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nn i POUNDOD 1651 105th Year 3 SECTIONS-28 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, September 4, T93S - R1CI 10c No. 161 State Fair Off ify Off 'Shirtsleeve y:: 'Record Start Weather! Fills Midway at Fair - -.. Richard Nixon has impressed me as a "young man in a hurry" to go places, might -well be add ed. Richard H. Rovere. nrnfps-! sinnal journalist, uses the tiile "Nixon: Most Likely to Succeed" for bis analysis of the young and active vice president who seems j to be a favorite of .Eisenhower's ! and a phobia with Democrats. H;s article appears in Harper's for : September. itovere s , Mon is well groom- ed, serious about his business which is politics, abstemious, co operative. Not once is he referr-; ed to as the Veep, the nickname that seemed to fit the homesoun Albea Barkley. Rovere fits nim' right onto the pattern of modern business promotion as an expert! in "public relations." With Eisen hower disdaining politics and nec essarily limited m his outside ! contacts, Nixon takes on the chore j usually assigned to at least one' vice president in a corporation: "public relations." Of course he is used even more widely than! lining the . traditional role in Washington as the one seated next to the hostss at the usual round of winter dinners. He has been the President's emissary to the Far East, toj Central Ameri ca: and soon he is to visit the Middle East. (This- last should be real test, of mT talent. If he can sell a bill of goods to Morocco and France and to (Continued on Editorial Page 4A 1 e " ' ' : "3 I u V ' ' - L ' ) ' got off to I 1 .y V ,- " - J5"TPTr7 I Saturday I r ' . P- . 5 . - . V tering 1 w - ' - -O ,JVJ :V than C V 1 J lAZ L J IlH And b-iuu t - f' I" n r frf "i i ii iirr tt i - ' li i i -- - yl- -- i-- , , --1 Cright pennants and animal cnt-eots decorated, the midways at the Oregon State-Fair Saturday as cpening day erewd thronged -through the gates U see the sights ef the 90th state-Wide extra va ganza (SUtesmaa Photo) (State Fair pictures oa page 10, see. 1, and page 5, sec. 2.) Today at the Fair 7:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. SUNDAY, SEPT. 4 - Gates open. Judging begins Beef cattle; Aberdeen Angus; milk goats. j i 4-H senior dairy showmanship and beef : ! showmanship. . Band concert in front of stadium. 4-H Sunday service. Free Midway act, front of stadium. Circus in Stadium. Free Show Gay Nineties Revue, (Forest Grove Gleeman), Grandstand. i ! Free show Folk Dancing (Oregon Dance Federa tion) on grounds. 4-H sheep showmanship, dairy showmanship. Circus in Stadium. f Band concert in front of administration building. Free midway, act, front of stadium. 4-H awards event. International Farm Ybuth, change show, 4-H hall. Circus, Stadium. Stage revue, Grandstand. Gates close. Arson Squad Plans Blaze Investigation By JERRY. STONE -Staff Writer. The SUtesmaa Speculation that a firebug may be operating in the Salem vicinity nas arisen in the wake of two major fires which hit Salem the past week. - Flames which gulled a vacant Portland Road feed warehouse Friday Jiight were of auspicious origin, Fire Chief Ellsworth L. Smith said Saturday. Smith added that certain aspects of the blaze were similar to a Wednesday night fire - which caused an estimatel $30,000 damage at the Salem Laun dry Co. j Smith said he will make a re quest that the state police arson squad investigate the $25,000 blaze . which struck a building formerly occupied by the Oregon Feed and Seed Col The fire started about 9 p.m. Friday and was brought under control by firemen about half an hour after badly charring the one-story structure. The laun dry fire also started about 9 p.m. A man- working at the nearby fairgrounds about the time of the Friday night fire told Smith he first saw flames licking outside the southeast corner of the build ing, located in the 2G00 block of Portland Road. There was no con nection between the blaze and a small grass fire in the area earli ,cr in the j day. Smith maintained. ' The chief