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Friday, January 1. 1954 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oregon Pag t He Vfear ISM 1 Prea Tennyson's "In Mtnuriim" Bin? out, wild bells, to the wild sky. The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind. For those that here we see no more: Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife: Ring in the nobler forms of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the Rin, The faithless coldness of the times: Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes; But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood. The civic slander and the spite: Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease. Ring out the harrowing lust for gold: Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Rin? in the valiant man and free. The larger heart, the kindlier hand: Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. Local Paragraphs Vocational Day The Salem jRotary Club will observe "vo- talional day" during its week- y program at the Marion Jhotcl next Wednesday noon. Charles Fowler, who will be n charge of the program, will select several members who jwill inform the others con cerning the businesses which (they operate. . Building Permits Foster and Kleiscr, to alter a billboard 't 371 North High, $250. Foster and-. Kleiser, to erect a bill board at 410 Court, $450. Henry Branson, to build a one story dwelling and garage at 50 Piedmont, $9500. Felix E. Reidel, to build a one-story dwelling and garage at 1940 Lewis, $6800. G. N. Fones, to alter a garage at 2292 North Liberty, $500. A. C. Royland, to alter a one-story dwelling at 2 2 09 Mill, $100, Phagen School of Beauty, to alter beauty school at 255 North Liberty, $700. 'Services Saturday lor John Turrenfine 1 Funeral services will be held t the Clough-Barrick chapel Saturday afternoon at 1:30 Jo'clock for John T. Turrentine Jwho died at his home at 535 iBown Lancaster drive Wednes day. Interment will be in Bel jcrest Memorial park. Turrentine. a resident of the Salem area since 1943, had had heart ailment for several years. He was born in Clarks ville. Ark., May 12, 1884. and had been a farmer all of his life. Turrentine resided in Ar kansas until moving to Wash ington in 1937. Surviving are his wife. Em ily Turrentine of Salem: daugh ters, Mrs. Edna Koskie of Sa lem and Mrs. Verna Einert of McCleary, Wash.; three sons, Floyd and James Turrentine, both of Salem and J. T. Turren tine of McCleary; and a grand daughter, Gladys Stettler of Salem. iSMELT RUNNING Portland (VPI A Uintfr run of smelt, one of th irecord, has appeared in the jCowlitz River of Washington. IThey first were reported two weeks ago in the Columbia, into which the Cowlitz flows. jThey are selling at 45 cents a pound here. MILITARY MEN AND VETERANS Monday, January 4 I unit at Naval and Marine Coips ivciscrve irainmg center Company B, 162nd Infantry reRiment and headquarters de tachment rw(ww m . , - . I ... VltRW II , IU II I I Ousrd. at Salem armory. Oregon mobilisation designation detachment No. 1 at U8AR ar mory. Morford Visits Rilvortm, UUU..I w ' , . -"- niivnici munora. elec tronics technician. U.S. Navy ar- ii 5 r,B oi nis parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Morford. Wed- I , -. w aptim iwo weens I"- Morford has been on Ouam i. . " "no iter h il Wn will lu j - karrlir " "ulY " BORN ('? ntwoaut Moftrrrni. MOKRUON-T Mr. IM Mrl. (Morn srrlfea, uia Joct, ad., m ifi. rw it II KUBUIUT. Mr. U4 Mn. D.nl.1 PUr, im Kfkruka at., ttrl JMc. ,?f,AU:T.TT' Mr- "" o ..JL"4 Am.. ilrl. Dm. 11 ACSTIll-To Mr. ind Mn. wllltui M tla, 4 if mint Cttcla, tui. Ok. I Sroufe Reappionted Friday i Gov. Paul L. Patterson Fri day announced the reappolnt ; ment of J. H. Sroufe of Port- land as a member of the Ore j gon Liquor Control Commis- Teller Aided Bank Robber Houston. Tex. (U.R) A 19- year-old bank teller confessed mat ne helped plan the $57, 349 robbery of the Houston National Bank bv a smnnih. working bandit. The confession by the teller, Donny Allen, implicated two other men and a woman in ad dition to the actual robber. One of the men, Johnny Na varro, was arrested. The robbery in downtown Houston went so smoothly yes terday that nobody but Allen and another person recalled seeing the bandit. He entered through a side door, neatly dressed and quietly walked past employes to the vault sec tion. A building engineer in the bank said the bandit winkeri at him while passing him on me stairs. Once inside the vault rnnm the bandit made Allen hand over the money and walked out before Allen could turn