Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 1

t' cf 0.. Library Uaivjrity of otigott Eujsne, Oregon i in i 17)1 0 ri i 1 I at hd at ild of in wg (I mwA 0 Tfi vieimiiiii Gpl Major Viriury: Without Fight -i Established 1862 CORVALLIS, 1, 1954 VOL: 47, NO. 52 "4 CIO, AFL Slate Tighter Adair Ban Order Held Up, Pending Full Study Front in Lumber Strike Ssvs Crests SPONSORS OF T1IE INTTIATrVE petition which proposes to prohibit commercial salmon fishing in tidal waters of the small coastal rivers south of the mouth of the Columbia are shown above. Seated, left to right. Vance Taylor, CorvalUs and Al Gordon, Salem.

Standing, left to right, Ed Lindsay, CorvalUs; Eoss Brown. Albany and W. N. Brown, McMinnville. The issue will be decided slow, strike captain for the, P.VA, said one striker was attacked by two company employes and he claimed three other employes had fired shots at picket banners.

There were no injuries. i (Pickup 41 at 5th pgh: Aa estimated, etc.) An estimated 110,000 members of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union and the CIO In? ternational Woodworkers of Amer ica went on strike June 21 ia Washington, Oregon and Califor nia to back demands for a 12 1-2 cent hourly wage increase: Other developments: 1. A strike of 10,000 AFL unionists was averted in Los Angeles last night when both sides agreed to extend negotiations indefinitely under the auspjc-; of tse Federal Mediation Service. I 2. In Seattle, a federal court ruled that two locals of the IWA may not prevent Northern Pacific Railway trains from entering the Rayonier Timber Company plant at Hoquiam.

Wash. (Continued on page 3, column 3) lofficers Pursue Vs Fish Initiative Measure Slated To Go On Ballot Completed initiative petitions with sufficient certified names on the coastal streams initiative petition were filed with the sec retary of state Salem today. This insures that Oregonians will determine in November whether or not they wish to abol ish commercial salmon fishing on the small coastal rivers south of the Columbia river. The Co lumbia, is not affected Filed simultaneously were ex-1 pense sheets the five sponsors and the parties handling the campaign. These show a total of less than $500 spent during the signature drive and but $150 of this was in form of cash donation.

-Final tabulation showed that between 47,000 and 50,000 Oregon ians signed the petitions, with er rors in signing and non-register ed persons accounting for the difference between certified aii4 gross names. 1 Signatures were obtained by volunteer sportsmen. Some' iVere members of the Izaak Walton iCfces In Boy's Deefe League, others from Oregon-WilWe; Pian is located, has taken an State and county authorities 'i were continuingtheirsearchlor! day for the vehicle that struck and killed four-year-old Peter Russell Griner as he played beside Highway 20 near his home' three miles west of Philomath Tuesday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Milo Askay said a few leads were being traced down but as yet there was no in dication of the identity of the vehicle. A plea for motorists who had driven the highway between 3:45 p.m.

and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday had brought some response, Askay said. One driver reported a pickup had passed him at a high rate of speed near Blodgett, but it wasn't known whether the vehicle had cone as far as the death Also considered was the possibility that the driver did no! know he had struck the child. Persons who drove the highway were asked to examine their car or truck for evidence of an accident. Ike Farm Program Reported As 'Dead' By UNITED PRESS Republican leaders said today it looks as though President Eisenhower's farm program is dead for this year, killed apparently, GOP spokesmen said, by big city Democrats.

The administration wants to abandon the present rigid high farm price support program in favor of flexible supports which almost certainly would be lower. The congressional farm bloc wants a one-year extension of the present system, however, and the House Agriculture Committee has approved an extension bill. In a late attempt at compromise administration forces with President Eisenhower's approval offered a proposal to put a floor of 82H per cent of parity under price supports next year. Supports on basic crops are fixed at 90 per cent now. OREGON THURSDAY, JULY Special Council Meeting Slated To Talk Bids An almost unprecedented noon meeting of the Corvallis city council has been called for Friday to discuss bids on the sale of the city hall and central fire station.

