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KEIZER After H months of prospecting and claim developing, Kelser .
geologist Lester Johmoe Friday w preparing U ifaip first lrt
Uad of ranium-eonUlnini are la Alomir Energy Camminioa re-'
reiving Italian at Sail Lake City, I'tah. Johnsoa aaid be la fhipping
half ton of are similar la that in bos. Ore wai atrip mined in YVilhoit
Springs area near Molalla. (Statesman Photo) '
City May Levy Full
$35,000 Parks Tax
Budget Coiiimillrc Studies Shift
From Partial Figure of $20,000
Br ROBERT E. GANG-WARE
City Editor, The Statesman.
Salem's City Budget Committee may change its mind and levy the
nlire $35,000 park maintenance tax approved by voters, it appeared
Friday.
The budgetmakers agreed last Monday night to levy only $20,000 of
he tax, but since then park supporters have been making the point
hat the voters must have intended the city to spend the whole amount
DtF
mum
Another multimillion dollar
merger in Pacific Coast forest in
dustries is in the makings Major
owners of stock in Hammond Lum
ber company have given an option
on their shares at $310 each to
Georgia Pacific corporation, and
minority holders are to be oflered
the same price. The outlay for all
the stock would run to just under
?80 million.
Here we fiave another example
rf consolidation of big units in
lumbering Others which are pend
,ng are the purchase of M 4 M
Woodworking Co. by Simpson Log
ging Co. of Puget Sound and of
Long Bell Lumber Co. by Interna
tional Paper Co.
Georgia Pacific has been aggres
sive in its expansion since its ad
ont to the Pacific Northwest in
n-17. Founded in 1927 as Georgia
Hardwood Lumber Co. it has en-
aced in business in five southern
tales. Its carlv venture in the
'lorthwest was to acquire plywood
nhnts at Bellingham and at Olym-
ia In 1952 it purchased the mill
pnd timber lands of ('. D. Johnson
Co. at Toledo. In 1954 it bought
nut Iisman-Poulsen with mill at
Portland and timberlands in Polk
Lincoln counties, also timber of
Western Logging and Saginaw
Timber Co. in same vicinity. Later
Rlyth & Co. bought and afterwards
turned over to Georgia Pacific the
big timber holdings of Oregon Mes
ahi (Boring interests' in Lincoln
county. The fast growing company
announced plans earlier this year
for building a kraft mill at Toledo
(Continued oa editorial pagr 4.)
State Road Log
Hauling Banned
On Saturdays
Hauling of lots nn Saturday aft
ernoons on state highways will be
banned from now through Sept. 8.
State Highway Department offi
cials announced Friday.
This policy has been in effect in
previous years. Hauling on Sun
days also is prohibited throughout
the year. During the week, logs
can be hauled from 4 a.m. to 8
p m.
WILBERT
"Ah, Dad, stop being an eld
"grouch onTTet us watch yevT
leepl'
, on parks.
The park levy, as an annual tax
of $.15,000, was approved last week
at the polls by a scant margin of
2 votes. When the City Budget
Committee met early this week,
members were divided on whether
to levy the tax because some con
sidered it was intended mainly for
additional maintenance costs if a
$700,000 park bond issue permitted
purchase of new parks. However,
the bond issue was voted down.
Offaci Expense
Budget committeemen comprom
ised by deciding to levy $20,000, of
which about $H.50O would offset
this year an expense outside the
park budget but marked for pur
chase of land adjacent to Wallace
Marine Park.
By Friday, however, many bud
get members were reconsidering
their action.
Alderman Clayton W. Jones,
park budget subcommittee chair
man, said his committee had met
again and decided to once more
recommended that the entire $35.
000 be levied for park improve
ment use. and that the riverside
park addition be purchased as ori
ginallv planned.
Priority List
Jones, who is a member of the
Parks Advisory Board, said the
parks department had on ils prior
ity list many improvements of
present parks for which the $35,000
would go "Even if the bond issue
would have passed," he said, ' the
nw parks wouldn't have been far
enough along within a year to re
quire maintenance funds raised by
the special lax."
Jones also said his committee
would recommend an additional
salary increase for Parks Superin
tendent Walter Wirth, above the 5
per cent raise earlier authored.
The budget committee will meet
at 7:30 p m. Monday in City Hall.
Recount Asked in
Vote on E-K Site
PORTLANQ i.H-A petition filed
by Jack Clenaghen. Portland ad
vertising executive. Friday asked
a recount of last week's close vote
on the city's proposed eight-million-dollar
snorts center.