in an alarm. The three persons still ad 1 T 1" Hi. ......... T r- ( fi-- wnc uaiiics uavis mucn ell, 23; his wife, Mary Lou, 19, and his uncle, Nick Mitchell, 45. James Mitchell is out on bond on a charge of robbing a grocery store. Paper WwkTn Aid Program to Be Cut United Nations, N. Y. Ml U. N. technical aid officials plan to save- almost tnnn nnn dollars on paper and office WOrK in me nPW VPar Thou win divert tne money to pro jects for backward countries. Office costs fnr 1QM offi cials said Thursday, are to be cut to $3,609,200, down a sixth Ifrom 1953. The saving, $597, 1 00, come mainly from reduc tion of administrative person nel in the seven agencies that i carry out the. aid program. Long Beach Wins in Pasadena Rose Parade Pasadena. Calif. tPi Norh Long Beach won the sweep stakes prize, awarded for the most beautiful float, in Fri day's 65th annual Tournament of Roses. The float, titled "American Heritage," recalled last sum mers Long Beach float in Miss Universe contest and carried "Miss United States," Myrna Hansen, handing the winner's tr.-phy to "Miss France," Chris tiane Martel. The entry, includ ing a floral globe, fleur de lis, fountain and golden eagle, was fashioned of orchids, red roses and white chrysanthemums. A crowd estimated by Chief COURT NEWS Cireuil Court WmB A,ttk Lrtdlni vx. Sfcaldrlt UMIiu. OMer ol mimnul on plalntirc motion. fttchlrd Ooorie Tount i. Arllc LoulRt Taunt: Orr (llllllll M altlaull't notion. u&rern MnriA I - r; p. - II I If www Production of Douglas fir plywood in the western states climbed to 3.5 billion square feet during 1953, establishing new record for the fifth con secutive year. In addition to this British Columbia mills produced 470 square feet of Douglas fir pan els. Western pin plywood was used for 225 million more feet and there was seven million feet of redwood panels. This brought the total to four and two tenths billion square feet of softwood plywood produced in the western section of North America. A total of 155 plywood and veneer plants operated in west coast states and British Colum bia and Alaska to produce this Douglas fir, pine, spruce and hardwood plywood in 1953. In 1954 five more plants wjll come into operation Three will be in Orgon, one in California and one in Mon tana. Two in Oregon are con versions from veneer plants. One more veneer plant is planned in Oregon and one in California the coming year. Tests Doled for Coast Guard March 1, 2 and 3 have been announced as the dates for the next examination of licensed officers of the Merchant Ma rine for commissions in the Coast Guard. Seattle will be the oilv where men from this area can take the examinations. Persons makine annlieatinn for the examination should have their applications post marked prior to February 19 to insure processing for the exa minations. Examinations nr nnen in both licensed deck and li censed engineer officers of the U.S. merchant marine and ap plication forms may be secur ed from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (PTP), 1300 E. street, N.W. Washington, 25, B.C., or from any Coast Guard district office or Marin in. spection office. Commissions will be offered in the ranks of lieutenant (jun ior grade), lieutenant and lieu tenant commander. denenHlnir on age. experience and nrnfes. sional ability. Applicants must be between the ages of 21 and 40 and have served at least four years aboard a U.S. merchant vessel in the capacity of a li censed officer. Allan Rineharf, Businessman, Dies Portland W) j- Allan Rine hart, 47, school board member and engraving company execu tive, died at his home here Thursday after being suddenly stricken with a heart attack. Rinehart, an Oregon State college graduate, was named Portland's first junior citizen in 1937. He was serving his second term on the school board. Survivors include the wid ow; a son, John; a sister. Mrs. Lucille Moore. Prineville. and a brother. Grant Rinehart Nyssa. Tug Pulling Log Raft Sinks in River Portland UP) A 70-foot steel tug pulling a log raft sank in the Columbia river east of here Thursday after an engine room explosion. Capt. Victor Hanson and Ross Pollitt.his deckhand, step ped to safety on another tug that came alongside. The stricken craft was push ed into shallow water where it settled. It will be taken to drydock Monday. of Police Clarence Morris at 1.200,000 persons clustered along the 4 4 -mile parade route. The grand prize, presented for the most beautiful commer cial float, went to General Foods for its float depicting "The Covered Wagon." Cowboy movie actor Roy Rogers was aboard, riding a floral replica of his horse Trigger and fight ing off an attack by four In dians while Rogers' actress wife. Dale "Evans, rode in the wagon. The theme prize for the en try r.ost fltfngl representing the tournament's them "Fam ous Books in Flowers" was won by Minute Maid Corp. The float, tiUed "Cinderella." had a girl depicting that fairy-tale heroine running down a red carnation stairway from a flow ery castle to a blossom-built pumpkin. NEW COMMISSIONERS ( v.7? 