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'Wliy Ilia Fill Dirt?' Qucclion: Sicppcd t i r- 1 p.' t r i' Ceorge Henry, servlre station tperrtor it 1455 N. River ltd., ii shown ibove checking wtff level be hind his station fill dirt airs has according to Henry, Ii that people have stopped liking why he needs fill dirt (Statesman Photo) ww v a) turnup $ r , ' - ' " V ; 4 -Ml V v -- , POUNDBD li'l I ( 103ih Yter 2 SECTIONS-U PACtS The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 21, 1 954 PWCI u No. 300 Avcrcll Attacks President Demo Hopeful Labels Ike as Buck Passer LOS ANGELES I - President Eisenhower ii a buck passer "the biggest dodger of any president we've ever had In my memory." New York's Gov. Averell Harriman said Friday. He also hit the Republicans as the "party of drift and reluctance" and said GOP policies have creat ed an "alarming situation" at home and abroad. "Generally speaking," he told a news conference, "Eisenhower is creating the Impression he's over and above his administration. Not His Pragram "It's not his farm program, it's Benson's: it's not his Interior pro gram, it's McKay's; it's not his I. I . w - a. iiiiuihiui proxram, u a iium- ( Y T phrey's: it's not his foreign policy, j J I on n n n I at if it's Dullcs'-and so on." I llilllllll UIlll Harriman, a Democrat with pres- Kicmiai aspirauon, wno is here: i:ri; c p.. cnum ,.in.... Ire station operrtor at 1453 N. River Ko, is snowa loove cnecaing waier level oe- -""r. 'd ;"" " " Bnl. " . irun 3 mvm ousiness- At .take is a huge air base this week is continued rainfall has submerged the area for aeversl weeks. The! '"Aa.gtS' Tf.! man- " PP0'n,e h Sa'"" that will hsve a complement of been there for nearly a year nw. and about the oily good U come of the raln.'ne f,-r Pln"'n Commission Friday by more than 2,000 men and an Appoiniod iir p0Fce Considers Mid-Valley Sites for New Air Installation Salem Area Due for Inspection Next Week; Sheridan Chamber 'Heats Drums1 for 5,000 Acres Near Hallston By niARI.ES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Ktatesmaa riMsilnlitics o a $n,(XX).(X)0 Air Force base bring kxatitl in the mitl-vUry were gathrrinf stpiiin Fritl.iv. An uir hasp srlcrtion tram looked at a pro posrtl. site near Albany and Col. W. H. BjiiI'S wIk) is in tlmrge, said the Salem arra will bo in spertrd next week. Earlirr this work, (lie 15-man survey crey spent a full day surveying a proposed site be tween St. Paul and Newlerjt in North Marion County. " - Meanwhile, the Sherklan n;l Yamhill County Cliambers nf Commerce are beating the drums for a 5,0()0-acre area near Rallston in the northern tip of Polk County. An Aurora location has been mentioned, too. But Astoria, Hillsboro, Van couver, Wash., and other places also ire in the running. Huge Air Rase At stake is a huge air base L'rlln 8. Page, new member of Kalem Planning Commission. Mayor Names Page to City EftP When the Department of the In terior announced in December new regulations covering granting of leases for nil and gas development on wild life refuges Secretary Mc Kay waa put under new attack for "giving away" the nation's re sources and exposing the birds and animals on these refuges to 'de struction. Dr. Ira GabrieJson, noted conservationist, was one who pro tested. The report which appears in the Congressional Record of this session, i a s a e of Jan. 9th, starting at page 206 is a very com plete refutation of these charges. In summary the story is as fol lows: ,',, 1. Congress passed a law in 1920 authorizing the grant of leases (or oil and gas development on these refuges, and this policy was re affirmed in legislation of 1946. J. The Department under this law has granted licenses for this purpose. In August, 1953 Secretary .McKay issued an order suspending action on applications for oil and gas leases on refuges when he found that the 1947 regulations failed to give adequate protection to the wildlife values of . the -refuges and the publicly owned oil reserves underground. 