The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 17, 1956, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2:.rc. I) Matrsman, Salem, Ore, Sat., Mar. 17, 93fi ino Candidates : t Cl To Aim Campaign At 'Confused' GOP By TnOM AS G. WRIGHT JR. Sliff Writrr, The SUtrtmaa Oregon's top Dcmocntic can didates turned out in lorre here Friday mcht and promised a Pri mary rampaipn against what they termed Republican eomplacency, inefficiency and confusion. The candidates, 18 of them frorn the governorship race to'sessmcnt value went over the $2 assessor, were speakers at a "Can didates Night" program of the Marion-Polk Democratic Club. On hand were the party's two candidates for go ernor, two for tate treasurer, attorney general, national committeeman, Congress, representative, county commis sioner, district attorney and coun ty assessor. State Sen. .Robert : Holmes,' Clatsop County -radio station manager who is seeking the Democratic nomination for gover nor; was keynote speaker for the program, advocating support for a lieutenant governor redisrict ing and an annual legislative ses sion. Re accused the Republi can! of putting off Oregon's prob lems and said the state has been tinder "the domination of one party too long". , ' Shares Spotlight Holmes shared the political potlight with lew Wallace, Port land, who is seeking the gover norship nomination for the third time. Wallace said he would base his campaign on' a platform ' of economy, insisting that for one thing the legislature could be shortened by 30 days if the gov ernor would insist that depart ment heads speed up their re ports. Beth candidates for Congress from the 1st District spoke with Don H. Metheny, Brooks fanner, urging a return to the principles ef the V. S. Constitution. Salem Attorney Jason Lee as- auea mat he called a power gTopp behind the scenes control-' hrs Oregon politics. He said Ren Waller Norblad i three key back ersjot their first -news -of z his change from the governorship race back to the congressional campaign from the newspapers, Indicating dictatorial decisions by few men. I am afraid it is one of these White Wash deals." Al Richard ton candidate for state treasurer, aid of a grand Jury investigation into his charges of graft and other criminal practices in operations of the institutions. He sad though e was - quite sure the grand Jury will come out id our favor," in DANCE TOIIITE! DAYTON LEGION HALL Music by IYIE and the ViTSTERIIAIRES s Every Sat. Night 9:30 f 12:30 Ada. IM (Tax Inc.) IKISH CRYSTAL I SATURDAY B yff and His Coscadi W jjf Rang Riders m 3f I R1ECE H "WESTERN BAND" fr II Adm. $1.00 1 H AUM5VIUI which ft Twm KSLM 7:11 to 7:10 Ms Pi i7 Ei . 14 UUet Keotfc QfSjt qt U concluding his remarks. Decline Questioned Wiley Smiih, Xiutinomah Coun ty, assessor who is also Keeking the srate treasurer nomination, ques tioned the decline in assessed val uation of personal property in 14 Oregon counties in 1955 despite the fact that the state's overall a-v billion mark for the first time. Wiley said his chief distincton was the fact that he was the only Dem ocrat supported in 1954 by C. C. Chapman, arch-Republican editor of the Oregon Voter. Robert Y. Thornton, unopposed for the party nomination to at torney general, urged Democrats to organize, avoid overconfidence and develop-a harmonious party. ' Democratic candidates for the House from both Polk and Marion counties spoke. Joe Rogers, In dependence farmer who was elect ed two years ago after being a write-in nominee, is unopposed for Polk County's one House scat. Marion County's lone Democratic candidate is Guy Jonas, Salem in suranceman. Reorganization of the Marion County district attorney's office was the announced platform of Thomas C, Enright. Salem, who is seeking the public prosecutor post. "It is time the county stopped having a part-time DA," Enright said. "If elected 1 will serve full time." He said he would favor elimination of one assistant DA position to make the others full time slso. Experience Promised Ralph Wyckoff, Salem attorney whose resignation as assistant to the attorney general Is effective today, said he would bring over six years of state practice into the position if he were elected DA. Wyckoff. who was a war crimes investigator after World War II said he welcomed opposi tion, stating "When there Is no selection, then the people have lost." Pat Dooley, Portland leader In the House, spoke on behalf of bis candidacy for national commit teeman. His opponent is C. Gir- ard "Jebbie" Davidson, for whom Keith Burns spoke Friday night. Both Marion and Polk County commissioner