THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUD 7 tonight aad
Sunday, little chug la tarn.
" peratur. Lew tonight, 14; nlxh
Swday, (C
FINAL
EDITION
Netr School
Bill Rclains
Local Control
Public Hearing on
Reorganization Bill
Set for March 31
7 By JAMES D. OLSON
Placing the greater part of
responsibility for school dis
trict re-orgniiatio on a local
rather than state level is the
purpose of new school reor
(anlsaUoa bUl that will be
the (abject of a public hear
Inf Tuesday at 7:3 p.m. in
Boom 321, 8tate Capitol. , :
; The senate education com
mittee, of which Sen. Bobert
D. Holmes is chairman, has
been .working arduously
, throughout the session to draft
a bill which would Improve
school district organization and
at the same time avoid the pit
falls which led to defeat by
the people by a narrow mar J
gin of the 1951 school reor
ganization law, ;
i The 1951 law was based on
a report and recommendations
made by Dr. T. C. Holy, di
rector of the bureau of educa
tional research at Ohio State
university.
1951 Law Defeated
. Even though the 1951 edu
cation, committees of the legis
lature labored during the
. greater part of - the session,
holding hearings and attempt
ing to placate opponents, the
law was defeated at the polls,
largely because of the feeling
on the part of some groups
throughout the state that con
trol of local schools would be
taken over by the state board
of education, and that Inti
mate ties of the schools with
the 1 communities would be
largely lost. - .: ".-
Members of the senate edu
cation committee declare that
the new- bill will allow coun
; ties to work out their , own
plans to achieve sound school
administrative units; will re
: suit in more advantages for
I all children; . better adminli
: tration for the school and bet
' ter use of the school tax dollar.
: Local Control Remains
f; The bilVthey say." will not
: close up buildings, nor will It
1 destroy local control, result in
. large plants, cause teachers to
: lose their jobs, destroy com-
munity life andwill not make
. children ride long distances on
buses, all of which were list-
cd as objections by the oppo-
nents of the 1951 school dis
trict reorganization bill.
. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 2)
County Salary
Bill Passed
Legislation to let county
' courts and commissions fix sal-
' aries of county officers was
passed by the house Saturday
and sent to the governor.
If the governor signs it, the
bill would relieve the legisla
' '. ture of its task of fixing sal-
aries for each county's officers
at every session.
A bill to restrict the practice
of chiropractors was passed by
the senate Saturday with no
opposition. It goes to the house.
Chiropractors now are al
lowed to practice "minor sur
gery," but that term Is not de
. fined in the present law.
The bill defines minor sur
' gery as treatment of cuts and
bruises, superficial lesions, and
i removal of foreign bodies.
- The bill, Introduced by Sen.
Pat Lonergan, Portland, orig-
.; inally would have prevented
' chiropractors from practicing
- obstetrics and any surgery.
New Storm on
Way to Oregon
' (Br UnlUd Ptmi)
. The weatherman said a
. storm was moving toward Ore
gon coast from about 1200
' miles out In the Pacific ocean
' today and possibly would bring
' heavy rains to the region early
next week.
During the weekend, how
ever, partly cloudy conditions
with little change in tempera
i ture were expected, forecasters
' said. Some rain or showers
were predicted for parts of the
state.
Temperatures during a 24
' hour neriod ended this morn
ing were mild with a high of
; S8 reported at la uranae ana
Ontario.
Weather Details
Mditiif. R nlnlmim to.
f.r anth! 4.7i m SJI. S
mlrtUilra. M M "' ""J;
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Barnl.)
65rh
2
Hit Wrecked
Freight Cars
21 Killed, 60 in Hos
pitals in Triple Smash
On New York Central
Conneaut, O. () Two Mew
York Central passenger trains.
thundering along at more than
a mile a minute, smashed into
a pile-up of derailed freight
ears Friday night, and II per
sons were believed killed.
. Eighteen bodies were recov
ered by noon Saturday, and
Deputy Coroner Wallace C.