Gty Manager James Convill said Hie council had been called into special session and it is believed all but one or two members will be able to attend. The council will convene at the Community Center council chambers at noon, then recess to the Benton hotel where lunch will be served. It is propqsed to discuss the business at hand during the luncheon, and then "if any official action is required to return to the council chambers to take that action. 'v- Convill said it is also possible that the contract with the rural fire district will be discussed. To Open Bids Earlier i The city will open bids on the city hall and fire station at 11 a.m.

Friday in the city manager's office. At least two bids, and possibly three or four, are expected to be bmntd totre city. Convill said had been" informed that two i-ms we'e intending to submit bids, and he heard; he said, that The-possibility- That" a 'sleeper" someone unknown to be (Continued on page 4, column 4) June Building High Mark Sixty-seven building permits. totaling $331,467 in value, were issued by the city engineer's office during June, making it the second highest total ever recorded in that month. The record high is $399,150 es tablished.

1H 1950. The figvre brought the otal for the first half of 1954" to a point which, if matched in the second half, would be close to a new yearly record. The first quarter of this year accourTted for $632,095 in new construction, the an quaf ter, $557,435, for a mid-year tally of $1,169,530. Last month's booming total was five times that of June, 1953, when the figure was $80,165, and was nearly four times that of the pre-j vious month; May, when the dollar count reached $118,950. Additions to three city schools helped raise the June record, ac counting for $171,000.

Residential construction, on the upgrade all year, was the best thus far last month, 11 new residences belli authorized at a val uation of $141,000. Also issued were permits for four new non-residential construc tion jobs. $1500; 20 permits fori residential repairs at $8240, and 12 non-residential repairs and alterations (including the school jobs) at $180,402. Twelve permits for Installation of tanks were issued and permits for erection of television antennas tumbled from recent high marks to only nine for the month. The i monthly total included slightly more than $1500 In building repairs on the Oregon State college campus.

Federal indexes showed that Oregon farmers received 7 or 8 per cent less for crops "this year. Cattle are making a comeback, but wheat and dairy items are feeling the effects of Uwered subsidies and fruit crops have been- hurt by cold spring weather. WASHINGTON (UP) Government economists forecast fair economic weather today as the nation swings into the second half of 1954. They agreed in separate interviews that economic trends at midyear remain mixed and that no new boom is brewing. But they also agreed there are no signs pointing to a further over-all decline in the economy.

One of them called the current situation "darn good prosperity." Anomer said there, are "no real "P'T IIJ strong factors to push us up, unless nothing big is going to push us aown. The dip in tne nation's economy wnicn started last summer and made itself felt in the key areas of production, employment and personal income began levelling off during the first six months of the year. Picture Seen Improving And for the Dast two months, the interviewed 7 economists feel, the Uy. They point to such favorable trends as rising employment and HANOI, Indochina (UP) The French Hig-h Command today announced the abandonment of the entire southern sector of the rich Red River Delta because Communist infiltration had made its defelise impossible. The French said 15,000 French's, troops had been withdrawn from the rice-rich plains and the thriving towns between the Red.

and Day rivers, because the area was so 'rotted" by infiltrating Reds that it could not resist a major Communist attack. Ther mass evacuation of French forces, described by a military spokesman as "extremely grave but absolutely necessary," turned over to Communist control the 2,000,000 Viet Namese of the region. It was a major Red -victory In which scarcely a single shot was fired. A high command communiaue said the troops had been Dulled out for regroupment in view of a possible battle. The largest evacuation of troons since the war started almost eight years ago put 52 million Vietnamese under Communist control in the rice fiolds and towns of one of the world's most densely populated regions.

