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( : ! i, Uil Mi n1 n -vvv-r "It i - i I . V Hi ill I J 7 f . r i f i n n I'm C )L) ' LiVLiJLJ n n j j y LiLi l n n Li) I 1 r i TJicWcallicr FORECAST (from U 8. waalliar kurrau. Mi Nary field. Ralrml: I Cloudy with iwraaional rain today, tnnlihl and .Thumdav: lltll rhanta , In trmrwratiirt, with Iht highrat In day near SO and Iht luwaat tunlfht ntar J. SAI.EM rRkTIPITATIOtt , U, . Inr a Start uf Waathar Year Sept. 1 Thla Vtar tail Ytaf , Normal JOH " 1(107 11 av -.S fi K PCUNDDD 1651 105th Year 2 SICTIONS-24 PACES Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January 4, 1954 PP.ICI 5 No. 213 Ground - Breaking Ceremony Today To Start American Can Cos Project Firm's Vice President Plans Inspection of North Salem Factory Site Amerleenan T o:V tea- eecu- firm - will - conduct-aformal tlve.cn the West Coast, Vice ground breaking at 11 a.m. on President R. C. Stolk, today will the property just purchased by be in f Salem to make pergonal American Can north of the Cas Inspection of the lite for hisfcade Meat plant on Portland company i new Salem plant. He and other top officials of the nationwide manufacturing Road, between the Southern Pa cific and Oregon Electric railroad lines. Stolk.whq Is In charge of all West Coast operations for Ameri can Can, with offices in San Fran cisco, wilt conduct city leaders to the site on a special train from downtown Salemfollowing a 10 a m. press conference in the Marion Hotel. Judicial Style Trend Invades Circuit Court I hi t--i.- . ; I- " It w i '-r i The industrial leader is ex pected 'to confirm" the company T plans for immediate construction of a plant that can get into can making production this summer. Contractor for the work has not yet been selected, but an early start is predicted by the property purchase terms . which ' included call for the seller (Cascade Meat) to put an access road into the site immediately. With Stolk today will be A. Alexander Black, Pacific division ules manager, and L. E. Davis, division manager for manufac turing, both of San Francisco, and E. G. Gross, the company's Portland representative. Salem Mayor Robert F. White, Cham ber of Commerce President El mer Berg and other civic leaders will take part in the ground breaking and the luncheon following. i ' Governor's 'Team' Confers Senator Wayne Morse has been selected by directors of the Sid ney Hillman Foundation to re reive the Sidney Hillman award. The citation has not been an nounced but is reported to ac claim the Oregon senator "for fiublic service in support of civil ibcrties and civil rights; and for subport of natural resources." Twe Judges la Marlon Ccunty Circuit Court donned Judicial robes for the first time Tuesday as Jegal activity or l3i got underway it the Marios County Courthouse. Judge Val D. filoper (left) and Judge Joseph B. Feltoa are shown In the new robes, pre sented them by the Mario County Bar Association, while looking up a rase In the court library.' The majority of Oregon circuit Judges already wear the black robes. (Statesman- Pholo) Adlai Plans Feb. llTalk At Portland PORTLAND if - Adlai Steven son, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, will come to Portland Feb. 11 to speak at a Democratic banquet. Howard Morgan, state Demo- The formal presentation will bejeratic chairman, said Tuesday mat Stevenson s accepiance oi me invitation did not signify his inten tion to enter the May 15 Oregon primaries "although that subject is still under active discussion at Slevenson'i Chicago headquar ters.", ... It - will- be a Jefferson-Jackson banquet to raise funds (or the party in Oregon. " . Morgan said he had received the impression in a telephone conver sation" with" Stevenson " headquar ters Tuesday, that Stevenson may spend a few days in Oregon to confer with his committee here, headed by State Rep. Alfred H. C o r b e 1 1, Portland, and Mrs. Elmer 0. Berg. Salem. made on Jan. 26th at the Shore- ham Hotel in Washington. Morse's critics will say with a sneer that .this award is further - proof - nf his . culpability,-as . a traitor to his party. They still remember how, just before the Democratic convention of 1944, when various candidates for vice president thought they had Franklin Roosevelt's endorse ment, FDR signaled. "Clear it with Sidney."-This was a telling slogan for Republican orators who cited it as proof of the alli ance of Roosevelt and the lead ers of organized labor. There is, however, no reason why those who distinguish them selves in activities outside the orthodox pattern should not re ceive recognition from ' their friends.