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Blaze Levels 105th Yur 2 DIP RTrnrnrarourNear Some time this fall commerci al television will come to Great Britain. To date, television and broadcasting have been a gov ern monopoly with advertising barred. Tbe grant of the alterna tive came only after much soul searching and debate in and out of Parliament. The Conservative government, after a Gallup poll showed a pub lic preference for a change, au thorized it some months ago and basset up a separate agency, In dependent Television Authority, which will own and operate sta tions at London, Birmingham and Manchester. The authority will retain the right to scrutinize scripts in advance, to regulate tbe advertising and to ban mate rial it considers offensive or im proper. Companies will contract to furnish the production and advertisers' will negotiate with the producing companies. The British Broadcasting Com pany (BBC) will continue its tel - evision program, free of com mercials. Within a few months British televiewers will have their choice: BBC program and the sponsored programs offered by the IT A. This will be a sort of test run between government, non-commercial television and government-owned but commercially-supported television. : The radio division of BBC has never been open to advertising, and no change from past policy is contemplated for that medium. Radio listeners in Britain do not have to listen to a single fare, however. BBC offers three pro grams. The Home Program runs from 6:30 a.m. to 11 n.m. It of fers news, talks, music, religi j cms services. The second is a . (Continued on Editorial page 4.) Princess Free To Wed; Plans Still Secret (Photo on page J, sec 1.) BALLATER, Scotland Uh Prin cess Margaret 25 and virtually free to marry the man of her choice went to the village church of her forefathers Sunday,-, a pray er on her lips and a secret in her heart. A deeply religious young woman, he sat with her sister. Queen Eli zabeth II, and other members of the royal family at Crathie Parish Church and listened to the Rev. John Lamb say: . "this is Princess Margaret's birthday. May she find the fulfil ment of her desires." Margaret, wearing a bright pink hat, a tight-fitting silk dress under a flowered silk coat, bowed her head in prayer. Her lips moved silently as 420 persons who had fought their way into a church built to seat 330, looked her way. Every member of the congrega . tjon was aware of her secret But no one knew whether now that she has reached the constitutional age stipulated in the 183-year-old Royal Marriage Act she will take steps to wed Group Capt. Peter Townsend. a 40-year-old divorced man and Battle of Britain air hero. Should Margaret decide to wed Townsend she would presumably tell the Queen and then notify par liament. ACTRESS HAS SON HOLLYWOOD Vn Actress Pier Angeli, who has been confined to her home since she was injured in an airplane mishap last Feb. 25. gave birth to her first child a boy at Cedars of Lebanon Hos pital Sunday. " m Northwest league At Tri-Citjrl3-a. Salem 14-7 At Lewiston 5-3. Wenatchee 1-5 At Spokane 8-4. Yakima 11-3 PACIFIC COAST LEAGt'E At Seattle 4-0. Portland 9-4 At San Francisco 5-3. Oakland 2-3 At Sacramento 0-4, San Diefo'2-3 At Hollywood 2-2, Lot Anfrelei 1-1 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago J-. Detroit 0-J At Cleveland 9, Kansas City 4 At Washington 1. Boston 4 At New York . Baltimore 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia 6. Brooklyn 4 At Pittsburgh-New York, rain At Cincinnati 4. St. Louis At Milwaukee t, Chicago X. &N1MAL CRACKERS V WARRIN OOOWCM I- "Nope can't say I ever Banker- . about gain' U th moon." OUTER tPACZ SECTIONS - ! 4 PAGES Beath 200 Over 8 States Vicious Squalls Slash Parts of Stricken Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Death, destruction and the threat of disease haunted Northeastern states Sunday in the wake of the worst floods in the region's his tory. The known 'dead neared the 200 mark. A line of vicious rain squalls slashed across parts of New Jer sey, New York and Massachusetts Sunday night to add new appre hension to the areas just begin ning to dry out. pump out, repair and begin again. Storms Brief Most of the thunderstorms were brief, however, and apparently would not dump enough water on the scarred and sodden earth to cause a new round of floods. But high winds knocked out more tele phones and electric lines. The death ton since last Thurs