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Annexation to
jpur Plans for
Vest Salem
Elfstrom Makes Plea
For Merger Vote at
Friday's Election
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Annexation of West Salem,
which will be brought about by
a favorable vote by the people
f Salem next Friday on the mer
ger of the two eitiea, will en
able the city government to
make orderly plans for devel
epment west of the river. Mayor
Robert L. Elfstrom said Monday.
"It is the best annexation Sa
lem he had an opportunity to
vote on," the mayor said.
"It is simply history repeat
ing itself, for similar mergers
have taken place in practically
all cities where rivers divided
two cities."
The community is growing so
rapidly in population and indus
try the mayor believes merger
Is important for that reason
alone.
Industrial Sites
"Salem is expanding indus
trially," he said, "and West Sa
lem seems to offer natural sites
for industries. So it is import
ant that we get in there with
the utility facilities that meet
their requirements.
! "We are not taking on a lia
bility by merging West Salem,
whose people have already vot
ed to join up with Salem. The
assessment ratio of the two ci
ties is practically the same.
"I think Mayor Walter M u s -grave
of West Salem and his
council members are entitled to
a lot of credit tor their foresight
in getting the merger question
before their people, which re
sulted in the favorable vote by
the people on that side of the ri
ver several months ago."
Amendments Important
Mayor Elfstrom, who has been
out of the city on. a hunting trip
for several days, said also that
it is important-ihat other mat
ters on the special ballots next
Friday get a favorable vote
from the people.
"The charter amendment that
Increases the number of wards
from seven to eight, and the
number of councilmen also from
seven to eight, is important," he
said, "because it will give the
people west of the river repre
aentation on the city council."
The new ward will embrace
the Kingwood district which al
'ready has been annexed, and
will include West Salem if It is
merged.
The mayor stressed another
point. The additional alderman
will make an odd number on the
city council. Including the may
or it will make the number
nine instead of eight, and elimi
nate the tie vote nuisance.
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1 f tie Damage
y Wind Storm
It was a windy and showery
we
eek-end for Salem. The wind
(reached 30 miles an hour veloc
J lty with strong gusts Sunday
II IU1 mug. J i vta test iiivvii nt-
ence caused by the blow was
the litter of leaves on streets
and lawns, the stronger gusts
tossing great quantities of them
about.
Rainfall here over the week
end amounted to but .09 of an
inch. The forecast is for cloudy
kies, more rain and fresh to
moderate winds tonight.
All mountain highway passes
were clear today, despite week
end snowstorms, the state high
way department said. From 4 to
t Inches of roadside show are
measured on the passes, but
plows hive cleared the pave
ment. Motoriitj are warned to be
quipped for slippery conditions
In early morning hours before
the sun dears the frost off the
highways.
Portland. Ore., Oct. 10 WB
The weather bureau ordered
southeast storm warnings hoist
ed at 12 noon PST, today along
he Washington and Oregon
sts for southeast winds reach
t 40 to SO miles an hour off
Washington coast tonight
30 to 40 miles off the Ore
roast and through Strait of
' De Fuca and inland waters
shington.
4e weather bureau said the
jdi were expected to shift to
Athwest to west off the Wash
ington coast early Tuesday and
Mf the Oregon coast and through
Inland Washington waters later
Tuesday,
Big Turnover in
State Workers
Tapering Oil
Situation Improved
Though Technical
Workers Shy
By JAMES D. OLSON
Heavy ' turnover among the
12,500 state employes, which
reached high proportions in 1947
and early part of 1949, Is be
ginning to taper off, according to
Robert R. Johnson, civil service
director Monday.
Separations from state service
for all causes dropped from S84
during the fiscal year of 1948 to
519 in the same period in 1949.
"The situation has improved
materially," Johnson reported
'although there still is difficulty
in obtaining services of some
technical workers."
Shy of Stenographers
Johnson said there is a defin
ite shortage of expert stenog
raphers, nurses and men and
women trained in some semi-
medical classifications.
However, the civil service
board is now finding no diffi
culty in filling requests for cler
ical help, common laborers, cus
todial and domestic workers,
Johnson said.
A general increase in pay rates
has cut down resignations from
the state service, Johnson said,
with most resignations now be
ing attributed to other reasons.
(Concluded an Page 5, Column t)
$52,049 Mark
In Chest Drive
Community Chest workers
were $450.50 short of their Mon
day goal of 50 percent of the
105,000 needed for the 1949
50 Community Chest, when re
ports were made at the daily
luncheon meeting Monday.
