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i 4 ." - -- ' " ' ' ' v . v ..-' ... " ' . . ; - - ' -; ". :' " f - ' .;' 'f. ;: I he i Vvealiier i TORECAST (from V. S. wattir bureau. McNary field, Salem) : Partly cloudy with, scattered showers today; -; Increasing cloudiness tonight wiiti ' ram beginning late tonight or early Thursday. Some clearing late Thurs , dav. Little change in temperature. High today 2. tow ; today near 40. Temperature at 121 a.m. today, was 47. ' ( Willamette River -2.1 ieet. Sor4 H tW Crtwlh of OrtfM FOUNDED 103th Year 2 SEaiONS-20 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salim, Oregon, Wednesday, October 5,. 1955 PRICE 5c No. 192 There's Joy in UF Drive 'Doing Well' as . ' A "'- "' ' v. ' . 1651 ! ' Flatbush Dodgers Army Decides w lit jo irsi w uriu & uu&vuwit, Disbelieving Crowds Slow I n I alahrota ' IBB t rnum ixcsv t Favorable onse Pitcher Podres Mobbed After 2-0 Victory ; By ROBERT FARRINGTON ; BROOKLYN tft The Dodgers won their first World Series Tues day,' but frankly, Brooklyn acted like it couldn't quite believe it. According to tradition, scenes of wild and spontaneous abandon should have swept the streets. Brooklyn fans, however, have been numbed by years of last minute defeats and seven prior: denials of baseball's world cham- .uuuu.r iru. Nonetheless. ' Brooklyn wore happy smile as first baseman Gil V. Hodges maae tne nnai out- tnai i insured a 2-0 Dodger victory over j the Yankees in the seventh and deciding World Series game. In Brooklyn office buildings, con fetti showered down and cheers echoed through the halls as the victory " was clinched. The sound drifted ' out to . motorists in the streets. They leaned on their horns to swell the din. . " ' Ticker Tape . , , Even staid Manhattan, whose V W U Ul 1U ICS V IVUH ICQ PI - AW cepted with decorous calm, got ex cited at the Dodger victory. Ticker tape streamed from skyscrapers from Wall Street to Central Park. Rockefeller Plaza was littered with torn telephone books and other scraps of- paper set adrift on high oy Brooklyn tans in alien terri tory. ' - At the precise moment of vic tory, in a bar in the shadow of Ebbets Field, a shout of victory rang out ana glasses were raiscu ; aloft, -' No Drinks Boose s This, however, was for the bene- fit of at waiting photographer. The Kartpnripr made no move to boy a drink on the house. Eke. It was here over the week end that .the Dodgers won three m 1. In. Ilia AMUinfL work for the World Series victory. But the seriea- shifted " far north across the river to Yankee Sta-,' dium in the Bronx and Ebbets : a: iciu was icib wvjw i... Along t laisusn Avenue, irooK ' Kit's main " thoroughfare, some i cautious tavern Keepers prompuy began taking down the bunting they had hung when Brooklyn won the National League championship. They were taking no chances with souvenir hunters. .j :', j 1 Broad Smiles All around Ebbets Field, the Dodgers' home lot, shopkeepers came out of their stores and smiled broadly at mothers wheeling baby carriages. The mothers managed ; guarded smiles in return.; '-;t And Brooklyn's confidence or . the lack thereof was summed ; up by a woman whose bakery ad vertised a $1.39 chocolate "Dodg ers World Series Cake." She con- "I didn't lay in a stock and I . don't have one in the store. Nor had she received any orders In advance. (Game details and ! i w" a y - la.. w . X eat mmmm- w m .: S I . J Early-Solicited Pledges Higher Than Last Year VS. r. V . 3 v . . v - i . 