4 The) Statesman. SaUm. Oreaotv Tu day. January 1C 1947
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"No Fa dot Suays Us, No Fear Shall Awe".
Frees first SUtesmaa. March IS. Ilal
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. S PR AGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member ef the AsseeUtesl Frees
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ew paper.
Where Reorganization Is Needed
Our esteemed contemporary, the Portland Oregonian, sees
in the death of Tax Commissioner Coe A. McKenna and in the
prospective early retirement of Commissioner Charles V. Gallo
way an opportunity to reorganize the commission, and recalls
the campaign promise of Gov. Snell in 1942 to effect such a
reorganization by reducing its membership to one. Undoubtedly
a reorganization in personnel impends whether the number
remains three or is reduced to one. But the basis of the Ore
tonian's demand is false. It attacks the commission thus:
For many years the Oregon ctate tax commission has been
virtually a "closed corporation" so far as public information is
concerned. The independence and non-co-operative attitude of
commissioners called before committees of the legislature seeking
estimates, information and advice have surprised and angered
many an astembiyman. The commission has been high-handed,
dictatorial and inflexible in some of its dealings with county
authorities.
That is pure gripe without adequate foundation. It rests
on peeves of individuals against the commission or on irritations
that arise over the enforcement of tax laws.
There are no more conscientious or faithful or better in
formed public servants in the state than Earl Fisher and
Charley Galloway. Instead of being non-cooperative they have
been generous with assistance to legislators and tax students,
sometimes to the point of being scolded for "interfering" with
legislation. In dealing with county authorities, particularly Mult
nomah county they have been lenient to a fault. Surely the
Oregonian isn't going to revive its phoney issue of 1942 over
the distortion in assessments in Multnomah county.
As far as supplying estimates, information and advice is
concerned, the commission has responded to the best of its
ability; but it has never professed powers of clairvoyance and
has admitted its inability to forecast accurately tax receipts
in an economy as jumpy as the present.
There is more need for a reorganization of the editorial
staff of the Oregonian. For years it has fed the people with
prejudice and offered little really constructive for solution of
the state's fiscal problems.
Quad Born in Tennessee
It was the fact that a woman in Tennessee bore quadruplets
that brought her name into the news. Of much greater point were
the facts in the story telling of the home in which the accouche
ment took place.
It is described as a "small wooden shack" at the foot of
Suck creek mountain in Sequatchie valley. Five other children
slept in the same room. There was no electric light; a miner's
gas lamp provided illumination. The house lacked vessels usable
for heating water, so buckets were obtained from neighbors.
The mother lay on a straw mattress with neither sheets nor
blankets.
What a terrible indictment of an "American home!" One
may suspect a lower than normal intelligence because the hus
band and father has no better job than driving a mule in a
coal mine. Even so. his wages should have been enough to pro
vide better decency in his family's living.
In lesser degree similar wretched conditions prevail in
many st-ctions. chiefly of the south. They are definitely "rural
slums." For all our vaunted reliance on individual liberty we
ought not to permit such conditions to prevail Not only is
our pride shocked, but the spawning of children in such an
environment cannot help but weaken society perhaps for gen
erations If the trouble is economic some relief should be found. If
it is a case of low intelligence some form of birth control ought
to be invoked. The human race will not improve through multi
plication of the least fit.
Isolating Polio Virtu
A portion of the funds received by the National foundation
for infantile paralyn has been devoted to research. Stanford
university is one of the institutions where this research in the
cause ar44- cure of polio has been subsidized by the foundation.
Late reports from Stanford indicate that scientists have isolated
polio virus to a degree of 80 per cent purity. They plan to go
ahead with experiments to weaken the virus by irradiating
It with ultraviolet light or treating it with formaldehyde and
then using it as a vaccine on animals. If the experiments prove
successful for immunization then they will be tried on humans.
Photographs show the virus in the form of tiny spheres,
only a millionth of an inch in diameter. The scientists do not
regard the virus as ordinary bacteria, but more of a living
molecule, a chemical able to reproduce itself.
