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The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, May 25, 1958
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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.
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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
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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
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At Euien Wtnatch (pxtpon4,
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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, '