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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1957)
Tig 2-fcSection I -At Unexpected Race Visit Britain's Queen Elizabeth walks with the Duke of Nor folk at Hurst Park race meeting In England yesterday. Paying an unannounced visit to the races with Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, the 30-year-old monarch gave no sign she Is disturbed over rumors of a rift be tween herself and the Duke of Edinburgh. (AP Wlrcpholo) ABOARD ROYAL YACHT, Queen, Duke Plan 2nd Honeymoon LONDON (UP) -Queen Eliza beth 11 ignored today published rumors of a "rill" wllh the Duke of Edinburgh and let It be known she will join him Saturday aboard the royal yncht Britannia. They will spend a two day, strictly private "second honey moon in Portuguese waters. Buckingham Palace announced the Queen's plans as the British Dress broke its solf-lmnoscd cen sorship on reports of a flroyol rift and as the Daily Mirror appealed lo I'rlncc Philip lo ny home Irom Gibraltar for a family reunion. The Queen will be flying to Portugal for a state visit, but the slate visit will wait while she goes aboard the Britannia for a week end with the Duke in the romantic Bay of Sctubal, 20 miles south of Lisbon. The Duke, who waved goodbye to the Queen Inst Oct. 15 when he set out on a world voyage, will meet her Saturday at Monlijo Airport near Lishon. "The Queen and the Duke will spend the next two days in pri vacy aboard the Britannia." the palace spokesman said. "Whether they go ashore or not Isn't known because what they do during Sat urday and Sunday will be com pletely private. Population to Bel70Million Friday, 11 a jn. WASHINGTON (UP) The pop ulation oi inc uniicn Mates win i rm wo minion a lew minuies aner ii' . , ice i-riH-... Thai's a guess, of course. Rut ! oernlic leadership, favor a conlin It's an educated guess and nP "'I'lon of the main features of the that probablv would prove quite Cl,l( war b"' ,hat "lhls lo"s no1 accurate if Ihe government had exclude negotiating some partial the facilities to count every Amer-j ! disarmament." lean al that precise moment. . "'V'0 convention was Ink ... , . uig tins action. Hungarian pickets In lieu o an accura e counting ,.,,,, ,r hm. pul5j , " , p of noses, the Census Bureau dc-,,., , , ponds on a huge electric clock ,n , Sl wh , ,,,,! , the lobby of the Commerce De-, , M M ( , K.k(I" parinieni Dunning ne.e nuicn gearco to rccrn averages nnu , UUtIS Ullf IU HIV ,'IF,UI01,IM, every 12 seconds Shnrtly after It a m. Friday, the clock will pass the 170 million mark. Dr. Robert W. Burgess, census dirocolr, will commemo rate Ihe occasion by posing be fore Ihe clock for photographers. Every eight seconds a blue light nn Ihe clock denotes a birth. Every 21 seconds a purple light denotes a dealh. Every two min utes a green light heralds the ar rival nl an immigrant, Every 24 minutes a red light announces the departure of an emigrant. A separate set of gears flashes a while light every 12 seconds and operates a numbering device to indicate a net increase ol one in the population. SALEM'S ONLY DAY and NIGHT STATION MM9 SALtm Music Newi Jporfs farm BroorJcojfs 1390Kct.-MAS.Don l w v "".'""Tj 'But it is certain they will live aboard the Britannia." The spokesman said the report from Lisbon that the royal couple would spend the first two days of the Portugal visit at the country home of the Duke of Pnlmella was incorrect. The Duke of Palmella was reported to have refurnished his estate in anticipation of their visit. HUNGARIANS PICKET U. S. Commie Party Decides To Retain Its Present Form By JAMES DEVLIN NEW YORK wi The Ameri can Communist party worked in convention on future policy ques tions today after rejecting propos als that it reorganize into a non party" political action group. the final form of the policy res- olulion is e.xpccled to determine whether Ihe party will continue lo lollow the Moscow Marxist Leninist line or adopt a more in dependent "American road to so cialism. The convention decided after Iwn hours of discussion yesterday thai Ihe parly should retain its present form. Even proponents of the action association Idea went along with the majority, but they obtained agreement that the association form lie left open to further study. I ne convention also approved nn amendment to Ihe droit resolu tion. It said. "Predominant Wall i-ri mi i-i-s, wiin.se policies are forces, whose policies are u-uri-ieu in ine r.iscnnnwcr w ins ; nl n... enp .,.! r n ,(,rcw ecus thai snl.