Communist troons beean moving into Phat Dien. one of the delta's provincial capitals, early this morning after the French Union defenders had pulled out with little fighting. Provinces wholly abandoned in cluded Thet Binh, Nam Dinh, Bin Chiu and Phat Dien. Biu Chlu and Phat Dien are Roman Catholic bishoprics. Nam Dinh is a rice and textile center.

The withdrawal beean1 a 1 Tuesday under heavy air cover. ine mgn command announcement Wednesday that troops were being withdrawn from Nam "Dinn caused new Vietnamese Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to fly from Saiaon to Hanoi and protest the action. Ngo Dinh Diem also said he would investigate reports the French were preparing to give up Hanoi itself. The French, both her? and in Paris, repeatedly have denied making a secret deal wish the Reds to evacuate the entire Red River delta. i NAM DINH, (tr?) Yesterday I saw- freedom it-e in an area nearly the size of Rhode Island and saw hope fade front the faces of thousands of men and women who today were under Communist rule.

The area is the south Red Klvo Delta, a rice-rich -region 20 miles wide and 45 "iailes long, to the south -of Hanoi. ihe faces were those ef the more than 52 million resident of the closely packed region one of the most populous -on earth. I flew to the bis and thrivir cities of the area just after the French High Command had decided that the entire area must be abandoned. It is so "rotted" by infiltration by Communist Vlet- minh forces, they said, that its' aerense no longer is possible. Everywere in the area, as we flew across its fertile valleys and lush green rice fields, we saw roads clogged with troops and civ.

ilians moving northward toward overcrowded, half-panicked Hanoi. ADove tne cities and the former French fortresses columns of smoke billowed up from supplies ana equipment being burned to deny them to the Reds. Textile Center At Nam Dinh. until now a fhHu. Ing textile center, we landed on i continued on paga 4.

column 6) Two Plead Innocent In Hafchel Murder MEDFORD (UP)-Jonald Ches-ley, 18, Coos Bay. and James Norv man Jensen, 25, Larkspur, jrcHieruuy pieaaea innocent In Or. cuit Court here to charges connected with the hatchet slaying of Mrs. Fern Hile during a Medford rob bery. The pleas ere made after Circuit Judge H.

K. Hanna overruled a motion for a demurrer Tuesday made by defense attorneys in an effort to halt the trial. Defense attorneys have given statutory notice of their Intent to enter evidence of insanity in their case. Judge Hanna has been asked by both sides to set a trial date. The defendants also have been indicted on charges of assaulting and robbing the slain woman's husband, Hugh, a Medford contractor.

WEATHFR REPORT Eastern Oregon: A few showers over mountains today; gradual clearing tonight and Friday; high today 64-74; low tonight 38-48; high. Western Oregon: A few showers today; partly cloudy tonight arid Friday; high today 62-72; low tonight 40 Friday 3 73 except about 80 southern interior Marine: Winds off Oregon 12-2 increasing locally to 23 30 sontii coast Friday afternoon; partly cloudy. Willamette valley: Mostly cloudy with a few showers today; clean periods this afternoon and cloudy Friday moniits sunny in afternoon: hieh 68 Mow tonight 45-50; high Friday PORTLAND (UP) Top officers of CIO and AFL lumbering unions reported here today they have held a joint strategy meeting to strengthen their united effort behind the 10-day -old- strike in the Northwest lumber Industry. At the same time, 28 operators in Northern California mills met to affirm their stand against any wage boosts that would increase operating costs. The unions issued a statement saying "the membership of both major unions is solidly behind the united effort of labor to bring about a reasonable settlement in the present crisis which is crippling the economy of the Northwest." Offieials of the CIO Inter national Woodworkers and the AFL Lumber and Sawmill workers at tended the meeting.

