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. f if . 1M.I ; i1 U i! I 105th Year 2 SECTIONS Earth Satellite Biggest Science Since First Telescope, Congress Learns By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON OB - Scientists iiu hiii bviiu iiian-maue muuns whizzing around the earth at It, 000 miles an hour have told Con gress: That plans now call for 13 of the satellites, each of 20 to 30 Inch es Ifn diameter. Some may fizzle before they take off and certainly they all won't be circling . the earth at once. That at least one expert, Joseph Kaplan, looks on the international rocket program "as perhaps the greatest new scientific effort we have had . sine the invention of the telc$cope;" in.:, .i , mat we eann, pt a congress man, tends to bulge about the mid dle. The satellites, filled with deli cate instruments that will send back data by radio, will give clues on how big that bulge is, as well as supply information on atmo spheric mysteries as high as 800 miles up. Te Vote Cost The scientists gave their views last week to a House appropria tions subcommittee that will have to pass on the $19,262,000 the proj ect will cost. Their testimony was made public Wednesday " Congressmen often like to argue With witnesses,' but they. seemed remarkably docile with the scien tists arouna. For example, Dr. Richard W. Northwest wheatgrowers won an Important round in their long battle for a two-price structure for wheat. The Senate amended the farm bill by a vote of M to 39 to guarantee 100 per cent parity for wheat used in the domestic mill ing trade (flour or cereal for human consumption). The remain der would be sold at the open market price for unrestricted use for livestock feed, seed or for ex port. On this portion the price could not drop below the corn price support level. The amendment carries certain strings: It will not apply before the 1937 crop and must be approved by a vote of two-thirds of the wheatgrowers and by the secretary of agriculture. The administration is on record as opposed to the two-price. plan, but it is not known what its at titude will be with the secretary of agriculture given a veto power on its use. The committee bill contained a two-price plan for rice. This ap parently got by the Senate and after that Senator Carlson of Kan sas, long a staunch Eisenhower supporter, pressed for adoption of the two-price plan for wheat. Later the cotton state senators tried to get the plan extended to cotton, but their amendment was defeated 87 to 33. The two-price plan has this-virtue: it offers hope for halting the pile-up of a wheat surplus. The Oregon Wheat League has long urged this plan. It wants the wheat to pass into consumption, if not as bread then for livestock feed or for export. Opposition to the plan has come from two sources: Grow ers of corn and other feed grains who feared the dumping of the wheat surplus on the feed market (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Eden's Cyprus Policy Backed uy rariiamem LONDON Ufl Prime Minister Eden Wednesday night won par liamentary approval of his govern ment's controversial policies on troubled Cyprus. The House of Commons gave FHpn ' St7.252 - vnta ni atmnnrt after he declared Britain had to exile Archbishop Makarios or ab dicate control over the Eastern Mediterranean island colony. Loss of Cyprus, Eden declared, would endanger the free world's oeienses ana Britain s vuai Miacue East oil supply. Eden made no direct reference to any American criticism of his handling of the problem, or to the resulting irritation in British-American relations. But he made it plain to critics both here and abroad that he in tends to stand firm on the issue. -As ' Britain's last Middle East base, Cyprus is a hinge of the related NATO and Baghdad pact defense lineups. "He seems all wrapped ia himself." IP UtD LUXl - 20 PACES The Oregon Porter, who Is chairman of the satellite technical panel, was ex plaining how you'd probably need binoculars to see the thing. Not Easily Sees "I think," Porter said, "the chance of a person seeing it with his naked rye is not very great." Stray Dogs Guests of City 1 . V : Dogs at the City Pound are given better care than many of them get from their masters. Here two lively specimens scramble for concentrated food pellets being dished out by Poundmaster Wil liam A. Wilson. They are allowed outside all day in good weather, but with the door always open so they can nap in the shade inside when they wish. (Statesman photo). Dogs Cared for at Pound, But There's No Place Like a Home - By RUSSELL BIERAUGEL -Staff