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Salaries for State Engineers
Engineers in the employ of the State of Ore
gon have an organization. Its committee has
made a study of engineers salaries and embod
ied its findings in a report. The summary is that
these salaries are below those of other public
bodies on this coast and below sums needed to
Qual the increase in living costs or to attract
qualified men to state employment. Graduates of
our own OSC engineering school are leaving the
state in-large numbers because of more attrac
tive openings elsewhere.
The present wage for engineer's aide is $200
to $245 a month. Recommended in this report is
starting $235-$259 with salary for final grade in
this classification $264 to $288. For civil engi
neer, first grade, the present salary is $270 to
$340. Recommended is $329-$355, advancing to
$318-$355. For top grade of engineer the present
alary is $520-$620 per month. Recommended is
$850-1715 for starting, advancing to $752-$889.
Increase in the salary of the chief engineer of
the highway department from $8400 a year to
$12,000 also is recommnded.
It is not enough to point out that Oregon sal
aries are lower than those in Washington and
California. That situation prevails in virtually
all professions and in -many crafts. On the other
hand, living costs are lower here than in both
other states AND Oregon imposes no sales tax.
Nevertheless, Oregon must advance its sal-
aries for trained engineers, and doubtless the
new budget makes such provision. They carry a
great responsibility and deserve good compensa-f-pn.
For years we have underpaid our top
fhjnt engineers and executives. That they have
stayed on is due to their great interest in their
work and loyalty to the state.
In the case of the highway department parti
cularly poor-talent can be very costly. It is the
end cost of our bridges- and highways that
counts, not the fraction represented by. salaries
of engineers. To attract and hold able men the
state must make its salary offers adequate.
How Much Parity?
Eastern Oregon wheatgrowers want parity
maintained at the legal 90 per cent parity. They
got a lift when Fred Entermille, assistant direc
tor of the department of agriculture grain
branch, said the administration intends to ask
for "high loan rates' and government assistance
In providing storage facilities, inference drawn
from his- address at the Condon meeting of the
E. O. Wheat league is that the adminisfration
would seek to retain the 90 per cent level
That would be a change from the position
taken by President Truman and Secretary Bran
nan. In the last congress they favored a sliding
scale of price support: As surpluses increased
the price guarantee would decline. This was
embodied in the present agricultural act, to be
c35Be effective after 1949, Already there is a
drive to restore the full 90 per cent guarantee,
but that was started by members of the congress
anxious to reward the democratic trend in the
rural midwest. This is the first intimation the
administration was shifting its position.
The parity .measure is an antiquated device
for maintaining farm prosperity. It relates to an
arbitrary period (1910-1914) base for computa
tion. It gives no account to technological im
provements in farming power machinery, im
proved seed strains, use of fertilizer, weedkiller,
etc. Thus, the measure is too rigid and unrealis
tic. I
Again it encourages an unbalanced farm pro
duction. Not all crops get government support.
With this guarantee the farmer is inclined to
grow all the wheat he can instead of some other
crop which may be needed more but has no price
insurance. The sliding scale was devised to put
brakes On overproduction. The only other alter
native is acreage control, which is not very sat
isfactory. To criticize the old parity law Is not to invite
or to welcome farm depression. The national
grange favors flexible supports. Actually, of
course, I the wheatgrowers of eastern Oregon
have enjoyed wonderful prosperity for many
years and are well able to stand a lower price.
If they still insist on government price props
they ought to permit the old formula to be re
vised in the light of present conditions.'
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The Senator Is very busy! . . . he's thinking- up some mandates the
voters gave him election day..." I
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Status of Test-tube Babies
The status of babies conceived by artificial
means has arisen in English courts of law. It
also will create a problem for ecclesiasts to re
solve. Legislative bodies may be asked to pass
laws to define such status. In fact two measures
are up for consideration in the British commons.
Here, indeed, is something not envisioned in the
old mores.
In the case lately decided in an English court,
a woman was granted a divorce from her hus
band oh the ground that her husband was in
capable of normal sexual relations. She had
borne Him a child by means of artificial insem
ination, her husband being the donor of the
sperm. The court referred to the child as illegiti
mate, much to the surprise of many legal and
other authorities.
