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Capital Jam -muni THE WEATHER. MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight and Friday with scattered showers, tow tonight, 35; high Friday, SO. 4 SECTIONS 44 Paget 69th Year, No. 69 Salem, "Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1957 Z7JZTor"Z Ike, 'Mac' Confer on Mid-East TopPriorityGiven Israeli-Egyptian, Suez Issues TUCKERVT OWN, Ber muda (AP) President Eis enhower and Prime Min ister Macmillan assigned top priority to the Middle East crisis, including Suez and Egyptian- Israeli problems, at the op ening of their formal negotiations Thursday. The session opened in the draw ing room of the Mid-Ocean Club, where chiefs of the two govern ments met with advisers at a cir cular conference table. 3-Hour Dinner Heal start of the top level quest fnr fullscale restoration of the British-American partnership in ' world affairs began at a three hour dinner Wednesday night, however, when the President and Prime Minister and secretaries of state reviewed world issues. As a result of that globe circling talk, the Middle East crisis was put first as a topic of discussion with good prospect that it will ' come up also at later times dur ing the conference which con tinues through Saturday. While no announcement was made, it seemed probable that second position for discussion W'ould be Britain's plans for cut backs in its world wide military commitments. American officials foresaw a serious possibility the United States may have to make new commitments of its own to keep the free world's military guard tip. A meshing of U.S. and British defense plans was assured a high place on the agenda. . t Meetings Dally Diplomats said the President and Prime Minister, together with Secretary of State Dulles, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and other officials, probably would hold two meetings daily through Saturday. The two government chiefs in statements made on their arrival yesterday both expressed confi dence their Bermuda meeting would result in a strengthening of British-American cooperation in World affairs. Their advisers agreed privately hat this hope can be realized only If the two men can arrive at agree ments or better understandings on some very tough and very practi cal problems. (Continued on Page 5 Column 6) House Croup Again Chops Agency Cash WASHINGTON ( The House Appropriations Committee took another big strike Thursday in its budget-cutting drive by recom mending reductions of $114,926,700 In now funds requested for the Labor and Welfare departments and related agencies. It urged the House to appropri ate $2.ai.350,88t for the fiscal year starting next July 1 instead of the $2.9M,277,58t requested by President Eisenhower. The major part of Ihe cut was in funds for public assistance grants to states, for which Ihe committee voted $1,600,000,000. That figure, $79,400,000 below 11)0 amount requested, still is 25 mil lions more than was appropriated for the current year. The overall cut of almost 4 per cent hiked to about 800 million dol lars reductions recommended by the committee this year in five annual appropriation bills involv ing presidential requests for about S13.4O0.0O0.0OO. On four previous measures, the House has gone along with its committee and cut an extra 21 million dollars. None of the bills has passed the Senale. Bills in volving requests for about fin bil lion dollars mbre still are in the House Appropriations Committee. Hail Showers Hit City; More Snow in Hills It was just a case of more cloudy skies and possibility of scattered showers for the weather story, Thursday. Several showers of hail hit the city sreas throuch Wednesday, some downtown and heavier ones in West Salem section, but they missed the weather bureau area. As result, the official rainfall total In the 24-hour period ending at 10:30 am. Thursday in Salem amounted only to .01 of an inch. Considerable new snow was re ported for Ihe high Cascades, Thursday morning. Timberline luted a foot of new snow, Santiam pass 4 inches. Chains are a necessity for all mountain travel, the hishwsj com " caution sdvuei. Mrs. Roy L. Christiansen (left) Salem, adds her dessert, a p:e, to her meal pre . pared Thursday for the Mrs. Salem Con test. Watching her are the judges, Vivian Freeman (center) and Charlotte) Porter