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Newspaper Page Text'The Weather Today's forecast: Continual fair today and tonighf, with a, variable cloudiness Friday. The high today noar 14, lovr to night naar 43. ' (Complete rtport paf.ti-,- JflBni Yfflii faarta to Hm Cmrth ti OrifM FOUNDBD 1651 106th Yaar 2 SECTIONS-28 PAGES Tha Oregon Statosman, Salom, Oragen, Thursday, September 6, 1 956 ; PRICE Sc No. J 63 Mmwn IFfiire Sweeps u . jptlftfl Grass W al : " ' aa aaaa ""For the first time in many yeara tha 'government is withdrawing from the business of exporting wheat. This operation is being turned back to commercial chan nels, which, except in wartime and under the price guarantee system. handled the business since the country first exported wheat. This doesn't mean that domestic prices are at a parity with world prirea so government participation is unnecessary. The world price is still less than the government-supported domestic price. Federal sub sidies will be continued. Previous ly the government through its Com modity Credit Corporation sold the wheat to foreign buyers at the world price. The subsidy was the amount of discount provided by the government. Under the new arrangement, the CCC will supply private traders with, wheat from its stored stocks to cover the gap between the dom estic and export prices. Private grain dealers will buy from wheat growers, so the deliveries will be mostly from current crops. The subsidy equivalent will be from tha CCC stored stocks, which should help1 in their reduction. At tha first of July the CCC held around a billion bushels of old wheat acquired under its price sup port program. This year's crop will run at 135,000,000 bushels. Domestic consumption including tCMUaaed aa editorial page, 4) San Quentin Cons Sought In Salem Area Two escaped San Quentin prison convicts were sought by city police 'Wednesday night after a report that men answering their descrip tion had jumped from a freight train near Silverton Road. The report was given by the train conductor after the train had been stopped for a search at Brooks on the possibility that the men were using it to escape from tha Coburg area, aeven miles north of Eugene, where they were re ported seen earlier in the day, state police said. City police said cruisers sent to tns area saw nobody answering the descriptions. State Fair offi cials also were notified of the re port because of the nearness of the fairgrounds to the point where the men were said to have left the train. The men are Edward Virgil, 26, and Gerald E. Baucum, 27, who escaped with two others Friday from a prison camp in northern California in a stolen plane. Bau cum ia a pilot. Both were sen tenced lor robbery. Their two companions are be lieved by police to have gone in different directions after the plane landed near Roseburg. Today's Statesman Pago Sac. Classified 25-27 It Comics 24 II Crossword . 25 II Editorials 4 I Farm News 20 II Homo Panorama 6, 7 I Markots 25 II Obituaries 25 II Radio-TV 24, 28....ll Sports 15-17 II Star Gaiar ,.2...... I Valloy News 21 II Wlrophoto Pago . 24 II WIIBERT "IIK1 Wilborf most novo got old of yow movlo iamriL. Blaze Razes Store Near Silver ton Accurate 11 r -w r Salem Mayor Robert White Is the Fair Grounds Wednesday Junior of Commerce "dunk 20 Die in Train Wreck Due to Switch Error (Picture a Wireahaia Page.) SPRINGER, N.M.. Sept. S UTU- Twenty persons were killed and 35 were injured today when a rail way worker threw a switch the wrong way and the Santa Fe Chief plunged, brakes screaming, head- on into a parked mail train. which left Chicago for Los Angej les at 9 a.m. CST yesterday, was traveling 40 to 45 miles an hour It was supposed to go westward on the main track, but instead swerved into a bypass where the mail train waited. Late today, as the last of the debris was cleared from the line just before traffic resumed, the Santa Fe identified the 20th vic tim as brakeman Lawrence Mc- Cormich, Raton, N.M. The body was found in the wreckage of a dormitory car on the Chief were McCormich was riding from Raton to Albuquerque. Takea ta Hospital Ten injured were taken to a hospital in this northern New Mex ico livestock center. Railway spokesmen said the fire man on the mail train became con fused and set the switch wrong. They added it is not unusual for the fireman, instead of the brake man, to handle, some switching duties on such trains. Most of