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. y 1 y,-, - , ij, -- l,,- 1 Gag urrenders to FoMce.in Alaska Oveross J0F Unaware ofChara IhSilverton Slaying By THOMAS G. WEIGHT Jr. Staff Writer, The Statesman Casper A. Oveross. wanted here to face a first degree murder 105th Ytar Teamsters Urged To Md Movement Of Basic Supplies ; LOS ANGELES VP) A potentially paralyzing strike and lock out forced the West's trucking industry into low gear Friday, as truckers appealed to AFL Teamsters to join them in continuing shipments of hospital supplies, milk and government freight, in cluding maiL Chairman William H. Allen of the California Trucking Assn., tTCTD I II I mm ana The Argentine chamber of dep uties voted 121 to 12 to separate church and state in that country. The measure which has been push ed by President Peron now goes to the Senate whose 34 members are - all Peronistas. So unless Peron him self calls a change of signals tee Roman Catholic will no longer be the state religion of the Argentine Republic. This indeed marks a definite re volution for a Spanish - speaking country. The Catholic faith came to what is now Latin America con temporaneously with the Spanish explorers and settlers. It is the prevailing if not the official reli gion in all Latin America. Americans are so accustomed to the doctrine of separation of church and state that they. hardly under stand why other countries continue an Established Church. It goes back into history of course. Such identification of church with state is by no means confined to Catholic countries. In Britain the Anglican church is the Established Church. Ia Scandinavian countries the Lu theran church is the official church. Freedom of worship however is extended to. followers of other faiths. -What happened in Argentine is wit any 'spiritual" awakening. The dictator,1. Peron. is determined to brook no rival in the management of affairs in his country. Some dictators, have established good working; " (Continued on editorial page. 4.) Country Man Glad to Leave Urban Laic A Paisley man was happy to get back to the sagebrush country to day after being confronted by a shotgun and two police prowl cars in the Keizer area early Friday. The whole affair started after Mrs. Gilbert Ward, 4360 Toni Ave., arrived home late Thursday with her two children and a woman friend and heard a knock at her door. Mrs. Ward, suspicious, called the Marion County sheriffs office. grabbed herhusband's shotgun and exchanged words with the "intrud er" and deputies. The sheriffs of fice, meanwhile, alerted state po lice. The man left after asking direc tions to a home in the area. A few minutes later, state police picked him up on North River Road. The man maintained he had lost his bearings and was seeking a borne in the area at which he was visiting. , State police, convinced, gave him directions to the resi dence and sent him on his way. As the man approached the resi dence, a sheriffs car roared up and the "intruder" was again nabbed. "After repeating the whole story, the man was again sent on his way. His -parting comment to deputies was TH sure be glad to get back to the sagebrush country where th"re aren't so many policemen!" Mrs. Ward said her suspicions were aroused because of a report of a prowler in the area the night before. BLAST KILLS 3 NAPLES, Italy i Three per sons were killed and ten injured Friday in an explosion .hat wrecked a small fireworks factory on the outskirts of Naples. The plant makes fireworks for religious holiday celebrations. - "ANIMAL CRACKERS . ntRRii BOODRICH "We have fond that puck is the easiest thing to serve at a prt7 ttia afaeV EC " '; " PCUNDQD 1651 V 2 SECTIONS 16 PACES 'emergency traffic committee tele- graphed Director H. L. Woxberg of the AFL Council's western line drivers asking to discuss plans with him as soon as possible. Earlier a Teamster spokesman said his union would do everything possible to keep emergency sup plies and even perishable commod ities like vegetables moving to market. Moving East The work stoppage, which, began in the three Pacific Coast states Friday, moved steadily eastward. Already ordered shut down are trucking companies in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah. Idaho and Nevada. The idleness stems from a strike Thursday by AFL ' Teamsters against three major firms. Con solidated Freightways, Pacific In termountain Express and Pacific Motor Trucking Co. Wage Dispute ' The dispute