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Its Professions,
Minister Warns
Ex-Oregonian Figuratively
Floored By Rumor He Will
Get McKay's Interior Post
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Nw-Rvi.w Corraipondant
WASHINGTON Nothing moves
so fast through the bureaucracy
of Washington as a new political
rumor. And where they come from
is almost always a mystery, espe
cially to the persons involved.
Take Ervin L. Peterson for ex
ample. The auiet. industrious for
mer state director of agriculture
for Oregon, has-been working for
many months as assistant secre
tary of agriculture, one of Ezra
Taft Benson's too administrators
in the sprawling Department of
Agriculture,
Then this reporter spoiled it all
by telephoning Mr. Peterson and
saying. "I hear reports that you
are being considered as Doug Ale
Kay's successor in the cabinet."
There followed a pause inter
rupted only by the clatter of Mr.
Peterson picking himself up off the
floor and getting a firmer grip on
the telephone.
"What did vou sav?"
The reporter repeated the infor
mation, explaining tnat it came
from two widely scattered sources
in the west. ,
"Well, this is amazing to me,
said the flabbergasted assistant
secretary of agriculture, who ap
parently had no dreams of becom
ing 'secretary of the Interior.
After an exchange in which it
was agreed that neither put much
stock in the reports, inasmuch as
they were news to Peterson, the
.two went their separate ways
but both Mr. Peterson and the re
porter kept bumping into the ru
mor. Before a week had elapsed, the
report had spread to a top Interior
official and to various members
of the press corps. Reporters be
gan banging on the Oregon man's
office door to see wnat tncy couia
learn. And all were as mystified
as Peterson about the origin and
the validity of the report, if not
amazed at the speed of its travel,
Plaint, Promises Poetry
During the recent Senate hear
ings on the boxcar shortage, a
bit of doggerel was used by Leon
ard Netzorg, counsel for Western
Forest Industries Association, to
illustrate the plight of western
Oregon shippers. Jt went like this:
A poor old man with trembling
limbs and stooped decrepit
form
Stood on a weather beaten dock
and faced a wintry storm.
He minded not the icy winds that
fanned his snow white beard
But holding high a telescope
straight down the track he
peered.
The scene about the place he
stood was one of desolation
But patiently he took his stand,
for such was his occupation.
Off to the right there stood a
mill, the roof had blown away
And where they once had piled the
lath now grew a crop of hay.
(The verse continues for many
lines describing the tumbled
down scene, with 1 1 m b e r
wolves living in the stable and
Deavers in the log pond.)
The poor man with his tottering
frame through the tall grass
trudged one day
And he'd take his place with tele
scope and he'd only look one
way.
He would look 'way off toward
the sunkist South and his face
was filled with sorrow.
And the only thing that he would
say was, "they promised me
some tomorrow."
A stranger passing by one day
inquired of a native son.
'Who is that man who sits over
there with the antique vision
gun?"
"My friend," the native answer
ed as he wiped away the tears,
'You shouldn't speak of him that
way, for he's been there fifty
years.
"Why that man's story to us out
here is as common as the stars.
He's a western Oregon lumber
man looking for S.P. cars."
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Woman Wins Entire
Horse Racing Pool
AGUA CALEITNTE, Mexico Wl
A woman who won $11,180.80
on a $2 horse racing bet this week
said: "It was pure luck."
Mrs. G. W. Wintcrschcidt. wife
of a Palm City. Calif., Navy ci
vilian employe, said she picked
five horse to win in six races just
by their names and without other
information about them.
She held the only winning ticket
on the 5-10 pool, which pays off
to the bettor or bettors picking
the most winners in the fifth
through tenth races. She collected
the cnliro pool, less the track's
ten per cent.
TOPS IN QUALITY!
LOW IN PRICE
By LEIF ERICKSON
SAN FRANCISCO ( Until
American brotherhood practices
measure up to professions, the
United States "can never win and
hold the confidence of the peoples
of the world," a Negro minister
told the National Congress of Par
ents and teachers.
The Rev. Archibald J. Carey Jr.
of Chicago, addressing a vesper
service before 3.000 delegates
opened the 60th annual national
PTA convention said:
"The business of brotherhood,
has become the very sinews of
American defense."
The Rev. Mr. Care, minister
of Quinn Chanel and vice chair
man of President hlsenhower s
Committee on Government Em
ployment Policy, said the 24
months since the U.S. Supreme
court decision against race seere
gallon in public schools has wit
nessed "the death struggle of an
older order and the birth pains of
a new order.
He said Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Harry S. Truman "had set
fast pace."
But President Eisenhower has
gone the farthest of all. He him
self has set a shining example of
his belief that there shall be no sec
ond-class citizens in the United
States," he declared.
He said his "minority race1
would be "persistent but patient,
insistent but intelligent, firm with
out being furious, and willing to
become better without becoming
bitter."
