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The Weather Willamette River 2.2 feet -- FORECAST Urom U. S. Weather Bureau, McNarjr Field. Salem : Morning' cloudiness. becoming mostly sunny this afternoon. Fair tonight with earlv-morninj cloudi ness Monday. High today near 70, low, tonight near 33. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. todav was 4. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start' of Weather Year Sept. t This Year Last Year .Normal 29.80 41.21 36.37 FTP 03Mfl U -JJ LLAJLa POUNDDD 1651 few in wn n "When in Washington recently, it was my privilege to spend an eve ing with -Dr. and Mrs. Paul V. Maris. Dr. Maris was formerly director cf the extension service at OSC, later a member of the staff of the federal department of agriculture. After his retirement he went to Iran as a technical consultant under the Point. Four program; Later he returned to the Middle East on a similar mission yt ond Trc tari mm. ' pietcd the circuit of the globe and are now residing again in . their home in Alexandria. The visit gave me an opportunity to find out something of the prob lem of this important but eco nomically backward portion of the glebe. They are numerous and serious, and solutions are not to be- come by easily. For Instance Iran has a lopsided economy with three-fourths of its people engaged in .farming or tending herds and flocks. There is a small ruling and wealthy class and a small middle class of professional peo ple. For the most part rural pover ty abounds. Lands are owned by landlords who .own the villages in which the farmers dwell. Interest rates are ' exorbitant up to 100 per cent. 5 The base of an economy is the textbook trio of land, labor and capital. Iran has ample labor; but its land, resource is so limited there are only sven acres on the average per farm family. A third til nop hdiiu uuut i u liga tion, much: of the remainder (Continued on editorial page, 4) Halt Indicated InBrodieTwin Hemorrhage CHICAGO W Doctors said Sat urday night that the mysterious brain hemorrhage whicrrunexpect edly threatened . Rodney Dee Brodie's life "may have stopped. They reported that the famous 3 'i-year-old boy, first head-joined Siamese twin ' to recover from a separation operation, 'Looks .bet ter and is resting comfortably, However, he remains in a coma Into which he lapsed early Fri day, 2 Vi years after the operation. Earlier a spokesman at the Uni versti of Illinois Education and Researach Hospital had reported that doctors were unable to stop th bleeding in Rodney's brain. The only hope, -the I spokesman said, was that the hemorrhage would stop spontaneously. " Rodney bas been receiving blood j transfusions vas needed. , Promotion of Engineer Told J.-Barbee is being promoted I from senior resident engineer in i Portland to urban locating engineer with the state highway department in Salem, according to R. H. Bal dock. state highway engineer. This position involves responsi bility for all urban and city loca tions involving design of express way, "interchange, and major types of improvements in the larger cities in the state. Joining the Highway Department in 1931, Barbee has since worked as transitman. engineer specialist and resident engineer. His family will move to Salem after the school term is completed. Tangent Seed Grower Fined ALBANY. Ore. W) - Circuit! : Judge Victor Olliver fined Frank iCl, flll Ouaoyi T. Glaser. Tangent farmer. $2.000 and assessed costs of $1,300 for selling falsely certified seed. Glaser pleaded guilty to 200 counts one for each sack sold of selling rye ; grass seed falsely labeled as high-test seed. II i s previously posted bond of $2,000 was applied to cover the fine. He has -a week to pay the costs. The state has taken away his right to certify seed. ; l Olympia Attorney General Scolded For l0,000 Office Redecoration OLYMPIA 4- State Sen. Pat rick Sutherland, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, Saturday attacked Republican Atty. Gen. Don Eastvold for spend ing $10,000 to redecorate his pri vate office. Eastvold's office, now one of the most beautiful in the state Capitol, was recently redecorated in a green motif with mahogany wall paneling and furniture. One of the features symbolic of the Evergreen State is . a rich green wall-to-wall carpet ' which cost $2,378, according to records in State Auditor Cliff Yelle's, office. Sutherland, criticizing the ex penditure, said ; the office was "beautifully decorated" before Eastvold took over in 1953. I thought the former attorney "general. Smith Troy, had one of the most beautiful state offices I d ever seen down here, Sutherland said. "He had a blue and gold ru? that would have been a credit to 105th Year 3 'Top o' the $;:":iv:;:;.