The quest for the guilty agent in this disease has been
long and arduous. Isolating it in such quantity and purity that
it can te photographed is a long step forward toward mastery
over the disease. This phase of the work of the foundation is
probably the most important because of the promise it gives
of a reliable cure or preventive.
Confiiftion in Italy
A split in the Italian socialist party over whether to con
tinue to collaborate with the communists brings a reported
threat of civil war. However Premier Gasperi. now in America,
termed the report ridiculous. v
The premier ir undoubtedly correct for Italians are fed
up with wars. There might be some sort. of guerilla fighting
or mob action in the streets, but not all-out civil war. The
government would fall on much more than a breath of trouble.
Poor Italy. It ha too many people for its resources, and
they Ia k cohesion in political affairs. In such a state of distress
the communists make medicine. They war on the Vatican and the
church wars n them. Meantime because of the failure of the
British and American occupation forces to back the right ele
ments the former fascist sympathizers are still about in good
health and social position.
Italy pays a heavy penalty for the ambitions of its saw
dust Caesar. Benito Mussolini.
Came the J unco
Cajne the snow Sunday and with it. out of the nowhere,
a flock of Oregon juncos or snowbirds. They seem to revel
in the snow and cold, hovering about brush and shrubbery,
darting out to forage for seeds for food. With black head and
neck, slaty breast, and a flash of white in the tail feathers
when thy lift in flight the junco is readily recognizable.
Remt-mber the birds, this weather, and put out crumbs or
broken suet for their food and a pan of water for their drink.
The Oregonian refers to the state capitol as "Greek" in
style. That is not correct. It is definitely modernistic, with its
ancient counterpart more nearly Egyptian than Greek. In sharp
contract to the Roman-domed old capitol its style is growing
in favor at people become accustomed to it. It should have
had another story to give it more elevation and mass, but the
money appropriated by a parsimonious legislature in 1935,
wouldn't stretch that far.
A legislative interim committee recommends a state deten
tion home for "pre-delinquent" boys. This is pretty much of
a fiction. When the state gets hold of bad boys they arc more
apt to be -post" than. "pre" delinquent.
Bishop Baxter
Addresses Big
C. of C. Group
The things which count most
are the things you cannot count,"
Bishop Bruce Baxter of the Me
thodist church said in a talk at
Salem Chamber of Commerce
forum luncheon Monday.
Speaking to a capacity audience
which included many members of
the 44th legislature which con
vened Monday, the speaker sug
gested the need for cultivation of
attitudes which will carry through
into the new year, for the indi
vidual and the state.
Attitudes of awareness, intelli
gence, generosity and spirituality
were listed. Attitudes of aware
ness against the inevitability of a
third world war, intelligence to
use the limitless power provided
by the atomic bomb, generosity
which makes individuals see need
for an action and then do some
thing about it, and ability to put
correct interpretation upon spir
itual values, were stressed.
Regarding the atomic bomb the
churchman said, "it might not de
termine who is right but who is
left,'" and suggested it was
"Christ or cremation."
Department heads from Wil
lamette university of which Bi
shop Baxter was president until
1940, had seats at the head table.
Hewitt, Warner
To Open New
Men's Store
Plans for a new men's store in
Salem were made public yester
day. Gus Hewitt and Loyal Warner,
Salem business men for a num
ber of years, announced their
purchase of the Senator Drug
company " and their intention of
establishing a men's store to be
known as Hewitt's in the High
and Court street now occupied by
the Senator drug store.
Hewitt, who has been manager
of J ay son's men's store at Liber
ty and Court streets, will man
age the new store. Warner will
continue his other business inter
ests. Hewitt announced yesterday
that an inventory of the drug
stock is underway and that the
stock will be liquidated before the
store space is altered to include
additional space on the north side
of the drug store. He said he did
not expect to have the men's
clothing store in operation before
April.
