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COLDER (Weather Report, Pane 1-B) CITY EDITION LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. 89th Year, No. 13 FOUR SECTIONS 32 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Thursday, January 13, 1955 PHONE 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents r-h (Ml Rt. Tunnel Likely Project for Summer cost an estimated $300,000. Even cent, the commissioner explained.

Eisenhower Asks Extension of Draft, Army Pay Boosts WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower Thursday asked Congress to extend' the draft law four years, grant pay increases to "career" servicemen and create a powerful military reserve to deal with any "aggressor so criminally unwise as to attempt an atomic attack." The President set out the administration's military manpower program in two special messages to the lawmakers, saying the measures he proposed would give this country the "proper military posture" for the first time in peacetime. On pay, he proposed increases only for men willing to serve longer than a minimum time, saying it is necessary I to maintain "the experienced this expenditure can be financed, he said, by postponing the lining year and utilizing that year's federal funds. In county-state-federal projects, the county contributes 20 per cent of the project, the state 20 per cent and the federal govern ment 60 per cent. Lane became eligible for 000 last July 1, but let this allocation "ride" and will be able to add $214,000 to it July 1 of this year, making $428,000 available for the tunnel project. Of this sum.

Lane County only has to con tribute $85,600 or 20 per cent. Earlier estimates of tunnel construction costs have run high as 1 million dollars but Petersen said Wednesday the slate has been able to make sev eral revisions which will help trim costs. Length of the proposed tunnel has been reduced from 1,770 to 1,400 feet by changing the approach grade from 5 to 6Vt per hard core of a modern fight (AP Wlrephoto) WILLIAM TELL ON SKATES If this trick skater fails to slice the potato, he'll slice a bean. Potato on head, Kathy Warren of Brighton, England, sits quiet as a mouse while the flashing blades slice the spud in two and leave Kathy intact. The unseen skater is Desmond Scott, 22-year-old Sydney, Australia, trickster who says it took him 10 years to perfect, the stunt.

It's a feature of the ice pantomime "Humpty Dumpty" at Edinburgh, Scotland. W.T.Grant Commission Seeks To End Latin War U.S. Air Force transport plane that arrived in advance of the By MARVIN TIMS Of The Register-Guard The State Highway Commission probably will call for bids this summer for construction of a tunnel between Maple- ton and Richardson to make the long-proposed Rt. project to the coast a reality. The Lane County Board of Com missioners announced Wednesday that the state may have plans and specifications completed in the next 60 to 90 days.

A contract can be let whenever federal funds become available. These funds are expected to be available sometime in July or August. The tunnel would eliminate a 500-foot hurdle that has blocked the feasibility of extending Rt. F. The hurdle is a steep ridge which rises between Mapleton and Richardson astride the proposed arterial.

TEST BORINGS Commissioner Ralph Petersen said test borings made by the state indicate that rock formation in the proposed tunnel area may be sufficiently hard to per-! mit construction without lining the tunnel. Petersen said Lane County aft er July 1 will have $428,000 in county-statc-fcdcral funds to finance the tunnel project. "It ap pears now the tunnel can be dug for less than this. If this is the case, there is no question nut what the job can be let this sum mer and completed sometime next year," the commissioner said. COSTS REDUCED Petersen said if the tunnel must be lined, this work would Two Resign At Oakland After Dispute OAKLAND, Ore.

W) A dispute between the city school supenn tendent and the' grade school principal led Wednesday night to the loss of jobs for both men. At a public meeting, attended by 200 persons, the school board accepted resignations, effective at the end of the school year, from Supt. James Cummings and Principal J. Clyde Akey. The dispute came into the open a week ago when Cum mings charged Akcy with inef ficiency and demanded his resig nation, but the board refused to accept it.

The board told Cummings that Akcy a resignation would be ac cepted only if Cummings also resigned. Board members added they would prefer both men to stay. Cummings said that was impossible: one or both would have to go. At Wednesday night's meeting, there were speeches from the floor in behalf of each man. Sentiment appeared evenly divided.

Board Chairman Leo Sparks then announced that to avoid a split in the community, the board had decided to accept resignations from both men. Curtin House 1 1 cr in IJUOl 111 M. CURTIN A fire of unknown origin destroyed the small home and personal effects of the Ted Lyman family here Wednesday. No one was injured. Lyman was at work and Mrs.

Lyman was outside the house, where she was joined by her 4- ycar-old son, just before the fire broke out. The structure burned so swiftly and gave off so much heat the neighbors were unable to do more than play a hose over the walls of an adjacent house, the residence of Mrs. Lyman's mother, Mrs. Violet G. Clark.

