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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1953)
-4 J- !.. I THE WEATHER FEW 8HOWEK8 with period of clearing tonight; Tuesday, partly cloudy, widely scatter, ed showers. Little chance In temperature. Lew tonifht, 16: high Tnesdsy, si. :f; .nUoMua seen FIN A L EDITION 65th Year, No. 76 Solem, Oregon, Monday, March30. 1953 78 Pages Price 5c House Returns Pelton Dam to Old Committee By Vote of 31 to 26 Sends Bill Back to Study Issue By JAMES D. OLSON By a narrow mar (In of 11 to 16 the house Monday re turned the Pelton dim bill hack to the itate and federal affairi committee for the pur- pot e o( studying a constitution al question raised during an hour's debate on the bill.' Rep. Charles A. Tom of Rufus, who opposed passage of the bill, said that on No vember 8, 1932, the people ap proved a bill In which the members of the state hydro electric commission were sub ject to election by the people. The bill in question provides for appointment of the com- mission members by the gov ernor..'. Constitutional Question -.. Ren. Ceoree Lavman. attor ney, and member of the state and federal affairs committee, told the house that this con stitutional Question had not heretofore been raised. It was his opinion that the question should be studied by the com ' mitt and he therefore made the motion which was adopted bv the extremely close vote . ! of one member among those present. : Ren. Alva Goodrich, who opened the debate in favor of the bill said that the bill un- ' der consideration had little ; similarity with the original bill ; gent to the committee. State Requirements He pointed out that applica tions for construction of dams under the present law could not be approved by the hydro- : electric commission if the state commission disapproved. : ; (Concluded en Pate . Column 1) 20 Major Bills HUGE THRONG DEDICATES STAYTON HOSPITAL si., e - - "zr LT.T:...--TTi.nmT SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSlllllM - I n Chinese Reds ProposeEndio V' KM, . IV Slasscn Grills McCarthy (or Interference Told He's Undermin ; ing Administration's Effort to Halt Trade Wuhlnrtan UH -1. Harold E Stassen told Sen. McCarthy, R., Wis., to Mi lace tnas mevaruy U "undermining" the adminis tration's efforts to halt trade between the West and Iron Cur tain countries. a Mtinff lt to his words. the mutual security chief told McCarthy that be ana ras in vestigations subcommittee "are in effect undermining and are .4n. All nhlftPtlve" . rhtwinusiv nMUM. MCLinoy aaid ansrily: "I frankly feel that w nr helnlne you." VBmtitm witneu TJner Oath And Uuirtljf ailuwiuiU, whJnxu8t"n ,, u .tp?2L go home who rhoose to return, took the witness chair at the " . . ..i televised subcommittee hear- . r-fuVL "Tu ing, McCarthy directed that ne r -rll0neri who re- -i.t'nndaiiMtn I - uetiu - Ifui. to so home tConeiBaeo en ni wm" i Await Action c back to work Monday to begin th 12th week of their long job ; with 20 big Issues to dispose of In the estimated three weexs i that remain. - SAnnta President EuKene E Marsh and House Speaker Ru- dle Wilhelm, Jr., believing xne 'i session will end by April 18, prepared a list of the main is sues that tney inm snouia re ceive consideration. Mmt nf the committee work has been completed on many nf then nroblems. so ft will be mostly a matter of having eith er or both houses vote upon them. The principal appropriation and tax bills, which usually are . the last to come before a legis lature, will be out of the way In another 10 days or so. After that time, there will be a strong urge to quit and go home. Crash Kills Six Savannah, Ga., W Six air men were filled and nine were iniured In the crash of a Hun ter Air Force Base plane in the Azores Sunday afternoon. tne TuBiic uiiormauon omcer nf the base, announced Monday. The plane, a B-29 Air Force bomber, fell In flames on take off from Lajes Field. Aboard were 11 crewmen and four pas sengers, all military personnel. Tne lour engine snip was re turning to Hunter Base from a rralnlnff mission in North Afri ca and was part of the 375th Bomber squadron oi ine auam Bomper Wing. :y ' ' The dead included: . ' First Lieut. W.1 R. Wallace, Portland, Ore. Winter D .Refuge Planned The Dalles vD The State Game Commission is consider ing setting up a 17,000-acre winter deer refuge In southern Wasco County. The proposal met with generally favorable public reaction at a