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The TFeatKeiT att PORXCAST frora 17. S. bureau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy with occasional Kfh raia -today, pertly cloudy tonight and Saturday; little change ia tempera- -tura with highest today near , Temperature at 11:01 a.nv today (NnJ'M Xte fnwlfc ef OrtfM SALEM PfUXTPWATIOX Place Start e Heather Tew See. 1 kit Tear Last Tee Servja . 30.96 4US . ; tlM 105th Year 4 SECTIONS-40 PAGES Tht Ortgon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, June 3, 195S PRICE 5c No. 4 am KUNDBD 1651 Oregon Pulp . I - - t .-. " T - - - to Close Sawmill To Cut Off 135 Jobs; Retail Store, -.'Mill work Division to Remain Open . ' ' ' : ! Oregon Palp k Paper Co. will close its Salem lumber division June; CO, md the shutdown may be permanent 1 This will put 135 employes out of work and close out a payroll of nearly $50,000 a -month, it was confirmed Thursday by E. A linden, resjdenrrnanager of the lumber division. Bet the millwork division and retail store will continue in full I operation, and the shutdown will (UCDOIO -An overnight Hight to Washing ton landed me in the cariital Tues day morning, several hours before the session of a committee which I was to attend. The morning Post aid that the President would hold his press conference that morning. Never having attended one of these sessions I thought I would try to get in. A phone call to Mr. Hag- ertyV office at the white House brought the inquiry from the lady . wno answerea u l Knew any one in Washington I could give as a reference. I told her that Doug McKay came from my home town. (This seemed as safe a name for n?e to use as any, -since I knew that Doug was in Europe). That name opened me way quickly. Armed with an admittance card picked up at the White House of fices I crossed the street to the old State building . which now is occupied largely by executive de- r Dancing Used a$ Part of Treatment at Mental Institutions IT VCT ' T . not affect operations at the pulp mill. Linden said. Altogether Oregon Pulp has been employing nearly 600 and has had annual payrolls of about $4,000,000, for its combined Salem' operations. Shuraown - of the sawmill - was ordered by Oregon Pulp top. offi cials after long consideration, de clared Linden. He said these are the principal reasons: 1. Logs are in short supply. Log ging got off to late start this year! because of the weather. Mill hasn't caught up since last year's long strike cut off log supply. 4 High Price Lags 2. '"What few logs are available are so high-priced it's impossible to manufacture lumber. and sell it in a successful operation." 3. Government timber auctions have pushed prices very high. 4. Logging areas are becoming more remote from Salem mills, as center of logging industry has mov ed south to the Roseburg region. Long hauls make logs more costly. Manager Linden said the saw mill equipment would be maintain ed here, "probably a year or two anyway so we can see if the busi ness picture changes any." He add ed a Corvallis mill has shut down for similar reasons and some other valley mills are considering reduc ed operations. Receive Neticc The 133 sawmill employes receiv . W . 9w Y M i. wv v -i V Ford To '-V'v.i V I- mm-- - r . V . V;-: M ttilmaifita . " . . ,ied notice Thursday from Oregon The building itself is of a French -,i,i A style of architecture, as was our old Marios county courthouse. The conference room on the fourth floor was done in the French manner. It is relatively small, almost square, full two stories in height, with a narrow balcony running around it. The walls have panels in red and black marble with a border moulding 'of gilt, It was itself reminiscent of the age of elegance. ' ... 