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Newspaper Page TextGoldfine Story WASHINGTON (Jt-HouM is vestlgators Mid Friday Bernard Goldflne, friend and benefactor f presidential assistant Sher man Adams, will testify Tues day. July 1. Chairman Orea Harris (D-Ark.) of the special House inrestlcntlng committee aid Goldfine bad voluntarily freed to came. Harris aald Goldflne originally Was Invited to appear next FrI- RTOCDQCa Much more attention has been given to the case of Sherman 'Adams than to that of his friend Bernard Goldfine, the Boston in dustrialist who showered him with gifts and picked up the charge slips at hotels in Boston, Plymouth and New York. It's easy to understand why. Adams is a key man in the White House,' virtual chief of staff for President Eisenhower. He has been the guard at the gate as visitors entered and left the Presi dent's own suite He has wielded, In the President's name great power, and that without exposure to press interrogation or congres sional committee inquiry, until his voluntary appearance Tuesday. Having admitted imprudence in bis official conduct, which Eisenhower himself confirmed, he has become the talk of the country, with Re- nublicans outshoutirur the snicker ing Democrats in demands that he depart from wnite House precincts. But what about Goldfine? He has a life story. Son of an immigrant from Russia he quit school at an early age and started a swift as cent up the ladder of wealth. Early he got into business for himself, buying remnants from textile mills and selling them at a big profit to other manufacturers. Then he cot into textile weaving himself. Like others whom we used to call the nouveau nche (new rich) he ought to compensate his undis tinguished birtn and limited educa tion with ostentation in giving, his specialty seems to have been men (Continued oa editorial paga 4.) State Liquor Boss Resigns; Aide Named PORTLAND CAP) r V. Caorg Van Bergen nas Dean named ad ministrator for the Oregon liquor Control Commission to succeed Joseph A, Nance, who resigned Friday to take a position in the private liquor business. Van Bergen, a veteran of 10 year with the O. L. C. C, is cur rent It assistant administrator. Earlier this month he had an . aounced bis resignation from the commission to enter private law practice In Lincoln County at the end of this month. He changed bis plans to accept the adminis trator's post. Nance said he was resigning ef fective Aug. 1 to accept a posi tion with the Glenmore Distiller ies of Louisville, Ky. He bad been with the O. L. C. C. IS months. Previously he was an official of the Federal Housing Administra tion and the Portland Housing - Authority and had operated a restaurant and country club in Os wego. Summer Will Debut Today Summer temperatures which ar rived earlier in the week were ex pected to return today to greet the arrival of summer. Fair weather and high tempera tures will continue through the weekend with the thermometer ex pected to climb to 90 today, Mc- ; Nary Field weatnermen saia. , Patches of low cloudiness this - morning will clear, they said. High temperature Friday was 84, Bine degrees higher than the day before. Northern Oregon beaches also will have low clouds this morning, Associated Press said. A tempera- - ture range .of 55 to 70 is predicted. . , Alaska Gets Hot FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) The temperature soared to 92 de grees here at 2:30 p.m. Friday to set a new record for June Beat. The previous record was 91. I Year's Reprieve Granted to Nunn; Court1 Action Waited Gov. Robert D. Holmes Friday granted a 12 months reprieve for Billy Junior Nunn while the State , Supreme Court considers action i challenging the governor's right . to exercise powers of commute , tion. . i This was the third reprieve for Nunn, who was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for the sex murder of 14-year-old Alvin Eac ' ret of Klamath. Falls. . I Eacret't parents. Mr. and Mrs. 