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ILJ UQKUn acre 42 Years a Statesman Reader Succumbs Laughing fobuel Eur art Aii of was a up 'HI r.w In Flat POUNDDD 1651 Stattsman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 15,: 1959 -w-1" t- 1 09th YEAR 2 SECTIONS-20 1 Builder Pioneer Dam to Choose Site First NIAGARA It Consumer Power builds a dam here, it will not be the first one constructed at this spot, in hopes of harnessing the stream for hydroelectric needs. A high hand-built structure made of rock still stands in the stream bed, partially blocking the flow of water. Sometime around 1859 Chinese labor and ox carts were used ta erect the barricade. It was started on the Marion County side, and only lacked a short distance of reaching the Linn County aide whea work halted. No.

202 Cost of Power Project Placed At $25. Million By MERVIN JENKINS Valley Editor, The Statesman CORVXLLIS-A new power dam on North Santiam Rivef that would supply the bulk of electric needs for 5,000 mid-Willamette Valley customers was proposed Wednesday by consumers Power Inc. of Corvalllsty It would be located about 2tt miles below the present Big Cliff, dam, re-regulating impoundment for Detroit Dam, according to H. Zinder and Associates of; Seattle, engineers for the proposed project. The lake behind Ihe 65-foot dam would reach approximately to Bis, Cliff.

Application for the project, about 45 miles east of is being filed with the State Hydroelectric Commission and the Federal Power Commission, reported Lloyd Stubkjaer, assistant manager for Consumers Power. Would Not Give Permit The permits requested would not give the right to construct the dam, but would Veserve a 10-mile stretch of river below Big Cliff for three' years for surveys by the company. Application for a con struction permit could be filed anytime within the three-year period." PRICE 5c Editioas of The Oregon Statesman of years past interest Lane reader for 42 years. Morley has rare lifelong subscription to the paper, won in a subscription contest In 1927. This week, in observance of National Newspaper Week, Morley recalled nearly a half-century of enjoying his "favorite newspaper." (Statesman photo) Lifetime Subscription to Statesman 3-Day Extension Given To Steel Fact- Finders WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower's inquiry panel, still plugging against odds for settlement of the marathon steel strike, Wednesday was granted an added three days for handing its report to the White House.

Eisenhower agreed to move ahead his deadline for receiving the report from Friday to Monday. The President must get Won 32 Years Ago, Still Delivered The Oregon Two Hunters Are Missing in Mt. Hood Area GOVERNMENT CAMP -Two young deer hunters are missing near this resort community high in the Mt Hood National Forest, and a hurried search started Wednesday night. Doyle- Reed, 18, Portland, and Jerry Layton, 1. Oregon City, left Saturday for a one-day hunting trip and were to return Sunday.

Late Wednesday night, Milwau-f kie state police found Reed's green and cream color 1956 Chevrolet parked off Highway 35 near the Clackamas-Hood River County line about five miles east of Government Camp. A note, found in the car. from one hunter to other said( -jf th ou get CacK 10 the car m. fire one snot, second Car No Located However, police said, both youths had taken cars and they may have used either one or both. Layton's 1955 Chevrolet was not located by early Thursday.

State police and Clackamas County sheriffs office were rushing all available men to this are where night temperatures dip near freezing. Parents of the youths said Lay-ton was to have attended school Monday and Reed was expected to return to work at a store, where he has been employed for two years, to help take inventory Monday. Searchlights, Radios Milwaukie district state police office said searchlights and portable radios were being taken into the area below Mt. Hood late Wednesday. The auto was (pund near the junction of Highways 26 and 35 on the Mt.

Hood Loop highway near Bennett Pass, elevation near 5,000 feet. A ground search was not started earlier because it was not known whether the pair planned to hunt in the Mt. Hood or Silverton areas, police said. Reed and Layton have been gone over 100 hours. By John Ericksen i 9 i i PAGES I a 033JJQ0 TJtDQJOG uThe project would cost approx- Career Ends VANCOUVER, B.

Veteran movie actor Errol Flynn, who died here Wednesday night of heart attack. (AP) UF Drive Passes Midpoint (Picture on page 5.) Salem United Fund collections passed the halfway mark Wednesday as dollars began pouring into headquarters from residential divis i collections. So far we re very pleased with the re- sponse our volunteers have received in their door-to-door campaign." division co chairman Mrs. Richard Springer said jubi lantly. "We hope to reach every home in Salem by Thursday evening, not only as solicitors but to inform every home about the many services available through United Fund agencies," chairman Mrs.

