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Kncient PHonogrcpK-Youthful Listonor POUNDBD 1651 105th Year 2 SECTIONS 14 PAGES fTh Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, April 30, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 34 .iSSSk T 1 t 1 A Bk SBv ..iBV A m 1 T T. F :W m switcitTO mm '.". i VC"" -A AUMSVILLE Music from 1906-model Edison Phonograph caught the ear of Roth Brown, Anmsville first grader, Friday a antique show opened at Anmsville school gymnasium. Turning crank is Miss Grace Richards, teacher, who owns the machine. Like others at school, they wore old-fashioned at . tire. Cartons in foreground hold cylinder recordings for the phonograph. (Additional photos oa see. . i pass o.; uukshuh muui Jk k I r4 A M. . In almost every home at least we like to think so one or more members of the family carry life insurance. They pay the pre miums punctually so the insur ance may stay in force. They know that in event of death the full sums guaranteed in the policy w,ill be paid promptly. Usually that' is the extent of the policy holders' acquaintance with an in surance company. It might be of interest to know just what the insurance company does with the money he pays in as premium. It has certain expenses to meet: commissions, salaries and wages, oltice expenses, uui most of the premium in invested to build up the fund required for payment when demand is made according to -the terms oi tne policy. The investment division of an insurance company is there fore of vital importance. On its prudence and sagacity depends the security of the policy holders. There has just come to this desk booklet from one of the country's- lurgest life -insurance companies, the New York Life, which reports on its investment operations. Some of the facts therein reported are worth call ing to public attention. For in stance the breakdown (Concluded on , Editorial Page 4, Sec. 1). Four Corners to . Add to Fire Hall SUtnmai Kew Service FOUR CORNERS . r- Plans to build an addition to the Four Cor- ners Fire Hall were announced Friday by directors of the fire dis trict. . . The addition, will provide space for another truck and recreation facilities. The 30-by 40-foot build ing will be of pumice-block con struction and will extend north of the present structure. "Work is to start when weather permits under supervision of W. R. Gould, re tired fire chief. NORTHWEST . LEAGUE , ': At Salem X Orgeon State 1 At Tri-City 11. Lewiston PACIFIC COAST LKAGCK At Portland 5-3. Sacramento - At Los Anjteles 3, Hollywood 1 At Oakland IX San Francisco At Seattle San Diego 3 NATIONAL LKAGUE . At Philadelphia 13. Milwaukee 4 : At Pittsbur 0. Cincinnati 5 ( At Brooklyn-Chicago, rain At fJew York-St. Louis, rain - AMERICAN LEAGUE . ' ' . At Chicago 7. Boston 6 , At Detroit 3, Washington 2 At Cleveland 2. Baltimore S - At Kansas City 6, New York ANIrVlLCRKinS V w tr n m r w w ; fit -1 1 1 11.1 mm , vn m 7 -xfe.fcS, ) I. r ! it. Aumsville 'Frolic ' Dra ids Large Crowd By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman AUMSVILLE This community's biggest celebration in many a year drew hundreds of onlookers Friday. The "Frontier Days" frolic which may become an annual event will end Saturday-) with a grand parade at 1 p.m., an evening dance at the City Hall and an antique display and sale at the school gymnasium. The antique show will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 U. S. Asserts 1 Support for Premier Diem By JOHN SCALI ; WASHINGTON UH The United States -openly asserted its support Friday for Viet Nam's Premier, Ngo Diem, only a few hours after France criticized him as no longer equal to the task of governing his revolt-torn country. This backing,' expressed by the State Department, brought into full public view a backstage quarrel between France and the United States over how to establish a vig orous anti-Communist government in the former - French Indochina colony. It came shortly after special Am bassador J. Lawton Collins left by plane for Indochina, winding up a week of . urgent consultations on how to deal with the Viet Nam crisis. In making known the American view, the State Department said tersely: "The present head of gov ernment of Viet Nam we are supporting-is Diem." SAIGON. South Viet Nam UFi More than 500 soldiers and civil ians have been killed in the bat tle for : Saigon, official military sources said Saturday. NGO Dinh Diem, the American backed premier who is fighting a political ba&ULfor his life, defeated the green vbereted commandos of the former river priate general, Le Van .Vfen, in 48 hours of gun fire in Satan's streets. But this may haveipeen only the first round. Vien's shattered 5.000-man Binh Xuyen army was believed to have withdrawn deep into its own terri tory. 5 Horses Injured In Truck Accident OREGON CITY ( Five horses were injured, one so badly it had to be shot, when a truck carrying them left the highway and turned ever in a ditch at New Era south of here Friday. James R. MacFarlane. 