The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 21, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTKe Weather" Today's feretath Fair te day, tonight and Wednesday. Continued warm, with the high today near 90, town tonight naar 54. (CompWto nport yt SI 9mi to Mm trewtk tl Oratta POUND0D 1651 106tb Yaar 14 PAGES-2 SECTIONS Tha Oragen Statesman, Salam, Oregon, Tuesday, August 21, 1MV MCI St Na, 147 Widening Project on 12th Street Slows But Doesn't -Halt Traffic J V .. . LJ , a kj. ... tuJ t S 1 ? IS) fillip Ulu r 4 r.i B 1 ."" f :mm .. ; ..... r ioouAin ssi ata.agAdLWA. rfi 4e. .t-w.. iim ,iat Mff-si u. Thlj photograph looking north , shows work progressing on WDffiJM Gov. Arthur B. Langlie gave an address as temporary chairman of the Republican convention which was quite in contrast with that of Ciov. Frank Clement for the Dem ocrats. It was less vituperative. less denunciatory, and in my view was more effective for this day and age. Clement's address was "old school," for which there still may be a market in the South but hardly over the country as a whole. Republicans may be bad, but not THAT bad, as pictured by the Tennessee governor. Langlie's position was the nor mal one of "pointing with pride," and he did have many things to1 point to. . There isv peace in Korea. There is full employment for the country as whole, though there are tempo rary weak spots in the auto indus tries. Wages are at high levels. Business profits are well sustain ed. Farming income is down but this is in part due to the continu ance of overproduction under gov ernment price stimulants ijet Democrats urge a return to 90 per cent parity support). Administrative government lias ben clean. When a few got off the straight path laid down by the President, they were pushed off the payroll. The budget has been balanced, spite of high defense expenditures. Inflation forces have been pretty well held in check. There is dignity in government, and respect for the I'niled States among foreign nations. The coun try has continued to extend a help ing hand to less fortunate nations and to safeguard the ramparts of freedom round the world. On the whole it is a pretty good record, though it is not flawless: and some of the points made by Democrats at Chicago do have validity. Gov, Langlie set a high tone for the convention in his address. If it stays on this high plane it will serve the party and the country well. Man Critically Hurt in Crash Statesman Nwt Strvirt McMlNNVILLE A Pacific City man was listed in "critical" con dition by McMinnville Hospital at tendants Monday night after a col lision with a loaded logging truck earlier in the day near Grand Ronde. . The injured man, Paul Henry Swabb, was the only occupant of a car which was demolished as it jammed under the truck in the ac cident shortly before noon at Val ley Junction, stale police said. The truck driver, listed as Billy White of McMinnville, was unin jured, and the truck received mi nor damage, police said. WILBERT I think I kept this opplo lulto in the refrigerator too long!" v&AS 'a- "I 4 - Li-!1 from the intersection of 12th and State streets I work under a 12th Street . ravamping project, fclsewhere, on scneauie. Crews Work Fu 11 Speed on . Street Improvement Jobs -Large-Scale Program Progressing By RUSSELL BIERAI GEL Staff Writer, The Stale'smaa City crews arc progressing full speed on one of Salem's largest annual summertime street im provement programs: Bridge Work To Close High Street Today One of Salem's heaviest-traveled non-highway streets will be block ed, beginning today, when contrac tors start tearing down the old South High Street bridge . over Shelton Ditch. The old woode'n bridge wilt be replaced by a modern concrete structure which with two other new bridges is' to be finished before Aug. 1 next year. O. C. Bennard, Portland, is contractor. The High Street bridge is be tween Oak and Mill Streets. Traf fic will be closed at that point Until the new bridge is in. This will mean considerable re routing for many Salem drivers since Oak Street at one end of the affected block goes through from' High Street only to Commercial, and Mill Street, which does con nect with Church Street, is open : the other direction only to one-way Liberty Street The bridge projects otherwise under contract now are at Lee Street over Shelton Ditch and at North Mlh over Mill Creek. These ' are three of the four being financed by a bond issue approved by Salem voters last spring. High of 90 On Forecast Continued (air weather is fore- cast, with temperatures about the same as Monday or slightly high- er. McNary Field weathermen said. High temperature Monday was 89. Predicted high for today is 90, with a low tonight of 54. Northern Oregon beaches will be sunny this afternoon after a morn ing of fog and low clouds, Asso ciated Tress said, High tempera tures are expected to be 65-70; low tonight, 55; west and northwest winds 8-18 miles an hour. Valley Grain By 1.1 I.I.I K J(. