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Acqmlfltlos f 1m4 fr terelopmenl of a recreational area west aide of Willamette
River at Saleoa was propoaetf la petltlem Monday. Aerial photo (looking weit) Is area
belnf itndled. Right side W photo U north. (Wallace Road Is at upper left). Project would
adjoin present Wallace-Albert Marine Park (far left) and be called Wallace Memorial
Park In honor of K. S. Wallace family of which the late Paul B. Wallace, donor of Wallace-Albert
tract, was a descendant
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CPCD CDOCEr e"t,0JS AsC 3-Mile Kecreation
Area on West Side of Willamette
Tbo Red-oriented Aslaa-Africaa
- conference at Cairo probably will
adopt a resohitioa endorsing na
tionalisation of Industry. It is aim
ed, one may assume, at foreijn
investment rather than native. The
resolution under consideration Jus
tifies the takeover of property as
-lawful" nftane and a right which
Is acknowledged for every nation
in accordanes with the principles
of national sovereignty." ,
From a legal standpoint that is
correct We call it the right of
eminent domain. In its exercise
units of government condemn pri
vate property for public use.
The distinction lies in this, that
under our constitution private
property may not be confiscated.
On its seizure by government the
owner is entitled to receive Just
compensation. The Red resolution,
inspired by the Soviet spokesman,
contemplates no compensation to
the former owners.
This attitude toward foreign in
vestment prevails in many circles
among under - developed or back.
ward peoples. It has bobbed up
frequently in the economic com
mittee of United Nations. In 1952
the committee adopted a resolution
professing to recognise the right of
governments to nationalize indus
try. The advanced nations didn't
oppose the principle of nationaliza
tionafter all Britain had resorted
to socialism for transport, coal
mines and ateei What they did
urge was
CMtiaoed en editorial psre 4)
A long-range program for
three-mile recreational area on the
west side of the Willamette River
Was disclosed Monday.
Petitions on which. 11). 000 sicna
turcs are sought were beinf read
ied by a group of Polk County res
idents m tne erusn toilers area,
Headed by Einmett Rogers.
The petitions asked Polk County
Court to obtain aproximately 150
acres of una along tne river ex.
tending from the present Wallace
Albert Marine Park in Salem
northward to a point Just across
stream trom the Keuer and Man
brin Gardens area. It would in
effect increase the present park
area aoout u limes.
Eaeempasses Farms
The land now encompasses the
Leo Nelson, Clyde Carpenter and
Willard Bachellor farms as well
as parts of other plots. It is largely
in bean and mint fields and small.
trees.
A separate petition Dronoses that
the new area be named Wallace
Memorial Park in honor of the R.
S. Wallace family, Polk County pio
neers.
The Weather
Today's forecast: Partly cloudy
with fog tonight and Wednes
day morning. Little temperature
change. Nigh today 44; low to
night 30.
(Complete rport pact t)
The main petition asks the Polk
County Court to obtain the land
"on a fair and Just basis by pur
chase, condemnation, legislation,
option, contract or assignment"
and "correlate the functions of
existing committees la the crea
tion, engineering, designing ' and
operation of the projected Recrea
tion Center lor the Health, welfare
and entertainment of the citizens
of the Mid-Willamette Valley, their
posterity and guests.
A companioa petition seeking
county zoning of adjacent areas.
to prevent undesirable - develop
ment, was understood to be in the
making. The toning, if the peti
tion is successful, would affect the
area now included in the Wallace-Sheridan-Orchard
Heights Roads
Fire District.
No plan of financing has been
worked out, Rogers said, pending
study and determination of public
reception of the program. He said
his group felt it essential to start
working on the project now be-
At St. John's Hospital, Red's fore major development in the area
press agent, Milton Weiss, said might preclude it later on, and that
Ike Okehs
U.S. Aid to
Education
Red Skelton
Suffers Attack
SANTA MONICA. Calif.. Dec. 10
Comedian Red Skelton was hos
pitalized tonight with what fire
men described as "acute conges
tive heart failure."
doctors had diagnosed Skelton's
ailment as cardiac asthma. Weiss
said the comedian was in "quite
serious condition at the moment,
but he s resting comfortably,
Firemen said the diagnosis of
the heart condition came from
Skelton's physician, Dr. Garth K.