The vole decided whether to
plate the center on the east or
west side of the W illamette River
here. The preliminary count
showed the east side won by a
margin of about 1.500 votes in a
total of 127.000 voles
(ov. Smith Pays
Parking Ticket
PR1NKVILLE 'Jfl - Gov. F.lmo
Smith received an overtime park
ing ticket while speaking at a
Kiwanis Club luncheon here
Thursday. The governor paid up
promptly.
He stopped here to make the
talk while en route to his home
at .John Day.
NORTHWEST I.EAfil'R
At Spokane 7, Salrm S
A1 Kiimiw S. Trl-Citv 4
At Yakima 7, Wenatchee 2
PACIFIC (OAST I.EAOt'K
At Portland to, San Dieso 2
At t.oj Aneelfn 6. Scallle 0
At Han Franrisro 5 Holhwnnd 11
At Vancouver 1-3. S.li'ramentn 11-4
NATIONAL I.EAOl'E
At New York d. Brooklyn 5
At Philadelphia 5. Pittsburiih S
At Milwaukee 5. Cincinnati 8
At St Leuli S. ChK-afo 1
AMERICAN I.EAdl'E
At Baltimore 2 Nr w Ynrk :n
At Boston ti, Washington 10
At Detroit 1, Kansas City S
School
Budget
Okehed
Narrow Margin
Of 411 Votes
Brings Victory
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR.
SUff Writer, The Statesman
Salem school district voters,
turning out in surprising num
bers Friday, gave the 1956-57
operating budget approval by a
narrow 444-vote margin. Final
official count was 2.282 to 1,838.
At stake in the election at 17
school precincts was $1,629,316.27
over the six per cent limitation
needed to balance a total school
district budget of $5,070,899.75
It totals up to a $3,360,583 tax
bill for the taxpayers in two
counties and will add an estimat
ed 7.1 mills to their assessments.
Only 6 of the 17 district pre
cincts had overall negative votes
on the budget, but yes votes held
only narrow margins in several
others. Leading the opposition
was Highland School which often
votes against school issues and
which was recently involved in a
dispute between a group of par
ents and the school administra
tion. Against Budget
Joining Highland against the
budget Hem were voters at
Grant. Richmond, Garfield and '
Roberts schools and at the School
Administration office. Except for
Roberts they represent areas of
older people who have few ch
dren still in the schools.
Leading the favoring count
were voters of Morningside area
who approved the budget 271 to
94. Top vote was at Leslie Junior
High School with a total of 504
of which 303 were in favor. j
Narrowest Margin
It was the narrowest margin
for a school budget in many years I
a.-d apparently rellected the at- j
titude of voters a week ago in
rejecting several city bond issues.
Last year's school budget won bv
a comfortable 1,344 to 89! mar-i
gin, but the amount over the six
per cent, limitation was a consid-;
erably smaller $1.166,809 39.
Bulk of the increase in school
operating costs over last year is
attributed to boosts in salaries for
both teachers and classified work
ers of the district. Nearly half a
million dollars of the increase in
the total budget went to pay in
creases The Precinct votes were:
Yes
No
1X3
105 -178
177
154
Ifi7
201
94
57
5
79
.1.1
92
111
46
4fi
28
1.838
Total
286
289;
29i:
371 ;
277 ,
316
504
365.
163
234
200
117
202
198
79
141
87 ':
4.120
Highland
Washington
Grant
Knglewood
Admin Bldg
Richmond
Leslie
Morningside
Four Corners
West Salem
Keizer
Hayesville
North High
Garfifld
Roberts
Liberty
Brush College
Totals
103
184
'113
194
123
149
303
271
106
149
121
4
110
85
3.1
95
59
2.182
U. S. Fighters
Match for
Russ Bomber9
WASHINGTON - An Air
Force general told Congress Fri
day the best I'. S. fighters now
in operation could not cope with
the Bison, Russia's newest jet
bomber, in a "suicide" attack on
this country.
Gen Karl E. Partridge, chief
of the continental air defense com
mand, said the F86, F89 and Ki4
"have inadequate altitude per
formance In cope with the Bison,
provided the Soviets should decide
to sacrifice their aircraft by em
ploying one-way tactics.''
However." he hastened to add
in an appearance before a Senate
armed services subcommittee,
"the introduction of new aircraft
and weapons is remedying this
deficiency both in speed and in
altitude."