The heat melted some of the asphalt siding of the Clark house but it did not catch fire, A hrother of Mrs. Lyman, Merle; a ing torce." Calling for a "selective" rise, Eisenhower said there should he no increase for officers in the first three years of their service and none in the first two years for enlisted men. This would mean no pay raise for two-year draftees or for young reserve officers putting in only their obligated time. 6.7 PER CENT BOOST The President said the aggregate increase he proposed would hike the present service payroll by about 6.7 per cent for salary and allowances. At present the government is paying out about lO'b billion dollars for those purposes.

On that basis, the added cost would be about 705 million dollars a year. Eisenhower devoted one mes sage of 1,800 words to the pay question and a second of 2.000 words to his request for continuation of the draft law and establishment of an improved reserve program. He said extension of the selective service law, due to expire June 30, "is necessary because experience demonstrates that ac-i tive armed forces of the size we must maintain cannot be raised by voluntary enlistments alone." He said too an effective re serve program to provide a pool of trained fighting men is necessary because: RESERVE PLAN "We cannot possibly keep armed and In uniform the total forces that might ultimately be required in an all-out war. The inescapable burdens would endanger the liberties and the economic system we are determined to defend." Major parts of the proposed reserve program had been disclosed late last year by the Pentagon. The chief feature is a plan for six monlhs' training each year of about 100.000 young men who would go directly into the reserve.

In asking a "selective" pay raise for military men, Eisenhower said the problem is to keep trained men in the service. He said only 11.6 per cent of Army pe: sonnel reenlisted in 1954 compared with a rate of 41.2 per cent in 1949. He added: "Since 1949, there has been one increase in pay which, along with increases in allowances, amounted to an aggregate advance in compensation of 5.7 per cent. Military pay, nevertheless, has fallen behind that of industry. In addition, supplementary pay practices, health, security and retirement benefits and bonus systems are now widespread throughout industry, and this fact tends io neutralize such advantage as the military services had in these fields.

"While the high turnover in military personnel is costly in dollars, even more costly is the loss of experience and operational efficiency which results from it. "We are losing too many men trained in leadership and technical skills the experienced hard core of a modern fighting force." To correct the situation, the President recommended: 1. An increase in compensation IKE ASKS DRAFT (Continued on Page 3-A) 4 OUT OF 5 LIVE Populi larVote May Decide Tax Program By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Of The Associated Press I Possibilitv that the Oregon Leslature's tax program would be referred to the people at a special election next spring loomed large Thursday, after presiding officers of both houses took a dim view of Gov.

'Paul Patterson's tax recommendations. Senate President Elmo Smith and House Speaker Edward A. Geary flatly opposed the governor's plan to raise $30,000,000 in the next biennium by removing the federal lax deduction in figuring state income taxes. FEAR PROPERTY TAX They also said they fear the effect of levying a state property tax to raise another $30,000,000. Smith and Geary added that they didn't know if these or different proposals would be passed by the Legislature.

But they agreed it is likely that whatever taxes the Legislature votes will be referred to rthe people at a special election to be held soon after the Legislature adjourns. If the people then reject new taxes, the Legislature would come back into special session to make appropriations, chiefly those for schools and public welfare. To finance the $219,000,000 budget, the state needs about $63,000,800 more revenue. Geary and Smith believe thai If the people continue getting the services" they want, they'll have to vote the money to fi nance them. 'IMMORAL TAX' As to the governor's proposal to deny the federal income tax deduction, Geary said: "It would be an immoral tax.

It would be a tax on a tax. Increasing income tax rates would he a more honest way of doing it." Smith agreed, saying it should be done only as a last resort. Geary and Smith said they feai that a state property tax would make it hard to collect local school taxes. The state would get first claim on its share of the property taxes, regardless of whether enough would be left to finance local activities. Geary said a state property tax might cause a "taxpayers revolt," and that it probably would increase the rate of tax delinquencies.

Jets Take Off From Trucks BALTIMORE iff) The Air Force doesn't need long runways any more toget its fighter jets into the air. It can launch them from a 39-foot platform mounted on a truck. The Air Force announced Thursday it had' launched F84 Thunderjets from what it calls "zero length" launching platforms during tests at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The tests, conducted' by the Air Research and Development Com Tunnel construction will also include an improved approach at each end. A boost to the Rt.

project came last September when the Bureau of Public Roads approved the extension ot Rt. as a federal secondary highway from Walton to Mapleton, a distance of 19.3 miles. Since the proposed tunnel was located in this stretch, federal funds could then be spent on tunnel construction. Commissioner Kenneth Nielsen said Wednesday that is now on the federal secondary network from Eugene to Mapleton. Future improvement on this stretch, he can be partially financed with federal funds.

