THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY tonight
Wednesday. Scattered showers
tonight. Little change In tem
perature. Low tonight, 40; high
Wednesday, SS.
Enlargement
Of Emergency
Board Favored
Joint Ways-Means
p Vote for Group of 9
s From Both Houses
4 By JAMES D. OLSON
'' Enlargement of the state
emergency board from seven
to nine members won approval
of the joint ways and means
committee Tuesday when a bill
' making this provision was re
ported out favorably,
j Five members of the comlt
. tee would be appointed by the
speaker of the house and four
by the president of the senate.
This committee disburses an
emergency fund between legis
lative sessions in event emer
gencies arise, grants funds for
new departments created by
the legislature and should a
bill providing for a legislative
analyst become law, this com
mittee will direct this official',
work.
Croup Legalized
V"J The emergency committee
operated for many years with
out question until former At-
: torney General George Neu
ner held the committee lack-
. ed statutory powers. During
' the past two years the com
mittee served as an advisory
' (Concluded on Page S, Column 7)
Senate Passes
Security
Plan
Legislation to combine Ore
son's public employes retire'
ment system with the federal
social security plan was ap
proved by the Senate Tuesday
and sent to the House.
It will enable the 39,000
state, county, city, school and
other public employes, who
now are under the state plan,
to get bigger benefits at lower
cost.
The benefit increase will be
as much as SO per cent greater,
while the cost to the employe
Will be 20 to 30 per cent less.
Sen. John C. F. Merrifield,
Portland insurance executive
who is the father of the idea,
said "it will make it easier to
attract many goqd people to
public employment in Ore-
l gon." '
The legislation provides that
each employe under the plan
;: would get 60 per cent of the
'present benefits under the
state plan, plus full social
security benefits. -
Sen. Roger Loennlg of
: Haines cast the only vote
against the proposal.
Pensions Hiked
For Disabled
1 For the third successive
time, Rep. Gust Anderson,
Portland labor leader, has
"succeeded in gaining approval
of a bill providing for pay
ments of $75 a month for per
manently disabled married men
living with wives and $60 a
; month for widows of perma
nently disabled husbands.
Tuesday Governor Paul L.
Patterson signed the bill,
i Rep. Anderson first intro
duced the bill in 1049 and be
cause the legislation requires
an appropriation it must be
re-enacted every two years.
Rep. Francis Zigler joined
Anderson on introduction of
the bill which passed both
houses without a dissenting
Vote.
Without the legislation the
beneficiaries under the law
would be paid only $35 a
month for the disabled per
son and the widow would re
ceive but $30.
Springtime a
Day
at a Time
' Spring of 1953 variety seem
ingly comes in one-day
stretches. Mondaywas an ideal
. spring day, the maximum go
ing up to 69 degrees, then rain
came again early Tuesday
morning.
And the forecast is for more
cloudiness and scattered
showers tonight and Wednes-
: day.
The five-day forecast out
Tuesday just calls for more of
the, same some light rain,
cloudiness, and temperatures
near normal.
. The rivers in the central and
lower valley regions were a bit
higher Tuesday morning, but
not alarmingly so. At Salem,
the Willamette was up to 9.5
Tuesday morning. i
65th
Revamp Plan
Of Legislature
Called Invalid
Reapportionment Act
Challenged in Cir
cuit Court Here
A complaint charging that
the constitutional amendment
providing for reapportion-J
ment of the Oregon leglsla
ture is unconstitutional was
filed in the Marion county
circuit court Tuesday by John
F. Steelhammer, attorney in
behalf of Representative David
Baum of Union county.
Secretary of State EarL T.
Newbry-and Attorney General
Robert Thornton are named
defendants.
While the complaint cites
numerous paragraphs of the
constitutional amendment
which are held to be uncon'
stitutional, the principal com'
plaint is made that it gives
the secretary of state legisla
tive powers contrary to the
constitution and grants the
supreme court both legislative
(Concluded on Page S, Column 5)
Czechs Escape to
West Germany
Frankfurt. Germany Wl-
Four anti-Communist Czechs
one a woman brought a
"Freedom Plane" out of their
homeland Monday night after
slugging the operator and grab'
Mng the controls at gunpoint.