added that the grass fire " burned no closer - than 30 feet from the S building when extin guished about 3 pjn. some six - hours prior to the two-alarm fire in the warehouse. The fact that the structure was JERUSALEM W Sharp fight- vacant and thereby without many ; ing broke out again Saturday along A burgiar with a liking for sil of the usual fire hazards wras me the Gaza demarcation line between th. nJwt ;f . basis for I firemen's suspicions. : Egypt and Israel. It came just ss vcrware was the object oj a James Brazie. owner of the build-! the trigger-tense area was begin- search by Salem policy Saturday ing. said the damage was covered jhing to hope for an effective cease- after , 250 teaspoons, 250 forks by insurance. fire. and an undetermined amount of Aiarmea oy wnat ne cauea ine tables were taken f rom verv spnous events. Mai. Gen. K. i r Rnrns ii N trnr snrwr. First Methodist Church, State' renewed his appeal to both jna tnurcn Mreets, somei me rriuay or cany auiuruuy. ) Police hope also that the thief Opening Day Crowd Top For Weekend By LILLIE U MADSEN Farm Editor. The Statesman Oregon's Gay Nineties State Fair; a gay and record start with 69 more people en- the gates the first hour entered during that time a This year's 9 o'clock was 488.- all day , long the figures back and; forth, giving first last year, and, then this year, the edge on attendance, ending with the final 11 o'clock night count at 41,070, a day opening, compared to the 1954 final opening" day count of 40.330. ' j . Betting was excellent, with the paramutuel handle making a new Saturday opening day record of $116,678. Last year's stood at $91,957. "Knock Out" j Although those cpming out of the night revue said it "was a knock out," a "riot" and "the best yet," attendance figures of 2,892 were short' of the 1934 open ing night attendance; of 3,062. Cir cus attendance, too, was down this year, with 2,389 going in. compared to the 1934 count of 3,373 for both rnafinee and night performances. Perfect weather brought a hu?c afternoon flower-loving crowd to the open air garden Show, one of the finest ever seen at Salem. Marvin Black, Salem, won the sweepstakes for the most out standing garden in the exhibits which includes those of nurseries, growers and professional land scape architects. Judging here was difficult, judges Said, as they admitted they had difficulty in settling between Black's desert garden, and the patio arrange ment by Fernll's Nursery. Fer- Multiple Names Of Lif tie Value j i - i CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UP) Judge J.S.D.J.N.S.W.E.D. Hen. derson observed his 76th birth day Saturday, still stuck with all those initials. - 1 He, said his mother named him after; all his uncles in the hope that; one of them would leave him something. But Uncles Jackson, Ezekiel, David, James,! Nathaniel, i Sylvester, Willis, Ed-! ward! and Demosthenes all pass ed dn without leaving him a dimei. ! Bijeak Seen in Los Angeles Heat Wave LOS ANGFI.FS IJR ' Th record Saturzling Southern .California heat wave that pas boosted temperatures above jthe 100 mark for four davs in a tow is beginning to break. the Weather Bureau reported Sat urday night. ... The high mark in the Los Angeles Civic Center Saturday was 103 but ' mill ditch. Years ago i urneri o Drowns In Mill Ditch Victim Nonvay Ship Fights Free of Greenland Ice Weather Bureau forecasters sea breezes are beginning a cool ing treid that will continue through the Lajor Day weekend. The fore-' cast for Sunday is for a high of 96 herfe and SO at the beaches. Warm air flowing from Texas and the Gulf of Mexico and hot desert (winds brought the heat that started Wednesday with a high of 101. Thursday the mercury hit 110 to setijan all-time record for. Los Angeles, f riday the maximum was 108. j Saturday temperatures at some beach preas were as much as 20 degrees below the marks in the downtown Los Angeles district. But as the heat continued in the plus-lOOj range Saturday the Los Angele:; County coroner's office re called ( ff-duty personnel. Heat