The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, July 07, 1956, Page 1, Image 1

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    5
106rh Year
Sticks of Dynamite Found Under Hood
Of Portland Vice Probe Figure's Auto
PORTLAND I - Police Chief
Jim Purccll aaid five sticks of
dynamite were found early Friday
under the hood of an automobile
belonging to James Klkins, Port-
land, who is a witness in the cur
rent grand jury investigation.
Police said Raymond P. Clark,
ar employe of Klkins, reported he
found the dynamite after firing
two shots at a man he said he
spotted in the garage at "the
Clark home.
Clark also has testified before
the grand jury investigating re-'
ported vice and corruption in the
Portland area.
The finding was reported to
Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton,
who Is directing the probe. Thorn
ton, describing the matter as a
"serious thing," said it "merits
investigation and is being investi
gated. 'If we can find proof that
any person has attempted a crime,
we will deal with it."
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Very timely is the article on
'The Challenge of High-Speed Fly.
ing" by Col. H. (LJHoseley, L'SAF
Mt;, in me jtfly Atlantic Month'
ly. It deals from a scientific, phy-
. siological standpoint with the haz
ards of flying (rising from grav
ity, space, velocity. The author
declares that "velocity ii emerg
ing as the most implacable foe;"
While his data relates to speeds of
some 600 mph and so are more
applicable to military aircraft
these s p e e d a for commercial
planes are predicted when the jets
are delivered a few years hence.
Successful flight, explains Dr.
' Moseley, is dependent on the pi
lot's ability to perceive the world
about him, recognise the meaning
of what he sees and then to react
safely in response to his percep
tion. It takes, he says, a tenth of
a second for the nervous system
to carry an image on the retina
of the eye to the brain. In that
period of time a plane at MO mph
travels It feet. Muscular reaction,
however, is much slower. It takes
four-tenths of a second before the
pilot, having decided to turn his
aircraft, can put his decision into
action, in which time the plane
moves forward 352 feet. These fig
ures are the minimum for reac
tion time. When the object dis
cerned is not readily identified, a
longer Interval is required. If
three seconds of time are allowed
for perception and reaction the
plane has traveled 2640 feet or
half a mile in that interval. If an
other plane is travelling toward
him
(Ceatlaaed editorial page, 4.)
Weather Outlook
'Still Optimistic
For Salem Area
Fair skies are scheduled for Sa
lem today and tonight but some
clouds are expected Sunday morn
ing, according to the U.S. weather
. station at McNary Field.
However, clearing is expected
Sunday afternoon.
Predicted high today is S3 to 85,
the low tonight 50 to 52. Expected
high Sunday is 74 to 76.
Northern Oregon coastal areas
will probably b cloudy this morn
ing becoming sunny In the after
noon. Northwest winds of about 25
mph are expected in the afternoon.
northwest xnAr.in -
At Trl-Cily S, WimltdN a.
At Yakima 1, Eugene I.
At Spokane S, Lcwuton 1,
PACIFIC COAST tfAOIIlt
At Lot Anaelea J. Hollywood 1.
At Seattle 3. Portland .
At Sarramento 1, San Diefo I.
At Vancouver 7-1, San franclaco
-3.
NATIONAL I.F.AC.l'K
At Milwaukee 5. Chlcaso 0.
At Cincinnati . St Louis 4.
At Philadelphia 1. Brooklyn 2.
At New York Pltiburfh,' cold.
' AMKRICAN I F.AC.Ur '
At Waihinston 4. New York I.
At fhlraio 14. Detroit 7.
At Kaniua City I. l leveiana .
At Boiton-
n Bauum
Imort, rain,
WILBERT
III
2 SECTIONS-. 4 PACES
Police demolition experts said
the dynamite could not have ex
ploded because there was no
detonator attached and it was wet,
apparently having been exposed
to the weather for some time.
