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'4 Tho Skrtman. Salem. Ore., Jt "N0 Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March it, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publishtr Member af the Associated Press (The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the ose fer republi cation ef all the local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all A? siews dispatches. Sea Level Canal The growth of traffic to b the Panama canal and tho through military action have Mehaffey, governor of the canal, of the present canal with its system of locks to one at sea level. The estimated cost is nearly IVi billions or about seven times tho first cost of the present canal. Gen. Mehaffey advises that sea level lock could not bo put out of business more than temporarily by even at atomic bomb, and if waters were made radio-active tho contamination would quickly bo reduced. When tho canal was being planned a great controversy raged over whether it should be a "lock canal or a sea level canal. Experts lined up on both sides of tho issue. Finally it was decided to construct locks t Isthmus and build a canal without locks. Since then the govern ment has expended tens of millions of dollars in military de fenses of tho canal; and now tho largest ships are barely able to squeeze through the locks. Also receiving consideration through Nicaragua. This was Morgan of Alabama when congress was considering the selec tion of a route. It would bo a lock canal, and its construction would give two crossings of the isthmus of Panama. Tho cost alone will probably deter any action to go ahead with a sea level canal for a good many years. However it la quite within range of possibility within this century. Increase in volume of traffic to be handled and possible increase in beam of vessels may force action together with desire for the added security which this typo of canal New Atomic Weapons t The fifth anniversary of the the atomic bomb was practical by David Lilienthal in which ho ducing new atomic weapons from uranium and plutonium. He did not disclose what type the new weapons are; put the atomic energy commission has just announced that Eniwetok atoll in tho Pacific ocean is to be converted into a proving ground for special research. It seems evident that science has pushed far beyond tho development which yielded the bombs dropped on Hiroshima. Nagasaki and Bikini. It also seems evident that utilization of nuclear fission for military purposes is absorbing much of tho commission's effort. From the brief announcements that have been made the Han ford project is one for production of military weapons; and It is known that great expansion is under way there. Research In conversion of atomic energy to peaceful use is done at Oak ridge, Term, and at a plant under construction in New York state; but wo hear little talk of atomic power plants for civil ians at an early date. Lacking any international agreement for control of this newly harnessed force our country has to press its research for defense purposes lest it find itself outdistanced by potential enemies. Fears of what might happen drive us to contrive new those who visualize atomic energy as providing fresh release those who visualize atomic energy a sproviding fresh release of man from painful toil, there seems little escape from this experimentation. Perhaps the knowledge that wo have mys terious wapons in our arsenal may restrain other nations that might be tempted to pounce upon us. But we must not lose sight of the better objective of adapting this new power Jor beneficial use of all mankind. An Uncheerful Giver .While the senate passed the emergency aid authorization measure Monday, the house may scale down the amount or add amendments which would prove humiliating to this country as a donor. The house foreign affairs committee has already voted to reduce the amount for Europe by $70,000,000 and added $60, OPO.000 as aid to China. In the end the senate version will prob ably prevail, but not until house members show such a mean and nasty spirit as to rob the gift of any merit of generosity. The prospect for the long range ERP program is not too bright in view of the recrudescence of republican isolationism In the congress. It is this attitude which chisels on the short range program and promises to be released in full fury when the proposal for the larger appropriations is