Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1955)
1 -...'... fhe Weather ffv' rORCAST ffrom V. S. Wreaths Bureau. McNary .JTield, Salem): Considerable cloudiness wrth a few showers today; partly cloudy tonight. -High today 4 to 48; low tonight 34 to 3a. .Temperature at 1X41 a.m. today wai 37. . IALEM PKECIPITATIOV ; line Start ef Wtather Year pt 1 ' Tkts Tea Last Year NrmU 11. JS .M , . S-M POUNDDD 1651 y kffr - Tne --current issue f LOOK magazine contains a comprehen sive and Judicious survey of "The Pcsition of the Jews in America Today, by its national affairs editor, ; William ' Attwood. It de serves reading both by Jews and - Gentiles. The Jewish community in America numbers now -some 5.500,000 persons. It is ; becoming more widely dispersed. no longer j confined " largely to New York's teeming East Side. Christians are becoming acquainted with such terms as Itosh Hashana, Yom Kip pur. Hanukkah, names of Jewish holidays.. In riew of the ancient prejudice against Jews with its occasional outbreaks into atroci ous pogroms - in Europe it is in order to leant bow Jews are far ing in America. '' j ' - Attwood reports that anti-Semitism is definitely on the decline in the United States. A few. vicious hate organizations survive to .spread their poison out they are quite Impotent in the face of strong currents of tolerance. .That doesn't mean there is no pre judice against Jews. It exists as both Jews and Gentiles well know. Read the ads of seme of tie re sort hotels -with "Christians preferred."-wfiich doesn't mpan that but rather "Jews not tffctcome.' Attwocd put his finger" 09 this at- t titude when he ccmmehSed that a Jew feels that .; he "belongs' in America "up ; to a ' POLL'S That pcint, he writes, "maye the gates of the local country , club, the portals of a medical school, or some real estate broker's of- ' fice." : V- . .- i . ; - In my own observation prejudice azainst Jews is more prevalent at (Continued on editorial page. 4 ) YalleyRiyers Up; Flooding Threat Drops "The Willamette, Santiam' and South Santiam Rivers, fed by rain " and melting nows combined, surged to higher levels Saturday 'brt diminishirrg rain - and colder temperatures . indicated little dan- -ger of floods, according to McNary Field weathermen. ; " ' - ' , The. Willamette River at Salem rose 10 feet in 24 hours to an 11.6 level a' midnight and was expected to continue to a crest of about 163i feet Monday rooming. IS-Fae Crest j - ; The" Santiam River at Jefferson - crested at about 19 -feet about' 5 . p.rru an:l had fallen to, 17.7 at mid- - night The South Santiam at Water-' loo had dropped almost three feet in eight hours to 10.8 at midnight. 1 'Pasturelands' bordering the San ' tiam at . Jefferson were flooded Saturday but damage was con fined to washing of sou. ' . ; ,' ! Snow Reported 5 , ', Snow was reported in mountain passes Saturday and chains were required, according to the State TJ i TlAnl Vb11S.(V vaaW m r A 'i slides' were a hazard on a new Jf section of " the North Santiam Highway, at Detroit Dam but the Highway Dept. was clearing the road continuously. . -' ; Two gates were closed at De ,.iroit Dam Saturday to control the " flow of high water; in the Sahti 4 am, Walter Mackie; resident en- gineer, said.' j . While moderating! temperatures : prevailed in the- valley, nearly two inches of slushy snow fell in the upper -reaches of the North Santiam Canyon, starting approxi-; ; mateiy at Detroit Dam. . . At Dallas, workmen began clear- I ing a log jam that had threatened ; the Levens . Street bridge across Rickreall Creek. The-Jogs had backed up for 100 feet but the creek was dropping Saturday. j Smith to Become i Acting Governor '' Stale Senate President Elmo Smith, John Day, is due to arrive in Salem Tuesday to serve as' act ing governor during the absence Of Gov. Paul T. Patlorcnn ' Gov. Patterson will be out of the state attending a national meeting .of municipal officials, agenda of which will include him as a speak er. Mrs. Patterson will accompany the governor. ISRAEL HURLS CHARGE . .. . JERUSALEM. -Israel Sector t An Israeli armyr - spokesman charged . Saturday nieht " that armed raiders crossed into Israel; from Jordan and killed a Jewish J $1,000,000 plant here to manufac aettler riding in a cart, i ; 1 ture iormaldehyde. -. ; Girl Proves Cooking Ability InCourt to Win Right to Wed, DERBY, Englnd (AP Agnes Comen's father decided Saturday sne can cook after all, and gave consent for her to marry even though she is but 17. The announcement that father approves was made in Chesterfield Magistrate's Court Saturday. Ag nes, clutching a sample of her baking in a big, brows bag. beam ed as three judges 'congratulated her on a fine performance. They said that her prospective husband. 