The California operators said in dustry prices "are down to 1950 levels and wage rates are 40 1-2 cents higher than 1950." At Prospect, near. Medford, there was a report of minor violence on the picket line at the Red Blanket Lumber Co. Arnold Win- Two Northwest I'ii ii miisuiveup By UNITED PRESS Two Northwest lumber plants announced their closure yesterday because i of the.southward move ment oi uie lugjjiug uiuuauy, nuu a shjiilar announcement was expected from a third company. The We6t Oregon Lumber which was once one of Portland's largest and most modern sawmills, said yesterday it will shut down its operations and be dissolved. A spokesman said the sawmill will in all probability never operate again.

At Longview, some 300 nlvwood emDloyes of the and Woodworking Co. were handed dismissal- notices. Long-Bell Lumber which owns the land on which option to buy 'the plant and expects to modernize and re-open uie operation if the purchase is made. Sale of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Co. to Georgia-Pacific Plywood was completed yesterday, it was reported, and the I sawmill Portland Is expected to be' closed asa result.

Increase of hauling distances for logs has been advanced as an adverse factor in the operation of all three plants. West Oregon has had to purchase its logs on the oDen market since 1936, and haul ing distances have grown to about 75 miles, general manager v. McCallister said. Once Big Producer West Oregon produced 700,000 board feet of lumber daily at its peak before 1942, when the main mill burned down, and ran its own coastal fleet of three vessels before thelast war. Company directors blamed high log prices and property taxes for the closure, and said the current strike of its 138 employes had no bearing on the action.

and plywood operations at Longview were to cease at 7 a.m. today, with only a few millwrights remaining to close down the plant, which has operated with-out interruption for a 1 25 years, and had a yearly payroll estimated at $1,500,000. J. D. Leland, Long Bell president, would not commit himself as to plans concerning his company's option on the and Jn plant, ine duration of the option and the price were not disclosed by either company.

Details of the Inman -fouisen purchase by Georgia-Pacific, were not announced, but it has been re ported that 11-million dollars has been placed in escrow in a beattle bank to cover the transaction, which is expected to exceed that amount. The" giant plywood concern was said to be mainly interested in I-P holdings of some 300-million board feet of the high-grade Douglas Fir in northern Lincoln county, and operation of the Portland sawmill will probably not be included in its plans. The mill, which employed about 300 persons, has been obtaining logs from the Lincoln county tracts by truck and river tow transportation. A new G-P plywood plant at Toledo is. expected to utilize most of the logs from the company's new holdings.

Salem Man Feared Dead In Deschutes" BEND (UP) Samuel Mowery, 51. an employe at the state hospital in Salem, is believed to have drowned yesterday while fishing In the upper Deschutes river near here. State police reported that Mow ery fell into the river while fishing from a bank. Members of the fish ing party, which included his wife, Camp Adair, its buildings and utilities, now hold the same sta tus it did prior to the department of army directive issued 10 days ago, it was announced today by Bill Catlin. manager of the Benton County Chamber of Com merce, here.

A letter to the chamber from Gov. Paul Patterson advised that the army directive has been set aside until a complete study can be made by the communities of Corvallis and Albany and the state of Oregon. The army directive had served notice that no more leases of buildings in the site would be made and indicated that leases of buildings now in existence would not be renewed. The directive left in doubt the future status of half a dozen small industries which are located at the site. Patterson's letter, in part.

stated: "It appears now that prob ably the best we can do is to pre vail upon the, federal government to Surplus the ground at the same time it surpluses the buildings and then make some arrange ment for the purchase thereof. either by a group of people in Benton and Linn counties or by the state of Oregon. -The advan tage of this will be that if it is purchased, the buildings will be in place and utilities connected, ready for use. "I cannot promise that it will be done, but it has been done at this time, and we will attempt to hold it there until the legislature can meet and the natural resources committee can make its study." Need Real Flan The governor suggested, Catlin said, that it would be "worthwhile" for the chamber of com Japanese Formally Reaciivale Forces TOKYO (UP) Japan formally inaugurated its first post-war de fense forces- today, paving the way for. Jhe gradual withdrawal, of American troops.

