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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1953)
L Capita THE WEATHER CLOUDY. RATHER windy; In termittent rain tonight, Satar day. Little change la temper ature. Lev tonight, it; high Saturday, It. FINAL EDITION : rrh Yswir KJn ? --" ' ilm Ornftn Friday. DetfjmrMr 11 1953 ?i Pnam uft03UO 3a0 -i - rntum om. mmm - - --- . - , . - - "'""IneTl Raver to Quit Bonneville for Seattle Post . . , . -1 B PA Boss Slated to .Manage Northern City Light System ; HER TRIP IN VAIN ' 1 Hqucit & Son of Salem Ion tiatimicAn.Hnvactnlla unh Hew Meiers Causing Much Much Trouble Devices Chosen Be 1 . cause of Low Price Bring Headaches v Br STEPHEN A STONE A batch of parking metcn that Um Salem City CouneU voted to buy became they were cheaper than any ether are firing trouble. . , Member! of the city admin istration let this be known Fri day after hearing the com plaints of repairmen and po licemen tor weeks. - - - . The meters causing the head aches have the trade name of "Unimatic," and are made by the Karpark Corporation of Cincinnati. A mechanic from the company that sold the met era to the city has been here recently and left here for Gold Beach where the meters also are said to be giving trouble. Before leaving, he said he was going to ask the factory to send an engineer to Salem to see what can be done to relieve the trouble here. The purchase was made from the H. D. Fowler Company of Portland. ; lot Meters Ordered Complaints against the met ers include these: That they become jammed by the coins inserted in them; that they fail to give proper parking time; that in rainy weather like Sa lem has had recently they fill with water; that they can't be repaired on the street, and have to be removed from the standards and taken to the city shops. Another complaint . beard in a few instances is that when the car owner was in the act of inserting the coin the meter kicked it back into the street . The city ordered 300 of the meters and over 200 hava been installed, mostly in the two hour zones, a large part of them In the vicinity of the Capitol (Continued on rare 5. Cohans I) Six Perish on Capsized Tug Vancouver. B. C W) Six men were feared to have drowned Friday when the tug C. P. Yorke smashed onto a reef and capsized, SO m id e s northwest of here. Brief wireless reports said one survivor had v been picked up- A fleet of small ships which answered the SOS call at 2:30 a.m.. PST, were searching storm-lashed Welcome Pass for other crew members. The lone survivor was re ported to be Capt. Rly Johnson, of Vancouver. He struggled in the icy water for more than an hour before being picked up. The tug was apparently tak- lng shelter from the battering storm when she struck the reef. She was towing a barge at the time. An official of F. M York and Son, said it "went right down and the barge she was towing moved over the ship and sheared off the deck house." The reef is located on Thor manby Island, near Pender Harbor. Its perpendicular sides are recognized as the most treacherous in the area. "That reef can roll a ship over in a flash," a company official said. Radar Speed Test Held Leoal Tacoma t The Judicial barriers are down in Pierce County at least for radar as a speed measuring device. Superior Court Judge Bart lett Rummell ruled Thursday that radar-gathered evidence in speeding cases is admissible in court His ruling resulted in Sgt Earl McCann of Ft. Lewis being found guilty but a SIS fine was suspended because of McCann's "cooperation" with authorities in bringing the test case. Judge Rummell agreed "with the state, represented by Don Watson, assistant to the state attorney general, that the radar devices now being used in va rious parts of the state do not violate, the 1S37 "speed trap" law. The Legislature, the Judge said, had in mind "the preven tion of abuses of laws by cer tain small towns which have Justice courts functioning on a fee system . . . The court can see little difference in whether an officer follows the car and measures the speed on a spee dometer or uses this radar de vice to measure the speed. Beattli VP) Paul I. Raver, for 14 years administrator ef the vast Bonneville rawer Ad sinistra tloa. is slated to bt saDeriatesdest. at Seattle's hnuaicipauy owned City Light Mayor Allan ' Pomeroy Thursday nominated Raver to the S15,000-a-year. post and early city council confirmation is regarded as a certainty. The Raver appointment com pletes a "triple play" in the Seattle-Bonneville administra tive shifts. The late J. D. Ross originally shifted from the top city light post to be BPA ad ministrator. Raver succeeded Ross at Bonneville in 