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67th Year, No. 263
Salem, Oregon, Monday, November 21; 1955
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Car Hits
Truck, 2
Girls Die
i 3 Other Teeners
Hurt in Wreck
At Tangent
An auto accident at Tangent on
hichwav WE early Sunday morn
ing claimed the live of two teen
' ace gir! and injured three other
young people.
' Katally injured when the car in
which they were riding struck the
rear of a truck were Patricia Ann
Roberts, 17. Aumsville and Gay
ljteiov. 19. Stavton.
Hospitalized in Albany alter the
accident were Larry Krcres, If,
ami Williarn Weddle. U. both ol
N Siayton and Doris Minden. 1, Su!v
limity. Miss Minden was less Ser
ious Iv injured. Later Frercs. who
int'fc'rcd a revere head Injury andj!" current .cssion of confess
Vis 5 . . irn.iPrrwt n ' talk hilled as "nonpolitical"
an injured arm. was transferred to
. St. Vincent s hospital in I'nruano.
He was said Monday morning to
be holding hit own.
Neddie, who also suffer a
liead injury and was sliU in the
Albany hospital was reported aiin
dav is showing slight improve
ment. Miss Minden. graduate:!
from St. Boniface high school at
Sublimity last June and now a
freshman at Marylhurft college,
also remained in the hospital,
j The fatal accident occurred
when ihe group was en route home
from Eugene, where they were re
; ported to have attended a home
; coming dance at the University al
Oregon. Earlier there had been a
minor but not serious accident on
the highway when a large truck
jack-knifed. Traific had stopped
because of that accident. The car
with the teenagers apparently wis
. unable to stop and plowed into the
back of a truck loaded with sheep.
Miss Roberts, daughter of Mi.
.' and Mrs. William J. Roberts was
' born at Aumsville April 14. 19:18.
' She was a senior at St. Bonilare
high school this year and had had
f the lead in the senior class piaj
Sittin' Pretty" presented recent
Iv.
Recitation of the rosary for the
Women's Catholic Order of For
ester will be Monday night at
7:15 o'clock and the parish rosary
will be Monday night at i.m o
clock. Both will be at Weddli's
Funeral home. Funeral services
will be at the St. Boniface church
In Sublimity at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
(Continued on Page 5. Column H
City, Schools,
County Favor
2 Bond Issues
ftni-entatives of the Salem
School board, the city council
ai:d the county court axrted dur
ing a luncheon meeting Monday
at the Marion hotel tha1 all con
cerned should get behind a pro
gram which calls for the issuance
of some $3,000,000 in bonds with
which to provide two junior high
schools, and for anrthcr issue
nf approximately $3,000,000 need
ed for the construction of addi
tional pipe line facilities.
Del Milne, member of i citizens
committee, apparently hit the nail
on the head when he remarked
the new schools will need water.
Let's accept the obligation to do
a real job."
The feeling was unanimous that
the needs of the schools and of
the city are genuine and must
not be subordinated to any other
nrniect. With this in mind, it
was decided to urge the citizens
to vote the school bonds in Feb
ruary and then all get oenmn n
water project at the May primary
County Judge Rex Hartley said
t. Mi it would be wise to seek
but one of the projects each 'r
but did not demur againsi inr
decision to seek the entire ask-
" . . . , i
Harrv Scott, school board chair
man, who presided said he felt
the entire program was based on
education that is of providing
the voting public wittLfull infor
mation concerning the needs.
n. rates, school director, coin
cided with Scott's viewpoint, add
ing that "it will take a lot ol
telling in view of the present
tax level
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'I?!!.'1. below''lhe level i. those
taxes are oeiow ine lesei oi inosr
In Fiivene
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A permanent commttt 01 rep
resentatives from the tnree P'
Ileal puwi"
nth the idea of meeting at least
once each year to discuss the fi
nancial needs ol all.
