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LLU1 The Atomic Energy commission has refused, on advice of counsel, to reimburse toe, Dixon-Yctes -outfit for the expenditures It incurred on its AEC contract to build s steam plant to supply TVA with aaaiuonai electricity, joe private , contractors say they' spent about $2,000,000 acquiring a site and in preliminary work on - the project. The contract was ; cancelled last summer by the AEC on the order of President Eisenhower after the City of Memphis announced it would build a steam plant for it self. . Since 1 the AEC ' negotiated ' the ' coptract at the order of the Presi dent after TVA declined to con tract with a private firm, it looks as though it is welshing on its deaf; not to pay Dixon-Yates enough to cover out-of-pocket ; costs. The commission's attorney; however advised that there was a possible violation of the "conflict of inter est statute which only the: court could decide. The Dixon-Yates peo ple announced promptly they wpuld go into "court, so the. issue is not settled. . . I " " i The alleged "conflict of j inter est grew out of the fact tha, Arinfohe H. ffnufl thn ah offi- V 1 VI -A WatVU VU1VV1BUUU, an investment house, had , served rs consultant to the Budget. bur eau on federal power policies and worked with Dixon-Yates in ad vising them on financing. 1 Later First Boston handled the Dixon- Yates financing but said it was, (Continued on editorial page 4.) State Denies Rendering Firm License Pacific Rendering Co , Salem's only dead-stock plant,. will appeal A fit. tm. S l UiC VVU1U III BUfJ III UU9WCS9, following a State' Agriculture De- - yai uncut Decision s riuay not -10 renew the company'a license. ; ' This decision means that the plant at 1725 S. 25th St, must close unless overruled in the courts, ac cording to Otto Skonil Jr.. attorney for Joan Barlow, operator of the company. Skopil ' said the t case1 would be appealed to the Marion County Circuit Court. Property owners of a new resid ential area near the plant have complained to ; authorities about odors from it. - The .order denying license to Pa cific Rendering came from M. E. Knickerbocker, chief of the animal industry division of the- state de partment and the officer who con ducted two public hearings during the past 18 months when the li ycense was under study. -He found that "based on the , testimony- and evidence at the hearing, it was proved odors from the plant are spread through the surrounding area , . . are extreme ly objectionable and distasteful. . . andthe business is not situated, arranged and constructed so as not to interfere with the comfort-1 able enjoyment of life and proper ty of residents of the area." Loran Stewart Involved in Fraud Suit PORTLAND ti Loran L. Stewart . of Cottage Grove, state representative and president of the Bohemia Lumber Co., charged at a public timber hearing here Friday that politics was involved in a $75,000 damage suit in which he was named as one of the de fendants. ; - Stewart, a Republican who has' been mentioned as a likely candi date for speaker of the Oregon State House, said the suit was in tended to hurt his political career. Attorneys in the case are Charles O. Porter and Keith Skelton, both defeated. Democratic candidates for public office. i The suit by Norman A. Phillips of Baker charges fraud against Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bartels and Mr.and Mrs. William Bartels Jr., and the Bryce Mining Co. i The Phillips suit asks clear title to about 2S mining claims and re fers to an option Stewart and his brother hold to buy a half interest in the mining holdings of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bartels in the Bohemia mining area of Lane County. rOO IT YOURSELF hZrn- 1 saw against the is m . . lit -viii m m i Did grain, Dad? Salem Area "V' Hundreds sf children are shows' streaming across the Capitol Mall i dome. Santa (hidden by kids in bottom center f photo) went from Friday morning to get a closer look at Santa Claus who arrived the mall to the Capitol Shopping Center where he interviewed (be by helicopter minutes before this photo was taken from the Capitol low) scores of smilKfry. if: ,: ' Y 5 1 John Gilbert Jr.i three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gilbert, 5199 Sunnyview Ave is shown Friday teUing Santa about a puppy he wants for Christmas. (Statesman Photo). . Church of England Paper Urges Frank Sex Attitude LONDON A Church of Eng-1 ing sex' "it is bypassing one of its land publication warned Friday "most imperative tasks," the report that sex win take over as the mam driving force of modern life if reli gion decays. It urged the. church to take a frank attitude in helping members with sex problems. ; "It is of no use for the church to play ostrich," said the publica- tion. a report by the Rev. w. P. Wylie on the. work of the church Moral Welfare Board, v