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65th Year, No. 110 tSffASS
Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 8, 1953
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Senator Told
Budget Can't
Be Balanced
Humphrey Says
National Defense
Won't Be Sacrificed
BOY GOVERNOR SWORN IN
MlimSJb temkBhsi
::ployer$ in
Die Saved
$15,000,000
; - 10,708 Employers As-
signed Lower Unem
' 1 ployment Tax Rates
i , By JAMES D. OLSON
; With the average unemploy
y neat compensation rates edg-
tag lower, savings to Oregon's
. severed employers are expect
' eC to pass 615 millions In 1953,
. . according to the state anem
; yleyasent compensation cora
t salaalon Friday. This the com-
mission added, would bring the
i: total savings to employers for
., II years of experience rating
- close ; to the $100 million
! mark,
t Unemployment taxes based
' on covered payrolls that may
. total $1,300,000,000 this year
slop at $10,968,760, lowest since,
i
, ana comparing wnn pay
ments to insured workers ag
gregating .$16,132,400 in the
past 12 months.
- Below Normal .
. Rates below the normal 2.7
'' percent will go to 10,708 iirms
In 1953, while f,244 others
have the requisite four years'
! experience but lack the neces-
' lary reserves. : The remainder
of 5,034 concerns are newly
. . covered.' . ,
Nearly half of the employ-
, ers sharing in this year's re-
ductions are paying at the low
est rate of 0.3 per cent, while
. 2,631- others have been assign
ed rates under one percent
This group of employers enjoy-
iug the reduced rates will pay
to the benefit fund only $2,
868,866 as compared with . a
' normal assessment of 2.7 per
il cent) of $15,485,129. .
(Osatinned on Face 5, Colamn )
stiver Weekend
i f f Mostly fair weather and
(lightly warmer temperatures
I'-; re in the offing for tonight and
I" Saturday in Salem and vicln-i-f
lty following a week that has
'(" Offered , weather pranks of
i March, albeit it is May.
The five-day forecast calls
' .: for some showers probably by
i late Sunday, otherwise, fair
f weather and little above nor
' temperatures.
. Thursday really "cooled off"
' for Salem, the maximum go
ing only to 56 degrees, against
: a maximum of 87 earlier in the
Showers continued through
Thursday with a total of .07 of
: an Inch of rain measured in
Salem for the 24 hours ending
at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Summer-Like
v Weather Rules
.!' " ' Br The AuoeltUd Prui)
' : More rain fell today in the
eastern quarter of the coun
' try and in a few sots In the
northwest, but fair and pleas-
: and weather was general in
i most other sections of the
i country. .
It was summer-like in wide
' areas of the mid-continent.
' Fair and mild weather pre
: vailed over the Mississippi
: valley from the Canadian bor
i I' der to the Gulf. It was 86 in
s ? Puluth, Minn., yesterday. Fair
' leather also was reported in
; the Great Plains, Central and
v Southern sections of the Hock
.; les, along the Pacific coast
i i slates and the southwest.
' Showers hit areas from the
I southern parts of the Great
i s Lakes region eastward through
! ' News York, Pennsylvania and
t New England. Thunderstorms
f; ! were reported in the south
! 'eastern states but the only
i- ;area meorting fairly heavy
' (alls was Miami with more
' than a half inch.
j Christine Hopes to
h llarry Some Day
v' Los Angeles Christine
; Jnrnpn. who was George
Jorgensen before a series of
operations in Denmark, hopes
f to marry some aay.
' , But the has no boy friends,
' only acquaintances, she told a
- mtwAeA nress conference
I Thursday In advance of her
debut Friday as a stage enter-
J tamer.
Weather Details
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Washington VP) Secretary
of the Treasury George M.
Humphrey told Senators Fri
day the budget for the next
fiscal year cannot and should
not be balanced.
Chairman Wiley (R-Wls.) of
the Foreign Relations Commu
te reported this after Humph
rey testified before the group
opposing any cuts in the
foreign aid program beyond
those already made by Presi
dent Elsenhower.
"Although I am distressed
that we cannot balance the
budget this year I do not be
"?,Ye tt should be balanced,"
Wiley minteH the Trentnrv
Wiley quoted the Treasury sec.
retary as saying.
f'The risks that would in
volve our security would sim
ply be too great"
Wilson Agrees with Humphrey
While Humphrey was before
the senators, Secretary of De
fense Wilson told the House
Foreign Affairs Committee he
is giving a Afresh look" at
(Concluded an Page S, CoL 8)
Laborites Gain
In City Elections
London VP) The Labor Par
ty rolled up sweeping gains
Friday both in London and the
provinces in local council elec
tions In England and Wales. As
a result, laborites are expected
to step up demands for new
national elections.
