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Cutting of a tia rlbboa highlighted dedication ceremonies at
v the entrance to the new $1,000,000 American Can Com
pany plant la North Salem Friday. Left to right are W. C
J Hatfield, Canco sales manager for Oregon; Charles A.
; Spragne, Statesman publisher; Elmer Berg, president Sa
; Jem Chamber of Commerce; J. F. Short, state director of
-t agriculture; W. Merrill, president Northwest Canners
20 State Firms BacN
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'Twenty Oregon firms have re
ported that 100 per cent of their
employes have signed the indus
trial safety pledge to work safely
and help provide safe working
conditions. William A. Callahan.
.chairman of the State Industrial
Accident Commission announced
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'.These concerns employ more
than J.3O0 workers. w -. .
: Through Sept. 1 a total of 110
firms, representing nearly U.000
employes, have. been participat
ing in the program drawn up by
the commission two months ago.
The pledge card signing is the
first step in an industrial safety
United Nations
Group
Plans
Ieeting Here
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Oregon United Nations ' Assod
tina. Salem Chapter, will take
place on Monday, Sept. IK, at I
p.m. at toe Salem YWCA.
Alexander Michaelides, professor
of physics and mathematics i at
Willamette University, will speak
en the United Nations, according
to program chairman, Mrs. Dea
ds Patch. ,
Ki ports en the recent meeting
of the Oregon . UN Association
board of directors will .be given
by Miss Mary Eyre and Tom
Churchill, local board members.
Man Charged
In Kidnaping
Hollis Wayne Evans, H. of Dal
las, appeared in Marion County
District Court Friday on a charge
of kidnapping a Lyons girl
' Cotnplamtant is Verna Seig, IS.
Apcording to Information filed in
the Marion County district attor
ney's office Miss Seig alleges she
was - forced from her car' into
Eyans' car. In which there were
several other persons, and was
taken for a short ride.
She was unharmed. The Incident
allegedly occurred Saturday night.
Sept t, at Stayton. Evans is a
: former Stayton police officer.
State Engineers
Open The Dalles
Confab Monday
A three-day meeting of the As
sociation of Western Stats Engi
neers will open at The Dalles
Monday. The chief topic of dis
cussion will be federal-state re
lations in .control of water rights.
; Attending the meeting will be
state engineers of 17 western
States and several federal of
" cials. ' .'
Lewis A. Stanley, Oregon State
Engineer, 'is president of the as
sociation. : V :
. Speakers on water rights will in
clude William J. Burke, solicitor
of the Sacramento region of the
federal Department Of the -Interior;
and Willard W. Gatchell.
general counsel of the Federal
Tower Commission. . 1
Three Vehicles ?
Damaged' in City
f'rert Mishap
Three cars, two of them parked.
reived considerable damage
1 rsd.iv nieht In an accident in
t i K) r lock of N. Liberty Street,
r ' police said. There were no
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r !sy, listed .by officers as
rr of one car, said another
r t cut in front of him and
f 1 his car into the two parked
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Cutting Highlights Can Firm
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program to reduce ' the Oregon
accident rate. Safety training and
first aid courses, organization of
safety committees," special safety
meetings and further study of ac
cidents have been among other
projects the Industrial Accident
Commission has proposed for firms
to carry out or expand aa aafety
activities. . v-
PUC Order
Suspends
Rail Tariff
Public Utilities Commissioner
Charles H. Heltsel Friday signed
an order suspending a tariff filed
by the railroads to revise class
rates for I a t r a s t a t e Oregon
freight. The proposed Intrastate
rates would follow a pattern of in
terim class rates prescribed by
the Interstate . Commerce , Com
mission within the Mountain-Pacific
territory. The proposed tar
iff in Oregon provides for both
increases and reductions over
existing rates.
, The time and place for a public
bearing will be fixed later by the
utilities commissioner, .
PLAN TO VISIT. .
