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FINAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 64 SSfASSftSZ Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 16, 1953 8 ir ice 5c
Approval lo
Car Pool lor
Stale Aufos
Move Authorized
By Joint Ways
And Means
By JAMES D. OLSON
Establishment of a car pool
for state automobiles operated
out of Salem was authorized by
the joint ways and means com
mittee Monday by an 8 to S
vote.
Reps. Henry Scmon, Robert
Duniway and Alva Goodrich
cast the negative votes against
the proposal.
Although the committee ap
proved the car-pool plan the
question of the garage building
proposed at an estimated cost
of $141,274 was referred to a
special committee to be ap
pointed by the joint chairmen
of the committee, Senator Dean
Walker and Rep. Semon. This
committee will review the en
tire state building program and
report recommendations to the
main committee.
Dorman Makes Prediction
Harry Dorman, director of
the department of finance and
administration, under which
the proposed car-pool would
be operated, told the members
of the committee that the cost
of acquiring state cars now held
by various departments, togeth
er with a revolving fund,
would take an estimated $357,
000. (Concluded on Page 5, CoL 7)
New Hearing
On Labor Bills
' Rep. Gust Anderson of
Portland, chairman of the
bouse labor and industries
committee, announced Mon
day that there will be a pub.
lie hearing on the controver
sial labor bills now before the
committee Saturday at 10 a.m.
Six members of the nine
man committee, who are spon
soring the labor bills, met
Friday and decided they
would prefer no further pub'
lie hearings. Speaker of the
House Rudie Wilhelm, Jr.,
met with these members and
apparently concurred in this
decision.
Chairman Anderson said he
had not been invited to the
Friday meeting, and so far as
He was concerned he is still
planning the public meeting
because of requests of a num
ber of people who had been
unable to testify at the crowd
ed hearing held last week.
A regular meeting of the
committee, at which the ques
tion of a public hearing will
probably be threshed out, is
being held Monday afternoon
The bills introduced by the
committee majority would al
low a union member to sue
the union, would prevent a
strike unless a majority of the
employes had voted for it at
least 30 days before it is
called, and require registra
tion, or In effect incorporation
of the union so that a labor
organization could be held re
sponsible for acts of those
claiming to represent it.
1.24 Inches Rain
Falls Sunday
Nearly one and a quarter
inches of rain poured down on
Salem over Sunday, 1.24 inches
being measured in the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
Monday. During the preceding
24 hours, .14 of an inch was
measured, making 1.38 inches
for the week-end storm here.
As result of the increased
rains, rivers in the valley are
coming up slightly. At Salem,
the Willamette measured 1.8
inches Monday morning. Slight
rises are due on all rivers in
the area during the next 12 to
48 hours, reports the weather
bureau. The Santiam at Jef
ferson was up to 6.4 this morn
ing and was due to continue
going up gradually.
The forecast calls for con
tinued scattered showers to
night and Tuesday and slight
ly cooler temperatures, a low
of 34 being predicted for to
right. The minimum this morn
ing in Salem was 40 degrees.
Weather Details
Maximum ytittrdir. 48 1 minimum !
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New Type of
Swindle Used
By Stranger
Mrs. Nora B. Chastaln,
4190 Beck avenue, was the
victim of a new swindle in
Salem Saturday, when she
unwittingly paid $40 rent
in advance to a man for a
house he did not own.
The story told to city
police showed that an un
identified man entered the
Todd Real Estate company
office, 520 State street,
Wednesday, saying that he
wanted to buy a house.
He was shown a house
which answered his general
description of what he
wanted but did not commit
himself at the time as to
whether he would buy It or
not.
Later the man called Mrs.
Chastain, saying he had seen
her advertisement In the
paper asking for a house to
rent. He howed her the
house, explaining that he
had just bought it as a
rental property.
When she agreed to rent
the house, he collected $40
rent In advance and that
was the last that Mrs. Chas
taln or Roy Todd, manager
of the real estate office, saw
of the man.
The swindle came to light
Saturday when Mrs. Chas
tain called Todd to check on
the sale and found that the
place had not been sold.
OFBF Warns
Of ICC Order
The Oregon Farm Bureau
Federation notified Oregon's
congressional delegation today
that unless steps are taken to
"outlaw" an Interstate Com
merce Commission order prohi
hibiting "trip leasing" by agri
cultural truckers higher trans
portation costs are in proipect
for farmers.
. The controversial order
which has been sustained by
the Supreme Court, would have
the effect of prohibiting a prac
tice which has enabled farm
commodity truckers legally to
get "return loads" after deliv
ering a cargo of farm products
to market.
