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The Weather FORECAST (from U. S. weather buraau, MrNiry field, Salrmi: Partly cloudy today and Mondav. High both days nar 71. Low tonif hi Trmpcraturt at 1101 a. m. today ai if. Willamatta River I S ft. SALEM rREriPITATIOf Hurt Start ajf Weather Vrar Srpt 1 Thli Year LaU Year Normal MM 31 it 3 S3 , CmiW It At GfwA if OrayM POUNDBD 1651 106th Year 5 SECTIONS-32 PAGES Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, June 24, 1956 PRICE 10c Ne. It Salem Radio Club Works 'Round-the-Clock' Plane Falls on Portland Street; 2 Die rcv.-a. Htm radio operator Coy DeLapp (ri(ht) is ihown testing hit equipment Saturday at an "pmrrgrncy" communication! center set up west of Salem bv memberi of Salem's Amateur Radio Club. In background are E. D. Spencer, (left) Marion County Civil Defense communications officer, and Robert Kuenili, inspecting a transmitter boused in a Army surplus squad tent. (Statesman Photu.) PtF OCDGDXE Out of the: South have come many voices since the Supreme Court ordered an endin? of spare- iialiMi in miKli. 'knrtlc v,cl nf them ttrkirnt in Hpnunrifttion of i the decision. Culmination came in the proclamation of the doctrine of "interposition" and the statement of Southern senators and congress men In opposition to the court de cision. Even more violent have been the utterances of some of the Southern extremists 'blood on courthouse steps." One Southern editor of intelli gence and moderation, C. A. Mc Knight of the Charlotte Observer, reported in Collier's for .June 22 on the plight of the Southern moderate who is caught between powerful forces in the desegrega tion battle. In truth, there is grave danger that voices such as his will be overwhelmed by the pressures of the race extremists and the readiness of politicians to join in whipping up emotions of the popu lace The June Harper's has a very challenging article by William Faulkner. Mississippi novelist anil Nobel prize winner, entitled Fear The South in Labor." Its tone is quite different from the piece he wrote for LIFE magazine some months ago wherein he ex pressed alarm lest temperate counsels be crushed. He is frankly not at all in sympathy with the traditional attitude of Southern whites. His analysis of the cause (Continued on Kditorial Page 41. Cloudy Sk les ri rn l I NPfn I OflAV kJtV11 AVUUT Partly cloudy skies are sched- ulfd for the Salem area today Police located the youth after and Monday, according to the residents of the area reported MrNary Field weather station. that a young man representing High both days is expected to himself as a member of the shcr be near 72, the low tonight 45. j iff's office was inquiring about Northern Oregon beaches will j probably be mostly fair through today except for early morning cloudiness. Predicted high is 63, the low near 50. Bladine Quits Yamhill County GOP Position McMINNVILLE Philip N. Bladine has resigned as chairman of the Yamhill County Republican Central Committee. He said the press of other busi ness was responsible. Bladine is editor of the Daily News-Register here. The Weather Max. Mln. Prrrp IS 44 .on Salrm Portland Bakrr Mrrlfnrrt North Bend Rnteburii San Franrisro Ln Anfeln .. Chicago Mw York 3 72 d:i ft s 74 .. on . u mi trair JJ) si s.t S4 an 71 ss m 1,1 JJ jt f-1 If I as. i , L la. "rvv ij -t f. 'CM v - .1e Salem 'Hams' In U. S. Emergency Test By CALVIN Staff Writer, Beginning at 4 p. m. Saturday the customary solitude of the Kola Hills west of Salem was broken by a chorus of dits-and-dots, rogers- and-dodgers, and over-and-outs that won't be interrupted until 4 p. m. today. Complete with portable generators, towering antennas, receivers, transmitters, speakers, headsets, "keys," "mikes." and a jungle of General Sees Ready bv '60 QL'AMICO. Va. I - Con Thomas 1). White, acting chief of the Air Force, told a top level defense Department meeting Sat urday that information "clearly indicates" that Russia could have significant strength in ocean-spanning missiles by 1160. In talking to a session of the Defense secretaries' annual con ferencewhich includes both the civilian and military leaders White also expressed concern over efforts to devise ways of counter ing an attack made by intercon tinental ballistic missiles ICBM. He called "critical" the require ment to provide an effective mis sile defense White declared that (li'in nnmnnl m hnlh rmintnrm ic. i , , , , , , , sue .systems and protective shel-i... prs "niu.st he given high priori ty The general, in the text of his remarks which were made public, did not offer an estimate of when the American ICBM program might become significant. 