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Newspaper Page Text5 Buslniuhgt CeupUte Mrfctt mt k daily Sfatosaaaa footers, tipaaded far special But e News tack Friday, raft nMt;, ear tL 1 POUND! B 1651 IOTA Veer 4 HCDONi-44 PAOU The) Oregon) iMsoeneeV Sale, Ovoe,s, Meley, Mards 11, 1?J Dip u UCDOIO Aa m assist ta National LaVary WM mn M national nertoAicels have gtvea space to special ertklee A vary practical ana la 'that tba Harch Issue ef "Wur Hainaa aad Gardens' which often a at locUee af the nucleus at a good heme library. WhUa public librar taa spaa a far wider wealth af liter at ere end reference naatorUJ thai possible la Iba private borne, there la need tar beaks la Iba bama tee, batb tor reference end for reading. Tba "Bettor Homes' lists ara ariodpaUy for rafaraaca, and they art adarad la tat. Hot tad IMO ckaflaa.M aJS abuiaabla from re ga I e r beak I am going to borrow twaef fbaaa llste far today! cabana. Tba ISO book liat todudea: tttt ) Sen. Morse Visits Salem, Sees Drop In Tax in 90 Days By CONRAD PIANCI , tuff Writer. Tba Itetoasaea US. Sen,' Wayne Morse. In Salem on a viait Thursday. predicted some sort of federal Ui cut within 00 days. Tba senator, who emphatically told newsmen he favored emergency deficit (pending ai meant of curing the economic recession, did not specify what type of tax relief would be lurthcomuig. Dtoiloaary Vlkfcg Dnk Cycle ef World TaTatory, Laagar Atlae af World World Abaaaae Complete Worba af tbakeepeare Now Maadard Book af EUVeoette IHeesar fCiaMaail aa sHterlal Page O Vote Date Postponed By Cubans HAVANA Iiv-Tbe Supreme Elec toral Tribunal Thursday night or dered postponement af Cuba's feneral election from June 1 to Nov.. l,'v fi . ' Tbe election date bad become aa iaene batwaaa president Fulgta cia Batiata'a f ovarament and crtt- tea whs ranted to delay taa voting la view af a autpenaioa af civil rights mat limits campaigning. Tha goveriunent suspended civil rights to combat activates of rebel teder Fidel Caatrt and etb- ar Barest t'Sv Batista la backing 'former Pre mier Andres Rivera Aguere for tha presidency. He resigned Iran tba premiership early this month to make tba race.- Batista'! current term cods next Feb. H But Castro hu threat ened to open "a fight to tha finish" if aha Batista regime stays n pow er through April f. . , Tbara are three opposition can didate for the presidency. They ara former President Ra mon Gran San Martin of the AuteaUce party, Carlos Marquez Sterling of tba Free People's party and Alberto. Salas of tba Union party. t -. Public gatherings ara forbidden under tha suspension af constitu tional guarantees. Tba beat chan nels open to tba candidatea ara radio and TV appeals. New Motor Hotel Work Underway tPletare aa Page SI) Groundbreaking tor tba 1730,' 000 Marie Motor Hotel beiaa Thursday to provide a aaajor ad dition to the tourist, convention aad entertainment facilities of Sales. Tba development la just south of tba Marion Hotel and will be Integrated into tba hotel's opera tion. Manager Pel Milne baa an nounced. Tba addition will Include a banquet room la which 750 per sons can be served; public dining room seating 130; coffee shop for 100; swimming pool; public loo ny: cocatau louats wit dance space; drive-la registration desk, sad automatic elevator Unking tba motor hotel facilitiea with all noon of taa hotel proper. Twenty motel unite for cuesta also ara Included la tba project, with mora scheduled later. Con tractors are Viesko A Peat Architect is the Skldmore, Ow ing and Merrill firm of Port land, with James Payne of Salem as associate. Tba Initial work la to be com pleted Oct 1. - (Add. baslneaB newa aa Pace Spring's Debut; Follows Form The weather was reasonably apringlike Thursday evening as it anouid nave been. For spring era- daily arrived at 7:04 p.m. Tha official arrival wu aort anti-cllmai as Mid-Willamette Val ley weather hat bad a springy flavor much of the winter thanks to unusually mild conditions. Partial cloudiness and scattered ahowers art expected for the first full day of aprlng today and the ahowers will continue tbrougb Sat