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The) Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 10, 1954
PRICF 5c
No. 219
Soil Bank Plan
Seen by Ike as
Farm Solution
Billion Dollar Program to Cut Crop
Surplus, Raise Prices, SolonsTold
By OVID A. MARTIN
Associated Frew farm Reporter
WASHINGTON' (AP) - President Elsenhower proposed
Monday a billion-dollar soil bank plan to reduce cropland
bout 12 per cent until surpluses are absorbed and farm prim
rise again. He blamed the surpluses for shrinking farm income.
As had been anticipated, this soil bank proposal was No. 1
in a nine-point program the President laid before Congress to
sierengmen me aimnisirauoii
controversal flexible price support
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No longer may it be laid that
President Eisenhower is "doing
nothing lor the farmer." The pro
gram he recommended to Con
gress Monday well outdistances
in its dimensions and cost any of
the programs offered by Franklin
Roosevelt and Henry Wallace. He
system.
In a special message to Congress
on agriculture, Eisenhower de
clared that there is need for "max
imum speed" to alter an economic
situation in which farmers "find
their prices and incomes depressed
amid the- nation i greatest pros
perity."
(-Threat to Economy
He went on to say that unless
this situation is corrected, the well
being of all Americans will be
threatened.
Taken as a whole, the Presi
dent'! program offered little pros-
pert of bringing about a big boost
in farm returns ahead of this
year's elections a thing that
many farm-area congressmen had
hoped for.
doesn't propose to plow under Eisenhower said he expected
any pigs but he does suggest that at least 40 million acres of
plowing under "as green manure" , the nation's 350 million acres of
aome of the planted wheat. The cropland would be taken out of
estimated cost of three programs
acreage reserve at $600 million
a year, conservation reserve at
. $330 million a year and continu
ance of the regular soil conserv
ation program at $250 million a
year runs to over billion a
year. Then there are the costs
of other phases of the farm pro
gram including whatever outlay
is required under the continued
flexible price support program,
And the storage and disposal of
present surplus commodities. A
First Salem Margarine Comes Off the Line
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production under the soil bank
plan. The result, he said, would
be fewer crops, a halt in the ac
cumulation of price-depressing sur
pluses and an improvement ia
prices."
Farmers would be encouraged to
reduce acreages through the offer'
of government payments in the
form of cash artdsurplus crops.
These payments which Agricul
ture Department officials estimat
ed would total about one billion
dollars this year with maximum
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Referendum Favors State
Support of Private School
Solons Told to Call Convention, Amend Constitution
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia voters gave an emphatic push Monday
to a plan aimed at preventing comptilsory mixing of the races in public schools.
By a margin of more than tWa-to one they directed the General Assembly
to call a convention to amend the Constitution so state money may be used for
tuition grants in private non-sectarian schools.
A numU'r of sections chalked up record votes in a statewide turnout sur
passed only by the 620,000 re
corded by the Eisenhower
landslide in Virginia in 1952.
It was a decisive go-ahend
for the first step on plan
recommended by a study com
mission thai includes pupil as
signment for reasons other than
race as well as the tuition grants
Predlctloa Issued
Both advocates and opponents of
the convention call predicted the
Assistant Secretary
Of State Healy Quits
Resignation Effective on March 1
Assistant Secretary of State William E. Healy announced Mon
!! wnuM nn-v with m.rffin day he has resigned, effective March 1.
of about three to two Healy, who has held the job for eight years, Mid he does not
But Southside Virginia where !
the Negro population is heaviest
and anti-integration feeling the
strongest rolled up lopsided
margins for the convention.
Northern Virginia, where the
opposition strength was massed,
went against the plan as forecast
but in strength far short of-that
needed to balance the downstate
bulge.
Returns from 1677 of the state's
1862 voting places gave the con
vention call 287.HM,. while 136,110
were against it.
