THE WEATHER
CLOCDI WITH occasional
Ught rUn tonight; partly cioo.
itter4 showers, Sondsy.
Little change in temperature.
Low tonlfht, 4t; Ufa Sunday,
Me
Forest Code
Face-Lifted
By Legislature
Oregon Laws Re
, vised and Brought
Up to Date
By JAMES D. OLSON
For the first time in many
years forestry laws, many of
which were passed SO years
ago and have become obsolete,
have been revised and brought
up-to-date by the 1953 legis
. lature, marking completion of
a forestry program aimed at
clarifying and Improving the
Oregon forest code.
Prior to the convening of
the legislature forest Industry
leaders and members of the
state forestry department staff
Began work on bills designed
to bring the forest laws up to
date. Bills introduced in both
houses were assigned to for
estry and mining in the house
and the committee on natural
resources in the senate.
;' Incidentally,' the committee
on forestry and mining In the
house, of vhich Rep. Loran
Stewart is chairman, was the
first house committee this ses
sion to clear its desks of all
bills this happening more than
a week ago.
Severance Tax Voted
One of the important bills
passed In the package provides
for a severance tax of 4 cents
per thousand feet of lumber
cut from all lands in the state
federal and private for re
search work. : i This bill also
provides for an additional 4
cent tax to be paid on all tim
ber cut on lands directly pro
tected by or under contract
for protection to the state
board of forestry west of the
summit of the Cascade moun
tains and including Hood
River county for: emergency
fire cost funds.
(Concluded on Fate 5, Column I)
Welfare Bill
Sent Governor
,The Oregon Senate complet
ed legislative action Saturday
on the bill to let the public
see the lists of persons receiv
ing old age pensions, direct re
lief, aid to dependent children,
and other forms of welfare as
sistance. .
It went to Gov. Paul L. Pat
terson with a 17-13 Senate
vote, but with doubts as to
whether newspapers and radio
would be prohibited from pub
lishing or ' broadcasting 1 the
names.
House members interpret
. the bill as banning newspapers
' and radio from using the lists,
but the senators think such use
of the names would be al
lowed. .
The bill says no person or
agency shall use the names
"for commercial or political
purposes of any nature, or for
any purpose not directly con
nected with the administration
of the public assistance laws."
No Revision of
Constitution
The house-passed bill to
have a constitutional conven
. ion in 1957 bit the dust,, when
the senate Judiciary commit
tee voted to introduce a sub
stitute Saturday.
.This substitute calls for an
interim committee of 10 legis
lators, plus nine persons nam
ed by the governor, to study
the question of whether the
cmstitutlon needs to be re
wirtten or amended, and to
submit its suggested changes
to the 1955 legislature.
The senate tax committee
approved the house bill to re
duce state income taxes for
parents of two or more chil
dren, the blind, and persons
over 65 years old.
A bill creating a five-member
state development com
mission, to attract new indus
tries to Oregon was passed by
the senate and sent to the gov
ernor. GAS FUMES KILL TWO . .
Portland VP) Walter R.
Bankus, 76, a machine shop
operator, and his wife, Phoebe,
75, were found dead from gas
fumes in their home Friday.
The deaths apparently were
accidetnal, Deputy Coroner
Anthony Wald reported.
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65th
Ways, Means
Explain Action
Aged Hospital
Chairmen Say Port
land Hospital Plan .
Too Costly, Limited
Clarification of the action of
the joint ways and means com
mittee In asking the voters to
"take another look" at the
proposed 'domiciliary hospital
for the Portland area," was giv
en in statement issued Satur
day by Senator Dean Walker
and Representative Henry 8e
mon, joint chairmen of the
committee. .
"There is no desire on the
part of our committee to thwart
the will of the people as ex
pressed in the November elec
tion," the statement declares.
"It is only that we feel that the
people who voted for the pro
posed 'domiciliary hospital'
were not possessed of important
facts which have only come to
light since our committee un
dertook a study of this prob
lem." Act on Advice
The two chairmen said that
they had acted upon recom
mendations of the superinten
dents of the state's two mental
hospitals as well as other ex
perts in the field of mental
health.
