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The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 26, 1955
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No. 274
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WASHINGTON Mamie Eisenhower displays her Christmas gift
from the president (old medallion In the form of a five-pointed
star encircled with holly wreath and hearing the engraving: "To
Mamie." On the reverse side is this inscription: "For never-failing
help, since 1916 in calm and in stress, in dark days and in
bright. Love Ike. Christmas 1955." The president designed the
medallion. (AT WirephoU). (Story, page 2, sec. 2).
I should like to be one of the first
to buy the invention described by
James Reston, head of the Times
bureau in Washington, in his col
umn in the New York Times of
Dec. 18th. He calls It a "uniquack,"
and says it is a "comparatively
small device" that can be attached
to a TV set. It is used to test the
accuracy of political statements.
It is sensitive only to politics, and
as long as the telecastcr sticks to
the truth it does not function. But
let the speaker start to deceive the
listener "the screen gradually turns
to a light pink-sort of blushes."
Then if the politician fails to
heed this signal and get back to
veracity "the pink flush slowly
turns to a darker red until, in an
extremity, a bell rings inside the
machine."
Reston admits the machine has
some weaknesses. It will become
emotionally disturbed "while audit
ing some particularly outrageous
bit of nonsense." For example,
when Harold Stassen said Presi
dent Eisenhower could wait till
June or
(Continued on Editorial Page.
4)
Inmate Wins
'Battle' to Stay
In City Jail
A persistent prisoner appeared
Sunday night to have won a
''battle of nerves" against Mu
nicipal Judge Douglas L. Hay.
Released from a sentence for
intoxication with all other city
jail inmates as a Christmas pres
ent Saturday noon, he was back
in again (same charge) Satur
day night.
So the judge let him out again
Christmas morning. He was in
gain (same charge) that same
afternoon.
Nana Bryant,
Actress, Dies
HOLLYWOOD un-Actress Nana
Bryant, 67, who spent 50 years in
show business, died Saturday m
her apartment after a two-month
Illness.
1 Miss Bryant was known to view
ers of the television show, "Our
Miss Brooks' as Mrs. Nestor,
owner of the school in which Miss
' Brooks Eve Arden) taught. Miss
Bryant portrayed the role until she
became ill in October.
New well start yv on . .
Hey, cut that eutl You're no
, anore lam than I ami" -
Englewood
Church Bid on
Council Docket
An Englewood church's build
ing plan will pop up again before
Salem City Council Tuesday
night at City HalL
The aldermen will be holding
their business meeting then, be
cause of the Christmas legal holi
day falling on the regular coun
cil meeting date.
Englewood Evangelical United
Brethren Church needs special ', Hope returned Sunday from Ice
permission to build a Sunday . land where, one of hi aides said.
School addition up to its property 1 he was hanged up in a fall while
lines at the rear of the church entertaining U.S. troops,
location at Nebraska and 17th .nni.-an for Hnw told thU
Streets. Some neighborhood re
sistance has been encountered
and the Planning Commission has
recommended against the church
plan.
Meat Inspection
A new item before the Council
... . i n a
will be a bill to propose compul-
sory meat inspection in Sa em.
i.ong in preparation, mi mil is
sponsored by Alderman P
W.
Hale.
Most of the bills before the visjbe effecU an(j did not men
council will itemize the routine 1 unn the fai. - .
street assessments, following, rh. rnmHian nt t an -.
through the 1955 paving program
at property owners' expense.
, YMCA Variance
Several recent actions of the
Planning Commission will come
up for review, including the re
rent variance permit to allow the
YMCA to build an addition with
out the required off-street park
ing spaces.
The Council also will consider
an unfavorable report from the
iaie ttignway ueparuneni on a
receni proposal irom lower vne- may ble , ick b
meketa Street business firms that o miik t grocery
two-way traffic be restored west! Agriculture Department
of Commercial Street. Myi experiments in England and
Denmark on deep freezing whole
ri t i) milk have been successful,
r lrC UlllllOr 1 aillC In England, a department publi
t.ii in i rri . cation said, the frozen product has
KlllS It) 111 1 IlCatCr been kept in plastic bags. The Na
tional Research Development Corp.
