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nerican Can Co; Plans to Build $2:5 Million Salem Plant Optioned North Of City; To Employ 100 to 400 Persons North Salem property wi optioned Tuesday by American Can Co., a major O.S. industry, as site for a manufacturing plant that probably would employ JDO to 400 persons. Announcement of the option on HVtacres or land near the Cascade Meats plant was made Oregon representative . of American Can which is the nations 3 CRD Apparently counties cart get into the business of urban planning through a side door by virtue of legis.ation enacted at the last ses sion of the Legislature. It would be limited, however, not extending to the type of toning for which authority has been asked of the Marion county voters twice, with out succe-s. However, it would apply to one of the most essential needs: - location and width of streets' and- walks in subdivions. This law also gives county court.? supervision of construction by anoptinn of a building code and requirement of building permits. it does not exiena to paving, sewase and drainage or park planning, though under other laws counties may establish and main - tain parks. ""Vhat really is needed, as was brought out at the hearing Mon- day night before a legislative interim committee, is creation of a metropolitan district to apply where urban development has Jumped over city boundary lines. This would permit coordinated planning of streets, sewage lines, drainage, water lines. Now it is possible to get these separately for specific areas by creating special taxing districts: but that is a piecemeal process both as to function and area affected. A community to be well integrated should receive integrated planning. Ti provide this or a suitable sub- stitute will require new and com - prehensive legislation. This legis- jative committee has the duty of studying ine local government (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Portland Fire Kills Couple, Infant Son PORTLAND ( Fire destroyed a small, suburban home early Tuesday, and killed a teen-aged couple and their 2-month-old son. Lloyd Oren Trump. 17, and the Infant apparently never awakened. Their bodies were found in their beds. Coroner Graham Young said Trump's wife, Doris, 16, appar ently tried to get out. Her body was found near the bedroom door. The flames were seen first in the end of the house Where a heating stove was located. The cause of the fire was not deter mined at once. The home was in a suburban area southwest of Portland. . The Dalles' City Clerk Indicted . Un jLinijezzienient THE DALLES (JV-A. C. Grindle, former city clerk-treasurer at The Dalles who is accused of embez zling $2.5611 in city funds, was Indicted by a grand jury and arraigned in Circuit Court here Tuesday. Grindle, 39, married and the father of three small children, said he did not have funds to employ legal aid. Judge Malcolm Wilkin-, son set no aaie lor urinate w enter his plea, pending court appoint ment of a defense attorney.. Grindle resigned June 30 after a Portland accounting firm re ported audits showed a shortage in city funds. r STOCK DIVIDEND LOS ANGELES ut - Directors of Gladding McBean k Co., largest Tacific Coast clay products maker, Tuesday declared a 25 per cent stock dividend, and the quarterly rash dividend bf 35 cents a share. Both are payable Jan. 20 to stock of record Jan. I. LETTERS SEEK MONEY HANNOVER. Germany (1 Baron Gottfried Von Cramm has received nearly 1,000 letters since he married dime-store heiress Bar bara Hutton in Paris last month, a friend of the couple reports. Most of the letters ask for money. it was Just a Irieadly slap atasbsck.t do rr YQURS j" by E, G. Gross of Portland, the ' biggest supplier of cans. Gross said bis firm would an nounce details of its plans soon. Salem Chamber, of Commerce leaders who have spent several days working with the can com pany's representatives here, how ever, said planning indicates a $2,500,000 industrial plant with normal employment of 100 and peak employment of approxi mately 400 persons. Owned by Meat Company The . property ' optioned lies north of the Cascade plant, adja cent to and west of the Southern Pacific tracks to the north of the Portland Road underpass. The land is part of the 191 acres between SP and Oregon Electric tracks, owned by the meat com pany headed by G. F. (Ted) Chambers. Purchase price for the site is estimated at about $60,000, but owner of the land is required by terms of the option to build a 350-foot extension of McDonald Street as an eccess road from Brooks Avenue. Real estate negotiations were; handled by J. L. Himmcll and , n.nn rirrv !'