v City Delivery
Replaces Rural
At Kingwood
Street House Numbers
To Replace Delivery
Box Numbers
The Salem post office said
Wednesday that city mail de
livery will replace rural deliv
ery In the Kingwood annexation
to Salem In Folk county on July
1. If authorization can be ob
tained for a vehicle It will be
a mounted route.
The announcement follows
word Tuesday that the injunc
tion that was attempted against
the annexation will not be ap
pealed to the supreme court.
Clearing Up Confusion
Starting of a city delivery
service for mail means that
street house numbers will be
used instead of rural delivery
box numbers. For some time
the cost office and the city en
gineering department have been
working on the street number
w, ing system, and are getting it
In workable shape.
The engineering office is also
clearing up some confusion in
the names of streets in the an
nexation. Within a month, the
engineer said, most of the new
signs will be posted.
Confusion has been caused by
names appearing on some streets
that do not appear on the orig
inal maps.
. Streets Mlxed-Up
Kingwood drive and Cascade
drive are confused. Street
signs indicate that Kingwood
drive begins at the foot of the
.hill just beyond the railroad
crossing. Actually that is Cas
cade drive. Cascade drive runs
up the hill to Gehlhar road, and
then continues through the an
nexation until It comes to the
city limits of West Salem. Hence
it is partly outside and partly
Inside West Salem.
(Concluded en Pane S, Column 7)
Shy 100 Pickers
For Cherry Crop
When 55 growers left the Sa
lem employment office at South
Cottage and Ferry streets early
this forenoon they found they
were approximately 100 persons
short of the number needed to
k handle the work lined up for
' the day. Thirty growers were in
the market fo;- cherry pickers
21 sought - etrawberry pickers
while the balance were looking
for workers for a variety of
tasks.
As a result of the shortage, W.
H. Baillie, manager of the em
ployment service, issued a call
for at least 100 additional work
ers for Thursday. The cherry
growers needed 290 pickers and
went home with 203. The straw
berry producers got 149 out of
the 160 needed.
Adults are needed for the
cherry picking assignment. Bail
lie explains that youngsters are
not sufficiently strong to move
the ladders.
Strawberry picking is much
improved over the past week,
especially In the higher eleva
tions. Hil-RunlruclTHifs
4 Front Street Autos
Police decided Wednesday
that a hit-run logging truck had
sideswiped four automobiles on
North Front street, damaging
the tops of all of the cars.
A call from Emil Sandau, 2013
N. Front, owner of one of the
autos, started a police investi
gation of the accidents. His car
and three others had been
smashed along the top and side
while they were legally parked
r in the 600 block on N. Front.
Bark which was strewed
along the accident area led po
lice to assume that a logging
trucker had driven off after the
accident.
Flight Physicals at
Seattle Offered
So that men in this area who
will take flight training at the
Salem Naval Air facility may
be ready to fly when the planes
arrive here, the air station at
Seattle has authorized the flying
of a group of men to Seattle for
their flight physicals.
Tentative date set for the men
to go to Seattle is June 25 when
it is planned to send a plane
here from the Seattle naval air
atation to pick-up the men. Be
fore the transport plane is auth
orized for that date, however,
there must be 20 men signed to
make the trip. Already close to
10 have indicated that they will
be making the trip to the air
station.
Parking Plant Reopens
Topeka. Kans., June 15 "J.
The Seymour Packing company,
closed yesterday because most
of its employes were sick with! The U.S. department of agri
food poisoning from a company 'culture already has announced
V-nic. reopened today with ev-'its approval of the nroeram
eryone feeling much better.
61st Year, No. 142
Lansing Heads
New Division of
Traffic Safety
In an effort to reduce automo
bile accidents In the atate of Or
egon, Secretary of State Earl T,
Newbry Tuesday announced an
enlarged traffic safety division
with Capt. Walter Lansing in
charge.
Capt. Lansing, long a member
of the state police force, has been
assigned to the secretary of
state's office by H. G. Maison, su
perintendent of the state police
department.
