The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, July 13, 1956, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textt 2-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri., July 13, 1958 tad Invasion of TV Cited By Former Naval Officer ;4Pictare ea Wtreeaete Page) Washington hi a former Navy intelligence officer now serving as professional consultant ei: communism to the radio-tele-vbion industry (aid Thursday the greatest danger of Red infiltra n slanting" to apply the term h icklisting to people Jho refused tly hire communists and wought to . - " Theatre Time Table !;," ilsinobs. 5 "Tit APt-TI"'. f-M. IB M V . THI KUXII IS UXMr'l :14, . CAPITOL ! CrUnuui fiwa t TAHITI . THI XYINO AtJ. is"i 4.H 1M. 10 ai. -ma WMEWOLfl I II, ses. I- OfOBTI SALEM BBIVI IN CitM opm S:4. Show at dusk) , HOCK AROUND THI CLOCK" i Ht Halrr hit Comt "AT GUNPOINT"! Tn4 atae Vurray. . MOUTWOOP , 5 -T.UYt AND DOLLS' toe. -fix Gllcction tate $30 Million Oregon's Income and torpor t'nn excise tax collection for 1:S6 were nearly 130,000.000 above la tt year, the State Tax Commission reported Thursday. ) Collection! for the fiscal year Just ended totaled ttt.m.in. compared with V4,K23lt for X '4-s. Commiuloner Ray Smith mi. Imlta attributed the Increase to f, e 41 per cent surtax oa personal lj comes, reductioa of personal ex f nptionf and dependency credits, kkressed withholding rates and tetter economic conditions. Small additional amounts - came from placing public utilities under the corporation excise tax for the first time, he said, f'rere CaoflmH oKicial figures confirmed ear f r- reports that the state was V admg for aa eetimeted 131 mil t, n surplus by the end ef the bi e ikrni next July L Tax ellielaU f . a i 4 Thursday the surplus ss of i n wss between lit and 111 r Mtion and if current conditions r 'inue an additional H jr H t 4ons would be added this fiscal Personal income tax rollertlons lit 13SS-M reached M.TTMsl. I 1 ef $2S,m,tni or SO T per cent r r the preceding year's figure. I 4 withheld part of personal h rrw tax receipts Increased from t D50.540 to I24.244.S01 while -holding refunds dropped from (1,707.111 la 1954-M to 1JM.S1 I tUS-N. , , - t haeldtag loereaoee 1U increase in the withholding rt from one te hre per cent ap I I fd to collections from only one arterly period in the fiscal year. 3 r rate change became effective iv I, 1954, and employers made t 'if first remittances at the new r 'e la April. i-Oerporatioa excise tax eotlee t' lne toUled 111.3111.477 la ItSS-M. at increase of ta.lU.ill or' t t cent erer ltM-U. Included ia t e '.increase la the tM.SM paid in It public utilities. The excise tax I lied to only five months of 1 1 utility earnings. ' The new corporation Income tax r nduced collections of ts.SM. Re r:nts from this tax are expected te increase rapidly, Smith said, as f ny eorporationa with probable i. x liabilities have not filed re turns. The Audit Section of the lax Commlssloa is giving this i,ittt their Immediate attention. ; HW. Thomas, Formerly of $alcm, Dies , -, I?Etiard Willis Thomas, 4. form ed talem resident, died Thursday e( heart attack ia his home at fnckaway. J Thomas, a logger, was bora July s, 1907, at Oregon City, and moved to Salem about 1U1, whore he remained until leaving for Rorfcaway in IMS. He was the hujband of the former Florence DSart of Silverton. Survivors Include the widow) (wo daughters ef Washington; one brother, Lemuel. Salem; and sev eft sisters, Mrs. Edith Brewer, Salem; Mrs. Resale Denny, Spo kane; Mrs. Marjorie Rigcs, St. Rrlens; Mrs. Genelveve Heater, tnd Mrs. Juanila Sterrett, both of nrtland. Mrs. Lucille SL Marie, fjaribaldi; and Mrs. Ava John ion. Scappoose. ' ! ! Funeral services w(ll be in' Til rr)ook at 11 a.m. Monday, with burial at Willamette National Park for Veterans' in Portland. ,sv:i-s cm u::ge&s '2Sxl, srethy and Eernard Mason, nationally known novelty must ns will present a unique) concert sacred music at the :T CKniSTIAN CHURCH, Marlon and N. Cortege Its.. m, Cre.,' Sunday, Jury ISlh at 4 and 7:30 . m. lech -i v II be deferent. , tloti ia among the younger per formers. "It is