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'Sure and-Irs Si Patrick's Day, O'Mallo .. y if . if (i j! V I ii t' . s , . . . WF 4SF Ur Wr "Sff rOUNDBD l3t 105th Yaar 2 SECTICNS-16 PACES ' Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 17, 1954 ' PRICS 5c Ho. z:& 1 til ii Hi 11-' ' . 1 v - ". : ' Wearta the greet en Saint Patrick's Day is traditional for all good Irishmen, and Larry O'Malley (above) li no exception. The oversized tie isn't regulation dress for students at St. Vincent's School where Larry Is a third grader, but with a name like O'Malley, nobody could complain on March 17. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William O'Malley, 3645 Daniel St (Statesman Photo.) - Over at Ontario residents have petitioned the school board to name a new grade school after the late George K. Aiken, who was mayor of the city for 12 years, editor of the Ontario Argus for 26 years, a member 'of the state game commission for seven years - and" who served as state tudgct oiticer under four governors until his death in 1949. The petition has prompted Don Lynch, editor of the Ontario Argus-Observer the Ob server was founded by Elmo Smith, present governor and later acquired and consolidated with the Argus by Bernard Mainwaring and Lynch tc write an editorial re viewing the career of George Aiken. He praised Aiken as "one of the town's really outstanding citizens of his generation," rated him as one of "the better editor ial writers of Oregon" and recited many of his achievements in pub t lie service both as editor and as mayor. The high praise is certainly well bestowed. Aiken's fine record at Ontario was continued in his ad ministration of the office of budget director of the state. One contri bution Lynch missed and that was the effort which was crowned with success to obtain the bhj 0yhee irrigation project lor Malheur county. Aiken along with E. C. Van Petten and others were the nrimA mnvtr fnr this hiff under taking which has done wonderful (Continued on editorial page 4.) Mother Bears 4th Twins Set FRESNO, Calif. W The hopes of the John J. Walsh family were fulfilled Friday when Mrs. Walsh gave birth to her fourth set of twins prematurely and at home. The new arrivals arc a boy weighing S pounds 4Vi ounces and a girl of 6 pounds 10 ounces, it makes a total of 10 youngsters for. the family that moved here from Quincy. Mass., in 1950 1 Walsh, office manager for a . building firm, reported Mrs. Walsh and the twins are all doing fine. Porcupine Hunt Due in Heppner HEPPNER The Morrow County Hunters and Anglers Club is sponsoring a porcupine contest .and supervisors of -the Heppher Soil Conservation District have contributed $23 for prixes and bounties. The club hopes 2,500 of the ani mals will be caught this year. They damage trees and shrubs in wood land and farm areas. lleU yn I beard this U where ita get kirdies." Khrushchev Calls Stalin 'Murderer' LONDON diplomat in a continental capital said Friday night Nikita Khrushchev has called Joseph Stalin a murderer. The informant said Krushchev, the chief of the Soviet Communist party, told a secret meeting of top Communists last month that Stalin murdered 70 out of 133 members of the party's Central Committee in 1937 in order. to solidify his personal power. 'Graft9 Probe Calls Recess For Weekend A Marion County grand jury, investigating charges of graft at state institutions, called a weekend recess Friday after hearing its first witnesses from Oregon State Hospital. It will reconvene Mon day. District Attorney Kenneth Brown said the-Jury-Jieard -nine-witnesscsbreak-with-YugosIavia whiclv only Friday including Al Richardson former' prison food manager, whose charges prompted the in vestigation. Brown said they would probably conclude' with the State Hospital and its Cottage Farm an nex Monday. t It was the fourth full day for the grand jury which has now heard testimony of a total of 40 witnesses from two of the six in stitutions onderinvestigatton.""The' jury called a recess Wednesday after hearing witnesses on' Fair view Home and then concluded with that institution Thursday. .. Though the total witness list has grown far over 100, Brown has indicated that the grand jury would probably conclude its probe next week. Some eight or - nine witnesses were added Friday as the result of investigation, Brown said. Columbia Span Crossings to Cost 20-Cent Charge OLYMPIA l A toll of 20 nt' for .passenger cars and light trucks will be charged for crossing the old and new Columbia River bridges between Vancouver. Wash., and Portland. Heavier trucks will be charged d bted lhe mercury to 68. 