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G apital JuJournal THE WEATHER INCREASING CLOUDS tonight, with rain Wednesday. Low to Bight, 42; high Wednesday, 52. Blue Lake Will Trim Corn Pack High Yidds Noted By Merrill; 500 At 24 th Meet y By CLAUDE STEUSLOFF Capital Journal Writer (Picture on Page 5) Some reduction in sweet corn acreage and more strict grading of large beans will be needed in the coming year, N. W. Merrill, man ager of the Blue Lake Packers, Inc.. told Soft Growers from six counties at the 24lh annual meeting of the organization in West Salem this morning. "The Blue Lake corn pack was much larger than 'anticipated due not to increased acreage but much larger yields than normal, Mer rill said. Increase in the West is only about one-half of one per cent but Wisconsin and other midwest r, (states tipped production more than J ' 100 per cent to build up a record carryover going into the coming year. Good Growing Conditions Good growing conditions this season brought on an oversupply of large beans which was only partially offset by installation of slicing machinery for more effi cient marketing, Merrill stated. "The coming year should be a reasonably good one for Blue Lake," Merrill predicted There is still a 1955 inventory which is largely made up of big bean sizes but by the year-end audit a dis . bursement to growers should be available. This will be distributed after May 1, he said. Top In Profit Blue Lake topped a list of 10 national packers of fruits and vegetables in per cent of profits on sales during 1955 according to a schedule presented by Cornelius Bateson, Pratum fruit and berry farmer who is president of the corporation. The average profit for 44 companies during the year was 6.7 per cent, he said. Bateson noted the tremendous pack of carrots the company put up this fall. He said a carrot can ning machine paid for itself in 78 .,;days of operation. . 'Jack-in-the-Bean-Stalk' brand beans are now firmly established In consumers' minds and are basic '- in the firm position the company '" now enjoys competitively, Bateson stated. Company products are dis--.' tributed through some 40 brokers ' throughout the U.S. ; ? Claude Miller, president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, complimented the Blue Lake or - ganization because "each year they are the first to complete their budget and are one of the largest ' contributors to the United Fund." He pointed out value of the H4 million dollar Blue Lake payroll to Salem. Prof and Wife Renounce U.S. For Russ Life MOSCOW tin Tass announced Tuesday a St. Louis University professor and his wife have re nounced their American citizen ship to live and work in the Soviet Union. They were identified as Prof. O. S. Makar, 47, a specialist in geodesy and photogrammetry, the science of photographic nap making, and his wife, Alexandria. Makar was born in the Russian Ukraine. Quoting the Stockholm Commu nist newspaper Ny Dag. the So viet news agency said the couple announced their decision to abandon their American citizen ship and seek Soviet citizenship in a letter mailed to the U.S. embas sy in Stockholm before they board ed a plane for Moscow Saturday. Deported Jew Smuggles Out Ouster Order TEL AVIV, Israel itf A aplaae carrying 78 Jews deDorted from Egypt landed here Tuesday. One passenger carried what he de scribed as an Egyptian deporta tion order and said he had smug gled it out by hiding it in his . clothes. Previous arrivals have said Egyptian authorities took their expulsion orders from them be fore they left Egypt. The paper produced by Joseph Avigdor. former teacher of Heb rew a the Jewish Community rLgh School in Cairo, said: "Gen' era! director of passport and citi-, zensiup investigation department, ' room 64. decision No. 16. Mr. Jo seph Avigdor, you are requested to leave the country within seven ' days from today." ! It was signed "Mahmoud Ibra-: Aim. director of the passport and citizenship division." j The en-teacher and the other ar-1 rivals left Alexandria Dec. 7 by , ship. They were flown here from , Athens. i Egypt has denied that it has or-1 tiered any mass deportation of! Jewish residents. I ft i y ; 281,400 Mail Pieces Record At Salem P.O. The Salem post office really "had it" Monday as the cancella tion machines checked off 281.400J pieces of first class outgoing mail. This record of cancellation