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G apital Journal THE WEATHER CONTINUED FAIR -tonight and through Sunday night, except (or parly morning cloudiness. Low to night, 52; high Sunday, 85. SECTIONS 24 Pages 68th Year, No. 174 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 21, 1956 Cntvred at lecond clan matter at Sal am, Oregon Price 5c NW Coast 4 Area Only CooISpot Heat to Last Five More Days; Few Showers Due By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -: Except for some relief along coastal fringes, the Pacific North west continued to sizzle Friday In its most torrid heat spell of the year. Coastal temperatures declined 25 to 30 degrees, but maximums elsewhere were only 5 or' 10 de grees below Thursday's searing . highs. The Weather Bureau .pre dicted little change for the next five days with temperatures above normal- through next Tuesday. 80-00 for Oregon High temperatures around the Northwest Friday included Pasco, 105; Walla Walla, 103; and Pen dleton, 102. Highs in Western Washington for the five-day period are expect ed to be 70-80, and in Western Oregon, 80-90, except 63-75 along both coasts. Highs in the 90s are forecast for Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. Scattered Bliundershowers mainly along the hlountains may offer some relief. Lightning thunderstorms caused 17 fires in the Willamette Na tional Forest of Oregon and sev eral conflagrations throughout Washington and Oregon. Some 80 acres of scrub timber and snags were blazing 10 miles east of Stevenson, Wash, and 60 wen from the Vancouver area and 20 from Chehalis were fight ing it. Another fire destroyed the state district fire office at La Grande, Ore., causing an esti mated loss of $16,000. No New Fires 1; Logging restrictions continued in Western Washington with op erations permitted only between midnight and noon until midnight Sunday. Limited operations were permitted in Western Oregon as , the humidity rose above 30 per cent Friday but the fire danger remained high except along the coast. No new fires were report ed. ,! Forestry officials in Vancouver, if B.C.,' considered closing the Van couver forest district as the high- ,j biiiin.iakuic iu iivk yema 85 degrees was recorded there Friday. "The district forester said (Continued on page 7, col. 4) State-Federal Clash Develnns In Hodge Case ' SPRINGFIELD, HI, W An apparent state-federal jurisdic tional clash developed Saturday in the investigation of former state auditor Orvillc E. Hodge as a state prosecutor sought arrest tit Hodee and two others. ' Warrants were obtained in Springfield by State's Altf. George P. Coutrakon for Hodge, Edward A. Epping, his former of fice manager, and Edward A. Hintz, resigned president of the Southmoor Bank and Trust Co., Chicayo. Hodge appeared before e fed eral grand jury in Chicago after deputies began a search for him. Epping was also slaved to testify in the Chicago inquiry. The state warrants charged Hodge with embezzlement of J65O.00O in slate funds between May 1955, and the date he quit office, July 16 this year. Epping and Hintz were charged with con spiracy to defraud the state. . ( The federal grand jury in Chi cago was reported ready to vote on indictments Saturday. Coutra kon, conducting a Sangamon County grand jury investigation in Springfield, said he planned to ask indictments Monday. : The first authority to bring principals in the case to court to answer charges would have prior jurisdiction in further investiga tion and possible prosecutions. Two Militai V 1 Ships Collide SEATTLE (UP) - Two Mililnry Sea Transportation Service ships collided 'in a dense Puget sound fng this morning with consider able damage to both ships but no injuries to ship personnel, the Na vy reported. . Capt. N. E. Smith', chief staff Officer for the MSTS North Pncilic sub area, said the USNS Gen. II. is. Freeman, a transport with ibout a miie and a half southeast of Morrwstonc Point light. The Freeman was inbound from Alaska where the ship had taken on Army passengers from Opera tion Gyroscope. With a gash in her lide, the Freeman's destination was changed from Tacoma to the Seattle Port of Embarkation. The San Louis Obispo was outbound from Puget Sound (or Rahricn ir. the Persian Gulf, but was forced to return to Seattle shipyards for; bow repair. Capt. Smith said the collision Kill be investigated. I III H Sei t5S J 4-' ','vi i C J ; "crwtf in fpr s Labor Surplus Quickly Turns Into Shortage Many More, Pickers in Bean Field Needed Than Available Transients who came to this area the first part of the week and did not find beans to pick were no longer without jobs by the end of the week.' Instead, there was need for more bean pickcrsj------1- -.