Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, October 21, 1954, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION i0 ISSUES vfental Hosnitrfl ten Roforrctr4 b State Voters i voters will write another chapter in what has continued story when they vote Nov. 2 on a j.:! milrl pstahlish a penpral niontol VincnKti Lland area. They wrote the first chapter two I mi.. .t i-t--inrr lino lofriolitin. it.ntn u 4 rs will decide what chapter three will say when on this: lflVtI II OSPITAL IN OR NEAR PORTLAND Purpose: l,i that the domiciliary hospital far the treatment of ufliclcfl urn ft mental illness oj the aged, authorized Inters on Nov. 4, 1952, to be located within a 20-mile i! Multnomah Lonnty ourinousc. shall care for and jjons aillictcd with any mental illness." 1952 was the dale of the last general election and Up state's voters overwhelmingly approved a hospital for ud mentally incompetent patient. The need for care MP was clear, and the voters went for it in a big way. (legislature, looking at cost estimates, feared that the I offered to spend more money than thev needed tn live adequate care. They looked at figures like this: Patient Costs Differ slate tuberculosis hospitals, where all the patients are infirm and where all the work has to be done for them. lient, per-day cost to the state is $7.40. But at the big. spiidia, miciK iiuuaLi..-i uu iuuui ui uiuu- uwn worK ana the care of the physically infirm inmates, the cost is a day. She legislature reasoned, it would be wiser to set un Ind hospital as a general menial hospital. wasn't that easy. The state constitution says that all Itutions must be in Marion County. To establish one in loiinly would require a specific constitutional amend- It amendment (he voters had approved the previous fall kh for a hospital for the aged only, but it wasn't broad I provide a general mental hospital. So the legislature lie present measure to the voters. voters approve it, the legislature will then be in a posi- ipropriate money for the Portland hospital. Df the opposition to the new measure has come from there local boosters are unhappy over what they regard jislature's thwarting of the popular will. But they are ly lighting the present measure. Their reasoning is that her have the general mental hospital than no hospital Arguments in Favor actively favoring the November measure argue this Ire is need for more beds for mental patients of all types. Eg mental hospitals are overcrowded, i is need for such a hospital in the Portland area, be er cent of the mental patients now cared for by the iental hospitals come from Multnomah, Washington, FOUR SKCTfONS 44 PAGES HOME NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1954 FIVE CENTS WEATHER SHOWERS (Complete Report, Page 1-B) Phone 5-1551 STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL (Continued on Page 6-A) jientist Barred mi Secret Data EGTON m The Navy suspended the security liven to Dr. Edward U. former chief of the U. S. sianaards. is now director of re- 1 dpvnlnnmonf U Glass Wnrlt Hie f Py he had received a j uie Liciense uepart- Later, the Navy here "c uuarance. pent he had reviewed w me eastern Region al Security Board Condon limifni , . .illlLVU ilUL'W Wit security informa 1 pit, be said, he had Ulreis sufficient 'Women nd Safe R FALLS' an-Four ners who were lost in P north f r-i.:i f found safe and r'"n early Thursday Fer of a in., i Ch had set out to hunt Wins o i-i rennrt.7 s .... ; "' " about 35 miles - turner tor the jdcnlified as Mrs. W Johnson, "'""n imor, all of IBrvri- IXKi P: J, , " Swi, "ll.nn Sovern- labm t? Ararian fe'"Stt the evidence to warrant my request ing a complete reconsideration of this action. Thomas added that he was "or dering a suspension" of the se curity clearance for Condon and that the Navy has no classified contracts at this time witu the Corning Glass Works. Condon's .name has figured in various security inquiries. Last June 2, Condon said him self that tho Defense Depart ment was reviewing his security status and that he was working on non-military projects not in volving classified information while the inquiry was in progress. While chief of the Bureau of Standards, Condon said he had full security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission as well as the military. He resign ed that post in October 1951 In confirming that a review of his status was under way in June, the scientist said he had not been consulted by govern ment agencies on classified mat ters since he left the bureau. Condon once was described by the House Un-American Activi ties Committee as the "weakest link" in the country's atomic se curity chain. Condon denied the charge and voiced the opinion that if he really were the weak est link, it was a strong cliain, Thomas Thursday did not elab orate on the reasons for the Navy order suspending Condon's clearance. SEES VICTORY MANILA un Indonesian For eign Minister Dr. Sunario Thurs day predicted his country's claim in Tinirh Npw Guinea will be granted by the United Nations shortly. rABniiMAi. HIES VATICAN CITY un Domenico rarrfinl .Trin nrefoct of Me sac red Congregation of the Sacra ments, died Thursday oi a uw- attack. He was 87. United Appeal Progress 1 APDoal 1J .. nulefl i7j5u Kca ana coniriDu-Ckl,5!44'?