involves wages and health welfare and pension bene fits for 100,000 Teamster Union members in 11 western states. The membership includes 28,000 driv ers, and dock and office workers - Trucking will be affected as far east as Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis. However, the full impact of the tieup will not be felt for another two days,-truckers say. Deliveries in transit when the strike was called still are being made to con signees. Strike Curtails Truck Traffic In Salem Area Nearly all of the major freight hauling trucking firms in the Sa lem area ceased operations Friday following a AFL Teamsters strike of three carriers Thursday, f A half-dozen firms contacted by the Statesman Friday afternoon said they had halted all over-the- road hauling and even local deliv ery or pick-up freight. Several said they were continu ing local "cartage" hauling mov ing of household goods. Apparently nnf atfanlA of lo acf immaiafAlv by the: shutdown trucking of fuel oil, gasoline and foodstuffs. Approximately 60 to 70 local driv ers, and possibly other employes, are being idled by the dispute over signing of a union master contract covering Teamsters in 11 Western states. 50 to M Tracks One Salem operator guessed the shutdown Has halted a daily flow into Salem of between SO and 60 trucks. Much of this freight, it was indicated, would now go by rail. One immediate effect of the para lysis is that several Salem indus tries, who receive regular ship ments of heavy freight will now have to do their own hauling to and from the railroad depot. Other than that no other hardship was reported. The teamsters origin ally i struck three carriers all members of the Trucking Associa tion. Other members said the strike against the three actually was "move against all of us" and so ordered the shutdown in sympathy. ; Trucking firms who reported they had closed down Friday included Willamette Valley, Silver Wheel, Pierce. Senator Lines and Larm er's. Remaining closed since the beginning of the strike Thursday were Pacific Motor Trucking, Con solidated Freightways and West Coast Fast Freight Hearings Planned Tuesday on Three Coast Roads Projects Three State Highway Commis sion public Bearings anecung several Polk and Yamhill County communities and much traffic to the coast will be held Tuesday at RickreaU. Sheridan and Dayton. All three concern controversial proposals for bypass or cutoff highway routes. These are: 1 Straightening out the coast highway from Salem with a new, straight section of highway be tween the Dallas road just north of Oak Knoll golf course and Dolph Corners, about four miles north of Dallas on the present route. Hearing on this will be at 1 p. m. in RickreaU grange hall. 2 Bypassing Sheridan and ! Willamina with a new section of the Salmon River Highway, Route 18, between McMinnvffle and the coast This hearing is at 10 a. m. Tuesday jn Sheridan. The Oregon Statesman, Phone ATLANTA tfl The long, costly and strife-ndden strike against Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Co. was settled Friday night v Weary 'v negotiators reached agreement at 9:45 p. m. ou terms of a new contract covering approx unateiy 50,000 workers in nine southeastern states. The end came 68, days after members of the CIO iCommunica tions Workers of America walked out of the company's 1,043 changes in a contract dispute. ex- The strike was the -longest ever called against any of the 22 oper ating units of the Bell System, lhe previous record was the 60-day strike against the Indiana Bell Co. in 1953. j During the walkout; workers lost millions of dollars in pay and the company reported more than 3,000 instances of major damage to property. The union repeatedly dis claimed any responsibility for damage. j U. S. Decides Not to Lower Vaccine Dose WASHINGTON UB - The govern ment Friday night decided against reducing dosages of the salk anti- polio vaccine as an attempt to stretch out the scarce supplies. This threw into further doubt just how soon millions of still un vaccinated children can receive the treatment A team of experts met all day here to consider whether smaller dosages, possibly injected just into the skin rather than into the mus cles, would be advisable. But Friday Surgeon Gen. Leon ard A. Scheele of the Public Health Service announced ; this advisory committee has recommended that the present generally accepted scheduled of three doses of one cc each of the vaccine be continued. The experts recommended the vaccination continue to be injected into the muscles rather than just into the skin. j The team of experts also took up another question: whether the vaccination campaign should be suspended in late summer, the height of the polio season, out of fear the injection j might provoke a type of paralysis. On this score, the experts rec ommended: ! 