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m i " in -lJ Trip it Banff, Albert II So many people have made the trip by car or train to Banff or other resorts in Canada that rrpon on a trip to Banff may seem superfluous. Many more haven't gone there, however, and wey may be Interested. from Spokane north, over high way j5 men 95, the country looks as It did 44 years ago when I first traveled the route by rail. It Is rough country, eovered with pine of medium siie, dotted with small farms. Lumbering is the principal activity and promises to remain so. What has been "added However is power a new dam at Albeni Falls on the border be tween Washington and Idaho, built by the federal government, and one in Box Canyon of the Pend Oreille below Newport. Wash by the county. PUD (with contracts lor sale of electricity to Seattle and Tacoma municipal systems' , The country north of the border Is much the same, though occa sionally there are wider farming areas, and as you go north the mountains grow taller. The tree cover is chiefly pine white pine or lodgepole pine, mixed with fir, and at other places chiefly white spruce. But scattered all over are the aspen poplars which at this season flaunt t' eir bright yellow against the drab green of the con ifers. This makes a trip at this season particularly delightful, for the coloring in the valleys and on the mountain sides evokes fre quent "ohs" and "ahs." Parenthetically I might say that September is the best month of the year for a vacation in the Northwest if you are ahead of (Conlinaed m editorial pair. 4.) Silver Creek Canyon Hides Two Youths lUlnmia Nwi SrrTlrt SILVER FALLS PARK. Sept. 23 Two youths, reportedly from Turner and Salem, were object M a search here Sunday night after vanishing in a canyon running be tween the South and North water falls, state police reported. The pair, missing since about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, were listed as James Harley Ritts, 14, Salem, and Larry Schad, 18. of the Turner area according to Officer Al Espey. Tbo two were scheduled to meet another party at North Falls later in the afternoon aad when they failed to appear, the park caretaker was notified. Espey said It was believed the two youths took a path leading down under the park's South Falls and went up a trail in the canyon stretching to North Falls, some two miles away. Darkness hampered extensive searchine Sundav evenine and early Monday morning. An inten-1 sive hunt was planned Monday if the pair had not shown up by then. Park officials said there are a number of trails leading up from the canyon that would take the youths out to the Silver Falls Highway. The youths were believed to have been in a picnic outing with friends prior to their disappearance Blaze Strikes Famed Island (Picture on Page S SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 A spectacular four-alarm fire, watched by thousands of persons on both sideot San Francisco Bay today destroyed two old frame buildings and damaged a third at the Navy's Treasure Island base. Smoke rose 3.000 feet over the middle of the bay. The two destroyed buildings, used as Navy warehouses, dated back to the 1939-40 Golden Gale International Exposition, for which Treasure Island originally was constructed. The Navy estimated loss at $100,000. Officers said prompt ac tion by Navy men and Marines, working in human chains, re moved a big store of paint and oxygen tanks from the burning buildings. JET TESTS SCHEDULED WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 OrV-Top officials of the Civil Aeronautics Administration flew to Seattle tv day to make experimental flights in the Docing 707 jet transport to test Its adaptability to U.S. air ways and airports. Family Car By Wally Falk "... Then after crossing the 'track you past a red barn 1 f 06th Yoar No Steak Needed With This Mushroom. ITT .IS 1 -r. APPLETOX, Wis., Sept. 23 ;i , . -Ay v;rjl:;v?l . V.:;: Hi yV. V -i" ' I It as he prepares to dig into giant mushroom he found in big puffball weighed 35 pounds. (AP Wirephoto) ECefauver Recalls Al Sarena Letter Candidate Denies Aiding Claims (Picture on Wirephoto Page) PORTLAND, Sept. 23 (AP)-Sen. Estes Kcfauver said to day tha only advice he recalls giving owners of the Al SaTena mine at a 1951 meeting in New Orleans was "write me a letter." The Democratic nominee for the vice presidency com mented today in a brief stop at Portland airport on his way "Space Saucer Forecast on V.m.jf-t 7i) 7 L ' 11 C I f I lCf I LONDON', Sop!. 23 - The Khire News said today that British (lying saucer experts ace claiming flying saucers will de scend to 10.000 feet over California Nov. 7 and attempt '0 send a message to earth. The paper said station KATY in San Luis Obispo has agreed to go off the air that night to listen for the message. The Empire News account went on: The experts said the report of the impending visit from outer space came from an "unimpeach able source" which they declined to reveal. A U.S.. electronic engineer, Ken neth M. Kellar