The nearly ' completed re
turns dealt a sharp blow to
Prime' Minister Churchill's
Conservative Party. Voting be
gan Monday and was conclud
ed Thursday. Labor's gains also
swept out much of the small
Communist representation, on
the councils
Voting in London was for
the composition of 28 borough
councils. There was no contest
in 24 of the city's 353 wards.
Identify Four
CollisionVidims
Harwich, England W Po
lice announced today tne
identification of three Amer
ican women and one German
killed in the British steamer
Duke of York during a North
Sea collision Wednesday. An
other American, an air force
lieutenant, is missing and be
lieved drowned.
The American victims were
identified as Miss Gllda Jor
det, 49, of Rocky Ford, Colo.;
Miss Bernlce Viola Larson,
49, of La Crosse, Wis., and
Miss Ann Spring, 29, of Hon
olulu, Hawaii.
Miss Spring's body was iden
tified by a fellow traveler,
Richard Healey. She was a
U.S. government employe in
Germany.
A spokesman for the U.S.
Third air force said the Amer
ican missing and feared
drowned is Lt. Dale Cheney
of Kellogg, Idaho. He was
traveling from Germany to
Britain and was believed to
have been on the Duke of
York.
Cities Told to Watch
Cost of Liquor by Drink
City administrations of Ore
gon were aavisea inursaay
night to keep a careful check
on the cost ol liquor law en
forcement after liquor-by-the
drink becomes effective May
11.
If the cost Is greater than un
der the present system, then,
the cities were told, the League
of Oregon Cities should go al
ter another 5 per cent cut from
profits of the net liquor com
mission revenues.
The advice came from Mayor
Edwin Johnson of Eugene, pre
sident of the League ol Oregon
Cities, in his address before a
reclnnal meeting of the league
in the Minor Room at the Ma
rion Hotel.
The mayor had reference to
the present law, enacted by the
1949 legislature, whereby cities
receive s Der cent of that profit.
They asked for 10 per cent at
- ' Am-
West Germany
To Ratify Pad
Bonn Germany After two
weeks of behind-the-scenes po
litical maneuvering, parliamen
tary officials reported Friday
nieht the way has been cleared
for West Germany to ratify the
Europeau Army treaty.
) Minister - President Gover
nor Reinhold Maier of Baden
Wuerttemberg, who controls, a
decisive block of votes in the
Bundesrat upper house of par
liament has agreed that his
chamber will vote again May
22 on the treaty to recruit 500:
000 German soldiers for west
ern defense, these officials said,
Maier's five votes in the 38-
member Bundesrat tipped the
balance against the army past
and the companion Allied-West
German peace contract wnen
they came up for a vote April
24.
The nonularly-elected Bun
destag lower house of parlia
ment already has approved tne
treaties.
Slayer of Five
Gets Lawyer
Canandaieua. N. Y. W Fred
Eugene McManus, admitted
slayer of five, respectfully
agreed to accept court-assigned
counsel Friday as he made a
brief appearance in State Su
preme Court on a first-degree
murder charge.
The 18-year-old Valley
Stream, L. I., youth, who seem
ed calm and rested, was in
court only a minute. Justice
H. Douglass van Duser ad
journed the case until Wednes
day, and indicated that he
would assign counsel, accept
McManus' plea and set a trial
date at that time.
State liquor revenue alloca
tions to cities come from four
sources; namely, manufactur
ers' and Importers taxes; per
mlt fees; 5 per cent of the net
liquor commission revenues;
and license taxes.
It is estimated that alloca
tions from the first three sour
ces will total $882,000, or $1.03
per capita, during the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1953.
President Johnson covered
the field of municipal problems
in his talk and predicted that
in the next 10 years Oregon
cities would expand as much by
annexation of outlying districts
as they have in the last 10
years, which, in his own city
of Eugene has almost doubled
the city area. The area of Sa
lem also has expanded widely
by adding new acreage and
residential and business devel
opments.
