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68tH Tor, No. '49 ' Salem; Oregon, Wtdntiday, March 2l, 1956 .V.fWSten- Prirt Be
Ike Denounces Farm Bill as Ur-
1134,000
Gas Rate
Drop Set
Salem Users Will
Get Savings of
5-19 Pet.
By JAMES D. OLSON
(Capital Journal Writer)
Salem and Willamette Valley
residential gas users will enjoy an
annual savings of $78,000 in rates
after natural gas arrives in this
area in late summer, officials of
the Portland Gas and Coke com
pany declared Wednesday.
Commercial gas users will have
an estimated annual savings of
$37,000 based on 1955 billings, while
apartments and multiple dwellings
will save an estimated $19,000 an
nually. Rates filed by the gas company
with Public Utility' Commissioner
Charles H. Heltzel, will be subject
to possible revision both in charges
and in timing, for entry of natural
gas in the area.
"The proposed rates will be care
fully studied by our engineers,"
Heltzel saidt "and if we feel any
public bearing is necessary, we
will schedule one before passing on
the rates. Further, if it appears
that natural gas can be piped into
Oregon in advance of the date set
by the company early next Octo
berwe will advance the date
when the new rates will become
effective.
Save $1,700,000 a Year
Gas company officials said that
the estimated overall savings of
all piped-in gas users served by
the company in the state would be
$1,700,000 a year.
Generally, reductions will be
somewhat smaller in the valley
than in the Portland area, because
of the longer transmission dis
tances and wider scattering of cus
tomers, the company said.
(Continued on PagclO, Col, 1)
McKay Flying
Home to Gird
ForCampaign
WASHINGTON Wl Secretary
of Interior McKay is flying to
Oregon Wednesday to get his cam
paign for the Republican senator
ial nomination underway.
McKay told a reporter hi was
paying his own expenses.
The secretary said he would con
fer with his advisors and expects
to make some appointments for
his campaign organization.
McKay said he plans to be back
here Monday and decide by then
when he will resign from the Cab
inet. ,
He said Tuesday he may step
out in time to permit him to
speak to a meeting of Young Re
publicans in Eugene, Ore., April
13 and 14.
Supporters of McKay are ex
pected to seek endorsement ol his
candidacy at the Eugene meeting.
But backers of Philip Hitchcock,
another candidate, also are ex
pected to ask Young GOP en
dorsement. The federation's College League
last weekend announced it was
supporting Hitchcock, a former
state senator, now director of de
velopment at Portland's Lewis
and Clark College.
Doug Charges
Dick Tries to
Trip Him Up
WASHINGTON Wi-Sccretary of
Interior McKa: Wednesday ac
cused Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) of
seeking to embarrass him at a
hearing on a Din to revose a li
cense for Beaver Marsh power
dam in Oregon. Neuberger de
nied it.
The incident occurred when
Neuberger asked McKay on what
date he had written a letter to
the Federal Power Commission,
expressing his personal opposition
to the Beaver. Marsh project,
which his department had en
dorsed. McKay said he didn t recall.
"But I know why you ask it,"
the secretary declared. "You
want to embarrass me because
the letter was rot sent up until'
after the report lot the Interior
Department)."
" Neuberger Isaid he was not try:
ing to embarrass McKay.
Roden Quits GOP
Job in Fund Row
Long smouldering Young Repub
lican resentment of handling of the
GOP purse strings by the state
central committee flared into the
open in Portland Tuesday with
the resignation of Pat Roden ot
Salem from chairmanship of the
state first voter program.
Rodcn's resignation came upon
receipt of news that the committee
had authorized the state Young
Republicans $1,000 against a re
quested budget of $16,000. "That
just paid our debts and left us $50,"
he said.
Roden directed his criticism at
the state central committee but
picked out John C. Higgins, Port
land attorney reputed influential in
party affairs, as his main target.
