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Satan, Oregon, Saturday, February 21,. 1953
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Deluge of Bills Judges Favor
Fear Internal
D:-l::rFI:;!s
Mercilessly
Inspection of
Fight for Pover
Rises in Russia
Welfare Lists
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May Prolong
1953 Session
Legislation Leaders
Think End Sure in
Another 50 Days
By PAUL HARVEY, JR.
(UnrliUa Pnu Oomnoadutl
Threatened with the biggest
delate el bills la history. Ore
ion's 41-day-oId Legislature still
hi confident It can wind up Iti
work la another SO days,
Having made good progress
, this week with highway and
liauor legislation, the lawmak-
1 ers guarantee a good show next
week.
Here's the schedule for next
week, and it doesn't include un
' expected subjects that might de
velop: i Monday The Senate will
vote on the bill to divide Mult
nomah, Marion and Lane coun
ties into representative dls
tricts. ,It also would have legis
1 latlve candidates run by num
bered positions in districts
where there are two or more to
be elected. '
Fair Racing Money '
Tuesday The explosive issue
of whether to keep cn giving
- racing receipts to the fairs gets
its first test hi the House, which
'. will vote on the resolution for
- an interim committee to make
a two-year study cf the prob
lem. (Concluded an Pan 8, Catena I)
For Primary
Withdrawals
The senate nassed a house hill
Saturday to permit presidential
candidates to withdraw from
Oregon's presidential primary
elections, but it apparently is
headed for a dispute in a senate-house
conference committee.
- As passed by the house, it
would have allowed withdrawal
- only If persons who swear that
they are not candidates for pres
ident. The senate changed it so that
any person, including candidates
nationally, could withdraw from
the state primary when they
don't want to run here.
The bill, by Rep. Mark Hat
field, Salem, is the outgrowth
of the 1952 primary, in which
Sen. Wayne Morse and Justice
William O. Douglas were en
tered in the presidential races
here aeainst their wishes.
Senators vot'ng against the
hill were Stewart Hardie, Con
don: John P. Hounsell, Hood
River; Warren McMinimee, Til'
lamook; and Lowell Steen, Mil-ton-Freewater.
Governor Picks
Interstate Group
Oregon's committee on Inter
' state co-operation was named
Friday by Gov. Paul I Patter
ton and the presiding officers
of the legislature.
The 12-man committee works
with other states in solving
mutual problems and working
out uniform legislation.
Gov. Patterson, Senate pres
ident Eugene E. Marsh and
Speaker of the House Rudie
Wilhelm, Jr., automatically are
members.
The governor reappointed
Finance Director Harry Dor-
man, State Engineer Charles E.
Strlcklln, and Public Utilities
Commisisoner Charles H. Helt
zel to the committee.
The legislative members are:
Senators Robert D. Holmes,
Gearhart; Elmo Smith, John
tray, and Paul Geddes, Rose
burg; and Reps. Carl Franck,
Dayton; Lee Ohmart, Salem,
and Robert Root, Medford.
Variable Weather
Week-End Forecast
Variable wesiher comes for
Salem and vicinity at the week
end. Despite cloudiness, the
minimum temperature lit the
city dropped to below the freez
ing mark this morning, 31 being
recorded. The skies cleared up
long enough around midnight to
allow the colder temperature to
move in.
Low for tonight is forecast
for 30. Skies were cloudy Sat
urday morning, although the
sunshine came through several
times. Cloudiness is due to con
tinue for over Sunday.
Rainfall In Salem amounted
to only trace in the 24-hour
j period ending at 10:30 am. Sat
urday. The Willamette river
continues to fall, measuring 7.9
i feet at the local gauge this
morning.
County Commission
ers Feel Opening of
Lists Will Stop Frauds
By JAMES D. OLSON
Nine oat of It representatives
of county courts In Oregon ex
pressed favor for opening wel
fare lists to the public and i
anmber favored Including names
of parents receiving aid for de
pendent children, Id a vote tak
en before a meeting of the Joint
welfare committee of the sen
ate and house Saturday mora
lag.
The committee was told by the
county officials that while they
favored protecting the children
who are in foster i homes the
money for aid to dependent chil
dren goes to the parents and
therefore the parents' names in
such cases should be listed just
as other persons obtaining pub
lic assistance. -Only
Three Oppose
Only representatives of the
county courts of Baker, Klamath
and Wasco counties voted against
the bill although it was indicat
ed that Baker county may favor
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Balkan Pad to
Fight Aggression
Ankara, Turkey VP) Turkey,
Greece and Yugoslavia have
(reached complete agreement on
defense arrangements against
possible communist aggression
in the Balkans in talks here, in
formed Turkish sources said to
day.