ex ceeds all previous high marks and Postmaster Albert C. Gragg ex pressed the opinion that the peak of this year's Christmas mail has been reached. All mail, Including parcel post and Christmas greeting cards, incoming and outgoing was cleared during the day and at no time was there anything approach ing congestion apparent in the post office lobby. For a brief period the lines in front of the stamp windows grew a bit long but fast work on the part oft the clerks prevented any thing like congest:on. Two parcel post windows have been operating all of the time and at times a third has been opened. A decade ago it was not un common to see long lines extend ing the length of the lobby at the peak of the mailing rush. A sys tematized plan of taking care of seasonal rushes has virtually eliminated the necessity of wait ing 1' line for more than a few minutes. Approximately 600 sacks of par cel post mail reached Salem Mon day night. This mail is being handled in a warehouse on South Liberty street. More Clouds on Forecast Here Increasing cloudiness is forecast for the Salem area Tuesday night, with occasional rain Wednesday. Tuesday night will be a little cooler with a low of 35 to 44. High for both days is 46 to 54 Monday's maximum was 52, the minimum 48. and 2ND HIGHEST EVER County's Gross Crop Income Up $2 Million Farm products in Marion county during 19.S6 will bring farmers $23.-' 400 000 almost two million dollars above last year's income. County Agent Ben Newell has estimated. Tk io income to farmers was seen as the second greatest in historv. exceeded only by 19s2 when the record J32.841.0O0 was paid for county farm crops. All Categories Up Newell said that this year showed an increase over last in each of the three agriculture cate goriesfarm crops. livestock and horticulture. Farm crops showed the biggest increase with the 34 kinds pre duced in the county jumping from $10,264,000 a year aeo to $11,900. 000. Horticulture crops increased from $10,230,000 to $10,450,000 while livestock increased $75,000 t o $10,030,100. Snan heans were the big money producer in the truck garden clas-: Newly listed in this year's estl sification with growers receiving mate by Newell is farm forestry $2 944.000. an increase of $200.000 over a year ago. An additional 200 acres of beans were planted in the county this year. 68th Year, No. 301 Shoppers Scurry as Christmas Nears Salem streets and sidewalks with bustling crowds during the as days as the days left to BIGGEST YEAR FOR Smiles Are Everywhere as Yule Buying Crests in City By VICTOR B. FRYER Capital Journal Writer Children are smiling, Shoppers are smiling. Merchants are smil ing. . . And well they might be, for it's Christmas time and children are going to get more and bigger pre sents than ever. Shoppers are find- UN Approves Japan as Its 80th Member UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. l Japan was admitted to the United Nations by a unanimous vote Tuesday. It became the 80th mem ber of the world organization. The action took place in the General Assembly on the unani mous recommendation of the 11 nation Security Council. Japan's admission had been held up almost five years by So viet vetoes. Russia withdrew its opposition following the signing of an agreement with Japan last week ending the state of war be tween the two countries. Foreign Minister Shlgemitsu, in his first official appearance, ex pressed his country's gratification and pledged its full cooperation with the U.N. "Japan believes that the United: Nations is the world's central driv- ing force for peace." he said. The Japanese leader praised the U.N. for its role ending the Middle East fighting. He also ex- pressed "deep sympathy for the plight of the people of Hungary." Strawberries were anotner crop which were over the $2,000,000 income mark, although down from last years' total by about $100,000. Bent Crass Big Seed Crop Bent grass topped grass seed ' production accounting for $1,209,- 600 of the county's $2,681,950 grass seea proaucuon. unewings itrscue production amounts to an esti mated $800,000. Hop production in the county is eestimatod at $1,386,000, while pep - permint is valued ai si.tia.ouu. Furs are also in the million-dol- iar taieKuiy iui 04, uw iiiiuno oemg pcuea uns Tree fruits and nuts account for I1.32S.000 with cherries producing the largest income. $472,000. The