day, when hurricane-born rains be gan their devastation, climbed to 186 in the eight states along the seaboard torn by high waters. The toll appeared certain to go well over 200 before the grim count was ended. Two states Connecticut and Pennsylvania each estimated as many as 60 per sons still missing. Typhoid Serum Civil defense officials. Army per sonnel, and municipal officials gave high priority to shipments of anti-typhoid serum and other drugs to prevent any epidemic outbreaks. The problem of polluted drink ing water and spoiled food sup plies added to the potential health hazards in many areas. Dry ice for refrigeration became a must item. The Army helicopter was the universal symbol of rescue and help for the dazed residents of the flood areas. Damage Staggering In terms of the men, women and children who were swept be neath the rushing waters to drown. it was the nations worst flood in nearly 20 years. Property damage was equally staggering in the eighth seaboard states slashed by floods, the legacy of hurricane Diane. , Not until Sunday as brooks, streams and rivers sank back in to their normal beds was the full measure of havoc clear. Estimates, or guesses, of the damage ran to well over a billion dollars. Whole towns were left ravaged, cut off and demoralized. Emergency Basis i Dozens of towns were operating on an emergency basis. Dry ice supplies were commandeered for vital refrigeration of food supplies A food and drug embargo was put into effect to , stop contami nation. Many places had no drink ing water, no electricity, no gas, no telephones. President Eisenhower, vacation ing in Colorado, kept in close touch with the rescue work. He was highly gratified" over the role of the armed services. Dead Counted This was the latest count of known dead: Pennsylvania 93: Connecticut 66; Massachusetts 13: Virginia 3: New Jersey 6; New York 4; Rhode Island 1. State Police said the toll in Penn sylvania might eventually reach 150. In Connecticut, Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff called a special ses sion of the Legislature to deal with appropriations for what he called "absolutely heartbreaking" devas tation. Chinese Seaman, Without Country, Visits Portland PORTLAND Ufi i- Chau Yuto, a Chinese seaman without a pass porta man without a country was allowed off his ship in Port land briefly Saturday to buy a new pair of shoes and get a haircut. He fled Red China three years ago to avoid being drafted into tbe Communist army. I have no fam ilynothing left in China, he said in broken English. He managed to get a job on the freighter, the Empire State, at Shanghai several years ago. He has not been allowed off the chip at U. s. ports, since. Big Snake Captured; Town Breathes Sigh WABASHA, Minn, iff! Resi dents of this Southeastern Minne sota town breathed a sigh of relief after a 12-foot boa constrictor, hunted for three weeks, was cap tured Sunday. Tbe snake, lost by Rainey's Uni ted Shows July 29 during the Wa basha County Fair,; was found in side a new gram combine on a farm machinery lot near a resi dential district. i Thm Oregon Statesman, Salem, Stalks Flood Area Willamette r j-rT n w X These winsome Corvallis girls failed I- I - ' s . to Salem bat at least they could lay claim to being probably the first to try it Two of the girls floated as far as Independence and the other three drifted to the Eola area, where their appearance pat an end to a search by state police and sheriff's deputies. Lack of current and punctured innertubes prevented the girls from reaching Salem by river. Pictured in Salem after their adventure are Dorothy Gather coal, Louise Hartman, Kathrya McFadden, Lya Hemingway and Jerri Keene. Three are Oregon State College co-eds. (Story Page 2.) Bids Rejected For Cafeteria At Woodburn Statesman News Servlrt WOODBURN All bids sub mitted for construction' of a Woodburn school cafeteria were rejected by the school board this weekend. The lowest bid amount ed to' twice tbe sum allocated for the project The amount budget ed was $15,000. As a result, said Supt Frank Doerfler, cafeteria plans must be dropped for the present The sum devoted to the proj ect approved by the voters was determined in a preliminary es timate given the board for re modeling and equipping base ment quarters in Washington School. This school cafeteria would eventually supply the three public schools in Wood burn. A final check by the architect, after the budget had been ap proved by voters, disclosed that the basement was not usable due to plumbing and ventilating com plications. The Weather Max. Mln. Preeip. Salem . Portland Baker Medford North Bend . . M 44 .