Higgins Criticized
Higgins has been criticized by
Democrats and others for his Re
publican conferences at Portland's
exclusive Arlington Club, a resi
dential club. '
The 26-year-old Roden said,
"There arc people within our party
who seemingly are oblivious to
the fact that the Republican Party
is in competition for new regis
trations. I hold and charge these
people with responsibility of Neu
berger, Morse, and a vastly in
creased registration in Oregon."
He said he was "so thoroughly
disgusted" that he could "no longer
stand by and see a tremendous
program, which is so direly need
ed, be insulted from behind the
closed doors of the Arlington Club."
Roden sent the letter to Jim Hat
field, Young Republican chairman.
He told the Capital Journal today
that his organization has gone as
far as it can go without funds.
Volunteer Group
"We arc a volunteer group and
have committees in each of the
36 counties in Oregon that are now
organized. But we've also got to
have stamp money, money for
letters, and other necessities," he
said.
"If Higgins doesn't think our
program is worthwhile and won't
give us the money, he's making a
big mistake," he said.
He added, "It is time these peo
ple realize that the Young Repub
lican Federation of Oregon is the
medium for 'bringing new blood in
to our aging ranks. Apparently vc
arc still thought of as kids."
Hatfield said he will discuss the
letter with the federation's board
at a special meeting this week-end.
The resignation comes just prior
to a special all-day drive Thursday
by Marion County Young Republi
cans to increase their membership.
Five-Month Strike at
Westindiouse Settled
IUE Accepts Plan
Proposed Two
' Weeks Ago
WASHINGTON Wl The West
inghouse Electric Corp strike, one
of the longest in the nation's mod
ern labor relations history is
over.
Strikers weary of picketing idle
plants for 156 days headed hap
pily back to work Wednesday. " ''
The dispute punctuated at
times by violence probably cost
hundreds of millions of dollars in
lost wages and business.
Settlement came last night when
the striking International Union
of Electrical Workers (IUE) voted
to accept a peace plan proposed
two weeks ago by government
mediators, but changed somewhat
in the union's favor since then.
The new contract gives IUE
workers annual pay raises rang
ing from 5 to 22 cents an hour,
added to their prcstrike average
of $2.10 an hour. Additional raises
up to 12 cents an hour'were pro
vided for skilled workers. Pen
sions and insurance benefits were
improved. For example, the com
pany will take over full cost of
Bomb Found in
Cyprus Palace
NICOSIA, Cyprus Wl A lime
bomb was found in the bedroom
of Governor Sir John Harding at
Government House Wednesday.
Harding, who ordered the re
cent deportation of Archbishop
Makarios, Greek Orthodox church
leader of the union-with-Greece
movement in this British-ruled
isle, was away 'in Famagusta at
the time. ,
The bomb was removed and was
exploded without doing anyone any
harm.
A Cypriot servant who joined
the Government House staff six
months ago, was discovered to be
missing.
' Harding, in deporting Makarios,
accused him of abetting a cam
paign of terrorism which has tak'
en the lives of 22 British service
men, including a soldier killed
Wednesday.
employe insurance after November
1958.
Wcstinghouse announced that
nine ol its consumer products
plants will get back into produc
tion today. They are at Spring-
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Judge Hartley
Hits 'Company
Union' Charge
Charges that County Judge Rex
Hartley and County Engineer
John Anderson were endeavoring
to establish a "company union
among the several hundred county
employes were denied Wednesday
by Judge Hartley.'
The accusation was said to have
occurred during a public meeting
Tuesday night of Local 119, Ore
gon Public Employes council by
Leo Butts, representing the organ
ization.
The charge apparently stems
from a meeting of county employ
es held a week ago in one of the
circuit court rooms for the pur
pose of determining whether there
was a demand for entering into
an agreement with an insurance
company for joint coverage.
"I have no desire to enter into
a controversy with union repre
sentatives or any other group,"
said the judge. He indicated that
the matter of joining a union or
remaining out of such an organi
zation was up to the employes.