First details of the daring
dash for freedom came from
U. S. H i g h Commissioner
James B. Con ant.
Conant said the pilot and
three fellow conspirators re
fused to land the craft with 29
persons aboard at Rhine-Main
airport in West Germany until
American authorities had as
sured the four they would be
granted asylum. Later two oth
ers requested permission to
live in the West. ;
Conant gave this account of
what happened before the silver-hulled
C-47 put down at
Frankfurt's Rhone - Main air
base:
"The escape plan was organ
Ized by a mechanic of the
famed Skoda armament works
and his wife."
House Group
For Pelton Dam
i
The House State and Federal
Affairs Committee voted 5 to
2 Monday night for a "Pelton
Dam" Bill that only is a mere
shadow of what it was when
introduced for the Portland
General Electric Company
eight weeks ago.
The bill would allow court
appeals from decisions of the
Hydro- electric Commission,
thus throwing into the courts
the disputes between the fish
ing and power interests over
whether power dams should be
built.
The Hydro-electric Commis
sion refused PGE a license to
build Pelton Dam on the Des
chutes River because the Fish
Commision exercised its veto
power over the proposed 28
million dollar dam.
The House committee voted
Monday night to remove the
bill's emergency clause, which
would have made it become
law as soon as signed by the
governor.
Budget Making to turn
On Salary Increases
Since salary and wage in
creases for city officers and
employes are the most baffling
question before the budget
committee the city budgeteers
voted Monday night to make a
new approach to the 1953-1954
financing job.
They propose to determine
the percentage of increase to
be allowed, and what it will be
in total amount, and then go
on from there with the budget
making detail.
As a special committee to
study the .pay question Chair
man Dan Fry appointed Mayor
Al Loucks,, Alderman Tom
Armstrong, and Robert K.
Powell, a non-council member.
This sub-committee is ex
pected to report at a meeting
of the general committee next
Monday night, and if its find
ings are adopted City Manager
J. L. Franzen will then be giv
en another week to revise the
budget accordingly.
A long discussion last night
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Wheels Turn
In New Mill
Lyons New industrial
wheels started turning Monday
morning, as the new $800,000
Lyons Veneer company plant
of the M and M Woodworking
company went into production
The new plant is situated a
mile east of Lyons on the old
Santiam highway. A crew of
45 men is employed at present,
but projected plans call for
enlarging the plant five times
providing a complete plywood
and veneer factory.
The present plant is limited
to production of veneer only,
which is cut into commercial
sizes and marketed to other
plants. that use it to make fin
ished plywood and veneers.
Present to supervise open'
ing of the new plant Monday
was Andrew T. Nelson, man'
ager of the plywood division
of the M and M Wood Work
ing company of Portland.
The new plant is under dl
rection of E. V. Bennett, who
also is in charge of the Albany
Plylock Corp. Ed Novak is pro
duction superitnendent, and
E. C. Carlson is plant engineer.
The veneer plant will utilize
the most modern equipment,
enabling it - to- salvage., much
otherwise wasted material.
Labor Panel for
Atomic Plants
Washington JP President
Eisenhower directed Monday
that the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service establish
a special panel to deal with la
bor disputes in the" field of
atomic energy.
This group would replace one
which formerly operated under
the Atomic Energy Commis
sion. Members of the old
panel recently resigned.
White House Pre3S Secretary
James C. Hagerty said mem
bers of the new panel would
be named soon.
It is being set up within the
Mediation and Conciliation
Service in the interest of ad
ministrative - consistency, the
White House said.