Kenneth Sherman added. Total dollars collected to date is more than $131,000 and several thousand more is expected "by thisl evening. Emergency units the Flying Squadrons will be available all day to help in the residential drive. Workers will count the money at Ladd and Bush Bank tonight, hoping the home solicitjon funds will swell the total by at least $10,000. Campaign Chairman Mrs.

William Crothers predicted a favorable report at the Friday noon luncheon "in view of the wonderful response we are getting." She cautioned, however, that "piere's still a long way to go in raising De Gaulle Supported PARIS (AP) The majority group in the French National Assembly decided Wednesday to back President Charles de Gaulles Algerian policy in a confidence vote expected ThuKday night. Brighter Side i I rs 1 7k Tf l'J- PH m9 XlSi MW er li'rlsy I jSiH W4 Off ftyL, Even early residents of the area cannot recall why the project was never finished. Nor has it been determined if the high wall, with its ernated rock designs and low water bypass tunnels could have withstood the pressure of high water. A large wing dam was built on the Linn County side, and remains intact. Few people see this tribute to early-day engineering, only the occasional fisherman who pursues the trout in river waters through the gorge.

the report, detailing ine tans in the dispute, before he can order the Justice Department to seek an 80-day, strike-stopping injunction. The extension gives the three-man inquiry board more time to try to wangle a peace pact That would make a report unnecessary. Panel Chairman George, Taylor, n-Treteran jne-i diator of labor laid: "Naturally, our aim is to-avoid filing any report at-alL" Taylor said bis panel needed more time anyway to assemble the voluminous testimony and exhibits presented by both sides and put them in shape for a report, in the likely event one must be filled. The panel, on receiving word that Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell had obtained the time extension, arranged to meet separately Wednesday in secret ses sions with top negotiators of the union and industry, It was clear the panel was driv ing hard in the time left to break the deadlock that has blocked settlement of the 92-day strike, worst in steel industry history.

Mrs. Hatfield In Collar for Neck Injuries Gov. Mark Hatfield was back at his desk Wednesday for the first time since a Sunday traffic accident, but Mrs. Hatfield, also a victim of the crash has been placed in a "collar" because of neck in juries. Both the governor and his wife are undergoing physical therapy under the direction of Dr.

Robert Anderson, the governor's office re ported Wednesday. The "collar" for Mrs. Hatfield was described by a spokesman as necessary to immobilize her in jured neck. She also sustained bruises all along one side of her body in the mishap. The governor was at his desk Wednesday morning and afternoon, out has cancelled out-of-town engagements for the time being.

VANCOUVER, B. C. (CP) Veteran actor Errol Flynn, swashbuckling hero on and off the screen, collapsed and died in a Vancouver apartment Wednesday night. His hostess said "he died laugh ing." The 50-year-old actor apparently suffered a heart attack. He was en route to the airport with Mr.

and Mrs. George Cal- dough of West Vancouver and his 17-year-old Hollywood protege, Bev- erley Aaland, who had accompani-1 ed him on his trip here five days ago. "We just dropped in to see some friends for a cocktail," Mrs. Caldough said later. Shortly after, Flynn complained of pain.

He died soon after. He came to Vancouver to dispose of his luxury yacht, the Zaca. Flynn was paunchy and graying a sharp contrast to. the agile handsome hero of a score of movies. Under Doctor's Care Flynn had been reported under doctor's care.

He told reporters who greeted him upon his arrival: "Women well, that speaks for itself. I like young women because they give you a feeling of youth. Women -have had top billing in most of Flynn's life. Almost from the time he arrived in Hollywood in 1935, he was in the public print and women usually had a lead ing role. Wife Can't Talk His current wife, Patrice Wy-more, from whom he was sepa rated, is appearing at a Washing ton, D.C., night club.

Told of Flynn's death, she burst into tears and was unable to say more than "Please, I'm I can't talk. He was divorced from LUi Da-mita in 1942. Two years later he met Nora Eddington while he was on trial on a charge of statutory rape involving two teen-age girls. He was acquitted after a sensational trial. In 1951 he was cleared of a rape charge at Monte Carlo.

This charge involved a 15-year-old girl. When his attention turned from women, rlynn occupied himself with adventure, the ingredient of his most famous films. Early" in "1939 he returned from Cuba and told of campaigning with rebel leader Fidel Castro. Among his notable films were "Green Light," "The Prince and the Pauper." "Charge of the Light Brigade," "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Esse and "Against All Flags." Lived High, Hard Flynn lived high and hard right up to the end his life. At the beginning of this year he broke into the headlines in Cuba, claiming to have been wounded in the Castro revolution.