Graham.
Skelton was stricken at his
home in Bel Air, a section of
Los Angeles east of here.
Weiss said that Skelton was
stricken while working on a script
for a skit . he and Bing Crosby
planned to tape tomorrow for
show benefiting Gonzaga Univer
sity at Spokane, Wash.
But at a late hour tonight the
hospital said Skelton was still un
conscious and under oxygen.
Statesman Ballot Box
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oricKDars ana nauans Ljreer Accordionist
Query on Statesman s Course Contino Broke
Brickbats and plaudits came to
The Statesman this week - and
some fine suggestions. (Details on
Page .
They were the result of this
newspaper's aveekly Ballot Box
which asked the question: "What
do you wish your Statesman to do
in 195?"
The answers ranged all the way
from a literal translation of drop
dead to "keep up the good work."
They came from nearly every
where in the valley, including Cor
vaUis, Silverton, Woodburn,
Brooks. Turner, Dallas, Jefferson
and other points.
Some had to do with circulation
keep the paper out of the rain
and don't paste address stickers
over the date.
Others had to do with coverage
of valley points more.
Several urged editorial cam
paigns for health insurance and
power development, against sex
literature and parking peters.
A few objected to the subscrip
tion price which was raised sev
eral months ago for the first time
la six years. -
A few others asked for specific
features such as Drew Pearson,
the accuracy of whose column baa
been increasingly questioned, and
Sylvia Porter, whose copyrighted
tax rtvam an availabla hi soma
areas.
One wanted more ski news: an
other objected to Family Weekly,
and still another opposed publica
tion of specific Safety Vslve let
ters. All suggestions are being sifted.
sorted and evaluated to the end
that reader-opinion will be liven
every consideration.
This week the Statesman Ballot
Box, after enjoying a generous re
sponse to queries about the news
paper itself, reverts to sampling
its subscribers' views on the newt
of the day. The new question, the
answers to which will appear next
Tuesday, is:
"Wwdd yew favar Daylight Time
far OrtfM
Statesman Ballot Box
leadership on the part of the Polk
County Court was essential to as.
sure orderly progress and coordination.
Considerable diking would be
necessary, as well ss dredging. A
major feature would be a long
water-racing course and large
mooring.
Experimental Gardens
Included in the projected devel
opment would be a community
building: golf, course; parking
areas (three entrances); group pic
nic sites; facilities for tennis, arch
ery, badminton, handball, horse
shoes, volleyball and Softball; ex
perimental gardens; clubhouse;
service station; scull bouse; boat
rental and fishing grounds.
Major use of the water-racing
courses by colleges and universi
ties would bo contemplated, Rog
ers said. .
The advent at the New Year, aa nsaal la the tail decade w
so, will bring new saggesUwu te place Oregaa m Daylight
Savings Time eome spriag. la a PU some years age. States
man readers .Bpesed It better than 1 U 1. Slare tbea, ntaay
states have adopted H rwatinely aad the nlaa has spread.
Oregon has declined U participate. Bat maybe piai.as have
cbaaged. There Is only oae way te Had eat Taday's sjaestlM:
. Would you favor Daylight Time for Oregon?
Yes ; No 1...
Comments:
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 I -
The federal court clerk's office
said accordionist Dick Contino
filed a voluntary bankruptcy peti
tion today. Contino said he is $51,
9S3 in debt.
Contino, who was fined $10,000
and sentenced to federal prison
for six months in 1951 on draft
evasion charges, listed liabilities
of $64,803 in unsecured debts.
