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Platoons of Children Scene? like this one taken Mcjiday on the 'William L. Woelk farm! north of Salem on Windsor Island Road were typical as the ntrawberry season hit its peak. Nearly 150 pickers mostly kids! 105th Year Following publication of the re port, of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries on the deposits of bauxite in the Sa lem hills south of town options were reported taken on tracts and . test drilling started to determine the extent of the deposit Whether the bauxite will be mined in the near future doubtless depends on what is found as to the volume of "re and its richness, in aluminum. Assuredly if these figures are good he ore will be mined. Presently aluminum companies with reduc tion plants at Vancouver, Trout iale and Longview import .alumi- , r which ..has Jeen -reduced irom jaiixite clear ; from southeastern j United States. The bauxite ore Iself comes-from Dutch Guiana ind Jamaica, and from .Arkansas, Uabama and Georgia. A local lource of,supply would therefore e most welcome, for it would ave heavy transportation" costs. While the advent of a mining Deration would bring in consider ible money to this area, one of the ype contemplated would have its Irawbacks too. This would be rhat is called strip-mining. Bull- f lozers would strip off the over urden to expose the ore. This vould then be handled vby shovels ind ore-cars or trucks. When the ire is exhausted the countryside vould be completely devastated: K) trees, big piles and ridges of he overburden which had been lushed aside, and holes or pits rhere the ore had been removed. Strip-mining resembles placer (lining Invthe destruction it gives lo the topsoil. In a number of itates the law recfuires one en gaged in this type of mining to re level the surface. Such legisla tion was proposed in Oregon as far back 'as 1339, then with a view to laving top soil on placer mining of rich alluvial valleys in Eastern Oregon. Nothing was done, how ever, a strip- or plara-rniner in this slate does not face the same requirement as in other states. This vacuum in our laws ought to be filled with an act modeled after laws in other states which would protect the future beauty of the countryside and its utility as well. Until that is done the only pro tection is what might be done vol untarily by those who are engaged in the business. Tito Accepts Moscow Bid BELGRADE, Yugoslavia If! President Tito has accepted an in vitation to visit Moscow, returning the recent - Khrushchev-Bulgaain visit to Yugoslavia. This announcement was made Monday by the semi-official Yu go press, immediately after Yugosla via and the Western Big Three h? d pledged their "continued coopera tion," - ' ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAMRIN OOpwi-" "Let's set the alarm for 4 a.m. we won't disturb mama whe we leave." V 2 SECTIONS-! 6 PAGES Suit Questions Legality of City Plan for Street Improvements By ROBERT E. GANG WARE City Editor, The Statesman The City of Salem was sued in Marion County Circuit Court Monday to determine if it i is properly, spending a $300,000 street fund it gets from state highway revenues. This . reopened at' the City Council's meeting Monday night Pickets Halt I - i Work on Atom Bomber Bases BTxTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS AFL Ironworkers local 14 has halt ed construction work in Spokane and Moses Lake and the union president said Monday night the strike might be extended to ,the Hanford atomic works at Rich land, Wash. I Howard A. Turner, president; of the striking union which has juris diction in eastern Washington imd northern Idaho, said talks had been scheduled with representa tives of the construction firms at Hanford. He said the union wi3 make contract demands on two firms at the atomic plant, the Hoffman Construction Co., Port land, Ore..: and the Sourid Con struction Co., Seattle. ' j . The union, is seeking pay raises totaling . 32-cents an hour. Mem bers now receive $2.83 an hour. Earlier Monday. C. E. Hively, executive secretary of the build ers, said , the union had posted pickets at Larson Air Force Base at Moses Lake and stopped con struction of ,. test facilities . for Boeing B52 jet bombers. i Self -Rule fori rus By England ; LONDON MV Government sources said Monday night Prime Minister Eden's government plans to offer Cyprus limited self-rule soon in an effort to quench fires of rebellion smouldering in that British Mediterranean .stronghold. The ' reported . plan would be wrapped up in an offer of a new constitution that would leave "the strategic island, whose people are mostly of Greek and Turkish blood, a colony within the British Em pire. The possibility of eventual inde pendence within the British