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Polk tog AABSNewvYorIc Visitors afeilt KUNDBD 1651 ,105th Ytar 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES Jht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, June 13, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 71 G Auto Workers Okeh Pact ft M NEW YORK This Douglas Fir giant from the timbered slopes of the Willamette Valley is on display In Rockefeller Plaza. The 24-fooUong, 7-foot diameter log was eat! on Western Logging Co. hold- ings near Valsetx last month and started on a 4,500 mile goodwill tour to Atlanta, Ga by the Ore- fon Junior Chamber of Commerce. This is the first time such a log has been on display in New ork. Driver Gerry Kncker of Portland is shown pointing out rings in the 22-ton forest king to two curious New York visitors. Unless the Senate inserts a pro vision for an appropriation for starting planning on the John Day Dam, and makes it stick, the pro ject farts delay of at least year. This is the most practical of all the projects which are in con templation in the Colombia Basin. IV would not only provide a big block of. power but would improve greatly navigation on the Colum bia, permitting the use . of -much larger barges. Nor is this project all bound up in controversy. While a partnership proposal pends, it contemplates planning and con struction and operation by the Corps of Engineers, with local dis tributing agencies sharing in the financing. "The planning could go forward while Congress debated Rep. Coon's partnership bill. - Failure of the House Appropria tions committee to include an in itial sum, for this purpose in its bill for public works is a damaging blow to prospects for keeping hy droelectric development in step with probable demand. The ex planation is that the committee took a "very conservative ap proach, and rejected all new starts. However, taking a slap at! the administration it diverted the $6,500,000 proposed for transmis sion lines to connect the Dixon Yates generating plant with the TVA system, anT applied it in stead to the construction of a sew steam power plant for TVA. As I have written before, things have come almost to an impasse as far as regional development of;had Tele&sed rom jail's hydroelectric (low cost) energy is concerned. The Pelton Dam de cision of last' week may open the '. (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Portlander Killed, Six Hurt in Crash FOREST GROVE I Mrs. Rilev Batev was killed and six persons, all from Portland, were injured in a two-car collision on the Wilson River Highway near here Sunday, j . . The injured six, including Mrs. Batey's husband, Riley, and their on. and three in the other car were taken to a HiHsboro hospital. They were not believed seriously Injured. ! BIG BLAZE IN JAPAN " AOMORI. Janan W Fire of unknown origin swept through 50 Duiiaings nere aunaay m oi uiciu, residences before it. was con- trolled. No injuries were reported :? ANIMAL CRACKERS yfiy WARRIN OOOMICM Well. well, another day, . ; Bother? n ; , - v ... ''! 'Ti;; ... !' Giant Valley Log On Display Today In New York City NEW YORK W A huge log that came from a 1.000-year-old tree has been placed on display on Rockefeller Plaza. The log is 24 feet long, has a diameter of seven feet and weighs more than 22 tons. - . " It once was a section of a. giant Douglas fir tree near Salem, Ore. The Oregon State Junior Chamb er of Commerce is taking the log on . a 4500 mile good-will tour from Portland to Atlanta, Ga. where it will "become the official Oregon State float in the Junior Chamber of Commerce convention June 20 24. Oregon Con Breaks Out Of Utah Jail LOGAN, Utah If) Two men sawed their way out of the 68-year-old Cache County JaQ here Sunday and fled in a car which had been parked nearby with the keys in It . An alarm for the pair was spread through Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. County Sheriff Wesley G. Malm berg identified the escapees as Gordon S. Little, 37. Rogue River, Ore., and Harry Edwin Vickerman, SI a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. He said Little,, under life sentence in Oregon under the state's habitual criminal act, could be considered dangerous "especially if he gets hold of a gun. Malmberg said the men turned up missing shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday, about an hour after they main cell. He said they made- their escape by sawing