i IF I Santiam Yields Whopper f The weather sosobsi m t m a POUNDID '1651 (Complete report pig )" " 108th Year 6 $ECnONS-6l PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, May 25, 1958 PRICE 10c No. 63 One of the singular phenomena In the economic world is the per sistent increase In prices of farm lands, spite of all the reports of Bloom and doom in am-ipnitura Latest information is that in the year ending March 1st farm land prices went up six per cent, mak ing the total 56 per cent above we 1SH7-4S base period. Values of farm lands and buildings are estimated at $116.3 billion by the Department of Agriculture, which adds this comment: ' . . , "The reoWion in on-farm busi ness activity has thus far had little effect on the farm real estate market Many attribute the increase to hedging against inflation. Land is regarded as having sure value, immune to the .boom and bust characteristic of securities and commodities. But the truer ex planation lies in the fact that many farmers are making money, real money; and that they see i chance to make more money by expanding their acreage, The technological changes make It possible for one family to oper ate a larger acreage. In fact checks here in the Willamette Valley show that farms nave to be of a certain size, depending on the crop, - to be profitable. Above that break-even point the farm which is well managed ,will yield good returns. So the rise in land values depends mostly on the well-founded judgment of farmers as to land values. Of course there are many cases where city folk rush out and in vest in farm (Continued n editorial page 4) Storm Curbs "Dedication of Pelton Dam s MADRAS, Ore? isl A violent rain and hail storm drove away most of the crowd gathered for the dedication of Pelton Dam Sat urday. An estimated 2,500 persons as sembled near the dam site nine miles northwest of here an hour before the ceremonies were to tart. Then rain and bail began lashing the area. When it stopped, 30 min utes later, only about 200 persons were ctfll around. Orerhulse Gees Home Acting Gov. Boyd Overfaulse had been scheduled to make the main dedication speech. He went home, along with most of the crowd. Officials of too Portland -Gen-oral Electric Co., which built the 25-million dollar project, at first thought about calling, the whole thing off. Finally, though, they mounted the dripping speakers stand, where wind had blown away the bunt ing, and Clarence Phillips,, a coun sel for me firm, told the little crowd: PemV Rain, Peltfn Hall "Everything today is Pelton, first peltin' rain and then peltin' hail. We have baptized the dam." The dam is 204 feet high and stretches 965 feet across the Des chutes River. Three miles down stream is a re-regulating dam. The rain, in addition to wash ing out most of the crowd.sforced cancellation of a fireworks exhi bition, water skiing and a huge outdoor luncheon. . - -,.. ., 1 V. ' w i - f 1 - ' ' i 7 f " , 'A ' . ' i ' I - - , . , , .-v ' ! f ' - v - " " f frr f A r - .. i: ?j i. tiii .I. .I i. ...ii TURNER Merrill Pearson, Turner, displays a 29-pound Chinook salmon he hooked Saturday while bank fishing on North Santiam River between Stayton and Mehama. With a 12-pourid line on spinning gear, he fought for one hour to land the big one. Excursion Steamer Rams Lock; 22 Hurt PITTSBURGH fAP) - Twentv-two of the 1.100 Dersons aboard the excursion steamer Avalon were injured Saturday when the ship rammed into the gates of the Emsworth lock on the Unio ruver. The inmred were not serionslv hurt. Most- we released from hospitals after treatment. Many of the passengers were Girl Scouts, but all of the girls escaped Mulino Man Killed; Road Toll at 133 OREGON CITY (fl A 50-year-old man was killed near here Saturday when bis car veered off a road and plunged over a 135- foot bank. Coroner Leslie Peake said Peter .Rutkowski of Mulino, Ore., was thrown from the car and then pinned beneath it when the vehi cle slammed into three trees. It was Oregon's 133rd traffic fa tality of the year in the Associated Press tabulation. Fifteen, have perished this month. ' Ike to Dedicate A-PovVer Plant WASHINGTON (Jfl - Pr Eisenhower will make a brief television talk from the White House Monday to dedicate the first commercial atomic power plant at Shippingport, Pa. The White House said the pro gram will be carried by CBS here and in the Shippingport area, Water Flows Over Docks At Portland PORTLAND UH The Columbia River freshet pushed water over low-lying docks in the Portland harbor Saturdays The water' level crept past flood stage of IS feet The Port land harbor is several miles from the Columbia, but the high water there swells the level of the lower Willamette River. In the Vancouver, Wash., area. where the river now is more than three feet over flood stage, only the usual pasturelands