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Rogue River Search Fails to Find Que to Missing Salem Man Area of Turbulent River Combed After Mishap Near Grants Pass By JERKY STONE Staff Writer. The Statesnua An intensive but fruitiest search continued through Thursday nifht for Philip Johnson, 43, Salem, who vanished some X hours before in the swift, rough waters of the Rogue River about nine miles west of Crints Paw. (Picture page 5, sec. l.) s At time of his disappearance Wednesday morning, Johnson was ne of three Salem men churning up the Rogue in a 32-foot Alaskan prri 3MEEE nrormra Final decision on federal legis lation rests with the Congress, as our constitution prescribes; but it is well recognized that the under lying power in Congress lies in the committee system, and that power there reposes in large de gree with the committee chairmen. So changes in committee chair manships and assignments become matters of very intimate concern to members arid of great interest to lobbyists and all those following the course of legislation. I s'arcn slene- WM confident her The recent death of Sen. Alben , huba,nd would come throuh his Barklej of Kentuckcy and the i ordeal safcl Imminent retirement of Senator Mining Before George of Georgia creates va-j . Alwa resourceful outdoors- 3i c '1 1We(rfUl Senat! man, he turned up missing on sev committees, namely, finance and occaslons he . fore.n relations. They were both Maska said Mrs. Johnso- But members of these two committees ! . . . ' and George was cha.rman of he; Ifcttnr i n rtc nnn mmai thai latter. Succession comes under the rule of seniority, but the senior member may. waive his preference in order to hold his present as signments, since senators may sit only on two major committees. In the case of the foreign rela tions committee the ranking mem ber is Sen. Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island. While he is quite chipper still he is in his 89th year, and may not want to take over the chairmanship. Next in line on the Democratic side is Sen. J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas, one of the abler members of the Sen ate. However, If Republicans should capture control of the (Ceatiraed m ediUrlal page. 4.) E. B. Hamilton Former Polk Qerk, Dies SUtaamaa Nawi Service DALLAS, Ore -Edward B. Ham ilton, former Polk County clerk-, died Thursday at bis home here. He was 67. Hamilton, long prominent in vet erans affairs, underwent an opera tion a year ago from which he never fully recovered. Death was attributed to cancer. Hamilton was an overseas com pany commander with Army En gineers during World War I and held the rank of major in the Na tional Guard when he left it after 20 years of service. The deceased came to Dallas in 1914 to work for Willamette Val ley Lumber Co. For a number of years he was employed by the Oregon State Veterans Aid. He lat er operated a U.S. employment of fice Hamilton became Polk County clerk in 1950 and resigned on Feb. 1. During that period he was once honored as Oregon 'Taxpayers' Man f the Year'' for his admin istration of his office. (Add. det. page 5, sec. 1.) Fair Weekend On Forecast Fair weather is forecast for to day, tonight and Saturday, accord ing to the McNary Field weather man. High today is expected to be 72, i low tonight 4. Predicted high for; Saturday is 7.i. Northern Oregon beaches are vrortsvH in rsvpivp fnt nnrl Inur , ,ln,,H. .rl lnA,v hi fsir Mih. ! er is predicted in the afternoon and evening. High today will prob ably be 62-67. the low 42-48. Northern lights were reported : visible m Salem Thursday night. However, the McNary Field wea- edX'a boreX & J Faint flickerings of the lights were seen within the last two nights, the bureau said. WILBERT "MOMMYI" M lit J IIU IAiU I III 77 imu YWw -"sag river boat, en route the 130 miles from Gold Beach to Grants Pass. Garbed in a life jacket, Johnson was swept away wbile swimming across the river to his beached craft. He