Com monwealth presumably would form part of the offer. Even while wooing the Cypriots politically, the government is send ing in a 2,000-man police detach ment and taking other measures to put down, a campaign of vio lence and propaganda against the Colonial administration. j Senate Okelis Unit For U.S. Security Program Probe WASHINGTON The Senate Monday -passed a bill to set up a bipartisan commission to make a thorough study of President Eisen hower's federal employe security program before the presidential elections next year. In a brief debate before approv ing the plan on a voice vote, both Democrats and Republicans voiced hopes that the study, could be made in a "dispassionate nonpolitical atmosphere - - v . Cyp Eyed Work Hard to Keep were hard at work on 1his 12-aere patch when the panoramic photograph 'above was taken. Roy Carnett, 2915 N. River RtL, is shown In the foregronnd holding a bo of the freshly picked berries. POUNDDD 1651 Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, an aldermen's scrap over which city streets should be widened under the new city budget, with special emphasis on Fairgrounds road and on South 12th . street proposals. Only immediate result was a Council vote in favor of spend ing $22,000 for .widening South River road between Miller street and city limits a project not directly involved in the lawsuit 16 File Suit The suit was filed .fey 16 S. 12th street businessmen, advo cates of the 12th Street widen ing proposal, seeking a declara-, tory judgment on the legal cor rectness of 44 city budget items scheduled in the 1955-56 city budget to be paid out of the State Street and Road Tax Fund. - Defendants are the City of Salem, the City . Council and the ; individual aldermen and mayor. The suit maintains the aldermen are personally responsible if spending from the state fund is not "for the construction, recon struction, improving, repairing, maintaining, cleaning and polic ing of streets of ' the city of Salem." . x 'Without Knowledge' Alderman E. C. Charlton, him self a principal backer of. 12th street widening in South Salem, declared to his colleagues at City Hall last night that the suit had been filed without -his knowl edge. "It is ill advised, ill timed and shouldn't be allowed to in terfere with the development of 12th street" In subsequent discussion, Charlton insinuated that the law suit had been inspired by Alder man David O'Hara of North Sa lem, a backer of the Fairgrounds road widening who earlier this month had questioned the legal ity of allocating parts of the state fund to salary, office supplies and certain other expenses of the city engineering staff. 'Not Ashamed' - Replying to Charlton, O'Hara said of the lawsuit, "Well, I'm not ashamed of it" Charlton asked the city attor ney to draft a resolution calling for $14,000 to be spent on widen ing 12th Street from Mission "as far south as that money will go. I'll ask for completion of the job next year." : Charlton presented traffic count figures which he 'said showed 12th street carried heav ier traffic than any other street considered for widening. Most Unethical' Asserting that the alderman was comparing 12th with the Fairgrounds road project, O'Hara branded Charlton's suggestion as "the most unethical proposal I've ever heard in the City - Council, with an alderman saying an Im provement in his ward must be made at the expense of another ward. : . - ' - Charlton said it appeared that the $14,000 amount was about the only item not challenged in ,the lawsuit - ... Attorney Roy Hewitt, repre senting the plaintiffs, told The Triplets Set Record At Closing Hospital ELMA, Wash. Ufi " Identical triplets were born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Zepp. of Satsop, at Elma General Hospital. They are the only triplets known to have been born at Elma Gen eral Hospital in its 57 years of operation.- The hospital is planning to close permanently . on Friday, NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem-Spokane, rain. At Eugene-LewUton. rain. At Ymkima-Tri-Cttj'. rain. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Portland-Seattle, rain. ; Only tf am scheduled. HSl 1 4 ,-? v t . . . - rK2r 1 . -t 4. v J Oregon, Tuesday, June 28, Statesman earlier in the day that the suit was intended to list all the items that could be found in the budget charged to the State Street Tax Fund. The court is asked to decide which items are valid, he said. (Additional details and other City Council news on Page 2, Sec; I.) Turncoat GI In China Asks Freedom Aid DALLAS. Tex. (JR A letter asking help In getting out of Com munist China was received at Southern Baptist Convention head quarters Monday from a prisoner of war slated to be released ty the Reds. The letter dated May 19, 1953, was from former Army Cpl. Lewis W. Griggs, 22. of Jacksonville, Tex. Dr. R. Alton Reed, executive secretary for the convention relief and annunity board, said the ap peal will be relayed to the Baptist World Alliance meeting in London July 16-22. Griggs, who left high school at 17 to join the Army in 1949, was captured in Korea in 1951 and re fused repatriation after the Ko rean armistice. I Griggs' letter, mailed from Kai- fung, China, with a return address in care of the Red Cross in Peking, said in part: The problem we need assist ance in is in getting out Commu nist China. . . We are having much difficulty in doing so. . . At the present I don't know if we will be killed, thrown in prison or let leave China. Court Orders Slot Rehearin g PORTLAND i A court rehear ing was ordered Monday in con nection with attempts to prevent ban on slot machines from be coming effective here. The rehearing on a date still to be set became necessary with the unexpected death last Friday of Circuit Judge Lowell Mundorff He had heard arguments in a suit brought by Lou Dunis for Portland pinball machine operators. A city ordinance bans coin-oper ated slot machines, but pinball op erators , removed or plugged the coin slots in their machines and argued that these were legal. They brought suit to halt police seizure Russian Pilots' Shoot Down Nationalist Jet TAIPEI, Formosa OB Commu nist MIG jet fighters shot down a Nationalist jet trainer Monday and attacked an unarmed amphibious commercial plane in an abrupt flareup of warfare over the Formo sa Strait Chinese Nationalist air force headquarters said intercepted in tercom conversations between the MIGs indicated the pilots were Russians. The air force asserted also that fluent Russian was over heard in the directions from the ground to the attacking MIGs. The Defense Ministry assailed the Incidents : as "unprovoked at tacks by Communist jets on un armed Chinese aircraft over inter national waters.'.' It said the pilot was killed in the crash of his flaming jet when it plunged into tne sea north of the Matsus. The other trainer escaped. (Peiping radio, in a Chinese lan Up With (I - .-- - - it-4-. " I I 4 4 . - A" 4' -4-. V. -A Moat pickers were finished for late in the afternoon. All told, berries. The school bus shown 1955 PRICE Saw-Filled Pie Brings Arrest of 2 Klamath Women KLAMATH FALLS (VP) Two women are being held under $3,500 bond each after an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle four hacksaw blades into a jail celL Charged with trying to aid a prisoner to escape were Mrs. Zelda ! Pearson, 26 and Phyllis Hill, 19. Klamath County Sheriff Mur ray Britton said Mrs. Pearson visited her husband in his cell, then returned a. short time later with a cherry pie and some ice cream. Jailer Fred Chaffee found the hacksaw blades imbedded in the crust of the pie. The husband, Leon G. Pear son, and Melvin Chiloquin, 25, are accused in - the death of John . Madrueno, a . railroad worker. , ... -. Helen Keller Recognized on 75th Birthday (Picture on page 8, Sec. 1) EASTON. Conn. Ml Helen Kel ler, who has done little compro mising in her lifetime, did so Mon day on her 75th birthday. She spent half of it reluctantly as a public citizen; half as a pri vate one. After a morning during which she gracefully and obediently posed for cameras in traditional birthday positions and talked with the press, the doors of Arcan Ridge were po litely but firmly closed to the world. Helen Keller went back to work at her desk, catching up with her mail. Actually, the day was much more complicated than that ' in spite of the efforts of Polly Thom son, her companion, to make things as easy as possible for this gray haired and blue-eyed woman who, deaf and blind herself, has dedi cated a lifetime to helping all hand icapped persons. Miss Keller, just, returned from a five-month, 40,000-mfle working trip around the world on behalf of the blind, "is in perfect health and feels fine, but the doctor says that after a trip like that she needs a two month vacation," Miss Thom son explained, adding grimly, '"and so Io I." EMERGENCY CALL ISSUED PORTLAND .