S-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Tues., Dec. 6, 1955
Arrest of Negress May Provide Court
Test for Segregation in Alabama City
MONTGOMERY. Al. W)-The
arrest of a Negress who refused
to move to the colored section
f a city bus msy brini a court
test of segregated transportation
in the cradle of the Confederscy.
While thousands of other
metropolitan
Area for Gity
Wins Backing
(Story ilno on Page 1.)
A Salem metropolitan district,
legally established for joint fi
nancing and control of public im
provements by city and suburban
'."V"; whoiGrsy and a former state prcsi
represented Salem Chamber of
Commerce and Marion County
Planning Commission at a legis-
lative interim committee bear-l
ing.
Similar proposals came from
-several public officials at the
meeting in Salem City Hall.
The main "urban area prob
lem m u. v
wiura lor suuuruanue. wuu uu.i i ,
pay their share of taxes to sup-,
Sort them, it was indicated by
n.
Salem Mavor Robert F. White in
his presentation
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recommendation to the Legisla
ture, Beaa Preaidet
The hearing was presided over
by Ormond R. Bean, Portland
city commissioner and chairman
?w Lw .h.
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the fnnge .rea problem
Some of the recommended leg -
islstion his committee heard last
nigni:
Allow eities and suburban pre
cincts to vote for a metropolitan
district with power to tax fori16- w that point onward.
bmic pup.ic uiipiuYrmcLUi, .u- itock market recovered itrong
Ceited by McMullen. j-
Rmd district! to force fringe: Monday the AP average gained
area residents to help maintain '11.00 and closed at $181 .50, equal
good roads connecting with city ; to in old historic high of last Sep
arterisls: required sewage disposal tember.
and provisions for joint financing j - ., .
of disposal plants by cities and)
fringe areas, both proposed by
Mayor White.
Oart Pewer
Power for county courts to es
tablish limited county toning with
out vote of the people; authority
for counties te enter contracts
with cities; county court power to
audit and coordinate small taxing
district financing, all advocated
by County Judge Rex Hartley. '
Annexatioff to cities by a major-
roajerity vi? in both city and out-
aide area, proposed by Salem Plan-
- Bing Commissioner Robert JC Pow-:
m
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Appwanceae sQ were nwae uj
Polk County Judge Cal Bamhart,
Yamhill County Judge R. E.
- Renne,- Albany City Recorder W.
D. Bollman, Salem Schools Super
intendent Walter Snyder, League of
Women Voters president Mrs. E.
B. Daugherty, Realtors Board
President Al Itaak, Labor Coun
cil Executive Herbert Barker,
Chamber of Commerce repre
sentative Pert Woodcock.
Legislative committee members
at the bearing were Bean, Sen.
Stewart Hardie of Condon, County
Judge R. A. Lathrop of Grants
Pass, John Misko of Oregon City,
and secretary Robert Johnson, Sa
lem. Rep. Al Loucks of Salem
couldn't attend because of illness.
3 Released
From Hospital
Three of four weekend hospital
cases were released Monday from
Salem General Hospital Retained
for treatment of ankle and foot
fractures was Mrs. Dora TroxeL
2935 Sunnyview Ave., injured in a
Sunday afternoon collision at Four
Corners. Her. condition was
" "good," attendants said.
Released were Theresa Beckley,
. of Rickreall, broken arm, and
Mrs. Jean Hiebert. J580 Bluff Ave.,
both injured in a Sunday morning
collision at Vista avenue and Com
mercial street; and John Elkins.
' 1231 Franklin, Burt when he fell
from his car Saturday night at
Pine street and Portland road.
Sublimity Fire Area
Adds Schumacher
SUtoaaua Nowa Sarvk
SUBLIMITY Richard Schuma
cher was named a new director of
the Sublimity fire protection dis
trict at a special election held
here Monday.
Twenty-five votes were east for
Schumacher. He will replace John
Bast, who did not seek reelection.
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Negroes ooycotted Montgomery
City Lines in protest, Mrs. Rosa
Parks was fined $14 in police
court Monday for disregarding
s driver's order to move to the
rear of a bus last Thursday.
Negro passengers ride in the
rear of buses here; white passen
gers in front under a municipal
segregation ordinance.
Along with the bus boycott,
there "were other threatened acts
of retaliation by Negroes. A mass
meeting was scheduled Tuesday
night at a Negro church to con
sider "further instructions."
Boycott Organised
The boycott was organized aft
er Circulars were distributed in
Negro residential areas Saturday
urging "economic , reprisal"
against the bus company.
Mrs. Parks appealed her $14
fine and was released under $100
bond signedy Negro Atty. Fred
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tember-October crash.
