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r orao OO.O.a 'DDD OO'D OEDO no o ooa obo onao oc Lowered JL And Witholding Tax Sustained by Court Constitutionality of the 1947 state legislative acts reducing in come tax exemptions and imposing a withholding tax was upheld Monday, by Marion County Circuit Judge George Duncan. - Judge Duncan ruled that the two acts, which became law when the sales tax was defeated October 7, were valid. His decision dis missed the complaint brought by James T. Marr, Oregon State Feder CRT CGDOjjS jlDGdj 52? In the five sessions of the1 leg islative assembly in which he has been a member Burt K. Snyder of Lakeview impressed fellow legis lators and the. public as being an intelligent, honest and construc tive legislator. He served on im portant standing committees and on interim committees as well. He was a member of the interim groups whichJh!om 1841 to 1946 studied the problem of fees for commercial use of the highways, the studies resulting in the 1947 act revamping the fee-structure. Snyder was so well thought of in his own district of Lake and Des chutes counties that he was con sidered a likely successor to Mar shall E. Cornett as state senator from Crook,- Jefferson, Deschutes, Klamath and Lake counties. His name also had been mentioned prominently for state treasurer. Now he announces his retirement from politics. While Snyder's health has not been too good in late years the reasons he gives- for not seeking a return to the legislature are that he has secured adoption of the leg islation he was particularly inter ested in, and thinks that a legis lature with new blood "would be a good idea at the moment." Re turning home at the end of a pro longed session last spring he says he lt Drettr much (Continued on Editorial Page) French Strike Wave Spreads; Schuman Plans PARIS, Nov. 24 UP) The ranks of striking French workers, already estimated at a million strong, swelled steadily tonight as Premier Robert Schuman met for the first time with his new gov ernment to take steps for meeting the threat to the French economy. Government informant said Schuman had decided on "very energetic" measures to. prevent more strikes, coupled with pos sible concessions to the workers already off their Jobs. These sources said Schuman , might grant the strikers' demand for an increase in the basic mini mum monthly wage from 7,000 franks (about $58) to 10,800 franks ($90), provided the work ers agree to end the walkouts im mediately. , The communist-led General La bor Confederation (CGT) has asked an immediate 25 per cent wage increase. s An intimate of Gen. De Gaulle said the general had canceled a speech scheduled for delivery in Paris Thursday to avoid embarras sing the new government in its struggle with the CGT. Postal workers, mostly postmen and truck drivers, began to strike In Paris and the Provinces. Tele- hone service remained normal, ine after line of the French rail road system was blocked. Dock workers in Le Harve, Cherbourg, Brest, Nantes, La Ro vhelle, La Palhsse and Bordeaux voted to join their comrades who have quit in Mediterranean ports, including (Algiers. Merchant sail ' ors in Bordeaux, Brest and Nantes voted to striken Jefferson Studies Proposal on Bank . JEFFERSON, -Nov. 23 About BO residents of the Jefferson area met here Monday night to make preliminary plans to build a bank in this city. After .lengthy discussion in which keen interest in the plan was evidenced, it was decided to conduct a survey of the communi ty to determine whether a suffi - cient number of persons would patronize the bank if It is con structed. Animal Crackers 6y WARREN GOODRICH "Hey! Does ny one know whit we're going?" rSJuj Exemption ation of labor representative, against the state tax commission Neither of the laws was depen dent for its enactment upon any sales tax act, s the plaintiffs had charged, Judge Duncan ruled. They became laws of the state on July 5, 1947, he ruled, and enact ed as part of a common plan. Referendum Not Barred Plaintiff's second contention was that the procedure followed by the legislature served to pre vent a referendum by (he people against the income and withhold ing tax measures."However," the judge's decision ran, "there is no thing in the acts expressed or im plied, preventing the same and the referendum could have been invoked as freely against these chapters as against any other non emergency act passed by the leg islature." "Under the method used," Judge Duncan ruled, "the legislature in an alternative form merely an ticipated the situation as it would be after the vote on the sales tax act was known, with the same re sult as if it had waited until af ter the vote on the referendum was known, and then lowered the personal exemption and provided for a withholding tax." Appeal Scheduled "The rule is well settled in Oregon, that the legislature may enact any legislation not express lyor impliedly prohibited by the constitution, and when an act is within this rule the court may not question' the method used or man ner or time of operation. When the case was argued by attorneys here recently, both sides stated they would appeal the case, depending on the decision. No no tice of appeal had been filed late Monday. The reduced state income tax exemptions were made effective dn income earned after last Janu ary 1. Exemptions of married cou ples were reduced from $1,500 to $1,000 and single persons from $750 to $500. State tax commis sioners estimated that the lower tax exemptions would return an additional $4,000,000 . annually while the withholding tax would aggregate approximately $1,000, 000. Speedy Action Urged on Aid; 'Ration9 Feared WASHINGTON, Nov. 2i.