urday, weathermen t McNary neid said. Temperatures are ex pected to remain mild. Forecast for Northern Oregon beaches today is showers and par- sai clearing.. Military.Pav Jump Passes House Group WASHINGTON uCA bffl rale- ing military pay scales was ap proved by the House Armed Sorv icea Committee Thursday and routed toward the floor. Under .Rules Committee clear ance, tat bill win be considered by the House Monday. A vote if expected Monday ar Tuesday. A companion measure, also, de signed to keep more good men in the service, is pending in the Sen ate Armed Services Committee. In the House committee there were no votes against the meas ure and no advent criticism. Twenty-nine committee members voted to approve the bill as it came from a subcommittee yes terday. . . ,. - If enacted, the measure would mean a oar raiae for nraeticallv au career servicemen with two or more yean of, active duty. Those in their first two yean of active outy would not be affected. It also would authorize the dif ferent services to grant extra pay raises for certain ekills and pro ficiencies. The nature of these skills and proficiencies would be decided br the services them- selves. In addition the bin provides for a lis per cent -nay increase for retired personnel. ' ' Ha said the natiea needed a tai reduction to bwreaae purchaalng power. He said be else fevered aa immediate public works program as a "pump primer. "We should tax higb when la come is higb and spend when la ctone an low." be said at press conference to the efftce af Gov Robert Holmea. Neat Break Nattee "Reducing taxes and pump pruning win net break Undo Sam. He la net only aolveat but exceed ingly wealthy. Spending some of thia national wealth, when It is aecesaary, it aound fiscal policy, "Since this depression Is feder ally caused. It should be federally cured. He said cbaacee an good for corgreaaiooal approval of legisla tion extending unemployment ben- el IU. He added that the govern ment'! plan to extend benefit! to persons who already have drawn the maximum should be accom plished by flat grants to the states. rather than .by loans. Sepperts Car. Holmea Tba aenator. wba said be didn't favor tba rote of a "political eun uch, pledged his full support to Gov. Holmes In his re-election bid for the Democratic primary guber natorial nomination. He also said he would support Attorney Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, Democratic candidate for the congressional seat new held by Republican Wat tor Norblad. Sea. Morse, who arrived from Washington early Tfauraday to par ticipate it a Jackaea Day dinner Saturday night la Portland, met wtta county political candidates in uam at noon Thursday. Later be attended a reoeotioa in his, honor at Sllverton. where tt Persons called at the American Legion Hall He then re turned to Portland. i. details aad Btctere an nagt a.) Spending Week Decree Requested To Fight Slump COLUMBIA. I C uv-Meet ef us anserva Ibia Iba year round without a chaaee to argue tba point, but the South Carolina Legulatura weald tie to mate ll affkiaL Tba UgUletun asat a naahi tioa Thursday to Cengreea and President Eisenhower argtog that March Il-Aaril be dsalgaatod National Mea-Spaadlag Weak The reeolutioa called the reoaa- tioa "aa mlortuaata stale af mlnoT and said ail that is needed "to item the tide Is confidence and the tNttl'hra af fear." Canada Arms Depot Blast Kills Seven ANGUS. OnL Ml Exnloxlve charges used by the Royal Cana dian Air Force in safety and air sea rescue, devices blew up In an arsenal Thursday and killed seven men. t The dead were aa airman and six civilians. An eighth man i caped with injuries. Tha 100X50-foot building where they worked contained cartridges used for such purposes as blasting away a pune s canopy when a pilot must ball out , Then wu no explanation of how the charges were set off. The building wu destroyed and the blast started a Ore, but. it wu confined to the immediate area. The Isolated explosive cache la a ton security station. It is five miles from the RCAP base at Camp Borden. PUC Chief Threatens Power