.. Sive Freight Expense 1 Salem cannery officials said I their business would I be helpedj DV lne 'cauon oi a can making Plant ner. " wo" ve them I mu?n freight expense in getting their containers for shipping. Other benefits to Salem would be the additional payroll and an impetus toward development of more industrial sites on the North Salem land between the two railroad lines. (Additional details Sec. 1, Page 12.) Sfllnm V mil rill LJUtlslll FT tfiltsfl ' -i s-t 'f .nil II I i I ll , " fj .1 T . iJlTtll lXltCS Miss Roberta Cary, who cele brated her 100th birthday a year ago with a reception In the Salem Methodist Home, observes her 101st today. She never misses a meal In the dining room, although she uses a cane for walking, fellow residents of the Home say. She reads with glasses and enjoys conversation although she has some difficulty hearing at .times, they said. . Miss Cary was born in the Scio area of Linn County four years before Oregon became a state. Residents of the home said they did not know if any form of celebration was planned for the day. Bullets Fly on Eugene Street EUGENE on police accused Alfred Maury, 31, of assault with intent to kill his wife and another man on a Eugene street Monday night. Maury's wife. Betty May, jnd Gene Howard Jones of Eugene, said they were in an automobile when rifle bullets began coming through, the windshield. Two pierced the windshield and one the engine of the car. Jones backed away to set out of the line of fire. Both suffered bruises and cut; from flying glass, but no serious injuries. Police Chief Vern Hill aiH Maurv ari-sti t hi. hnm i,h his wife asked him for a divorce and then made a date with Jones Maury said he was so angry he couldn't remember all that hap pened, HJU related. SECOND AIR FORCE OTTAWA (A-Lt. Gen. Howard Graham, chief of the general staff, told a news conference Monday Canada's Army will recommend within six months a plan for crea tion of its own Air Force. He em phasized the army has no inten tion of competing with the Royal Canadian Air Force, but wants transports and helicopters to move troops and supplies over short distances. Retail Sales in Marion County Show 1 7.8 Per Cent Increase in Six Years Retail selling was a 117.I5.OO0 business In Marion County last year, preliminary figures of the 1954 census of business showed Tuesday. . The total represents 183,507,000 in sales in Salem. M.M1.000 for Silverton and t2S.06l.000 for the rest of the county, according to the U. S. Census Bureau which tab ulated the report. An increase of 17 1 per cent over sales'of six years before (1948) was indicated in the totals which covered 1193 retail stores of every description. The grocery store still took the biggest share of business la the county,' claiming t23.143.000, Just laheadof the automotive group with I ". 1 , ; r- r 105th Year 2 aMEsi bud Pedestrian Killed Amid Area Storm By Rt'SS BIERAUGEL Siaff Writer, The Statesman A Salem man died Tuesday after he was struck by a car in i. & kflnini ilnitintii.1111 in ilnutninum S"lem during a widespread elec trical storm which was reported general throughout the Mid Willamette Valley. Albert W. Blankenship, 52, of 665 W. Madrona Ave., was taken P , t0 Salrm Memorial Hos 3 6 P'tSl by ambulance about 5:20 p.m., where his injuries were listed as a broken left leg and possible in tcrnal injuries. His death was reported as 10:50. The accident occurred in the 400 block of S. Commercial St. Driver of the car was listed as Russell William , Kanz1j253.South i view riaee Heavy late afternoon traffic was partially blocked for a time until Blankenship could be moved from the pool of wnter into which he had fallen. (Blanken ship's survivors listed in sec. 1, page 2.) Blankenship's death was the sixth traffic fatality this year in Salem, the 26th in Marion Coun ty and the 36th in the combined Marion.