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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)