prostrations caused 10 deaths but Dr. Lester Adelson, chief deputy coroner, said many Artificial Respiration Fails to Save Boy After Fall Into Foot-Deep Ditch SLattsmAB Kw Servica TURNER An 18-months-old bov drowned in a shallow ditrh in front of his home here Saturday. , - Dead is Jimmy Leon Bones, whose parents Mr. and Mrs; Lester N. Bones, were at the State Fair when the tragedy occurred about 4 p.m. : - A high school girl was supervising Jimmy and bis four-year-old brother, Billy, when toe toddler fell into the ditch. The boy's father said the baby sitter apparently went into the house to get a washcloth; and the child toddled about 30 feet from the porch to the ditch and fell in. Bridge Over Ditch . The ditch is about 20 feet wide but scarecly a foot deep. Bones reported.! Supposition was that the child fell from a foot bridge that connects the yard with the street Fire Chief Albert Jensen said the babysitter retrieved the child and took him across the street to the C. G. Hunt residence. Hunt and others applied artificial respiration for an hour while fire men attempted to revive the child with a resuscitator. The ditch in which the boy drowned is known here as Turner it supplied said ' water power for a flour mill. Works ia Salem . Jimmy was born March 8, 1954, at a Salem hospital and had al ways lived at Turner. His father works for an auto parts firm in Salem. j Surviving besides his parents and brother are grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Klockstad and Mr. and Mrs. Vester Bones, all of Turner. Services ; are pending at the Vir-, gu T. Golden Chapel, Salem more e ing of by the The d by the erase The poultry three forest 1.). I ALESUND, Norway WV-A small Norwegian ship, trapped for at least two days in Greenland pack ice. was reported free Saturday night and en route to Denmark under its own power. j The U.S. Air Force announced earlier that planes from its Thule, Greenland, base were trying to rascbe the 33 persons aboad the 483-ton seal catcher Jopeter. rill received a blue ribbon and $123, Black received, in addition to the blue ribbon cash prize? $75 for sweepstakes. Red! ribbon win ners in this division received $90 each, and white ribbons drew $30. Formal Garde - . Claggett's Garden, a neat rest ful, small formal garden, won a blue ribbon. This featured blue steptacarcus and achimines. as well as begonias. A b'ue ribbon was also won by Doerfler's Gar dens which featured la contem porary theme, using greenery, some of the delightful, small blue edging, plant. Exacum iaffine, and of the orange colored zinias. Blaze. j Jack Brydon won a red ribbon as did also John and Rudoloh Henney, while white rjbbon ners in this division were Men's i rison Garden Club of Salem; Benedict i owners, Nursery, Nelson Nursery, both Oi'iooo. balem, and Bernard bcheidlcr i Three derly people are succumb- natural causes aggravated heat. vcrnight death toll checked coroner's office reached 93 Saturday compared with an av- M 23. 100-plus heat has caused casualties estimated at million dollars. California fires story on page 2, sec Third Lebanon Mill Burns LEBANON W The Nursery of Mt. Angel. Waterfall Outstanding exhibit, non-competitive, is the and rockery with its carden of Lebanon 10 davs area s third mill fire in destroyed the Lebanon Wood Prod- win- jucts Mi$ early Saturday. Bob Gar- and Charles Nugent, the estimated the loss at $30,- drying kilns, the sawmill. bailer, machine shop and two lathes wlere destroyed. A truck and although tractor were pulled from the area waterfall ! and escaoed damage. , - J V. v - - 4 - - - , v - . "'if ' Vandals Batter Fire Engine in Bush Pasture An early-day Salem fire enfiine. donated by. the Salem Fire Depart ment for children to play with was badly damaged by vandals at Bush Pasture, it was discovered late Saturday night. - ; ; The outfit, located in the --south east section of the park, was dented about the body, spark part of the metal footboard at the part of the! meal footboard at the rear was ripped off, police said. The fire engine was' one of the Salem department's earliest motor-driven apparatuses. A few weeks ago it was donated to the city parks commission to be used for children to play on in Bush Pasture. i . Police said the vandals appar ently threw rocks at the truck which caused the damage. Mercury Hike On Forecast green ferns and shrubbery, ar- r . v A smkesman for Peter Brandal ngea Dy r.rnesi luier; and Co., owners of the ship, said' . .'