-Polk County area. I Lightning Displays 1 Salem area residents were treated to lichtning displays.! rnllin? fhnnripr and spvpt.iI I ' small hailstorms as well as pelt- ing rain showers and heavy wind in the freakish weather of Tues day. McNary Field weathermen pre dicted more rain and showers today but said it is doubtful they will have the intensity or extra trimmings of Tuesday's storms. Although only .64 inch of rain fell Tuesday, .25 inch of it was in the late afternoon and early evening, and .22 inch came in the early morning. Several Power Outage Portland General Electric Co. had several outages during the day. Most of them were caused by lightning or wind which caused fuses to blow out in small trans formers affecting only a small number of power users, Fred G. Starrett, division manager said. The only trouble with falling trees encountered by PGE crews was in the Silverton area, Starrett said. Much heavier storms were re ported on the Washington coast Winds with gusts up to 83 miles an hour caused two drownings, toppled trees, snapped power lines and damaged - buildings Tuesday in the Pugct Sound area, according to the Associated Press. (Pictures and stories sec. 2, page 12.) A Colton man was killed when I 200-foot tree, battered by high winds, fell on his truck as he was passing on State Highway 211 two miles north of Colton. the AP reported. He was Orville Bradford, 50, a logger and saw mill operator. PROTEST REJECTED TEHRAN, Iran I Iran Tues day rejected the Soviet Union's protest against its joining the Baghdad alliance. The Weather Mix. Mln. Pr-rlp. Salrm 49 4 .4 Portland 48 35 Baker 39 21 .08 Medrord Si 38 .24 North Bnd 5J 44 .48 RoMhurf M 42. .18 . San Franclico 59 ii .47 Loa Angelta 57 M M Chicago .., 34 11 .00 Nw York , 39 31 .00 WllJamrttf Rlvci 101 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem I: Occasional showers this morning; rain this afternoon and evening: showers Thursday. The high tempera ture today near SO, the low tonight near 15. Temperature at 13:01 a.m. today was 39. SALRM PSteriPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept: 1. This Year Last Year Normal 11.78 11.11 12 44 t22.714.000. Gasoline service sta tions claimed tlO,5S5.000. The county total ranked third in Oregon behind Multnomah and Lane Counties, and the Salem total adding 12,748,000 for that part of the city in Polk County, ranked third behind Portland and Eugene. Biggest slice of Salem (in Mar ion County) retail business in 1954 went to the sutomotlve group with sales totaling tl9.O90,0O0. consider- able ahead of second olace food stores at 614,254,000. The contradic tion of county and Salem totals; here was explained by the greater concentration of the county's auto motive deslers inside the city. Other Salem totals were S4.63S, ono for eating and drinking estab- lishments. If ,634,000 for general raw SECTIONS - 32 PACES Baggy Sweaters in Style at Parrish Junior High I s h0. iw Annual "Sweater Day" at Parrish Junior High School hera doesn't i giest sweater was wora Tuesday by Cynthia Langley (right). Help have anything to do with the Marilyn Monroe type sweater, j ing her stretch it s little more are Jody Bourne, (left) and Beverly Instead girls don boys' sweaters baggier the better for one day jFrey. (Statesman Photo), in a unique custom which dates back to 1950. Probably the bag-1 GM Lcnstliens'I08!?"0?' , j C 1 0 3 f With Dealers (Picture on Wirephoto Page ) WASHINGTON Ul General Motors, acting to meet charges that-it has been highhanded with its retail auto dealers, Tuesday lengthened its franchise agree- will now run for five years in - stead of one A Senate ' subcommittee had heard testimony that the short term agreement was a threat hanging over the dealers. Several (limit win, menu. lie pKimirenia dealers testified their contracts had been cancelled abruptly on GM complaints they hadn't sold enough cars or had not handled their business the way the higher ups preferred. Some retailers also said they were put under pressure to accept models and accessories they did not want. iianow ii. v,uruce, presioeni oi the huge manufacturing corpora - tion, announced the new move at Harlow H. Curtice, president of the resumption of Senate hearings which he