(Concluded on Page t, Column I)
House Passes
Buildino Bill
The Legislature's building
program was approved Satur
day by the House and went to
the Senate, amid criticism that
it doesn't Include the proposed
new mental hospital in Port
land,
The program calls for $3,-
297,000 worth of new state in.
stitution buildings, and $3,840,.
000 worth of college buildings.
Some House members object
ed that no funds were made
available for construction of
the hospital for aged mental
patients in Portland, which the
voters approved last Novem
ber. ,
However, the House will
vote Monday on a bill to refer
to the people the proposition of
changing this to a general men.
tal hospital, and appropriating
1250,000 to buy a site.
Among the new buildings
approved by the House were a
$2,200,000 State Dental School
in Portland, $1,500,000 new
wing at the State Hospital in
Salem, $1,250,000, reformatory
in Salem, $760,000, chemical
engineering laboratory at Ore
son State College, and a $600,.
000 journalism building at the
University of Oregon.
Wilson Praises High
Morale of Germans
Berlin VP) U.S. Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson
Saturday described the attitude
and industry of the German
people as the most impressive
thing he has witnessed on his
three day tour of Germany. -
Wilson had just completed an
inspection of allied defense in-
stallatios behind the Rhine
River. He told reporters at the holiday and vacation benefits,
airport he found the U. S. Workers now receive an aver
Army "very good" and troop age hourly wage of $2.10 an
morale high. '
Race For legislative
Leaders Lively Fight
The race for president of the
senate and speaker of the house
for the 1955 sesion of the legis
lature was officially launched
Saturday when both Senators
Elmo Smith of John Day and
Philip S. Hitchcock of Klamath
Falls formally announced their
candidacies.
In the house, although no
formal announcements have
been made, the race is definite
ly between Representative Carl
Francis of Dayton and Dave
Baum of LaGrande.
In a statement, Senator
Smith, who was chairman of
the highway interim commit
tee during the past two years
and is now chairman of roads
and highways committee in the
senate, said that "promises of
support from a substantial
number of the members of the
Oregon state senate prompt me
to announce that I am a candi
date for the presidency of the
senate.
Senator Hitchcock was chair
man of the interim committee
Capita
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Winter Returns
East of Rockies
(Sr Ths Auoclattd Fitu)
Spring storms, some of them
patterned for winter, hit wide
areas of the country from the
Rockies to New York Satur
day.
There was all kinds of bad
weather.
There were snow, sleet, hail,
wind and dust storms. There
was some cold weather, too,
as the elements went on a
climatic binge. Chilly wea
ther was in prospect for some
southern states.
Damaging forest' fires, fan
ned by stiff winds, swept over
thousands of acres of timber
land in national parks in New
Mexico and Arizona.
Some spots had fairly mild
spring weather, In most of the
southern areas and in the Far
Southwest. ; ,
A band of precipitation 200
to, 300 .miles .wide extended
from South' Central Kansas and
the eastern two-thirds of Okla
homa across the Ohio Valley,
parts of Illinois and Indiana,
most of Ohio and into North
ern Pennsylvania and West'
ern and Southern New York,
Deadlock in
emms Strike
Portland VP) A spokesman
for employers said Friday they
were breaking off contract ne
gotiations with the CIO Inter
national Woodworkers Union,
H. J.. Greeley, speaking for
employers of. 23,000 workers,
said an offer for renewal of
th present contract had been
made, but that union negotla
tors had turned it down.
"We see no point to further
meetings. We believe, there
fore, - that these negotiations
are concluded. We leave our
final offer with the union," he
said in a statement at the
close of two days of meetings
here.
The union had asked a 12
cent hourly pay increase and
I hour, a union spoxesman sam,
on reapportionment and
session is chairman of
this
the
natural resources committee,
' c - i A u
vice chairman of rules and a
member of the assessment and
taxation, education and labor
and industries committee.