recent pub it mpptlnff. A deer-proof fence would be hunt slnnff 20 miles of the refuge to keep the White River herd of deer irom meir usuhi ' winter feeding ground near miU!vntH farmland. The refuge would be built under terms of the mimin- Robertson act. The federal gov urnnlri nrovide three ' fourths of the required funds and the state the rest. Showers Back in Weather Picture ; Showers were back In the nah nw Biraln for Salem nd valley regions, Monlay, the southern end of a new racuic storm having moved in. t tha ss.hnnr neriod con eluding at 10:30 a. m. Monday, .10 of an Inch had been meas ured here. Forecast is for some scatter ed showers, Tuesday. Temper atures remain about the same as they have been. Generally, people are hoping the weather gets the showers out of its system early in the week and that the coming Eas ter week-end will be pleasant nd spring-like. Crater Left By Meteorite Prineville W A crater found in a ranch field two miles west of Prineville may explain the blast heard through this part of Central Oregon March 3. Paul H. Spillman, a ranch er's son. found the crater, and theorized that a meteor had struck there. The crater was about 4 feet deep, IS feet across. It was about 100 yards from hiahwav 126. Spillman said he saw the sage brush there had been torn up, stopped his car and walk ed over. Persona travelling the high way the night the blast was heard reported a bright flash. A geologist and astronomer will examine the crater, .. SHIPS COLLIDE OFF S.F. San Francisco (U.B Two ships which collided six miles mitaldn San FranHsm Bav were back in' port today for minor repairs, xne tanicer iaa ho Falls, en route to Longview, Wash., and the frelehter F. E. Weyerhaeuser, sailing to San Pedro) Calif., collided in ine early morning hours yesterday ted Strike in Italy Failure Rome W) A Communist call for a 18-hour nation-wide trike met with only scant success Monday as the Reds, aifaariv nut-voted ' and . out- slugged In a riotous weeK-ena lAo-islative session: sought . to protest Premier Alclde de Gasperi's new election law. The huge, communist-aomi-natd Italian Federation of Labor called the walk-out in "indignation" at Senate ap proval Sunday of the new latinn measure. V; V Th bill cleared the upper house after a wild free-for-all in which senators were alumred. chairs and desks smashed and a woman senator linuil male ontionent: . - The leirtslatoin, expected to swell De Gasperi's govern ment majority after general elections next June, now goes to President Luiei Elnaudl to be signed into law. Top photo shows enthusiastic crowd gathered in front of new Santiam Memorial hospital at Stayton during dedl- . cation ceremonies Sunday afternoon. Lower photo shows members of board of directors and others, standing on rostrum, who were active in financing and building institu tion. At microphone is master of ceremonies, Mr. Van Drlesche. :.'.','-''. -! r--; ;' Hosp Suirfnn lEven Mother Natm-a amiled on the dedica tion of the new Santiam Mem orial hospital at Stayton bun day, when 2700 residents of the valley gathered in front of Dedicate I at Stayton day Leaders Korean War Offer Solution to Problems of Re patriating ROW Tokyo. CP) Premier Che En-Lai at Communist China Monday night offered plan to end the war in Korea alnf ilar to the Indian proposal . before .the .United .Nation which Chou once coldly re jected. It also resembled plan advanced by Allied negotiator! at Panmunjom last year. Oalnlns hrnaripatt a atatafe ment by the Red Premier the second apparently conciiaiory move by the Reds In lour days which proposed: , Term frnna . w. 1. Let all prisoners of war To Prosecute Seattle Reds Washington (JP) Attorney nan0ni Rrnwnll Mondav an- pointed Tracy E. Griffin, Seat tle attorney, to aireci ine pro secution of seven alleged top leaders of the communist party in the Pacmc wortnwesi. The group, including six men and one woman, was Indicted last September on charges of conspiracy to violate the Smith act by advocating violent over throw of the United States gov ernment. Their trial is sched uled to open at Seattle, April 15. Griffin, described by the Jus tice Department as a noted Washington state trial lawyer, was given the title of special aslstant to the attorney gen eral. He wlU be assisted In the nrosecution by special assist ants William O'Donnell and Kevin T. Maroney of the Jus tice Department's criminal division. Need Drastic Action To Balance