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4 TIm Nesra-IUriew, Raec4re, Ore. Me., Sec. 19, 1949 Publisher! Oiily gxeapt Sunday ry the Newi-Revie Company, Inf. IIHN4 si will elaie raeller Mar t. in. Ike peel srMea liHMri, Orerea. BaSer Ml ef March a, Ull CHARLIS V. STANTON ff- SOWIN L. KN APP Edlter SAr Manager Mimbtr ef the Auaelatad Press, Oreaan Newspaper PuMlehera Aaaoalatian, tha Audit Buraau ef Circulations IttrHMUl er WtST-ajOLLIBAT CO.. INC.. erfleea la Tare. CMeaa. a r rcjB. lee aapin. atmacairnoM bats tar eaeaiae il.se. Br aaa rear, aaff raeeia raeelhe Se.U. tSree aaealhe St.le POLITICAL CONSISTENCY By CHARLES V. STANTON If diahoneety and Insincerity In high plac.ea were not m gerioui one could find amusement in the current inconsii tencies of tha federal administration. . While the FCC seeki minute technicalities on which to bar radio give-away program, the administration is dishing out "prizes" with both hands. Numerous corporations are facing actions on vague charges of untruthful advertising, while the President in . political speeches propagandizes with half-truths and delib erate untruths. Little sincerity or honesty can be credited U an admini stration that holds up one lily-white hand of purity, and with the other dishes out the dirt The administration, through the FCC, is endeavoring to end radio prize programs. The technicalities on which com plaints are based are very finely drawn, indicating that the government has a weak position in its attack upon broad casting companies. The administration's attempt to prohibit give-away shows doubtless is a political move in cooperation with organized labor, for the popular prize program have seriously affected live talent employment. But with all this going on, President Truman has the effrontery in Labor day speeches to prate about "selfish interests" and "privileged classes" knowing full well that taxpayer money is being spent to coerce broadcasting companies into abandoning prize programs and employ more entertainers organized into their respective unions. Who are the to whom the President refers? Radio give-away programs are very popular with listen ers. Manufacturers clamour to provide merchandise to be distributed to program participants, recognizing the adver tising value of having trade names of their products men tioned over the air to huge audiences. Programs handing out cash to participants usually cost less than those in which big-name entertainers appear. But the FCC is attempting to say, "No can do." At the same time the only answer necessary to get gifts of billions from Uncle Sam Is, "It ain't enough." We hand out billions on request to foreign countries. We offer prizes of cheap homes to low-income groups. We give handouts to the farmers. We are striving to give prizes of free medical service to the nation's millions. It seems that the matter of purity in give-away programs depends on the amount given and the identity of the giver. Federal administrative agencies lift holy hand in protest against untruthful advertising. Because a company pictures twins with identical hair-do's, intimating that one was pro duced at home whan allegedly the work was done by a pro fessional, a hue anal cry is raised about untruthful advertis ing. And because certain Book-of-the-Month club advertise free book when actually a membership is required, the law stomps in with heavy tread. But President Truman can stand on a speaker's platform and blatantly proclaim tha virtue of the 81st Congress, when it is obvious to the most ignorant that he was only apple-polishing, advertising, with deliberate untruths, for a democratic victory at coming congressional elections. And while the administration's trust-busting Department of Justice i sicking the dogs on big corporations in the name of unholy alliance, the administration is endeavoring to circumvent congressional control by setting up huge po litical corporations in the form of river valley authorities, departing from the constitutional form of government which the President took sacred oath to uphold. "Consistency, Thou art a jewel!" FCA Approves Use By Great Britain Of Marshall Plan Funds To Buy Canada Wheat WASHINGTON (.It The Economic Cooperation adminis tration hat approved the use bv Groat Britain of $17.OOO.onO in Marshall plan funds to buy Cana dian wheat. Making the announcement, the Economic Cooperation adminis tration disclosed that Britain has made a couple of agreements which suggest 1. That the Brit ish are going to get a little more to eat. and 2. That American ap ple and produce growers will find a larger market in Britain. EC A said the British plan to buy $30,000,000 worth of I'. S. wheat, not Included In original plans, and will also buy $H.OOO,000 to $10,000,000 I worth of supplies V. S. agriculture commodities, particularly