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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE --r WdnMJay, April 17, 195T Expansion of Urban Renewal Programs Trounced bv House Salem U.R; Expansion of urban renewal programs throughout Oregon was voted down in the House Tuesday by a whopping 42-17 margin. The renewal bill would have permitted any Oregon city to set ui redevelopment programs whreby slums could be cleared and blighted areas repaired with the aid of federal funds. Under the current redevelop ment act of 1949, renewal was limited to cities of 70,000 or more and t clearance programs only. Rep. Richard Eymann, Mo hawk Democrat anJ a sponsor of the bill, said it would bring the state's renevfal program up to date and im line with other states. He asides! that it was of special interest to Portland, Ar lington and the Eugene-Springfield area. Opposition to th bill centered on the belisf that it would give too much power to city and county officials and to develop ment contmissions to decide on land us$, waning and to condemn property. Unet t'm bill, land could be condemned up to 10 miles out side limits of cities of 10.000 or more to further a renewal project. Rep. Wayne Giesy, Monroe Republican, referred to the bill as a "gigantic real estate gamble." He said it gave such broad powers to local agencies that it might be unconstitu tional. Other Highlights Taxes: Discussion of a tax program started in the House Taxation committee with Repub lican members Wayne Giesy and Fayette Bristol plumping for a sales tax as the best answer to the state's financial headaches. Democrats are opposed to the sales tax. Judgments: Passed by the House was a bill authorizing summary judgments to reduce court dockets when no issue of material fact is involved. The bill was backed by the state bar. Vels: Also passing the House was a bill liberalizing length of service requirements so that an additional 400 Korean veterans might receive state educational aid benefits. pmical Plant Blast Levels Building; Five ifilled, Four Injured Sarteston, W. Va. (U.R) n explosion at a Monsanto Cltmkel Co. plant near here tevVaft s three-story building 9iEM&t? lilling five workmen, i four others and unleash es rSJorine fumes which forced $,a arsons to leave their ftsg blast, of undetermined SfQ, "btew apart" the build s& wt? of several single-unit ipwUrw known as "shells," at ttm. cfrtravling Monsanto installa tion q Kitro, W. Va., 15 miles 3bmm rtwre. The building was re gViaS 1m rubble. 3Jto if the injured were in "vr critical" condition at Thrr; Memorial hospital and the fifth was listed as serious. State police ordered more than 1,500 persons to leave their homes when the chlorine fumes spread from the wrecked build ing after the blast. Company fire men quickly halted the escape of the gas and the residents later were allowed to return to their homes. Plant manager John McClain said he believed the fumes were "non-toxic," but ordered tests made "to make sure." Those killed in the blast were building foreman Elmer Priddy Sr., 56, Jack Vintrox, 47, Joe Johnson, 33, and Lacy Gilbert, 47, all of Nitro, and Mansford Quails, 34, of Hurricane, W. Va. Gilbert and Quails died in hos pitals hours after the blast. The injured were Paul Martin, 31, Poca, W. Va., Tom Miller, 41, Bancroft, -W. Va., and Tom Smith, 33", Eleanor, W. Va., all "very critical," and Lionel Jones, 41, Poca. LAZY SUSANS 1.98 to $29.50 any styles, ihM ond colon pm which to chooio. lighten Xur laitar entertaining with luion from Acmol Hallite 7-Inch MQQ FRY PAN v MO. $7.50 AH-olumlnum fry par with eopper. colored covor. Spreads hoot quickly, vonly, gently. Sparkling color novor needs polishing. 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But investigators believe, and the killer's statement at the time of the murder indicated, that the founder of the Red army died as the result of a cunningly planned crime. They say it was more than co incidence that several months earlier, the killer sought out and became intimate with a plain Brooklyn girl in Paris who was the sister of Trotsky's secretary. The friendship allowed him to make Trotsky's acquaintance when he came to Mexico. Soon after he struck the blow. the man who calls himself Jacques .Mornard told Trotsky's infuriated bodyguards, "They made me do it! They, have my mother in prison!" Though Mornard, later identi fied as Ramon Mercader del Rio, still denies it from his comfort able Mexico prison cell, Natalia Trotsky says "they" were the Russian secret police. In 1950, her theory was par tially substantiated when a Mex ican criminologist, Dr. Alfonso Quiroz, uncovered a fingerprint card in Madrid's police files that matched the classification of Jacques Mornard. The card bore the name of Ra mon Mercader del Rio, arrested in 1935 for taking part in a clan destine Communist meeting. Del Rio's mother was a well known GPU agent in Spain and was in prison at the time of Trotsky's murder. . Before the assassination, Na talia nearly died when 25 men disguised as soldiers and police sought to machine-gun the couple in their bedroom. They saved themselves by lying on the floor. Not long ago a poorly execut ed attempt was made to frame Trotsky's widow and his follow ers for plotting Mornard's death in the event he received an ex pected parole. But she never has been silenced by fear. "The Kremlin's maneuvers to picture murdered Bolshevik leaders as ideological enemies are their usual method to quiet protests and discontent of the Russian people," she said recent ly. She also sent telegrams to the Supreme Soviet asking her hus band's restoration to his place in Communism's hall of fame. "If Stalin had not had him killed," she says, "Trotsky would be one .of Russia's top leaders today." Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Brixham, England Capt. Alan Villiers on his ship, the May flower II, after its sea trials: "She is a lovely ship, a sturdy ship and she handes magnifi cently." Chicago U.S. Attorney Frank McGarr en Bessie Roth, 49. spinster bank bookkeeper who allegedly embenled $467,333: "Apparently she just did the thing out of the goodness of her heart. She didn't keep a dime." Washington Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R.-Mich.) accusing the U.S. Information agency of slighting the rest of the country by dis tributing abroad free copies of two New York newspapers, the Times and Herald Tribune: "It isn't lair to spend the money of all the people to tell people abroad just what the people of New, York and Brooklyn think." Washington Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, on the restoration of mail service: ' "Every effort, I can assure you, will be made to continue io the public the best possible mail service, to keep postal employees on the job, and io operate as economically as we can." Help for Eastern Oregon FarmersUrged Washington U.R) Sens, Wayne Morse, Richard Neuber ger and Rep. All Ullman, all Oregon Democrats, asked Agri culture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son Tuesday night for urgent ac tion to help "flood-struck" farm ers in eastern Oregon. They pointed out that an emergency money bill providing funds for the department has been tied up in. a House-Senate conference committee for the past six weeks. In view of the delay they asked Benson to recommend to President Eisenhower that he advance money from the emer gency fund to be repaid when the emergency bill is approved. They said they have been ad vised from the area that inac tion on their request will result in a lost crop this year. 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