40 cents. The Washington Toll,It wai tne highest reading since Bridge Authority said Friday there j ast Oct. 24, whep 70 was regist would be a 15-cent commuter rate cred, forecasters said, for cars and light trucks and 30 But the outlook for the week cents for heavy trucks. Buses 'end is partial cloudiness and ex- would have a 60-cent rate with a 45-cent commuter fare. Oregon Highway Department of ficials have concurred. 1 Valsetz Forest 'Locks Up' Fleeing MacLaren Youth SUtctnua Ncwi tervlea VALSETZ An escapee from MacLaren School, for Boyi was returned to that institution Fri day after stealing a car here and getting "locked up" io the Vat setz forests " Polk Deputy Sheriff Robert Le--Fori identified the youth as Clar ence McGregor. He sauj the youth fled from school authorities at Portland, where he had beea tak es for a physical check-up. LeFors said McGregor drove to Valsetz in a car that had been reported missing, left that car There were reports that Khrush- chev broke down in tears at least four times when describing the campaign of terror which wiped out sotpe bf his closest collabora tors. Khrushchev was said to have charged Stalin with blundering in foreign relations and domestic af fairs and turning Moscow into a city of plot and counterplot where none was safe. The informant said Khrushchev charged Stalin specifically with: 1. Ordering the execution of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky in 1937 and thereby destroying the So viet army's "brains," paving the way for the sug&s of Hitler's le gions against the Soviet Union in the early days of World War II. 2. Brineinc about personally the last June Khrushchev himself blamed on Lavrenty Bcria and Victor Abakumov, executed secret police chieftains under Stalin. This account of the Khrushchev speech reached London from a continental diplomat who took spe cial pains to insure he would not be named. in Road Network The Oregon Highway. Commis sion will begin using an eight-city teletype network next week to speed collection of road and weath er information. Cities on the circuit will.be Sa lem, Milwaukie, Eugene, Roseburg, CoquiUe, Klamath Falls, Bend and La Grande. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said the network would greatly reduce the number of long distance calls made by the de partment, and would result in a net saving. j rftmlfi FnrOPHSt ,(Jvcr WCCKenU More welcome sunshine beamed mi (hi Salnm wtnr FriH.iv pectations of a little rain Sunday. The Friday temperature range was wide with a low of 30 regist ered in the early hours. at Valsetz and took one regis tered to Leo Chase, Valsetz. - The deputy said McGregor headed west out of Valsetz on Sunshine Road, a little-used log ging road that leads to, coastal areas. Finding the snow too deep, he turned around and headed back -towards- "Valsetz. ; Meanwhile, Deputy Sheriff Wil liam .Milburn had learned the youth was wanted. Milburn locked the gate across Sunshine Road near Valsetz, and the youth was apprehended when be stopped at the closed gate. Special Census to Count SilvertonV Noses, Muzzles SlatMmaa Newt Service SILVERTON SUvertoa U g lag U eeuat noses and muxzies. A special reasus of "dogs will get underway next week and a census of people the follow lag week. , SUvertoa currently la credited with Mil residents. Bets have beea placed la some quarters that the new census will show an increase of 500 to 100 people. No figures exist oa the city's dog population. But a few spring gardeaers are betting the new figures will show that SUvertoa has more dogs than people. (Add. details, page J, sec. 1). Fires Destroy Shed, Stubble; Ititeiman Newi Service SILVERTON - - An implement shed was destroyed, two houses threatened and 40 acres of stubble burned Friday afternoon when two Silverton area brush fires,, broke from control, city firemen re ported. The fires were less than two miles apart and one followed on the heels of the other. They were situated a few miles from Silverton itself. The first alarm was sounded after a brush fire on the Ralph Mulkcy place burned out of con trol, jumped a fence and consumed the implement shed on the adja cent C. M. Brownell property. Se eral farm implements in the shed were destroyed, and the Brownell home was threatened for a time. About 15 men and two trucks from the Silverton fire department fought the blaze and when it ap peared under control all left the scene but Chief Larry Carpenter and fireman Steve Enloe