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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1956)
-( Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore- Tuc, June 12, 'SS Four named to Nov Lieutenant nanlc on Salom Police Force . . (Sterlet alM M Pate L Salem City Council Monday aijht promoted four polica sergeants te the new pad of lieutenant, took initial steps oo Front Street and Market Street Improvement! and granted a West Salem Bui Co. re quest lor tenrice and (are change . Promoted to polica heutenant were Doa Nicholson, Walter Esplin, Robert Masoa and David Bain. , , Whet .the City Budget Commu te recently increased polica sal aries, the new grada was .estab lished as method td.pay increase lor present sergeants. Under civil service, anly the four existing ser gesnts Would have been eligible ti take examination! lor lieutenant grade anyway. . ; , ' ' ' i Now, the Sergeants get' their promotion , by Council . action, (esving three new sergeant open , ings to be filled from civil serv ice promotion lists.' At present patrolmen are assigned to desk sergeant shifts during the regu lar sergeants" day oft ' Projects aa Agenda '. The Market Street action was a Council declaration of Inten tion to charge property owners lor part of Ike' surfacing of Mir ket Street cut of I lit Street The recently passed street widening bond issue wit de signed to flntnee widening Mar ket Street from Summer Street U to city limit. h Officials found that tbe three block section east of Hit never bsd been paved at property own en" expense, as had been the rest of Market Street Follow ing the general city policy. It was decided to have these ew ers psy for that Tart of the pav "Ing equivalent to cost of a 30- foot-wide Improvement; . jj Imprevemeats.lelped 'Vt'i"V7 Aldermen ' received 'petition from several Front Street busi nesses requesting improvement of the surface of that street from Trade to Marion. The Council was told by City Engineer J. H. Davis that extensive patching already la underway and that a "semi-permanent" improvement . is Justified provided the two railroads will cooperate by improving the track areas. Negotiations with, the rail- , roads was authorized. The West Salem bus changes will Inrluda elimination of Blent service Monday and Friday nights when A Salem maa was charged with higher fares will be charged. Thel disorderly conduct Monday night routine wui be reversea out cover about the tame area as new, At Alderman David O'Hark't suggestion, the franchise term was limited to five years Instead of the balance of the former West Salem 10-year franchise which has an other M yeara t run. , 1 ( mmrUA ' "With aQ the difficulties of1 public transportation systems today, said O'Hsxa. "conditions may develop here to make It undesirable to have that kmc a franchise." ' The Council Initiated annexatiea proceedings for a I.U-acre area abutting east city limits at East Park Avenue, and referred to the Planning Commission another re quested annexation from an area west of Washington School and south of Silverton Road. -J Fairbanks Morse was authorized a contract for three pumps to be used m new Salem sewage pump ing stations, at low bid price of UJM. Also authorized was fUU expenditure, to be matched by the state, for new traftc signal con troller equipment serving nine in tersections. City Manager Franzea aaid the synchronizing equipment was wearing out from heavy traf- He. ' '- Monroe Cheek was reelected to a six-year term on Salem Civil Service Commission. , . ' ' FJnal legislation- was passed for ' an Oregon Electric apur track serv ing American Can Co.4 and for a setback line waiver for a new senw ko station" project - at southwex( corner of. Mission and South Convi merciaL : " --"' r , - -1 Portland Vice Probe to Hear Gty Officials PORTLAND wV-Tuesday'i wit nesses before a grand Jury, now in Its second week of a Portland vice Investigation, will Include the police chief, the .mayor and the district attorney. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, indicating the investigation would continue a long time, said the three officials were not under sub poena but that "letters of Invita tion" had been sent to each by the grand Jury. Ch'ef of Police James Puree", Jr. It to appear at 1:30 a.m., Thornton said. Mayor Fred L. Peterson Is scheduled to testify at 1:30 p.m. and Dist, Atty, William M. Langley at I p.m. . Gov. Elmo Smith named Thorn ton to conduct the investigation and removed Langley from con tact with the grand Jury. That was because tome of the charges printed by The Oregoniaa concern ed the district attorney. v iwo apartment nouse managers appeared before the grand Jury Monday. There were a number of witnesses last week, including re porters whose stories earlier touched off the Investigation, Their stories said that Seattle men had conspired with tome Portia miers to try to set up a vice ring here. 'Peeping' Charge Brought Against Salem Man, 24 (after be waa reportedly seen on a ladder in the alley behind the 400 block North Winter Street He led a pursuer en a two-block chase and then broke away twice before police arrived, police said. The charge waa placed against Thomas W. Barton. M. of 331 S. Winter St. in a Municipal Court warrant issued en a complaint by Beverly Jean Kleoski, 4 N. Win ter St, police said. Bail was set at 1100. ----rt::rji "Miss Klenskffaid the saw Bar- tost on th ladder about t.M p. m. and he was chased, caught and held by Norman James Keppinger, Gervais, a visitor at the bouse. police laid. . TUNIS CHIEF INVITED TUNIS, Tunisia (ft Premier Habib Bourguiba of newly inde pendent Tunisia has been invited by Egypt to attend ceremonies June S3 marking the department of the last British troops from the Sues Canal Zone. Tbe invita tion wu not accepted Immediate ly. , . Pumps Pour Floodwater Into Columbia PORTLAND III Aa emergency pumping system wu rigged Mon day to relieve a threatened dike near the old East Vanport low lands in North Portland. Pumps Monday night were pouring more than U.000 gallons of water a minute back ever the dike and into Columbia Slouch. Army Engineers, diking district workers and county crews worked around the clock Sunday night and Monday to install the pumping system, after a sand "boil' had enlarged and threatened to, weak en the levee. A turret of sandbags was built around the surging "boil" and en gineer! allowed water to rise over to create added weight and slow the underground leak. Tbe dike protects hundreds of acres con taining the Portland Meadows race track and truck gardens in the Vanport area, scene of the 1MI flood disaster that cost a doles lives. This area was causing the most concern along the lower Columbia River, as the stream continued a gradual (all from a peak of nearly 27 feet reached last week. That was almost 13 feet shove flood level at Vancouver. The Monday level was 25 0 feet a drop oi nouis of a loot irom Sunday, Forecasters said K would remain at 2S ( until Thursday when another MOths drop wes, ex pected. Valley Youth Chosen Boys State Officers CORVALLIS - Several Marion and Polk County boys were elected to official posts Monday at the an nual Beaver Boys State, six-day training period oa cititenship spon sored by tbe American Legion. The delegates were divided into five counties and 10 cities. Jim Travis. Independence, wu elected mayor of Helena, Mont Dick Buchanan. Salem, was named to the city council of Salt Lake City and George Gerspacher, Sublimity, was elected to the Seattle city council. 1 Lawrence Wolf, Sublimity, wu named Seattle city recorder. Terry Frost, Stayton. was named to the Phoenix, Arizona council, and Reb ert Kouf, Silverton, it Phoenix towa marshal!. Dr. Harold M. Ericksen. stats health officer, addressed the sec tion Monday afternoon. He said health is the greatest resource M the notion and that this country has lest illness than other parts of tbe world because of better san itation and medical facilities. Miami Test On Bus Ruling Seen in Arrest Auto Crushes . Gresliam Girl ORES H A M II) Helen Fay Charlton, S, stepped an the run ning board of her father's car u he backed it out of the garage Monday. Unnoticed, the child crabbed the door handle. The doer opened and threw the girl under a front wheel, killing ner ouingm. The father. Richard D. Charl ton, told sheriffs deputies he wu not aware the girl wu in the ga rage until he heard her