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Newspaper Page TextWu (y))Ti -w w lit it lUM II I l u PCUNDHD I&Sf T f i 1 1 fT'l I W V V J -W I j a- i 105th Y.ir 3 SECTIONS-32 PACES Tht Ortgon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, January 22, 1956 PRICE 10 No. 301 wars: 'String of Beads ' Serves Chinese -American Proprietor of Cafe as Bookkeeping Machine - (Editor's Ml: Ceirad (Comet the Dawa) Praage (above) hai keen peeking and poking (bete days Into Jobs around torn a with bleb the public Is not to fa miliar. Hia driving have re sulted la a daily series ol Ore goa S atesmna articles, of w hich this is the first.) By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman Wall Street may not know it, but there's a merchant in Salem PEP msnm TO CCDS who runs hii business on string of Wads. T ' The business is the popular Chinese Tea Garden, 1624 N. Commercial St., in downtown Sa lem. The merchant is proprietor Yee Sing, genial Chinese-American. . And the string of beads, or rather strings of beads, is an abacus. The abacus is an ancient calculating or counting instru ment on which Yee tallies food checks for fascinated, but con fused customers. . Like chop suey it is an ob scure thing to the uninformed. And even if you are informed the abacus still remains a tricky, inscrutable device especially with Yee explaining it. Mathematical Liberate But for the smiling Yee, whose fingers flit up and down the beads like a mathematical Liber ace, the abacus takes the place of cash register, pencil and pa per, adding machine and slide rule. ','.'1 do all my bookkeeping with it," says Yee. The abacus he uses is so old he's forgotten how long he's had it. Two of the 4 Arrested in Ginger Rogers Jewels Theft Here's How No. 1 of a Series bamboo slides, on which the beads slip up and down, have been replaced with copper wires. The beads, Yee explains weight ily, represents digits. And by slid- lint them Jip or downeithetbe--low or above the crossbar, you (or, anyway, Yee) set up a series of numbers. And by rearranging ' the beads the operator can add, subtract, multiply and even di vide with startling speed. Or something like that. Speedy Answer Anyway, Yee totalled up a check faster than I could do the sum on paper. Then just for good i:mj' . i ? list : . " 'f Sloan Wilson struck the 1TOLLYWOOD im Four men and a woman were arrested Sat urday by police on suspicion of burelarizins the homes of Ginser PV Rnspra nnrf Kirk riminla nffirir lode of the "best seller" list with reported "about half of the loot his "The Man in tht Gray Flan- estimated at over 150,000, was re- nel Suit." It is a novel of modern business after the genre of J.P Marquand's "Point of No Return" and Cameron Hawley's "Executive Suite." Now he has done, not a novel, but a magazine piece for the business woman. Naturally he entitles it "The Woman in the Gray Flannel Suit." It appeared in the covered A list of 11 prominent persons' addresses also was found. Officers theorized that the list included po tential "prospects" for the gang: The names included Merle Oberon, Eleanor Parker, Jack.Benny, Clif ton Webb and Lex Barker of the film colony. ' Detectives said much tf the loot; Including Jewelry - and , fun, - wis -- ESI w ? measure, he divided the answer by four, multiplied the result by 31 and then subtracted the origi nal total all in a matter of sec onds. , i While the beads clicked Yee attempted to explain the formula for operating the abacus. But not much got through. As a counting instrument the abacus is thousands of years old. It was used in ancient and medie val Europe. Itis still used today in Oriental countries and. appar ently, on North Commercial street. Several Sises Yee, who has operated the food emporium at the same site for the past 18 years, says that in ' his native. China the abacus ' comes in several sizes. There's a small one, he says, for doing quick figuring at the market place. You carry that one in your hip pocket. And for .bigger business deals, like get ting around the tax collector, there are larger abacuses. It is plain to Yee's many cus tomers that his abacus certainly does not slow him down. Ahput the only thine he uses a nearby O 1 