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-U. S, forces The Weather . ro RECAST (from U.'S. westher bureau. McNary field, Salem): Considerable cloudiness with scat- . tered showers today, - partly cloudy with a few showers tonight and Sat urday. High today near 54. Cooler tonight with low near 34. Tempera ture at 12:01 a.m. today was 45. SALEM PRECIPITATION' Jt ilMfttl Kills 100 This Tear . last Tear Normal 39.78 41.01 33.74 Indochina CaBital AJbiaze; Pro Gain Groiindl Saigon I Fighting win POUNDQD t&Bt 105th Year TT A House jpp Sales Tax Ballot Legislation intended to put a 3 per cent sales tax on special ballot Nov. 8 cleared the House of Representatives Thursday at the Oregon Capitol. r , . It the Senate goes along with the sales tax plan, Oregon's voters will in effect be asked to, choose between paying higher income taxes or. paying a sales tax to provide the extra revenue for balanc ing the state budget i The income tax, representing an average increase of 60 per cent House Sales Tax- Leaves State in Red, Say Senators The Seaate tax committee, hearing that the House-passed 3 per cent saes tax package would leave Oregon $24,000,000 in the red during the next biennium, prepared Thursday to overhaul the whole program. "It looks like the House gave away too much money," Sen. ' Rudie Wilhelm, Portland, committee chairman, said at a commit ' tee session Thursday night. Wilhelm was referring to a reduc- . tion of income and property taxes in the House sales tax pack The State Tax Commission gave the Senate committee a balance sheet showing that in the next biennium expenses would exceed income under the sales tax package by $24,000, 00. - . 1 " Wilhelm said his committee would attempt to have a revised sales tax bill for the Senate to vote en Monday. of present tax paid, was passed effect if the sales tax is approved by the people; infact, the sales tax legislation would reduce nresenLincome tax. especially in the DP fLRDCDQCH rya is due for an overhaul. Ed G. Boehnke, state chairman, has re signed. He gave as a reason the press of his own business and his desire to have - a successor named in ample time to prepare for the next campaign. However, he had been under fire from var ious segments f the party, espe cially the group that was eager to get reorganization work under way at once. - AnotSer vacancy in an important party office was created when Phil Englehart resigned as Mult nomah county chairman. He quit because of his expected absence from Portland during much of the time in the year ahead. Whether snipers were after him too is not clear. u Not beard from is Jess Card, national committeeman, who has had a rugged time of it since the Kisenhower administration took over. - Jess has had a rough time getting his recommendations for appointments confirmed. His first endorsements of Warren Gill for district-attorney and Ralph Hol man for federal district judge wer not nrrpnted hv the Depart ment of Justice; and his second choice for the latter office. Judge East of Eugene, has been bogged down for weeks in the White House, according to report. Jess has giv en no hint of resigning, however; but be will confront opposition if he runs for" reelection next year. Now indeed is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the Grand Old Party. Next year IS - presidential eievuun jem, ami Oregon which was an early , and staunch supporter of General Eis enhower, will be called on (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Salem C of C Makes Bid for Naval Station Salem has set its cap on get ting li Naval Air Station which has been proposed for the Hills- Knro area. ff.i " 4v;. . leicuaiiis ntui vut wi ! from the Chamber, of Commerce to the Naval Department, Bur eau of Aeronautics of the Navy and the 13th Naval District com mandant. Each drew attention to opposition of the air station from Hillsboro residents even though the city approved of its location. Salem's strategic location, its. nearness to higher educational facilities and to Portland were outlined to the Navy. Business men and Salem residents favor location of the facility here, the telegrams added. ANIMAL CRACKERS TV WMMN OODRlCH "Nice serve:' 4 SECTIONS-40 PACES roves earlier this week. It will not take llower brackets after the first year Possibility that the people might defeat both the sales tax and the income tax increase was raised during the debate in the House Thursday. Would