are flooded. Damage also is minor in the Portland harbor, where there was ample warning of the high water. Mill Producing Again GOLD BEACH, Ore. ( The Euchre Creek Veneer Mill of the Evans Products Co. is back in production. The mill had closed earlier this year. Jury. There was no panic aboard the Avalon, here from Cincinnati for excursion trips. It suffered only slight damage to its bow and was readied immediately for a moon light cruise down the Ohio. Most of ' the 1,100 passengers were from Ohio. They had come here on a combined railroad-river excursion trip. The ship was going through the locks on its trip downstream when the. accident occurred. Scores of passengers were sent sprawling. Pilot Arthur" Schletker, who was standing watch, said the damage was confined to the bow and a crumpled piece of deck. Capt. Ernest E. Wagner quickly ordered the boat through the locks, swung it around and then headed back through the locks and upstream to .Pittsburgh. Police ambulances were waiting to rush the injured to hospitals. The exact cause of the mishap was not determined. Lockmaster Elmer. Graber said it was possi ble someone missed a signal. He explained that a signal hail been given for the ship to reverse its power but that fit continued for ward ' until it smashed into the lock gate. President Asks New Ban Talks By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON' (API-Pres ident Eisenhowei called off xuissia saiuraay io, scare scien tific talks at Geneva in three weeks on ways of policing a nuclear weapons test ban.' ; The State Department instantly backed up the President's pro posal by naming three top flight U.S. scientists to meet with a Rus sian team and probably represen tatives also from Britain, France and Japan. The Red -Chinese might sit in on the Soviet side, Delivered to Moscow - Eisenhower's proposal was made to Soviet Premier Khrush chev in a letter delivered in Mos cow by the U.S. Embassy Satur day morning and then released by the White House. Radically differ ing from many other Eisenhower- Khrushchev- letters, this -one was free of. accusation and criticism Eisenhower seemed to try hard to make his proposal agreeable to Khrushchev. He said the talks could begin in three weeks, produce a progress report in 30 days and a final re port within 60 days. Khrushchev in a letter May 9, agreeing to 'such talks, had warned against stalling. The three experts announced by the State Department to represent the United States are: Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence. . Nobel prize winner and director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Advisory Committee Dr. James Brown Fisk. execu tive vice president of Bell Tele phone Laboratories and since 1952 a member of the President s . -Sci ence Advisory Committee. Dr. Robert F. Bacher, chairman of the Division of Physics. Mathe matics and -Astronomy at Califor nia Institute of Technology and a member of Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee. New. Portland Bridgedpen; More Sought PORTLAND (A A new bridge went into use over the Willamette River in Portland Saturday; but it didn't stop a demand for still more traffic facilities between east and west Portland. Jack Bain, Multnomah County commissioner, said the additional facilities are sorely needed. Speaking at the opening of the ew Morrison Bridge, he called or additional traffic lanes on existing bridges ... or construc tion of new bridges." The new Morrison Bridge is the first constructed across the river in 27 years. It replaces a 53-year- old bridge built when the city had only 242 automobiles. Bain predicted the 64,000-cars-a-day capacity of the new bridge would be exceeded long before 1975. The new bridge bas six traffic lanes. One additional bridge is in the planning stage. It is the Marquam Bridge to be placed between the Hawthorne and Ross Island bridg es. It would carry north-south Pa acific Highway traffic. Monkey Big Hit in Silverton Pet Parade Today's Statesman Page Sec. Ann Landers )6.... II Classified 33-36 IV Comes the Dawn 4 I Comics . .. 1-8 VI Crossword M II Don't Look Now 20 III Editorials . 4 . I Family Weekly 1-24 V Garden News -..13, 14 II Homo Panorama 19-27 HI Obituaries 7. Radio-TV . 15,16 II Sports 31,32 IV Star Gazer . 