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V Kansas City Struck By Tornado, 32 Die xaxsaj cmr. May a t-A a and wnmm rwassd tra the m ' n aad mmi Mtata of last- Tasrvasa (ted a Imm Cy en Qtj twgnt. kitting a ateat aaawrwa. saaat ef la a Basks. Beclc Kicked Out Of AFL-CIO Post WASHINGTON, May M Teamtten President Dave Beck (passing nttf an "Exit' sfga) wu removed Moaday u ' vice pretideat ef the AFLOO. (AP) Hams UlDCDQS With the th Legislative Assem bly of OrtfM oa Its "deathbed" (with few lobbyists left to mourn a rtjotcti, attention" may be focused ea th 15th Congreet which b atill grinding away a Ma srgis. lative chore in iU first session. Only three bnportant mcaaurti hurt beea written into law tow (an tha Middle East Doctrine. ex tensioa of aiciia, corporation taxes, drought aid. Soma depart meaUl appropriation bills have Aaated one or both bouses. Other bills of major bnportanca await actioa either ia committoe or oa tha floori of the houses. Her is raadowi of th statua of the principal matters of legislative Alaska-Hawaii sUlebcod: Senate bearings completed, but not those of House committee. Bills probably will pas If they get to the calendars la time. Chrl Right: House Rules com mittee to rot today whether to clear the. administration bill for Howe action. Senate committee hearings are completed. Southern opponents brew to cripple the bill with amewmwou a defeat it en the flow. - r . Higher Paetal talcs: Heal hearings completed; Nataral Gae RefaUtka: How committee holding bearings;, con flict between Souther proponents and Whtta Howe views may pre vent any action. Hoaslag LegtslaUoa: Passed by Howe, gives approval by Senate committee. Sea! CoastraettMi AM I Howe eorrurtitts recommends ll.l billion (Csattaatd a Material Page, 4) Jeff Names Princess PORTLAND. May JO I - De lore Mezyk, an 18-year-old, blue eyed senior, today was selected Jefferson High School's 1967 Ron Festival Princess. Hounds Find Missing Girl, Pinned by Leg Under Log Mattaaaa News eervta LINCOLN, May JO-A lS-year-eld South Salem High School soph omore, the object of an all night search in th wooded hills of Lin coln, about six miles northwest of Salem, was found early Monday morning pinned beneath a log hi nod sphiti and with do serious in Jwhw.,. The entire community of Lincoln, PoQc County Sheriff Tony Neufeldt, Deputy Virgil Taylor, Norman Wilson and four bloodhounds bat tled the elements and brush far even hours before they feuad young Judy Metssner In the woods near ha home numb from cold. She was found about I a.m. She had been trapped by a log acroa her legs for 10 hours after she tripped and unlodged it while picking flowers late Sunday after noon. She still had a tight hold on a small bouquet she had managed la ftther before her mishap, eb- 3 Beck 'Guilty Of Misuse of Union Funds' WASHINGTON. May M i-Frl-low union chiefs today found Dav Back guilty of "gross misuse of union funds entrusted to his care" and virtually read him eut of the labor movement. The AFLrOO Executive Coun cil, organised labor's highest tri bunal, removed Bock permanent ly as aa AFL-CIO vice president sad council member on charges leveled by th Senate Rackets In vestigating Committoe. Foe the pudgy, 0-year-old Back the unanimous action was a heavy blow. His own Teamsters Union is reported taking atepa to oust him as president, even though these moves are alow in taking shape. Chairman McOetlaa (D-Ark) of the Senate committee applauded Bock's ouster aa "more than Jus tified." The AFL-CIO Council acted on th Senate committee's charges that Beck had used more than 1320,000 ia union funds to advance his personal fortune and then re fused to tell about It. invoking the Fifth Amendment more than K0 times, when questioned by Senato investigators. Beck, claiming the AFL-CIO proceedings against him war il legal, also refused this morning to answer queries oa th Senato charges put by but fellow AFL CIO union chieftains. ' The Council