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Newspaper Page TextVoters, in Salem, Keizer App rove Schools Merger : Gus Moore, Mrs. Brydon to Keep Positions on Salem School Board Consolidation of the populous Keizer elementary scnool district north of Salem with the larger Salem district was approved by voters in both districts Monday night. Salem district voters turned out in "light" numbers to elect Tk rcralts af the teheel election elude: Preciart Cousojidatiaa Yes M 49 .114 S4 :4 ss BighUW Grant Richmond Moralngside . Pour Corner West Salem . Waihlnftoa Englewood Adm. -Build. . LnHt rOTAL ss 17 S7 77 ICS 131 1J4 991 M 14 22 U 111 14 112 S37 Gus Moore and MrsJ Edith Brydon directors.. They defeated Charles 033 i When the ti. S. Supreme Court banded down its decision in the Peltoff-Dara case cries of alarm were raised that the states had lost control of waters to the federal government I was one who was apprehensive of that result but I 1 1 LrLr JLUl ana counseled waiting for.the full text jiei Zr.A the!SaIem h,gh schools . . . j . er . ..AW ! nope mai u oia not aura, sum matters as state control of appro priation of waters for purposes of irrigation. Chief Justice Harold J. Warner of our Supreme Court has given me an erly copy-of the de cision and a close reading . of it makes it abundantly clear that the highest court did not make any ruling stripping states of powers eer use of waters conveyed in cer tain acts of Congress, notably the Desert Land Act of 1877. What the court did was to sustain the Feder al Pover Commission in its award of a license to a power company, ever the objection of the Oregon ' lJT crjr Uduuw (luuuu mat involved were "reservations" and not "public lands." Justice Burton wrote in his opinion: "The western terminus of the dam is to occupy lands within the Warm Springs Indian reservation which have been reserved by the United States for power purposes ince 1910 and 1913. iTbe eastern terminus of the dam is to be on lands of the United States which, at least since 1909, have been with drawr from entry under the public land laws and reserved for power purposes ... Here the jurisidictionl turns upon the ownersnip or con trol by the United States of the re served lands on which the licensed project is to be located." Since the federal government owns or controls the lands on (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Higher Work Standards Due In Canneries ; The Oregon Wage and Hour Commission ordered higher stand ards Monday for women and mi nors in the fruit and vegetanie narkins industry. The change is effective Aug. 13. i The order sets a 66-cent hourly wage minimum, and provides for time and a hall overtime pay after 10 hours, and double time after 12 hours daily. Minor, em ployes will be limited to 10 hours of work a day. Overtime now is paid after 12 hours. ! The new order also call for 10-minute rest periods after three consecutive work ' hours, and weight-lifting restrictions. Meat processors also are - brought under the order. Russia Approves West Proposals For Big 4 Meet SAN. FRANCISCO UH Russia was reliably reported to have giv en a tentative approval early Tues day to Western proposals for con ducting next month's top level meeting in Geneva, j Informed quarters said the West em powers had presented a series of proposals at a four-hour meeting and that Soviet Foreign Minister V M. Molotov told them that at first sight he saw no reason to ob ject The Soviet diplomat however, said he wanted to have the pro posals translated into Russian so he could study them further. He said he wouldj give his reply in a day or two. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAN REN OODRICM f Tes. dear, yoi are a gay, stimn : liting conversationalist now hat apr ; . IK V I i 4 - A la Salem accerdlng U .Irtrieti la- Edwards G. Moor Brydoa I. Moor S3 44 ti 24 9 3S S3 19S 47 71 943 55 131 1M 11 19 52 79 IS 172 21 1,2 7 151 13 14 17 52 99 1SS 111 1S9 1.142 35 41 29 41 11 2S 43 17 44 99 to the Salem school board of C. Edwards, Salem mortician, and I John Moore, local jaDor leader. Keizer voters trooped to the polls in large numbers to regis ter landslide approval of the con solidation measure, 628 to 92; The Keizer school budget, of $84,260 in excess of the 6 per cent limita tion also was approved 407 to 263. Salem voters also approved the merger 991 to 637. Both the Sa lem and Keizer boards had given formal approval of the consoli dation prior to the election. Non-High Passes Keizer approved the Marion County non-high school budget by a vote of 383 to 295. Keizer was the last remaining major suburb in the Salem area with a separate school district. Under recent laws Keizer would have faced a major tax increase