An air arm was added to the Japanese land and sea forces al ready in existence and tne new military force was for the first time given the role of defending Japan against aggression from the outside. For this purpose, the force will be strengthened from 120,000 to 160,000 men by the end of next March. 1 A series of ceremonies and re views marked the change at the headquarters of the defense force which replaced its "National Safety Agency" sign with a new one saying "Defense Agency." American aid will provide nearly all the arms for this new force. The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted to approve the transfer of more than 500 million dollars worth of military equipment te Japan.

The Japanese government announced sailors will be sent to the United States this fall to receive delivery of two destroyers, the Ellison and the Macon. The change in the structure of the Japanese forces will enable the United States to withdraw its' se curity forces gradually from Japan. The first step was expected to be pulling out. the U.S. 1st Cavalry division from Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido sometime this year.

people can spend, i Generally, the economists feel that the employment situation is now critical only in certain locali ties such as steel and autot centers. Lagging auto sales 'is the 'reason for this. Total employment has climbed in each of the four latest months for which figures are available to a May total of 61,119,000 while the nation's jobless declined in April and May to 3,305,000 Employment set a new record last August when working Americans numbered The postwar jobless low was last October's 1,162,000 Upturn Predicted Ia Jobs And the economists think things will get still better on the employment front. Signs that point that way are the continuing construction boom, normal summertime farm activity and the recent upturn in industrial production after a 10 per cent decline from last July's peak Several hundred thousand temporarily unemployed students have entered the job market, but the economists think there are enough permanent jobs for all graduates. Economists believe one reason for the business slump Jias been the reduction In inventories stocks on the shelves of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers.

Inventories have shrunk $2,500,000,000 since last September when a record $82,000,000,000 was piled up. But because the inventory reduc- merce, as well as the Albany group, to consider just what they have in mind to be done with the buildings and what can be developed for the buildings and utili ties. "With this information at hand then, when we get the army to agree to surplus the ground, we will have some idea of how much we can pay for them," the letter advised. A second letter from Patterson, apparently dictated later in the day, advised the chamber of commerce that special federal legislation would have to be introduced to make provision for the purchase of the site at less than 50 per cent of the appraised value, which is now government policy. Sen.

Guy Cordon has written the governor that such legislation will be prepared but Sen. Wayne Morse has already served notice he will oppose the sale of property at below 50 per cent of the appraised value, the chamber manager reported. Sen. Cordon has been advised by Gov. Patterson to keep the property at "status quo" until the communities of Corvallis and Albany and the state of Oregon "can look at it again during the fall and winter and have legislation ready.

for introduction next January," Catlin said joint meetings with all eoneerned would be set up early in July to come tip with some answers for the governor and the Oregon congressional delegation. Meanwhile, the industrial committee of the i chamber of commerce said it could encourage several industries to establish at the site if reasonable length leases could be obtained and the recapture clause removed. More Talk Due in Guatemala SAM SALVADOR XUP) Rebel Col Carlos Castillo Armas and Guatemala's military junta re cessed their truce talks early today without reaching a peace agreement. Castillo Armas and Col. klfego Monzon, head of the Junta, ended their talks but agreed to meet again tomorrow.

Following announcement of the recess, the secretary to the President of El Salvador said Castillo and Monzon would study several proposals which had been brought up for discussion. Castillo Armas said the cease fire negotiated Tuesday night must remain in effect during the talks. His planes patrolled the country to prevent the disorganized government troops from reforming. No incidents were reported since the end of the shooting with the exception of the escape from the Argentine Embassy of Regelio Cruz-Wer, head of the Civil Guard during the Communist-influenced regime, and Maj. Jaime Rosen berg, former Judicial uuard leader.

