U.S. Learns to Limit Spread of Deadly Radioactivity in Latest Nuclear Test!
WASHINGTON Ul The Unit
ed States Thursday night' an
nounced progress in "localizing"
deadly . . radioactive fallout the
first "humanitarian" turn yet tak
en in the nuclear weapons race
Wat many have (eared would lead
to the death of civilization.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of
the Atomic Knergy Commission,
made the announcement.
He . said that current Kniwetok
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Heat Wave Slackens
After Soaring to 1 06
Overcast Skies, Cooler on Forecast for Today
Clouds shielded Salem from a
earing summer sun late Thurs
day afternoon but not before the
mercury soared to 106 degrees.
Partly cloudy skies and much
cooler weather is expected here
today, the McNary Field weather
station reported.
U.S. Cancels Bid to
Finance Egpyt Dam
WASHINGTON T h e
Vnited States cracked down on
Egypt Thursday night by can
celing a previous offer to iielp
finance the Jl.390.OOt.0Ot As
wan high dam oa the Nile
River.
The sudden action left the
way clear for Russia to step in
if it ran and desires to sid
President Gamal Abdul Nas
ser's government in launching
the huge irrigation-power pro
ject. The State Department, in an
nouncing the decision, said
bluntly that "it is not feasible"
any longer for the U.S. to go
ahead with the offer extended
last December. It said "devel
opments" within llio past seven
months have renewed uncertain
Egypt's ability to carry her
DtF
mum
Willassette National Forest . II
The south fork of McKenzie
River joins the main stream a
little ways below the community
of McKenzie Bridge. On the south
fork the corps of engineers is pro
ceeding with the construction of
Cougar Dam. This is the dam
which the Eugene Water It Elec
tric Board wanted to have set up
as a partnership with the govern
ment EWiEB financing the
power installation and contributing
an additional sum for general con
struction, and then taking the elec
tric energy for its customers.
Senator Morse killed off this part
nership, and with the aid of Sen
ator Neubergcr, obtained appro
priations for an exclusive federal
project. Power, though, will be
flowing from it in a few years.
We visited the site of this dam
on our forest tour Monday and
found workmen beginning -with
power drills to drive the diversion
tunnel throuch the rib of a moun
tain. The public doesn't realize the
impart of a major construction
job like this on the forest. First,
the rcervoir site must be cleared
of timber. The forest service sets
up sales for all the merchantable
stulf, then the corps of engineers
awards contracts for cleanup and
burning of forest debris as was
done at Detroit 'Dam. On this
south- fork some 15 million feet
of logs will be taken off the valley
floor and sides to the top of the
flow line. This puts a big load of
(Contioaed on editorial page, 4.)
KOHTHWIST I.EAGl'R
At Salem 4. Eugene 3.
At Wenatrheo 4. Yakima S.
At Tn-City S, Spokane S. i
FAt'lNC COAST LCAOI'R
At Hollywood 3, Portland I.
At Sacramento 4. Seattle 1.
At San Dleto 17, Vancouver I.
At San Francisco S, Los Angeles S.
NATIONAL l.rAUI'E
At Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn I.
At Milwaukee 13. New Vnik I.
Al Chicago 4. Philadelphia 3.
Only game. achefluled.
AMKHICAN I F AG I S
At New Voik 7. Oetrult 3.
At Roilon 4, Kinm I lly I
At Waahlngton S. Cleveland 4.
At Baltimore 1. Chicago 3.
WILBERT
"You ought to bo glad it was
you. Dad . . if I had sawed the
eog aff nolghboe's ladder ho
aisJtf m0 ami Msi"
' Jur-r
"mm
test blasts' have confirmed it Is I
possible to' set off a great nuclear
blast that has "maximum effect
in the immediate area of a target
with minimum widespread (all
out hazards."
"Wa arA rnnvinpAft (hot man
hazard from fallout is not a neces-1
sary complement to the use of
large nuclear weapons," the an
nouncement said.
There was much in the way of
i Predicted high today is 85, the
; low tonight 55
Salem's maximum temperature
i Thursday came about 3 p.m.
