CITY EDITION
Forecast: Continued fair ard warm. Western
Oregon, fame.
Temperature!: High Tuesday, 90 degrees; low
Wednesday, S3 degrees.
LANE COUNTTO HOME NEWSPAKA
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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949
Phone 5-1551
ounty Court Tells
Ferry St. Villagers
to Start Moving
r ox n.irfor. community must be vacate
vacated within
morn-
- ct Bridge community must be vacated
TheTS'-BBcounty Court ordered Wednesday
days, we
'.' j iH the two-vear-old community would
Pe abandoned to make way for the new bridge, the
U to be aoanu fee m property now occupied
F? TIV. ,nH shanties in wai
Lthe P ...,: .Wrri
Among the am"-
rirHSreMr. and
" Charles Johnson and
I S?..!! sons-tnp-
r,., born Monday.
ts-wu; .h chiidren.
h,m are " . .,
Foresters Alert
As Fire Danger
Reaches Class 6
Drying Winds Make
Timber Like Tinder.
(in a
. . ,. ..MmlinilV
"without au-
K from T
K one competent to give
M",, vacated is near
ST .nnroach of the -bridge
by isiana -
L,M residents fail to move
ifsns necessary vu uU .
The court order was
,tt residents who had been .told
...rim, that July 1 was the ab-
iS .deadline for them to move
(f the land.
h ronrt's warning last
Lrinr there were an estimated
111 persons living In the com
unitr. At that time 65 of the
ttioenta were colored and 38
( them white.
t rilrk general chair
In of the citizens' committee to
Km the nroblem said his com-
rtee had determined that most
the families were able to pay
Lhen $10 and $40 a momn
I The court order evicting the
louatters" came on-the heels of
onday night's city council ac-
asking the governor to rec
amend removal of rent controls
the area. The council's reso
lion to the governor stated
Fhtrt no longer exists such a
nrttee of rental housing accom
odations as to require rent Con
or The council approved the
solution t to 1, with Council
is. Ray Allen casting the only
lative vote. ,
Ifeel Union Sets
trike Friday
PITTSBURGH UP) rh
tlO-United Steelworkers Wed
fsdty ordered a strike effective
pldnlrht Friday against steel
mis wmch have rejected
Presidential 60-dav ra
jWtwal accepted by the union.
PlTTSBimriw m..
oreeiworkers svin,.
k-.J Tn. , i n i . c
r". "saay accepted a pres
IHmal nlan fnr t, fin.j,,,
fke Jelay but failed tn min-
f 1 whether steel concerns re
tag the plan would be included
uuce.
July one steolmoi,.. t .
lathlm Jones at
nt1W.hM "CCCpted Presi-
4m nation's t0P
Nu ' t"che"i and Republic
1 Mv reiected th wni. ,rc
fftnui v '""le ouse
AchesonSays
Arms Figure
Is Rock Bottom
WASHINGTON () Secre
tary of State Acheson Wednesday
flatly opposed any cut in the ad
ministration s projected $1,450,
000,000 foreign arms aid program
He said this figure represents
the absolute minimum needed for
Western Europe and other areas,
The secretary stated his position
at a news conference while oppo
sition led by Senator Taft ( It-
Ohio) was wiping out prospects
for a quick Senate vote on the
North Atlantic Treaty.
Oppose Commitments
The small group opposing the
defense agreement centered their
fire on the military aid program
and the commitments carried in
the pact.
Acheson also commented on an
other issue which has arisen on
Capitol Hill. He agreed with Sen
ator Dulles (R-NY) that the
United States delegation at. the
Big Four Foreign Ministers' meet
ing in Paris had considered
whether the American people
should be kept "artifically alarm
ed" and had rejected the idea
completely.
The matter came up, Acheson
said, in discussion of whether the
Russians might try to create a
false sense of peace and security
Dy making a snow of cooperation.
Made Decision
The U. S. delegation, he added.
decided that it should not reject
any possible avenue of cooperation
wun tne soviet Union merely be,
cause acceptance of tne avenue
might relax tension in the world
Majority Leader Lucas (D-Ill)
said he may keep the Senfcte in
session Saturday to reach a vote
on the 12-nation alliance designed
to strengthen the defenses of the
West against attack.
aii!Kf RnhM ....... p..
midnight. President Truman
pramaH - a .
pat board investigated the is-
S. Steel and tat.t.t-i
twola7r.V'e,n!m-.,ne
ssiit , ' a':el proauc
CM o' the
Mart ( ..""" oelnlel
tsairt iest s,eel Produc.
said their rejection tu.
