t Fire Forces Evacuation of Southern Oreg
Fores
on'
- (Slory in Column g.)
President's Smile Brings Good Luck to Boy
tenon
POUNDED 1651
105th Year
2 SECT10NS-28 PAGES
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, September 6, 1955
PRICE 5c
No. 163
Cakes
.Bail Issued.
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Comp
":!- ;" f 1 H : r n
OKLAHOMA CITY Bill Stockwell
from Dntch painter Frank DeBruin Valerius. Bill took all $2.29 from his piggy bank and sent it to
the artist in hopes he could buy the painting. Valerius sent BUI the painting and remarked it was
. m m l L ! . 'I ft V, 1IT!.. L i ' J: K 1
ine only portrait ne naa ever none wncre mc sudjccv imun, i.-vr
Famed Dutch Painter Stills
Ike Portrait to Lad for
OKLAHOMA CITY VT Like i
many a youngster who has little
knowledge of finances and an over-1
abundance of enthusiasm, 7 - year -
old -Bill StockweU Jr. robbed his
piggy bank of its $2.29 and en
closed it in a letter to a famous
Dutch artist.
Bill, who is a great Davy Crock-
Off
BHSOOQB
The Portland Oregonian pro
fesses concern over the fact that
aisinci attorneys in mosi oi me
counties are not paid enough to
require them toj devote full time
to their official jobs. It quotes
Attorney General Thornton to the
effect that the office is still
treated by the Legislature as. a
"part-time job."! The salary range
at present is from $8,800 in Mult
nomah county to $3,000 in some
of the small . counties. A com
mittee of district attorneys, ap
pointed by the Oregon Bar, will
report to the state Bar meeting
in Baker later this month on this
subject j
The Oregonian fails to note the
plight of deputy district attor
neys whose salaries range in still
lower brackets.! For them it is
a part-time job too. The conse
quence in both instances is a
heavy turnover of deputies and
DA's. I : .
f his subject j should be exam
ined on both sides,' however. For
many counties the load of the
'DA's office is relatively, light
Except in a " few counties the
criminal load is not heavy. Civil
work for county officials is spo
radic. At times the volume is
heavy; at otherf times quite light
How we are going to work out
a general plan for the whole
state is a hard matter. Consoli
dation of counties into districts
might help but then there would
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
Ice Snaps Off
Ship Propeller
ST. JOHN'S Nfld. on The .Nor
wegian ship Jopeter suffered a
heavy blow Monday in her five
day battle against the-Greenland
ice pack. Her single propeller
snapped off when the vessel was
within six miles- of clear- water.-
U. S. Air Force rescue units
at Thule.. Greenland, prepared to
take the 19 passengers and 15 crew
off the ship by air ' Tuesday if
necessary.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
V WARREN GOODRICH
Martha's deaniag kase
TO) POOCH
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Jr.. 7. display! t portrait of President Eisenhower he received
ett follower but still rates Presi-;
'dent Eisenhower his No. 1 hero, i
asked Frank DeBruin Valerius if
'he'd sell a portrait of the chief
executive for the cash.
The youngster had seen the pro
trait in a. newspaper picture and
wanted it for his room to hang in
an honored spot besides his col
lection of spacemen and Crockett
pictures.
Caavas f Ike
Last week. Bill received a long
red mailing tube and to his par
ent's amazement it contained the;
canvas of Ike with his big grin '
and a letter from Valerius, who j
is now living in Toronto, Canada.
, Valerius, who has don many
portraits of Europe's royalty in
cluding a $25,600 commission to
paint the royal family of Holland,
made a startling confession.
"Bill, when I was an art stu
dent in Holland I vowed never to
paint a canvas such as this," he
wrote. "That huge grin, I mean.
"Our professors warned us we
must never, never paint an adult
laughing. The old masters were
waved before us as stern examples.
So, to paint teeth, boy, that's
treason!"