Total contributions by Monday
noon had reached the $52,049.50
mark, with $7692 of that re
ported since the last luncheon
held last Friday.
Leading the divisions with 70
percent of its quota reported was
the south Salem section of the
women's division with contribu
tions amounting to $1,673.43. To
tal quota for that section is $2,
530. Five other divisions have 50
percent or more of their quota
and three divisions, rural, utili
ties and educational, had no re
port to make. Carl Aschenbren
ner, heading the educational di
vision, was present at the lunch
eon, however, and assured the
group that his division would
have a complete report before
the drive ends.
Divisions with 50 percent or
more of their quota reported are
automotive and transportation
with $6871.25 of its quota of
$10,550; general gifts with $5,-
036 of its $9990 quota; govern
mental with $6191 contributions
of its $9500 quota; mercantile
with $9420 of its $16,200; and
the central Salem section of the
women's division with $3424.94
of its $6460 quota.
Other divisions and their stan
ding at noon Monday were con
tractors and builders, $3821.10;
educational, none; industrial,
$7,563.80; professional, $5345.50;
rural, $295; utilities, $860; West
Salem, $551.50; and north Salem
section of the women's division,
$994.50.
Tornadoes, Rain, Fog
Kill 8 and Injure 54
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Tornadoes, rain and fog combined to kill at least eight persons
and injure 54 others last night and early today.
The whirling tornadoes took one life and injured four persons
last night in the Great Plains.
A Rock Island passenger train
washout caused by heavy rains
near Meade, Kas., killing four
and injuring 50.
Near Cheyenne, Wyo., a Slick
Airways plane diverted from its
Denver destination because of
limited visibility due to rain
and fog, hit a knoll here, killing
its crew of three.
From the Dakotas southward
into Oklahoma and Texas, the
clouds unloaded their moisture
in thunderstorms. The bayous
around Houston, though, were
getting back to normal as flood
waters receded.
But the weatherman used his
trite but happy official phrase of Woodward,
for the weather conditions over In Russell, Kans., a small tor
eastern, southern and central 'nado ignored the outskirts it
U.S. He said:
"Unseasonably warm temper
atures continue."
In the western states, the
thermometer readers were cool,
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Beran Warns
Catholic Clergy
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct.
10 u. Archbishop Josef Beran
told Catholic priests today that
public consent to a new govern
ment church control law would
be "treason to the teachings of
Christ and the holy church."
The archbishop s message
reached the press as the church
bill, scheduled to take effect
November 1, went before a com
mittee of the national assembly
The assembly will meet Friday
to take up the bill on an urgent
basis.
Church sources reported that
Beran, who by his own declara
tion has been "interned" in his
palace since June, had sent a
message to the priests urging
them not to sell out "to the sil
ver of Judas."
His message was described as
simple and to the point.
'Public consent to this law Is
treason to the teachings of Christ
and the holy church, and it
grieves me very much," his mes
sage said. "You promised me and
you said publicly you would
not let yourselves be bought for
the silver of Judas.
"I trust you will keeD your
promise For the love of Jesus
Christ, consider well the state
of things and the results which
could follow."
Hiss' New Trial
Postponed
New York, Oct. 10 WV Alger
Hiss' second perjury trial was
adjourned today until Nov. 1.
Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe
reserved decision on whether
to grant Hiss' request to have
the trial transferred to Rutland.
Vt.
Coxe gave attorneys for Hiss,
former high state department
official until Thursday to an
swer to government's arguments
opposing the change.
In his brief opposing trans
fer to the trial, assistant U. S.
Attorney Thomas F. Murphy de
nied that newspaper publicity
had biased the minds of pros
pective jurors, as Hiss claimed.
Murphy said an analysis of
all the news stories on the first
perjury trial in the New York
area showed 68.5 per cent were
"completely factual."
The trial was to have started
today, with Hiss asking that the
case be transferred Irom tne
New York City area.
roared off the rails at a track
as were the readings.
In a suburb of Lincoln, Neb.,
a Sunday punch tornado dipped
to earth and leveled a house.
Mrs. Stella Morris. 78, was kill
ed. Two others in the house were
treated for injuries.
The whirling funnel of wind
had scythed a path 12 miles long
across the Nebraska countryside
before it made its deadly strike.