James Banks and William
Grant, who have been in charge
of the newspaper and radio work
for traffic safety will be contin
ued in tneir positions while an
adult and school child traffic
training program will be direct
ed by Paul Warren.
Plans Driving Classes
Capt. Lansing stated that
driving classes will be held
throughout the state, especially
for women who desire to obtain
automobile drivers' licenses, the
classes to begin immediately and
continue throughout the summer
A school bus inspection pro
gram, required under a law pass
ed by the 1949 legislature will
be carried on in a new division
with D. V. Price and Ray W. Tay
lor, new men, to be in charge.
Newbry said that this division
will also organize school boy pa-
irois to am school children in
safely crossing streets goinng to
and from the school buildings
New Safety Program
Recently Newbry attended
national safety conference held
in Washington, D. C, and many
of the ideas advanced at this
meeting will be incorporated in
tne new safety program. In ad
dition recommendations made by
tne governor's traffic safety
council win also be carried out,
Newbry said.
(Concluded on P. re I, Column )
Willamette U
Improvements
In keeping with its program
of engaging in a vear-to-vor
program of improvement and
maintenance, Willamette uni
versity has started its summer
betterment program, according
to Robert Fenix, financial vice
president.
Repainting of the exterior
trim of the brick gymnasium
has been concluded and work
men will soon begin the redec-
oration of the walls and ceilings
of the basketball court. The
third floor of Eaton hall will be
reconditioned while the recital
rooms in the music hall will be
treated to prevent too much ab
sorption of sound.
Twelve rooms of Lausanne
hall will be redecorated while
chairs wiU be secured to replace
me last oi tne benches being
used in the cafeteria nf th.t
building.
The board has authorized h
purchase of a practice pipe or
gan which will be placed in the
basement of the music building.
It will be used in conjunction
with the one which was installed
in the chapel many years ago.
The program calls for the con
struction of a vault in the reg
istrar's office for storage of rec
ords and the rebuilding of the
service road through the campus
that was badly damaged during
the construction of Baxter hall.
The parking strip along the
12th street side of the campus
has been reseeded while it Is
probable a start will be made
in the base plantings around
Baxter hall.
Saturday Deadline for
Hop Marketing Pact
A reminder to hop growers that Saturday midnight, June 18.
is the deadline for mailing ballots in a referendum on'a proposed
federal marketing agreement and order program was issued this
week by W. Frank Crawford, vice
Agricultural conservation committee,
The ballot is a part of a print-
ed brochure mailed last week to
all hop growers of record, and
may be detached and mailed In
an already-addressed envelope
requiring no postage.
Any of the said growers who
failed to receive a ballot by mail
may obtain one, together with a
copy of the proposed marketing
agreement and instructions for
voting, at the county agricul
tural conservation office or from
the office of the county agent
of the agricultural extension
service, located In the county
agent's office in the county court
house.
which, to become effective J
C apit aljh, Journal
Salem,
aktur t tUlttt. Otmod
Senate Nears
Vote Stage on
New Labor Bill
Washington, June 15 W) The
senate added a Taft-Hartley law
feature to the Truman adminis
tration's labor bill today by vot
ing to require unions to bargain
with employers.
The action came on a voice
vote.
The bill already contained a
requirement that employers
must bargain with unions. The
effect of the amendment would
be to make it an unfair labor
practice as in the Taft-Hartley
act for either side "to refuse
to bargain collectively" with
each other in good faith.
First Definite Action
Its passage was the first defi
nite action taken by the senate
its week-long debate over
changing the Taft-Hartley act.
It is one of ruur bipartisan
amendments to the administra
tion's labor bill, which would
repeal the Taft-Hartley act and
replace it with an enlarged ver
sion of the original Wagner act.
Approval of the four amend
ments was expected without
much opposition.
The changes, which would
make the administration bill
somewhat more like the Taft
Hartley act, would:
Offer 4 Amendments
1. Require unions to bargain
on request. The administration
bill would apply this only to em
ployers. 2. Require union and compa
ny leaders to sign non-commu
nist and non-fascist affidavits
unless the union or the compa
ny itself effectively bans com
munists and fascists from its
leadership, in which case no af
fidavits would be required.