-::::';,-;;: :;h;.... - .., : - ; , - ' y I i MA . i i i - AIT. ANGEL Happy Mother's Day, mothers, and the top o' the marnin' to you from Mrs Margaret Welton, one of the valley's senior mothers. Mrs. Welton is displaying the new bonnet she shopped for a week ago to celebrate her 97th birthday. Xowj a resident at ML Angel's Benedictine Village home, Mrs. Welton says she is "Irish to the backbench" Her Mother's Day well-wishers include one surviving son, seven grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. sen.) (Story on valley page 10, Britain Asks U.S. Back Big 4 Talk 'at the Top' PARIS (Jf) British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan Sat urday called on the United States to support his plan for a Meet ing of the head men of the Big Four powers to ease world tension. An official British source disclosed MacMillan's approach, j The informant said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles! re acted "not unfavorably" to the idea. Dulles and MacMillan ere , i i closeted together about an hour X X X X X Dulles, Faure Still Divided On Indochina PARIS W Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and French Premier E,dgar r aure met pri vately Saturday on the first anni versary of the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the Reds in North Viet Nam. The two emerged still at odds on how to keep communism! from spreading into South Viet! Nam. . 1 A two-hour conference in the Premier's office failed to produce a joint policy toward the Saigon government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the position of ex-Emperor Bao Dai. nominal chief of state of South Viet Nam. Diem is officially backed by the United States. ? British Foreign Secretary Har old MacMillan joined Dulles and Faure briefly during their talk. Faure told reporters another meet ing on South Viet Nam will be held Monday or Tuesday. The bigger problem ,of saving all Southeast Asia for the Free World also -will come up at a later meeting of these three diplomats. They are also concerned with ho to save Formosa from a Red China invasion and how to promote a I cease-fire in Formosa Strait. jW7-a y" At St. Helen Hall PORTLAND. U) - Sylvia Raw- linson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Rawlinson. Salem. Sat urday was crowned queen of the annual St. Helens, Hall May Fete. -Members of the May Fete court included Miss Sara Bossatti, Dal las. . ' the President of the United States." Sutherland charged Eastvold ha 1 run for ofjice on an economy cam paign but "now he's coming around and spending as much or more on redecorating than the previous ad ministration ever thought of." - Eastvold was not available for comment. ,-.-! Yelle's records showed Eastvold obtained a 25 per cent discount on every item and all labor involved in the redecorating job handled by a Tacoma firm. New furniture and accessories included two rolled brass ashtrays with hobnail design at $30 each; two oxidized brass ash trays at $20 each, two white chandeliers at $225 each, a $985 conference table with eight $155 chairs, a $909 sofa, two pair of drapes costing $663, two pair of casements costing $194, a $238 desk pad and pen set, two lamps with baroque gold leaf col umns at $100 each; an $367 desk SECTIONS-28 PAGES Marnih' to. Yoy, Mother7 sec. 2.) here where the Atlantic cpmjnu- nity's foreign ministers are gathering to discuss a series' of East-West issues. But it appeared clear from talk3 with responsible American officiate that America policy toward; a feig Four meeting has not changed, and is not likely to change, i j It also seemed clear, although no American spokesman would say so, that Dulles would not willing ly throw cold water. in public the MacMillan plan so near British general election. j on the The American policy favors meeting of foreign ministers hot the chiefs of the United States, Britain, France and Russia. ; If the foreign ministers imade any sort of progress in sblvhig problems that menace world, eace, then President Eisenhower iwotlld be willing to join Prjme Minister Eden of Britain and Premiers Faure of France and Bulganin of Russia in the face-to-face talks at the summit favored by MacMillan. One of the first meetings! of tie day here between Dulles and Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. here formally to take his seat 4 the lath partner in the Atlantic al liance. (Additional details on page 6, sec. 2.) 