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. - . .' , t-r- , -- . , : . X -H- avvcvv ivc The Weather DIP nmrmn One day last week County Judge Guy Boyingtoit of Clatsop County breezed into the office and left - copy of proposed amendment to the state constitution. He would change Sec. 3, Art. IX which dedi cates motor vehicle license fees . and gas taxes for highway uses, by . adding a paragraph which would declare that motor vehicles and other properties of "for hire" mo tor carriers would be subject to assessment end taxation the same . as property of other carriers. This has been introduced as House Joint Resolution 28. Another joint resolution, HJft 27, would repeal Sec. 3, Art. IX. This would leave disposition of receipts from gas tax, moinr vehicle and operators' license fees and other 'taxes for use of highways to the will of the Legislative Assembly. The present section which cap lures these receipts for highway or street use, also for parks and tour ist promotion was adopted in 1942 through a reference by the 1941 Legislative Assembly. It was.ap- , proved by a. wide margin: 125,990 06.332. Jh!s writer was one who spoke against the measure on the radio to no avail.. I obiected to i this earmarking of revenues,- not to the use. of these receipts for highway purposes. Previously as governor I had called' the Legis lature's attention to the fact that commercial users, of the highway made no (or little) contribution (Continued an Editorial Page, 4.) Weekend Road Toll Reaches 4 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A highway collision killed two California brothers near Albany Sunday, lifting the weekend high way toll in Oregon to four. Lloyd Launer, 2.1, Berkeley, and Joseph Launer, 17, Selma, Calif., were killed and three members of . their family injured seriously m the crash as the family was en route to Portland to attend a wedding. - Coroner Walter Kropp (aid the ear went out of control and col iiaea almost neaa-on witn a freight truck. The truck driver, Robert McCauley of Portland was not injured. . - . Mri. Lloyd Launer, 18; a brother, John Launer, 20, and their father, Paul Launer, 41, all f Selma, suffered broken legs.. Pete Enf strom. 71, Creswell, pedestrian, was killed by an auto mobile near Eugene early, Satur day. Hugh Franklin Wilson, S3, town marshal at Longer eek in Grant County, was killed when his auto mobile crashed off a road near Long creek Friday night. ' - ff II II 1! Til II II II ft II II II with showers, periods II II II It JL U II II II II II II II - Prtir ('ring and gusty IVlV V VV IVVVlV LvlV IvlV "indt. High 52, low fenlBhtx POUNDBD 1651 (Compltu report pan I) 106th V.r 2 SECTIONS-! 4 PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Anarch 11, 1957. PRICE 5c No. 349 34 Escape as Airliner Lands on Back iv--- 4 C& ' . . ...... Bee Columbia Dam Closes Gates THE DALLES. Ore.. March 10 ) The Dalles Dam, which some day may become this coun try i second biggest power pro ducer, closed its gates across the Columbia River today for the first time. - For more than four hours the flow of the mighty Columbia was cut off. The river poured more than a billion gallons of water a second against the 1'4-mile-long dam until the pool thus formed climbed 60 feet up the face of the concrete barrier and began running over spillways. More gates will be closed next weekend to lift the pool another 25 feet, its final level. The pool 'then -will extend 31 miles up stream. Dedication . ceremonies will be held next weekend.; (Add. details page t.) " I U.N. Shots Fired In Gaza Arab Riot - " BjTAWCEtO NAT ALE ,,..,,.,... ' GAZA, March 10 AP)-IT. N. troops nsrd tear pas and fired in the air today to break up a demonstration by thousands of Arabs derrianding return of Egyptian administration to the Gaza Strip. Willamette River Down After Crest Willamette River was going down Sunday after cresting 17 feet in the early morning but all streams in the area remained swollen and tur bulent, and water was reportedly still standing on several county roads. The weather forecast for today and Tuesday indicates occasional showers, periods of partial clear ing, and gusty winds, McNary Field weathermen said. High tem perature today is expected to be about 52 and the low tomgnt aooui 40. Heavy wind early Sunday morn ine reportedly blew down poles in the rain saturated earth at Gcr- vais, interrupting telephone service to several families. Marion County sheriff's deputies said they' had no reports of change Sunday in road conditions, mgn water had been reported on the road between Brooks and Labish Center, Wheatland Kerry road and the old Silvert'on-Salem highway. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 10 A workman examines Eastern Air lines plane which flipped ' over on its back today while coming in for landing at Standiford Field. Seven passen gers, were hospitalized for observation. One wing was clipped off. The plane carried , 34 persons. (AP Wirephoto) Airliner Flips On Landing; 7 Persons Hurt LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 10 i Seven persons were injured, none seriously, when an Eastern Air Lines plane touched a Standi ford Field runway, bounced 40 leet in the air, then overturned and skidded at least 100 feet on its back today. Thirty-one passengers and three crew members were aboard the two-engined craft. Cause of the crash was undeter mined. Cjvil Aeronautics Board of ficials were investigating. The pilot. Capt. C. G. Chambera, and his copilot, H. D. Bingham, both of Chicago, would furnish no details of the accident. Most passengers said the plane came onto the runway at a steep angle. All passengers destined for Nashville and Huntsville left later in the day on another plane. Among the' passengers aboard the. plane were Clyde A. Retter, Portland. Furnishings Saved by 3 v Students as Home Burns taUinun Mews Itrvln - MARION, Mar. 10 Three fast thinking Oregon State College stu dents saved a large amount of fur nishings early Sunday morning in a fire that virtually leveled the home of the Herman DeLangh family. The family was away when the three youths chanced to see flames coming from the 1'4-story house while driving in the area about 12:30 a. m. The trio were Ronald Olson. Madras; Samuel Lewis, Tigard; and Mike Jenkins, Salem. In their efforts to save posses sions, the students were forced to break a window to get into the locked .frame house and phone volunteer firemen at Aumsville. They also had a brave a formid--able Jooking bull, which they, re leased from a fire-threatened barn along with other stock. The barn escaped damage. The family and firemen arrived alter flames had eaten through much of the house. Also saved by the students war a dog locked in . a back porch. Virtually all furnishings were salvaged other than a kitchen range and some bedroom furniture. The released bull was menacing enough in appearance4 send one of the students scrambling up into barn loft. The three Oregon Staters dis covered the fire after attending a Founders Day dinner of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Saturday nigh( in Salem. IT. N. headquarters announced several demonstration leaders were arrested after the U. N. sol diers were stoned as they drove the crowd down Gaza's main street. Yugoslav U. N. troops, who had been withdrawn from the Gaza Strip earlier, were called back to help deal with the demonstration. said, Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, U. N. force commander. - Belgrade radio announced earli er that Yugoslav units had left the strip. It gave no reason, but the. Yugoslav government had hinted its troops would be pulled out of he strip if Egyptjeeted to U. N. control of the territory. Burns' Arrival The demonstration was staged soon after the U.N. commander's arrival for discussions with ""his staff here. , Because of the disorder, the cur lew ordered for 6 p.m. was ad vanced to 1 p.m. and sound trucks drove . through Gaza ordering everyone indoors. But police en countered difficulty in making the excited Arabs comply. The Jerusalem Post quoted an Arab rtfugee as saying a number of Arabs accused of collaborating with the Israelis were lynched by commandos in Gaza's streets. Protection Asked (Israel border settlers east of the Gaza Strip appealed to Is rael's army for increased protec tion. . They said infiltrators have been slipping across from- Gaza and stealing valuable equipment.) Arab government employes re fused to cooperate in the U. N. administration unless the Egyp tian government approves.- n n Faces CafD Dim 'mm IS pirope. ackeft Pirbe Solons to Discuss Bullfrogs By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Bullions are on (lie legisla tive agenda at the Oregon Ca pitol today as the Senate and House reopen--shop at 10 a.m. for tlieTtli day of the session. legislators will start their ninth week with consideration on the floor of a dozen routine bills, including Senate Bill 213 that would designate bullfrogs officially as game fish. The Senate also has a bill to raise several fees charged by. county clerks SB 175) . In the House are budget bills for the self-supporting Oregon Wheat Commission, Bank ing Department, Board of Nurses' Examiners, Board of Pharmacy and Board of Watchmaking and Clockmaking Examiners. Public Hearing Livelier business is expected in several committees, includine three 'public hearings Monday. The House slate and federal af fairs committee at 8 a. ni. will take up the bill proposing that civil service be set up by any district - or city to cover all paid firemen. .' Then at 8:30 a. m. it will have a public hearing on .the resolution calling for a committee of eight legislators to study parole, reprieve or commutation as exercised by Oregon governors. v House local government commit teemen will start hearings on the various bills sponsored by the interim committee which studied local government with special ref erence to growing proDiems ol suburbia. - - . This committee, headed by Rep Katherine Musa, (D), The