offered. The opposition hangs on the argument that the country cannot afford the larger commitment, in seeming disregard of the counter-argument that we cannot afford not to facilitate European recovery. The country should give heed to expert counsel both as to Europe's need and our capacity to contribute. It should re pudiate the doctrine that we alone may stay wealthy while the world goes Into decay. Train of Yesterday The General Motors "train of tomorrow" visited Salem Tuesday and is on display at the union station, Portland, the last three days of this week. Naturally it attracts a great deal op attention. Largely through the publicising efforts of Lucius Beebe, the "glass of fashion and the mold of form," public interest is also being drawn to the roads and the trains of yester-year, to the narrow gauge lines that once had consider able mileage in this country. The bid passenger cars, with their red plush seats, their wood or coal stoves at the end of the coaches which the brakie diligently fired, their kerosene or gas lights, with the swaying signal cord strung along beneath how times have changed, though the railroads had to drag out all of this equipment that would stay on tracks to handle traffic In the war emergency. Now each coach la a parlor in comparison; and they ar even putting roller bearings on livestock cars. It is hard to get excited over reports that Maj. Gen. Benny Meyers speculated in government bonds. While officially the government frowned on such speculation, actually many times directors of bond campaigns had to press wealthy men to buy big gobs of bonds, even with "borrowed money, to meet quotas. Banks themselves have done a vast amount of trading in govern ments and cleaned up big profits in tho business. We fail to fee any sin in the business. President Truman showed the visiting firemen, delegates to a haberdasher convention that he still knew the knack of the salesman in showing a necktie. At this season of the year his fingers almost would go through the motions of making tho familiar false knot without any prompting. Australia is harvesting a bumper wheat crop of 300,000,000 bushels. It will be able to increase its grain exports and thus augment the supplies that may be shipped , to hungry peoples from North America, the chief supplier. - The familiar theme of mystery stories the theft of the dye of a goddess or dragon has its counterpart -in real life. From Bangkok, Siam, comes word of the stealing of a three carat diamond from the forehead of a Buddha. Call for Ellery Queen. ' - Wednesday, December 3. 1947 handled through the locks of dangers of blocking the canal prompted Maj. Gen. Joseph C to recommend tho conversion rather than to cut through the is the idea of building a canal tho route favored by Senator would provide. - test which demonstrated that was marked with an address said that our plants are pro Budget Meets Set in Rural School Zones Final plans for completing e: aminations of Marion county school district budgets by the new county rural school district board have been made, Mrs. Agnes Booth, county school superinten dent, said Tuesday. Zones S -and 4 are tho last zones scheduled for budget meet ings. Budgets of districts in zone 4 will be considered Monday night in ML Angel by Mrs. Booth, and Fred Schwab, Mt Angel, chairman of that zone. Meetings on zone S budgets have been slated for two sections of tho district next Tuesday by Mrs. Booth and Eugene Finlay, Jefferson, zone chairman. Tues day morning a meeting will bo held at Jefferson high school for budgets of districts in that area of the zone and Tuesday after noon a similar budget meeting will be held at Salem Heights school. Annual budgets for 1948-49 of districts in zona were approved Monday at a meeting in Stayton. Mrs. Booth said that the budgets will be revised according to tho rural district board's recommen dation, posted In the districts on December 19, and voted on in each individual district on Jan uary 12. Budgets of zone 2 will bo ex amined today at Keiier school with Herman Rehfuss, board member, assisting Mrs. Booth. McGUchrist Estate Totalled William McGUchrist, jr, late prominent real estate dealer who died hero November 14, left an estate totaling in excess of $25, 000, according to a filing in Mar ion county circuit court Tuesday. In the will filed, which ho made in 1942, McGUchrist left the entire estate of real and per sonal