1 Offers Provide jobless Pay DETROIT (AP) The Ford Motor Co. Thurs day Mas reported to have accepted in principle the CIO United ;Auto Workeri Union demand that in dustry continue part pay to employes when they are out of work. That ie the key point in the revolutionary guar a a 1 ; anieea annual wage pian wmcn f " - - - Taking part ia a musical therapy outdoor dance program Thursday at the State Hospital was the Fairview Home delegation above doing a square dance. Ia the left background are several hun dred inmates, many of whom later joined in a gigantic "bunny hop" dance on the hospital tennis court. Shown sitting at the piano are Tom Larson (left), and Paul Ackerman (right), musical therapists from Willamette University, who assisted with the pro gram. (Statesman photo.) (Story and additional photos on page 8, sec. i.) f The seating fpacr" was. filled tightly with chairs, accommodat ing around 150 persons, and few were vacant Television and news reel cameras were -posted at the rear, sound recorders at the side. The buzz of conversation - (Continued on editorial page, 4) Clean Streets Hampered by City Dumpers - Spring gardening ' and lawn cleanup has been giving the city street cleaning department a bad time. Foreman Marion Gaot re ported Thursday, Street cleaning is behind sched tile because so many city resi dents have-been dumping lawn clippings, hedge trimmings and debris piles in the street This is illegal: I ?'We just can't Veep streets clean the way the people want them, with all that dumping." said Gant He thought it worse this year than before, but added mat Salem householders have always cooper ated when the matter was brought "to their attention. - ' . Said City Engineer J. JL Dans, "We have had cooperation in the past and never have had to take any legal action either. It would be expensive for the city to put on an extra street cleaning crew Just because some residents are dumping inrthe streets." Cloudy Sides, Pulp that their jobs here would end Juns 30. Linden said the labor supply hasn't been particularly tight bt he expected most of the mill work ers would find jobs in the Salem area. Many ef them are ; highly skilled ' workers who have been with the OPtP sawmifl here for some time. Linden, who started with the for mer Spaulding Locking Co. in 1907. will continue to be manager of the retail operation and the millwork division which employ SO to 100 persons. To Bay All ea Outside7 The millwork operation already buys 60 per cent of its lumber sup ply on the outside and now will buy all of it, said Linden. Window and door frame and trim products are shipped to many Eas tern states, jobbed to. dealers throughout the Northwest and made specially for large construction jobs on which Oregon Pulp has con tracts. The sawmill, after a 10-year shutdown, was revived in 1942 by Oregon Pulp k Paper. Recently it has been cutting an average of 160,000 board feet a day, all yellow fir. The pulp mill uses mostly hem lock logs or fir chips. Company log trucks will continue to operate to serve its needs. Released Pilot Thinks Reds to Free 11 More HONOLULU m One of four U. S. jet pilots of the Korean War, newly released from Red China prisons, predicted Thursday that the Communist nation soon may free 11 other U. S. airmen. Lt Roland W. Parks said he had "every reason to believe" the Com munists were "building up" the 11 crewmen of a B29 for a dramatic release similar to that of the four fighter pilots Tuesday near, Hong Kong. - - Parks made his prediction In a brief interview. Parks, of Omaha, said bis pre diction on the 11 airmen was only his opinion- but "They're following the same pattern they followed with US," Parks said his Communist jail ers told him shortly before his release that the other 11 airmen were beginning to get "about the same treatment we got." (Story of released fliers also on Page t, Sec. 2.) Curry County Fire Controlled Railroad Car Shortage Acute, Survey Shows By The Associated Press i Western Oregon's annual rail car shortage is more severe and developed earlier than usual, a survey indicated Thursday. ! Seriousness of the situation was confirmed by: lumber, cannery, grain and seed shippers and the 'Southern Pacific Railroad. ! Late Wednesday Charles Heltzel, Oregon public utilities com missioner, signed an emergency order requiring railroads to put shippers on a quota basis to as- Portland Area Virtually Out Of Fresh Milk Diamond Lake Road to Open The West Dimond Lake highway will be open at 4 p.m. Friday, State Highway Engineer R. H. Bal-! dock announced Thursday. Baldock said that heavy late snows is delaying the opening of other highways. He predicted that McKenzie high way would open in about three weeks. ' . The Mount Hood Loop highway will be blowed open about June IS, while the north and east entrances to Crater Lake should be cleared around July 4. . Oregon's biggest" forest fire this year was controlled Thursday