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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.
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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.
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Storm Grams
600 Persons
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Junior Musicians Pack for Road Trip I n Tin Csf
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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.'
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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
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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.
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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
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