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MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight and
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rating temperatnrei. Low tonight,
26; high Saturday, 46.
2 SECTIONS
20 Paget
69th Year, No. 16
Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 18, 1957 ."sHcn
Price 5 c
Powder Plant Explosion Kills 6
Dynamite
Atomizes
Building
7 Hurt; 15 Oilier
Structures Hit
By Debris
By WARD T. SIMS
OLYMPIA, Wash. UPl-An earth-
snaking blast of an estimated
3,000 pounds of dynamite killed
six men and injured seven Friday
at a powder plant about 10 miles
south of here.
The terrific explosion oblit
erated the 50-by-50-foot building
in which it occurred at the Pa
cific Powder Co. plant.
All of the six dead were In the
building. It was the structure in
which dynamite was stuffed into
sticks.
Area Blown Clean
The building was inside a con
crete perimeter, which was back
ed by a thick dirt revetment, and
the area was blown as clear of
debris as though a big bomb had
been dropped m it.
Joseph Denn Jr., the plant man
aeer. said IS other buildings on
the 58-acre plant site were dam
aged to varying' degrees by con
cussion and flying debris.
None of the injured men was
reported in serious condition. They
were working in other buildings in
the area at the remote site in
a prairie vicinity.
Bill Stevens of Tenino, foreman
of the production line, said:
"I had just taken some powder
to the building and had returned
to the lunchroom when she blew.
I had taken In 2.000 pounds of ex
plosives. That meant there were
about 3,000 pounds of explosives
in the building when the blast
went off.
Dead Listed
The dead were: Art Stinke, 45,
and Earl Riggs, 26, both of Te
nino; Wayne Brown, 23, Little
rock: Joe Davis, 45, Bracey
Breck. 28, and George Gruning,
66, all of Olympia.
The plant manager said that,
Ironically, the building in which
the blast occurred was. one in
which the processing was not con
sidered hazardous.
It was the seventh of eight
buildings in the production line.
Denn said the buildings nearer
the start of the processing were
considered more dangerous.
(Continued on Page 5, Column 4)
Mercury Dips
To 16, Low in
City for Year
Winter chill took an extra hard
punch at Salem and valley areas
Friday morning, thermometers
skidding to the lowest marks since
Feb. 2 of J95fi.
' In Salem, the morning minimum
dropped to 16. On Feb. 2, a year
ago, the minimum dropped to 15
in the city.
Cloudy skies prevailed through
the morning and the forecast holds
promise of slowly moderating tem
peratures over the weekend.
Five-day forecast calls for tem
peratures to be near normal with
a slow warming trend setting in
and some showers in the picture
alter sunday.
t, Salem this morning recorded ex
actly the same minimum as mile
high Denver, but the Colorado city
was betler on the maximum Thurs
day than Oregon's capital, having
a high of 42 against our 36.
Hubby Sboots
Wife and Self
COTTAGE GROVE (UP) XIra.
Donal Connor, fi.1. of Walker. Ore.
suffered a bullet wound in her
neck early today and state police
said it was inflicted by her hus
band who then took his own life.
The Connors operated Walker
Lodge about five miles north of
here. Officers said Connor appar
ently attempted to kill his wife
with a .38 caliber revolver and
then commited suicide while his
wife ran to neighbors. XIrs. Con
nor is in good condition m a Eu
gene hospital.
DO YOU
KNOW
That the highly scientific
FBI Laboratory itarted
business In 1932 with a bor
rowed microscope, ultra
violet equipment and a few
odd and ends?
Read
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The
Story
Sec. 1-rage 9
Hungarians to Help 'Fill
vaXfC RttiEF w " n r
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s m III
Seattle Union
Leaders Flout
Probers' Call
WASHINGTON (A The ex
ecutive vice president of the
powerful Teamsters Union Friday
challenged the Senate investiga
tions subcommittee s authority to
investigate labor racketeering,
and refused to answer any of its
questions.
The stand taken by Einar O.
Mohn of Seattle drew down a
storm of protest from subcommit
tee members. Sen. McCarthy (R-
Wis) told Mohn:
"If you had deliberately set out
to give the labor movement a
black eye you couldn't have done
more effective job."
