Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - December 12, 1957, Walla Walla, Washington Governor Hits Back At Charg 0 Turnover in state institution personnel during the last five months was five per cent less than it was during the last year of Republican Gov administration Gov Rosellini said Wednesday Rosellini replied to former GOP State Sen Neil Hoff of Tacoma who said every Republican em- ploye in state institutions now is being fired so that by January those who will be working will be Democrats Koff said the governor after getting rid of all Republicans may want to hire all Democrats and then put through a merit tem that would freeze them on the job Hoff criticized Rosellini for not having used his leadership to have the 1957 Legislature en- act a merit system for state em- ployes The governor called the charges made during a televised address Tuesday night ridiculous and politically inspired Rosellini said Dr Garrett Heyns director of institutions has been given a free hand to make whatever changes he deems necessary to improve the tional program The changes to be made on the basis of appointing the most qualified persons regardless of political Roselini said The governor said Dr Heyns will have a chance between now and Jan 1 to review the nel and make whatever changes Walla Walla WEATHER Our Year No 205 Walla Walla Wash Thursday December 12 1957 Two Pages Thursday night art Friday morning cloudy FrL afternoon and cooler Low Thurs night 32 high Fri 37 High Wednesday 49 low early Thurs morning 37 moisture excess since Sept 1 42 inch are indicated On Jan 1 Rosellini said he hopes to reinstate the merit tem he abolished after taking of- fice He said the system would give job protection to the dreds of loyal hard working who are working in our state institutions at a sacrifice The system will be established by executive order the same as during tion since the Legislature failed to establish one by law Oregon Man Killed Oil Worker Held BAKER ffl A farm laborer was shot and killed at Halfway Ore and lice later charged an unemployed oil field worker with ter Police said Claude Winford Gray who the small town New Russ Blast Seen At Debate UNITED NATIONS N Y Russia was expected to unleash another blast at the United States Thursday as the took up the Soviet call for peaceful ence Western diplomats predicted th Russians would take full ganda advantage of the issue i the Political Committee debat opening four days before th NATO summit meeting in Paris With the general assembly near ing adjournment the Russian were expected to use the occasio to sum up various charges the have leveled throughout the ses sion Under the broad wording of th item Russia could revive il claim that the United States interfering in the internal affair of the Arab states and trying sow dissension in the Middle Eas When he called for inclusion o the item at the start As sembly Soviet Foreign Andrei Gromyko accused th United States and its allies of try ing to dominate the Middle Eas by military He charged th West was stepping up the war threat with a policy of negotia tion from strength The debate also would give th United States a chance to renew its charge that Russian supply o arms to Syria is threatening a Middle East explosion Sources close to the American said however that the United States does not plan any counter offensive other than a brie speech On the eve of the debate India Sweden and Yugoslavia a substitute for the Russian existence resolution The new posal would have the Assembly call on all countries to develop friendly and cooperative relations and settle disputes by peaceful means A Tasty Horde Lunar Expedition Is Objective 60 miles iere was shot once in the head with a 32 caliber rifle Ernest Eugene Stephens 41 Halfway later was arrested and arraigned here on a ter charge state police Sgt ert White said Stephens bail was set at White said Charles Leon ley Richland Ore was being held as a material witness His bail was set at Police quoted Stephens as ing the shooting occurred when he Hensley and Gray were ing and examining two rifles Youth Escapes As Auto Flips A College Place youth escaped injury Thursday morning when his car skidded on a slick road between his home and Walla la and overturned in the ditch The driver of the car was Monte Mooers 19 The mishap occurred at Thursday on West Rose beyond the city limits The State Patrol which investigated said the vehicle slid on the frosty hit the bank and flipped over onto its top Damage to the auto was estimated at about Support For Benson Plan Seen as Cool WASHINGTON Iff Congress is expected to give a cool tion to a tary of Agriculture Benson that a commission be named to assist him in setting price support levels if it trust him to do it alone Even colder treatment is likely from Congress for a further gestion from Benson that it drop price support levels for the basic crops of wheat corn cotton rice tobacco and peanuts to range from 60 to 90 per cent of parity Benson now has the authority to set these levels anywhere be- tween 75 and 90 per cent of ity But he said in a speech in Chicago Wednesday he will seek the 60 to 90 per cent range when Congress returns in January He said if Congress felt the discretionary authority to set the levels should not be lodged in his hands alone a bipartisan sion might be appointed to assist him Rep Abernethy a member of the House Agriculture Committee said slightest chance there isn't the that Congress will lower the support levels on the basic crops It will not pass As to the suggestion that a bi- partisan commission might be pointed to help the secretary in setting price support levels said he didn't see how such a plan