1. The Department staff went to work to prepare new regulations. The revision was carefully re viewed by the department's advl Public Utilities to Face Corporation Excise Tax Corporation excise taxes soon will be levied against public utilities. State Tax Commissioner Ray Smith said Friday in a surprise state ment to the state's legislative interim tax study committee. Several officials of publicly owned utilities were startled by the an nouncement which came during the committee's meeting Friday in the Capitol, in the form of a letter from Smith. - ? - The tax commissioner declared f r he interpreted the 1955 Leqisla-.jir 1 IlOCi S lure s action in iming an cxcmp about the president's statement concerning differences with Gen. Matthew Ridgay. "He made the statement in his state of the union message," Har riman said. "I know Harry Tru man wouldn't have done it. I don't know whether it'i true or not, but for him to dodge it is rather an alarming attitude for him to take." "The president." said Harriman, "doesn't take responsibility for his actions." Mayor Robert F. White. Page Is president of Union Title Insurance Co. He will succeed Vera D. McMul len who asked the mayor to be re placed as his term ended. Mayor Whit aaid of Page's ap pointment, "I am very happy that a man of his experience has con sented to serve on the important planning commission." With the Page appointment, May estimated annual payroll of $3 million. Among other things, it will replace Portland Interna tlonal Airport as an air defense command base The Air Force Thursday asked Congress for $13,508,000 for con struction of the proposed new. base. A prime requisite of the base locstion is size. Col. Banks said wins wiv eic antiuiiiiiM:!!, ma- m rtvy . or White has completed his round 5- cres-enougl, for a three- Ship Loses Bout With , Atlantic Radar Tower (Picture on Wirephoto Page) BOSTON i The "Texas Tower," man-made radar outpost 100 miles off Cape Cod, escaped damage Friday in its first encounter with a ship, but the vessel that bumped one of the tower's three long, steel legs was sent slogging home Friday night at half-speed J knots-wita IS feet of water in one hold. The Military Sea Transport Service's Sagltta S.Ml gross tons and 269 feet long was transfer ring supplies when she crashed the tower. A bole was torn in her starboard side and the sea rushed into No. I hold. A serious list of starboard developed, but after some uneasi ness, the crew succeeded in i t storing the Sagitta to even keel' Reduced Speed , Under her reduced speed, tha Sagitta's estimated time of arrival at Boston was placed at a p. m. Ike Pledges Support for GOP Cause WASHINGTON I - President of first-of-year appointments as re- m'l"jnay-are required. Only Eisenhower promised the GOP Saturday tr m O fWl.fnnt PilHISiaU I nntm f-1 J t - ...til n ' Sclirunk May Run for Mayor Of Portland Multnomah County Sheriff Terry D. Schrunk, in Salem for a talk to the Marion-Polk Democratic Club, indicated Friday night he would probably be a candidate for mayor of Portland rather than sec retary of state. Schrunk, mentioned prominently as a possible candidate for both jobs, said he would probably know today, and would probably an nounce early next week, what his decision would be. "I will very probably be a can didate for the office of mayor of the city of Portland, or for the office of secretary of state, Schrunk said. Certain family and campaign financial problems have to be worked out before making that decision, he added. In an interview following his talk, Schrunk Indicated he was leaning toward the mayor's race. He did not say whether the an nouncement by Monroe Sweetland to enter the secretary of state race lion of utiliticsjrqm excise taxes to bring the public as well as pri vate utilities under the tax. The corporation tax rate is I per cent, but the law change said utilities could offset half of it through property tax payments. The public power leaders were at the interim committee meeting to protest any change of law that might remove the public utilities' present relief from property taxes. State Rep. Allan Tom of Rufus Is chairman of the legislative group which conducted the meet ing. He Mid the legislature was concerned over equalization of tax load between areas, especially be cause of relation of the big basic school support fund to an area's property assessment. He said a city served by public utility would likely have