"Obviously, If the hauler of
farm products is not permitted
to obtain revenue for his re
turn trip, he must charge more
for hauling farm products,"
OFBF President Ben Robinson
declared. "Such increased
charges will add to the cost
of marketing and increase the
spread between producer and
consumer prices."
Under present legislation an
agricultural trucker is not al
lowed to haul manufactured
goods by direct contact with
the shipper, but is authorized
to lease his truck to a common
carrier who has legal authority
for the return trip, he said.
The ICC order, issued May 8,
1951, would make it unlawful
to lease such trucks for periods
of less than 30 days,
The Oregon Farm Bureau
Federation has asked Oregon's
congressional delegation to get
behind two bills (8. 925 and H.
R. 3203) designed to prohibit
the ICC from putting its order
into effect when they come up
for hearing.
They claim support for the
order stems from the railroads,
Teamsters Union and many of
the larger truck common car-
Industrial Meeting
Here Wednesday Night
An important industrial
meeting will be held in the
Cave room at the Senator hotel
Wednesday night of this week,
starting at 6:45.
Speakers will be Kenneth T.
Caplinger, industrial specialist
of the regional office of the
Small Defense Plants Admin
istration, Seattle, and John G.
Barnett of Portland, branch
manager of the SDPA for the
Oregon district.
Caplinger will discuss ways
and means in which SDPA may
assist small business, and Bar
nett will talk about the con
tract procurement program.
It will be a special meeting
of industry members of the
Chamber of Commerce to eva
luate the industrial capacity of
the area.
Rcprcsenta lives of business
firms interested in bidding or
negotiating prime contracts
with the government or In do
ing subcontract work with
Soviet Chief
Offers West
Olive Branch
Words Applauded
in Moscow, U.S.
Dubious
Moscow (U.B Soviet Premier
Georgl M. Malenkov has Invit
ed the West to work out a so
lution to outstanding world
problems, diplomatic sources
said today.
They said the invitation was
contained in a statement last
night by Malenkov to the Sov
iet Parliament. The premier
said all present world problems
could be worked out by mutual
agreement between all coun
tries even including the USSR
and the United States.
Stalin's Successor
"At the present time there
is no controversial outstanding
problem which could not be
solved in a peaceful way on
the basis of mutual agreement
among the countries con
cerned," Malenk.ov said. "This
refers to the relations with all
states including our relations
with the United States."
The parliament, council of
the union and the council of
nationalities, in a 70-minute
joint meeting approved Malen
kov as the successor to Josef
Stalin.
His new government, Includ
ing a reorganized council of
ministers, also was approved
by the 1,339-member Parlia
ment. Premier Applauded
Foreign observers attached
the utmost importance to Mal
enkov s statement on the set
tlement of international prob
lems. It brought loud applause
from the Parliament and even
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 4)
Rescue Truck
Shown Here
The rescue truck of the
Oregon civil defene agency
that has attracted wide atten
tion since it was recently ac
quired, is on display in Salem
today at Court and High
streets.
The truck was officially
opened for inspection at 10
a.m. by Mayor Al Loucks,
County Judge Rex Hartley and
members of the county civil
defense, the city council and
the county court.
From the Marion county
civil defense the group in
charge is G. R. Boatwright,
assistant deputy for rescue
work; Austin G. Cater, light
rescue section chief; Theodore
Kuenzi, heavy rescue section
chief; Harris Leitz, heavy ma
chinery section chief; and Wil-
lard Taylor, water rescue sec
tion chief.
Jointly sponsoring the truck
here are the city, county and
state civil defense agencies.
The truck was purchased on
a matching basis with the fed
eral government, and contains
appartus used in heavy rescue
work tackle block, power
winch, ladders, crosscut saw,
generator and floodlights,
wrecking bars, gas masks,
chain saw, shovels and other
hand tools.
In addition to training the
truck will serve as a model
for local directors who either
want to buy a similar vehicle
or develop one from a conven
tional flatbed truck.
other large prime contractors
are invited to attend. The.prin
cipal topics under discussion
will be contracting with fed
eral agencies, taxes, loans to
small business, certificates of
necessity, and renegotiation
The aim of the Small Defense
Plants Administration's prin
cipal objective is to assist bust
ness not with respect to secur
ing government contracts and
asisting them to secure loans
through Reconstruction Fin
ance Coroporalion, but to aid
and assist competent small
business firms to maintain a
high level of employment in
the area.
Caplinger has recently re
turned to the regional office of
S.D.P.A. after completing a
year and a half assignment
with the Defense Production
Administration on ammunition
requirements and about seven
months with the air materiel
command on aircraft requirements.
