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Notes on the Presidential Candidates
We wrote the other day that all the candidates for president
except Henry Wallace were apparently running against Uncle Joe
Stalin. Another exception is Senator Robert A. Taft. In Ohio he's
running against S Lassen, pasting the new deal label on the
Minnesota ex-governor and hoping to make it stick. Political
forecasters however predict that Stassen will pick up a number of
delegates in Taft's home state, which would be another blow at
the latter's chances.
Actually Taft is a far abler and stronger man than the
popularity polls indicate. He has a real philosophy of govern
ment and courage enough to adhere to it. often to his own poli
tical detriment. While his reactions may be too conservative to
meet the temper of the time, one cannot question his intellectual
honesty. So refreshing is it to have a man with positive ideas in
politics that it is disappointing he attracts in the popularity polls
(which is pretty much what the primaries are) so small a per
centage of the voters.
Harold Stassen seems to have set both the pattern and the
pace for the Oregon competition. Governor Dewey is adopting
Stassen s tactic, only more so, in making virtually a doorbell
circuit of the state in May. Evidently the New York governor,
whose home is on a farm in New York state, plans to leave no
corncob unturned and few hands of voters unshaken in his
bid for Oregon's preference.
Henry Wallace is making friends with the Townsendites. He
coddled the senior citizens' in his CBS broadcast Wednesday
night. Not as much of a political factor as they were 10 years ago
the Townsendites are still loyal to the idea of liberal old age
pensions; but most of them are too conservative to have any
truck with Henry's communist following.
News from the democratic front is that Gael Sullivan, exe
cutive director of the national committee has reined. He quits
to take -a $50,000 a year job also to get out of trying to run
the democratic campaign this year. His has betn a sorry task, with
his party cracking up under him, and President Truman giving
him little or no help. He tells Chairman McGiath that his "heart
will be with you." But it is pretty well broken after his harrow
ing experiences as party manager.
"RolM?rla' to Clo Drama Year
The drama department, which has already presented three
fine plas dur:ng the year, will close its repertory with the
operetta "Roberta", music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Otto Har
back. at the senior high school auditorium ton ghl and tomorrow
night Previous offerings have been "State of the Union". Berke
ley Square and "Little Minister." All drew high acclaim from
critics and audience. This program of actual production of good
plays has been developed by Prof. Lloyd Jones, head of the drama
department.
The plavs have given drama students opportunity to develop
their talents and at the same time have given the public the op
portunity to see stage plays that have proven successful on
Broadway ard circuits over the country. Only one thing has been
disappointing and that has been the size of the crowds. Though
appeals have been made for public patronage, evidently too many
people have thought they were of concern only to the university
community, which is not true. They are popular plays which
should attract the general public.
The tuneful operetta "Roberta" will be a major feature of
May day week end. always a high point in the university calendar.
Friends of the university and all those who want to enjoy an
evening of fine entertainment should attend this presentation
tonight or tomorrow night.
Not So Funny
Last year a California school group studied the children's
"comic" books and decided they weren't as bad as some reform
er had pronounced them. They decided that kids read the super
human exploits of the crime-don't-pay-strip heroes with a
tongue-in-cheek attitude, and that perusing the fast-action panels
wa a mild and. harmless form of recreation for city-bred
youngsters.
Judge Daniel A. Roberts of Chicago would say "fie" to that.
He just sentenced 13-year-old Howard Lang to 22 years in
prison for the murder of his seren-year-old playmate. And the
Judge indicted horror "comics" and parental irresponsibility in
strong terms, as the two influences most responsible for Howard's
crime.
True. Howard didn't have a happy homelife. Maybe his
father "sold synthetic gin. and his mother didn't care" like the
old Bowery song. So the little tow-head took refuge in the comics
and from their garish illustrations learned in gruesome detail a
multitude of atrocities, from intricate tortures to "clean-cut"
lugging and sapping. The stories always have the old "it-don't-pay"
moral tacked on, but before the child gets to the end he
experiences vicariously so much that is bad that such condition
ing renders him unable, finally, to distinguish between right and
wrong.
Said the judge. "That these publications are permitted to be
sold to the youth of the country is a travesty upon the country's
good sense." His 11-page judicial opinion contains enough body
blows at the comics to make even Superman look a little green
around the gills.
Republicans ought to avoid the mistake they made last
year in fighting confirmation of appointments to the atomic
energy cornmission. Holding them up would be pure (or impure)
politics. It would quite effectively demoralize the work of devel
oping atomic energy plants and atomic research, and that is too
great a price to pay for the spoils of a few offices.