Chairman McClellan (D-Ark),
an icy toned statement said that
Dave Beck, the Teamsters Union
general president, had promised
to show up without being sub
poenaed Friday.
But instead, he said, Beck sent
a telegram saying that "in com
pliance with my doctor's instruc
tions I am unable to accept the
invitation to appear today."
McClellan said the telegram
came from Seattle. He comment
ed that Beck, just back from a
trip to Europe, was able to make
that trip but "may since have be
come ill."
He said Beck would have been
subpoenaed had it not been for a
personal assurance from Beck in
a telephone conversation that the
union chief would respond under
invitation.
$14000 RECOVERED
Bank Holdup Suspect
Nabbed in West Linn
PORTLAND m A 33-year-old
man. the father of three young
children, was arrested by the
FBI at his West Linn. Ore., home
Thursday night and charged with
the $19,500 robbery of a Sherwood.
Ore., bank.
J. F. Santoiana, special agent
in charge of the FBI office here,
said that $I4"U of the loot taken
'. from the Sl.erwood branch of the
U. S. National Bank last rriaay
was recovered.
Clackamas County Sheriff Joe
Shobc said that the arrest of Ross
Neal Porter, the holdup suspect,
resulted from a tip from a source
he could not disclose at this time.
Porter s bond vas set at $20,000.
Sanloiana, on the authority of
U. S. Attorney C. E. Luckey, re
ported that a complaint would be
filed later Friday before the U. S.
Commissioner here.
Porter, who lives at 1791 S. W.
Blankenship Drive in the- Willam
ette district of west Linn, is a
canvas worker and upholsterer.
He is the operator of the Super
Top Shop at West Linn
Santoiana said the identification
and arrest of Porter came through
the joint efforts of Oregon State
Police, the Washington County
sheriff's office. Clackamas Coun
tv Sheriff Jo Shobe and the FBI.
Santoiana added that Porter
also is held in connection with the
$1,200 holdup Dec. 3 of the H and Bid Approval Indicated
L supermarket at Jennings Lodge, Allocation of the money Indl
Qeg, rules that bids lor the bolldlsf
Four young Hungarian refugees will play a big part in a "Fill
Up for Freedom" day at four Salem Shell service stations Sun
day and are mighty happy that their efforts will aid the relief
drive for their countrymen, as shown by dealer BUI Brown. The
foursome of newly-arrived Hungarians Includes (left to right) Joe
Fejos, Alex Fejos, Carl Panczel and Laszlo Panczel. Each will
work at a station Sunday with the help of volunteer labor from
the 20-30 club and all profits will go to Hungarian relief. (Cap
ital Journal Photo)
FILL '71 VP" RELIEF DAY
HungariansPump
Gas for Freedom
By JERRY CLAUSSEN
Capital Journal Writer
Four young Hungarians and
many generous Americans will
work together Sunday in Salem in
a "Fill Up for Freedom" day at
four service stations.
Homeless Hungarian refugees in
the United States and Europe will
get the benefit and it won't cost
donators a cent extra. All profits
from the normal day's business at
the four stations will go into Mar
ion county's Bed Cross Hungarian
Relief fund donation.
The Hungary Relief day drive
has snowballed since the four Shell
dealers volunteered to help two
weeks ago. The 20-30 club joined
in to donate all free labor in the
stations that day.
Four Hungarians Volunteer
Then the four young Hungarians,
all recent additions to the Wil
lamette valley population, heard
about the day and wanted to help.
The four stations which will
participate include Brown's Shell
Service, 1115 Wallace Road: Sears
Shell Service, 12th and Mission;
Capitol Street Shell Service, Cap-
The bank was robbed by a lone
gunman who forced manager M.
Lvnn Judy and Ray Lien at gun
point to the bank vault where he
helped himself to the casn.
The robber made his getaway
in a car that had been stolen from
Portland earlier.