1 Girl, 12, Hurt By Rolling Log Statesman Newt Service' DALLAS Pattie Ottaway, 12.! daughter of Mr. and Mrs.! Oren Ottawav of Dallas, suffered aJ fractured pelvis Saturday jwhen a log rolled on her - at the ibeach near Taft, the Dallas Hospital re ported. ' j According to reports the girl and playmates were playing on the log when Pattie slipped. She entered the hospital in a state of shock Saturday evening.) group, including a rt swivei chair; -two . upholstered chairs at $262 each, and two at $155 j each. Sutherland also criticized a $16,- 000 remodeling job on the recep tion room and other offices in the attorney general's suite shortly aft er Eastvold' took office two years ago. : j- "The renovation was unneces sary," Sutherland declared. "The office as Smith Troy left it was more than adequate." Yelle's records showed 1953 ex penditures for officers other than Eastvold's private office included $3,514 for purchase and installation of rubber padding and carpeting, $1,085 for 212 rolls of wallpaper and a picture' frame, . $1,103 for four desks and four tables, $321 for three desks and three tables, $937 for drapes and valances, $680 for remodeling work, $1,843 for 43 pic hires, $80 for a dozen ash trays and $66 for six name plates. The i (Statesman Photo by John Erick Traditional Activities to ! Fete Mothers Family dinners and gatherings. visits . and other activities will mark the annual observance of Mother's Day in the Salem area today. j It's also likely many families vill take mother about the nearby blossom routes as a part of to day's observance of the traditional and revered day. jThe weather man indicated he'll cooperate to some degree too. The forecast calls for morning cloudi ness and mostly sunny this after noon. But no rain is expected. jThe turn to balmy, dry weather in combination with the still ybung fisting season had state police expecting considerable Weekend highway traffic even though it is unlikely to match that last weekend s fish opening. The state Capitol will be open today to visitors and guides will be on hand. Motorists Save Anglers From Willamette lOAKRIDGE, Ore. W Fast adtion by a family that happened to; drive by the scene of a boating accident resulted Saturday in the rescue of Byron Barnes. 49, and Morton Foils, 53, both of Eugene, from the swift water of the upper Willamette River. Folts, prominent in conservation circles and former president of the Eiigene chapter of the Izaak Wal ton League, and Barnes were fish ing three miles west of Oakridge when their boat capsized in the swift stream. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Lawson and thiir son, Roy, of W'estfir, saw the accident as they drove over HeUs Gate Bridge. They dashed to the river, threw a rope to Barnes, then waded in and helped pull both men to safety Barnes was unconscious by the time he reached shore, and Mrs. Lawson gave him "artificial res piration. Both men were taken to a 1 medical clinic in Oakridge, here they were pronounced in odd condition an hour later. S'XULLS PACTS MOSCOW W) -The Presidium of Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Saturday annulled Russia's treaties of friendship and alliance with Bri tain and France. The action was in retaliation for ratification by those nations of the Paris agreements to rearm West Germany. NOiRTHWEST LEAGCK At Spokane 5-10. Salem 9-11 At Yakima 7, Eugene 7 (wind) A; Wenatche 10. Tri-City a PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE : At Sea Diego 7. Portland 2 At Sacramento-Seattle, rain At Hollywood-San Francisco, rain At Oakland I. Los Angeles 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE . . At St. Louis 7 Milwaukee At New York 11. Pittsburgh 3 ' At Philadelphia S. Brooklyn At Cincinnati S. Chicago 7 - il AMERICAN LEAGUE Al Chicago 1, Detroit 7 At Cleveland t, Kansas City 3 - At! Washington 1. Baltimore At Boston. . New York Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, It Hints at Tax Cut WASHINGTON W) A business group which often reflects Eisen bower administration tax policies strongly suggested Saturday that taxes can be reduced next year by three to five billion dollars The Committee for Economic Development, in a 20-page report on federal tax issues, said first priority should go ,' to a general income tax cut for everybody. The CED added that the biggest percentage cuts should be given high income brackets, to provide added incentives for economic growth. And if the expected reductions do turn out to be possible, the CED said, smaller cuts should be made in corporation income taxes, and in excise