Writer, The Statesman ' This is the time of year when business builds up for City Pound master William A. Wilson. Wilson has just come through two busy periods. He finds an unusuallyjarge numbeiLpf traypuppies in January, probably Christmas presents from parents who later, change their minds, he said. Then about the time ol the late license deadline March 1 the number of strays increases again. But the dog population of Sa lem is most evident when spring weather comes to stay,-Wilson said the City Pound on the east edge of McNary Field can ac commodate SO dogs but he some times has more than that. Few Signers Spring also is the time when flowerbed damage by dogs is at its height Wilson gets many calls about such cases but few of the callers are willing to sign com plaints. Wilson points out that there is no action he can take against a dog or an owner in such cases unless he sees the dog do ing the damage. His main job is to pick up dogs running loose on public property. A dog can be reclaimed on pay ment of a $2 fee. If it is not claimed, it can be sold for $2. Wilson cares for dogs at the pound at least five days and then, if not claimed or sold, they are turned over to a nearby ren dering company which disposes of them without cost to the city as a public service. Owners of licensed dogs, of course, are notified when their dogs are impounded. Wilson points out that a city ordinance provides fines up to $100 for allowing a dog loose on public property in the city at any time, He has cited just two owners, both frequent offenders, in his 5Vi years as poundmaster, Wilson uid. One was fined $25 and the other $13. Lincoln County DA Resigns Post NEWPORT, Ore. ! Lincoln County Dist. Atty. William T. Hol land . Wednesday announced his resignation. He said he was accepting a position with , a Portland lumber .firm. He asked Gov, Elmo Smith to make the resignation effective March 31, or as soon at possible I thereafter. PCUMr-30 li'l Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March ,13, 1936 "If you do not mind my using a little equation,"' Porter said, and he stepped to a blackboard to write a formula that went something like this: t M times T squared ' over r ' is equal to m times g times R squared over r squared. V n .r --''V ii A MS f . :.:( i State Board of Health Confirms Turkey Disease PORTLAND -The state Board of Health confirmed Wednesday that psittacosis attacked two Ore gon turkey flocks and spread to some humans. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said, however, that there Ii no need of fear the dis ease will spread further. He said precautions have been taken, and further precautionary steps are planned. ' . - "i : . av f: . Morse Accuses GOP of Trying to Halt His Radio Broadcasts WASHINGTON OB - Sen. Morse (D-Orel said Wednesday that Re publicans are attempting to block his weekly radio brqadcasts in Oregon and "seek to apply one rule for their candidates and an ther for opponents." Morse said the Oregon Repub lican chairman, Wendell Wyatt, had told Oregon radio stations that the GOP would ask equal time unless the stations stopped broad casting without charge " Morse's weekly reports on legislation. The senator said the stations haye been carrying the reports as a public service since March, 1954. He said he would continue to make them available, but that "any polit ical statements and campaigning by me would be' on separate paid political broadcasts." "At no time have I attempted to influence any! station to carry my .weekly reports. But Wyatt is engaged in a bold attempt to twist the arms of Oregon radio stations," Morse said. v lie said he r considered such reports an obligation of an elected official, and that he has kept the reports objective and limited to discussion of the issues. Marvel ' The silence that greeted this equation was bipartisan. The plans now call for launch ing the satellites during the Inter national Geophysical Year that be gins July 1. 1957. Have there been complaint from countries it will fly over? Ne Cemplalats ' Quite the contrary, Porter said. He said he had been to an Inter national meeting ip Germany, and "the only complaint I heard was from those countries over which it did not go. because they wanted to have a look at the thing." Well, the talk drifted' along, and finally Rep. John Phillips (R Calif) asked: ; "What happens wheri it falls down?" Porter explained how it would race madly around the world for weeks, maybe months, but as it comes down into a thicker atmo sphere the friction will burn it "into minute ashes long before it reaches the earth." On the other hand. Porter said: "If we didn't have any atmo sphere up there, once established it would go on forever. It con tinues to circle in a path of this sort, just like the moon." . "The moon," t otter reminded Congress, "has been up there a good many years, and it hasn't fallen down yet." Cascade High Youth FFA's Star Farmer C0RVALLIS t - Jim Towery. 