tree fruit and nut production was down from a year ago because of the effects of last year's freeze. Walnuts, as an example, accounted for but $130,000 compared with $.551,000 a year ago. 1 with an $flO0.000 figure. A steadily increasing crop is ornamentals with their sales given as $550,000. C ..!.., have been filled evenings as well select Christmas presents dwindle. This picture taken Monday evening shows the hurrying crowd on Liberty street, (Capital Journal Photo by Jerry Claussen) MERCHANTS ing a wider assortment of goods to choose from and can probably expert a little rxtrffHrom Santa this year, themselves. And mer chants are doing the biggest Christmas business they have ever done in Salem. Many See Biggest Year A Capital Journal survey of businesses that are particularly affected by the Christmas busi ness department stores, variety stores, furniture stores, toy shops, gift shops and clothing stores- showed that most businesses are at least keeping abreast of last year's business and many busi nessmen openly admit that this will probably be the biggest year they have ever had. On the other side of the ledger, however, are some that say busi ness has been down somewhat this year. They are mostly the small businesses that apparently arc losing some of their trade to the larger, more aggressive busi ness firms which have greatly in creased the total retail space in Salem in the past three years. Generally, the survey indicated. I he businesses which are doing better than before are the big businesses and the downtown busi nesses. Those who arc holding their own are the medium-sized businesses in the various shopping centers and the smaller downtown businesses. Those that are slipping a bit from previous year's income are the small stores, both down- town areas and in the outer shopping There are exceptions in Quincy Youth Killed as Car Rolls on Rails CLATSKAN1E, Ore. W - A 16-year-old boy was killed and the driver was injured early Tuesday when their car left the highway between here and Rainier, rolled down an embankment to railroad tracks and later was struck by a train, The dead youth was identified as Charles Haatala, of Quincy, near here. Injured was Honnie Johnson, 20. He was taken to Providence IlosDital in Portland i with undetermined head injuries. The car was registered to John- son, who was on leave from the Air Force in Labrador. State police said It appeared the accident occurred on a curve. ! They said they had not deter mined whether Haatala was killed when the car rolled, or whether ne aieo wnen ine venicie was sirucn Dy a sponane. Portland & Seattle Railroad train about 2 a m. Police said Johnson's mother, Mrs. Lawrence Johnson, resides in Oswego. His address, however. was given as Clatskanie. Weutlier Details Maximum ynUrdiT. 52: minimum today. 44. TnUI 14-hour prrrtplutim : .14; for month : 2.U; normal. 3 s. Union prrrlpttaUon, 1971; normal, 1S.2V RKr h'liht, 2.7 trt. (Report bjr V. I. Weather Bureau.) It-onm. T....J.., T ! nearly every category, of course. Stanley Grove, manager of the chamber of commerce, -said that he had no exact figures to cite, (Continued on Page 5 Column Hi Salem Heights Factions Call Rival Parleys Recent proposal to incorporate a large area of suburban south Salem into a new city to be called Salem Heights has resulted in a quickening interest in local prob lems in the area. Both advocates and opponents of the incorporation move have scheduled meetings in the Salem Heights Community hall this week. Howard Gardner, who is coordi nating the campaign for signa tures on annexation petitions said that "everything is going along ac cording to schedule." The Salem Heights Citizens com mittee, a recently-formed group which opposes incorporation of the suburban area south of Salem into a new city, is holding the first of a series of meetings at community hall, at 8 p.m. Wed nesday. William E. Rector, commitleo chairman, said the speaker would! be County Engineer John Ander son who will disciiss the sanitary district proposed in the area. The meeting is open to all interested persons, he said. The South Salem Chamber of Commerce, proponents of the in corporation move, is holding a meeting at the community hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday at which A. Free man Holmer, Willamette univer sity political science professor will speak. Holmer will discuss "Too Much Local Government." 