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And, after hours of skirmishing and maneuvering, the stage was being set for a formal investiga tion of an. issue which has been f-tting off sparks since last Fri day. This inquiry would seek to de termine whether a Nebraska at torney tried to pressure Sen. Case (R-SD) into supporting the Alabama U. Girl as 'Safety Measure' TUSCALOOSA, Ala. W-The University of Alabama Board of Regents Monday night ordered its first Negro student barred from classes until further notice as a safety measure. . The order-was announced as hundreds of students and others began a new demonstration against admission of a Negro co-ed. ruscaioosa I'olice thief W. C. Taper-backs have given book publishing a shot in the arm and readers a fresh sfock ot reading matter at low cost. Their wide distribution and open display at newsstands and candy counters has expanded their sale.. While many of the paper - backs are trashy novels of sex, crime or "westerns." publishers have also put in circulation thousands of! copies of serious books, old clas- sics and reprints of fairly recent ; Hovels, To tap Ihis market, Simon and Schuster, New York publish ers, are putting out paper-backs dealing with science subjects, in . cooperation with the Scientific .American magazine. This magazine underwent a com plete transformation some eight years ago. For years it dealt largely with new inventionsThen a new publisher and a"hew editor made it a slick paper, high-grade magazine dealing with significant scientific topics. While much of it is above the level ot a lay man's understanding usually each issue contains articles well within the grasp of the ordinary reader. This editor has found it an liter esting and reliable source of cience material of current inter est. Now selections from this mat erial or fresh matter dealing with special subjects will be published in book form, paper-back cover at a dollar apiece. The initial list of this joint pro duct includes these titles: Automatic Control First Book of Animals The Physics and Chemistry of III i . The New Astronomy Atomic Power Now the traveler can pick up something besides Earle Stanley Gardner or Fannie Hurst for read ing matter. I can almost guaran tee that if it doesn't keep him awake it will put him to sleep quickly. The publisher of the Scientific American and Simon and Schuster are to be commended for making available the best infor mation on science subjects at low cost. Kuss Fishermen Poachers Agree To Pay Norway , AALESUND. Norway - The Captains of 16 Russian trawlers seized on charges of fishing in Norwegian waters agreed Monday night to pay 629,500 kroner (about $88,000) in fines and confiscation claims. The settlement apparently marks the end of the dispute, which brought a Norwegian protest to the Soviet government. The trawlers re expected to leave here Tuesday morning under Norwegian naval scort. The Russian embassy .Monday-; put up security for the. fishermen in local banks. XsMBBr oltl ttunblefart!" IF SLHDDH mum bill by offering $2,500 for his re-, election campaign fund. The lawyer, John M. Nef f, has de clared there were "no strings attached." Case refused the money. Opponents attempted to tor pedo the bill, which would free natural gas producers from di rect federal price controls, by handing it back to the Com merce Committee. They tried to write in. what they called neces sary safeguards for consumers, and to restrict regulations only to big producers. All along the line, they failed Bans Negro Tompkins was splattered with eggs as he directed officers in breaking up the crowd. Korks Thrown University officials Mere hit wiih eggs, rocks and mudballs and cursed as Nigger loving uuiiug viuicm ui-iiiuiisua- tion on the campus Monday" morn tog. The disorder flared when Auth erine Lucy, 26-ycar-old Negro sec retary, appeared to attend classes. She also was spattered with hurled eggs, and windows of the car in which she rode were smashed. Slipped Away Highway Patrol officer slipped er away at the height of the demonstration when more than 3,000 students and others were on the