,YMCA Boy Governor Kent Hotaiing of Eugene was
sworn in as Boy Governor of the State of Oregon at 10:51
a.m. Friday by Chief Justice Earl C. Latourette, Oregon
Supreme Court. A speech by Governor Paul Patterson
and Boy Governor Hotaiing followed. The picture below
: shows Governor Patterson being escorted into the legis
latyve hall by Romaine Lovelace of Reedsport and Merle
Greenstein of Portland.
Boy-Governor Opposes
Voting W-Year-Olds
. , ; . : By DAVID
" ''The members pt this legis
lature will be the future lead
ers of this state and our na
tion. This nation has been
strong in the past and it will
be stronger in the future,
thiv:gh the combined efforts
of us and others like us wno
strive to put forth ideas of a
democratic society," Boy uov-
ernor Kent Hotaiing of Eugene
Voice Official
Resigns Post
Washington OT William O.
Johnstone, Jr., quit Friday as
chief of overseas operations for
the State Department's Inter
national Information Program,
which includes the Voice of
America.
He is the second top deputy
administrator to resign since
Dr. Robert L. Johnson, former
president of Temple Universi
ty, took over as head of the
information service.
Reed Harris, the other depu
ty, stepped out last month. Har
ris had tangled with Sen. Mc-(
Carthy (R.-Wis.) over his work
for the Voice program. "
Johnstone told a reporter his
resignation had nothing to do
with the current shakeup of
the information service.
He said he submitted it sev-
eral day ago for "purely per
sonal reasons," to be effective
Friday.
Benson Denies
Hitting Supports
Washington VP) Replying
to congressional criticism,
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son denies that he is attacking
present farm price support
programs or Ignoring Presi
dent Eisenhower's campaign
nromises.
He said so in a letter to Sen.
Young (R.. N.D.). one of Ben
son's critics, who made the
letter public Friday.
Along with other farm state
lawmakers, many of them
democrats, Young had pro
tested that Benson was attack
ing the price supports enacted
by congress and appeared to
be in conflict with Eisenhow
er's public statements.
"As far as the price suppon
program "is concerned," Ben
son wrote Young, "I construe
my position not as that of at-lo-Wlnff
the nresent price SUP-
Dort program, but as that of
searching for something bet
ter."
. . 'A
I
BLACKMEB
told members of the YMCA
Youth Legislature assembled in
the house of representative
.1 1 1. PUnl Kllll.
!,r
""'-'I..- Mm
views of legislation before the
lawmakers, "I am not In favor
of lowering the voting age to
18. 1 make this statement after
careful consideration of all the
facts at my command. Eighteen
year olds are capable of vot
ing intelligently, but the large
majority of us, though we may
be capable of fighting a war,
have not the maturity or ex
perience to vote wisely on mat
ters of not only our state and
country, but also of the world."
Governor Paul Patterson
spoke briefly to the YMCA
legislators and termed the leg
islature as "a worthwhile
project." "I urge you to take
your legislative lesson here se
riously as the state of the na
tion Is not good," the governor
said.
Friday afternoon the bills
were hashed over Dy me
youths in the various eight
committees.
(Concluded on Page 5. Colamn 4)
Mary Pickford
Here Saturday
Mary Pickford, one of the
great personalities of motion
picture history, will visit Sa
lem Saturday, in connection
with a nation-wide campaign
of women volunteers to sign up
savings bond buyers under the
bond-a-month plan.
She will drive here from
Portland during the forenoon
and attend a luncheon being
arranged in her honor. Mrs.
Paul T. Patterson, wife of the
governor, will be an honored
guest. Miss Pickford will leave
shortly afterward for Eugene
where she v111 board an even
ing train for California.
Americas swcemeari- is
associate - national chairman
of the Womcn't Crusade for
Security, of which Mrs. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, wife of the
president, is honorary national
chairman. She Is making the
official tour to contact those
who will take part in the com
ing drive, which will be this
month.
Miss Pickford left Washing.
ton, D. C. March 31 after being
received at the White House by
Mrs. Eisenhower and then at
tending a dinner in her honor
at the Mayflower Hotel. Her
original schedule called for
visiting 12 leading cities but in
Oregon her Portland stop was
shortened to permit going. to
Salem and Eugene.
Red Invasion
Of Laos Ends
With Retreat
Hanoi, Indochina W) The
end of the communist Invasion
of Laos, without a major bat
tle and virtually without cas
ualties, seemed to be just
around the corner Friday. So
far lt has been one of history's
strangest tries at conquest.
