Albany Democrat-Herald from Albany, Oregon • 1

Albany Gets New Signs A 1 MMEi HM13T, FLOODS: TME (Story column Timber Carnival July 2-3-4 The Albony Democrit-Herold, Vol. LXXXI, No. 224 CENTS SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1949 10 PAGES The Albany Herald, Vol. LXXI II, No. 214 6 I Simons Signs With St.

Louis Browns BYERLEY TURNS Three Dead, 15 Missing In Virginias RESIGN ATICm Resignation of James O. Byerley as chief of police of Albany was submitted by the officer to City Manager J. D. Baughman yesterday with the explanation that the retiring A 1 1 IO New treei slrns arc going np 1 4 present chairman ef a Jaycee committee that bat pushed the new irn moTement for fear years, hands a bine and white placard te Clyde Gorro, city street snperlntendent Slrns will be wp en all Albany's 161 Intersections within ten days. (Staff rhoto.) Erection Of Street Markers Cimaxes 4-Year Campaign City workmen are putting1 up street signs on Albany's 9G3 intersections climaxing a four-year agitation created by local civic clubs, but a compass will still be a handy thing to carry in the car.

The new blue and white street signs gave only the street The St Louis Browns of the American leagae grabbed the prise Albany high school pitcher. George "Junior" Simons, last night when Tony Robello, the big learae club's West Coast scant outbid other major and top minor league teams. Shown above watching Simons ink the contract left to right are Albany high school athletic director Rex, Hunsaker, Robello, and Mrs. Lee McMillan, George's mother. See story on the sports page for details.

(Staff Photo.) Two Shot In Union Battle More Farm Aid Urged Bj I'BltaS hta WASHINGTON. June 18 Agriculture Secretary CharftsV competitor broke the wind. chief is planning: to establish himself in business. The city manager said today that no successor to Byerley has been named and that he does not contemplate selecting a new chief for at least several months, but that Assistant Chief Ray Maddy will meanwhile be In charge of tht police department under the city manager's supervision. Chief Byerly made his resignation effective next Monday and added that "I wish to extend my thanks to everyone concerned who has made it possible for' me to enjoy this position.

Furthermore I wish to thank each and every resident of the city of Albany for their most kind and considerate co-operation during my term of office. I am contemplating going into business for myself." Chief Byerly took office by appointment in April, 1948, after having served for several years as a state police officer. Gunshot Fatal To Fairview Man LEBANON, June 18 (Special) Laro C. Burford, about 49, died at the Lebanon hospital last night from a .22 calibre gunshot wound in the head, Inflicted as he was leaving the Frank Bewley home at Sodaville at 11:30 o'clock. Linn County Coroner Glenn Huston' said his investigation has revealed' that Burford hadfbeh at the Lebanon hospital for several days for a check-up on a suspected heart condition but had left the hospital in a taxi for his home near Fairview, on highway 20 southeast of Lebanon, early in the evening.

Burford returned to the hospital in a highly nervous state, the coroner learned, and his physician had instructed a nurse to give him a sedative but while she had gone to prepare it he left the hospital through a lower floor window1. Later, the coroner found, Bur' ford appeared at the Bewley home and borrowed the rifle, indicating he was going hunting with companions waiting for him "at the foot of the hill' a quarter of a mile from the Bewley residence. Bewley heard Burford call out shortly after departing: "Want to hear a shot." He thought nothing of the matter and returned to the house to turn down a radio, but upon returning outdoors he heard Burford writhing on the ground 100 feet from the house. On discovering the wounded man's condition Bewley summon. ed aid and Burford was taken to the hospital.

Mrs. Bewley was unable to explain whether or not her husband might have committed suicide. Willamette U. Appoints Coach SALEM, June 18. (U.RV- Chester R.

Stackhouse, former member of the University of Michigan coach staff and now athletic director at Lincoln university in Pennsylvania, has been named head football coach at Willamette university, President G. Herbert Smith announced today. Stackhouse, twice chosen All- Michigan collegiate conference grid center when he was playing at Central Michigan Teachers college, replaces Jerry Lillie, who re signed last month to become back- field coach at University of Ore gon. Stackhouse will also act as direc tor of athletics and will coach track. Before joining the Michigan staff in 1939, Stackhouse had an impressive record in track and basketball as well as.

football. la Albany. Ken Graham, left. I names, with no designation of I north, south, east or west. The tale of tht new signs goes back four years.