'Deputy' Armed With .Toy Pistol In West Salem A batem youth armed with a toy pisto1 snd ' "j""'0'' sheriff" identity card sought to recover a stolen bicycle wheel in West Salem Friday, city police said. sioicn property. Officers questioned the youth and released him. Bones of Pre-Man Found in Italian Mine, American Scientist Confirms ROME An American sci- entist confirmed Saturday that bones found in the soft coal of a 1 . , , . ,, ,. as "somewhere between the size long-abandoned central Italian '8n.te m.ne at Bacnello. , of g chjnpan J ni mine have been identified definite- sald Dr. Hclmutt De Terra; oi and said it was "the most human ly as a 10 million year old pre- Columbia Cniversity, New YnrkJoid fossil of that antiquity." man. He's called Oreopithecus. who is heading the search for fos- j Fossils found in the first 10 days The find may help paleontnlo-'sils of the pre-man. i have been taken to ' Switzerland gists chart more accurately the He said finds, almost daily since by Dr. Johannes Hcneler, of the evolution of man. then, had provided 30 to 4(1 pieces Basel Museum of natural history. By contrast with the 10-million- of coal filled with the yellow bone At the Basel Museum' exDcrts year-old Oreopithecus, the earli- ..-I !,-,- -lni nil.,..,, ,.., it - mi. null newcomers. The Java and Peking men go hack no more than 300,- 000 years Australopithecus, the so-called "southern ape" found in ISouth Africa, dates-fiack a half i i million to a million years. 1 Yrk s a ' f Man Sets D. JOHNSON The Statesman wires and cables, Salem s lman amateur radio club attempted to contact every other ham operator in the I'nited States and its ter ritories. Scene Duplicated A similar scene was being duplicated by thousands of other radio "hams" as part "of an an nual 21-hour test of amateur com munications equipment under ad- ! verse conditions. The event is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League, and one nf the chief aims is to check the ef fectiveness of such an amateur communications network should a national emergency arise. For those taking part in the test, the sole aim is to contact by voice and telegraph key as many other operators as possible within the alloted 24 hours. F. P. Spen cer, Marion County Civil Defense communications officer, pointed out that all participants in the "field day" have amateur radio licenses Questions Stopped Tl. i.-t .-,1..- !-, f 1 ni'iene. Spencer said, a though . . , ., , , are al-n associated with civil de fense." Spencer quickly put a stop to any inquiries concerning t h e- identification of the complicated equipment. He described one of the four antennas as a "20 meter cubicle quad rotary beam." But to the layman it looked like a long pole supporting a rack for drying fish nc's. Aulo-ette Loses Bout With Train VIN1TA, Okla. tin - Mrs. Syl via Violet's electric-powered wheel chair and a slowly moving box car tangled at a siding here hut I the 78-year-old Vimtnn emerged ' I with only a minor foot injury. ; Police said her auto elle. which l.l- : k . . i I resembles an over sized wheel-: chair, was pinned against a build-1 ing by the freight car. Officer i Gene Catlin said Mrs. Violet's ve- hide was badly dajiiaged. "We struck pay dirt a week andj a half ago in the recently reop- j fossils. Tt. l n,..,l l.l,.iifl,.J i He i'wiii ii, .hi, I,., ..,.,1. v. in elude rths, fragments nf vertebra and cither a part of a jawbone or the entire jawbone. Dr. De Terra said the part jut- ting out nf the coal chunk was a chin with broken teeth showing. Wilson Denies Slur Aimed At Congress WASHINGTON' - Secretary of Defense Wilson Saturday backed away from any charge that sena torial moves to