'V 4 Several early-solicited pledges to Salem United Fund are higher than last year, and !"we hope it's a trend," Campaign ; Chairman ' Kenneth M. Potts reported Tues day, following . the noontime fan-' fare of formal campaign opening. "Preliminary work has been tops, and if that means anything we should be able to make our goal of S205.000," declared Potts, v 1 i ! First results of the! early solicita- finn urirlr nill Ha frnf s1a1 trA if a f a ' t ? ' A 1 I ! . . .Marion noiei noon, meeting ior United Fund leaders and the many volunteer solicitors. Similar meet- ings will ' follow as report and ' work sessions Thursday and Fri day, then next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Seek Fast End Final report is scheduled for Oct 14. Potts said all campaign officials are encouraging immediate work on the solicitation sO that the cam paign may be completed by then.1 Last year Salem's first United Fund ; was oversubscribed, with $204,000 pledged against, a goal of j $194,000. The 1955 goal was set at $205,000 but budgets for the sup-, ported youth and welfare activities remain the same as last year. That was decided because wide use of the chapter plan a( places of em ployment has meant higher than expected "shrinkage" due to turn over 1 of employes whose UF pledges are on a payroll, deduction basis 'over the yea i. j ; Official opening Ql the new fupd - ' j j campaign saw 32fr pitizefis turn out : j 1 tor a program ana luncneon in me ' ' v,. j Salem Armory. (Picture, at bottom of page one.) U- .;: ; ' f ;. Keynote speaker Thad McCarty. . - ' . i3 Oakland. Calif., industrialist and -H civic i leader, stressed the need for l t 1 1 1 personal leauersnip as weu as nn- anciaf support in the various UF supported activities. He declared Salem should get the Cancer and Heart associations into United Fund,-"because I we are alt so vul nerable to those, two great killers. (Additional details on Page JO, Sec. 2.) To Foo t M Ike's edicali Bills President Must Pay for Food; Ruling Follows 'High-Level' Conferences ; . j . By C YATES McDAMEL T j finally decided Tuesday . ;-medical expenses at the 1 him only for his daily. WASHINGTON John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, incurred a "minimum' heart attack recently ,-Jiis doc tors said Tnesday. He is recov ering satisfactorily (AP Wire- photo). . , ; John L. Lewis Licurs 'Slight' Heart Attack WASHINGTON John L. i Lewis' physician said Tuesday 1 s nifht doctors had! decided the vet eran head of the United Mine Workers ."had a very minimum heart attack about two weeks ago. The physician,; Dr. John Minor, said Lewis was doing well and probably would go home the end of this week. -J ; ,. , The 75-year-old UMW chief en tered emergency 'hospital here Sept! 23 for -what Was then des cribed as a rest and checkup. Dr.' Minor ..said it was "very questionable" then whether Lewis had suffered a heart attack but it had been decided now he had suf fered a "slight oheV " The attack was described as sim ilar to the : coronary thrombosis which struck President Eisenhower Sept.- 24 "but not I nearly to the same degree. ; WASHINGTON (JFh-The Army to stand all of President Eisenhower! Army hospital in Denver, and to bi! food. " . ; :" ' The decision to treat President Eisenhower as if he were a regular officer on active duty was reached at the highest army levels. It followed a series of conferences at which it was noted that the president, among other things, is .Commander-in- Chief of all the Armed Forces. Army officials said little thought was given to the bookkeeping angles of the president's illness in its early days. , , ; Later some officials who had to keep an eye on bookkeeping raised the: issue but no clearcut decision was reached. The president was admitted to Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Den ver on an emergency basis Sept 24 just as the hospital would have looked after : anyone else with a military or governmental connec tion in such a situation. Civilian Rate Considered - It was learned . that one armv ruling being considered this morn- Entire Village Flees as Toxic Fumes Freed Dayton Dam Test Finished NEW YORK Brooklyn pitcher Johnny Podres was: mobbed (top picture) by teammates and fans Tnesday moments after the, final pitch nhica won we game wun we wew iora xanxces, z o, ana the world's championship. Enthnsiastle Dodger rooters stage an impromptn demonstration (bottom picture) ia front f the Brookljrm Dodgers offices Tuesday night as the town wanned to the cele bration. AP Wirephotoi). . ' Statesnua Kewi Servlet DAYTON Core drilling and exploratory tests at the site of the proposed Palmer Creek dam father, mother and sister in 1939; 6 Insane Men Flee Site in Pennsylvania SCRANTON. Pa. iff ' Six 'in mates fled the Farview State Hos pital for the criminal insane Tues day after overpowering a pair of guards. Three of them were re captured later as a manhunt spread around the area in North eastern Pennsylvania. 