was bouncing through swift "Black Bar rapids" when last seen by his companions, Dr. Charles Mills and Richard Cham bers. ,. River Combed At least SO persons, including police and veteran river guides, combed the river and its beaches and adjacent thick woods and brushland Thursday. Two planes reconnoitered the route between the point of disappearance and Gold Beach on the coast, and a land party was checking beaches at the river mouth. Johnson's reputation as a woods men and able river man spawned hopes that he might be found alive. Mrs. Philip Johnson, who came to Grants Pass to be near the in each case our worries ended vu. vul nut I ITS CIIUUU when he rcappeared ,a(e and . sound. The Rogue incident occurred about 11:30 a m. Wednesday after Johnson, alone la the boat, had navigated the notorious "Black Bar" stretch of the river. Mills and Chambers had stayed ashore at this point to take movies and Johnson was moving to shore to join them when his craft swamped. Johnson safely got to shore but the boat was carried downriver. Leaped la Water Chambers reportedly leaped in to the water and managed to beach the craft. It was then that Johnson was carried away as he and Dr. Mills were swimming to the opposite shore to join Cham bers and the boat. Just before vanishing from sight, Johnson, head and chest above the water, waved and yelled, "I'm all right!" according to Chambers' story. Chambers hiked some IS miles through steep and nigged terrain to sound the alarm. Johnson has operated the A&W Fireside Drive-in, 110 N. 12th St., for the past year and a half. While his wife hurried to the scene of the search, the family's five chil dren were under care of friends at the borne, 2880 Mountain View Dr. Keizer Youth Unconscious For 12 Days A 20-year-old Keizer youth, in-! sured in a twocar collision May 13, was still unconscious at Salem -v j -pv a a General Hospital Thursday, hos-j VfllPr I IPf'lflO pital attendants reported. lCLllIO Norman Wargnier, 4625 Verda n i CI 1 Lane, is in i "very crious" condi- aleill OCllOOl tion, the hospital said. He has been in a coma for the past 12 T . rri days since the accident at the;5U(lOrCt lOOtlV junction of Trail Avenue and' North River Road, one milei , , , . , . . , , nnrth nf Kei?Pr Fa,e of Salem s school budget inn OI ReiZer. . Wargnier is undor oxygen, the hospital said and his condition is not much improved. The youth received head in juries and a fractured right arm, hospital attendants said earlier. Four other persons were riding with Wargnier in a Model T Ford at the time of the accident. All were thrown out of the vehicle. Two were retained a' the hospital for treatment and then released. The other two received minor in juries. Gin, Port Wine Lull wr tn" . ci w oniatl, IU,, to Meep WINTEHBOURNE KINGSTON, England iu-Mrs. Sophia Wellstead tossed off her usual sleeping potion of a tall glass of gin and port .'np ,afl(,r celebrating her 105th :u".'"u'1 - ii nils urvrr T T te a reDorter. "and Store Clerk Caught After 29 Years of Daily Thefts SAN FRANCISCO ! - Police Thursday ended Ferdinand Del Pate's 29 years of service with the same employer. Too much self-service'," officers said. Thursday Del Pate was arrest ed on a grand theft warrant, Po lice inspector Max Reznik said: ne una u, ne sui.e " rom his employer even day for iL. rut .. U. IUxa Police said they recovered at least $5,000 worth of stolen mcr-1 rhJnrfi from the hasement nf i Del Pate's home in suburban Daly rjjty ' r. Pale itm lied Rnn k sa d he took duplicate articles "in case lone should break." The loot in- eluded dozens of clawhammers and several electric drills, Reznik said. Th efilcer quoted Del Pate; I 1 06th Year Children's Zoo l L DETROIT, Mich-Susie li all set Isle. The baby orangutang, still youngsters. (AP Wlrephoto). i - - I - v . V M W i - I fU 1 Vi "I i j I l""" ' J('1 f -. .a. "- , t-i ja" . t ! , - . Wt:'f Circuit Judge Removes Counsel of PORTLAND A stormy In vestigation of vice in Portland resulted Thursday in a circuit judge removing Dist. Atty. Wil liam Langley as legal counsel of a grand jury. Judge Alfred P. Dobson took the action after the state's attor ney general turned up, armed with a directive from the gover nor to take over. Aides from the district attor ney's office attempted to present a motion, but the judge refused to allow it. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, who earlier in the day had knocked on the door but failed to gain admission to the grand jury! roorn. immediately took the grand Gov FJmo Smi(h jury behind closed doors. sjgned an or(k,r expanding Atty . Thornton previously had been i Gen. Robert Y. Thornton's au designated by Gov. Elmo Smith i thority in the Multnomah County to conduct an investigation oi v ice in Portland. The investigation was started after The Oregonian, in a series of copyrighted articles, as . , " - ----- w' beu UPL 0 the voters today when they ballot at 17 precincts in Marion and Polk counties. At issue in the special election will be $1,629,316.27 over the 6 per cent 'limitation. Total tax levy if voters approve the amount would be $2,393,577. The remaining half of the operating budget comes from other sources, principally from basic school support funds. A light turnout is forecast for the election compared to last week's Primary count and the rec ord number of voters who cast bal lots last Feb. 6 for junior high school construction bonds. (Precinct map of the Salem School Diitriel with a list of rat ing places en Page S, See. 1.) LIVING COST CP PORTLAND () The cost of living in Portland reached an all- inne me anv'time record high between mid- January ana niiu-npru, me fe Z f Laor's,a,is,ics deral Bureau oi i ; reported Thursday "I stole everything except plows. They were too heavy " Reznik said the stolen mer chandise was sufficient "to start a hardware store." He said the total value of the stolen mer chandise might never be known. Del Pate said he carried the ; stoen goods out his Unchbox ; jn b in hU krts anf Henry Hofmann, manager of the hardware company, said SUS Picns fT aroused last year I when an inventory showed a con- isiueriioic amount oi toous raii I sin from the to01 department, of wiucr. uei Kate was toreman. Del Pate, 51. is married and has two sons, 17 and 14. He was re- i i aaa .... v.n on 11,000 cash ball. 4 SECTIONS-44 PACES Occupant Waits for Visitors . . " . Ill " for the opening Thursday of the high-chair sixe, will be one of Multnomah serted Seattle men had attempted to take control of vice here with the connivance of some Portland ers. Thornton said he was preparing his case for the June grand jury. Last week, hovever, Dist. Atty. Smith Expands Thornton Role In Vice Prohp yjce investigation. Thornton, claiming his authority wasn't broad enough, asked the governor to issue the new order. The governor said "I have signed this new request for broadened power and authority in order that there be no question that the attorney general has the fullest authority possible under the laws of Oregon and that there be no delay or interference in carry ing out this investigation in Mult nomah County." uov. annul auutu uiai ironi !thc vrry first jt has been my in - Gov. Smith added that "from tention and purpose to give the attorney general complete author ity " The new order to Thornton gives him control over "prosecution of all charges . . . concerning or connected with the violation in Multnomah County of laws relat ing to gambling, prostitution, per jury, bribery, extortion, intoxicat ing liquors, narcotics, wiretapping, and other allied vicious or cor rupt practices . . ." Snake River Crest Near PORTLAND ll - The lower Columbia River inched up to 22 feet at Vancouver, Wash ! fSeT falT He said the Snake River mav crest Friday. If it does crest, ahead of the upper Columbia Basin crest, it means an easing of flood dangers to the lower Columbia area. Fisher said the lower river is not iikelv to sn ahnve thP 91 or noi UKeiy 10 go aBove the 24 - 26 foot range if the Snake crests this weekend NORTHWEST I.EAC1E At Lrwiston 1. Salem 5 At Kugfne 4. Yakima 6 At Spokane -. Wenatchec 4-1 PACIFIC COAST I FVC.I E At Portland I. Hollywood 1 At Loi Aoseln 11 San Dirro 10 At Sacramrnto 5, Ran Francisco .1 At Vancouver 2, Seattle 4. i amesican liagve ; g iron , w r 11. i N V'01 H t, , I At Phlladalphta . BrookUyn 4. ur MsMiabaduM. 