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The Weather
Today's forecasts ' Early
morning fog or low cloudi.
lou today and Sonedy, with
onny aftornooni. high today'
noar75.
(Complete rtporl pa fa 1)
106th Year
16-Ycar-OW 'Veteran' Wins
4-H Tractor Driving Contest
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
A 18-year-old Albany youth
who hai been driving a tractor
aince he was six years old won
the 4-H tractor operators' con
test at tho Oregon State Fair
Friday.
Ten accident-free years of
Salem Telephone
Rate Rise Sought
2.2 Million Boost Asked in Oregon
TekplMaa rate Increases that
may 'east Safea kaaiaahalara za
U II ml. r. ...n.
arapsted FrMay ky Pacific Tele.,
haae aad Telegraph Co. '""
The company's statewide rate
I at ruse plan waS mibmHIed to
Stat Pablte I'UIIUei Commie
aleaer Charles H. Heltxel waa
said the aew rate scbedulea
weald bo atadlrd aad hearlaga
weald be caUed belare a aeet
alea h made whether to allow
the Increase.
Over tho state the varUes new
schedules rpeae meathly In
creases ef It to at cents (or reai
eatlal service aid M ceais to
t2.it far baslaesses. Telephoao
Over 500 Personnel to
Staff Adair SAGE Base
; " " '' By CHARLES IRELAND 1
! ' Valley Editor, Thi Statesman
' CORVAUJS, Sept 7-Between 500 and 600 personnel
will bo stationed at tho projected SAGE-radar base in the
Camp Adair lector and approximately $7,000,000 will be ipent
on the project, The Statesman learned today. , ;.,. s,.1i.
Selection of the Camp Adair area, 25 miles southwest of
Salem, for the SAGE base was announced by the Air Force
333IjQE
Now is the time for all moder
ates to come to the defense of
themselves. For the political cam'
paign in which the major contend
ers both proclaim their devotion
to moderation shows signs ef be
coming unusually shrill and dis
cordant. Our headlines writers
make frequent use of short verbs
charged with action to report the
utterances of candidates, such
verbs as flay, charge, accuse,
brand, deny. It seems that can
didates feel they must scream in
order to attract attention, and
newsmen always alert to action
words, duly record their use.
Campaigns are said to be multi
level high, low and medium.
Harry Truman has been the great
practitioner the "give 'em
hell" brand. Richard Nixon's pre
vious campaign was said to be on
a low level, but now he is to be
elevated to a high level. Steven
son was on too much of a strato
sphere four years ago, so he is
being brought nearer to earth.
Eisenhower who let himself pre
dict dire things if the Democrats
won control of Congress in 1954,
words he later regretted, appar
ently is to be more vigorous in
his appeal for Republican victory
this year, though he will avoid
slipping into ' campaign - billings
gate. In Oregon the political cam
paign already is marked with
(Ceatlnaed .aa editorial page, 4
POLIO EPIDEMIC STRIKES -
VIENNA, Austria,. Sept. 7 (ft
An infantile paralysis epidemic
has broken out in the district of
,'Olsrynsk AUenstcin in north
ern Poland, the provincial news
paper CIos Olwztynski reported.
YYILEERT
No, a. We Invited yea to eeme
as . this a's aa me!"
2 SICTIONS-14 PACES
iii i s i
jockeying a tractor on his father's
310-acre grain and truck farm,
paved the way for Webber
Doughton, Jr., to win over 13
other 4-H clubbers In the contest
of driving skill, and mechanical
know-how.
Webber is a three-year winner
of the Linn County contest but
-, efflclala la Salem, givlag the rate
T examples, salal Salem
aasiaess
betweea
ritra wld be eppe
H eeata aad $l.7J la the alaa.
' Commeatiag , an reasaa ' far
seeklag the tt.142.0M aaaaal rev-
, eaae Increase, PTT Geaeral
'Maaager F. A. Dresslar, Pert-
UN, sale la a .prepare aa
aeaacemeal: "Oar earaiags on
speratleas within Oregea have
faUea wejl below these of other
feeslaesses.