16.. II Sunday Quiz 4 I Valley News ...17 II Wirophoto Pige 29 III " f it 1 1 j Charter, Given to New Fraternity at WU Miss Marietta Lind (left), Portland, president of Willamette UaiversUy's new Gamma Tau Chapter of Alpha Phi international women's fraternity, receives the charter from Inter national President. Mrs. Noel Keyes, Berkeley, Calif , at Saturday installation ceremonies. (Statesman Photo.) Spectators Catch Children Tossed Out Fiery Window CHICAGO OT With fire raging through her second-floor apart ment. Mrs. Katherine Hill, 32, tossed her four children to spec tators on the street Saturday, then leaped herself. Daniel Speak, 40 and Roosevelt Doris, 35, caught the children safely. Mrs. Hill's weight was a bit too much. She knocked the men to the pavement and all three suffered injuries. Firemen said an exploding stove caused the fire. 2 Sentenced Car Wrecks Cons Make Greasy Escape From Walla Walla's Prison WALLA WALLA (AP)-A tatooed bad man from Spokane, whose record includes murder, riot and escape, and a Seattle robber made their way to freedom from behind the Wasbing- ion aiaio rji50Q wafis oaiuraay. .-'!! One of the convicts hid in a scooDed out comDartment in a barrel of lard, with a shield and a thin covering of lard over bun. The other escapee bid in an empty but smelly fish crate. The escape Was made by James Frazier, 30, a Spokane felon serv ing we lor tne murder ot a &mg County grocer, -and Ray C. Carl son. SB, also colorfully tatooed and serving time for armed robbery. Stopped Motorist A Walla Walla resident, Willie Pryor, told police after the escape he bad picked up Frazier and Carlson at nearby College Place and bad driven them to Milton- Freewater, Ore.; 12 miles south of here. Frazier has been an Irregular resident of the prison since he was sent there in 1953 to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the robbery slaying of Nunrio Salle, a Riverton grocer. He escaped once but was re captured. He was a leader in the 1955 riots at the prison. Roadblocks Set Roadblocks were set up both sides of the state line but no trace of the pair was reported. Both men should be easily rec ognizable. Frazier has a tatooed skull and crossbones and a rose on bis body, is lean and long- jawed. Carlson has a panther and some bluebirds tatooed on his body. SILVERTON Jocko, the ''Monkey on a Stick." captured attention in Saturday's Pet Parade at Silverton with owner Jerry Rogers, 10. He said the monkey Is as old as his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rogers. The 27th annual parade, composed of 631 children and watched by another 3,500 persons, is sponsors by the American Legion.-(Story and picture alio, on Valley piga 17.) (Statesman photo by Harold Larsen) Long Beach Fire Victory Claimed LONG. BEACH, Calif. W)-Fire- men claimed victory over a multimillion-dollar oil refinery blaze after a three-day fight. Long Beach Fire Chief Frank Sandeman pronounced the fire at the Hancock Oil Co. plant under control Saturday morning al though flames still crackled and oily smoke billowed up from the wrecked refinery. WALLA WALLA. Wash, to - Sentences of up to 15 years in prison have been imposed on two men who admitted taking part in an automobile insurance claims fraud involving staged rear-end collisions. The two are Clifford G. Parkins, 45, and Albert Scboene, S3, both of the Walla Walla area. They had pleaded guilty to grand larceny. After hearing sentence Schoene held his head in his hands and wept. His wife and four children were In court. Mrs. Schoene and Mrs. Perkins were given probation sentences May 15 after they also admitted a part in the operation. Prosecutor's deputies said in court the opera tions extended into Idaho, Wash ington, Oregon and California and may have involved fraudulent claims totaling $100,000. The officers said the ring in volved a total of 26 persons, most of them related, and using dozens of aliases. Eleven others have been charged with grand larceny or conspiracy or both. Four of the accused persons were arrested in Portland and an extradition hear ing is scheduled at Salem, Ore. Wednesday before Oregon Gov. Holmes. New Women's Fraternity at WU Installed Gamma Tau Chapter of Alpha Phi international fraternity for women was formally installed at Willamette University Saturday. The university's fifth sorority came officially Into existence at an evening banquet at Hotel Mar ion when Chapter Pres. Marietta Lind, junior from Portland, was presented the charter by Interna tional Alpha Phi Pres. Mrs. Noel Keyes, Berkeley, Calif. Earlier 20 students and 11 alum ni were initiated into the group at ceremonies at Willamette Fine Arts Auditorium. Dr. G. Herbert Smith, Willam ette president, and Mrs. Keyes were speakers at the banquet. Others participating in the day long program included Mrs. Ben nett Smith, Fort Worth, Tex., di rector of finance for the interna tional board; Mrs. WiWen Bald win, Portland, district governor; Mrs. Herbert Plumb, Seattle, chairman of membership selec tion; Mrs. Richard Scandling, president of Salem alumni; and Mrs. Sydney Kromer, Salem, dis trict alumni chairman. Climax to the installation pro gram will be a reception this aft ernoon from S to 5 at Doney Hall. Rebels Grab Corsica Isle From French Talk of Civil War Spreads By GODFREY ANDERSON PARIS (AP)-De Gaullist insurgents and paratroopers fol lowing a nattern