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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1955)
Camp aign The "Socks. To The Forestry - Department," campaign has in L one week netted a pile of socks and one pair of black lace . step-ins. , "There may be some barefoot ' deer hunters in the woods these days," said a forestry repre-. r sentau've, "but so far. there are . no lost ones." When deer season, opened last Saturday the forestry department issued a tongue-in-heel request that each hunter mail one used . sock to the department for use Saxons Lose, 7-0 I EUGENE ' (Special) South Salem High's football" victory streak, as old at the ' school, was finally ended Fri day night when the Eugene -Axemea defeated the Saxens, ' ; 1-9. South Salem had been tied but never defeated since the , school opened in 1954 and won ' the state co-championship last fall (Additional details en sports 'pages.) ' r Crash Socks Air Taken LARAMIE, Wyo. (JP) Rescue teams brought down the first bodies Friday from the mountain peak scene of America's worst commercial airlines disaster as investigator sought the cause of the crash which took 68 lives. . Skilled climbers battled high winds and deep snowdrifts for six hours before they were able to retrieve the remains of two women kkd rroa j SHORT HILLS, N. J. The whole country and particularly the middle Atlantic states can ralax again. The World Series is over for another year, and the underdog Dodgers. finally achieved their long-sought goaL . Tuesday afternoon business op erated .in a sort r of suspended animation, even in Philadelphia wnere i speni iwo aays auenaing a board meeting. Arriving by bus from the airport Monday after noon, some man dashed out and shouted "Yanks ahead 5 to 0 ." That seemed incredible at 1:40 p.m., but it was true. Tuesday came the payoff for the Sums. There is no need for me, how every to add to the millioni.of words already written about the JS53 Series. ; - . v. . ' - Weather on this coast is mildly warm, and dry.' The summer has been terrific - prolonged heat high humidity,' scant, relief - at night Shrubbery has suffered from the long drouth. The 1955 season is driving building owners into air conditioning. The subject was one for consideration by the board of "Presbyterian - -life magazine whose offices are in the Witherspoon Building in the center f the . downtown district building owners to replace the heating system and add air con . ditioning.. The estimate of cost was 5680,000, which probably is more than the building cost orig inally. We were told that the air conditioning of a big bank build- , ing adjacent had cost over $2, 000,000. Of the over six million square feet of office space in downtown buildings, over two- thirdS now is air-conditioned, and the rest will have to be to hold tenants, 'especially if the 1955 neat wave recurs anyways soon. This applies to office buildings. Consider the potential for the blocks of apartment "houses where people live. These will be air-conditioned if their ; (Continued on Editorial Page 4.) Russian Spy Tries Bribe LONDON m The Foreign Of fice said Friday night a Moscow spy unidentified tried in vain to bribe a British courier's secur-' ty guard to betray his country's diplomatic secrets. v . v r;, ; A spokesman told reporters of the plot after various versions of an incident were obtained by an : American : magazine and some British twwspapers. ' Average Family Income 84,200 ; WASHINGTON l - The Census Bureau says that average family income in the United States last year was $4,200, about the same as the year before, but up $300 from 1952. ' - ' i ANIMAL CRACKERS SBV WAJtREN OOOKICM 5 'Here yra are wrryiag abort the H-bomb when It's fly swat ten that should b worryiag ye: NetsDiriy e Step-ins in giving bloodhounds a scent, in the event the hunter became lost f- .:-,.