acted awifUy and unanimously against Beck after be fled to the basement ef the AFL-CIO headquarters and aped away la aa automobile to avoid lacing newsmen and photogra phers. (Add. details en page A) Mixup Revealed WASHINGTON, May Wimams (R-Del) told th Senate today federal agencies loaned growers IS million dollars to in crease chicken and egg produc tion at the same time the govern ment was spending lz millions buying op surplus eggs. i She was resting comfortably Monday a her home a Salem Route 1, Box 427. Her doctor said she suffered a bed leg bruise, a hip bruise and shock. Temperature dropped to during th night. She was wearing a bandanna with a coat ova her plaid ah lit and ped-sl-puhers. During toe night aha dosed, wak ing every once in a while to try and move the heavy log from ha legs without- success, she said. The March began about I p.m. Sunday whew her father, R. J. Meissner, Mela A Frank mainte nance engineer, began to worry when his daughter failed to return from herwalk. ' The girl's father turned for help to the Polk County sherifri office, which called on Wilson and his four bloodhounds. After many false starts the doiis caught the scent several hours la ter and led the searchers to Judy's bights asat Bckmaa hC, th ef ewaassia sas Qty. law aaai ef laafiy were um a ana KB. The Maria Qty buiiaia duv trtrt. ale south f th city, was htaay wr lajurod ' there. What was bekeved to be the saan twwtar kiflod a womaa arar Ottawa, lea Z "ymDd tts aagry fua- avoMneess 01 roar a oa. sipptag ttt aagry act to th graaasd a maay spots. tearing apart farm bouses The Mara Oty storm raced a to th aortheaat aad smashed nto Rnekia Heights Its progress was followed by the Weather Bureau oa radar, and aiinterous warnings earned by ra dio and trlrvisioa (taboos alerted the metropoiitaa ares The storm blacked out the strtckea son Power haet were downed sod road blocked by debris Emergency treatment centers wore set ap ia the Ruskia Heights area. Volunteer aursrt. doctors and rescue amis moved ia quickly The tornado was on of st least lC that lathed eastern Kaiwas snd ortfi eaters Missouri today and tonight. Western Kansas wss swept by a duststorm r- Mystery of Carnival Banner Ends The "mystery" of who hung op the carnival banner Is solved. Two men from Krebs Advertis ing hung M up last week like they were paid to do across S Com mercial Street at Candalaris Ave nue i in th city). The South Salem Suburban Cham ber had ordered the banner, which reads "CARNIVAL HERE JUNE 4. S. (. 7 and I." They're sponsor ing th Browning Bros. Carnival a Liberty Read and Browning Avenue (outside the city) to raise money for Its two parks, and thought a banner nearby would help. They applied' to the Stat High way Department for a banner hanging permit, but through a mixup, the sign was hung inside th city. Henry Bens of the city engineer's office saw last Wednesday that no one had obtained a permit for hanging th banner which re quires approval a the City Coun cil, city engineer and city mana gerand so be took it down. He folded the $100 flag gently and put it in a drawer1 ia his office. There it lies. Flags to Be Hoisted CAIRO, May 10 wV-Egypt la- sued orders today that all ships approaching th Sues Canal from the Red Sea must hoist flags so their nationality caa be recognised easily. Ottawa, lav, eeattwwat ef Laa aaa Cy. Bawcwe wertara da at fse d ana i r ii i ear the) hraaawd and tiarraiii a Rank Baahta. WanWtsf tW tWaasT Vassfjstwa4 ft laV rwwSaiTaiSar hh'aehal aad the rtwahytanaa charrh. Slat fckVdM) W9 fVCIPfWVwl ftt Raaka htoghts. snows a thaai (roan th wreckage m a grocery Brighter Side . Jehu Irkluew W I e Collecting Flowers tioa for im n Salem'i float entry In the Rose Festival pa rade brought this imlle from Fire Captain Donald Morley yesterday. AH Salem fire stations and florists' shops are being nsed as collection centers for donated float decora tions. (Story ei page I) 1 Mama Bear Can't Bear Exdtement term