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' The League' of Oregon Cities is reported to be urging
studies into the effect upon municipalities of by-pass high
ways. The league is said to be interested in whether the
current trend toward removing through highways from the
center of towns has either beneficial or detrimental effect
upon local economy. ,
The league, it is stated, is asking the legislative in
terim committee on highways to engage the School of
Business Administration at the University of Oregon to
make the survey. Discussion of the matter at the league's
recent meeting, brought forth statements that economy of
by-passed cities generally has been improved, but that
some influence is found in the matter of providing favor
able access.
. Where access is proper and convenient, traffic is more
apt' to turn off the highway to seek desired facilities than
where access is more or less difficult.,
There is no question that the matter of convenience is
essential to best utilization of highway economy. A sim
ple example is to be found in Roseburg's recent reversal
of its one-way grid in the downtown district. Since the pat
tern was reversed only a few weeks ago, a noticeable in
crease has been observed by businesses catering to tour
ists. The number of tourists seeking information at the
office of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce has increased
enormously.
Roseburg's original pattern was set up to get cars out
of town. The new pattern makes ingress more favorable
but .is complicating exit.
Bridge Will Be Needed
In the matter of access to and from the new highway
by-passing Roseburg, the) city is in a most favorable situa
tion, provided a replacement is obtained for the Oak Street
bridge. The bottleneck now existing at the Oak Street
crossing of the river will prove a handicap in getting traf
fic on and off the highway, it doubtless will discourage
many tourists. But if and when a new bridge is built,
giving a short and direct route to the city center, and with
capacity to handle a larger volume of traffic, Roseburg
doubtless will benefit in many ways.
The trend all over the nation is to move trunk high
ways away from cities. Studies show approximately 80 per
cent of the traffic load to be local in origination. Thus, of
the cars moving on the highway near Roseburg, approxi
mately 20 per cent came from a distance, while about 80
per cent had their start or termination at some point with
in 25 or 30 miles of the city center.
By removing part of the local traffic load from main
arteries, through traffic can be speeded. This is especial
ly important and economical with respect to commercial
traffic. Farm trucks, freight trucks, tankers, moving
vans, Jog trucks, delivery trucks, passenger buses and
other such vehicles, playing an important part in general
economy, are operated more economically and with great
er safety on limited access highways.
Small Towns Affected
The study, if it is made, should be extended into the
small communities, rather than being confined exclusively
to the larger centers. It is my belief that by-pass high
ways will prove of great economic benefit to the larger
towns, already seriously congested with traffic. But will
the change help or hurt small towns? There is room for
argument and only experience will supply the answer.
Here in Douglas County I am worried about one angle.
Our small towns may be hurt from the standpoint of trans
portation. The loss of the Nighlcrawler takes one form of trans
portation away from most of our towns, "it's no great loss,
lor no. one used the service ( ?) anyway. That isn't say
ing they wouldn't use daylight trains or, more especially,
diesel coaches.
But many of these towns also are being by-passed by
the highway. It is to be expected that bus schedules will
be changed. Buses doubtless will speed up their time by
putting on additional schedules with limited stops, while
eliminating some local services. Thus towns such as
Drain, Yoncalla, Oakland, Sutherlin, Kiddle and Glendale,
will be deprived of much of the public transportation rail
and highway they now have available.
Of course, if these beautiful spots develop into the
ghost towns some of our pessimists are predicting, they
won't stay that way long. So many of us, seeking to es
cape the congestions and headaches of larger cities, will
be moving in to enjoy prospects of peace and serenity that
all our ghost towns will be booming.
(J2mce (SioiSal
The bigness of the big is one of
America's recurrent worries. In ;
politics the words "big business"
and "monopoly
of luting on
Considerable
the nature
corporations in
tune Magazine. Ihc new la.-ts
should have a calming edeel on
those who see business boogiemon
in their nightmares.
Fortune found that the big were
(.iants, ail right. About 500 U.S.
corporations produ.n one-fourth of
the free world's Industrial output.
This is half of tho iotal output of
the United States.
Bui, surprisingly, It Isn t any
tiling new. since laua, uiu snr ut
all. industrial assets sccounteJ fcr
hv he 100 largest industrial cor-
porauons ha, been just about a
constant 25 per cent.
