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C apit al JlJ oiirnal THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY with Haltered showers tonight and Wednesday. Little change In temperature. Loir tonight, 36; high Wednesday, 52. 2 SECTIONS 20 Pages 69th Year, No. 61 Price 5c matter at Salem, Oregon EgvptNot To Marcli Into Gaza Bunche Strives to Forge Truce on Strip Rule CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An hgyptian official said T u e s d a y he understood . Egypt plans to send only administrative units into the con troversial Gaza Strip. He said he doubts the Egyptian govern- w' jnent intends to move military p ' lorces there In the immediate lu ture. The official made the comment after Col. Salah Gohar, head of 1 the Egyptian Palestine Depart ment, conferred with Dr. Ralph Bunche, U.N. undersecretary gen eral, on Egypt's appointment of Gen. Hassan Abdel Latif as mili tary governor of the area. ',' Bunche 'Seeks Compromise It was assumed Bunche was seeking to learn it some compro mise might be worked out involv ine the U.N. Emergency Force, which moved into the strip last week when Israeli troops pulled out. . Gen. Abdel Latif was closeted Tuesday with Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer, Egyptian army command er. The Egyptian official's comment suggested the Egyptians may be ready to permit UNKr units to continue policing frontier areas, but insist on assuming control of - the civil administration of the strip. Well-informed neutrals here re ported the Egyptians were in no position now to send military forces in any strength to Gaza. They said the condition of com munications across the Sinai Des ert to Gaza would put an almost impossible burden on the Egyp tians if they attempted to take over defense of the area. Installations Destroyed f Practically all Egyptian army installations in the Sinai Desert were destroyed by the retreating Israelis. .e U.N. officials sought to mini ' ,-mize the Egyptian move to re establish administrative rights in Gaza. But U.S. and Israeli offi cials feared a serious new crisis was blowing up. There was talk in New York that the U.N. As sembly might be called back into session. U.S. Calls on Nasser Not to . WASHINGTON (UP)-The Unit ed Males urged fcgypt today to ' cooperate with the United Nations to keep peace in the troubled Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Stale De partment voiced this govern ment's strong support for the Unit- force in both the Gaza and Suez Canal areas. The statement was read to news men by Department Press Officer Lincoln White amid reports that Egypt is planning to lake over administration of the Gaza Strip and to bar Israeli ships from the Suez Canal. The statement was issued soon ;; after the White House announced thS President Eisenhower and . t Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles, now in Australia, arc kecp- ing in close touch with each other about the new tension in the .Mid dle East. Ferry Strikes Reef; 37 Safe MIAMI, Fla. (UPl-A ferry boat with 37 persons aboard has run aground on a reef south of here, the Coast Guard reported today. The Coast Guard said the vessel Grand Haven crunched into the coral rock at Molasses Iteef, 40 miles south of here, late Monday afternoon but did not appear to be in any danger of breaking up or sinking. The cutter Gentian was sent to the scene this, morning to tow it off. The Weather Bureau reported that seas in the area were calm and should not hamper rescue op erations. Ike Feels Fit, Holds Up Trip WASHINGTON (VP) - Presl dent Eisenhower was "feeling fine" today, according to his staff. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said the chief executive has "almost" decided when and where to vacation in Florida before flying to Bermuda for his meet ing with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But he gave no details. Mr. Eisenhower, he said, will not be able to get away before late Thursday or early Friday be cause of other commitment!, i S334 ' This futuristic-looking row of nine F-102 jet fighter tails makes a beautiful pattern, but this pattern warns all aggressors that the United States will be ready for any possible air attack. The line of "Iron Darts," as the Air Force calls Its latest defense weapons, were only one part Job Total Up To New Peak Of 63 Million