City Budget Prnm thp nolnt of view of the public, which will be the lesser of two evils? More money from parking meters by eliminating pennies, or set ting up a special election on mlllage tax measures? That is a question for the city budget committee to de cide as it goes into a crucial meeting at City hall tonight. It won't be the final meeting by any means, but one of the im nortant ones BoinB ahead of adoption of the 1953-54 budget Salary and wage increases for city officers and employes la the issue on which the whole bydget hangs right now, and at the conclusion oi a xorenoon meeting Monday by the sub nmmittpe on salaries it looked as U a way had been found to balance the budget and in crease salaries a total of about $50,000. On the subcommitte are Mayor Al Loucks, chairman, Robert Powell and Tom Arm strong. Its report tonight will go in in the form of resolutions. One recommendation will cov er a graduated scale of pay in creases. The other will call for appointment of an interim committee to study the salary question for a period of five months following July 1. The proposed salary increas es are: Employes earning less than $275 per month, 8 percent increase; S270 to ssso a momn, 7 percent; $351 to $500 a mnnlh 8 nercent: S501 . and over, 8 percent; hourly-work ers, 10 cents an hour. , For the recommended Inter im committee the appointment and membership would be de termined by the city council. The period of service would be from Julv 1 next with termin ation date prior to December 1, 1953. Its job wouia De a 4nh aalarv and classification study of all city employes to determine the louowing: Am aalarlei In line with the responsibility of the Job? The (Concluded en Pag i, Celumn ) ReutherAsks T-H Changs- Washington WV-CIO Presi dent Walter Reutber Monday asked Congress for "drastic" changes in the Taft-Hartley la bor law and quoted freely from President ' Elsenhower's cam paign speeches to make his points. Reuther said the act should Ka wlnari lan nf all its in junction provisions. He quoted the President as naving mo that Injunctions "will not set tle the underlying fundamen tal problems which cause a strike." Reuther' s testimony was prepared for the Senate Labor Committee, now in tne secona week of its hearings on revl- tnn nf the 1947 act. Injunctions are court orders which, If not obeyed, can Dnng heavy fines or Imprisonment. The Taft-Hartlev act. Reu ther said, "puts its faith on la bor injunctions to insure laoor rwsce" and is "lalseiy Based" nn a hpllpf that "the oower of the courts is a fit substitute for free collective bargaining. Find 31 Bodies In Wreckage Conneaut, O., (UJS Officials believed today all bodies had been recovered from the one- In-a-mlllion train wreck, which occurred near here Friday. The toll stood at 21 dead and 49 persons still In hospitals A crew of over 400 n worked last night to clear two of the four tracks of the flew York Central Railroad. The Pennsylvania Utility Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission will launch an investigation this waalr Intn th crash, but it was believed to be only rou tine. A Now Vnrk Central offi cial riasrrihed the accident as nnp.ln.a.mlllion because it In volved three trains, passing within two minutes of each other on two separate tracks. He aaid a warning system was ineffective because all three were lnsida the area of the warning signal blocks. JAP CROWN PRINCE SAILS Tokyo (" Crown Prince Aklhito of Japan sailed for the TTnltwl Atata Mrnirlav aboard the American liner President , wiison. Bt MIKE FORBES the structure for the ceremon- tarn Throughout the rites flashes of brilliant sunshine came from around sparse, light clouds, to 1-ImMam ln vltoa that marked Wl4gUM.u ..... " the endof years of labor and planning. , in the crowd , or citizens aatharari In front of the nlat- form were representatives of Stayton, Sublimity, west may in AumaviUe. , Sclo. Marlon. T.vnnf Mehama. Detroit, and Idanha. In all, 2700 persons at- tonriprt thu ceremonies ana in spected the new building which will be onen for business Mon- Jiv Anril A Louis Barr, who started the first fund for - the institution, stated that the new hospital is a monument to copoeratlon by community groups in the can yon that is outstanding for its achievement. Barr came from Oakland to attend tne rues. J. C. . Klmmel, iMill City, nroslHont nf the board of di rectors succeeding Walter Bell original head of the