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2-(Se&'I) Statesman, Salem, Ore.. Frl. Sept 28. 56 Driver Examiner Finds Some Rides ThriIling, SUry aaa airfare also m Page 1) ThfT wiD ba no lonf motor trip for 0. P. Driws, 119 Market St.. hcn h retires today after U years as a driver's license exam iner for the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles. Drisgs has dona all the riding Salem Crime Rate Jumps, FBI Reports Washington, sept, v m - Crime showed a slight increase In Saleyn. Or., in the first half of this 'year, compared wun me same period a year ace, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported today. A. similar trend was noted In other Oregon cities with the ex ception of murders and non-negli gent manslaughters which were! fewer. Salem, however, had no murder or non-negilgent man slaughter cases in the first half of either year. Other six-month - comparisons for the city (19SJ figure given sec ond): . ' .. ' Bsbbery. I 'J1: aggravated as saulted. I U: burglary. 1; larceny, over (SO, 47 41; larceny, under $50, 231 209; auto theft, 19 lt). Tbe FBI report, based on in formation from police depart ments showed the rate of. mur der jand non-negligent manslaugh ter dropping oft in Oregon from I f for each 100.000 population in the first sis months of 1955 to J for Jbe same number in 1956. j Bat in the same period the rati of robberies went up from 19 1 to 15 1, aggravated assaults from 13.5 to lt.t, burglaries from 199J to 208 1 larcenies Jumped from 770.7 to 909 1 and suto thefts climbed from H I to S3. rudding Kiver Plan Among U.S. Projects WASHINGTON. Sept. 17 -Oregon farm groups have asked the Soil Conservation Service for federal aid in developing eight small watershed projects. The applications were made under a program set up in 1954 and revised by Congress this year. allowing the federal government to pay the full cart of flood con trol dams Impounding up to 5,000 acre-feet and lesser amounts of water for secondary benefits from irritation, drainage or municipal water supply. There is no limit on the total cost of the project as long as a single dam does not store more than 15,000 acre-feet of water and the. project does not drain more than 250.000 acres of watershed. Five of tht Oregon applications already have been authorized for planning. The eight applications from the state cover 743.417 acres. The applications approved, in cluding sue and the applicant: Deer Creek, Josephine County, tO.SOO acres. Josephine County commissioners, Illinois Valley SCO and the town of Selma, ' North Powder River, Baker and Union counties, 165.000 acres. Bak er Vslley SCD and the First Un ion, SCD. Rainier Drainage District, Co lumbia County, 3.087 acres, Clat skanie SCD, Rainier Drainage Dis trict and the city of Rainier. Upper Bully Creek, Malheur County. 247,000 acres, Malheur Sep, Warm Springs Irrigation Dis triat and Vale-Oregon Irrigation District ' . ., - . tittle Pudding River, Marion County, 17,000 acres, Santiara SCP. Silver Creek SCD and Mt. Angel SCD. - Awaiting approval for planning . are; - , - Coyote and Soencer Creek. Laae County, M.OOO acres. West Central Lane SCD; Long Tom River, Lane County, (9,760 acres. West Central Lane SCD: Birch Creek, Umatilla County, 200,000 acfies, Southern Umatilla SCD, McKay Plans WU Address pouglss McKay, Republican Senatorial candidate who until recently was in the Eisenhower cabinet, will make a campaign address before Willamette Uni versity student body Oct i. The university also announced Thursday that invitation has born extended to Democratic Srh. John Kennedy of Massachu setts to speak on the campus. Kennedy has agreed to speak if hft makes a trip next month to Oregon in connection with the Democratic national campaign. t . L)AN GIVEN UNITED NATIONS. Sept. 27 The U.N. Korean Reconstruction A : nry has loaned South Korea's n ernmcnt (120,000 to equip three r i mines. i::::r-Ya r . n CIS: ShftwatTW ( , r, h Raster ia . . i r i ' r n " iire' ' , "nrno la . Li" he wants to do as a license exam iner called upon to ride through Salem traffic with all kinds of drivers, some of whose adventures behind-tbe-wheel are slightly rem- i : i i .I!, v . imacvni at uiv ivcjsuniv wps. Backed Dm Hill J One part of Oregon's driver test requires drivers to be able to stop and start their cars on a MIL Twice Driggs has been a passenger when drivers, unable to do this have backed all the way down