23, Bea- verton, the driver, was not hurt. Jury Convicts Fongs of First Degree Murder PORTLAND tff Wayne Fong. a Portland Chinese, and his Cau casian wife. Sherry, Friday night were convicted of the first degree murder of a 16-year-old high school girt. ' The circuit court jury recom mended leniency which under Ore gon law means a life sentence is mandatory. . They were accused of killing Diane Hank by giving her top much liquor and too many sleep ing pills when she spent the night of Jan. 6. 1954. at the r one nome. Fong. 27, and his 23-year-old wife, appeared shocked by the ver diet Later in the hallway, as they were being led from the court, Mrs. Fong broke into tears. "I didnt do it. I didn't do it," she sobbed. "My poor mother." Her mother, Mrs. Mattie Brown, Portland, was in the courtroom when the jury announced its ver diet She also cried. , -. , L -u- p-m The Western-style parade will include several valley riding clubs and Silverton's old-car club, and will be climaxed by the 'hanging" of a dummy in legend ary Wild West fashion. Interest in the antiques rated top attention Friday. Although much space is devoted , to the wares of out-of-town dealers, heirlooms displayed by Aums ville families are numerous. Included are a huge chest of tools which sailed, around The Horn in pioneer days. Originally owned by R. L. Henderson, the tools now belong to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Denham. --; A plowshare made by Benja min Tucker Sr-, reportedly Aums ville's first blacksmith, also was displayed as were McGuffey Readers, old Bibles, chairs, dish es, baby and doll buggies. . Pictures include early Aums ville schools and mills and a large, framed portrait of Amos (Aumus) Davis, for whom the town was named. Many historical items are dis played by Mr. and Mrs. Marion S. Hunt, Aumsville-area descend ants of Wilson Price Hunt who led an overland expedition to As toria in 1810. (Additional details in sec. 1, page 6). 5 Kittens Born Joined at Back At Mt. Angel Statesman News Service MT. ANGEL Five kittens that were born joined together died Friday after living more than 48 hours, according to Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Ruef. The Ruefs, who live near ML Angel, said the kittens were joined at the backs, forming a complete circle. They said , each kitten was a different color. - Mrs. Ruef said all but one of the little felines appeared to be "doing well" when she left them for awhile Saturday. When she returned, they were dead. She said there was evidence that an older cat had killed some of them, causing tne others to die. CAR. TRAIN CRASH FATAL PORTLAND un Mrs Robert N. Crawford, 50, died in a hos- pital late Thursday night from iniuries suffered when the car in which she was riding crashed into the side of a freight locomotive. The jurors, who deliberated the case for about three hours, were unanimous in their verdict ; The body of the Hank girl was found trussed in blankets Feb. 26, 1954, neside a road near Wash ougal, Wash., some 15 miles north east of here. . - The prosecution said the girl was killed because she knew too much about Fongs activities. He was connected with gambling and narcotics rackets, the state said. The defense contended there was no evidence against the couple and that the case was a frameup . Defense-attorney Irvin Goodman served immediate notice he would ask for a retrial. The prosecution based its case in the three-week trial almost en tirely on circumstantial evidence Howard Lonergan. chief criminal J J-J T -A . 1 T1 1 uepuiy uisirrci attorney, nanaieu the prosecution. Senate Aims at Comics By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesmaa . The Oregon Senate Friday passed legislation designed to keep objectionable comic books off the stands. A series of eight bills on the subject, now headed for House consideration, resulted from long committee study of a problem which has drawn one of the big gest public responses of the legis lative session. "These comic book bills are all based on putting various defini tions into Oregon law under which it would become a misdemeanor to display, commercially distrib ute', sell or give away literature of the comic book type which tends to cause a child under age 18 to become delinquent. Misdemeanor sentences are up to 1500 fine and one year in the county jaiL - ' No Censorship No censorship review is set up in anv form, but the bills put wholesalers, retailers and other adults on notice that they can run afoul of Oregon criminal law by letting children obtain . comic books that glorify crime, brutality and sexual immorality. . Most of the senators registering negative votes on the various comic book bills dissented on grounds that regulation wouldn't be effective anyway and that comic books couldn't be so regu lated without affecting standard and classical literature. More Time at Home , Sen. Mark Hatfield R). Salem, one of the dissenters, maintained that parents wouldn't have to wor ry so mt&h' about what's on the newsstands "if they'd spend more time at home training their chil dren in standards of morality and UChristianity." Others who opposed major bius in the series were Sens. Robert D. Holmes (D). Gearhart; Eugene Allen (R), Phil Brady (D) and Harry George (D), all off Port land. Definitions set up for "crime comic book" or "obsceAe publi cation pertain to any book, maga zine or pamphlet but specifically include comic books and speciti cally exclude . newspaper .comic j sections. . Specific Climes ; For crime comics, several spe cific crimes are mentioned as ob jectionable if they are presented in such a way as to cause delin quency. Matter considered ob scene would be that which "for a person under 18 is lewd, lascivi ous, filthy or indecent. A separate bill makes it a mis demeanor to seU a book with a sexy cover, regardless of content of the book. Other bills make the wholesaler subject to conviction as "well as the retailer and pro hibit tie-in sales so that a retailer would have to accept objectionable magazines or comic books along with standard publications he wishes to sell. Public Hearings The comic book bill package was drawn up by the Senate ju diciary committee, based on original bill introductions by Sen. John Merrifield (R), Portland. Three public hearings subse quently attracted crowds of over 100 each and the committee was on the receiving end of hundreds of letters and many examples of magazines and books which cit izens wanted off the stands. (Leg islative news page S, 4,' sec. 1.) Newport Man Convicted on Assault Count NEWPORT, Ore. UFi . A circuit court jury Friday night found Richard Thomson, 27, guilty of as sault with a dangerous weapon. He faces a possible prison sen tence of 10 years. At his trial, on the morse seri ous charge of assault with intent to kill, he was accused of striking his former business partner, James Meuler, 33. over the. head with an iron pipe and then of send ing him in a car. over an ocean side cliff. , Meuler was seriously injured in the Sept 10, 1953, incident but re covered. . It was the second ' time that Thomson had faced trial on the charge. The. first time he was con victed and sentenced to prison for 20 years. He was released in late 1954 by a State Supreme Court ruling which found errors and or dered the case retried. Today's Statesman Sec Page Church " I 3 Classifieds . II n 3-6 Comics , IL . 8 Crossword s , . I 3 Editorials I , 4 Home Panorama 6 Legislature l 3, 4 Markets " ; 3 Sports , H-1,2 Star Gaier 1. 7 TV, Radio (Sat.) I t TV, Radio (Sun.) ! Valley I 5 6 Nine-Year-Old Claims Record For Fgo Jump" BALTIMORE W Nine-year-old Donald Saboe Jr. laid claim Friday to a new world's record for non-stop jumps on a pogo tick. , ' "Yes, it's true. I pogo stuck 3,134 times without stopping," - Donald announced Friday. Donald had read a newspaper story about a Columbus, Ohio, lad, 11-year-old Charles Cook 3rd, who hopped 2,153 times. 'I could have kept going, only Dad made me stop. He said my face was getting red," said Don- aid. - State Worker, Solon Status Ruled Illegal Marion County Circuit Judge Val Sloper Friday held that Dr. F. H. Dammasch, Portland, can not serve concurrently as a mem ber of the State Legislature and work part-time for the State In dustrial Accident Commission. Dammasch had sought a de claratory judgement in a suit filed against the: State Industrial Acci dent Commission. He has served several terms ' in ' the House of Representatives and until Recently has also been employed on a fee basis by the accident commission in Portland. Judge Sloper held that in serv ing as a member of the Legis lature and working for the acci dent commission at the same time he would violate the state consti tution. - Dammash said he would appeal the decision to the supreme court. Blast of Gas Truck Rocks Portland Area PORTLAND W Almost to the minute one .week after a bomb killed attorney Kermit Smith northeast of Portland, the explo sion of. a, tank truck, loaded -wiOHMtigements" be made td bring the 5,300 gallons' of gasoline rocked Uhe same neighborhood just before midnight Thursday. The driver, Rodney Hardman. 