'vv. , I 1 -' ... ., .. I At - '.. v',.'' "A John H. Carkin, left, and Stuart H. Compton, who have been appointed by Mayor Al Loucks as members of the Salem Planning and Zoning Commission, Carkin, who has retired as counsel and director of the division of rail transportation of the State Public Utilities Commission, will till out the unexpired term of Frank M. Guerin, resigned. Compton, assistant vice president of the Pioneer Trust Company, will fill out the unexpired term of Milton L. Meyers, resigned, for whom Mrs. Gertrude Lobdell has substituted for a year or more. Reduction in Fatalities in By VICTOR Traffic brought v i ol e n t deaths to only two persons in Salem in 1953 one-third the number of the. previous year and a tying record low for re cent years and the rest of Marion county cut down slight ly with an additional 15 deaths for the year for a county total of It compared to 21 in 1952. The low accident death rate in Salem tied the number in 1949 and 1951 in records kept for the past several years. Traf fic accident deaths in the coun ty have varied in recent years from 36 in 1948 to 15 in 1949 and 1951. Salem was in its 11th month without a traffic fatality and officials were looking forward to a perfect record when 58-year-old' Florence Hodgeson, 2888 Brooks avenue, was struck by a car as she and a com panion walked across the Pa cific highway in the 2600 block of Portland road the eve ning of November 6. She died the following day to become Salem's first victim of the year. Almost a month later, a two car collision at the intersection of Liberty and Columbia streets hospitalized 47-year-old Lester Peterson, 205 South 22nd street, a passenger in one of the cars. He died a few hours later in a local hospital to become Salem's second and Marion county's last fatality of the year. The death of Mrs. Helen Sievers last January 6 was creauea as a Oeath as the accident in which she was injured occurred on December 31 at the intersection of Pine and Cherry streets. Marion county deaths began late in January on a Sunday morning as 53-year-old Rich ard Halopoff headed homeward from Brooks with the Sunday paper and drove his pickup truck into the path of the speeding Southern Pacific Shasta Daylight. He died in- INDO-CHINA A French soldier, his automatic weapon at the ready, moves past bodies of two fallen combatants, during recent heavy action in French Indo-China. The Communist Viet Minh rebels, in a lightning Christmas season offensive, split Indo-China in two. IUP Tclephoto) LUX TOILETSOAP 3 bar. IOC uviN6 curra rURum Traffic County B. FRYER stantly in his battered vehicle. A month and a half went by before 32-year-old Curtis Eu gene Young of Gates lost con trol of his pickup truck and it skidded and overturned near Mill City to make him No. 2 for the year. Eight days later, on March 27, a two-car collision at Clax ter road put Mrs. Donna Ma bry Viele, 2867 Evergreen ave nue, in a Salem hospital where she died April 6 from injuries incurred in the accident. A borrowed motorcycle car ried 22-year-old Emmett Hen ry to his death in a collision with a fuel oil truck in April in the Liberty district south- west of Salem. Fred Winburn, 61, Mill City, became traffic fatality No. 5 when the car in which he and two others were passengers plunged 600 feet off the high way above Detroit lake May 10. Seven days later, the Boone road crossing of the Southern Pacific railroad claimed its first of two fatalities of the year when Joseph Allen Ad ams, 55, Stayton, drove his car in front qf a northbound freight train, causing instant death to the driver. June claimed two victims. Twenty -year-old Clifford Tib bets, Salem, was thrown from his car when it went out of control on slick pavement on Portland road just a block out side the city limits June 11. He died shortly after. A few days later, Mrs. Mary Schmidt of Salem was fatally injured in a two-car collision west of Silverton as she and her hus band were en route to Mt. An gel for Sunday dinner with their son. She was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. The year's only multiple fa tality occurred in July as Grady Edmiston. 