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- ; - , . , .. . - ' , ' nds Help Dallas Blobdhou Eost Eane, C . 1 ; 1 , ; ; : -W- . The Weather FORECAST (Iran. V. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, tonight and Wednesday: little change in tem perature with highest today ner . 76 and lowest tonight near 42. Temperature at 11:01 a.m. today was 47., SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Tear Last Year Normal 31-23 43.79 3S.44. 105th Year Riiss Agree to Meet At Geneva July IS Reds Refuse to Accept Satellites, Global Communism as Talk Topics By RICHARD KASISCHKE MOSCOW (JPy The Soviet Union agreed Monday to a Big Four meeting at Geneva July 18, but sharply denied that either the sta tus of 'east European Communist nations or the role of international Communism was a matter for the summit conference. - Announcing the acceptance of the time and place, the Russians accused the United Stttes of bringing up such question in a effort We Oregonians laud our state, particularly for its scenic beauty. But how intimately are we-ac- Foreign Secretary Harold Mac quainted with it? I fear that Millan and French Foreign Mini those living on the West side of ster Antoine Pinay. the Cascades are altogether too The foreign ministry summoned ignorant of the vast area of East- j correspondents to hear the reading era Oregon. They travel most 'of a press statement accusing Dul- often to and. from the coast or north and south along Highways 99 and 10L Yet there are splen did highways leading east through the Columbia 4 gorge (US 30) and others making easy mountain crossings: the ML Hood highway around the great moun tain, the Wapinitia, the Santiam, the McKenzie, the Willamette highways and' the highways be-jwith regard to world Communism, tween Ashland . and Klamath 'or the Communist regimes of Po Falls. These excellent roads lead ; land, Albania, Romania, Czecho into Eastern Oregon. So really Slovakia. Hungary and Bulgaria, there is no excuse, as far as, The press statement said no prob roads are concerned, why resi-jlem concernings these states ex dents of Western Oregon should listed. not travel more frequently into the wide open spaces of Eastern . Oregon. : , , It is easy to make a loop trip over a weekend and get a wide variety of scenery cramped into a few hundred miles of travel. This writer and "MebitabeF made such a . circle tour over Sunday. Most of the route was familiar yet such have been the road improvements in late years that it seemed almost new. Our destination was -Heppner to at tend a golden wedding anniver sary of friends on Sunday. The route going was from Portland tip the relocated and widened US 30 following the Columbia, now just at flood stage, as far as Heppner Junction at the mouth of Willow Creek, then up Willow Creek to Heppner,' coun ty seat of. Morrow County. This gets you into a great wheat and livestock (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Slot Machines nrf y m ' lo Lose Slots In Portland PORTLAND (fl Pinball ma chine operators notified the Port land City Council Monday that they would abide by an ordinance banning the machines as they interpret it. . ; j And they interpret the ordinance as banning only machines which 'are operated by placing a coin in a slot. - -: , , . . City officials interpreted this to mean that the operators would. at tempt to operate a new type of pinball machine without coin slots. ; In a letter to the council, the Coin Machine Men of Oregon said they intended to provide "small businessmen and other members of ! the community" with amuse ment devices "not prohibited by any city ordinance." . Police Chief James Purcell Jr. announced earlier that the pinball ordinance would be enforced be ginning Tuesday. The ordinance, which was passed by the council several years ago but appealed by operators as far as the U.S. Su preme Court, became effective last Monday. I Purcell said the police depart ment had been too busy with other matters, including the Port land Rose Festival, to enforce it AIR RACE WINNER TOLD HAVANA. ' Cuba UB Bernice Trimble of Flint. Mich.. Monday night was announced as the winner of the Washington-to-Havana wom en's air race. Her copilot was Jean Bhubec of Cleveland, Ohio. ANIMAL CRACKERS "Tke next drip Is mine!" V WAR ACM OOOfttCM 2 SECTIONS-! 