The car was In Clark's garage
Hiroshima Governor Among
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Capital visiter Friday was Bine Ohara, govern ef tee prefecture at H
first aUrale Mm target. Dbcasslag alaal prablems as geveraars are (left te right) Nabani Im),
Partlaad eaasal, Cev. Ohara, Tarn Tamlyasa, president sf Partlaad's Japaaeae Society, and Oregon Gev.
Elm Smith. (Statesmaa Photo)
Nippon Needs.
Immigration
Space, Houses
New homes, both at home and
abroad, are the big problems of
Hiroshima's Governor Hiroo Ohara
who called on Oregon's Gov, Elmo
Smith here Friday on a tour of the
Western Hemisphere.
Chief aim Of Ohara'S visit Is to
find immigration space for (he
growing population of the world's
No. I atomic bomb target and its
environs -over whigh he rules.
Chief lure for Japanese immigrants
is South America, he reports.
Accompanying Ohara on his tour
Mitsugo Harada, chief of the
foreign affairs section for Hiro
shima prefecture. Harada was in
the city when the VS. dropped
the first A-bomb on the city just
before the end of World War II
in 1943.
Ohara and Harada, admiring
Oregon's Capitol building, said only
recently a modest new statehouse
had beesht completed in their own
state. Chief problem for construc
tion is the lack of materials, Ohara
reported.
Naboru Imajo, Japanese consul
from Portland, and Tom Tamiyasu,
president of Portland's Japanese
Society, brought the two visitors to
Salem Friday afternoon.
Execution Set
For Sept. 21
MEDFORD lift Circuit Judge
H. K. Hanna Friday set Sept. 21
as the execution date for James
Norman Jensen, convicted of the
1954 murder of Mrs. Fern Hile,
a Medford housewife.
Jensen' was brought here from
the Oregon State Prison where he
had been confined pending ap
peals from his death sentence,
originally scheduled to be carried
out Jan. 7, 1955. The appeals, in
cluding one to the State Supreme
Court, failed.
His attorney, Edward C. Kelly,
said it has not been decided
whether to carry the appeal to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
QUAKES JAR NEVADA
HAWTHORNE, Nev. - Two
sharp earth jolts rattled windows
and bottles here Thursday night,
but did no appreciable damage.
Teen-Agers
For Anti-Polio Serum
An increased supply of anti-polio
vaccine in Oregon has permitted
the State Board of Health to ex
pand its immunization program to
include 15 to 19-year-olds, accord
ing to word received recently by
Dr. Willard Stone, Marion Cognty
health officer.
This adds another 3.000 to 5,000
county residents to those already
eligible to receive .tax-purchased
vaccine. Thus, under the new polio ;
program, all persons under 20
years and pregnant women of all
ages mayapply (or Immunization. ser.i?mrer ana winner.
Oregon got nearly twice as much llwever, county and slate re
vaccine in the first two weeks of , cords indicate there are probably
June as it received in any other
four-week period, the state board's
report said. If the increase con
tinues, the report went on, tht use
POUNDID 1651
The Oregon Statesman,
because he had been using it. He
said that as he returned home in
another vehicle, he saw a light In
the garage and went to investi
gate. He spotted the man, he said,
and fired two shots but the. man
fled. ' I
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Con Game Victims Lack
Basis for Prosecution
Valley victims ia tbe current run of con games apparently have
no recourse through the application of criminal law statutes, it wss
indicated here Friday.
Four valley residents two in Salem and two in Dallas have lost
a total of $130 to confidence game operators within the past week. Four
-other attempts have been reported to Salem police.
Court Order"
Halts Removal
Of Road Signs
The state's effort to have some
150 "loological" advertising signs
removed along a l'i-mile, section
of Highway 20 near Blalock was
temporarily halted Thursday by an
injunction order issued out of
Marion County Circuit Court.
. Circuit Judge Val D. Sloper is
sued the injunction pending the
outcome of a suit brought by H. D.
Webb, operator of a zoo along
Highway 30 near Blalock in Gil
liam County. Webb is suing the
state through State Labor Com
missioner Norman O. Nilsen. who
has refused Webb's request for a!
renewed permit to continue dis
playing some 150 advertising signs
along the approaches to the xoo.