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Willamette Valley was expected Monday to slip through its 1958 grain harvest season without too serious car shortage. Although not one of the valley's biggest grain crops, the grain quantity is "fair" and the quality is excellent. This was the information glean ed from a group of grain ware house managers interviewed Mon day afternoon. Last year it was recalled, there was considerable loss in grain quality because of car shortages. Barley deteriorated as it waited outdoors in damp weather. Reports that most of the barley this year is of malting ' quality were uniform. Fully 75 per cent of the crop would bo harvested by Monday night growers had report ed. While there may be some spring wheat, perhaps a little bar ley and some white eats to go through the hoppers yet, grain har vest will be pretty well wound up by Oregon State Fair time, 'ware housemen said Monday'. Both Mt. Angel . and Pratum warehouses sudered a little from car shortages late last week but recovered early this wcck,and ; - M A '1 . 1 II. II. II i'.l Four paving projects and threeork after widening Industrial widenings, plus the annual summer task of painting crosswalk, parking and lane lines and scooping 400- 500 yards of base rock daily from Willamette River, have provided employment for about 125 city workers in the $250,000 program, not counting the city-state project on 12th Street and contract re surfacing being done by Warren Northwest, Inc. Two projects were added Mon day when city . crews started a sewer in Lowen Street, in West Salem Hills,- and Walling Sand & Gravel started its part of contract resurfacing. Finished by Fair The two biggest projects are both slated to.be ready by State Fair time. City Engineer J. Har old Davis said. They are widening 12th Street south from Union Street to the city limits, and Market Street from Summer Street to the city limits. Another widening project, how ever, on Fairgrounds Road, is ex pected to start about Sept. 1. It will cause minor interference with state fair traffic, but this incon venience is overbalanced by , the need to get the job started im mediately after men and, equip ment can be moved from 12th and Market streets, Davis said. Slate Project The state is in charge, of the 12th Street project, except for the mile from Mission Street to the city limits at Hoyt Street, which the city is doing with its own crews. Also coming up yet this fall are four new bridges and widening of another. The neW bridges, all re- placements, wm cross snenon aucn at High and Lee streets, and Mill creek at North 14th and South 25th streets. The one to be widened is on 12th Street crossing Shelton ditch. Contracts have been let for all but the South 25th Street and 12th Street bridges on which bids are to be opened 10 a.m. Aug. 27. West Salem Streets Three of the seven streets now undergoing improvement are ir. West Salem. Besides 12lh ami Market streets, city equipment isjsion of Agalzoff land now occupied at paving Piedmont avenue from Rosemont avenue to Senate street, Valley View avenue from Orchard Heights road to Tay bin road, and Arrow street, a short street off Cascade drive, all in West Salem: paving West Nob Hill street from Hoyt street to Jurlson street and Hoyt street from Commercial street to High street, in South Salem; and "clean up" Harvest Fair; Monday managers expressed hope that he shortage would not be re pealed tljisjeason. "Grain came on much earlier this year which helped consider able," Herb Wiley, manager of the Pratum Co-op said. "We were short a couple of cars late last week, but we are shipping five to six cars of barley a day, and we are trucking out huge amounts of wheat on freight trucks." Around 300 Ions of barley and 150 tons of wheat are being averaged daily in addition to oats received".' Dumping at the warehouse starts around 8:30 a.m., and runs through 8 p.m.,' Wiley said. "" Bernard Kirsh, Mt. Angel Farm ers Union Warehouse, reported some 600 cars of grain coming in there daily. He expected to see the main shipping pressure over by the end of this week. "Cars have been good this year until late last week; then we were short. But we got a couple today (Monday)," he reported. "Eleva tors and all other available space were filled over the week-end. Grain was not being received at Ihc warehouse Monday morning but was accepted again during the afternoon." ':tAdd."'''detalli';page;'rr A. $250,000 city street improvement program is coming along ims summer s street program on Schedule- Way and McDonald street from Brooks avenue to the American Can Co. in North Salem. 