- The "liberals" can have their saints ss well as the con servatives. Morse has long en rolled himself among the "lib- , erals" and this award confirms his standing' among their elite. It Is true that previous awards of this Foundation have (Continued on editorial page, 4.) New Year Start Painful A en in Sports Center Site To Be Considered Today in Portland PORTLAND ( - The Exposition-Recreation Commission will meet Wednesday to try again to pick a site for Portland's proposed eifiht million dollar porls center. The commission last year select ed the Delta Park site in the North Portland Vanport area Ipst DR. JOSEPH WIRTH DIESV---FREIBURG, Germany (JP) Dr. Joseph Wirth, German Chancel lor in pre-Hitler Republic and a 1955 winner of the Stalin Peace (year, but the City Council, which ; cartridges used to blast jet pilots ' effect To Nevada Jailer LAS VEGAS, Nev. m For jailer Eddie Johnson, the start of 1936 was history repeating with a beating from a would-be es capee. John F. Thomas, an ex-convict awaiting trial on a burglary charge, jumped Johnson Monday niRht. Detectives upstairs heard the. j o m m o 1 1 o n. and subdued Thomas after the jailer suffered a broken nose and bruised face." Just about a year ago, another inmate hit Johnson with a heavy lock and knocked him out. Navy Testing Vaccine Aimed To Kill Colds WASHINGTON - The navy Is conducting pioneer field trials of a triple-barreled vaccine designed to combat some types of severe colds. i ' The service has begun tests at its Great Lakes naval training cen ter, using a still-experimental vac cine developed by scientists of the National Institute of Health (NIH.) The vaccine it a theoretically wider-range variety of ah earlier vaccine which NIH successfully tested in two prisons last year against one of the" many different gersm which can- cause cold-type illnesses, A navy source told a reporter Tuesday he knew only that "a small scale test" of the vaccine was being made by naval medical research unit number 4. He said the vaccine is being administered to "approximately 200 recruits un dergoing recruit training at the center, and the men all volunteer ed for the test." Last November, scientists at NIH said they hoped it would be pos sible to "field test" the new vac- xmeTm jrpproximatcry-10,000 iriili-" tary recruits. f j : H i . : .:' i ;: . k V v ( Congress Swamped ByBills Fred N. Shldeler, former Oregon State College Information director, Is shows above (seated) Tuesday during his first day as adminis trative assistant to jov. Paul Patterson. Conferring with him Is Edward Armstrong, also aa administrative assistant to the gov ernor. Shldeler took a year's leave of absence from the college to take the newly created job. (Statesman Photo). U.S. Disaster Insurance Plan Among First (Picture on wirephoto page) WASHINGTON I A blizzard of bills accompanied the opening of Congress Tuesday. The new legislation ranged from urgent proposals for federal disasv ter insurance to a constitutional' amendment which would give the Supreme Cpurti power;, to deter mine when a president It unable to perform his duties. Flood control measures ' also poured into the hopper. Late in the day the House bill room was so jammed it ceased making any more bills public until Wednesday. In a bipartisan step to provide quirk loan assistance tp vjctims of floods and other disasters, Reps. Spence (D-Ky) and Wolcott (R LcoDurochcr Gave No Lip To Gunman HOLLYWOOD m - !o (Lippy) Durocher disclosed in an interview! Tuesday that he has finally found someone he wont argue, with a man with a gun. The former manager of the New York Giants said he waslield up Mondayiight in the driveway of his Beverly Hills home. "I was just closing the door of my garage, he told a reporter. "when I heard someone say, 'don't move. I did move and turned right into the face Of a pistol. "I said nothing. I was too d d scared to talk. The gunman said, 'Gimme your money.' I gave him $20, all I had on me. If I had had $1,500 I'd have given him that, too." Durocher said his actress wife List Oj Needs Studied Final Decision Awaits Voting By Aldermen By THOMAS C. WRIGHT , SUM Writer. The Statesman Nearly $5,000,000 fn city' projects anrx-arrd headed fof spots on the May primary ba! lot Tuesday as members, of tha Salem City Council discussed, trimmed and added to indivi dual projects, most of which have been labeled "must pass" items by the various departments in volved. Biggest upgrading was a $750,004 increase to the estimated $3.0O0,' 000 bond issue officials tay ii neec-d to take the city's water supply off tne potentially danger ous list. The cost, however, wasn't scheduled to go on the tax bill, but would be paid from water rate increases over a 20 to 30-year pe riod. . Also apparently getting the tem porary approval of councilmta were an estimated 143.000 of matching funds for airport prof ects; $140,000 for construction oi I Seven money kills lavohrlag aa approximate total of S4.7I.. 200 appeared beaded for the city ballot, for the May . II election. Taey are: New water Hie ...... $J,7M.tfle Mich.) introduced a bill which set P" ew brldgee .... 