Gov. Thomas B. Stanley hailed
the result as something "of tre-
mendous assistance' to the Legis
lature in dealing with school prob
lems. "The results will be most help
ful to all who are concerned with
safeguarding our public schools
and at the same time protecting
our children against forced mixing
of the races in the classrooms,"
Stanley said.
know hit futur nlini. 4
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Secretary ot State Earl T. Newbry. who accepted Healy I
resignation, leaves office at the end of this year, as the constitu
tion says he can t seek a third
Candidate?
hardly think the Democrats will I farmer participation would be de
try to raise Ike'a bid to the f arm- j nigned to help' compensate farmers
ers. . for revenue they would lose on
- The President has made a very
accurate analysis of this persist
ent farm problem: wartime ex
pansion of production, continued
high production under the in
ducement of high price guaran
tees, difficulty of -disoosini of (he
excess at home or abroad. He
layi down three sound principles
s guides for a solution:
"First, future production of
crops in greatest surplus must be
adjusted both to the accumulated
stocks and to the potential markets.
First batch of margarine manufactured la Salem b shewn coming eft the line t the new Dutch fttald
plant Portland Road here Monday afternoon. John Blankevoort, plaat manager, is shown in the
background, and Mrs. George Osko it shown checking weights in foreground. Capacity of the new
plant will be about Z.000 pounds ol margarine per aour. i weive persons win oe empioyca at me
present time according to Edward Anderson, general sales manager. (Statesman photo)
Graham Sane,
"Second, producers of other , n 1 .
crops and of livestock must beirSVClliatriSlS
Meteor Chief
Says Fireballs
Seen in State
BEND m Phil Brogan, Pa-
luWered..i-sider
land idled under the program
"It would be grossly unfair,"
Eisenhower said, "to require
farmers to bear' the full burdens
of thie readjustment. Just as other
readjustments from war were
by the nation as a whole, so should
this." .. .
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Fulton Lewis
Apology falls
On Deaf Ears
RICHLAND, Wash. ' (fi - A pub
lic apology was made to Mrs.
Pearl A. Wanamaker Monday by
Fulton Lewis Jr., radio news com
mentator, for his broadcast about
her last Friday but the state su
perintendent of public instruction ' the alleged crime.
Tell Court
DENVER Ifl Two psychia
trists reported in court Monday
that John Gilbert Graham, ac
cused of blowing up a United Air
Lines plane, is sane.
The 23-year-old Graham "is
U.S. Secretary of
Defense to Get ,
Key to City Dump
' ALHAMBRA, Calif. UP - De
fense Secretary Charles Wilson is
about to become the only man
with a gold key to the Alhambra
city dump.
American Meteor Society, said one
and perhaps two fireballs flashed
through Oregon skies over the
weekend. ' f
Residents of the Klamath Fills
and Lakeview area reported they
had seen a green ball of fire arc
across the sky and vanish over the
mountains west of Klamath Falls
Sunday at about S p.m.
' Residents of the Bend area re
ported a similar green light speed
ing southeast from a spot between
Bend and Burns at about 3:20
P-m. , t
From the descriptions, Brogan
said, it appeared there were two
large meteors in the sky, lit by
friction with the earth's atmos
phere. They usually burn out be-
above normal intelligence . . . nndjfore reachinj, earth( he
his mental processes 'do not be
tray any illness of disease," said
the report of Dr. Leo V. Teplsy.
The report by Dr. R. Robert
Cohen said Graham is "sane end
mentally competent both at I hi 4
time and on Nov. 1, the day of
While W ilson was here last week
to serve as grand marshal of the
Rose Parade in nearby Pasadena
he parked his car in the munici
pal lot. When he returned the lot.
reached through a gate which also
serves the city dump, was locked.
He wai delayed minutes until
police. arxived to open it,
Later, receiving Pasadena's
hoporary key to the city, he re
marked: "Thanks, but I'd just as
sood have a key. to Alhambra's
city dump.", - ''
Monday Mayor D'Arcy Quinn
said he's having a gold key made
up and it will be sent to Wilson.
"Next time," said Quinn. "he
won't have to send (or police."
Dutch Maid
Margarine
In Production
Brogan, chairman of the Oregon
Geographic Board and a member
of the Oregon Academy of Science,
was named to the regional meteor
society post after the death of J.
Hugh Pruett at Eugene.
wasn't listening.
"I haven't changed my mind in
the least about going ahead with
the suit I plan to file against him
for libel," Mrs. Wanamaker said.