Weakened Once
Valerius went on to explain he
weakened once in his career and
only once because the Eisenhower
Californians
Flee Before
Forest Fires
SAN FRANCISCO W Scores of
families evacuated their homes
tonight before threatening forest j
fires east of rTesno and nearitinuous logging job has: beei
Middletown in Lake County, 70.
miles north of San Francisco
' Between 200 and 300 persons fled
Lake County's Cobb Mountain sec
tion. Rangers evacuated families from
the Grant Grove and Hume Lake
communities in Sequoia National
Forest 50 miles from Fresno. The :
Boy Scout camp at Sequoia Lake
also was cleared.
In Humboldt County, near Eur -
ea. more inan u.ooo acres were
ournea in inai areas worsi ioresi
maze in to years.
One arm of the fire in the Se-'a
quoia National Forest had reached
within a mile of the General Grant
Grove of redwood trees. The Gen-
jeral Grant tree 272 feet tall and
30 feet in diameter is believed to'
nave sianea its me l.ooo years;
oeiore vnnsu
Gladys' Storm Aims
Flooded Mexico Capital
BROWNSVILLE. Tex. (J Thej
tropical storm Gladys, unprechct
able and dangerous, made a radi
cal turn Monday night and headed
in the general direction of Mexico
City, where she already had
caused the worst floods in that
capital's recent history.
The Brownsville weather Bu
reau, in its 10 p. m. (CST) ad
visory, relaxed its major flood
warning for the Middle and Lower
Rio Grande Valley, but warned
. ,, , .
r V" "tXnrh
These squalls' ranged out 400 j
miles from the storm center in,
some areas. .
Gladys never quite gained hurn -
cane intensity u reacneu an
estimated 70 m.pJi. as it struck
the Mexican coast about 150 miles
below Brownsville. ,
4.
h ucyuvius.
i ! .i: f
$2.29
grin was so infectious and addesd
'I can just hear my old protes-
sors weeping faintly into thair pa-,
lettes and declaiming! mournfully: 1
'Frank Valerius is a naughty
boy.'
i J.
"I really hate to part with 4ijis
cheerful canvas, Bill, ; but I j don't
want to lose the commission" (
Bill thinks the picture is thj most
wonderful thing that ever!) hap
pened to him. Everything ts jus4
perfect and hej wouldn't have ob
jected if Valerius had painted
Davy Crockett coonskin cap pa e
rresiaenu
',
'55 Grassman
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Awara boes to
. .J X: in
auverion r air
is - ; ! !
Floyd T. Fo &. Son, Silverton,
one of Mariqn County's j mot
widely known eed growing part
nerships, has been named Mariqn
County Grassman of the jyear.
Announcement was, made! Mon
day by T. R. jHobart, chairman
of the agriculture committee Of
the Salem Chamber ofj j Con -merce,
sponsors of the ptojec.
For weeks the committee!, con
sisting of 15 men, have j Visited
and checked activities and! cropte
of Marion County! Farmers.
"Marion County! has many top
farmers and selection was not
easy,". Hobart said in making the
announcement! i !( ( I j
The Fox farm, managed bt
both father and son. consists of
381 acres of which 200 aW cropf
land, and 125) timber. A coii
planned for the future.
Shd 809
small Port Orford Cedars
will b
! They
planted out this winter
are now growing in 'a
riurserf
near the residence of, thd elder
foxes where they can
gated. j
be irr
!to th!
Flovd Fox. Sr.J came
Waldo Hills Farm J which1
he and
j his son now farm, .with bis pa4
ents in 1907. ! 1 I.
