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n nnr ; IUJU Wealher Max. S . 53 58 39 Min. 39 42 49 32 38 Precip. M .11 .14 Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 54 Willamrltr river 2.1 feet. FORECAST t from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem i : Mostly cloudy todav and tonight with a few fifcht hower. Highest temperature today 55. Lowest tonight 42. NINETY -SIXTH YEAR CRT 0S3ID3 TKDDjXB In the bulletin of the U. S. weather bureau giving water sup ply forecasts for the Columbia river system as of January 1, 1947. I noticed this comment: "The analysis of ba-in data, preliminary to the development -of. the proc-coures. indicates that there is now. in general, less run off per inch of mearured precipi tation than in earlier years." That comment is interesting be cause people have wondered about the effect or timber cutting on floods and runoff of water. So I wrote to the bureau tor further information and have received a replj from Merrill Bernard, chief. He states that the conclusion mentioned is based on study of the data from 130 river guaging stations in the west. "Almost without exception," he writes, "this time trend has been noted." While no studies have been made of the Willamette river basin the bureau people "believe the same time trend appears here. In his letter Mr. Bernard dis cusses the matter further, as fol- lows: "A large number of factors combine in a rather complex man ner to establish the relation be tween rainfall and runoff. The particular method we use, applied to large natural river basins, does not provide any opportunity for us to explain the exact cause of the time trend. Undoubtedly, sev- j eral factors are responsible. A j J ' t-l 1 iiai 11. k HIV. V. 1 u V. I ' 1 .1 .....a., include sucn items as (i) cnanges in the methods of measuring j-treamflow and precipitation; (2) increased consumptive use of water for irrigation; (3) increased evaporation loss from reservoirs constructed during recent (Continued on Editorial Page) Plan for New j Penitentiary Site Opposed Moving of the state peniten tiary within the near future ap peared an improbability today, following action of the joint legis lative ways and means commit tee in recommending against passage of a bill which sought a $250,000 appropriation for pur chase of a new site. Sen. Howard Belton told the i committee the state board of con trol was agreed that because of the shortage of state funds any piogram for a new penitentiary should be deferred. In event the legislature up holds the adverse committee re port, the board of control will proceed with improvements at the existing prison, including tw,o new cell blocks and extension of the penitentiary walls . Rebel Planes Drop Shells ASUNCION, Paraguay, March 2 1 -OP) -Planes flown by members of Paraguay's insurgent military force bombed the government base at San Pedro, 95 miles north of Asuncion, today but caused no casualties or damage, the govern ment announced tonight. Instead of aerial bombs, the an nouncement said, the rebel planes dropped large artillery shells and failed to make a hit on any in stallation of importance. The "ineffective" bombing raid, which gave the government its first knowledge that the revolu tionists had acquired planes, indi cated the insurgents lacked ade quate munitions. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Ate you hinting that we may toon hear the patter of little feet." VW ralnpi turn Br 12 PAGES Salem, Cut in Public Welfare Proposed Program Ready for Assembly By Wendell Webb Managing Editor, The Statesman A pared-down public welfare program. interpreted in some quarters to mean a possible 10 per cent reduction in the present $44 average old-age pension, a ready today for submission to the 44th legislature. A sub-committee of the join ways and means group late Fri day decided on a $43,000,000 wel fare plan for the next biennium. in contrast to present expend tures which are at tne rate o $51,000,000, and recommended mandatory levy up to 4'? mills if counties need it to pay their ! share. j Money Voted Multnomah The sub-committee also cognizance of the threatened loss I government as the first step to of federal funds arising from a ward creating a federalized Ger Multnomah court decision that ; many. counties, under present law, do j Marshall's request was included not have to raise whatever the j in a proposed three-point plan of state public welfare commission ! procedure for setting up a'Ger decides by voting to recommend i man government which he said giving Multnomah county $243, 000 for public assistance in May and June. Meanwhile if the 44th legislature is to adjourn by a week from to day, as many lawmakers believe possible, it was generally agreed last - night that it will have to ; Tl tl 1C ? 