in 19d8 to send its children to AS a result of the merger it is predicted Salem's school tax will rise about li mills. This could be changed, however, depending on Keizer's future building needs. Budgets already have been set up for Salem and Keizer separately for the coming school year. Mrs. Brydon Leads Gus Moore, who gathered 1,020 votes last night, is the current Sa lem school board chairman. Mrs. Brydon, Salem housewife, who led; two F-89 jet fighters destroyed; all four candidates with 1,157 tal-!two more damaged, a jeep lies, will complete the unexpired i ruined: a C-48 transport plane i term of the late Mrs. David ""f0" was aPP,nt- Salem sci official, said that despite the "light" vote compared with other controversial elections in the past, last night's turnout was the heaviest for a "directors election" in the past 15 years. Bond Issue For Silverton High Leading lbtm Mm tcmr SILVERTON A controversial $195,000 bond issue measure for the ..i. it cn. ... i t : - - u;4. School district was leading later Monday night on returns from eight of 12 members districts. The incomplete county showed the bond issue, to be used to build an addition to the present Silver- ton high school, to have garnered 446 votes in favor and 188 against Only two of the reporting district voted against it. They include Evans Valley, 14 to 12, and Central Howell (includes Brush Creek) 38 to 37. Other districts who reported in cluded Evergreen, Victor Point, Silver Crest, Mt Angel, - Bethany and Silverton. Monitor, Crooked Finger, Scotts Mills and Butte Creek remained to be heard from. At Silverton voters elected Her man Gochie and Mrs. Allan Fos ter to the school board. Defeated candidate was James Ekman. Jefferson Kills School Budget Statesman News Service JEFFERSON Voters here Mon day turned down a local school budget of $120,000 in excess of the six per cent limitation. The vote was 73 to 67 against Directors elected to the school board were Marvin McGill, Dar win L. Cook and John W. Finlay. (Other rural school district vote results on page 2, sec. 1.) Scientists Sad, Clouds Hide, Eclipse in Ceylon COLOMBO, Ceylon UB The sun was hidden by the moon over a great stretch of South Asia Mon day in probably the longest total eclipse in 1,238 years but tew of the scientists gathered in Cey lon could see it Heavy rain clouds hung over most of the area from which the eclipse might have been observed, although the scientific observation posts had been set up in what is statistically the driest part of North Central Ceylon. Only a team from Harvard Uni versity ' could report even fairly satisfactory viewing conditions. This team took photographs of the infra-red spectrum of the sun in eclipse. Other American and Swiss, French, German. British and Jap anese scientists said their instru ments could record nothing. The total eclipse lasted 7 min utes, 7.8 seconds at the center of its path. In the Philippines it was 7 minutes. 4 seconds. The lS-mfle-wide band of dark ness started in the Indian Ocean a dawn and advanced 24 miles a minute over about 1,276,000 square miles of the earth's surface, in cluding Ceylon, Thailand, Indochi- 105th Year President Takes Out Time to Chat With Golf Champ SAN FRANCISCO 11 When the President of j the United States wants to meet someone, be meets him. Despite the fact that Jack Fleck, new National Open Golf champion, had checked out of his motel, he was tracked down Monday afternoon and spent five minutes talking golf with Presi dent Eisenhower in the latter's hotel suite. i The President congratulated him on beating Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff Sunday, accord ing to Fleck, and told him that "When you beat Hogan you beat a great golfer." j Rocket Blasts Destroy Jets At Portland PORTLAND OPI 'A Jet fighter created an uproar at the Portland Air Force Base Monday by acci dentally firing a dozen practice rockets that caused an estimated two million dollars in damage. There were no reports of injury after the brief but, fiery affair. The jet fighter was parked at the time. Two planes were destroyed. The missiles scattered through the Air Force parking area at the base and one of them bounced off a house ' a mile away. An Air Force spokesman said the 3 Vt foot rockets were practice weapons and did not carry live warheads. ? The damage was assessed at damaged lightly, and holes in two buildings. The Air Force spokesman said the two jets destroyed caught fire when the rockets hit the fuel tank or live ammunition in the planes. The far flying rocket struck the home of 1st Lt. Russell Nelson. It hurt.no one there. One man fled for safety from his position on the wing of another plane. - Col. Elmer McTaggart, acting commander of the