was not otherwise identified, at a meeting of the British Sauccritcs Saturday played tape recordings he said were made directly from a flying saucer hovering over San Fran cisco. Weatherman Says Cloudy Fall's first rain in form of light showers may strike the Salem sec tor today, according to weather men at McNary Field. Mostly cloudy conditions -will prevail both today and Tuesday. Sunday's high reading was a warm 79. The mercury is expected to range from a low of 42 to a high of 72 today. Forecast for beaches today is cloudiness or fog with variable winds from S to IS miles an hour. Staid Britons Prefer Wrestling to Cricket Commerc ia I TV Learns LONDON, Sept. 23 Britain's noisiest baby commercial TV adored by many, hated by -ome, ignored by few has 'ust celebrat ed its first birthday. Motion pic ture th-eters ha-e l-n hard hit but the big surprise is the popu larity of wrestling the grunt-and-groan type over cricket. Commercial television made its debut in Britain Sept. 22, 195.1. Be fore that date Britons could see only those TV programs aired by the government-owned and strict ly noncommercial British Broad casting Corp; - ' , K ' A common complaint was that 2 SECTIONS 14 PAGES l ' Leo Regenfuss of Appleton flourishes his eating tools happily to campaign in ashington The mining claims in the Rogue River National Forest of Southern Oregon are a sharp political is sue between the Democrats and Republicans. Charles McDonald, one of sever al members of the McDonald fam ily interested in the property, said yesterday Sen. Kcfauver had given him valuable legal advice at a meeting in New Orleans, Dec. 31. 1951. Envelope in Files Kcfauver said at the airport to day he didn't recall the meeting until he noted an envelope in his files from Clinton McDade, a Chattanooga friend, who intro duced him to McDonald and his sister, Catherine. "I was in New Orleans to at tend a football game," Kefauver said, "when Clinton McDade in troduced me to the McDonalds." "I can't recall having told them anything but to write me a let ter about their case," he added. The Portland Oregnnian pub lished a picture showing Kefauv er and his wife Nancy posed with a group of people. The paper ident ified McDade ...id Charles and. Catherine McDonald as three of the group. Letter Printed Along with the story the Ore gonian printed a picture of a let ter carrying the signature "Es tes Kefauver." Addressed to Mr. Charles R. McDonald, it said in part, "I shall keep your records in my file for my use and will make every attempt to secure action in your case." Kcfauver said the signature was not his, but had been signed by Frank Brizzi, his administra tive assistant, without his know ledge. ( Story also oa Page t) NEW TYPHOON SPOTTED TOKYO, Monday, Sept. 21 Ufi Thc U. S. Air Force said today Guam-based weather planes have located the season's eighth ty phoon, named Harriett, 440 miles south of Okinawa. 4 most BBC programs were staid. In its first year, that's one charge that not even the most bitter critic has leveled against the new comer. 1 Commercial TV finished its first year without showing a profit, but it made a big splash in a lot of other ways and its spokesmen say the baby's future health should be good. They claim the commercial audience is twice as big as that of the BBC among viewers who have a choice of channels. Only about 1 million of Britain s six million sets now are able to receive both outlets, but the commercial opera J 1 1 3 p. X wooded area near here. The State of Seige Ordered After Bolivia Riots LA PAZ. Bolivia, Sept. 23 OrV- A state of siege was ordered for Bolivia today after a night of anti-government rioting that saw four persons killed and 25 injured. The government radio tonight reported armed workers and peas ants are marching on the capital and the towns of Cochabamba and Sucre "to help preserve order and prevent a possible attack on the headquarters of the federation of labor." The office of President Hernan Siles Zuazo said the state of siege modified martial law has been decreed, but the text of the order has not yet been published. The capital was quiet today. Government statements said the Saturday night rioting was caused by "vandals and Fascists" en couraged by the Socialist Falange party and financed by tin mag nate Carlos Victor Aramayo. The mines were taken over by the gov ernment in 1952. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, So cialist Falange leader, took asy lum in the Venezuelan embassy and his lieutenants reportedly fled to other embassies. A number of other Falangists were arrested. Their names have not been dis closed. Boise Woman Found Stabbed BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 23 W-A woman formerly from Pasadena, Calif., was found dead beside a paint factory today, stabbed 27 times. Her mother identified her as Cora Lucille Dean, 48, of Boise, and said she had come to Boise about four months ago from Pasa dena. She was separated from her husband. Prosecutor Blaine Evans caid it had not been determined if she had been sexually, assaulted. But he said the nature of the wounds indicated the killing was the work of a sex fie-d. Most of the woman's clothes had been stripped from her. The body was found on a gravel driveway within sight of a main thorough fare in the Boise suburb of Gar den City. tors say the number is growing at the rate of mere than 2.000 a day. Owners pay Sbout $25 to convert their old single channel sets. All four private companies pre senting programs operate under a government watchdog commis sion, the Independent ' Television Authority. AU four claim" to be on firm financial ground. ' -. On the program side, critics have expressed surprise snd fre quent dismay at the extent that variety shows, . quiz . programs, panel games and American-type formula drama havt caught on with British viewers. FOUNDBD 1651 The Oregon, Statesman, Salom, Orogon, Monday, September 24, 1956 U.N. to Probe Suez French, British Ask Move hy Peace Agency By JAMES F. KING LONDON, Sept. 23 (AP) Britain and France clearly impatient for a showdown in the Suez dispute moved sud denly today to seek United Na tions support for international control of the canal. .They asked that the U.N. Secu rity Council meet Wednesday to consider the situation created by Egyptian President Nasser's na tionalization of the waterway July 26. The Council president. Ambas sador Emilio Nunez-Portuondo of Cuba, quickly agreed and set the meeting for 2 p.m. Wednesday in New York. Authoritative .sources in Cairo said Egypt welcomes the idea of taking the dispute to the Security Council because it is confident the legality of its position can be de fended before any international' body. Secretary of State Dulles en dorsed the British-French move, although earlier he had been re ported urging delay in going to the U.N. Divided Attltadet The attitudes of the 11 Security Council nations toward the inter national canal control Britain and France ask probably will be di vided along East-West lines, with Russia taking Egypt's side. West ern diplomats privately expressed fear that the Soviet Union would veto any Council action opposed by Egypt. The Council sessions promise to provide a full public airing of the dispute for the first time among high-level government officials. British foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau and Dulles all are expected to take part in the Council discussion. Summit Meeting CAIRO, Sept. 23 W-Arab Lea gue leaders said tonight a summit meeting of all nine Arab nations may be called to consider the Suez Canal crisis. The meeting would follow close on the current AraD nig min mcctinf. President Nasser of Egypt, King Saud of Saudi AraDia and President snuKn jvuwauy 01 Svria are in conference now in Saudi Arabia. The Middle East News Agency said the three met for three hours tonight in Riyadh, the Saudi Ara bian capital, and postponed the re lease of a communique until Mon day morning. No reason was given for the delay. The three assembled to discuss the Suez crisis. Arab-Israel bor der tension and other problems, GI in Italy Lonesome for Pet Skunk LEGHORN. Italy. Scot. 23 W- A soldier overseas can miss a lot of things. A Kirl friend. Home cooking. A pet skunk. Pvt. Robert C. Osha, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Osha of Maple Plain, Minn., is a skunk-misser. Back home he kept Magnolia, girl skunk. He is stationed at Southern European Task Force Support Command here. 'U s nice to be around skunks. They make nice pets and they catch mice," said Osha. The other day Osha was sittin" around missing his skunk and he could just smell in the air things were going to change around Leg horn. They did, too. , A Minnesota skunk arrived. Not Magnolia, a skunk named Flip. Capt. Verncn V. Christensen of 120? Laurel Ave , St. Taul, Minn., en route to duty here sent him on ahead. Now Osha plays with Flip and feeds him meat and vegetables t.vice a day. T. M.; Brownrigg, general man ager of Associated Redif fusion Co. one of the private firms, considers the general lack of enthusiasm for Britain's traditional , sports such as' cricket (he biggest single sur prise of the first year's operation. He adds that music programs, whether classical or jazz, also re ceived a surprisingly small re sponse. The biggest loner appears 1 to have been the British motion pic ture industry. The J. Arthur Rank organization recently announced plans for closing 79 theaters be cause of poor attendance. 1 1, o-dl Crash Near Albany Kills Salem Man Staletman News Strvlc ALBANY, Sept. 23 A Salem man died here Sunday evening of injuries suffered in a one-car ac cident four miles east of Albany late Saturday night. Three other persons were injured in the mis hap. Dead is Leroy G. Stainbrook, (20 Hampton Lan., Salem, 30-year-old paper mill employe. Seriously hurt in the 11:4. p.m. crash were Stain brook's wife, Doris Kathyrn Stain- brook, 26, back and head injuries Clare A. Erickson, 3S, 4753 Carolyn St., severe concussion; his wife, Helen Louise Erickson,. 