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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather MRr.r4.ST ((raw I'. I. wtatfcst sumta, McNary 114, Sal: Cloudy tntt morning, beeomiS pailljr cloudy thia adernnon ana Ww nihl; tnrrratlnl cloudi-i-is WedfV- day. A little armr wun th hiCI today and Wedneaday M and tht to tomiht 4J I ex sat at an at 11 a. a. today aa . salcm nrrfftTATToy liars a tart al Weataer leaf Seat. 1 Tata Taar Ua Taat Normal M.JI 11.11 Nil H ft tVtwts of OraM FOUNDS D 1651 106th Year 1 SECTIONS-U PACES The Orepon Statesman, Salem,, Oregon, Tuesday, Juna S, 1956 PRICI U Na. 70 Vacation-Bound Children Carry Remnants of Years' Work Clveir LeveDBinig ffff aft jPoLrainid " i , ! V fi 7 HF Stewart Holbrook gave the wests at the forum luncheon of lie chamber of commerce a re freshing and informative talk Mon day. His latest book is on the Columbia River but in his talk he directed attention to the portion of the river in Canada. That is where events of interest and importance to citizens of both countries lm- The high water in the Columbia! ana lis great irmutary, ine rvuu tenai, revives concern over flood control for which the greatest po- i t a Columbia and the Kootenai, inter-' ference with their flow above the entry into either country comes under the jurisdiction of the Inter national Joint Commission com posed of three members each from Canada and the United States. This body has not been able to agree , , !- J'T-' principal of Silverton High and at different sections of the Schoo, ,h , , Columbia in Canada. Because of ; M d , M wasHo(ferpd the su. the international character of theL r u i u on river aciopiacm. . mmii j f one ,uprirltendent announcement was made that dip- both th hIlIlllrhooI a(ld lomatic discussjons at state de-, partment level will be started y, ,,,., ,, ,.. if, n i. .... r .i. !intendent8 post was left open Xllc A? rZnL Xh'bv resignation of Dr. Howard ir l. ?L ,orfS HnnH.rv iBa'tone, who has taken a cross the international boundary. ... . ,. , Senator Neubergcr. who has born Poslll0n ln Ashland. engaged in a running feud with Baum, a graduate of Willam- Len Jordan, chairman of the U S. ' eUe University, has been in the side of the commission, had rec- Silverton system for seven years. ommended moving the negotiations He served as an athletic coach from the commission level, which for a time. is purely advisory, to the policy- making departments. Neubcrgor has been at odds with Jordan since I -r I-t ot4.a01l the latter, former governor of -LillllV U"LlU ttIl irantlnued on editorial nate. 4.) Today's Statesman Page Sec. Classified 14-15 II Comes the Dawn ... 4 I Comics 4 I Crossword 14 II Editorials 4 I Home Panorama ... 6 I Markers 13 II Obituaries 7 I Radio, TV 13 II Sports 9-10 II Star Gaier 6 I Valley News 8 I Vermont Page 11 II Wirephoto Page .12 II WILBERT it- cm It wii the last day af classes far Salem School kidi Monday, and happy or tad, It meant that they had to cart home a year'i accumulation of achool "stuff." Shown leaving Buih School Monday afternoon with their anna loaded are (left to right) Margaret O'Day, Janet Krauie, Laurence Ireraon and Noreen Corey. (Statesman Fhoto by John Ericksen). (Picture alto on page J, see. ).). Reds Being Told That Death Blocked Stalin From Purge WASHINGTON on - Communists throughout the world are being told that only death there was a hint it waa murder stopped Joseph Stalin from launching another bloody purge of Soviet leadera. This waa the import of a newly circulated version of Soviet party bosi Nikita Khrushchev's sensational secret speech at Moscow Itt months ago, together with the speculation it is stirring among Ameri Baum Offered O 1 1 T) . oCllOOl I OSl At SilvCrtOll Statesman Newt Service SILVERTON Milton Baum, k, j:c,.;, ,j ,j. J: trict 4C. Baum asked time to consider the offer and indicated he will reach a decision some time this week. The offer to Baum was made mfmbcrs vote(j , con(lnue the Al , Fublic Aim of Meet A link between the new Air Force base locating near Salem and the surrounding communities, including Salem, may be formed today at a meeting called by Sa lem Chamber of Commerce. For liaison between the military and the cities, the Air Force has recommended coordinating com millees of civilians. Wilh this in mind, a committee is called tocether by Klton H. Thompson, industrial chairman for Salem Chamber of Commerce, lo study what might be done so Sa lem and area are prepared to meet the problems incident to the establishment of a large base near by. The committee will meet at noon today, said Thompson. Cm it are Salem Mayor Robert T. White, Gervais Mayor Rex J. Cutsforth, Woodburn Mayor Thomas L. Work man, County Judge Rex Hartley, County Health Officer W. J. Stone, ManaginT Editor Wendell Webb of The Statesman, Manager Stanley Grove and President Klmer Berg of the chamber. JUST LIKE IT SOUNDS DETROIT of - Hmayag Ckat schalyrjaa Monday asked prohate Judge J a mm Sextos U change kii natiovai, l.EAni'E name to Hmavag. Khaehatoaria At Milwaukee o. Br-okl.vn .1. . 