WASHINGTON W An upswing of 600,012 in employment last month, offsetting in part a sur prisingly steep decline in jobs in January, was reported Tuesday by the government. Employment rose to a' total of 63,190,000, the highest February level in history and about 900,000 above a year ago. The Commerce and Labor De partments said in a joint an nouncement that unemployment dropped by 123,000 to a total of 3,121,000, or4.7 per centof the labor torcc. Because of the adoption by the Census Bureau of a new definition of unemployment, the jobless total was 240,000 larger than it would have been under old standards. Similarly, the employment fig ure was about that much smaller. The bureau now classes as un employed all persons who are on temporary layoffs of less than 30 days, or who are scheduled to start new jobs within 30 days. Such persons previously had been con sidered "employed" but labor un ions protested that this distorted the employment picture. The monthly labor report snowed a moderate rise in non form employment to an estimated 58 million. However, factory jobs dropped by 26,000 to 16,908.000. rhis was contrary to the normal seasonal trend. Stiff Jolt for Crowbar Theft Two Salem junk dealers were senlcncecl to 120 days in jail Tues day for stealing a crowbar from a slate police officer. Officer Wallace C. Cobine said he saw William Barto and Leon ard Lee Simpson, both of 10G9 Leslie St., take the crowbar from property he owns near Idanna where he was wrecking a building. He arrested them on petty larceny charges. They pleaded guilty in Marion county district court and Judge E. O. Stodler Jr., sentenced them to 120 days in jail each. Judge Assigned Here James Arthur Powers, circuit court pro tern of the 12th judicial district has been assigned to Mar ion county March 18 to assist in the legal work now pending. The appointment was made by William C. Perry, chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Board of Control OKs Plans for Itv JAMKS I). OIS(IN Cnnllfll Journal Writrr Preliminary plans for the first phase of the J15.2OO.O0O state men ial hospital, tn be constructed near Wilsonville. were approved by the state board ot control Tues day. The board also approved draft ing of plans for landscaping the sile. building roads, sewers and necessary service tunnels, work which must he completed before construction can begin. The architectural firm of Stan ton. Boles, Maguire 4 Church, Portland, was authorized to draft working plans for the first phase. The contract is expected to be let next April. Will rare For 4W) Included in the first phase, esti mated to cost $6,900,000, will be Jet Fighters Form Defense Line at Ttjw r n i- . 6987 'i FLEXIBLE FRANCHISE APPROVED Bus Line Eliminates Tokens Under New Operations Plan By DOUGLAS SEYMOUR Capital Journal City Editor Tokens will be eliminated and adult riders will pay an extra charge for transfers under a re vised City Transit Lines rate struc ture which is to go into effect March 15. The city council at its meeting Monday approved the "flexible" franchise plan which gives the bus firm authority to set its own rales and schedules. The plan was worked out by a committee of Salem and Eugene city officials Aleutians Quakes Stir Volcano ANCHORAGE!, Alaska (IPI A Coast Guard cutter was en route Tuesday to smoking Umnak Island to evacuate volcano frightened natives as another severe earthquake was reported far out along the trembling Aleutian Island chain The latest quake was described as much less severe than the one that sent a tidal wave rolling out over the Pacific and set the vol cano on Umnak smoking Satur day. It was recorded as a major after-shock on seismographs Alaska and the states. There were no reports of any tidal reaction from Tuesday's early morning tremor. Umnak Island Is one of the in ner islands of the Aleutian chain It is about 20 miles from the Alaska Peninsula and nearly 400 miles east of where the violent tremors are believed to be cen tered near the Rat Islands group. Fourteen natives were reported awaiting evacuation Irom the vil lage of Nikolskl, the site desig nated for a four million dollar radar station of which the gov ernment received bids only last week. Walter freeman, an airways station agent on the bleak island reported the natives had "vol cano jitters" over the eruption of lt. Vsevidnt, a 6.920-foot