The commissioner's refusal is
based on a state law that requires
there be at least i-mile between
signs along one side of a highway.
According to the stale, Webb has
about 150 signs clustered within a
l'i mile stretch. In reply to
Webb's request the state ordered
all but seven of the signs removed,
Webb, who places a value of
f2,50A on the signs, contends that
the law does not apply in his case
because the signs were installed
and application was made before
the new statute became eneciive.
Grasshopper War Due
In Grant County Area
PRAIRIE CITY 1 A war on
hordes of grasshoppers will begin
next Tuesday in the Long Creek
area.
Some 70.000 acres will be
sprayed in a project made possi
ble through establishmeat of a
grasshopper control district in
Grant County.
Eligible
of "commercial" polio vaccine for
the 20 to 30-year group may be
permitted within a few weeks.
The term "commercisl" Is used
to differentiste between tax-purchased'
vaccine which Is not paid
for by the person to be immunised.
Hope was expressed by the re
port that the 1956 polio toD can be
reduced by about SO per cent below
the average of recent years, if the
vaccine continues to be used as
rapidly as supply permits. The
polio season reaches its peak in
still thousands of eligible persons
who have not yet taken even the
first of the recommended three
anti-polio shots. .
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July
Clark said he and Elkins have
received many telephoned threats
since Elkins charged that Seattle
vice operators had tried unsuc
cessfully to move into Portland
But none of the threats mentioned
bombing, he added.
Capitol Visitors
trash in a wklcb includes the warld's
All the reported cases concerned
instances in which near worthless
watches and jewelry were offered
ss security for loans to settle car
damage cases out of court.
The Marion County district attor
ney's office said Friday that it
has been unable so far to discover
any violations of criminal law upon
which to base complaints in the
cases involving the cash-watch
switch. ,
Private Traasactloa
As far as can be determined.
the matter is legally a private
transaction between two cjtlxens,
the office said.
Several inquiries concerning the
cases have been made. It was
reported.
The current wave of con games
began Saturday when a
Richfield
attendant at a service station on
Portland Road gave $30 to a man
who said he needed money to pay
accident damages in order to keep
the matter from the police. He
left a watch, valued at about K,
for security and promised to re
turn in 10 minutes, with $40,
l aaucreailul Tries
Two unsuccessful attempts were
reported to Salem police Wednes
day by service station attendants.
Thursday three more attempts-
one of them successful were re
ported. A service station attendant
in West Salem lost W in exchange
for a cheap watch.
In Dallas Joe Card, operator of
a Standard service station at Main
and Washington Streets, lost $30 to
a man after listening to his story
that he had been involved in an
automobile accident and needed
money to settle the matter out of
court. The man left a watch,
valued at about $8, for security.
Also Get Watch
Irvin Brown, attendant at a
Dallas Richfield station located at
the Junction of Highways 22 and
223, gave $40 to a man after listen
ing to the accident damages story.
He also retained a watch.
Similar cases were reported in
Portland recently.
GERMAN'S SENTENCED
BERLIN I A Communist
court has sentenced four Fast
Germans to from 3 to IS yean
for spying for unidentified West
ern intelligence organisations, the
East German newspaper Nord
deutsche Neueste Nachrichten
said Friday. They were accused of
obtaining sketches of Soviet mili
tary installations. ,
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7, 1956
PRICE
Ike, Aides
Confer on
Politics
Hagerly Grins
After Discussion
Of Candidacy
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
GETTYSBURG. Pa. I - Presi
dent Eisenhower discussed his
political future with trusted con
fidants Friday and the predon
inant impression around the tem
porary White House was that he
still is running for a second term.
Almost four weeks to the day
since a major intestinal operation
cast new shadows on his inten
tions, Eisenhower talked politics
Friday morning with Presidential
assistant Sherman Adams and
press secretary James C. Hager-
ty.