I Skies began to cloud shortly aft-
jerward and the temperature start-
ed to drop.
j Thursday's 106 degrees was,
share of the financial burden.
The United Slates has been
growing cooler toward the dam
project as it studied Nasser's
friendliness with Russia and his
big arms purchases from the
Communist bloc
Dispatches from London
Thursday said Nasser's govern
ment is believed to have mort
gaged its important cottoa crop
for some yeats to come to pay
for the jet bombers, fighters
tanks and funs it is getting
from Red Czechoslovakia. Cot
ton Is-the basis of the Egyptian
economy.
In withdrawing the offer, the
American government offered
to help Egypt and other Middle
East countries develop some
plan later for using 'Nile River
waters.
City Fathers'
Feud Flares
At MU1 City
Suteaaaaa Kewa Servl.e
DETROIT A long-smouldering
follri of Villi ntv f.itw fnthaec
,, ,i ik. ,.,,; ...:
v savin u mio vum n avail, iiiui
day when Police Chief Clarence
H. Meader filed a $22,185 slander
suit against former councilman
Donald Jenkins.
The new action, brought in
Marion County Circuit Court l
Salem, was apparently connected j
to municipal problems centering1
on the arrest and conviction of
Police Commissioner Arlow Tours
on a "peeping torn" charge sev
eral months ago.
Meader, who was a witness for
Tours at the Marion County Dis
trict Court trial, is accusing Jen
kins ol making two slanderous
statements against him -at a city
council meeting May 22. His com
plaint charged Jenkins with cast
ing aspersions at his testimony
given at the Tours trial and mak
ing statements rpflertinff nn hia
k:i;t., -- . j
auim aa m puuic uiucri .
As a result of Jenkins' state-!220
ments, Meader aid, he was fired
from his nolice chief ioh the nr-xt
day and his reputation damaged. I
Meader was rehired tw o. weeks
later after Mill City residents'
had petitioned to have him rein-!
stated. I
When the council put Meader t
bark on the payroll, Jenkins, a I
Mill City hardware dealer, re-
signed as alderman.
Civil Defense
Alert Today
It's "Operation Alert" today.
The Civil Defense exercise will be
observed in the Salem and mid
valley areas as well as through
out the state and nation.
Sirens will herald the exercise
in Salem and simulated care will
be given at the State Fairgrounds
for Portland evacuees forced to
flee Imaginary, enemy attack. At
Canby an estimated 4 000 eyacu- j Robi,rt T MauUi Porland,
ees among them Gov. hlmo , plei.lfd in Milv as Republican
iniilh, will be accomodated with National Coniinitlwiiian. resigned
an emergency meal. (Thursday from the Slate Itacing
Basic plan of the exercise re-; Commission,
vulves around imaginary enemy ln pl"'. '!"' VAmo Smith
air and submarine attacks on 7B:aPP"'n'fd .Charles A Kvans ln
, , ., ,, . . ... i dependence, to serve the balance
key areas in the United States, of lhf tmil whjl. plld, in Jan.
inclgding Portland. , luary,
School Board
To Build Swimming Pools
A shortage nf Selem swimming
pools, brought sharply, to atten
tion by the current not spell, got
consideration Thursday from the
Salem school board which began
weighing possibili'ies of building
new ones as put of the school
program. '
"If we'd hed a bond election
today it would have passed nn
inimously," one school board
member said of the possibility
of including cnr.struction of pools
at Salem's two new junior high
school sites.'
The timely possibility was In
cluded in policy recommends
'lions from Dr. , Waller Snyder,
superintendent of the Salem
School District, ih a closing talk
to the board. Dr. Snyder's resig
nation becomes effective next
month.
general, unspecific promise In
what the AEC reported, but little
in the way of hard facts. The com
mission said "there won't be any
further comment or amplifica
tion." .
That reply was given first of
all to the question ax to whether
the commission would shed
any light on how the localizing of
fallout might be achieved.