Boss Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgaa threatened Thurs day to prosecute President Thom as E. Roach cf Idaho Power Ce. if be ignore'! Morgan'! denial ef the company's application for permis sion to issue too millioa worth of long-tearm securities. Morgan made the threat in a let ter to Roach. The commissioner said new (papers bad Quoted Roach u saying be intends to ignore Morgan s order. The company wants to Issue the securities to help finance construc tion of the three dams af the Snake River that were Bcensed by the Federal Power Com mission. The state, however, never has act ed en the company's application for a state license to build the dams. In the letter.. Morgan said that the law provides maximum pen alt ie af live yean in prieoo aad $20,000 fine tor failure to abide by Morgan'! order. Then Morgaa wrote: ... t "If yon choose to diiresard the applicable provisions of Oregon laws,1 shall have aa aKeraative . . but to report your action tt the attorney general of this estate for such proaecutioa of your ac tions m may be awroortota in us circumstances. " t i ... .-f , . - Storm Grams 600 Persons .. , - t ' . i - v i , t ., i Junior Musicians Pack for Road Trip I n Tin Csf ID ' I 3, f Herf Snpwhll Blocks Turnpike in . Pennsyhinh; Food Supplies Short HORGANTOWN, Pa, (AP-Otte af tha esoa's worst ' snow storana left snort thaa 6XXJ peraont strsndoj Thursday . at small restaurant on tha Pennsylvania Tumptis. , , Peoplo were everywhere sleeping pa) noon, aittinf huJ " cflod against wiDs. standing or leaming. TWrt were at least half a doxra babies under a year oU in tha group. . luring tba day4ang erdeal u Ofaio man dUd. He wu Geerte L Bliaa, . af Barky River. Bliaa coflapoed after saakktg Ma Way threaga drifts tram his ear to the rwatawaat Tba Brandywina Raatauraat la located aa tba tod road at tba Margaatewa aatatttumga, about ams mues sautk tf Reading. Me taod auppiiea have reached tba reetauraai stoet Wadaoaday. Until darkaeoa fag an Air rarce kelicopter ferried u the bavaa ma tartata, but paaseagart aad tracksn alraadad along lbs super blgts- '. The turapika has beea ctesed frees Harrisburg to the New Jersey . state Uae-llt mUea. Highway crewt wart anaanpttog to reach the raatauraat but bare drifts made t tanprebaeie they weald succeed before morning. - - r . Here'a tba athtatton as described by Bob rmucsae. snorts adltar ' af Iba Cheater Pa. Times, who a) among the stranded. Every Available Space Said Filled ' "The sttuntiM wu bscemlag asrieue the aaadeejnato lacilltiu af tba raataorssst wen not balding an. Tbara wu a dastgar teed would . run aut. People ware everwhen, sleeping aa fleers, salting saddled agatoat waBa. ataadlng. teaasng uss ly Tot people I'd estimate." There were ehfldrea running around and there ware at least ' half a denra babies wader a year eld." , Then Dr. Robert Lombard af Marietta. Lancaster County, ateod ; up aad said. We've got It get arganiasd because tt looks Ilka wall be here a long time. Everybody turned to help Immediately. A first aid unit waa set Bp under the aurecuoa ef Dr. Ralph Daretf, a Philadelphia asteopath. The Rev. C. E. Hopkins, af Iba Episcopal Divinity School la Philadelphia la washing dishes,' . . "Dr. i. C. Hudson af Chambersborg la helping aad Ua daughter ' Jana. H. a stodent auree. is aaaiating to the first aid statiao," .. . "Ameaf tba stannees are a number af theatrical entertainers wba alaa preejama. Tba antortninen are handed by Franky Avalea, ana of the current teen-age rock V rod favorkea, another group. popular wuh the leen aaors called Danny and tba Juniors and the . mlmtm . H ' if. Salem' Jonior Symphony anemben comt la alt sixes, hut tt docat affect their annsio Tha grtup Tm4 a final rehesnal Thasdsy aftarssaoi before leaving Suday far Laa Angeled ta werfnrna ad a matianal sauafe edneaton' eaaferenen. Pallwuriaf tba rehearsal, tha tunler aaaiiclaaui begsa pnckiaif,' Ralph atcCSdwwraey (tofU aad Ouniea Bell art la ftrerrouid. fjstajetaaaa raoto (Story aa pegs ip.j v - ; .. Storey Sisters.' r H 125 Employes Of Hospital in Seattle Strike SEATTLE, ID One hundred and 23 employes