Be said slaea present rates
went late effect three years age,
the telephone cempaay's payroll
has risen U per cent, state aad
local taxes 40 aer ceat and am
ber ol telepheaes 17 per ceat, '
(Add. details aa page I.)
I on Thursday.
The fresh details were supplied
by Capt. J. Brady, a congression
al liason officer for the Air Force,
who said that JO to 95 per rent of
the personnel at the base would be
military.
He said Installation cost of the
base "will be generally nearer $7
million than any other figure.
Oa Planning Beards
The project is still on the plan
ning boards and the planning is
extremely delicate, Brady re
ported. It usually takes two years
to build a SAGE base after con
struction gets underway, he added.
He could not say when the project
might start.
Brady said it was not known how
many men would be used in build
ing the base. He said that would
be "entirely up to the contractor."
The Air Force officer said the
base would comprise If new build
ings, with conversion of four exist
ing buildings also scheduled.
Site Selected
Test holes for foundations have
been drilled at Camp Adair and it
has been reported that the site
chosen is in the old Naval hospital
area.
The SAGE base will be an elec
tronic communications center for
detection of enemy aircraft.
The 500 to 800 personnel com
pares with a figure of 1,500 men
the Air Force has indicated will
be stationed at the new Air Force-
Naval base in the Woodburn area.
Clear Skies
On Forecast
Th 1954 State Fair will bow out
under generally clear skies, ac
cording to forecasters. The big
show has been spared rain all
week long.
The forecast Includes some early
morning fog or cloudiness both to
day and Sunday, but with sunni
ness in the afterjipoas. Today's
high temperature is expected to
be around 75.
Outlook for Oregon beaches to
day is night and morning cloudi
ness arid partial sunninesa this
afternoon. ' "
Virt danger Is reported moderat
ing- slowly in Northwest Oregon
and along the coast. The danger
continues high from the Cascades
eastward and in Southwest Oregon
because of low humidity,
Okinawa in
Grip of Gale
TOKYO, Saturday. Scpt.8 (it-
Typhoon Emma battered the U.S.
occupied fortress islancpof Okin
awa today with winds of more
than 9 m.p.h. ! ' ,
The army said Emma sems al
most certainly the worst typhoon
to strike Okinawa in the last seven
years, ." ,. ' ,
was unable to compete at State
Fair until reaching tho 16-year
age minimum..
Contestants worked against a
stop watch in hooking tractors
to equipment and pulling it
through an obstacle course that
included backing an 8-foot imple
ment trailer through a nine-foot
space and weaving . a manure
spreader back through a closely
spaced string of posts.
Win Ribbons
Blue ribbon winners in this
difficult demonstration were
Leonard Schaber, Sherwood;
Richard Hoffmann, Anmsville,
and Steve Carlson of Culver.
Another big event in the 4-H
club cycle was clicked off Friday
with six 4-H girls named cham
pions in the 4-H style revue. The
revue played to a full bouse on
the second floor of the youth
building Friday afternoon. ,
Winners, who will compete
against one another in October,
for a trip to the National Con
gress in Chicago, include Jocile
ATTENDANCE.
1SSS !M
Saturday 41,7S V,$ii
SenOay 1S.4M
Monday S7,S)S H.I? J
TaeMlajr I4.4SS M.HJ
Wed4ay Jl.ees M.m
Thuradajr .. ja.JM JIJJS
Friday ZS.MS 2S.ISS
TUll IU.47S ll3S
Grimes, Dallas, wearing a cotton
school dress; Sandra Angel, Mau-
pin, a cotton outfit for play; Kay
Johnson, Portland, a "best"
dress; Dorothy Vetter, Albany, a
formal: Mary Jane Wait. Rick
reall, a winter dress, and Joan
Stewart, Sherwood, a tailored
garment.
Cash Awards
Competing were 156 girls from
39 counties. Jocile Grimes snd
Sandra Angel both received $10
cash awards. Oregon Bankers
Association, donors of all awards,
gave a su cnecg to uorotny
Vettef and a SIS award to Mary
Jane Wait.