1IORAN HAPPY, THANKll L Ex-Par air ooper 'Just Fine 9 Year After Cascade Ordeal By DICK SINNOTT STOW, Mass. if, A year after he survived an amazing ordeal In Washington State's Cascade Moun- tains, ex paratrooper John M. Horan has settled down here with his familv. minus his toes and meoicany aiscnargea irom me Army dui nappy ana tnanKiui. It was a year ago Tuesday that Horan was on a C45 plane en route from Ft. Bragg. N C , to Bellingham. Wash. He was "hitch- hiking'' a ride to meet his Japan est wi:e, Teruko, due to arrive in Seattle with their three chil dren on Dec. 21. The plane flew into a blizzard, faltered with iced wings, and wpnt into a spin. At 7.nnn feet. ovr the mountains near Cle Klum, Wash., Horan jumped. "I had to get out to give the others a chance," he recalls, 1Q 1 OCA Inttrwl second 'natter at Sajam Ike,NeliruTl0e OliCllL UJ 1st Tall Return to Capital After 12-Hour . Session WASHINGTON tfl President Eisenhower and India's Prime Minister Nehru returned to Wash ington Tuesday after an over night stay at Gettysburg, Pa., and more than 12 hours of informal conversation on world problems. io announcement was made as to the subjects taken up by the two leaders during the Gettysburg stay. It was taken for granted, however, that their discussions concerned domestic policies that many countries are following and also international political and military affairs such as those cur rent in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Ride Together Eisenhower and Nehru rode to gether from Gettysburg as they hod on the trip there Monday. As they alighted, the President gave his visitor a warm hand shake. Monday's Eisenhower-N e h r u talks wound up about 10:30 p.m. As is his custom, hisenhowcr went to bed then. Nehru, however, worked until about 1:30 a.m. putting the finish ing touches to the nationwide radio-television speech he is to make Tuesday night. James C. Hagcrty, White House press secretary, clocked their talks yesterday at something over 12 hours. He said no such con ferences had been set up in Wash ington, but that they would be ar ranged if either man desired it. IkeBidsDick Try to Boost Ref usee Total WASHINGTON UP Presi dent Eisenhower asked Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon today to look into the possibility of admitt ing still more Hungarian refugees into the United States. Nixon received his assignment at the White House a few hours before his scheduled takeoff for. Austria for a quick first hand in spection of the Hungarian refugee program. Mr. Eisenhower told him to ex plore the legal and financial prob lems involved in admitting more Hungarian refugees than the 21,500 whose entry has previously been authorized. Before takeoff, Nixon was host at a luncheon for Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The vice president conferred with Mr. Eisenhower this morn ing shortly after the chief execu tive returned with Nehru from Gettysburg, Pa. The President gave Nixon messages to he trans mitted to the heads of the Aus trian government. 70IIiiiirarians Due in Oregon PORTLAND (UP) Seventy Hungarian refugees were duo to arrive at Portland International Airport at 6 30 p.m. today from Newark, N. J. The refugees will go directly lo the First Congregational Church here where they will meet their sponsors and be taken directly to their new homes in various parts of Oregon. The plane load of refugees will i he the first to arrive in the state from the Camp Kilmer processing center direct from their stricken homeland. There Is a possibility that a number of Hungarian refugees, due to arrive in Portland Tues day evening, will be assigned to the Salem area, officials at the reception of the refugees in Portland said Tuesday. The plane continued and landed safely. Horan came down in seven feet of snow. Six days later he stumbled into an inn on Lake ! Keechelus. his feet hadlv frozen. asking about his family, ti.