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Tho Ortgon Statesman, SaUm, Oregon, Tuesday, May 31, 1955
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The dispute between the Order of
Railway Conductors and Brakemen
and some 90 Class One railroads,
which was heard by a President's
Emergency Board of which-1 was
a member, has finally been settled.
The authority of the Emergency
Board is limited to investigating
the facts in the dispute and report
tag to the President. This board
held hearings in Chicago for sever
al weeks and filed its report at the
White House on March 23. The par
ties to the dispute resumed their
negotations on April 4, and finally
reached an agreement list Thurs
day. . '
- The demand of the conductors
and brakemen was for a graduated
rate of pay, the scale to be based
on weight on drivers of the locomo
tives of the trains they were work
tag on. This is the table used for
computing the pay of engineers and
firemen. Our board made its find
ing that the ORC&B should drop its
demand for graduated pay based
on power of 'the locomotives be
cause there seemed to be no clear
and consistent relationship between
the work of conductor and brake
man and the size or weight of the
locomotive behind which they
worked. We did find that there was
an inequity in the pay of conduc
tors in ' through freight service
where the longest trains operate,
To cure this the board recommend
ed an increase in pay of such con
ductors; but added that the princi
pals might consider alternative
means for curing the inequity
What the board had in mind was a
graduated rate of pay . based on
lenth
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Sherwood Rallies
To Aid of Family
SHERWOOD LB Neighbors and
others have contributed about $200
In a fund-raising campaign to
assist Mr. and Mrs. Russell Eoff
of Sherwood, whose two-year-old
daughter died in a fire thai
destroyed the family's home and
belongings two weeks ago.
Friends ana neighbors have set
l goal of $300 to help the family
build a new home. The Lutheran
church in Sherwood will recruit
mea to build the dwelling.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
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This was Stale Street Monday morning as the Memqrial Day parade
headed west. Pictured ia the line of March are the Leslie Junior
High School Band, followed by National Guard units. Eleven
veteran, military and patriotic organizations jand .six bands were
in the parade. (Statesman Photo). (Story ilso on pafc5-ec. 1).
2.000 Autos in
Traffic Tieup on
Mt. Hood Route
GOVERNMENT CAMP WV-
An estimated 2,000 automobiles
were ' involved in a gigantic
traffic jam when 5Vi inches of
snow fell on the Warm Springs
highway-east 'of hare Monday.-
Many of the drivers were
fishermen returning- from
Memorial Day week end trips.
Their cars skidded in the soft
snow on the "highway and be
came stuck, some of them for
as long as five hours.
The Portland weather bureau
said the snow, which fell at
times at the rate of 1 to 2
inches an hour, was unusual
for this time of year. The last
time - it snowed here on
Memorial Day was in 1948
when a light flurry was re
ported. ce
Man Missing;
Search Futile
Statesman News Berries
INDEPENDENCE A citizens
group and independence ponce
dragged two mill ponds Monday
and otherwise searched for a trace
of Jay Edwards Seeley, 69, missing
since Sunday morning.
Police Chief Ray Howard said
investigation of his manner of de
parture and a note left his family
had convinced police that Seeley
had intended to take his own life.
The widower had been in poor
health. He had made his borne in
recent years with a son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stal
n&ker, 504 Walnut St.
Police said the daughter report
ed Seeley had not been able to
sleep because of a chronic condi
tion, but mat he had not appeared
despondent. The note he left, how
ever, said "I can't take any more
suffering, according to the police
chief.
The note was found on his bed
Sunday morning. Seeley's eye
glasses and billfold were in his
room. From a check of his clothes,
police said he probably was wear
ing ' gray pants, blue chambray
shirt, blue sweater and a brown
cap. He had gray hair, weighed
about 140 and stood 5 feet 4.
Bloodhounds from the State Forestry-
Department helped in the
search Sunday. One of them gave
indication of picking up a scent at
a millpond near the Stalnaher home
in northwest Independence. How
ever, dragging of the pond was
halted about Monday noon.
An attempt to blast the pond in
the afternoon also failed.
Office's Harvey Shellenbarger
said a check was made with the
railroad to determine whether Ed
wards could have left on the Sat
urday midnight freight, but both
the crew and superintendent said
it would have been practically im
possible to board toe train.