Leave Deficit A people's initiative would have to be circulated in order to hold up the income tax change until the general election next year. If, then, the sales tax was defeated at this year's special election, the stale would be left with an esti mated $65 million deficit and the situation would then call for a special session of the Legislature, it was stated. The House-passed sales tax legislation, contained in five sep arate bills, went immediately to the Senate where Tax Chairman Rudie Wilhelm Jr. (R), Pprt land, called on his committee to plunge into the sales tax. study nd have a recommendatiot ready for the Senate by Monday morning. Identical Vote In Thursday's principal vote on sales tax, the House approved it by 33 to 26, iwth the voting iden tical to that Wednesday by which an attempt o kill he tax bill was defeated. Six Democrats and 27 Republicans voted for rt. Slight variations were recorded in vot ing on the four companion bills Thursday. The proposed sales tax would be 3 per cent on retail purchases except food, rent, feed, fertilizer, some medical exemptions. It would start next Jan. 1. The companion bills set Nov. 8 special election date for the voters' decision; provides a $2, 500,000 annual fund from which distressed school districts could borrow capital outlay funds; re duces income tax by upping the personal exemption from $600 to $1200 each if the sales tax takes effect; earmarks about $10,000, 000 for local property tax offset by applying to the county school fund and related school levies within the 6 per cent limitation. (Additional legislative news on page 6, sec. 4). 1 . Shots Wound Four in Rail Strike Fray COVINGTON, Ky. m - Four men, including three employes of the strikebound Louisville & Nash ville Railroad, were wounded late Thursday in a shooting at the rail road's DeCoursey yards near here A few hours' later. Kenton Coun ty police arrested three men. in- eluding two of the wounded, on k . . ... ' , sJnoo"n8 They iciccucu uuuer DODUS OI ?Zv- wu eacn. The shooting occurred as a truck, loaded with L 4N. work ers, was driven through a picket line at the yards. There were con flicting stories on the sequence of events. PicKets and the workers accused each other of firing the first shots. Most seriously wounded was William Hensley. 23. of near here. wno apparently was a bystander. He was shot in the back. DRAFT CALL 100,001 WASHINGTON If! The Armv Thursday issued a draft call, for 100,000 men in June. The ouota is the same as that previously an nounced tor May. The April call was for 8,000 men. Max. Mia. Preeip. . . 35 .24 O 34 .03 - SI " '32 "' .93 8 34 .06 . 49 - 41 .43 . 50 39 .19 . . tit ' '43' T 71 5A .00 .57 411 .W7 Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend Rose burg . San Francisco Chicago New York Los Angeles 7 '49" M Willamette River IJ. feet ' The Judging "1 .,.- i. a The fifth annual 4-H Club spring show got underway Thursday at the Isaak Walton League Hall here with judging of exhibits, cook ing and baking. Shown judging loaves of bread is Mrs. James L. Judge to See Boys Pay Cost Of Bomb Hoax PORTLAND UD Troubles in creased Thursday for three Jeffer son High School boys who admit ted telephoning a bomb threat to their school office Monday. Juvenile Judge Virgil Langtry said he. wanted to determine how much the threat, which they said they made as 1 a joke, ' cost "for extra police, fire and school activ ity." . ' . Then, be told be students, "It is my intention that you three boys will pay the cost of this back to the city of Portland back to the taxpayers and it may well run into thousands of dollars.- , . , Police "Chief James Purcell asked that the boys be! transferred to an adult court for trial oa charges of threatening to commit a felony. The judge temporarily turned down the-request. . . Meanwhile the first bombing threat to a grade school was re ported. Jason Lee School, in north east Portland, received a threat before noon and 700 students were ordered out until police could search for a bomb. - None was found. Mint Truck . Spills New Half Dollars ST. PETER. Minn. (Jl A thousand freshly - minted half dol lar pieces spilled over a half mile stretch of highway Thursday when the floorboards buckled on a big semi trailer hauling $250,000. ' A guard in a following Brink's armored truck said the deluge of coins "looked like ducks flying through the air." The Brink's truck' flagged down the semi .