4.U-. ' At St Lnun II. New York S because "its limpler to peH.ilnr,mi,,,( , Ph,,ri,lpn,, , judge." r can officials. The State Department made public this 25,000-word version which it said "is understood to have been prepared for the guid ance of the party leadership of a Communist Party outside of the USSR. Document Unveiled That was all the department had to say except that it was releasing the document in response to quer ies and: "The Department of State does not vouch for the authenticity of the document and in releasing it intends that the document speak for itself." Khrushchev's hours long speech. delivered in private to the 20th party congress at Moscow during the night of Feb. 24-25, was the major blow in the Kremlin's down-with-Stalin move. This move had begun with a moderate de emphasis of Stalin only 10 days after his death March 5, 1953. Known by Press Much of what Khruschev said in the speech already had trickled out in the world's press. The So viet publications have put out bits and pieces, as have the satellite press. The version made available Monday pictures Stalin as a ruth less murderer of millions, a ty rant who spurned all genuine ad vice, a vain man who rewrote history with himself as the hero, a military dunce who destroyed the Soviet officer corps through purges and Soviet soldiers through useless mass attacks, a pessimist in the face of Nazi Germany's attack on Russfa, a leader who completely lost touch with his peo ple and shortly before he died a schemer getting ready to wipe out sucn hoviet leaders as V. M. Molo tov and Anastas Mikoyan. Snow Falls at Crater Lake KLAMATH FALLS ( - Motor ists wera advised to use tire chains for travel in parts of Crater Lake Notional Park Monday. Four inches of snow fell Sunday night and early Monday, bringing the snow depth to 70 inches. The depth a year ago was 48 inches. NORTH WRST LEAGUE At Saltm 10, Yakima 17 110 Innlnaa) At Lewiaton Wtnatcht?, rain. At Spokane t. Tn-Clty S. PAfiriC COAST I.EAOIE At San Diego 1. Portland S At Hollvwood 7 Vancouver 0 At Sacramento 5. Ln Angeles I. Only gamea acheduled. AMMIfAN I.EAGl'E At Waahmgton 0. Cleveland 7. At Baltimore 4. Chicago 13. Only gamea acheduled. Only lamn acheduled. 0 ; ! a' a ' "" ' aN' 1'Y. - 1 n Incentive Incentive Not Just Double Talk PORTLAND m Arnold- L. Lyalo received a $100 incentive award from the Bureai of Indian Affairs Monday for doing a good job of urging others to improve efficiency. For the past two years Lyslo has headed the bureau's incentive award committee. Polk Farmer To Enter Plea Stateiraan Newa Servlre DALLAS Bayliss Gilbert Fan ning, Polk county farmer charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of his wife, is slated to enter plea on June 18. Fanning, indicted by a Polk County grand jury Friday on a charge of slaying his wife. Mar garet, 41, at their Ballston farm on May 20, was arraigned before Polk Circuit Judge Arlie Walker on Monday. Through his attorney, Frank Marsh of McMinnville, the prom inent 57-year-old farmer asked for extended time to consider a plea. Judge Walker set the June 18 date. Fanning is being held in Polk County jail without bail. Gouds Remain, But Without Rain Varying degrees of cloudiness over the next 48 hour will not necessarily bring rain in any ap preciable amounts, McMary Field weathermen said. And, sheltered by the threaten ing clouds, berry pickers will work in temperatures still cool, but warmer than Sunday or Mon day. The high today is expected lo be about 68, compared with Monday's 61, and Wednesday is expected to be about the same as today. Lamkin Sentenced to 5 Years At State Pen for Embezzlement Walter S. Lamkin, Salem attor ney and confessed embezzler, is in Oregon State Prison today facing a five-year term following sen tencing in Marion County Circuit Court Monday. Lamkin was charged specificial ly with "converting to his own use" about $1,100 of a client's funds. He pleaded guilty to this charge. But a pre-sentence report brought into court Monday by Dis trict Attorney Kenneth Brown in dicated Lamkin was some $83,000 in debt. A substantial portion of this amount indicated embezzled funds of other clients. Brown said, lost mostly in unproductive speculative ventures. Judge Frank Lonej-gan of Port land, who sentenced the 50-year-old attorney, admitted it was "not a pleasant duty1 to do so." "But," he said, "there should be no special rule for lawyers in court. Attorneys, because of their I position, should be held tn an even greater degree of responsibility than laymen." State Parks Expansion Plan Approved PORTLAND (Jl The Oregon Highway Commission, opening its two-day June meeting here Mon day, approved a five-year expan sion of the state pafk system which will cost more than 2 mil lion dollars. Of the total. $1,307,000 was ear marked for construction and de velopment of the parks and $740.