!t wuM h.u "ol mean
ldonr. ..
J in aV,7. s W0Ula con-
hiA7..n Wltn con
pt ycar "' xpire until
"e.wcommunirnf
1 Cofholic Reds
WlCAN rti-,.
lves t r "'cs wno attach
utomar,n"n.'Smwillin
f3 of the d ""-"mmunica-jrch.
' Roman Catholic
? vtican
Pleasant Work,
This Business
Of Excavating
CINCINNATI W) Who says
ditch-digging can't be fun? Men
working on a downtown build
ing excavation here think it is,
While diggine Tuesday, thev
broke into a long-forgotten wine
cellar and discovered hundreds
of bottles of that fermented
drink. Some of the wine was
more than 100 years old.
ine oest wine we ve ever
tasted," they heartily agreed,
The bottles bore faded labels
saying the contents were "ia
valuable for general debility,
loss of appetite, prostration and
nursing mothers."
The spirits, then about 75
years old, should be consumed
"three times a day," said the
labels.
Old time Cincinnati residents
said the cellars were part of
the old Longworth Wine House
which went out of business more
than 50 years ago.
This area's forest protective
tVio ' Sroups were keeping close watch
uti uuiici.aiiua i cunceua.v lilt:
danger reached "Class 6"
scale which runs 1-7).
A strong drying northeast wind
combined with low humidity
readings and tinder-box forest
conditions made a forest fire in
Lane a definite threat.
Monday and- Tuesday wind
velocity reached 23 miles an hour
in some places and the humidity
went as low as 25 per cent. The
possibility of lightning in the
mountains increased the hazard.
But, although an average of
about three small fires have been
reported each day throughout the
county, no large blazes have occurred.
Fire in Malheur
Other parts of Oregon were not
so fortunate. A 1500 acre fire in
the Malheur National Forest,
touched off Tuesday during a
lightning storm, was still burning
out of control.
One fire in Western Oregon,
covering 400 acres in Coos
County, was under control. The
fire broke out Monday afternoon
on Coos Bay Lumber Company
holdings east of Sitkum. As late as
Tuesday afternoon the fire still
was burning slowly and had eaten
into green timber, although lunv
ber company employes and Coos
County fire patrolmen had con.
trol.
West Lane Fire Patrol reported
three small fires during the past
two days In the face of "Class 6
readings. Broken glass around an
abandoned house owned by Fred
Brown started a grass fire Mon
day which burned three ' acres
about one and one-half miles
from patrol headquarters at Ven
eta. Officials said the fire jumped
considerably and almost got away.
A railroad fire Monday caused
by sparks from a signal burned
an acre of grass near Penn. be
tween Walton and Noti.
Small One at Cheshire
About one-fourth acre of slash
burned Tuesday near Cheshire at
an abandoned mill site.
West Lane's weather readings
included a wind velocity average
which reaehed 19 miles, nd . av
eraged five miles an hour. Humi
dity was 23 per cent at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday A "Class 5" day was ex
pected Wednesday.
Fire danger recorded by East
Lane patrol reached "Class 6"
Wednesday, after two days of
Class 5." Wind velocity reached
18 miles Tuesday with an average
of 14 miles. Humidiity hit a low
of 29 per cent and averaged 36
per cent.
East Lane officials reported fuel
sticks down Wednesday with very
slight fuel recovery overnight.
Mop-Up on McKenzie
Crews were mopping up a one-
fourth acre logging slash blaze
Wednesday which started Tues
day evening at McKenzie Ridge
south of Walterville at the logging
operations of Chris Keller,
Willamette Forest officials said
Wednesday morning that there
was no area within their jurisdic
tion with more than a "Class 5
day. District rangers report in on
an emergency basis when condi
tions go beyond this point. The
area near Detroit was Class 6 on
Friday of last week.
Classifications on fire danger
made during the season are based
on fuel moisture content in the
woods and on wind velocity and
humidity. Humidity is not so im
portant except that it contributes
to likelihood of forest blazes.
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Rites Held for Five
Newsmen Killed
In India Crash
BOMBAY, India (UP) The remains of five of 14 Ameri
can correspondents killed in a plane crash Tuesday were
cremated Wednesday after simple ceremonies.
Protestant and Catholic clergymen conducted joint Dutch
American services for Na't Barrows of the Chicago Daily
News, James Branyan of the Houston Post, William Newton
of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Bertram Hulen;
of the New York Times and Miss Elsie Dick of the Mutual'
Broadcasting System.