It was- the reply given, too, to
two degrees above Wednesday's
high here and two degrees below
the all-time heat record, 108 de-
Igrees on July 15, 1941
Hottest Spot,
The Dalles, Ore., tied with
Yuma, Ariz., Thursday as the
hottest spots in the nation. Both
had sizzling 108's, the Associated
Press reported.
Other highs in the state in
cluded Portland, 102; Pendleton,
104; and Dallas, 106.
The Oregon state board of for
estry Thursday closed the Tilla
mook burn area to entry except
I with a permit. Permit closures
'have been established on 700.000
other acres of state forest land
, within the past week.
Logging operations . remained
at a standstill elsewhere in west-
Salem Temperatures
Time
Degrees
19.10
11:30
12:30
1:30
2:30
3:00
3:30
4:30
5:30
a.m
. 88
. S2
.
a.m.
p.m. .
p.m.
p.m.
p.m.
p.m. .
...100
..105
...108
..104
... 95
.. 88
p.m.
p.m.
ern Oregon and in Southwest
Washington, and were sharply
curtailed in the rest of western
Washington.
Four Forest Fires
Four forest fires all less than
.3 of an acre in size were re
ported by the state forestry de
partment Thursday. The blazes
included two lightning fires and
a debris fire in the Lane County
area, and a logging operation
fire near Yoncalla in Douglas
County.
Humidity is expected to rise to
25 to 30 per cent .west of the
Cascades today.
At Detroit Dam, where the tem-
Iperature hit 102 Thursday after-
' , . , , , . .
i noon: ht rain fell -in the
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Statesman Newi Servlra
DAYTON The heat Thursday
was blamed for a serious short
age of bean pickers at U.S.
Alderman Farms.
Only 900 pickers showed up
Thursday compared to 1.500 the
day before, according to Joe
Dahcer of the Alderman office
staff.
Thp rretv has hpr-n harvectinff
- " - i
f bush beans. Dancer
!sa,d' and tn" hot wwther has
; brought the beans along faster
lnan crfw can kP UP wltn
lhfm-
The shade temperature outside
lh Alderman otfices Thursday
afternoon w as tOfi degrees.
Harvesting of 375 acres of pole
bfans scheduled to start Fri-
aa? A'oerman larms. uancer
saia. ine aaie is .one .week earner
than the start of pole bean pick
ing a year ago. , '
Most Alderman Farm pickers
commute to the fields from Port
land, Yamhill County and coastal
communities in special buses.
The huge .Alderman Farms are
credited with growing one out of
every 100 pounds of beans that are
processed for human consumption
in the Vnited Slates.
Mautz Quits
Racing Board
Studies Plan
Pr. Snyder aid he could see
adequate "justification for swim
ming tanks as- part of the school
program" and considered it pos
sible to hold a successful bond
election to locate tanks at the
twn lu-w inriiee hi"h aitnit " A
community of this si.e neeiis ail
iiiiiuiiui swimming lacititiei, lie
said.
Safety features of added pituls
was brought out by Board Mem
bers Hay l'at"s and Mrs. Kilith
Brydon who noted the waiting
line, jammed poo1 situation which
has existed this wek at Olingcr
and Leslie pools.- Crowded con
ditions' were making it difficult
for lifeguards to keep adequate
cheeks on swinmer', Ihev said.
(Add. School Board News on
Pag Z, Sec 1.)
broader questions that sprang up,
among them; ,
If this mean that a way has
been found to make a nuclear
explosion "safer," will the United
States share the knowledge with
Russia?
By the same token, the theory
has been widely held that be
cause of the almost unlimited
threat of horrible death to miP
106th Year
Bell Signals
'rf '
'""V'VaV
AURORA Signaling the start of Aurora's rentealal, F. M. Ferguson (left) and Mayor A. J. Zimmer
man toll bell that summoned Aurora colonists to church a century age. The bell stow reposes la
front of City Hall. Three-day
day with full day of festivities
KGAY Applies for TV
Channel 24 in Salem
'Radio Station KGAY jumped into Salem's confused television
picture Thursday to announce it was applying for a permit to acti
vtte ultri high frequency tl'HF) Channel 24, one of four channels
allotted to this city.
