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By a vote of 366-4, the chamber passed an administration-backed measure to prevent a scheduled April 1 cut in an assortment of taxes. - .. , : The bill now goes to the Sen ate, where it also is expected to pass in time to keep the billions involved flowing into the treasury at their current pace. Blazing Crib Burns Salem Tot to Death Blankets of 5-Month-Old Infant Ignited by Homemade Vaporizer A five-month-old baby died Tuesday evening of burns received five hours earlier in his crib when blankets caught fire, apparently iiom a homemade vaporizer, Steven Earl Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Harper, 290 S. 14th St., was rushed to Salem General Hospital by city first idmen about 1:10 p.m. He died about 6:05 p.m. ' IP mum It Is a condition not a theory which confronts the City Transit Lines of Salem, The- condition 1s not local to this city. It is almost " omvralr The cycle "of decllnini patronage and lower earnings pre vails quite ' generally, over the country. Some of the large cities have, gone in for public owner ship: ' New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle. Some- re tain private transit systems which are still able to show a - profit: Minneapolis -.St. Paul, New Or leans, Philadelphia. The matter has come to a head in Salem with urgent request of City Transit to drop night service, which has been a losing proposi tion. This met with objections from those who do need bus transpor tation because of their night work schedules. During the canning sea son this need shows marked in crease. The city council has wres tled with the problem or it might be better to say that it has walked around the problem with out coming really to grips with it. The Chamber of Commerce had a" committee make "a study ol Sa lem s needs for transit service and how best they might be met. Its report is a very good summary of the plight in which urban transpor tation now finds itself, localized to Salem.. More privately owned cars, more downtown parking lots, greater diffusion of retail stores. effect of television on night travel to downtown shows, decline of Sat urday as a shopping day all these are factors hurting the vol ume of bus patronage. What is the solution? The cham ber committee spelled out the possibilities: Discontinuance of bus service, municipal ownership, private ownership with or without (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Detroit to Study Possible Addition Of High Scbool SUtrinui Ntwi Srrvlct DETROIT, Ore. Establishment of a high school at Detroit will be considered in a public meeting called by the Board of Education for I p.m. Wednesday in the school cafeteria. State legislation which goes in effect at the start of next school year will require payment of tui tion for Detroit District students attending Mill City High School. A straw vote at the close of the meeting will - determine - School Board policy on the question, mem bers said. "Is tttri a veferUartaa ii the MSSt" If Congress should delay, ex isting law provides for the levy J on . corporation income to drop from 52 to 47 per cent on April 1.. . " ; On the same date excise taxes which have about the same ef fect as sales taxes would decline by varying degrees to pre-Korean war levels on gasoline, alcoholic . beverages, automobiles and cig arettes. President Eisenhower, whose 1936-57 budget is now in close balance, urged Congress to pre vent the revenue loss. Police said the baby was being "steamed" with vapor from a cof fee can on a hotplate on a chair beside the crib. A blanket appar ently caught fire when the can became hot after jt had boiled dry, they said. Mrs. Harper said the baby had been treated by a doctor earlier in the day for a lung congestion. Found by Mother Mrs. Harper said she had gone to another part- of the apartment for a short time and saw the blan ket ablaze as she returned to the room. Firemen said blankets were burned and the crib, chair, rug, floor, coffee can and hotplate were scorched. The, baby was born Oct 3 at Redmond and the parents moved to Salem shortly afterward. Harper reportedly has been unemployed because of illness. Tve Brothers Survivors, besides the parents, are two brothers, Charles Robert and Terry Harper, and grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heck- man, all of Salem; and great grandparents, Mrs. Ada Glenn, Campbell, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. William Little, Salem; and aunts and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. James Crenshaw, Lebanon, and Bobby Heckman, Salem. Arrangements are pending at Howell-Edwards Mortuary, Gunmen Rob AlbanyStore SUtrirain Ntwi Srrvlct ALBANY -Two men held a 74- year-old man at gunpoint while they robbed his store of S60 Tues day. ; The victim was Jack Bovard, who operates the Blue Grass Val ley Grocery on the outskirts of Albany. Sheriff George Miller said (he men broke into