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Capital jLJourft aJ THE WEATHER. PARTIAL. CLEARING, tonight! partly cloud;, warmer Wednesday. Low tonight, 4J-45; high Wednes day, W-42. 2 SECTIONS 16 Pages ejo n3 Blizzard Deals Rockies Areas Near - Disaster Pueblo Without Power as Big Snow Suaps Lines; Two Dead; Road, Air Travel Disrupted DENVER (AP) A approaching disaster proportions swept across the Rockies Tuesday, paralyzing Colorado's second larg est city, causing two deaths and disrupting transpor tation. 1 ; The sprawling industrial city of Pueblo, with 100,000 r"P"lali"" t was without electric power as the storm snapped lines. I . Downtown buildings were en dangered by the weight of accu mulated wet snow. Two were hur riedly evacuated when beams groaned under eight inches of . snow. Roofs of others were en dangered. ' Candlelight in Banks Banks did business by candle light as customers slogged their . way through the storm. The Mountain States Telephone . and Telegraph Co. said service was interrupted throughout the mountain region. Air traffic was halted both at Denver and at Cheyenne, Wyo. Continental Airlines reported flights grounded as far east as Wichita, Kan. One Greyhound bus with an unknown number of pas sengers was held up at Deer Trail, on Colorado's eastern plains, and three other buses were stranded at Laramie in southern Wyoming. The American Automobile Assn. advised against highway travel in any direction from Denver. Rail way traffic was delayed by up to two hours. 2 Feet In Passes , Two feet of fresh snow was re ported on Loveland and Monarch passes in the Colorado Rockies, r Depths ranging from a foot to 18 " laches were reported elsewhere in -wvthc ' mountains, pointing to what osate and local water board om- dais said might be a significant break in a years-long drought. -i Four to five foot drifts were piled up in mountain passes by Winds of 20 to 30 miles an hour. The dead were victims of traf fic accidents. Gerald A. Bowker, 50, of Burlington, Colo, was killed Monday night when his car skid ded into a snowplow on a snow ehoked mountain highway west of here. Howard C. Douglas, 65, was struck and killed by a car as he crossed a Denver street in the blinding snow. The storm moved in just 10 days after blizzards whipped the east ern Colorado Plains, killing thou sands of cattle and snarling trans portation. Unlike the earlier bliz zard, Tuesday's snow was heavier in water content and little drifting was reported during the morning. ' Ranchers and city dwellers .braced themselves for new on slaughts as the weather bureau predicted an additional six inches in Denver and along the east slopes of the Rockies by Tuesday night. Woman Kills Self With Gun LEBANON (Special) Mrs. Vera Antoinette Costello died in ' Lebanon Community Hospital ' early Tuesday of a bullet wound ' which police said was self inflicted with a .22 caliber revolver. (; . Mrs. Costello was living with a ' niece at 723 Sherman St. She was '- found in an unconscious condition ; by her niece's husband, Edwin Densmore, at 10:48 p.m. Monday. '. s Funeral services will be charge of the Jost Mortuary. Mid-Valley Planning Unit Formally Set Up i ' ; By STEPHEN A. STONE Capital Journal Associate Editor "The Mid - Willamette Planning Council, which is to be a coordi- nating factor for community plan ning in Marion and Polk counties. ; . became a permanent organization ' , Monday night w hen a report by the temporary council, setting up .an organizational plan, was ap proved. The present political subdivisions : represented in the organization arc ' Marion County, the City of Salem. I Polk County, and Salem School ' District 24 CJ. Governing bodies ' of each of these groups must ap- 1 ! prove the council. , '.. Makeup of Council Members of the council, repre ' seating these subdivisions, all ex- officio, are the chairman of the ' ' Marion County Planning Commis ' sion. chairman of the Salem City Planning Commission, chairman of i - the Polk County Planning Com and the chairman of the school board. These persons are William Jler - riotl of Woodburn. Robert K. Pow ell of Salem, a Polk County man to be named, and Gardner Knapp. The Polk commission is in the (rocesi of formation. blinding spring snowstorm : Qiy Bppp IV SENATE 111 3 Lt. Governor, Added Legislator Bills Bog By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. Associated Press Writer The proposal to create the Oregon ran head-on Tuesday into a plan to add a member to each house of the Legislature. Both proposals, which would amend he Constitution and thus have to be submitted to the people next year, appeared to bog down in partisan politics. County's Road Workers Seek 35-Cent Raise A request for a 35-cent an hour'1"'!!"1 dividl! on party-line