The damaging winds hop-
skip-and-jumped over Oklaho-
j ma. One woman was injured at
Slapout, Okla., a small farm
community 50 miles northwest
lashed down main street. One
woman was critically injured,
but on the edge of town 500 far'
imers danced on at a VFW hall as
the winds by-passed them.
Motor Bus In Collision Saturday night or early Sunday
morning a bus of Oregon Motor Stages was struck in the rear
by another vehicle on the Corvallis-Newport highway about
eight miles west of Philomath. The crash separated the
motor from the bus. The accident happened on a downgrade
curve while the bus was headed for Newport. The other ve
hicle is believed to have been a truck, but its identity was
not known at Oregon Motor Stages depot here. (Photo
by Abel, Dallas)
Challenge Legality of
Drainage Financing
Although the start of the wet season is practically here the
city engineering department hasn't yet been able to turn the first
dirt for drainage of the north part of the city, which suffers
much distress from surface water
The reason for this is that there has been unavoidable delay
6 Die in Crash
Of Truck and Car
Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 10 W)
A fiery collision of a truck
and an automobile on a nearby
eight-mile causeway Sunday
killed six persons, including all
four members of a family from
Oakland, Calif.
California highway patrol
men reported a flat-bed truck
and trailer -both empty and a
sedan collided on the long cause
way spanning Sacramento riv
er lowlands, shearing off about
.100 feet of causeway railing and
the three vehicles plunging 25
feet to the ground below.
The dead were identified as:
Charles W. Brown, Jr., 34, of
Oakland; his wife, Sybil, 28;
their two children, Sharon, 9,
and Charles W., Ill, 2; Mrs.
Edith Kline, 58, of Richmond,
mothr of Mrs. Brown; and Mar-
jorie Kline, 23, of Richmond,
sister of Mrs. Brown.
Morris Watts, 23, of Roseville,
Calif., the truck driver and his
brother, Roy, 12, were rescued
by field workers. Both were se
riously hurt.
Warn East to
Beware of West
Boston, Oct. 10 f) The In
dustrial east is facing a new ri
val in the Pacific coast states and
may lose old markets if it
doesn't get on the ball, a west
ern economist advised today.
The confident warning came
from Nathanial H. Engle, pro
fessor of business administra
tion at the University of Wash
ington.
The economic dominance of
the east is not as unchallenged
as It was in prewar days, he
said in an address prepared for
the Boston conference on distri
bution. Not only are the slates of
California, Oregon and Washing
ton depending less and less upon
the east for manufactured goods,
he said, but they are Invading it
increasingly with merchandise
and branch plants.
This trend is being aided.
Prog. Engle declared, because
national distributors have failed
to evaluate fully recent changes
in western population and in
come and "have been slow to
make necessary adjustments In
quotas."
So great has been the popu
lation Jump in the Pacific states,
he noted, that the employment
level is below that for the nation
as a whole, but new industries
are mushrooming, and it is es
timated that the 1960 per capita
income in the three states will
be 16.7 percent above the na
tion. Man Killed by Car
Hillsboro, Oct. 10 ii Donald
R. Wilson, 35, Hillsboro, was
killed yesterday when struck by
a car while attempting the road
side repair of his stalled auto
mobile on the Sunset highway
near here.
in the winter.
Hn coming to agreement with
several property owners rela
tive to easements across their
property. And now there is the
added reason that the city fi
nancing plan is being challenged
as to legality. City Attorney
Chris J. Kowitz and City Mana
ger J. L. Franzen will both re
port at the council meeting Mon
day night, and the situation may
be cleared then.
At the meeting two weeks
ago, after a verbal opinion from
Kowitz, the council authorized
the manager to proceed with the
project and take the expense mo
ney, nearly $100,000, from the
interceptor sewer and sewage
treatment bond fund.
A few days after the meeting
some of the aldermen got ner
vous about the legality of that
procedure, spoke to Mayor Rob
ert L. Elfstrom, and the mayor
asked Kowitz for a written
opinion, which will be read
Monday night
In that opinion Kowitz will
hold, as he did verbally two
weeks ago, that if the drainage
project is a necessary appurte
nance of the sewer project, then
the procedure is legal. If it is
not so considered, then it is not
legal. It will be up to the coun
cil, Kowitz will say, to decide
whether the two projects are in
terlocked. For the interceptor sewer pro
ject, now being built, and the
sewage disposal project to come
later, the people authorized
$815,000 in bonds. The $215,000
portion for the interceptor sew
er has been issued and sold.
