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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION . . , i uttinR ONE OF THE CHUTES in booming Martin Rapids nicely 1 sn unidentified Wtm.t.. .1 ih. more than 60 who managed to negotiate the turbulent waters of the famed ranlds ahnvc .... I nrtcp during the annual "White Water Boat Parade" Sundav. witnessed hv Uimiunili nf pit spectators. (Howard Studios photo, Wiltsshire engraving). R. Willcox k at Hnmfl fit Ml swaaaw jer Sickness Wit toss Baumes Willcox, tanber of the University ol tn school of architecture and Ciri faculty for 21 years and tor emeritus of architecture 1 1943, died at his home at Imirare Drive Sunday. H-known in coast architec- i circles, he entered the prac & architecture at Burlington, hi JR94. He sDent the year n traveling and studying in fct and in 1908 returned to ii practice in Seattle. He was Pre practice there until com the University of Oregon in M in 1943 . ktesor Willcox was retired in M continued to teach courses ij planning and office man Bit until November, 1946, i illness forced him to give a teaching career. ' n In Burlington, Vt., Aug. 2, it attended Kalamazoo Col Mich,, and the University of pjlvanla. He was active In fcional organizations and in ripal affairs. A member of MSene planning commission, in served as a member of the it planning commission and l member and fellow of the pan Institute of Architects. ui Director iMd office as secretary and tat of the Washington fcof AIA, and was a director national group. He also fWINUED ON PAGE 2) White Water Provides Spectacle Boatmen Make McKenzie Run The booming waters of the famed McKenzie River! from Redsides to the Leaburg Lake, were negotiated without inci dent by 64 lightweight plywood boats and a rubber craft Sunday during the McKenzie River Guides Assn.'s annual "White Water Boat Parade." Thousands of automobiles and an estimated crowd of more than 5000 spectators lined the banks of the river, braving intermittent showers and basking in occasional warm sunshine. ' Safety was the keynote of the event. One of the boat's was manned by 12-year-old Dick Helfrich, another, with two passengers, by 14 - year - old Dave Helfrich; another by Coralie Thomson, sophomore University of Oregon coed, and another by Mrs; Woodie Hindman of Springfield, one of the most experienced pilots on the river. Although discouraged from tak ing part, Kenny Pratt loaded . two; Eugene High schoolmates, John Banks and Don Ruth, into an air craft rescue rubber boat and man aged to complete the more than 20 miles of river with nothing worse than a dousing, Engineers Attend Although many slate officials from Oregon, California and Washington, Including the gover nors, were invited, none were present for the event. The parade was hot without its dignitaries, however. Colonel and Mrs. O. E. Walsh and their two children. made the "run," along with Colo. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) bproval of School Budget buld Bring $142 per Pupil ByROCH BRAT5SHAW Swond of Fmir Actiniae N Questions and Answers, , r age Ten pjval by the taxpayers next Nay of the Eugene school Mil make it possible to t m estimated average of IttPUDil for Plumonl-,.,. 1 PT education P "Mt year. Last year's F was $134 per pupil, F the fact that Eiieene 'rate high, both in th , this expenditure per JJJ "'in compared to Blockades land Shinni fenJ. Movement Ks-including food klU,"' ! Cltv of nearly S API . "6 uiapuie "li teamsters and 66 Ift . ,lermea the work Zih .ckoul" wne - 1 Were a"led.. teks ., uegan piling tanVv?rehouses Mon otSj Railroad and sliin- VwLP bab,y W0l,ld be car, ,?1ay' a which Cnd ,hU d be shlmted t0 ' for , TJ1" would sit idle uuaing, there would tfi 'l cffecl O" the Wert'8tnb,esa"d milk klJ.'?h Hems would rw"v.l.strike c.n- i i "i more, tney K'arlBvvM ... Daymen s KC!SA,,n said ProDoear ejected the to settle the dis- amounts spent in other Oregon schools. High school costs of a group of schools for 1945-46 ap pear below, with the Eugene high school figure at the top: Eugene . '. . $154 Corvallls 159 Oregon. City 163 Astoria . 183 Coos Bay . . 195 Bend i 159 Roseburg 163 Medford 180 Grants Pass 155 Klamath Falls . 218 Albany Salem Pendleton - 177 166 229 . Ability of the district to spend an average of $142 per pupil next year will depend on approval at next Thursday's election of a levy outside the 6 per cent limitation, amounting to $454,827. If the dis trict tried to operate without this levy, it would be able to spend only about $41 per pupil, it has been estimated by Supt. Clarence Hines. The increase per pupil,1 which (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Marshall Endorses Aid For Greece, Turkey WASHINGTON OP) Secretary of State Marshall Monday called the proposed Greek -Turkish aid program "indispensable" and told Congress he is in "complete ac cord" with its aims. Senator Vnndcnbcrg (R-Mich), nresidine of fleer 'of the Senate, an nounced Marshall's endorsement as the Senate debated the