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.11 f ACCENT ON YOUTH Wore than 70 per cent of the COMMUNITY CHEST budget I. for our boys and girls. The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy Sunday, becom ing cloudy with showers Monday. Temperatures: Expected high Sunday, 65. Expected low Sunday night, 40. High Saturday was 59 degrees. LAME COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. No. 294 (FOUR SECTIONS 46 PACES) iYear, EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1951 SUNDAY EDITION Phone 5-1551 mm rm -rm.m t4r rmy -at m. To Influence Vote Results ; Pieces of Controversial Legislation Left ;To Burn Through 1952 Presidential Year J By DON BROWN Kecltter-Gnsrd Stiff Writer admitted conspiracy by some representatives of field's Utility Board to suppress news of the com . board election, Nov. 6, was revealed this week, 'just prior to a petition-filing deadline Wednesday, the od Secretary Frank R. Brown admitted nothing had a told the press about the coming election, because fl planned it that way." Brown added, "We figured on giving the election 7 to the press after the filing deadline Wednesday date for anyone else to come in with petitions for board nhprshio." Tuesday morning a Register-Guard reporter attempted get details of tne election irom tne power manager. He i asked, "You don't want that Information today, do m!" Then Tuesday afternoon Brown explained the news j'hpm held up for the Wednesday filing deadline. The secretary, who also is manager of Springfield's aicipal power system, said tnis was done to prevent mne favorable to Mountain States Power Co. from run- for the board post or to block any other candidate tmmoletelv in sympathy with the present board. Mountain' States Power Co., privately financed, and the aicipal power system have Uews Held Record - Smashing Congress Controversial Session engaged in sKirmisnes iu fcolthe Springfield service since the city entered the ier business in 1949. S; Recorder William D. Boll s'hose duty it will be to sup lie the election procedure, was id town during the early part it week. Saturday, Bollman 1 he had no knowledge that an apt waj being made to' sup- any news. Sines of candidates still can mitten in at the election, he t even though nominating loiu hare not been filed for m and their names will not itrinted on the ballot. Usder Springfield'a ordinance tbl up utility board proced a, the annual election must be If the first Tuesday after the i Monday in November. Twen ty's prior to the election is the 4ine for the city recorder to' ve candidate's petitions. FI1 'deadline his year, therefore, I Wednesday, tie Ballot Us year D. H. Offley Is a ean tte to succeed himself for a i beginning Jan. 1, 1852, and In! Jan. 1, 1957. And Dean ni Is running for an unexplr krm ending Jan. 1, 1954. fcveni was appointed by the (d In th spring of this year I George Fierce resigned. His Intment was until "the next Springfield City Council r has not yet officially set the time and place for Nov. 6 election, but documents have been prepared for council action Monday night, set ting City Hall as the polling place, with the hours 8 a.m. until 8 D.m, The election will be the first board election. Voters established the utility board in November, 1B50. i ive members were appoint ed by the council, and they drew lots for dates of term expirations. John W. Boeshans, president of the utility board, Saturday emphatically denied that it was the Intention of the board as a whole suppress any informa tion on deadline flllnr. "I have never expressed that thought, nor have I heard any board member express it," he said. "Some individual board members might have expressed it, however.' Qualifications Qualifications for' membership to the utility board includes the following provisions: That they be qualified voters and must have been residents of the City of Springfield for one year prior to their appointment or election to the board. Also, under the charter amend ment, "No member so appointed or elected shall have any interest in a utility which offers the same or a similar utility service that is offered by the city of Springfield in competition with such city." Ends County Bastille Has Mysterious Breach in Walls Lane County's antiquated jail had another hole in its back wall late Saturday night. Sometime during the night a