5-Ton Honors Due for Fifteen
County Strawberry Growers
Grim Death Reminder
By LILME L. MADSEN
Farm Edltar, Tb Statrimaa
Wr L. Peterson. Salem Route I
strawberry grawer, heads the list
of 15 Marion County growers who
qualified for membership in the
'Five-ton Strawberry Club of 1956".
Peterson'! W-acre Marshall
'Hands Free'
Phone Booth
To Get Tests
CHICAGO un A new "hands
free" telephone booth will receive
a full scale test next week at the
Democratic national convention.
The experimental booth, which
has been installed at the inter
national amphitheatre, permits a
caller to communicate without
Using an Instrument. A recessed
speaker and microphone are built
into the booth's soundproof walls.
The only controls are a switch
' and a knob to adjust the sound
volume.
The Bell Telephone Co., which
developed the new booth, says it
now ran he used -onlv when an-
attendant is present to handle the
rails. The' booth contains neither
coin box nor a dial. -
"There are no immediate plans
to place similar booths in prrma-
m in iin mi'iii. a iuiuJaiijr
spokesman said. "The booth is
still in the experimental stage."
Kx-Hcatlwaitcr
Admits Tax
Evasion Guilt
NEW YORK -Arthur Hage-dorn-,
former Headwaiter at the
Woldorf Astoria Hotel. Monday
pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal
' Court to an income tax evasion
charge.
Judge Matthew Abruizo set Sept.
10 for sentencing.
Hagedorn was indicted last July
S. The government charged he
paid $9,000 in income taxes for
1952 and 1953 when he should have
paid some $21,000. Hagedorn was
continued free in $5,000 bail.
He faces maximum penalty of
10 years in prison or $20,000 in
fines, or both.
field yielded 42.S7 tons in its
second crop year for an average
production of s.l tons per acre.
He, with 14 other growers from
Marion County and some 40
growers from other strawberry
producing counties in Oregon and
Southeast Washington, will be hon
ored Friday night at the annual
Five-Ton Club swards banquet in
Portland.
The banquet and awards are
sponsored by Oregon-Washington
Strawberry Council, whose execu
tive committee will announce the
top grower in the, two states Fri
day night. Marvin Van Cleave,
Saicm, ia chairman of the council.
Another Marshall grower, Law
, rence Wolle, Brooks, took second
place in Marion County with a 5
lion average from a five-acre field
that yielded 32 5 tons.' Third place
i honors went to Louis Scofield,
Turner, whose 10 acres of North
west and Marshall varieties
yielded 01.73 tons fpr an average of
6.17 tons per acre. Of the total
acreage: Scofield's 8'-acre North
west field yielded 56 S tons and
his l'i acre Marshall field gave
9.23 Inns,
To Nelson Tribbett, Newberg,
whose. strawberry field Is situated
north of St. Paul, went the honors
for the largest acreage that quali
fied for membership in the Five
Ton Club among Marion County
growers. Tribbett harvested 90.3
Ions from his 16-acre Northwest
field for an average of 5 63.
Growers with "Five Ton" fields
were scattered throughout Marion
County,"" Four growers'' had" "Salem"
mailing addresses and three were
from Brooks. Two were from each
iWoodburn and St. Paul, and one
grower each from Gervais, Turner,
Aurora and Silverton.
Completing the list were M. H.
Merten, St. Paul; Dale Krug. Sil
verton: Kirsch Bros., Aurora:
Anna R. Wiener. Gervais: Ashland
Brothers and M. E. Hammond,
Woodburn; Mrs. Jim Jackson and
William Jebousek, Brooks: Pete
Taranoff, Harry Duncan, and Alan
Haslebacher, Salem.
"President James Garfield was
the last President of the United
States to be born in a log cabin.
Funeral Rites Set
For Lane Official
EUGENE I - Services will be
held here Thursday for Walter J.
Holland, Lane County commis
sioner from 1935 to 1950, who died
in a hospital Sunday. He was 78.
Born at Crow, in Lane County,
Holland for many- years was a
school teacher.
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Stassen Keeps
Anti-Nixon
Efforts Rolling
Secrecy Wall
Tightened at
Atomic Plants
By G. K. 1IODENF1ELD
WASHINGTON Harold E.
Stassen nuflgea-nis jump aix-. Ut mea,ure ban, photographs
on" campaign forward Monday",,, tuch plan(s witnout AKC
. WASHINGTON - President
Eisenhower Monday signed a bill
tightening the protection of gov
ernment plants operated by the
Atomic Energy Commission,
apparently unconcerned over the ,:.;. -j -;-. ik.i ;..
political brickbats flying about his turcJ takfn jth the Kcncy t con.
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NOVATO, Calif. James C. Reedy, 35, of Novate was killed Sunday when his car smashed
broadside into this concrete bridge abutment and was cut nearly in two. (AP Wirephoto)
pud OffiHin
WASHINGTON I A Washington-slate
publio utility district
Monday urged the Federal Pow
er Commission to license propos
ed private power dams at Moun
tain Sheep and Pleasant Valley
in the Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon
border.
A statement by John Dickson,
manager of the Wahkiakum Coun
ty PL'D at Cathlamet, was accept
ed for the record at an FPC ex
aminer's hearing on an applica
tion by the Pacific Torthwest
Power Co. for a license covering
the two dam sites.