Nor is the situa ion slultCying,
as dose who wag their fingrs in
warning would have us beiicve.
"Since 1939." comments hor-
nave llic potency year. General Motors was tops I "i ' V ''," .'.'. '. '"'" I""- h.rm., 1 ,' '" " " ' " ' 7"" ' I reckon he'll GROW OUT OF
an aching tooth. with about 10 billion. Standard Oil ''.''. '.re, .u just as our East coast will
s light is thrown on ' l N.J.) had over five billion in 1, confirmed that t h e . r;"m.,rnn . , I grow out of the hurricane season
of America s b i g sales. U.S. Steel was third with ; fwm ,llll.n." .Bff. " 'Je. 'I'0 "J ,",p0! n' com. October or NOTemher
n . t,rU in Vn.-. . mnr il,, ik. k.n, I nc.nen ny iTcsuicnt r lsenhower in " hi "e anic hi report m-
lune, "the number of mining and
manufacturing companies has in
creased from about 240.000 to 360,
000, or by 50 per cent."
The conclusion is that the site
oi Hie Big 500 is no threat to com
petitiveness if the business birth
rate and population statistics
mean anything.
Ore. Sat., Aug. 13, 1955
Mall Par Jaar. Slt.M: alx aaanlba, IS.M;
Br Mall rar Har, III.MI als mamai,
lll.oa (la ajaaaoa), laaa tbaa ana faf,
There were found to be 21 firms
in the 500 which each did more
than a billion dollars in sales last
There has been a sneaking sus
picion in some circles that when
big business gets bigger It can
not escape a destiny of servioo
l.-lther than nrnfila .Otnviito m-in. I
es and manufacturing costs to tho
liono to increase sales could not !
lead elsewhere.
The new study tends to confirm
this. Big sales were no guarantee
of profits. One firm, filth in total
,saies, was swih in net prolits. An-
other, 37th in sales, was 354th in i
proms. All the list was simi arlv
"
Ily another measurement the
Ifuures were even more reassur-
;ing to the public. When proli's
acre considered on the basis ( i
the biggest were far from top 'per' I
ioi mers.
Considcrrd this wav. General
Motors was in 81st position and
me other biggies were similarly j
omranKca by smaller firms.
The 21 corporations which too-
ped I billion in annual sale aver-
aged I modest 7.5 per cent net)
"Now
Competition Said Needed
To Force S.P. To Supply
Sufficient Shipping Cars
SALEM tft The boxcar short
age on Southern Pacific Railroad
lines in Oregon can t be solved un
til the northern lines are allowed
lo enmpele with the S. P., Clifford
W. Ferguson, state director of rail
transportation, reported here.
In a report for the governor's
emergency transportation commit
tee. Ferguson hinted that the com
mittee or the public utilities com
missioner might bring an action
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission to bring about such
competition.
Ferguson said that the S. P.
won't supply enough freight cars
at points i where it doesn t have
competition with other railroads.
But, he added, the S. P. has
plenty of ears available at points
where it does have competition.
Ferguson said competition could
be brought about by either of two
ways: letting the northern lines
run their trams over S. P. tracks.
or letting shippers on S. P. routes
order cars from the northern lines.
The northern lines are the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific, union
Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwau
kee. St. Paul & Pacific.
Ferguson's reports contained
findings of investigators whom he
sent lo Washington stale, which is
served by the four northern lines:
and to Northern California, served
by the S. P., Western Pacific, and
Great Northern.
Ferguson said that In Northern
California, the Southern Pacific
has violated its agreement to sup
ply SO per cent of the cars ordered
by shippers. The road, he said, is
supplying 100 per cent of orders
in that area, and. letting Oregon
snippers sutler.
In Washington, he said, the rail
roads have plenty of cars.
"Car shortages in Western Ore
gon exist solely by reason of a
virtual rait monopoly of this great
lumber region hv the Southern Pa
cific Railroad," Ferguson reported.
"The only remedy," he contin
ued, "that will effect a permanent
solution is one which will insure
competitive rail transportation
service in all parts of Western Ore
gon. "There must be some arrange
ments made whereby the northern
lines can supply empty cars to the
Western Oregon area and in turn
be rewarded with long-haul traffic
in return." .