1 II r Childrea'i Zoo at Detroit's Belle the special attractions for the Langley as Grand Jury Langley obtained a search war rant, and sheriff's deputies raided a house in Portland. They said they seized a number of slot ma chines and some tape recordings. Langley said he took the record ings before the May grand jury, and earlier this week the grand jury indicted Raymond F. Clark and James B. Elkins, 55, on charges of wiretapping. H. G. Maison, superintendent of the Oregon state police, who have been aiding Thornton in investiga tions, was called to testify before the grand jury before Thornton took over Thursday. The Oregon Journal said it had learned one of the recordings seized in the raid last week was of a recent telephone conversation between Maison and Police Chief James W. Purcell Jr. of Portland. A subpena also was issued for Purcell to testify, but he was not located before Thornton took over. Another Dike Fails in Idaho BONNERS FERRY, Idaho 11 Another dike along the wind whipped Kootenai River was breeched Thursday night, sending ,.. . uialor raaHmo inln th i r, ' " of district M anH 4, IV.) ML I IS Ul Ul.Ml Kl w HIIU bringing to over S.0O0 the number , tn Joutn end of ,nMt. of new acres under water or inl" A , u!k,. i. i. "grave jeopardy" of being flood ed. The gauge on the south bank of the swollen river sttiod at 36.75 i fppt at 7 p. m. Thursday night. Tu- - r . -; t I: i.. inch below the 37 foot limit of the! dikes. But Army engineers surveying the flood area in a light plane reported the river was washing the tops of dikes in districts 10 and 13. and some 27,000 acres of rich farm ' WASHINGTON un Capitol land in the river valley still were;Hill's currcnl face-lifting event ua -relatively dry. More than 10,000 : 'y wiil cosl '"'oun! 150 nllllmn do' acres have been flooded throueh 1 'a. hc House Appropriations broken dykes. Superintendent at I Si.VOHOIl SdlOol Kesijjns Position Statrnman Nrwi Service SILVERTON Dr. Howard Bal-'nient and industry leaders Thurs derstone, Silverton school super-1 day acknowlcdgt-d that business is intendent since 1952, announced in for some bumps but no tail- Thursday he had signed a con- - , , ' . ,.. llall Il'I 1 annual jmiMium a ,.,v.v..j . head of the Ashland School sys-told a news conference the eco tcm nomy is "very spotty." Secre- He and his family are expect- of ,he Treasury Humphry, in ed to reave fnr Ashland near June 15. Balderstnne came to Silverton frnm Minnesota. His new posi tion will place him in charge nf I i on ' ' r L k- f r :i.. 1 ,nnu:n l..f ; til in ,.-, wn ,,, vim . forers in ennverting Silverton to a union hich school system. REDS HAVE NEW WEAPONS WASHINGTON - I.t. Gen .lamis M. Gavin. Army research and development chief, said Thr-s- day Russia has given her military machine "a complete new family of weapons. rouNDio 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 23, 1934 Schmidt Named Salem School Superintendent Board Studies Plan to Trim New Schools A seven-room reduction in the L size oi me two new aaiera junior high schools was considered Thursday night by the Salem School Board in giving tentative approval to an overall plan for the structures. Board members will meet with I Architect William I. Williams again Monday to give final okeh for preliminary plans on the two h buildings for which $2,400,000 in bonds was voted last February. Possibility of cutting one row I of classrooms from each of the Waldo and Judson junior high buildings was proposed after Wil-1 liams and Superintendent Walter Snyder advised the