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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1953)
OREGON b ! TTTIBrtAKf THE WEATHER. PARTLY CLOUDY tonight, Wednesday. Little chance In temperature. Low tonight, J!: high Wednesday, 40. Capital AJournal ores! Fires osses in r53 Word Low Reports May Establish National Mark in gig Timber States By JAMES D. OLSON Oregon had the lowest forest damage during 1SS3 in lorir a nan century, accord- Lr to a report made public hesday by the State Board ot LtMlry- fire losses on me jj million ls 01 umoermna protected Lthc state board and its co Cerating private patrol asso latioii were the lowest since tied A total of 1,507 acres CjbUshed in 1911, the report bled. A total oi l.au acres Ue burned over, and when L reports are tallied it may national record lor low IB damage aiming uie Dig tber states. Caused Fires Low Only 792 forest fires occured uring the 1953 fire season, the qiort states. Lighting started !3 of these and 369 were man uised, and could have been reventcd. Percenta g e w I s e nly 47 per cent of the blazes ere man-caused, an outstand ij improvement over previ us years and well below the ational average of nearly 90 ir cent. Host favorable fire record, e report points out, was Lide by 38,000 loggers who lorked in 12,000 logging oper lioni, and were charged with K49 fires. Untied on Pate 5. Column 4) loard Created or Augusta, Ga.OT President penhower today created an pergency board to head off a krratened strike of more than million railroad workers rep- tented by 15 non-operating ions, The union members all arc Lea employes as clerks and kick walkers who don't work the moving trains, The dls- lute affects 150 railroads oper ning throughout the country. Creation of the three-man pergency board means that bier terms of the Railway La ta Act the 15 unions are land from striking for a 60- ln period. fiienhower s vacation head- larters here said the members hi the board will be named in lew days. During the 60-day no-strike kriod the board will hold hear- to and recommend settlement genu. 65th Year, No 309 Pearl Favors Partnership Power Plants New Bonneville Chief Calls Policy Benefit To Northwest Seattle OT-The new Bonne ville Power administrator a.. scribes the Eisenhower admin- airauon s proposed "partner ship" policy tor public and pri vate development of power a nappy medium." Dr. William A. Pearl, select ed by Secretary of the Inter ior McKay to succeed Dr. Paul J Raver in the $14.800-a-year Bonneville post, said the poli cy should be of "benefit to the Pacific Northwest," to which he said he is dedicated. the soft-spoken, mild-mannered director of the Institute of Technology at Washington State College expressed his views in a hurried interview Tuesday. He said the confer ences are in connection with his WSC post; the conferences on Bonneville affairs will come later. The first shot from an official critic of his appoint ment appeared to wound the new appointee sharply. (Continued on Pate 5, Column SI Labor Leader Slams at Pearl Portland OT William Way, president-elect of the Portland Central Labor Council, said Monday, night at a brief coun cil session that Dr. William A. Pearl, newly appointed Bonne ville administrator, "is not a friend of labor and what it stands for." He also was critical of In terior Secretary McKay, say ing McKay had sold the West short. He did not elaborate and most of his remarks were con cerned with unemployment in Oregon and elsewhere. He said the outlook is clouded by "the growing spectre of unemploy ment." a ateoad alaaa aaum. ( SZ Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 29, 1953 FIREMEN BATTLE FLAMES NEAR MT. WILSON 78 Pages Price 5c J3EC3 0 1953 HOME EDITION ft? 'aW 4 1 fl -in "s , n ' - J 1. t .. '1 2' . r 'VI 4 h Freezing emperatures Near freezing temperatures ut some sunshine during the py was the rhid-week weath F picture, while new snow is tited in the high Cascades. I Tuesday morning's minimum hu 34 in Salem with pros- ct it would be lower, at the wing mark of 32 tonight. Five-day outlook calls for w normal temperatures with M to moderate precipitation r the end of the week. The Timberline area report i I foot of new snow this wrnine and all motorists trav- r'ag to Mt. Hood are advised carry chains. Chains also ft idvised for most of the rn regions. The hiehwav renort also atat- p the Alsea-Deadwood high PV is closed by a slide 17 pta north of Deadwood. Below freezing temperatures 'tn reported Tuesday morn--I it all Eastern Oregon Mats except The