4 Th Newt-Review, Reieburg, Or. Sat., July 9, 1949
Published Daily Exoept Sunday by tht
News-Review Company, Inc.
(eland itcond elm matter Mar 1, ' at P"J
Roiebarg, Oragon. aodcr ftot ef March 3, 187S
CHARLES V. 8TANT0N -ypfe, EDWIN L. KNAPP
Editor Manager
Member of the Aeaoolated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher
Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations
InniuM br WEST-HOLLIDAI CO., INC., efflree In New ITork, Chleage,
. nnrlM. . L.i tirUn .Seattle . rorllan d St. L.I.U.
SUBSCRIPTION BATES in Oregon Br Mall rer Tr ss.ss, ill month! sl.se,
tbr monlhi I2.S0. Bj Cllr Ccrier Per rr lia.oo In edano!, Unltu
one w.pir month ll.o. Outride Orison Br Mall Per rr 0.00. Hi
ranntni H wr wnnin, .
WE WON'T GET TO SEE IT
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Ws read in the newspapers that the "Friendly" Southern
Pacific has been displaying at various stations along the
Cascade Route its wonderful new Shasta Daylight, which
goes into daily service between Portland and San Francisco
July 10.;
Ws had hoped that the FSP would bring its new diesel-
powered wonder train down our way. After all, our kids
ought to have an opportunity to see what a modern train
looks like.
And, too, we're quite sure Borne of our adults would like
to see the startingly new Shasta Daylight
Running on roller bearings and with special springs and
shock absorbers, the train reportedly will be as smooth
riding as an airplane.
That may be true, but we'd have a hard time convincing
anyone with no experience other than the FSP's "Jerky-
Worky" which serves this area, where you almost need a
safety belt to stay in your seat.
Then our adults would like a look at those swivel seats,
especially built for the Shasta Daylight, permitting pas
sengers to turn sideways to the line of travel and gaze out
huge safety-glass windows at the passing panorama of
glorious scenery as it unfolds itself along the gorgeous
Cascade Route.
Our people would be very envious of those seats, which,
if placed on the Southern Oregon Milk Special, could be
used to pivot to the side and watch the lights roll by as the
train moved through the Stygian darkness which the FSP
uses to hide its so-called passenger "service" for this area.
Certainly the unequalled scenery of Southern Oregon at
least deserves pivot seats even if passengers can't see out
the windows.
The club car on the Shasta Daylight also would be a
revelation to our adult population. There the thirsty pas
senger can buy his drinks, although he must furnish his
own bottle until the train reaches the California line, unless
he is willing to drink beer while traveling in Oregon. That
surely is an outstanding service and would be appreciated
by our people particularly since the "Friendly" Southern
Pacific removed from our one and only train the buffet
car where one could at least get a cup of coffee. Now,
mothers can't even obtain milk for their babies, and have
no way to warm the infant's formula. But it's nice to know
that there are trains where the Tired Business Man can
hoist his highball, even though babies from Southern Oregon
must go hungry on the Southern Pacific's "Friendly"
trains.
And Our appreciation of the Shasta Daylight would be
complete upon learning that it will travel from San Fran
Cisco to Portland in approximately the same time it takes
our own "Worky-Jerky" to reach the metropolis from Med-
ford.
But apparently the FSP isn't going to bring its brand
epankin new train down this way for us to see.
Shucks I
Careful, Harry, You'll Give Him Heart Failure
741WM
WMM ?y VMlU 5. Martin
S3
Something To Think About
The City of Salem, Oregon, Is greatly concerned about
a recommendation from the Civil Aeronautics Board that
The United Airlines cease its Mainliner service into the
Capital City which then would be left with feeder service
only from .the West Coast Airlines.
Salem's McNary Field now enjoys service from both
lines, and we can be sure the City's leadership will put up
strenuous Dattie to retain the two operations.
The Salem Capital Journal, commenting on the situation,
says :
It Is an Interesting sidelight that the oase should come
up at this time.
The life and death power of a federal governmental
body, such as the CAB, Is all too dear In this matter. If
on projeots the thought a little further, the elmllar power
nd Influence on looal affairs of a Columbia Valley Admini
stration Is plainly eeen.
Th present airline question Is a reminder of how
federal bureau reaches into a oommunlty and makes a do.
olslon that might hinder development of that community.
All the City can do Is fight for Its case and leave the do
oislon to th Bureau,
That's a mighty cogent thought mighty cogent I
Senator Taft
May Vote No On
Atlantic Treaty
WASHINGTON, July 9.-OP)
senator -jait. said yesterday he
may vote against the North
Atlantic Security Treaty, because
he thinks It probably cannot be
wpa.aiea lr0m the proposed
foreign arms program.
