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61st Year. No. 188 .."..r.rl, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 9, 1949 ' (20 PogesJ Price 5c
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 9, 1949
C20 PagesJ
State to Consult
Architect on
Portland Site
May Employ Designer
For $2,500,000 Office
Structure
By JAMES D. OLSON
Employment of an architect
to draw plans and specifications
for the proposed $2,500,000 of
fice building in Portland, will
be considered by the board of
control Thursday.
This was decided at a meeting
of the board Tuesday after Gov
ernor Douglas McKay and State
Treasurer Walter Pearson
agreed that it probably would
be wise to consult with the arch
itect in regard to the site for
the building.
Six sites, under option, both
on the east and west sides of
the river, are under considera
tion. Capitol Air Conditioning
Treasurer Pearson raised an
objection to the manner in
which the air conditioning proj
ect is being handled in the
state capitol. He suggested that
the work be done one floor at
a time if money was not avail
able to complete the entire
project at this time.
"Itlooks to me this is a piece
meal job under the present set
up," Pearson said.
The board granted permission
to Warden George Alexander of
the state penitentiary to omit
state identification markers on
three automobiles used at the
institution. These cars, the
warden said, are used for inves
tigations, running down pris
oners and for funerals of con
victs who die in the prison.
Pendleton Sewers
A claim of $8,605.17 filed by
the city of Pendleton for the
state's share in the cost of con
structing an interceptor sewer
there, was approved. The state
is contributing 25 percent of the
cost. 1
i Other claims allowed: -
Western Engineering com
pany, $7,486.80 for work on air
conditioning of the state capitol.
Erwin A. Batterman, $4,120.77
for work on remodeling a
laundry at the Eastern Oregon
state hospital, and Alan A. Sie
wert, $4,390 for work perform
ed on a residence for the super
intendent of the school for the
blind in Salem.
Bean Pickers
Badly Needed
This is the crucial week in the
Willamette valley bean harvest.
The beans have got to come off
the vines at once.
The yards need workers, and
need them badly. And it has
become necessary to depend on
the home folks to do the work.
The migrant workers got dis
couraged by weather conditions
that delayed the crops, and they
moved on.
Stayton, the Independence
and the Silverton areas need
pickers especially, but they are
needed in other spots also.
Branch offices of the employ
ment service are located at all
those places to direct the work
ers when they report.
It is desirable that many
workers furnish their own trans
portation, but just as desirable
that others who can stay long
er on the job be prepared to
set up camp. If pickers cannot
make either of these arrange
ments they may report at the
employment office at 6 o'clock
mornings and transportation
will be furnished.
The office is located at South
Cottage and Ferry. It's phone
number is 3-9288.
Engineer Killed at
Cottage, Grove Dam
Eugene, Aug. 9 VP) Bert W
Wagner, age about 60, civil em
ploye of the U.S. corps of en
gineers on the Cottage Grove
dam, was instantly killed Mon
day night while inspecting the
earth fill. In his capacity as
lmpervious.core inspector, Wag
ner was on the job at 10:35 p.m
when he was crushed beneath a
huge dirt roller.
Deouty Coroner Robert Mills
of Cottage Grove said that
Wagner, whose address was
Cottage Grove hotel, had step
ped out of the way of a cater
pillar directly into the path of
the roller. The body was taken
to Mills Mortuary in Cottage
.. Grove. Funeral arrangements
await the arrival of relatives
from Kelso, Wash.
50 Percent Cut
In Cash Arms
Aid Proposed
Vandenberg Proposes
$580 Million Money
Balance Contracts
Washington, Aug. 9 W) Sen
ator Vandenberg (R., Mich.) to
day proposed a 50 percent cash
reduction in the first year's cost
of the western European arms
program.
The Michigan senator sugges
ted to Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson that about $580,-
000,000 be furnished in cash by
congress with the balance in
contract authorizations (to be
met by later appropriations)
which would not be charged
against the current budget.
Vandenberg said he believes
the budget President Truman
sent congress for the 1950 fiscal
year carries funds for European
military aid which would cover
almost all the money cost of
the first year.
Johnson Objects
But Johnson, appearing be
fore a joint meeting of the sen
ate foreign relations and armed
services committee, argued that
the full amount $1,450,000,000
is needed to safeguard the se
curity of the United States.
Should western Europe be
overrun by a hostile power and
should its vast industrial and
manpower potentials be added to
those of such an aggressor, the
United States would stand iso
lated in a dangerously insecure
period.
United States security, there
fore, demands that Europe be
safeguarded."
