Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, June 13, 1954, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY EDITION 1 lM year, no. LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. WEATHER SHOWERS (Complete Report, Page l-B) FIVE SECTIONS - 4S PAGES . EUGENE, OREGON, JUNE 13, 1954 Phone 5-1551 ounty Attorney ooses Blast At TNI T0 By JAMES G. WELCH Of The RefisterGuard r Vonn Lane County's district atfnrnov tti-.h Of IE KJi ' f - i nuuy ed a lenguiy statement against gamming in general dog racing specifically. r ii kn fools strnnflv anont Hncx rnrnncr "h.. t p lived near it in the east and I know it would change enn, wv uv. r- "rr""" "' iuaj( ,rv sn iar is uiiuuuuaeu iur uenerai election, it is inril Au2. 23. ' . .... I..-.., .... ..I,-, .f U-1. 1U f!.. J, Estes heiauver s mine investigating committee, sup- Ms contention mat ur- -j inrtn wnri damn nir ss harm to a community. 5. t...nnfl mnn anH a Port. promoter now are planning 1 Junction City, me state EUGENE C. VENN Hips Into Gambling etnamese jpel Attack HOI, Indochina (B Vietna- Catholic militiamen, fight- side by side with French les, beat back an after-dark Bh assault on their village Vinhmo, 15 miles northwest this war capital in the only iy Red Hiver Delta fighting He past 24 hours. I French army spokesman said kibly 700 Communist-led Vict- Ih raiders turned back after battle. Both sides suffered pstantial losses" and several polic mditiamen were cap- it i another oart of the delta. Inch pilots living American Iters and bombers hit a Viet- i guerrilla base 10 or 15 5 east of Hanoi. French nn. 1 roamed the area hphveen loi and Son Tav. 25 milp. tn northwest, but met no Viet- Ei units, ith monsoon rains likely to ge the delln hv ih enrl nt K French military sources Bi mat Kca forces will f ch their expected big thrust w oeiia within the next few (he French were nnnrino rin. mio vital delta de- posts. Gen. Paul Ely, the ' French Commanrtor in In. PUS, toured thren Fnes Friday. Racing Commission first must act, however. Venn cited Kefauver findings to point out that one type of ram bling opens the field to other types. With dog racing, he said, "comes the minor touts, hood lums, cheats and the whole tribe of habitual race followers, many of whom are undesirable charac ters with criminal records and convictions." Then Venn made this point: "Whenever these elements ap pear, it is always to the detri ment of the community, for they invariably seek to operate crap games and other forms of all night gambling to take care of the race patrons who are not satisfied with the betting oppor tunities offered at the track it self." FEARS PROSTITUTION Traffic in women also accom panies dog racing, Venn stated. He said that "Prostitution, the handmaiden of legalized gambl ing, also enters the picture." This is because the men who run pros titution want to be near places where much money changes hands "to share in the returns." Venn also explained that prosti tution compounds an effect of dog racing by attracting another "anti-social element." Morally, dog racing, with legal sanction, is wrong, he said. The legal sanction of this prin ciple in our own back yard makes it more difficult for parents and particularly law enforcement of ficials to teach and admonish the children that gambling is mor ally wrong," Venn explained. The district attorney said that it is "indisputable" that gambl ing leads to more gambling, and inevitably to broken homes, "an increased number of criminal non-support cases, embezzlement matters" and a general increase in crime. A good example, he said, is the clerk who loses his weekly earn ing and pilfers the cash register to provide for his family. BETTORS LOSE He explained that race pro ponents plan to have pari-mutuel betting and that this means a set percentage of the total track in come from each race must go to taxes, management, and bettor. The result is, he said, that a bettor cannot possibly get back more than "85 to 90 per cent" of the amount he bets, per race on the average. It usually means, Venn said, that the track man agement, at the end of an eve ning of racing, has gotten half the total amount wagered. "So impoverishing is the ac cumulative drain of the pari-mu tuel 'take' that in states where this form of gambling has been legalized there is a decided ten dency to limit the number of races each day and also to limit the total number of days in rac ing," he explained. This is be- BLASTS RACES (Continued on Page 3-A) - (AP Wlrephoto) BOY QUESTIONED Marion Gregory, 11, of Chicago, is questioned by fire depart ment attorney Earl Downs