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Voting Already Underway as Absentee Ballots Cast POUNDID 1651 ! ) H 106th Year 2 SECTIONS-20 PAGES Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 23, 1956 PRICI S No. 212 ) mm- ft v. i ' 1 . ' : ""i . - - . . I rpo X . Although election day Isn't until Nov. I, voting 'Is going on dally at the courthouse. Those voting early are persons like Harold E. Young (left) and M. A. Titus (center) who Dip MMffl Attention is being called in this election year to the fact that pros perity is spotted, that not every gjvuy la vii a uigu jcvci ui civ nomic wellbeing. This is true, and the condition is not unusual. In a free society there is a flow marked by strong current, hy flow move ments and even by backward ed dies. Only in a strictly regimented economy can every group be kept at an equality and that historical ly is at a level of mediocrity or worse. The best proof of the distribu tion of wealth is not found In re portion income but in the physical evidence of sharing the goods and services available. Tte output of our mines and mills and factories lr-not being absorbed by a few rich persons. Instead it Is going in to general almost univsrsalcon sumption. - The current Issue of VS. News -and World Report gives some evi dence of how wide the distribution is of goods and services among the American people, as follows: Hemes: three out of five fami lies own or are buying their homes. Electricity: nearly 99 per cent of all homes are wired. Aatos: three out of four families have at least one auto and (CtntlaoH m editorial page. .) Santiam Pass Slippery With New Snowfall State police reported light snow falling late Wednesday evening in Santiam Pass with six Inches al ready on the ground. They said highways were covered with snow to the Detroit Dam area and warned motorists to carry chains. The Highway Department said four inches of snow was reported in Willamette Pass, five inches at Government Camp with seven inches of roadside snow, two inches at Warm Springs Junction and two inches at Meacham. De partment officials said all roads where snow has fallen have been sanded and plows have been in operation. Here in Salem, McNary Field weathermen predicted wme rain this morning, showers this after noon and tonight. The high today is expected to resell 50 the h near 38. Temperatures are expected to dip as low as 10 degrees in the high valleys of Eastern Oregon, may not be quite as cold in suc ceeding days. Plane Heads Back From Sea Crossing SHANNON. Ireland, Oct. 25 . An " airliner carrying 104 U.S. servicemen and their families returned safely to Shannon today after failure of one engine forced h 10 turn oacii. It was bound for Gander, Nfld., on a flight to the United States. Family Car By Wslly Fa Ik I . 4 The way yea werry ever the, car payment jtm'i think they owed US the moBey." - mm Mm. " Voters Send Ballots From Many Nations Election day is still amost two weeks away, but several wore of Marion County voters have al ready cast their ballots. County Clerk Henry Mattson said Friday, 10 days before the Nov. 6 election, is the deadline for application for an absentee ballot whereby voters who win be away that day may still exercise their voting rights. The clerk s office has been mail-! ing and receiving absentee ballots 1 froiii ail ovrf the world, pariicu- 1 larly from men and women in the armed forces. Several who are going to be out of the county a week from Tuesday have marked ballots' at booths set up in the basement of the Courthouse. These absentee ballots, which mut be received by the clerk's office at least five days before election day, will go into the ballot boxes of the appropriate pre cincts to be counted along with the rest Ike Planning Quick Trips To Southland WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 Of -President Eisenhower will make three separate campaign trips states including three in the South which supported him in 1952. Press secretary James Hagertyj0' eNen, .remaining empioyeu announced the schedule today,! ?.nd "nu).e J0?.., emphasizing that Eisenhower will return to Washington at the end of each day, primarily to keep tab on developments in the Soviet satellite ; states. Eisenhower will fly to Florida and Virginia on Monday; Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday; and Pennsylvania on Thursday. He will make six speeches, five of them at airports. The only major address will be at Philadelphia. These activities will carry the President's campaign through Nov. 1 just five days shy of the Nov. 8 election. Car Strikes Salem Man A Salem man who was struck by a car in the rain at dusk Wednes day at Chemcketa and Winter Streets was hospitalized with leg ; and shoulder fractures and a head uccraacn, pence said. Condition of the man, listed as Ethan A. Collier. 