Mulligan' of Erie, Pa. county
said he expected workmen to
find three more under one car
rammed deep into muddy
ground. .
in Hospitals "
More than 60 other passen
gers, among 400 on the two
express trains, were in hospi
tals here and in Ashtabula and
Erie, Pa. 27 miles west of the
accident scene. Only one of
these was described by the hos
pitals as seriously injured.
A "death train" arrived In
Erie early Saturday morning
wlth.16 bodies and more than
two hours later giant wreck
cranes, moving the jumble of
criss-crossed . cars, . uncovered
the body of a 16-year-old girl.
More than an' boor later a
man's body was found under
the same car where Mulligan
believed three more victims
were burled.
Caused by Piece of Pipe .
The freight and two express
trains piled up between 10 and
10:30 o'clock ", (EST) Friday
night. A piece of pipe rolled off
(Concluded on Page 5, Column I)
ille Bill :
Voted by Senate
. Closure of the Coquille river
to commercial fishermen was
approved 21 to S by the Senate
Saturday. The bill goes to the
House. ': : t: ' J.- " v.-.'
The bill, first on a list of 32
measures which the Senate had
up for final consideration Sat
urday, consumed 90 minutes.
The Senate refused 17 to IS
to send it back to committee
for removal of the emergency
clause. , .
' Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Gear'
hart, principal foe of the bill,
charged that ' the emergency
clause was put on the bill only
to prevent the commercial fish
ermen from referring 'the bill
to the people.
Sen. George A. Ulett, Co
quille, the father of the bill,
said "commercial , fishermen
are sweeping the river clean so
that there aren't any fish left
for the sportsmen."
Retirement Program
Nearly Completed
The Legislature finished Its
work Saturday on the three
bills to combine the state re
tirement program with the fed
eral social security system.
The actual change over is ex
pected to becur Monday.
Under the plan, some 39,000
employes of the state and local
governments will get greater
benefits at less cost than they
now are paying under the
state plan.
The House passed the third
of the bills Saturday morning
and sent it to the governor.
Legislative Analyst
Must Be Independent
A legislative analyst, . such
as the joint ways and means
committee of the legislature is
considering for Oregon, must
be backed by a strong legisla
tive committee, must be inde
pendent and responsible only
to the legislature, according to
Alan L. Post, legislative
analyst for the state of Cali
fornia, Post, who appeared before a
joint ways and means and judi
ciary committee Friday and
was in conference with legisla
tive leaders Saturday, said the
main objective of the commit
tee was to bring about effi
ciency in state government,
economy in its operation, and
above all else, gather such in
formation and statistics as will
reveal just how money appro
priated by the legislature is
expended.
In California, where the
legislature meets annually, 30
days in one year for a budget
session and a six months ses
sion in the following year for
Year, No. 75
SPRING WORKSHOP FOR. PRESS
Press Women
Salem is the meeting place
this week-end for women, in
Oregon who are members of
Oregon group of the National
Federation of Press Women.
The group started its work
shop session Saturday morning
at the : Senator hotel and at
noon had as their luncheon
speaker Charles A. Sprague,
who told of his experiences at
the United Nations. .
Heard at the workshop ses
sion in the morning were Gene
vieve Morgan who is in charge
of public relations for the
state department of agriculture
and Venita Howard from the
traffic safety division of the
secretary of state's office. '
Miss Morgan told of the pub
lications of the agriculture de
partment for which she is re
sponsible, of the clipping serv
ice lor her department that she
has and the releases that she
prepares for the department,
including material for a radio
program on radio, station
KOAC.
' Noting that promotion of
traffic safety was her division's
job, Miss Howard commented
that the purpose of her releas
es and programs was to change
human attitudes. She briefly
outlined the work done by the
department and told in detail
of their radio program featur
ing recordings ol police omcers
making arrests and court pro
ceedings, along with follow-ups
of accidents. "-
In the afternoon session of
the work shops there will be
two speakers, MaJ. Lane Carl
son from the Information sec
( Concluded on Page 8, Column 4)
Adenauer Sees
Unrest in Russia
Bonn, Germany, W) Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer said
Saturday Stalin's political
heirs are "doubtless experi
encing a period of internal
unrest in Russia."