perishable products.) Already Allotted The $17."),0O0.00O la monev al ready allotted to Britain hv ECA. As to it, all the British get is a freer hand In Its sending. But ECA announced that It Is arrang ing to finance $30,000,000 worth of ocean transport for Britain. The recovery agency said the action is "an effort to alleviate the critical drain on British old and dollar holdings." Easing of restrictions on Brit ain's use of Marshall plan money was one of the things agreed to at the I'nited States British-Cana dian talki on Britain's dollar crisis. The wheat purchase Is the first approved by ECA from any source other than the United States last March. hiih, - - Oreaea Br Mall Par Taar MM. all aiaalka ta.SS. City Carrltr rar raar fit. at Ha airaaral. laae Ikaa tl.M Oeuiso Oreaea Br MalW-eer raar te ee. all selfish and special intereats Wheat purchases from other countries with Marshall plan money were suspended at that time because grain was in free supply in the IT. S. Monev Earmarked Congress, when approving the Marshall plan, directed that none ol the monev was to be used to buy farm products abroad If there was a surplus of those products In the United States. Some congress members from the V. S. wheat brit have been i protesting the plan to let Britain buy Canadian wheat with ECA funds. They contend there Is a surplus of wheat In the V. S. The ECA decision was an 'nounced after lengthv consulta ,tions between ECA administrator Paul c;. Hodman and Secretary !of Agriculture Brannan. I ECA made public an exchange 'of letters in which Hoffman and I Brannan agreed that there was I urgent need to check the drain on Britain's dollar resources. Ns Adverts Effects Brannon told Huffman that the agriculture department foresees no adverse effects on this nation's farm economy from letting the S17." 1X10.000 of Marshall plan i funds be used for purchase of Canadian wheat. J Brannan said: I "We believe that the financing I by ECA of a portion of the wheat I moving under the United King dom Canadian agreement will not diminish the overall export ' IU. S. w heat but may even result In a slight Increase. "Atta Boy, Witter m a. ' . The menu, If you arc a guest In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Algernon Bltwuns this winter, will Include, like as not, pears... Mrs. Bltwuns, the other morn ing, was keeping up her half of the breakfast chit-chat, and part of Mr. B's, too, he being busy at the moment flipping the best hot cakes made outside of Texas. Mrs. B finding It Just as well to keep unspoken her anguish at sight of the usual blue smoke of grease that Is too hot, stuck to the subject. Mr. B had asked what kind of fruit she wanted him ta "keep an eye out for In town?" "Whatever else you bring, Al gle, DON'T bring pears. Still have some left over from last year. And yon don't care tor them anyhow. ..." Now there was na newspaper in front of Mr. B's face. Mrs. B assumed her remarks had been duly noted. But Mr. B. la adept at "listening" with his face but not hli ears? At any rata the B's cat they have a white one, too Jumped upon tha window sill Juat then, stretched her paws as high aa she could and slid them down, thereby smearing as frfffyfl B" VtaXnu 3. Martin J Jss The Great Powers Frown On Greek-Albanian Row By HEWITT MACKENZIE AP roraifln Affaire Anahat Greece's threat to Invade com munist Albania as a measure of self-defense, if guerrilla forces aunrh further attacks on Greek soil from Albania, has capitals on both sides ol the Iron curtain worried. Washington, London and Mos cow are particularly concerned, and it's reported tha the Anglo- American Brotherhood is likely to take steps to discourage any such military operation by their Greek ally. It wouldn't be surprising if itussia also advisee A mania to go easy. why? Well, because a Greek In vasion of Albania could very eas ily precipitate another world war. And perhaps the most significant. and hopeful, aspect of the current affair is that both sides in the cold war are anxious to avoid an other general upheaval. alkan Hot Box The Balkans through the cen turies have been the whelping ground of armed contorts, me situation at the moment Is par ticularly delicate, not only on ac count of the Greece-Albanian row but because relations bet wee i Turkey and Bulgaria again are tense or perhaps one should say more tense than usual. To this must he added the feud which has developed between Yugoslavia and Kussla s Balkan satellites because of Pictator Tito's political revolt against Moscow. t'f course the fact that Greece's sponsors frown on any invasion of Albania is in no sense due to doubts as to the truth of the Athens charges. The Albanian operations have been carried on more or less openlv and brazenly for a long time. It Just Isn't smart to iftaliate in such fashion as