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The Weather Today's fereastrDereasinf showers today, partly clewdy tonight and Saturday; high to day 14, law 40. , (CompUta raport pat S) . Portland Bus desman rawl Eased NMD it&i 107th Yaar 4 SICTI0NS-.4 PACIS The Oregon Statesman, Safem, Oregon, Friday, February 7, lfSI P1ICI Se Na. J17 OQDQjDra afr wHrWUtnfWWWWW ewswPJ1 This ealomaUt was Urlled U five a talk "Iateraalleaal Af faln" at the Portlaae Chamber of Cammeree Ftram laackcaa aa ree. IraY Meedag with tka Pert Uaa Chamber were representa tive at Orambert at Catancrea la Oregaa, Mala aad WaaMagtea. The address will aa peatUaea la three parte la this calama, start lac May. Resalar readers win ,. awle saota repeUUea at Ideal, even at phrase, an rlsaily a tea la thla catena, bet they beat represent this aahunaiat'i views. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen- amen: , , I am aura that you expect me, In weakinc on the subject of Inter- national Attain to plunge right Into a discussion of our relations with Russia, the worries over the Middle East, the stalemate in the Far East. NATO, or Secretary Dulles. But I am not f oinf to do that. I am foinft to start mucn closer to home. First, let me nail this thesis to the barn door: In this day and age for Americans International affairs are national affairs. The converse Is also-true: National affairs are international affairs. We could almost knock the prefix "inter" off, so engrossed has the United States become in the conduct of world affairs. To prove this let me give you few illustrations. I suppose that in politics nothing is quite so in timate as taxes. They touch the always sensitive pocketbook nerve. And I do not need to remind you (Ceauaaeal aa Editorial Page 4) To Jake 78-YearOld Mate Lake Labish Boy Qualifies For Spelling X Y , fr - ... .- . r II "Mil ' r""1 JLiaasaa' - i - y ii lTrf LAKE LABISH, Feb. t Michael Staiger, who woo third place in spelling at Lake Labish . School yesr ago, emerged on top this year aaa wiu compete In , semi-finals .? at The Stabtsman- ;KSLM Spelling Contast - at the t State School for ;tba Blind in Sa lem. March I. 0tr wuuKi, u, m ".,-the son of Mr. a. , ana atrs. wauer Mlekaal iMt j. steiger. Route t. Box 239. Salem. His teacher and principal Is Lawrence A. Mil lar.' His hobbies are music, model airplanes and archery. He is la the (thr grade. Second and third places, re spectively, were won by Lynda Cross, 13, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lyle C. Vaughaa, 4571 York St., Salem, and Donald mil fus, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Duf- ua. Route 2, Box J23, Salem. Lyn da f, in the tth grade, Donald tha 7th. Bom nra u. Certificate of merit are being awaroea to au inree apeuers. Air Control System Eyed At Corvallis WASHINGTON,-Feb, OB -Rep. NorbUd (R-Orefliaid today tha Airways Modernization Board Is considering Corvallis, Ore., as possible site for one of four test renters for aa automatic air traffic control system, , : Tha center, which would em ploy about 250 men, la planned for testing improved air traffic control methods. Corvallis is one of more than 1.800 locations Investigated. (Civil Aeronautics Administration announced last fall that Mary's Peak near Corvallis was being con sidered or installation or a remote control radar station : for. airway traffic control but tha, test center waa not mentioned at tha time. (Several remote control stations including one in Oregon are due for Installation this yaar but they are to be self-operating and would not require employment of a crew at the site.) WASHINGTON, Feb. Rep. Usher L. Burdick, 71, (R-N. D.) said today he intends to wed Jean Rodgers, above, "If she's foolish enough to have me." The divorcee has a four-year-old son and ass accepted a ring from Burdick. (AP) Solon to Marry Divorcee 'If She's Foolish Enough' WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 fAP-R. Usher L Burdick. 