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Pae ? Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOI'HNAL Capital Journal Salem, Ore., Fri., Jan. 13, 1956 Salem Police Chief Calls for Cooperation! John Graham In Heading Off Teen Delinquency Problem Displays Weapons Being Carried By Boys ' . Br VICTOR B. FRYER The cooperation ol parents. KhooU, police and court la nec aaary it Salem la to avoid a aarioua problem o( Juvenile de linquency, Lniei oi rujice A Warren aaid ThuridaV. Tha atalement cama at the nnlira chief reve-led a nulsnt'"! youth problem hinted at by re sent t oubles In the e.ty. Ho showed a number of weapona tak an from teen-agers recently; some alter arrests on various charges and others surrendered voluntarily by the owners. Only one a lead-filled piston wrist pin had been used against an other in a fight, ha said, but othara had been in possesion ol youths involved In arguments and, If used could have caused serious, or even fatal, Injury. The display of weapons and the release of the information to the press, be indicated, was ol to show that there waa an Immediate Juvenile problem in the city, but to ask the cooper ation of the community to see tht such a problem does not . arise. Isolated Oks The Instsncea in which the weapons switch-blade knives, a pistol, lead weights and two hay hooks-have been taken from youths are Isolated cases, Chief Warren said; not cases of gang warfare or organised roups carrying them. However, the in cidence of cases where-ln youtha are found to be carrying conceal ed weapons has Increased re cently and could be a forewarn ing of serious trouble If It should become a fad or the accepted thing to do among teen-agers, he in. Parents can help in preventing such problem from arising by knowing where tneir cnuaren are and what they are doing when they are away from home, the chief of police said. Moat parents do know and a few others don't care, but there Is I number of otherwise thoughtful parents who have little idea of whera there children are when they leavo home at nights. The individual youth may be all right in him self, but it mixing with the wrong group could go astray from the family, church and school touch inn oi rlaht and wrong. One local school leader was ouoted by officers, "When a vntineiter leaves home with definite olace to go a friend's house, a nail game, a movie or a eluh meellna then he is un doubtedly on the right track; but when he Is out 'just loafing around.' that la the time parental control ahould be strongly exer cised." . N Chief Warren also suggested that parents might check occas alonally on what their youngsters rt carrying In their pockets, what they keep In their bureau drawera and what they carry In their cars. If they are carrying or keeping lead welghta, ewltch blade knives or other potentially dangeroua weapons, It is a good time to take a look at the youths' outside activities, he said. Aa to the schools part, War ren said, they have been, and will be, offering their cooperation in watching for any signs of gsng activity, carrying of dangerous weapons and incidents of violence and will also continue to offer firograms of activltlea to hold the ntercst of youth in more whole some lines. Police Plan Prosecution The pr'lce and courts will prebtem by closer checks on work te prevent a Juvenile youths out after hours, groups f loafera and a closer watch for thoae carrying dangeroua ' devices. The police also plan a more vlgoroua prosecution of anyone, minora or adults, taught carrying concealed wea pons, he ssld. Where tupervls- Ion and training falls, the threat ef arrest and possible Imprisonment may hare some ilfect ea the weuld-be "lough", who endangera both himself, ther youths and aociety in general. The confiscated weapons dis played by the chief Included three switchblade knives, three lead-filled piston wrist pins, one tape-wrapped lead weight, one '.38 caliber pistol and two hay hooks. There have been more picked up recently, particularly knives and welghta he explained, but they have been destroyed or other wise disposed ol. One of the weights was used In a recent fight in a school parking lot In whlrb a youth was hit in the face with such force he was niit nf firhnnl for rovitjiI Hnva tin. til the heavy bruises heale rl. One of the switchblade knives was also picked up a,fter that en. counter, he said, although It an. parently was not taken from the pocket