6 PAGES jto torpedo the conference The aim of he meeting, they said, should be -rimarily to '"les sen international tensions." A Soviet note strongly indicated the Kremlin wants the conference of Premier Bulganin, Prime Mini ster Eden, Premier Faure and President Eisenhower to last more than the three or four days sug gested by the West. San Francisco Meeting It is assumed here that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov will dis cuss this point when he meets in San Francisco next week with U. S. Secretary of State Dulles, Bnt- les of attempting to set precondi tions for the conference so as to handicap its aims. Deny Problems Exist Although the forma) note ac cepting the date and time of the conference was not so specific as the press statement, there seemed little doubt the U. S. S. R. would refuse to discuss either its position Flood Threats Li Columbia . . ' ' Basin Eased PORTLAND un Flood threats eased in the Columbia Basin Mon day as low temperatures slowed the snow melt in the mountains. Dikes along the pounding Koo tenai River, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, gave way in one spot Mon day, flooding two wheat farms in the Copeland district as the waters rose rapidly in the hot afternoon. But officials say the dikes are expected to keep the town dry until the Kootenai waters reach 35 feet Elmer Fisher of the River Fore cast Center here said other streams also are expected to level off or start falling slightly in the next few days. No major flooding is expected in the lower Columbia, where the river climbed past flood stage last week in the Vancouver-Portland area. The peak is expected (o be around 20 feet only slightly above the average Columbia freshet. Flood stage is considered to be 15 feet at Vancouver. 18 feet at Portland," but damage is minor when the river is under 24 feet. Partly Cloudy Daj Forecast for Area Weather conditions in the Salem area will continue about the same today and- Wednesday, according to weathermen at McNary Field. The forecast calls for little change in temperatures and par tial cloudiness. Today's, maximum is expected to be around 70. Outlook for Oregon beaches is cloudiness today with some clear ing iii the afternoon. Southwest winds will range from 5 to 15 miles an hour and the mercury will vary from to about 56. Hotel Bus Boy NORTH HOLLYWOOD. Calif. I A Beverly Hills Taotel bus boy was arrested Monday for ques tioning about six hours of terror in which a girl vocalist was stripped and photographed nude and her husband and mother beat en. ' "The Champagne Lady, as pretty, 27-year-old Alice Lon is billed, as met at her door early Sunday by three men wearing surgical rubber gloves and stock ing masks. They ripped off her evening dress and undergarments, swathed her face in adhesive tape and toc seven flash photos of ber as she lay nude on the living room couch. The hoodlums repeatedly kicked and punched ber husband, Robert W. Waterman, 31, former para trooper and southern Methodist University football player, and her mother. Both had been bound with torn sheets and gassed with adhesive tape. Tht Tile Road Sought By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Salem officials will apply to the state public utilities commissioner to have Tile Road grade crossing at the Southern Pacific mainline declared an official public crossing, it was decided Monday night by the City Council. This would pave the way for im provement of the crossing : and maintenance comparable with other crossings.; It has long been used by the 'public but Tile Road has never been officially opened at that point. This City Hall decision came as one of several developments con cerning Southern Pacific opera--tions on Salem streets and one of several discussions of North Salem traffic matters. ; Badge! Adopted 4 Aldermen at their regular ses sion last night also adopted in final form the $3 million city budget for the coming year and started the first proceeding under new city law for assessing the cost of a service water main to the owners of properties served. (Additional details on page 2, sec. 1.) Three proposed 10-year spur track franchise renewals for Sou thern Pacific also, were introduced at the Council meeting. Coming up for possible final action June 27 will be the franchises for spurs on Trade and Front Sts., at the Court and Water Sts. intersection and or. Front and Division Sts. Also aired briefly was text of the official offer from the railroad to come to terms with the city on the long-planned 12th Street wid ening.' program. The railroad is offering its strip of land on the west side of 12tn. north of Court, to the city on a permanent ease ment basis, instead of actually deeding the property as requested by the city. ; Farther Study Dae This and other details will be studied further by the city officials, ii