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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1957)
Page & Section 2 Forest Grove Youth Named Star Farmer LA GRANDE, Ore. W Oregon Future Farmers of America elect ed Adin Hester, Canny, president at their convention here Wednes day and named Forest Grove High School student Donald II. Scott Oregon star farmer of 1957. A 1200 prize went to Scott, a resident of Gaston, in addition to his rating as the FFA member with the highest achievement in the state. Scott, now a partner with his father in a 76-head dairy opera tion, started his rFA program with five head of dairy cattle and a heef heifer. Hester, along with being elected state president, won the public speaking competition and took an award for soil and water man agement. Dennis Haney, Eugene, won the foundation award in farm elec tricity. Other awards: Farm Mechanics foundation, Mike fiinkes. West Linn; dairy farming, Ralph Smith Jr., Canby; form safety. North Marion Chapter of the FFA. The state parliamentary pro cedure contest was won by the Newberg chapter. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 14, 1957 British Plan Mid-Air Test Of II-Bombs HONOLULU IUP) - Reliable sources said today Britain's first hydrogen bombs will be exploded 20,000 feet in the air four to six miles off tiny Maiden Island, seme 1,500 miles south of here. The British sources said the planes, probably Valiant Jet bomb ers flying at 40,000 to SO.OOO feet, will find their target bearings from a huge triangular device al ready installed at the coral island. The main purpose of the tests, according to the sources, is to de termine the bomb's destructive ability through instruments rather than by blowing up an island. BYPRODUCT RICHMOND, Va. HHOne of the byproducts of the city's campaign to spray elm trees to prevent Dutch elm disease is a lot of irate citizens. They found the spray solution on their cars and it would n't come ofl immediately no matter how hard the cars were washed. Abbott Appeal Again Denied WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Douglas Thursday refused to stay the execution of Burton W. Abbott, convicted kid nap-murderer due to die in Cali fornia's San Quentin prison Fri day. Douglas denied an appeal filed with him this morning by San Francisco attorney George T. Da vis, seeking a stay of the sched uled execution. The justice said no substantial federal question was involved. On the same ground, Douglas had denied an earlier appeal in Abbott s oenaii mis ween. rvl also asked the full Su preme Court to review the case. No action was taken on it im mediately. The full court Is re quired to act on such a petition. President Theodore Roosevelt was an ardent advocate of simpli fied spelling. He ordered the gov ernment printer to shorten spell ing of more than 300 words in all legislative publications. They're Touchy About 'Madam' PORTLAND tf - The U. S. Senate investigations of vice con ditions here have Portlanders a litlle touchy. In one day. three sponsors of floats in the annual Rose Festival parade called up to change the song title names of their entries. Each of the original song titles had contained the word "madam." Two women, identified by the Senate committee as bawdy housa madams, testified at the hearings. The Colorado river flows through the Grand Canyon with such pow er that it moves half a million tons of silt in a single 24 hours past any given point. " , , , mpilWg! new slender lines Air Step patent shoes 1295 You can feci their comfort, see tlielr draped sling silhouette. Enjoy the gracefully band ed sandal, blessed with Air Step's -magic sole. Black patent. . Forest Roads Hustle Urged By Magnuson WASHINGTON Ifl Sen. Mag mison (D-Wash) said Thursday construction of timber access roads should he speeded to help overcome what he called "an alarming deficit in the nation's timber harvest." The total allowable timber cut In all national forests is 9 billion hoard feet, Magnuson said, but only 6.9 billion board feet were cut last year. In Washington State, he added, the "annual deficit" in the timber cut is l' of a billion feet, and much timber "is already dead and rotting" after an insect attack. Magnuson said he had ques tioned the Forest Service and "the reply I get to this under cutting and to the terrible loss, is that timber access roads have rot been constructed to much of this timber." As a solution, Magnuson sug gested a reshuffling n the Forest Service budget. He proposed ap propriating 27 million dollars lor forest roads and putting engineer ing and trail maintenance funds In the forest land management budget. Magnuson made the suggestions In a letter to chairman Ilayden (D-Arizl of the Senate Appropria tions Committee, Meany Prays For Racketeer Probe Success NEW YORK Ml - George Meany, AFL-CIO president, says he is praying for the success of the current investigation in Wash ington headed hy Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Arkl. Meany, in a speech to the Phi Beta Kappa alumni in New York Wednesday night., referred to the committee's prone of the West Coast activities of the Teamsters Union with the comment: "Believe me. every night I say prayers for the McClellnn com mittee: I hope they make my Job easier." Meany said racketeering Is nnl a "special labor vict" but "a so cial vice." "For various reasons." he said, "you will hear much more about this viel when it afflicts the trade Union movement." Saying labor does not seek to sweep "such evils under the rug," Meany added: "We will yield to none who will seek to exploit our own and other efforts to wipe mil racketeering as an opportunity for pushing legislation hostile to organized labor " Youth Admits Killing Nemo CHICAGO w A 17-year-old White youth was held hy police I nursuay aner, mey said, lie oral ly admitted fatally benling a Ne gro high school sludent lor "m reason. Chief of Detectives Patrick ,1. Ileeley said Joseph Schwartz, a railroad freight caller, admitted attacking Alvin Palmer, also 17, as be waited for a bus Monday nifht; Police said when they asked Schwartz why he struck the Palm er boy he replied. "No reason." Palmer died ahoul 10 hours after the atlack. The two boys were not acquainted. Poljce rounded up 14 other teen agers' tor queslioning In connec tion Svilh the hammer slaving Schwartz and 11 others were held without charge for further Inter rogation. Three loyonr-old juve niles were released. 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