the High Street hill. "One of those rides," he recalls, "was pretty thrilling since the lady not only could not stop and start, she couldn't steer a straight course while backing and the car xig- zagged back and forth across the street." Soetimes Driggs and other ex Sometimes Driggs and other ex aminers have bad to give up in selfdefense on a drive test and walk back to the office. That would have been rather tiring en a couple occasions, however, when Driggs' applicants failed to get ia the right line to make a tura and wound up in West Salem via the Willamette River bridge. One of an examiner's first Jobs is to get applicants for a license to relax. "If they get toe nervous" teen-agers and women usually are the most nervous "we're in for quite a ride,' Driggs said. Geaeral Mii-as They U run atop signs and red lights, turn from wrong lanes, fall to signal or, worse, signal to turn right an then turn left, and then wonder what they did wrong when we flunk them." -. Driggs recalled indignantly that occasionally someone who' failed a test has tried to bribe him, and one woman a few years ago at tempted to get her license by ply ing her feminine charms.. Neither will work," Driggs Mid. "because we can't afford to lic ense drivers who cant handle a car adequately not ia today's traffic." Incidentally, about 30 per cent of Oregon's applicants fail the written test the first time they take it and. in 1955, about 13.000 of 60.000 applicants flunked their first behind-tne-wbeel eutm.v Driver AlertacM What do examiners look for when they're en a drive test? According to Driggs, the main thing to watch is the would-be driver's alertness. Anyone caa herd" a car. be remarks, but drivers have to be able to antici pate what moves to make and what someone else may do. Too many people, be added, de pend toe much on a car taking care of everything. They signal and then change lanes without once looking through rearview mirrors to check other traffic and they're careless about watching intersec tions and grade crossings. Most people, even when they flunk, are quite cooperative, but occasionally a driver will get abus ive and threaten to slug an exam iner for impugning his driving skills. ... ,, . Pedestrians' Deaths Drop Oregon pedestrian deaths have decreased this year, according to a report released this week by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Numbers of pedestrians killed by automobiles during the first six months of 1954 was 23. compared to 28 for the same period last year, tbe report stated. .Accident rates, however, have increased from (09 in 195S to (23 in 1956 for the same period. Rites Set for Wreck Victim Services for LeRoy t'Bud" George Stalnbrook, Salem resident who was killed in an automobile accient near Albany on Sept. 23, will be Saturday at 9 30 a.m. in Howell-Edwards Chapel. Interment will be in City View Cemetery. Stalnbrook. 30, was a resident at (20 Hampton Lane. Harvey Matusow Waits Sentence NEW YORK, Sept. 17 W) Harvey M. Matusow surrendered today to await tomorrow's federal sentencing on five counts of perjury. He was unsble to raise bail, after K was hiked from (3,000 to (10,000. , "He just baa no money," his lawyer said. Matusow was convicted yester day of lying when he recanted anti-Communist testimony he gave at the 195153 trial of 13 second string Red leaden. He can re ceive a maximum sentence up to 25 years. MANHOLE COVERS STOLEN MEXICO CITY, Sept. 27 Thieves have taken 13,000 man hole .covers and drainage grills from Mexico City's streets in the past three years. The uncovered holes have caused the deaths of 59 persons and incalculable dam age to vehicles. Police Chief Mi guel Molinar has threatened to close down the city's scrap deal ers if they don't stop buying stolen covers and grills. Chicken Dinner & Bazaar , Our Lady of Lourdes Jordan, Oregon Dinner, Sept. 30-12:00 to 2:30 . Adm.