Presumably, test-tube babies would fall into
four groups: Offspring of a couple lawfully mar
ried; offspring of a married woman and a man
not her husband, where the latter assented to
the insemination; offspring of a married woman
and a man not her husband, the latter ignorant
of or not assenting to the insemination; offspring
of an unmarried woman and a man. Laws even
tually will have to be passed fixing the legiti
macy and inheritance rights of these groups.
So far as is known, no court cases regarding
test-tube babies have come up in this country;
but they probably will arise because women are
resorting to this new means of conception out
of a deep desire for motherhood. Both lawmak
ing bodies and courts will have to exercise en
lightenment in dealing with the problems creat
ed by this venture in modern science.
None of the big graders of football teams put
Oregon ahead of California, so perhaps there
wasn't dirty work at the crossroads after all.
(Continued from page 1)
is, indeed, startling, though vir
tually all of the disclosures
lately made relate to a time ten
years ago when the commies
were hobnobbing with new deal
ers. However, Americans may as
well know the facts of life and
understand that trading In docu
ments is a very old and not
uncommon business. How do you
suppose Washington correspon
dents get so much inside infor
mation often being able to
quote verbatim from confiden
tial documents? They have a
plant on the inside, or someone
comes along and offers them
a copy, for a consideration. For
eign agents operate similarly;
and our agents try to get as
much inside information from
other countries as they can. All
this is the business of an inter
national underworld.
The value of many of these
confidential documents is doubt
ful. After all, our government
has relatively few vital secrets.
We publish the size of our army
and navy, give full information
about our financial budget, re
port progress in military inven
tions. As far as policies go they
are quite fluid. Roosevelt said
once our foreign policy was on
a 24-hour basis, and that con
dition has prevailed under Tru
man. A document on policy
valid today may be waste paper
tomorrow.
Nevertheless, any sign of leak
age in the state department calls
for renewed vigilance. We do
not want any of our depart
ments honey-combed with for
eign spies. That isn't healthy; it
breeds corruption; it may cause
serious damage to our position
in world affairs. But before we
get all excited over the micro
film in 'the Whitaker Chambers
pumpkin-shell let us have the
mystery of microfilms in a
pumpkin-shell cleared up. Did
I China! Fighting
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NANKING, Dec. 4Hp)-Official
attention riveted today on an im
pending collision south of Suchow
by major communist and nation
alist forces which may determine
the immediajte future of the Chi
nese govermtnent
Chinese official circles displayed
considerable (optimism that a head-
on clash wcpuld at least tempo
rarily stabilize the situation. Well
informed foreign military quar
ters expressed belief that even a
partial success would give the
government ISO to 90 'days respite.
Arrival of 133,000 reinforcements
in Nanking from Hankow was an
other cause for easing the recent
black gloom of Chinese officials.
This brought to some 73,000 the
number of effectives holding the
Yangtze rivejr defenses before the
capital.
Red Gen. Chen YI was reported
moving an estimated 123,000
troops into position to block the
southward march of three govern
ment army groups that evacuated
Suchow Wednesday.
The former Suchow garrison.
with some 110,000 effective com
bat troops among its 250,000 men,
was reported attacking towards
the south. The 16th army croup
"The total obligation, for Sn- WM on the West flank, the second
tember for the program were 3r sroup jon the east, with the
$3,83636.00.M The letter of in- 13th nny Tfoup holding the rear
formation received by me was g"ra
signed by Mrs. Kathryn Mal
strom, director, with the name
of Gov. Mon C. Wallgren also
on the heading.
"It Seems To Me- that these "Tls.
figures should be slightly en- OfllCS 111 UClFOlt
lightening on the actual cost of
the proposed pension.
I am 71 years of aee and
don't get old age assistance al
though neither I nor my hus- Burdette Younge, Detroit hotel
band have had any income since I ooerator. and two hotel emnloves
1940 a long time. We were were arraigned in Marion county
teachers but we received less district court! Saturday on charges
wages than grade school teach- of selling liquor at the hotel
ers receive today. without a permit.