Jones Tells Strategy
That Won for Oregon
A. C Jenes, Capital Journal
arts editor, tells haw Orea,
Willi a skrewd swllrk la laeilrs,
arvag the west roast's big
grldlraa surprise Satarday at
Kagrae. It will he found
tha, spart pal ldy-
alary al the siame. Healsaeav
. en gsase sidrlighu la ftis tt4-
Ike Capita) Jeartail also had
m . . . . -1 l
Mavward field. Three aarlarei
ill be feaad m the averts
yagew
LATE
FLASH
SPOKANE UKA mu held up
a cashier at the First Aveaoe
braark al the Old Nalianal Baak
la dewatawa Spakaa shartlj be
fore aaea Meaday a ad escaped
wtta about t.W la eaik. Pallre
said It wasa't kaawa whelkrr
Ike aiaa was armed. Ikal k did
Bat ska a gua.
Morse Strikes
Out on Three
Major Issues
Pay as We Co Roads,
No Rubber Monopoly,
Hells Canyon Stressed '
(Picture oa Page 4. Sectioa 4)
Senator Wayne Morse vigor
ously defended three positions he
look on controversial legislation
to the Salem Chamber of Com
merce Monday noon in the Hotel
Marion. Morse was heard bv a
capacity audience that over
flowed into an adjoining room.
positions defended by the sen
ator were:
1. His opposition to a "bank
ers subsidy" highway bill to fi
nance a big highway construction
program with borrowed money,
insisting on a pay as you go pro
gram to be financed with taxes
fairly apportioned.
2. His opposition to the sale
of the government built rubber
factories to private interests.
3. His insistence upon a gov
ernment dam at Hells Canyon.
Morse said the countrv must
have a huge highway program
and that the federal government
must finance it. He reiterated op
position to borrowing to monev.
claiming that the "bankers" will
get more ot it man win go into,
roads. He predicted a bill some-
what like the original Gore bill,
win iinaiiy dc approved. '
On the rubber plants. Morse said
he favored sale, but with restric-1
uuns. seeping mem out ol me
hands of the four big companies
that savor of monopoly, with re
capture rights to take them back
if we go to war again.
On Hells Canyon he said the fed
eral dam assures full development
of the river and "cheap power"
rthich he termed essential to North
west development. "1 can't under
stand business men who are so
blind to the ring of their cash
registers that they cannot see
where their interests are on this
issue," he declared.
Morse smilingly asked his listen
ers not to believe anything they
read aoout mm on tnis issue im
the "Journal or Oregonian." then
added, "you don't have to go to
Portland either."
The senator told his audience not
to worry about the federal debt.
which is "not the threat the reac-! members, in the presence of Prime
tionaries would have you think.! Minister Nehru, that Russia was
Uncle Sam is perfectly solvent united with India in an "unend
and would appear so if we kept ing battle for peace."
capital outlays in a separate ac-
count from current expenditures as
a ousiness man wuuiu.
The senator said legislation must
always promote freedom of eco-
nomic choice by the people be-'
cause without it they will lose free
dom of political choice. He linked
communist, fascist and monopoly-
tic, cartel societies as ones in
which this freedom has been de
stroyed.
The senator was introduced by
Edward L. Clark. Jr.. Salem at
torney who is chairman of the
Chamber's committee on national
affairs. Invocation was by the janc( 0 India's industrial develop
Rev. Oscar Olsen. pastor of the ment appeared to be emerging as
West Salem Methodist church, the leading topic during the So-
Seated at the head table were
Chamber President Elton Thomp-
son and Directors E. Burr Mil -
ler. C. A. Vibbert, Claude Miller.
Bruce Williams, Carl Aschenbren
ner, John S. Moore and Clair
Brown.
Greeters who welcomed the
members and auests were Mrs.
Agnes Schucking. Miss Echo
Iseater and Miss Gertrude Ache-
Vatican Says Pope Recovered
After Seeing
LJ
VATICAN CITY The Vati -
, can announced Monday mat t-ope,ciear-minara.
riu Aii m . -v""i
rhri riurine the most critical
momenta of his grave illness last
! winter.
' The "covery " d""r""'
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The announcement was maae ov
- 1 I ucian) Ca,jmjrj cniei o( the
- Vatican press olfice. upon aulhori-
,.hnfl , , n-n-l uwrelariat Of
state. The necretariat normally
would make such statement nly,a gastric disturhance reached
with th personal authorization of
the Pope
Casimiri told newsmen- that they
could state that "responsible Vati
can circles" confirm the report of
the vision published last week in
Oggi -Todayi. the largest Italian
weekly magazine. .