-58 Thursday, follow- meetine Of th artvonnort P b7 T' New contributions re-P- brL-.i committee totaled idoDtpj nc ,90Unt? firms which ""WCH Payroll deHitrtmn inlnrf.- fcF.7?.,e Gravhar Electric l(t"l,re Rubensteins P'Ufnt Ci Leeas onoe oiuro "tificEmnW.. 100 53 Western Life Insurance Co. Eugene Business Exchange Ike Returns To Politicking After Speech Success Claimed In Quest for Peace By ASSOCIATED PRESS President Eisenhower buckled down Thursday to some frankly political doings after an avowedly non-political speech Wednesday night in which he declared his ad ministration has "come far" in its quest for lasting world peace. In the second and final day ot a flying trip to Connecticut and New York, the President planned to visit the campaign hcadquar- KERG will broadcast at 9:30 p.m. the President's address to the 10th Memorial Alfred E. Smith Dinner. tors of Sen. Irving Ives, Repub lican candidate for governor of New York, and talk to more than 500 campaign workers. Later, he planned to confer with Clifford P. Case, GOP can didate for the Senate in New Jer sey. This was regarded in ad vance as a renewed gesture of support for Case, opposed by ele ments ot his own party who re gard him as too liberal. JEWISH TERCENTENARY The President's speech Wednes day night was given before a din ner commemorating the 300th an niversary of the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in America. Although billed by the White House as "nonpolitical," that speech may have served as some thing of a reply to recent sharp criticism of Eisenhower adminis tration foreign policy actions by former President Truman and Adlai Stevenson, the Democrats' 1952 presidential candidate. The President said the "awe some" military might of the United States and the other free nations is "a deterrent to war." He pledged that that armed might will be held ready "at all times . to deal effectively and flex ibly" with any new Communist threat. Eisenhower is scheduled to de liver what is billed as another nonpolitical" address Thursday night at a New York dinner in honor of the late Alfred E. Smith, who ran for President on the Democratic ticket in 1928. The President is due ' back at the White House Friday morning. GIVES SUPPORT Meanwhile, Vice. President Nixon was giving a helping hand to Joseph T. Meek, who is run ning in Illinois for the Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Paul Douglas. In a Chicago speech Wednes day night, Nixon said that when the Eisenhower administration took over 21 months ago it found the Democrats had left in the files what he termed "a virtual blueprint for socializing Amer ica" through "socialized medi cine, socialized housing, social ized agriculture, socialized water and power and . . . socializing of . . . atomic energy." He did not elaborate. At an earlier news conference, Nixon said the Republicans have been gaining ground in the last week or 10 days and tnat tne con gressional elections can be won or lost by either party between now and voting day, Nov. z. But Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell, appearing on a television pro gram in New York Wednesday night, said a Democratic trend is "fairly definable." Other Democratic campaign ers were busy Wednesday pepper ing the Eisenhower administra tion and the Republican congres sional record. European Agreement Expanded PARIS Wl Seven European nations, including a West Germany on the verge of all but full sovereignty, Thursday agreed to join a "Western European Union" for common detense. The United stales and uanaaa win stand Dy as partners and guarantors. Foreien ministers of these nine countries virtually com pleted the task of rewriting the 1948 treaty of Brussels to add West Germany and Italy to the original five nations Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Thev reached their decisions in the Calais de unaiiioc annex a few hours after the American, British, French and West German ministers agreed on terms to end the Allied occupation fo West Germany (AP Wirophoto) CURVE OF LIGHT Horseshoe Curve, the Pennsylvania's curvaceous route around