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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1956)
f 1 j ( ...... i 1 1 V f.."v .'."" i : -a Li W y u v j V . kj ki 1 J i r Rogue River Work Tops New Requests WASHINGTON ( Presi dent Eisenhower's budget nn sage U Congress Monday, carry ing kit reemmrdd expendl tarrt for flood control, navigation and rcctamatloa for the year starting July 1, asked money to Karl five aew Oregon projects. Appropriations totaling IMJ.IM. Jse were proposed far Washing ton and Oregon. The cam of SO millioa dollar Wai asked of Congress ky Presl .dent Eisenhower Moaday for The Dalles look and dam oa Ike Col ambla Hirer , largttt liable amount requested for aay of tke aalioa't water resource! projects. ' At Portland, Bonneville Power Administrator William Pearl (aid requests for tke BPA. alas hold aver money from prior approo r I a tl 0 a s and relmbursemeats, would give the agency $:Mii,00o inr next year, aooui i'i millions under this year, (la Salem, Cot. Paul Patterson aid Maaday he was "very pleased" because of the Pacific Northwest projects wklch Presl deal Elsenhower recommeaded U Congress.) Chief Joseph Dam woald re ceive ll'i milUoas a d e r the Presldeat's proposals, aad the McNary feck and dam sli mil lions. - The President's requests In cluded $17,70e,M for mi eoa struction. Largest of tke suggested "aew starts" Is reclamatioa project oa tke Rogue River, Talent Dirlsloa, Southwestern Oregoa, for which t:.400,0o was contemplate a total east of !),- 2C3.600. The other proposed aew proj ects are: , The Amazon and Jehasoa Creek flood control projects to protect Eugene and Creskam, Ore., tlW, 00 eack. . ; Malheur Impravemeat District, Ore., $55,000. Ckaaaeling of the I'mpqoa and Sckolfield rivers, Reedsport, Ore., 54,00. (Additional details, sec. 1. page I.) Rivers , Ease Pressure On California Levees , (Picture on wirephoto page) I SAN FRANCISCO MV-The swirling, yellow flood of the Feath- er River reached its peak Monday at Yuba City, the levees held, nd the river started a slow descent. The city of 9,000 had been spared an Inundation such as that ( Christmas week when the river pierced the dikes, 33 persons erished in the Yuba City area, and property damage there exceeded )75 million dollars. The rich farm area was not fully out of danger, however. The soft levees were being hard pressed by the massive volume of water. But Col. William K. Cassidy, Army division engineer, said: "I wouldn't call the situation critical now." The river crested at 68.3 feet. The levees at their lowest spot are 70 feet tall. The torrential rains that started last Friday night and continued through Sunday morning gave way to bright skies and a warm sun Monday. It was colder in the high mountains and melting of the snowbanks stopped, lessening the runoff into the soggy valleys. Oregon weather story, Sec. 1, Page 2.) JLP 3MG03 Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Frank lin, tenth of thirteen children born to Josiah Franklin, a candle maker of Boston, and his wife. His life story is familiar to all Americans, how he began as a printer's apprentice, became printer and editor in Philadel phia, and went on to fame is in ventor, philosopher and diplomat Printers regard him as their pa tron saint, a title to which he has valid claim is a competent , craftsman and master printer, also a typefounder. But he out grew his shop and his 4tore to become a world figure. Bernard Fay, one of the best biographers of Franklin calls him The Apostle of Modern Times." Others have called him the mod ern American. The adjective fits, for he wai In many respects the forerunner of the American age. His wis in inquisitive mind, cur ious about such things is light ning, uninhibited by dogma, giv en to philosophic disquisition, yet all the while Intensely practical. He lived in an age of rationalism and awakening, described by Henry Adams in his "Education of Henry Adams" is follows: , "Evidently 1 new viriety of mind had appeared . . . Not one considerable man of science dared face the stream of thought; and the whole number of those who acted, like Franklin, as elec tric conductors of the new forces from nature to man, down to the (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Blackie Audett In Jail Again PORTLAND ( Theodore James "Blackie" Audctt. $4, first arrested in 1921 and an inmate of prisons much of the time since, was ' jailed here Monday on a charge that he helped in a 1953 bank burglary at Cottonwood, Ida- bo. : ' On his most recent Oregon prison stay he authored a book, "Rap Sheet, and some months (go 1 magazine (True) published a di f est of it. t Audett was questioned about the Cottonwood burglary soon after it happened. After the questioning he was returned to Oregon State Penitentiary to finish out a 7'A- Expense, Income in Balance Near 366 Billion Asked; Tax Cut Proposal Absent WASHINGTON (AP)-Pre sident Eisenhower submitted 25 ZXP&S"!Z& J : unceu