"A military vacuum in west
ern Europe, Johnson added,
is a great temptation to the
Soviet Union and international
communism."
Years to Mobilize
He told the senators that it
would take months and years
for this country to mobilize,
equip, train and transport
troops across the Atlantic.
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Czech Police
Quell 'Revolt'
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Aug
9 VP) Police have put down a
revolt" in a Solovakian town
where Catholics defending their
priest from threatened arrest
had set up their own local gov
ernment, a communist weekly
news magazine reported today
Aroused villagers led by a
band of fighting peasant women
had beaten up the chairman of
the communist-controlled local
executive board, Svet Prace
weekly magazine of the Czecho
slovak communist party said.
Two persons were reported
wounded and "several" arrested
the incident at Strecno.
The magazine gave no precise
date for the clash but said the
offending village had its elec
tric power cut off for several
weeks, apparently as punish
ment.
Strecno is in the Zilina dis
trict of Slovakia where fight
ing between Catholic villagers
and communist-controlled police
broke out about six weeks ago
Whether this was a new inci
dent or a report on details of
former fighting now coming to
light could not be definitely
established.
(Vatican sources reported last
week that new clashes had oc
curred in Slovakia, which is
strongly catholic.)
Manager Told to Get
Broadway Right of Way
City Manager J. L. Franzen was directed Monday night to exer
cise the options to get right of way for the opening of Broadway
from Hickory to the north city limits.
As soon as all of the right of way is acquired an ordinance
will be enacted by the council dedicating it as a street. It will
open
into Mapleton addition-
where it will connect with
Broadway in the addition, ex
tending beyond the city limits
to North River road. The coun
ty has already graded the high
way beyond the city limits.
Options on seven parcels of
property will be exercised by
the city. The property owners
and amounts of options, total
ing $5466 are:
F. E. Gearhart, $114; C. L.
Morrison and wife, $550; Suie
L. Sun and wife, $1427; Willard
W. Winegar and wife, $1250; K
V. Maguren and wife, $1025; C.
M. Doan and wife, $1000; Wil
liam E. Patton and wife, $100.
After exercise of the options
the property owners have 30
5000 Dead in Ecuador Quake The tower of La Merced
church in Latacunga, summer resort south of Quito, Ecuador's
capital, crumbled into the street during the 'quake which hit
Ecuador. Death toll caused by the quake is estimated at 5,000
persons, with an additional 20,000 people injured. Latacunga
was less severely hit than other towns in the disaster area.
(Acme Telephoto)
No Chance of Parking
Under New Courthouse
The proposal for establishment of underground parking facili
ties under the new courthouse became admittedly a dream Tues
day when County Judge Grant Murphy laid down to E. L. Gray,
appearing for the sponsors of the plan, just what the county court's
condition would be even for its consideration.
New Housing
Fight in Senate
Washington, Aug. 9 VP) A
new housing fight shaped up for
the senate today over a $4,51U,-
000 bill: designed to help persons
of most income -build new homes
through private financing.
- Senator Cain' (R., Wash.), said
opponents will "do all we can"
to eliminate certain features of
the measure. Senator Spark
man (D., Ala.), the author, told
a reporter he thought there are
verv good prospects that the
senate will approve the bill as
it now stands.
The senate banking committee
reported out the bill yesterday,
7 to 5.
Sparkman and Senators Tay
lor (D., Idaho), Frear (D., Del.),
Douelas (D.. 111.). Long (D., La.),
Tobey (R., N.H.), and Maybank
(D., S.C.), voted to send tne
bill to the senate. Voting against
it were Senators Cain, Bricker
(R Ohio), Fulbright (D., Ark.),
Capehart (R., Ind.), and Flan
ders (R., Vt. .) Senator Robert
son (D., Va.), the other commit
tee member, was absent.
Cain disclosed that the opposi
tion is not in full agreement
as to what it doesn't like in the
bill. He said three sections co
operative housing, disposition of
wartime permanent housing, and
private loans to veterans are
under fire from various direc
tions.
The cooperative feature re
Dorted approved 6 to 5 with
Tobev abstaining calls for
$500,000,000 in loans tor co
operatives, with the provision
that the president can author
ize another $500,000,000 if he
deems necessary. The loans
would run for 50 years at 3
per cent interest. Sparkman
said the money would be used
as a revolving fund.
days in which to remove build
ings, fences, flowers, etc. The
options are, by the resolution,
to be exercised immediately.
Residents of the North Com
mercial street district objected
to the city developing Broadway
ahead of North Commercial, be
lieving they had precedence in
asking for extension. The city
owns the property as far as Try
on avenue, but from Tryon on
to the North River road it 'is es
timated the net cost of the right
of way will be $20,000 and the
city only one option out of six
properties involved.