regarding a tenement building fire late Friday night. Chief of Detectives John T. O'Malley said that the boy told him he started the fire which killed seven persons and injured eight others. Hospital on Ballot In Western Lane (Picture, Page 10A) FLORENCE Voters of Western Lane Hospital District will cast ballots June 16 to 'determine whether a new 20-bed general hospital will be constructed to alleviate the complete lack of such facilities in Western Lane County. . . The Western Lane Hospital Dis trict was organized to include Florence, Mapleton, Ada, and Western Siuslaw school districts at an election held last June. Since that date, a five member board of directors has been study ing the needs of the community, as well as other factors pertinent to constructing, equipping, and operating a hospital of this size. Voters will be asked to author ize the sale of $200,000 in bonds. City Additions To Be Counted A comprehensive official cen sus of 11 parcels of land annexed to Eugene since 1950 will begin Monday morning, according to Assistant City Recorder Dan Potter. Potter said state officials have completed arrangements to sup ervise a local count of all res idents of the areas added to the city since the last official fed eral census was taken. Five persons will do the actual tallying during the next week according to Potter. Then the fig ures will be turned over to the state personnel and they will take the court from there. The city sought the new count more than a month ago. Officials figure there are enough persons in the annexed areas to add to Eugene's share of the state gas oline revenues and liquor tax re funds. There was no indication Sat urday as to when the official count will become known here. UO Graduation Sunday Iniversiiv r r, U.. iiS "'oguu rresiaent Meredith wiu ...m .jj ..owi, win auuress I 4 graduating class this fV at the 77d, ...,i (ment services. bJh Pres'dent of the Bfna . " IMttll'll, Will ter degrees on a class of earn ,!ov ''nrtlon 01 'hem, X Wl",rc(-'cive baccalaure- Noeto ', L "lance masters l?i.,p,'m. ' "'e" black robes hie mm onds of 'he sca re ranks mil t. ion , Miami in pro- C'&il e H-iversity I oy tne mem- sicl Today Top ru io in- bi LCchu.rdl Influence in "inoois. Page 9A. h "fiefs jtttft 'B 1-3C Sec. D bers of the graduating class. The procession will have as its goal, Un.-n-nrH T?IolH U'llPrP thfi Ser- vices will be held. Background ing the processional will De music from the chimes, newly installed tn tha TTrh Tnmnri:,l Union. DAUGHTERS GRADUATING As the procession enters tne fioiH iho University Band, under the direction of Robert Vagner of the music school, win piay a Handel overture. The Rev. Henrv W. Anderson, chaplain of the Veterans Admin istration Domiciliary of camp White, Ore., will give the invo cation. Greetings from the State Board nt TJinhnr FHllpatioll will be m4mm k n, if V Klninsnrgc of Silverton, president of the board. DnnnH A inn In OW TIB II C LUU- ferring of degrees, will be given ht, h nv Alhert C. Hartley, pastor of Findlay Christian Church of Seattle, Wasn. Both Rev. Hartley and Rev. Anderson have daughters in the graduating clasi. Patricia Hartley and Dorothy Anderson will both receive baccalaureate degrees from the school of music. Preceding the commencement services, the ceremony of the flower and fern procession will be held at the site of the Pioneer Mother on the south campus. ALUMNI DAY Activities of the Commence ment weekend opened Friday. Saturday was Alumni Day with the annual University luncheon held to honor reunion classes. Feature of the luncheon was the rcgraduation of the 50-year class of 1904 into the Half-Century Club. The members of the nine also received their Golden O certificates indicating fifty years of service to the university. Those who received the awards were Leslie E. Crouch, Lulu Holmes Plummer, Herbert M. Green, Louise Jones and Dr. El lis O. Willson, all of Portland; James O. Russell, of Turner; Ralph S. Shelley, Springfield; Pauline Walton, of Eugene. Ras ,c P Mnrtensen of Medford, hvho was unable to be present, was also given the Golden u. Members of the 25-ycar class of 1929 received Silver O certifi cates. Spokesmen for the four reunion classes and the Half Century Club were Arthur J. Anderson of Eu (Continued on Page 3-A) GRADUATION It is hoped that federal funds through the Hill-Burton Act, will be available to pay for one-third the cost of the project. Florence lies in the center of an area hav ing no hospital facilities avail able within a 50-mile radius. The Oregon State Board of Health has given the area top priority for a federal