TAMPICO, Mexico ( A false ' has patented the process,
crv of fire set off a panic in an In Denmark, the frozen milk has
old movie theater here Sunday and
13 spectators were killed in a rush
for the exits. Nine of the dead
were children.
Many other persons were in
jured. The theater had a capacity
of about 1,500.
Refugee Scientist Solves 'Atomic MetaP
Production Problem at Lab
WASHINGTON W The
story of how a refugee scientist
played a key role in research
which led to commercial pro
, ductioa of the new atomic
metal tirconiuW was told Sun
day by the Bureau of Mines.
Zirconium is now a vital con
struction material In the field
of atomic energy and in atomic
powerplanta like the one used
in the nuclear powered sub
marine Nautilus. The Bureau
. of Mines calls It "the metal
with the bright atomic future."
Until last year the , Bureau
was the principal supplier of
sirconium required by both the
Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) and the Navy.
The metal was made with a
process developed by Dr. Wil
Seven Christmas
Babies (All Boys)
Arrive in Valley
Seven bundles- from the top
of Santa's pack were delivered
by stork in the Mid-Willamette
Valley on Christmas Day. And
all were boys.
Two landed it Santiam Me-'
mortal Hospital, Stayton: Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Clarkson,
Stayton, and Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Wiege, also of Stayton.
And five Salem couples were
on the list of Christmas par
ents: Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Thiel, 320 E. Ewald Ave., and
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph E. Sher
wood, 666 Catterlin Ave., at
Salem -General Hospital; Mr.
and Mrs. William Dodson, 1950
Market St., and Mr. and Mrs.
Duane Sanford, 5380 N. River
Rd., at Salem Memorial Hos
pital; and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Maupin, 2441 State St., at
Dallas Hospital.
Salem Host to
Inch of Rain
On Christmas
Maybe only Junior, who want
ed to try his new Christmas bi
cycle, noticed it, but Salem was
treated to more than an inch of
ajeady rain, on Christmas day.
TheWillamette River contin
ued a steady fall, however, down
to 18.8 at midnight, although
several areas were reported still
inundated. .,
Downtown streets were pretty
well deserted, except for an oc
casional policeman. Free park
ing was available in front of any
darkened store or restaurant
window.
The forecast for today and
Tuesday is more rain, a south
wind with strong gusts and some
what cooler temperatures, Mc
Nary Field weathermen said.
Strongivoman
Drops Hope
On His Head
( Picture on Wirephoto Page)
LONDON Comedian Bob
story:
During a performance Saturday
Kev- B trongwoman
Joan Rhodes lifted Hope to her
shoulders.
Suddenly he slipped off, cracked
It i a karlli tn lh rtl at fewi ft if Vl I
ilia ucau VII mc uiainri sit, vut
nd h(Jrt hj" k A iondon
- octor treated Wm
mmt..rrj &,lnAav .j-M
guest star on a British commer-
rinl TV nrnirram H chnu'H im
gagement after the show and news-
men were unable to check the ac
count with him directly.
Frozen Milk
Kept in Plastic
WASHINGTON I - You soon
been placed in block form pack'
ages of plastic and metal, and
has been used successfully on
ships. Even after three months
storage, the Danes were quoted as
saying, the milk is as fresh as
when it came from the plant.
liam I Kroll, a metallurgist
.who fled from his native Lux
embourg before the Nazi inva
sion of World War II. Dr. Kroll
served with the Bureau as a
consultant but left in April
1953 and now lives at Corvallis,
Ore.
The Bureau now has turned
production of zirconium over
to private industry and Is work
ing on ways of increasing the
metal's usefulness.
Commercial production of the
metal climaxed 10 years of in
tensive research and experi
mentation begun at the Bu
reau's Northwest Electrodevel
opment Laboratory at Albany,
Ore. .