-1.23 Adults -75 Children . Bazaar -Oct. 22 -7:00 P.M. " 'Atomic Mushroom Soars .. J i sr.. I " J. K ADELAIDE, Australia, Sept 27 Maralinga Proving Ground ia the southern Australian desert after Britain exploded an atomic weapon today in a series of explosions known as "Operation Buffalo." The an nouncement that Britain's latest series of atomic tests finally had gotten under way after postponements for several weeks because of bad weather, was made simultaneously in London and Canberra. (AP Wirephoto) British A-Test Creates Crater Half-Mile Wide CANBERRA. Australia, Sept. 27 Britain touched off her fourth series of atomic explosions today with a tost at the new Maralinga proving ground that ripped out a crater half a mile wide and wrecked everything within a two- mile radius. The Sydney Morning Herald cor- spondent said it dug a "shallow, ash gray circle centered on the site of the vsporized tower which appears about half a mile wide." The around for the runner mile around is seared and gutted as if by a bush fire," he added. "A collection of steel huts ringing the tower at various distances are total wrecks. Buildings closest to the flash have disappeared and others a mile distant have col lapsed." .MtJi.. The eyewitness report said the explosion formed a perfect mush room, and a "fireball mounted the column as a great glowing bub ble" but there was a notable ab sence of shock wave after the blast. dead of Daat A sheep rancher 2O0 miles from the scene saw a huge cloud of dust rising alter the explosion. Some lonely ranchers reported hearing not one but three loud boombs. The start of the Maralinga tests, knowa as Operation Buffalo, was announced in Australia's House of Representatives by Supply Minis ter Howard Beale and by Sir William Penney, the British scien tist in charge, in a message to the London government. Tbe experiment had been post poned repeatedly since Sept. 11 because of unfavorable weather. Sir William gave no details of the blast. , He previously had announced that four atomic weapons equival ent to a few thousand tons of TNT in contrast to the devices of a million tons or more reported fired from U.vers, another "oper ational weapon of a service type" would be dropped from a bomber end a fourth of comparatively small power would be touched off on the ground. New WarbeadaT It is generally believed the do vices are intended to become war heads in guided missiles being developed in Britain and tested at the Woomera rocket range ad joining Maralinga. Today's blast was witnessed by the largest gallery of laymen ever permitted to see a British atomic explosion. The British exploded their first atomic bomb at the Monte Bello VICTIM UNIDENTIFIED EUGENE, Sept. 27 W-Eugene police attempted today to identi fy a man killed yesterday when hit by a freight train hear the Southern Pacific passenger depot. Woodburn Drive-In Fit Sat.. Saa. "COrttMCHT ' Dana Andrews " plus ( - "jmx emu of win" (Tbe Sward or The Cross Open (:4V Start 7:15 4 w TV Z Familiar mushroom-shaped Islands, 12 miles off Australia, in October 1952, and followed with a series of tests at Woomera in 1953. British papers have reported that Britain's first H-bomb will be tried out next spring at Christmas Island in the Pacific. ACORNS FROM THE YAK YAK It's all I ever do . . . Isn't it? And I just got to think ing it's always about our de licious steaks and roasts. Why, I bet you don't even know you can get the best darned Columbia River Sal mon steaks and marvelous prawns and scallops in our Oak poom, tool Besides our chef has whipped up a specialty rice dish to serve along with these dinners that's out of this world! (member In Salem, It's the Hotel Merlon Phone 3-4123 lull OOX OFFICE o TICKETS NOW ON SALE Salem Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Presents "PRIVATE LIVES" With The Pentacle Playei ers I Willamette Auditorium ... Friday, October It, I P. M WILLAMETTI CONCERT SERIES 19M47, Sesson Store Bears :lM;Jt Every Day For Reservations Dial 41224 M M m a 1 in Auitralia I '- l. form reaches into sky at the Seattle Folks Asked To Save Emergencies SEATTLE, Sept. 27 If you have an emergency please save it until October. Mayor Gordon S. Clinton today designated Oct. 1-1 as "emergen cies Can't Wait Week" in Seattle. Its purpose, he said, is to help reduce the number of accidents. I If Fish Is Your Wish VY Havt Your Dish! Halibut Steak . . (with all the trimmings) THE SAN SHOP ,fc' Portland Road at For Orders to Co STARTS Exclusive s ? r7 v f i ' . V I , k I $ ' f i J - ""' f V X I namlX ' i i - T .7i rim i ikf liHwm ii ikw From the icnsationa! stage success that ran 91 weeks ... and starring the players who created the original Broad way roles M-G-M presents in CINEMASCOPE and METROCOLOR Tea and Sympathy atarnrn DeHorah Kerr -John Kerr ith Leif Erickaon Edward Andrews, KM! Robert Andern aaiwiukrt Amw tVincente Minnelli Plus A ride aa the world's fastest train THE VENUS EXPRESS Thrllllnt la Clnemawope and Color! HOLLYWOOD KIDS CLUB MATINEE Every Saturday 1 to 4 PJM. This Week's Special Feature "FATHER WAS A FULLBACK" fltarrlae; Fred Mar Murray ONE HOUR OF CARTOONS Special Attention le Birthday Parties , Theatre Time Table ILSINOB "Eddy Duchin Slory" 1M. (:4S . "MtrarUi of tht Caribbean" I IS CAriTOL (Contlnuout from 1 p.m.) Run tor tht Sun" 1:00, 4 a, 1:44. 