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'Mother locfc Sought (n Rugged Terrain I I WUNDHD 1651 105th Year 2 SECTIONS-24 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 31, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 157 Armistice Plan is'- Egyp Accepts f : -Z ZZT!:!" ' . ' if J I - , o'-vV y'CSirfWt- MOLALL. Search for nraninia in Wilhoit area, seven miles east of Molalla, gathered momentum Tuesday as crew from Montana drilled test holes on claims held by Salem residents. Steeply-sloping hillside was center of operations, produced clay and sandstone in preliminary drilling after thin layer of uranium-content ore was found near surface in drilling at roadside level, 100 feet below. - i ii mamm. RfF 1 Pt ; -mm,., l a l ri ii mm ii l ii . t i 't On Monday announced persons state water took his selection. he exercised great up a balanced board. The list in cludes two professional men, one an engineer specializing in water, another- a lawyer skilled in Jaw on water rights. One had experi nre (with Rnnnpvill Ptmer Ad ministration) in hydroelectric pow- L er. One, is aa . Eastern- Oregon rancher, another an orchardist in Southern Oregon. One is a past! siate president oi me lzaax uaiion League, another was long a mem Governor Patterson! ft vf ' C PcjV . 1 names of the seven fJ ; : S ! V ri-V I he h picked for the new rT, IV-i ii K rlXwV. J resources board. He I , I W V V- y t 7 : 1 - time in making the!l7 X:; Vif.l f ' li and it is evident, that! V -T 1 ' l5 S-i V -5 1 , ber of the Willamette Basin Com-; , mittee which now will be succeed-1 ed by this new state board v It is evident there is' no "load ing" of the board for special in terest (electric power), nor is it lopsided on the conservation (fishl aide. Three members are inter ested in or acquainted with irriga tion, but thev. are not a maioritv. ! The purpose of the board would be defeated if each member con- . aiders himself a spokesman for special interest whether H is pow er or fish or irrigation or -navigation. The board's success wiS depend on how it. functions with singleness of purpose to work out water programs best for the pres ent and future of the people of Oregon. It is well to have diverse interests represented, not as dele gates or partisans . (Continued . en editorial page, 4) PolIvD.AMay Oppose Thornton PORTLAND m State Sen. Carl H. Francis of .Dayton" and Walter Foster of Dallas, are considering socking the Republican nomination for the post of Oregon attorney general next year. Francis, an attorney, and Foster, Polk County district attorney, each indicated the other's candidacy would not keep him" out of the primary race. ( The post now Is heW by Robert Y. Thornton, a Democrat JfORTHWEST LEAGVY At Salem S. Wenatchee 4 At Tri-Citjr . Eugene 1 At Lewiston 13. Yakima 4 rAcrnc coast Leagib At Portland I. SeatUe 2 At Lo Angelet S, Hollywood 1 At Oakland 10. Saa franciaco 1 KATIOMAL LX.AGCK At Brooklyn S. Milwaukee f At Philadelphia 1, Chicago 3 At New York 5-9, Cincinnati $-T At Pituburf a 3-0, SU Louia l-l AMEI1CAK LEAGUE At Chicago Boston S At Kansai City 4. New York 1 At Detroit 4. Washington O At Cleveland 7, Baltimore 4 ANIMAL CRACKERS V KIN OODRICH , We've Wen iavited to the Brown's tor a grape-itowiping , . . Wonder whyT- mm si 4s is "'aw ''So-' If MOLALLA Close-up shows section "' w ... i .71 .- care to make a T7 rXl ' f . .JL. i - Tuesday. Rig is capable of going down ZOO feet bnt drillers Ted Rleman (left) and Dave Bower said tbey did not plan to go be yond 45 feet here. A tube, attached to Geiger counter, is lowered into hole after it is drilled. Sample is removed if counter needle jumps. (Statesman photos by John Ericksen, Staff Photographer.) Uranium JMscade By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman MOLALLA Search for a "mother lode" of uranium was underway Tuesday in the Wilhoit Mineral Springs area, 35 miles northeast of Salem. Attracted by the preliminary success of Salem claimholders, a professional crew began probing the crust of the Caspade foothills with' drilling equipment brought here from Billings. Mont. Rich u-d N. Miller, geologist, said his three-man crew already had struck a thin layer of soil containing uranium. But he stressed that this did not mean the much-sought mineral was present in worthwhile quantities. Miller said the crew plans to drill at least 25 test holes in an approximate 'square mile of ter rain representing the claims of 36 Salenvarea residents. He said most of the holes would be 40 to 45 feet -deep. "Probe, Tnbe . ' A bullet-shaped "probe tube" wiQ be dropped into each hole and readings will be taken on a Geiger counter at the surface. Core samples will be taken from any holes where uranium is in dicated. If promising, samples are lo cated, the geologist said, they will be