advantageous te their ca reers, if not to become party members, at least to become progressive." he said. "They are afraid' if they don't go along they won't get opportunities. ' The testimony came from Vin cent Hartnett of New York at hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The committee Is inquiring into a "re port oa blacklisting" in the en tertainment world, sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. Hartnett testified that, "not more than i per cent of the com munlsts In the entertainment bus- iness have been uncovered." He said there, were probably 150 Reds ia the American Federation of Ra dio and Television Artists IAFR TA) and "also communist blocs" in Equity and the American Guild of Variety Artists A(iVA. TesUmoay Challenged j Officials of both AQVA and Equity challenged Hartnett's tes timony. Jackie Bright, national administrative secretary of AO VA. said in New York: "We defy partnett to show thst there is s single communist In AGVA, let alone a communist bloc." 1 In Chicago, where the Ameri can Federation of Radio and Tele vision Artists Is holding its con vention, Donsld- Consway, execu tive secretary, declined immedi ate comment on Hartnett s testi mony. A public relations repre sentative for the group said, how ever, that a statement might be issued later. Maar AUecatieas Alfred Harding, assistant to the president of Actors Equity, said in New York that "over a period of 10 years allegations of this kind have been advanced witn vary ing degrees of responsibility" and added: "Eery member of Adori Equity Assn. who has been Idea- tilled la any way la this connec tion has denied under oath that he is a communist and no evidence has been presented whether those charges are true." Hartnett told the House roup tha communists csn command the support of about 409 members of AFRTA, but he ssld some of these are sympsthiters rather than actual party members. He said approximately IS members of AFRTA's New York locsl have been identified a communists Hsrtnett denounced the "report on blacklisting" as "dangerous slanting." He ssld "blacklisting" was a "nasty term," which he said had been used by editor John Cogley aa "a blanket term both for the good and the evil." Weerudy Igaerant Asserting that Cogley "consis tently suppresses evidence and "puts forward distorted versions" la the report Hartnett said: . The man is either woefully ig- aorsnt, or he Is a rogue." Hartnett described as an out rageous falsification a conten tion la the report that a sort of self appointed board of "clear ance men" can have individual performers blacklisted and then clear them. . The witness testified he fre quently helped "rehabilitate" ac- Resident of Unionvalc Dies in Texas eumna Ktw Strvtre VNIONVALE - Mrs. WUletts Steingrube, a life-long resident of this area, died Thursday at a clinic In Dallas, Tex., following an illness of seversl months. Mrs. Steingrube wss born In Grand Island, Ore. She wss s member of the Unionvalc Church. Survivors in addition to her widower. Include three daughters, Elise, Gall and Jean Steingrube; three sisters, Mrs. Worth Wiley, Dayton; Mrs. Emily Wood, Salem; and Mrs. Mallie Miller, Portland; one brother, Henry Taylor. Am ity;- and her mother, Mrs. La- Verna Taylor. Funeral services win be held Monday at 1 30 p m. under the direction of the Howell-Edwards funeral home at the Unionvalc Evangelical United Brethren Church, the Rev. Clyde Dollar of ficiating, assisted by the Rev. George Miller. Interment win be at the Hope well cemetery. Irrigation Fund Okched for Area PORTLAND ik An allotment of 1724,500 has been made for Ir rigation work in Oregon, Washing-1 ton and Idaho In fiscal 1957, Don C. Foster, area director of the! Bureau of Indian Affairs reported Thursday. Included is $175,000 to complete ' the Modoc Point project on the , Klamath Reservation. This work provides for construction of a I pimping station on the Williamson 1 River, rehabilitation and exten-l aion of the Irrigation system and completion of a drainage system tor some (.too seres of land. TTTT i t tors and actresses but was "nev er ia the business of