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' high Wednesday 32 to 38.
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50th Year
Convict Taken
In Portland,
f PORTLAND,-Dec... 23 (IB Two
; more of seven convicts who tun
'neled their way to freedom from
the Washington state penitentiary
Svere- reported Tuesday to have
ft been1 seen here as police staked out
( hotels throughout the qlty.
One1 of the escapees was shot
i down and captured in a bullet-fly-
'Ing chase Monday afternoon after
'being spotted in a car stolen in
Walla Walla, Wash. The other six
''remained at large. , . ... i.
' v A man who turned up at two
downtown hotels was believed to
. be Harold Coe., who was serving
. B life term for murder. A clerk
Identified a picture and finger
prints Identified as Coe's were Ve-
' portedly found on a whisky bottle,
' Officers said a man seen with Coe
was thought to be another of the
escapees. ' '
f , Alerted to Watch -
Authorities throughout the North-
iwest were alerted to watch for the
Vscapees, one of whom has sworn
''ho will never again be taken alive,
Folice said they believed several
of the convicts had fled to Portland
as four piles of cigarette ashes
were found In the stolen car. Also,
officers said, prison clothing found
in the car had numbers which
tallied with those of some of the
other escapees.
aiitnnririoQ tzmn Tnpv nun nn in
Others Sighted
formation to indioate that the men
who escaped from the Washing
' . 'ton State Penitentiary early Mon
i ' day were armed.
"But considering the caliber of
the men, Including one murderer,
1 ,they will probably find arms," one
1 officer said.
'The men made their escape
' 'through a 200-foot tunnel which
must have required months of la
bor and painstaking secrecy to
construct
Convicted Robber
Fugitive Ralph Courser, 45-year-
iwMirfnlml mhW uhr WAS one
'Of the seven -whd tiinneled their
way to freedom from the Walla
Walla, Wash., prison, was being
held under guard at St. Vincent's
Hospital here after a Portland po
liceman ran him down.
Attendants said Courser was only
' slightly injured when a bullet from
: the officer's gun pierced the back
of his neck and went out through
the left cheek. ,
Washington State policemen join
ed local .'officers in the intense
wwrnh after Courser was captured
and another man. believed to be
one of the "escapees, was sighted
in a railroad yard here.
Policeman Kills
Grenade Tosser
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (fft-A Ma
rine sergeant on Christmas leave
' threw an incendiary hand grenade
into a crowded bar early Tuesday
nri uno ehnt tn death bv an off-
$k duty policeman in a seven-block
chase through dark Manhattan
The 19-year-old sergeant, identi
: fied as Eugene McDermott of New
York, died of a bullet wound in
. the head six hours after he terror
ized an entire neighborhood by
throwing a grenade in a west side
bar. Thirteen persons were injured
in the spray of burning phosphor
ous from the bomb.
Police said the fiery blast lit
erally "burned the pants off" one
s man in the bar, John H. Orth, 50.
federal narcotics agent. Ortn
was in the bar on a narcotics in
, vestigatlon not connected with tne
McDermott, who was wearing
elvilian clothes, was token to
Ktiickerbocker Hospital with a bul
let wound In the head. Patrolman
Vincent Beckles. who chased Mc
Dermott and finally downed him
with a pistol shot, was treated for
knife wounds. - .,,.
Police could establish nodeflni e
' n., tnr ihi hnmbing. They said
McDermott apparently threw the
grenade in an outoursi m
or resentment against someone in
the bar.
