The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 21, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textf 1 r i t 1 r i U L. 1 a U j v v; LJ l W U U I J i ' u J u L u J I J Li 1 i L i w ; i j i j k i . i l J 1 j k ' J uv J Ike Easy Victor iii Contest No Fins on Proposed Missile if if POUNDBD ttZl lOJih Year 1 SlCTIONS-24 PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 21, If 34 PK1CI S No. 360 r 1 L J TO II II I fi III BALTIMORE This it artist's conception of Navy Msrtln Vsn guard three stage rocket vehicle designed to place the world's flnt nun made satellite li iU orbit arognd the earth, la back ground Is gantry for placlaf vehicle oa launching staad. At right Is concrete blockhouse from which scientists will fin the rocket and record Its course. (AP Wlrepboto). Earth Satellite Rocket Resembles Cartridge BALTIMORE (Jl The public fot its first description Tuesday of the rocket expected to roar into space and give the earth its firtf man-made moon. Iff a skinny missile without fins and appears no more imposing than a huge rifle cartridge. The Martin Co. said its history-making Vanguard will be the "first liquid fuel rocket designed to be controlled without the use DIP 9331 College presidents have only to look at the high and elementary 4 schools and the birth statistics to tee they will soon be engulfed by flood of youth seeking higher education. Already they are dis cussing ways and means. Presi dent Morgan Odell of. Lewis k Clark College, Portland, outlined his ideas at a Chamber of Com merce forum luncheon lst week. Me frankly said the private col leges couldn't expand to absorb very much increase in, enrollment, and thought the state university and state college shouldn't at tempt to take in all high school graduates who may want to enroll. Odcll threw out this suggestion: That only B or better students be eligible for the state univer sity and state college, that those with lower ratings in high school be taken care of in community , junior colleges. He would have these units strategically placed and would not want them to invade the preserves of private colleges (private colleges in Portland have been hurt some from the estab lishment of Portland State College). No matter where these youths are to be educated a lot of money will have to be provided to supply plants, facilities and instructors. One of the reported worries is where to get teachers for the college multitudes. When the higher education division of NEA met recently, those present were told that college enrollments would Jump from three . million to six million in 1970, that 400.000 teach ers will be needed. This stirred Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, vice president of the Fund for.ihe Advancement of Education, to outline a plan for modernizing college instruc (Continued on editorial page, 4.) The Weather Max. Mia. Preclf, Stlrn M 47 41 Portlind Baker Mrdford North Bend 43 2a 30 42 34 41 SI 23 M .04 .OS .13 .OS .00 .00 .00 .00 M 87 54 SS W . 71 4S Roieburf San Francitco Loi Anfelct Chlcafo New York ... 3t 24 Willamette River J.7 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem) Cloudy today, tonight and Thurs day, with scattered ahbwera today and tonicht and rain lata Thurtday; little change in temperature, the high todav near 51 and the loweat tonight, 34. Temperature at 12 U ajn. today aa 2S. i SALEM PRECIPITATION Since SUrt Of Weather Year Sept. 1 Thli Year Laat Year Normal KM 21 XI 32.21 "Bey-Yea said a aieathfaLM i J H I of fin." The Joint Marun-u a. Navy announcement termed the Innovation "a scientific break through by Martin Engineers." The absence of fins provides lor further weight saving a highly Important factor in rocketry at its present stage of development, Martin engineers said. The lighter the rocket vehicle, the more weight they can assign lo preck . instruments and other equipment in the payload the satellite, Itself. Weight N Fixed The weight of the tiny moon to be delivered Into space by the J stage Vanguard has not yet been fixed. Estimates have ranged from 20 to SO pounds. Martin Co.'s finlcss rocket will be guided . by the power, plant which is to be installed on a gim- bal or semi-pivot, making pos sible directional changes in the stream of power surging from the rocket s stern. Through controlled tilting of the engine, stability and direction guidance will be achieved. Martin engineers have been con templating finless rockets for five or six years, and conducted some experiments in that field with the dozen or so of their Viking roc ets. Resembles Viking In fact, the first stage of the Vanguard will resemble a Viking. It will be about the same length, approximately 43 feet. But the