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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!"
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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
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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."
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$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,
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McKay Presents Keynoterto GOP Delegates
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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, -
"