1939. E. R. Hoffman succeeded Ross as head of city light Now Raver Is named to succeed Hoffman, who is giving up the city light superintendency after the first of the year. - I Rumors that Raver planned to leave BPA had circulated for several weeks. , After Thursday's announce ment by Pomeroy, Raver issued a statement saying he would regret leaving the BPA post. (Continued on Pars , Column 4) Malibu Fire: Under Control Los Angeles WV-Winds es timated at 70 miles on hour Friday helped firemen confine a grass and brush fire to a single canyon three miles north of Malibu Beach movie colony. County - Fire Chief Keith Klinger, who made the veloc ity - estimate, reported the fire contained but not con trolled after blackening 400 acres including a quarter-mile area along the Coast Highway. Several families, warned by firemen of the flames' ap proach, voluntarily left their homes but later returned. A garage and a -shed were destroyed. No other damage was reported. Klinger said the winds sweeping seaward down the length of Corral Canyon helped hold the fire within that can yon. He denied a previous re port that the fire had Jumped over into adjoining Solstice and Latigo canyons. Rain or Snow In Central West (Br The Auociitd Hrml More rain or snow was In prospect for wide areas in the mfddle part of the country Fri day but clear weather prevailed in most other sections. Rain during the night spread northward into Texas and Louisiana and appeared headed northeastward to extend to Southern Illinois by Saturday and continue along the Ohio River Valley. Light snow fell in Northern New England, sections of Min nesota and in the Northern Rockies. Snow hit the Denver area Thursday, with falls meas- uring four inches. Highways were reported slick with blow. ing snow making visibility poor in some areas. Rain continued in the far northwest part of the country. . Coldest weather was in the Northern Rockies with temp' eratures around zero in some spots. Strong Support Given New Social Studies The statewide committee of i pose to produce a good, con educators, which is preparing a structive manual for the teach new social studies outline for Oregon high schools, was given strong support Friday by the American Association of Uni versity Women, Oregon Con gres of Parents and Teachers, and the Oregon League of Women Voters. Representatives of the three groups appeared before the committee, which held the last of its series of public hearings Now it will draft the outline. using Its tentative Outline as a base, Answering criticism voiced at a previous meeting that th'e tentative outline doesn't teach enough patriotism. Rex Put- nam, state superintendent of public instruction, said: "It it this committee's pur- 4l& Why Mother Barred From . Seeing Gl Son Washington UJ9 Adminis tration sources in Washington said it has been decided after considerable" deliberation not to permit Mrs. Howe to see her son. Sources said the administra tion feared that if Mrs. Howe were permitted to interview her son .that the door would be opened for "phone-y" rela tives to demand to see the 22,000 Chinese and North Ko rean prisoners held by the U N. forces and who also have refused repatriation.-?--v- N. Y. Strike Cost Tens of Millions New York VP) The cost of New York's 11-day newspaper strike ranges to many millions of dollars, but the exact figure may never be known. Booming business since the strike is tending to counterbal ance to some extent the direct losses suffered during a week and a half of idleness, although they never will be made up en tirely. SucTi estimates as are avail able easily run the strike cost figure up to 20 million dollars not counting losses to depart ment stores. Publishers have estimated only that the cost was "incal culable. Tehran University Degree for Nixon Tehran, Iran UP) Troubled Tehran university, conferred an honorary degree Friday on U. S. Vice President Nixon. The -simple ceremony took place behind a tight barricade of soldiers and police and dur ing a Moslem Sunday interlude in a students strike. The student walkout was not aimed at the American visitor, however. They struck to pro test the deaths of three stu dents during a communist-led demonstration last Monday er's guidance. We want the 'course to have an inspirational 'golden thread to enable chil- dren to know that the highest type of patriotism comes through a deep and abiding love of country." Veterans and patriotic organ - izations had attacked the out- line on grounds that it didn't teach enough catriotism. that it shouldn't teach about the! The Police Board president Unitrd Nations and that it Isn't 'said the Charges will be filed emphatic enough against Com- munistic ideas. Chsrles O. Schmidt, Salem, principal of a Junior high school and chairman of the committee, said he has "an obli- gallon to see that youngsters Iget good old-fashioned Ameri- canisra." Mrs. Portia (Howe of Alden, Minn., mother of an Ameri can war prisoner who stayed with the Communists, arrives at Haneda airport near Tokyo and is met by newspaper men. Later she conferred .privately with Gen. John E. Hull, supreme allied commander, who announced he had been "obliged to refuse permission" to Mrs. Howe to visit Korea. Her son, by previous marriage, Pfc. Richard F. Tenneson was one of 22 Americans who stayed behind during last summer's POW exchange. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo) Gen. Marshall Calls for Spiritual Rebirth Oslo, Norway VP) Gen. George C. Marshall called Fri day for a spiritual rebirth to establish anew good;, faith among men as a prime neces sity for enduring world peace. Such a regeneration, the 19S3 Nobel peace prize winner Million Stage Italian Strike Rome VP) An estimated one million government workers struck Friday in a 24-hour show of strength, paralyzing railroad and postal services and closing many schools. The walkout Is the first one of a one-two punch aimed by labor at government and in dustry. Unions, both Commu nist and non-Red, have order ed about three million indus trial workers to strike for 24 hours Tuesday. Government employees, rail, telephone, post and telegraph workers, school teachers and clerks seek higher pay and are protesting against civil serv ice reforms they fear will cur tail their right to strike. Indus trial workers want wage boosts and other benefits. No disorder was reported during the first hours of the strike. Italy's national railway sys tem ground to a virtual halt at midnight, the hour set for the start of the walkout. It was scheduled to end the following midnight. Shoulders Faces Police Charges St. Louis IP) The St Louis Police Board plans to file form al charges accusing former Lt. Louis Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer Dolan of violating regu lations in their handling of the arrest of Carl Austin Hall. Hall, the kidhap-killer of 8- year-old Bobby Creenlease, is awaiting execution in the Mis souri penitentiary Dec. 18. I. A. Long, board president, ila yesterday Dolan has been 'suspended pending hearings for 1 hsm and Shoulders. Shoulders I resigned from the force but the board has not officially accept ed the resignation. j under police regulations. He said the hearings, which will be scheduled later, would not be criminal proceedings, Long declined to reveal the nature of the charges except that they would deal with the, off leers' actions in handling the kidnaping case here, . declared In a lecture at Oslo University Festival hall, should bring good will, faith and un derstanding among nations. The 72-year-old American soldier-statesman, honored for his sponsorship of America s 17 billion dollars Marshall Plan aid to postwar Europe, received his prize Thursday in the same hall. Friday night s lecture was required by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left the money for the awards. Marshall offered these sug gestions for furthering the cause of peace, warning that they held nothing of glittering or early promise: (Continued on Paso 5, Column 4) Ask to Hall Jordan Darri United Nations. N. Y. UP) rne western Big Three were reported readying a call for the U. N. Security Council to day to ask Israel to hold off work on her disputed Jordan River project until she settles the issue with her Arab neigh bors. The 11-nation council was to resume debate today on Syria's charge that Israel is threaten ing peace in the Middle East by plans to shift some seven miles of the Jordan river to a canal largely in Israeli territory which would power an Israeli hydroelectric plant. , A source close to the West ern powers said the repotted resolution would give force to the request by the U. N. truce supervisor, Danish MaJ. Gen. Vahn Bennike, that Israel stop work in the project until both parties to the Israeli-Syrian ar mistice agreement reach some settlement. Willamette River Dropping After reaching a crest of 17 4 feet early this morning, the Willamette river at Salem was dropping, being down to 17.2 at the 7 a m. reading. It will fait slowly the next day or two. Flood stage here is 20 feet. All valley rivers will run fairly high during the next few days, the drops to be slow. The five-day forecast from the weather bureau calls for more rain, tapering off by Tuesday or Wednesday. Tem peratures will be slightly above normal. A new storm wss reported