3 lot more use of its time than it did Friday. The house yesterday geed and hawed trying to revive defeated bills or kill those already passed. It finally approved 41 to 13 a bill setting June 24 as the date for a special election on the sales tax, after beating down futile at tempts to have the election open to other measures, too. Rep. Rob ert Gile of Roseburg charged there was "a deliberate plan afoot to delay this bill." The senate, in the meantime, again delayed action on the house approved fireworks bill, re-referring it to committee for minor amendments. Commercial Fishing Barred In the brief interims between wrangling, the house passed its own bills boosting the state's take from pari-mutuel betting and adding a tax on wine. It also passed senate bills giving the parole board more latitude in equalizing terms spent in 'prison. prohibiting commercial fishing in the Willamette river, creating a livestock auction board and giv ing southern - Oregon an extra circuit judge. j M- . 4 J V. . ' i iic st-ridit Kdtu m iiou-t- measure prohibiting sale df hon- j orable discharge emblems to per-I sons not entitled to them, and j rescinded its defeat of the hill j letting the fish commission, in- i stead of tfie legislature, control commercial fishing. It returned the latter bill to committee. Meanwhile, the joint ways and means committee voted 6 to 5 to ask the house committee on as sessment and taxation to bring in a bill levying a 30 per cent tax on slot machines, punchboarris and pinball games, estimated to yield $4,000,000 a biennium. The committee voted to kill measures letting cities and coun lowing the state to acquire I llflll acres for a new prison. It ap proved a bill to allow the state liquor commission to conduct clinics for alcoholics. Today Equals Record Today brings the current ses sion to the record set in 1945 69 days. Among introductions Friday was a senate joint memorial ask ing the federal government to in vestigate price Increases of Cali fornia oil companies and a re o lution felicitating the Oregon State basketball team at the na tional tournament at Kansas City The latter resolution was adopted I Md George A. Stone applied for by both houses. j permission to erect a $5000 piano Court Bill in House j store on Fairgrounds road. Docketed for house action to- day are its own bills calling foriJfvr rniintv Till: district courts, instead of jus- VUUUl M. lllv tices, in Marion, Lane and Clack- Crpp Ex'tfMlSmn a mas counties; raising income tax ul tvl UAtciiBiuii exemptions in event the" sales tax county Engineer Hedda Swart passes, and transferring probate I ar)d City Engineer J. H. Davis ana juvenile matters irom county : to circuit courts. The house also will act on a senate bill doubling the $3000 real estate loan limit to veterans. Today's senate calendar is topped by the house-approved bill to tax cigarets 2 cents a package for the next biennium, to raise $4,000,000. Also up in the senate are house-approved meas ures to increase the cities share of highway funds and authorize a $2,500,000 state building in Portland. The house will resume at 10 a, m. today, the senate a hall hour i laie Ciegis. acucss on page uj WUNDID l&SJ Oregon, Saturday Morning Sugar Ration Law Extension Passed; Rent Bill Readied WASHINGTON, March 21-cVP)-The house voted 286 to 54 today for legislation extending rationing and price control of sugar until October 31. 1947, and sent the measure to the senate. Simultaneously, a senate banking subcommittee voted unanimously in favor of a bill continuing rent controls through Feb. 29, 1948, with out a general increase in rent ceilings. Passage of the sugar control " Marshall Asks ' Self Rule Start I For Germany MOSCOW. March 21-oP-Sec-retarv of State Marshall asked the council of foreign ministers today j to authorize the Germans to es took i tablish immediately a provisional should be started "at once so there i will be properly constituted Ger j man authorities' to carry out the ' terms of the peace settlement be i ing drafted here. British Foreign Secretary Ern est Bevin earlier had submitted a ' similar proposal but in much ' greater detail, and warned Russia that Britain would not stand for any "one party" system in Ger ' many. Although not mentioning com munism by name; Bevin declared that the British "do not believe Germany should merely change from the nazi party to another party, nor nazi ideology to some other ideology." The inference was clear, since the Russians in the eastern zone of Germany insisted on, and cre ated, a' one-party system called the social unity party by a forced merger of the communists and so cialist"!. Bevin's stand took special sig nificanse in view of French For eign Minister George Bidault's disclosure that Prime Minister Stalin in a recent interview had criticized the French stand for a federalized and decentralized Ger many and urged a strong central administration. Floods Take Food Crops LONDON, March 21-P)-Crip- . i w 1 I . 