( ' Strawberry growers in Multnomah and Wash ington, counties sent out an emer gency call for pickers . Monday as the' harvest approached its pealc. guage broadcast heard in Tokyo, reported Chinese - fighter planes shot down one Nationalist plane and damaged two over the South east China .. Coast.".: The ministry reported a two-en gine PBY Catahna amphibian owned by the Foshing Airlines was attacked by two' MIGs about 12:30 r. m. while bound for Matsu. Aboard were four Chinese crew members and 1st Lt John J. Good rich, 26, Rayne La., Medical Ccrp member of the U S. Military As sistance Advisory Group (MAAG). The plane had been chartered by MAAG. , The pilot landed near the island. checked the plane, waited for tark and returned to Taipei's Pinehill Airport Monday night - He said none aboard was hurt. contrary to earlier reports by the airline that the American officer was wounded slightly. Bountiful ' '4 ,4 the day Monday when rains bg,n Woelk has about 40 acres in straw in the background is used to haul sv yc 1IU vvy 5c No. 93 Bullet rt By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR. Staff Writer, The Statesman Testimony of the state's ballis tics expert-was questioned critic ally Monday by defense counsel as the first degree murder trial of Casper A. Oveross resumed in Marion County Circuit Court Attorney Otto R. Skopil Jr., leading the defense cross-examination of state's witnesses, chal lenged crime laboratory technic ian Ralph Prouty repeatedly on the accuracy of his testimony re lating to bullet holes in the auto mobile of the slain Ervin Kaser. Prouty. with the crime labora tory since July -1953, "was on the witness stand most of tne alter noon as the state sought to set the technical scene of the Feb. 17 murder south of Silverton. 6th State Witness The young Portlander was the sixth state witness to take the stand in the five-day-old trial, and the fifth called to the witness chair Monday. Previously Mr. and Mrs. Em manuel Kellerhals, only known witnesses to the slaying, were among those offering testimony. They followed Deputy Sheriff Richard C. Boehringer to the stand and were followed by Mel vin Kaser, brother of the dead man. Mrs. Kellerhals, who has lived for 18 years across the highway from the Kaser home, wv the firstk to recount details of the first few minutes following the shoot ing of Kaser. She told of hearing Kaser's car pull into his drive way and of a car door slam about the same time a second car halt ed on the highway "a few yards north. "Someone's Shooting" "Mannie, someone's shooting at Ervin," she recalled saying after hearing one shot. She said both she and her husband jumped from bed to the front window of their home in time to see flashes of three more shots, and to see the second car speed away south. Mrs. Kellerhals testimony dif fered slightly from that of her husband on details of the second car's movement She said the car, identified as dark in color, ap peared to leave the scene about two or three seconds after the last shot, while Mr. Kellerhals said the' car started immediately. (Additional details on page 5, sec. 1). Day-Old Portland Babv Abandoned PORTLAND Iff) A one or two- day old infant abandoned here ear ly Monday was taken to a baby home where it was described as normal and healthy. The infant's cries at about 1 a.m. led Robert Carlson, 17, to investi gate. He found the child and called sheriffs officers, who took it to Waverly Baby home. Max. Mia. Predp. .44 J7 .00 trace .11 .00 .00 .00 trace Salem Portland 48 57 41 . C5 , 79 82 60 . 7 . 64 . 70 . 82 Bakei! Medford - 45 55 4 52 60 55 North Bend Roaeburg . San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago ' New York 82 65 Willamette River -0.4 foot. FORECAST (from U. S, weather bureau, McNary field, Salem): Partly cloudy today with a few scattered showers, high near 68: partly cloudy tonight with low near 44. Partly cloudy with scattered showers Wednesday. Temperature at 12.-01 a.m. today was 53. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start f Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year La it Year Normal aUO 44.60 23.85 Expe Quizzed Strawberry Harvest jV iV. 414, 4 pickers and belong, to Woelk the younger ones) do a fine job Photo by John Ericksen.) Twisters Rock M iddleWestin Wake of Flood . SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (") Two persons were lulled late Mon day when a tornado smashed into the Hillerege housing develop ment northeast of here. The dead were identified as Mrs. V. J. Daniels, 50, and Jim Karbous, 16, both of here. . - " A report of a third death could not be verified. The tornado whipped into the i area at a time when residents were wondering u the iioodmg Upper North Platte River might wash them out of their homes. The r-ver was on its worst rampage in 25 years. Scottsbluff hospitals were crowd ed with injured from the housing development. Estimates .of the number hurt ranged up to 73. Alert Sounded An alert sent out by the Weather Bureau here in mid-afternoon was tx-lieved to have led many persons to leave their homes to seek storm shelters, thus cutting down the toll when the twister rammed into the Hillerege development in late aft ernoon. Some 20 bouses were reported smashed in the Hillerege section while out in the farm lands an additional eight were reported flat tened by the swirling funnel cloud which had force