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69th Year, No. 27 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 31, 1957
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State Senate
Probe Set on
Assessments
Public Invited to
Protest at 2nd
Of Hearings
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
Associated Press Wriler
The Oregon Senate's Assessment
and Taxation Committee Thursday
The Tas Commission's program
of reappraisal of all property also
has resulted in higher home taxes
in many cases.
Meanwhile, the House Taxation
Committee announced it would
vote Friday on legislation to en
act a 3 per cent sales tax. Since
the committee has a 6-3 Demo
cratic majority, it is expected fo
reject the legislation, and then set
ordered a full-scale investigation ! about 'indinS was t0 boost
nf ascoscmpnt nrartirrvQ thai have j v-UIl,e locnuia.
caused home owners to protest
loudly against their property tax
increases.
The committee announced that
two public hearings would be held
Members of both houses got
stern warnings Thursday that
they must submit their bill-drafting
requests to the legislative
counsel by next Thursday. If they
here on the nights of Feb. 4 and i don l. they won t ke able to in
11, troducc their bills.
First for Listening :
At the first one, Samuel B. Stcw
nrl, chairman of the state Tax
Commission and head or its prop
erty tax section, will explain the
property tax picture. The public
will be invited to listen, but not
to speak. ,
At the second hearing, the com
mittee will listen to any one who
wants to protest.
The investigation was sparked
by Sens. Walter .1. Pearson (D),
Portland, chairman of the com
mittee, and Rudic Wilhelm R .
Portland, who was chairman of
the committee in 1955.
They said that higher taxes on
homes, which have raised a storm
nf protest n Portland. Lane Coun
ty and other areas, are the result
of action taken by the Legislature
two years ago to make home taxes
uniform with taxes on utilities and
industry.
Retires
Supreme Court Justice Stanley
Reed resigned today effective
Feb. 25. Reeif, 72, a Democrat,
served 19 years on the high
court. (AP Wlrcphotn)
Justice Reed Resigns
From Supreme Court
Interim Group
Urges Election
Laws Changes
By JAMES D. OLSON
Capital Journal Wriler
A constitutional amendment pro
vlding for appointment of the state
superintendent of public instruc
tion rather than by election was
proposed Thursday in a package
of bills recommended by the legis
lative interim committee on elec
tions.
Another proposed constitutional
amendment would make all coun
ty officers subject to appointment
except for members of the county
court or board of county commis
sioners. Still another tightens up the elec
tion code by requiring a majority
of the total number of persons
voting at an election to pass a
constitutional amendment in place
of Ihc present requirement for a
majority of votes on the measure.
A change in the law allowing
filing of absentee ballots up lo 5
p.m. of Ihc day before an election
in place of five days before the
election is also in the package.
All the bills dealing with elec
tion law changes were introduced
at Ihc request of the legislative
interim committee on elections.
This committee held a number of
hearings throughout the state dur
ing the past two years. However,
none of the members of the com
mittee is back in the present le
islalure.
The house local government
committee introduced a bill cor
recting provisions in the law de
clared unconstitutional relating to
county surveyors. The- bill also
provides for statutory qualifica
tions for county surveyors in con
formity with the constitutional
amendment passed by the voters
at the last general election.
While House Has
No Comment on
Successor
WASHINGTON m President
Eisenhower Thursday accepted
the resignation of Supreme Court
Justice Stanley Reed, effective
Feb. 25.
Reed, 72, is a Democrat. He
has served on the highest judicial
tribunal 19 years.
The naming of his successor will
be Eisenhower's fourth appointee
on the Supreme Court.
Eisenhower s other appointees
are Chief Justice Warren and As
sociate Justices Harlan and Bren-
nan.
The White House said it had
nothing to announce at this time
regarding a . successor.
Reed turned in a letter of resig
nation, dated Thursday, saying he
wished to retire from aclive serv
ice.
He is taking advantage of a pro
vision ol law which allows him to
retire at full pay and subject to
call for occasional service on the
court if this is desired.