69, of 559 N. 24th St., was "satisfactory" early this morning, according to attendants at Salem Memorial Hospital, where he was taken by Willamette ambu lance. Collier was thrown about 40 feet in the accident about 5:35 p.m.. police said. Driver was listed , as Norbert Joseph Fagan, 9.'I9 Shipping St. 3 GOP Campaigners Bring f r lying ciepnanr to iaiem (Picture r Page I.) Republicans brought their "fly ing Elephant" into Salem Wednes day night, carrying three cam paigners for the GOP slate of can didates and a "get-out-the-vote" movement. Aboard the four place plane were Philip Hitchcock, ex-state senator and loser to Douglas Mc Kay for the party nomination for U.S. Senate, Donald Walker, Port land attorney . representing state chairman Wendell Wyatt, and Ivan Congleton, a Young Republican leader. Hitchcock criticised spending policies of Sen. Wayne Morse, Mc Kay's Nov. 6 opponent, and said Morse "is making campaign promises that are impossible to fulfill." Alms at Mart Congleton aimed his words at Morse's criticism of President Eisenhower. "There has never been a time when senators have It greater moral obligation to eon- will be out of town on election day. Mrs. J. A. Jelderks, deputy county clerk, Is shown looking on. Deadline for ap plications for early ballots is thli Friday. (Statesman Photo.) Baldock Freeway Busiest Rural Highway in Oregon Baldock Freeway is the busiest rural highway in the state, according to permanent traffic recorder data for September released Wednesday by the State Highway Department. But the 8,573 daily average vehicle count was only a little more than 40 per cent of the 20,632 which crossed Marion and ! Center street bridzes in Salem Firm Stages Fast Recovery From Fire Sutrtman Ntwi Service KF.1ZER, Oct. 24-The Home Heating k Insulation Co. will be back in production Thursday after a $25ft00 fire which only last week completely destroyed its plant at 840 Plymouth Dr. The sudden turn of events was announced today by co-owner Har vey Muyskens, who reported: 1. Purchase of a closed-down similar insulation product plant in Independence, with Ks equipment 2. Rebuilding of a new Keizer plant, scheduled to start next week and be ready for operation in about six weeks. Iniulalioa Material Muyskens and Roy Hamilton operate the business which pro- duces a "thermoseal" insulation material made of wood pulp prod uct which has been made fire ' b.v chemical process. The -'" f'-" " ' Muyskens said the Independence operation would be temporary and would be discontinued as soon as the new Keizer plant of 3,000 square iet is erected. Equipment will be moved from Independence and the building on a Southern Pacific spur at Third Street will then be put up for sale, he added. The Independence plant, ' for merly Independence Home Prod ucts Co.. was sold by Richard Hclin of Denver at an undisclosed figure. Negotiations were handled by Oregon Development Co. of Salem. Helin is son of the late Robert Helin who operated the Independence plant, Today's Statesman Pag Sot. Classified l-19?:..ll Comics .... 16 II Crossword 17.. Editorials 6.. Farm 13- Homo Panorama Markets ...17.. Obituaries 17.. Radio-TV 16 . Sports 11,12 . Star Gazer 7.. Valley News 9, 10 Wirtphoto Pag 16 ...II ... I ...II ...I ...II .11 .11 .11 ... I ... I fine partisan criticism of the presi dent to language that would not detract from world confidence in the White House. Walker credictrH that -i of vnnr vote wilt inV T th. "iZm 7 ' nBme 01 nval Ior ' slaie voters again this November. try back "nto he r.nd J Z SupTeme Court vacancy had "Wither or not we have an Z 'Sersln th' lher PI here is entire up to the nilatinn und hio tavo. " l,urry l-ountv clerlt 01llce- voters of Portland, Walter Holt, Behind Schedule ! circuit Jae David R Vanden- The flying politicians almost an 1 berg' who is Partic'Pat'ng a hn ,r Sttr-JiT0!8"!"