the Altoona, Pa., reservoir, was bathed in light Wednesday night by 6,000 photoflash bulbs mounted above, below and alongside the right of way. The simultaneous flash, set off to mark the Curve's centennial and the 75th anniver sary of the incandescent lamp, was synchronized with camera shutters atop a specially built 154-foot tower. In foreground, a passenger train heads for Chicago as a freight locomotive, right foreground, moves into the curve. Another freight is visible across the valley. A light bomb adds a pyrotcchnical touch at top. Candidates Fair to Give Voters First-Hand Look Thirty-six candidates for office, Ballots, not one of whom will be permit ted to make a speech, will be on hand Friday night for the "candi-! dates fair," which promises to be the biggest political gathering of the campaign. The fair will open at 8 p. m. In the Veterans Memorial Bldg., 17th and Willamette, and will last as long as the crowd and the can didates hold out. Idea of the fair is to give the voters a chance to meet the can didates face-to-face, and to ask them questions. Each candidate will have a table and a few chairs assigned to him. Voters will mill around the room, stopping to talk to candidates and to one another. There will be no political speech es. PRIZES OFFERED Ray Coulter and Monty Mont gomery, masters of ceremonies, will conduct the program which will be brief and informal. Sev eral prizes will be offered. The political party represented by the greatest number of voters will receive an autographed copy of James A. Farley's "Behind the Mrs. Smith Flies East ZURICH, Switzerland OP) Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R- Me) left Kloten Airport Thurs day for Prague on her way to Moscow for a seven-day visit. Mrs. Smith, on a private "get informed" trip, got some first hand knowledge of Communist methods Wednesday when East German Reds attempted to de tain her in the Soviet Zone of Berlin when she posed for photo graphs. She escaped detention but three members of her party were taken to East Berlin police head quarters and questioned for an hour before they were released. the political autobiogra phy of the former postmaster general who was a master politi cian in the early days of the New Deal. The prize is offered by W. M. Tugman, editor of the Register-Guard. Tugman, in editorials for several years, has told leaders of both parties that they should read this book. , There will be other prizes for the oldest voter, the youngest voter, and the voter who comes from the farthest away. Sponsors of the fair have em phasized that it is not necessary to arrive at 8 p. m. The fair will Cougar Survey To Be Made Bids for preliminary engineer ing survey of the Cougar Dam site on the south fork of the Mc Kenzie River will be opened in Portland next Tuesday, according to the Portland District Corps of Army Engineers. The Associated Press indicated Thursday that the bids will be called for furnishing a four-man team to work about 15 days at the site. Money for the survey was ap propriated during the last session of Congress. The allotment totals $150,000. The dam would be a rock-fill type, about 1,650 feet long and about 445 feet high. It is part of the Willamette Valley flood control project. Power generating facilities have also been authorized for the proj ect. Total cost is estimated at more than 37 million dollars. This is the same project that brought House approval of the "partnership"' proposal with the Eugene Water & Electric Board for construction of the power fa cilities. The bill, however, died in the Senate. go on all evening, and voters have been invited to drop in at their leisure. SERVE REFRESHMENTS Concessions, operated by vet erans' organizations, will offer coffee, hot dogs, soft drinks and ice cream. Organ music will be provided by Tony Piazza. A voting machine, the only one in the state, will be demonstrated by Gene Rossman, a former Multnomah County commissioner who is now a fa'ctory representa tive for the firm making the ma chines. The Lane County Elec tion Department will have a booth providing voter information. A "Voter I.Q. Quiz" wiU be ad ministered during the evening. Women representing church groups and granges will be host esses. Decorating has been done by the two major political parties and the granges. The granges have decorated a "non-partisan" booth and the parties have Sunday to Be Century Mark For Native-Born Oregonian OAKLAND One of the oldest native-born Oregonians will be 100 years old Sunday. And this community is ready to do a little quiet celebrating. Arba F. Stearns was born in Scottsburg on Oct. 23, 1854, and was county judge of Douglas L Hmyin DoS las County