1. In areas and i periods where polio is prevalent,! the first shot should be given "only after evalua tion of all the circumstances." 2. But the second shots can be given in such areas and periods "without appreciable concern for the phenomenon of provocation The experts explained that slight immunity resulting: from the first dose of vaccine will most likely provide protection against any such effect NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Eugen 3. Salem 0. At Wenatche 11. Spokane At Yakima 4, Lewis ton 11. 10. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Seattle 11. Portland 3. At Hollywood ?. Oakland 3. At Sacramento 2. San Diego 8. At Sa Francisco S, Los Angeles 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago O. Kansas City 1. At Detroit 11. Cleveland 4. At Washington 3. Boston 1. At New York 7, Baltimore 9. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Milwaukee 2. Chicago 4. At Cincinnati 10. St. Louis T. At Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia S. At Pittsburgh 3. New York 6. 3 Bypassing Dayton with re alinement of the secondary high way connecting the "three-mile lane" road out of "McMinnville with Highway 99-W near Dayton. Hearing set for 3 p. m. at Dayton city council chambers! After hearing i citizens' reac tions, the highway commissioners are expected to consider the re location plans at .their regular monthly meeting in Portland Wednesday and Thursday. Salem Chamber of Commerce is planning to send u delegation to Rickreall to endorse the pro posed coast highway cutoff which last month won ; approval from the chamber's executive commit tee. V ' Othpr husincc nut wpplr he- m. the commission will include blds OB some 40 highway projects 1 valued at over $3,000,000. . Strike Ends Salem, Oregon, Saturday, May 21, Patient Collie ' V SWF.GLE Here's a trick that would make Lassie jealous. But Dusty, collie dog of Mr. and Mrs. Hillard Hanson. 4427 Market St., appears to be wishing those . robins iwould go sit On somebody else's noggin. Mrs. Hanson adopted the three rob'ns two weeks ago when their nest fell ont of a tree near Swegle School, just east of Salem. They are nearly f nil-grown now and Mrs. Hanson re ports they are as tame as Dusty, on whose back they sometimes ride around the yard. She ex pects they will fly away soon, however. (Statesman Photo, by John Ericksen). Independence Gulch Hides Fatal Accident Statesman Newt Serrie INDEPENDENCE A gulch near the City Park hid the wreckage of a fatal auto accident for nearly 12 hours here Friday after a car drove off a dead-end street Dead is Maxwell Robert McLean, 34, Monmouth logger, lone occupant of the car. He was Polk County's sixth traffic victim of the year and the 13th in the Marion-Polk County area. HP A Safe Driving Rodeo Sunday Approximately 50 students of Salem schools will show, their driving skills and road courtesies at the Teen-Age Safe Driving Rodeo Sunday in the parking lot at the Capitol Shopping Center. The contest, which tests vari ous driving techniques, is spon sored by the Salem Junior Cham ber of Commerce. Several hun dred dollars worth of prizes, do nated by the Salem New Car Dealers Association will be awarded. Two winners in a written test given previously to the driving test, will be announced. They are Jim Fortmiller of South Salem High School and Ken Simila of Parrish Junior High. Both at tained a score of 96. The driving contest starts at 2 p.m. but contestants are to be registered and briefed at 1:30 p.m. All contestants must turn in their entry blanks, signed by their parents, before the driving starts, according to Jaycee Doug las Sheldon, general chairman. A-Powered Liner Ey ed SEATTLE Wl A new atom powered running mate for the big liner United States is possible within the next six years, a U. S. Lines official said Friday. Raymond M. Hicks, executive vice president of the steamship company, said in an interview that a replacement is needed soon for the 980-passenger SS America, built in 1941. "Of course we are considering atomic propulsion." Hicks said. "You cannot