Stevenson Makes
Agreement With
Averell Harriman
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO OP. Adlai E. Steven
son and Gov. Averell Harriman
of New York apparently have
informal working
-;reemcnt aimed at bringing one
t9.2, has come to an understand
ing with Harriman under which
Stevenson will get first crack.
These associates said, however.
that if it becomes apparent at any
Ip11"1 in the 12 months that
" V " uniineiy 10 mane me
grade, he could be expected to
;;1u'.mp! sm" nis sirengtn quick
' ! ly to Harriman.
Together Stevenson
nd. "ftf- !
, , , ,
n""t Peiful voting blocs in next
'''"' vUi..rv.. mm
'7hr,W
V,"'"';.. .... ,arJ, "?PLl !
!'"nin P"V ranks. There is
"mf """ever, mat he could
sufficient votes to win the
nomination without New York's 94
'" "" hal0,ms
omfita on these sales. This com-
pares with 6 per cent for all 5(10 !
as a group and 4 8 per rent for
all manufacturing and mining con-
.cerns. Some of the list of individual
smaller companies picked off up
to 38 per cent.
More Than Ever, Uncle!"
In another report, Ferguson ac
cused the Southern Pacific of vio
lating a PUC order that all lumber
shippers be given a fixed quota of
cars. Tho violation, he said, was
that the railroad gave shippers in
the Lebanon area more than their
quotas, at the expense of shippers
in other areas.
The Southern Pacific competes
at Lebanon with the Spokane,
Portland & Seattle Railway. At the
other points, it has a monopoly.
Ferguson said his investigators
in Washington and Northern Cali
fornia contacted many lumber
shippers.
Governors Urge
p f i t
LXpanded rederal
Highway Progam
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO I The nation's gov
ernors called today for a "greatly
expanded federal-state" highway
program In line with the "objec
tives" of President Eisenhower's
proposal to Congress.
In a resolution aporoved unani
mously at the wind-ub business
session of their 47th annual con-1
lerenoe. the governors urged th-t
congress make "far more" of i
automotive excise taxes available and swirls around in circles just
for road appropriations than the I as does the water in the whirl
present S75 million dollar annual pool in your bathtub.
u.. conirimit'on.
But they did not express anv
opinion about proposed increases
taxes which now vicld ahout
2 W hillion dollars a vear.
At the insistence of Gov. Averell
Harriman of New York, the gov-i
ernors struck out of a resolution
prenarco ny ineir resolutions com-
mittee describing Eisenhower's
bond-financed road building as be
ing "bold and imaginative."
l.ov. Arthur B. Langlie of Wash-
ington. a Ronuhtican and a siinnit
political supporter of President
Kisenhower. was chosen new I
chairman of the Governors Con
ference
Highway Dept.
To Develop Park
On Deschutes
PORTLAND t.ft A 150 - aero
state park will be developed at the
mouth of the Deschutes River, the
State Highway Commission decided
here.
chase of the land there after Slate !
Parks Supt. C. II. Armstrong re-
ported the site would become
good marine park when a lake is
lormed nenind The Dalles Dam
J"mv under construction. The park
he dcveloned.
nas acquired options on some nl
13 tracts of, land he is Irving In
acquire for 'park purposes in the
Columbia Gorge. The commission
has budgeted $50,000 for the pur
pose. Exiled Cuban Rerurns
Home; Gets Ovation
HAVANA.
Cuba '. Back fom
three vears of political exile for
,mer p,.esl(1(.m Krlos Prio So'ar-
ir .r,t)i rf , .,
'""iishing of his palatial country
estate. ;
I no was booted out in the 1952 I
mt'll!"rynco"p which "'"'ned Kul-1
gencio Batista to power. He a-- t
rived by plane Thursday nicht -
ifrom Miami and Was Pr.nln k. 1
several thousand imrtr. ik i
airport.
Aiinougn repeatedly accused of
plotting against Batista's regime, i
Prio was nermitted tn return
ider a political amnesty which went
into effect last May. I
i
!n The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
the area known as The Doldrums.
The Doldrums ai-p located lo the
northeastward of South America
and almost due east of the Ba
hama islands which lie to the
southeast of Florida.
Here they grow up (very quick-
ay) and migrate to the east coast
of the United States. The United I Clements' successor at head of
States has become finicky about the Senate campaign group will be
immigrants, but no laws have yet named by Democratic leader Lyn
been devised that will keep out don B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson,
inese rough and lough and alto-
gcther undesirable cbaracters.