the store early Tuesday morning while Bovard was asleep in the rear of the store. They took Bovard's wallet and found more money he had con cealed in a cash box which was secreted in a cook stove. District Attorney Galls Recess In Jury Probe By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR. Staff Writer, The Statesman District Attorney Kenneth Brown called a halt Tuesday night in grand jury investigation of criminal charges involving state institutions to permit sub- poenaning of some 13 additional witnesses from Fairview Home. The grand jury will resume the investigation Thursday, and Brown laid he hoped to conclude with testimony from Fairview Homo then. Among those to be called Thursday will be Dr. Irvin Hill, superintendent of the insti- tion which has been the center of study for the first two days of the probe. Jurors heard 14 witnesses Tuesday to bring to 21 the total called so far in the investigation, prompted by charges made by Al Richardson, former prison food manager, in launching his campaign for state treasurer. Some 100 others art still sched uled to be heard, according to Brows. Thursday's testimony is expect ed to deal entirely with Fairview Home, Brown said. When that is completed the Investigation will shift to Oregon State Hospital,! Giren Setback WASHINGTON (41- The Senate voted Tuesday for 100 per cejit of parity supports on all wheat grown for human consumption in the United States but rejected a sim ilar amendment on cotton. Thp urhpar amnnHmmt n erwuk sored by Sen. Carlson RKanr and attached to the omnibus farm bill by a 54-39 rollcall vote. It was the first setback suffered by the Eisenhower administration during Senate debate of the election-year measure. - Strings were tied to the wheat plan, however. It would not start to operate until 1957 and then must be approved by a two-thirds vote of wheat growers and the secre- nafyripiMtflfK Opposition Questioned The administration was an nounced as not supporting Carl son's proposal, but there was a dispute over whether President Eisenhower and Secretary of Agri culture Benson were adamant against it. Both the President and secretary have argued strenuously in favor of flexible over high, rigid price supports. With the immediate wheat and cotton amendments disposed- of, the Senate picked up speed and adopted a number of amendments. To Limit Debate Before quitting for the night, the Senate agreed to cut down the 2- hour debate limit on each amend ment to one hour in an effort to speed action and final passage. It did so after Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas point ed out that 74 amendments still had not been acted upon even though the senators had been op erating on an overtime basis and debate curbs since last Thursday; $7,500 Payment Tops One amendment approved quick ly by voice vote would put a 17, 500 llmttfinnuarpaymehtsno any one farm or farmer in a sin gle state under the conservation reserve part of a projected "soil bank." WASHINGTON - All Pacific Northwest senators Tuesday voted for the Carlson Amendment pro viding a "domestic parity plan for wheat in the farm bill adopted by the Senate in a 54-39 vote. Agriculture Building Bid Given Okch i-n iuw uiu ui ui,oio, vj nuui-ii tForster and Son, Salem, for re modeling the state agricultural building on 12th Street, was ap proved by the State-Board of Con trol Tuesday subject to confirmationbythe- StateEmergency Board. , Five bids were received ranging as high as $124,703. The remodeling operations would be confined largely to the first and second floors. The State printing department which pre viously occupied the first floor has moved into another state-owned building. - ' James F. Short, State Agricul ture Department director, urged the remodeling program which, he said, would greatly expedite the work of the department and save money for the state. (Add. details Page 5. Sec. U of Graft Charge snd will probably continue well into next week. So far the State Blind School and State Peniten tiary have not been involved in the probe. In addition to Fairview and the state hospital, witnesses sre being subpoenaed from the State Deaf School, Oregon State Tuberculo sis Hospital, Cottage Farm which is an annex of the state hospital. Hillcrest School and MacLaren School. Brown said he would review today testimony given so far and order subpoenas for the addition al witnesses needed for Thurs day. Some o( tha witnesses will bo persons named during the course of testimony by those who have already testified, others will be from the supervisinf staff at ralralaoi tfntna tla mlrf itila police were continuing investiga - said state uuiu, im lulling . nc . I I unit charges of Inmate beatings and la attempted suicide. Brown gave no indication Tues day night on whether there had been any proof of criminal activ ity at the institution. He did say that there had been some serious charges mad by it least two of the witnesses. Salem