peak which has been dormant for 200 years. Not Suicide Attempt, Just Nagging Escape PORTLAND I UP) - Police last nicht responded to a call from a woman who said her husband was attemDting suicide in the bath. room. Officers reported later the man had retired to the bathroom only to get away from his wife's nagging and to get some sleep. He said he had to be at work early today. Wilsonville Hospital beds with ample room for later facilities to care for 4fio patients. When the hospital Is completed, it will include an estimated 1,500 expansion to provide a total of 3,000 patients. Glenn Stanton, head of the archi tectural firm, told the board that the second phase would include a geriatrics unit but that provision has been made to care for tome geriatrics patients in the first unit. For the past eight months an advisory committee, composed of heads of the state's mental hos pital and others familiar with mental hospitals, has met with the architects giving advice on various phases of the new institutions. Stanton said these experts had gone over the plans, room by room, making suggestions that had been Included in the preliminary 6979 J of the tremendous amount of new equipment seen recently at McChord AFB, Tacoma, Wash. . (See Sec. II, Page 3 for a full TJ.ige of pictures on operations at McChord.) (Capital Journal Photo by Jerry Clausscn) and civic leaders after City Tran sit had threatened to suspend operations in both cities because of loss of revenue. No Decrease in Service In announcing the revised fare schedule Carl Wendt, manager of the bus company, declared the firm "does not contemplate any decrease in service." He said that bus users who had contacted the company had indi cated they favored a higher rate rather than reduction ot service, Present schedules will remain the Evacuated; Japan-Bound Seattle Ship Retracts SOS TOKYO (UP) The American freighter Colorado which radioed for help earlier today oft the northern Japanese island of Hok kaido reported tonight that it no longer required help and was pro ceeding under its own power to a Japanese port. The 7,000 gross ton freighter ra dioed for help earlier saying that it was taking water in its No. 4 hatch and having difficulty navi gating stormy waters about 420 miles southeast of Kushiro. The ship, owned by the Pacific Transport Line, was proceeding under her own power to Hakodate, a port on Hokkaido, and that the ship was expected to reach the harbor at about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The Coast Guard said that the ship reported no injuries among its 50 crew members and pre sumed" that the leak in the No. 4 hatch had been stopped. The ship was en route from Seattle to Yok ohama. Weather Details Maximum yesterday. 47: mlnlmnm today . 38. Tntaf 24-hour prrclplU tton, .43; for month, 5.14; normal, l.iS. Sraon precipitation, 23.m; normal, 31 14. River hrieht, 14.4 fret. (Itrport hy t S. Wralher Ilureau.) Initial plans. In addition Stanton said he and llollin Boles had visited many of tho mental hospitals In other states, getting ideas that have been incorporated into the plans for the project. Roads on Three Sides There are roads on three sides of the hospital site, the board was toid, giving easy access to the new hospital. Appropriations totaling 6, 580.000 were made by the H53 and 1955 legislatures and a bill, appropri ating tfi.11.000 to cover additional funds needed for the first phase of the hospital. Is now before the joint ways and means committee. In addition the stale board of control is requesting an appropri ation of lit. ooo.ono to cover costs of the second phase of the hospital. Air Base FC-97 same, Wendt said. Biggest change in the new rate set-up will be the installation of the zone system. Charge for -.Transfers Adults coming to the downtown area to transfer to a bus going outside of the city center will be required to pay an additional five cent fare. City fares will remain at 15 cents and suburban fares at 25 cents but no more tokens will be sold. Persons with tokens may use them with an additional 3 cents for a city ride and S cents for a suburban trip. Children under 12 will be charged 10 cents for a city trip and 15 cents on a suburban bus They won't be charged for trans fers, however. School Prices Upped The book of 20, school tickets for use on school days would be increased 