Eisenhower, in a letter to Reed,
said he was taking the opportunity
"to tender my congratulations on
your long and splendid record in
public service."
He also praised Reed s dedi
cation and devotion that are so
much a part of your reputation."
NW Thawing:
Roads Slick;
Snow on Way
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
There were no below-zero--temperatures
in the Pacific North
west early Thursday for the first
time in more than a week and
there was even a spring like thaw
in places. '
Rising temperatures brought
heavy snow lo parts of the Inland
Empire, with 10 inches reported
in the Idaho Panhandle.
The mercury went up lo 38
Thursday morning at Walla Walla
and it was 42 at Cascade Locks.
The Weather Bureau forecast
rain and snow showers in inland
areas and said the temperature
may reach as high as 40' in the
Inland Empire Friday afler days
of bitter cold.
Coastal areas were told to ex
pect a little snow and rain, with
overnight low of from 33 to 36
and maximums Friday of from
40 to 46.
In Portland and other Willam
ette Valley points the tempera-
lure rose above freezing for the
first time since Jan. 17.
The thawing, which began late
Wednesday, caused slick roads
and highways in some areas.
Worst spots were along the Wil
lamette River and cast of Port
land where cold winds swept down
the Columbia Gorge.
Ike Seeks
Alien Law
Revisions
Bids Congress Up
Immigration
By 65,000
WASHINGTON Wl President
Eisenhower Thursday asked
changes in the immigration laws
so it will be easier lo give haven
lo refugees "who have fled or in
the future flee" from Communist
tyranny.
In a 2,000-word special r.iessagc
lo Congress, the President called
also for general revisions of the
law to allow about 65,000 more
immigrants to come to this coun
try each year. The present an
nual quota is 154,857 and is based
on Ihe 1020 census. Eisenhower
asked quotas based on the 1950
census.
Asks Quota Revamping
Eisenhower also- called for a
redistribution of the immigration
quota "in proportion to Ihe actual
immigration" from 1924 through
July 1, 19551
An effect of this would be to in
crease the number of southern
Europeans and Mediterranean
peoples permitted to emigrate to
the United States.
This is because the number of
immigrants from that area has
been greater in recent years than
in the earlier period on which
quotas are now based.
Eisenhower said, loo, that Con
gress should pool the unused
quota numbers for Europe, Africa,
Asia and the Pacific area. These
would then be available on a first
come, first served basis without
regard to where a person was
born.
This similarly would open the
way for admitlancc of additional
southern Europeans since present
ly the unused quotas have been
those of northern European coun
tries.
Would Admit Orphans
Further; Eisenhower said, pro
visions should be made for the an
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Near Schools: Six Killed
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Rackets Prohe
Help Promised
By Teamsters
Officials Who Dodged
Queries Before Now
Will Cooperate
WASHINGTON Wl A new Sen
ale committee empowered lo in
vestigate racketeering in labor
unions and industry had a prom
ise Thursday of cooperation from
Teamsters Union officials who re
fused answers lo a previous Sen
ate group.
Frank Brcwsler, president of
the Western Conference of jfeam-
sters, and Nugent Lafoma. secre
tary, wired a pledge of full co
operation, Brewster was cited for con
tempt by the former commitlec
for refusing lo say, among other
things, whether he got union
money outside his salary. He con
tended the original group lacked
authority to probe labor unions
a power given specilically to the
new committee.
Sen. Ives (R-NY) said Thursday
the newly created committee will
expose crookedness "wherever we
may find it, cither in labor or
industry
The bipartisan eight-man group
is expected to name Sen. McClcl-
lan (D-Ark) as lis chairman, and
Ives as vice chairman. The Sen
ate voted unanimously Wednes
day to place the inquiry in its
hands,
Vice President Nixon, who ap
pointed the members, must set
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nual admission of orphans since the dale for its first meeting. Mc-
DA Undecided
About Retrial
For St. Clair
Whether a new trial will be or
dered in the case of the Stale of
Oregon against Jack St. Clair,
local agent for the American News
Co., may depend upon the reading
by District Attorney Hatlie Bratzel
of Ihe pockbook entitled "A Dame
Called Murder." He is acuscd of
selling indecent literature. '
The first trial conducted last
December by District Attorney
Kenneth Brown resulted in a
"hung jury." More recently, an
other trial in which Claude Cum-
mings, Salem News Agency opera
tor, was the defendant, resulted in
an acquittal. In this instance the
book involved was "Men Into
Beasts."