board that it was doubtful if thev could be1 kept within the funds available. Alternate Bids The Board decided it would call fnr altprnat hiHc inolurlino - -. - - . . ... all of the earlier considered fa-1 cilities and the other lopping off ; seven classrooms and one set of , n : i-, i . i . j . - i i luiicia. aisu aiicrcu were plans for covered terraces for bus un- f r,, loading and bicycle storage. Shop I'lanS lOr trailer facilities were also shifted to r i l eliminate a section of corridor FaCtOrV Outlined from the building and keep open access to one of two courts on A 1YfrlI iiinvHlP which the seven rooms could be;'11 constructed later. I luuimu Stmt ttrvte Plans for t: two buildings, one on Lansing Avenue in north - east Salem and the other on Jones Road of the Salem Heights Liberty area south of the city, are identical and call for a south facing onto a private street. For Waldo school Lansing will run on the east side; at Judson, Jones Road will run along the west General Plan Approved The Board okrehed the general plan for the structures, calling for one-story modular construc tion around two interior courts. The plan calls for the adminis trative offices, library, science and health sections on the front side of the square, shops on an other, kitchen-cafeteria and gym nasium on the third, and home- making laboratories, choral and band rooms and regular class rooms on the fourth. The divid ing center row would include only regular classrooms. Diamond Lake Open Today The Diamond Lake highway, closed for several months be cause of snow, will open for traf fic at 8 a m. today, State High way Department officials said Thursday. . Officials reported two feet of snow at the lake but said the ice has gone from the lake. Protect- i ifa rat limit a ta in ( rtrr rn .mi... ... ... ! " n'8'lways 'n' Diamond Lake. r,L ,'. i . . Snow covering 3.4 miles of the highway is yet to be removed. There' is five feet of snow at some points. Opening of the Mckenzie high- ., ' iu. UN I'piUAIIIiaiClJ CIK1II UMi:a ui this highway is yet to be re- moved Six feet of snow was reported at some spots. FACE-LIFTING COSTLY i Committee disclosed Thursday. n n . k.1 DUITipS, Dili NOT I OllSpin, Seen Ahead By STERLING V. GREEN WASHINGTON - Govern- spin-in the months just ahead, Wrl9r nf Cnmmerre W-k lliumy, in a speech, sam some. wniBtncil" 'r mTt- "will go down a little." The ad justments will bt brief and "rela tively minor," he predicted. These appraisals coincided with a selling surge on the New York 1,11 s,0fk change, sending the mark et into its heaviest losses of the ueek. and with announcement in Detroit that continuing aulo lav- ofls have boosted Michigan's job- lessness to $90.non Pres Henrv Ford II told his Ford Motor ro. stockholders. their annual meeting, that Ford's ; sales and profits will drop this i year from record-breaking 1955. lne described tha long-term out- Salem's New I ( - !V. n it! i Taking over August I as new superintendent of Salem schools willj"' ,bj)ld( '"f1 WUt be Charles D. Schmidt (right) - .-J rv w.iiM c-,! u wmv VI. IT , nuimi v n l m pwn , Schmidt hat been assistant superintendent under Snyder for the past two year. Dr. Snyder resigned several weeks ago to take nost at Oreion College of Education. (Statesman Photo). - . McMlNNVILLE Plana for es- 1 tablishment of a new trailer coaeh manufacutrini comoanr In Mc- MinnviUe with a 500,OM payroll for some 125 people have been outlined by members oi McMinn- ville Industrial Promotions, inc. Officials of the promotions cor- p o r a 1 1 o n and the McMinnvilie Chamber of Commerce have been negotiating with officials of the unnamed trailer company since February, it was revealed. 