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The Weather . FORECAST (from " V. S. weather fcureau, McNary Field. Salem H Partly cloudy today, tonight and Sa.uiciay with a few showers today and tonight; cooler, with the high Siesr 60 and low near 38. , Temperature at 12.-01 a.m. today Was 44. - , SALEM PRECIPITATION" -Sinee lUrt Weather Yea Sept I Sals Tear Last Yea , Normal 2 0 12t l.J Wbrsti' History : PCUND3D 1651 irlme 105th Year 4 SECTIONS-40 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, October 7.1955 PRICE 5c No. 194 Ike Asks Nixon To Visit Wisit to ;Mark , Milestone' Along Recovery Road DENVER Vice President K :on win fly here Saturday to 2 President ', Eisenhower, the Simmer While House announced Thursday.: The latest medical bul letin said the chief executive :on tinued to make progress in his fight for recovery from- a heart attack. ' Presidential ' Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told a - news conference Nixon's coming will he -Just visit "they will not take up any. controversial subjects at 1L" . Marks Milestone Eyen so. such a visit marks an other significant milestone along the convalescence trail. Aside from members of the family, his own staff, and the doctors and attend ants at Fitzsiroons Army Hospital, Eisenhower has seen- no one. . Furthermore, there is some like lihood that Secretary of State Dul les may corne out from Washing ton next week. In any event, it is almost certain that the secre tary of state will see the chief executive sometime in advance of leaving for the Big. Four foreign ministers conference at Geneva. The conference, opening Oct. 27, will test the administration's ' abil ity to handle tough issues in tl'e field of international relations with - the President in a passive role on the .sidelines. f. Soa to Visit The vice president will be on the same military, air transport plane which will bring back to Denver the Boston heart specialist. Dr. Paul Dudley White, and Sher man Adams, the top man oa the cWhite House staff. Also aboard, Hagerty said, will be Maj. John Eisenhower, the President's son. . The President himself, Hagerty aid, asked that Nixon come. to . sec hinv , " Jiir V Deadlock - - j Ends Albany First .Conracits Let For Space Satellite - By ELTON C. FAY i WASHINGT6N () L. The De fense Department, has given in- - dustry the signal to start build ing a space satellite for "Project Vanguard." - . ' It announced ' Thursday that "work has begun" onj the project with the awarding of! a primary contract to Glenn L.j Martin Co. builders of airplanes 1 and. re search rockets, with ! another to -General Electric Co.' for build ing the first stage of the series of rocket motors 1 for the space . flier. -j.; j , -;. - But eyen though contracts are now being let. officials have not decided yet the exact shape and size of the first space roamer. 1 There have been predictions it would approximate the size of a basketball. Thursday's announce- " ment said only-that it would be; "small," but large j enough to . contain instruments to send back-: reports on its orbiting journey 200 miles above the earth. Thursday announcement said the firing will be in three stages one rocket to start the device into flight vertically, a second to bend the satellite from its initial vertical course toward a sidelong orbiting path. And a third to kick the satellite, in its final approach to orbit, up to a top speed of about 18.000 miles per hour. : Each rocket engine will drop off as its fuel is exhausted. ; Going into a elliptical. 'rather than a circular, orbit the satel lite is expected to shoot around the earth once every two or three hours, the; announcement pre dicted ,"ik,v -. Then, "several" days later, its momentum will be expended and it will descend gradually into the earth's atmosphere, where its still high, speed will melt it into nothing, s County Polk County United JFiirid Starts Oct 18 StaUtmaa Newt Service ' DALLAS The first United Fund drive organized in Polk county will get underway Oct-18 with a goal of $24,000, announces County Judge Cat M. Barnhart, campaign chairman. , District chairmen include Fred Calef, Independence; Ray Rauch, Monmouth; Chet Embree. Falls City; Mrs. Tony Cvitanovich, Val- setz; Ray KlicTeiY Pallas; Mrs. Wxr I