Couple in Salem Raising Aleutian Girl MUNDID 1651 106m Year 2 SfCTIONS-14 PAGES The Ore? Statweman, UUm, Ory, Tuesday, May 22, 1954 PIICI U City Budget Board Declines to Levy Full Park Tax Approved by Voters V V hows here Is the entire Buel Wrd family recently returned to Salem from a two-year tour of duty a the Prihilof Islands near Alaska. Shown in the Joseph Hall home are Mr. and Mrs. Ward, a yoonf Aleut girl they are raising ai their own, and the family cat, also brought home from the Aleutian Island. (Statesman photo). Traffic Lights Amaze Child From Pribilof s By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman The Bud Wards were not permitted to bring back a seal skin when they returned from the bleak Pribilof Islands this week but they brought back something infinitely better. Her name is Evdokia. She is six, a dark-haired native Aleut and had never seen a live, growing tree until she left the Pnbilofs with UCDCEEG Great Britain is having trouble with another of its outposts Singapore, the island-city at the tip of the Malay peninsula. It is a crown colony separate from the Federation of Malay which absorbed some of the units which with Singapore formerly constituted the Straits Settle ments, Singapore is pressing for home rule though willing to re main within the British Com monwealth. The Colonial Secre tary's office in London is unwill ing to make as many concessions as the local authorities demand. Recent talks between Alan Len-nox-Boyd colonial secretary, and Chief Minister David Martin of Singapore broke down and the Singapore delegation left Lon don to return home. ' Britain insisted on retaining power to intervene to preserve internal security in the colony, as well as control of Singapore's external defense and foreign re lations. The Singapore leaders Insisted on full home rule. The situation in Singapore is such that Britain is fully justi fied in holding power of inter-, vention. The population is 80 per I cent Chinese. There is a very ' large and active Communist (Continued on editorial page, 4.) High Court's Ruling Affects rriT "CI j Y HI JjJllCni I WASHINGTON W A Federal Communications Commission rule limiting the number of television and radio stations under one ownership was upheld Monday by the Supreme Court. The ruling had an immediate effect in Oregon where the Storer. Broadcasting Co had sought to transfer to Portland the channel i 3 VHF permit at Salem to replace Storer s L'HF station KPTV on channel 27. The transfer proposal was made after the litigation was started. The court said that firms own ing the maximum number of sta tions who apply for a new permit must be given an FCC hearing if they present a good case for waiver of the rule. The FCC need not "waste time" on applications which do not stale a valid reason for a hearing, the court said. Slorer has proposed to transfer the Portland UHF station into the VHF range by using channel 3, which is assigned to Salem. This will he opposed by Portland VHF stations. W1LBERT "WttWHT i her foster parents recently o-,cm ers who just completed two years , leacniiig ine natives on me iamous Fur Seal Islands, hope one day to adopt "Eva." Meanwhile they are raising her as their own daughter. "The Pribilof natives seldom leave their islands," said Mrs. Ward. "So, although they have American movies, they still have not seen first-hand the many facets of civilization." Traffic Lif.hU "Eva is particularly excited ovc irallic ugnls, mountains, esca lators, foods and the warm climate here." There are two kinds of trees to Eva. Christmas trees, which the whites on Pribilof bring over from the mainland every Yuletide, and "round trees," which she learned in her school books are all in habited by friendly squirrels. The Pribilofs lie about 250 miles west of the Alaskan mainland in the Bering Sea. There are no vegetables, no trees only grasses, wildflowers, birds, foxes and, of course, the majority of the world's fur seal population. Wind Blew Out Wall "The winters are rough." said Mrs. Ward. "We once stopped) school because the wind blew out ; a