-(JPh Quick emergency aid to thwart "communist aggression" in west ern Europe was urged by Senator Vandenberg (R - Mich) today as another republican senator, Brid ges of New Hampshire, declared that "meagre rations" at home might result. - Opening senate debate on the administration proposal to send Italy, France and Austria up to $597,000,800 in stopgap food and other supplies, Vandenberg said speed; action was necessary be cause "a new type of communism" with terror and sabotage for weapons - - "is on the march." Supporters of the winter relief measure predicted the senate would approve the bill on Wed nesday or Thursday. (The meas ure contains no actual funds; an appropriation bill will have to be acted on later). Bridges, chairman of the appro priating committee, in suggesting a "strong probability" of food shortages at home, said the com mittee would grant "no blank check requests." If the U. S. ships food to the full extent contemplated by the state department, and if next year" domestic crops are poor, Bridges said "the American people will be subject not only to ration ing but possibly to meager ra tions." Printer Strike On in Chicago CHICAGO, Nov. 24-(-Union printers struck tonight in Chica go's six daily newspapers. Members of AFL Chicago Typo graphical union local 16 voted to go on strike at 9 p.m. (CST) by a ballot which officials announced was 2,330 to 61. The strike followed a five-month dispute between the union and the Chicago Newspaper Publish ers association, representing the six daily newspapers. The union delivered a wage demand to the publishers yesterday. The pub lishers in a statement declared wages were not the issue, and that the only issue wss "the union's no-contract policy." John J. Pilch, local union presi dent, said "token picket lines' would be established and added that "we'll be docile." J. Loy Maloney, managing edi tor of the Chicago Tribune, said after the strike call that "we're going to get out newspapers" and that "we hope to give our read ers full coverage in cooperation with other newspapers of the city." ! NINETY-SEVENTH TEAR Arabian Proposal Rejected LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 24'-0P) The United .Nations Palestine committee tonight rejected an Ar ab proposed sovereign single state of Palestine and then prepared to vote on a plan to partition the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish countries. - The Arab single state plan, un der which the Jews would have lived as a minority, was defeat ed by 29 to 12 with 14 absten tions and two delegates absent The U. N. assembly's 57-nation Palestine committee then began consideration of minor amend ments to the U. S.-Soviet spon sored plan for creating indepen dent Arab and Jewish countries by not later than next October 1. Because of the high number of abstentions in voting on the Arab proposals there was still no -adequate indication what would be the fate of the partition plan. The voting began after Jamal Ef fendi Husseini of the Arab high er committee for Palestine charg ed that the United States and Russia were pursuing a "destruc tive and subversive policy under divergent motives'' in the Middle East and told the U. N. a Jewish country -could be established in Palestine only "over our dead bo dies." . Russia accused Britain of seek ing to prevent a solution of the Palestine problem, and the U. S. was challenged by the Arab side to explain how the U. N. could enforce partition. State Obtains Silver Creek Camping Area PORTLAND, Nov. 24-(ff)-A suggestion, that the state parks program? be divorced from the state highway commission came today from Chairman T. H. Ban- field. !" The commission earlier had ap proved acquisition of a 6,000-acre federal recreation afcrea east of Silver Creek Falls park but de ferred decision on purchase of 308 acres on Tillamook head for $48, 000. - Banfield said he believes the Oregon highway, commission has acquired a bout enough state park facilities" because of the drain of money needed fdr highway con struction and maintenance. The chairman said the state should provide a parks fund from general tax revenues. His sugges tion came after Commissioner A. W. Schaupp, of Klamath Falls, had asked Attorney J. M. Devers if the state law provided a limit on the percentage of highway funds to go into the park program. The attorney .said the law leaves the parks program to