- 000 for building roads and parking areas. C. H. Armstrong, state park superintendent, discussed the increased public usage of the parks. The highway commission opened bids on 28 construction projects at the morning session and award ed bids on most of them Monday afternoon. The bids totaled more than 2U million dollars. Commission engineers reported that the state is not getting the money it should from fines on overloaded trucks. The report also said Oregon's highways are being damaged as the overloading be comes progressively worse. The commission said the engi neers' report will be forwarded to the Legislature's Interim Commit tee on Highways. The report showed that in 50 overload viola tions only $4,860 of $24,872 in fines levied had been collected. Most of the fines are being suspended by justices of the peace, the com mission reported. It said this was counter to an opinion from Atty. Gen. Robert Thornton, who ruled that justices have no authority to suspend fines. Hickenlooper Wins Iowa Senate Test DES MOINES (IV- The Re publican primary opponent of Sen. B. B. Hickenlooper of lowa Mon day night conceded victory to the Senator with the words, "the farmers have shown that they are happy. Dayton Countryman, 38-year-old Iowa attorney general, admitted defeat when returns from nearly half the states 2,515 precincts gave Hickenlooper a lead of 75,737 to 35,839. Suggested Farm Plan Hickenlooper had supported Eis enhower administration policy for flexible farm price supports. Countryman pledged himself for high, rigid farm price props. He also had criticized Hickenlooper 's vote for the natural gas bill. "You are now much stronger for the November election con gratulations," Countryman said in a midnight message to Hicken looper. The Senator is seeking a third term. Wilcox Nominated The top Democratic races also wound up rapidly. At midnight, Lumund Wilcox, young attorney, conceded that R. M. (Spike) Evans, former Federal Reserve Board member, had won the Dem ocratic Senatorial nomination, sent his congratulations to Her- schel Loveless, former Ottumwa mayor, who was Plummer's dem ocratic gubernatorial primary op ponent. The Weather Max. Mln. arer . l J .11 SALEM Portland Baker Medford s.i .51 . 01 4D 40 45 47 4S 51 5.1 sa North Bend Roseburg San Franctaro ..... ...59 ...SO ...Hi Chicago to so New York 75 Willamette River 1 feet The jurist said the prison sen tence would wipe out some of the legal responsibility to restitution but would never erase the "moral obligation." The court also noted that the voluminous pre-sentence investiga tion report revealed that Lamkin's activities began in 1949, which mean that the statute of limitation nullified a number of potential cases. Lamkin, represented in court by his attorney. Walter Winslow, showed no outward emotion as he heard the sentence pronounced. Slightly more than an hour later j Memorial Hospital Monday night he was admitted to the state .with serious burns he said he re prison. jceived on going to sleep with a Th. nrr,min..nt .Itnrnrv u. In. dieted April 20 following an in- ifctioatinn hv thr Hltrlf-t altnr vrniiKaunn o inr oisirn i iior- neys oflice. which was touched oil by a prior probe hy .Marion LOlinty , . K .. . , ana Mate rsar omciais. The state supreme court has he- fore it now a recommendation hy the Oregon Stale Bar that Lamkin I be Brrmancntly disbarred. Contract Let for 12th Street Widening-SP Track Project A bid ef $16.K7 Monday re sulted In awarding of Salem's 12th Street improvement project to Warren Northwest eentractiag llrm ef Portland. Contract was awarded by Ike State Hlxhway Commlsslaa which opened bids sa the project earlier in the day. The city of Salem will contri bute balk of ttitaeys toward tht constructloa on the strength of a $200,000 bond Issue approved two years ago by voters. A sum be lieved near $5t,eoo will be con tributed by the State Highway Commission. The Job, comprising gradiag, paving and widening from t'nlan $70,000 -$90,000 of Brink's Loot Found Behind False Wall of Basement in Boston BOSTON i The FBI and Boston police in a swift raid on the sub basement of a Boston 1 papers and plastic bags in a c loo rooming house Monday seized; et. Sixteen packages of bills of what they said was between $70 000 and $90,000 of the $1,218,000 stolen in the fabulous Brink's rob bery of January, 1950. The agents reported they had Adlai, Estes on Ballot Today In California