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CITY EDITION r. NO- TWO SECTIONS 20 PAGES WEATHER LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. FAIR (Complete report, Page 1-B) EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1954 Phone 5-1551 Ming July 19 Suit to Halt mex Election .. it in halt the Citv of Eueene frnm enn. If ition for annexation of any portion of the HI Vr-n': ,c rilr.H in r.ireuit Court in R- hjleruisi"" w6wre E Circuit .Judge William E. East signed an H - for a hearing July 19 on the temporary in- t .,rinS the plaintiff and defendant presumably Blithe law lu i'vo . w" lumig not the request for a temporary injunction irneys ,-n the action were tnree taxpayers of the liter District, George M. Peterson, Walter G. Hegg 1 M. JnSen. iliuac ucuiicu aa ucLeuudllls were V. Edwin jonnson, oouncumen ualvin .Crumbaker, Ray F. Siegen- thalcr. Carl KoDDe. Jesse Elf A Godlove, Larry Watson, Ed CVw win c- Cone' George Owen and Robert Booth, and City r i Manager ttoDert A. Fmlav- flf KlflTrM ison and Finance Officer CI IIWIWi H Beistel. The suit asks for a two-cdced decree against the defendants: Issuance of a temporary in junction during pendency of the suit to restrain the city from conducting any election for an nexation to Eugene of any por tion of the Bethel Water District, including the election scheduled July 23 by the city. Issuance of a permanent in junction restraining the city from attempting to annex any portion of the water district until the Lane County commissioners have set boundaries for the pro posed Bethel City and until Bethel residents have conducted an election to determine whether Bethel City will be incorporated. The principal reason an iniunc- tion should be granted, the com plaint alleged, is because the City of Eugene "is without jurisdic tion to attempt to annex any por tion of the territory (Bethel Water District) while proceed ings for incorporation of such territory are pending and undet ermined." The complaint asserted that the county commissioners, when thqy received petitions signed by more than 20 per cent of the legal vot ers in the area proposed for in corporation and set a date for a boundary hearing (June 2), as sumed "exclusive jurisdiction." The complaint also alleged that the ordinance passed by the City of Eugene calling the July 23 an nexation election was "null and void" for these reasons: tad Meet County Bar Assn., T,.ncfllV in Mgeiie ii to have considered a t by one of its members lite governors recent I lilline a vacancy Cre te resignation oi cir , fi F. Skipwortn wim- ajtue oar to cuuuun poll. fat the business meet- i newspaper reporter itrf to leave. Sidney to president, said the idopted rules iwo uhith stated reporters id meetings only i i invited. Thwing said i ilso provided that the love out press releases Itaflspirea ai mecuiujs so desired. 1 0. Porter was to have resolution Tuesday I governor be requested l to delay lus appoint.- tdrcult judge vacancies 1 1 lapse of "reasonable Ifeine which the Lane Assn. and others it expressions of pre- the consideration o IT. list week charged Gov. son was too hasty I ippointment of Frank I not allow the bar i time to conduct a I poll to recommend however, stated the tjtir submitted a peti- ! governor containing in more than uu per association members i2 that Reid be an- ! ttenever a vacancy ySuffers lit Burns RG-Being treated for a Ht Gainful hum l 41-.. Worth here Tuesday 115 hnm Incf . ii. u ioji JI1UIJU1, imy tots, developed a It nnlknH it i . . p wrs. uien decided to give the 11 "por treatment. I Jn electric plate Boor hv ik j 1 -v c ucu ana P steam. Then she IhT k moment and E ulc Plate set fire vuvcr on the crib t forth later couldn't DOW lha ,,, .... ... . then rushed the flOctnr th- ... r. Ikltnl't.l E- repnrl0(l Alfred ; dim one howers Attend "'"-Law's Rii-Pc COLI.Pr.p . VJlj J1 Mrs. Eisc it. v Ihi; 'unerat Ml. " - p--'aenis broth Pa. iw M1, ,,- ashington oi sirs. wife Mil- In Lumber Strike SE Asia Pad Still Favored, Dulles Asserts British, French Hope To Get U. S. Support PARIS Wl Secretary of State Dulles arrived here Tuesday and said he consid ers that a. collective defense ,..,;.,nll,, I',,- Cnnlllnocl Tkl L By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SS : "7 Z: ;.?; Hone for an earlv end of the 23-day-old Pacific North- uai aim jiuuiiawic wttn-c , , m j it t , terms" in Indochina west mmoer siriKe was aim luesuay auer uperaiurs uiimu Dulles flew Into Paris aboard uu l"u 111 sl major neguuauuiis suivv tue swii ui mc nautr U. S. military air transport ;OUt. Constellation for a top-level Brit- Two major employer groups the Lumbermen s Indus-ish-French attempt to convince trial Relations Committee and the Columbia Basin Saw mills opened talks Monday with representatives of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union's Coast-Columbia district. But they promptly told the union and a fed eral mediator "we are unwilling to meet further until the union committee ' Operators Break Off Sessions WASHINGTON (yP The Sen ate Foreign Relations Commit tee, yielding to State Depart ment appeals, reversed itself late Monday and struck out of its $3,, 100,000,000 foreign aid bill a pro posed notice to France and Italy to join a proposed European army or forego U. S. help after