Jamboree Signup
Deadline Jan. I
eaii. of the Modoc area
council were being advised by their
.,t ,..oik.og this week that
they must send in their registra
tion cards not later man Jan. i
if they wish to attend the nation-
wide Boy Scout Jamboree to dc
held near Santa Ana. Calif., next
June. The Modoc council will be
permitted to send IIS scouts to
this meeting, and the Fremont dis
trict, of which Bend is a part, will
. t n,Bc, fnfvu-tivl hv Smut of fi
Scour on i
J dais today that an entire troon of
tn Tri.n hnv fmm Warm Springs
Twi"i.'JLZZZ r h San
Bend Gets New Street Signs
0. - j
New street signs, of steel with baked enamel facing, now are being
put up in Bend by city street department crews. The tlty has pur
chased 151 of the new signs. Estimated cost of the signs, plus Instal
... latlon, is 2,000. r '
Street Crews Busy Installing
Sturdy New Markers in City
City crews now are in the
street signs, designed to serve: unmarked areas in all 'parts
of Bend. The new signs are of enameled steel, and' much
sturdier than the previous aluminum and wooden signs that
marked city streets, according
ment superintendent. , ' .
Drost estimated that between 50 and 60 of the new signs
1 already have been put In place.
Federal-Workers
Get 4-Day Holiday
Most federal employes In Bend
will have a four-day holiday this
week, as a result" of an executive
order signed by President Tru
man designating Friday as a holi
day for the majority of federal
employes.
To be closed Thursday, Christ
mas day, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday of this week will be the
Deschutes National Forest of
fice, the local recruiting offices,
the selective service office, the
Soil Conservation, Bureau of
Land Management and Bureau of
Reclamation offices.
The Bend post office, however,
will provide bothe delivery and win
dow service Friday, with the ex
ception of rural deliveries, which
will not be made, it was report
ed. Local postal employes, under
a directive received here, will be
elven a day off within the next
30 days, to compensate for time
worked Friday.
Federal employes whose duties
are connected with public" safety
are not included in the president's
holiday proclamation.
All state, city and county of
fices in ' Bend will be closed
Thursday, Christmas day, but
will be open on regular schedules
Friday and faaturuay.
City offices will be open Friday
and Saturday morning, but will
be closed Wednesday afternoon,
to afford employes an opportun
ity to prepare for Christmas, it
was reported today by W. O.
Cuthbertson, city manager. State
offices here will maintain regu
lar schedules.
Ice Skating
By Christmas
Is Aim Here
Bend will have Ice skating by
Christmas, if the weather man
is gracious. As a matter of fact
Bend's younger skaters, who may
not mind rough ice, will be wel
come to try the city rink tomor
row morning, according to Wayne
Hamilton, city recreation director.
Hamilton explained today that
the Troy laundry field has been
snraved the past two nights and a
firm" Inundation of Ice has been
obtained. Another layer wm
,"-.yn, . d lce should
added tonight and tn
be in fair shape for SKaung oy
Christmas eve, barring a Chinook
wind or rain. , , .
Good skating will be In order
Christmas day. again if the ele
ments are favorable, Hamilton
ad?ea- ...... (imnf la -eel
- ' A piev, - in.tr-x,,,. N,nif ntavi. the former ton
; Bend s mun ipa a warm
to opera"".. t ,k.
- 1 wind ana mm
process of installing 151 new
to Percy Drost street depart'
! :; , , ...
The tetters and figures are 'larger
than those on,,theolder . s s,
making" the new marlcers more
legible, both during the day and
at night. . ....
. Heavier' and stronger material
used in the new signs, it is hoped,
will discourage young pranksters
from ripping them off, next Hallo,
ween or when the impulse strikes,
Drost explained today. Vandalism
has been responsible for destruc
tion of so many older signs that
it has been difficult for strangers
to find their vay around in some
sections of Bend, due to Inadequate
marking of streets.
The 151 new signs will not be
sufficient to mark completely the
Bend business and residential
areas. Where the aluminum signs
or wooden signs were found in
good condition, they were not re
placed this year.
Drost estimates the cost of the
new signs, plus installation, will be
more than $2,000.
Education Board
Submits Budget
EUGENE, Dec. 23 OB The State
Board of Hihger Education's bien
nial report to Gov. Paul Patterson
calls for an annual operating budg
et of $11,749,000 in state funds for
Instruction and general services,
the board said in a statement
Tuesday.