-ishwl i..,i,ni ,hc ,,., ,,,.,., ,h(, uU ENDS TOMORROW RAY ERNEST MIILAND-BORGNINE AND ttBst . -st CORDON HkIM1 yHkJ numioMimit J Floods Harass Ohio Valley Boats Rescue Scores From Soggy Homes Roads, KriilgcK, Many Small Towns Heavily Damaged in Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy weekend rains sent doz ens of creeks and rivers over their banks and left scores of res idents homeless today in parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsyl vania. No casualties were reported In the widening flood zone, but high waters yesterday caused heavy damage to roads, bridges and many small towns bordering the Ohio Itivcr and its tributaries. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Cincinnati predicted that the Ohio River would rise to within a half- loot of flood stage there by weoncsoay. More Itain on Way A bureau spokesman said addi tional rainfall expected tomorrow night or Wednesday may send' the river over its banks between Gal lipolis and Louisville. In West Virginia, slate police said Weston was the hardest hit community. It was isolated as the West Fork Itivcr crested at 22.03 feet and then began rcccd ing. The same river also went over its banks at Clarksburg, W Va., and crested at 11.45 feet or 4 'A feet above flood level. An estimat ed 100 Clarksburg families were evacuated. Ilivcrs and streams roared out of their banks in Scioto County, Ohio, marooning residents and forcing others lo flee in Ports mouth, North Moreland, Eden Park and New Boston. Portsmouth firemen used boals to rescue a number of residents from their inundated homes. All along the 45-mile route of the Monongahrla Itivcr between thc'Wcst Virginia border and Pitts burgh, communities stood by for high water. Commercial naviga tion on the river was halted. At the point where the Mononga hela and Allegheny merge at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River, a crest of 22 feet was expected today, about three feet under flood stage. In Pittsburgh Itself, the high water was expected to cover park ing wharfs along the river todny, but no major flooding was ex pected. PARLEY The pickets, described as includ ing some recent refugees from Hungary, carried placards with slogans such as "USSR, you are guilty of mass murder," and "Stop killing our people," A spokesman said the Hungarian-American Federation, an anti Communist organization, spon sored the picketing. Claude Lighlfool of Chicago and Carl Winter of Detroit, co chairmen of the convention's pre siding committee, issued a state ment saying the pickets were attempting lo "rekindle and ex tend the cold war." Proponents of the orgnoizationnl change had argued that the par ly's membership had fallen from 110.000 to 2tl.UIHl-25,nOO since 1945 under the present organization and name, and that a political ac tion group would have a wider ap peal among workers and farm ers. j,,),,, (j;1((,s. Ptior of the Dai jv u-ori,(.r Cnnimiinisl newsnaner n i Kir, i oiumuni.si ncwspapir, and a lending advocate of the change. was among those voting to retain the organization as a political parly. He said on the convention floor lhat he was subordinating his BOX OFFICE O TICKETS NOW ON SALE HARIEM GLOBETROTTERS So. Salem Hi Gym Tups., I eh. 12. S p. m. THE ST. OlAF CHOIR Tlll'ltS. I'I'B. 14th :1S P.M. Res. Srats 1.25 It 2.00 VIENNA CHOIR BOYS I HI. M.R. 8lh 8:LS P.M. Res. Scatp 2.40 & 3.20 I'm Hand Svniphnnv Tue.. March 12. g:t5 P. 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News of what transpired was carried lo a press room by Simoo (ierson, chairman of the party's press committee. He said that 3 of the approxi mately 400 delegates voted against the resolution, that 17 did not vote, and that the rest favored it. The convention ends tomorrow. Bank Will Construct Four-Slory Addition PORTLAND W A four-story, Iwo million dollar addition is going lo be built by the First Notional Bank here. The bank announced the addi tion will be constructed on a quarter block of property adjoin ing ttie firm's main office on S.W. Sixth Ave. A theater and a two story building now occupy the area. Famed Italian Enrico Caruso began his studies as a mechanical engineer and became a singer in stead in a choir in Naples. NOW SHOWING ON PETTICOAT VisiaVisiom Technicolor Spyhigh Hilarity! 