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The Weather FORECAST (from U. S. 'weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Increasing cloudinem with a few showers today, Mostly cloudy with a few showers tonight and Monday. High today near 75. low tonight near 4 Temperature at litfl a.m. today was M. - - SALEM PRECIPITATION laee Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Lat Year Normal 32 91 4S.14 39.25 Willamette River -J.J feet m. feared H lb Srtwta f Ortfaa POUNDBD 1651 105th Year 3 SECTIONS-2S PAGES Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, July 31, 1955 PRICE 10c No. 126 V alem CRT mm THDQjO One of Longfellow's couplels was: -. - " "I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where." That t5 the fate of the written word. . The author never knows just how high and how far if will fly or just where it will land. And the editor is never just sure what of the material he selects for pub lication will evoke the strongest public response. One. may "find renewed proof of this uncertainty in a study of the popular response to the July num ber of Harper' Magazine. This veneraoie yet lively magazine. which now divides with the At lantic Monthly the field of liter ature and culture once more gen erously populated, had a variety of fare for its mid-summer read ers. The lead was given to "Am bassador Luce, as the Italians See Her," an excellent and sym pathetic review of the career of Clare Boothe Luce, with partio ular reference to her surprising success as the U. S. ambassador in Rome the past two years. The piece de resistance of the July menu was William Faulkner's ad dress "On Privacy" which he had given at the University of Ore gon on its lecture series last spring. There were informative articles on "Home-Grown TV in St. Louis, and "Gautemala: What the Reds Left Behind." Then there were a tempting array of minor delicacies to liven the meal. Bat none of these rang the bell like the piece ea "The Emarras- aiag Trata about Davy Crockett." Not even the additions Bernard de Vote got a rise out of the read ing public. His "Easy Chair" de partment was passed ever for the "Personal and Otherwise" section la which the Dary Crockett legend was taltea . to pieces, by editor Joha Fischer. ' From coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf the Harper's expose of the Croc, kett rath was reprinted. One must admit that the author did a first-class job. When he got through there wasn't anything left of . (Continued on Editorial Page 4.) Convertible Crash Kills 4 GRANTS PASS. Ore. Four of nine persons riding in a con vertible coupe were killed Satur day when it was involved in a collision with a dairy truck at an intersection near here. f Killed outright were Mrs. Leon ard Blair of Grants Pass, her two sons, Douglas. 5, and Dennis, 2. and Pearl Baker 18 a friend of "the family. . Her husband the driver of the car, and three other Blair chil dren, Sandra, 9, Sharon, 4, and Jerry 1 and another family friend Arleta Olson 15, of Grants Pass were taken to Josephine Gen eral Hospital here for treatment of undetermined injuries. State police said the collision occurred at 2"; 30 p.m. at the- inter section of Gunnell Road and Lower River Road about seven miles west of here. Driver of the Jorgensen's Dairy Co. truck was Robert vy 32. of Medford. He was not - seriously hurt. The Weather DOS Max. Mia. Pree. Salem . tS 4 . .M Portland . 77 S .00 Baker M 50 .00 Medford 94 5 " .00 North Bend SS 54 .00 Roseburg . 89 57 .00 San Francisco 7S 50 .00 Chicago 7 7S " trare New York 7S . 5 ".00 Los Angeles 78 60 .00 Pony Express, SP EUGENE U The big . race between the Southern Pacific's Night . Crawler" and a pony ex press relay team got under way here early Sunday. The first of some 75 riders, who are making the trip from Eugene to Roseburg in 1-mile rides, left at 11:50 p. m. a few minutes after the train ar rived. The Southern Pacfic train, the Rogue River, was delayed by cere monies and . photographers and didn't 'away until 12:15 a. m., giv ing the riders a 25-minute head atart Roseburg, whose pre-dawn quiet usually is broken by arrival of the railroad's 2:55 from Eugene, didn't plan Saturday on much quietness after midnight It was going to itar up to see who won the race the S.P.'l 'Rogue sped! ponies. Race Four Feared Dead In Boating Mishap Car Crashes Pudding River V Bridge;! Dead Statesman News Service ; WOODBURN A Sandy, Ore., man was killed ' and two others seriously injured late Saturday when their car struck the