78. said today he intends to wed Miss lean , Rodzers. blonde divorcee in her thirties, "if she's foolish enough to have me." The colorful North Dakota Republican, who has been mar ried twice, said he had not seen Miss Rodgera since he was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital yesterday in a Capitol police squad car aner becoming u, . "I did talk to her, though, an the phone," Burdick chuckled, "and aha thought things were moving pretty fast. But aha said she is ready ta go if I am." Burdick said ha was first threat ened with pneumonia, but that did not develop when "they shot me full of everything from wsgon grease on up. "I feel good right now." Burdick said. The- congressman's office isid Miss Rodgers was divorced about two years sgo and her four-year- old boy, Michael, is living with her. Burdick was divorced from his first wife, who died about four years ago. They had three chil dren, two boys and a girl, all of whom are practicing attorneys. He was remarried in July 1955 to Mrs. Edna person, a congres sional secretary. Less than a month later she was killed when thrown from a horse on Burdick's ranch at Williston, N.D. "I don't like to be alone." Bur dick said today. "I've been alone long' enough." Britain Mourns Loss of Football Stars in Crash MUNICH Germany, Feb. 8 (AP)-A British airliner carry ing Britain's champion football team home from Yugoslavia crashed and burned on its third try to take off in a snowstorm today and plunged the European sports world into mourning. Twenty-one persons were reported killed. Among them were seven football men, eight British sports writers and a member of the plane s crew. : Bethel School District Seeks To yidin Salem lUtiinn News Strvlet BETHEL, Feb. ft A request for annexation to Salem , School Dis trict was presented to Bethel School Board tonight and the board agreed to negotiate with Salem School Board. About a dozen members of a newly-organized Parent - Teachers Association brought a petition signed by almost 70 district voters to tha school board meeting. They were led by Hal Lehman, Mrs. Leonard VanVleck, Mrs. Leonard Elliott and Elmer Bolz. They areued that. better educa tion could be provided while taxes would be lowered by Joining Salem District. Bethel, five miles east of Salem out State Street, is a two room, eight-grade" school with pupils and two teachers. ' Tha board agreed to meet with Salem School Board at the next! regular meeting of the Salem j group next Thursday. The vote was three to one with W. R. Baker casting the. dissenting vote. Annexation to Salem District would require approval by Salem School Board and Marion County School Reorganization Committee, followed by a popular vote in both Bethel and Salem districts. Sub jects for negotiation are transfer of school property and handling of special taes. Engineers1 Union Head Steps Down MIAMI BEACH. Fla., Feb ' (1 William E. Maloney, aged and ill labor bason faced with corrup tion charges, quit today as presi dent of the International Union of Operating Engineers. Maloney stepped out reluctantly with an accompanying statement from bis physician that he must retire or race early death from recurring heart and kidney ail ment. The union boss, 77. was accused in recent Senate Rackets Commit tee hearings of being a virtual dic tator over his 250.000-member un ion who got his Job originally af ter some of his opposition iwas the team. "murdered, gangland, style, in the streets of Chicago. There was testimony that Ma loney looted union funds through lush expense accounts and main tained three homes, expensive cars and a luxury yacht at union expense. The AFL-CI0 Executive Council meantime moved to tighten up its curbs on unions "raiding" each other's already organized mem bership. Under a no-raiding agree ment most AFL-CIO unions have stipulated they won't do this and will submit any violations to bind ing decisions of an umpire. The measure of tragedy was much ss though an American World Series baseball champion team had suffered a similar loss. Queen Elizabeth II was among the mourners. The Munich police department announced the official death toll of 21 and said 23 others survived but some were undergoing desperate emergency operations to keep them alive. Police feared two Germans were also killed when the plunging plane struck a house and a gaso-' line shed. Refueling Slop The twin-engine Elizabethan of the British European Airways had baited here for refueling en route to London from Belgrade where the Manchester United soccer team