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! KAHULII. Maui Id.. Hawaii, Feb. 18 We were sorry to have Coco Palms on Kauai Id. this afternoon. Signs were posted that the Republicans were having a party rally there tonight. Secre tary of Labor Mitchell and Gov e rnor King were to be present. The Secretary was to have the honor of planting a coconut palm tree, a distinction reserved for VIP's. Also there were six fat turkeys turning on the broiler spits. Though whether they were for the COP "fat cats" or for the regular hotel patrons I did not learn. Mitchell has been in the island most of the week.. His visit has "hotted up" the party faithful (at several $100 a plate dinners and frozen labor negotiations between the Harry Bridges union and the sugar and pineapple employes. Peeved over Mitchell comments on Reds in the ILWU. the latter has suspended negotiations till Mitch ell leaves next . Tuesday. It's a bit of grandstanding if the em ployers had employed a similar tactic Bridges would have accused them of refusing to bargain col lectively. Labor relations here are pretty tifiht some employers may find Jim Mitchell something of a radi cal. On Kauai we were told that of the (Continued on editorial page 4 ! Willamette to Hike Salaries, Endowment PORTLAND W-Tbe Willam ette University board of trustees approved Monday a program for substantial Increases In faculty salaries over the nest two years . .. - .. Details ot the program were left to the university administra tion. It cans tor increased en dowment and increases in tuition Charges. The endowment would be raised by one million dollars. That in cludes $216,000 given Willamette by the Ford Foundation in its re cent grants to private colleges. Another $200,000 will be asked through the Oregon Methodist Con ference from churches. The uni versity will try to raise the rest of the money from other sources. Dr. G. Herbert Smith, university president, told the trustees that $98,000 remains to be raised to complete financing of the recent $1,190,000 building program on the campus at Salem, . ESTES WINS BACKING SANTA MONICA, Calif. ( -Former Governor Culbert Olson of California announced Monday that he has decided to support Sen ator Estes Kefauver and will file an affidavit as national conven tion at-large delegate on the Ke fauver slate. Today's Statesman Sac. Pago II....6, 7 II... 3- II... 5 .1 4 Classified .. Comics Crossword Editorials .. Homo Panorama .. I....6, 7 Markers II.... S Obituaries '.II.... 5 Tues., Wod. TV ... II ... 4 Spoiling Contest ... II ... 2 Sports II ...1, 2 " Star Gazer I.... 7 Valley II.... I Wirephoto Page .11.... 3 Beauty Takes Time Out v - - hxxf-:x-x ' 1 ?.. rLw ) '' - ! - s " ..... . Miss America f 1951, otherwise known as Sharon Kay Ritchie, McCook, Nebraska, enjoys a coffee break Monday while In the middle of an arduous two-day schedule in Sales. Others pictured with - her at the Meier It Frank eeffee shop are three store employes, Mrs. Jnaaita Sellers, waitress; Mrs. Frances Nelson, cosmetician; and Allen Dobler. Highlight ef Mist America's Salem visit is ap pearances la fashion shews. (Statesman photo). 105th Year IS More U.S. Tanl.s 52 Die On Order for Arabs; Cairo S3 Million War Gear Sent to Israel WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia has II more U. S. tanks on order M17 Pattons nearly twice as big as the IS contro versial M41 Walker Bulldogs shipped out Monday. American and other diplo matic officials also reported Israel has received at least three million dollars worth of U.S. radio gear since last August Israel Is pressing for approval of its request, filed last Nov. IS, to buy 50 million dollars in U.S. defensive weapons. This is sought as a counter to Egypt's purchase of 80 million dollars in Communist jet planes, tanks and artillery. Secretary of State Dulles Is to End of Diphtheria-Caused Ban Near; Toledo Boy Dies Oregon State Blind School officials were hopeful that restrictions ! on activities will be lifted by the passed since contact with either of .1 L I. there last week Students and staff members had not been in public places since the disease was discovered Feb. 13 in the death of Mrs. Violet Fry, house mother, Supt. waiter R. Dry said, although they are restricted to the grounds. However, some students and staff members who live in Sa lem have been going home eve nings. The seven-day incubation period is being extended to nine days to be on the safe side, and restric tions will remain