Ther? are no other current
I swrence Harvey of Torrance, Calif., dropped two years ago after
Sheridan Lad
River Victim
HOOD RIVER ' A 12-year-old
boy drowned while swimming
in the Columbia River at Koberg's
Reach, two miles east of here
Thursday.
i He was Gary Brown., son of the
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Brown of
Sheridan, Ore.
The body was recovered an hour
later.
Fire Destroys
Home of Family
On Trip to Kansas
SUIeimaa Stmt Service
DALLAS A pre-dawn fire
Thursday gutted the Fred Wilhite
home here while the family. was
vacationing in Kansas.
The- two-bedroom frame house
was a mass of flames by the time
Dallas firemen were called. The
house was considered a total loss,
although firemen saved the shell
of the structure.
IxK'atcd at 4(iJ Orchard Ave.,
the house was owned by Mrs.
L. C. Fisher. She said it was cov
ered by $3,500 Insurance but re
placement costs would be consid
erably higher.
Cause of the 2 am. blaze was
unknown. Indications were that t
started in the kitchen, firemen
said. The Wilhites left for Kansas
a week ago on a twn-to-three
week vacation. They have six
children.
The Weather
Salem . - IM S M
Human 102 60 Trai
Huker M M IKI
Mrillont . SI .Ml
Ni.rllj llrnil ........ M .!!
Iliii-elniiS W ':ili " .(Ml
Sati riaiu-iiu-o 'u tii mi
l. Aimelta . . 74 Hi till
liiM-spi . . (2 S? M
New Yurk HI (HI UU
Willamette River
I I feel.
Vfireratt (irtitn I'.
weathrr bureau.
Mi-Nary Held, Salem):
Partly i-lnnriy and ntut-h rooter
throueh. Saturday, tllsh today IV
the low Innlfht 5S.
Temperature al II St am. today
11.
smtm rnrrirrMTinv
autre start at Weather A ear Sept. 1
Thi Sear l.io ar dermal
MM Mil tU
lions and the blighting of poster
ity, no nation would undertake a
nuclear war, since retaliation in
kind would be a certainty.
Thus the question arose that per
haps limitation of the fallout aft
ermath might reduce the war de
terrent effect that the very ex
istence of terrible weapons have
had.
Th SEC announcement gave no
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Start of Aurora
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celebration here opens Friday night with pageant, continues Satur
snd ends Sunday. (Statesman Photo).
applicants for Inannel Z4 (wnicn
heing given the go-ahead ty tne
Federal Communications Comis
sion '.
No immediate decision is ex
pected since the federal commis
sion has just started summer re
cess and may not reassemble un
til late August.
Controversy Not Involved
Gordon Allen, president of
KGAY, who also operates KGAL
at Lebanon as well as stations at
Longview iK-BAM) and Seattle
iKTIXi, said his application for
TV Channel 24 has no connection
with the current controversy over
Salem's very high frequency
(VHFI TV Channel 3.
Rights to Channel 3, once sought
by KGAY, have been held in re
cent years by Radio KSLM which
now is seeking to sell it to KPTV
of Portland. Opposing the transfer
is C. H. Fisher of KVAL ..at F.u
grnc, who has filed to procure the
channel for his Salem Television
company.
Meanwhile, it was announced
Thursday that the FCC had grant
ed KGAY rights to Increase its
radio power from 1000 to 5000
watts to add an estimated I.Vl.Ooo
listeners. F, s r 1 e Hcadrjck js
KGAY manager.
Higher Tower
Allen, who said additional lower
heiglith at his Lancaster Drive
transmitter site would permit a
TV installation on Channel 24 to
"give excellent area service,"
also disclosed he was applying for
a TV channel to augment his
Longview radio station. He said
present allocations plans of the
FCC ''could well make a TV chan
nel available to operate in con
junction with most radio stations
over the nation.''
His comment was based on re-centlv-published
speculation that
the FCC would withdraw all VHK
TV bands (Channel l-ll from
commercial use. and substitute
L'HF Channel '14 to 88 in a
nation-wide realignment. It has
been declared that present holders
of U1IK bawls are unable to com
pete MK'CFMst'ully with the limited
liimiuer of 111''- tiilioiiN w hu ll
have a wider rausfe.