increase U. S. Air Force funds are "phony." The White house denied it pressured Wilson into action. Wilson's uae of the word "phony" on Thursday in a news conference at Quantico, Va., had set off a storm in the Senate. Member after member denounced the Secretary. Some Democrats called for his ouster. Sen. Bridges (R-NH) said Wilson was guilty of "an unwarranted slur." Parity" Misquoted Saturday Wilson told reporters St Quantico that he had either been misunderstood or "partly" misquoted. He remarked to the reporters: "I don't blame you men too much. I blame myself." Presidential Secretary James C. Hagerty was asked whether any White House aids had spoken to Wilson urging him to modify his Thursday remarks. "No," Hagerty replied. He de clinetMo say anything more than that . the matter had been dis cussed by the President Saturday morning with White House aides. Brought by Adams t The morning conference brought Sherman Adams, the assistant to the President, and other White House officials to Eisenhower's suite. Among the topics: 1. The big senatorial storm over Wilson. 2. Wilson's order to 11,000 mili tary officers on desk jobs around Washington to change from uni forms to civilian garb starting July 1. Steps Taken Within a few hours Wilson took theso steps: 1. Announced he never meant to insult Senators. 2. Withdrew his order for civil ian clothes. (Eisenhower, evident ly taking account of grumbling amna. k.. ( expense of buying a lot of civilia clothes, had passed the word that he felt the question of dress should be optional with them Dishwasher to Hang Up Rag, Soak in Sun SPOKANE, Wash. W - After 3.i years and an estimated 105 mil lion dishes, Ida G. West, 67, will hang her wash rag above the ho tel sink and soak for a change- in Florida sunshine, that is. Miss West would not even try to estimate the number of pieces of silverware and glasses she has washer) during her career at the Desert Hotel here. But after long calculation with pencil and paper she and a reporter arrived at the figure of 105.000.000, as the num ber of dishes she had .scrubbed. Miss West, who said she ate her meals at the hotel to avoid wash ing dishes at home, said she plan- n,.H in tin tn t Pot re hiir rf V a Kseape Requires Pull, Not Push, Woman Iearns DALLAS. Tex. if A young woman telephoned police Satur day to report, in somewhat of a panic, that she was trapped in a telephone booth. Apparently she was well sup plied with nickels ' current pay telephone fee in Dallas1, and pos sessed considerable impatience. She thought the police were too slow, so she called the Dallas News city desk. She also called the fire depart ment. But the police got there first, after all. and then gave her a short course in how to get out of telephone booths It lakes only a slight inward tug i iU. A to open the door She had bc"en frantically pushing outward. The embarrassed young woman I would not reveal her name. "It is definitely Oreopithecus," he said. He described the creature I will remove the bones from the i: i. ...u:i. . . . , upline hi wiih.ii uiey are riiineu- ded. Dr De Terra said the scientists have every reason to hope that many more bones will he found, 'perhaps enough to assemble a, J complete skeleton. J There's Something Rotten Uj. ..-P:. ! - BROOKS The essence el onions wUck If creatine quite a stink In the Brooks community comet from this mountain of the rot ting vegetable. Here Statesman Valley Editor Charles Ireland Stencil Stirs Complaints, Solution Near By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor The Statesman BROOKS Pfhewl The sour stench of rotten on' ions had Brooks crying for help Cftturri'flV si nH hln aam 4a Kaa I ytui ' V svv issue is a molding mound onions located on Labish Cold Storage Plant property in the heart of this onion-raising com munity, nine miles north of Salem. The Oregon State Air Pollu tion Authority at Portland got a whiff of the onions when it open ed a letter from Mrs, Lula Mik kelson, clerk of Brooks School District. Downwind From Pile Brooks School is located about six blocks downwind from the allegedly obnoxious onion pile. Mrs. Mikkelson asked the air polution board to do