mn rl Inntr bunion Aiccormacx, reaee; koss Y SCULLlvlviV I Phanin - PrrvHal - and Mru F.U ' I -nr tL 1 imer wenn, urana nonae. : In charge of the industrial par it . t it. :ii v. t IT i rp 1 C. Lundy of Dallas, chairman of n nm PI n P I n a I the board of directors . m The Marion County ; organiza- statetmaa Newt Senriee Ition has agreed to give $930 to ALBANY A jury dismissed the Polk County -group from so Thursday after failing to. reach a licitation of ra section of the West verdict in the state's negligent Salem area. Salem workers will l homicide case asainst Joe L. solicit the area aprth to Wallace OuanL Rosebure. ! farm on Wallace Road and west Protem Judee Walter H. Evans to Holman Park.' Jr. dismissed the Linn County i Judge Barnhart said that a dol- Circuit Court jurors after seven lar per month payroll deduction hours of deliberation. ' being encouragea, Quant's trial stemmed from the July 23 traffic death of Lemuel July 23 traffic death of Lemuel PI- ! 1X1 I E. Bittner.,57, also of Roseburg. t11 lit I 111PA Ouant and Bittner were in the K , X I VLVj Efforts Fail Quant and Bittner were in the same car when it was involved in a collision on Highway 99-E in southern Linn County. - The state based its case on what it : said .was evidence of great speed. The defense denied this, and Quant said he was net even driv- 1 over to Bittner. Medal Awarded 37 Years Late to Start New TB Testing Program f A new tuberculosis testing program affecting 4,000 school children will be 'started next month by Marian County health department ': . f" : . ! This was announced Thursday by Dr. W.' J. Stone, county health officer, who at the same time said immunization clinics in the classrooms would be discontinued. " ' , i But the change does not mean an end of the free inoculations or vaccinations against diph theria, tetanus, whooping cough and smallpox. Clinicr will con tinue at the health office in Salem and at regional centers in the county. Three Grades The new tuberculosis tests will be given' to first graders in the county, to seventh graders in Salem junior highs and to 9th graders at hizh schools outside Salem. Tests will be available to all whose parents consent For the test, a small drop of tuberculin is injected between layers of skin on the arm. Some redness results and two or three days later, examination is made by a nurse or doctor to see if a reaction indicates a chest X-ray and further examination should be made. Test Results Dr. Stone said such a test shows whether a child has been exposed to an active TB case, even if the child hasn't become an active case himself. This per mits tracing adult tuberculosis cases that otherwise might not be diagnosed. Marion County Tuberculosis Association is providing the sup ply of tuberculin to be used in the tests by public health nurses. New Cases Dr. Stone said 33 new cases of TB have been reported in Marion County this year and probably many undetected cases exist By contrast, no diphtheria has oc curred since a single case in 1950 and ' no smallpox has occurred in many years. The tuberculin testing for the older groups will coincide with regular classroom instruction in communicable disease. When, the first graders are tested, they why be given leaflets on f B to take to their homes in the interest of -health education. ; t ' (Additional details on Pa ge 10 Sec. 3.) Pace of UF Drive Slows Two-Day Report Totals Less Thai! Qne7Fif th of Qoal .. - -'. -i - ' (Picture on page 5, sec. 4.) "Let's Get Rolling,", was the United Fund word from Campaign Chairman Kenneth M. Potts Thurs day after second-day reports indi cated a slow-down after ; a good start the day before. United Fund officials counted pledges of $33,667, against a goal of $205,000 to meet the needs of 12 local and IS statewide Or national agencies of youth and welfare work. The two-day report was less than one-fifth of the goal. . Two big gains were; posted by campaign division leaders Thurs day. Both industrial and .general gifts groups brought in additional sums of slightly over $2,500. Gen eral gifts solicitation has resulted so far in 40 percent of quota; in dustrial, 29 per cent" Campaign leaders will met again at noon today in the Marion Hotel to make reports and thresh out soliciting plans "over