.m Hal1- SaIem f'reman, ex the company received a message I hibiting "just for fun'; won a reporting that the ice was break- i b'ue ribbon and $125; on his ins ud enouuh to allow the vessel u'u"i . ic siucii was replete even from the Israel, Egypt Fight Renews Burglar Raids Silvcrivareat Salem Church in rvinHnit its vnvn cfp The Jotieter was renorted carrv. ! low ing ing 19 passengers and a crew of 16 : tne service yard. from Danmarkhavn, Greenland, to Copenhagen. It is under charter to the Royal Danish Trade Depart ment, a Danish government agency. The U.S. Northeast Air Com mand at St. Johns, Nfld., said earlier a message from the skip- to ( the wash clothesline in Holiday travellers will find Sa lem area weather warm through Monday, according to McNary Field weathermen. A "blistering" high of 90 is forecast for today, compared with Saturday's maxi mum of 87. ; Hioha'avc lA5u!n7 in ant frnm burned, knd the loss was estimated j Salem were ! Daoked st.it nnliri at $40,000. The following dav 2 i foniirf tSair tllo o tiara miAn The. Lebanon Wood Products Mill has operated here for 11 years, and employed four per sons. Itl manufactured plugs for paper rolls. Last Thursday night a mill which manufactured vegetable boxes Textiles drew immense crowds of women. Mrs. W. B. Taylor of 1362 Third Street, Salem j won the cotton bag contest and a new sewing machine, taking a blue ribbon in a mother and daughter costume, a blouse and a. luncheon : cloth. She will compete for the stud mill burned with a loss of $10, ooo. NEGOTIATION'S HALT PARIscn French officials and Morocca nationalists Saturday suspended their negotiations for 48 lor area fully. At the be fair today with a few! patches of morning fog. motorists to drive care- coast, it is expected to FIRE 'CONTAINED TURNER Jimmy Leon Bones. 1 18-months-old tot who drowned at bis borne Saturday. State Records Five Deaths, U.S. Toll Rises By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS j"ive persons met accidental deaths in Oregon Saturday, the -first full day of the long Labor Day weekend. ; A man was killed in a traffic accident, a baby and man drowned, a woman died in a house fire and ' another woman fell off an ocean side cliff. .. - Jimmy Leon Bones. - ls-month- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bones,' drowned in a shallow ditch in I front of his home at Turner Saturday. ( Story above.). Head-Oa Wreek - - Donald O'Neill Hovgaard. 25. of Cascade Locks died in a head-on collision near Hood River. County Coroner Roy Edwards said Hov gaard apparently died instantly when his car trashed into a big' crane truck. .. -A two-alarm fire in a Portland rooming house early Saturday re suited in (he death of a' woman and serious injury to her husband. . Mrs. Marian June Scott was found dead in .her second story apartment Her , husband Charles, 70, suffered second degree burns and was taken to a Portland bos pital. Fall fatal Patricia Anne Trute, 24, Port land,'! apparently slipped and fell to her death at Whale Cove, on the Oregon Coast. Her companion, ftkhard G. Krenek, Portland, sajd they had planned to go fishing and had separated in the brush at the edge of the bluff. He said he heard her scream and ran to the cliffs edge where he saw the woman's crum pled body 50 feet below. Body Recovered The body of Uno Eckbloom, 40, Tiernan, was recovered Saturday morning from the Siuslaw River where he had gone fishing the night before. " Eckbloom was fishing in . the ocean Inear the river jetty when his craft apparently broke up, said . state police, sometime Friday night or early Saturday. ' National Toll High The 1 nation's