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The Weather Today's forecast: Scattered hewers today and tonight; occasional rain Sunday; high today noar 50, low tonight naar 3. (Complete rtport pf S) 106th Yaar 2 8-Month-Old ' wm ... I. : ... v .") , 4 ,! -' H ' I J' , . . '. ' V,1' .. .' , . - t J. v . BOSTON, March 8 Rick Sinnott, 8-monthld, one of three "models" selected for Boston University class in child growth and development study at School of Nursing, ponders over Intelligible sounds he will be expected to make in college next week. The "models" ' will attend classes where 50 student nurses will watch their development.. (AP Wire-photo) TOQUE When the racket hearings in Washington got under way and it was revealed that a district at torney in Oregon who was under indictment Continued to exercise the duties of his office surprise and wonderment were expressed One radio commentator called Salem to verify the report, which is of course correct. William Langley, district attorney of Multnomah County, continues to aerve in his office though he is under indictment. This already had provoked comment in Oregon and determi nation to seek a remedy. At the present session of the Legislature " measures have been introduced to provide a means of relieving a public official for such time as the cloud of an indictment hangs over him. Senator Gill proposed a consti t u t i o n a 1 amendment, while Governor Holmes wants earlier action through legislation. The subject is now under study by lawyers. .. Oregon's constitution is differ ent from the U.S. constitution with respect to removal of per isons' from office. The latter pro vides for impeachment by the House and trial by the Senate, in which .the latter body votes by states. The Oregon constitution as written in 1857 has this pro vision which was retained in a revision of Article VII approved in 1B10: "Public officers shall not be impeached; , but incompetency, corruption, malfeasance or delin- - quency in office may be tried in the same manner as criminal of fenses, and judgment may be giv en of dismissal from office, and such . " Ceatinued on Editorial Page, 4) Polio Vaccine Backlog Gone WASHINGTON, March 8 UT-In-creased demand for . Salk polio vaccine has wiped out a backlog of nearly 26 million doses which manufacturers bad on Jan. 1, the Health, Education and Welfare Department said today; Department ' spokesmen . said they believed, however, that many millions of doses are available for public use at various other, stages of the supply pipe line. New vac cine also is being produced at an increasing rate. Tbese spokesmen said the back log of unshipped vaccine on man ufacturers' shelves stood at about IS million doses in mid-February and added it was believed most of -this now is in the hands of dis tributors, wholesalers, retailers, doctors and., public health agen cies. ' Sales Delayed WASHINGTON, March- 8 I -The Senate today passed a bill to delaij sates of Klamath Indian tribal . property until the end of BcjuV year's congressional session. SECTIONS - 14 FACES Tot Ready Tigard High School Girl First in Speech Contest Jennifer Bain, 17-year-old Tigard High Scliool senior, won the state finals of the American legion's 1957 Oratorical Con test Friday night at Meier and Franks auditorium by defeat High Water Closes Some County Roads A number of county roads were closed by high water Friday ond a small emergency crew from the county road shops is standing by today to answer calls on drainage problems as heavy rains continued to soak Marion County. ' Weathermen at McNary Field said scattered showers are in prospect for the Salem area today and Sunday The sector bad .75. of an inch of rain Friday. County Engineer John Anderson Friday advised residents to call the county shops on drainage prob lems today. Calls slacked off to about 10 Friday after a busy Thursday for the road crew an swering some 20 or 30 complaints on cloeeed drainaee ditches and loosened tile, fflnerson said. . Rising Wafer Water rising in the Willamette River had forced closure of the Independence Road and county roads 603 and 604 in the Mission Bottom area Friday, he reported. County road 624 in the Lake La bish area was closed by high water in the Pudding River. i ) . Another report of flooding came from the Bethany area near Sil verton where the Lower Pudding River had risen over its banks and closed a section of the old Silverton-Saiem highway. Hits 