By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS California Democrats choose Tuesday between Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver, and their decision may go a long way In deciding who runs against Pres ident Eisenhower ln November, The 68 Democratic national con vention votes at stake tn Califor nia's Presidential preference pri mary amount to roughly one tenth of the S88H total needed to select the party's nominee. As of Monday night, political assayers in the state said Steven son seemed to have an edge, a judgment disputed by the sup porters of the senator from Ten nessee. Kefauver said at Los Angeles he expects to win by 185,000 votes. Stevenson s National campaign manager, James F. Finnegan, predicted his man would win by 200,000. Stevenson backers have been saying that a win Tuesday in Cali fornia would just about clear the way to another Presidential nom ination at Chicago in August. Kefauver, in saying he expects to win, remarked that tbe loser would suffer "a very severe set back" that would greatly diminish chances of coming back later. Stevenson said he felt "quietly confident." About two million of the state's 3.059,873 registered Democrats are expected to vote. The polls close at 9 p. m. EST except in San Francisco where they will be open an hour later. Long ballots may be expected to slow the count. FallingBucket KO' Sewer Ditch Worker A Salem City Sewer Department employe struck by a falling power shovel bucket Monday was knock ed unconscious but apparently not seriously injured. John M. Konkle, 2034 N. Fourth St., said he had a "stiff neck" Monday night but planned to be hack on the job today. He credited the "tin. hat" he was wearing for saving him from serious injury in the accident about 2:30 p.m. at Wallace Road and Glen Creek Drive. The half-yard bucket, weighing with its boom about two tons, drop ped on him when an operator's muddy boot slipped on the brake pedal, he said. Fortunately, the glancing blow on his round hat knocked him aside while the buck et fell lo the ground and mashed Knnkle's hand shovel, unbroken, into the earth. Burned Man Hospitalized A transient was taken to Salem Clgarei in niS nana Salem police and first aidmen ..t.l..J ...u. u nn ...k IIUUIHTJ Wlllll llir lllflll. WIHI Rav. his name (iordon Chapman Tu(ton staRKrrrd jn(n a South ' r .:,. ti,.,.i .k,.l.. WIIIIIHIVIDI Lllliri l.tTIII U, af((r 0 p m gn(j asl(((j (or l)(,p They found the right side of his body and his richt hand cuvned with what appeared to be third I degree burns, they said. to aa .81 af a mile stretch from Union lo Bellrrae streets. Is ex pected t gel aader way soon, with completion planned by the middle of September, A sepsrate contract will be made later for widening of the Sheltoa Ditch bridge sa 12th near Oak Street. Financing of alreet lights far the street improve ment Is expected to cam eat af the city budget. Tht highway commission rail ed for bids tn the Salem project because 12th Street It a part el Silver Creek Falls Highway and since the state had agreed to share expeases with the eily and to knock down a false wall to get to the money stored in old news- high denomination were found in wrapped newspapers and eight in the plastic bags Two men were arrested and taken to police headquarters for questioning. - One of the pair Edward A. (Whimpy) Bennett, 38, of Wey mouth, was booked Immediately on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact in the Brink rob bery. Police said Bennett is a con victed bookie. The second man Joseph F. Buccelli, 41, of Brookline was booked on the same charge sev eral hours later. The FBI said Bennett, waa nabbed when he appeared at the Tremont St. rooming house while agenta had It staked out. Buccelu was picked up later. Several False Walla Police said the sub basement where the money was seized housed several commercial firms and there were several false walls in the basement The rolls of newspaper packages and the plas tic bags were stored ia an old ice cooler, Agents indicated that the Infor mation which led to the raid came irom Jordan Perry Jr., SI, Bos ton stone mason, who was arrest ed Sunday night in Baltimore with what the FBI described as U 635 ot Brinks money in his posses sion. Others Held Ten others are in custody in Boston in connection with the robbery of the money transporta tion firm. The robbery the nation's lar gest cash haul was pulled off oy a group of Halloween masked and armed gunmen who used false keys to get through several locKeo doors to the money count ing room. There they trussed several mon ey counters and guards, stacked the loot in big bags and carted it off in a truck. Six Years Later The first arrests were not made until six years later when FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover announced the robbery had been solved. Baltimore police said four bun dles of bills found in Perry's down town hotel room bore the same serial numbers as those on the money taken in the Brink's hold up. Perry was picked up after an amusement arcade operator told police a man tried to pass a mouldy, limp and apparently counterfeit $10 at his establish ment. Moved Money About Baltimore police quoted Perry as saying he found the money in the foundation of a Boston house on which he worked two months ago, then buried it in a dump and retrieved it last Saturday. He said he traveled by train; and bus to reach Baltimore Sun- Krieger, a retired building con day after stopping off in Thila- tractor, enlisted at 13 and fought delphia. in Europe when he was 14. Street Widening Results in Cries From Tree Owners Tree clearance preliminary toiprnval at the May 18 election of a Salem street widening program i a SIBfl.OOO bond issue for widen was far enough underway Mon-ling South 12th from Mission day to bring complaints to the J Street to the south city limits. ears of city engineering officials. Several Market Street property owners expressed surprise that trees would have to be removed, On Market from Summer Street east to citv limits, the city is widening by seven feet on each give them an opportunity to I She said the money is only half side. This will take most of the transplant shrubs, smaller trees that which has been spent in re parking strip outside the side- or plants they have put in thelcent weeks by Army Engineers walks, which is part of the street parking strip , "on pure makeshifts" because of right of way. Along Market, 1.16 The streets figuring in the j the impending flood emergency trees will be felled ihond issue were top priority along th lower river. City Kngineer J. H Davis said streets nn the City Council's list j In a letter to Sen. Ellender the removal of shout 40 trees ) of future widening projects rated I D-Lai. chairman of a Senate ap- ! from South !2th Street, which also is being widened, would he ,.n,nl,(.H trtAati U'rtrtr a Inn fr i i, n , . ax... Market Street will follow im- mcdialelv, probably this after , II' "Ml i -rh(, rpp VCirV and other pre-; liminanrv including preparation j fr widrninu bids, were ordered hv the itv Council last week as la result of the city voters' ap-1 with Roathera Pacific Co. Main eeatrlbatiaei of SP has been deaa Man of property along the rente. State Highway Department per sonnel will tapervise the lav provementa, which will include Iselatlea carbs to separate the street tram adjacent 8 main line tracks. The car bo are ex pected to redact anmber ef train. car mishaps slang the resile. Other items In the eaestmctlta will incwde (ran tags reads be tween Center end Ferry streets to provide accost to homes and batiaessea ea the cast aide ef ink Street. Boston police said Perry is an ex-convict who was free on $10,- ooo bail on armed robbery charges in connection with a 17,500 pay roll holdup in East Boston, last September. Mrs. Gene Richards, who owns the house where Perry reported he found the money, said "be worked here all right. It was Hay 5. I think. But tbe business about his finding the money in the foundation, I don t believe that. Court Assures State Control OverPicketing WASHINGTON III Tht Su preme Court, holding states M be "the natural guardians of the pub lic against violence," - ruled M Monday the Taft-Hartley act does not prevent state labor boards from acting against dangerous strike situations. A majority decision written by Justice Reed said tbe state boards may baa mass picketing, we of force and threats of violence by strikers even though . the acts banned may constitute an unfair labor practice and come under the federal law.- The ruling was en an appeal by the United Automobile Work ers from a Wisconsin supreme court decision upholding an In junction against picketing and other union activities during a strike at the Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis., in 1954. In the Wisconsin case, Justice Reed said an act of Congress should not be interpreted as leav ing the states powerless "without compelling directions to that ef feet." Speaking for the dissenters and joined by Warren and Black, Douglas said the decision sanc tions "a precise duplication of remedies which is pregnant with potentialities of clashes and con flicts. Douglas said states "may con trol violence" and "may make arrests and Invoke their criminal laws to the hilt." But to allow them to enjoin union conduct which the Taft-Hartley law em powers the National Labor Rela tions Board to enjoin opens the door "to unseemly conflicts be tween state ana federal agencies, Douglas aaid. Youngest World War I Combat Veteran Dies MIAMI, Fls. on Alphonse