The tunnel will lessen the driv ing distance between Eugene and Florence from 81 to about 56 miles. But the county commissioners pointed out Wednesday one of the most important ad- RT. TUNNEL (Continued on Page'3-A) INSIDE TODAY NLRB says union unfair in firing employes. Page 2A. Presbyterian merger appears doubtful.

Page 2B. Women's News 5A Editorials 6A Local News IB Comics 6B Theaters 7B Foods Sec. Sports 1, 2D Radio, TV Log 3D Markets 3D Classified 4-7D iU.N. Leader Hammarskjold arrived Thursday I from his mission to free 11 Amer- lean airmen in Ken cnina ana stayed in bed during a brief plane refueling stop here. The big silver super Constellation landed at 5:14 a.m.

and left for New York about two hour later. His personal aide, William Rannalo, told newsmen: "You're out of luck, boys he's staying in bed. He's very tired." Hammarskjold persistently has refused any comment on his talks with thou lal, Red China's premier and forcit minister, on the fate nf the 11 Amicans and nthpr 11 nrisnnprs. U.N. Thursdny.

His plane is due at New Yoite.it 8 p.m. EST. U.N. Press Officer Wilder Foote said Hammarskjold planned to confer with Cabot Lodge, U.S. amhasndor to the U.N., inv mediately after his arrival.

Japs to Man Radar KUSIIinO, Japan V-The advance party of a Japanese radar unit arrived Thursday to take over duties from U.S. troops on northeast tip of Hokkaido (AP Wlrephoto) WINS "DIAPER DERBY" Lt. Norman (Moose) Dona-, hoe jubilantly tosses his 17-month-old adopted Greek-daughter, Roni Marie, into the air Thursday shortly after arrival in Patuxent, on a five-day, hitch-' hiking flight from Athens, Greece, to the United States. Donahoe, who left Athens with only 48 disposable diapers for his young daughter, was able to pick up 48 more during a stop in Morocco to tide him over until ho reached the U. S.

They plan to leave for New York later in the day for a reunion with Donahoe's wife. Store Slated At 9th, Olive A-' San Francisco architect Thursday announced plans for construction of a new W. T. Grant Co. store near Broadway and Olive St.

in downtown Eugene. The architect, John S. Bollcs, said construction of the new building will start "in about three or four weeks after we get some zoning matters cleared. Bollcs has a request before the Eugene City Council for a waiver of alley setback and loading dock requircmepts. It may take about a- month before final ac tion is.

completed by the coun- Bollcs predicted that the new building would be completed and in use in about six months. The Grant Co. is a large retail "chain" firm operating through out the United States. Headquar ters is in New York. The firm specializes in department store merchandise.

There will be a basement and two stories in the building to be located next to the new Bon Marche. The second level will contain Grant Co. offices. The store will face Broadway, extending from the alley between Olive and Charnelton St. about 106 feet to the cast.

The build ing will extend to the alley be tween 8th Ave. and Broadway. Bolles did not reveal the cost of the new building. He said, however, taat Hup and Rhodes San Francisco contractors, will do the major construction work. Nationalists Bomb Islands TAIPEH, Formosa Ufi The vest pocket war quickened Thurs day with new Nationalist bombing raids on Red islands, dog fights north of Formosa and a reported sea battle between guerrillas and Communist junks.

There also were rumors from Chinese correspondents that U.S. destroyers which guard Formosa from invasion had been sucked into the conflict but these were officially discounted. The Air Force said four-engine bombers touched off big fires in raids on Itenao and Toumen Is lands, IS and 13 miles, respectively, north of the Invasion-threatened Tachcns, 200 miles north of Formosa. Later in the day, Nationalist propeller planes in undisclosed number engaged in a brief aerial skirmish with Red fighter-bombers northeast of the Tachens. No damage was reported on either side.