could work Boise Cascade Plans Another Container Plant Boise Cascade Corp announced plans Thursday to build a corrugated shipping container plant in the Burley Idaho area The facility will provide a second outlet for the product of the pulp and paper mill plant to be built on the Port of Walla Walla site at Attalia A similar container plant is now under construction at the Attalia site with construction of the pulp and paper production plant to follow In making the new ment President Robert V berger of Boise Cascade said the Burley plant ultimately will em- ploy about 50 men Options have Traffic was stopped for a time Thursday morning on the man Monument road when this flock of turkeys about in all were moved to the They were herded about a mile from one part of the farm to the plant on another They probably would have caused more trouble than they did if they knew that next week they'll be converted from birds on the hoof to dressed birds for the Christmas dinner table One Jbird jumped off the bridge and landed in the Walla Walla River but it was retrieved The birds will be slaughtered picked and dressed The picking is accomplished by scalding and use of a mechanical picker The Ray C Shelden and Neil M Shelden families operate the poultry farm If you think herding sheep is a problem you'd ought to try it with turkeys NEW YORK ffl A Unite States expedition to the moon is Mie of the objectives of an rational effort to pioneer in oute pace proposed by 27 of the na ion's top scientists in rocket an research The scientists said human prog ess and national welfare made imperative the United States car y out scientific exploration an habitation of outer space They said the present state technology will ead to attempts to explore oute pace by manned expeditions hey asked for an expenditure o 0 billion dollars over the next 1 ears for the The known th Locket and Satellite anel suggested the creation governmental body to be calle the National Space Establish ment The proposal already has by Dr James R Killia r special assistant on scienc and technology to President E one scientist indicated Scientists on the panel includ ir Wernher von Braun forme jerman rocket expert now di ector of development operation or the Army ballistic missile jency Huntsville Ala Dr Jo eph Kaplan chairman U.S for the International Year and Dr Wil am H Pickering director of the t propulsion laboratory of Cali Institute of Technology luge Wave Hits Kills One LONDON B A huge wave the American destroyer lanley Thursday killing one man nd critically injuring others said message received at U S nava here Part of the destroyer's super- was caved in and hole section of the bulkhead left pen to the raging sea What A Place To Land A Subway Service Better Strikers Asked to Vote NEW YORK tf A striking subway union called a member ship meeting for Thursday to take a vote on ending the out which has created four days of extreme travel hardship for millions of Manhattan workers Frank Zelano executive tary of the lent Assn announced the move following a conference of union officials with the union's attorney It came in the wake of reports that service has been restored on subways through use of nonstrikers supervisory and return to work of some strikers Zelano earlier had termed lies assertions of transit officials that more and more MBA men were reporting back for work He said it was an attempt to pede and confuse our men Police headquarters 4th 39 Police headquarters said 70 per cent of scheduled subway rain runs were made during the 7 to 8 rush hour Thursday This was somewhat above Wednesday's performance Forecasting Forecasting 5th graph a substantial im- in subway Thursday Authority Chairman Charles L Patterson claimed a trend has started among the strikers Asked whether he would sit down with MBA leaders and try a work out a settlement ion I would not If walked in the door and hot someone would you stop and alk with them before you had hem out in the electric Scores Lawbreakers He quickly explained he didn't mean to liken the strikers to but insisted he would not with lawbreakers and lawbreaking A state law prescribes al or severe penalties on civil ervice workers who strike pal government agencies Patterson said none of the ers have been suspended as ye and said that if the come in and admit that the were wrong then we might tak things under consideration On Tuesday the Transit Author ity sent this telegram to 300 mo This notifies you that if you do not report and take ou your run this afternoon it wl mean that you have your employment and you will b replaced Nineteen motormen that they were returning to work No accurate on how many others went bac without a report to the authority Twenty-one new motormen hav been hired from civil service elig ible lists to replace strikers Enraged Bull Kills Farmer Near Colton COLTON Wash W A mad bull who reportedly goes into a rage at the sight of machinery at tacked and killed a man on his Whitman County farm near here Wednesday Glenn Simpson a dairy and grain farmer was found scious by his wife beneath a smal wheel tractor he had been using o clean out his barn The bull was standing nearby Simpson's death was attributed to severe head and chest injuries in- by the animal Mrs Simpson was able to gel he bull into a pen and then called or help Her husband died as he was being taken by ambulance to Pullman hospital The bull who has no horns was mown on the farm as a machine later It appeared Simpson may lave been attacked while he was near the tractor and then sought protection beneath it Dogs Bring Warning From Irate Couple A beleaguered who lost Bryant Avenue 12 laying hens At New Haven Conn this light plane