played Yugoslavia's Red Star team to a -3-3 tie yesterday and advanced to the semi-finals of the European Cup matches. Eleven sports writers were with Weird 'Weapon' Found Spelling Bee The Mateeatas-KSLM Mid-Valley laeUlac Cm test la aaw aa tut aaarly f.aoa Tth and Ita grade etadeals la 71 valley v schools. Twenty-five wards are published each seaeei ear. Na composite list will be available. Demo's Hat in Ring George Van Hoomisen, Portland Democrat, filed Thursday as a candidate for state representative from Multnomah County. Multno mah sends II representatives to tha Legislature. Forecast Says Clouds on Tap Showers will decrease In the Sa lem area today and the outlook includes partial cloudineaa tonight ana Saturday, according to weath ermen at McNary Field. The sector had .27 of an inch of rain Thursday and a temperature range of 42 to 52. Temperatures are expected to be about the same today. Forecast for Northern Oregon beaches is showers and some clearing today and tonight with a temperature range of 42 to 17, Salem Area Drawing Tops Blood Quota Salem area residents gave 1S3 pints of blood at the Red Cross drawing Thursday, meeting the monthly quota of 150 pints for the second time in over a year. "It waa a wonderful response," enthused blood chairman William Staler, who attributed the high return to increasing interest in the program and predicted that it will continue. Mrs. Donna Birch, 250 Ewsld Ave. SE, Joined the Gallon Club Thursday. Robert B. Rice. 3740 McCain Ave. NE, donated his 20th pint, and John C. McLean, 595 Knapp St. NE, his 16th. Next special drawing will be Feb. 24 at Oregon State Prison. Next regular drawing. in Salem will be March 6. Oregon Road Toll Hits 36 But Frank Swift of the London News of the World, a former goal keeping star who played 19 times for England before World War II and then became a sports writer, died on the operating table in a hospital. Tommy Taylor, Manchester's great center forward, was among those killed. The team probably was the most valuable collection of soccer play era in tha world, being worth about $840.0W in fees if trans ferred to another club. Nt Eaaagh AMItade Capt. E. R. Wright, pilot of an other British plane waiting to take off, said after arrival in Lon don that tha snow, did not appear to affect Ukeoffs. "Tha aircrift had just not readied sufficient height," ha slid. Eyewitnesses said both wings were ripped off the plane aa it hurtled into the house and abed. One engine was hurled through tt air. Capt. James Thain, the pilot, and four other crew members sur vived. City la Menraiag , MANCHESTER, England, Feb. l The working people of this capital of Britian's industrial north got the tragic news while going home from the mills, shops and offices in the twilight today. Their football heroes had been killed or maimed but some mir aculously had survived in the Munich plane crash. Placards posted at street cor ners announced the tragedy and final editions of newspapers brought the late details of the crash that killed seven of the Manchester United soccer team, champions of England. ' ' , 1 1 , 5 - K ,. ; - - ' , .'' . . i . : V, . , v ;f v. ..: ! ;,m J( pi7.' -' 1 Edwin Booth, courthouse groundskeeper, exhibits a metal relic he dug up 30 yean ago in Salem Heights. Attempts are being made to Identify the object, which was rescued from a woodshed Thursday. (Statesman photo) Ancient Relic Believed Lost During Early Era By RON REEVES Staff Writer, Tha Statesman A wynrrlly marked object, possibly a weapon lost in the days when Indians whooped along the Willamette and Hud son's Bay trappers searched for pelts, was turned over to the Marion County sheriff Thursday. The blunt object, which is probablv bronze, is made ax- style, with a projection on top resembling a peace-pipe. It was found in the Salem Heights By Fare Hike Council's Action Eliminates Immediate Threat of Tieup PORTLAND. Feb. 6 (AP)-Portland Citv Commissioner Ormond Bean changed his mind today and voted to permit the Rose City Transit Co. to increase its fares. This eliminated the immediate threat of a tieup of the masi transit system in this city of 400,000 persons. - His yes vote made the decision of the five-man council ; unanimous and permitted pas-1 ; ' . , '" Area Jobs On Increase In Report sage ot an emergency ordi nance which allows Rose City to boost its fare5 cents to 25 cents a ride. On two earlier votes Bean opposed the ordinance and this left the city with the threat of its; mass transportation system being! pulled off the streets. Rose City said it would dose down Feb. 28 unless it was granted authority by tomorrow to increase fares. The-Ordi nance was not clear on just when the fares would be increased. Bean said that a telephone call from the wife of one of Rose City's bus drivers this morning helped change his mind. Waald Late Jab area about 30 years ago by Edwin Booth, groundskeeper for the coun ty courthouse. Booth stumbled onto the relic while digging a hole for s clothes linepost. It was used for a while to plant flowers, but wasn't of much use because the metal was too aoft, ha explained. Tha weapon has been corroding in Booths' woodshed until given to Sheriff Denver Young Thursday to be included in the sheriff's ex tensive weapon collection. Sheriff Young commented that he is going to try to track down the origin and use of the object, starting with a trip to the Oregon Historical Society at Portland. REA Funds Sought rAIT AS T. wh a i ii.. FOREST GROVE. Feb. 7Z 3 Howard Morton. 44. F o r e 1 1 - .i -v.. : jiwuciourca tuuaj a&avcu iiuiv aw y.uv., w meu lomgru wnen a million dollars in federal loan unci ne was onving nil ine guy line of a power pole near here, It was Oregon's 36th fatality of the year, according to the Asso ciated Preaa tabulation. funds be made available to the RuTal Electrification Adminis' tration. Tha amount is twice that requested by President Eisenhower. Today's Statesman Pag Sac. Ann Lander II... II Babsen Reports .32 IV Business News ..32, 33... IV Classified .....3J-3S..-IV Comas tha Dawn 4 1 Comics i 16... II Crossword ..... 33. ..IV Editorials 4 I Food News ....19-2I...III Homo Panorama. 1 1-13 II Markets 32...IV Obituaries 3o IV Radio-TV 16.. II Sports 2941. ..IV Star Gaser 13. ..II Valley News -.14, 15 II Wirephoto Pago ...16... II Farm Union Convention Attacks Benson Policies vocation , tecund $cientist turpentine ttretched warnini Ktrcastic v wrapped tettlement argument tearehrd budget buying : , Hatu . , - yearly itralghten thoroughly- ' refreshment! remedy ,' ' , parachute museum junior benefit memorandum ji. approximately By LILXJK L. MADSEN Farm Edlisr, The Stalesmaa Ezra Benson and his farm pro gram cams in for heated'eritkism throughout the ' opening-day ses sion of the 48th annual Oregon State Farmers Union convention Thursday. Some MO farm folk are attending the convention which will run through Saturday at Vet erans of Foreign Warn 'ban," Sa-lorn.- v. :.v ,, Criticism of the national admin istrative policies as well as discus sions of state-level . politics were not only from the speakers' plat form but ran rampant in hallways during gabfests. vr - ' Tha trend started off early In the day when Sen. Richard Neuberg er's greeting telegram 'was read. The Oregon Democratic senator said "it is Imperative that Ben son's farm program, which has been so disastrous to our farmers. b replaced," and "the adminis trations' tight money policy has brought havoc to the economy ot not only urrgon but the entire na lion." These hopes were reiterated later by Jim Marr, who brought AFL-CIO greetings to the conven tion. Marr attacked the presi dent's joint action committee which he saw as "planning to do away witn au rederai aid to school lunches arni vocational education." Internal politics of the Farmers Union organization itself, were running smoothly, with only Her bert Rolph, Boring, being men tioned as the new state president. Harley Libby, Jefferson, president for the past tour years announced that ha would not accept re-election, and Dewey Cumminga, Mon mouth, vice president, Indicated he could not accept the presidency at this time. Nominations will be held Friday afternoon. Rolph has been national Vice president since 1940. (Add. detaile aa paga a,) On the Brighter Side John Ericksen Student Unit To Formulate Judson Plans By PATRICIA LEE Stalesmaa Schoal Reporter Leslie Junior High School Stu dent Council members who will be attending new Judson Junior High next year have been