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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1956)
o Gil tes 4 it wr a I , 4 i w a. J v.; i n i t J J V V,-' 't-.' Sees Threat Of 3rd Party "S, U.S. Policy Pc By STERLING F. CRF.E WASHINGTON Former Prc.-idcr.t Hoover urged Thursday ; tiie earmarking of 2.000 more top 1 government pclicv Jobs for jaliti-, cal -'appointment,! together' ' with better "f-i.v. security and' pres tige" for fodcral workers gener ally. He declared that inadequate bud- Hospital Fire Damage Runs Into Millions get and bookkeeping practices have cot Congress its "control o( the national purse" and are now cost ing tht taxpayers four billion dol lars a year of needless ypendir. Civil Service reforms are equally urgent ts prevent "government talent from being constantly grabbed by business," Hoover said in a speech prepared for a confer ence called by the V. S. Chamber of Commerce to rally aunport for adoption o( the year-old recom mendations o his commission oa federal .eorganuaUon. High Taratver Hoover said the 23 per cent f f s, '1 them .WASHINGTON i-R.p. Powell. S'ew York Ncjro Democrat. ?ad Thursday a new political party is "a distinct possibility" as a result of the battle over sensation. Powell told a news conference "many in this country are dis turbed by what is happening to the Democratic Party." He said unless Democrats re turn to tht policies of former Pres ident Truman rtnrtieularh in the field of C'vil rirhts "many Neg jiws will desert i:." I ' Powell said he would' not give his own vote in this testing Iwr turnover of government personnel ; to any candidate who fails to make SAVAGE, VI ui State jw-'lce; P m. ,The chief had chased Wednesday nijht accused three S o.'f on several occasions. voung adrr.irers of the fire chiefs . Last Thursday. S't. May said he daushter wih arson. was told, tht boys git the idea Detective Sgt. Wilton May said that if there was a tire to keep he was told the youths net fire ta tht chief busy they would b able a horse training bam at nearby j to stay longer, visiting his daugh Laurrf last Thursday night to keen tcr and a lS-year-old girl friend, the fire chief busy so he wouldn't Two Fire chase them home early. I . . . .. ..,,. Thfy drove of. S?t. May said. Charged with arson was VUliam looking for a plact to start a fire. Murrar u. who was held in They set small fires In two un 500 bad for pand Jury action after ,,54 buildings on the Hutchison Howard County Judre James Mae-tstate. but each time after driving Gill waived Juvenile Jurisdiction. efff MW M riamM , Wf, and Thomas O'Keefe, II. who were held at the Waterloo State Police barracks, would b lormslly' charged with arson Thursday morning. Kidnap Count KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. X-k young couple arrested on a kid naping charse from Kansas, re mained in the cour,ty ia.l Thurs day per.d.ng arrival toxorrow of a V. 3. marshal frora Portland. The couple. Max FraiJin Allen, 22, and his wife, Mary Alice. 17. were charged in a federal warrant with having forced a Johnson County, Kan., man, George Tidona, to take them to hia dance hall in Kansas City. Mo, and open his tafe frnm hirh. thev timk IMS puwa up some nay ana set- 0n March S we to k, May added. if ian bound 10 i. J 1 a. fP'cture on Wircphoto Page) FULTON. Mo. i-A spectacular fire destroyed most of tht 103-vear- o!d administration building at the ' poucy-masing posiUons today sub- representing L"e loss and re p'accment of 500.0D0 workers an nually "would bankrupt any pri vate enterprise twice a year." "Promotion and pay fail to pro duce or hold top executive talent." he said, "and there art not enoush State Mental Hospital here eirly Thursday, doing millions of dollars worth of damafie. Seven hundred and twenty patients wera evacuated from ect to party choice to carry out the mandates of the electorate. He added: "Do not set scared that we art proposing a spoils sys tem, we wisn merely to chanse patient wlngt, parti of which also ,CSI tn,n on-tnth of one per cent went up in flames. ,oi tne total number." ?liss.Rcnda Fnrris a staff mem- Ti,e President, Hoover1 said, ber who lived in the' administra- should have-perhaps 2.000 addi tion building, suffered a cut or tional Jbs subject to his appoint burn on one foot, but there were s n,en, a n d nonpolitical career no reports of 