cash register for is to store the iJieHl Parakeet Meets Untimely End in Plumbing Mishap lutnau News Strvkt MT. ANGEL The strange and untimely end ( a pet par akeet has furnished more after dinner stories la ML Angel the past week thai any ether known happening. Last week Mrs. Ernie Crowd er bonght the bird as a birth day gift for her husband. The little fellow was being Intro duced to his new home and Mrs. Crowder. bird perched her finter, tried to show him his reflection la the bathroom mirror. Husband Ernie, who was shaving, wiped his razor m a piece of tissue and flushed it down the toilet. Either the wa ter er noise attracted the para keet and he made one dive into the bowl and was flushed to his death. J A special trip to Salem the next day brought another bird to the Crowder household. Overexposes 4 to -Radiation Mishap Occurs During 1st Shot Of 1956 Series Near Las Vegas LAS VEGAS, Ncv. (AP-Four men were exposed to ex cessive radiation after the first nuclear shot of the 1956 sericg on the Nevada proving grounds last Wednesday, the Atomic Energr Cornmissiorr lepm teu Saturday, Portland Bank Official Calls Bandit's Bluff Physical Test Slated for 200 Youths Few persons can spell "abacus." let alone know what one It. But to Yee Sing, proprietor of the Chinese Tea Garden In downtown Salem, the abacus be Is shown manipulating above Is a necessary part of his bsslaessi nsed to total customers checks and in do his book keeping. (Statesman photo) , w ion umesMBgasmeioriasi found., the apartment of free-bund,y- lance writer Leonard J. Bleecher, No matter how enthusiastic he 24, booked as suspected leader of may be for the male in the busi- the group. Also jailed were: ness world, charcoal-grey suit and all, he is less than cordial to the woman who invades that province. He can "foresee day when wo men will briskly dress themselves in gray flannel suits every morn ing and dash off to work carrying briefcases, while the men are left behind to loll around the house in kimonos, smoking cigars and cuss ing as they do the dishes." And this, he thinks, "is going to horrible." Dawn Marshall, 23, a blonde, one-legged former , actress. Dominic Juliano, a profes sional weightlifter. Frank Christy, W, a parking lot attendant at Sunset Strip res taurant. Check-Passing Father Alias rnia Runaway, Age 16 ;An l-year-oId" father held In iail here on a check charge who has turned out to be a 16-year-old California runaway is providing a puzzle for Maripn County authorities. The youth is Richard Donald Herbst of Santa Barbara, Calif., who was arrested here under his married alias of Richard William Ammet. 783 Gerth Ave., for passing some 14 small checks in Salem without sufficient funds to cover them, i lmma( nn tttviHaf 1tit frnm m ' John Franco, 25, student actor. 1 J'"?11" t?i'VrCid LattlC Miss Marshall, officers said, lost vu t K- her leg in a motorcycle accident. ten 00 baB wa'Un8 Miss RoBers home was broken court ctlon- be to Thursday night and an esti- Complication for the case came mated 130 mo worth of lewelrv mH with the arrival of Ammet a mo- Wilson savi he isn't ob lectin furs was stolen. A week aco the irom ner wmorma nome, in wnmen who have careen "but I Douclas home was ransacked of at ' stating that the youth had run the theory that women should' least $20,000 worth of valuables: have careers, must have them, and Disease Hits t . Second Herd PORTLAND iV A cool bank official refused to give money to a holdup man who threatened to blow up the place Saturday .ind the man fled. R. V. Runyon, assistant manaiT of th Metropolitan branch of the U.S. National Bank, thwarted the robbery attempt. ' He said the man, after finding the tellers' cages busy, ap proached hm In the officers' sec tion and banded him a neatly printed note reading, in part: , "The vial of nitroglycerine I i have m my-hand is enough to blow us ail p neil. Doctors give me six months to live so I don't par ucularly care. I and Ss . . . Not Desperate Enoagh i Runyon said he sized up the man, decided he "didn perate enough" and told him, "I Von't do it." l Runyon said he went to the tele phone to call police and the man said, "give me back the note." I ""But I refused," Runyon said,1 