( . During they past week several dozen packages presumably con taining socks have arrived at the Salem Forestry office from all over Oregon. J a "We assume they contain socks," said a department man. "We leave most of them sealed. One man sent in a pair of laun dered socks which of , course means he's lost if be ever gets lost. A -woman from , Portland sent , in a pair of nylons. She's safe. . - . f '.!, "Even Wild Bill Curtis, an ex-, perienced woodsman and tracker j living near LaGrande, sent in his sock. A young couple, in all seriousness, dropped off their socks in person. The person who sent in the step-ins is not identi fied, so the ' dogs will have to work ' closer to the ground ' on that case. j - "One pair of socks are stand ing up in a corner without sup port If that man gets lost the dogs will probably find hira, im mediately." f Victims! From j Peak I and two children from the black- ened spot on 12,005-foot i Medi cine Bow Mountain where an Unit ed Air lines DC4 crashed Thurs day. s - : ' i j- ' .Rescue work halted at dusk to be resumed Saturday and officials predicted it would take several days to bring down all the bodies over the difficult terrain. 1 Sift Wreckage V . As. government and air line offi cials sifted the widely scattered bits of , wreckage for clues as to the cause, UAL President W. A. Patterson disclosed that the plane was 23 miles west of the estab lished airway when it smashed into the mountain. .' Patterson said, in a statement issued at UAL's Chicago headquar ters: 1 , - ' .i- . "It is evident that the scene of the accident is 25 miles west of the established airway over which flight 409 was scheduled to fly. Why the aircraft was off course is not known at this time. Cause Sraght '.. "The cause is being sought in. a complete . investigation now being conducted by the Civil Aeronautics Board and by our company." (Picture on Wlrepnoto page.) Strife-Ridden Perfect Circle to (Picture on wirepboto page) NEW CASTLE. Ind. Uh Gov. George N. Craig sent word he is hurrying back, to Indiana 1 from Florida late Friday, a few hours after Perfect Circle Corp. won city officials' permission to re-open Monday its foundry where i eight persons were shot in rioting; Wed nesday. -; i " ' Gov. Craig's office in Indianapo lis immediately arranged for a conference of company, union and law. enforcement, officials Sunday afternoon in the statehouse. ! , Craig's aides would not say whether bis return was prompted by the piston ring company's deci sion.' approved by Mayor Paul F. McCormack of New Castle, or how he was traveling. Meanwhile ranking guard offi cers had informed mayor McCor mack ; late Friday, they intend to withdraw their men and equipment They said., however, their strength would be immediately available if. needed in case of any disorders. The UAW-CIO sent a telegram to the governor's office in Indianapo lis Friday protesting what it called use of the troops "to bolster one side of the argument" Milk Price Hike Due for Eugene . - - . MEDFORD lV Producer prices for milk will increase 42 cents a hundredweight in Eugene and Raseburg , Oct. ; IS, Dick Wester berg, president of Oregon Milk Producers, announced Friday.. Open Bond Plan Outlined for 2 Junior High Schools Preliminary plans for a several Preliminary plans for a sev eral-million ' dollar bond issue early next year to build two new junior high schools in Salem, were laid Friday by a group ot school board members and inter ested citizens. The plans, ' which -public schools superintendent .Walter Snyder stressed were tentative, also call for renovation of the ex isting Farrish and Leslie junior highs. ; . ; A newly-formed citizens advis ory group decided to present the project for final approval to the entire organization at a meeting Oct 28 at the Marion HoteL Under Chairman Del Milne the executive committee met at the Marion Hotel it noon Friday to m nver a list of about 70 names of local citizens, who will be con 105th Ytar 2 rts HiMUF One-Fourth of $205,000 Goal Made in Week 'Salem United Fund made an aggressive showing Friday as campaifn workers neared an end of their first week by coming up with one-fourth of the big $205. 