base, said one man is being held for investigation in connection with the incident The only identification he would give was to describe i the man as "an authorized individual. A board of inquiry was set up quickly but the Air Force would not speculate on the cause of the uncontrolled rock- South Salem Fire District To Vote Today Statesman Newt Service SOUTH SALEM-Voters of Liberty-Salem Heights rural fire dis trict will vote Tuesday between 2 and 8 p.m. at the fire hall on Chan- ey Way east of Dickson's Market, on a 5-miH special levy. The proposed levy of S mills a year for three years would raise an estimated 140,000 to finance con struction of a new fire hall and purchase of a 1,000-gallon pumper in a move planned by the fire dis trict board in order to obtain a better insurance rating. Board Secretary Lyle Suitter said studies of the plan indicate that savings in insurance would more than offset the higher tax. He gave the comparison that the 5-mill levy would mean an extra tax of about SIC on a $10,000 house and, with advancement of the insurance rat ing, the saving on such a house would be $19 to $20 a year. The new fire hall will require also the purchase of permanent property for its site, he added. Present district annual tax is 4 mills. na and the Philippines. Astronomers find no record of any total eclipse longer than Mon day's since 717 A.D. They said only four 'total eclipses will exceed seven minutes in the 20th Cen tury. When the clouds failed to dis perse, Prof. II. von Kluber, lead ers of a joint British-Ceylonese team, ordered abandonment of two major experiments, one to test the late Alfred Einstein's theory of gravitational effect on ray light and the other to study the sun's surface. Two other U.S. teams set up cn the East Coast, one from Hayden Planetarium of New York and the other sponsored by Trans World Airways, also had to sit by help lessly. A despairing Swiss scientist, Prof. . M. Waldmeier. flew his country's flag at half mast be cause his team could see no Dart of the eclipse from Polonnaruwa airfield, where it was based along side a London University group and a Japanese team led by Prof. M. HuruhaU of Tokyo University. "Complete failure." sighed Huruhata. "Just bad luck." 2 SECTIONS-! 6 PACES .Detroit In Oveross Trial Jury Selection Starts Today " Case No. 42100 of state of Ore gon vs. Casper A. Oveross charged with the rifle slaying of Ervin Kaser opens at 10 a.m. to day in Judge George Duncan's Marion County courtroom. A packed courtroom is expect ed this morning when District Attorney Kenneth O. Brown and his special Assistant Charles Ray mond begin with Defense Attor neys Bruce Williams and Otto R. Skopil Jr. the preliminary task of picking the 12 or 13 jurors who will hear the case. Estimates of attorneys indicat ed selection of the jury from a regular panel of 60 and reserve list of 100 may take two to three days. Examination of prospective jurors for the first degree mur der case is expected to be a slow and careful process by both sides. (Additional details on page 2, sec. 1). Portland Firm Bids Lowest On Ship Jobs Willamette Iron and Steel Co Portland, has submitted the low bid of $26,000,000 to convert two mariner vessels, Gov. Paul"Patter son's office announced Monday. The word came from Clarence Morse, chairman of the U.S. Mari time Commission. The governor said the work will employ more than 1,000 men for 18 months. There was a spirited con test for the job between, the com pany and Maryland shipyards. ' The governor said: It is tremendously gratifying that the merits of the Willamette bid were recognized despite tre mendous pressure from Eastern seaboard interests. Recognition of the key position of West Coast ship yards in, national defense is both proper and a promise for the fu ture. "This favorable action demon strates the effects of united effort by West Coast interests. The posi tion of the Willamette Iron and Steel company was vigorously sup ported by Gov. Langlie of Wash ington and Gov. Knight of Califor nia, and by coast industry and civic leaders as well as myself." Grv. Patterson went to Washing ton several days ago to plead the company s case. Another Fair Day Expected Weathermen at McNary Field predict another fair day today, with a maximum temperature of 80, slightly lower than Monday's maximum of 84. Brief morning clouds and some tonight are also forecast. Lowest temperature tonight is expected to hit 50. 