11.1 Feet . The Willamette River measured 16.1 feet at Salem Friday night a gain of two in 24 hours, weather men reported. The county's newly installed mobile radio system really came into its own during the last two days. Engineer Anderson said. He estimated some 20 man-hours had been saved for the road depart ment in answering drainage com plaints. ' State Fund Recoup Hinted In Cancellation of Air Base Further confirmation that the Air Force has abandoned plans to build an air base IS miles north of Salem was received Friday by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. And the governor hinted' the state might take legal action to recover money spent by the Board ; of Control on state plans that had to be abandoned when the Air Force decided to . locate in' the same general area the ate had picked for a reformatory. 'location, j Several thousand , dollars was -spent on topographical surveys and building plans. ; ; Gov. Holmes, who is chairman F of the Board of Control, said he Tho Oregon Statesman, for College ing three-male competitors. ; After the four orators had com pleted 12-minute prepared speeches on -Tot-Constitution and im promptu 6-minute talks on "Civil Liberties;" Miss Bain was judged the best and won a $200 check and gold medal. She will compete in regional finals in Montana. Finishing in second, third ad last place, respectively, were David Douglas, Portland; Edward Haasl, North Bend, and David A. Beck, Imblcr, ail 17-year-old high school students. , Don Eva of Portland, state Legion commander, made the award. Anson Ingels, Salem, con test chairman, presided. The $200 hwas donated by U. S. Representa tive Walter Norblad,' Ingels said. If Miss Bain goes on to win the regional finals, she will become eligible to compete for a 14,000 scholarship in the national finals in New York State this spring. Judges Friday evening weTe Judge Joseph Felton, the Rev. Bert Smith, Robert Batdorf, Mrs. Leon Brown, and Douglas Heider, all of Salem. High Street Bridge Open A lot of people in the south section of the city got home a little quicker Friday evening thanks to opening of the new South High Street bridge. The 164,000 concrete spanover Miir Creek at the north foot of Fry's Hill was opened to traffic at 6 p.m. Friday, City Engineer Harold Davis said. Construction had closed the section since last fall. A part of a general bridge con struction program in the city, the new bridge replaces a wooden span that stood at the spot for many years. Davis said there is still some work to be done on sidewalk ap proaches of the bridge. I these ''out of pocket" expenses. The board of control has since planned to build the new reforma tory on state land near Cottage Farm. t Confirmation that the Air Force had changed its plans and now expects to, modify Portland Inter national Airport instead of build ing the new base here came to the governor in a letter from Maj. Gen. J. W. Kellv; AF director of legislative liaison. Gov. Holmes said John H. Winn jr. Port of Portland manager would gtf to Washington next week tp confer with Air Force and Con- cress innal officials on the plans to. WUNDID t6Sl Salom, Oregon, Saturday, March House Okehs Bill to Hike Job Protection For State Workers By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman legislation designed to give greater job protection to sonic 15,000 state) employes was passed by the I louse Friday as the Oregon Legislature eased through its eighth week. - . House members passed, by 40 to 14 Vote, I1B 274 which re quires the Civil Service Commission in appeal cases to either Cough Ear Bother Ike; Trip Due WASHINGTON, March 8 iJr President Eisenhower hopes to fly to Florida next week and try to shake off tho stubborn cold and cough that have been bothering him for several weeks. A trip to some western spot like Tucson, Ariz., has been talked about but ruled out because it would be too far away. White House press secretary James C. Hagcrty told reporters the President's cough seemed "a little better this morning" but he still has a slight inflammation in the inner ear. Uagerty said " Eisenhower -hopes and expects to leave Washington's wetv cold weather about the mid dle of next week and fly to Florida for five or six days. This would give him an oppor tunity to play some golf m the sunshine before going to Bermu da March 20 for. conferences with Prime Minister Macmillan of Great Britain. Pact Affects Plumbers in Salem