The budget calls for a 6.9 per
cent Increase over the current bi-
ennium. This is lower than In
creases sought by other publicly
supported Institutions in other
states, Chancellor Charles D. By.
me said.
The requested operating budget
includes full costs of operating and
maintaining eight campus instruc
tional units.
No Increase in funds for added
instructional staff or for added
classified civil service personnel
is requested by the board, Byrne
said.
The board said the Increases was
necessary to bring academic sal
ary levels up to standards ot other
state higher educational institu
tions, to provide for operation and
maintenance of buildings complet
ed or to be completed In the cur
rent biennium and to provide small
requested expansion in statewide
services.
AT NEW inOH
SALEM. Def. 23 1P Average
earnings of Oregon's production
workers reached a new high of
$2.12 an hour and S82.16 a week
rlnrlne November, the State Un-
Emoloyment Compensation Com
mission said Tuesday. The com
m;einn aaiH It u.-n nmhahlv Mow
to all-time peaks for tne united
States. The new hourly figure Is
States. The new hourly figure
red senHmber and at that
hizher than for any other
BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER
Truckers to
Next President
In Conference
With Hoover
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (1B-Presi.
dent-elect Eisenhower discussed re
organization of the executive
branch of the government at lunch
eon Tuesday with former President
Herbert Hoover and Dr. Arthur
Fleming, president of Ohio Wcs-
leyan University. .
The luncheon was at the home
of Secretary of Slate-designate
John Foster Dulles, who was pres
ent. .
It was at Dulles' home last
Wednesday that Eisenhower got
together with Gen. Douglas . Mac
Arthur to receive MacArthur's
counsel on Uie Korean war. -
One of Eisenhower's visitors earl
ier Tuesday was Hamilton Fish
Armstrong, editor of Foreign Af
fairs, a quarterly publication. El
senhower is a member of the ed
itorial board of the Council on
Foreign Relations, which publishes
the magazine. . ;
Armstrong said they nad dis
cussed "foreign policy in general
terms."
The President-elect, was tapering
off his visitor's schedule looking
forward to a ou.et Chrisemas at
home, pinch-hitting for his son in
Korea as daddy-by-proxy to three
small grandchildren.
The Pres dent-elect s son, John,
an Army major, Is on duty In Ko
reans his wife will bring their
three children from Highland Falls,
N, Y.. to the Eisenhower, home
here to spend the holiday with
their , grandmother- and grand,
father.
.'.The Grandchildren uro Dwight
pavjd,;v4;. Barbara, Anne,, 3, and
The President-elect's schedule
of appointments at his Commodore
Hotel headquarters mesaay in
cluded only ihree persons. The first
was Jack Connelly, head of the
newsreel section of the "Voice of
America."
Others Listed
The second was with Hamilton
Fish Armstrong, editor of the quar
terly Foreign Affairs, The last was
Edward C. Jancway. or south Lon
donderry, Vt., who was elected Re
publican national committeeman
from Vermont after; the national
GOP convention last July.
A surprise visitor at Eisenhower
headquarters last Monday was John
Roosevelt, youngest son oi ine. laie
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He supported the Elsenhower pres
idential candidacy aitnougn nis
mother and two of his brothers
made campaiim speeches for Dem
ocratic candidate Adiai E. Stev
enson. . .
Rooseve't, In answer to a ques
tion following his talk with the
President-elect, said he thought
Eisenhowers cabinet appointments
were "wondertui. He said ne sun
was registered Democrat but when
asked if he intends to retain that
status, Rcosevelt smiled and said:
'That's an 'if question.
MUMPS REPORTED
PRINEVILLE; Dec. 23 An epi
demic of mumps in the Mitchell
community of west Wheeler coun
ty caused cancellation' of the pre-
Chrlstmas school program. Many
students are convalescent whne
many others, chool authorities
report, arc absent from the ma
lady. OKDPIIH 1SSUFD
VKTfSmiRfi. Mich. Dec. 23 im-
r-hiof nt Pniir-n .1bsp Rraw ordered
his men to ignore 'downtown park -
Ing violations as a Christmas pres -
int tn shnnnnm hut ordered them
tn ffot hunk on the ball for the New
Year celebrants Jan. 1.