Back in IMS few people had
ever beard of lirconium. It waa
little more than a laboratory
curiosity then, made ia small
Christmas
Flood Refugees Toward
Southwest Oregon
Streams Rise Again
6 Dead, 5 Missing in Flood Sectors
(By THC ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Steady weekend rain again
was causing minor flooding
in Southwestern Oregon
areas.
Two creeks in the Roso
Iwre region spilled over their
hanks causing several fami
lies to leave their homes and
another creek was being
sandbagged at Sutherlin Sun
day night.
Heavy rains also were re
ported in Eugene.
Elsewhere in the state, thn
flood and storm situation
which claimed the lives of
six since last Wednesday,
was generally improved.
Five other persons were re
ported missing in accidents
related to the storm and
flood.
Independence Farmer
Feared Victim of Flood
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INDEPENDENCE A farmer in this area was feared drowned
Sunday when his tractor was found in a deep hole in flooded low
lands near the Willamette River.
The missing man was identified as Lee C. Pope by Independ
ence Police Chief George Utley. Pope was described as a bachelor
about 70 years old who lived alone on the Marion County side of
the Willamette luver, a muei
south of Independence.
- UUey aaid aeighbi' fiwind
the tractor Sunday when he went
to the missing man's house. He
found the missing man's dog
alone and "very hungry," the
chief said.
Found la Hole
The tractor was found some SO
feet from the house in a hole
tour feet deep. The chief specu
lated that Pope met with accident
on Thursday when flood waters
were rising fast in this area. The
water was receding Sunday.
The chief said Pope had driven
his tractor to Independence on
previous occasions when the Wil
lamette River jumped its banks
and threatened to isolate his
house.
Cut Up By Holes
The chief said1 the road to ,
Pope's property was "all cut up
by holes caused by the flood"
and the missing man may have
been starting for town on his
tractor again when the presumed
accident occurred.
Utley said he doubted that the
body would have been carried
out to the channel of the river,
several hundred yards away. He
said he understood Pope has
relatives in Springfield but none
in this area. i
The Marion County sheriff's
office was called to investigate.
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bureau. MrNary field. Salem I:
Cloudy with intermittent rain to
day, tonlaht and Tuesday: southerly
winda with few guita at li mllei per
hour. Huh temperature today 47.
low tonight 3S.
Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
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quantities by a slow nd costly
"iodide process." ,
When the Bureau metallurg
ists started looking for a way
to produce the metal in volume,
they turned to a titanium mak
ing process developed by Dr.
Kroll, which he had patented
in both Germany and the Unit
ed States.
Extracting and melting of
both titanium and zirconium
must be performed in a vac
uum. Both will burst into flame
during certain stages of produc
tion unless handled carefully.
With the knowledge that the,
' Kroll process of using molten
magnesium to extract titanium
from its compounds was suc
cessful, the Bureau obtained
Dr. Kroll as a consultant and
began trying to adapt that
method to zirconium.
Among those missing was
Lee C. Pope, 70, an Inde-
C-iidence area farmer. (Story
low). .
Others reported missing in
cluded Elmer Ionaril, 25,
and his brother Richard, 21,
of the Hood River area, miss
ing in a Columbia River
Ixiating ascident. and Fred
Halo and Bill (leer. Grants
Pass, the pilot and passenger
in a light plane that disap -
pearcd in a Rogue River
Valley flight Saturday
The dead are: Peter liar-
ns, l.j. Brooks (story Ir-Iow);
Cecil Connor, 37, Milo; Bert
(.ladnev, 21, Pendleton; An-
t il liowmmen, Nehalem; Vic
tor Flury, 38, Roseburg; and
John E. Clifford, 73, Oak
ridge. (Additional details,
sec. 2, page 2).