Mrs. Rhea M. Whitby, present
proprietor of Senator Drug Co.,
has no plans for the immediate
future.
Stocks Take
Sharp Drop
NEW YORK. Jan. 1 JHP)-Stocks
experienced one of their sharpest
drops since early November to
day although late market support
trimmed extreme setbacks in most
cases.
The direction was downward
from the start in lively dealings.
The recovery attempt in the fi
nal hour, however, resulted in
slackening activity. Liquors and ,
amusements again wnr uun
pressure, a number hitting new
lows for the past year. There was
a smattering of gainers at the
close, but declines of 1 to 4 or
more were widespread. Transfers
of 1,590.000 shares compared with
1.060,000 Friday and were the
largest since Dec. 31.
A little last-minute bidding was
credited to the idea the list may
have been oversold. The exten
sion of the Friday-Saturday re
treat generally was attributed to
skepticism over business pros
pects in coming months, labor leg
islation and tax relief. Attention
was paid to the opinion of some
economists that a 1947 recession
was to be expected in line with
that of the 1920 s but not so severe
as 1929.
The Associated Press 60-stock
composite was off 1.1 points, big
gest dip since Nov. 6. It was the
broadest market since Dec. 10.
Of 1060 issues registering, 839 de
clined and only 93 advanced.
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the governor's unqualified ap
proval; but he "plays down" any
labor legislation and makes no
positive stand on such questions
as rural zoning, apportionment of
school, funds and makes no men
tion oL the many serious prob
lems relating to administration of
liquor laws.
Governor Snell does make one
recommendation of great impor
tance and value, and that Is for
reforesting of the Tillamook burn,
financing the cost by a severance
tax on timber. However the state
forestry program should not be
restricted to this burn. There are
other denuded areas which the
state should undertake to re
forest. On the question of forest
administration the governor ig
nores the recommendation of his
.r ,i ,.,. tv,- i
, . . , , A board of five directors, one
1L v J 'nr ly J? hI from each district, was elected.
W h BT!f u- bV Richard Wy.tt, Salem air squad
Claude Ballard, IW A member of; , WJ iected fromq
of foretry "representative of the
public as a whole.'
The governor is correct in say
ing that conditions in Oregon are I
excellent. He is wrong If he
thinks we can just continue coast-
ing. Since he fails to assert posi
tive leadership himself the vari
ous legislative committees must
undertake the job of framing laws
to effectuate them.
Salem Gardeners
To Meet at YMCA
Five Salem gardeners will dis
cuss winter phases of rose gard
ening when the Salem Rose So-
ciety meets Thursday night at the j ,em mnd legislative committee
YMCA. The ten mi nut talks will w appointed.
cover rose growing from active I T" re-elected officers are G.
work In gardens to Inside arm- j w- Thiessen, Milwaukie, presi
chair gardening, according to dent; M. L. Boyd. Newberg, vice
Raymond G. Warren, president of ! president; T. H. Arestad. Canby,
the group. secretary -treasurer. Justice Fel-
A goal of 200 members has been I ton was appointed chairman of the
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set by the society for the coming
year, and will promote rose gard
ening in the Salem area. The
meeting will be held on the second
floor of the YMCA at 8 p.m.
Jerry Bachle
Heads Scout
Honor Group
Jerry Bachle of Salem troop 4
was elected president of the Or
der of the Arrow, senior scouting
group, at the organization's week
end Smith creek hike, Martin
Mockford, assistant scout execu
tive, said Monday.
Lawrence Hobart of Explorer
post 88, Silverton, is the new vice
president; Wayne Mercer, Four
Corners troop 64, secretary, and
Richard East on. Salem Explorer
post 17, treasurer.
The 45 members who made the
hike project plans for a winter
hike In the snow country for Feb
ruary 22. participation in the boy
scout circus on April 12, a work
week at Camp Pioneer In June
and a dance in October.