22-year-old George HalL should be! well-fed and happy man. Last August the magistrates re- fused to overrule the objections of Agnes father, John, who said his; daughter was too .young to marry, and besides she couldn't 1 IM. - L . .1 11 . cook, mai was a cnauenge, ior. 105th Ytar Old, New Buildings Contrast at 1 1 itr'-WW f J I . . ' -r r! "I . . i 1 i 111 i I i i II I vvvSvV; A . ,; - x:-:u i I (vw : . .,XXX. -.f :X.X X L. , . 1 , ' K Sharp is the contrast between the State Hospital's new north wing' (above) and the 72-year-1d ward building (below), whose 198 elderly, women occupants will be moved to the new building Monday, Nov. 28. The old structure, one of the first built at the institution, was completed in 1883. Dr. Dean K- Brooks, hospital superintendent, announced that open house will be held in the modernistic new ' wing next Saturday and Sunday. , ' Paper Holder Helps Save Prison Truck tatesmaa News Scrrita . i WOODBVRN A Statesman paper box" helped save a J state prison produce truck from fire damage near here early Saturday morning.. . - ? Al Richardson, prison food man ager, said the fire was noticed about 3:13 a.m. and apparently re sulted from a frown emergency brake and an overheated drum. He said the only means of fighting the fire was water in a nearby ditch and only available contain er was the tube-type paper box. lo- cated in iront oi a wreenng xirra The wrecking firm, probably won dered what happened to its paper box but Richardson contacted The Statesman to insure its being re- .-T5L!-rirWoo5W. Driver of the ear was Portland produce! markets at' the time of the incident. . t $1 MILLION PLANT DUE SEATTLE HI The Borden Co. announced Saturday it will build a J giving the cook stove a furious work out. Friday night she pro duced the masterpiece, and went to court again Saturday morning. But just before the case was called for reconsideration her , father ca pitualted. She can marry ' before Christmas if she wants to. be said, and decided he would eat the tart himself rather than let the magis trates get their fingers oa it." Agnes got a lot of sympathetic letters while the case was pending. One American wroter ! "Go ahead and get married. My wife can't cook either, but we have been opening cans happily for 20 years." I Her redne for bakewell tart: "Self-raising flour, half the quan- I . . . . . 1 . J uty Of snonening jam,- ana mi n 3 SECTIONS-36 PACES - ..-. a i r' m ii m nil i 1 n ma . Open House JVext Weekend At New State Hospital Wing ' - The new $1,530,000 north wing 'of the Oregon State Hospital will come under public view next weekend at an open house, it was announced Saturday by Dr. Dean K. Brooks, hospital superintend ent. Patients .will move into the ultra-modern structure Monday, NOV. 2& .. w ! :,: - - ' Dr. Brooks said the five-story structure, containing 676 beds. Pedestrian Hit On Freeway A Woodburn man was hospital ized after he was - struck by a car Saturday night while walking on the new Salem-Portland Free way about 2xh miles north of Hayesville. . .; ' . r , ' He was identified by police as i....v iir;ti;.m tr.,nhr At it Donald Q. Lemen of ' Silverton, police said. The nature of Murphy's Injur ies had ' not been determined early - today at Salem -Memorial Hospital. He was thrown into the air by the Impact about 9 p.m. and into the ditch beside the road, state police said. ? X",".;N6rlh Marion Girl walking south, at the time of the . - - . i accident Their car had become stuck in the mud between lanes about a half mile north of the accident, police said. Today's Statesman Sec. Pag - Classified 1 M3 Comes th Dawn ' 4 Comics , 1 Crossword .. - Editorials i Farm . Homo Panorama Obituaries Our Valley Radio, TV ; Sports Star Gazer Vallty - 11 1, 10 ... I 13 I 5 L. L. 10-12 I.JL.6,7 Wirtphoto Pg .N 10 State Hospital will house mainly elderly- Ya tients. Of these, 198 will be women moved from present quar- ters in ne of the institution s oldest buildings called the geri atric ward. ; The geriatrie ward," a three story building constructed , in 1883, contrasts greatly with the new wing, which is the latest in modernistic design. Dr. Brooks said the old building may pos sibly be used as storage space after patients are moved out The neWwing is located on the north side of Center Street at the rear of the institution's re ceiving . ward. The open house will be held next Saturday and Sunday. . - -' . , : Construction of the building was approved bythe State Leg islature as a means of handling a' growing population at the hos pitaL 1T7 ri - I U liiS xyuiliuuracv- j Speech Contest . . Statesmaa ' Nws Service WOODBURN Winner of the Woodburn area Voice of Democ racy .speech contest here Satur day was Georgieanne Pavlicek of North Marion High Schoot Competing against her were Alan Cooper, Gervais, and Rai- dal Eelley, Woodburn. Judges were Lewis Paulson, Ed Koski and Wesley Brooks. j Miss Pavlicek was awarded a pen and pencil set for her victory. BOMB EXPLODES ".'