CITY 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,
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STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL
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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-
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Wit security informa
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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.
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rarrfinl .Trin nrefoct of Me sac
red Congregation of the Sacra
ments, died Thursday oi a uw-
attack. He was 87.
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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.
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ARBA STEARNS
Century Mark,
CANDIDATES
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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.