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iuc n earner TO RECAST (from XT. g. weather k-reao. JIcNary field. Salem) : Partly cloudy with showers today, tonight nd . Thursday. ' Not. much - chrnge In temperature. High today JiT 58. low tonight near 42. Temperature at ll:Oi ajn. today . at 53. SALEM FRECIMTATIOX Mnee Start mt Weather Tear Sept 1 Thlv-Tear Last Year ; Normal jD5ni Starts tt ft trtwta of OrtM - POUNDBD 105th Year 2 SECTIONS-24 PAGES Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Octoberv 12, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 199 -s dlBiro C ell Wmm PS Las GOP Postcard Poll Uses Secret Check SEATTLE UP) King County (Seattle) Prosecutor Charles 0. CarroU said Tuesday secret checkback numbers have been discovered on postcards being used for a political poll among Republican precinct committee men. He said the cards, signed by Robert ' C. Cummings, of the Olympia News Letter; were placed . under an ultra violet lamp in the Scat V Police de partment, revealin- the. other wise invisible numbers. ; --i.'The cards a5kcd therecipi ents to list their, choice for president, in the event Eisen hower does not seek re-election, and to check their preference Onion Growers to Ask 'Disaster Area' Status Statesaaan Ntwi Service v LABISH CENTER Flood-harassed onion growers from West ern Oregon took preliminary steps here Tuesday in a move to se cure financial -aid from the government A group of about 175 growers from Labish, Gaston and Sherwood appointed a committee to survey recent damage to onions caused TP Sauna MANCHESTER, Vermont-With free weekend before going to Washington for another meeting of the committee studying labor management relations in atomic energy .plants I came with my son and his wife to this resort in the , Green Mountains of Vermont, nnrth af Rjknnincrtnn -Wm trnniv r( New England as a very popular summer vacation "spot, but are not so conscious of the fact that its attraction holds through the autumn. The special feature of this season is jhe foliage, and surely its glories can hardly be overrated. . The route up from New York City followed one ' of the state's highways, the Taconic. which runs well back of the Hudson river so it 'avoids the cities on that routs. Then we swung over in the corner of Connecticut, across the western .side of Massachusetts, through Pittsfield and Williamstown and Into Vermont. All the way one had a feast of color: yellow, red, green, brown in varying shades. In Massachusetts we came through the Berkshires whose hills and low mountains were mottled like a painter's palette. The Green Moun tains are similar only higher and somewhat more rugged. Hardwoods are the prevailing woods, though there are splotches of green pines. Sometimes the maples are mottled, too, as .ter minals of branches (Continued on editorial page. 4.) 202-Pound .Deer Bagged By Governor : Gov. Paul L. Patterson, on recent two day hunting trip, near Prineville, bagged a five-point buck that dressed . out at 202 pounds. It was the governor's first deer hunting trip in several years, he said. - V The governor and party left here late Friday afternoon, and spent the night at the Ochoco Ho tel at Prineville. They were in the timbered area early Satur day morning and, returned here . Sunday night The party entered the timber In a jeep, accompanied by two experienced hunters and a driv- . r. "his was the first time I ever hunted that way, the gov ernor said. Other members of the party Included Edward Armstrong, the governor's administrative offi cer; Hugh Barzee, Portland attor ney, and Attorney Eugene Marsh, UcMinnville. AU bagged a deer . ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARMN OOORICH , "Alone at last!' for Washington's governor U.S. Senate. 1 Carroll said the persons who brought the cards to him as sumed the vote was to be con fidential, but the numbers would afford a positive way of learning who voted in. the poll, and for whom they voted. "They are very upset about them," Carroll said. In Olympia, Cummings said he authorized Atty. .Gen. Don Eastvold to use his name for the polL . Esstvcld acknowledged that his office hsd a connect'on with the poll, but he sitf he wanted to check his chief assistant, Bernard Lenctot, before talking about it. I by floods and rain. T"1 . .. me cummiuce is to repon lis findings to the federal Farmers Home Administration. The FHA wjll then decide whether to de clare the onion farms "disaster areas." If it does, then the grow ers may be considered for low interest government loans on next year's crop. -To Appoint Others Labish men on the committee are Paul Riggi, Max Bibby, Gus Harris,, Andy Russ and Kenneth Coomler. Two men from Gaston and one from Sherwood are to be appointed. Don Rasmussen, Marion County agent, is to act in an advisory capacity. ' Gaston, located near Forest Grove, has about 700 acres of onions, and Sherwood, about 150 acres. The crop in both com munities has been damaged by. rains. 