Darlene Hopkins. Hubbard
was reserve in the cotton school
dress; Carol Nelson was the re
serve champion on the play
dress group, with Judy Howton,
lone, in the best dress; Susan
Stovall, Maupin, in the formal;
Rosalie Zweifel, Tillamook in the
winter dress and Linda Rasmus-
sen, La Grande, in the tailored
garment
Holding a special meeting at
the Fairgrounds Friday was the
Oregon Fairs Association, headed
by Harold Clarno, Myrtle Point
Feature ot ibe meeting was set
ting the annual convention dates
for Nov. 7 9 at Multnomah Hotel
in Portland.
Salem Woman Wins
Mrs. Dale L. Mall icoat, 2475
Fisher Road, Salem, the mother
of three children, won Queen of
the Kitchen honors Friday and
was presented with a new elec
tric automatic push button range,
donated by Meier c Frank Co.
As the 1956 Oregon State Fair
readied for its final day, indica
tions were that perhaps an all
time high record attendance
would be made this year. With
only 11,810 needed Saturday to
top the now all-time high attend
ance of 335,340 in 1954, the fair
management was expressing
hopes for the clear warm weather
which brings fair visitors through
the gates. Fridays attendance
was 29,185 against last year's
Friday count of 29,345.
The pari-mutuel handle took a
drop Friday. Betting was S94,
875 against the 1955 Friday's bet
ting of $96,645.
But the workers in tne state
Fair business office noted that
others than race track visitors
made a bit of money at the fair.
Meadowland Dairy, Portland, is
taking home $845 on winnings in-
showing Ayrshire cattle in tne
dairy event, and Chris Schluneg
ger, : Portland, showed Brown
Swiss to win $785. (Add. fsir
stories oa pages 2, J, 4 aad 5.)
Bing Crosby
Plan Rumors Persist
By JAMES BACON i
HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 7 W) -
Hollywood buzzed today-with the
rumor latest in long series
that Blng Crosby and his best girl,
actress Katby Grant, would be
married this weekend.
But the 52-year-old Blng reiter
ated there's not'-ing to it. t
The latest rumor, printed in a
trade paper column, sr'd t:.j two
would be married at Hayden Lake,
Idaho the Crosby summer home.
But Bing - told a reporter by
phone from there:. o ; - '
'There is nothing to It. Stories
like that are always coming out
of Hollywood. 1 m not planning on
getting married to Miss Grant or
anybody else. Also, I'm getting fed
up with the rumor stories." ' :
.Then he added:
"I don't know where Kathryn
is," - - - .
Tho Orogon Statesman, Salom, Orogon, Saturday, September t, 1956
Today at the Fair
Saturday, Sept. I
. I:M a.m. Gates Open
a.m. Organ Concert
10:M a.m. Band Concert
1:0 p.m. Racing
Midway Act
1:M p.m. Horse Show
Flower Arranging Demon
stration . , ,
Show
1:4 p.m. Search for Talent
Show
Organ Concert
4:44 p.m. Band Concert
4:44 p.m. Balloon Ascension '
7:34 p.m. Organ Concert
4:04 p.m. H e 1 e n e Hughes
Night Revue - '
Rodeo-Horse Show
lt:U p.m. Midway Act
It: 44 p.m. Gates Close on the
1954 Oregon State Fair.
Astronomer in
Japan Sees
Mars' Canals
NEW YORK. Sept. 7 un-Sight
ing of several elusive "canals" on
Mars was reported today by a
Japanese observer during the mid
point of worldwide close observing
ot our neighbor planet.
Other scientific star-gazers Uld
of a huge dust cloud sweeping
over Mars and sighting of white
clouds.
Mars tonight was beginning its
long Journey away from earth aft
er coming its closest within $2
years 35.120,000 miles.
Dr. Michikazu Onishl of Kobe,
Japan, said he had glimpsed ev
eral of the markings popularly
called canals. He reported seeing
them in the Northern Hemisphere
of the red-colored planet, now the
brightest object in the skies ex
cept for the moon.