Board to Open Bids on 2 New Schools Friday Whether the Salem School Board has sufficient funds in sight to construct two junior hieh school buildings in the near future will probably be determin ed Friday alternoon, at 4 o ciock. At that hour the directors will meet with bidders at the Admin istration Building, 13th and Fer ry streets. Five or six contract ing firms have been figuring on the two schools. When bids were opened last November, it was discovered that the low figure was many thous ands of dollars in excess of the amount of money available. Since men mere nave oeeii many changes in the plans. How ever, there have been some up ward adjustments in the cost of materials as well as skilled labor. Viesko & Post, Salem firm, sub mitted n low bid of S2,71(1,2B0 for the two buildings last November. An effort was made thereafter to change the .plans sufficiently to make it possible to go ahead with construction. However, this did not work out. Following the opening of bids Fridav, the directors will consid er a number of routine matters. They will discuss the solicitation if funds in the schools; an adjust ment in elementary school secre tarial lime for 1957-58; adjust ment in elementary principal dif ferential ratios; and budget re quests of the transportation divi sion. Negroes Fined On Bus Counts BIRMINGHAM. Ala. tfl Re corders Judge lialph E. Parker Thursday fined 21 Negroes $fiU and costs each (or viulaling Bir mingham's bus segregation law, and in his ruling charged that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Con stitution is "null and vuid." The municipal judge struck out at what he called "the altitude bf a conspiring small group ot Negroes who defy the law in re gard to segregation and take mat ters into their own hands." The 14th Amendment guaran tees equal protection under the law. It is a keystone ot many Negro legal attacks on racial segregation laws in the South. INTERIOR OFFICIALS Demo-Endorsed Report Charges Utilities With 'Brainwash' Try WASHINGTON iL'Pl A Demo cratic controlled House committee endorsed today a controversial re port accusing private utilities of trying to "brainwash" Interior Department officials into opposing public power. The report charged that a group of Rocky Mountain power compan ies save interior officials a pamphlet of "professional private power propaganda" in the guise of "factual information." The House Government Operation- Committee endorsed Ihe re port, whirh was approved by a subcommittee Feb. 27 over vigor ous Republican objections. GOP members issued a minori ty r(ort sreusing Ihe Dcnwra's .n'f downdinj to "insult and un ification" and ol trying to "make She Hopes to Be Mrs. 111 L -J BIZARRE ACCIDENT Electricity As They Touch Auto ' (Earlier Story on Page 5, Section 4 MAHNOMEN. Minn. (AP) early Thursday -in a strange when a car sheared a pole Bower line. ' Two of the dead" rode In --p -ror n it I lewWellUps Salem Heights Water Sui ipply After six months of drilling, a well estimated to increase the available water supply or the Sa lem Heights Water District by 20 per cent, was brought in Wednes day afternoon. Exactly what the potential ot Ihe new well will be has not been de termined because adequate testing devices are not available here, according to A. O. Hunt, secretary of the water district. He said that preliminary estimates indicate a flow of 1,200 to 1,400 gallons a minute. Work on the 475-foot deep well began last September. Much of the drilling has been through extreme ly hard rock and at limes pro gress was limited to a foot a day. The well has a 12-inch casing. Hunt said that the supply of present wells was already enough to insure that there would be no restriction of irrigation in the dis trict this summer. The district-now serves 1.225 families with about one a dav being added, he said. The new well will be hooked into the system lines in about 90 davs. It is located in Ihe Liberty Hardens area at Arlene and Co iloma streets. I The well was drilled by Diitheld Bros. Solon Okay Gales WASHINGTON lit! The Senate Armed Services Committee unan imously approved Thursday Pres ident Eisenhower s nomination oi Thomas E. Gales Jr., of Phila- jdolphia. for promotion from under secretary lo secretary oi me Navy, succeeding thanes a I Thomas. SWAYED? I something of nothing" lo discred it private power companies