There have been no applicants
for I UK 111 i educational i and
I'HF Mi, Sulein s other t lunneK
AMBASSADOR NAMFD
LONDON W Britain Friday
named Sir Harold Anthony Caccia
an old friend of President F.is-
enhnwer's ambassador In the
1'nited States. He will succeed ,
Sir Roger Makuu.
real clue as to what type of weap
ons it referred to when it said it
had found there are factors "which
do make it possible, to localize to
an extent not heretofore appreciat
ed, the fallout effect of nuclear
explosions,"
The terrifying consequences of
widespread fallout first came to
light in a report on the March 1,
1954 Hydrogyn Bomb test.
FOUNDED 1651
The Oregon Statesman,
Celebration
i i
J I
V
l
Centennial to
Open Tonight
With Pageant
Br CHARLES IRELAND
Valley Editor, The Statesman
Al'RORA This historic com
munity's centennial celebration
U'ill nrtpfl at S n m Friday with
a coronation ceremony and a free
pageant at the city park
About 50 people will take part
in the pageant, which will be
heavily flavored with the kind of
music that helped make the Au
rora colony famous.
The pageant will be in two
scenes, following opening cere
monies at which Charles A.
Sprague of Salem will crown 72-year-old
Amy Hurst as queen of
the centennial.
The first scene will, depict the
original Aurora colonists crossing
the plains from Bethel, Mo., ac
cording to Mrs. Ben' Stoner,
pageant director.
There will be music by a "little
German hand" and singing in
German in the opening scene.
The pageant's other scene will
feature singing in Knglish after
the colony was established here,
Mrs. Stoner said.
Kcscrvoir Claims
Life of Swi miner
- EI'GKNK tn A -swimmer
drowned in Fern Ridge reservoir
west of here Wednesday evening.
Lee Roy Kirby, 48, swam to a
buoy with his wife and two com
panions but a moment later
slipped from the buoy and sank
in the waler.
Mid-Valley Area First in Line to Receive
Natural Gals Next Month, at Reduced Rate
By CONRAD PRANCE
Staff Writer, The Statesman
' (Picture on Page I, See 1)
Natural gas will come to Salem
and the rest nf the Willamette
Valley in mid-August at a re
duced rnte, Portland (!as & Coke
Co. officials said in Salem. Thurs
day. "We plan to turn the nutiiiul
gus inlii the nuiin line at lorll.iiiil
on Aug II.'' said I hiirli-s II
tiuellioy. c u in p a n y president,
'"the Willaint'lte Vulley sutitli ol
Oiegon City will be the
area to receive It."
liisl
.
The natural gas. piped in from
New Mexico, will replace the
present manufactured product
Within the next several week a
crew of workers will begin the
task of "converting" the approxi-1
mattly liO.Ooa gas appliances in
This said that an area of 7.000
square miles almost as large a
territory as la contained in the
State of New Jersey was so con
taminated that survival of any per
sons in the area would be unlikely
unless they could find shelter.
Further testimony of hpw the ra
dioactivity from nuclear explosions
could spread death far and wide
came last month with disclosure of
Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 30,
eirate Votie CC5DI
Hells
City to Attack
Mosquitoes at
Dawn Today
A spray plane will make a dawn
attack on mosquitoes in and near
Salem today.
The low-flying plane will be one
phase of the 89.000 city-county
mosquito control program which
is aimed mostly at destroying
mosquito breeding grounds.
"But principal part of mosquito'
control remains in the hands of
property owners themselves,"
said Charles Barclay, city oflicial
who advised citizens to check
their property for stagnant wat
ers and to spray shrubbery,
porches and similar places used as
resting spots by the mosquitoes.
Hot weather has speeded incu
bation of mosquitoes and still air
3 1 has been ideal for flight, said Bar-
S 1 . a. :.u ,.. .....it 1 1
Clay, Willi uic rrsuii mat many
citizens have called to complain
about mosquitoes.