Senator Smith is editor and
publisher of the Blue Mountain
Eagle and partner-publisher of
the Madras Pioneer. He is a
navy veteran of World War II.
For the past two sessions he
has been chairman of the sen
ate roads and highways com
mittee, and as chairman of the
highway interim committee he
was plunged into the truck tax
fight involving the weight mile
tax, which was referred and
November 1952, approved by
the people.
In his first session he was
chairman of the livestock com
mittee. Other committee as
signments have Included labor
and industries and natural re
sources. He is also a member
of the Interstate Afaflrs com
mittee. (Concluded en Fie J, Column $)
Salem, Oregon, SaturdayAp; V 'r'
RIVAL CANDIDATES FOR VARSITY QUEEN
t&i -1 '
The five finalists in the contest to name Varsity Queen '
at Willamette university are pictured above. The queen
will be named at the annual formal Varsity Ball next Fri
day evening. Left to right: Margaret Huson, Joyce Karn,
Ann Laudig, Maxine Brown, Anita Tonning. (Story on
Society Page). (Arts studio picture)
Record High Tax Levy
ForSchooimtm
BJ IBtte-nB. .MIIUI
Growing pains continue to
pester the Salem school dis
trict, which means that resi
dents will have to pay the
highest levy in history during
the 1953-84 fiscal year. :
- Supt. Walter Snyder, in
anticipation of the budget
meeting scheduled for the
night of April 22 with the citi
zens committee, reported Sat
urday that the levy will be
48.1 mills for school purposes,
an increase of 11 mills over a
year ago. , .
Elands Bill
Washington VP) Sen. Taft
(R.-Ohio) flatly accused foes of
the offshore oil lands bill Sat
urday of waging a filibuster.
The Senate Republican lead'
er declared the fight against
the measure is holding up the
Senate's whole legislative pro
gram. He rejected as "ridicuT
lous" a proposal that the con
troversial bill be put aside tem
porarily. Taft spoke out at a news con
ference as the Senate, In an un
usual Saturday session, began
its 12th day of considering the
measure establishing the states'
title to submerged lands off
their shores.
The GOP leader had ordered
the Saturday session, and night
meetings of the Senate next
week as well, in the hope of
reaching a vote on the measure
Twenty opponents of the bill
sent him a letter Friday night
proposing the legislation be put
aside temporarily so the Senate
could act on the economic con
trols bill. This controls meas
ure, which would extend some
rent ceilings, expires April 30.
It was rejected.
Ike Puts Yacht
In Mothballs
Augusta, Ga., (UJ0 President
Eisenhower decided today that
yachting was too rich for his
blood. He ordered the White
House yacht, the U. S. S. Wil
liamsburg, put into mothballs,
because it is a "symbol of need
less luxury." '
Mr. Elsenhower has never
liked the idea of a president
maintaining an expensive float
ing White House.
The Williamsburg will go
into mothballs at the end of
June. Between now and then,
she will be turned over to the
Red Cross to run daytime
river excursions on the Poto
mac for wounded servicemen
hospitalized in and near Wash
ington. The Williamsburg was the
creation and delight of ex-
President Truman, who used
her for everything from over
night cruises on the Potomac
to long voyages to Bermuda
and Key West. She frequently
served as a floating boarding
house for the Truman staff at
Key West.
DA SALARIES HIKED
A bill giving district at
torneys salary increases vary
ing from $250 to $960 a year
was passed Saturday by the
senate and sent to the house.
The total levy for the dis
trict Is $3,839,808.75 according
to the proposed budget. Esti
mated receipts are $1,263,465,
an Increase of $67,775 and the
people will be called upon to
pass judgment at a May 15
election on $819,769.33 an
amount that is in excess of the
6 per cent limitation.
The general fund is higher
by 4.4 mills, due in large part
to the necessity of adding 21
persons to the teaching depart
ment and a $240 across the
board salary increase.
