Voters, 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:
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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
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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 '
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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.
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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
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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.
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Portland
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North Bend
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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
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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).
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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
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Editorials I 4 .
Markets II....5, 8
Sports . II 1 , 2
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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-.