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C MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford, Or. UA Thursday, March 3, 1960 Flames Destroy Apartment House At Portland By United Pres Iniernalional Fire destroyed an apart ment house near Portland Wednesday night, climaxing a busy 24-hour period which saw four damaging blazes in western Oregon. The blaze wrecked the 12 unit Greenwood Manor apart ment house at southeast 122nd near the Clackamas Multnomah county line. Six families escaped safely. Belongings Lost Firemen had to battle the blaze during a stiff east wind. All the personal belongings of the occupants were lost and damage was roughly estimat ed at $75,000. Earlier, fire wrecked the four-story Hoffman hotel in Eugene with loss estimated at $250,000. A fire also caused some $200,000 damage to the Totem Pole Marina and boats in north Portland. At Astoria an early morn ing fire Wednesday gutted the entire second floor of the Astoria girls' school. No on was injured in the blaze. ENGINE DAMAGED - This is the engine of the Santa Fe passenger train that struck an oil truck on a grade crossing near Bak ersfield, Calif., Tuesday night.' The truck exploded, detailing and setting fire to the train. Twelve were reported dead and at least 60 injured. (UPI Telephoto) Woman Again Widowed by Tram Fresno, Calif. -IUPD- Back in 1922, Mrs. L. A. Snyder was the wife of Joseph C. Waugh, a fireman on the Santa Fe passenger train "The Mission ary." On Dec. 2 of that year, the train hit an open switch two miles west of Bakesrfield - and Waugh was fatally scalded by steam. The widow married another railroad man, engineer L. A. Snyder. Monday night Snyder was cremated at the controls of Santa Fe's "San Francisco Chief" when the streamliner collided with a truck tanker loaded with fuel oil. The accident happened four miles west of Bakersfield. Western Democrats Draft 1960 Platform in Field of Resources STILL LONELY Huntington Park (UPD- City councilmen took timely action when they got a letter from a man asking whether there were laws against starting a lonely hearts club here. Find ing no such ordinances, the councilmen held an emer gency session and passed some. Then they answered the man's letter. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) Western Democratic party of ficials have drafted the foun dation of the party's 1960 p 1 a tform in the field of resource de velo p m e n t , with endorse ment of a re gional power agency for the Pacific North- a. Bobt. smim west. These natural resources planks were the outcome of the reoent party conference at Albuquerque, N.M., at which Oregon's Democratic National committeeman, C. Girard Da- vidsoa, played the key role as head of the resources commit tee. Davidson, who served as as sistant secretary of interior a decade ago during the Tru man administration, is under stood to be a contender for the Interior cabinet post in the event the Democrats win the presidential election this fall. Under the heading "ener gy," the suggested platform called for the customary pro grams of multiple-purpose river development to assure maximum control and utiliza tion of western river basins for cheap power, flood con trol, irrigation and water sup ply. It added this point: Regional Agency "Establish in the Pacific Northwest a regional agency to enable full, comprehensive development of the Columbia river and to provide the re gion's utilities with low-cost wholesale power." This apparently was an al lusion to the general concept embodied in a bill introduced last year by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) to create a power agency for the North west with authority to issue revenue bonds to finance new construction of dams and transmission facilities. No mention was made in the platform proposal of the touchy preference clause is sue, which has indirectly served to stalemate Neuber ger's bill. A clause in Neuber ger's measure, designed to guarantee Oregon an equit able share of cheap Columbia river federal power intermin ably, has leti Washington state's senators cool to the whole idea for the moment. So no legislative action is now in sight. In a more generalized state ment on regional power devel opment, the platform propos als stated: "Foster development of ef ficient regional giant power systems from all sources, hy dro, thermal, and nuclear, TWO WONDERFUL REASONS WHY MOTHERS LOVE KARL'S TAP STRAP Little girls swivel strap with pert bow and peart buckte in biack patent feather or white smooth feather Sizes m25W JUNIOR MISTER Handsome, rugged oxford for little boys with stitch tip and long wearing plug sola in black or brown Sizes 812-1312 230 East Main St. MEDFORD Open Daily 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. mm Open Monday Till 9 P.M. with utility responsibility to supply low-cost electricity at wholesale to all retail electric systems pubic, private and cooperative." The statement also support ed "federal construction of at omic power plants." Other Proposals Among the other points and proposals were these: 1. Establishment of a feder al water pollution control agency, and an extension of federal jurisdiction to all nav igible streams. This directly opposes the philosophy of the Eisenhower administration, as reflected last week in a veto of an expanded water pollu tion control program. The ad ministration wants the states to deal with this problem. 2. Establishment of a Na tional Institute of Atmospher ic Research to find out more about the giant river of wea ther that surrounds the earth. 3. More research to protect and increase sports and com mercial fisheries. 