(Ml .82 45 .00 .90 37 .00 ..91 54 .00 .65 4S .00 89 45 .00 .65 49 OO .83 59 .00 . 99 75 trace .97 77 .41 Roseburg San Francisco Los Angeles imcago New York . Willamette River 2J feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Considerable early morning cloudi ness and cooler today. Partly cloudy tonight, fair Tuesday. High today 75 77: low tonight 48-50; high Tuesday 80-82. Temperature at 12.-01 a.m. today was 54. SALEM PRECIPITATIOX Sinee Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Tear Last Tear Normal 32.91 45.33 39.62 Famed h ' . . . ' - : - .- POUNDDD 165! Oregon, Monday, August 22, 1955 River 'Innertube -7, to complete a trip by inaertube on Tunisia; 1,000 Killed v By CARL HARTMAN j CASABLANCA, Morocco UTt The North African nationalist rebel-1 lion against French rule has spread into Tunisia after ravaging Morocco and Algeria and causing perhaps 1,000 deaths in weekend battles. Tie French grimly waged the fight against the rebels through Sunday with all the modern weapons at their command, including Police Arrest Minister for Using Rattler HARLAN, Ky. tf) A snake-1 handling preacher was arrested ony. or guerrilla warfare such as Sunday at church services de-ithat whicn "PP French Indochi- .... ... . !na, were in store. ' signed Jo "conquer- a rattlesnake. hopes of restoring peace that family bit one of the cult s j French and Moroccan officials and ministers. leaders began arriving at the Minutes after he handled four I French resort of Aix Les Bams snakes as a congregation of about ;on the Swiss border for consulta 2,000 watched, Kentucky State Po-1 tions on ways of handing Morocco lice arrested the Rev. William Ver- more self gvernment. non of Keokee. Va.. and charged Talks Planned him with state law forbidding the The talks were set up before the handling of snakes. .outbreaks on the second anniver- Members of the Pentecostal Holi- j ffJJ of the dethronement of Mo- nPSS Church called Sunday's meet- roc(?s nationalist Sultan, Moham- ing, they said, to "conquer" a rat tler that struck and killed Lee Val entine during services at Ft. Payne, Ala. The killer snake was not used. ,,, u,lf .. j ...jiu several other reptiles. i",! ,l W3S Kentucky State Police, who hadjlearned Sunday- announced their intention of arrest in a onv vinlatnr nf tha law at r i .. , ...... L..J auuuay s meeuiig, weie uu utuu from the beginning. After Vernon's arrest, the leader of the congregation, Oscar Hutton of St Charles, Va., asked the wor shippers to stay. Then, with police officers still present, Hutton and another preacher, Raymond Hays of Cum berland, Ky.. bitterly denounced state police for interfering. General Visits Salem . . .." a i i i i i ' . i - a. - i V N' j-T-i .' V j : v' r 1v .-3 PRICE Navigators' the Willamette River from Albany i I i I . SiX. M :Jf M M II Spreads to planes and tsn&s. Officially, 765, dead were count ed, but experienced observers be lieved the death toll had grown to over 1,000 since the Saturday outbreak of massacres, . riots, bombings and pitched battles. Fear Massacre The French feared waves of a Man Man tvni nf Vnassarrp 'enrh as those in Britain's Kenya Col- med Ben Youssef, whose return is being demanded. The most serious outbreaks were in Algeria and Morocco on Satur day, but a French outpost in Tu- ! uisia iicoi uic sMgtruciii uuiucr was CASABLANCA, French Morocco il Three newsmen, including I nm who rpnrpspntpd a TI S. hrnad- casting company, were stabbed and stoned to death Saturday by rebels in South Central Morocco. BEAT RECORD SET NEW YORK m - The mercury reached 92.8 degrees Sunday at 4:50 p. m. setting a heat record for this date. YAKIMA FIRING RANGE, Wash. Assistant -Secretary of tbe Army Hugh Milton (civilian clothes) Inspects administrative records of tbe I29tn Field Artillery Battalion here last week in the presence ef Salem members of tbe battalion, whilr looking (at right) J Maj. Gen. William Dean, deputy commander f the Sixth Army and a hero of the Korean War. Salem reserve officers In the picture Include (left to right) Warrant Officer Wilbur P, Green; Capt. Thomas G. Wright; Capl Walter O. Shold; and Maj. Thomas P. Bays. Milton and Gee. Dean spent three days on their inspection tour of units at the annual ammer camp here. Other anita inspected included the lOtth Infantry Division, which