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4 4 Tht Ntwi-IUvitw, Roseburg, Ort. Thun. Jon. 20, 1955 f "Who Says There Isn't" Any Room?" Congress Chat y HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C, 4th Oregon District &uce (StoASat Published Daily Bxcept Sunday by Hie - ., News Review Compony, Inc. Enteral u itctn e-lass snellei Mar 1. fit, ' ) ''' ftotebarc, Orefoa, aer Bel ml litre 1. 11. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Mambar of tha Associated Praia, Oragan Newspaper Publishers Association, tha Audit Buraau of Circulation Safreaaale mt WIST-HOLL1DAT CO., INC., elllc.i la Near Terk, CUeege, Sea fr.nelioe, Ml Aefalai. aeatlle, FertlenS. neater IUBSCMFTION MATES la Orefen-Br Mall-Par Teer, III.Hi six mealha. MM three mealhi. H.M. OitsUe Orte Br Hell fir leer, US.MI lie raeatki, fT.M; three months, $S.St. By News-Revlew Carrier Per Teer, $ll.ea (ia eareaee), lass thea ear reel, .' per Math. I1.1S. ' " '' Thia column will faatura talactad reprints from other Ora gan nawipapara for tha noxt few daya during tha absence f Editor Charlaa V. -Stanton, now In Eugana to undargo turthar traatmant for a back allmant. It it hopad CVS will ba ablo to ratuma hit writing aoon. Maria P. Pugh PARTY LINES FIXED Salam Capital Journal ' Elmo Smith, new president of the Oregon Senate, broke a long standing precedent op started a new one when he named Republicans to all committee chairmanships, thus assuring Republican leadership at all points. This has always been the practice in congress and in Idaho where this writer lived 15 years before coming back to Oregon two years ago. It is probably the practice in most states. Oregon has largely ignored party lines in committee placings and Democrats have occasionally head ed powerful committees in past years. One Democratic senator was highly critical of the new policyy -which he called narrowly partisan. This is readily understandable, for it deprived him of a desirable com mittee assignment he was anxious to keep, and it may have cost the Senate something in loss of his experience on this subject. Rut Democratic leaders have complained in recent years of the old system which tended to ignore the Demo crats as' a separate party, and some Republicans have quietly joined in tms view oecause it tenueo 10 eiimui f nnrtv resnonsibilitv. , What Senator Smith did has been shaping up for some time and publican or Democrat, is likely to continue me poncy 01 giving the majority party all chairmanships. Actually the Democrats should consider the move a compliment, though we doubt that it was so intended. It is recognition that they've "come of age," that they are now, under more aggressive leadership and with about as many registered voters as the Republicans have, a genu ine onnosition, not a synthetic imitation of one. Of course Senator Smith risked making his Democratic colleagues such when he deprived them of committee chair manships. But he probably suspected they were going to be anyway, as they should. Not mere howlers, but sharp, keen analysts of pending bills and vigorous critics of what ever they consider wrong. DEMOCRATS SET SOME PRECEDENTS : The Oregon Senttte wasn't the only place where ancient precedents fell this week. It also happened in the United States Senate, and here the Democrats were the changers. It's an old congressional rule that a member, who moves up on the committees session afler session, loses . this coveted position and starts again at the bottom if he leaves his house for even one term. It puts a tremendous premium on re-elections and exacts a severe penalty on even one defeat, or resignation to take another job, Two veteran Democrats, one of whom had served as vice-president and the other of whom had suffered a re election defeat, returned to the chamber as freshmen. They were Barkley of Kentucky and O'Mahoney of Wyo ming, "old pros" if there. ever were any. Their party, wisely we think, scrapped precedent and gave them premium assignments which their long exper ience justified, but 'which a real newcomer couldn't have aspired to for several years. This wasn't all the Senate Democrats did. They accept ed Oregon Senator Morse as one of their brotherhood and gave him one of their foreign