Secret Lacked I'p
Any definite decision, if there
was one, was a secret locked up
tightly among this trio.
- But Hagerty came away from
his talk with the President in bub
bling good humor, wearing a
Cheshire cat grin, and eager to
volunteer to newsmen that he had
been chatting with the boss about
"both personal politics and gen
eral politics."
Naaeammittal
"You weren't disappointed in
the nature of your discussion?" a
reporter inquired.
"No, Hagerty said, "we talked
politics."
Did the President say whether
be would run again?
"I am not going to say," Hag
erty replied.
If Eisenhower had said he
wouldn't keep his hat in the ring
would Hagerty be grinning the
way he was?
I might have been grinning
one way or-the other, he an
sweredstill grinning.
Republican- politicians, from na
tional chairman Leonard W. Hall
down, have steadfastly insisted
Eisenhower's illness wilLnot take
him out of the race.
"Rarla' la Ran"
Even before Hagerty told of
talking politics with the boss. Sen.
Ives (R NY) said he is convinced
Eisehower is "rarin' to run" for
a second term.
And Sen. Carlson (R Kan), an
Eisenhower friend, said he was
"certain' the President's deci
slon to run again, made prior to
nis operation, will stand.
Stayton Man's
Body Found
At Portland
flaUaaaaa Newt Sfrrlra
STAYTON The body of Cecil
Brackett, 34, Stayton bean picker
missing since June 6, was-ound
under the Steel RriHse in fh
Willamette lliver at Portland Fri-
dv
An autopsy was scheduled at
Portland and Stayton Police Chief
Everett Norfleet said an invest!
g a t i o n concerning Brackett's
death would be launched here.
Norfleet said Brackett was a
transient who had spent several
summers in the Stayton area with
his family picking beans.
The police chief said a brother
of the dead man, William Leon
ard Brackett, 36, reported the
river victim missing shortly after
June 8 when the two had gone
to Portland and registered at a
hotel.
Norfleet said he referred the
brother to the Missing Persons
Bureau in Portland. .
Parents of the victim, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Brackett, currently are
living in a trailer house near
Stayton, the police chief reported.
Relatives identified the body,
which was presumed to have been
in the body since about June ft.
according 4o Norfleet
Board of Control
Secretary's Bcc8
Get Out of Control
Upset bees have upset the op
erations of the Oregon Board of
Control.
Recovering Friday from the ef
fects of numerous stings about
the head and face was William
T. Ryan, the boards' secretary,
after a tangle with a hive of
honey collectors at his home
southeast of Salem. ' -
The bees were infuriated when
underpinnings of their hive gave
way and they took out their irri
tation on Ryan. Effects of stings
have kept Ryan away from his
Capitol desk for the past two
days.
Oregon City to
Use Policcwoliicn
ORKGON CITY Three
women are undergoing training
here as policewomen. City Man-1
ager Robert Clute raports. j
The three, Mrs. Marlenc Daugh-1
erty, Mrs. Barbara GHIam a n a
Mrs. Virginia Smith, will be em-'
ploved as police radio operator.
tor of the city-owned elevator.
No. 102
Queen at 72
AURORA Mrs. Assy Hurst. 7!,
was elected (juees at Aarara
eealeaaial relebraliaa Friday
Bight.
Mrs. Hurst
To Reign at
Aurora Fete
SUIFima Newt Sfrvlra
AURORA Amy Hurst, 72, has
been elected queen of the Aurora
centennial celebration, it was an
nounced here Friday evening.' She
received 371 votes.
Runners-up and princesses for
the celebration are Tillie Fry, Hat
tie Ehlen, Clara Wurster and Or
letta Kraus.
Entrants in the competition were
required to be direct descendants
of the Aurora colony and 65 years
of age or older. .
Plans for the centennial pro
gram, to be held July 20-22. were
outlined jit a meeting Friday.