atter burning 280 acres of slashings on the Chetco River in southern Curry County. ' The state forestry department re ported that the fire has been trail ed. It said the fire spread from a burning sawdust pile. Damage was not reported. sure equitaoie aistriDution oi available cars. He also scheduled a conference for June 10 at Eugene to discuss the problem. Worse' Than Usual Thursday R. U. Branson, chair man of the Shippers Car Supply Committee, said at' Eugene that the situation is worse than usual and threatens- to become much more serious. Bronson, whose committee one year Sued Southern Pacific over the shortage, said Eugene area lumber mills are getting no more than 25 to 30 per cent of the cars they need. He added that there is talk of cutting lumber production Must Cut Output i A lumbef industry spokesman at Roseburg said mills may have to start reducing their outputs within a week because of the car short age. A Southern Pacific repre sentative said it is possible to meet only 50 per cent of the de mand for lumber cars, i . The lumber spokesman said several factors are responsible for the early, acute shortage. There have been heavy grain shipments to make storage space for the new crop, he added, and lumber shipments are running well above those of last year. Scramble for Uranium Sites Draws NORTHWEST LEAGUE No fames scheduled. COAST LEAGUE At Portland-Hollywood, rain. At San Die.o 2. Oakland 3 At LosAngeles 2. Sacramento 4 At San Francisco , Seattle 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn 13. Milwaukee 1 A' Pittsburgh 12. St. Louis 3 At New Ycrk . Cincinnati 3 At Philadelphia S, Chicago 4 AMERICAN LEAGCK At Cleveland 9. Baltimore 3 At Chicago 4. Boston 2 At Detroit 4. Wa&ninKton 3 At Kansas City S. New York 13 New Oil Well Bombards City In California HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. UPl Downtown Huntington Beach was bombarded for seven hours Thursday by flying oil. mud and rocks when an oil well came in suddenly. A crew managed to cap the sev en-inch casing which blew out with a whoosh and forced nearly 300 residents from a trailer court about 3 a. m. No injuries were reported. The Standard Oil Co. well was being redrilled when the bore struck a gas pocket Members of the drill ing crew dashed to safety as slime and rocks rained. about them. BAKERSFIELD. Calif. OB Hordes of prospectors seeking a uranium bonanza headed into the rocky Sierra Nevada Thursday to scramble for claims when an ore- rich area is thrown open Friday. : With them, ready to deal swiftly with any disorder, went 75 armed sheriffs deputies. They will patrol afoot and on horseback. The scene is Kern River Can yon, a winding, steep-sloped gash in the towering Sierra. The area to be opened is near Mircale Springs 40 miles -east of this San Joaquin Valley community. Mostly on the canyon slope, its boundaries are roughtly V by 3 miles, its area 2.914 acres. Within this rectangle an esti mated 3,000 ore hunters are ex pected to be poised by the 10 a. m. opening Friday to race to stake claims. The site is the scene of Cali fornia's richest uranium strike to date. But it has been, ruled that the claims of the two firms which had it staked are not valid. This is because the land has been with drawn from mining entry for more than 30 years as a power reserve. The two firms, Kergon and Mir acle, have done development work and have stockpiled ore hoping their claims would be recognized by the federal government when the area was opened. But they weren't, and now it's first come, first served. PORTLAND urn- This metro politan area's seven cities were virtually out of fresh milk Thurs day as dairies and their AFL em ployes remained deadlocked in a contract dispute. No negotiations were scheduled. The union Wednesday went ' on strike against Mayflower Distrib utors, a Dairy Co-operative Assn. affiliate. Then other members of the , Portland - Milk . Distributors' Assn.; saying a strike against one is a strike against all. locked out fe flheir employes and closed tip at the end of the day. . Union drivers responded by vot ing Thursday night not to go back to work until they had been paid lost time by the firms that locked them out. There was little fresh milk left in grocery stores Thursday and the demand grew for powdered milk, which was being produced on a 24-hour basis