that something is wrong with them if they do not." He's distressed because the mere wife feels dis tressed when she writes "house wife" on the blank (or Occupation: "it's getting to the point where a woman who devotes herself whole heartedly to helping a man and children is considered hopelessly old-fashioned just as old-fashioned as a man who doesn't -like career women." " Careers for women, thinks Wil son are being over-glamorized in schools and colleges, while the work of good wife is being made (Continued on editorial page, 4.) away from home several months PORTLAND Uh The dread ago and was in reality only 15 eMu disease. mucosal, has bro- KE VISITS GETTYSBURG years of age at the time of Wr. mi. , , ,. W(l WASHINGTON UB President ,rrest here. I, " " , . . "7 , Eisenhower went for aa automo. . Since leaving home, he has mar-!1" egon, state officials report! bile outing Saturday, driving tried and is the father of a small Saturday. Some 200 boys and girls from North Salem High School and Par rish Junior High School ninth grades will take physical fitness tests here Tuesday in a clinic which will determine how Salem youngsters stack up physically against the rest of the world. A five-man test team from the University of Oregon will spend the day at North Salem tconduct ,u. KnJ k! J .:..,.. f oris. uic ivms auu iiuiu sruiiiitu iui physical education directors and instructors in the Salem area. Heading the team will be Dr. Harrison CJarke, research profes sor of physical education, from the university. Test Center Salem is one of eight test cen ters set up by Oregon Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. The clinics are de scribed as Oregon's answer to President Eisenhower who has urged studies of ways of raising physical standards of American youth. : v.. : v ' Purpose of the tests are to sam- Thrce of the men have been assigned to other Jobs hr and the fourth has been returned to Los Alamos, N. M, th AEC said. None required hos pitalization. The AEC identified the four and the radiation dosage they received as Lawrence (XI e caapd. Las Vesas, 28 roent gens; Freeman Waddell, Los Ala mos, 18.3 roentgens; Oral Eplcy, Las Vegas, 13.7 roentgens, and Joe Carter, Las Vegas, 4.3 roent gens. 4 Times Limit The AEC permits an annual to tal exposure of 15.6 roentgens radi ation for persons working under its program. This is four times the allowable offsite exposure. which may result from fallout of an atomic cloud. Brief exposure of 25 to 50 roent gens may result in minor, tempo rary blood changes, the AEC said. All but Waddell, who is ah AEC employe, work for Reynolds Elec trical and Engineering Co., which does contract work for the AEC. The AEC said only that the ex posures resulted in the data re covery program after the shot. . SensltiUvy Tests The tests, on the desert proving grounds 75 miles northwest of here, are concerned with the sensititivy of nuclear weapons and experimen tal - devices to accidents during storage and handling. The first test of the series Wed nesday, the AEC said, was a deto nation of low explosive force, cre ating a small cloud bearing mi nute amounts of radioactive de- Jailer Releases Accused Slayer In Bail Mixup ' SAN ANTONIO Police believe it shonkla't be too bard to spot Rady Apollnar, 22. whe was freed from the Bexar Connty Jaltjr inistake Friday la a name mixap Apolinar has a green cress tat tooed on bis forehead. A lawyer came U the jail te post bond for Henry R. Apolinar, charged with biirflary. A Jailer by mbtakc called Rady, charged with mnrder la the Christmas Day knife slaying of a relative. The lawyer, who said he aldat know the Identity of the two Apollnars, advised the freed man, whom he thought to be Heary "to go home to yonr mother." Nobody police, Inwyer, me ther has seen Rndy nince. Car Vanishes After Wreck With SP Train pit Oregon boys and girls and ' m f""-1 i it.. ........ J:.- . u.. want 20., 10.' ' y HI1' the post on the election of Judge will be conducted on 80 boys nd ' V1 SlorMo the circuit court m v,.i. u;. .nH i bench in 1954. A former Marion W Kilt tlUHI I1MUI S1IBII. aiisvi w . Jf , I i By RUSSELL BIERAl'CEL Staff Writer. The Statesman A train-car collision held up tht C1. 