to precipitate another global up heaval. Gateway Nation You wouldn't think such a little countrv as Albania could stir up so much trouble. It has an area of Britain has been buying Cana dian wheat all along, but has had to use dollars that she earned by exports, rather than ECA money. in pavinir lor 11. im limn im ''t' leal nuns lor ii worth of Canadian grain this year. lis for purchase of Joe, That's How I Got My Start" ., much of the glass as possible with her damp feet. Mr. B rattled, the doorknob. The cat shot through the opened door a split second later, and looked around to see what ac tivity she could pick that would do the most damage. After two years of model behavior she has taken to destructive retaliation for banishment with her last kit tens to the workshop? She stalk ed over to the nearest wall, stretched her paws upward pre paratory to raking her claws downward Mr. B's. "Hey!" stop ped that. Mrs. B nearly Jumped out of her housecoat. But tha wallpaper was saved for the time being. Tha Bs take turns patching wall paper . . . Well, what with one thing and another, there was no more talk of the pluma and prunes Mr. B was ta keep his eye out for. Wandering trucks sometimes stop by tha office. One did that day. Mr. B cam smiling up the walk, bearing In hli arms a grapefruit crate of fruit. "These looked pretty good," said he, "and what! tha matter?" "Pears!" said Mrs. Betwuevs. "Pears!" only 10.fi29 square miles and an estimated population of about a million. But Albania lies between Yugo slavia and Gieece and Is a corri dor into the Balkan peninsula. Kor this reason it has for hundreds of vears been used as a gateway by Invading armies. Moreover, be cause of her position Albania her self has been the object of much conquest and has been ruled by the Romans, the Bv?ntlnes, the Slavs, the Turks and by Musso lini, the would-be great conqueror. Albany Council Declines To Firt City Manager ALBANY. Ore. (.Pi The city council declined to take any ac tion Wednesday night on a peti tion asking that City Manager J. D. Baughman be asked to re sign. Mayor Jess Savage told the overflow crowd of IV) at the coun cil hall that the charges against Baughman were too general. "I would like to have some evidence if you have any." He noted that the petition bore slcnatures of about 300 persons. He said this was a small percentage for a city i of 1S.0O0 population. ! The peiition charged that Baughman. who became Al-1 bany's fi'-st manager earlier this ; ear. had caused d i s s e n 1 1 o n I among coy departments. This re sulted In Inefficient operations. It said. I City Councilman R a v m o n d Barrett told the group: "The city is much better managed now than before he i Baughman came here." The petition stemmed from the recent resignation of Police Chief J. O. Byerley and the discharge of Martin Holmes. PONOEROSA PINS SOLO PORTLAND - (.r A govern ment timber sale has brought a price of $.'1 a thousand hoard feet for Ponderosa Pine In Deschutes county. It was paid bv the Gil christ Timber v, Gilchrist The average price for Pondero sa Pine tn seeral tracts sold was $19 62. The pine had been appraised at $M.6 raw r Melrose By NETTIE WOODRUFF Mr. and Mrs. Scott Stidham were shaken up and their car considerably damaged Monday afternoon. ' when they collided with another car at an Intersec tion In Roseburg. They were on their way home from Medford, where they took their son, Jerry, to catch the plane to return to McChord field. He expects to be sent to Okinawa for duty. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Busenhark and Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Mat thews made a business trip to Canby last Sunday. Jack Trent accompanied by two boy friends left Friday on a pleasure trip to Boise, Ida. Joe Matthews and son, Bill, left last Saturday on a trip to Yellow stone park and will stop at lone, Ore., on their return to visit the Wallace Matthews family. Miss Ida Beeman, who has been at Landers lookout all sum mer, left Saturday for her home at Vale, Ore. Less Doede, who has been at Baughman's lookout, has been transferred to Landers lookout. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Showers have had the latters' parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bogart of Baker, Ore., as their guests for the past 10 days. They spent the Labor day weekend at the coast, salmon fishing and visiting Mr. Showers' mother, Mrs. O. W. Rosenhall. at Winchester Bay. They also visit ed at Tenmile lake and Coos bay. Dick Bonebrake left for Mc Minnville last Sunday, to attend school at Linfield college. Jim Young is leaving Sunday to at tend college at Corvallis, and Ted Reece plans to leave Sunday al so, lor Eugene to enter the Uni versity of Oregon. Dick Dow was honored with a party on his birthday Monday evening when his mother, Mrs. Clyde Kenyon, Invited a group to their home to enjoy a delicious supper and an evening of games. Gifts were presented to the guest of honor by Darlene Kruse. Don na Davenport. Phyliss William son. Louise and Jeanine Conn, Roger Reece, Duane and Jim my Nelson. Leonard Cooper and Keith Conn are working at Reedsport this week. Mrs. Woodard of Portland Is spending this week visiting her sister Mrs. Couy and family, who reside on the old Lynn place. Mr. and Mrs. N. George and small son will move this weekend to Eugene, w here the former will attend the University of Oregon under the G.I. bill. They have spent the summer at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. Rahn. on Cleveland hill road. Dale Bonebrake. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bonebrake. is able to attend school again after be ing painfully Injured in football practice. He suffered a bone sep aration In his shoulder. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bonebrake have moved to Ashland, where he will attend college. DENIES CHARGE NEW YORK i.pvCol. Geo rge Kovacs said today It's strict ly nonsense that he ever made or tried to make Las7lo Rajk a n anti-communist agent. Rajk. pleading guilty In Buda pest to plotting against the Hun garian government, had testified that Kovacs forced him on be haif of the Americans to work against the red-dominated re gime. POLIO REPORTED PORTLAND -.P The State Board of Health reported that there were 17 new cases of In fantile paralysis reported last week, the largest in any week this year. Four were In Portland and three In Lincoln county. Tha oth era were scattered. Oregon Colleges Loon More Books Than Borrowed EUGENE (Special) Librar ies of the State System of Higher Education loaned more books to other libraries than they borrow ed In 1948-9. William H. Carlons, Director of Libraries, has report ed to Chancellor Paul C. Packer. The seven libraries loaned 3.609 volumes, and borrowed 3.172 volumes. Most of this inter change was carried on at Oregon State college, the University of Oregon, and the Medical school. Carlson points out that the Medical school library loaned 1166 volumes while it borrowed only 148, which "reflects the re search nature of the holdings of that library, as well as its status as the major medical library of the Pacific Northwest." The State Library at Salem was of most help to the Colleges of Education. Most of the 1.453 volumes borrowed from it were for the three colleges, half of them for the Oregon College of Education at Monmouth, which, partly because of its location, has always drawn heavily on the resources of the State Library, Carlson reported. Books loaned within the system totalled as follows: Oregon State college. 324: University of Ore gon 341; Medical school. 147 ; Dental school, 15, and Eastern Oregon College of Eudcation, 2. Students used 375,778 books at home, 316.651 general and 59,127 reserve. At least 342.184 reserve books were used in the libraries, but many others were used without being recorded. Ex-Strip Tease Artist Captures Peeping Tom DETROIT. Sent. 19. i.'Pt A shapely housewife told police to day she threw modesty and her clothes to the winds to help trap a peeping torn. Mrs. Margaret Joffa, 34, said she put on a strip tease when she susoected someone was peeking through the window. While the peeper stood goggle eyed, police sneaked up behind and grabbed him. "I'm used to being a diplomat. I try to do the unexpected. That throws people off." said Mrs. Joffa, a former cigaret girl. 'Most peoDle would have screamed. But I thought I'd con firm my suspicions. So I pulled off my slip and stood naked as the day i was born. Then, the comely brunette re lated, she sauntered Into an ad Joining room and told her hus band to call police. With that she strolled back and held the peep er's attention until police arrived. iney identified the peeper as Carl Hughes, 41. He was convicted by recorders Judge Paul E. Krause and scheduled lor sentenc ing Sept. 30. Plastic Armor Suits Being Made For Army SAN PEDRO. Calif. The army may be returning to suits oi armor. MaJ. Gen. W. H. Middles wart of the quartermaster gen eral's office disclosed the devel opment of bullet-resistant body armor for soldiers made of pla stic and nylon. The general said the cloth-like substance will resist a .45 caliber bullet fired from only 15 feet away. The material is nearly a quarter-Inch thick. SAID MOBILIZING BUCHAREST. Romania tJP The Cominform Journal claimed today that Yugoslavia was mobilizing troops on its bor ders with neighboring commun ist states and that feverish for tifications works are in progress along the border." 'PHONE 100 between 6.15 end 7 p. m., if you have not receive) your Newt Review. Ask for Harold Mobley. 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