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CITY EDITION CITY EDITION VOL. 108 CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 24,504 EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1947 NO. 13 " LANE COUNTYS HOME KEWSPAPEB. ' Solon Asks Probe Of Air Disasters; 29 Killed Sunday Only Two Persons Survive Seven Crashes: Airlines Report Seats Going Begging By ASSOCIATED PRESS Twenty-nine persons died when seven airplanes crashed Stntpfl Snnrfav. and Mnnrlav Ren. Rivaime in xne " r- ...... (D-SC) proposed a congressional investigation of what he termed the "inexcusable killing of American people." Only two of the 31 persons in the seven planes survived. In New York City, meanwhile, major airlines reported (hat plane reservations, almost impossible to obtain last County-Wide Teacher Salary Study Planned As a basis of additional prob able moves for pay increases, a county-wide study of teachers' salaries will be made by a com mittee to be appointed by Lester Beals of Colin Kelly school, presi dent of the Lane County division o( the Oregon Education Assn. Beals outlined plans lor the survey Monday as the Eugene School Board and its budget com mittee prepared to meet to dis cuss with the Eugene teachers' salary committee a request for pay increases averaging about $700 a year. The Lane County m" Todpiip Princinals Adsn. Saturday also announced a move lor mgner salaries m league schools. Consulting Group BWa aa.u u.n ............. - will form a consulting group for districts in which salary adjust ments are sought and will draw up a sample salary schedule which can be used in developing new schedules in districts of the county. He gave no indication as to how great an average increase may be sought. The Oregon Edu cation Assn. through its economic weiiare commuiec is drawing up i salary plan and a minimum of $2400 a year has been discussed. Action Awaited Meanwhile teachers end school officials are watching to see wnat the legislature does about the $50 per pupil basic school fund voted t the last election. While there nas oeen ainerence oi opinion as '.a when th mnnpv mnv h Avail able, and no official announce ment has been made, the most recent information indicates the fundi might be available by next September. Mrs. Lucille Kennedy, county school superintendent, has been surveying salaries in rural dis tricts. Complete information is not yet available because records on certification of a number of teachers arp still hpinff pnmnilpH t Salem. However, the study in Its pres ent state shows average salaries in elementary schools, for the various types of certificates, run from $2000 to $2124. In high hifh schools they run from $2340 to $2883. For administrators they rim from $2600 to $3643, The pread in salaries covers teachers with emergency certificates, those whose certificates are renewed from year to year, those renewed ry live years and life certifi rates. Fores1 Yield 'Shadow-Boxing' Must End, Cox Tells Governor By HOCH BRADSHAW It's time to quit "shadow-box- 'ng" lor sustained viplH An Om an's forest lands and get' down to business. 11 S time for Inriiistrv. tha slate and federal governments to show ome "fistic prowess" in promot es research, for, when true "stained yield is practiced gen lly, it will reduce the timber J. and only research can de P the new by-products and "idustrips ii. ...in .in ii will Wane's the loss in jobs, payrolls - inaustnal income uer Sent This is the gist of a letter sent "Gov. Earl Snell in reply to hit ent guest editorial in The Ore 5Joumal, entitled "Oregon's Moss IOOF Installation Scheduled for Tuesday ....in i us lh nation OI 330 OI hcers nt ,.i j; . v.v - ouuuiuinaie ana ne "gil i lodges of the IOOF will be iiiesaay in McArthur Court, ung at 7:30 p.m. The cere- V Brill W j.. . . . loss conuucic. py grand ; and assembly officers and ? 