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Page 2 Section 1 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL House Gets Pleas for A.storia Bridge, Bonds ITo Finish Coast Route Hearing Airs Bottl' -eck Easing By HECTOR L. FOX Associated Prcsj Writer Traffic "bottlenecks" at both ends of the Oregon co,st brought -Jtefore the Oregon Legislature .VVcdncsdav strong support for a bridge across the Columbia liiver at Astoria and a demand for 114.5 million dollar bond issue to -improve Highway 101 in Curry County. There was no opposition to the hizhway bridge proposal, spoil Scored by Rep. W. H. liolinstrom Dl, Gcarhart, at a two-hour Shearing of the House Highway "Committee. i . There was. however, consider able discontent voiced by reprc Micntativcs of coastal county courts ;$nd development groups over the condition of Highway 101 between ZCoi Beach and Brookings. Call for Bonil Issue Tlie Highway 101 delegation 'unanimously approved drafting a Jlbill calling for the bond issue after Roaring State Engineer W. C. Wil liams tell them why only a small Jpart of the revenue from an II -million dollar bond issue now he Store the Legislature would bo "available for the coaslal road. IT The Astoria-Mcglcr bridge plan -a 25-ycar vision has been in a planning stage for several years, tJVilliams told the Highway Com-i-mittee. Several groups in Oregon JTand Washington shared the cost of a J150.000 survey to determine Scasibility of the project three jears ago, he said. The survey envisioned a two lane highway bridge 4.3 miles Jong and costing .10.5 million dol "lars. The cost, Williams said, is five times greater than It would tHavc been in the early l!)30's, Hvhen support first gained inv tpctus. Losing (85,000 a Year Williams said the state is losing f$R5,000 a year on its lerries be "tween Astoria and Megler. He 3said it was impracticable to re place or buy new equipment be cause of decreasing traffic. Williams said traffic surveys in dicated a bridge would be accom- modating one million vehicles by 108828 years after complciion. rUo estimated first-year travel at 413,000 vehicles, netting $770,000 mUi revenue from tolls. - The engineer said the revenue Shouldn't be sufficient to meet the yionded indebtedness for the first 'several years, anu ificgun unu "Washington probably would have 4o make up a deficit or about "SSOO.OOO yearly until traffic in creased. . The "bottleneck" on Highway H01 caused by rebuilding south of 'Cold Bench brought an irate delc - Ration to Salem. It besieged Wil 'Bams and other Highway Depart " ment officials with questions on Vroad fund allocations, construction Relays, bonding and federal aid. Will Take 6 Yenrs XT Williams told the delegations it took six years to build the Portland-Trie Dalles Highway, and it would take as long to rebuild the -'JCold Bench-Brookings section if Mhe state had funds to do the work without interruption. ; The engineer reminded the dclc . gallon that Highway 101 is not nn Interstate road and only some of -the federal road funds the stale Receives can he used on it. Williams said the stale's high rfOk'ay bond indebtedness now is 57 "million dollars. The Highway Commission is asking the Legis lnlure to approve another 8 mil 'lion dollar bond Issue so that it Can participate in the federal aid highway program with matching lunds for construction in Oregon ;Wor tho next 2'ii yenrs. MEET THE LEGISLATORS U.S. Commies 'Break Away' From Kremlin Leadership Taken Over By 11-Mau Team in Titoist' Move REP. EDDIE AHRENS Popular Eililie Ah rem It back In the House this session after serving in 1955 as nne of the four Marion county solons. He has the dubious honor of being the first member to vote, but the experience gained In that role last session will aid him In this. Hep, Alirens Is a farmer and sheep breeder who with his brother operate the Ahrcns Farms near Turner. They breed registered Itomncy and Suffolk sheep and grow seed crops. He Is past president of the American Romncy Breeders, the Oregon Sheep Breeders, Pa cific and Oregon Livestock asso ciation, and was county fair board chairman for some years. He also has been chairman of Turner lamb show and is region al director for Oregon Farm Bu reau and director of Farmers Union cooperative. Rep. Ahrcns was born June 1.1, 1809 In Wayne, Neb., and came to Oregon In 1910. He Is a graduate of Salem High school. He Is a Mason and Lutheran church member. Ills hobby has been rearing and training of sheep dogs. He has served effectively on agriculture and livestock com mittees. On bills dealing with agriculture, his advice Is often sought by other members. REP. EDWIN BENEDICT Rep. Edwin E. Benedict, (D), Portland, Is one of three Demo crats elected to Oregon House from the East Multnomah county sub-district. He operates a nursery In southeast Portland under firm name