! contest against William at Corvallis nd Alhom, int. uj uiai mil wvumj uur ivjlu ers including county chairman John Carkin, vice chairman Mrs. Edna Stacey, secretary Mrs. George Deway, William L. Phil lips, chairman of the McKay cam paign committee; and Mrs. John Cochran, president of the Federa tion of Republican Women. State Rep. Alfred Loucks is scheduled to board the "Flying Elephant" today when it heads south toward Medford with stops included at Lebanon and Sweet Homt. - daily in September. i The overall totals of 33 rural'" s""ua k counters in the state showed an increase in traffic of 2 per cent over September, 1955, State Highway Engineer W. C. Wil liams said. Busy Labor Day The count on Ralrlnck Freeway was taken st North Chemawa Road crossing. High day in Sep-1 tcmber was Labor Day, Sept. 3,1 when 14,825 vehicles passed the recorder, 1,141 of them in one hour between 5 and 6 p.m. Highway 99E showed a de crease with the opening of the Freeway. A recorder one mile south of Woodburn counted a daily average of 5,434 last month, compared with 11,734 in Septem ber last year. One at Hubbard on the Wilson-ville-Hubbard connection between Highway WE and the Freeway showed a daily average of 948 last month, compared with 5,418 last year when Freeway traffic from Portland had to shift at that point to the old highway be cause the south portion was still under construction. pMfc Volume Marion-Center street bridges reached their peak volume last month on Saturday, Sept. 8, j when 23,604 vehicles crossed inem. mis was a 2.4 increase over September, 1955. Hourly fig- ures were not kept on the bridges. Second busiest of the perma-' nent recorders in rural areas was on Highway 28 a mile east of; nere 1 daiy vage of 7,965 was counted. Kefauver Sets Record for Handshaking DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 24 1 Sen. Estes Kefauver, an old con firmed handshaker, hit a new campaign handshaking high at the main gate of the Ford Motor Co. Rouge plant in Dearborn today. Breasting a human stream of workers d u r i n g the 4 o'clock change of work shifts, Kefauver pumped hands right and left for a full hour. "Boy, this is hard work," he confided to newsmen. If the Deiviucratic vice-presidential candidate missed any of the 40,000 Ford workers estimated to enter and depart from the huge 1.200-acre plant at shift change time, it was only because he could work only one gate at a time. A plant guard said there were at least 13 gates. Art aide clocked him, and esti mates of the number of hands he gripped ran as high as 3,000. Ke fauver himself guessed he shook hands wilh 1.300 workers. Sample Ballot Stamp Protested By Vandcnberg KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 24 OH ftrtA ilitrra nmt aci nA tutau tkii .m . A"""' " " 1 ??cAnilr. MeTord. and Peter . I Welch, Portland, said he had been j . u . . n- . . . . , I'lvnttwci a name flau well opUKallC MTV IlldlUng VfrDal UlUS stamped on the sample ballots. I for the big livestock event. Ex McAllister is filling the Supreme j hibitors were wagering today that Court vacancy temporarily by ap- j Seattle gets it, if Portland loses poinimcm. "I am sure that Mr. McAllister would not personally approve the use of such irregular procedure... I can hardly believe that any of the county clerks of our state would knowingly depart from this principle. The incident which oc- curred in Curry County is most regrettable," Vandenberg said. 60 Die in Arab Retaliations For Arrests RABAT, Morocco, Oct. 24 (AP)-Sixty dead were counted in Morocco today, victims of grim Arab retaliation for the arrest by the French of five leading Algerian reikis. Many were mutilated. Angry anti-French demonstra tions and protest strikes spread across seething North Africa as Arab governments demanded re lease of the Algerians. In Tripoli, Libya, demonstrators stoned the British Embassy and Europeans cars. Among the $0 dead, mostly Euro peans, were seven French soldiers. They were killed and 24 comrades were wounded in two ambushes in eastern Morocco last night. This was the most serious French mill tary loss reported on Moroccan territory since