No communique was issued
after the week-long discussions
ended last night but the sources
said: "Complete accord has been
reached concerning defense ar
rangements to be made jointly
by the three nations."
A treaty of friendship among
the three, now being drafted in
Athens, Greece, is expected to
be signed here early next
month. Indications are that ahy
formal military agreement will
be separte from the friendship
pact and will follow later.
PGE Welcomes
Surcharge Probe
Portland W) Portland Gener
al Electric Co. said Friday State
Rep. Monroe Sweetland s de
mand for a public hearing on the
controversial power surcharge
was "groundless and irresponsl-
ble."
But Waldemar Seton. PGE
vice president, said the firm
would welcome a public hearing
of the facts and would present
its answers to Sweetl a n d ' s
charges "in the orderly atmos
phere of the formal public hear'
ing."
Sweetland recently asked the
public utilities commissioner to
investigate the 20 percent sur
charge added by PGE to its cus
tomers' bills to cover the cost
of steam generated power used
during the late fall water short
age. The surcharge was ap
proved by Charles Heltzel, pub-'
lie utilities commissioner.
Sweetland aiked that all sur
charges be impounded and that
the power tate structure be In
vestigated.
4 Students in
Plane Wreckage
Franklinville. N. Y. WV-The
wreckage of a rented plane in
which four Niagara university
students set out on a lark eight
days ago was found Saturday
and . the evidence indicated all
four were dead.
The Cattaraugus county sher
iffs office said farmers Eben
Stalcut and Archie Reynolds
came upon the wreckage in a
wooded gully eight miles east
of this western New, York vil
lage. .
Stalcut's wife reported that
the men returned to notify au
thorities without stopping to
look inside the wreckage but
had seen what looked like
bodies.
The four-seater Stlnson van
ished February 13 while en-
route the 70 miles from Buffalo
to St Bonaventure college, near
Qlean, where the students had
planned to drop pro-Niagara
leaflets for a .basketball game
between the two schools the
next night. ..i . . ' . ; v.
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Teachers Red
Cell Probed
Washington W Senate
sleuths dug into reports of a
Red cell of 500 teachers In New
York todiy as It pressed its in
vestigation of communist infil
tration of VS. schools.
Chairman William E. Jenner
(R., Ind.) of Internal security
subcommittee, said he planned
to call a teacher known in
"party circles''' as "Time" to
testify on the cell next Tues
day. ' - -
"Time," he said, allegedly
acted aa a liaison between the
cell and the national control
commission of the communist
party. Witnesses have told the
committee that the cell was set
up as an underground with
members kept in the dark as
much as possible on their colleagues.
Canntv Jndrea Disease Odcb Welfare Records Judges
from many Oregon counties appeared before the legislative
ways and means committee Saturday, morning to air their
views on opening welfare records for public scrutiny. Judge
J. B. Coleman of Jackson county is shown addressing the
committee consisting of Eugene Marsh, president of the
senate, Henry Semon, co-chairman of the way and means .
committee; Senator George A. Vlett, Representative Dave
Baum, chairman of the house ways and means committee;
Senator Rex Ellis, chairman of the senate welfare committee;
Representative Alva Goodrich, Representative Francis Ziegler
and Carl Cover, clerk of the joint way and means committee.
Straws lontract Let, Antarctic Row
Groundbreaking Tuesday kmqhqm
By MARIAN LOWBY FISCHER
CITIES TO CONSOLIDATE
t The Senate passed and sent
to the House Saturday a bill to
let Oregon City and Gladstone
consolidate.
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Blaine McCord, Key Man
In Legislature, Dies
Ground-breaking ceremonies
for construction of the new
buildinff for St Paul's Episcopal
church will be held at noon next
Tuesday, February 24, it is an
nounced by Glenn s. raxson,
chairman of the church building
committee.
Contract for the new structure
was let Friday to A. N. Minden
comnany of Portland, and the
bi'Udlng permit is expected to
be- taken, out the first of the
week for a total of $246,897. The
Mind oomBsmy J tt concern
now finishing construction or bi
JoseDh'a Catholic building here,
, The sew Episcopal edifice is
to be on- the old Lincoln school
property in south Salem, the
Congregation owning the whole
city block there between High
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Lead Red Army
Moscow Marshal Vasaily
Sokolovsky succeeded Army
Gen. Sergei Shtemenko as chief
of staff of the armed forces of
the Soviet Union, it was dis
closed Saturday.