those killed lost their lives as they slept in a dormitory car right behind the Chief's diesel engines. Carrying a reported 16 waiters and lounge employes, the car was smashed to rubble. It came to rest partly on top and partly underneath a diesel unit and another car. Santa -Fe officials said the mail train -r. the easebound No', en tered tfie siding head first, as was customary, and was scheduled to return to the main line after the streamliner cleared. "Error In Judgment" J. P. Reinhold, Santa Fe Rail way vice president in charge of public relations, who was aboard the mail train with his family, said the fireman committed an "error in judgment." More than 300 passengers aboard the Chief escaped without serious injury as the silvery cars were scrambled. I Vr--. - -.X ". " T " i -X KV ;' -S3'- , ... LA Explosion at Bakery Injures Salem Youth Lawrence Smith, 19, received first and second degree burns Wednesday as a result of a gas explosion in his father's bakery at 17S3 Beach Avenue. Smith was treated at the Salem General Hospital for first and second degree burns to the right arm, and first degree burns to the left arm, face and neck. - His doctor said that he will remove the youth's bandages on Monday, day." Smith was released front the hospital after treatment and he is now resting at his home. - The explosion . occurred at about 1:30 p.m. at tha Ernest W. Smith bakery. Mrs. Smith said that her son became curious when he noticed that the tem perature in the, oven was drop- UMa) CAJU1UII UC curred when-ho opened the door Marksman Dunks Mayor in Water Tank - t".ty shown above 'going under'' at noon as a patrop at the Salem tank" hit the bulls eye drop Junction Wins Sheep Award By LILUE Farm Editor, A new name appeared Wednesday afternoon on one of the most wanted livestock trophies offered annually at the Oregon State Fair. Walter Hubbard of Junction City won the tuneful Cold Sheep Bell, the highest sheep award affered at the fair. Hub bard showed Hampshires to win the award. , , , ,1 TC K "K K "K K Today at the Fair Thursday. Sept. I S:00 a.m. Gates Open . 9:00 a.m. Judging: Angora Goats 4-H Rabbit Judging Con test 1:45 a.m. Organ Concert 10:00 a.m. 4-H Rabbit Show manship Contest Judging Completed on Final Amateur Flower Arranging 10: JO a.m. Band Concert 1:00 p.m. Midway Act f Racing on Lone Oak Track 1:10 p.m. Flower arranging Demonstration by Carl Starker Announcement of Malting Barley winner, Adminis tration Bldg. 2:00 p.m. Flower Arranging Demonstration by Carl Starker t:0 p.m Freezing Demon strationFood Dept. 1:00 p.m. Search for Talent Show Organ Concert J:S0 p.m. Baking demonstra tion: Foods 4:00 p.m. Band Concert 4:30 p.m. 4-H Rabbit Awards Program (:00 p.m. Balloon Ascension 7:J0 p.m. Organ Concert Baking Demonstration 1:00 p.m. H e 1 e n e Hughes Revue Rodeo Horse Show 10:1 p.m. Midway Act 12:00 p.m. Gates Close CAA CHIEF SyCCUMBS DENVER, Sept. S -Charles J. Lowen Jr., 41, head of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, died tonight. Relatives said he had been 'suffering from cancer. to determine the cause. . Joseph Dodds, district manag er of the Portland Gas and Coke Co., said that he was notified of the explosion about 1:45 p.m. He said that he told Portland of the explosion and that an emergency repairman was sent to Salem to determine the cause of the accident as well as to re pair the broken oven. Earlier in the week, Smith's establishment was converted, to natural gas. Mr. Smith said that he esti mated damage somewhere be tween $2,000 and $3,000. He said that it would be about three days before the bakery can begin its regular schedule again. The bakery employs five bakers and makes bread for .one group of Salem-arta stores under the IOA labeL - ,t -v su ' ' ping the fully clad mayor Into the water. Robert Rickhart, 3380 N. Lancaster Dr., was champion of the fund raising booth by dunking the mayor three times. (Statesman Photo) City Man L MADSEN The Statesman The bell was started in circa lation in 1941 with Claude Steus loff. a Salem Southdown breeder, the first to have his name en rraved on the bell's side. During war years, the fair was not held md the bell was not presented. Resumption of the presentation began again in 1946 with Ahrens Brothers, Turner, making it on Romneys. Only two breeders have won the bell two times, M. O. Pear son, Turner, won it on Shrop- shires in 1948 and 1952, and El- ATTENDAXCR ISM 4I.1 J S7.31 24.4SS loss Saturday Sunday Monday Tunday . . Wtdnrtday ., ToUlt 4?.