Dec. 31. With two top Republican lead ers voting against the move, the committee substituted less strin gent language already approved by the House in a move to prod the two nations to approve the projected European Defense Community. Voting on the losing side In the Foreign. P.elotions Committee for the virtual ultimatum to France and Italy were Sen. Knowland of California, the Sen ate Republican leader, and Sen. Ferguson of Michigan, chairman It was not signed by the mayor or president of the council. It was passed at an "improp erly called special meeting" with out all members of the council being notified or present. It was not a measure neces sary for the immediate preserva tion of the peace, health and saf ety of the city and could not therefore become effective imme diately upon its passage. Eugene City Manager Robert Finlayson said Tuesday that City Attorney John Pennington, now out of town, will be available to represent the city at the July 19 court hearing. Workers Snub Wildcatters OAK RIDRE. Tenn. fh Bowine to requests of their union leaders, approximately 1,500 AFL con struction workers crossed wild cat picket lines Tuesday and re ported for work on two atomic plant building jobs. The nrnincts were shut down Monday when more than 8,000 AFL craftsmen refused to go through the picket lines. Rut a slow back-to-work move ment was begun in the late after noon as 350 of a night shift work form nf 1 45ft returned to tncir Jobs. The day force totals about '6,700. Members of AFL Laborers' Lo cal am nnsted the picket lines. But officials of the local and its parent body, Knoxville Building Trades Council (AFL), urged all AFI. workmen to return to work They branded the pickets as "il legal." Perish weather SjSt lu... TkSt. Elizabeth Hospital nurses hart WtCJ . I' clinlca' thermometers down below 105 IKtMm "lc heat here Monday. KSSffirS.1! ,hc hospital rooms was 10 degrees and ntSmuK1 nearby Nttfn al sald the thermometers maintain the "somJtlr i rcadlng cou,d bc taken by kecpln? f "HO Du Jt ui aituiiui uu iuv-u j,.... nj ((K.. ; inermomcter imo an air-couuiuuucu f m. .v war over It and rnolrd It to 98 degrees but Hi !ot back to her patient the thermometer read (Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, RADAR, to spot the speeder went into official use in Eugene Tuesday. Here, Acting Mayor Robert Booth and Police Lt. Clarence Raines ex amine the graph that records speeds of passing cars. The radar car's door, with its spe- cial sign, is at left. Committee Omits Warning in Bill Segregation Door Opened JACKSON, Miss. Ifl A state constitutional amendment open ing the door for abolishing public schools was recommended by Mississippi's committee seeking ways to dodge the U. S. Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public education. Gov. Hugh White said Monday he would call the Legislature into special session early in Septem ber to consider the proposed amendment to Mississippi's 84- voar-nld Constitution. It would autnonze tne Legisla ture by a two-thirds vote to abol ish public schools, statewide or nn a local option Oasis, it neces sary to maintain segregation. Members of Mississippi s Legal Education Advisory Committee declared it would be used only a last resort. The amendment is viewed as a safeguard if Negroes try to force school integration, it couia De held over their heads as a threat cooperate or lose your public schools. Private, segregated schools with state aid could bo set up under the amendment, wnicn would wipe out the present con stitutional requirement that pub lir. sr-linnls be provided. The advisory committee saia it would recommend that the Leg islature get started on a building program to improve Negro schools but only if the proposed constitutional amendment were approved for protection. Demos Voting In Virginia RICHMOND, Va. iff Demo crats in two of Virginia's 10 con gressional districts vote in uii marics Tuesday to choose nom ii, thev hone can unseat Re- Minnr renrcsontatives who gained office in 1952. In the 6th District, three can didates are in the field for the nomination to oppose Hep. men orH Pnff. one of three Republi cans elected to Congress in the Eisenhower sweep of normally Democratic Virginia two years ago. The three are Ernest Robert son of Roanoke County, a member of the Virginia House of Dele gates; Powell Glass Jr., Lynch burg newspaper publisher; and Dr. J. can roinueAici ul awem of the Senate GOP Policy Com mittee. 8-5 MARGIN The votes of five Democrats and three other Republicans gave the administration the 8-5 margin which deleted from the bill word ing which would have ordered a shutoff of all foreign aid, mili tary and nonmilitary, to France and Italy Dec. 31 if they had not joined EDC or an acceptable sub stitute. The provision had been tentatively approved Saturday, Contributing to the reversal were a hurry-up visit to Capitol Hill by Secretary of State Dulles before he departed for diplo matic talks in Paris, and a warn ing from Gen. Alfred M. cjriien-' ther, supreme Allied commander in Europe. Gruenther, telephon ing from Europe, termed the Senate version "dangerous," term Dulles also reportedly had used. Wiley announced that those voting for the milder language were Senators H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ), Aiken (R-Vt) Wiley, George (D-Ga), Green (D-RI), Fulbright (D-Ark) Sparkman (D-Ala) and Gillette (D-Iowa). FIVE VOTE 'NO' Voting "no" in the closed ses sion, Wiley said, were Knowland Ferguson and Senators Hicken- Iooper (R-Iowa), Langer (R-ND) and Mansfield (D-Mont). By a 7-6 margin, Wiley said the committee adopted an amendment, by Mansfield order ing the Foreign Operations Ad ministration abolished next June 30 as the official dispenser of foreign aid. Mansfield's amendment, Wiley said, would transfer handling of all military phases of foreign aid to the Defense Department, and non-military to the State De partment, over objections voiced by Dulles. Wiley said the bill itself was approved 11-2, with Langer and Gillette casing the "no" ballots. City Traffic Radar Check In Operation Radar speed control was inaug urated Monday night in Eugene. A demonstration of the system was the first item on the city council's agenda. Police Chief Ted Brown dem onstrated how the electronic beam picks up the image of an approaching auto and records the speed at which is passes the ra dar box. Councilmen saw the device in operation in front of the city hall as it indicated the speed of each passing auto on a chart. The highest recorded before the coun cilmen was 30 mph. Chief Brown explained that the autos approaching the radar car from the rear 'break one radio wave after another. The machine computes the rate at which its waves are broken and computes what this means in miles per hour. In actual operation the oper ator would radio the license number and car model a block or two ahead to another patrol car which would halt the violator. The radar system was pur chased some time ago. Officers during the past two weeks have been testing the system. Brown said it will go into rou tine operation Tuesday, checking for violators and aiding the city's traffic engineer by computing rate of -traffic flow on various streets. This information will be used in engineering matters and in planning the location of new artenals. MALAYAN REDS KILLED KUALA LUMPUR; Malaya Wl Eleven Communist guerrillas have been killed in operations during the last 48 hours. him an "honorable peace can still be won in Indochina and that his presence in Geneva would help win it. FAVORS PACT In a statement, Dulles recalled he had come to Paris last April 13, before the Geneva conference started, to talk about forming a Southeast Asian defense pact. At that time, he said, he felt such an organization would help France. I still feet the same way," he added. He went on to explain: "The United States is not itself a belligerent and therefore not a proper party to many aspects of the problem which are the princi pal concern of the Geneva con ference. However, we do have a great and continuing interest in collective action by France, Great Britain, United States and other free countries to promote the peace and freedom of the area. 'This, as well as pressing Euro pean problems, will, I hope, be among the subjects of our conver sations here, which are bound to re-emphasize to the -Communists the futility of their efforts to di vide us." URGENT APPEAL The reference to European problems indicated Dulles expects to discuss plans for the six-nation European army which France has delayed placing before its parliament for ratification. Dulles' flight here was in ans wer to an urgent appeal from Mendes-France. On leaving Wash ington Monday night, the Ameri can secretary emphasized that Park was his present destination. At conferences Tuesday after noon and night, Mendes-France and Eden will outline the pros pects for an Indochina peace set tlement in an attempt to allay American fears that France getting ready to surrender to the Reds at Geneva. Dulles' deter mination that the United States should not be saddled with re sponsibility for any such settle ment resulted in his decision that neither he nor Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith would return to Geneva for the final round of negotiations. Western diplomats at the Gene va conference viewed Dulles' trip to Paris as a strengthener for Mendes-France, who has only eight days left to make good on his promise to win an honorable Indochina peace from the Com munists, by July 20 or resign. French and British diplomats were hopeful their bosses could convince the American secretary he or Smith should return to the conference table with them. agrees to accept their original offer to renew contracts without change. The employers, standing firm on their refusal to consider pay increases, said the contract re newal proposal is their "final offer." Tho AFL union and CIO Woodworkers went on strikn June 21 for a 12Mi-cent hourly ncrease. - ALWAYS WILLING' The employer committees said individual operators arc "always willing" to meet with their crews to negotiate settlement with no wage increases. In a public statement the em ployer groups charged the union with "bad faith bargaining." They said their offer to renew contracts never had been sub- A meeting was being held Tuesday afternoon in Eugene with the Willamette Valley Lumber Operator's Assn. re presenting a number of mill owners. Across the table were officers of the AFL's Willam ette Valley Council and Portland-Columbia Council. Com missioner Roy Smith, Federal Mediation ..Service, set up the meeting and was sitting in. Neither side expressed hope for a settlement prior to the meeting. mitted to union locals and that union officials had ordered out workers who voted against stnk-ine. Kenneth Davis, secretary of the AFL union's northwestern coun cil, replied that some employers are trying to "break the union." If such activities become serious, he warned, the union will extend the walkout into pine belt areas where a strike has been author ized. Davis also charged that the em ployer committees have intimi dated some operators, preventing them from? signing wage increase agreement!. . NEW CONTRACTS Employers have contended con ditions in the lumber industry do not justify any boost in produc tion costs. The Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee was expect ed to reiterate its stand to the TALKS CEASE (Continued on Pdfle 3-A) Civilians Quit Hanoi Outpost HANOI, Indochina Wl Viet minh mortars shelled French army headquarters at Son Tay, 25 miles northwest of Hanoi, Monday night and sniper warfare rang through the streets of the defense outpost town of 6,000. A French army spokesman said civilians were moving out of Son Tay as rebel pressure built up in that sector and across the northern Red River delta defense area. Korly-one rebels were reported killed and 17 captured in various actions during the night. There were no announcement of French losses. Between Son Tay and Hanoi Vietminh guerrillas attacked a French highway guard patrol but were driven off by a tank squad ron that rumbled out of Son Tay to the rescue. Twenty Vietminh were killed and seven captured in the roadside fight. One rebel sniper was killed on a son lav street corner uui others apparently escaped. Other fights were reported Just north of Hung Yen, 25 miles southeast of Hanoi, and through the Sept Pagodes-Luc Nam-Puh Lang Thuong triangle, 35 miles northeast of Hanoi. North of Hung Yen, rebel guer rllla and French-Vietnamese pa Urnls clashed in small night bat tics for possession ol the supply road from Hanoi. x P Jl A?jt(tik Commission Kills Request For Dog Races Two applications for licenses to hold a racing meet in Lane County have been dropped by the State Racing Commission, C. A. Huntington, commission vice chairman told the Register-Guard Tuesday morning. Huntington said this means there will be no public hearing in Eugene this summer. The earliest that applicants can now apply to the commission for licenses is sometime in No vember, Huntington said. When and if applications are received, a public hearing will be held in Eugene, the commission member explained. One of the applications drop ped was from Greyhound Racing Inc. which had submitted a pro posal to construct a steel grand stand on a site eight miles north of Eugene this summer. The other application dis missed was signed by George P. Hitchcock of Eugene and sub mitted under the name of Grey hound Park of Eugene. This ap plication proposed that racing would start next year, but no site was listed. Huntington said Tuesday the commission will never go for a race meet in the Eugene area un less the applicant is financially stable. He said the commission decided to dismiss the present applications because it would be impossible, in any event, for the applicants to have race meet facilities ready for this year, even if a license had been granted. Huntington said Tuesday "I am still neutral on the issue." He commented he had received a lot of criticism recently "just be cause I am trying to administer the law." Kerr Winner In Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY W For mer Gov. Roy J. Turner with drew from Oklahoma's runoff primary election Monday night, auotomatically giving the Dem ocratic nomination for U. S. Sen ate to Sen. Robert S. Kerr. Tumor, though personally wealthy with cattle and oil mil lions, said lack of finances pre vented his making the campaign for the runoff, which had been scheduled July 27. Under Oklahoma law no can didate may personally spend more than $3,000 in the Senate race. Turner said "pressure" on friends through whom big cam paigns are generally financed "prevented them from cooperat ing as originally intended." He accused Kerr of buying the first primary election. Kerr had a plurality of 33,302 votes, loading Turner 238,543 to 205,241, but strength of seven other Democratic candidates blocked his bid for a majority and forced the contest into a runoff. Kerr will now face the Repub lican runoff winner in the Nov, 2 general election. (ap wiraphotoi MORE LISTENING, AND TALKING, AHEAD Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles listens to French Ambassador Henri Bonnet, right, at plancsidc Monday night just be fore Dulles' departure for Paris. With them is British Ambassador Sir John Makim. Dulles said his surprise flight to France for a meeting with French Premier Mendes France and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden demonstrates the "deep concern" he feels over developments in Indochina and Europe. Inside Today President proposes $..n billion road program for U.S. Page 2A. Insurance growth phenomenal since war's end. Page 5B. Radio, TV Log 4A Women's News 6, 7A Editorials 8A News Briefs IB Sports 2, 3B Comics 4B Theaters Ml Business, Farm B Classified .. 6 B