But he warned the free
world not to count on this as
a breathing space and inter
rupt its defense buildup.
Addressing the youth section
of his Christian Democratic
Party, Adenauer observed that
the new Kremlin rulers had
recently caused .world-wide
flutters with what sounded
like tentative peace feelers.
"It is my. opinion there is
only one possible policy to
ward Russia," the chancellor
declared.
consideration of general bills.
the legislative - analyst has
staff of 18 technicians together
with a clerical force, working
under a joint budget commit
tee made up for 10 members of
the senate and assembly of
California.
The office, he said was open
to give research service to in
dividual members of the legis
lature, aid Interim committees
and also make studies of opera
tions of various state activi
ties. While he said that his de
partment works closely with
the department of finance, fre
quently making joint studies
with this department, none
the-less the analyst works in
dependently of the administra
tive department, a point that
he stressed was important for
the reason that when the gov
ernor's budget was completed,
his office begins careful study
of it, and very frequently "we
do some rather drastic slash
ing of the budget."
(Concluded en Page (, Column I)
Saltm, Oregon,
ITT V W
Oregon press women met at the Senator today for their
annual spring workshop conference. From left: Miss
Rebecca Tarshis, Portland; Mrs. Mabel Schoenfeld, Cor
vallis; Mrs. Margaret Thompson Hill (standing) president
of the group, Portland; Miss Claire Lyon, Portland and
Mrs. Katherine Harris, Lebanon. (Story in society, Page 6) .
France and US Warn
On Reds Abuse of Truce
Washington Iff) France and
the United States warned Sat
urday there would be "the
most serious consequences" on
peace efforts if the Chinese
communists used a truce in
Korea to wage aggressive war
anywhere else in the Far East.
' The warning was given add
ed point by the announced ac
ceptance by the Chinese com
munists Saturday of the Uni
ted Nations proposal for ex
changing wounded war prison
ers and also their suggestion
tor renewed truce talks.
The joint statement, Issued
after three days of talks be-
U.S. Endorses
Lie's Red Drive
United Nations. N. Y. WV-
The United States Saturday en
dorsed U. N. Secretary-General
Trygve Lie's campaign to drive
American communists out of
the U. N. secretariate.
Henry - Cabot : Lodge, Jr.,
chief U. S. delegate, opened a
debate on U. N. personnel pol
icies in the 60-natlon General
Assembly, with a promise that
the United States will continue
to investigate American citi
zens who are on the U. N. pay
roll and give Ue the Informa
tion on which he can act to fire
suspected subsersives. .
"We have . no Interest in
knowing whether, any Ameri
can in the secretariat Is repub
lican or democrat or independ
ent, so long as he meets the
U. N. charter standards of ef
ficiency, competence and integ
riyt," Lodge told the Assem
bly. , '
50 More Natives
Nairobi, Kenya, WV-A gang
of Mau Mau terrorists killed
at least 12 pro-British native
home guards in a night attack
on an African village near
Nyerl, it was announced Sat
urday. The fillings followed
only about 24 hours after the
massacre of at least 180 loyal
natives near Nairobi.
Early reports from Nyeri, 60
miles south of Nairobi, said the
gang of about 100 terrorists
was armed with pistols and
rifles. The attack was made in
Chinga location in the South
Nyerl Reserve.
It was the latest in the long
series of murders and other
violence by the Mau Mau, a
secret native society whose
members take a blood oath to
drlvetthe white man from Ken
ya. Hundreds of persons have
been slaughtered by the ter
rorists and houses and other
properties destroyed.
Bad Checks Passed,
Two Men Put in Jail
Two Coos Bay men were
jailed Friday after one of them
passed two bad checks in town.
Donald Randolph Kltchin
was charged with check vag
rancy in the passing of a $20
check at a downtown depart
ment store and a $3.49 check
for a shirt at a clothing store.