Area PORTLAND. March 8 11 Plumbers ant steam fitters to night reached a agreement . wjia employers on a two-year con tract for the Portland area, R coe Watts, a spokesman for the employers announced. The new agreement, he said, calls for a S cent wage increase as of March A, a 10 cent health and-welfare .addition on April .1, an cent ihcrease on Sept. 1, 10 cent increase on March 1, 1958, and an additional S cent increase July 1, 1951. The present scale is $3.25 an hour plus 10 cents vacation pay. Plumbers and Steam Fitters of Salem Local 347 (AFL-CIO) wil) meet with contractors Monday at 6:30 p.m. in- the Marion County courthouse in Salem to continue negotiations for their contract. Unofficial comment is that the Portland agreement will have some bearing on the Salem dis pute. Crash Kills Albany Boy; Second'Hurt Statefnua Ncwi Scrvlru . VALLEY JUNCTION, March t (Saturday) A 11-year-old Al tai? reutk diedl eary today and his eampailoa was placed the critical list alter a beadoa eaJllsloi yesterday belweea a pickup aad logging track abwit 1 p.m. Highway It six miles west of here, slate sollce said. Hospital autorities said the dead youth was Jerry D. Zink, about 16, driver of the pickup. He was tak en to McMinnville hospital earlier with Robert L. Hickey, 18, who was still on the critical list early today. The driver of the- logging truck, Allan D. Nickell, McMinn ville, escaped injuries. . Officer Russell Carlisle stated a doctor reported that Zink suffer ed fractures in both les, internal injuries and that Hickey sustained a broken neck and broken right leg. Pedestrian Killed VANCOUVER. Wash., March t Ufi Pearl Stewart, 71, of Van couver, was tat ally injured today when she was struck by an auto mobile. ' The driver, Dean (J. Robinson, 22, was cited On a charge of fail ure to yield right of way to a pedestrian, ' Today's Statesman Paga Sat. Ann Landers T: -.5 . I Church News 3-- I Classified --lM4 11 Comics 7 1 Crossword '. 11 II tditoriali ..4 I Horn Pinorama I Markoti .. Obituarist Sat. TV-r. Son. TV Sports 10. ...II .;.J1...II .7. I 1,9,. 10 II s i Star Gaier . Vallay Newt . Wirophoto Fag it ii .7.... I 9, 1957 reinstate the employe or prescribe a definite dismissal or disciplinary action. This bill goes to the Sen ate for further consideration. As the law stands now, the com mission conducts an appeal hear ing and submits its findings to the department head who fired or sus pends the employe. The depart ment head's final decision cannot be reviewed in court. -Political Situation' "The present situation Is wide open for political hirings and fir ings," declared the bill's principal sponsor, Rep. Keith Skelton iDL Kugene; "either we should have civil service or we shouldn't."' The bill adds these three other features for employes who appeal a dismissal or suspension: 1 Employes may have counsel or other representative of their ciwn choosing at the hearing, 2 The commission's findings and decision must be made known in writing within 10 days of the hearing 3 Commission hearings must be held with IS days of notice of ap peal, instead of the present 40. New Procedure The reinstatement provisions, as amended by the House labor com mittee and accepted by the House Friday, include new procedure re quiring the! commission if it finds the dismissal not made "in good faith for cause" to order immediate reemployment of the employe in the job from which he was fired, without loss of pay. Rut the commission also would have authority, in lieu of dismissal or full reinstatement, to impose a suspension without pay for a given period or a demotion in classifi cation, grade or pay. ObjectlM Varied Opponents of the bill voiced ob jections about the shorter time lat before hearings and the require ment that employe ( who might be a troublemaker")1 if reinstated be put back in the same depart ment. ' Those voting against the bill were three Marion County Republicans Lddie Ahrens, Robert L. Elfstrom and Winton J. Hunt, plus Reps. Joe Rogers (D), independence; three other Democrats, Annala, Fitwa- ter and Stunz, and Republicans Bristol, Cone, Davis, Field, Giesy. Hansell and Ireland. (Add. legislative ncwi an page 8.) Last Israeli Forces Leave Gaza Strip- r UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. March un Dag Hammarskjold told the U.N. Assembly today all Israeli troops have withdrawn from Kgypt and the Gaza Strip. He then be gan work oh the next task o'f peace keeping