Lewis had incorrectly described
Mrs. Wanamaker'i brother as hav
ing taken "asylum" behind the
Iron Curtain and having spoken
critically of the United States.
The two doctors had been ob
serving Graham for a month.
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bureau, MtNary field. alm):
Variable condition! with a frw
ihowera. but Mrlod ol partial clear-
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Temperature at 11:I a.m. today
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Train Takes j
Kids to School
ROSEBURG (ft A prolonged
Christmas vacation ended for 150
Southern Oregon pupils Monday
when Southern Pacific Railroad
started a special two-mile run to
get them to school.
The pupils live on the other side
of a slide which .crashed down on
a Western Douglas County high
way in last month i disastrous
floods. It wilnake another 20 days
to clear the highway. Until then
the train will make the special run
twice a day between Scholfield
and Reedsport,
A tugboat will ferry other pas
sengers on the Umpqua River
around the slide area.
Weatherman Says
Mild, Day on Tap
The Salem area had relatively
mild weather Monday and the
same is expected today and to
night, according to forecasters at
McNary Field. .
A few showers are in the out
look for today, but weathermen
said there will also bo some
periods of partial clearing. Tem
peratures will remain about the
same. Rainfall in the 24 hour
period ending Monday midnight
was .18 of an inch.
TramVvay
At Mt. Hood
Shut Down
GOVERNMENT CAMP If) -The
Mt. Hood Tramway, which
has. had financial difficulties ever
since it went into , operation, has
Been closed.
The overhead cablecar system
which operates between" Govern
ment Camp and Timberline on Mt.
Hood needs repair, corporation
secretary Carl Lundell reported.
He said income from patronage
does not meet repair costs.
Plans for financing renovation
of the project are being discussed
with the Small Business Adminis
tration, Lundell added.
The Northwest's first general
distribution margarine firm began
operations Monday at its location
on North Portland road.
One hour after the wheels start
ed rolling at the new Dutch Maid
Food Products Co., as estimated
2,000 pounds of margarine was
ready for consumer markets in the
Salem area, announced Ed Ander-j
son, general sales manager.
Anderson said the initial payroll
of the firm numbers 12 persons,
with some increase probable in
the future. The firm expects to
maintain an : average- of 2,000
pounds per hour or about 16,000
pounds during Its single daytime
shift. John Blankevoort ia general
plant manager.
In the beginning, marketing will
be confined to consumers in the
Salem sector but eventually terri
tory will be expanded to include
valley-wide points from Roseburg
to Canby, Anderson said. The firm
also will make salad oil products.
Anderson added that "almost 100
per cent" of consumers approach
ed in this vicinity have contracted
with the new firm.I
Meanwhile article! of corporation
for a subsidary of the firm were
filed Monday. Called Sunrise Food
Co., the subsidary lists stock
holders as V. J. Osko, J. B. Daniels
and Harvey Muyskens, all of whom
are affiliated with the Dutch Maid
Co. The subsidary, at the same ad
dress, reportedly will provide an
additional trade name for salad oil
products to be produced by the
firm.
Oregon Pilot
Jumps, Pulled
From Ocean
' NEWPORT BEACH. Calif, (fl -Marine
Sgt. Robert Riggs. X. of
Pondosa, Ore., bailed out of a
flaming Sky Raider Monday and
was rescued two houri later ,(by
a fishing vessel four miles off
shore. "
He was transferred to I Coast
Guard craft and brought ashore
in fair condition, suffering only
from exposure. The rescue was
made in soupy fog.
Two others aboard the Sky Raid
er brought the burning plane
down at nearby El Toro Marine
Base, where crash crews extin
guished the flames. They were M.
Sgt. Clarence H. Graves, Orange,
Calif., the pilot, and Peter E. Mc
Eachtron, El Toro, radioman 2.C.
. -Neither, was in jured
term.
Healy said he doesnt know yet
whether he might seek political
office this year.
In the past, he has expressed
a desire to run for Congress, and
he has been mentioned as a can
didate for Secretary of State. Ha
also would like to be state motor
vehicle administrator.