foot-square hole was chiselled through the jail's double walls. Apparently no exit was made. At presstime. details were meager. Sheriff Tom Swartz was making a shake-down of prisoners in the bull pen and several had been strioped down, in an apparent search for the instrument used in breaking through the old walls. The hole was seen easily from inside and out and led directly into the main room of the jail. It was about head-high. Heavy grillwork outside the wall seemed untouched. New Route to Coast Due Vancouver Rain Welcomes Royal Guests to West VANCOUVER, B. C. (CP) The rain fell, but it didn't wet down Vancouver's welcome for its royal guests, A soaking rain was showering down during the afternoon as Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip went through the city streets. It was the first time they had run into rain for a parade on their transcontinental tour. But the crowds huddled In slickers, or standing bareheaded, gave the royal pair the warmth of reception for which this bustling "Gateway .to the Orient" is noted. There were between 300,000 and 400,000 lining about 20 miles of sidewalks for the different drives of the royal pair through the seaport city, some dry and some wet at various times. It was just cloudy and mildly cool in the morning for the arrival, and then the rain came along for the after noon doings. Drivers Strike BEND, Ore. (P) Pacific Trailways bus service came to a nearly complete halt Satur day as AFL drivers went on strike. The company serves Oregon. Idaho and Utah. Sutherlin-Oakland 99-S By-Pass Talks Reveal Prospect By PHIL WOLCOTT Red iter-Guard Staff Writer By the time the proposed! Highway 99 by-pass is built around Sutherhn and Oakland, another route to the coast will have been opened from that area to rival the present route from Drain. That's the story people In Sutherlin ' got from the Oregon State Highway Commission at a recent hearing. Actually a new road will not be built, but existing 'highway 225 will be improved. And it won't go clear to the coast, but will connect with the Drain' Reedsport highway at Elkton as it does now. This route, which could con ceivably "steal" northbound tourists on the way to the coast ; before they got to Drain, is "due for a dressing," including sur- , facing, next year, according to the assistant state highway en gineer, W. C. Williams, All About 99-S Hearings on the 99 by-pass plan were held in Sutherhn and Oakland last week, because fed eral funds will be used in the construction of the by-pass and federal laws require such prior discussions. The two towns will be served by three access junctions, where the old and new roads will meet, and where Highway 225 (Suther- lin's Central Ave.) will cross the new by-pass. No car will have to pass through a lane of traffic to turn on or off the new by-pass. No other access to this "freeway" will be allowed. One highway junction will be about one-half mile north of Oak land the other about three-quar ters of a mile south of Sutherlin. The by-pass will be S.82 miles long, compared with the old high way 6.37 miles long. The cost of the new by-pass is estimated at $2,033,910, including the right-of-way costs. Savings Forecast If the old highway were im proved instead of building the freeway, the cost would be about $669,090 more not including the added costs of additional controlled accesses for existing roads. The - SEE: HEARING (Continued on Page Four) lome for Mentally Deficient Visited Many Inmates .Trained for Jobs V ROBERT B. FRAZIER 'ltllitcr'Go.rd Staff Writer Sregon'i forgotten children," (1 to 83 years old, make up a polity the size ot Junction I Crowded into aging dorml- t the Fairview Home, feast of Salem, the almost mentally deficient" children Q a World nt "maba f1 F 216 persons on the instltu- slaff have oreanizeH anrl re- ped, planned and replanned, r ir me mentally deficient pwinat nas authorized only "ura aormitory since 1932, the instihltinn'. nnnnlatinn u pH porches, cracked plaS tS lined tin innh Qnat-t adequate bathroom facilities' ('0WS KOTE: This is the ; inree articles on condi- Fairuieuj Home. I' 3 J . ... in "'i i i- uVaf' ' " "-'"rg'---a rmJ0l I . ' ' ' , j I '. f - l I i, i-i i-,.i,nt I ,1 1 lljf 1 rj ' fei?! I (Res.-Gmrd photo, WllUhlr, ensr.vlnsl I f " t . 