of Swedish Hos pital, this city's largest private hospital, went on strike Thursday to back demands that Hospital Workers Union Local 301 be recognized as their bargaining agent Raymond Farwell, administra tor of the hospital said: "Our operations are essential ly normal, with the exception tf our laundry department Other provisions are being made for handling our laundry.' Picket lines set - up by the striking non-professional house keeping, deitary and nursing em ployes were being Ignored by the hospitals 1,000 other employes, but the delivery of everything except essential medical supplies wu suspended. : ' Gene Hooper, president of the local union, r and Farwell ; both pledged that nothing would be done to endanger the 365 patients who wen in the hospital when pickets began their patrol at 9:30 Thursday morning. Vanguard I May: Orbit 30 Years, Expert Says NEW YORK AP)-The little Vanguard moon may be up in space for u long as 30 years, a consultant to the Navy project saJd Thursdays . ''.' ' Or. Paul Hergec also predicted the life of Explorer I, the Army satellite, would be about S to 10 yean. It originally had been predicted it would be up from 2 to 4 years. The actual life of the Vanguard Scientists 'Nof Utilized . LOS ANGELES laV-The United States aircraft and missile indus try hu Med to utiliu IS to 30 per cent of its scientists and aero nautical engineers, missile expert Wernher von Braun said Thurs day night Today's Statesman .Papa Sec Aim UreW .:...ai.:.m sWnosa Newt ...J13 III Claaaified ..... 33-34...IV Camus tha Dawn 4.. I Comics -r...17.-"M ClkMsVWnl eMeaalleueIII Editorials . .4. I rood News - 11.H..N Hoeno Psnejrama.lf-21 III , Markets -17W OMfwartes S I Radio-TV 17 II Speeta ....24I IV Star Oarer 11.. .lit VaTtey News .22, 111 Vftrtfibore Pat 17 . On the Brighter Side . John Iricksen ' .I.,.,,!,... I .1 11.11 ID, III, , - iVv ". . s :" jr ...'V - ' .v ... 4 -f -' " - - - - - 1 I - Trsil'c Pnrf Teaderfpat Scout Alaa Blaehai 1HS iTwiry St Si; reteried from aa wonderful (bat firing) time. He it shtwa talla it' easy amid a pile af camping tqulp ueat vhllt vaUlal far a tide Jboma. - - I Jail Asked-for 3 Traction c Firm Officials PORTLAND If) - A Multnomah County deputy district attorney Thursday; asked Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding to lock three officials of the Portland Traction Co. In JaU until. tha firm resumes passenger service on its interur baa lines to Bell Rose and Ore gon City. f . The request ' wu made at hearing an contempt of court pro ceedings against the company. The proceedings stem from PTCs shutting down interurban passenger service on Jan. 25 in defiance of a court order. Judge Redding, however, ac cepted six- of seven answers sup plied by PTC m reply to a mo tion to show cause why it should not be held in contempt of court Dep. Diet Atty. George van Hoomissea wu given until Friday to decide whether he would ap peal the decision. Tba three officials Van Hoomis- sen wanted Jailed are PTC presi dent Charles Bowes, vice presi dent E. E. Vender ahe and assist ant general superintendent T. A Adams.. ,":'" The Weather Today's forecast: Partly cloudy with scattered showers through Saturday; highest temperature today near 60, tow tonight 42. (Complete report pase S) moon can not be predicted with any. certainty until it hu bees observed for at least a month, be said. R took some three weeks of ob servations to make tba prediction of Explorer 'i lifetime. Dr. Herget director ef the Cin cinnati Observatory, met with newsmen and scientists attending a symposium oa celestial mechan ics. ALBUQUERQUE, N. H, ID - The Moonwatch team at Kirtland Air Force Base reported tt spot ted all of the earth's artificial satellites in less than aa hour's time 'Thursday, The first sightings were of the components of the newest satel- liite, the. Navy's vanguard. The Army's Explorer I satellite wu sighted at 3:29 s.m. - Russia s sputnik u passed over in the interval between the Van guard and Explorer sightings. Meanwhile, at Cape Canaveral. Fla., trie Army has mounted the Jtadstone first stage of its Jupi-ter-C