group, ex pressed the hope that the new kn.niai wnnlH brine more UWDyim ..ww- doctors to the canyon provid ing the residents wnn u-uer medical care. Walter W. R. May, Portland, principal speaker, traced the history oi tne movem-m ui produced the hospital and termed it an example of the re sult of wholehearted commun ity effort. -Short talks also were given t. T. m.ffs. Dr. N. E. Irvine, ----' --. , - - and Dr. H. . tncKson oi in state board of health and Mrs. Lile Wilt, superintendent of the new hospital. Staff doctors lniroaucea out ing the ceremony were Dr. Burl Betzer, Stayton, chair man of the hospital meoicai staff; Dr. R. A. Anderson, ur. (Concluded on rage a. uonunn Air Safety Meet Berlin W The British an nounced Monday that they will mi with the Russians in East Germany Tuesday night to dis cuss ways of preventing sucn at mrfcrienta - as me recent ihiuiiina i4nwn ol a British bomber by Soviet fighters over Germany. The announcement aaid the nnfmnce will he held at the headquarters of the S o v i t Control Commission at x-ari-shorst. : - -..'' - ..' TnHtcatlns that further talks i may follow, the British added tVif th- location or tne next meeting may be in the British aactor nf Berlin." . , ', r Informed sources -said tne chief British representative J .1.9 1 At mrorahal' CI Rnb- ert Foster, commander of the second Tactical Air Force in Germany. Ike Asks Study: 01 Taxation aThe neutral ataU would allow representatives of aaca im fn jkvniain to -ntt nrumm what their decision would Like - their agreement last week to exchange lick and mnunri'eH nrlsoners. this in AiimA a mflM conciliatory at tf.-w-BW-n President titude. But Chou raised aoupta ... r - . ,.!),,,- lnB communists Eisenhower, saying 7 "w.cc:t voluntary to relieve tne peop.e u - - -j...... 4-, "ZjrSrJSi. tait only issue blocking an arml- l-4M . i t-.-. 4. i.a moira 1 atice. of achlevlnc sounder relations (Cnetaded s PawJ. Coasam I) between the federal, state ana local governments In a anactal mASSaCe to the lawmakers, the President aaid .Vfl Mmm m aii snoulfl k COn- ttA nn a atudv of federal grants-in-aid to the states ana the problems 01 nnance ana federal - state relations ' in volved in such grants. He added! . "The commission - should study ROK Repulses Chinese Reds Britain Recalls Envoy to TinHon lPl Informed Brit ish sources said Monday Brlt tain' ambassador to Moscow, ct triirorv nncotrnp.. was hur riedly summoned home to re port on Russia's new "peace offensive." SI Alvarv. the sources add ed, is expected to confer with Prime Minister Winston unur- chlll as well as Foreign secre tary Anthony Eden. In Moscow, an embassy spokesman said Sir Alvary would fly to the British capi tal Tuesday morning. He was expected to return to his Mos cow post In "just a few days." The embassy would not dis- cnaa the reason for this mitck recall of the ambassador. Ob viously, however, It must be very important, for only a few days ego the f oreign uuice in- strurteH .Ci Alvarv to cancel the leave he had planned for April 7 and remain on at his post. Seoul on i South Korean troops threw back- a Chines Red drive on Christmas Hill on I h 'Eastern Front in a drivin . coromissioa -. snuuiu - -- , .nd Tveatlaate all the 1 snowfall Monday M U, & acUvltl in whlch MmA- aid Xort Vegaae wet yards Deyona Auiea aavancet Nustlfleatlo forrfedexal aid in SSenaTlinef on 850 yard aU these fleldj,wnetner tnOT . HilL t. f ! i sin m niner i . . . . . j . w gifjsu .-- - . wmrn weax oi xae niuiuuiim fields "The whole question of fed eral control of activitlea to which the federal government contributes must be thorough ly examined." - v' t FBI Says Reds Underoroiind Cake to Refuse OOP Top Post Portland (U.B Ralph . Cake, former Oregon republican na tional committeeman, wm iu j4bv he would not consider ac cepting the post of republican national committeeman u were offered him. Cake was at his ranch near Sisters, Ore., when contacted but was too 111 to go to tne phone. His wife, however, said he told her he would- refuse the position. Cake was among several pro minent party members men tinned for the national post fol lowing the resignation of C. Wealev Rohert OX tianSBI. "He said he will not take it under any circumstances," Mrs. ravtt sain- "we nan not neara here that he even was under consideration for the Job." Cake, a Portlander, was nrominent in the election of President Elsenhower last No vemher hut has reneatedlv de clined any