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Page 2, Sec. 1, Capital Journal, Fri., May 10, 1957 IN 117th DAY Solons Hold Up Fight on Jobless Pay " By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Associated Press Writer The Oregon Legislature spent its 117th day grinding away at a big grist of bills as its session became the longest in history. The leaders think it will run about 10 days more. The previous record was 116 days in 1951. The big battle over labors un-" employment compensation bill was scheduled for Friday, but was sent back to Ihe Senate Labor and Industries Committee in the hope of changes to make it ac ceptable to both labor and man agement. If it had been voled upon Friday, it would have been defeated. FROM $35 TO t) The bill as it now stands would increase the maximum weekly benefits from $35 to $40. and ox tend coverage to employers of one person. It also would boost the employers contribution from 17 million dollars a year to 28 mil lions. The House, in a session that ran until 6 p. m. Thursday, passed and sent to the Senate a bill in creasing salaries of top elective officials. ' The raises would be: Governor. $15,000 a year to $17,500, and he would retain his $100 monthly tax-free expense al lowance: secretary of state, treas urer and attorney general, $11,000 to $12,500; superintendent of pub lic instruction. $i0,500 to $11,500: and labor commissioner, $9,500 to $11,500, PENSION AUTHORITY By a 35-22 vole, the House ap proved a bill giving the stale in surance commissioner authority over employe welfare and pension .plans. Annual financial reports and audits of these plans would have to be submitted. Gov. Holmes signed into law two bills, one reducing the pay ments under the relative respon sibility law, and the other making twitch blade knives illegal. These blades are popular with juvenile gangs. BOAT SAFETY RILL The Senate completed legislative action on a measure to launch a statewide program to provide spe cial education for gifted children. The measure appropriates $50,000 to give grants to school districts providing this education. The Senate also sent to the gov ernor a hill to provide satety reg ulations for boals under 26 feet long. Larger boals are regulated by the Coast Guard. The Senate sent to the House a bill that would let the stale Board of Control close cither the East ern Oregon Tuberculosis Hospital at Jne Dalles or the University Tuberculosis Hospital at Portland, or use tnem lor some other pur pose. The measure would be re ferred to the people. Appointees i : 5. 1 r a ii Only 3 Saved By Parachutes YOKOTA, Japan UH The navi gator of a U.S. Air Force refuel ing plane which crashed in the Pacific 100 miles southwest of Tokyo said Friday he saw only two parachutes open in addition to his own. Lt. Thomas W. Pitcher, 23. ot Emmetsburg. Iowa, said the plane lust "seemed to go out of control." He was one of eight Americans aboard the KB50 tanker plane which went down Wednesday off liu Peninsula. Japanese rescue vessels picked up Pitcher and two others T. Sgt. Cyril (i. Hopkins whose wife and children live in Japan, and Airman 2, C. James Marlin McNeil ol San Diego, Calif. An air-sea search is under way for the five others. WASHINGTON Accord ing to Informed sources, I.t, Gen. Frank F. Everest, top, deputy chief of staff for Air Force Operations, and Gen. Thomas Power, bottom, chief of Air Research and Devel opment Command at Balti more, Md., hare been ap pointed to new duties. Gen eral Everest reportedly has been selected to succeed Lt. Gen. William Tunner as com mander of U.S. Air Forces In Europe. General Power has been chosen to succeed Gen. Curtis E. I.cMay as bass of the strategic air command at Omaha Neb., the same sources said. The appoint ments probably will be an nounced officially tomorrow, AP Wlrcphoto) House Passes Compromise Housing Bill Down In incuts on FIIA-JiiKured Homes Trimmed lo 3 Pet. By FRED 8. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON I The House has settled a Republican-Demo cratic wrangle by passing a com promise bill designed to make it easier to buy homes and to help the slumping housing industry. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would substantially lower- required down payments on homes bought with loans insured by the . Federal Housing Adminis tration. It also contains provisions aimed at increasing the supply of mortgage credit. SLUM CLEARANCE Other major sections would au thorize an additional 250 million dollars for slum clearance and ur ban renewal projects, and a like amount for special housing for military personnel, the elderly and other groups. Before shouting approval to the bill, the House wrote in an amend ment to restrict future starts of low-cost public housing to that needed by persons displaced by slum clearance and urban redevel opment programs. Passage came on a 172-142 vote. The voles of individual members were not recorded. The main dispute in two days of debate was over Democratic sponsored proposals for special veterans preference programs un der FHA. These were fought by Republicans and many Demo crats. ' -ITEMS DELETED The compromise bill deleted these proposals, one of which would have given veterans speci at lower down payment privileges. I Another disputed provision which went Into the discard would have allowed use of up to a billion dol lars in GI life insurance trust funds to increase the supply of mortgage money for veterans' home buying. There was another fight over Democratic proposals to set lim its on discounts, or premiums, charged by lenders against per sons who buy homes with FHA or GI financing. Republicans op posed such restrictions. As passed by the House, the hill would limit the curbs to FHA mortgage discounts. It also would give the FHA discretionary au thority to establish reasonable restrictions on the discount prac tice, which i.f designed to in crease the return on government backed home loans. DROP TO 1 PER CENT Under the down payment pro visions the present FHA minimum payment of 5 per cent on the first $11,000 of appraised value would drop to 3 per cent. On the next $G,000 of valuation, the required down payment would, be 15 per cent. On the remainder up to $25,- 000. it would be 30 per cent. Under present regulations, home buyers using FHA financ ing are required to pay down 25 per cent on valuation above $9,000. The provision intended to pump new funds into the home mort gage market and thus help the housing Industry would give the Federal National Mortgage Assn. new authority to buy up an addi tional 14 billion dollars of FHA insured mortgages. Appointed Multnomah DA IN RIGHT PLACE ROS1CLARE. 111. (UP)-Eugene Cubley was at the right place when ht yawned and dislocated his jaw. Cubley. a male attendant at Ros Iclare General Hospital, simply stepped into another room and had the jaw wired back in place. BY WAYS-MKANS Atomic Plant Crew Strikes WAVKRI.Y. Ohio - Local KMMI of ihe Oil. Chemical an Atomic Workers o( America began a strike Friday nRainst lloodyear Atomic Corp,, operators of the Atomic Knerjjy Commission's plant at nearby Piketon. I'nion and company representa tives had failed to reach agree ment on a new contract. The union is asking a 27-cent-an-hour wage increase, in addition to n number of frinpe benefits. Details of the company's offer were not disclosed. Present wane levels have not been made public. Final Action Due On Building Cash Final action by the Joint Ways and Means Committee on a $5,067,000 state building program was expected today. The Board of Control originally recommended a $10,239,000 build ing program but a Ways and Means subcommittee neaaea by Sen. Ward Cook. Portland Demo crat, cut the program in (wo. Late action on the program by the subcommittee Thursday saw $125,000 from the MacLaren school for boy building budget trans ferred to Fairview home lo fi nance hospital addition. Both institutions have building budgets of more than a million, dollars. The subcommittee re atfirmed its stand to cut the higher educa tion building program to seven million dollars, alter defeating a move to cut out 8 fiwi.ooo utility tunnel extension at Oregon State College. Other major cuts were: VWhOnO for a geriatrics unit at Eastern . Oresmi Slaw hospital, Pendleton; KtfS.fl'i for a women's Penitentiary, and $750,000 Tor a new penitenti ary cellhouse. Major projects Included in Ihe program: State hospital: $40.(100 for ele vator and $'.'00.01X1 for another story on administration building. MacLaren School: $273,000 for completing dormitory. SSOO.Cmo (or new loo bed dorm and $82,000 for remodeling kitchen. Fairview home: $$59,000 for new patients' building and healing plant expaasion. Deaf school: $115 000 lor heating tunnel and pre school children's unit. State penitentiary: $50.ono for granary. Hillcre.it School for Girls $5.10.000 for new 72-girl dorm. Intermediate penal institution $712,000 to finish work on sections one and two of the new retorma. lory near Salem. Also approved as $.150,000 for a power plant lo serve both the inlermediate insti tution and cottage farm and a new water system for lh re formatory area. PORTLAND, Ore. Leo Smith, 53, (above) Portland attorney, who was appointed district attorney of Multno mah county yesterday by Gov, Robert D. Holmes. If he takes office, he will succeed William M. Larfgley, who was removed from office upon conviction of a charge of deliberate failure to prosecute gambling. Langley has ' appealed to the State Supreme Court for a stay of exe cution of his removal. (AP Wlrephoto) Langley Refuses to Give Up DA Office PORTLAND, Ore WV-Two claimants to the district attor ney's office were ready to fight it out today in the latest vice cleanup developments in Portland. Dist. Atty. William M. Langley. 