Tuesday night's meeting of coun
ty road workers was attended by
25 persons, seven of whom were
said to be "observers," who do not
belong to the union. The group
set as their goal a flat $10 a
month raise in pay and certain
health and welfare benefits.
The matter will probably come
to a head during the annual meet
ing of the county budget commit
tee several weeks hence.
Union representatives appeared
before the committee last year and
at that time said they would "be
back again."
The committee, headed by Coun
ty Engineer John Anderson,
named by the county employes to
investigate further the matter of
group insurance, is not ready to
report, states Anderson. '
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Calls for
Mid-East
Mediation
Ike Doesn't See
v Minnesota Vote
As 'Revolt'
WASHINGTON (UP) President
Eisenhower denounced the Senate-
approved farm bill today as an
unworkable measure that would
do farmers more harm than good
Mr. Eisenhower strongly implied
at his news conference that he
would veto the bill if it reaches
him in anything like its present
form. He expressed hope that a
Senate-House Conference Commit
tee will change it enough to make
it acceptable.
The President said bluntly that
he docs not think the Senate
passed a good bill. The measure
is not workable, he said, and
would bury farmers under crop
surpluses which, in turn, would
cause further skids in prices.
He said the Senate bill started
out pretty well but got into quite
a jam at the end.
Mr. Eisenhower avoided direct
comment on Sen. Estes Kefauver's
victory over Adlai E. Stevenson
in the Minnesota Democratic pri
mary. He said, however, that
Minnesota is an important state
and the vote is something to be
studied.
He was asked directly to com
ment on Kefauver's statement that
the large vote indicates a Midwest
revolt against the administra
tis program ot noxioie larm
price supports.
Without referring to or acknow
ledging Kefauver's statement, the
President said he believes the
nation's farmers understand the
administration's program. He add
ed that while he favors the basic
idea of 100 per cent of parity in
the market mace, efforts to
achieve this by law would add to
farm surpluses and pueup trou
ble for the farmer. . - , r
This was an obvious reference
to the fact that the Senate in its
Initial votes upheld the administra
tion's flexible price support poli
cies but later approved Demo
cratic amendments intended to
jack up supports on basic crops.
Mr. Eisenhower said continua
tion of rigid high price supports
would create problems the nation
can't possibly solve by piling up
completely unmanageable sur
pluses. ,
WASHINGTON (UP)- President
Eisenhower today appealed for
mediation of the Middle East crisis
to avoid the world tragedy of a
war in that tense area.
' The President told his news
conference that any major out
break of hostilities in the Middle
East would be a tragedy for the
whole world.
He said the major U. S. effort
at the moment is to find some
way to help Middle Eastern coun
tries see that their best interest
lie in mediation.
Mr. Eisenhower underlined his
serious concern over the Middle
Eastern crisis and other foreign
policy affairs by saying he will
meet briefly tonight with Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles.
Dulles will return from a 10-
nation Asian tour late this after
noon. The President said he and Dulles
will meet at the White House
tomorrow morning with Demo
cratic and Republican congres
sional leaders. The group will dis
cuss foreign affairs, including
Dulles trip.
Mr. Eisenhower refused at his
news conference to comment on
whether the administration later
might seek congressional authority
to act in the Middle East. All his
comments emphasized that U. S.
policy at the moment is based on
that of the United Nations and on
American-British- French coopera
tion in the area.
Kef auver Drubs Adlai in
Minnesota Ballot Upset
The News Is Good at Kefauver's House
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State Court Awards $25,706 for
Auto Injuries; Reverses 2 Cases
A judgment amounting to $25,-
706, including $1,000 punitive dam
ages for personal Injuries recov
ered by- Thomas T. Falls of Port
land against Elvis K. Mortensen
was affirmed Wednesday by the
State Supreme Court.