wall of the school where we taught some 90 native children ' Prior to going to the Pribilofs. Ward worked for two years in the Oregon state highway laboratory here. At present they are visiting with Mrs. Ward's sister. Mrs. Joseph Hall, 1470 N. 25th St. V rwwl sVil l Oct i " tA,U 1UI 11X81 Puts Baldock In Hospital Need of a complete rest Mon- day caused hi ate Highway tngi- was represented in negotiations by, Retl)rns gtill had not beenlin . McMinnville medical hospiUl Jltoi!i?f.1 MUne, president. Rowan and!eoun(ed (rom numerous precincU TJZZno neer k. h. naiaocx io enier saiem Memorial Hospital. The develop- ment resulted in postponement of a Friday testimonial dinner honor ing Baldock. An exhausting schedule reported - ly led to Baldock's entering the hospital upon advice of his physi cian. In order to get a complete rest, Baldock will be hospitalized a week or 10 days and no visitors will be permitted. The state engi- -"' ""-V u .V" T nhvcir-al rWlmn hi uilp wid The Fridav night testimonial din-1 drlegate-at-large race included: ner had been planned at the Hotel j Continued fair weather was on Sen. Richard Neuberger 147,500; Marion by State Highway Depart-! the books for today and Wednes- Rep. Edith Green 140,400; Monroe ment personnel as tribute to Bal-! day. MrNary Field weathermen Sweetland, 125.000; Joseph K. Car dock's achievements and 41 years' j said, with the temperature ex- son. 84,900; Alfred Corbett. 76,119; service: W. C. Williams, deputy pected to go up to about 82 today sen. Walter Pearson, 75,200; M. state engineer, said the dinner will after three days down in the 70s. : James Gleason, 74,700. be held at a date to be announced njgn temperature Monday was (Complete tally on page I, sec. 1) later. 7R, sjx degrees warmer than the Baldock only recently arrived day Mmt VESSELS SLATE VISIT DOCK irom a M-nr m uinaumta in n r III waaiuuK"'", ' CRASH PROVES FATAL tr ants PASS 1 Samuel Ot- u;.. . r.cirW nf tho Jerome Prairie district near here was killed in a head-on collision southwest of here Sunday night. Cherry Crop Called 'Spotty'; Heat Improves Strawberry Crop; Pieker Prospects Good By I.IIXIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman "Spotty" is the word for the cherry crop this season, accord ing to Robert Shinn, manager of the Willamette Cherry Grow ers Inc. "There are some orchards which are looking exceptional good. There are a lot of orch ards that are average and some in which there will be a very light crop. A few will have com plete failure," Shinn said Mon day as he indicated that the "cherry situation isn't too bad." Harvest in the Willamette Valley will be considerably J ' !.'.. Battleship Oregon Near Scrap Heap vnk'MUUA .lanan i Th '. rusting hulk of the old battleship j Oregon, once-proud warship of the 1 United States Navy, was towed j intn TnL-vn Rav KinnH ociinoH for cutting torches and ,he scrapiHeat Wave Blamed heap i sixteen separate "diking dis- The Oreenn's slept is hearted for Japan's booming shipyards and may be reborn as a warship in Japan's navy of the future. It is more likely, though, that the steel will go into a freighter or tanker being turned out at the yards. (Add. detail! an Page 12, Sec. 2.) s I JEmployesat 15 Eateries Get Pay Hikes Employes of some 15 Salem restaurants will get wage in creases ranging from 10 to 35 cents an hour under agreements reached Monday by represents- ners Ferry Tuesday for an on-the-tives of Culinary Alliance Local i'Pot inspection. 