votes across the board wage increase for members of the Marion County Road Department was made by Leo Butts, secretary of the Oregon Assn. of Municipal, State and County Employes during a confer ence with the Marion County Court Tuesday morning, At the conclusion of the presenta tion. County Judge Rex Hartley said that the request would be given serious consideration but made no commitments concerning an increase. Butts said that wages among county road and shop workers were too low in comparison to what is being paid by private in dustry. The 35 cent increase, he added, would bring the hourly wage to $1.87 an hour for ordinary labor, or $322 a month. Private in dustry, according to Butts is pay ing $355 a month. , Herbert Barker, secretary of the Salem Trades and Labor Council, spoke briefly in behalf of the coun ty workers. He said he was inter ested in bringing about better working conditions for the men. Lloyd Taylor, president of the Marion County Public Employes local, stated that the men were not satisfied with present conditions. He brought up the matter of "equal wage for equal pay," charging that in some instances there was an 18-cent differential being paid truck drivers. One member of the budget com mittee sat in on the conference. He was Ernie Henningsen of the Jefferson area. A transcript of the proceedings will be provided other members of the committee, said juage naruey. Weather Details Maximum yesterday, CO; minimum today, 41. Total M-nnur precipitation- oi- far mnnth: .02: normal. .IS. Season precipitation, 27.02; normal, 3J.70. River height. 6.9 ft. (Report by U. S. wea tiler BiireaiKi The purpose of the council is lo coordinate all plannin" matters among the four political subdi visions and any others that may come in later. It is also to pro vide a complete planning staff service for all the divisions. Its services are advisory only, and any plans provided will require approval by the governing bodies of the subdivisions. To Employ Director The plan calls for employment of a planning director with the concurrence of the chief admin istrative officer of each of the po litical subdivisions, and the direc tor will employ any help needed. It is estimated that a budget of about $28,000 a year will be needed, of which it is believed some $12,000 will be available as a grant from the government. The annual budget, as now planned, will be apportioned 40 per cent from .Marion touniy, id. per cent from the school district. j 35 per cent Irom Salem and 10 per ;ccnt irom rout couniy. ror immc- diate needs. Salem and Marion County expect to budget about 118. 000. The members of the council will elect their chairman. 69lh Year, No. 78 Late Flashes WASHINGTON 11 Secretary of Slate Dulles denied Tuesday that the United States ever made a flat commitment to defend the Nationalist Chinese Islands of Quemoy and Matsu. MERCED, Calif. (UP) A huge furniture van smashed into a stalled truck on U.S. M today anJ burst Into flames, burning to death John Van Sands, 43, of Portland, Ore., who was asleep at the rear of the cab behind the driver's seat, OMAHA, Neb. (UP) A 17-year-old boy, whose burned body was found on a suburban high way early today, was an appar ent victim of electrocution, police laboratory tests showed. The tests led police to abandon an earlier theory that the victim, Donald Larry Marffsl, had been tortured to death by a teen-age gang. , office of lieutenant governor of The Republican-dominated Sen' ate Elections Committee, voting on party lines, approved 4 to 3 Tuesday the measure to add a member to each house. The House, controlled by the Democrats, has passed the lieu tenant governor measure, and it's now in the Senate State and Fed eral Affairs Committee. It looks as though both proposals crats and 15 Republicans. In Tuesday's committee vote, the Democrats opposed adding a member in each house on the grounds it would make the lieu tenant governor proposal less at tractive. The Republicans on the commit tee argued that having at senators and 61 representatives would les sen the chance of. deadlocks, such as that which prevented the pres ent Senate from organizing for 11 days. The Democrats tried to keep the Senate at 30 members, but add a member to the House. This mo tion also was beaten 4 to 3 in a party vote. The four Republican members of the committee are Sens. Lee Ohmart, Salem, chairman: Rudie Wilhelm, Portland; Carl Francis, Dayton: and Sidney Schlesinger, Salem. The three Democrats are Sens. Alfred H. Corbett. Portland: Dwight H. Hopkins, Imbler; and R. F. Chapman, Coos Bay. Wilhelm, a sponsor of the pro posal to add a member to each house, admitted it "would have a tendency to weaken the argu ment for the lieutenant governor." Corbett said that it would be un necessary