04 "Pen to the mihHr. en.ogram Ieaturing the Eu Schl,, Wmen' the Eugene High v,,,001 cappella choir and band hL elow the ceremony for a,,H pence" Bute Lodge No. !5 a.,"6 Rebekah Lodge No. HOr in ti . .. .. fan at ln5"aut Pro- U lin- p m'' dinner for Met ii moe" and their fam ijwiu be held at the Oiburn summer, nave ueen going Deg- ging for the last few days, with a number of planes leav ing with empty seats. Rep. Rivers declared in Wash ington that "the American people are horrified and scared to death. If there is something wrong with the whole doggone set-up, then something should be done." He noted specifically the crash of an Eastern Airlines Detroit Miami passenger plane during a rainstorm near Galax, Va., Sun day in which 18 persons 15 pas sengers and three crew members died. Lone Survivor William Ellis Keyes, Jr., 25, of Boynton, Fla., the lone survivor, was dragged from the wreck by two residents of the community who saw the crash. He suffered shock, lacerations and burns. Five persons were killed when two planes collided over the Mi ami (Fla.) aviation center airport. One person was injured critically. Miami Foljce Chief Karl Engel said the planes collided as their pilots attempted to land on oppo site runways. Another disaster in Florida cost the lives of two persons as an Army training plane crashed near Cocoa in Brevard County, Fla A two - seated private plane crashed near suburban Van Dyke, near Detroit, killing its occupants, an Army Air Forces veteran and a student pilot. Witnesses said the plane went into a tailspin about 200 feet from the ground. Huge Sugar Racket Bared ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (11.18 Operation of what was termed the largest sugar olacK market ring in the nation's history was believed smashed Monday with the arrest of a Hobbs, N. M. bottling plant owner. Operations Involved four states, including Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Colorado. U. S. District Attorney Everett M. Grantham said tnat A. m. Bartlett, the bottling plant owner. had been arrested for violation of sugar rationing regulations, and that a former sugar rationing clerk was sought. . Grantham added that Mrs. Trudy Edwards, former clerk in the Lea County State Bank in Hobbs, was believed to be in Coronado, Calif., and that her arrest appeared imminent. A total of 1,044,000 pounds of sugar were involved, Grantham said. The alleged activities started in August of 1945. Bartlett was said at that time to have presented to Mrs. Edwards deposit slips cov ering a large amount of sugar rationing currency, equal to 1.044.000 nounds of sugar. Mrs. Edwards was a sugar rationing clerk in the bank. Rosy Future:" and " the letter, written by Secretary-Manager H. J. Cox of theWillamette Valley Lumbermen's Assn., concludes by saying that unless the issue is met squarely through the combination of real sustained yield' and ag gressive research, ''Oregon's Rosy Promise" will prove a dud. Cox complimented the gov ernor on his treatment of the fu ture of the lumber industry but chided him for overlooking re search, "the one and only factor that will insure permanent sta bility of existing communities 'Window' Thief Takes $700 in Diamonds A lOne bandit broke a front window at the Weisfield and Goldberg jewelry store at 4 a.m. Monday, escaping with approxi mately $700 in diamond rings. The robbery was reported by an unidentified pedestrian who heard the glass break, then walked to the Western Union office and ?le phoned police. A tip front South ern Pacific that a man had emerged from behind a railway car and hopped a fast freight shortly afterward, led police to follow the train to Oakridge Mon day morning. They radioed local police headquarters at noon that "results were negative." Meanwhile, no arrests have been made in the $9000 holdup of the Irish & Swartz Grocery at Sixth Ave. H. Saturday night , -fHB32B hEehbV Hr- at?4 vft-BWI SNOW DECORATES the firs just above Eugene. Snow feu throughout the county Sunday and Monday. (Wiltshire photo and engraving.) Lane County Wears White 'Coat' , Snow Falls Throughout State; Near Blizzards A widespread snowstorm that nearly reached the blizzard stage in the high mountains blanketed Oregon with snow over the week end, and extended its scope into the Willamette Valley to put a thin cover over Eugene. Foothills around the city were white with several inches of snow Sunday and Monday. The snowfall in Eugene was the third this winter, but the first that remained on the ground any length of time. Continued snow flurries were predicted for Eugene and vicin ity Monday night and Tuesday, and more snow In the mountains is expected. The weather bur eau reported that the storm center Is in eastern Wyoming, east of the continental divide. Oregon roads were covered with ice, snow and slush Monday, the State Highway Commission re ported, and warnings were issued that conditions would be worse by Tuesday morning, with many sec tions of icy pavement expected. Snowplows were working stead ily across mountain passes Sun day and Sunday night in an at tempt to keep roads clear of the fast falling snow. At Santiem summit 18 inches of new snow fell during