affairs committee places, which he lost when he left the Republican party, and which several other Democrats would probably have liked to fall heir to. Here a prodical who came to a house he had never lived in before was better treated than some who'd never wandered away from it. Morse has the ability to be a good numiber of this committee. He used to be. But he'll have to drop his re cent policy of looking at every issue for anti-Eisenhower ammunition and try to view foreign policy on its merits. Whether he can or will only time can reveal. He has been given the opportunity by his new colleagues. . iJ4al" SOMEWHERE IN THE CARIBBEAN t.V) Leaves from a cruising notebook: . The pleasantest feature of a winter cruise is that once you are at sea all the worries of land become unimportant. Tlio word "diet." by unspoken : ' agreement, drops from everyone's! vocabulary. Time becomes mean- inglcss. You don't need a calendar lo chronicle the passing days. You tell time by your chins. I This morning, for example, when I got out my razor I found I haul a brand now chin to shave -a round, firm, fully nicked chin sluhtly browned by the sun. Wncnj I remarked on this to the steward, He-nhP'?hd;n. ..v. h .; on, that incar.a .vt vt been at sea four days. A three-dessert man every four rii without jny trou- Since I stalled with two chins ano we will he at sea 13 davs. ! n,c- 110 ici l ears, that means I'll get back lo Nevrj "I don't hear anything," he said. York with five and ji.e-four'h . then afler a moment inquired, chins. And somehow I don't mini "Do those snapping sounds like it at all. j they're insido you?" I "Yeah, come to think of it, I Our ship is the Kurness Line's guess they do." ocean Monarch, one of Britain's I "They're just the kinks coming newest and trimmest rruise ve out of your nerves," he said tol sels. When we boarded her Fran-1 eranlly. ccs. our daughter, Tracy Ann. ami The kinks are all gone now. Mv I I started to walk right off nerves arc so relaxed I (eel I could again. There was a telephone in the stateroom, and it there is any. thing 1 detest on a vacation it is the sight of a telephone. "Don t worry, said Frances Anyoouy wno pnoncs you .from : shore will have to pay $M for a thrco-minute call, and ( I know i your friends and ader 17 years i I feel I know them only too well ; you ire as safe as if you went in heaven." , his successor, .whether Re i2oiiie How right she was! Everj morning I lie in bed for half an hour just admiring that telephone, u is boudoir while in color, jr.i ia, is the most beautiful telephone in the world. It never rinss. Aboard ship you have lo get ao customed to strange noises Hit creaking of wood in the night, the soft slap of waves against the steel hull. The first day I stretched out on , rf- k rkalr : ,h h. i.fst.rlled out of inv dnie n'mi &n"a a p; , I asked a veloran voyager next to skip rope with them. No one has more fun on a cruise lhan small children. They have more spnftp itf aHvpiilnt'A limn nl,lA- passengers, and enjov stormv as well as mild weather." Thev rarelv become seasick before the age d( two, when thev (irst learn what it is bv hearing their elders talk about it. Tracy Ann, who isn't quite 19 SO. ' Zs .. s$srerSp i , 1 In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) spending by four per cent and bal ance the budget. An overall four per cent reduction in spending, he poinuj out, would tut the budget by about two and a half billion dollars, which would be enough to enable the federal government to operate in the black for the first time since 1951. He adds: "We are enjoying the greatest prosperity in our history. We are not in a war. If we can not bal ance the budget now, I ask WHEN CAN WE BALANCE IT?" Senator Byrd is chairman of the senate finance committee of the new congress. He is a Democrat but not a tax-and-spend Democrat. State Secretary Dulles, talking to reporters in Washington, re jects Senator Knowland's conten tion that United Nations Secretary Dag Hammarskjold's mission to red China to try to obtain the re lease of American airmen held captive there has been a failure. I think he's right. Negotiation wnose purpose is to settle a dis- pule without a fight, if possible, is never a complete failure. At