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First Bite in Four Years Mass nyr Ann li4ilDeir TOW 'I V 1 V . 1 , ' , - J A it In .' " , , iTfftllhii III I J i II II I mum' WW , WUNDID 1651 108th Year 2 SECTIONS-H PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Satvrday, May 24, 19SS PRICI S No. 62 MEMPHIS, Tenn. Ronnie Presley, Louisville, Miss, enjoyed aa ice cream cone Thursday his first bite to eat since be was bora four years ago. Born with an incomplete esophagus, he had been fed with a rubber tube. But sur geons recently rebuilt his esophagus. (AP) $250,000 Motel Planned in Salem A 30-unit motel representing an investment in excess of $250,000 will be constructed this summer on South Liberty Street near Salem's downtown business section, it was dis closed Friday. The disclosure followed hard on the heels of announce ment of two court apartment projects, all within a quarter- imile radius in the area im- V OtDCnXH The National Guard has demon strated again that it has more Uvea than the fabled cat with nine. For years many of the Army "regulars" have sought to kill oft the Guard, by making it strictly a federal body. Regularly they have been repulsed. This year orders were in process for reducing the Guard strength from 400.000 to 360,000 men, and the organized reserve from 300,000 to 270,000. Strong opposition devel oped among the states to the cut back in the Guard. Governors Joined in protest. Significantly the Army retreat was announced by Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell Tay lor to the Governors' Conference t Miami on Wednesday. And Chairman Carl Vinson of the House committee on Armed Serv ices said funds would be provided to maintain both Guard and Re serves at present strength. The last previous attempt to abolish the National Guard came in the report of a committee on military organization headed by Gordon Gray, then secretary of the Army and now director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. This report drew fire from sup porters of the Guard and when Congress adopted its program of military service the Guard was given a prominent role in the mil itary organization. In fact enlist ment in the Guard appealed to so many young men that It soon went up to full strength. Jn the recent economy program mere was some reduction but now the Oregon Na tional Guard is at its ceiling of C.200. The military service program now in effect permits boys be (CeaUaaed ea Editorial Page 4.) mediately south of the downtown business section. Od. details on page 3). The three projects represent an trction meanwhile announced plans for a new air traffic warning serv ice for pilots near major airports. Military To Curtail Jet Flights WASHINGTON (AP)-The military services agreed Friday night to reduce the number of jet flights made below 20,000 feet. The aim is "to minimize collisions." Lt. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada, chairman of the President's Air Coordinating Committee, told a White House news conference the new restrictions would go into ef fect Saturday, as a temporary measure. He said no nontactical jet flights would take off or land under "Vis ual flight rules except those to be conducted above 20,000 feet or off the federal airways, or specifical ly approved by the Civil Aeronau tics Administrator. Instrument Roles Any flights below 20,000 feet and on federal airways will be made under instrument flight rules IFR, that is, under ground con trol, Quesada added. Earlier Friday, Senate investi gators received suggestions that tighter restrictions on commercial flying might be another way to improve the safety of air travel. Quesada explained the military services propose to curtail volun tarily certain military flying ac tivities now permitted by the civil air regulations. It was said the curtailment would not affect de fense patrols or fighter scrambles after reception of an aerial alert. James C. Hagerty, President Eisenhower's press secretary, ex plained it would apply mainly to student training and proficiency flights, cross-country hops and ad ministrative flights. Those are called nontactical flights. New Warning Plan The Civil Aeronautics Adminis Refinery Haze Defies Fireman LONG BEACH, Calif. W-Fire-men Friday gave up all hope of trying to extinguish a