cries. Criv;-ln Th::!r8 SundayMonday Taesday Taut Slept nan" Dick PeweU -. pius "Al Tat Irttken Wart ViflinT B, Taylor 8. Granger Opea 7:15 Start Dusk Hundreds Launch Summer Recreation Slate in Salem (Meters en Page L) Hundreds at Salem children turned out Monday for the opening of the summer reerestion program at school playgrounds and swimming pools. Many waited impatiently for hours for the pools at Olinger and Leslie to opea at 1 p m. Several were waiting outside the gate at I a.m. when he came to turn off the water after letting Leslie Pool fill overnight David L. Putnam, Leslie area director, said. Hank L. Juran, Olinger area di rector, uid one boy was on deck at 7:30 a.m. and "there must have been SO" by 11 a.m. Both pools will opea at 11 a.m. starting to day, except for 1 p.m. openings Sundays. Closing will be a.m. daily. Water Csef at PeeJa Tbe water was cold. It entered the pools at H degrees, W. Vernon Gilmore, city playground director, said. "Nobody stayed in very long," Put asm observed. "They just Jumped- in and climbed right out again.' Attendance was heavy at both pools, though, until the chill of early evening set in. Juran esti mated as many as ISO in Olinger pool at one time. Total attendance was not noted at either pool. About W registered for the sum mer music program Monday morn ing at North Salem High School and a like number at Leslie Junior High School in the afternoon, Roy L. Shelton. music director, esti mated. A third group will register 1 to 3 p m. today at West Salem School. 3S Site for BaW Thirty-live high school students and adults signed up Monday night for a band that will practice 7 lo I p.m. Wednesdays in North Sa lem High School band room start ing June 20. About 50 children, "more than expected," turned out for the first day of organized games at Mc Kinley playground, Mrs. Msry W. Lovett. instructor, said. More than 35 children were "ready and wait ing" at 1. p.m. at Washington playground, Mrs. J. W. Marc ro ft Jr., instructor there, said. Super; vised play at these and nine other playgrounds will be t a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting today. Afternoon baseball for boys to II and evening leagues for boys I to 15 also are getting organized this week, with a good crowd of more than 300 spectators turning out for the first games Monday, Gilmore said. 'y MIAMI. Fla. in A Negro wu arrested Monday night after he refused to move to the rear of a Miami Transit Co., bus in what may develop into a bus boycott. Rudolph Reid, II. wu charged with tending to create a breach of the peace and released on 1300 bond. Reid, an organizer of a local youth council in the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, denied he wanted to be arrested to create a test esse but Neal Adams, 39, member of the NAACP, uid the bus company will be sued' and that "It could mean a bus boycott. Asked te Mm "This was not planned as a test case, but there will probably be repercussions and a test case had to come sooner or later," Adams uid. Reid aaid "I wu sitting across from the door. A white lady sit ting behind me moved up front. "The bus driver asked me, to move to the rear of the bus and I refused. He asked me if I could see all the tests in the rear of the bus and I Mid "yes but that I wu happy where I was sitting. A policeman go, oa the bus. I told him I didn't want to move back because ft wu too hot back there. He told me I wu under arrest." Told U Obey Laws The city's segregation ordi nances art patterned after stste laws which provide for segrega tion in public conveyances. Octavio Cuevas, executive vice president of the but company, said: "We have told all 'of our em ployes that they are to obey all the laws of the state and the city. Evidently the driver, Henry Al brandt, wu icting under those general instructions." Local NAACP leaders voted if; T) I Friday to begin a program to end iI MiUlff rlChers . i ti, ... i i - onable" means and to use boy cotts only u a last resort. Adams said the idea of a boycott "will be given a great deal of study." Bui boycotts previously nsve been put into effect in Montgom ery, Ala., and Tallahassee, Ma., in protest to segregated sealing on buses. HIGH WINDS ABATE SYDNEY, Aus trails (It - Strong winds which pounded the southern and eastern coasts of Australia with heavy seu the put two days began abating early Tuesday. One death was reported. Far From Patch State police and Marion County sheriff's deputies conducted a five hour search for two boys who dis appeared from a strawberry patch in Mission Bottom before they were found by city police tbout 120 p.m. walking west on Dallas Highway. . . The boys, Charles Lipton Swag gerty, I, and Jerry Edwin Swag gerty, t, were returned to their father, Tom Swaggerty. 