Both were captured and taken into to protect them from. mobs. Each side entered the talks in the knowledge that the United States would support any Guate malan government, that is truly anti-communist. Castillo Armas and Monzon held two general meetings to discuss truce procedures, post-truce gov ernment reorganizations and other matters. Then their aides contin ued the discussions into the morn ing.

Dulles Happy U. S. Secretary of StaU John Foster Dulles said in. a broadcast in the United States Wednesday night that Russia's attempt to set up a beachhead in Central America had been thwarted by the re volt in Guatemala. American sources in Washington said one of the first steps the United States would take would be diplomatic recognition of the government growing from the talks between Castillo Armas and Monzon.

Castillo Armas and his exiled rebels invaded Guatemala 14 days ago with the goal of routing Presi dent Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and his Red-influenced government. He accomplished that goal when Arbenz fled to the Mexican Em bassy for sanctuary and -Monzon kicked out the junta set up by Col. Carlos Enrique Diaz, a do- notnmg anu-tommunist. Before the truce talks began, there was considerable speculation that Castillo Armas, now that the pro-Communist government had fallen and a cease-fire was in effect, would be content to sit in the ruling junta as a member, with Monzon remaining in charge. The Junta Wednesday night appointed Col.

Mauricio Dubois to succeed Guillermo Toriello as foreign minister. Col. Ariel Riera Si-liezar was made defense minister and Col. Raul Reina Rosal was given the finance portfolio. Monzon assumed the ministry of interior as a double duty.

They Need It BATON ROUGE. La. (UP) State senatorsr sweltering in their breathlessly hot legislative chamber, approved an appropriation of $290,000 for air conditioning Wednesday, by Oregon voters in November, By MIKE BRADLEY 1 Word to the wise: New police car to go into service soon is colored green. Nuff sed COUNTY COURTHOUSE might end up in At least part of it is there now They haven't sold alPof it yet but a woman from the southern branch has part of it And others covet more of it The woman called Co Judge Geo McBee and said she under-stood'they might be tearing down the courthouse and she wouldlike to get the wooden shutters that are on the inside of the Windows She said she want ed them for their antique value and would be glad to pay for- them Geo assured her the bldg" would continue in use" for a while yet, but he thought there were some shutters around that had been taken down in some of the offices Sure enuff, the woman showed up and Geo found some for her rn'v However, most of those that were taken down had disappeared and no one paid for them Now that the circuit courtroom is being remodeled there might be more shutters available Can't we keep our courthouse in Cor-vallis at least Benton co? Any bidders here? NEW BUSINESSES' soon to be underway here, we unnerstand Drug store going in on college hill where grocery and meat market now operate Drug store, being slated by owners of present business downtown New motel to be built north of town along new highway at Seavy road, which should be good lpca-. tion It'll be ready by next season- Owner will be that traveling man Earl Heckart, the old raquet entrepreneur, who even now is preparing for a voyage to Alaska The Will Rogers of Corvallis is also planning a four-plex at 11th and Harrison Seems he must be tired of.

clutching that hoard any longer FOR YEARS now City Mgr Jim Convill has, we imagine, gotten a certain amount of glee from the door to his office at the city hall It is a door with a personalityperhaps a split personality We use it more or less regu-( Continued on page 4, column 4) Suicide Gets Small Son To Pull Trigger LEBANON. Ore." UP) Marion Ezra Leavitt, 40-year-old sawmill worker, was shot to death late yesterday when he induced his 24-year-old son to pull the' trigger on a caliber rifle after two other children refused to do so. Coroner Glenn Houston said today. The cor oner listed the death as a suicide. Houston said Leavitt had been shot through the upper abdomen and was dead when he arrived at the home.

The little boy, Clarence, was too young to realize what had i happened, he said. Leavitt's widow. Rose, told Houston her husband had been despondent and had threatened suicide much of the day but that she did not believe he planned to go through with it. She told him he failed to get two older children, Kenneth, 5. and Karen, 8, to pull the trigger as he pointed the rifle fct himself.

