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A Silverton man was killed and two slightly injured when this ear crashed into the stone railing on
the Silverton Road bridge crossing Little Padding River about 5 p.m. Tuesday. Killed instantly was
Orris F. Wasson, SI. Looking in at the door of the car Is Deputy Coroner Charles Edwards, partly
bidden by Jim Doerkson, an assistant at the 'Ho well-Edwards Funeral Home. The officer behind
the ear is State Policeman Henry Hepler. The men in the background are residents of the area and
passing motorists. (Statesman Photo).
'Madman' Sought
In Brutal Murder
Of 3 Oiicago Boys
(Pictures on wirephoto page.)
: CHICAGO WV-The naked, blood-flecked bodies of three boys
rere found Tuesday sprawled in a ditch in a forest area.
. - Shocked investigators termed it one of the most brutal crimes
in Chicago's history, and attributed it to a "madman" driven by a
twisted sex motive.
The victims were Robert Peterson, 14, Robert Schuessler, 13,
JtP
Massachusetts is the only state
where carrying automobile liability
is compulsory. This means that
recovery for death or injury in
a Jto accidents is certain where
liability can be established. Rates,
however, are not uniform through
out the state, but are graduated by
communities in accordance with
experience of the insurers. Recent
ly rate increases" were announced
and they made the rates in some
communities so high that a dele
gation of members of the legisla
ture were appealing to Governor
Herter to call a special session of
the assembly to "do something
about it." . , , .
Over in New York, however,'
where coverage is voluntary, so
much complaint has arisen because
of personal injury . and property
damage done by uninsured drivers
that agitation for compulsory insur
ance has . been revived. To head
this off most of the insurance com
panies there are extending their
coverage tq protect their own poli
cyholders (and members of their
family and guests riding with
them) aeainst personal injury from
cars whose owners carry no insur
ance. No charge is made for the
initial coverage, but on renewal of
policies, an addition, to the premium
will be made. Recovery is limited
to $10,000 for one person or $20,000
maximum. ,
This latter system will encounter
tome objections. For example, a
pedestrian who is hit by an un
insured car get no recovery. Also
the less responsible drivers may be
tempted to let their own policies
lapse (Continued on editorial page,
4.)
6 Condemnation
Suits Filed Over
Polk Road Change
. 'f Statesman-Newt Scrvico
DALLAS, Ore. Six more con
demnation suits were filed by the
State Highway Commission. Tues
day in a move to obtain right-of-
way for a new highway between
Rickreall and Dolph Corner, three
miles north of Dallas.
The commission 'asks that Polk
County Circuit Court juries decide
the value of the land involved.
First defendants named in the
respective suits were Ross A.
Simpson, Laura Ann Garrard, Da
vid D. Peters, Claude Quinton,
Isaac Reimer and Stella M. Hasle
bacher. ' ; (: -
Previously the highway commis
sion filed a condemnation suit to
obtain property owned by Joseph
Harland in the same district. Trial
date has not been set
HOSPITALS NEEDED
PORTLAND B Oregon, aided
by federal grants, has accomp
lished 20 million dollars worth of
hospital construction since 1946,
but still needs much more con
struction to care for the sick, the
State Board ot . Health reported
Tuesday. -', ;-
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I and his brother, Anton, 11,
They were grade schoolers
clean-cut kids with close-cropped
hair, who left their comfortable
homes , Sunday afternoon for a
movie. , They never returned.
Instead, police found their
bodies in a ditch in the Robinson
Woods section of the forest pre
serve at Lawrence Ave. and River
Rd., 10 miles northwest of the
Chicago Loop.
The bodies were on their
backs, unseeing eyes seeming to
stare up at the gray sky. Their
legs were intermingled. Their
slender forms were smudged
with blood and mud.
Coroner Walter E. McCarron
termed it the most horrible crime
within his experience, and label
ed it a sex case.
"The work of a madman," he
asserted, .
Boys Strangled
The coroner said he believed
the youths had been strangled.