1 tit1'1 r -1 . " II ! ' ' -u K ' striking contrast to the nat- Httino nt i i me nome wnicn s fertile farm country. "vln B. Hill, a Lane County "id superintendent of the l aments the lack of public Bunding of his institution. ,Y place ot detention or a F " correction, h cave tt i. P nd a school. The Fair- "TOren are not criminals 1 not dangerous. r"'ty Learnino. fm fc state provides schools '"en who have difficulties sT 11 reasnnahlo it- school for children who acuity learning, difficult v u iAn..t..o i- Nnon bond df all the chil- liftn airview where the al- 100 aro L-r r k ""una not as in- fc-r.; Vl siuaenis, dui as fVu' Thpv , 4.u:ij i hen ihfv s en -1 j nonnn nnp r.srmal and may j. ic au years oia, are. Thev am nnin become normal again. w srew up." I while there is no cure for men on ria TWO OLD CODGKRS SIT in Steele Hall and watch workmen build a school in the shell of the burned hospital at Fairview Home, They are content to "just set" and observe life. Note how crowded are the beds in this building which houses older men. Steele, an eyesore, would cost $160,000 to replace. oJSklanJd existing j 99 HIGHWAY I ' ' r A ' rj -f T7sUtfRLIN ! Dhaoy 1 Mile $95 Billion Total Is Appropriated Press Tricked in Advance Coverage Of Springfield Utilities Board Election WASHINGTON (UP) Congress voted President Truman another $13 billion for national security Saturday and went home with a record of peacetime spending, tax ing, investigating and politicking just about unequalled in the nation's history. The 82nd Congress adjourned its first session sine die after setting next Jan. 8, instead of the customary Jan. 3, for the start of its second and last term. That is because Jan. 3 falls on a Thursday instead of a Monday. The House adjourned first, at 5:45 p.m. EST. The Sen ate followed suit at 6:36 p.mT Wearied by the longest unbroken session of any peace time Congress since 1913-14, the lawmakers left unfinished a lot of controversial legislation that will keep the poli tical fires burning throughout the 1952 presidential year. The record was one of billions for defense and nothing for the reforms demanded by (Wlltahlrc antr.vlns) TU THE COAST on Highway ZZ5 as far at lilkton, then via Highway 38 to Reedsport, will become a more appeal ing tourist route next year, when straightening and re surfacing have been completed. The map above illustrates location of the proposed Highway 99 by-pass in the Onk-land-Sutherlin area. Northbound traffic to the coast will be able to turn off 99-S before reaching Drain (see arrow). Chest Subscriptions Reach Third of Goal Residential Drive To Start Monday More than a third of the 1952 Community Chest goal had been collected by the end of the week, with $61,758 either in the coffers or pledged by donors. Goal for the campaign which is seeking funds for the support of 28 agencies is $168,791. There was still one division to go. The Residential Division, which will cover School District No. 4 on a house-to-house basis, will begin operations after a kickoff meeting at 10 a.m. Monday in the McDon aid theater. Mrs. Taut Charncski is chairman of that division. Her district chairmen are Mrs. J. J. Fuller, Mrs. Charles G. Miller, Mrs. Willis Warren, and Mrs. Irv ing Henning. On Block Level Kaufman Bros., Sears Roebuck, F. W. Woolworth, Burch's Shoe Store, Babb Hardware, Chefs Fa mous Foods, Eugene Farmers' Co- operative, and A. B. Scarlett Motors. Ervin Molholm, executive direc tor of the chest, urged group and division chairmen to lurn in their funds promptly so that accurate progress figures can be kept. To Canvas Springfield Mrs. Raymond L. Sears, presi dent of the Springfield Council of P-TA, will head the women's di- vision or the Communlt y Chest campaign in that city. Husbands and wives have been asked to divide their contributions so that both may donate to the Chest. Spring field will be di vided into 12 In the adjournment rush, the lawmakers also found time to pass and send to the White House a bill tichteninc; federal controls areas and will be canvassed byion illicit traffic In narcotics. women from clubs, churches, And they overrode a presiden-P-TA Rroups, and other organiza-j tial veto of a bill Riving maimed tions. Goal is $1000. No collection or blinded veterans of World War was made in the Springfield resi-jll or the Korean war $1600 each dential area last year. I toward an automobile. Ik n- u iccDie minded," m beards in favor more accurate "mentally Wt.. nu cannot leea t:' wiemselves, to the "dull up who are unable to ,. ,.t .,,., i h., medicine, comments: "We need i dishwashers, or fill other Jobs re- v t.Zu """"" ' mental deficients in our economy. : quiring a minimum of Judgment, nc scnoois. I,,... hrH time gpttinc : "Those kids lust thrive on mono- They are not insane. They have. Thev do a lot' tony." Dr. Hill says. "Anything! 