1 Labish growers also appointed a committee to ' look into the cause and possible prevention of the disastrous flooding of the Little Pudding River which in tne last two days brought an estimated $1,000,000 loss and probably destruction of this year's . onion crop for most growers. Possible Diking . This committee consists of Pete Stroed, Wendell Barnett, Robert Boies, Harris and Coomler. Anti- iiooa possiDiuues considered in clude diking, cleaning out the main Pudding River and ditch drainage. Flood waters which covered the : Labish bottom land fields Monday and brought hard-pressed farmers their third consecutive crop failure, reached a peak and began to recede late Tuesday afternoon it was reported. TO LAY OFF MECHANICS PORTLAND tf) The Portland Traction Co. announced Tuesday that 23 mechanics would be laid off Sunday. The company blamed falling patronage. ' Three Hurt as j HOLLYWOOD Trainer William r ' ' fr ' .7 t t . :r. . It"- 1 : internal in juries suffered when "Old Emma," a 35-year-oia eiepnant (DacKgrouna). went eu a ram page and pinned Gamble against a wall after tossing two men off her back and injuring them. The incident occurred during filming tf a jungle adventure show for television. (AP Wirephote). County , Staff Tops UF Quota Third of Total Goal Pledged In Salem Drive Marion County employes Tuesday became the first group to over subscribe their quota in the Salem United Fund campaign. Solicitation is still in progress in many county officer , but 124 of the 165 county emnloyes already have pledged a total of $905. compared i with a $930 county quota and a' $757 collection last year. i Heading the county campaign were Service Officer Rirfgely Mil-1 ler and County Judge Rex Hart- ky. Wide Support State workers also showed en couraging support for the United, Fund Tuesday, with one-third of 1 quota attained in the widely scat tered, 5,503-employe state govern ment division of the UF drive. ; Overall, the Fund grew by $25,-' 687 Tuesday as division ' leaders entered new reports at a noontime : meeting. This brought the collec-; tion to date to $76,925, against $205,000 general goal. To Extend Campaign Campaign Chairman Kenneth M. Potts said the drive would be ex tended through next week, with re port meetings this Friday, next Tuesday and Friday. The campaign now is ahead of last year at the same time, one week after kickoff. A year ago the pledges amounted to 32 per cent of goal. (Additional details and photo on Page 4, Sec. J.) Board Accepts New Portland, Salem Route The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads has accepted plans for an alternate Pacific Highway route, through Portland to provide new access routes into Salem and Eugene, State Highway Depart ment officials said here Tuesday. The plans cannot be carried out, however, unless additional funds are provided by Congress. The Portland alternate would go from the Portland-Salem Ex pressway north of Tualatin Riv er, go to Oswego, across the Wil lamette River on a new bridge to ; Milwaukie, then north across the Columbia River over a new bridge to be built two miles up stream from state Bridge, the current inter-, and join Highway 99 north of Vancouver. Survey for the route has not been made. The proposed Salem access would leave the expressway north of Hayesville and enter Salem from the north on Broad way: It would parallel the Ore gon Electric tracks. Elephant Goes Gamble lies oa ground outside a Map Indicates Locale Where Missing Duo Found -r-r ' 1 : -..-:-.x LsvvW, , , . i c, T-A i ttM VALSETZ Two Salem hunters were rescued Tuesday after getting lost in this Polk County area, 35 miles west of Salem. Dotted line at lower center of m;p starts near Cold Springs, where Fred Gephardt and William Zunck parked car at 3 p.m. Monday. They Stalked south as they hunted and Bank Selects Officers; Due To Open Jan. 1 , Election of officers, receipt of official state charter and ten tative opening date of Jan. 1 were announced Tuesday by or ganizers of the new Western Security Bank to be located at South Commerc'-' Street and Candalaria Boulevard. The officeis ;ie Richard A. Rawlinson, chairman of the board; L. C. Pfeiffer, president; Chester I. Chase and Arthur M. Erickson, vice presidents. (Photo on page 8, See. 1.) . Board of Directors; Other. members of the board of directors are Reynolds Allen; Charles Barclay, Milan Boniface, Coburn Grabenhotst, James L. Payne and William Schlitt - All directors - are Salem" busi nessmen except Pfeiffer, the president and manager who was employed several weeks ago by the bank organizers. Pfeiffer, who has been cashier of the Milwau kie First State Bank, will arrive in Salem Nov. 1. Stock Purchased Chairman Rawlinson announc ed that the bank's stock has been oversubscribed, all of it by Salem citizens. A business building at 2715 S. Commercial is being