A White House statement
said President Eisenhower
feels that "uninterrupted func
tioning of our atomic energy
program, without strikes or
lockouts due to labor-manage
ment disputes, is essential to
the national security ..."
brought threats of eliminating
first aid and fire inspection
services, as well as swinging
the meat axe on some othef de
partments, and even making
all parking meters 5 -cent ma
chines. And at one juncture
Alderman Chester Chase re
minded George Thomajon,
who objected to the fire depart
ment curtailments, that "money
does not grow on bushes, and
if we are going to increase sal
aries we've got to find the
money somewhere."
Fry brought the discussion
to a head by saying:
"It looks to me as if, when
you decide on your percentage
of increase, you've got to take
the bull by the horns, make
salaries the first item in every
department budget, and then
go on from there."
Alderman Tom Armstrong
liked that idea and moved that
the committee set up an 8 per
cent Increase as a mark to
(Concluded an Pate i Column 4)
Salem, Oregon,
PRODUCTION STARTS
' Workmen in new veneer plant of the M and M Wood
Working Co., at Lyons, operate cutting and sorting ma
chine as huge mill began operations Monday. The plant
operates as a straight production line. Starting at west
end of mill, logs are cut to standard length, barked, then
the veneer is cut in a' huge lathe and the strips carried on
endless belts to the cutting machine where it is cut into
commercial sizes, graded and packaged for delivery.
Chemical Plant Sold
To Harvey Company
Salem's alumina plant, con'
structed during World War II
by the government as an ex
perimental pilot plant, has been
French Police
Raid Commies
Paris VP) A thousand hel-
meted French police- swept
down on the headquarters of a
dozen Communist-dominated
labor organizations shortly af
ter dawn Tuesday, seized big
packets of documents and ar
rested three men.
Those jailed included two
top directors of the big Cen
tral Federation of Labor (CGT)
and the editor of the official
Communist newspaper, L'Hu
manite. Warrants issued by
military tribunal accused them
of "attempts on the external
security of the state."
Those arrested were Andre
Stil of L'Humanite, Andre Tol
let, CGT secretary for the Paris
area, and Lucien Molino, a na
tional secretary of the Feder
ation. , 1
The Red-led CGT's last mem
bership claim was 3,615,440,
for 1951, but official govern
ment estimates have placed its
strength as low as 1,800,000.
Use Electronic
Salmon Device
Washington (IP) Construc
tion of a pilot plant at Bonne
ville Dam to study the reaction
of salmon to electronic stim
ulus under natural conditions
has been proposed by the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Such a plant, Dr. Albert M.
Day, head of the service, re
cently told the House Appro
priations Committee, may pro
vide the answers to the contro
versy over fish vs. power now
being raised in connection with
river power development along
the Pacific Coast.
Day's testimony was released
Tuesday by the Interior Appro
priations Subcommittee before
whom he appeared in support
of a $260,000 budget request
for salmon research.
A small-scale electronic de
vice already has been develop
ed, Day said, with which sal
mon can be guided in shallow
tanks.
Zellerbach Buys
St. Helens Pulp
San Francisco VP) Crown
Zellerbach Corporation an
nounced Monday it definitely
has decided to proceed With its
proposal to acquire not less
than 80 per cent of the out-
standlng stock of the St.
Helens Pulp and Paper Com
pany of St. Helens, Ore.
The offer of exchange of
stock will be made about April
30, President J. D. Zellerback
said.
The Zellerback Corporation
presently is splitting its stock
two for one. The offer to ex
change stock with St. Helens
stockholders is on the basis of
one share of the new Zeller
bach spilt stock for each one
and one-sixth shares of St.
Helens.
The St. Helens plant pro
duces bleached and unbleached
kraft paper and bags.
Tuesday, March 24, 1953 38 Pa
sold to the Harvey Machinery
company of Torrance, Calif.
Announcement of the sale
was made in Washington Mon
day by the General Services
Administration, which gave the
sale price Bis $325,000.
under Terms of the agree
ment the Harvey Machinery
company will make a 10 per
cent down -payment with the
remainder to be paid in equal
installments over a period of
10 years. Four percent interest
is to be charged on the unpaid
balance.