452 and Salem Restaurant Asso-j ciation. Increases will raise waitress pay to 90 cents an hour and that of bartenders to $1.75, with cooks, dishwashers and bus boys ranging in between, Leonard Ro w a n , association secretary, said. Member restaurants are Mar ion and Senator hotels, The Spa, Pioneer Club, Marshall's Inn, Cross's Cafe, Brite Spot Cafe, ("line's Food Shop, The Salem are in a close battle for the eighth Malt Shop, Nohlgren's Restau- and last spot in the party's dele rant. Rialto Coffee Shop, Randall's ! gates-at-large list to the national Chuck Wagon. Chuck s S t e a k ! convention. Results had not yet House. Louis Fish Grotto Seafood been received from a number of Restaurant and Minute Cafe, but ' precincts. Rowan said they have not individ ually approved the new contract as vet The association, formed during Epps, Mill City, had 65,161. The the six-month negotiation for the1 party sends eight delegates-at-first contract changes since 1851, ! large to its convention. ( Del Milne, president, Kowan and j Attorneys Robert DeArmond and Roy Harlan. The union was repre sented by Mrs. Anne Chambers, secretary, and Art Kirchner. pres- 1 ident ! Fair Weather On Forecast vazv-u- . , . ' Fair weather also was expected today at Northern Oregon beaches, ; according In Associated Press, but lln morning fog and low clouds. High temperature today was ex - pected to he about fifl. with gusts from the north up to 35 miles an 1 nnur mis auernoon ana evening. earlier than last year's very late season. Picking is expected to get underway around June 20. It was recalled Monday that cherry picking in the valley didn't begin until mid-July a year ago. About the same amount of pickers will he need ed this year as last, Shinn esti mated. The picking situation holds true for strawberries, too. Shinr believed. While some str.iwhrr rv fields suffered from the win ter, others came through in comparatively good shape. Re cent warm weather has speed rd the blooming, and also great ly improved the plants and the GIsFight Floods In Idaho Kootenai River At Record Level, Overflows Area BONNERS FERRY, Idaho ( The Army arrived with 500 troops and heavy equipment Monday to fight off the bulging Kootenai Riv er which reached a record level, flooded 1,000 acres and threatened 39,000 more. A convoy of infantrymen and engineers punea in alter a w- mile trip from Fort Lewis, Wash and the '"'die went to work Quickly to strengthen earthen dikes against the river. trirls" Drotect the 40.000 acres of rich wheatland in the Kootenai Valley and this north Idaho town of 2,000 persons. A spring heat wave that melted heavy mountain snowpacks brought on the flood. One district, No. 7, collapsed Monday morning and muddy river water rushed in on more than 800 acres. Hopes of saving another district, No. 1, were abandoned and water began rolling over the top of the dike. District 1 has 3,000 acres. Reaches Peak The Kootenai reached a peak of 35.4 feet early Monday, the high est ever recorded here. The pre vious high was 35.31 on May 23, 1954, when it dropped fast after a surge. Flood stage if listed at 31 feet. Gov. Robert E. Smylie, who de clared a state of emergency here Sunday, said he would fly to Bon- County Demos In Close Race As Delegates Two Marion County Democrats Latest count Monday night showed Jason Lee, Salem, standing eighth with 65.408 votes. Dave in Clatsop, Tillamook and Yam- hill counties. Three precincts also remained out in Folk Lounty. In the race for the two first district Democrat delegate spots returns from 529 of 649 precincts had Jan E. Bauer, Washington County, in front with 27.370. Second was Roy R. Hewitt, Salem, with 26.664 and third was Marguerite Berg. Salem with 24,327. T0D seven in the Democratic PORTC.WD - Eight V S. avy vessels, headed by the sea- plane tender Salisbury Sound, will j : visit Portland harbor (or the Rose: 1 Festival next month. The tender, j about the same size as a heavy cruiser, will be here from June to iu. set of fruit. It was being esti mated in the Salem area that about the same amount of ber ries would be harvested here as last year. Otis Polk, on the farm desk of the state employment serv ice, said Monday that the "pick ing situation" was looking pret ty Rood. At the moment there "might he a surplus" of folk in -earch of agricultural employ ment, hut the slack was being taken up as workers were sent to the hop fields for hoeing and training and to the berry fields for hoeing. Gooseberry harvest in the valley also took tome, Polk added. Trim Polk Home Scene of Wife's Slaying r r H --.'