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i f i n ; I :3 o . o o o- w o o oA O . o o & o r . . o o c o . LaoitarA Journal . . ji ... THE WEATHER INTERMITTENT RAIN tonight and Thursday. ConlBued mild. Low to Ughl, 42; high Thursday. M. 67th Year, No. 288 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 21, 1955 SStum,3Sr'oZ- , grice 52 Streams Spill Over Banks in 17 Die as Luxury Airliner Crashes in Jacksonville Ship o o o o 0 o O o - o 0 4SECTI0NS o ' - . 26Va$es o esfon Hits Tree Near Port Edge 12 Passengers, 5 Crew Members Victims JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Ifl An Eastern Air Lines Constellatio:i, bound from Miami to Boston, crashed and burned on a landing approach here early Wednesday, killing all 17 persons aboard. The big, four-engined luxury air liner was only a quarter of a mile from the end of the runway at the Jacksonville airport when it ap parently came in too low, hit 'he top of a tree in the pre-dawn dark ness and plunged to the ground. I Visibility at the time was one half mile and the ceiling 300 feet, airport officials said. Five of the dead were crew members, and 12 were passengers. ; Also aboard the plane was the ! body or C. B. Thritt of Miami, an employe of the airline, being sent to Washington, D. C, for burial. Thrift. 47. had died of a heart attack Saturday. ' The crash was the third aerial; disaster in Florida in three days. ! Monday, two Air Force bombers ' crashed over the outskirts of Tam pa, killing eight men. A few hours later an Air Force jet and a bomb er collided over Port St. Joe. 200 miles up the Gulf Coast, killing three men and leaving three miss ing. (Continued on page 8, col. 2) Plane Wreckage Grazes Home j MM J w Safeway Soon ToStartWork At Northsate new YMCA youth wing after Y of ficials presented off-street parking Building early in 1956 of a Safe way supermarket between North gate avenue and Wayside terrace, near the north Salem city limits, seems certain after a request to the State Highway commission in Portland Tuesday for access rights to the highway. The commission took the request under consideration and Safeway asked for a decision by December 31, 0. R. Blair, real estate man ager for Safeway, said the firm wants to go ahead with the project as soon as possible. The location is on property owned hv Kafpwav fnr thp last two vpars. Roy Harland, Salem attorney ap- to bring Salem's seventh traffic pcaring for Safeway, put in the re- fatality of the year Tuesday, quest for two access drives, each I Eighty-year-old Mrs. Nellie A, 50 feet wide, from Highway 99E ; Y a n a. 835 Gaines Street, was into the Safeway property. fatally injured when struck by -CSS? JACKSONVILLE, FLA., The wheels of an Eastern Airlines Constellation which crashed and burned here today narrowly missed this house. Seventeen persons died in the crash. (AP Photofax) YMCA Wing Okayed By Salem Planners By DOUGLAS SEYMOUR plans. Bids on the new wing arc Members of the Salem Planning to be opened at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Commission reversed their ruling . The commissioners also delayed of a week ago Tuesday night as; until their next meeting action on they approved construction of the i the request of the -Central Assem bly of God Church to move its building from Cottage and Hood Streets to Church and Norway Streets, which is in a residential ione. The new location would have less than the required amount of off-street parking. The decision on the YMCA var iance application came after Roy Harland, Y president, prosentcd a contract with the First Presbyter ian Church for parking spaces for Y employes and a letter declaring the YMCA's intention to continue A rfrivino rain sim-m shnnninB negotiation to acquire parking trip and holiday traffic combined ! '; d t that parking space for four cars would be provided in the ncsv wing. He also explained that YMCA officials had also circulated pot! Salem Woman Succumbs to Auto Injuries tinne fnt- Q phsnllil fit TfinP fnr thp The commission was shown a a car as she crossed the street j ihai if thp nianninn general plan for the biulding and in the 1200 block of North Capi- commission wished them present- car parsing ioi area, n year or mi ioi luesaay ancrnoon. anc uieu e(j ne was rcady to do so. ago a street was platted parallel about an hour after the accident -he commissioners, however, to the four-acre frontage and thecal a Salem hospital. I voted to allow the building con- highway, and it was then vacated j Drivcr of the car. Ronald: struction under the variance pro- by the city- It was tnougnt i's Leonard Wilmot, Portland, told;Cedure so that the zone change Ford Co. Discloses Earnings $1.5 Billion Net Profit Reported Since 1916 WASHINGTON (UP) The Ford Motor Co. in its first public ac counting in 52 years today reported net profits of $l,53G,8uo.ooo from 11146 through Sept. 30. 