1 a ?1 '"hbound Sou' hern Pacific Cas H-Il51ilf Pt til l 1 1 P cade for an hour Saturday evening eg-iVJiaUi1! IU A M.M. V and cMUsed a three-hour search for the car near Chemawa whilt four persons who missed death by inches were home telling neighbors of their experience. The train, travelling 80 miles an hour, struck his car a glancing blow when the motor stalled as ht attempted to back from the track at Blossom Drive crossing, Dr. Alva A. Boston, Oregon State Hos pital physician, laid. It removed the bumper, a headlight and part of a fender, but left the car drive- Mt. - .' w ' Train Stopped .-.i. He did not notice that the train was stopping and it never occurred Candidacy for District Judge Judge Edward 0. Stadter Jr. will be a candidate for the posi- sion of Marion County district judge which be now holds; he an nounced Saturday. , Judge Stadter was appointed to ninth grade. On the basis of the tests, the physical education pro gram for the sub-par groups may be modified. To Train Tetters The clinics will also provide an opportunity for training local test- along snow bordered highways to his Gettysburg, Pa., farm and re turning late in the day. , The Weather JUtT UNDECIDED ' OAKLAND, Calif. Ul Twelve Jurors who could send Burton Ab bott to his death, to prison or to freedom struggled without decision Saturday night through a third day of deliberations. (Picture sec. 2, page 1.1 Mia. free. U .24 40 .40 U .00 41 .14 41 M K Jt IS .01 SI trie .00 Mx. Stlem so Portland ... 4 Biker 9S Medford , 47 North Bend ......... SS Sin TrtnclKO .. .... SS Chlco Lot Anfelet . , SI Ntw York . 37 Willamette River 14 S feet. FORECAST Hrom U. 8 weather bureau. McNary field. Salem I : Cloudy, mild and Intermittent rain today, tonight and Monday. H)(h to day to M and low Ipnifht 40 to 42. Temperature at 1101 am. today waa 4 ALEM PMCIFITATIOM Blneo Start of Weather Year Kept. 1 Thia Year Latt Year Normal 30 M IS 11 W child. Ammet and his 20 year-old 1 It has struck 22 of a herd of wife resided in Albany before! 42 purebred Hereford yearlings moving to Salem several weeks : owned by Orville Cutsforth, Lex ago. ington. Nineteen of the animals According to a birth certificate ! have died. It struck the herd in produced by Mrs. Herbst, the July, but was diagnosed only re- youth as born Jan. IS, 1910, which would indicate be had just turned 16 since bis arrest. Oil Firm Chief Runs Out of Gas PAWHUSKA, Okla. Ul K. S. (Boots) Adams, head of Phillips Petroleum Co., had to walk .ind hitchhike part of the way from Bartlesville to Pawhuska this cently Previously 22 of 104 yearlings at the Squaw Butte- Experiment Station herd were stricken in 1954. get out of here fast They said the man answered the 'description of the would-be rohbtr land that he had left the car in the lot minutes before, with a woman and small child inside. They gave police a description of the car. A holdup man, who has not been caught, obtained $3,285 at the same branch last fall. 4 A It I im tknt O m ama Mililla 4Ua t took IS' and 20 girls from Parrtah , Cwnty ' d is trtct attorney. Stadter knew tha, h,d bwD hl, fc t ioo oes- , ... ft . i is a Republican. , ..m SUdter "id he planned to file Tne car had by Engj. his candidacy with the county neer w. C. Kirk of Portland, how. clerk's office this week. everi wrio hit the air brakes al- Only other political action of most at the moment of impact the week was the filing by three and thought the car had been persons for precinct committee struck broadside. "We must havt post S. W. (John) Horn, 2250 hit it." he insisted when state N.Liberty St., filed for commit-' police failed at first to find evi teeman of precinct 28. A Demo- dence of a crash, erst, Horn is chairman of the' The train stopped a half milt Marion County Democratic Cen- down the tracks.' according to tral Committee. , police. The cowcatcher waa A former chairman of the Re-! K"M and a chrome ladder waa publican Central Committee also "nx1 'f the baggage car. Tht filed for committee spot on the, 'adder, a piece of chrome tuto primary ballot She is Mrs. Edna trim, headlight rim, parking light Stacev. 