1 THE III N.l S m WiaUtdak wt i THE CAPITAL' JOURNAE Man of Means His winnings now top those of Charles Van Doren. the college English instructor who two weeks ago set a record by winning S122. 000 on the NBC show, "Twenty One." Van Doren is still appear ing oo the show and can win an unlimited amount of money, Leonard defeated his. challenger. Mrs. Alice Morgan, 72, of Bris tol, R. L, who lectures throughout the country on the stock market Both Mrs. Morgan and Leonard successfully answered four parts of a complicated five-part question on the market, but Mrs. Morgan missed the final part. The question asked for the tick er symbols and stock names for issues which have nicknames among brokers. Leonard identified "Teddy Roosevelt" as Texas Gulf Producing Corp. with the sym bol TR: "Tough Guy" as Texas Gulf Sulphur with the Symbol TG; "Knockout" as Coca Cola with the symbol KO; and "Runs Batted In" as Reed Roller Bit Co. with the symbol RBI. , Sncpse Fatal MANCHESTER. N.IL HI -'Mrs. Evelyn A. Radwan, 19. died Sun day after a violent sneeze. Doctors said she suffered a cerebral hem orrhage. Call money, a familiar term In Wall Street, is a short-term loan; that is, "over-night money." WORID FAMOUS ST. OLAF'S CHOIR THURS. NIGHT ONLY 8 P.M. Wiffomeife U. Audit. All Scats Reserved Tirkels 1.25 & 2.00 on Sale at Stevens & Son NOW SHOWING All the RIOTOUS FUN of the Prize-Winning stage comecty! MARLON-.GLENtf BRANDO FORD MACHIKO KYO ThcTehauffi oftha August M.on" I,atpt World News Color Carloon anri Smith of thr flimxIiM 6 ! ' vision shows. Charles Van Doren, a 30-year-old Columbia English instructor, still going strong on another TV giveaway, Is In second place with $122,000 In winnings. (AP Wlrcpholo) Flier and Son Safe at Ranch VALE, Ore. UP)A Vale jew eler and his son, the objects of a two-state Civil Air Patrol search yesterday, were found safe at a ranch. Bud Wilks and his five-year-old son Bobby, were reported missing Saturday after they took off in a plane for a routine flight over his snow bound ranches. CAP officials of Oregon and Ida ho spoiled them yesterday at a ranch 10 miles west of the Owyhee reservoir. Wilks told the Officials that he was flagged down by ranchers and could not take off due to a dam aged propeller. CAP officials took his son back to Vale. Wilks stayed to make repairs to his plane. Free Algeria Move? DAMASCUS in ' The Syrian press said Monday formation of an Algerian free government in exile, with headquarters in Cairo or Damascus, is under "definite consideration." Only 510 N. Commtrciil St. Salvaged Ship Still Ties Up Suez Transit Hitch in Plans Delays First Attempt to Sail Canal CAIRO 11 A salvaged Egyp tian landing ship today still blocked the Suez Canal channel, delaying passage of the first ves sel seeking to transit the water way since the Suez ngnting. The 1,900-ton Italian tanker Pi aneta rode at anchor north of Is- mailia. The vessel, chartered by i Egypt to take oil from a Red Sea Costal field to the port of Suez for refining, entered the canal at Port Said Saturday. A spokesman for the U. N. sal vagc fleet clearing Ihe canal said a hitch in plans had delayed tow ing the 2,140-ton Egyptian LST Akka from the channel. The Akka was raised from the southern end of Lake Timsah, near Ismailia. The Egyptians had loaded her with concrete before she was sunk. The U. N. fleet expects to clear a channel wide enough for 10, 000-ton ships about 75 per cent of the canal traffic 8 by some time in March. The nine-nation Arab League, meanwhile, accused Western com panies of price fixing and limit ing production in Middle Eastern oil fields for their own purposes. A report by the league entitled "Oil in Arab Countries" did not name any particular Western oil compaoy. The principal firms de veloping Middle Eastern fields are U. b., British and Dutch. The report said that the West ern companies "limited Arab oil production in accordance with the request of international markets but did this according to their own interpretation." It added that the companies had fixed the price of the oil to serve their own ends. Fire Destroys Ranch House; WomanLeaps LANGELL VALLEY LH Fire early Monday, destroyed the Jack Wcimcr ranch home near this Klamath County community. Mrs. Wcimer jumped through a window of the one-story house, to safety. She was alone in the house. Before jumping, she tossed the family dachshund, Tilly, through the window. A cocker spaniel, though, sleeping in another room, was thought to have perished. Weimer and their son. Jack, had been spending