the storm, and Willamette summit reported 20 inches. Mon day morning there was a total of 58 inches of snow at Santiam pass, and 44 at Willamette pass. The Pacific Highway from Eugene to Junction City was icy, and six inches of snow lay on the road COUNTERFEIT BILLS PORTLAND (A) Counter feit $5 bills are being passed in West Coast cities, the U. S. Secret Service Office here reported Mon day in warning merchants and banks to check any new bills. They bear face plate No. 928, check letter E, and series 1934A and are about one-fourth inch shorter than genuine certificates. and payrolls" when timber cut is reduced. v ' "So far," Cox Informed the governor, "with few excep tions, tree farming and sustain ed yield are comparable to Mark Twain's statement, 'Ev eryone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it!" He recalled that the necessity for cooperative sustained yield management of intermingled pri vate and public forest land was foreseen by the Willamette Val ley Lumbermen's Assn. in 1935, and that- in 1937 a bill sponsored by the association was enacted by Congress and became law, au thorizing placement of O and C (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) 4-Cent Drop in Butter Reported in Eugene The wholesale price of butter and the buying price of butterfat fell four cents on the Eugene mar ket Monday despite reported local shortages of the commodities. The decline was said to be "an echo" of the large break in eastern deal ing. F. A.1 Kesey. manager of the Farmer's Creamery, reported that local distributors are short on but terfat and that butter is being shipped in to fill consumer de mand. The new price levels are: but terGrade AA prints, 76 cents a pound; Grade A, 75 cents; butter fat premium quality, 77 cents; first quality, 76 cent; second qual ity, 71 otata. along Dlllard Road In the foothills in Mountains between Eugene and, Swisshome on the Siuslaw highway. Triangle Lake, between Eugene and the coast, reported "very bad" road conditions Sunday night. Ice and snow in the area caused a traffic jam. Excellent skiing conditions lured 1000 skiers to Hoodoo Bowl at Santiam pass, and more than 200 to Willamette Ski Area. Northwest Blanketed BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow was falling throughout the Pacific Northwest Monday. Vancouver, B.C., reported the worst snowstorm in 12 years. with seven inches on the ground and more falling. The Washing. ton state patrol said all highways from Vancouver, B.C., to Van couver, Wash., were dangerously slippery. Many Oregon points reported the first snow of the sea. son. Meteorologists blamed the storm on a deep low-pressure area moving down the coast from Alaska. The Portland weather bureau said snow fell at virtually every station in Oregon. Alternate rain and snow flurries hit Portland. Court Sanctions 'Execution No. T WASHINGTON OP) By a one vote margin, tne supreme Court ruled Monday that Louisi ana may try again to execute Willie Francis, 17-year-old Negro who lived through one trip to the electric chair. The 5-4 decision split the court on an interpretaion of what is the cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the Constitution. The majority held that it did not bar a second attempt at exe cution where the first failed due to mechanical difficulties. The minority agreed with Francis' attorneys that it would be "cruel and unusual" If Francis were again put in the chair. Justice Frankfurter, voting with the majority, explained he felt the high tribunal 'must abstain from interference with sttte ac tion no matter how strong one's personal feeling of revulsion agains a state's insistence on its pound of flesh." Three City Agencies To Meet This Evening City hall will be lighted late Monday night while members of three city bodies meet for tne first time this year, two to con sider wage increases for em ployes. Eugene Water Board will re ceive a petition from employes, asking for a 15 per cent wage in crease, and the school board meeting will be taken up with a request from teachers for an av erage salary raise of $700 per year. City council members will handle routine renewal of li censes and permits, award a bid for a year's supply of gasoline for city use, and name new council committees for. 1947. They also will discuss a proposed new ordinance regulating the collec tion of garbage and rates. Water board members will open and tabulate bids for a new hydro-electric unit at leaDurg Power Plant. The unit will in clude a 7000 kilowatt generator