1955. These disclosures were made in a 39-page prospectus 'covering Ford Foundation plans to sell 10,200,000 shares ot common stock in the first public offering of Ford securities in the firm's history. The stock, biggest corporate of fering ever made, it expected to go on sale some time next month for about $75 a share. The actual time and price will be disclosed later. Par value will be $50 a share. " Earnings Reported The Ford earnings report was made in a registration statement, a necessary corollary of the stock offering, to the Securities and Ex change Commission. It showed that current earnings are at the rate of $5.85 a share. Cumulative earn ings since 1946 have been secopd in the auto industry only to Gen eral Motors. The company used this prospec tus as a vehicle for disclosing that it plans to introduce a new line of passenger automobiles "within the next few years." It did not describe the line or say what mar ket it will be aimed at. Concerning current business, the Ford Company disclosed that deal ers' stocks of Fords and Mercurys nave increased and that "there have been reductions in production and in future production sched ules." Lost Money In 1948 "Rapid changes in demand can occur in the industry, the rom pany said, "and plans for future production are subject to continu ous review and to frequent revi sion upward or- downward as cir cumstances require." The financial report covered the 10 years, as required by law, through the first nine months of 1955. It disclosed' that the com pany suffered net losses in 1946 of $8,100,000. Thereafter, however, the com pany made fat profits, although (here was a sag in 1951 and 1952. Output hit a record high for the firm in the first nine months of 1955. For that period the net was $312,200,000, higher by $84,400,000 than the profits for all of 1954, the richest previous year. Flooding Threatens Homes on Silverton Road - . c -- - ' - - - f . - ' . - ...--I,- . Residents 1 t. Evacuated In Floods Schools Close in Eugene Section; Roads Cut There was no lawn mower sharpening today as the home of Frank Corn, 3560 Silverton road, had the yard inundated and rapidly rising surface water may soon enter the house itself unless last night's and today's downpour ceases soon, Willamette Flooding Sighted by Thursday 21-oot Crest Due As Heavy Rains Conl mue By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER The Willamette river at Salem is due to flood late Thursday, a crest of 21 feet called for by midnight in the wake of steady rain falling through the valley. Flood stage at Salem is 20 feet. It will be the first time since January 21, 1953, that the Wil lamette has spilled over its banks here, the river then measuring 26.7 feet, and it will be the first flooding since the new highway and bridge approach were opened in September of 1053 on the West Salem side of the river. Substantial rise in all valley rivers are listed and are to con tinue through the next 24 hours, and forecasts may change with rain continuing to pour down. At Jefferson, the Santiam al ready was over its banks, Wed nesday morning, and a crest of 20 to 21 feet is due there be tween 4 and 6 p.m. Flood stage there is 13 feet. In that area there is considerable bad wash ing along bordering pastures and fields, but no other major damage. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Western Oregon streams went out of their banks Wednesday, families were evacuated from their threatened homes, schools closed, slides cut highways and rain still came down. The McKcnzie, the Umpqua, and the Siuslaw were raging torrents. The Willamette, a damaging river near Eugene In years past, was still being held in check by Look out Point Dam whose reservoir was going up a foot an hour. Mountain snows melted, adding fresh torrents. At mid-morning the Siuslaw Riv er at Mapleton, a dozen miles from the coast due west of Eu gene, was four feet above flood stage and still rising. A score ol houses near the river were ma-' rooned and water was inehin un to the floors. All woods crews in the Maple- ton area quit work and the U. S. Plywood Corp. mill closed down. Schools were being dismissed. Since Saturday night Mapleton had measured six inches of rain. J ne Lane county sheriff s off c evauated seven families by boat irom mcir nomes in the