1 nunc losses 01 lonn crnos in me i flooded lowlands of Britain were j reported tonight as conditions Rrew worse in scattered parts of ' the stricken areas. Waters w hich trapped people in I their homes in the worst floods ! in vin upro ronximir in mmp aVeas but rising water levels 1 were reported in the lower reaches of the river Trent in Lin colnshire, the Severn at Worces tershire and the river Ouse in Yorkshire. The town of Crowland. Lin colnshire, was in danger of be coming an island as a 40-yard breach in a dyke released a tor rent which engulfed thousands of acres of rich agricultural land. uiuwnru v i u c a i iv i ujdivnAici lated farms. Salem Business Firms to Build Three building applications were filed by Salem persons Friday with the civilian production ad ministration in Portland. Kcith Brown Building Supply , company filed for a $5600 boiler ; house to be located at their mill 1 on r roni sureei as poii 01 omwiu expansion plans. Robert Fromm, route 7, box 403, filed for an addi tion In eost $fi3fin- and J. C. Stone inferred Fri Ha v on nronosed iur- veys to ascertain the approximate cost of an extension of Broad way street to North River road, as a co-operative county and city stressed the importance of the extension in view of the possible future construction of the Division street bridge, as yet only a "paper" project. SALEM CO MP A NT LICENSED PORTLAND, March il-opv-The state liquor control, commission granted a wholesale beer and wholesale wine license to the Sa Chappel I-Marshall company, lem, todav. March 22. 1947 I legislation was by roll-call vote at the insistence of democrats who demanded a record tally In an evident move to get republi cans "on the record" in favor of continued controls. I The measure also extends allo 1 cations powers over sugar until ! March 31. 1948. They were sched ! uled to expire at the end of this 1 month. Without the legislation, price control and rationing of sugar would end next June 30. The house approved an amend ment by Rep. Gamble (R-NY) to permit the importation of jams, jellies and syrups in consumer sized packages without a ration stamp provided they are made from sugar not originally intend ed for importation to this country. Senate action on rent and sugar controls bogged down when the senate republican policy commit tee failed to reach agreement on whether controls should be' con tinued, changed or dropped. The issue will be referred to a meet ing of all senate epublicans to morrow. Sen. Hawkes (R-NY) argued In the policy committee for a blanket 10 per cent rent increase If con trols are continued, but it was this provision that k il 1 e d an earlier bill. Sen. McCarthy (R Wis) contended that sugar con trols should be dropped because of an estimated 650.000-ton In crease in Cuban production this year. UN Principles Clause Added To Greek Bill WASHINGTON, March 21-0P)-A declaration that the proposed United States action in Greece and Turkey conforms with "the prin ciples and purposes" of the United Nations was introduced in the senate today by Sens. Vandenberg (R-Mich) and Connally (D-Tex). The two leaders of the senate foreign relations committee of fered the declaration in the form of a preamble to the bill authoriz ing aid to Greece and Turkey to bolster them against communism. The senators' aim is to meet criti cism here and abroad that Presi dent Truman's proposal would ! cnnh th TT M Tne preamble notes that the U.N. security council already "has recognized the seriousness of the unsettled conditions" on the Greek frontiers. It recalls that the U.N. food and agriculture mission recognized the necessity that ureect receive nnanciai ana econ- uiiiii. ajvisLtfJi.c aim icvvuujinium that Greece request such assist ance" from the U.N. and from the United States and Britain. The bill to which the preamble would be affixed is now in the house foreign affairs committee. If the preamble is not adopted in the house, Vandenberg and Con nally are confident they have enough influence to win its ac ceptance in the senate. Jack Bartlett to Talk At Tourist Host School PENDLETON. March 21 -(JPy-W. M. (Jack) Bartlett, Salem, of the state post-war development commission, will be speaker at the opening session of a tourist host school here March 24. The RChool is under Pendleton rham- ber of commerce gponsorship for hiisinmn nrf rmnlnvix Budgeters WASHINGTON, March 21--The house appropriations commit tee voted today to take Edgar L. Warren, a high labor department official, off the government pay roll on the grounds that he had belonged to "communist-inspired" organizations. Five of Warren's ex-associates from the