of. the person carrying it an onlooker. The gun and one we'lght were taken from tha car of a youth who has bean Involved in at least two burglaries and other ' troubles. The hay hooka were taken from a farm youth owner to whom another youth' was deny onstrating how to use the wicked, hookodaweepons in a fight, War ren said. Some of the other wrQona were taten from youths picked up for liquor or curlew viola lions and some were surrendered by youths who had been carry- inf them after they learned of. oiner youma oeing arrested tor the possession of such Items. Not all of the youtha who carry aurh weapons have been in trouble, the police chief aaid, and many come from good families. It is hoped by bringing the poten tial problem to the attention of the public that these youlhi Weapons Collected From Juveniles 1..? t : .'.v-v.; Police Chief Clyde Warren and City Juvenile Oflcera Ken neth Seipp view the collection of dangeroua weapons taken re cently off teen-agers in Salem. Chief Warren Is holding a hay hook. On the table are three awltch blade knives, metal cyl inders used in gang fights and a .38 caliber revolver. City police aay juvenile crime activities are on the increase. (Capital Jour nal Photo) - Utah Takes Over Custody of Polygamous Wife's Children SHORT CREEK, Utah Wl A day to sign an .affidavit which frail, tired woman came home to' "-Mild enable her to keep her chll- thia desert town today, leaving dren, seven ol her eight children in state custody and vowing to fight "with ovary drop of my blood" to gat them back. .. Only 4-year-old" Vaughn (net Mrs. Vera Black on her return. He hai whooping cough and could not be turned over to state wel fare authorities at Provo yester day. The State Welfare Commis sion look custody of the other seven children when Mrs. Black refused to swear In writing not to teach them polygamy and not to practice it herself. Vaughn will be surrendered to the state when he Is well. Scholarship Exams Slated For Saturday CHlCAGd UK-A total of B,07 brilliant high school' aenlors will take second examinations tomor row to determine which 1.900 ol them will atill be in the running for college merit scholarships next fall. They are the survivors of nearly 60.000 hand-picked aenlors who took the first examination Oct. 26 in the National Merit Scholarship Corp. talent search. The second tests will be given at hundreds of testing stations throughout the nation, but no stu dent will have to travel more than hi mites. The 3.500 finalists will be con sidered by a board of judges. The board will review their scholastic records and their activities records in and out of school. The students will be asked lo submit statements of their plans for college and ambitions later. At least 44S and possibly 500 will be given four-year scholarships lo colleges of their choice. They also will get cost ot living allowances Dawa on need. I tie. scholarship program was made possible largely by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Nine major oorporatlons subsequently announced plans to cooperate and increase tne number of such scholarships. Results will be known In about f!t weeks. Welfare officials pleaded with Mrs.. Black for two hours yester- . : V Welfare . Commissioner - H. ' C, Shoemaker 'said Mrs. Black; is one of three, wives of Leonard' Black, who was. among a .number of Short Creek men convicted of un lawful cohabitation by Arizona au thorities two years ago. Black lives on the Aritona aide of the two state settlement, but his wife Vera Uvea on the Utah side. . The Blacks are members of a 'fundamentalist" cult which be lieves polygamy Is God's law. The Lalter-Day Saints (Mormon) Church outlawed polygamy In 1890. Shoemaker arranged the Provo meeting after officers failed to lake custody of the children In Short Creek Tuesday. Black and other Short Creek men barred them from the Black home. Mrt Rlnrk 49 walked tearfully from the meeting and went to an adjoining room where her children waited and told them: "I am going to have to give you up children, but 1 11 get you bacK. 1 love you and I'll fight with every .I.... f ... klnJ t t.nitl" The three smaller children Emllle, 9; Wllford, 7; and Fran cis, & bawled out loud and em braced their mother. "Don't lot them take us!" Wll ford cried. Tears streamed slowly down the cheeks of the older children Or son, 19; Lillian, 14; Spencer, 12, and Elsie, 11. "We won't be away from you long, mother." said Orson. Mrs. Black then accompanied welfare officials while they took the children to an undisclosed Provo home for the night "to see that everything will be all right for them. People Found Neighborly in South America South Americana with whom they cama In contact during a month's tour of the continent to the south on the part of a group of Lions International directors, were deaorlbed as "generous, cor am ana hospitable" by A. L. Hawn of Euoerm at lunxh pnn meeting held at tha Marion hotel Thursday noon. The meeting, sponsored by the Salem Lions club, attracted at tendance from many Lloni groups throughout the valley.