yoou. tiar a tv nvwi a e Pact Sm to awwaetya. Twaay. a law baby hoars Ttey war by aad M of a bead at- House Votes 2 More High . Court Judges The House ef Riprweaitives Monday aittt BMaitered a bar ma jority to pass th bill recummend m tw additional judges for the Oregon Supreme Court. By II to W the House approved Senate Bill a Although the Sen ate had pasted the bill calhni lor two court-appointed tommiuKwn I ease the work toad fur the Su preme Court, th House state and federal affairi committee amended it to increase the court by two members instead, appointed by the governor. The bill si passed by the House must go back to the Senate fur further work The latter plan was to line with a strong mommrndauon from Gov Robrrt D Holmes and an original bill lor two judgrt that was tabled in a Senate committee. Three Republicans and a Demo crats voted for the House version, with eight Democrats snd 10 Re publicans opposed. The Marion County delegation split on party lines, the three Republicans op posed and the lone Democrat ia favor of it. The House met for i1 hours last night to catch up on a calendar it had expected to finish during sa afternoon session. The House will resume at 10 a m today . In another controversial matter between House and Senate, the House smothered for the sesond tune a Senate attempt to set up s legislative interim committee with broad, unspecified investigating snd recommending powers ISJR 43). The vot agamst th rluiaa wu 17 to 41, following which the How voted to Indefinitely post poo any further consideration. Th measure wa similar to SJR M which met the same fat in the House Msy 10. (Add. details a pag t) Clouds Minus Rain Forecast More clouds are due today and Wednesday but no rain Is expected, says the U.S. Weather Bureau at McNary Field. Expected tempera ture range will be 60-43. A total of .07 inches of rain Mon day brought May's preripttatloo so fa to 1 40 inches. The average for a May In Salem is 1M. B will be partly cloudy a nor thern Ore foe beaches today and tonight, the weatherman says. Winds west to northwest a JO miles per hour are expected. VtttS&Z, 107 Tear SKThXS - 0 PASCS City Budget Kept Inside 6 Limit By BCBStXL BXX&ACCn. A IU4S.000 Selea dry budget wss reccmaneadd to day b City Mgr. Kent Matkv ewsoo in a report fubsnitted to the city budget oomnntte and the public at a Chamber of Commerce kmc Moaday la Mar mm Hotel IV budfet proposed for she fia raJ year starting July 1 is sosnc UjM higher Uua sh sresea budget This UHTraae is largely due to greater eiprnars m aaler bond funds, but the set operating budget of II nullioa also It Bxreaesd by a small amount gamed from a OO.eoo kacreas under th I-per cent nmHatioa sod aa estimated 70 0C balance that will bs left at the end of Uks fiscal year he ex plained Mathewsoa said it is estimated that the city tax millage will rise two mills nest year, due largely to expected reduced valuations duwntowa bu&ines and utility prupertv Orgsaltall al Meetlag Mayor Robert f White said the budget committee ill have Its organizational meeting 7 J p m. Wednesday in City Hall A chair man will be elected and subcom mittee asMgrunents made at that time Mathrvson s propo-uls would call fnr two questions to he put to the voters in a special election One, for ISO 000. jtould decide the late of Olinger and Leslie swimming pools, threatened with condemnation by the state if ex tensive repairs ar not made this year, la the other th park board is asking 1473,000 for expansion and improvements. Mstbewson questioned a 175.000 Item it in cludes for a proposed municipal golf course. Other expenditures in the pro posed budget would be paid from normal sources of revenue Some of these are: Widening of Stste Street to four lanes east of 12th Street. U Time fr Stat, rair A start on extensioa of 17th Street north to SUvertm Road, fin ishing the project next year in time for th 1K0 Stat Fair. Resurfacing of Missloa Street from Commercial