(.S 1S.4M 74.S1S 2S.SIS .: ...221,43 2J4,JSJ don Riddell, Monmouth, won on Southdowns in 1949 and 1955. Gath Brothers, Salem, showing Suffolks were the winners in 1947; Wipper 4 Son, won on Southdowns in 1950; Kenneth Mc Crae, Monmouth, on Cotswolds in 1951; John Banick & Son, Brooks, and A. W. Bagley, Salem, both on Hampshires in 1953 and 1954. It takes three winnings for per manent ownership of the bell. Attendance at the State Fair Wednesday continued its march toward what is beginning to look like an all-time State Fair at tendance. The Wednesday count was 33,790 in comparison to last years Wednesday count of 31,- 068. After a drop Tuesdav below the same day for last year, Wed nesday's parimutuel was up again .totalling $98,318, compared to the 1955 Wednesday take of $92,174. ' (Add. fair stories paces 2. 4. 22). Blood mobile at Armory Today An American Red Cross blood mobile will 'be at the Salem Na tional Guard Armory today from noon to 4 p.m. to collect blood from volunteers. This month's quota ia 130 pints. Coffee and doughnuts will be served to donors. Appointments to give blood can be made by calling the Red Cross Chapter House at 2 3666. NORTHWEST tRAOH , At Salrm S. Yakima 4 At W. natch 3, Trl-Clty 1 At Spokana t, Lawlaton 0 ACiriC COAST t.EAOVI At Seattle, 0. Portland At San t'ranclftco 3. Surrammto At Hollywood 7, San Dl(n 0 At Vancouvir 1 Loa Anftlea I AMKKlt-AN t.KAGVR At Ronton 3. New York S At Waahlnitnn 1, Mainmort 0 ' Only games scheduled. . , NATIONAL LKACllHi At Milwaukee 1, Clnrlnnatl IS At Brooklyn 4, Plttahiirfli 1 At St. Lou la 1, Chlraio I At Philadelphia 4, Mew York - '' ? Latourette Leaves Tract As Park Site His wife, children and "the weary traveller" are remembered in the will of the late- State Su preme Court Justice Earl C. La tourette, it was indicated here Wednesday when the document was admitted to probate in Mar ion County Circuit Court. The estate, mostly in stocks and bonds, was estimated at $51,000. Latourete, a former Oregon City attorney and judge, died Aug. 18 of a lung ailment. He had been a State Supreme Court justice since 1950. Bulk of the justice's estate ap parently will be included in a trust fund for his widow. The remainder will be evenly divided among his three children, Mrs. Anne Cook, Mrs. Jeanne Link- later and Earl C. Latourette Jr. except for a property bequest to Clackamas County. The property consists of three lots in Oregon City which La tourette left to the county on the condition it become a park to be known as Latourette Park in honor of his father Charles D. Latourette. The will read "This property overlooks the beautiful Willam ette Falls and if properly devel oped will be an everlasting joy to the weary traveller who chances to pause there for rest, thought and solitude." E-R Repeal Bill on Ballot PORTLAND, Sept. 5 I - The City Council voted 3-2 today to put on the November ballot a measure to repeal the requirement that a proposed eight - million dollar ex position-recreation center must be built on the east side of the city. The east side restriction won narrow approval in the May pri mary balloting. Voters also will be faced with another measure on 'he November ballot, It calls for expenditure of at least four million dollars In the Delta Park area, north of Port land, to provide adequate facili ties for the Pacific International Livestock Exposition, with the re mainder of the eight million dol lars to go into a downtown sports center. NEWS PAPERS CENSORED CHANDIGARH, India, Sept. I tm The Punjab State Legislative as sembly approved today India's first legislation permitting the cen sorship of newspapers. School Bus Routes Listed When Salem public schools open Monday, some 4,000 of the pupils will use school district buses to go to and from their schools. The-school system's 63-roule bus schedule is pre sented for readers of The Ore gon Statesman in today's Issue on page 25, (Salem school regis tration details are included in pre-school story on page 4.) Smith River Forest Fire Out of Control Crass and brush fires con. tinned to plague the mid-Wil lamette Valley Wednesday as Oregon's biggest forest fire of theyear spread out of control in Siuslaw national forest near Smith River and several others were reported throughout the state. Logging was ordered halted at midnight over most of western Oregon by the