Pudding a River bridge east of here, LL nwving the heavy bridge pillar out of line and shoving their car's dashboard about three feet to the rear. Dead is Charles Unger, about 24. In Salem Memorial Hospital with numerous fractures is his hrother Robert N. Unger, 23, also of Sandy. The two brothers had to be pried out of the front seat. Occupying the back seat was a James Massey, 18, of Sandy, who received numerous bruises and was knocked unconscious. He also was brought to Salem Memorial by Willamette ambulance. The fatality, the 22nd for the Marion-Polk County area and the 14th for Marion County, occurred about 10:30 p.m. Russ Troops Ordered Off Austria Duty MOSCOW Ml The Soviet Un ion Sunday ordered its 44.000 oc cupation troops withdrawn "from Austria by Oct 1 and announced Russian armed forces would be re duced by that number. ' Defense Minister Marshal Zhu- kov in an order of the day . thus Implemented, so far as Russia was concerned, a Soviet proposal made at the Big Four summit conference in Geneva. ; This proposal was to demobilize ; troops of the four occupation pow ers when they are evacuated, from Austria. The Soviet order came just four days after the treaty restoring Aus trian independence went into ef fect. It means Austria will be free of Russian-troops for the first time in more than 10 years. The treaty signed May 15 by Rus sia. Britain, France and the United States called for withdrawal of all occupation troops within 90 days after final ratification. War Games Mishap Fatal To Marine HONOLULU (UP) - A 19-year-old Marine was accidentally bay onetted to death Friday during joint Army-Marine Corps war games. The Marine Corps first an nounced only the fact that a Ma rine enlisted man had been killed. Later the Marines confirmed re ports the serviceman, whose name was withheld pending notification of his family,- had been killed dur ing a training exercise in which Army troops staged a mock at tack on Marine positions on Oahu Island. The Marine was accidentally stabbed by Sgt William Minton, 22, of Montgomery, Ala., the Ma rine Corps said. Unconfirmed reports said first fighting broke out between Marine ana Army units toiiowing the ac cident near Bellows Air Field. LEGION PICKS ALBANY REDMOND W) The American Legion voted Saturday to hold its 1956 state convention at Albany. The only other city competing was Seaside. : When the Rogue with Engineer Claude A. Bridenstine at the throt tle, pulls out. of. Eugene up the line at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, the clack of his train wheels will be echoed by the clip-clop of a horse man on the first lap of a race which a lot' of people ' think will shame the railroad into faster service between Portland and Ash land, farther south. The pony express supporters say their mode of transportation from Eugene will prove faster then the train. The Southern Pacific doesn't think it will and Engineer Briden stine has bis orders to proceed as usuaL .' ' It has been taking the Rogue 2 hours and 54 minutes to run the 75 miles from Eugene to Roseburg. The pony express organizers have been insisting they cad rid sub Car Hurtles Into One B oily Found, Three Sought at Winchester Bay REEDSPORT, Ore. Iff! A Coast Guard patrol plane and surface craft were searching late Saturday for , the bodies of three persons missing and presumed drowned when a cabin cruiser capsized at the mouth of the Umpijua River. Two other men were rescued and the body ' of another was washed up on the beach. Six pri vate fishing craft were aiding in the search for the missing men. Missing are: Cecil Haig. Suther- lin. Ore., Royce Bowman, Reeds- port, and Robert Sandau, Oakland, Ore., earlier identified as being from the neighboring community of Union Gap. Body Washed Up An early report that Sandau's wife might have been aboard proved false. Chief Boatswain Ivan Armstrong, executive officer at the Umpqua Coast Guard Station, said he had talked to Mrs. Sandau in Sutherlin and she was on her way here. The body of Kenneth Flory, 51, Sutherlin, was washed up on the beach. Artificial respiration at tempts were unsuccessful. Rescued were Albert Lewis, 24, Reedsport. and Lloyd Ballentine, 41, Sutherlin. Lewis was picked uo almost immediately by a small fishing boat and Ballentine clung to a piling off the south jetty rocks until Coastguardsmen threw him a line and pulled him to safe- ty. Smashing on Rocks The 27-foot cabin cruiser, the Viray, capsized when hit by a large wave. The Coast Guard look out said the boat was