'John W. Eacret, filed suit to pre jvent the governor from commut ing the sentence to life imprison- ment They lost the case in Mar lion County Circuit Court, and it 1 now is on appeal to the State Su tprems Court. i Agrees to Mouse day and to bring with aim "rec ords pertaining to outstanding treasurer's and certified checks purchased by you aad records of your stock ownership . . . in companies registered with the Securities and. Exchange O.n missloa." The reference to treasurer's checks apparently relates to tes timony the subcommittees re ceived earlier this week that more than $700,000 worth of such checks had been issued on be-, half of various Goldflne inter ests but never cashed. Earlier Friday Sen. Arthur V. Watklns (It-Utah), who recom mended Senate censure of Jos eph R. McCarthy in U54, called for the departure of Adams from his post as Eisenhower's aide. The White House declined comment on Watklns' statement that Adams' usefulness "is seri ously Impaired, if not complete ly destroyed." Press secretary James C. Hagerty said there was no change in Elsenhower's posi tion since his news conference Wednesday. The President then' described Adams as Invaluable and aald: "I need him." Three more Republican House members called Friday for Ad ams to resign. Adams has acknowledged con tacting two federal agencies on Starved 4-Year-Old Girl Blind, Weighs 14 Pounds NOWATA, Okla. (AP)-A 4-year-old girl-blind, unable to talk and weighing only 14 poundsTwas under hospital care Friday after authorities found her closeted in a room described as "rotten with stench." A physician said the child, Laura Jane Jrons, was "a typical picture or severe, long-term malnutrition.. The child was louna rnursaay at the home of her mother, Mrs. Raymond Murphy, by County Atty. Lloyd Colter and sheriff's deputies. They went to the . home cn an anonymous teiepnona up. They said Laura was clad only in a T-shirt and was lying on a dirty blanket in a room they de scribed as filthy. Two sisters, 5 and 9, were in the home. The officers said there were no aduXs about. Outside in a pen were several dogs one officer described as "well-fed In much better shape than the little girl- Colter said ha planned to take legal action but added "I won say what it is." Laura, Jane and the other chil dren are Mrs. Murphy's by a for mer marriage to Jack Irons, No wata tea company employ. Mrs. Murphy, whose present husband is employed at nearby Coffeyvilie, Kan., would not com ment. Death Claims 'Giant7 of U.S. Journalism (Picture ea Wlrephoto page.) NEW YORK (AP) - Herbert Bayard Swope, 76, one of the giants of American journalism during the colorful first quarter of this century, died Friday. He was the first newspaperman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Swop won renown as reporter. city editor and executive editor of the old New York World, then one of the nation's greatest metropoli tan newspapers. He was a spark plug of Its operations for 20 years. Swope left The World in 1929 shortly before it was merged with The Telegram. He was the first chairman of the New York State Racing 'Commission when it was set up in 1934 and continued in that post for a decade. He helped bring horse racing to its present status as a naif-bulion-dollar-a- year industry in New York.-. Today's Statesman m Paga Sec Ann Landers ...w..,..,6 I ' Church News ..r..'l.. I Classified 1.1 M4....II Comics .1.7 I Crossword 11 II Editorials 4.... I Home Panorama 6.... I Markets -.11.. ..II Obituaries 5 I Sat. TV .. 7 I Sunday TV ..10..ll Sports 9, 10 II Star Gazer 10....II Valley.News 3.. I Wlrephoto Page .7. I The governor' said it would be Improper to execute Nunn or to grant him clemency while the case is in the courts. He granted the first two reprieves for the same reason. The execution date now stands at June 26, 1959. The parents of the boy claim that a governor has no right to commute a death sentence just because he opposes capital pun ishment. The governor opposes the death penalty. Since he took office 17 months ago, he has commuted the only two death sentences that have been placed before him. to Tell Probers behalf of his old friend Goldfine while accepting from Urn hotel hospitality and other favors. Adams has denied any impro priety. Harris, at a bows conference, took issue wits a White House contention that Goldflne didn't receive preferred treatment from federal agencies. Harris declined to say wheth er he believed Adams had vio lated any law. " Asked whether the matter was being turned over to .the attor ney general, who reviews Ceases tor possible prosecution, Harris said several federal agencies were getting transcripts of the subcommittee proceedings as a' matter of routine. He said that includes the Justice Department. In due time, he