Balloon Soars
Near27Mes
Above Earth
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 7 ) A
helium-filled plastic balloon soared
to 142,900 feet, about 28 45 miles
today to break all existing alti
tude records for such bags, the
University of Minnesota reported.
The baloon. built of mylar, a
new plastic compound, was pyra
midal in shape, 180 feet long and
carried one million cubic feet of
helium under its thousandth-of-an
inch-thick skin. .
Edward P. Ney and John R.
Winckler of the Minnesota physics
department, who designed and
conducted the experiment, said the
ascent was about 20,000 feet above
the previous record of 125,000 set
last year by a bag sent up over
Minnesota by Winzen Research,
Inc., Bloomington, Minn.
Police Seize
Slot Machines
KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 7 (
State Police raided numerous
pool halls, taverns and card rooms
in Klamath County last night and
early today, arresting nine per
sons and seizing 200 punchboards
and 10 slot machines.
Dist. Atty. Richard Beezley; who
ordered the raids, said "the lid
is on" in the county. Sheriff Mur
ray Britton and Police Chief Dal
Reed of Merrill ad not partici
pate. Britton said since Beezley had
brought in outside officers to make
the arrests, "I would rather
let him continue with operations."
Reed could not be reached for
comment. .
Beezley said gambling has been
flourishing here for s I v e r a 1
months. '
However, a later call td Bing's
house at Hayden Lake brought
the word , from a servant that
Blng and Miss Grant had left the
house and wouldn't be back until
later in the day.
The latest rumor on the mar
riage stemmed apparently from a
call Bing made personally to ex
ecutives at Columbia Studios
where Miss Grant is under con
tract. She was due there Monday
to make a television film. Bing
asked if she could get out ot the
film. The request was granted.
Crosby has gone with no other
girl but Kathy in the last two
years. -Most everybody in Holly
wood expects her to be the girl to
grab off the town's wealthiest' and
most eligible un. arried man.
Maybe not this w-'k-nd but some
weekend.
Bing's wife, the former Dixie
Lee, died in 1952.
Wedding
POUNDDD 1651
Football Season Off to Early
1 1
lb
J
South Salem High's Saxons, humbled in their first game of the
Beavers, had very little to
hope to the Salem fans. Fullback Jack Scott tt hauled down by an unknown Beiver after
hauline lav a Ion, pass in, t ha third quarter when tha Saxons tralled-by onlv six. point
behind. (Statesman Photo.)
Salem School
Signup Off to
Fast Start
(Picture oa page 5)
Registration at Salem's 30 ele
mentary schools Jumped off at a
record pace Friday supporting es
timates of school officais that tne
city is headed for another record
enrollment.
Friday's registration In grades 1
through 6 totaled 5,697, more than
200 above the first signup last year.
Officais pointed out. however, that
the 1955 mark of 5,476 did not in
clude Candalaria pupils who regis
tered late and does not offer a
true basis for comparison.
Fourth graders led the list of
registrants Friday, totaling 1,055.
First graders, however, turned out
in expected numbers and the total
for the day was 1,039. Other grades
included second. 945; third, 1,005;
fifth. 843; and sixth, 802.
T 13,0t Pupils
Many mere are expected to en
roll Monday) when classes begin at
all Salem schools. High school en
rollment, which is normally not at
its peak until youngsters conclude
harvest jobs about Oct. 1, is ex
pected to bring Salem's total this
year to a record 13,000 pupils.
Friday activity at the schools
was generally restricted to regis
tration, assignment of rooms and
other administrative details.
Weekly Reader
The first grader of the 1958-57
year is put in the education busi
ness with a primary pencil, a box
of large and a box of small wax
crayons, a pencil, tablet and his.
first three My Do and Learn Books.