luncheon. Potts is urging all cabinet mem bers, division leaders and others to attend. . Residential and governmental di visions are expected to make their initial reports of progress today. ( Picture on wirephoto .page.) NEW CASTLE., Ind. - Truce ing , but had turned the wheel eJorts collapsed Thursday and the LAFAYETTE. Ore. Wt " Clar ence F." Fay now has his purple Kaf-fr TrtAtfial Tf Biivawi kaa -iitrf 10 days less than 37 years after f06" at Perfect Circle intends ClOUnited Auto Workers" warned of possible renewed violence at the struck Perfect Circle foundry here. I Union representatives walked out of a city hall meeting after bitterly declaring to company officials, I'We are of the belief that you are putting production ahead of the human element and human lives." A company spohesman told re- he was hit by shrapnel while fight ing in France m World War l. He recalls that things happened a lot faster in 1918. Then he was in action Argonne Forest three months after he went before his draft board at McMinnville. - to reopen its piston ring foundry Valsetz Logger , Co Fatally Crushed DALLAS, Ore. m A rolling log fatally crushed Earl Coonrod. 38. Sweet, Home, as he worked Thursday afternoon at logging operations of the Valsetz Lumber Co. He is survived by the widow ana live cnuaren. ine oody is here as soon as , the National Guard is withdrawn j and law en forcement authorities permit, f International Representative Wil liam F. Caldwell 'told, a public meeting that thousands of . Indiana unionists are poised to march against the three-story rick foun dry if it reopens for production. Eight persons were shot in sucji a march Wednesday. : Wreckage Scattered on Rugged -Mountain i 4 'Vi r - j - 1 " r f r Jury Clears 2 Suspended State Workers 'Delay of a Civil Service Com mission hearing on two men sus pended for alleged irregular con duct will be asked today by me State Highway Department State Hishway Engineer R. H. Baldock said Thursday night . Hearing of appeal by the pair was tentatively set for Oct 12, but Baldock said a continuance would be asked until after trial of one of the men is completed in Yamhill County. Meanwhile District Attorney Kenneth E. Brown r indicated Thursday that a Marion County grand jury apparently failed to find sufficient evidence to indict anyone of malfeasance in the case which has involved at least four highway employes. The civil service hearing had been set for Edgar O, Ferguson, assistant resident engineer, who is facing the Yamhill indictment, and Charles O JJeul, transit man. both of Salem. O'Neill and an unnamed retired highway em ploye were under investigation by Marion County authorities. . -The fourth employe, Arthur sT. Garrow, 51, street inspector who was suspended last Aug. 2St with Ferguson and O'Neill, is in Polk. County jail awaiting sentence Friday after pleading guilty of accepting $180 from a contractor. J i " r w x 0 ) -4 i hi m LARAMIE, Wye. The wreckage ef a United Airlines DC4 lies, scattered at the bottom of a cliff (see arrow) Medicine Bow Peak where the plane crashed Thursday, killing au aooaro. me wrecs ' age is at the base ef a streak dew which it toppled. The plane struck near the ton fif &ft peak. (AP Wirephoto). . . - - SP Halts Steam Locomotive Runs PORTLAND UT The Southern Pacific Wednesday-made its last steam locomotive run on its Portland-Eugene line. . A. B. Clancy was at the throttle of the last of the SP's 5,000 series locomotives, built in the 1920.S. The railroad now will operate only with diesels between Portland and Eugene although it retains a few steam locomotives as helpers out of Eugene over the mountains and south on the Ashland run. Utah's Governor To Refuse Income Tax Payment SALT LAKE CITY (A Utah's Gov. J. Bracken Lee said Thurs day be will, not pay his federal income tax for this year because I believe that it is unconstitutional for this nation to tax its citizens for the support of foreign nations "I plan to figure out my tax re turn and send it to the govern ment," he said, "together with letter saying I have placed the money aside (in a bank) and will not pay it until the United States Supreme Court orders me to do so." Salem Bridge Traffic Up One-Third In 2 Years; Travel in Area Gains Auto traffic over i Salem's two being sent to Lebanon for funeral Willamette River bridges is up one- arrangements. (ANIMAL CRACKERS ' "George always says. 