Host to u f Banners and swarms of high Khool students from throughout the state have accompanied the state Salem this week, while many Salem students are in Eugene at tending the State "A" tournament. Typical of activity seen oa Salem streets this week is this photo showing St Francis High 5,000 Visitors Attracted by A-2 Tourney By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman An estimated 5,000 out-of-town visitors have been drawn into Sa lem by the first annual state Class A-2 basketball tournament, accord ing to official estimates. Students, their chaperones and fans from the competing eight Ore gon towns have formed colorful and noisy backgrounds at local hotels, motels, restaurants and other pub lic places the past several days. - Largest and most colorful con tingent has been the 90-student delegation from Redmond. It in chides a-Zfrpiece- bandra 60-stu dent drill team, a rally squad, the school's principal and a half dozen other supervising adults, 15, Telegrams Salem Exchange Club officials in charge of the tournament ar rangements delivered 95 telegrams to the Redmond team Monday night before ttte opening round of play at South Salem High School. All were from enthusiastic Redmond townspeople. A bus chartered by the Ontario Business Men's Association brought a group of rooters from that town. A busload of Newport fans rolled into town Tuesday afternoon. Ed Fronk, general chairman of the Exchange Club Tournament Committee estimated that only about 5 per cent of the hundreds of visiting students are boarding at private homes. The rest were easily housed by the city's public hostclries ; : ;;r;. : Extra Visitors In addition to those who booked advance registrations through the Exchange Club, there are hundreds of visitors who are in town "on their own." Entertainment for students in clude a nightly dance Monday, Tuesday and tonight at the Salem YMCA and daily swimming parties for the boys in the Y pool. "The 80 kids lodged in this hotel are boisterous but very well be haved," said Dei Milne, manager of the Marion Hotel. "They buy candy, pop and magazines like mad. But they haven t disturbed the other guests. Twe TV Sets "Two students from St. Francis School of Eugene were booked into a private residence," related hous ing chairman Sid Boise. 'They were so delighted over the fact that the house had two TV sets and that they would not be held to a night curfew that they ran all the way back downtown to the registration desk to thank the girl in charge. Among the more colorful rally squads is the one from Molalla High School, which sent a group of girls bedecked in Indian dress. In accord with its team name of "Red Devils," the Coquitle High School cheer leaders are dressed aU in red. Smaller Than Expected . Although out-of-town attendance at the tournament, failed to live up to advance expectations (only a small portion of the private hous ing secured in advance was ac tually used), but tourney officials feel that succeeding tournaments will bring better crowds. "After afl." said Harold Hauk. tournament manager, this is the urn us class ever held in ore- fint tit III TIBM Vr ' gon. Staging it in the first half ih.hcou vi hie uim unit probably doesn't help to bring in 'adult fans from far olf towns.' . NKl'BF.RGf.R NAMED WASHINGTON UB - Sea. Neu berger of Oregon Tuesday was appointed to the Democratic Sena torial Campaign Committee by Senate Majority Leader Johnson. Thousands of I J "A2" basketball tournament to Car Kills 18 Antelope In East Oregon Herd BEND, Ore. (v-A car slammed into a herd of antelope on High way 20 in eastern Oregon's unfenced desert country Tuesday morning, leaving 18 animals dead and dying. It was believed the greatest such killing in a single accident in Oregon history. The driver of the car, M. W. Wauge, a Bend salesman, was not hurt but his car was badly dam aged. He said the car skidded side ways down the highway on hitting the first animal and cut a crush ing swath through the herd. Many of the animals, not killed outright, were dispatched by state police. Although deer killings are com mon on highways near here one point averaged two a day in one month last year antelope usually range far enough back from the roads that they are not frequent victims of cars which speed along the straight desert routes. A state game commission official at Portland called Tuesday's mass killing "hard to believe." Although Wauge made no esti mate of the number of antelope in the herd, they generally range in groups of 50 or more. Fund Okclicd For Purchase Of Air Base Money for purchase of an Air Force base site in the Greater Portland Area was included in nearly IS million dollars ap proved Tuesday for military proj ects in Oregon, according to Associated-Press. One site favored for the pro posal is near Woodburm Appropriation for the land, utilities, buildings and other im provements was reported as $13, 508,000. Two other projects were ap proved, AP