- .."-a.:fc. Saturday morning between 5 o'clock and 8 o'clock approxi mately 220 pickers were sent out in trucks or buses from the em ployment office, Robert Rice, field man, said. In addition there were eight or 10 cars driving out to the patches. Nine trucks or buses picked up pickers during that period and many left with space for lots more pickers. Some cucumber pickers were also sent out by the employment office and a few. for general labor,' Floyd McGlinn of the employ-, meni oitice said mere were De tween 150 and 200 moic pickers needed on Friday and that the de mand was increasing with the heat of the past week bringing the beans on faster than anticipated. In some cases they have not fin ished their bush beans and the pole beans have already started. It was estimated that pickers were sent to a dozen patches Friday. The need for pickers seems to be general rather than spotty with nickine starting in Woodburn. Stavton and Independence areas. as well as in this area. Silverton is just getting started. Japan Reports Eighth U.S. A-Test in Pacific TOKYO W The Japanese weather bureau said the United Stales today set off its eighth nu clear blast of its current test series in the southwest Pacific. Baldock Will Resign Aug. 16, R. H. Baldock, 67, Oregon stale highway engineer for 24 years and past president of the Ameri can Assn. of Stale Highway Of ficials, will resign Aug. IB to head a highway mission to Iraq. Baldock, who Joined the Oregon Highway Department staff 41 years ago, said in announcing, his plans late yesterday that he would be in Iraq two years. Mrs. Baldock will accompany him, he said, and they will spend several weeks touring Europe aft er their mid-August departure from Salem, before going to Iraq, v The state Highway Commission will name Baldock 's successor. His deputy now is W. C. Williams. When the Oregon Highway De partment was established in 1915 Baldock went to work for it as a district engineer. He advanced rapidly and is credited with much of the progress made In modern izing and . maintaining the high way system of the slate. He was active in working for passage of the fcloral highway bill, has written many technical pnm-rs ana nas u-cqucnuy nccn called on as a highway consultant by government both United States and foreign officials. His work in Iraq will be as Centennial Queens Pause During Parade Aurora started the second and biggest day of Its centennial celebration Saturday morning with a parade that included everything from covered wagons to marching majorettes. Near .the head of the long parade was the queen's float, pulled by two horses and driven by George Crimps. The queen, Mrs. Amy Hurst (third from right), and her court, Orletta Kraus, Mrs. Harriet Ehlcn, Mrs. Clara Wurstcr and Mrs. Veva Brandtl, were enjoying the rest of the parade when they finished their route at the fairgrounds. (Capital Journal Photo by Jerry Clausscn) ' A urora Cele brates Its 1 00th Birthday in Pageant, Song By MIKE FORBES Valley Editor, Capital Journal AURORA This small town bulged with importance Saturday as it swung into its second day celebrating the 100th anniversary Heat Kills Of Turkeys, By MARGARET MAGEE Capital Journal Writer This week's blazing sun brought death to a number of turkeys and chickens in the Willamette Valley area. One turkey grower had a big lm hut ns tar ns the overall loss was concerned, the hardest hit1 were the chicken raisers, William T. Gcurls, general manager of the Oregon Turkey Growers associu tion, said Saturday morning. Verl Nofziggcr, who has some 45,000 turkeys in the area between Lebanon and Albany and had early been reported to have lost 15.000 turkevs from the