4. Establish program of con servation camps for young people to work in national parks and forests. The Senate has passed a bill to do this, against the policy of the ad ministration. The House has not acted as yet. 5. Increase recreational areas for a growing popula tion by developing recreation al grounds at all projects built by the Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers; and to develop adequate camping and play areas with access to oceans, gulfs, rivers, streams, lakes and resevoirs, with fa cilities for boating, fishing, swimming, camping and pic nicking. 6. Improve forest fire pro tection and speed reforesta tion of burned-over forest areas, which it said now amounts to 4 Vis million acres of unproductive land. It also called for "adequate financing of intensive forest manage ment to make government for est a model" and "protection for the small timber opera tions," but mentioned no spe cific proposals. 7. Require all military res ervations to be administered under state fish and game reg ulations. 8. "Immediate termination of the arbitrary discrimina tion and unreasonable restric tions by the U.S. government against the domestic produc tion, ownership and sale of metals." GOP Criticized This statement fell under the category "minerals," which criticized the GOP for a decline in western mining industry. But the plank did not state how the Democrats would deal with current tar iff, gold price or federal metal buying practices which are blamed by many for depress ing the mining industry. Under "federal lands," the statement chastized the Ad ministration for "its record of giveaways" and for what Da vidson termed "calculated ap athy" in not spending more money in access roads, soil and water programs and range seeding. The Democrats favor, it added: "Wise investment in access roads, forest crop improve ment, mapping, public use facilities, and other develop ments which greatly increase both federal and local reve nues and public benefits." Salem Sewage Survey Presented Salem -(UPD- A Corvallis en gineering firm today present ed to Salem city officials a survey for a multi-million dolr lar sewage system. ' The survey was prepared by the firm of Cornell, How- land, Hayes & Merryfield at the city's request. Exact finan cial estimates are to be re vealed later. The proposed system cov: Wall Street Chatter New York (UPD Science stocks still challenge the im agination of both active trad ers and institutions as they outperform many of the top industrial issues included in the averages, notes Lucien O. Hooper of W. E. Hutton & Co. But the imagination, he points out, is of a type based more on nebulous and ab stract ideas of "inevitable" growth ' rather than on abso lute mathematics. "Certainly it has a high element of 'vogue' in it; and it is only fair to say that the vogue already has had a long life, as such things go," Hoop er opines. He believes the interest in the so-called science stocks at this point "must be based to a considerable extent on speculative psychology rather than fundamentals. Right now, the psychology is vig orous," he notes. , Bache & Co. says North American Car appears to have built a "strong and interest ing" technical formation dur ing the past six months. "Al though not a particularly' ac tive issue, he would suggest it for those trading accounts willing to assume the specula tive risk." Standard & Poor's Corp. says Seaboard Finance, which provides a yield of 4.7 per cent at current levels, has ap peal for good income return, good defensive qualities and ultimate appreciation. Mobile Slaughter Rules Tightened Salem -(UPD- Restrictions on mobile slaughterers of live stock have been tightened up by the state. The Oregon Agriculture de partment said today that an order signed Feb. 25 and now in effect sets up facility, sani tation and identification re quirements for slaughter op erators. A new state law also requires them to be licensed. Humphrey Sees Oregon Primary As Inconclusive Washington-(UPD - Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said today he expected the Democratic presidential pri mary in Oregon to be "rather inconclusive" because of the number of potential candi dates that have been listed. Asked about the outlook, he said he was taking a step at a time in his campaign and was now concentrating on the the April 5 Wisconsin pri mary in which he is matched with Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Silent on Contests Of the Oregon primary where candidates can be list ed without their consent, Humphrey said: "I think this number of candidates would make the result rather inconclusive." Asked if he welcomed a con test with Sens. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) and Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) two unan nounced candidates who are staying out of other presiden tial primaries, Humphrey said he would let them speak for themselves. La Grande fDTD John L. Eldridge, 36, La Grande, has been sentenced to seven years in the state penitentiary on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. FOOD SOURCE St. Paul - Pure cellulose, such as cotton, for example, can be utilized as a food for cattle, experiments have demonstrated. Tillamook -fllPD- Jack Horn back, Tillamook school super intendent, has resigned effec tive June 30. He said he planned to complete work on a doctor's degree. l Liu 1 Van Rie, Wife Go Info Seclusion Boston (UPD A handsome Dutchman who admitted ship board intimacies with a viva cious young divorcee has stepped from the shadow of death into ihe arms of his for giving wife. Willem and Nella Van Rie were in seclusion at a hotel to day, alone for the first time since January, 1959 when as radio officer aboard the SS Utrecht he left his' native Holland. .A statement from Radio Holland officials that a job would be waiting for him and his wife's forgiveness have ap parently assured Van Rie's future. BOTTLED BV TMC G. E. 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