also includes a amber ! Salem area men. 5c No. 148 Atomic Secrets Freed Restricted Data Scheduled for Peaceful Uses WASHINGTON (fl - The U.S. government Sunday released near ly a thousand hitherto secret or restricted reports on atomic en ergy research which can be put to peaceful uses. It promised more in the future. The action was announced by Secretary of Commerce Weeks, whose department is cooperating with the Atomic Energy Commis sion in the new share-the-atoms-with-industry program. Atoms for Peace "The release of this information to American industry complements President Eisenhower's 'atoms for peace program on the home front," Weeks said. He added that it "marks the be ginning of a wider participation of industry in atomic research and development." As a first step in keeping Amer ican business posted on latest de velopments in industrial applica tions of the new energy, the Com merce Department's Office of Technical Services (OTS) made 961 AEC research reports imme diately available. Limited Circulation These are in addition, the Com merce Department said, to infor mation made public by this coun try at the international atomic en ergy conference which ended Sat urday in Geneva. Weeks said about one-third of the reports made public Sunday have had "limited circulation" in the past, but the others have not been published at all. He said the reports cover many fields, including chemistry, geolo gy, metallurgy, minerology, ce ramics, instrumentation, physics and reactor technology. Neiv Island Shoved lp5 Near Hawaii HONOLULU UB A Navy trans port plane commander said Sunday a submarine volcano pushed a new island above the surface of the Pacific Saturday about 375 miles northwest of Honolulu. "At 10,000 feet we could see two to three square miles of bubbling. smoking water, reported Cmdr, Thomas W. Heath. Heath said his plane carrying 52 passengers and crewmen en route to Midway circled the area for 20 minutes. Crew members and passengers said they saw at least an acre of exposed lava. like, Well Rested, i Returns to Denver DENVER 10 President Eisen- jhower, ruddy with sunburn and i looking well rested, returned to the summer White House Sunday night after five days of trout fish ing and general relaxation at a Rocky Mountain ranch. The President arrived at the Lafayette St. home of his mother- in-law, Mrs. John S. Doud, at 6 p.m. The 70-mile drive from Fra ser, across the Continental Divide, took. 2 hours and 15 minutes 'through heavy Sunday traffic. Reservists' Camp Mill; Da Tops 10 Firefighters Hurt at Rainier RAINIER, Ore. UV-An early morning fire destroyed the sawmill at the Van Vleet Lumber Co. here Sunday causing damage estimated at $1,500,000 Ton persons suffered minor burns fighting .the blaze. Fire departments from Rainier and from across the Columbia River it Lcngview and Kelso. Wash., fought the blaze to keep it from spreading lo 2 h million board feet of lumber stacked on the adjoining docks. Lumber carriers worked quickly to move as much lumber off the dock as possible. Water Trouble Firemen were hampered by the lack of enough hydrants and had trouble pumping water from the Columbia because the river is low at this time of year. Fire trucks had to pump water at heights of 25 feet to pour it on the blaze. At one stage, the lumber carri ers ran short of gasoline and an emergency call went out for a gasoline truck to supply the carri ers so they could continue evacuat ing lumber from the docks. Some lumber was lost when the fire spreading under the dock weakened it and sections collapsed jinto the river. Welding Sparks i The fire started from sparks jfrom a welding torch being used I by a maintenance crew repairing ja carriage. They could not control the blaze and summoned the fire department. The flames were confined to the sawmill and a small portion of Uie docks and did not spread to the planer mill. ' The plant's owner is in Cali fornia and Could not be reached for comment on possible plans to rebuild. The Rainier firm employs about 200 men. Most of the loss was covered by insurance. $2 Million Valne H. W. Humiston, resident mana ger of the mill, said the plant is valued at $2,000,000, with the saw mill itself worth $1,500,000. He said the lumber stacked on the docks was valued at $200,000. One witness said the fire started in the head rig about 8:15 a.m. and in minutes the whole sawmill was ablaze. Firemen finally conlrolled the fire about two hours later, but continued to pour water