Using The Associated Press av
erage of 60 stocks as the yard
stick, here is the big picture.
Last Sept. 23 the AP average
stood at $11.M highest level it the 'government's liability is limit
ever had reached and substantial-1 -h tuimn tr .rh H-.th
ly bov i 1929 highs.
- Then the news of President
I Eisenhower 'a heart attack hit the
I mi-ketpl.ce. Stocks tumbled with
, . .,:. ..u.ri th.t k.h
b.eQ geen tinct 1K9 de.
bade.
On Oct. 11, the AP average
: raarhoH It lnw fnr thm raartiin
BlazeFights
Back; Woman
Shot in Ankle
CORVALLIS I Fire broke
out in the house, but Mrs. Phillip
Saner, 52, didn't get burned. She
was shot.
:,sh-,;5b"n "
home 10 miles south of here
fT "Wl. when a bullet, stored
I in the house, became overheated
'from the fire and exploded. A
mrltl .-.---. lHad in her
ankle.
..There was no water supply, to
quench the flames, and the house
burned to. the ground.
Rickreall Pageant
Tickets Offered
tuusaua Ntwt Strrlrt
RICKREALL Tickets for the
15th snnual Community Christ
mas Pageant Dec. 10 and 17 will
be given out Tuesday here and
in Salem and other nearby towns.
Admission to the widely-known
pageant Is free. But crowds have
been so heavy in recent years
tickets are necessary to reserve
seats and to "equalize" the au
dience over the two night pre
sentations st the Rickreall school
gymnasium, sponsors said.
Tickets are available at Hen
ry's Photo. Service in Salem; at
the Rickreall Farm Supply here;
at Haas' Drug Store in Dallas;
Gray's Drug Store at Independ
ence, and st Monmouth and
Brunk's Corner.
mow oy-le-dorte Imerevad
smooth rvnninf , cletor cvttinf
hvr. lafordlot ef eee,
condition, or woke wet a1
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dent of the National Assn. for
the Advancement of Colored
People, . D. Nixon,
Gray and Charles Langford,
another Negro lawyer represent
ing the 42 year-old department
store seamstress, refused to say
whether they plan to attack con
stitutionality of the segregation
laws affecting public transporta
tion. V
But Gray told the Associated
Press that "every issue will be
Supreme Court
Holds Airline
Liable in Crash
WASHINGTON t The Su
preme Court ruled Monday both
the federal government and East
ern Airlines are liable for dam
ages in a 1949 air crash here which
took the lives of 55 persons.
In Three separata actions, the
court closed out a long, bitter le
gal battle over the 'question of li
ability.
The disaster, occurred when a
four -engine Eastern airliner and a
PS8 fighter flown by Bolivian Pilot
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I'aaalmous Verdict
In one action, the court unani
mously agreed with decisions of
lower federal courts that the gov
ernment is subject to liability.
In another, it agreed with the
,TS . rnlir( A ihat
This is on the ground the gov
ernment's negligence occurred-in
the control tower of Washington
National Airport, which is in Vir
ginia. Virginia limits damages for
a death to $15,000.
Another Declsioa
lfl another decision the court
ruled 6 J that a state may fix
"reasonable time limits" for as
serting f t d e r al constitutional
rights.
It did so in denying new1 trials
for three New Orleans Negroes un
der death sentences for the rape
of a white woman. The court found
the Negroes failed to meet a Lou
isiana time limit for challenging
the makeup of the grand juries
which indicted them. They con
tended Negroes were systematical
ly excluded from the grand juries.
8 Injured as
Bus Overturns
MADRAS. Ore. UTI Eight per
sons were injured, none seriously.
when a bus skidded on frozen
slush and overturned near here
Monday.
The accident occurred on High
way 97, some S miles north of this
Central Oregon town. The Grey
hound bus, operating under a
Trailways franchise, was being
driven by Stanley Younger, 56, of
The Dalles, Ore., when it skidded
into a power pole, reversed its di
rection and then overturned.
Mrs. Cecil Day, 48, of Yakima.
Wash., who suffered a fractured
shoulder and other Injuries, was
the most seriously hurt. ,
Thief Returns for
Rest of Equipment
A thief who took a cutter attach
ment for an electric drill a week
ago apparently came back over the
weekend for the machine to make
it go.
Theft of tht electric drill valued
st $16, from the George E. Allen
Hardware, 236 N. Commercial St.,
was reported Monday morning to
Salem police by Crover Welty,
clerk at tht store. He said the
circular cutter and other small
tools, total value 911.10, had been
taken a week ago.
Store of Salem"
AND LIBERTY
raised that I think is necessary
to defend my client."