17-year-old Cascade High School student from Turner, is the 1936 star farmer of the Oregon Future Farmers of America. He was selected for the honor Wednesday night from among 77 youths who have won the FFA farm degree in the past year. He received one of five $100 awards from the national FFA Foundation. Towery reported that his net farm worth at present Is $5,826, and that his total income from FFA projects the last three years was $3,496 from carrots, berries, pole beans and mint. Other $100 award winners were; Robert Thiel, Canby, dairy farm ing; Robert L. Gison, Canby, farm mechanics; the Canby FFA chap ter, farm safety; Roy Chapin, Perrydale, public speaking; and Robert Hoover, Monmouth-Inde pendence, farm electrification. Chapin was elected president of the state organization. Hoover, the farm electrification winner, also was individual high scorer in the state poultry judging contest. Central High School of Monmouth-Independence won the team award, a trip to the national FFA convention at Kansas City next October. , Dam Project Work to Start PORTLAND W - Work will begin this summer on the33-million-dollar Hills Creek Dam, 40 miles upstream from Eugene on the middle fork of the Willamette River. Army Engineers will call for bids March 16 on the first work there, consisting of a diversion tunnel and Kitson Spring detour road. The last Congress appropri ated $310,000 for more planning and for start of construction on the dam, 264 miles upstream rfom Lookout Point Dam. The bids will be opened May 1, Col. Jackson Graham, Portland District Army engineer, said. - The dam is expected to be four years in construction. Like Lookout Point Dam, it will be a flood control and power project. ' "A senator doesn't cease being the elected official of his constitu ents just because he Is a candidate for re-election," Morse said. He said Wyatt's view was at odds with the view Republicans took of President Elsenhower's recent nationwide broadcast of his deci sion to seek re-election. "Press Secretary Haggerty said that, so far as he wss concerned, that was a nonpolitical program. Republicans seek to apply one rule for their candidates and another for opponents,". Morse said. Wyatt said in reply at Astoria, "Several stations have informed us that, jthey will be happy to grant Republican candidates time equal to that given free to Sen. Morse. No station replied that they would stop the More broadcasts, and I doubt that any will." He added, "Morse's claim that his broadcasts are non-political is news to the listening public. To my knowledge, his only non-political broadcast was the one in which he substituted Christmas carols for the customary political attacks on President Eisenhower and his poli cies." ft, L ... ' FRICI 5c No. 354 Ex-Con Helped From Tight Spot By Parole Board A paroled ex-CMTkt has re eelved some help from the State Parole Beard, so he doesa't have to get married. Parolees caa'l get a r r I e d without aermlsslea M the parole board. This parolee net a wtmaa who wanted to marry him. He didn't was to get married, so be wrote to the parole heard asking It to refuse permisstoa. The board obliged. Capitol Mall Area Parking Plan Delayed By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesmaa After a year of planning, new off-street parking for 77 or more cars in the extended Capitol Mall area is still more than a month in the future, it appeared Wednesday after a check of latest complica tions in the plan. Money was appropriated last year for the development of two state-owned lots as parking areas, with an agreement that city engi neering crews would do the work and the state would foot the bill. Work started, but was called off, last fall when the Capitol, Planning Commission asked to study the matter. Since then, city officials have been doing considerable chafing over the persistent problem of parking in the state buildings area, particularly the problem of street parking space taken up by all-day parkers who work in the various state offices. Back la News The parking plan popped back into the news Wednesday via the attorney general's office. 