Marks indicated their mouths
and eyes had been sealed with
tape, which was removed before
they were killed:
There were 14 cuts on, Robert
Peterson's bead.
Chicago's police commissioner,
Timothy J. O'Connor, called the
triple slaying "one of the most
brutal crimes in the city's his
tory." He put 20 hand-picked
detectives to work on the case,
Middle-Bracket Homes
The boys lived in a neighbor
hood of comfortable, middle-economic-bracket
homes.
Officers searching the area of
the slaying, found a variety ' of
items, including a blue shirt, a
piece of white cheese cloth, a
rope 12 inches long, some pink
cloth, a yellow shirt, a blue hat,
a piece of white hand toweling
and a length of wire about a
yard long. -
U.S.j Britain
Split on Issue
UNITED NATIONS.N.Y. W
Britain split Tuesday with the Uni
ted States ever a hot contest be
tween Yugoslavia and the Philip
pines for a seat on the U.N. Se
curity Council.
The British spread the word
through U.N. delegations they will
support Yugoslavia when the As
sembly convenes Wednesday to
resume balloting. The United
States served equally definite no
tice it will continue to support the
Philippines to the end.
Seasoned diplomats making a
auick count of possible votes said
le United States and the Philip
pines appeared in danger of tak
ing a beating unless a political
miracle occurred.
Justice of Peace
Sued for 50,000 -
EUGENE UH -- Joe Garske, 55,
Glenwood, sued a justice of the
peace for $50,000 Tuesday, alleg
ing the official would not give him
back his gun. ' '
. Garske said be turned the gun
over to police voluntarily when he
was arrested on a disorderly con
duct charge in Cottage Grove two
years ago. " f
He said be was convicted and
went to jail, but after his release
Justice of the Peace John Wells
refused to give Jum back the ..32
caliber pistoL
Silverton Man
Perishes in
Auto Crash
A Silverton man was killed about
5 p.m. Tuesday when a car in
which he was riding crashed into
the stone railing of ' the &
Little Pudding River
bridge on the Silverton
Road at Hazel Green, six miles
northeast of Salem.-
Orrin F. Wasson, 61, died in
stantly of a broken neck and in
ternal injuries, . Deputy Coroner
Charles Edwards said. It was the
28th traffic death in the Marion
Polk County area this year, and
the 18th in Marion alone.
Wasson's two companions in the
car, Lee Wasson, a cousin, and
Martin Kittelson, both of Silverton,
were taken to Salem General Hos
pital. Their injuries were bruises
and lacerations, the attending phy
sicians said.
The car was traveling east to
ward SUverton when it struck the
west end of the heavy stone rail
ing. Residents neac the bridge
three miles east of Highway 99-E
said they heard the crash. The Sa
lem first aid car as well as an
ambulance were dispatched to the
scene. The 1951 Ford was declared
a total wreck by garagemen.
The bridge is approached from
the west by a slight curve and a
downgrade. State Policeman Henry
Hepler said tire marks on the in
cline indicated the car had swerv
ed from one side of the road to the
other before striking the bridge.
(Additional details on sec 1,
page 2.)
China Suggests
Chou En-Lai,
Dulles Confer
WASHINGTON (J Secretary
of State Dulles disclosed Tuesday
the United States and Red China
have begun formal discussions of
their Far East disputes.
Dulles also revealed the Chinese
Communists, in ambassadorial
talks under way at Geneva since
Aug. 1, have formally raised for
the first time their proposal that
he meet personally with Red Chi
na's Premier Chou En-Lai.
The United States has in the
past held itself aloof from diplo
matic involvement with the Pei
ping regime, which it does not
recognize. This, country agreed re
luctantly to the Geneva talks in
the hope of freeing 41 Americans
detained inside China.
Red China, slow in following
through on a Sept. 10 agreement
to free the Americans, has been
pressing for talks on the other
half of the agenda "other prac
tical matters." These include, such
differences as free world curbs on
trade with Red China and Pei
ping'a claims to the United Na
tions seat occupied by Nationalist
China. '
Field at OSC Tattooed; Six
Oregon: U. Students Jailed
CORVALLIS m Six University
of Oregon students were thrown in
Jail early Tuesday after a college
raid in which the letters "U O"
were burned into the turf of the
Oregon State College football field.