thereabouts. U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge hailed the day's develop ments as a turn away from war. Speaking as " the Assembly re sumed debate on the Middle East situation, Lodge pledged U.S. sup port "to assure that what has now' been achieved will be used as a foundation on which to build a good future for the people of the Near East free from danger of conflict." Secretary General Hammar skjold did not spell out his plans for- use of the U.N. Emergency Force now, standing between the forces of Israel and Egypt. Mart Laden With Dynamite Shot Down in Bank Holdup MONTREAL. March ur) A fantastically disguised young man with 39 sticks of dynamite fast ened to his body threatened to blow up a busy bank building to day and was shot down by police. The police added to the mad bomber aspects of his venture with a report tonight that, he had planted a deadly time bomb 'in Montreal's Central Railway Sta tion. They said they discovered the lime bomb overdue to explode in a station parcel locker. It. was traced through akey-' found on him at the bank. Police imme diately dismantled it. The bomber was identified , as Andre DeBlois, 21. He was shot through the neck and gravely wounded by Consta-. nie jnsenn rerron alter ne no held employes and patrons of a j Toronto-Dominion Bank branch atln, ay for 20 minutes, waving a gun and shouting threats The, "dynamite he carried was attached toa wire contraption on Ncgt0 ,mnisUT ..cou!d ,ead t0 his head connected to' a pocket I communism in the South.',. battery. He was masked with a! "i think )he Rev. King could nylon stocking. ". (stand a close Investigation," John mm PRICE 5c No. 347 Youth Survives1 12,000 Volt Brush With Death MEMPHIS. March 8 liTV-For a brief moment. 12.000 volts snapped through. Harry Petrie's body, making a noise that was "sorta like eggs frying.'' Petrie, 18, came out of it with a burned thumb, two burned toes. It happened,, he said today, while he was flying his gasoline- powered model plane, which is controlled in flight by a 65-foot steel cable. The plane ' veered into high tension lines that he had thought more than 65 feet away. Rubber soles saved Petrie. The electric charge cracking to his feet cut holes in the toes of his loafers but didn't make that fatal ground connection. Plans for Shopping Centerfold Tentative plans for a $100,000 shopping center project, in South Village just south of Salem were announced Friday by A. A. Lar sen, Salem realtor. Larsen said planning for the proj ect on 99E and Ewald Avenue hinges on lease negotiations cur rently being conducted with some halt a dojen firms. The shopping center would in' elude S large, one-floor .structure With facilities for from four to six establishments, Larsen said. Situ ated on a block-size tract, the proj ect also would include ample park ins space. Larsen added that if negotia tions are successful he hopes to start construction in May or June. Plans would call for location of a variety of firms in the center such as food, variety, hardware. drug and apparel stores. Larsen estimated cost of the con struction at .between 180,000 and $100,000. Sector in which the pro posed center would lie has seen heavy residential development in recent years. Center site would be on the south side of Ewald and east side of WE. Cross Burns On Portland Home's Lawn PORTLAND. March () - Wil lie A. Jones, a Negro who lives in a north Portland district popu lated by both Negroes and. Whites, looked out last night and saw a cross burning on his front lawn. He called police. By the time they arrived quite a crowd had assembled. But neither clones nor neighbors could supply an expla nation for the incident.- Racial trouble.. sasnot..rnentionecLJn. the police report. The cross was about 2'i feet high and 3 feet wide and had been covered with paper. Lebanon Man Made Far East Provost Marshal CAMP ZAMA, Japan, March 8 1 A Lebanon, Ore., man be came provost marshal of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East to day. ' He is Brig. Gen. Howard M. Hobson, 1929 graduate of Oregon State College. Hobson succeeds Brig. Gen. Francis A. Kreidal, who has returned to the States for reassignment. I Police said the dynamite he "carried 'was enough to flatten the bank building and damage ail the others in the neighborhood. Before he was wounded, the man fired two bullets in an ap parent attempt to frighten the bank manager. One of the bullets struck a clock, the