Swimming Pool Urged
For City YW Building
A citizen's committee recom
mended Friday that the Salem
YWCA board hire an architect to
design a swimming poo wing and
otherwise to go ahead with plans
for a YW pool.
Committee members who have
been studying the possibility re
ported at a general session Friday
that there appears to be a need for
another Salem indoor pool, even
though the YMCA also is planning
a second pool for its new building.
Mrs. William Crothers, YW pres
ident, conducted the 17-mcmber
committee in ils consideration of
the pool issue Friday.
When the YW built its new build
ins, it had to put aside temporar--ifv--'frrr-i4anf-afluupQQl
i wing that would occupy the YW
Dies at 101
I .. . 7'Iy
GATES Lewis T. Heeees. Ml,
who died Friday at his country
home near Gates, (Statesman
Photo.)
Death Claims
Century-Old
Gates Pioneer
Statesman Newt Servlrt
GATES Ranks of the valley's
century-old residents were thinned
Friday with the death of Lewis
Theodore iT) Henness, oldest resi
dent in the North Santiam coun
try. He was lOl.
Henness died Friday morning
at the family home between Gates
and Mill City where he lived with
a daughter, Mrs. Lillie Lake.
Henness was born Sept. 29, 1854,
on a donation land claim between
Slayton and Mehama. When he
was 10, he moved with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Henness
to this area. He had lived on the
same property ever since.
His parents had come to Oregon
from Iowa in 1852.
A farmer, trapper and woods
man in his active days. Henness
often regaled residents of the area
with his tales of hunting game
with a muzzle-loading rifle in early
days when he made his own bul
lets. He had 36 cougars to his
credit.
Services will be held at 2:30
p.m. Monday at First Christian
Church in Mill City. Weddle
Chapel, Stayton, is making ar
rangements. (Add. details Page t. See. 1.)
Slot Machine
Seized; Paid
In Golf Balls
Statesman Sm SrrTlre
NKOTSl' A slot machine that
was paying off in golf balls was
seized by stale police at a club
house hrrrFridav .
State Ponce Lt. Farley Mogan
said the slot machine was taken
from the Devils Lake Golf Course
Clubhouse and that William Theo
dore Stirnweis. operator of the es
tablishment, was fined $25 in Taft
Justice Court after pleading guilty
to a charge of operating a slot
machine
Mogan said the slot machine
took quarters and paid off with
I to 20 golf halls. He said it was
the first slot machine arrest in
which state police from Salem had
participated for Iwo years. Sgt.
William Colbert of Newport state
police headquarters accompanied
him.
Area Clouds
On Forecast
Weekend vacationers can expect
clouds and possibly a few showers
today, the McNaiy Field weather
bureau announced
Forecast for today, tonight and
Sunday is for mostly cloudy wea
ther with some sunshine this aft
ernoon. Drizzle or a few very light
showers are possible today.
High today and Sunday is ex
pected to be 70, low tonight 50
Clouds and a little rain are pie
dicted for northern Oregon beaches
this morning. Partial clearing this
afternoon and evening is expected,
tilth Saturday will probably be
60-6.1. the low 45-50.
property extending out to Winter
Street and adjoining the State
Street lot. The main building was
equipped with dressing room and
related facilities that would serve
the poor.
No definite recommendations of
how to finance the pool have yet
been made, but a subcommittee is
working on that phase of the pro
gram. On the committee are-
W. R Metzger, Mrs Bruce Pic
kett, Mrs. Roy Lockenour. Mrs
Harold Elbert, William Hammond.
Dr. Lynn Hammerstad, Dr. May
nard Shifftr. Miss Mary Bowman,
Mrs A D Woodmansee, Mrs. A
A. Schramm. Charles Sprague.
Miss Gertrude Acheson. Mrs Port
jaLJiiaoXJohjBWrHids, Miss
Dons llein and Phillip HawTcyi
Woman Skier Lost
City Sewer,
Water Rates
Hike Studied
Legislation was prepared in City
Hall Friday for raising both the
city water rates and the city sewer
service charge July 1.
These rates would follow plant
under consideration for some time.
Both will appear Monday night be
fore City Council in ordinance
form, with a majority of the
Council as sponsors.
The basic effect on householders
would be elimination of the pres
ent low irrigation rates during the
summer and the increase of the
sewer charge (levies on the water
bills i from 65 cents to $1.
The basic water rate in effect
here 40 years would be unchanged,
but lifting the irrigation rate
'adopted in 1938 and raising large
user rates would produce an esti
mated $90,000 new revenue to be
used in paying off the $3,750,000
bond issue voted Nby the people
last week to finance a new water
supply line from the North San
tiam. .