chosen to form a council to study Judson's student organization problems. This temporary council is made up of 37 students who are now fcli KAVjinlh nr aiffhlh tfratfora ml , ir. tnr Tj.' in defiance of orders from Morgan ture so athletic uniforms can be ordered. Members of the committee which will help select the colors are Sharon Rawlings, chairman; Don Schur, Mary Clark, Jack Sanders, Teresa Dannelly, Jim Noteboom, and Bonnie Boese. Other committees will be chosen ta study names for the athletic teams, a constitution, and a con stitutional government. The pur pose of the committees is to pre pare material so the decisions can be made more quickly later. He said the woman told him that if the bus company closed down, her husband would lose his job and her Ave children might go hungry. ' 'When I thought of all the other employes of the companyand the 309 people retired on a small pen sion, which they would also lose I began to feel that I could net throw them out of work," Bean said. He said he still thought the fare increase should not be permitted. The transit company may face additional troubles la the fart increase, however. 1 State Public Utilities Commis sioner Howard Merg a a, who claims he has review authority and possible veto power over fare schedules, practically invited a suit by 'a transit user to attempt to force hie intervention in the dis pute. Morgan said be will not exer cise his authority unless the courts direct him to do So. Arrest Try Falte PORTLAND. Feb; I in-State Pu b 1 i c Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan tried but failed to get Charlea Bowen, president of the Portland Traction Co., ar rested today. Morgan sent PUC attorneys into circuit court here asking bench warrants for Bowen, San Fran cisco: E. E. Vanderahe, a vice president; and P. A. Adams, as sistant general superintendent of the company. The basis of the action was the company s suspension ot service between Portland and Oregon Uity By ROBERT U STEVEN'S ' Staff Writer, Taa States maa Unemployment in the Marion Polk county area has passed ita , peak snd job opening's are now on the increase, Harold Roessler. P manager of Oregon Employment Service's Salem office, said Thurs- day. '.. ' 1 , Number of jobseekera through out the state and Salem area, how ever, still continues ta outstrip those recorded in previous years. Some 4.S14 Marion-Polk workers or 194 per cent of those covered -Jiy unemployment ' insurance ara seeking or receiving insurance ben efits, the local office reported. There are approximately 30,509 covered workers in the Marion Polk area and some 7,500 other workers not under the unemploj i'V ment benefit program. v , In addition to the 4.0U workers drawing or seeking compensation there are an additional 1,788 work era seeking jobs who are not eli gible for benefits. State workers and city government employes ara not covered by unemployment com pensatioa. . i Roessler Indicated (hat the prea- ent unemployment picture for this time of year is not seriously out of f a e u a compared with ether years. He estimated that there are 500 mora unemployed people this year than last and many of theser are wives seeking to supplement their husband s income. " Asd. aetatla aa page I) . 1 aj Friisn rllu Faac Cat flnea pigs ore supposed to be enemies. Not so at the l llCllUiy TUe James Omflcld home, Route 3, Box S80, south of Salem, where Tlger"-tha cat )nd these fulaes pigs not only cat together, but sleep in the tame bos. Treasure Ship Believed Found Off French poast TOULON. France. Feb. I - French frogmen today reported spotting the wreckage of what they believe was a treasure ship that sank 101 years ago. They said they identified the ship as the De Grasse. She trans ported a cargo of gifts from the Khedive of Egypt to Empress Eu genie of France. The De Grasse sank after a col lision off the French coast in 1857 Rebel Force In Indonesia Plans Coup TOKYO. Friday, Feb. 7 Rebel forces la Indonesia plan to hand the Jakarta government an ultimatum to disband the Cabinet or face a counter-regime of dissi dent military commanders, Lt. Col. Ventja Sumual said today. . If the Jakarta regime refuses to accept "there will automatically be a proclamation for the estab lishment of a