In the spring of 1949 the local Jaycee chapter took the bit in their mouths and appointed Oscar Schlegel, Don Robinson and Fiavin Drushella to change the titles of some of the illogically named thoroughfares which created only confusion to the person unfamiliar with the town. Series of Setbacks Schlegel and his committee drew up a new map, which three months later was approved by the city council. About a dozen street- names changed on Albany's hew map. tmt-tho'bottlo want: wose; At the end of Schlegel'a two-year chairmanship of the committee, Albany still had only a handful of hardly-visible street signs on its corners despite the long campaign. The ball was passed to Jaycee Ken Graham, who took over the Finally two years ago the previous city administration approved the purchase of new signs.

New placards were ordered from the Pacific Reflex Sign Co. of McMln-ville. A member of the past administration forgot, however, to order signs with directional indications. A year later, last spring, (PImm Tun rut Two I Alabama To Nab Terrorist Groups MONTGOMERY, June'jt (U.R) Gov. James E.

Folson, acting by executive order, today ordered Alabama law enforcement 'officers to arrest all terrorist groups in the state. Folsom acted shortly the state senate passed an antl-mask-ing bill, designed to bring into the open depredations of night-riding gangs. The governors action was an emergency atep he said would remain in effect until the anti-mask goes through the house of representatives which expected 4o take It up upon reconvening next week. Replacement of Bridge And Culvert Under Way Linn county bridge crewmen are now constructing a span crossing Sodom creek, southeast of the Thompson mill between Shedd and Brownsville, replacing one that had become weakened by age. Another replacement involving a culvert on the West Scio road has caused closing of that road for a few days.

Meanwhile a road repair crew is nearing completion of it. work re pairing the Seven Mile Lane thoroughfare between Albany and Brownsville, which was severely damaged by last winter's cold weather. Record drought and heat scorched northeastern states today, taking an increasing toll of lives in New England, while 300 miles to the south-west torrential rains and a flash flood left thousands homeless and several persons missing in Virginia and West Virtrinia. Two heaf prostrations and the drowning of a three-year-old boy boosted the deaths in New England's drought and heat to 37. At least three persons wtre re ported drowned and 19 missing in flash floods which swept portions of northeastern West Virginia and neighboring Virginia.

48-llour Downpoar The 60-mile long valley of the south branch of the Potomac river in West Virginia was awept by a flood which stats polic believed drowned three persona and left 11 others missing. In August and Rockbridge counties of Virginia, 48 hours of continuous rainfall banks, and four persona were missing in the town of ridge wittr. Worried farmer and orchard-Ists of New York lUU and New England watched their crops and trees wilUng In drought which could be ended only by soaking rains. New York's drought was in its 23rd day. Fruit dealers said it had caused $500,000 damagt to crops in the put week.

A New England council spokesman said that unless soaking rains came within five days, the crop lots in six New England Itatea might to tal $45,000,000. Firemen at Moorefield, W. Va, reported that three bodies had been sighted in flood waters. The dead were believed to have been inhabitants of a trailer camp which included the families of workmen on a natural gas line. State police said aa many as seven more may have drowned, some perhaps from party of nine fishermen trapped en aa Island above Petersburg, W.

Vs. Petersburg, a town of was Isolated by flood waters. Scores of horses, cattlo and pigs died. Portions of two counties were stricken by the flood which followed rains that measured as much as 13 inches bi 14 hours at Franklin. The rainfall which Inundated the northeast comer of West Virginia failed to reach the worst of the drought area, where only scattered showerl were forecast Fires Feared As Humidity Drops PORTLAND, Ore June 18.

(UJ0 The combination of dry and increasingly warm weather has produced critically low humidities in western Oregon mountain areas, the weather bureau warned today. The weather bureau said hot, dry winds increased the possibility of widespread lightning storms throughout the Cascade and Siski you mountain areas auring ins weekend. One fire on Looking Glass creek, 12 miles north of Elgin, was under control today, but only after it had' burned 50 acres of logging slash. Districts Vote A planning committee for the annual county teachers Institute met this morning at the court house with Albany City Supt R. Hal-seth and Lebanon City Supt J.