'-The six, expressed surprise when
told they 'might be expelled from
school. They said they undertook
it as a prank believing the worst
that would happen would be to get
their beads shaved if they were
caught. That happened to some
students last year. .
Dan Poling, dean of men at OSC,
said the two schools have agreed
that in event of vandalism the
guilty students wul be expelled.
; The six were caught after touch
ing off gasoline that burned the
letters into the turf at 3 a.m. The
same letters' were painted on a
walk near - the Memorial Union
By RENNIE TAYLOR v
Associated Press Science .
. Reporter ' i . "
BERKELEY, Calif. CP) Dis
covery of a remarkable new
atomic particle which can an- ,
nihilate the basic building block f
of all matter was announced
Tuesday by Prof. Ernest O.
Lawrence, famed nuclear sci
entist. ;
. Long sought" as a means of
explaining some of the mys
teries of the physical universe, ;
the particle was produced in ,
the University of California's
multi-billion volt bevatron by a
team of experts in radiation
research. - ;
A joint announcement of the
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105th Year
2 SECTlONS
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Queen Confers
With Eden Over
Sister's Romance
LONDON UP) tjueen Eliza
beth. - II met Prime Minister
Eden in a private audience
Tuesday night at Buckingham
Palace. Presumably they dis
cussed her sister's increasingly
public romance with Group
Capt Peter Townsend.
The Queen returned Tuesday
from a Scottish holiday to grap
ple with the family problem
that has developed into a ma
jor question of state.'
While she waited for a for
mal call by her government's
first minister, the two princi
pals in the drama Princess
Margaret and Townsend held
a tea-time rendezvous at Clar
ence House, a . short distance
from Buckingham Palace.
It was the sixth straight day
the two had seen each other.
State Worker
Denies Bribe
Charge at Trial
By CHARLES IRELAND
Valley Editor, The Statesman
, McMINNVlLLE Edgar O. Fer
guson, Salem, suspended state
highway engineer, denied that he
accepted a $228 bribe as his jury
trial opened Tuesday in Yamhill
County Circuit ' Court . , ,
Ferguson, who. has appealed his
suspension, to the State Civil Serv
ice Commission, is charged with
malfeasance in office."'
The deposed engineer testified
that he received the $228 from
Wallace G. Wright, McMinnville
contractor, for 114 hours he spent
operating the screed on a paving
machine.
Ferguson told the court he ope
rated the paving machine on street
paving jobs at Carlton,' Lafayette
and Amity in 1954 because the con
tractor didn't have a competent
person on hand to do the job.
Acting Resident Engineer
The defendant was acting resi
dent engineer for the State High
way Commission when he perform
ed the work for which he accepted
pay from the contractor.
"You were aware that this prac
tice is condemned by the State
Highway Department?" asked Dis
trict Attorney Elliott Cummins.
' "I wouldn't exactly say condemn
ed," Ferguson testified,' adding that
it had been done before.
Contractor Wright testified that
he gave the $228 to Ferguson be
cause he "was scared not to give
it to him." Wright said he was
bidding on another job at Willa
mina at the time and figured that
I Ferguson would be the engineer on
that project, too.
."Were you afraid he might be
rough on you if you didn't pay it?"
the district attorney asked.
Not 'a Bribe'
"Yes." the contractor - testified.
He stressed, however, that he did
not consider the money "a bribe".
The case is expected to go to
the jury of six men and six wo
men Wednesday following closing
arguments and instructions by
Judge Val Sloper.
building, but these were washed
off quickly.
The six were' booked into jail
on a charge of destroying state
property, but later the charge was
reduced to "entering on- improved
land of another .with intent to
injure the grass growing thereon."
.They pleaded guilty, and were
treed on bond of $30 each. District
Judse Richard Mpnnlop t con.
Itencing for Friday.
The students identified . them
selves as: Samuel G. Whitney Jr.