over-all length of the vehicle that leaves the ground will be 72 feet with a diameter across the base, or first stage of 45 inches. The total weight will be 22,600 pounds. Both the first and second stage Of the Vanguard will use liquid' propellents liquid oxygen and gasoline plus additives for the first stage, and white fuming nit ric acid and dimcthylhydrazine for the second. The second stage fits Just above the bottom or first and en cases completely the third stage. The third will use a solid propel lant because of the simplicity of its design. Rises N lill Miles The first stage will consume its. fuel and drop away at an altitude' of 30 to 40 miles. Shortly after , the second stage takes over, it J will Jettison its nose streamlining encasing the third stage and leave it and the satellite exposed. The altitude of from 200 to 400 miles will be achieved by the sec ond stage which will impart a spinning motion to stage No. 3 before turning over the task of final delivery. The main job of the third stage is to increase speed up to 18,000 miles per hour. Embargo on Turkeys Eased OLYMPIA OB - State Agricul ture. Director Sverri Omdabl Tuesday amended his order of last 1 week banning importation of Oregon turkeys into Washington. The amendment provides that Oregon turkeys er turkey eggs may be shipped into Washington provided uVy are certified free from orthinosis by the Oregon iAgrfculture. DppartmenL- Omdahl said the embargo on Oregon gobblers was ordered be came , of outbreaks of orthinosis in Oregon turkey flocks. The dis ease is similar t psittacosis er parrot fever and is transmittable to bumans. Gas Rate Cutback Decreed PC & C Schedule To Take Effect Next November 1 Cas rates are to be reduced Kmil Id nr on( In tha U'illim. Lit Vallrv In new schedules filed Tuesdsy by Portland Cas k Coke Changes, If approved by the State Publie Utilities commisson er, will go in effect Nov. 1, about the time conversions from manu factured gas to natural gas are expected to be nearlng comple tion. 3 At the same time, the company announced that a "freeze" on new residential ana-commercial heating installations in the Valley has been lifted. The freeze was imposed two years ago because valley consumption hsd reached the capacity of the pipeline from Portland. Capacity U Increase Pipeline capacity will, In ef fect, be Increased when natural gas becomes available in the fall because less natural gas will be required to produce the same amount of beat, the company ex-, plained. Average reduction for homes using gss for hest in the Wil lamette Valley will be 10.1 per cent, company officials Mid. The proposed schedule provides cuts on a graduated scale. Reductions will be slightly higher in the Portland area, where lines are shorter and customers more closely bunched. Average Reduction Average reduction for the com pany's 83,000 customers in Ore gon and Washington will, be about 18 per cent, Gasco esti mates. This will amount to a sav ing to customers of one million seven hundred thousand dollars yearly, one million of it being shared by residential customers, the company estimates. ' Under the proposed rates, a residential heating customer in the Salem area with an average monthly bill of $17 will receive a reduction of about $2.23. (Add. details, page 4, see. 2.) 156-Day-Old Westinghouse Strike Settled WASHINGTON ufl - The 156 day Westinghouse Electric Corp. strike, the nation's longest major walkout in two decades, was settled Tuesday. Company and union officials put their signatures on a new five year contract in a ceremony with Director Joseph F. Finncgan of the Federal Mediation Service. n I . . . . I Final agreement, which affects , i , i 45,000 workers, came when flu j Weftinghouse conference board of the striking International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) gave the deal an okay. The company had agreed essentially to the set tlement, proposed by the govern ment, two weeks ago but agreed to tome minor changes to meet union objections. The new contract gives IUE workers annual raises of from S to 23 cents an hour during the five-year contract, which runs to October 1960, dating from last Oc tober. It also provides pension, insurance grievance handling im nrnvemcnts. Both sides claimed vindication. Westinghouse won the five-year contract it wanted, matching one j negotiated by its major competitor. General Electric. The IUE main tained it had improved many con tract clauses and won valuable job protections. westinghouse officials said some workers would be called back be ginning Wednesday. End of Night Bus Service Forecast For April 1 'Probability that night bus serv ice will come to an end in Salem April 1 was voiced