the discre tion of the commission, but that the commission is primarily a road-building agency. Excessive expenditures for parks might be considered an abuse of discretion, Devers said. The Silver Creek area acquisi tion is adjacent to the 1,800-acre state park and represents a $L 500,000 WPA development The area includes 75 buildings, which go with the . property. Snowstorm to Hit With cold weather dominating a large portion of the nation, fore casters predicted a new heavy snowstorm which will sweep across Minnesota and the Dakotas Tues day dropping early morning tem peratures to below zero In many northern sections. New Union High School Created At Stayton for 11 Districts Union high school district 4, in the Stayton school district, was created Monday by order of the Marion county district boundary board, following a hearing at which no protest was filed against the district Included in the new union dis trict are approximately 200 high school students of Stayton, Fern Ridge, Mehama, Oak Glenn and Howell districts in Marion county and Kingston, Twin Cedars, Jor dan, Mt Pleasant, Queener and a section of Cole district all in Linn county. The high school will be located on a 21 -acre tract donated by the Stayton school-board, on Locust street in Stayton, west of the pres ent high school building. The new district board of directors will meet at Stayton High school De cember 2, and it is expected that construction plans for a hew build ing will be included among other business. The directors j named by the U PAGES Resigns I - - -1 ;i J HARRY S. SCHENK Schenk to Quit As Newbry Aide Resignation of Harry Schenk as chief assistant secretary of state was announced Monday by Earl T. Newbry, secretary of state. Newbry said he expected to ap point Schenk's successor by next Monday so he could work with Schenk until the latter's resigna tion takes effect February S. Schenk has occupied the posi tion since April 1, 1943, when he was appointed by the late Secre tary Robert S. FarrelL Jr. He was re-appointed by Newbry when the latter took office several weeks ago. No future' plans were disclosed by Schenk, who said he had pre viously asked to be relieved of his duties as soon as convenient to the secretary of state, but it was indicated he intended to remain in Salem. Newbry said he would name a successor upon his return from a Thanksgiving trip to his home in Ashland. House Charge! Contempt to Film Writers r WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -P- In rapid-fire order, the house to day voted contempt citations against 10 Hollywood script writ ers, directors and producers who refused to say "yes" or "no" when asked whether they were com munists. The house overwhelmingly backed its committee on un American activities, which had questioned the men in its inves tigation of alleged communism in Hollywood. Maximum punishment for con tempt of congress is a year in jail and $1,000 fine. The 10 contended that by in quiring into their political beliefs, the committee was violating the constitution. The only roll-call vote thump- mgly upheld the committee, 346 to 17. Rep. Thomas (R-N. J.), chair man of the committee, told the house the 10 were subpoenaed "because our investigation had disclosed that they were com munists or had- long records of communist affiliation and activi ties." These men were cited: Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner. jr.. John Howard Lawson, Samuel Ornitx, Adrian 2cott, Dal ton Trumbo. COLD 8PELL TO END The Salem area's cold nH ram to an abrupt end Monday night as tne thermometer rose to 40 de grees at midnight, and the U. S. weather bureau predicted con tinued warmer temperatures ac companied by light rains for today and Wednesday. boundary board Monday include Douglas Heater, Fern Ridge, and Ward A. Inglis, Stayton, for Mar ion county, and Arthur Sandner, Kingston; J. Peter Meartz, Cole, and Walter Heinrich, Queener, for Linn county. The board will serve until an election next June. At the December 2 meeting the new board will be required to elect its own chairman. The boundary board Monday also called atten tion to the fact that the new dis trict would go under the name of Stayton union high school dis trict, pending a vote in the various districts. Mrs. Agnes Booth, Marion coun ty school superintendent, suggested that an advisory board be selected to consider possible names for a place on the ballot The new union district has an approximate assessed valuation of 31,750,000, Mrs. Booth said. Mon day's action by the Marion county board was binding on the Linn county board by previous agreement 1; ' MUNDBD 1651 Scrim. Orecjon. Tu duj. Imprison 6 Yanks TRIESTE. Tuesday, Nov. 25-P) Six American soldiers were taken prisoner Monday morning by Yu goslav troops when they "evident ly got out of bounds" while pa trolling the zonal border in Vene zia Giulia about 15 miles from Trieste, U. S. army headquarters announced today. The capture of the enure bor der patrol increased to 18 the number of U. S. soldiers taken into custody by