rates on liquor, to bacco and autos. Policy Committee The report was prepared by the CED's research and policy com mittee, headed by Frazar B. Wilde, President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., Hartford, and J. Cameron Thomason. president of Northwest Bancorporation, Minne apolis. The report mentioned no specific figures for an income tax cut, but said continued economic growth should produce more revenue than originally estimated by the Eisen many esumaiea Dy me tisen-1 er administration for the f is-5, year beginning this July 1. i nower cal And, barring unforeseen increas-1 es in federal spending, the report! said three to five billion dollars should be available for overall tax reductions by the year starting July 1, 1956. Challenges Policy Thomson, elaborating to report ers, rejected arguments by many Democrats in Congress that tax relief should be concentrated first in an increase in individual ex emptions or a proposed $20-per-per-son tax cut. ; He said the CED generally is op posed to reductions which would take millions of persons off the tax paying rolls. Such reductions, he said, boost purchasing power only A. ! . lemporaruy ana provide no per manent stimulus" to the economy, has taken a. similar stand. The chief goal of tax policy, the report said, should be to encour age investment, business- expan sion, more and better jobs, and permanent economic growth. "Tax changes adopted for short run political advantage," the re port said, "are always dangerous on economical and ethical grounds." Snow Flies . . In Minnesota By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Freezing weather nipped parts of the Rockies early Saturday and snow flurries swirled across North ern Minnesota at midday. Overnight temperatures slid to an unseasonal 22 degrees at Fras er, Colo., and Drummond and West Yellowstone, Mont. International Falls, Minn., had a midday temperature of 36 de grees with snow flurries. Temperature drops of 20 degrees from Friday's, levels were common from the Great Lakes to the North ern and Central Plains. Max. IS 75 73 77 57 75 56 - 70 69 66 Min. 37 32 41 43 41 38 53 65 49 54 Precip. .60 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .06 .01 trace 31 Salrm Baker Portland Med ford North Bend Rose burg .. San Francisco Chicago New York. Los Angeles Kepo Valley Trees Finally jAcliieve Full-Dress Blossom Display By LTLLTE L. .'MADSEN Garden Editor. The Statesman It's Blossom Day today in Sa lem. Not officially, but actually. And - like the bird in the hand compared to the two in the bush. Blossom Day is best when the blossoms are in bloom. One of the top places to see blossoms today will be in ! the northwest corner of Bush's Pas ture. Never before, say Miss Elizabeth Lord and Miss Edith Schryver, two of Salem's noted gardeners, whose home is immedi ately across Division Street from the blossom display, have the crabapples been any better than they are now. The past three warm ,days have . faded a few blooms but there are still plenty. The crabs that is the earlier ones are later than usual, and the later ones are normal, bringing together one of the finest displays one can see anywhere. Miss Lord and Misr Schryver were instrumental in planting the great number of flowering trees in Bush's Pasture. Most of them were set out in 1929 and 1930 at the request of the late Miss Sally Bush, who then owned the "pas ture" which she later bequeathed to Salem. On the top of the hill, jff High, there is a very bright Sleyriow in bloom. Farther down there is Sunday May 8, 1955 regdn Anti Shots Postp I U. S. Experts to Give Vaccine Policy Today WASHINGTON (VP) Amid nationwide perplexity, a group of experts worked in shirt sleeves around a conference table Saturday night on what to tell the American people Sunday about the Salk antipolio vaccine program. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele had suddenly urged a halt in the mass inoculations after an all-night meeting of top leve scientists Friday night. He said the inoculations should be postponed pending Sunday's statement, the contents of which he refused to forecast. There were reports that the Publjic Health Service might recommend a 30 days' delay in all polio vaccinations. An of ficial said . however that while several alternatives were under consideration, no decision had beenj reached yet. - . fj. S. PopillatlOll i I Up Ten Million Since Jlay, 1945 WASHINGTON tf) The Census Bureau said Saturday the popula tion of the United States increased by aboiut 25 millions in the 10 years since Victory Day in Europe, May 