the weekend with the former's brother. Russell Weimer, at Riddle. Cause of the fire was not deter mined immediately. franchised QteiTvlet dtalcri f if K OVER 180,000 l II Sawsssff if1 III :;SS::IL) CAPITOL CHEVROLET CADILLAC, Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 11, 1967 SHE'S STILL AWE Pendleton State Employe Shoots Ex- Wife 9 Times CONCORD, Calif. W An Oregon state employe was held Mondav for investigation of a charge of assault to commit mur der alter police said he admitted he walked into his divorced wife's bedroom and shot her nine times. Mrs. Eleanor Wilson, 45, lorm- erly of Imbler, Ore., and presently field womer wun ine wnua Costa County probation aepari mont, was still in critical condi tion at Kaiser Hospital Monday. She had seven bullet wounfls in her right arm, one in her chest, and one in her lower abdomen. Concord Police Chief Hon w. Orin said Jerry Dewitt Wilson, 35, Pendleton, Ore., told him he ar rived in Concord Saturday night, entered his former wife's home 1 a.m., flashed a light in her race and shot her. "He said he planned to kill him self, too. but that Mrs. Wilson begged him to think of their son," Orin said. "Wilsoo called an am bulance and we picked him up at the house." The Wilsons, married In 1952 and divorced in August, 1956, are parents of a 3'i year old son. Orin said Wilson appeared to be principally motivated by "jeal ousy of men boarders." "Her only boarders Sunday were a young woman and a boy who works at a chemical plant, stay ing here week nights but week ends at home in San Francisco," Orin said. The couple formerly lived in the San Francisco East Bay. Be fore going to Oregon he was employed in the Alameda County Nurse Vanish es From Rich Doctors Yacht OCRACOKE, N. C. (UP)-Coast Guardsmen aod .sheriff's deputies searched coastal waters and ashore today for a nurse who van ished from the yacht of a wcalthy physician on a cruise from New York. A Coast Guard plane and two boats searched in vain Sunday for the woman listed as Miss Mary Ann Scales, 33, of Bordentown, N.J., reported missing from the yacht of Dr. James T. Dodge, 45, of Ulster Park, N.Y. Sheriff Charlie J. Cahoon of Hyde County, who led a search of Ocracoke Island, said the cou ple, both divorcees, were cruising alone on Dodge's swanky, 30-foot yacht, the "Mary N." Cahoon sad Miss Scales had worked in Dodge's office as a nurse for 12 years. Dodge told authorities he dropped anchor in Ocracoke inlet Saturday evening and first missed the woman when he awoke Sun- day morning. Dodge said he at first thought she was hiding from me." j Cahoon said the woman had left her shoes on the bridge of the I yacht and was believed wearing i a blouse and shorts. She could i display this famous trademark probation department. Wilson, a World War 11 veteran, was a 1950 sociology graduate at the Uni versity of Oregon. He is an, inter viewer for the Oregon Slate Department of Employment. Accidents Kill 3 Oregomians Over Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three persons met violent over the weekend. Two others, teen-age Oregon girls, were killed in a traffic smashup near Fruit land, Idaho. Adam Mock, 61, of Klamath Falls Was killed early Sunday when his automobile collided head on with a transport truck near Klamath Falls. The truck driver was not hurt. Mrs. Nelly Foster, 7(1, died in a house fire that destroyed her Ashland home. Police said Ihe blaze "erupted when she was starting a fire in a wood stove with kerosene. Early Saturday, Francis Small wood, 23, Portland, was killed when his automobile- plunged off Canyon Road in Portland. Killed in the Idaho crash Sun day were Margie Salter, 19, a id Patsy Patterson, 17, both of Nyssa. Six others were injured in the two-car 'collision. easily swim the short distance to shallow water and wade ashore, he said. Ashland Man Indicted For Theft of Timber SACRAMENTO, Calif. Lfi An Ashland, Ore., man has been in dicted by a federal grand jury here and charged with a $25,000 theft of timber in Humboldt County, Calif. He is R. Drew Lamb, president of the Magnolia Motor and Log ging Co., which also was named as a defendant. SALEM ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN Prttwilt , . . Fifth In stritt of Program on Mn!al Rtrcrditioit ' , Mri. Lillian Mess Baby Louitt Haven ewnir ind operator will diicutt Baby Leuiia Havtn and Haven School FEBRUARY 12, 8 P.M. littla Thaatr-So. Sil.m High No Adm. Chargo INC. Ptont EM 34171 T