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Putting the 'Giving' Into Thanksgiving POUNDDD 1651 - lOSth-Yw 2 SECTIONS 4t. PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, November 24,-1955 PRICE 5c No. 242 0).0 Journalist in in Seeitas -Victory for sir ... t; i vote Russ Set Off Big H-Blast Bank in - ii i I "I" II i Portland Private Private Power. Wins in ; Washington i. COLVILLE, Wasli. (AThieTwuidagtoB Water - Power Co. claimed "a smashing victory for private enterprise Wednesday and moved to take over facilities of the Stevens County Public Utility District " .; - - - . . . " . : ' ..The 19,500 residents of the county have been served by both public and private power but agreed the area wasn't big enough for CRT 111111 ? Thanksghrmg is distinctively American. Other natioarhave their TJt Dcums on occasions of great ? ttjuiii4, uut vuij ui& . vimbu States sets aside one day a year for national thanksgiving. Its synv v.i- ... a : . u. .... 1 key; - -strictly, 'an- American - bird,4 and. . Pilgrims Bible 1 in hand.l marcninr tnrouga, we snow-to me--Vm-f7 yeteoment meetinghouse, to offer prayers off.Prom'ore thanssgiving ui response to the." caa of Go. William Bradford STSwJrSS?.??!!? the Plymouth colony in 1623.--- a' ! POwer-proGfc n , ascn the Plymouth colony in 1623.. s They were a smaQ - band, these ; Pilgrims, and the Puritans , who followed them to found. Massachu setts Bay colony were not numer ous either. Yet they gave a singu lar stamp to American cultural development They were intense: they quickly founded schools and et.np.printing..presseSvThus Jfew England became the schoolmaster for America, and, ihe.. religious mentor, too for. many decades. wnue moaern "Americans ive -ing to, choose which organization gone far toward throwing off their ,ta serve them best, regardless Purjta4 ' iqheii.ta.nt;erthi.s JTiksjiJieihee, jr public.or. privaie. giving.-cuoDv siiu nwas, vcnurco services; ate. held over Tthf lland j touea t llks pvotiy auenoeu.- sow ever)' and folk assemble in family gathering to partake of the boun ties -with which-they are blessed. "Political, partieijnajclaii toe credit for - the -prosperity, bat through the year every .American feels grateful to God that bees an American" ItizeiL' enjoying the liberties as well aT.the material abundance "hich here Is widely t - what many ' Americans, partic ularly those with ' New' England descent, have not recognized is the infusion of other, strains, religious, (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Hounds Seek stMpniaii I EUGENE Iff) Bloodhounds joined Wednesday in the search for Rachel Shelley,' 40, of Vida,' miss ing in the McKenzie River area near her home east of here. The bounds came. from Salem.,' ! Miss Shelley.' an invalid disap peared from home early Monday. Later, her raincoat . was found on the river bank. State police and ( neighbors searched two days with out result .. r-J-i-. - Police, discounting the possibility of suicide,-believe Miss Shelley, who has been ill many years, fell into the river or wandered off. ' ; Sen. Kef auver : 'Inclined to Run' STONEWALL, Tex. tff Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee said : Wednesday he is "inclined to make the race" for Democratic: presi dential nominee in 1956 but is not ; yet ready to announce his deci- Visiting at the ranch of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. John son, Kefauver said be has .busi ness to attend to and people to talk with before he can' say final ly whether or not he will seek the nomination. . NewStrawhe rry Varietv Named CQ&VALL1S li A new straw berryvariety, wider 'test at Oregon! Slate XoHega since 940, Eu.beent namtSeti, 'ZZZ?::: 1 . Experts describe U as vigorous, resistant to red stele anjTp"articu-' larly good orjasjbich the fanftv 'vaTOrrrMaTSfianr cannot grow, rT-T: I should Juve givea yon the Enierpris I both. The issue of whether the PUD should : sell out to WWP was put to. a vote. - By a- 71 per -cent majority, the voters said "yes" in the. special election Tuesday and the private company-will now buy distribution and transmission lines of the dis trict, for caosjooJU .i..; -The vote was 5,009 to 2,028.