campus.Her attorney Said whether she returned to classes Tuesday would depend, on whether "the situation is under control." Dr. O. C. Carmichael, university president, told faculty members at a meeting that "if we cannot oner undcr law and order it may be necessary to close up shop." Strike Probe Turns Solons Into Jurists .ANNAPOLIS, Md. (JH The Maryland House of Delegates; made history Monday night by be ing the first to convene itself os an extraordinary grand jury to in vestigate the Baltimore Transit Co. strike. The 19ri6 House became the first accoding to records scanned by the attorney general's office to in voke a section of the 1867 con stitution known as the '"grand in quest." All -123 delegates will sit as a super grand jury probing the strike which started a week ago. The only other time the grand inquest powers were invoked were in 1912 when it was given to a. subcom mittee of five to investigate Deaths of 30 in Los Angeles Train rr , i WreCK ACCldeillal LOS ANGELES ia The deaths - 01 30 persons in the hanta Fe train wrecx Jan. 22 were accidental and no person was criminally respon sible,' a coroner's jury of business men ruled Monday. The verdict was returned after the engineer, whose train turned over at 70 m. p. h. on a 15-m. p. h. curve, spilling some victims thrnilirh winrtnu nnH rpuchinif them, testified he has suffered from cancer, tuberculosis, a per' forated ulcer and chronic fatigue. (Additional details in sec. 2, page 10. ' LOAN APPROVED WASHINGTON - The Rural Electrification Administra tion Monday approved a loan of $455,000 to the Project Mutual Tel ephone Cooperative Assn., Rupert, Idaho. Today's Speller (Edltor'a Nott: A Hit f tl worai la kelnf ankllih tack Kheol a to aoakt up .Jfca Soa-wori. kaslo UU tor wmi-flna.il ana flnali of Tht Or(oa SUtraaaan-aSLM Mld-Va ly Sawlliaf ConUtt la whlck nearly .M 7th- and llh-sradt itudcata art partlclpatins). physician rapture tabernacle senior peculiar average puzzle window facriicf treatment poetry captain 1 disappoint envision anticipate heritape moisture napkin r'plendid rttiaurant : turkey blouse convince erporter. unnecessary . against a bipartisan array of Re publicans and Democrats. In the end, the Senate substi tuted for its own commerce com mittee bill the one that squeaked through the House 209 to 203 last year. That avoided rerouting the measure back to the House, and another tough fight, and sent it directly to the White House for action. While Eisenhower has taken no firm position for or against the legislation,' backers said they were confident he would sign it. Both Oregon senators, Morse and Neuberger( opposed the bill. Driver Put on Probation,Gets Funeral Bill Lawrence Dean Pace, 20. stav.'0Pcned ni law practice the fol- ton, recently convicted on a charge of negligent homocide, was given a suspended 18-months sen tence and placed on probation Monday by Marion County Cir- M Judge George Duncan. 1 A condition of the probation is! mat race oay me lunerai ex penses of Fred, Dennis, Salem, whose death in a highway accident near , Aumsville last Oct. 29, led to the charges against the defen dant. Judge Duncan ordered the Stayton youth to pay the Dennis family $25 per month toward the, funeral costs, amount of which was not immediately known. Pace is prohibited from driv ing during the 18 months of his probation..,, Pace was convicted by a jury on Jan. 18 and a new trial was denied by the court. The youth's conviction was the first in Mar ion County under the new negli gent homicide statute passed by the 1953 Legislature. Previously such cases were tried under man slaughter statutes. Maximum penalty for a negli gent homocide conviction is three years. The state had charged Pacei with responsibility for the accident on the east outskirts of Aums ville after a complaint by the dead man's son, Delbert L. Dennis, driver of the car in which his father was-riding.