Dalles, Quake-Born Tidal Wave Lashes San Diego Harbor, Japan Isle By THE ASSOCIATED . PRESS Quake-born tidal wave, raited by shork forces sbot up from the ocean floor at close to the sprrd of sound, flooded Japanese fish. Shelter Island. The wave errst piled Into San Diego Bay with; a speed estimated at ti'i loAes an hour. - The I'.S. Coast and Geodetic Service In Honolulu said Ml. Ve- inir villages Sunday several hourr vldnf on I nmak Island In the Al- after the seismic surge wrecked two villages in Hawaii. Twenty-six beach homes were destroyed en Kauai Island by the waves, caused b( manive under-the-erran earthquakes near the Aleutians. Another itrii earthquake shook the Parific'i rim last night. The I nlvrrsitv of California seis mograph at Berkeley indicated it originated In the Aleutian Island. - . Five .hours after the first alert had ended on the L'.S. West Coast, a surprise sweep of water raced Into San Diego Bay Saturday night, smashing a boat slip oa eutiant was smoking Sunday after lying dormant for 200 years. It apparently was jarred Into activi ty by- Saturday's quake, officials said. King said 154 were left home less at Hanalei, northern Kauai, and 4,000 isolated w here six brid ges were washed out. Preliminary estimate of damage ranged up to two million dollars. Two persons sent up In a plane by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to observe the tidal w ave lost their lives when the plane crashed. Sarah . Park, 29, rrportrr, was killed in the crash Saturday. The pilot, Paul O. Brain, an adver tising executive and, a World War II Associated Press reporter, dird ' Sunday of multiple fractures. Waves reaching nine feet flooded fishing hamlets on the! eastern shore of Hokkaido, north ernmost of the Japanese Islands. Incomplete police reports said one house was washed away. Several others were reported wrecked, The San Diego wave pulled an 83-foot fishingcraft from its moor ings. It' bumped Into a 50-foot schooner, the Sea Star, jarring a yachting family awake but caus ing no damage or Injury. The first quake shock was re corded at :29:5S a.m. by the I'niversity of California seismo graph at Berkeley. Seismologist Don Tocher said the first had a Rlrhter magnitude of 8. Legislature Today 8:30 a.'.n. House state and federal affairs committee hear ing on HJR 26 for legislative committee to investigate gov ernor's power of parole, reprieve or commutation, Room 321. II a.m. Senate and House meet. t 1 p.m. House local govern ment committee hearing on HB 527 and 529, on county planning law, Room 326. 7:J9 p.m. 'House education committee hearing on HB 594, to establish community colleges, Room 6. Bobby Pin Used To Remove Rock From Girl's Nose Salem first aidmen have the equipment for almost any sort of emergency but they still have to borrow once in awhile. Sunday it was a bobby pin. They used to remove a stone that 4-year-old Mary Ann. Brandner had somehow got stuck in tier nose. Mary Ann is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Paul F. Brandner, 2150 Hazel Ave. willTiear arguments at 1 p. m. on twj) of the bills. One would allow a county, court on its own motion to initiate county loning hearings. Now a petition of residents is re quired Blind Woman Learns to Ski With Help of Alarm Clock PARIS, March 10 fAPJ-CtiKled by her Seeing Eye dog Duchess, totally hltnd Mrs. Thelma L. Keitlen, .To, arrived in Paris today from Switzerland Where she learned to ski with the aid of an alarm clock. v "I loved every minute of it and am going right back for more ski ing as soon as I've 'seen' 4lhe museums and galleries here that I've dreamed of all my life," she told reporters as she landed .from Geneva. The French tourist office has assignedher a special guide. Mrs. Kofflen is a bousewife from Springfield, Mass., and mother of a 12-year-old daughter. Stricken blind in 1955, she went to a special clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., where she was taught how to get along in the "night world the world of the blind, She continued swimming, horse back ridmg and even, played golf on the courses she had shown before her ailment. But skiing was the biggest challenge. Mrs. Keitlen went to the Swiss Alps to learn. There a special in structor, carrying an alarm clock with a very loud tick would pre cede her down the Alpine slopes. By following the tick of the clock she was able to navigate. Persons arriving from Switzer land with her said results were excellent. After a brief cultural tour here with concerts enjoying a high priority she plans to re turn to the mountains Wednesday. "BKndnessr" she told reporters todayvrnay be inconvenient, like many other things, but it is not incapacitating." Chimp Holds First Showing Of Paintings BALTIMORE. March 10 orv-The artist wasn't present today as the first of her paintings ever sold were handed over to their buyers with great ceremony. . Newsmen were on hand. Pho tographer's flashbulbs -. popped. The formal presentation of the paints was in the office of