750; public service, $13,390 and always been mentally deficient . , .ouiarefuse to they can do over and over again 1 $24,750; government, $206.50 and and always will be. An insane i"1!,00' ,ou " i is just fine with them." '$2600; education, $3077.74 and While the children's ages vary' Half will never be paroled. $7000; business central, s:o.u from 1 to . 81 most of them are They are the "custodial cases." and $6500; residential, $523.50 and J2 Whehev reach their who will live at Fairview until " .""0; professional $2620 and th nirf!.i rfofir-i.nrv. the school teaches'', " , ni h. naroled. they die. which 70 did in the two- n: spnngiie o jaii.i na5H- Assisting them are the follow. ing women: Mrs. Roy S. Woodruff, Mrs. Paul Gray, Mrs. Jan Hoogstad, Mrs. Charles Campbell, Mrs. Austin John, Mrs. E. C. Rruckart, Mrs. R. O. Thompson, Mrs. George Bul let, Mrs. Stuart Martin, Mrs. Carl Huffaker, Mrs. Everett Davis, Mrs. Byron Elliott, Mrs. Edgar A. Good nough, Mrs. W. S. Baldinger, Mrs. Alton uwen, mrs. naipn rrazicr,:- . , - i I r, I nL' Mrs. Darwin e. Hancock, Mrs.j Profesfont Leaders Strongly Obiect man. These women will organize the School District No. 4 area down to the block level, Mrs. Charncski said. A weekend report from Com munity Chest headquarters said that 5523. SO or the divisions $11,000 quota has already been collected. The weekend report nhowed the following collections, listed by di visions, with the 1952 quotas fol lowing: Some Quotas Reached Lumber, $5240 and $15,600; In dustrial, $7850.50 and $17,500 commercial, $13,958,75 and $25, Mr. Truman. And it bristled with front-page investigations into crime, Communism and political corruption that may shape the outcome of the pres idential election. The Senate and House nailed down their big-spending cham pionship in the closing hours of the session when they passed three big money bills totaling about $13 billion, all aimed at strengthening the security of the United States at home and aboard. Passes $95 Billion That was more than any pre vious Congress ever voted for all government expenses, except in time of war. H swelled to $95 billion the appropriations passed this year, of which some $80 bil lion was for direct and Indirect defense purposes. The three wind-up bills in eluded: 1 A $7,328,093,976 appropria tion for military and economic help to non-Communist countries in Europe. Asia, the Near East, and Latin-America, including $100 million for Spain which President Truman may use or not at his discrcton. The lion's share of the measure goes to Western Europe $4,818,- 852,457 for military and $1,022,- 000,000 for economic help, The Near East and Africa were ticketed for $.106,350,000 military and $160,000,000 economic; Asia, $535,250,000 military, $237,155,- 866 economic, and Latin-Amerl can, $58,150,000 military and $21,245,635 economic. 2 A supplemental approprla tfon of $1,600,000,000 for a num ber of government agencies, in cluding those handling defense production, civil defense, and price, wage and rent controls, 3 Another supplemental of more than $4,000,000,000, most of it to build strategic air bases In the United States and overseas, That bill threatened for a time to delay adjournment because the Senate wanted H to include forced cut of 25 per cent in funds for State, Commerce and Justice Department Information officers within the United States. The Senato provision finally was dropped after the House balked. Other Measures Hushed More Shootings Jar Suez Area CAIRO, Egypt (P) Two more shootings shattered the uneasy calm of the canal garrison area Saturday, and Britain rushed new reinforcements, including anti aircraft units, to ward oft any surprise bombing raids and pro tect her Suez lifeline. At the same time a strong do- llce detachment unceremoniously deported from the Sudan an Egyptian education official who had ignored a British order to slay out of the country. western diplomats did not be lieve the Egyptian