2 Monmouth Brothers Die In Accident CORVALLIS Two brothers were killed outright Monday after noon when their car collided with a loaded log truck on Highway 34, about 20 miles southwest of here on the route to Alsea. Benton County sheriff's officers identified the dead as Richard Nolan, 22, and,, his 16-year-old brother, Tony, both of Monmouth. Richard was believed to have been driving the automobile. , Deputy Aaron Dearing said their westbound car apparently went out of control on a . downgrade curve., hitting the left rear of the oncoming truck. The impact knocked the rear trailer wheels out from under the heavy load of logs. The car spun on o'own the. highway - and slammed into a bank. The truck driver. Gene Martin, 28, of 2625 Primrose St., Lebanon, was not injured. County Loses $5,000 Sum in Court Action A $5,000 judgment against Mar ion County for destruction of prop erty has been handed down by a circuit court jury. The sum was awarded to John W. and Mary Ann Agalioff, Ballan tine Road, after a legal dispute that dates back more than five vnara Marion County was found at fault through its construction of ti ' drainage installation th.it stihse. quently caused flooding and ero- According to v the complaint, in October, 1H50. the county engineer ing department laid certain drain tiles under Ballantine Road in such a manner that surface water was collected and discharged on Agal zoff land (bordering the road) eroding the land of its top soil, Two gulleys were formed, the com plaint stated, one of which is 600 feet long. The Agalzoffs filed their original complaint in February, 19.11. A re vised complaint was filed Dec. 13, 1954, which is the one acted on 'by the jury. I.I II I niiionlinn Gels Laic Start SAN FRANCISCO i - The Re publicans expect to finish this el ection year in a blare of glory, but they didn't get pff as quickly as the Democrats. Party Chairman Leonard W. Hall called the COP convention to order Monday at 11:26 a.m., local time 26 minutes late. When Paul M. Butler, the Dem ocratic chairman, pound J his ga vel at Chicago last week, it was only three minutes past the sched uled starting hour. NORTH Wf ST I KAC.I H At WrnuU'hre .1. Salrm 4. " At Tn-Oty a. Kpoknnf IS. At LtwUton S, Yjkl,n 0. PA;IFIC COAST I KAI.l F At Sacmmrnto 4. Portland J. f At Hollywood . Sfjlllr 1 At Kan Ulrno 1, l.nn Anjelfl II. Only gamM played. NATIONAL I t. 44,1 F. At Cincinnati I. Mlluaukae S. Only (ami achedukd. AMKRirtN i.r.Atur. No imn achtdulta. tfij -V . ft yt : is one oi the city's largest. Same Bandit Robs Salem s. . Hotel;Again Aa apologetic ;( bandit robbed the Argo Hotel early this riioroing lor the second time in a week. . Night rlerk William Halbcrt pwas tied with adhesive tape and locked la a room oft the mala lobby, he said, after the same thief pointed the tamo, 4S at him and demanded cash. Halbcrt said the bandit com mented, "Well, I'm back again. I don't like to have to do this." As In last Saturday's theft, the bandit held the gun ander a raincoat. Halbert was botthd hand and foot but could reach his feet' with his hands and, he estimated, freed himself within a minute after the robbery and called Sa lem police. The thief was described as dark camplexioaed and with a crew cut. He ware horn-rimmed glasses. The theft occurred at 11:15 a.m., Halbert said. Unander to Take Oregon Helm 2 Days State Treasurer Sig I'nander will be acting governor Wednesday and Thursday for the first time in his four years as treasurer. Gov. Elmo Smith will be in San Francisco until Friday morning for the Republican national conven tion. House Speaker Ed Geary, Kla math Falls, next in line of succes sion, will be governor Monday and Tuesday. But Geary has to go to San Fran cisco on business Tuesday night. The next man in line, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, also is at tending the GOP convention. So Geary will pass the ball to I'nan dcr for Wednesday and Thursday. If ' I'nander should happen to leave the state, Oregon would be ' , a governor. The line of 'ccession doesn't extend beyond Unander. Truman Cites 'Racketeering' In GOP Rank KANSAS CITY (' - Former President' Harry S. Truman elab orated Monday on his allegation that there are "racketeers" in the ranks of the Republican admin istration. He made the charge in a speech at the Democratic na tional convention. "Persons who are taking the as sets of the people of the United States and using them for their own profits are racketeers," Tru man said when asked if he was going to answer Thomas Dewey, who said Truman could not name the alleged "racketeers." . The former New York govern or issued his challenge Sunday in San Francisco. "Examples of racketeering In the Republican administration are in the Hell's Canyon dam, ol (shore oil and the forest reserve of, the Northwest," Truman said. '"'And that's i only :"'"a T si art". An at tempt was mode on.TVA but that blocked by the. tu-mocfats," - "I didn't hear the governor 'Dewey i raise any complaint when Sen. Jenner called Gen. Marshall a traitor in 1952 in Mil waukee with Eisenhower on the platform with him, nor when Nix on called me a traitor in 1954." (Nixon has repeatedly denied ever calling Truman a traitor.) BIS