'other injuries. i workers "should not be required At the height of the blaze it to make Policy or to defend ad- could be seen for 10 miles and the glow was visible in Jefferson City, stale capital 25 miles to the south. Firemen from Jefferson City, Columbia and Mexico, Mo., helped battle the blaze. Some 100 stu dents from Westminster College in Fulton helped evacuate patients and rescue hospital records. Clarence Burton, endneer nA fire chief at the hospital, said he did not know how the blase started. He added, however, that the elec trical Tiring in the building was in "bad shape." C. Rons Gallop state director of Public Health and Welfare, and B. E. Ragland, director of the division of mental diseases, esti mated it will take 3 million dol lars to replace the damaged build ing. The two planned to confer in Jefferson City later today with Gov. Phil M. Donnelly. They indi cated the legislature will be asked to appropriate money for a new building immediately. The legislature is meeting in a special session to distribute 7S. 000,000 in, bond money voted for state institutions in an election last Nov. 24. Only last week members of the State House of Represent atives appropriations committee toured the administration building, long referred to as a possible fire trap. " - . Jet's Wake Said Cause of TORONTO lv-The Yarontq Tele-' gram says a U. S. Army Board of Inquiry bas found the wake of a fast flying jet caused the crash of a de Havllland Otter aircraft kill ing four persons here Feb. 14. ' . As a result, the newspaper sayi, Jets on speed runs have been banned from air space used by regular traffic. The board of inquiry investiga ting the crash near suburban Dons view Airport found the Otter flew into an area of turbulence created by a CF100 jet interceptor on a high speed run. No blame wai at tached to the jet pilot. Investigators were reported to have found no structural defect in the Otter. De Havilland officials said it was Impossible to establish how far the jet was from the Otter when the light aircraft went out of control, crashed and burned. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a wing drop' off before the plane crashed. The plane was piloted by William Ferderber, 35, a wartime Spitfire ace and Distinguished Flying Cross winnerThree V. S. Air Force of ficers also were killed. -They were MaJ. Aaron G. AUthv aon Capt. James P. Dowling and Capt. Louis E. Durant, who came from Ft. Riley, Kan., for a demon stration flight. ministration policy." Fay Reforms Urging adoption of the com mission's pay and promotion re forms; Hoover said: "If our top military officers had been chosen on the Civil Service basis of promotion, the deadwood at the' top would have lost us two world wars. . The present salaries and fringe benefits in our too Civil Service are below those in top military service. And worse still, they are far below those in private enter prise." The 11-year-old ex-president said he had canvassed private firms on the number of workers paid $15,000 a year or more. This is we top civil Service bracket. If government devoted the same pro portion of its payroll co& to such salaries, he said, there would be 14.000 federal workers in the $JJ, oottond-up brackets, instead of tse present 1.S64. Senior Civil Service noover reiterated the commis sion a proposal for a nonoolitlcal junior civil service" of well-paid career executives subject to trsns- ler irom aiency to at eney as needed. These would be paid US, 000 at the start, rising to $22,000. The conference was organized to neip proa ttngress and the Ad' ministration Into adopting recom mendations of the Hoover Commis sion, sent to Congress last spring. Only If per cent of the 314 recommendations submitted to Congress last spring have been adopted, Including U bills covering mainly minor points. -. 