Falls was struck and seriously
injured in. the early morning of
April 13, 1951 by a car driven by
the defendant. He was crossing
to the jury to the effect that con
tributory negligence would not be
a defense, was therefore proper.
New Trial Ordered
Dismissal of a damage action
growing out of an automobile col
lision was reversed and relisted
for a new trial. Harry P. Kennedy,
the plaintiff, was driving his car
south on Highway 99W on a foggy
day. A truck owned by the Farm-
amounting to $2616 recovered
Polk county by the estate of Clare
A. Lemon for alleged wrongful re
moval of trees, was reversed by
the Supreme Court, which said
that the record was devoid of evi
dence to establish a boundary line
between properties owned by A. F.
Elkins, the. appellant and property
in the state. As a result, the court
said there was no evidence of own
ership of the land from which the
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4 Counterfeit
Suspects Held
OREGON CITY Wl Four per
sons were arrested here Tuesday
night by police and Secret Service
operators who took them to jail at
Portland on a booking of counter
feiting.
One was a one-time policeman
at Bremerton and at Sweet Home.
He was chief for a time of the
latter department. Officers identi
fied him as Orval Quincy Mitch
ell, 32, under $3,000 bail on a bad
check charge at the time of his
arrest.
The others jailed were Margaret
Geraldine Mcintosh, 18; Gordon
August Bizard, 54; and Archie L.
Mishlcr, all residents of this area.
They were arrested at the Mish
ler home where Frank J. Kcnncy,
Secret Service agent, said plates
made from a photograph of a $20
bill, a printing press and some
counterfeit bills were found.
None of the countefcit money
had been put into circulation, Ken
ney said.
House Votes
Milk Money
WASHINGTON Wl The House
Wednesday passed and sent to the
White House legislation to pro
vide 10 million dollars additional
in school milk funds and two mil
lion more for eradication of brucel
losis, a cattle disease. The mon
ey is for the fiscal year ending
next June 30.
The House, after an hour's de
bate ranging over the whole farm
situation, also accepted Senate
amendments to continue both pro
grams until June 30, 1958.
The extra funds were asked bo
cause a number of states have
virtually exhausted their allot
ments under existing authorizations.
S E Powell boulevard in Portland crs Cooperative Creamery of Me
at the intersection of S.E. First i Minnville attempted to make a left trees were removed.
'You're the one who used thelAvrtiuc and had passed over tne . nana turn at an intersection ana, siaie uiven i-rioriiy.
word I didn't" the .senator said. Ivellow line in the center of the, collided with the hvt front of Ken-i A decree by Circuit Judge K.
vw... h.n vrv hanrfv at i strppt . Justice James Brand, who i nedv's car causing- his injuries. -Frank Peters of Washington coun-
wrole the opinion, saia. un nis appeal, nenneuy turn- iy wmtn irciu umi we irf mch
The plaintiff charged Mortensen ; plained of Circuit Judge Arne u. tiled ry. tne uureau oi internal
WASHINGTON Mrs. Estes Kefauvcri wife of the Tennessee
senator, holds a newspaper carrying news of her husband's vic
tory in the Minnesota Dcmocralic'prcsidenlial primary election as
she talks about it to thrco children today. The youngsters aro
Gail, the Kcfauvers' youngest daughter, and two of her neighbor
hood playmates, Malcolm McKinnon, left, and his twin brother, John,
All the children aro fivo years old, (AP Pholofax)
'Plain Folk' Give
Victory to Estes
Machine Was for
Stevenson in
Trial Heal
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
MINNEAPOLIS Wl - The "ma
chine" was for Adlai E. Steven
son. Plain folks including some
Republicans and an important
segment of the farm vote most
ly were for Sen. Estes Kclauver.
There s the nutsiicll story ol tne
Democratic end of the Minnesota
presidential primary.
Some Kcpuoiicans prooauiy
were for Kefauvcr out of convic
tion and voted for him out of pro
test against Eisenhower adminis
tration farm policies.