Dalles. nother Slide on 'ii'ii ai i. hi Near Dallas Mlas. Ore. (JFi Recent 'a touched off another slide hu city's Reservoir Hill. 1 action of the hillside cov t more than three acres uPPed 20 feet and cut t road to two houses. hillside has been sli-v '"I more than a vtif Ex- pa believe the reservoirs will r 6 thro.!... Ikn.flb J they are built 'over bed- Andrews to Succeed Lynch Portland U.R Frank E. Andrews, assistant division en gineer, will become acting di vision engineer of the U.S. Bu reau of Public Roads with head quarters in Portland Jan. 1, W. H. Lynch, the present division engineer, announced today. Lynch will retire Dec. 31. Andrews has been with the Bureau of Public Roads since end of World War I. He had charge of construction of a sec tion of the Mt. Hood Loop high way near Zig Zag, Ore., and in 1921 was placed in charge of the Missoula, Mont., office of the bureau. Since 1933 he has been principal assistant to the division engineer in Port land. Queen Gives Awards To NewZealanders Auckland, Mew Zealand (JP) Queen Elizabeth II present ed honors and awards Tuesday to 60 New Zealanders for serv ices to the nation and to the British Commonwealth. The investiture ceremony was held in Auckland town hall. The young monarch, now visiting New Zeaiand on her world commonweaitn tour, used a sold sword and a dub- bina-stoll brought from Lon don. Weather Details k, J" V narar, sit alahnai - 1 -"-" xa-aaar Sfaafanauaai i aamal, S.S1. Saam JaatlM. ia aa, - t a- 2; u ' Snarl at U.S.' Waalaar I signers. Manpower Policy Sketched Augusta, Ga. JP) President Eisenhower Tuesday outlined a federal manpower policy de signed to channel more defense contracts into areas "where there has been a large amount of unemployment. Eisenhower said in a state ment that the policy recently was set forth in a memoran dum which Arthur S. Fleming, director of the Office of De fense Mobilization, sent to key government agencies handling defense purchasing. The President voiced "full agreement" with the policy, which James C. Hagerty, Eisen hower's press secretary, told newsmen was being made pub lic for the first time so far as he knows. The policy set up standards for channeling more defense work to unemployment areas and provides for rapid tax am ortization capital investment in defense work in those areas. Most Wanted Man Captured New York OT One of the FBIs most wanted men, an armed robber who has spent all but a fraction of the last IS years behind bars, was ar rested early Tuesday on a tip from an alert citizen. The FBI here and in Wash ington announced the capture of Charles E. Johnson, 46, at Central Islip, N. Y., in Long Island's Suffolk county. He was brought here and held for arraignment in Brooklyn on a charge of violating the federal bank robbery statute. Johnson, on the 10 most wanted fugitives list since last Nov. 12. was picked up at Cen tral Islip by FBI agents accom oanied by local authorities. No further details were dis closed by the FBI. Los Angeles, Dec. 29 County Firemen Caroll Thomp son and George Hull spray a brush fire creeping up side of a canyon near Mt. Wilson in the San Gabriel mountains where two forest fires are being fought by 1,000 men. The flames were reported less than a quarter of a mile from the observatory and television towers on Mt. Wilson, but high winds which have fanned the blazes have abated. (AP Wirephoto) Some Headway Made in Fighting Forest Fires Petitions Aimed at One-way Street Grid Court Street, 11 than 100 names hadipany been signed at noon Tuesday signers. to tie itions aimed against Burnght Cleaners & Dyers. Monday afternoon. They were: nign, i placed at eight places in uic intended to bring pressure on tne city Los Angeles, (JPl Weary crews gained headway Tues day against a late season for est fire which- menaces; Mt.' Wilson's famed observatory and a multi-million dollar television transmitter area. "It looks a little better," a To Discontinue Piston Bombers Washington W) The aircraft industry probably will deliver its last piston engine bomber next year, says Dewitt C. Ram sey, head of the Aircraft In dustries Assn. Ramsey, in a year-end re view issued Monday night, said the U. S. aircraft industry during 1953 for the first time produced more jet-powered military airplanes than the pis ton engine variety. During the year, the Indus try delivered its last piston en gine fighter, he said. All fight er craft now in production are of the speedier jet engine type. "At least four new jet fight er models will reach volume production during