1401; Over Inch of Rain Raps Salem; More Forecast ---Nearly, ball an inch of rain fell on the Salem area between 11 p.m. Tuesday .and midnight, to produce a 24-hoqr total of 1.39 inches and a two-day rain of more than two inches. . Except for the usual overflowing street drains, however, no difficulties caused by the storm had been reported Tuesday night. The Willamette River reading at Salem had been affected little, rising two-tentbs foot in 24 rr. hours to 11.1 at midnight In 1 Ti tCltycrewi at midnight were Miplpf I IfAC preparing pumps for use duringllr ltIl MJliJy me nigni. county crews naa noiy been called out at midnight. TO" T More of Same Mpre rain wa forecast -lor to day and Thursday by( McNary Field weathermen in a storm which covered a wide area. Rain fell steadily Tuesday for rrize, died here .Tuesday of heart ailment. He' .was 78. fCartridgcloir Airliner Gets Close Scrutiny WHEELING.. VT. Va. - The sheriff's office of Ohio county re ported Tuesday night 'that a mys terious "cartridge" was taken off a TWA airliner. J Capt. G. A. Sather of a army bomb disposal detachment at Pitts burgh lushed here to examine the object but could not identify it. Capt. L. Ryan, pilot of the twin engine Martin airliner which was en route from Chicago to Washing-j C0..!M 'DnML ton said he found the object .inwOcl VI II liS DOUR the aisle of the nlane after makins i a routine stop here. He said it was removed immediately and placed in an open field. Ryan said the object was about the size of a cigaret and wrapped in tissue paper. Capt. Sather said it resembled! BELOIT, Wis., ( The Be- a cartridge similar to ejection ; urn htaie.Bank Tuesday put in'o a savings account-life In- tiam Highway for. some distance into the mountains. Highway De partment officials warned of roll ing rocks at Detroit Traffic was reported moving steadily through Santiam Pass Tuesday after a virtual halt for several hours Monday afternoon and evening due to freezing rain on packed snow. Gorge Clogged Heavy rain also cleared the snow-clogged Columbia River Gorge, where an estimated 1,000 automobiles were stalled Monday, Associated Press reported. Ice ind snow was still reported In the Cascade Locks area and east, however. -L .Newport ..received over three inches of rain again Tuesday for a two-day total of almost 7 Mi inches. Heavy rains in Portland caused new slides and at least one house was reported threat tned on the West Side. Dope Packets tarsine Day was asleep at the n 1 i time. He said he reported the rob-laHl AmVllllI bery to police. x I O Durocher is now a $50,000-a year j NBC executive. Insures Lives ositors OfDcp By Parachute CHICAGO ( Packages of dope from the southern hemisphere are being parachuted into this country from airplanes, the warden of Stateville prison said Tuesday, Warden Joseph E. Ragen told a ilate -legislative -committee-hear. up a 200-million-dollar fund for the purpose. . . , ..;.,..; , Give Court Authority The" constitutional amendment was proposed by Rep. Frelinfihuy- sen (R-NJ). He said that in addi tion to giving -the Supreme Court authority to pass on the president i fitness it would provide, in cases of temporary presidential ' inabil ity," (or the vice president to take over. - Frelinghuysen introduced two other bills aimed at relieving the president of some of his executive responsibilities. One would create the office of administrative vice presdent. Explosives Praalty Another early entry was a bill to provide the death penalty for any fatality resulting from putting explosives aboard a civil aircraft. Rep. Hillings (R-Cali( said he was Impelled to Introduce it by the death of 44 persons in a Colo rado airplane crash last fall. Rep. John Bell Williams ID- Miss.) proposed legislation to pro hibit airlines serving intoxicatng liquors on flight over the United Park sites, work - 73o.Mt street waeiif"Triw.oi" Aaaaal Bark fuaot " 33,001' Airport projects 1 4J30 ' Fire alarm system.... 