The Castro forces pooh-poohed the gravity of his wounds and the extent of his participation in the revolution. But Flynn played it to the hilt and even wrote a series of articles on it. Even a few weeks ago, the actor was back in his old haunts while in Hollywood to make a television show. He tossed a party to introduce Miss Aadland. Inevitably, the party broke into the headlines because of some hard words between Miss Aadland and one of Flynn's ex-wives, Nora Eddington.

Flynn remained a non-combatant. On his last previous foray into Hollywood, in 1957, Flynn also made the papers when he was arrested as a drunk at a press agents' ball. Incident After Incident The newspaper files can reveal incident after incident in which Flynn figured in scrapes. He had knockdowns over such contenders as director John Huston and polo-ist Aiden Roark, a slapping match with columnist Jimmy Fiddler, a scrape with playboy Dan Topping and numerous others. Flyfin has said he earned seven million dollars.

The Weather Today's forecast: Partly cloudy through Friday with night, morning fog. Cooler, high temperature today 68, low to night 40. (Complete report on page 2) about his current Indianapolis crusade, which Wednesday night passed its eighth oi. a 27-night stand. Nixon, he said, even knew the attendance figures at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Colise um.

Graham edged to the brink of backing Nixon for -president by saying: "He is undoubtedly the best-trained man for the job of president in American history. He is every inch a Christian gentle man. But the renowned revivalist backed off from openly endors ing. Nixon, adding, "I don't know yet who will bo nominated, and there are some very fine men on tneuer Ude. By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman It was 32 years ago when Lane Morley of Salem won a lifetime subscription to The Oregon Statesman.

His subscription dates back to a circulation contest in 1927, he recalled Wednesday. He had been employed by The Statesman circulation department for about 12 years when the cpntest, one of many conducted by H. W. Hender son, circulation manager, was launched. Those, were Morley recalled this week.

Among the prizes were two autos, some cash and the lifetime subscription The airh, of the contest was sim ple. The winner was to be the per son who sold the most subscrip tions in a six-week period. Quit Job For Contest So Morely quit his circulation job to work full-time on the contest. He sold 1,200 year subscrip tions (at $3 a year) and 10 life sub scriptions to sweep the contest "I won two autos," he remembers. "One was a $1,100 Oakland sports car, which I sold.

The other was a $600 Whippet which I gave to ine pastor of tne First Baptist church here." He still has the battered life sub scription order signed by "Hender son. incidentally, is wide ly-known in the Salem area as a publisher of shopping newspapers and is once again Morley's employer. Both i The Statesman and Morley have come a long way since the contest. Subscription Followed Him His subscription to the paper has followed him whever he has gone in the past 30 years including 15 years in California. To me," he said Wednesday in discussing National Newspaper Week, "The Statesman has remain ed one of the cleanest, best-edited family-type newspapers anywhere.

would not want to be with out it." Even when he was away from Salem, he said, The Statesman compared more than favorably with other big city dailies. Morley has worked for news paper business sections for many years. He is currently advertising manager for a string of small news-shopping publications including Salem Shopping News, Detroit Dam News, Hollywood News and South Salem Star. Morley actually has been a con tinuous reader of The Statesman for 42 years. He views more or less with favor the many -changes in newspaper production in the past decades.

But, he recalls with approval, ed Morley of Salem, Statesman itors of 30 and 40- years ago. including R. J. Hendricks, former Statesman publisher, were great boosters of their community and agricultural activities. His favorite item in the present- day Statesman, he said, is the daily It Seems To Me column by Char les A.

Sprague, editor and publisher. Morley considers Sprague "one of the ablest writers in the nation." And, thanks to a contest a long time ago, Morley will never have to worry about not getting his daily Statesman on his doorstep every morning. 21 Hold Life Subscriptions Morley is one of 21 who hold life subscriptions to The Statesman. Salem subscribers include G. R.

Ely, S. Levens, E. D. Crabfree, Alma Pohle, Leonard Judson, Louis Judson, W. H.

Morley, Fred Browning, Carson and Delbert Bechtel. Others are Delbert Howell, E. A. Lytle and Mrs. Edna Isom, all of Woodburn; B.