and : boost public power progress, ! Claim Book Inaccurate i The controversy concerned a booklet prepared by live Rocky Mountain utilities in collaboration with Ebasco Serices, Inc.. a New jYork engineering service firm. ' The report said the utilities gave copies of the booklet in 1953 I to then Secretary of Interior Doug las McKay and some of his key aides shortly alter they took office. It said Ihe booklet was In semi ! anonymous form and contained "inaccurate, incomplete, distorted and otherwise deceptive informa tion which could only have hern calculated to mislead the officials ,10 whom it was directed." Salem (right). Other contestants are Mrs. Mathcw II. Bronec, Rt. 1, Monmouth; and Mrs. Duanc A. Ridings, Salem. (Capital Journal l'holo) Kills 3 Five young people were killed chain of tragedies touched off carrying a 33,000 volt electric the car which left a highway and struck the pole. The other three were occupanls of two cars who stopped to give aid, and apparently came in con tact with the nower line. Six lecn-agers in the wrecked car managed to escape alive. The car left a highway as Ihe group returned home from a dance. Killed were: William E. Schultz, 28, driver of the car which struck the pole, and one of his passen gers, Donald Haugen, 21, both of Winger, Minn. Marvin Duncan .Tr IS, and Orville Rolf, 18, both of Fosston, Minn., who leaped from the first car passing by the scene. Clark Hoidahl, 21, W i n g e r. Minn., who came by in a second car and made another futile res cue attempt. A power plant operator at Mah nomen said Ihe high line was not broken, but sagged near the car Henry Sidney, the operator who visited the scene, said it is mystery to him exactly how Ihe people were electrocuted, He said the car might have been charged or that the would-be rescuers came in direct contact with the drop ping high line. GIs Attacked By Bavarians NUERNBERG, Germany 141 -Rivalry for American business was blamed for an attack early today by Bavarian youths who in jured six American soldiers, one of them critically. The names of the soldiers were not announced immediately. Eight of Ihe Bavarians were arrested. Police said a large group of young Germans attacked the GIs with steel rods and beer bottles in a Nuernberg inn. The innkeeper said the proprietor of a rival es tablishment had promised the youths 50 marks ($11,901 for heat ing up his American patrons. Both inns cater chiefly to Americans. Tt was obviously designed to 'brainwash' the new Interior De partment officials and to create or strengthen in them a sense of hostility to the federal power pro gram as it then existed," the re port said. I Ebasro Denies Charge Fred C. Gardner, president of Ebasco. denied Ihe charges in a statement in New York. He said 'the "information we prepared is factual, accurate and was com piled largely from published gov jernment sources." I Republicans called Ihe majority report "a poorly contrived effort :to make a case for more federal jly sponsored power facilities at the epnie of Ihe Investor-owned utilities." f No-Ouster BUI Wins House OK OfficialJWoulcln't Be Removed for Bond Attack By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Associated Press Writer The Oregon House of Representatives u hursday approved legislation t o permit state and local of- licials to remain in office when there is a judgment against their bonds. Under present law, the governor is required to remove such offi cials from office. The bill, which goes to the Senate, would give the governor a choice whether to re move the officer. The bill is the outgrowth of a case two years ago when former Multnomah County Sheriff Terry Schrunk had a judgment against his bond because of the failure of one of his deputies to serve a sub poena for a Grants Pass woman. Judgment Was Reversed The late Gov. Paul Patterson re fused lo remove Schrunk. The judgment against the bond lator was reversed by the Supreme Court. Rep. Berkeley Lent D, Port land, told the House that the Uma tilla County sheriff now is in dan ger of losing his job under the present law because there's an at tack on his bond pending in Mult nomah County. The proposed compact under which Washington and Oregon plan to establish a new boundary along the Columbia River struck snag in the House. The bill to ratify the compact, already approved by the Senate, was