'
AmitvFarm
Home Bunts;
7 Homeless
SUteimaa News Servlra
AMITY Fire left a family of
seven homeless here Thursday
noon.
The blaze leveled the farm
home occupied by Mr. and Mrs
Raymond Jones and theif five
children. The house, located on
the J. Beeler farm, was three
miles east of Amity.
Nobody was at home when the
fire was discovered by Alf De
Reave and his sons. They man
aged to save only an automatic
dryer from the house.
Amity firemen, who responded.
said there was no insurance on
the property. They said the fire
apparently started in wiring.
Relatives and nelgnbors of tne
burned-out family were making
P'an5 P"'UB Mu..-
ters for them.
Schrunk Agrees
To Sulm.it to Lie
Detector Test
PORTLAND iff Multnomah
County Sheriff Terry Schrunk said
Thursday he will submit to s lie
detector test for the grand jury
which is investigating charges of
vie and corruption in Portland.
Today's Statesman
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Comics 33..
Crossword 4.
Editorials 4.
Food 19-26
Homo Panorama 11, 12
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this- area In use nf natural gas.
Conversion consists of a simple
task of reducing the size of the
valve which lets gas into the
appliance and enlarging with a
drill the burning holes. This will
be done on a house-lo-house basis.
There will he no interruption of
service when imtiiral gas dis
places the .present gas In the
Hiatus, -compiiny ullicluls said In
liiil. lew (iiloiiicis will 1-nuiV the
itillt'leiii'e. ,
Saving to customers under the
H,,w t at e, whiui will shuw on
t lit-1 r lust monthly bill after
natural gas (nines into use, will
'average ahoul 16 per cent per
'f- This will vary, officials said.
higher savings (or those
using more gas.
RfsrauV natural gas burns
i nearly twice as bot as the nianu-
Army testimony that ''several hun
dred million" deaths would result
from fallout If the United States
ever launched a full-scale nuclear
assault on the Communist world.
Lt. On. James M. Gavin, Chief
of Army Research and Develop
ment, gave the estimate to a Sen
ate Subcommittee.
He said that "current planning
estimates run on the order of sev
1956
PRICE
'Cairayoini'
Major Victory for
Ike Decided 51-41
Federal Dam Plan Beaten After
Impassioned Oratory by Both Sides
By JOHN KAMPS
WASHINGTON' The Seriate Thursday rejected the IlelU
Canyon dam bit), civintr the Eisenhower administration a clear-
cut victory over the Democratic
advocates.
The Democrats lost, bv a
bitter light for autlioriation
River bordering Idaho and Ore-
gon, where the administration nas
licensed construction ' ol three
smaller private power dams.
Eight Democrats, all from the!
South, sird with 43 Republicans;!
to defeat tne legislation, uniy iwo
Republicans Wiley of Wisconsin'
and linger qf North Dakota vot
ed for the bill.
The Democratic leadership,
which has been accusinf the Eis-
nhn m- 1miniateatinfll A '(vin
away" natural resources. - had
-J U 111. I - f .1
dam in Hells Canyon. .
Polltkal AtMosohere
-The Senate voted ia a political
ly charged atmosphere after bear
ing sometimes impassioned ora
tory by II of its members ia three
hours.
.Many of the 11 Democrats who
spoke for the bill protested against
what they called "intense pres
sure exerted by the administra
tion against the authorization bill
for the 485-miliion-dollar dam pro
ject. . .
Some of the seven debating Re
publicans termed the measure a
political device being used to help
the cominsr campagns of Demo
crats in the Pacific Northwest.
Northwest Issue '
It hss long been a prime politi
cal issue in the Northwest whether
Hells Canyon should be dammed
by a federal structure, or the three
smaller dams planned by the Ida
ho Power CO.
Democratic candidates who
have been plugging for a federal
dam Include Sen. Morse ID 0re.
who 'was the author of the bill
rejected Thursday. Sen. O'Mahon
ev iD-Wyo) said in debate that
White House aides brought pres
sure against the bill on the ap
parent reasoning that "if Hells
Canyon can be defeated, Wayne
Morse can - be defeated.