The July 20th schedule will in
clude a pageant and a musical
program. On July 21st a parade
will be held followed by a barbe
cue, a dance and a ham supper at
the fire house. Religious activities
will occupy the concluding day of
the celebration.
Eisenhower
Still Hopes for
School Aid
WASHINGTON ll - President
Eisenhower hasn't given up hope
for school aid legislation at this
session of Congress.
This was made known to re
porters Friday by White House
press secretary James C. Hagerty
as post mortem recriminations
continued over defeat of such a
measure in the House Thursday
by a 224-194 vote.
Hagerty said in Gettysburg
there will be continued expres
sions of the President's hope that
Congress will act on the school
bill, through conversations with
leaders, or word relayed to our
legislative representatives."
In response to a question, Hag
erty said he knows of no plan for
Eisenhower to make a television
appeal for school aid legislation.
As to whether Elsenhower would
want the bill in the taut in which
the House rejected it, Hagerty
said: "We're interested in school
rooms."
Lebanon Fund
Boost Voted
Stateimaa News Senrlre -
LEBANON A $59,000 increase
in the budget to meet a deficit in
the general fund was approved
by Lebanon voters Friday in a
close special city election.
Some BOO voters east ballots
in the contest The increase will
balance Lebanon's city records
following art error in the place
ment of funds which was uncov
ered recently.
Also approved were a $141,000
bond issue chiefly for expansion
of the city's sewage disposal plant
and a $9,000 issue to purchase
street maintenance equipment
now being paid for on the rental
purchase plan.
All three measures were close
ly contested.
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Hydro Projects Said
North Umpqua Recreation Area
ROSKBL'RG Ofl The president
of the Oregon Wildlife Federation
Friday said that hydroelectric
construction on the Upper North
Umpqua River has damaged rec
reational and other features of the
sver. .
Bruce Yeager, Roscburg, called
for "mobilizalinn" of public effort
to control future industrial devel-
opmcnt on Oregon rivers,
He said that flood controls on
Ihe river had been made nearly
impossible because of Ihe work
done on the upper river ny the
California Oregon Power Co. The
COPCO development has included
the construction of eight power
plants, since 1947,
Ransom Demand
Raised to $5,000
Father Agrees to Pay Extra Amount; Voice
On Telephone Contends Infant Alive, Well
WESTBURY. N. Y. (AP)-The kidnaper of month-old Peter W'cinWer tele
phoned the child's father Friday and upped his ransom' demand from $2,000 to
$3,000.
A man's voice on the phone assured the father, Morris Weinherger, that the
child was alive and well.
Wclnlx-rcer a c ce p fe d tire
caller as the) kklhaprr and
prod to Hie increased de
mand. .
He nltHlertl that the money
would Iw turned over to the
kidnaper on his terms.
The father reported that the
man on the phone said he was
calling from a Manhattan pay
booth.
"Am ready to meet your de
mand, awaiting your call,'" Wein
berger assured the caller.
T VYalrh Papers
The caller said he would watch
the afternoon newspapers for con
firmation of the phone remarks
and for Weinberger's attitude to
ward the ransom. He also said he
would listen to an 11 p. m.. net
work television news broadcast.
The broadcast was named as
John K. M. McCaffery's "11th
hour news," which is carried only
on the New York outlet of NBC-
TV.
In response to what he said was
Mrs. Weinberger's request, Mc-
Calfery Friday night repeated the
"am ready message
Initials Glvea
He said. too. that Just before
going on the air he received an
anonymous telephone call in
which a man said only: "say
M-W-P-F, OK,'" before hanging
up.
McCaffery said he did not know
if the phone message was genuine
or the work of a crank.
There was speculation that the
letters could mean "Morris Wein
berg. Peter Fine. 0. K.'1
McCaffery then offered himself
to the kidnaper as an Intermedi
ary. He said he would wait in a pub
lic pay telephone booth for half
an hour should the kidnaper want
to contact him. He gave the tele
phone number as Trafalgar 44XK1
and asked "others please don t
call."
Weinberger was understandably
close-mouthed about the call.