Contino, who started bis career
by winning a Horace Heidt ama
teur contest, later served in the I
U.S. Army in Korea. J
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GETTYSBURG. Pa.. Dec. JO (f
President Eisenhower approved
today a four-year, billion-dollar
program of federal aid to educa
tion, designed mainly to bring this
country abreast of Russia la the
production of scientists.
The bulk of the billion dollars
would be spent to improve edu
cation In the high schoot level
And in this field the states would
be expected to match federal al
lotments.
A key feature of the program,
which will be submitted to Con
gress in 1958, is the granting of
10.00Q. federal scholarships in each
of the four years to overcome a
tragic waste in young American
talent. There are also provisions
for grants in aid which the states
would match on a 50-50 basis,
Ike Stamps Okay
Eisenhower stamped his okay
on the unprecedented seven-point
program after an hour-long con
ference with Secretary of
Health, education and Welfare
Folsom at the President's coun
try estate here.
Folsom emphasized that the pro
gram will be limited to four years.
Plans include:
1. Awarding of some 40,000 fed
eral scholarships divided among
the states on a population basis
to provide college training for
talented youngsters who wouldn't
get it otherwise. These scholar
ships would average $750 to $800
a year and would be awarded by
state commissions or Doards.
Graduate Fellowships
2. Provision of fellowships for
graduate students 1,000 the first
year, 1.500 in each of the following
three years to encourage more
able college students to prepare
for teaching careers.
3. Grants to states, on a 50-50
matching basis, to stimulate bet.
ter testing of student abilities and
aptitudes. This would start at the
seventh grade level.
4. Matching grants to the states
for improved counseling and guid
ance of young students. The ob
ject here is to encourage talented
pupils to remain in school.
5. Matching grants to states for
more and better teaching of sci
ence and mathematics. Funds
would be used to employ more
teachers, provide additional teach
ing materials and increase teach
ers pay.
Financing Craters
6. Financing centers for training
in foreign languages particular
ly those of "emerging nations"
in Asia, Africa and the Near East.
These centers, under the auspices
of regular educational institutions.
would train teachers and govern
ment personnel.
7. A "substantial increase" in
the present 40-million-dollar bud
get of the National Science Foun
dation. This group currently car
ries on a number of activities di
rected generally toward improv-
inc the quality of research, train-
ini and teaching in th sciences.
The program calls for an ap
propriation of 225 million dollars
in the first year, with a four-year
total of one billion dollars. An es
timated ant million dollars would
go for the 50-50 matching grants
in aid te tbo atatea.
107m Year
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No. 17
Midnight
To Herald
New Year
At tl stmLe of twelve tv
night rr4rlrl Fatlirr Tinvr
will cane a new notch in his
rirmal scythe while Salrm
residents welcome the hirth of
new year and record the
passing of aa old one.
Spirits prom la te be high this
New Year's Eve with many spe
cial parties, suppers aad celebra
tions planned.
Salem hotels, clubs and dance
floors will be crowded with danc
ing fret, horn looters and "old ac
quaintances."
Liquor stores in Salem will close
at p.m. tonight and remaw clos
ed all day tomorrow. The stores
open today at noon.
While some are whooping It up.
others will celebrate the coming of
IK4 by attending one of m a a y
scheduled Salem church services.
For others the exchange of a cas
ual "Happy New Year" will suf
fice. T. Step lata Past
In the din of the celebration, old
Mr. 1(57 will relinquish his hour
glass to fledging 1951 and sullenly
step into the past. He will be a
year remembered and one that
has obviously left his mark. For
157 was a year in which the space
age was actually launched.
Most Salem stores will be closed
New Year's Day. Virtually all pub
lic offices close.
The Salem police department has
issued a warning to all drivers to
roceed with caution tonight. Sa
lem police Chief Clyde Warren
says: "Our patrolmen will be on
the lookout; intoxicated drivers
will Just go to Jail."
Daaees Planned
Dances are planned at Salem
Elks Club, Fraternal Order of Ea
gles and American Legion Club.
Salem's two downtown movie
theaters will have midnight shows.
and Crystal Gardens is staging
carnival dance. , : .