Labish Flood
Waters Yield
Body of Boy
talFman Nrw Srrvlra
BROOKS The body of Peter
Harris, missing 15-year-old Lake
Lahish area boy, was found
Christmas morning in flood wa
ters about half a mile from his
home. The discovery capped in
tensive search and dragging op-
erations conducted after the boy
failed to ' return Friday night
from an inspection of some traps.
Death of the boy was the first
fatal accident in the Marion-Polk
area to be attributed to flood
conditions resulting from last
week's storm.
The young victim was found
about 9:30 a.m. Sunday by three
searchers including the boy's,
father, August J. Harris. Others
in the party were two neighbors,
Otis Phillips and Charley Earls.
When discovered, the body was
in some four feet of water on
onion land owned by Don Cum
mings and close to the spot
where the boy's overturned boat
had been found earlier.
The water, an overflow from
the Little Pudding River, had
been estimated at nearly 10 feet
in depth at spots at time of young
Harris' disappearance.
(Additional story, Sec. 2, Page 2.)
JAPAN TO LIMIT BUDGET
TOKYO m The Japanese
cabinet decided Sunday to limit
its fiscal 19S8 budget to 1.03
trillion yen (about $2,e6 1,000,
000). The proposed budget is
slightly lower than last year's
spending which totalled $2,734,
000,000. in Albany
By the time the AEC became
interested in the metal as a
construction material In 1948,
the laboratory at Albany had
a pilot plant already operating
which was capable of producing
about 3,000 pounds of zirconium
sponge metal a year.
' As demand .increased, the
AEC and the Navy 'cooperated
with the Bureau of Mines under
the leadership of Capt. (now
Rear Admiral) H. G. Rickover
in expanding the Albany plant
to a point where more than
280,000 pounds of the metal
were produced in a single year.
Private industry began pro
ducing zirconium with the Kroll
process In 1953 and by last May,
had Increased capacity to the
point where the Bureau plant
was put on standby.
Rivers
Recede;
Toll 29
Worst California
Disaster Since
1906 Earthquake
By BUD SPRtlNGER
SAN FRANCISCO - Christ
mas sunshine blessed large sec
tions of flooded Northern Califor-
j nla Sunday" as rampaging rivers
(receded and some refugees went
Dac 10 lnclr mw na SMl P'aslFr'
ed homes. t Pictures Sec. 4. Page 2,
!and Wircphoto Page.)
After a week of torrential rains,
an estimated 29 persons were dead
in the state and possibly 50,000
homeless. Damage was estimated
conservatively at 100 million do!
lars.
The San Francisco Chronicle
quoted Sheriff G.S. Carpenter of
Sutter County as saying he was
certain there were an additional
Zi deaths in tne xuDa uiy area
and possibly more than 100. The
sheriff was not available for a con
firming check.
.It was the worst California dis
aster since the 1006 San Francisco
earthquake and (ire.
Figures I'nkaewa
Figures on the number of dead
and homeless were not solid. Com
munications still faltered. Families
and whole cities of persons were
scattered. There was no way of
counting those missing or possible
flood victims.
The Weather Bureau said the sun
shone, at least part of the day,
all the way from Fresno and Paso
Rentes In the south-central region
to Ukiah in the North. There were
clouds and light rains at the two
Southern cities and heavier rain
in Eureka. A threatened new storm
was not as serious as anticipated.
One of the few remaining criti
cal areas was near Stockton, a city
of 70,000 on the San Joaquin Riv
er. A fresh levee break south of the
city flooded 20 square blocks of
the Corona subdivision to six feet
and some 400 families fled.
1.SM Return
The new breach, however, low
ered water a foot in a part of
Stockton that had been flooded ear
lier. Half of the 3.000 persons who
fled the early break returned to
their homes.
Families returned to Marysville,
a city of 12,500. Marysville, pro
tectetL by levees, was evacuated
before Yuba City just across
the Feather River but was nev
er flooded seriously. Yuba City
WAS.
Visit Homes
Yuba City residents visited their
homes Sunday but police, fearing
looters, ordered them out of the
city between 5 p.m. Sunday and
7 a.m. Monday. There was no elec
tricity or water and the sewage
system did not work.