Sokolovsky has been first de
puty minister of the armed
forces slrtce March 30. 1949.
Shtemenko became chief of
staff Nov. 13, 1948, when he re
placed Marshal Alexander Va
of war.
Sckolovsy is a full member
of the central committee of the
Communist Party.
He was the captor 'of Berlin
and became a hero of the Soviet
Union for his work In that cam
paign. He was decorated as a
knight commander of the Bri
tish Empire by Marshal Lord
Montgomery in Berlin in 1943
and became chief of the Soviet
military administration in Ger
many in November, .1946. He
gave up that job in early 1949
just before the end of the Ber
lin blockade. -
Truman to Write
For Magazine
Anglo-American Con
ference Sees Threat
to World Peace
London (XV-The critical Inde-
Caiaeso war and a possible West
Germaa Heap with the Atlantic
aUlaaee if the European army
plaa falls will bo among top
priority Hem at forthcoming
British-American talk la Wash
ington, British - Amerieaa talks
la Washlagtoa, British govern
ment soorees say.
-These topics were reported
last night as another highly-
placed Briton expressed mount
ing anxiety over a possible strug
gle for power within Russia if
Stalin dies or cults, such an in
ternal battle, ho declared, would
represent one of the biggest
threats to world peace.
This Briton said the West
could be fairly confident as long
as Stalin was in full command
but In the event of an all-out
struggle for dictatorship between
ambitious rivals, "There la no
telling what their rashness may
plunge us into."
(Ceawladea ea Page t, Oshoaa I)
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Blaine McCord, 69, who had
been a key man In the house
organization of the Oregon leg
islature for 34 years, died in
sleep in. his room at the Marlon
hotel early Saturday.
McCord had been chief clerk
of the House rule committee
for 22 years. For 12 year be
fore that ho had been chief
clerk of the law committee of
the House. Over a period of 34
i years he had been an Important
figure in the House in 17 regu
lar sessions.
As chief clerk of the rules
committee, a position he had
held since 1931, all bills Intro
duced had to clear through him
for checking at to form and
content
' McCord's home was at Wood
burn. He was born April 21,
1884, at Benton Harbor, Mich.,
and was graduated from Ben
ton Harbor college and the Law
College of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, and
I Blalns McCord of Woodbura (CeaUaaot oa Pago I, Celaaui I)
Kansas City OP) Former
President Harry S. Truman an
nounced Saturday he will write
his memoirs and had selected
Life magazine to handle all
rights.
In his first formal press con
ference since he returned from
the White House Mr. Truman
said his memoir will be pub
lished in one or two volumes.
He also announced that he,
Mrs. Truman and their daugh
ter, Margaret will go on a
cruise to Honolulu, spending
about month there. -
Mr. Truman declined to state
how much ha would receive
for his memoris.
In a formal statement be said
his memoir will not be publish
ed for two year in the belief
that by 1994 be will be able to
speak mora fully on the subjects
pertaining to the role his ad
ministration played in world
affairs.
- Mr. Truman said that the per
iod cowered by his memoirs will
be from 1939, when he waa
first elected to the United States
Senate from Missouri until the
time he left office last month.
and Liberty streets and bound
ed on the north by East Myers
itreet . ' v
The structure to go up now
will include the church, together
with the Sunday school depart
ment and class ' room '.- and
church office. The building is
to have concrete basement
concrete slab floor,' the super
structure to be of brick veneer
up to the wlndowsill, the upper
part of wood. , . .' . ' ;
The new buuaing wiu oave
iti main entrance at the north.
facing Myers. The parking lot1
facilities will be arranged along
the south end of the property,
St Paul's parish has been
housed at the corner of Church
and Chemeketa streets for the
past century, the present parish
hall being tne original cnurcn
erected 100 years ago. The lot
was given to the parish more
than 100 years ago. Tne present
church building was put up In
the early twenties.
The Rev. George H. Swift,
rector of the parish, invites all
members of the congregation to
witness the ground-breaking
ceremonies Tuesday. The church
membership and the many inner-church
organizations have
worked for years towards the
new cnurcn building. James i
Payne is the architect for the
new structure.
Taft Defends
Probe of Reds
Chicago (ff) Senate 'repub
lican Leader Robert A. Taft
said Saturday 'he would not
favor dismissing a communist
professor unless he were sure
the professor was effectively
teaching communism.
Taft however, spoke up for
the right of Congress to conduct
Investigations Into communist
Infiltration of such fields as
teaching, publishing and enter
tainment saying: .