said had produced "mis leading" testimony and left the public "grossly misinformed." I ii. .ii i aaa r i mA 1 lie aaiu ait i,uw um vai auu truck dealers are being notified that, barring any objection on their part, current sales agree ments will be extended to 1960. Additional - details - in- Sec. 2, page 12.) Unemployment Jumps in State Cold and wet weather caused Oregon's unemployment to jump last month to 37,700 persons, the State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission reported Tues day. r This total, highest since last May, was 16,600 more than in October. All of the 26 local offices of the commission, except Astoria, reported higher unemployment figures in November than in October. There were 3,250 persons add ed to the jobless rolls in Port land, but the city had almost 5,000 fewer unemployed than a year ago. Layoffs also were heavy at Lebanon, Roseburg, Hood River and The Dalles'. fv.nknnll.a ,. gf ftaT iVWt iVa iii .iiaituiaw mwtvm, J,wt,wv im ( JE?'. M1 c?Mory or"' OU nfafi fa liirniiii r-aa at, -- 1 1 nnna ' a1T. - ' - , vice stations. tS,46l,000 for lumber, hardware and farm equipment dealers, W, 395, 000 for drug stores; W.S47.O00 for other retail stores and (663.000 for nonstore retailers Polk County retail business ;?? totaled at tl7.5O7.O0O, Linn had t55.376.000: Yamhill had 132.625.. 000: and Clackamas t63.aa3.000. Leading cities in those cdyttics were Albany, t25.745.000; Lebanon, 613,996,000; Sweet Home, 66.136. 000; Oregon City, 923.11T.000; Oswego, t7.05O,000; Milwaukie, 17. 697,000; McMinnville, tl4.938.000; Newberf , $6,828,000 and Dallas 7. 211,000. . pound no ' 1651 The Oregon Statesman, SaUm, 'Oregon, Wednesday, Doc 1 1 I LI I I f wn8iiiii"ioiiiuiiCU 'Disaster Areas' SEATTLE ( The western por tions of Oregon and Washington have been declared disaster areas by the federal Small Business Ad ministration as a result of last; month s damaging freeze. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson said Tues - day. ' - The senator said his Washing-1 ton, D C, office had been advised of the move which will makef ,, . , i l ' 5mou Businesses cugiuic iur mam it0 cover dama8 caused by the j record-breaking cold snap. I LThe loan", are bmited to actual. i damaKe suffered by nursery mcnori otner businesses or at dwellings in ; urDan are, na "rry " ""r9 " 3 per cent Interest. Regular small business loans carry s per cent in - terest. Farmers do not qualify for SBA loans, applying instead to the Farm Home Administration of the Department of Agriculture. -rrrr m fit 1 ! 11 -fn AlfirillPl " ' " By Buffalo on Front'Porcl BIG DELTA, Alaska A 27-year-old housewife from Maine had a chance to become "queen of the wild frontier" at this Alaska High way outpost. But she "abdicated" clad only in a nightshirt (her husband's) and barefooted, at It) below zero. Mrs. Shirley King, of Lisbon r aim. mamc is inc Dime ui oki. William A. King, who is stationed here. It all happened when Sgt. King was on night military duty at H Greely. Mrs. King, at home alone. had scattered salt on the front porch to melt the ice. She heard a noise at the door a short while later. She peeked out the window timidly. The sight made her black hair stand on end. About 25 bison, from the near by woods, were trying to follow the salt trail into the house, they were pushing the door with too much weight for Mrs.- King's comfort. She grabbed a chair, smashed out a window and fled across the snow to the nearest shelter, a tav ern half block away. The bartender obligingly provid ed emergency clothing. when her husband arrived, Mrs. King, stubborn, as a buffalo, re fused to go near the house. The Kings spent the night In the tav ern's backroom. She wouldn't return the next day, either. Her husband appealed to military authorities, and now the Kings are settled comfortably in quarters at buffalo-free Ft Greely. V(-a It ing Sjtlal aaHafj fat, tTnintf Ift " VW ! q W ggy fag "They don't have big 'beasts like . that in Maine," she observed J Sold to the Lowest Bidder BURNLEY, England I t Auc- 'tlonecr J. II. Walton slammed his hammer and called out "jold." Two hundred people dropped. The floor of a store where the auction sale wss being held sank six feet ta a basement.. Five ambulances took people to a hospital. Several were treated for shock. No on waa hurt badly. aainDve v r r r r U 1 f -i Psychologist Wins $64,000 On Quiz Show NEW YORK W Dr. Joyce Brothers, a 28-year-old blonde psy j chologist. Tuesday night won ft4.