42, was not seriously hurt and no one else was injured. The truck. valued at more than $20,000,' and its cargo were destroyed. Hardman said something appar ently went wrong with the rig and that after a heavy bump, the truck left, the road, clipped off three power poles, rolled down a 50-foot embankment 'and blew up. Hardman got out just before flames began to sear the cab. Asbestos - suited crash crewmen from the Portland Air Base, where the gasoline was headed, helped put out the blaze. Helser Firm Granted Time Of Compliance SAN FRANCISCO W Defend ants in an injunction suit against J. Henry Helser k Co. of Portland were granted an opportunity Fri day by Federal District Court "to bring themselves into compliance" with the Investment Securities Act. The court held there is sufficient evidence to grant the injunction asked by the Securities Exchange Comission. But Judge Louis E. Goodman said "The defendants have submit ted a written document to refrain from certain practices, and to make changes in their practices and procedures to bring them selves into compliance with the statute. Should the firm fail to comply with terms of the document, the court said, the SEC. may apply for a permanent injunction. But it the firm fully complies with the undertaking approved by the court. Judge Goodman ruled, it may aft er 12 months ask for dismissal of the SEC action. $50,000 Fire Sweep Building in Gresham GRESHAM m Loss was esti mated at $50,000 from a fire that swept through a two-story brick building here early Friday. Destroyed were a basemenf bar and lounge and parts of a bowling alley - and a roller skating rink. rmo v.'GMHiiool Max. Mia. Precis-. 1 Usee 60 44 . .12 58 30 .00 58 37 M 4J .00 , 62 '39 .04 62 4 trace 69 57 .00 5 . 49 - .41 ' Salem . Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roseburx San Francisco Chicago New Yorwk Los Anxeles 67 49 .00 Willamette Kiver 33 reel. . ; , i FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, tonight and Sunday, with a few shower Sunday afternoon: hijrh today near 60, low to night near 36. Temperature at 13.-01 a. m. today was 49. . SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ml Weather Tear Sev. 1 Thi Tear Last Tear Pvrmal 29.71 4141 as.U U.S. Considers Basing Air Units on County Polio Shots To Start on May 9 The long-awaited Salk vaccine inoculations will begin in Salem and throughout the state May 9, County Health Officer W. J. Stone announced Friday. Vaccine to inoculate Marion County children will be brought to Salem by county health officials Monday morning. It was due to ar rive in Portland by plane Friday night - Dr. Stone said Friday the clinic schedules planned for April 25 will be in effect for the Marion County inoculations. The State Board of Health and the Oregon Medical Society's pub lic health committee decided at a meeting Friday to go ahead with the mass program after express ing complete- confidence in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, the Associated Press' re ported. The doctors decided to delay start of the program a week be yond Monday, May 2. the original date, to permit county health boards, schools and others con nected with it to get organized. Plans for the vaccinations were held up earlier in the week when several children in other parts of the country came down with polio alter receiving shots of Salk vac clue from the Cutter Laboratories. However, State Board of Health and Medical Society members spent two. days assembling infor mation from over the nation and after analyzing it, they pronounced the vaccine safe. - Enough vaccine for the first of two shots to 95 per cent of Ore gon's eligible children under the: public school problem was due to arrive here by plane Friday night It will be repackaged Saturday and the Civil Air Patrol will fly it Sunday to Oregon county seats. Authorities said they hoped the one-week delay will enable re scheduling of plans by schools. volunteer physicians, nurses, cler ical workers and others. They believe children . of most areas will have received their sec ond shots by the end of the school year. It was ..recommended that where this is not possible, ar children together for the second vaccination. . TRACTOR KILLS TOT JOHN DAY in - Virgil Weis- senfluh, 2, riding with his grand father, Virgil Belshaw, on a rac tor at the. Belshaw farm near Mt. Vernon, Ore., Friday . morning, fell off and was killed. Turner-Area Lad, 3, Object of . Intensive Search, Found Safe Statesman News Service TURNER An eight-hour search for a lost three-year-old boy in this area Friday ended in the arms of a Portland truck driver. Darrell Wilkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watkins, Turner Route 2, Box 320, wandered away from home about 8:30 a.m. Fri day and was the o b j e c t of a search by bloodhounds, state po licemen and neighbors until he turned up in the arms of Port land truck driver Albert J. New by, who found him strolling along Highway 