- Hawn described one of the state dinners held in Santiago, Chile, where the visiting Lions were presented to the Chilean president and other high officials as a most sumptuous affair. All men, including the waiters were attired in full dinner regalia, including "tails" and the guests, under protocol of the highest nature, were supposed to remain until the president decided to leave. The international directors finally got away at 4 a.m. The touring directors visited many of the principal cities of South America during Septem ber. Hawn, who admitted that he waa subject to "sea sickness", spoke humorously of his exper iences in a non-pressurized plane while en route to Miami. Fla. "I found that I could throw It as hard and as far as the next one", L - , I ' ne remarxea. The guests for Thursday's Inn cheon Included presidents of all of the Lions clubs in Salem and many of the former district bov. ernors. Al Stockstad, district gov ernor of Springfield, Ore., was present. , Local Named Bargainer for Radio Workers State Labor Examiner Fred ft. K-hftttr ibIH Thttcartftu ha Today the children will be put .has certified the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers, local 49, Portland, as bar gaining agent for employes of radio station KGON, Oregon Citv. The certification is for techni cians and announcers, but exclud ing supervisory and clerical personnel. The election among the employes was held last June 29, but the de cision was withheld pending a hearing on a challenge by the sta might e prevented from getting Into trouble, from getting in jured or something more serious. o-o into foster homes in Provo. Hillcrest Chior To Give Concert The Chspel Choir of the Hill crest School for Girls will present a concert of sacred music Sunday evening at The Englewood Evan gelical United Brethren Church. Under the able direction of Mrs C Browncll the choir will . Uon m,nament. ?".':LZ.Z'lS'"Z" The hearing on this challenge aK" Other well' .ovT Scoe i ?hlch the management claimed tions for the evening will bc tnat one ?' th ballots was cast by Lcgemte by TscnamowsKy. ""' "-""", r "V " "Over the Star There Is Rest' by Abt, and "Nightfall or Sun rise" by Handel. The Hillcrest Choir Is composed of sixteen members. Following fhe concert, the Englewood Crusader group will provide an informal fellowship and refreshments for the choir members and the congregation. Treat the Family to a Drllcimu SEAFOOD DI1ER At The Famous Borcijesterousic rv.ll-l.if.. I 1. 1 r ri-... I g (-iiKiuiui nunuspnore uccRn view m JjOnly 60 Milr-i From Salem - Ocean Lake, Ore. S II Schcrer rulea that the challenged oauot snouio ne counted RATS CROWD OUT CATS TAIPEI. Formosa iff Taipei health officials said Thursday For mosa's rat population has soared to SO million. They aaid the num ber ot cats la declining. Sanity Trial . Set March 5 Defense Attorneys Con test Psychiatrists' Findings DENVER Iff-A Jury trial U set to start March I to determine if John Gilbert Graham was sane last Nov. 1 when he la accused of dynamiting an airliner that hurled bis mother and 41 others to death. Trial on the sanity issue was requeated by court-appointed de fense attorneys who rejected the findings of four psychiatrists that the 23-year-old defendant was sane. In effect, the doctors found bra- ham knew right from wrong and could refrain from doing wrong. Tha defense had Its choice of having a separate trial on the sani ty Issue or including it In a trial to determine Graham's guilt or innocence to charges ot murdering his mother Mrs. Daisit E. King, 65. Tha sanity trial expected to laat about 10 daya will focus on the testimony of the four psychia trists, who will report on their ex aminations of Graham. Details of tha bombing of the United Air Lines plane will probably come into this trial only