3395 Wil liams Ave., without giving an ex planation of their action, police said. 11 For the Summer EVERY DAY Doers Open 1 J:45-Show at 1 p.m. Injey the Afternoon Seeing a Oood Shew Ff Yc:.b:m Drive-la. Saaey MeadayTBesday la Claenuscepl -TrilhrtTJfsJrWMfW' " C Icily D. Dalley '.' M ,';; ' i PInt'i!'r;iv'. . Tk Karat s'srt" - ' D. D arret 3L Wyee Open 7:lS--8tartt Disk Ms HON! 44711 e t ;- - . Ms 0 StwaWTttswrt)-. : , I'-hW,'!I.';1 Wittiest l$4l4wW4aVU(sf IWVwIl . PICNIC-: v Fery st Gtmslght Pais .- rJLLlAS i:0TCl-YUi Gates epea TM shew at dusl Eada Tonight ' ::. TOAIIAPT Starts Teaserrew -Joel McCrea, Vera Miller la -won" Cinemascope and Color Second Feature , .,, Humphrey Begart, Martha Scott la - TCW21TI 155,1" : viaUVislea HELD OYERI tt' Galea Opea 1:45 Show At Dusk! M t ENDS TONIGHT a II V "Benny Goodmaa Story and "Duel ea The Mississippi" ff I 1 ir STARTS TOMORROW II Iff Black Market Racketeers' Operation )J 1 1 la tbe Far East. Filmed la Hong long! II IU .LLAKrv V 3UMN H I. GABLE HAYWARD It 1 "SOLDIER OF FORTUNE" fmW , CO-HIT . MM II mm Alfred Hitchcock'i Kirdof Su$pne . and Intrigue- r get In rr Explosive North . Africal t . ... ,i.n m TOO ochnlcolor 4 w ALFRED HITCHCOCK ; ; ' PL 1 8 Dennis OKeefe nNSiDi onROir LAST DAY "THE lAH HUNT" And "ClORY" -TOMORROW!- CONTINUOUS FROM 1 P. M.I tUf PINtl ...Frirr Stta af tie Mftrl 2tl ClNitsixScOPE jiii C e t n X', ! M ZJ LKJLL3L3tZ3 -viia miii MiMm CO-HIT- JEAN SIMMONS GUY MADISON JEAN PIERRE AUMONT - . . I IHI DI'IID sJ CONVINTIONII Theatre Time Table BLsmoai UAH WHO XMIW TOO ITUCH"-S:4S "insim Drrmorr-T-os. it:it CAPITOL "LAST HUNT"-7fl, It SO . NbBTH BAtlM DBIVB IN "BEWY GOODMAN STOBY" 8tt Allvn, Donna Bw4 "DUEL ON MISSISSIPPI" ts Brktr, Patricia Medina OIXYWOOD "PICNIC" 7 M, 10 37 TUBY AT CUNam FASS" 1:11 Broader Business Zone Plan Expected for Pine, Broadway Scholarships Listed From Hill Estate CORVALUS tfi - A dozea scholarships will go to college and high school students this year from the South Santiam Education and Research Project. Tbe project was established last year under a $33,000 grant from the Louis W. Maud Hill Family Foundation oi St. Paul, Minn. Part of th income comes from South Santiam forest lands. I Three Oregon State College for estry students will get scholar ships totaling $1,500. They are Wallace N. Cory, Eugene: Harry M. Demaray, Dayton, and John S. Mothershead. Portland. Scholarships of $500 each will go to Sandra Mae Lien, Brownsville. University of Oregon student: and Mary Janes Thums. Sweet Home. Southern Oregon College of Edu cation student. Scholarships going to high school graduates, the amount and the students's college choice were: Carl Bowser, Sweet Home, $300, Pacific University; William Harri son Brendle. Sweet Home. $50, OSC; Fred Krogh, Sweet Home, $250, OSC; Janice Lien, Browns ville. $300, University of Oregon; Alice Thurston, Scio. $300, Lin field; Janet Ruth Messal, Leb anon, $300, Oregon: Antoinette Wilson, Lebanon. $300, OSC. (Story also ea Page 1) . Several of the property owners who oppose a single-property bus iness tone creation at Ptne and Broadway Streets will proceed now to petition the area in hopes of broadening the new business tone. That was the intention expressed by some of the citizens appearing Monday night More Salem City Council The tone change for the property at the northwest corner, requested by Alfred W. Loucks. was granted by the Council Attorney Kenneth Sherman, rep resenting Loucks, assured tbe neighboring property owners that they would receive Loucks assist ance in circulating the new tone change petitions. "He isn't seeking the only serv ice station at that