acting aa a clearance man- for performers." Hartnett ssld it wss "danger weed them out of the Industry. Asked if any Individuals have been unjustly accused and denied the right to work. Hartnett said there had been "a few isolated cases" resulting from mistaken identities. He said he always did what he could to straighten these cases out. Snake Flood Control Plan Asked at Meet BOISE, Idaho Southern Ida ho water users, government of ficials, businessmen and others asked the Army Engineers Thurs day to develop Upstream storage for both! flood control snd irriga tion on ths Snake River and its tributaries. At the ssme time, witnesses from Ads, Canyon snd Owyhee Counties appearing at, a hearing for a review of the Engineers Mi Report testified unanimously against ths agency's proposed dsm oa the 8nake River at Mar sing. The same witnesses unanimous ly approved, Instead, the Bureau of Reclamation's proposed dam at Guffey, II miles upstream from the Marling site. Witnesses from Gem County testified in opposition te the bu reau'a mrooosed dam at Garden Valley and the Scriever Creek di version from the-north to the mid dle fork of the Payette River. They said the projects would threaten the diversion ef water from the Psyetta to the Boise Ri ver watershed. Those who opposed Marsing dam were unanimous la urging the Army engineers to hurry in vestigations for upstresra storsge. Alex O. Coleman, St. Anthony farmer and director of the Idaho State Reclamation Assn.. aald his organization believed the KM Re port, completed in 1981, "was dis criminatory toward Snake Kiver and its tributaries in the matter of flood control." Noting that the present review of the report would not include the upper 8nake. Coleman de manded that the engineers include the area la their new investiga tions. Brig. Cen. L. H. Foots, Port land, division engineer for the Corps ei .Army Engineers, pre sided at opening of the hearing, but the hearing itself was con ducted by Cot. Myron rage Jr, Walla Walla, district engineer. Hells Canyon Bill Ncaring House Floor WASHINGTON - The 484 million dollar Hells Canyon Dam bill will come before the House Rules Committee Friday the final step before consideration by the House. The meesure. authorising a fed eral high dam ia the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake River, ia expected te easily win Rulea Com rr.itte clearance. The committee has a Democratic majority, and the bill is sponsored by Demo crats. An identical bill Is pending in the Senste, snd majority leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas said Thursday he will call It up for limited debate on the floor in about a week. The Senate agreed to hold de bate on the Issue to one hour on any amendment or motion, and three hours on the final vote. The bill Is opposed by the ad ministration. Public power groups and Democrats are pushing for its passage to forestall construc tion of three low dami In the Hells Canyon area. The Federal Power Commission suthorized the Idaho Power Co, te build the smaller dams. EGG SUGGESTION UNIVERSITY PARK. Ps. W Robert Lsuffer, poultry specialist at Pennsylvania State University, suggeata clean nests snd egg col lection three or four times daily to prevent costly egg breskage on poultry farms. THI 'ROUIID-D0GS' ARE COMING! Gates Opea 1:41 NOW PLATINCI AI.S(t- , ,i,llllt-i,til, t . .f Maaaw-iaOTtasag ATTENTION Due) ! the Midnile Show To nlte we will fust run ana Complete Shaw) Cam larlyl vo ) mm M J mJ larHMNO p i i V MkW Husband, Wife Cram for State Bar Exams r . - ; ' v , VVj t,"i Y?W ' Af ' t v Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Bargeyae Taesday. The aesbant aaa wire leans gradaatee la Jaae irons Me university of Michigan Law School aad are aew employed as law clerks by the state sapreme ceert. (Statesman Pbete.) Young Couple Here to Start Late Practice A young husband . wife team, recent graduates of the Univer sity of Michigan Law School, are now employed as law clerks by the state supreme court. The 'couple is Bertram Bur goyns snd his wife, Shirley Jesa. They srrived recently In Salem with their six months old daugh