added, the subcommittee will decide wheth er to refer any of Its cases spe cifically to the attorney general. Secretary of State Mark Hat field, Republican nominee for governor, Friday said In Salem he had written President Eisen homtr So make his decision In the Sherman Adams case on the issue of good conduct in office. Hatfield said he wrote the President, "I am not' concerned about political expediency. What I am interested in Is the ques tion of ethics involved." State Street, Liberty Road Work to Start Widening of State Street will start in about two weeks and an improvement project on Liberty Road will start immediately, the successful bidder on both projects said Friday. Neither street is to be closed. The $161,555 Liberty Road and $96,992 State Street projects were awarded to Central Paving Co. of Independence by the State High way Commission meeting Thurs day and Friday in Portland. Excavation for the State Street project, widening to four tones from 12th Street to the city limits. will start near the State Prison and work west, Fred Voight, Central Paving superintendent, said. The city water department and utility companies have been moving lines for the past three months. Most of the old walnut and ma ple trees lining the street have been cut down. The next move is for Pacific Telephone k Telegraph Co. to replace its lines with under ground cable The project is to be completed in late fall. In the Liberty Road project south of Salem the three-mile ' section from Browning Avenue to Rosedale is to be widened to 22 feet. It now varies from 18 to 22 feet. Marion County is also considering improve ments north of Browning Avenue where expensive right-of-way prob lems exist. (Add. details an page 5) I National Marbles Champ Gets Reward A. ., ' ' ASBIJRY PARKi N. J-Dennls tional marmes tournament nere "steels" himself for a kiss from Jeanette Merlino, 13, of Yonkers, N. Y., who won the girl's national title. Kyle was runncr-up in the finals in 1956 and 1957. (AP) 108th Year Truce in Lebanon Shattered By WILTON WYNN BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Gunfire Friday broke an un easy two-day truce while U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham- mars kjold talked to Premier Sami Solh aboutihe Lebanese rebellion. The Lebanese government was reported pressing Hammarskjold to recommend a U.N. Emergency force to patrol the Syrian border. But Hammarskjold described as somewhat annoyed was said to believe the U.N. mission should be solely one of observation. That would leave border Dolie- ing to the Lebanese, who have charged the rebels are being helped by armed bands and sup plies coming from the neighbor ing Syrian province of the United Arab Republic. "Truce' Broken Fighting that has shaken the pro-Western government of Presi dent Camille Chamoun for a month eased off just before Ham marskjold arrived Thursday. Gov ernment supporters and opponents presumably, had a tacit agree ment to make no major attacks during the secretary eeneral's visit But fighting broke out in several parts of the city Friday. Armored cars moved into the Tarik Jadida quarter to halt street fighting. There was no immediate report of casualties. One man was shot at a building under construction opposite the British Embassy, and reportedly died later. Christian vs. Moslem Gunfire also echoed over the Zarif Moslem section and the Mozeitbeh Christian area, adja cent to the Moslem "area where opponents of the government are entrenched. The population of Leb anon is approximately half Chris tian and half Moslem. ' UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) The U.N. said Friday night Sec retary General Dag Hammar skjold Intends to go to Cairo this weekend. Talks there presumably would center on the Lebanese crisis which Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun claims is being inflamed, by President Nasser's united Arab Republic. Bandits Grab $105,000 in Raid on Bank ERIE. Pa. (AP) Three bank robbers took $105,000 from a cash depository of the South Side branch of the Union Bank of Erie. Friday and made a clean getaway after trussing employes with wire. The robbers were at the bank when employes arrived. They had entered through a rear door after overpowering a janitor whp was outside. All were armed with snub nosed pistols. ' The employes were threatened but none was injured. The robbers told them: "Obey orders if you don't want your throat cut." 1 -ll i Kyle, 14, of Richmond, W. Va., 2 SECTIONS-U PAGES Phil Sheridan Days 'Petticoat Court' ' V SHERIDAN Dressed like their I . I 4 '"., v. . 