; t addition to the home place;
j the two men farm 200 iacres ot
leased ground. r
The Foxes will he riresenle
plaque at jthei Chamber of'
commerce asrjcultural lUncheoii
this fall. Winning the ! county
honor gives the partnership th
opportunity of icomnetinie Ifor the
State Honor. ! If the two men
should win this, they ma go on
io iNortnwest honors.
at
The Weather! Bureau said thj
i it
storm turned sharply south-south
west after hitting the cbst in midl
afternoon and passed almost dii
rectly over Tampico, Metico. At
10 p. m. (CST it wa approxi
mately 20 miles: south of that ma
jor Mexican coastal city
In Mexico City, weathermen
blamed Gladys for three days of
rams. j j
These rains caused
disastrous
flwwle TKttv rffnsirA An Ann f.;
, i'wuo. aifivicu TU.UW mill
fli l of 3 trillion per
Tw0 children ;drowned and frvf
more were missing. Police esti
mated 2,300 houses -were under
'rom 5 to7 feet f wa(cr
- Late Monday ) night
waves were high all
tides and
along the
Texas Coast from Galveston south;
At Fair
Judges Kept Busy
Tasting Samples;
Race Betting Up
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
Cakes are no longer on the top
10 "most wanted" foods for some
people at the 90th Oregon State
Fair which opened Saturday and ;
will run through next Saturday, i
m. ir j;i; -art.,
wit tu ij u.viaiun. v-
coven i i in cimn H
seven, to be exact, were sampled I
before the
le fluffy, white angle .
4 tA Kalr A A Km Que o n Ur! rrVif rf
Medford was declared the "best.""f somf . l'8htning-set blazes m
But a lof of cakes were -.iJOregons Under-dry- foresU and
mosr as good, and among those ,ran5ea"ds-
hakin? anppl food whirh iiiHsM covered some 500 acres
selected as blue ribbon quality
were Judith Eberhardt of Silver-
ton, Glenda Kirschner of Albany,
Jean Carnes of Yamhill, Bonnie
u cusicr vi nicniinnviiic, nieioa
Smith of Dallas and Nancy Obrist 1
of Woodburn. ;
Adults' Cakes
And while the judges were,mars-
sampling the juniors' cakes, oth
er judges were tasting other
cakes baked by adults. Mrs. O
W. Olson, Silverton, long-time
winner at Oregon State Fairs,
baked the top chocolate angel !
food. Mrs. Olson also won a large j
number of other blues as did
Mrs. Stanley Andrews of Eu-
gene, Mrs. Dale iMallicoat and
Mrs. Tom Pomeroy of Salem,
Mr. Pomeroy was also in there .
pucning in tne tooo department,
with 16 entries. By Tuesday night
judges had selected at least one; Elwood Jackson a 38-year-old
first for him, on a chocolate lay-i0gger from j0hn Day. was trapped
er "J1?' , (Sunday when flames surrounded
Outside of races. Labor Dayhim while fighting a 3.000-acre
iiuwus were auvui evenly ui-
vided between entertainments,
livestock ringsides, flower shows,
and other free attractions during
the daytime. Race crowds, 757
below last year's 7,859 for La
bor Day, made biggest pari mu
tuel handle in the history of the
Oregon State Fairs. The $172,482
topped all others, and was $4,166
above the 1953 previous record.!
Attendance Drops
. - r '
ioor umj crowas, jue tnose
oi sunaay mis year, were some-
wnai snori oi ine im UMr
Day crowd, which numbered 73,-
230. This year's total was 57,530. !
niuic man ouu people paia IO get
into th FairornnnHc ,flnr in
u "
Helene Hughes' Night Revue !
continued to be a big attraction !
with the Monday night attend-
ance listed at 3,500, and the cir-
.,..:...
vuc, i"uuui..6 me uiduuct:, iu-,
taied j,751. Bargain matinees
start at the circus this afternoon
with the 2:30 show. All seats in
the house go for $1 to adults and
50 cents to youngsters.
i lv Vair Iirsi D,g re"!and WaUowa-Whitman forests in
gional Aberdeen Annus Futuritv : r-. r ,M
mt.. Plata 7 - I
Show, in which 119 of the smooth.
stocky beef cattle paraded be-
(ore Judce Elliott Rrmrn r pnc.