sent back to the House State and Federal Affairs Committee after a possible error was discov ered. Would Change Boundary The compact would change the indefinite boundary, now desig nated as the main channel of the river, to -Ml points of longitude and latitude. , The referral to committee came after several members contended that these points of longitude and latitude were incorrectly dcsig nated. (Continued on Page S, Col. 7) Navy Jet Bids Again for U.S. Speed Record LOS ANGELES (UP)-A Navy twin-jet atom bomber darted into the sky at 9:11.51 a.m. PST today in an attempt to set a new uis Angeles lo New York record. The A.1D Skywnrrior failed Mon day in a similar try when it en countered winds up lo loo miles an hour. It landed at Patuxent. Md rather than its target of Flovd Bennett Field in New York. Cmdr. Dale W. Cox Jr., Spirit Lake, Idaho, again was at the con trols of the $1,875,657 plane in the second attempt. The same crew of copilot M. Russell Baum, Balti more, and T. Sgl. Robert L. Butts. USMC, Mayvillc, N.Y., were with him. Keizer VolesBonds For Wa ter System Approximately 1.M0 acres of the Keizer area will have a coinpre- I hensive water system just as soon , as negotiations for the sale ol j bonds can be completed and engi neering details taken care of. This was determined Wednesday 'when residents of the area voted '490 to 312 in favor of establishing a water district. The source of supply will be determined by the board of direc tors, headed by Robert O. Smith. Wells or the Salem water system arc two avauanic sources. When the voters authorized for mation of Ihe district several months ago, there was no assur ance lhat Salem would he able lo provide water. Since then Salem has decided lo construct an ad ditional pipe line from Ihe source which will provide sufficient water for much of the fringe area. However, Ihe matter ol finances will enter Into the picture to a large extent. The vole on Ihe formation of Ihe district was close, with affirm ative votes exceeding Ihe negative ones by only 56. Since then several informational meetings have been held. Meellngs Ilrlp These meetings are credited hy Chairman Smith as being largely responsible for a favorable vote W rather Details Minimum vtttrHir, M; minimum Intlav, H, inlMl zl.hotir prrt-lplta-tlnn: l: fnr mnnlh: 1(: nnrmal, ? 11. Snll prf f IpMJtlnn. M -VI; rinr ml IT 14. nirr h'liht. ? frtl. IR'pnrt br t'. S. Wrath'r RuMm.) Brews Discrepancy in Income; Records Ordered Seized .Rich Chambers (left) and Sam Haley, plan a 73-milc trip down the Willamette lllvcr Sunday in their small foldboats. Drift Voyage Stunt Brings Offer of Tow Interest in a proposed "drifting' trip down the Willamette River Sunday by two Salem men has grown by leaps and bounds, the two said Thursday. Sam Haley, who, along with Richard Chambers, plans the trip in two foldboats shilling at 0 a.m. Sunday, said he's already had a "surreptitious" offer for free towing most of the way with an invisible nylon line. "But I would n't consider that at all," Haley said. Haley and Chambers figure they can make lnc i.i nines io uu Burnside Bridge in Portland in 10 hours by drilling and paddling. They figure this will be a new record. "We'll carry our food in t h c boats and cat as we drift," the two said. Their only slops will be to "stretch." How about an escort? "No one has volunteered to go along with us yet." Haley said. "One fellow suggested we go over the falls at Oregon City rather than portag ing, as wo now plan," he said. BETTY FIELD TO WED NEW YORK till Betty Field, stage and screen actress, and Ally. Edwin J. Lukas, 55, obtained a marriage license yesterday. Ion bond lss"c' Members of Shendan. Cliff Bowder, Allan Walts, Dan Watson, .1. M. Poet, Rernard Smith and Harold Dun can. With Ihe exception of Ihe Man- hrin Gardens section, where r.r.niri.1 niimninc station nrovides 1 f 11, Vni.nr rncirlnnl secure wells. Ihcir water Irom private I ; JVIAR vian 1. H....