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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER MOSTLY FAIR tonight and Tues y. Little change In temperature. Low tonight. 41; high Tuesday, 10. Maintenance Crews on Stale Highways Cut Completion of Part Of Program Enables Maintenance Cuts . By JAMES I). OLSON Completion of a portion of the five-year highway construction program has brought about a re duction in highway maintenance needs, resulting in the laying off of approximately 50 maintenance and shop workers in the highway department June 30, R. H. Bal doclt, state highway engineer, an nounced Monday. t Highway maintenanro in - Oregon have been fairly high due to the inability to replace worn out highway during the World War II period. In 1953 the high way maintenance costs totaled $10,600,000. "The current five-year highway construction program made pos sible largely through the $72, 000,000 highway bond issues au thorized by the 1951 and 1953 legislatures is beginning to show its effect," Baldock declared. New Roads Stronger Baldock said that the new roads throughout Oregon, being constructed under the present program are much stronger and wider than the older highways and will require far less mainte nance work. "We are actually building maintenance Into these new high ways," the state highway engin eer explained. Wider Highways All primary highways in Ore gon, including U.S. Highway 99, U.S. Highway 30 and U.S. High way 101 are being widened and in the main are being replaced by modern wide nonaccess high ways. (Continued on Page 5, Column 6) Summer Here On Calendar "IBrbnlUd mu " ' - Summer came to Oregon at 2:55 p.m. today and much of the state got summer-like weather. Temper atures near 90 were forecast for parls of southern Oregon and the weather bureau said warm, dry conditions were expected to con tinue over the state through Tues day. A small disturbance was re ported off the Oregon coast and small craft warnings were up from Newport south to Cape Blanco for winds up to 35 miles per hour, decreasing tonight. But the fore cast called for mostly fair weather except for increasing clouds in north Oregon Tuesday, Several temperatures in the 80s were reported yesterday with Med ford reporting an 88. The Columbia river at Vancou ver, Wash., after rising to above 20 feet Saturday, dropped to 19.3 today and a slow fall was expect ed for the next two days. GOP Leaders Talk Farm Bill WASHINGTON' Senate and House Republican leaders predict ed Monday that Congress will pass a farm bill which President Eisenhower can sign. Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) and Rep. Halleck (K-Ind) gave no de tails as they emerged from a weekly conference with the Presi dent. But Halleck said he hoped the bill will at least "make a start" on the gradual, flexible sys tem of farm price supports asked bv the administration. The House Agriculture Commit tee has voted to extend for an other year the present high-level rigid price supports on basic crops a program Secretary of Agri culture Benson has said he would ask the President to veto. Eisen hower has not said what course he would take if rigid supports were approved. Hallerk emphasized the Presi dent's desire for "gradualism" in shifting the price support program to lower, flexible levels. He said Ihc major question now is whether that aim should be achieved by administrative discretion or by congressional action. Loyalty Oath in Civil Defense Legal The Jovalty oath required by the Oregon civil defense law is constitutional and must be taken by all civil defense workers, Otty. Gen. Hobcrt Y. Thornton ruled Monday. ... -n vmiaht bv the iit Welfare Bureau as the result; L r-- ill vliifh a Miiilnomah i ,n iqra tt'nmrr. i p., Vathr-rine Patten, refused lo take the n.ith and was discharged. Multnomah County wcllarc work rs arr enrolled as part ol the eounty' civil defense Una. 66th I Insurgents BombCoban In Guatemala Threaten Air Raids On Capital Which Is Under Martial Law TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras IM Insurgent leaders announced Mon day the bombing of Coban, a gar rison town in Central Guatemala, and threatened to bomb Guatemala City, the seat of President Jacobo Aruenz Guzman s Communist-supported government. All residents of the capital were urged in a clandestine radio broad cast of the Guatemalan anti-Communist "Liberation Army" -to take mtu ail WVIUU3 U1U IU MIHKC grip Arbenz has sought to clamp on the country through imposition cover an obvious bid to shake the 01 