Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 20, 1056 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Enforcement of Relative Act Aid to Budget Welfare Administrator Says Old Age Aid Cases Decrease Enforcement of the relative re sponsibility act in connection with regulations, governing financial assistance to elderly relatives is having a beneficial effect upon the budget of the Marion County Wel fare Commission. This was pointed out by Admin istrator Kenneth Peterson during Wednesday's December meeting of the commission. Peterson said the load of old age assistance cases had decreased some 200 during the year. For November 1229 cases were involved. While expenditures for 1956-57 were running approximately as an ticipated, Peterson said the com mission faced heavy demands for assistance during the first quarter of next year. There u constant pressure for more assistance in the fields of medicine with costs constantly mounting, said Peterson. French Chief Defends Dive Into Mideast PARIS (A Premier Guy Mol let declared Thursday the motives which compelled British and French action in the Middle East "are as compelling today as yes terday. In a major foreign policy speech fo the National Assembly, the premier defended the British French action on the grounds of Soviet penetration into the Middle East. "Its penetration was not noisy. but was thus the deeper and pre pared dangerous tomorrows for the West," Mollet declared. As for the Israel attack Egypt, Mollet said that from the day the Arab nations agreed to joint military command under Egypt, Israel was encircled. "Is it necessary to wait for the irreparable?" Mollet asked. It was the first full dress report on French foreign policy since the French and British bowed to United Nations pressure and agreed to withdraw their forces from Egypt. Mollet split the government's re port into two parts for a vote later Thursday or perhaps Friday. One is on Suez policy which he said some deputies would oppose and the other nn Hungary, which he said all patriotic deputiei would support. Yule Greeting for Bavarian Lass : ' ? . , ' " fe v -: .Msh.- isojZV i. v . -1 --r f t j - - --, NEW YORK Seven-year-old Bavarian refugee Elizabeth Schmidtecker peers through a Christmas wreath aboard the trans port Gen. Langfitt after docking here today. Along with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Josef Schmldtecker, Elizabeth will go to Chicago to stay with relatives temporarily until placed. (AP Wlrephotn) Shanghai Foreign Trade Languishes By DAVID LANCASHIRE , SHANGHAI UB-The great port of Shanghai once loaded 30 ships a day with silk, Chinese tea, nar coticsanything that would bring a price. Now it handles perhaps 50 ships a month. Restrictive action by Chinese Nationalists has strangled Shang hai's waterfront but it has devel oped Tientsin and northern cities into major seaports. Chaing Kai shek's strength docs not extend that far. Bids for City Gasoline Rise Slightly higher prices were noted Wednesday in the bidding for the city's annual gasoline, diescl and lubricants contract. Gas prices generally ran about i of a cent higher than last year, the city officials reported, with Richfield being low bidder on 135,- 000 gallons of gasoline. The firm is presently supplying the city. Twelve oil companies bid for the various contracts. The tabulation of bids on diesel oil and lubricants has been held up to check with some bidders to make sure they offered firm prices, Howard D. Br and void, city finance officer, reported. The diesel bids ran about one rent per gallon higher than last year. Damage Suits Seek $20,285 Damage suits involving a total of $20,285 were filed in Marion county circuit court Wednesday. Morris W. McGill seeks a judg ment of $9,590 against Pat C. and Justine Mary Gorman as the re sult of a traffic accident in Stay ton May 24. In the other suit Amelia Nedcr hode asks $10,695 for injuries she claims she sustained when she fell at the 12th and Center street inter section Sept. 17. She charges War ren Northwest, Inc. the contractor in charge of work at the inter section, with negligence. Seabold Trial Again Held Up HILLSBORO Ifl For the sec ond time this week, the trial of Washington County Judge Harry M. Seabold on a charge of receiv ing a bribe has been delayed. The latest came Wednesday when defense attorneys sought permission to examine all docu mentary evidence on which the grand jury indictment against Seabold was based. The motion was taken under advisement by Circuit Judge Carl A. Dahl. Previously a state motion that Seabold produce his personal and partnership income tax returns for 1954 and 1955 had been re jected by the court. Originally, the trial had been scheduled to open Monday, but was set over to Wednesday in the first postponement. Charge Against Trio Dismissed Upon the recommendation of the district attorney's office, charges against three Sublimity men were dismissed in Marion county circuit court. Freed on charges of providing liquor to a minor were Bernard Joseph Lulay, Rodney Lee Watts and Benedict Donald Toepfer. The district attorney said there was insufficient evidence against the trio to warrant prosecution. Empty docks and crumbling jetties line Shanghai's Whangpoo riverbank. A few blockade run ners with half - empty holds are moored next to vacant ware houses. But most of the trade is co.istal. handled by big seafaring juuks with Picasso doves fainted on their sides. German, Scandinavian, , Dutch British and Japanese ships still carry on a picayune China trade, but none carry full cargo. The trip is a dangerous one. The British freighters are emblazoned with seven-foot-high Union Jacks on their sides for identification