other the ceil ing. ". I Negro Ex-Red Declares Re v. King "Could Lead South to Communism7 Bv W. B. RAGSDAI.E JR. BATON ROUGE. La.. March 8 A Negro ex-Commimist today ayJpA the Rev. Martin Luther vm. ... digrjv ,,.1,. tcarf i t,P nosi-op of the SomhMown destruction and bloodshed." Manning Johnson, former Com munist leader from New York, said the' antisegrcgation move- r '1 .. J k.. Uvn,..nMA.. A In aV Conflicting Stories of Mayor Schrunk, 6 Witnesses In $500 'Payoff WASHINGTON", March 8 (AI1)- Conflicting testimony by Mayor Terry Schrunlc of Port land, Ore., and six other witnesses about an alleged $500 bribe was referred to the Justice Department today for "possible perjury prosecution." The move w as ordered by Chairman McClellan D-Ark., of the special Senate committee la vestigating rackets. '" ... . " . . ,, .... . . . 1 1 .. ( .f , Meridian commented tnc , , '. x x fr x T .t yc- x Senate Probers Quiz Crosby r't i V '- . : W I''" ' f: W ' :. T ' -. . - . - I --i ' WASHINGTON, March 8 Clyde the Teamsters union, appears Senate rackets investigating has been mentioned frequently by previous witnesses in the committee's Inquiry into conditions In Portland. (AP Wirephoto) . Illegal Portland 'Joints' Charge Declared Unfair PORTLAND, March 8 (AP.)-A Senate committee investiga tors' list of 35 illegal establishments jn Portland was called "an unfair appraisal" of the situation by Police Chief William Hil- bruner. .... -jj- focStliVdi over "the" list and commented, "This is a situation where if you run, you are in trou ble and if you stand .still you are in trouble." Hilbruner, who was appointed chief by Mayor Terry Schunk two months ago, said: "'You could write a story and make it sound like I could go around to these places and knock on the door saying, 'You are under arrest." It isn't that simple." Hilbruner said arrests have been made in some of the places listed.. He said none is "operating under protection. We are check ing these places constantly." Some, he said, are operating on a "sneak basis," dealing with se lected clientele. ' i The chief called for public co operation in providing evidence of vice, and added, ""We can close them down in one placi and they can open up again somewhere else. We have to have evidence Owner Learns Small Car Has Drawbacks HOLLISTER, Calif., March J ' - Businessman - Joe- F slice bragged about his small and light weight foreign-built station wagon. It was stolen last night in tront of his home and recovered today Inside the San i Benito County High School library where some one had carried it. , 1 son told the Louisiana Legislative Committee on Segregation, prob ing .influences behind racial un rest. ' , .- ' Speaking of King's explanation At the purpose of the Negro mass movement that" led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing bus segregation. Johnson saidrtdom or ouatiffcations to lead the "This explanation is the-same aslNegroc, j tne s0Uih at this time. that of the Communist' party. I wonder who is giving him the party line." , " He dtiiost shouted as he asked: "If 10,000 ficgroes lose their Pemmaondl . w Probe r5 be' Tesftimoiniv Referred to Justice By WILMOTHERCHER oepanmenr nas ai nunciiii jno in , , . -. , . , C. Crosby, an organizer for today as witness before the committee. Crosby'r name Notecj Singers To Appear in Artist Series Marian Anderson, internationally known contralto, and Leonard War ren, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera will head the Willamette University's Distinguished - Artist series for next year, according to announcement made during a con cert in 'the Fine Arts Building last nicht. The concert, by the Vienna Boys Choir was the final in this year's series. (Story on page 2.) ' i Others slated to appear in Salem next season are Semour Lipkini pianist, and Kovach and Raoovsky Hungarian ballet artists. Miss An derson, Warren and the baHct dancers have appeared in Salem in previous years. An advance ticket sale wilt be held Monday, March 11. through April 1, according to student man ager Chuck Marsters. All seals are reserved, and may be purchased at Stevens and Sons -Jewelers. . Just Like - Racehorse PENSACOLA., Fla., March 8 W Feeling "like-a racehorse" 109- vear-old William A. 