The defense ministry said seaborne lutionalist guerrillas before dawn engaged a convoy of Communist supply junks near the Tachens and captured 12 enemy craft and 114 crewmen after fierce fighting. Published reports' that a U. S. destroyer fired on Chinese Communist planes Tuesday 80 miles south of the Tachens were discounted by Capt. Albert Kil martin, U.S.

embassy naval attache. Kilmartin said he had not been infnrmrrt nf thp inrirtpnt and ual SAN JOSE, Costa Rica Wl A five-nation commission arrived in a U.S. Air Force plane from Panama Thursday to conduct an on-the-spot investigation of spreading warfare in Costa Rica. A short time later the Army command announced the capture of Carlos Lara Hine and said he was one of the "rebel leaders" who started the uprising at Villa Quesada that set off the warfare on Tuesday. FIERCE FIGHTING The announcement said he was captured uninjured in fierce fighting Wednesday at Rio Peje, a town near Villa Quesada.

The announcement gave no details on Lara's background. It added that large supplies of ammunition, in cluding seven Browning machine- guns and many Mauser rifles, were seized from retreating rebei forces. In addition to Lara, "many" other rebels were captured, including two seriously wounded. A nervous airport guard gave 6 trigger nappy welcome to a Lowell District Chief Named Ralph L. Oakridge, Thursday was appointed ranger of the Lowell Ranger District of Willamette National Forest.

Supervisor Robert Aufdcrheide made the announcement. Worstell replaces Fred J. Briem who is retiring this weekend. Headquarters of the district is at Lowell. The new ranger recently has been timber management aide of the Rigdon district at Oakridge.

He began with the United States Forest Service in the Fremont National Forest in 1948. He received his forestry degree from Oregon State College in 1949, and, after graduation, worked in the Cascadia ranger district as district clerk. In 1950, he transferred to the Lowell district and worked in limber management. He held the rank of captain with the U.S. Army in Europe from 1941 to 1947.

He is married, has two sons, and is 34 years, old. Aufderheide also announed that Alvin L. Sorseth has been selected to replace S. T. Moore as ranger of the Detroit Ranger District.

He has, been a usf! employe since 1938 and recently has been ranger of the Drewsey district in the Malheur National Forest. Moore last month was annninlnH tn hpaHmia rtPrS DOSi- tion on the Rogue River forest at; Medford. UP TO TERMS men. snouiu tne cuimum uc, i l. I I 1 4 commission from the Organiza tion of American states (OAS).

Arrival of the commission in another U.S.- Air Force plane from Panama a short time later was without incident. But a sin gle shot was fired at the transport by a guard apparently still nervous over Wednesday's air at tack on San Jose by a single plane. The U.S. plane was a con siderable distance away and the shot was aimed low, so no dam age was done. The commission was named by the OAS to conduct an on-the- spot survey of the tense situation that, has developed between Cos ta Rica and Nicaragua.

One of the points still to. be established definitely is the origin of the op position forces. Costa Rica charges that the warfare was instigated and has the active participation of exiles and others from Nicaragua. But the Nicaraguan government, de nying this, said it was a rebel lion inside the country aimed at the overthrow of President Jose Figueres. The U.S.

State Department an nounced it was cooperating by ordering American planes to the battle area to make "pacific ob servation" flights requested by OAS in the hope such flights would halt air raids on Costa Rican towns. Luis Quintilla of Mexico, chair man of the cqmmission, said it would get down to work immedi ately after calling on President Figueres. U.S. Ambassador Rob ert F. Woodward was among dip lomats at the airport who greeted the commission.

Across the border, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza con tinued to deny the Costa Rican accusations, classing the fighting in Costa Rica as a "civil war." He said he had ordered all rebels crossing his borders disarmed and all Costa Ricans in the country rounded up for questioning. DUEL PROPOSED At a news conference in Managua, Somoza also challenged Figueres tn meet him at the border and settle their longtime feud with a duel between the two of them. "Somoza must be mad," a source close to the Costa Rican President commented in San Jose. Fighting flared at half a dozen points Wednesday and planes strafed nine towns including me capital. Unofficial estimates placed the rebel force at 400 men.

As a result of the air attacks, Figueres suspended civil rights. Airline flights nut of San Jose were canceled and planes bound for the capital were diverted. The first is to "get the man back into society, to make him iuseful instead of just a drone." Parole allow, the man to be put hart wt nf nt mil tence is up, he goes out on his own. The second reason is cost to tne taxpayer, nanaausaiaucosu, S13 a monin io supervise a man on oarole. and $90 to keen him in the orison.

When he is on narole he is working and support ing his family. When he is in prison, the state usually has to frrd the wife and kids. And Rinnan prnlainrH "If u-r didn't have nam I avstem. we IG ITaicill, Funds for New Route Not Set State Highway Department en gineers apparently were in the dark Thursday as to just how much federal money would be available when construction of a new Highway 09 from Albany to Eugene starts sometime in the future. W.