, Many hand, many minds, have played Important
parts in putting Oregon "on the map" aa one of the
leading commercial canning States in the Nation. ',
Sine 1904, the American Can Company has been a
moving force toward that goal . . , for modern cony
tamers are the indispensable secret behind nation-wide
marketing of Oregon's products. f
To keep pace with the needs of the State's container-
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and Freesers; Robert F. White, Salem mayor; R. C. Stolk,
Caneo vice president for the west coast; PatU Throop of Port
land, Oregon Canning Queen" and formerly Miss Oregon;
Secretary of State Earl Newbry; Cecil Tulley, executive vice
president of Northwest Canners; Bernard Msinwarlng, Cap
ital Journal publisher, and John Griffin, plant manager.
(Statesman Photo). (Story on Page 1). "' "
Famed Hero
Offered Aid
LOUISVILLE. Ky.rSeptrUT
Famed World War II hero Charles
(Commando) Kelly sat in his mod
est government project apartment
today and thanked bis friends for
their "overwhelming" offers to
help solve his financial troubles.
One Louisville radio station,
WKLO, said it would hold a bene
fit program in Kelly's behalf
next Thursday night. '
And Kelly said he has received
numerous other offers since word
of his difficulties was circulated
around the country.
Kelly, a slim man with a shock
of curly black hair and a perpet
ual grin, said he was not seeking
"charity," only a way to earn a
living.
The 15-year-old Medal of Honor
winner said his problems began
mounting Aug. 5 when he under
went an emergency appendecto
my. Peritonitis set in, and his doc
tors have forbidden him to work
until October.
Kelly said he had received an
offer to work at Pittsburgh, but
that he "probably" would stay in
Louisville.
STATE VISIT DUE
BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 If) -Iraq
will be host to Pakistan's Presi
dent Iskander Mirza en a state
visit la November, it was learned
here.
OREGON'S
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U.S. Economy
Up Following
Summer Drop
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 l-The
nation's economy headed into Sep
tember at a considerably stepped
up pace after recovering in August
from the usual July decline, the
Federal Reserve Board reported
today.
The board noted price rises oc
curred through August. It said
average wholesale commodity
prices continued their increase
which began after the steel price
hike early in August. And it said
retail sales edged to a new high
the past month with advances
since spring reflecting higher
prices.
'Wholesale prices of meat have
risen t per cent further over the
last month," the board said, "and
the retail prices of these and some
other items are indicated to be
higher in mid-September than at
midyear.
The board said its seasonally
adjusted index of industrial pro
duction in August returned to the
June level of 141 per cent of the
1947-49 average. This is below the
144 per cent mark touched last
December, however.
The August rise was attributed
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NEWEST
using industries, we have repeatedly expanded our Port
land plant, time after time adding new equipment to
produce more and better containers for fruits, vege
' tables, seafood, dairy products, coffee and scores of
other food and non-food products.
In 1956, to broaden our services to the canning in
dustry, we decided to establish a second Oregon plant
in Salem, heart of the Willamette Valley's rich fruit,
Two Agriculture
Officials Due at
Regional Meeting
The Pacific Coast meeting of
the national association of com
missioners, secretaries and direc
tors of agriculture to be held
Sept. 17 - a in San Francisco,
will find James F. Short, director
of the Oregon Agricultural De
partment, serving on three com
mittees. Short's committee work will in
clude plant industry, state-federal
agricultural agreements and t h e
association's auditing.
Also attending the sessions from
the Oregon agricultural depart
ment will be M. E. Knicker
bocker, animal industry chief, and
Dr. K. J. Peterson, state veterin
arian.
Death Claims
A. A. Kubishta
Aloys A. Kubishta, 59, native of
Russia, who came to Salem in
1943, died Friday morning at
Salem Hospital. He lived at 1797
N. Church St.
Recitation of the Rosary will be
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel
of W. T. Rigdon Co. Requiem
Mass will be Monday at 10 a m
in St. Vincent de Paul s Catholic
Church. The Rev. John Reedy will
officiate. Interment will be at
Rest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Kubishta was born April 1(1,
1897 in Russia, and came to the
United States when he was 4-
years-old. Up until the time he
moved to Salem, he lived in
Dickinson, N. D. He was a pipe
fitter for the Oregon Pulp and
Paper Co. is Salem.