heat, said. Sat urday morning that his loss had'CT said Saturday morning that been between 11,000 and 13.000J'ne greater pan oi inis iuss nnu These, he said were the older rbcen two weeks ago when there birds, fat and well feathered, and had been a very hot Sunday, with rcadv for market , the temperature rising uncxpected- lrlhe area Immcriialclv around The rest were lost this week. ; Salem there was little loss from heat bv turkey growers. Gath Bro thers at Turner, the Ivan Arnold Ranch near Dallas and the W. A. Schei ranch, Salem, all reported no losses, while Rhoten and Specr stra lost only three birds out of a flock of about 25,000. Geurts said that he understood W. II. Schwedler of the Portland area had lost some turkeys, but not too large a number and the Go to Iraq advisor lo that government in program arranged by the United Slates. . (See story on Page 7, section i) Vt 't . 1 " 4 ML A R. H. BALDOCK of its founding by William Keil, Bethel, Mo., leader. The celebration opened Friday night when more than 2,000 per sons sat on the ground in a natural amphitheater near the ' city park Thousands ens Eugene Chemical works, which owns Pacific Rendering company in Salem, said Saturday morning that at their Eugene plant they had hartdled from 10,000 to 15.000 dead birds, but believed that their Salem plant has not been asked to ' handle any birds unicKeii losses iiuin me ncm w'us apparently widespread, and, one ' grower was reported to have lost 2,000 from the heat. At Mt. Angel Frank Hcttwer, who raises white Leghorns, re ported the loss of a total of 700 chickens during the entire hot per iod, these being chickens just start ing to lay. However, Mrs. Hett Flash Floods Leave Score Dead, Missing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flash floods on opposite sides of the .country left nearly a score of persons dead or missing Satur day. Six persons drowned in ' the Rockville area of Maryland, as torrential rains swamped Ihc cen tral and western parts of that stale. In addition, . traffic accidents during the heavy rain and wind- storm in M arylnnd accounted (or ht fatalities ;ons, Irappe'd bv flash n.n.mlnn r-A ,. i another eight .-our p0rSons floods on a mountain road, were missing in mountainous counlry 2B miles south of Itenn, Nevada. Some of the bodies may be, bur led completely under rocks, trees and silt washed down hy two sud den cloudbursts late Friday, said Highway Patrol Capt. Gordon Fairchild, directing rescue ef forts. ! Missing were Mrs. Dorothy IWnchowicz, Sacramento, Calif ' her Iwo youngest children, John, 5. and Vickie, 4: and William Vovallo, Reno. I hey were swept away by a 10 foot wall of water which roared down on six automobiles trapped between two washouts on the Mount Rose road In Ihc Wash oe Mountains. The cars were washed nil the road or smashed bv boulders hurled at them by the water. WVathor DrWiils Mavlmnm yrMrrriav. 3; minimum tnAay, 11. Tntal ?J.hmir prfrlpMii llnn: A; Inr mnnih: Inrr; normal, .a. Smnn prrlpltjtlnn. M.M; nor mal. 1ft 1. RIVM hHrhl. -2.2 IrM. (Rtport by U. I. Wflhr Buma.) to watch coronation of Queen Amy Hurst by Charles A. bprague of Salem, and witness a pageant de- niMlnrt the. hicinru nt iha. fminrlare t....,.a ..... ......w.j . -..u Mrs. Hurst sat on an improvised stage beaming at her subjects, flanked bv hepnrlncesses. Orletta Kraus, Hattie Ehlen, Veva Brandtl, ana uiara wurstes. One of the1 highlights of the eve ning was the appearance of Ellas Keil, 80, grandson of the founder who played "Southern Rose," a Strauss waltz. Although a vagrant breeze riffled the pages of music in reverse, keil played the num ber to the end without missing a note sinspiring resounding ap plause. Greetings were 'bi ought to the citizens of Aurora by Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Boker from the mayor of Bethel, Mo., as an 'Open ing leature ot tne ceremonies. Colorful Indian dances were per formed on the stage as a . prelude to arrival of the Keil party after its rigorous trip across the plains depicted by a group of Aurorans dressed in typical frontier garb. German music and songs en livened the entertainment as Elvin Pitney narrated the story of Au rora and its founders. , Saturday