Flanders Retorts
The "giveaway-steal" charge
was flung back at the bill's sup
porters by Sen. Flanders R-Vt)
In reply to arguments that it
would be a "giveaway" to let
private utilities develop the Can
yon site. Flanders said it would
be a "steal" of the taxpayers'
money for the government to step
in where private enterprise stood
ready to take on the job.
Idaho Power has said it can
build the three dams for 133 mil
lion dollars of its own money.
Morse served notice in a state
ment after the vote that he would
keep alive his "giveaway" charg
es. He said :
"The Kisenhower administra
tion cracked the political whip on
Republican Senators with the re
sult that another giveaway of our
natural resources was perpetrat
ed upon the American people." -
T. E. Roach, president of Ida
ho Power, said in a statement
that the firm would "proceed with ,t (he universities of California
all speed in construction of the(1( )rnver and Oregon State)
three dams licensed ny tne power
commission
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1)
factored product, the company
figures the volume of natural
gas which ran be delivered to
customers will b increased by
about 40 -.per cent.
"This will mean," said Guef
froy, "that restrictions on use of
gas for healing and business pur
lcsi'S can be lilted, at least for
a tune "
A second gas main down the
WillameUe Valley will be built
"as suon as possible." Pipe lor
tins project cannot be delivered
until im. C.tieltioy said.
A group of about - ZS company
ofiittiils, including the board of expecting a baby their first
directors, visited Willamette 'Val- some time in January, a spokes
ley towns Thursday, and con- man for the actress said Thurs-
cludfd Iheir tour with a meeting
at the Marion Hotel in Salem. j Miss Turner has a daughter,
(Additional details sa Tags I; Cheryl. 13, by a preMous Jitis
Sec. 1) - . band, stock, broker Stephen Crsa.
eral hundred million deaths that .
would be either way, depending oa
which way the wind blew."
. He said if the wind blew to th
southeast the casualties would bo
mostly in Russia "although they
would extend into the Japanese
and perhaps down into the Philip
pine area."
"!f the wind blew the other way
they would extend well, back Into
western iurope.
5
No. IIS
5
leadership and public po'.
......
51-41 roll call vote, a long ami
of a federal dam in the Snak
Promoted
t
f
Arthur V. Myers, veteran teacher
and administrator of the Salem
orksol system, was praaieta4
Thursday to the post of assist
ant, superintendent. , ,
Myers New ,
npnnfv f!itv,
mr J mtm. ay j
School Chief
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT .
Staff Writer, The BUtesmsa
Arthur V Mvers. director of
suburban Sa'em schools sines)
1947, wss elevated Thursday
night to assistant superintendent
by action of (he Salem School
Board. At the same time they
named Morringside Principal
Marion Miller as hit successor.
Promotion of Myers and Miller
came on recommendation ol
Charles Schmidt who takes over
next month as superintendent of
Salem schools to succeed Dr.
Walter Snyder. Snyder's resit
nation becomes effective in Aug
ust. Elementary Emphasis
Emphssis on elementary edu
cation was indicated in promo
tion of Myers who has been with
the Salem school system for
nearly 20 years, and a teacher
for 10 years longer. "The fact
that we now have 30 elementary
schools in our district mean
that there is a greater need for
rendering a closer, more special
ized type of service and admin
istration to the elementary
schools." Schmidt raid.
Myers, SI, a graduate of Ore
gon College of Education and
m
"Willamalt, L-ith arnHiml Ibnrlr
College, was principal at High
land School for six years oeiore
becoming suburban supervisor.
Oregon I', (ireduate
Miller, 4(1. holds degrees from
the University of Oregon snd
Western Washington College of
Education. Hn has held prinri
palships in the Salem system
since 1P46 serving at Liberty,
Salem Heights. Baker and Morn
ingside, He began teaching in -1931
snd was a principal in Rose
burg before commit to Salem.
No successor for Miller st
Mornlngside was named by the
board, but it is expected tn take
action st the August meeting on
a replacement .
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Lima Turne. lo
Heroine Mollier
HOLLYWOOD Wi-Lana Turner
and her husband, Les Barker, art)
1 dav.