i "If and when faith decays it said, "its place as the main driv ing force of conventional society must inevitably ' be taken by sex. for sex is the great natural means of fulfilment, of completion and of union for men and women." Wylie made Clear he believes that for a great many people sex already is the dominant factor of their lives. --"Hence it is .the church's care that sex should be rightly used and guided," he said. This way the church could reach many thous ands "who otherwise would never heed its voice."i; :. ;; - At the church fails to give Chris tian guidance on problems involv- Bomb Slayer Declared Sane PORTLAND ( The way was cleared Friday for a hearing DecV S to determine the degree of guilt of Victor Laurence Wolf in the car bomb slaying of attorney Kermit Smith, 34, here last April Circuit Judge; James W. Craw ford said two psychiatrists had declared , Wolf, 1 45-year-old electrician-handyman, sane. Wolf confessed the murder, say ing he did it at the urging of Smith's widow, ; Mar jorie, in ex change for her love. He so testi fied at her recent first-degree mur- der trial at McMinnville but the Jury did not believe him and ac quitted her. - . ' . ; . . The court ; now will determine to what degree he is guilty from manslaughter to first-degree mar der and fix his penalty. Youngsters 'Mob1 Visitor From ;y . t ,1 " added Wylie is a lecturer for the Moral ( reW kiddies ask for anything Welfare Board, which as part of... unelamorous as clothing. its work assists clergymen giving moral guidance to parishioners. Postal Ruling Allows Letter " Inside Parcel "Merry Christmas, Aunt Emma; if these gloves don't fit, we can ex change them for you." '. Gift mailers, you can now write a message like this, tuck it inside a parcel post package and for only 3 cents additional postage be perfectly legal about the whole thing.; ''.''.v';; - I Postmaster Albert Gragg passed on the good word Friday from the U.S. Post Office Department that a new rule, wihch starts Monday, allows personal messages inside parcels, so long as the sender marks the outside of package "Let ter Enclosed" and pays the 3-cent an ounce first class postage on top of the parcel post rate, . Up to now the only way to put a message with a package legally was to tape an addressed and stamped envelope onto the pack first class mail rate age or to .pay for the entire box. The Weather Max. Mia. Freeia. Salem S2 41 , M Portland 54 48 .52 Baker -..,..,. .. 45 - 33 - .01 Medford , 7 49 3 .03 North Bend j 54 4S f , M Rose burl - 55 49 .19 " San Francisco 54 39 .09 "- l.os Angeles - . .70 49 .00 . Chicago 39 . 25 , JK New York 39 21 M Willamette River 11. leet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau, McNary field. Salem it -Partlr cloudy with a few showers today; cloudy with rain tonight and showers Sunday; ' continue mild VraturJ near 7C. lowest near at 11. -Ol a.m. today was 50. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ow .Weather Year Sept., 1 This Tear Lat Year Normal . 15.54 - 0.59 10.10 'Saw ' -4- a; n . f - i : v, , . n ' ? - '". - 1 , ,r- ' ".mwmm. r , - Stoifa Deluged With Christmas , By CONRAD PRANGE -St'ff Writer, The Statesman "And whrt would you like to have for Christmas?" Santa asked a cute little jrirl who had two front teeth missing. ' "A b:by brother," she replied. Ssnla mumbled something about seeing what he could do about it, gave the little girl her candy cane and reached for the little boy ntxt in line Do you help your mommy do the dishes? he asked.. Shyly the lad shook his head. "And why not?" Santa .asked. Little boys and. girls should always help their mommies and daddies. They must bt good little boys and girls from . now until Christmas if they . . . " Modern Age v "We got a automatic dishwash er," fcroke in the boy. . ' The next lad iold Santa he wanted a doggy, a tractor and a truck for Christmas. A slim little girl with freckles said she want ed a doll and a suitcase. When Santa asked her why she wanted a suitcase she said, xo pui me dolly in, of course." "Most of the kids want the usu al standbys," said Santa, who ar rived 'Friday noon by helicopter for his annual visit to local stores until Christmas. ' New Requests , "But there are a few new re quests this year. Lots of boys want Davy Crockett guns and one mentioned an "atom bomb chem istry set." Boys still want things like bikes, wagons, trucks, trains and roller skates. "Girls still go for mechanical type dolls, buggies, play dishes, 'doctors' sets,' skates and jump ropes." V Santa said he figured his most sincere customers are those from about 3 to 7. Children in that age grouping, he said, seem clos er to him and confide all sorts of things to him. Tooth Missing r? One wee girl showed him where she had just lost a tooth. A small boy said truthfully he iiirfn' hin !; mnthor with th dishes, "unless my sister makes - me." A girl urged Santa to do