the celebration opened with a grand parade at 10 a.m. which passed down the main street of the town. At noon a free barbecue was served at the park and the beard contest was sched uled for 2 p.m. A "colony dinner" was scheduled for 6 p.m. to be followed by another program at the park. The centennial will close Sunday with joint religious services. Wife of Store Bomber Jailed i MILWAUKIE. Ore. (UP)-Dor-l olhy May Peddicord, attractive 26-year-old wife of the blind man who bombed the Meier 4 Frank department store last year, is in Clackamas counly jail today, ac cused of being drunk and disor derly. Mrs. Peddicord pleaded innocent , of the charge in Milwaukie justice j cnr wn5 (raveling at extremely ic01,r' b,,t w!,s "nnhlc 'f 1)051 ,nc high speed and the driver disre- J'5,:1 iff' u J" her warning to slow down. I MalC PollCC OlllCOr It I CUB TO 1 Stensrud told Ihe cnurl lhal Mrs. Peddicord, wile of William C. Peddicord. became abusive and kicked him when he arrested her. He said she told him she would bomb his home. Peddicord is serving a 20-year prison term for planting the bomb ?iQuast Grabs Halfway Lead In Links Play HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (PI Anne Quasi, suffering from a sprained little loe on her right foot unfurled her lirst birdie after a string of pars on the 17th hole Sal urday to take a one-up lend hallway through her Stl hnle championship match with Pat Lesser in the Women's Western""1"1" inmvi wouin not ne Amateur, It was the first time Ihe IB-year-old girl from Everett, Wash., was ahlc to go Into the lead since the first hole. CD Alert Turns Up Few Bugs Rough Spots Seen But Test Better Than in '55 EMERGENCY PRESS HEAD QUARTERS, Operation Alert W, The western hemisphere's biggest civil defense drill, Operation Alert 1956. was reported "far ahead of last year" in efficiency today by one of the men running it. ueiense Mobilization Director Arthur S. Flemming added in a statement, however, "a number of rough spots remain- to be ironed out," Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson said he was "initially pleased" with progress of the gi gantic exercise but lacked enough reports to mak.c a general evalu ation. Their preliminary summaries were issued at the secret informa tion center more than 100 miles from Washington. New Law-Order Plan One major development in the vast Civil defense exercise is a new administration plan to com bine civil and military control for keeping law and order where en emy action might knock out local government. A While House spokesman said top authority would rest with civilian, the federal civil defense administrator. This would be change from ' the controversial limited martial law" system tried out last year. operation Alert, now in its sec ond day, is designed to show how military and civilian authorities in this country and Canada could cope with an all-out atomic at tack. The test win end next Wed nesday. tins year s alert assumes nu clear weapon hits on 100 U.S. and Canadian targets, including must major cities and key defense centers. 10,000 Leave Capital Some 10,000 government offi cials and employes actually scur ried out of Washington, which was presumed to have been lambasted by nuclear bombs along with 74 other U.S. targets. All told, the simulated attack struck 34 states Washington, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. '", Canada cooperated by assum ing mock atomic attacks on two dozen target areas. The Pentagon, for the first time in the three-year history of these tests, played an active role. (Continued on page 7, col. 6) 3 Marines Die In Washington Traffic Smash PORT ORCHARD, Wash. W-A speeding automobile's crash Into a utility pole killed three Marines here at 1:30 a. m. Saturday. Two other Marines, riding in the hack scat, were injured. A young woman escaped with minor cuts and bruises as she was Ihrorn clear. The dead arc: Pfc. Thomas W. Garlty, 20, who lived with his wife in Brcmerlon and whose parents live at (Venn City, Wash.; Pic. Cyrus Yellow mule, 21, of Wyola, Mont., and Pvt. Manuel Ncvarcz, 22, El Paso, Texas. Officers identified Garity as the driver. They were riding In the front seat and were killed