in effect until two negative throat cultures have been obtained from every person who showed positive reaction in the Schick skin test. Dry said. Meanwhile, heavy traffic contin ued at the Marion County Health Department for Schick tests, cul tures and immunizations. Dr. Wil lard J. Stone, health officer, said. One positive culture was found Sunday, son of a hospital aide who had contact with Mrs. Fry, he said. A four-year-old boy from Toledo became the third victim of the dis ease within a week in Oregon when he died Sunday on a visit to Junc tion City, Associated Press report ed. The second death was Chris tine Artiano, seven-year-old pupil at the Blind School. Cause of the death of Daniel Lomax, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Lomax of To ledo, was confirmed Monday as diphtheria, AP reported. Dill on Civil Defense Staff Donald F. Dill, who has been public information officer for the secretary of state for the past four years, was appointed Mon day to a similar position for the Oregon Civil Defense Agency. The appointment, made by Civ il Defense Director Arthur . M. Sheets, is effective March 1. Dill succeeds Tom Brubeck, who will join the staff of the Federal Civil Defense regional office at Santa Rosa, Calif. Dill, a graduate of the Univer sity of Oregon School of Journal ism, spent three years in the Air Force in World Wir II. He was formerly a reporter-photographer for the Oregon Statesman. :m iii 2 SECTIONS-U PACES return Wednesday from a Ba hamas vacation. Israeli Ambas sador Abba Ebaa is eipeeted to call on him or his top Middle East aide, George V. Allen. Meanwhile, Sens. Morse (DOre) and Lehman (DNY) joined in attacking Dulles In Senate speeches. Both demand ed that the Senate Foreign Ke-j lations Committee make a thor- ough inquiry into the Middle East situation. i Morse said the American peo- ! nle are coinr "to da the dvinc by the millions" if Dulles stum-; bles "off the brink." "I have no confidence in his equilibrium," Morse added. end ot the week as the eighth day the two diphtheria cases discovered 1 2 Oregon State Fraternities On Probation CORVALLIS UH Two Oregon Male college fraternities were placed on probation Monday by , Dean of Men Dan W. Poling, one; ot them because a student was hurt in a hazing prank. The fraternities punished are Phi Sigma Kappa and Delta Up- silon. The dean said Phi Sigma Kappa was denied social privileges be cause a student was hurt when struck by a paddle In a pre initiation ceremony. The announce ment said the student, whose name was not disclosed, "suffered an aggravation of an existing medical condition," He was held at. the college infirmary for one day of treatment. Violation of college regulations on the use of alcohol was given as the cause for denying Delta Upsilon social participation. Tbe report said the violation oc curred when some of the fraternity members took liquor on ski out ing. Suspension of both fraternities will be effective for the balance of the school year. 'Human' Sack of Bones Found to Be Sheep or Deer's OREGON CITY OB - A sack of bones found on the bank of the Tualatin River near here Sunday turned out to be the remains of a large sheep or deer. Coroner Leslie Peake identified ; the bones as being from an ani- , mat. It first it was thought they ! were the remains of a young man. for Coffee PCUNDHD 1651 The Ortgon Crash 12 Others Escape r laming Death m y French Airliner CAIRO. Egypt OT- A big French airliner, beset by engine trouble on a flight from Karachi, carried 52 persons to flaming death in a crash landing on the desert, near Cairo Monday. Twelve others six passengers and six crew members scaped. All the dead were identified by the Paris office of the airpline, the privately owned Transport Aeriens Intercoritinentaux, as French or Vietnamese. The plane, an Ameri can-built Douglas DCB Cloud mas- jter, was on the way to Paris from I Saigon, South Viet Nam. ) Surviving crewmen said two cf i the four engines had stoDDed as the 25-ton craft aDoroached Cairo ! at the end of the 2,300-mile hop I across sea and desert from Kara-! . . . . chi. Fire surged up when the plane hit the sand. The accident came only 40 hours after a British aircraft, carrying British troops home from Egypt, crashed on the island of Malta and killed all 50 persons aboard. Three American pilots helped Egyptian troops in rescue work over the trackless sands around the site of the wreck. 