Westward Ho residential section north of Eugene and a half dozen mora families were told to be ready to cave inai lowland area which is criss-crossed by the channels of old floods. Amazon Creek spread out Jnd I inn-minilnj Ik E-.... ltl-1. Drains, Sewers Clogged School, which closed. A junior high A,wl (... llu.i inure aiso oiosea Because water ...nit.. uuacintuiB . Waler-Logged City Pumps in Action to Cope With Flooding Overflowing drains, sewers and Meyer to Shut Store; Eyes Supermart Site would provide tne neeaea access, p()ijcc tnat Mrs, but it didn't conform to a policy th tirci-i ot controlled access auopicu Dy me highway commission when it1 ac quired property to widen Highway 99E some years ago. Adlai's Son Hurt, 2 Pals Die in Crash self against the GOSHEN, Ind. (UP) Adlai Stevenson's son. John, 19, was seriously injured in a car-truck collison todav which killed tw Harvard University classmates riding in his car. The dead were William S North. Ill, 19, Lake Forest, 111 and William C Boydcn, Jr., 19, Chicago. The son of the presidential candidate was taken to Goshen General hospital in serious con dition. He suffered a broken knee cap, cuts and bruises. Also injured wa, another classmate, James Gilligan, 19, Nebraska City, Neb. 'Police said a truck driven I"2 .'"' .fr C'.?-Alene Phillips, his personal secrc- '7n nn" " r '. E?,ri7: "comp-aniqfl the secretary Yana started will not be necessary, shielding her- The commission's decision to rain with an ! orani the variance to the YMCA umorcua in sucn a way mai sne : was opposed only By T. w. Lowry, couldn't sec the car. He was j chairman of the variance corn unable to stop in time, he said, mittce which had turned in the Police said Mrs. Yana apparently j report a week ago recommending had been shopping at a grocery the variance not be granted, store in the block and was on i n explaining his opposition her way home when she started ij,Wrv declared he was svmna- to cross the street in the middle thctic with the YMCA's problem j the announcement said. of the block. ' j but that he believed the commis- Negotiations have been under Funeral services for Mrs. Yana ' sion should stand by the city's olf-way for several months, Meyer have been set for Thursday at street parking requirements and' to locate a suitable site and 1 p.m. at the Howell-Edwards . the exceptions, when made, should I he expressed hope that he would Funeral home. Rev. Paul Guntheribc made by the "ity Council. j he able to close a deal in th; near (Continued on page 9, col- 51 I (Continued on page 9. col. 2) future and to follow immediately Fred Meyer will close his Salem store on January 15, he announced Wednesday, and in the same an nouncement said he would con struct a modern shopping center as soon as he finds a suitable site. "Due to lack ot space and in ability of the firm to acquire ad ditional space at the prsent loca tion, the Fred Meyer store in Sa lem will be closed January 15," with the construction of a modern shopping center in size, service and facility, comparable to his Portland centers. In the small space that we have in the Salem store," Meyer continued, "we are very limited in the lines of merchandise we can handle. We have heard much complaint that many of the items At Salem, the Willamcllo wan flooded basements kept the office up to 15.6 feet by 10:30 a.m. 01 city Engineer J. H. Davis swampea witn tcicpnone cam irom distressed residents Wednesday. Wednesday and is due to hit 19.5 Thursday morning, rising (Continued on page 9, col. 1) Woman Hurt, Suspects Held In Purse Grab A Salem woman lost her purse and suffered minor injuries when attacked by a purse snatchcr near her home Tuesday night, she re ported to city police. A few hours later Eugene police arrested three young men in. an attempted robbery of a motel there and found in their car a store charge plate made out to the woman s husband. Names listed by Eugene police (or the three, now suspected here, are Leonard Daniel Clark, 22, Wil lie Coleman, 26, and Jack Taylor, alias James Johnson, 26. No home towns were given but they are not believed to be Oregon residents. Mrs. Mary Nixon, 415 Division street, was walking home about 10 o'clock with an arm load of pack ages when she was suddenly struck from behind and knocked down. she said. Her purse was then taken by a young man who ran to a car about a half-block away where another man waited behind the wheel, she said. She said the flooded out the boilers and thert . was no heat. . Several schools north of Eugens planned to close at noon so chil dren could get to their homes be fore