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G apital AJournal THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY with occasional rain tonight. Partly cloudy and showery, Saturday, with partial afternoon clearing. Low tonight, 40; high Saturday, SO, 2 SECTIONS 20 Paget 68th Year, No. 274 Salem, Oregon, Friday, November, 16, 1956 VsJuT o Price 5c Wait Eyed In Seating Of Holmes Capitol's Lawyers Say Senate Must Elect First The Capitol's leading lawyers found no definite answer Friday to the question of whether Gov enior Robert D, Holmes could be inaugurated before the Senate is organized. But most df them are inclined to agree that the inauguration must wait until the Senate elects a president and other officers. Holmes' term is scheduled to begin Jan. 14, opening day of the Legislature. But if the Senate, split IS to 15 between the two parties, is delayed in organizing by an inter-party struggle for control, the inauguration could be delayed. Never Ruled on by Court Dave O'Hara, state supervisor of elections, said the state Su preme Court never has ruled whether the governor could be inaugurated before the Senate is organized. Neither has -there ever heen an attorney general's opinion - on the subject. The only governing rule is the state Constitution. It says that the speaker of the House shall - open and publish the gubernatorial election results in thf. presence of "both houses" of the Legislative Assembly. As soon as that is done, the new governor takes office. The question is: Does the Senate legally exist before it is 'organ ized? If the answer is affirmative, then Holmes could he inaugurated before its organization. But if the answer is negative, then he could n't. House Due to Act Fast , The House is expected to organ ize quickly and elect a speaker. Two State House lawyers, who declined to be quoted because they haven't gone into the ques tion deeply enough, said they be lieve the Senate has to be organ ized before the inauguration. "Tradition carries great weight in the law," one of them said, "and Oregon's tradition is that both houses organize before the inauguration. Remember that in IMS, Earl Snell had to wait two days before he could be inaug urated because the ' Senate was split over electing a president in a court test. That undoubtedly would be used as a precedent." It would be impossible for the present Legislature to put the new governor into office because the current Legislature expires on Jan. 7. If there is a delay. Gov. Elmo Smith would remain in office until Holmes takes over. The other statehouse lawyer said that, while there isn't any Oregon court ruling on the sub jects, courts of other states have ruled that the Legislature must be organized before the governor could be inaugurated. These out of state rulings would have effect only if Holmes or his friends brought suit to make sure that Holmes goes into office Jan. 14. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton and Sam R. Haley, legislative counsel, said that nohody has asked them for an opinion on the subject. Weather Details Maximum yesterday. 49; minimum today, 37. Tntal 24 -hour prrrlpftallnn: tract: for month: .33; normal, 2.93. Rcaion precipitation, 1.12: normal. 11.22. River title hi, rprn. (Report by U. . Weather Bureau.) folW5;-x PORTLAND ot frepnavS k srT Students Find .WL&i. r FCC Rejects Storer's Bid OnKSLM-TV WASHINGTON (UP)-Thc Fed eral Communications Commission yesterday rejected a proposal by the Storer Broadcasting Co. to purchase a very high frequency television station in Salem, Ore. The decision denied Storer's re quest to the FCC that it modify its rules to - permit - one firm to owntmore than five VHF outlets. The FCC did not immediately make public the reasons for its decision. Storer asked permission to pur chase the permit to construct sta tion KSLM-TV on channel three in Salem from Oregon. Radio, Inc., for $27,277. The station never has gone on the air. Storer now owns VHF outlets in Atlanta. Detroit, Cleveland, To ledo, and Birmingham, Ala. In ad dition it owns an ultra high fre quency station in Portland, Ore., and another in Miami, Fla. Storer had proposed setting up the Channel 3 transmitter at West Linn and establishing main station offices at both Salem and Port land. The present Storer Portland station, KPTV on Channel 27, would have been dropped. 