beading back to port from a fishing trip and apparently came too close to rough and shallow water. The boat was carried onto the rocks and began breaking up. Three., boats from-. the, Umpqua j Coast Guard Station here and two from Charleston Station, south of here, were searching for the miss ing bodies. A Coast Guard patrol plane, from Port Angeles, Wash., also joined the seach. - The Umpqua River flows ' into the sea about 25 miles north of Coos Bay. Clang Onto Door Ballentine later told how with out warning the cabin of the cruiser had been sheared off by a wave. He said he was washed over board. "I came to the surface and spotted two other members of the party, who I thought were Haig and Sandau. but I lost sight of them almost immediately, "I knew I couldn t survive m the water too long, so I looked for something to hold on to. I swam to a cabin door which was float ing nearby and hung on. He said he had been in the water about 30 minutes before crawling onto a jetty where Coast guardsmen were waiting with a rope to rescue him. Weathermen Say Cloudy In the Salem-area. increasing cloudiness with a few showers is predicted for today by McNary field weathermen. Monday is ex pected to be mostly cloudy with a few showers. Saturday's high was 85. Today's is likely to be nearer 75. Tnformirfonr rain nnrl 1ri77lp l expected this morning at Northern Oregon beaches, but tne skies should partially clear this after noon. Winds are expected to de crease, and a temperature range of 55-65 is predicted. There. were only two minor fires on state lands Saturday, the forest service reported. Both caused by smokers, one was in Douglas County and the other near The Dalles. - ' Wite Crawler' Race South stantially the same distance in the saddle in less time. Everything was in readiness late Saturday. Horses and riders were to be stationed at one-mile inter vals, except in the hilly areas to be traveled There :. they were to be placed a half-mile apart. :- The 67-mile highway stretch from Eugene to Roseburg was well marked its entire distance by road side : stakes. A Douglas County sheriffs radio-equipped car made a last-hour road check. f , While the railroad says good naturedly that its schedules aren't prepared for racing purposes, the pony expess didn't overlook any opportunities to strengthen - its chances of winning the contest They equipped a large van with three sets of floodlights to give each of the 70 to 80 riders a clear Human Travel By Vibration Said Pqssible GRAND RAPID' Mich tin -William P. Lear, chairman of the board of Lear Inc., predicted Saturday night that man someday will travel by being "broken lup into vibrat ions and relayed : electronically " Lear, a Collier Aviation Award winner, and head of a precision aircraft instrument manufacturing company said: ' "Scientists today know that mat ter is composed - of vibrations. Vibrations can be sent over wires or electronic waves like sound and images. Therefore, the human body, which is matter, can be broken up into vibrations and re layed electronically anywhere in the world." "I believe," Lear said, "that be fore space travel is developed someone will come up with a way to devibrate the human body, re lay it by wires or waves and re- vibrate it at the point of desti nation." "This mode of travel would be ira0Sl nneous. ne aaaea. Congressmen Fall Short of Adjournment WASHINGTON (Jl The 84th Congress, in a big burst of speed, acted on hundreds of bills Satur day but still couldn't wind up its 1955 session Saturday night, as it "aa nopeo, With some big issues and many minor matters still facing them, leaders decided the legislators had had enough and called another meeting for Monday. They hope the final gavels will fall that day. Housing Bill Ahead The Senate recessed at 10:45 p.m. (EDT) Saturday night until 11 a.m. Monday. The House had quit about three hours earlier, until 10 a.m. Monday. 1 '. "Lying ahead are battles over the issue o public housing and a bill appropriating money to finance tne legislative branch. Fall to Meet Deadline .