rising water cut their paths. Glenwood, low-Jying community southeast of Eugene which used to expect annual flooding from the Quick response was made by Willamette, apparently was in up .no iiuui me ciiKiuci-iiuK uc- aanger as m)okoui I'oini nam res- nHvnrlicnH fnr mir PnrflanH ctnrn. are not available in the Salem man appeared to be in his twenties store." and described the car as having a Un-,r mlH ihv i,r tn,,Hr,o a blue bottom and light colored top. site that would provide off-stroet An car'' morning teletype from McKay Says Hawaii Booming, Champions Statehood Cansej By JAMES 1). OLSON ' gese. Japanese, Chinese and Ha- billion gallons may be escaping Hawaii is in a better shape eco- waiians. . through springs." McKay said, nomically today for statehood than "Yet there is no racial or.reli- "' fesult ' rt instructed the ever in its historv. Secretary of gious discriiliinatifln there." he ! Reclamation Bureau to make a .u. ii.;. rv.i.. d i. i j,nrnt ,iinaM. i survey to determine if small dams i .... , . j... i- ' . ., r:m hp pnnlrnrlpd In contain thft.1 Eugene said police there had pick ed up three men in a car answer ing the description given by Mrs Nixon after an attempted rob cry (Continued on Page 5. Column 51 partment, but prospects were not good for immediate relief depend ing, of course, on the weather, Davis said that all of (he city's emergency pumps, seven in num ber, are working, and in scattered parts of the city. Most of the trouble is in the north part of the city, but thcro is constant call for help from West Snlom and other quarters of the city. Davis said a tolal of about 20 men from (he department has been at work since early in the day. Flooded basements, overflowing storm drains, and backed up sani tary sewers are the main emer gencies inside the city. Only a few calls came in last night, but early Wednesday they suddenly spurted. What the situa tion Wednesday night will be is problematical. "If the rain should let up," said Davis, "we'll get along all right, and probably the crews will have a rest. But if it keeps on raining it's going to be tough." Downtown Salem is In good shape. Among places where the pumps have been spotted arc the Hollywood-Myrtle street district, 18th and Kay and West Salem. The understatement of the day was undoubtedly the one made by Ted Kucnzi, assistant Mar ion county engineer when he said "we have a lot of water," during the customary session of the county court Wednesday morning. "I have seen conditions worse than they now arc," he added. The engineering department as well as individual members of the court have been receiving telephone calls hourly from per sons who complained that ditches (Continued on page 9, col. II ervoir held the river to 5 feet below flood stage at Eugene. But the North Umpqua River was threatening the Garecn Valley area west of Roseburg and Ihet Weather Bureau warned residents to prepare to leave. Continued rise of the river was expected. The South Umpqua was riding too but at early morning was still four feet below flood stage at Winston. West of Sweet Home, Ames Creek, near the Santiam river,' undercut the tracks of the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle Railroad (Continued on page 9, col. 4) Mevenson car. uui s true was -.. . attempting to pa'ss another truck , , , in was in me wrons lane wneni saiu. " The Harvard students, we,? on their way home from school fcir Christmas vacftion. The car wife lauded with ski equipment0 i rlarpH Udnp;riav in Salpm UTvin tip ffatbvr tnpihpr. intprmarrv v ! his return from a 10-day visit in j and all work tic'ethcr for the fcood ' csfSPini water. by ... ,, j. ii,-.,, j m: Li I During his stay 11 the Island The Secretary and Mrs. cKay,MJK and hL, ,art we own were guests at the home of Gev- n , flows resulting from ernor Samue Wilier, King. the. tj look last pnlf man with Hawaiian blood to m th. ,,,ami 0, ,.awaji be appointed governor. when more, 4. ,. mcKm Mid. d. building development on it struck th youihs' juto. police 15 "nfls amazing. Mcn.ay said, "and business is at the high est point in the hiiftry of e is land." Mcfcay iid thate told the people of 1811 trrat the $epub- than 3000 persons were greeted during two and c4e-half9 hot.0 stand. stroyed one village and some pi e- apple ifYirds. - secretary ani Mrs. mcn,ay win parking and sufficient stores to carry all the lines of merchandise now carried in the Portland cen ters. No details were given by the Portland headquarters as to the present status of negotiations, but it is understood that what the firm desires is a site outside the business