.u. J.V-'J DALLAS, OreTrlmly-landscaped country home of Mr. tni Mrs. Baylisi Gilbert Fanning, 12 miles northwest of Dallas, wai scene of (laying that saw Finning arraigned on first degree murder count Monday. Mrs. Fanning wai shot ai the left house through a back-porch door. Fanning't ton by former marriage lives in house la background, rame running when shots were heard. (Statesman Photos by John Ericksen). Farmer Faces First Degree Murder Count By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman DALLAS, Ore. First degree murder was charged Monday in the arraignment of Bayliss Gilbert Fanning, 57, prosperous Polk Coun ty farmer accused of the back porch slaying of his much younger wife, Flanked by his attorney, Eugene Marsh of McMinnville, Fanning ap peared but briefly In Dallas Justice Court, He was still wearing the Western togs in which be romped with the Yamhill County Sheriffs Posse at a Sheridan "Fun Day" Sunday afternoon. Sheriff Tony Neufeidt said Fan ning and his wife returned to their stately country home about 5:30 p.m. Two hours later his wife was dead, her back pierced by four bullets that were pumped from a .38 revolver as she walked or ran from a rear porch Veiled ii Silence Events just prior to that violent moment were veiled in silence Monday. Sheriff Neufeidt said Fan ning was not formally questioned. But the accused hinted that his wife's death climaxed a stormy marriage. "We were always quarreling,1 Deputy Sheriff Robert LeFori quoted Fanning as saying. In a brief interview, Fanning alluded to unhappiness between his slain wife and his two grown children by his first marriage, The accused also said he was due ( my nerves." Djr( (f Cancer i Fanning's first wife died of can- cer in 1950 and he married the slain woman about two years later. Polk County Circuit Court rec ords show that she and Fanning were named in an alienation of ; affections suit filed Feb. 3, 1951, ' by Delmar M. Hampton, her hus band at that time. The suit asked $100,000 of Fanning. It was dis missed two months later. Sunday's shooting rocked the staid Baliston countryside where Fanning is a second-generation fanner. He owns 440 acres that his father farmed before him. Justice Kenneth Shetterly ordered Fanning bound over to the grand jury and held without bail in Polk County jail. RESERVOIR AFIRE ROSEBURG 1 A rush call for more water brought another 1 pumper t( the scene of a fire here The blaze caused an estimated $1,000 damage to the roof over a n-ny n Transient labor was coming in in good shape, Polk said Monday. He also said there had been considerable "write-in" inquiry on the labor situation here this spring. His office, he explained, also tried to answer all such inquiries. "I do not believe that there will he a labor shortage this summer or do I believe there will he a grrat surplus of farm labor.'' he concluded, as he said, too, that a number nf la borers had signed up for the platoon svslem, which has , worked out so well in straw- j berry fields in the Willamette j Valley in recent years. J . V i -aft ' I ; f ' f I f" 1 J" a' Jj u X DALLAS, Ore. Bsylisi Gilbert in Polk County Jail after being fingerprinted Monday oy vcpuiy Robert LeFors, step behind. The Baliston area farmer was ordered held without bail pending grand Jury action on, murder charge. $500,000 Building to House Long Distance With emphasis continuing on dialing of long distance numbers possible. Pacific Telephone & Tele graph Co. announced plans Monday for a $500,000 building addition at its State Street property in downtown Salem. The 60 by 70 foot, four-story addition is designed to house the switching brain" automatic equipment for the new nationwide dialing Pinballs Still Not Illegal PORTLAND - Pinhall ma chines, outlawed last F'riday when city voters upheld an ordinance banning all types of coin type and key-operated pinballs, still are not illegal here. City Auditor Will Gibson said Monday it will be about two weeks before the official vote is certified1 for the city council. Then the mayor will proclaim passage of 1 the measure and the wav will be clear for arrests of violators. Today's Statesman Pag 13, 14 II 12 4. Sec. ...II ...II ... II II ... II ...II ...II Classified . Comics Crossword Editorials Home Panorama Markets Obituaries 7 I 13 Radio, TV 12 Sports 9, 10 Star Gazer 3 Valley News . 