In their migrations, they're as
regular as the migrating birds.
They begin lo move In on our East
coast along in August. When Annie
I or Abbie begins to kick up a dis
turbance in the offing, we say:
I "Heck! Fall's coming again."
I Annie and Betty and Connie and
Diane belong to the hurricane
i "
tribe. If you want to know what
a hurricane is like, fill yourbath-
II
tub with water. Then null the
plug and watch. As the surface of
the outgoing water nears the out
let of the tub a whirlpool will
form over the hole. The whirlpool
is caused by the water that is
rushing to get out. In its haste
some of the water misses the tar
get and swings around in a con
centric circle to hit the hole and
get out.
If you can imagine a whirlpool.
lurneo upsioe flown, you will have
a perfect picture of a hurricane.
In the case of a hurricane hot
at the bottom forces a hole
In a hurricane, the wind serms
jlo be blowing, straight, but in real-
lty it is going around and around
what is known as the hurricane's
eye, which is a calm soot in
the middle, iust like the hnl in
'the water in your "bathtub whirl-
pool.
Incidentally, the "eve" of Hi, r.
ricane Connie is said as this is
written to be slowlv approaching I
the Carolina coast anH ..... i
ly expected tn reaoh th. i
line in the general neighborhood
of 10 o'clock tonight. Eastern dav-I
light time.
Let's close this piece with a
tragic incident that is not too un
common in the earlv teens. It
concerns 14-year-old Alfred Green,
of Livingston. New Jersey. He lost
his girl. All he knows is' that her
name is Mary and she's 12, and
has red hair.
He met her at an amusement
park last week and was smitten
hut when they parted he forgot
to ask her last name and her ad
dress and phone number He a
so far gone about it that he's run-
;,hih mPeture and has
L'.' l;'PP.?t"e f"Pletely. So
, - , iicijj lo
cate her. and the old .-ioftiea
are giving him all the help they
can. But no luck, so far.
General Electric Co.
CranM Wage Increase
NEW YORK i.fi The CIO In
ternational Union of Electrical
Workers won wage increases from
the General Electric Co. in an
agreement for a new five-v ear
contract this week, hut not the
guaranteed annual wage the union
sought.
The contract agreement, subject
. ..; u" t: ... 1
for supple-
mentarv navdurina neriod. of
unemployment.
There is a clause, howev-
er. which permits reopeneing otseph Project. Wash. To start
the contract in 195g for a 30-dav
review of "unemployment secur-
i,..' m.llBP
i .,. j....;ki
reopening clause as a measure of
success for the union on the guar-
intrni annual wan iue He said
,.... ;.A....inn.' u-iit i . . l ,, a .
"lavoffa and what should be done
about them."
Government Shuts
Off Federal Help
For Expansions
WASHINGTON I The govern
ment has temporarily shut off
federal help on more than six bil
lion dollars worth of proposed in
dustrial plant expansion. The ac
tion was taken pending a review
of defense necessity of the ex
pansion program.
Mobilization Director Arthur S.
Flemming ordered a shutdown on
special tax benefits for new plants
and equipment in 19 industries and
a "suspension" of action in 38
other industries.
The latter group includes tre
mendous proposed investment pro
grams in the electric power, steel,
railroad, oil, aluminum, aircraft
and chemical industries.
The review will require "a
month or more," defense mobiliza
tion officials predicted. When it is
completed, many of the expansion
objectives may be reduced and
some may be closed out entirely.
Th. ai-iinn ia rvmx-terf lo mil
damper on the investment boomcould do them no harm and the
and thus indirectly support the ad -
ministration's attempt' to clamp
down on any threatened inflation.
Flemming acted at a time when
924 applications for the rapid write
off were pending, covering an esti
mated $9,300,000,000 in plant and
equipment expansion.
Senators Gore, '
Symington May
Replace Clements
WASHINGTON tjf Sens. Gore
(Tenn) and Symington (Mo) were
said by associates recently to be
under consideration to -replace Sen.
Clements (Ky) as chairman of the
Democratic Senate campaign com
mittee. The committee probably will be
reorganized soon. The custom is
that senators do not serve on the
group in the year in which they
are up for re-election.