Arthur R. Watson, director of the Balti more Zoo. "Betsy," the artist, is a 7-year-old chimpanzee in the zoo. Today was the first public sale of Betsy, s paintings but none were bought." Buyers at the presenta tion, who had bought the paintings earlier, were restaurant owner James P. Karuks; insurance man Riall Jackson, son of a former mayor, and real estate man Temple H. Pierce. Watson said a. fourth painting has bech sold to a Dallas, Tex., physician Whose $30 payment ar rived in a special delivery letter. The four paintings brought $25 to $50 apiece and Watson plans to keep selling, them indefinitely. Watson stretches wet paper in front of Betsy and daubs it with paint. The chimp rubs .the daubs. Bus Crash Kills 20 BOGOTA, Colombia, March 10 un About 20 of 80 passengers were believed killed today when a bus plunged 300 feet down a pre cipice, Sixty persons were injured, 15 seriously, and search crews had not found the others. Two Admit Killing Tourists in Mexico; Bodies Sought in Sea ACAPULCO, Mexico. March 10 un-Skindivers were called today to aid in the search off Acapulco for the bodies of a holidaying New York attorney and a wealthy York attorney, weeks age. pearly three Brooklyn widow victims of a cold ' blooded murder for-rob- bery plot. Federal security police an nounced the killers admitted beat ing their victims to death with a club and heavy chain, removing money and jewelry worth $70,000, then dumping their weighted bod ies from a boat into the sea on the night of Feb. 20. . . The jewelry has been recovered. It had been hidden in the garden of a home in Acapulco owned by a relative of one of the confessed slayers.. " , The victims were Joseph A. Mi chel, 70, a prominent New York attorney, and his friend, Mrs. ACAPULCO, Mexico, Monday, March 11 W The tally clothed body of a woman was reported floating la Acapulco Harbor early today. Police believed It might be that ( a wealthy Brooklyn widow murdered with her traveling eampanloa,. New Edjm Hallork. 6-V Brooklyn. They had been the objects a wide search since they vanished from this Mexican coast resort city. The men who police say con fessed are Luis Fenton, 33, a tour ist agent, and Daniel Rios Osu na', 35, an unemployed waiter, Fenton was described as a U, S. citizen who is In Mexico' illegally. He is of Mexican parentage. Doc uments, on his person disclosed he served a hitch in the V. S, Navy and was once employed by the Douglas Aircraft . Corp. on the West Coast. ,, Fenton and Rios were .to be tak en out into the bay to point out the spot where the bodies, weight ed With rocks and the chains used in the slaying, were thrown over board. ' Jose Altamirano Diaz,- head of the- Mexican federal-seeurity po-f lice, announced the confessions of Fenton and Riot early this -morning, j Fenton had been under question ing since Friday. "Rios was ar rested last night after being im plicated by Fenton. ' The other bill 'would make countjw She uses her fingers, hands, planning commissions mandatory tongue, -elbow practically any- in counties of more than lo.ooo. thing. population. Such commissions are now optional. Community Colleges . The House education committee will give hearing at 7:30 p. m. to proposed legislation on the estaD lishment ol community colleges This measure tHB 594) would allow school districts to establish junior colleges and share in state basic school support. Of special Salem interest Tues day will be the Senate agriculture committee hearing at afternoon adjournment time (usually about 2:30 p. m.) on SB 309 which would abolish the State Fair Commission and place operation of. the fair directly under the director of ag riculture. Father, Son Reap Fortune From $2 Bets AGUA CAL1ENTE, Mexico, March 10 t A father and son won $42,786.20 between them from the Caliente horse race track to day on their bets of $2 each. The father collected the major share, $40,841.40, by picking all six winners in the fifth through 10th races. He is Albert Workman Sr., 45, a Los Angeles meat packer. The son, Albert Jr., 20, a Pas adena, Calif., bank employe, picked five of six winners. He shared second best with six others in collecting $1,944.80 from the 5-10 pool. The pool of $60.506' was a record, bettering last Sunday's mark of $60,128. The senior Workman's -big win ning was the largest since George Hall, retired prospector, won $46, 287 last Dec. 3. Sea Survivors Wed SAN JOSE v Calif., March 10 1" Last July, John ' Vali- saved Me lanie Ansuini from drowning as the Italian liner Andrea Doria sank. Today they, were married. Child Dies in Clothes Dryer HOUSTON. Tex.. March 10 Ifft- An automatic clothes dryer killed a 3'i-year-old boy today after he climbed into it and the device started. David Dunda, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Dundas Jr., was dead on arrival at a hospital. Deputy Coroner Howard Cos sage said the boy had third de gree burns over his entire body, his left leg was broken and he had severe cuts and bruises about the head and body. An autopsy by Harris. County pathologist W. W. Coulter showed that the boy died from the burns Portland Boy, 11, Escapes Drowning PORTLAND, March 10 11 An 11-vear-old boy fell into the swift. rain-swollen Johnson Creek in southeast Portland today, but es caped drowning by . grabbing .a low-hanzing tree branch as he was being -swept "downstream. The boy, Michael West, said he fell in while playing on a Bridge Today's Statesman Page Sac. Ann landers 5 I Classified ........12, 13 II Comic ...... 