'Waal's the Lfereee as long as ywtre tarry." third over two yers ago, but now there are two.bridges to carry the I cars and trucks,. instead of one. Traffic in general is much heav ier in the' Salem area, the State I Highway Department reported ! Thursday on the oasis oi commu ting traffic counts. ' when the Center street span was Salem's only bridge ; over the Wil lamette, it carried an average of 15,000 cars a day (two years ago). Now the Center Street bridge and I new Marion Street bridge, which are paired for one-way traffic use. carry 20,705 vehicles a day, , ac cording te daily average figures ot last August -. ' J - Only in the Santiam Canyon area was there noted a decrease in ve- Ihicular traffic during, - the pan year. Highway .officials said this did not mean that that area was losing traffic but that there had been an abnormal amount of traf fic there during construction of the Detroit Dam. : ' . Traffic during August on the Pa cific Highway (99E) near Wood burn was found to be 17 per cent above August ef 1954. And during the first eight months of 1955, traffic has increased jy 19 per cent oyer, a year ago. Daily traffic average 'at Wood burn during August was 11.575 ve hicles a day.. . . A check of travel on state high way 22 at Gates showed a decrease of per cent from a year ago. Traffic there - recently averaged 1,967 vehicles a day. Highway of ficials said Gates, like the rest of the state, could look forward to traffic increases from now on. Oregon as a whole showed an increase of about I per cent In the pest year. This state, ranks 10th from 'the top in the list of states showing : traffic increases Florida was tops this summer with a 17 per cent gain, j Reasons for the increase, high way officials say, are more cars, with more people driving them to more places. "Highway travel reflects the gen eral economy of the state," said State . Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock. "Increased traffic on highways brings up the necessity of building freeways to handle the through traffic. And freeways in turn gen erate more traffic. They bring more visitors, into the state. Premier-F aurc Fichts To Save Government PARIS C?V-Premier Edgar Faure, striving to save his wobhly government, called on the National Assembly .Thursday night to back bis moderate policy for French Morocco. ) ;MI have faith in my formula as a means of building French Moroccan friendship," Faure. told the deputies. . . ; Critics are free to criticize his plan, he said, but if it does not go through they, may have to-find a program to replace it. . . Faure : Thursday: dropped ' four Gaullist ministers who refused to accept his, plans for Morocco pegged to the creation of a three man regency council to replace an unpopular Sultan now retired in Tangier and parried threats from other ministers who were being pressured to quit. End. Strife Thursday night Faure opened de bate on the government's meas ures to end the bloody strife in Morocco, a French protectorate where , nationalist demands for home rule clash with the desire of French colonists to keep : a close rein on the territory. His Cabinet has authorized him to ask a vote of confidence. Defeat on that vote perhaps Monday would, spell the end of his seven- month-old regime. Great Action' Faure told the deputies "a great action has developed against our country" on both the diplomatic front and - in North Africa. He re ferred to the-U. N. General As sembly's decision. 28-27.' last Fri day to debate the issue of home rule for Algeria, which the French regard as part of their homeland, and to bloodshed, set off by moun tain tribesmen in Northern and Eastern Morocco. ' Vanp Revote Due : I i . In Indonesia JAKARTA, Indonesia im The district ' elections committee of Central i Java Thursday night or dered millions of -Indonesians to vote a second time because of un specified "irregularities and illegal activities." ' ' i Central Java, was the scene of one! of the biggest sweeps by the victorious Communist-oriented In donesian Nationalist Party. , Nearly nine million out of ten million registered votes have been tabulated unofficially in Central