was decided, although Mayor Robert F. White declared: "Basically we are in agreement on this plan and it's only a matter of the city manager, attorney and engineer working out the details with SP." Another change sought by SP would see the city paying $48,680 instead of $31,750 toward the cost of new drop arm warning signals at mainline crossings. Next Big Steps 1 Next big steps will be closing other property negotiations and ob taining PUC permission for the new dty-SP agreement. The city voters approved a $200,000 bond is sue for the work which may get started later this year. 4 Tile Road surfacing at city ex pense east of the railroad was ad vocated by Earl Mootry, Holly wood druggist, one of a North Sa lem business delegation at the Council meeting to urge appropri ation of funds for that project and for widening of Fairgrounds Rd. Mootry said Tile Rd. would be important for acess to the Holly wood business section from a large Salem area North of Market St. (Additional Council news on Page 2, Sec. 1.) , Max. S 6 - 81 - SI 37 70 - SS 55 12 Min. 38 48 40 47 45 40 52 50 61 Preclp. .M .oo .00 trace .00 .00 trace trace .00 trace Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roseburg , San Francisco Chicago L New York Lew Anir'f , 63 30 Willamette River 3.S feet Questioned in Crossin graphy of Singer Joseph M. Cannon. 25. was ar rested Monday morning at his North Hollywood home and booked at the Van Nuys jail on suspicion of robbery. . Thad Brown, chief of Los An geles police detectives, said: "He's one of her fan club members and has taken a lot of pictures of ber at the ballroom where she ap pears. He's a very persistent sort of guy about taking pictures. Brown said Miss Lon had named Cannon among others as persist ent picture-takers. ' But Cannon declared he is inno cent and was in San Bernardino with friends at the time of the in vasion of the singer's North Holly wood home. Detectives Frank Lynch and Don Sheldon said Cannon had a coHec tioi of photographs of the "Cham pagne lady as well as five copies of morning newspaper! describing the assault . POUNDD Oregon Statesman, Saltm, Oregon, Playground Activity Jumps Off to Fast Start I I Isr'ffVl I. Playgrounds throughout the city ( Wry. f ' r H u in: u vu tin f - $i i v; - ' water at the two public swimming pools was cold as is usually still attracted large crowds. Playgrounds were busy. Shown jumping rope at the West Salem park are (from left to right) Gail Lochead, playground supervisor; Sandra Stewart, Vicki Estill and Timmy Noffsinger. (Statesman Photo). j School Board Favors Consolidation Stateimaa Newt Serrict KEIZER The Keizer School Board went on record -Monday, as unanimously in favor o! the consolidation of the Keizer School District with the Salem district. The issue will be voted upon in the two districts Monday, June 20. The Salem school board bad Ridgvay to Head Institute Of Research PITTSBURGH (J J Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway. 60, retiring Army chief of staff, Monday was named chairman of the board of trustees of Mellon Institute of In dustrial Research. ! : Ridgway's appointment was an nounced by Richard K. Mellon, a member of the board and a son of Richard B. Mellon, a founder of the institute. Mellon said Ridgway would as sume his duties about the middle of September. Ridgway will retire from the Army June 30, Dr. Edward R. Weidlein, 68, president of the institute, has been filling the duties of chairman. Weidlein will continue as president and a member of the board. Ridgway will assume chief ad ministrative responsibility of the institute, freeing Dr. j Weidlein for specific . research leadership. The institute does industrial and scientific research in chemistry, physics, biology, engineering and allied fields. Its work is non-profit. t . Scott Heads Oregon Lions With Salem's Harry W. Scott in the top role as "president of Ore gon State Lions Club, a large dele gation of Salem businessmen and their wives took part Monday in opening events of the state con vention of the service; club at Pendleton. j Scott was elected to the top state office at a pre-conventkn board session, succeeding. Ray Jeub, Coquille. Scott, Salem cycle dealer and school board member, is , a charter member of the downtown Salem Lions Club, having helped found it in 1922. " j ' ; f Among the 1,000 Oregon mem bers of the international service club at the convention are more than 20 from Salem.; The down town, Hollywood, Keizer, South Salem and East Salem and West Salem Lions clubs are represented. Vandals Mar School Busses! GRANTS