.NICOSIA Cyprus A time bomb exploded in a. Nicosia Post Office Saturday evening, destroy ing half the building. Two passers by were injured by flying splinters and taken to av hospital . Tha Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, November 20, 1955 Unrea Hubbard Feed Mm Burns; Power Cut Off SUtesmaa Newt Srrt HUBBARD A spectacular 30,000 fire destroyed Roy's Feed and Supply mill and plunged Hubbard . into darkness for 45 minutes Saturday night Embers from the . tall, frame building fell over a wide area and firemen said they probably would have started several other fires in dry weather. Firemen Delayed . Volunteer firemen were de fayed nearly five minutes in reaching the mill when a freight train passed tnrougn nuDDara just as fire trucks were about to cress the tracks, according to Chiel ' Clarence Friend. The fire started in the south east comer of the mill. Cause was not determined, firemen re : ported. The mill was operated by Roy Hougham and was discovered by his brother, Rotend, just as the Jatter drove in from Eureka, Calif., for a visit. Portland General Electric crew men had fo cut highlines near the mill, causing the power out age. " : ' ' Covered by Insurance ' . Hougham said .hjs inventory .and equipment were covered by , insurance. He said his loss "might run to $10,000." The building was owned by Dr. Todd Gilmore, Portland. Hougham estimated it could not be replaced for less than $20,000. X Firemen from Woodburn,' re sponding to a mutual aid alarm, helped the Hubbard department battle the blare. Mother, Girl zen In East Oregon ENTERPRISE. Ore. 1 frozen bodies of a mother and her three-year-old daughter were found I Saturday morning on their farm five miles south of here. The woman's 11-year-old son made the discovery. Dead were Mrs. Victor Crow, about 38, and the child, Jeni Le Crow. Cause of the woman's death was not immediately determined, but Lenthal Bollman, Wallowa County . coroner, believed she might have broken her back or neck while climbing a haystack ladder to get fead for livestock. Bollman theorized that the little gin louoweu ner uiio me Darnyara and died from exposure. - PhiUip Crow, who discovered the tragedy, said his mother told him before he went to school Fri-i day morning that, she planned to attend a meeting and choir prac - ik.t - fk k. .t...J vu-c uiat uajr. illicit lie iciuiiicu and she and the, child were not home, he and another sister. Lou Ann. 8, went to bed, believing they would come in later. When, he got up and they still were missing he went to the yard and found the bodies. The father was in La Grande on a part-time carpentering job. ssa Polio i v- i ' Epidemic Halts , -. . . NYSSA, Ore.-Lfl The polio epidemic 'in this area apparently has- been stopped. Dr. Grant E. Hushes. Malheur County health officer, said Saturday. , He reported no new cases since Nov. 10. . v Previously there had been 42 cases in the county tnis - year. . ! i Ny Marion County Coriv Show Winners List .... "--; " - . -- .'-.' - By LILLIE LV MADSEN . Farm Editor, The Statesman CENTRAL HOWELL Eugene McCarthy, Salem, topped two yield divisions of the Marion County an nual corn show and yield .contest held here Saturday night. . In the irrigation division, McCar thy produced 149.1 bushels of Ore gon Hybrid 353 per acre, for the highest yield ever announced in the Marion County event: He won over his nearest competitor. Carl Morris of -Jefferson, by more than bushels. In the non-irrigated class Mc Carthy produced 96.4 bushels on his deep river soil, winning oyer Claude Steusloff, with a farm '- in Adlki Football Oregon 28 Oregon State 0 I. - r-7 X UCLA 17 Southern Cal 7 Washington 27 Washington State 7 Stanford 19 California 0 Itlahb 31: : Alontana O I-. ; .: Ohio State 17 Michigan O Oklahoma 41 Nebraska O . (Additional Scores Logging Industry, AFL Sign 2 -Year SEATTLE Ai The Pacific Coast industry and AFL Lumber Workers jointly .announced a two-year Workers and employers'announced agreement towage iiicreases ! of 5 to 15 cents an hour effective Negotiators hailed Saturday's as the effective date of the set tlement came four