000 goal. ; Strong reports from several sections of the campaign added up to about $18,000 in new pledg es counted Friday. Plai Popular - Overall figures looked better than earlier in the week, but most of the real encouragement to the Fund leaders came from such specific reports as: '.; . First reports from, state em ploye chapters indicate the new state payroll deduction plan is popular. Marvin datterbuck said the School for the Deaf staff ofj 100 had pledged 57 per cent more than last year already, with the solicitation still unfinished. More than 110,000 in newj pledges bolstered the mercantile division total to 29 per cent of quota Friday, with the collection featuring a $2,666 turn-in from the UF chapter at Lipnftn, Wolfe store. (Photo on Page 5, Sec. 1.) Al Offenstein reported the Statesman-Journal chapter had already pledged over $4,000, against a total $2,600 last year. Chairman Kenneth M. Potts said two of the most stimulating chapter reoorts of recent days had come from Judson's Plumb in? and from J. C. Penney Co., where employes in both averaged gifts of $20 or $21. Utilities Lead Leading in percentage of quota Friday was again the utilities sec tion headed by Lawrence Flagg. It was the first to pass-the 50 per cent mark, with $4,674 al ready pledged. -, Gus Moore of the widespread industrial , division ,. said he had received special encouragement from the formation of an entirely new employe chapter at a firm employing 100 and missed com pletely last year. ' , Campaigners will make their next reports Tuesday noon at the Marion Hotel: Taxmen Calm Oyer Threat By Governor 0 - - t WASHINGTON UrWA spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service, commenting Friday on a threat by Utah's Gov. J. Bracken Lee not to pay at least part of his federal taxes, said . the government has "adequate machinery for collect ing the taxes. - Lee said at Salt Lake City Thurs day he believes it unconstitutional for the nation "to tax its citizens for the support of foreign nations. ; He told The Associated Press in an interview be would refuse ' to pay income taxes on personal in come over and-above his guberna torial salary, from which the tax already has been withheld sp far this year. Widow Moved to McMinnville for Murder Trial i PORTLAND 4B Mariorie Smith, 34, whose husband was killed by an . automobile , bomb blast last April 21. was taken Friday to near by McMinnville where she will be tried for murder. Left behind in " the county jail here was Victor Laurence Wolf, 43, handyman and part-time elec trician, who said he was a slave to ber lobe and rigged the bomb because she wanted it. : This she denied and called Wolf a "repulsive old man. i Her trial will open Oct 20.. tacted soon about membership on the advisory group. Time for the bond election was tentatively set for next February by the citizens committee Fri day. Amount of the isspe was -not decided upon but figures rang ing from $2,000,000 to $3,300,000 were mentioned. ' Dr. Snyder explained that of the three ways to finance the needed schools by serial levy, by placing money in the school budget or by bond issue the limitation of time appeared to favor the bond method. ' He said overcrowded condi tions at both Parrish and Leslie Lmade it mandatory that two new schools be built "as soon as pos sible." Sites of the proposed two new junior high schools, and cost of construction, - have not been decided. Strong Kepo SECTIONS 16 PAGES SbofIs Court Trial Set for " 2nd: Suspended i Road Employe V SUteimaa Newt Serric DALLAS, Ore. One suspended state highway department employe was fined $360 and the jury trial date for another was reported Friday.-' t ' Arthur T. Garrow, 51 Salem, drew the $360 fine in Polk County Circuit Court on a charge of mal feasance to which he had pleaded guilty on Monday. : Garrow also drew a suspended six-months jail sentence from Judge Val Sloper after District At torney Walter Foster recommend ed leniency due to Garrow's health. Yamhill Trial 1: At McMinnville, Yamhill County authorities reported that Edgar O. Ferguson, Salem, has pleaded in nocent to a similar charge and will stand jury trial on Oct. 18. Ferguson, Garrow, and Charles F. O'Neill, all state highway em ployes, were suspended . Aug. 2J for alleged "irregular conduct" ' ' Details of the alleged irregular ities have never been made public but are expected to come out at the Ferguson triaL '. ; District Attorney Foster said the suspensions occurred after a con tractor complained to the high way commission that money had been sought from him by highway department employes. ; ' TUowlag 'Orders' - ) i ' Garrow declared in a ' pre-sen tence statement "I ws merely following jwderj of my superior.' He did not Jiame the superior.