property to his wife, Iva S. McGUchrist, and in tho event of her death tho estate was to go to their daughter, Josephine Buck of Portland. The two wom en are the solo heirs. A court order Tuesday apr pointed Mrs.. McGUchrist as exe cutrix as was requested in the will. Leo N. Child. Lester Barr and I. J. Scellars were named as appraisers. Exact description of tho estate was not filed. YM to Retain Camp Program The local YMCA wiU continue to administer tho SUvor Crook recreational area, control of which was transferred from the federal to tho state government recently, M. E. "Gus" Moore, Salem Y of ficial, told the Junior chamber of commerce at its Tuesday meet ing in the Marion hoteL Mooro said tho Y, which ad ministers the summer camps, hold in the recreation area, had been asked to continue the work by Sam Boardman, state superinten dent of parks. Moore also discussed various phases of the YMCA program' in Salem and declared that-added quarters were needed to ade quately care for the recreational needs of Salem's growing popu lation. 2 Road Sections Offered County In Illahee Area An offer by the state highway commission to return two sections of the Pacific highway south of Salem between Illahee school and Steiwer hill was received Monday by Marion county court. Commissioner Roy Rice said that when County Judge Grant Mur phy returns next week from his vacation, the court would vote on whether to accept the offer. The portions of road in ques tion were abandoned by tho state when it rerouted the Pacific high way several years ago. The offer from the commission states that the county may claim the portions of the old road if it agrees to keep them up and complies with other requirements. The sections of road swing out into farming country to tho west of the highway and are about IV miles in length. They are situated uist north of . the recently com pleted stretch of new highway near Albany. Oregon Bank Theft Suspects Jailed In Bakersfield, Cal. PORTLAND, Dec. 2 -(JP)- The U. S. district attorney's office here reported today that Kern county, Calif., court have sen tenced two of the men involved in two Oregon bank holdups to California jail terms on robbery and assault charges in that state. Henry Clay Tollett was sen tenced to from five years to life for the. armed robbery of a Bak ersfield, Calif., market. Sam Scribner received a similar sen tence on the same charge and was also given a concurrent sen tence of one to seven years for assault with a dangerous weapon. The two men have been named in indictments growing out of the E. G. Young bank of Oakland, Ore., and complicity in the Sweet Home robbery. Loot in the two bank holdups totaled $89,000. Chief Deputy District Attorney E. B. Twining said he has not yet decided whether to bring the two men to Portland to stand trial. GRIN AND BEAR "We wu all set to rob do bank messenger, chief, whoa who shoald wander along bat ie grocer bey wit do day's receipts! Franchise Suit Continued to Allow Briefs Following a hearing in Marion county circuit court Tuesday tho case of City of Salem vs. Harry Road, on appeal from Salem mu nicipal court, was continued to allow both parties to file briefs. Circuit Judge E. M. Page, who presided at tho hearing, said that tho plaintiff was allowed 10 days in which to file a brief and tho defendant an additional 10 days to answer. Read, manager of Salem Elec tric, was convicted several months ago In municipal court on a charge of unlawfully Installing a wire over Ferry street without a city permit, and appealed to the circuit court. Allan Carson and Robin Day, attorneys for Read, contended in brief arguments Tuesday that tho present city ordinance granting permission to extend electric linos but requiring a franchise for each separate lino Is unconstitutional. The city was represented by Chris Kowitz, city attorney, who declared the ordinance to bo valid. Most of tho facts of tho case were stipulated and arguments consid ered legal points only. Willamette U. Orators Leave For Whitman Six Willamette debaters will leave here today for Whit ian col lege, WaUa Walla, where they will vie with representatives from other northwest colleges in the northern division speech confer ence Thursday through Saturday. The conference is under tho auspices of the Western Associa tion of Teachers of Speech, Wil lamette participants going are Jack Gunn, Jerry Igo, Elliot Mot schenbacher, Tom Bartlett, Charles