The first three years of prin
cipal and interest are to be re
tired with tax money, and the
remaining 17 years with sewer
rental money, or any combina
tion of the two methods that re
quirements may dictate.
The question arises whether it
will be necessary, if the fund is
used for drainage project, to ask
the people for an additional au
thorization of bonds.
Revenue from sewer rentals
runs between $90,000 and $100,
000 a year.
Deer Hunter Lost
Klamath Lake Area
Klamath Falls, Oct. 10 (PI
A lost deer hunter was being
sought in the Denny Creek woods
on the west side of upper Klam
ath lake today.
Jack Hargrove, 20, Klamath
Falls, was last seen by mem
bers of his hunting party at 10
o'clock yesterday morning.
When he failed to return to his
car at nightfall, a search was
started.
More searching parties went
Into the woods at daybreak to
day. Max Hargrove, a brother
of the missing youth, said it was
young Hargrove's first hunting
trip, and that he was not fami
liar with the wooded country
Blast Toll Six
Honolulu, T. H., Oct. 10 J )
The death toll from an explosion
which sank the fleet tanker USS
Chehalia in Tutulla harbor, Sa
moa, lart Friday was listed of
ficially as six by the navy today.
Navy Claims Russia's Radar
Defense Could Stop A-Raids
Johnson Denies
Slashing Navy
To Second Class
St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 10 "
Secretary of Defense Louis John
son repeated today there is no
plan afoot to reduce the navy to
"a second class role" in national
defense.
Johnson, addressing the an
nual convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, said the
navy has an "honorable role" to
play on the army-navy-air force
team.
Johnson took notice of mount
ing protests from navy partisan
that it was about to be "unified
out of business. He assured the
navy he intends to keep It and
the marine corps as vital parts
of the defense combination.
Siill Lead In A Weapons
The defense secretary declar
ing that the possibility the Rus
sians would learn the atomic
secret long has figured in de
fense planning said he is "con
fident" this country still has the
lead in atomic weapons.
"I am confident we still hold
the lead," Johnson said, "not
enough of a lead to grow com
placent but enough to be deci
sive if we continue the pre
sent pace . . ."
Johnson said that progress
is being made in unifying the
defense team.
(Concludrd on Par 5. Column Si
Senate Group
OKs DP Board
Washington, Oct 10 M") Pre
sident Truman's nominations of
the three members of the dis
placed persons commission, pen
ding for more than a year, were
approved today by the senate
judiciary committee.
The committee put off action
until tomorrow on a house-passed
bill to open the doors of the
United States to more displaced
persons.
Acting Chairman Kilgore (D-
W Va) told reporters that it de
cided to adjourn in respect to
Senator Miller (D-Ida), who
died Saturday, without acting on
the house bill.
But before the adjournment.
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich)
moved to discharge a judiciary
subcommittee from further con
sideration of the displaced per
sons legislation.
His motion, designed to clear
the way for senate action on the
measure before congress ad
journs, will be the committee's
first order of business tomor
row, Kilgore said.
The nomin a t i o n a approved
were those of Ugo Carusi of Ver
mont to be chairman of the dis
placed persons commission and
of Edward M. O'Connor and
Harry N. Rosenficld, both of!
New York, to be members of the
commission.
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'Bad Gamble' Testifying before the house armed services
committee in Washington, Adin. Arlliur W. Radford described
these air force B-36 bombers as a "bad gamble with national
security." Adm. Radford's blast of verbal flak against the B 36
came shortly before it was announced that the defense depart
ment has decided to cut naval and marine aviation, but will
give the air fnrre "some leniency." These R-36 s are shown
at Carswell air force base, Fort Worlli, Tex. (Acme Telephoto)
House Refuses
$735 Million
Air force Cut
Washington, Oct. 10 (IP) The
house refused overwhelmingly
today to accept a cut of $735,-
000.000 voted by the senate in
air force appropriations for the
present fiscal year.
By a roll-call vote of 305 to
1, it insisted on providing funds
for a 58-group air force Instead
of 48 groups, as the senate did
at President Truman's request.
Rep. Marshall (D., Minn.) was
the only member who voted to
accept the smaller sum.
The house action returned to
the senate the multi-billion dol
lar appropriation bill for the
army, the navy and the air force,
which has been tied up in a senate-house
conference for more
than a month.
If the senate refuses to back
down and approve the higher
amount, the bill will go back to
conference.