- The - decision to meet ' Monday means that for the ninth time in 10 years Congress fails to meet the July 31 adjournment date set by the 1946 reorganization law. One major piece of legislation was disposed of fast Saturday. The House gave its final blessing to a bill raising the minimum wage in interstate commerce from 75 cents to $1 and" sent it to President Eis enhower. -mr .i t 1 I OH ill ICtUrnC(l To Boys' School For Aiding Co it A youth accused of helping a state prisoner escape from a work detail in mid-July has been re turned to MacLaren 'School for Boys after a hearing before Marion County Circuit Judge Joseph B Felton. The boy was living in a Gervais area home on placement from the Woodburn . school when the in cident happened, according to Dr, James Ashbaugh, county juvenile counsellor. . The man he helped escape, Har old Walter Poierier, 46, was re captured two days later in a Salem basement. State police arrested the youth Monday. : Today's Statesman 'Sec. Pago II..:.. 6-9 III Classified Comics Crossword 8 -4 9 1-4 3 6-8 3 3 Editorials L Farm , I.. Homo Panorama II. Our ValUy Radio, TV Sports :. I I l I Star Gazer Valley L path in the darkness. And just in case something did happen to a horse or rider between stations, the .van was "stocked'' with spare horses and riders. At least a dozen sheriffs dep uties were to ride outpost in cars and on motorcycle to make cer tain eager motorists didn't clog the route. ' While Roseburg got ready for a big celebration early Sunday, and Eugene planned a big send-off at midnight, the railroad reported no unusual enthusiasm at the Rogue's northern . terminus Portland. L. R. Smith, superintendent of the Portland division, said sleep ing coach reservations late Satur day were about normal four low ers: The sleeper is a 70-seat coach. A 18 coach, a lounge car' and mail and express coaches make up tha rest of the Rogue. Death Hovers Four spectators and'a policeman a guard rail at Hollywood Bowl was still in his car when this crash. The injured were sitting accident occurred., . Tighter Mortgage Terms Apply Brakes on Homebuilding Boom WASHINGTON Ufi The gov ernment applied the brakes gently to the Homebuilding boom. Satur day, announcing somewhat tighter terms in mortgages it guarantees. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administra- Trinity River Project Wins Senate Okeh WASHINGTON W The Senate Saturday night passed and sent to the White House a bill to authorize the 225 million dollar Trinity River Project in California. Passage was on a voice vote. No objection was heard. Congress previously had appro priated a million dollars to begin construction of the new water and power development, contingent on enactment of the authorization bill. The big project, to be built as a unit of the Central Valley Rec lamation Project, would divert 700,000 acre feet of surplus water annually from the Trinity River for irrigation, municipal' and in dustrial use in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Water from the Trinity River would be tunneled through the mountain ridges and dumped into the. Sacramento River below Shas ta Dam. . , The bill authorizes the Interior Department to study and report to Congress within IS months on a proposal of the . Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to construct the power features of the project and pay the government 3i million dollars a year for the use of the "falling water." ' . Pravda Warns Justice-Douglas For 'Ignorance' MOSCOW W U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was warned by Pravda Saturday to avoid further "ignorant" state ments such as his suggestion that certain Southern" or Central Asian republics of the U.S.S.R. could be restored to independence. Douglas, now in Iran, is sched uled to enter the Soviet Union next week, when he is to cross the Cas pian Sea and land at Baku. Pravda said Douglas made his suggestion in an interview printed ; in the The Bangkok Post : Smith said be did hot think it would .be necessary to hook on an extra coach or two at Eugene, but the railroad was prepared for that eventuality. , Reports from Eugene indicated there were quite a few pesons planning to make the trip to Roseburg "just for. the fun of The pony express had one other advantage short wave radio, "Hams", were to relay reports on the train s progress to the radio equipped police cars, who in turn could notify the riders. - But Engineer Bridenstine has no way of learning how the race may be going. He has taken a dim view of the race, but has conceded: "I sure wish I bad a short-wave radio in the - cab, though. I'd kinda like to know low I'm do- Crowd. Over Hollywood Bowl Crowd S . t x; ----- - ' . . . i - I- , - ' t 4 .... r , . , , ., , ., - were hospitalized when this "hard top" racing car crashed through in Salem last night The auto racer, Joe (Moose) Steier, Seattle, photo was snapped by Charles Barnard a few seeondi after the in front rows of the bleachers or standing beside the stands when tion announced these changes, ef fective immediately: 1. The maximum repayment pe riod for home loan mortgages is reduced from 30 to 25 years. 