Asked concerning a report that
pressure was being brought against
Ihe district attorney to halt fur
ther prosecutions because of the
expense involved. Miss Bralzell
said that she had not been sub
jected to pressure of any sort. "In
any event further action will de
pend upon my own reaction in the
matter, at the same lime taking
into consideration what has gone
before."
Meanwhile Mrs. John Pfeifer,
Silverton. housewife who w a s
largely instrumental in providing
a Marion county grand jury that
returned indictments with various I at 8 a.m. The mill was closed
types of materials, says she will : down at the first of the week
not abandon her crusade- against ' by freezing weather,
the sale of "indecent literature." j The renewed operation at first
Mrs. -Pfeifer has in her posses-; will affect only the green end of
sion a letter from H. J. Simon. I the mill. Production on the dry
resumed at a later
Ply Mill Will
Reopen Friday
DALLAS (Special) The Wil
lamette Valley Lumber Co. ply
wood mill will resume operation
Friday morning with the day shift
there are many Americans eag
er to adopt -children from
abroad." 7A.. w
A number of other administra
tive and technical changes were
requested. They include:
1, Eliminate inspection of aliens
arriving from Alaska and Hawaii.
2. Repeal the law's requirement
that aliens must specify their race
and ethnic classification when ap
plying for entry permits.
3. Drop inequitable provisions
concerning the status of Asian
spouses and of adopted and other
children."
4. Eliminate the requirement for
fingerprinting of aliens on tem
porary visits. The Russians and
other Communist countries have
made a propaganda hullabaloo
about this provision, contending it
insults Europeans, who arc finger
printed only for criminal cases.
Woman Killed
In House Blaze
At Hood River
HOOD BIVEfl Ml - Mrs. Bob
Orcutt was killed and her bus
band and their six-mnnth-old son
critically burned early Thursday
when a fire flashed through their
one-room home near here.
Firemen said the blaze appar
ently caused by an exploding oil
heater reduced the little bouse to
aslies.
Clcllan and Ives Indicated they
expect lie will call the meeting
600n.-J'..-.-.r!ii. -:."-
Members said privately tncy
expect the new committee to slart
its probe with anolhcr look at af
fairs of the Teamsters Union, on
which the Senate Investigations
subcommittee already has started
hearings.
Flood Relief
Speeded Into
Sixof60Men
Rescued From
Stranded Train
CHAMA, N.M. (UP)-The lirst
six of some Ml trainmen stranded
on snowswepl Cumbres Pass since
Saturday arrived here in Army
Weasels today and reported one
man slill on Ihe pass was feared
lo have pneumonia.
The six rescued men. bearded
and lired but in good spirits, said
all remaining with two trains
stalled in snow along the pass
were in ' no danger and comfort
able.
But brakeman AI Locke, Salida
Colo., said the sick man, identified
as Carl Gilbert, a bulldozer oper
ator from C'hnma, was running a
temperature and quite ill.
Gilbert was one of 2.1 men
bunked in a section hand bouse
alop the pass. This group won't be
rescued until l-ridny.
WILLIAMSON, W. Va. Main business Blrett of Williamson, coal
mining center -of 9,000 population, lies under water at peak, of
Tug Klver flood. Eitlmaled 75 per cent ot city wa under water,
AP Wirephoto)
3y THE ASSOCIATED I'll ESS
Numerous towns in Ihe Anna
lachian Mountain coal mining
area lay prostrate Thursday, stun
ned by floodwaters that took 12
lives, left thousands homeless and
caused untold millions of dollars
damage.