- trailer after contents of a broken sack containing $500 had jingled onto Highway 169 and into ditches six miles north of here. Scores of motorists screeched to a halt and began scooping up the shiny coins. Most of them were re turned. Brink's employes said. Marvin Ince,' driver of the ar mored truck assigned to guard the semi, estimated two - thirds of the money was recovered. The semi trailer was en route from the Denver mint to the Min neapolis Federal Reserve Bank, under hire to Brink's. All of the money was in new half dollars. Frames supporting its floor boards apparently weakened. The boards sagged and opened up a three inch crack, pinching one of the coin bags. Al Loucks, For State Republican Central By ROBERT E. GANGWARE -City Editor. The Statesman 'I " With Oregon's Republican party preparing to-- select a new state ' chairman, the ' names of Wendell Wyatt of Astoria and Alfred Loucks of ; Salem ' are- getting prominent mention for the post . Loucks, I former Salem mayor who is now-a representative in the State Legislature, has been spend ing considerable time with GOP leaders at the Capitol on prelimin ary planning for next year's elec tion campaigns. . ' Several of the legislators have suggested he would make a' good party leader in the post from which Ed Boehnke, Eugene, is resigning. : Loucks. who hasn't said he would seek-the state post but who has I indicated he will be active in the Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 29, 19S5 Starts at Salem ! WfACCME 1 Ul i ' ' "r - - - , a n 1 " - M t Three Sisters Win Top Art Prizes Subject matter" from bread to electricity was spotlighted Thurs day 'as the fifth annual spring show of the Salem 4-H Club threw open its doors. Some 345 exhibits dotted tables and walls of the Izaak Walton Hall when judging began in the morning. Judging will continue to day and Saturday in the.three-day show. Wreck Fatal To Woodburn Area Farmer AURORA William Arney, 31, I Woodburn Route 1 farmer, died about 11 p.m. Thursday at Salem av General Hospital from In jl IJ juries he received' in a , two-ear accident early Thursday morning near Aurora. .The' accident occurred at the junction of the Wilsonville cut off and Highway 99E, state police and the Marion County sheriff's office reported.. Driver of the other car "was Charles R. Ivie, 1095 Garnet St., Salem, whom state police cited for failure to drive on the right He was treated at Salem General Hospital and released. . Arney's death is the 10th traf fic fatality for 1955 in the Marion-Polk County area, and the fifth for Marion County. Chicago Fires KiU12; Arson Traces Found CHICAGO in Flames raced through two Chicago buildings, one of them a walkup hotel, Thursday taking a toll of at least. 12 lives. Eight bodies, including that of a fire' captain who died fighting the blaze, were recovered from ruins of the Green Mill Hotel and a search for other possible victims continued. ' ." " . Three children and their uncle were killed-, hv the second fire in an apartment; building less than a half mile from the stricken hotel. Some 20 persons leaped from windows .of the hotel, which occu pied the upper three floors of the four - story building, and were in jured. Other 4 -were carried down ladders. Seven firemen were hurt fighting the fires. . Authorities said there was evi dence the hotel fire, was set off oy an arsonist.' - . Earle ' Downes, fire department attorney.', said ' he believes an ar sonist dumped flammable mater ial on the hotel stairway. Wendell Wyatt Listed Republican - campaigning next year; was not available for com ment" Thursday because he had a speaking engagement in Medford. Wendall Wyattl Astoria attorney and "'Clatsop County Republican -entral committee chairman, has been active. in " state Republican councils for. some time. He is a law partner .of US.. Rep. Walter Nor-blad..;..'4,.';--" ' - Wyatt's name, too, is mentioned often by those Republican ' legis lators who say they are anxious that the party ; organize now for the -coming election year. The Re publicans .are expected to pick a successor to Boehnke at a May 21 state central committee.; meeting in' Portland..