- Kinsey. JUL, Robinson, president iWPL'i cIated l "SlT-fcussian whelmiiig"Kftory , and ! said Tin a 1 statement i'it is a clear indication . umi wc.majuruy oi me American people anywhere will vote in favor iof free enterprise if given ;; a cnance. Many. Messages Robinson said his Spokane office has been "flooded with messages "T congratulations from all over U1ou"try: . -.V PU i. ttt not inn tn Bcciir Ihot the best interests of all the Amer ican people will be served," be said.--- ? There were differences of opin ion on bow far reaching the po litical, .implications of the vote might be. - " II " Willing to Choose -- ' - George Kinnear, state Republi can chairman, said in. Seattle the election shows that people are will- - He'said - such m attfrode -went intof formulaUon ;,'of ihe partnership power program. - - -"Sen, JUchard Neuberger )(Dr Ore), -. commenting r in -- Portland, said the vote has jio xelation to "the. bigger issue of public or pri-l vale development of power re sources. I would like to see the Hells 'Canyon Dam issue put to a referendum- in. Oregon." Political Use Of Farm Issue Benson CLEVELAND tf) Secretary of Agriculture Benson, confident of a "bright future" for farmers, said Wednesday he believes nobody should make a political football out of the farm problem. "The worst part of our adjust ment is behind us, Benson said. He made to speeches tiers in quick succession one to the Na tional Grange convention and the other to the .Chamber of Com merce's Farmers Club. The grangemen applauded Ben son when be : declared he would "never kqowingly advocate or sup port any policy or program which I believe is not in the best inter ests of our farmers and fair to all of our people regardless of po litical pressure. The secretary, said farm legis lation should be bi-partisan, and no farm program . shoild ever be manipulated to serve partisan po litical purposes." "I wouldn't remain in this hot spot for 24 hours," Benson told the , businessmen, "if I didn't be lieve that farmers want to pro duce for a free market, not . for government warehouses." In -his speech to the Grange, BensonjSJipe'aled to the pubECfor ideas on how to help solve farm probIerriDf overproduction." sur pluses and declining grower prices and incorne-which are hkely to become major issues in next year s presidential campaign. The secretary promised every suggestion "will be considered ex cept the suggestion that the gov ernment return to high,' rigid price supports. ,,- -- Between speeches," Benson told a reporter he had advised President riunhnvpr Im would be "ereatlv riivH" to leave his nost after two years' service. He said the president replied, "Ezra, if you quit, I do too.-;..: - ' 1 1 ' . HitcllCOCK IeVelS - - IRlnw at-Harriman Ballo tinAdvicifr ; MILWAUKEE CxeiB FonneT State Sen. Phil Hitchcock said Tuesday t night I Oregon does not need the advice of Gov. Averell fTfairinian on" "whether .to vote JorJ Sen. Wayne -Morse i next year 1T1'... .c - ' - , .Hitehcock addressed the Milwau - fcic i.uuui.0u w.uw ,i v : time the-Jiew York governor. .was speaking to' a,MDemocratic Party dinner here in'bchalf ofMorse's candidacy for re-election. ; - ; Hitchcock" said, the people of Oregon would, make up their own :minr A for' the Republicans, ha said, they wUTstand on the Eisen- A-Gonmiissioii . Points to Soviet's 'Intensive Effort' WASHINGTON OB The Rus sians . have set off another great nuclear explosion "the largest yet in the U.S.S.R." and carry ing, a punch equal .to millions of tons of TNT. , The Atomic Energy Commission announced this- Wednesday night, without saying1 it was a hydrogen bomb explosion, which it appeared to be on the " basis of "the force credited to it. The first known H-bomb blast occurred in! iqm The greatest nuclear explosion the United State has set off in 1934 at Bikini atoll was esti mated unofficially as having' the force of IS to 17 million tons of TNT. Since the AEC spoke only of unspecified millions of tons in its new announcement, of Russia's achievements, a comparison was not possible. The text of Wednesday night s AEC- announcement: ; L. Strauss, chairman of Atomic Fnerev Commission m ncTtodthat SS?S 10" GOVemOF .... . . ,M.J VFUI tl 11U1 joju au mhu " current Soviet test series." ing to the. American people infor mation of significance concerning Soviet weapons tests, Mr. Strauss said that this explosion was the largest thus far in the U.S.S.R. and was in the range of megatons (a megaton represents the explo sive equivalent of one million tons of TNT). Area Gliurch Meet to Study Salem area church representat ives. 