F. Ramp of Rose-burg; M. L. Shepherd of Bend; Chester Foreman of Portland: Mrs. C.

E. Webb of Yakima, W. C. Powell of Vancouver, Mrs. Marie Snyder of Ontario; and R.

X. Meyers of Omaha, Neb. Ex-Actress Gene Tierney In Glerk Job TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Movie actress Gene Tierney was discov erea weanesaay womns as a sales clerk in a Topeka women's clothing shop. The 37-year-old actress, who is an outpatient at the Menninger Foundation, widely known psychiatric center here, refused to be interviewed, discuss her job or allow pictures to be taken.

"She applied for a job and she certainly knows clothes," said D. L. Talmage, her employer. Miss Tierney began clerking on a regular basis this week. Miss Tierney spent eight months as a patient at Menninger's last year and returned there early this year for additional treatment.

She left the center last month for a visit with her mother in Westport, before returning here to take the clerk job. Cooler on Forecast Temperature will drop slightly from Wednesday's warm October 73, McNary Field weathermen said. The high today is expected to be about 68. Some clouds and considerable night and morning fog are forecast through Friday. ished a round of golf, and I was taking a shower.

The vice president came in, said Mr. Eisenhower had Just entered the clubhouse after playing, and he wanted to talk to, me. "I just grabbed a towel land came out guess I didn't think anything about it: being unusual. Later Mr. Nixon told inae that I probably was the first minister ever to talk with the President and vice president under just those conditions." The President and Graham discussed golf grips and golfing in I Graham said both the president land tht-iict ipresMeot asked Um 2-State Group Eyed as Farm Union Convenes v-i Washington state delegates will be welcomed this morning at the Oregon State Fanners Union annual convention which opens, at Veterans of Foreign Wars hall for a three-day run.

The delegates are here in the interest of forming one large Northwest Farmers Union out of the two state groups. While the Oregon group is very active and has a membership of several hundred, the Washington Farmers Union is not now organ lzed although there are many members in the state. The program will get underway at 10 a.m. today. Registration will begin at 9 o'clock.

Committee reports will be heard during much of the day with general business adjourning at 3 o'clock for committee work. The annual banquet will be at Marion Motor Hotel tonight at 7 o'clock. 'V James Patton, national president, who said earlier he would attend, wired Herbert Rolph, state president, Wednesday that he will be. unable to be here during the convention. Car Goes Off 100-Ft.

Cliff; Man Survives Statesman News Service DETROIT, Ore. A construction worker plunged 100 feet over a cliff near here Wednesday morning, and emerged from his demolished car with apparently only minor injuries. Dewey tokes, 48, 610 Central Lebanon, was on his way to work at 6 a. m. He had driven across Deroit Dam and was two miles up one of the numerous canyons in that area, when the acci dent occurred.

He is employed by J. Wesley Webb Construction Co. Loggers following him in another car brought the man to the top of the cliff. He was taken to Santiam Memorial Hospital at Stayton where he was examined and sent home. Doctors Optimistic Over Parted Twins PORTLAND (AP) Physicians are optimistic that the Stubble-field Siamese twins parted in a delicate operation eight days ago will survive, a medical spokesman said rWedhesday.

The. spokesman said the twfaj girls still are- listed in critical condition af the University of Oregon Medical School Hospital. However he added: "Physicians in attendance have observed considerable improve ment in the past 24 hours, and now are optimistic that the trend will continue." The parents of the twins are Mr. and Mrs. James Stubblefield, farm-couple.

Several years ago when the cili zens of Bend wished honor Rob-4 ert Sawyer for his leadership in a campaign to provide the area greatly, improved hospital facilities I was as a long-time friend and admirer of Judge Saw yer's to present the plaque signi fying the award. In making the presentation I hailed Mr. Sawyer not just as the Man of the Year but as Oregon's First Citizen for the mid-century. Now at age 79, his long and busy career is ended. We are all the losers, but for his very useful life the Deschutes the state and nation are the winners.

Few come near him in the diversity of his interests and the extent of his constructive endeavors. Loyal as he was to his own community he became also a citizen' of the whole nation, A native of Maine, educated at Phillips Exeter and at Harvard University, Sawyer combined intellectual distinction with the solid qualities of character usually associated with New Englanders. He was a man of deep conviction, but his convictions were born of study and sound reasoning rather than prejudice. Long editor and publisher of the Bend Bulletin, his fellow journalists remember him as their faithful mentor. An error in a reference to history or a misquotation often drew from him a kindly note of correction.