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A J-year-old Milwaukie boy Mon
day suffered a compound skull
fracture at ; Bush Pasture ark
when he was hit by a section of
tree which dropped off as he was
standing beneath, beside a picnic
table, Salem police reported. After
noon wind gusts ranged from 20
to 30 miles an hour.
The boy, Frederick William John
son, several hours later was re
ported "doing just fine" in Provi
dence Hospital in Portland where
he underwent surgery to determine
extent of damage. The hospital re
ported his brain was not injured.
The boy was transferred from
Salem Memorial Hospital to the
Portland hospital by Willamette
ambulance shortly after city first
aidmen brought him to the Salem
hospital from the park. : 4
The boy's father. William . A.
Johnson, also of Milwaukie, told
police that the section of tree,
weighing an estimated 130 pounds.
came uown wimout warning,
knocking his son to the ground.
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i-oiicc estimated tne drop as
about 3a feet and described the
rotted branch as being about
foot in diameter at the noint it
joined the trunk.
The accident happened about
pjn.
Johnson and his family were in
the park in the company of friends
who live here. First aidmen said
the party had just got out of their
car at. the Winter and Mission
street area of the park, when the
boy ran under the tree and was
struck.
In a similar incident, a 40-foot
section of Cottonwood tree in the
1721 Cfaemeketa St. backyard of
Walter Swartwout crashed down
about 3 p.m. Monday, narrowly
missing a woman doing yardwork
below, police said.
The officer reported the wind
blew off the entire top of the tree,
red uc ting its. overall height from
100 to 0 feet
Clouds, Showers
Still on Forecast
Partly cloudy skies and a few
scattered showers were predicted
for today, tonight and Wednesday
by McNary Field weathermen
who say it will continue to be
cooL ;
A high hear 63 is seen for to
day, and a low near 38 tonight
Partial cloudiness and a few
showers are expected at northern
Oregon beaches. Winds 8 to 18
miles an hour, temperature range
snouia ne between 4a and 58.
FRENCH SCALE PEAK
NEW DELHI, India Ul All
members of an 11-man French ex
pedition have reached the summit
of 27,790-foot ML Makalu. fourth
highest in the world, a message
from the expedition leader said
Monday night.
Branch Cracks
Bush cast
Memorial Day
Death Record
Nearly Certain
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The homeward rush of holiday:
travelers made a new record traf-J
fice death toll for a Memorial Day
weekend almost a certainty in the:
closing hours Monday. j
The National Safety Council re
vised its earlier prediction of 360
1 dead m traffic accidents during the
73-hbur period at "at least 375"
and said the record high of 363
in 1952 "undoubtedly" would be '
suroassed. 1 t
At midnight (Eastern Standard
Time) Monday, the end of the offi
cial holiday period which extended
from 6 p. m. (local time) Friday,
the traffic death count stood at
346. Late arriving reports were
expected to increase this figure.
Drownings totaled 123 and mis
cellaneous accidental deaths ad
ded 72 more to make a toll of 541.
The high toll of drownings was
abetted by tranquil weather' as
much of the nation basked in sun
shine and mild temperatures.
Thousands enjoying their, first out
ing of the vacation season took
to the weather, making swimming
and boating a part of the Memorial
Day fun.
Gun Accident
Brings Oregon
Fatalities to 6
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Walter L. Isenberg, 76, died at
his farm home some three miles
southwest of Hood River from a
bullet wound Monday. Coroner
Roy Edwards said the gun had
been snot accidentally by David W.
White, 13, of Portland, who was
visiting at the Isenberg home.
Edwards said the White boy told
him that the gun discharged while
hewas unloading it.
Isenberg. wounded in the back,
died before help could arrive,
Edwards said.
Isenberg was the sixth accident
victim in Oregon in the long
Memorial Day week end.
Four others were killed in. traffic
accidents and one drowned.
The traffic victims were: Paul
Murray, 19. Eugene; Nicholas S
Freund, 80, Portland: David
Hauser, 22. Tygh Valley; and
Harry B. Hussy, 48, Madras.
Pamela Lynn McCartney, a two-
year-old, drowned in a pond in the
backyard of her Portland home,
7 Airmen Die
In C47 Crash
ALAMOGORDO. N.M. UV-Seven
Air Force men died in the flaming
crash of a two-engined C47 in the
Sacramento Mountains 20 miles
northeast of here Monday.