- - Garrow's attorney. Parker Gies of Independence, also stressed that Garrow "did just whai nis doss told him to do." Garrow, who has been ill, was placed on probation for one year. His $360 fine represented double the amount he pleaded guilty U accepting from a Salem contrac tor. . '. . '. . ' Ferguson, an assistant resident engineer when - suspended, is charged with -"feloniously accept ing . ' . ; . $228 from Wallace G. Wrieht ... a contractor" on Oct 4, .1954, in Yamhill County. . Ban Pasted '," Jf , Wright was identified as a Mc Minnville contractor by Yamhill County Clerk Jack Beeler. Ferguson has posted $1,000 bail. Both Ferguson and O'Neill have appealed theeir suspensions to the Ciyil i Service -Commission ' and; a hearing was set-for-Oct 12. The Commission reported Friday that the hearing had been "tentatively delayed" pending Ferguson's triaL U.S. On Detection ; Of A-Weapons 'UNITED NATIONS N. Y. tf) The United States revealed in the U. N. disarmament subcommittee Friday night that it has a scientific task force at work trying to solve the problem of, detecting hidden nuclear weapons. . Lack ot sucn detection has been a stumbling block in disarmament proposals. Admitted inability to determine with any. known scientific instru ments "the presence of properly shielded nuclear . weapons' has raised doubts in the subcommittee on . the value of inspection plans presented by the United States and others. . ' . ; ' Harold r E. Stassen, . President Eisenhower's special envoy on dis armament told the subcommittee the science team and seven other task forces, headed by military and naval men. industrialists aid scientists will deal with other in spection problems in an effort to smooth the way to disarmament. Pay-As-You-Go For Wedding ' Guests in Japan NAG0YA, Japan (AP) 0n Japanese family finally rebelled. The -newspaper Asahi carried this story of a Nagoya ' wedding ceremony, v 5. "When the guests arrived they found a reception desk set up at the entrance. The groom himself came out and said, looking rath er embarrassed: "I am sorry but a fee of 150 yen (41 cents) will be charged.' - "When the , money was paid each guest received in return a lunch ' box, a paper napkin and a small bottle cf beer and was led upstairs.? Vanport Fines Garrow Worldng J. POUNDED 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Center ite; Opposition Mushrooms President Givert 'Bsrm tmM -n? n. awfci , i. irTr, ii iaMWMMawMam , i, iwi,Ma t , mmmmimmcmmimimmmmum-4-.tli- DENVER President Eisenhower, who enjoyed 'a mountain fishing' trip 'just prior to his 1 heart attack Sept 24, received a bouquet Friday ef earaations decanted with fisherman's dry flies. Earl E. Scheel, agent in charge of Denver office of . the Secret Service, examines the flawtr basket at jriizsimons Army .jiospuai. Eischhover to Confer With Secretary Dulles DENVER (ip) The White House set up for "President Eisen bower. Friday the first major business conference-since his Sept 24 heart attack a foreign policy. discussion with' Secretary 'Of State: Dulles next Tuesday. . : . . j . ' ' . . I think you could say," Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagert told a news conference "that the 'secretary' would discuss with the President1 matters - with which; the President is very famili ar and topics which will come up at the Geneva conference of for eign jministers which opens Oct 27.'M j , ... - Agenda Tald : . These topics include unification of . Germany, , European security, disarmament,' and increased East West i contacts. . . '.I " Thi Eisenhower-Dulles talks will follow a1 weekend visit by . Vice President Nixon at the presidential bedside. K"-' -. , ?. .-. -J- The announcement 'that; Dulles will fly to Denver came as the chief executive neared the close of his first critical two weeks on the recovery road. Medical bulletins Friday repeated the familiar theme that Eisenhower-is making satisfactory . progress . without complications. Own Reading . The .bulletin reported that the President did some reading on bis own :for the 'first time. ' Hagerty said Eisenhower would be doing .his own reading from now on but the material would be light j and include no government papers. Heretofore Army nurses have read trojthe President A 11 "vr AiDanv names G!of CChief SUtcimaa Newt Serrlrt ALBANY-Hal Byer, 37, long prominent in Albany civic affairs, Friday " was named manager of the (Albany Chamber ' of Com merce." . -. . " . i Byer. formerly was associated with! Pacific Power it Light Com pany! here. He succeeds D. J. Donahue who leaves Oct IS to become manager of the Olympia, Wish., Chamber of Commerce. ; The Weather Max. Mln. Preeiaw Salem " ;' Portland ; Baker . Medfbrd j North Bend Roseburg : San FrancUco Chlcsfo . . as j J7 .56 47 . 