In his present job, be runs the
motor vehicle department. This
department will be transferred
on July 1 to the governor, who
will name the aew bead of the ,
department:
Before coming here, Healy waa
manager of the Ashland Chamber
of Commerce for two yean.
State Planning
Hearings on
Federal Dams
The Oregon Hydroelectric Com
mission will hold a hearing in
Baker Jan. 20 on the Idaho Power
Company's application for i per
mit to build the Brownlee and
Hells Canyon dams'
The hearing will be held de
pite a Federal Power Commis-
sion ruling that the company can
build three dams Oxbow,
Brownlee and Hells Canyon.
When asked why the state has
to hold a hearing after the fed
eral government already has
granted the permit, State Engi
neer Lewis A. Stanley said:
"There is a question whether
the federal government or the
states have jurisdiction over cer
tain streams.
"The Idaho Power Company
showed, in asking for a state
permit, that it wants to comply
with state law. So we will hold
a hearing on its application."
The state commission had
hearing on the Oxbow project
several years ago.
New Real Estate Corporation
To Establish Downtown Office
"Keep year eyes , Hopluw
from hero eeHey,
Hepkia-" "
George Jones to
Head Freedom
Crusade in County
George Jones, Salem attorney, ia
Marion County chairman for the
1056 Crusade for Freedom activities.',-,
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His appointment was announced
Monday by state loaders In the
campaign Feb. 12-22 for money and
support for the Radio Free Europe
station which broadcasts to behind
the Iron Curtain. .
State chairman is Lofton Tatum,
Portland. Scrolls will be circulated
throughout the state for signature!
of eitizeni in support of privately
financed Radio free Europe,
J. L. Himmel and Roy Ferris,!
Salem realtors, announced Mon
day they are forming a new real
estate corporation and establish
ing offices this month at li s.
Liberty St., along with Jamei H.
Nicholson, general insurance
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The office building to be occu
pied by them Jan. 18 has been
a real estate and insurance loca
tion for more than 30 years, It
was vacated a few days ago by
the Grabenhorst real estate firm
which moved a half Mock south.
In the new firm named Him
mel It Ferris, Realtors, Himmel
will specialize in industrial, busi
ness and farm properties while
Ferris specialties in residential
property. The company will have
at lent five additional salesmen
and will deal in real estate ex-
jeluilvely. '
Himmel figured recently as
real estate operator in the Ameri
can Can Co. acquisition of North
Salem property for a new factory.
He has been in real estate in
Salem for 10 years and has con
ducted his own business the past
five years at 5S3 N. Capitol 'SL
This location will be given up
when he moves hi! staff to the
downtown office,
Ferris, who has handled trans
actions involving 1300,000 worth
of residential and other proper
ties in the past year, has been in
real estate here eight yean.
Nicholson has bandied general
insurance since he joined his late
father in business in 1940. He
Is a city alderman and a sports
enthusiast who is a former Uni
versity f Oregon football and
baseball star. He has been oper
ating ia the Livuley Building.
GunmenNet
$25,000 Sura
SAUGUS, Mass. orTwo masked
gunmen robbed the Saugus Trust
Co. of approximately $25,000 Mon
day after holding a dozen cus
tomers and 11 employes at bay
with automatic pistols.
The holdup occurred IS minutes
before the bank vault was set to
open by the time clock.
Jason Lee, who emerged Monday
aa potential candidate for Sa
'. lent mayor.
Jason Lee
May Run for
Salem Mayor
Jaion Ue, ' Salem attorney,
took out petition forms Monday
as a possible candidate for Salem
mayor.
But he said he hasn't decided
whether to enter the contest.
Mayor Robert F. White expects
to become a candidate for re
election, and if he should change
his mind, Alderman Russell . E.
Bonesteele probably would run.
Lee said last night he had nlfe
tained" petition forms from the
city recorder in order to study
the requirements. Beyond that,
said Lee, "I am giving conscien
tious and careful consideration
to the matter but I have no defi
nite announcement wt this time."
Lee aaid the possibility ot run
ning for some other office also
would be considered. He was a
candidate ior State Legislature
at the Republican primary 'two
years ago.