The Senator and Marion Hotel
are also planning special festivi
ties.
Adding to the dia of noisemakeri
will be the resounding blasts of
diesel locomotive horns according
to Southern Pacific which allows
its engineers to sound off at mid
night Dec. 31.
(List of rhnreh services M pagt I)
500 Employes
Return to, Work
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Cloudy Day,
Fog Expected
McNary Field weathermen said
it will be partly cloudy today with
the fog roiling in for New Year's
Eve.
As the temperature skidded to
28 degrees early this morning,
spots of ice made travel on some
roads in the Salem area danger
ous, state police said.
The Salem bureau said there
would be little change in tempera
ture. Monday's high wss 39 de
grees with a low of 29.
Associated Press reported North
ern Oregon beaches as partly sun
ny today with rain tonight.
Regime of
Ben-Gurion
Steps Down
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JERUSALEM. Israel Sector,
Dec. 30 ufl Prim. Minister Da
vid Ben-Gurion and bis It-member
Cabinet resigned tonight In the
climax of a dispute Involving left
ist Laborite ministers.
The five-party coalition govern
ment baa bean in office since Dec.
3, 1965.
The resignation becomes ef
fective tomorrow when submitted
to President I that Ben-Zvi. It 'is
expected the President will accept
the resignation and call on Ben
Gurion to form a new govern,
merit.
If Ben-Gurion agrees, be likely
will exclude member of the left
ist Achduth Avodah (Labor Unity)
party, with whom be has been
feuding the past two weeks.
A Cabinet resolution indicated
an Israeli need for arms waa at
the bottom of the dispute. Some
said the quarrel involved a plan
to buy arms from Western Ger
many. The West Germans, how
ever, denied they intended to sell
armaments te Israel.
2 Convicts flee
Criminal Ward;
Civilian Knifed
By ROBEIT L. STCYC.NS
Uff Writer, The Suleaaaaa
A Stair Hospital euapor. Jainrs Juhmoti. 22. HaM
shot iwkt Monday aftrnxxm while rrsbtinz arrest
jtit nine hours alter he and a companion, both coo
vktrxl burglars, broke out of the hospital's crunirol
ward.
His companion, Yrooa
Street. .IS, tlrst-ritird as 'poten
tially dancrrotif," was still at
large early Tuesday, stale police
reported.
Two bullets, one In the left lrg
and another which penetrated the
pelvis and lower back, fetied John
son as be fled across a plowed
field northeast of 4723 Swegle Rd.
in east Salem, State Patrolman
Lloyd Rirgel said.
Hospital physicians later de
scribed Johnson's condition
'fair." He was returned te the
State Hospital by the Salem first
aid car.
Johnson, who aloag with Street
had been sent te the hospital from
the Slate Prison, was apprehended
Break Out
Voman Faced
By Dilemma
In New Year
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The $7th birthday anniversary
this New Year's Eve of Mrs. Syl
via B. Allen, 1360 Clearview Dr.
NE, is worrying some minds.
Mrs. Allen boasts of having been
born the last hour of the last day
of ths 19th century.
"Eleven p.m., Dec. 31, 18987"
someone said.
No," she replied. "Eleven p.m..
Dec. 31. 1900."
Ths confusion comes In trying to
decide if 1900 winds up the 19th
century or begins the 20th. If 1900
the year of the 20th century,
then the 1st century A.D. began
with the year Zero. But, on the
other hand.
Many people have worried about
this problem, "but not me," Mrs.
Allen said as she made plans to
celebrate tonight working in a restaurant.
about two miles northeast of the
hospital. Before be was wounded,
he slashed the band of a civilian
pursuer, Harry Shiv.ly. with
knif. believed stolen from the hos
pital shoe shop. One of the shots
that wounded the fugitive came
from Shivery s rifle,
Spotted by Gaard
The escapee wss first spotted
about 1 p m. by state prison guard
J. R. Johnson who wss patrol
ling the area of D Street and Sa
lem Bypass. Johnson told state
police he yelled at the fugitive to
stop but that the man began run
ning.