-'. AmtherV possible candidate for state chairmifl 'ia Henry Buehner, 4-H Club Spring SHow Ml ... . , ,.....,- Turnbull. The show will continue from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and will conclude with a style revue Saturday at S p.m. (Statesman Photo) at 4-H The art division proved a family affair for Rose Marie, Julia and Jone Slimak. Rose Marie, 16, took first 'place in the portrait division, , Julia, 15, second, and Jone, 12,' third. Rose Marie drew a man's face. In . the animal-drawing contest, Julia won first place with a horse's head, Jone, second, and Rose Marie.,- third. In cartoons, Jone ' won . tops spot. The girls are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Slimak. 1985 N. 4th St The woodworking contest was something of a family "monopoly" too, with Dale and ' Lynn Seipp champions. Dale, 9, made a cut ting, board and letter holder to cop the .hand woodworking di vision. Lynn, 12, made a tele phone wall-shelf, lamp and ham burger press to lead the machine woodworking division. .. . Both ' are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Seipp, 598 N. 20th St. Ronald Simmons, IS, 1310 N. 17th St., won a blue ribbon in the machine division; Stanley Bjelde, 14, and Douglas Simmons, 11, won red ribbons. Three boys from the. Oregon School for the Blind took top spots in electricity. Leonard Kokel, 11, was champion with an electric game, switchboard and . Morse code . set. Second was Bobby Jackson, 11, and third, Clarence Allen, 12. (Additional details on page 6, sec. 1.) B 29 Crashes, Teh-Men Die NAHA. Okinawa UP An Amer ican B29 bomber, groping through haze and overcast, smashed into a 600-foot hill three miles from Na ha Airport Thursday. All 10 crew members aboard were killed. Flaming wreckage, hurled - over an area a quarter of a mile wide, burned four Okinawans. They were taken to an American Army hos pital for treatment The four engine bomber, based on Okinawa, was on a routine training flight It was attempting a landing with radio instructions from the airport control tower when it crashed into the hilL The bodies of the 10 American airmen were recovered. Their names were withheld until next of kin are notified. Portland attorney and Republican leader in Multnomah County cen tral committee.' ' Multnomah County's GOP organ ization also will selecta new chair man next month, as Philip Engle hart has .announced his resignaH lion, in both resignation announce ments, the principals stressed their belief that the strenuous . election year coming up demands that too party leadership be in the hands of men able to devote full time to the organization effort.' This goes along with the think ing of many Republican 'leaders that a "more dynamic' leader ship is needed in their party if it is to get anywhere in the elections next year featuring a GOP attempt to unseat U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse. One of Salem's most active Re publicans, Statt Sen. Mark Hat PRICE 5c 1 a I .inquiry , Begins X. . , . - am i . s - i :' . ' -J Holland Vote Finishes Pact Ratification THE HAGUE, Netherlands UP) -West German rearmament re ceived its final parliamentary blessing Thursday. The Dutch Sen ate cast a historic 32-2 vote for the Paris treaties. It was the last such endorsement needed to bring West Germany into the Western alliance against communism. The Dutch lower house approved the pacts 71-6 March 30. So now, after nearly five years of emotional and political strug gle, the parliaments of all 15 na tions affected have voted for West Germany's sovereignty and the right to recruit armed forces that will eventually total a half million soldiers,' sailors and airmen. Ceremonies marking West Ger many's change from an ex-enemy to a full Western power will take place early next month 10 years after the unconditional surrender of Hitler's reicb. The signed trea ties will be deposited in various capitals, formal diplomatic notice that they are in effect. (Additional details on page 2, sec. 1.) Rain, Clouds On Forecast Considerable cloudiness and scat tered showers were forecast by McNary Field weathermen for to day and a few showers were slat ed for tonight and Saturday, The local temperatures are to be about the same as Thursday's when a high of 54 was attained. Meanwhile, the state highway department reported all Oregon highways- free of snow Thursday. Only snow to fall was an inch in the Warm Springs Junction area.. NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem-Eugene, rain. . At Yakima 1. Wenatrhee 2 , At Lewiston 14.. Spokane t COAST LEAGUE At Seattle 2, San Diego 7 At Lot Angeles 4. Hollywood 1 At Oakland 6. San Francisco 9 . At Portland-Sacramento, rain NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn 4, Chicago 2 At New York . St. Louis 4 At Pittsburgh 2, . Cincinnati 3 At Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Kansas City 4. New York 11 At Detroit 4. Washington 1 At Chicago 1. Boston 3 " Only games scheduled. . r fc I ijtie as Top Contenders Committee. Chairman field, told a Lebanon Republican Women's Club audience last night that "it should be apparent from recent visits of Paul Butler and Stephen Mitchell, and -the forth coming one "of Harry S. Truman, that the biggest guns .of "Democrat party are already trained on Ore gon in SeU Morse" behalf." . Touching a Republican party sore point Hatfield also said Thurs day he had praise" for the efforts nf thp- outoninff state chairman (Boehnke), who had the misfor tune to have - to . ram his bead against the royal" guards Old Guard and Jess Card." Jess Card is Oregon's Republi can.' national committeeman, now in his first ejected term fori that post .Many Republican party chief- tians have let it be known they No. 33 Vaccine WASHINGTON or Two gov ernment polio experts' arrived at the Cutter Laboratories in Berke ley, Calif., Thursday to carry out "a very exhaustive investigation" into how some children-developed polio after being inoculated with Salk vaccine made by the Cutter firm. There was no indication of when the specialists Drs. Karl Habel and John Tripp might reach a conclusion and report their find ings. In the meantime, the Public Health Service raised to 11 then reduced to 10 the number of cases in which children were found to have developed polio after be ing vaccinated with the Cutter vaccine. It said the California Depart ment of Health said a reported case at San Mateo, upon further observation, had turned out not to be polio. The Public Health Service later raised its total again to 11 on get ting official word on a case in Georgia involving the use of vac cine made by Eli Lilly L Co. of Indianapolis. ' The Health Service tabulates only those cases officially reported to it. There have been additional cases reported in the states, which have not reached Washington through official channels, . includ ing several in California also in involving the Cutter vaccine. (Ad ditional story on page 2, sec. 1.) PORTLAND UV- State health authorities ' and the State Medical Society's public health committee will decide here Friday whether to proceed with Oregon's public school polio vaccination program. The Salk polio vaccine for S3 per cent of the. state's first and second grade children, slated for inoculation in the program, is scheduled to arrive here Friday night from Detroit Mich. If the decision is favorable, vaccinations could start Monday. FPC Endorses Green Peter, Cougar Dams WASHINGTON UTl - A bill to authorize partnership construction oi ittugar ana ureen reier-wnite- bridge dams in Oregon was en dorsed Thursday by the Federal Power Commission. The FPC told the House Public Works Committee that the meas ure would provide "an effective and desireable means of accom plishing joint federal and non federal water resources develop mentj consistently with the basic purpose of the federal power act to provide for non-federal develop ment . . . wherever broad public benefits can be obtained in har mony with comprehensive water development plans." Last week the Budget Bureau approved the bill, by Rep. Ells worth (R-Ore), Hearings on it are scheduled for May 4. Green Peter, on the middle fork of the Santiam River, and Cougar, o'n the south fork of the McKenzie, now are authorized for federal con struction as flood control and power projects. Under Ellsworth's bill this au thorization would be held up two years to allow local interests to seek FPC licenses for the power' facilities. The federal government would meet costs of flood control features if the licenses were grant ed. TRIAL NEAR END PORTLAND on The first degree murder trial of Sherry and Wayne Fong, accused of killing 16-year-old Diane Hank because she knew too much about their business, is expected to go to the jury Friday. have been dissatisfied with the liaison Detween tne party organi zation here and in Washington. Hatfield said Republicans ''have to depend on word of mouth, while the average Democrat worker in Oregon receives a dozen communi ques a month on party policies and personalities from Sweetland, Morse, Neuberger, Morgan and Green."