Morocco cast off French troops id Morocco were placed on the alert. The French Embassy demanded that the Mo roccan government act to safe guard the French population in Mekncs. French and Moroccan troops mounted guard there in the t-uropean quarter, wnere 20,000 Europeans live. j Protest strikes in Morocco and Tunisia spread to Tripoli, where a general strike was called. All per sonnel at Whcelus Field, a U.S. Air Force base in Libya, were re stricted to their stations. The five Algerian leaders were flying from Rabato Tunis in a French-operated plane, manned by a French crew, when the pilot set them down in Algiers where they were arrested. Lad Knocked From Bike by Hit-Run Car Sutumnn Newi Service HUBBARD, Oct. 24-Earl Sweeten of Hubbard received a 1 possible concussion and jaw frac ture in a bicycle accident Wednes- day morning on Highway 99E near Wilsonville Junction, state police said, The 12-year-old boy was "feeling fine" Wednesday night at Wood- burn Hospital, where attendants said he did not seem to have a concussion but the injury to his jaw had not been determined. Sweeten told police he was rid ing his bicycle to school in Wood burn when he was struck by a hit run car about S:35 a.m.; State Pa trolman Robert M. Anderson said. Seattle, Spokane Seeking to Lure PI Show By LIIXIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman NORTH PORTLAND, Oct. 24 There were more than Oregon crowds at the 46th annual Pacific International Livestock Exposition today. Seattle and Spokane were out in full force making a big pitch to move the PI, lock, stock and barrel, north. All over the grounds beneath the huge 11-acre roof, gloom was settling down among the exhibitors as they asked each other if this would be the final Pacific Inter national Livestock Show in North Portland. The situation fs this: Some time ago the fire depart ment said "no more big crowds in the stadium stand. Too hazar dous." Rebuilding to meet fire protec tion requirements promised to be too costly. A move was bailed tu rebuild the plant on new ground. Portland voters passed a bond is sue to make that possible. Then Portland got into a big hassle as to where to build. Leaders dead locked. Some of the deciding ques- 1: t "ons are D,n relurneo 10 ,ne PI manager said. "Until this is ( settled there's definitely a question as to whether there will be an- i other PI here." i In the meantime. Seattle and - i it. So far as livestock Is concerned the show has grown each year, This year it has drawn herds from far places. Straus ! Medina Here- ! fords are here from San Antonio, i Texas. Another Hereford herd, that of Kenneth Kuhlmann. came from North Ptatte, Neb. Ayrshires, jHolsteins, - Guernseys came from , Soviet Forces to Remain in Poland While NATO Active WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 24 Wladyslaw Gomulka told the Poles tonight Soviet troops will stay in Poland so long as there are Nortn At lantic Treaty Organization bases in West Germany. The new party boss, who led Polish Communists in their political revolt for "freedom and sovereignty" last weekend, spoke before a throng of about 250,000 in Warsaw. Justice Bureau to Prosecute If Negroes Kept From Voting By JACK ADAMS WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 OrV-Asst. Atty. Gen. Warren Olney III said today there will be post -election criminal prosecutions in the south if qualified Negroes are denied the vote in the Nov. 6 election. He told newsmen that "disfran- Salem Child Found After Reno Flight Nine-year-old Karen Henvy, ob ject of a Wide search In Nevada after she ran from a courtroom in Reno into a snowstorm Tuesday, was back with her father Wednes day. The girl, sought for more than eight hours, Was found when she emerged from a basement dress ing room of a hotel where her fa ther is maintenance engineer, ac cording to Associated Press. Dauchter of Mrs. Nathalie Wack- 'effjer, 2215 Chemeketa St., she is to return to Salem, accordin to the ruling of the court Tuesday. Ka ren's flight from the courtroom followed the reading of the ruling, AP reported Tuesday, "I want to stay with my daddy," she said when found. Her father, Thomas Henvy of Reno, had asked full custody. Karen has been living nine months of the year with her mother and three with