Hill, Iowa, closed Monday after-!
noon in a crowd-tensed selection '
of the Supreme Champion. (Pic -
ture on nape 2 n RarHn-ihao
lier DW, the bull owned by Dale '
West of Merrill, was finally nam-'
ed over the grand champion f e-!
male. Bela Blackbird of Shasta,
owned by Hacienda de Los Reyes
of Selma. (Additional State Fair
details pages 2, 5 of sec 1; pages
4, 13 of sec. 2).
Supersonic
Mark Affirmed
(Picture on page 10, sec. 2.)
PHILADELPHIA tf - The Air
Force announced Monday the
world's first official faster-than-
sound speed record, 822.135 miles
an hour.
The exact altitude was not' dis
closed, but Col. Horance A. Haines,
pilot, said he flew the F100C Super
Sabre jet fighter at about 40.000
feet last Aug. 20 over . an 18-kilometer
course 'about 11 miles) near
Palmdale, Calif.
An Air Force spokesman said
that at 822 miles an hour, Hanes
would have been flying about 1.2
times the speed of sound. The fact
a record was set was revealed
last month but the time was not
disclosed until Monday.,,
NORTHWEST LEAGUE
At Salem 6-11. Tri-City 3-5
At Wenatchee 8-2. Lewiston 0-0
At Yakima 4-7, Spokane 3-3 .
PAcrric coast leacuk
At San Francisco 4-5. San Diego 3-3
At Hollywood 6-4, Sacramento 7-J
At Portland 2-2. Los Angeles 6-7
At Seattle 5-4, Oakland 4-7
AMERICAN LEAGUE '
At Detroit 7-0. Chicago 2-3
At Cleveland 4-9. Kansas City 5-3
At Baltimore 6-3. New York 5-5
At Boston 10-4. Washington 2-2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Brooklyn 11-8. Philadelphia 4-2
At New York 5-6. Pittsburgh -J
At Chicago 2-0, Milwaukee 0-1
At St. Louis 3, Cm anna U 2
Rogue Valley
Blaze Worst of
200 in State
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Residents of the Tolo district
were being evacuated as. a forest
fir rnllpH rplpntlncclv tnu.irri
h Southcrn Q
Monday niht
s ' Tarksnn m..itv
sheriffs deputies, who were direct-
'"6 l"c c""lu
flight truck"! to haul awav ner
ireigm itucks io nam away per
"'V" "
w "V""""'63
The fire was one of the worst
of state-protected land by. late j
evPn& ana naa P"t 0l of com-,
mission tne transmitting tower of
Medford television station KBES-
-
The flames late Monday were
advancing up Table Rock, one of
Jackson County's best known land-
Serious Blazes
Some 1,500 acres had i been
charred by scores of fires in the
county. The other serious blazes
were in Evans Valley to the north,
where 500 acres were blackened,
and in Timber Mountain in the
ridge between the Applegate and
Ropup vallevs
There were no injuries reported
among firefighters.;
However, a forest and rangeland
blaze in Eastern
claimed one life I
Oregon had
blaze in
the
Malheur
National
Forest. j
Wait for Lull ii Fire
Jackson became separated from
a seven-man crew! in the heavy
smoke. Another member of
group, Alvin Stock well of Seneca
...fr-.-j . i tu. ,u '
made it felv aton bare knoll!
e lttheyfelyaitedP i a luu in !
4k f; j u a k: .
..--.j V.. -
"'" ""
a, i vu . ic UUc "-,c't0tai 0f 574
-" V-m iinn.l v,iA.i
Guy Johnson, regional National i
Forest fire officer In Portland, said ,
huiiici uuu uiaic was chuii? iiiiu
limherland in the! Rosup River
;v,.i. - i pnc( ir. c.,(v,- rx
gon. This blaze, which had covered
about 200 acres Monday night i
spread from a fire in the Klamath
Forest in Northern California.
ib Willamette r orest
ouuie iw siucincr iircs wire
reported in the Willamette and ;
o ii
Umpqua National forests in West-
iern Oregon.