25 cents and transfers would not cost extra. No one appeared at a sched uled hearing on the bus situation scheduled by the city council Mon day evening. However, the coun- received a petition, signed by 38 persons, asking that action be taken to assure continuance of bus service without interruption U0 Employs 2 From Harvard PORTLAND Wl Appointment or two doctors from the Harvard Medical School to the staff of the University of Oregon Medical School here was announced Tues day by the state Board of Higher Education. Dr. George Saslow, clinical pro fessor of psychiatry at Harvard and chief or psychiatry at Massa chusetts General Hospital, Boston. was named head of the Oregon school s department of psychiatry, He succeeds Dr. Henry H. Dix on, Portland, who will continue on the staff as a psychiatry pro- lessor. Dr. Joseph D. Matarasso, asso ciate psychologist at Massa chusetts General Hospital and re search associate at Harvard, was appointed a professor of medical psychology at the Oregon school. Roth appointments arc effective June 1. Valley Cooler, Santiam Gets 18-Inch Snow Showers of rain and cooler tem peratures continued for the valley area Tuesday, but it was a differ ent story in the high Cascades. Heavy new snow fell all along the high mountains over night, one of the deepest falls being on the San tiarn Pass where 111 inches of new snow were measured. , In Salem, .43 of an inch more of rain came down in the 24-hour peri od ending at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, bringing the month's total to dale to 5.14 inches. With the heavy rain during March, tho seasonal pre cipitation Is catching up a hit, now totaling 23.98 inches since Senlem ber 1, start of the weather year, against a normal fall of 31 14 inches for the period. 'Here They Go Again' LONDON UPl-Lord Beaver brook's Daily Kxpress summed up the latest Egyptian and Israeli moves In the Mideast today with this headline: "Here They Go Again." Schru U lies nuns After Bill Asks 1959Faii Financing $1.1 Million Faces Long, Hard Look In Committee By VAV, W. HARVEY JR. Associated Press Writer A $1,100,000 annroDria- tion to finance Oregon's proposed centennial cele bration in 1959 was sought in the Legislature .Tuesday. But it was headed for a long, hard look in tho money-short Joint Ways ana Means committee. The bill, sponsored by 28 repre sentatives and six senators, would finance the trade fair that the Oregon Centennial Commission has recommended be held in Portland to observe the 100th an niversary of statehood. The north west states and countries on the Pacific Ocean would bo invited to take part. bxpect to Make Profit The commission said it expects to be able to repay tho $1,100,000 and make a profit besides. Sen. Alfred H. Corbett ID), Portland, chairman of tho Senate Ways and Means Committee, said that the Joint Ways and Mcnns Committee would hold hearings on tho proposal. "We will have to know more about the plans, including possible sites, before we could act on the request. But we all want to sec the trade fair held." Floor action remained nt the minimum Tuesday. Tho Senate passed and sent to me House a bill providing that gifts of securities to a minor can be sold, exchanged or invested by ine minors custodian, without having to set up a trust or guard ianship. COP Leaders Urge Congress Not Pass Buck WASHINGTON Ml Ttonubli- can leaders from the Cnpitol said tucsoay congress would be pass ing the buck and dodging its own duty if it called on President Eis enhower' for specific recommend ations on cuts in his $71, Ron, ooo.ooo budget. That view was expressed hy Senate GOP lender Knnwland of California and House Republican chief Martin of Massachusetts aft er their regular Tuesday morning meeting with Eisenhower. The leaders talked with news men as the House made ready to vote on a resolution, spon sored by Itcp. Cannon (D-Mo), which would call on the Presi dent to recommend specific sub stantial reductions in the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. Martin said Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Com mitlee, was in effect "confessing he'd ralher have somebody else (than Congress) reduce t h c budget." Mnrlin went on In say that he is opposed to tho Cannon resolu tion because adoplinn would amount to "Congress abdicating its duly." Martin added: "Let's not pass