the hinges from the main door of the structure. They were the only inmates. The sheriff explained that the jail built in 1887 is tiny and primitive. He said it has been the practice to open the cell doors during the daytime to give' prison ers the run of the building. The outside doors are locked, be said, and a guard usually isn't posted in the daytime, He said the prisoners apparently used a sawblade to remove the hinges, but there was no indication of how they got it. The officer said Little was await ing sentence on a grand larceny and burglary conviction in Logan. He had been free on $3,000 bond while his habitual criminal sen tence was being appealed in Ore gon when he was arrested last January. Vickerman was being held on a ; fraudulent check charge. - , w-'" (Jar KaiUS JrOle, Girl Rider Dies PORTLAND in Phyllis ' J. Blair. 19, of Portland was injured fatally Sunday when a car she was riding in crashed into a telephone pole. ' The driver of the car, Ronald H. Stempel, 19, a Lewis and Clark College athlete from Portland, suf fered minor injuries. Miss Blair was Portland's 22nd traffic fatality of the year. EDEN S8 SUNDAY LONDON ur Prime Minister Eden was SS years old Sunday but he found little time for cele brating. 5 . , 1 r .. . . Welk Singer Stripped by Masked Men NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. IB Alice Lon, 27, the "Champagne Lady", singer with the Lawrence Welk, orchestra, was stripped of her clothing by three masked ban dits and two members of her fam ily were brutally beaten during a night of terror, police reported. Investigators said Miss Lon and her husband and mother were forced to swallow sleeping pds by the bandits who photographed the disrobed singer and did not leave the home until daybreak Sunday. Ware Masks, Gloves Miss Lon's husband, Robert W. Waterman, 31. a Pasadena social worker, said he was dozing in front of the television set in his home when the three men. wearing stocking masks and rubber surgi cal gloves, burst into the bouse shortly after, midnight. Miss Lon's mother, Mrs. Mary Wyche. was sleeping in a back room but was awakened when one of the intruders grabbed her around the throat. Waterman : said the masked men demanded money and when told there was none in the house one replied: "We're going to wait until Alice, gets home. The orchestra plays to 2 (a. m.) and she doesn't come home tintil 3:30. Took Photographs Miss Lon's husband told police detectives Frank Lynch and Don Sheldon that when his wife finally arrived she was slugged in the abdomen, bound with strips of sheets and i her face completely covered with adhesive tape. Waterman said the bandits then removed her clothing and began taking pictures. f During the six-hour ordeal Wat erman said he and Mrs. Wyche were frequently hit and kicked. Feared for Children The detectives said the victims were terrified and apparently be cause of fears for the safety of their children did not call police until some five hours after the bandits left.!" , Both Waterman and Miss Lon said they were threatened if they called police and one of the men told the singer the pictures taken oi her. would be "turned over to the newspapers. GEN. TAYLOR ENROUTE BEIRUT, j Lebanon Ufi Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor arrived in Bei rut Sunday, on his way to Wash ington from Tokyo to become the new U. S. Army Chief of Staff. IKE BACK ON JOB WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower! returned to the Whi, House Sunday night from his cm try home at Gettysburg. Pa. NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem 8-9. Tri-City h- At Wenatchee 4-13. LewUton 3- ; At Yakima 5-. Spokane 4-19 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Sacramento S-2. Portland 1-10 ' At Hollywood 1S-S, Los Angeles 1-4 . At San Francisco 4-4. Oakland i-f. At San Diego 2-2. Seattle l- ' ! - , ; NATIOKAL! LEAGUE At Brooklyn 5-. Chicago S-3 , At New York S-S. St. Louis 3-4 ; ; At Philadelphia 12. Cincinnati I At Pittsburgh 9-5, Milwaukee 3-4 f - AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland 10-7. New York 2-3 At Chicago 1-S. Washington 0-4, At Kansas City 1-3. Baltimore 7-f At Detroit-Boston, raia - Santiai Upset Junket An Explorer Scout plan to con quer the North Santiam in rubber life rafts was upset in mid stream Sunday, but none of the party of 36 scouts and two ad visors met with serious mishap. Five of the six rafts : in which the