new government," said the military leader of the rebellious North Celebes. He has defined the rebel aims as a fight against communism and corruption. Greyhound's : ; Drivers Told To Roll Buses runiuutu, ecu. vn -iua4 Motor Coach Employes Union tor day was ordered to call back Ha work 200 Greyhound Inc. bus driv ers who launched a wildcat strike last Monday. U.S. District Judge William East . eranted the bus firm a temnorarv injunction that will go into effect , at w .hi,. HRiMivw, in m urn ' dred the union to call the men back to work. - - - ' The union tonight said that It ' never had authorized tha work . stoppage, and that it has consist ently urged the drivers to go back on the job. There waa no immediate mdi. substantial percentage of them, would report for work tomorrow. ' (John L. Wells, manager of the Salem station, said be received unofficial notice Thursday night that tha drivers will return to work at 9 a.m. today and buses would resume normal schedules shortly thereafter. Six drivers live in the Salem area, he said.) The strike has atopped all Greyhound bus service in Oregon, except for routes from here car rying passengers out of stats to the north and east. Thef r-a-Week Youth Ring Broken After Two Years DANVILLE, Va., Feb. l-Po- The hulk located here lies in 150jl'" m'o loaay mey nave proxen feet of water Just off Toulon. "P. teen-age theft ring which re- j-., -ti l - j ouired its members to steal at JlL'SXSZZ?. " least one item a week from a na vsiv cpi ia'a ui j w .v . i treasures which includes 2.000 store. gold coins. ' Officers said the ring had been Part of Exploded Vanguard Rocket Dragged From Sea CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. i there was "no device that mal- t WV-The Air Force recovered a functioned. major part of the wreckage of the They said there apparently was ... .., i . .la detect in me wiring connecting Vanguard testicle today and he automatic pilot ,nd tne hy. the Navy said defective wiring draujc "servo" system of the first probably caused the huge rocket I stage, to go astray. Much of the first stage of the three-stage rocket was hauled out of th ocean a few miles off the launching area yesterday. More parts, including a portion of the second stage, were recovered to day, The recketr bearing a small satellite in its nose, broke apart four miles above its launching site early Wednesday only a min ute after leaving the ground. The Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Labora tory saimin a joint statement that as faf3i could 'k determined The servo is a kind of robot which carries out electronic im pulses transmitted from the auto matic pilot. It was learned independently that the behavior of the ill-fated rocket and of its main-stage en gine under the, terrible atresses that tore at them gave the Navy new assurance that Its space research vehicle basically la sound and capable of doing its Job. , This assurance gave promise, too, that programs to launch the two additional Vanguard test vehicles that are on hand at the test center here will he uperiiled. operating iri this city just above the North Carolina line for possi bly as long as two years and there was no way of determining the to tal value oT items stolen. Police declined to identify any of those apprehended but said they ranged generally in age from 14 to 17 and came from middle-to upper-class homes. All-are white. The name of the club waa TST The Stealing Thieves. The motto was. "If you don't steal, you're chicken; and if you're chicken.' you don't belong." Police said the club could sot be termed a Juvenile gang, aa Ha members were not static and there was no. set meeting place. The "initiation fee" consisted of a theft from a local store. Each " week each member was required to commit another theft to remain in good standing. Four detectives were assigned) to the case about four months ago when merchants reported that shoplifting waa running above av erage. The bit break came, police said, when detectives spotted two teen-age girls taking articles la a store. The girls were stopped outside the store and the detectives said they found merchandise whi-h had not been purcha1. l-'rT questioning, the girls t 1 of I TST club snd trr:' '"i c r members.