There are reports he wants police
to withdraw and give him a
chance to deal with the kidnaper
in an effort to spare the life of
his youngest son, who was 14 days
old Friday.
No laterfereaee
Nassau County police have In
dicated they will not interfere with
any private attempt to retrieve
the baby. The child has been
missing since the kidnaper
snatched him from his carriage on
the patie of the Weinberger home
in midafternoon of July 4.
Weinberger said he received the
telephone call at (:40 a. m.
If it was the kidnaper, it was
his first contact with the family
since he left behind in the baby s
carriage a ransom note demand
ing the $2,000. The note read in
part:
"I am not asking a lot of mon
ey, only what I need, and I am
very serious about this."
The call eased a mounting sus
picion that little Peter was al
ready dead.
Both Weinberger and his dis
traught wife, Beatrice, 32, have
announced their willingness to
meet the kidnaper's ransom de
mand. The father is a well-to-do
wholesale drug executive.
Thursday, police baited a trap
for the kidnaper with two dummy
packages of blank paper sand
wiched between real bills. But the
kidnaper did not come near them.
Later, Mrs. Weinberger tried to
broadcast a radio appeal to the
kidnaper,
"I am willing to cooperate in
any way," she managed to sob
before she broke down in hyster
ia. Stratotanker
Crash Kills 6
LAKE CHARLES, Li. I The
Air Force said Friday night all
sis crewmeii aboard a KD97
Stratotanker died Friday when
the big plane crashed into a wood
ed area in Labrador.
Capt. George Spoils word, pub
lic information -officer at Lake
Charles Air Force Base, said heli
copter rescue crews had found
the bodies and made identifica
tion. Yeager also blamed poor log
ging practices and other construc
tion along the river.
But he said some 2.500 acres of
forest land had been cut along the
river during the COPCO develop
ment. That has led to erosion on
the cutovtr lands, and in turn the
river has been muddied to the
displeasure of sports fishermen,
he added.
He made his statement after
having received a "deluge" of
telephone calls from anglers com-
plaining about mud in the river.
Flood control, he asserted, has
been made nearly Impossible be
cause large impoundments neces
sary In control runoff water ran't
be built lower on the river than ,
Four-Cent Mail BiBI
Approved in House
Faces Uncertain
WASHINGTON uTV-Tbe House
Friday night passed a bill rais
ing postal rates a total of O0,
'loo.iuo a year. The bill would
raise the cost of mailing a first
class letter from three cents to
four cents.
The vote was $17-169.
The measure now goes to the
Senate, where it faces an uncer
tain future in the waning days
of this session of Congress.
Opposed by a majority of
House Democrats, the bill was
supported solidly by Republicans
and ' some Southern Democrats.
The vote represented a victory
Foreign Aid Appropriation
Held Down to $3.6 Billion
WASHINGTON (At A Senate-House conference committee agreed
Friday to authorize a ceiling of $4,014,573,000 on foreign aid, but the
House appropriations committee in a sepsrate action voted to hold the
appropriation to $3,663,920,000.
These figures, for tbe fiscal year which began last Sunday, com
pare with the $2,765,000,000 Congress appropriated last year, and with
about $4,900,000,000 President fcis-t
enhower asked for the new year.
Foreign aid programs always1
have to go through two processes.
First comes authorization, in
which a ceiling Is set. Then comes
the appropriation ef the actual
money.
- In the authorization procedure.
the House voted for a ceiling ef
$3,(00.000.000. Eisenhower and oth
er administration leaders protest
ed this wss dangerously low, and
their efforts were factor In I
Senate vote for a ceiling of $4,
562,000,000. . '
E-R Initiative
Petition Filed,
In Portland
PORTLAND W An Initiative
petition, repealing the measure
which limits Portland's proposed
sports center 10 an east sioe loca
tion, was filed here Friday eve
ning, a few minute before the
5 p.m. deadline.