of Edrcta Gardens which specializes in growing dahlias. Rep. Benedict has long record In union labor. He was director of organization of International Ladles Garment Workers union in Los Angeles; represented 1WA-CIO on manpower problems 194.1-44; served on advisory body of the War Production Board and was on 12th regional War Labor Board. He has worked In logging, sawmills and hardboard plants In Oregon and Washington and has lived variously at Tacoma, Seattle, Long Reach, Calif., Swlsshome and Coos Bay. He lived In Portland 1912-46 and re turned agnln in 1952, Rep, Benedict was born In Wlnlock, Wash. September 14, 1908. He attended Western Washington College of Education and the University of Washing ton. He's a member of Dell's court community club, has been precinct committeeman for Dem ocrats and held other party com mittee Jobs. He Is a member of the State Board of Oregon Farmers Union. By JAMES DEVLIN NEW YORK W The American Communist party, declaring itself no longer a Moscow satellite, set out on an independent course to dov with a "team" leadership. The terms of William Z. Foster, national chairman, and Eugene Dennis, general secretary, expired automatically during the conven tion concluded yesterday. I he convention overwhelmingly approved a recommendation sub mitted by Dennis that the party leadership for the foreseeable fu ture be token over by a "team" of an llmember "national admin istrative committee." The party avowedly broke with the strict Kremlin line by adopt ing a resolution declaring that henceforth it would do its own in terpreting of M a r x i s t-Lcninist principles. Max Weiss, the party s national education chairman, who submit ted the resolution, said it was an "explicit declaration of the inde pendent and equal status of our party in relation to the world Com munist movement." This was a step akin to "Tito- ism although the American Com munists did not use the term.' The 298 delegates at the conven tion approved the resolution over whelmingly. A spokesman said 12 or 15 voted against it in the show of hands and that about 5 did not vote. The convention, meanwhile, de cided that Its general governing body, the national committee, henceforth would have 60 mem bers instead of 13. It elected 20 committee mem bers at large, with the other 40 to be elected regionally at state conventions by March 31, if possible. The 20 elected at-large delegates (hen selected ll of their number to serve as the national adminis trative committee. They are Foster, Dennis. John Gates, George Blake Charncy, Benjamin Davis,' Earl Durham, Fred Fine, James E. Jackson, Charles Loman, Sidney Stein and Doxey Wilkcrson. All reside in New York. They were chosen largely because this would permit them lo meet on short notice. The convention stip ulated, however, that all 20 at- large delegates be consulted on any major policy decision. Baptism Row Fatal to Five JALAPA, Mexico W An arpi ment over the name of a first born son led lo a baptism-day brawl fatal to five persons. Seven others were injured. Reports reaching hero today from Ayahualulco said Salvador Perez and his wife Itosa could not agree on a name for their son. Salvador set a date for the bap tism and invited two godparents. Rosa also named two godpar ents who agreed to back her choice of a name. Disagreement during Hie cere mony turned into an open fight. Two friends of Rosa and two friends of Salvador and his broth er were killed. BOX OFFICE O TICKETSX I NOW ON SALE Truman Steps Up to Speak at Dinner I MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Harry S. Truman, former president, steps up to the micro phone (o speak on the Middle East situa tion at the Combined Jewish Appeal din ner here tonight. At left is Carl Wclnkle, dinner chairman, and at right is Col. Jacob M. Arvcy of Chicago, who introduced Tru man. (AP Wirephoto) Strong Defense More Important Than Balanced Budget-Truman By MERCER BAILEY MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Wl A strong defense is more important to this country than a balanced budget, Harry S. Truman said last night. . Combined with a foreign policy which insists on justice and free dom for all nations, this strength ultimately will bring world peace, tho former President said. Expressing distrust of Russian promises of friendship, Truman said an adequate defense will cost heavily, "but it is the price of freedom." Although he made no concrete proposals, he told a combined Jewish Appeal fund-raising dinner that the unrest in the Middle East can be eased. He said it is the duty of this nation to see that the Israel-Arab disputes are set tled peacefully. "And I hope that our policy will be as firm on this point as it is possible to be," he added. "We should keep our defenses up until we have more from the Russians than smiles and kind words and promises of