the feend fcuiterin, Tuesday, January 24, ifrto
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Careful Study of Road Bill
Urged by Gov. Patterson
PORTLAND (Up) Oregonians
wro urged by Gov. Paul Patter
son Monday to study careiully the
highway bill that is certain to .be
Introduced in. this session of Con
gress, and to make their wishes
forcefully known.
The highway bill wouid have far
reaching effects in Oregon, al
though only two major highways
in the state would be. directly in
volved, Gov. Patterson told the
Portland . Chamber of Commerce
lorum luncheon. A pioneer - in'
Mount Hood road development, E.
Henry Wemme, was honored.
Gov. Patterson noted that
Wemme brought the first automo
bile iiito Portland, was one of the
founders of the Oregon State Motor
Association, bought the old Barlow
toll road and later gave it to the
state, and in. general was a leading
early-day road booster.
"This certainly is a suitable time
to emphasize the need for. some
more modern Henry Wenunes," he.
said.
The governor said President Ei
senhower's program for national
highway improvement "is very
important- to Oregon. Under this
program highways No. 30 and No.
99, now in the national system of
highways, would .be improved with
the federal government paying ap
proximately 90 per cent of the cost,
"One of the major problems of
highway financing in Oregon has
been carving roads through moun
tains to improve these two vital
cross-state roads. If the federal
government takes over most of the
financing of these two highways,
the state will have just that much
more for Its federal aid system
highways.
Gov. Patterson said the inter
state system of highways, consist
ing of 40,000 miles and including
highways 30 and 99 in Oregon, was
established a number of years ago
and cannot be expanded or
changed. This system should not
be-confused, he said, with the
700,000 miles of highways on the
federal aid program. In addition,
there are some 200,000 miles of
'stfttd highways in the con
subjwrt to federal aid and three
million miles of county roads and
city streets.
The highway bill will be one of
the most important pieces of legis
lation 'before Congress this session,
Gov. Patterson predicted. As one
of 10 members of the President's
Conference Committee on High
ways, he has worked closely with
others on the committee in helping
to shape the. legislation.
Gov. Patter-son said he will rec
ommend, as a member of the com
mittee, that some Torm of reim
bursement be made to stales that
have been forward-looking and that
have already completed major con
struction on these national system
highways. lie included Oregon
among these states.
FOUND DKAJ
ST. LOUIS (UPWohnny Layton,
former world champion billiard
player, was found dead in a room
ing house Wednesday. An inquest
will be - held today. Layton, 69,
had been inactive as a profession
al player in recent years. He once
held the world three-ciwhion and
pocket billiards championships.
Split Remains
Despite Solon's
Meet With Ike
WASHINGTON (UP) Democrats
and Republicans remained split
over some aspects of foreign pol
icy today despite the President's
effort to heal the breach at
meeting with Sen. Walter F.
George.
The influential Georgia Demo
crat, chairman of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, declined
to discuss details of his one-hour
talk late Monday with Mr. Eisen
hower and Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles, who was present
most of the time.
But observers gained the im
pression that George, chief Demo
cratic foreign policy spokesman in
Congress, had not softened in his
determined opposition to the Presi
dent's proposal for putting foreign
aid on a basis of long-term com
mitments.
George said he was only paying
a "private, social call" on the
President and that any comment
on what they discussed would have
to come from Mr. Eisenhower.
But it was obvious In advance
(hat the goodwill visit was aimed
at trying to enlist George's sup
port of long-term foreign aid com
mitments and at softening Demo-
orati criticism of. Dulles "brink
of Avar""5aTem"ents. v
Sonnio Republican Loader WH-j
ham F. Knowland (Calif.), who
previously had defended Dulles,
renewed his support of the secre
tary Monday night on a radio pro
gram.
Knowland said Dulles did not ad
vocate that the United States go to
the brink of war "as a matter of
exercise. He said Dulles declared
that the nation must be ready tOj
take whatever risks are necessary
to prevent the Soviet from taking
over the world piecemeal."
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Thames, Seine, and Volga rivers
combined i
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TEENAGE BEAUTY Shirley
Spencer, 13, of Indianapolis
is crowned Miss Young
America by film actor Robert
Wagner in Hollywood. Look
ing on is actress Zsa Zsa
Gabor. Shirley won over
seven other finalists. She was
awarded a complete ward
robe, phonograph, $1000 sav
ings bond, family films TV
contract and school vacation
modeling contract
Merger Would
Result in Biggest
U. S. Railroad
MINNEAPOLIS (UP) The
Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railroads are considering a
merger which would result in the
nation's biggest railroad in terms
of total miles.
Officials for the two lines re
vealed the proposed merger Sun
day. They said it would include
two smaller railroads, the Chicago,
Burlington, and Quincy, and the
Spokane, Portland and Seattle.
The Great Northern and Norm-
em Pacific will conduct a joint ex-
ptoratory study on the proposal, th
ornciais said. . . .
Tfie four lines operate a total of
about 27,000 miles of track in W
states and Ihe Canadian provinces
of British Columbia and Manitoba.
The operating expenses of the four
lines last year came to about tl
million dollars, according to Great
Northern spokesmen.