consider any long range ship replacement in these days . without looking at atomic power." Students Strike Against Exams LIMA. Peru (UP) Students in Peru's two major universities struck Friday against p re-medical examinations they claim are too strenuous. Students at San Marcos, oldest university in the Western Hemi sphere, first walked out in support of five students who went on a hunger strike last Monday. Stu dents of Arequipa University fol lowed suit 1955 PRICE and His Feathered Friends f ' -::a i i s A i 4 The wrecked car was not sighted until 11:30 a. m. Friday, but Deputy W Coroner Earl Thomson estimated McLean had been dead since "1 or 2 a. m." He said the victim suffered a crushed chest and posible skull fracture. Police Chief Ray Howard said McLean was headed west on C street and continued on for 165 feet through the1 edge of the City Park after the street ended. The chief said the car barely missed a small building, then shot down a 30-foot bank into a dry creek bed where it struck a stump. C Street is a north of Mon mouth Avenue, the highway Ahat links Independence with nearby Monmouth where McLean lived. A resident of the area noticed the wreckage and notified police. (Additional details on page 2, sec. 1.) On Forecast Fair Weekend Salem area residents planning fishing trips, picnics and other out door ventures over the weekend will be blessed with good weather, said weathermen at McNary Field early this morning. The forecast calls for fair, sun ny skies today and Sunday, though some early morning cloudiness is expected. Today's high reading, is predicted at near 73 and the merc ury is not expected to drop under 42 tonight. , The weather outlook at North Oregon beaches is for fair condi tions through Saturday at least, with late night and morning fog and clouds. Temperature range will be about 45 to 58 with winds 10 to 20 miles an hour afternoon and evening. MULTNOMAH APPROVES LEVY PORTLAND Multnomah A a county voters rnaay approved a four-year, 4 4 mill tax levy to forestall curtailment of county services. rare ffl(VM-ffflffijH Max. Kin. Pred . 7 4 .M . M 43 .00 . 7i 49 .13 .74 59 M . 65 47 .00 .70 S3 M . 8 51 .80 . 77 54 .00 .71 55 .00 Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roscburg , San Francisco Chicago New York Lm Angeles 76 5S AO Willamette River 3J feet FORECAST I from U. S .weather bure-iu. McNary field. Salem): Fair today. tonigRt and Sunday, except for early morninc cloudiness: tmgh today 75-77. 78-SO Sunday; low tonifht 42-44. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 45. SALEM PMCIPITATIOV -Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Tear Last Tear formal 30.73 41 U ' 17.11 No. 55 Professional Group High in G of C The professional group made the greatest gain the past week toward its goal in the Chamber of Com merces Forward Salem" cam paign, it was announced at a Fri day noon luncheon 'at the Marion Hotel. Officials announced the combin ed efforts of seven groups enlisted in the drive have pushed the cham ber campaign 72 per cent of the way toward a minimum goal of $60,000 with subscriptions totaling $43,245. A total of 134 new mem bers j have been enlisted since the beginning of the project on May 12. The professional group all but monopolized honors according to reports made at the Friday lunch eon. That group made the greatest gain toward its own goal with col lections the past week jumping its total ; to $3,482 as against a mini mum goal of $5,000 and a "real potential" of $5,500. The profession al division also turned in most new members, numbering 18, and also had highest percentage of cash col lected with subscriptions. Still tops in the-overall cam paign, however, is the real estate and insurance group with 86 per cent j advancement ($3,033) toward its minimum goal of $3,500. In i attendance at the Friday re port luncheon were 97 drive work ers. ; with Otto J. Wilson and Wil liam' H. Hammond, co-chairmen of the (business groups division, pre siding. (Additional story on page 3, sec.j 2.) SCHOOL THREATENED SPOKANE A telephoned bomb threat apparently from a youngster who had been dis ciplined, brought evacuation of the 2.160 students at North Central High School here Friday. 5 Voters Approve Salem School District Budget By VTNTTA HOWARD Staff Writer, The Statesman Salem School District voters approved the largest budget in district history Friday with the largest vote for an election to ex ceed the tax limitation since 1944. The final count showed . 