- ,t. n ,u After weeks of treatment at . MaHio-.n Armv Hnsr.ital near To. ''m'8 w" Horan was Iran, ,o Murphy Army Hospitai . u-"L ' . P". n f hi hrimnlnu.'n nf T avnirrl Mt Thnr h.. t.. .... mniiHi and his fret fitted with special! shoe. I.at Nov 15 a week he. fore 'Thanksgiving, he was mcdi- callv retired from the Armv. When Koran's wife and their children arrived. Maynard opened its heart to them. The town of- fered a rent-free apartment and j sought to hthj them w a a pub Price Se Oregon auo euegng A"jBjq f i dan U033JQ. jo On Army Fullback Korean Orphan Gets Home Two-year-old Quentin Plntt. until Monday known ai Nam Lee Kyu, was spending his first full day in his new Salem home Tuesday. With the newly-adopted Korean orphan Is his mother, Mrs. Hampton C. Plait, 4435 Macleay road. (Capital Journal Photo) Korean Waifs Join Two Salem Families Does, a panda bear, a Christ - mas tree and a new family com- bined to make new world for one young Korean-American youngster here Tuesday while an other, too young to understand any of what was coins on around her, contentedly ate and slept in her comfortable new world. Quentin Ice Piatt, 4435 Macleay Rd and Rhonda Faith King, lit. 4, Salem, are two of three tiny or phans who are starting to learn a new way ot life in mid-WUIametlc valley homes. The third, John Mc Keon, has joined the A. J. Mc- j Keon family at Stayton. Two Yean Old Quentin, two years old last Sep tember, was "having a ball" Tues day as he played at the home of his new parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hampton C. Piatt. The shiny Christmas tree ornaments and lights were wondrous things but it was much more fun playing with the panda bear, a balloon and other toys about the house. And the sight of neighborhood dogs playing on the lawn amused considerable excitement and ex clamations of what was apparent ly the Korean equivalent of dog. He was busy, too, becoming bet ter acquainted with a new sister, Janice, 3, and his new mother. Another sister, Candy. 7, was in school and his new father was off o eastern Oregon to look after one of several construction Jobs he has contracted for there. Looks Different And while the world looked dif ferent to Quentin. Quentin looked different to the world, too, today. For he was dressed in new clothes, and had taken his first trip to the barber shop where a growth of several months of hair was removed. Monday, Quentin wasn't very talkative after his new parents licly-solicited down payment on a new house. Rut Horan owns 41 acres of land in this neighboring town of Stow. And, thanking the Maynard townfolk, he said he'd try to build a home here, and try the real , eR!ate business. bast summer when ne was weti enough to leave the hospital be tween treatments Horan began to build his new home. The Stow Grange poured the cement for the basement and dug a well. . homc n""n t. Men hynnd 'he cellar stage, but the warm, ''"'V basement has been divided ."" comfortable living quarters into comfortable living quarters. N'ext year. Horan says, he ll com Brownell made the announce plete the house by adding another :ment at a background briefing room for the baby expected in May. 'It's only it," Horan l cellar hut says with we own a grin. 2 SECTIONS 20 Paget Hints iss of Parley? If -f ; r 1 picked him up at the Portland air- port, Mrs. Piatt related, but after a warm bath and a meal at home, along with several helpings of Ice cream, he began to thaw out and began to get acquainted. By the time Piatt had to leave for Eastern Oregon, Quentin was saying "bye-bye" along with the Korean word for father. Tuesday he was working on some other new words but he wasn't being rushed (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) Shiverinjr Con Gives Self Up At Farmhouse Cold weather late Monday con vinced a wandering fugitive from Oregon state prison that he would he better off back In the peniten tiary, so Ted M. Simonson, 32, gave himself up. He was one of two prison annc Inmates who walked away Sunday morning. The other, Benjamin T. Gaul, 47, was captured by guards Monday morning as he was walk ing along a railroad track in Turner. Simonson was sent up from Uma tilla county to do three years for forgery. When he decided he pre ferred prison to hiding out in the cold. Simonson went to the Ken neth Harris farmhouse near Salem just after 6 o'clock Monday even ing and identified himself to Har ris. Mrs. Harris called police. Questioned at state police head quarters, he said searchers almost stepped on him Sunday night while he was hiding in Turner. Simonson was granted a parole about three months ago and was waiting for a job before being re leased. He said he escaped because he thought he could find a job. Gaul was sent up from Marion counly to serve 2Vx