oOT.ooo.wAj.iAAj Duagei for the 1957 fiscal year start ing July 1. He called on the legislators for the "utmost coop eration" in keeping it balanced. Immediate reaction on Capitol Hill was praise from Republicans who said Eisenhower- was keeping faun with the people and a bit of hooting from Democrats, some of whom said they were "astonished" and "discouraged" at the amount the President wants to spend. Once more, Eisenhower withheld any recommendation for a general tax cut at this time. The budget for the next fiscal year and a revised one for the current year ending June 30 pro vide for slender surpluses that will help scale down the 274-billion-dol lar national debt. This is on the basis that while spending is going up, federal reve nue is going up even more. For this fiscal year the govern ment now expects to spend $64, 270,000,000 and take in $64,500,000,' 000, leaving a surplus of $230,000, 000. For next year it plans to spend $65,865,000,000. collect $66, 300.000,000 and show a surplus of $435,000,000. Keep Budget Balanced . The President cautioned that taxes should be trimmed only wnen we prudently can with out unbalancing the budget. Yet his $66,300,000,000 estimate of government income for the year ahead was conservative in the light of his pronouncement that "this nation has reached a new high of material prosperity." This seemed to open the door a crack for a possible bid later cn for an election year tax slash. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey conceded at a news con ference that the revenue figures might be "unduly conservative." But he insisted they weren't un derestimated deliberately and that there was "nothing buried in them for purposes , of cutting taxes later.". i-.Z. Tax Cat for Farmers The farmer would get the only tax. cut the chief executive pro posed for now cancellation, to a total of 60 million dollars year, of the 2-cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline used on the farm. Yet even if Congress approves all the big program Eisenhower has urged for the farmer, his ad ministration proposes to spend 12 million dollars lest on agriculture and agricultural resources in the 1957 fiscal year. - The idea 'behind the farm pro gram is to cut down crop sur pluses, strengthen prices and help the farmer make more money on PUC Approves afety Project On 12th Street State public utilities approval came Monday for the agreement between Southern Pacific and the city of Salem on final plans for the 12th street project. This newest step In the long-plan ned project to make 12th Street safer will be followed by negotia tion between city and State High way Commission for state financial aid in the work. The project includes curb sepa ration of railroad tracks, new safe ty signals including drop-arms at some intersections, widening of 12th Street and extending it north on a curve into a new connection with North Capitol Street. Recognition of the SP-city agree ment came in form of a formal or der from Public Utilities Commis sioner Charles H. Heltzel, to amend the 1954 order which direct ed SP to put in the new safety signals. The new order adds signals re quired by the other parts of the iztn street project and authorizes city and railroad to split the costs of signals. This was agreed by the city because SP donated a strip of land needed for widening the street . " " The droparm gate type of signal will be made practical at Center, Chemeketa. Court and State street crossings as well as at earlier-ordered Market, D ind Marion Streets; the order indicates, KUND3D ttlt 105h Year 2 SECT1ONS-20 PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 17, 1934 PRICI 5c No. 296 'Second-Story Man' Taken to Court if v 7 Night on Peak Fatal to Youth o 9 Safe ,i Jeha Edmead Ferrier Barbler, confessed "second story man" whose arrest Sunday night cleared at least It burglaries, police said, is show above (left) being escorted to court Monday morning by Salem detective David Honser. Barbler, JJ years-old, is five feet, two Inches tall and weighs 107 pounds. He pleaded innocent ia circuit court (Statesman Photo). (Story, sec. 1, page 2). ;Ti : U.S. May Sue Gov. Lee on Jax Charge his own so that he will need leu federal aid. , Much for Defense lit the pattern of recent years, the 1957 budget allots about two of every 4hree dollars to national security an increase of $903, 000,000 to a total of $40,370,000,000. Spending on guided missiles and on military and peaceful uses of atomic energy will reach highest-in-history levels. The budget, projecting a balance for the first time since the 1951 fiscal year, is devoid of major sur prises, wnai it amounts to is a re-do and amplification, with price tags attached, of the program El senhower laid down in his State of the Union Message to Congress Jan. 4. (Additional details. Sec. 2, page 10.) ADLA1 TO FILE ST. PAUL, Minn, (fi Adlai E. Stevenson files here Tuesday for a Minnesota presidential primary which he has labeled