Tuesday by Carl Wendt, manager of City Tran sit Lines. He said bus patronage has fallen off even more than in February, despite all the recent publicity giv en to the bus company's financial plight and to the city's need for keeping a mass transportation sys- 'tern. - The - city administration, mean5 while, called off a projected city wide questionnaire and asked in stead that all interested citizens write to CHy Hall to express their views en what step the City Coun cil should take. As it standi now, the Council is Freshman t ----: 1 I - IT Annual tomfoolery associated with the Freshman Glee song contest at Willamette University Saturday night got underway Tuesday with special challenge assembly. Each class challenged the then to participate la the contest with the losing claaa to he C of C to Back Finance Bills On City Ballot Salem Chamber of Commerce will campaign actively in support of all nine special finance meas ures that will appear on the city ballot May II. Chamber President Elmer Berg said Tuesday that the chamber's Industrial Division under Chair man Elton H. Thompson would head the campaign. The announce ment came at a chamber board meeting at which the directors ac cepted final committee recommen dations favoring the bond issues and special millage taxes as pro posed by the city administration. The chamber already has begun work on information materials and presentations designed to explain the ballot issues to the voters. City Hall alJo is preparing book lets on the subject. These are the city propositions: Bond Issues of $3,750,000 for addi tional water supply line (to be paid off by water revenues), $700, 000 for parkland acquisition and development; $65,000 for fire alarm system; $188,000 for street widening?; fl 40,000 for replacing four old bridges, and special tax levies of $30,000 for one year to BSSIUSVTV HI. I1SISI V tJISIU HUU W(Tst Salem branch'Ubrary: improve the library and add a 17ac Calom Krantrt 1iKforf- iVi . it vol taruav in isi nitwi inmi ! tw,- w for one year to impT'0Vt the airport; $35,002 annually for parks operation and $37,000 annually for added firemen. (Additional chamber news, Page I, Sec. 2.) Lack of Postage Lands Marijuana In Police Hands SEATTLE ( Somebody for cot to put a postage stamp on a package mailed to New York, and an estimated $3,500 worth of mari juana ended up in police hands Tuesday. Detectives said the package, on which a postal employer neglec- ed to put the stamps after they were paid lor, contained three pounds of the illicit stuff enough for 3,500 cigarets. It reached po lice after it had been returned to the false address listed for the sender. as Patronage Still Falls scheduled to take action Monday night on . a bill to permit City Transit Lines to discontinue most of the night bus runs. The bus company has maintain ed that one clause of its city fran chise permits it to stop any part of its service which doesnt make money, at any event. City Transit has shown the Council financial statement! showinc that bus fares at night do not cover even the cost of sasoline at ore.'cnt. andloUi situation, it wastound that that the system otherwise is oper ating at a loss in recent months. Also before the City Council is a Salem Chamber of Commerce bus study which recommends some form of subsidy in order to retain Gleo Challenges r til ; Young GOP Official Quits, Says Higgins PORTLAND un-Pat Rodcn of man of the Young Republican "first voter" program as protest against the State Central Committee's budget policy. The Young Republicans group $16,000, but was granted only $1,000 Blbck-Long Gas Station Due in Salem A service station a block long is planned by General Petroleum Products in the 1100 block of North Capitol Street Plans are nearlng completion and construc tion should start in about two months. Warren Doolittle, Salem Area distributor, said. Wrecking has started on an office building at 1140 N. Capi tol St., Joe Bourne, owner, said. A city permit for wrecking was issued Monday. . The new station will cover the east side of North Capitol Street from Nebraska Avenue to Mar ket Street. Doolittle said. Bourne said his real estate office has been moved to the near of the property snd a cafe and radio repair shop in the building were removed previously. A Mobilgas station on the cor ner of North Capitol and Mar ket .i7eeu .Uo wuTbe to down . 4k- , . -tu- n little aairl Th nrnn.rt i. hrlrl by General Petroleum on long term leases from Bourne and Walter C. Winslow, owner of the corner occupied by the present station, Doolittle said. Today's Statesman Sec. Pago . II Ml Classified . Comics .11.. . II Crossword ........ Editorials Homo Panorama Markers Obituaries .. ladio, TV ....... Sports Star Gazer I. ..... II. II. ..