1,344 yes votes and 891 no votes for a total votes of 2,235. Last year the total vote was 1,232. Consolidation of Brush CoUege School district with Salem also gained ' approval in both Salem and Brush CoUege by large mar gins, 87 to 63 in Brush College and 1,322 to 863 in the Salem dis trict Of Salem's 10 school voting pre cints all but one approved the $5,177,321 budget of which $1, 166,809 is outside the sjx per cent limitation. ;;.,.; : The budget was turned down by! precinct number three, Grant School, where 119 no votes and 102 yes votes were counted, Vot- charge, turned himself in to authorities at Fairbanks, Alaska, Friday after being contacted by his Salem attorneys. Oveross was indicted last Monday by a Marion County Grand Jury for. the February 17 slaying two miles south of Silverton in . Parade, Feed Mark Scout Grcus Today Circus clowns, trapeze artists, "wild animals' bands, cowboys- and-lndians and other circus fig ures will cavort through Salem today and at Waters Park tonight as the annual Cascade area Scout Circus comes to town. The theme of the circus is, ap propriately enough, "Circus.- Some 2,000 Cub and Boy Scouts are to participate. Gathering at the Capitol Mall at 1 p. m. the boys will step out at 2 p. m. The parade will go west on Chemeketa, south on High street and east on State back to the Capitol area. Boys will then go to waters Park where they will be fed. At 7 p m. the merit badge exposi tion -and vocational' exploration show will open to the public. The circus proper will begin at 8 o'clock. It will include three rings of stunts, snows, demon strations, music from six bands and will last about one and a half hours. Tickets will be available at Waters Park. The circus is spon sored annually by Salem Lions Club and proceeds are used to build facilities at the council's Camp Pioneer in the Cascades. French Agree To Remove Saigon SAIGON. South Viet Nam W Premier Ngo Dinh Diem won an important victory Friday in his drive to lessen French influence in South Viet Nam. His deputy de fense minister announced France had agreed to withdraw its troops from the capital city of Saigon. The minister, Tran Trung Dung, said that eventually the entire 75,- 000 -' man French expeditionary force will be shifted from the big southern cities to two or three coastal embarkation points. Diem's government contends the troops in their present concentrations have angered the Vietnamese people and fired up Communist propaganda. Dung s announcement v followed disclosure that Gen. Paul Ely, French commissioner general in Indochina and commander of the French armed forces here, had asked Paris to relieve him of his post. Dung and Ely are working out details of toe troops regroup ing. Ely's .move came as a sur prise. But it obviously was an out growth of his clashes with Diem on military and political policies, and of American support for Diem. Father Uses Son As Bullet Shield; Shot Wounds Lad SOMERSET, Ky. OH - Sheriff Gilmore Phelps said a father used his 10-year-old son as a shield Friday in a gun battle that left four persons wounded. The son, shot in the head, was reported near death. Phelps said Deputies Raymond Meece and Claude Daulton and two other officers went to the home of Otis Whitaker, 37, to serve a warrant charging him with hav ing untaxed whisky. He said Whitaker called to the officers to "come on op" when they arrived, and. pulling the son, Otis Jr., in front, of him, began firing a shotgun. The sheriff said the officers re turned the fire, hitting the boy once and dropping the father with shots in the leg, shoulder and twice in ' the abdomen. Daulton and Meece were hit by Whitaker's fire, The father and Meece were criti cally wounded. ers there also turned thumbs down on the Brush College con solidation by 113 to 105. Superintendent Walter Snyder commented he was "pleased that the public expressed its conn dence in the school system and the budget" The large turnout in voters," he said, "shows a growing inter est in school problems." The unofficial vote tabulation on the budget: Yes Ne Highland School . 97 . . 85 Washington School 114 - 55 Grant School 102 119 Englewood School 201' 125 Admin. Building -.128 . 106 Richmond School J.151 103 Leslie Jr. High School 205 155 Morningside School 192 75 Four Corner School ... 68 36 West Salem School ... 