three-day Labor per reported the ice had tilted the Rational title of 1955 Cotton Bag! Morocco vpssp! in a 4.VHp?rPP anlp nnrf hp sewIn VUeen. A later radio message said the! Frank H"bk- nwn Ave., roruana. hammed throne. ice slackened its push and the im mediate danger had lessened. Train Kills S ' : - SP Conductor SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (J) A Southern Pacific Railroad conduc tor was killed Saturday when he visor. sides late Saturday night to put an end to the shooting. He set a dead line of 5 p. m. Sunday for firm answers. Israel promptly announced ac- reotance of Burns proposal in. a may be napping same likely place, for two pillows; are also missing. The silverware was taken from the church kitchen. letter to be delivered Sunday . But a Foreign Ministry; " u mwui parenuy maae mrougn Freight Rams Auto; Salem Man Escapes A Salem man escaped serious injury shortly after noon Satur day when his car was demolished in a collision with a freight train-! mare oil Eastwood Drive, state police morning. was dragged several hundred feet spokesman declared "It goes with- ny a switching train which he was out saying that if the other ide continues its aggressive actions is-, rael reserves the right to self de ment door, police said. directing. He was R. E. Hatch, 33. A mem ber' of the train crew discovered ', fense." the accident in the SP switching ! Heavy artillery and mortar tire yards here. . - - j shook both sides of the border of Hatch is survived by his widow the 6x30-mile Gaza Strip for most and a small daughter. The Weather Salem J-ortiand Baker Bedford North Bend Roseburg .... Max. M 84 - SI 102. 66 91 Win. M 67 41 54 48 56 52 54 66 80 Precip. .M .00 .oo M .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 San Franctjco 87 Chicago 4 79 New York 77 Anrelea 103 Willamette? FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McXary Field. Salem Fair and continued warm through - 1d1' .HlEtl temperature todiy neaf 90. low tonight near 55. Tem perature ,t 121 ,.,. todsy w SALEM PRFXIMTATIOV Jlnee Start ( Weather Year Sept. 1 k'J.'" 1 Yr Normal of the day. The Israelis admitted losing one killed and eight wounded m what they described as a punitive expe dition against forces that had been carrying bn a campaign of infil tration against the Israeli border. An Israeli spokesman said the artillery fire along the border was touched off by the Egyptians lay ing down a barrage on two Israeli settlements, ueen ana xau wur dechai. ' ' WITHDRAWAL PLANNED ' j MUNSAN (UP) - The Lnited Nations Command announced Sat urday . that -neutrar ; inspection teams will be withdrawn Tuesday from the Taegu and Kangnung ports of entry in South Korea. BendixAir Race Delayed PHILADELPHIA (gi Bad weather Saturday forced a 24-hour postponement of the coast-to-coast Bendix Trophy race by sue Air Force pilots flying the nation's fastest jet fighters. j j But despite a limited ceding and hazy visibility, the three-day Na tional Aircraft Show opened as scheduled before an estimated 60. 000 persons at International Air port. ! The 2,32-mile cross-country flight of the supersonic j jets was delayed for one day because Air Force officials feared the planes would be unable to land due to the low ceiling. j . w" P"ireport- Tne sitc is approximately a base-j0nc mjje 0 Lancastcr DrjVe. City first aidmen said the car's driver, Orville Halverson, 1274 Park Ave., .was treated at Salem General Hospital for a cut knee and released. NORTHWEST LEAGUE . At Wenatchee 5. Salem T At Eugene 11, Tri-Clty 3 At Spokane 7, Lewis ton 5 . PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Portland 5. Seattle At Los Angeles 12, Hollywood i At Oakland 8. San Francisco At SarvDiego S. Sacramento 2 AMEH1CAN LEAGUE . At Kansas City C. Detroit 11 -At Cleveland 6. Chicago 1 At Baltimore 1. Boston 2 At New York S, Washington 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn 4. Pittsburgh At Philadelphia 2. v York 2 -At Milwaukee C. Crticinnttl t At Chicago 2, St Louis 6716 S.E. won Best I of the Fair in the Crochet