Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, December 24, 1956, Page 16, Image 16

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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL'
Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 24, 1956
CENTER OPEN TO PUBLIC VIEW
Secrecy Veils Even Nonsccrct
Work at Florida Missile Base
Bv EI.TON C. FAY
WASHINGTON i Military offi
cials continue to cloak their mis
sile test operations in official se
crecy although the test center
on Florida's populous east coast is
open to public view from the sea.
Secrecy obscures even nonsecret
ork at Patrick Air Force Base,
site of the armed forces missile
test center.
It is known that three months
Proposed Higli Dam on Snake
Soon to Reach Secy. Seaton
Reclamation Wanls to
Build at Pleasant
Valley
By JOHN KAMPS
WASHINGTON Wl Secretory
of the Interior Seaton soon may
disclose whether the administra
tion is considering a policy change
Snake River in the 1'acilic North
west. Seaton is expected to act soon
on a Reclamation Bureau report
recommending construction of a
high dam at the Pleasant Valley
site in the river bordering Idaho
and Oregon.
Such a structure would rule out
a lower dam proposed at the site
by the Pacific Northwest Power
Co., which was organized by four
private power firms.
Would Flood Hells Canyon
It also would flood the site of
the upstream Hells Canyon Dam
which the Idaho Power Co. has
been authorized to construct by
the Federal Power Commission.
The report, which has not been
fnade public, could advocate an
all-federal dam at Pleasant Val
ley since the Reclamation Bureau
is the Interior Department's con
struction agency. Or it could pro
pose a partnership project in
which the government would
share the cost with some other
entity.
The Eisenhower administration
thus far has encouraged private
dams when local groups stood
ready to build them. It took this
stand in the previous private vs.
public power fight over Snake
River sites the Hells Canyon
case.
The administration has favored
government construction of main
stem dams too big for non-federal
groups to handle.
Sealon's recent disclosure of the
Reclamation Rureau report
sparked speculation by advocates
of public and private power alike
a to whether a major power pol
icy change were in the offing.
Spokesmen for public power
groups said a policy reversal was
indicated as a result or victories
by candidates they supported in
Pacific Northwest elections.
Private power company officials
at an FPC hearing on PNP's ap
plication for construction licenses
for the Pleasant Valley and Moun
tain Sheep dams appeared mysti
fied. Seaton Altitude In Doubt
A group of these officials con
ferrcd with Seaton last week and '
left saying privately they hadn't
the slightest idea as to what the
scretary thought or knew about
the report.
Seaton is not expected to an
nounce he's for or against a high
Pleasant Valley dam. An interior
Unmarried Sistcr-in-Law a
Troublemaker in This Family
By DOROTHY P1X
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I get
my in laws, except one unmarried
mother. Everyone in the family is
V her not to call again until she could he calm. She
. hasn't spoken to us since. When 1 visit my mothcr-
V ' JPs. in law. Susan leaves the room. Should 1 apologize?
J r -Mania.
mMJdmm klilhi. TV,,,-,.' nr. nlrl nvirui "Thf
squeaky wheel gets the grease." or. the noisy one in any family
rate the catering. Some sisters in-law are obsessed with petty jeal
ousy. If the newcomer to the family is attractive, agreeable, well
liked and capable, the in-law sees a threat to her own prestige that
she will not tolerate. She'll resort to any trickery to assure her posi
tion. What does she cain bv It? I've often wondered. Perhaps the satis
faction that she's making someone miserable is her peculiar idea
of happiness.
Nothing you can do will change her. You did the right thing in
your little "telling off "; someday she may wake up to the tact tnji
pleasant relationships are prclerablc to miserable solitude.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: My
dates. He is 18 and. while not
look better in dressy clothes than
that he dress properly? Time.
DEAR T1LL1E: Tact would seem to be wasted on this young
tnan. Blunlness might work. Next time be makes a dale, ask him
to come disguised as Pat Boone
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Alhlough 1 m 16. my boy friend of r
thinks I'm loo young to get serious. It would hurt me terribly if we
ever broke up. 1 m not even sure
Gracie.
DK.AR GRAC1K: 1-et't make it double or nothing; you're both
too young to be serious. The boy probably realizes that, and it
imart enough to push the responsibility on you. He content with his
friendship for the lime bring.
