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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1955)
v. -(Sfc. IT) Statesman, Salmi, Ore., Wed., Dec. 7, SS World's largest Jet Powcrcdflclicdpter -J Tops Of f icial f Whirlybirds' Speed Record Boy Admits Gov. Williams Bomb Scare Sf VERN H At'GLAND (especially impressive because of PHILADELPHIA I .Piaserki 1 tn i of the machine. It is Helicopter Corp., gave the world's' Inner than the -tirt encine DCS larsert Jet powered transport hell-1 'rtinef, and virtually the same copter its first public demonstra-1 'M l" Convair airplane which tion Tuesday and announced that ' body shape closely resembles, the huce craft already has ex- iTet Pilot reeded the official world's speed record for helicopters. Don R. Berlin, company presi dent, announced that the 40-pas-ameer YHlfiA "turbo transporter" flew li miles an hour Doc. 1, 19 wiles an hour faster than the of ficial record. A Sikorsky XH.T9 helicopter set the officinl mark of 1S6 miles an hour at Dayton, 0., last year. The YHlfiA has flown only 20 hours to date an average of two hours a week for the last three months. It also has been flown at altitudes up to 12,000 feet. First Demrantratloa Berlin told 200 guests, invited to the first air demonstration of the machine, that it was paced on its peed dash by an Airlorce air plane equipped with accurate tim ing equipment timing devices. In Its demonstration Tuesday, the YH16A hovered a few feet off the ground, turned sideways, moved from side-to-side and backward and climbed at the steep rate. of 2,ooo feet a minute. The accomplishment was The machine was flown by Pia- " ' , LANSING, Mich. US-State police said Tuesday a 14-year-old boy has HmiHH mnkintf 1 Nov. 2S tele- seek! test pilot Harold W. Peterson, chief of Army research and de-' pnone ct which touched off a of Media, Pa., wifh George A. , velopment. Marine U. Gen. Chris- bomb tct Bt the home of Michi Callahan -of Bridgewater Farms; tian F. Schilt, aviation director j an's Gov. G. Mennen Williams. 1'a.. as co-piloi. mere were no ana assistant commandant of the , t IUi. t'-.t t f -, ft. ,. Aim r.A A . i. (Umnnctrntinn th.u ino Pnrr Rrio fin Hnvt Pl-inrll. j JOSepn A, The onlookers included Army , deputy commander of the 18lh Air i Lt. Gen, James Maurice Gavin, I hurce at Greenville, S.C. 2nd Murder " Charge Faces' Hatchet Killer KfTAfT tt ijb .A twrtfirt mm. der charge was being prepared Tuesday in a hospital. He w.v Tuesday against Hatchet Killer admitted three days ago, suffering Conklyn Meriwether after h I s , kidney ailment. fPaiipa Joe' Author Dies In Colorado BOULDER, Colo. tr-Charles J. Scoggins, 67, widely known author, PAMPHLETS HANDED OUT NEW YORK W) Two Ntw York City groups art distributes, 25.000 pamphlets explaining what right.. a person has in the event he is arrested. The organi. zations ire the Bsr Association and the Civil Liberties Union. They plan to later prepare a Spanish-language edition. r t i r C..A. .A IK. Iw. ,. """."":" " father-in-law, 55-year-old Charles Mills, died in a Miami 1 of multiple skull fractures. f i'-rvi t : r. at -ss-k. , 11 .Sii.-:' Murder Case Investigation Turned Down SPRINGFIELD. III. un - Fed eral authorities have turned down r .. UMl : n c . miiijiiii 1 1 .itifliitrii s i m urn . - . o . . i . sr j r - v for .invtig..ion he Emme.t 5-01111110111 T lUIlt AaillSt LyOCllSlS IJllC token into custody by state police . ,. ..' day Evening Post. Scoifgins" detectives on the basis of a -tip Meriwether 17-year-oM former wa, cJlsjd,red to be "P from another schoolboy who had , p''""" """""V' v"y " heard the bomb threat discussed mu,c,kw''h ha,$het Nov- ,M before H became public knowledge. ! Mi'I home at Tavcrnier in the The boy's name was withheld . ' by state police pending the taking of a formal statement at state headquarters. - - A-uttior "of many books and a frequent contributor to the Satur- best as considered to oe rampa Joe," a novel. It was published in 1M" and later made into a movie. Scoggins was born March 17 1R83. at Matatlan. Sina Uia Mexico, of American missionary parents. .leflcrsnn Davis and Cath erine Josephine Minerva Scogqins He was graduated from high school What about Santa's Pack... His crippled mother-in-law. Mrs. Ellen Mills, 49, was hacked to death as she sat in a chair in her !..,. .ham Hill. .-J u: , ' . . . . iiviiik i.nrill, mills niiu I1IB MVM, State police liav maintained a Doi t ...... ......i. ..ji.. 24-how guard over the governor's w. :- . .-..Jl at Denton. Te , and studied en kAHA im.a l rm WiltiaiM raiuvlMI .... 