An additional 6.6 mills must
be paid .to take care of pay
ments on bonded debt and in
terest. Most of this it the result
of the bonds authorized by the
Voters for'the' Construction of
the new South Salem high
school. Payments totalling
$484,208 must be made during
the next fiscal year on the
bonded debt.
The increase in teacher
salaries, which totals $81,225,
means that the minimum in
the elementary system will be
$3090 at the start of the Sep
tember term. Beginning sal
aries for teachers with B-A.
degrees will be $3450. The sal
ary increase is given all em'
ployes of the district with the
exception of the superintend'
ent.
Expenses in virtually every
department of the system will
show increase, reflecting the
situation that is general in al
most every line of endeavor.
It is estimated that the pupil
load for 1953-54 will be up
498 over tle present term.
Taft to Visit
Ike on Sunday
Augusta, Ga. (P) President
Eisenhower was reported Sat
urday "completely recovered"
from an attack of food poison
ing and ready for a golf match
here Sunday with Sen. Taft R.,
Ohio.
The President's vacation
headquarters announced that
Taft will fly from Washington
to Charlotte, N. C, arriving
there Sunday morning. The
Senate Republican leader will
be accompanied by an aide,
Jack Martin.
Eisenhower is sending the
presidential plane Columbine
to Charlotte to bring Taft and
Martin on to Augusta about
an hour's flight.
Elsenhower and Taft will
play golf at the Augusta Na
tional Golf Club, where the
President is vacationing, prob
ably Sunday afternoon.
James C. Hagerty, Elsenhow
er's press secretary, said he did
not know how long Taft would
remain.
Dexter Dam Timber
Offered for Sale
Portland VP) Army Engin
eers announced Saturday they
would open bids here May 1
on two parcels of timber to be
sold in the Dexter re-regulating
dam project near Lowell.
One contains an estimated
other about 356,000. Col. Tho
mas H. Lipscomb said bidders
could inspect the timber by
gineer at Lowell.
-
lime Schedule
Agreed on for
III POW Swap
Exchange Starts Mon
day; to Set Date Also
For Reopening Jruce
Munssn, Korea VP) tJ.N.
and communist staff officers
today agreed tentatively on
time schedule for Monday's
historic exchange of disabled
prisoners of the Korean war.
And they ' completed ar
rangements for a meeting of
liaison officers tomorrow to
set a date for resuming the
suspended full scale Korean
armistice talks. .
- The tentative schedule calls
for the first exchange of sick
and wounded prisoners at 9
a.m. Monday, 7 p.m. Sunday,
EST. .i ' - -.' a- : ,
Alt Delegates in Korea '
All five delegates of the
U.N.'s main truce team were
in Korea today. They could
be in Panmunjom, the weath
ered truce talk village, in
matter of hours when the
fast-breaking developments of
the past couple weeks add up
to a call to reopen the stalled
talks. :
Lt Gen. William K. Harri
son, head of the U.N, delega
toln, and Air Force Brig. Gen.
Edgar Glenn, another mem
ber, flew here from Japan to
day. (Concluded en Psge 5, Column 1)
Red Captives on
Hunger Strike
Pusan, Korea (JPl Some of
the disabled Chinese Red cap
tives waiting ir. a hospital here
for repatriation went on a hun
ger strike because they were
not permitted to cook their
own food, the U. N. prisoner
of war command said today,
The fast ended at noon to
day. : ' I ' y- "-.
The command did not say
how many prisoners were In.
volved or when it began.
-iWe . have - been bringing
food to them every meal re
gardless of whether they eat
it or not," said Col. Franklin
W. Reece of Scranton, Pa., hos
pital camp commander. "They
did drink the milk that was
brought to them at each meal.
' Dr. Otto Lehner, ' head of
the International Committee of
the Red Cross, who is at the
scene, said.
"If the prisoners of war re-
fun to eat the detaining now-
fer is obligated to give them
every meal and bring It to
them anyway.
Hvde Named
FCC Chairman
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) President
Eisenhower today designated
Rosel H. Hyde, long-time
member of the Federal Com
munications Commission, as
FCC chairman for a one-year
term.