PASS Of) Fourteen of 24 Josephine County school dis trict busses were damaged over the weekend by vandals. The busses, parked at the subur ban Fruitdale school grounds, were entered through pried-open emer gency doors. The vandals appar ently held down starters while the busses were in gear, and crashed them into each other. School SupL Elmer Fleming said there was much body and glass damage. He made no immediate cost estimated. ! ; Tuesday, Junel 4, 1955 "' !; - in-, mi ni,juunm..li."n,m(nii ' mn") I opened Monday afternoon as fair previously unanimously endorsed the merger proposal. A statement issued Monday by Keizer board chairman Ralph Sip prell said: "Irrespective of any other issues that may be involved in the matter of consolidation of the K e 1 x e r School district with the Salem School district, which matter is to be voted upon June 20, it is the unanimous position of the Keizer school board that the repeal of the non-high school district law by the 1955 Legislature makes consolida tion of the two districts imperative. "The Keizer school board not only recommends a favorable vote on the matter of consolidation, but also upon the Keizer school budget and the nan-high budget, under which the cost of educating Keizer students attending high school will be taken care of during the 1935-56 school year." The Keizer district-hastwo ele mentary schools, Keizerwith 23 classrooms, and Cummings with 10. Over 250 Keizer junior high and senior higt pupils were transport ed to Salem schools this past school year. Cherry Fruit Fly Emerges Cherry fruit fly emerged Satur day, and all owners of cherry trees will need to start their spray or dust program immediately and maintain a protective spray or dust cover on their trees until harvest Either lead arsenate, methoxy chlor or rotenone sprays or dusts are recommended for cherry fruit fly control. Lead arsenate or metboxychlor is recommended for processing cherries. A rotenone or lead arsenate program is recom mended on cherries for fresh mar ket use, according to D. L. Ras mussen, Marion County agent Reutlier Predicts Organization of Office Workers NEW YORK UH - CIO President Walter : Reuther said Monday as soon as the merger of the CIO and AFL is completed, the new labor group will undertake a mass organization campaign among white collar workers. Reuther. in a statement read at the annual convention of the AFL Office Employes International Un ion, said white collar workers are "the forgotten men and women of modern industry." Howard Coughlin, president of the union, estimated there are some 14 million unorganized office workers in the nation. About four million of these are employed by government agencies, he said. POISON FISH KILL 14 MANILA m Poison fish killed 14 persons in Guinadiongon village on the Leyte Island north coast the Philippine Red Cross said Mon day. Eighty persons were in criti cal condition. ' '' C'V- CI - 0, PRICE 5c 4 weather continued. Although the the case the first few days they Salem Pools Crowded on Opening Day Salem children turned cut by the hundreds for opening of public playgrounds and swimnins pools Monday, as if they'd beej j, waiting tne rccasior. ail year. ; Fair weather promsted big crowd j at both Leslie and Olinger outdoor swim pools,! and for a while the Olinger Pool was so crowded that attendants could let the waiting lineup of kids in at only 10 at a time. Girls and boys got acquainted with organized play supervisors at 10 p. ay grounds throughout the city mostly at public schools. And Summer Director Vernon Gilmore's baseball staff was work ing out plans for expanded partici pation this summer in "peewee lea gue" baseball. i This baseball program for young er boys is being split into two groups at Leslie and Olinger, with boys to 9 reporting from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and boys 10 to! 12 coming from 2:30 to 4:30. Schedule hasn't been worked out yet at Washington and West Salem schools. A total of 875 youngsters 300 at Olinger and 575 at Leslie filled the two pools. This was consider ably better than last year when a chilly opening day drew only 100 swimmers. j Weekday pool hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sundays, 1 to 9 p.m. Neighborhood playgrounds have supervised activities Mondays through Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m. mmfm NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem 3. Eugene 4 Af. Yakima 3 Wenatchee 6 At Lewiston 12, Spokane 4 I PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At San Diego 4. All-Stars 7 . Only game scheduled. i NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati 6. Milwaukee 4 Only game scheduled. Bean Growers As Sun Blesses By LILLTE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Members of the Oregon Bean Growers Association were in a jovial mood Monday night as they ; gathered at. Mayflower Hall for their annual meeting, j Last year, the growers recalled that much of the talk at the annual meeting had to do with the replant ing of beans, as the majority of the first plantings decayed in the ground.' This year ; weather was such that only a few acres had to be replanted, the growers reported. Acreage this year is up 500, go ing from 7,000 acres in 1934, to 7,500 this season. Cash price per graded ton is to be the same as last year. For grade Number 1, the price will be $165, with $140 for the second, $92.50 for the third, and $65 for the poorest grade, j Recommendation will go to the labor board for the same picking price, too, as last year, when 24 cents a pound, with V cent bonus to those who remained throughout the season, was paid. ! , No. 79 CD Test Leaflets Ready Five thousand "explanation" leaf lets will be distributed to Salem area motorists by police during the first 30 minutes of a civil defense exercise Wednesday morning. To the tune of air raid whistles about 8 a.nf. Salem city police, Marion County sheriffs deputies and sheriff's reserves and state po lice will man 20 strategic traffic points in this area. Vehicular traffic will be stopped, handed the leaflets and permitted to move on its way. Salem with the rest of the state will participate in a national civil defense exercise. in which the simulated bombing of Portland will provide fodder for activity in this area. An estimated 200 Salem and Mar ion County civil defense workers will 1 actually participate in some form or other in the exercise, said Marion County CD Director Wal lace Wharton on Monday. , (Additional story on page 5, sec 1.) Adenauer Says Ties to West WASHINGTON W Chancellor! Konrad Adenauer arrived Monday for talks with President Eisenhow er and quickly turned down an ex pected Soviet move to neutralize West Germany in the cold war. "My countrymen are convinced," he said, "that a close and loyal partnership with the peoples of the free world on the basis of the treaties which have recently come into force is the best means of maintaining peace and freedom.' Adenauer, looking tanned and vi gorous despite his 79 years, said his people - consider - their vnewly ratmea Atlantic pact alliance with the West as "the best means of obtaining the peaceful reunifica tion of Germany in freedom." Adenauer's arrival aboard a Ger man commercial airliner coincided with Russia's formal acceptance of plans for a meeting . of Big Four heads of government . in Geneva July 18. This Big Four conference, as well as a Russian invitation for Adenauer to visit Moscow, are scheduled to be the prime topics of conversation when he meets officially Tuesday morning with President Eisenhower and Secre tary of State Dulles. Later in New York Adenauer will, confer with the western Big Three foreign min isters. Adenauer, apparently anxious to start his round of conferences, called at the State Department to talk with Dulles a few hours after his arrival. ' EMBARRASSED DRIVER An officer spotted a vehicle with expired license plates Monday morning and cited the woman driv er. When asked her occupation she said she was an employe of the State Motor Vehicle License Bur eau, city police said. - Today's Statesman Classifieds Comics Crossword Editorials . Home, Panorama l.. Markets Sports .ll....l,2 Star Gaxr .ll..;. 7 TV, Radio .ll . . 4 Valley . .....II ... 2 in Good Mood First Plantings U i The last year's crop has been prettj well cleaned up growers also reported Monday night. While some processed beans remain in storage in Oregon processors' warehouses, growers said these were practically all contracted. Gordon Walker of Independence, was automatically elevated to the presidency, replacing E. D. Slide- well of Aumsville, retiring presi dent. Walker represents the cash- price growers. W. Vera Chamber lain, Turner, representing the co operative growers, was elected sec retary. There are only two officers, Slidewell explained to the new growers. Each year the secretary is moved to the presidency and a new secretary is elected. As one officer must represent the cash growers and the other the co-op growers, the choice of secretary alternates between the two. groups. Walker estimates that at peak season some 60,000 pickers were employed in Oregon bean fields, requiring some 12,000 workers in processing plants in. the state to take care of the beans. Reich to Keep Sec. Pag .. II....6, 7 II... 4 .. 