candidates gave brief talks with Anton Vistica, Woodburn, pleading for economic operations, and Patrick McCar thy, St Paul, urging party em phasis on minor offices. Em mett Rogers, unopposed for the Democratic nomination in Polk County, urged support for Mon roe Sweetland, the party's candi date for the secretary of state who was not present. Ray Raveneau, also unopposed for Polk County assessor, indi cated he would base bis candi dacy on long service as deputy to the office. Donnell 'Mitchell, 1954 candi date for Congress, appeared for Sen. Wayne Morse, who is seek ing the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate, the post he won twice as a Republican. v WomcnHurL In Car Crash SUtatnui Ntws tttlU HUBBARD Two- Portland women sustained apparently, minor injuries about '4 50 p.m. Friday in a two-car collision on) 99E - inside - the- Hubbard city limits, state police reported. Officers said Juanita Matlock, driver of one of the vehicles, suf; fered a bloody nose and cuts on the nose, hand and leg. A passen ger in her car, Grace Kern, suf fered a nose gash. Both went to a Hubbard physician for treat ment but did not require hospital ization. Listed by police as driver of pay increase of $5 plus an addi the other vehicle, a 1953 Chev-jtional $3 a .week starting Jan. 1. rolet. was Bert Ed Daley, Hub-; Health and welfare benefits paid J bard. Both can received heavy; front-end damage, according to officers. SEAMAN DROWNS ! ASTORIA ID A Navy seaman, ;Ben Howard, 33, of Chocowinity. i N.C., fell from a vessel at the dock at the nearby Tongue Point Naval Station and drowned. ST. PATRICK'S DANGE! SATURDAY MIGHT, MARCH 17 MtlODItS GARDENS Ways to Phase Students' Palates Told t Tricks of catering pleasingly and was explained Friday U a two-day convention of the Oregon School above demonstrating the making of sandwiches at the South Salem of Chicago, III., representative of British Empty 'Murder Area' In Cyprus NICOSIA. Cyprus Britain expelled 30 householders and shop keepers from a terrorist "murder zone'' in downtown Nicosia Friday. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the governor issued the order as collective punishment for a screen of silence shielding a bloody chal lenge to British rule by pro-Greek gu..mcn. Six British soldiers and a ponce sergeant have been killed within the zone, all by bullets in the back, since last October. Throughout the colony. 18 British service men have died. The banishVnent order came aft er Martin Clements, British com- mlssionerJronLNicosiai summoned; 75 residents to an outdoor inquiry court in a search for information on the killings. len iamii.es were insiruciea w leave and shutters went down on 20 shops. All their quarters oyer-1 looked places where shootings have occurred The expelled were IU1U IU tilIU UICU Vt IVUSlUSjO L elsewhere until the area is made safe. A parachute, trooper ex plained it was thought these per sons could have seen the shoot Ings, but decided not to help au thorities solve them. Mrs. Pearson's Rites Planned Funeral services will be held at Tacoma, Wash., for Mrs. Doris M. Pearson, 33, who died Thursday at a Salem hospital. A resident of 2210 Hazel Ave., she had been ill for several months. Mrs. Pearson had resided in Salem about a year. She was born August 3. 1922 in Portland. Survivors Include thejUdower, Vera 3. Pearson, Salem, and par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dewey, Tacoma. l Funeral arrangements ar in charge of Howell-Edwards Mort uary. Union Meat Cutters Avert Strike Tieup PORTLAND 1 A last-minute agreement averred a strike of 800 union meat cutters in area mar kets Fridav. The butchers agreed to a weekly by employers also were boosted from $8 65 to $10.40 a month. The union turned down a man agement proposal to stay on on Sundays with the workers getting time and a half pay. Portland Wrecks Claim Two Lives PORTLAND I - Accidents killed two persons in the Portland area early Friday. Ernest J. Johnson, 46, Portland, died when his car hit a traffic di vider in East Portland. His death was Portland's ISth In traffic this year. Arthur C. Weldon. 21. Oregon City, was killed when a motorcyclej ana a woman early Friday. The he was riding crashed with a carjvictinu were identified as Eugene at Oregon City'. Kenneth W. Miller, j Hoffer. 29, of Agness, Ore., Vera 21. Oregon City, was driver of thejBosalee George,-29, Wapato, and car. Robert Tonaskim. 