any rate, efforts to settle a dispute by negotiation should al ways be made, and carried on as long as possible, before resorting to torce. , Let's put it this way: SlinnngA vnil have a nAi'irhhni' who is haairallv a hrtl. Kunnnso his dogs and his cats and his cnicxens ana nis nrais are pester ing the life out of you. you nave two alternatives: 1. You can shoot him. 2. You can negotiate with him. As to the first alternative, it's terribly dangerous. Maybe he'll shoot you first. Maybe you'll draw and pull at the same time and will BOTH BE SHOT. Shooting is so FINAL. It's nearly ALWAYS better to take such ruckuses into the courts which is a form of negotiation. United Nations is the international negotiating agency. Let's use it as long as . we can. War, loo, Is SO FINAL. Once started, it never can be taken back. And- . Looking back over our wars SO FEW OF THEM HAVE BEEN WORTH THEIR COST. World War I didn't settle any thing. World War II didn't settle anything. Bolh of them merely sowed the teelh of the dragon and Irom this sowing of Ihe dragon's teelh other wars sprang up. Let's NEGOTIATE as long as we can. months old, got a real thrill when we ploughed through some rough seas off Cape liallcras. It gave her a roller coaster feeling to run uphilll and downhill in our slate room as the ship rocked back and forth. She already knows all the pas sengers and most of the crew members, who have adopted her as a pet. To keep her from plung ing overboard to pick foam (lowers out of Ihe sea, I had to put a harness and a leash on her while on deck. It bothered my sense o dignity lo have to put it on her, and at first it bothered her to have to wear it. "I know how you feel, honey, I told her. "It makes you (ral like a doggie, doesn't it? At the word doggie, she imit re belling and began harking, "Bowwow-wow-wow-wow! Now each morning she brings the harness to me to put on her before our deck stroll. She thinks she is a dog, and since she loves dogs, she has no more objection lo walking on a leash. Children have a wonderful way of making sense out of a situation that would frustrate a grownup. Rut 1 do wlsn Trary would stop one habit she's getting. Half Ihe time she tries to get me to wear the harness, so she can hold the leash. . Angry Women Drivers Start Saudi Arabia Social Reform By ROBERT HEWETT CAIRO, Egypt lift King Saud and Arabian American Oil Co. of ficials have learned that Saudi Arabia hath no fury like an Ameri can woman crossed. The world's most absolute monarch has gra ciously bowed to aroused oil com pany wives. Not only has the King canceled a ban on women drivers, but he also is letting Christian ministers preach openly in oil company areas of Saudi Arabia a sharp break from tradition in the ultraconserva tive Moslem country. Angry women drivers started it aU. Saudi Arabia has a long list of restrictions on the activities of for eigners, mostly stemming from conservative Moslem doctrines which have weakened in some parts of the Arab world. They in clude no drinking of alcoholic liquor, no Christian marriage cere monies, restriction of imports of dolls, and censorship of imported literature. . Ever since Aram.co started op erations In 1934 in the Persian Gulf area, Christian churches have been forbidden. Christian ministers trav eled as "teachers" on weekend trips from Bahrein to hold house hold services for company person nel. American oil officials, in the in terests of good will, did not protest much against the restrictions. But their wives there are about 2.000 women in the air-conditioned oil ca mips hit the roof about three months ago when Saudi Arabia an nounced women would no longer be -allowed to drive cars. Since practically no Arab women go out in public in the country, the edict hit the foreign women, mainly Americans. "They nagged their husbands un Atomic Powered Submarine Will Make Dive Test GROTON, Conn. I The atom ic powered submarine Nautilus left her mooring here shortly be fore 8 a.m. Thursday, headed for the open sea and her first dive. However, Atlantic submarine force headquarters at the subma rine base here could not say when or where the submerging opera tion will take place, or how deep the dive will b. A spokesman at headquarters said merely