'he floods, sweeping out of the
mountains :nto southeastern Ken
tucky, West Virginia, southern
Virginia and cast Tenncsso. may
be the worst in the region's history.
President Kisonliower lias des
ignated flooded eastern Kentucky
'major disaster area and or
dered use of whatever lederal
funds are necessary lor relief.
Ihc President acted in response
to a telegram from Kentucky
Gov. A. B. Chandler. Gov. Cecil
Underwood of West Virginia also
joined with .Chandler in asking
for immediato aid.
Kentucky has 8 dead, West Vlr-
gina 3, and Virginia l.
The Army, Red Cross, Civil Air
Patrol and other agencies worked
together in ferrying porlable gen
erators, water purifiers anil ty
phoid vaccine into stricken areas
Weather forecasters warned of
new rains today or tomorrow and
again Saturday or Sunday. Leaden
skies stretched from the Kentucky
and West Virginia border lo Ten-
nessee.
Twins Share Mumps, Sore Jaws
Prince Goes
tt !sion a letter Irom H. J. Simon, i ine mill, r
lllTO I lOSlllta I ipoflal inspector of Washington, end will be
iU " "1 D.C, in which Ihe book "Men In-, date.
WASHINGTON Ml L i 1 1 1 c tu Beasts" is regarded as nonmail-: Two hundred and : JO men were t
Prince Mashhur of Saudi Arabia, able. .laid off when the mill closed
limping but wearing a wide, dis-j
aiming 5IIllie, Cllll-iru ndiu-I nv nvnr wrrn rriAf L'C
Heed Army Hospital Thursday for HMIiMIIV WMI I llr,?
a medical check up.
The 3'i-year-old prince,
came In this country
father. King Sand, for
it, has suffered since birth from
partial paralysis of his right hand
and leg.
President Kisenhowor arranged
for some of the country's best
military physicians, stationed at DAYTON. Ohio-iL'P) Mrs. "without funds and will be unable
Walter Reed, to examine t he Cvnthia Cnrrnditll, a 23-year-old to be there
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Salem. Eugene Balk
On Bus Eiiie Subsidy
Salem and Eugene city officials over the bus line or providing a
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When told she would have to
one seems to want mc" was due I spend one more night in Ihc Day-
(o be returned lo Richmond. Ind..ton jail, .Mrs. inrranuu ruonea
Indav to face bigamv charges for her back and exclaimed "oh, no,"
the iotest of her seven marriages. 1 complaining of the steel bunks and
The attractive wom who ; Tuesday
sa,a- .,., , -. M0-ris llie.-o. Toe IBrre o io to
Detective Sgt. J.H. Pickard said )et y v oll nrrjago
Mrs. Corradilti signed a statement mixi,p
Wednesday admitting she had. jWfis said i,e wouid stick by
taken part in a bigamist 'marriage Mrs Corraditti, despite her past,
in Richmond. . t hut Fultz returned to Wilmington
Also due here was the woman's; College any was unavailable for
mother, Mrs. Evelyn Boyd. San comment.
Diego, who called Wednesday. Authorities said Mrs. Corraditti i
nifht to say she wanted toijy'ip obtained only four divorces and
her daughter. thai her .till legal marriage was
Another call was receded from to Benny Corraditti, 2". in Knkslon
W.M. Vilcs. Oklahoma City, who Ga.. in I5M. Her latent two are
, said h u ber father but wai, bigamist marnajci, Uicy laid.
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meeting here this morning lo study
City iransil Lines future in both
cities agreed the bus firm was in
financial distress but were not in
clined to give Ihe company any
aid which might cost (he cities
money. '
The opinion was summed up by
Eugene Mayor John iMcGinly, who
presided at the meeting, when he
said: "We are not particularly in
lereslcd in picking up the check."
Mayors and council members of
both cities along with their city
managers, attorneys and other of
ficials were present for the meet
ing which began at It a.m. and
was to continue through the afternoon.
Much of Hie morning's discus
sion revolved around Ihe question
of a city's responsibility for mass
transportation.