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: As
to a veteran's organization. My
attend very few meetings, and
at home. I have always horn a
She has no cause for complaint,
sessions. Dannv.
DF.AR DANNY: It seems to
rights, ou fought a war against
on the home front? V .ui edtnpvuy trowiM. yu surly OrWv
one freedom, at wW.
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aetripaper.
ago technicians fired a test type
of the projected Jupiter interme
diate range ballistic missile
(IHBM). This Army missile ap-
ow iniii-a wiu iu nave iiuwn iiiui l-
I man j.uvu nines into ine aouin
Atlantic.
The Pentagon still declines to
acknowledge such a test was con
ducted. I The Defense Department re-
official believes the secretary is:
more likely to confine any an
nouncement to whether or not 'a
detailed study should be made.
The official said Seaton has on
his desk a "preliminary" report
and not a detailed report on which
a construction recommendation
could be made.
If Seaton decides a federal dam
should be more fully investigated,
he may ask the FPC to hold up
action on PNP's license applica
tion pending further study.
The FPC hearing ended Wed
nesday. It's believed the case
could be reopened if new, import
ant and pertinent evidence were
offered.
An FPC lawyer has expressed
doubt that the commission would
seriously consider a proposal for
a dam which would preclude the
construction of one the commis
sion has already licensed.
Idaho Power won a license, fol
lowing a long hearing, for dams
at Hells Canyon, Oxbow and at
Brownlee. Hells Canyon is third
the company s construction
schedule.
The Interior Department under
the Truman administration inter
vened at the hearing against Idaho
power, advocating a high federal
Hells Canyon dam. The depart
ment's opposition was withdrawn
by President Eisenhower's first
secretory of the interior, Douglas
McKay. McKay said the issue
should be decided by the com
mission. Public Powerltes Hostile
Any bill to authorize a tcderal
Pleasant Valley dam might run
into opposition from some public
power advocates.
The National Hells Cnnvon
Assn., which opposed dam-building
proposals of Idaho Power and
PNP, is against anv Pleasant Val
ley project because it would block
proposed construction of a con
siderably higher dam at Nez
Perce, the project these groups
favor for the section of Uic Snake
under discussion.
There has been speculation that
Uie administration may recom
mend construction of a high Pleas
ant Valley project jointly by the
government and the private power
companies. fNi- ollicials. how
ever, have shown no interest in
such a "partnership" nossibilitv.
IGNOIIK STALIN BIRTHDAY
MOSCOW IB Moscow news
papers Friday ignored Hie 77lh
anniversary ol the birth of Joseph
Stalin, discredited dictator of the
Soviet Union. There were no pho
tographs nor any mention of him.
A year ago, before de-Slalin-Ization,"
three and four column
pictures of Stalin were splashed
on the Iront pages of Moscow
newspapers on his birthday.
along wonderfully well with nil
sister-in-law, who lives with her
afraid of Susan. She was always
bossy to me, but 1 let it pass until one any
when my little girl had measles. Susan called me
at a time when 1 was very busy, and insisted
on knowing where the child had caught the disease.
Of course, I couldn't tell her; even the doctor
didn't know.
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boy friend always wears joans on our
exactly the Tony turns type, dor:
in sloppy ones. How can 1 suggest
instead of Elvis Presley.
he loves nic; he never says so
a veteran of World War I, I belong
wife objects so strenuously that 1
even those start another war right
good faithful husband and father
other than that 1 like to attend these
be time for men to achlrvr ru,ual
tyramv: cant ou uphold liberty
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fused to permit adtanre notice of
the recent test firms of a stand
ard Viking rocket similar to the
first-stage engine planned for
launching the projected earth
satellites. Newsmen, in requesting
Dcrmission to eo to the has for
I such a test firing, cited an earlier
government statement that the
satellite project, a purely srientificl
effort, would not be encumbered
by military security. The explana
tion for the refusal was that other
military test equipment was on the
base.
The missile test center is heav
ily protected on land by fences
and armed guards. But most of
its area is in plain sight from a
I beach across a narrow strip of
water. And civilian-operated boats
are free to sail close to shore,
where launching equipment and
missies are in easy camera
range.
Security officials say the test
firings arc supposed to be con
ducted without preliminary pub
licity. But for safety reasons,
boats and aircraft are warned
away from the launching area and
down-range path several hours be
fore firings. This is an unintended
invitation to sightseers.