Others apparently voted for him
with only political mischief in
mind. Despite a GOP votc for-Ei-
senhower drive, they jumped into
the Democratic primary to cm
barrass Stevenson and the state
Democratic organization that went
all out for him.
On the national level, Kefau
ver's underdo' victory over Ste
son points to this:
Stevenson came out of yester
day's primary with his political
luster tarnished. And it definitely
is a question whether he can
burnish back some of it in the
future primaries. He says he is
in to stay.
Yet it is too early to pronounce
the former Illinois governor dead
as a Democratic presidential pos
sibility. Other presidential aspir-
(Continued on Page 10, Col. 4)
7 Firms Seek
Albany Lease
WASHINGTON Wl - Atomic
Energy Commission plans to re
open the government's zirconium
production plant at Albany, Ore,,
were disclosed Wednesday by Sen.
Neuberger (D-Ore).
He said he has been advised
by K. E. Fields, AEC general
manager, that the commission
now is studying proposals submit
ted by seven firms to operate the
plant on a lease basis.
Zirconium is a metal used by
the commission in its nuclear re
actor program.
The Albany plant, built ns n pilot
operation, produced 273,000
pounds in 1953, a slightly lesser
amount in 1954, then closed.
Neuberger said he was advised
that when it was determined zir
conium needs would exceed avail
able production capacity, the
commission invited 58 firms to
submit proposals for operation of
the Albany plant. Seven replied
and the proposals are now under
study.
Tillamook and Richland Men
Interviewed for City Manager
Two applicants for the office of
Salem city manager were inter
viewed Wednesday forenoon by
members of the City Council, and
another will meet the council in
the afternoon.
Interviewed early in the day
were Hans S. Paulson, now city
J"Trving o cmbarfass me, came
,( . Eacki McKay,, "but you haven't
succeeded."
e Vie exchange came at a Senate
Pu6' c Work subcommittee hear
ing at which McKay supported a
bill bf S$ns. Morse ana -euDcrg-er
to revoke the Beaver Marsh
license.
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with being drunk and operating his
car at a high rate of speeS.
Tflp court said that the mnlaint
was sufficiently alleged and the of right of way to the ehcle ap
evidence showed "a wantort sre- proaching fr(n the right vftis jn
gard by Mortensfif of Fall's fights applicable to the fattsln the case.
and the lower court's instructions I A judgment to trbte damages
9 s-
WSlker's instructions to the jury , Revenue for unpaid taxp s had a
and the sup? erne .court" said that ; priority over a similar lien filed at
tne ms ructions per ang to jiciu: . aattf, by the Oregon.
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State TSX commission, an4ak.o a.
mechanic lien likewise filed at In
(ConbS'tfd e in, C1 isC
Oregon Gets
Flood Grant
WASHINGTON Wl President
Eisenhower Wednesday allocated
$700,000 to Oregon lor flood dam
app relief.
The new grant was in addilion ! monager ol iiiiamoon, anu i. r..
to SfiW.OOO 'previous!- allocated. ! Fenncssy. director of the. commu
The President authorized Civil njty division of the Atomic Enery
Commission at llichland. wasn. lo
be interviewed in the afternoon is
W. W. Kennedy, city manager of
Belltvuc.'Wasb.
John F. Portr,-city manajer of
Grants Pass, ho was an appli
cant., has withdrawn. Mayor Kob
rtF. White si4 't'dM.-lay.
oPaulson of TilUijiwb toUt'ttw
council that ttw ctbtt.tity at
Defense Administrator Val Peter
son to provide .the new money.
. Weather Detail
Maximum ysterdiy, SO; minimum
today, . Total 24-hour precipita
tion: .1; for month: 3.31 : normal.
2.97. Beatnfl precipitation, 30.46; nor
mil, 32.34. River heifht. 3.7 feet.
(Report by U. k. Weathft HurrAu.)