and a 10,000 horsepower wheel, to cost an estimated $200,000 or Oregon Must Boost Tax Revenues, Snell States Harmony Marks Opening of 44th State Assembly Both Houses Elect Officers Unanimously SALEM W) The 44th Ore gon Legislature opened its 1947 session at 10 a.m. Monday on a note of harmony after one of the quickest organizing sessions in history. It took each house only a few minutes to choose presiding of ficers and officials, headed by Senate President Marshall E. Cornett of Klamath Falls and Speaker John H. Hall of Port land. All of the officers were elected unanimously. An example of the harmony is the fact that Sen. Earl T. Newbry, Ashland, nominated Cornett for the Senate leadership, and Sen. William Walsh, Coos Bay seconded the nomination and moved that a unanimous bal lot be cast for Cornett. Newbry and Walsh had been candidates themselves for Senate president. Secretaries Stay Both houses voted to bar from the floor all but members and legislative employes during ses sions, but they did not bar per sonal secretaries of numbers. Claribel Buff, Salem, and Mrs. Zylpha Zell Burns, Portland, were reelected as chief clerks of the House and Senate, respectively. Sen. Gibson Heads Forestry Committee SALEM VP) Upstate sena tors got a lion's share of the im portant Senate committee chair manships which were announced Monday by Senate President Mar shall E. Cornett. The 31 committees are the same number as in 1945, the Senate having rejected the proposal to reduce the number to 24. With financial matters the No. X job of the legislature, Sens. Dean H. Walker, Independence, a form er Senate president, again will head the Ways and Means Com mittee, while Ernest R. Fatland, Condon, a former speaker of the House, is chairman of the Assess ment and Taxation Committee. Committee assignments include: Sen. Angus Gibson, Junction City forestry and forest products, chairman; resolutions, vice chair man: county affairs, roads and highways, and ways and means. Sen. Truman A. Chase, Eugene public buildings and institu tions, chairman; agriculture, vice chairman: elections and privileges, insurance, irrigation and drainage, state affairs. House Committee Assiqnments Made SALEM W House committee aanitrnments for the 44th Legisla ture were announced Monday by Speaker of the House John H. Hall, with the House reducing from 37 to 24 tne numDer oi com mittees. Of the eight chairmanships con sidered the most important, only one went to Portland, Hall's home city. House committee assignments include: Rep. Earl Hill, Cushman, Lane County rules and resolutions, chairman; assessment and taxa tion, engrossed and enrolled bills, state and federal affairs. Rep. John R. Snellstrom, Eugene natural resources, vice chair man: elections, and ways and means. Ren: Herman P. Hendrrshott. Eugene alcoholic control, vice chairman: game, judiciary, and military and veterans auairs. VOTE STRIKE END LOS ANGELES (U,R Striking AFL clerks Monday voted to ac cept a $55 a week wage offer and end a walkout that shut down 1500 Los Angeles area food stores 13 days ago. Weather U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, cloudy Mon day night and Tuesday with snow flurries Monday night and inter mittent rain Tuesday. Oregon, snow flurries east portion and rain and snow west portion Monday night, changing to rain west of Cascades and snow over and east of Cascades Tuesday. Continued cold. Moderate to fresh west and northwest winds off coast becom ing southerly Monday night. Local statistics: Highest tem perature Sunday, 41 degrees; low Monday morning, 32 degrees; 24 hour precipitation ending 10:30 a.m. Monday, .15 inch; total for month, .71 inch; normal for month, 5.42 inches; prevailing wind at 11:30 am. Monday, SSW 12; pre vailing Sunday, SSW 9. Sunrise and sunset (PST); Tuesday, 7:46 a.m. and 4:58 p.m.; Wednesday, 7:46 a.m. and 4:59 p.m. SIUSLAW TIDES Hi tS,JL ti ,jr aH at PRISON GUARD BERT DEADY, nearly blinded by a shotgun blast a year ago, undergoes delicate eye operation In which vitreous from eyes of Paul Maynard Skaug, 24, executed for murder at Reno, Nev Is transplanted to eye of Deady. Dr. S. T. Clarke, Reno eye specialist, is shown at head of table with Dr. Lee Sannells, associate, at patient's right. Success of the operation, a wish of the executed prisoner who was befriended by the prison guard, may not be known for several momns. nka Teiepnotoj. Convict's Eye Used to Restore Priest's Sight RENO, Nev.