-.I ....... ""!,. , c ., . r.h..k CASCADE LOCKS Pilot Dies Smashes CASCADK LOCKS lUPI The pilot of an Inland Navigation com pany airplane hurtled to his death in his crippled wait on the banks of Ihe Columbia river near here last night. Hood River County sheriff's offi cers identified the pilot as Lou C. Ilerron, about 3D, ol The Dalles. He was alone in the plane at Ihe lime of the crah. Witnesses said the plane plowed into a bluff overlooking Highway 30, glanced off and strut k be earth about four feet from the- edge of Ihe highway, then bounced over utility lines and raiiroao tracks belore finally coming to rest on the edge of the river. Large sections of Ihe twisted wreclfflpe were hurled into Ihe mcr with other pieces of the twin k- oSejo jo A-nejeATiirj Get Set for River Voyage Their goal Is the Burnslde Bridge In Port land. They hope to make it in about 10 hours. (Capital Journal Photo) : SWITCHED TO WINNER Brewster Aided Both Of Sheriff Aspirants WASHINGTON (AP) Senale Investigators were told Thursday that the Teamsters cratic sheriff's campaign deficit publican candidate. Frank Brewster, head of Teamslers, told about it after Sen- ale committee members showed him a scries of checks signed by 1 1 i in . One such check was drawn lo Tim McCullough, identified as a successful Dcmocralic candidate for King County (Seattle) sherilf 1952. Brewster sain 11 was n political contribution, Brewster testified the union originally backed the Republican contender, Harlan c a 1 1 a 11 a n. against McCullough but that alter McCullough won "we pic-neii up part of McCiillough's deficit." Thcv always wind up wilh a deficit," Brewster remarked. The business of backing one candidate and then helping out his winning opponent intrigued sever al committee members, particu larly Sen. Mundt (R-SD) who said it was "a pretty expensive prac tice." Rrewsler agreed and said thai was one of the many things he intends lo change in West Const Teamslers operations. "We lost the candidate and we picked up the other one," Brew ster said of the McCullougliCalln han race. "They're In ollice lor lour years, you know." TI10 committee produced anoth er Western Conference check for $500, also signed by Brewster, which went lo Tim McCullough, ilia imp in Sentemlier. 195(1. Brew ster snid he Iho'ght the proceeds wenl lor a boy's club fund drive, hut was listed on Ihe union's books as "a political donation. "A donation lo a boy's club Is political?" asked Kennedy, "Well. It might be" Brewster, said, saying Ihe check probably w-as ssued hy the late western , Conference secretary treasurer signed in blank by Brewster. as Plane Into Bluff ! Beechcralt scattered over a wide area, Only bits of the pilot's lorn body were found. Boats from While Salmon, Wash., and Hood River were called in lo search the river and Ihe Hood River Crag Rats and Alpenees were called to conduct a search on the shore. A number of witnesses said Iler ron apparently encountered hail and icine conditions jusl before Ihe crash. A passing motorist, Joe Miller. Cascade Locks, said he 1 5ddt.y the plane coming at hjm hout M frH o(( ,hc hi)!nway ; , , b , jt cra,hed into the hh ,( I rivli A-rnnn,,i,-, Adminislra- !,im) n,(ici,, ln riiand said lhat Herrnn had taken olf from Port : land Inlirnallnnal Airport al :17 nikmallnnal Airnnrt at : 17 j last nisnl, bound 'lor The Dallci.jtry in building inciters. XjBJn T rt t Explain Union paid part of a Demo after backing the losing Re the Western Conference of 1 Builder Levitt Fears 'Bust' in Housing Slump WASHINGTON m Builder William .1. Levitt snid Thursday, a "catastrophic slump in nome building, unless checked at once by Congress, "will drag th rest of the economy down lo ruin with us." Levitt, the country's biggest home builder, (old a Senate bank ing subcommittee il already is too late to revive residential building Ibis yeur. He urged higher, flexible Inter est rales on government-underwritten mortgages, lower down payments, lengthening of the mortgage term from 30 lo 35 years, and druslic reduction of the insurance charge mode by me Federal Housing Administration on mortgages It insures. The com mittee is considering various pro posals To broaden housing credit, Levitt, president of Levitt and Sons Inc., of Levitlown, Pa., said In a slaleinenl that newhoine starts fell last month to tin an nual rate of 9IM.0IKI dwellings, low est since 1949, because the Indus try is "starved lor want of ade quate consumer credit." He apologized lor being a "prophet of doom." but snid Ihe housing industry directly or indi rectly provides one-fourth of all jobs. Its collapse, he said, would he "everybody's problem." Nixon Is Back From Africa WASHINGTON W! Vice Pres ident Nixon returned from Africa Thursday weary