that the Nautilus headed for the "nearby operating areas," which presumably could be one or all of the sounds Long Island, Block Island or Fishers Island. The spokesman could not say how long the vessel, which moved for the first time Monday under nuclear energy, would be gone or how far she would go. It was explained that new sub marines usually make a "trim dive" so shifting of wato' n he trim tanks can be correctly stand ardized for future operations. A "trim dive", Ihe headquarters spokesman said, usually is shal low, or at periscope depth. He would not reveal what that would be on the Nautilus. The alomic-povtercd vessel which returned to her weldork at t p.m. Wednesday afler 50 hours of builder's trials on Long Island Sound, has made only surface runs and Ihe Navy said the tests "thus fsr have been satisfactory." Roads Committee Will Hold Hearings On Bills SAl.KM The Mouse Roads and Highways Committee will bold two hearints on four bills. It will hear argumenl Keb. 2 on a hill lo make school districts elimhle for gasoline tax refunds , if they own and operate their own buses. Next Monday, bills proposing re I vision of trtirk trailer fees, abol- ishini eertidcates for shipping ve- hides by water, and uniform re newal of passenger car licenses I will be aired. til the oil company finally drew the matter to the attention of the King," one American said. An Aramco spokesman in Cairo said oil company officials submit ted a petition to the King recently listing the restrictions. As a result, the monarch lifted the ban on wom en drivers and announced Chris tian ministers could reside and preach in oil company areas. Unsung .Truck . Drivers1 Cooperation Appreciated DILLARD We would like' to give a vote of thanks to those ever-helpful truck drivers in emer gencies, and one in particular. On Christmas night we were involved in a three-car crash on the bridge near Ford's eating house on S). It was one of those things that do happen. No citations were given. In our excitement of the moment we never even saw the truck driv er whose very timely action in placing flares possibly saved other cars which might have driven into disaster. He went on his way an unsung hero. We have no idea who he was or from where, but never theless we are deeply grateful 'n him, and perhaps sometime this "thank you, Mister" may reach him. W. L. PAINTER and family Dillard, Ore. , 2 Timber Tracts In Supplementary Sealed Bid Sale Two small tracts of timber were sold in a supplementary sale to the regular timber program of the Bureau of Land Management in Roseburg Wednesday. Both were salvage traals and both involved sealed bidding. The first contained 19,000 board feet of Douglas fir appraised at $15.35. It is located on Berry Creek near Camas Valley! Hughes Noble of Brockway paid the ap praised price of $291.65 for it. His was the only bid. The second tract is located near the middle fork of the I'oquille River near Camas Valley. A total volume ot 215,000 board feet was sold. It included 173,000 board feet of Douglas (ir appraised at $14.90. Total appraised price was $2,739. 40. The tract sold for $5,550.65 to Roseburg Lumber Co. Sale price i on Douglas fir was $31.15. Other i bidders were: Mt. Bette Lumber , Co. of Dillard: Trico Timber Co. of Dillard, Hult and Kclsay of ' Dillard and Sun Studs of Roseburg. i The next major sale is schedul J ed Feb. 2. according to James I Watts, district forester. Rep. Coon Satisfied With Education, Labor Duties WASHINGTON W Rep. Coon ill-Ore) Wednesday expressed sat isfaction wilh his assignment to the House Education and Labor Committee. "I wanted lo join this commit tee." he said, "because the prob lems of labor are becoming in creasingly important in Oregon; ! and because insuring that our; young people receive a good etlu-; cation is a matter of first import ance to the whole country." Coon served on the Appropria-i tionj Committee last session, but I (or lack of seniority was forced ! off when Democrats took over! committee majorities. I Things are quiet on the legisla tive front here 1 in Washington, D C., right now hut not tnr fane The reason for the presefh lull is, of course, that committee assign ments for the new Congress must be made and the committees