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Capital jLJournal THE WEATHER VARIABLE CLOUDINESS with a few widely nattered light show ers tonight, Friday. Little change In temperature. Low tonight, 40; ' high Friday, 60. ' 3 SECTIONS 52 Paget 69lh Year, No. 86 o i r rn . .1 n inri Entered aeo auiciu, jrcgun, xuursuay, April m, ,, SMla 'Big Jim' One Polio Victim Leaves, Other Comes Home Ike Bids Cr:f Ess Reduce Says S UA Took Cut Testifies Langley Complained Over Piddling Sum PORTLAND, Ore., (AP) Big Jim Elkins, Portland racketeer, testified Thuis day that Multnomah County Dist. Atty William M. Langley received a cut in the proceeds from gambling at a night club party here in 1955. . Langley is on trial on a charge of failing to enforce gambling laws. Elkins said that Langley had complained to him that he receiv ed only "a piddling amount" from the affair. Portland Sgl. Dan Mitola losti--hed Wednesday that he saw the district attorney at the night club where a gambling party was go ing full blast. Sat With DA , Mitola said he was at Jack and Jill's night club on the night of Feb. 25, 1955, "on business". knowing there were gamblers and other underworld figures there. He said he and Langley sat at a table just inside the door of the place and that he saw gambling equipment. Asked by Langley's attorney if ft occurred to him to try to stop the gambling, Mitola said: no, it didn't." The attorney, K. C. Tanner, said in his opening statement that Langley, the chief legal officer of Multnomah county (Pnrtlandi, had been in the foyer of the night club and that he had observed gambling. Was for Charity But. Tnnner said, Langley did not think he could prosecute un der Oregon law because the group was engaged in a charitable activ ity the funds from the gambling going to the PAL Club, a police sponsored youth organization, and to other charitable and civic groups. The slate contends that Lang- ley's failure ta .take-action-at the ' time was incidental to a conspir acy to open Multnomah County to gambling. , (Continued on Page '5, Column 1) Independence Matron May Be Polio-Stricken A 45-ycar-o 1 d Independence woman is a possible polio victim at Salem Memorial Hospital. Hospital authorities said Mrs. Wyma Staplcton was admitted Wednesday with a. "stiff neck" and "headaches" and is undergo ing tests to determine if she has polio. Mrs. Stapleton had definite symptoms Wednesday, officials said, , but is in much better condi tion Thursday. "We won't know for a couple of days whether or not this is actually polio, oiti cials said. Jerry Saddler. 26-year-old Salem resident who reft, for a CaliiorniaJ clinic Thursday, was Marion coun ty's first polio victim of 1957. Fallout Peril Rated Low by AEC Director DURHAM, N. H. tm Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. fallout from nuclear tests is not as dangerous as many people haan aA In nolicva " Libby, in a speech prepared for delivery a me uiiiver&iiy m ni'ff Hampshire, said that continued taelinc at Iho camp rale anrt in thp same way as during the past five years "will not increase the haz ard." j "There is a great deal we do not know about the precise effect of radiation on the human body," he said, "but we do know that the effect of radioactive fallout from nuclear test? is not, nor is it likely ever to be, the danger to the human race . . . which many people have been led to believe." Libby noted that "ever since people have lived on this planet" they have been subject to radia tion from cosmic rays which come from outer space and from radioactive material in the crust of the earth. In recent years, he added, has come radiation from the use of X-rays, luminous devices and the like. Transient Hit By Train Dies ALBANY. Ore. A transient, walking up a railroad track, was fatallv injured Wednesday night when he was hit from behind hy a northbound Southern Pacific pasenger train. He was .identified from papers en his body as Magnus G. Broten. to. who at on tim lived at rsnt fr'. Two Salem polio victims traded places as Mrs. Harold Adamson Wednesday .came home from a year at a respirator center near Long Beach, Calif., and Jerry Sad dler left Thursday morning for the clinic. At top, Mrs. Saddler and their two chil dren, Dawn, Vh, and Dan, 5-i, watch as TRADE PLACE IN LUNG . Salem Says Hello, Adieu to Patients By MARGARET MAGEE Capital Journal Writer Jerry Saddler, 727 Xlcnlo Dr., Salem's second polio victim to re ceive treatment at the Respirator Center, Rancho Los Amigos, near Long Beach, Calif., left by plane Thursday morning. i Departing on the same plane that Wednesday afternoon returned Mrs. Harold (Frances) Adamson from the center. Saddler was in a portable Sam Lung for the trip. Mrs. Adamson left in the same type of lung March 29, 1956, being transferred into it from the iron lung at the hospital. She returned in a wheel chair. Saddler, stricken with polio Feb. 4 of this year, left the iron lung at the hospital about a month ago and has been in a rocking bed and a wheel chair since then. 