grant. The proposed 20-bed institution would be located on a secluded 5-acre tract south of the airport road. This area is readily acces sible to both Highways 36 and 101. The property was deeded to the district by Lane County through the cooperation of Mar tin Peterson and the city of Flor ence. Peterson formerly held s 99-year lease on the site. The five-acre tract was ac quired upon recommendation of the Oregon State Board of Health so that adequate parking, buffer zone, and room for expansion would be available. The hospital plans call for additional central facilities that will allow addi tional rooms to be added. Western Lane Hospital District has an assessed evaluation of more than 6V4 million dollars It is believed that this bond issue would cost the average taxpayer approximately $2.50 per year Statistics quoted at a recent pub lie meeting on the issue indicated there is little reason to believe that the hospital would ever need additional money to cover oper ating deficits. All but one hos pital in the state of Oregon was self-supporting in 1853. Polling places for the coming election have been announced as follows: Florence City Hall for all reg istered voters in Florence School District. Mapleton Grange Hall for vot ers of Mapleton School District. Swisshome Old Church Build ingfor Swisshome and Siuslaw voters. Ada Grange Hall Voters in Ada School District. Voting will be between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Wed nesday, June 16. 77-Y f ear-Old Admits Setting Fatal Blaze CHICAGO M An 11-year-old boy admitted Saturday he started an apartment house fire in which seven persons died, police said The boy said he threw a lighted match down the stairwell to set the blaze after reading a comic book episode of a character who worked with fire. The fire Friday night trapped many of the 50 tenants. Eight persons were injured. Two men two women and three children died. Investigators were convinced that the blaze was arson. The boy changed his story after his father, Lewis Gregory, 45, was brought to the police station for questioning. The father shouted to his son "Don't tell them nothing," before police began questioning them in separate rooms. Gregory admitted to police he furnished his son with "at least a package of cigarettes and a lot of 100 proof whiskey every day. Gregory said, according to po lice, "He was drinking whiskey and smokin' before I found out about it so I figured if he was gonna drink and there was noth in' I could do about it, it might as well be good whiskey. "So I got him 100 proof. That's the best there is, he said. According to the boy's original version, he claimed the fire the four story, eight-flat building was started by two men. He said they threw a knife at him when they caught him peek ing from a crack in the door. When the fire broke out, tenants shoved their children through windows to the waiting hands of rescuers. One woman leaped from the third floor. ORDERED OUT LONDON (IF A young Ameri can scientist, Dr. J. H. Cort, Bos ton, who was a Communist party member while an undergraduate at Yale University, said Saturday that the British government had ordered him to leave the country by June 30. (AP Wlrephoto) 2,100 MILES FROM GOAL Kathryn Elliot, 32-year-old former WAC corporal, is shown resting at Cuckoo, Va., after finishing the first 100 miles of her 2,200-mile horse back trip to Malta, Mont. She holds "Pipeline," a mongrel dog that is making the trip, too, and stands beside "Brenda," the 10-year-old mare, blind in one eye, which Miss Elliott bought from a riding academy. Rumors Say Guatemalans Near Revolt Arbenz Government Reported in Panic SAN SALVADOR, El Sal vador UP) The Communist- backed government of neigh boring Guatemala is in "near panic" over a growing threat of revolution and may de clare martial law at any time, reports reaching here said Saturday. Jittery Guatemalans arrived in a general exodus of wives and children of foreigners, wealthy Guatemalans and even of some" Guatemalan officials. They re ported that rumors of revolt fill the air there. To the man in the street, they declared, the big question is not if but when the revolution will start. SECRET RADIO The clandestine radio operated in Guatemala by political op ponents of President Jacobo Ar benz was joined openly Saturday by another station in a nearby country and one in the Domini can Republic in predicting that the uprising might begin next week. President Arbenz' regime re peatedly "announces the dis covery and destruction of the clandestine radio inside Guate mala which nags the government day and