9 nmn.rinn a I Jh """7 '"V : ,. skull fracture, receiving a telephone call Nov. 26 ; .... that a bomb had been placed in I Meriwether previously, had been ih hum charged with first degree murder in ine acain 01 nirs. Aims Tina Mrs. Williams said she was told the bomb was hidden in the house and set to go off that afternoon. She said sh was Informed the bomb was hidden two days earlier while the fami.y was out of the city. - - f ..4 , j PHILADFLPHIA The world's largest jet power transport helicopter, the 40-psssenger Piaserhi YHKA, made its first public flight demonstration Tuesday. Known as the "Turbo Transporter,' the it weighs snore thaa IS tens and has top speed of about I5 mph. BeiM nearly tt feet long, it is Devadas. said the Russians must India Paper Aims Rap at Khrushchev NEW DELHI - The Hindu stan Times, often described as Prime Minister Nehru's favorite newspaper, Tuesday deplored Ni kita Khrushchev's "intemperate behavior" on his Asian tour with Premier Bulganin. The paper, which is edited hy late Mohandas Gandhi's son , with attempted murder in the at tacks on Mills and the boy. ! Mrs. Meriwether, who told -of ficers her husky husband was sub ject to fits of violent rage, fled from the Mills home w ith the Meri wethers" three children when the attack on her family started. Meriwether, who once was on the roster of the St. Louis Cardin als but did all his playing in the i minor leagues, went into hysterics I at Marathon last Wednesday after j his attorney had waived a pre liminary hearing on the murder charge. He is in jail at Key West. ginecring . alvthe University of Texas from lfos until IW7. Before starting to write novels and short stories around 1920. Scog gins was an engineer nn clam and railroad ".projects in Mexico nnd Central America. Most of his novels dealt witli Central American countries. . Surviing are his widow, ois Durham Scoggins: a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Siuller of Denver; a sister. Mrs. Wlmiry Wilkins of Dentbn, Tex., and two grand children. The body will be cremated. ' NF.W CLAIM TO FAME I NITED NATIONS - Afghan istan has a new claim to fame. Afghan Delegate Abdul Hakim Tabihi told the General Assembly's 60-nalion social committee his country produces the best opium in the .world and asked for help in gettirfrM listed as an exporter in the legitimate drug trade. j Woman Embezzler Placed on Probation PORTLAND tfi Mrs. Mar jorie Y.. Ludy, 44. a former bookkeeper at the Corvallis branch of the First National Bank who pleaded, guilty tn embezzlement of hank funds, Monday was placed on probation for three years. She was accused of taking $M6 by changing customers' records over a four-year period. large enough U accommodate three Jeeps. (AP Wirephoto) Louis Till case in Mississippi. The Illinois governor Monday re leased a letter from Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr.. saying that no federal offense was 'involved in the case. . Stratton said Brownell told him the only basis for federal jurisdic tion would have been if slate or realize they are drawing criticism j for "misusing their triumphal tour for. Juatant -attacks' on ibe- West -The newspaper also criticized the "hysteria of some commenta tors of the Rritish ant Amoriivin unaer us lecnmcai assistance pro- preS8" in using "terms most un- ROME f A score of nations I part will be provided by the gov will join in 1956 and 1957 in a ernments contributing to the cam- gram, chiefly in coordinating and ! mmniim.niurv i inH,, three-continent battle against lo- paign either in cash, supplies or ! supporting efforts of the invaded Th Hitnriai rnnfiiMrf uh on by providing control teams. The e include Bahrein, Egypt, France Iran, Iraq. Jordan, Kuwait. Pakis tan. Qatar. Saudi Arabia. Sundan, custs, man's foe since Biblical days. For the first time in the centu- iries-long fiht. aircraft will play an important role. Delegates to the ' Syria, Turkey, the Cnited King local officers had been Involved in! United Nations food and agricul-; dom, Yemen and the Arab league. the crime or if Till had been ab-:ture organization conference, held j fAO will spend about $100,000 auciM ana taken across state lines, i nere recently, approved ana strong- "All available information, how-j'y 'nursed the campaign. ver. Indicated that those who per-TTne delegates authorized FAO petraled the offense were private jCcneral Director Dr. P. V. tardon persons and that the kidnaping 0' Lo2an- 1 '", 10 continue the was conhned to the state of Muwis-!,"k""",,,u". t"'"1 "'. iimi " Rrownell wrole Stratton 'nS international measures againM "Kiirh hoinff the no thi ftrnarl. locusts tnnt i. withfuit nnv ,ithnriiv in! In 19. an estimated l'i million take investigative or any other dollar ' P'nt j? fr action." paign against locusts. The greater Stratton had requested the in vestigation by the attorney fen-.C eral after a Le Flore County. Miss , O grand jury refused to indict two white men on charges of kidnaping the 14-year-old Chicago Negro boy. Earlier the two men had been ac quitted of murdering Till. , countries in Asia, Atrica and Eu-Jappea to the Soviet leaders to rope. Aircraft will be used in the!temper ,hfjr attacks and the West ; fight especially lor scouting and jt, reaction. It said the Russian lor control of immature "hopper" i visit "is after all a goodwill mis- I swarms in remote areas before jon which will have failed if it llhey ran t?ke flight in ravaging , does not lead t0 an appreciable invasions. 