the Yugoslavs in the area since August. The other 12 have been released. During the same period, five British soldiers and sailors also were taken prison-. er. The U. S. army public relations office here said that because of a new policy, the names of xthe one non-commissioned officer and five privates would not be dis closed until 48 hours after their capture. The Yugoslav authorities have confirmed that they are holding the soldiers, the office said, ad ding that as far as was known, all the men were in good condi tion. Meyers to Face Court Martial; Loses Pension WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 The army and the justice depart ment joined forces tonight in a crushing crackdown on Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, retired air forces purchasing officer whose private wartime activities were of ficially denounced as "one of the most shocking scandals ever ex posed in the history f our govern ment" In addition, the 52-year-old of ficer faced a probable slander law suit brought by Mrs. Mildred La Marre, who flatly denied Meyers' testimony to senate war investi gators that she was his "girl friend." Acting only two days after the senate committee heard final tes timony that Meyers made $150, 000 from a secretly-owned war subcontracting plant while he was active in procurement (purchas ing) for the air forces. Air Secre tary W. Stuart Symington an nounced: ' 1 The $461 monthly pension which Meyers has been receiving since he retired from the army in 1945 on disability grounds he said he had a nervous break down has been stopped. 2 Steps are being taken to strip the florid, fast-talking general of his military decorations the dis tinguished service medal and the legion of merit. 3 Myers will be tried by an air force court martial. Immediately afterwards, the jus tice department announced it would go before a federal grand jury here tomorrow and seek in dictments against meyers. The senate subcommittee sug gested a study of possible war fraud, corruption, perjury and in come tax evasion charges. Navy Reserve Roster Grows Salem's navy reserve unit reach ed 80 per cent of its full comple ment in a meeting at the Salem airport Monday night as seven new members were signed up, it was announced by unit command er Lt. Cmdr. Vernon Gilmore. -Inducted. at the meeting were apprentice seamen J. G. Taylor and C. E. Miller, Salem, J. S. Beebe and C M. Koenig, Dallas, and F. J. Loftiny, Monmouth; EM 2c F. L. Ladd, Salem, and Sea man 1e G. W. Gregory. Salem. Gilmore announced that 21 more men, including carpenters, motor machinists, machinists, storekeep ers, electronics mates and yeomen are still needed to bring the unit up to its full strength. Information concerning the vacancies may be obtained at the navy recruiting sation at the city hall or at build ing T-514 at the. Salem airport on Thursday nights. Matter-of-Fact! Halfwarltes versus whole hoggers that's the lineup on Capitol Hill regarding price controls, as pictured in today's Matter-of-Fact column on The Statesman's editorial page. Matter-of-Fact is written four times a week by the New York Herald - Tribune's outstanding columnists Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop. The former now is on a tour of Europe, writing from various foreign capitals, and the latter Is prying into all parts of Washington, D.C. The pair constitute a nationally-known team whose columns appear, exclusively In this area in -j s Orr&on20l&ttsm&n Yu Dsiavs Morning. Nortmber 25. 1947 (SoOflDDCDfl UBflDOttS EDecftiTDc Gb-p Framiclhip; Bosiirdl ecirees Uivev Cleainniflp Disposal Ordered In 7 Cities PORTLAND. Nov. 24 - Uft - The Oregon State sanitary auth ority cracked the whip today against stream pollution, order ing seven cities to have sewage disposal plans ready in 90 days and directing a legal suit against a canning plant The authority also cited five Willamette valley paper mill op erators to appear at a January 10 hearing and show cause why their activities should not be abated as pollution nuisances. . Reports on anti-stream polution programs from Portland and 19 other cities in the state were de manded. Secretary C. M. Everts, Jr., re ported the attorney general was asked to institute abatement pro ceedings against the Hudson-Duncan company operation in Yamhill county near Dundee. The authority charged that waste matter per mitted to flow into Hess creek is creating nauseous odors in the community and polluting the stream. Albany, Monmouth Told The seven cities were ordered to have their construction plans for disposal plants ready within 90 days, along with fiscal programs or expect legal action. The auth ority statement said the cities had "made little or no progress" and had "not offered much co operation in the water pollution abatement program". Cited were Albany, Cottage Grove, Hunting ton, Monmouth, North Bend, Sheridan and Toledo. Paper mills directed to the Janu ary hearing are the Crown-Willamette Paper company. West Linn and Lebanon; Oregon Pulp and Paper comapny, Salem; Spaulding