the coming year and deliveries of jet bombers will continue to in crease," Ramsey said. "Production of jet aircraft by year's end may comprise 75 per cent of the monthly mili tary aircraft output. "In all probability the last piston engined bomber will be delivered during 1954." Rhee Calls on Allies to Join In Driving Reds from Korea Dulles Hints Retaliation On Indochina Exchange of Refugees to Start March 1 Washington OT Secretary ot State Dulles hinted Tues day that U.S. sea and air forces will retaliate directly if com- are monist China openly inter venes in Indochina or renews the fighting in Korea. In a news conference dis cussion of President Eisenhow er's decision to pull two divi sins out of Korea, Dulles em phasized that this government might meet renewed aggres sion in Korea or open inter vention in Indochina by strik ing at the aggressor forces in places outside of Korea and Indochina. He said that while Ameri can power in terms of foot sol diers in Korea is on the de cline, its power in terms of other elements, obviously new weapons, is being increased. (Concluded on Past 5, Column 1) Tokyo OT The U. N. and Communist commands agreed Tuesday to begin exchanging civilian refugees next March 1 at Panmunjom. Most of the displaced persons Koreans wanting to go north or south, a number be lieved to run into the thou sands. Only a fe foreigners are expected to ask for ex change. These may number a few missionaries and Chinese traders caught in Korea when the war started. A U. N. command announce ment said agreement on the plan was worked out Tuesday at a short meeting of the joint committee for assisting the re turn of displaced civilians. federal Forestry Service spo kesman said. But he expressed fears that anticipated high winds Tuesday night may wipe out gains made in 48 hours of rugged work. More than 1,000 men bat tled this fire in the San Gab' riel Mountains and another in the same range 20 miles east below Mt. Baldy. The two big blazes have burned over 13,000 acres of valuable timber and watershed land and the denuded slopes now pose a flood threat when much needed rains arrive. Flames flared within 200 yards of observatory structures Monday night. Battalion Chief William A. Sherrill reported lots of ash was falling on' buildings atop the 5,800-ft. mountain but "no hot stuff." Winds were light Tuesday, but the Weather Bureau fore cast strong gusts off the desert late Tuesday night or early Wednesday with gusts up to 50 m.p.h. Firemen say there is no hope of controlling the Mt. Wilson fire during the night. Approximately 2,500 per sons were evacuated at the height of the fire, but the For estry Service said danger to homes now is only slight. Indict Shoulders Perjury Charge Kansas City OT An indict ment charging perjury was re turned late Tuesday against Louis Shoulders, former St. Louis police lieutenant, by the federal grand Jury investigat ing the disappearance of half of the Greenlease kidnapping ransom money. A 12-page indictment was delivered to Judge Richard M. Duncan. .. , It charges Shoulders on Oc tober 28 gave false testimony while under oath to the grand jury which then was investi gating the kidnap-siaying of 6-year-old Rnbby Greenlease. The testimony of Louis Shoulders," the indictment stated, "as he then and there well knew and believed, was untrue and false in that the suitcases containing the ran som money were not taken in to the police station at the time and in the manner alleged in the testimony by Shoulders." Baby Townsend Plan Opposed Ike Acts to Aid Jobless Areas Augusta, Ga. (U.B President Eisenhower today ordered the government defense agencies to spend more federal dollars In areas where there has been a large amount of unemploy ment." The chief executive, working from his temporary White House offices over the golf shop at the Augusta National Golf club, this morning sent a mem orandum to the defense agen cies asking that more defense contracts be placed in areas suffering from heavy unem ployment. The memo went to the De fense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission and the General Services Administra tion. In his memorandum to the defense agencies, Mr. Eisen hower threw his full weight behind a plan of Arthur S. Hemming, director of the Of fice of Defense Mobilization, to speed up the tax write off for defense in plants in unemploy ment areas. West Germany Leads in Output Paris OT The 18-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation OEEC reported today West Germany led Western Europe during 1953 in economic improvement and production. The organization's year-end review of European economic trends said West German re covery had been "consider- and its output Increases Ike to Reply to Crepehangers Augusta, Ga. OT President Eisenhower, bidding for sup port of Democrats in Congress, today starts writing a reply to critics among them who con tend business is on the skids. Eisenhower was scheduled to meet at his Augusta National Golf club office with two key aides who have responsibility for planning to avert any busi ness downtrend. They arc Dr. Gabriel Hauge, the president's personal advisor on economic problems, and Dr. Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the three-man Council of Eco nomic Advisers authorized by Congress after World War II. Hauge and Burns brought with them from Washington yesterday a preliminary out line of the economic report which Eisenhower will send to Congress shortly after the lc- niilsnn M.nnunna .Tan A opponent of Hawaii statehood, LAOS OFFICIAL QUITS said last week it might be ne- Vientiane. Laos OT Nhouy 0jTEciccssary for Southern senators jAbhay. foreign affairs minister, Fear Filibuster On Statehood Washington OT Sen. Know land (R., Calif.) Indicated Tues day he would urge continuous sessions of the Senate if neces sary to break up any filibuster that developed on the Hawaii statehood bill. The Senate Republican floor leader told reporters he hopes a filibuster will not develop on the administrati on-backed statehood bill when it reaches the Senate floor next session. The measure already had pass ed the House Decisive War Held Eventual And Inevitable Seoul .OT South Koreas President Syngman Rhee today called on the Allies to halt "fa tile discussions with the Com munists", and join his nation in 'the last great battle to annihil ate thf Red forces that seek destruction of the free world." The fiery Korean patriot, in new year's message to his people that echoed his previous threats to unify Korea by force, asserted a decisive war with communism is "eventual and inevitable" few hours earlier the aged leader pledged to North Kor eans in a new year's greeting, "We will come to your rescue just as soon as we can." He told the people of the Communist-ruled North "nev er do we forget, even in the nightmare dreams that haunt us in sleep, the terrible plight in which you are caught." New Life to Threats The strong statement appear ed to give new life to his re peated threats in the last stages of the war last spring that South Korea would drive alone if necessary to the Yalu River boundai-y. Continued an Faae 5, Column ) Prospects Fine For Libby Dam Washington, OT Rep. Met- calf (D., Mont.) said Monday he believes prospects for con struction ot Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana are "brighter than ever be fore." Progress of the proposed 363 million dollar multipur pose project, however, appar ently is stymied until a new report is filed by Army Engi neers and a check Monday could turn up no indication of when this might come. Libby Dam, intended for flood control and power gen eration, was authorized by the flood control act of 1950 as a unit in a master control plan for the Columbia River Basin. Since the Kootenai flows through both the United States and Canada, the project was submitted to the Interna tional Joint Commission which has jurisdiction over water resources involving the two countries. Washington (JPi The United KtAtpx rhamher of Commerce 1 able' today found its proposal to , were "clearly superior to that nnalifv ftvat million mnra nlrler i of other large countries. citizens for social security pen- Britain's economic situation sions attacked in an econom-ilo improved in a "striking ists' debate as a "baby Town send Plan." The proposal, part of the Chamber's plan to put social se curity on a pay-as-you-go ba- sis and halt federal aid lor di ctation at rect reli, of tne ,gedi wa, ar. 5 signers. ' B1JMi before two of the 10 eco nomic societies in session here rmincil for repeal of the one way grid system. They are not t is expiainea. m in manner, the report saia, ana Italian industrial production gained about 7 per cent. French output dropped. OEEC said that West Ger many not only increased her overall production but also raised the level of her invest ments and her public and pri nt k. .n..kr.inMninff vate consumption W. Camobell. reaearch econom-! As to Britain, OEES report- :.. n.nk-Mi ed that after two years of rela k.( ik. .