1 Benjamin Porter, 31, of Phila delphia, a convicted slayer, and Frampton Lundy, 33, of Rockville Center. N. Y.. were captured' in the small community of BroVn- dale, about five miles southeast of the state institution at Waymart. Still at large were Paul cook, a 34-year-old Beaver Falls, Pa., man convicted of murdering his Night Cluh Raid At Portland Nets Juvenile Group ; PORTLAND urt Police raided a night club with supposedly locked doors, and arrested 11 persons, most of them juveniles, Monday night. . - i r The charges ranged from drun kenness and disorderly conduct to violation of the state liquor law. ; The raid was at the old Clover Club. John J. Collins, president of Oregon! Clover Club, Inc., said someone must have broken in to start the party at the club. Police seized several cases of liquor. . have been completed. Soil Con servation Service geologists say that preliminary damsite - sam ples indicate that the dam could be built . r : It will take from four to six weeks for laboratory examina tions to be complete and for ex act results of the core drilling and tests to be revealed. The laboratory tests will give the necessary design for holding 12,- 000 acre feet of water, and also indicate the cost of construction. The -Dayton Chamber of Com merce is sponsoring the prelimi- rary work and plans for the dam. Farmers in the area will make the decision concerning, its con struction. Ernest Johnson, 42, Pittsburgh, a leader in a mass escape at the hospital last June when IS inmates fled the prison but were recaptured within 36 hours, and Richard Wil liams, 38, Johnstown, Pa. The Weather Max. Min. Precis-. 7 , 4S -is . Si 34 SO Salem . . .. ' Portland M Baker 51 Med ford , Roseburg 89 San Francisco ' Los Angeles . S 1s;t Ynrk 7! Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Tear Last ' Normal 2.60 1.2S i- 1.78 S? 56 56 .63 .06 trace .04 .00 .00 .00 Bow,Afrow Down Buck Statetmaa Kw Service DALLAS, Ore, First woman deer hunter in this area to fell a buck -with a bow and arrow in 1955 is Mrs. ponald Brown of Dallas. She did it Tuesday. Mrs. Brown, I who weighs 113 pounds used a 49-pound bow .d fell the ' young ' buck at 20-yard range in the MacDonald Forest near Corvallis. Jan area reserved for archers. I" Ghost Writer Quits Work With Duchess s LONDONP) The Duchess of Windsor's American ghost writer has given up his job of preparing her memoirs, but she says they'll be finished anyway. Writer Cleveland Amory on returning to New York Tuesday disclosed he had written 200 pages of the book,, carrying it up to the time of the Duke's abdication as King . of Britain. He said the Duchess is' seeking to "get even in . thej book with the British royal family. ' Amory said he and the Duchess had feuded over the way to pre sent the book, and he had quit with the belief he. couldn't turn the Duchess "into a Rebecca' of Sunnybrook Farm." - A statement. from the Duchess Tuesday mfjht said Amory "has now given all the assistance the Duchess felt was of value and his employment has therefore been terminated." , - ; Woolen Mill At Jefferson To Open Soon Page Woolen Mills, transplanted from Brownsville to Jefferson after fire ' destroyed the old j plant' last winter expects to begin partial op erations by mid November. ' Building, slightly delayed by re cent wet weather, is expected to be completed soon and machinery in stalled in time for some operations by the middle of next month, ac cording to C. A. Page, Salem, one of the members of the. firm. ' Articles