Communist -led Vietminh
troops which overran one-
third of the Indochlnese king
dom in a 25-day march were
continuing to pull out of the
heart of the little mountain
state, heading towards the
Black and upper Red rivers
in northwestern Indochina,
their original jumpoff bases.
Due to Supply Problem
The French thought the
communists had run into sup
ply problems. -;
Well-informed, non-military
sources said the Vietminh al
ready has withdrawn two di
visions, half their initial in
vasion force, . into northern
Laos and the tempo of the
movement is increasing. The
vietminh began ta attack on
Tjin. w. .n ,mai ,
divisions, or more than 40,000 1
soldiers. . I
(Concluded an Face (, Column I)
Egypt on Suez
London iP) Britain . has
warned', Egypt that talks on
evacuation.. of , Britain's Site
Canal ministry base may col
lapse unless Premier ' Naguib
backs down on his demand for
Egyptian control without
f strings attached. British In.
formants said Friday.
Sources In touch with the
flagging. Cairo discussions in
dicated Britain's ' negotiators,
Ambassador Sir Ralph Stev
enson and Gen. Sir Brian Rob
ertson, told Naguib Thursday
that only a softening of what
the British describe as Egyp-
tioan stubbornness could open
a way to further takls.
The parleys, which started
in the Egyptian capital April
27, have teetered on. the edge
of a breakdown since Wednes
day when they were recessed
without setting a new meet
ing date.
Cat! for Bids on
Umpqua Road
Portland (IP) The Bureau
of Public Roads said Friday
that bids would be opened here
May 22 on two bridges on a
timber access road in eastern
Douglas County.
They are on the Steamboat
Creek Road, which connects
with th North Umpqua High
way about 40 miles east of
Roseburg. One will be a 165
foot structure across Canton
Creek, the other a 120-foot
spon over Steelhead creek .
Reclamation Bureau
Projects Eliminated
Washlnaton (Pi Reclama-i
tion Bureau officials have told
the Senate a proposed appro-
priatlon cut would eliminate
one-third of the bureau's pro
ject investigations planned dur
ing the coming year.
The cuts voted by the House
also would have drastic effects
on additional project investiga
tions, the officials told a Sen
ate appropriations subcommit
tee at a hearing Thursday on
Interior Department appropri
ations requested for the year
beginning July 1.
Former President Truman re.
quested $6,250,000 for Recla
mation Bureau project surveys,
investigations, engineering, re.
search, and planning. The Ei
senhower budget cut it to 4
million, and the House to 2
million.
3 Red Migs
Damaged in
Ait Battles
Seoul VP) U. S.' Sabre jet
pilots damaged three Commun
ist MIGs in battle high over
Northwest Korea Friday. It
was the first time in eight days
Red fighters ventured across
the Yalu River from their Man
churian sanctuary.
There has been speculation
that Red pilots were being put
through an intensive loyalty
check because of a U. N. com
mand offer of $50,000 to Com
munist fliers delivering MIGs
to the Allies with a $50,000
bonus for the first plane.
U. S. Seventh Division in
fantrymen smashed a Commun
ist attack by possibly 300 men
on Porkchop Hill in the biggest
action in days along the stag
nant ground front.
Red Proposal
Being Studied
WnsVilnotnn (PUThe United
States was reported Friday to
have instructed the United 1
Nations command in Korea to
seek clarification of some pro
visions ox uit ciKiivpuiufr cum-
munist plan for . handling
prisoners of war after . an
armistice. - s
Authoritative Informants in
dicated that this step was pre
liminary to the expected for -
mulatlon of U.N. counter - pro
posals which would aim at:-
1. Eliminating a section oximoXrow that the communists v
the communist plan, under I give a firm guarantee against
wnicn communist roianu ana
Chechoslovakia would be per-
mlttea to put troops into sown
Korea for the purpose of help
ing handle prisoners of war
who refused to go some,
2. Providing some arrange
ment which would assure free
dom within a. reasonable .time
for those POWs, now estimat
ed at 48,500; who refuse to
return.. .
President Eisenhower, who
held an -urgent conference on
the Korean . truce situation
with his top military and dip.
lomatie advisers late Thurs-1
dnv. met with his full cabinet
in regular weekly session ti
day and had further oppor
tunity to discuss the situation
with top pollcymaners.