Portland. Gary V. Callahan, 18.
Milwaukie; Michael Bird, 17, Aza
lea; Charles E. Wingforth. la,
Portland; Gary T. Hubbard. 18,
Oakland.. Ore., and Lawrence E.
MuHarkey, 18, Glendale.
Campus police caught them and
turned them over to city police.' i
find also was ; made by the
Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) which financed the 94
million-dollar bevatron. -
: Although the particle is a po
tent annihilates of matter as we
know it, it poses no threat to
the materiaf universe, no . in
strument that could be made
into a disintegrator of matter.
Its , main I value, said Prof.
Lawrence, is to open the way
for an exciting new round of
atomic discoveries.
I The new particle is called the.
antiproton, or negatively;
charged proton. It is the coun
terpart r of jthe positively
charged proton which consti
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The Oregon
UF Victory
Banquet Set as
Funds Roll In
(Picture on page 5, sec. 1.)
; United Fund workers counted
up some financial encouragement
Tuesday and; confidently set next
v ednesday
might for a victory
banquet in the campaign to raise
$205,000
: Most df
came from
the encouragement
the: mercantile divi
sion and the state
section of the gov
ernmental divi
sion, both of which
topped their cam
paign quotas and
promised to go
higher, and from the educational
division which piled more on its
above-quota jtotal.
' The reports, which contributed
to a total of $160,375.47 collected
so far in the campaign, were
heard at a report luncheon in
the Marion Hotel. Another re
port is scheduled for Friday
noon.
Big Boost
; Big boost to the mercantile re
port waa a $6,000 contribution
by MeieF ad Frank Co., which
opens its s
ore in Salem next
week. With
other contributions.
the division jtotal stood at $36,755
or 102 of jits quota,
j State . eniployes, percentage
wise, went even better, jumping
their total ti 104 at $23,300.52.
Educational groups, particular
ly the schools, came in for high
praise during the luncheon as
that division! climbed up to 118
on a collected total of $9,419.
Tart of this) total was reported
by representatives of various
schools who were guests for the
luncheon.
Schools Represented
Leslie's Bobby Hartman report
ed $300 and Dick Kuykendall re
ported $250 on an uncompleted
drive at Pafrish. Betty Coe and
Jack Loy, representing South and
North Salem Highs, turned over
checks of $328.42 and $324.30,
respectively;. Gene Grippentrog
of Serf a reported $58.03 and Wil
lamette University $1,061.25.
. Other division reports Tuesday
were: Industrial, $27,051, 85;
residential, $1205.60, 77; utili
ties, $6,485.76, 78; professional,
$11,651, 58; general gifts, $18,
410.81, 66; automotive, $9,612
.09, 61; contractors and build
ers, $7,569.02, 60.
Bank Bandit
Still Sought
j PORTLAND vn Police still
searched without success Tuesday
for the lone gunman who robbed
a Portland j bank of about $3,285
Monday, j
; They said! they had asked police
elsewhere to be on the watch for
two automobiles one a black
Cadillac with Michigan license
plates, and the other a Buick with
California licenses. The . first had
been reported in the bank vicinity
prior to the holdup.
; :The othefr reportedly was used
by a man who checked out of the
YMCA Tuesday morning. Wit
nesses said one of the occupants
in each car resembled the holdup
jman, police reported.
Meantime, the Oregon Bankers
Assn. posted its standing $1,000
reward for j information leading to
conviction ff the bandit.
The Weather
Salem
Portland
Baker
Med ford
North Bend
Roeeburg .i
San Francisqe
Loa Angele .
Chicago
New York si 6S
Willamette River 0.T foot.
FORECAST ( from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary Field. Salem):
Partly cloudy with occMoiul
showers today, tonight 1 and Thurs
day: ' little 1 change in temperature
with highest today near 60, lowest
tonight near 42. .
Temperature at 121 a.m. today
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tutes the nucleus of the hydro
gen atom. ,
. The positive proton together
with one electron makes a hy
drogen atom. Protons plus other
particles called neutrons plus
varying numbers of electrons .
make up all other natural ele
ments. ';
t But 1 neutrons and electrons
by themselves cannot form ele
. ments. They . need protons to
Jielp. So the antiproton is a
destroyer of the essential sub
stance in all nature.