8, 194i In May, 1945, the population in cluding the armed forces overseas was nearing the 140 million mark. The Bureau estimated that on May 8 this year the figure will be 164,865,000 and that by the end of the month it will go over the 165 million mar;k. SchrunkEyes Secretary of State Contest PENDLETON UO Terry Schrunk, Muljtnomah County sher iff, said Saturday that he may be a Democrat candidate for the office of Oregon secretary of state in next year Is .primary elections. "Should adequate support be ex pressed, there is a possibility that I might seek I the office," he said in an interview. Schrunk was here to attend the annual meeting of the Oregon Young Democrats. R. Vernon Cook, Gresham atto ney, was re-elected president of the organization. He was unable to attend the meeting because of illness and Walter Dennis of Port land, a former president, presided. Besides Schrunk speakers in cluded Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn ton, State Democratic Chairman Howard Morgan, and Al Ullman of Baker, ' who was defeated by Rep. Coon iri the second district congressional election last year. The 50 delegates approved reso lutions calling for: Development of the Columbia River Basin along the lines of the Army Engineers 308 report; fed eral construction of a high dam at Hells Canyon and federal con struction of John Day Dam and of Green Peter and Cougar dams. the outstanding red and 5 white Arnolds, which grows about 8-10 feet tall. The Floribundas are now at their height and there are several of these. The white crab. Toringo, is j worth looking up. There is the lower growing Park manii and scores of others, all worthy of individual interest. Before leaving Division, you should glance across the street at the Calecarpo Crab, the one that smells like the appletrees you re member when you were little growing in the yard of Miss Lord and Miss Shryver. ; And i while j there will be no arrows to point your route today, you should not miss 'the cherries on Willamette Campus, a f little past their prime, but still good; the magnolia! on the Salem : Post- office lawn; jthe rock gardens on South Church'; the old apple trees in the 1500 block on D; the pretty planting around United Brethern Church in Ehglewood, and a trip off Market on 21st-toward the old cemetery. . ; All over Salem and the sur rounding countryside . is Blossom Day, and we hope the Weather man's hint that "there'll be rain" is wrong but even in rain, Salem blossoms are pretty, (Additional garden news! on pages 6 an' 7, sec. 1.) PRICE Taking part in Saturday night's conference with - Dr. Scheele was Dr. Jonas Salk of Pittsburgh, who developed the vaccine. : -" '. Others included Dr. William H. Sebrell Jr., director of the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James A. Shannon, asso ciate editor of the National In stitutes and its top research man; Dr. David E. Price, assist ant surgeon general, and Dr. W. Palmer Dearing, deputy sur geon general. Dr. Scheele, who heads the U. S. Public Health Service, de clined to comment when told that unconfirmed reports were being broadcast that there was nothing wrong with the vac cone, but that existing supplies should be re-examined. (Addi tional details on page 3, sec. 1.) Salem Unit to Get Top Naval Plaque Today An award as "the best Naval Air Reserve Aviation Auxiliary' unit in the nation in 1954" will be made to a Salem unit at a public inspection ceremony this morning" at the Salem Air Reserve Faculty. The Noel Davis trophy plaque, won by Aviation Auxiliary Unit 891, will be formally awarded at the program slated to start at 10 a.m. Making the award will be Capt. Cecil B. Gill, commander of the Seattle Naval Air Station, Capt. Gill, who will be accompan ied by a group of Seattle officers; will also present a gold star, in lieu of a second air medal, to LL Vearl V. Varney, member of an other local AAU group, Unit 893 The star is for meritorious serv ice while flying patrol duty.ui the Western Pacific and Far East from Nov. 30, 1932, to Feb. 25, 1953. Inspected by the officers will be the four AAU units training at the Salem facility and other de partments. The inspection is open to the public and especially to families of unit members. Among those in vited are Salem Mayor Robert White and Gov. Paul Patterson. The honored unit was. judged the best of the 82 AAU groups in the nation last vear. The Naval Air Facility is located on the north side of Salem airport and can be reached from Turner road. Twister Tears Metal Roof Off Jefferson Shed Statesman News Service JEFFERSON A baby twister