months ahead of the expiration date of the cur rent contracts, t which run . out next April 1. ' : ' , "' Employers said they agreed to the earlier effective date in order to establish labor peace and un interrupted employment, and to avoid another "strike-like the -three-month layoff in the summer of 1954. ' .: It was expected' that Saturday's settlement will be generally ac cepted in Washington. Oregon, Ida ho,: Montana and California. I The AFL groups represent 100,000 lumber worker, in the live sUies' ' . The un!ott officials who approved Saturday's agreement were Earl Hartley. Seattle, president of the Puget Sound district council; Ken neth Davis, Portland, executive secretary of the Northwestern council; Joe Hazard. San Francis co, executive secretary of the Cali fornia state council; Ted Prusia, Eugene, Ore., executive secretary of i the Willamette Valley district council. ) ' ,-They constituted the wage com mittee of the Western lumber in dustry's AFL Lumber and Saw- min wH-kers. ' i ? ; - 0.-1. IKf -.Imsx OtTaX iflOflfk-Cy 1 . r f ) IXf1Y !Ol'fc''MW' 1 v tltl s , r Scotts Mills SUtesmaa Nws Senrka SILVERTON There is or stray monkey loose among the trees along the Crooked Fin' ger road above Scotts Mills east of Silverton. Last seen of the small animal was during the big freeze and some .folk here fear he did not survive the cold spell, which was worse in the Crooked Finger hill country. . I Just howr the monkey came to the trees near the old Corn place, now owned by the Russell Nel sons, is not known. -He doesn't seem wild, but neither is he suf-J ficiently tame to be picked up easily, those who have spied' him, say. , . One driver says she had to stop to let him walk across the snowy highway., At first she thought it was a dog or cat, but was startled fo see instead, the long-tailed monkey. ' . " High Yields the Hazel Green area, bushels an acre. - by 23-2 : Corn yields in the open class contest were good this year, going considerable ahead of a year ago, when the highest yield was around 100 bushels an acre. t The junior yield contest was op- posite from the open class in that this year's winning was about 10 bushels less than a year ago. Neal Reiling. Hubbard,, won both years, with 79.3 this year compared to , 89 last year. i In the open 10-ear showing Sat' 50,urday night. Raymond VSerner, Silverton. won sweepsteaks again. making three wins in the past four years. Last year's winner was J. H. Hadley, Aurora. 'Additional de tails Sec 1, Page 5.) , PRICE 10c Dec I Scores :Marylanrl 19 George Washington 0 Syracuse 20 v West Virginia 13 TCU 35 Rice O i -j- - : ;. -j Notre Dame 17 I Iowa 14 Michigan State 33 Marquette O 7 iYale'21 - ' : i Harvard 7. ; , Pitt 2D .' Penn State O en Sports Pages.) Contract plywood, lumber and logging Dec. 1 until April 1, 1957. pact as an historic development, 2 tO j . - o - - New Market Berg s : new - supermarket, a sparkling, modern food store will open Tuesday morning at 8 Open On Tuesday a.m. near me new Meier rraHK aenuai and congressional elections, store on the north edge of -the.; Tnjman, maintaining a new at downtown business district titude of -neutrality in the oresf- Located at the northeast corner of i North Church .and Marion streets the estimated $500,000 in- vestment will feature the latest in j food dispensing plus a lunch counter, according to owner El mer Berg who is operating the site ob a lease from the .Meier & .Frank Co. . In addition to regular food market items the store also will handle special - features including freshly barbecued' meats and fowl, packaged ice-cubes, fresh bakery products and a complete lite of frozen meats and pro duce. -' ' -. ; The store contains 16,000 square r , , j I fiL V L "23 JS Z i!J ! 4,000 in an upstairs office and ..,r,k' i i. .;....i i work space. It is adjacent to large outside off-street parking areas. -Modern features in equipment include a store intercommunica tion system which will also, trans mit music, new-type "cash regis ters which identify items pur chased on the sales slip and add and subtract, an "empty-box" pit and conveyor belt check-out sta tions. , ; - Man Falls From Vehicle, Dragged, Runv Over, Lives I OREGON CITY, Ore. (J Tony Eden Warre. 