One reason for locating the test
center in this heavily populated
area is the fact that the Caribbean
Islands, over which the out
going missiles pass, provide Ideal
sites lor instrument recording sta
tions. 21 Killed on
Italy Airliner
OSSANA. Italy Wl Rescue
teams climbed today to the
wreckage of an Italian airliner
missing in the Alps since Saturday
night and radioed that "all 21
aboard are dead."
The dead included an American
couple, Mr. and Mrs. Harris Grav
Jr., Greenwood, Miss. Gray, 42,
was Mediterranean representative
lor Loca Cola. Their two daugh
ters, 6 and 14, were waiting in
Milan to spend Christmas with
them.
The Italian DCS plowed into a
mountain near the village of Mai
ga Hon, to the nortli of to.olG
foot Mt. Ginor in the Trento area
of northern Italy's Dolomite Alps.
ine tirst rescue team to reach
the spot said a numher of bodies
were found inside the fuselage
ana others were scattered
around the wreckage."
'Baby Doll' Not
Deemed Sinful
Jy Episcopalian
NEW YOKK (fl A leading
Protestant-Episcopal clergyman
says, although he does not deem
it a "sin" to see the controver-
sinl movie "Baby Doll." he would
not recommend it to others.
The Very Hev. Dr. James A.
Pike, dean of the Cathedral
Church of St. John the Divine,
devoted his sermon Sunday to a
discussion of the film. Francis
PnrHmii cn..iitv.nn ii-c nvtwirirt i
members of his Roman Catholic !
New York Archdiocese not to see
the film "under pain of sin."
Dean Pike, who attended the
premiere showing of the picture
here last week, told 3,rIMl persons:
I don t think that 1 sinned in
seeing it." but added:
"Actually, it is not especially
important that you see it at all.
There arc other plays, motion pic
tures. novels and poems which lonn an altar for outdoor Christ
can serve as well or much better! mas services. Scattered about the
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man, Tacoma, Wash., parks bans for a flight to Korea to pick up
his new son, a 29-month-old polio crippled Korean orphan. Oilman
and Ills wife are childless. He explains: "My parents abandoned
me and my five brothers and1 sisters when we were kids. 1 know
what it meant to be an orphan at Christmas." For other orphans
there, he's taking a load of presents and medical supplies. (AP
Wlrephoto)
Three Sites Listed as Location
Where Slicpherds Saw Angels
By WILTON WYNN
BETHLEHEM, Jordan W In
a plain lying east of Bethlehem
three places arc held to be the
site where shepherds heard angels
promise peace on earth, good will
to men the night Christ was born
Increased outbreaks of fighting
between Arabs and Israelis around
the perimeter of the Holy Land
this year have given Shepherd's
Held a fresh significance to war
weary inhabitants of Palestine.
The nearest village, Beit Sahour,
is known locally as "the village
ol the shepherds." Looking un the
slope from Beit Sahour, you can
Lru the spires and domes of Beth-
lrhem on a distant hill.
Creek Orthodox Site
Greek Orthodox Christians con
sider a site on the edge of Beit
a.mour me spot wncrc sncpneras
sal ,hat . niht- 1Icre is a deep
grotto set inside a compound sur
rounded by a rambling stone wall.
A flight of slone steps goes down
to the limestone cavern which
once served as a fold for the
shepherds flocks.
On the flat ground above the
giolto can be seen the remains
of a stone floor at one end of
which is an alcove which can
area are bits of columns and other ;
remains ot the Byzantine church
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which stood here till the seventh
century.
Chapel Built In 1934
A little farther on from the Or
thodox grotto is the site considered
by Latins as the place where the
shepherds waited. Here is a beau
tiful new Franciscan chapel, fin
ished in 1054, set rn a stone-walled
garden of pine and cypress trees;
From the door of the chapel you
get an excellent view of the little
town of Bethlehem
On Christmas Eve, a midnight
mass will be celebrated in the
Franciscan chapel.
On a rise of ground farther
from Beit Sahour is a grove of
pine trees enclosed in an area
known as the "Protestant Shep
herds ricld. rrom this site you
can see not only Bethlehem but
also the distant spires of old Jeru
salem.
