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.
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Trotsky's Widow
Continues Crusade
To Clear His Name
Mexico City U.R) Leon
Trotsky's widow continues a
personal cruside to clear her as
sassinated husbands name of
spy and traitor charges made by
Russia's dictators.
There have been frame-up at
tempts. She has been shot at,
But Natalia Trotsky has never
given up the fight to have her
husband's name restored to the
Kremlin's hall of fame. '
Trotsky was murdered by a
man who gained his confidence
won the freedom of his home
and then drove an alpenstock
into his head while he was reading.
His 74-year-old widow claims
her husband was killed that
August in 1940 on orders of
Josef Stalin.
The assassin claims it was a
personal argument.
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.
The counties affected were
declared in a "disaster area" on
March 1 by the president.
The Department of Agricult
ure says 11.5 million children
are getting their lunch at half
price under the national school
lunch program.
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