-The-eomplaint charged Pace with being driver of the other car involved in the accident. Painter Admits Washington Duo's Slaying NEW ORLEANS OB - FBI agents said Tuesday a 22-year-old Ndrth Dakota painter admitted he had killed a Washington couple found beaten and run over by a car Sunday .In California. The FBI identified the man as Donald Christopher Wysciaskala of Bismark, N. D. The FBI said he admitted killing Mr. and Mrs. James B. Askew of Seattle, who had hired him to drive them to Los Angeles. unci Gidnii jf newman saia Bi Bakersficld. Calif., that the couple had been hit with I ho hlunt wH Coroner Stanley Newman said at Lof - a - hatehet-everaHime.thcirf throats slashed and their bodies run over by their own car, Weather Outlook Stays About Same Little change in weather was Prodic,?ld. Monday night by Mc Nary Field weathermen. Few I , . ' ........ a gut m complaints also seemed to be injwe had been working at cross- the cards-with a high of 46 and a! purposes. low of 30 degrees awn for today I "I believe I hadn't been paying and tonight. enough attention to her personal f.iS t "i8 t morning ; problems. At any rale, we worked Smiv . r TTl on'y i tnin "d everything is rifn LJ . t 1 ? h ' heayy "mth ,fialn " He Mid the rain, snow and low temperatures. tress will dismiss the suit . I McKay Program Attacked by Demos, Bears, By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON l - Everybody in Washington has problems, es pecially Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay. . , , In Congress, Democrats tear Into ms puunc power ana natural re- sources policies. Out in the country, hi, depart- me nts program is attacked by Krtiraf i-nisi. kirsio Anm J trvaaio, iiiiiv. miua, win , IIOJ C 49IIIU porcupines. Especially porcupines, The misfortunes of McKay are spelled out in his annual report to President Eisenhower. And if Eisenhower doesn't bog down in some of .the statistical mazes, but keeps manfully on with his reading, he will lean by page 312 bow unimpressed art the birds and The Ortgon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, TasmrTra mw w' j m.m. jk-j vy i To File for ess Seeks Denid Nod By 1st District as Representative Jason Lee, Salem attorney, an nounced Monday night he will seek the Democratic party's nomination for representative from Orecon'i rirsi congressional District. Lee indicated he will campaign "to see that the family-sized farms of my district, and the country. snare justly in the prosperity of this bountiful nation." Ho aairt ne will press for hydro-electric de velopment and an atomic generat ing plant for the Northwest. Junior First Citizen of Salem in 1851 w hile administrative assistant for the State Tax Commission. Lw lowing 'oar He graduated in law j at 0re8n U. in 1939. He has had previous law orac tices in Eugene and Portland and also had been attorney for the Federal Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He also has been Marion County deputy district" attorney. He was a candidate for State Legislature in the 1954 Republican primary. He and Dorothy Davis were married in Eugene in 1940. Thpv live at 1500 S. Liberty St., with uivir nree cnuaren, ratty, Betty una uave. Silverton Vote Planned on Filtration Unit RUtnmaa Newt Ifrvlra SILVERTON A proposed $200, 000 bond issue for a filtration plant will be put (0 a public vote in the November general election, City Council decided Monday. Bonds would be financed by raising minimum water rates $1.45 monthly. The increase to utility wrs- would - not- be- that-much, however, as a 50-cent charge in the sewage fee to pay for a recent sewage plant is due to end April L councilmen explained. The bond issue would cover cost of the plant, estimated at $154,800, plus necessary pipelines, R. E. Borland, city manager, said. J. W. Cunningham Associates of Port land, who have done preliminary work on the project, were retained by the council as engineers. In other business, the council called for bids on a new police car, and accepted the resignation of Roy Davenport as Silverton Area Defense director and appointed M. B. Ford to the post. Mayor Harry V. Carson announced appointment of John Lalirker, Silverton grocer, to the unexpired planning commis sion term of J. Carey Moore, First National Bank branch manager who has been transferred to Port land. , Judy Garland Divorce Off HOLLYWOOD w Sid Lufl said Monday that he and Jurtv Garland are back together again. She sued him for divorce last week. . "She 1fnt In hr aldar. tk. 