contest with a table cloth of original de- i sign. Her table cloth will be en tered in the national contest. j Mid-Willamette Valley featured I large in the winnings of light horses, only a" small class; being exhibited. Rex Hartley, Marion County-judge, showed the .grand champion quarter horse mare , with his yearling "Little Choice". ! Ursualla A. Mathias of Jefferson 1 had the reserve champion j mare, i Jean Kronbeugel, Sublimity, ; showed the first prize for; aged , and yearling stallion in ; Morgans, and Bonnie Jean Kurth, j baiem, the lirst prize American : Saddler. i i Cattle Shov The big Aberdeen Angus ishow will get off to judging at J a.m. Sunday, with the show closing Monday at 2:30 p.m. with a busi ness meeting. Warm weather was hard on some of the animals apd three large boars succumbed during opening day, two owned by Har old Schmidt of Dundee and one by Florenz Zielinski of Salem. Happy, band music, mostly teams of three score years jago, added much to the opening day's gayety. Monte Brook, Portland, directed the .band Saturday. Additional state fair news on page 7, sec. 1.) VIOLENCE FEARED RABAT. Morocco If) Spurred by the danger of more violence in troubled French Morocco, the U. S. Air Force has. begun moving families of its men into trailer camps on the big American bases here. hours while French authorities in r BAKER, Ore. i.Ti A stubborn 4 Day weekend holiday death toll isought to ease Sultan Mo- forest fire about 30 miles -north of Ben Moulay Arafa off his : Baker was contained but not con trolled Saturday. ii Statesman Linked to I i - Wirephoto Network I ! '' ' The Oregon Statesman became a part of the world wide Allocated Press wirephoto network Saturday! Thd hibit id Oregon! The initial wirephoto link was made at a special ex the Willamette Valley Industrial Exposition at the State Fair! Some of the photos thus received on a 3 and 7. of temporary hookup are reproduced on pages 2, 1 . r sec 1. pictures, approximately 60 daily, are; received via the new Photofax equipment which in The Statesman-Journal plant will be installed permamently a week front today with full- time use to start immediately thereafter. Phoiofax pictures arrive via voire as positive prints all ready ipr quick enprartng and publication. An average size picture talfces five minutes to transmit from New York, or anyiphere. i . Salem area pictures also will be placed on . the wire photo 1 etwork for just as rapid transmission to all parts of the nation for publication in other newspaper-members of Associated Press, I ; I i i ' " ' ! . - Addition of the wirephoto network, Willi tne brand new Photofai reception is one more step In The Oregoa Statesman's progress and development the service 01 tbit valley. Another pending development which; will link this newspaper with the Associated Press' two major transcon tinental will be high-speed trunk wires operating ; 24 hours a day- detailed soon Ydur COMPLETE Newspaper mounted steadily Sunday, as traf fic accidents swelled the' fatalities total it At. 1:30- a. m. Eastern Standard Time, 141 traffic deaths were re ported in an Associated Press sur vey. Drownings took 19 lives and miscellaneous causes claimed an other -17 to bring the overall vio lent death toll to 177. The National Safety Council ob served that the rapid rate of traf fic deaths was running far ahead of calculations used by the' council in estimating a few days ago that 400 persons would die in traffic mishaps. Tax Cut Hope i Warning Issued. WASHINGTON W Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-NY) raised a big ca tion signal Saturday to Republi cans and. Democrats who nave spoken hopefully of income tax cuts next i year. Citing dangers of inflation and a need for continued high military spending, Reed said such talk is premature and may be "overly optimistic. Today's Statesman . 1 ! Sec. Pag ' Classified .;-. ,. 11.. 7-9 Comics ..... Ill , Crossword ll.- A Editorials 1 4 Garden 6 Home Panorama. 1-3 Radio, TV Il 6 Spopts L I 8, 9 State Fair , t , 1 Star Guar - 4 Valley I I-J. .4