a much lower assess ment roll and thus leave the areas served by private utilities at a tax disadvantage. McMinnville City Attorney Eu gene Marsh, former state senator, gave the opinion that any move to tax public utilities would alter the balance established over the years. r sory committee on conservation ; had anything to do with his de- which, while perfernng no leasing, cision. Both men are Democrats. approved the regulations as pro viding "reasonable protection" "if vigorously enforced." The regula tions had the full endorsement and support of the career (Continued on editorial page, 4.) U.S. Ready Cash 'Low' Schrunk urged Marion-P o I k County pemocrats to seek out good candidates for races at the local level, asserting that "I hope you won't underestimate that im portance." It's hard to get a lot of horse sense in politics, he said, especially when you get the wrong end of the horse. (Story also in sec. 1, page 2) Naval Veteran, 11 11 1 t WASHINGTON - The United OZ, KecallCU IOI States government has less ready 1 , . cash on hand than ever before in'ActlVC Service modern times This was shown Friday in a Treasury report that it had avail able to it in liquid, spendable funds on Jan. 17, only f 1,939,900,000. . Since the government spends about six billion dollars a month in some 21 working days a month, this wai about six or seven days spending. , . ' . , However, the plncn Is probanly at its worst, and things are looking UP.' v Within the next few days some considerable tax payments 'hut were due on Jan. 15 will become available as spending money. DENVER - Aaron E. (Pop) Pickering, a 62-year-old Wyoming timber cutter, was recalled to ac tive duty in the United States navy Friday. "I'm the happiest U.S. navy man there is," Pickering declared after passing his physical examination. Pickering, a navy reservist and father of five grown children, was recalled as a utilities, man first class. Victim in Fur, Jewels Theft BEVERLY HILLS.' Calif: I - Burglars stole mora than $25,000 worth of fun and Jewelry from Ginger Rogers home Thursday night after apparently setting the stage for the Job by telephoning the actress, she told police The intruders forced a side door of the star's hilltop home. When she and her husband, Jacques Ber gerac, returned from a dinner par ty at a Sunset Strip restaurant, Miss Rogers said they discovered the thieves ransacked the master bedroom and a dressing room, ov erturning chairs and tables and opening drawers and ' scattering contents. Miss Rogers told officers thnt Thursday afternoon she received several telephone calls from a woman who said she was a "phone company operator." The woman said trouble had been reported on the line and wanted to know if someone would be home later in the day or Friday morning. The calls appear to have been made by someone trying to find out when nobody would be in the house. ,.ir4 .ri.,. -ii k.,. nnA m.ww iooi runway is comer commissions. P1,1,cd l firM he dlrd Other citizen members of the Reasonably Cloe Planning Commission are John Tne gile should be reasonably :,r. m'mi.n"lion or LHrmii. LiiHirmun : n ineri t. row i..i tn . i . ell. vice chairman: W. W. Rose-( too, (i. Banks said, for Naval braugh. Robert T. Stanley, Stuart i RMerve traininc will b mnrturt. rridny mtrht he will continue to. The ship was considered In ro ficht for his administration's pot- danRrr and ln(Te 0 caxuaj. icies, euner as a candidate tor tj Weather and se romirti.,. a worker in were described as moderate. Compton and T. W. Lowry. Ex officio members are the mayor, city manager, city attorney and city engineer. Span Portion Falls; Five Men Trapped HEMPSTEAD, Tes. I Five mea were believed trapped be neath wreckage In IS feet of water In the Braxes River Friday night after eellapse ef a IM-feot center ef a concrete and steel bridge under eonstrnction. Four men were injured, two ser iously. Three others escaped in-Jury. An Austin Bridge Co. official said one corner jof a concrete pier which Juts 80 feet out of water collapsed, causing temporary steel " mc. w .iBers voted a return to work and inio ine water Fuel Flows In New York NEW YORK 11 - A five day strike of fuel truck drivers ended Friday. Mayor Robert F. Wagner