"I see no reason why congres
sional committees or others
should not bring to the attention
of the public the fact that men
are communists if they are communists."
In a talk prepared for the Na
tional Can n ers' Association
meeting, the Ohloan continued
I see no particular purpose
in examining the views of a few
individual professors if they are
not part of an organization pro
moting the spread of commun
ism ...
"I see no reason why the gov
ernment should continue to em
ploy people with communist
sympathies ...
London (ffi Britain Saturday
renewed her offer to take her
Antarctic dispute with Argentina
and Chile to the international
Court at The Hague. '
The offer was made in two
notes after British authorities
last Sunday demolished an Ar
gentine hut and tent near an air
strip on Deception Island and
deported two Argentines. At
the same time a Chilean hut in
the same area was knocked
downj " ''
Both Chile and Argentina, who
challenge. British territorial
claim In the Antarctic, demand
ed Friday night that Britain
build the installations, and Ar
gentina demanded that her two
nations be returned to their post
Chile proposed that the affair
be carried to the Organization of
American States, to which the
United States belongs.
Both Argentina and Chile have
spurned previous offers to settle
the dispute In the world court.
Crowned Leona Show
away, senior at Chemawa In
dian school, who 'haaf been
elected queen for the 73rd an
niversary observance at the
school Feb. 28-27. The Feb.
27 program in the school gym
at 7:30 pjn. will be open to
the public . - ' ' ' .
Chemawa Fete
To Be Feb 26-27
Want fVoicer in
Cabinet Agency
Wsshlngton () The U. S.
Advisory Commission ' on In
formation recommended Satur
day that the Voice of America
and all other psychological war
fare and oversea information
program be placed in a new
federal agency of cabinet level.
The advisory committee 1 a
group of five distinguished citi
zen under the chairmanship of
Mark A. May. director of the
Yale University Institute of
Human Relations.
The proposal for removing
the Voice and related activities
from the State Department was
one of seven recommendations
which the commission placed
before Congress in a report re
leased through the department.
It coincided with mounting
criticism of the handling of
Voice operations. The program
is now being investigated by a
Senate committee headed by
Sen. McCarthy.
Bohlen Acceptable
As Envoy to Russia
Moscow Vft An Informed
source said Saturday the Sov
iet Union has accepted the nom
ination of Charles E. Bohlen 'as
the next U. S. ambassador to
Moscow.
Bohlen, an expert on relations
with the Soviet Union, Is now
a state department counselor. If
his nomination is approved by
the U. S. senate he will replace
former Ambassador George F.
Kennan, whom the Soviets de
clared personally unacceptable
last October 31
' Chemawa Students of Che
mawa Indian school will present
a tableau depicting the history
of the school at ceremonies com
memorating the 73rd anniver
sary of the institution TBursday
and Friday night, Feb. zo-27.
. snssam wlUte BMaeenV
ed in the school gymnasium fey
the stodenU " lit - : : each
night The first night the show
will be for students and faculty
member only. Friday night the
program Will be repeated for the
public, ' .-it'.' .' "v. '
Mis: Leona' Showaway, a
Umatilla from ! Pendleton, has
been chosen queen for the fes
tivities. She is the daughter of
Mr.and Mrs. Tom .Dominie
Showaway of Pendleton,
Princesses - will be Pauline
Johnson, - daughter 'of Mr., and
Mrs. Y. Johnson of. Steamboat
Canyon, Ariz.; Lorraine Tom,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Tom of Teesnospos, . Shiprock,
New Mexico: Donna Jane Col-
ville tribe, daughter of Mr; and
Mrs. David Jones, Omak, Wash.;
Georgia Lucel, Yakima tribe,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucy
Lucel, Toppenlsh, Wash.; Patsy
Ochiho, Palute tribe, daughter
of Mrs. Rosie Arnett Ft. Bid-
well, Calif.; and Augustine Phil
lips, Yakima tribe, daughter of
Andrew Phillips, White Swan,
Wash. ' - '
The theme of the tableau will
be "Moon Memories," written by
faculty members Miss A. Chair
lis and Miss H. Gordon.
llil . Keren ;
Sabre jeti Down or
Damage 49 MI6S'
" In 8 Days'-''
Seoal tin Halted Nattesa
bomber planes ' of every . typo
track mercilessly at the eetnaa-
lats la aortawost Korea today.