$92,850 ALLOCATED
U.S. Casb Okayed for
Armory at Woodburn
By MIKE FORBES
Capital Journal Valley Editor
WOODBURN (Special) Alio
cation of $92,850 by Congress to
wards construction of a new Na
tlonal Guard armory at Wood
burn was announced Friday by
Rep. Walter Norblad at Wash
ington. This amount is 75 per cent of
the total cost of the building.
The remaining 23 per cent will be
paid by the state Oregon,
bringing the total errst to approx
imately $124,000. The state al
will bear the cost of landscap
ing the grounds and construc
tion of sidewalks five feet out
side the building.
Up for Freedom' Day
itol and XIarkct; Robinson's Shell
Service, Center and Cottage. All
will be open from 8 a.m. to 10
p.m. Profits from gasoline sales
as well as any other sales and ser
vices will go into the fund.
One at Each station
The plan is to have one Hun
garian to help at eacn siauon.
None can speak English and so
each will have an interpreter.
The 20-30 club s free labor will
cut all labor overhead for that day
and raise the profits. Marion coun
ty has already raised $1700 of its
$3000 Red Cross Hungarian renet
quota and the committee, headed
by James Keycs, hopes to get a
big part of the remainder out of
this special day.
Two sets of brothers make up the
quartet of Hungarians who will be
helping their countrymen Sunday.
They include Joe and Alex Fejos,
ages 26 and 24, and Carl and Laszlo
Panczel, both 20. All were living
in Budapest before escaping late
in 1956.
The two Fejos brothers arrived in
America Dec. 12 after walking
from Budapest to Austria and
thence by air to New York via
Canada. They are living with Ver
non Stall, Newberg, where both
are working in service stations.
The Panczel brothers have found
their new home with Don Miller,
Willamette university professor
living in Woodburn. Laszlo
working in a ladder factory. Carl
is still unemployed. Both have
been here barely a week after get
ting to New York by boat New
Year s day.
Weallier Details
Maximum yrsurdar. 31; minimum
today. 16. Total Z4-hour precipita
tion, ; for mnnth, 2; normal. 3.40.
Season nrerlnitatlon. 13.34: normal,
21.70. River height, I font. (Report by
U. 8. Weather Bureau.)
have been approved In Washing
ton, according to Col. Paul L.
Kllever, director o f armories
and facilities for the Oregon Na
tional Guard. The next step will
be award of the contract.
Bids were forwarded to Wash
Ington some time ago. Col. Klle
ver said.
Ball Park Site
The new armory will be bulli
on a site Immediately east of the
Woodburn ball park.
When the new building 1ft com
pleted and oecopled, the old
strurtore will be disposed of.
The Woodburn unit of the Ore
gon National Guard has an auth
orized membership of IIS men.
Recruiting Is now la progress to
bring the company up to full
streajrUb
Mrs. Knowles
Gets Jail Term
For Contempt
WASHINGTON, '' . Mis. Mary
Knowles,' a librarian of Plymouth
Xlceting, Pa., Friday was sen
tenced to 120 days in jail and fined
$500 for contempt of Congress.
U.S. Dist. Judge Ross Itizley
said in passing sentence:
"I just can't bring myself to
say to her that she should not
serve some time. I wish I could
but I can't."
The maximum penalty under a
conviction for contempt of Con
gress is a year in jail and a fine
of $l,O00.
XIrs. Knowles. 46, was convicted
by Judge Itizley a week ago on
52 of 58 counts of an indictment
charging she unlawfully refused to
answer questions before the Sen
ate Internal Security subcommit
tee July 29 and Sept. 15. 1J55. She
refused to say. among other
things, whether she had been a
Communist in the past.
As soon as Judge Rizley im
posed the sentence, Mrs. Knowles'
attorney, Henry Sawyer III of
Philadelphia, moved that the sen
tence be suspended and that Mrs.
Knowles be placed on probation.
This was promptly denied.
The judge, however, allowed
XIrs. Knowles to remain free on
bond pending the outcome of an
appeal which Sawyer said will be
filed.
Death Claims
McMinnville
.Publisher, 52
McMINNVIIXE OP Jack B.