ye;irs for bur glary. After Gaul was caught Mon day morning, Norman Wilson's bloodhounds were used to trace Simonson, but they lost his trail after he crossed Battle Creek. Both men had bren seen in the Turner district which caused the search to center there. Both were trusties. BrowncllWill Stay 4 Years WASHINGTON 'I'Pl-Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. has an nounced that at President Risen hower's request he will serve ' another four years as head of the .ninre neparimem. with newsmen last week, but the Justice Department did not auth orize the release of his statement until today. Offer Says U. S. Not! Curbing Its Yet 'ower j. By WILLIAM GALBRAITH ,' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)-Sccrctary of State John Foster Dulles said today a review of Uie Western powers' military security arrange ments in Europe might be justi fied if Russia's satellites ever be come genuinely independent ol Moscow domination. But he warned, at his first Washington news conference since his cancer operation, that the United States and its free allies must not reduce their defensive power now. His guarded remarks appeared to be a hint that the West might be willing to negotiate with Russia for a possible mutual draw-back ot arm' ' forces provided thd Krem lin would pull the Soviet Army out" of Eastern European countries like Hungary. But Dulles did not spell out the implied overture in de tail. , Soviet In Trouble Dulles suggested that Russia has a self-interest motive for consider', ing some new arrangement of the satellites. , He said that the recent unrest in the satellites makes it impossi ble for Russia any longer to count on some 60 satellite divisions to help the Red Army in case of a war. On the contrary, he said, it now appears that the satellite; forces might even be shooting in. the other direction, that is at Rus sia. . niillp. Amnhnui-rnH that tha Tlnlt- ed States seeks peace and docs not want to resume the cold war. He blamed Russia for increased world tensions which have come about since last year's Geneva summit meeting. ,. .,. He said Russia has made every. effort to sur up trouble in the MidHla East and ha tried to oh. struct anv settlement of the Sues Canal dispute. Unfriendly Attitude DuUes also said the Soviet Union is responsible for the tragic events in Hungary. And he charged that the Soviet Union tore up the Gen eva agreement to reunify Ger-. many. All of these developments, he- said, make it look as though the . Soviet Union is not anxious for friendly relations with the free' world. Dulles said that with the inter-. national picture as it now is, the' United States has no plan to re duce Its military strength in Eu rope. He said there probahly will be some streamlining of U.S. . forces there, however, to make them more mobile. On other foreign policy que-; tions, Dulles said: 1. A visit to the United State by Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito-, would serve a useful purpose anov an invitation to him is being given. sympathetic consideration. But he. emphasized no formal invitation has been sent and he is not sure the visit will be arranged. Oppose Krd China .'N 2. The United States is still firm- ly opposed to admitting Red China to the United Nations. But it great ly welcomes Japan's admission, which was voted today. 3. The possibility of Britain s re ducing her troops in Western Eik rope is being considered because n Britain s financial troubles. No final decision has been made yet. N Brief ews in For Tuesday, Dee. IS, 19515 .; national r : ICC Authorizes Rail Freight Increases . Sec. 1, P. t Ike and Nehru Return To Washington . . Sec. 1, P. 1 local . ; Christmas Shopping Hits Crescendo Here Sec. 1, P i Mission Croup Gets Option -On Building . Sec. 2, P. S STATE Quincy Youth Killed In Auto Accident . Sec.-l, P. 1 FOKKIGN Dulles Hints Talks On Troop Pullback Sec. 1, P. 1 Poland. Russia Sign NATO-Like Pact .. Sec. 1, P.,1 SPORTS j Saxons Host Vikings Sec. 2, P.' l' Illinois Snip Don's ' String Sec. 2, P.J REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Sec. t, P. 2 Editorials Sec. 1, P. 4 Local Sec. 1, P. 6 Society Sec. 1, P. 6-T Comics Sec. 2, P. Television Sec. 2. P. S Want Ads Sec. 2, P. 8-9 Markets Sec. 2, P. S Personal Problems ..Sec. 2, P. T Crossword Puiile Sec. 2, P. 4 Farm Sec. 2, P. S Christmas Story ...... Sec. 2, P,