-,.,.1 ..r.iritv tair'tive stagnation, production is Gaglc's Union ... -t- I Ct... j...,.tu.n hnuness aisinci vnun.1. u" ' .7 u. hv. The netitions are ...Hnr. i nrv mav uc oiriivm j anyone who doesn't like one way traffic. rru nUrM where the petl- J. UC ua-va-a. . I lions have been left and me ; " 11Bi.i, on state I .hmilri he allowed to rise to 2 Increasing and unemployment number who nas'gn" i highway routes that had been percent as scheduled on Satur-! on the downgrade. snomjr jet up before the one-way grin i day. were: i M.rferri er.'wa established. President Eisenhower 1 a s t Stevenson ',oro 'J T ,rP not initiative peti-1 session asked congress to freeze ice station, 619 Court ' h.vp , measure the contribution at lVj percent olaced on the ballot would re-leach on workers and employ ...!.. ,.r 2303 names. lers. Congress did not act. HUr - - 35 signers. St. Clair's Associated Sta tion. 290 N. High, no signers. Walter H. Zosel Company. Chemeketa and North High. 10 To have a measure the contribution at 1 h percent on the ballot would re-leach on workers and employ ..... oinn names. lers. Congress did not act. The petitions now offered to Some have speculsted he might list the following again aik for a freere. retro Evinces againit the lyitem: , active to New Year'i Day. alter I ., , . cmimmm l) Congress reconvenes. Stiff furniture Com-1 (CanUneed en fage a, caw I CI BA MINISTER RESIGNS Havana, Cuba OT Ernesto de la Fe. Cuba's m in liter of information, resigned Jait night. He 'gave no reason and it was not immediately known wheth er President Fuliencio Batista would accept the resignation. To Replace U.S. Pilots in Europe Wiesbaden, Germany OT More than 10,000 American airmen in Europe will be re placed by European civilians under a new economy pro gram. The switch will free about $36 million for activation of new air force wings in the United States. U.S. air force headquarters said Tuesday. A similar program report edly will be carried out in the U.S. Far Eastern Air Force. An air force snokesman said against of the liltle Indochincsc king-.that in Europe, 10,662 airmen dom of Laos, resigned Tuesday wjH be replaced bv a total of in protest at what he said was! g nil civilians. The remain- failure of the French to keep him fully informed on the com- to speak ' at length" the bill. Knowland said he thinks the bill is "a controversial piece of legislation that will have and should have adequate consider- munist-led Vietminh attack on ation and debate. ' I his country. Cliff Lewis Named as Assessor for County ing jobs will be eliminated. He stressed that key Ameri can technical personnel will not be changed and that the program will not reduce com bat readiness of American air power in Europe. Officials pointed out that thousands of European civilians have been doing an excellent lob as U.S. air force employes for the past few years. Clifford A. Lewis was ap-! suited in the Northwest Terri- pointed county assessor by un-!tory joining the United States. animous vote of the Marion Lewis experience in tax col- County Court Tuesday morning .lecting and assessing includes and was immediately sworn ! service under Babe Ncedham, . ln nffire bv County Judac and Ben West. Rex Hartley "I do not expect to make any i Ted Brown fired his night Lewis was chief deputy for, radical changes in the opera-i jailer Monday after the first 10 veara under the late Tad tion of the office, said Lewis , nreaK-oul irom me -monin- Shellon who died suddenly last after being sworn in week. He had been associated 1 He added that he was in full with the assesisor's office fori accord with the reappraisal 17 V4 years during Shelton'i re-1 program recently worked out gime Shelton was known to between members of the Mar have held Lewis In high esteem 1 ion County Court and the state and confided in him during re- 'tax department. I cent yean Indicative of the harmony r. nmu aessor ik a native exifctinff In the assessor's office born Oregonian, the grandson lis a resolution filed with the Tuesday was jentencea ny tir of Reuben Lewis, one of theCounty Court Monday and cult Judge G. F. Shipworth to mn who took Dirt in the signed by 11 employes. ifour years in prison for bur- Cbunpoeg balloting which r t-1 (OasUnaad oo rag , Celtsu I) Iglary. Eugene Police Chief Fires Night Jailer Eugene M'l Police Chief old Eugene jail. Brown said he was dismiss ing F. W. Stephens because of failure to shake down the cell of George Townsend. 18, and so discover a spoon and an iron bar Townsend used in burrow ing from the cell. Townsend was captured within hours, end , ' "