The Portland Oregoniaa is engaged in a great journalistic
battle. No, it isn't taking any hand in the bet presidential primary
campaign, or in the race for governor or members of the legisla
ture; nor for mayor (walk wide around that one). But it is
opening up 'its editorial guns on the weatherman. Such courage
deserves commendation, even if the campaign is bootless.
Though Queen Elizabeth is Scotch there was no bagpipe
music when she and King George celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary. Some one had poured hot coffee into the bagpipes.
What saxophones are to the USA bagpipes are to the English.
No political defection is Marion and Polk counties. Primary
registrations show republicans still strongly entrenched in these
counties, though in spite of registration they wavered sadly in the
campaigns of the late FDR.
Construction of a railroad
Recalling the Alcan highway
would think the U.S. had sunk
this generation.
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into Alaska is now being urged.
and the Canol oil project one
enough money in the north for
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(Cuntipoed tram page 1)
bonds issued for the lands pur
chased and to accumulate funds
for forest development. The lands
will be held permanently though
probably exchanges will be made
te permit blocking of tracts.
Under this policy counties wfU
have a continuous income which
in course of time will be greatly
in excess of the taxes formerly
derived from the lands. Also the
state forests will be a reservoir
of timber to support industry and
community Bie. They will also
help avert too great monopoly
in forest industries. That ten
dency is apparent in Oregon
Long-Bell for example has Just
bought out another Oregon tim
ber concern.
The great need now is a vigor
ous attack on the deforested
lands which have been burned
over so often they do not re
stock themselves. The Tillamook
burn is the big desert and if
voters approve a bond issue pro
posal which has been submitted
by the legislature this attack can
be made. Eventually state forests
will be great asset for the state
for the local taxing districts and
for th industries and institu
tions in the area where they
are located.
Richard Eof f
To File Today
For New Trial
Application for a new trial is
to be filed this morning on be
half of Richard Eoff, convicted
April 21 on a charge of assault
with intent to kill. Eoffs attorney
said Thursday. The petition will
come before Circuit Judge George
R. Duncan, who had delayed sen
tencing Eoff pending the applica
tion. The attorney. E. R. Ringo, said
Thursday night he would base the
petition on three alleged points
the court's refusal to give to the
jury more than three of the eight
instructions requested by the de
fense; the court's instruction that
the jury might find Eoff guilty
on the original charge or a lesser
one. namely assault with a danger
ous weapon; the absence of the
defendant from the courtroom at
the time the jury originally sub
mitted its verdict.
Sentencing of Eoff had been
set for last Saturday but was con
tinued for one week. He was con
victed of assaulting Mrs. Lillian
j Gardner, elderly Salem woman.
with a flashlight In her home last
February.
Army Seeks
Enlistee for
Post in Salem
Salem's U.S. army recruiters are
looking for an enlistee to serve,
of all places, right here in Salem.
This de luxe assignment, and a
similar one in Corvallis, calls for
an administrative specialist to as
sist on a regular duty status in the
organized reserve instruction
group. Salem already has on duty
as instruction officer for army re
serve components, Capt. Richard
Reynolds.
Applicants must be World War
II veterans who were discharged
In staff sergeant or higher grade,
with occupational specialty num
ber of 502, after at least two years'
overseas duty. They can be accept
ed only for three-year enlistment.
Applicants are advised to bring
their qualification record (form
100) to the army recruit office In
Salem postoffice.
Pay for a man qualified for this
assignment would total well over
$300 per month, recruiters said.
Renovation of
Home Granted
A $6,000 addition more man
doubling the size of his house was
approved Thursday by the city
building inspection department for
H. P. Anderson at 2013 N. 17th st
The project will add a living
room, three bedrooms and bath
room to the present 23 by 24 foot
building which is to be converted
into kitchen and utility space.
Other city building permits la
sued Thursday authorize three new
houses, tor Lawrence Brown, at
2655 SkopH st. estimated to cost
$j0O0; L. W. Schrunk, 1030 N.
22nd st, K.000, and Wayne H.
Kuhl, 263S Sunrise ave, $9,000.
A $1,000 house alteration at 26s
N. lTth at, was approved for P.
M. Hilaaoe, a $600 house reloca
tion at 160 Maple st, for Cecil
Howe and a $339 reroofing project
for Jalla T. Olson at 2224 N. Libert,-
st.
Betas Form
Alumni Qub
A Central Willamette Valley
chapter of Beta Theta PI frater
nity alumni association was form
ed Thursday noon with George
Todd of Salem elected president.