W. King as guests. They decided to hold the elementary institute oq Oct. 24 and 25 and to hold a preschool meeting Sept 9 at Lebanon, County and city high school teachers will attend an institute at Salem on the October dates, Bennett said. Attend Meeting Those at the meeting today were Sally Casey, Blanche Gear- hart and Halseth of Albany; Ches-lah Young and King of Lebanon; Stella Sloan, Sweet Home; Hugh McQueen, Holley; Adah Taylor, Halsey; Violet Ross, Tangent; Gladys Beckman, Crabtree and Elnora Swanson of Denny school.

The superintendent's office is now working on reports of pupil attendance and absence during th past school year. School Auditor V.HIIn riwi July 1 on records of the clerk, Bennett said. 8000 Crowd Brownsville BROWNSVILLE, June 18. (Special) An estimated crowd of 8,000 persons jammed the streets of this pioneer Linn county town today to take hi the color and pageantry of the final day of the sixty-second reunion of the Linn county pioneer association. Highlight of the event this morning was a twomile-long parade which started off at 10 a.m.

Sweepstakes award went to the Albany Jaycee Timber Carnival float which was part of a seven-car caravan which escorted the Carnival queens through town. Queen Clara Bishop Starr, 83-year-old naUve of Linn county who now lives in Salem, ruled over the reunion. Elect Directors Highlight of this afternoon's schedule is an election of officers who will direct the association through the next year. Girl Scout Troop 60 won the window display competition today with an early Brownsville scene Second place winner was by the Brownsville Times window, and third place was captured by the L. B.

Morse Real Estate Co, win low. Judges were members of the Albany vayceea, xnt parade was followed, by a program In the North Brownsville grove, where the reunion has been held since 1893. Willis Gives Main Address Millard F. Willis, president of Albany Rotary club, presented the main address of the morning, and music was furnished by the Brownsville high school band, quartet and soloists. Hank Ka-loma, a Warm Springs Indian, also sang.

A horse show was to be presented in the afternoon, followed by a program, highlighted with an address by the Rev. Orville Mick of Albany. Tonight the Warm Springs Indians will present the Hiawatha pageant followed by old time dancing in the grove dance hall. Preceding the pageant, prizes will be awarded at the speakers' stand. Last night the first presentation of the Hiawatha pageant was warmly received by a large crowd.

The cast of 50 Indians offered six different dances. Yesterday afternoon, Walter J. Pearson, state treasurer, addressed the reunion crowd on the topic, "Lest We Forget" He emphasized that pioneers are not yet dead, that tbey are always with us. "Oregon is the last frontier of our great nation," Pearson said, "and the recent development of our state has been just as integral in its history as the revered memories of those who arrived in cov ered wagons and built the foundations of our cities, industries, roads. 1 hail the pioneers of today as well as those of yesteryear," he de clared.

Weatherman Says: WESTERN OREGON Fair to night and Sunday except partly cloudy southern portion. Slightly warmer. Low tonight 48 to 54 de- gres; high Sunday 80 to 90. North to northwest winds off coast 10 to 20 miles per hour. ALBANY WEATHER Maximum temperature in Al bany yesterday, 7 degrees; minimum temperature this morning, 47 degrees.

River stage at 8 a. m. today, 2.0 feet down .1 foot since yesterday. Freed After 36 drawn trailer roared past them. "Good Lord?" he cried.

"Whst was that?" Fuller said the last car he'd a By tlM4 hM FAIRMONT Junej police pa trolled the streets today after two men were shot and six others injured in a bloody riot by 300 persons before city hall. The riot resulted from a squabble between two CIO unions fighting to represent workers at the American Zinc company plant. It was touched off by a neighborhood quarrel between members of the opposing unions and exploded into violence when 300 unionists and their families left a union fish fry to march on city hall. 1 Joseph Petrosky, 33, and Epem-the CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter ianio Rodriguez, 38, members of Workers, were in serious condition at St Mary's hospital in East 'St. Louis, 111., as result of gunshot wounds suffered In the fracas.

