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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Statesman, SaUm, Oregon, Tuesday, February 21, 1956
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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."
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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.
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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.
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IIII.LSBORO Mrs. Essie Robert. ' -
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
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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
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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?
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