Incidentally. If Graham'ls found aane, he will then be tried on his plea of Inno cent to the murder charge. If tha Jury finds him insane he would be committed to Colorado State Hos pital never to be tried .on the murder charge. Two atate-e m p 1 o y e d psychia trists, Dr. James Calvin and Dr. John Macdonald, reported to Diet. Judge John M. McDonald yester day they had found Graham aana. Their findings were the same aa Dr. Leo v. Tepley and Dr. R. Robert Cohen, private psychiatrists who - had been appointed by the court to represent tha defense in the observation of Graham. All the psychiatrists conducted Independent examinations of Gra ham over a 30-day period after he was sent to Colorado Psychopathic Hospital Dec. 9. Federal officials said Graham signed a confession Nov. 14 admit ting he had planted a dynamite bomb in the luggage put aboard tha plana by hia mother. He has since repudiated the statement. Rogue Land Patents 'Rammed Through, Sen. Scott Charges Interior Didn't Await Reports,. He Claims Aiken Sights Soil Bank OK WASHINGTON tn-Sen. Aiken of Vermont, senior Republican on the senate Agriculture Committee, voiced confidence today that "we can get together on a soil bank plan." ... ..; .. ;.- , in-r And sen. Ellender (D-La), tha committee chairman, assigned top priority to the soil bank In the committee's efforts h write a new farm law based on recommenda tions President Elsenhower made to Congress Monday. In essence, the soil bank pro gram contemplates that farmers would be paid federal subsidies, ranging perhaps as high as 400 million dollars this year, for vol untarily taking land out of the production ' of crops which are in surplus and planting them to grass and trees. The subsidies would be in cash or in commodities from the government's elght-billion-dol- lar stock of surpluses. The aim is to cut down on pro duction of crops which already are in oversupply, while establishing a "bank" of fertile land against a time when Increased harvests may be needed. Secretary of Agriculture Benson assured the Senate committee yes terday that soil bank paymnts could bolster sagging farm prices promptly. Many members of Congress have contended that while the ad ministration program may be of benefit in the long run, it will do little now to help farmers whose incomes are declining. NOWI Doors Open :4SI and the appeal was held in Wash ington for II month! without any action." After discussing the mailing ot the assay report from Spokane, Scott had this to say: . "This is a vary concrete avi- niimwnnu , i .... i;..'rienco that tnt interior iMpan- of dispute was open Friday in i ment, for some as yet undisdoaed the big fuis over lSiuning patenta ', was in a mighty . big hur- granted a private company on land nr to hand over these public lands in the Rogue River National For-, .' wnr,h D:. , . ... . e..r,i "The testimony taken thus tar c c,. ,r, ,,., .u.i . reveals .that private ownership of Sen. Scott (D-NC), chairman of lk. H.i u,.. i.j i ,,... a special ,SH w" Uon was granted on the claim that which is looking in o the Interior nrrhti land and land D?ar"!','t . 2Lt, ld b. used for mining ents, got out a. statement Thura- , minerals. Say C5U.TI .u"?a.t.!n:.v' "Vt no mining has taken place toe the lleid reports ever reacneo , Um, how,vtri u,, prMent Washington. nrlv.t. awnen nf the land have In reply, assistant Secretary of ! cut over sim oon worth of tlmher me inienur umrenvv a. irnvio De clared "that just Isn't so" and classed Scott's charges as "ridicu The mining patents, once turned down on a finding that the land contained insufficient minerals to justify mining operations, were granted in 1954 after Al Sarena Mines Inc. annealed and new as says of the land had been made. Democrats are trying to tag tne grants to the Mobile, Ala., firm aa a "giveaway," contending the pat enta give Al Sarena title to timber far more valuable than what tne company paid for the patenta. . Republicans maintain the Demo crats, in an effort to develop cam paign material, are trying to smear the administration, iney also have protested Scott's han dling of the hearing, which Is in recess until Tuesday. The proceeding wasn t in session Thursday either but Scott stirred things up with hia statement ques tioning whether- the department was aware of tha results of the second set of assay tests when it granted Al Sarena's. applications. He said the report on tne assays were mailed on Jan. S, 1854, in Spokane, Wash., by tha mines bu reau office there. 