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Capital A Journal 'I THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight and Wednesday with a few thowera or possible thunder showers. Cooler. Low tonight, 50; high Wednesday, 70. 2 SECTIONS 20 Paget 69th Year, No. 107 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, May 7, 1957 Cntel ; - 3 ma 1 Treasurer Raps Tax Writeoffs Humphrey Says 6-Year Cost to U.S. $3 Billion WASHINGTON (AP) -Secretary of the Treasury H u m p h r e y estimated JUicsday that the iast tax writeoff program in effect the last six years will cost the government three billion dollars. The cost, he told the Senate Fi nance Committee, is in interest charges on money the Treasury is required to borrow to make up lor lax collections which are de ferred under the writeoff program TIME TO SHUT IT OFF Humphrey said the prqgram served the nation's security in bringing quick expansion of key industries, but he declared the time has come to shut it off ex cept for strictly defense items. The program permits a company to deduct from its income for tax purposes part or all of a new plant in five years. The normal period is 20 years or more The secretary did not sock to defend a grant of authority to the Idaho Power Co. recently to write off 65 million dollars of the cost of two dams in the Hells Canyon area of the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. "I read about that for the first time in the papers," Humphrey said, adding that the "general pol icy" now being followed by the Eisenhower administration would be against such a certificate. 'SHOULD HEAR GRAY' However, he said that Gordon Gray, director of the Office of De fense Mobilization (ODM) which granted the authority, i believed there were "special circum stances" which justified the Idaho Power tax benefit. Humphrey said that "in fairness to Mr. Gray, I believe the com mittee should hear his views on It." Chairman Byrd (D-Va) an nounced that Gray probably will . testify later in the week. . The Idaho Power certificate has been strongly criticized by Byrd and other Democrats. Some of them, but not Byrd, favor a high federal dam in the Hells Canyon site. Humphrey testified in support of a bill by Byrd which would cut off the fast tax writeoff program except for items of direct mili tary equipment. The rapid amortization plan was put into effect in World War II to try to build up the nation's de fense capacity, and was re-activated in 1950 after the Korean War broke out. ON $22 BILLION IN PLANTS Fast writeoff certificates have been granted on about $22,400, 000.000 of plants and equipment since l!b0. Humphrey said the revenue -lag on these certificates would probably exceed five billion dol lars, and therf gave his estimate of a three-billion-interest charge on money the Treasury must bor row as a result. Youth Safe, Dad Drowns Near Umatilla UMATILLA m Hay J. Harris 43-year-old electrician, drowned In the Columbia River near Uma tilla Monday night. Harris and a son, Wayne. 16, were attempting to pull free from the shore a float which had broken loose and floated downstream from Umatilla. The rowboat from which they were working over turned, and Harris became en tangled in wires attached to the float. The son swam ashore, then re turned to help when he saw his father was caught. By the time the boy was able to summon help from Ihe Umatilla fife department 'the elder Harris had drowned. The body was re covered about 9 p.m. Jury Foreman Will Appear Before Solons Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon Re publican and chairman of the Sen ate Judiciary Committee, said to day that Edwin DeWitt, foreman of the recent Multnomah county prand jury, has agreed to appear before the committee Wednesday evening. Gill said the committee is try ing to work out amendments to the criminal code. He was told by Circuit Judge Charles Redding that appearance of grand jurors is satisfactory as long as no ques tions about secret proceedings of the grand jury are asked. Gill said DeWitt indicated other members of the grand jury would attend the hearing. A hearing scheduled for tonight a caaecled. Senators r un a n APPLETON, Wis. Fellow senators of Joseph R. McCarthy walk toward St. Mary's Catholic Church today to attend funeral mass for him. Left to right, Andrew $70,000 Loss Eyed, $25-a-Month County Pay