As the bill passed the house
originally it carried $15,500,
000,000 in cash and contract au
thority for the armed forces. The
senate trimmed this to $14,800,
000.000, mainly by slicing $577,
755,000 from contract authority
for plane procurement
No Peace Moves
In Steel Strike
(ay tha Awoclatad Praul
The steel and coal strikes con
tinued today and the prospect
was for more widespread Idle
ness this week. The nation's
strike idle may reach two mil'
lion this week.
John L. Lewis planned to go
back to the bargaining table
with operators Wednesday on
behalf of his 380,000 striking
soft coal diggers.
But there was no move to
ward settling the strike of 454,-
000 CIO steelworkers. The two
strikes have actually cut off pay
checks for more than 1,000,000
workers including those laid off
thus far in businesses dependent
on coal and steel.
Contracts between the steel-
workers and fabricating plants
began expiring Saturday, and
the union's president, Philip
Murray, has declared he wants
these workers to have the free
pension and insurance for which
the other steelworkers are strik
ing. This apparently means
there'll be more plant shutdowns
and more picket lines.
Oct 17 is a deadline for steel
workers at the Aluminum com
pany of America where 20,000
of them have voted to strike if
they don't get the company-paid
pensions, insurance and a wage
boost.
Leaders of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and F.n-
ginemen who have threatened
nation-wide strike which would
tie up all rail traffic, plan to
meet tomorrow (Tuesday) with
carriers to talk it over.
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iHold Precision
Bombing from
Altitudes Myth
Washington, Oct. 10 W Navy
men told congress today that
Russian radar-fighter defensea
coma stop b-36 raids In num
bers, and that any getting
through would waste a lot of
A-bombs by missing targets.
Comdr. Eugene Tatom brought
gasps of surprise from the house
armed services committee by
testifying that you could stand
at one end of Washington Na
tional airport and come through
an atom bomb explosion at the.
other "without serious injury."
The runway Is a little over a mil
and a quarter long.
Tatom, head of the aviation
branch of the navy aeronautics
bureau, said the A-bomb is "com
pletely devastating in the imme
diate vicinity of its burst." But
contrary to popular ideas, he
said, the area of destruction is
rather limited. He went on:
Area Very Limited
You can stand in the open at
one end of the north-south run
way at the Washington National
airport, with no more protection
than the clothes you now have
on, and have an atom bomh v.
plode at the other end of the run
way without serious injury to
you."
Because of the tremendous
cost of atom bombs and the scar
city of the materials In them.
Tatom said, precision bombing is
just as necessary as with con
ventional bombs.
"Just let me assure you, gel
tlemen," he said, "that precisij-
bombing of military targets dee)
in enemy territory from 40,000
feet at night or In daylight is
myth."
Chairman Vinson - D., Ga.)
told Tatom to come back tomor
row to answer questions about
the A-bomb.
(Concludrd on Pare I. Column )
Austrians Vole
Against Reds
Vienna, Oct. 10 W) Austrian
voters kept their nation lined
up with the anti-communist
countries of Europe in a week
end parliamentary election
marked by a decided upsurge in
rightist sentiment.
Final unofficial returns to
day revealed that Chancellor
Leopold Figl's anti-red coalition
government had remained firm
ly in the saddle despite soma
loss of strength. That coalition,
composed of the conservative
people's party and the social
ists, will continue to run the
new government.
Figl's people's party held Hi
rank as Austria's biggest party,
winning 77 seals In the 165
member lower house of parlia
ment. The socialists won 67
seats, to give the government
coalition an overwhelming 144
vole bloc in the chamber.
Communists, who won only
four seats in the 1945 elec
tion, added one more in Sun
day's voting. But their failure
to make any appreciable gain
led Chancellor Figl to proclaim
that the voting gave "clear and
unmistakable proof that Aus
tria is an outpost of the west
ern democratic world."
The unofficial final popular
vole for the leading parties:
People's party 1.844.649.
League of Independents 487,
781.
Communists 174.257.
Derailment Ties-up
Southern Pacific Trains
Roseburg, Ore., Oct. 10 (
Service on the main line of the
Southern Pacific was disrupted
today by derailment of four
freight cars while being shift
ed at the Sutherlin depot, rip
ping up several hundred feet of
track.
A broken connection was
blamed, according to a report
from Sutherlin, quoting SP per
sonnel. In addition to the derailed
cars, three others loaded with
lumber were damaged. Other
cars loaded with new automo
biles for southern Oregon bare
ly missed the crash.
Service was to be restored
"sometime during the day," It
was expected.