to have 31 senators when there would be a lieutenant governor. ' After Sen. Howard C. Bclton (R) Canby, also a sponsor of the .. thni tha nannla irntinrf , p. rwmr. !i Governor Gov. Robert D. Holmes received a brief lesson In the ways of the bagpipe Monday after he designated the Eugene Highland ers band as his official footguad.fc'pyrj1 Salem, 11 Perish As Plane Explodes Navy Men Plunge To Fiery Death In Virginia CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP) A Navy Neptune bomber exDioded l n great ball of fire" shortly after takeoff Tuesday and carried its 11 crewmen to 'death in a flaming crash on Virginia's eastern shore. The twin-engine long range air craft ran into trouble a minute after it left the strip at the Chin coteague Naval Air Station. There was a sputtering noise, a witness reported, when the plane was only a couple of hundred feet in the air, then a window-rattling blast and the plunge to earth in a big plume of smoke. Crashes on Farm . It slammed into a plowed field on the farm of Dennis Hurley, two miles south of the air station which Ues on Virginia's outer banks along the Atlantic Ocean near the Maryland line. The' Navy said the propeller driven aircraft had taken off at 6:54 a.m. for Cherry Point, N.C.. The 11 occupants had no oppor tunity to jump from the faltering craft at such a low . altitude. All apparently were buried in the burning fuselage in the 10-foot hole it made in the sandy soil. Earl W. Darby, who runs a gen eral store in the small community of Atlantic, was one of the first on the scene. Found Only Shoe, Foot "I jumped In my pickup truck and drove to the field where it came down, he said. "All I could find was a man's shoe and a man's foot." Darby said he saw the plane shortly after the takeoff. It was headed south and appeared to be not over 200 or 300 feet in the air when it turned back toward the base. . He said there was a "backfiring noise" as. the plane flew back over. the Atlantic and suddenly It ex ploded. Holmes Picks Piper Band as His Footguard Walls of the Oregon Capitol rocked with the whine of Scottish bagpipes Monday as three mem bers of the Eugene Highlanders band performed an impromptu concert to celebrate the band's ap pointment as Gov. Robert D. Holmes official footguard. . So far as can be determined it is the first time an official foot guard has been designated for a governor. Designation of a Scottish pipe band for the footguard, whose of ficial duties appear vague, is in keeping with the ancestry of the Governor who can trace his fam ily back to Clan McQuarrie in Scotland. The Eugene band consists of 14 pipers, 7 drummers and 7 dancers. The group wears the 4McKenzie tartan. . UnVnni Displays Bagpipe Talents Oregon, Tuesday, April Dulles Asks Egypt Answer On Suez Parleys 'At Once' TJK-JTWJ-'l llip'a"aasMaj'B. tiiwi!Wiiiwwiiiiwi!' nvnnummmfatn r,.-rr-rr-w-' fl)f:) fil ; vvjj'rS? fW NsTx I all III n ITT Til hi al Ba J' Sh r . .m aV-ia in im i M Wi ii iiiiiiaaiTi 19 in Race as Texans Select 'Key' Senator DALLAS, Tex. '(fl Texans were casting their votes in mod erate numbers Tuesday in a special election which ..will deter mine the makeup of the U. S. Sen ate for the next two years. Reports from over the state In dicated a generally light vote. On ly in Dallas and Fort Worth and a few other places where municipal elections also are being held was the balloting heavy. The weather was expected to play an important part in the final tabulation. Thunderstorms were reported in some sections and tor nado warnings were posted for a large area of west and north Tex as. Voters had 19 candidates to pick from, including an ambitious Re publican lawyer from Houston, Thad Hutcheson, who hopes to even the party count 48-48 in the Senate. The winner will fill out the re maining two years of the term of Democrat Price Daniel, who re signed after he was elected gov ernor. The high man wins the election. There will be no runoff. Democrats now control the Sen ate 49-47. If Texans elect a Re publican, the GOP could, with his vote and that of Vice President Richard Nixon, reorganize the Senate. 