Jr. Then onlooker Leslie Lowery was told that a brush fire had gotten out of control on his dace about a mile disftnt. Carpenter, Enloe and neighbors quickly tackled the new fire which in addition to burning the 40 acres of stubble, jumped a fence and threatened the Floyd Fox home before being halted. Firemen said unusually low hu midity for this time of year speed ed the progress of the flames. "The fires burned like It was Sep tember," observed one department member. For fire-fighters Carpenter and Enloe K was an extremely taxing three-hour period Friday afternoon. Big Trucking Company Sold AKRON, Ohio Iff Motor Cargo, Inc., has been sold to Consolidated Freightways, Inc., Portland, for a reported $9,600,000, subject to the approval of the Interstate Com merce Commission and Motor Cargo stockholders. Approval of the sale would make Consolidated the largest trucking firm in the nation. It would be tho only one with operating rights from one coast to the other. Included in the transaction would be Motor Cargo's 18 terminals in 13 states and five subsidiaries. Consolidated had in 1953 the third largest trucking revenues in the nation, being exceeded by Associated Transport of New York and Roadway Express of Akron It would be put on top by the addi tion of Motor Cargo. Suit Filed to Test Registration Ban EUGENE Ut Attorney Joe B Richards filed suit in circuit court here Friday in an attempt to force Lane County officials to continue accepting city voter registrations.. Richards said he was "wrong fully refused registration," County Clerk Harry Chase said he wel comes the suit to test an opinion by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton. Thornton held that registration books must be closed until April 26 for Eugene residents because of special city elections. Franks, Med ford Gain A-l Finals; Dons Trim . UCLA Basketball was. In Its prime la Oregon Friday night as the Ore gon Class A-l high school bas te ketball tournament was narrowed to the finalists at Eugene and the first two games in the NCAA Far West Regional at t'orvallii were played with All-America Bill Russell leading bis San Fran cisco Dons te a 7241 win ever UCLA. , Franklla and Medfqrd gained the championship finals la the prep Iwiraey, Franklla by dowa U LUcola.. 48-40. and Mf""rd by walloping Marthfleld, 75-57. The two will meet Saturday night for the title. I'Uk trimmed Seattle, 11-72, U fala a berth against 8aa Fran else la the NCAA regional finals Saturday sight. 3'"Mps Reel Helplessly in Storm Off Atlantic Seaboard. Senate Delays Final Action on FarmMeasure "WASHINGTON (AP)-Tl.e Senate approved an additional 250 million dollars for a pork purchase program Friday night then decided to postpone final action on its election-year farm'1 bill until next week. After a session lasting more than nine hours, the Senate recessed. It agreed to go back to work on the huge and compfloatediarm bill at 11 a. m. Monday. The legis lation is designed to add between three and five JjillioV dollars to farmers' incomes this year. Some 60 amendments remained to be acted on when majority lead er Lyndon B. Johnson interrupted the debate and proposed the week end recess. The bill couldn't be passed Friday night even "if we stayed to midniglit," Johnson said. Move Supported Minority leader Knowland R Calif) supported him in the move. Sen. Ellender (D La), chairman of the Agriculture Committee and floor manager of the bill, tried to get an assurance from Johnson that the Senate would be kept In session Monday until the bill was passed, but the Democratic lead er said he did not want to accept responsibility for keeping the Sen ate at work all night. With the planting season not far away, President Liscnnower and many Senate leaders are pressing for speedy action on the bill. Tne legislation will figure prominently in the struggle by both parties for the farm vole next fall. No Opposition There was no opposition to the extra 250 million for the pork buy ing program, and it took the Sen ate less than two minutes to write the change into the omnibus bill. Sen. Kerr D Okla) asked that this .be doubled to half a billion dollars to give Secretary. of Agri culture Benson wide authority to help livestock producers Ellender accepted the quarter billion boost without debate, say ing: "I'll take it to conference." That means the later Senate- House compromise session would consider a 500 million dollar item instead of 250 millions. No sen ator objected. In another late vote, the Senate struck from the bill a hotly dis puted