district and several acres in size. Salem has had a Fred Meyer dflm fnr thn natt tA v,an atari. ing with a small unit and expand I FT. LEWIS. Wash. m - Lt. Col. graduate to be tried on collabora ing with added lines in the present Paul V. Liles was found guilly tinn charges Col. Liles Convicted of Aiding Reds While PW; Cets Leniency location. I Wednesday of aiding the enemy Prior to the closing of the 'Salem I making propaganda recordings store. Meyer said, announcement whllc nc wa prisoner of war in will be miidc of a close-out salc :N'"''h Korea in IBSO-SS, but he won for the disposal of all merchandise 1 leniency from the l man military on hand in the store. i court. . H was r(rimanded by being suspended in rank tor 1 wo ycais. Army aaorncys saia ui.o meant he will retain his present rank as a lieutenant colonel, but will be put two years behind all officers in the vftlcsof promotion to lOih- Murder Charged A'gaiiftst Bailey TILLAMOOK A first dc- VattmiiQ yriterflir (A-div. . Vaul 24-hntir prrripli .r.:a-"r : waitan but 1SS7. KUrr hriflit 1S ftft at 1ft I McKay & niftnm 1 Congrcs whea the DemnRt Kay nitior,: llca Alaska sTaOod into ike O' the lu.AM.n K.ll j. as said that there l. ii.. j ..1.1. 1.J ""A" .. - M. mnrrtpr rharoe val filpd ' " rami. uic iinc m jviii w ne im jpciw in Lnnsimjjs nouoays vis- " a 1 . , .,,: i ,a, ik. .iT.. from thPdoor into th strcetoat ..', jhcir .wo S.ughlers. Mrs. Tuesday against Giant Bailey, 33, tLl,M won scquittal i the otTier liran party will continue to light most times, McfciydTaid. Lester Grec)? Aid Mrs. Wayne I who police said has admitted the ,,rg" aa'nH iVr stateh,0l the Island, a All!ish there ;icrfton (heilladley and their families. 0avin( fcMr- and M. Do,!d!, "J wa K ,2l,h nM'? ,0 . .C!L"L..fJ!f ;drSS2!iPnl here Sunday. U,& lVX: Pparl llarhnr .rnund-water'm... Hp oii tnOv back to Wash-t a")r saia ne 0l tne rcccarasi iwo imicr oiuccrs una mj eninica D,xon of Monterey, (Ol., said ir,e ,dvjnav he .hrinkinn at ii&JiaV , in.n. D C JanuOi 1. Mrs. Mo n se f defense a tor a fisht lc- " '" case will ne anneniea an me wa -cd when he ordered lhe,,," ",lc eim.-'i", wuc Indian couple q"'" The possible maximum sentence for conviction could have been IKc imprisonment, dismissal from the service and loss of all pay" .ind allowances. The 39-year-old o f f I f e r Irom Birmingham, Ala., was found in nocent of two other charges em bntng scOcral counts. They ere Sccusations that he was isloyal to c United States; led Hcd in doctrination classes, became a member of a so-calM Prisoners' Peace Committee miner Commu nist sponsorship, signed surrender appeals to United Notions troops and refused toSMokc charge of American prisoners when he was the senior 0icer present. de(env Lt. 01 wsne r. Ex-Wife Kills Door-Crashiiiff Creswell Man , EUGENE m r- Clarence Lewis Hamilton, 2fi, of Klamath Falls, r was shot and killed Tuesday night . as he forced his way through a barricaded door at his divorced wife's houso in Creswell, 14 miles south of Eugene. Dist. Atty. Eugene Venn iald Hamilton's ex-wile, Mrs. Aileen Belle Hamilton, 31, said she had fired two shots at her former hus band in self defense. "I shot at his legs and missed," she said. "He kept coming, so I shot again." No charge has been filed. Venn said he will call a special session ' of the grand jury to decide hat charges, if any, should be filed. The .25 caliber bullet penetrated Hamilton's heart. Mrs. Hamilton said her former husband had broken into her home several times. He had driven from Klamath Falls lo Creswell earlier Tuesday with two companions. J Three children were asleep In ' the house at the time of the shoot ing. Mrs. Hamilton's, eight-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, who had been given instructions -on wfcat to do if Hamilton tried to break into the house, reported the shooting to the sheritf's office, ' UlnniU are a m.. Ttttni. (Rerj& r u. . weather i melt'flff poL of r.ionWt.et. with i water are drawn annually frufu for the capit BarfiM) - I AmeScans. Englishmen.. PoOUiii body of water and another W,tcrt he said. )dvjriay he shnnkme at il wia . in-aMrr, Cer. to OA k.llin. o n 1 iTIn c rt( i V av anrl M.c. Phillinc will rfnnart ve'e Warm Springs leave his home. In the Court of MiliiatVApp!ls I Fo 01 feel conddenl the dccisiolf v. M I'll Lilc Oa the first West Point I be rceinl," Dixon said, '. . , Today's Index i Seel ion One Amusement . I Editorial 4 Local ( Society -7. Section Two Sports 1M Section Three Food 4..011 I'omics g T'Ovision ...... ..... t Section Four O 1.1 asiified ........... t-l-t 1 i 1 j i