Twin Jet Climbs
63,668 Feet
London VP) A Brftish twin-
jet Canberra bomber climbed
to 63,668 feet, bettering tne
world aircraft altitude record
by 4,222 feet, the Royal Aero
Club announced Friday.
The flight was made last
Monday from Fllton airfield,
near Bristol, with W. F. Gibb,
assistant chief test pilot of the
Bristol Aeroplane company,
at the controls. The plane
was fitted with Bristol Olym
pus engines.
The present record was set
by Britain's John Cunning
ham on March 23, 1948, in a
Vampire jet fighter. He reach
ed 59,446 feet. It took Gibb
45 minutes to climb the full
altitude more than 12 miles.
Bureau officials said the
House reduction would force
elimination ol surveys ana in-
vestigations during the next
year including surveys of the
Clark Fork Basin in Idaho and
Montana, Lower Klamath
River and adjacent basins in
Oregon.
Investigations of the Chief
Joseph Dam and greater Wen-
atchee division in Washington;
Upper Burnt River project, In
Oregon, Minidoka project in
Idaho.
Investigations in Alaska in.
eluding the Lawing, Susitna
River Basin, Wickersham,
stream gauging on Wood Can
yon and Yukon River Basin.
Sen. Watklns R. Utah told
the committee the Utah dele
gation will back a move to re-
I store investigation funds which
'were cut in the House.
Most Complex
Test Yet Held in
Nevada Desert
Las Vegas, Nev. VP) In
one of the most complex atomio
tests yet held, a powerful A
bomb exploded Friday over a
make-believe forest and simu
lated military installations at
Nevada Proving Ground.
As a record contingent of
100 Air Force' planes circled
high overhead, the bomb-drop-
pea from a B-50 bomber
burst at about 2,500 feet above
Frenchman Flat with a bril
liance that outdazzled the day
light at 7:30 a.m. PST.
Two thousand Army troops.
200 military and - Industrial
observers and 15 congressmen,
stationed at 9,800 yards near
ly . six miles from the blast,
came through unscathed, the
Atomic Energy Commission re
ported. , . , .. f ;
Forests and Bunker '
The pine tres were brought
to the site several weks ago and
arranged to simulate a forest
on the dry desert floor. There '
was no immediate account of
eHect on the forest,
(twmunwa on race S. Column 7)
Truce Meeting
Set Saturday,
1 Panmunlom, Korea e).B .
- xhe United Nations will d-
lmand at a truce meeting to-
i any attempt to force repatrlac
tlon of anti-Red war prisoners.
m was understood tonight.
The demand would be made
in reply to an elgHT point com
munist proposal on disposition
of the anti-Red prisoners
which the Peiping radio hailed
as laying the basis for "imme
diately bringing up." '
it is Deueved that lt. uen.
William K. Harrison, senior '
V.N. truce delegate, will give
the allied reply to the chief
communist - negotiator,' - Gen.
Nam II, at a truce meeting
'scheduled for 11 a.m. tomor
row, 7 p.m.. today PDT. ;
Harrison is expected to fire
at Nam a series of searching
questions as to the commu
nists' real intention in pro
posing that the fate of the
anticommunist prisoners who
refuse repatriation be put up
to a political conference.
Buenos Aires
Bomb Blasts
Buenos Aires VP) A bomb
exploded . in a Buenos Aires
suburb early Friday, injuring
four persons. It was the 14th
bomb explosion set off here la "
two months.
The latest incident followed
series of arrests by police
and a claim Wednesday that
they had broken a plot by
politicians to terrorize the
city. New arrests Friday In
cluded leaders of the Conserv
ative and Radical parties,
which oppose the government
of President Juan D. Peron.
The latest explosion occur ;
red shortly after midnight In
a residential street In Bel
grano, causing Injuries to three
pajsersby and an elderly man
sleeping in his home next
door. There was no imme
diate explanation for the
bombing.
Seventeen persons were re
ported arrested Friday, bring
ing the estimated total to 167
in the past few days. Police
said they found stores of
bombs and other weapons in
raids on some politicians'
homes.
$40 Million Loan to
Japan to Buy Cotton
Washington VP) The export
Import bank announced Fri
day that arrangements have
been completed for a 40 mil
lion dollar loan to Japan to
be used for the purchase of
American cotton.
The loan Is at 3 per cent
Interest and il to be repaid In
15 months. The export-Import
bank has made the funds avail
able to the Bank of Japan
I -ft
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that time, but got oniy nan.
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