1 A high of 76 is forecast for Wednesday. At the coast, Tuesday's weather is expected to be fair except for morning clouds, with westerly winds of 5 to 15 miles per hour. Temperature range is expected to be 48 to 63. Pack Train Heads Into Cascades to Bring Out Body A EUGENE un A pack train headed into the Cascade Range south of Bend Monday to bring ou the body of a fisherman, A , nine-mile hike over partly snow covered trails was made to' P. J. Giesen to inform authorities of the death of Calvin Osborne, 30, of Rogue River Sunday night. It was believed Osborne had died aft er a heart attack. He was a mem ber of a party of eight which had walked into the Mink Lake Basin area. S&lm Portland Car 4S .M 49 .00 48 .00 51 .00 - SO .00 45 .00 51 ' trace 57 .00 6 .00 62 .07 . foot Baker Medlord North Bend Roseburc San Francisco 64 Los Angeles 79 Chicago 89 New York S7 FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field, Salem 1: Mostly fair today, except for brief morning cloudiness: partly cloudy to night and Wednesday. High today near 80, low tonight near 50. Cooler Wednesday with high near 76. Temperature at L2.-01 a.m. today waa i. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept 1 This Tear Last Tear ' Normal il XJ , 44.M : at.7a PouNDn d 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, M at Bottom of Reservoir Crumpled v .fr. ,.m wip'v 'I Vr"-- ... i. . ' 0 DETROIT, Ore. State police Monday examine the broken end of a to be carrying a Detroit man, his two sons and their companion Santiam Highway 183 feet into Detroit Lake. Search of the deep to resume early Tuesday (Statesman Photo). 'A 'M t , S ' k i ' 9 . DETROIT, OrePassers-by are t W steep 185-foot slope down which a car apparently carried four Detroit residents to their death on the weekend. Bits of metal and broken brush and rock indicated the car hit twice on the way down, once about midway and the second time just before plunging into Detroit Lake, now filled to peak level from melting snow. (Statesman Photo). Strawberry Crop Short of Pickers A shortage of strawberry pick ers, particularly in the Keizer and Independence areas, was re ported Monday by the State Em ployment Service. Buses are call ing for workers at the employ men office, 710 Ferry St.. at 6 a.m. -daily. Harvesters also are declared needed in the areas servd by employment offices in Woodburn. Silverton, Stayton, In 'dependence and ML Angel. Oregon, Tuesday, June 21, 1955 an9 3 Boy Believed. Guard Rail Serves as Clue -: .5 4 i. I - i V but small dots at the top of the Today's Statesman Sec Peg Classifieds Jl.. 5-7 Comics . II 4 Crossword .11.... 3 Editorials I 4 . Markets II....5, 8 Sports . II 1 , 2 Star Gazer I 7 TV, Radio . H.. 4 Vailed .. . Il,. 3 Women, Panorama I 6, 7 PRICE 1 1 guard rail where a car believed apparently crashed off the North waters of the lake are scheduled . Ike Promises U.N. to Search For Peace By THAN CIS W. CARPENTER SAN FRANCISCO Ufi Presi dent Eisenhower Monday pledged himself to go to the Big Four meet ings true to the spirit of the U. N, Charter. He also promised to leave "no stone unturned in a constant effort for peace. The President urged other chiefs of government of the big powers France, Britain and the Soviet Un ionto enter their high level ses sions July 18 with devotion to the charter. President Eisenhower was ap plauded by a large crowd of U. N. delegates and San Francisco pub lic when he quoted Abraham Lin coln as saying " 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. . . As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.' " The President spoke for 18 min utes to open the 10th anniversary celebration of the U. N. The theme of his talk was a strong and em phatic reaffirmation of " United States support. For the second decade of the U. N., he urged the U. N. to strive anew for a glorious way of life in which the atom "dedicated once as man's slayer will become his most productive servant." Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov sat on the flag-draped stage behind President Eisenhow er and did not applaud until the President had finished. The commemorative session proper will begin Tuesday with the first round of speech-making. Shortly before the President made his appearance, the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and France held a last- minute closed meeting on the Big Four parleys. They arranged to hold their first formal session on that subject with Molotov at a dinner Monday night Hopes of Millions Mindful of the hopes .of millions of peoples for success at the Big Four parley beginning July 18 in Geneva, the President said: "Within a month there will be a four power conference of heads of government. Whether or not ve shall then reach the initial deci sions that will start dismantling the terrible apparatus of fear and mistrust and weapons erected since the end of World War II, I do not know. "The basis for success is simply put: It is that every individual at that meeting be loyal to the spirit of the United Nations and dedicated to the principles of its Charter. Makes Pledge "I can solemnly pledge to you here and to all the men and wo men of the world who may hear or read my words that those who represent the United States will strive to be thus loyal, thus dedicated. "For us, there is no alternative, because our devotion to the United Nations Charter is the outgrowth ot a faith deeply rooted in our cultural, political, spiritual tradi tions." As the President spoke, efforts were reported under way in the Western and Soviet camps to have this anniversary meeting conclud ed with a declaration of principles to be known as the San Francisco Declaration of 1935. 