something about the onions. She declared that the smell of the spoiling onions was too strong for the tender nostrils of Brooks school children. "And it causes a fly hazard In the lunchrooms," she added. The Labish Cold Storage plant, responsible for the onion pile, is under the proprietorship of Ron ald E. Jones. Jones indicated Saturday night that action was forthcoming. "I guess." he said, "we'll have to get busy and move that pile of onions." The onion pile has been a sore spot in the community for nearly three years. Now Concentrated Formerly, most onion growers used to top and sort thejf onions on their own property. The of fensive pile started to get odor ous about the time that some of the growers started to have their onions topped at the cold stor age plant. The onions in the pile are mostly culls, tossed out when the good ones were shipped. "There must be 100 carloads of onions in that pile." said W. B. Russell, who lives four houses downwind from the cold storage plant. Complains of Gnats "I rntild stand the smell, mav- bc, said Mrs. Russell, "but those !jtuP nnaR from tnp nnjnn ujip are terrible. "They even fly 'way out to our place." said Mrs. Silas Per lich. Statesman correspondent Brooks. The Air Pollution Authority has directed that the Marion County district attorney look In to the onion pile. ill NORTHWEST IE(ltK At WVnaU'hre 7, Salem 0. At Trl-t'ity 5-H, Lrwislon S-l. At Spokane 11-4. Eupn "-'it. PACIFIC COAST IFACll K At Vanrnuver 3-'l. Portland S-l. At San Frannsto 2. San Dipro n. At l,o AnRrle 4. Sacramento 5. At Prattle 8 Hollvwonrl 3. nation i. ir.Ai.ir. At New Vrk 1. ti'uurr ? At I'hilariHphia St I imt 3 At ftr,iik!n 7 Ocr.rali At IVKnnrEh s- C'N'at;o-& amkrii sn i r.Mn r. ' it ruran ; nw vnrk n i! !,7, WaVtimn"""'"' At Cleveland s. waining ton s, ForrestaVs Widow Grabbed - r or i rying LONDON Ur The Daily Mail Said Saturday Mrs. James For restal, widow of the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, was hus tled away by detectives when she tried to touch Queen Eliza beth H i arm and spesk to her at the Ascot races. This was the Mail's account of the incident: The Duke of Gloucester, the Queen's uncle, pinioned Mrs. Forrestal's arms before detec tivesin top hats for the smart sporting and social occasion hastened to the Queen's side. Congregational, Evangelical Union Voted at Long Session Br GEORGE W. CORNELL OMAHA A tired-out general council of the Congregational Christian Churches gave final overwhelming approval Saturday to a merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The action came after 21 exhausting hours of almost-continuous meetings, including an all-night session. Delegates who had gone sleepless through the night and who $5,000 Fire Destroys New Car, Garage Statesman Ntwi Strvlra DALLAS. Ore. A new car. garage and equipment valued at $5,000 were destroyed Saturday in a fire at the Adolph Hilde brand farm three miles east of here. Hildebrand incurred arm and facial burns while trying to re move the auto from the garage. He was released from Dallas hos pital after treatment. The fire, which broke out about 145 p m., also leveled the garage and threatened the Hilde brand home nearby. Volunteers from the Rickreall and Dallas rural fire departments arrived quickly and brought the blaze under control. Hildebrand managed to save another auto and truck. He was burned while trying to re move his 1955 Mercury sedan. It was helieven the fire started I from an electric extension cord i line in a tractor parked in thedl P"'"" garage. Items lost included the car, tractor, garage building, drill press and tools, welder and out board motor. Small Frog Dirt Alarms Mother cnnLrAVLi m a j;,.i 1., '"'tw - ? U,:U""K"1 Spokane mother telephoned Finer-i genry Hospital steward Y, a I Smith Saturday for some diet ad v ice "My 4 year old son just swal lowed a small frog. What should 1 do'" "1'nless the frog is causing dis comfort, don't wnrry." Smith re plied FIVE RKPORTFD DROWNED PRK'F. t 'tah t -- The Carbon County sheriff's office Saturday ' nijni rcponcn live persons drowned-a man, a woman and three children in a boating mis- hap on the Scofield reservoir, j