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ger. Independence troop 27, Polk
district; Milton St. John, Gervais
trnrai S4 Silver Falls Hiti-it-
jimmr Cook. troop 49. Mill City,
Marion district, and Kenneth
ima. trooo 51. Lebanon. Cala-
pooya district.
JP Association
Elects Officers
All officers of the Oregon Asso
ciation of Justices of the Peace
and Constables were re-elected at
a Sunday meeting in the office
of Justice Joseph B. Felton at Sa-
legislative committee.
Members are Alf O. Nelson of
Silverton. Walter Bell of Stay
ton, G. W. Thiessen of Milwau
kie and Constable Earl Adams of
Salem.
Pilot Turns
Obstetrician
NEW YORK. Jan. 13 -JP)- An
airline pilot turned obstetrician
Saturday and delivered a baby in
the air somewhere between Miami
and Puerto Rico, an airline official
said here tonight.
An official of the American air
export-cargo company said the
pilot, Kenneth Stockman of Sac
ramento. Calif., took charge of
the birth of a baby to an un
named Puerto Rican woman. The
plane had left Miami at 6 a.m.
(EST) the official said, and was
two hours southeast of Miami, over
Andros island, when the child was
bom.
At Miami the American air export-import
company said the
child had been named Aaeico
Vega in honor of the line.
Harry Filer of Miami was co
pilot of the plane. The hostess was
Eileen Heybaer of Bay City, Mich.
STOLEN CAR RECOVERED
A car owned by Howard Schutz,
Aurora, stolep " Friday, was re
covered Saturday evening by
city police of Walla Walla. Wash.,
the Marion county sheriffs office
reports it has been notified. Con
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union ui u-c auiu w uvi ,nuu
ed last night.
Enterprise
Linn County
Publication
Legal publication of the Mill
City Enterprise, weekly publica
tion, is in Linn county despite that
its newspapers are deposited in
the Mill City postoffice which Is
in Marion county. Attorney Gen
eral George Neuner held here
Monday. The opinion was request
ed by district attorney Miller D.
Hayden of Marion county.
Neuner said the newspaper is
made up and printed in Linn
county. Mill City is located on the
Marion-Linn county line.
In another opinion, Neuner held
that justice court verdicts in crim
inal cases must be unanimous
while in civil cases three-fourths
of the Jury may render a verdict.
This opinion was sought by dis
trict attorney Lenald S. Duncan
of Harney county.
Road Hearings
Begin Todav
Thirty-four petitions to oil 120
miles of county roads north of
Silverton road, including roads on
401 to 478 . and several market
roads will be presented to the
county court today, according to
Roy Rice, county commissioner,
who said that hearings will begin
at 10 a m.
Hearings, to continue through
Thursday, will request 177 miles
of road oiling throughout the
county. Wednesday oil on roads
south of Silverton road will be
considered and all roads within
a three-mile radius of Salem will
be considered on Thursday.
Egyptologist to
Talk at U. of O.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON,
Jan. 13 Dr. Henri Frankfort, pro
fessor of Egyptology at the orient
al institute of the University of
Chicago, will present five daily
talks January 20 to 24 in the
University of Oregon lecture se
ries, it was announced this week
by Dr. Rudolph H. Ernst, profes
sor of English and chairman of
the lecture series committee. Dr.
Frankfort will address students,
faculty members and townspeople
on Egyptian religions.
Arizona's Painted Desert, a
stretch of vividly banded earth of
yellow, red, magenta and mauve
sands beneath an azure sky, ex
tends for 300 miles along the
north bank of the Little Colorado
river.
Legal Notice
NOTICE Or THE THIRTEENTH AN
NUAL MEETING Or MEMBERS
Notice li hereby given that the
Thirteenth Ainuf meeting of the
members of the Mutual Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association of Salem,
will be held at the office of the com
pany at Ml South Liberty Street. Sa
lem. Oregon, on Wednesday, January
15th 1M7. at 7:30 P. M of said day
for the purpose of electing memberi
of the Board f Directors, and the
transaction of such other business as
may legally come before the meeting.