official post with the new administration. Mrs. Cake said her husband was suffering from an attack of liu. Weather Details Mailmnm mterdir. STl minimum lo- Ssr, 41. Total 14'bor prMlplUlioat .10) for monthl AMI nana!, 4.09. tea ton praeiplutltta, M.Ml nnal. 8S.SS. lnr btllhl, 4 ink (Baparl kr V.s. WaaUitr Bama.) Washington W FBI Dlrec- . T VAoar Hoover has told w4 w . - . - congress communists have gone underground, oroxen up raw small cells of five persons each and are running their own loy alty checks. ' " . That makes bis loo naraer, he said, and he needs more agents. Members oi a senate appro priations subcommittee, before which Hoover testified last Frl- Jaii nM Vrnnav the Eisen hower administration has ap proved without cuts tne million dollars aliotea to tne FBI In the budeet submitted by fnrmer President Truman. But these members, asking not to ha named, nredicted that Hoover will get an additional five millions about that am ount, larger to hire new aeents Hoover is reported to have told the committee that it has become much more difficult to keep tabs on the communists because they have gone underground. vrallev fimtth Korean drove them back, killing or wounding 100 Chinese. RntrencheH nirllll H smouldering Vegas had won back the outpost at dawn Son day. after being knocked off three times in the Beds- Biooay snrlna- feeler drive on the West . ern Front last week. . Grimy and weary, the Leath ernecks smashed a thmee-prong-ed Red drive on Vegas lato ftnnriav and brake? un a Red force massing for another at tack during tne nignt witn thundering curtain of artillery fire. Officials Wary Ike Plans Slash in Foreign Aid Funds Washington. 'M President Elsenhower was reported by congressional leaders Monday to ba planning a cut in foreign aid spending. Senate Renuhllcan Leader Taft (Ohio) and House Speak er Martin (R., Mass.) said there has been no determina tion yet on the amount of the cut, but that there definitely will be a reduction from the IVa hllllnn dollars nrorioscd bv the Truman administration for foreign aid In the fiscal vcar bcslnnlns next Julv 1. Tart ana Martin neia a news conference Immediately after Elsenhower. Taft - aa(H Mutual Secnrltv Director Harold E. Stassen is having a study made to find out whether 10 billion dollars In foreign aid carry-over funds can be cut. RintMn aat tn with tha con. gressional leaders at their con. ference with Eisenhower. Taft and Martin also an nounced: 1. The President would fend to Conoress later in the day a special message asking creatlnn nf a commission to study federal-state relations on such matters as taxes, grant in aid ana social security. r.isen hnwer told his news confer. ence last week it would be the 1nh of the nrooosed commis sion to eliminate waste and duplication. 2. The President will sign later this week an executive order to strip civil service pro tection from several nunarea federal government policy making officials appointed by Democratic administrations. OI Reds' Offer Waahlno-tnn (1MB The State - Department said today top of ficials will take a long, hard . look at Red China's offer to compromise on the sticky pris oner Issue that ruptured Kore an truce negotiations. ' until an omciai report or Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lal's new "offer" is deliv ered here, spokesmen said, there will be no official com ment. The White House said Presi dent Eisenhower is "follow. Ing" Far Eastern develop ments. The State Department press officer, Lincoln White, said he did not know whether Gen. Mark W. Clark, United Natlnna commander in the Far East, has been given any new Instructions since he was told during the week-end to pro ceed with negotiation for ex change of sick and wounded prisoners. Senate Republican Leader Robert A. Taft told newsmen "It looks as if the Chines Communists are inclined to be more peaceful." But he aaid Chou' statement should be studied carefully. Armv Officers Want 4 To Get Closer to Bomb Las Vegas, Nev. UJ0 Two atomic age infantry officers want to sit out an atomic test blast from a distance of only ' 2,000 yords 800 yards closer than they were in last Tues day's explosion. hi. coi. uon uavii, oi sneu Beach, Calif., and Capt. Rob art VI Pnlller nf Tlnttle f"W Mich., said yesterday they art -very anxious to undergo more test blasts, possibly an air drop or an atomic artillery shell. ill 1 I f : Mi ,: a !);! - : .-i a .1.1 i i i ,1 iff I -I J s-