intersection," said Sherman. The attorney told the Council, however, that since matters of franchise contract and other bus iness were already underway, any further delay In the tone change "would seriously hinder these bus iness arrangements." Loucks had told city officials at two previous public hearings that he was plan ning for an Associated service sta tion at the corner. Attorney Steve Anderson, rep resenting two of the objectors, argued that the change might be found an illegal "spot toning" be cause of the surrounding area en tirely in residences, because the neighborhood strongly opposed the change and because the Council three years ago revised the entire toning of the city without putting any business tone in that area. UNWELCOME VISITORS KAMPALA. Uganda - The safari (hunting) lodge in Murchi son National Park has the crazi est uninvited guests sometimes. One was an elephant. It ate up a grans sunshade over a window. Another was a rhinocerus. It called at the front door, kept the manager penned up inside for three hours. Cattlemen Vote For Supports PRINEVILLE I - The Oregon Cattlemen's Assn. members are voting in favor of a government support program, Ed Coles, secre tary, said Monday. The result may not be final, however. Votes received to dtte show $07 in favor and 249 opposed to a federal program. The balloting period ended Saturday but the count will be continued until Tues day to allow for late-arriving bal lots. The mail ' vote wax called for when there was a 42-42 vote on federal price supports for the beef industry at the state convention. In the past the association has opposed price supports. Attorney Sherman, presenting the opposite view, said Pine Street was brand new three years ago and by now carries twice as much traffic: the state originally con trolled access te Pine Street from abutting properties but no longer does: the surfacing of Broadway to the north "brought a startling increase in traffic since then." Alderman David; O'Hara que tioned the procedure followed fry the Planning Commission, assert- LeMay $eeks $3.8 Billion More Yearly WASHINGTON UTt Gen. Curtis LeMay asked Monday for an ex tra $3,800,000,000 each year for several years for his Strategic Air Command. Sen. Chavet (D-NM) reported. Chavet heads a Senate appro priations subcommittee on defense spending. LeMay appeared before the subcommittee Monday in closed session. The Senator said the strategic command is listed for about five billion dollars in the budget under consideration for the fiscal yea. beginning July 1. Chavet said LeMay proposed aa extra $3,800,000,000 a year for the next four or five years and the Senator added he would be willing to "give it all to them." Much of the extra money would go te build more B52s, the heavy eight engine all-jet bomber designed for retaliation against nuclear attack. Ing that tbe tone change wu la effect initiated by tbe commission with the prerequisite "general wel fare" need being justified. Mayor White and' ether city af fteials denied this, stating that pe tition! calling for the Loucks tone change, carried signatures from ever $0 per cent of the affected property ownership at the time the applicatioa was made. These of ficials also aaid that subsequent withdrawal of tome signers doet not require dropping the petition, under the toning law. Remonstrating neighbors, soma of whom had first signed the Loucks petition, maintained that less than SO per cent was signed up at the time the Planning Com mission voted te recommend the change. Attorney Anderson declar ed that as of last tight only 14 of 48 property owners involved were signed in favor of the tone chang including four with finan cial interests at stake. Speaking in opposition te chang ing just the one property te a limited business (C-l) tone were Mr. and Mrs. Huey Frederick, Andrew Johnson, Jimet Stnford and Jot Fielda. I 'tfK J 5 mm S&QSXDOS Union Pacific's z&2m& PORTLAND ROSE Also direct service so Boist, Sail Lake, Dtarn tad Kaana City. Fati, Laxarioas, Dependable Service. Leaves Portlsad 1:00 P. M. UNION PACIFIC mti MNOtNrti.nKn. ami r- lr Aat, til Mttark Rhtrk. Part laii I. Ortira. 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