Raises By FRED ZIMMERMAN Capital Journal Writer A warning that the Marion out of line by some $70,0.00, was issued Tuesday morning by County Judge Rex Hartley just'before the committee took up its second day of labor. ' Judge Hartley read a communication from Rep. Joe Rogers of the House ' Education Committee calling attention to a hearing on H.B. 809 which has for its purpose the shifting of 60 per cent of receipts from : Russ Industry Revamp Plan Rush Ordered MOSCOW (UP) Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev asked the Supreme Soviet today to order that his radical plan for reorganization of Soviet industry be carried out within the next two months. At the first business session of the Russian parliament, Khrush chev said there can be no delay in putting the central government out of the manufacturing business and transferring control of indus try to local councils. Practically everything from coal to cosmetics would be decentral ized. The reorganization of manage ment should not be dragged out," he said. "It should be effected in May and June this year." Of the 30-odd existing Industrial and construction ministries, Khru shchev suggested that only the air craft, shipbuilding, radio, chemi cal, medium machine building and transport machinery ministries be retained. He called for merging of the ministries of defense industry and general machine building and the ministry of power stations with the ministry of power station con struction. , . .,. , Weather Details Maximum yesttrdty. S3: minimum todiy, 30. Toul 24-hour precipitation, t: for month. .50; normal. .4. Season precipitation, 29.52; normal, 30.3R. River nelrnt, . or a toot, inepori oy U. s. Weather Bureau.) WORLD'S RICHEST MUTT? Mongrel Dog Inherits Most Of Mistress' $50,800 Estate READING. Pa. W-Bobby, a 4- year-old mutt who has no concep tion of the meaning of pedigree and doesn't care, today is the richest dog in Reading. Pa., and possibly one of the richest in the world. Bobby yesterday was named principal, and practically sole, beneficiary of the estate of his late mistress Mrs. Ruth A. Maur er. The estate, filed tor probate in the Berks County Court House, was estimated at $50,800. All the money was left to care for the mongrel dog Mrs. Maurer picked up as a pup from the Hu mane society. Under terms o( the win. Boooy will 1 have a practical nurse to look after him. 2 sleep in his own bed In the air-conditioned Enter McCarthy's Church Granted County budget might be thrown the O & C Land grant tunas to the field ot education. LESS FOR COUNTY . The education department has been receiving 25 per cent of the county's share of the distribution. The shift would mean approxi mately $70,000 less revenue for the county, said the letter. However, the committee pro- ceded on schedule, taking county department by department and granting a $25 monthly salary in crease for most employes, n necesary, said Judge Hartley, the budget could be revised when the final hearing is made. Appearing before the commit tee Tuesday were S. J. Butler, treasurer: Herman W. Lanke, re corder; Earl Adams, constable; Hattic J. Bratzcl, district attor ney; John A. Anderson, engineer, and Sheriff Denver Young. Miss Bratzel's request for in creased pay for deputies and of fice workers and the addition of another deputy was sidetracked until legislation dealing with pos sible larger financial responsibil ity an the part of the state in connection with the operation of district attorneys' offices, has been settled. BUDGET HIGHER Miss Bralzel's budget of $26,- 930, constituted an increase of $6,940. She said that the work of her office is increasing and that much of her time is spent in con ferences. Sheriff Young presented a plea for three additional deputies and general increases down the line. He complained that salaries in his office were out of line and that he was having difficulty in re taining his deputies. He indicat ed that his office was little more than a "training ground" for the slate and the City of Salem. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 7) bedroom once occupied by his mistress, (3 have full run of Mrs. Maurer's three-room apartment and (4) be taken for a walk every morning and evening. The will calls for Bobby's chair to be kept in the same place in the living room for his use. He won't do badly at chow time ei ther. The bequest specifics Bobby is to receive "the best food a dog can have." The practical nurse is Mrs. Freda Kerhy, an old friend of Mrs. Maurer. She is to receive $125 a month for her own expenses and live rent free in Mrs. Maurer's apartment until one year after Bobby's death. Then the remaind er of the estate is to be divided among Mrs. Maurer's niee, two brothers and a sister. Schoeppel, Kansas; William E. Jenner, In diana, 'and Alexander Wiley, Wisconsin. Some Senate administrative assistants ac companied party. (AP Wirephoto) McCarthy Paid Last Respects In Home Town APPLETON, Wis. W-A hushed throng, paying final respects Tues day to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, filled to overflowing the church where he was baptized as a babe in arms. National and state leaders joined hometown friends and neighbors at the last rites for Wisconsin Reoubllcan lunior senator. McCarthy's body was flown here from Washington Monday after two services were held in the na tion's caDital. The 48-year-old senator died of a liver ailment iast Thursday. After the solemn requiem high mass at noon in St. Mary's Rom an Catholic Church, a cortege bore the body to the McCarthy family plot on a spruce-shaded bluff overlooking the Fox River alley in the church cemetery. He was buried Desiae nis parents, Timothy and Bridget Tierncy Mc Carthy. ' Loudspeakers carried the ser mon of the Rev. Adam Grill, pas tor of St. Mary's, and the words of the mass to hundreds of per sons in the basement of the church and outside the sun-d r e n c h e d faded yellow brick building. About 650 persons, including tne senator's widow, Jean Kerr Mc Carthy, were inside the church. Mrs. McCarthy,- dressed in blacn, sat in a front pew behind the open, flag-draped casket. Father Grill, who gave McCar- Ihy catechism instructions when the senator was a larm noy, ae- scribed the senator as a "dedi cated man." whose epitome of life were the altar and the flag. Budget Chief oses U. S. PP Pay Increase WASHINGTON (UP)-The administration today opposed any general pay increase for govern ment employes this year on grounds it might be inflationary. Budget Director Pcrcival F. Brundagc advised Congress that "enactment of general pay in crease legislation would not be in accord with the program ot the President." "The government, as well as private business and labor, should at this time avoid actions wmcn will increase inflationary pres sures," he said. 4-Story Fall Kills 2 Girls BOSTON I Two 15-year-old girls were killed early Tuesday when they fell four slories from a window of a detention home, the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic institution for wayward and underprivileged girls. Police said the girls may have been trying to flee by clamber ing onto a ledge outside the win dow. The victims were Paulino Eller and Marie Nicholson, both of Bos ton. Their bodies were found on a pavement in a courtyard. Gas Prices Level Off PORTLAND I Portland area gasoline prices arc leveling off. Stations which had signs adver tising cut rates have been taking them down, dealers said Monday. They said higher costs were responsible. U.S. Adds Disarm Proposal Offers to Supply Advance Notice Of Troop Moves LONDON (AP) -The United States Tuesday of fered to join other nations in giving advance notice of international movements of troops as part of an East-West disarmament agreement. Harold Stnssen, American dele gate to the U.N. subcommittee on disarmament, also called on the Soviet Union to accept a system of control over the import and ex port of armaments. Slasscn, who is President Eisen hower's special adviser on disarm ament, told the five-nalion sub committee that both proposals should form part of a partial agreement on disarmament which they hope will precede a fullscale pact to end the world arms race. BRITISH ASK TESTS LIMIT Stassen's proposal came after Britain put forward a long range plan Tuesday calling for register ing, limiting and finally stopping nuclear explosions. The British plan suggested that 1 Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union immediately draft an agreement lor advance registra tion with the United Nations of nuclear test explosion-!." It also suggested "limited international observation" of all nuclear tests. The plan would establish a committee of technical experts to "consider