Hyde, 53-year-old native of
Utah, has been a member of
the FCC since 1946 and affili
ated with either the FCC or its
predecessor, the federal radio
board, since 1925.
He relpaces Paul A. Walker,
whose resignation as chair
man was tendered to the pres
ident March 13 and accepted.
Walker, a democrat, will re
main as a member of the com
mission, however. Hyde is a
republican.
UN Voices Hopes of
Korean War Truce
United Nations, N.Y. VP)
In a rare unanimous vote, the
U.N. General Assembly Satur
day expressed hope that the
proposed talks at Panmunjom
will result in an early armis
tice in Korea.
The action had been fore
shadowed when the assembly's
60-natlon political committee
took a similar unanimous de
cision two days ago.
The resolution, originally
offered by Brazil, provides
that the assembly will hold oft
any Korean discussions here
until the outcome of the Pan
munjom talks Is known.
The assembly will remain
in recess, ready for a quick
meeting, if an armistice or
other Korean developments
require action.
. The harmonious action was
Prict 5c
1000 Chinese
Annihilated
By Artillery :
Seoul, Korea 6JJB Ameri
can artillery almost annihilated
an estimated 1,000 Chinese In
fantrymen today as they mass
ed for counterattacks against
Pork Chop HilL
The big guns, firing in the
light - of giant searchlights
sweeping no-man's land, ripped
into a large force of Reds esti
mated at battalion strength aad
two reinforced companies. .
The curtain of fire trapped
the three Chinese forces, pre
venting t h e reinforcements
from swarming up the slopes
of Pork Chop Hill where hand
to hand fighting raged in Sev
enth Infantry division trenches.
Air Force and Marine flsht-
er-bombers pounded Red stag
ing areas near Porkchop with
80,000 pounds of bombs later
in the day.'-' ,
Sabre lets patrolled MICl-
Alley but sighted no Red Jets
for the first time in three days.
London VP) Andrei Gro-
myko, Soviet ambassador to
Britain - since last July hss
been appointed first deputy
minister of foreign affairs.
Moscow radio announced Sat
urday.. ;o v,.,'H! v ,-'
He will be replaced in Lon
don by Jacob Malik, now
deputy foreign minister under
V. M. Molotov, the announce
ment said.'-- '-' " '- '
There was no official' com
ment on the Malik-Gromyko
switch, the second major dip
lomatic changeover by the
Kremlin since the death "of
Joseph Stalin.'.;. The other
switch was thr! appointment
of vastly Kuznetsov to replace
Alexander Panyuahkln aa am'
bassador to communist China.
Both Malik and Gromyko
have had long terms as repre
sentatives of the Soviet Un
ion at the United Nations.
Both are relatively young So
viet dlplomts.
Police Chief :
Tehran, Iran (U.B Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh dls
missed the governor general,
police chief and other officials
of Shlraz today because of mob
attacks on Americans there.'
- Mossadegh acted after U.
S. Ambassador Loy Hender
son strongly protested the
stoning of American residences
at Shlraz and burning of fur
nlture in the Point Four aid
offices;
Mobs cast stones at Ameri
cans' homes in Shlraz Thurs
day and shouted "Yankees, go
home." About 80 Americans,
Including several women and
children, sought refuge at the
palace of a tribal chieftain.
Harvey Purchases
Oregon Factory Site
The Dalles VP) The Har
vey Machine company, which
has had options on land on
both sides of the Columbia
river here, finally has purchas
ed a site on the Oregon shore,
west of The Dalles, for its 65
million dollar aluminum plant.
It is a 73-acre tract, bought
from Harry L. Gordion. Rev
enue stamps in the county
clerk's office Indicate the price
was about $50,000.
made possible Thursday when
Poland withdrew a Soviet bloc
catch-all peace plan which
had raised such controversial
Issues as an immediate cese
fire In Korea, a one-third re
duction in the armaments of
the big powers and an imme
diate ban on atomic weapons.