martial law. Headquarters of the resistance movement in Tegucigalpa told of the bombing of Coban Sunday in the land, sea and air campaign to overthrow the Arbenz regime. Co ban is a town of about 7,000 popu lation in the highlands 60 miles north of Guatemala City. Rumors Denied The planes were reported to have taken off from Esquipulas, a southern Guatemalan town of 2, 730 known chiefly for a Roman Catholic church dating from 1737 and a figure of Christ carved in dark colored wood that is known as the "Black Christ of Esquipul as." (Continued on Page 5, Column 8) Compromise On Rivers Bill WASHINGTON upi A House- Senate Conference Committee an nounced Monday it has agreed on an appropriation bill carrying $457,071,300 for Army civil . func tions, mostly for navigation and river projects. This represented a compromise between totals voted by the House and Senate. The house had ap proved $430,963,700 and the senate hike! thet otal to $484,095,500. The total compares with resi dent Eisenhower's budget recom mendation s of $465,160,000. Of the total $436,379,100 is for planning, construction and opera tion of flood control and rivers and harbors projects by army engi neers, lhe amount tor construction is $300,367,600. The compromise now goes to both the house and the senate for consideration. The compromise bill would pro vide construction . ana planning tunas tor tnese projects. Oregon: Lookout Point Reservoir $3,000,000: McNary Lock and Dam $24,000,000: The Dalles $36,000,000; Willamette River bank protection $300,000. Test of Budget On Foreign Aid WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower's 3!4-billlon-dollar for eign aid budget for next year a prime target for economy advo cates gets its first lest this week. The House Foreign Affairs Com mittee starts today to decide the actual amounts it will propose au thorizing for the year beginning July 1. The final bill may be ready for House action later in the week. The committee, meeting behind closed doors, already has partly remodeled the program to replace some outright economic gifts with loans and the use of surplus food. Efforts to cut the total are an ticipated, both in final committee sessions and on the House floor. The measure would set a ceiling on the aid program, with the ac tual appropriations voted later, perhaps after further trimming. Admit 30 U.S. Civilians Held in Chinese Prisons GENEVA 11 The Chinese . Communists confirmed Monday they are holding 30 American ci vilians in prison, but said one ci vilian and a number of military personnel listed by the United States as detained were either dead or missing. This information was passed on to the United States in the fourth meeting between representatives of the U.S. and Chinese Commun ist delegations on the exchange of detained persons. The United states agreed to per mit 15 detained Chinese nationals lo leave the United States and re turn to the China mainland. The Chinese, on their side, sup- plied preliminary information oniHart. son of Mr. nd Mr. Alvin the llt of approximately 83 Amcr- D. Hart, Saginaw, Mich.) ua.i J j.,.. ...... . ncl believed by the United States cither to be In prison or to be pre vented from leaving China. The Chinese said W.L. Winter, a missionary, had been arretted Caoital -'Jon final Year, No. 145 i;',, U NNll Truman Loses Gall Bladder KANSAS ' CITY tfl Former President Harry S. Truman, re ported in satisfactory condition- to day after an emergency operation, probably will be able to leave the hospital in 10 days. His appendix end gall bladder were removed early yesterday. The 70-ycar-old ex-President was able to sit up in a chair for a brief period yesterday. He told his doctor he considered himself just another patient at Research Hospital and didn't want any fuss made in his behalf. Dr. Wallace Graham, his physi cian, who also was his personal doctor during White House days, said Tr.uman should be able to leave the hospital in 10 days if all goes well. "Mr. Truman is a perfect pa tient," he said. "He expects you to know certain things and he ex pects you to be sure of them. Then he doesn t fuss or worry. He de- ciaes to get things fixed." ine pnysician saia he was ' verv ill" when he entered the hospital out naa stooa one, operation ex tremely well. . -, ; , To Draff Dewey For 4th Term ALBANY. N.Y., (UP) - New York Republican leaders, backed by top members of the Eisenhower administration, pressured Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today to run for a fourth term. The "draft Dewey" move was