possible methods of lim iting nuclear test explosions." This would lead lo a cessation of nuclear tests afler prohibition of the production of fissile material for weapons as pari of a general disarmament agreement. PEEVE FLEET CANCELLED TOKYO W-A Japanese group today called off its widely publi cized plans to send protest ships to the Christmas Island area dur ing Britain's forthcoming hydro gen bomb tests. A majority of the members ot the executive group of the Japan council Against Atomic- ancPHy drogen Bombs voted not to. dis patch, the two fishing boats it had contemplated sending to skirt the mast area. $150,000 Fire Razes Mill in Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Ore. (UP) -Damage was estimated at $140, 000 to $150,000 today from a fire which destroyed all but one small office and tool building at the Jackson creek mill a mile east of here. The blaze broke out about 6:23 p.m. Monday and firemen from Central Point. White City and Jacksonville battled the flames un til midnight. Firemen said the mill was engulfed when they ar rived. Forrest Albert, office manager of Donna Timber Inc., owner of the mill, said the loss was partly covered by insurance. He said exact cause of the blaze was not known but that it might have resulted from an overheated motor or a possible explosion in the motor. The fire broke out at the north end of the green chain which was in operation at the time. Purported Affidavits Criticize Thorn ton PORTLAND (UP) United States Attorney C. E. Luckey to day offered as evidence purport ed affidavits he said were made by James B. Elkins and Raymond Clark in which they criticize At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton for failing to grant them im munity. The affidavits assert that Thorn ton had promised immunity last summer when Elkins testified be fore a county grand jury. Elkins and Clark are on trial on a federal charge of wire tapping. According to the purported af fidavits, Thornton instructed El kins to delete from the tape re cordings all telephone taps and sounds of telephone bells. With the jury absent, Mrs. Alice Erickson, a public stenographer, testified that she made the affi davits for Elkins and Clark as a notary public. Lucky told the court that they House Vetoes Parking Lot The House rejected, 41-13, Mon day a bill to appropriate $150, 000 to buy property near the Cap itol for a parking lot. The measure, proposed by Sec retary of State Mark Hatfield, ran afoul of economy-minded Democrats. Wa Limit Basic Soviet Moves Warships Out Of Baltic Sea Fears They Could Be Too Easily Bottled Up in Event of War OSLO lfl Authoritative Nor wegian sources said Tuesday the Soviet Union is shifting warships from the Baltic Sea because it fears the vessels could be bottled tip there easily in .the event ot war. The Reds also were said to feel their big Baltic naval bases might be too vulnerable to attack-bomb 's. The informants, who refused to be identified, gave this summary of the Russian naval position: The Russian navy is made up ot four main fleets the Pacific, Ihe Black Sea, the Arctic and the Baltic with the Baltic force for merly the biggest. Recently there have been indi cations that ships from the Baltic and probably the Arctic Fleets are being moved to the Pacific. The reported moves appeared based on Soviet belief that the Pacific would be the main battle area in any war with the United States and that blocking of the Danish Straits and Kattegat area between Denmark and Sweden would seal off the Baltic, ' AFL-CIO Digs For Graft in Bakery Union 1 WASHINGTON (fl The AFL- CIO Ethical Practices Committee opened hearings Tuesday on charges of corruption within the uaKcry workers union but made public no indictment" such as was issued Monday at a similar hearing on the Teamsters Union. Henry Kaiser, attorney for Curtis R. Sims, suspended Bakery Workers secretary-treasurer, said the ethical practices group plans lo recess the hearings from Tues day until May 25. The Teamsters hearings have been recessed until May 24. Albert G. Hayes, chairman of the AFL-CIO group, said in a statement opening the b a k c r s' hearing that information available on charges concerning the union "raised a serious question as to whether there have been violations of the standard of trade union ethics prescribed by the AFL-CIO constitution in the manner in which the affairs of this union wero con ducted." Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 001 002 0003 3 0 Detroit 001040 00X 5 9 0 Abernathy, Brodowski (5), Clcv- enger (7) and Berbcrct; Foytack and House. Home runs Detroit, House, Boiling. were made for introduction in the state case against District Attor ney William Langley, Thomas Moloney and Joseph McLaughlin. Five reels of tape recordings, which the government claims con tain intercepted telephone conver sations, were admitted as evidence in the trial Monday, British Dispute 1,000 Deaths From H-Tests LONDON m The British government Tuesday disputed the claim by the American Nobel prize winning scientist, Linus Pauling, that 1,000 people will die of leukemia if Britain carries out her H-bomb tests in the Pacific. "The Medical Research Council takes the view that there is insuf ficient evidence to justify making the kind of estimate which has been attributed to Dr. Pauling," said the Earl and Home, leader of the Conservative government in the House of Lords, in reply to a question. The council Is a group of scien tists which advises the govern ment on medical matters. Pauling, a chemist at Ihe Cali fornia Institute of Technology, told a scientific meeting in Chi cago on April 30 that 10,000 uoSeao jo a's.jbjsatur - incans Unit of $10 School Aid Boost! Tallest and Smallest ,3 Vv ; FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 7 If yon thought the tallest and smallest contestants for the Mn. America title would bo from Texas and Rhode. Island you're wrong. Meet Mrs. Tennessee. Mrs. Arlcen Marks of Nashville, who Is 5 feet 11 inches and the tallest entry in the home making contest, and Mrs. Mississippi, Mrs: Marine Law-' rencc of Ocean Springs, Miss., the smallest at 5 feet.' (AP Wirephoto) TEAR UP CELLHOUSE 400 Cons Strike In North Dakota BISMARCK. N.D. (UP)-About 400 inmates of the North Dakota Penitentiary at Bismarck were milling in tho yard of the prison after refusing to work this morn ing in tho twine mill. Authorities said the prisoners extensively damaged the ccllhotise.. - Ike Will Take Case to Nation WASHINGTON lB President Eisenhower plans lo go directly to the people in an effort to rally support for his bogged-down' legis lative program. But thoi White House said Tues day there' has been no decision yet' on the manner and timing of the appeal. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told a news conference a decision probably will be de ferred until after the President confers Thursday with congres sional leaders on the administra tion's foreign aid program. ' He added that he docs not look for Eisenhower to make any such address this week. CO-OPS GUARD VOTED The House passed and sent to the Senate Monday a bill to pre vent power companies from en croaching upon the territory of co-operatives financed by the Rur al Electrification Administration. Estimate of people are dead or dying of leu kemia around tho world because of atomic or hydrogen bomb tests and that 1,000 more will die if Britain fires her first H-bomb. Lord Home told the peers "wo have no information that any deaths have been caused by the Russian and American explosions during 1956-57. GENEVA, Switzerland Wl Hazards of nuclear radiation to mankind were stressed at the 10th assembly of Ihe L'.N. World Health Organization opening Tues day. Jacques Parlsot of France retiring Assembly president, said the greatest danger from radi alien in Ihe nuclear age might come in under-developed regions of the world not fully prepared to cope witn the problem. Million Deputy Warden Mlko Ryan Bald the disturbance broke out at mid- morning when all the inmates ex cept approximately 40 ' trustees working outside the prison, staged a sit-down strike in the prison plane mill. Guards ordered the men into Ihe collhouse, Ryan said. Once there the men began "tearing up - the building," he said. Ryan ordered tho guards Into the administration building . where they, trained guns on the prison ers who milled about the peniten tiary yard. City police were summoned and stood by ready to aid the' prison guards if any inmates tried to es cape. Ryan said the men .had made no demands, and he could not ac count for the disturbance. Link of Beck, Beer Firms To Be Probed SEATTLE OB The Senate rackets Investigating committee. in resuming hearings Wednesday