program calling for $400,000,000 in economic and limited military assistance 10 Greece and Turkey. Marshall outlined his views in a communication from Moscow. The program will come to a vote in the Senate at 4 p.m. (1 P-m. F$T) TuMdiy, ' Oakridge Mil! to Begin Pope and. Talbot, Inc., will start construction Tuesday on a new lumber mill near Oakridge first construction . step., in a million dollar project, it was announced Monday by L. L. Stewart, forester. The mill is designed for a produc tion capacity of 200,000 board feet a day. The mill pond will hold 12 mil lion feet of logs, and the mill will be linked to Oakridge by a rail road spur crossing Salmon Creek, It is expected that the 'mill will be in operation to turn out rough boards by next Jan. 1, after which installations will be continued for production of finished forest pro ducts. , . A sustained yield unit is plan ned in cooperation with the U. S. Forest Service, to provide for a steady production of 45 to 50 mil lion feet of lumber annually. The company is setting up its opera. tions with the idea of permanent production, cutting only as much timber from the unit as is. replaced annually by growth. The mill will employ about 125 men and about the same number will be working in the- woods, Stewart said, which will result in about 150 new families moving to Oakridge. Already, the company has about 25 houses and apartments f.or rent to its workers and will build ad ditional houses in Oakridge for sale to its employes at cost, said Stewart; US Steel Grants Doliar-a-Day Raise DTTTsmraRH W Agree ment nn waff increases of $1 a day for 140,000 U. S. Steel Corp. work ers Monday cheered the enure m rfnctrv with the nrosnect of a year of strike-free production. The pay hikes agreed upon Sunday by Philip Murray, presi dent of the CIO and the United Steelworkers, and J. A. Stephens, "big steel" vice-president won ,,i.ir annroval bv the union's ex- w.tu hoard. The raises affect employes of five major producing subsidaries and are expeciea icsei the wage boost pattern tor uuier steel companies as well as other industries. The nffreement will go before the union's 1.75-man wage and r,niiv mmmittee for final ap proval. The union said signature of the pact could De expecrea Tuesday. ' Accord on a new contract was v,o,ipri hv some executive board members as "a great victory." Reniamin F. Fairless of the steel corporation issued a statement in which ne saio ne hoped the cost ot ine increases nnM h taken care of in the pres ent price structure. He asked em ployes' cooperation in aosoroing tht COIU Bf imflBVUl WHiavi LANE CflflJNTy'S HOME NEWSPAPER VOL. 108 EUGJiNE, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1947 . CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 24,517 NO. Ill Conciliators Say Phone Dispute In Critical Stage Settlement Formula May Be Advanced WASHINGTON OP Smir. red by new peace pacts in steel and other industries, Labor De partment conciliators indicated Monday they may be ready to spring a new formula for settling the nationwide telephone strike. Although these ace government trouble shooters declined to out line their next step publicly at this time, thev told a rnnrtr thev feel the strike has reached a "crucial stage." Annarentlv there was nn nrni. pect of government seizure of the industry. At least. Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman said he knew of no' plans for such a move. Entering its third week' ""', 340.000-worker rjhohs fieim stnnri as the onlv mainr hlot. on nthAr. wise placid U. S. labor relations picture. Violence at Detroit ' '' ; DETROIT flJ.R) Vlol.nno flared on Detroit's tftlonhnnn niclp- et lines Monday, resulting in in juries to at least thres and an assault and battery war rant against a striker accused of kicking a policeman. Police battled pickets attempt ing to block entrances to the main jviicnigan Bell Telephone Co. of fice building and outlying exchanges. Seattle Demonstration SEATTLE OP) A demon stration by locked-arm pickets, DiocKing entrances to the main telephone company building here, broke up shortly after 9 a. m., Monday, as the pickets dwindled to about 20 and four policemen ordered the sidewalks kept clear. C. R. Garvin, member of the CIO '- American Communications Assn., said his own union and oth er non-striking unions staged the demonstration in sympathy with the striking workers. It was the first such mass picketing during the two-weeks strike. here,.,: Sabotage Reported PORTLAND 01.19 The Pa- cific Telephone and Telegraph Co., Tuesday, reported three cases of sabotage to its Portland cables.. The company report ' said that the cables were severed with a hacksaw by "someone who knew what he was doing." The cables were severed late Saturday night or early Sunday and affected service to approximately 1200' customers, the company said. Unionists Confer SAN FRANCISCO W Striking telephone workers in the five western states served by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. were summoned to strategy meetings Monday as negotiation conferences with the company were broken off. No further meetings have been scheduled between P. T. & T. and the National Federation of Tele phone Workers, the independent union which called the walkout just two weeks ago. Secret Session Fails To Break Impasse MOSCOW (U.F&T The Big Four failed Monday to reach agreement on an. Austrian peace .treaty al though they resorted to a two- hour secret session in an attempt to make a deal on three-outstanding major issues. . '.