whistled through a farmyard Sat urday and tore half the metal roof off a tool shed. Nobody was injured, but ,Mr. and Mrs. Stacey Johnson, Seventh Day Adventists said they and their son likely would have been work ing around the yard on any other day of the week. They were in their house when the whirlwind struck at 1:50 p. m. The Johnsons said it "went in under the shed," pushing nails up about an inch on the part of the roof that was not blown off. Parts of the corrugated roof were bent double and scattered over the yard. The farm, known as the .E. C. Hart place, is a mile southeast of Jefferson on Green's Bridge Road. Austrian Treaty Said Nearly Ready For Signatures VIENNA, Austria tf) Foreign Minister Leopold Figl said Satur day that "in a few days" the way will be clear for the Big Four Four foreign ministers to come to Vienna and sign the Austrian independence treaty. Figl s speech to the Vienna exec utive committee of his Austrian People's Party was a further lift for Austrians who expect their long-awaited freedom to come next week. Father, Son Drown Near Oregon Gty OREGON CITY W - A boat capsized below the Willamette River locks here Saturday, and a Portland father and his son drowned. Hiram Fred Miner, 58, and the son, Raymond Miner, 31, were en a fishing trip when the boat over turned. No. 42 .iron MarioiuPolk Inoculations PORTLAND UH The Stato Board of . Health Saturday post poned the polio vaccinations sched uled next week for Oregon school children in the first and second grades. (In mid-Valley area, both Mar ion County- Health Officer . W. J. Stone and Polk County Health Of ficer E. B. Bossatti had agreed Saturday to follow the decision of the state board of health. Inocu lations in the two counties had been scheduled to start Monday.) The action had bfm expected, since several Oregon counties al ready had decided on a postpone ment and the surgeon general of the Lnited States had recommend ed a delay until it is determined whether further safety tests should be made. . v . Dr. , Harold M. Erickson, state health officer,: said it meant at least a. week's delay. It will take that long to reorganize the pro gram even if the surgeon general should release the vaccine for use Monday, he said. This brought up the question of whether there is time enough left to go ahead with the program this spring. : Many.' schools will have ended classes before a second shot could "be : given. Some county offi cials; therefore, were in favor ! postponing the program until fa!L Others were in favor of adminis tering the first shot if the program is approved, and then calling in the children from vacation for second shot. Later in the day, the councd of the State Medical Society an nounced' that doctors are "ready and willing to proceed with ad ministration of the Salk vaccine to school children when the pro gram is ' approved by the Public Health Department."- - Logging Rate Said Depleting Lane Timber EUGENE VPi Lane County will be without timber in 45 years if the present logging rate contin ues, Robert Aufderheide, Willam ette National " Forest supervisor, said Friday. . This means a decline is certain, and the county must shift its in dustrial emphasis, he told the Chamber of Commerce. . "It appears that we're right at our peak, and the decline is setting in.- Some mills will have to drop out, and as they close well have to find Other payrolls and new tax bases," he said. -He said the timber was being cut off privately owned land fast. Only about 25 per cent of the standing timber in the county re mains on private lands, he said. ' " He 2 predicted that increasing pressure would be exerted to try to open national forests to more logging. - ; Swaps Wins Derby Crown LOUISVILLE, Ky. WJ Swaps, a California- - owned . colt that had heavy backing from his West Coast followers, out - fought the favored Nashua Saturday to win the - 81st and richest Kentucky Derby. Racing's flashiest event was a duel between the two top placers. Summer Tan. who was expected to run second to Nashua, was a weD.- i . . L. : 1 A screaming crowd of some 100. 000 at Churchill Downs saw Swaps take the lead soon after the start of the mile and one quarter classic for J-year-olds, then make it stick in the pulsating stretch dash. He became the second California bred horse, to capture the run for roses. '' . Willie (The Shoe) Shoemaker was the -winning jockey as he swept his -gallant horse under the finish wire to drag down $108,400 of the total swag of $152,500. Additional: details on sports pages.) 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