IltTL
was kept until now. and only the
allectional indiscretion of one of
those knowing tt enabled us to,
learn and tell of the marvelous
emsnd. .avhidi flndoubtedlv will'tha praver: Jube me venire ad
dfeolv move e !iolic faithful
.ii ih. Cnrirf
."The Holy father perfectly
sure he law .! R was re
ldtm; ia Uijb jon Decihour had not jet pm
Bombay's
Commies
Rim Riot
10 Uead7225 Hurt,
1000 Arrested in
Wild Disorder
BOMBAY, India. Ui Bombay
seethed in the grip of a pitched
battle between armed police and
stone-throwing demonstratorMon-
jQay. ten persons were reportea
siuea, at least i wuunueu uiki
over 1.000 rioters were arrested.
It was the second successive day
of Communist-inspired violence
touched off by Marathi-spcaking
Indians protesting Prime Minister
Nehru s decision to create a sep
arate Bombay city state out of
the big west coast port.
More than 100 persons were in
jured in rioting Sunday.
Gangs milled through streets
stoning buses and trains, setting
buses afire and barricading main
streets with huge boulders.
The violence exceeded that in
last August's anti-Portuguese riots
in Bombay.
Police and home guard forces
first wilted under a barrage of
stones, then raised their rifles and
fired at the Communist-led dem
onstrators trying to reach the
State Legislature building.
The crowds set fire to three
buses and showered passing
traific with rocks. They attacked
firemen called to fight the aires.
Ambulances made their way
through the littered streets picking
up persons injured by stones and
(lying glass.
In the big industrial area of Parel
and Lai Baug, Communists moved
in and gained virtual control of a
iun.mil tin-irh nf main road Red
leaders moved briskly up and down
the road on motorscooters flying
hammer and sickle flags, calling
ih mh in rnnvers on Rnm-il
bay's downtown area to "capture '
th. Ijxuiaiiire meriine Mondav
afternoon to discuss the city's fu-
inn . ...
It was the worst violence in
Bombay since the Indian naval
mutiny against the British in 1446
and marked the first time since
India became independent that
troops have been called out to help
police quell disorder.
Russians Lash
West in Delhi
NEW DELHI. India I Soviet
chiefs Bulganin and Khrushchev
opened a double-barreled attack on
the West in the Indian Parliament
, Mondav.
Thev told the more than 700
Both criticized the West on
j grounds it was "attempting to fol-
i low policies oaseu un m iwmuvi.
of strength."
Soviet Premier. Bulganin and
Communist Party boss Khrushchev
are here on a good will visit ex
pected to last more than two
weeks. At a state oanquei nion-
,jay night, Nehru warned them rot
to expect their good win invasion
would lead India into the Com
munist bloc. Bluntly, he said In
dia was "in no camp and no mill
ary alliance."
The prospect of Russian assist
W in leaders' visit.
There has been much said in
1 the oast months about Russian
economic aid to India but little
done about it.
A spokesman for the Natural Re
sources Ministry told questioners
in Parliament Monday, however.
that nine Soviet mining experts
are due to arrive soon to help
prospect for oil and other miner
lals.
Vision of Christ
U. I.V4 he was fully awake and,,t,on was measured for Salem
".'.L. u 1 i
seemed there were no hopes ten,
when the world s newspapers l -
reaoy nao oeen circulating wnn , inches ol new snr.w all along me
'"' lorthcoming gravelh,th ('..cades Chain, are need-
catastroohe. the ailini Pope start- H n the Wil.meiie Santiam
. , , '
e iu mipnivT m "
manner that many people consid-
ered it a miracle."
OEI said that on UCC. I. I.i4.
, when the ailing Pope s illness trom
'climax, the pontilf began reciting
the prayer
"Amma l hri-.ll isoul
of Christ K
When he came to the invocation
"in horae mortis mea. voca me
(in the hour ol my death, call
me nour Ui in), urjui. on
mei. ' n rope saw ne , wee.
person o. jesu. nr, a. ms oro-
ulB?,B ,h rAomen. " id the1
marazifte. "the Holy Father be. -
licved that the Teacher cam to
call hjm to Himself, and. serenely
answering to the call, he continued
ite .order me to come to vou.