83 32 Approval of the budget means a 6.5 miLLage increase for the school district Troop of Ervin. Kaser at Kaser's borne the Evergreen community. He had I been object of a widening police hunt since thee, and only a few hours before he surrendered at 5 p.m. Alaska time the FBI had been called into the case. Oveross gave himself up to the district attorney who in turn turn ed him over to Alaska Territorial police but the murder suspect was not taken into police custody un til .early today. Talked to Attorney Attorney Otto R. Skopil Jr. member of the firm of Williams and Skopil who are attorneys for Oveross, said his partner Bruce Williams had been in telephone contact with Oveross at Fair-' banks. He said Williams had ad vised Oveross to turn himself in to police there immediately. The attorneys said they learned of Oveross's whereabouts Friday after mail arrived, addressed to his daughter at her home in the Evergreen community. They said it was the first news of his destination since he left the area April 17 because he said police had been hounding him. Skopil said Williams had made the call to Oveross from Reno, Nev., where he had gone for the weekend. He said Williams had talked to Oveross sometime be tween 6 and 7 p.m. (PST) and considering the . two hour time differential Oveross had apparent ly turned himself in immediately after. Skopil said Oveross was not aware of the indictment here un til Williams advised him of the grand jury action. California Check 1 v It had earlier been presumed that he had gone , to California to visit relatives, but police checks with two brothers in Northern California brought denials that they had seen Over oss. Police also determined he had not traveled through any of the California border .stations. According to the attorneys, Oveross had been working as a carpenter in the Fairbanks area and presumably staying with a cousin who lived near the city. Whether he traveled to Alaska in the 1950 Ford ia which he left the area, or whether he went by air or boat from Seattle was not determined Friday night. FBI In Case ., Location, of Oveross came al most at the same time the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation was stepping into the case. FBI Agent Verne Davis of Salem said the Bureau was "in" the search Fri day afternoon after a fueitive complaint was filed with the U ?. Attorney in Portland earlier by Marion County District Attorney Kenneth O. Brown. Sheriff Young said search for Oveross had been extended to Alaska before news arrived here of his location. He did not say why police suspected the slender carpenter might have gone to Alaska. . Immediate Trial Oveross' attorneys said he would be advised to waive extra dition to' hasten the process in having him returned here to stand trial They said they would ask for an immediate trial The wanted Silverton man was not jailed immediately, according to reports received here late Fri day night by Marion County Sheriff Denver Young. Because Alaskan of ficials at Fairbanks had no inform ation that. Oveross was wanted, they ask him to jail himself vol untarily until they could make a check, Lt.' William Trafton of the Alaska Territorial police reported. Trafton eaid Oveross declined and said ne was returning to his Fair banks residence to await develop ments. ' v Tried ia Salem According to Trafton. Oveross said he had been tried in Salem on the murder charged and freed, -but had been advised bv his at torney to turn himself in at this time. Trafton told Young he was dispatching police immediately to take Oveross into custody. Oveross was arrested and charg ed with murder five days after the night-time slaying of his one-time neighbor. He was freed six days later when the grand jury refused to lftdict him on the evidence then at hand. After discovery of a rifle which tests proved was the murder wea pon. District Attorney Kenneth O. Brown called a second grand jury on the case and they returned a unanimous decision for indictment last Monday. Sheriff Young said it would pro bably take two or three days to complete the preliminary proced ures before he could leave for Fair banks to return Oveross. He indic ated Oveross would probably be re turned from Alaska to Seattle by air and said he hoped that a second police officer could accompany him on the trip. Today's Statesman Sec. 1 Pago -'7 Church Comics C-ossword Editorials Heme Panorama 8 3 '4 6 4-7 1.2" 3 t 3 3 L. Classified! ...m.ll Sports,--. II. Star Gazer . I TV, Radio (Sat.) jl I TV, Radio (Sun.) .11 Valley I WoridThisWuklL I