but confident he won thousands of new friends for the liniled States during his 21), 000. mile aerial good will tour. Kvcrvwheic we went we were overwhelmed by Ihe friendship shown lor the government and people of the United States not only among leaders but people In cverv walk of life, he said. The nine nnlion Irip convinced him. Nixon said, there is "a great responsibility" lor the United Stales to "continue lo lollow en lightened policies which deserve Ihe support ot these peoples." Poi'llnnclrrs lYtilion For Itoinl) Shelters PORTLAND on A group ot Portlanders asked Congress Thursday to alart building six bil lion dollars worth of bomb shcl lers at once, A petition signed hy 500 persons snnke of Ihe "highly unstable" In ternational situation, and said (he 1 Russians were ahead ol mis coun Union's Money Used to Buy Car Gift WASHINGTON (AP)- Frank W. Brewster, West ern Teamsters Union boss, , testified Thursday I do ,' not know" why he report- ' ed different income totals on his income tax and labor department '' forms, but Hint no "coverup" was involved. ' ' Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to Senate rackets investigators, put before Brewster two charts which he said were made from Brew ster's own reports. One listed Brewster as report ing to the Labor Department that his compensation from the inter-, national union for the years 1949- ' 5 inclusive was $a6,319 while saying in tax reports that com pensation from this source was $26,220. - Didn't Order Coverup In the second chart, Brewster was listed as having higher fig ures in his tax reports as to in- ' come and allowances from Local ' 174 than he reported to the La bor Department. In this tabula lion, the total reported for tax ' purposes was listed as $81,199.30 whereas the reports to the Labor Department totalled $52,527.50. Kennedy asxed whether. In the case of Local 174. the explanation might be that Brewster "didn't ' want the international to Know 1 just how much he got trom the ; local. "I never told anyone to cover up anything," Brewster replied heatedly. , . , "Then how do you get two dif ferent figures?" Kennedy asked. Brewster said that was some-. thing he could answer" only after he checks With the bookkeeping deoartmenls of the Western Con ference of Teamsters and Local -174.- The discrepancy in figures In Ihe two reports was brought at a fast-moving hearing in which Senale investigators served a for mal demand for Brewster to turn over all his personal linanciai records. Car Bought for Girl Friend The investigators also confront ed Brewster with an account of Teamsters Union money used to buy a $3,115 automobile for the girl friend of Ihe 69-ycar-old driv er of his race horse van. Brewster identified his signature . on a check which a Senate staff investigator said figured In the automobile purchase, but he swore he knew nothing about the matter. With some protest from his -lawyers. Brewster told the Sen ate rackets investigating commit tee he would produce the request ed financial data but would need lime to search for his records. He said he didn't have much anyway "I just have my check ing accounts," Asked about bills, invoices and so on, Brcwsler said he didn't keep such records after he paid Ihem. $16,991 Vs. $6,000 The committee put before Brew- ster documents purporting to show that he listed income of $10,991.62 Irom Ihe International Brother hood of Teamslers in a 1955 re port to the Labor Department, but reported $6,000 income irom ine (Continued on Page 5. Column )- News in Brief For Thursday, March II, 1957 NATIONAL Brcwsler Can't Explain Income Discrepancy Sec. 1, P. I S Die In Bizarre Auto Accident Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL Marion Court Okays Road Survey .... Sec. 1, P. 8 Claylon Dixon Named Postmaster Assistant Sec. 1, P. 5 STATK Polk Educational Korum Slated Saturday Sec. J, P. Shippers Protest Bill To Control Rail Service Sec. 1, P. i FOREIGN Ike, Macmillan Start Bermuda Conference sec. 1, r. i SPORTS NIT Semifinals Tonight Sec. 4, P. 1 ' NCAA Semifinals Friday Sec. 4, P. REGULAR FEATURES Amusements . Sec. 1,P. Editorials Sec. 1,P. Locals Sec. 1. P. 5 Society Sec. 2, P. 1-1 Comics Sec. 3, P. 11 Television Sec. 4, P. 8 Want Ads - Sec. 4, P. 7.-9 Markets Sec. 4, P. S , Dorothy Di Sec. 1 P. 10 Crossword Puzila .... Sec. 1, P. U Food , ,k Sec. I t