The Deschutes, Ochoco, Umatilla
'
i;u; ulC -.a
v. . t 4u c . i
The Dalles in North - Central
0regon report1 the highest tem-lhjt
Pra'ure th state Mondayi02
7e5recs - "oseburg i ana Meatord
ioi. it was ss at Burns ana
Lakevicw' 98 at Pendleton, 97 at
Eugene and Salem, 96 at Redmond
and 93 at Portland. Astoria, on the
coast- reported 77. I
:
n , , Lj
Portland WOlliail
I . I
slam; Man Held
!
PORTLAND UFi Mrs. Mary
Taylor, 37, of Portland, died.Mon-
day from a gunshot wound inflicted
Sunday
Fulton Jackson, 33, also -Portland,
was booked in the county jail
shortly after the shooting on a
charge of assault j Police saidjVi
further charges were pending
Today at
TUESDAY,
Gates Open
7:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m. 4-H Judging Guernseys, Sheep
9:00 a.m. ' JUDGING Dairy
Beef Cattle Herefords and Shorthorns:
Sheep Columbias,
Swine Spotted Poland Chinas,
shires, and large Yorkshires
11:00 a.m. Band concert' in
: ! I ;
1:00 p.m. FFA Jersey Calf
1:15 p.m. Pari Mutuel Horse
1:30 p.m. 4-H judging: Ayrshires, Milking Shorthorns, Brown
Swiss, Red Poll
1:45 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Free Midway Act,
Circus in stadium
Band concert in
4-H Livestock awards program
j i
7:00 p.m.
8:04 p.m.
Free Midway act,
Helene Hughes Night Revue, Grandstand
Circus in Stadium
12:00 p.m. Gates Close
Spaiir May Resign
State Forester Job
i Resignation jbf George Spaur
i as Oregon's itate forester ap
! peared a strong possibility Mon-
i day.
Spaur denied i reports that he
had already submitted his resig
nation, but he! admitted he had
been offered 4 j position he was
: considering accepting.
Gov. Paul Patterson said, "I
; understand he Is going to resign,"
! but said he , hadn't received a
resignation abd felt that any
statement about r e s i g n a t i on
should come from Spaur himself.
Spaur indicated he wouldn't
make up his rnind until talking
with the Statje f Forestry Board
i which will meet at the Capitol
Wednesday. j
mm fl iLlJMlll It J. L !M
MCCIuGtllSl UGHlllS III
State ! Holiday Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seventeen
persons met accidental deaths : in Oregon over the
long Labor Day week end, making
days on record in the state.
Five 'additional deaths were
of summer's- last holiday week end.
Seven persons died in highway
Road Toll Tops
400 Estimate,
Still Qimbing
j By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Slaughter on the nation's high-
tri'ways rose .to staggering propor
' ! tions as time I started to run out
on the Labor Day weekend.
1 RePrts of fatahties at 1 a. m.
Jr&JSti
killed 410, 7S persons drowned.
.ana misceudn
killed another! 85! for an overall
I Four hundrexl was the number
.wav dipath nredirted bv
LKffi thTSS?S
i-.. . miut
SlUl, noi compipie.
And for every
three
Prsons i
SiTc rV.Li !
u . fu . T'.r
. .r. "V"" "'.
die .,a,c.r ' 1"Jur'e,s j fur s
wppkend For padn npath thprp
' uprp V) lniiirtpc
e council esti-
j
jated
j
Kids May Ricle Atop
Elephant at State Fair
M.
Rides" for
children, which have
been getting rhore elaborate every'
year at the State Fair midway,
a new h Monday
The high: Rides ! available atop
, one ; ot the 4,ersatile circus ele-
phants now performing at the Fair,
The Weather
Salem
Portland
Baker
Medford
North Bend
San .Francisco!
Lbs Angeles
New York .
Willamette River -3 0 feet.