Pupils are also asked to subscribe
to the weekly reader which is used
in the reading program. -
Second graders need a tablet,
pencil, ,24-stick box of crayons, We
Are Neighbors' and Around the
Corner books and the weekly read
er. Third grade supplies are the
same except for the books which
are titled Finding New Neighbors
and Friends Far and Near at that
level. A pen, eraser and loose-leaf
notebook are added to the list for
fourth, fifth and sixth graders.
NORTHWEST I.BAOVR '
At Salem 4, Yakima T
At Wnatch . Trl-Clly I
At SpokaiM . Lcwiitoa S
PACIFIC COAST "l IAOUK
At Seattle 3. Portland
At Hollywood S, San DiefO I
At Sail Franclaco 10, Sacramento J
At Vancouver 4, Loa Analea J
AMERICAN I.EAGl'K
At New York S, Wanhlnjton I
At Cleveland I, Chlc.fo S I
At Baltimore 5-5. Boston 1-0
At Kanaaa City S, Detroit 12 '
NATIONAL LEAOim '
At Chlraco S, Milwaukee
At St. Lmiia 1. Cincinnati 0
At Brooklyn 1-3, New York (-1 .
At Philadelphia t, PltUburih t
J
77
shout about Friday night, but
(Story on Sport pages.) .
Father Insists Body
Not Kidnaped Infant
' NEW HAVEN,' Conn., Sept 7 (AP)-The body of little
Cynthia Ruotojo will be laid to rest in the family plot at St
Bernard's Cemetery here tomorrow, but there was some ques
tion if her father would attend the committal services. -.
Stephen Ruotolo. 33, ex-Marine paint salesman, has stead
fastly refused to agree that the
Judge Drops
DA Langley s
Assault Count
PORTLAND, Sept. 7 un-Munici-paWudge
John 3. Murchison today
dismissed a charge of assault
against District Attorney William
M. Langley after the district at
torney apologized for damaging a
photographer's camera.
Langley, through an attorney, is
sued the following statement:. I
am willing to replace Allan de-
Lay's camera which I damaged
on Aug. 10 in the hallway of the
Multnomah Courthouse. I am sorry
the altercation occurred."
DeLay said he was "glad Lang
ley was finally. man enough, to
make a public apology and re
place the camera."
The incident occurred after de
Lay attempted to photograph Lang
ley In the courthouse corridor.
Speed Story
Works Once,
BiitNotTidcc
More pressure on the accelerator
than on the memory apparently
cost a Salem driver $50 in Marlon
County District Court Friday.
Last week Lewis Monroe woods.
23, of 200 Kenwood Ave., was
stopped by State Patrolman Ray;
mond Judson who gave him a
warning and reported that Woods
told him his panel truck waa
"missing" and he was just giving
it a test.
This week Judson said he stopped
Woods again and the policeman
said he got the same explanation
for Woods' SO-mile-an-hour pace on
the Salcm-Portland Freeway. He
cited Woods to court on a speeding
charge. There Woods was fined $50
by Judge Edward u. Stadter Jr.
A second driver drew a $50 fine,
too, Friday from Judge Stadter.
She was Mrs. Betty Jo Smith, 19, of
3855 State St., who state police said
was driving 95 miles an hour on
the freeway.
TRAIN WRECK HURTS 17
WARSAW, Ind.. Sept. 7 Ml
Thirty-seven persons were Injured
tonight as nine cars of the Penn
sylvania Railroad's Chicago-to-
New York Trailblascr left the
track at the east edge o( Warsaw,
n if
mm
PRICE 5c
Start in Salem
season 19-0 by the Bearerton
this play brought momentary
r
body of the child found in a
weighted piasuc nag in Lane Yvnii-
ney yesterday is that of hut six-weeks-old
daughter.
Adamant Stand .
Rutolo's adamant stand was
made known tonight by coroner
James J. Corrigan ' who added
that members of the father's fam
ily have tried unsuccessfully to
get him to reverse his position in
the face of "all the evidence." -"He
Insists that the body is that
of a child too large to be Cyn
thia," Corrigan explained, adding
that in addition to Mrs. Eleanw
Rutolo, the child's mother, at least
six others made the positive identi
fication, ' '
- s ...