Clements, up for re-election in
1956, appears to face a batik-. He
campaigned hard against A. B.
(Happy) Chandler in the bitter
Kentucky governorship primary
decided last Saturday. Chandler,
! former governor and senator who
defeated the Clements-backed can
didate. Bert T. Combs, has said
he will try to prevent Clements
from returning to Washington next
year,
now convalescing irom a neari ai-
tack, has made no announcement
of his intentions.
But several Democratic sources
who asked not to be named said
Gore and Symington, who have
served on the committee under
Clements, are good possibilities for
the post. They suggested as other
possibilities Sens. Kerr (Okla).
O'Mahoney (Wyo) and Mansfield
(Mont).
Republican senators reorganized
their comparable group some time
ago. Sen. Dirk sen (111) who is run
ning next year, relinquished the
chairmanship to Sen. Goldwater
(Ariz).
Anti-Reds Vow
To Win Election
In San Marino
SAN MARINO W The antl-
Comnunisls charged this wcca
that the Reds are going to vote
living men twice and dead men
once in the election of a new leg
islature Sunday in San Marino,
the world's smallest and oldest re
public. At stake in the balloting will be
control of the 32-square-mile nation
on a mountaintop overlooking the
Adriatic and surrounded by Italy.
The Communists and their Social
ist allies have run the 1.600-vear-
old reDiiblic since the war and for
the past four vears with a two-
vole ""Jof'tv "le 60-mcmber
legislature called the Grand Coun-
cil.
With onlv the men of San Ma-
rino's 14,000 population eligible, a:
hundred votes could tip the
scales. The anti-Communist front
led by the Christian Democrats
complained that the Red alliance
Is trying to keep its majority by
taxing tne voters list.
The Reds customarily send
scouts abroad to offer free bus or
train tickets for San Marino work
ers in Italy, France or Belgium
to come home from their jobs
and vole.
This year the anti-Communists park property. The- aliapel will be
are rushing home eligible voters ! available to all faiths. It will have
who live in the United States but three altars one each for Protest
have not yet become American cit-jant, Jewish and Catholic services
iiens. Sixty-nine of these, recruited mounted on hydraulic lifts. By
from New York City, Detroit and! raising the altar needed, the chap
Sandusky, Ohio, were due in Mi-i el can be prepared in a matter
lan Thursday aboard a special of minutes for a particular faith
plane.
Interior Dept.
Lists Funds Set
For Reclamation
WASHINGTON im The Inter
ior Department announced this
week that money has been set
aside to begin construction of 10
new neclamation projects or units
of projects.
Thev include:
Michaud Flats. Idaho To pump
water out of the Snake River at
American Falls to serve 11.550
acres. Total estimated cost. $4 -831.000;
available this year, $520,
000. North Unit. Deschutes Project,
I nr. t k..:u .
mg rMervoir on the main canaL
! Total estimated cost sifinflftnn-
I available this year J25O.0O0.
Foster Creek Division. Chief Jo-
work on pumping plant and distri
hution system to serve 3.647 acres.
Total estimated cost U. 4)6,000;
available this. vear. $631,000.
Rait Division. Yakima Project.
Wash. To start work on th
11.250-kilowatt capacity power
plant on the Rora Canal. Total
estimated cost, $3,034,000; avail
able this year (300,000.
Witness Says Officers
Made Monkey Of Blanchard
FT. LEWIS, Wash, i A de-1 was under duress, brought about
fense witness for Lt. Jefferson D. by starvation, sickness and deaths
Brwin testified at his court martial of fellow prisoners daily, Wise
here that his senior officers in said.
their prison camp "made a suck-1 The Chinese had unquestion
ed' out of the Blanchard, Okla. ably set out on a calculated
career soldier. i program to starve us into submis-
The witness was Col. Robert H. 'sion to force us to come over to
Wise, Tacoma, who was also a their way of thinking to their
prisoner of war in Germany in ideologies" he testified.
World War II. Erwin is charged i
with making pro-Communist state- j. a-a I I J
ments and aiding the enemy while InulQII I inibCNflnd
a prisoner in Korea. assaaeva aaeaaaai
their Chinese captors, Colonel
Wise testified, were determined to
have three prisoners elected to a
so-called peace committee, which
was subsequently used for propa
ganda purposes.