'Will gather-next week ia a unique conference "to dlscusi the problems of world peace. ' : Purpose of the conference Is to bring together selected represen tatives of the churches of Salem and vicinity to discuss things the churches can do and ought to do to develop a mind for peace on the part of their memberships." The conference will be held Sat urday, Dec. 3, from 2 to 9 p.m. at St. Paul's . Episcopal Church. It is the inter-church Community Conference on World Order spon sored by Salem Council of Chur - ches. " . Discussion will center around such items as the United Nations, international negotiations, univer sal disarmament, foreign trade and human rights. Charles A. Sprague, Oregon Statesman publisher and general conference chairman, will preside. Prominent outside speakers Will participate. ' Tb& Rev: Julian Keiser, com mittee chairman, said the confer ence will be made up of 10 mem bers from each church,: who are now preparing through the use of study materials.: A dinner will be held at S p.m. at Leslie Methodist Church. . -4 (Additional details in Sec. 1: Page 13) ... ., i : :.;', .. Santas Told to Avoid Garlic NEW YORK m - You think it's a cinch to be a sidewalk Santa Claus? Not on. your life.. "The Volunteers of America held a briefing for its 60 Santas Wednes day. These strict orders were laid downr --;.".'-:; j ; Bo sure your breath is clean stay away' from garlic and onions. Be patient with little children. Ring your bell, but don't be a nuisance. And don't lean on your chimney or smoke or eat or drink while on duty. . Santa's Visit, Parade Friday ' Salem merchants said Wednes day they had completed plans for Santa Claus' visit Friday and the gala kiddies' Fairyland ' Parade Saturday morning. -The Faipland Parade, in which local kiddies have been invited to take part constumed as fairly tale characters,- will form at t a.m. Saturday, and wul. leave from the Capitol Mall at 10 a.m. Line of inarch will be west on Chemeketa street to High, then south to State, west to Liberty, north to Center, then, east to Cap- inoru 10 venter, uieo. cu mi vf , u and south again to disbaBd 8t mail. i. t. Santa will land by helicopter at the mall Friday at 11:43 a.m. He will - appear at ' downtown stores and in the Capitol Shopping center from noon to 8:43 p.m. - Children's Floats - W The parade will inclute Santa's float and 11 others, depicting scenes from - children's classics. i - i - - V I u i Fred Shideler, Oregon State Col lege journalism department " head, who will become an ad ministrative assistant to Gov. Paul Patterson Jan. 1. OSC Official Named Aide become administrative assistant to Gov. Paul Patterson.' The governor announced Shidel er's appointment to - the new position Wednesday. Shideler has obtained a year's leave of absence ! from OSC to accept the state post. Shideler is head of the journal ism department at OSC and a former newspaperman. He has been on the Oregon State faculty since 1929., Gov. Patterson said the demands made upon . his office have in creased so. rapidly that the additional executive assistant was authorised by. the last Legislature. Shideler is to start work here Jan. 1 ..- -: .,r a .-. - . i (Additional details Secv L Page Sweet Home Man Dies in Trailer Fire SWEET HOME W An 80-year-old blind man tripped as he groped !his way toward the door and died '"1 fire that dtttroyed a trailer house about 15 miles east of here Wednesday afternoon. The victim, William Buchanan, was alone in the structure while his wife and a daughter, Mrs. Rex Dundon, were in a house at the front of the lot, putting chickens away in a freezer. ' The women looked out and saw the trailer house in flames. They ran to it, Mrs. Buchanan shouting to her husband and he screaming in reply. Mrs. Buchanan entered the flaming ' structure, but her daughter pulled her out: ' Both women suffered minor burns and Mrs. Buchanan, in a state of shock, was brought to a hospital here. The 1 Sweet Home Fire Depart ment sent a pumper and the linn County Fire Patrol a water truck. Firemen put - out: the blaze and removed Buchanan, who appar ently had stumbled over a chair as he headed for safety, but he died, within a few minutes. Deputy Coroner Walt Houston quoted firemen as saying the blaze apparently started from the explo sion of a butane -gas heater. Cause of the explosion was not known.