Other dffleers are Willard Marsh
all, vice president, and J. Howard
Shubert, secretary-treasurer.
Twelve animal attended the
meeting la Golden Pheasant res
taurant, conducted by Dr. G.Her
bert Smith, president of Willam
ette university and of the nation
al fraternity. Future meetings
were set tor the. third Thursday
of each month.
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Nominees for
TO Student
Posts Revealed
Candidates for student body
offices at Willamette university
for the next school year' were
announced yesterday from stu
dent body president Stuart Comp-
ton's office.
All candidates received nomi
nations after presenting a peti
tion bearing names of 25 stu
dents to the student manager.
Dr. Daniel Shulze. last Wednes
day. Voting for the officers will
take place Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Candidates for student body
president are George Hurt. War
ren ton; Charles Cloudy, Ketchi
kan, Alaska; and Stanley Ryals,
Salem. First vice president, Wil
liam Harris, Seattle, Wash.; Pa
tricia Holtz, Portland; and Ray
McCoy, Turner. Second vice pres
ident, Betty Ferguson, Richland,
Wash.; Albert McMullen. Taft;
Gordon Murdock, Salem; and
Robert Sayre, Beaverton.
Joan Cloudy, Ketchikan, Alas
ka; i Carol Dimond, Portland;
Edith Fairham, Salem; and Joan
Thomas, Port Orford, are on the
I ballot for secretary.
i Candidates for class represen-
j tatives to the student council are
seniors, George Gottfried, Salem;
Cecil Johnson. Pendleton; and
Jesse Jones, Hood River; juniors.
Rex Edmonson. Portland; Ray
Carl Krause, Portland, was the
Atkinson, San Mateo, Calif., and
Russell Tripp, Albany; sopho
mores. Jack Eby, Astoria; William
Ross, Salem: and Frank Wash
burn, Portland.
only candidate for yell king.
Status of Hillcrest,
Training School
Charges Defined
Children committed to Oregon's
training schools cannot be classed
as criminals. Attorney General
George Neuner ruled Thursday in
an opinion for the state board of
control.
Neuner stated that the state
training school for boys at Wood
bum and the Hillcrest school for
girls in Salem are not pel in
stitutions. He said the tools'
function is to protect the c in Id re n
rather than punish them. The in
mates, he said, are classed as de
linquent or dependent children,
not criminals.
Stocks End on
High Ground
NEW YORK, April 29--Fast
demand for oil and railway
shares had small effect on a gen
erally bullish stock market today.
Oils and rails closed fractions
to more than 2 points higher.
Most other issues changed very
little.
Gains finally outweighed losses
but it was a close shave 423
Issues higher, 382 lower. Volume
of 1.480,000 shares compared
with 1.400,000 Wednesday.
On the average, the market
was up .1 of a point at 67.4. as
measured by the Associated Press
index of 60 stocks.
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. report
ed net earnings of about $33,
000.000 for the first quarter,
against $19,000,000 in the like
1947 quarter.
Evidently Wall Street ers figur
ed the oil producers would do all
right for themselves in the
months to come. Domestic de
mand has soared to new peaks
and the industry has tried to
keep up not too successfully
in some cases by expanding
output to the limit of Its fa
culties. A Feu
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Frank M. Farmer
Candidate far
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National Delegate
Frank M. Farmer of RickrealL.
Polk county, is actively engaged
in his campaign for delegate to
the republican " "
national conven-r
tion at Philadel-"-
phia next June'; '
from the first -
c o n g r essional I i
district of Ore-
gon. Delegates i
are elected at'V
the May 2
marifii,
there are two
wo to I M I
from! S I
be chosen
this district. Frank Farmer
Farmer was born in East Ten
nessee in 1888. and came to Ore
gon with hi parents in 1892. He
has resided in Polk and Yamhill
counties since that time, where
he Is engaged In general farm
ing, fruit and nut growing, and
in the warehouse business He
is very successful and has large
holdings in Polk county.
He was Polk county commis
sioner from 1926 to 1934. and
during World War II he was a
member of the Polk county se
lective service board, serving
under appointment of the then
Gov. Charles A. Sprague.
Farmer is member of the
board of directors of the Oregon
Farmers Union cooperative, and
is a charter member of the Wil
lamette Valley Cherry Growers
association formed in 1932, and
has been a member of that board
ever since.
He married Blanche Fawk and
they have two children, Robert
and Ruth, who have attended
Willamette university and Ore
gon State college. Farmer Is a
member of the Methodist church.