There is no chapel or church
this Shepherd's Field, but
around a sheep-fold-grotto each
Christmas Eve a special religious
service is held. At the end of the
service a "shepherd's meal" of
bread and meat baked in the
carlh is eaten.
FRENCH AIRMEN DIE
MARSEILLE. France (tf Five
airmen were killed yesterday when
a French military plane crashed
at Istres Airfield near Marseille
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BUSINESS MIRROR
Santa Will Bring Consumers a
Let Up in Cost'of Living Rise
By SAM DAWSON i
NEW YORK (iPi-For consumers
Santa Claus is bringing tonight the
promise of a two month let up in
the rise of the cost of living. For1
many industrial workers he is
bringing the contractual pledge of
higher wage scales. He is putting '
price rises in the stockings of the'
railroads, steel mills, producers ol
industrial materials.
For many factories the benign
saint offers the prospect of full
production for several months
more. For wage earners in gen
eral he is promising plentiful jobs
through the winter. For merchants
he has a flock of well heeled if
more sober minded customers.
If some of these things like
rising wage scales, higher prices
but a steady cost of living seem
contradictory, remember it's
Christmas Eve when even gov
ernment statisticians and credit
executives take the most pleasant
view.
The Commissioner of the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics thinks
living costs should hold steady
through February and maybe dip
a little because of upcoming cloth
ing sales. As a whole they -never
were higher than at present.
Chou to Visit
Poland, Soviet
LONDON w Warsaw Radio
announced Monday that Commu
nist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai
will visit Poland in mid-January.
Earlier the Soviet government
had announced Chou is interrupt
ing his South Asian tour to visit
Moscow.
Western diplomats in the Soviet
capital had speculated the Chi
nese leader and the Russian!
chiefs would discuss the Krem
lin's current troubles with its
satellites.
Thre have been indications that
the Red Chinese regime favors
giving the satellites more freedom
from Moscow. Apparently Chou
wants to form a first-hand opinion
in talks with Poland's new "na
tionalist" Communist government,
which already has won consider
able independence from the Krem
lin. Observers in London considered
it likely that Chou would also visit
other East European Communist
countries in what mav be a re
view nf Pnmmnnist f'hina't: nlnrn !
in the Communist world.
U. S. Newsman
Enters China
HONG KONG Ifl William
Worthy, an American newspaper
man representing the weekly
newspaper Afro-American of Bal-
timore. crossed the Hong Kong-1
Red China border Monday for a;
one month visit to the mainland.!
Worthy, a Negro, is believed to!
he the first U.S. newsman to defy'
the U.S. government ban on trav-j
el to Red China.
Worthy said he had assurances'
of support in any legal action1
against him by American authori
ties on his return. He added he
had signed documents waiving all
claims against the U.S. govern-1
ment in the event of personal in-1
jury, loss ot property or deten
tion in China.
COTTON BALES Bl'RN
YOKOHAMA. Japan un Fire
in cotton bales aboard the Amer
ican President Lines' vessel Pres
ident McKinlcy caused $415,000
worth of damage, by police esti
mate, before it was extinguished
yesterday. Officials said the 7,925.-
ton vessel suffered "no actual
ship damage."
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Polling 146 credit executives of
manufacturing, wholesale, finan
cial and service companies, the
Credit Research Foundation re
ports more than half of them ex
pecting an increase in capital out
lay for plant expansion and look
for government purchasing to stav
as high. Three fourths of them ex
pect prices and sales volume to
increase next year, and for com
petition to get keener, too. Nearly
two thirds look for unemployment
to stay at its present relative low
level.
But the managers of business
credit also fear there will be more
marginal accounts, many of them
short of working capital and slow
er collections.
The National Assn. of Credit
Men polled 100 financial execu
tives and found their average
guess of where the wholesale
price index of all commodities
would be at midyear in 1957 as
115.97. compared with 114.2 July
1, 1956. They thought, however,
that the industrial production in
dex of the Federal Reserve
Board, now at 145, would drop
back to 142.5 next summer.
Take home pay of the average
factory worker is now at a new
record high, according to the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics, which
says the gain in the buying pow
er of the worker was more than
the rise in the cost of living.
The living cost increase will
mean a three cents an hour boost
in pay for steel workers. Many
long term labor contracts also call
for automatic wage scale boosts.;
Prices are going up, too.