ter, snd intend to establish a law practice in Oregon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burgoyns will take the Oregon State Bar examinations here next Tuesday, Burgoyne will serve for a year as law clerk for Justice Earl La tourette. Mrs. Burgoyne will serve in- a similar capacity for Justice Wslter L. Tooze. The Burgoynes said they have been "interested in coming to Oregon for some time." Youth's Body Taken From , Canada Peak PORT ALBERNI, B.C. tfl -Ten men, strslnlng st ropes sttached to a basket stretcher, Thursday brought the body of Fred Felton, Il-year-old student from Welles ley, Mass.. down from Mount Ar- rowsmith. Felton died at the 1,300-foot lev el on the rugged, mile-high moun tain near this Vancouver Island town. His body was found by chsnce by George West, 19-year-old searcher who stepped sway from the main hunt to find a drink of water. The body was draped over a fallen snag In a dry creek bed. Paul Zlgler, also or Wellesley, classmate of Felton. said he and hit companion had been driv ing and hiking during a three- week vacation on the island. They were driving toward Victoria when they stopped at the foot of Arrowsmith on Wednesday and derided to climb. They were on the way down about 1:30 Wednesday night, po lice said Zigler told them, when Felton slipped over the edge of the 45-foot cliff. He died outright of head Injuries. One of the search leaders wss Corp. Bud Johnstone of the Quail cum. B. C, Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment. He was recently promoted from con stable for his part in thwarting a $10,000 bank holdup while at tached to a unit near Vancouver. The officer suffered 1) bullet wounds in the sffrsy in which one man was killed, another wounded and two captured unhurt. PHONI 4-4713 Tonighl 6:30 )( 1334 Fairgrounds Rd. U j ENDS TOMORROW! Special First Run Engagement SAMUEL GOLDWYNY '21 I Picture of the T I i r.. MARLON BRANDO -JEAN SIMMONS FRANK SINATRA VIVIAN RI AIM? "a ISlliiM tvat.il t as V aU W 1 aVaLttaVUlU LlkJi in Color and CINEMASCOPE No Increase in Prices! a sbewa above etedytag for the Former Air Official Declares Many Secret Labels Needless WASHINGTON Ufl Trevor Gardner,- former assistant secre tary of the Air Force, declared Thursday "at least half" the gov ernment documents now classified could be stripped of their secrecy labels. Gardner told a House subcom mittee s million people in the government csn now wield the secrecy stamp. And he said that In one In stance a scientist of "internation al reputation" who was denied security clearance by another service went to work on a non secret contract for the Air Force keeps contributing "secret snd top secret Ideas." Gardner testified before a gov ernment operations subcommittee investigating information policies of federal offices. He resigned his Air Force post earlier this year, asserting the Pentagon was not bearing down, hard enough on the development of guided missiles. Retired Gcaeral The subcommittee also heard retired Lt. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, who for years served aa Army chief of Information. He contend ed present limits on the Army's publie information funds are ''to tally inadequate, completely un realistic and artificial." Doing away with "this limita tion." he said, would "remove one of the major blocks Impeding tne tree now or information." Parks said that by last year Army Information funda had been cut to $030,000 from past budgets of about four million dollars. News Corps Needed Psrks testified the Army needs a trained corps of officers to get news to the public, since military men arc by experience inclined to keep information within the service. Reporters, hs said, should be allowed to get news directly from each service rather than go through the Defense Department. The retired general formerly was information officer under five civilian secretaries and four chiefs of staff. "Not one of them," he said, Woodburn Drive-In Wed. Thurs. Fri. . SsL Walt Disney's 1IYIM DEJttr Plus . THlWOIElYIUOWIIIIor Jeha Wayne Joanae Dm . Of EH 7:1S Ilartj Dm. SILVERTON Drive-In Theatre Fri. -Sat Walt