moving Inland from the ocean and small craft warnings were ithla morning. flying I 0 Bohlen Urges Ike's Proposal Upon MolotoY Washingtea VP) V. 8. Am bassador Charles Bohlen per sonally presented to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov Is Moscow Friday President Eis enhower's proposal for an in ternational atomic pool, for peaceful, purposes.. Be hit a urged the Bussiaa leader to recognise its "importance and seriousness." The state department, an nouncing this development de clined to describe Molotov's re action. A spokesman said that as far aa he was informed there has been no response" from the Soviet government to the plan which Eisenhower outlined in a U.N. speech Tues day. Preview Is Given A Moscow dispatch Friday said Bohlen gave Molotov a preview of the main points of the speech on Monday. The state department spokes man said the "no response" sit uation did not rule out some (Coatbmd as Page S. Column 4) Churchill and Laniel Return London VP) Prime Minister Churchill and French Premier Laniel flew Into London Fri day from the Bermuda Big Three conference. ' Laniel and Churchill shook hands warmly for the wel coming crowd at the airport This appeared to be an effort to scotch reports they had dis agreements at Bermuda. ' Laniel, who suffered Iuni infection in Bermuda, con tinued the flight to Paris. Churchill, 79, looked espe cially fit for bis years. He told newsmen: "We have had a wonderful flight much better than on previous occasions." Back home, Churchill faces a threatened revolt In his own Conservative Party over gov ernment policy In Egypt. Thirty Conservatives have signed a motion opposing ne gotiations with Egypt over withdrawal of troops from the Suez Canal Zone. They have threatened to raise the issue in foreign affairs debate next week unless given assurances the troops will be kept in the zone. LanielDenies Big 3 Friction Paris VP) . Premier Joseph Laniel returned Friday from the Lermuda conference and ridiculed talk of any French- British friction at the confer ence. . Laniel said he had been sur prised at Bermuda "to learn how part of the French press excessively dramatized certain aspects of the conference." "To say that Franco-British friendship is passing through a crisis now is sn absurdity and it is easy to see who that would benefit." Laniel, who returned In Prime Minister Churchill's plsne, said "our union with our two allies on the big objectives of our world policy is com plete." Laniel. who suffered a lung infection during the confer ence, planned to see his doctor immediately. Witnesses Refuse to Answer in Spy Probe Washington VP) A petite brunette whose former husband was described by Sen. Mc Carthy, R., Wis., as a fugitive espionsge agent refused to say Friday whether she herself has ever engaged in spying- Mrs. Louise , Sarrant, now residing in Ithica, N. Y, was called before the Senate inves tigations subcommittee In Its search for evidence of espion sge at the Army's Ft. Mon mouth, N. J., Slgnsl Corps lab oratories. The trim bespectacled wit ness invoked her constitutional Slow-Down by Red PW s Halts Interviews Panmunjom VP) Allied ef forts to woo home war prison ers who stayed with the com munistsincluding 22 Ameri cans and one Briton were threatened today by Red slow down tactics which forced sus pension of interviews with South Korean POWs. Lt Gen. K. S. Thlmayya. In dian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation commis sion, said SO ROK prisoners would be called up for inter view tomorrow, . Thlmayya suspended the Al lied explanation program Fri day after 25 of 30 prisoners in sisted on making their own explanations to Allied Inter viewing officers. He said that if the POWs re fuse to accept NNRC conditions for the interviews "I'm afraid the explanationi will come to an end." Governor Talks Power Plans (Br UdIUS tmii Gov. Paul L. Patterson said today his sole Interest as far as power is concerned Is to do what-is best for Oregon. His comment came after Al bert Ullman, chairman of the Idaho - Oregon Washington Hells Canyon Association as sailed at Denver yesterday what he called a "huge give away program" of the Republi can administration, and ac cused the governors of Oregon, Washington and Idaho of what he called a "conspiracy to de stroy our river heritage and turn lt ovei; to private utility monopoly." ... i Gov. Patterson told the Unit- ed Press: ' - "As governor of the state ef Oregon, I am snaking a con scientious and sincere effort to try to solve the power needs of Oregon and the Northwest At this time it appears to me that the co-operative approach with the four governors , of the Northwest and the premier