rocket noon a mobile launch ing stand' in preparation for a new satellite launching attempt probably within a week. Storm Fails to Halt Weekly Newspaper CHESTERTOWN. Md. l - Thursday wu deadline day for the weekly Kent County News, but a heavy snow snapped power unea and left the newspaper with out electricity. Editor Bill UaOtoo was not dis mayed. He went across the street to a farm equipment agency, bor rowed a tractor, booked it up to his press and rolled out a 20-page edition. T - House Wotes Farm'Pricts s: Freeze WASHINGTON ill The ' House Thursday voted a asm-year freete ea farm price supports and plant ing allowances. Advocates called tha bill aa anti-recession check ea the decline la the farm economy. Republicans and a . handful af city Democrats waged aa unsuc cessful fight to kill the bin or limit it to dairy products. They wen outvoted 210-172 by DermH ents and dissatisfied core belt Republicans. 0a final passage. 161, Demo crats and tt Republicans voted for the bill. 31 Democrats and Ml Republicans against it The bill now goes back to the Senate to compromise differences over the time period. Democratic leaden In the Sea. ate Mid they planned to try to accept the House measure and speed it to the White House. Sen. K Rowland of. California, the Sen ate Republican leader, said such plan bad been discussed with him. There is a wide expectation that President Eisenhower will veto the bill. The House version would stay oendiiur twice support cuts, for 1950, holding the supports sc uk year's levels. Planting allowances for 1959 would be held at no msa than this , year's acreage allotments. The Senate-passed version con tains no time limitation. Its freexe would, remain in effect until re pealed or superseded by congress. . East Seaboard Crippled -BytoriTi; Power Fai 1 s f Y- irrmASsoctinnnxsg One of the worst winters in yean bowed out Thursday,"! with a final, nasty blow at the Eastern Seaboard. A itorra;. swirled la from the Atlantic and dumped up to two feet of , snow on coastal area.; (Picture tm wu-epboto page.) 4 ; ) The wet snow and accompanying wind, gusts of up to 75 , m.pJs, wrought havoc , with communication and power lines." Z iWaaMwatM kal If a mtmmi MUf Oil Center to Resume Work In Indonesia SINGAPORE 11 -Usually relia ble sources said Thursday ue American Cattea Oil Co., will re sume eeerations in central Su matra next week. This would be blow to rebel hopes of diverting oU rovslties from IM .aiana government "! Resumption of the output of me multi-fnilUonrdollar Caltex instal lations on the eastern side of Cen tral Sumatra would constitute a msjor setback for tba revolution ary regime of premier sjairuuam Pnwiranegara, based across the island at Bukittlnggi. - The rebels, who took control the oil fields soon after they de clared a separate government Feb. 15, hoped to shut off oa rev enues flowing to the central gov ernment until their demands were met But government troops land ed last week at Pakanbaru, about 100 miles up the Siak River from the island's eastern coast and pushed rebel forces out Presidest Sukarno subsequently gave Caltex, which halted opera tions at Jakarta s request on March f, permission to resume production. Central fovernment forces that ended a rebel uprising in Meaan, canital of North Sumatra, re mained in control of the city. Adenauer Ignores Soviets, Agrees to A-Missile Bases BONN, Germany Wl Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer declared Thursday that West Germany'! soldiers will be armed with atom ic weapons and missile bases will built on German sou ll we Atlantic Allies think that neces- Nunn Execution Due Next Friday But Postponement Seen in Legal Tangle Billy Junior Nana la scheduled to die la the Oregon State prison gu chamber a week from Friday for the murder in Jackson County of 14-year-old Alvia Eacret But the odds are that be went though priaoa Warden Clar T. Gladden is proceeding with piau for the execution. The execution probably win be delayed while the courts decide whether Gov. Robert D. Holmes ess commute the sentence be cause of tba governor's