FORECAST
(from; u. s. weather
j bu McNajr fie.d. saiem,:
cooler today.
High ; today near 85;
low tonight nar 55;
. Temperature: at 12:01 a.m. today
was 6fi. i "
SALF.M IPRF.CIPITATIOV
Since Start ot Weather Year Sept. 1
Last Year
Normal
trace
.20
jthe
Fair
SEPT. 6
Cattle - Jerseyi
Hols
eins
Cotswolds, Snropshires, Cheviots
Berkshires, Hamp-
front of administration building
i .1 i
Award
'
Racing, Lone Oak Track
front of stadium
front: ofj
Administration building
front of stadiam
j Max. Min. PreclpJ
i 87 5J .M I
i i
B3 52 .00
64 44 .00
101 59 .00
Jl 53 .00
69 51 .00
69 69 .00
83 68 .19
i Gov. Patterson is chairman of
the State Forestry Board, a 10
inember body which appoints the
istate forester and supervises mat
:ters of state forestry Dolicv and
management. I
Spaur has been with the State i
Forestry Department since 1937
jwhen he received a master's
jdegree in : forestry at Oregon
State College. He was appointed
Istate forester in " 1949, following
;the death of N. S. Rogers,
j The rumors circulating about
'Spaur's possible resignation in
dicate he might accept a U. S.
'government assignment of inter
national scope.
it one of the most violent holi
'
reported Monday, the final day
crashes, four drowned and six
others were killed m miscellaneous
mishaps in the counting which
began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended
at midnight Monday. .
Don Westover, 21, of Springfield,
drowned Monday in a water skiing
accident on Fern Ridge Lake.- 10
miles west of Eugene,
j He was being towed by a speed
boat operated by U. W. Ellmaker,
Eugene, when he fell into the
water. Ellmaker began circling
back to pick him up when the boat
developed engine trouble. Westover
went under before Ellmaker could
get back to him. .
Neck Broken
! Forest DeHart, 23, of Tillamook,
was Monday's other swimming
accident victim. . .His neck was
broken when he dived into shallow
water at Hidden Lake near Bar
view on the coast.
! Robert Hughley, 10, ran the
wrong way and was killed Monday
by a 40-foot ' snag his father was
falling near Riddle. The tree struck
the boy in the head, killing him
outright.
Crushes Truck
I Dee H- Deffenbacker, 38, and!
Meanwhile, looked-for
;quin. wlere killed Alonday in
! another logging accident. A falling
i jl j .
tree crushed a pickup truck near
Sprague River in Klamath County.
Both die i outright.
S Jack Fenimore, 22, of Klamath
Falls, was killed and three others
were injured when their automo
bile ran! off Lake of the Woods
Road 16 miles northwest of Klam
ath Falls Monday night.
j Dee Valentine, 16; John Devine,
;i4, and Jack Fields, no age avail
able, all passengers, were reported
in serious condition at a Klamath
Falls hospital. All are from Klam-
j ath Falls
l
Dives Off Road
I Martin J. Hilburn. 25. of Park-
dale, 'was killed outright Sunday
when his car plunged off a highway
three miles west of grants Pass.
A passenger suffered minor hurts.
Other week end traffic victims
i'ere: Donald Hovgaard, 25, Cas
cade Locks; John C. Hopkins, 21,
Portland; James - P. Twohy. 43,
Portland; Lee Papham. Portland;
1 and Ambrose! Hopkins, 63, Marcola.
The others who drowned were !
Jimmy L Bones, 18 months, ofj
Turner and Arthur Brawand. 23, ,
Portland i
! Mr and Mrs Charles Scott diedj
from burns suffered in a Portland
rooming house fire "and Patricia !.
Trute. 24. Portland, was killed in j
a fall down an oceanside cliff at
Depot Bay.