State Forestry De partment. (Story on page 2.) ine most costly of eight fires in the Marion-Polk county area reported Wednesday was a crass fire which took with it a store at Rocky Four Corners, near Sil verton, with damage estimated at $7,000. Fuel Bin Fire In Salem, a fire which broke about noon in a fuel bin at West- wood Products Co., in the 500 block of South 21st Street, caused an estimated $2,500 to $3,000 damage to the bin and a nearby dry kiln, Manager Art Wall of Dallas said. .Salem firemen also were called back twice Wednesday to the area west of McNary Field for new fires breaking out in the 100 acre area which waa mostly burned over in a grass fire Tues day. This time, one wall of an unused barn was scorched and two small houses were seriously enaangerea,,iiremen said. ... .. - Polk county, whieh shooed through Tuesday without any new grass iires, bad two Wednesday. The two forest fires near Brush College, five miles northwest of Salem, which were stopped Tues day by state Forestry fire fighters, were reduced to smoldering stumps weanesaay, area residents said. Centinaes ta Smoke The 1,000-acre grass fire of Tues day near Sublimity also continued to amoke . but firemen were not called to it Wednesday. The $7,000 store fire at Rocky four Corners, three miles north east of Silverton, included a ser vice station and living quarters for the owner, Mrs. George Smith. Silverton Fire Chief Larry Car penter aaid the fire started in grass in the vicinity of the store. He speculated that it started from a cigaret tossed along , the road side. The fire burned about three acres. Carpenter said Mt. Angel sent two trucks, Scotts Mill one and Silverton three. He said it had not been reported whether the loss was insured. Other Biases Other fires reported by States man correspondents were: Twenty acres of scrub oak and flashing on Fisher Brothers farm aix miles southwest of Dallas, stopped Wed nesday morning by Dallas firemen. Three acres of atubble and scrub oak on the Ivan Arnold farm six miles northeast of Rlckreall, ex tinguished Wednesday afternoon by Dallas and Rickreall firemen. Four acres of brush and stubble on the Sam Whitney farm near Day ton, controlled by Dayton and Mc- Minnville fire departments Wed nesday afternoon. Three acres of grass on the Ben Basl farm four miles east of Sublimity. PORTLAND Fire spread along . the Portland Wednesday 'damiglnt; at least Fire Chief Command Changes j vi. ti- LP i h Salem Fire Chief E. L. Smith, Eugene city fire chief later this month. He will be succeeded by Robert Mills (right) ranking battalion chief in the Salem Fire Department.. .V v.'-;!' ; Mills Appointed Fire Grief as Smith Quits Salem Officer to Retirement of E. L.'Smith ment of Robert Mills, a 3&-year veteran of the fire department, to succeed him were announced Wednesday. Smith will become Eueene's fire chief later this month. Now 49, Smith got an early start'with Salem fire department 32 years ago. lie said he has been considering retirement since he became eligible two years ago. Mills, . 61, is senior city - em ploye as well as ranking battal ion chief in the fire department He will start his 40th year in the firefighting force Sept. 17. Training, Experience His appointment was made by City Manager- Kent Mathewson, who said Mills also expected to retire in a few years. "However, it is good to know," wrote the manager in his letter ot appoint ment to Mills, "that ouC citizens will be able to utilize fmr long years of training and experience until a fully qualified succes sor is available. "The citizens, I am sure, will be reassured by knowing that the senior command officer of the de partment has seen fit to assume the duties and responsibilities that have been so capably per formed by the retiring chief." $S,48t Salary The fire chief s saary is $8,480 a year in Salem. City Manager Mathewson com mended Fire Chief Smith on his record here and wished him luck in a letter acknowledging Smith's retirement. (Additional details on Page S) Fair Skies on Area Forecast Fair skies are predicted for Salem today with a high of 84 and a low of 43. Yesterday's high law was 90-45. Associated Press reports fire danger will continue high in interior areas of Oregon today because of low humidities. Wednesday's humidity was 14 per cent.. - For northern Oregon beaches. Associated Press reports fog and low clouds through Thursday night except partial afternoon