on Teamsters President Dave Beck, will inquire into circum stances under which two Seattle firms held Anheuscr-Rusch beer distributorships, Tho Times said Tuesday. The newspaper s special cor respondent in Washington for the hearings said Irving J. Levine, president of K&L Beverage Co., one of the firms, was slated to comer with the committee. The newspaper said it had learned four officials of the Anheuser-Busch main offico in St. Louis also have been subpoenaed to testify. The other Seattle firm Is the B&B Distributing Co., The Times said,. adding that Dave Beck Jr., son of the union president, once was an officer and principal in both firms. Clouds Settle After 83 High Some cloudy skies prevailed much of Tuesday morning to hold back the wondcrlul sunshine mark ing Monday's weather here. High temperature for Monday was 83 In Salem. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies to contii. o tonight and Wednesday, and again mentions the possibility of showers or thunder showers. Votes on $90 a Pupil Level Wins i: ; Endorsement 1 By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr.. V Associated Press Writer . A Ways and Means Sub-:. committee voted Tuesday to limit the basic school fund increase to 10 million dollars a year because of feari . that the House tax program might die in the Senate. . V The committee voted to increase the fund, set at SAO per vear for : each school census child, to $90. This is in sharp contrast to the . $120 that is sought by Gov. Holmes'; and education leaders. Voting for . the $90 fund were Sen. Jean Lewis, Portland, and' Rep. Glen Stadlcr, Springfield,, both Democrats. Opposing it was"' Rep. Charles Allen Tom (R), ef Rutus, who hay favored $120. ... Z TO FULL GROUP WEDNESDAY The committee's report goes before the full Joint Ways and 1 Means Committee Wednesday, r. In addition, the subcommittee- recommended that 5 million dol-. lars be taken from the general ' fund for school building construe-.'; lion in distressed districts which have bonded themselves to the; : limit. . If the Senate refuses to accept the House tax program, state- - funds would be reduced to some, extent. - The possibility of the Senate., rejecting the House tax bills lies In the fact that sen. Ben Musa .. (D), The Dalles, opposes them,; ; Since the Senate is evenly dl- . vided between Democrats end,; Republicans, Musa'a vote could bei- the deciding factor. " The Senate Tax Committee -started working Tuesday.: on thet House bills, - which -increase pet . sonal and corporation taxes,, and:, -inheritance levies.. - v Tho House Taxation Committee, took a major step toward re-" appraisal in those counties which . now aren't having it done. ' Counties have until next Jan. 1 ' to sign reappraisal contracts. If ' they don't, the Tax Commission, would go ahead, then bill those : counties for the entire cost. Under the present system. 25 : counties have signed contracts to have the Tax Commission re-'l appraise their property. The cost is split between the commission' and the counties. But after Jan. 1,- the counties-. that hadn't signed up would have to pay the whole bill. . . . The counties which don t yet ' have re-appraisal agreements with the Tax Commission are: Baker, Lincoln, Umatilla, Multno man, Josephine, Yamhill, Linn,". Clackamas, Wheeler, Union and -Jefferson. The Tax Commission now is - negotiating with Baker, Clackamas nd Lincoln counties for re-ao- praisal. i NEW DISTRIBUTION PLAN ' "v The same - Ways and Means Subcommittee that voted the $80 -basic school fund came forth with : new proposal to distribute the basic fund. The subcommittee recom mended that the fund be distrib uted 85 per cent on the number : of children in a school district, ' and IS per cent to equalize school taxes. The present formula if based 98 per cent on children and ' 4 per cent equalization. The Senate defeated 17-13 a bllt' to license all building contractors : and set up a state building code. JNews in Brief , , Tuesday, May T, 1957 , NATIONAL '' " Humphrey Opposes Fast Tax writeoffs .5cc. I, p. l F'rcworks Explosion - . Blamed on Vandalism. sec, 1, P, J, LOCAL S' Women's Federation " Convention Opens Sec. 2. P. 1 Mrs. Brown Named Hadassah Woman-of-thc-Year..Sec. 2, P. I STATE " .... : Compromise Eludes Solon j ' On Jobless Pay Sec. 1, r. 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