71.004) Today's Speller (Cellar's Nolr: A Hit of worii It kflnf pakllihaO tach Kiwi Oay U anak up tha SM-war kal Hat for aeaai-liiiali an" finals af Tka Or f an SUlrimaa-KSLM Mld-Val-Uy IpwIUnf Canttat ! wfclck atari? .aoa Uh- u4 l(k-rada atudaata art . aruelpaun. I- erouse " .immune bufterly immediate guardian pacjeflpe lantern military folley tiranium element Jranchu on Hon la vender geometry beggar appreciate nurprxte improper resemble HiTTflttr lieutenant democratic circular ' ; . opposed the site, refused to turn 'from their aircraft when a bailout surance program which covers de- over the title for the area. is necessary. Salem's Post Office -Scores Record Year argument - Salem postal officials' prediction of a record mail year for 1955 has been borne out, Postmaster Albert C. Gragg said Tuesday. Total money receipts during the I Another 40 to ISO per cenFft made up of parcel post, third class mail and mail which" II stamped by meter machines. December, the holiday -month positors under (0 yean of age up to $2,500. '. x President Arthur B. Adams said it works this way; Every customer who now has a savings account with the bank is automatically and' at once cov ered with life insurance for . the full amount of his saving' ac count up to $2,500 providing he or she is not yet 60 years of age. There are no charges of any kind for this life insurance, Adams said.. '.- ... past year are slightly ahead of j just ended, marked an all-time 1954 and the number of pieces of monthly high in cancellations with mail handled far outnumbered that 2.531.000. This compares with 2 of the previous year. A record-breaking 11,946.900 mail cancellations were recorded dur ing 195S. la 1954, U was 13.469.320 and in 1953, the amount was -13,-307.170. Mail run through thf cancella tion machine does not represent all tha mail handled, said Gragg. 404.200. of December of 1954. Dur ing the year just ended only one month, September, dipped below the 1,000,000 cancellation mark. -A total of $1,063,946 was colled' ed by the post office in 195S, ap proximately $12,U1 more than in 1854. The Weather of the Westinghouse Electric Corp, plant here where strike violence flared in the morning, sending eight persons to the hospital and 88 including 12 women to jail. Troy Tadlock, 34-year-old picket, died in the early morning clash of a heart attack, the coroner s office ruled. The union called it "murder on the picket line" and said Tadlock was beaten. County authorities said there were no marks of violence-on-Tadlock's body. In the aftermath of the club- swinging violence which erupted from a mass demonstration pro testing a back-to-work movement, there were these developments in: the bitter strike: The company announced that ne gotiations aimed at settling the 12-week-old strike at Columbus and 29 other Westinghouse plants will resume Wednesday in Philadel phia. Both sides issued blistering state ments blaming each other for the pre-dawn violence. Columbus Local 746, Internation al Union of Electrical Workers was warned by Judge Dana F. Reynolds against further violence. The common pleas judge told Lo cal Union President Charles Clark he will bar all pickets a( the plant "if there is any repetition of vio lence." The mass demonstration which brought the violence had been called to protest the hark-to-work movement of some 1,700 of the 4,000 hourly worker.s at the Co lumbus plant. Westinghou.se.. accusedJhe . union ing, "An effective smuggling ring' of taking "the law into its own operating from the southern hemis- j I hands in deliberate, planned vio phere is flying planes over the lente which openly flaunted the U. S. and dropping packages of laws. . drugs in remote places where per-1 "This is not unionism, it sons are waiting to receive them." gangsterism," he declared. (our new city bridges; $188,000 for widening of S. 12th Street, Fair grounds Road and Market Street; $750,000 for purchase of park lands and development of all parks; $35, 000 annual levy for park purposes. and $71,000 lor a telegraphic box (ire alarm system. Ordinance Bills Preparation of ordinance bull (or ali these items was ordered by the councilmen in the unofficial session Tuesday night and will come up (or consideration at tha regular meeting of the council next Monday. Water, airport, bridge, afreet widening, and annual park Vv all teemed likely to go on the ba lot as recommended, but the ma jor part measure and the lire alarm itema werq still not firmed. Most vulnerable, on the basis of council discussion, was the $750,000 5 injured in Ohio Violence ice and snow from North San- , tha u,(1 -h - ..W(pl,. pnrn . narks' issue which would nroviHo States. He described It as a safety $300,000 for purchase of an addi tional 400 acres for park purposes, and $450,000 for development of those and the city's present parks. Mulled off of ballot consideration measure. , - Disaster Insaraaeo One of the first bills of the new session was a proposal oy nep ance Flood disasters, such as the tragic and costly floods that oc curred in California recently and In New Jersey and many New England states following the hurri canes last (all place an intolerable burden on