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I WASHINGTON (JP) A Wash
. ingtcn nuclear physicist said
j Tuesday night discovery of the
t anti-proton "increases the pros-
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Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, October 19, 1955
Mamie Enjoys
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DENVER, Colo. Mrs. Dwight D.' Eisenhower wears a radiant smile
' on her face as she left Fitzsimons Army Hospital Tuesday for the
first time since her husband. President Eisenhower, was stricken
; with a heart attack Sept. 24. Mrs. Eisenhower has been living in
a room next to the president, left to attend a luncheon fashion
show at the Officers Club on the hospital grounds. (AP Wire
; photo). , !.' .
Several Downtown Stores
Plan Late Hours Mondays
1 A sizeable segment of down-!
town Salem retail merchants de-j
i m 1 ? l . J . '
ciaea luesuay nigm to aaupi a
policy of keeping their stores
open, late on Monday and Friday
nights to accommodate more cus
tomers. Approximately 19 merchants
indicated approval of the new
Monday night program at a meet
ing of the Salem Downtown Mer
chants Association at the Sena
tor HoteL Under the plan, stores
will remain open each Monday
and Friday from noon until 9
p.m.
The decision was not binding
upon the approximately 30 some
merchants represented, some of
whom did not vote.
The new night plan will go
into effect on Friday night, Oct.
28. Some stores already remain
open on Friday nights.
The new Meier & Frank store,
which opens here Oct 27, has al
ready announced it will follow
the Monday-Friday night plan.
Stores in the Capitol Shopping
Center have followed a 9:30 a.m.
to 9 p.m. schedule on -Monday
and Friday nights.
"The shopping public seems to
want to shop at night," said C. L.
Newsom, Downtown Merchants
Association president "And we
will try to meet this need."
j In . other business Tuesday
Huge Battleship
Grounded by Reef
Then Pulled Free
NEW YORK (Jl The 45,000
ton battleship, Wisconsin,, was
grounded for 2Vt hours Tuesday
while being towed across New
York harbor. It was her second
such experience here.'
A strong tide swept her out
of the channel off the tip of Man
hattan, despite the pull of the
tugs, and onto Diamond Reef,
1,000 yards south of Brooklyn
Bridge.
The huge, 887-foot battleship,
one of thret cow in active serv
ice, was- refloated after 2i
hours. ,
CREW LAID OFF
EUGENE OB The night crew
of 75 men at the Edward Hines
Lumber Co. at Westfir has been
laid off. Company officials Tuesday
blamed the boxcar ihortage.
pecta of releasing in con
trolled fashion vastly greater
energy from the atom than is
now 1 possible - by the fission
process.
He said the discovery iro-
proves the chances of tapping'
energy from the nuclear heart
of the atom by an "annihilation
process" as distinguished from
the fission or , "atom splitting"
process.
The scientist, who is not as
sociated with the Atomic En
ergy Commission, and who de
clined the use of his name,
said: .
"What you would have to do
would be to devise some means
of getting a steady stream of
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First Outing
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night, the Association voted to
install downtown street Christ
mas; decorations, somewhat more
impressive than in former years,
on the day following Thanksgiv
ing. A "Dollar Day" sales promo
tion ' was . planned for Friday,
Nov. 11. And merchants were
urged to cooperate and to wel
come Salem teachers during Bus
iness Education Day Nov. 14
when local .teachers will tour
Salem business and industrial
firms, and store, - .
Sec McKay's
Mother Dies
PORTLAND Uh Mrs. Minnie
Adele Frater, 82, mother of Secre
tary of the Interior McKay, died
at a Portland hospital Tuesday
after a brief illness. ,
Her physician said that old age
was' a factor in her death.
Mrs. Frater, whose maiden name
was: Minnie Adele Musgrove, was
born near here March 11, 1873, and
lived in Portland most of her life.