section which sought to ex empt foreign currency sales ot surplus commodities from a law requiring that half of all cargoes sent abroad in government pro grams must be shipped in U. S flag vessels. Ike Thanks PORTLAND - Reed College student . Paul Kerrigan has re ceived a letter from President Eisenhower, thanking him for the petitions which placed the Presi dent's name on the May primary election ballot in Oregon. The letter said: "Thank you very much for your telegram concerning the filing in Oregon. I was glad to know we are so well along with our plan ning in your state. "There is much work to be done but with such initiative as you and your associates are showing, we will be more than ready lor the challenges that lie ahead." McKay to Resign Cabinet Position - Before Primary WASHINGTON UB - interior Secretary McKay will resign his cabinet post about May 1. His office made this announce ment after the White House said earlier McKay would resign before the May 18 Oregon primary. McKay is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U S Senate. If nominated, as expected, he would oppose Sen. Morse in November. ,;-..:.;,:..::::;.; The Weather M. Salem .. S Portland . S3 Bakr .... S3 Medford .... 70 Mia. trtr M S3 it 20 3S 32 41 47 za JOO .00 JtiO .no North Bnd .,,., 7 RoMburg . .. 70 .no .00 San Franrlnco ....... 71 Ixit Anfelca . St Chicago .... ........ 1 37 New York '34 .oo M l.os Wll'amette River l.M f-t. TOHECAST ifrom V. 8. weather bureau, McNary field. Salem I I Partly cloudy today. Increasing clouoinehi innint, rnuny cimioj- with a littia ram nunoay: tiicn teoay (2. warmer tonHht with low of 3S: hich Sunday SS. ' Temperature at 11 01 a m. today a i. km rnirriPiTATio Since Start oi Weather Year hVpt, I Thie Year Lt Year inrmal MM 22J7 11 W Ex-Con Killed After Shooting 2 Officers GILCHRIST, Ore. If! - Aa ex convlrt who wounded two pollre mea was toot U death here early Friday la a cul fight with two other officers.. . Police first got m the trail of Danny Faulkner, about 3t, of Wia Chester Bay, Ore., whea they spotted him driving the wrong way on a one-way street at Red mond 70 miles north of here, Redmond policeman Clarence Durgan, 28, aad Leonard Klrby. 24, went after him. They ex changed shots, finally, aear a service station. Durgan was wounded la the left side and Klrby was hit la the right arm and his shoulder was shattered. Durgaa was In serious condi tion. Faulkner drove off In his late model ear after unhitching a trail er. He ran through .several road Oregon Chamber Unit Calls For State Tax An Oregon Tax Clinic, designed trends and needs, will be staged This was decided Friday by a Executives of which Stanley Grove, Salem Chamber of Commerce manager, is chairman. ' The committee of chamber leaders from throughout the state did Leslie School Paper Wins Top Honors Leslie Junior High School's weekly newspaper has won top honors in nationwide judging for the seventh straight year, It was announced Friday in New York City. " " The "Leslie Broadcaster," stu dent publication at the school, was in competition with some 1,500 publications put out by schools throughout the country. Leslie competes in ' a division for news papers of junior high schools hav ing enrollments of 1200 or more. Copies sent in for judging cov ered portions of two school years running from April 1955 to Janu ary 1956. Editor for the spring issues was Judy Baker, daughter of Mr,, and Mrs. A. O. Baker of I2jSDcars Ave., who Is now a sophomore at South Salem High. Co-editors for the fall issue were Doris Stringham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stringham of 120 W. Judson St., and Bingham Powell, 1415 S. Liberty St.. son of Mr. and Mrs. Bingham Powell. Faculty adviser for the student publication is Mrs. Lida Halvorsen, teacher of English, mathematics tand journalism at Leslie. Each entry in the contest is considered by the judges , on the basis of such factors as makeup, typography, story content and fea tures. Special awards will be made later in New York. Mayflower --, Aw:- r-' i ... .-, - .