Jeiui hnvaiveT. did ant come
nt come
'take him. biff to conv.ai
him nwi
give vm tt certainty
Rickreall Bandit Slain byi
Deputy After Officer Shot
Death Scene
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An attempted Sunday evening robbery ended in violent
death for one gunman, Wallace Carlyle Cunningham, Port
land, whose body is shown laying on the floor of the Rickreall
Bar-B-Cue Tavern. Cunningham, shot state police officer John
Mekkers twice in the arm and shoulder before he was felled by
a bullet from a gun fired by Herschel Grecnwade, 24, whom
Mekkers had deputized only minutes earlier. At left is Hairy
Wilson, owner of the tavern. In the background are police and
patrons of the establishment. Cunningham's companion, Robert
Kennen, 31, Salem, was captured.
Flood Threat Ebbs;
More Rain Sighted
A new rain storm is headed to
ward Oregon from the Pacific
ocean today, the forecast for
Tuesday calls for rain generally.
Temperatures are due to continue
about the same as they have
keen.
Flood threat for the valley,
booming along Saturday with
streams swollen from rain and
snow runoff, subsided at the
weekend when colder tempera
tures set in and the rain was
checked. At Salem, the Willam
ette river reached 14 feet Sun
day night and was subsiding some
Monday morning, the gauge read
ing 13 9 feet.
There was flooding on the low
er Santiam at Jefferson Saturday
but major damage was washing
along the pastures adjacent.
Only .03 of an inrh of precipi
,in ine snour penoo enoing aicourl hrre before the county
I . """""' . ,.
Mountain passes continued slip-
,ery Monday with from 2 to 4
1 . . " . ' " -
.sirienrie ann ijrnncn passes. 10
l the south, the Pacific highwav
jwas covered with packed snow,
htil thjt rnaHuav was canHMl
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Marie Dionne
Seriously 111
MnvTiit-Af. i onini.mM
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"rZZJZZ'CU County argued there
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Th. 21-year.ld girl, wh, h..
, been rtudy.ng lor rehgiou. P "
was brought here b a nurse last!"";" "w '
I wee to notra name I r-sperance,
Hospital from Quebec City's con-l
vem oi ine senanu oi in niesseo
(Sacrament.
to1 Two nher of th lour rirviving
to' Two nlher of the four surviving
auintiliaris. beetle ana -i vonne.
Following Attempted Rickreall Hold-up
Danger from falling rocks con
tinues on the North Santiam near
Detroit dam, the highway com
mission reports.
Justices Veto
0&C Hearing
WASHINGTON l-The Supreme
Court Monday denied a hearing to
Oregon's Clackamas County on its
protest against transler of 472.001)
acres of timber land to the
Agriculture Department'! Forest
Service.
The county contended the trans
fer Irom the Interior Department's
Bureau of Land Management is
unconstitutional. The contention
was rejected by two lower federal
appealed to the nign tribunal.
n.. . ...,. i,i,k
rt ,he It CM-
(rnj. Hailroad grant lands In
th, ,and, wm retalmK by
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ionxrrs wenu-te ui tiuiiiuii wj
I the railroad o( terms of the grant
A long and involved dispute oxer
administration of the lands fol
lowed and Congress in I9:4 put
jurisdiction oser the 472. acres
in Western Oregon in the Hires!
Service.
The ISM law also provided that
from timber sales should
United In accordance with
formula applying to other Oregon
1. r.l,f.,k llo.lraH .rani land.
would be a reduction of income to
--ch .ould c,n,,it,,.e. taking
due
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Partner in Attempted Robbery
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Robert Scott Kennen, 31, Salem, one of two gun-toting would
be robbers who attempted to hold up a Rickreall tavern Sun
day evening. His partner, Wallace C. Cunningham was shot to
death by a deputized service station attendant. Kennen said
he hadn't wanted to take part in the robbery and according
to state police said he had "little interest in the robbery."
Kennan Says He Didn't Want
Anything to
Editor's Note: Capital Journal
writer Vlrtar B. Fryer Inter
viewed Robert dealt Kenaaa, II,
Nalem, one af th men wha par
ticipated la last night's blood
stained holdua attempt al Kirk-
real). May la the Dallas Jail.
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Ihls la waai hfssis ai; . 1,-Mn-niirr-, ,. ,,.