The council instructed the city
engineer to grade the street
far as Tryon.
The county judge said first the
sponsors would have .to submit
a written proposal such as might
warrant consideration of the
court. Then, if it was consid
ered feasible, . no consideration
would be given without the mat
ter being submitted to the elec
torate of the county and the
sponsors of the plan would be re
quired to underwrite the expense
of the election. And . if thev
asr&itafettiij
necessary to hurry so as to place
the proposal before the people
at the election next May, unless
the sponsors cared to go to the
heavy expense of caring for the
expense of a special election.
Judge Murphy said that if ev
erything went well, construction
of the new courthouse cannot
start before July 1, next year.
The earliest date he expects to
see county offices removed from
the present structure is Janu
ary 1, he said, and then the old
building will have to be razed,
contracts prepared and entered
into and other details worked out
before actual construction can
start. He added, that even if an
underground parking proposal
met the approval of the people.
it would be necessary to change
some of the courthouse plans
and elevate the new building
above the level now contem
plated.
E. L. Gray, after listening to
the county's requirements, indi
cated that they were of a nature
to quash the plan which he said,
now becomes a dream, but I
still think it was a good one."
Pfior to Judge Murphy's
statement Gray had said that liv
ing heirs to the courthouse prop
erty had been ascertained to
number 40 adults and, 'if the
court was in a mood to consider
the plan, he said steps could be
taken to secure quitclaim deeds
from all of these heirs so as to
clear away any legal cobwebs in
volved in leasing the property for
parking purposes. But securing
of such quitclaim deeds evident
ly will be abandoned now with
seemingly no chance for the Dro
ject to go ahead.
Canadian Power
Bought for Oregon
Portland, Aug. 9 P) Ar
rangements were completed to
day for five Oregon and Wash
ngton power companies to buy
50,000 kilowatts of power from
tne British Columbia Electric
company.
Pacific Power and Light,
Portland General Electric
Washington water power, Puget
Sound Power and Light and
Mountain States Power com
panies joined in the purchase
agreement, a spokesman an
nounced.
Transmission lines of ihe
Bonneville power administra
tion and Seattle city light will
be used.
The power was made avail
able by the recent completion
of additional generating facili
ties at British Columbia elec
tric's big plant on Bridge river,
he said.
The purchase contract runs to
September 30, 1951.
Taking Options
For Detroit Lake
Portland, Aug. 9 VP) Army
engineers announced today they
were beginning to take options
on property needed for the De
troit dam reservoir area along
the North Santiam river, south
east of Salem.
Lt. Col. D. A. Elliget, acting
Portland district engineer, said
nine options had been accepted
Before the operation is through
the total will be several hun
dred.
The largest payment in the
first group was $19,910. This
went to the Oregon Pulp and
Paper company for 55.5 acres
Lt. Col. Elliget said the real
estate division of his office
would continue to accept options
until all necessary property had
been acquired.
The dam, a major unit in the
Willamette valley flood control
project, is now unaer construe
tion. '
Elliget said first option with
the Hammond Lumber company
was for 146.73 acres for which
the federal government paid
$4,585. The second option with
the Oregon fish commission was
for 80 acres for which the gov
ernment paid $2,884. The third
with Oregon Pulp and Paper
company was for 55.5 acres with
the government paying $19,910.
Chiefs oi Staff
Return Home
Washington, Aug. 9 (IP) The
joint chiefs of staff returned to
day ready to give congress the
benefit of their 10-day confer
ences in Europe with Atlantic
pact nations military chiefs.
General Omar N. Bradley,
army chief of staff; General
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, air force
chief of staff, and Admiral
Louis Denfield, chief of naval
operations, returned aboard
President Truman's plane, The
Independence, It landed at 6:30
a.m.
They will lunch with Defense
Secretary Johnson. Tomorrow
they are to appear before the
senate armed forces committee
General Bradley described the
conferences as "a grand start to
ward organizing the unity and
collective security under the At
lantic pact."
Bradley said the chiefs in
making the trip had two objec
tives: to inspect U.S. forces in
Germany and Austria, and to
discuss with the defense chiefs
of Atlantic pact nations possi
ble organization under the pact
"We discussed several forms
of organization," Bradley said
"But we didn't try to arrive at
any decision."
5. A. Commander
Shifted to Hawaii
Portland, Aug. 9 (IP) Brig
adier H. B. Collier, division com
mander of the Salvation Army
for Oregon and Southern Idaho,
has been promoted to command
of the Hawaiian island division
He will leave for Honolulu
after a successor is named here.
