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fTh Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, April 30, 1955 PRICE 5c
No. 34
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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.
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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 -
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At Detroit 3, Washington 2
At Cleveland 2. Baltimore S -
At Kansas City 6, New York
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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