'Don't Cheat Me!' Asked if he expected to be home sooner than Mrs. Adamson was. Saddler quipped. "I'd better." To the query about his being up two hours each day, he came back with, "It's four hours each day. Don't cheat me." He can already move both arms and one leg and expects to make a fast recovery. The lung in which Saddler left for California is transported in an especially equipped plane from the Hth Acromedlcal Transport Squad ron, Brooks AFB, Texas. taylon 3Ieet ou Water Line Set Two Councils V 1WO I.OUIICIIS The city councils of Stayton and Salem will meet jointly at Mayion City Hall Tuesday night. April 16. for a discussion of plans for the extension of the new Salem water I tep0Tiei Thursday. j the closed food closet," the dec line through Stayton. Dr Walter c Ralton said he tor said. "The boy would have The projected line extends from administered treatment for frost- died he missed doalh by min Stayton Island, which is above ite of Ihe feet and hanr"s Wedncs- utcs if his molher hand't found Stayton. Ihrouch that city alon? oay to little Then Deilopi. who him " the surveyed line to Turner and waJ tercaei by his mother. Mrs. Mrs. DcHnos said she went into Saltm. Some problems have de- rjanjc DcHoog. from a chest-type the garase to get some frozen veloped relative to passasc frr jnt0 which he had climbed meat; for an early dinner when through Stayton. and these will be discussed Tuesday night. The meeting li scheduled to t?rt a p.m. The plane, a C-131 and known as the Samaritan, has generators to handle the lung. However, in case Ihe eenerators should fail, two sets of batteries are carried along to work the lung. Brooks Personnel Medical personnel on the plane are also from Brooks and from the 1st Acromedlcal Transport Group. The special mission of the outfit is to handle polio patient transporta tion throughout the world. Among the'last to bid the polio oatient goodbye were his wife and their two children, Dan, age 5, and T)awn, who is 2'i. Also there, were his nurse, Mrs. Vivian Damaske, who has been with him ever since he entered the hospital and also took care of Mrs. Adamson lor six weens; Capt. Glenn Bowman, chairman for the polio drive: ana irom me polio executive board here, John Crockalt, Irwin weoei ana Leon ard Rowan. Saddler was transported to the plane in his iron lung by ambulance. METABOLISM BRAKED Boy Hibern a tes in Freezer, Survives s-vear-nld hov. rescued min- . ... flAalh frnm inisirlp fl locked home deepfreczer where he was trapped for nearly an hour, survived the cold because he went l.;KArnql,n lilra an animal it and locked himself. "This was the most interesting case I've ever handled." the Gar- den Grnvr phyirtrtjm ssM. "Hihr - v : j 1 - US llfi I the big acromedlcal transport leaves Mc Nary field with her husband aboard. Mean while Harold Adamson was showing his wife the countryside around their home on Rt. 4 on the woman's first day at home. (Capital Journal Photos by Jerry Clausscn) Children of Ex-Silverton Couple Burn SILVERTON (Special) The two young children of a former Silvcrton resident were apparently burned to death in a hotel fire in Curray, Alaska, Wednesday, ac cording to word received by rela tives here. The children, six months and one-year-old, were sons of Mr. and Mrs. James Blakely, who lived in Silvcrton for several years until two years ago. Mrs. Ruth Donaldson, sister of Blakely, said she received a tele gram Wednesday saying the two youngsters had been killed in a fire at the hotel which Blakely managed along with his wife. No other information was given in the wife, she said. Blakely is a grandson of C. E. Henslcy of Silvcrton. 3ril Torniulo Death DURANT. Okla. ijf) Durant Thursday recorded its third death from the tornado which struck the city April 2. Dr. Ralton said the zero tern- neralurp inside the freezer low jered Theo's metabolism so fast that he went to sleep before he could struggle much. I "This rnnccrvpd the nxvffen in 'she heard a low moan from with- j in the freezer, "I opened it and thera he was ' le eplng," shf said. 1 Soil Cash by 20,000 in Mail Jobs Face Cuts Some Layoffs and Hours Slash to Start Soon WASHINGTON HI The Post Office Department said Thursday there will be some outright layoffs of postal work ers and reductions in working hours for others due to the service cutbacks to be started Saturday. Postmaster General Summer- field estimated last week that about 20,000 employes would "be affected" by the service reduc tions. He sent postmasters an ord er last Friday to curtail services after failing to get assurance that Congress would appropriate the 47 million dollars he says he-must have to maintain normal service through June 30. Officials said the 20,000 include both temporary employes and substitutes, working on a part time basis, who will be laid off entirely, and some regular full time workers who will suffer through curtailment of working hours and elimination of overtime work." Last Friday, after Summerfield argued with the committee about his need for the money, the com mittee voted to recommend ap propriation of 17 million dollars, It said it would- give some further