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Pickup in Oregon Business Is Predicted for Second Half '54 life Federation clubs, but in the main they were just interested sportsmen and merchants, accord ing to local petition circulators. Wide Coveraje Made Signatures were obtained from practically every county west of the Cascades and from a number of eastern Oregon counties, Multnomah county furnished the most total gross signatures, closely followed by Marion, Yamhill, Linn Benton, Lane and Lincoln counties. Heaviest percentage in relation to voter population appeared to come from the Taft-Kernville and Waldport areas, which is deemed significant since both areas are situated at the mouths of commercially fished "We appreciate the spontaneous help of Oregonians in all walks of life in making the signature drive a success," said Ross Brown, Albany, petition sponsor and past president of the Oregon Wildlife Federation. "It was the average Oregonian soliciting names after work and in spare time who made the drive a success. We spent very little money and even now have no plans for a big political campaign," Brown continued.

''However, certain expenses will show up in the next few months and for this reason we will now accept donations to the cause, which we have previously refused. They may be sent to "Save Oregon's Salmon, 106 North Second, Corvallis." A somewhat similar initiative campaign "was carried out by sportsmen several years ago but it failed to get sufficient signatures to qualify for the ballot. (lev Columbia River Bridge Is Approved PORTLAND (UP) 'Approval of applications by Oregon and Wash ington state highway departments to build a highway bridge spanning the Columbia river at Vancouver and to remodel the present struc ture was announced here yesterday by the district Army engi- nfwr'c riffirp Col. John A. Gfaf, acting Portland district engineer, said the approval was made by the chief of the U.S.

engineers, and provides for alteration of plans submitted ift the office. One of the twp proposed 511-foot spans in each bridge is eliminated in the approved plans, and replaced by two 265-foot spans with vertical clearances of about 77 feet at low water. The approval requires that construction be started, within two years and completed within five years of June 18, 1954, when the order, was signed. R. H.

Baldock chief engineer of the Oregon State Highway Department, said he will meet at Vancouver next week with the director of Washington highways to consider the plan and to prepare statements to the various commissions involved. The new bridge would parallel the one to be remodeled. Both would carry three lanes of traffic, one bridge handling norfhbouriH traffic, and the other southbound. PORTLAND (UP)-A pickup in business In Oregon during the second half of the year was forecast yesterday by leading bankers here. A late spring business surge continued through June, according to state banking figures, and was almost strong enough to make the first six months of 1954 equal the same period for last year.

Jobless pay claims in Oregon have been 40 per cent higher than a year ago, with an estimated 32,500 out of work. Manufacturing employment was down lumber 5,700 and trades 500, while construction hild about even, However, a pickup during the past two months, especially in some hard hit lines led to opinions of optimism "and the prediction that the upward trend should continue through the final six months or 1954. Federal GI home loans showed the sharpest gain with a total of 433 applications in Oregon last month, compared with 358 in May and only 87 in June last year. FHA loan applications totaled 863 in June, 457 in May and 678 a year ago. Bank clearings in Portland were a healthy $700,811,975 last month and $665,172,371 in May, or slightly lower than the June.

1953 fitrure 1 of $717,935,930. For th first half wf this vear thev wer ta.flig.513.. the same period last year. a lengtny lumber strike could re verse the optimistic views of Oregon's business and industry. saw Mowery swept downstream by294, compared to $4,251,323,332 for'picture has been improving steadi Jess unemployment, steady spend- jtion has not been matched by a by consumers, business and! sales slumn.

thi envrnmpnt rnn. The Bccident happened at Prin-gle Falls, about 35 miles south of here. Police are expected to re sume the search for body today. the man's but most businessmen don't expect state and local governments, and iomists view it as a healthy re-1 it to last too long. 'a steady flow of income which! adjustment.

Local temperatures in 24 he'ra ending at 8 a.m. today: 67, minimum 52. Rainfall: .07 jpj.