Street to 12th Street and from 16th Street to its connection with a new North San tiam Highway link under construc tion. Expenditure of 7t,10J for sewer construction projects, including ex tension to the Park Avenue area between Market and Center streets in East Salem, replacement of the Cross Street sewer from 16th Street to the east end of Oxford Street, completion of s lift station at Front and Union streets, and site purchase for a future pumping station at Croisan Creek. West Salesa Library Establishment of a West Salem library branch in the former West Salem Qty HaU. Salary increase for department beads as recommended and partly adopted a year ago. Reduction of residential water rates to encourage lawn beautifi cation. (Ceaapiete badges text a tap II.) Sack Loses Court Appeal WASHINGTON. May 20 iff - George FSack, under death sen tence for the murder of his wife at Portland, Ore., in 1054, today lost his last court appeal. The U. S. Supreme Court re fused to grant a hearing of his case. Sack's apparent last hop of es caping tha gaa chamber rests with Gov. Robert Holmes of Oregon, who has proposed that Oregon do away with capital punishment. At Salem, the governor said he would have to review the case be fore deciding whether he will pom- mute the sentence. 3 Sack was convicted ofXefueging his wife and placing her in the trunk of a car, wher she was asphyxiated. Sentencing on Tap PORTLAND, May 20 Iff - Port land gambler Big Jim Elkins and his employe, Raymond Clark, are scheduled to appear In U. S. Dist court tomorrow morning for sen tencing. NOBTbTWTS liaoui fACrrtC COAST LIAOVI At Vammver-SaattM, softs , rain At Baa rraneiseo-LM Antrlet, tent., rain (CmIjt games KkeSalr) AWaaiCAW LRAOUI Al New Tork-Ctevelant, roVf., 'la Al naaloM-Chlesi, softs., rala At WsfhlBflM I, IMinK I At HaKlmre t, Rsaoas Clljr t NATIONAL LIAGUt At It Leal 4, Brook. Mkra It al) u BASEBALL (Oalx gaa atauwf tSZi 1,1 " Th Semos Push lid t ioesfc S Senator Prepares for Adjournment With the end ef th Oregon Leglslatara la light. Sea. Sldaey Scklesiager begsa the task last night ef removing aeeae ef the beoks. Botes, etc., aero at elated during the in day ef the aewaiea so far. Mrs. Lawrence Andersen, Senate door keeper held the door for him at right (Statesman Pbote) Holmes, Thornton Insist Kaplan Stay PORTLAND. May 20 (AP)-Cov. Robert Holmrj today said s key fipire in five state-directed vice probe here should remain on the job instead of going to work for the U. S. Sen ate labor-rackets committee. Holmes said Asst. Atty. "obligation to finish hit work. Kaplan announced In a letter to Oregon Atty Gen. Robert Y. Thornton that h had asked for a leave of absence to work with the Senate investigator! But st Salem today, Thornton said he had not received a copy of the letter and added: "I am un able to approve any such request at this time. Kaplan's letter also wss critical of the way Thornton has handled the probe in charges of vie and corruption here. Critical r TWaU Earlier, a fourth Multnomah County grand jury investigating vie returned a long report that was critical of the way Thornton had handled the probe. The report asked be be replaced. Thornton also laid today that Kaplan "has an obligation" to fin ish the work begun by the latest grand Jury, which returned some M indictments. Holmes said that Sea. McOel lan ( D-Ark . chairman of the Sen ate committee, had called him in February and asked if Kaplan could be released to work for the Senate investigstors. Holmes said be later called Thornton, whom he quoted as say ing that Kaplan could be released, in about 90 days. But the governor today said the 90-day period was s "serious error" snd added Kap lan should finish the work. Ksplan had been assigned as one of the prosecutors ia the case of Mayor Terry Schrunk, sched uled to go on trial Wednesday on a charge of perjury. Claims Whstowash Try" Thornton' request that th trial be postponed wu made shortly before the