35. .White Swan. Coltonwoods Every Sat. Night Jack Kizziah And His Hew Texas Ramblers Adm. 1.00, tax Inc. " SUrs of KSIM " SiJ0-:W P. M. quickly to palates of students whs the U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Statesman Phots) School Lunch Workers Said 'Close By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The, Statesman Is the school cafeteria worker who fills your son's or daughter's plates at noon as important to their scholarly " welfare as , their teachers? " Well,' to a certain extent, any way, a large group 0f Oregon school lunchroom, personnel was told at a two dayconference, which ended in Salem Friday. "After all," Mrs. Victor Morris, Eugene school cafeteria official. Lobby Probe To Start With Gas Measure . WASHINGTON - A special Senate ,obb inmticating com. miUee d Frid L,0 start its !( j b looki intQ lobb , f d jnst , naturai 'gas Chairman McClellan (D Ark) said the bipartisan eight-member committee "will, in effect, take over where the George Committee left off" in its probe of an oil lobbyist's attempt to contribute 25 $100 bills to the re-election cam paign of Sen. Francis Case R SD). A committee under the chair manship of Sen. George (DGa) was assigned the specific task of investigating whether the proffered contribution was an importer at tempt to influence Case's vote on the gas bill. The George committee has con cluded its inquiry, after tracing the money rejected by Case to the "personal funds" of Howard B. Keck, president of the Superior Oil Co. of Los Angeles. It was of fered for Case's campaign by John Mr NeffrLexingtonr Nebula wyer1 lobbyist for the oil and gas pro ducing company. London Quiet For Malenkov LONDON UFi - Georgi M. Malen kov mixed business and sight-seeing through London Friday and looked the smiling personification of the Kremlin's new "let's all be friends" policy. ; The Soviet ex-premier, here on his first visit to the West, fairly oozed goodwill. But he, drew not a single cheer. Malenkov rode through the City three times at the start of his three-week tour of British power installations. He made appear ances in the shopping district, the political, business and social sec tions. A few persons turned out to look at him. Most of them only stared silently. At one place he drew a titter of laughter as, in a pale grey overcoat, he waved and smiled at the silent crowd. Fire Fatal to Three WAPATO, Yakima County. Wash, oft An -unexplained fire which melted the walls off an aluminum trailer, killed two men 12 Phon 2-7790 V eat their lunches la Oregon schools Y ood Service Association. Shown High School cafeteria Is Hal Bolin to Youths' 1 told the assembled workers, "there is an ancient relationship between the cook and the child." And the workers, mostly women, nodded amen to that. Hunger, said Mrs. Morris, plays a definite influence on a child s personality, his social development and his scholastic achievement Short Distance The distance, in many cases, between hunger and hatred is very short," she said. "Lunchroom ca terers are extremely close to stu dents." She urged school lunchroom workers to take pride in thdr work, to help kids with eating problems as much as possible She urged them to remember that the proper serving and preparation otschool JoodJeaves-an imprint on the child. "Eating together," she said, "is important these days in the de velopment of group relationships. Children establish a set of values by watching others." mis sne indicated applies as much to the school cafeteria as to the classroom. Children she said, "sense" when adults, includ ing lunchroom workers, do not have a feeling of service. Big Enterprise . Serving of noon meals at schools in Oregon has grown into a big enterprise, the women were told. A total of 53,000 school meals a day were served in this state in 1946. -This year the daily average is 117,000. At closing business sessions Fri day, Mrs. Mattie H. Barnstable of Klamath Falls was elected presi dent to succeed Mrs. Emma D. Wasson, school lunch supervisor of Salem public schools. Mrs. Orace L. Wolfe of Eugene was named president - elect, and Mrs. Sadie Taylor, Salem's Liberty School luncheon . manager, was elected secretary-treasurer. f The- group of 250 cooks,-helpers and lunch room supervisors closed their sixth annual convention Fri day afternoon with a tour of sev eral local schools. lis in Irish Flavor i'frV ' '". ' : . i 1 f--? ' i - .-r.N - ' LJ tDavV Specials Saturday 11 a.m. (o 8 p.m. SWIFT'S PREMIUM CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE, with steamed parsNed S( 'potatoes and hot roll ZZ.ZZUZZ:ZZZZZZ w V ' CORNED BEEF SANDWICH Open Faced on rye, with potato salad . Iron Opei Dally a. m. ( 9 p. m. Closed Mondial 3715 South Ike Termed ! 