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H "x n n u r-n 1 l-Vn 17 Torrential Rains Pelt Down aluratedArea O n Alr e a dy & SAX FRANCISCO - North coastal California, already drenched beyond the saturation point, was hit by a new seriei of floodi Saturday night as' heavy rain continued to pelt down. The new flood area ranged from the San Mateo peninsula, south of San Francisco, north to the Ore gon line.' The rains, which started Friday night and dumped 3" inches of rain here in a day. were expected to continue through Sunday night Reds' Schools Said Getting U.S. Funds Veterans Attending Under GI Bill WASHINGTON OP -.Tke Sea-, ate Investigations subcommittee wlQ lanack bearings Taesday charges that the Veterans Ad ministratis bas bad ta spend mlllloM U send war veterans Is ' four Cemmanist-ewaed private schools. ' Chairman McClellaa (D-Ark) declined Jo name the schawls or disclose their location In ad vaace. They reportedly are lo cated in Pennsylvania and New York state. McClellaa emphasized that aa der existing federal law, the VA apparently bas no right lo with hold payment to the schools, even it it should find that Cam- munists ma. them , Aa objective or the Inquiry, he said, Is to determine whether new leglsla- Mow it needed. la a statement Saturday Mc Clellaa said the hearings will start behind closed doors to (Mis "approximately eight witnesses concerning four such schools." He said the hearings will show how the schools profited from a payment of tuition and other benefits provided by the CI bill. "A preliminary inquiry by the subcommittee staff indicates that these four schools alone have received over three million dol lars from the United States gov. ernment for veterans' tultloa since IMS." be Mid. Ike Accepted for Ballot Spot in New Hampshire CONCORD, N. H. A telegram was sent late Saturday to President Eisenhower in Washington advising him that "petitions which appear to qualify" his name to be placed on the ballot, March 13, in New Hampshire's preference primary have been filed. The message was sent to the White House by Harry E. Jack son, deputy secretary of state of New Hampshire after he accepted filed by Maurice Grant, DtP HMDS RTOCDQQ Journalistic enterprise in Amer ica has often been demonstrated and in a variety of ways, but that exhibited in the current issue of LOOK magazine, "The Shocking Story sd APPROVED KILLING IN MISSISSIPPI" is quite unusual It is the narratlva written by William Bradford Huie of the kill ing of the ' Chicago 14-year-old 4a1ii-ju4 Kav Vmmjitt Till haMl certainly on the account of those who Just a few months ago were acquitted of charges of murder and of kidnaping. It is In truth shocking because of its frankness, and sickening because of the dark picture it gives of race relations in the black belt of Mississippi, the rich, cotton-growing Delta section. First you get a picture of white women s insecurity in this pre dominantly Negro population. Second, you get a picture of a lustful, bragging Negro lad from Chicago, Third, you get a,full view of the white man's domination of the whole region. The facts of the Emmett Till case are pretty well known. The boastful lad sought to prove his claim of relations with white wo men by asking the young white wife who was tending store for a date. The story got abroad; she didn't tell it. Her husband Roy Bryant, heard it from a Negro on his return from a trucking trip and called on his half-brother, J. W. Milam, to help him round up (Continued on editorial page, 4.) petitions Manchester automobile dealer. Earlier Jackson had ruled one of two petitions filed by Grant was invalid because it lacked the neces sary SO valid signatures. Grant then filed a new petition with 56 signatures which were ruled valid. A second petition with 76 signa tures was ruled valid earlier by Jackson. The President's name will appear on the ballot at the first in the nation primary unless he signifies his desire to withdraw his name within 10 days. Should the President permit his name to remain on the ballot, it might be construed as indicating Eisenhower's willingness to seek a second term. The White House indicated earli er this week statement would be Issued if the president's name was officially listed. A reliable source told the Associated Press the Wliite House would approve of keeping the President's name on the ballot. (Additional New Hampshire politi cal story. Sec. 1, Page 11.) Disc Jockey Adlai Raises 0ver$7,000 as far aoufh as Paso Robles and Fresno. ' Both the multi-forked Eel and the Mad Rivers were out of their banks at places again in Humboldt County, where Christmas week floods caused unprecedented dev astation. 