consideration a week later,' mean ing Friday. April 12, to whether the department snouid have the other 30 million. Even if the House Appropriations Committee should vole r-ridny in favor of giving Summerfield the additional 30 million dollars, it likely would be .too late to rein state a Saturday mail delivery. Furthermore, the House itself is not scheduled to take up the ap propriation question until Monday. Israel Denies Army Retains Aqaba Points JERUSALEM Ifl An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman de nied Thursday Egyptian charges that Israeli troops still hold two points on the Egyptian Aqaba Gulf coast. The spokesman, Moshe Lcshem. said no protest had reached Is rael Irom any United Nations authorities on the Egyptian claims. There was no immediate . com mcnt on another Egyptian charge that U.N. troops in the Gaza Strip are crossing the border to frater nize with Israeli women soldiers. An official Egyptian source complained that Israeli troops were still stationed at Taba, a small town six miles southwest of the southern Israeli port of Kilat, and at Ras el Nakb, apparently a point in the Sinai Peninsula 20 miles north of U.N.-held bharm el Sheikh. The fraternization 'complaint was made by Egyptian army officers in Cairo. They claimed U.N. troops had been crossing the Gaza-Israeli border to get ac quainted with pretty Israeli girls patrolling the other side ot the line. Four Survive, 24. Perish in Airliner Crash RIO DE' JANEIRO tm - Four persons survived the flaming crash of a Brazilian airliner on Anchieta Island Wednesday night. All 24 others aboard perished. The plane of the Real Airlirc went down in a storm while fly ing from Rio de Janeiro (o Sao Paulo. ,: It exploded when it crashed, setting fire to the sur rounding brush. The survivors two adults, a child and the plane's stewardess were not found un til daybreak. Their condition is serious. A radio operator on the former prison colony island said the pilot had radioed the control tower that one of its two engines had failed. He said the plane "catisht fire, tried to make an emoraoney land ing, then exploded. J Wi'ulhfr Dt'tfiih Miilmum yrMTriar. S7; minimum tndJiv,. 43. Total 24-hnur prrrlplu- linn: I; tor mnnln: Mi normiil, .97. Sraton prc(pilatlAn. 27.14: nnrmal, 14.31. River hrlcnt, 4.1 trrt. (Rtport by U. I. Weather Borean), Bank Sign-up Lighter Than Expected WASHINGTON (APW President Eisenhower Thursday told Congress it can cut 254 million dollars from the $1,254,000,000 he asked to operate the soil bank program in. the 12 months begin ning July 1. This reduces his budget request for the program to an even bil lion dollars. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagcrty said that the change resulted from a detailed study of operation's of the soil bank program which has just been completed. ' This study showed, he said, that "the financial needs of the pro gram in 1958 will be less than was contemplated at the time of the preparation of the 1958 budget." Letter Sent Rayburn Eisenhower notified Congress of the changed estimate in a letter to House Speaker Rayburn (D Tcx). The soil bank program provides for payments to farmers for tak ing land out of production of crops in surplus supply. Hagcrty said there are three reasons why less money will be needed than was expected when the budget was sent to Congress last January. 1. It is estimated the sign-up by farmers for the program will be smaller than was expected last fall and that payments to farmers will be less than was originally Later Than Expected - 2. The timing of payments will be at dates in the calendar year later than was expected. Hagerty said that this will result in t shift in the need for funds be tween fiscal years." 3. There will be a substantial reduction in operating expenses for the soil bank program in the 1958 fiscal year from the level originally contemplated. Airways Control Spruce-up Asked WASHINGTON Wi President Eisenhower asked Congress Thursday to set up a new agency to decide on ways of modernizing the nation's airways control sys tem so it can handle ever-increasing traffic. "This measure will greatly ex pedite the improvement of air traffic control and air navigation and I therefore urge its early en actment," the President said in a special message. Curtis Sends Up Report ' His recommendation accompan ied a report by Edward P. Curtis, who was appointed a special pres idential assistant more than a year ago and assigned the job of tackling the air traffic problem. Curtis has been an Eastman Ko dak Co. vice president and an Air Force general. , , Curtis proposed a three-member airways modernization board to decide what devices and systems are needed to control civil air planes which, he estimated, will fly 70 billion passenger miles a year by 1975. He noted, loo, that military and civil planes share the same air space and he said the over-all traffic control system "is an es sential part of our national de fense against air attack. DEFAULTS ON BONDS Russia Confiscates Savings of Citizens By THOMAS P. WHITNEY AP Foreign News