4 ' " ;w ' . , - v h . . w ' , ; w- .,: . . ; " ; ; n" Junior court of Phil Sheridan Days Celebration here. THey are (left to right), Susan Thompson, Donno Chapman, Barbara Jean Hopson, Queen Karen Funk, Karen Novak, Ann Holstad and Angela Batchelder. The celebration closes Sunday. (Picture also on Valley pageS.) Parade to Cap Celebration At Sheridan SUtcunu Mews Servlca ' SHERIDAN One of the valley's biggest and most colorful parades will unwind here Saturday at 10 a.m. as part of this city's annual "Phil Sheridan Days." More than 20 units, including a half-dozen musical groups, are expected to take part. A "Phil Sheridan" will be picked at ran dom just before the parade to serve as grand marsnal. Beards will be measured follow ing the parade and the longest whiskers will win a cash prize. The Sheridan Rodeo will start at 1:30 p.m. It will be repeated Sun day at the same time. (Story also Valley page I.) Sputnik III Rocket To Be Qver Oregon PORTLAND (AP) - The Sput nik III rocket should be visible over Western Oregon at about 2:56 a.m. Sunday. Mrs. Robert Boardwell of the Oregon Moonwatch team said it will be on a southwest to' north east course. winner of 34th annual na i ' f J. 1 ' " I ' ' t - y '' 1 J ; I , :' V ! . r I . ', . . hi:; f '' z x -v S ' - t T .'.' v . . - ' - 'mi "tr , I I POUNPBD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, 19th century great grandmothers, these seven girls are the (8 Big Turnout Greets Keizer Celebration , SUttsman News Servlcs KEIZER-Sponsors of Keizer's Western Days celebration were overwhelmed by the turnout Friday night for the giving away ot a ouu-pouna steer and They had expected 1,500. ties estimated the crowd at more than 5,000. The featured 'parade of the annual western celebration will step off at 1 p.m. today. Immedi ately following will be the first of two horse shows at 4100 Cherry Ave. NE sponsored by Keizer Lions Club. A western dance will be held at the clubhouse at 9 p.m. Lions will throw a western breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday. The horse show will be run again at 1 p.m Much to the sorrow of hundreds of Keizer kids, Roy Eleven, 5090 Bailey Rd. NE, won the steer. Not that the youngsters be grudged the Kleven family their win. It was just that after six weeks of petting and feeding him they didn t want anyone to win. (Story also on valley page 3) $100,000 Fire Destroys Mill : ' SUteinun Newi Service LEBANON A $100,000 fire early Friday morning destroyed the the. main plant of the Newberg Shingle Mill at Lacomb,, 15 miles east of here. Cause was not determined. Part of the loss was covered by insur ance, according to Ed Newberg, owner. Firemen from the Lebanon Rural Fire department and the 4-acomb guard station of the Linn County Fire Patrol battled the blaze for more than ltt hours. They were able to save the Newberg home, five employe homes, an orchid greenhouse of Mrs. Newberg, a power plant, shake mill, a store of finished shakes and several trucks, all near the big blaze. 1 The mill employed about 24 men. Newberg was not certain if he would rebuild. I Russians Attack Danish Retaliation MOSCOW (AP) Soviet dem onstrators threw stones, broke windows, waved banners and shouted at the Danish Embassy Friday in a protest against what Moscow radio called a "ganster ish attack" on the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen last Tuesday night ly a mob angered by the liquida tion -of Hungarian ex-Premier Im re Nagy. Persons at the Danish Embassy said a crowd of 200 to 300 persons marched on the building and kept vp a chanting, shouting demon stration for about two hours. ' Volleys of stones broke seven windows, and (heir the - crowd hurled some of its anti-Danish banners through the openings. The banners bore . such slogans - as "Danes are imperialists, friendly i to Hungaian rebels." J Salem, Oregon, Saturday, June 21, 1958 ( - 1 " other prizes. Marion County sheriff's depu 2Vi Cents as Bean Picking Floor Backed By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman While cash growers will- take a $10 a ton cut-in the two top grades of beans, the Oregon Bean Growers Association voted Friday night