Communists Consider Charitable Foundations
'Very Lucrative,' Ex-Party Workers Testify
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (IB
Communists have considered char
itable foundations "very lucrative"
sources of funds "to help in the
task ot subverting America," ac
cording to two former Reds.
A House committee investigating
whether tax-exempt foundations
have been used for subversive pur
poses heard the testimony Monday
from Manning Johnson, a party
member from 1930 to 1940, .and
Maurice Malkin, a charter member
of the U. S. Communist Party who
was expelled in 1937.
The witness ssid Reds In 1928
began worming their way Into the
foundations as well as labor un
ions and other orcanizatlons. John
son and Malkin, who now work for
the Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service of the Justice Depart
ment In New York as eoraultants
on Communism, have testified pre
viously before other congressional
Heroic Captain
Of Passengers
BEIRUT. Lebanon Dec. 23 UPl
The heroic captain of u Lebanese
motor launch rescued almost
single-handed ull remaining passen
gers and some crewmen n total
of about 150 personsfrom the
wmcked French cruise liner Cham
pollion Tuesday. '
, Heiore the rescue, scores ot
panic- stricken passengers had
leaped from the slanting deck of
the liner into the sea, 17 to death,
about 45 to be rescued by Lebanese
fishing bouts.
As night interrupted rescue oper
ations, only about 100 of the Cham-
pollion s crew remained aboard,
confident of rescue in the morning.
4 According to official figures
subject still to revision there were
113 passmgers and 205 crewmen
in the 12,546-ton Christmas cruise
liner when it was smashed into a
reef in a howling gale, only 200
yards offshore. i
i Seventeen crewmen who volun
teered to try to swim ashore with
a lifeline were picked up Monday
by little Lebanese fishing, boats,
It looked glim for those remain
ing aboard today, with the ship
Crew Taken Off
Wrecked Vessel
' WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (IPI-The
Justice Department said Tuesday
that moro than one-fourth of the
crew of the French luxury liner SS
Liberie will nbt be permitted to
go ashore when the ship docks In
New York Wednesday.
' The reply to Inquiries, a depart
ment spokesman said 269 of the
974 crew ''members refused to an
irver questions of U, S. immiera-
aon Inspector put abotavat the -ship
to make sure they complied with
the seamen landing requirements
of the new McCorran-Walter Im
migration Law.
The law goes into effect Wednes
day. It requires a security check
of all seamen entering U. S. ports
before they can be permitted to
enjoy any kind of shore leave. ,'.
French and British authorities
have protested ' informally to the
statement about these examina
tions of their nationals.
Foreign complaints against this
provision of,. the law have been
mounting. .i;
The burden of complaint is that
the provision will require ships to
lay over for extra duys in Ameri
can ports thus delaying the "turn
around" and cutting Into profits of
foreign shippers.
Mercury Drops
Toll in Night
Clear weather and bright sun
shirte was Bend's lot today after
storm clouds rolled away last
night and brought a crisp temper
ature of 11 above at 8 o'clock
this morning.
The mercury fell from a high
of 43 yesterday and, strangely,
was 12 above at 7 o'clock this
morning, dropping one more de
gree between 7 and 8.
The U. S. weather bureau was
cautloua In its forecast for the
next 24 hours, seeing the possl
blllty of some snow without much
change In temperature. Another
storm Is reported to be approach
Ine the Pacific Northwest, bill
'wnciner or noi n win carry imo
Eastern Oregon was not indicated
i In forecasts.
i Travel was at winter normal In
1 Central Oregon today, with mo.
! torlsts advised to carry chains,
. but no fresh snow reiwrted In
I Cascade mountain passes.
committees. '
Johnson said n special Commu
nist Party committee was set up
In the 1930's to tap all possible
sources of funds -"bleeding hearts
foundations, labor unions, fellow
travelers, and others."