mid-valley youths were mak ing the 50 mile, jaunt capsized near Stayton Sunday ; morning, spewing them into the river. So they made the rest of the trip to the Santiam River bridge on 99E by truck. . : The scouts, from Salem, Al bany, Silverton, Scio and Sweet Home, began their down-river jaunt at Taylor's Bridge on the Little North Fork of the Santi am as part of a three-day "sur vival" outing. Because melting snow had sent the river up the party bypassed a section of rough river from Lyons to Stay ton, continuing their jaunt from Stayton Sunday. ! Shortly after launching the rafts Sunday they were spilled into the river, but all managed to drift from an island to the main shore. f Advisors for the jaunt which included coaching in all forms of survival techniques were Ken Jury, Albany district scout execu tive, and LL Fred B Ewing, Region 11 staff Explorer officer of the U. S. Air Force. In their two nights in the woods, the scouts ranging in age from 14 to 18, built shelters and simulated wilderness food supply. Bridge Falls After Collision Of Two Autos i ELWOOD. Ind. U) Two auto mobiles collided on a bridge Sat urday night and the bridge col lapsed, tossinc both cars into a creek. Two voun? men from Tinton Ind.. were killed, .and three resi dents of Alexandria, Ind., were in jured. i The dead were Lawrence Plake, about 21. and John R Sullivan. 22, a passenger in Plaice's car. ' State police reported the two autos rammed together on a sus pension bridge across Pipe Creek and the bridge gave way. I The bodies of Plake and Sulli van were found in Plake's car, which was standing upright in 3li feet of water. Today's Statesman Sec. Page ..411.-6,7 Lll 5 Classifieds Comics Crossword Editorials New Hampshire ..ll ... 3 Sports LII....1, 2 Star Gazer L. I 3 TV, Radio L.ll. S Valley Ill 3 Woman, Panorama I 6 World This Week II..- 4 far '.-(. ,v-v f 1 , , ; I t I . . . 11 ' ii w it f .. iv ..... r- t pfj - 0 '."1.1 -r ' v.. LE MANS, France Here is a general view af the scene of death and havoc at Le Mans, France, fallowing the collision of two. sports ears in a 24-hour endurance race. One car burst into flames and hurtled inta troop af spectators kiUint? manv. Workers I: he Mans Race Toll Reaches 77, Eight of Injured Near Death LE MANS. France m This mecca of auto racing fans was stunned Sunday Its morgue overflowing with 77 dead and its hospitals filled with injured in the aftermath of the greatest disaster ever seen at a speed track. The Le Mans 24-hour road race for sports cars ground to a finish under, a paR of mourning for the driver and the spectators who per ished The winner. Britisher Mike Haw thorn in a Jaguar, set a record Puts icience Honeymakers On Time Clock NEW YORK or An interna tional experiment will begin Mon day to determine whether bees have built-in clocks. Dr. Max Renner, a German sci entist, is to arrive by plane from Paris with a hive of 5,000 bees. The bees will be rushed to the American Museum of Natural His tory where the experiments will begin. All of the bees were trained at the University of Paris to merge from their hive from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. each night to drink sugar water from a table in a room. Control Temperature Every effort was made to con trol temperature, humidity and il lumination. An exact duplicate of the room has been shipped to the museum here. It has been assembled to match the room in France, even to the direction it faced and the chair on which one of the scientists will sit The question now is will theJ bees come out of the hive as they did in Paris and hunt for the sugar water? Iaherited Clock? From t:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Paris, of course, will be 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in New York, and that's .when they're expected. X If the bees do emerge, the sci entists believe it will indicate the bees' time clock is probably in herited since most outside influ ences such as daylight, climate and temperature have been elimi nated. After three days of testing, the bees will be trained on another feeding schedule and then rushed back to Paris to repeat the experi ment. The experiments are 'being fi nanced by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. CHOOSE MISS GERMANY BADEN BADEN, Germany Of) Margit Nuenke, a 24-year-old blonde photographer's model whose favorite pasttime is solving crossword puzzles, was elected Miss Germany