-JU.i The eye of an executed murderer en abled a young Catholic priest to see through an eye blinded in a youth accident for the first time today in more than ten years. His prayers answered barely 36 hours after a surgeon drain ed the bloody, useless vitreous from his right eye and replaced it with sightgiving fluid from the eye of a dead slayer, Father Edmond Boyle said he could see the .vague outline of his lingeft. through the eye. The 31-year-o!d priest, form erly of Pawtucket, R.I., lost sight of the eye in a BB gun ac cident in his youth. Since that time, he has had vision in only his. left eye. The eye which restored . sight in the priest's eye was that of Paul Maynard Skaug, 24, who was executed in the Nevada gas chamber Friday for the murder of a Reno housewife in 1944. The operation was performed by Dr. S. T. Clarke, who per formed a . similar operation, using another of Skaugh's eyes, upon Bert Deady, a guard at Nevada State Prison. Deady's eye was injured in a shotgun accident a year ago and the other eye suffered from "sym pathetic" loss of vision. Skaug willed his eyes to Deady the day before he died. Truman CHASE, Please! SALEM W) Sen. Truman A. Chase, Eugene, a newcomer to the Senate but with long House experience, turned red clear to his ears Sunday at the caucus, when Sen. Merle Chess man, Astoria, mistook him for Mr. Truman. Chessman, acting as caucus secretary, was calling the roll, and called "Truman" Instead of "Chase." The other senators laughed, and Chase had a red face. Then Sen. Dean H. Walker, Independence, shouted: "Roll out the piano, boys!" More laughter, and Chase got redder. Judge Deplores Necessity Of Sending 'Kid' to Pen By BERNARD ENGEL Elzer Ernest Dunn, 17-year-old Lane youth accused of grand larceny, Monday was sentenced to serve three years in the state penitentiary by Circuit Judge G. F. Skipworth, who remarked in court that he "hates to send a kid to the penitentiary, but he's had nis chances. Judge Skipworth was referring to Dunn's three previous commit ments to the reform school' at Woodburn, which the judge in an interview characterized as "a stepping-stone to the peniten tiary." After reading to the courtroom audience a four-page, closely typed statement in which ' the youth admitted a string of esca pades from the .time he was 11 years old, Judge Skipworth last week lashed out at the Oregon penal system and said that the state was at fault in such cases as that of Dunn because it has no intermediate type of corrective institution. "Dunn wouldn't stay m Wood burn two days and they don't want him back anyway," the judge later explained. "It's out rageous. We should have a mod ern reformatory which would give Industrial or shop training and emphasize character building," Judge Skipworth continued. "It would have to be dona by tha ftato-It'i too big an under- London Sees Strike Wave LONDON P) The labor government used 8000 troops and sailors Monday to move strike bound food to hungry Londoners, touching off a wave of sympathy strikes which Involved more' than 7000 workers and threatened to mushroom to gigantic proportions. Within 15 minutes of the arrival of Army personnel at Smithfield Market, the city's largest meat distributing center, more than 2300 employes walked off the lob In support of more than 15,000 truck drivers who starferl an unofficial strike last Monday and rejected pleas of union leaders to return to work. Truckers' Demands The truckmen demanded a 44 hour instead of a 48-hour week, two weeks paid vacations, half pay during illness and adjustment of overtimo pay conditions. The 45 member Road Haulage Central Wages Board met in emergency session to consider the demands and a previous decision which touched off the walkout. . London was tense. All police leaves were cancelled and mounted constables accompan ied the convoys of military trucks. Long lines of army trucks poured into the city's east end past thousands of unsmiling persons at the curbs. Almost immediately after the Smithfield workers struck, 3000 laborers walked out at Covent Garden, chief vegetable market in London. Hundreds of other workers quit jobs in London and elsewhere. Prime Minister Attlee, sup ported in the decision to use troops by the seven ministers whose departments were involved, called a special cabinet meeting for late Monday and another for Tuesday. ILE DE FRANCE SAILS PARIS (U.B The former lux. ury liner lie de France started on the first leg of a dash to Indo. china with 8000 reinforcements for French troops fighting the Viet-Nam forces, it was reported Monday from