27-Day-Old 'Stowaway' Reaches U.S. NEW YORK il - The littlest "stowaway" ever to reach New York arrived Thursday aboard the liner Independence-Giuseppe Fa- bozzi, 27 days old. Small as he is, he set off a full- sized uproar over the question of whether he really was or was not a HUWOW.J. Little Joe was born after his Italian parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sa verio Fabozzi, received a visa to come to this country. They didn't know exactly what to do, so they just bundled him aboard ship without telling any body. Ship's pursers, taking a nose count of passengers, soon spotted him. Immigration people went into a long huddle on the stowaway question as soon as the ship docked. Finally they decided a child born after its mother re ceives a visa may travel on hers. That settled, the ship people themselves had something to say: If little Joe wasn't a stowaway, then he was a regular passenger. Passengers, even tiny babies, must Da v. Little Joe's dad dug down and forked over the Happily, though. fiMtaccarv Sid HIGHWAY BILL NEAR WASHINGTON ti - Senate ma .-H-uair Mia- jority leader Lyndon BL Johnson hjm d(wn , h( t (D-Text announced before he jn sanitarium. Senate recessed Thursday that the 0r ' he waj admit big highway construction bill (o he Wjljams ome woud be taken up on the floor.. . ... . ... .,. k D Monday. T !.!.. for Business look, however, as -particularly hriht " Ford said auto p.odndinn this year probably will fall below R, 000 000 cars, as against 1955 s 7.4O0.00O. Pres. Harlow Curtice of, General Motors Corp. a few days aoo revised his nroduction esti - mate downward to 5.800.000. In each case the speakers looked -- - - u;i.i:.'u-nnrf to an early Tecovrry. Weeks said the over-all outlook for 1956 was "very encouraging-' and Humph- rey told the National Press Club ; lnal , ""I""' " .. , i'""i'"" At a Hireling of the ln;Vni--ml)t r business advisory council laM ''ck at Hot Springs, a. eeci- tives from 19 key industries told Weeks, in consensus, that a late- at.vear recovery would send the na- lion's output to a rate higher than,San fr,nnco'IH .n j the present level about 398'j mil-1 to Anreiei . m lion dollars worth of goods and r.'vork services a year. maw met u School Chief who was named Thursday night I flMl l u TV. ! . U.S. Military Chiefs Willing To Visit Soviet w jnnN is. mr.nTftwcR washtorton wt Th iTnitM States dramatically, though lndV recthr. notified Russia Thursday that the U. S. Joint chiefs of staff would probably accept an invita tion to inspect the Soviet armed forcesif such an invitation is forthcoming. The matter was handled in such a way as to leave no doubt that the Soviet government was being prodded to bid the American mili tary high command to visit Mos cow and tour the country. Gordon Gray, assistant secre tary of defense, reportedly went over the matter with under sec retary of state Herbert Hoover Jr. at a luncheon meeting. A White House contribution was a remark by assistant press secretary Murray Snyder that he wouldnt be surprised if the joint chiefs of staff would accept an invitation to visit the Soviet ,, . He hastened to explain ,hat thfJf M M imiMim C-..J 1. U .- "there have been informal discus- sions about high officials of our government visiting Russia" ever since the Geneva conference Inst July. (Add. details, Page 8, See, J) Guy Kibbee, Veteran Comic Actor, Dies (Pletare on Page 2.) EAST ISLIP. N. Y.-Guy Kib bee, 74, for years one of the movies' jolliest character actors, died Thursday. He was broke, and his body was wasted with Parkin I ,n' Htaai Mvr nalev Kibbee rose from Mississippi showboats to the Broadway stage and thence to featured billing in more than 100 Hollywood films. . a'nn A' tniffe for sic k and needy actors here. By j that time Kibbee was broke his; nnlv inr'nmi. uai frnm unn.'il se- i , only income was from social se curity benefits. ; Kibbee had little interest in most 'of the things around him. An ex-: PORTLAND ii - Multnomah ceptmn was any of his old movies Cminly t.ommjssj0ners Thursday When they appeared on television 1 vol,1(j to incrtase county em he was brought tn the home's tele- ,..,,,. Dav bv aooroximatelv i vision room to watch them. "He lives to watch those movies," Superintendent John Ra- void said recently. "Especially.! the Scattergood Baines ones. He laughs now at them, says they're kinda unn 1 He played in a number of films with Shirley Temple when she was the reigning emm star ot liouy- Kih t Jvihhee s lace and -his jolly, bouncy personality made him as wr R"n lo 'e all" 8'rs as many a higher bracket M l IUI IIK'I . The Weather Max Min Prer 41 aa sxi rM Bakf r S7 M M Iran .00 .