Salem
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Pilot Traps
Truck Convoy
Seoul VP) A quick-thinking
Australian fighter-bomber pi
lot bottled up a long Commu
nist supply convoy Monday and
paved the way for one of the
biggest truck-busting forays of
the Korean war.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force
said more than 100 vehicles
were destroyed or damaged in
a climatic air strike that fol
lowed a day-long series of air
blows against Red targets.
Warrant Officer Bob Turner
of Adelaide spotted a mile-
long Communist convoy south
of Wonsan on North Korea's
east coast. He roared to the
head of the line and blew up
the first two trucks with an
attack dive. Then he circled
back and got the last four.
The Beds were stalled on a
narrow road, a steep cliff on
one side, a sheer drop on the
other.
More Aussie meteor jets and
U. S. Marine and Air Force
warplanes streaked in to at
tack the trapped trucks. They
darted up and down the line,
setting off gasoline fires and
explosions.
Thornton Offers Aid
Against Oregon Vice
Robert Y. Thornton, attorney
general, notified all district at
torneys in the state Monday
that, as chief legal officer of
the state, he was prepared to
place the full power of his of
fice behind any district attor
ney in the enforcement of anti
vice and gambling laws.
'It is my duty to uphold the
laws of Oregon," he said, "in
their entirety. There can be
only one policy for both of us
on any violation, and that is
vigorous law enforcement."
Thornton told the district at
torneys that "should it appear
to me, after due investigation,
that any district attorney needs
help to cope with criminal vio
lations in his county, that dis
trict attorney will have every
facility I can reasonably offer
to back him up, Including the
services of an assistant attorney
general.
Permitting operation of slot
manchines in fraternal organi
zations was classed as both dis
criminatory and un-American,
by Thornton.
'While I realize that these
organizations are private in
nature and that the machines
n such clubrooms are played by
members only, it is impossible
to justify a policy of 'cracking
down' on slot machines in pub
lic taverns and businees estab
lishments while allowing them
to operate freely in private
clubs." Thorton said.
"As long as it is the law
of the stato, that these devices
are illegal" he continued, "it is
not within the power of the at
torney general or the district
attorney to exempt fraternal
organizations.
Thornton said that in every
case, the district attorneys
would find that a letter of re
quest to remove the machines
will be complied with.
The corner stone of every
fraternal organization in the
United States is obedience to
law and order, and they will
readily recognize that they are
not only violating the law of
the state but a cardinal prin
ciple of their organization as
well," he continued.
Thornton said that Governor
Paul L. Patterson, following a
Pknt Expmskm Mnmmml
INVESTIGATING STATE PRISON
Three state prison wardens from other states, selected
by the American Wardens' association, are here by Invita
tion of the State Board of Control to inspect and report on
the operation of Oregon State penitentiary. From left in
picture, are Wardens G. Norton Jameson, of South Dakota
State prison at Sioux Falls; Virgil O'Malley (standing),
Oregon State prison; Louis E. Clapp, Idaho State prison,
Boise; and Joseph E. Ragen, Illinois State prison, Joliet.
Three Prison Wardens
Start Inspection Here
Three out-of-state prison
wardens today prepared to
make a study of the state
penitentiary here, but it was
not revealed what would be
the scope of the survey.
The specially selected ward
ens are Joseph E. Ragen of
Allied Planes Plaster
No. Korean Rail Yard
Seoul (ff) Allied warplanes
roared into the dawn today
and plastered a rail yard deep
in Northwest Korea into
smoking, burning shambles.
Screaming Sabre jets tangled
with Communist MIGISs and
shot down one, the U. S. Fifth
Air Force reported.
F84 Thunderjets hit the rail
yards at Chongju and set off
a series of secondary explo
sions. At least 17 boxcars were
destroyed.
number of conferences, had
authorized him to state that the
governor will give his full
backing to assisting local law
enforcement endeavors.
"I commend you for your
desire to enforce the law"
Thornton told the district at
torneys. "I believe that all of
us have a job to do, and the
people of the state are looking
to us to perform our legal du
ties." Klamath Falls (U.B District
Attorney Frank R. Alderson
said today he was launching a
"cleanup" campaign in Kla
math county and that he had
been promised cooperation of
Oregon Attorney General Rob
ert Y. Thornton.
Alderson said he mailed 57
letters yesterday to various
business establishments warn
ing that in 10 days he will be
gin prosecution for any viola
tion in connection with laws re
garding lotteries, pinballs,
prostitution and the like.
The 27-year-old district at
torney, who ran unopposed last
November, released copies of
correspondence between him
self and Thornton in which the
latter said he would send I
special assistant attorney gen
eral to help in prosecution or
investigation if nccesary.