Johnson, a Negro, testified he
has been "persecuted" since he
broke with the party on learning
that Its promises to American Ne
groes are hoilow and that Negroes
are being used merely as pawns
In the Communist scheme of world
conquest.
He said all. Communists who
break with the party and then give
evidence to Congress or the gov
ernment face constant danger.
"Our movements are restricted,"
he said. "We have to be very care
ful where we go. careful to stay
out of crowds. The Communists
have many strong men, skilled in
the use ot the knife, the acid ato
23, 1952
Pay from Nov. 4
Praised After
from Grounded
fust breaking up and waves sweep
ing over it.
There was an anxious huddle ot
otfieials and boatmen on the shore.
Capt. H. . Rudwan, who pilots
occun-going ships into Beirut har
bor, volunteered to go to the res
cue. Rudwan bounced his launch
through the seas to the Chamnol
lion, its buck broken and heeling
over at a 50-degree slant.
Crew members of the Champol
lion threw him ropes. He secured
his little craft to the side of the
liner.
? The crewmen threw rope ladders
over the side. While Rudwan ma
neuvered his boat close, men and
women started clambering down
the side, first the women, . then
the men passengers, then some
crewmen. Three women carried
babies In their arms. Three other
children climbed down in safety.
. The one casualty was a 12-year-old
boy. He, tell, while climbing
down a ladder, His head struck a
bulwark of the launch and he died
on the way to shore.
Radwan made three trips In all,
Pi nay Resignation Plunges
France Into Grave Crisis
PARIS. Dec. 23 je President Vincent Aurlol Tuesday
accepted the resignation of
France nlunired into a Krave
Auriol acted alter he railed in a last-ditch plea to tne
popular, business-man ' premier to stay on the job and see
One Dead as Car
One man was ' killed arid four
other persons Injured at 10:20 this
morning, when a south-bound pas
senger car crashed Into a stukc
truck at the Brooks-Scanlon, Inc.,
crossing, about a mile south of
Crescent. ,
The dead man's name was given
as Adam Vollmer, of College Place,
Wash. Brought to the St. Charles
Memorial Hospital by Owl Taxi
ambulance were Mrs. Vollmer, 54,
the dead man's wife; Mary Ann
Snd Irene Vollmer, daughters of
the couple, and ' Leonard Wheeler,
19, driver of the automobile. .
'! Mrs. Vollmer's' Injuries were re
ported to be serious and she under
went emergency surgery nt the
Hospital, this afternoon. Wheeler
was being treated for lacerations
and possible fractures. The two
daughters were given first aid, but
not hospltullzcd.,
En Route to California
The Vollmers were en route to
Lodi, Calif., to spend Christmos
with friends and relatives, when
the accident occurred. Wheeler, a
student at Walla Wnllu college,
was taken along as the driver. '
According to persons who wit
nessed the wreckage, the Vollmer
car apparently crashed broadside
into the light truck, as It was
crossing the highway. Packed snow
covers the highway at this point.
The Identity of the truck driver
had not been learned here this
afternoon, but It was reported that
he escaped serious injury in the
crash.
JOINT MEETING SET
REDMOND, Dec. 23 The Red
mond Klwanlans and Rotarlans
will hold a Joint meeting Wednes
day noon at the Redmond hotel
with the Kiwanlnns In charge of
the program. This will take the
place of the regular Thursday meet
ing or Rotary club since It would
fall on Christmas Day.
mizer, the blackjack.'
Doth witnesses said they have
been threatened from time to time.
Malkin said two attempts have
been mado to kill him, once by
stabbing and once by gunfire.
The two ex-Communlsts named
as having been used or "Infiltrat
ed" by the Communists at various
times the Garland Fund, the Phelps-
Stokes fund, the Robert Marshall
Fund, the Marshall Field tund,
the Hecksher Foundation, the Car.
negle Foundation, the Guggenheim
Fund, the Kussen bage f ounua.
tlon, the Rosenberg Foundation,
and the Rosenwald Fund.