one of the prime dates on his winter cam paign agenda. ltM REBELS KILLED -ALGIERS. Algeria French 1 : u w 1 1 aA s- . i year burglary term from which he ! naay nigni ineir was on parole. He was released ' J" last October. His arrest Monday came less than an hour after a federal war rant was issued against him in Boise. Joseph F. Santoiana, special FBI agent in charge here, said an FBI agent happened to spot Au dett's car en a downtown street and made the arrest Arraign ment is expected Tuesday. Of his book, which Audett de scribes as pointing the moral that crime does not pay, Oregon prison Warden Clarence T. Gladden said it is "the biggest concoction of lies I ever saw." V Doa l If . lL killed more than 100 independence- seeking rebels in the past 48 hours. The Weatlier Salens Portland Baker Medford orth Bend noaeburg Ban Franelico Los Anf cits . Chicago New York ... Wlllametlt River 11 1 feet. FORECAST (from V. S. Mam. Min. Precln. .4 40 .11 . 44 -40 .04 M , U .(1 44 S .10 SO 41 .JS SO 41 SS 41 .00 S tl .00 at ss .01 4S JS M waathcr boreau, WcNinf flrld. Salem): increasing cloudiness today tonlint Family of 7 .rKjLeft Homeless In House Fire WASHINGTON UB - The federal government may sue Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah, who has challenged its right to collect part of the tax on his 1955 Income. Lee, a Republican who has long been critical administration, constitutional to use tax revenue to aid foreign nations. His refusal to pay part of his tax, is intended to test that contention. Secretary of the Treasury Hum phrey was asked at a news con ference for comment on Lee s announcement: Humphrey replied with a grin: "I'm going to sue him." "That's exactly what I want," said Lee when informed of Hum phrey's intention to sue. Delinquent taxpayers are sued by the commissioner of internal revenue, who works under the sec retary of the treasury. W eiv rostern S ccuri ty Bank to Open on Jan. 27 Salem's new Western Security Bank will open its doors Friday, Jan. 27, at its site in the Candalaria district Opening date was set at a meeting of the board of directors Monday night. L. C. Pfeiffer, president of the city's latest banking venture, said the opening will be marked by appropriate ceremonies, start ing at 11:30 a.m., and an all-day open house. Pfeiffer reported that the bank building is rapidly nearing com pletion at Its location at 2719 S. Commercial St. Board of directors for the bank was named at in initial meeting of stockholders held last week In addition to Pfeiffer, the direc tors include Reynolds Allen, Charles A. Barclay, Milan C. Boniface. Chester I. Chase, Ar- thur M. Erickson, Coburn L Grabenhorst, James L. Psyne, Richard Rawhnson, and William Schlitt Portland Tot Dies in Creek Itateiaua News Smlct" LEBANON A two-story farm house burned here at 11 a.m. Mon day morning and a family of seven was left homeless. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wiens and their five child ren, ranging in ages from four to 1S were not hurt. Mrs. WienSrf alone at home with her children, said that the fire apparently started in the attic from spontaneous combustion re sulting from wmng against rags. The house, at Route 3, Box X26 is about eight miles east of here. Two Lebanon fire trucks battled 2nd Bov "Rescuers Find Frostbitten Survivor After Larch Mountain Area Search PORTLAND (APHames Sonnenburg. 14, Portland, lost overnight in the rugged snow-covered Larch Mountain area east of here, was dead when searchers found him Monday afternoon. , . - A companion, Lyle Block, 14, survived the ordeat The two boys and Lyle's brother, Edward, 17, went to the Columbia Gorge area Sunday for a rabbit shooting trip. Edward said he left the two youngsters for a short time and that when he returned, they had disappeared. He telephoned his parents and the Multnomah County sheriffs office started a search. Beard Shots The younger Block boy said le and Sonnenburg had hears shots cf the search party Monday morning. "Jimmy got sick and couldnt walk any more. I left him on a log and told him I would bring back help," Lyle said. Lyle's hands and feet were frost bitten and he was barely able to walk when search parties reached him. Too Weak to Move 1 Lyle said his companion was too weak to move Monday morning and that he feared the searchers would never find them unless he ran after them. Young Sonnenburg was panicked and almost hysteria! when Lyle left him. Searchers, who located the boys' tracks in the snow, said they apparently had been walking in circles in efforts to get down the slope to the Columbia River Highway. Body Foond Block was found stumbling throe gh the snow about 11:15 a.m. Sonnenburg s body was round about 4'i nours laterr" Dr. Allen Fisher, Gresham, pro nounced the boy dead, presumably from cold and exhaustion. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sonnenburg and Block, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Block, all of Portland. Both fan ilies were in the mountain area overnight helping with the search. by $2,500 in insurance. Loss esti mate was thought to be $7,000 to PORTLAND ID The "body of W-000- telf LlelAndu! Julie Davidson, 1, was found Mon day in flood swollen Johnson Creek Man Evidently Fasts to Death SAN DIEGO. Calif. Wl The coroner said Monday that Peter the blaze but arrived only after ! Thomas La Barge, 67, may have the second story was engulfed in starved to death through fasting, flames. I He had $213 in his billfold when The loss was said to be covered the body was found Saturday in his apartment, Mrs, Addie Whorton, landlady, told the coroner La Barge had rain in the afternoon and with High today. SO, and low tonight. Temperature at 111 a.m. 40 today was 41. - " - atLFM rnrcTPiTSTlrt Since Start of Weathrr ltar Sent. I as w - use - lt M 4 the area. near her home Her mother,', Mrs.'; WUraa E. Davidson, had reported her miss ing a few hours earlier. The child apparently wandered away from home r and fell into the flooding stream. , The body was caught In debris beneath the Portland Traction Co. bridge which crosses the creek in radio, plus some bedding and cabi nets, were saved. Wiens is employed as a tape machine operator at Cascade Ply wood Corp. here. The five children are David, IS; Albert, 12, recover ing from recent brain surgery; Jean 7; Delores 6; Herbert 4. It . Sanitation District Discussed For 660 Acres South of Salem Here comes another spiteful . . ef Jem." By JERKY. STONE Staff Writer, Tbo Statetmaa An opening step was taken Mon day night in an effort . to solve drainage and sanitation problems in a 660-acre area adjoining the south limits of the city. Discussed at meeting of residents was pos sible establishment of a county sanitation district ' Senior Sanitarian Wilbur Green of the Marion County Health De partment conducted, the meeting held at a home In the area con cerned. The area in question, containing an estimated 3,300 persons, ex tends roughly from Pringle Road to Liberty Road and south to Ma drona Avenue. Numeroua slopes add to drainage difficulties, i Particular problem is eat af act tie tank drainage in the area, pointed out Green. He explained health hazards and said the prob lem of drainage ia mainly a re sult of non-absorbent clay deposits which block sewsge from normal filtration. Recent heavy rains have added to difficulties. While the Monday night turnout of residents was small, a greater representation is expected at a meeting planned with the County Court Friday at 10 a.m. . Green said numerous new sub divisions in the area have added to the problem. Considerable sur face water has been the experi ence this winter and efforts by many individuals to drain via their own ditches has only dumped wa ter in county drains and en county roads, a was reported. Storm Dumps Six Inches of Rain on Valsctz in 2 Days Statesman News Senrke refused food. She said she telephoned a sis ter, Lillian L Barge, Highland Park, Mich., and was told that La Barge frequently fasted be cause he thought it improved his health. An autopsy was ordered. 100th Refugee Family Due in Oregon Soon The 100th refugee family from World War II soon will be set tled in Oregon, Gov. Paul Patter son wss advised Monday, Brought by the Lutheran church, he is Herman Magewskl, from Poland. His wife and two daughters now are in Oregon, and he is in Germsny, A delegation from the Luther an Refugee committee called on the governor to tell him about it. They ire the Rev. Everett J. Jensen, Corvsllis, chairman of the committee; and Mrs. Edward Stubbs and Mrs. Rene Bozsrth, both of Portland. Ridgway Tells Of Pressure to Keep Silence WASHINGTON UPl - Gen.Mat. thew B. Ridgway says that whea he was Army chief of staff tht Defense Department tried to si lence him and suppress his dis agreements with the department's policies. Ridgway said the department tried to pressure him to fit his ' views to a "preconceived politiec- military arty line." He also challenged the accuracy of a state ment by President Eisenhower about a decision by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The retired four-star general, whom the administration did not appoint to a second term as Army chief after be differed with Defense Department policy, put down his opinions In the first of a series of articles written for The Saturday " tvemng post ; . Reviewed, Cleared At the Pentagon. C. Hersche! Schooley, Defense Department di- rector of information, said Rldft- " way's articles were "reviewed aid ... cleared with the full awareness that they contained, comment cri tical of the secretary of defense and the President of the United States." Ridgway quoted from Eisenhow er's State of the Union Message in 19M in which he reported the President said the 1955 fiscal year program was " "based on a new military program unanimously rec ommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.