WRECK KILLS 11 ' MEDELLIN, Colombia Thirteen persons were reported killed and 23 hurt Monday when s bus overturned near Santa Bar barar about JO miles from here. 700 Idle in Three-State. Phone Tieup PORTLAND I ; Another day of no work was in prospect for Tuesday for more than 700 tele phone equipment installers in Ore gon, Washington and Northern Idaho. The men stayed away from their jobs Monday while negotia tions in a contract dispute with the Western Electric Co, contin ued in New York. D. G. Ward of Portland, presi dent of the North-Pacific local of the Communications Workers of America, said Monday night the union members are expected to prolong their "lifhing trip Tuesday. Not yet on strike, the installers marked time while ne otiators attempted " to-SgreeT'on a new contract. There was no picketing in the Northwest Monday but Ward said the union was ready to set up picket lines should the negotiations break down. j Telephone company officials said a strike would not have much effect on telephone service. ' Far Frtm Agreement " NEW YORK UB The Com munications Workers of America Monday shaved its wage demands and the Western " Electric Co. made a counter-proposal. Howev er, the two parties were still far from agreement. The ' union, representing 18,000 Western Electric telephone install ers, cut its wage increase "request from 18 cents an hour to 15 cents. It stood pat on other demands tor a union shop, hospitalization benefits, improved vacations and elimination of geographical wage differentials. The company, -a -union spokes man said, countered with an offer of six to nine cents an hour more, an average of 7.7 cent-. . CHICAGO POLIO CLIMBS CHICAGO t Chicago's chief medical officer Monday reported 44 weekend polio cases and three deaths to push the 1956 toll to 854 cases and 24 deaths, Today's Statesman Page Set. Classified 12-13 II Comics 14 II Crossword 11 II Editorials 4 I Home Panorama .. 6 1 , Markets ...11 II Obituaries 11 II Radio-TV .....14 II 7 I Sports .....9-10 II Star Gazer 6 I Valley News II II Wirephote Page 14 II McKay Presents Keynoterto GOP Delegates I ,1) 0 m : I SAN FRANCISCO Former Secretary of the Interior Dougla MrKay holds up the arm of Gov. Arthur Langlie of Washington as he present him to the Republican convention Monday night. Unclic delivered keynote address. McKay Is a candidate for U. S. Senate from Ore- jom (AP Wirrphotoj ' ,.-J.,.,. McKay Gets Warm Round of ' ' By DICK EIMERS ,. :'-V ' .' Associated Press, Oregon SAN FRANCSICO (AP) - Douglas McKay Jntrmlticei! -n iicii;li!xr from Washington to the Republican National Convention Monday, and in doing so received one of the convention's warmest rounds of applause. The ex-governor of Oregon introduced the convention keynote speaker, Cow Arthur B. Langlie of Washington. Sen. William Rowland of California called McKay to the platform to make the Introduction. When McKay's name was mentioned it gave the Oregon delegation ill first chance for a floor demonstration. The delegation responded by flourishing largo posters bearing pictures' of McKay and setting up large' standards at tha front of theXow Palace hall showing the same picture." ' Other delegations joined the round of applause -for the former Secretary of Interior. It lasted until McKay motioned (or order. Delegatlo 3IeSiniliixoir' " A second highpoint.of the convention for the Oregonlans will . be a meeting Tuesday morning with Vice President Richard Nixon. Nixon asked Gov. Elmo Smith, chairman of the delega tion, if he might visit with them. But Smith replied he felt it would be more suitable for the delegation to make the trip to the Vice President's suite in one of the large convention hotels, ' The visit with Nixon bears no great political significance other than that of courtesy because the Oregon delegaton is bound by the voters to work for Nixon's nomination. That fact did not diminish the appreciation of the delegation members at having a chance to talk with Nixon officially. McKay spoke in warm and friendly terms of Langlie, telling the convention that Langlie has "carved a proud record of leadership in his home state of Washington and throughout the . Pacific Northwest," " . The Oregon delegation held Its first caucus Monday morn ing prior to the opening convention session. In it Gov. Smith struck the general tone of the convention. He told delegate it might be their only caucus unless some unforeseeable circum stance arises. That Indicated to political observers the solidarity of the Oregon delegation behind the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. The same, solidarity appears to blanket the convention. Keynote COv PlUiCE, Sim Francisco (AT) - Here 'are aonie" ..salient sentences from the Republican National Convention . keynote speech Monday night by Cov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington: The American people will, I believe and I hope, throw the Republicans out