or ganized. Every piece of legislation musi Dc considered Dy a commit tee and reported formally to the Mouse oeiore Is taken up on me .eioor. lor linai action. Be fore very long the committees will begin to function and debate and voting on bills will start. Meanwhile the Representatives are not just sitting around wait ing. This is ift rest period for us. Your representative in Congress is more than just a law-maker. Per haps that is not the way the writ ers .of the Constitution intended it to be but certainly that is the way it is. Congressmen, particul arly those from the far west, are literally representatives in Wash ington for. the people of their dis tricts. The bigger our great Fed eral Government gets and the more activities it engages in, the more such things effect us as in dividuals. In other words, the Federal Gov ernment is now Involved in such things as housing, insurance, re tirement pay, money lending, hos pitalization, public health and a score of other things. These ac tivities naturally develop prob lems, often very confusing and frustrating problems, oe'.wcen a person and the Government. So the Congressman is the person you appeal to. He is YOUR repre sentative in Government and he is also .close to the big "head quarters in Washington. He will endeavor lo nelp untangle any complication that may arise in your contact with Government at least that is the way 1 feel about it. For example, while I was in Ore gon an elderly man who lives in the southern part of our district told me he thought there was some mistake in the retirement pay ments he was receiving. He had been a railroad man. I took the matter up with the board for him. A few days ago 1 received a let ter from the board which said, in part, "Mr. 's application was recently approved for an increased annuity and arrangements are be ing made to pay the accrued an nuity." Just before I left Orogon a vet' eran came to my office in Rose- burg and asked me how to go about getting bis. check for an in surance payment refund. It seems mat ne Jiaa movea arouna quite a bit since his discharge from the service. Apparently the check sent out for such refund some years ago had never reached him. He is certainly entitled to the re fund so I am having the Veterans Administration investigate the matter. I think the young man will get his money. , . , Also, rignt now. heueve a or not. am trying to locate' ! mall boat in Navy surplus for tho: Oregon State- Police. They ' Heed ,-. Such a craft ' in . their work along the 'Ore gon coast. . . . :? . , So, you see, your Congressman manages to keep busy! The ones mentioned above are just a few of dozens of such problems that I am working on constantly. I have moved my office to the first floor of the New House Offire Building The number is now 1130. By coincidence rather than by any plan, Congressman Norblad's of fice is only two doors away from mine. . . KOIN - TV CHANNEL PORTLAND i niDAV, JANUARY 51, .'US 8:M-Ncwt Hilites 8:33 Mr. Weatherman 0:00 Vnliant Lidy ' 9:15 Secret Storm 9:30 Garry Moore Show 10:30 Welcome Traveler! 11:00 Robert Q. 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Weather IvWfbtal Feau 7:00 Renie Rider 7::w Ltherace SOOYou Bet Your Life 8:30 Amoi 'N Andy S'.OO-Mr. Dl.trlct Attorney 9-sn Ford Theafre tnoo World! Grealrit Fifhtrl 10:15 Channel 13 Theatre KBES TV channel . uanroao Till HSIIW. JANl'RARY , llll S SO- Devounni 410 Feminine Fancies 4:30 Val Rome Camera SOO Uncle Bill Show 3..T0 Ore-Cal Panorama 8 10-Holhwood Album 7eo- March On 7:.T0- Sportsman's Cluh 7:4 Sporlscholar 7 43 Cirourho Marie 8 -TO Danserous Assignment aoo-Atl Star Threler 9:,T0Fnrd Theater 10 OO-Favorlte Story 10 .10- Weather 10:33-News 10:43Stn Olf The U.S. Department of Labor ' says the number of mechanics nd repairmen has doubled in the past 1" '". A pay boost for federal workers, as recommended by President Ei- senhower, seems wholly in order. They have not had an increase since 1951. while industrial work era have gained further benefits nearly every year.