U. S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and his staff attended
the cremation. He flew here Wednesday morning from New'
Delhi to help identify the victims. The bodies of all but one
of the correspondents Fred Colvig of the Denver Post
have been identified.
Police still were searching the muddy hillside where the
plane crashed for 12 missing bodies. Many of the 33 bodies
already found were mangled beyond recognition. They were
removed to a Bombay morgue.
Henderson had entertained 13 of the ill-fated group of 14,
newsmen returning from Indonesia at his embassy Sunday
night. Three other American newsmen who also were at ths
party accompanied him here
WHILE THE CAB investigated the Tuesday crash which claimed the lives of 34 air
line passengers, rescue workers on the scene at Susana Pass in San Fernando Valley,
California, rummaged through the smoldering wreckage searching for the missing bodies
of the victims. The pilot, who was killed in the crash, had just radioed that there was a
fist fight among passengers, before the Curtiss Commando plowed into the rocky hill
side. CAB investigators tentatively decided the fight had nothing to do with the crash.
(Wiltshire engraving.)
CAB Probes Plane Crash
Which Claimed 34 Lives
CHATSWORTH, Cal.- 0J.R) ,
Pilot Roy G. White was 2000 feet I
below officially prescribed alti
tude when he smashed a C-46
Commando into the Santa Susana
Mountains with loss of 34 of its
48 occupants, Civil Aeronautics
Board Inspector James Peyton
said Wednesday.
"I think I know why he was
too low, but I don't want to say
Reuther Seeks
Tight Control
MILWAUKEE VP) Stronger
than ever and starting his newly
won third presidential term, Wal
ter Reuther sought Wednesday to
make absolute his control of the
CIO United Auto Workers.
This goal was regarded by ob
servers at the union's convention
as a possibility but no cinch.
All four top officers won hands-
down re-election late Tuesday
over weak, left-wing opposition
that was only a ghost of another
faction that once dominated the
million-member UAW.
Big Majority
Reuther overpowered W. G,
Grant, ex-president of the big
Ford Local 600, by a 12 to 1 mar
gin. The final but unofficial vote
count was 8080 to 672.
. Reuther will hold his post until
the next convention in April, 1851
some 20 months hence.
why until we complete our in
vestigation and hold a formal
hearing," he said.
, He said he was convinced a
fight between two pssaangers J
had no bearing on the orash,
The plane, owned by Standard
Airlines, a nonscheduled . line,
crashed and. burned in Santa Sus,
ana pass Tuesday morning as
White was coming in for a land
ing at Lockheed Air Terminal,
Burbank. N
Deputy Coroner John Bragg of
Ventura County said the bodies
of 33 dead were recovered. Four
teen injured were identified and
one passenger was unaccounted
for and presumed dead. The Air
line said that one of the originally
reported 49 occupants Lois
Tucker apparently failed to
board the plane at Kansas City.
Peyton said he and hit In
vestigators would spend "an
other two or three days" dig
ging through the charred
wreckage strewn among the
boulders In an effort to eon
form his opinion of why White
was flying at 1600 feet Instead
of 2500 as prescribed by the
CAB.
"Everything else about his ap
proach was normali" Peyton said.
"He came in on the right leg,
contacted the control tower at
,th ' proper points; lowered his
landing gear as prescribed, and
made the correct procedure turn
He added tnat visibility was
adequate, pointing out that a Call.
fornia Central 'Airlines pilot in
the air awaiting, his turn to land
was able to see the burning
wreckage of Whites plane from
the prescribed altitude of 3500
feet.
Deputy Coroners Bragg and
Frank Watkins concentrated Wed,
nesday on identification of the 33
recovered bodies. They said some
may never be identified positively
because they were so badly burn
ed and mangled.
The wreck scene was grue
some. Bodies were strewn along
a ridge for half a mile, some
sprawled over rocks and others
dismembered by the impact,
Survivors fought free of the
burning plane and some wandered
down the narrow box canyon to
ward a fire roadway.
Ambulances rushed the victims
to hospitals and mortuaries in
Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.
McKay Honors
Lost Newsmen
From Oregon
SALEM (U.P.) Gov. Douglas
McKay of Oregon issued the fol
lowing statement after the crash
of a Dutch air liner, which killed
45 persons including 13 Ameri
can newspaper correspondents
near Bombay, India. Tuesday:
"The State of Oregon joins
the rest of the nation in mourn
ing the deaths of 13 of Amer
ica's outstanding newsmen in
Tuesday's air line crash near
Bombay,
"This tragedy strikes particu
larly close to home because
three of the victims, George
Moorad of the Oregonian-KGW,
Fred Colvig of the Denver Post
and Charles Gratlte of the Chris
tian Science Monitor, were na
tive Oregonians. . .