The dead included the pilot, 1st
Lt. Don R. Forbes, son of R. H.
Forbes, 3334 N. E. Beakey St.
Portland. Ore -
Lt. Richard Miller. Holloman
Air Force Base public information
officer said four of the .victims
were crew members on the plane
and three were passengers.
Miller said the plane had taken
off from Holloman IS minutes be
fore it crashed.
The plane gave out no distress
signals,: he said, and the Air Force
was first notified of the crash by
a U.S. Forest Service station in
Lincoln National Park.
Pond Full of
Fish Stolen'
The, alleged theft of a pond full
of fish in the Kings Valley area
Monday came to the attention of
Kenneth E. Scripter, state police
game warden for this area.
Investigation disclosed that Wil
son Bumps, who lives between Pe-
dee and Kings Valley, had stocked
his pnvate pond with some out-of-
town trout. He had game commis
sion approval.
Scripter said Bumps mother
told him that a neighbor boy. plus
school companions he had advised
of the situation, had fished away
practically all of these trout. No
formal complaint has been filed.
Depoe Bay Rite
Attracts 17,000
DEPOE BAY. Ore, OP ' An
estimated 17,000 persons were on
hand Monday for the 10th annual
Memorial Day Fleet of Flowers
observant.
The ceremony of casting flowers
into the water is a tribute to those
who lost their lives at sea.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary
decided not to take passengers out
to sea, as in past years, because
of choppy cwaters.
Instead, the flowers were carried
out on the ocean by four larger
boats.
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DETROIT, Ore. It took a brave
troit Lake Monday as ram squalls chased, most of a big Memorial
This Lyons trio, fishing at the mouth of Tumble Creek Monday
prepared for the weather eventualities with raincoats and canvas
Detroit Lake
Wet, Windy
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR.
Staff Writer, The Statesman .
DETROIT, Ore, Memorial Day
normally is the first big weekend
of the vacation season, but the
weatherman who dumped rain,
wind and even a little snow on
hundreds of recreationists around
Detroit Lake Sunday and Monday
apparently hadn't been advised
of it
Only a few hardy fishermen
had weathered out rain squalls
and forbidding skies which
dampened and darkened the last
two days of the holiday in this
North Santiam canyon country.
Except for the weather, which
included enough snow to com
pletely whiten the mountain tops
surrounding the big lake, the
weekend was relatively uneventful-
' Most anglers brave enough
to stick to their rods reported
catches, but the largest ones
noted at mid-day Monday num
bered 4 or 5.
Forest service personnel, con
fident that the downpour would
take care of any camper s care
less fire habits, took a holiday
themselves in contrast to their
usual weekend activity of dousing
forgotten camp fires.
', .Traffic was still heavy along
the . North Santiam Highway in
the vicinity of the lake Monday
afternoon, but much. of it was
bomebound.
Only- weekend scare involved a
young Portland angler, Richard
Dodge, about 12, who caused
canyon alert Sunday night when
he tumbled down the rocky slope
of the- reservoir just above De
troit Dam. His companion F. C
Coryell, v also Portland, spread
the alarm when the youth failed
immediately to answer calls.
State police from Salem and
Idanha and firemen from ' Mill
City converged on the scene
about the time the bo, uninjured
in the tumble, left for home.
Boat rental services bad no
problem meeting demands as the
bulk of the fishermen took to
shore fishing along sheltered
coves and inlets.
Picnickers, for the most part,
ate their sandwiches, - potato
salad and fried chicken in the
comparative comfort of automo
biles and tents. Picnic tables at
popular Lakesbore picnic area
were no premium, but dry fire
wood was.