The statement was submitted
early in the hearing, but it was
held up by an objection by fcve-
lyn Cooper, lawyer for public pow
er, groups opposing the application.
Mrs. Cooper withdrew her ob
jection Monday after FPC re
ceived a telegram from the PUD's
hoard of commissioners saying
Dickson had been authorized to
make the statement,. She had ques
tioned his authority.
Dickson said PUD is concerned
about getting enough power to
serve its area and is seeking au-
Mcthodists Name
Corvallis Pastor
CHICAGO ( Bishop Fred P.
Coson, Philadelphia, Monday was
reelected to a four-year term as
president of the board of educa
tion of the Methodist Church.
. In addition, the board at its an
nual meeting elected 11 members-at-largc
to bring it to its full com
plement of 91 members. They in
cluded Dr. Daniel D. Walker, Cor
vallis, Ore.
Today, the once mighty grizzly
bear of Alaska is nearly extinct.
thority to build new generating
facility on Gray's River. .
An engineering winess for
PNP, A. E. Alspaugh of Port
land, Ore,, insisted on cross-ex-,
amination that the Mountain
Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams
would be "best adapted to a com
prehensive plan" for the Snake
River. .
This testimony by the Pacific
Power li Light Co. engineer was
challenged by Mrs. Cooper, who
contends federal dams in the area
would provide more power and
other benefits. .
Mrs. Cooper asked whether a
higher federal dam at Pleasant
Valley would not produce more
power and more other benefits
than the, one proposed by PNP.
Alspaugh said this might 4
true But he said his study show
ed the additional cost jnvolved in
increasing the height of the dam
could not be justified."
head.
The one-time "boy wonder" of
the GOP told. a news conference
Vice President Richard Nixon was
politically weak with labor, mi
nority and independent groups
although he declined to say why.
And he said "some very solid con
servative businessmen in Boston
are rallying to my support" but
he declineq to identify these.
Sunday he included former
Gov. Robert Bradford of Massa
chusetts on a list of half a dozen
Republicans he said were Support
ing his position.
Even as Stassen was pushing
his campaign to getr.Gov, Chris
tian A. Herter of Massachusetts
the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket
this fall. Sen. Joseph McCarthy
(R-Wis) loosed a blast at Stas
sen, .
McCarthy called Stassen "one
of the most contemptible, politi
cians of our era ... possessed by
an overpowering ambition to be
come President." McCarthy said
Stassen s real goal was to get him
self not Herter the Vice
Presidential nomination this year
and the Presidential nomination
four years hence.
McCarthy again said he was aor
ryhrllad Wpphrted StMseiTfof
the 1948 'Republican Presidential
nomination,' adding, "the Nixon
episode is final, proof that anyone
who ever thought well of Stassen
was-adly deluded."
In his news conference, Stassen
said John J. Schroeder of St. Lou
is,' national convention delegate
from Missouri's first district, had
added his pledge to those support
ing Stassen'i campaign in H fr
ier's behalf.
. He answered "no" in reply to a
direct question as to whether for
mer Colorado Gov. Dan Thorn
ton had joined his movement, but
said he had heard reports there
was support in Colorado for put
ting Thornton on the ticket with
Eisenhower instead of Nixon.
Stassen said contributions to
support his drive were continuing
to come in, with one as large
as $1,000 and several of as much
as $500.
U.S. farms use more than twice
as much horse power as all other
American industries combined.
sent.be submitted to it for inspec
tion. '
Other provisions would:
Give the AEC authority to en
gage in training programs and to
make grants to universities and
hospitals tor training activities.
Give jurisdiction over all land
at the Los Alamos. N.M., project
to-AEC. The Interior and Agri
culture Departments now control
some of it. .
Angered Hurglars
Melt lee Cream
NORFOLK. Va. Cecil Ca
nada, co-owner of the Best Ever
Ice Cream Co., says he's got a
pretty good idea why there were
two trucks of nlelted ice cream
and two inches of water on the
office floor when he arrived , for
work Monday. - '
His theory ia that storebreak
ers angered because they found
no money in the office, made the
big mesa "Just from pure mean
ness." They pulled plugs leading to re
frigeration units in the trucks and
turned a hose on the office floor.
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Tues., Aug. 7, '56 (Sec I)-3
Device Reveals Runway Bumps
BALTIMORE I A device
that searches out bumps in air
port runways has been developed
for the Air Force, the Air Re
search and Development Com
manda nnounced Monday.
The roughness indicator devis
ed by the Mid-West Research In
stitute of Kansas City, Mo., takes
a statistical picture. or profile
of a runway.
ARDC officials said modem air
craft face one of their greatest
structural trials getting off the
ground. Rough runways set up
vibrations which can . materially
affect the construction strength
of the airplane and weaken it be
fore it leaves the ground.
President Approves
Reclamation Project
WASHINGTON President
Eisenhower signed Monday a bill
to authorize construction of the
Crooked River reclamation proj
ect near Prineville, Ore. Construc
tion funds, estimated at $6,598,000.
still must be provided by Congress
before work can start.
The government estimates that
the project can repay $2,299,000 of t
the federal investment over a aw
year period, and the balance Jrom
power revenues irom-jne uaues
Dam. i
SEEK DOG POISONER "
MALIM Rewards totaling
$400 have been posted here for .
apprehension of persons responsi
ble for the deaths of 20 dogs li
the past two months from poisoning.
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