6 Wirohoto Psgo ....11. Fanning (left) ascends stairs to cell Dialing 'Brain' the work of making direct telephone setup. Present timetable calls for completing the building late next year and equipping it in 1958. Meanwhile, Salem will get its new Empire-prefix telephone num bers into use this December. That also is a part of the new dialing system. The telephone expansion project in Salem was approved by the company's advisory council at a Salem meeting Monday and was commented on hy I'T&T (leneral Manager F. A. Dresslar in his talk before Salem Chamber of Com- merceat a Marion Hotel chamber luncheon. The telephone company has spent over a million dollars in const ruction and new rquipment in its Salem area since .Ian 1. The telephone company 1 935. Dnslar said. He nolrd thr new fitth story on the State Strct t telephone exchange building should bo rnmpMed by Aug. 15. Dresslar said the company's in vestment in Marion County in the last 10 years jumped from $2,900, OOO to $11,500,000; while its cus tomers gained from 9.700 to 32,000 and its employes from ion to oo. M1SSIM1 ROY FOt'ND KK.I.Sd. Wash - Mclvin Charles Rennctt an R-vrar-nld Portland hoy who was reported missing in the isolated upper Lew - i is River area Snnriay night, wasj found Mondav morning He was in j 1 good condition. Only $20,000 Due During This Year AlxHit One-Half Mill Tax Foreseen, Rather Than Full Mill as Before By ROBERT E. GANGWAK City Editor, The Statesman Only a $20,000 share of the voter-approved 135,000 parb maintenance tax will be levied this year, it wai screed Monday night hy Sitlrm City Council City Budget Committee. This meani that the additional tax for park purposes this year will likely amount to about one-half mill, instead of th approximately one-mill levy I that the 35,000 maximum would have required. City of ficials estimate one mill this year will produce $37,700. In other highlights of bud get committee action at the City Hall session last night, a 16,700 library repair program was added to the budget; the $1,500 appropriation- for city 4-H was elimi nated; $3,000 was added to street improvement funds with a recom mendation that Tile Road widen ing be considered. (Add. details on page 3, sec. 1.) Principal Reasea List Principal reason given for not levying the maximum park tax amount was that the 1700,000 park land acquisition and park improve ment bond Issue failed at the polls last Friday. The new maintenance tax, which passed by slim mar gin, had been proposed as a com panion measure to help pay upkeep of new parks as well as to Increase funds for operation el press at parks. (Election story oa page I, see. 1.) Decision on the park money came as a compromise after con siderable discussion. Alderman E. C. Charlton, as revenue subcom mittee chairman, , recommended that the entire $35,008 bo levied. Mayor Robert f. White at first objected to levying any of the $JS.- 000, stating that his understanding had been that all of it had been planned as revenue needed to keep up new and enlarged pari opera tions the bond issue would have made possible. Others Speak Oat Others pointed out that neither the ballot title nor the information al booklets publicizing the city measures had so limited the park tax use. Then Alderman David O' Hara suggested the compromise. Actual placing of the new money in the budget had its com plications. Of the $20,000 total, $5,443 was added to park oper ating expenses of $57,338 in the budget draft, while the other $14,557 went into park opera tions, but in such a way si to off set a like amount listed else where as capital improvement to purchase lands adjacent to Wal lace Marine Park. The result was to add $14,537 to emergency funds of the city. Wording Told The wording of the ballot title on the pirk tax Included: To authorize Council each year . . . to levy special tax in a sum not exceeding $35,000 ... for the purpose of maintaining, operat ing and improving the Salem public parks." Salem's recent city election also had the effect of beefing up the $3,018,000 budget submitted, in balance, by City Manager J. L. Franzen two weeks ago. The voters added to this total $1,348. 