NOETHWIST LEAGUE1
At Salem 6-4. Wen tehee V3
At Trt-City 1-1, Eugene 4-2
; At Lewistoa 2-3, Yakima U-t
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE -At
Portland 6-2. Hollywood S-4
At San Francisco 8-11. Seattle 7-2
At Lot Angeles 4-4. Sacramento S-4
At San Diego 1-1. Oakland 10-2
national League
At Brooklyn 8-8. Pittsburgh 4-3
At New York 6-1. Philadelphia S-3
At Cincinnati 6-4. Milwaukee 7-8
At St. Louis 8-3, Chicago S-4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Chicago 1-5, Cleveland J-fl
At Detroit 6-4. Kansas City 8-S '
At Boston 6-8. Baltimore 8-1
At Washington 3-3, New York 2-S
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CIO Challenges Ford to
Abide by Workers' Vote
DETROIT WH -In unprecedented move the CIO United- Anto
Workers challenged the Ford Motor Co. Monday,, to let its own
employes decide who's right in a dispute that threatens to erupt
in a strike later this week. v
Under the proposal, an independent agency would poll the
company's 140,000 employes on whether they want to accept the
Police Block
Gang 'War' in
Bronx Park
NEW YORK Wl - Mounted po
lice charged a solid wall of 230
marching youths in a Bronx park
Monday. and broke up an impend
ing battle that had , been brewing
all through the hot afternoon.
Police said a gay holiday crowd.
mostly Negroes, filled the Pelham
Bay Park picnic grounds. Cases
of beer were broken out and some
liquor bottles appeared in picnic
tables. ,
Card games started and festive
bongo and torn torn drummers
marched through the park's woods,
followed by skipping, dancing chil
dren carrying long poles tipped
with feathers.
Several small fights broke out.
but were stopped by park attend
ants.
Eventually the picnickers appar
ently divided into two groups. Park
attendants called in police when
a major clash appeared to be shap
ing up. Just what was behind it
ah was not clear.
Police came on the double, 130
of them at one time. Crews of 10
radio cars deployed through the
grounds after the mounted police
Deputy Police Commissioner
James R. Kennedy said be thought
hot sun and too much drinking
combined to touch off the disturb
ance. No one was arrested.
A sharply fought fist fight in a
park cafeteria preceded the draw
ing up of the opposing "armies,
and 'may have had some conneo
tion with the general disturbance.
Bill Vukovich Killed in Race at
Indianapolis; Sweikert Wins
INDIANAPOLIS (JP) Home
town boy Bob Sweikert won the
500-mile auto racing classic here
Memorial Day in a race which
saw two-time winner Bill Vuko
vich of Fresno, Calif., die in a
crash early in the chase. Sweik
ert s time was 128.209 miles an
hour. ' 4
Sweikert had participated be
fore in the classic but had never
placed among the first 10 In the
33-car field. He is 29 years old
and his winnings are expected to
total close to $100,000. -
Vukovich was leading as he at
tempted to avoid three cars
which had gone out of control,
blocking his path as he entered
the backstretch on the 2-mile
track. He hit the retaining wall,
bounced some SO feet in the air,
landed outside the track, struck
a parked police car, a passenger
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Day weekend crowd borne early.
afternoon, were apparently well
covers. (Statesman Photo).
company's stock purchase offer
or stick with the union's guar
anteed annual wage demand.
The result would be binding on
both parties.
The UAW's proposal was handed
to Ford negotiators at the outset
of Monday s contract bargaining
session.
Ford negotiators asked a 24 hour
adjournment to study the proposi
tion. The union agreed. Top com
pany officials spent the holiday
in a strategy huddle and promised
their answer Tuesday morning..
The surprise union move ws
regarded by some as a daring per
sonal gamble by UAW President
Walter P. Reuther. A solid vote
for the guaranteed wage would be
a boost for his leadership.
.A vote for Fords self-styled
'partnership in prosperity" plan
could be interpreted as a no-con
fidence vote for the union leader
ship.
An independent polling firm
would conduct the balloting within
the next two weeks. The contract
would be extended to allow time
for the vote and subsequent negoti
ations. The union has sanctioned
strike action any time after Wed
nesday midnight
Max. Mia. Preeia.
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... M 41 trace
6.1 44 .00
... 5 46 .17
CO 43 .03
0 49 .00
10 4S .00
81 67 .03
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Portland
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Nortu Bend
Roseburg
San Francisco ,
Chicaco
New York
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Willamette River 2.0 feet
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary Field. Salem): Part
ly cloudy today, tonight and Wednes
day with a few scattered showers.
Continued cool with high today near
63. lowest tonight near 38.
Temperature at 12:01 ajn. today
was 43.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start af Weather Tear Sept. 1
This year Last Year Normal
34.M 42.16 37.18
car and a jeep. Vukovich's car
came to rest upside down and
caught fire. He burned to death.
Two persons sitting in the jeep
were siignuy injured, none oi
the other drivers involved in the
tangle was badly hurt ...