in the Formosa Strait. The Chinese Foreign Trade De- j partment maintains that exports : have picked up 265 per cent since I 1950,' but the empty docks are enough evidence to show the figure is a doctored one. "There were 400 ships in Shang-; hai in the first eight months of this year," a shipping man said. "And not one of them carried a full load in or out." n Shanghai still has traces of its international past. In streets off Edward VII Avenue, now named Nanking Road, are faintly painted shop signes reading "Cleaners," "Dress Shops," "Coiffure," now covered by Chinese characters. Some of the apartment build ings, better built and better de signed than any in China, have their English or French names over the doors. School Lunches Get Deer Meat Venison has found a place in the Marion county school lunch pro gram, officials reported, but it is mixed tn with hamburger. The Oregon state game commis sion has turned over more than 30 deer to the county school super intendent in the past two months. The deer, almost all of them either confiscated, killed by cars, or permit - killed, were formerly given to state institutions. They are turned over to a local firm which bones and skins the animals and grinds the meat up. Then some hamburger is mixed with the venison. At one time the commission tried to sell the animals commercially. Nations Crop Value for '56 At $18 Billion By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON The Agricul ture Department said Thursday 1956 farm crops had a lotal value of $18,973,732,000, a slight gain from the- $18,575,494,000 at which 1955 crops were valued. These figures did not include the value of livestock and live stock products. Corn asily held its traditional spot as the top money crop. It was valued at $4,571,274,000 this year, compared with $4,360,633,000 for the 1955 crop. Cotton, including cottonseed, was second with a value of $2, 444,053,000 compared with $2,648, 293,000 last year. Hay was third at $2,302,100,000 compared with $2,342,230,000 last year. In determining the value of a crop, tiie department multiplies the production by the estimated average price farmers received for it. The estimated values of other crops this year and last, respec tively, included: All wheat $1,969,806,000 and $1,-! 854.189,000; oats $806,864,000 and J895.964.000: barley $365,784,000 and $367800,00; rice $222,522,00 and $268,723,000; soybeans $1,011,-1 716,000 and $830,603,000; tobacco $1,147,324,000 and $1,165,772,000: sorghum grain $243,609,000 and $239,515,000; potatoes $517,862,000 and $403339.000; peanuts $174, 546,000 and $185,140,000; Oranges $314,757,000 and $321,- 036.000; apples $233,681,000 and $203,638,000; peaches $137,662,000 and $110,521,000; grapes $150,800.- 000 and $138,812,000; sugar beets $154,140,000 and $136,477,000; dry beans $116,982,000 and $116,741,-000. By slates, the values of 1956 and 1955 crops, respectively, in cluded: Idaho $265,118,000 and $253,699,000; Washington $349,015,- 000 and $332,858,000; Oregon $226, 467,000 and $202,582,000; Califor- $1,770,296,000 and $1,652,990,- 000. - 'This Noble Character,' Satchmo p!BW?mm Wl.'mii wit ' vmitmwwmwmmmmmmmmmmm ' ' Security Council Make-up Giariges UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (l Colombia, Iraq and Sweden are the newest members of the Secur ity Council. The General Assembly elected them Wednesday to two-year terms on the 11-nation council, re placing Peru, Iran and Belgium in the Latin-American, Middle Eastern and West European seats. MM mm .1 ... v-i. t Villi!" Luts 'Satchmo" Armstrong, American ambassador with trumpet suffers as conductor Norman Del-Mar tries Satchmo's horn on eve of his scheduled appearance with 10O-plece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, In London. Dec. 17. British actor Sir Laurence Olivier dubbed Armstrong; "this noble character" of American good will after Satchmo blew his trumpet for nearly two hours entertaining a shouting, stamping audience and three members of royal family at Festival Hall last night. Show was benefit for Hungarian relief. (AP Wlrephoho) Olympia Death Count Dropped OLYMPIA (UP) Superior Court Judge Cnarles T. Wright ruled yesterday that the shotgun slaying of Olympia businessman William W. Ward was justifiable homicide. In an oral opinion climaxing a day - long preliminary hearing, Wright ordered dismissal of a first - degree murder complaint against Louis I. Dungan, 34, a ci vilian mechanic at the Mount Rainier Ordnance Depot. Dungan admitted firing throuch his kitchen door early last Thurs day a shot from a 12-gauge shot gun 4hat killed Ward, 58-year-old hearing aid distributor and golfing buddy of Gov. Arthur a. Langhe. Dungan testified he fired the fatal shot after someone who re fused to identify himself tried to force open the door. Statesman-Journal classified ads reach thousands of readers daily. Call EM 4-8811 Cily Planners lo Get Request for Setback Change The Salem planning commission will consider request for a change in gasoline station facilities at the Northeast corner of 17th and Market streets next week. - A petition to modify setback and sign requirements in order to re locate a gasoline pump "island" is being filed by Tidewater Oil Co., represented by Al Loucks. The commission has called for a public hearing at 7:30 p. m., Dec. 27. Postman Suing Over 18th Bite MINEOLA, N. Y. Post man Edward Serven, 42, said in a Supreme Court action Wednes day that the same dog has bitten him 18 times in 11 years. Serven filed a claim for $100,000 against the dog's owner. The postman said the 18th bite caused him to fall in shrubbery and permanently injure his back. 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