- r , - A.LiU ! - BRIXHAM Workmen la shipyard at Brlxham, Devon, England, work ea hull of 13 tea model of the Mayflower ship which carried the Pilgrim Fathers to America la 16:. The ew Mayflower, fin anced through public subscription to the Mayflower Society, will sail the Atlantic to the I'nlted States this summer as a goodwill gift te America. like the erigiaal Mayflower, the aew craft will carrj a crew of 21 aad 30 passengers. (AT Wirephoto). blocks the way to Bead where he fired at city police. Officers withheld their fire tor fear of hit ting other motorists n Highway 7. Tkey radioed to police at Gil ehrlst, some JO miles to the south, that Faulkner was coming. State policemen Bill Hatelwood and Jim Ayer were waiting whea his car appeared, the lights off, and sig tagglng dowa the high way to keep from, being hit by bullets. Whea hit car raa off the road into a ditch, Faulkner came out: of It shooting. He was cut dowa by police bullets. Faulkner last got out of the Oregoa Stale Penitentiary la Sep-1 (ember, 1953, where he Ba , erved a term for'a Curry County j burglary. Clinic Here to center statewide opinion on tax April 6 in Salem. committee of the Oregon Chamber not go into the merits of the state tax structure or the various pro posals for change, but the move toward a state tax conference was prompted by concern of many chamber leaders that the present state tax setup was becoming a handicap in industrial promotion. 401 Expected The tax clinic as now being planned is expected to draw some 400 persons to Salem for an all- day meeting. Special invitations will be made to all chamber of commerce officers, tax committee' men and other leaders; to trade association executives, business leaders, heads of womcn'a organi sations, state officials and candi dates for office. Grove is chairman of the plan ning committee which was ap pointed only recently by Verne U. Tinncrstct, Tillamook Chamber manager and Oregon Chamber Ex ecutive president The committee met Friday at Meier & Frank din ing room and later at the Salem chamber office. '. ,4 Planning Asked The committee called for plan ning of the clinic program by Rob- ert Hall, chairman of. thePortlani Chamber tax committee, and Mrs. tauise Humphrey, of Oregon Tax Research, with assistance from the state legislative interim committee on taxation, headed by State Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, Portland. "The tax situation is a critical one and this is the year fur citi zens to get Interested in the job that has to be done, said Grove Others at the committee session included chamber managers Fred Brenne, Eugene: Frank Tucker, Klamath Falls: Don McNeil, Med- ford; Charles DcFoe, Astoria; and chamber presidents R. A. Reinert son, Burns, and William Huggins Coos Bay. to Re-enact Pilgrims1 Voyage n., Rescue Units Begin Dashes To Save Crews By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three ships w ere fn peril Fri day night as a howling north-, easterj packing hurricane-force gusts of up to 70 miles an hour, staggered the Atlantic seaboard with raging blizzards and heavy fog. The 7,000 ton .441-foot Italian freighter Etrusco went over on its port side and began breaking up .300 yards off the rocky coast of Cape Cod near Scituote, Mass. Coast Guardsmen, assisted by townspeople, struggled in a blind- 'ing snowstorm to rescue the 30- ma" crc- nnw I ho liohlt nf 1h fniinHprin vessel could be dimly" seen, but thtv visibility was too low and the seas ' too rough to send out a rescue boat." Rudderless, Adrift Farther south, off the eastern tip-1 of Long Island near Montauk Point t a 174-foot tanker, the Sylvia, was , rudderless and adrift in a snow and wind churned sea. The tanker, " rolling and pitching toward the; rocky coast less than three miles ' distant, carried a 13-man crew and, . a full cargo of gasoline. ' Two Coast Guard cutters, the. . Tamora from New Yort and the,'; Owasco from New London, Conn..-i -hurried to the rescue, but met stiff resistance from the 60-mile aa' hour winds and fury-stirred seat.' Fights Storm The tanker, owned by the Gra ham Transportation Co. of Phila delphia, lost its rudder fighting, the storm while en route froroV Marcus Hook, Pa., to Providence, ; Another Italian freighter, tht Laura Lauro, was heading down stream from Norfolk, Va., whea wind gusts of up to 61 miles an hour drove her into a collision with a Navy convoy escort pier and two Naval vessels. The Navy said the freighter dropped anchor to fight the drag but was spun around the end of the pier by the wind and collided with stern sections of the destroyer Wilson and the escort destroyer Pillsbury. No one was reported injured. but both Navy vessels were slight ly damaged. The freighter suffered no noticeable damage. Today's Statesman Sec. Pago ...I 7 ...II 5-7 Church News ..... Classified Comics Crossword . Iditorials Home Panorama Markets ...t......... Obituaries ..;:... -..II.:-. ...II..' .... I...- Zh.'Z Sat. TV II Sun. 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