- 000 by answering a question about boxing that ranged from ancient Rome to the modern day ring, She was the second contestant ! ...... , nnt .1 1 in me nisiory 01 cua television show "The $64,000 Question," to try for and Twin the top prize To win the prize. Dr. Bro hers named cestus as the special gloves gladiators wore in ancient Rome; uaniel wenaoza " nrsi oi sc entific boxers to become champi- ; 0n of England in 1791 ; Gentleman Ijohn Jackson as the English 1 champ who taught boxing to poet Lord Byron; William Hazlitt as the essayist who wrote "The Fight" alter seeing Bill feat Thomas Hickman in 1821, and "Hickman the Gas man" as the boxer's nickname. Also, the full name of the Mar quis of QtK-ensbury, John Sholto Iougtas; Home the city and Pau lino L'xcudun the opponent in Pri mo Cameras heavyweight title defense in 1933: and finally, that Jack Dempsey knocked down Luis Firpo nine times in their classic battle, and that the length of the fight was three minutes and 57 seconds. " Town Files Suilto Block Multnomah I m b airTOU 11(18 1 lUIl PORTLAND 11- Paul G. Sherman,' mayor of Wood Village Tuesday filed suit in Circuit Court , here aimed at preventing Multno mah . County from purchasing Wood Village property for a new fairgrounds and for dng racing. His attorney said that the suit will be amended to question the right of the county to use money from the general fund for purchase of a new fair site. The county recently took options on some 170 acres in the" Wod Village area. Officials of the small residential town contend the fair would reduce city development and that proposed dog racing facilities would impair community life. LEGISLATION SOUGHT WASHINGTON (if The second annual National Watershed Con gress called Tuesday for "im proved legislation" to carry out water programs, at its 'meeting here. ' (Bailor's 4et This Is a series f personal appraisals of (he ' trlranre ( CnrUtaus, wrlttea ar. anoaakera o( repretentallse Salesa ehurrhes at the lavltaUea o( Tha Sta(esaMa). By WILLIAM 8. DEAL (Minister, district church super. ' IntrndVnt, member Salem Pil grim lloliaeas Chares) , .In a country where we have too largely, commercialized Christmas, It is refreshing to see the Christmas Spirit manifested s little Ned Col ins did It. - One snowy Christmas Eve Ne4 walked Into a beautiful Howcr ember 7, 1955 Soww 1 lit h i ti : U 1 Cily Post Offices lail lO StaV OpCll J I Lale on daluruuy In order to ease the Christmas mail rush, Salem area post offices will keep their stamp and parcel po;t windows open Saturday un til 4 p.m., Postmaster Albert C. Gragg announced Tuesday. Ordinarily the purchasinf of stamps and the mailing of parrels stops at noon on Saturdays. Post master Crigg emphasized, how ever, that no other windows would be open and no other pub lic postal service performed Sat urday afternoon. In addition to the main down town office, stamps will be sold and parcels accepted for mailing at Salem's suburban stations at Chemaws, Four Corners, Keizer, South Pacific Highwiy, West Salem and Hollywood in north Salem. ridnedfWU Speech Pair Gams Top Awards Willamette University students won both divisions of the annual State Extemporaneous Speaking Contest Tuesday at the University of Portland. This is the first time the two top swards have gone to one school since 1947, contest offi cials said. Winners were Lewis Bright, a sophomore from Medford, in the men's division, and Marian Rut ledge, senior from Beaverton, in the women's division. Eight Ore gon colleges competed. Top prizes were $15 in each division. The topic was "Colonialism: 1955." Contestants were given sub topics an hour before their talks and quizzed on what they had said afterwards. The winners were coached by Dr. Howard W. Run kel, professor of speech and direc tor of forensics at Willamette, - Freeze Hinders Citizens' Seareh For Yule Trees CORVALLIS I Last month's freeze makes the search for Christ mas trees more difficult, Oregon State College reported Tuesday. The loss was greatest at lower elevations, the weekly farm fore cast market report said. Washington, the major producing area, estimates the loss at 50 per cent. Oregon, where trees usually are cut at higher elevations, is believed to have lesser damage. shop. Reaching out his tl.67 to the florist who saw that he was blind, he said, "I want the pret tiest and' most flowers you can give me for this." It was his only earthly potses- sion, given him by neighbors for little jobs he did. She chose for him one dozen of the loveliest carnations she had. 1 "And what do you want on tha card?" the lady queried. 