'agent old a newsman, "but she came home Saturday and we had a uond nlri-fhshinrmH tM 1 Mice, Birds, Deer, Porcupines the beasti by this great govern- me,nt- . . tw Instance: in the Pacific oe governmeni is ' a TL t the.1Du0Ula ln" dustry healthy, so it has been busy , feseeaing &e what happens? woods mice eat the seeds. .Southern pine seed has been planted from Virginia to Florida nnA a fnat f m iai west air ifxai, ill; grating birds, MrK'a r.,r t ay look on' this as their own ,VJAU government giveaway. In Montana, ponderosa pine is couiderexf quite valuable by all us animals. Humans like It as lumber; deer, tquirrels, mice and hares like It as cereal and salad, eating Tuesday,' Fbrury 7, 1936 Twin Lambs Bring Reminder of Spring A, L Ellis Johnson, Macleay area fanner, is shown above proudly inspecting twin lambs born on his farm antral noun oeiore wis pnoio was tanen Monday arternoon. Despite lack of pasture, most farm ers agree that this winter's lambing has been good. At any rate, the young sheen are a reminder that spring is not far off. (Statesman Photo). . ' r Scientists Of An tarctic Oasis -LONDON IAV-Moscow Radio said Tuesday a Soviet scientific party has explored a strange Antarctic oasis where the midday, temperature rises to 77 degrees and there is primitive plant life. - The broadcast said the oasis covers about 200 square miles In Queen Mary Land, or the eastern edge of the permanently ice-bound Amarcuc continent, ine area was Reich to Halt Payments for West Troops -tPtctureTecn'Pa'ge IT BONN, Germany lAV- West Ger many declared Monday it is going to halt its multi-million dollar cash support of Western troops in Ger many next May. Finance Minister Fritz Schacffer said through a spokesman at a news conference that his answer will be "No" to allied demands for continued cash support of their troops here after the present agreement expires May 5 The spokesman said no other NATO members make such con tributions to support Allied forces in their territory, and it would be "discriminatory" if Vjwi. Germany were required to do so, In the treaties that ended the occupation last May, West Ger many agreed to pay 3,200,000,000 marks (760 million dollars) for one year toward the cost of keeping Western armies 1n Germany. It was agreed then that Bonn would be "willing to negotiate" on the question after next May S. The Allied position is that Ger- many-should -makeaashcontri4 bution to Allied troops in Germany as her share of Western defense. Ex-Police Chief Held On Bad Check Charge PORTLAND Ml - Orval Q. Mitchell, 32, a former Bremerton, Wash.. Doliceman and ex-nolice chief of Sweet Home. dre.. was - - arrested Monday on a charge of writing a $600 check without .av- lnaT sufficient funds in the bank. " Detectives said they also were questioning him about accusations by Martha A. Robins of Oswego of Proper business dealings involv ing a considerable sum of money. everything from tha seed to the MPU0. . ! "In the Northwest," McKay con-1 an-'tinues, "bean girdle maturing Douglas fir trees." That is." f hey reestablislbea otters in one of the km the treeg by stripping off thc'T'0'!"' I'd". and how 19 young- bark all the wav around? i ... .L. 'T" J ?m,,nU'nce sentence -""H". , CToiint TVlfc in " lhaT PArwkrfal U tal . ' ' "1" "" "i 1 'Borcupines are the bane of forest-1 - ers. Apparently the report's writer was too overcome even to hint at what all the pesky porcupine Is up to. There's much more. On how the government-owned seal pups have the bookworm. On how mosquitoes X, Tell sighted in 1948 by an aerial observer witn a V.S. expedition, but the luuaiana claim this is the first time man ever set foot in it. Soviet scientists flew to the oasis ' from the Soviet South Polar Base set up about 230 miles to the west. The broadcast said the Soviet explorers "discounted" the theory that the oasis is of volcanic origin, but they apparently putjqrwarjl no veryclcar 'alternative-suggestion. Snow Melts The radio account