all his ; ear until five years ago ness with a hardware store in Oakland 75 years ago. Stearns remained active in business until he was 92, when he retired, turn ing the business over to his son, Edwin, and his grandsons, Fay and Robert Stearns. The centenarian has always been active and drove his own life. Main part of the birthday cele bration Sunday. will be at Com munity Presbyterian Church when an electric organ donated by Stearns will be dedicated. Ladies of the church will serve the birth day dinner to Stearns and his rel atives at 1:30 p.m. at the Veter ans Memorial Bldg. An open house will bs held by the family at the hall from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Stearns married nancy cnenu- with 1881 Thursday evening, Mrs. Edith Dunn, correspondent for the Reg ister-Guard, visited with Stearns and reported he feels "real well. The oldster still reads the daily paper and keeps up on current affairs. He attributes his long life and good health to "living a clean life." He doesn't smoke and doesn't drink. His eyesight is still good but he can walk only with assistance. He is the father of J. Edwin Stearns and Mrs. Esther Pcalcr of Oakland in uctoocr oijot Oakland ano me laie narry i,. She died several years assu, steams, wno was uougias wramy when struck by a train near their coroner at the lime of his death t.. two years ago. There are ten ;fi.arnj and a brother-in-law, grandchildren and 12 great-grand Creed CTenowith, started in busi-l children. 1 : "".'iiiuii.pii4rwiir if- ' 4 ARBA STEARNS Century Mark, CANDIDATES (Continued on Page 6-A ) TV Celebrities Call It Quits LONDON UU A mutual friend announced with regret Thursday that Arabella and Mr. Jiggs have called it quits. Arabella, the first orangoutang ever to appear on a British tele vision show, caught Mr. Jigg's eye in the Regent Park monkey bouse only four months ago. Mr. Jiggs promptly gave his current girl friend the old heave- ho, and Arabella started keep ing house together. For a couple of weeks everv- tning was hearts and flowers, or anyway bananas and carrots. But visitors to the zoo who had seen Arabella on TV all wanted to toss sweetmeats to the celebrity. Very few had any time for Mr. Jiggs. In due course Mr. Jiggs took to throwing his weight around, and his weight is 240 pounds while Arabella is a mere welterweight. Wednesday the keeper stepped in and restored Arabella to the hairy but loving arms of her mother Mary. Senator Undergoes Spinal Operation NEW YORK un Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass) underwent a spinal op eration Thursday to correct a World War II injury. Several hours later the hospital for spe cial surgery said "The operation was successful and his conditiion is good." Kennedy, 37, has been forced to use crutches for some time. He received the back injury when his PT boat was cut in two by a Japanese destroyer in action at the Solomon Islands. He was a lieutenant in the Navy at the time and restore, with a few ex ceptions, complete sovereign ty to west uermany. The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and France took the action Thursday after noon in a brief session with West German Chancellor-Foreign Min ister Konrad Adenauer. The four statesmen put the fin ishing touches on a scries of lengthy, detailed documents which art to replace the two-year-out treaty of Bonn, never completely ratified. CONDITIONS LISTED These documents set forth the conditions under which the West German will recover sovereignty after almost a decade of occupa tion, These documents, along with a series of annexes covering West Germany's future relations with the West and the status of Allied armed forces in West Germany, are to be signed in a formal ses sion Saturday afternoon in the French foreign- ministry. Thursday's action cleared the way for West Germany's incor poration into a seven-power West European union and membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization Treaties embodying these steps are to be signed Saturday after noon at the same time, pending successful conclusion of addi tional talks to be held here. The three Western powers re tained a few strings on West Ger man sovereignty to enable them to negotiate with the Soviet Union on German reunification and on a peace treaty for a re united Germany. SAAR PROBLEM They also kept the right to re sume the occupation in case of emergency and power to cope with the special situation in Ber lin. . The French-German dispute on the Saar appeared the only ma- jofhurdle in the tight minis terial schedule. French Premier Mendes- France has said he will not ask the French Assembly to ratify any agreement on German rear-l mament unless he is satisfied on the Saar issue by the end of this week. Between conferences with Al lied ministers, Adenauer was conducting delicate negotiations with leaders of other parties of his coalition cabinet in an effort to win wide backing for any even'ual agreement with the French on the Saar. He also was awaiting the ar rival of opposition leaders from Bonn to see if a German ::bl- parsan" policy could be worked out for a large scale economic and commercial agreement with France. 