her father. Karen seemed to be happy in Salem, according to friends who expressed surprise at the, reports from Reno. Mrs. Wacker and an oilier son, Larry, 14, were in Reno to attend the hearing. From Portland British Columbia, and Shorthorns from Alberta. Thursday has been set aside as "Governor's Day" with Governor Elmo Smith to be here for the afternoon livestock showing, and to attend the evening variety show, which has been labeled "the best" since the colorful horse show days. (Additional details page 1.) - f :. mm rrrrrr .... ' ' -'". , . ,,. ..' , . . " i Tfe -at m V: ' M v BUELL, Oct 24 Inspecting new Buell Park In north Polk County today were judges' of National Grange Sears Roebuck Foundation Community Service contest. The development has won a $1,000 prize and is in the running jEJUilJti2tstJs)imA.iit Factory and farm workers, office clerks and villagers paraded afoot and8 In trucks to the 'square In front of the 35-story Palace of culture and Science, formerly known as Stalin Palace, to hear Go mulka. A great cheer went up when he declared, "It depends only upon us how long Soviet troops may re main here." But his further statement chisement of colored voters is go ing forward .n a mass basis"' through revision of registration1 roles in some areas of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississip pi and North Carolina. Some of the procedure involved is "fraudu lent" on the face of it, he said. Olney named the White Citizens Councils, opponents of school inte gration, as prime movers in this matter and said a half-dozen FBI investigations are in progress. Statutes 'Weak "But," Olney said, the "weak ness" of existing civil rights stat utes makes it impossible for the Justice Department to move until the right to vote has been actually denied on Election Day too late to help the voter. ''You can't make a cast until a qualified-voter t tt deprived of his rights at the polls," he said. "But in every instance -where we can show a qualified person was denied the right to vote simply be cause of his color, we Intend to prosecute." , -,- Congress Coold Act Olney, who heads the depart- meat's Criminal Division, said he had advised Chair man Burleson (D Tex) of the Com mittee on House Administration of the results of tome of the South ern investigations and called bis attention to a section of the :4th Amendment which provides (or re duction of House membership, for any state where persons are de nied the voting privilege on any grounds except rebellion or other crime. Olney said such reduction hi proportion to the number of citl zens denied the vote," is a matter entirely within the control of Con gress. Olney said he had also renewed a previous request to the Senate Elections subcommittee that it hold hearings in the South be fore Election Day on evidence of "purging of Negroes from the registration rolls. JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 24 A Gov. J. P. Coleman tonight de nounced as "mass slander" and "a cheap political bluff" a Justice Department announcement o f plans to prosecute instances of The Weather Today's forecast: Occasional rain this morning, scattered showers this afternoon and to night. High today 50, low 31 (Conplctt nptrt aff 1) Judges Inspect Prize V fo r J V r- rv.ii. f i 7 , plralc areaUa-itveiwr. pax) that they would stay at long as the West has military in stallations in West Germany was aecepted in silence. Gomulka bluntly attacked "anti-Soviet sentiment'' mani fested in demonstrations in several Polish cities Monday night when Russian flags were trampled. He said the authorities would tolerate no action against the Polish state , . ' ' . . ' disenfwtehisement of Negroes in Mississippi. "On its face this it a political move designed to get votes from the NorthernNegrs'Ltha. gover nor said. UF Campaign To End Nov. 1 Salem's United Tund Drive's board of directors and represen tatives from local participating agencies, voted Wednesday to end the drive on Nov. 1 and to hold a victory dinner that night The decision came after both groups 'met in the Hotel Marion to discuss new tactics that would bring the drive to a successful close and to set a date for its I termination. J. ',: ... Earlier, at a noon report lunch eon of division chairmen, an ad