1 Atty. Genl. Robert Y. Thornton ruled, in response to a request from the planning body, that the State Board of Control is not re quired to seek the advice of any other state agency in establishing off-street parking, especially that of temporary nature. The opinion went on to say that the Planning Commission could protest any permanent improve ment that might interfere with long-range development of the Cap itol Mali. ...... To Walt for Planners " Board of Control Secretary Wil liam Ryan said the board of con trol did not plan to resume the project immediately, but would probably wait until after the April meeting of the planning commis sion. Meanwhile at City Hall, City En gineer J. H. Davis said the city had decided to submit its bill for the initial work done on the proj ect last fall. Engineering crews then got as far as removing some trees. But, said Davis, the city is anxious to go ahead with the work whenever the state is ready. Two Lets ,. The plan worked out last year was for an estimated $2,500 worth of work on graveling, tree remov al, driveways, bumper logs and new sidewalks at two state-owned lots, one big enough for 44 cars and one for 33. One is at the southeast corner of Summer and Marion; the other on the west side of Summer 'between Marion and Union Streets. rt The board of control said a third state lot near First Presbyterian Church also would figure in off street parking. Council Seeks Bus Opinions From Public City officials will ask the public by mail for suggestions on what to do about city bus transportation, Mayor Robert F. White said Wed nesday. He called for City Hall prepara tion of a brief questionnaire to be mailed to all citizens on the water department mail list. The City Council now has before it a bill to drop night bus service, as requested by City Transit Lines as an economy move. Also before the Council is a Chamber of Com merce recommendation that says night service should be continued, even if some form of Subsidy must be provided the bus company. TWO KILLED IN 7000 RIOT' BARLETTA, Italy -Two per sons were reported killed and 27 injured Wednesday jn a clash be tween police and food rioters, in this poverty-stricken southern Ital ian city. The Wealhcr Mix. Mln. rredp liltm Portland - M 30 . DO . 5J 97 6 30 20 2S S3 M 3 48 17 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 no .00 .is .17 Mcdford North Bend Rowburs Sin FrinclKO Lo Aniclet ... Chlcino ii .... 44 New York M Willamr',1- River 1.2 lrr TOHECAST llrnm U. 9. Weilhu Bi:rau. McfOry Field, Salem I : Sunny thu morning, Incrctdnf high cloudi thu illern(Kni light thower puulbl tonight.' llilh to day S3, low tonight 38. Temperiturt at 13:01 a.m. todijf wa 14. S A I.EM PRECIPITATION Sine surt at Weather Year Sept. I Thlt Year La.t Year Jnrml mm . an 11 U With Nd From Z:e9 " !Dekage o$ Write Jbg 22,141 Offer Support to Vice President By JOSEPH D. KAMIN MANCHESTER, N.H, fAP) Republicans acrevd Wednes day night that Vice President Nixon's stunning write-in. trib ute in New Hampshire's presi dential primary nas sent his political stock soaring. (Picture on wirephoto page. I And there was an abundance of evidence to back them up. The tide of write-in votes was unprecedented in the state's his tory, Republican Gov: Lane Dwin- ell said in a congratulatory tele gram to Nixon. Most W rite-las "The number of write-in votes you received (22,141) exceeded any similar expression ever demon strated by the people of New Hampshire," Dwinnell told the vice-president. In Washington, Nixon himself declared "fn)ne could havejwen more surprised man r was. at tne number of people who took the trouble to write in my name . and 1 want to express to each of them my deep appreciation and thanks. "Virtual Guarantee" Some GOP leader saw the spon taneous demonstration of wide spread support for the much-dis cussed vice president as a virtual guarantee of another Eisenhower Nixon ticket in the fall. Others spoke of -"a mandate from the people." Even some Democrats interpret ed Nixon's achievement as a sign that he has much greater "grass roots" appeal than many party leaders had believed. Gunmen Raid House Party Near Marion lUUnui Km IhiIm MARION Two men in Hallow een masks with pistol and shotgun reportedly held up 20 women at a birthday party Wednesday night near Marion. They took an estimated $47 from the women, a pile of birthday gifts and all the car keys, and cut phone wires, police said. Names of the women or the house at which the robbery oc curred about a mile north of Mar ion were not available immediate ly, police said. The robbers re portedly entered about 10:25 p.m. and stayed about 10 minutes. State police said they were called short ly before 