Dlinev'e "DAVY HK7T Plus "F08EYH DAilMC Lucille Ball Year . , . ODenfL WaltDlsney. I AVU WSmiU' t nu it I ' II rw-M'T MICE ITI n ' '! tf Come Out And Attend Our Gela H afT Tf YtD' " S'J U Jiruc-Braakinq Midnita Showl v. H 11 ) rT) - ' ) ) ,f Tou H,v WmI HMr r $Mr iMi'y if l'r"""- We Hsva On. af the Scariest Features ! '.....' .j ' j T Ivor le Released! I fTTf Tf -T "'1 ' d the Director's Hair' Turned White and His gJp vJp Jl r ) Ai,,,n' H,d Hm, state bar examlaaUene- here next "used the Army for propaganda or personal publicity or tried to withhold legitimate news from the people." Gardner is now president of Hy con Manufacturing Co. of Cam bridge, Mass., and Pasadena, Calif., which has some defense contracts. - Death Claims Mrs. Schulz Mrs. Johanna Schulz, a Salem area resident since 1905, died at a nursing home here Thursday. She was 98. Born in Germany, Jan. 29, 1SS8, Mrsi Schulz moved to Nebraska as a young woman. She rafrried' Leopold Schuli at Blue Hill, Neb., in 185. He died here in August, 1911. Mrs. Schulz was a member of the St. John's Evangelical Luth eran church. Survivors include a son, Arthur L. Schulz, Salem; five grandchil dren and U great-grandchildren. . Funeral arrangemente are In care of the Clough-Barrick Funeral Home. The U. S. Air Force reports a shortage of dose to 40,000 sir craft mechanics. DALLAS MOTOR-YU Gates epea 7:15 shew at dusk Giant 164) ft screen SPECIAL DOLLAR DAYS . . . tl.tt per car Richard Denning la THE OAT THE WORLD ENDED" Superseepe Second Feature Kent Tsvlor ia "PHANTOM ROM 10.000 IUGUQ" CONTINUOUS SHOW FROM 1 T. M. . - . )y TBJTAa I iVeJ ftrswta I fey v ?lR asi j ., m t. - ' ' . . aaBaBBBBa. as m m . m m i i a f J 11 POSITIVILY Na Refunds to Sissies) JJ aaWaV'. I i 01 W a mt t S S if I li , ejvai vivm i vvr Kjv ana nvaavri u FRIDAY-JULY 13TH Boy Quizzed In Attempted Assault Here A 17-year-old youth was taken Into custody by Salem police Thuraday evening as an aftermath of aa attempted assault oa a Sa lem woman last Saturday after noon. The boy, whom officers listed as Kenneth Roy Farrls, waa booked on a charge of assault while armed with a dangerous weapon. Police quoted the youth ss having admit ted the attempt ia e-South Liberty Street residence. Detectives arrested the 17-year- old in a foster home at 331S Mt. View Drive about S p.m. The boy reportedly graduated from North Salem High School last month. ' A .21 calibre automatic, report edly the weapon used in Saturday's assault attempt, was found in chest in a bedroom of the foster home, police said. Officers report ed that the boy informed them of the location of the gun. Police said the youth was located by tracing a phone number which a Salem woman obtained during a call from a auspicious man. In Saturday s assault attempt po lice said an armed man entered a residence on South Liberty Street and forced a woman into a back bedroom. Holding the woman at gunpoint, be told her to disrope, police reports showed. However, the man left the house when told that the woman's husband was re turning soon, it was reported. Salem Seed Firm Accused in Writ - PORTLAND " UB -"A federal court information writ Thursday accused the Jenks-Whits Seed Co., Salem, of shipping rygrass seed to, Florida la improperly labeled bags. Federal Atty. James W. Morrell said the labels failed to disclose the present of sheep sorrel seeds In the mixture. Sorrel seed is con sidered noxious under Florida law, Morrell said. ENDS TONIGHTI "TRAPEZE" "Killer Is Loose" STARTS TOMORROW! YEAR'S HAPPIEST HIT! JEFF CHANDLER IARAM DAY WESTERN CO HIT ENOW SHOWINGI iwmn WATERMELONS Always Salem's Lowest Price I Cantaloupe Jb 10' EARLY BIRD SPEOAISI 10 TO 13 A.M. SATURDAY ONLY BANANAS - h. . 10c DILL PICKLES m. 25c PRAISE 39c FRYERS : -89c SPRY 3 79c Oven-Fresh Crackers 2?., 39' Swiff1 s in Jewel ra Cofe 'i' 85' mm. ; Whole . . . lb. Shank Half . - lb. Cenler Cuts . . lb. IF Swift's SLICED BACON BACON JOWLS ,, 19' HEDIUM AGED CKEDDAI CHEESE Rib and Sirloin fab We Reserve the Right to limll-No Sales te Dealers Prices Good Through Thursday Portland Road SAIEM Large C Heads j " lach 49' lb. Sdgewater St. WEST SALIM 47