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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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