Analyst The announcement that the So viet government,' with a snap of its fingers, is canceling over three fourths of its national debt shows what a strange thing the Soviet Socialist economy really is. Try to imagine the furor if the U.S. government were casually to reveal that within a few days time it would wipe out the value of most outstanding U. S. gov ernment bonds. Banks would close. Insuranco companies would shut their doors. The? entire econ omy would shake and the govern ment would totter. The Soviet press yesterday car ried the news, mode public by .. ' N'kita Khru.'hrnr Kremlin in, ihe .Monday, lh.il the next 20 or 2.1 years will pay. no interest and repay none of the principal on 2i0 billion rubles worth of state bonds the Soviet citizenry bought involuntarily. That amount officially 65 bil lion dollars renrnents the 50 Felled As Deadly Gas Leaks 1,000 Flee Homes When Chlorine . Escapes eiAavood CITY, Pa. Wl A cloud of poisonous chlorine gas spurted from a leaking valve atop a railroad tank car Thursday, sickening an esti mated 50 persons and prompt ing perhaps 1,000 to evacuate their homes. At least 12 were hospitalized, all of them residents of nearby Frisco, a community of about 1.200 persons 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The greenish gas began spout ing from a tank car at a chem icals plant in tlio early morning hours, while the town slept. Po lice were first alerted to the dan ger when a couple stumbled into headquarters, complaining they smelted chlorine and were sick. Alarm Spread Firemen, police .and civil de fense volunteers were mobilized quickly to spread the alarm. Some went from house to house ham mering on doors to awako sleep ing occupants. A man in a gas mask climbed the tank car and shut the valve to stop the deadly flow. . For more than two hours th gas overhung the Connouiicnes- sing Creek Valley. Then a rising wind sent it rolling toward a sec tion of Ellwood City and mes sengers sped ahead to warn more residents to get out of the path. Finally the wind dissipated the gas, and firemen moved into the plant area behind fog nozzles that were used to spray water over pockets of gas to decontaminate them. Home Building Pace Reported At 8-Year Low WASHINGTON (fl The na tion's homcbuilding pace declined again in March, to tho lowest rate since 1949 for both the month and the indicated annual building rate. The figures were reported Thurs day by the Labor Department. The construction industry fired back immediaatcly with a state ment accusing the government ot "economic brinkmanship" through the tight money policy. The build ers called for imntWiaatc action to easo mortgage credit. The Labor Department said March housing starts totaled 83, 000 units, up seasonally 28 per cent from February but 16 per cent under March last year. H was the lowest March total since 1949. The industry view was set out a statement by George S. Goodyear, president of the Nation al Assn. of Home Builders (NAHBi. He urged Congress and the Eisenhower administration to "stop gambling with the welfare of the American people." largest portion by far of the pri vate savings of Soviet citizens. It was taken out of their pay en velopes over the last two decades and longer, an average of from 6 to more than 8 per cent of their wages every month. The long postponement of bond redemptions is equivalent to Uicir confiscation, if the Communist timetable for Russia works out In 20 to 23 years, the Soviet Union is supposed to be enjoying a state of "communism" as distinct from the present socialism and Communist citizens won't own such private property bonds. Yet Ihe move probably will cause hardly a murmur from the KmM PPc- The average Russian Is probab - ly happy because he's been promised that - beginning - next year there won't be any more an nual loan drives to tap his pay envelope forJjonds on which he'll never collect $254 Million ROCKET SOARS 126 Satellite Initiated WHITE .SANDS PROVING needle in the sky with a thread stitch in the knowledge of outer An Acrobee Hi rocket bearings- instruments such as will be used in the earth satellite soared far over tho New Mexico desert prob ing the fringes ot space to pave the way for Project Vanguard. Vanguard the launching of the first artificial earth satellite Is to take placo this year. John W. Townsend Jr., Naval Research Laboratory chief scien tist, said the satellite instrument package aboard the rocket got a workout which was "not only good, but came up to our expec tations." The package contained delicate instruments to give man his first ideas of what lies outside the thin Senate Favors Drop In Relative Payments By PAUL W. HARVEV, JR. Associated Press Writer ' - v The Oregon Senate approved Thursday a bill to reduce the payments required under This is the law that Gov. the Senate wouldn't. go along Tho bill, which goes to thc House, amends the 1949 law which requires persons, if financially able, to contribute to the support of needy . relatives. ! - - Only One 'No' Vole" "' The only vote against the bill was cast by Sen. Andrew J. Natcrlin (D), Newport. 