something about her two broth ers, "who are always picking on me." . : . ,:; Then there are the criers youngsters who want to walk up and climb onto Santa's knee, but for some reason are afraid. - One little boy,: after a lot of coaxing from his mother, finally handed ever his popcorn, marched bravely up to Santa's chair and burst into tears, . i f " Despite the fact that the heavy red uniform, bushel of whiskers ana cap must nave made him a lmJe uncomfortable in the warm store, Santa seemed to be enjoy ing his work as usual . . . ForuBridae Stymie Boys Three Salem boys ran afoul of the law Friday with their plans to build a fort and bridge in Bush Park Davy Crockett style, no dOUbU.... ,;V',;p,, ;i City police said they were called to the park by a report that the boys were seen cutting down a tree. When officers arrived the frontier- minded youngsters were in the process of cutting up a small tree they had felled near Pringle Creek. The boys told police they planned to build 'ort on the creek's edge and also a bridge over the creek. The . three were released to their parents but told to appear in city juvenile court Wednesday morning. North- Poje jr I t 1 axSv A (V-rsi' V 4 uests Ike Accepts Resignation of ICG Chairman GETTYSBURG, Pa. m Presi dent Eisenhower Friday accepted the resignation of, Hugh W. Cross, Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) chairman whose actions had come under scrutiny of Senate in vestigators. ' Cross' resignation as chairman and commission member, was made effective immediately. Cross is a 59-year-old Illinois Republican, a two-term lieutenant governor,, who was appointed by President Truman to the ICC March S, 1949 to fill out an un expired term and was reappoint ed to a seven-year term in 1950. He became chairman of the ICC last July under the system by which ICC members rotate in the chairmanship.' ' Cross said in his letter of resig; nation that the charges against him were baseless. The Senate investigations tub committee headed by Sen. MqClel lan (D-Ark) has been looking jjnto the award of a contract by a group of railroads to Railroad Transfer Servk-e, Inc., of Chicago. . f The contract was to carry rail road passengers in buses between Chicago railroad stations and had been held for many years by the A.C. Parmelee Co. of Chicago. Par melee protested strongly when it lost the contract, effective last Oct. Eisenhower's acceptance of the resignation made no comment cn ! investigation. It did say the President fully appreciated Cross' reasons for quitting and voiced aD preciation "for the years- of dili gent service you have Tendered with the commission." " EXPLOSION KILLS SIX DORTMUND, Germany UFi A blast ' furnace ' exploded ; Friday night in West ; Germany's- biggest steelworks. " Police reported six workers were killed and eight in jured. -' j " I ri 1 Reg Benefit Rodeo Planned Here for Injured Man , A young cowboy, hospitaliiPd since he was injured in a rodeo last July 4, will be the object of an unusual benefit rodeo-horse show in Salem on Dec. 10 and 11. Donald (Donnie) Pyeatt, raised in the Salem area, has been ly ing in a Eugene-hospital in a semi-conscious condition for near ly five months He received a severe brain .in jury during a wild cow-milking contest it i small rodeo near Cottage Grove last Independence Dav. Young Pyeatt lived with his parents on their farm just west of Salem fori many.- years before the family moved to Cottage Grove shortly before he was in jured. He is-- the. brother of James Pyeatt, Salem Route 1 ' The benefit rodeo will take I Grand jiirv Finds Widow Blameless in j; Shotgun Death of Millionaire Sportsman .MINEOLA, N. Y.-(AP) .Mrs. Ann Woodward was found legally blameless Friday night in the shotgun killing of her. millionaire-sportsman husband. i A Nassau County grand jury,! deliberating 46 minutes, held that there was no crime in volved iri the Oct. 30 slaying of 35-year-old William Woodward Jr., owner of the race horse Nashua. :v ? f V "v. H "i-'s W ' 'Vv'' '-' - Mrs. Woodward spent more than three hours in the grand jury chambers. However, only part of that time was spent in the witness chair, where she repeated her account; of the shooting as a tragic accident By its decision, the grand jury accepted her ac count of the death. Carried Out . The blonde, .39-year-old former show girl, was virtually carried from the building after the jury finished its chore. She was sobbing convulsively and had to be support ed. ' : r - ' - .