The , California -firm could
give no exact date on when the
plant will start operation here.
but announcement has been
made that Arch Metzger will
continue as-manager. '
Metzger and Clay Cochran,
secretary of the Salem Cham
ber of Commerce, have been
in Washington the past few
weeks conferring-with govern1
ment agencies on the fate of the
alumina plant, which had been
operated recently by tna Ray-
O-Vac Battery corporation,
The lease of that company ex
pired January 1 of this year.
During a recent visit to oa-
lem Lawrence Harvey execu
tive vice president of the Har
vey Machinery company, com
mented that there would have
to be changes and additions
made at the Salem plant with
the changes depending on the
use to which the company put
the plant. He pointed out that it
was not a complete plant for
the purpose for which it was
designed.
The chief engineer for the
firm, Gene Zinniger, who ac
companied Harvey to Salem,
said at that time, if his firm
acquired the plant, it would
be used to get synthetic cryo
lite and recover cryolite from
old cell linings for the Harvey
reduction plant located in the
vicinity of The Dalles.
Zinnnlger indicated that the
major portion of the plant
would be used for research and
development work in connec
tion with recovering alumina
from domestic clay deposits.
The research would include de
velopment of an economical
method of making silicon-aluminum
alloy, using domestic
oxide of clay bauxite from this
Trumans Sail
For Honolulu
Los Angeles (u.B Former
President Harry S. Truman and
family sail for Honolulu today
after sipping vintage wines and
nibbling on rare delicacies as
the honor guest of the Beverly
Hills Wine and Food Society.
Mr. Truman leaves aboard
the luxury liner President
Cleveland at 4 p.m. (EST).
Last night . Mr. Truman
showed that he's more com
fortable at a Missouri church
social than at a gourmet's lav
ish feast.
The reception and dinner,
held aboard the Cleveland, took
place on the eve of Mr, Tru
man's departure on a month's
vacation with wife, Bess, and
daughter, Margaret. Despite
the ex-president's warning that
he was a "meat and potatoes"
man, the gourmets laid a table
of calorie-crammed tasties and
priceless wines brought here
from across both oceans
DELAY SIGNING BILL
The signing of the Uquor-by-the-drink
bill will be delayed
at least until Thursday, Gov.
Paul L. Patterson announced
Tuesday.
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InDeadlyFight
On Old Baldy
Biggest Chinese At"
tack in 6 Months
Broken by Allies
Seoul VP) Americans and
Chinese were locked in deadly
battle Tuesday night on the
red-mud slopes of Old Baldy
Hill after the biggest Bed at
tack in five months was broken
by U.S. and Colombian troops.
The Chinese smashed in
waves Monday night against
Old Baldy, Pork Chop and T
Bone Hills on the Western Ko
rean front along the Imjin Val
ley invasion route to Seoul.
U. S. 7th Division soldiers
cut out the heart of the 3,500
man attack by dawn Tuesday.
But the Chinese clung doggedly
to one side of Old Baldy still a
churning battleground in the
afternoon, t
Tanks Blast at Close range
Both sides jammed in rein
forcements and U. S. tanks
pushed up to blast the Reds at
close range.
The infantrymen fought on
a coating of mud from an after
noon drizzle.
One American tank with a
tread blown off was reported
marooned on the crest with its
crew inside. It has been In
radio contact with the rear. :
(Concluded on Page 5. Column t)
Accuse Russia
Of Fabrication
, Washington, MV-The State
Department accused Russia
Tuesday of "fabricating an un
founded version" of the March
15 clash of American and So
viet planes off Siberia.
The clash involved a B-50
weather observation bomber
from Alaska and two Soviet
jets. The United States, in ft
protest March 18, claimed the
B-50 was attacked by one of
the jets and subsequently re
turned the fire, - . , .
" Moscow rejected the protest
Monday and asserted that the
American plane made two
"premediated" violations of
Soviet territory.