6ome 250 measures are before Congress, but : many are dupllca- Jtions. and, few are being pressed. Te jegmaon has been onered on some 40 of the 142 prooosals which would require actfoi by CangreM. civil rights a major part of his campaign., He indicated he is not completely satisfied with President Eisenhow er's present stand on the civil rights issue. He said Elsenhower's position warjnuch more affirmative during the first two years of his Adminis tration than now. But he adosd: "If President Eisenhower goes back to where he left off two years ago on civil rights and (Adlaii Stevenson or other Democratic candidates continue to stand in the middle of the road (on civil rights) I'd probably vote Republican tin the presidential election)". He then said that if both parties "stand stiU" on the issue a third party might be the answer, Chief Redmond was late getting home that night. He was with fire men from Savage, Laurel and Jej uni h(l (lilt nili thm hl7 In hifk The arson charges grew wt of ; u thoroughbreds, a riding horse, a fire that killed five horses, and , UoUcr acd the pony perished, a pony and destroyed a training barn, with too mahogany barn on the estate of Richard ...lie a. destroyed Congress Asks Survey of U.S. Vehicle Operation WASHINGTON - A House: government operations subcommit- j tee called Wednesday for a "com-1 plete survey and study" of the! " costs if running the government't j quarter-million fleet o( cars and trucks. "At the present time, the data appears to be sketchy and Incom plete." the subcommittee beaded! by Rep. Chudoff (D Pa) said in --report adopUd-withnut.dlsscnL. "Until competent and meaning ful figures are secured, it appears to be an insuperable task either to know what it is costing the gov ernment to operate and maintain its fleet, or to make any compari-; son as to the alleged savings in, leasing as contrasted to outright, ownership." I Man Accused Of Putting Tot In Dark Room MILWAUKEE Ift-A 27-year-old father was charged with cruel treatment of his 3-year-old son Wednesday after his wife said he ordered the boy confined to a dark room. Norman Reger was named in the warrant after officers went to tht home to investigate a neigh bor's report that they heard the child scream. Mrs. Lois Reger, 23, told Asst Dut. Atty. Peter Willis that her husband had ordered her not to give their son, Robert Lynn, any milk or delicacies because he did not like the boy. She said the hus band demanded the boy sleep on a mattress, on the floor and that the lad be kept in the darkened room when he was home. The -wife said that only when her husband was at work during the day or asleep at night could Kobert join nis motner ana one-year-old sister in the rest of the house. Mrs. Reger said her hus band's Instruction for the boy' treatment began more than a year ago. The family came here from Ely, Nev., six weeks ago. Schaefer's NERVE TONIC For relief ef sleeplessness sad restlessness, aervtut teatita, emus Besdacat a ad Irrita- billtv. 100 -SCHAEFER'S -DRUG STORE Optn Dally, 7:30 A. M. to IP.M. Sundays, I a.au tt S pj. 133 N. Commercial u l J I 1 VTNs-TtH Our Fish it a ,wlih your f appttitt makts . what ft .... ..,.J It tUNHt) 1 1 (7-.mBlf VVV IU II nmii lit THE SAIJ SHOP ro" iT'wli'" ,M k .1 I . - bi M.. II U. remint sm rwnt wiry mnw for Ordtre ta G Phow l.tTft Hutchison Sr.. adjoining nearby Laurel raceway, a trotting track which he owns. The loss was placed at $230,000. Frequent Callers The fire was about one mile south of this Howard County com munity on U.S. J between Wash ington and Baltimore. Sgt. May said he was told the youths, all residents of Savage, were frequent callers on the 14-year-old daughter of Tire Chief Lewis S. Redmond. It was standing rule in the Redmond home, Sgt. May said, that the boys had to leave by I Sgt. May said he and John Mey ers. chief investigator for the state fire marshal's office, sus pected arson after discovering signs of the two fires which were started hut went out IN GRAND CHILDREN SYDNEY MINES. N. S. (Mrs. Robert Carey, 72. has nine sons and nine daughters, all married, and now is a grandmother too times over. No. 100 was born this week to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Carey. Eighty-seven of the grandchildren re living. Jerald Richard Domkk, De troit, Mich., arretted, yesterday with the Aliens at liearhy Gilchrist, was held for investigation, but tht FBI at Portland said there was no federal charge against him. The Associated Press incorrectly said ht also was accused of kidnaping and robber)'. He was charged with Illegal ust of dealers' automobile license plates and sentenced to 30 days la jail. Johnny Erown. 