war labor board prompt ly replied that "he is a loyal and devoted citizen." The vehicle for the proposed ouster is a $1,685,586,780 biU to finance the labor department and the federal security agency for the year beginning July 1. In submitting it, the committee wrote in a provision to deny any funds to the office of the director of the conciliation service, which is Warren's job. The provision likewise affects the offices of some 100 other executives and employes of the service. TIm conciliation service is the 1 No. 307 Steel for Red Zone Withheld BERLIN, March 21 iPy- The Americans and British suspended indefinitely today iron and steel shipments into the Soviet rone of Germany on the grounds the Rus sians had failed to live up to a $21,000,000 trade agreement with the merged British-American zone. In a formal letter to the Ger man economics executive commit tee for administration at Minderv, the American and British author ities ordered an embargo on ex port of pig iron and steel and standard iron and steel products to the Soviet zone. Kails Anoiii ProdavrU Stopped Standard products includo the bulk of shipments such as rails, labs and H-bars. Non-standard items unaffected would include those prepared to particular spe cifications for use in the Soviet zone. The Soviet tone had become progressively delinquent in its promised deliveries during Janu ary and February, although the U.S. and British zones had shipped to the Russian zone 95 percent of their agreed commitments of steel, a Joint U.S. -British announcement said. Koss Las; on Wheat Shippinf Specifically the Russians did not make good on promised monthly deliveries of 10,700 tons of wheat and rye, 2,700 tons of oats, 50,000 tons of brown coal briquettes, 50, 000 cubic meters of coal mine pit props, 500 tons of chemical pulp, 500 tons of newsprint, 27 tons of cording for tires, 200 tons of tech nical paper and 300 tons of buna (synthetic) rubber, the announce ment said. An interzonal trade agreement between the British and Soviet military governments was signed on Dec. 23, 1946, and provided for exchange of specific quantities of iron and steel products, standard and non-standard, from .the British zone for foodstuffs and other material from the Soviet zone. Crash Occurs On Wet Street The first day of spring, after being ushered into Salem early yesterday on a waft of warm air, ended last night with wet streets and a minor traffic accident, with forecasts by the weather bureau of more showers for today. A large crowd viewed the dam age at Liberty and Center streets ; last night after cars owned by i William E. Callander. Amity, and I Everett V. Farlow, 220 D st.. col lided just prior to midnight, po- lice said. Herman Countryman, ! Salem, rider In the Farlow car, j was treated by the Salem first aid ! squad for a cut lip and both he land Farlow were arrested by city j police on intoxication charges, po , lice records indicated. Board Authorizes Airlines to Hike Fares 10 Per Cent AsG7?N' March n iv per i-e-iic miiease jri an plane fares, probably becoming effec tive April 1, was approved today by the civil aeronautics board. The fare increase was sought in an agreement by 16 airlines to be effective for 90 days the first joint action of the domestic air carriers in raising tariffs. After the 90-day period, individual lines will be free to adjust fares as they see fit The present average rate is 4 6 rents a mile. The new rate will be just over five cents a mile. Price 5c Deny Conciliator Pay labor department's main tool in trying to settle labor-management disputes. The committee reported to the house: "Mr. Warren admitted that he has been a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy, and the Washington Bookshop, and attended meetings. Both of these organizations are communist-inspired fronts and have been so certified by the com mittee on un-American activities. "Mr. Warren contended that he does not now have any radical beliefs. He admitted that in 144, or perhaps 1943, be made a speech to an inter-departmental croup of government employes in which he held to the philosophy that government employes should be entitled to the right to strike. Mr. Warren now claims that he has changed his mind on this subject "The situation confronting our country is too grave to permit em Acheson to Open Secret File (7 Ft- WASHINGTON, March Zl-tTPr-YVith tho "secret - book of Creek and Turkish emergen? bark reene' dor merits spread before him. Art las; Secretary of Slate Dean Aehesoa finds answer to a onesUon. as be testifies before the bonse foreign affairs committee In Wash ington.. A Ute department aide, llabert Havlik (right), chief of division of Investment and economic development, assist him. Aeheson agreed today to strip the "secret" label off bark round doenmenU