-:L . The ministers invoked the strictest, secrecy about what hap pened in their restricted meeting but" official spokesmen would not' rule out the possibility of further discussion of the Austrian issues. They said it was expected that the ministers would return to the Austrian treaty again. ' Immediate speculation was that the western powers offered the Russians a compromise or vice versa on the major obstacles to agreement and that time was asked for study. Weather V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, partly, cloudy Monday night na Tuesday, con tinued cool, with light frost pos sible Monday night. Oregon, same, with .little temperature change; frost or freezing temperatures east portion . tonight . with low temperature of 25 to 30 degrees; moderate'northwest to north winds off coast. . .. - Local statistics: Highest tem perature Sunday, 59. degrees; low Monday morning, 34 degrees; rainfall in 24 hours ending 10:30 a. m., .02 inches; total ior month, 2.42 inches; normal for month, 2.61 inches; stage of Willamette River at 7:30 a. re. Monday, plus .4 feet; wind at 11:30 a. m., North 13; prevailing Sunday, North 6. Sunrise and sunset (P8T): Tues day, 5:18 a. m. and 7:04 p. m.! Wednesday, 5:16 a. m. and 7:05 p. m. SlUSt.AW TIDES Hlfh 1J:4S t.m. 1 ft. l:4S.m. T 4 ft. Imp tiMta, MM, .till sjb.. M ft KING CHRISTIAN X, 76-year-old monarch of Denmark, died Sunday after a 15-day illness. He 1s succeeded by his son, who will rule as King Frederik IX. Danes Mourn Death of King COPENHAGEN OI.R) King Frederik IX, 48, led his 4,000,000 subjects Monday in mourning for his father, King Christian X, who died Sunday night after a popular reign of nearly 35 years, spanning two world wars. The new king and his queen, formerly Princess Ingrid of Swe den, drove to Christianborg Cha pel alone early Monday and re ceived holy communion. King Proclaimed Prime Minister Knud Kristen sen read the formal proclamation of Frederik's succession from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace while a 81-gun salute was fired and all churches rang their bells. The cabinet offered its formal res ignation but was asked to remain in office. , Although the death of the 76-year-old Christian had been ex pected since he suffered a stroke Easter Sunday, the Danes were deeply moved. There was univer sal, agreement with Kristensen's words, "We have lost a beloved king and a good, true Dane;" The body of the 6 foot, 6 inch king will, lie in state in Amlein borg Palace, where he diefl. for two days. It then will be borne to the Christiansborg Church to lie in state another' eight. 48.. Traditional Burial i :'iL iy ':;,,, Burial will be at the Cathedral of Roskilde, where Danish kings have been'buried for the past 1000 years. . . r , ;.!.., ' Denmark will be in a state ol mourning-tor-six months. ' Succession, of Frederik IX car ries on a custom that Danish kings alternately are named Christian and Frederik. .' Only once since 1448 has there been a break in this tradition. - That was : King Hans Jn-1481. .. , . Dept. of Interior Funds Slashed By Committee Northwest Project Appropriations Cut WASHINGTON (U.B Swinging its sharpest economy axe to date, the House Appropriations Com mittee Monday chopped 43 per cent off the funds asked by Presi dent Truman for the Interior De. partment. It voted to give the department $183,649,313 for fiscal 1948 instead of the recommended S322.531.220. The total incliBW $27,110,800 which Congress is required by law to give the department each year. Omitting these funds over which the committee, has no discretion, the slash was nearly. 50 per cent. For Its vast projects, the de partment's reclamation bureau . was allotted only $62,717,600 of the $145,952,200 recommended a 50 per cent out From a percentage standpoint, the cut in interior department funds was the biggest voted by the committee in any of the three major appropriations bills it has acted on thus far. It trimmed the Treasury-Postof-fice bill from $13,285,302,721 to $12,386,029,971. But the $897,272, 750 reduction though the biggest in dollars represented only a 6 per cent saving. The $78,825,520 cut it made in the originally re quested $1,763,412,300 for the La bor Department and federal secur ity agency represented a saving of only about iVz per cent. Senate May Relent The bill is due for House action late this week. - The bill will go to the Senate, which usually is more liberal in voting money for the Interior Department . WASHINGTON (U.B Funds