. , ."The Moorads, theGratkes
and the Colvigs are not run-of-the-mill
Journeymen. Theirs has
been, Is and will be an inestim
able service to the public and to
the maintenance of a free press
in America."
Steaming rains sluicing
down the hilly scene of the
crash hampered the search
for the remaining bodies. .,
The plane was en route to Am
sterdam from Batavia when it
crashed. It apparently lost its wvlf
in a heavy rain after attempting
to land at Bombay's Santa Cruz
Airport.
J. C. Flgott, control tower
operator at Santa Criu, said ha ,
first made contact with the air-
liner when it was seven mln---utes
from the field at an alt!-
tude of 7000 faet.
Pigott said he talked the pilot
down to 1500 feet, then directed
him to take a course which would
lead out over the sea and back on
to the runway.
"I asked the pilot to report at
500 feet, which he did," Pigott
said. "He was flying contact -J-
he could see the ground."
Pigott said the plane cam
over the field at 500 feet and the
tower told the pilot to ascend to
800 feet after cautioning him
about hills to the northeast.
"We could see him clearly and
the pilot was climbing to 800 feet,"
Pigott said. "That was the last wi
heard."
Public to Decide
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The citizens' committee for a
new county-wide office building
Tuesday approved a motion by
Ralph Rogers, Creswell, to con
duct a poll of Lane County news
paper readers to determine whe
ther the public wants a separate
city hall and courthouse, or a
combination government building
under a proposed program to pro
vide needed office space for over
crowded governmental agencies.
The motion came after mem
bers of the county court said they
favored a separate building for
county offices.
State Contacted
Chairman Guy Wright of
Springfield said that state officials
"THE FLYING GARDNERS" get ready their latest model airplane to make sure Its all tuned np
for the Plymouth model plane contest this week-end In Eugene. Keith, age 18, with his back to the
camera, has been called the best model plane stunt flyer In the state by Paul Price, president of
the Eugene Prop Spinners Club. Both he, and his brother Ken. age 17. are long-time rival, even
though both compete In separate age group.. Father. Ed Gardner, and mother "Dell assist both
boyj In all aviation meets, and the familv attend, practically a'l scheduled contests. Charter mem
ber. of the Prop Spinner., the Gardner, will compete Saturday In thj f-rsl-day . activities on the
fmpu. They will not compete In the Sunday eventi at Mahlon Sweet Airport. (Andy Foster hoto,
Wiltsiurt engraving.)
Mercury Hits
90 Tuesday
It was 90 In Eugene Tuesday,
exactly as the weather bureau
predicted.
But the worst was yet to come.
Weathermen shyly admitted that
Wednesday's high would be in the
neighborhood of 93 degrees, and
that no relief from the heat wave
wa, In sight, at least over the
weekend.
Humidity . was low at the
weather bureau Tuesday, reaching
the 25 per cent mark. It will be
that low again Wednesday, or
lower.
Weather at the coast has been
cloudy or foggy in the mornings,
with drizzle. The afternoons have
been clear. Temperatures there
are staying moderately low, in
'the 60a,
are being contacted to determine
the extent of state participation
which can be expected in the pro
posed development. State offices
are now scattered throughout the
city.
Mayor V. Edwin Johnson of
Eugene announced at the meeting
that the city would be forced to
proceed with a temporary Jail
without waiting for the new
building or buildings to material
ize. The step, approved by the city
council Monday, would not be in
conflict with the overall plans to
build a new city hall and court
house, however, but would be a
temporary emergency expansion
only.
New Members
Mayor Johnson also named
Councilmen J. Don Smith and
Robert Booth to the committee,
The new members will Join W. L.
Davis, an original member, in
representing the city of Eugene
on the committee.
The city council also pledged
$1000 to match a like sum pledged
by the county to underwrite the
expenses of the planning commit
tee.
Chairman Wright, Frank Reld,
and Howard Buford will serve on
the committee to conduct the
newspaper poll of the county, and
President
j To Talk
WASHINGTON MP) Pres.
ident Truman Is going to sit
down Wednesday night and tell
the American people about his
prescription for heading off a
depression.
He wants to get over to them
his Idea that there is nothing
to be scared about In the moder
ate economic decline unless
folks get panicky.
And he wants to defend the
fiscal policy of his administra
tion against criticism by some
members of Congress. '
The President will talk to the
nation over four major radio
networks and via television
from a desk in the movie pro
jection room at the White House.