Pulp and Paper co., Newberg, and the Hawley Pulp and Paper co., Oregon City. Salem Fregress Tsir The authority reported Oregon cities had become lax during the war years in carrying out sewage disposal programs. Portland and 19 others in the state were de scribed as having made "fair pro gress" and were asked to file re ports of existing facilities and those planned. These included Central point, Corvallis, Eugene, Salem, ' Independence. Lebanon, McMinnville. Springfield and West Salem. Nine other cities were listed as have made either "rea sonable progress" or were located on waterways where pollution problems are not acute. They in clude Mt Angel and Woodburn. Wire Workers Vote on Strike WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-(-AFL unions in the Western Union Telegraph company system today began taking a strike vote among 50,000 workers. Union officers said it would re quire about 10 days to complete the poll and that no tentative strike date would be set until the refer endum is completed. ' AFL unions represent workers in virtually all the company's of fices except New York City. . Union officials said negotiations with Western Union for a 15 per cent wage increase had collapsed. Plan to 'Overcome Boom-Bust' Trend Starts Stassen Campaign MILWAUKEE, Nov. 24 -(1P) Harold E. Stassen formally launched his campaign for the re publican presidential nomination tonight with a plan to blend "lib eral, forward looking proposals" with "conservative attitudes." The former Minnesota governor offered an eight-point domestic and international program to over come "boom or bust tendencies." He said he intended to "spell outhe details" ef the plan in the succeeding months with the hope his suggestions would stimulate others to present -"additional facts and alternative proposals." Stassen gave top priority to housing and what -he termed "lack of adequate health service" in out lining his program. "Everyone on social security should be covered by an insurance that will pay duly verified and reasonable bills which are in curred for medical and hospital expenses in excess of $250 in any one year," he said. . Through this means the eco nomic catastrophe that comes with major illness or accident is re Price Council to Add Light for Cop Traffic directing at the'eon gested 12th and State street in tersection is working "wonder fully." Alderman Albert H. Gille told the city council Mon day night "but the traffic pa trolman there needs a flashlight to identify himself at the eve ning rush hour." To remedy the darkness there, the council voted to have two street lights Installed at opposite comers. The four-way stop intersec tion, with Southern Pacific mainline adding complications, is subject of frequent city coun cil discussion. Recently the council ordered traffic policed there at rush hours. Detroit, Upper Columbia Dams BuildingUrged WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 - VP) -Construction of the Foster creek and McNary dams on the Colum bia river; the Detroit dam on the Santiam river and the Huifgry Horse dam in Montana was reco m ended today by the Federal In teragency Basin committee. The group also suggested that power installations at Grand Coulee be pushed. The recommendations were made by the Columbia Basin In teragency committee and adopted by the federal committee. They called for construction of upper Columbia rams ahead of dams on the lower river. The federal committee in an noundng its approval said the re port was aimed at "the greatest overall benefit to the people of the northwest in the conservation and development of the region's resources, expansion and exten sion of electric power develop ment and conservation of fishing. The Columbia Basin committee recommended against the resched uling of dams now authorized by congress. (Additional details page 6) Ceilings Back For Canadians OTTAWA, Nov. 24-CffVThe Ca nadian government - -beset by rising prices and reports of panic buying since the imposition of its "austerity" prog ram - - announ ced today that price ceilings will be reimposed on many processed foods. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott said he had instructed the domin ion's wartime prices and trade board to take necessary action to restore controls on the "more im portant varieties of canned fruits and vegetables." The "austerity" program, an nounced last week, is designed to ease a shortage of United States dollars by cutting imports on ar ticles ranging from automobiles and jewelry to fresh fruits. Prices have soared. There have been runs on fruits and vegetables in some places. Most of Canada's wartime price controls on food were lifted Sep tember 15. On October 21 the meat ceilings came off. moved, but the entire independ ence of the medical profession and the personal responsibility of the individual citizen for his ordinary expense is retained." Development of huge projects "of as many as 25.000 units" on contract by private builders, with furnished dwellings sold to owner occupiers and investors would al leviate the housing shortage, Stas sen maintained. Stassen listed six other policies, including: Reduction in taxes to specifically give a break to small new busi nesses. Maintenance of consumer credit control. Insistence that agriculture should never be permitted to be dis tressed. A labor policy "that is fair and just and maintains a balance be tween individually managed capi tal and free organized labor." Affirmative backing of the Un ited Nations, making clear "we would never follow a policy of appeasement toward anyone." Elimination of communist infil tration in America. Weather Mai . S3 . SJ . II . 