32, broken arm and deep leg lacerations. All four were taken to Albany General hospital following the one car wreck. State police said the west-bound auto left the road on an S-curve near Knox Butte School on the Knox Butte Road, rammed the power pole and then spun over on its top in an adjacent plowed field. Erickson was believed to have been the driver; his car, a 1956 Ford was heavily damaged, police said. Later state police hastened the transfer of blood from Salem to Albany for transfusion to the acci dent victims. Condition of Mrs. Stainbrook was still described as serious Sunday night; that of the Erickson as fair to good. Murder Count FQed in Fatal Road Shooting PORTLAND, Sept. 13 un-Clin-ton L. Jeremiah, 33, a logger, was booked on a first degree murder charge Sunday after a fatal shooting on U.S. Highway 30 west of Portland. The victim was Elmer H. Ray mond, 47, of Jewell. Stanley MacDonald, a sheriff's deputy, said the shooting appar ently followed an argument be tween the two men, acquaintanc es for the past four years. The two men were returning from a trip to Salem in Jeremiah's car at the time of the shooting, apparently between 1 and 2 a.m. Raymond's body was found on the highway by a passing motor ist. Police said Jeremiah helped them locate a rifle which had been thrown from the car into the brush some IS miles from the place where Raymond's body was found. Jeremiah is the father of nine children ranging from to less than a year. Archeological Party Slain At Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Sept. 23 UTI A Jordan soldi e.r went berserk seized a Bren gun and killed three Israelis in an archeological party outside Jerusalem today. Jordan reported tonight. Fifteen others were wounded. U. N. truce supervisors issued a communique quoting the senior Jordan delegate to the Mixed Ar mistice Commission as saying the soldier was "suddenly taken by maaness. The delegate said the soldier di rected the gun at a group of peo ple at nearby Ramat Rahel settle ment and starred firing. The delegate said the soldier was arrested immediately and taken to a hospital for mental ex. amination. While this was the Jordanian ae- count, an Israeli military spokes . .... man said both n.achine gun and rifle fire struck the party of ar cheologists. . Earlier, a Jordan military source ..said, .the .. three slam - war French tourists who approached a prohibited military tone. Today's Statesman ago Sec. Classified ....... 12, 13 U Comics 1 'I Crossword ...... 12. .11 Editorials ........... 4 Homo Panorama ... 6 Obituaries .......12 Hadio-TV 11,14 Sports 9, 10 Star Oaror 7. Valley News . .11 .1 . I .It II .11 l .11 .11 Wirephoto Pag -14.. Louisiana Coast Braces for Blow (Picture page 1) NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 23 Hurrieaae Flassy' battered 4 per hii straaded la tbo Calf of Mei .let with 7i mile aa hoar winds as U roared toward the Louisiana coast tonight. a After apparently claiming two Uvea earlier ia tbo day, Flaasy aimed Us poach at 41 persoaa trapped oa offshore oil rigs and disabled craft almost directly ia the path of the hurricane's cen ter. Bad weather forced the Coast Guars' to (round Its helicopters aad rescae pisses aad cutters or dered Into the area were not ex pected to reach the scene autll after the storm paases. Thousands of perseas were Adlai Urges Better Lot of Elderly By ED CREAGK DENVER, Sept. 23 (AP)-AdIai Stevenson Issued the first of his "New America policy statements today. It called on Americans to "Make our dollars the tools of our hearts" and improve the Health, happiness, million elder citizens. The Democratic nominee outline on a busy Sunday which included churchgoing, an airport conference with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and posing for photo graphs with Democratic - office- seekers in this Rocky Mountain region. Today s policy statement on "The Program For Our Older Citi zens" was the first of a half-dozen or so which the candidate plans for outlining Democratic positions to party leaders. - v In a letter to Democratic sena tors, governors and other officials and candidates Stevenson said these statements would enable him to talk about "topics of great concern" which "do not lend them selves to full development in speeches." He voiced hope that these state ments, which his aides have called new dimension" in political campaigning, ' will be a new con tribution to talking sense to the American people." In the first of the New Amer ica" statements, as Stevenson him self refers to them, the nominee said the nation as a whole and the Republican administration in particular has failed to meet its obligations to the IS million Amer icans 63 or over. - His main recommendation: quick action by Congress to set up a Democratic-proposed Office of Older Persons' Welfare in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. AIR SECRETARY IN SPAIN MADRID. Sept. 23 W-Secre- tary of Air Donald A. Quarles to day inaugurated the first U. S. emergency air base in Spain by landing at Torrejon airdrome, 15 miles