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a, variable cloudiness Friday. The
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Tha Oregon Statosman, Salom, Oragen, Thursday, September 6, 1 956 ;
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""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
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old of yow movlo iamriL.
Blaze Razes Store Near Silver ton
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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-
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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 -
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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:)
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