1 However., weather bureau men and disaster specialists who were alerted to move swiftly into criti cal areas did not expect for the time at least that the new floods reach the severity of those which swept the region three weeks ago. Oat of Banks . Assistant civil defense director J. Ted Gamble at Eureka said that the Eel again was out of its banks near Ferndale In southern Hum boldt County and was washing again across the Waddington road, where-the first fatality of the De cember floods was reported, i Gamble sent out an emergency order for 10,000 sacks to make sandbags to plug a rift in the le vees along the Mad River north of Eureka. He said Blue Lake, a town of 830 about 13 miles northeast of Eureka, was threatened, i In the northwest corner of the state, the Smith River reached flood stage of 30 feet at the town of Smith River in Del Norte Coun ty. It was expected to crest at around 32 feet sometime during the night. Klamath Rising ' The big Klamath River, which rises in Oregon and drains. almost the entire tier of mountains in ex treme northwest California, was rising steadily. In the San Francisco Bay area, flooding creeks and slides caused damage in San Mateo and Marin County towns. A part of the city of Mill Valley in southern Marin County ' was flooded and nearly - 500 persons were driven, from their homes in nearby Tamalpais Valley when wa ter rushed down off Mt. Tamal pais to cover the valley floor two to three feet. Mindful of the devastating De cember floods, which cost 62 lives, 500 million dollars and flooded a million acres, Army engineers and civil defense officials throughout northern California were on a con stant standby alert again Saturday night. ' YUBA CITY. Calif. (1 Civilian defense- coordinator Robert M. Stevenson Saturday night ordered most of the previously flooded areas in Sutter County and Yuba City evacuated by S a. m. Sunday Dy some s.ooo people. m hi m jav I ft I III I II II II II II II kill II I H KI.VMliO- I 1 III II V 1 I I I II II 1 1 II I I i i i'ii,).' . I ii ami ii' i in i i i i-aw si mm mm mm mm mm t r : i v a kaw - i i M - m a -Ail' ..-c --,,-. I - Ml VI llflilfTM NUNDID 1651 1 s WW 105h Year 3 SECTIONS-3UAGIS The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, January IS, 1954 MIC! 10 No. 294 Paper Claims Underground Pentag on Eyed Fred Meyer Store Closes Door in Salem Fred Meyer Drugs closed Its nowmown store ai tne enu i the business day Saturday with the promise of .reopening in the near future in its owa new build ing. ; ...... , But site of the structure still remained to be decided, accord ing to Hal M." White, Portland, officer in the Fred Meyer chain. White said several properties . ...J .R.iI.roflMi in a lem and that Mr, Meyer had been in Salem during the week in specting the possible sites. The present Salem store at 148 N. Liberty , St closed its doors at 9:45 p.m. Saturday and re maining stocks will be trans ferred to Fred Meyer warehouse in Portland. . ' It was Indicated that selection of a site for the new store, which may include mora general mer chandising thai the old store, would probably bo revealed in the next few weeks. WAUKEGAN, 111. iff) - A musi cally hep Adlai E. Stevenson tried his hand as disc jockey Saturday. Cash and pledged contributions totaling $1,070 were received be fore Stevenson left the air. By late afternoon the figure had reached $7,516. A goal of $6,000 had been set. , . . . . - Stevenson announced the titles of the four popular records played, made two appeals for contributions and told a funny story about him self during his stint on radio sta tion WKRS. ' -"': ' Before spinning Bing Crosby's "Next Time It Happens," the man who seeks the Democratic presi dential nomination recalled a train trip he made with his son, John Feu Stevenson, a few years ago. John barged up to his father on that occasion, interrupted a con versation the elder 'Stevenson was having with a group of important people anoLedJor0copiesoli his father s autograph. "Why 10?" asked Stevenson. "If I can get 10 from you, a man In the next car will trade me one he has of Bing Crosby," said the then 11-year-old John. John now is 19. Stevenson was asked to make the disc jockey appearance by the Lake County chapter