Individuals and busi ness," Thompson said. He added his measure would re imburse flood victims (or 50 per cent o( their losses, retroactive to July 1, 1955. Rep. Green (D-Ore Introduced a bill to amend the Outer Conti nental Shelf Lands Act to provide that revenues from the offshore oil lands be used for grants-in-aid (or primary, secondary and high er education. Known as the Oil for Education Bill, It duplicates one introduced in the Senate ear lier by Sen. Hill (D-Ala) and 35 other senators. (Congress stories also, Sec. 1, Page 11; Sec. 2. Page - ties and to establish a branch lib rary in West Salem. Councilmen agreed that this could be absorbed in the 1956-57 budget. $71.00Plaa The $71,000 plan for a fire alarm system, which Chief Ellsworth Smith says Is necessary to get the city into a class three rating elig ible for fire insurance reductions, seemed to be the most favored of three alternate plans offered. It Hr-u. I U a .niliirunuiil .f . n al.rnl Ul .iiuwiiiivu. v. 11 Mini M, system representative wno saia a was the type used in both Eugene and Albany, u Smith said a class three rating would save the people of Salem IBI AAA 4 Ih. 1 1 11 in. ...nil-.-. aud.lAsu ui juDuiauivv yiciumiiia m year. Two other items, neither involv ing finances, were scheduled for the city ballot. One, amending tha city charter, would remove the . one-year residency reauirement Inr persons taking the Civil Servre Commission examination (or rity policeman. The other involves changes in the retirement progr.m for firemen. Additional City Council news 10 Sec. 1, Page 2.) . , Death Takes 3 of Quads LANCASTER, Pa. - Three of Quadruplet boys born Monday to a postal clerk and his 25-year- old wife died Tuesday in Lancaster General Hospital. The fourth boy, who had been reported In good condition earlier, was listed as "fair" TiiAsrfnv night. John Philip Hohenwarter died h"""" Tuesday a production cut t.h, .fmmnnn ui hmiher. back "to reflect current market LMarkjSnthony. died several hours iwndi' ions," and said it would re- . Liter. Carl Conrad shortly be-! I" W layoff TO employes i tore midnis-ht. unrysicr .orp. annmiru-e u ucc. i The survivimf quad is Norman ' ''"R off'.'4n0 Charles, first born of the quads 'motive txxiy division 1 fld cu ting is who weighed a total of 14 pounds jM us riymnum a vi.rnn irons 7 OtinCeS. 1 " OVCrillllB .SVIK.UIHC in w n.u, , wees. . , ' Chevrolet division of General Motors announced previously an I per cent production cutback. Auto Industry Production Cut DETROIT. Mich. - Mercury division of Ford Motor Co. in Half of Polk's Road System Damaged by Flood; Survey Sets Repairs a t $135,000 Today's statesman By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The SUtesmaa DALLAS, Ore. .Year-end floods caused at least 1133,000 damage .to Polk County roads and bridges. County Judge C. M. (Cal) Barnhart said Tuesday. It has been reported that the state will seek money from the federal emergency . restoration funds Jor making repairs. Barnhart predicted the storm damage would set Polk County Max. . Mia. Salem 4 41 Portland 40 M Bakrr 41 SI Medford Sfl " SO North Band SO ' 4.1 Rnachurf 40' J , Ran Pranrtara ..18 41 Loa Angelas ?11 4S Chlfaf- ST JO N-w Ynrli 40 U A1 irw Tora an aa WUUmatte Suva Hi laaV 1 41 Th iudce said 400 miles of ,'bacK a uu year in us roaa im- roads about half of Polk Coun- j provement program unless out ty',i 800 mile road system were i ,id 'undf " provided to repair , , . . , fh (tamaa aamigra to lomeresieni. The judge said the 1133,000 estimate of damage, which he termed "very conservative", com pared with an average yearly ex penditure of (350,000 on road ind bridge maintenance in Polk County. ' t i Barnhart laid twa ol tbj livi TTtt. -,4I ne nign waier saw nve coun trart jly bridges "go clear out", Barn- The county Ts hopeful that a federal grant that will cover the damage. "But all we know is what we've read in the papert," Barnhart reported. bridges were still out and prob ably would be for two weeks. Both cross Mill Creek on side roads in the- northern part of Polk County. The storm also washed out six culverts completely and partly washed out "40 or 50" others, Barnhart concluded. He said all roads in the county were now reported as passable except those closed by the Mill Creek bridge washouts. The judge said Ted Westfall, Polk County Civil Defense direc tor, was working closely with the county court in preparing a ur VV'fll aUOMjaV .' See. Pig Classified :.:.H.10,n Comes tha Dawn I. . 4 Comics .'.;...,..... H....... S Crossword ......... II...... 9 Editorials I ..... 4 Home Panorama I.... 1-10 Markets ............ - Obituaries II- 10. ' Radio, TV .......... 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