American Sabre Jet fighters in
their eighth day of victorious
aerial combat destroyed, dam
aged, or probably destroyed 10
Russian-mad MIG-1S jets in de
fending the swarming Allied
bomber fleets... ,.- ',
The Sabre Jets have downed,
damaged or probably destroyed
49 MIGs in eight day. The Air
Fore weekly summary said to
day that only on Sabre jet ha
been- lost In ah battle tat seven
days. " ., -.- ..
Bed Groaaat Attack . - '
In ground fighting ' on the
Western Front United Nation
Infantrymen broke up what ap
parently had been planned to be
the kick-off of the biggest Chi
nese communist attack of the
new year. Patrols caught 000 en-
my troop massing for a two-
pronged attack on T-bono hill.
They called in reinforcements
and artillery."
Infantry, artillery and mor
tars ripped into the enemy fore, x
The Reds never even got to
jump off and retreated to their
main lines at dawn.
B-2s in Big Bald
Eighteen B-29s, in the biggest
Suprefort attack of the year.
hurled 180 ton of 800-pound
bomb on a ISO-acre concentra
tion of communist . buildings, -
supply installation and troop
dugouts near Sopo, eight mOe
north of the North Korean capi
tal of Pyongyang.
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To Refofntionrc
Washington Ci Mai. Gen.
Wayne C Smith, commander of
the (seventh division which ear.
rled out the controversial "Op
eration Smack,'! is coming back
from Korea to take another as
signment . I",.' t
The Army, in announcing this
Saturday said his return is part
of a normal rotation -of officers
and had nothing to do with th
"Smack", incident and the up-,
roar it touched off.
Smith, a native of St Joseph,
Mo., was sent to the Far East a
year ago and was given com
mand of th division tsar jury.'.
Public Offices to
Be Closed Monday
Portland () Federal, state
and county offices and liquor
stores will be closed Mondsy in
observance o f Washington's
birthday which falls on Sun
day this year.
Worst Prairie Blizzard
Subsides vith Cold Wave
The worst prairie blizzard
since 1949 subsided today, and
the cold wave it sent pouring
into the south dispersed torna
does that killed on person and
left widespread damage in three
states.
Although the midwest rn
storm abated, it did not lose all
Its teeth.
Great clouds of dry snow, as
Une as pumice, were carried
across the plains by powerful
winds. In some sreas residents
couldn't even be sure it had
stopped snowing.
And th blowing, drifting
powder snow hampered the task
of clearing clogged highways,
Stockmen in western .Nebras
ka feared their cattl might be
In critical danger, perhaps
worse than during the severe
winter of 1948-49.
The cold front that swept Into
Dixie stopped the sporadic twist
ers that raked Alabama, Missis
sippi and Louisiana late yester
day before they could skip into
Georgia.
A mother of sue children was
killed near Tuscumbla, Ala., and
at least 10 persons were report
ed injured in th storm. -
Several rural and city homes
were demolished ' In the three
states where th twisters whirl
ed. . .
The mtdwestern blizzard
showed its muscles like a pow
erful bully.
Near Loup City, Neb., th
storm snapped 19 high power
Une like matchitlck, and visi
bility wss so poor that linemen
couldn't find th live wires to
patch them.
Winds from 85 to 60 miles
per hour moved a virtual wall
of snow across Minnesota
blocking highways and patalyz-
Af ter bis return "within th
next few months," the Army
said, Smith will becosM com
mander of the 11th Airborne Di
vision at Camp Campbell, Ky.,
U.S. Prisoners j
Revolt in Korea
Pusan, Korea (V-The U.S.
Korean base section said Sat-
urday 30 American military
prisoners were Injured Friday
night In a revolt against stock
sde discipline that was quelled
after an hour-long battle with
a company of military police.
The base section announced
two of the prisoner were hospitalized.
It reported 137 prisoners,
convicted by general court
martial started fighting among
themselves in the prison com
pound. -
Lt. CoL Edwin Weisman,
provost marshal, said internal
dissension and grumbling over
a stricter prison routine caused
th fighting.
Th stockade for ."maximum
custody" holds prisoner who
have been sentenced by general
courts martial to dishonorable
discharges and' up to 10 year
in prison.
ing trafflo la th Twin Cities. tar shall
Mortar Shell Hits r
Mess Kit of 61
With U. 8. Second Division,
Korea () A division spokes
man reported today . that th
communists served up a hot
mortar round for hungry sol
dier and dropped lt right
through his mesa kit
The spokesman said th sol
dier unidentified brushed off
th spattered kit, went to th
kitchen, got a tray roll of new
chow and finished his meal.
No on was hurt by th moo