Some of these funds no longer ex.
1st. Some are not tax-exempt.
Spokesmen for several of the
groups, testifying earlier, conceded
they have made s few mistakes
but Said they do all they can to
safeguard themselves from sub
versive employes.
Daring Rescue
French Vessel
bringing about 50 persons to safety
each time., , .
Crews ashore helped the ex
hasuted victims off Rudwflri's boat,
while women knelt In prayer In the
background. , , ' ; . ;' .
Messagiercs Murltimes Co., own
er of the cruise ship, said in Paris
there was a brief panic abourd
Tuesday morning as the ship set
tled Into the sand of the Mediter
ranean bottom but the punic soon
ended.
Survivors Included 17 crew mem
bers who came ashore safely Mon
day and made it vain ut tempt to
secure a line from land to the
12,546-ton cruise ship aground on a
sandbar 200 yards oftshore.
, Charles Harris, listed as a "U.S.
painter," was among the passen
gers. ..
. The marooned passengers and
crew huddled In the superstructure
of the vessel, the only part above
the, vush of the crashing seas.
, With holes below the water' line
and badly split amidships, t h e
Champollion settled deeper into the
sandy floor of the Mediterranean.
Premier Antoine P i n a y and
Christmas time crisis. '
through his program to save
France from economic disaster.
Plnay, disillusioned by rebuffs In
the National Assembly, refused
to reconsider his dramatic early
morning resignation.
"On no bretext Will I descend
.efsajjfaptillpirisde;. jfc !9dJJ
The Frenuh president ; immedij
utoly resumed ;tuiks with top Politi
cal leaders to find a successor to
Plnay, whose nine-month term of
office gave France its third long
est government in postwar politics.
Even boforo accepting Plnay's
resignation, he conferred with for
mer Pr6micr Georges Bldault and
Plerre-Hemi Teitgen, leaders - of
the Moderate Catholic Popular
Republican Party (MRP). .
It was the MRP which drove Pl-
nuy Into resigning by refusing to
back him on three confidence votes
on the 1953 budget the premier was
to have faced before his resignation
cut short un oarly morning Nation
al Assembly debate..
Salt Used Here ;
In New Treatment
For Icy Streets
A new treatment for Icy streets,
as a means of providing greater
traction during winter months now
is being tested by the street de
partment, according to W. O. Cuth
bertson. city manager. The salt re
places cinders, formerly employed
for this purpose.
As explained by the city muna
ger, application of the salt Is made
as early as possible when a storm
develops. Results to date would
Indicate that less labor is neces
sary, in cleaning up. after a storm,
and Hint greater traction is pro
vided for motor vehicles, Cuth
bertson explained.
A rust Inhibitor is mixed with
the salt before it is applied 'to city
streets, to prevent spruy from rust
ing metal parts of cars and trucks.
A salt spreader hus liecn obtained
by the city, for use in application.
Under the old system cinders
were spread on the streets, when
ice conditions developed. Effective
nt the moment, cinders soon would
be coaled with Ice, especially when
tempernture fluctuations caused
alternate periods of freezing and
thawing. The rock salt tends to
melt snow and Ice, and keep the
footing soft even though more snow
may fall on It, according to the
city manager. In addition cinders
must he swept up and hauled
away, afler storms abate.
The new method Is more econo
mical than the old, even though
the original cost of the rock salt
exceeds that of the cinders, Cuth
bertson commented.
OFFICERS PICKED
MADRAS. Dec. 2.3 At the
annual election, held at the home
of Mrs. Edith Chester at Warm
Springs, the Madras Toastmis-
tress club named Mrs. Earl Town
send as president for the coming
term. Other new officers are!
Mrs. Howard W. Kriz, vice presi
dent; Mrs. Con Herbstcr, secre
tary; and Mrs. Cecil . Vandal,
treasurer. Officers will ' be . In
stalled at a meeting at the home
of Mrs. Carl Darrar Jn Madras
on January 14, when husbands
will be Invited. !
