THE WEATHER
FAIR tonight aa
W.y. Little clung, in Urn"
By-passing of
TownsFavored
Af Hearing
Majority of Witnesses
Support Highway
Engineer's Choice
By JAMES D. OLSON
Stay tan (Special) By-nass-inr
ot Stayton, Sublimity and
Aumsvllle by the proposed
North Santiam highway from
Mill City to Salem, was favor
ed by the majority of wit
nesses appearing at a hearlnf
before the state highway com
mission here Thursday mora
ine. Considerable difference of
opinion on two proposed
routes for the highway has de
veloped in Stayton, a Cham
ber of Commerce poll held
early this month showing 314
citizens favoring a route on
tfit edge of Stayton and 182
in favor ot the route located
about one and one-half miles
north of Salem.
However, the route favored
by the highway engineers aft
er exhaustive surveys, seemed
to meet with the favor of the
majority speaking at the hear
ing. Action Explained
Further, R. H. Baldock, state
highway engineer said, con
struction of the highway on
the route proposed by the
highway engineers would cost
$74,000 less than the route
closer to the town.
No witnesses appeared from
Sublimity and only one from
Aumsville, William Rauscher,
who expressed favor for the
outside route.
(Continued on Page X Column 5)
'
Labor Surplus
Noted Today
A season that Is admittedly
from one to three weeks late,
plus an unusually large num
ber of migrant workers, has re
sulted in a surplus of seasonal
labor in this vicinity. This sit.
ation exists as of today-.
However, it is entirely pos
sible that there may be a short
age before the end of the
month.
Persons who are in a posi
tions to size up the situation,
insofar as the snap bean crop
is concerned, are beginning to
feel that this year's crop will
be below the general average.
Involved in the prospective
shortage are aphids which mul
tiplied rapidly during the hu
mid weather, as well as a va
riety of beetles that are be
lieved responsible for a heavy
drop of blossoms.
ine nign marx in picmng as
wen as processing is not ex
pected for another 10 days.
What will happen then cannot
be determined at this time, all
agree.
A question that is causing a
bit of concern pn the part of
school officials is the one of
whether it was necessary to
postpone the opening of school
one week. This, too, cannot be
answered at this time. -
Ex-NW Con Robbing
LA. Bank Wounded
Los Angeles W A husky
gunman shot down In an at
tempt to rob a downtown bank
Wednesday has been identified
by the FBI as an ex-convict
In Oregon and Washington.
Police say Louis William
Hemmert, 34, former Inmate of
McNeil Island, Wash., peniten
tiary entered the main office
of the California bank shortly
before 2 p.m.
At a hospital Hemmert was
reported near death. A bank
guard was released after treat
ment for a minor flesh wound. 1
Reedsport Truck Tips,
Driver Fatally Hurt '
Reedsport W A loaded
gravel truck overturned on
Highway 101, two miles south
of here Wednesday night, fatal
ly injuring the driver, Claude
Hathaway, 23, Reedsport.
Hathaway was working the
night shift for the J. C. Comp
ton Construction Co., which
has contract for a Highway
101 paving job. His truck slip
ped off the pavement and flip
ped ovrr. He died at a hospital
early Thursday.
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Cussing Parrot
Just What This
Woman Wants
Shreveport La. W Mrs. W.
E. Lott said Thursday she can
put a cussing parrot to good
use so she has asked for the
profane parrot which has been
causing blushes at Mcnlo Park,
Calit
The bird has been winging
around Mcnlo Park hurling
choice, . but unprintable, epi
thets at everyone.
This won't bother Mrs. Lott,
if she gets the bird. She said
there are a lot of things at her
farm home near Shreveport
that need a good cussing.
"For instance, the parrot
could help me cuss my dogs,"
she said. She has a dozen Mex
ican Chihuahaus.
"All my life I've wanted a
parrot that could cuss," said
Mrs. Lott, who has never
owned even a respectable par
rot. "When I read where they
were going t6 shoot the one out
in California I wired the sher
iff that I wanted ii." '
600 Carpenters
Eye AFL Issue
Should the withdrawal of
the carpenters' union from the
American Federation of Labor
actually become effective on
a nation-wide scale it would
take between 600 and 700
members away from the AFL
labor organization in Salem.
The total membership of
AFL labor organizations in Sa
lem is around 10,000.
However, Carpenters Local
Union 1065 isn't much excited
over the news, according to A.
C. Thomas, business agent who
has an office at Labor Temple.