Freight rates and passenger
fares are going up on the, rail
roads. Steel mills are boosting the
prices of some products and talk
ing more about a general price
increase. So are the oil men. j
But balancing it all out, almost
everyone can find at least one!
bright prospect this Christmas.
either higher pay or a steady job
or a higher price on his products.;
Mrs. America
Returns Home
PORTLAND m Mrs. Cleo
Maletis is back at her Portland
home after a six-week tour of
Europe as "Mrs. America."
She won the title in a nation
wide contest earlier this year.
The brunct mother of three child
ren was accompanied on her trip
by her husband, Chris Maletis.
Discussing the tour, which was
financed by the contest and sever
al business firms, Mrs. Maletis
said that "in the villages, where
we met and talked to many of the
working people, we found warm
friendship and appreciation of
what America is doing for Eur
ope." She said she enjoyed her trip
abroad "but, after all, for a
mother there is really no thrill
like coming home to her family
especially just a day before
Christmas Eve."
Refugees lo Have
Yule Parlies Aloft
WASHINGTON Ufi Special in
flight Christmas parties are being
planned for military planes carry
ing Hungarian refugees to this
country Tuesday.
Air Force personnel stationed
at Prestwick. Scotland, also are
arranging festivities for refugees
who stop off there en route.
In other holiday projects, the
Air Force has dropped mail and
gifts at remote outposts in the
arctic, and an Oregon fir tree
was dropped to a small party of
Navy men and civilian scientists
who are spending Christmas at
the South Pole.
Air Defense's
Radar Tracks
Santa to U.S.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, tf)
The Continental Air Defense
Command, nerve center of the na
tion's aerial watch towers, gave
the official word today:
Santa Claus is on his way.
CONRAD began tracking Santa
on radar early this morning.
There was no identification trou
blethe old gent had filed his
flight plan plan months ago,
Piloted by the 'Command's
radar system, Santa was guar
anteed safe passage to the United
States by CONRAD'S fighter, inter
ceptor and missile weapons.
Santa's speed was estimated at
45 knots, his altitude 35,000 feet.
However, he may take advantage
of the prevailing jet stream to
hasten his trip.
CONRAD assured the nation's
youngsters it will track Santa
right on through to protect him
against possible attack by those
who don't believe in Christmas.
The radar screen shows Santa's
track is a wide one, indicating a
heavily laden sleigh.
Montgomery's
Negroes Plan
Other Pushes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. W
Schools and public recreation
may be the next goals for Mont
gomery Negroes now that they
have gained integrated buses, a!
spokesman suggested last night. :
Less than 12 hours after an un-;
identified person loosed a shotgun
blast into the front of his home,
the Rev. M. L. King Jr., president
of the Montgomery Improvement
Assn., outlined possible new seg
regation targets.
King said the group which
sparked the mass bus boycott still
has plenty of work to do.
"Some of our people have ap-.
parently fallen in love with pro-j
testing," he said. "We've got to'
stop protesting and go in for
reconciliation." I
The Negro minister said the
MIA will continue to have mass
meetings "We have just start
ed our work."
Urging all Negroes to resume
riding the buses. King said. "We
must go back to the buses in
big numbers. Then, perhaps, we
might even be able to do some
thing about the fares."
"Some Negroes, he said, have
complained because Ihe fare has
gone now up from 10 to 15 cents
since they first began their boy
cot. Other than the shotgun blast at
King's home yesterday, no vio
lence was reported as city lines
buses went through their third
day of integrated service under
a federal court order. 1
Ike, Mamie Sinjr.
Carols in Church
WASHINGTON 11 - President
and Mrs. Eisenhower joined in
singing Christmas .carols during
services at National Presbyterian
Church Sunday. '
The first family plans to spend
Christmas Day at the White
House, where they will be joined
by their four grandchildren and
the children's parents. Army Maj.
and Mrs. John Eisenhower.
751 Hungarians, One
Russian Cross Border
VIENNA m Austrian border
police said Monday that 751 more
i Hungarians, plus an armed Rus
sian tank soldier, trudged across
the snowy border. Sunday night to
seek refuge in the West.
1 The Russian. 34-vear.nlH Niknlni
Rokanoff. stepped from a Hun
garian freight train at the border,
handed his pistol to the police,
and asked for asylum.
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