Palmer Ryan of East St. Louli, a member of the CIO Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers, was charged with attempted murder as the man who allegedly emptied a pistol Into the rioting mob, wounding Petrosky and Ryan was guarded by deputy sheriff's at St. Mary's hospital. He suffered a possible fractured skull when he was slugged by a state patrolman. A Lot of Beer SEATTLE, June 18.

IflJ.R) A grocery clerk admitted in Justice court yesterday that he stole more than $4,200 from his employer during the past six months. His reason? "I like to drink beer," ha said. Linn School Police, DeGaulle Veterans Clash- PARIS, June 18. (U.R) Armed police clashed with more than supporters of Gen. Charles De Gaulle late today and arrested more than a dozen after a brief struggle.

One Gaullist was knocked unconscious. He was carried away with blood streaming from a club wound in his head. Gendarmes. Ready. Theclash followed peaceful rival Gaullist and communist rallies only a half mile apart on the south side of Paris.

A strong police show of force, including a human barrier of more than 20,000 steel helmeted gendarmes streets between the meetings, apparently discouraged any would- be rioters. An estimated 40,000 Gaullists jammed the place D'Orleans and hailed Gen. Charles De Gaulle at a ceremony renaming the square and adjacent avenue D'Orleans for Gen. Philippe LeClerc, who led liberating French troops into Paris Aug. 24, 1944.

After the ceremony veterans of LeClerc's second free French armored division began marching in military formation along the newly-named avenue. Police Charge Into Veterans Police halted them and tried to divert them into a side street away from the 14th district town hall, where 20,000 communist supporters were dispersing after a demonstration against "Gaullist provocation." When the veterans refused to obey orders, the police charged. A scuffle followed and about a half-dozen veterans fell beneath the rain of blows from police clubs. Grangers To Oppose 22 State Lawmakers COOS BAY, June 18. (U.R) The Oregon State Grange has earmaked for defeat 22 members of the 1949 state legislature.

Delegates to the grange convention here voted to work for the defeat in the next general election of all. those legislators who voted for house joint resolution No. 7, which would have amended the constitution to let the legislature fix the number of signatures necessary to get an initiative measure on the ballot The grange, which has made frequent use of the initiative machinery, considered the bill an attempt to infringe on the lawmaking rights of the people. Declared State Master Morton Tompkins: "A vote for HJR 7 was a shameful thing. Those who' cast such votes were betraying their people." Legislators who Tompkins said the Grange would try to defeat eluded Warren Gill of Linn county.

Publishers Elect Leader GEAR HART, Ore, June 18. (IMS Robert E. Pollock, manager of the St Helens Mist, today was elected president of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers' association. Other officials selected were Walter W. R.

Uy, publisher of the Oregon City switerprUe, vice president and J. W. Forrester of the Coos Bay Har-txr, North Bend, treasurer. F. Brannan was advised by some senators today that if a trial run of his new direct payment to farmers plan is made it should not be restricted to hogs alone.

This was In line with a house agriculture subcommittee's curtailed version of the administration's new farm program proposed earlier this year by Brannan. Brannan asked yesterday for congressional authority to make direct production payments to support expected lower hog prices. Egg Subsidy Proposed Sen. George D. Aiken, Vt, and other members of an agriculture subcommittee suggested that eggs and other farm products also might be included if the hog program is okayed.

"I don't think we should tie you down," Aiken told Brannan in suggesting that congress might do well to grant general production pay mont authority if it underwrites the system at all. Citing the high price to consumers on eggs, Aiken said that eggs might provide an even more effective trial run than hogs, 18 Cents a Dosen Brannan said the government now is engaged In a "fairly effective" egg support price program while one of the reasons for, selecting hog prices for the trial was that support program for that commodity might soon be necessary. He did admit that he was finding more trouble finding buyers for government purchased dried eggs under the current program. He said eggs for which the government paid 35 cents a dozen were being sold for 18 cents a dozen. 2 Fire Alarms Answered Alarms were answered to two fires last night and today by Albany firemen, but neither caused much damage, Fire Chief Don Hayne reported.