raging oil refinery fire that already has cost millions of dollars and claimed two lives. "We are not trying to put out the fire now," said Noel Man chester sounty battalion chief. "We can't. It will have to burn itself out." ' The inferno-like blaze, which spewed rolling black clouds into the Southern California ikies, still In confined to the 40-acrt Hancock Oil Co. refinery on the north slope of Signal Hill. It is the worst refinery fire in the area in 30 years, firemen said. It started Thursday after noon. Firemen have been plagued with low water pressure and the threat of new explosions. Early Friday some fear bad been expressed about an under ground storage tank with 4,300 gallons of tetraethyl lead on the refinery property. But later, county Fire Chief Keith Klinger said firemen were no ' longer too concerned about this. , Chief Klinger said he expected the fire to keep burning through Saturday. ' The holocaust was touched off when steam coils in 60,000-bar-rel crude oil tank burst.' This triggered a chain reaction of ex plosions. At least five persons were in jured. Mystery Sub Attacked Off Coast of Argentina BUENOS AIRES (AP)-A mystery submarine was attacked by Argentine destroyers and possibly sunk off Argentina's southern coast Wednesday, President Arturo Frondizi has an nounced. There was unofficial speculation that it might have been a Soviet prowler but the Russian Embassy Friday discounted that possiDiiity. estimated investment of $424,000. Purchased by Pair The sJ-by-160-foot motel site was purchased by Edward Pletx and Joseph Lanbrack. of Vancouver, Wash., from Agnes Baynes, at a price approximating $38,000. It is at the southeast corner of South Liberty and Belltvue Pletx, who also operates motels at Vancouver, Nampa, Idaho and Burns, said construction would cost in excess of $200,000. The units are to be in two stories, In brick. Tile baths, wall-to-wall carpeting and oak furniture .are called for. All sub-contracts are to be let to Salem contractors, Pietz said. A confer ence room seating 40 to 50 persons is to be included. A house now on the property is to be razed within the next few days and construction started im mediately thereafter. Completion Is set for September. City Center Motel The new development will be called City Center Motel. property transaction was handled by Dan Isaak of the Al Isaak A Co. real estate firm. The service involves radio re ports to pilots from air traffic con trollers, telling them of the pre tense and position of other air craft in the vicinity. Picket Line Surrounds Fish Cannery Portland's New Morrison Bridge Will Open Today PORTLAND I - Portland's new Morrison Bridge a six-lane span across the Willamette River will be opened for traffic Saturday. The bridge is the first new one in Portland in 27 years. It was built at a cost of 12 million dollars. It replaces a four-lane span built 33 years ago when Portland had only 242 automobiles. The old bridge, up for sale, will be torn down or moved away. ASTORIA, Ore. UB - The Pack ing House Workers Union Friday threw a picket line around the Columbia River Packers Assn. plant here. The union is striking for a 7tt cent hourly wage increase plus eight paid holidays. Workers now receive a base pay of $1.56 an hour plus a 4-cent cost-of-living differential. Employers have offered to in qgj crease the base pay to $1.60, the UU1UI1 B1U. Union officials said they had notified the 15 lower Columbia River fish packing plants last Wednesday that they intended to strike. The workers complied with their contracts and remained at work an additional 48 hours in river fish packing plants and will stay on the job 96 hours from the time of strike notification at ocean fish packing plants. James Cellars an executive of the Columbia River Salmon and Tuna Packers Assn., who has been handling negotiations for employ erssaid that gill ' netters were continuing to' fish. Arm of Girl Mangled by Bear in Zoo RACINE, Wis. (B-Ten-year-old Mary Heibner of Waukegan, 111., was bitten and clawed by a bear at the Racine Public Zoo Friday while on an outing with other school children. The girl underwent three hours of emergency surgery on her right arm which Was not amputated. Authorities said her condition was good. Zoo director Emil Rokosky said her arm was badly mangled between elbow and wrist. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Keibner. A policeman In the rescue squad said Mary told him that she stuck her hand within range of the bear in an attempt to pet it. Rokosky said the attack took place where a guard rail was comparatively close to the cage. Zoo attendants beat off the ani mal with a tree limb and an iron bar. The bars of the cage were then bent open to release the girl's arm. Star of Rose Festival 7r V f 4 vTi r Si ; rj. i . . 1 .5 " J Dveiro Desiftlh) Dm) Nebraska Young Starkweather Sentenced for One of 11 Slayings on Mad Rampage By OOELL HANSON LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)-Bantam killer Charles Starkweath er Friday was ordered to die in the electric chair for one of 11 slayings attributed to him. (Picture on Page 2.) He took the verdict with the mixture of indifference and bravado which has marked his three-week trial for murder. He looked at the floor, his back partially turned to the jury, without moving a muscle h f I ilH nil as the verdict was read. Starkweather was tried in the Jan. 27 shooting of Ben net, Neb., High School junior Robert Jensen, whose body was found in a storm cave near Bennet with that of his girl friend. "I don't think they tried me for Jensen," Starkweather told news men afterwards. "They tried me for the whole thing." referring to the string of 10 January killings and an earlier Dec. 1 slaying. The 19 - year - old red - haired youth's father, Guy Starkweather, who heard the verdict from a chair just nsioe i me courtroom Following a meeting with repre door, said: I think II go .along gcnUtiVM o( Salem's Isaak Wal- Stocking of Mill Creek Wins Okeh By DON SCARBOROUGH Staff Writer, The Statesmaa . PORTLAND -The State Game Commission agreed here Friday to continue stocking Marion County's Mill Creek, at least for this year. TV Permit Okehed ' WASHINGTON I - The Fed eral Communications Commission Friday granted an application of Seaside Video Club, Seaside, Ore., Channel JS, to reproduce Portland Station KOIN-TV. Primary Foes Bury Hatchet, Pledge Unity Sec. of State Mark Hatfield, vic torious Republican primary candi date for governor, and the two major defeated UOF opponents met Friday to draw up battle plans for the November general election. Hatfield, State Treasurer Sig Unander and State Sen. Warren Gill buried the political hatchet in Hatfield'soffice and issued a joint pledge to support all Republican candidates in the fall campaign. They said that their competition against each other in the primary campaign just completed "had a healthy eflrct on the party. ' "Replacement of the present governor (Democrat Robert Holmes) is the first step toward providing new jobs and increased opportunity for all the people in Oregon." Hatfield and Gov. Holmes will oppose each other for the guber natorial office. Argentina's top sea dog said he thought it was "an unfriendly submarine making surveys of the Argentine south Atlantic coast" ' Rer Adm. Isaac Rojas, who played a key role in, the ouster of dictator Juan Peron in 1955 and later served as vice president, went oh to say he had "no doubt at all that a submarine was de tected." Unfriendly Mission He added that it was "obviously on an unfriendly and inconfessa-J Die mission. Rojas said it was his opinion the submarine was making a sur vey of the largely deserted Pata- gonian coast of Argentina "where there are several bays which could be used to shelter big fleets In the event of war. The President said oil slicks ap peared after the attack. This 'led to the belief that the craft was damaged or sunk. He said the sub was believed to be a high speed type. Possibility Ruled Out Rojas and other naval sources said Frondizi's reference to a high-speed type ruled out the pos sibility the submarine could have been from another South Ameri can country. The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires said no U.S. submarines were reported in the area of the incident, 650 miles south of Bue nos Aires. HOLLYWOOD Actress Gloria Krleger will be star attrac. tion of Portland Rose Festival the first week of June. She is a native of Portland. The actress will be Joined by several other film and television performers. (AP) Mount Hood Loop Highway Reopens PORTLAND ( Snowplows have completed