given to committee members to nse on Mediterranean poliey. Several of the legislators here Insisted the dor amen U shonld be published. Mechanical difficulties at the state department la making copies, horn ever, delayed the pablleation nntil tomorrow. (AP Wlrephoto) Cordon Talks lo state Assembly Sen. Guy Cordon paid a fleet ing visit to the legislature Friday and left a wry compliment before he departed for Eugene to fulfill a speaking engagement. "I want to congratulate this legislature." he said In a short talk to the senate, "on being on an absolute par with the federal congress at this moment " He stopped the swelling cf senatorial chests, however, adding with a smile: by Up tO this point neither One of you has done anything. IL S. Permitted To Duplicate Seized Cariro C7 WASHINGTON, March 21 -Wt The Netherlands government has agreed to let the American mer shant ship Martin Behrman sail from Rata via with a duplicate of the cargo she previously was forced to unload, the state depart ment said tonight. The settlement also provides "fair compensation" to the Is Lrandsen Company, the ship"s op erators, and reimbursement for the delay. The Martin Behrman's cargo of sugar and other commodities from Indonesian-held territory in Java was seized by Netherlands au thorities. The ship was takn un der naval escort from Chenbon. Java, to Batavia and the cargo un loaded there. The cargo included rubber, cinchona (from which quinine is derived) and sisal valu?d at $3,000,000. The Dutch contended that the cargo comprised proper ty "looted"' from Dutch estates now in the hands of the Indone sian republic. A dispatch from Batavia said the company would claim $10. 000.000 from The Netherlands for damages. ji)og8 Arrive Here For Annual Show Yelping but well-groomed dog- began arriving in Salem last night for the licensed all-breed dog show which opens today at the grandstand building of the state fairgrounds. More than 450 dogs will appear in the show, many of them from Los Angeles, Seattle and other dis- tant coastal states points. Judg- I ing win Degin at iu a. m. xoaay and continue through tomorrow night. The Salem Lions club spon sors the annual show. ployment in such i important place of anyone whose back ground may be subject to ques tion." In New Haven, Conn., where he was attending a management- labor conference at Yale univer sity. Warren said: "The action of the house appropriations commit tee is not surprising. There were articles in the press to the same effect recently. If this (the bill) were to pass it would seriously damage the effectiveness of the conciliation service. I refer par ticularly to the possible refusal of funds for 100 persons. "I would like," he added in an interview, "to call your attention to the statements of five public members of the war labor board headed by Lloyd Garrison, and six top industrialists In their state ment they said that they worked with me throughout the war and knew me as a loyal and conscien tious citizen and public servant.'' 1 v - jCouilcil Rejects i J Parking Meter Sale Proposal Salem's city council, meeting In special session yesterday in city hall, turned down a parking enm mittM rerxirt nrfirwtninir nunhao of parking meters from the Dun- ft.r lnrtin meters nf lhr firms. Instead, Mayor R. L. Elfstrom instructed City Manager J. L. Franzen to renegotiate with Mi chael Arts Bronze company, Cov ington, Ky., whose contract with the city was ordered terminated at the regular council meeting Wednesday following delay in ar rival of 1175 parking meters long ( on order and due in January. Elfstrom expressed the hope that new arrangements with the Covington fnm might rffct cl--livery of the city's meter '' He called the council into fprii?r session again Monday ni:M to again consider the long-peiuiioc matter of installing paiking met ers on downtown Salem stn-ets. ' Alderman Albert H. Gille's parking meter oommitU-e hai met Thursday night with representa tives of three paiking meter com panies to consider their prcjdncts, offered to the city after the Mi chael contract was questioned for non-delivery. Companies, besides the Duncan firm, are the Maee-Hale Patk-O-Meter company, Oklahoma City, and M. H. Rhoades company, Newark, N.J. Magee and Duncan salesmen were heard by the coun cil last night. The Duncan representative claimed that his coOhpany served one-third of all the parking meter business in the United States, that the meters ned not be wound and are "foolproof to the c ustomer and to the city" since a red flag jumps up when the meter is jammed or when the parking limit time is used up These mettrs would cost the city $30,000 over the cost of the contract cancelled Weeined., v j ne magce-riaie representative stated that his meter was of the automatic type: has to be wound; has removable