3S 38 .23 .00 .65 .69 .57 .57 .68 . -SO .79 ss , Traca .25 -H M .13 .09 -.15 37 47 58 66 New; York Los Angeles . SS Willamette River -1.1 feet rOKZCAST (from U.S Wether Bureau. McNary Field. Salem Partly cloudy with a few chowert this morning, rain later this after noon! becoming showery Sunday. Rather windy this evening. High today near 60. low tonight near 46. Temperature at 11. Dl a.m. today 47. i SALTM PRECIPITATION ! Sinew turt ! Wthr Tear, . 1 TkisTear Last Tear Karmal 2J7- - LM ,2.64 nrn,iiiv, k-TM X imA V .Tl -tWy-liM V ' 7 II II II I I I r 7 1 I Vs4 S.-l ' I II II II. Il.lt . A I J I Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October I JL JL iat nirrpnoio.; ToozeEyes PORTLAND J Lamar Tooze, Portland attorney, will run. next year for - the Republican nomina tion as U.S. senator if Gov. Paul Patterson does not he announced Friday.. : : i. ;,. " ..; Tooze said he will back Patter son if the governor seeks the nom ination against Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse.. But he said that if Patterson decides not to, he will become an active candidate. Tooze long has been prominent in Oregon Republican circles and is a brother of Walter Tooze, a State Supreme Court justice. Clouds, Showers, Wind on Forecast Some clouds and showers are expected to continue in the mid valley area -today and Sunday, the U.S. Weather Bureau at Mc Nary Field reported early this morning. Windy conditions also are forecast for tonight: Temperature should : remain about the same with today's high near 60 and tonight's low near 46, forecasters said. - I : HOLLYWOOD VH Pat Morris, j the cute coed who was offered $100,000 on a TV show if she could break out of a "hypnosis and claim the cash, couldn't make it Friday night , . ' .The Los Angeles girl was placed under hypnosis by nightclub enter tainer Arthur Ellen on the NBC Truth or Consequences show. Five stacks of crisp currency were placed on a table before 'her. El len told ber she was physically unable to rise and claim the mon ey, i . " a Despite MC Jack Bailey's urg- iinSs to "Get up, Pat" she didn't Duage. wnen me zo seconds time limit was up, Ellen clapped his hands, , apparently breaking the trance. Pat's reaction: A sour face and "Oh!"" , - Afterwards she told Bailey she couldn't remember what had hap pened during the 20 second period. - But there was a consolation for emm V - : .... - : ' " . v. -V : Vv V ' "it By Hypnotized Coed i, 1955 ssion Jr Plot to 1011 Gliief an SEOUL' tfu An alleged plot by ultra-nationalists ' to assassinate President Syngman Rhee with band grenades was smashed-Mon day as it was about to be staged, the government said Friday.' The - counter-intelligence corps said eightr men who-formed "an active element of a Chinese terror 1st organization" -were seized as they plotted to mow down Rhee at Korea s National Foundation Day. It added : that the eight then planned to seize the "government. 1 The . announcement said that if the plot misfired, the men would try again next day when Rhee spoke at' the first graduation ex ercises at Korea' "West Point,": the military academy in Seoul's suburbs; ; ; . The CIC identified the purported leader as Kim Chai Ho, member of the outlawed Korean Independ ence Party formed by the late Kim Koo. known widely -as the "Korean Tiger.". ..' . , The reference to -"Chinese ter rorist" 'apparently stemmed ' from the fact that Kim Koo was a lead er of the Korean underground in China during the Japanese occupa tion.' Kim Koo, a political foe of Rhee, was shot to death by a Ko rean, soldier in Seoul in 1949. . ' If the plot report is true, then it is the second attempt, on Rhee's life since he took office in 1948. A 62-year-old extremist, Ryu Shi Tae.i was seized when be pointed a pistol at Rhee as the President addressed" a crowd at' the south east port of Pusan in June of 1932. the USC freshman and daughter of an aircraft executiye. She was given Sl.ooo and a new automobile as a consolation, prize. Pat