rests after crashing atop the Methodist church In a snowstorm Thursday UM plane's slightly Occupants of the escaped Injury AP Wirephoto nd five geese to dog packs in ie past few days have warned hat retaliatory measures will be aken against dogs which molest heir poultry in the future Mr and Mrs George Oswald ho reside on Bryant near its with Sturm told officers they have been by burrowing dogs acme in under their fences get at chickens Deputy f Berton E Kinman was called the scene Wednesday after ATS Oswald found 12 of her 13 aying hens torn to bits by canine aiders A few days ago she iund all four of her geese dead victims of dogs Mrs Oswald said authorities ave advised her that she has ie right to shoot any dogs she nds in her yard molesting the And she says that to DC the only solution to ie problem She said the family as been troubled by dogs for a time while trying to raise on their property We've bolstered our gates and fences but I've seen the dogs burrow right under the she explained We put boards along the bottoms of the fence and they burrowed under them too Once I counted 10 to 12 dogs in one pack in the She said that once the dogs have killed chickens it is almost impossible to keep them away from the poultry Several fryers were killed by dogs earlier she said and that a number of chicks fell victim to dogs When I went out day and saw these hens strewn about all torn up I could have Mrs Oswald said And they all were such good layers too Sheriff John R Cummins said that if owners won't keep their dogs under control the only way to deal with them if they're caught killing poultry is to shoot them Stroller The following slightly item appeared in the week's club calendar in the Women's Benefit Assn p.m at the home of Mrs Ed Schell 303 E Oak for annual Christmas party and turkey dinner with husbands as gift exchange Members of the group have received several telephone re- quests that if there are any husbands left over after the ex- change please notify the caller Others in less flattering tone suggested it sounded like a short-change exchange The news department ly red-faced liar set aside a Stroller ticket good for two for Mrs Fred Bahneman 724 E Titan for her call about it The ticket is to the Liberty Theater where the current at- traction is Kiss Them for any connection with husbands is purely coincidental Worker Can Sue Doctor Court Rules OLYMPIA ff The State Su Court ruled Thursday tha a workman injured in the cours of can sue for malpractice a phys cian he voluntarily consulted fo treatment of his on-the-job in jury The suit was brought by Har vey E Shortridge who claimed h was treated by Drs Brandt Bed and J Arnold Mark at the Morto Lewis County Medical Cente for a hernia suffered in 1952 dur ing the course of his Shortridge contended that June 1953 he discovered he ha been sterilized during the cours of an operation for the hernia He filed suit against the tw physicians The doctors countered by claim ing that complain did not constitute a cause for ac tion The Lewis County S u p e r i o Court concluded on the basis an earlier State Supreme Cour opinion that Shortridge was no entitled to recover damages from the doctors and dismissed the ac iion In a unanimous opinion the Supreme Court heli hat the opinion relied upon by the Superior Court did not apply The opinion written by Charles T Donworth said that in he Shortridge case the relation between the physicians and Shortridge was voluntary while n the earlier action the physician was employed by the company which employed the in- lured workman The Supreme Court returned the case to the lower court for a tria on the merits Union Votes Bakers Out By NORMAN WALKER ATLANTIC CITY Iff The AFL-CIO made effective lay its earlier expulsion of the Workers on corruption charges and the Distillery Workers Union on probation Expulsion of the Laundry rs Union with members another group accused of corrupt also was due at con- luding AFL-CIO convention ions Expulsion of the Bakers Union was voted by the convention ay but then held up pending word whether James G Cross would step out as the president nd if the union would comply with other AFL-CIO cleanup de- mands The union's expulsion was made immediately after Cross ired he was not quitting New Projects Are Held Up WASHINGTON UP The Army Engineer Corps said Thursday it is holding up award of all new contracts on water projects Its announcement are reexamining our gram in the light of new ary considerations The award of new contracts is being deferred pending results of this review An Army Engineer spokesman said the holdup order applies to any new contract on an existing or new flood control navigation power or similar project being built by the Engineers He said he was unable to supply a list of what projects might be involved There was no immediate cation of what immediate effect the order may have on projects under the jurisdiction of the Walla Walla District Beck Case Nears Jury SEATTLE at The expected windup of Dave Beck's grant trial was delayed Thurs day as opposing attorneys con ferred privately with Judge George H Revelle and the rest of the court marked time The attorneys remained with the judge through nearly thi entire morning There was no clu to the nature of the conference Both the defense and state rest ed Wednesday and it had ap pared then the King County Su Court jury of seven men and five women would get thi case late Thursday Beck president o the Teamsters Union is of embezzling from the sale nearly two years ago of a 1952 Cadillac he had used as his per sonal car It had been bought by the Western Conference of Teamsters Final arguments and the instructions to the jury were all that