The city s non-partisan election
will coincide with the state pri
mary in May. City elections are
usually decided In May, but some
times require runoffs in Novem
ber. -
I.ee, an attorney here since
1949, is a former Junior First
Citizen of Salem. He has a wife
and three children, lives at 1500
S Liberty St. He, is a. former
deputy district attorney and be
fore opening private law practice
in 1952 had served with the State
Tax Commission staff and had
practiced law in Washington,
D.C., and Portland. '
Road Accident
Proves Fatal
To Salem Man
A 23-year-old Salem man died '
early Monday morning in a Salem
hospital, hours after he had
been crushed between two cars
in a highway accident Bear Mon
mouth. ,
The death of Orval W.'Halvor
son, 1420 Park St., was the 4
first ot 1931 ia the -Marion-1
Polk County Area.
His wife, Mrs. Marcia Halvor
son,. 19, injured in the urn
collision, was reported in fair
condition Monday in Salem Mem
orial Hospital She reportedly re
ceived aMeg fracture and head
laceration, r- -
(Additional details in See. L
Page 2.)
AF Tells Fat
Flier sJle'rtiicGl
BEN-Gl'RION BACKED
JERUSALEM, Israel Sector If)
The Israeli Parliament, by vote
of (9 to 31 Monday night endorsed
the policy of Premier David 3en
Gurion and Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett that "maintenance
ot peace is better than victory in
war." .
Fong Switches
Attorneys
PORTLAND (ft - Wayne Fong
switched attorneys at the last
minute Monday and his first de
gree murder trial was postponed
until next month. 1
He ii accused of slaying Diane
Hahk. IS, in 19M. His wife, Sherry,
Charged with Fong in the slaying,
was convicted of second degree
murder last month. ,
Or Quit Flying
RAMSTELV. Germany UK - Tha
U. S. 12th Air Force Monday or
dered fat fliers to trim down their
waistline or be grounded.
Maj. Gea. Robert M. Lee, com
mander of the 12th, said ia a let
ter to personnel in Germany and
France:
"Since medical evidence indi
cates that overweight is an im
portant factor in degenerative dis
ease processes, this physical de
fect Is considered to compromise
performance of duty and, there
fore, will not be waived by. this
headquarters."
Two Salem Youths
Said Alternates
For Air Academy
Two Salem youths were named
among four alternates announced
Monday In Washington, D. C, by
Rep. Walter Norblad for appoint
ment to the United Statei Naval ;
Academy, Annapolis, Md.
They are Ronald P. Johnson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf John
son, 1833 W. Nob Hill; and
George Jacobson, son of Mrs.
George Jacobson, 1030 Howard
St. Both boys are aeniors at
Examinations are scheduled
March 28 for admission to the
academy in July.
South Salem High SchooL
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Pants Explosion in
Salem Rocks Home
West Salem, usually a peaceful
community in which to live, was
the scene of two explosions Monday.
One. a pair of pants, caused
painful burn! to Mrs. Ben Friesen,
besides damaging the house to tha
extent of several hundred dollars.
The other, at a private gasoline
pump, caused extensive lire dam-
hour and a half after the incident.
All doors and window! of the
utility room were blown off, the
roof wai raised about four Inches,
a garage door was blown oft and
dishes were broken and a refrig
erator moved in tha adjacent kit
chen, firemen said. Damage wks
estimated about $oOO. Mrs. Friesen
was treated by a doctor for burns
age to a 1934 model station wagon, about the legs, lace and head, fire
The pants exploded about 4:40 men said.
p.m. at 1231 Sixth St., west saicm
firemen said, as Mrs. Friesen was
about to remove them from an
automatic washer after having
cleaned them, apparently with an
Inflammable material. Source of
the spark which set off the ex
plosion was undetermined, said
firemen, who were called about aa
FRIENDSHIP PACT
WASHINGTON iff - Costa Rica ,
and Nicaragua Monday signed at ,
agreement Implementing a friend-'
ship pact. The two countries en-
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in 1955. V . . .
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The new, station wagon of M. O.
Potts caught fire about S p m
while the gas tank was being filled
from a private tank at 1W0 Wal
lace Rd. Fire started In the tank,
apparently from static electricity.
West Salem firemen said. Damage
from fire, smoke and water was
estimated at mora than f250.
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