15 miles southeast of Cairo. They flew out seven of the survivors in light planes. The airliner's skipper, Capt. Charles Billet, was among the ser- iously injured All were taken (o the French Hospital at Abbasia, a Cairo suburb. Washington's Birthday to Close Offices The 224th anniversary of George Washington's birth falls Wednes dayand city, county, state and federal offices will mark the occa sion by closing up shop. Both public and parochial schools will remain open Wednesday, with special exercises planned in tri bute to the nation's first president. Stores and banks in the city plan business as usual and shoppers won't have to worry about park ing tickets. It being a legal holi day, no meters will be checked Wednesday, according to Chief of Police Clyde Warren. Liquor stores will close- along with other state agencies. The Salem Post Office will be on a lull holiday schedule, with no mail delivery except for special deliveries. Lobby window will be closed and holiday mail pickups will be confined to mailboxes. JLiccuon on Sports Center Seems Assured PORTLAND An election on whether Portland's proposed eight million dollar exposition-recreation center should be located on the East Side seemed assured Monday. Petitions with enough signatures to require the election have been filed with the city recorder. The group sponsoring the initia tive measure wants the center to and 19th youngsters and her be built on the East Side rather! husband says he has "about run than in the downtown area of the out of names." West Side the site chosen earlier! The new twins, a boy and a by a commi'ssion charged with lo-'girl, were born prematurely Sun eating the center. iday. '56 Miss America May Problems By CONRAD FRANCE SUrf Writer, The Statesman -If is makes you feel any better, Miss America has a weight prob lem, too. Also, she has no boy friends. But, by George, she's got about everything else youth 19t, fig ure (35-2T-35), sincerity 'down-to- ., earth), personality plus), and loot (scholarship, tours, etc.) "When I was talked into run ning for the Miss Colorado title on short notice," says Sharon Kay Ritchie, Miss America of 19S, "I had to lose some weight. But I overdid it." Well, she didn't look a bit over done when she arrived in Salem for a two-day round of fashion shows at Meier k Frank store. Her last appearance here is at , a 2 30 p.m. fashion show today at " store. "Not every girl can be Miss America." admitted the reddish browa haired, almond-eyed beauty who dresses in at lit pounds. "But every girl can be well, groomed, better mannered. Sin cerity is the keynote of beauty. liMHnlltrlllrj'llllllit! Statesman, SaUm, Oregon, Tuesday, February 21, 1956 NewNicl(nameBulterflyhcad'ig-orm Leaveg K HONOLULU Ed L, Whitely, 22, t X ... II If I V jf I v I y v i : D mate on the I'SS Eversole, had his nickname graphically changed from "Tarheel" to "Butterflyhead." Whitely already sports some 35 other tattoos, but probably is the only one on his ship with a tattooed scalp. (AP Wirephoto). 8 Salem Schools Honored By Freedoms Foundation F.ight Salem schools will re ceive Freedom's Foundation awards for "contributions U bet ter understanding of the Ameri can way of life" in 1955, it was announced Monday by the nation al organization. Three of the eight are winners of Principal School Awards, the highest offered to schools. Four are being given in Oregon and 70 nationally. Winners of the top awards will receive a trip for one student and one teacher to Valley Forge, Pa., later in the year. They are Keizer and Leslie Junior High Schools and Oregon State School for the Blind. Avalanche Nearly Buries Rescue Party MT. WASHINGTON, N. H. Wl Another thundering avalanche roared down Tuckerman Ravine Monday shortly after rescuers had left with the body of a Northeast ern professor engulfed in Sunday's crushing slide. The second avalanche swept over the spot where Dr.A. Aaron Leve, 28, was buried in a crush of ice and snow. The 50-man rescue party was about a quarter of a mile awry when tons of ice and snow roared down the procipitous rock wall. The new avalanche almost bur ied the diggings in the snow for the professor's body. Four of Leve's companions narrowly missed a similar fate. Mother Bears 6th Set of Twins JOHNSON CITY. Tenn, ( -Mrs. F. J. Arquette has given birth to her sixth set of twins her 18th Intelligence Helps "A girl can't stand on physical beauty, alone, these days. She must be neat and sweet and down- to earth. Intelligence helps, too." Sharon, whose father is in the