall, and a num ber of firemen were rushed into tbe action to clear the big mid town hote,l and search for the "bomb." I Guests, manv of tfcem legisla tors, were cleared from the down stairs Uunse and the four upper floors of the hotel by 7;55, a mat ter of some seven minutes alter the first reoort of the threat One excited woman left the hotel in her pajamas. Room-to-Room Search Police and firemen then com menced a futile painstaking room-to-room search for the "bomb." Also combed for trace of the explosive were the lounge and restrooms. Guests were per mitted backl in the hotel at 8:55 pj.m., exactly an hour after evac uating. During the combing of the hotel traffic was blocked off from the area. Fire equipment was brought in from outlying stations as a precaution. j Interrupted by1 the evacuation order at the hotel was the Marion County B League's senior letter men banquet The entire Oregon State College coaching staff was present for speeches but all were ordered out of the first-floor ban quet room before any talking could be done. addition would cost about $8.60 per square foot. The board also opened bids last night for portable cabinets for Richmond and several other schools in the district. Bids were submitted by Oregon Pulp and Paner Co. and Donald NarsenL both Salem, and the Educator Furniture Co. Although no price totals on the eight items were in cluded on the bids, it appeared Orezon PuId and Paner bad low bid. These bids likewise went to the buildintf committee. Referred to the transportation Committee were bids for 60 school bus bodies, having cbassises with automatic-type transmission and Cbassises with 5-speed transmis sion, j . " The United States opened Pussywillows Become Link In Smith Case PORTLAND (fl - A bedraggled bunch of pussywillows Tuesday became an important link in the state's attempt to prove that Mrs. Marjorie Smith, 35, plotted the bomb slaying of her husband. An electrician, Victor Laurence Wolf, 45, admitted planting the bomb in the car of attorney Kermit Smith, 34, but said it was Mrs. Smith who hatched the plot to kill Smith last week. Wolf said he did it for her love. Mrs. Smith vehemently denies Wolfs story. She said that if Wolf decided to eliminate her husband. it was his own idea, and that he never had a chance to win her love. She called him a "repulsive old man." Seek Evidence. Police searching for evidence that might confirm -Wolfs storj came across the pussywillows in the basement of the Smith home. They recalled .Wolfs story that he and Mrs. Smith had gone on a picnic several weeks ago. and there had experimented with bomb picnic scene he had picked pussy willows for Mrs. Smith, breaking off the stems with his hands, Wolf said.. Police said a botanist probably can determine whether the pussy willows came from the picnic scene near Ridgefield, Wash., where Wolf led them Monday. He pointed out a pussywillow clump. To Attempt Match The botanist will go there Wednesday to try to match the ends of ' the pussywillow bouquet with the still living branches at the scene. . Wolf and Mrs. Smith, held with out bond since their arrest last week, were indicted by a grand jury on , first - degree murder charges Tuesday. Mrs. Smith, who appeared near collapse when she attended her husband s funeral . Monday, seemed fully recovered Tuesday. She agreed to an interview by report ers, in which she denied any connection with Smith's death, and hired an attorney John Patrick Hannon, veteran Portland defense attorney. - Salem Chilled 32 Degrees Salem had a temperature of 32 degrees ,Tuesday night and enough morning snow to stick somewhat in the higher residen tial districts. , A wind-shift warmed things up somewhat; by midnight the tem perature was 36. Today, according to McNary Field weathermen, it will be part ly cloudy with more clouds and rain tonight and Thursday. Rain fall should taper off. into showers by Thursday afternoon. Other western Oregon points reporting snow were Portland and Eugene. Susan Hayward, Actress, Fails in Suicide Attempt HOLLYWOOD W Susan Hay- ward, one movie star who always seemed to have control of herself. attempted suicide Tuesday and al most succeeded with an over-dose of jsleeping pills. - . A recent tiff with her ex-husband over the upbringing of their twin sons apparently had much to do with the red haired actress' des-' pondency. Actor Jess Barker, in New Orleans when he heard his former wife had taken too many sleeping pills, . collapsed. "Oh, my God!J love her. I love 1 I -4 1 . - ner, nc was qucieu as adding. before he broke down. Two-detective found Miss Hay- ward unconscious in her apartment after she had called her moth er, and told her intent to end her life. She was taken to a hospital and revived. (Additional details on page 9, Sec. L) Today's Statesman Sec. 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