The state Department re
plied in a statement Tuesday
that the Moscow allegations
were "completely at variance
with the facts as established by
careful investigation." -The
department said the
American plane was over in
ternational waters at all times
Britain Accepts
Russia's Offer
London CP) Prime Minis
ter Churchill announced Tues
day that Britain will accept
Russia's offer of talks designed
to avoid air clashes over Ger
many. .
Churchill disclosed accep
tance of the proposal in an ad
dress to the House of Com
mons about the recent shooting
down of an unarmed British
bomber by Soviet jet fighters
near Hamburg. Seven British
airmen lost their lives.
Churchill said Gen. V. I.
Chulkov, head of the Soviet
Control Commission in Ger
many, proposed two -power
talks to avoid any further in
cidents and Britain had accepted.
McKay Says No Flat
Interior Budget Cut
Washington VP) Secretary
of Interior McKay has indicat
ed that there will be no flat
"across the board" cut recom
mended in the 607 million dol
lar budget proposed by former
President Truman for the Inte
rior Department.
In testimony before a House
appropriations subcommittee,
McKay s a 1 d he believes the
budget estimate can be "sub
stantially" cut, but on a selec
tive basis.
He said he will have a re
vised budget for the Interior
Department ready soon.
'Under prosperity we set
Into some loose habits," he said
in testimony made public Tues
day. "We do not go broke in bad
times. We go broke in good
times. I feel with both busi
ness and government that we
have been a little careless in
the past years, because every
thing was so rosy.
I think the tun is here
Near Death
As Heart Fails
London ) A bulletin on
Queen Mary's Illness, issued
Tuesday night:
"Queen Mary's strength Is
ebbing but her majesty is sleep
ing peacefully."
This was the day's third
bulletin. '
London. Un Britain's nroud
old Queen Mary was near
death Tuesday night., with her
heart weakening. Queen. Eliza
beth n rushed to the bedside
of her grandmother.
She was accompanied by her
husband, the .Duke of Edin
burgh and by her sister, Prin
cess Margaret.
Earlier in the day the Duke
of Windsor, Queen Mother
Elizabeth, the duchess of Kent
and the Archbishop of Canter
bury had gone to Marlborough
House to see the 85-year-old
Queen grandmother.
Queen Mary widow of a
King, mother of two Kings and
grandmother of Elizabeth has
been ill a month.
To Scan FBI
Files on Bohlen
Washington W -The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
decided Tuesday to have two
senators examine FBI files on
Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen, no
minated for ambassador to
Moscow. The task was assigned
to Sens. Taft (R.-Ohio) ; and
Sparkman (D.-Ala.).
Taft, the Senate Republican
leader, and . Sparkman, the
1952 Democratic vice presiden
tial nominee, both are support
ing Bohlen's appointment, i
During hearings on Bohlen,
Secretary of State Dulles gave
the committee his evaluation
of the material in the FBI files.
He said there was nothing to
raise doubt as to Bohlen from
the standpoint of loyalty or se
curity, :.:' .
But some critics of the ap
pointment have been Insisting
that the Senators themselves
should look over this material.
Taft suggested Monday dur
ing a torrid Senate debate on
Bohlen that it might be well
to have such an examination
although Taft said he personal
ly was perfectly willing to ac
cept Dulles' appraisal of It.
Streamlined
Jeep in Korea
Seoul W The army's new
streamlined Jeep, built for a
smoother ride and underwater
driving, has arrived in Korea
in large numbers. ' .
Some American- soldiers
have dubbed it the Snorkel
because its watertight engine
permits fording of rivers.' .
"When you want to go un
der water, you put a snorkel
tube on the air intake and an
exhaust extension on the muf
fler, that's all," said Pfc.
George Sechrlst, a truck com
pany driver from Amarillo,
Texas.
He reports the seats were as
comfortable as those in a pri
vate sedan.
"They have foam rubber
wrapped around the. springs.
The dirt and rock roads here
feel like asphalt," he said.
'Of course, the new shock
absorbers help, too."
The new models have been
in production in the United
States about six months.
when we should start checking
to see where we are."