the buck to somebody else. Let's let Congress do the job." 30Min u te Me ter L im it Eyed The hies In nrw in Snlem, hut not In thr country at Inrx?, It In hrlntf urn In nfimn nthrr rlllrx. Anions mrmt'Pm nf thr city ronnrll. Ihrrr In tnlk nf rhnng In .Sntrm'ft nnr - hour pflrklng nirlrr to .10 mlnutm a half hnur fnr five crnln. Two nrgiimfnU nrr ndvanrril fnr It. It would increase the tiikn" from meter, and It would dlftcnurage: meter feeding, which, In Salem, li a prevalent practice. tor the average car driver the Idea Un't an bad an It tnundft. Paradoxlrally, while It would up the take connlderahly, It wouldn't cnitt the car owner the average one much, If any mnre, than it dnei now lo park on a downtown metered Street. Here' the renftnnint; on that: The average man noe hi car Into a itall and puts hit 9J0 eue3ti3 Dodging Lie Test ' Says New Evidence Available j , v '. -t: .V". I 13;- - j WASHINGTON Clyde C. Crosby, Oregon boss of the Teamsters union, today tells senators be has what be term ed new and "very Important evidence" in their inquiry into allegations that he and some other union officials "mus cled In" on Portland, Ore., rackets. (AP Wircphoto) Beck Volunteers to Go Before Probers S RATTLE Ul President Dave Beck of tho Teamsters' Union says he has notified Sen. McClel Inn (D-Ark) that ho will appear before the Senate rackcls Investi gation committee "on a date mu tually satisfactory." Beck, who returned Sunday from Europe ahead of schedule, said his appearance before the Senate enmmittoo would have to bo heforo Juno 2 "when 1 must again return to Europe. Beck said ho had come home from Europe because of the with drawal by Secretary of Labor Mitchell of his credentials to the International Labor Orgnniznlinn convention in Hamburg, Ger many, i He called Mitchell's action "in clfect a prejudgment of me and it was politically inspired. Beck termed statements about him by James B. Carey, an AFL CIO vice president and one of his bitterest critics in tho labor or ganization, "tho tintinnbulations of on automatic mouth. And he added: "It is my per sonal and considered judgment that Mr. Carey has less standing wilh the Executive Council of the AI-'L-CIO and the responsible peo ple of labor than any man 1 know of in the American labor move ment. ' Carey said in a television Inter view Sunday that he questions Beck's "( 1 1 n c s s" to lend the teamslers. He said Heck should either accept the AI'L CIO's Ethi- Parking nickel Into the mrtrr. It give him, a the meter are now art, one hour. Ftut In 27 mlnulr he (tela Into hi rnr, hark out, and leave it Rood hnlf hour nf free pirklntf for the next rnr (lint immediately nrruplr (he ftlntl. The ffrftl nmn pay for hoth. Nat Inn til ulntittlr show that, on the avernne, a car orruplra a metered spare only 27 minute except, of courc, meter feed er. Meter feeder, who, It ice mi, are quite a trine In Salem, have a hahlt of parkin all day and feeding nlrkel Into the meter every hour. If they have to peed that up to every half hour, the theory I that they'll quickly get out of the hnhlt, To make II more easily accept ahle to car owner, average or not, they're talking about hnv ing lady "aw" ififrtc Kr. meters. lies on Payoffs cal Practices code or resicn. Cnrcy said Beck is "not In icrecmcnt" with AFL-CIO policy. its constitution or its ethical code which bars from union office anyone commonly known to be a criminal or racketeer. At the same time Carey said "I don't know if Mr. Beck can be considered a crook." Rasper's Aide Disillusioned, Quits Council TA1XAHASSKE, Fla. Mi - An associate of John Kosper Tuesday denounced the Washington segre gationist and announced his sup porters were pulling out of the Seaboard White Citizens Council. Fred Hockctt, one of four men who helped form the Seaboard group, told a Florida legislative committee Kosper had misrepre sented "certain things" to him nnd that he would have no further as sociation wilh him. The committee is investigating Iho National Assn. for the Ad vancement of Colored People and white supremacy groups. Hockctt indicated he had refer enco to Kosper's testimony before the committee Monday Hint he at tended mixed parties and danced wilh Negro girls while running a hookslore in Greenwich Village. Hockctt look the witness stand briefly after Knsper completed his testimony. Hockctt was one of