reported, $1,130,000 for an Air Force interceptor base at Klamath Falls and $258,000 for Army storage facilities at Umatilla Ordnance Depot, near Pendleton. State Delays Choosing Sites Selection of the site for the proposed $14,500,000 state men tal hospital and planning of the new state reformatory will be de layed for another month or two, Board of Control members said Tuesday. The board is waiting for the Air Force to decide where to build its Willamette Valley air base. State Treasurer Eig Unander said the Air Force might not de cide on its site until May. ' The tentative site , for the Air Base is on the Willamette River west of Woodburn. This is near two of the proposed sites for the hospital, snd also is near the site of the reformatory, - -- i REDS DEMONSTRATE JERUSALEM, Israel Section lV- Flghting broke out Tuesday dur ing a Communist demonstration against the visit of British Foreign Secretary Solwya Lloyd. XllC WcfllJlCr S-J-Nt for Hand Hkr M-dfori! North Bnd San rranrlK-o Lot Anfl C'hMMA N-w York Willmtl. Aivtr 11 fut Mai. MIft. Frrrlp l trrt 31 V OS M 46 00 . M M W . ti )7 .an . 45 41 .0 44) itrM M 11 Ml Young Basketball Enthusiasts Jt H O ScdmI (tufcn sage. The girls are (left to right). Janet Garrett, Moors Scofield Photo). U.S. Sympathy FonGreece Riles Britain LONDON Ul - Britain asked the United States Tuesday night to ex plain an American ambassador's expression of sympathetic concern to Greece in the boiling Cyprus dispute. The United States quickly de clared it is not taking sides in the fight over the British colony island In the seething Middle East. A State Department statement offered U. S. good offices to find "a fair and just solution." The furor started from a state ment issued by the U. S. Embassy in Athens quoting U. S. Ambassa dor Cavendish Cannon as express-! ing to Greece "the sympathetic concern of the U. S. government over recent developments in Cy prus." The British interpreted this as meaning the United States was taking Greece's side. Reporting on Cannon's state ment, London newspapers Wednes day used such phrases as "Ameri can meddung ani-a- kick in the teeth" for Britain. The-crisp British message to Washington reflected the govern ment s hurt resentment that Bri tain's closest ally appeared to be taking the Greek side. It was framed on the personal initative of Prime Minister An thony Eden, high sources said. There was no immediate official reaction to the conciliatory State Department statement. Justice Latourette Undergoes Surgery PORTLAND ID -Justice Earl C. Latourette of the Oregon Su preme Court underwent surgery at a Portland hospital Tuesday for what attendants described as a lung condition. Monmouth, Oak Grove Boys Win Spelling RICK RE ALL - Two 8th grade boys-Gary Ford of Monmouth and Larry Bergquist of Oak Grove placed first and second, respect ively, In the last of the 19j6 semi finals In The Statesman KSLM Spelling Contest here. Tuesday night. Both will compete In the Grand Finals at ParrUh Junior High, Thursday night, March 22. Of the 18 now qualified for the Grand Fi nals, 7 are boys and 11 girls. Gary, 13, son of Mrs. Nona Ford, 846 N. Monmouth Ave., Monmouth, spelled "obedient," which Larry had missed, and then spelled the required extra word, "tendency." Hit teacher is Mrs, May Lucas. Larry. 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bergquist. RFD Box 19. RkkrtaB. Nq spelled "familiar " which was missed by Bridget Wil liams, 13, of .Independence, to stay in the runriinf for top honors. Lar ry's teacher and principal Is Mrs. Dorothy Suing. Bridget, a 7th grader,' placed third. Sea Is tht daughter of Mrs. I r met- Janet Herring, Kay Schotthoefer, and Betto Grimsmaa. (Statesman Father, Son Survive Plane Crash in Gorge PORTLAND - A light plane crashed in the Cascade Mountains lining the Columbia Gorge Tues day, but a father and son from Cashmere. Wash., survived. They were Walter Frost, 49, and his son, James W. Frost, 26, whose plane crashed about Vk miles southwest of Multnomah - r alls about 25 miles east of Portland. The son. an Army corporal who recently returned from a tour of duty in the Far East, suffered face cuts and possible internal Injuries, but managed to stumble down mountain trail. He came upon i group of college hikers from Portland, who sum moned help. The younger Frost at first reported his father dead in the crash, but rescuers found the father alive. Wreck Delays Trip The son's trip to a Portland hospital was interrupted when a door of the ambulance flew open and an attendant fell out. The at tendant, Wayne E. Presley, rolled down a 60-foot embankment on a curve of the Columbia River High way. He suffered back injuries. The driver got him back in the ambulance, and brought both men to a hospital here. Mrs. Frost said at Cashmere that the family had visited in Portland over the weekend with relatives. Later at a Portland hospital, the elder Frost's condition was re ported as fair. He