-. II...... II I. II. Valley MO Wirophoto page II. night bus service! This report says subsidy or outright municipal own ership are the only alternatives if the company can't turn a profit on present operations. Mayor Robert F. White said no Council discussion is scheduled un til Monday noon, in a preliminary MUH it t . k A u:ia 1 uird iuiiuwiiiK wmvu uvm wtvi meeting. He asked, meanwhile,.. .n.-.n that citizens indicate what they: thought should be .done about the available time and fina'nees would not permit a postcard question- naire, he said - MAt rivt nffirlaU rr.nf-.dn that if a tuhsidv oian is developed, would nave to be approved by the electorate first. Hurled at VVU 7 ) thrown Into Mill Creek. Members of the Sophomore class (last year's winners) are shown above presenting the senior class with a canoe symbolic of the senior's two losses and subsequent duckings la the past two years. (Statesman rnolo). Blocks Funds Salem resigned Tuesday as chair had asked the committee tor for its program to line up first voters with the GOP, Rodcn. a 26-year-old Salem nursine home operator, criti- cized the committee and John C. Higgins, Portland attorney. who is reported to be influential in party affairs. Letter lo Higgins He said he was sending a copy of his resignation letter to Hig gins because "I believe Higgins is in a responsible enough posi tion that if he is convinced of our effectiveness, we will get our money. Apparently he is not convinced." Rodcn said he had held up his resignation decision until the budget had been acted upon by the committee "but I am so thoroughly disgusted with the outcome that I can no longer stand by and see a tremendous program, which is so "direly needed, be Insulted from behind the closed doors of the Arlington Club." i Criticism Glvea Higgins has been criticized by Democrats and others for his Republican conferences at Port land's exclusive Arlington Club, a residential club. There are people within our party who seemingly are obll vious to the fact that the Repub- j ' ' I new registrations. I hold and f IPl W- sibility of (Democratic Sens.) Neuberger, Morse, and a vastly increased Democratic registra tion in Oregon," Roden said, adding: "It is high time that these people realize that the Young Republican Federation of Ore gon is the medium to bring new blood into our aging ranks. Apparently we are still thought of as kids..." The letter . of resignation was sent to James Hatfield, Salem, Young Republican chairman. Mill Strike to End Itateamaa Ntwi larvka ALBANY A month-old strike at the Linn Plywood Corp. will end Wednesday morning, offici als for the plywood mill reported Tuesday. Some 200 men work at the mill. A few had returned to work after pickets were posted on Feb. 21. Mill officials, said they had been advised by letter from Her man Schmunk, business sgent for Millmen'i Local 1328, that pickets would be withdrawn Wed nesday morning. ' The strike was touched off when the mill dismissed a dozen and management alleged contract violations. m 1 1 'Irk TEARS uty TOKYO - A gale-swept fire Wednesday raced through snow- covered Noniro uiy aw miie it! north of here destroying 1.430 homes. -leven PM " in- 'jured. Albany Assembly V V McKay to Quit Soon, Start Campaigning PORTLAND m Secretary of I the Interior McKay said Tuesday he Intends to resign from the Cabinet at least by April 15. "If I'm going to have a prl mary contest, I U have to get out there and do some cam' paigning," McKay said by tele phone from Washington. He is a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination. McKay said he intended to fly from Wash ton to Oregon Wednesday tor a stay through the rest of the week. "I'll be doing only organization work. I won't be making any speeches. I'm not doing any campaigning while I'm still In the Cabinet." he said. McKay has three opponents for the GOP nomination. They are Philip Hitchcock. Elmer Deetz and George Altvater. (Add story oa Pago t, Sec. 2) KIM NOVAK PLANS TRIP LOS ANGELES lAV-Kim Novak of the films, headed for the Cannes film festival, has applied for passport. She also will tour the continent Iff connection with the "Eddie Duchin Story," in which she co-stars with Tyrone Power. (Politics on Who's Running (Editor'! Notat Tha Or(a lUUtmaB't linWt "Petltlral " acrla la wrlttaa ay r tor tha rindldaUi thtmlva. Tha malarial la rvuntt! at public aarvka, without coil or ltfatiaa m aavoa. aa may ar may hot at In atwr with tha aaitorUl lltla at Uiti aawa hhi. StorlM art aahlUhf! aathaiii 'aa loaf ai thay ar wlthla the Rtrlfl war! limit aaa rcmala wlUla Um koaaaa at llaal). WALTER W. FOSTER (1) Caadidata far District Attorney (Polk) . .. (Vaoppd) Walter W. Foster, a Dallas at torney, seeks re-election is Polk County district attorney on the Jtepu Dlie I n ticket First elect ed in 1992, Foster also served as an assistant at torney gen eral, handling all legal work connected with the Ore gon World War II vet erana' bonus Walter W. Fatter and the Department of Veterans' Affairs. His experience with prop erty tax laws has aided -Polk County to achieve the best record of tax collections and the lowest tax delinquency rate enjoyed in recent years !m 1920. He attended high school at .iwsuxe, yregon. Military service interrupted his education but upon separation from active au,yi ne returned to urrgon to , State College and obtained his degree in business admlnistra I lion. Thereafter, he received his COP Balloting Said Help to EstcsinWin By DOl'CLAJ I. CORNELL MINNEAPOLIS ID Adlai Stevenson forces conceded victory Tuesday night to Sen. Ets Ke fauver In Minnesota vital Demo cratic presidential primary. It was stunning npset victory for the Tennessee senator, com pounded of votes from both Re publicans and Democrats. Gov. orvuie freeman, a top Stevenson supporter, spoke up for the party high command of the state to offer Kefauver "congraU ulations on the rat victory rets have won. The two men. the senator and the governor who had worked and fought against him, met face to face la a downtown hotel. Ke fauver pumped Freeman'1 hand and said: "Thank you very much; I have. always liked you." Senator Ahead At the moment the senator was ahead in all the date's rural areas. He bad moved away from Stevenson la the city of St. Paul and the Fourth Congressional Die j trict the city dominates. He war running nearly abreast of th for mer Illinois governor in. the Did nth iron range district la the north. Kefauver's lead had passed the 50.000 mark and he apparently was gathering In of Minnesota'! fait UAtMi at iKst faffVAMatliW ft W M lUttTf Ml eWivwa tawv uao tional convention next August Returns from 2.324 of 3,861 pre cincts piled up 168.190 votes (of Kefauver, 111,111 for Stevenson. Gets Delegate Votes That meant he was scooping up all 12 delegate-at-large votes at the national convention, which art determined by the statewide vote. He also was out front in 7 of the I congressional districts, which represents two convention votes apiece a total of 14 la his column.- On the basis of 1292 precincts. President Elsenhower had polled 131,69a votes to 2,171 lor Sen. Wu liam F. Know land of California. Knowland was a technical oppo nent only, since he had backed away from a race after Eisen hower decided to try for another four years in the Whit House. Stevenson's headquarters in Chi cago was utterly silent. A Steven son news conference . previously set for late Wednesday morning was put off until late afternoon. Stevenson's press secretary said no statement could be expected from the candidate before then. The Minnesota primary spelled loss of prestige as well as con vention votes for the former Illi nois governor. Supposed to Win He was supposed to win thli one, and win it big, since he had all the power and influence of Freeman, Sen. Humphrey and the state party organization behind him. But 'Kefauver had the people on his tide. Some of them were Republi cans. Some, too, were Democrats who might have voted for Steven son but listened to Kefauver"! complainti that the endorsement given his opponent by the Demo cratic State Central Committee and its leaders ' was an attempt to freeze him out and set up a one-man primary election. (Add. details page 2, see. 1.) Parade for What Office law degree from Willamette Uni versity. A veteran of Army service la World War II, Foster served overseas in the South Pacific and n Clic. u ratuu, nnuj pan the conquest of Iwo Jims and Okinawa as an Infantryman. Ho Is married and has two sons. A member of the V.F.W., American Legion, Masons, vsri ous service organizations,' and the Congregational Church, Fos ter has been particularly active in the V.F.W. and is now com pleting his second term as judge advocate for the Department of Oregon V.F.W. Foster took an effective lead in obtaining a juvenile officer is Polk County. He is presently a member of the State Committee on Juvenile Institutions .and served as a member of the ad visory committee for the inter mediate penal institution. The political principles of Pres ident Eisenhower will continue to be the guide for administra tion of his office, without privi lege -or favor W inyone. He will Strive to attain the highest de gree of cooperation between all agencies working la the county snd continue to cooperate effec tively with publie officials and private citizens. (Tomorrow; Thomas Enrtjtt)