- The dwellings were about 1 a half mile below the Cascadia Ranger Station. ; ; DRIVERS SEE RED . NEW - YORK to . '. Traffic got into a horrible snarl on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn Wednesday. A short .circuit caused all traffic lights along a one-mile stretch to stay red. These floats are the same , which will appear Friday in the annual Portland Fairyland Parade. Candy the Gown, a Portland television performer, will be grand marshal. Interspersed among marching groups will be bands from South and North Salem high schools, Jef ferson high, . Cbemawa . Indian School, and Leslie -and Parrish Junior high schools. Lhre Characters i Floats, . lavishly decorated and containing live characters, will in clude Santa,. Sing Song. Merry Go Round, Crooked Man, Peter Pump- ! kin Eater, Ride a Cock Horse, Pus- sy - Cat, Jack and the Beanstalk, Saturday Humpty Dumpty, Cinderella, House That Jack Built, Old Woman in the Shoe and Nativity Scene. ' Part of the parade route wul pass through , Christmas, decora tions which the Downtown Mer chants Association began installing on Salem .street Wednesday. Y" - .. te Robbed Young Bandit Grabs Up $1,018 And Walks Away ; PORTLAND UP) A dapper, calm . bandit,, unflustered 'by pur suing bank - employes, escaped from the main branch of the First National Bank of Portland with a handful of currency - Wednesday evening; '.-:.". Y; --- i Bank officials estimated the loss at $1,018. . -Y- 'v . '.: -" It was the second such bank holdup here in five weeks Last month a man made off with $3.2)5 from the Metropolitan branch of the U.S. National . Bank, a few blocks away. He was never caught Demands Moiey In each case the bandit shoved a note through a teller's window demanding money. Wednesday's said, in wording similar to the October holdup, ."Be calm hand over the money and I won't shoot you." . - Mrs. Gertrude Dunford of Canby, a teller, said she picked up some unbundled currency and handed it to him. She said he walked away calmly, putting the money in an envelope. He did not display a gun, she said. Went for Police Y V Two assistant cashiers, sensing something wrong, pursued the man. One of them, Robert T. Weber, went after a nearby traffic policeman. . 4 . The other. Perry Miller, followed the man IVt blocks, but the man suddenly turned, shoved Miller through a restaurant door, and said, "Get in there and walk to the back." ...... f , Gold Weather Brings Hea yy. Job Layoffs Oregon's told mid November weather resulted In the heaviest temporary layoffs throughout the State since January, 1930, the State Unemployment Compensation Com mission reported here Wednesday. Twenty-six , local offices- of- the Unemployment Compensation Com mission reported 8.919 initial claims - last week, highest' ever recorded at this time of the year and hearty double the number received the previous week. Claims for compensation, how ever, remained around 12,000, about 40 per cent below compar able periods either in 1953 or 1934. Although further seasonal in creases are expected, many plants are expected to resume activity if the weather continues to moder ate. Earnings of ' Oregon's 130,000 production workers changed butj uuie lasi monin aWSfjSi": igure was,: approxfcl average rose week. 1M figure was approxi mately 74 cents above September's average. , r . Shorter work weeks were report ed by construction and printing and publishing but. slightly longer hours came from ' most ether groups. The average work week for all industry rose tr,33.7. hours as compared with 33 J 'hours last year. Hourly pay increased fromYMam; School here S2.U to $2.25 