seemed wide awake when interviewed by Bailey before the stunt But when Ellen said the words "Nena, zena, rena," she ap peared to fall into a deep .trance These were . the words he used when -hypnotizing her before last week s show.. : v- "You will be unable to get off that chair,'.' he repeated. "No otbi er voice will influenc- you.". . - Ellen seemed . greatly relieved when the stunt was over. The pro fessional hypnotist had persuaded his night club employers to put up the $100,000 for the sunt . Afterwards, Pat talked cheer fully to reporters. Asked if she felt sorry . about losing she re plied, "I never bad it to lose." She ; admitted." "It would have been awfully nice to win . the money." . . " i-'" $5! PRICE 5c No. 19S irm on North Location Draws Protest Of Mid-Valley PORTLAND un The Portland Exposition and Recreation Com mission, which Wednesday select ed the East Vanport site for Port land's proposed eight million dollar exposition and recreation center, Friday was standing by its selec tion at least temporarily. . James H. Polhemus, chairman of the commission, said no further action would be taken until the City Council officially refused to transfer the Delta Park site. Three -members of the five-man council already : have indicated they will oppose transfer Tf the property which now is operated by the City Parks Bureau. - Engineers Report Opposition to the East Vanport site mushroomed after the com mission - announced its decision. ' One of the reasons for the opposi tion was the statement of an engi neer that the river bottom land at East Vanport would not support the type of structures which art proposed for the center. Distance of the site from the city center also was cited by opponents. Opposition to the site also was expressed from Willamette. Valley communities. Spokesmen in these areas said they objected to having to travel through , Portland, i- Delta Park Site . : Members of the Exposition-Rec-" reation Commission said Friday they will file a formal request for -the Delta Park site with the city. If this is rejected, three memberi of the commission said they would propose, another site. ; Indications were that the South Auditorium site in downtown Port land is ' favored,' Two members of the commission previously voted for it and Chairman Polhemus said that he . probably would vote for . this site should the matter come before the commission again. This site is close to the down town business district. Earlier dis cussion of this site indicated estab lishment of the center there would include ; remodeling ef the present civic auditorium and expanding to adjacent property. Telephone Busy ... Scores of persons telephoned the commission's offices here Friday : to endorse or protest the commis sion's Delta Park selection. One of the callers,- who did net identify himself, asked whether the commission had yet officially changed its mind about the selee- tion. When advised that no such action had been taken, the caller said: . i "Don't be surprised if somebody opens the door and throws a bomb in there and gets rid of all your crooked politicians." . Christening of Supercarrier Due Today NEW YORK tf) , One of the greatest warships the world has. ever known will be formally named ) Saturday and lifted by surging sea water from the cradlt in which she was born.. The 60,000-ton atom-age super- carrier Saratoga will be christened at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn with the traditional - bottle of champagne swung by the wife of Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas. , . ' ? Then sea water, mixed with the east branch of the Hudson River. will be let into her; dry dock to noatner. 'She is slightly heavier than her , sister ship Forrestal, ' commis-1 sioned last . week, and ber over 280,000 ; horsepower engines make her the most powerful ship ever built. " Built for an atomic age, the "Sara'i is designed, like the For- t restal and three other ships to fot- ' low, to carry jet planes armed with nuclear weapons to the far -corners of the earth. Today's Statcsr.:n Sec IT ii. Pago Il,2 Church ... Classified ' Comics .. Crossword 11. Editorials I.-. Heme Panorama I Markets Radio, TV II- H .. Sports Star Gazer I.. Valley II.. , Wirepheto Page L. World this Weak f Council Action Awaited