27, and his wife Magdalena, 22, were driv ing through Turner and were struck by the SP's Shasta Day- WAR FLARES UVIN6 CENTER MARKETS OPEN NEW YEARS Wrong Man Held in Jail Greenriver. Wyo. UP) The new year has a special meaning for a 26-year-old railroad lire- man who spent the past week in jail because he looks like a wanted murder suspect. Although Sweetwater Coun ty Sheriff Mike Maher had said he was sure Albert Burns was not the man wanted in Buffalo, N. Y., his fingerprints still had to be checked in Washington. Late yesterday word came that the prints were not those of long-sought Ralph Grubii ich. and Burns was freed. Maher said Burns set out im mediately for Evanston, Wyo., to seek reinstatement with the railroad. He had been picked up be cause of a resemblance to the 30-year-old Grubisich, named by two men convicted at Buf falo of first degree murder in the slaying of jeweler Donald F, Hurd, Dec. 9. Night Quiet for Salem Police New Year's eve was one of the quietest in years as far as police work was concerned, , city police repotted Saturday, j In fact, it was even quieter than most normal nights. Only 11 arrests were made from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. most of them on minor traffic vicla tions and no arrests from 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. Only one driver was found who failed to heed safety of ficials to not mix drinking and driving. She was released on $250 bail after her arrest on drunk driving charge. One person was arrested for disorderly conduct after he failed to heed officers' warn ings to quit brawling at a res idence where the police were called. He was treated by city first aidmen for cuts about the face from his fight and was later released on $35 bail. Another person was arrest ed on a drunk charge and one for vagrancy. The other arrests were for running lights or stop signs, speeding or wrong way driving on a one-way street. City first aidmen had a lit tle busier night than usual treating three persons invol ved in fights and a youth in volved in a car accident for cuts about the face. City firemen had it easy without a single alarm being called in in the past 48 hours. State and county police also reported a quiet New Year's eve. The Zulus of South Africa believe that every man is ac companied by an ancestral spirit in the form of a serpent which moves underground. If the serpent dies the man dies and then the serpent comes to life again. light. Edmiston died instant ly and his wife died the next day to make the Salem couple Nos. 9 and 10 on the accident fatality list. In August, Robert Andrew McConnell, 39, Idanha, became the only fatality when his car left the North Santiam high way five miles east of Idanha and plunged 80 feet into Tun nel creek. Thirty lays later, on Septem ber 20, Earl Edwin Miller, 80, Mehama, died a short time af ter his car collided with an other in his home town. Eighteen - year old Fred die Wells, Marion, became the second victim of the Boone Road crossing of the SP tracks when he tried to stop his car and skidded into the path of the streamliner Cascade Octo ber 13 as he was en route to a dinner date with his fiance. He died about two hours later in a Salem hospital. Two days later, a pedestrian became No. 14. Peter Kringen, 78, Wood'ourn, was killed when he walked into the path of a car on the Pacific high way near the north edge of Woodburn. Between the two Salem deaths came that of Mrs. An na Porter, 59, 4850 Rickman road, Salem, when the pickup truck driven by her husband was involved in a head-on collision on the Pacific high way between Woodburn and Hubbard on November IS. She became No. 18 of the 17 deaths. Traffic accident fatalities in the county in previous years were 36 in 1948, 15 in 1949, 20 in 1950, 15 in 1951 and 21 in 1952. Salem had nine traf- two in 1949 and 1951 and sev - en in 1952. WHAT IS ( bishop's tm GOING iliiH TO DO? LOW IN PRICE LATEST JET Test pilot Bruce Jones (facing camera) and his pas senger, A. J. Chadwick, test the new HJ-1 Hilier at Palo Alto, Calif. The helicopter is powered by small ram jet engines at the tips of its 23-foot rotor blades. Engines can be changed in minutes with a screwdriver. A small number of the jet 'copters will be delivered to the Army, Navy and Marines in early 1954. (UP Telephoto) Journal Will Move to 280 N. Church Saturday The Capital Journal plant and office furniture will be moved from its present lo cation at 444 Chemeketa to the Statesman - Journal bnilding at 280 Church street beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, January 