27. Estacada. Ore.. fell from a speeding automobile, ! was dragged more than 50 feet, and then was run over by a rear wheel. ' When police 'got there, he was walking around, muttering. ' Sheriffs Deputy IL E. Olsen said he could see tire marks on Warre's neck. He was, taken to a hospital for treatment 'of cuts, bruises and possible rib fractures. A passenger, George Hull, 16. said they were -going about 70 miles an hour when the car door flew open, and Warre fell partway out, then all the 'way. The car's speed was cut quickly as the car left the road, skidded, and then plowed along 50 feet of: hedge. It finally stopped against a house porch. Only minor damage was done the house. Hull was unhurt. Rose Festival Picks -Disneyland' Theme . I PORTLAND (JM .The,, theme of the 1956 Rose Festival will be ''Disneyland in Flowers," festival Officials announced Sunday i Walt Disney Productions Inc., of Hollywood. Calif., will assist in the design of floats,- decorations and settings and will ' provide st&rt from Disney's movie and television productions. The Rose Festival win be held here June 6-10. i No.23S Sea laFes ionijur Climaxes 3- .By JCK BELL - ' CHICAGO Adlai E. Stev-. enson Saturday night . challenged Republican claims that the nation is enjoying real peace, prosperity ! and progress. He led a Democratic ' assault against what he called "special interest government in Washington", which he said offers a shaky peace, deceptive prosper ' ity and no progress, i Flanked by party! leaders who-' voiced Ihe same theme, the 1M3 . Democratic presidential nomineo who wants to be Its 1956 standard bearer, tore into the Republican I j campaign slogan of "peace- : i prosperity-progress.' " I In a speech delivered at a $100,-a-plate roast, beef dinner, , staged r as the windup of a three-day i party rally, Stevenson said there lis a "spiritual uneasiness' among people that the "Eisenhower ad- ministration has settled for too little" in meeting world and na tional - problems. - - , - He said that despite "President , Eisenhower's efforts at the Geneva summit conference "the cold war is still in, a deep freeze" with th free nations security system "de teriorating and "a safe and ord-' erly world. . .still a distant goaL". "Inherited Prosperity", " He said that "teday most Ameri- cans dwell upon the1 plateau , of ?rIy vhich the Republicans inherited from us' but he con tended that the well-being of 20 million Americans on farms "is sinking while the Republican cheer leaders shout r 'Everything i booming but the guns. " ; Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes-' see. who wore the air of a man likely to formally challenge Steven son 4 for . the , nomination, agreed largely with his potential rival's theme. In a preparedfspeech. he called the GOP's handling of for eign affairs a 'failure.' Predicts Demo Win iX ..; w Former president Harry S. Tru man predicted an overwhelming .victory for the party in 1953 presi- idential nomination, contest after previously having repeated several tunes he was for Stevenson, said that the people are dissatisfied with the change they gbt in the Repub- lican administration after 20 years of Democratic rule. Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, who said he isn't now an "active, candidate" for the party presidential nomination, also fired at the Republicans. ";' : Harriman, who expects to bo New York's "favorite son" candi date, voiced high . praise for Tru man, Stevenson and Kefauver. "For myself," be said in a pre- . XXXl na-TAff 1 lb- 1 ww-w bits tw iun me una oi good government that wiU mak r, i t u t " oul "lal ,u itocuiuci ikji year ,AW,nri,n M for the Democratic candidate for President. - -. Caliph Slain In Morocco RABAT, French Morocco HI A, bloody political murder in . the courtyard of Sultan Sidi Moham med Ben Youssefs palace left at least, two of a group of Moroc can notables dead and five others wounded.' Two of the wounded were not expected to recover X g. The top man: killed was Khalin Berdadi. an important caliph of the old religious capital of Fez, where terrorists had made three attempts on- his life previously. Recognized in the palace court yard by. his political enemies, ht and his bodyguard were beaten . land trampled to death. . The famed palace "Black Guard" quickly surrounded the me lee but- not before the knives and guns had done their work. (Ad ditional details Sec.. 2, Page t.) Thief Ready; for " Next Snowstorm Somebody is prepared for ' the next big snow. Theft of tire chains, a bumper jack and a lug wrench from the unlocked trunk of his car parked on ' the Oregon State Hospital grounds was reported to police Saturday by Orph ' L.jf Parker, Brooks. , . . . . . The Weather Mai. Mia. Prerlm, . 47 35 .71 4 37 ..4 . 52 24 - .67 . 41 -1.37 . 52 47 1.S1 4 53 .f 82 52 . .M 35 25 .12 Saltim ...... Portland Baker Med ford North Bend . San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago .. ,. New York 3S . 34 J Willamette River 1LI iU C6 Demo Day RaUy t 1 T 1