rec ommendations by B.e House Ap propriations Committee for the two major water and power projects in the Pacific Northwest were about two thirds below original budget estimates, said to be "se verely limited." . , President Truman asked Con gress for $20,278,000, for the Bon neville Power Administration and $27,500,000 for the Columbia Basin Project. . . .. ' , , -'The economy - minded House committee recommended only $6, 907,800 for Bonneville and $9, 435,000 .for the Columbia Basin project. REDS BURN SUPPLIES NANKING U.R) Large fires were reported in the Ching-Chin coal mining area, 27 miles west of Shihchiachuang in Southern Hopei Province, Monday as the Commun ists applied the "scorched earth" policy to the coal supplies they captured last week. ST I: zmmzm . i.-ar )i' tos r, -.:v; THAT 'GREEN STUFF on the table will be translated Into green playing fields for Eugene's kids, and the determination of Century Fund Parks and Playgrounds backers is that the change will come soon. Shown here adding to the stack is Jack Vlckery, 53 Fifteenth Ave. W. Leta Mae Brant, left, and Pauline Burris are guarding the table. (Wiltshire photo and engraving). . . Kids' Drive for Parks Rolls On Beyond Halfway Marker The kids were past the 50-yard line Montiay in their drive to the $50,000 Century Fund goal for parks and playgrounds, and indi cations were that by the end of the week they would be in touch down territory. . The Saturday night total stood at $27,633. Colin Kelly School was the first to report complete returns. At the Monday meeting of school dis trict chairmen in. the Eugene Ho tel, Colin Kelly School leaders an nounced that all 398 calls in the scattered district were finished and that $502.84 had been col lected and turned in. 109 Needed Mrs, L. B. Schmidt, who pre sided, announced that nlf 109 of the needed 1106 workers remain to be recruited. Roosevelt school needs 19 workers; Washington, 36; Willard, 14; Wilson, 25; Edison, 5; Condon, 5 in the main district and 8 in Riverview section. Schools will be open from 7 till 9 p. m. Monday, Mrs. Schmidt said, but during the rest of the week packets will ha,ve to be turned in to school principals dur ing school hours. All calls must be completed and packets turned in by close of school on Friday, she said. One from Texa- W. Rosborough, - former owner of the Rosborough Lumber (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) 'Hold Prices' Nation Bid By Truman President Calls for Prompt Action ; To Prevent Boom-and-Bust Cycle NEW YORK (UP) President Truman warned Monday that the much-predicted economic depression might well be come a reality unless labor and industry take "prompt" stepi to halt the "sharp and rapid rise in prices." In a major address here on both domestic and foreign issues, the President asked business to lower prices where profits are excessive, urged labor to use moderation in. wage demands and appealed to farmers to make an all-out effort to produce more goods. , Mr. Truman, speaking before the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, said America was shattering all records for peacetime production but that. Fire Destroys Daintee Plant Vera Minkler, manager of the Daintee Brand potato chip plant and wholesale grocery distributor's office at 260 Ferry St., Monday morning surveyed the ruins of his building after the fire Sunday night which did damage unoffici ally estimated at $125,000. The fire was reported at 8:02 p.m. and city firemen had the blaze Firemen Thanked Mrs. Mary Zunke, 477 Thir teenth Ave. E., said Monday that she wanted everyone to "give a big hand" to the city fire depart ment for Its "prompt, wonder ful" work In "going right into the flames." She said the whole block of homes would have been destroyed had the firemen been slow, and pointed out that the plant contained highly-Inflammable vegetable oils. under control within an. hour but the intense heat destroyed tons of' food stocks and valuable equip ment. - ; . ' , ; ,'.. ;. Partly Insured . Office Manager Harry. Nelson was not prepared to make precise estimate of the damagt but said it was "partially covered by in surance, , : , Also lost in the same fire was the stock and some equipment, of Chefs Famous Foods manufac turing plant in the northern end of the building. ' F. W. Brunner, manager of Chefs plant, said -that he expected to be in temporary quarters this week and supplying customers. Will Supply . . . - Minkler had received word Monday morning that a Washing ton concern would supply potato chips to his specifications and that he would be supplying his buyers In "two or three days." The two-story building was al most a total loss with only the front two end walls still standing. The second floor, used to store stocks of some .250 food -products, was a knee-deep mesa of gooey pickles, corn meal, flour, exploded tomato cans, and thousands of gallons of water. Seek Cause City, fire marshals were Inves tigating the ruins in an effort to determine the cause of the blaze. No