The announcement emphasized
that ''only an exploratory study is
to be taken at this time." j
Spokesmen said that if the pre
liminary investigation shows, the
merger would be advantageous,
the plan would have to be approved
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and railroad stockholders.
Preliminary studies have been ;
delegated to special committees!
which include Great Northern I
President John M. Budd, Northern
Pacific President Robert S. Mac-
Farlane. and Burlington President:
Harry G. Murphy.
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle
was built and Is owned jointly by
Great Northern and Noithern Pa
cific. The two northerns also have
equal ownership of 97.18 per cent
of Burlington's stock.
'Frozen1 Child
Getting Better
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (UP)
Police hoped today to solve the
mystery of a 2-year-old "frozen"
girl who survived a criminal at
tack and a fiO.S-degree body tem
perature. Meanwhile, the little Negro girl
was making medical history at
Evangelical Hospital here.
She was practically frozen to
death when police found her with
her unconscious grandmother in an
icy -cold, blood spattered cottage
Saturday. Her temperature regis-,
! tered 30 degrees below normal, be
1 lieved to be ; record for a human
-who survived
But little V-kie Davis is making
j a near-miraculous recovery. Her
temperature went to 103, resumed
I to normal, and doctors reported
j she is apparently out of danger,
j The child was even able to sing
a verse from "Davy Crockett "m for
her parents Monday.
of:t impatiknt
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (UP)
Two motorists waiting on opposite
sides of the tracks for a slow
freight got impatient at the same
time Monday.
John Christian. 55, Chicago and
Alonzo Ponce, 50. Hammond, Ind.,
both swerved around the crossing
gates. They collided head on in
the. middle of the tracks and were
hit a moment later by the oncom
ing train.
Neither driver was Injured
The United States contains ap
proximately 375,000 grocery and
combination grocery stores..
Move Underway to Set Rules
For Incapacitated President
Bv 1.YI.E C. V.II.SON
I'nlted Press Stuff 'orrespondenl
WASHINGTON (UP) Congi-ess
probably will strike out in its .ef
fort to it:blish inile-i under which
ir- ilated president could
be removed from oifiee.
The Constitution merely provides
that the powers and dutie.-. of the
presi dc.y shall go to the vice
president if the he-id man is un
able to discharge them. That is
mere authority, however, for such
to lake place.
Legis'ution is necessary to pro
vide the means by which a presi
dent's inability may e determined
Rash of Trouble
Brings Arrests
ROSEBURG (UP) Police Chief
Stan Olson said today eight per
sons have been uirested in connec
tion with a wave of burglaries,
vandalism and destruction of prop
erty in the Roseburg area during
the past few months. Five of these
arrested ranged in age from 18 to
35 ami the other three are juve
niles, Olson said.
Olson credited officer Gail Car-
nine with breaking the case. Car-
nine was scheduled tonight to re
ceive the mayor's award for out
standing public service in the city
of Roseburg for previous police
work. I
legally and fairly. President Eis
enhower decision to run or not
to run, that is the question would
he more easily made if the legis
lation vi're enacted.
Mr. Ivst'iihowcr's public slale
merits h:ve shown an acute realia
tiun of 'he predicament the United
Suites would be in if a president
were p manentry, id though not fa
tally, stricken. The American peo
ple had a taste of tin! in the latter
months of Woodrow Wilson's ad
ministration. It tasted badly.
Mrs. Woodrow Wi'son and White
House SH.retaiy Joseph P. Turn-
multy, 'or lack of precedent, took
over for the most pari. Cabinet
mt-mber-' did what they could.
which was not much. The men
uround Mr. Eisenhower knew that
well whrtn the President was hit
last September.
Congress I,ooks To Future
On one thing they were agreed
it wouli be different this time. And
it was. But the sta-k fact is that
for sohil weks the duties of the
presidency were unattended. Con
gress now is beginning to think of
the fuh'fe in terms of a stricken
president
If there is to be such legisla
tion, It .-'houKl extend .no! only to
the president, but to members of
Congress and to federal judges.
Perhaps it would not be necessary
to cover members of the House of
Representatives. They are elected
for only two years.
Engineer May
Have Died from
Heart Attack
WILLIAMSON, W. Va. (UP. -Of
fielals awaited a pathologist's re-1
port today on whether a 62-year-old
engineer died of a heart attack or
was killd in the wreck of a Nor
folk & Western passenger train
wtuch injured 30 persons.
Mingo County Coroner Tabor Ball
said officials were exploring the
possibility that engineer Walt Wil
lard, of Bluetield, W. Va.. died at
tiie controls of the train just be
fore the wreck.
Half of the fast Norfolk, Va.-to-
Cinclnnati, Ohio, train left the rails
on a curve in a mountainous sec
tion 30 miles southeast of here
early Monday near the small com
munity of Cedar, W. Va. The train
plunged over at) embankment
above the Tug River on the West
Virginia-Kentucky border.
None oi ' the injured was hurt
seriously. (
An autopsy was performed on
Willard late Monday, but no off i-:
cial findings were revealed pend
ing a report from a pathologist
who was asked to examine the
heart.
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