1630 N. 19th SI. Prec net "' ana iwo unorosen neaaiigm ThY..m". the man as about 40, more than sical education teachers and school administrators to observe the pro- iHW we" dmsed- of "KhT: Youth selected for the Salem tests will represent a cross section in top coat and hat. Sou eh t Escape Right after the holdup a man ran a a lrccw.E2nu"m" ,M"U , ""V?1 physical education, recreation, them, Get me my car. I want toln 'h nH .,h,pti, for tm oub- .uer tne noiaup a man f h ( , mnMJ her lccord. into a parking tot across irtS to Vcstoon Gilmore. director of t. Attendants said he ordered I J w.Ar.,tnn rT.atnn There have been a tew other Bride, 83, Complain l!frl 5221. J? Groom Woman Chaser iiivvi ui caiuuga. victim in the past year. The disease has be come a serious problem in some Midwest areas. Dr. A. G. Beagle of the federtl Department of Agriculture said little is known of the disease. A virus is blamed. Symptons include week for the Osage County oil and frothing at the mouth, inflamed gas least sale. ; nose, eroded areas In the mou'Ji, His car ran out of gas. I loose hooves and weight loss. LONG BEACH. Calif. un-Mrs. Harriett Isabell Barfoot filed suit Friday to annul her t-month marriage to Thomas Barfoot. They were wed last April, she said, but her husband proved to be "what is commonly known as a woman chaser." Both Mr. and Mrs. Barfoot are S3. lie schools. Other cities represented in the testing are Portland, Kugene, Med ford, Coos Bay, Tillamook, Pen dleton, Bend and Klamath Falls. Today's Statesman Classified Comics Crossword ....... Editorials Cardan Home Panorama Obituaries Our Valley ladio, TV Sports ... Star Caztr ..... Valley .. Sec. Page .... II . ..11 ....III.. ....II.. I... .... II.. .... II.. .... II . .... I.., II . .... I.. II.. .... I.. Wirophoio Pago ll.. .14 tV7 .1-3 "11. 1,9 I 11 39. Also filing. was George Vic tor Malstrom. 4130 Portland ltd.. Republirtt committeeman for Precinct 72. Cloudy, Mild On Forecast bulbs were found within 200 feet of the crossing, police said. Giving I'p Search Police were giving up tht search about 9 30 p.m. when a passerby who inquired whit they were doing turned out to be a person who had beard the story from occupants of the ear. Ha took them to Mr., and Mrs. E. I. Stearns at Chemawa, who had been passengers in the car, who told their experience and ex pressed surprise that authorities flniirfv. mild and Intermittent rain is the weather picture for the Interested. Salem area today and Monday. I - -McNary Field weathermen predict- MUD PLAGl'ES AREA ed early this morning. j EDMONDS, Wash, un - Nearly High temperature today should all of the 53 homes In the commu range near M with tonight's low nity of Meadowdale. an area of pear 40. Rainfall in Salem Satur- relatively expensive homes, havt day totaled .24 of an inch to bring been damaged or destroyed by mud the weather year's total to 39.96 'slides and little hope is felt those Inches. 'remaining can be saved. id-Winter Camp-o-ree Draws 225 Salem Area Boy Scouts to Rain-Soaked Camp Silver Creole - v. ON r- - i- aUM, tti Boy IconU frew the laWon area JaassH Wo rala-oookH Camp BStver Creek Tootn Comp Batardoy tee a weekend eie-ce. ptspHe tao beovy saviaw which B raited MtaW ocOrfUes, the nroU gallaed throatw a nosy onoawtrottoa trnedale whirh lo Ma4 $m$ siU aoiecthM, boildlag Bros and proper tat of Breams. lev era! of the esmoert are getUig a preHmlaary leoooo as ooo of a ptftal (left! from Oarleo Gate, lilt Tklrl Ave. teoUd left to r1(M are Jerry tKy. IS7 Kewtrrf Or., Ki.ty King, lia aru Are.. Mike gpooder, U7t Lawier St.. ood Da rid Vaneao. KM rVoooM Tew. lundtag tU-U BJ art. Floyd Reed. 143S Ihady La-. Cary Cooone. Vt'A rark U.. Itaa RolfaeM. tTt BUR Ate., Fe Raaaen. ITU rraoklla FrHdlo Parker, lis RJilh M.. Damd Corert Roote I. tot 157. Boo RatfatM. U7 Mart Are. kt Cofea. Raaneoola are aa order Nr nosier t4 Immt n", Uo. Roster Is Owen MeVsr. 7U C. F.trsld Are, man ln rooet on the flag. A nsoas of yooilrst eoerfy la nVoaoowtraled hi the plctnre at rtiM as a doten hrs vark ft eareoa oieoaa with a tiUto "ruiketn" bniot oao of la fed tea as h riini. Tne romp lo haraled near RUrer Falls Stale Park. I Male. Rarrai Am, kUe Jeff WkltUauaa. IT) t let trie Are, and Dkk Darslnwa rhotot hy Thosas C. RMjst JrJ tSUry kt lee. 1, yi2, .) 4