1 Under present law, : a single person is required to contribute to a needy rclatlvo li that person earns (2,700 a year, i no - bin boosts this minimum to 15,000. A family of four would have to contribute if its income were more than $8,500, compared with the existing minimum of 14,500. Sen. Francis W. Zicgler (R) Corvallls, chairman of the Senate Public Welfare Committee which drafted the legislation, said the purpose of Ihe bill "is to do away with hardship cases." Sen. Jean Lewis (D), Portland, called the bill a compromise be tween those who wont the law repealed and those who don't want any change. . Coals Stale 2 Million She said repeal of the law would cost the state 2 million dollars a year. 1 Sen. Ben Musa (D), The Dalles, said he is compelled to vote for the bill "because half a loaf is better than none." Musa said the Welfare Commis sion has been "capricious in seek ing out only one responsible rela tive, instead of seeking out all members of a family." He also opposes permitting use of income tax records to determine a fam ily's income. Mrs. Lewis said Ihe Welfare Commission has promised to split the liability among all members of a family. The bill to permit creation ol service districts In siibiirDan areas In order to let these areas provide sewage, water and other services, got a new lease on lite. The House, which voted 31-27 against the bill two days ago, de cided to take another vote on it Friday morning. The Senate Highway commiuce recommended passage of a bill to issue 12.8 million dollars worth of bonds to modernize the Oregon, Coast Highway in Curry County. The same committee tabled hills to eliminate billboards on free ways and to expand the three-man Highway Commission to five members. This committee approved the House-passed bill to begin plan ning a highway bridge over the Columbia River at Astoria. Simi lar legislation was passed by the Washington Legislature. Fair Board in First Session Oregon's new State Fair Com mission, appointed last week by Gov. Robert Holmes, is holding its first meeting here this week, con vening Thursday afternoon. First in the order of business is expected to be tho signing of a contract with State Fair Manager Leo Spitzbart, who is asking a two year contract. The commission Friday will nave hearings wun nrnnn. anil individuals wanting to ! exhibit or have concessions at the 1 1957 event. Members of the commission aro John H- .Unck) Travis, Hood liv er! chairman; Dot Milne and Mrs. Elmer O. Berg, Salem: V. A. Roush, Myrtle Polntj and Ursel C. Narver. Portland. MILES 's Brain in Space GROUND, N. M. Ml A tiny 126 miles long put man's first space Thursday. blanket of air surrounding the earth. In the package we're wide rango thermometers; a solar bat tery experiment which, if success ful, could some day provide pow er from the sun; metering de- . vices to measure cosmic rays and their possible relation to sun spots; and devices to measure en ergy factors in the upper atmo sphere. aIt will be a full month before the information, telemetered to the ground from the rocket, is evaluated. A preliminary report was scheduled to be released Thursday afternoon and a mora complete one in about a week. the relative responsibility law.- Holmes asked he repealed, out with him. ' - Holmes' Aide Urges Solons Abolish Board By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer Abolition of the State Board of Control was urged Thursday by Orville Thompson, speaking for Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Thompson, who is legislative counsel to the Governor, appeared before a sub-committee of the Ways and Means Committee. He said that in the past tne members of the board had been in many conflicts, cutting down the efficiency of operation of state institutions, now under control of the board. " Sen. Ward Cook, chairman of the sub-committee, pointed to fail ure of the board to give the Ways and Means Committee any infor mation concerning the tuberculosis situation in Oregon as an example of failure of the board to meet pressing problems as they arise. Drugs Help "The falling off in number of tu bercular patients, due to use of more effective drugs, has , been generally known for two or three years," Sen. Cook said. "Yet when we ask for information that this committee needs in connection with institution budgets and the building program, we are told the information is not available. The proposed law provides trans ferring some of the board's duties to the Department of Finance and the creation of a new state de partment, the State Department of Public Institutions. The Governor would be empow ered to appoint a director of in stitutions. Leo Margosian, Budget Department staff member, esti mated the new department would cost approximately $100,000 during the vear after the law becomes ef fective, if tho bill Is approved, on July 1, 1958. INews in Brief For Thursday, April 11, 1957 NATIONAL President Urges Soil : Bank Funds Cut ...:Sec.l, P. 1 50 Sickened by Chlorine - Gas Sec.l, P. 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