remodeled to provide a corner location for the bank. Depending upon the construction work, the bank may be open even before Jan. 1, Rawlinson said. Search Ends as Young Hunter Finds Safety . BURNS t A lost deer hunter. Randall Graves, 13. Burns, found , . . - : . his way to safety Monday, ending a search by 100 men. Graves became lost Sunday, and estimated he walked upwards of 30 miles before finding another hunter's camp. . on Rampage studio soend stage Tuesday with state foresters believe the two i t A: .5- V vvJ c - : ! L If Hospitalized for a check after getting lost in forest near Valsetz, William Zunck (center) and Fred Gephardt both of Salem, had smile for Mrs. Zunck late Tuesday night at Salem General Hospital. Zunck later returned to his home. Gephardt who had collapsed from exhaustion, remained in hos pital. (Statesman photo by John Mistrial Ruled As McCarthy Fans (Picture on wirephoto page.) BOSTON tK U.S. District Judge Bailey Aldrich Tuesday, declared j a mistrial in the con tempt case of Leon J. Kamin be-i raiiM rvf: frprtiipnt hnrsT flf arw! (plause outside the courtroom as LlldUSC UUUlUt lilt tUUi 11 Wl.l o : Scn McCarthy (R-Wis) came and went through the corridors. The judge's action thus ended the trial almost before it had begun an its first day, shortly after selection of a jury was made. ; j , The jury was dismissed and a .:. :.v. - . : j a j v t-j:j. i dered to begin Wednesday. ' KaminJ a research associate at Queens University, Kingston, Ont, is charged with . contempt of Congress in failing to answer questions put to him at a Senate investigating subcommittee hear ing on Jan. 15, 1954. Adenauer Hit By Pneumonia BONN, I Germany (JP) West Germany's 79-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has pneumonia. The sudden announcement Tues day of his serious illness shocked the nation. I . His physicians said Adenauer must remain in bed indefinitely. Vice-Chanicellor Franz Bluecher took over as acting chief of gov ernment i ' , - Adenauer has been confined to his Rhineland Village home for five days. But until Tuesday his described first as a illness was cold and chitis. then as feverish bron- More Showers Been for Area ' Showers will continue in the Sa- lem area oday and Thursday, ac cording to weathermen at McNary FieW. Temperatures will remain about the I same as Tuesday with the high today near 58 and the low tonight near 42, they say, ; Storms predicted for Tuesday did not carry as much precipitation as expected but they dropped .23 inch on Salem in a long morning rain and two showers in the after noon. Applaud became lost where trail turns' sharply to right Balance of dotted line shows approximate route they traveled. "X" is spot where they were found about 6 p.m. Tuesday. Each square on the map repre sents a sqnare mile. Up-and-down terrain makes distances much longer than indicated on map. Ericksen, staff photographer). Ferris Wheel Plunge Fatal j DALLAS, Tex. (fl One teen age girl was killed and two oth ers seriously injured Tuesday in an accident on the 92-foot high double ferris wheel at the Texas State Fair. -! Fair nublic relations officials - - - al a st apparently dropped :ul OI e miaway nue wnen me irls were still about 25 feet ! rom the ground. Dead on arrival t at Baylor Hospital was Cynthia ' Combest, about 15, Memphis, fTex - I The accident happened as the a. ; . i ...:v v .a . 4V- age boys and girls at the fair for Music Appreciation day, The Weather Max. Min. Prrclp. Salrm S3 .23 Portland 52 45 .18 Baker 51 28 .02 Med ford 54 34 .00 North Bend 58 44 .22 Hoseburg 54 34 trace San Francisco 70 47 .00 Los Angeles 69 59 .00 Chicago 79 51 .00 New York .. 86 59 .00 i Willamette River S.l feet. Air Force Rocket Tonight to Probe Secret By SANKY TRIMBLE ALAM0G0RD0, N.M.,UP) Air Force scientists Wednesday night will hurtle a rocket 40 to 70 miles above earth to probe secrets of dawn and dusk, j An Aerobee rocket provid ing weather conditions are near perfect is to smash from the earth 'intd the upper atmos phere at approximately 20 min utes after sunset loaded, with a mechanism which artificially releases metallic . sodium to glow in the upper atmosphere, i, What is planned was first billed as the widely-publicized artificial moon experiment ' : The Air Force says the ex periment is no such thing. In technical language the firing from nearby Holloman Air De velopment Center is "not de signed to produce the appear ance of a large cloud covering a great part of the sky nor an artificial moon." What it will do, no one' knows. Time of the firing at approxi- Prank Delays Ambulance, Bride Dies . BALTIMORE l Mrs. James William Winsor, 21-year-old bride of 10 days, lay injured on a Hag erstown, Md., street for half an hour last week after an automobile accident. - An ambulance crew finally ar rived, explaining it had just re turned from a false alarm. Prank sters had summoned the ambu lance to a highway