"We haven't heard a thing
officially," Thomas said. "Of
course we are interested in the
story as we have read It in
the newspapers, but we will
just go on as we have been
unless something official calls
for a change. And that may
not be for months."
Senate Public Works
Committee Coming
Portland (U.FD The U. S,
Senate Public Works commit
tee tour of the Northwest dam,
river and harbor projects will
bring the group into the Wil
lamette valley Wednesday and
Thursday of next week.
Members were scheduled to
leave Washington Saturday and
arrive in Boise the same day.
During the first part of the
week, the group is expected to
look over the Hells Canyon site
on the Enake river. The sena
tors Wednesday will stop at
The Dalles and Bonneville dams
on their way to Portland.
The Thursday itinerary in-
eludes inspection of Wilamette
valley projects, Including De
troit dam, Lookout Point dam
and coastal habor projects as
far north as Longview, Wash.
They plan to lunch at Eugene.
Disabled Vet Credited
With Saving Child
Portland UJ9 A disabled
war veteran was credited today
with saving the life of a six-year-old
boy who suffered
severe shock when he plugged
in a floor lamp.
The boy's mother, Mrs. Wal
ter W. Hunter, said her neigh
bor, Frank Leary, rushed to
her aid when she called for
help. Leary applied artificial
respiration until the lad could
be given medical attention.
Reshuffle of US, State
Taxes Hard to Achieve
By A. L,
(Subititutlnc lor Fiul w. Htnrer.
Reshuffling of the nation's
tax stru-ture, as proposed by
President Eisenhower, is a re
form more easily proposed than
accomplished, in the opinion
of tax experts around the Ore
gon capitol,
Especially is this true, these
experts point out, if lt is pro
posed to reserve certain reve
nue fields for the federal gov
ernment while giving the states
t free hand in others.
While it is true that the Pres
ident's program is still In the
"investigation" stage, with sev
eral cpmmittees delving into
the problem, this appears to be
the' general Idea back of this
recent proposal for tax reforms.
Gov. Paul L. Patterson, who
attended the governors' confer
ence in Seattle last week, said
the governors appeared to be
unanimously In favor of Uncle
Sam withdrawing from the
gasoline tax field, but there
was no discussion of shifts in
other tax fields.
Capital A-Jonirma
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Year, No. 192 ZZJJZfJZ Salem, Oregon,
U.S. Tourists
Stranded by
French Strike
4,000,000 Workers
Out, Food Short,
Epidemic Feared
Paris amr-Hoarding and the
fear of epidemics were added
today to the hardships result
ing from the French general
strike affecting 4,000,000 work'
ers.
All public transport and util
Hies have been paralyzed and
thousands of tourists, including
10,000 Americans, are strand
ed. Frugal French housewives
were hoarding food, threaten'
ing a further squeeze on an
estimated 100,000 tourists who
already were reduced to eating
box lunches.
Gasoline was disappearing
from the market, with indica
tions that fuel hoarding might
halt the scanty, makeshift
transportation still available,
Today tne strikes, sparked by
labor's objections to the econ
omy program of Premier Jo
seph Laniel, had spread from
nationalized industry and pub
lic works to private enterprise.
(Continued en Pare 5, Column 7)
$35,000,000
Fire af CM.
Detroit VP) A 35 million dol
lar fire roared through the
General Motors Corp. trans
mission and instrument plant
in suburban Livonvia late yes
terday, leaving a charred build'
ing.
Two men were killed, more
than a score injured.
One GM official, who esti
mated the damage cost, said
that production In the Cadillac,
Oldsmobile and Pontiac plants
would be hit An estimated
45,000 workers may be out of
their jobs temporarily.
The fire raged for three
hours before it was brought un
der control. Within another
hour the dead were brought out
of thebuilding. They were:
Lt. Killiam G." Degner. 43,
acting chief of the protection
force of the Ternstedt instru
ment division located in a wing
of the building.
Danny Staley, a production
worker.
Most of the injuries were
slight.
Vote Sought Under.
Oregon Picket Law
Portland-Mi Will Masters,
Portland attorney, said Wed
nesday the first petition for a
bargaining election under the
1953 Oregon Legislature's anti-
picketing law has been filed at
Salem.
The petition was by attor
neys for Dwight D. Battey, op
erator of a Grants Pass restaur
ant. It asks the new state labor
elections board to determine
whether the 18 employes of the
cafe in May, 1952, when a
union contract expired, want
the Medford AFL Culinary Al
liance to be their - bargaining
agent.