Speaking of his work as
governor of Oregon, McKay
said he and his aides had "cut
waste wherever we found it"
"I do not think it is logical
at the moment to say we will
have a 10 per cent cut across
the board. I think we have to
go at it item by item in the de
partments and pick out the s
sentlal from the non-essential."
McKay asserted that one of
the things the nation must do
is to continue reclamation pro
jects "to bring in some addi
tional land to produce the food
the nation needs."
"We should, preserve the
things which we as Westerners
cherish in the way of parks and
things of that character, be
cause it is a monument to na
ture and they should be pre
served as a matter of recrea
tion for succeeding generations.
I am very strong for that sort
of thing."
FINAL
EDITION
Nevada Test
Most Brilliant
Atomic Dbil t
53 Aircraft Flying
Overhead, Including
B-3tjs, Undamaged j
Las Vegas, Nev. WV-A bril
liant atomic explosion was
touched oft on the Nevada des
ert Tuesday morning with (S
aircraft including IS inter- -continental
B-S6 . bombers r-flying-
on various missions ov
erhead. The Atomic Energy Commis
si o n ' s terse announcement
about the presence of the
planes said only that this was
thft first ilmA nih' a InrffA
number of aircraft had partici
pated in a test. .. .
The AEC said the blast was
fired from a 300-foot tower on
the Yucca Flat proving ground
75 miles from here. )
Crew Training
The B-36s returned later to '
Carswell Air Force Base. Fort
Worth, Tex, A base spokesman
said the bombers were led by
Brig. Gen. Joe W. Kelly, 195th
Air Division commander, t
An Air Force spokesman
said: "Our part of today's op- '
eration was chiefly crew train
ing. We want the lead crews
of bombers which might some l
day be involved in a real ato
mic operation to know first
hand what a blast is like. We
want to make sure that they
don't- suffer from buck fever,
or that they get so fascinated
with the flash that they are
blinded. We plan the same sort
of training for crews of other
planes at later dates." i
Brighter Than Last One '
The shot appeared much
brighter here than the one that
opened the 1953 spring series
last Tuesday. Its coral tinted
cloud, which divided as it rose,
seemed to ascend much faster.
The AEC did not disclose the
energy of the blast or describe
the type of device being tested.
r But the sound of the explo
ion, which takes about seven -
minutes -to--aca this resort
gambling center, was hot soJj
loud as last week's. This was ,
apparently du6 ttf atmospheric
conditions, which govern how .
loud and strong a shock wave
will be a a given point.
Brig. Gen. William C. Bui-
Jock, director of an Army ma
neuver in which 1,300 troops
were stationed in foxholes 4,
000 yards from ground zero, re
ported there were no casual
ties. Action Delayed
bnt-H Revision
Washington P) Sen. Taft
R., Ohio, told the Senate Labor
Committee Tuesday Congress
will work out "the first com
prehensive amendments" to the
Taft-Hartley labor law after
completing exhaustive hearings
this spring. "
The Senate majority leader,
co-author of the controversial
law, was the first witness as
the committee opened hearings
on proposed amendments. The
House Labor Committee has
been holding . hearings on
amendments to thjS T-H law
for a month.
Taft said 'the .committee is
aolne to trv to approach all the
problems in a completely ob
jective manner."
The Senate hearing openea
desDite a demand by Sen. Mur-
ray of Montana, Senior Demo
crat on the committee, that the
Eisenhower administration give
its views on T-H amendments
before other witnesses are
heard,
Korean Reds Move
Half of POW Camps
Panmunjom, Korea, U-R
The communists told the
United Nations today they have
moved half their prisoners of
war camps in North Korea to
new locations.
North Korean Gen. Nam II,
senior armistice negotiator, in
formed Lt. Gen. William K.
Harrison, chief UN negotiator,
of the change in a note handed
over at a brief liaison officers'
meeting.
Six of the 12 prison camps
holding Allied prisoners were
relocated, as well as a prison
hospital and collecting point.
The United Nations did not
immediately disclose the new
location of the prison stock
ades. Weather Details
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