- It's true, of course, that Ihel vThe Republicans far have price level has been fairly stable f .1 . . A 1. . ' f ia mc mot tcsi ainu tiaii u. uiutc but the cost of living has never theless gone up since 19.il. -Inevitably, such a proposal calls for higher pay for the heavily mr.n ne'di Post Office Department.. But even without this additional charge on its operations, the postal serv ice is running a deficit of approx imately $400 million, . - Consequently, the President again urged 'higher postal4 rafes to help, pay this" new burden. The rates he proposed will not fully cover the -pay hikes suggested, which means the deficit would be even larger. The principle of trying to make the Post Office pay its own way is a sound one, however, and there can be no argument against the general idea of rate adjustments aimed at that goal. Specific rates, like (he nrnpbsal to lift the cost of ordinary letter I mail irom mree cenis 10 tour, may be debatable, and the Administra tion should come up to Capitol Hill fully prepared to show why any particular increase is justified. The President was wise to move swiftly in the matter of federal pay, and it would be well if Con gress follows suit. Contrary to some opinion, men do not get rich in government service, fany per form this work at a sacrifice, and it is fair to ask that this sacrifice be kept within reasonable bounds. Senate Seniority System The seniority system is supposed to be one of the great sacred cows in Congress, particularly as applied to treasurer committee assign ments. But in fact it has been mod idief, and perhaps it ought to .be changed further. A few years ago Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Senate Demo cratic leader, changed the system ' to provide that, regardless of sen iority, he was going to give every Indian Allotment Of 160 Acres Will Be Auctioned An Indian allotment of 160 acres west of Coles' Valley will be auc tioned at 2:30 p.m. Feb: IT st the Portland area office of the Bureau of Indian affairs. The public domain allotment, In cluding almost three million board feet of timber, was the allotment (or Antoine McKay. The estimat ed stand of 2,965,000 board feet includes 2,535,000 board feet of old growth, Douglas ,f ir, ; 180,000 board feet of red cedar and 10,000 board teei Qt incense .csaari.. . ... The same tract -va. advertiser! for sale last't-Septembe'i'. At that time, the . minimum ',. acceptable price was reported as $42,000. The bureau now ! reports' the -minimum has been raised because of strong competitive . interest, ;Thc bureau did not reveal the . new minimum. Deeds and patent for the land will reserve all mineral rights in the present owners. Sale will be for cash. Sheppard Attends Father's Service CLEVELAND Wl Dr.' Samuel Sheppard joins with his two broth ers today for the second family burial in 10 days the third in six months. On a snow-flecked knoll over- looking a lagoon in Sunset Memori- al Park, their 64-year-old father Dr. Richard A. Sheppard will be placed next to his wife Ethel, who al Parlr thai Al.uA4p.nM rn,kHHi shot herself to death Jan. 7. The eldest of the osteopath fami ly died Tuesday night of a serious respiratory ailment. His sons said he "lost his will to live" after the suicide of his wife, who left a note saying she "could not go on with out Dad. Shackled to a deputy as he -was t at his mother's funeral, their youngest son, 31-year-old Samuel, will be laken under guard to ajnouds. - . . i.aKewoon monuarv. ana later to the cemetery. 10 m lea awav. Bolh his parents were ailing dur ing his nine-week trial for the July 4 bludgeon-murder of his pregnant wile Marilyn, bheppard is appeal ing ' his second-degree murder conviction. Las Vegas Pastor Shot By Friend LAS VEGAS. New The Rev. T. Malcom Jones, 49. oas'tor of Christ Episcopal Church, was shot to death last night, police reported, by a long-time friend who got into an argument with him. Raqmond P. Smith. SI. was ar- rested and booked for investigation of murder. The shooting occurred in an auto mobile at a drive-in restaurant with the minister's wife Elizabeth sitting between the two men. An. other friend, Jack Wallace, was in tne oacK seat ot the car and of ficers said he grabbed a German Luger pistol from Smith afler one shot had been fired. Chiei of Detectives B. J. Han- Ion said he obtained this account from Wallace and Mrs. Jones: The Rev. and Mrs. Jones, Smith and Wallace had been driving around