clearing. Winds southwest 10-20 miles an hour, shifting to west to northwest by this afternoon. Industrial Plants Engulfed by Portland waterfront three Industrial Ferry (left) is retiring here to become Take Eugene Job as Salem fire chief and appoint 1, At Catholic Schools in Gty ' Catholic schools In Salem ex pect an enrollment of 1,450 stu dents when classes begin on Sept. 10. Schools polled were Sacred Heart Academy, 160 students; St. Joseph School, 550 students; St Vincent de Paul School, 580 stu dents and Serra Catholic High School, 160 students. Registration for all Catholic Schools is Friday. Sacred Heart, a coeducational school In the past, said all its incoming students will now be girls. Boy students who would ordinarily have attended Sacred Hert will attend Serra Catholic High School instead. A new gym, with facilities to handle a physical education pro gram, was added to St Joseph Parochi.il School. Students from Catholic high schools will use the gym in addition to St Joseph students. St Joseph also announced a new school principal for the com ing fall term. Sister Elizabeth Maureen, who last school post was at Holy Keaeemer uraae School in Portland. Another new principal is Sister Superior Mary Philothea, who has been added to the faculty at St. Vincent de Paul School She is a former teacher at Paschal's School in Spokane. (Add. details on page 4.) SALEM TO GET SIREN PORTLAND. Scot. $ tfl - The City Council voted today to loan a spare civil defense warning siren to the Salem fire department. boat, lower right corner, also (Picture als os page 2.) 450 Expected AU City's;" Trucks 1 On Scene Ship Wrecking : Yards, Chemical Factory; Lost PORTLAND, Sept 5 (AT) A wind-fanned f ire s w p t through an industrial section of the riverfront here today, caus ing damage initially estimated, at 1 million dollars. - . Five hours after the blaze brov ', out at noon, the fire bureau said it was under control. " : ; , The flames, whipped by am east wind, . burned a ship - wrecking plant, a chemical manufacturing plant and two large warehouses.' Three residences in the area also burned. . . All the city's fir equipment. b . ,1. V . .L. Ulil!. ' etto River, fought the blaze, which, witnesses said broke out in-o- Jmilding belonging to the ZidcU- Machinery Co. --t ; Aa old ferryboat, the Malalut,' once on the Seattle Bremerton run, caught fire at a dock and lh hull of a dismantled freighter was ; enveloped in flames. Other boats scurried to the safety of the river.' The fire spread swiftly from 2-, dell's to the Barde Steel Co. ware- house, the Schnitzer and Wotf, scrap steel warehouse and tha , Miller PramcUv Co., a chemical firm. . ' Wind Beada Water Besides the wind, chemical ex plosions complicated the fir. fighting. A battalion fire chief said the wind bent into a "U" shape streams of water as they were played en the flames. 1 . u ... . .ivwivw turn help from adjoining communities to assist in fighting the fire and providing protection against ether fires that might break out in the city. . Other Biases ru,t nth frm miar Ktiraln lit widely separated sections of. the city at tha same time aa the wa terfront blaze. One destroyed a shingle mill at a loss of $fi0.ooo and the' other burned a business building in the city's southeast section. " ' , Residents in the vicinity of the waterfront blaze - stood by with garden boses to protect their homes from blowing sparks. ; - - Despite this, a half-dozen resi dential roofs caught fire, ' one of them high on the west hills a mile a ay from the waterfront. Fire men left the waterfront to combat the blaze, but most of the roof was destroyed. Quarter-Mile At the fire's peak, flames were spread along a quarter-mile of the west bank of the river. The east wind pushed the flames Inland, de stroying piles of scrap mcterial and small buildings. A wide shelf of land extends from the river west before the first city street appears. ' 1 " It was along that street that the houses caught fire. Nearby busi nesses began to evacuate their k..:tj:.d. TW. - L J L... . company ordered Its shops evaco- f I mnA 1 Ki last a a sratak sAWimsj away. But the flames w ere stopped short of that area. - Smoke towered high, and could be seen for miles. Spectators flocked to the scene, causing traf fic jams. More than 700 firemen, Includ- wH 1 AA fMM IjfnltnMnaH 4"mmfw points outside the city, were calisd OUt. i Blazo was ablaze. I (AF T.'lrc;!t:) "