All members are requested to be
present.
r. B. KCELER. Secretary. J 7-14
TIADIMARK NOTICE
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
HICRADE PRODUCTS COMPANY.
INC.. of the City of Braddock. County
of Allegheny, and State of Pennsyl
valia and having its principal place of
business at Sixth Street it Pin Way.
Braddock. Pennsylvania, a corpora
tion of Pennsylvania having made
application for registration of its
trade-mark "QUIKY" la the State
of Oregon, hereby publishes a descrip
tion of said trade-mark pursuant to
the law of the State of Oregon.
The trade-mark consists of the word
-QUIKY "
HICRADE PRODUCTS COMPANY.
INC.
By: Mason, fen wick St Lawrence
i Attorneys
h( Woodward Building
I Washington J. D. c
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Newcastle Disease Over-Talked,
Dr. Dickson Tells Veterinarians
. By LiUle L. Madsea
Farm Editor, The Statesman
SILVERTON. Jan. 13 That the Newcastle disease In poultry
Is not so much a menace in Oregon as publicity would have pro
ducers believe, was the opinion expressed by Dr. E. M. Dickson,
Oregon State college. Saturday, as he addressed the 55 veterinarians
gathered at Silverton for their first quarterly meeting of the year.
Arrangements for the meeting were made bv Dr. E T. Henkel.
ouvervon. wives were entertained
e:i . tr .....
during the day by Mrs. Henkel
and the women joined the men
at the noon dinner served by the
Silverton Cafe at the chamber
of commerce rooms. Dr. Norman
Johnson, Beaverton, presided at
the sessions.
Oregon Free
Dr. Dickson told that not one
case of poultry illness in Oregon
had been diagnosed definitely as
Newcastle, adding that the reason
was likely that Oregon is an ex
porting rather than an importing
state so far as poultry is con
cerned. There are 29 states re
porting Newcastle cases, and two
have been found in Seattle, he
added.
Others appearing on the pro
gram were Dr. W. E. Ward of
Bend, who spoke on distemper
and variations of indigestion in
saddle horses and told of modern
methods of treating these; Dr.
Andrew Lloyd, Tillamook, who
dealt with founder in dairy cat
tle; Dr. W. H. Anderson. Salem,
who discussed the maintenance of
blood banks for small animals,
and the report of Dr. S. M. Shaw
of Corvallis on the December
meeting of the federal livestock
sanitation association in Chicago.
Amendments
Legislation to be introduced
both in the present session and
the one two years hence wag dis
cussed. Emphasis was laid on the
Veterinarian Practice Act, with
favor expressed on this year's leg
islation proposing amendment to
provide more stringent prosecu
tion of violators. Aimed at were
both the non-professionals, who
accept fees for treating farm ani
mals, and the graduate veterinar
ian, who carries on his work In
a non-professional manner.
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During the business session. Dr.
G. H. Huthman of Portland re
ported on the dairy association
meeting held earlier In the week
at Baker. Plans were also made
for the April meeting to be held
at Bend,. and the summer meeting
in which associations from Wash
ington and British Columbia will
join Oregon at Vancouver, B.C.
Taxpayers
Line Up to
Beat Deadline
Salem taxpayers were giving
revenue collectors a run for their
money Monday.
Those required to file amended
estimates or final returns by Jan
uary 15 were in on the rush at
Deputy Collector Paul 4Lynch's
office In the Salem postoffice
where lines formed back into the
corridor at times during the day
yesterday.
Lynch said his office is open
during this rush period from
a. m. to 5 p. m. continuously.
Those filing by January 15 are
persons who did not figure in
"withholdings" from paychecks,
mostly farmers, professional men,
business proprietors, investors and
landlords. Lynch said yesterday
that such persons will find it ad
visable to file their complete 1940
return by January 15 if possible,
to avoid the duplication of mak
ing a revised estimate at this time,
followed by a final return by
March 15.
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