their break through and the Mount Hood ixtop H'-way has been reopened. The loop, which circles the mountain from Portland via Gov- ramairf ramn anil Hnod River. , . .......... r ' . . . . , . voym upw M iiiviv has been closed by snow since last rnuay wncn me leoge Drone ana bled Vmin tne quarry Rock Ledge Tumbles; 2 Highway Workers Dead ROSEBURG, Ore. Two I Six other employes, who volun- men, attempting to blast away a 'cered to try to recover the body hazardous rock ledge, were killed iof "J ? "if victims- narrwly " ian;u ucaui aa hhjiv luvna iuiii- winter. buried them under tons of rock. Father Charged in Death of Son, 10, From 'Moonshine' s BUFORD, Ga. lav-A man was i located by searchers after they Jailed on charge of involuntary nsa neon missing about 28 hours. manslaughter Friday after the death of his 10-year-old son was attributed to moonshine whisky. The warrant against Felmer James, 43, waa signed by Sheriff O R. Leak. James was held in $2,000 bond for grand Jury action. Leak said the moonshine may nave come from two 700 gallon tills with which James had some connection. The State Crime Lab oratory reported that Ray James. fifth-grade student, had 0.31 per cent ethyl alcohol In his blood and that the level possibly was higher before death. James was in aa intoxicated con ditloa when ho and the boy were me two were found lying in a wooded area about two miles from their home late Wednesday. James, an unemployed war vet eran, told officers he and his son left home Tuesday to walk to his father-in-law's home. During the walk the boy became ill. Dep. Sheriff Dave Cole said James has told several .different stories, adding "he has repeated ly denied that he gave his son any whisky." Cole also quoted James as say ing he was pretty sure the boy did drink some liquor "but I waa asleep.";; . Killed In the accident were Francis Edward Singleton, 44, and Jack E. Boykin, 49, both of Reeds port. They were employed by General Construction Co. of Port land, which is improving the Ump- qua Highway. The two men were preparing to blast away the ledge when it sud denly began to slip. It crashed down on them, apparently killing Singleton outright. Boykin lived for about half an hour after the accident, but died en route to a hospital at North Bend. Six men volunteered to recover Singleton's body from beneath a 50-ton boulder. A big bulldozer moved the boulder and then the volunteers ran into the slide area to carry out the body. They got it onto a blanket and were running out with it when an other section of the quarry gave way.;-.: The volunteers were abowered with rocks but-managed to escape, carrying the body. Portland Living Costs Hit Peak ' PORTLAND UH Living costs in the Portland area last month rose to an all-time high. Consumers had to pay -more money for food, housing and transportation, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said. These higher prices raised living' costs 1.4 per cent in the January to April period. Five Students Die in Wreck MARISSA, 111. 11 A speeding car crashed into a concrete bridge siding Friday, killing five univer sity upperclassmen returning from a field trip in St. Louis. A blowout apparently threw the car out of control. One man was killed instantly, two others died en route to a Belleville, 111., hospital and the other two men died shortly after arriving. Al) were students at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Dead were graduate student Ronald Aaron. 24, West Frankfort, 111.; seniors Harold Lay, 27, Mar ion, 111., and Robert Reeves, 21, Salem, 111., and juniors Donald Daggett, 28, and Robert D. Will iams, 25, who lived on th& csmpus with their wives and families. Man Lived in West Long Before East, Tests Show By ROBERT GOLDENSTE1N CHICAGO (AP) - Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man, was just the reverse ot the way things happened in prehistoric North America, a scientist said Friday. Tests with the atomic calendar indicate that humans lived in the western United States thousands of years before they lived in the eastern area. The same tests indicate the last advance of the glaciers occurred simultaneously in Europe and North America about 11,000 years ago. Dr. Willard F. LIbby, commis sioner of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, reported