not to pass the reduction on to pickers, The annual business session was held in the basement conference room of Marion County Courthouse with some 50 growers and several processing plant representatives present. O. G. Long presided. Retention of the minimum pick ing price paid for the past several years will be recommended to the state wage and hour commission meeting Monday afternoon in Port land. This is 214 cents a pound with a one-fourth cent bonus to those who'Jemain throughout the season. While the majority favored the retention of this minimum, several growers voiced dissension because of lower prices they were receiv ing. Growers said that several con tracts had been signed at $160 a ton for No. 1 grade and $140 for No. 2's. Last year these prices were $170 and $150. This represents approximately a 42 per cent drop in profits, growers agreed. Walter Collette of Clear Lake was elected secretary with Clifford Orey, present secretary, moving up to chairmanship. (Add. details on page 2) for Danes' Danish Ambassador Alex Morch, who was absent at the start of the demonstration, returned in the middle of it and immediately filed a protest with the Soviet govern ment. Several Soviet police, including about 20 on horseback, remained at the scene after the demons'ra tors departed. The Soviet government earlier had protested to the Danes against the Copenhagen demonstration, charging Danish authorities knew of plans for the demonstration and did nothing to stop it. In Bonn, Germany demonstra tors smashed windows of the So viet Embassy. About '400 persons hurled a bar- rage . of, stones at the embassy building, smashing at least a doz- Crew Battles Raging Blaze On Cascades Fire in Linn County Bums Over 100 Acres Into Willamette Forest Fringes Statesman News Strvlt SWEET HOME Flames given momentum by a brisk mid day wind burned out of control in the bone-dry Cascade foot hills east of here early Saturday. The fire had burned over 100 acres and into fringes of Willamette National Forest. Forestry officials, who had 100 men on the fire lines, said that while the fire remained slowed because of dyingl winds. A standby crew was on the job through the night. Calming winds and cloudy skies forecast for Saturday, to eether with higher humidities, had officials hopeful that the Linn fire would be controlled shortly, The blaze was believed to have started about 12:30 p.m. Friday in logging operations of Simpson Lumber Co. near Quartzville, Linn County foothill community about 25 miles east of Sweet Home. Flames Leap Creek A strong west wind enabled the flames to leap Canal Fork Creek near the Santiam River and blazed up in the form of two spot fires on the east side of the creek. Crews of loeeers and forestry personnel contained one of these, but the oth er got away and raced up a heav ily timbered bill. Momentum gained and virgin timber in its path, the fire ad vanced to the edge of thickly-for ested Willamette National Forest despite countless fire lines thrown up by crews. Men sent in to battle the blaze included crews from the Simpson operation and Wilson and H k W logging firms in the Detroit area Also on the lines were personnel from Linn County Fire Patrol. Cause Nat Known William Shumate, dispatcher for the Linn Fire Patrol's Sweet Home office, said cause of the fire wasJ not known. He said there had been no thunderstorms in the area at the time. Meanwhile the Associated Press reported that lightning-set blazes which blackened 2,800 acres of rangeland near Vale in Eastern Oregon, had been brought under control by more than 125 firefight ers. Bureau of Land Management of ficials said' Friday afternoon only mopping up activies remained In me vaie area. Cloud cover and low winds have kept most national forest areas free from all but minor lightning fires. None have been reported in the Detroit district, though several. thunderstorms occurred. NORTHWEST LEAOUI At Lewiaton.S, Salem T At Yakima 15, Tri.Clty S At Wmitctaee 7, Euf en It PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE ' At Portland S, Vancouver At Sacramento , Phoenix 1 At San Dleso . Spokane S At Salt Lake City S, Seattle S AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit 7, New York 1 At Cleveland Wathlnfton (post poned, rain) At Chicago S, BalUmore At Kansas City 5, Boston 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Milwaukee 