wa- suffering from severe face cuts, other injur- iesr and-shock S'i Hoars Later The crash was "believed lo have occurred at about 9:20 a.m. Rescuers reached Frost at the plane 5'4 hours later. The plane smashed into a rocky hillside about 400 feet above the top lip of Multnomah Falls, and about 200 feet off the trail, the plane was a total loss. Forecasters Both Brief, Optimistic "Fair weather through Thurs day," said McNary Field weather men Tuesday in their briefest fore cast of the winter. Temperatures are .expected to remain about the same. Tuesday's high was 53 and the low, 40. Bee Semi-Finals Dorothea Williams, 319 N. Log Cabin, Independence, and her teacher is Mr. McKenzie. She had spelled "luxury," which had been missed by Judy Swenson, 12. in Popcorn's 7th grade. Judy finished fourth. Wayne Foster. 13. of the 8th grade at Perrydale, went down oa 'musician; Eleanor Blvens. 14, an Sin-grader at Ballston, put a "k" on "napkin;" Kay Anderson, 13. of the 8th grade at Rickreall. left a "s" out of "puzzle." and James Clark. 13, In Buena Vista's 7th grade, slipped on "avoid. The winner received a Webster's Nev. Collegiate Dictionary and the two runners up received special certificates of merit. Host principal was Mrs. Evelyn Lewis. Dave Hoss of KSLM was master of ceremonies and Wendell Webb of The Statesman called the words. Eighty schools have participated In the contest which now has nar rowed down to the 18 Grand Final- lists. Write-ins For Nixon Mounting GOP Voters Back Vice President; Ike Easy Victor. By JOSEPH D. KAMIN mNaiESTEILN.il. (AP) Sen. Kef auvcr (D-Tenn) early Wednesday appeared headed toward a smashing triumph la the KcvJlampslure. presiden- rial primary while Vice Fresi dent Nixon was receiving an im pressive endorsement for renom ination from GOP voters. With well over half the state's precincts in Tuesday voting tabu lated. Kefauver was trouncing Ad lai Stevenson la the primary s a ture contest a struggle for con trol of the state's delegation to the Democratic national conven tion. ' A major surprise of the balloting was the sizable write-in vote for Nixon. In fact, his vote al though his nam was not on tht ballot was not far behind tha total for Kefauver whoso nam was the only one on the Demo cratic preferential ballot. Support Kefaarer AH 12 delegate candidates pledged to support Kefauver at Chicago in his second bid for tht Democratic nomination were far ahead of rivals favorable to Stev enson. The dozen delegates will share the state s eight convention votes. The Kefauver margin widened as returns from the state's larger cities began to pour in. Although Stevenson did not enter the New Hampshire contest per sonauy, his supporters filed a com plete 12-member slate of delegate candidates favorable to tha party's 19S2 standard-bearer. The slate in cluded practically all of the state's leading Democratic politicians. The biggest surprise of the Re publican contest was the wide- spread support displayed by GOP voters who want President Elsen hower to keep Nixon as his run ning mate this year. Nlxoa Supper! With 135 of 297 precincts counted, Nixon had drawn a total of 6,671 write-in votes only about 3,000 votes under Kcfauver's total la the preference poll section of the two-pronged ballot. In the Democratic presidential poll, Kefauver swept to a clear cut victory. With 173 precincts tabulated, Ke fauver had 10,329 votes, Steven son's supporters had given tht 19S3 Democratic presidential nomi nee 1.802 write-in votes. President Eisenhower breezed to victory in the Republican fight for 14 delegates to the GOP national convention. With returns In from 13S pre- L cjnc..delegate.candidatesJavor-.-able to the President's renomina tkmatSan Francisco were far- ahead of the seven candidates backing Sen. Knowland (R Calif). Greyhound Bus Strike Authorized SAN FRANCISCO tf - Pacific Greyhound drivers and station at tendants Tuesday voted 95 per cent to authorize a strike if their union deems it necessary to win a new contract. The vote, which has been takes over California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and parts of Utah and Texas, gives the union, the Amalgamated Assn. of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of Amer ica, a firm bargaining hand in ne gotiations which resume here Wed nesday morning in the Greyhound Building. The contract expired March I. The union is asking a 10 per cent general wage Increase for some 3,300 drivers and station em-. ployes, establishment of an em ployer-paid health and welfare pro gram, reduction of station work ing hours from 40 to 35, holidays with pay and improvements in va cations and other fringe benefits. Today's Stat See. Fagt II.. Ml Classified Comes tht Dawn M l. 4 Comics II S Crossword . ,ll 4 Editorials ... I 4 Homo Panorama .. I. (VI Markets .... ...11..- , Obituaries ..1... II tadio, TV . - II ... 3 Sports .H.... 1-3 Star Gazer ....... I I t Vsllay tU. I Wirepholo Page Jl S