3. Require unions and compa
nies to file financial reports.
4. Guarantee "free speech" in
labor relations as long as neith
er union nor management makes
statements con t a i n i n g any
"threat, express or implied, of
reprisal or force or offer, ex
press or implied, of benefit."
Expect Approval
Whether action on all four
.amendments would be complet
ed today depended on how ma
ny senators speak on them.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), one of
the administration bill's major
opponents, said he expected all
four proposals to be approved
today, after which the senate
will begin a major scrap over
national emergency strikes.
In that connection. Senator
Douglas (D-Ill) told a reporter
he and Senator Hill (D-Ala)
would formally introduce a
fifth amendment providing for
government seizure of plants
up to 90 days to delay strikes
imperilling the national health
or safety.
When the national emergency
struggle is over maybe some
time next week Taft will try
to get a lot more Taft-Hartley
features into the labor bill by
substituting his own proposals
for the whole administration
measure.
Gov. McKay to Attend
Governors' Conference
Gov. Douglas McKay will
leave Thursday for Colorado
Springs, Colo., to attend the na
tional governors conference.
Alaska Shy ot Funds
Juneau, Alaska, June 15 W)
A report by Territorial Treasur
er Henry Roden showed today
that the territorial fund at the
end of May was $879,032 short
of meeting obligations.
Roden said a total of $167,497
was on hand at the closing of
books, but against the sum were
the auditor's office unpaid vou
chers totalling $1,046,530.
- chairman of the Polk County!
miiat hat's thai nnrnval rt a t
least two-thirds of the growers I1"- nowly 'scaped elec
voting in the referendum or by trocution when a 7200-volt pow
the producers of at least two- r Iln w" pounded through a
thirds of the volume nf hn nr. ,rKlOT h w" operating on his
duction represented. Handlers
are being sent an identical mar
keting agreement for their con
currence. The marketing order would
regulate the handling, of hops,tor, whpn tne c,bi, .napped,
and hop product grown In flew upward and fell across the
Washington, Oregon. Idaho and (power line.
California when prices paid
to growers were below parity
by a surplus control plan re-
quiring that hops in excess of he had suffered. Only external
estimated requirements for do-lmark left by the Jolt of electrl
mestic and export use be with- city was a small burn on the
held from the markeu
Oregon, Wednesday, June 15, 1949
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'Va ri ! 10.
Bloodmobile at Salem The mobile unit from the Portland
regional blood center made its monthly visitation to Salem,
Tuesday, 89 persons here donating one pint each. At top,
part of the crowd coming in to register is glimpsed, and at
the desk to assist them are Mrs. L. V. Benson, at left, who
was in charge for the day, and Mrs. Charles D. Wood at
right. Below Flora Adeline Schlag, route 2, Salem, is
shown giving a pint of blood with two nurses standing by,
Mrs, Ben Wittner, nurse's aide from the local Red Cross, at
left, and Miss Mona Olson, at right, regular nurse who
comes with the bloodmobile from Portland. Others getting
ready to donate their blood are shown in background. A
total of 144 persons signed to give blood, Tuesday, but only
119 remembered to show up, from which 89 were accepted
25 failing to show up for their appointments.
Drought Menaces Crops,
Floods, Forest Fires in East
'By thi AmocIsImI Ptim
A mid-June heat wave and drought threatened crops and
fanned fears of serious forest fires in the northwestern states
today.
Meanwhile, as the death toll in the New England heat belt
mounted to 15 in the last three days, the flash floods and storms
in north Texas took the lives of
11 persons.
In the Pacific Northwest,
there also appeared danger of
forest fires because of lack of
rain for weeks. Fire hazards are
reported in the forests of north
west Washington and northern
Idaho as well as in the Cascade
mountains and the coastal for
ests of Washington and Oregon.
But over much of the middle
west, showers and thunder
storms have brought needed
moisture to farmers, brighten
ing an already favorable crop
outlook. The rains were general
yesterday over the north central
states, with heavy falls in parts
of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
Iowa- and Missouri.