northeast of Madrid. Valley Stamp Stamp collectors by tho scores annual Willamette Valley Stamp Exhibit here. Giving magnifying; glass scrutiny to a prize winning Oregon historical displsy Is Joe Weber, exhibit chairman. At left Is exhibitor Ed Payne, secretary of the Salem Stamp Society which sponsored the) show. Center Is Wil liam Wiley, Albany, editor of the Western Fhilatelist. Jerry Clanssen. Salem, won hon ors for having top exhibit at PRICI 5c eiredl IFoirest evacuated from low-lyisf areas. No estimate was available, but (.SOI were taken from Goldes Meadow south of bere. In Its II p.m., CST, advisory. the Weather Bureau here placed Flossy 10 miles south of New Orleaas. or M miles off the coast. Northeastward movemeat was about It miles aa boar, with winds (5-7S miles aa boar extend ing out 101 miles from the center of the hurrieaM to the northeast. The two mea presumed drowaed were aboard tbo lOe-foot snotor Teasel carport a boot 44 Miles west of tho moutb of the Missis sippi River. Oao mil fell over board aad the other, weat ta to save him. The ship's eaptala said neither cams ap. Action to income ana usefulness ' ot 15 f " put out his 3,300-word program State Mishaps FafaltoFour; Over Weekend . By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two persons died in Oregon Sun day, one from a fall off a cliff and the other in a traffic acci dent, raising the week end acci dental death toll to four. Mrs. Lou Ellen Simko, 32, Portland, fell to her death from a 50-foot cliff near Timberline Lodge where she had been hik ing with her husband. Robert E. Will, 35, Portland, was killed Sunday afternoon and his wife was seriously injured in a headon collision between a car and a truck near Bend. The truck driver was not hurt. ' Marlene Mitchell, IS, of South Beach, and Virgil Meeker, SO, of Klamath Falls, were killed in Sat urday traffic accidents. - - NATIONAL LSAOt'f At Pltttbursh S, Brooklyn I (same usocndrd) At Milwaukee V, Chicago 4 At New York S, Philadelphia At ClncinnaU 1-5, SU Louis 1-4 AMERICAN LIAGUB At Boiton 4, New York T At Baltimore 4, Wuhlnfton AUChlraco 1-S. Kna City 1-1 At Detroit 11, Cleveland 1 Collectors Gather in, Salem and stamps by the thousands ot tha aveu. (satesmaa PhotoJ. The Weather - "Today's forah Mostly-' cloudy with possibility of tight showers today and tonight high today 72, low tonight 42. , (Couplet reoort oaf I) - No. Ill $rm Flames Race Across Area In California fPlctare aa Wirephoto Page) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif, Sept 23 (AP)-A timber "fir storm'-so called because It de veloped 50-mile-an-hour winds of its own leaned at htehwav and roared toward millions of dollars' worth of resort property late today. , ... Nearly 1,000 residents of a six- mile area were ordered to flee their homes. . . The U.S. Forest Service said tha three-day , blaze fought by 1.400 weary men bad denuded 5,500 to (.000 acres of timber and brushland needed to bold winter rains in check. The fire jumped mile-high Rim ot the World Highway and posed a threat to swank cabins and oth er property in the general area of Lake Arrowhead, playground of film folk and the wealthy. Direct Threat , v Tho Forest Service said on ' front posed "a very direct threat to summer bomes in the Crest Park area, on the highway be tween Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake. Preparations were made to set backfires there. Fire-fighters held off the inferno from Santa's Village after It had burned to within a few hundred yarda of that tourist attraction valued by its general manager at anout a million dollars. Firemen and their -trucks tem porarily withdrew from a K-mile sector where the blase Jumped tho two-lane Rim of the World high way at .several points. These points - extended eastward from Santa's Village. ' . ; ( ; Call far Bel '' - ., , , The Forest Service Issued a call for more fire fighters. Already on the lines were forestry men from elsewhere in, California, expert crews of Arizona and New Mexico Indians, snd Riverside County and San Bernardino Coun'jr prisoner. Almost 1.000 residents between nearby Sky Forest and the com munity" of Running Springs, six miles to the east, were ordered by forest service rangers and sheriffs deputies to evacuates- . , The fire was started Friday by, the crash of a Jet plane, whoso pilot psrschuted safely. : ;; Plaaes Give Aid . A thousand weary firefighters fought a valiant battle In 76-de- - gree weather, guided by VS. for estry men in two helicopters. Eight tanker planes, loading at San Bernardino airport, dumped water on hot spots snd structures. Tho fire slopped across City Creek Road State Highway 30 ' for the first time at a point two miles south of Running Springs. Residents of Running Springs, at the junction of U.S. 30 and the Rim of the World Highway, were asked to pack their belongings and be ready to leav e their homes on short notice. The fire was two miles from Running Springs and moving east- ward and northward toward that area.' ' together Sunday for the 10th 7