Cripps Recovers
Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 9
(U.R) A British chancellor of the
exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps,
has made a satisfactory recovery
from his ailment and will leave
the Birchr-Benner clinic here on
Wednesday, his doctors said today.
Woods Implicates
In Tanforan Racetrack Deal
Ecuador Faces
Task of Housing
100,000 People
Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 9 (IP)
The government faced the prob
lem today of housing 100,000
persons made homeless by Fri
day's earthquake which gutted
50 communities and caused thou
sands of deaths.
A spokesman for Fresident
Galo Plaza Lasso said the gov
ernment had not yet been able
to compile a death list, but esti
mated that the toll might be be
tween 2000 and 4000. Previous
estimates ranged up to 6000.
The president announced Sun
day that in the town of Pelileo
alone some 3200 had perished
Must Be Torn Down
Plaza told newsmen that in
the ravaged city of Ambato 75
percent of the houses still stand
ing must be torn down.
He said the goverment had
asked the American republics to
rush tents to the area and that
the United States already was
sending emergency shipments of
canned foods.
Plaza said his previous esti
mate oi $20,000,000 property
damage might go much higher.
The government plans a survey
to get a definite figure.
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ECA Bill Sent
To Conference
Washington, Aug. 9 (U.R) It
was up to a joint senate-house
conference committee today to
settle upon a final version of the
foreign aid appropriation bill.
The senate passed the bill last
night by a vote of 63 to 7 after
weeks of heated debate and con
troversy. But senate fiscal ex
perts estimated that its bill actu
ally provides the government
with almost $500,000,000 less
than the house version.
As passed by the senate, the
bill would provide $3,628,380,
000 for the operations of the Ec
onomic Cooperation Administra
tion in the fiscal year 1950, It
also allocates $900,000,000 for
occupation costs in Germany and
Japan and $45,000,000 for eco
nomic aid to Greece and Turkey.
ine house-approved ECA ap
propriation was only for a 1014-
month period. On the basis of
its spending rate, however, its
12-month total would have am
ounted to $4,078,251,420.
Adriatic Issue Settled
Venice, Italy. Aug. 9 VP)
Premier Alcide De Gaspcri said
todya a full agreement with Yu
goslavia to settle the Adriatic
question is possible. He made
the comment in an interview
published today in the indepen
dent newspaper II Gazzettino.
Intensive Training for
Firemen s Drill To wer
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Two Salem firemen, equipped with masks and lifelines, will
be sent into a smoke and gas filled room with instructions to find
"the body."
"The body" may be any object, possibly no bigger than a ihim-
ble or a spool of thread
That's one phase of training
Salem firemen will go through
when they get their new drill
tower. City Manager J. L. Fran
zen was authorized by the city
council Monday night to proceed
with erection of the tower.
Two distinct advances were
made by the council in behalf of
the fire department the drill
tower, and authorization of a
call for bids for the new fire
station in Kingwood. The new
station is estimated to cost about
$4000. Timbers from barracks
at the airport will be used large
ly. The drill tower will cost
about $3800, counting the con
crete footings.
The drill tower will be lo
cated at South 20th and How
ard on city property. It will be
a timber structure 12 by 18
feet and four stories high, each
story of 12 feet, and at the top
will be a 3 by 6 parapet wan.
The first floor will be semi
tight for smoke and gas drills.
It will be equipped with double
sliding windows to Uach proper
ventilation, and a sprinkler hfd
for instruction in that device for
12 Jobless
Needed to Get
U. S. Spending
Washington, Aug. 9 (IP) The
White House Indicated today
that government spending will
be concentrated in areas where
unemployment has reached 12
per cent or more.
It made public a letter by
presidential assistant John R.
Steelman. This said that an ef
fort will be made to channel aid
into the following areas where
the bureau of employment se
curity indicates such a situation
had developed in certain New
England areas.
Steelman, in letters to the na
tional defense establishment and
other government officials, said
that he would report soon on ad
ditional labor markets in which
unemployment has reached 12
per cent or more of the available
labor force.
Security Tax
To Be Increased
Washington, Aug. 9 (P) The
house ways and means commit
tee agreed today to increase the
social security payroll tax from
$1,800,000,000 a year to $2,700,
000,000 next year and to about
$3,600,000,000 in 1951.
The committee also called for
further increases in the taxes in
1960, 1965 and 1970, with the
rate reaching 3V per cent as
compared with the present one
per cent against employer and
employe.