here Saturday night. ROSE FETE ENDS PORTLAND UT Portland's 47th annual Rose Festival ended Sun day with the Golden Rose ski races on the slopes of Mt. Hood and with the traditional rose planting ceremony by the junior court. Shambles After Crash but liis feat was greeted with only mild i applause. j Officials listed 77 dead and 76 injured. An earlier list put. the toll at 83 dead and 80 hurt,! but offi cials explained there had been sev eral duplications, with some mar ried women also listed under their maiden names. Six or eight of the injured, it was feared, would die. j No Americans were among tire spectator dead. One American was j injured Roy Hunton, a U.S. sol dier stationed at an Army hospi tal in Orleans. There was no in formation on his condition or his hometown. 1 The accident occurred Saturday afternoon, 2,.i hours after the race started. j A flaming German Mercedes Benz, driven by a Frenchman, hurtled over a retaining wall and into the crowd pressed against the barrier near the main grandstand. The driver. Pierre Levegh, was among those killed instantly. In Convict Back, Says He Left to Cure Asthma Robert Bob, 47-year-old Indian escapee from the state prison an nex, early Sunday turned himself in. and told Warden C. T. Gladden he left to avoid the readily-available tobacco on which he blames his asthma. "I have never heard a story l:ke that before," observed War den Gladden. ; Convicted murderer ' Bob, who wklked away a week ago Sunday night, told Gladden he spent the six days roaming around in the hills in the Silver Falls State Park area. He said the outing cured his asthma and he thinks he has broken the smoking habit j Gladden said Bob was picked up t by prison guards some five miles from the park where he phoned the prison from a farm house. ' ! i"He didn'- have anything to eat I noticed he was a little gaunt," observed Gladden of Bob who wore his , prison clothes all the time he was away, i I Bob, who was serving a life sentence after a 1937 conviction for the death . of his wife, had been paroled once. However, he violated parole three months ago after complaining f.by telephone to two or three guards that he didn't like it on the outside be cause it was too lonesome. Truman to Talk at U.N. Anniversary i i ; united nations; N.Y. UFi Former President Harry S. Tru man has accepted an invitation to speak at the 10th anniversary ses sion of the United Nations in San Francisco June 20-26. ; -This was announced Sunday by U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, who said Truman will speak on Friday evening, June 24. in French Auto VA i r j '" i0 4 f remove one of the! bodies in left foreground. Smoke rises from burning ear on other side an fence in center. Death toll has reached 77. (AP YYirephoto via radiw from Paris), ; sign of mourning, the other Mer cedes cars were , withdrawn from the race. A ' The fatal car's gasoline tank had exploded. The front two thirds of the racer landed in the terrified crowd. The rear end stayed near the track and burned. ' Race officials announced that despite the tragedy the 24-hour test will be continued next year and ensuing years. But there appeared to be little enthusiasm for the event Sunday. v . Paramedic Saves Flier From Ocean ANCHORAGE An Air Force paramedic jumped from a helicopter into Cook Inlet Saturday night to save a radar observer who had been in the frigid water for 90 minutes after an emergency bail out. The rescued airman was 2nd Lt. Elvon Anderson, of the 66th fight er interceptor squadron, who had been ordered to parachute from an F89D jet by the pilot after the plane developed engine trouble. Dangles in Air But it was a bone-chilling res cue for Anderson. After the 71st Air Rescue Squadron paramedic, Airman l.C. Howard C. Griff us, dropped into the water to attach a harness to the man who was too cold to do it himself, it was im possible to draw the latter up into the helicopter. The rescue craft had to fly to Susitna Flats with! Anderson dangling below in the! chilly air. Plane Lands Safely Lt. Anderson, who spent the 90 minutes in the water, was reported today to be suffering from shock and exposure. : The plane from . which he was ejected also survived the incident safely. Lt Paul J. Leming Jr., who had ordered Anderson to pa rachute. succeeded in landing safe ly at Elmendorf Base. COIN STUCK ; Salem Memorial Hospital's fluoroscope showed late Sunday that the quarter-size Mexican coin swallowed by Dwight Moen, 8, of North Dakota was stuck at his stomach's entry. " It was felt it would pass through, so he was given a pain-killing shot and sent home. Max. Min. Prcclp. Salrm ; 73 .0 Portland 68 50 .00 Baker 85 53 .00 Medford 82 1 56 .00 North Bend 59 49 .00 Roseburg 73 44 .00 San Francisco 67 -53 trace Chicago .55 SO trace New York 71 58- .02- Lou Angele 87 59 ' .00 " i Willamette River 4.9 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Fair today, tonight and Tuesday except lor some morning cloudiness. Little change in temperature with high today near 75. low tonight near 48. .' Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 43. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 Thli Tear La ft Year Normal 31.22 43.79 38.40 Race TTT) W.' tfO ,s l 1 4. ' ' Annual Wage Feature in Agreements By NORMAN WALKER DETROIT tfl General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Work ers announced agreement oil a new contract early Monday. The agreement includes a guar anteed wage plan paralleling one negotiated last week by the Ford Motor Co, GM and the union after a mara thon bargaining session reached a three-year agreement covering 373,000 wage earners represented by the UAW. 60 Days of Talks The agreement climaxes 60 days of negotiations, with final talks winding up ' early Monday after continuing almost without inter ruption since just after noon Sat urday. Harlow Curtice, GM president, said in a statement following the agreement that the new pact "holds out the promise of three more years of industrial peace for our employes. "Under it we hope to continue to make progress in our business for our employes and their fam ilies, our dealers, our suppliers, and the general public." The GM settlement, like Ford's, included wage increases and pen sion, insurance, holiday and vaca tion improvements. Matches Ford UAW president Walter Reuther thus nailed down with General Mo tors the same guaranteed wage plan first negotiated with Ford. The two firms together account for nearly three-fourths of the, na tion's auto production. ' .Just as in the Ford plan, GM agreed to contribute five cents per . hour per employe beginning last June 1 toward a fund to pay work ers supplemental sums when they are idled for up to 26 weeks and up to 60 to 65 per cent of their normal take-home pay. Other features ot the GM agree ment were: Wage Adjustment Two cents an hour to be dis tributed in adjusting wage inequi- An eight-cent hourly increase for skilled trades employes. Improved pensions so that pay ments are at least 28 per cent higher both for employes already retired and those who retire in the future. Improved insurance benefits. Increased night shift differen tials. Adds Paid Holiday An additional paid holiday con sisting of a half day on Christmas Eve and a half day on New Year s Eve. A full union shop requiring em ployes to be union members. GM heretofore had a modified form of union shop, while Ford and other motor companies had the full type. Playgrounds, Pools Open In City Today Salem's public pool and play ground season opens today, which will be fair of sky and about as warm as Sunday when the tem perature reached 73. The pooh at Leslie Junior High and dinger Park near .North Salem High open at 1 p.m. today. After today, weekday pool hours will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and 1 to 9 p.m. on Sundays. Playground supervised play likewise opens in the afternoon today and runs Mondays through Fridays until Aug. 28 from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 pjn. McNary Field weathermen see fair weather today, tonight and Tuesday except for some morning cloudiness. Today's high will be about 75, tonight's low, 48. Woman's Skirt Helps Check Fire BISHOP, 'Calif. (JH The U.S. Forest Service says an unidenti fied woman helped control a forest Cre by doffing her skirt. She and her husband discovered the blaze near highway 3S5 in Rock Creek Canyon, a Forest Serv ice spokesman said Saturda. The husband used the skirt as a bucket to carry water from the creek and : check the fire until rangers arrived and put it out. You Can Take . It With You! Contrary to the old saying, you CAN take it with you. Whea yon tjo an vacation, keep up on the news of the world, your state and your city. A phone call to Salem 4-6811 ss all you need to have The Oregon Statesman sent to you wherever you are. Your COMPLETE Newspaper i i