At Saturday morning's
meeting, friction on another
controversial Issue was avoid
ed when the assembly decided
to postpone action on a contro
versial measure calling for an
impartial inquiry into commu
nistc harges that the U.N.
has used germ warfare In Ko
rea. This proposal was referred
back for further committee
action after Soviet Delegate
Andrei Y. Vlshinsky raised
procedural objections to an
immediate decision.
Malik-Gromyko
Posts Switched
FINAL
COITION
Marines S:3;
Spcfctub
Atomic Dlasl
Flashes Blinding White
Then Rosy Orange for
St 1 1
Helicopter Maneuver
Las Vegas, Nev. (ffV-Twea-
ty-twe hundred Marlmes
crouched In trenches Satur
day witnessed the most spec
Uenlar atomic blast of the
spring series, a shot that flash
ed blinding white then turned
a beautiful rosy orange daring
an unusually long-lingering
afterglow.
The predawn detonation.
first to involve, Marines ma
neuvering in helicopters, waa
set off from a 300-foot tower.
. After the explosion the
ground troops, from Camp
Pendleton, Calif., and Camp
Lejeune, N.C., scrambled up
and advanced in a tactical ex
ercise toward a mock enemy.
Their trenches were . 4,000
yards from ground zero. .
Marines Maneuver
Leap-frogging over them
came 200 more Marines in 40
Sikorsky helicopters applying
vertical envelopment tactics,
similar to those carried out in
World War II by gliders and
paratroops.
Six Marines and six soldiers
rode out the blast in trenches
well in advance of the main
body of . troops. Authorities
would not disclose their dis
tance from ; the,, blast. ' Nine
volunteers were stationed 2,-
500 yards from ground zero
in a previous test. l
' : The - exercise . commander,
Brig. Gen. William C. Bullock,
said there were no casualties.
(Concluded en Pass (, Column I)
Reds Tear up
Hew Clothinq
Pusan VP) Chinese prison
ers of war about to be returned
to their fellow Reds are de
liberately ripping their j new
clothing appaently aaother ja .
their long series of attempts to
embarrass the United Nations
and furnish fodder for antl-al-lied
propaganda. : , , ,
. Dozens of Communist photo
graphers and reporters have
been at negotiation sessions at
Panmunjom. They are expected
to be on hand when the actual
exchange of sick and wounded
begins at Panmunjom Monday
morning. . .
The Reds undoubtedly will
try tD make propaganda use
throughout the world of pic
tures and word descriptions of
Chinese Communist prisoners
in dirty, ripped ' clothing
clothing thai three days ag
was new.
Both the Chinese and North
Koreans POWs who will be re
patriated to the l Reds next
week were issued' new Army
type clothing ; by- the U. , N.
Command Just before they left
allied prisoner camps on Che-
Ju and Koje Islands.
Red Prisoners
Riotonlsland
Pusan, Korea VP) Allied
guards armed with shotguns
killed four Communist prison
ers and wounded 45 in putting -down
a bloody riot by chant
ing, rock throwing captives on
Yoncho Island Friday after-
noon, the U. N. prisoner of war
command announced.
No. U. N. security personnel
were seriously hurt
' Yoncho is near Koje Island
off the tip of South Korea.
The POW command said the
incident began when prisoners
lined up in a stockade for a
routine inspection refused to
allow the compound command
er to inspect the barracks.
Defiant prisoners barricaded
themselves In their quarters.
Allied guards threw concus
sion grenades to break down '
the barricades and non-tnxln
irritants to force the prisoners
out of doors. . t "
At an apparently pre-arranged
signal, the command
said, prisoners in seven neigh
boring compounds poured out
of their barracks to stage a
shouting, chanting, rock-throwing
demonstration.
Perfect Alibi .
1st J. J. Stanklewlcz pleaded
innocent io a speoing charge.
"I'm quite sure I wasn't speed
ing because my wife yak-yaks
If I drive too fast," he told
Judge Albert Carruthers.
Carruthers believed him. '
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