of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Par alysis. He lives in nearby Liberty ville. ------ r- HARRISBIJRG. Pa. (ffl - A second atomic-age underground Pentagon will be constructed in the mountains of south-central Pennsylvania to supplement one al ready built in the same area, the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot-News said Saturday. The newspaper said the move is the "second phase of a far-reach ing plan to burrow beneath the earth to provide retreats for vital governmental functions In ' the event of nuclear attack on Wash ington." Defense Dept. officials de clined comment. Tne rainm-News said the new installation will be located near the center of an 18,000-acre area about five miles northwest of Greencastle in Franklin County. Construction on the new project "will start soon," the Patriot-News said. Defense Department officials, with a Chambersburg, Pa., attorn ey acting as their agent, have quietly purchased the land over a five-year period at a cost of about $618,000, the paper said. . ' The attorney, George Black, de clined comment. Blaze Destroys 22,000 Clucks GAINESVILLE, Ca. Iff) - A $25, 000 blaze starting from a grass fire brought death in numbers sel dom equaled anywhere Saturday. Wiped out without a survivor were 22,000 two-week-old chicks housed m a two-story, 22 by 400 foot building nine miles from Gainesville. - . The loss was only partly covered" TiyThsuranceTTT' : T Oregon Indians Threaten to Seek U.N. Membership FLORENCE, Ore. Iff) Three Indian tribes threaten to seek seats la the United Nations as a ovoreiga people, If the federal government eentiaaes lo Ignort them. Their attorney, James Greta, a justice of peace here, said the tribes the confederated tribes of the Sluslaw, Lower Umpqna aad Coos Bay have never been com aeotated for their lands aad art getting Impatient. - The treaty the tribes signed oa Aug. 11, 1$53, was aever ratified by the U.S. Senate, be said and so the Indians claim they never gave vp their sovereignty. They owa a strip of Oregon coast which Includes the cities of Florence, Reeflsport and Coos Bay, be says. "We claim these tribes are free people and aot subject to federal laws," Green declared. "It wea't take 1$ minutes to settle this if the government lives ap to Its ob ligates." About 160 million dol Ian will do it. . Otherwise, he said. "We Intend to apply for seats la the United Nations as sovereigns." - Reds Sentence Correspondent! :erson: If Callc L 6 dto enate i Shirk tece Men Provide Father's Touch at Institution ii V. rs "T" rW i 1 4 - 1 , I To Six Years VIENNA. Austria Iff) - Radio Budapest announced Saturday that Endre Marton, a correspondent of the Associated Press in communist-ruled Hungary, has been sen tenced fo six years in prison on a charge of espionage. His wife, Ilona, who worked for the United Press there, was sen tenced to three years, the radio said. ; The Marions are' Hungarian na tionals. Marton, 44, had been a part-time correspondent for the AP in Budapest from 1947 until he was arrested apparently last February. Mrs. Marton had writ ten for the UP about the same length of time. They were accused of spying for the U. S. Intelligence service. Radio Budapest said the Marions and three other Hungarians were sentenced by a Hungarian military court. No date of trial was men tioned. Of the other defendants, Bela Koposi was sentenced to life in prison, Arpad Ferenc to IS years and Balasx Cornel to eight years. All were reported found guilty of espionage. The broadcast said Kaposi and Cornel were employed by the American legation in Budapest be fore their arrest. Delays Final PORTLAND Little girls keep part-time daddies busy entertaining them at Our Lady af Providence Nursery here. Volunteer fathers have proved popular with youngsters. Visiting dads are, left to right, W. A. Livingston, L. O. O'Rourke (seated front) Frank Sweeney, Dick Mitchell (partially hidden), and Charles Kaffler. (AP Wirephoto). n ' - .. Volun teer Daddies Romp With Children in Portland Nursery By GORMAN HOGAN I they are placed in units where PORTLAND Iff) - Mike, like eir- eht to 10 boys and girls of vary- ery normal 5-year-old boy. had. up in Nv together and eat to- until a few months ago, a desptr- iner. uroine ana Bisiers are ate need for a daddy. He's got one now because an understanding woman recruited a group of men who opened their hearts and arms to some 50 young sters at Our Lady of Providence visit always kept together. Keep Same 