Krieger, S3, who claimed to be the youngest American soldier to serve overseas during World War 1 1, died Sunday. He moved her; 'mm Tol( ' yr a8- Market and Fairgrounds Road City Engineer Davis said prop erly owners or residents are bc- ing notified by his aides about the work planned in the street in front of their homes. This will I according to traffic volume. All three projects have been under rnn w i Hf r a 1 1 nn fnr crtm limit v , - .....v. Meanwhile a contract was awarded Monday by the State I Hmhuiv rnmmiiiinn fnr u.iHm. 1 -' ins ,-ind railroad track separa-; threat. tion f the secment of South 12th; "But that argument, in past Street frnm t'nion tn Rellrvue 1 years, has been the very reason Street-. j Details in column 8 onjwe do not have them now," she this page). Emergency Declared at Vancouver Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS River forecasters said Monday; the flooding Columbia River may have reached Its crest is the Port land, Vancouver, Wash., area. At Vancouver the river was al most 12 feet above flood stage. It is expected to star at that level Tuesday and then start a gradual fall for the next five days. . Kondars heavy showers added only moderate amounts of water to the rivers. And this was offset by cooler weather tn the moun tains that slowed the melting of record m snows. ' Worry Akowt IMea Major alike were reported hold ing but officials along lower river points were concerned about a high Pacific Ocean tide that could back up the river and overflow some cf the dikes. Officials of major airlines at the Portland International Airport saia uiey were sitting tight ' lor the present The airport was , der water in the 1948 flood that also wiped out the war housine city of Vanport with the lots of a ooien lives. Evacaate UN Th level ln that flood waa three feet above Monday's high water. aome ljoo persons have evacu , ated the North Portland area where Peninsula Drainage District no, I is located. This included ' householders and a large number of trailer residents. Many persona ; aiso nave left the Multnomah Diking District area. The slow drop along the lower Columbia will exert steady pres' sure against already soft dikes. For the next few days the ques Uon will be whether they will hold. The section around Vancouver was declared aa emergency area - ana county commissioners caBed for state aid to help patrol and manuals me dikes, Two lower Co lumbia levees on river islands broke Sunday, putting more farm land under water." , vvwicwa, aaa aaaauau vtuiauujiau the Columbia River climbed M feet hlffhr.Ha thai nafcaaut . Raia throughout the dlitrfet' caused lncrtssed concert at tht community of Trail. B.C.. whrs two feet of water swirled around homo foundations ia the river front district ' Raising Dikes At Cresten. B.C..) the worst la still to come alone the swollen Kootenay River. About 100 oer. sons have evacuated their homes , and provincial Army Engineers are working to raise tbe dike) levels around the town. The current v northwest floods hava takes three lives, so far, all , young boys. Two died wher a dr burst in Idaho and tbe third drowned In British Columbia. The Seattle Aermy Terminal sent two landing craft to Crime Island in the Columbia near Clatxkania Ore., and picked up 155 Angus cat ' tie last Friday. Rep. Norblad R Ore) requested this after reports that a cattle barge sank with the loss of five animals on Thursday. TMe To Close Read The Lower Columbia River high way probably will be closed at . Westport snd Clatskanie by high tides and high water for the next ' tew nights, State Highway Engi neer R. H. Baldock said Monday. He said Monday night i closure probably would last from 11:39 p.m. to 4 a.m., with 30 inches of ' water expected on the road. He said the closures would last three or four nights, coming an hour later each night. Ships Delayed PORTLAND OH Four mine sweepers of the Royal Canadian Navy were heading down the Wil lamette River Monday on their way to sea after spending two days visiting the port. (Pictara on wirephoto Page) Tenders on the Steel Bridg' tried to open the span to let the vessels go by, but high water had flooded the mechanism and the . bridge wouldn't budge. The span finally was raised with a slow hand mechanism and the mine sweepers continued their voyage. Coming as it did at the morning rush hour the failure caused a Large traffic jam. Dike Fundi Sousht WASHINGTON if) - An appro priation of $300,000 was asked Monday by Rep. Edith Green iD- Ore) to begin advance work on IS Columbia River diking projects. propnations subcommittee which is considering the public works mnnrv hi I fr f.rMn main if ... ... v.v. .. was obvious tha the projects for. which she seeks money can do nnlhino tn thu-art (hit vr'a flryvt - .v.r.. I declared.