A minor fire at the Albany Shingle Mill near 99E south of town was extinguished last night, and a flue fire in the McFarland district south of Albany was put out this morning. Violence Marks Gas Price War PORTLAND, June 18. (U.R) Deputy sheriffs today broke up a near riotous climax to a gas price war, after one ser- vlca station operator complained shield of his csr with a baseball bat Officers said Donald D. Summers claimed Louis H. Moran bashed his windshield when he drove in for a gallon of gasoline.

Moran charged Summers and 30 other competing station operators were monopolizing his rush-hour trade period by driving in for one gallon of gasoline apiece. Moran charged 22.9 cents a gallon. The others charge 24 cents. i 550 Bus Drivers Walk Off Job SEATTLE, June 18. (U.RV-Ap-proximately 550 North Coast Greyhound bus drivers walked off the job at 1 a.m.

today halting service on the lines' north-south routes out of Seattle from Vancouver, B. to Portland, Ore. A threatened strike by 300 drivers on the Greyhound's second major line, Northwest was averted at the 11th hour when a tentative agreement was reached. Strike action was postponed pending a vote of the union's membership on management proposals. Federal Conciliator William G.

Hosle said the vote will take from two to three weeks. Harold Oathes, business agent of the Northwest local, said the company offered 6'i cents a mile for the drivers. The increase would amount to an average of about a dollar a day more in their pay envelope. 1 Striking North Coast drivers, who are paid on an hourly basis, have been earning between $1.10 and $1.85 an hour. A union spokes man said "we would settle for a 15 cent hourly increase for mech anics and a 10 cent hike for drivers.

The company's offer was not acceptable." The actual amount of the company's proposal was not revealed. formatory after a Jury found him insane when ho was charged with assault with Intent to rob. Psychiatrists recently found Fuller sane. The state board of control issued an order releasing him to be tried under the old charge, However, District Judge Matthew Westrate decided FuUer bad been incarcerated long enough. He freed him in "the furtherance of justice." Most of the witnesses in the case were dead anyway.

Monday On Budgets, Directors Atomic Age Dismays Man Years In Reformatory Cell Linn county school districts with the exception of those comprising union high school districts will vote Monday tor directors, on budgets and other matters pertaining to their respective areas, County School Superintendent J. M. Bennett reported today. Union high school districts will vote the following Monday, he said. All registered voters may ballot in their precincts this year, according to Bennett.

Some 14 districts have asked the county clerk's office for polling lists under a new law but these are not compulsory, he said. Vote on Regulations Many of the districts have completed and passed on their budgets, but others will vote upon them Monday, Some districts have other Issues on their ballots pertaining to school regulations. Reports on the elections are due in the school superintendent's office by July 1, Bennett stated, but it will probably be another 10 days after that before all reports have been submitted. Looking at the world around bombers flying overhead, the rush him today. Fuller wasn't so sure of big trucks over the highways, but what he'd rather be back in and the sight of skyscrapers tow-the snug, safe ward.

ering over prairie cities. "It seemed wonderful at first to En. route here from the reform-be free," he said, "but now I'm not atory. Fuller was driven by Dep-sure. What can I do in this new uty Sheriff Fred Nespern.

world?" Nespern said Fuller ducked ev- The atomic age frightened him, ery time another car approached, he said. When he left the world, i Once he tried to jump out of the horse and carriage still was the car when a huge tractor- MUSCATINE, June 18, Elsworth Fuller, treed after 36 years secluded away in a reformatory, took a long look at the out side world today and decided he wasn't so sure he liked it Fuller, now 60, has been confin ed in a ward for the criminally in sane at Anamosa reformatory since 1913 when he was 24 years old. During all that time, he caught only one glimpse of the world outside. That was 20 years ago when he made a trip from the reformatory for a medical examination. driven in was a 1910 model.

He was "surprised" that there weren't more horses to be seen on streets and highways. Once they passed a tractor where a farmer was culUvating a field. "What in the world is that?" Fuller asked. Composition roofing and siding on houses also interested him. In the days before he entered the reformatory, shingles were the thing.

Fuller was sentenced to the re just about the most dependable means of transportation. He was amazed and dismayed by speedy streamlined trains, fast I.