'Daddies' A ntarlv it nnuihl th tame aaaaies piay wim mem oa cscn Leap From Police Car Injures Man A Salem man suffered slight In juries early Saturday morning when he leaped from a moving po lice car bringing him ' to head quarters on a charge of driving while intoxicated. State police said speed of the car . was about 45 miles per hour. A Officer Norman "Johnson said the arrested man, Joseph Samuel Austin, 48, 643 Edgewater St., rolled a considerable distance after jumping from the car on 99E a snort distance norm oi Salem. Aus-!., t-H. with nm reluctance. tin was taken to Salem General i "j giwsg tt was a case of just nusyiuu iur irc.uiiem in cud anu t0A manv women." she said. nursery here. True, Mike's Is only a part-time daddy and the lively tow-head has to share him with five to 10 other kids. Still, he's tickled pink with the arrangement. So are the oth ers. . . - . ..- So, too, are the part-time fathers who spend one hour twice a week doing what a good dad does the world over. Between 7 and I p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays they romp with the children, read to them, play games with them and just plain cuddle them. Finally they help tuck the happy youngsters into their beds and give (hem a last kiss, amid shouts of "goodnight daddy." "Operation Daddy." as Mrs. Wil liam Newton, Jr. calls it, began as she realized one day what a stir a manxaused when one, on a rare occasion, showed up in the nursery. Awestruck by Men The 'youngsters, many of them abandoned by their fathers, were awesuuck at the appearance of a man. Interested as long as the man kept his distance, ' the children would shy off at his approach. Mrs. Newton,, a striking 55-year-old grandmother, had heard of cases, too, in which children adopt ed from the nursery accepted their Children of all races, colors and River Yields Girl's Body; Probe Starts bruises and later lodged in Mar ion County jail under $300 bail. am. on 99Eln the vicinity of Lake Labish, according to Officer John son. More Rain Seen T By Weathermen Almost three-quarters Inch of rain fell lightly on Salera Satur day, according to McNary. Field weathermen. 1 . Intermittent rain will continue today and showers are predicted for Monday, they aald. Tempera tures which ranged from 38-53 Saturday, were expected io-re-inain about tha same. 2 Plaques to Mark Site Of Salem's First Store -- Two bromW tablets commemorat ing early Salem history will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the site of thry's first store. The site Is the northeast corner 'of S. Commercial and Ferry Streets, now occupied by the Allstate In surance Co. j-1 "i p " Unveiling ceremonies, held under auspices of the Salem Chamber of Commerce,' will be participated in by Mayor Robert F. White; Calvin Fentress Jr., president of Allstate; Dr. Burt Brown Barker, vice pres ident of the University ot Oregon; Chamber President Elmer Berg; William Hammond, former Cham ber president; and Bailey M. Bar rett, resident manager of Allstate. One of the two tablets originally was unveiled in 1931' on the spot where Toomai Cox erected Salem's firafc-::ttwrdurlng: the winter of 1847-48. After a subsequent build ing wai'razed to make way for the present new structure, the tablet was salvaged. It will share the spotlight Wednesday with a new tablet, depicting the original store which stood at the location. Dr. Barker, great grandson of Thomas Cox and donor of tha, first tablet, suggested a likeness of the fiat store on the , second tablet. The second plaque is a gift of the 'Allstate Insurance Co. " The historic site also was loca tion of Salem's first post office.. "The Chamber of Commerce is most happy to sponsor this cere mony and to have, these markers identify that corner as an im portant part of the history of Sa lem." Mid Chamber President Berg. T,W-?d Roman Catholic religious order, operate the nursery with facilities, always full, for 96 children. Women Take Over Dozens of women contribute one day a week to play with the chil dren, tike them on excursions to the zoo and the country and help the staff of sisters and paid wom en employes feed and bathe them. Serviceman Arrives Late RENO, Nev. (ff) A gas service man arrived at Henry Strable's motel-Saturday -to investigate a reported leak. The disheveled own er met him with a casual: "You're a little late." Only minutes before, an explo sion had ripped through Strable's apartment, knocking the building from its foundation and splintering the furniture. No one was Injured. " The Weather Sikm Portland Bker Mdfor .. : North Bnd Rotcbars Mis. Ml. frHj. U Jt .74 44 J . 