Water receded from northern
section of Yuba City, leaving mud
marks as high as six feet on some
walls. In the southern part, the
water still was at window level.
The rivers receding were the
Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Klamath,
Eel, Russian, Yuba and Feather.
(Additional details, Sec. 4, Page 2.)
Auto Industry
Inquiry Near
WASHINGTON (AV-Sen. Mon-
roney (D-Okla) announced Sun
day a Senate investigation will
start Jan. 10 Into automobile
bootlegging, "wild credit" and
other alleged abuses in the mo
tor car sales industry.
The public hearings will cli
max an eight-month background
probe by a special staff of the
Senate Commerce Subcommittee.
Gunshot Breaks
House Window
A window broken by gunshot
was reported to city police Sun
day evening by George Van Bur
en, 285 N. 21st St. He said he
heard the shot a moment before
the window in his house broke.
Investigating officers found a
23 caliber short slug on the win
dow sill, apparently having been
trpref" by the, window shade
after being slewed by the glass,
they said.
AIR TRAFFIC CAINS
WASHINGTON (A1) The Civil
Aeronautics Administration
(CAA) estimated Sunday that
U. S. domestic, and international
scheduled airlines carried about
42 million passengers this year
a 19 per cent gain over 1934.
State Holiday Dead
At 6; U.S. Toll High
Traffic Fatality Record 'Nearing'
(By thc associated mess) Earlier Ivan A. Wcr, 40,
Six persons died in Christ- Newberg, was killed ia a
mas holiday accidents in Ore-" tree topping accident "
gon ami two others were
missing.
Traffic accidents claimed
the lives of four.
Donald Hugh Wilkonson,
20, a sailor on leave fronvthe
San Diego Naval Base, was
injured fatally when an auto
mobile plunged off a high
way near Carlton and hit a
power pole.
Harry Edwin Conllin, Sa
lem, was killed Sunday in a
two-car collision on Highway
99-E. (Story below).
Earlier Charles j. McCall,
53, Gervais, and William C
Hiscoe, 47, Portland, were
killed in separate traffic
crashes.
The body of Peter Harris
15, of Brooks, drowning vic
tim was found. (Story in
column 5).
That raised .the miscellane
ous accident death toll to two.
Two-Car Crash on 99E
Kills Salem Area lYlaii
A 69-year-old Salem area man became Marion County's 12nd
traffic fatality of 1933 in a two-car collision about 9:30 p.m. Suadasj
on Highway B9E at Chemawa road. - " .' .y :?' .' v
Harry Edwin Conklin of Route 2, Box 404, Was declared deafl
on arrival at Salem General Hospital, apparently from bead in
juries. His wife, Mrs. Anne E. Conklin, 64, and her lister, lira,
Love Conquers
All in Race
Across Nation
LOS ANGELES im - It took
a lot of trans-continental doing
but a preacher from Oregon and
a sympathetic marriage license
clerk conspired to give a soldier
and his New York sweetheart a
Christmas Eve wedding.
Ptc. Donald Campbell, 19, of
Fort Ord, talked long distance the
other night with fiancee Janice C.
Clary, 18. of North Stockholm,
N.Y. They decided they wanted to
marry Christmas Eve.
Here's how they did it. Camp
bell took his health examination
on the base. The bride-to-be took
hers at home. Campbell contacted
the Rev. J. Whitcomb Broughcr, a
Baptist minister of Portland, who
was spending the. holidays here
with his son. ,
Dr. Brougher took the youth to
the marriage license bureau where
the clerk took the license home
with her. The bride-to-be's plane
wasn't due in until hours after the
close of the bureau.
The minister and the soldier
whisked the girl to the clerk's
home and got the license signed
by both parties. Then back to the
Biltmore Hotel for a wedding cere
mony.
The couple Is honeymooning
here until Thursday when the
Campbells will go back to Mon
terey and an apartment near Fort
Ord.