Masonic lodge and the Salem and
Independence Gun dubs.
His slogan on the ballot is
-If elected, 1 shall vote as di
rected by the republican voters
of Oregon."
(Suaaay: Tt4 S. Laaapart.)
Improvement of
South River
Road Slated
Shoulder repair and grading will
be provided for South River road.
Marion county court decided
Thursday following a request by
a local delegation and inspection
by Commissioners Ed Rogers and
Roy Rice.
A county crew Thursday did
considerable patching of the road
as far south as It is oiled, said
Rogers.
The delegation comprised the
Salem Chamber of Commerce
roads and highways committee,
headed by A. C. Haag, and several
residents along South River road,
including representatives of Salem
Saddle club. They urged a pro
gram of maintenance to keep the
road in proper shape for Its heavy
traffic until it Is Improved as the
highway to the projected Willam
ette river bridge at Independence,
which is expected to be completed
within about two years.
The road is included on the
schedule for federal aid and has
a priority only second to Salem
Sllverton highway, according to
the court.
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Sears Elected
By Hereford
Association
By Little L. tfaasea
farm Edfoc. The lhtnmM
R. B. Sears, route 3 Salem, was
elected firt president of the Ore
gon Polled Hereford association,
rrrganized at a called meeting
Thursday night at Marion hotel.
Don Chit tendon, secretary of the
national Hereford association.
Kansas City, Mo., served as
chairman.
Assisting Sears will be Dick
Ward of Halsey. vice president;
Ben A. Newell, Salem, secretary
treasurer, with directors includ
ing Paul Townsend. Gervaia; Roy
Newport, Detroit: Frank Studnik,
Scio; B. O. Tom. Alsea. and C.
Newtnn. Corvallis.
The group voted to hold a tour
followmr the state fair thh aut
umn and its first sale here in
February. Interest in Polled
Hereford enteries in the state fair
itself will be encouraged, and the
next meeting will be held in Late
May or early June, the exact
date to be set by the newly elect
ed president and secretary.
Chittendon. speaker, told that
at the first Polled Hereford
meeting held in 1901 a total of
11 head were represented while
today there are 350,000 Polled
Here fords registered in the Unit
ed States. In 1947 alone 32.000
head were added, and 1948 is
running about 10 per cent higher
than last year, the speaker said.
Shows, sales and tours were the
three projects. Chittendon said,
which would keep cattle organi
zations alive, and he urged the
newly formed group to work to
ward (these as annual affairs. He
closed' with the statement that
the Willamette valley seemi ripe
for additional beef cattle. In or
der to raise cattle successfully
you have to have water, shade
and grass, and you certainly have
all three here."
Concert Series
Approved by
Local Group
By Ma vine Borea
Statesman Music Editor
Five first-rate performances are
promised Salem Community Con
cert association members in next
winter's series selected at a meet
ing of the board of directors
Thursday afternoon.
Leonard Warren, baritone from
the Metropolitan, Chicago, San
Francisco and Latin-American op
era companies was selected to open
the series in October. Warren has
become known as one of the great
est singer-aciors of the day, and
was given high praise by critics in
cities where he sang last year.
Tossy Spivakovsky, Russian born
violinist with a steadily mounting
popularity will appear here in
December. A naturalized citizen
of the United States, he has ap
peared as soloist with several of
the country's leading orchestras.
All critics in San Francisco, follow
ing his initial performance there
in January, went "all out" for his
playing.
Third In the series will be Elea
nor Steben, soprano of Metropoli
tan and radio fame. Featured sing
er on the Firestone hour for several
years. Miss Steber is one of the
most popular of sopranos of our
day. She will be in Salem in April.
Vronsky and Babin, best known
of the duo pianists were selected
by popular acclaim. They are re
cognized as top in their field. The
series has had two other duo piano
teams, both of which proved highly
popular. Theirs will be a March
concert.
The final program in March Is
one which should be looked for
ward to with anticipation. Ruth
Mats and Eugene Hari, a pair of
satirists and mimes who come with
four assisting artists. Their pro
grams are said to be delightful,
with entertainment for the eye,
ear and imagination a "pure case
of nonsence translated into real
of artists were made
by the board, on the strength of
many telephone calls from mem
bers, and a suggested list given by
those attending the workers meet
ing this week.
Iron Fireman
Plans Agency
Opening of a Marion-Polk coun
ty agency for Iron Fireman equip
ment was announced Thursday by
C. J. Hansen, whose firm will
open Monday at 2303 Fairgrounds
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