11:00 "DynamlOrt" M. t tl. t:4S . NO SALEM DRIVS-IM (CatM Pn. :4S. Show at 1:00) "Th Proud One' Robrt Ryan Tranolt In tht Haunttd Houit" Mlckty Roonty BOLLYWOOD Tta It Sympathy" 1:00, I S "Vttuvtui Ixprtu' Cliarity Gels $200,000 by Woman's Will MILWAUKEE. Ore. Sept. V A 48-year-old divorcee who won (100.000 in a will contest two years ago has bequeathed her en tire (200,000 estate to charity, cut ting off her relatives without a cent. This was disclosed today when the will of the divorcee. Mrs. Shirley' Knierim Tate, was filed for probate in county court. She died July 12. Mrs. Tate and her cousin, An drew Knierim, also of Milwaukee, were willed the bulk of the (200.- 000 estate of their uncle, William Knierim. a former Milwaukee dry goods merchant. A grandnephew. Charles G. Knierim, Portland. Ore., contested the will, claim ing that Knierim was of unsound mind and was unduly influenced by Mrs. Tate and Knierim. The case finally went to the Wiscon-! sin Supreme Court where the will , was upheld. In addition to the (100 000 which Mrs. Tate received from her ; uncle's estate she had an esti-; mated (100.000 of her own. most of it bequeathed by her parents. James T. Murray. Mrs. Tate's attorney, said that unless some question of legality was raised, he would turn over a fifth of the estate each to local branches of the American Cancer Society,! the National Foundation' for In-! fantile Paralysis and the Ameri-' can Heart Assn charities. and two local . . . 75c Tt2EF' North City Limits Phone 2-6798 TODAY! 1st Run! -w I Lmtrt mi saryfaf I y l tott W tu- 4 I 1 w Pandro S. Berman (Add. late newt ea page 14.) No Hope Seen For Simpler Tax Forms SEATTLE. Sept. 27 bP-Dodglng the Income tax collector is getting more complicated and hazardous but there's little chance the in come tax form will get any less complicated, an expert, said Thursday. Russell Chase Harrington, com missioner of internal revenue, said his bureau has "more intelligence agents working snd they are bet ter trained than ever before." He told the American Institute of Accountants, now concluding its 69th annual meeting, that "com plications are inherent" in the ef fort to "achieve a measure of equity among millions of individ uals of varying circumstances." The commissioner added the In ternal Revenue Service was work ing constantly to simplify the tax forms but most of the changes voted by Congress tended toward complication. He said "our dynamic economy of today" pointed to "large tax collections and a broad base of taxation for a long time to come." DI KE CETS CATTLE CALGARY, Atla., Sept V UP The Duke of Windsor's rsnch is being stocked with a new herd of purebred Hereford cattle from Scotland. The duke's Alberta ranch is operated by the EP Ranching Co., a recently formed British group, which took it over from the Canadian Pacific Rail way Co. colonization department. NOW PLAYINGI ALSO Wayne Morris "Tha Dynamiters" NOW PLAYING) 7yt POWER Xfi NOVAK 4 A mam jNsiScq i ceiea t TCCHNICOLO ' ALSO A Selected Short Subject "MiracU Of The Caribbean" NOW PLAYINGI Sdj ROBERT RYAN VIRGINIA MAYO JEffREY HUNTER LAFF FILLED CO HIT ,1 V "VwBMawMB m a aaaa,.nnHS MICKIY ROONIY VIMilNIA WtLLtS lIdaAaaal r. SLirinf Like AniauJ.ll love sel lo musicf EARLY-BIRD SPECIALS 1 0 to 1 2 A. M., Saturday Only Stewing Hens Z 89' Pan-Ready EGOS 45' P TUNA 23' C."SUCAR 'ilO'l SMOKED Ham Hocks FRESH COLORED Slewing Hens 3th 99' Pan-Ready FRESH FROZEN CHICKEN Gizzards chickH 2149' FANCY BEEF rv rp Pol Roast ib.2c LEAN-MEATY Rib Steaks HOME CURED Smoked D-aAN uatun ARMOUR'S Sliced Bacon 39' PRODUCE' Potatoes GREEN PEPPERS Large 3C Danish Squash YAKIMA CANNING AA MED. EGGS LARGE 214 SIZE PEACHES TASTY PAK CHILI BEANS ... 10 for SMITH RED KIDNEY BEANS 10 for TASTY PAK PINTO BEANS . . 10 for TASTY PAK PORK and BEANS 10 for CAPITOL GREEN BEANS . .10 for We Reserve the Right to limit-No Salts to Dealers Prices Good Through Thursday Portland Road ' Edgwatr St. SALEM 15' 39' 33' lb. By the Piece lb. 10,19 CARROTS 2 19c i.ch 5c PEARS 49' Doz. 4c,n,99' cans Case 5.69 n n I V4LJ WEST SALEM