TO CHARGE MURDER
Madras u.R A first degree
murder charge will be filed
against Reginald Winishut, 24-year-old
Warm Springs Indian,
in the slaying of Jeff Walsey,
52, also a Warm Springs tribes
man. District Attorney E. D.
Harris said today.
LINDBECK
Jr. AjmcMKS PtiH Corrupomuntl
Oregon's governor said the
state would gain millions of
dollars in revenue If the federal
- t would withdraw
from this field and let the states
pick up additional revenue.
Records of the State Highway
Department show that In 1951,
the latest year for which any
statistics are available, the fed
eral government collected from
Oregon motorists $7,209,000 In
gasoline and dlesel taxes.
Uncle Sam's total take from
Oregon motorists that year, In
cluding the tax on lubricating
oils, automobiles and trucks,
tires, tubes and accessories was
nearly 19 V4 million dollars.
-At the same time the federal
government gave back to this
state $7,422,464 in federal aid
for highway construction and
maintenance. Thus, in this deal.
Uncle Sam had a gain of nearly
12 million dollars.
True, the federal government
spent $2,756,000 on forest roads
(Continued an Fagt 5, Column 4)
Miles Sesld B&diMI Lied PsIs&SGik
Mm W&B2
Greek women, one carrying her baby, leave a rescue
boat at Piraeus with salvaged belongings on arrival from
the earthquake-wrecked island of Kefallinia, off the
western coast of Greece In the Ionian Sea. All available
craft were engaged in rescue work today as tremors shook
the Islands of Zakynthos, Ithaca and Kefallinia for the
fifth successive day. Unofficial estimates placed the death
toll close to 1,000 on the three quake-ravaged islands.
(AP Wirephoto via radio from Rome)
Quakes Convert Ionian
Isles to Terror Spot
Athens, Greece VP) Severe
earth tremors for the fifth day
turned Greeces pleasant Ionian
Islands- into a place of terror
Thursday, .
Billowing fires swept earth
quake swept Argostolion, a
city of 10,000 and the island's
chief port, was "beginning to
sink under water.
The Athens newspaper Katlv
erini quoted reports from the
port as saying some sections
of the town's waterfront were
being submerged slowly.
The U. S. heavy cruiser Sa-
Onion Group Joins
Idaho Program
Ontario, Ore. U.K Members
of the Idaho - Oregon Onion
Growers Association voted last
night to join with the Idaho
Advertising Commission to pro
mote their crops.
Abput 100 growers attended
a special meeting to discuss a
slumping onion market.
It was agreed that the Ore
gon growers, all of them In
Malheur county, will vote later
to decide on an assessment to
finance the advertising pro
gram carried out bj the Idaho
Commission.
Israel Revolutionizes
Educational System
Jerusalem VP) Israel today
revolutionized its education
system. The Knesset parlia
ment adopted a law establish
ing a unified state system to
replace former party-controlled
schools.
Beginning this autumn, the
school term in 3,000 schools
which had been divided among
four party "trends" labor,
general, religious and ultra-religious
will be unified under
a standard curriculum.
The issue over the school
system had caused two Cabinet
crises in recent years.
ASHLAND GARAGE BURNS
Ashland SM -4. two-alarm
fire destroyed the Busch Mo
tor company building here ear
ly today and endangered a con
gested one-block business area
before it was brought under
control. There was no Imme
diate estimate of damage, but
firemen reported the structure
and everything inside was a
"total loss."
Thursday, August 13, 1953 32 Pages Price 5c
EARTHQUAKE REFUGEES REACH
41
At
4Af
lem arrived in the disaster
area with food and medical
supplies. It radioed this des
cription to London headquar
ters: "All villagers on the Is
land of Kefallinia levelled, ex
cept for reinforced concrete
construction which shows seri
ous cracks.
"People in panic and fear
island will sink. They refuse to
enter buildings to obtain avail
able equipment and are gather
ed in groups near each town.
No fires observed. Evacuation
appears impossible pending
opening inland roads. Provid
ing food and water and medi
cal teams most urgent task."
Greek officials said, -ho w-
vcr, that reports that all Ke
fallinia was "sinking" were
greatly exaggerated. They said
their best information was that
such reports were based on ex
cited messages arising from
the crumbling of quake-dis
placed cliffs.
American personel at Ke
fallinia reported to the embas
sy here that two small villages
were seen to crumble Thurs
day morning, but no details
were reported.