Bladine, newspaper and radio sta
tion executive, died in a hospital
here Thursday niht after a year's
illness. He was 52.
He began his newspaper career
while still in high school in Cedar
Falls, la., continued it through his
college years at the University of
Missouri and the University" of
Iowa, was briefly city editor of
the Iowa City Press Citizen and
reporter on the Des Moines
Register and Tribune. I
In l!i2H, a year after his gradu
ation from Iowa he and his fath
er, the late l.ars h. Hlarime,
bought the McMinnville Telephone-Register.
He managed the
newspaper until 1M1 when he he
came owner and publisher. He
later established radio station
KMCM of which he was president. I
The newspaper later became the
daily News-Register after absorb-1
ing the McMinnville News Report--
From 1&45 to 1951 he also was .
co-owner of the Webster City, la.,'
Freeman-Journal, but continued
his residence here. '
Survivors include his widow,
Gayle Hunter Bladine; two daugh
ters. Patricia Ann and Mrs. Phil-
ip McLean: one son. William
Lars; and a brother, Philip N.,
editor of the News-Register.
JAPAN WON'T BLY l'.S.
TOKYO Thp Japanese
Cabinet Friday officially endorsed
a previously disclosed decision
not to buy U.S. surplus farm
products this year. The Cabinet
action paves the way for the re
opening of stalled Japanese-Australian
trade talks.
B52 Jets
Fly Globe
Non-Stop
3 Boeing Bombers
Make Flight in
45 Hours
XIARCH AIR FORCE BASE.
Calif. Wi Three Air Force B52
Stratofortresses. able to carry
the hydrogen bomb, completed the
first jet bomber nonstop round
Ihe-world flight at 10:19 a.m. Fri
day.
The mammoth planes, refueling
in the air. made the historic 24..
325-mile flight in the unofficial
time of 45 hours, 19 minutes, at an
average speed of 525 miles an
hour. '
This was less than half the 94
hours. 1 minute required by the
propellor-driven B50, Lucky Lady
II, on the first nonstop globe
girdling journey in 1949.
Take Off Secretly
The Boeing-built planes took off
in utmost secrecy from Castle
Air Force Base, near Xlerced,
Calif., at 1 p.m. Wednesday. It
was not until Thursday night that
word leaked out they were on a
round-the-world flight.
The Air Force said a fourth
plane, following a previously pre
pared plan, left the formation over
Africa and landed in England "on
schedule."
Glinting in the warm sun, the
sweptwing bombers whistled by in
formation over the Xlarch Air
Force Base air strip crowded with
relatives of the crewmen, on Air
Force band, four truckloads of
newsmen and airmen crowded on
lop of hangars.
The planes, trailing Mack ex
haust fumes, then broke formation
and led by Ma). Gen. Archie J.
Old Jr., commander of the 15th
Air Force, in the first plane,
touched down within 80 seconds
of each other.
Met by Gen. LeMay
The crews were met by Cch.
Curtis E. LeMay, commander in
chief of the Strategic Air com
(Continued on Page 5, Column 5)
Russia, China
Vow to Guard
Arab Nations
MOSCOW Ml The Soviet Un
ion and Communist China prom
ised Friday night to "protect" the
Near and Middle East countries!
from any "aggression and inter
ference in their affairs' from the
Eisenhower doctrine.
The declaration was made in a
2.000-word communique signed by
Red China s Premier Chou hn-lai
and Premier Bulgnnin of Russia.
"The governments of the Soviet
Union and the Chinese People's
Republic resolutely condemn this
nolicv of the United States" the
Kisenhower Doctrine, the com
muniquc said.
"They are prepared to continue
to give any necessary support to
the peoples of the Near and Mid
dle East in order to avert aggres
sion and interference into the af
fairs of the countries of that re
gion."