outright. The accident occurred as Ihc group was returning from a swim ming outing at Horseshoe Lake, in soul hern Kitsap County. Ihc car failed to make a turn at a street intersection on a secondary route through the town. Depuly Sheriff Stan Brainerd said skid marks showed for KiO feet before the 1950 sedan was de molished in hilling the pole. The woman passenger, Thelma II. Burris of Bremerton, snid Ihe Senate Delays Final Vote on Foreign A id WASHINGTON Hi The Senate decided Saturday lo put off until nexl wnek n linnl vole on Ihc jl. - 110,500,000 foreign aid bill. Democralic Lender Lyndon 1). Johnson of Texas announced shortly alter the Senate convened for a Saturday session that pass age of the bill would not come un til next Monday or Tuesday. Johnson said there might be some votes on amendments Sat- urday, but he Indicated that Ihc : ""icriy disputed question of cut- tin.; off arms assistance to Cum- semen until next weex. Sen. Ellender iDLai. author of several unsuccessful efforts Fri- dk In slash military aid appro priations, asked that final vole m ;&9 Ghiel s At Panama Parley Miss Universe and Her Trophy jr -tfl . , - , LONG BEACH, Calif. Carol Morris, who early today was pro claimed Miss Universe, posed beside the trophy awarded her by one of the sponsors of the International beauty pageant. The Iowa coed defeated four European girls in the finals. (AP Wlrehoto) Iowa Girl Sweeps In Bea u ty Honors Carol Morris Wins Miss Universe Crown Bv JOHN BKCKI.ER LONG BEACH. Calif. iV-A tall, trim Iowa girl, who came here a week ago with ambitions of he coming a school teacher, was ac claimed today ns Miss Universe of 1957. For Carol Morris, 20, the award completed an unprecedented sweep of top honors in the .international beauty contest. She was first named the most popular girl in the oDcnine day parade and then went on to win the title of Miss United Stales. I Last night the dark-haired blue eyed beauty from the Middle West; matched her charms ngninst those , ol 14 girls from other nations and again came out on top. Germany s Marina Orschel placed second in the final judging. Ingnd Goude of Sweden was third. Iris Waller, England, fourth, and Itosanna Gnlli, Italy, fifth. The only previous winner of Ihe Miss USA and Miss Universe li lies was Miss Miriam Stevenson off until ! on Ihe measure he put j Tuesday, l As it now stands, the bill con tains $2.300.00().0(KI lor mililnry as sistance and the remainder for various economic aid programs. Republican Leader Knowlnnd of California said he had hoped for a final vole Monday, but that he would discuss the matter with other GOP senators and report lo Johnson later. Johnson did not make any im- mcdito commitment on Ihe re- qil(,st ny Kllcndrr, who said he hud four more amendments to ol- ((,r fhw Kllcnrtcr proposals wm,d rul defense support nnd , eronomle aid in the hill hy 10 per, reni He said this would trim about 117 millions from the mcas - ure. of Americas 4 of Winnsboro, S.C. in the 1954 con test. When Miss Morris won the Miss USA title Wednesday she said she had wished upon a star. Last night she had another good luck charm working for her. Her falher. Ihc Rev. LnVcrne Morris of Oltumwa, Iowa, who I flew In wilh his wife, disclosed that for three weeks he has been carrying a penny in the toe of his shoe. "I found It on the street," he said. "And at the same instant a picture of Carol flashed in my mind. "I wanted to keep It separate from my other change so I put it in my shoe and I told Carol I'd keep it there until she won or lost Among Hie prizes won by the new Miss Universe is a six-monlh motion picture contract at $250 a week. Hov. Morris mode It clear he is not too keen on his daughter entering Ihe movies "I can't say much now," he said. "I knew that would he purl of Ihc program and I sanctioned her going in. But I'm not hoping for a movie career for her." He said he wauled Carol, a jun ior nl Drake University, to com- (Continued on page 7, col. 51 Slaylon Horse Storm Victim STAYTON -Casually of Ihe recent electrical storms in the I area was Sandy , saddle horse - belonging to Kathleen Tongue, daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. (inie I engue. The 