The sewer service charge in
crease would raise about $50,000 a
year which City Manager J. L.
Franzon says is needed to keep
abreast city sewer construction
work. Councilmen listed as spon
sors of both bills are Mayor Rob
ert F. White and Aldermen E. C.
Charlton, Loring Grier, P. W. Hale
and James Nicholson.
Ike Declares
Union Near
For Europe
WACO, Tex. ( -President
Eisenhower said Friday European
union seems nearer now than in
centuries. He called communism
"a gigantic failure" but said
"even this mighty nation is not
wholly immune" from its threat.
Speaking to 665 graduating sen
iors and 11,000 spectators at Bay
lor University's commencement,
the President said that even
where communism is dominant,
men still dream of the day when
they may walk "fearlessly in the
fullness of human freedom."
The quiet crowd interrupted Eis
enhower twice for applause in his
,10-minute foreign policy address
delivered from a towering ros
trum. A strong breeze from an
unit blew his academic rones
briskly as he spoke, and obvious
ly kept the President cool.
Awarding Eisenhower the hon
orary doctor of laws degree,
Pres. W. H. White of Baylor cited
the President a.', "the leader of
the forces of freedom" in war and
peace.
City Theater
Chief Quits;
Sueecssor Set
Earl V. 'Pete i Junes, manager
of Forman Bros, theaters here, an
nounced Friday that he is leav
ing the theater business to run a
Portland restaurant.
Lloyd Wirtz, manager of the
firm's theaters in Bend for the
past three years, will Teplace
Jones.
Jones has represented Forman
Bros, in Salem since 1953. He
spent 2'j years managing theaters
in Bend prior to moving here.
Jones said he has purchased a
cafe at Park and Washington
streets in Portland. It will be
known as Pete's Farm Style Ham
burgers. Jones plans to sell his Sa
lem home, he said.
Wirtz is not new to the Salem
area. He opened the North Salem
drive-in theater here about eight
vears ago.
Junior Rose Festival
Selei-tions Tonight.
PORTLAND - The queen
and prime minister of the Junior
Rose Festival will b selected Sat
urday night in ceremonies at the
Portland auditorium.
Eiijht grade school girls and
eight boys are candidates.
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Sunday with some sunshine this
afternoon DruJe or a tew very
'i-M sWim rs oosslhle Indav High
both days "0 low tmlght .VI
ii u'uie at 12(11 am. today
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WU Students
U3 f
Willamette senior Waller Wilson
physics department to determine If recent hydrogen bomb testa are producing any radioacUvt "fall
out" la the Salem area, Wilson Is a Salem High School graduate whose work In ahyttct and mathema
tics at WU have won him a graduate asslstantshia) at the University of Wisconsin. So far, air sam
ples taken almost in the shadow o'f Oregon's capital have tailed U Indicate any increase la the lum
ber of radioactive particles here. (Statesman Photo.)
Radioactivity
Affected by
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT Jr.
Staff Writer, The Statesmen
This week's hydrogen bomb blast in the Pacific hasn't produced a
single extra click of the geiger counter in Salem.
In fact, the frequent tests for radio-active "fallout" being conducted
by Willamette University's physics
count has been dropping here since
exploded 10,000 feet in the air over
Students of the physics depart-
ment, under the direction of Dr.
Robert L. Purbrick, are using a
combination of Geiger counter and
scaling circuit to keep track of the
number of radioactive particles in
Salem's air. The scaling circuit is
an electronic "brain" for adding
up the count of the Geiger counter.
Normal Count
But so far Salem has had noth
ing but a nprmal count which Dr.
Purbrick says may all be attribut
ed to cosmic ravs. The mysterious
cosmic rays send the Geiger coun -
ter .clicking at a 45 to 55 per min-;
ute rate without any help from;
nuclear fission or fusion.