by some plants. Little Heist Small dairies supplied a trickle of fluid milk but it wasjittle help in a market where Portland, alone, normally uses 318,000 quarts daily. Only one dairy Green Acres at Hillsboro was in operation in Washington County, west of Port land. Other cities hit by the dis pute were Vancouver, Wash.. Bea- verton, Forest Grove, HUlsboro, Gresham and Oregon City. William Lubersky, spokesman for the dairies, said hospitals were getting milk from storage sup plies but that he didn't know how long these would last Switch to Cocoa Portland public schools, which usually consume 15,000 half pints daily in their lunch program, switched to cocoa made with pow dered milk. These also used an orange concentrate. It was not known whether the federal subsidy, requiring that each meal include a half-pint of milk, would be cut off from the schools. Waiver of the requirement was asked by school officials. The dispute is whether manage ment can ' change work schedules without union approval. the ; UAW is pressing on Ford 1 and! General Motors under a strike threat mxt week. The union has announced it in tends to insist on the year-around pay! plan throughout the auto in dustry and other CIO unions are making the same demand in other major mass-production industries. The Detroit News said it learned from a high union official that Ford had offered a 55 million dol lar, three-year "job security" fund that would be "unprecedented in industry. It appears to represent some of the thinking of both Ford's pre vious "partnership in prosperity. offer and the union's guaranteed annual wage plan," the News said. "It accepts the principle of pro viding for a Ford employe while he is out of work the principle on which UAW President Walter P. Reuther insists." S130 MeatMy ' A fund of 55 million dollars built up over three years would mean that the company would con tribute approximately $130 monthly toward the fund for each of Ford's 140,000 workers. The Detroit Free-Press reported Thursday night - the Ford offer would urovide company-paid bene fits supplementing state payments for a maximum 26 weeks, or half a year. The paper said the offer "perhaps could be termed a guar anteed 'semi-annual wage, in stead of a guaranteed annual wage as the UAW is asking. 1045 ef Normal It was also reported that the combined state and company job less payments would aggregate 90 to 65 per cent of a worker's normal "take-home" pay, or tne amounx he gets is his paycheck after tax and other deductions. The UAW has asked for approximately 90 per cent of "take-home" pay as jobless benefit. Possible strikes faced Ford on Monday and GM on Tuesday but it was generally believed only one of the giant auto firms would be sin gled out for any strike action. Woman Sits By Dynamite, Halts Project STURGEON BAY. Wis! m Mrs. Victor Baker, 50, halted pro gress on a highway relocation pro ject for nearly 17 hours by sitting next to a charge of dynamite until she got her money from the state Thursday. A blasting crew had placed a charge on Mrs. Baker's property Wednesday afternoon. When tht.. men were ready to detonate the charge, Mrs. Baker rushed out of her house and sat down next to - the dynamite. She claimed that the state still . owned her $1,500 on $4,000 coming . to her. The money was m payment for the right of way across the property. Door County Sheriff Ernest Glasner was called and he tried to persuade Mrs. Baker to leave -but, Glasjier said, he was power less since the property.' belonged to Mrs. Baker and her husband. As evening set in Mrs. Baker was joined by her husband and the two sat through, the night in then car which was parked near the charge. The blasting crew stayed on during the night t too, in the event that the Bakers would give up. The stalemate came to an end wfien the $1,500 check arrived in Thursday's mail. Tito Resists Rnss Pressures, Policy Statement Shows BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) A declaration of principles was signed between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union Thursday night., but apparently it did not mean that Marshal Tito had given in to Russian pleadings for a political conciliation. The 13-Doint statement was written in general terms ana largely affirmed the policy line of "peaceful co-existence. The document is the result of week-lonz conferences between Yugoslav and Russian leaders, (Additional details on page 3, sec. 1.) Salem Portland '. Baker Medford North Bend San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago 1 New York Max. Min. Preelp. cs 60 70 78 61 76 . 