2 Rescued as Jet Ditches MANILA w-A U. S. Air Force search plane today rescued two American airmen whose jet train er crashed yesterday in the South China Sea off Lubang Island. The men. Copt. Fay D. Fulton, Chicago. III., and A.3.C. George W. Tuescher, Plaltsville. Wis., were spotted on a beach in south east Lubang. Proposed New Shoeing Horses Important A nearly-forgotten technique, shoeing horses, was explained Thursday to a sophomore agriculture class from North Salem high as one of a scries of' field trips planned by the students. Tex Shively (left), 3777 Manor drive, one of the few full-time hnrsc shocers left in the area, Is showing some techniques (o Ted Brcncmnn, Wyctta Capps and Alrin Tesdal, (Capital Journal Phntn) 2-YEAR, $11-6 MILLION JOB Freeway Extension to Mid-PortlaiidRiislied The Baldock Freeway will ot-downtown Portland, with most o the Portland section wid ened to six lanes, W. C. Williams, state highway engineer, Cabinet Meets With Ike; None Talk Resigning WASHINGTON (UP) Presi dent Eisenhower met with his Cab inet today for the first time since his reelection. Members attending the one hour and 40 minute session declined to tell reporters whether any resig nations were discussed,- They re ferred questioners to White House Press Secretary James C. Hag erty. Hagerty said "no mention" was made of possible departures from the Cabinet while he was present at the session. All Cabinet members previous ly had gone through the tradition al formality of submitting their resignations after the election. So far none apparently has been accepted. Hagerty said Thursday he knew of no plans to accept any. Route Of P!n for 8 ne lx lne extension of Baldnrk Freeway Info Ihe heart of Portland werf announced Friday by W. C. Williams, state highway engineer. The extension will start where the freeway now enter Rarhur Blvd., near Ihe Washington county line and vir tually parallel Rarhur Rlrd. Into downtown Portland where it will eonnett with Harbor Drive. Construction on the project, prerl s It 00117 icheduled for sometime In the next tlx yeiri, wll lUrt tuj soon be extended into the heart announced Friday. Extension of the freeway, pic- viously planned for a six-year period, became one of the 'firsts in the new federal-state highway program announced recently. Wil liams said the new work should be finished within two years. At present, the freeway ends at Barbur Blvd. at' the Washington county line and traffic into Port land must then drive on usually congested Barbur Blvd. "Construction of this 6 .67 mile stretch of the freeway is one of the most important projects on our list," Williams said. He said that increased freeway traflic and lim ited access to Portland were rea sons for the new roadway. The new six-lane extension will cost an estimated $ll,BG(i,000. About four miles will be inside the Portland city area and two miles in Multnomah county. Williams said that agreements have been reached with Portland officials for all necessary street closures. Several points, he said, have not been cleared with Mult nomah county commissioners, but agreements are expected to be completed in the near future, he said. ' Contracts for Ihe work will he called early in 1357. Work is ex pected to start as soon as good weather arrives next spring. Baldock East-Gulf DockMen Walk Out Shipping Crippled From Maine to Texas ' (Also See Story on Page 10, Sec. i) NEW YORK m A crippling strike by thousands of longshore men Friday hit New York and other ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Waterfront activity appeared to be at a virtual standstill from Maine to Texas -- threatening a loss of a million dollars a day or more to shippers. The International Ixingshore mens Assn., independent, with some 60,000 members called the strike as of midnight when its old contract with the New York Ship ping Assn. expired without agree ment on a new pact. , Mayor Calls Parley Mayor Robert F. Wagner called both sides and 'cdcral mediators into session here in an effort to effect an early settlement. He had pleaded against a stoppngc in "this time of international cri sis." In Washington, government of ficials were closely watching the strike situation in fear it would further hamper a world shipping crisis created oy the closing of the Suez Canal. No T II Action One A well informed official said previously the government was hoping the dock strike would be settled before next week. With that in mind, he said, there was no thought being given "for the time being" to invoking the Taft Hartley law to obtain a court in junction designed to stop the strike. Shippers have estimated that other waterfront strikes usually not so widespread as this one have cost the export-import in dustry a million dollars a day. Huiit Foods to Shut Puyallup, Salem Plants Closure of the Salem plant of Hunt Foods, Inc., as well as the one at Puyallup, Wash., at the end of this year's operation, was con firmed Friday in a message from Edward Miltelman of Fullcrton, Calif., vice-president of the com pany. The message brought Ihe official announcement, which was made by Russell J. Miedel, president of the Ohio Match company, parent