during, the 12 months.! Court Upholds Conviction for The State Supreme Courtv in an opinion by. Justice Hall S. Lusk X7w4m Ac A v a f f imt aA a rrfw era a. tion of. Dr. Ross H. Elliott. Port - land rh rnnrartnr nf an attmn tn ' committ manslaughter by abortion. Circuit Judge Martin W- Hawkins presided at the trial in the Mult nomah County Circuit Court.' ' The woman, the Court said, was pregnant following .the abortion attempt. But the pregnancy was in the fallopian tube. The Court indicated this is the first time it had been faced with the problem of any other than a normal preg nancy in dealing - with . criminal abortion. ', . In upholding the convicton, ' the high court reviewed the laws of criminal attempt and held that the "want of the thing to be operated upon" is no defense to the charge of a criminal' .attempt to commit the substantive offense. ' ' . The Court said "the punishment of such an offender is Just as, es sential to the safety of society as though the crime had been com mitted. ' (Additional court decisions Sec. L Page 11.) . , VEW VIOLENCE REPORTED ATTTITR.( l Kf Vin1(rV flared across French Nor'b , Africa nmnesuay, teavui. uiore man u dead in Algeria. Seven persons were reported ' dead in Morodco amid signs of fresh tribal unrest in the northern part of that pro tectorate. : ' Abortion Tr y - ! . t " ' F . t M '. 'XT'., ;' - u Y - .-' :. '. .v : Y : k I 1 This little girl will have a happy Thanksgiving dinner today threngh the efforts of one ef the many ; 'civic and. religious organizations donating food to needy families , for the holiday. Representing tAnericao Legioa Auxiliary 13C- one such organization are from (left to right) Mrs. Jack Jofca ! sea, Mrs. Doeald W Rasarasseai sad Mrs. Josepst . V. ToBtpkiaa.. (Statesmaa Photo by Joka Ericksea). Mid-Valleys -' "j r "i -" .. r - . Hqbvy? Traffic Clog I By RUSSELL BIERAUGEL 1 Staff Writer,' The Statesman Y Absence of serious . injury was cause for Thanksgiving at a dozen tables today after at least 12 ve hicles were involved in major crashes Wednesday night on con gested highways in the Salem area. " Only one man was reported treat, ed at a hospital although ' eight vehicles received extensiv dam age and five were towed from the scene.: " Four major accidents were re ported by -state police,' but one of them . involved five . vehicles and Parents Take Pupils' Places --'. OKLAHOMA CITY r- "How long has it been since you-had fractions?" one mother, whispered. ."That's a personal 'question," the second mother replied. Toe laugh-provoking conversa tion came at a special class for parents . of - fifth - grade pupils of Mrs. Winnifred Wickson at Horace Mrs. Wickson explained 'The children often tell me, 'that isn't the way mother and daddy show me so I asked the parents to come in; after; school so -we could be teaching and helping the same way-- -ti,, ;. ; .. Y- Seventeen-mothers and fathers "crammed' an hour and .a half on fractions and all but one' mother agreed they had learned . some thing. ; : :: - r ': She confessed: "I didn't 1 realize how badly I needed glasses; I had fir011" E".. Problem on Service Planned! For Thanksgiving Thanksgiving church services to-i day will . include the Protestant Union service at 10 a m .at First Christian Church . and - Catholic services at St. Vincent de Paul at 7 and 9 a.m .and at St. Joseph's at 7:15, Sand 9 a.m. Many othed churches also will hold individual services. - . ,v I The Weather Max. Mi. Preelp. Balev -. Portland 49 41 -IS 48 33 , 50 , . S3 Mi 55 65 37 21 3 44 39 40 AS J5 -.03 .71 ' .73 .33 ..00 J.15 .04 Baker Medford North Bend Roseburg San Francisco Lot Angeles Chicago . 41 35 ' New Yorfc 57 'r 37 Willamette River I.S feet: FORECAST Uromy, S. father bureau, McNary Field. Salemf: ,! 1Lfnfl rliuulv an t V. tthAjM inA Vk I rlnnii . with rain inH ihawm Fri. J& -&&r&?3XSH?t the lAafaaift tAflifM l U ' Temperature at 12 a.mtx5ay waa ' . tivr.M phecipitAtiom' ;? Since SUM of Weather. Year SeoL Thlt Tear (Lait Year , Nrmal ...... . ...sja n... ".. ,. MM i Wrec!to War Holiday; - - ' another involved three. All were rear-end crashes on Highway. 99, here bumper-to-bu m per traffic was . the rule trom late auernoon on.