MiUs and Robert Sayre. Dr. Herbert Rahe, professor of speech at Willamette, wiU accom pany tho group. Each student wiU participate in six rounds of de bate. The debate subject will be "Re solved: That a Federal World Government Should Be Estab lished," and trophies will be awarded for all first places. Betty Ferguson and Gunn won third place in the men's and wom en's extemporaneous speech con test held at the University of Ore gon Monday night. November Rain Below Normal Unlike the preceding month of October, November rainfaU In the Salem area was loss than half the normal total, the U. S. weather bureau at McNary field reports. Total precipitation in Salem In November was S.42 inches as compared with the average 6.11 inches and less than one-fourth of the 11.17 deluge in October. It was the driest November since 1943 when 2.36 inches was meas ured. November also brought one of tho warmest Thanksgiving holi day periods in recorded history when the temperature rose to 60 degrees on November 25 and was only three degrees cooler on Thanksgiving day. Coldest tem perature recorded was on the eve-' ning of November 22 when the mercury dropped to 25 degrees. Health Office Slates Clinics Marion county's health depart ment today will conduct a clinic at Garfield school from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 pjn. On Thursday a well-baby clinic will be held at the department's Sa lem office in the Masonic temple from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Immu nizations will- be conducted at Liberty school Friday morning and an adult clinic for milk and food handlers will be held at the office all day. From 8:30 ajn. to noon on Saturday immunizations will be given and an adult clinic will be held at the office. IT ByLichty 2 Hi-Y Clubs Plan Dinner Leslie junior high school's two Hi-Y clubs, the Tracy Strong and Dwight Edwards chapters, met at the YMCA Monday night and made plans for a meeting Decem ber Is which will include a bas ketball game between tho clubs followed by a no-host dinner. At Monday's meeting members wore shown two navy movies filmed during tho last war. The picture were shown by members of tho local navy recruiting serv ice and, were brought to the meet ing through arrangements made by Pat Emmons and Joe Law, club advisers and both navy vet erans. Low Standard of Living in Africa, Asia Discussed Tho "ignorance and supersti tion a ad filth" of a great part of Asia and Africa, particularly in tho seven Arab states, "would bo unbelievable if it wasn't- docu mented," Orin W. Hankins, for merly a teacher in several parts of tho world, told the Salem Ki wania club Tuesday. Hankins, now an attorney and hi ah school instructor at Mill City, detailed several incidents of his residence in the eastern hemi sphere and spoke of tho high rates of illiteracy and death in EjTYDt and neighboring vintri Initiated as new Kiwanis club members Tuesday were Harold A. Rosebraugh, A. W. Metzger, J. E. Cook and Wayne M. Keeney. Pnb lie .Record CttCUIT COURT Betty M. DunLarv va John 8 rjua, lavy: Order permit withdrawal at complaint and croaa complaint. Edna O. Brewer va CHarlaa Stav-tna and others: Decree quiets plaintiff una to real property. Grant H. Spiers and Virginia K. Spier Tt Ruth C. Fuson Frantt and outers: Decree quiets plaintiff title to real property. M. X. Wolf and Nora X. Wei r Charles Stay ton and outers: Decree quiet plaintiff' title to real property. Jack A. Ellis v Blanche A. Ell: Decree of divorce granted. Allen Derr-va Eleanor Derr: Suit for divorce charging- cruel and In human treatment ask for custody of a minor child. Married Aug. 30. IMS. at- Caldwell. Idaho. Jeanette Everett vs Robert L. Ev erett: Second amended and supple mental complaint for divorce filed. Rita Crumley v William Henry Crumley: Suit for divorce seek Judg ment against defendant for $1,470. Married March 9. 1922. at Portland. Nina L. Stesney vs Stanley K. Stea nejr: Defendant moves for order re quiring plaintiff to state ground for action. Harry Arnold Roan v Elizabeth Ann Roan: Decree of divorce confirm property settlement. Ccraldine Fern Roth 1 vs Wilford Leslie Roth: Suit for divorce charg ing cruel and inhuman treatment asks for $75 per month support money phis $300 hospital expenses. Married May 7. 1946. at Wichita, Kan. State vs. Lawrence Delbert McHill. 191 Center- St.. charged with unlaw ful use of automobile belonging to Melvin A. Erickson. 