Issuance of Kaplan's letter, which said "continued mis direction of th investigation win give added credence to those who believe you ar attempting to whitewash this prosecution. Meantime Thornton said that he had given Asst. Atty. Gen. Ralph Wyckoff until I a. m. tomorrow to accept or reject a fee schedule for bringing the esses to trial The fee, which Thornton laid he offered, was feX-day for prepar ation of th csss snd 100-a-day for the trial with 1 maximum ef gSOO a month. Thornton said be had made the offer In a letter to Wyckoff. Wyck off said be had not received such a letter. Sold by 10 a.m. This Statesman W s n t - A d brought results the first morn ing it appeared . . . IS IT. Boat A Motor Ml TM S-K1IV ' Want - Ads make life easier A so economical . . CALL EM 44811 NOW for fast action. Ttiey, May 11, On. Arthur C. Kaplan has an Ike Talks to NationTonight PORTLAND. May Iff - Presi dent Eisenhower's second budget message to the nation tomorrow night will be carried on four radio and three television stations here. KOIN-TV will carry the message st IX p m. It will be telecast at 10 30 p m. by both KPTV and KGWTV. The radio broadcasts: KGW I 30 and I p m . KJ'OJ-7 1J p. m.. K01N-7 JO p. m. and KGON 30 p. m. IKSLM-Salem will carry the broadcast 5 30-1 p.m.) Atom Explosion Delayed Again ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev May 10 Iff Jet stream winds rac ing at more than ISO mile aa hour through the upper atmos phere today forced another post ponement of the summer atomic test series. Rockefeller for Ike NEW YORK, Msy 10 Iff-Nelson A. Rockefeller, one of the nation's richest men, said today that "much as everyone would like to have a tax cut" President Eisen hower's 72 billion dollar budget is necessary to meet the threat of Communist aggression. Mid-Valley Engineer Appointment of Wesley J. Kvar sten, Springfield planning engineer, as plsnning director of the newly formed Mid-Willamette Vslley Plsnning Council, was announced Monday. Kvarsten, 13, was a planning technician with the Marion County Planning Commission at Salem from 153 to 1955. He is presently director of urban renewal at Springfield, employed by the city of Springfield and the Lane County Housing Authority. Ha will arrive ia Salem la early July, Robert K. Powell, council president said. Four more are to be added to the staff, which will coordinate planning efforts and be an ad visory group to the members of the mid-Valley Planning Council. Member organizations include the city of Salem, Marion and Pn'k county plannin commiss-nns snd the Salem public school dis trict. Headquarters are temporarily in the Marion County Planning Com mission office la the courthouse. 1W7 pua iast-AAip chool Fyinid! School Bus, Car Collide; Man Injured Still Ntws Sarrlra WOODBURN, May 30 - A at- year-old Salem man suffered ser ious injuries her this ailernooa in a collision between his car and a loaded school bus, stat police reported. N on oa th bus was injured. The Injured man, listed as Mike Fochl. Salem Route 1. Box X7S. wu taken to Providence Hospital in Portland, where attendants list ed his condition as "poor." Stat Police Officer Lloyd Riegel said that after the collision on WE inside the Woodburn city limits, th oar driven by Focht crashed into a telephone pole. Focht was thrown out and his vehicle swerved on to strike a gas station pump. Riegel said both vehicles were going south and tha bus, loaded with some 40 pupils, was starting to make a left turn at tim of th 150 pjn. accident. Riegel listed driver of the bus as Lester Triorpe, Woodburn. Pu pils on the boa were from Wood- burn and St. Luke grade schools. Today's Statesman Page Sec. Ann LervoWr Classifies! II, 1 II Comics 14 II CretswortJ II II fdrnrriars 4 I Homo Panorama ..I, 9 I legislature 13 II Markets 17. .... II Obituaries II II Isdio-TV 14 II Sports ...11-13 II Star Gazer I Valley News 15 II Wirepboto Pg ....14 II Planning Appointed hi - ,! I; WESLEY J. KVARSTEN Kvarsten. 