New Liquor
m ill ?i I
The new membership of the Oregon I.lqoor (left to right) Ituirh R. Klrkpatrlrk, lhanon, the
Control rommlMion go! together with Governor new chairman: Martin II. Buchanan, Milton-Free-
Robert Holmes Friday morning when the an- water, and Barney I.ucas, Gearhort, gel official
nounrrment fame that the old board was being notice of their appointment from the Governor.
lfWv3 Here the new members, lacludiof (Capital Journal
8J0 l8:,n3
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Holmes Appoints
Entire New 3 - Man
State Liquor Body
No Break Sighted
By Negotiators in
Senate Deadlock
'Several Plans9
Remain' to Be
Discussed
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
Associated Press Writer
Negotiators in the dispute over
organization of the Oregon Senate
reported Friday that "no break is
in sight."
The dispute, which has prevent
ed the five-day-old Legislature
from functioning, is a battle for
control between Republicans and
Democrats over the Senate presi
dency and control of the 20 com
mittees. Sens. Lee Ohmart, Salem, and
Philip S. Lowry, Medford, Repub
lican members o the six-man no
gotiating committee, said Friday
morning that the committee has
found no solution. Rut they added
that the six would meet through
out the day "with several areas
of discussion yet to be explored.
The Democratic negotiators
agreed that was the case. The
other negotiators are Sens. Alfred
H. Corbctt and Ward Cook, both
o.' Portland, and Harry Boivin
Klamath Falls, all Democrats;
and Carl H. Francis IR). Dayton.
There have been 45 ballots on
the presidency, with 15 Senate Re
publicans supporting Warren Gill,
Lebanon, and the IS Democrats
voting for Walter Pearson, Port
land. Oregon doesn't have a lieuten
ant governor, so the Senate presi
dent is first in line of succession
to the governor.
Pearson claimed election on a
15-14 ballot Wednesday when a
Republican was absent, but he
abandoned his claim Thursday.
Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton
ruled late Thursday that Pearson
had been elected, but Pearson:
said he still wouldn't accept on
the basis of that ballot. I
Republicans hotly disputed the I
opinion of Thornton, who is a
Democrat. They claimed that
both parties made a binding
agreement that 16 votes would be
required for election.
After Pearson announced that
he wouldn't accept on the basis
of the 15-14 ballot, he emphasized
that 'he's still a candidate.
The Senate then voted unani
mously that 10 votes would be
necessary for election.
The problem of dividing com
mittee control remained a knotty
one.
The Democrats' two latest pro
posals provide that they get the
presidency. One would give the
Democrats the first choice of five
committees, the Republicans the
Commissioners Appointed
Olympia
next five, and then each party
would choose one at a time.
The other new Domocratic offer
would give the Democrats the
first four and the sixth choices.
The Republicans would get
choices 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10. After
that, the choices would alternate.
The Republicans have said both
proposals are unacceptable. .
State Lags in
Hospital Care,
Session Hears
Legislature Urged by
Dr. Menninger to
Boost Funds
(See picture on pane 5, gee. 1)
Oregon is seriously lugging in re
quirements for the care and treat-
mcnt of the 5,000 Daticnts in its
siaie hospitals, a national author
ity in the field of psychiatry told
me legislature Jvriday.
Speaking to the House and Sen
ate and crowded ca lories. Dr.
William C. Mcnnlnger, director of
the Menningcr Foundation of To-
peka, Kansas, urged the legisla
ture to appropriate more money to
enlarge Hs personnel and facilities
dealing with the mentally ill.
Dr. Mcnninger said Oregon
snould receive a federal grant to
start a research project designed
to improve diagnosis and treat
ment of it9 hospital population.
He urged the hiring of an out
standing psychiatrist to head up the
state s hospital facilities, with au
thority to hire trained therapists,
psychologists and other personnel.
Uc said Oregon now has only
Ihrcc occupational therapists in
the state hospitals.
Warning against a consolidated
administration of penal and men
tal institutions, Dr. Mcnninger de
plored conditions he said he found
in the stale hospitals.
He said they were 40 per cent
overcrowded, and allowances for
food and clothing arc extremely
low according to standards of other
states, notably Kansas.
The speaker said Kansas, a pio
neer state in psychiatric trcalment.
has the largest ratio of recoveries
of any state. He said Kansas
spends four times as much as Ore
gon for psychiatric treatment,
while Oregon has a high rate of re
lapses.