Although those present admitted
that the transit firm was in dire
financial straits, they question the
effect on the public.
Salem Mayor Robert White re
called that a public meeting on the
cancellation of night service
brought a nearly tilled council
chamber but that only lluee or
four were present when Ihc council
actually look action
Alter Ihe night service was eli
minated I didn't receive a call.
be said
The Eugene mayor said Ihe
com pi a nils regarding night bus eh
minalion Ihere came from about
28 persons.
The idea of Ihe city's taking
subsidy also met with a cold
shoulder from the council mem
bers of both cities. .
Snlem Alderman E. E. Roth said
'I don'l like the idea of owning
Hie bus company and f also don't
like the idea of subsidy.". -(Continued
on Page S Column 1)
Weather Details
Maximum vttrrriav. 19! minimum
I oris y, 37. Total 24-hour iirrrlplla
tlon: .01; for mnnih: 2.41: normal,
V64. Reason nrrrlpllallon, 11.13; nor
mal, 23,99. Itfvrr hfliht. -.2 nf a foot.
(Report by V. ft. Heather llureaii.)
Metropolitan
To Construct
Salem Office
An ultramodern office building,
containing some 4,000 square feet
of space on a single lloor Is to
be constructed at the northwest
corner of Center and North Cottage
streets,
When completed the building will
house . Ilia district ullices of (he
Metropolitan Life Insurance com
pany. It will cost, approximately
$50,000, although the exact ligurc
will not be known until bids have
been received.
The site, which Is L-shapcd has
a 1 10-foot fronlage on Center street
and Mi feet on Codngc. It is cur
rently occupied by two older type
residences, owned by Charles W.
and Kslher M. Brock.
The land has been leased from
the Brocks for 25 years by ,loe K.
and Mabel OeWilt, who will
finance Ihe building and lease it
lo the Metropolitan company.
The Salem ollice of Ihe Metro
politan Life Insurance company
has been located on Ihe third floor
of the Masonic building for the
past 30 years. William H. Vcllon
is the local manager,
40-60 Students
On Grounds
Injured
VAM MT1VG nnv.r in A I.,. :
transport plane and a jet fighter
collided Thursday on test flights
nign over me aan rernanao vai- ..
Icy, killing five men aboard tin
planes and at .least one school- .
child. -
Two or three score more school
children were injured by the fall-
ing wreckage.
Pieces of Ihe big transport, a
DC7, showered down In flames oil
three schools. Pour aboard the
airliner and the pilot of the jet "
were among the dead.
Jet Falls In Canyon ;
The jet came down in a can-
yon. , .. -
Both planes were on test flights
at the time of the collision.
The schools are all within three
blocks of each other in the small
community of 'Pacoima east of
here.
Pacoima Junior 'High, whore
there are 1,890 students, was worst .
hit. Parts of the large plane plum
meted down on an athletic field
where gym classes were being
conducted.
75 Boys Playing .
One observer said it was a
flaming main section of the trans
port fcH on the playing field,
where there were 75 boys at
games.
"The boys fell as though they
were hit with a scythe," one.
teacher said. ,
The area was roped off. Police ,
appealed to spectators to stay
away. . : ..
A number of children were -re-,
ported laid out on the grass and "
covered with blankets avraitintf
(ho arrival, of ambulances.
Torrabolla Elementary School."
adiacenf with 918 'Student'. itlsnA
was hit by pieces, as was Hflddon
Klemcnlary School, three blocks ..
away.
The transport, a four-e n g 1 n e
DC'7, was on a lest flight out of ;
Douglas Aircraft Co's field at
nearby Santa Monica. The com
pany said there were four men
aboard, including the pilot, Wil
liam Carr, and the co-pilot, Arch
ie Twitchell.
The jet apparently was an F89
Scorpion on a production test
flight out of Palmdale Airport in
the Antelope Valley. Northrup Air
craft Co. said the plane apparently ..
was one pf Us craft and two men
were aboard.