shipped to a private assayer at Grand Junction, Colo A On Royalty Basis The crew is employed by West ern America Uranium Explora tion Corp., Billings. Miller said the firm has made arrangements with Lester Johnson, Salem, and other claim holders to- seek ura nium and mine it on a royalty basis if "commercial quantities' are found. Johnson has been prospecting in the area for six months. He slid the crew came here from Billings as a result of ore sam ples he baa unearthed in the '".tf . V'-i l v?T I "i ! of drill nsed in uranium search in , Foothills area. Johnson also declared that no sale of stock; is involved nor contemplated. Geologist Miller said the next step following a favorable assay report would be to bring in a power shovel, mine at ' least 50 tons and ship it to the nearest receiving station. One of . the nearest is at Salt Lake City, Utah. Miller said it usually takes at least a 50-ton sample (gondola carload) to prove the worth of a . claim. He said a profitable carload of uranium ore might range from $850 to in rare cases $80,000 in value Ban field Route Section to Open PORTLAND r The east end of Portland's new Baniield Expressway will go into use Oct: 1. City .Engineer Fred Fowler said the route will be open in the stretch between the Columbia River Highway east of Portland to N.E. 42d Ave. Salem's Aviation Pioneers Lived . With Adventure- The men (and a few women) who pioneered the growth of aviation in Salem were aa ad venturesome group who not only flew by the "seat of their pants," but often on the tops of their heads. A story on how these early, dedicated "aeroplane enthusi asts" made and flew their own planes and helped -aviation grow is in today's Oregon Statesman on Page t. See. 2. . I . f . . ' " e' ' J 1 , "r-'-i i 3 7 - s - Sought Carrier Sea Run Stalled, Forrestal Fails to Hit Peak Power .As Bearing Melts ABOARD CARRIER FORRES-; TAL AT SEA Wl A propellor shaft bearing melted Tuesday and forced curtailment of sea trials of the supercarrier Forrestal. The trouble developed in the main thrust bearing on the num ber three shaft, as the world's big-; gest warship was building up to full power about 100 miles east of Cape Henry, a. H. T. Bent, vice president and works manager of the Forrestal's builders, the Newport News Ship building and Dry Dock Co., said the melted bearing would prevent fullpower runs, planned for Wed-j nesday. For this reason, the ship, which sailed from Newport News. Va., Mondav. will return there Thurs- ;av morning instead of Friday as nriptnallv scheduled ' The Forrestal will return to sea Sept 19 to perform the postponed .-11 W A J power runs, cent saia. , "We still hope to deliver the snip to the jvavy on bept. 29, as scheduled. Bent said. Comrms- cinnintf pftramMitafl spa t r a4 i i 1 clA ifor Oct. 1. Highway Trio Case May Go To Grand Jury A Marion County grand jury may eventually investigate the conduct of three State Highway Department men suspended Mon day for "irregular conduct-" District Attorney Kenneth E. Rrown ai dT uesd ayT- afte a con ference with State Highway En gineer R. H. Baldock and district attorneys from Polk and Yamhill counties, that the grand jury would study the matter if subse quent investigation by his office indicates this course of action is warranted. Brown said the two other dis trict attorneys, Walter Foster, from Polk County, and Elliott Cummings, Yamhill County, indi cated they would follow the same course of action. The law possiblv violated by the trio. Charles F. O'Neill. Ed gar O. Ferguson and Arthur T. Garrow, all of Salem, is one pro hibiting state employes from ac cepting gifts in connection with their work. I Violation of the law, upojn con viction, calls for a fine of not more than $5,000, one year in the county jail or penitentiary or both; or by dismissal "with or without either or any such pun ishments." t. , One of the men, Ferguson, ap pealed his suspension' to the Civ il Service Commission Monday. The other two had not appealed by late Tuesday afternoon al though O'Neill said late last week he believed he would. Kiwaiiians to Meet in Salem Salem will be host next year to a Kiwanis convention expected to draw attendance, to over 1,000. Salem Kiwanis Club received word Tuesday noon from its dele gates at the regional Kiwanis con vention in Bellingham, Wash., that Salem had just been selected the 1956 convention city. " ; The current convention, at Bel lingham has registration of more than 1,000 from Oregon, Washing ton. British Columbia and Idaho. . An organized bid for the 1956 convention was prepared by Salem Kiwanis and Salem Chamber of Commerce. The local delegation to Bellingham is headed by William H. Hammond, Salem Kiwanis pres ident MEAT PLANT SOLD SAN JOSE. Calif, on Central ! Eureka Corp. announced Tuesday the sale of its Gem State meat packing division at Boise, Idaho, to Swift k Co. The Weather Max. . S . S4 SS . 