It was just a sample, of his fidelity to accuracy arvri truth I I While his principal employment from 1913 to 1953 was with the Bend Bulletin of which he became editor and publisher Mr. (Continued on editorial page 4.) Pair Stranded; On Ship Huk ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) Attempts to reach two unidentified men stranded in the wrecked hulk of an old freighter off the Washington coast failed Wednesday night but the pair was reported in no danger. I Coast Guard headquarters in Seattle said the men had plenty of food and water and were even equipped with a small ship-to- shore radio. I The two were stranded aboard tht wrecked freighter Seagate when their small amphibious boat broke down two days ago.

Both are members of a salvage crew working on the Seagate, which was grounded off the coast three years ago. Today's Statesman Pago Soc. 8 II .14 17 tl Ann Linden Classified Comics V- -Crossword Editorial 4 11 Homo Panorama 8 I Markott 16 II Obituaries 5. Radio-TV. 1- Sports L.1M3.

Star Gazor 114.. Vallty News -15. Wirtphotof .14. 1 1 I imately 325 million and produce about 5,000 kilowatts of power. Plans inclade a 10-mile canal and tunnel along the north side of the river to a point two miles west of Mill City.

Generators, would be lo-. cated the, lower end of tha canal -e water-would be re-" turned the North Santiam Rivef. Preliminary plans call for a max-l imum canal flow of 2,500 second-: feet. Serves Wide Area The engineering firm said the main dam would include water bypass facilities to meet any minimum water flow requirements in the Mill City area. Consumers Power serves the Detroit-Idanha areas and has lines up the Little North Fork River above Mehama.

It also serves most rural areas of Benton County, a large rural area of Linn County, and extends into Polk and Lincoln counties to the coast, noted Stubkjaer. Stubkjaer said Consumers Power now secures its electricity from the Bonneville grid system, but the proposed dam would meet the bulk of its power demands. Going to Church May Be Undoing Of Woodpecker Days may be numbered for a woodpecker with a liking for th walls of South Salem Friends Church, 1680 Commercial St. SE. For a while it looked like he had picked another place to do his drilling and there were hopes it was good riddance.

-s Then he returned and proceeded to put a new hole in the rear Wednesday Rev. John Fankhauser called City Hall about obtaining a permit to fire a gun inside the city limits. Authorities said if the wind rises' it could sweep the blaze quickly down On Altadena, which has many homes adjacent to brushland. High winds Tuesday night swept a wall of fire down upon a row of expensive homes in the suburb of La Canada, which adjoins Alta-" dena to the west One mansion was severely damaged. Two were partially burned.

Hundreds fled, returning when the flames Were checked. The fire centered on an isolated" wilderness area accessible only on foot and by air. Fifteen tanker, planes spent the day dropping fire-retarding borate solution on hot 4 The fire caused haze of yellow smoke over much of Log' Angeles.i:: The fire broke out at noon Tues day along Angeles Crest Highway whkh links Los "Angeles with the Mojave Desert. Investigators think; it was from, a carelessly thrown 4 Threatened I Fire Checked After hi Homes Billy Graham, Draped in Bath Towel, Has fa LOS ANGELES (AP) A big brush which raced madly out of control- slowed Wednesday after licking the very doorsteps of ex- rnsive homes, but firemen feared might flare dangerously again. The blaze has charred more than 2.500 acres since it started Tuesday.

It burned slowjy Wednesday toward the foothill community of Altadenat By -evening it was a mile and a half away. Meanwhile, far to the west, on the opposite aide of metropolitan Los Angeles, another brush fire sprang up near Mt St Mary's College- north of Sunset Boulevard. The city fire department recalled nine units- it had. committed to the other fire. and ordered the college evacuated.

Before 'the evacuation was completed; however, word came from Inspector Charles Smith that the fire -was "fairly weU firemen fought the -blazes in record haaL 4 4 .1" i By DON REEDER INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) Evangelist 'Billy Graham -Wednesday staked claim to a curious clerical "first" that's not likely to be topped very soon. Graham thinks he's the only minister ever to conduct an audience with the President and vice president of the United States while splendidly, if not decorously clad in a bath towel. -t "It happened last Monday at Burning Tree Country Club in Graham grinning as he told of the incident in an Impromptu hotel room news conference. llr.

Nixoa I had-just fin rf- r- Mft Cfi a r(x Larry Monner, 5065 Verda Lane NE, has llU, JtJUdlc his own squirrel zoo complete with performing squirrels; One of 4he little fellows a rock squirrel from Bend races around in the rotary cage while Lury pecU-around the corner to-watch..