some 15 miles northwest of here. in Brooks - and lam as kit bom al oae el the ratten which has caned a protest to the Stale Air Pollatloa Authority. Retldeati say the well, aid flies, have keira with them lor three years. (Statesman Photo.) to i oucn Vcen Mrs. Forrestal was quoted as saying all she intended was a friendly gesture and merely wanted to say hello to the Queeti, whom she met socially as Princess Elizabeth. "I am sure the Queen would have remembered me," Mrs. Forrestal was quoted as saying. The U.S. embassy said Mrs. Forrestal now lives in Ireland and came to England for the Ascot season. An , embassy spokemsn said he thought she had returned, to Ireland. kept going strong all day in keen debate wound it up by voting 1,310 to 197 in favor of the precedent setting church union. The vote marks the culmination of 14 years of negotiations, a drawn-out court battle and exten sive legislation pointing toward the historic merger. The action was both stirringly hailed and deeply deplored by speakers in the final hours. First of Ita Kind The vote, in which 11 cast blank ballots, set June 25. 1957 in Cleve land. Ohio, for the initial con clave of the new "I'nited Church of Christ," first merger "across family lines" in I'. S. Protestant ism. Opponents led the maneuver which Friday night converted the church meeting into the unusual, non slop public reading of the rec ord. Rc a d e r s, took turns dron ing through the 750 manuscript sized pages of executive commit tee minutes, covering two years of meetings, negotiations and vol uminous minor details. Full Presentation Mrs. Paul A. Quaintance of Los Angeles had demanded full pres entation of the minutes as pro vided under a church constitution-1 'Dragnet's7 Police Charities Rumored Subject of Probe I,OS ANGEI.F.S W Police I put in approximately six months charities have received a sum re- of hi 0n '"" on the job . , ... ,( i i, "The pav I got for this, if broken ported as high as $R0 000 from Jack 1 . , ' , " . , ... ' , I down to an hourly basis, would be Webb's "Dragnet." it was an ' i. ,i,, n... ns... a. ni1(., nff,rrr .' nounccd Saturdav in the face of, , ,.' ,,, -1'IUIUUIS llldk tllV l, IIH liv.l liiiin I be officially scrutinized. ....'., , . ,! individual omens nave leieiveni, thousands more as technical ad visers to the popular television show which portrays the I.os An geles police department. One newspaper listed the pay- ments by Webb's company at $42.- 000 while another said they would I soon reac h $B0.0nn The money 1 went to the private operated Police Relief Association and the Police uevniver ana Atnietic i inn. neen commensurate wun wnai tne ''apt James Hamilton of the movie industry pays for the same! police intelligence unit, who ac'ed. thing All oflicers who have worked I as technical adviser nn the Warner j with us have done so on ibeir time Bros, movie of "Dragnet" said tieloff. 1 It's Onions 4,000 View d i ft J- W 4ft kaa At Sheridan Itatcaaaaa Ntws crvtee SHERIDAN An, estimated 4,- 000 persons viewed the opening show of the 11th annual Phil Sheridan rodeo hero Saturday. Ninty-six cowboys art entered in the two-day meet which will end Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. with a Governor a perform' snre. Leading cowboys In Saturday's events were: ( Larry Wyatt Ellensburg, Wash. bareback riding; Bob Robinson, Alberts, Canada, and Les John son, Omsk, Wash., saddle bronc; Buddy Peek, Tucson, Aril, bull riding: Don Posey, Oklahoma. rslf-roping (14.S) seconds); Glen Davis, Sheridan, wild cow milk ing (51.8 seconds); and Rudy Doucett, Phoenix, Ariz., bull-dogging (20.3 seconds). Saturdays program also in cluded races, a sheep dog act. junior cowboy calf roping and a horse and bear act by Len Gray, Montana. The Salem Riding Club pre sented a riding drill. (Add. deUils psge t, sec 2) Flash Floods Strike in Ohio YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio - A scries of thunderstorms hit north eastern Ohio Saturday night, caus ing a (lash flood in one Mahoning County community where two per sons were reported drowned. The state highway patrol said Robert Moistof, 25. and Steve Paulin, 38, both drowned when