The American officer-prisoners,
Wise continued, decided prior to
the election who would be named
and Erwin was one of them-
"It was a matter of determining
who were to be the likely suckers,'
Wise told the Army nine-member
i board. "They decided on men who
,nlnB no s"!
'Lieutenant Erwin happened
to be the junior of the whole bloom
ing shooting match, so naturally he
was going to get elected first."
Wise also said that he himself
headed a liaison committee at
Pyoctong which flatly rejected a
Chinese request that they promote
the Communist indoctrination pro
gram. As a result, he said, he
was punished by having to stand
at attention six hours in a hot sun.
Erwin, however, was not pun
ished, he said. But only Erwin
can answer why he went so far
in parroting the Communist line,
lie continued.
Everyone in the prison camp
Ex-Air Force
Captain Indicted
For Using Paper
WASHINGTON u The Justice
Department here has announced
the indictment and arrest of a for
mer Air Force captain and con
gressional investigator on charges
of misusing a classified Air Force
document.
The man Is Rea S. Van Fosson.
who resigned from the Air Force
last Nov. 23 and was hired the next
day as an S8,200-a-year investiga
tor for the House un-American
Activities Committee.
He left the committee last Jan
uary. ,
At the time of his employment
at the Caoitol. a committee source
sid Van Eosson's separation from
the Air Force was associated with
his delivery to the committee of a
secret document.
Van Fossen was arrested by U.
S. marshals at his Silver Spring,
Md., home. .
At the "same time a sealed indict
ment returned by a federal grand
jury here Wednesday was opened
in district court.
It charged the 36-year-old for
mer Air Force captain with .un
lawfully removing and "convert
ing to his own use" a classified
document from the files of the Air
Force office of special investiga
tions. In six other counts, the indict
ment charged Van Fosson with
making false statements to in
vestigators about this document.
The indictment itself disclosed
that the document related to Jay
Lovestone, general secretary of
the Communist party in the United
States 25 years ago, and now execu
tive secretary of the Free Trade
Union Committee of the AFL.
Million Dollar
Worship House
Seen For Canyon
CHICAGO im Plans for con
struction of a one million dollar
non-secretarian house of worship
I on the rim of the Grand Canyon
were announced ncentlv hv for-
mer Gov. Howard Pyle of Arizona,
Wol"k on 'he Shrine of Ages
Chapel in the National Park will
begin next year, Pyle said.
Now a special assistant to Pres
ident Eisenhower in Washingtn,
Pyle is chairman of a steering
committee for establishment of the
chapel which will be the first place
of worship in the Grand Canyon
1'ark area, for 21 years, he has
been a producer-writer for the an-
nual Easter sunrise services which
he founded in the park.
iNational Park service policy
prevents building of a church by
iany particular religious group on
service.
The shrine, designed by architect
Harcld E. Wagoner of Philadel
phia, will have no spire or tower.
It is described as hm-izonta1 'n
movement in form similar to that
of an Indian kiva, to blend with
park surroundings.
Aly Khan, Rita Square
Off For Legal Fight
RENO. Nev. i.fi Moslem Prince
Aly Khan and actress Rita Ha?
worth souared off for another '""il
fight this week as Aly sought to
have their daughter visit him m
rrance.
Through his attorney. AW filed ? ,n le!n posters mis week
a motion in District "Court here in this capital of the disputed
Wednesday asking Judge A. J. Saarland.
Maestretti to order Rita .!o send ' Heinrich Schneider, chairman of
the 5-year-old Yasmln to France h,s Democratic Party (DPS),
for an 11-week visit 1 ''' suit Friday with the public
No date ha, been ,e. for a he,, K'MM J.n'ne",
.... . Hoffman was responsible.
Aly said be Is ready to post the1 The swastikas were stuck most
necessary $100,000 bond and in'W on posters of the three parties
other ways has tried to comply I which advocate a return of the
with terms of an agreement the (border territory to Germany. Some
couple reached last fall on details: placards of organisations favoring
of Yasmin's visits with her father, i autonomy under the Western Eu-
ropean Union were defaced.
COFFEE DAMAGED Schneider charged Erhard Lin-
BOGOTA. Colombia (Jn Heavy senmeier. Hoffman's son-in-law.
insect damage threatens to curtail with violating the Saar statute on
this year's Colombian coffee crop, I political activity prior to the Oct.
it was reported Thursday. '23 plebiscite.