41, rctused to give up the office yesterday after a state circuit judge signed an order removing him because he was convicted last month of failing to prosecute gamblers. FILE APPEAL NOTICE Langley's attorneys filed notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court and said that automatical ly should keep Langley in office until the appeal is settled. His term runs through 1958. The second claimant is Leo Smith, 53, Portland attorney, who Dag Is Happy After Initial Nasser Talks JERUSALEM W Prime Min ister David Ben-Ctirion and I'. N. Secretary General Dag llammar skjold ranged over the problems ol the Middle East lor S'i hours r riday. A communique issued laler said only that they had "a toll and frank exchange of views." lntiirmed quarters said Ben- Gurion asked llammarskjold to seek from Egypt an end lo that country's stale of belligerency against Israel. He also was re ported to have raised the question of the Egyptian ban on Israeli shipping through the Suei Canal. llammarskjold gave no indica tion of his reaction. He emerged from Ihe lalks grinning broadly and asked reporters: "Do I look unhappy?" Egypi has barred Israeli ships from the Suez on grounds thai a state of war still exists between the two countries. llammarskjold arrived here yesterday and met with Ben (iurion for 4'i hours. Israeli in formants said in the opening talks Ben - Gurion challenged Egypt's claim to belligerent rights and asked whether the position ot a country which considers ilsell in a stale of war is compatible with the V. N. Charier. $120 Richards Says Million Aid Promised WASHINGTON UV-Roving Am bassador James P. Richards said Friday he had committed about 120 million dollars worth of Amer ican military and economic aid to Middle Eastern countries on his recent tour. Richards told a news conference the Defense Department has as sured him that the military aid will be "moved along swiftly." He would not give an exact fig ure of commitments he made on what he termed a "crash" or ur gent basis from the 200-million-dollar authority President Eisen hower was voted by, Congress when It approved the administra tion's Mideast resolution to com bat communism. s He said military aid "guns, tanks and things like that" made up a little less than half the total committed and said it went mostly to countries with which this country already has military aid agreements. That would indicate be pledged about 50 to 60 million dollars of arms lor urgent delivery. j Richards refused to name Hie countries aided out of the 15 he visited. Middle East countries he! did not visit were Jordan, Syria' and Egypt. j In a broadcast talk Thursday night. Richards said the help he was able to promise "could by no means meet all the needs of the area countries" making it ap pear certain (hat at least some of them will seek more. j was appointed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes immediately after the judge signed the order for Lang ley s removal. Smith said he planned lo take his oath of office later today. Langley's attorneys asked the State Supreme Court to head off the situation yesterday by issuing a temporary stay against Lang- leys removal. Ihe court refused Langley's attorneys then said it made no difference anyway, FACES OTHER COUNTS Langley, who faces seven other state charges, was the first prin cipal to come to trial in the year long investigation in Portland. Meanwhile, his chief accuser, gambler Big Jim Elkins, opened his defense in U. S. District Court against wiretapping charges. U. S. Dist. Judge William East denied a defense move for a di rected verdict of acquittal when the prosecution closed its case yesterday. The judge, however, reduced from nine to seven the counts against Elkins and his employe, Raymond Clark in the wiretap ping indictment. Woodburn Drive-ln Open 6:45 Starts At Dusk Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.-Sat. "BANDIDO" Robert Mitchum PLUS 'DAVY CROCKETT AND THE RIVER PIRATES" MOTOR-VU . Dallas Gates Open 7 Show At Dusk Richard Egan. Dorothv Malone "TENSION AT TABU ROCK" SECOND FEATURE Eddie Albert. Robert Strauss "ATTACK" Evtry Wedneidiy ii $1 Ptr Car Ike's Plea for Foreign Aid Said Inspiring Many Senators Talk Of Further Slashes Below $3.88 Billion By ERNEST B. YACCARO ' WASHINGTON (-While many senators talked of further cuts. President Eisenhower pushed to day tor public support of a trimmed foreign aid program. Eisenhower volunteered plans for a 520-million-dollar cut in his original program yesterday, and then, sought radio-TV time for two public appeals in the next two weeks. No definite times have been fixed. COST FIRST, THEN WHY James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said the first talk would deal with the over-all cost of the government and the sec ond with "Why mutual aid is so essential in winning the peace." Eisenhower detailed the 520-million-dollar cut as he outlined a new $3,880,000,000 foreign aid pro gram, at a White House confer ence with congressional leaders yesterday. Some of those present said Ei senhower made an "inspiring appeal" for the' program. Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala), a mem ber of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, called the new request "pretty reasonable" and "pretty close to what I have been advocating all along." WILL TAKE FIRM HAND But with Congress in a strong economy mood, he said, the first place it looks for cuts is the for eign aid program, and it will take "some very good, active leader ship by the President and his party" to sustain the reduced fig ure. Chairman Russell (D-Ga of the Senale Armed Services Com mittee said he was unmoved from his origioal demand that all for eign aid be cut to about $2,400,- noo.ooo for the fiscal year starting! July 1. j Sen.' Aiken (R-Vt) commented that "I wouldn't say the foreign aid program couldn't be cut - an other 500 million dollars." 1 The President specifically asked: 1. $1,900,000,000 in new spend-' ing authority for military arms, planes, tanks and other equip ment to allies and $900,000,000 in economic defense support for these allies, for a total of $2,800, ooo.ooo in military and support assistance. I HALF.BILLION TO LOANS 2. $1,080,000,000 for economic assistance, 500 millions -of which would go into a loan fund. The remainder would coveril55 mil lions for the technical assistance. More Creative Thinking Big Industry Need . . . It.-,, inrixctniallct I,,.-!.: .. L PHILADELPHIA f AP) An ed ucator savs that a major problem in .industry is that, the average executive spends less than 5 per cent ol his time thinking crea tively. Dr. B. B. Goldner. head of La Salle College's School of Creative Thinking, yesterday told 100 top executives of leading industries that "America's industrial might is based upon the creativeness of our executives."" 1 program,' 125 millions for the In ternational Cooperation Adminis tration's multilateral programs, and 300 millions for the Presi dent's emergency fund to use at his discretion. HE'S REAL NOBLE LONDON (UP! ocorge lan Murray, a $56 a week assistant Jlant manager, took the day off todav to celebrate his inheritance ot 18 noble titles. Murray, a distant cousin and closest living relative of the late Duke of Atholl, inherited me duke's title plus four earldoms, three viscounties, two marquisate and eight baronies. (CORNS FROM THE oh wt4 oil tm.nl This is an It stands for ' MOTHER and , MENU . and MARION ' and MM-M-M and it all means we've dreamed up a very special Mother's Day Menu at the Marion! We'll be serving from noon on in the Gold Room with lovely flowers and music. Call now for reservations for your family. EM 3-4123 ' Remember in Salem it's the HOTEL MARION A The National Geographic Society has dug up the puzzling information that the West Fork of the South Fork of the North Fork of the San Joaquin River is in California. ENDS TOMORROW colon CwmuScoK H-O-M't I SUSKNSC STOftV if the SPENCER TRACY hr BflBcPT BV1N And FORBIDDEN PLANET Adventure Into the Unknown Nonmcwm. athococ. SPEED!! THRILLS!! ROUGH & RUGGED "SOUPED-UP." L(2L?dl(o)pS Autro Races OYER 30 CARS FROM PORTLAND SEATTLE EUGENE SPOKANE Sat. Nile-May 11 TIME TRIALS 7:45 RACES 8:30 HOUYWOOD BOWL ADULTS $1.30 STUDENTS 90e presented Y u- I. B-.13 " NOW PLAYING! WW i? IF im mam rm 111(11 IliKtl IfflET KONIEI UK !Mtf inn imk mm If a . FOR COMEDY Hrlilil-l PLAYING TONITEI ALWAYS 50c KIDS 20c Sat. Kids Matin 20c Evtryon Till 2 After 2:00-50c Adults NOW. PLAYING! Terror Fury "Dadly Mantis" Craig Stevens TONITE AT DUSKI 4 Extra Cartoons Audi Murphy "WAU THE I PROUD IAND" r Hope At His Funnient M -tj-l pmnts TOTYlSO WTEtWCftW Bob KiOwim HOPE HEPBURN Ft Tm Totfcr iron petticoat Coming May 1.1th "GiAW W.dn..dy It A Car-Full Nit ii- ;A Amarir-a ittlltt h- - 3t ne 3diu mi'" . , least 10 per cent ot the minds ot bau inrinctriitllett wnplrinw n; ..................... u,Bui crea tively to stay ahead of the produc tion race and competition for men's minds. : The meeting today was in ad vance of La Salle's first Nation al Comprehensive Symposium on Creative Thinking June 18 and 19, India Renames Prexy vr.u npi HI in nni i iiu i, Luu.i( i, iajt'iiura Prasad was re-elected president -i ,i in;nn D.niikli- u. me jiiuiaii itcpuuui riiudjr iq- aoother five-year term. 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