friend ship." He departed from his prepared text at this point and said, "When you make agreements with Russia you must have the strength to en force them." Truman warned against "polit ical budget cutters" and "people who belittle the dangers to the security of the free world and use the smiles of the Russians to jus tify slashing our defense." Earlier, at a brief news con ference, Truman described Presi dent Eisenhower's domestic policy as "the usual Republican line of helping those who don't need help and letting the rest of us take care of ourselves as best we can! Artist Norman Rockwell has pair of trifocal glasses. Reading portions are for his palette, inter mediate for his canvas and dis tance portions for his model. gekm, Oi-tgm, Wednesday, February lg, 1987 GOP Busies Itself With Own Hassles In Lincoln Dinners Demos Come Out Only Scratched From Barbs By JACK BELL WASHINGTON Un Democrats came off today with only a few political scratches from Republi cans who busied themselves dis secting their own party's differ ences in annual Lincoln Day for ays. Traditionally, the observance of Lincoln's Birthday has been a time for GOP speakers to lam- bast the opposition party. In stead, some of the GOP's top lead ers spent yesterday discussing President Eisenhower's program of "modern Republicanism." With the air of giving assurance to party conservatives, National Chairman Meade Alcorn said he and Eisenhower are only "mod ernizing the superstructure" of the GOP. 'We aren't changing the funda mental beliefs that were enunci ated in Lincoln's day and continue to live today," Alcorn told a Pitts burgh audience. Not to let the Democrats go un scathed, Alcorn said they were "visionless victims of the past . . . barren of new ideas ..." At Cincinnati, Chairman Simp son (Pa) of the Republican Con gressional Campaign Committee said that "irrespective of any new labels placed on Republican party activities I have been un able to detect anything that is wrong with the Republicanism of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. Taft was defeated by Eisenhow er for the GOP nomination in 1952 but remains a symbol for the par ty s conservatives. Cincinnati was Taft's home town. "No one needs to go searching the political underbrush for a new label for the GOP," Simpson declared. "What we need is an all out effort to elect a Republican Congress in 19S8 that will return control of the nation s progress to the men and women who laid down their political lives in effort to keep the ration from bankruptcy, socialism and war. . . "The modern Republicanism in which I believe is the Republican ism of Lincoln and Taft." The contention that Eisenhower's oronosed $71,800,000,000 budg et was heading the nation toward bankruptcy was one of the themes at a meeting of party con servatives in Chicago last Satur day. Senators McCarthy (R-Wis) and Jenncr (H-lndi were among the principal speakers. Daniel J. Riesner, president ot the National Republican Club ol New York City, had a reply for this group. Addressing a Lincoln uay dinner in New York. he . said We disa gree most emphatically" with con servatives he said were "critical of certain key policies of this ad. ministration and leveled an attack at tho proponents of modern Re publicanism, contrasting it unfa vorably with the principles of so- called real Republicanism." Imprison U. S. Spies BERLIN, UP The East Ger man press said Wednesday threi German men at Dresden hav been sentenced on charges ol conducting espionage for the United States. Sentences rangec from 5 to 10 years. The trio was accused of recruiting potential spies in Berlin. SALEM'S ONLY DAY and NIGHT STATION w w Musk News Sports farm Broadcasts 1390 Kci.-MBS-Don Lee WORLD FAMOUS ST. OLAF'S CHOIR THURS. NIGHT ONLY 8 P.M. Willamette- U. Audit. All Seats Reserved Tickets 1.2S & 2.00 on Sale at Stevens & Son Dollar Company Buys Ply Co-op PORTLAND W The Robert Dollar Lumber Co. of Glcndalc has bought the Multnomah Ply wood Corp.'s southern Oregon ve neer plant at Glcndalc. the Port land firm announced Tuesday. But officials of Multnomah, a cooperative, said some 50 million, board feet of timber it owns in the Glcndalc area were not in-1 eluded in the deal. They an-J nounccd plans to increase produc tion of veneer at their Portland plant. The land surface ot the earth is about 52,500,000 square miles. DANCE! TONITE! CRYSTAL GARDEN CASH PRIZE! Ask For Your Free Ticket! Demos Won't JChaitipr Plane PORTLAND - About 3(1 Ore-, eon Democrats will atlend the Democratic national committee meeting in San Francisco next .weekend, but not in the chartered -'plane they hail hoped for. C. Girard Davidson, Democrat- j J!lr national committeeman for I 1rcgon. said scheduling difficul ties made it impnictienl lo char "tcr the plane. 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