Tbo prison guard Jumped out
of bis auto and ran after the es
capee, chasing him for about two
miles until the burglar cut across
the field, the officer said.
Correctional - Officer Johnson,
who was armed with a .31 caliber
pistol, fired seven shots over In
fleeing man's bead, yelling for him
to halt.
Shlvely. called to aid la the
chase, grappled with the escapee
in Shively'i backyard at 3777
Maynard Dr. NE, and suffered the
hand slash. Shivery then recounted
getting a .22 rifle from his car and
after firing several warning shots.
hit the fleeing man la the left leg
at 50 yards.
FnglUve Shot tn Bach
When the fugitive continued to
run. Officer Johnson, ammunition
almost gone, struck the escapee in
the back with a shot.
Several state, city and county of
ficers entered in the final mom
ents of the muddy chase.
Johnson and Street, both con
victs, escaped trom the State Hos
pital about 4:25 a m. Monday by
lowering themselves from their
third floor cell on sheets and blan
kets tied together, hospital super
intendent Dr. Dean K. Brooks said.
The men escaped from their cell
by breaking loose a heavy wire
screen over the barred window of
their room and using a sashweight
in the window frame to batter a
hole in the brick wall beside the
frame.
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captured Monday after aa
and Yensoa Street (bottom), .
esesped from State HorpK
tal'i criminal ward. Street
was still at large early thl
snoralng.
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Klnf Ftan Rnafc? This ao parking sign la Wallace Marine Park doesn't carry
MO I tren DUdlS. muel ,ut,orjty this winter since high water flooded a section
of the park. Milton Bressler (left) and Millard Todd took a boat out to took; aver the
park MuiUv4ecided to break the law and anchor la the ae parkinf area.
(Plctare on page 7) ,
TNGLEWOOD. Calif. Dee.
laV-Scorea of lawmen ended near
ly three hours of drama today by.
firing a tear gas barrage into a
neighborhood bar. flushing two
bandits who had been holding five ,
men and a woman at gunpoint.
Hundreds of fascinatau bystand
ers watched aa the proceedings
televised live locally unfolded
like scenes from a B movie. . . T
Officers with sub machine guna
and other weapons crouched bo-
hind cars surrounding the bar
, pleas to the gunmen to throw
down their weapons and come
out ... a scene through a win
dow of a pistol held against 'bo
captive woman a head ... a huge
crowd, necks craned . . . finally
the' boom of tear gas guns, and
the bandits stumbling out bleary
eyed to surrender. '(
Pair Booked .
. Booked on suspicion of robbery
are Howard Lee Scott and Roger
A. Hoskins. both 19, Inglewood.
The scene was a street corner
bar-cafe in this community IS
miles south of Los Angeles. Tbo
action began shortly before 7 a.m..
when two men with nylon stock
ings over their heads surprised
the bartender and customers.
They demanded money, and herd
ed five men and Evelyn Shane,
37. into a rest room. '
Then suddenly police appeared.
The pair demanded a car to get
away in. and a bead start, wnon ;
this was refused, one called; -
Then come on in and get us. ;
Through a screen door, officers
could see one man with a gun
against Miss Shane's bead.
Street Parked .
Re-enforcements and the curi
oussoon packed the street. While
police, armed with shotguns, sub- .
machine guns and pistols took wo ,
positions on the cafe roof, behind
cars ana Duiiaings. aeiecaves
kept up rapid fire pleas to surrender.
Hours later the bandits did.
Other hostages were identified
as tne Dartenoer. inane m.
38. Allan Desmore. 45. Silvea E.
Hively, M. James Trigcs, 45, and
James Best, 31.
Miss Shane, reliving the hours
of terror, told police that one of
the men told her "he'd ' blow my
head off." Later be said be waa
"only fooling, that ho wouldn't
naUr have hurt mo.-
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