His companion, Jerl Hlggins,
was held tor vagrancy.
They were arrested at
downtown hotel where they
had registered under fictitious
names. .
Saturday, March 28, 1953
WOMEN
tween President Eisenhower,
French Premier Rene Mayer
and their top aides, said: '
: , "It was the view of both gov
ernments . . . that should the
Chinese Communist regime
take advantage of such an, ar
mistice . to pursue aggressive
war elsewhere In the Far East,
such action would have the
most serious consequences for
the efforts to bring about peace
in the world and world conflict
directly with the understand
ing on which any armistice in
Korea would rest." : .
The reference to "elsewhere
in the Far East" obviously
meant Indochina where the
French have been fighting
Communists, for seven years.
There have been frequent re
ports of substantial aid from the
Chinese ; to the Indochlnese
Redl. . !.-;;
The joint announcement said
'plans are being developed
with a view to achieving suc
cess in Indochina and are being
Btven intensive Study so as to
determine how and to what ex
tent the United States may be
able to contribute material and
financial support."
Pope Warns
Catholic Pastors
Vatican City W Pope Plus
XII, in a Lenten address, warn
ed Roman Catholic pastors and
preachers of ' Rome to guard
their flocks against the rav
ages of "the enemy." Vatican
sources said he meant atheistic
communism and other modern
threats to the church.
The pontiff addressed the
group Friday in the Vatican's
Conslstorial hall in one of the
few audiences he has given
since his serious ailment that
confined him to his bed more
than two months ago.
The pope warned against
"fierce forces that attack the
church; powerful organizations
fighting God, Christ ana tne
church.' r
Ralph Cake May
Replace Roberts
Washington U.I0 Ralph C.
Cake, former Oregon republi
can national committeeman,
was among a half dozen prom
inent party members mention
ed today for national chairman
following the resignation un
der fire of C. Wesley Roberts
of Kansas.
Cake, a Fortlander. . was
prominent in' the election of
President Dwight Elsenhower
last November but has, up to
now, declined any official post
with the new administration.
A committee of the Kansas
legislature said Roberts had vi
olated the spirit if not the let
ter of the state's lobby law In
connection with the sale of
hospital building to the state
involving an $11,000 fee tor
the departed chairman). Within
a, matter of hours, Roberts re
signed, leaving the Elsenhower
administration with an urgent
repair job to do on the party
organization. The national
chairman is considered the par
ty's chief political agent.
- The job pays 332,000 a year,
WARREN AUSTIN ILL
Burlington, Vt. W The
retired U. S. ambassador to
the United Nations, Warren
R. Austin, 75, is in "grave but
not critical condition" at Mary
Fletcher hospital following
cerebral attack.
60 I s ni
mk, ana uje
Marines Again
Pull off From
Seoul W Battle-weary V. S.
Marines pulled oft the summit
of bloody outpost Vegas Satur
day night before frantie Chi
nese Red attacks and Allied ar
tillery began churning It with
constant explosions. : ,, v "
It was the third time since
Thursday that the Reds had
forced the Leathernecks to
yield the Western Front out
post In the Bunker Hill area
guarding the invasion route to
Seoul. Vegas is 25 miles south
west of Old Baldy, seized ear
lier by the Reds In a spring
drive they opened Monday.
AP Correspondent Forrest
Edwards said shortly after mid
night it was not clear that the
Chinese were on the crest of
Vegas. The Marines pulled
back to the lower slopes after
the Chinese struck, '
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UN Diplomats
Encouraged
United Nations, N. Y. W
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., chief
U. S. delegate, and other top
ranking U.N. diplomats Sat
urday described as encourag
ing the ; agreement by . Red
China . to exchange , alck and
wounded prisoners of war in
Korea. . . ---.
The message intensified spec
ulation in the U. N. that the
Communists are about to come
up with a new formula tor set
tling the Korean War.