set in rebellious Algeria seized control of Ajaccio and two other towns in French Corsica Saturday. Their acbons set off talk of civil war in r ranee itself. Premier Pflimlin called an emergency meeting of the French Parliament for Monday to deal with the new threat In a ex traordinary radio broadcast to I Hope Fades For New Cardinal The Dalles School Curtailed by Heat THE DALLES. - Ore. (41 The weather is too warm for school here in the afternoon. That's what Superintendent Dave Bates decided after some 90-degree weather. So be directed morning-only classes for grade and high school students here'the remaining two weeks of the se mester. The school buildings are not air conditioned. Kim Gives Back Sports Auto to Junior Trujillo HOLLYWOOD to - Kim Novak-! says she has given that $8,500 sports car back to Lt. Gen.- Rafael rrrujillo Jr. The blonde movie star went to a fancy filmtown party Friday night in a taxi. "I brought my mother, my sis ter and her husband, she told a reporter. "I only have my little Corvette now and I couldn't get them' all in it, so I called a cab." Kim previously said she would return the expensive Car when the news first broke that the hand some son of the Dominican Re public's strong man had a wife and six children back borne. It has since been announced he is in the process of getting a Mexi can divorce. Trujillo, now back at the Army's Command and General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., professed his love for Kim to a television audience before he left. Kim, with lavender-tinted hair, lavender dress and lavender shoes was a standout at the black-tie dinner dance hosted by million aire oilman Arthur Cameron and society columnist Cobina Wright. Cobina said that former Queen Soraya of Iran, recently divorced by the Shah and now in Hollywood insognifo, was invited to the affair but couldn't make it. The party, held in Cameron's sprawling Bev erly Hills, estate, brought out movie royalty, however, from Mary Plckford to Kim. i the nation after Saturday mid night he promised all-out ac tion against the leaders of what he called the Corsican mob. Pflimlin accused the group that set up Algeria-type public safety committees in Corsica of sedition. He said similar seditious ele ments on the mainland threaten France with civil war and called for all Frenchmen to rally around the legal government for the de fense of the republic. Emergency Meeting An emergency Cabinet meeting Saturday night branded the Cor sica uprising as armed insurrec tion. Pflimlin said the government will take all legal action possible against leaders . of the Corsican public safety committees. The Premier drew a distinction between the public safety com mittee movements in Algeria and Corsica. He said there is some "popular emotional justification' for them in Algeria which is lack ing for the movement in Corsica. He made the statement despite reports from Ajaccio that the up rising there was led by civilians and military officers from the Al gerian military-civilian Junta The dissidents in Algiers have called for similar moves in metro politan France and other French areas. There were unconfirmed reports that the Corsica movement lead ers landed in a military plan from Algiers at B a. m. Saturday, De Gaullist supporters In Alger ia Saturday established a strong man triumvirate sworn to restore Gen. Charles de Gaulle to power in all of France. 'Fight Unto Death' A De Gaulle political leader, the parachute general who started the generals' revolt in Algeria and an Algerian physician-assemblyman. made up the three-man supreme Junta. They vowed to fight "unto death for De Gaulle s return. la addition to the action at Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, there were reports of government build ings being seized at Corte, near a paratrooper air base, and at Calvi. The raid on the prefecture build ing in Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, was led by French Assemblyman Paul Pascal Arrighi, a right- winger known for his pro-Gaullist views, Several hundred persons, aided by French paratroopers, helped seize the building. Reports from Corsica said they imprisoned the area governor Another blow to the harassed Pflimlin government came in a Tunisian official report that French forces in southern Tunisia and Tunisian troops were fight ing. Personal Mission' Announcement of the develop ments in Algeria came shortly after, a lawmaker friend of Pflim lin and wartime De Gaulle aide flew to Algiers on what be called a personal mission, Pflimlin did not say he had dis patched the lawmaker, Assembly Deputy Jean-Louis Vigier, to Al giers. Radio Algiers insisted the Vigier trip was A personal mis sion, not an official one. Why he went and whom he saw, if any one, remained a mystery late Saturday night. , Cyclist Fatally Injured SEATTLE, Wash, (il-Martin Dovea. 