(10 .Oil .on no Mfdfortl North Bend ji trjca .nn .00 t wuiamatu tuw 11 laat, The Weather roKtratT una v. I. MrMary tMM. raw toaiiht ln4 Saturday. Hift) temperature today 72, lew tonight saturoa? m aeeratsre at ul a. m. May sals rmicrrrMTiow IIm Mart Weather Seat, rtii Year tat Tear Ml 1.71 No. St . Snyder Aide Promoted by School Board y TUOM AS G. WRIGHT JR. . 8Uff Writer, Tho Stetetnuui Forty-two-yr ar-old Charlef D. Schmidt, vho came up through the ranis of Sclera school administration, Thur i day nicht was named superin .tendont at the Salem School District to succeed Dr. Walter Snyder. . Graduate of the University of Oregon with bachelor and mas ter of science degrees, Schmidt is currently a candidate for a doctoral in education at tho school. .... r. The newly appointed superin tendent will take over bis new duties August 1, although Dr. Snyder, who resigned several weeks ago because of ill health; - "" Here Since 194J Schmidt came to the Salem school system for the 1949 school year, taking the principalshlp of Leslie Junior High School which he held for four years. He spent one year as prinrtpii it Parrtsh Junior High before moving up' io ne assistant superintendent post in 1954. He has held that position since, for s time carry ? ing the full load of the superin V leaaeney during illness last year - . oi ur. onyaer. During his term as assistant Schmidt has been coordinator for text book selection and headed eunteulum itudy in addition to "e"H responsicie lor idmlnistrs- tion of all the schools. In the past year he has devoted consid erable- of- bis time, to workinf ,. with school principals livouga out the system and oa bond and budget matters of the district field Narrowed Schmidt's appointment came it a regular meeting oi the Salem School Bow'J and on the motion of Member Gardner Knapp. Ear lier the board had narrowed tho field of applicants and candidates to three before reaehke its da- ' clsion apparently, Thursday. , Naturally I am wry pleased." ' Schmidt told, the board, "and I . will try in every way to Justify your confidence." Speculation had given the .. young educator the inside track for the position since Dr. Snyder announced his plans to give up the post for less demanding em phyment on the staff of Oregon College of Education. Oregon Native Schmidt is an Oreion native. born in Portland March 6, 1911 He attended grade and high schools in Portland and then graduated from OCE before win. ning his degrees from the Uni versity of Oregon. He coached and Uught at Coos Bay for five years and was elementary school principsl there before moving to" Colin Kelly Junior High in Eu gene ss assistant principal and coordinator of Junior high ath letics for the Eugene district He served one year ss principal of Pendleton Senior High School before coming to Salem seven years ago. The new superintendent and i hi wH. Verns Mae have two I01"" trong ties to the Salem aaugnier larolyn is a fifth grader at Englewood School and ton Steven is in the first grade at Hoover. (Additional School Board news on page 32, section I.) pay yotfJ fop J Multnomah Employes ' ct.n, beginning juiy j. . ... ,. . . J"1 ',1 Jj" ' tha" 15 month for 'auu or"' 1000 V S StateSRIOII I i"vmM Page Sec. Babson Report 34. til Business Page 34 III : Classified 35-37 . .Ill Comes the Dawn ... 4.... I Comics 43.-.IV Crossword 4J....IV Editorials 4.... I Food 23-31 ...III Home Panorama 17-19 II Markets 34....III Obituaries 34. ...Ill Radio, TV 42.IV Sports 39-41.. ..IV Star Caier 6.... I Valley News ....20, 21. II Wirephot Page -43JV