5W7 C on as the Governor blows hard into the pipes is Phil While, a member of the High landers. (Capital Journal Photo) 2, 1957 Entered at sec matter at Salens; Five Texas Senate Candidates Main candidates in today's special Texas election to fill U.S. Senate seat vacated by resignation of Frlce Dan iel are, left to right; Thad Hutcheson, principal Republi can candidate; Democrats Martin Dies, Ralph Yarborough, John White and James Hart. (AP Wircphntn) WILLAMETTE GRAD Hitchman Chosen For City Donald L. Hitchman, city re corder at Pendleton, was appoint ed Tuesday by City Manager Kent Mathewson of Salem as his ad ministrative assistant. He will succeed Charles A. Barclay, re signed, and take over the office April 25. Hitchman is not a stranger to Salem. He was graduated from Willamette University in 1953 where he majored in political sci ence and public administration. He followed with graduate work in public administration at Syra cuse University, New York, where he received the Master of Arts degree. For a time after finishing his university work he was assistant Beck Mum on Report Publicity Idea Vetoed WASHINGTON Ml If Dave Beck, beleaguered Teamsters Union president, got the million dollar publicity fund he wanted to tell his own story in the union's money scandals, he wasn't adver tising the fact Tuesday. Safeway Clear Of Blame for Double Label PORTLAND w-Canned toma toes with a government surplus foods label under a Safeway Stores label have been removed from the shelves and Safeway has re ferred the matter to the federal government. George Mangan, local manager for Safeway, made that report Monday alter Slale Sen. Monroe Sweelland had called attention lo the double labeling. Mangan said Safeway bought the tomatoes from Martinez food canncrs of Martinez, Calif., which pasted the Safeway label over a government label when it found it had a surplus of tomatoes canned for the school lunch program Mangan said the Martinez com pany advised him the cans were surplus production under the gov ernment contract and were not; i government property. However, Mangan said, all such double-label cans were being re - moved from the stores and the federal government has been ad vised. UO Student Badly Hurt F.UGKNK W A University of are a hrolhor. Alien Piiinney. Sa Oregon student from Mcdford was leni: grandpprcnt.s. Mr. and Mrs. badly injured early Tuesday ninrn- William C. Tarhet. Kugenc, and ing when his auto smashed inlo a Grover C. Phinncy, Marble Falls, concrete guard rail on River Road ; Tex.: and several aunts and north of Eugene Injured was William Franklin Smith, about 23, a student living at Sherry Ross Hall uoSBJO 3 9 Aide Job to the city manager at Grants Pass. Hitchman was born at Seaside and lived there until his gradua tion from Willamette. He was married to Miss Phyllis Wik of Silverton, who before her mar riage, was employed in Salem as secretary to Lee McAllister, man ager of the Salem office of the Bureau of Reclamation. Charles Barclay, who has re signed because or personal busi ness has been with the Salem city administration since June 1, 1949. He was first employed as man ager of the airport, then became purchasing agent. Later he was made administrative assistant, which included these and other duties. There were conflicting reports that the Teamsters Executive Board, meeting secretly here Mon day, (a) had given Beck an okay and (h) had turned down his pro posal to spend union money to tell "my story." Beck maintains he's innocent of Senate rackets committee charges he misappropriated at least $.120r 000 union funds. He invoked the Fifth Amendment before the com mittee in refusing to answer ques tions, but has told reporters that while he "borrowed" the money he paid it all back. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) In dicated, meanwhile, that the com mittce may resume its public hearings about April 15, but in a different phase of its inquiry. This (Continued on Page 5 Column 1) Salem Girl Dies Of Heart A ilmen t Five-year-old Deborah Ann Phin ney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.e Roy Phinncy, 650 N. 20th St., died early Tuesday morning at Doern becher Hospital in Portland. She had been In the hospital for some lime, undergoing a heart operation in mid-. March. She had been in serious condition since ! (our days alter the operation. In the rare operation, Deborah had a plastic disc Inserted in the septum wall of her heart to plug a hole which had been there since birth. Born in Santa Ana, Calif., Nov. 8, 1951, Deborah and her parents came to Salem to reside four years a?o. Survivinc besides the parents uncles. Announcement of funeral serv ices will be made later by the Virgil T. Golden chapel. British Union Council Halts Costly Strikes LONDON Ur) Union bosses Tuesday called oft costly strikes in Britain's shipbuilding yards arid factories pending the outcome of a government inquiry Into their pay demands. The strikers Vh million In the factories and 200.000 in the shin- yards were ordered to go back to work on Thursday. The Confederation of Shipbuild ing and Engineering Unions made up or 40 unions which has been running the strikes decided to call them off after a recommendation by us executive. The decision was taken as the walkouts threatened to cripple Britains automobile production and factories producing 40 per cent of the nation's exports. The three-man court of Inquiry begins Its work