The committee at the same
time voted to increase by about
70 per cent the old age and sur
vivors benefits of persons al
ready drawing such benefits.
This is calculated as a "cost of
living" increase.
These moves, all subject to
house and senate approval, fol
lowed yesterday's committee
approval of other sections of the
social expansion legislation that
would add 11,000,000 workers
to the 35,000,000 already cover
ed by old age insurance.
The committee's action came
in the face of virtual abandon
ment by democratic leaders of
any hope for final congressional
action this year on social secur
ity expansion.
Iron Lung Flown to
California Victim
Portland, Aug, VP) An iron
lung from the national founda
tion for infantile paralysis equip
ment pool here was flown last
night to California by an air
force reserve transport.
The device was needed by a
polio victim in Grass Valley,
near Sacramento.
fire prevention.
There will be a trap door
connecting the first and second
stories, and cellar circulating
nozzle on the deck of the second
story.
The lower will be equipped
with various devices for mstruc
tion in fire fighting and life
saving, including lifeline and
pompier work for rescue, with
safety net stretched below
The south side of the tower
will have a double entrance. On
the north side will be installed
a fire escape, standpipe, and a
fireman's ladder, all of which
were gotten from the old Guar
dian building after the fire.
The east side will be a solid
wall of two-inch tongue and
groove timber to withstand con
stant use of ladders. The west
side of the first floor will have
no openings, but the second
third and fourth floors will have
two windows each.
Capt. E. L. Smith, drill master
for the department, will direct
drills. The iower will be built
by Timber Structures of Portland.
Vaughan
Truman Aide
Ask Clearance
Of Construction
Washington, Aug. 9 (IP) Hous
ing Expediter Tighe Woods said
today that Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan summoned him to the
White House in 1948 and told
him Vaughan's friends were in
terested in a California race
track construction case.
Woods said the track owners
then were trying to get govern
ment clearance for construction
at the Tanforan track, near San
Francisco, Calif. The use of
scarce building materials was
sharply restricted at the time.
The housing official told a
special senate investigation com
mute that Vaughan, President
Truman's military aide, told him
at the White House on January
9, 1948:
"I want to make sure there
is no prejudice In your office,
just because this is a race track
case."
Friends Interested
Woods said Vaughan also told
him:
"Some friends of mine are in
terested and it is your duty to
handle the case on Its merits
and on its legality."
Francis D. Flanagan, an at
torney for the committee, pre
viously had read a private mem
orandum saying Vaughan had
stepped into the dispute. It
quoted Vaughan as saying he
was "damn sore" at Frank L,
Creedon, federal housing ex
pediter in 1947, for his handling
of the case.
Orecdon was succeeded by
Woods, who testified he had
been expediter only a little more
than two months when Vaughan
got in touch with him.
(Concluded on nitre JS, Column 8)
Lie Advances
Peace Program
Lake Success, Aug. 9 (IP) U.
N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie
has advanced a six-point Pro
gram to strengthen the world
peace organization and reduce
the dangers of war.
The program is outlined In
Lie's fourth annual report which
was published last night. The re
port, by far the most optimistic
yet written by the secretary
general, said the fear of war has
definitely decreased since his
last report.
Lie called the past 12 months
a year of progress towards a
more peaceful world." Biggest
factor in the Improved atmos
phere, he said, was the lifting
of the Berlin blockade.
At the top of his 6-point pro
gram was continued consultation
and conciliation among the big
powers. He offered to help bring
the east and west together in
such outstanding world problems
as the German, Austrian and
Japanese peace treaties, atomic
control and creation of an in
ternational police force.
It is essential, he said, "for
the great powers to keep in con
tact, to talk things over, and
seriously to negotiate with one
another."
His other points dealt primar
ily with controversies before the
U. N. such as the disposition of
Italy's pre-war colonics, the ad
mission of new members and the
creation of a 300-man U. N,
guard force to aid peace mis
sions abroad.
New Town to Replace
Mongold at Dam
Detroit, Aug. 9 (IP) A new
town will rise in the North San
tiam canyon to replace the
doomed Mongold.
Mongold, now the housing site
for army engineer employes and
office headquarters during con
struction of the Detroit dam, will
be razed within two years as the
waters from the reservoir begin
to rise.
The new town will be built on
higher ground. It will be lo
cated on the new highway be
tween the new Breitenbush and
Tumble creek bridges. No name
has been selected. At the out
set the town will have 15 per
manent homes.
Minnis and Shilling, Eugene,
recently won a $138,734 contract
to buiid the facilities for the
new townsite.
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