insurance business, uses makeup sparingly. She feels the best beauty aid a girl can have is a Christian faith. A steady church-goer, she says Christian principals have always played an important part in her life. She taught Sunday school in her home town of McCook, Nebr, and was active in Christian Youth Fellowship. Faith la Cod -"H'-'You must have faith in Cod, in yourself and in what you are doing," she tells youth groups. "You must set goal, and then go after It She set her sights on the Miss America title when she was eiiht years old. Her older sister (her only sister no brothers) last year was second place runnerup in the Miss United States con test, preliminary to the Miss Uni verse contest, in which she placed fifth. She also was Miss Nebrae But Tney Do n't Sliow from North Carolina, boatswains Winners of Freedom Library Awards are Bush, Englewood. McKinley Elementary and Salem Heights Schools. Richmond School Won an Honor Medal Award. Fifty Freedom Library and 108 Honor Medal Awards were given nationally. This is Englewood School's sixth consecutive award. It re ceived Principal Awards three years in a row starting in 1951, an. Honor Medal in 1954 and a special award last year for five years of outstanding work. Leslie Junior High, Blind and Salem Heights Schools entered for the first time this year. (Also see story in section 2, page 8 ) Forly Aspirin Tablets Fail to Slow Salem Tot - A Salem tot ate 40 aspirin tablets Monday at his home. Quick use of a stomach pump apparently pre vented any harmful after effects, city first aidmen said. Two-year-old Dan Parkinson, 2265 N. 4th St., gulped down the tablets from a bottle about 2 p.m. He was checked by aidmen and rushed by his father to Salem General Hos pital and the stomach pump. The father, Frank Parkinson, said the youngster ''was smiling and cutting up." The youngster was back playing at home follow ing removal of the tablets. ILLEGITIMATE SON WASHINGTON if - Chairman Richards D SO of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday that in foreign policy mat ters the administration treats the House as "a weak-minded illegiti mate son." The Weather Mix. Slcm 41 Portlind 43 Biker 4.1 Medford 4(t Norln Bend . SO. Rottburg . 45 San Franntco .......... SS Loa Anselri ...... M Chicago . 31 Mln. Prerlp. S 2 W 34 3S M 49 42 1 00 I 41 I 24 2.11 31 , on .no .01 New York ... . .... 43 M Willamette River 3 2 feet. Have Her ka. Sharon says all this family, ',,v"r glamour is "just accidental." WASHINGTON - The gov "Take advantage of every oP-f"ntJau"cned '.M?t portunity," is her advice to girls' Monday to settle the 127 who have their hearts and cal-;day t"Kbmis strike but ap eries set on being Miss Ameri cas. "Beauty contests give a girl poise and experience," Since she inherited the Miss America crown last September and, as the papers put it. "a jackpot of foO.OOO in prizes and personal appearances," Sharon has had -a full, but interesting, time of it. "The best part of winning the title, in addition to the $5,000 Everglaze college scholarship, has been the experience gained in meeting people and seeing the country." No Movie Offers She hasn't had any movie of fer!. So she intends to finish col- ' lege she has two years to lo in turope. She 11 study fine arts, and fashions. After that? "Well." she sighed. "I'd like eventually to get . married and have iU children. Three boys and three girls." That's what faith does for you. WVv PRICE 5 Valley Passes Southern Oregon Possihlc Renewal By JERRY B. Stiff Writer, The Statesman The Salem area was saturated by more than two inches of . rain in a 24-hour period ending at 12;30 .m. Tuesday and more rain was forecast Eastern and western perimeter points of th valley were hit by near-record snowfalls. j Ieavy rains combined with snow poured .38 of an inch of precipitation on the Salem sector a.m. Monday. Large wet snowj flakes pliimmetted down start ing about 9:30 a.m., but failed to stick on the ground. The rain measurement from midnight. Sunday to midnight Monday was 2 05 inches. Flood Problems The County engineer's office said another 24 hours of heavy rains could bring flood problems in the area. City officials said their only troubles were a few overflowing catch-basins. The Willamette River rose an even two feet in a 24-hour period up to midnight Monday but was still far under flood stage of 20 feet. Weathermen said the river will continue a slow rise, Snow continued to pile up at De troit in the Santiam