- Mrs. Woodward was unable or unwilling to answer . reporters' questions as she was assisted from the courthouse. , Her condition at the climax of the sensational case appeared even worse than it had been when she entered the' grand jury chambers earlier. Then her head was bowed and . she was sobbing: Dreadful Fear On four different occasions, in cluding her grand jury appearance, the Kansas-born Mrs'. Woodward told essentially the same story. She said she was in dreadful fear of a prowler who was active in the vicinity of the Woodwards' Oyster Bay estate, the week end of the killing. Both she and her hus band armed themselves with shot guns when they returned from a party early Oct. 30 in honor of the Duchess of Windsor. I Mrs. Woodward said she was awakened by the barking of a fam ily poodle, that with a reflex ac tion she grabbed the gun as she leaped from her bed and fired blindly into the hallway in the di rection of a noise she heard. Eight Persons Hurt as Car Takes Plunge SUteimaa Newt Bervie FALLS CTTY Eight persons sus tained injuries Friday night when a ear , plunged down a ISO foot slope seven miles west, of here after striking a rock on the Val setx Road, according to state po lice. Four were hospitalized. ! Jhe injured included five mem bers of the David Dykes family of Aumsville and three children of the Leland Phillips family of Val setz. aXL riding in the Dykes car. Bth Legs Brakes I Taken to . Dallas Hospital were Danny Dykes, 8, who reportedly suffered fractures of both legs; Mrs. Anna Dykes, 29, said to have leg lacerations and possible shoul der injuries; 'Joe Dykes. 0. head laceration and shock, and Bobby Don Phillips? 5 leg injuries. 5 f t Minor bruises and lacerations not requiring hospitalization were suffered by David Dykes, 29; Syl via Dykes, : Evelyn Phillips, 7, and Billy Phillips, 8. Slide of Rocks - i The car, which state police said was driven by David Dykes, was following behind the Phillips ve hicle when the accident occurred about 10:30 p.m., according to of ficers. The Phillips " car swerved and missed a slide of rocks but Dykes reportedly did not see the slide in time to avoid hitting a foot-thick rock. I The families were , en route to Valsetz. Marshfield'ir Raps Grcsham 1 PORTLAND MWMarshfield, the defending co-champion, downed Gresham. 19-0. here Friday night to win the; state high school A-l football championship. Marshfield scored a touchdown each in the first and second quarters and add ed a third in the final period. Sandy Fraser, Roger Johnson and Denny Baker, the stars of the Marshfield backfield, each tallied one touchdown. " s (Additional, details on sports pages) place at the State Fairgrounds here at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10 and at' 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec Professional cowboys from the Willamette Valley will partici pate. The show is under direction of the Salem Calf Ropers Club, assisted by valley horse groups. Activities are to include top cowboy events such as calf-roping, bulldogging, wild cow milk ing, . saddle contest, ; riding and other acts, a parade horse and pleasure horse class contests and various types of races including a surrey contest f ' j I- An auction of donated horse equipment - will take place on Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. at the stadium. All proceeds will go toward de fraying Pyeatt's costly hospital and medical expenses. Show man ager is Lawrence DeWitt. Nod Given for Canada Gas Line to Northwest K ' ; . ' j - WASHINGTON (AP) Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. Thursday was authorized by the Power Commission to build new natural gas pipeline facilities to import gas from Canada into Ore gon, Washington and Idaho. , The company will construct a total of 955 miles of new pipeline and compressor, stations totalling 12,800 horsepower at a total esti Railway, Bus Segregation End Decreed I WASHINGTON m The Inter state Commerce Commission ruled Friday that racial segregation in train, and bus travel between the dates is unlawful. :- fin two historic decisions, it ordered an end to the separation of white persons and Negroes on interstate trains and buses and in public waiting rooms serving the transportation lines. I The ICC has been grappling with the problem for 68 years. Friday's decisions follow course already es tablished by the Supreme Court, although the court has never is sued a flat ban on all segrega tion in interstate travel. Until now the ICC has sanctioned the principle of separate but equal accommodations for the- races in administering the Interstate com merce Act. I The ICC ruling has no effect on intrastate travel that is, within one state and 13 states have laws requiring segregation. j In these states the railroads would still have to supply separate waiting rooms and separate pas senger accommodations for whites and Negroes, if they comply with state law. Young Thief Raids Piggy Banky Jailed Gradual disappearance of money from a piggy bank in a Sa- em home led Friday to arrest of 4 J4-year-cld Salem boy on burg ary charges. City police said the boy admitted entering the resi dence three times in less than a week. v Detectives said the hoy ad mitted in a signed statement that he took about $21 in currency from the bank, in the home of