Cal Niday of Pacoima, " CaliL,
suffered burns and a bead injury
when he was thrown frpm his car
as it hit the wall in another mis
hap neap the end of the race.
Winning second place was vet
eran Tony Bettenhausen oftTin
lev Park. I1L Third was Jimmie
Davies, Pacoima, Calif. Jack Me
Grath, along with Vukovich a.pre
race favorite, was forced out by
mechanical trouble after staging.
a torrid duel with Vukovich for
first place. V
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GIs on Way to
Haw.aii From
HonsrKf
ong
HONG KOXG tm Four free
American fliers arrived 'at Hong
Kong city limits at 4:5 p. m. Twes
day and were driven directly U
KlLk airnm-t vhrr thT haanU
ed a plane far HMololn. I ,-'
They appeared tired but la good
if subdued spirits-
At the airport the men said they.
had been "well treated."
They, said they first were told,
last week they were going to be
sent home. -
I They refused to say where they"
had been held prisoner in China,
and officials did not permit ques
tioning. ; . .
One correspondent yelled "What
do you want to sena to the folks
at home?"
-Tell them , hello," the men; .
shouted. . . , i .
Being -Expelled" ; '
The men said their Communist
captors had . told them they were
being expelled.
They wore new white shirts and
light slacks.
They had changed clothes at a
constable station in Hong Kong's
"new territories" on the mainland
not far from the Chinese border'
which they crossed at 2:33 p.m.
(9:33 p.m.' PST).
They have been in Red prisons
more than two years, most of the!
time is Mukden, Manchuria. '
First Tnnrt from th hnrdpr
J said the men were in "fairly good '
physical condltion.n
Jj The airmen were dressed in ;
; Communist blue trousers and faded
lit... ll-af.- .L.'-i.
Greeting Given
The Air Force party greeting .
them at the Lowu border bridge
was headed by Lt. Col. O.D. Simp;
son, U.S. air attache in Hong Kong,
who told them: "I welcome you
in the name of the U. S. govern-
ment and the American people. We:
have been waiting a long time for
this." ' " -
So have we." one of the men
blurted out : i ;
The Air Force threw a curtain ,
of secrecy about Its plans for the
men, but a special plane was wait
ing at Hong Kong's Kaitak Air
port, with its full crew on a stand
by basis (Additional stories on
page 2, sec, 1.)
Man Arrested
As Woodburh
Fight Injures 2;
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WOODBURN-Richard Bell 23,;
of Woodburn Monday was jailed on
an assault and battery charge re-,
suiting from at fight early Sunday
in which Bell is accused of beating"
up two men, one of whom is in
poor condition in a Portland hos
pital. Police Chief Neil Calkins re
ported. , T . .. ;
The hospitalized man is Antonio
Fountaine, 39, of Yakima, whom
the Physicians Surgeons Hospital:
late Monday reported as not re
sponding to treatment Chief Cal-
kins said he had a skull concussion'
and a broken Jaw. ...
The other victim the complain-
ant is Archie McKenzie. about 50,1
of Woodburn. owner of the Club
Cafe. Chief Calkins said McKenzie
has two broken ribs.
According td Calkins' understand-?
tag, the two men . were attacked
upon emerging from a Front street
tavern in Woodburn about 1:15 a.nu
Sunday. He said the Yakima man,-;
in Woodburn on a construction job,;
received the concussion upon fall- .
ing on the pavement when he was'
struck in the eye. ... v t
"Therei doesn't seem to be any
reason for the -fight at all thera 1
was apparently no argument inside ,
the tavern, said Calkins who said
he had talked to about 50 people
about it.'
Bell, a farm laborer, is under
$500 bond in Woodburn jail. Calkins .
indicated he. planned to hold him ,,
on the assault charge pending;.;
Fountaine's outcome at the hospi- '
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HOUSr WARMING
k citizen, who Monday returned
from an out-of-state, trip, reported
to police that someone in bis ab
sence turned his home thermostat,
up. to 93, caused all his flowers,
inside to wilt. ; aV' ! " t:?
BOATER IMMOBILIZED V J
Al Laue, 2368 State St, Mon
day reported to police that some-
one had drilled two n-incn noies
in his boat and in each of the,
two tires on his boat trailer. V
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