84 Min. 42 Precip. trace trace .00 .00 trace .00 , .00 .ua galea Portland Baker 59 37 S3 55 45 60 M 0 feet. Med ford North Bend fl San Francisco 80 Los Angeles ., ,. 79 Chicago 77 Npw York . SO trace Willamette River FORECAST 1 from V. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field, falemi Cloudy this morning with partial ; clearing this afternoon and early evening: cloudy attain tonight and early Thursday; warmer today, with jhifh 72-74. low tonifht 53-54. Tem Iperarure at II 1 a m. today was 1. ! SALEM PRECIPITATION , , Sine Start e Weather Tear Sea. I i Thss Tear Lact Year Normal a-i 44.K aa.ia Succumbs 1 I ' ''-'-"it-? J " "v - - - I I 1 - i Ralph yj j known Salem attorney, who died at a Salem hospital late Monday. Ralph Moddy, Dean of State's Lasers,' Dies Ralph Elmo Moody, 88. known as the dean of Oregon attorneys, died in Salem Monday night fol lowing an .illness of several months. Son of an Oregon governor and one of the state's most widely known 'and respected attorneys. Moody practiced law for 65 years, the last 15 in Salem. . Usually wearing a flowing dark Windsor tie Moody was a familiar figure in courtrooms .all over the state, where he distinguished him self with his keen knowledge of law, his rolling oratory and his enormous capacity for work on a case. Because of his superior legal experience he was often referred to as , an "attorney's' attorney." Much of his work included cases involving constitutional law: Was in partnership, w ' For the past several" years he had been a member of a law firm in partnership with' Walter S. Lamkin in the Oregon Building. Because of Moodys illness thai partnership was dissolved last month. Moody's colorful career as a lawyer covered a variety of ex periences. He was an assistant state and federal attorney genera!, a special prosecutor for Oregon governors, legal advisor to the Oregon Legislature and was him self a member of the House, and carried on a considerable private practice all over the state. He was special prosecutor in the investieation of Oregon labor troubles in the late 1930's, in the Jackson County vote fraud cases. He authored the present Oregon Public Utility" District law and in Salem has been a central figure in legal battles concerning federal price laws. s ' Moody was married in 1933 to the former Regina Elizabeth Johnson of Ashland, who survives. Also surviving are nieces and nephews in Portland and Califor nia. Funeral services will be held Thursday at the W. T. Rigdon Chapel. Dr. Lloyd T. Anderson will officiate and ritualistice services will be Portland Elks Lodge No. 142. Concluding sedvices will be at City View Cemetery. . (Addi tional details on page 4, sec. 2.) Driver Strikes Wrong Object? BOISE, Idaho (J! Jess Arnold, 35, was fined $60 in police court Tuesday for reckless driving. Police officers Richard Deal and Donald Jerome said he admitted trying to back his car over his mother-in-law. The officers said Arnold missed Mrs. Alice Clark, who lives with the Arnolds, but hit a utility pole guy wire. The accident; they said, caused street lights to sag arid disrupted automatic signal opera tions. E. Moody, 88, Baldock Plan for Federal Roads Lops Up to $11 Billion In Interest Interest costs in a 10-year fed eral' highway building program could be cut from llltt billion to as low as a half billion, under a plan recommended Tuesday, by State Highway Engineer R. 1L Baldock. Expressing concern at Con gress failure to pass highway ' legislation this year, the Oregon official predicted that "the people just won't permit such a failure next year." Baldock spoke before Salem Kiwanis Club at the Senator Hotel. ' The highway department head, answering clubmen's questions' as to what he would recommend for federal legislation, declared that he still favors alan about tb saint as h had proposed be : Israel Reply Sought U, S., British Ask Cease-Fire as Fight Continues JERUSALEM W The United Nations Truce ' Mission announced early Wednesday Egypt has agreed to a cease -fire effective at 6 p.m. Jerusalem time (9 a.m. PST) on the Israeli-Egyptian' front, near Gaza. A Commission spokesman said Israel's agreement is expected Wednesday. Th crackle of gunfire and the roars ot other explosive violence went on through Tuesday. A U.N. spokesman, indicating optimism that the fighting may end shortly, said a cease fire pro posal had been sent to both Egypt and Israel by Maj. Gen. E.L.M. Burns, chief truce supervisor for Palestine. Egypt, he said, had responded positively, and Israel's reply was expected shortly. The Egyptian Government In formation Department had nounced earlier Tuesday night that Egypt accepted the proposal. The American and British am bassadors at Cairo called