The petition was filed by Jack
flenaghen. Ormood Binford and
Harry GUckman, Portland busi
nessmen. Clenaghen said after filing the
statement: "la view of the city
attorney's opinion that the east
side limitatioa E-R measure Just
passed by the voters may be tied
up in the courts for the next sev
eral months or years, we are fil-
ng an initiative petition to repeal
this controversial measure.
"We feel that the voters should
have a chance te vote on a clear-
cut Issue that is legally sound and
workable so the K-R Cmmissin
can proceed immediately after the
November elections toward early
completion of the exposition-recreation
center the voters asked for
In 1954..."
Clenaghen said he would with
draw the petition if "the City
Council initiates their own move
to put a practical, satisfactory
bill on -the November ballot."
M. F. Eisenhower
Confronted With
Bad Check Charge
Staleaaaaa News Service
ALBANY. Ore. M I c b a e t F.
Eisenhower, 59. was in Jail here
Friday charged with writing a $10
check that was no good.
Police identified Eisenhower as
a transient from California. Ar
rested with him was Charles H.
Barnelt, 40, Mt. Vernon, Wash.
District Judge Wendell Tomkins
granted Barnelt a hearing at 2:30
p.m. Tuesday and gave Eisenhow
er until Monday to secure a law
yer. Damaging
the stream flow hydroelectric in
stallations. Yeager said there wss poor
management in many of the con
struction practices. He cited one
example where he said water had
backed up in a flume, then over
flowed down a steep bank, cutting
a ditch 30 feet deep.
At another place, slide debris
had been pushed from an access
road into a creek, which was vir-
tually dammed with mud. he said
A gravel crusher in still another
place has been coloring the
stream because the contractor
hadn't allowed tailings to settle
in a reservoir before pumping tbe
water back into the river, a
Fate in Senate,
for President Eisenhower
an4
his administration.
Since 1933, the administrate
has sought rate increases front
Congress sufficient to oflset as
annual post office deficit running
up to half a billion dollars, ana
to put the postal service on a
balanced operating budget.
Democrats centered their fire
on the increase in first class
mailing rates.
This increase, representing
$295,700,000 of the total annual
revenue increase, was branded
unfair by Democratic critics and
described as a "J34 per cent
tax" on ordinary mail users.
Woodhurn Air
Base Approved
By Conferees
WASHINGTON (-Included ln
military construction authorization
bill approved by House-Senate con
ferees Friday is tl). 506.000 for the
Greater Portland, Ore. Air Base
to be constructed near Woodbura,
Ore.
However, an - appropriation el
only $2,400,000 i being sought by
the Air Force in this biennium
with aRsfur .eoasrrtsctioa not ex
pected to start until next year.
WASHINGTON in A Senate '
House conference committee, ac
cepting Senate allocations for most
projects, approved Friday a bill
to authorize $2,113,158,000 worth of
If. S. military construction. Includ
ed is nearly 49 million for projects
in the three Pacific Northwest
States. .
Both houses must now accept the
committee report before the au
thorization bill can go to the White
House.
Labish School
Contract Let
Staleaaaaa Maws Serrlfa
LAKE LABISH A $27,091
contract for construction of a
new class room and an all-pun-
pose room for the Lake Labish
School was awarded Friday night
to the Mills Construction Com
pany of Salem.
The firm's bid wss the lowest
among three submitted and op
ened by school board members
Friday night. Higher bidden
were Hampton C. Piatt, Salem,
with $28,500, and Henry Carl,
Salem, with $29,741 ,
Lake Labish school how contains
three classrooms. Construction on
the new rooms will begin Mon
day, school clerk Fred Remmlng
ton said.
Boston Post
Closes Doors
BOSTON (-The 123-year old
Boston Post, once a strong voice
In New England Democratic poli
tics, discontinued publication Fri
day night.
Its circulation and advertising
linage dwindling for the past few
years, and beset with financial
troubles in recent weeks, the
morning newspaper breathed its '
last shortly after $ pm unless
someone buy it to keep It alive.
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