3 I.. 4 78-Year-Old ManUnfiarraed By 4-Day Trek EUGENE A 78-year-old man who kept his bead while lost for four days in a Cascade Ranee wilderness area was rescued in good , condition Monday with the aid of a pack of Dallas, Ore., bloodhounds. Leo Hibbs of Blue River, who walked in to the Three Sisters wilderness area tn on fichin Thursday, survived four nights in n . . me open, including one night when temperatures diDDed low am) tnn felL - Upwards of 50 men searched for him, and . Ken Mavs and Garv Hubbe of Blue River finally came across him Monday morning: a half-mile from Linton Lake, where Hibbs had gone to fish. Hibbs told them he caught fish for food, cookinz them nvpr th fires he built each ni?ht Hp nsmf fir boughs to make a bed each night , . j Sleeping Place It was one of his sleeping places that put searchers on his traiL They had about given up hope Sunday. Bloodhounds had lost his trail, and had been sent home. Then searchers found a trampled place where Hibbs had mad ramn Saturday night i That discovery was made Sun day afternoon, and Norman Wilson of Dallas and his three bloodhounds were called 'back to the scene. Lead U Tracks The dogs took un the trapkinir and Monday morning the search ers found fresh tracks of Hibbs in the snow that fell Sunday night. The searchers said Hibbs had nearly found the wav tn safprv himself Saturday. His tracks came within 50 vard nf tfca Mrn'. Highway but at that point the mgnway is not yet open to travel for it still is covered by winter snow. If Hibbs had rrrvimi7Ad if the hiehwav. he could hi walked to safety a few miles to tne west. Carried One Mile The rescuers said Hibhs strong enoush to walk with them to Linton Lake, and then part-way around the lake before Ire com plained of being tired. He wasput on a stretcher there and caifried the remaining mile to the high way. Later-at a Eugene hospital a doctor who examined Hibbs said his condition was so .good that. i woman t nave believed it if I had not seen it I Hibbs said he had eaten three fish in the four days, that he was lost. When asked what he wanted for dinner Monday night, he re plied: "Anythinf but fish. Peron Blames Church Clergy For Disorders By FRED L. STROZIER BUENOS AIRES, Argentina () President Juan Peron Monday night charged the Roman Catholic clergy with waging a systematic campaign of calumny against him and his late wife, and threatened to put down "with all energy dis orders growing out of his feud with the church. 1 Peron spoke from his residence in Palermo after a week-end of riots between his followers and supporters of the Roman Catholic church, the state church of Argen tina. Twenty-nine persons were hurt in the disorders and hundreds were arrested. ','. Charge Cathedral Fresh fighting broke out Monday night in the plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires when a crowd of Peron adherents charged upon the Metropolitan cathedral and the adjoining palace of Argen tina's cardinal in an effort to plant an Argentine flag atop the palace. The attack was repulsed by church supporters guarding f the building. No one was hurt, apparently, in the fighting, j Conciliatory Tone Speaking in an unusually con ciliatory tone, Peron urged the people to be calm, and declared his police and government were strong enough to put down disbr ders. ; He said he had tried patiently for 12 years to live in peace with the church, i , ; But he said be had now lost hope the church hierarchy would ever be willing to recognize his good intentions, and he placed full blame on the Catholic clergy for the disorders over the weekend. Ho caiI hie raaima umil4 o f 'with discipline and energy" if the occasion arose. Systematic Attack . He then charged the clergy in recent years with waging a sys tematic fight against his late wife, Eva, and her social welfare pro gram. He declared the clergy .directed systematic calumny against mem bers of the women's Peronista party, refused to say Mass on oc casions during the Alness and after the death of his wife, campaigned relentlessly against the ideology of the Peronista party and spread ru mors abroad that were designed U discredit his government. ' Earlier Monday federal police raided the palace of Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello. searching bis rooms and arresting 430 persons inside. v ! Thirty-seven other persons were reported by police to have been arrested Sunday night and Mon day.' . '-. , ; . v. v -