No. 15
Marion Judge
Rules Against
Jan. 1 Date
SALEM, Dec. 23 (IB Truckers ex
pressed pleasure Tuesday over tt :
decision late Monday by Marion
County Circuit Judge Rex Klmmeli
which ruled that an Increase In tho
wclght-mllo tax rate on truck a
went Into effect Nov. 4, the day -the
voters of Oregon backed the
Legislature in'the Increase.- . -
If Jho tax had been retroactive .
to Jan. 1 It (vould have cost truck
ing concerns an estimated $2,UU0,
000 In back taxes. Moo Tonkan,
attorney for the trucking interiors,
termed the decision "an excellent !
opinion," -
The decision will undoubtedly bo
appealed to the Oregon Supreme-
Court, observers said. The test
case was up for court determina
tion attcr Attorney uenerat ueorge
Ncuner ruled that the increase was
retroactive to last Jan. 1. , i
: Sponsored by Council . -The
suit was brought by the
Portland-Pendleton Transportation
Co. on behalf of the industry and
was sponsored by the Oregon High- '
way Council, It had the approval
of tho Legislative Interim Commit
tee on Highways which nan rec-
ommended - that the increase be
forgiven until Nov, 5 so that no
hardship would be worked on small '
truckers.
The trucking industry had asked -a
Deo, 1 start on the tax. The i
action was brought against Publlo
Utilities Commissioner Charles H.
HelUtel.j Arguments were . heard ;
Deo, 15,
Judge Klmmeli ruled out the
Dec. 1 dato asked by , the truokers
on grounds that- the dtate constitu
tion says- a' -referendum measure,
"shall lake effect and become tho
law when it Is approved by a ma
jority of the votes cast thereon,!
and not otherwise." . .
Statutory Method ' , i s
Ho hold tho Kovomor's procla-"
mnllnn "Is onlv the statutory meth
od of legally establishing a publlo
record oi an existing tact.-. T. to
governor proclaimed the measure -as
iaw Dec. 1.
" The increase was voted oy tne
1951 legislature, then referred by
petition by the trucking lndustry.t
At the same time the trucking in
dustry Initialed a measure tor abol
ish the weight mile tax, The voters
rejected this proposal to abolish
the weight mile tax and at the
same time backed up the legisla
ture In the Increase,
Bus Line Drivers
Seek Pay Hike
PORTLAND, Dec. 23 (Ui Some
40 drivers of the : Continental
Paclflo Bus Line in Washington,
Oregon nnd northern California
were still striking Tuesday and
negotiations had not been re
sumed. Ted Scott, general chairman of
the drivers' union, said drivers
were seeking the same pay re
ceived by drivers on other routes
operated by the parent firm
Transcontinental Bus Corp. ot
Dallas, Tex.
Scott said the union, which is
affiliated with the Brotherhpod ot
Railway Trainmen, fell behind tho
others heeause of a two-year con
tract. Drivers on oihers runs of
tho company, Scott declared, won
a scale of seven cents a mile
last year. "
He buUI tho seven cents a mile
Is all his union seeks.-
The company has offered to
renew the old contract.
Services Held
For Victi
LARSON AIR FORCE BASE,
Wash., Dec. 23 ttPt Memorial serv
ices for 88 men who had hoped to
be home for Christmas will be con
ducted Tuesday and investigation
was to continue on the crash of
the C-124 Globema8tcr which car
ried them to their death Saturday.
Wing Chaplain MaJ. George E.
Rutnmey will conduct Protestant
services and Lt. Thomas G. O'
Brien, Catholic chaplain, will con
duct Catholic services for those
who perished in aviation's worst
air disaster.
. Meanwhile, an investigating team
was to continue questioning those
who survived the crash, except for
those on the critical list, In an ef
fort to determine what caused the
huge plane to thud to earth short
ly after takeoff.
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