10:40 by a woman who slipped out a back door to a neigh bor's house. Roadblocks were set up through out the area by state police with the aid of Marion County sheriff's deputies and Mill City and Stay- ton police. Faulty Heater Takes Lives Of Family of 7 NEW YORK I - A flickering gas flame flooded a firetrap Brook lyn tenement apartment with dead ly carbon monoxide Wednesday, wiping out a family of seven. Four of the victims were small children. The ramshackle building was condemned ,14. years ago, It caufiht fire last December. Nearly a dozen fire and safety violations had been cited. Yet, 10 families continued to inhabit the 4-story building. The Juan Gonzales family ap parently lit the gas flames of a defective water heat for warmth and left it on all night. Most of the family , died in their beds in their 5-room basement flat. The youngest child,' 3-months-old Juan Jr., lay dead in his crib. FIREMEN BURN HOUSE North and South Salem fire men burned a house in the 2700 block Cherry Avenue Wednesday morning for firefighting practice. The site is being cleared for construction. Supreme Court Slaps Its Own Wrist For rSoiecHlns Temrrary Justlcoc; The Oregon supreme court ruled unanimously Wednesday that it has no authority to elevate circuit judges to the supreme bench to serve temporarily. The decision, by Justice Walter L. Tooze, ruled unconstitutional a 1953 law that permits the high court to appoint circuit judges as temporary justices to help reduce the .word . load of the supreme bench. The supreme court had appoint ed Circuit 'Judges James W. Craw ford, Portland; Ralph M. Holman, Oregon City; and Dal M. King, Co quille, to the high court two months 2 Salem Teams Drop Games in A-l Tournament EUGENE Both the North Salem High Vikings sad the South Salem High Saxons tost their opening round games la the high school Class A-l Bas ketball Championship Tourna ment here Wednesday, the Vlks bowing U Mllwiukie. 58 47, and the Saxoas falling be fore MilwiukJe, (5-(l ' The losses eliminated the two Salem teams from champion ship contention and placed them In the consolation brae ket Thursday South Salem plays Pendleton at 1:45 u. and North Salem plays Beaver ton at 11 a.m. (Add. details la sports page) . Ruling Trims Voter Number For Eugene EUGENE t Attorney Gen. Robert Y. Thornton ruled Wednes day that Eugene residents cannot legally register to vote until April 28. That means citizens who haven't already registered will be unable to vote in the May II primary election. Thornton ruled on the basis of a 1928 state Supreme Court deci sion which upheld the state's voter registration law. The law provides that no registration may be ac cepted for 30 days prior to any special election. Eugene has one special election scheduled for March 27 and another for April 26, Just 30 days later. The ruling cancels all registra tions which have been made since Feb. 25 for Eugene residents. "It is to be regretted that the right to register and the resulting right to vote, one of the most important of the privileges of citizenship, must be denied to what may be a large number of resi dents of the city of Eugene," said Thornton. He said the only remedy to the restriction would be a new state election law. ' Jury Convicts Ex-Sheriff of Tax Evasion TACOMA. Wash. - A Fed era! Court jury convicted Harlan S. Callahan of Seattle Wednesday of evading nearly $40,000 in income tax while he was sheriff of King County. - The jury took 4 hours and 15 minutes to find the 58-year-old Callahan guilty on all three counts in the government's case. The former sheriff was accused of falling to report $87,000 of tax able income in 1948, 1130 and 1951. Testimony was given in the 34 week trial that Callahan was in debt shortly before becoming sher iff, but by the end of 1951 after years inoffice was worth $110,000.- He contended the unre ported income came from surplus, taxfree political contributions. Grocer Gains $6.40 ' In Holdup Attempt NEWARK, N.J. Wl - Edward Schweitzer, a grocery store own er, gained $8.40 Wednesday from an attempted holdup, Schweitzer said a nervous gun man ran from the store when he yelled for help, leaving behind a dollar bill and $3.40 worth of gro ceries he had paid for. .. Today's Statesman Sec Pago II... 7-9 .-..II... S Classified Comics ...... Crossword Editorials Farms Homo Panorama Markets Obituaries ........ Radio, TV 4 4 6 I II..- .. I.... 6-1 ..II 7 ..II 4 .11... 4 ..II... 14 .. I..