No immediate relief from the
hot and humid weather appear
ed in sight for the New England
area and a close watch was be
ing kept on the dry forests.
Temperatures are in the 80 s on
the coast and in the 90 s inland.
Forest fire hazards are at the
peak in New Jersey, now in the
24th day of a drought and with
no rain forecast before late
Thursday. Truck farmers face
serious damage to the crops. In
Fair Lawn, N. J., police declar-
ed a state of emergency because!
of the law water supply. Thel
only bright spot In the dry pic
ture was the possibility of a
good hay crop.
Aurora Farm Youth
Recovers from Shock
Aurora, June 15 Jerry Jen-
father's farm one and one-half
miles north of Aurora.
The youth and his father, El
mer Jesky, were pulling hay up
into a mow with a hook and ca-
Mm mitlit nmu.r.H h ih tr.
Young Jeskey was rescued by
his father and by evening had
recovered from the severe shock
bo) s right hip.
Grange Votes on
Resolutions
Coos Bay, June 15 Ml Ore
gon's Grangers were in the midst
of the annual resolutions deci
sions today and it was apparent
there would be no blanket en-1
dorsement of committee recom
mendations. Delegates to the annual con
vention late yesterday put an In
definite postponement on a tax
committee recommendation for
elimination of state property tax
es. Then they approved the tax
committee's resolution calling for
restoration of property qualifica
tions "for voting on all tax meas
ures." This latter action was direct
ed against the people's vote last
November which removed tax
qualification on voting in school
bond elections.
The Grangers memorialized
congress for money to permit
Bonneville Power Administra
tion to complete power lines
from McNary dam to La Grande,
from The Dalles to Maupin and
from Maupin to Goshen. Private
utilities have opposed, in con-
'gressional hearing, the McNary-
La Grande line as unnecessary,
Next year's convention will know that the prospective cost of a Hanford, Wash., plant had
be held at Ontario, delegates de-i skyrocketed from $6,000,000 to $25,000,000 until a member made
cided in another vote yesterday'a routine trip there early this year.
after hearing a number of Yet all through 1948 Hicken
speeches on varied topics. lnnper declared, the cost estimate
James T. Marr, secretary of had been mounting million by
the State Federation of Labor.imillion. Work was started In
said Oregon labor was with the! 1947 under a contract with Gen-
Grange in approval of a Cojum-jeral
bia Valley Administration.
WEATHER
(Released bv United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for flslem and Vicin
ity: Mostly elear tonight and
Thursday. Little change In tem
perature. Lowest temperature
expected tonight, 46 degree:
highest Thursday, M. Conditions
will be favorable for farm work
Maximum yesterday s7. Mini
mum today 43. Mean tempera
ture yesterday 67 which was 6
above normal. Total 34-hour
precipitation tn 11:30 a. m. to
day 0 Total precipitation for the
month .13 of an Inch which is 47
of an Inrh below normal. Willa
mette river height at Ralem.
Wednesday mornlnt -J of a
font
(22 Pages) Price 5
County Short
On Blood Quota
Once again Marion county
fell short of its goal for blood
donations partially because 25
persons failed to keep their ap
pointments for Tuesday after
being scheduled, and did not no
tify the blood program commit
tee in "time to allow for s"bsti-
tutions.
A total of 8ft pints of blood
was taken here during the visi
tation of the bloodmobile from
the Portland regional blood cen
ter, Tuesday, as against the
quota of 100 pints.
A grand total of 144 persons
was scheduled for the visitation.
Of these 89 donated blood, 27
were rejected, three were un
successful, and 25 did not even
show up.
"If It had not been for a good
ly number of "drop ins" our do
nations would have been very
poor, indeed," it was commented
a statement from the blood
program committee.
On June 27 the bloodmobile
goes to Mt. Angel and on July
12 will be back in Salem for
the regular monthly visitation
here.
Barglary Admitted
Netarts, June 15 Charles
Judge, Netarts, was bound over
to the Tillamook county circuit
court after pleading guilty to
burglary charges when he ap
peared before A. E. Hagglund,
justice of the peace at Tilla
mook. He was implicated in en
tering and robbing the Kenwood
Press, com m e r c I a 1 establish
ment, on five separate occasions.