said: "In the opinion of members of the expedition the oasis appeared thousands of years ago after the ice receded. A high degree of solar radiation and the heat of the rocks makes the snow melt early in the spring, forming streams and rivulets which fill the fresh water lakes. No snow is left. Powerful currents of warm air rise over the stony surface. "One particularly Interesting as pect is the extreme dryness of the air, which can be compared with that of a desert. Seme Mois Found "The flora here is very poor, consisting mainly of several types of black, grey and white lichen growing on stones. Moss occasion ally is found ,n the bids of streams, but even this poor vege tation covers only an infinitesimal area of the oasis, which is like a stony desert spent the day hunt edTs birds the snow white storm finch nesting among the rocks, and a small black bird." The reference to the heat of the rocks could be a hint that the oasis is a center of subterranean radio activity from such fissionable ma terials as uranium. The Weather Mat. M!n. Prrrtp. .41 U M Put Hand 40 3 . VI . 52 , 43 2 31 9 J 31 M 43 4S traro .00 - .00 .00 .00 - .08 .00 .11 1 11 Baar Mrdfnrd -North Brnd Hoachuri San Francisco - Lot Anaelea M Chicago . .. 34 2S 21 Ntw York 42 Willamette River I S tttt are learning to like DDT. On how mourning doves are' getting some- hing called trichomonas gallinae. On how an attempt was made to itrt-s were taken there only to have three of them nerish in ih !. . . , packed waters. ,.... . ... midgen of good . . nAUffl tJ Vam rlnllKl vm n omaa ' hau., I & k. ' .l. . .. .11' r ' . have wondered atxiut the pi (aval ence of woodcocks The Interior De partment says the government has what it calls a "technique- for censuring woodcock" by recording the call of unsuspecting males. ' No word yet 00 how many wood cock are calling. But let's all look forward, to next year's report. v v r i V -.v-.v v. i T ' '. !. l V " . - , t V i M. Smith to Keep Patterson Staff Of Executives Gov. Elmo Smith said Monday there would be a "minimum of change" in his administration. Gov? Smith, who became gov ernor Jasc Tuesday nifht after the death of Gov. Paul Patterson, also asked heads of state depart ments to "function in the same efficient manner that it has in the past." His statement follows: "We will be facing many nrob- lemswithin the' next few weeks. I will need to become better ac quainted with the detailed oper ations of the executive office. Has Canfldrnre ' "I have confidence In the depart ment heads and other state offic ials who have been serving faith fully under Gov. Patterson. I ex pect the state departments to con tinue to function in the same effi cient manner in the future that they have in the past under Gov. Patterson's leadership. , . . " He held his first meeting Mon day with the entire Governor's staff, promising them he would make no, staff changes. Staff Members Members of the staff Include Pred Shideler, administrative as sistant, whom Gov. Patterson ap pointed only a month before he died; Edwin Armstrong, private secretary;" and Miss Leolyn Barn ett, office secretary. Gov. Smith told the staff he would lean on them heavily tor auvice auring me next lew months. ing for aj house or an apartment. Canneries Hike Minimum Wages To Women, Minors PORTLAND W) The State Wage and Hour Commission Mon day ordered an Increase in mini mum wages Tor women and minors in two branches of the canning industry. . Those working in cherry stem ming will advance from a mini mum of 35 to 66 cents an hour, State Labor Commissioner Nor man Nilsen said. Those in nut processing and cracking will get a boost from 40 to 66 cents. Nilsen said the commission also ordered, for auch etrrployea,- timei 'fi'l!?8 .it, and a half pay for 10 hours and double-time after 12 hours. TraiirRams Landslide WEST NEWTON, Pa. A ..7 . j u.i.Vl. " ' . Z . " v-tiii w aiuiiunui c ja-vtrrr'tT train of the Baltimore Ohio R road alammed inln 11 lnnIJi-l . a . . . . b i "c" ,u c -f "' Railroad officials said their first reports indicated no one was hurt. A B k O spokesman said the eight-ear train rounded a