33 S3 Mm. M M 30 30 40 1 Sal Portland San Francisco Chicago .IS Nw York WiHamrtt river 4 FORECAST (from US. weather Wi reau. MrNarjr field. Salem): Cloud with occasional llfht ratna today. ) flight and Wednesday. LitUe chaos ai temperature. High temperature, todaf U. low tonight 40. 5c No. 207 October 1 Level Set For Firm By Robert E. Gaagwar - Ctty Editor, The Statesman Salem Electric received a linv ited franchise virtually restricting it to present operations, over th protests of council minority ana spokesmen for the cooperativ which distributes Bonneville pow er, In action Monday, night by th Salem city council. Other controversial bills on an Oregon Motor Stages franchise and city sewer service rentals were, held over for public hearings, De cember 8. The electric franchise was one of 15 ordinances adopted at the IVt hour session in city hall (details on page 2). The electric franchise ordinance) which passed Over the dissent ot Aldermen David O'Hara and Al bert H. Gille had been presented by City Manager J. L. Fransen. It calls for Salem . Electric fran chise which may be terminated on 80 dayr notice, which covers or.ly the service extended as of Octo ber 1 to customers within this city plus necessary repair and main tenance and which charges a fee amounting to 34 per cent of the cooperative's gross receipts. . C-op Bill restpened ' Salem Electric, in a bill drafted by its attorney, Allan Carson, and introduced by Alderman Gille. had requested a five-year franchise for general operation in Salem, with a fee of S per cent of gross receipts. This bill was voted "post poned indefinitely." "I don't see where this bill gives Salem Electric any privileges net now enjoyed," declared Alderman O'Hara In voting against it, "I consider it an affront to the re spected citizens of Salem who operate this service." (The non profit cooperative, which has a general franchise In West Salem, heretofore operated in Salem on, a permit basis.) Describing Salem Electric as an organisation of Salem business men backed by Salem capital, AU dennan Gille opposed the limited franchise bill and said. "I believe the present low electric rates are, due to competition and L still be lieve in free enterprise." . DapHcatiea Feared 1 Alderman Daniel J. Fry sup ported the measure, however, pointing out that one company (Portland General Electric). noW serves virtually alt Salem resi dents and that duplication of ef fort would mean two sets of "fixed - expenses' and mitigat against low rates in the long run. Alderman Howard Maple said the proposal for Bonneville power in Salem had been twice defeat ed by voters here, but suggested the possibility of amending the bill to include Salem Electric op erations started since October 1. Attorney Carson explained, how ever, that expansion since Octo ber 1 had been accomplished largely by use of private proper ty rather than public streets for new lines. , Carson also called attention to the 2 per cent of gross receipts which Salem Electric pays the state in lieu of taxes. He asserted the extra H per cent assessed against the cooperative as 'city fee in the city's franchise bill ' brought the fee percentage high er than the Portland General Electric's and that it was not th fault of the cooperative that its state "tax" is not returned to thr city directly. Kate Said Lowest Carson said the 90-day notice for termination of franchise was unfair and would make financing difficult for- Salem Electric. He submitted that Salem Electric's rate of 2 cents per kilowatt hour is lowest in the state. He said Salem Electric has 84 users in Salem and more than 500 In this vicinity. Dr. F. G. Rankin, operator of a -veterinary hospital, said he and about 100 other Hollywood dis trict business men wanted Salem Electric service. He said he want ed electric heat which Portland General Electric would not supply "until late next year." PGE Said Ready Fred Starrett, local manager for Portland General Electric, said service for heat was being in stalled wherever transformer ca pacity permitted and was being promised for next April 1 or be fore in other leases. He pointed out that heavily increased elec tric loads of the war period and since had abnormally increased maintenance and expansion . re quirements for PGE, whereas relatively new system like Salem Electric had as yet but little maintenance requirement. ' (Other council news on page 2.) Tis Meatless Tuesday