- several minor accidents aiso were reported. -. . , ' v Yeath Treated I Verne Lawrence, 16, of Westport, was ireatea ai Aioany oenerai Hospital for face lacerations after the southbound car in which he was driving alone plowed under the rear end of a truck which parked on a shoulder of Highway $9E about 12 miles south of Salem shortly before S p.m. The truck Was registered to Ted Wheelock of Corvallis. ' Five Cars .... While' traffic was slowing at the scene of this wreckage, five north bound cars tangled in a series of rear-end crashes which damaged bur of them extensively. A pickup truck which was struck while standing crossways in the, road had to be towed away, v " K' One of two cars northbound in volved in a rear-end collision about 5:30 p.m. on Highway 99E about 5 miles north of Albany had to be towed from the scene. Two of three northbound cars involved in a rear end collision shortly before 5 p.m. on the Salem-Portland Expressway were towed from the scene north of . Broadacres road where the highway had been partly, blocked for highway crew work.,-. Minor Crashes , , At least three minor crashes, on 99 E south of Salem, on Lancaster road and ' at Silverton, Were not investigated byi state police for lack of time. . ' . A large geographical area is represented in the list of drivers involved in the four major'acCi- dentx Besides Lawrence and the Wheelock' truck, they 'were Gur- vist Langley, Empire; Alien Ed ward Sackett, Blue River; Wil mer Elmer.-Johnson, 'Lebanon; Edgar Wayne Carpenter, Grants Pass; Donald Wheeler Willing, Eugene; Charles WUber Cham bers, Albany; - Donald Dolph, Portland; Beverly Bernice Mar tinson, Albany; Dorin Elber Wal ter, Fossil; - and Wendell Chase Johnson, Xorvallis. -. : - Showers, Theii Rain Forecast Showers will continue ' today but turn to. rainr tomorrow, McNary Field, weathermen announced for Thanks giving vacationers. The temperature will be about the same as Wednesday's but tonight is ex pected to fall to about ,33. Continuing snow was reported In the mountains, with McKenzie and Mt. Hood passes . closed and chains required on Santiam and Willamette Passes arid in Southern Oregon and Northern California. - A-ENGINE PLANNED . PARIS fJFi ; France's secretary of state for armed forces, Jean Croupier, said Wednesday night this country has begun prelimin ary work on an atomic engine lor submarines. . Y - - : ' ...... ". Another crash shortly after 11 pjn. between - Silverton ' and Scotts Mills was reported by state police as a "minor accident Sa lem city: police said' no accidents had been reported to them Wed nesday night ' - '. Record Seen OCEANLAKE ( The Oregon coast next year will exceed its ' record 51 million ' dollar tourist : trade of 1955. : ,--.'. 1 i That prediction was made at the : closing session of the Oregon, Coast . Assn. convention Tuesday by Don Houghton, association president - He also said the convention turn out was the best in recent years , with delegates attending from all ; seven Oregon coastal counties and neighboring California and Wash- . ington counties. . Delegates supported the proposal ; of R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer;, f o r a - compromise ; solution of the congressional con troversy .which has delayed the appropriation : of federal road i funds. ' '. - Council Offers to Give Streets for Sports. Center PORTLAND W) The City, Council agreed Wednesday to va- cate streets needed for a proposed sports center, either near the civic auditorium or near the east end of the Steel Bridge. The Exposition-Recreation, Commission has both sides under consideration. The council also .voted to turn over the auditorium for a center if the commission wants it.' ' However, the council voted, 4-1, against - making available Buck- man Field,' an east side park.Y Today's Statesman 1 Sec. Pago 16 Christmas . ' Drawings ,' Christmas : Section Classified IL1-24.. .L21-23 IJ 4 I 18 . I 17 . I 4 .112,13 - 1 Comes the Dawn Comics ; . Crossword . Editorials L ' farm :.. Home Panorama L l. 6, 7. Markets L l.- 21 Obituaries , :. I; ; 17 Kao'io, TV .... 1.21 Sports 114JS Star Caxer l. 13 Thanksgiving Fg. 1..20 Valley 1. t Wirephoto Page . L 1 1 i: V.