Millions Getting in
Under Tax Deadline
(fir Unlt.4 Pre
Washington (U.R) Millions of
American taxpayers who put
off the inevitable as long as
possible faced up to their an
nual reckoning with Uncle
Sam today.
Midnight tonight is the dead
line for filing 1052 personal in
come tax returns. Judging
from past experience, the Bur
eau of Internal Revenue pre
dieted that a large percentage
of the nation s 55,000,000 tax
payers would just make It,
GUAM GOVERNOR NAMED
Washington President
Eisenhower nominated Ford Q.
Elvldgc, Seattle attorney, to be
governor of Guam Monday. Ho
would succeed Carlton Skin
ner, who recently resigned. El
vldgc, 61, is a Republican.
the Illinois state penitentiary
at Joliet; L. E. Clapp of the
Idaho penitentiary at Boise,
and G. Norton Jameson of the
South Dakota prison at Sioux
Falls.
They were to confer today
with Gov. Paul Patterson and
other board of control mem
bers, but early in the day were
on the Job at the prison. The
wardens said they hoped to
start the study today or to
morrow.
Gov. Patterson, who has re
ferred to the study as a "prog
ress survey," recently said he
hoped it would be completed
before the. current . session of
the legislature adjourns.
None of the visiting ward
ens, who arrived here yester
day, would comment on the
task before them. It was ex
pected that the three would
f'ie recommendations with
the board of control regarding
a solution to some of the pris
on's problems.
Patterson has made it clear
that the survey is not an in
vestigation of prison officials.
Selection of the three ward
ens was made at the request
of the board of control by the
National Wardens' association.
Scope of the survey will
depend upon instructions
given the wardens by the
board of control. It had been
Indicated that the study may
include the status of current
prison problems, plant devel
opment, personnel and man
agement problems.
FOLSOM CONS ERUPT
Folsom Prison, Calif. (P)
Half a hundred Folsom pris
oners broke up toilets and
wash bowls for an hour long
ruckus early Monday and it
ended with 19 of the leaders
locked up in other cells.
"A "Device Ready to
Generate 100 Suns
By FRANK BARTHOLOMEW
Atomic Test Site, Nev. UPJ
An atomic device rested to
day in a "dog house" atop a
spidery, 300-foot tower, ready
to sear autos, life-like dum
mies and two typical Ameri
can homes with the "heat of
100 suns."
The explosion, the 22nd
atomic detonation within the
boundaries of the United
States, will take place before
the sun rises tomorrow morn
ing, it weather permits.
Below the tower, hundreds
of men went about the busi
ness of preparing for another
of the greatest of man-made
explosions.
Complete Preparations
Scores of scientists adjusted
the intrumcnts which will
measure, record and photo
graph the blast. Civilian con
tractor employes completed
construction work and began
moving out their equipment.
Tanks, trucks and 50 pas
senger automobiles, trailed
across the desert floor by lazy-
dun-colored dust devils, rum'
bled Into encircling positions
as guinea pigs in the target
area.
Final and most delicate as
Moore Business Forms
To Add 20,000 Sq. Ft.
60 Million to
See "A" Tests
Atomic Test Site, Nev. M R)
An estimated television audi
ence of 60,000,000 viewers to
day was assured "studio quali
ty" scenes of "Operation St.
Pat," the atomic test scheduled
for pre-dawn tomorrow.
Klaus Landsberg, general
manager of television station
KTLA in Los Angeles, who will
direct the nation-wide telecast
for ABC, CBS and NBC TV net
works, said extensive preblast
tests promised excellent pic
tures. There will be two nation
wide one-half hour direct tele
casts from the test site on the
Atomic Energy Commission's
Nevada proving grounds.
The first, starting at S a. m,
PST, will cover the nuclear de
tonation, scheduled for approx
imately 5:20 a. m. PST. The
second tentatively set for 1:30
p. m. PST, will show the effects
of the blast on a typical Ameri
can home some 7,500 yards
from the center of the explos
ion.
Two Accidents
Mar Week-End
Two minor accidents marred
the weekend traffic scene in
Salem. No one was reported ln
jured and only minor damage
was done to the cars, ,.
The first accident occured on
Sunday morning as the cars of
Geraldine Collier, Medford, and
Robert L. Hinkle, 675 South
12th street, collided at the in
tersection of Union street and
the alley entering the 300 block
of Union from the south.
The woman told police she
was driving in the left lane of
Union street, thinking it was
a one-way street, when the
Hinkle car came out of the
alley. Hinkle said he was
starting a right hand turn out
of the alley when he saw the
Collier vehicle approaching.