Army would wage war to enforce the govern ment's scrapping of the 1938 alli ance with Britain and the 52 years of Anglo-Egyptian rule of Sudan, on the Upper Nile. But they believed Jt possible the Moslem brntherhnnH. Axtrpm 1st religious organization which once boasted two million mem bers, might wage a kind of guer rilla warfare such as eventually harassed the British out of Palestine. Strong precautions wera being taken in view of reports by Egyp tian informants that the brother hood was threatening to "blow up" the Suez Canal and set fire to British camps, Badawi Khalifa Pasha, under secretary of interior, said ft sen try at an Egyptian army camp in Port Said was shot and killed by 10 British soldiers patrolling a street in an armored car. A British report told of Port Said violence more in the gucr- riua pattern. JESSIlr TO GFT NOD WASHINGTON (U.R) --Presi dent Truman will give ambassa-dor-at-large Philip C. Jcssup recess appointment as a united Nations delegate, Informed ad ministration sources said Satur day. Inside Today New Tax Provisions to Cut Heavily Into Take-Home Pay. Faga 9 Tresa Conferences Offer Treat to Washington Newsmen. Page 11 Wire News Page 2 News Briefs.... Page 4 Editorials Page 10 . Sports Pages 13-1S Classified Pages 17-2.1 Society Pages 25-3J Radio - Page 38 Homes and Gardens Page 37 Theater Page 38 General Clark Named Vatican Delegate the children to live with their . ,ha nf lh.m lo iobs the year period ending June 30, 1950. ou" v ... ... ' . difficulties. Half of the 1400 will; ,.,, "inn ,ind, for lhcn, I Some will not be paroled because 10,al C""JL.' "V30""'' iolal oe returnee, to , ioc y . - u.u. Monotony citizens doing useful lobs. ' Dr Hill who earned a master's ' They will become bus bos, degree in economics at the lini-l gardeners, farm laborers, domes versity of Oregon before studying : tics, laundry workers, porters, thev rln not have th. mnnlal : 1"Ota, $1 66,791. The tonowing nrms naa rcacn- capacity for productive work, 8KEs REPORTER VISITS (Continued on Page Six) ed their quotas and turned in their firm's contributions by the week's end; By M1CIIAKI, J. O'NKIM, t'nll.d rreii KUtr CirrMpandrnl WASHINGTON (U.Pl Presi dent Truman named Cen. Mark W. Clark as the first U. S. am bassador to the Vatican Satur day In a move to establish closer cooperation with the Catholic Church in the fight against world Communism. Pope Pius XII was reported "overjoyed'' at the surprise ac tion, but American Protestant leaders sounded "vigorous objec tions" in the first thunder claps of a gathering religious dispute that may become an issue in next year's election. 'Humanilarlanlsm' The White House said the Pres ident acted to resume diplomatic relations with the Holy See for the first time in 83 years "in the national Interest" and to serve the "purposes of diplomacy and humanitarianism." "It is well known that the Vatican is vigorously in the struggle against Communism," It said. "Direct diplomatic relations will assist in coordinating the ef fort to combat the Communist menace." The President sent Clark's Clark Willing To Take Post COLUMBIA, S. C (U.R) Gen. Mark W. Clark said Sat urday night he will accept hit nomination by President Tru man as ambassador to the Vati can and will go as a "military man." "I'm always glad to return to Italy, where I have been sev eral tlmea since the war," aald the veteran of the Allied Italian campaign of World War II. "If I go, I'll go as t military man In much the same statu is Gen. Walter Bedell Smith when he went to Moscow," he declared. nomination to. the Senate imme diately, but there was no chance of a confirmation before Janu ary, when Congress reconvenes for its second session. Reactions Mixed Congressional reaction to the White House announcement was mixed Catholic members declaring their pleasure and at least one senator announcing his opposition. Protestant leaders denounced the action, and even Mr. Tru man's own Baptist pastor, Or. Edward Hughes Prudcn, ob jected. If confirmed, Clark will be the first U.S. official at the Vatican since Myron C. Taylor resigned as the President's "personal representative" Jan. 18, 1950. Once the tall, thin soldier has taken his post, the State De partment said the Vatican would send ft papal nuncio as ita re rcsentatlve in this country. The nuncio is the equivalent of an ambassador, A