And that rate is about the bracket
in which counts of the past four
days have fallen. On Tuesday for
instance, samplings at 3:45 p.m., i
4 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8 pm. showed;
counts of 55 9, 53.3. 50 4 and 49 2.,
Wednesday morning at 11 it was.
down to 43.75; at 1 1 30 it was hack
up slightly to 46.9.
tnursaay s
ciicks were ai aooui we !aine ' 1 the? floor
Fickle Winds j Mrs culbeck, who is in her late
Salem may still be due for some ,30s, left a note to her husband,
"fallout" from the blast, carried1 but did not explain her action,
on the fickle winds which twist Po,jcp (.hi(,f Tom P(lv sajd
back and forth across the Pacific. Mft (.uhrfk look (h(, glrs ol1
Particles could be carried here via ., hrr car nnp a, a mf slrjppcd
surface winds which swirl upi,npm px(,ppt for tnpir panU,
around Japan and Alaska from the kjpd h(,m an(J b h, ,h(,
test area More likely however ,,boriirs bafk , tnc ralPr
thev would be borne on the jet
stream which rushes toward the Shirley was shot four times,
west coast at upwards of 200 miles he "hers twice each.
an hour.
If Salem does get some "fallout,"
Willamette's ' brain" will do some
speedy calculating, the sensitive
mechanisms proved Thursday. A
radium dial wristwatch held an
inch away from the counter had
the "brain" adding at the rate of
3200 a minute. A lump of uranium
ore from the Lakeview strike did
the same
Faster Tune
, It'll have to click a much nu-rrier
tune than that belore anyone starts
worrying about the effects of radio
activity in Salem.
Itadio activity is an old story for
i I)r Purbrick who woiked on the
jManhat'an Project which led In
' the first atomic bomb over a dec
; ade ago.
Current sampling's are not the
first for the Willamette physicists.
Russia's nuclear tests of last win
ter produced negative results also.
Plans for checking on fallout from
earlier tests bv the l;.S lost nut
to a spring drouth a couple of
years aqo.
l)r Purbrick and his students
had taken rainfall samples during
two drenching months before the
tests to serve as a base for any
added radio activity. Then when
the tests came it didn't rain for a
whole month, wasting all the prep
Watching for H
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walchea electronic brail daring
in Salem Not
Nuclear Tests
department shows that the activity
Monday, the day the H-bomb was
Bikini Atoll
Mother Slays
3 Daughters,
Tries Suicide
LAKE WALES, Fla. I A
woman described as a "model
mother" killed her three daugh
ters Friday, placed them care-
i fully in their beds, then fired two
pisioi ouneis inio ner own nreasi.
Mrs. Lorene Culbeck, in critical
condition in a hospital, told
patrolman S, I). Bcttpn that she
killed her children, Shirley, 5,
Pamela, 3, and Jan.J, but refused
t Kjve a reason. Doctors said she
j, not expcctcd to live,
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trailer home at 1:30 a. m. and
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Salem Nut Co-op May
End Cooperative Status
By I.II.LIF. I.. MADSF.N
Farm Kditor. The Statesman
The Salem Nut Cooperative on
2H28 Cherry Ave may not operate
as h cooperative alter this sum
mer, according to tilenn llans
bcrry, manager. The cooperative
was incorporated at Salem in l!i'24.
There will be a meeting of the
cooperative membership Thursday
night at 8 pm at the VFW htil
at Salem, at wbich time a resolu
tion will he presented asking that
authority he granted In the board
nf directors fo rem the rtaiTt -if
deemed adviseable
Tlans being considered are to
rent the plant to a larger independ
ent concern. The cooperative mem
bership will be asked to stay to
gether under the prcsrnt market
ing contract for collective market
ing and also lor collective drying,
the manager explained
The move tu rent the plant is
sanctioned by the board of direct
ors, llanshcrry said Thursday,
adding thai thriur:h this new plan
the board would hope l rctne in
debtedness nf the cooperative, gn
in g the growers a possibility of
on Mt.
- Bomb Fallout
period teats at the University's
11 Injured as
Figdt Flares
At GM Plant
FLINT. Mich. Ml A jurisdic
tional dispute among craft unions
over the right to install machin
ery in an auto plant flared Fri
day into a wild, bead-cracking
baule in suburban Grand Blanc.
Eleven men were Injured and
two of them were listed in a cri
tical condition at Flint hospitals.
Before order was restored,
Genesee County Sheriff Don H.
Carmichael put in an emergency
call for state troopers. They
rushed with riot guns to the Fish
er Body division plant of Gener
al Motors Corp.
The plant is now bring converted
to civilian production and will
produce automotive body parts.
The AFL craft unionists in
volved in the fight are employes
of Darin and Armstrong Inc., of
Detroit, general contractor, for the
conversion project.
The brawl started when 200 men
invaded . a section of the plant
where machinery was being in
stalled. They carried chains, pipes
and baseball bats. Witnesses said
Ihoy stormed through one section
of the plant and in a few min
utes had cleared the place.