night. But the broad casts continue. Officials retali ated this week by ordering "ham" or amateur radio operators off the air. POLITICIANS ARRESTED Arbenz cracked down hard on all elements suspected of opposi tion ties, even arresting some members of his own governing party. He claims there is an or ganized, foreign - inspired plot afoot to overthrow his govern ment. For the first time since a 2.000- ton arms shipment from Red Po land brought angry U. S. objec tions on May 17, setting off Gua temala's political crisis, signifi cant military leaders were break ing away from the Arbenz camp this week. Five army and air force officers and six senior cadets of the Guat emalan Military Academy fled the country in a stolen air force plane in one incident so widely discussed, despite censorship, that the government had to is sue a denial. ARMY DEFECTION Now, there are widespread re ports that the army chief of staff himself, Gen. Carlos II. Sarti, has also disappeared. Whether he is out of the country or behind pris on bars remains unknown. Faced with a possible army switch to the opposite side, the Arbenz regime was reportedly preparing to arm the powerful, Red-tinged Landless Farmers Union to build guerilla forces The question of arming the labor ers was first raised at a union meeting last Sunday. 'Long Enough' End Talks, Knowland Declares By JACK BELL Of The Associated Press WASHINGTON UPI Sen. Knowland (R-Calif.) callea Saturday for an end to the Geneva conference and invited the Associated States of Indochina to declare their inde pendence if France sets wo a "peace at any price" govern ment. Knowland, the Senate Republican leader and a mem ber of its foreign relations committee, declared in an inter view that Geneva negotiations "have gone on long enough to demonstrate clearly that neither the Soviet Union, nor communist China is pre pared to negotiate anything but the abject surrender of the French in Indochina." FEARS 'SURRENDER' With Premier Joseph Laniel having offered his resignation af ter losing a vote of confidencein the French Assembly, Knowland said he fears a "surrender gov ernment may be formed. It is my very strong belief," he said, "that Viet Nam, Cam bodia and Laos are not going to sit complacently by and exchange position of not being complete ly independent in the French Un ion for one of complete domina tion by the Communists. "The Associated States may is sue a declaration of independ ence, just as we did in 1776, and appeal to the United States and the free nations of the world for help if the French are pre pared to agree to a settlement which would destroy Indochina's hope of independence and sover eignty. ROK MAY HELP "I don't believe they are going to sit back and have their free dom bartered away by a French government that may be estab lished on a 'peace at any price' basis. Knowland said he thinks the three states might be willing to accept help from the Republic of Korea, aid that the French pre viously had turned down. He said he is convinced that the anti-Communists in Indochina are willing to fight "if they can get the arms and equipment to do it." Huge Crowd Sees Portland Rose Parade (Picture on Page 4-A) PORTLAND W) the largest crowd in the history of the event watched the annual Rose Festival Parade Saturday. An estimated 300,000' persons jammed sidewalks or watched from other vantage points as the long procession of colorful floats wound through the downtown dls trict. The record crowd turned out despite cloudy skies which con stantly threatened rain. The appearance of Roy Rogers cowboy singing star, as grand marshal riding his famous horse Trigger attracted thousands of delighted youngsters. The Pasadena, Calif., Tourna ment of Roses float won the sweepstakes for out-of-state en tries. The Bcaverton float was adjudged the best for Oregon cities outside of Portland. New- berg was second and Tjgard third For the third successive year Mrs. Nat Schocn of Vancouver, Wash., took the grand sweep- slakes award. Her entry was an Eden Rose, a new variety. Safe Traffic Record ASHLAND Iff Ashland ob served Saturday the completion of five years without a non-pedes trian traffic death. The last such fatality was on June 12, 1040, when John J. Lchmanowski of Medford, died of chest injuries suffered In a one-car accident. Biggest in History Mundt Warns Feuding Aides WASHINGTON Wl Chairman Mundt of the Senate subcommit tee conducting the McCarthy- Army hearings said Saturday that the "long feud" between subcommittee chief counsel Roy M. Cohn and Robert F. Kennedy, adviser to Democrats on the group, "isn't going to