started after the governor told close friends he had decided to quit public life and return to prac ticing law in New York City. While ne. indicates the decision was final, he still was willing to listen to GOP leaders. Republican State Chairman Dean P. Taylor was to meet with Dewey to discuss the state chief execu tive's political future. Taylor said all he knew about the governor's retirement plans was what he had read in newspapers and he still was hopeful Dewey would head the ticket again in November. Sieve Tabacchi Buys Livesley Property . .' Sale of a portion of the T. A. Livesley home property on Fair- mount hill to Sieve Tabacchi was confirmed Monday by Graben horst Brothers, realtors who hand led the transaction. The sale involved a frontage of 150 feet on Lcfellc street and ex tends southward for loo feet. How ever, the Livesley residence is not involved. No announcement was made concerning the mone tary consideration. for espionage, but died In prison Feb. 27, 1951. Winter was a mis sion worker in a leprosarium in Kiangsi Province. In the military category, the Chi nese said three fliers P.E.Voor his, II. D. Weese and A.D. Hart, Jr. had died of injuries received when they parachuted from their plane over Antung, North China, (In Washington, Air Force rec ords indicated that the three Americans identified by the Com munists are 1st Lt. Paul E. Van Voorhis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Van Voorhis, Glen Cover, N.Y.; 1st I.t. Henry D. Weese, husband of Mrs. Henry D. Weese, Knobel ArL- anH Airman I C llfin tl . ..... . ..... United Stales has published a full list of the A3 Americans involved, although the United States sub mitted such a list tn the Commun ists, tt an earlier tession. r. s v: .. t . . aim tllll Salem, Oregon, TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTE ;':":;':::.Y;-vWkyw' JJB&. SSL Ur lMW I , DES MOINES, June 21 Flash flood waters on Four Mile Creek race across the northeast corner of Dcs Moines late yesterday as they began their swift rise after a 5-inch cloud burst upstream. Transcontinental route U.S. 6 (see signpost), traveled annually by thousands of tourists, was closed for hours. Police boats evacuated more than 50 Des Moines fam ilies living along the creek. (AP Wirephoto) Cloudbursts Cause Flash Floods in lo wa DES MOINES Ufl Heavy rains, including torrential downpours at Fort Dodge, Sioux City, Mason City and Des Moines, broadened the Iowa flood peril Monday after a week-end marked by one flood drowning and hundreds of new evacuations. - Hearing Held on Rogue Project WASHINGTON Wl - A Southwest Oregon delegation asked a House Interior subcommittee Monday lo approve construction of the Talent division of the Rogue River Basin Reclamation Project. The group also sought Booroval of rehabili tation work .on. th Medforrf and,! Rogue River Irrigation Districts. The subcommittee scheduled a closed session Monday afternoon to consider the proposals. The Talent project is basically an extension of existing works of the Talent Irrigation District. It would provide facilities to put water to 9,250 acres now having an inadequate supply. Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore), who has introduced an authorizing bill, said the project would have an esti mated cost of $22,706,000, including $7,300,000 for construction of a 16,000-kilowatt power dam. Power revenues would be used to aid water users in repaying costs allocable to irrigation. Congress Pays Tribute to Two WASHINGTON (UP)- Congress met today to pay tribute to a Sen ator and a Representative who died within a matter of hours Sat urday, Hawaiian delegate Joseph R. Farrington and Sen. Lester C. Hunt of Wyoming. The House and Senate will recess alter eulogies. Farrington, 56, died of a heart attack in his olfice Saturday night. He had served as a Republican delegate from Hawaii since 1942 and friends said be worked virtual ly to the last minute of his life for Hawaiian statehood. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.. funeral services were scheduled this afternoon for Hunt who shot himself while at his desk in the Senate office building Saturday and died four hours later in emer gency hospital. Sunny Weather Fits the Season Summer was on lis way official ly to Salem and area, Monday, due to arrive at 2:55 p. m. And the weather man was most cooperative in welcoming in the new season, providing blue skies and sunshine befitting summer days. Moreover, the forcast calls for mostly fair weather tonight and Tuesday. The Sunday maximum went up to 74 degrees and there was no rainfall on the 24-hour re port, to 10:30 a, m. Monday, June has done right well in the precip itation department, however, a total of 2.18 inches being measured to date far the month against a normal of .91 of an inch for the period. u xi rA:i. Maiimani trrria. Ill minimum tfl- v, 4a. Tntil ?l-hr prrrlanallnfl: t fur mftnlh: Z.1t narmal. .01. fltatan r"aUIn, M-Ml Rrml JM.Ift. Rlr halthl, .1 f a 1nu IUfirl fet t'.S. W'tthtr Bar.) Monday, June 21, 1954 CLOSED .. .. " - - - Fort Dodge. Mason City and Sioux City were the prime danger spots among the state's major cities. Conditions eased in Des Moines following a flash flood on Four Mile creek which drove over 50 families from homes and trailers. In Mason City, a fresh cloud burst drove 300 families from their homes in a 50 block area. U. S. Route No. 6 was re-opened in Des Moines after waters of a flash flood receded, enabling evacuees to begin returning home. ' : 4t,A DtaA ran into the" millions. " Iowa high- ways were blocned at many points,. ' ' Walthill and Winnebago,' Neb'., small towns south of Sioux City, Iowa, were flooded. Flood water in Nebraska blocked highway 275 near Norfolk and 35 at Winside and was threatening the town of Pender. Two tornadoes were sight ed in Nebraska but no . damage i was reported. The storms brought only limited relief from the stagnant, sultry heat that in Chicago, on this firsl day of summer, approached a rec ord 11 straight days of 90 degrees or higher. Similar readings or higher were the rule yesterday from the storm area southward to the Gulf, and were expected again today. (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) Maine Voting At Primaries PORTLAND, Maine Wt-Maine puts its vote on the line today in a primary in which Sen. Margaret Chase Smith contends that Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) . apparently, planted the man opposing her. That is the closest Mrs. Smith has come to openly accusing the KHa-iiuniing Wisconsin aenaiur oiri i , i,. , attempting lo engineer her defeat Hlflhff fitiPFTimPn in the it.-publican senatorial prl-t" ,,3,,,J MllvllipiGU mary. And it was her nearest approach to a direct attack on her compe titor, Robert L. Jones. Jones is a McCarthy supporter. Mrs. Smith definitely is not. The contestants closed their campaigns last night with tandem television appearances from the same Portland Studio. Find Lost Youth In Mountains Bend (UP) The 16-year-old son of University ol Oregon business manager , Orville Lindslrom was found safe in the Cascade moun tains west of here today after he was reported missing overnight. The forest service here reported lhe boy was found this morning by state police who had joined a large search party. Fear had been expressed the boy might have fal len into a crevasse, A report reaching the forest service by radio said the boy was in good condition. He was found on Minto pass trail near Three Fingered Jack mountain. Lee Morton, fire guard in the Sisters area, said young Lindstrom had gone fishing with his father to Jack lake yesterday and became separated when he climbed a ridge to take a picture of Mt. Washington. : swans wi:kkn t fans , OCKA.NI'OHT. N. .1. ifi-Mon- ninutn j or nas a dozen new snow-white swans gracing its in field lake this season. Last year s' swans evidently weren't racing fans. They flew wy before the season ended. (20 Pages) 103, Ouu Lumber Workers In Nortnvest Out on Strike Smith Blames Geneva Failure On Soviet Tactics WASHINGTON! un -Underseere- lary of State Walter Bedell Smith flew home from the Geneva Con ference on Southeast Asia Mon day with a pledge that the West will continue "a sincere, patient effort" lo negotiate an Indochina peace settlement. Smith blamed "inflexible oddosI- tion by the Communists" for fail ure of Ihc Geneva talks to arrive; at a permanent settlement for Ko rea. His return from the talks with the Reds precedes by only a few days a ' visit here by Britain's Prime Minister Churchill during which President Eisenhower prob ably will urge British cooperation in setting up an international con ference on anti - Communist de fenses in the vital Southeast Asia sector. (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) Final Rites for Henry Collier PORTLAND .on Funeral serv ices will be held here Tuesday tor Henry E. Collier, .82, a practicing attorney in Oregon for 54 years. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 at Pendleton, . where he was deputy district attorney for Uma tilla County in 1904-05. He later moved here and was a member of the firm of Collier, Bernard, Bernard and Edwards. Active in political circles, he was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1936 and was a member of 'the rules com mittee. He also was a delegate to me 1940 ana 1944 conventions. Collier died Saturday- of a heart attack. His widow, Maude, survives. lost Boat Seen Off Brazil Coast RIO DE JANEIRO (UP) A Brazilian air force search and rescue plane reported today that it had sighted a 40-foot powerboat in wnich Robert P. Terrill. U.S. Embassy economic counselor, and three others had been missing since last Thursday. the search plane reported all persons aboard the craft appeared safe and well. The boat was sighted 40 miles off Ilha Raza, the outermost is land in the entrance to Guanabara Bay. A Braziiran navy cutler went out to bring the apparently dis abled craft back to Rio. 3 Jets on Longest RIVERSIDE, Calif, tn - Three B47 jet bombers look off from March Air Force base Mondav for Yokola AFB, 35 miles north of Tokyo, in the longest nonstop flight ever attempted by jets. The 6,700-mile trip is expected (o take 15 to 16 hours. There will Ibe three refucllngs en route from KC97 tanker planes. The swepl-wing bombers are powered by six jet engines each. WEIGHTY PROBLEM SALEM. Mass. Wl Railroad crossing attendants complained to police recently that thieves made off with the counter-balancing weights from their crossing gales, Probers Delay Talks On McCarthy Hearings WASHINGTON un Sen. Mundt (USUI said Monday senators could spent the next 20 years in vestigating the McCarthy-Army row, and still nut get all the facts. But he told reporters ho believes the 36-doy televised public hear ings at which he presided "brought out the salient facts." Mundt made the statement as he announced postponement of what he tornv-d "consultative talks" to ' explore Ihc points of agreement among the four Republicans Hml throe Democrats who conducted the hearings. Mundt had called a meeting of the group for this morning, but it proved inconvenient for several members to attend. Ho said he hoped they could jet together soon, and among other things JO eueang Million Mark Reached at Post Office V Salem hat reached the mil lion dollar mark in the matter of postal receipts for a year's period. This is indicated in an unofficial manner by the amount of money written into the monthly checks received by certain supervisory officials of the p6st office. Postmaster Albert C. Gragg stated that he had not been of ficially informed that the post office topped the million dol lar mark during the calendar year 1953, but the checks re ceived are an indication. . , Supervisory officials are giv en an automatic boost in pay at certain financial levels whenever the amount of re ceipts are boosted by an ad ditional $500,000. Former sal aries were based on a $600,000 level and when the $1,000,000 mark was reached the pay checks were boosted. While it was indicated lotul ly that receipts for 1953 were over the million dollar point, confirmation had to come from the post office department in Washington, D. C. No additional pay to the sup ervisory staff will be forthcom ing until receipts reach $1,500, 000. Bank Policies Eased on Loans WASHINGTON ufl The Eisen hower administration further eased its banking policies Monday with a step which opens the wav for nine billion dollars of addition-1 at credit to flow into the national! I economy. - - - . The Federal Jieserva Board an nounced that over the next six I weeks it will make a rradual re-1 duction in tho amount of reserves, Approximafcly 140 emplovoi which member banks are deter- r h - :n . mined to keep on deposit. , The reduction will release about lMt billion dollars for uso in ex panding loans and investments. Since member banks may use uie treed reserves for loans and investments up to about six times the jimnnnr rmnArf. fhn thwii-oli. cal expansion of credit amounts to approximately nine billion dol lars. ' . The Reserve Board, in an nouncing the move, said it was acting "in anticipation of estima-' ted demands on bank reserves during the summer and fall, tak ing account of probable private financing requirements, including the marketing of crops and re plenishment of retail slocks in ad vance of the fall and Christmas sale seasons, as well as lhe treas ury's financing needs. Prospects are that the treasury will borrow approximately 10 bil lion dollars to meet its cash needs between July and December, Let Contracts for Dallas Dam Bridges PORTLAND (H - Army