town for half an hour dis cussing some sort o( business deal between Smilh and Ihe minister. Smith had been drinking and the minister chided him about it. Their discussion developed into an argu- ment about Ihe time the. Rsv u. Jones drove into the rinvo.m Th car had been there onlv a few! moments when the shooting oc- Icurred. I , Democratic senator at least one good committee assignment, ! That rule is still being followed. i and it evidently works well. Prom- rising uc.iuuiau sciiaiuis gci early opportunity to snow .wnat. they can do, wnicn otien is considerable. struck- to the ' old frigid seniority formula.' As . illustrated'' by their tnpst recent parceling out of assign ments, this can deprive the party of usefully applied talent, and ex perienced individuals- of deserved opportunities. . ?. , ,Sen. Clifford Case dr New Jer sey, for example, wound up on the relatively minor Civil Service-Post Office and District, of Columbia committees. But he is a six-year veteran of the House, wi'Il, demon strated abilities. Much :he. aame thing happened to Senator Duff of Pennsylvania when he first hit the capital.. . " ' :"- Admittedly the Republicans this year have more senators than good committee assignments, nut John son's plan for distributing the rath er scarce plums more evenly is one they might well take another look at. . ;- Douglas Coriity Bank Has Assets Over $22 ftillibn C. M. HOWARD . . .navy bank officer A report of condition of tha Douglas County State Bank for 1954 showed total assets of $22, 844,000. Loans totaled: 110,971,000. A gain of-more than 14,000,000 was. evidenced in deposits, tha re port showed. The total 1954 figure of $21,713,000 was an increase of S4,500,000.v . At an -annual meeting of stock holders of the. bank, held recently C. M. Howard was named to the office of vice-president. Other of ficers apd directors- remain tha same.'i ! Howard is: manage of. the Suth- enm ;orancnpf;th,e;bank,:' Areas Assured t Of Improvement To Old Highways PORTLAND M The Slat Highway Commission assured de1 egations from The Dalles, Salem and Medford Wednesday that con sideration Is being given their hopes for road improvements- in their areas. A delegation from the Salem North Santiam area asked (or im provement o( the North Santiam Highway. William Hammond, Sa lem, spokesman for the group, said a narrow Salem-Mehama section was particularly troublesome. Commissioners said plans now are being made to correct this, Similar svmnathv wss o;,- ti, Dalles "roup, which asltl a otr i from The Dalles tn anni-i su. r 1 1 n-.t r--.... ,c u-wK-s-awnia Highway. about 11 miles from town. They said this would eliminate a dangerous slre.ch of i;;rl. and shorten the route by five miles. The .Urdrord group asked im provement of the Flounce Rock section of the Crater Lake Hioh. way, improvement o( the Diamond Lithe noaa to malra. nni.ikl.. .u. hauling Of timhnr anrl nn.l....:n. of a new route to Klamath Falls through Facie Pnini u.nt Soda Springs and '.Lakts-Af-th!' Th j .. L.Jh! said all are 'unuor consideration. They also am mere would be no objection to private construction nf th end Sprinss-Flsh Lake section as some persons had believed. Commissioners told Lincoln Pfeifcr, Salem, director of the Oregon Stale Employes Assn., that Uiey would approve payroll deduc tions for group insurance and med ical coverage. They said, however, that they would not make the withholdings If the emplove were required to belong (o the OSEA in order to get medical coverage. United Air Lines Grounds Convairs For Checkups CHICAGO tl -a. United Air Lines said Thursday that "as a 'pie cautionary measure," it is "tem porarily" cancelling flights of i's 54 twin engine, 44-passenger Con vair airliners "until a mechanical inspection is made." W. A. Patterson, UAL president, who made the announcement, said meanwhile tha company's four-engine fleet, which represents 85 pe cent of UAIs total operations, will continue without interruption. The suspension of Convair flights followed a safe emergency land ing made Wednesday by one of United's Convair 340s. without In jury to any of Its .i1! passenger, and three crew members, on a field 37 miles west of Des Moines. 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