Many Identlncatleaa
Two of these, said Corrigan, are
the pediatrician and a visiting
nurse who attended the child since
birth. Another was the maternal
grandmother Mrs. Anna Monte.
In addition, said the coroner, the
woman who made the clothing
which was on the child's body
when it was found has identified
ber handiwork.
Meanwhile top investigators
broke up a long huddle today with
out giving any hint of how close
they are to a solution.
Methodists Increase Quota of
Men's Clubs, Delegates Told
(Picture en Page 1) '
The success of the Methodist
church in chartering 10,000 men's
clubs, has led the general board
of lay activities to set a new goal
of 12,900 organizations, Don L.
Calame, Chicago resource leader,
told 200 lay members of the first
annual assembly of the Oregon
Methodist Church Friday, night
at Willamette University.
Currently there are 66 Meth
odist organizations in Oregon
and 17 in the Salem district, he
said and added that world-wide
there are more than 500,000
members in the men s club.
Highlight of the opening day's
session was an , address by Dr.
Glenn A. Olds, director of Cor
nell United Religious Work, who
flioke on "Three , Dimensional
Discipleshlp." .
Not all the delegates arrived
in time to hear Dr. Olds speak,
ami at least 60 more are expected-
to register by noon today.
Dr. Olds in addition to being
a Willamette graduate, has also
No. 16S
Justice
Minton
To Quit
U.S. Supreme
Court Jurist
Blames Health
(Picture on Wlrephote Page) .
WASHINGTON, Sept 7
(AP) Justice Sherman Minton,
plagued by pernicious anemia
and a failing memory, an
nounced today he was retiring
from the Supreme Court Oct
IS.
.He told newsmen he no longer
feels able "to do the kind of work
this position demands."
Minton, almost at, has been a
member ot the high court since
1949 and has been identified with
what has come to be known as
the court's five-man conservative
bloc.
His retirement will give Presi
dent Eisenhower the opportunity
to make his third appointment to
the supreme tribunal. There was
immediate speculation about the
nomination.
The names of Atty. Gem Brown-
ell and former Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York were) first
mentioned as possibilities, but in
formed government sources indi
cated there was doubt that either
would get the President's nod. A
third name mentioned was that of
Stanley N. Barnes, former chief
of the Antitrust Division ot the
Justice Department and bow a
Judge on the U.S. Circuit Court
bench in San Francisco.
In January 1955, the President
nominated Justice John M. Harlan
and in September 1953, he named
Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Minton was a Truman appointee.
as
was Justice. Clark. Four of
President Roosevelt's appointees
remain: Justices Black, Reed,
Frankfurter and Douglas. Black,
Reed and Frankfurter, all ever
70, could retire now and get full
pay of $35,000 a year, as Minton
will.
Truman Says
Eisenhower
'Passing Buck9
WASHINGTON. Sept 7 (It -
Harry S. Truman accused Presi
dent Eisenhower tonight ot "pass
ing the buck" to subordinates in
order to maintain his own popu
larityeven at the risk of starting
World War III.
The former President made the
charge in a frequently applauded
speech to the American political
Science Assn.
Departing from his prepared
text, and referring several times
specifically to Eisenhower, Tru
man said the White House has
adopted "the old army game of
passing the buck." Recalling that
when be was president a sign on
his desk read: "The buck stops
here," Truman said that today,
"On that same desk I think the
buck starts there."
In his prepared text, Truman
although not mentioning the Pres
ident by name had by plain im
plication accused , Eisenhower of
shirking the responsibilities of his
office and perhaps endangering
the national welfare, for the sake
ot maintaining personal . popu
larity.
Truman's talk had been billed
in advance as a "nonpolitical"
one. - - . .
received an honorary doctorate
from the school in 19S3.
Oregon's lay members heard
Dr. Olds speak on man's failure
to keep pace with himself in the
art of being, compared to his
development made in the art of
seeing. He said that man has
made-progress in seeing inside
the atom as well as seeing the
mysteries of the universe, but
he still needs to solve the prob
lem of the will.