'Uncle Bill) Lundy, Civil War V'ctran, 'went home toda four days after he was operated on to- correct an infection of his prostrate gland. homes, will Rev. King build them new homes? If 5.000 Negroes lose their jobs, will, Kev. King be th,cre to help them find new jobs? "I'm not saying Rev. King is a Communist, but ! am saying he is doing the Negroes harm. He has not the leadership; not the wis-J "He has the Negroes worked up and ready .to follow him. Someone told him he is a modern Moses. I don't think so. Neither do 1 think he is i modern Gandhi.'' DUD Department occiuins wneuier pojury, oma I been committed when there is a conflict between just two nnfnMVM "Bur in this instance" h said, "I think there is' an op portunity for the department to find the correct answer and determine what its duty is in pro secuting the guilty." Big Jim Elkins, former boss of Portland's underworld, has testi fied he was told by a gambling associate that Schrunk accepted a $500 bribe to call off a gambling raid in 1955, when Schrunk was Multnomah County sheriff. Five other witnesses have corroborated parts of his story. . . Lie Detector lest - But Schrunk swore today be never accepted the bribe. He has agreed to undergo a lie detector. test in an attempt to convince the committee he's telling the truth. The senators are making a na tionwide inquiry into alleged rack eteering in labor unions and indus try. For the past two weeks they have been investigating alleged links between the powerful Team sters Union and racketeers in Port land and Seattle and Spokane, Wash. Another witness today was Clyde Crosby, the 16,90O-a-year interna- tinnal nrffaninp fnr ihm Tamilrfl Union in Oregon. Crosby testified Elkins once tried to extort 110,000 from him. He said the gambler told him that it be paid up be could have some tape recordings of conversations which Elkins represented as being detrimental to Crosby. Played Recordings The union official said Elkins played the recordings for him but he didn't hear "anything deroga tory to me." Crosby assailed Elkins, a key witness in the probe, as a perjurer and blackmailer. He told the Senate investigators that ' when the Teamsters sup ported Schrunk, a Democrat, for mvnr laf vmmr , f htr ' riMirM only one thing from him if he was successful, and that was that we hoped that under his administra- ' lion he would end Mr. Elkins' stranglehold on the city. Shortly before the committee ad journed until Tuesday. Tom Mo loney and Joe McLaughlin, identi fied in testimony as Seattle (am blers, were recalled as witnesses. Both men invoked -the. Fifth Amendment again and refused to answer any questions about wheth er they had been sent to Portland by Frank W. Brewster, head of the 11-state Western Conference of Teamsters, to help take over and expand Portland's gambling and vice operations,' , constitutional protection against any witness being forced ,te incriminate himself. . Wide-Opea Joints' Earlier Mayor Schrunk was in formed bv the committee that there are 35 gambling joints and houses of prostitution operating wide open, some on split shuts Portland. The dapper mayor said he doubter the accuracy of the re port but added "it's conceivable things like that do happen." There were these other develop ments today in the fast-moving in quiry: r- - The U.S. Secret Service reported a lie detector test taken Wednes day by Nate Zusman, operator of a Portland night club, "reveals, specific reactions which are indica tive of untruthfulness on the part of Mr. Zusman." Zusman has de- nied any connection with prostitu tion in Portland. (Picture on wirephoto page). Sen. Wiley (R Wis, saying e was shocked by the disclosures made before the committee, callad for an income tax "blitz" against "bribe-taking and gangster-consorting union officials." (Additional details page I) Grand Theater To Reopen Here Salem's Grand Theater, closed for 15 months, will reopen Friday, March 15, according . to" Lloyd Wirti, manager ofJbe Formatl Bros, theaters in Salem. 1 . The theater will run seven days a week with matinees Saturdays &nd Sundays. Policy of, the show house, Manager Wirtx. said, will be to obtain top pictures played previously as first run features. Ike to Sign Red Curb WASHINGTON, March II' President Eisenhower will sign at 10 a.m. tomorrow the resolution designed to curb Communist ag gression or expansion in the Mid east. ' , " .- ,.- " Jet Stream Test Due WASHINGTON, March I Wl A B47 six-jet bomber is scheduled to fly from Seattle to the East Coast tomorrow in another test of the high altitude Jet stream. , v - I hoped the state could recover i expand the Portland base. - -. If