said the settlement saved the city by an eyelash from "a catastrophe." Striking Teamsters Union mem- $100,000 Fire dauns 1,400 Chinchillas DAVENPORT. Wash. ( - Chin chillas valued at $100,000 suffocat ed Friday in a fire here at what is described as the Pacific North west's largest chinchilla ranch. Some 1,400 of the furry animals died when a faulty furnace filled a barn at the Star Chinchilla Ranch with smoke. The blaze destroyed records and did some $3,000 da mage to the bam before being put out by the Davenport rural fire department. About a third of the dead chin chillas were breeding stock, val ued at $200 to $A00 each, and the others bad a fur pelt value of $10 to $50. The owner of the ranch, Robert Gunning, was confined to his home with shock following the fire. His brother. Lewis Gunning, said part of the loss was covered by '-siir-ance. Gunning's chinchillas had won many awards at national breeding shows and he was conducting ex periments aimed at developing aq all-white breed. Budget Chief Resigns Post ed at the- base as well as regular Air Force activities. Congress will decide where the base is located. The team is here only to survey locations and sub mit a report to Air Force head quarters at the Pentagon. ' Col." Bankf declined to compare merits of sites already Inspected. He said his Crew had "firm commitments"-to inspect sites at As toria and Vancouver, and also planned to come to the Salem area. No Specific Location A Salem Chamber of Commerce official said he understood the sur vey team had no specific location in mind here but was coming to scan "the Salem area in general." Col. Banks said he had been con tacted by Art Herbert, president of Sheridan Chamber of , Com merce, Thursday regarding the Polk County location. ' Banks said his team would study the feasibility of surveying that lo cation by Inspecting terrain maps and other information it has. He said a survey would be' made there if the area showed promise. At Sheridan, the whole town was 1 buzzing Friday in anticipation of! the Ballston site being considered for the air base. I Miles From Site Sheridan is eight miles from that site, which is also about 12 miles from Dallas, seven miles from Amity and 20 miles from Salem. Chamber President Herbert de clared the Polk County site should be "Ideally suited" to the Air Force needs. He said the Air Force could build a three-mile runway there "as flat as the palm of your hand" and that aqulsitlon of 5,000 acres there should pose no major problem. Once again, in a prepared ad dress climaxing "Salute to Eisen hower" dinners across the country, Eisenhower offered no definite clues as to "my own future role in the party." There was no uncertainty over what the GOP wants him to Jo. Other party orators at dinners kicking off the drive for cash to finance the 1956 political campaign spelled it out in capital letters they want him to run if he can Capt. John J. Aibcrs. L'SN, who supervised construction of the tow er which occupies a lonely sentry, post on Georges Banks, famous fishing grounds, described damage as "a little paint scraped off" and "some poceries knocked off shelves." Unruly Area Georges Banks, fished for cen turies, is an extremely unruly jirea in time of storm, as instanced iast November when a workmen .ind i a group of armed forces officer- ?.'!"! 'Jf..?1"' And me pre' Pus tw0 Associated Press news dieted flatly he will. men-were marooned on th inwre F Eisenhower looked back over the 1 . l u:l. j .... years on this third anniversary prevented a tug from approaching of his nauguration. said that -.he: do enough to take them off. general record is good, but 'hat Ex-Official of Harney Bank Took $4,133 PORTLAND - Ralph H. Vnn Houten, 33, former assistant man ager of the Harney County Bank of Burns, pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling $4,133 of the bank's funds. , Federal Judge Gus Solomon or dered a pre-sentence Investigation. James W. Morrell, chief assist ant U.S. attorney, said Van Houten. married and the father of four children, had been taking the bank's money for his own use for more than a year before resigning last September. Morrell said Van Houten finally went to the pastor of his church and told