"Ours is a time with a prem
ium on seeing," be said, "but
what we, don't see is what we
ought to be, because our lives
are like pictures shallow and
without depth." s
To illustrate this point Dr.
Olds mentioned the difficulty of
accepting the problems of mis
placed people in the world. "We
see what the problem la," he
said, "but it doesn't affect the
roots of our being."
"Energizing the will In the
correct direction is the answer,"
he said.
I (Additional details ea page 1.)
Quartet
44-Time
Losers'
Jailer, Family
Locked in Cells;
Vehicle Stolen
By CHARLES IRELAND
Valley Editor, The Statesman
ALBANY, Ore., Sept 7 Four
prisoners escaped from Una
County jail tonight after over
powering a jailer and locking up
three of his relatives in the jaiL
All were still at large early Sat
urday,, five hours after they
broke out of jaiL
Sheriff George Miller said the
break was probably engineered
by Earl Junior Bonnie, 32, su
verton, a notorious criminal who
has figured in Marlon and Polk
escapades.
All of the escapees were four-
time losers, either sent up for
life or facing possible life sen
tences as habitual criminals.
Jailer Lou Andrus said one of
the four jumped him as he pre
pared to jock their cells oa the
top floor ot the courthouse here.
Knocked Down
Andrus said he waa knocked
down and kicked by one of the
men as another one of them nn
to the jail kitchen and grabbed
two knives.
One of the prisoners went to
the jailer's apartment and order
ed the jailer's son-in-law, Blake
Rivera and bis two children to
get in the jail. The children
are five and three years old.
They were not harmed. .
The prisoners took the keys to
the jail from Andrus after se
verely beating and kicking him.
They took car keys from the son- '
in-law and made him tell where
his car was parked after threat
ening his life.
Took Elevator
Then the four men took the
courthouse elevator to the
ground floor and escaped.
Sheriff George Miller said they
apparently got a S to IS minute
start on the law. Another dep
uty entered the courthouse,
couldn't make the elevator work,
and discovered all of the occu
pants o( the courthouse locked
in jail.
Folic Immediately threw road
blocks across Highway 89E and,
other roads.
State police Identified the oth
ers at Dan C. Ott, 43, a transient '
who, had. lived in the Detroit
area; James Artnur ration, sv.
Long Beach, Calif.; and Ernest
Loring Gibson, 29, Coos Bay,
Sensational Robbery
Sheriff Miller said Gibson was .
under life sentence for a sensa
tional robbery at the Linn Coun
ty courthouse last winter in which
a county official waa beaten.
Patton also was under life sen
tence following conviction for
armed robbery, the sheriff said,
while habitual criminal com
plaints were on file against Ott
and Bonnie.
Tbe prisoners took a 22 re
volver when they overpowered
Jailer Andrus, but Sheriff Miller
said he thought the only am
munition they took waa of J8
calibre.
Money Taken
Andrus said they also stole
$60 from him, $40 from his son-
in-law and another $80 from the ,
jailer's apartment
The car they fled in was de
scribed as a two-tone green, two
door 1853 ' Oldsmobila bearing
Texas license FK1821
Sheriff Miller said the break
was the first successful one from
the present Linn Count jail in"
its 19-year history, .
Seeks Laws
I am hopeful for legislation
to keep county jails from having .
to house this kind of character
pending appeal," Sheriff Miller
told The Statesman, referring to
Gibson, whom he said was re
turned from the state peniten
tiary 10 days ago because ef his
appeal
Jailer Andrus, sporting a bad
ly bruised face and a wrenched .
back, quoted Gibson aa saying
as they ran from the jail, "If
they get ma, they'll hold trial in
the street"
Eugene Firemen
Fight Foot-Wide,
Block-Loim Fire
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EUGENE, Sept. 7 uB Fire
men fought a foot-wide, block
long blaze here today.
It was flaming tar that gushed
from the spigot of a tar container
and ooxed down a steep hill in
East Eugene. The tar had become
overheated. . '
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