2. The minimum cash down pay ment is increased by . 2 per cent tf rom nothing to 2 per cent in the case of GI leans). On FHA-insured loans, the action means a down payment of 7 'per cent will be required on the first $9,000 of appraised value, plus 27 per cent of the balance. For the past year the minimum had been 5 per cent of the first $9,000 and 25 per cent of the remainder. The study showed that two out of every five new home loans, and one out of, every five loans for existing houses, were made with no down payments. The reduction in mortgage re payment time is likely to hit hard est, since it means an increase in the monthly installments. FIL. officials estimated it would add about 49 cents a month for every $1,000 of the loan. On a $10, 000 mortgage, for example, the monthly payments would be in creased by $4.90. Veterans using VA-backed GI Rodeo Rider Still in Coma EUGENE (UP)-Donnie Pyeatt. 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pyeatt of Gowdyville, Ore., was still in a coma in a local hospital Saturday from injuries suffered during the July 4 Yoncalla Rodeo, his mother reported today. The Cottage Grove Riding Club was to 'hold a benefit dance at Cottage Grove tonight and a play day tomorrow to raise funds to meet, the Pyeatt family s medical expenses. More than $400 was col lected during the recent rodeo, to aid the cowboy, who was thrown by his mount and kicked in the head. - - Sheriff Needs Help To Serve Summons COOS BAY (UP)- Coos County Sheriff Charles Strawn, who as tax collector "was named a defendant in a tax suit filed by the Bandon Veneer 4 Plywood Co., was not permitted by law to serve the court summons on himself. Sheriff Strawn, following the law's instructions, took the sum mons to County Coroner Brewer Mills, handed him the document and told him: "Here, serve me.' Mills did. - CANCELLATION VOTED WASHINGTON UB The Senate passed and sent to the House sat urday a bill to cancel the fran chise of Washington's strike-bound Capital Transit Co. NORTHWEST LEAGUE ' At Salm 8. Tri-City 7 At Wenatchte 1. Lf wis ton S At Spokane 5-3. , Yakima -l PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE " At Sacramento 4. Portland At Lea Angele T. San Francisco ( At Oakland S, Hollywood U At San Diego 4. Seattle 1 4 - AMERICAN' LEAGUE ' At Washington 1, Chicago 0 At Bosion Z. Detroit 5 At Baltimore 0. Cleveland 7 ' At New York 1. Kansas City 11 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago o, Philadelphia 3 " , At CtnclnnaU I. Pittsburgh S At Milwaukee I, New York a ' At C Louis 0. Brooklyn 5 m . , . k . ; .Vi i A a ; i z loans will be required to make a down payment of at least 2 per cent of the purchase price. Here tofore, since April 23. 1953. they have been, able in many instances to buy homes without any cash down payment Midwest Left Gasping by Steamy Heat By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The midcontinent gasped through another day of steamy heat Sat urday but a cool front in Canada headed down toward the area. The U.S. Weather Bureau in Chi cago said there were long-range in dications the northern and upper central sections of the Midwest swelterbelt would enjoy thunder showers and cooling' relief by Mon day. But heat deaths in the area rose to 28 Saturday following more than a week of high humidity with temp erature readings in the 90-100 de gree range. There were 12 in Il linois, 8 in Iowa, 6 in Missouri and 2 in Nebraska. Estherville, Iowa, had an offici al reading of 104 and several other Iowa cities reported 103 tempera tures. It was Iowa's fifth succes sive day of 130-plus readings, the longest consecutive string since 1936, In Omaha, Nebr., the mercury hit 103.6, shattering the previous July 30 high of 103 set in 1917. Oth er, readings: Salina, Kan., 102; Kansas City, 101; Norfolk, Nebr., 100, Chicago 97 and St. Louis 96. Final Park Concert Set at 5 p.m. Totlay Final concert of ttie Salem city and school summer recreation band will be presented free to the public today at 5 p.m. at Wilson Park on the west steps of the Capitol building. Numbers will be varied and light, under the direction of Roy L. Shelton. The band is composed of high school and college students, and interested adults. Needles Poised Round of Polio Inoculations Monday will be O-'for Mouch")j Day for nearly 5,000 Marion Coun ty children as health, authorities