what he had done.' Ha then helped the bank, a branch of the V.S. National of Portland, to determine the exact amount he had taken, Morrell said. many tasks still await action. Both the present and future, he said, "are heavy with challenge, rich with opportunity." But he said his own political future remains undetermined "whether to be a candidate for your nomination or a worker in the ranks." "I could devoutly wish," he said, "that there were some method by which the American people could, under the circumstances, point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer." Witnesses said the bridge structure was "twisted and might go into the water tt any time." . .!the first trucks started rolling at Hugh" res'g"el FJ'day'' dir,?C" three-fourths of, 4 m Re!uctance WM cei by ' th,e four ,fteI WASHINGTON ffl - Rowland WcatllCrillCIl SaV nffhrs ruipncH SYiHnv a Hirar. NEWSPAPER FIGURE DIES CHICAGO UH - John T. Fits gerald. 77, chairman of Reynolds Fitzgerald," Inc.." newspaper pub lishing representatives, died Wed Killer Search, Spreads EVANSVILLE. Ind. ' An all-out police search spread over a five-state area Friday for Leslie Irvin, described as a "mad dog killer," who escaped from jail while under a death sentence for one of six killings in which be ha, been Indicted. County Polio Vaccine Surpluses Eliminated some strikers but dealers and po lice said all of them were either back at work or ready to resume Saturday. Big Fir Seedling President Eisenhower announced the federal budget would be bal anced this year. The White House announced that Hughes, a New York banker, will be succeeded by Percival F. Brundage, 63, of Montclair, N. J., who is now deputy budget director. Jlughes letter of resignation, ef fective April 1, said be was leav ing because of "compelling per- Grows 25 Inches In TwoYciir Snanina' rfasng " h did not disclose I ; the reasons. A close associate laid A giant Douglas fir seedling that J More Rain on Tai i The Salem area Friday record ed its 21st consecutive day of rain and the string should lengthen with more rain in prospect for today and Sunday, according to forecasters at McNary Field. ,. Weathermen said temperatures will remain on the mild side over the weekend. Friday's rainfall totalled .48 of an inch. TV Preview Due Of Forest Grove Singing Contest FOREST GROVE W - A pre view of the Forest Grove Barber shop Ballad Contest and the Gay Nineties celebration will be car ried by the NBC television show Wide Wide World Feb. 12. For the occasion four downtown blocks will be roped off and deco rated. Residents, dressed in period customcs. win participate. The actual quartet contest is not scheduled until Feb. 23-25. T ie Four Wolves of Salem 'ire among recent contest entries. Cow likes Twins SAN MARCOS. Tex. - Jesse Diets' cow came through with twins again Friday. Since 1949, his cow has produced three seta of twins, one set of triplets and three other calves 12 calves in S years. Normal birth rate for a cow is one at a time. "Always complaining: M was ants! First Polio vaccine coming Into Mar ion County is once again being used as fast as it is shipped in, it was reported this week. Even though the vaccina is still on a strict allocation basis, an unused surplus had piled up here by late December. Since then a public information pro gram, sponsored by the Salem Citizens Advisory Committee on Polio has eliminated the surplus. "Several thousand polio shots have been administered by local ' physicians since Christmas," said Dr. Willard Stone. Marion County h health officer and chairman of the Advisory tommmee. -"This represents a tremendous increase in immunizations. So much so, in fact,. that there is now no surplus backlog of vac cine in this area. Bui supplies are continuing to coma in on an allocation basis." . ' Priority is being given to chil dren up to 15 years-of age and to pregnant women. Shots should be started now to Insure protec tion by the peak of next sum mer'! polio season. , Although mass inoculations of school children with free vac cine are no longer planned, enough tax-paid vaccine for about 1,400 shots has been delivered to Marion County, Dr. Stone said. Following regulations set up by the Advisory Committee and