a flash flood hit nearby Campbell where they lived. The patrol said four to five feet of water snrged through the city undermining the streets and over turning at least two cars. Two policemen reportedly received mi nor injuries. The patrol said Elyria was struck by a' storm accompanied by hail and high winds, and that power was knocked out in the rrn tral and southeast portion of the city. Trees were down and there were large amounts of property damagp. the patrol said. ('apt Hamilton said, adding: i(ltt.P,r a member of the d,s Irlt i,llrn,,L-'c ct'jff li ne nkn ' V , , ' ' ; Z technical adviser on the mm le and know )M hp TO.,,lvod a, wt 150 times as much as I did on an hourly basis." The announcement of the pay ments followed rumnrs that the attorney general's oflice, currently investigating a clash between the LAI'I) and the district attorney's nf f k e. might probe the Webb pay- ments Webb said the payments "have Crippled Craft Strikes Auto, Avoids Houses PORTLAND (AP) - A light plane- crashed on a quiet rrsi dential street here Saturday night, killing the two men aboard. A. E. Thomas, who lives about 250 yards down the street from the crash scene, said the plane, with its motor dead, came in from the west, clipped off the tops of some high trees, struck a power line and then crashed into a parked car in the street. Thomas said the crash sounded like "four or five cars smashing up." The dead were identified (mm papers on their bodies as Charles Parton, 24, and Archie W. Payne, 27, both of Portland. BesldeatUl Area The crash occurred at N E. 15tk and Mason streets, a residential area at about 1:30 p.m. Thomas Mid Uw plane, after striking the empty car, bounced onto the sidewalk. One man was-, killed outright. The other wai breathing for a time, but he too was dead by the time an ambu lance arrived, Thomas said. The bodies of both were badly mangled. . Thomas said one of his neigh bors was outside at the time and heard a voice from the plane say: "Arkie. for God's sake pull it op." Seconds later the plane crashed. Taaks Dry There was no tire and police said the gas tanks" of the plane " were dry. They speculated that the plaae had run out of gas and was attempting a landing in a nearby wider street at tht time of the crash. Parton's home was believed te be only three blocks from the crash scene. i Payne was thejgwner of the plane, a FalrcbllafTT M,. and he was believed to have been the 'pilot, .. -h -t- - Ha kept the plant at the Hillf bore airport Attendant there said that Payot anL Parton had left HiUsboro early Saturday Sat a trip - to Richland. Wuh.' Payne Is survived by a widow. Parton' parents survive. Portland Fire Kills Man in . Wheelchair PORTLAND Wl - The alertness of two 15-year-old boys failed Sat urday to save an elerly man from human torch death. Alexander Watts, 85-year-old wheelchair invalid, died of burnt at a hospital several hours after his kerosene-soaked pajamas be came ignited. The boys. Thomas C. Pitka and Mike C. Barnett, said they saw Watts propel himself into his yard, and a few moments later flames enveloped the man. - . The boys, in an adjoining yard, . snatched up a blanket and smoth ered the flames, but not before ' Watts had suffered third-degree -burns on chest, arms and face. Police said it appeared Watts' pajamas had been kerosene soaked before he left his house, but they had not determined how the oil caught fire when he was outside. Arthur Miller, Wife Leave for Trip to Europe NEW YORK - Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Miller left for Europe Sat urday, but it wasn't the New York playwright who is to marry Mari lyn Mnnrne. It was Mr, and Mrs. Arthur J. Miller of Shaker Heights. Ohio. "Are you Arthur Miller 'V asked a reporter when a middle aged man picked up his 4lane tickets at Idlewild airport. "Yes," laughed Miller, "and here is my Marilyn." He bowed to his middle aged wife. She stepped forward, smiled and asked: "Did you recognize me?" Nobody knows for sure just when playwright Miller and mov ie star Monroe are to be wed but it seems to be imminent. They also plan to go to London. 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