5c No. 86 Deep Water Blocks Attempt At Recovery By THOMAS G. WRIGHT, Jr. Staff Writer, The Statesman DETROIT, Ore. A broken guard rail and a trail of wreckage lead ing down the steep canyon to De troit Lake apparently pointed Mon day to the fate of four Detroit resi dents, missing from their homes here since Saturday night Missing and presumed dead in the 185-foot plunge of their 1941 Mercury coupe were James A. Jen nings, 41, his two sons, Richard A. Jennings, 14, and Leo H. Jennings, 16, and their companion 17-year-old John F. Wallace. The quartet was last reported seen Saturday evening by Jennings brother, Seth Jennings, as they de parted from the Jennings' home presumably to attend a movie in Mill City. Police surmised they were returning from Mill City when the car missed a curve a mile and a half east of Detroit Dam, battered down a concrete guard rail and bounced the 185 feet into the lake. Depth of the water at the scene. estimated to be 40 feet deep near snore and from 200 to 250 feet a few yards out. blocked recovery operations Monday but there seem ed little doubt that the Jennings car was on the lake bottom. License Plate Found A license plate bearing number 7E667 which is registered to Jen nings' car, and Jennings billfold were discovered between the point where the car left the highway and the water's edge. A Corps of Engineers crew and state police win make new drag ging attempts Tuesday to locate the submerged car, but Sgt Way ne Huffman of state police indicat ed there was not too much hope for successful grappling operations. The reservoir in back of Detroit Dam is now at peak level. High winds through the canyon Monday also hampered dragging operations by the engineers from their tug the Lewiston. Adding pathos to the apparent highway tragedy was the fact that. Mrs. Jennings is a seriously ill patient at the State Tuberculosis Hospital at Salem where site ex pected a visit from her family Sunday afternoon. And left at home was the Jennings' 10 -year -old daughter Wanda, a victim of polio myelitis which has left her a cripple. Only the wish of her uncle Seth apparently kept Wanda from the same fate of her father and bro thers. She had planned to accom pany the four to the show but the uncle persuaded her to stay at home with him and watch TV in stead. , Battered Rail Hint of the tragedy was discov ered Monday morning by state highway department maintenance worker Glen Davidson who noted the battered guard rail and inves tigated. Damage to the rail was reportedly seenf as early as 1:30 a.m . Sunday morning, probably only shortly after the accident. Young Wallace is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wallace and has been a resident of Detroit with his family for about nine years. The Wallaces have three other chil dren. John Wallace was born June 17, 1938 in the San Fernando val ley of California and was a sopho more at Detroit High School last year. Richard Jennings, born at Aber deen, Wash., Oct. 22, 1941. com pleted the eighth grade at Detroit this spring. His elder brother born at Hoquiam. Wash.. Aug. 16, 1938. had reportedly quit high school and was employed with his father on state highway work in the area. The elder Jennings, who was born at Galvin, Wash., Feb. 5, 1914 has one other brother, Thomas L Jennings of Seattle and two sis ters, Mrs. Nora Dawson, Wapato, Wash., and Mrs. Percy (Ada) Alex ander, Seattle. W.U. Summer Signup Starts Willamette University win open its summer session today, with first classes at 8 a.m. Registration is continuing all week, following an initial signup of 84 students Monday. Summer students live and eat off th campus, as all college residence- are closed until fall. NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Spokane t, Salem At Wenatchee 1. Eugene 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cl. -Innati S. New York I At Milwaukee 2. Pittsburgh 1 At St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 1 Only famei scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE No gamea schedule-.