onto the still blazing sawmill and on the stacks of lumber. Dock Saved The railroad loading dock was saved by firemen cutting it off from tire mam fire area. A fire break was sawed in the dock and then bulldozers shoved gravel into the breach and pushed the burn 'ing portion of the dock away from the unburned area. Captain, Mate Forced to Quit Disabled Ship LONDON UP Captain George Watson and First Mate Kenneth Seaman were forced to abandon the disabled British freighter Argo beam Sunday while the ship was in tow in the North Atlantic. The 46-year-old captain of the 7,133-ton Argobeam had refused to leave when 29 of his crew were taken off after fire broke out on the freighter during a gale. His chief mate stayed and helped fasten tow lines to salvage tugs. But rising water in the engine room and a heavy list to port compelled them to go aboard a salvage tug. The crew members had been taken aboard the Swedish passen ger liner Kungsholm en route to New York. The Argobeam's engine room fire broke out Friday a few hundred miles off the Scottish Coast. mage MUlioii Santiam River Takes Life of Corvallis Lad Statesman News Service LEBANON A 7-vear-old Corral- lis boy drowned Sunday as he was washed downstream in the San tiam as his mother and, two friends ran along the bank extend ing their hands to him in vain. The victim was Ronney Duane Logan, son of Mrs. Nellie M. Logan. The drowning occurred in the middle fork of the Santiam River, just above the fish hatchery racks. The body was recovered about 300 yards downstream by an unidentified man. Linn County Coroner Glenn Hus ton and State Policeman Dav Witt said tbe child slipped into the water from the rocks. The vain efforts to reach him were made by Mrs. Logan and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Putman of Vancouver, Wash., who made up the party. Putman, who could not swim, told authorities he went into the water over his head two or three times in an effort to save tbe boy. The water, where the boy fell in, is reportedly six or seven feet deep, but is only three or four feet deep for the last 250 yards of the boy's course, officials said. Officer Witt said an attempt to apply artificial respiration failed. The body is at tbe Huston Funeral Home in Lebanon. Good Weather Draws Throng To Open Road It is just possible there were more people outdoors in the Wil lamette VaRey this weekend than in any similar non-holiday period on record. At least that is the opinion of a good many observers ranging from service station at tendants, resort operators and po licemen to just plain John Q. Citi zen who found the weather and attendant circumstances just about ideal. Briskly Busy There didn't seem to be a great deal of bumper-to-bumper traffic the highways, rather, appeared briskly busy most of the day Sun day. Especially noted was the ever-increasing number of boats rolling behind traffic on the San tiam Canyon Highway. Accidents appeared at an en couring and somewhat surprising minimum for so busy a time. What gave rise to the out-door rush? "For one thing, a lot of jeople worked in th bean fields, even though it was Sunday, because crops in some places 'were too heavy to handle last week, one observer said. Can't Last But the principal reason, another declared, was that "the weather has been so nice for so long that a lot of 'folks "didn't think it would last out another weekend without at least a few sprinkles and be sides, there's only one weekend left before the State Fair starts. And the week after that, it's 'back to school'." Today's forecast from McNary field weathermen is early morning cloudiness and cooler, followed by a fair Tuesday. The high should be about 76 today and 81 Tuesday. At northern Oregon beaches, morning clouds and partial clear ing are seen for today. Eusene Plane Crash Hurts 2 EUGENE W A light airplane tripped on a power line after tak ing off Sunday and its two occu pants were seriously injured. They are M.Sgt. John E. Adams, 30, of Oxnard, Calif., and his brother, Charles W. Adams, 34, Eugene. Sgt. Adams suffered severe leg and arm cuts and other injuries. His brother suffered a skull frac ture and cuts when the plane crashed nose-first into the ground and cartwheeled. . Tbe accident . was blamed on failure of the fuel injection mech anism. Today's Statesman Sec. Pag Classified II 4-6 Comics I'- 3 Crossword II 2 Editorials I 4 Home Panorama I 7, 8 Radio, TV II 3 Sports 1 1,2 Star Gazer I 3 Valley I 3 World This Week I 6