The disaster centered at Ke
fallinia but also struck hard
at Ithaca and Zakynthos, two
other of the Ionian Islands off,
Greece's west coast.
There still was no official
estimate of the dead and In
jured among the 120,000 peo
ple of the three Islands.
Oregon Wheat Men
Will Vote Tomorrow
Portland VP) Oregon farm
ers will vote Friday in na
tion-wide referendum on wheat
marketing quotas on the 1954
crop.
Polls will be open from 9
a.m. to 9 p.m. in 107 commu
nity voting places In 34 coun
ties. More than 11,000 farm
ers are eligible to vote In Ore
gon.
If the quotas are approved
nationally by a two-thirds ma
jority, government price sup
port loans will continue at 90
per cent of parity. This year's
loan price was $2.43 in Port
land. Approval would reduc Ore
gon wheat acreage about 26
per cent with penaltiei of
about $1.20 a bushel for ex
cess production. About 400,
000 acres would have to be di
verted to other crops.
SAFETY
1 .'
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11 Fires All
Under Control
Oregon's state forestry de
partment had reports on' 11
fires Wednesday in -areas com
ing under their jurisdiction, but
all were under control.
Largest of the 11 fires was
a slash fire In Coos county
which was seven acres In size
before it was brought under
control.
Of the 10 other fires one
other was in Coos county. The
others were located in Clacka
mas-Marion; East Lane; Lin
coln county; Polk county; twd
In western Lane; one near Mit
chell; and one in the La
Grande area.
Forestry weather reports In
dicated that the fire - hazard
would become greater Instead
of better today and Friday.
Temperautres" in the valley
area were to be a little higher
than Wednesday and humidity
was predicted at from 25 to 33
percent.
Gentle winds were predicted
for Thursday but by Thursday
night and through Friday they
were to be northeast becoming
easterly.
EUGENE MEDIC DIES
Portland U.B Dr. Squire
Smith Bozorth, 59, Eugene,
died yesterday at Emanuel hos
pital. Dr. Bozorth was an eye,
ear, nose and threat specialist
with the Bo Dine-Cantril clinic
here from 1932 to 1946. For the
last six years he had lived in
Eugene and was on the staff of
the University of Oregon In
firmary.
Snoqualmie
Engulfs Big
North Bend, Wash., W A
huge rock slide thundered
down a Cascade mountainside
east of here early Thursday
and swept a loaded gasoline
tanker from the Snoqualmie
Pass Highway. The driver was
killed.
He was Identified as Ernest
Supplee, ot Seattle, driving for
Lee & Easter, Inc.
The State Patrol reported
the gasoline - laden tanker
burned after the avalanche of
rock carried it down the
mountainside, to the route of
the old highway below. It was
about two miles west of the
summit.
The patrol said there was no
evidence of any other vehicles
being struck by the slide,
which occurred after 4 a.m.,
but is was a possibility.
Both the regular highway,
where construction work is
under way to widen It to four
lanes, and the old route about
200 yards below it were
Peiping Threatens to
Hold All Accused Men
(Br Tha AuoeUteS rmi)
Panmnnjom (jP) The Allies
Thursday tent back the last
Chinese Communist prisoner
who wants to go home despite
a United States threat to with
hold tome Bed captives.
Teen-age Boy
To Grand Jury
A ward of the Marion coun
ty juvenile court, 17 years old,
is held for grand jury investi
gation In connection with the
recent death of Kenneth
Cross, 4, another ward of the
court' ' . - r
The two boys were both liv
ing with the George Williams
family at Pratum and no one
else was at home on July 31
when the younger boy was In
jured, lapsed Into a coma and
was taken to hospital where
It was necessary to keep him
in an iron lung. He died Au
gust 4. . . -
The older boy's lint story
was that while they were
playing the youngster fell and
bit his head on a aand box.
District Attorney Kenneth
Brown said that after the
death of the younger boy the
other told another story of the
affair. '
According to hit state-
ment," said Brown,' "he made
the Cross boy get into a swing
that he was afraid of, and he
kept twiglng him higher until
he fell out. Later he com
plained ot a headache, but the
older boy forced him to box
with him. At one time during
the day he said he became ir
ritated at the crlet of the little
boy, and while washing - his
face put the wash rag around
his neck and twisted It"
Examinations were said to
have revealed bruises about
head, neck and face.
Merc Reaches
92 In Salem
High temperatures continued
for Salem and area Thursday
and drying east winds continu
ed to be a threat for forest
fires.