on the re sults of radioactive carbon dating for the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society. He said the oldest sites of hu man habitation in New England, New York State, Kentucky and Alabama have checked out on the atomic calendar at about 5,000 years old the time of the first Egyptian dynasty. However, human sites have been found in Nevada, Texas, Ore gon and Washington showing they were Inhabited 10,000 years ago. "In Oregon," he said, "there was found a shoe store in a cave with 300 pairs of shoes that are 9,300 years old. It was covered by the eruption of an ancient volcano." Jobless Total For Insured Ranks Drops WASHINGTON m-Tbe govern ment reported Friday that insured unemployment among workers protected for jobless benefits showed a sharp drop of 93,300 during the week of May 10. This brought the figure down to 3,101,-500. It was the biggest weekly de cline, since August 1956. The La bor Department's Bureau of Em ployment Security also reported that Initial claims for benefits de clined by 49,400 to 359,200 during the week ended May 17. This was the lowest such figure since early December. The improvements in insured unemployment and benefit claims are tempered by the fact, officials idled workers have exhausted their rights to benefits. About 800, 000 workers have run out of ben efit rights since the first 4f the year, but some if these undoubted ly have found new jobs. The insured unemployment of 3,101,500 for the week ended May 10 is still more than double the figure a year ago. Also, the 459, 200 intitial claims total for the week ended May 17 compares with 218,600 for the comparable week last year. Atlee Faces Surgery LONDON UH Britain's former Laborite Prime Minister Clem ent Attlee, 75, entered a London hospital Friday night for a hernia operation. Attlee, now an ear), is expected to remain In the hospital about 10 days. with Charlie He was tried for the ;ton loAge th (ive.man COmmis- sion reversed lis decision oi issi month to quit stocking the creek whole thing. Mother Sobs Mrs. Starkweather, seated near her son at the counsel table, looked straight ahead and did not blink an eye at the verdict. Mo ments later she . hurried into the seclusion of presiding Judge Har ry A. Spencer's office, and sob bing was heard. As she left the courtroom lat er, she was embraced by her hus band and lay her head on his shoulder. Defense lawyers said they will move for a new trial and Judge Spencer set June 7 as the date for a hearing on the motion. Starkweather was charged on two counts, of deliberate premed itated, and malicious murder, and and will make a study to decide wnai acuon snouia d uucen lor next year. Study Planned J. H. Van Winkle of Oregon City, commission chairman, said the group will study: the number ot young fishermen who use their ex clusive fishing area, and at what times during the season; its value to the youngsters and to Salem and nearby communities; biologi cal factors, such as fish food sup ply and environment; and State Police enforcement problems. Walton president Victor Withrow said the commission will report next year to the club on whether it thinks the stocking should be continued. th RrawnH for miirrlpr In the ner netratlon of a robbery-the theft Change May Be Asked High of 82 On Forecast Warm, sunny weather returned to the Salem area Friday after noon after a spell of night-time showers and forecast today -is a slight temperature increase with a high of around 82. Weathermen at McNary Field said there will be some cloudiness earlier today, with indications of clear skies all day Sunday. Partial cloudiness held tempera tures down earlier Friday but the mercury got up to 79 as blue skies took over in the afternoon. This was well under high temperatures of the recent heat spell, which eased Thursday as the area was hit by showers and a lightning storm. of Jensen's car and money. He was convicted on both counts. Denied Inline Plea By the verdict, the eight women and four men rejected a defense contention that the 19 year old gunman was insane last January when he set out on one of the bloodiest killing rampages In re cent years. Eleven killings were attributed to Starkweather, 10 of tnem in an eight-day period late in January. In some of seven conflicting con fessions introduced at