Taft made this statement to
reporters after he had told the
Senate that he Is "absolutely op.
posed to providing arms for Eu
rope." The administration expects to
send to Congress soon a pro
posal to authorize a $l,450,O0a000
foreign arms program. Of this
amount x,ho,uoo,(XK) would be
spent to help rearm European
pact signers.
"I may vote against the pact
mil i nave not finally decided,"
inn iaia. ai one time, l thought
Jt could be separated from the
arms program, but now I am
beginning to think It cannot."
A final decision by Taft to
oppose the pact would likely
build up other opposition to the
treaty. As chairman of the GOP
Senate policy committee, the Ohio I
Senator Melds strong Influence
among ins parly's members.
Yakima Area Rounds Up
'Wet Back' Mexicans
SPOKANE, July 9 OF) .
Seventy-two "wet backs" were ar
rested In the Yakima area during
the week endlne Julv 4. the iT
S. Immigration and Naturaliza
tion service said.
"Wet backs" m Mevlnnn nn.
tlonals who enter the Ilnlleri
fclatcs Illegally by swimming
Hi-russ wie wo uramie river, They
will be sent back to Mexico.
E. R. Hotlzclaw, border patrol
Inspector, snld the number ar-
rested was "about normal for
this time of year."
"They come to this state to
make good wages In the fruit
harvest and beet fields." he said.
However, most of the men picked
up this time were unemployed
and few had any money."
Jie sain many 01 tne "wet
backs" return again to the U. S.
after they are deported to Mexico.
Little items of interest about
the World's Best Seller are a de
light to me. For instance, do
you think of California as a state
where people speak a common
language well, two, If you count
Spanish? Then you will be as
surprised as I was to hear that
the "Scriptures were required by
the people of California last year
In 62 different languages."
There were 30,000,000 copies of
the Bible sold last year. "This
means, says the American Bible
Society in a recent release, "that
57 were put In circulation every
minute of every hour, night and
day."
In a recent Issue of the Port
land Oregonlan, a Router's item
said: "Th Bible still tops Ger
many's list of best-sellers. Church
officials here bellev It Is now
being read by more Germans
than ever before. Before the war
It was estimated that one in
every six persons in Germany
owned a Bible."
Germany, the home of the first
Bible printed from movable type!
Germany, where a ruthless fa
natic knew he could never get
anywhere until the Bible had
been destroyed and the reading
of it forbidden! Germany, where
many hearts must have hungered
for the precious pages, and have
been grateful for treasure stored
up in memory! (I know of one
woman who burled her Bible and
another book precious to her, in
her back yard and risked death
in so doing.)
The Liberty of Congress re
ceives more constant ' demands
for the loan of the Bible for the
Blind than any, other book, and
the borrowers want to keep it!
So their requests are given to
The American Bible Society,
which has been working for the
blind since 1835.
It is estimated that 12,000,000
Bibles are needed in Germany
alone, of which The American
Bible Society has sent 3,000,000
and also materials with which
the Scriptures may be printed in
Germany for distribution there.
The Braille Institute has is
sued over 19,000 volumes (The
Bible in Braille) at cost to the
ones who can pay, free when
possible to others. It takes 21
large volumes, 11x11, to print
what you and I hold in a pocket
edition.
LETTERS
to the Editor
COURT TERM ASKED
WASHINGTON. Julv 9
A bill requiring the 1'iilted States
district court to hold terms at
Eugene. Ore., hna been introduc
ed by Rep. Ellsworth (R.-Ore.).
Cancer Society Officer
Comments On Editorial
PORTLAND. Recently I ran
Into an editorial In your paper
entitled "All Inclusive Chest,"
and I want you to know how
much I appreciate this. It carries
some very important points
points which are easily overlook
ed under the pressure to elimi
nate multiple drives.
You will be interested to know
that the American Cancer Society
sponsored a study of giving and
discovered among other things
the following fact: A large ma
jority of the people signified that
they would rather give $5 five or
six times a year than to give $20
at one time. The sampling was
taken scientifically and very like
ly was more accurate than a se
lected mailing by the Chamber
of Commerce.
The ACS finds that Its most ef
fective mass education Is carried
on during the campaign. At that
lira we are ante lo give educa
tional material to people we could
not reach otherwise. The weiolit
of our mall asking further infor
mation about specific cancer
problems is testimony in Itself of
the effectiveness of the camnalen
as a tool for securing earlier di
agnosis. Since early diagnosis is
often the difference between life
and death, we feel we do not
have the right to take this sort
of thing away from the people by
going into an anonvmous cam
paignfor that is what a feder
ated campaign Is insofar as a
health organization Is concerned.
It has consistently been our ex
perience that when we have
Joined in a community campaign
we have lost the support of peo
ple who are specifically Inter
ested In doing something about
cancer.