70 . 79 6fi 42 . 4S 39 40 43 45 52 62 57 Willamette River 1.8 feet. trace .05 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 trace NOT LITTERING Investigating a report that boys were littering Roberts Street with cans Thursday, state police found that the boys had been playing kick the can and forgot to remove one can from the road. St. Paul Rodeo Queen Coronation Dante Set Statesman News Service ST. PAUL The annual St. Paul Rodeo Queen coronation dance will be held at the city hall on Friday night, June 10, dance committee chairman Willie Richardson said. At the dance, to start at 9:30 p.m., a Rodeo Queen will be selected Grandma Doss Gets Life for Killine Mates TULSA, Okla tfi Grandma Nannie Doss' gamble on a truiltv plea paid off Thursday as she was given life imprisonment for the murder of one of the four husf' bands she confessed killing with rat poison. District Judge Elmer Adams only other choice for her punish ment was death in the electric chair. - And to have made her the first woman to draw the supreme pen alty in Oklahoma, the judge said, would, have set a -"poor prec edent." "This court has never heard of a woman being put to death for any crime in Oklahoma," Adams said. "It may happen some day. ; . and the people of this state would very reluctantly see such come to. pass. RainPrcdictediNew Salem-Mehama Highway to Take Out Curves, Bypass Towns Salem area will have mostly cloudy skies with" light rain today, clearing to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, according to McNary field weathermen.- - - There will be little change in temnerature.' with a . high today Mr KV a low tonight near' 40. At northern Oregon beaches skies m h rloudv this morning and partly sunny this afternoon. There win be westerly winds ranging from t to 15 miles an hour and a temperature range or 4a3... ANIMAL CRACKERS. V WMRfN 4SOOOWICH 5S1 "H hat a sort e rakish, look like he was combed with a .. Ijf.' Under. Construction . .-K r& ' -. VTy' - - VjQtouii corners , jfC X sd? " J - ,t? ,y Y. Vk, "K5 . SUBLIMITY v u.ii-ffiw . , . . . ! i :,? '. , sTAYTriN y y Coos Bay Lad Dies in Pond COOS BAY W An H-year-o1d boy drowned in an unused miH pond at nearby Bunker Hill Thurs day while; playing on rafts , with another boy. . Dennis Frank, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Frank of Bunker Hill, went under after a raft tilted when he and. Stephen Thorne, 11, got on it. A passerby, Lawrence Marcott. jumped in and rescued young Thome, 'but could not find young Frank. Two other persons also joined in diving for the boy, but he was not found until 30 minutes later: Resuscitation failed. may This Oregoe Highway Department map shows the proposed new highway (heavy black line) te be eoastrweted soon between Salese and Mehama. Rights ef way for the sew read, which will cut through virgii fanning areas and will by-pass most -towns, are stew being acquired, the highway department reported this week. A small portion of the new route extending from Airport Read in East Salem to tie-in with the existing nighway near- Four Corners' (at left;on map) will be LYONS 'I STAYTON nnea Ia traffk thi. inmnrr. The rest of the road win not be completed for several years. It is hoped that grading ef a section between Sublimity and Mehama (where it wiU connect with the already-completed new SanUam Highway) may be let later this year. The new route will measure 19.23 miles in length, compared with 22 miles in the existing read. Hearings for towns ef Sublimity, Stayton and Aumsville, whick will be by-passed by the new road, were held last faU - ITALIAN. RUSS TALKS HELD MOSCOW;, wr . Soviet Foreirn Minister V. M. Molotov and Italian Ambassador Mario Distefano Thursday night discussed improve ment ol relations between their countries and means of relaxing world tensions. Today's Statesman See. Pag : Babsen Report ..IV -4 Classifieds . IV 4-7 Comics III 10 Crossword III 10. Editorials I 4 1 Farm III 11 - Food III 1 .9 Home, Panorama 0, 1 1 Markets .IVL 4 Sports , , . . IV. 1-3 Star Gazer HI 11 TV, Radio . " 10 Valley , II L r -