'To Mother for her birthday, he said, his countenance bright ening. Jat .Barbour lud beta aland- PRICE 5c No. 255 rdleail Pair Struggles For 32 Hours; Feet Frozen By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman STAYTON The story of bow twa West Stayton mea struggled for 33 hours in knee-deep snow in the Cascade Mountains v as told from a hospital bed here Tuesday by Fred Denson. 23. one of the pair who survived the deep-freeze or deal. William Stinnett. 12. was his companion during the lost week end In Southern Oregon between Roseburg and Diamond Lake. Denson. whose feet were frozen. was transferred here from a Rose - burif Hospital Tuesday. His doctor said he may om. his toes. Stinnett escaped with Irost bite and was discharged from the Roseburg hos pital Tuesday. Fcaad la Cabla" ' ' The two were found at 9 a. nu Monday, a few minutes after they found refuge in a mountain cabin following two nights and a day ol wandering on a back woods road." But it was Monday night before they reached a hospital and Tues day before details of their close brush with death trickled out to the public. The two men had left West Stayton Saturday night, bound for ' Diamond Lake to haul back a house trailer Stinnett lived la while logging until last month. At Roseburg, they decided to .take a shortcut via a little ued i mountain road. They did not know the road was closed for the winter. Run Into Snow As they climbed, they rsn Into snow which covered the rosd snd became deeper. Failing to find a turn-around spot, they ploughed on until their picl(-up truck; skidded into the ditch at 1 a.m. Sunday. Ponson Said they hadn't pmt4 a lisht for "at lesst 30 miles- so they decided to walk on tow ard Diamond Lane, ine snow was knee-deep on Denson, who is nearly six feet tall. They were bareheaded, clad in light jackets and boots. -At - daybreak-they- came- to a -cabin but it was locked so they kept on going. At 10 a.m. Sun day they came to the only rosd sign they saw in the 32 hours. It said "Diamond Lake 21 Miles The snow was hip deep at this point. I'nmarkrd Ferks Later they, came to several un marked forks in the road and were not sure where they were headed. So Sunday night they turned back toward the cabin thev had passed. - they reached the cabin at 9:30 a m. Monday and a power com pany employe found them there 30 minutes later while on a rou tine trip to the cabin. (Additional details Sec. 1, pg. i) Pliilippincs-Slav Deadlock Stays After U.N. Voting UNITED NATIONS. N Y. I -The Philippines and Yugoslavia fought through eight more ballots Tuesday to another draw in the U.N. Assembly for a seat on ths Security Council. The assembly president. Joss Maza. of Chile, discouraged by the frustrating performance of the del egates, warned he would call a non-stop session of the Assembly to reach a decision if necessary. Today's Statesman See. Pago .11. 13-19 :.. Il ... lfJ II 10 , :.ll 12 Classified . Comics Comics Crossword Editorials I ... 4 Horn Psnerams I A, Markets Obituaries Radio, TV : Sports Star Csier .. ..II.. 12 11.. Il. .11.. . I ... II... . IS . 11 .14 . 14 4,S . 10 Valley Wirephoto Page II.. Ing neraby taking it all in. An hour Liter Janet was a tha bus speeding homeward amidst the gay Christmas shoppers. Near the city's edge she glanced , out aver the whits cemetery and instantly her eyes caught 1 sight of the little blind boy again. t He was upon hi knees placing the bouquet of flowers upon his mother's grave. Ned's love had not failed. . ! : . To me the Christmas Spirit Is something tar deeper and mora . lasting than the mere exchanga of gifts snd holiday feasting. aW though thcta.tnajr accompany It. ,' r V