7...... I Crossword ............ 12 II Editorials : Horn . Panorama ... 6... Obituaries .. 12 Rsdio-TAL... -7... Sports 9,10... Star Gazer 2... Valley News 11... Wirtphoto Page ....7... I -.1 ...II -.1 ,11 .. I ...II ...I On the Brighter Side . . . John Ericksan IwIm m i.i .. Ml- i. -' : y v..t,. ... 1- i-J-J I II "They're Off! Probably one of the noisiest rices in the country Is held from time to time it Washington School Cub Scout Pick 103 meetings when cubs bring their model racers to compete on i 30 foot wooden rimp constructed by their parents. , ; r, 4 Teamster Boss Silent On Plans SEATTLE, March 10 (AP) Da c Beck, globe-trotting Teamsters Union president, re turned to the United States from Europe unannounced to dav and was expected to have a date soon with the Senate com mittee investigating rackets. After flying here from New York Beck said in response to a ques tion as to whether he would wait Tor a subpoena from theT Senate Special Investigating Committee, "1 don't think so." On all other questions the florid faced union leader replied with a rapid fire series of "no com ment" as a swarm of reporters and radio and television men trailed him from the plane to a waiting car. May Talk Today 't J Beck said he might be willing fo talk, to newsmen tomorrow. The committee has been await ing Beck's return to quiz him re-' garding the building and sale of his lavish home in Seattle as well as about operations of the big 1H million-member Teamsters Union. Beck arrived at New York's Idlerwild Airport at 8:40 a.m. on a Swissair plane" from Switzerland. He passed through public health, immigration and customs routines unknown to newsmen regularly assigned to the airport. Before reporters there could catch up with him, it was learned) that Beck had already boarded another plane for Seattle. Refuse Interview - - During a 35-minute stnrjover at his plane at Chicago, Beck refused to permit in interview or nosa for pictures. A Northwest Airlines spokesman said Beck had refused a request made through him for, a statement. During the stop at Chicago, a newsman boarded the plane and saw a heavy-set man wearinc dark goggles, who ducked behind a seat. Another man barred the aisle. Another newsman carrying a recording device was put off the plane by airline employes. Sen. McClellan (D-Ark). chair man cf the .special committee on improper activities in labor or management, said he had not been advised officially of Beck's return to the country but com mented: ' j "I just assume he will get in touch with the committee now that he is b?ck.'' , ' : Subpoena, Ready From committee sources it was learned that a subpoena has been prepared for service on the Team sters president if he does not ap pear voluntarily within a few days. No definite time limit has been set, however. Beck has been out of the coun try three times this year. He had beeji in Europe since February. The Teamsters Union has been under searching inquiry by Mc Clellan's committee, particularly with reference to charges that some of its West Coast leaden teamed up with racketeers in an effort to control gambling and vice in Portland, Ore. Hearings on this phase of the in quiry are slated to resume Tues day. Beck wrote McClellan some time ago,' after the committee had ex pressed an interest in his affairs, that prior arrangements in Eu rope would keep him there until March 26. Seattle Home ' Robert Kennedy, counsel for the Senate committee, has said he wants to question Beck about an alleged uso of union funds to build his Seattle home. It has been in dicated that the committee will want to hear from Beck in close session before putting him on the witness stand in open hearings. -Beck sold the Seattle home to his union for more than 1160,000 under an arrangement permitting him to continue living fn it, rent ' and tax free. He tried to sell the home's furnishings to the union for some $50,000, but this deal re portedly was blocked by some balking union officials. - . Hearing Ead Seen Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to the Senate investigating commit tee, said he hoped the com mittee could wind up Thursday or' Friday its hearings on allegation that some West Coast Teamsters Union officials joined with racket eers in efforts to control vice and . gambling in Portland, Ore. The Portland hearings axs la recess until Tuesday, wnen tn committee hopes to resume que tionmg of Clyde C. Crosby, Team sters Union Oregon boss . apd Dist. Atty. William M. Ltngley 61 ttulU Domah County Portland. , - A