of British Columbia is the proper approach. The answer to this cannot be found in the answer to one dam, I am Interested In giving away nothing, and I have no fixed opinion as to the proper, solution." Europe's Army Paris VP) West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Friday vigorously urged prompt establishment of a European army to maintain West Europe's Independence snd to preserve world peace. Adensuer, here to attend a session of the Council of Europe's committee of foreign ministers, spoke In German to a luncheon meeting of the French Diplomatic Press Assn. and the Foreign Press Assn. Obviously aiming his re marks at France whose Par liament is bitterly split on rat ification of EDC, Adenauer told his audience the alterna tive to integration la the status of a Soviet satellite. DRAFT-CALL DROPS . Washington u.B Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson ssid today the February draft call will drop to 18,000 men. That is S00O fewer thsn the number called each month since last summer. protection against poslble self incriminstion when questioned about Communist activities and espionage. She also refused to answer similar questions about her former husband. Francis P. Carr, the subcom mittee staff director, told re porters after the hearing that Mrs. Sarant s husband, AI Sar ant, worked at Ft Monmouth in 1941 and 1942 and was dis missed. Earlier Joseph H. Percoff, now a New York lawyer, swore that he never engaged la es - Centimes ea fate i. Catena 4) Bid on Unit Of Expressway $840,694.50 By JAMES D.OLSON Portland (Special) Boy L. Honck and ton of ilalem, with a bid of f S4t,t4.SV, were ap parent Bueeessful bidden for the grading of lt.lt miles ef the Gervais-Bayesville an It of Salem-Portlaad Express way. 1 The low bid, one of seven bids, was considerably below the highway department's esti mate of f 1.015.043.S0. The bid was referred to the highway en gineer for approval of the U. S. bureau of roads. - Fred H. Slate company, Ltd., of Portland, was apparent low bidder, with a bid of 1159,395. for the grading and paving of . 1.3S miles of highway on the new location of the North San- tlam highway from airport road, near the east limits of Salem, on easterly to the south Lancaster road. Ahead of Estimates '; , A survey of construction progress made by W. C. Wil- -liams, assistant highway engi neer in charge of construction, reveals that the entire 37 miles of the $13,000,000 four lane ex pressway will be completed and in operation In 1935, almost one year in advance of original estimates. . - . (Con tinned aa Pag C Column I) Pravda Reports Slams at Ike Moscow VP) The Commun ist party newspaper Pravda to day published derogatory for eign press comment on . Pres ident Elsenhower's atomic" speech .before the United Na tions. Pravda Itself till had no definite comment r The comments from abroad labeled the speech propaganda and demanded that the United States agree to the Soviet plan of atomic control which calls for nations to outlaw atomic warfare first, and then set up controls. Pravda yesterday published an 800-word summarwof Elsen hower's speech which proposed that atomic powers pool fission able materials and know-bow under the aegis of the United Nations for peaceful develop ment i - ' The newspaper devoted much space today to the Big Three Bermuda conference. It said the conference proved a flop which "only exposed the deep differ . ences existing between the United States, Britain and France." Plan Next Step In Ike's Plan Washington W) The United States, undeterred by Moscow's initial coldness, weighed today the nature and timing of the next step in pressing for accept ance of the Eisenhower plan for an international atomic pool. Officials speculatively point ed out two possibilities for ac tion! 1. A formal request may be made in the United Nations Disarmament Commission for appointment of a subcommittee consisting of nations with atom ic resources. They would hold secret talks on the .plan, as President Eisenhower suggest ed when he presented it to the U N. Assembly Tuesday. 2. Secretary of State Dulles will have opportunity at a forthcoming conference of Big Four foreign ministers la Ber lin to discuss the idea privately with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov if that seems to be a good idea at the time. PANGBORN NAMED Portland UJ The State Highway Commission yester day appointed Arden X. Pang born, editor of the pregon Journal, to f ill the vacancy left on the commission's travel ad visory committee by death of John A. Laing. Weather Details tUf, 4. TaUJ t4-knr tWtMltUli. , 'rjx.'SJ?Zl l tu ti. uvwrt at cs. wua- 1" ""' ; . t t 3 ' !