28. of Seattle was injured 'fatally Saturday night when his motorcycle crasnea into me rear of a taxi on the Seattle-Tacoma Highway south of the Seattle city limits. ROME to Samuel Cardinal Stritch took a sudden turn for the worse Saturday and was given viaticum the Roman Catholic Church's sacrament of Holy Com munion for the dying. Dr. Filippo Rocchi, one of the cardinals's three Italian doctors, said it was very unlikely the pre late could live through the night. Suffers Heart Damage The 70-year-old archbishop of Chicago and proprefect of the Va tican's Congregation for Propaga tion of the Faith suffered heart damage and was placed under an oxygen tent. Prayers for the dy ing were recited for him. He had been given extreme unction, the last rites of the church, on Monday when he suffered a paralyzing stroke. He also had been given the last rites after amputation ofhis right arm on April 28 just after he arrived to take up his new duties at the Vatican. He had appeared to be making satisfactory recovery from that operation. He celebrated mass May 18 first time since the amputation at the College of St. Mary of the Lake, knows also as Chicago House. Partially Paralyzed The next day he suffered a cere bral thrombosis that partially par alyzed his right side and left him able only to whisper "yes" or no. He appeared to be recovering also from that stroke, but sudden ly took a turn for the worse. Fear was expressed he might not last through the night. Fog Kayoes Baseball Tilt; Rain Possible Heavy fog closed in on the Sa lem area, late Saturday night and at Waters Field it became so dense that a Salem Senators' base- ball came had to be called. Mc- Nary Field weathermen said the blanket was expected to lift by early morning. Clouds and more rain dominate the weather outlook through Mon day, weathermen said. They added afternoon thundershowers are pos sible today and Monday. High temperature both days will be near 72 with a low tonight of 52 degrees, they added. Associated Press reported that Northern Oregon beaches will have cloudy weather this morning with partial clearing by afternoon. NORTHWEST LBAODK At Sklem T, Yaktm S (eaH4 aftef ' S innlnfl, fof At Euien Wtnatch (pxtpon4, rmln) At Trl-Clty , LawtotoB S . PACIFIC COAST LEAGUB . At San Diego (, Portland 1 ' At Sacramento lt. Salt Lako City 4 At Phoenix 5. Seattle 3 At Spokane I, Vancouver 1 NATIONAL UAOUB At Philadelphia S, Chicago 4 . At PUtibnrgh , St Louli 1 -At Cincinnati S, Lei Aug elei 4 At Milwaukee t, San Franclieo S AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland 1, Wathlnitoa S At Detroit 3, New York 3 At Kanaae City 4, Beaton S ' At Chleaio 4, Baltimore 3 New 'Brief hand' System Big Help By DON SCARBOROUGH Staff Writer, The SUtesmai "O i T it" doesn't mean much unless you're a member of one of Salem s newest Adult Educa tion night classes. - Twenty "Briefhand" students know this means not only "What time is it?" but a short cut to shorthand. Briefhand is the newest and one of the most successful adult edu cation classes Salem has ever, tried out. Supervisor George D. Porter said. If Salem could have started the course in February in stead of March it would have scored a beat on California as the first in the nation. After a few weekly meetings students in the Salem adult classes were taking down 40 words a min ute, and now, after eight, many average (0 words, some often hit so and one even got near 100. The beauty of the new class, teacher Mrs. Patricia Ballantyne said, is that you can start using it in daily work after the first couple of lessons. One woman, a lawyer's secre tary, fell back on it in her office work at the first chance, but being a litle green, messed up some of her boss's dictation. "He's a real understanding man," she said and thanks to his patient support she can now use it daily at full speed. Briefhand is an "ABC" short band, using no symbols or1 fancy to Rapid Note Taking (itself as: curved lines. It cuts out unneces sary vowels and consonants and uses single letters for high fre quency words. Anyone who knows the alphabet and phonetics can get the theory and practice down with little trouble. Ms advocates claim. "Weigh" becomes "we", "mar rled" is "mrd". "keynote" is "knot" and "rhetoric' is "rtrc." When it comes to very common words, "e" stands for: he, the; "A" could be: an, and, at, about. "Z" finds an appreciated place fori was, bis, as, has. Some ppl think this is e gratst, but otrs dri't nor. A pilot course- at South Salem u High School is also going welU Porter said, and Oregon State CoW -lege students have acclaimed it..' One of the inventors of the sys tem and part author of the text is Theodore Yerian of OSC . Among the pluses of this ABC shorthand is that it can be taken down on tint typewriter, '