com pany of Hunt Foods. Closure of the plants here and at Puyallup closes the company's operations in the northwest. Micdel explained that the move was made in line with long-range plans of the company for consolida tion of its production into larger facilities and other facilities in which expansion is contemplated. Micdel expressed the company's regret that the action would bring to an end Hunt's long history of operation in the northwest. The company has operated in Salem since 1014. Miedel paid tribute to Ihe service records of employes. No announcement has yet been made about disposition of the two plants. Freeway next spring and Is due to he finished within two years. Williams said traffic congestion will prohahly Inrrease on Rarhur Blvd. and the new freeway will eliminate thai. The slx-lnne re will he. 1.7 miles In length. The freeway extension I one of the first proj ects to he undertaken under the rfcw federal-stato highway pro gram. Others Inflnde miking U.S. 99E four Unei throughout the lata and tmproTiof U.8, 20. , C) UNj J7;;Hi Confers With Stalemate on Troops Pullout Worsens Turner Driver Flees to Avoid Jail Sentence Meted lOO-Day Term For Causing Crash Which Injured 5 A young Turner man who was given a 100-day jail sentence Thursday for causing a head-on crash in October, has apparently hotfooted it out of the state, Mar ion county sheriff's deputies said Friday. The man, Virgil E. Tincknell, 25, Rt. 4, Turner, wasn'-t at home last night when the deputies went to arrest him. Neighbors told dep uties that Tincknell might have gone to Seattle. That will probably be worth some additional jnil time. Tincknell, who had earlier plead ed guilty to a reckless driving charge, was represented in court Thursday by his attorney. Judge E. O. Stadlcr Jr. passed sentence on charges of reckless driving and driving while his operator's license was suspended. The charges involvo a head-on accident on Pringlc road near Aerial way on October 28 involv ing cars driven hy a 15-year-old youth, and Mark Gchlar, 774 Cas cado Dr. Investigating state police said that Tincknell and the 15-year-old had been racing on Pringle road and Tincknell had a considerable lead. After Tincknell went over the crest of a hill near the scene of the accident, he suddenly skid ded to a stop in the roadway, offi cers quoted witnesses as saying. When the 15-year-old came over Ihe top of the hill at high speed, he swerved into the left lane to avoid hitting Tinckwcll's car and crashed headon into the oncoming Gchlar car. (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) South Salem Civic Center Plans for a three-building $187,- 000 community center in the South Salem' area near the new Judson junior high school site were an nounced Thursday by Don Gard ner, president of the South Salem Chamber of Commerce. The proposed center, to be lo cated in a park area purchased by the group, will include a $17,000 chapel, an $1)0,000 community cen ter and a matching $70,000 library and education building. Gardner said work has already been started on the chapel, for which he said most of the funds have been raised. He said it will he completed after the first of the year. Financing of Ihe buildings will come hy contributions, Gardner Extension KNOW LAND, MENON UN Again Shelves Red China Sea ting llv MAX HARREI.SON UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UV The U. N. General Assembly Fri day shelved for another year the question of seating Red China, but only after a bitter exchange be tween Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) and India's V. K. Krishna Menon. Knowland, a member of the U.S. delegation, touched off the fight Thursday night by issuing a per sonal statement to the press cri ticizing the role played by Menon in spearheading the drive to get the Chinese Communists into the world organization. Menon replied with a sharp pro test and a demand that the United Slates delegation disown Know land's statement. He called the senator's statement "a disservice to the cause of international friendship." The Assembly rejected an In Russ Troops to Exit, Kadar Tells Hungary New Concessions Offered; Rebs Skeptical VIENNA (UP)-llungary's Sov ict sponsored Premier Janos Kad ar reportedly offered ultimato withdrawal of Soviet troops from Ihe country and formation of a coalition government Jn sweeping new concessions to anti-Ked in surgents today. But the defiant rebel groups continued their general strike and to Be Built said. He Is contractor on the chapel on a non-profit basis, he said. The community center is sup posed to be built next year and the library in 1958. A non-scctnrinn group led by Dr. Victor Hugo Sword, a former Bop list missionary, has leased land for their Chapel of The Way. His group