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livilies there developing municipal
problems was the recent annexa
linn of an area two-thirds the size
ot the city before annexation, ana
the city is now moving lo lurnisn
the 'area with city facilities, which
will reuuirc a bond issue.
Paulson said a new census was
to be taken in Tillamook next
week, which is expected to show
a population of about 5200 The fi
nances Ol tne ciry arc on ut suunu
basis, he said, notwithstanding the
usual problems that face a muni
cipality.
No StrKr Her
He is no stranger to Salem
having been bout the LegisUiturc
a numbu of timas un matters con
rtt4 with It League of Oregon
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Estes Says He
Has Turned
The Tide
By JACK HAGERTY
MINNEAPOLIS (UP) Sen.
Estes Kefauvcr jubilantly claimed
today tho Democratic tide had
turned in his favor on the strength
of a stunning upset victory over
Adlai . Stevenson in Minnesota's
presidential primary.
He won decisively in six of the
state's nine congressional districts
and held a narrow lead in a seve
cnth where only two late precincts
remained to be reported, Steven
son won one district and held an
indecisive lead in another.
In the Third District, Kefauvcr
moved into a 33,890 to 33,603 lead
with only two Washington County
precincts unreported. It appeared
possible the outcome in that dis
trict might have to await the re
port of the canvassing board.
Snowbound roads delayed the
count in some Northwestern Minn-,
esota counties and returns tradi
tionally come in by canoe from
somo precincts in tho roadless
wilderness area of the Northeast.
Check on Republicans
A flood of votes upset Stevenson
in a state where analysts said he
had to score a decisivo victory
to remain the front-runner for the
Democratic presidential nomination.
Stevenson backers. Including al
most all the top Democratic and
Farmer-Labor lenders in Minneso
ta, said they would go over yester
day s primary returns precinct by
precinct to see wnewor ucpumi-
cans had crossed party lines to .
voto for Kcfauver.
I Gov. Orvllle Freeman, who had
feared this might happen, said the
results i show "a movement : en
masse of the Republicans into the
Democratic primary."
Estes Well Ahead
Late returns showed Kefauver
leading in tho statcwido balloting
and in seven of the state's nine
congressional districts. The state
wide sweep gave him 21 of Minn.
esota's 30 Democratic National
Convention votes, while one vote
rode on the results in each of the
nine districts.
With 3164 of the state's 3806
precincts reporting, Kefauvcr had
219,818 votes to 170,002 for Steven-
in.
With 3111 precincts reported, Mr.
Eisonhowcr had 182,086 votes to
3108 for Knowland.
In 1052. when Mr. . Elsenhower
was not on the ballot, ho received
108,692 write-in votes to 129,076 for .
former Minnesota Gov. Harold E.
Stassen. '
In the 1952 general election Pres
ident Elsenhower outpolled Steven
son 763,211 to 608,458. Tho Demo
crats won the 1954 governor elect ;
tion 607,099 to 532,444. ' . '
Victory Celebration
Kcfauver told a cheering victory.
celebration "I believe this primary
marks the turning point In the
campaign for the Democratic nom
ination." In Chicago, Stevenson sent con
gratulations to Kclauver and
(Continued on Page 10, Col. 2)
Thornton Says
He'll Rule On
Morse Friday
An answer to the summons call
ing for the elimination ot the name
of Sen. Wayne Morse from the
Democratic primary Danot win oe
filed In the Marion county circuit
court by. Friday, Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton announced
Wednesday. .
The summons and complaints
served on Governor Elmo Smith
and Secretary of Stale Earl T.
Ncwbry, were turned over to the
attorney gentrnl in his capacity of
state's attorney.
Woodrow Wilson Smith, Morse's
opponent in tho primary, filed the
summons on the basis that Morse
was "not in fact a Democrat in
good faith but is instead a Repub
lican." Thornton said Smith, a gas
station operator in Hood River, is
acting as his own attorney.
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