13-ycitr-olcl sorrel mare had been taken lo the A. M. Minden larm at Sublimity where it was placed in Ihe fields with other horses f o r keeping while the Teague family was on vacation in the Jackson Hole country, nnd Yellowstone nnd Glacier National parks. The liltle more became frigh- Ir-nrrl nt the liehtniho nnd thunder nnd At I (-milled to iiimn a hoard fence. It was found nexl morning. draped over the fence with its nek brnlcen. Sandy will be sorely missed not ; onlv hv Ihe Tensue family hut the 1 entire neighborhood (or it was I everyone's pet, I 1 , J Other President Not Overly Tired ByJTrip PANAMA Wl President Eisen hower arrived Saturday to join 19 other chiefs of state of the ' American republics in a confer ence aimed at strengthening the bonds of inter-American solidar ity. He was greeted at the airport by Panama's President Ricardo Arias Espinosa, then driven to the U.S. embassy for a brief rest. Later he joined the other presi dents in an informal meeting at President Arias' palace on the waterfront. ' Eisenhower had breakfast on the plane as it flew from Wash ington, - and Press Secretary . James C. Hagcrty told reporters the convalescing President stood the trip very well.' Pale, But Voice Crisp Eisenhower appeared somewhat pale but spoke in a clear, sharp voice in a brief airport address expressing appreciation for be ing present at the parley com- . mcmorating the first Pan-Ameri can, conference 130 years ago. U.S. Secretary of State Dulles arrived 20 minutes ahead of Ei senhower. Eisenhower stood up in the rear ' of his car most of the way to the embassy, waving one hand and then the other and beaming his famed smile at the noisy crowds.. The conference will reach Its climax tomorrow when the execu tives sign a "Declaration of Pnn amn" calling for cooperation in solving economic problems and working for peace In a world gravely threatened by totautar-1 lan forces. ' - Get Acquainted Day -Today was "get acquainted day,"' renewing ; old friendships and making new ones. The con ference has no formal agenda only assorted ceremonies, speeches and fraternizing, The trip offered Eisenhower a double opportunity to display his ability at personal diplomacy and to-exhibit his stamina before the world and the U.S. electorate. He is still recuperating from his June intestinal operation, but the Whito House has pictured him as able and eager to go on this good will mission. The U.S. president Is to make a formal speech tomorrow the first since his operation. He boarded the presidential plane Columbine III three hours ahead of its midnight takeoff time In Washington in order to get some extra rest. Milton, John Along Accompanying Eisenhower were his brother, Milton Eisenhower, his son, Maj. John Eisenhower, and other aides. . Apparently Eisenhower Is some thing iof a magnet for the other American presidents. Only 15 or 16 were expected at first. Now the number is up lo 13, leaving only Iwo absentees Gen. Gustavo Rn jas Pinilla of Colombia and Julio Loznno of Honduras. Eisenhower hopes to talk In dividually wilh most of the chiefs of state. Some have special mat ters they want to take up with' him. Pannma Is swarming with sec ret police and bodyguards for the meetings. Security precautions orb extra tight. ( News in liricf For Saturday, July 21, 1958 NATIONAL CD Test Rated Efficient But Bugs Develop, Sec. 1, P. 1 Senate Delavs Final Vote on Aid Bill Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL Baldock Resigns, Accom plishments Reviewed Sec. 1, P. 5 Heat Sears Valley Poullry Sec. 1, P, 1 STATE , Amity Doubles Water Supply While Other Towns Thirst Sec. 1, P. 2 Aurora Centennial Gets Underway .. .. . Sec. 1, V. 1 FOREIGN Ike Arrives in Panama ' for State Chiefs' Par ley Sec. 1, P. 1 Tokyo Reports 81 h Atom Test Blast Sec. 1, P. 1 SPOUTS Subsidy Charges Against Ducks Fade Away Sec. 1, P. 1 Solons, Indians Clash To night for N.W, League Lend ...Sec. 2, P. 1 REGULAR FEATURES Editorials Sec. 1, P. B .. Sec. 1, T. 7 . See. 1, P. 4-.1-3 .. .. Sec. 2, P. 4 .. See. 2, P. 3 ..Sec. 2, P. B-7-8 Locals ' Society ... iomics ... jieievisinn Wants Ads Dorothy Dix ....Sec. 1, P. H I Crossword Puzzle ...Sec. 2, P. 4 Church .....Sec. 2, P. I