have place in these hearings." Kennedy had charged that in an exchange of hot words Fri day Cohn threatened to "get" Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) who had been asking needling questions of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy about G. David Schine, former unpaid consultant of the sub committee. Cohn denied any such threats but he has' served notice he wants to use a questioning round to answer some of the charges he said Jackson had been mak ing against Schine. Cohn was quoted by Kennedy as saying that the McCarthy camp wilt produce something written by Jackson that "favors Communists." B u t Chairman Mundt (R-SD) said Cohn had told him he knew of no such writings. Mundt called for an end to the "long feud" he said had existed between Cohn and Kennedy. "It is something that has no place in these hearings," he de clared. "They arc just popping off and they can stop it." Lane County Budget Is A 'Paradox' Lane County's proposed 1954- 55 budget is a paradox: it is the largest in county history $5,631, 418 vet some departments were sliced to keep budgetary totals in balance. The reason for the record- breaking total, about $100,000 more than 1953-54 figures, is the insertion of $950,000 as ntici pated receipts from O&C "con troverted" funds. If this money is received, it could be spent for construction of a county office building. This $950,000, of course, won't be spent if it isn't received, al though under principles of bud getary law, anticipated receipts can be spent during the fiscal year regardless of whether they come in. Such a situation, how ever, would only mean that the following year's budget would have to make up the deficit. ROAD FUND The general road fund totals $2,132,900 as against $2,619,700 for 1953-54. There won't be too much difference in the amount of actual working capital, how ever, because nearly $500,000 of the current budget was "carry over revenue lrom unexpended balances in the 1852-53 budget None of the road budget is fi nanced with tax money. Receipts ome from timber money, gas tax apportionment,, court fines, and fees and miscellaneous sources. Lane's 1954-55 budget, as every previous county budget has been, will be within' the six per cent tax limitation, The amount of tax money that can be raised next fiscal year within this limitation is $965,013. Some $910,000 was raised within the limitation during 1953-54. APPORTIONMENT The amount within the limita tion is apportioned this way: $290,212 for the general fund, $220,280 for the county public assistance fund, $450,633 for the county school fund, and $3,888 for the district fair fund. An additional $110,000 $75,- 000 for garbage disposal and $35,000 for the Sklpworth Juven ile Home will be collected ai tax money, but this sum is out side the limitation. Departments that sustained re ductions included the fair board, reduced from $92,500 to $73,063; bridge department, reduced from $320,000 to $280,000; engineering department, reduced from $74, 820 to $60,670; road maintenance and construction, reduced from $1,362,000 to $1,059,300, road de partment capital outlay, reduced from $200,000 to $90,470; asses sor's department, reduced from $139,950 to $122,710; mosquito control program, reduced from $30,000 to $26,500. MONEY NOT NEEDED The reasons for some of these reductions, however, weren't all BUDGET (Continued on Pagi 3-A) MONEY'S ALL HE NEEDS NO AGREEMENT GENEVA Ofl Anthony Eden and Vyachelsav M. Molotov talked over proposed kill-or-cure rem edies for the Geneva conference deadlock Saturday, but failed to reach agreement. Yoncalla Man Wants To Sail Sea in Canoe YONCALLA Robert Baughman is looking for a sponsor to back him in an ambitious canoe trip. All he needs is the money. Baughman says he wants to take a 16-foot folding canvas canoe across the 2,300-mile stretch of Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to the West Coast. The millworkcr says he will live the estimated two months on the trip on rations and water distilled from a hollow plastic ball, the kind used by downed airmen or shipwrecked sailors. "I want to mako the voyage in the summer season, but there's only one drawback," he says, "I don't have the money. If someone as crazy as I am will contribute the necessary money, I'd like to show the world that the spirit which founded this nation still exists. . ." Baughman Is not going Into the adventure blind he says he has been a commercial fisherman and merchant seaman and he knows that stretch of water. He needs the money to sponsor the trip and care for hit wife nd three children when he's ivray.