Conspiracy, Fraud
Charged In Suits
PORTLAND 1 New charges
of Indian timberland conspiracies
and fraud were made by the gov
ernment in three suits . seeking a
total of $377,000 damages this
week in U. S. District Court here.
The suits name a group of de
fendants accused of illegally gain
ing title to 480 acres of timber on
Indian land in Com and Curry
counties in Southwest Oregon.
One suit named Clyde W. Flinn
and John C. Blanford, Fred M.
and Irene K. Marsh, and Myron
and Jane Doe McElwain. They
were accused of complicity in a
1950 transaction to obtain 160 acres
of timber rights in Coos County
at a fraction of market value.
Flinn, a former employe of the
Federal Indian Bureau here, and
Blanford were convicted ia 1953 of
conspiring to defraud two Indian
land owners in Curry County. The
defendants served terms in a fed
eral prison and were ordered to
pay 540,000 in fines.
Another of the new damage suits
named Flinn. Blanford, the Marsh
couple and Francis LaFrance, in
connection with a Curry County
land deal.
The third comnlaint listed as de
fendants Fred W. Newell, a son-in-law
of Marsh: Newell's wife;
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Clarence How
ard; H. W. Crook: G. H. Bettis
and Lawrence Payne. This suit in
volves a 160-acre tract in Curry
County.
The government, attempting to
avoid (he sales, contends the In
dian owners were not competent to
I handle the transactions. The suits
also seek restoration of the land to
its rightful owners and restitution
of any proceeds by the defendants.
Indicated Yield
Listed For Crops
Of Northwest
WASHINGTON t.r,-The indicated
yield per acre and nroduction, re
spectively, of imnortant crops in
Idaho, Oregon ard Washington as
forecast here bv the Agricul
ture Department included:
Winter wheat: Idaho. 27 bushels
ner acre and ?0.007,0O0; Oregon,
26.5 and 18.576.000: ?rd Washing
ton. 28.5 and 52.04t.OO0.
Soring wheat o'her lhan durum:
Idaho. 33 bushels ner acre and
14.124.000: Oregon. 25 and 3.17.V
0O0; and Washington, 21 and 3,360.
000. ;
Drv field neas: Idaho, 1.100
ooiinds per acre and production
346,000 hags of 100 pounds each;
Washington. SnO and 1,624,000
Hops: Idaho. 2.250 pounds per
acre and production of 3,600.000
Dounds; Oregon. 1.200 and 4,680.
000: and Washington, 1,660 and
21.5W.O0O.
Barley: Idaho. 33 bushels per
acre and production 18.843.000
bushels: Oregon, 31 and 18,104.000;
and Washington, 28 and 18.984,000.
Sugar beets: Idaho, 18.5 tons per
acre and production 1.4O6.O0O tons;
Oregon; 21.5 and 366,000; Washing,
ton, 22 and 660.000.
Apples (commercial): Washing
Ion, 31. 300,000 bushels; Oregon.
3,100,000.
Pears: Washington. 7,280,000
bushels; Oregon, 6,242,000.
Potatoes: Idaho. 298 bushels per
acre and nroduction of 49,225.000
bushels: Oregon, 320 and 13,440,
000: and Washington, 421 and 16.
410,000. Secretary Weeks
Claims Charges
Unfairly Made
, WASHINGTON m Secretary
of Commerce Weeks has charged
here that businessmen in gov
ernment and the entire free enter
prise r.ystem have become the tar
get of "a massive attack" by
"people whe don't believe what
this administration believes in."
The charge was fired by Weeks
at a news conference in which he
made a stout defense of business
generally, and specifically of busi
nessmen serving the government
in advisory roles.
Weeks' statement came less than
13 hours after Rep. Celler (D-NY),
chairman of the House antitrust
subcommittee, threatened whole,
sale issuance of subpoenas to gel
at records of the commerce secre
tary's Business Advisory Council
(BAD.
Celler said he wants to penetrate
what he called the "aura of secre
cy around the Commerce Depart
ment's Business Advisory Coun
cil." Nazi Swastikas Pasted
On Election Posters
SAARBRUECKEN ifl Hun
dreds of Nazi swastikas were past-