MRS. WILLIAM KLETZER,
State Commander Oregon Divi
sion The American Cancer
Society, Portland, Ore.
Th News-Review classified ads
bring best results. Fhon 100.
Intervention In
Hawaiian Strike
Asked Of Truman
WASHINGTON, July 9.-UP)
The Senate Labor Committee will
meet Monday to discuss a bill
authorizing presidential inter
vention In the Hawaiian ship
ping tieup.
The bill was Introduced by
Senators Knowland (R) and
Downey D) of California. Morse
(R-Ore) and Ives (R-N.Y.).
A companion bill was intro
duced in the House by delegate
Farrington (R-Hawaii).
Chairman Elbert D. Thomas
(D-Utah), of the Labor Commit
tee, told a reporter he would like
to hear from both sides in the
labor dispute.
Senator Morse voiced the same
Idea.
"I should like," he said, "to
see Harry Bridges (head of the
striking CIO Longshoremen's
Union), and a representative of
the employers brought here to
testify."
Both Senators said a public
hearing in itself might serve to
bring about a settlement of the
strike.
Morse said he would expect the
hearings to be limited to the
union's demands for changes in
hours, wages and working con
ditions. "The issue Is not the political
philosophy of Harry Bridges or
the economic policies of the em
ployers," Morse said.
House Votes Pay Raises
For Cabinet Members
WASHINGTON, July 9 (M
The House voted pav raises Fri
day for cabinet officers and 236
other high government officials.
An attempt to cut Congress
members in for a boost was
blocked by a parliamentary ob
jection. Before passing the bill bv a
voice vote, the House chanced it
to set the salary of FBI Director
j. togar noover at 517.1S0O a
year. He now cets S1 4 00(1 and
the bill, as recommended bv the
House Civil Service Committee,
had proposed a raise to S15.00O.
House passage sent the bill to
tne senate.
in the Day's News
(Continued From Page One)
up with the tyrannies of the gang
who had the Old Country in its
clutches much as the Commies
and their ilk who want to get this
country in their clutches now.
If our forebears had been even
half impressed with safety, they'd
have stayed on the coastal fringe
of the Atlantic after they got the
Indians cowed and learned how
to grow corn and beans for suc
cotash and later learned to
throw the beans away and use the
corn to make Bourbon whiskey.
Were they satisfied when they
had brought these things to pass?
Not so that it could be noticed. No
sooner had they whipped things
into such shape that life was
reasonably safe than they struck
out to the West, brushing Indians
and catamounts out of their way
as they charged onward toward
the setting sun.
Contempt for safety has always
been one of our cardinal charac
teristics. Note the universality
with which as a people we've
blown down the muzzles of shot
guns to see if they were loaded.
IT has always been known to
American children (and a lot
of grown-ups) that the only right
way to shoot a firecracker is to
pinch It off its nativ cluster,
grip it firmly in one hand while
lighting it with a match held in
the other and GO ON HOLDING j
IT UNTIL IT EXPLODES. In I
that way, you set yourself up as a
bold and determined character,
unafraid of danger. Another
slightly mllk-soppish way is to
park a cracker under a tin can,
fire the fuse and see the can leap
skyward. This device has always
been redeemed from over-safety
by the fact that the thing might
go off in your face while you were
getting It under the can after
lighting it
The Portland boy obviously used
a bottle because a bottle is LESS
SAFE.
IN the olden, golden days, a prize
stunt was to light a whole
bunch and throw it under the feet
of a passing horseman's skittish
mount. That involved the danger
that the horseman might be able
to dismount and catch you before
you could lose yourself in the
crowd.
e
HE Chinese are supposed to i
hav Invented firecrackers.
Without knowing the Chinese
too intimately, I have somewhere
acquired the notion that they
never used firecrackers In these
ways. I find myself believing that
little Chinese boys always lighted
the bunch with a punk held at
arm's length and then scuttled
for cover and waited safely
screened from harm until they
ALL went pop. ,
And look at tne Chinese nowl
Multnomah's
Sheriff, Aide
In Open Feud
PORTLAND, July 9 UP)
Reports of more discord in the
Multnomah County Sheriff's of
fice broke into the open today as
Sheriff Marlon L. (Mike) Elliott
and his chief criminologist feud
ed publicly.
The criminologist, Stanley G.
MacDonald, was suspended by
Elliott on a charge that he mis
used county materials and photo
graphic equipment.
MacDonald asserted that poli
tics was behind Elliott's action.
The crux came, he said, when
Elliott insisted that he take as an
assistant one of Elliott's cam
paign workers. MacDonald said
his files showed this man had
been arrested several times, but
the files disappeared after the
man went to work in his office.
MacDonald made his assertion
after being angered by an order
to turn over keys to his confiden
tial files to the sheriff.