begin giving the long-awaited sec ond shots of Salk polio vaccine to first, second, third and fourth graders. Inoculations will begin each day at 9:30 a.m. Only two clinics will actually be held Monday, both, of them in Sa lem J Children from -Hoover, Pringle and Auburn schools will receive shots at the Hoover clinic while St. Vincent's parochial school wiQ be headquarters for youngsters from that school and St. Joseph's. About 358 children, the largest number at any single clinic, will feel the prick of the needle at the St. Vincent's clinic. Dr. W. J. Stone, county health officer re ports. . Each clinic. Stone said, will be staffed by five volunteer workers, a doctor and a registered nurse. Vaccine will b transported in re frigerated bags to the vanoua Injured orrlLvrk wr. Crashes In Fence Driver Loses Control When Throttle Sticks By CHARLES IRELAND Staff Writer. The Statesman Five persons were injured, one critically, when a race car crashed through a fence at Hollywood Bowl here Saturday night. Four of the injured were spec tators. The fifth was a policeman on special duty Reported in "critical" condition at Salem Memorial Hospital was Richard S. Ketchum 21, Salem Route 1, a spectator. He. incurred severe head injuries when struck by flying boards. Others Hurt Hospitalized with injuries be lieved minor were Charles Edward Emerson, 36, 2320 Sandringhan Dr., mouth injuries; Mrs. Dale Collie, 29, 745 McNary Dr., shoul der and ear injuries; Daniel Van Brocklin, 32, Silverton route 2, leg injury; and J. H. Harp, 47, Salem route 1, the policeman, leg injury. . The accident came midway of a special match race between Bill Hyde, Portland, and Joe (Moose) Steier. Seattle. Throttle Stuck Steier crashed through an outside guard rail in front of the bleacher on the west turn of the racetrack when his throttle stuck as he sped down the homestretch in his "hard top" racer. He said he shut off his motor 7S yards before the crash and applied his brakes but was unable to turn or stop. His racer demolished 30 feet of guard rail and sent one four-by-ten inch board hurtling SO feet where it pierced the frame wall of a public rest room. Flying Board t .Ketcbilm, critically hurt, was sitting in the second row ot the bleachers which are separated from the fence, by approximately 15 feet of space. All of the in jured were struck by flying boards. Steier, the driver, was not in jured. Some of the injured were stand ing besides" the bleachers. At least two men who were not injured said they were knocked down by the flying boards. Approximately 30 other spectators were sitting in the bleacher area where the in jured sat. Large Crowd But most of a crowd estimated at 1,800 one of the largest of the season at Hollywood Bowl sat to the east and in full view of the accident The wreck, worst at Hollywood Bowl since a pitman was critically injured five years ago, cast a pafl over the crowd. The races were baited for nearly an hour but resumed after ambulances return ed to the race track. Riots Kill 21 In Morocco CASABLANCA, Morocco OB Rioting nationalists staged a se ries of anti-French demonstrations Saturday in Morocco during a ma jor Moslem holiday.' At least 21 persons were killed, and scores were wounded." The rioting reached a peak at Marrackech. where 13 demonstrat ors were killed in clashes with po-' lice. Forty-six others were .wound ed, including a young European . woman, a French policeman, and two Moroccan policemen. At Moulay Idriss, a holy Mos lm town 200 miles northeast of Marrakech, eight persons were killed. Twenty-four, including six policemen, were wounded. for Second clinkrs by a puSlic health nurse. Sterile supplies needles, syr inges, jackets, etc. will be picked up each morning and re turned each night to a Salem hos pital by a health departmenWem ployee. It will take about LOOO needles and syringes to do the job of polio prevention in the county. The health department said it expects to encounter more prob lems and confusion this week and next than it did during first clin ics this spring since parents, ra ther than school teachers, will be bringing the children to clinics. Other clinics scheduled during the first week will be at Englewood and Salem Heights schools, both on Tuesday; Highland school, Wednesday; Washington and Bush schools, Thursday; Four Corners and McKinley schools, Friday. Only out-of-Salem inoculations to be given during the first week will be in Silverton on Wednesday at Eugene Field School. County clia ic will begin Aug. S.