- 7 , , . ,. Kennan recalled the events that
"I didn t pick the spot of the M , hr ,hoon, , hPj
holdup i. ' I didn. want anythyig to rlmlpanlin yv.llace Caile Con
dow.ih lt. the surviving member ,., . Por,iand. ,nd the
ol a holdup duo said Monday as he .... , . ,i, .,.
ws finjcrprinted and booked
me mis o.oiy jin m ui..4
ine rnis canny j.m "'"
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Do With Holdup
"I didn't know there was going
to be a robbery until we arrived!
at the place," Robert Scott Ken
nan, 31. Salem, said. "We were on
the way to Portland to see my girl
I friend when it all happened. I don t
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Rickrea
Citizen Shoots
Down Tavern
Gunman
By VICTOR B. FRYER
RICKREALL A trigger-haooT
gunman met .death at the hands
of a deputized civilian Sunday
afternoon in a double-shooting at
the Bar-B-Q tavern and cafe in
Rickreall. A itate police officer
was shot and a second bandit wai
captured in the attempted holdup
oi ine business and some 13 to 20
customers.
Dead is Wallace Carlyle Cun
ningham, 35, Portland, the fun
man who twice shot state Patrol
man John Mekkers in the left
arm. In the Polk county jail it
Robert Scott Kennan, 31, Salem,
Cunningham's accomplice in tha
holdup. Hero of the hour Is Her- '
schel Greenwade, 24, Dallas, the
man who shot Cunningham and
probably saved the life of Officer
Mekkers.
The shooting fray occurred
after fate took a hand in the pro
ceedings, state police and Polk
County sheriff's officers said, and
forced the two men to return to
the tavern in an attempt to com
mandeer another car when their
own car refused to start.
Officer Mekkers was already
en route to the scene and en
tered the tavern as Cunningham
had forced the customers into a
rear room for the second time
and was attempting to get the
keys to another car.
As police reconstructed the
bullet-splattered affair:
Automobile Stalls
Cunningham entered the tavern
shortly after 6 p.m. and aat at
the bar, ordering a beer. A few
minutes later Kennan entered
and shortly thereafter, the twq
puuea guns ana oraerea ine nei
ana - customers to raise then
hands,
After ordering waitress Char
lene James, Dallas, to hand over
the approximately (100 in tha
cash register, the two relieved
the customers of their money
an amount roughly estimated at
$.100 to $400 and then herded
them into a restroom area at tha :
rear of the tavern.
Keenan left the tavern first 1
and backed the car from its
parking spot, but apparently
stalled the motor. The two
couldn't get the car started, so
they entered the tavern again
ordering the customers into the
backroom from which they had
negun to emerge.
What the two bandits didn't
know was that the group had
succeeded in contacting state
police. Harold Cope, Dallas, the
smallest man in the group, had
been hoisted over the top of a
partition to get into the living
quarters of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Wilson, owners of the business,
in an effort to get him to a
phone. He was unable to find
the phone in the apartment, how
ever, so when the gunmen left.
Mrs. Wilson quickly slipped
through a door in the partition
and into the apartment.
She alerted her husband, whs
had been sleeping, and then call
ed state police. Wilson grabbed
rifle to go after the gunmen
but found he had no shells for
it. She, meanwhile, had contact
ed police and was giving a run
ning story on events while Offi
cer Mekkers, on patrol nearby.
was dispatched to the scene.
Mekkers Wounded
Mekkers arrived at the Men
after the men had returned in
side in the unsuccessful effort to
get another car. He spotted
Greenwade at his service station
across the street and motioned
him and Don Bowen to the ear.
Mekkers deputized Greenwade, '
handed him a rifle and told him
to cover him as he entered the
tavern.
lie found Kennan inside and '
quickly disarmed him, then went
into the rest room area where
Cunningham had the group under
his gun. Apparently he did not
know that Cunningham was in
volved in the holdup and asked.
' What's going on here."
At the sound nf the vnice, Cun
ningham whirled and fired, hit
ting Mekkers in the shoulder and
again in the lower arm. Mekkers
clutched his wounded arm and
'Continued on Page I, Sec. 1)
Today's Index
Section One
Anausemeat
F.dUorlals
Laral
Section Two
Society
Televlsiaa
.. 4
Section Three
Cmie It
Section, Fojir
Spurts
tlaiftl
M4
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