Elliott's charges were based on
MacDonald's testimony In the
past as a criminologist for cases
In other counties. MacDonald
said his pay for such testimony
had been taken wth permission
of county officials. It was a way
of augmenting his county salary
of $355 monthly, he said, adding
that he once had offered to turn
over all such checks to the county
if his salary were raised. The
officials decided the going ar
rangement was best, MacDonald
said. He added that most of the
photographic material he used in
such testimony was paid for by
himself.
Sheriff Criticized
The suspension echoed through
out county offices. "A rotten
deal," County Commission Chair
man Frank Shull declared. "That
is one of the best operated crime
protection bureaus In the country.
MacDonald is an expert. It's a
shame for the sheriff to remove
him in this way, for a man of his
own."
District Attorney John B. Mc
Court called MacDonald's work
"a great asset to us. His services
are in demand all over the north
west. Without study, I would not
jump to a hasty conclusion."
The young sheriff himself In
sisted that he was merely clean
ing up. "I was elected head of
this office, and I'm going to be
head," he declared.
"I'm going to clean up this
county no matter what the so
called bosses say. They're trembl
ing in their boots around here
now wondering where I will
strike next. You should have seen
them when I came through the
Phone 100
If you do not receive
your News-Review by
6:15 P.M. call Harold
Mobley before 7 P.M.
Phone 100
Spruce Budworm More Costly Than Forest Fires
SEATTLE. July 9. CP) The
spruce budworm, that "little mon
ster of the woods," must be com
pletely checked, foresters agree.
The pest was described by W.
D. Hagenstein, Portland forest
engineer for the West Coast Lum
bermen's and Pacific Northwest
Loggers Association, at a meet
ing here as "more destructive
than forest fires."
Over a 40-year period, the bud
worm has been estimated to have
tax office. Tve got my eye on
that gang, too."
defoliated and killed over 100,.
000,000,000 board feet of timber
In Northeastern United States
forests.
Two survey and control proj
ects in Oregon, he said, have cov
ered 250,000 acres of private,
state and federal forests. It has
recently been found in forest
areas near Rainier, La Grande,
Oakville and Ashford, in Wash
ington state.
The tiger, slightly larger In size
than the lion, far surpasses it in
destructiveness.
Bank With
A Douglas County Institution
Home Owned Home Operated
Member Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
Douglas County State Bank
The UNITED COMPANY
of OREGON, INC.
, on Oregon corporation, drilling for oil in Harney
County, Oregon, offers for sale at this time,
to Oregon Residents Only
40,000 SHARES of It's
NON-ASSESSABLE
CAPITAL STOCK
At It's Par Value of $1.00 Per Share
Information may be'secured from the following
authorized repreesntatives:
J. Vern Shangle A. J. Kroenert
134 Weit Main St,
Medford. Oregon.
Phone 4242 or 3398.
Dale Franklin
37 North Central Ava,
Medford, Oregon.
Phone 410 or 3082.
733 Pint Street,
-Klamath Fallf, Oregon.
Phona 4760.
H. R. Brower
314 Waahlngton St.,
Granta Pass, Oregon.
Phona 6921.
Ralph B. Green Ralph B. Green
100 Weet Main St.,
Medford, Oregon.
Phona 3932 or 7444.
Klamath Falla, Ore.
307 South Sixth St,
Phone S116.
T
T
HE firecracker is In utter dis
grace In America. It is twice
as illegal as a slot machine. So,
around the Fourth of July for a
week or so, all we can do Is to
muffle our ears in the pillow
when we want to get to sleep of
nights and give thanks to modern
progress and enlightenment for
the fact that the darned things
have been banned by law.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING
FOR A GIFT--.
here are some good suggestions:
SILVERWARE:
International. Lunt, Watson, Alvin and Wallace sterling In open stock are
featured at Knudtson's as well as silverp'.ate by 1847 Rogers, Community and
Holmes and Edwards.
' If you are looking for a special piece, may we suggest holloware such as
candlesticks, gravy boats, compotes or bread trays in sterling or sllverplate.
CHINA:
Knudtson's feature Rosenthal China, a fine Bavarian china made in the
U S zone of Germany. The many patterns on display at Knudtson's are all
open stock. We have waited a long time for the finest in china to again be
come available and now we have it This is the same china we carried before
the war.
Knudtson's also stock a huge selection of English Bone China collection
tea cups.
GLASSWARE:
Special pieces galore mav be found In Imperial glassware at Knudtson's.
The Imperial patterns of "Candlewick" and ''Continental," as featured in
VOGUE magazine, are In open stock. If you like plain Swedish glass designs,
see the "Continental" pattern In Imperial glassware at Knudtson's.
Shop around for your gift, by all means, but be sure to see the selection at
Knudtson's before you buy.
CONVENIENT
BUDGET
TERMS
JEWELERS