'Neutralist' In Race Row By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON u - Sen. Leh man iD NV) suggested Friday that President Eisenhower is a neutralist" standing above the segregation battle. This brought a retort of "unwarranted and un founded" from Sen. Clifford P. Case (R NJ). In a brief Senate flurry, Case contended Lehman was injecting politics into the segregation ques tion. This was countered by a claim from Sen. Neuberger D Ore) that it was vice President Nixon "who puts politics into this vital issue." The exchange began when Leh man called upon Eisenhower to assume- the responsibility" for enforcing the Supreme Court order outlawing racial segregation In the public schools. "I cannot stand above the battle. like President Eisenhower, and say with fine impartiality that both sides must show restraint," Lehri man declared.n He quoted Eisen hower as having, warned against "the extremists" on both sides, and asked if the President pictured i himself as a mediator or a "neu tralist." tase replied: "Any suggestion that the Presi dent is a neutralist, or is standing above this quarrel is unwarranted and unfounded. , . "And 1 hope that there will be, from no side, even an implied in jection of this question into poli tics." Egyptian Dam Snag Told by Britain, U.S. WASHINGTON UP The State Department disclosed Friday the ! United States and Britain have not j yet nailed down an agreement with i Egypt to build the billion dollar j Aswan Dam with Free World fi- j nancing. i This was contrary to the wide-, spread impression crejitedjr'eb.jl wberi Egyptian Premier Gamal Ab-T del Nasser and World Bank Presi dent Eugene Black announced "substantial agreement." The an-1 nouncement was hailed at the time j as a Western victory over the Rus sians who had offered to help fi-: nance the irrigation-power struc ture on the Upper Nile. mm iwmiMfoootsGOM' Nohlgren's Begorra! i"(Tk Counter and Booths ... ...... 65 DAY J (UK fp AS YOU LIKE ITI Our Speciofy lobster Ihtmiiot COMPLETE SEAF00P DINNERS $4 ' lii Includes ... tntrte . . . clam chowder French fries-ole slaw-f ranch bresd-bwNer-desstrl-beverage. LOUIS FISH GROTTO Commercial St., Salem Theatre Time Table 1IMNORK PENNY GOODMAN STORY": 3 4S 7 2 n1 in .',! 'RED SUUNDOWN": IM tnd 9 30 CAPITOL . "BACKLASH":.. 1 .21, 4 21. 7:1 and in 24 LAS VEOAS SHAKEDOWN"; 2:42. 4 53 and S 43 HOLLVWOOn . "SECOND GREATEST SEX": 7 Wl nd 10 24 kiss or rlRE": I 57 Woodburn Drive-In Fridav, Saturday and Sunday iHE SEVEN LITUi NTS" Bob Hope sllVESTiii', Edgar Buchanan CateiOpen 6:30 Show Starts 7:00 Dallas Motor-Vu Dallas ' Salem Hwy. FRI. SAT. SIN. Kirk Douglas, - Sylvana Mangahorn . "ULYSSES" . Color Plus Fhll Carey, Donna Reed in "THEY RODE WEST" COLOR' NOWI OPEN 6:45 Two Great Action ,. Features! '';.. Joel McCroa Tecehnicolor "WKHITA" Also Gangster Mobs Take Over A City! "PHENIX CITY STORY" Plus 4 Cartoons For -The Kiddies f All the Wonderful I 4 Drive In Conveniences A ft Kiddie Playground! V. I Complete Snack Barl f I Relax In Your Carl I -STARTS TOMORROW- SPENCER TRACY mrwr tmutmp t to VICTOR FlCMINGV erotfuctien ft "i,r - " ..', , A GUY NAMED JOE W -VAN JOHNSON - ESTHER WILLIAMS C.l . CO HIT tOr) BUUXT-tLAZINO SHOWDOWN S.V BETWEEN UNFI6HTEII BROTHERSI RE' mmm , f TODAY OPEN 12:30 P. M. ... . Ortatnt $ci(it PUtwt Ivw HUM ... "DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" Mitht! ItiMtt TclHiilr PIim - 3 COLOR CARTOONS nus - . SILVER in KAY'S APPAREL AND PAY LESS DRUG WIN UP TO $50.00 IN CASH I Amwfin tchl Qtti OumIUm -LAST WEEK- CR Una mi Cmtt Mvltifn tM $M. Thty thn wtk far $50 Owrtiw-Hn Hp prin Uhhf Mm wm $1S tm4 tttm- ht $30 OvmHm. iwV Hmvw $kM itartW Ur jMtfMM wkM w ran ! Hi. Nw rmum Mi M iltorityi Ym may i-Nl iMtH (xk IthiraUyl LOW DAM WORK BID PORTLAND i.? - Guy G. At kinson t'o. of Portland, nt I7.716, .i05. was the apparent low bidder Friday for the major work on Portland General Electric Co.'l proposed Pclton Dam on the Des chutes River. PHONI 4-47U Jnn Crtln 0rf Ntdar l.rt Uhr The Second Greatest Sex A lif Clm Mvtlctl Ot4r Attic. C-Ftvr Jck ! Iwktri link) Kiss of Fire Intafttininf mily fofrtm Starts Tomorrow Con. 1,45 ima Twrnar Michxl Imni ' The Rains of Ranchipur Ntvw Hit th trn Thwidtrtd to Swh tn f rth Shiking Clint , Ah Mkkty lany CUt Ory The Twinkle In God's Eye A Ycvuf Pkmh in Tcwgh franliar 7wn in rit Iirly UIO'i NOW PLAYING! STEVE ALLEN D0NNA REED GENE KRUPA-LIONEL HAMPTON Plu! FxDlnstvf Arrount! MHO mmuns w ik"""". nmm LAST DAY "BACKLASII- And "LAS VEGAS SHAKEDOWN" 1 SPECIALLY FOt If OIL ON suoi DOLLAR. DOORS OPEN f THE TRUE STORY xav? OF THE KING "n,,.11 TECHNICOLOR I l V MARTHA IttWVHR A Tf;. DEAN JACCEK H 9 ) : 12.30 "l...rT ...