Her first husband was Edwin D.
McKay, father of her only two
children, the Secretary of the
Interior, and Mrs. John G. Cheet
ham, Portland. He died many
years ago and later the widow
married J. W. Frater, who also is
deceased.
Funeral arrangements were
pending. " ,
.
Occasional Showers
Seen for Area .Today,
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Occasional showers are sched
uled to break the' run, of fair
weather today. A few clouds and
showers also are predicted for
Thursday by weathermen at Mc
Nary Field.; : : ' 7 : ; ?
. Temperatures, will be about
the: same as TuesdaySvith a high
of 60 expected today 'and a low
of 42 tonight , '
PRAYER DAY DECREED
DENVER Uf) President Eisen
hower Tuesday proclaimed Oct. 26
as a day of national prayer and
urged all Americans . to invoke
divine blessing "upon the efforts
of all men who strive for a just
and lasting peace,"
anti-proton particles and use
them . to bombard the atomic
nucleus so they would . strike
protons. These would be anni
hilated and perhaps 99 per cent
of the matter involved in the
annihilation would be released
as energy."
- In the fission, or atom split
ting process, only a small pro
portion about one-tenth of t
per cent of the total mass is
converted to energy.
- But scientists have speculated
that if it ever were possible to
make the conversion complete,
the energy produced would be
enormous that is, one pound
of matter would be equivalent
to 1!4 million tons of coaL
PRICE 5c
No. 206
Hopes to Save
$500 Million
In New Plan
. WASHINGTON (fl - Secretary (
of Defense Wilson laid down some
"general guidelines" on military
spending Tuesday, and said he
hopes they could add up to a sav
ing of 500 million dollars a year.
For one thing, he hopes to cut
68,000 civilian jobs off the defense .
agencies' payroll.
Unfolding his economy plan at a
news conference, he remarked "I
wouldn't quite say this would bal
ance the budget." He explained
that this is "just one little piece
of it"
No Intentioa
There is no intention of risking
any impairment of the nation's de
fenses, but rather a new and spe
cific insistence to "tighten up the
job and do it a little better," Wil.
son said. - " -
Among other things, Wilson's
guidelines call for a reduction of
the civilians on the military pay
j roll by about 68,000 by next June.
Last July 31, civilian employes
numbered 1,154,040.
Present Plans . .. .
- Present plans for military spend
ing in the fiscal year ending next
June are based on an estimate of
ZiVx billion dollars. '
When a reporter noted that the
proposed saving "doesn't coma
close to the billion dollar cuts the
budget balancers want" Wilson .
nodded fn agreement but said that
if everybody works hard, "the sav
Ihgs could be considerable."
' : ' ' ' .
Defendant in
Murder Trial
Seeks Funds
Statesman News Service
McMINNVlLLE Mrs. Mar jorie
Smith, charged with the bomb
slaying of her husband . at Port
land, Tuesday said she was broke
and had asked for county funds to
pay the expenses of witnesses
needed to testify in her behalf.
Mrs. Smith will go on trial here
Thursday on a charge of murder
ing her lawyer husband last April
in the parking lot of a country
club.
A motion filed by Mrs. Smith's
attorneys asked the Yamhill Coun- ,
ty clerk to pay, at the expense of
Multnomah County, the expenses,
of subpoenaing a total of five wit
nesses from Washington, California
and Montana.
'The motion declared that Mrs.
Smith's only assets at the time of
her husband's death was a $400
interest in a rooming house and
that this amount was insufficient
for preparation of her defense. She
said that her attorneys. Bruce
Spaulding and J. Elliott Busey.
have taken her case without any
arrangement for fees.
i The trial was moved to Yamhill
County Circuit Court on a change
of venue. . .
iraure s irovernment
T : n .
TTins Confidence Vote
PARIS UP) Premier Edgar
Faure's government won a vote
of confidence Tuesday night, 308
254, on its program for restoring
peace and beginning political re
forms In Algeria. -
The National Assembly's vote
came a little more than a week -before
the Four Power foreign
ministers convene at Geneva.
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