opposition to capital pnnnruiieut Tha parents of the Eacret boy brought suit la Jackson County Court, which issued a restraining order to prevent the governor from commuting the sentence. This or der ia temporary. The case has been transferred to Marion County Circuit Court where Atty." Gea. Robert Y. Thornton has asked that the suit be dismissed aa rroonds that the court lacks Jurisdiction. The Eaerets probably win an swer Thornton next week, after (which, tbara wO be eral argv-i menta. Since those arguments probably would be held after the execution date, some action would have to be taken to postpone the execu tion. Orral Thorn peon, advisor to the governor, aaid that under tne re strain inc order, the governor couldn't even postpone the execa tioa until after the court decides Use issue. But either the Jacksoa er Mar ion County Circuit courts could datott sary." -.;.' Adenauer and his lieutenants put oa a spirited defense of their policies ia the Bundestag after re ceiving from Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov a new memoran dum raising again the question of an East German-West German federation. The Bote accused the Bona gov eminent of being man Interested in getting VS. nuclear and missile weapons thaa in German unifica tion. (s,- V Government speakers again re jected the idea of federation. which would give the Eastern Communist regime) an equal voice in German affairs. They coldly turned down opposition demands for s baa ea atomic weapons and missile bases to Germany. Adenauer argued that West Ger many is a member ef NATO. If NATO says Bonn's soldiers should have the. most modera weapons, then West Germany would be withdrawing from NATO af she refused the technical advice af NATO sailttary exparta. i damage since the early 1040s. It even hit the White House. ' la five states and the District ef Columbia, nearly a millioa bomee , or business establishments were without , electricity for ' various lengths of timt.. 'j.'" Power: failures delayed some Penasylvsnia Railroad trains out ' of New York's Pena Station. Trains and planes in many see- lions were running lata or net at , aft ' '.V':v" '.' Tba storm almost duplicated ia character and course a snowstorm ', of last Friday that badly crippled vast sections of the coast - , Six . deaths . wen directly at tributed to the new storm., Spring made its debut at, 10:04 , p.m. est under the moat miser- , able Of conditions. ... , CeausMatty Crippled , 'i ' ' . ' Southern New Jersey and east-; a Pennsylvania were virtually crippled u telephone and power linea came down under a burden, of snow and the driving impetus of gale winds. ' " Virtually all ef southern Jersey wu without electricity, with mora, than 900,000 homes darkened. Pumps failed at the Camden, - N.J., Water" Bureau but enough! water wu available for a few noun. ' s - ". f ' Rail service between Philadel phia and Atlantic City wu can celed. . . '.i ' Up to 10 inches of snow gave Jersey, a total for the season ef almost twice the normal 24 inches. In Pennsylvania, trees were broken and stripped of branches. Utility lines toppled and thousands homes wen Iightless. ' beauosa and phoneless. Roads were blocked. Pu bile transportation wu crippled. Schools dosed. . , Worse Than HarrleoM J I Philadelphia reported condition! there worse than in the big 1954 hurricane.' . ' . The Pennsylvania Turnpike wu closed for 111 miles. Baltimore had about two feet ' snow in some sections. High ways and city streets la that area were barely possible. Washington bad up to W bchee of wet anew, and there, again, power failures were widespread. The storm came from the At lantic off the Carolina coast aad then moved northward along tba seaboard into New England. New York City got a steady, r driving wet anew but moat tf at melted u ft ait the ground and traffic conditions were nearly nar- mal there. Airline flights by the score were canceled at LsGaardia and Idle wild airports. One at those grounded wu the lord mayor of Dublin, Ireland. Jamas CarretL He aiataed a tuacheoa data wfca Boston city afflciaia. ' Heavy anowfsl wu tha tort'