No hearing on the appeal has
been set in circuit court
Police Powers
The Negro woman was first
charged with violating a city
ordinance which gives bus driv
ers police powers to enforce
racial segregation. But at the
request of City Atty. Eugene
Loe, the warrant was amemjed
in court to charge violation of a
similar state law.
Passed by the legislature in
1947, the state statute authorizes
bus companies to provide and
enforce separate facilities for
white and Negro races. Violation
is punishable by a maximum
fine of $500,
Meanwhile, other Negroes by
the thousands found other means
of transportation or stayed home
Monday in an organised boycott
of City Lines buses.
State Police
Recruits Set
Training Stint
Thirteen state police recruits
started two weeks training Mon
day at the Salem Army Reserve
Armory. Classes include first aid.
laws of arrest, traffic control and
criminal investigation.
Instructors include Capt. Irving
Larson. Capt. Ray C. Howard,
Capt. Walter Lansing, Lt. Farley
fc-.-Mogan, Sgt. Wayne Huffman,
Sgt. Byron W. Haielton and Sgt
James Darby, all of the Salem
district office; L. G. Johnson of
the state bureau of identification;
and other officers from the' Mil
waukie office.
A dozen sergeants also starttd
training in lesson planning, train
ing aids snd examination pro
cedures under Instructors from
throughout the state. Instructors
from Salem are Sgt. Chady C.
Weems and Sergeant HazeJton.
Buster Keaton
'Critically 111'
HOLLYWOOD uB- Buster Kea
ton, frozen-faced comedian of si
lent movies, is in "very grave"
condition at a veterans' hospital
from a gastro-intestinal ailment, a
hospital official said Monday. -
The (0-year-old actor was ad
mitted to Wadsworth Hospital in
West Los Angeles Saturday with
a sever hemorrhage, the official
said.
"He is considered critically 01."
added the executive. "The hemor
rhage has been stopped. The ail
ment could be an ulcer, but an
exact diagnosis has not been
made."
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Deluxe Tinker Toy Set (vymotor) Reg. $9.95 Spec $5.88
Famous Crow Shoot Game, Reg. $2.19 . . Spec $1.66
Davy Crockett Getar, Reg. $1.69 . . . Spec $1.29
' Famous Battery Train (follows cable) Reg. $2.98, Spec $2.44
Character Dolls by Bechler, Reg. $1.98 . . Spec $1.29
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What's My Line, Reg. $2.98
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Salem Ex-DP
Scoffs at Red
Overtures'
(Story also on page one)
The Communists in East Ger
many picked a peculiarly un
strategic time to "invite" Ardo
Tarem, Salem, back to his native
Estonia to live behind the Iron
Curtain.
Tarem as id Monday he re
ceived a batch of Red nrooa-
rganda just prior to Thanksgiving
as did some of his Estonian
friends In Portland.
The Tarem family was guest
of the Portland friends Thanks
giving snd Tarem pointed out
that "it was a time when we all
gave thanks that we were now
Americans." Then the group
collaborated in writing answers
to the absurd overtures from
Bulganin. Khrushchev snd under
lings. The letter rejected the
"invitation" home in terms that
should make a lot of Red ears
redder.
The propsganda was aimed at
Estonians and probably also Lat
vians, Lithuanians and natives
of other small countries who fled
when their homelands were gob
bled up by the Reds, Tarem said.
Tarem added he learned the
Soviets gained addresses to which
to send their moutbings by pilfer
ing subscriber lists from such
anti-Russian newspapers as "The
Fighter," printed in West Ger
many snd subscribed to by many
transplanted Estonians in the
U.S.
Literature received by Tarem
included a bombastic, fictionized
newspaper called "Peoples
Voice" and two leaflets eandied
up to make all appear flowers
snd honey behind the Iron Cur
tain.
RayLafky,McCall
Win Directorships
SUUunan Ntwi Service
KEIZER Ray Lafky was unan
imously elected as a director of
the Keiier fire protection district
at a special- election held here
Monday.
FOUR CORNERS - Voters ef
the Four Corners fire protection
district Monday reelection C. C.
McCall to a five-year term as a
member of the board of directors
of the district. ..
1146 Union St.
OPEN
SHOPPING CONVENIENCE
Shoppina Center, is Salem's lor jest toy center. SHOP
LARGEST ewlusire TOY STORE, TOYLAND .
TRAIN SETS, 4 only,
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1146 Union St.
Capitol Shopping
Woman Suicide Raps
World in Final Letter
HENDERSONVTLLE, N. C. Ml
Mrs. Florence E. Groves Carroll
had everything in order Sunday as
she departed "this mortal coil."