He was married to Anna Berg-
man in November 1917 in Dickin
son, N. D.
Survivors are his widow, six
sons; Joseph Kubishta, Nick Kubi
shta, Los Angeles and Jack Kubi
shta, Oregon City: one daughter,
Mrs. Irene Lathrop, Torrance,
Calif; brother Joseph Kubishta,
Dickinson, N. D : and seven sis
ters. Mrs. Marie Roller. Hope.
N. D.; Mrs. Annie Schultz, New
England. N. D.; Mrs. Kethie
Schwintz, Yakima. Wash.; Mrs.
Barbara Pelzel. Yakima, Mrs.
Emma Franzel, Yakima; Mrs.
Theresa Wallrey. Cutler City,
Ore., and Mrs. Josephine Letane,
Dickinson, N. D. '
to a resumption of activity In
durable goods and mining indus
tries after the index had dropped
to 1M per cent in July, partly
as the result of the steel strike.
Steel output increased rapidly
in August and the board said that
in early September it was back
to the record tonnage rates of last
winter and early spring. August
output was reported averaging 75
per cent ef capacity compared
with 92 per cent in June and IS
per cent in July.
Stevenson in
U.S. Capital
To Campaign
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Adlai Steven soft flew to Waih.
ington Friday for a 1 week .of
camDaien olannine and he found
the Republicans waiting for him
with a . parcel of hostile state
ments. The Democratic nrenidentlal
nominee embarked on a band-
shaking tour of central Washing
ton soon after his arrival from
Harrisburg,, Pa., where he made
a national radio-TV ' addrnu
Thursday night. .
That SDeech nroduead num.
ber of GOP replies one delivered
on the White House grounds by
Senate Republican Leader Know
land of California.
Knowland said, after discussing
the speech with President F.iun-
hower. that it Was "filled with
carping criticism" and "many
misstatements."
Stevenson voiced confidence at
the airport that he'll be in Wash
ington for a four-year stay start
ing on Inauguration Day and he
jokingly said it's not too early to
be thinking about a re-election
campaign in 1960.
Surrounded by crowds wherever
he went. Stevenson toured various
Democratic offices before going to
the hotel suite where he'll spend
about a week on "brain work"
writing speeches and planning
campaign tours.
Sen. Estes Kefauver nf Tmrh.
see joined Stevenson briefly be-.
tore the Democratic vire.nrml.
dential- nominee took off for Flori
da and the start of a 15-state
campaign tour.
some of Elsenhower's campaign
plans were disclosed yesterday by
press secretary James Hagerty.
Eisenhower will make a farm
speech in Peoria, III., on Sept. 25.
it will be broadcast and telecast
nationally CBS.
Lilcl Suit Filed
By Lane Judge
PORTLAND. Sept. 14 The
Oregonian was named defendant
in two libel actions filed tpday at
Portland and Eugene. Lane Coun
ty Circuit Judge Frank B. Reid
and Eugene attorney William Hu
ey filed the suits against the
newspaper, each asking t.iO.000
general damages and $100,000
punitive damages.
Also named as a defendant is
Harlow Schillios, a Eugene news
paperman who. the suits said,
wrote an article about Reid and
Huey . which , they contend was
simed at brinzinff them "into
public scandal, infamy and dis
grace." The two suits quote an article
published by The Oregonian on
Aug. 12. 1954. The article is a re
port of a speech made by Dist.
Atty. Eugene Venn. j
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berry and vegetable canning area.
Newly built, Salem plant now stands omplea
ready to take its place as a familiar Oregon landmark
and as the Nation's most modern container manufac
turing facility.