four men convicted of unlawful assembly in Miami last week. They had nt lempted to burn a cross on the lawn nf a home newly-purchased by a Negro in a white section of Miami. Beating Kills Negro Youth CHICAGO m Alvin Palmer, a 17-year-old Negro high school student, was beaten to death by a park of white teen-agers. Palmer died of a skull fracture Tuesday In Holy Cross Hospital. A passer-by gave this account to Detectives Clyde Wheeler and Kenneth Fryer: Palmer was waiting for a bus on the southwest side Monday night when the gnhg of eight saun tered past him. They returned, surrounded dim. and one of them smashed his head wilh a single blow. The wit ness told the officers that not a word was spoken. W to Miindt Certain Perjury Will Be Charged WASHINGTON (API - Mayor Terry D. Schnmlc of Portland, Ore., swore Tuesday he never received payoffs from pinball ma-; chine operators, bootleg gers and gamblers. Under oath before Senate inves tigators, Schrunk answered sii questions first put to him at a lie detector test Monday which he balked at completing. The mayor told the Senate rack ets investigating committee he walked out on the test because" he felt the Secret Service had "a ' fishing expedition lined up" in ad ministering it. 'Aimed at Flunking Test' The dapper mavor alsn said ha felt he was posed with "some very tricky questions apparently aimed at trying to make me flunk the test." The s e n a t ors then asked Schrunk all the questions he had refused to answer for the lie de- tector. He said "no" to all of them . dealing with, whether he had taken payoffs from gamblers and boot leggers. Sen. Mundt (R-SD) asked whether Schrunk, now that he had answered the questions for the senators, would submit to the Sec ret Service lie detector. "No sir," Schrunk replied, add ing: After consideration and after spending U days around here, in my opinion this will be settled in the Oregon courts. I'll rest on that." 'Perjury Committed' Mundt commented that in his opinion the Justice Department -would also be involved because, Mundt said, "it is evident some body has committed perjury here." After Schrunk's testimony, com mittee counsel nobert F. Ken- , ncdy read into the record another affidavit relating to the charge that Schrunk, while sheriff In 195S. ' received a $500 "payoff" to halt a raid on the 8212 Club where gambling was suspected. Signed by Kenneth Lindholm, identified as a Portland police man, the affidavit asserted that Lindholm saw Schrunk and Clif ford 0. Bennett, operator of the club talking on the street. It said that another officer, Richard Sutter, walked across the street to talk with three police men standing there. Package Picked Up The affidavit said that Sutler returned to his automobile and "stated he had seen Sheriff Schrunk pick up a package be side a utility pole." I he atfidavit continued that 'Sutter was certain that Schrunk had received a payolf of some sort and angrily denounced him as a dirty rotten crook." Belorc Schrunk relumed lo the witness chair, Clyde C. Crosby. Oregon boss of the Teamsters' Union, told the senators he had what he called new and "very important evidence" bearing on their inquiry into allegations that he and some other union officials muscled in on Portland rackets. "It is documented, it is sworn to," Crosby said, and asked per mission to read it. Chairman McClell.in (D-Ark) Continued on Page 5 Column 1) Iews in Brief For Tuesday. March 12, 1957 NATIONAL Schrunk Again Balks On Taking Lie Test ....Sec. 1, P. 1 Admiral Byrd Dies . Sec. 1, P. 2 Dave Reck Volunteers To Co Before Probers Sec. J, P. 1 LOCAL City Payroll Checks OKcd Here . Sec. 1, P. 5 Mayor Plans for Study Of Creek Danger - Sec, 1, F. S STATK Bill Asks $1.1 Million For ln.w Trado Fair Sec. 1, P. 1 Control Board Approves Wilsonville Plans Sec. 1, P. 1 KORKKiN Egypt Appears Hacking Up On Gaza Control . Soc. I, P. 1 U.S. Warns Nasser Not To Breach Peace .. . Sec. 1, P. 1 SPOUTS 2 of 3 Salem Area Teams Win In A-2 Tourney Sec. 2. P. 1 Central Catholic Tops Final Poll ... Sec. 2, P. 2 REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Sec. 1, P. 2 Editorial Sec. 1, P. 4 Locals ......Sec. 1, P. 5 Society Sec. 1, P. -8 Comics ..Sec. 2, P. 4 Television Sec. 2, P. 7 Want Ads See. 2. P. 8-9 Markets ...Sec. 2. P. 7 Dorothy Dix Sec. 2, P. 8 Crossword Puzzle ....Sec. 2, P. 4 Farm Sec. 2, P. 6