curve and hit the landslide with six of the eight cars partially overturn ing. - " West Newton Is about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. School Bond Vote Sets Mark Salem District Okehs $2,900,000 For Conslructioa By ROBERT E. GANGWARC City Editor, The SUtesmaa Constniction of two nevf junior hich schools for Salem School District was armroverl by the citizens Monday in a record high turnout of school votrrs. They voted 3.961 to I.42 in favne of a $2,900,000 bond issue which will finance two new junior highs in Northeast Salem and Smith Salem, plus at estimated $300,000 worth of improvements at North Salem High and the present two junior highs. It was the biggest vote cast h . school district voters in at least 13 years, and probably the biggest ever. Thirteen of the 17 school votinf precincts showed a favorable vote. The negative margin totaled to votes in the four precincts voting against the bond issue Grant, Garfield, Highland and Roberts. Flaal Plaas Due With the passage of the bond issue measure, the district's school board plans to have final plans for the building projects ready for ap proval by July 1 and ready for start of construction in SeDtemhef. They are to be in use by Septerrv ber, 1957. . The Northeast Salem lunior hiph will be located on the Washington School tract. The South Salem junior high will be built on Jones Road south of Browning Avenue. The junior highs, following a common plan, are being planned by Architect William I. Williams. Cost is estimated at $1,200,000 each. The work at the other schools will include a new music room at North. High, enlargement of classrooms at Parrish and some remodeling at Leslie. Increase In taxes to pay off the bonds will average approximately 2.73 mills over 20 years. The biggest majority favoring . the bond issue came last night irom voters in the Morningside district where the proposal was favored 555 to 123. Better this 2 to I majorities were chalked up iso 11 newer, west , Saloon, HayesviJJe. Liberty. Brush Col. Highest Turnout The next highest turnout of voters in alt school' elections since 1939 came in 1948 when a $3,500,000 construction bond is sue was defeated 3,200 to 748 afU er an opposition campaign -Only-" three other elections had drawn ' over 2,000 voters a 1950 bond issue and serial levy, the South 2aiem High bond issue in 1952 and the tax vote in 1955. All three were favorable votes. Monday's vote was so unexoect. edly heavy that several precincts ran out of ballots and the school offices had to print an extra sup ply late In the day, to resupply the precincts. Lines of voters were slowed by the new state law re quiring signing of pollbooks to ver ity addresses. School board members and school administrators were pleased with the vote results as they watched them accumulate in tab ulations brought to the School Ad ministration Building last night Snyder Delighted Said Superintendent Walter E. Snyder: "We are delighted, f course, with the election outcome -and we are particularly pleased with the tremendous turnout. It I shows genuine interest on the part of the people in support of their c hnols "1 am grateful to the Citizens Advisory Committee for their work in promoting this important de velopment in our school system. And I am appreciative of the work of radio and newspapers in inform ing the people of the issues in volved." Here Is the vote "results by school Pr. Vatrd At 1 Highland School 2 Washington ... 3 Grant 4 Englewood 5 Adm. Bldg. .... 6 Richmond Ye. 174 Ne 2.11 14 202 211 174 " 227 278 123 111 97 131 46 141 146 S3 ' 9 36 t,42t 353 183 307 1.190 274 479 ...... 555 7 Leslie 1 Morningside I Four Corners ...197 10 West Salem , 202 11 Keizer .......303 U Hayesville 120 13 North High 176 14 Garfield .....131 16 Liberty 170 17 Brush College 103 TOTALS J.m, Today's Statesman Sec. Page Classified Comes the Dawn Comics Crstsword" m II... M . I ... 4 II... 5 II. 6 Ed.iorials l. . 4 Home Panorama .. I.. 6 I Markets il 7 Obituaries ,7 . ladio. TV .. ... 6 Sptwtt..., II 1, a Star Gaier l. Travel Page ll 1 Valley ll - 4 ' Wirephol Paga JU. '$ Your Incoma Tax JU. 7