Engi neers announced Monday the award of two contracts for railvoad bridges to be built above The Dalles Dam, where track must be relocated because of the dam pool. One of $519,191 went to Lee Hoffman, Beaverton, Ore., and the other of $77,120 to Louis Eltcrich Co., Port Angeles. CANCKL AIR FLIGHTS NEW ORLEANS (UP) All enmmerci.il airline flights from here to Guatemala today were cancelled until order is restored in the Central American country. sound out prospects for getting special counsel Ray 11. Jenkins to help write a "verdict" in the in quiry. , Jenkins told reporters he is ready to agree tn take on tho job. "1 will be available to do any thing directed by the committee as long as it Is necessary," ho said "I'm going to see tho job through." Jenkins statement was In i sup- arato interview ot which, in reply to reporters' questions as to wheth er he might run fur Ihc Senate, he said some friends have pnred douhts about lhe pronri-1 My of ellons to inmire him In run .on the crest of publicity he re ceived as counsel in the inquiry. I Jenkins said ho has nol yet made a decision, but "I'll know within two weeks" whether bo will run. FINAL EDITION Negotiations Continue for Settlement PORTLAND ( - A big segment of the lumber industry in Oregon, Washington and California was -shut down Monday as " 103,000 workers went on strike. V The walkout virtually closed fir belt operations in Washington and Oregon, and redwood operations in -California. It also affected the pine industry of California and Nevada. Kenneth Davis, executive secre tary of the AFL Lumber and bawmill Workers Union said that ' while his union had struck most of the fir belt operations, he was encouraged by last-minuto offers which ranged around 7 V4 cents an hour. . , Addingt to his ontlmlsm a few hours after the strike was called were reports of settlements rang. lng irom z vi lo iz ft cents an hour, Coos Bay Signs Up A mill at Coos Bav. Ore.. employing 100 men, agreed to pay me is ft-ceni increase demanded by both the AFL union and tho CIO International Woodworkers, Negotiations also were continuing at the big Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. plant there. I Another mill. . at Willamina . Or, also settled for 12 cents. J. E. Dicey, vice president of the wooaworkers, reported. Dicey also said three firms at Port Angeles granted full demands ot the union for a 12 Vi-cent wage increase ana a tnird week o vacation after five years' experi ence. - (Continued on Page 5, Column 7) - OP&P Sawmill i Out I " " , u'v",u" " company ana an undetermined number of log gers were idle Monday as the northwest strike order of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers 1 Union, affiliated with tho AFL, reached the Willamette Vallev. the Capitol Lumber Company nd the B. J. Minden Lumber Com pany were in session at Salem -Labor Temple to vote on whether they will join the strike. At Oregon Pulp & Paper Com pany the employes did not go to work Monday morning and the 1 management said there was no indication of a break in the strike. This was indicated, too, by G. D. Hibbs, secretary-treasurer of Salem Local 3050 of the Lum ber and Sawmill Workers. ' If the Capitol Lumber Com pany workers vote to go out it will add another 65 to the idle. The sash and door division of the Oregon Pulp & Paper com pany plant is not affected by the strike. A meeting of the board of di rectors of the Oregon Pulp & Pa- per company has been called for Tuesday morning at headquar ters of the lumber division. It Is expected that Nils Tcren of Portland, president of the com pany, will attend. Bush Estate Set $349,005 The estate of the late A. N. Bush, president of Ladd and Bush bank fir many years, has a net value ot $349,005.85 for inheritance tax purposes, according to a re port filed in Marion county pro bate court Monday. Gross value of the estate was placed at $373,823.05 in a report to state treasurer. Of the total $386,537.66 was In personal proper ty. Administrative costs were placed at $22,851.53. The amount of tax was placed at $34,494.31. Chief beneficiaries and the amounts received included: Stuart Bush, grandson, $143,989; Mar garet Ann Bush, great granddaugh ter, $71,994; Foyc- C. Livesley, $71,994; Henry W. Compton. $?,. 845; Sara SU-wart, $19, 430; Martha Kuhrcr, $5,331; Ruth Rueniti, $6.- 851 and Mary Broer, $2,006. MEXICAN PLANE LOST MEXICO CITY - , Mext can military transport with 19 persons aboard Is missing, iho air force announced today. Those aboard were soldiers and their wives and families.