21. ts A?.i".y farm laborer, wahed prtl.m nary hearir.l Thursday and was fcour.d over to U-.e Mxtkh Cour.y grer.d jury on a charjt of ctU:n rg rr.n- ey cy u.t rreterjts. t4 lis set at t 3. Tht charge sjainat Brown In- rolvei several checks passed ta tht Sa.em area, sheriffs deputies said. Tht complaint for his trrest was signed by tht manager of a Stay ton market Hia wife, Mrs. Helen Brown, was i j srrt I X ca 1 1 . .v. ty warrant L'ti ty 1, t .. i J.3i:ce Elmer D. 0, i. c' ; f xgry. The charge ;'. ; , Crown la based e-a cwfda s.' ... ly pstied in W t J '.-!. 1 She was released Thur$i y rs: J Jr.g to her attorney afer i a; ipraranct before the Polk Cour. Justice. LEAP TEAR FORMIXA MATSt'E. Japan UB The Women's Club Federation here hap a formula for maidens a-wooing iq this Leap Year: A two months series of. parties featuring (l( "Wine to do away with silly bash fulness," 2) "Big bowls of noodles to put the male in a receptive frame of mind." and 3) "Atmos phere to give the woman a chance to prospect, i Stamp proposed to Ff tc U.S. Farmer WASHINGTON UP) - A postage stamp honoring the American farmer was proposed Thursday by Rep. Henderson R-Ohio). He told the House: This pioneer, this rail splitter, this homespun, religious hard working man . . . should receive the recognition which other groups of our populations have been accorded.! 4 m M JL- ' 1! ' " i i'w - ' u L - J L J Help! You Ovircomt FALSE TEETH Looitnttt aid Worry Mt loaew to uim4 r fn uiii- MM fcf HQ Of lOOM. VObtllT lIM tMia.PATi;m.M lmrov4 lk II laoacutt pcvtftr, pnaaiM m ur plM boldi thm tmw M tttf tmi nor ramforubla -Aioit aiMr- PMrmn t nMt- bf toh (la tM. OH tAM rKSTM Kxu; tt Mf tni Muatw. Ritulir prlci,U4! tt Htrwka Caitrtt't asatia, Utt . hit uttifif isiim ttil vmt Ptrt-t09 wly ltt tMMttW.v.ll- w. &:rZZrfr rji 4 I lr,x smm -a. r J - -si X - ' '" I i 1 1 V Y - s, 0II1I ttmxs' cpsoes V J PGE's Pelton Project will add to Oregon's fishing and recreational attractiveness, will provide enjoyment for thousands :l . - . s Ask the man who lives close to the Deschutes river, near the 100-foot-deep canyon where the Pelton dam is being built. He'll tell you that the eight-mile lake behind the dam will be a real recreational asset to the State . . . and. a string of fame cold-water :; fishwill be there for threatening-, just at tmry-are-today-itr thrlake-behind the Detroit dam on the Santiam, and in other similar deep, man-made lakes In Oregon. This will be an entirely new recreational spot for Oregonians. To enhance the enjoyment of boat fishermen and recrcationists, PGE will provide an access road into the reservoir area, with boat dock, trailer ramp and picnic grounds. Besides, 100 miles of swift fishing water will remain undisturbed 'between the project and the mouth of the Dcachutaa. $5,000,000 of fish facilities planned' " The natural flow of the lower riven will be preserved by meant of a re-regulating dsn ; . about three miles downstream from Pelton. For the passage of migrating fish there willbtM J a fish ladder which bypasses both dams. This Udder will have gradients comparable to Of t leu steep than the successful ladderi at other hydroofcetrk projecti in the Columbia Basin.! , There will be appropriate attraction devices installed at both the upstream and! downstream ends of the ladder. At the request of the Oregon State Game Commission,1 ? the Fish Commission of Oregon and the U, 1 Fish and Wildlife Service, PGE has assumed the responsibility for dctiiniui these facslkm. wiia technical assiilanct front i the agencies themselves. - ',." , Investigations and evidence support the belief that these fiatrways will provide a solution to, the fish versus power controversy that has to effectively hampered thia region in itt effort to develop new power source. Altogether, these fish facilities, inclading the re-regulating dam, will rcpreteoi about J5,000,000 of the eslimatei $25,000,000 cost of the rojeekV-- " '"."" """ - - - - sr Comarvatlon It the VV7ir&3 of rttourcat.' Construction of Petiftn dam will mean waasp t the low-cost addition of 120,000 kilowatts tt capability, r ycarto Oregoa'g power tupplyi 3.0O0.0OO kih t substantial payrolls and increased tax payments by the company; t sieahle payments to the Warm Springs kvdqna CattbojBtc of their property; " t creation of a new fishing and recreation tpottot ttw rtcfOregon. There will be pssuge prosided for salmon-and &Kr-A will ba 100 miles of swift fishing water undisturbed below the da-y1- ' Un'l this, then, wiu uxZ ' , j PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COHPAHY i