Canyon, with more than IS inches on the ground Monday, following a three-inch fall during the night. Tbe Detroit sec tor reported 31.25 inches ot snow since Feb. 11, which oldtimeri call ed an unusual amount for so late in the year. A number ot cars slid off the Santiam highway at De troit, but no serious accidents were reported. j School buses operated with some difficulty but officials said schools probably would be open Tuesday. To the west of Sulem, steady rain turned into mixed rain and snow in the Dallas area and solid snow in the Valsetx sector. Dallas had two inches of slushy snow on the ground by noon Mon day, but most of it had disappeared by early afternoon. From Valseti there were reports of five inches of new snow in a .24 hour period and snow for the seventh straight day. Eleven inches of snow weight ed the ground in Valsetz and more than two feet was estimated on the road to Falls City. Road crews fought to keep two-way traffic go ing. Valseti ram-reader Ted Goodcll said precipitation was 2 3 inches in the 24 hour period ending at 4:30 p.m. all snow. Snow reaching five Inches was reported on the Pioneer Loop road about six miles northwest of Dallas. Heaviest Snowfall - The Associated Press said heav iest snowfall of the season was re ported in the Cascade and Siski you mountain passes, with new falls totaling as high as 20 Inches. Klamath Falls reported eight in ches of new snow Monday. Southern Oregon braced itself Monday night for a possible re newal of the floods and slides which caused heavy loss of life and damage over the last Christ mas holiday. Torrential rains sent creeks over their banks and the Rogue and the South Umpqua Rivers were rising rapidly. Tbe Pacific highway be tween Grants Pass and Medford was closed by runoff water at Sav age Rapids Dam near Grants Pass, It was still raining hard late Mon day night and there was no esti mate of when the road could be reopened. Massive Assault The latest winter storm to hit the Northwest made a massive snow assault on Kastern Washing ton. Douglas and Okanogan coun ties were engulfed 1n snows up to 30 inches in depth. Many highways in the two Washington counties were closed as winds piled up huge drifts. Meanwhile weathermen at Me Nary Field in Salem predicted rain today and tonight and Wednesday, but said it won't be as steady as that of the past two days. I I'Tniio am w nw . a parently made no progress. 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' - son, 54, teacher la ae-reeon school near here, who wag J resent at grand Jury heai ng Monday after a school board member was indicted e ' . , charges ef beating her. Bei features aheaj ' Injuries U4 Wirephoto) - -r-,, f Jury InHIcts School Board ManinBeating? HILLSBORO OF) Louis Forrest, ' 24-year-old Scofield School Board member, Monday was indicted by a Washington County grand jury ' on a charge of assault and battery. ' He was accused of beating Mrs, , Essie Robertspn, 55, the teacher, in a school squabble last Tuesday. Forrest was Jailed here Thursday -after the woman accused him of blacking her eye and striking her. in the Jaw. Forrest denied he had nit her. Mrs. Robertson said that Forrest ' and his cousin, Mrs. Yula Fellas, i also a member of the board, came ' to the school last Tuesday and that a dispute broke out over the move- ; merit of some unused desks. Mrs, , Fellas is custodian at the little school. '" Mrs. Fellas said that Mrs. Rob crson threw a book at her, but that she did not see any blows. Forrest said that Mrs. Robertson fell against a sink in a "shoving match" that developed. Mrs. Rob ertson said that Forrest struck her. Mrs. Fellas and school board " chairman Samuel Hanson, 74, have resigned pending the outcome of . the school squabble. This was at . the ' suggestion of County Judge ' Harry Seabold. Forrest said he - would not resign from the board , t J of the little one-room school which has nine girls and five boys en rolled from the first through the sixth grade. Mrs. , Robertson Is the . only , teacher at the school Brook, Siimiyide Okeh School BmlprU . ... gtil,MB.-l(t Sf rvlr " ' ' BROOKS Voters of Brooki '.' School Pif trict 31 approved their 19.VS budget by unanimous billot' Monda ni"ht st a special elec tion. Seventeen votes were east - SUNNYSIDE The 1956 budget of $16,516 for Sunnyside School District 96C was approved st an election held Monday night. The count was 22 votes for and one against Ww yel should have wt th tot CuJ tcl xi2? " i !" Ca-J '