11 .08 i -45 n M S 4.1 .. .M .. . M 3 IS Sin Francisco ...... 9 SI I S4 Lot Anftlei I? SI .00 Chicago 44 .00 NV York M 30 T Willamette Hlver 1.7 feet. FORECAST llrom U. S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem I; Cloudy with Intermittent rain to day and tonight: moetly cloudy with occasional shower Monday. Tha high today, M-M; and the low to night, 44-4S: the high Monday SS-U. Temperature at 11.01 m. today wu 44. IAMM PRICimATIOW Since Start of Weather Year Sept 1 This Year Last Ytar Pormal MU 1J.M till GARIBALDI, Ore. MTt-The body of an 18-year-old Garibaldi high school girl was found in the Kilches River Saturday, and police began an 'investigation. John Hathaway, Tillamook Coun ty district attorney, said two other teen-agers told him the girl, Thea Silk, had fallen into the river ac-1 cldentally. He said Mona Isom, IS, Gari baldi, and William Ramsey, 17, Bay City, told this story under questioning: Ramsey and the two girls started for a dance at Tillamook, but de cided instead to go to a secluded parking place In Kilches River Park. , , Ramsey's car became stuck In mud. When he set out for help, the girls said they did not want to be seen in the park and so would hide when they saw him return ing.'" ; He got help from Paul Parker, a resident of the area, who brought his car, pulled Parker's car from the mud, then left. Miss Isom then emerged from the darkness and said the girls went to hide when they saw head lights approaching. As she was getting behind a clump of trees, she heard Miss Silk cry, "Help." They went In the direction of the cry, and found an abrupt drop of II feet to rocks and swift water. , The two said they had not gone -children still have.-not-been.Jto... aiilbcriileswitli ...their story at adopted or returned to their par-once, because they were fright ents when they reach 18 months 'ened. Hathaway said. For years women have been volunteering to help the Sisters of Incompetency Count Against Weiglimasters Ruled Invalid C h a r g i of Incompetency against stats log truck weigh masters are without foundation, members of the 1959 legislative Interim Committee on Highways said in a statement Issued Satur day. A s earing on the matter was held Friday. , .The charges had been brought by representatives of the United j Log Truckers Association, which claimed, as bssis of its stand, that j a Coos county weignmaster was guilty 'of misconduct in an inci dent involving Eugene Creamer, Coquilla logger. It was charged that the weignmaster ignored Creamer's request that be call aa ambulance after tha logger was struck by a log while adjust ing his load which was over weight ' Charges of the association were denied by the State High way Department . Both Creamer and his wife testified at the hearing and the committee said their statements did not support or substantiate information given by the. truck er association. ; ; .A committee study on the feas ibility of transferring, the weigh masters' functions from the Highway Department to the state police or some other state agency la in no way connected with complaints from the truckers' association. creeds come to the nursery, a member of the United Fund and the Oregon Chest. Many babies are those of unwed mothers, oth ers are from broken homes. Like the children, the part-time dads 'are drawn from many na tionalities and religions, and Mrs. Newton hopes for an even wider response. She has made appeals to many men's organizations. To understand the joys of twice-a-week fatherhood you need only talk to the big-hearted fellows who already are on the job. There's A. C. ' Hartungr a 56-year-old machinist, who found that once he got started he "just can't let these kids down." He didn't say so, but a friend disclosed that Hartung gave up his weekly bowl ing session so he could be a dad. Gets 'Good Workout' "They give me a pretty good workout," he said as he trotted around the room giving a 3-year-old a piggy-hark ride. "Raised five of my own and this sure brings- back some good mem ories."