7, St. Louis I At Philadelphia 5, San Francisco 4 At Pittsburgh 2, Los Angeles 1 At Cincinnati 1, Chicago 11 Negro Mob Stones Police After Two Traffic Arrests ST. LOUIS, Mo. MV-Police cars were stoned and one policeman was injured in an hour-long riot Friday of 35 Negroes over the arrest of two Negro youths on traf fice charges. "Little Little Rock," the jeering Embassy in Nagy Protest en windows. Embassy staff mem' bers had to duck to avoid being hit. - , . Several hundred police charged the demonstrators to clear them away. There were several cracked heads. About 300 of the demonstrators were" Hungarian refugees. In London, Adlal Stevenson, for mer Democratic presidential can didate, said that if he gets a chance on his forthcoming busi ness trip to the Soviet Union he will tell Khrushchev to his face what he thinks of the "indefen sible murders." ' "The Soviet government knows that as long as such outrages are permitted, just as long must the people of the World look with crave suspicion on the intentions of the Soviet Union,", be said. The Weather Today's forecast: Patches of low cloudiness in morning, otherwise fair. Higji temper ture near 90, low tonight 58. (Compltt iwport pas ) PRICE 5c No. 91 out of control its progress had Ike Signs Pay Boost For Million WASHINGTON (AP) - The thrill of a 10 per cent pay increase went coursing up the spines of 1,021,072 government, workers throughout the country Friday. They not only get the 10 per cent pay boost under legislation signed by President Eisenhower but they get a retroactive bundle going back to Jan. 12. That means extra lump sum checks ranging from $150 to $500, and averaging about $250, to bring the rajses up to date. This windfall is expected to pro vide an ecnomic shot in the arm to Washington and other cities having big concentrations of fed eral white collar workers. Some of the military agencies plan to issue the retroactive pay checks to their civilian employes in the next few days. Other federal agencies will make the retroactive payments in a tew weens. Gov. Holmes Denies Eye on Senate Seat Gov. Robert D. Holmes said Friday he positively would not run for the U.S. Senate in 1960 against Sen. Richard L. Neuberger. The governor said he heard the rumor that he would run from members of Oregon's congression al delegation while he was in Washington, D.C., Thursday. "I will not run," he told a press conference. "I have no aspiration for the Senate. J can say posi tively that I wilfnot run against Dick." Both are Democrats. Neuberger will complete his first six-year term in 1960, but hasn't said whether he would seek re-election. The governor, up for re-election this year, charged that his Repub lican opponent. Secretary of State Mark Hatfield, hasn t said whether he favors a regional corporation to build dams and distribute power in the Northwest. The governor gave his stand in favor of such a corporation to a congressional committee a few weeks ago. Hatfield, when informed of the charge, said he had endorsed the corporation idea in speeches and press releases several weeks ago. "Unless he has been badly mis informed or misquoted, the gover nor has fired the first volley of untruth in the coming political campaign," Hatfield said. Negroes chanted. Two shots were fired from a riot gun to keep the angry crowd of Negroes back. A brick was bounced off the head of one white policeman who also waa struck with fists. Eight Negroes, seven men and a 14-year-old girl were arrested. The Negroes closed in on a white county policeman who started to arrest the two Negro youths. The policeman, Richard Seger, 25, said he used a short leather strap, called a "slap strap," when the teen-agers re sisted arrest. Seger said he had arrested Lee Lawrence, 17, for driving a truck without an operator's license, when another Negro driver spun the wheels of his car and sprayed him with gravel. ' Seger reported that " when he started to arrest the other youth. Joseph Rodgers, 19, a scuffle broke out and Lawrence joined in the attack on the policeman. The crowd of Negroes grew. When police reinforcements ar rived ihey found Seger holding! the crowd back with drawn revolv er. The other policemen joined him. They stood back-to-back with revolvers drawn facing the crowd i as shouted curses were exchanged. As police left with the arrested men, Seger'i car was showered with, stones.