New Teachers
In Salem to
Report Today
! Salem Public Schools will lay age
but the welcome carpet and ther ward and Alvin Lansbury, Sis
work schedule today for 117 ters. Ore., drove into the Tennessee
teachers who will be new to the,pass area 30 miles southwest of
system thi year. . jhere a week ago. Then they hiked
S These newcomers report at 9 , ;nto ow, Canvon Creek region on
a.m. toJay in the Little Auditor -
ium of South Salem High School
for the start of a two-day orien
tation in their jobs. . -i
They will- be treated to lunch
eon and welcoming speeches
from school, city and chamber of
commerce leaders at noon, in the
Marion Hotel. In the afternoon
they will report to their schools
for briefing hy the principals,
i School will open Monday.
NIXON CRITICIZED
I MOSCOW 0r Pravda Monday
sharply accused U. S. Vice Presi
dent Nixon of intolerance and
demagogue!?. It said he is "one
j "-off the American reactionaries"
trying to revive the cold war.
Order Includes
Valley Zones;
Woods Too Dry
High temperatures and low hum-
Wily readings brought an order
Monday frcm State Forester
eorge Spaur closing log opera'
tions in
Marion and Clackarras
counties '
and other mid - valley
areas. -
Spaur's order to protect tinder,
dry forests came after Salem swelt
ered through its fifth consecutive
day of steaming temperature read- ;
ings. t .' - .
Relief for today was predicted
by the U. S. Weather Bureau . at
McNary Field which foresaw cool
er weather with a mercury reading
some 12 degrees under Monday's
97.
: Cooler air from the coast is ex
pected to bring some cloudiness to
day and tonight The last five days
saw temperature readings of 89,
91, 87, 100 (on Sunday) and 97.
Operations Closed
The state forester's order, which
went into effect Monday at mid
night, closed down all operations
of power -driven machinery and
equipment used in sawmilling and
logging or other operations within
one-eight f a mile of forest land.
Affected were the tinder-dry Til
lamook. Burn, Clackamas and Ma
rion counties, eastern Lane County
forest .areas. Linn County and a
portion of, Douglas County. .
The forestry office said "zones
3, 8, 9, 10 and 14" were affected.
Zone maps are on file at all forest
ry, headquarters offices, and at
newspaper and radio station of
fices, foresters said. They caution
ed log operators to check their
operation permits for .zone num
bers. "This order will remain in
effect until the weather becomes ,
more favorable and the danger
to timberlands is lessened,"
Spaur said. ; ,
First Time
This year marks the first time
since 1952 that - this area has
gone 121 consecutive days with
out a substantial amount of rain
to dampen dry. forest floors.
Forest fire danger is expected
to decrease near the coast today,
but is expected to remain criti
cally high elsewhere in Oregon.'
Some lightning- is expected this
afternoon and tonight in the
mountain areas of southern and
eastern Oregon.
traffic
accidents failed to materialize,
at least in the Salem area, Mon
day, as the three-day Labor Day
holiday drew to a close last night
This, despite the fact that home
ward : bound motorists packed,
highways near Salem.
A check with state police
shortly after midnight showed no
serious accidents reported.
Hands Full
Jefferson volunteer firemen
had their hands full Monday
evening extinguishing a brush
fire near the Santiam Bridge,
near Jefferson.
Salem fire equipment roared
through downtown Salem late
l Monday afternoon answering a
false alarm at the state capitou
A defective switch on the auto
matic alarm system caused the
dry run, firemen said.
Firemen cautioned the public
against burning anything out-of-doors
during the next few days.
A fire permit they said, does
not relieve the individual of
rlamapp caused hv an out-of-rnn.
A g,.ass fire cause(rty trash
burning brought firemen on the
double to a lot on Park Way in
West Salem Monday afternoon,
-
Hike Fatal to
Prospector
GRANTS PASS Ufi David Allen
Ward, identified as a Eugene
prospector, collapsed and died
near ; here Sunday after a long
hike to his pickup truck. . The
coroner's office did not reDort his
ja prospecting trip. They were
' returnine to the parked truck when
Ward collapsed.
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