"It is very encouraging if It
Is bonafide and sincere,", said
Lodge. ' ' ' -V - ' . ' ' ; tj. ;
' ' Lester B. Pearson of Canada
president o'f the General As
sembly, said: .:x
"This is something we have
been hoping would happen. So
far as it goes it is encourag
ing."- '
George N. Zarubln, Soviet
ambassador to Washington and
a member of the Russian dele
gation here, said "In my opin
ion, it is very good news."
Ike Frowns on
Shortage Probe
Washington W) Some sena
tors indicated belief Saturday
that President Eisenhower has
put a damper on a special sen
ate investigation into ammuni
tion shortages in Korea.
The president told his news
conference Thursday that the
ammunition supply inJCorea is
now perfectly souncKfonsid
ing the type of operatieW go
ing on there now.
That appeared to line up the
president on the side of the
Pentagon and the Army chief
of staff, Gen. J. Lawton Col
lins, In the heated dispute about
Korean ammunition supplies.
The special senate investi
gation resulted from repeated
statements and testimony by
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, re
tiring field commander, that
serious and critical ammuni
tion shortages existed during
his entire 22 months of serv
ice there. :
French Officials In Final
White House Meeting
Washington, 0J.ro Top
French officials concluded the
main business of their visit to
Washington Saturday with a
White House conference at
which Secretary of State Dul
les said things went "all right."
It was reported the consult
ants had agreed generally on
stepped-up campaign against
communists In Indochina.
At the same time Informants
said a dispute over disposition
of the Saar area was left for
future solution, along with de
tails of the plan for Indochina.
"All right, all right," was
the succinct description of the
meeting with President Elsen
hower which Dulles gave to
newsmen as the party left the
executive offices.
He said this morning's
slon was the last of that sort
and the "full meeting" was
over,
Price 5c
to hdizzrj cH'
POW Propose
'Wonderful':
Says Van Fleet
Ft Bennlng, G. UJD Gen.
James A. Van Fleet, former
commander of United Nations'
forces In Korea, said today he
thought it was "wonderful"
that the Communists : have
agreed to an exchange of sick
and wounded war prisoners.
Van Fleet, commenting brief
ly on the development which
may bring about a resumption
of peace talks, said:
. "I think it is wonderful. The
prisoner exchange proposal has
been advanced many times."
arry
Seoul. Korea OUO A U. S.
Air Force fighter-bomber wing
in Korea has been equipped
with modified F-86 Sabre jets
presumed capable of carrying
atomic bombs, it was announc
ed today.
The Fifth Air Force said the
18th Fighter -Bomber Wing,
which formerly flew only pro
peller - driven F - 51 Mustangs
and F-80 Shooting Star jets,
has been using F-86s .long
nmitfh tn nrnriiipft in arm '
The conversion to : the Air
Force's latest mass production
Jet aircraft was kept so secret
that planes shot down by Sa
bres of the 18th Wing have
been credited to the 4th Fight-
er-Inceptor Wing. : :, ' :
An Air Force spokesman
said the main . value . of the
modified Sabre was its ability
to fly flghte--bomber . missions
without fighter escort. :
The' F-84 Thunder let and
F-80 Shooting Star tighter-
bombers do not i compare
speed or .maneuverability, yith.
euner ' me nea - jea or Hie
Sabres, he said. ... : .. -
Drill Oil Wells
Midland, Tex., W) J. D.
(Jack) Bodkins, Midland in
dependent -oil operator, an
nounced Saturday he will start
wildcat wells in . Washington
and Oregon this year.
Bodkins acquired oil and gas
leases on about a million acres
in the two states last year. He
said a 10,000-foot test will be
drilled in each atate. The exact
locations haven's been selected
yet, ,. ,... . '
Bodkins said the wells will
be drilled to the Mississlppian
line formation. The Mississlp
pian is productive In the Will-
iston Basin region and in Can
ada, and Bodkins thinks there
are good possibilities it will
carry petroleum In Oregon and
Washington. - - -
He said locations for the two
wildcats will be selected as
soon as field geological parties
complete their work. He ex
pects that to be done in about
six months.