One man, Curtis A. Adams, 28, .
of Palmdale, a civilian radar ob
server for Northrop, parachuted. ;
He suffered face burns and shock
and was brought to St. Joseph
Hospital In nearby Burbank..
Forest Service .
To Add Camping
Picnic Facilities
PORTLAND Ul - The U, S.
Forest Service Thursday an
nounced plans to increase camp
ing and picnicking facilities in
Oregon and Washington In the
next five years.
,1. Herbert Stone, regional for
ester here, said that 419 new
camping and picnicking grounds, (
which will accommodate 8.75.1 ad
ditional families, are planned for
Ihe two slates by 1962.
- The existing 909 camps and
grounds also arc to be repaired.
He said that recreation visits
lo national forests of Oregon and
Washington hit an all-time high n(
5't million in 1935 compared wilh
3'i million in 1946.
RI.UEPRINTS FimiEl?
fl Sweden Reveals Biiss
jllSpyiiig on A-Shcltcrs
JT -, J STOCKHOLM ii Security of-1 The engineering firm which em-
Jerry and Cary Sloan
Iwln sonn of Mr. and and (oilchl llimr )n hurl. The twins, 8, have
Mrs. Frank Slnan, 395 South lMh, rrr lhln( fr rfrr (i,Pr, hut Ihe (irli haven't rriught
rrrrthin( didn't have In rome ,li pairs Thursday
Her both were hit Willi mumps. Here thry
(ouch) show Ihalrlwo eaiei are worse than one,
the mump
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ficials said Thursday a large-scale
Soviet attempt to probe the sec-
rels of Sweden s underground de
fenses ngninst A-bomb attack is
involved in this country s kilc.st
spy plot.
A 32-year-old Turkish Armenian
engineer, Hrdros .nriaryan, nns
been jailed. He is awaiting trial
next week lor "grand espionage
in favor of a foreign power." Two
Swdish engineers, described a
his employers, have been charged
wilh grnss carelessness in handl
ing secret documents.'1
Security officers said there Is
no doubt Ihe foreign power in
volved is Russia.
They said evidence lo be pre
sented at Ihc trial includes 50 min-
ulrs nf films nf meetings between
Zarlaryan and Soviet embassy nf
licials, taken by Swedish security
ponce.
ployed Zarlaryaii was engaged In
work for the government s fortifi
cation administration.
This is the government depart
ment which is building n country
wide network of underground
atomic bomb-proof nnval baes
and air bases.
Security officers said Xatlaryan
had handed Soviet Russians blue-
'prints and information nf under-
S . I .. .,l.l,la1.nu,nlE
KMitiiNi Minimi y i-sinuiii vm.-i
and fortifications of the utmost
Importance to Sweden's defense
against an invasion.
The prosecutor's Indictment
consisted nf one pnh'lc and one
secret part. Most nf Ihe trial was
expected to be held in secret In
nrder not lo disclose Ihc precise
extent of Ihe damage done to
Swedish security
News in Brief i
For Thursday, January SI, 1957
NATIONAL
Bodwell Denies Grimes
Killing - Sec. 2, P. 8
Federal Aid Rushed
To Flood Zone Sec. t, P. 1
LOCAL
Pedcslrlan Death Hate
Down . . .. Sec. 2, P. S
House Vole on Sales
Tax Due Friday Sec. 1, P. 2
STATE .
Senate Group Slates
Assessments Probe Sec. 1, P. 1
Sweden Savs Russ Spy Sodght
A-Shelter Data sec. I, f. i
SPORTS
Baylor, Machamcr Stage
Scoring Due sec. , i: i
District Prep Games .Sec. 4, P, 1
REGULAR FEATURES
Amusements Sec. 1, P. 2
Editorials Sec, 1, P. 4
Locals .-See. 1, P. 5
Society Sec. 1, P. -7-8-9
Comics Sec. 3. P. 10
Television Sec. 2, P. 4
Want Ads See. 2, P. 4-3
Markets See. 4, P. 3
rwnihu rilv See. 9. P. 4
Crossword Punle ... Sec. 3, P. W
Food i.
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