D. W. Ullman, 788 S. 25th SL First Entry - I First entry " admittedly was made last Saturday, the second Wednesday afternoon. A third entry Thursday night yielded no loot, since the Ullmans, suspicions aroused, had removed all money from the piggy bank. , The boy said on all three occa sions he knocked on the door to determine if anyone was. home. Then he entered by an unlocked back doer. He told detectives he was almost ' trapped Thursday night when the back door closed and locked and he was forced, to pry open a bathroom window to get out of the house. Cuts Finger T; : i Police said the boy cut a finger on the last entry and left consid erable blood about the premises. What puzzled the Ullmans- and officers was why more than $30 in change in the bank was left un touched by the thief on his first two entries.' v" . I The boy was lodged in Marion County juvenile ward, police said. Area Showers On Tap Today Rains' again hammered the Sa lem sector Friday and caused the Willamette River to continue a sharp rise But the river still is far from flood stage.' ' - Given impetus by ,88 of an inch of rain which fell Friday, the river surged up to 11.2. feet at midnight. McNary Field weather men said. Flood stage at Salem is 20 feet. Forecasters predicted showers today through Sunday. Salem Council to Hear Merchants Twelve Chemeketa street mer chants will appeal to the City Coun cil Monday night to reconvert the street between Commercial and Front to two-way traffic. - City Traffic Safety Commission study of the proposal is underway. The merchants letter to the coun cil states that they believe the re-, turn to two-way traffic has been an improvement on the blocks of Court and Ferry streets that are west of Commercial mated COSt Of 828,549,546. Pacific also will make 'certain changes in the natural gas sys tem authorized by the . commis sion in June, 1954, but substituting larger size pipe. in some portions. In all, the company estimated the recently authorized pipeline an . investment of 246 million dol lars over a five-year period. . -. The commission also issued ' a permit to El Paso Natural Gas Co. to build an additional pipe line estimated to cost $194,274,000 to make additional gas available to existing customers in Californ ia, Nevada. Arizona,. New Mexico and Texas. . John E. Wood, Salem Legion : Figure, Dies John Esten Wood,' 64, founder and president of Honeywood Win- cijr, iiij... vi .Mieui aim piuuuneni Legionnaire, died Wednesday at a San Francsico . hospital, according to word received here Friday. Wood,-active in business here for the' past 22 years, reportedly suc cumbed following Monday surgery. HI health caused him to go to San Francisco ' about two weeks ago for examination. His home was a( 570 N. 2lSt St. , Past Commaader . ' M. J . ' ne was m past commanaer ox Capitol Post No, 9 of the American Legion and at one time was vice commander of the' Stockton Post in St. Louis, Mo., . reputedly the largest post in the country. Wood was one of the original or ganizers of Navy Post No. 1 of the American Legion in Portland and also served as vice commander. ' Taught School Wood's career embraced school teaching, the military and business prior to his founding of Honeywood, Inc., here in 1934. 1 Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the W. T. Rig don Chapel, with the Rev. George Swift-officiating. Ritualistic serv ices are scheduled by Capitol Post No. 9 and interment will follow at Belcrest Memorial i Park. Past commanders of Post No. 9 will serve as pallbearers. (Additional details and picture in Sec. I, Page 5.) Bumper Tags Tn TmnViasiztft oaie vriving A safe driving reminder wiU ap pear on about 500 vehicle bumpers in Sakm next week, as Safe Driv ing Day. nears. Salem and 1 the nation are un derlining traffic , safety, promotion with a special S-D Day event next .Thursday. ' - Giving attention to the bumper campaign as one part of the Sa lem project, the S-D Day commit- tea Friday planned a wide distribu tion of the bumper strips bearing the reminder: "Make. Every Day Your Safe Driving Day." North and South Salem high schools agreed to organize a cam paign for, students to place strips on the bumpers of their cars Tues day. State Finance .Director Harry Dorman said 170 state cars would be equipped with the bumper strips. Also." the vehicle display strips will appear on taxicabs, city buses and many trucks here. Fex Gibson is the Salem chairman for S-D Day. ; .:. TENTH CON CAPTURED PORTLAND ' Iff) William P. Lee. the last of 10 convicts who escaped from' the Washington State Prison at Walla WaHa Nov, 3, was captured here Thursday, the FBI Today's Statesman Sx. Fag ' Church News . L 7 Classified H S- Comics - H- 3' Crossword i I 7 Editorials I- 4 nom rinvrimf.. w Markets Jl 5 : Obituaries ' .11...- 5 Saturday TV . II. 4 Sunday TY ... II 5 Sports ... 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