'lessening of world tensions." Estate Sale Property located ot northeast corner of 13th and State Streets. Make your offer to Pioneer Trust Co. or tee your broker. Phone 3-3136 Next Christmas? Plan now fur n even merrier Chrijtmnin 1956... join U.S. Nuionil'i Chrislmis Savings Club. Sive just )0c s week . , , 11.00 .. . $2.00 whatever amount you with. Then ihe entire amount JWf hltrttt will be youri for prepaid Christ Bias shopping pest year. 01 wr tm sy f CHRISTMAS RECIPES , , . elrl fettV five" H tch ptrita lirlfif 9vf tSt CMetfflM Cl It tf H nk ff yri. ladd I Bush-Salem, West Salem, University A North Salem Branches Crnai MamVet F4nl Vrm bwrfiiw One-Shot Plan Studied for Salk Vaccine ons urave Trips Urged For Mothers WASHINGTON National Commander Timothy J. Murphy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has called on the. Deiense De partment nd Congress to . ar range Immediately for Cold Star Mothers and widows of world War II dead to visit the graves of their sons and husbands over- A special seas. In a telegram to Secretary of . WASHINGTON un Committee of technical and medi cal experts will consider Wednes-j Defense Wilson, Murphy laid the day a proposal that children be' department and some members given only one shot of Salk polio! of Congress "are. still evidencing vaccine now so as to speed the' so intent to continue their dila- protection of a single shot to as tory tactics" on long pending leg many individuals as possible. ! islation to set up such a pilgrim Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele of the Public Health Ser vice named the special committee, w hich will meet in closed sessions here. Dr. Scheele and Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the vaccine and a age. Murphy said this lack of action is "utterly indefensible." The VFW chief said he had been informed "by those in re sponsible positions" that the rea son for the delay was that the member of the special committee, ! cemeteries .overseas had not been hinted at a meeting of the Ameri-, completed. On the basis of his ran Public Health Association in recent tour of Europe he said Kansas City last month that the! this is not so "I have seen the recommended dosage might be , cemeteries with my own eyes and changed to one shot temporarily jean say to you without qualifies in order to spread the limited tion that they are in the best of aupply of vaccine. condition." The change would be based on Murphy said either officials a finding that a single shot was are not really aware of the condi 7J to SO per cent efleclive last tion of the cemeteries "or, they summer iq preventing paralytic are making a deliberate attempt polio. - v j to prevent the Cold Star Mothers The current dosage schedule 'and wives from visiting the calls for two shots of one cubic; graves for financial reasons." centimeter each at relatively close j The VFW told Wilson it was up to his department to explain the reason for the delay. intervals, followed by a third 'boos ter shot some months later. That schedule still is regarded as desirable, and any deviation from it would be temporary until vaccine supplies are adequate. -Vreiglilcr Makes Port Aflcr Attack Scientist Trips Sea Serpen I Hone VENfCE, Calif. -Hopes of ! old! liners along this seacoast that they had found a real sea serpent j were blasted Tuesday by a acien TOfcYO pieping radio said list. W ednesday the 7-ton British I John Fltrh. Stale marine bioln vFreighter Hydmloct reached Bed gist, Identified a l-foot "whatsit" China's port of Foochow yesterday ! at a harmless basking shark. after being attacked by National ist planes. The breadeast said - the Hydra fairly rare In these waters. He said Ihe basking shark swims along th surfaee ef Ihe water and lock was attacked three times by itrains small sea life through Its Nationalist fighter planes Monday uln- . r . .northwe't of the Paichuan White! The shark, weighing approxim Doji Islands. They are in thc:le!r Pounds. hed ashore Nationalist Matsu group, 100 miletMtfrfly-- ,- northwest of Formosa. j . Peiping said the ship was hit i lr repeatedly but the broadcast made!lke Honorary no mention of casualties. The Mat Member of Air Patrol aus partly blockade the river port . of Foochow. GEICER COUNTERS SET WASHINGTON ( - President Eisenhower, the only -U. S. presi dent to hold an airplane pilot's GENOA, Italy (PI . Geifr;l,f'nr 1 uesaay became an Hon counters are among the equip-;0", member of the Civil Air ' merit -of an Italian mountain P'rol. - -climbing expedition assembling' "he certificate of membership in South America to tackle un-,'" CAP'S Pennsylvania wing was conquered peaks of the Chilean Presented by Cot. Philip F..Neu ' Andes and Tierrs Del Fuegn. Geologist Arvedo Decima said the Instruments .may prove use ful in checking reports of urani um la thoM area. 1 - weuer or Aiientown, wing com mander. 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