of! incorporation for Jef ferson Building, Inc.,' a firm organ ized for ownership of the land and building of jthe new plant, were filed in Marion County clerk s of fice Tuesday, i The articles list Leland W. Wells, E. W. Hart.i both of Jefferson, and Page as directors. Other incorpor ators are Wi F. Weddle, D. A. Dav idson, N. p. Bradley, C Elton Page and D. T. Vose, all listed of Jefferson, h ! Stock valuation of the corpora tion was announced as $10,000. CADETS SEE PRINCE WEST POINT; N.Y. Wt Prince Albert of Belgium arrived at the United States Military Academy Tuesday to spend a day and a night. as a cadet. , NO TASTE FOR APRICOTS PEORIA. EL (A police re ceived a report from C. W. Lusher Monday that someone broke into his car. Lusher said nothing wa taken but that a case of 24 cans of apricots was left on the front ' seat - J - - Monmouth Flier Jumps From Stricken Bomber ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAARIN OOORICH 1 : PERFUMER . v "It's a new Frtack Import RaqueforU" DENVER m President ElS- enhower's doctors reported Toes-' day night that he enjoyed ' "an other good ! day" and that his condition "continnes to be satis factory without complications. (Additional ; details oa page I, sec. L) : Man Attempts To End It All By All Way NORRKOPING, Sweden (JPf Goeran . HartzelL j a 26-year-old truck driver, decided to end it all. , 1 Police Chief Gunner Duner said Tuesday Hartzell: 1. Attempted to crash a stolen plane onto his estranged , wife's house, missed and hit a power line. ; i j': 2. Jumped out of a third floor window. i i; 3. Crashed his car into a cliff while driving -at 45 miles an hour. 4. Jumped into a river. 5. Tried to jump out of a 'hos pital window where he was taken by police who pursued him through his suicidal efforts. The police chief said Hartzell will be charged with endanger ing public safety. They added he is a highly-strung fellow. SCORPION ADDS STING . YUMA, Ariz, bp) One F89D "Scorpion; jet; jhere for the Worldwide Air Force Air-to-Air Rocketry Meet had added sting Tuesday. 1st Lt William D. Evans of Lucas, Iowa, found a desert snake i curled up on the nosewheel of his Alaskan Air Command craft during pre-flight inspection. - ! ing was that the president would be charged the regular rate for civilian officials using military medical facilities.- At ' Fitzsimons the daily rate during September was $17. It vent up to 17.50 on Oct 1. " In discussions of the problem it was ponted out" in army circles- that the president had resigned his army commission before accepting the Republican party nomination in 1952. - , . No Charge for Mamie The charge for food will be at the rate of $1.00 daily. Any meals that Mrs. Eisenhower eats in the hospital will be added to the presi dent's food bill The army said it had no plans to charge the presi dent for his wife's use of a room in the suite occupied by the chief executive. . .. . , The army recalled a fairly re cent incident involving a chief executive and an army hospital. The then president Harry S, Tru man went' to WalterReed army Hospital in Washington on July 16, 1932 and remained there until July 19 for a general medical checkup. . ; ; Army .records show that Truman reimbursed the - hospital at the rate of $14.23 for each of the three days he was in the hospital and paid an additional $1.80 for two lunches, which army officials say they think; they remember were served to Mrs. Truman. GIBSON, Iowa tfl The entire population of Gibson, a village of about 100 persons in Southern t Iowa, fled Tuesday to escape toxic ' anhydrous ammonia fumes. Thi alarm ; was sounded when a hose broke while the press-ir-ized j liquid ammonia was ' being transferred from a 10,000-gallon railroad tank; car into a fertilizer, firm's storage tank. When the hose broke, releasing the pressure,: about .3,000 gallons ' of the ammonia- vaporized. The fumes rolled slowly over the'vu ' lage like a. heavy fog. Every man, wdman and 'Child.' left the town