Photo)
v V J
2 Displaced,
Williams
Quits
By JAMF.S D. OLSON :
Capital Journal Writer
An entire new Oregon slat
liquor control commission was
named by Governor Robert D,
Holmes Friday consisting of Hugh
R. Kirkpatrick. Lebanon, chair
man, and Martin H. Buchanan,
Milton-Freewater, both Demo
crats; and Barney Lucas, Gear
hart, Republican.
They replace Bruce Williams,
alem, chairman; E. Riddel
Lage, Hood River, and Lowell
Seaton, Albany.
Has Williams Resignation
The governor said he had the
resignation of Williams on his desk
which he had accepted and as
sumed that the resignations of the
other two members of the former
board were on the way. The en
tire old board was in eastern Ore
gon conducting hearings.
The future of Liquor Adminis
trator William H. Baillie, Salem,
was not determined at the press
conference, the governor saying
that 1 am not telling the new
commission what to do but I think
if I were in their shoes there
would be a new administrator."
The governor said that he was .
giving no special instructions to ,
the members of the new board, .
declaring that when he appointed
any board he expected them to .
formulate policies and carry on ;
the work. i.. ....v
Kirkpatrick Lebanon Native .
The new chairman is a native
of Lebanon and was a member of
tho liquor commission, under ap
pointment by tho late Governor
Earl Sncll from 1943 to 1!M7.
He has been a Ford dealer for
45 years, a director of the Cascade
Plywood Corporation for 11 years.
a member of the board of direc
tors of Ihc First National Bank
of Lebanon for 20 years and a
member of the Oregon and Na
tional Automobile Dealers associ- '
alion.
He is a veteran of the naval air
service of World War I. He was
married to the former Ferris Cal-
lavan, Dec. 18, 1920, and they
have one daughter, Nancy.
Buchanan, who lives in Milton-
Frecwater, was born in Wasco
county. He has been active in the
Oregon Farm bureau, on hoard of
directors of Walla Walla Grain
Growers; a Mason, and a mem
ber of the F.Iks.
He has been engaged In ranch
ing operations since graduating
from the University of Washington
except for service in World War II.
I. urns a Republican
Lucas, the lone Republican on
the new hoard, was born in Los
Angeles. In 19:19 he purchased the
Gearhart hotel, later developed
Gearhart Palisades residential
area and also bought the Sam
Heed holdings and developed Ne
ahkahnio Woods, beach and golf
course and is now developing the
Surf Pines property north of Gear
hart. He is a member of the Mult
nomah club, the Areo club, Uni
versity club, F.Iks. Oregon Stats
Real Estate Board and a prom
inent golfer. He is married and
has a son and daughter, the for
mer in Hivercrest grammar school
and the daughter, attending Lin
coln nigh school, both in Portland.
ISewa in Rricf
For Friday, Jan. 18, 1957
NATIONAL
Seattle Union Olliecr
Defies Probers Sec. 1, P. 1
B.12 Jcls Complete
Non-stop Global Hop Sec. 1, P. 1
LOCAL
First Hungarian
Refugees to Live in
Salem Arrive Sec. 1, P. 5
STATE
Holmes Appoints New
Liquor Commission Sec. 1, P. 1
U. S. Funds Granted For
Woodburn Armory Sec. I, P. 1
FOREIGN
Khrushchev Praises
Stalin as 'Model' Sec. 1, P. 10
SPORTS
Nortii vs. South
Tonijht Sec. 2. P. 1
Pacific at Willamette
Tonight .... Sec. 2. P. I
RF.GUI.AR FEATURES
Amusements Sec. 1, P. 3
Editorials Sec. 1. P. 4
locals Sec. 1. P. S
Society Sec. 1, P. 0.7
Comics Sec. 2. P. 4
Television Sec. 2. P. 5
Want Ads Sec. 2. P. 6.7.8,9
Markets Sec. 2, P. ft
Personal Problems Sec. 2. P. 5
Crossword Puizle, Sec. 2, P. 4
School Sec. 2, P. J