Loot stolen was recovered in a
cabin owned by Judge and Del-
wyn Wridge, also of Netarts.
Wridge Is at liberty under $3000
bail on a charge of being an ac
complice.
Attack on Atomic Board
Renewed by Hickenlooper
Washington, June 15 i") Senator Hickenlooper (R., Iowa)
charged today that the Atomic
Electric Corp. The plant
was designed to put the produc
tion of plutonium on an assem
bly line basis.
of "Incredible mismanagement,""" d,'r';,ted '"""'ntion of ed by Grand I. l of A F. A
of A EC, Hickenlooper also told!,h " "' . ,h Al ' 0r(':"'' .
the ta'te-houe atomic commit-1 1 Z a 1 i h" kV ' 'i""'0' "T?'
tee that 'review board was appointed,! were at half n.ut in respect for
looked into the matter and made the justice. ,vho was a circuit
A reviewing board, appointed t, report. iudge in Linn countv before be-
by the AF.C, made a 43-page re- He quoted the report as sav-jing named to Oregon's highest
port critical of "lack of plan- ng tPle commission should have court.
ning and mistakes in changing ,n -danger signals" in con- Surviving Justice Kelly are
procedures" In construction of lt,ntiv Increasing estimates his wife, Margaret A. Kelly of
the plant. He said the report made by GE of construction costs. Salem; a foster daughter. Miss
said thi added to costs. ,n() ,hllt ..jt dlM.f not ,,,pP,r that Dorothy Cornelius of Salem: a
Hickenlooper quoted the re- any Atomic Energy Commission)ister. Mrs. Mary Hogue of
port as saying that a ventilating representative'' reviewed the es-1 Flerkelev. Calif : two nieces and
.system when ready for installa-
Backers of CVA
Join Drive for
House Approval
Western Governors
Called for Hearing
During Next Week
Washington, Jane 15 W
Backers of the proposed Co
lumbia valley administration In
the Paeifio northwest have join
ed In a drive for house approval
this session.
If successful in that, then they
will seek senate action at next
year's session of the present con
gress. Senator Magnuson (D-Wash),
who introduced the Truman-endorsed
CVA bill in the senate,
said today the strategy will be
to push the house public works
committee'a hearing on a simi
lar bill to a finish.
The house hearing is sched
uled to open Monday. Then, if
committee approval is obtained
house passage will be sought.
Senate to Drop Bill
Magnuson told a reporter the
senate public works commit
tee's hearing on his bill proba
bly will be dropped, except for
such witnesses as the commit-
tee may want to call from
among government employes
and perhaps governors from the
Pacific northwest. Then, he said,
the committee would conduct a
hearing in the Columbia basin.
Chairman Whittington (D-
Miss) of the house committee
has said he intends to ask the
senate committee to permit his
group to accompany it if a hear
ing is held in the basin.
Magnuson said President Tru
man has requested Whittington
to expedite the house hearing.
He said the reason for this plan
is that the senate calendar is so
full of important legislation that
there is no chance of getting the
CVA bill before the aenate.
McKay to Testify
Governors Langlie of Wash
ington, McKay of Oregon, Pitt-
man of Nevada, Robins of Ida
ho and possibly Lee of Utah, all
of whom plan to attend the gov
ernor's conference at Colorado
Springs later this month, expect
to come to Washington to testify
before both the house and aen
ate committee June 24.
Senator Cordon (R-Ore) said
he had been asked to arrange
for their appearance.
Whittington announced the
house hearing; will open Mon
day and close SaUlriay of next
week unless the testimony of
the proponents can be conclud
ed on Friday.
He said Reps. Jackson and
Mitchell, Washington democrats
who introduced the administra
tion bill in the house, will be the
first witnesses. They will be
followed by Secretary of the In
terior Krug and Assistant Secre
tary Davidson.
Crafer Lake Lodge
Opened for Tourists
Crater Lake, June IS W) The
lodge, cabins and a cafeteria
here were open today for the
accommodation of tourists.