Java with the Nationalists holding a million vote' lead over each of the other three major parties the Moslemi Orthodox . Radicals, the Communists and the pro-West Mos lem1 Masjumi. - . The Central- Java election 'Com mittee did not announce how many million Indonesians would have to vote again. The total might include as many as three million .Voters. Coips' Attack? Army Force FT; HOOD. Tex. W Soldiers of the ifourth "armored division's aggressor ; force on: maneuvers thought; they had a surprise attack en itheu? hands:. . "' :-( ; ; What i looked " like - an enemy ve hicular j convoy was approaching, so the soldiers dropped their, chow and -took - up v defense positions, swinging tank guns around to fire. A scout jeep roared out to check the enemy's size and strength. The .jeep returned with this re pott: -Cows." . Opposed by 3 Gduncilmen PORTLAND ift Three of Portland's five city councilmen Thursday, said? they will oppose transfer or East vanport s ueita Park for the city's proposed sports recreation -center. That apparenly will kill the plan to put the sports center there. , The Exposition-Recreation Com mission .Wednesday chose. Delta Park as the site for a center, ap proved by the voters last year at a cost of 58,000,000. The selection was by a 3-2 vote, the other two commissioners favoring the down town south Auditorium site. H But Thursday morning City Atty. Alexander Brown ruled that the City Council has the power to re fuse to transfer the East vanport site, which; is operated by the city's park! bureau. And, later three councilmen. William Bowes, Stan ley Earl and Nathan Boody, said they are opposed to use of Delta Parku for the center. Delta Park is on bottom land, beside the Co lumbia River, six miles north of the city center. ;., PIERS CONTRACT LET i PORTLAND' -. Manson Con struction & Engineering Co., Seat tle, Thursday won a $1,937,480 con tract for construction of four river piers or me new Morrison oireev bridge in downtown Portland, Brother Tells of Young 'Houdini' ' Stenhen Carpenters', "news cast" in the 6th grade at Rich rnond School was the real thing Thursday. . - Taking his turn at "Show and Tell" period in his classroom, he presented for inspection , a : cast off arm cast, and 'the story "ef how his- year-old sister had wig gled out of three casts ; in two weeks i before her doctor settled for i a bandage, They are chil dren of - Mr. . and . Mrs. Ransom Carpenter, 1540 State St . Today's Statcsr.:n h' - " - " ,See.. Babson Report '..IV. VBusiness NeWs IV i ... ." Page 5 5 Classif ied - :.lll 10-13 Comes the Dawn I.. 4 Comics III. Crossword ....lll. Editorials. I. i Food Home Panorama -1 Markets ; .IV... Radio, TV rv. Sports l.rV Star Gazer . 11... Valley ll. AVirephoto Ps;e III 5 10 4 1-7 6-9 ;.s - 4 1-3 2 4,5 5 Wreck Too Close and Costly . For Owner of Repair Garage .. Ordinarily the owner of a repair! garage might not feel too badly if , an accident happened right . in front of his business. But this one Thursday t afternoon was too close and tooy unprofitable. When - cars driven by " Oliver Grady Howard, 61, of Jefferson, and Malcolm Samuel Ramp, 63, of 1145 Oxford St., collided at S. 12th and .' Oxford about 4:30 p.m., Ramp's 1949 . Ford went . right through Dougherty's Garage on the corner, police said. And that's not alL C. E. Dough erty's 1938 Chevrolet, parked in the garage, was severely damaged hi the rear, where it was hit and in front .where it was shoved into a workbench by the impact Sev eral' pieces of machinery and tools were -damaged and -one wall of the garage was- knocked : 4 in ches off its foundation. But; did business pick up for Dougherty? Howard s car was towed away at -Howard's request. and Ramp I car, euthougli sev erely damaged, was driven away, leaving the earatfe owner, with only his own wreckage to -esti mate. i No Suryiwrs" In JJAL Crasltj ' At 1Z,UUU Jjcet tARAinE, Wyo. UB A f ovt engine united Air Junes DLf plunged into the face of a sheet mountain peak Thursday and al . 66; persons aboard, including a crew of three, were killed. None of the dead were belie ve4 from the Pacific Northwest It was the worst commercial air line crash in United States history. First rescuers to reach th chilled scene atop 12,005-foot Medi cine Bow Peak, among them Maj.