ditional 5,190 wis reported bringing the current total up to $199,257 or 87 per cent of the $227,800 goal. After hearing various sugges tions on how to get additional funds, the group voiced unanim ous approval of a plan offered by the board of directors. ; Briefly, at outlined by cam paign chairman William H. Ham mond, the plan calls for division chairmen to examine list of con tributors who gave last year in order to - determine who was skipped this year, or contributed less in 1958 than in 1855. , . - The next step would be to draft a list of volunteer workers who have been outstanding in their canvassing in the current and past campaigns, and to use their abilities in the lagging divisions. (Add. details Page!) : Elvis Close To Induction MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 24 UB Elvis Presley's draft board said today a routine questionnaire had been sent the rock V roll singer to bring hit draft "status up to date." , The 21-year-old Idol of teen agers said last night he'd received the questionnaire three weeks ago. - Winning BuqII - . v V Y 'V', With Dinner looms behind Judgei (left to right) A. Lars Nelson, Kenneth' Kendricks and Mollis Seavey, Buell Crangemaster Anthony Eisele and Sears Foundation executive R. V. Mnller. Buell Grange is in the running for hoto and Budapest Reds Claim Victory; Hundreds I)ic. r By RICHARD KASISCHKE VIENNA, Oct. 24 APV Hungary's bloody rebellion' . against Soviet domination and ' the Budapest Bed leadership blazed through its second night . and spread to the provinces. pictures on wirephoto Page.) But apparently it was bcinf crushed systematically tonight by overpowering Russian armed force. . Soviet tanks, planes and troooa were thrown into the battle for the decisive blow against the up- rising workers and students. Late tonight the Budapest re- , gime claimed it had mastered the rebels but admitted fighting went on. Victim Claims Moscow and East Berlin broad casts followed quickly with claim! that the rebels were beaten. Eyewitnesses returning to Aus tria from Hungary reported many hundreds have been killed in bat- tie. .. ' . ... Stnd-nls, Werkers The Austrian travelers said tba number of dead in Budapest alone J mounted to many hundreds at -Russian tanks, Jet planes, machine- gun batteries and grenades were thrown against rebel bands com posed of students and workers. The Communist government had ' confidently believed the rebels would collapse by 1 p.m. That was the time of the first ultimatum promising amnesty. Then the am nesty was extended to p.m. Still the rebels Ignored it defiantly. . Then the government declared all-out war. 1 t :1" no Explanation . . There was sua no explanation ' from either side of how the rebels L.J .LI.! J L 1 L.I J off the combined attack of Rus sian and Hungarian forces in a lightning revolt that began after an orderly : street demonstration Tuesday. - ' . . Radio Budapest claimed that the rebels had machine guns and hand grenades when they attempted to smash into a Budapest military barracks, . .,.. "Using aU the force at their v command the garrison : repulsed the attackers," the radio said. It . added that . the defenders were ', bracing for a new assault by the . rebels.. .-.i Moscew Reaertt t Moscow radio broke its sllenct : on the uprising to blame it on ; "underground reactionary organK xatkms" and assert that "this en emy adventure obviously has been in preparation tome time." It said, "Enemy elements made use : a sniaent aerconstrauoB . which took place Oct. S3 to bring . into the streets groups previously prepared by them which formed, the nucleus of the revolt.. They put into action agitators who strove to call forth mast disorder." ., t The Moscow radio said that the Hungarian government asked tht Soviet Union for aid after "Fas cist thugs let themselves go and , began to wot shops ana tried to destroy the equipment of in dustrial enterprises." . With hundreds of ' anti Soviet rebels reported still lying dead in Budapest's smoke hazed streets, the authorities threatened death to all who continue to fight : Communists planes were ' r-"" ported swooping low in an attempt . to blast out die-hard rebels. - . lid al.rU- mm mmmm ft 1 Park niif-i i cum ' MkJL- 110,000 national prize, (.Vddl- tUry - o fago ff ,r-