- 9 Sports ... Star Cater Valley Wirephoto Pas I II- ago. The Portland law firm of Ma guire, Shields, Morrison and Bail ey challenged Crawford's appoint ment, i The supreme court sgreed, hold ing that such appointments violate the constitution, which says that supreme court justices must be elected by the people. iTSa rmirt tnlri- "Nowhere in the constitution do we find any authority vested in the legislature to provide for tem porary members of the supreme court, nor to provide for the tem porary appointment si anjr person i - j J,. .-t --- ".., Eisenhower 4 'HappytoHavci Him on Ticket' By ED CREAGH XirctrTX-rrrr im v dent Eisenhower declared Wednesday Vice. President Nixon is like a brother to hint on any political ticket in which) was a candidate with him." . This seemed mighty close to st endorsement of Nixon as Eisen iivhci rcvuuu icrm running mate. it left the door open, however, for Nlvnn alraariu lnvifs.4 Kw th President to chart his own political future to bow out if Nixon thought It politically advisable. No Wedge Possible Eisenhower spoke out vehement ly in favor of Nixon and defied anyone to try driving a wedge be tween them at a news confer' ence In which he also: 1. Pleaded for moderation en both sides in the dispute over ract integration In Southern schools. Ha ' said the country would get to "a very had mot" If thmt Mrs an move toward "nullification" of the Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruUnff- Eisenhower said ha hA ha thought of using force but that the Supreme Court had ordered gradu al progress and "we are simply going to uphold the Constitution of the United States, see that the E regress made as ordered by them i carried out," Offers Aid la Dispute 1 Pledged this country will do anything "reasonable and practi cable" to help solve the Cyprus dispute. But he said "the solution itself is going to have to be reached by the persons most great ly concerned" Britain and ureece. 3. Said American interests in the Middle East "are very greatly jeopardized" by Arab-Israeli bick ering. Asked about the U.S. policy on shipping arms to Israel, EiseiK. hower replied the United States. has helped other small nations when they were threatened by larger neighbors. -Ia Heavy Raia t Eisenhower walked without an umbrella through a heavy rain across the street from the White House to this news conference which took place, by coincidence Alt thai AivA mnnUimvmnm aI ok jlna President Wilson first met under similar circumstances with news men and thereby established the news conference tradition. " , The chief executive made no at tempt to hide that he was irked, by some of the interpretations that have been placed on his recent statements regarding Nixon. :- Snapped Alert ' He snapped, to alertness when a reporter asked how he intern reted the remarkably large write -in vote for Nixon in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. "Apparently," said the Presi dent, "there are lots of people in" New Hampshire that agree with: wnai i nave ioiq you aoout IMCK Nixon." "Now, because you opened that question, I am going to say one thing more about it and then, at far as I am concerned, I will never. answer another question on this subject until after (the Republican national convention in) August. - Ne CBaeee "Anyone," declared Elsenhower.. his ryes narrowing and his voice rising, "who attempts to drive a wedge of any kind between Dick Nixon and me. , , has just as much- chance as if he tried to drive it. between my brother and me. "We are very close. . . 1 am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. 1 am very happy to have him as an associate in govern ment. I would be happy to be on any puiiucai una in wmtn i was a candidate with him. "Now, if those words arent plain, then it is merely because people can't understand the plain unvarnished truth!" Sun on Forecast; Clouds to Follow Another sunny day Is in store for the Salem area today, accord ing to weathermen at McNary Field, but some high clouds are anticipated this afternoon with pos sibje '. liajbjl fhowers tonight. Relativity raihl teitipcratures are expected to continue with today's high ranging near S3 and tonight a low near 38, forecasters said. , u m' to perform the judicial duties of the court. "The constitution clearly con-, templates that only duly and regit- larly elected or constitutionally ap pointed members of the supreme'- court, wnaiever weir numoer, may perform the functions thereof." The only way that justices can. be appointed, the decision said, Is for the governor to do it to fill a vacancy. The law was sponsored in the legislature vj in vi cjwn iai - bar. Nobody raised the consUtuv tional question while It was beicj consider tL , , .....;,..