his trial, the undersized, red-haired youth with the bow legs blamed several oi the killings on his girl (riend and traveling companion, Carll Ann Fugate. Caril, 14, awaits trial, She has hcen chareed identically with Starkweather in the Jan. 27 shoot ines of Bennet, Neb., schoolboy Robert Jensen, 17. Bodies of Jen sen and his girl friend. Carol King, were found in an abandoned storm cave while authorities were searching for Starkweather and Miss Fugate for four previous killings. If it believes the 1951 law setting Mill Creek aside for under-18-year-olds should be modified, the com mission will ask the Legislature to change the law, Withrow said. In any case, the creek will get the rest of its yearly allotment ot 3,000 eatch-sixe trout Thirteen hundred had been planted when the Commission clamped on its ban and set off the uproar. (Add. details ea par V Young Deer Visits Dallas Book Store NORTHWEST LIAGUI At Slm 1, Yakima S . At Kuient 4, Wanatehaa 1 At Trl-clty 1, LewliHn 1 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE a, I., in 1. Partland S At Sacramento 1, Salt Lake City 2 At Phoenix S, Beattla 1 3, Vancouver t At Spokane (10 lnninfti AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland Z, Washington 1 At Chicago 1, Baltimore S At Detroit 1, New York S At Kaniat City 1, Botton t NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia 4, Chicago 1 At Pittsburgh 3, St. Loula 2 At Cincinnati 4, Loi Angelei 1 At Milwaukee 3, San Francisco S $490,000 Awarded For Loss of Wife CHICAGO trV-A Chicago phy sician obtained a' $490,000 judg ment from another doctor Friday as compensation for the aliena tion of his wife's affections. A Circuit Court jury ruled Dr. Emerson McVey should pay that sum to bis life-long friend Dr. Lester Odell, 47. Court observers said the award was the highest ever returned by an Illinois Jury hi an alienation of affections case. The Weather Salem Park Board First to Try Out New Tennis Courts Today's forecast: Partly cloudy, becoming fair tonight and Sunday; high today S2, lew tonight 50. , (Complete report page S) , i . ; -,:i.i.V..:. t 'i j? J:,,U: " Tl J i 1 ; A "f? r, 'ir' a . s ''-'-; wTV:'; ' tifii hit '-7'. T v r. -t : "v-sw-sf .v rir- " 'f?ftfi7 i - i ' " - s i ' ' . JM" .- 'V i1 ?rf ..." 5. ' "':.." " t t"?j x- Dedication of new tennis courts at Highland Park Friday re quired Mark Astrup, Salem Parks Advisory Board chair man, to serve one up to board committeeman Lei Sparks. It was the first ball hit in and out of the new courts. Among onlookers are Parks Supervisor Walter Wlrth, center, and committee members, (Star n paxe i) (Statesman Photo) SUteimaa News Service DALLAS, Ore. A young deer made a surprise entrance through the back door of Dallas Book Store here Friday afternoon, startling customers and clerks. Proprietor John Greenwood said it didn't come to buy, but only to "browse." The animal leaped Into a win dow display, nimbly tapped on nu merous typewriters, then jumped back into the store. As it headed toward counters of china dishes, clerk Virginia Lamb shouted, "No, no, not this way." The deer turned and ambled be hind another counter and cash register. With Greenwood in pur suit, it leaped upon his desk, then raced into a warehouse and out the back door. From, there, the deer tripped down busy Court Street past the Polk County Courthouse, turned and ambled back downtown. It then headed out of town. Oxford Duelists Do Battle With Champagne Corks OXFORD, England II) Two students in top hats, gleaming white shirts and black trousers fought a duel with champagne corks at 10 paces on Oxford Uni versity's lawn Friday. It resulted from an insulting word by 20-year-old Dennis Cross in a drinking bout two weeks ago. What he said was not disclosed. But he refused to take it back. Christopher Waddie, 23, handed him his card in accordance with ancient dueling traditions and asked Cross to choose the weapons. "Champagne corks at 10 paces," Cross retorted. Today's Statesman Ann Landers ..... Church News ..... Classified Comics Crossword Editorials Heme Panorama Markets Obituaries Sat. to-TV Sunday Radio-TV age Sec. ... .....6 1 3 ....I 13-16 II 8 I .....12 II 4 I 6...... I la in 5 I!. 8..... I; ..11 ll Sports , 11. II Star Gaier 5..... I Valley News ............11 II Wirepheto Pag ....8-.l '4