except for a man who used the lone available gas mask to search all houses and buildings to make certain no one . was left behind. ! , . There were no known injuries or deaths. v ' It j was more than ah hour be fore ! the first residents began go ing back. ? ." .. During the. Interval while they .waited for the fumes to lift, most of the evacuees camped along the roadside outside of town. Anhydrous .ammonia is used as an agricultural fertilizer. REMORSEFUL BANDIT . ST: LOUIS UP) "God knows I am sorry." This was the note, ap parently from a remorseful bandit, which was left in a public locker here with $4,495, all but $5 of the money taken at gunpoint Monday in a holdup of the National Bank of Mount Olive; 111. Deer Hunters Wounded in State-Total 9 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - The number of Oregon deer hunters wounded since the season - opened Saturday stood at nine Tuesday. . Belated reports told of two boys wounded in separate mishaps and treated . at Lakeview for almost identical injuries. Donald Ross, Roseburg, and Jimmy Hawk, the latter about 14, each suffered a bullet wound in a foot. Police . reports said each ' wasj shot by the discharge of his own gun Sunday. ; Vhatt riiAA e4wt 4 4l : ajic wye luctucu iium iuq - hospital shortly after treatment . That made .the dates on tho woundings:; Saturday; Sunday 6. The first fatal heart attack attributed to over-exertion ' while hunting was reported Tuesday i night ; - . . . - James Jackson, about 30, died as She arrived at the front door of ' his j Sutherlin home. He had been i hunting all day and in the late i afternoon had bagged a buck. Ha . dragged the carcass two miles to his1 car. loaded It and drove homi ' United Fund KickjOf f Draws Large Crowd to Armory GALVA, Kan. VP) A Mon-i mouth, Ore man and tnree other crewmen of a B47 jet bomber parachuted to saxety Tuesday before the plane crash ed and burned at tne norueasi edge of Galva. Capt William Becxiey, a native of .Monmouth and graduate of Oreeon college ot cuut-uuu. was among tnree woo cscapea injury. - . ". 'V Capt James Haraing. Asniana, Ky., an instructor-observer, was hospiuiized at McPherson, eignt miles from Galva, with cuts and bruises but was released after treatment One crew member was quoted saying the plme developed trouble soon after take-off. . The ship was on fire when it crashed on a farm just outside of Galva. Beckley was listed as an ob server.' The plane was based at Smoky Hill AFB, Salina. Weatherman Sees Showers Todays - Cloudiness and scattered show ers are expected, to continue through' today, with steady rain beginning late today or early Thursday, according tol weather men at McNary Field. , Slightly warmer temperature than the high of 57 registered Tuesday is predicted., : . Fire- danger west of. the; Cas cades has been abating with the dampness and showers of Monday and Tuesday. - MONMOUTH Capt William Beckley, who parachuted to safe ty Tuesday before 'a jet bomber crashed, was a lifelong resident of Monmouth before joining the service. - . - -. t - " Beckley, about 37, returned to the United States "very recently" from France; according to rela tives here who include Mrs. Ger trude Walker, an- aunt and Mrs. Harold Buss, his mother-in-law. His- mother, Mrs. " Carl Iverson, now lives at Carlton. s Statesman - r pagsj Clastified .IUi.7-9 Comes th Dawn I , 4 Comics . ' 5 Crossword , H",. 4 Editorials I f 4 Homo Panorama I 6, 7 Markets 7 Radio, TV .11. I 4 Sports L..l!.!, 2 Star Gazer II 6 Valley .ll.i 3 Wlrephoto Pica 11. 5 ffT U"W" i P I ' 11 c. 7 ; 'A , t J - ' ----vU ia. t-mm ... . 1 1. .il Salem United Fand campaixn-opening formalities drew an enthnsi ; astic 32S supporters to the Armory Tuesday noon. Willamette L'nivenity cheerleaders, Salem Cherrians and Boy Scoot color guard (as seen ia center aisle) were among many special gronpt, with a part ia the lanchcon proerim. Andicnce has risen here for. presentation of colors at outset af program. (Story ia coloma I)