on the foreign ministry and urged accept ance of Burns' proposal. An Israeli spokesman charged early Wednesday that Egyptian in filtrators blew up one of the masts of a radio station near Kubeba on the Israeli coastal plain Monday night. (Additional details on page 3, sec. 2.) Dulles States Russia Offers Guns to Arabs WASHINGTON JH Secretary of State Dulles reported Tuesday Russia may be moving into the tense Middle East situation by of fering to provide arms to Arab countries opposing Israel. Dulles said any such arms ship ments would in effect violate Rus sia's Geneva Conference pledge to help ease international tensions. The secretary coupled this state ment in response to news confer ence questions with a sharp re minder that Russia has yet to fol low up with deeds the improved East-West spirit which flowed from last month's Big Four Summit meeting. "The important thing to remem ber," he said, "is that the Geneva Conference was never looked on as an end but only as a beginning. It was hoped that Geneva would generate a new spirit ... for the purpose of bringing about prac tical . results ; . ." ' No Russian arms have yet ar rived in the Middle East, Dulles said, adding most Arab nations are now getting their military equip ment from non-Communist areas. Dulles also made these addition al points: ' 1. The United States is concerned about the violent quarrel between France and Arab Nationalists in North Africa but has not inter vened except to express that con cern to French authorities. 2. Vice President Nixon will not visit Russia during his scheduled Middle East visit. 3. Changes may be desirable in an immigration law requiring fing er printing of all nonofficial visi tors to the United States. 4. Conditions are not ripe in In dochina for nationwide elections called for under the Geneva arm istice agreement 5. The roving activities in Ko rea of United Nations truce super visory teams, which includes Com munist Czech and Polish members, should stop. South Koreans have charged the reds with spying. fore a Congressional committee last spring. This plan would be a com promise measure between the Eisenhower - bonding program , and the pay-as-you-go plans which Congress also considered. Baldock advised that the bond ing period be extended from 10 to 15 years and that part of the needed revenue be raised by in creasing taxes on highway users. Furthermore, he said, he favors earmarking a much larger share of federal highway tax revenue for road purposes. ; His recommendation was for an additional one cent per gallon gas tax. Baldock said Congress at pres ent has estimated revenue of $2.C billion from highway taxes, with Lineman Killed as Car Snaps Power Pole at Aumsville Car Snags Loose End of Guy Wire, Second Worker Seriously Injured Statesman Newi Service AUMSVILLE -A. car snagged the loose end of a guy wire and snapped off a power pole Tuesday, plunging a lineman 40 feet to his death. Another workman was injured seriously. Killed in the 2 p.m." accident near Aumsville was Axel (Ted) Theodore Carlson, 28, Albany, a lineman for Pacific Power and Light Co,. Don Doubledee, 30, Albany, in curred shoulder and arm burns and was reported in "fair" condi tion Tuesday night at Santiam Memorial Hospital, Stayton. A crew was installing the new guy wire when the car drove by, caught it between its rear springs and broke off "the pole eight leet above the ground, re ported William Hahn, line super intendent for Pacific Power in the Stayton area. Near Top of Pole The two linemen were work ing near the top of the pole. The mishap plummetted them to the ground where the pole and 12,000 volt primary circuit power line came down on top of them, n-:Hahn said. The superintendent said other members of the crew immediate ly cut off the power and gave the men artificial respiration un til the Stayton ambulance ar rived. , Wendel Weddel, Stayton mor tician, said Carlson died about the time the ambulance reached Stayton. He said Doubledee ap peared to be more seriously burned and it was presumed that Carlson died of other injuries. Fastened to Top of Pole Superintendent Hahn said it was not determined how the car picked up the end of the guy wire. He said one end was fas tened to the top of the power pole, and the crew was prepar ing to fasten the other end to a stub across the highway.- t- - , r Hahn "said the guy wire was "either on or across the road" when the car drove by and hooked on to it Deputy Sheriff Amos Shaw identified the driver as Tharon Stanley Valarida, 19, transient who has been picking beans in the West Stayton area. He was not cited. Power Outage The power crew was changing the conductor on an existing line when the accident occurred. The incident caused a power outage at Aumsville, Sublimity and sur rounding districts for 30 minutes and at the big Willamette Build ers Supply mill near Aumsville for two hours, Pacific Power and Light reported. The deceased was a former Dallas resident where he worked for ML States Power Co. as me ter reader before that company merged with Pacific Power. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Carl son, and a brother, Robert Carl son, live at Dallas. Other surviv ors include his wife and two chil dren at Albany. Services are pending at Clough Barrick Mortuary, Salem. Trace of ,Rain Falls on Area A tracej of rain hit the Salem area Tuesday to give the sector its first precipitation since Aug. 8, weathermen at McNary Field reported. Traces of rain were recorded on both the 8th and 7th of this month. August's bow-out today will be accompanied by morning cloudiness but the outlook does n't include rain. Cloudiness held Tuesday's high reading down to 65, but temperatures are expect ed to warm up some today. Outlook for beaches calls for mostly cloudy conditions today, with a temperature range of 54 64. $958 million of this budgeted for actual highway projects and the remainder going into other gov ernmental expense. He recom mends that another $350 million be earmarked for highway use. He said Congress could learn a lesson from the Oregon Legis lature which set up a postwar highway construction program combining new revenue from higher road taxes and from bond issues. It was an anniversary for Bal dock. the clubmen were told by their program chairman, Wil liam Gaarenstroom, the 40-year state highway department veter an became assistant state high way engineer just 25 years ago Tuesday. He became head of the department in 1932. AF Reserve Enlisted Men Get Pay Drill The Air Force Reserve next month will start a Salem pay drill 4 program for specialized training of enlisted men. This will be the first such train ing for enlisted men, with the in centive of pay for 24 sessions a year. It is one of several recent developments aimed at reorganiz ation or expansion of various mil itary reserve programs in Salem. About 80 Air Reserve members are now active in the 9414th Air Reserve Center on Airport Road; the new schooling is expected to attract considerably more, accord nig to Lt. Col. Charles W. Terry, commander of the Salem center. Besides the new non-commissioned officer training course., for reserve airmen, on Tuesday nights starting Sept. 27, the cen ter will offer four courses for of ficers, although pay has not been authorized for takiing this train ing. All courses will add points toward retirement, however. The officer courses are for ad ministrative, legal, flight opera tion and education-training offic ers. Those with other specialties will continue in the general train ing course. - - , - Instruction for the new program will be provided for designated staff officers of the Salem center, under guidance from the Portland air reserve headquarters. Enroll ment. now being taken at the Air port Road armory, should be com pleted by the end of September, Trio Charged In Stayton Robbery Case Marion County sheriffs deputies and Stayton police combined Tues day to arrest two men and a wom an accused of the Sunday night robberies of two Stayton area men. Charged with assault and rob bery were Vernon L. Mallett, 25; his 18-year-old wife, Emily Mallett, and Eddie F. Robinson, 54, all of Stayton. Mallett and Robinson were lodged in the county jail after arrests on Stayton Justice Court warrants. Mrs. Mallett was booked at the county jail and later taken to the Salem city jail by Sheriff Denver Young. The county's quarters for women are still occupied by sever al girls from Hillcrest. Bail oh each was set at $250. The MaJletts' 22-month-old baby was temporarily turned over to county juvenile officials. Stayton police officer Frank Pa penfus arrested Mallett and his wife at a Stayton launderette; Rob inson was arrested at a bean yard a short time later by Deputy She riff Amos Shaw. Sheriff Young said Mallett signed a statement admitting the Sunday night robberies of Bill Hicks, field boss of the Snoddy bean yard near Stayton, and Bert Edwards, a worker at the Dewey McCall bean yard on the Stayton-Mehama road. Both were left stranded on country roads. Young said Mallett told him about $50 was taken in the two robberies. They will be arraigned in Stayton this morning. OFFICIAL TO RETIRE DENVER (J) John Hammond, chief of the dams branch in the Bureau of Reclamation's engineer ing office here, will retire Aug. 31 after 39 years government serv ice. Today's Statesman Sec. Pag ..II.-. 9-1 1 ..ll.. 6 ..ll. 6 Classified Comics .... Crossword .. Editorials ... I 4 Home Panorama I 6, 7 Markots .. II 7 Pioneer Aviators H. 8 Radio, TV II 6 Sports II A, 2 Star Gazor 1 11 Valley .,,.. 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