This first major so-called
"Fireside Chat" by Mr. Truman
this year is scheduled for 6:30
p. m. (PST).
The talk, White House aides
said, will be on elaboration of
his midyear economic report to
Congress on Monday. In this he
scrapped earlier demands for a
$4,000,000,000 tax increase and
proposed an 11-point program to
expand production, employment
and purchasing power.
The theme of that message
was that the country cannot
have prosperity "by getting ad
justed to the idea of a depres
sion by cutting investment or
employment or wages or essen
tial government programs."
s
State FEPC
Advisors Told
SALEM (P) Seven Portland
residents will make up the State
Advisory Council on Fair Employ
ment Practices, Gov. Douglas Mc
Kay announced Wednesday.
The council will assist State La
bor Commissioner W. E. Klmsey
in administering the state's new
FEPC law, which becomes effect
ive next Saturday.
The law prohibits employers,
labor unions and employment ag
encies from discriminating against
any person because of his race or
religion.
Members of the council are:
Ulysses Plummer, former assist
ant district attorney at Kansas
City, Mo., and Oregon's only negro
attorney: Mrs. J. H. Thomas: Dav.
id Robinson, lawyer, president of i 1L T Y.e y "
Giant Program
For Reclamation
WASHINGTON (P) Tht
biggest reclamation program yet
has been approved by the Senate
Appropriations Committee for the
year which started July 1.
But the commlttee which re
ported a $590,685,911 Interior De
partment money bill Tuesday to
the Senate announced that it
pruned several controversial pub
lic power projects from the Recla
mation Bureau plans.
Trimmed Funds .
Gone from the bill as It was
passed by the House were funds
for the Central Valley "west side"
transmission lines and steam
plant, th Kerr-Anaconda power
line in Montana, two power line
on the Colorado-Big Thompson
project In Colorado, a power Una
and switchyards on the Anderson
Ranch dam project in Idaho, and
several proposals of the South
west Power Administration. ;'.
Cutting deep into the power
program advanced by the Inter
ior Department through, several of
its agencies, the committee indi
cated that, if private utilities will
promise to do the job of deliver
ing government power to prefer
red customers of the government,
it Is willing to give them .tne
chance.
Want Report
In each instance, the committee
directed the .Interior Department
to report to the House and Sen
ate by Jan. 1, 1950 on progress
made on negotiating contracts
with the private utilities for
"wheeling" government power.' '
It voted to raise project con
struction funds to $331,734,780
from the $296,530,537 voted by the
House. '
Following are. the amounts vot
ed by the committee for Pacifie
Northwest reclamation projects.
House figures are shown in pa
renthesis. NW Projects
Columbia Basin, Wash., $70,
034,390 ($59,075,000); Anderson
Ranch, Idaho, ;l,300,014 ($1,642,
200); Boise Payette Division,
Idaho, $2,725,000 ($2,316,250);
Lewlston Orchards, Idaho, $270,-
000 ($229,500); Minidoka Project,
all newspapers published In the tional Association of Firefighters:
county are being asked to cooper
ate by printing a ballot which will
be distributed in the near future.
City Manager Oren King will
prepare a list of the Eugene of
fices needing space In the new
building, and Floyd Githcns of
Cottage Grove will be in charge
of preparing a similar list lor the
leounty.
for preconstruction.
the Portland City Club, and a tsamej; rausaaes, laano,
Jewish leader; Al McCreadv.lKO'.OOO ($174,250): Deschutes,
chairman of the Oregonian unit:0re- $176,700 ($153,000); De
of the CIO American Newspaper jschutes Arnold Irrigation District,
Guild. Ore., $38,000 ($32,800); Deschutes
S. Stevens, 9th district vlce-!Ochoco Dam, Ore., $1,150,000
president of the AFL Interna-! ($977,500); .Deschutes Grants
Patt. Ktnnnnn mmiM aiinur4
Herald Campbell, personnel man
ager of the Pacific Power St Light
Co.; Francis Kern, Portland, Cath
olic layman.
TUNA BOATS MOVE OUT
ASTORIA tUR) Astoria's tuna
fleet I heading for sea Wcdnes
day after the first scout boats
returned to port Tuesday.
nothing); Klamath, Ore.-Calif.,
$803,460 ($850,000); Yakima, Roza
division, Wash., $413,205 ($382,
462). Disapproved by the committee
were $350,000 for the proposed
extension of power lines to Orcal
Island In Washington, and a re
quest for funds to construct tht
Canbv substation in Oregon.
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