Minor damage was done to the
right front fender of his car
and to the left front fender of
the other car.
An overdose of insulin ap
parently caused Kenneth S.
Rich, 959 North Winters street,
to collapse at the wheel of his
car Sunday afternoon. The car
then ran into a parked car be
longing to Kenneth Carr, 690
Gaines street, in front of the
Carr residence.
Rich was found by officers in
a semi-conscious condition and
was taken to the station where
he was treated by a physician
and released.
Minor damage was done to
both vehicles.
signment was the arming of
the bomb, high in the tower's
cab. In the interests of safe
ty this is done within the final
12 hours preceding the deton
ation. Civil Defense Lessons
Personnel busy In the area
of "ground zero" included 200
from the atomic energy com
mission test organization; 300
unofficial observers from the
civilian defense organization
who will see In action the
bomb against which they may
one day have to cope; and
263 accredited correspon
dents, photographers and
broadcasters.
The fate of the two houses
constructed near the explo
sion center will give the civil
defense workers new lessons
In atomic survival and shelter
techniques.
Over a pass to the south
among the bare, pastel-color
ed hills which ring Yucca
Flat and Frenchman Flat, 1,.
000 soldiers waited at bleak
Camp Desert Rock. Tomor
row morning they will be the
human beings In closest prox
imity to an atomic explosion,
excepting only the Japanese
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Company Official
Tells Chamber
Of Plans
(Picture on Page 5)
Expansion that will almost
double the capacity of the Sa
lem plant of Moore Business
Form, Inc., was announced at
the Chamber of Commerce
luncheon meeting today by
Walter L. Eggert, vice-president
and general manager for
the Pacific coast division.
The fact that this expansion
has become necessary after
only four years of operation
by the Salem branch stresses
the importance of the branch
here, said Eggert and mem
bers of Salem's Industrial De
velopment Council, and fore
sight in selecting Salem as an
operative base in the fall of
1948.
An addition 230x80 feet
will be built at the plant lo
cated at 1895 South 16th
street, Increasing by 20,000
square feet the operating area.
which is now 25,000 square
feet in building 230x107
feet.
The building now occupied
Is owned by H. C. Walling,
who also will build the addi
tion. The manufacturing com
pany occupies the building by
long-time lease agreement.
The building will be a on
story, of reinforced concrete,
ana construction is expected ,
to start about the middle of
April. The addition will be
on the east side, and built for
later expansion as needed.
The company plans to have
the addition In use by August
1, Eggert said today.
(Concluded on Face 5, CoL 6)
Forest Bonds to
First National
The First National Bank of
Portland, Salem branch, was
the successful bidder for 8700.-
000 worth of forest rehabilita
tion bonds at the meeting of the
state board of forestry in Sa
lem this morning.
The firm bid 2V percent in
the first $300,000 of the bonds
and 2 i percent on the balance
of $400,000.
Other bidders included Fos
ter and Marshal, 2Vs percent
on the entire issue and a joint
bid by the U. S. National Bank
of Portland and Blythe & Co.,
for 2 y percent for the first
$200,000 and ZVt percent for
the balance.
Funds derived from the sale
of the bonds will be used to
carry out the state forestry de
partment forest rehabilitation
project for the coming year.
Continuation of the spruce
Eastern Oregon for the coming
summer was assured when the
board approved contracts for
treating three separate units
comprising a total of 290,000
acres of infested forests.
Leo J. Demers, Salem, was
awarded the contract for spray
ing 105,000 acres near Meach
am at a cost of 22 cents per
acre. The Starkey unit of
127,000 acres went to North
west Agricultural Aviation for
25 cents per acre and the Dale
unit of 55,000 acres was award
ed Combs West Air at 42 cents
per acre.
The board also recommended
the clasisficatlon of 7,000 acres
of Lane county cutover lands
under the forest fee and yield
tax law. The matter now goes
to the state tax commission for
final action and if approved for
clasificatlon the land will then
be placed on a special roll and
thereafter carry a fixed forest
fee of five cents per acre per
year with severance tax of 12 M
percent whenever any forest
products are removed from the
land.
Stocks Advance in
Active Trading
New York U.R) Stocks rose
irregularly early today in mod
erately active dealings.
With the exception of a few
specialties, price changes
throughout the list were lim
ited to the fractional zone. In
vestors generally held to the
sidelines pending developments
in the foreign situation.
Early dealings were slow.
Sales in the first hour totaled
430,000 shares with the low
priced issues accounting for a
good part of this volume. In the
same hour last Friday, trans
actions totaled 320,000 shares.