., Speaking of the GOP state chair man selection, Hatfield said the new leader should be "imaginative, dedicated, an organizer, without personal political ambitions and unobligated to any candidate . . ." The chairman, predicted Hat field, would be taking on a full- time job for the next 18 months "one that can result in a -clean sweep or party disaster. . By JOHN RODERICK SAIGON, South Viet Nam (ft The tide of battle ran heavily i Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's f avo Friday as waves of army pars troopers stormed and captured th Petrusky School, one of the las major strongholds held by the ri bellious Binh Xuyen racietee army. Col. Tran Van Don. army depi ty chief of staff, said Diem's troop: had begun blasting another B Xuyen strongpoint the VanCi theater commanding the approac! to the battered ceatral headquai ters of the rebels, outside the CI nese suburb of Cho Lon. SigM Shook v ' Mortar and small arms fir shook Saigon, South Viet Nam's capital of two million people, at the little Premier waged an all-out shooting war on the private army . i. : i. i I j I i. : it . . wmcn oau oeucu 013 auuiuruy I or months. A square mile of the city . was set afire. Col. Don said the Army captured the school at 7:50 a. m. and that both sides suffered heavy losses in the battle there. Five hundred reb els had held out in the building for 16 hours. - More than 100 persons had been killed" and about 500 wounded up to dawn Friday in the civil war between government troops and -the Binh Xuyen units of former river pirates. . :i Sent Summons . v In the midst of the fight the, absentee chief of state, ex-Emper-' or Bao Dai, sent from his FrenchC Riviera home a summons whicat' in effect was a demand for Pres mier Diem's resignation. ' r Bao Dai summoned Diem and Gen. Le Van'Ty, army chief of staff, to an urgent conference in France. ,' Diem could not be reached Fri day morning for his reaction to the summons. By telegram from the Riviera Bao Dai relieved Diem of his mili tary powers and conferred them on Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, who re- ...... ... ... U ., V MVMUH,1, retreat, saying he feared arrest by the government ' ' Hir-Trigger. Trace For a month Diem has lived on top of a hair-trigger truce with the Binh Xuyen. It had joined with two au.Aarft a via,iw9 arw-iav and Cao Dai, in demanding reor ganization ' of his government. As a police force, Bihn Xuyen . controlled gambling, prostitution ' and other 'enterprises. Diem has been trying to remove the Binh Xuyen' chief of security police, who was appointed by Bao Dai. ... ASIC U U-E ASlllTCll CtUl lliUlcT day. afternoon when Binh Xuven opened mortar fire on theTre . mier's palace and attacked na tional army headquarters and po lice headquarters. Tii am npAmntlw Auital tit battalions of infantry and para chute troopers to attack the 5,000- man rebel force. Early Friday the government an nounced the capture of seven Binh Xuyen strongholds, and indicated it was driving the rebels back into Cho Lon. Headquarters Razed The headquarters of Gen. Le Van Dien, chief of the Binh Xuyen, with its pet tigers and crocodiles. was reported razed by government fire. hours early Friday, but exploded into fresh fury just before dawn with heavy mortar blasts from the rebel area. - - The chief of staff of Gen. -Ty. arm commander, said the white- haired officer had not yet decided whether to obey Bao Dai's order to report to the chief of state. Ty was blocked in home Friday morning, unable to reach head- miartr Kf9ii nf th fijhtin - The army said the French Com- mand had refused to permit it to zone to, escort him to headquarters. ' (Additional story on page 2, see. 1.) . Man Gets 5-Year Term for Passing $45 Bad Check KLAMATH FALLS ) A man k was sentenced Thursday to fivtJ years in prison tor cashing a worthless 4j check. . -. 1 Circuit Judge DavidR. Vandert-1 berg gave the maximum term to James Samuel Sweeney, who rep-., resented himself as a wealthy t Texas rancher when he cashed the check at a local feed store. Sweeney insisted on a jury triaj-j and to prosecute, the state had ttj pay for bringing an executive bf the Texas bank on which thfe check was drawn here as a wil-; ness. v." Today's Stalcsrr.sn " See. Pag Babson Report IVi 5 Classifieds M-10-13 Comes the Dawn I 4 Comics 1 t Crossword III 10 Editorials : I 4 Food t IIL 1-4 , Homo Panorama 8, 9 leaitlatrv. : .IV 6 i Markets 'Sports ' Star Gazer iTV, Radio Valley IV 5 . I 9-1 1 I S.i .' I... ' 8 '- !L1,2,4 v 0 A