one was in the build ing when the fire started but ear lier in the afternoon some em ployes had been at work in pre paration for expanding production this week. Both Minkler and Brunner ob served that it was "pretty dis-. couraging just as the busy season is starting." Both were confident that they could be filling orders this week, however, and Minkler said that the plant would be re built "just as soon as possible," probably on the same site. Merger CIO-AFL Discussions Invited WASHINGTON UP) The AFL Executive Council Monday invited the CIO peace committee to con fer here Thursday on merger of the two big labor organizations. AFL President. William Green announced . the invitation after a meeting of the council to discuss general problems, including the prospect that congress -will enact sharp restrictions on labor union activities. Green said a telegram was dis patched to CIO President Philip Murray suggesting nhe meeting. The groups have made frequent gestures toward union, but no real progress in that direction. The council's decision to bring up the matter again at this time appeared traceable to the crisis building up for labor unions in the form of legislation in Congress. Baseball national n.n.r. Cincinnati .000 0M 000 O 3 1 Chicago 1.000 003 OOx 3 10 1 peteraon, Rlddla (S) and Latnannoi wyse ana ncneninv. , American " n.n.r. Chicago .... JO oil 000 a 10 Dcirolt .. ,.000 0,10 0104 7 soaring prices were forming the "one cloud" that Is "shad owing bur economic future." "Some say this eloud Is certain to burst," the President Mid. "They are sure of a recession or depression. I do not share their ' belief that either of these is In evitable. "I believe that we, as a nation. can prevent this economic cloud- burst. But It requires prompt. preventive steps." In his address, which was broad cast nationally, the President also: 1. Called for extfmslon of rent control, now scheduled to die June 30, until construction costs are lowered and the present acute housing shortage is eased. ' ' it. Reiterated his opposition to income tax reductions In thla period of "great inflationary pressures." J. Said credit controls cannot be relaxed so long as prices are high, 4. Warned that recent Increases in wholesale prices carried the "inevitable" promise of still high er prices at retail stores. 5. urged malntence- of exsert controls to avoid additional pres- ' sure on domestic prices from for eign purchases. ' - -: ' . 6. Rejected charges' that the government' a farm price- support program was a large factor in cur rent high food. prices.. Without H, he said, production would be dis couraged and resultant shortage would thenjselves. force; prices up. Die As Freight Hit A Portland eounle-met Instant death at 4:03 a.m. Monday when the car-they were driving 'south crashed into a southbound Oregon Electric freight train, at tie Har risburg crossing. - They were Mr. and Mrs. Leo 3. Murphy, about 39 and 37, whose address was given by Linn Coun ty Coroner Glenn Huston as 7828 North Willamette Blvd., Portland. w. n. uunnam, Portland, con ductor of the train, said he gaw the 1941 Mercurv auto enmln about a mile away, and that it was uavcmig at a nign speed. The train, he said, was loins about in to 12 miles an hour. The car crashed Into the train, derailing one freight car loaded witn Hour. The car was dragged 130 yards down the track and de molished. Personal effects of the couple were scattered along the' tracks. ; Dr. D. O. Clark, Harrisburg, first at the scene of the1 accident, " said he had never seen such com- plete destruction. , Coroner Huston said the couple died instantly. A fractured skull " was given as the cause of death . for Murphy, while his wife died of a crushed chest. Both also suf fered other injuries. With the exceDtion of the con ductor, there were no witnesses of tne accident. Huston said 1 Mr. and Mn. Murphy were apparently on their way to Myrtle Creek from Port land. He was engaged In the trucking business. The bodies were taken to Miller Sherman Mortuary In Junction City. Names of survivors had not been learned late Monday, but Huston said he believed at least one young son survives the couple. Texas City Disaster Toll Still Climbing . TEXAS CITY WW Roy Wade. official of the Department of Pub- . lie Safety, announced Monday that the explosion-dead in this sorrow ing coastal city now totals 421 and said the death list will total not less than 575. Wade, administrative assistant to Col, Homer Garrison, chief of the Texas agency, said 295 persona still are missing and 132 victims remain unidentified. Mayor J. C. Trahan reassured Texas City that there was no danger of new explosions from leaking naphtha gas. . ' Earlier Trahan had criticized the Red Cross for its handling of relief activities in the blast-torn town. An official of the Red Cross, 1 1 however, assured him that the or- Orove. Papbfc (S) and Trash: . New- aaxi-atlnn rfnlx and . . .. . .. - houstr. Bnton (8) XaMMtta, Iwlft (N, Overman (01 . and possible to aid victims.