More Support Urgad
Dr. Paul J. Misner of Glencoe,
111., president of the American
Assn. of School Administrators.
told the convention's first general
session that last year's White
House conference on education
had suggested that final support
of public schools must be doubled
in the next 10 years.
"We simply know that the finan
cial support of schools will not be
doubled within the framework of
existing school tax structures,"
said Misner, Glencoe superintend
ent of schools.
"If adequate financial support
of schools is to be achieved, new
sources of revenue and improved
methods of taxation must be cre
ated," he said.
STUDY AUTHORIZED
WASHINGTON Wl - The Senate
Monday passed and sent to the
House a bill authorizing a $5,000
study of ways to eliminate the
hazard of an open irrigation canal
which flows through Klamath
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Portland School Board
Votes Salary Increase
PORTLAND un The Portland
school board Monday night grant
ed higher salaries to top admin
istrative officials of the school
district. The raises followed pas
sage of a new school district tax
base which allowed higher salar
ies for teachers and principals.
Supt. J. W. Edwards was given
a $3,000 raise from $18,000 to $21,-
000 a year. The - four assistant
superintendents and district busi
ness manager were raised from
$11,000 to $13,000.
The new teacher pay scales pro
vide a top scale of $6,200 for
teachers holding bachelor's de
grees and with 14 years experi
ence, and $6,600 for teachers with
master's degrees. The old scale
I in the canal in the past 38 years.
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school principals was boosted to
a maximum of $10,500, and $9,000
for elementary school principals.
Higher Retail Coffee
Prices Reported Brewing
NEW YORK l Higher retail
eolfee prices are brewing.
Producers of maior brands in
creased their wholesale prices as
mncn as 4 cents a pound this
week.
Soon after, a spokesman for sev
eral of the big supermarket chains
said the increases are certain to
be passed on to retail consumers.
He said it may take 10 to 14 days,
however.
General Foods Corp. started the
new round of price boosts, lifting
the wholesale price of Us Maxwell
House vacuum - packed coffee 2
cents a pound to 99 cents. This al
most wiped out a price cut of 3
cents a pound made last March.
Other processors of "brand
name" coffees were quick to fol
low. Two of them S. A. Schon-
brunn & Co. (distributors of Sav
arin coffee) and Old Dutch Coffee
Co. raised their prices 4 cents
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geiger counter is the latest development in this atomic age.
Inventor R.'A. Gould sports one, above, on his lapel. Gould
says that the "atom-age boutonniere," as well as the one he
holds in his hand, could be made by any schoolboy at a cost of
not much more than two dollars. Both devices were displayed
at the annual exhibition of the Physical Society In the Royal
Horticultural Hall in London.
H 0 M E ; O F SWEETS This six-foot sugar replica of
a, paroda was a display at 2nd annual confectionary exhibition
in Tokyo. Exhibits were later liven to children's homes.
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embryos of 51 cobras at the New York Bronx Zoo. All but
five were taken to an Incubator. Mom cobra will hatch the five.
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Decision On TV
Affects Storer
Plans In Oregon
WASHINGTON I The Su
preme Court this week upheld a
Federal Communications Com
mission rule limiting the number
of television and radio stations
owned by one concern.
This had an immediate appli
cation in Oregon where the Storer
Broadcasting Co. had sought to
have Salem's channel 3 permit
transferred to Portland in substi
tution for Storer's station KPTV
channel 27.
This move was made after the
litigation was started, however.
The court, in addition to up
holding the FCC's right to limit
the number of stations owned by
one concern, said such owners
who apply for a new station must
be given an, FCC hearing if they
can make out' a good case for
waiver of the rule.
The Supreme Court added that
the commission need not "waste
time" on applications that do not
state a valid reason for a hearing.
If an applicant is aggrieved by
a refusal, the court said, he may
obtain a judicial review.
Previous Applications Cited
The FCC in a brief filed with
the Supreme Court said Storer at
the time of the application had
TV stations in Atlantic, Birming
ham, Detroit, San Anontio and
Toledo. The brief said Storer also
had 12 AM and FM radio stations
in Atlanta, Birmingham, Detroit,
Miami, San Antonio, Toledo and
Wheeling, W. Va.
While the case was pending in
the Court of Appeals, the FCC
changed its rules to permit acqui
sition of two additional TV stations
if they were in the ultra high
frequency band. This made pos
sible ownership of seven TV
stations, only five of which may
be in the very high frequency
band. After this change the FCC
granted Storer ultra high fre
quency channels in Miami and
Portland, Ore.
Storer now wishes to transfer
the Portland UHF station into the
VHF range by using channel 3,
which is assigned to Salem. Port
land VHF stations said thev
would oppose this.
Money For Woodlot
Owners Seen In Plan
WASHINGTON lr-The nation's
farm woodlot owners, Sen. Neu-
Derger (u-ore) said this week
would benefit substantially from
a proposed government price re
porting service for timber prod
ucts.