enough to roll automobiles up into twisted heaps of scrap metal. Touched Cemetery The tornado was reported to have first touched ground at the Scottsbluff cemetery, then to have swirled back into the air to flash on to the housing development be fore again descending to create its destruction. The one cheerful thing here was that the flood waters pouring out of Wyoming "were not expected to fan out over "as much territory as originally predicted. It was different over in Wyoming at Torrington, about 40 miles west of here. Residents Evacuated There residents had been evacu ated from sections of the town of 3,247 as the river kept up a threat of reaching a new high. And the Red Cross said some 500 families might have to leave their homes if the river continued to rise. AMARILLO, Tex. 11 Two peo ple were killed by lightning Mon day night as a band of thunder storms swept across the Texas Panhandle. Weathermen Say Showers Another showery day is ex pected for the Salem area tod-, but McNary Field weathermen do not expect the rainfall to total Monday's amount of .44 of an inch. A high of near 68 is forecast for today, low near 44 tonight Wednesday is expected to be partly cloudy with scattered showers. At the coast, it will be mostly cloudy with a few scattered showers, according to the Asso ciated Press. Westerly winds of 5 to 15 miles per hour are ex pected and temperature range of 54 to 62. Springfield Boy Drowns in 'Learn To Swim' Class SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (UP) A nine - year - old boy entered in a learn-to-swim program at Wil- lamalane Park here drowned Mon day morning in four feet of water in the park pool. The victim was Freddy Calla way, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Asa G. Callaway of Springfield. Arti ficial respiration was applied to the boy immediately after his body was brought to the surface at 10:30 a.m., but he was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital at 11 a.m. Freddy was listed as an "9d vanced beginner" in a class taugnt by Mrs. Elaine Nissen. Mrs. Nis sen said the pool had been cleared of students at 10:25 and could not explain the drowning. 64 who believes kids (even some of harvesting the crop (Statesman - Tweed Wins School Post At Silverton Statesman Newt Serviet SILVERTON Edgar Tweed of Monitor was elected to the Silverton Union High School board of directors in an election Monday night,' which was dupli cated at four other onion high districts in Marion County. Tweed won over John Plas by a vote of 379 to 210. Plas, a Crooked Finger area farmer, was seeking reelection in the only, contested election in the county. Voting by districts for Tweed and Plas, respectively, included Evergreen, Tweed 11 to Plas, 1; Silver Crest, 8 to 0; Bethany, 18 to 5; Mt. Angel, 11 to 149; Sil verton, 220 to 10; Central How ell (includes Brush Creek), 31 to 2; Scotts Mills (includes Butte Creek), 3 to 8; Crooked Finger, O to 16; Monitor, 28 to 0; Victor Point 30 to 0, and Evans Valley, 19 to 19. Tweed will take office July 11. The Silverton Union High School board will meet Tuesday night to canvass the vote. Voting, which was described as "extremely light" at most other union high districts, showed these results: Loren Hicks, Turner farmer, was elected a director of the Cas cade Union High district, to suc ceed Delmer Barber, who was not a candidate. Directors elected at St Paul Union High were Robert Cole man and .Joseph Pohlschneider, who will fill out the unexpired term of John Kaufmann, who died last spring. The district budget was approved. North Marion Union High dis trict elected Edward M. Shannon of Butteville unopposed to suc ceed Glenn A. Yerben, also of Butteville. A district budget of $65,441 also was approved. At Stayton Union High 14 vot ers turned out to unanimously reelect Russell Wilson of Lyons. Gervais Union High voted on its directors and budget last week and so did not vote last night Strike Authorized By Steelworkers' Union Leaders PITTSBURGH UTl - The CIO United Steelworkers wage policy committee Monday authorized a nationwide strike, but union Presi dent David J. McDonald said Don't get the idea we are strike happy." The 170-member committee vot ed unanimously tc give McDonald authority to strike the basic steel industry at midnight Thursday if an agreement is not reached on union demands for a substantial wage increase. The wage policy members ako approved rejection of Big Steel's offer to increase wages an aver age of 10 cents an hour and an of fer by inland Steel Co. to increase wages about 10V cents an hour. Today's Statesman Sec. Page Classifieds 5-7 Comics ... Crossword Editorials - .11. .11. 4,1. Home, Panorama I.. 6,7 Markets Sports Star Gazer TV, Radio .. VaHey II. 1-3 7 4 3 L II .1