1953 graduate of the University of Oregon, spent four yean in the Army in World War II. He is married. m r I " m & ') -' m Mmmm. : aaana. 1 . w, -i' u Still Aim At Finale Tonight By tOtMT I GAVCWAIB City E attar. TW Stotewaa Sutr biuic uhii.il supns- bounced hack as a top Vrgisla bve controversy Monday al die Oregon Capitol with the) unheralded deeioprirtits: A Uit-djtth tdrrunistrarinn e for aa extra CM M amount I mid aa Go aUfcart D, Hoones' prom is t raia bquur price ts cents s twetk A comptic sled amendment d signed I aasur that whatever st crease ia stat mowey a steal school district gets wiS be r Legislature Today I s . Ways snd meaaa earn- mittee meets I a sm. -Senate meets, URh (by II a as. House meets I ... TroUlm-U set for far aal adjournment of teuton. marked tor ulirect property taS offset. This came from the Sa at du alius committee The two announcements put tha Senate in s mild uproar and re sulted finally ia a delay ot tha school support bill HB MS Administration leaders wanted at rush the bill through by accepting changes on the floor, but Repub lican efforts sent the bill back t th Joint ways and means com mittee. That group then scheduled sa I a.m. meeting today on it. Adjsawwaaeat SUU TtaOtW Whether the change ef signals aa school support will delay thai sssioa's final adjournment could a't be determined by last night. Hare's how th adjournment picture soaked: House and Senato art) aiming at a I p.m. final edjoartuoaat today, as agreed last week. The House, considering Itself ahead eg the Stnat, didn't come back from weekend recaaa antil I p.m. Monday, then got through only eight scheduled bills ht the afternoon aad returned to a night session. Th Senate finished its calendar by I pjn. but baa severs! ills scheduled for today. Early leasts Tday Keeping the sim on adjournment this evening, th Senate called it meeting today for aa unpree dented 1:30 a.m. and the House planned te convene at 0 a.m. Several bills remained last night in conference cornmitteea but tone wu considered ef top rank hi legislation. Gov. Robert D. Holmes made his late bid for the additional state achool support at a Monday afternoon press conference. Ha now wants the stat fund baaed ea $100 per census child, compared with the present HO baas, the ways and means-tpproved ejg and the SIM he recommended at tha outset of the Legislstive sessloa. Putting the base figure at flot would mean an approximate Ct million increase ever the present im million fund that is aplrt among local school district. Battl Jssd by GOP Republicans ia the Stilt. agreeing that both parties had favored a high an increase at possible in the fund, took issue with the new proposal when It came -op late yesterday afternoon. They outioaed closely the fi nancial soundness ef the proposal. When Ways and Means Chairman Alfred H. Corbett D). Portland, said he didn't know "the precise amount of revenue that will be available," then fellow Democratic Sen. Walter J. Pearson moved for sending the bill back to ways and means. ' Gov. Holmes said the proposed liquor price increase would pro duce an extra $3,000,000. Pear sot said the price boost might rot sales to the point that no extra revenue could be counted. Pavers $100 Bat I ' Sea. Monro Sweetie nd (D), Seri ate education chairman, said 1 looked like Die state could now afford the $100-based school tup- port "because total revenue may be several million more than wa expected." Soma of the Republicans askel what this extra revenue was. Sea. Philip Lowry (R), Medord. said if there i extra money floating around, perhaps It ought to ga directly to property tax relief." f Although not mentioned ea tha u Senate floor, th latest way and means committee appraisal ef tha financial situation indicated a bud- get of about $273 4 million, against anticipated revenue of something between $271 and $281 million. , (AtMltlaaal eetaOe - aad ether legislative newi sa fafe 1& ' I a.V.CL r