Such a service would be pro
vided in a provision of the Senate
approved farm bill.
"Farmers and small timber
operators have been forced to sell
their timber in the dark," Neu
berger said. "A federal reporting
service will be of immense bene
fit to the little lumberman and to
the farmer who markets timber."
Thornton Makes Ruling
On Pre-Sentence Reports
SALEM Wl Atty. Gen. Robert
Y. Thornton ruled Tuesday that it
is 'proper for courts to consider
pre-sentence reports before pass
ing sentence. Such reports are
prepared by the state Parole
Board.
He said, however, that such re
ports can be used only when the
defendant consents. The defend
ants must have a chance to ex
amine the reports and to make
statements in court about their
contents.
4 Of 10 Children
Do Not Take Part
In Group Projects
SAN FRANCISCO I More
than four out of 10 school children
choose not to participate with
their fellows in group fun or proj
ects. Out of the withdrawn and
lonely 40 per cent, said director
Hcman G. Stark of the California
Youth Authority, come most of
the candidates for juvenile correc
tional institutions.
Three thousand delegates to the
60th National Congress of Parents
and Teachers closely listened
this week as Stark and six other
panel experts probed the causes
of problem children.
Stark said his experience
showed that the key problem in
delinquency and juvenile offend
ing was that "some one has to
care enough, for the child in
volved, to do something."
The direction for the real ef
fort, Stark said, lies in better
schools, better homes and better
recreation not in more parole
officers and more correctional in
stitutions.
The Congress of Parents and
Teachers, he said, is an organ
ization "of the people who care
most."
George Hjelte, general manager
of the Los Angeles Department
of Recreation and Paries, said
"handicapped communities" help
produce problem children.
Minnie Mangum
Confesses Theft
NORFOLK. Va. tfl A bright
young girl who knew what book
keeping was alt about may have
been the downfall of Minnie Man
gum, the million-dollar embezzler.
The 52-year-old spinster with
the kind heart pleaded guilty this
week to taking $1,082,868 from
the Commonwealth Building and
Loan Assn. of Norfolk over a 22
year period.
As assistant secretary-treasurer
Miss Minnie handled the books and
liked to hire girls who knew "her
system" of card accounting.
Last September she hired Mrs.
Robert G. Cannon, wife of a sail
or stationed at the big naval base
here. Mrs. Cannon, 21, had worked
at a building and loan firm back
in her home town of Waukegan,
111.
From the start, she didn't like
the way Miss Minnie handled the
accounting system.
One day in November, while a
group of state auditors were in
the office, the two women quar
reled over a missing account card
and Mrs. Cannon called Miss Min
nie a liar' for saying she didn't
know about the card.
Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Can
non was out of a job. But she told
the auditors all she Knew.
Portland Council
Votes Increase
In Employes Pay
PORTLAND I The Portland
City Council voted 3-2 this week to
increase salaries for some admin
istrative employes by as much at
$2,000 year.
Earlier the council approved
pay increases of $10 to $20 a
month for all city employes. Vot
ers in last Friday's election
turned down a tax levy which
would have given city workers a
larger pay increase.
The new administrator sched
ule calls for salaries for the city
attorney, health officer and city
engineer to go up from the pres
ent $9,600 to $12,500 per year;
chief of police and fire chief,
$9,600 to $12,000; water engineer
and parks superintendent, $8,460
to $10,000; traffic engineer, $9,360
to $10,000; municipal judges, $8,
640 to $9,600.
Mondays vote was a prelimin
ary action. Hearings and a formal
council vote still are to be held on
the increase.
Course Recorder
Error Is Blamed
For Ships Crash
SAN FRANCISCO Wt Crew-'
men from the freighter Marine
Leopard told a Coast Guard in
quiry this week it was "very pos
sible" the ship's course recorder
was in error and that the captain
on' 1 several course changes
jus i:fore the Leopard cut the
Iumb -r schooner Howard Olson in
two May 14.
Four Leopard crewmen were
witnesses Monday. The collision
off Point Sur cost four lives and
sank the Olson.
Second Mate Joseph W. O'Shan
sky said he "may have made a
mistake" when he set the ship's
course recorder, which keeps a
record of times and directions of
course, changes. The recorder was
set the day before the crash.
"I might have set it wrong,"
said O'Shansky. "That's very pos
sible." James Walter Mossman, helms
man for 20 minutes before the
crash, said Leopard Capt. Frank
A. Snow several times changed
his course a few degrees, finally
calling for a "hard right."
CROUP FORMED
A Camp Fire Girls Group has
been formed in Roseburg under
the leadership of Mrs. Fred Scher
ner and assistant, Patsy Schemer.
Pat Dodge was elected president
of the group with Carol Fray as
vice president, Nancy Voeller, secretary-treasurer,
and Pat Eilege,
scribe, all junior high students.
A cookout is planned for Thursday.
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