'ARMS POOL' PLAN The French Premier removed one large obstacle to quick agrcc-l mcnt when, according to French sources, he told the other minis ters he would not press for a de cision on his controversial arms pool" plan at this meeting. Instead, these sources sajd, he told the ministers he would be satisfied if they agreed on date when a special study group should report on this idea to the new Brussels treaty ministerial council. Other nations were cool to this project when Mendes- France first raised it at Londan. His plan is for an international agency to control the import. manufacture and distribution of arms within the West European area. Reds Profiling By Export Ban LONDON Un Russia and her European satellites have opened a big hole in Western barriers against war potential exports to Communist China. They are buy ing strategic goods from the West and selling them to the Chinese, making a neat profit in the bar gain. American and British officials here and elsewhere know what is happening but say they can see no way of stopping it This is the Western gimmick the Kremlin has turned to East ern advantage: The United States and her al lies forbid the export of certain strategic goods to both Eastern Europe and Red China. But the list of goods embargoed for Red China is far longer than the one for Eastern Europe. Red Europe thus can buy West ern goods that the Chinese cannot things like generators, machine tools and petroleum equipment. Western officials say-Jwopean Communist nations are buying these items for trans-shipment at top prices to the Chinese Reds. The strategic ban on Red China, imposed by the United Nations during the Korean -war. has al ways been tougher than the cold war embargo on Soviet Europe. And with tensions easing in Eu rope, the West relaxed embar goes for the Soviet bloc last August, cutting the number of prohibited items from 250 to about 170. But the Far East situation re mained potentially explosive and similar action on the Red China lists was deferred. Council Ousted CAIRO, Egypt W) The con stituent assembly of Egypt's powerful Moslem brotherhood ousted the associations govern ing council Thursday and grant ed Supreme Guide Hassan cl Hodeiby in "indefinite vacation." Inside Today Mexican diplomat calls tor Red China's admission to U.N. Page 7A. Four candidates for state sen ate discused. Page 9B. Women's News 8, 9A Editorials 10A Local News IB Comics 4B Theaters 5B Radlt, TV Log 6B Foods Sec. C Sports WD Markets 5D Classified 5-9D Retail Coffee Price Skids To $109 Lb. The regular retail price of cof fee dropped from $1.13 to $1.09 a pound in some major Eugene supermarkets Thursday and trade sources indicated this price.would be general in larger local stores Friday. Going to the lower price, gro cers said they actually are selling coffee stocks purchased before Wednesday's 5-ccnt reduction in wholesale charges. It will be days or weeks before these stocks are depleted. The grocers, themselves, won t get the advantage of the new wholesale prico until they sell current coffee inventories and reorder. And, even then, they'll have only a nickel margin be tween the wholesale cost of na tionally advertised brands and the $1.09 retail price. Earlier this year, as coffee wholesale prices climbed by leaps and bounds, the grocers increased retail charges only as successively higher-priced stocks went on their shelves. Several times, coffee re tailed here at less than the latest reported wholesale price. But now, with the wholesale price coming back down to earth, tho grocers aren't getting the chance to "get out from under" high-cost stocks before they re vise their retail markings, some of them said. Agreement Signed NEW DELHI. India W France and India signed a for mal agreement Thursday for the transfer Nov. 1 of French settle ments on tho Indian subconti nent to Indian rule. The accord still must be ratified by the French and Indian parliaments. Leaflets Dropped TAIPEII, Formosa UV-Na-tionalist Chinese air force planes scattered anti-Communist leaf lets on towns and villages along southern Fukicn Province late Wednesday while Reds and Na tionalists exchanged artillery fire in the Amoy and Tachen Island areas. A.