of office the day when, if ever, they copy the Democrats and put the Party first and America second. We are here to pledge to the Americas people fear snare years of honest, efficient administration of oar government . . . In the world at large we have done more than just talk about peace. We have worked for it. At home we have reduced spending without sacrificing es sential aervlres. The American farmer today can once again look forward to raising his crops for his markets instead of for government ware houses. - Republican policies , . , have helped provide more than M million jobs the greatest number in our nation's history. We have witnessed the greatest gains in Civil Rights achieved over a period of 80 years. The Democrat party Is a party of many divisions'', . A coalition of antagonistic factions who periodically gel together Just long enough to try to get themselves elected. Applause Highlights Delegates for Ike, Nixon Ticket Again ; By DOUGLAS . CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO ZAP) - Victory-confident Republicani rolled up the curtain Monday on their centennial national convention and wafted before the voters a promise of a con tinuing "crusade" for well beinj and "peace in the land." And, as delegates .tramped Into this sprawling auditorium to hear , the convention keynote speech, they were bent on nominating aa Eisenhower Nix on ticket once more. President Eisenhower had tha nomination for the asking and ha asked months ago. Vict President . Nixon had only flickering, sputter- " ing opposition which clearly was making no headway at alL Laaglhi Keyaetea Meet Itjwas Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington who summoned fel low Republicans to battle on ia what Eisenhower himself, la 1152, (Pftturei alia ea pagei t . and 14. Stories aa pages S and t). labelled the "great crusade." Langlie told, the party stalwart and the nation via radio and TVs 'We are here to pledge te tha Americas people four more yeart of honest, efficient administration of our government by the fine - men and women who have been caiico to serve mem at warning. ton four more years of our cru sade for a finer America la a h! !ir vatM tirutar tho lnmn,lnl steadfast, forthright leadership of Dwight D. Elsenhower." The Republicans, Langlie said, hava .brauhi, America,- far . la a short time. "There ia peace In the land," ha said.' "there ia well-being in the homes of America, and there Is re newed faith in our time-honored principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility.'' Party la Power For the first time in more thaa two decades, the Republicani met as the party in power, ready for a chance to do more pointing with pride than viewing with alarm. And that i what Langlie did In the speech designed to set the theme for the convention and the campaign- ahead against the Dem ocratic alliance of Adlai E. Steven son and Sen. Estes Kefauver. ' It was more of the same prais ing the Republicans and pounding the Democrat from Sen. Willam F. Knowland of California and Re publican national chairman Leon ard W. Hall. Knowland Applaaded They, loo. were on the speak ing roster for a session started in the late afternoon and running into the early evening so It could be beamed at Eastern televisioa and radio audiences. Knowland got a big hand for restating an old stand: "As long as I am in the Senate of the United States 1 shall oppose the entry of Communist China into the United Nations." Knowland got in a couple of licks for Nixon for Vice Presi- . dent while he was at it He said Nixon had helped Eisenhower ably and recalled that the chief execu tive has "favorably commented on the service and the accept ability of Richard Nixon as a teammate." Gov. Christian' A. Herter of Massachusetts, around whom Ha rold E. Stassen focuses hopes of snatching the Vice Presidential nomination from Nixon, told a TV audience Just before tha eve ning convention session he expects Nixon to be nominated by accla- mklin, Herter repeated that no Ameri can could refuse a draft but he regarded it as "completely un likely'' that the convention would attempt to draft him. Stassra on Hand Stassen attended both convrn- ; lion sessions Monday, sitting In a box reserved for top administra tion figures. Eisenhower's chief of staff, Sherman Adams, was in the box, too, Monday nighl. . Hall got a nois ovation when 1 he said the Democrats nominated whereas the GOP is "going te nominate a winner," And they set up a thundering roar when Hall went on: "There is nothing that we need say about Atllai Stevenson that Kefauver hasn't already said. There is. nothing that we need say about the Stevenson-Kefauv- i er ticket that Harry Truman hasn't already said. That was a reference to criti cism Kefauver ladled out on Stev enson during their primary elec tion contests this spring and Tra- ' man's claims he took it aN back later that Stevenson couldn't wia th Aeteniuer alacUaa, - "