- Another old hand with kids is Art Denfield, 64, a retired ice cream parlor operator who bas 23 grandchildren. "I've got enough grandkids to start a place like this myself," Denfield said, "But I still get a big wallop out of coming here." In contrast is W. A. Livingston, a middle-aged banker who has no children of his own. A friend told him about the nursery and he hasn't missed a week since. Hope It Helps Kids "It does something for me and I hope It does something for the youngsters." he said. On a previous Visit Livingston was so enthralled helping with a color crayon session he didn't discover until he got home that his shoes and sox had received a .generous coloring, too,, ; Dick Mitchell, 27. an unmarried salesman, is there finding out what he can expect when he gets a family of his own. It was the children's reaction to Mitchell, a friend of the Newton family, which prompted-Mrs-Mewton. .to get the program going. As chauf feur for Mrs.. Newton, Mitchell used to put In a solitary appear ance at the nursery on occasion. Not Shy Anymore ."Since then there's been a big change in the children." ..he said as" a half down little girls swarm ed over and around him. "They're not shy anymore." That was ob vious. An attorney, a tractor company owner, a diecaster, a painter and a half doien University of Port end students were all busy being daddies, too, rolling on the floor, playing horse and passing out i goodies. i And how about the youngsters? Mike was so taken with his new I found dad he telephoned to remind him to be sure to come that night. Informed that work made this impossible, Mike, in his innocence of the work-a-day world, replied: "Tell the man (the boss) you ve got to come. Black-haired Julia summed R up In three words: , i "I love daddies.1 End of Month COOS BAY, Ore (AP) -Republican Gov. Paul Patter son indicated Saturday he is . strongly considering contesting the reelection bid of Sen. Morse D-Ore. He said he will have his mind made up by Feb. 1. If enough people want him to, he said, he will not "shirk" the responsibility of running for senator. Republican leaders have' been' urging Patterson to run against Morse since Patterson's smashing election victory in 1954, when Democrats won most other offices in Oregon. But the governor had been publicly noncommital until Saturday. Surprised Listeners Patterson addressed an informal Republican group of non-political subjects, then surprised listeners at the end. Ben. R. Chandler, Coos Bay banker and chairman of the Ore gon Highway Commission, asked, "Got anything else to report, gov ernor?" "Yes.M Patterson replied, "you'll know two weeks from today." He went on to say he had been traveling around the state asking whether the people would rather that he carry out the job to which they elected him or take on a "new political Job." Wife Willing He said his wife was willing to go along with any decision be might make. He told a reporter later he did not want to be pinned down on the "two week" but that his decision would be ready by Feb. I. Patterson, as president of the Oregon Senate,- automatically bo came governor when Douglas Mc Kay resigned to become secretary of the Interior ' under President Eisenhower in 1952. He was overwhelmingly elected governor in 1954 over his Demo cratic opponent. Morse Vote Getter If Patterson runs he will oppose another big vote-getter in Morse. The senator easily won election as a Republican in 1944 and 1950. He left the GOP in 1952 to support Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson and has since changed his registration to Demo cratic. Traffic Claims 2 Pedestrians PORTLAND (it - Heavy rain hit Portland again Saturday. Two pedestrians were killed by automo biles in poor visibility and earth slides struck at several points in the west hills. The traffic victims were Jesus E. Dial. 63, and Corrine BuckwelL , 72. both of Portland. Six other pedestrians were Injured by cars, and there were a number of auto collisions. - One slide. In the hills blocked three lanes of the four-lane Canyon Road, a main route west from tlie city. Slides also were reported oa three other streets. , - , i Detroit News Strike Ends DETROIT. Mich. ijfU-The eighth . l.a nkMa t aavia Saturday night with Detroit's thrre strike shut metropolitan dally newspapers. 1 Publishers immediately an, nounced the 45-day shutdown would end Monday with publica tion of the afternoon Times and News, The Free Press plans to publish Tuesday morning. Today's Statesmen Sec. fsge Classified ' Comes the Dawn .. L... 4 Comics Ill Crossword II.- 7 Editorials 1 4 Garden ........ 11 A ' Home Panorama .... II i 1-3 Obituaries ............ II. Oor Valle II 12 Radio, TV :.!..:...-. II 7 Sports I. I, Star Gazer I 1 Valley 11.. 12 Wirephoto Page . II I