Denver 'Warm'
On Christmas
DENVER ( - This mile-high
city, only some ID miles from the
eastern slope of the Rocky Moun
tains, celebrated its warmest I
Christmas Day on record Sunday. (
Residents walked rbe streets in
shirtsleeves as the thermometer ;
climbed to 66 decrees. The previ-
ous all-time hijh nf 63 was re-
corded Christmas Day. 1940. !
Denver's wasn't the highest ;
reading in Colorado, however. At
Trinidad, in Southern Colorado
near the New Mexico border, the j
mercury soared to 71.
Today's Statesman
Sec. Pago
Classified IV ... 3
Comics III..- 10
Crossword IV. . 3
Editorials I..., 4
Homo Panorama . III . ..1,2
Obituarios III..- S
Radio, TV ; III 11
Sports IV 1, 2
Star Gaxer I. 10
Valley ... 11. 3
Wirephoto Pea -III-. 10
Home
A plane with two persons
aboard was missing in the
Rogue River Valley area of
Southern Oregon.
A pilot's report of sighting
By TBI ASSOCIATED MESS
The Christmas traffic death
toll climbed steadily early Mon
day toward an almost certaia
all-time holiday record.
At 1:34 a.m. (EST) the high
way toll was 433. Fires seek
44 lives, miscellaneous acci
dents 49 for a total of iZt since
p.m. (local lime) Friday.
The Natieaal Safety Coaoefl
had predicted See highway deaths.
The present record Is U4.
a fire on the south bank of
the river Saturday night
spurred search parties Sun
day. The missing men are Fred
Hale, pilot and manager of
the Grants Pass airport, and
Bill Goer, also Grants Pass,
Sadie Mitchell, 67, of Chemawa.
were hospitalized for observation
and treatment of appar-, m
ently minor injuries at' gC?
Salem General where 7"
they were taken by Willamette)
Ambulance. -
Driver of the other car waa
listed by State Police as Homer
Alfred Mitchell of Portland, no
relation to Mrs. Mitchell. Hi
injuries did not require treat
ment, police said.
Heavy Damage
Both cars wero extensively'
damaged, police said, the car
driven by Conklin, hit broadside,
coming to rest, after throwing
out all three of its occupants, ia
a nearby field.
Another car was damaged to
the extent it had to be towed
from the scene in a rear-end
collision as traffic was being
slowed at the accident scene. ;
Motorist Cited '
Lloyd Duane Fountain, 806a
Lone Oak Rd., was cited for fol
lowing too closely, police said,
A car driven by Nellie Mae
Mariott, Woodburn, received
comparatively minor rear-end
damage, police said. Minor in
juries apparently did not require
treatment, police said.
Conklin's death was the 42nd
of the year in the combined
Marion and Polk County area. .
(Additional story in Section 3,
Page 2.) v
Cold Spreads 1
South, East
By THE ASSOCIATED PRFM
The beginning of a new cold
wave spread south and east across
the mid-continent Sunday w h 1 1 1
some cities in Texas and along
the Gulf Coast basked in record
warmth' for any Christmas DV.
Temperatures dropped1 sharply
in the Southern plain states. At
Oklahoma City, Sunday's high was
48, just 37 degrees cooler than that
on Saturday. .
Dodse City, Kan., reported a
high of 44. down 44 degrees in the
same period, and Fort Worth,
Texas, listed a hiah of 83. a droo
of 28 degrees in 24 hours.
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someone stole from the parking lot
at the State Board of Health Sat
urday night was no ordinary ve
hicle. ;
It contains $10,000 X-ray ma
chine used for giving chest exam
inations in schools and industrial
plants throughout the state as part
of the anti-tuberculosis campaign.
SAILORS HELP ORPHANS ;
YOKOHAMA, Japan W)
Crewmen of the U. & passenger
liner President Wilson have pre
sented clothing and candy to
needy orphans of Yokohama for
the sixth consecutiva Christmas, (
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