remained Thursday befon the jury began its deliberations But the unscheduled could change the timetable and delay giving the case to the jury until Friday Beck spent nearly an hour on the witness stand Wednesday acknowledged on cross examina tion he had used the Cadillac authorized its sale and knew thi proceeds had gone into thi account of the B B Co which he owns The state was balked from ask ing further questions about the car and its sale when the ruled they went beyond the ares opened up in direct testimony Two Soldiers Held In Auto Theft Cases Two Camp Hanford soldier were held by Walla Walla police Thursday for questioning after one car had been stolen here an other stolen in Richland and two others tampered with here Officers Ray Tumblin and Marvin Tilden reported that they apprehended the pair early Thursday in a car stolen earlier n the morning from Roger G Weber 67 S Division Held by police are Pfc Melvin R Cor- lell 19 and a soldier both from Camp Hanford Cor- nell is held for investigation of ar theft and the younger soldier was to be turned over to juvenile Camp Hanford officials were notified that the soldiers ire in custody here Police said a car with the keys i it was stolen from Richland bout 1 Thursday driven to kValla Walla and abandoned at loosevelt and Hobson after it iad run out of gas and the ery went dead Weber's auto was taken after the ignition was Please See Page 5 Col 3 Plane Crash Kills Five TOKYO UP U.S Air Force transport plane crashed into a forest near Hachioji 25 miles west of here Thursday killing the ive crewmen The names of the airmen were iot released The plane was at- ached to the 67th Tactical Re- Wing at Yokota Air ase been obtained on several tions and pending favorable out- comes of negotiations for a site construction should start almost immediately Hansberger mated construction would be com- by early summer To Buy Outside Until the Attalia plant is in production material for the making of corrugated boxes at Attalia and Burley will be purchased from other sources Boise Cascade Corp has ber holdings and sawmills both in and in Washington Early last spring the Boise Payette Lumber Company acquired cade Lumber Co of Yakima and the corporate name was Boise Cascade Corp In July plans were announced for the Attalia plants The container plant being built at the Attalia site will be in ion in February This plant and the new plant at Burley will be operated by Cascade Container a subsidiary of Boise Cascade com- pany officials said Boise Cascade Retail Division operates the Boise Payette and Tri-State yards in Colorado Wyoming Utah Idaho and gon and the Bestway Building Centers in Washington and in northern Idaho Boise Cascade Corp also operates a wholesale company Co with headquarters in Salt Lake City Warehouses are located throughout the northwest stone Inc of Seattle is also a subsidiary Company officials estimated the total investment at Burly would be They said the plant will operate on a year-round basis with most of th labor coming from the local area Near Markets John B Fery assistant to the president stated that the deci- sion to locate the plant at Burley was in line with company policy to better serve present markets in Idaho and Utah and that he anticipated in the growth of the area an increasing demand for corrugated shipping containers W O Hisey director of the central engineering division at Walla Walla said that this second container plant at Burley is part of the company's integration gram based upon a more com- pete utilization of intermountain imber resources Waste wood rom Idaho Washington and jon sawmills will be processed nto pulp and the com- jany's new Attalia mill The aper from the paper mill will hen be made into paper ges in the company's container at Attalia and Barley nd these containers will be used o package food and industrial produced in the inter- mountain region Fet Tries Again For New Record EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Calif W An Air Force jet made second attempt Thursday to eat Great Britain's world record f over a measured ourse Several hours study of ments and photographs will be ceded to determine whether the McDonnell Voodoo omber succeeded But an Air orce spokesman It appeared to be a successful un You Bet It's Fine No Snow And It's Been Mild Why don't you write hing about the fine weather having in Walla somewhat irate reader said in phone call Thursday morning If this was Los Angeles it would spread all over the front age So the weather man has some interesting facts about ie unusually nice fall and early inter weather Not a single flake of snow has alien in Walla Walla so far Since 904 only in 1953 and this year o far have there been ers without snow The normal December snowfall is 4.5 inches he greatest any December was 3.8 inches in 1916 Normal December temperature 5 36.3 degrees So far this month ie average has been running 5.6 above That is not an comparison it was ad- mitted because only one third of the month has passed into tory Thus far December is 13 of an inch short of moisture compared with the average but for the son which starts Sept 1 it is a little bit ahead due to an un- usually wet October November was dry too having been 06 of an inch below normal Less than the average fog has come so far the weather man said November usually has three days with dense fog Only two occurred this year December has five such days but there have been only two thus far The percentage of sunshine has been low however this month There was no sunshine Dec 4 5 G and 10 but Monday had 100 per cent sunshine while day had about 90 per cent So all in all it HAS been an enjoyable fall and early winter SPA PERI