Capable of producing 240,000,000 cans a year, it
will play a worthy role in Oregon's onward march
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Safe Driving Habits Turing Award
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Singled out for special recognition Friday among the 18 Salem
ty awards this year were (right to left) Norman lagle, Edward Ryan, Harley Cross and
John Ankeny. Mayor Robert White (second from left) is shown presenting a watch te
Ankeny while Carl Wendt, City Transit Lines manager, looks on. (Statesman Photo)
18, Salem Transit Drivers
Honored for Safe Driving
A gold watch was presented to
City Transit Lines driver John
Ankeny, for a safety record of
10 accident-free years. The aard
was made Friday in a ceremony
in City Manager Kent Mathew
son's office.
Seventeen other bus drivers re
ceived "Safe Driving Awards,
Damage Suit
Asks $22,681
An accident with an overhead
door last January resulted in a
$22.U1 damage suit filed in Marion
County Circuit Court Froday.
Glen D. Burton, Salem auto deal
er, alleges he was struck on the
head and shoulder by an overhead
door Jan. 17, at the Portland plant
of the Dealer's Auto Auction, Inc.
Burton alleges he sustained head,
shoulder, back and groin injuries,
and that he lost work profits and
incurred medical expenses. The de
fendant Auto Auction firm is al
leged in the complaint to have been
negligent and careless in the oper
ation and safety of the overhead
door.
STRANGE DIETS
ROME, Sept. 14 OT-Diet de
pends on your point of view. Dr.
Margaret Mead of Britain told a
World Diet Congress here. She has
just returned from Nigeria where
she heard a village child com
plain a new teacher from a dif
ferent tribe ate rats and snails.
The child, Dr. Mead said, prefers
locusts and caterpillars.
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given by 'the National 'Safety
Council. Special consideration was
also given tn Ed Ryan, 11-year
safety award and Norman Y-gle,
Lee Epley and Harley Cross, whe
each earned eight - year driving
awards. The i t " driver s were
singled out because of a consecu
tively clean record since they
began their employment.
Attending the ceremony in ad
dition to Mathewson, were Mayor
Robert White. J. Monnette. chair
man of the Mayor's Safety Coun
cil and Carl J. Wendt, general
manager of City' Transit Lines.
Other recipients of "Safe Driver
Awards," were Homer Harrison.
lS-years; Edward Dolan. '2-years:
Ray Cross. 9-years: Harold Harp.
S-y(ars; Ernie Winn, 7-years;
Benny Miller, 7 years; F. M.
("Rpd" Stewart, 6-years;
John Reese, 4-years: E mil
Sandau. 4-years; Charles Chittick,
J-years: Jerry Ginther, 2 years;
Vern Grabski, 1 years and Frank
Meier, 1-year. '
Swimming Pool Franchise
Now available for the fabulous sew Coral swimmlag pool
low investment required contracting esperieare helpful but
not necessary one of the fastest growing businesses ia the
nation.
For Information write, or phono MAin 3898
PIPE-CO INC.
3 14-1st Ave. So.
Soottlo 4, Wash.
MARK
OPEN HOUSE,
SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1:30 TO 4i30 P. M.
YOU ARE INVITED I .
BRINO THE WHOLE FAMILY
SOUVENIRS, REFRESHMENTS
TAKE HIGHWAY 99
ON FINE POUOW
bus driven who received safe
WU Professor
To jtjiss Opening
Of Fall Term
Dr. Charles H. Johnson, who for
29 years has been present at the
opening of every semester at Wil
lamette University, won't be on
hand Monday morning to register
his classes.
The Crown Zellerbach foonda-
i tion recently awarded Johnson,
head of the chemistry department,
a grant to travel to the American
Chemical Society meeting in .'t
lantic City.
Johnson left Friday for the
eastern city, and he will have to
register his classes and start lec
tures a week late, since he won't
return until Sept. 2fl.
M MILLION DOLLARS
LAS VEGAS, Nev. perhaps
you've thought of Las Vegas as
only a place to play. Tourist spend
ing did reach an estimated IW)
million dollars in Clark County, in
cluding Las Vegas, in 1 9r,5. Rut the
eight major industrial concerns in
the county in the same period had
sales totaling DO million dollars.
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