Bodkins' leases are In
Wheeler, Crook Deschutes,
Harney and Malheur counties
of Eastern Oregon and In
Walla Walla. Whiteman.
Adams and Grant counties of
Southeastern Washington,
There will be further talks,
on a lower level, on the re
maining issues.
This was French Premier
Rene Mayer's comment as he
posed for photographers out
lids the White House:
"My colleagues and I, before
leaving Washington, are happy
to say how much we have en
joyed the conversations we
have had with the President
and his colleagues. Once again
a frank exchange of views has
enabled us to verify the com
munity of views between the
United States and France on
all the big problems concern
ing peace in Europe and the
Far East- I mean the peace
of the tree world."
Before the White House
moeting it was reported
French plan for victory in In
dochina In two years had ex
cellent prospects of support. .
J' ' 'fM."' a mm am 0
Resumption Gf
Tokyo, The Co
agreed.- Satarday night - to :
V J, oner to exenange atek .
aad wounded prisoners before
the . end of ths Kereaav War,
and at the same time propose
Immediate resumpUoa ef the
suspended armistice talks.
The Reds said such an ex
change could lead to "smooth
settlement" of the entire POW
question, which broke im that
sijuulice iaiks at Panmunjom '.
last Oct, 8. !
The POW issue was the only
onu left unsolved. '
A spokesman here said the
VJi. command could begin an
exchange of tick and wound
ed "within a matter of days." .
Clark Stndles Red Otter'
Gen. Mark Clark, UJf. Far
East commander who made the
exchange offer Feb. 22, said he
would favor resumption of the
talks, it the Reds are sincere
in their acceptance,
Clark told a reporter Satur
day night:, . v.i
we are going to study tnls
offer very closely. We want to
be sure there Isn't anything in
it we don't understand." , ?
The Red move covers orur
sick-and wounded prisoners
a small percentage of the 12l,
000 Red held in Allied camp,
There were . no immediate
figures on the ; number of
Americana eligible for such an
exchange. v"
(Ceaelaaea en Page i, Cohann I)
Washington OtBThe U. 8."
government hope an exchange
of sick and wounded prisoners
in Korea "win occur prompt
ly,' Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles said today. .
The State Department greet
ed the communist offer to ex
change sick and wounded war
prisoners as an "uncondition
al acceptance" of . proposals
made Feb. 22 by Gen, Mark W.
Clark, United Nation supreme)
commander in the Far East-
The Red move was under
close scrutiny not only by Dul
les but by the-joint chiefs of
staff.
, Whether-the communist ac
ceptance of Clark's proposal
heralds early resumption of
stalemated truce talks is yet to
be determined. : -v
Dulles said that the UN com
mand has been - seeking ex
change of suffering prisoners
"tor some time in the past . . .
as a humanitarian move. He
said the long efforts bad been
"without result"' until now.
London ll.R) The British
government is planning urgent
consultation with the U. S.
State Department on the Com
munist offer to exchange sick
and wounded prisoners in Ko
rea, It was understood today.
' iV' .-. : . ,,, - -: ,:$ ;
Projnptiom
Hoped by Dulles
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Red Proposal
May End War
From the British viewpoint. 1
the Communist offer, if It
proves to have been made in
good faith, may end for good
the dreaded prospect of an ex
tension of the war in Asia. .
To France, whose top lead
ers now are in Washington, it
means the prospect that within
measureable time American
aid In Asia might be concen
trated on Indochina.-
A foreign office spokesman
said here that no official mes
sage had been received up to
mid-afternoon on the Red of
fer. He added only that the
offer will receive "the most
careful study" when it Is re
ceived officially. -:
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Uranium Discovery in
Philippines Disclosed
Manila, 0J.R President . El
pldeo Quirlno disclosed for the
first time today that uranium
has been - discovered in the
Philippines. t
Quirlno gave no detail! as
to the location or extent of the
atomic bomb ingredient. Hit
report caught local mining of
ficials by surprise. They had
heard no reports of uranium
deposit in the country. : .
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