99E near Illahee with his pup, eSTippy. Wandering Boy Returned to f v-: TURNER Object of as eight-hour search by bloodhounds, state policemen and neighbors Friday, three year-old Darrell Wilkins is shown above smiling at neighbors while his mother tearfully embraces fcim minutes after he was found by a track driver about a mile away from his home. (Statesman Photo by John Erichsen) m . , : , ' ' - r -p- , r :, - ' : . . : : -:r.. j .... - 'v . ' H . Fair Weather Forecast for Early Anglers The general fishing season opens at 4:04 this morning and anglers of the mid-valley sector apparent ly won't have to worry about rain, according to the weatherman. How ever, showers are forecast for Sun day. Approximately 300,000 fishermen of the state are expected - to try their luck today. Reports indicate that most streams in the central valley will be too cold for good fishing but that won't discourage first-day enthusiasts. State police said volume of traf fic on major routes of the Salem area had substantially increased Friday night, indicating many anglers were losing no time hur rying to their favorite streams. ' Fishing parties planning . over night stays in the mountains were sure to be a cold lot-sunless they had plenty of warm dothing. Health Officer to Quit PostUnless Salary Increased PORTLAND un Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer for the past 10 years, Friday con firmed reports that lie will resign Jan. 1 unless his salary is in creased by the Legislature. Erickson said his salary is $12.- 000 a year compared with $15,000 paid to state health officers of Washington and Montana. Report of Erickson's possible pending resignation originated in a session of the State Legislature's joint ways and means committee.! Earlier, Norman Wilson of Fan no Mountain fame and two of his bloodhounds had searched the 60 acre Watkins farm and surround ing area to no avail, as did a 23 man party composed of state po licemen and neighbors. , The boy was found at 6:05 p.m. and Newby drove him north on 99E to a state policeman's car. The lad was none the worse for wear and calmly munched a ba nana as he explained to his tear ful, happy mother that "I just went for a walk. ( He had nothing to eat from the Formosa Action Seen " As Deterrent : To Red Attack By GARDNER L. BRIDGE WASHINGTON Wl The United States may nail down its determi nation to hold Formosa against any Red Chinese "Liberation plans by establishing an American base of jet fighter planes and U. S. Marine units there. A final decision on the move, ' which would be what the diplomats call military implementation of a Foreign policy, may await the re turn from Formosa 'this weekend of Asst Secretary of Sate Walter Robertson and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint uueis oi Mail. Chiang Meeting uwciuvu aim ivauiuiu nt" w Taioei last week for a round of conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and other Chinese Nationalist leaders wno are bitter ly opposed to any cease-fire bar tering between Washington and the Chinese Communists. One Pentagon source said Friday night there has been strong pres sure from the field, presumably r k ; rr::l irom American oiiiciais un r urnio sa. to use Marines now aboard ship with the 7th Fleet as a ground 1 force in Formosa and to bulwark them with Army anti-aircraft forces which would be sent from" this country to the island. No Decision - The . informant said a final deci sion has not been reached, but in dicated the request for these forces had originated during the Radford Robertson visit to Formosa. Officials reported Friday hat the base idea is one of a series of plans now under discussion here with a view to trying to ease ten sions all around in the Formosa area. Republican Senate support for whatever decisions President 'Eis enhower may take in efforts to ar range a cease-fire was predicted by Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), : who said: . . ; Rely He. "A ast majority of the Republi can senators are oerfectlv willinff to rely on the judgment or rresi- dent Eisenhower on anything and everything to do with Formosa. The base now contemplated would be more of at symbol of American commitments than a big military installation. time he left home and was found approximately three-quarters of a mile from the farm, which is about four miles west of here. It was feared that Darrell was lost in dense underbrush west of the farm, where -earlier Wilson's bloodhounds, had suffered cut noses in tracing the boy's scent Darrell expressed s o m e con cern for his dog, which refused to get in the truck and scamper ed off across a nearby . hilL It later turned up at the farm of its own accord and it was a happy night for everyone at the Watkins place. - ,' Tearful Mother X;