Salem's maximum was 92 de
grees, Wednesday, three below
the previous day's record for
the season. The maximum for
Thursday was due to be around
90.
The forecast calls for slightly
lower temperatures, Friday, al
though the fair and dry weath
er will continue.
Medford again was the
warmest spot In the state Wed
nesday with a maximum of 100
degrees. All interior sections
of Oregon, .both west and east
ot the Cascades, listed tempera
tures in the 90s Wednesday,
only coast regions reporting
lower marks.
Danger ot forest tire con
tinues high, and in some sec
tions lightning storms are ex
pected to augment the menace
tonight and Friday. Afternoon
logging operations are out in
many sections as the sun dries
out the forests and humidity
readings are at danger point
Slide
Tanker
closed. One highway
official
estimated it might
mean a
closure ot at least two weeks.
State patrolmen estimated
the slide was about 500 feet In
width, with a depth up to IS
feet on the main highway, and
extending possiblly 1,200 feet
or more down the rocky bluff.
Supplee's body apparently
was thrown clear of the tank
er. His burned billfold was
found a short distance from
his body.
The slow moving tanker
was east bound from Seattle
to Wenatchee. A second truck,
a beer carrier, was only about
200 feet away when the aval
anche roared down across the
highways, the patrol reported
from the scene.
Traffic on the main east
west highway was being stop
ped at North , Bend and at
Easton.
When the route could be
opened remained In doubt
F I N A L
EDITION
The transfer was mada even
as the Peiping radio was de
claring it had the right to bold
back Allied prisoners charged
with various "crimes" and
jailed after the armistice was
signed. Returning, prisoner
have said the prisoners were
jailed on trumped-up charges.
The united states la retali
ation had declared it would
withhold some Red prisoner
charged with various crime
until Communist intentions '
wore known. Presumably,
those to be withheld would be
among the 80,000 North Ko
rean Reds still to be exchanged.
However, it la generally be
lieved Red China runs the
show In Korea and i mora
concerned with getting back Its
own men than North Koreans.
Another 400 prisoner cam
back from Communist prison
camps to this truce village
Thursday.
Prisoners freed today In the
ninth day of the great POW
exchange were 75 Americana,
73 British and 230 South Ko
reans. Most of the repatriate ap
peared healthy as they bounced
from the Red trucks.
This was the first large
group from Camp 1 at Chong
song. Almost all POW re
turned previously were from
Camp 5 at Pyoktong on tha
Yalu river.
(Continued an Page f, Celama
Merchants to
Aid State Fair
" A letter ha gone out from
the -Salem Chamber of Com
merce to merchants of the City
suggesting that t eon tribute
23 cent per fro7 footage to
ward street decoration for tha
State Fab-.
Arrangement are being
made to decorate the streets of
all the business districts.
The chamber has received
many favorable report from
merchant on the buslnea value
ot the fair of the last two year
when a special effort in local
boosting was made. The fair
board has asked that the co
operation be continued and the
board of directors plana to go
all out in the effort.
'It it suggested," says the
letter, "that an equitable way
to distribute the cost of decor
ations is for each merchant to
contribute at the rate of 35
cents-per frontage foot of busi
ness space, or with the same
amount you gave last year."
Erroneously the Capital
Journal said . Tuesday that a
contract for decorations had
been let to Charles L. Wake
field of Portland. The contract
hasn't yet been let but tha
Wakefield firm has contract
in some other valley cities,
Ike Moves Against
Job Discrimination
Denver W) President Els
enhower Thursday created a
new government committee to
help prevent any hiring and fir
ing discrimination on jobs cov
ered by federal contracts.
At the same time, Eisenhow
er abolished a somewhat simi
lar committee which former
President Truman set up Dec
5, 1951.
The president signed an ex
ecutive order at his vacation
headquarters establishing a 14
member government contract
committee.
The committee, to be named
soon, will be made up of rep
resentatives of these agencies:
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion, Commerce Department, .
Department of Defense, Justice
Department, General Services
Administration, and the Labor
Department.
The other eight members
will represent the public gen
erally and will be named by
Elsenhower. White House Press)
Secretary James C. Hagerty
said there will be tome Ne
groes in the group representing
the public.
JAIL FOR TAKING FOOD
Berlin fy East German
food seekers brought word on
Thursday of a three-month jail
sentence given a Soviet loner
for bringing an American food
parcel back from West Berlin.
It was the first report here of
such a penalty.
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