C. Williams, first assistant highway engineer for the state, declared Thursday morning that stories claiming the stato will receive federal money amounting to B9 per cent of the cost of the project are "completely unau thorized." He said such information hasanUS IXCnO never been released fmm the department's offices in Salem, and hf.NO -BN. Secretary Dan' Parole System Termed Successful so far as he knows nothing defi- nile has been decided. Williams explained that federal aid for the highway Improvement which would bring a new road east ot the present Highway 09 depends on President Eisenhower's hudget request for highway funds. Williams added that there is no way of knowing at this point just how much the state will finally get.

i-i -1 lit; a.iM.Maiii i-MKiiirrt ai.iu itaiu there has been little change since that construction of the new sec tion of Highway 99 would be started i st ruction 1057. the next 5 year ron program, Oregon has paroled someicourts. This is done at the re 10.000 felons since 1939 and less auest of th'e judge and is to en- Clark, managed to break a win-'last July in the status of the proj-dow and let out a cat and dogjret. At that time it was explained mand and uienn L. Marun, usedthan 20 per cent of them havc'able him to decide disposition Uken back ,0 Prisn- I onfcssed or crim empIoed to launch the Martin unst nf ihp 20 npr rpnt have mal.

l(annaIo said doubted that beginninginlHan9iarskjold would report to the placed on probation by the; is -responsible to the penal au-judge, men like Hunt and Lovell, thorities, and still has their help. "helD this nerson over the rough a man is held until his sen- positive the story, which carried no insurance. gone back for technical reasons violations of the parole conditions rather than for crimes. H. M.

Randall, director for the State Board of Parole and Probation, gave these figures in a talk Wednesday to the Eugene Lions Club. He said that "If we ran straiphfpn nut fifl npr rpnt spots," Randall said. If the man goes to prison and from Chinese Nationalist corres- pendents, was without foundation I vicu-au i icaus vjuuiy l0 income 1 -aX COUllt serves his minimum time, Witless COSTLY tv. i.i.v of readjustment trapped in the house Lyman, who is a rachet setter for the Lumber Co. at I Woman Lawmaker iHpU Cnmmittpe Job un-wrenoi.

got her wish a place on the House Education and Labor Com- mittee. She had renuested it because of iii win iauiii.ii her long experience as 1 teacher orana as a supporter nj improycu educational Matador, a pilotless missile. A "booster bottle" filled with propellant is attached to an F84 and the pUne raised into launching position on the platform by mobile cranes. The plane's turbojet engines are raced at full speed, then the propellant in the "booster bottle" goes into action, giving the plane til that nff it is airborne almost in Iianuy. The "booster bottle" Is dropped once the propellant is exhausted: Martin test pilot Bob Turner says the strain of the takeoff is lhft IHat ti-hirh nitntc norm.

ally experience during catapult takeoffs sucW as those used on new ucmncraui: rnnKa-Mwu, PORTLAND A plea of guil tv was entered Thursday bv i Clyde L. (Tim) Metcalf of Eu Williams concluded that the highway commission has never given final approval to any plans, and that preliminary surveys arc just now underway for the route existing j(i Eugene and Albany. i Praerips jDOmuer v-rdilies NAPLES, Italy iftA U.S. Navy i two bomber crashed into tne ca wennesoay niRiu uu naierno an I aboard parachuted safety, parole and probation men advise the parole board on the man's PAROLEE HELPED ik. i.

when narole is cranted to a nrisoncr. the supervisor keeps an eye on him, helping him get a job, advising him, and making! We he doesn't violate the oro- nf ih Ther are two main reasons for, a parole Randall ex- plained. gene to a charge he failed to file Democratic leaders iilvisfd an income lax return. jRcp. Edith Portland, The 14-vear-old publicist was, Wednesday of the appointment.

l0 pa! nd probatl0n ibeen proved. proved. He said his department has a staff of 20 men who supervise between 1,800 and 1,625 released felons. Two of these men. Ken Hunt and Don Lovell.

are sta uonra One function-ii to make pre- 'scntenc investigations for the! Urnitpri nf withholding hit rMurn dim 19S1 when he was emoloved 1 III la.tL "lull lie won tiii I'WJ ci have to builoy twoiw prison Justiby me Tillamook Ltjamner billing the size of tlv IhJ lory. one we now have." Commerce..