Toulon. taking for civic groups," he added District Attorney Ed Luckey testified at the Monday hearing that a state criminal psychiatrist who examined the youth Friday reported that Dunn "might be slightly deficient mentally but Is not insane." Judge Skipworth said that blame for the youth's actions was due in part to his being from a broken home. Dunn In his statement said that at the age of 11, he was put in Woodburn for one night after being arrested while hitchhiking. He was committed again a year later and served 150 days for shoplifting. Then, the statement continues, "I got in a mess In Waldport and broke In a house where no one lived and burned it down. I then served time in Woodburn, about 104 days; I was 15, years old." Dunn also admitted check for geries, escape from the Marion County jail in Salem, and theft of an ambulance in Eugene and a car U Surplus Can Balance Only 47-49 Budget Ten-Year Forestry Program Asked SALEM (AP) Governor Earl Snell, urging use of cor poration excise tax surpluses to balance the state's 1947-49 budget Monday, warned Ore gon's 44th Legislature that new taxes must be levied to provide for future needs. Delivering his inaugural ad dress after taking the oath of office for his second term, the governor also outlined a 10 year forestry program to cosl ?i,uuo,ouu, asked for in. creased veterans and unem ployment benefits, and urged the lawmakers to wait for Congress before passing laboi legislation. The $41,404,716 budget for de partments dependent upon legis lative appropriations would have had, he said, a deficit of almost $6,000,000, but use of $6,000,000 In corporation excise tax surpluses would wipe this out. Gov. Snell said there won't be any such surpluses available in two years, so new tax revenues must be found now so they will be available at that time. Future Financial Needs "If m the future," the governor declared, "the state Is to meet the increased demands, the urgency of expanded facilities, the necessity for adequate salaries for Its em ployes, state school support, and the higher costs for merchandise, equipment and supplies, some ad Asks Short Session SALEM (U.B Gov. larl Snell Monday asked the 44th Oregon Legislature to hold down the length of the session. " "I am sure," tha governor fold the lawmakers, "that the membership agrees that there seems no valid reason why the 44th legislature should establish some sort of an unpleasant rec ord for being iq session the greatest number of days in Ore gon legislative history." ditlonal revenues for budget bal ancing in the future must be pro vided. "I recommend that this honor able body adopt the procedure suggested for balancing the budget for the next biennlum and that it then proceed to give careful and deliberate consideration to the question of needed revenues for meeting obvious future require ments." He urged that any major tax proposals be referred to the peo ple at a special election. Governor Snell, however, failed te recommend any specific new (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Restaurants Musi Display Licenses Lane County restaurant opera tors who have not posted 1947. li censes are subject to Immediate prosecution, city-county health department officials warned Mon day. Dr. A. Trlolo, health officer, and Howard Smith, sanitarian, said that some warrants for prosecu tion have already been Issued and that the mere filing of an appli cation for licensing is no longer sufficient. Failure to post a license is a criminal offense and violators may be fined from $10 to $100 and are also subject to a maximum of 60 days imprisonment. Dr. Triolo added that operators or owners must meet at least the Class B requirements of the state sanitary code, or have orders on file for materials to bring their establishment up to B standards, and Eugene operators must either have completed rat-proofing re quirements of the city or have or dered materials for the work. Deadline for 1947 licenses in Lane was Jan. 1 except in Spring field, where licenses expire June 30. Portland Hold-Up Man Uses Three-Foot Sword PORTLAND (U.B Tommy guns and blunt-nosed pistols are "sissy stuff to a Portland hold up man who harks back a couple of centuries for the tools of his trade. Mrs. Henry Hill, wife of the owner of the Hill Grocery Store here, Monday told police how a ' young man calmly walked into her store Saturday night, pro- ' duced a three-foot sword and demanded the contents oi the till. With a gesture that hinted a bow, he sheathed his swo ISO and