-" Ridgway asserted that "as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who most emphatically had not concurred in the 195$ military pro gram as it was presented to the people, I was nonplused by this statement. QUAKE FELT IN ECUADOR GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador UB -Strong earth shocks rocked this Pacific port city at 6:41 p. m (EST) Monday night, cracking walls in many buildings and top pling stocks of merchandise in shops. Residents fled into the streets in panic. Langer Claims 'Spy' On Senate Committee WASHINGTON I . Sen.- Lan-) tered when some -members con ger (R-ND) said Monday there is trasted it with the rosy picture . .. ,.:, tk Smb. ! tinintMi bv President Eisenhower as..BM,M . . m mvj - " tr. i f ------ v a l a a i i. a new norm lla rorei Reiationi Committee i in his State of the Union Message. Santiam Rise Comes to End Mid-Willamette Valley came na for air again Monday. With only 13 of an inch of rain registered at McNary Field. Santiam River was falling at Jefferson and Wil lamette River at Salem slowed its rise to three feet in J4 hours. The Willamette was expected to crest this morning about 14 feet under flood stage. Rain was predicted this after noon, McNary Field weathermen said, with temperatures remain ing about the same as Monday, when they ranged from 40 to 49. Highways reported closed Mon day by the State Highway Depart ment were Clackamas Highway, slide one mile east of Carver; Crown Points secondary highway, slide between Briday Veil and Dod son, and Shcrars Bridge High way, washout at bridge. dumped Mn inches of rsin,who ,eiked Mcret testin1ony given Green explained that , establish ment of a sanitation district would dispense with septic tanks and pro vide trunk sewer lines.. He. said gravity sewage, possible in the area, -would lessen the cost. Pointed out as an example of how ground water is retained in the area was one resident's com ment that "water bubbled out of I her lawn like a geyser." Green told the group that dye tests showed that some septic tank deposits from homes in the sector had beea carried by trapped ground water into neighboring premises. The county sanitary official ob served that records show a sani tary district test a the average householder about $3 per year. here in the 48 hours ending at 4:30 p.m. Monday. 1 . Since Jan. 1, official records credit Valsets with an average of rain daily. Total for the 18 days is 24.30 inches. The new storm saw 3.11 inches of rsin recorded Sundsy and 3 33 Inches Monday. Today's Statcsr.an Sec. Page Classified ... II.., 7-9 Comes the Dawn .. I.... 4 Comics . II..- S Crossword ............ II..- 7 Edi:orlli I.... 4 Homo Panorama .. I ... 6-1 Markets ; II... 4 last week by Secretary of State Dulles. , In a formal resolution presented to the Senate, Langer proposed that attendance at similar closed door sessions of the committee in the future be limited to a select subcommittee of four. Langer said Oie information was given to Drew Pearson and ap peared in a column published in Monday's Washington Post and Times Herald. He did not accuse nv unntnr hw mm, ' - ' Langer's resolution would direct Chairman George D-Ga to con fine executive testimony by Dulles and his subordinates to a subcom mittee of George, Sen. Green of Rhode Island, the second ranking Democratic member of the com mittee; Sen. Wiley of Wisconsin, the senior Republican member, and Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate's Republican leader and also a committee member. This would eliminate Langer himself, who is a committee mem- PERON'S SWEETHEART FREED BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Press reports from Northera Argentina said Nellda Nelly I Riv- as, the lS-year-old beauty once reported on intimate terms with ex-dictator Juan D. Peron, wai released by police Monday to re turn to Buenos Aires. Today's Speller i (filter's Nota; A Hit Of IS wertt hv being oakltihse each KM ty to auk, ap the SO-wor kails Utt lot saaU-llnala and finals of I Orta lultinu-IILM Mta-Vat-Wy Ssniaf Cantart la whlra nearly S.OM 1th- aa SU-raee staoanU M Langer did not direct any of his Obituaries Radio, TV Sports ... Star Osier ,Vslle Wirephoto Pago , ...II- 7 ...II ... ' 4 ...it i- a .1... 7 .--. 4 ,!L- 5 But, making the disclosure,' Lan- criticism at Pearson gcr said he who leaked "has not The committee members, all of only di.vtraeed himself but dis- uhom attended, are: graced the Senate." Democrats: George (Ga. chair- If he had the power, he would man: Green R1, Fulbright (Ark), pull his tongue out, said the explo- Sparkman (Ala), Humphrey live senator from North Dakota And if he gets the chance, he add ed, he will vote to expel the sena tor from the Senate. Pearson wrote that Dulles gave a gloomy report on foreign affairs to the committee and was fius- iMinnl, Mansfield Mont, Bark ley (Ky) and Morse (Ore). ' Republicans: Wiley (Wis), !!. Alexander Smith (NJ), Hicken looper (Iowa), La n gtt ND. 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