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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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the day Monday when rains bg,n
Woelk has about 40 acres in straw
in the background is used to haul
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No. 93
Bullet
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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
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trace
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trace
Salem
Portland
48
57
41
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, 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
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pickers and belong, to Woelk
the younger ones) do a fine job
Photo by John Ericksen.)
Twisters Rock
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iddleWestin
Wake of Flood
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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.
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who believes kids (even some of
harvesting the crop (Statesman
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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.
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