1M3 Court St.. sentenced to six months in county jail and paroled. DI8TKICT COURT Harlan Bowles Pearson. 14SS State St.. passing with insufficient clear ance, fined $3 and cost. Chester Arthur Pickering;. Turner, passing with insufficient clearance, fined SS and costs. Frank We is beck, Salem route t, cfcarged with reckless driving, set for trial on December 19 following plea of innocent; released on $250 bad. MUNICIPAL COURT Byron N. LondDerg. 497 N. Front St.. running red light, posted 93.50 bail. Robert Delmus Key. SSS Norman Lave., failure- to stop, fined $1. Jacx u. Harwood. 11U Edgewater St., West Salem, driving while intoxi cated. SO-day jail sentence suspend ed, fined $185. PROBATE COURT Edward H. Hairy estate: January set for hearing on final account. William James Malcomb estate: de cree allows final account. Sarah Giles estate: Estate appraised at $3,500. Jesse H. Shepard estate: Estate ap praised at S60S. Effie Mack estate: January $ act for hearing on final account. Vernie Edward Lange estate: Order appoints Ronald C Clover a admin istrator. Albert Titze estate: Ruth Halley ap pointed as executrix and J. F. Rich ards. George H. Bell and Johnny Sadowsky appointed as appraisers. RagnhiWI Loe estate: Order appoints Oscar H. Loe as administrator and C. B. Anderson. Conrad Johnson and Henry Amundson as appraisers. MARRIAGE LICENSE ' APPLICATIONS Alvln R. Krexer. 23. farmer. Albany route t, and Mrrna Pearl Hayes, 17. housewife. Jefferson route I. William E. Crsndall. 27. student. Medford. and Alta A. Jennings. 28. stenographer. Rogue River. Earl Kenneth Morgan. 24. ticket clerk. 245', E. Madrona ave.. and Edna mae Schofield. 11. office clerk, llt Cross st, both of Salem. Returns '-'Grow On Seal Sale To Aid Health -First week reports on the an nual Marion county Christmas seal sale show that the Salem area contributions are ahead of the amount collected during the ini tial week last year? Mrs. Ruby Bunnell, executive secretary of the Marion county public health association, said Tuesday. Of the approximately 15,000 letters mailed to Salem residents last week, a total of 1,581 have been returned to date containing $2,696. The week's receipts were about $278 more than- those re ceived during the sale's first week last year when 1,477 letters were returned, said Mrs. Bunnell. Sponsored by the public health association, the seal sale funds are the sole support of the mo bile X-ray units and the health education program, Mrs. Bunnell stated. She also revealed Monday that three seal sale booths will be set up Saturday" In the downtown area, manned by several local woratn'i organizations. The booths are to be in the post office, conducted by Eastern Star order 37; Montgomery Word & Co., di rected by Rebeksh lodge and Sa lem chapter of Eastern Star, and in the Salem - Ladd and Bush branch of the U. S. National bank, staffed by the Salem Council of Churchwpmen and the Order of Amaranth. Appeal Filed On Income Tax Verdict A notice of appeal to the state supreme court from a recent Mar ion county circuit court decision involving tho constitutionality of two 1947 legislative acts was filed here Monday by James L. Marr, executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor. The decision was given last month by Circuit Judge George Duncan following arguments of attorneys in open court. It de clared constitutional and valid tho laws decreasing income tax ex emptions and establishing a with holding tax. Tho federation charged that tho two acta were invalid because they depended on the defeat of That's why I turn quintuplots whon I tako Many of the "service spots" in your car are hidden. Lubricating just those you can tit is only half a job. My job it to find and take care of every point that rubs, squeaks or wears I empty ash trays . . . wash windows . . . vacuum or sweep the inside, wipe off the outside of your car. I check tires, lights, battery and radiator. Do t dozen extra services but at no extra cost All because. the sales tax November 7 for their enactment. Judge Duncan ruled, however, that the measures did not depend on the sales tax and that they were, in fact, passed with other laws by the last legis lature. The suit was brought against the members of the state tax commission. Get Safety at Higher Speeds Of TijrQuaie&i 'G&teudTim boys ar tire la ear erere, slses 4.00 ' f I mmd A. SO. 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