is soliciting contributions for the chapel. The group plans to incor porate under the above name, Dr. Sword said. . In addition to the three build ings, plans call for a 6'A-acrc park on Sunnysidc road furnished with picnic tables, fireplaces, water, flowers and shrubs. The park lies immediately south of Royce's Sanitarium between Sunnysidc road on the east and the new Junior high school site on the I west. Into Heart of Portland TANGLE dian move to get the Red China question debated now. It then vot ed 47-24 with eight abstentions In favor of an American-sponsored plan to postpone all discus sion on the issue for at least an other year. Voting against the postponement wero the Soviet bloc countries, Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, Den mark, Egypt, Finland, India, In donesia, Nepal, Norway, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Yemen and Yugo slavia. Menon referred to a declaration Issued by Knowland to the press Thursday night in his personal ca pacity as Republican minority leader in the Senate. The senator said he was shocked that Menon had apparently become the floor leader for (he Communists in the campaign to seat the Chinese ltcds. - insisted it would remain In effect until all Soviet troops actually are withdrawn. At the same time, the govern ment controlled Radio Budapest broadcast Yugoslav President Tl to's charge that the Russians were responsible for the Hungarian rev olution. In a speech delivered Sun day and released Thursday Tito said Ihe Russians promised to pull their troops out of Hungary as soon as order has been restored, These moves by the Kadar re gime apparently were still more desperate efforts to win some form of popular backing and woo rebel workers back to their jobs. Reliable sources in Budapest said Kadar offered these conces sions in talks with the Central Workers' Council of Greater Buda pest and with the leaders of the so-called "Petoefi" or National Peasants parly and other groups: J. A three-phase . withdraw! of Soviet troops. 2! rormntlon of a coalition gov ernment including non-Communist parties. RussSoftpedal Volunteer Call MOSCOW Ul - The Soviet Un ion Friday soflpedallcd Us cam paign to raise "volunteers" to fight in Egypt. Hut the question of Soviet manpower for the Mid dle bast may be raised again. ror a solid week newspapers and the radio were filled with ap peals for fighters against "aggres sion" and reports of hundreds of j thousands willing to join Iho Egyp- I tian forces. J0f Egypt Intends To 'Dictate' Terms CAIRO, Egypt, m Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold met ' President Nasser Friday night amid indications that the task of setting the goals of the U.N. po lice force in Egypt had become difficult. , , .Shortly before Hammarskjold's arrival the newspaper Al Gumhur-' riya, in an editorial written hy closo associate of Nasser, de clared Egypt alone would "die- tatc" the terms of British, French and Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory. The British, French and Israelis" have linked their withdrawal to arrangements to be made with the U.N. force. Arrives With $4 Troops ' Hammarskjold flew here in mid afternoon from the . Suez Canal Zone, where he landed with 54 Colombian soldiers come to rein force the U.N. nolice being built; up near Ismailia. Two hours after his arrival he' met with Foreign Minister Mah moud Fawzi. He then met with Nasser. At Cairo's International Airport the secretary general expressed hope for "a world order of which all of us are truly proud. ' Al Gumhurriyas statement al so was the first Egyptian com ment on the furor raised two days ago by Moscow reports that Egypt had requested the immedU' ate dispatch of Soviet volunteers, to Egypt. The newspaper askedi". (Continued on Page 5, Col. )' : News in Brief r- Friday, Nov. 16 . NATIONAL Waterfront Strike Crip ples Shipping ..Sec. 1, P. 1 No Resignations Talked at Cabinet Meeting .Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL '.; Local' Government In terim Commiltee Gives Proposals Sec. l.P. ((. Broadcasters Hold Fall Meeting Sec. 1, P. J Women Hear of Civil Defense ..Sec. 1, P. I STATE Lawyers See Possible Holmes Seating Delay. Sec. 1, P. 1 FOREIGN Dag Confers with Nas ser on Pullout Sec. I, P. I Russians to Go Home, v Hungarians Promised Sec. 1, P. 1 SPOUTS Senators Gain 83 Per Cent of Underwrit ers Sec. 2, P. 1 ' Prep Playoffs Ready... Sec. 2, P. i REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Sec. 1, P. Editorials Sec. 1, P. 4 Locals Sec. 1, P..5. Society Sec. 1, P. 6,-7 Comics Sec. 2, P. Television Sec. 2", P. 5 Want Ads Sec. 2,P. 6, 7,8, 1) Markets Sec. 2, P. 5 Personal Problems Scc.l, P. 9 Crossword Puzzle ... Sec. 2, P. Farm Sec. 2, P. V School Sec. 2, P. 1C i. . i i Ji