out of town, leaving at catsup-spattered dummy at the designated spot. Mrs. Winsor was taken to WasTi- iington County Hospital, then trans- ! t 1 . TT.:...;h, UamUaI in ieiieu iu umvri anj nF'"" " Baltimore for treatment of head injuries She died in pital Monday. the Baltimore bos- THANKSGIVING DAY SET DENVER W President Eisen hower Tuesday officially pro claimed Nov. 24 as Thanksgiving Day. "in keeping with our oldest traditions that at the fruitful sea son of the waning year we turn again to Almighty God in grate ful acknowledgment of His mani fold blessings." of Dusk, Dawn mately ; 20 minutes after dusk has been set because, the Air Force, scientists say, "natural vapor layer is sometimes visible anyway.'V In simple terms, the Air Force is forcing into the upper atmosphere artificial reproduc tions of an element sodium w hich is present in its natural form there all the time. The j Aerobee rocket which will be used in the test is a standard air force upper atmos phere research vehicle. In this case, it will carry special equipment to release automati callyat a ' predetermined alti tude a mixture of pure metal lic sodium pellets dispersed in thermite. The thermite will be started , to burn by passing an electrical current through the mixture. The thermite melts the sodium and causes it to "boil" out an opening in the rocket : skin as a gas under great pressure. This in turn may produce sodium light, high in the sky. ; -. Both Men Found as Dusk Fell Pair Suffering From Exposure; : Gone 24 Honrs i By CHARLES IRELAND VaUey Editor, The Statesman VALSETZ Two Salem hurle-s, lost for 24 hours in the rain-splash ed Valsetz forest were rescued dramatically at dusk Tuesday. Safe, but suffering from the ef fects of exposure, were Fred Gep hardt, 38, of 3240 Doughton St, and William Zunck, 30, of 10S3 E. Rural Ave. Both are milk-route drivers. Gephardt had collapsed from ex haustion and was carried a mile t from the place where he was found to the Tails City - Valsetz road, He was taken to Salem Gen eral Hospital where he was re ported in good condition early Wednesday. Darkness Falls Two state forestry men located the lost pair shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, just as darkness was pull-, ing a cloak over the dense, foggy forest. I don't believe they would have survived another night in the woods." said Lee Port Jr., Salem forestry official Port and Jack " Vaan of Dallas were first to locate the men. Port said Gephardt was com pletely exhausted and did not ap pear to recognize his wife when he was brought out of the forest The men had been reported miss ing early Tuesday when they failed to return from their hunting ex cursion to this area, scene of the famed Fanno Mountain tragedy in which three persons perished a year ! ago. They had left Salem early Monday afternoon. Early Search Bloodhounds led the early search for the pair Tuesday but owner Norman Wilson said -rain, which fell throughout the day, "drove the scent into the ground" and made it impossible for the hounds to con tinue until weather cleared. " Search for the day had virtually ended and plans for a full-scale search on Wednesday were under way when a tip sent searchers to the right area. An unidentified woman stopped at search headquarters on Valsetz Road and reported that shots had been heard about two miles east of the spot where the missing hunters had parked their car. Faint Call Port and Vann drove to the area and called to the missing men through a loud speaker. They got a faint call in return. Then Vann assembled a rescue team and went in after the men. He said they were found about two miles east and a mile south of Cold Springs, where the hunteri had parked their car. Cold Springs is a well-known landmark to hunt ers and others who frequent the area. Vann said it took an hour to "go' in and get the men and bring them ' out to the road." He said the first thing the miss ing men asked for was a drink of water. (Additional details on page 9, sec. 1) McKay to Quit ' Said Growing WASHINGTON tfl The Demo cratic Digest said in its November issue Tuesday there is a "grow ing clamor" for the retirement of Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, whom the publication termed "the giveaway king.'1 McKay shot back with an im mediate reply. In a statement is- ' sued through the Republican Na tional Committee, he described the Digest's outburst as "a typical ex ample of a misguided missile pow ered with hot air." i The Democratic National Com- of following ' policies of "favori tism to business and industry." It said among other things that the public power program of previous administrations has been brought to "a virtual standstill" under the former Oregon governor. Today's Statesman See. Pago Classified L..-.ll. 9-11 Comes the Dawn I.. - 4 Comics i ". . l. 10 Crossword H. 8 Editorials . L. 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