works which may be replaced upon inoperativeness: and will cost the city less than tne other meters. This is the type of meter that is used in Ore gon C ity, the representative said. Tl T , . OIOSHOI11 Dav Set Early This Year j Blossom day will be SurHav. I March 30, this year, W. C. Dve'i! ; King Bing of Salem Cheinans j said Friday. j Unsea-onal warm we-ather ha I advanced by seve ral weeks the traditional date of the annual countryside pilgrimage of blossom-loving autoists. Dyer ex plained. Routes have been mapjied and full plans will le given next week, Dyer indicated. Yalta, Potsdam Texts to Appear WASHINGTON. March 21 rP, The state department announced today that the full texts of the Yalta and Potsdam agreement will be published within the next , few days. Earlier Rep. Mundt (R.-S. D.) had told newsmen he had been assured by Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson that the texts ; not only of the Yalta and Pots dam agreements, but also thut ,' reached at Tehran would be made public tomorrow. ( Veta by President Expected WASHINGTON. March 11 The senate, overriding Demo era tic protects, today appicvt-d legislation stamping "null and void" fiitually s'. portal iy suits, pfesent and fjf'iie A piteiiction l.ut President Truman will vet the bill hm made to the senate by Sen. Lucas (D-Ill ). Tooays vote v. a 4 to J4, which was oie-i !J enough to -ovenide u prcMdr mi l veti if tho propoition is not changed. It takea a two-thuciK maJo:.ty u set and a et t Million Involved In Hulls The meature oi!.jw mnt fcr nearly ICOOO.OOO.C-jij fi.f m llm wake of a upieme court dec iihi that i-c itfcl m tr. such walking to the w Ix-nch ai.l (hanging into wo: rl.the, aro compensable unlec trivnl. The bill now bj k to tho house which sltejly ptd a similar rr ;iuie. The t w vriicna probably will go t conlcieruo committee for settlement of dif ferences. Senate Republican learicia puhd the port-: lul' thictigrt after defeating a femxrjtic lull Mitute which v.o.j.1 hae ! cmpted future : nu from tho sweeping ban. Th: proposal wis defeated, 63 to 35. on a toll ca.ll ote. Amendment Iefeated Then the Hep j'jlican beet I down bn amendment. V to 3JI, uhich would have eliminated io mmoiis omirig pr:it claim i.n der the Walsh-llea v and It.n n. ,Iai. bt, which ent;rllih JaU-r J tandrd for fiirr. woikirg .r gov c rnment cnti The amend ment was olfered by St.. Hi I- , , land D-Ma ) ai:-i Tydnus (D Md ). Nearly nil pend.. , potUl n:1m i have tieen filed un.W a thtnl j minimum wage statute - too wage-hour act. Sen. Moise (R-Oie) voted in favor of the bill ojf.jwtng poiUi, p..y soils. Sen. Cord. mi (H -()r J( did net vcle but announced i was in favor of the bill. j School Funds Apportionment Bill Endorsed The r.ftte ed'i'-ifion commit tee i'M(l h.t niKht on ditnhif- tion cf the $16100, 00') Lhr e M hr l fund In juj'Ht.nU,illy t.e same veinon as wj axf-ipted by the he .use . The Mn;.te romrr.iMce had twit d hdtinir t -t ween tint in i a c if f ( lent type e f ap; orti Miment. f; vi.eri by Mme extern Otfgor) l I. l is and I'Mtljnd tchool cii t I IC t. The e.mmittee v ied 4 to 1 5r favi-r il a meau:e thdt would diMnbule '.h per n-r.t if ti e fining in Fianls j,nj aid. 20 per ert on h I.;, ms .f i j ili . Mi. (il. 5 r cent on aominiMi . 711 an trans Pt tatmn Sens I'aii Patter. n. HilUboro, ' Howard lie lion, Canhv, Pat terson, IV 1 Hand, and De&n H. Walker, Independence, voted fe.r the measure Sen. Ernest R, Fnt land. re.n.M.r ,.f th- optxwing c.,n gresnonal district distribution plan, did not conc ur. The senate will not vote on it before Tuesday. t Phone Strike Power Given PORTLAND, Or. Mirch 21 nPl The United Telephone Wmk ers f.t Oiefon aim Mirtced 1odi,y then 4.000 members have vnli.il 5 U 1 to aulhortre a strike should ,n negc tiating committee find it n- e-f sat y . The mail balloting ended la?t night, and voles were LilJied !. day. C. M. Bixler, pi ev lent e f tho Oregon union, will ;nn other pa cific e.;,t unions j;j re-mmijt ion i f negotiations with the Picific Tele phone A Telegraph company it San Fiiiiicisc'o Monday. 23 of 27 (IiiHtottm Mm In Port la ml Cm lv Hill PORTLAND, Marrli 21 - i,V) -Twenty-three of the 27 TJ. S. cus toms poit patrol officers here were given ciismishai 11 fice today because cf cc.ngresirmal tuts in apprr priations. Mis. Nan Wood Honeymoon, c ollector of uctorn, said the ttaff's shrinking from 27 to four would mean le check on smuggling. Sales Tax! A new sales lax plan has ben apr .rcved by th9 house. If it rjse?8 the s?nat this wee It, amended or otherwise, ycu'll be entitled to vote on if, probably Jun 24. What it new provides, who it aifecte, what it exempts and how It would be used will be de tailed 1n an Impartial, , fact ual. Informative story In THE SUNDAY STATESMAN tcrr.crrcw. Your Home Newapa per