2. The Capital Journal will be published there begin ning Monday, January 4 nnder the ownership of Tha Statesman-Journal company, a new corporation just or ganised to operate the two Salem dailies. Serve Notice (Continued fiom Page 1 Officials of the western pow ers are reported hopeful that the Soviets will not seize upon the technical problems which will come up in preliminary discussions on arrangements to stall the conference. The agreement to have the discussions proceed in Germa ny responded to a Soviet sug gestion and is an effort to avoid any further delay. The western powers in a se ries of notes which began last July have several times pro posed specific foreign minister conferences, first at Lugano, Switzerland, in October and again in November. Then, aft er the Soviets chose Berlin as the place, the West proposed that the time be set at Jan. 4. Russia said it was necessary to have more time to prepare. Ike Summons (Continued from Page 1) The officials include Ambas sador Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U. S. delegate to the United Nations; Budget Direc tor Joseph M. Dodge; top pres idential aide Sherman Adams; and several other White House assistants. An llth-hour addition to the team was Dr. Arthur S. Flem ming, chief of the Office of Defense Mobilization and au thor of the administration's controversial program to chan nel defense contracts to areas of high unemployment. Eisenhower personally en dorsed the two-month-old pro gram Tuesday, and his jction touched off a round of angry protests from Southern Demo crats in Congress. They contended the plan will take business away from Dixie firms textile mills, for ex ample and funnel it to New England and other Northern communities with unemploy ment problems. BLAZE DESTROYS EGGS Portland UP) A truckload of eggs got burnt Thursday. The driver of a semi-trailer pulled the big rig off the Col umbia River Highway east of Cascade Locks to fix a flat tire, then the blaze broke out. The truck and its load of eggs were destroyed. For 20 years Lloyd A. Grif fin has traveled 144 miles from Raleigh, N.C. to his old home town at Edenton and back each Sunday to teach a Sunday1 school class. I ""zT,." "T SlUPPY ITOPSWQUAUTYI 'l i 'COPTER' ... I CBCIFHH30fl(l Inductee Group Leaves Jan. 7 This area's first group of in ductees to leave for service for the Armed Forces in 1954 will report at the YMCA Thursday, January 7, for transportation to Portland. They will be in duced in Portland January 8. Seven Salem men are in the group. They are James Stew art, Reginald Eugene Gilbert, uerald Frank Smith, Charlei Mac Webb, James Richard Ev ans, Phillip Arthur Thompson and Martin Granville Boat wright. Other inductees in the group are Donald Howard Huff, Eu gene; Richard James Miick, Gervais; Peter Philip Huffman, Woodburn; John Paul Duman, Mt. Angel; Clement Joseph Lu lay, Stayton; and Donald Siles Dunham and James Burl Briles of Aumsville. Two men were transferred out of here for induction. They are Donald Neil McCrary, transferred to Superior, Wise, and Delano James Dixon, trans ferred to Coos Bay, Oregon. Malenkov Sees (Continued from Page 1) There was no formal U. S. State Department reaction to the Malenkov statement, but American diplomats suggested informally that if Malenkov is sincerely interested in improv ing relations with the United States there are ample oppor tunities in the near future to do so. Pravda Attacks West They cited as one example the forthcoming foreign minis ters meeting in Berlin. But while Malenkov was talking of lessening tensions, Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, yesterday charged that West ern powers and West Germany were ganging up on Russia in advance of the meeting for the purpose of sabotaging the talks. Malenkov's statements ap peared mostly to be reiteration of past Soviet statements and did not seem to offer any new avenues of approach on specific East-West issues. '53 Wet Year (Continued from Page 1) Precipitation totaled 7.80 inches, or .68 of an inch above normal. The greatest 24-hour rainfall was 1.88 inches, re corded on December 19. There was a trace of hail on Decem ber 6. There was not one clear day in the month. There were 28 cloudy days and three partly cloudy ones. There were seven days of minimums of freezing or be low. There were two days with one inch or more of rain, lix with a half inch or more, and 15 days with one-tenth of an Inch or more. Prevailing wind was from the south. Rhode Island's 3,000 farmi average 74 acres each. 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