- Gerald ; Downey of the Wyoming Ciyil Air Patrol and State Patrol-" man Ben Butler, said they found about SO bodies strewn along a.-300-foot course down the face of U1C WUUliWUl. Scattered Debris One rescuer, Vance : Lucas of , Buffalo, Wyo., said he climbed to the top of the ; peak and there t found a bit of wreckage, scattered ; mail, a man s topcoat and part of! the plane's instrument panel The westbound plane shattered itself against the peak about 50. to !75 feet from the top. The moun tain is about 40 miles west of here ' the Snowy Range. - . f fowling winds which some offi cials said may have contributed c the tragedy caused Sheriff John Terrill of Carbon County, in charge of rescue operations, to call off ef-. forts to retrieve the bodies at dusk. ' - - Ordered Off He ordered all rescuers off the face of the steep mountain and down to a base, camp slightly more than a mile away. The toll, at first believed 65, was f increased by one- Thursday night 'f when" United officials added the name of Debbie Tucker, the infant daughter, of one of the victims. ' rrk. lit ;tt. wreckage, bodies, 'clothing and cargo, was marked by two huge patches of oil where the plane's engines apparently . struck the peak. :'t'. ; ; The wreckage then , slid dowq ' the steep incline in two ravines. -much of it coming to rest 300 feet, downward on a small glacier. Part of Wing ' ' ; -' Rescuers said the largest see Uons of the plane remaining in tact were a part of one wing and a; vertical. stabilizer with UAL's red, white and blue colors, half way down the peak. j "I don't see how there would bfe a chance of aTnyone surviving,' said Ca'pt. Mel Conine, Wyoming National Guard jet pilot who wan one of the first to spot the wreck age. r - - - I A reporter for The Denver Post, Leonard Larsen, flew over the crash area and said "It appeared the passenger plane smashed into the south face of the peak and then exploded, barely 75 feet from the summit of the vertical moun- . tain top." n 'Black Weead' , He said "From the point of first impact .the cascading wreckage cut a black wound nearly 900 feet Wng. . I . ,;. .:. "Halfway down the blackened , scar was lodged the tail section of the carrier, with the red, white and blue United Airlines markings visible.' . , . Larsen said the weather at the i , a a Mt i .1 peax was ciear dux ine ouisiae. thermometer on the plane m which he i was flying registered 10 de grees above xero. There were 63 passengers and 3 crew members aboard the plane. Which originated from New York's La Guardia Field' at 7:10 p. ra. CEDT) Wednesday. Behind Schedule j The plane left Denver at 6:33 m. (MST) Thursday, one hour and 23 minutes behind schedule, UAL officials in Denver said it had been delayed in its night from the East . I It was due to arrive in salt Lake City at 9:06 a. nu MST). The final destination was San Fran-' Cisco.- -. :.; ; r. " i UAL announced at 12:15 p. m. (MST) the plane had been located and identified. That was two hours and 5 minutes after it first was reported missing. The plane never reported after it eft Denver. Search Starts The search was touched off whea il. - . ; r. M 1 . i. me aircrait iauea u reporw over. Rock Springs, Wyo.. a scheduled en route check point about 150 miles west of where the wreckage was found. Among the passengers were five members ot . the Mormon - Taoer nacle choir returning from a Eu ropean concert tour, i . The crash of a Northwest Air lines DC-4 in Lake Michigan oil June 24, 1950 was the worst pre vious commercial airline disaster. Fifty-eight were killed. The most disastrous air crasa of any type was an Air Force C-124 near Tokyo on June IS, 2333 in which 129 perished. The Weather. Salrm Portland Baker Mrdford North Bend Rosebure San Francisco Los Angeles i . Chicago Max. Mia. Preelp - ..;; M 34 . ,. M 38 .00 ' 57 . 19; ; .00 74 321 .OO 1 41 .00 71 33 y .00 82 4 .m . 74 S3 " 1 .00 78 S 1.57 . ax .1.61 V.w York W-taanUo Sivar -J loot. Showers, Cooler Forecast Today After two rainless days the weathermen at McNary Field are forecasting a few showers for today and tonight. . It will be cooler, they say, with the high temperature about 63 compared with 64 Thursday, and a low near S8 predicted. It will be partly cloudy today coctinidcj throcfh Sat'ursUjr- .