Wednesday. The unions have demanded a 10 per cent wage increase. Last week they offered to call oft the strikes lor an interim Increase or S per cent if the rest of their demand was left to a commission of in quiry. The government asked I hem to go back to work while the investigation is in progress. Eden Curtails Holiday, Needs U.S. Treatment AUCKLAND, New Zealand tin Sir Anthony Eden, facing the threat of a recurrence of his old bile duct trouble, decided Tuesday to cut short his New Zealand va cation and leave by plane Thurs day for medical treatment in Bos ton. Prime Minister Sidney Holland announced the British former prime minister and Lady Kden will head for Fiji aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force flying boat on the first leg of their trip to Boston. In Fiji they will catch a transpacific airliner for Hono lulu and Vancouver, a. u. W ' M m -"V"J f'l"- DEBORAH ANN PIIINNEY Nasser's Plan Of Operation Rejected r WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Tohn Foster Dulles called on Egypt to disclose within the next 24 to 48 hours whether it is willing to enter into serious negotiations for op erating the Suez Canal. Dulles also reiterated that the United States docs not propose to shoot its way through the canal, or to call for boycott of the inter national waterway, Dulles told a news conference that Egypt's recent plan for operat ing the canal has certain weak nesses and shortcomings which should be corrected. Because of its wording, Dulles said the Egypt ian plan may in fact be only a unilateral statement subject at any time to Egypt's unilateral ac tion. The secretary left no doubt that the United States still desires some form of international control and operation of the Canal, V.N. Principles Ousted He pointed out that the Egypt ian plan does not include the six principles approved last October by tile U.N. Security Council for operating the canal. These points, he recalled, included provision for tree and open transit at the canal and an agreement between Egypt and canal users for fixing tolls. Dulles repeated his previous statements that the United States believes every country, including Israel, has the right to send its snips mrougn uie canal. But he said this government, -so far at ne Knows, nas noi Denn omaajiy advised that Israel plans to send a ship through the canal.;; On other subjects, Dulles: - . -Said that' the United States has given no secret assurances to Nationalist China that it will helo defend Quemoy and Matsu islands in event of a Communist attack. The only U, S. commitments, ho ' said, are those publicly known and approved by Congress, namely that the United States shall defend Formosa and the Pescadores Is lands and related areas. A new book on Dulles by John R. Beal of Time magazine says that Nation alist China received a personal letter from President Eisenhower which satisfied Chiang Kai-shek that the United States would help defend Matsu and Quemoy. Permits To Newsmen Said the administration Is still actively studying the question of whether to permit American re porters to go into Red China. While this problem has been un der very active consideration lor the last week or two, he said he could not forecast a change at this time. Said the United States should not consider the Korean armistice as void despite serious violations of the agreement by the Commu nists. Although there have been some recommendations that the armistice be declared void, Dulles said this is not something favored by the United States.. Earlier, U. S. officials said that lifting the ban on American travel In the Middle East reflects optim ism that peace will continue in that area. The State Department stressed Its optimism by announcing that U.S. officials and dependents evac uated during the Anglo-French and Israeli Invasion of Egypt will return soon. INews in Brief For Tuesu.vy, April 1, 1937 NATIONAL Labor Probers Clear llculhcr. Others ... Sec. 1, P. 1 Blizzard Belts Rockies States Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL Students Don't Have lo Dance Schmidt . . . Sec. 1, P. S 30 Boys Already Signed For Soap Box Derby ....Sec. 1, P. S STATE f Holmes Says He Has No Specific Tax Plans . Sec. 1, P. 1 Lt. Governor, Added Solon Measures Bog Sec. 1, P. 1 FOREIGN Dulles Asks Nasser to Disclose Suez Intent Sec. 1, P. 1 SPORTS Ted Williams Apologizes n. i f n c. in. Gordien Eyes 200-Foot Discus Record Sec. 2, P. 1 REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Editorials locals Society Comics Television Sec. l, P. I ... Sec. 1, P. 4 ... Sec. 1, P. 8 .... S?c. 1, P. 8 ... Sec. 2, P. 4 ... Sec. 2, P. 5 ..Sec. 2, P. 6-7 ... Sec. 2, P. S ....Sec. 2, P. S ... Sec. 2, P. 4 Sec. 2, P. 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