000, including the $20,000 park money, $188,000 for street widen ing, $140,000 for new bridges and $1,000,000, which is that part of an authorized $3,750,000 water bond issue that the city would spend in the coming year on start of the new supply line from the North Sintiam River. Senate Opposes Crooked River Rill WASHINGTON - A bill au- (homing construction of the $6,- late Monday night lor a nine 59fl.noo Crooked River reclamation I year-old missing boy when he wai project In Central Oregon was ap-i reported found, proved by the Senate Monday and . The boy was listed as Johnny sent to the House. 1 Rogers, 1345 Cross St., last seen Some 20.000 acres in Crook Coun-I wearing blue bathing trunks. ty would be irrigated in the proj cel. ; I l. W pfltliPr Mai. Mill. Frrrlp. Silfm Poiiland 71 41 N . 13 , IS . S4 S3 4 SS M ,00 .no .m no .00 trr .oft .00 .00 Mtdford North Bend . Roscburf 14 Sin rrnclro D 1,0 Angeles 18 tiief.o ... - S.1 New York SS SI Willamette River 3 1 (ret rollK'AST ilrom U S Weather Bureau MrNarv Field. Salemt: Wednndav little warmer todav High lodav and Wednesday. S3, and I Temperature at 13 01 am. today aa so sm.km mrxTpiTTloN stnre start l weather Vtar vt. I TliH Tear L Tear HermaJ hh jo. 71 it it and the citizen members of the $128 Million For Northwest Rivers Asked WASHINGTON Ifl A 121 mfl lion dollar water river develop ment program was recommended far Oregon and Washington Mon day by the House Appropriations Committee. It rould cover expenditures for the next fiscal year by both the Army Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. : - It would include Increases over the administration budget re quests to complete planning oa , John Day Lock and Dam oa tho Columbia and to step up Ice Har- bor Dam construction 00 tho Snake River. John Day planning funds are Increased under the bill from $500,000 to $1,450,000. ' It would clear the way for start oa con struction next year. Meet Mate A boost from five nuHioa to eight miUioa dollars is made la. tho recommended funds for let Barber Dam. v - Funds were approved ai todgrt ed for major dam construction oa the Columbia and its tributaries. with the exception f Tho Dalles and McNary dams. The Dallea was cut from $47,000,000 to $4x 457,000 and McNary from $4,500, 000 to $2,828,000. The Dalles Dam Kern is tho largest in the bill. Oh ef Several The cut in the recommendatioa is not expected to affect Tho Dalles Dam construction sched ules. The committee said It is ono of several projects which should share in more than 4H million dollars of savings and schedule delays which reduce anticipated expenditures. Money is Included in the bin for starts on six new navigation and flood control projects. They arc: Washington Quillayute River . Harbor, $444,000; Shllshole Bay, Seattle. $300,000; Bellingham Har bor, $400,000; Anacortes Harbor, $149,000. Oregon Malheur Improvement District, $55,000: Scholfield River, Reedsport. $54,000. . ' Appropriation to start planning on three projects was recommend ed in the following amounts: Low er Columbia River, Washougal area, Wash.. $17,000; Columbia, Chinook-Sand Island, $11,000, and Pendleton, Ore., $25,000. Other New Werk In other new work, the commit tee recommended $1,400,000 for a Lower Columbia River fish sanc tuary, $208,000 for the iostallatioa of fish protective facilities at Sav age Rapids Dam, Ore., and di rected installation ot floodlighting at Grand Coulee Dam. Missing Boy Rides Along In Search Salem police, with seven patrol cars scouring the area for an hour were preparing to organize a mass - i An older brother who had Joined the search with his own car found Johnny about 11 p.m. when he hap pened to look in the back seat, police said. The boy was asleep there, still in his bathing trunks. I 11111 1 I NORTHWEST LBAGtlB At Lewitton I. 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