She hanged herself from a ceil
ing joist in her home after leaving
ber few possessions to the milk
man and drowning three dogs and
two cats she owned. .
j The M-year-old former Chicago
I schoolteacher also left a 10-page
: will and testament in which she
said she decided years ago that
"when I become a burden to my
self and others I would shuffle off
this mortal coil." She had lived
along 20 years at nearby Dana
Body Found
Her milkman beneficiary, Jim
my Marshall, found her body when
he made his daily delivery. She
left a letter for Marshall which
coded:
"And now as my ship Mils out
into the great unknown, I am
standing at the helm, still the cap
tain of my fate.
"Goodbye, fear-stricken world,
goodbye."
Assistant Coroner R.P. Freeman
ruled suicide by hanging.
Mrs. Carroll said in her will that
she wants her body to be given
to some medical school or clinic
"then cremated and the , ashes
thrown down some forest glade."
Pine CoMla .
And if .that isn't possible, she
wanted her body "placed in a newly-constructed
rough-hewn pine cof
fin and buried in some out-of-the-way
corner.
"There shall be present at the
burial only those necessary to per
form the task.
"There shall be no flowers, no
singing, no preaching, no praying.
Brooks School
Polio Vaccine
'NotAdvisable'
Sutriman Newt Scrrict
BROOKS Polio vaccine is In
advisable at this time for pupils of
Brooks School, where a case was
discovered last week, because it is
ineffective after exposure to the
disease. Dr. Willard J. Stone, Mar
ion County health officer, said
Monday in response to queries
from parents.
Meanwhile, the condition of 12-
year-old Jack Lindsay, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Lindsay, was re
ported unchanged at Silverton
Hospital. His spine was affected
but paralysis had not reached his
lungs, attendants reported. Con
stant watch was being kept in his
room.
Third and fourth graders at
Brooks School were vaccinated
against polio last spring! Young
Lindsay, who first complained of
a backache Friday, is a seventh
grader.
His brother. Petev . received a
gamma globulin shot,' not the vac
cine, effective in cases of exposure
to the disease, but this is not
recommended generally because
of the high cost, $30 or more, Stone
said.
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Spec $2.19
Spec $2.39
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35M vcL, $19.95
Center
I have tried" to make my life a
prayer and if I have not done so.
no palaver over the hu.sk will help
the spirit that has flown."
Mrs. Carroll wrote in her note:
"I will not be sorry to leave a
world so permeated with suspicion
and fear and hatred, this 'land
of the free' which has sold its soul
for a mess of pottage, this land
which bows down in absolute sub
servience before .its idols, the dol
lar and the machine, and yet calls
ttseli Christian."
Thief Got Out,
But How Did
He Scoot In?
They know how the thief got
out of the Erickson Super Mar
ket at 3080 Portland Rd , but
they cannot figure out how he
got in.
His loot apparently consisted
of three partly filled boxes of
cigars, about $1.50 in mutilated
coins,' and possibly some cigarets.
Mgr. Frederick R. Montgomery
reported to police.
A rear door was found open
Monday morhfilg. But it could
not have been the means of entry
because it had been secured by
three inch-thick bars Sunday
night, he said.
A possibility Is that the con
fusion was caused by somebody
who had been locked in the store
Sunday night, Montgomery sug
gested. KEFAUVER TO TALK
PORTLAND W) Sen. Kefauver
(D-Tenn), who is expected to an-;
nounce soon his candidacy for the
Democratic presidential nomina-
tion. will speak at the Oregon;
Young Democrats convention here.
April 21.
BIG MEMBERSHIP
WASHINGTON GP-The Daueh-
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report their membership is at an
au-ume high. The figure now
stands at 182,124.
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Judge Ruling
PORTLAND m-k federal Judja
Monday overturned a jury verdict
that had awarded an Oregon firm
$2,138 753 damages from twer're
frigerator companies.
District Judge Gus J. Solomon
said the Moist Cold Refrigeration
Co., Inc., of Oregon had failed to
prove its case against the Admiral
Corp. and Amana Refrigeration,
Inc., and the jury disregarded his
instructions on the law.
The Oregon firm had asked 10
per cent of gross sales of the two
refrigerator companies in the pe
riod from December, 1948, to Octo
ber, 1953, claiming infringment on
a temperature control patent.
Fire Leaves
5 Homeless
SWEET HOME Wi - An early
morning fire destroyed a house
and left a family of five homeless
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Carter; their
children, aged 24 years and I
months; and Mrs. Carter's sister,
Mrs. Frances Stockmier, escaped
from the flaming frame, two-bed
room structure in their bed
clothes. They were not injured. A
cold rain was coming down at the
time.
Fire Chief Ivan Hoy said the
Are apparently started from aa
overheated wood stove.
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