1 "The very next day," he said, the department's decision "was written and handed .down in Wash ington" by Davis, then depart ment aollcitor. Tha decision was 17 pages long Scott said. He added he thought it "a physical impossibility for the caae to have been studied and con sidered carefully as it ahould have been in Washington. Davis conceded he could not say ; without a careful check of the , files when the Information on the results of the assaya actually reached the department." "I do know, however," ha de clared, "that we had word on what the results of the assays had been. The opinion was based On this re port." i It is ridiculous to say that we rota the opinion before wa had the information. That just isn't so. This case had been pending be fore the department for five years Printers Soon To Get Map and Salem Brochure A new city map and a brochure stressing Salem's industrial ad vantages are in preparation by the Chamber ot Commerce and will soon be In the hands ot print ers. The Industrial brochure points out the advantages of locating plants In Salem. The new street maps being pre pared will list all of the new streets and will also Include pic tures of the city as well as sta tistics about the community. There will be a small charge for the new maps which will be distribut ed from the Chamber office. Last year approximately MOO maps, were distributed through the Chamber office. Jriovlnoj t Sawiust Immediate Delivery Hum 34203 Mvwtoa, Or. Wi suds i nI lt i Ameut torcsrSr whe guaristHi Hist evea (rider Nt IMfftjntt aw fiik dihet wW lliU tare Ihsif familiar afljk Oarer THE SAN SHOP rtlananuad Tha Oregon Homo of Sloppy ojo o A Oroat Sandwichl at North City limits or Orders to Oo-Phono 2479I -CO-HIT- Grove nd Hammond Will Attend Meeting Salem Chamber of Commerce Manager Stanley Grove and Wil liam Hammond will be among the speakers at the Oregon-Washine- ton Chamber of Commerce Mao. agers and 'Presidents Asbciatioa meeting at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland February e and 7. Hammond will speak to tha of ficers session on "Chamber of Commerce Financing" whilo Grove will talk to the managers o "Proportionate Support," Chamber rersiaent timer Berg is expected to attend the meeting. from it since they gained owner- ship in IBM at the price of five dollars per acre to the government. ,TVflfrrM.nwvs. mi rwej g liMIMVIiM.1 IPHONf 1 4-471 J . E4 Teawnew Optn 4:43 . Jam (gusH-Gllbwl Ulmi UNDERWATER Jain In Ihli UndtrwiHr isirih fr Hit Svnksfl Tmture ' - SUPERSCOK-FUU COIOS CNatWf Comal WIMa-Yvanm Da Cart PASSION AND REVENGE fionttr Fury in Early Caufomia Saaelal ChllaWa Matlnae vary iahirreay 1 4 P.M. . Tamarraw'i Faatwra PUtvra at Tha last of tha Bucanoers Plui tlx Carttam and Serial That ahowa are for ihila'ran of all . 0ta and for Pad and Mom too. Admlnlon llonly 20c for ovaryono Electric Chair Claims Slayer OSSINING, N.Y. tin-William By- ers, IS, died in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison last night for the murder of his girl friend's mother. He was chewing gum and dis played no emotion when he walked Into the death chamber. The girl, Theresa Gresh, who was 15 at the time of the murder in March 1S54, Is serving a sen tence of 90 years to life in prison, the maximum for second-degree murder. i She was convicted of helping kill tier mother Mrs. Anna Gresh, 43. Mrs. Gresh was hammered and knifed to death in her Manhattan tenement after aha caught Byers in bed with her daughter. Her body was stuffed into a tub In tha apartment and covered with plas ter. For weeks the young couple en tertained friends at drinking par ties in the apartment while the mother's body lay hidden in the tub., PORGY, BESS' 80LD OUT MOSCOW un A big sign at the boxoffica of the Stanislavsky Theater here informed customers all tickets for all performances sold out." The hit is American production of "Porgy and Bess," which opened last Tuesday far a one-week run. At no performance so far has there been a single empty seat. Starts TOMORROW! Last Day "Texas lady and Green Buddha" In the Recent "Audience Awards'! Poll, Sa lem Movie-Goers Voted these two Mes aa the Best ACTORS OF THE YEAR! m KST rlW w - msb r mm mmw - . rmw i'i 'mini L Sf.i.aV- r IssMH a."- Bo.L. QrMASW - .... i' .rJLtrn .-.iinnuiiwrimw ,1 Jm.Wtll J E W J "J . . 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