recommendation of the State Board of Health this free vac cine is being tunned ever as re quested to physicians for emer gency use. and for use in finan cial hardship cases, r " At a meeting this week the Advisory Committee voted to continue its progrsm of inform ing the publie en the advisability of contacting their physlciana re garding polio immunizations. grew 25 inches in two years was found Friday by Oregon forest nursery officials. The unusual seedling was dis covered in bed of Noble firs. Verne McDaniel, nursery superin tendent, reported. The seedling had escaped research foresters who had . removed all of the tall seedlings for a study in genetics. Two-year-old firs found in the nursery beds usually grow, only four to eight inches above the ground. before deciding course. P oliceman Gct u Very Short Beat 'CHICAGO m - Pellcemaa Her man I'rger Friday was asulgaed U a beat so sheri ke doesn't have to meve a mnscle to eever H. His tob Is to sit an day In a downtown elgar store and see to K that no bets on horses art made inert. SCOUTS TO HEAR DEAN EUGENE i - The main speak er at an Eagle Scout Recognition Day banquet here Feb. 22 will be MaJ. Gen. William F. Dean (ret.), former deputy commander of the Sixth Army and Korean War hero. The Weather Stkm . Portland -. Mdford ., North Band .... Domburf -r r ... tun PranrUco Chimin New York Mai. Mln, Prtely. . M 44 At . 40 , 34 t . M 40 . 54 4? .- tt 31 33 ii it 20 SO M .04 .1 M 02 X .01 nl T Ln Antrim . WlllamMt nivfr 111 f-t. FORECAST rirnm V. 8. waihr bureau. McNary field. 'Salem I : Cloudy, Intermittently rainy and mild through Sunday; high today SO-M.'low tonifht 41-44. Temperature at 12 Al am, lo4ar waa 44 SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ot Weather Year Sept. 1 This Ttar . La Yeaf NaraaaJ .T1 UOt 22 11 Waiter Charged With $25, 000 Tax Evasion NEW YORK VP) Being headwaiter at a world-famous hotel has always been regarded as a lucrative job. The govern ment Friday estimated just how lucrative. Hans Paul, headwaiter at the Waldorf-Astoria, earned $123. 000 during the four years pre ceding his retirement in 1932, the government said, when his salary was $3,000 a year. - Paul, currently vacationing in Miami, was indicted on a charge of tailing to reoort more than $67,000 he received in tips be tween JM9 and 1952..: 1 ,.. Asst. U, S. Atty. David Jaffee estimated Paul cheated the gov ernment out of nearly $23,000 , in taxes. 4 - Jaffe said the banquet departs . ment at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel collects a million dollars each year as tips for its wait ers by including on the, bill a 13 per cent charge. Two-thirds of this is divided among the waiters, and the bal ance is given to- captains and others in the banquet depart ment, ha said. Paul served as headwaiter at the . Waldorf As toria from 1943 to 1932. Jaffe said this was tho first indictment ever brought here charging tax evasion of money received as tips. He said an "in tensive investigation" is under way at other hotels in the met ropolitan area, looking for un reported tips. "It is believed the govern ment has been duped out of millions of dollars a year by those persons who fail to report an accurate accounting of grat uitous tips," he said. Ford Stock Drops $1.12 Per Share NEW YORK 0" - The new Ford stock declined $1.12 a share Friday to the lowest level reached sine trading began. The stock, which sold around $70 when It first offered Wednesday, was quoted In the over-the-counter market late Friday at $65.7$ bid, $66 asked. That compares with an offering price of $64.50. Abbott Murder Case Verdict Still Awaited OAKLAND, Calif, of - The fore man of the Burton Ablott murder trinl jury sent out word al V.ZO p. m. that there is no possibility of a verdict Friday nighu The 27-year-old University of California student is accused of klrfnnnine and murdcrlnt 14-vear- old Stephanie Bryan. Today's Statcssr.sn Sec Pago Church Ntws .. I...... 7'T Classified ....ll 4-7 Comks i....'.i,.iH-.si i Crossword ..............II...... 4 .. tditorials I ..... 4 . Homo Panorama .... I ..... 3 , Markttt .........II..-.. 4 Obituaries : .Tiin..-lw- 2 Sat., Swn. TV II... 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