The invaders chased workers
outside into the parking lot. Some
workers fled in their cars, others
scaled tall wire fences to get away
from swinging chains and bats.
Police said many cars were dam
aged. TITO Tt'RNS (4
BKLGRAOK, Yugoslavia iJT
Prrsident Til o was M Fridav,
realizing more net for nuts.
There is no talk of the coopera
tive disbanding, llanshcrry said,
The move is merely one to im
prove financial returns under less
heavy indebtedness
Three directors will be named at
the Thursday night meeting. Dir
ectors whose terms expire are
Miss Kathryn Gunnel), Salem: K.
M Boies, flroiiks, and II. B. Hildc
hrand. Dallas A 1. Page, Jeffer
son, is present chairman of the
hoard.
The cooperative has cleaned out ,
almost all of its l!)") crop. Only
odds and ends of lower grades re-'
mam. llanshcrry reported. Cold
Heather last autumn, besides dam
aging trees, also damaged the
markets, llanshcrry indicated. :
While nut meats epened at SI, con
sidered good, the market slipptd
because buyers were fearful ol
quality of meals which might have
been caught in the treeze. The i
pi it e dropped from 20 to 25 per i
cent during the buying season. i
The nut crop fur the approach
ipg season doesn't look good, said
. llanshcrry . '
Hood
Search Party
Combs Trail
Near Resort
TIMBERLINE LODGE,
Ore.'(AP) Skiing equipment
belonging to t woman lost for
more than 24 hours on the)
slopes of Mt Hood was found
Friday, but the woman herself
till is iTussinf.
She Is Lynn wittier, a secre
tary at this ikiini resort fedn.
She became separated from a
party of other skiers in Thurs
oay's afternoon fog. . .
Searcher combed Umt area
through Thursday night and oa
Friday morninf found her trail ia
the snow. She apparently had
walked ttowa a canyon, out of the
snow and had abandoned her ikiii
and sat poles.
Plaae la Search
An airplane equipped with
power microphone (lew aver the
steep walled eaayoa Friday. The
Forest Service said H was hoped
the woman would be seen by the
plane and then given directions
from the air ts follow the canyoa
floor to a highway.
The temperature In the ares
Thursday night fell to 30 degrees.
The woman was reported clad ia '
warm ski clothing.
The search was to continue
through the Right.
Miss Wattier ts tt years old. She
came from St. Paul, Minn., to visit
the lodge earlier this year ss a
guest and while here applied hsf
a Job. She returned to St. Pd
and three weeks later was offered
the post of secretary. Her par
enta since have moved to Briston,
S.D.
II Starr hen Set
A crew of M searchers, Includ
ing foresters, s skiing group and
u members of the Mountain Res
cue and Safety Council were to
set exit early Saturday to comb a
six square mile area In the region
where Miss Wattier Is believed to
be lost Bloodhounds also will be
used. ,
. Those who followed her trail
rnuaj saiu inai ai one ume an
was within MO yards of the Mt
Hood Loop Highway on the soutl
side of the canyon.
Electricity
Stops Heart
In Surgery
NEW YORK W Use of s low
voltage electric shock to stop the
heart during heart surgery was
announced Friday by a group of
Brooklyn doctors. A mechanical
heart took over the heart's func
tion. Human hearts have bees
stopped before for an operation,
but this was believed to be the
first time it was accomplished
with electricity.
The surgery ended, a high-voltage
shock started the heart best
in again. The patient wa an 11-year-old
Brooklyn girl, born with
a hole in an inner wall of her
heart.
The operation to repair the bole
was performed by doctors of the
state university college of medi
cine. It was pronounced a success.
Rogue Hides
Boater's Fate
Searchers found no trace Friday
nf Phil Johnson, Salem man who
was swept away from his com
panions by the roaring Rogue
River Wednesday high in the
Coast Range mountains.
The hunt by state police, sher
iff's deputies and State Board of
Aeronautics search and rescue
planes will continue today, al
though the entire river from its
mouth at Gold Beach to the scene
of the accident. 75 miles northeast,
has been covered, Curry County
Sheriff R. G. Sabin said.
Johnson's wile, Mrs. Betty John
son, returned to Salem Friday, as
did his companions on the daring
attempt to buck the current from
Cold Bead' to G' tn"
Charles Mills and Richard F.
Chambers, and Chambers' wile,
who had accompanied Mrs. John
son to Grants Pass and Gold
Beach after receiving word her
of the accident.
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