Park service aides said high
way 62. from Medford here and
on to Klamath Falls, was open.
Highway 230 the east road is
open to the east entrance of the
park.
Snow still blocks the rim
route, however. That road won't
be ready for travel until July 4
or later.
Rat Biles Child
Corsicana, Texas, June 15
-A 20-day-old Negro twin was
bitten and torn by a large rat
and under treatment today at a
hospital.
The child, Betty Jean Wash
ington, was attacked in her
home yesterday. Her face and
hands were torn repeatedly.
F.nergy commission didn't- even
tion was found not to fit the
building for which it was in
tended. He said the report said
it was eventually necessary to
build a new building.
Hickenlooper said Dr. Roberti
F. Bacher, a former A EC mem-1
ber, learned of the increased cost
on a trip to Hanford early this!
limatea,
Russia Replies in
Secret Session
On Berlin Pact
First Meeting
Cancelled Until
Moscow Orders Coma
Paris, June 15 The four-
power foreign ministers met for
an hear end a quarter today af
ter eancelllng a secret aeaalon
they bad scheduled for earlier in
the afternoon.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishlnsky had asked that
the first meeting be called off,
and presumably requested the
new one.
The western powers have sub
mitted proposals for a transport-
trsde agreement on Germany.
They have asked Russia for writ
ten guarantees on the west hav
ing free access to Berlin. After
contacting Moscow Vishlnsky
apparently had the reply in
time to request she late meet
ing.
Near Agreement
Russia and the west are re
ported near agreement on these
proposals.
Today's-session first was de
layed for half an hour. British
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevln
arrived at the pink marble pal
ace on time this afternoon. Ap
parently he had not learned In
advance that the meeting had
been cancelled.
Western sources agree that
the proposed commercial accord
would be restricted to eoonomie
essentials necessary to keep
trade and transport moving.
They say it would not attempt to
settle the complex political
problems involved m Germany,
Strike Complicate
These sources claim chance
for any political agreement are
jeopardized by the complicated
labor situation in Berlin where
a 24-day rail strike has halted "
train shipments to and from the
city.
The aituation was worsened
yesterday when Berlin's anti
communist rail strikers turned
down a four-power formula for
ending the strike.
Western observer said the
proposed east-west commercial
accord Involves two main fac
tors.
(Conduced an Pago I, Column 4)
Alabama Klan
Flogs Veteran
Birmingham, Ala., June 15
') A robed and hooded group
flogged a World War II veter
an last midnight after dragging
him from his home.
Billy Guy Stovall, 31. said he
was lashed 20 times by a band
of white-sheeted and hooded
men. They came to his home
in three cars.
The flogging was the third in
cident Involving robed banda In
the Birmingham area within a
week. Friday night Mrs. Hugh
McDanal was dragged from her
house and made to witness a
cross burning. The same night
cross was burned at a small
restaurant.
All three Incidents Involved
white people.
Stovall declined to discuss the
case today. Mrs. Stovall and the
two children, Billy, 10. anal
Elaine, 8, gave this account:
A robed man came to the door
about 11 p.m. and said, "This is
Stuart. I want to see you."
When Stovall went to the
door he was grabbed and pull
ed outside.
Deputy Sheriff Earl Cooper
quoted Stovall as saying the
men drove to a wooded area on
the outskirts of Birmingham.
He was held by two men while
another whipped him with a
leather belt, striking him just
above the hips. He gave no rea
son for the attack.
There was no Klan comment.
In adjoining Georgia, the Ku
Klux Klan burned a cross atop
Stone Mountain near Atlanta
and initiated new members to
the tune nf "Onward Christian
Soldiers " last night.
Newsmen counted 128 neo-
phyle Klansmen marching.
Judge Kelly's Funeral
Set for Next Friday
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 3:30 p.m. here for
Percy R. Kelly, 78. Justice of the
Oregon supreme court. He died
in a Salem hospital Tuesday. .
Dr. William Wallace Young-
son of Portland wil'. officiate at
the final rites.
The services will be conduct-
a nephew.