We are not even eligible for The three Were arrested Friday
the teachers retirement fund, night by state liquor inspectors
but I do believe "If one of you who said they purchased a bottle
say unto them depart in peace; from the trio. Charged besides
be ye warmed and filled. Not- Younge are JMargaret Halch and
withstanding ye give them not Joe L- Cottori. Each of the accus
those things which are needful ed posted $230 bail, and all were
to the body; what doth it pro- given until December 10 to enter
fit?" Pleas. j
Mrs. Lucena Mountain It was Youpge's second encoun-
Aumsville. ter with the j law within the past
month. He wtas arrested by Mar-
Tvi- T . . , . ion County Sheriff Denver Young
Editor's Note The federal on , charge) of assault 'with in-
governmeni snares in me cosi tent to kiu jtpiiowing a fight m
w "M,.mSiUU u.u aBc - the Detroit Hotel November 13
wMiiire pruKrim wnicn wouia Friday art attempt to oust
not do under the Dunne bill Younge front the hotel property
as written. Also, the latter de- was made 1fga, action
in u-, L. ,c tuted in Marlon county circuit
60. while the Washington law court in Salm. A suit seeking
conforms to the federal standard nninn f? th hti nmic
was filed by Mrs. Hilma E. Dickie,
owner oz met Duuaing.
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guaru. j
Illegal Liquor
Sales in Detroil
! Hotel jCharged
of age 65.
Editorial
Comment
From Our Contemporaries
Size of Berlin
Vote Today to
Signify Trend
BERLIN, r)ec. 4 -WV Nearly
FRATERNITY LEADERSHIP
The fraternities and sororities
of United States colleges and
universities have hefore them
the choice of two roads. They 2j000,000 Gerjnans. blockaded 100
can be purely social organiza- miles behind; the iron curtain,
tions providing pleasant living were urged tonight to vote "for
and association for their mem- freedom and against communism"
bers during undergraduate years. in tomorrow's; city election.
They can become considerably What ordinarily would be a lo-
more than that and provide a c1 contest bejtween rival political
campus and post-graduate lead- parties has been magnified by the
ership that will fully merit the eas " west struggle into a giant
tooi. .vr.ro.c n straw in the wind indicating
they keep as well there as did national charters and, initiation which conqueror the Germans
The list of candidates for the state senatorship
forms i Q. The name of the appointee is still X.
Mrs. Peter Pumpkin-eater?
The
U.N. Control Over Berlin Considered Safety Valve
By Joseph and Stewart Alsep
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 It is Just
possible that a last, desperate at
tempt to nna a settlement 01 mm
ever threaten
ing Berlin crisis
will be made by
the Western
powers. What is'
being discussed,
is a proposal
that all four
powers, includ
ing the Soviets,
leave B e
and that
j 1
tral commission U- s
appointed by J Joarph Alaof?
the United Nations be substitu
ted as the governing authority.
i I It is by no
means certain,
or even likely,
that such a ra
dical new ap
proach to the
Berlin question
will be adopt
ed. Yet the fol
lowing Tacts are
Interesting. The
idea has been
Mrart Ajsop and considered
by, French Foreign Minister Ro
bert Schuman. It has not been
adopted as official French policy,
but it has been informally pro
posed to top British officials by
a' ranking French diplomat.
Moreover, policy makers of the
state department have independ
ently conceived and considered
the same idea as, at a maximum,
a way out of the Berlin impasse,
and, at a minimum, a method
of : seizing the initiative in the
Berlin crisis. And it can be stated
on excellent authority that cer
tain influential American policy
makers enthusiastically favor
some such move.
-
The reason for, this rather
fantastic search for a new ap-
ch to the Berlin crisis is
rfeetly iimple. Dr. Juan Bra-
muglia's committee - of currency
experts will no doubt now go
through the motions of trying to
find an agreed method of in
troducing the Soviet mark into
Berlin as a basis of settlement.
But an agreement on currency
can no longer form a basis of
settlement. Indeed, the fact might
as well be faced that .there is
obviously no real possibility of
.any effective four-power settle
ment at alL
A settlement, whether on cur-
rency or any other issue, clearly
requires an agreed, joint four
power control of the city, as op
timistically envisaged at Pots
dam. Four-power control of
course broke down in f all but
name a long time ago, ' because
of endless Russian obstruction.
The Russians have now thrown
away the last pretense of four
power control by refusing to al
low in their zone the elections
to which they agreed at Potsdam,
and by promoting a rump com
munist city government. With- '
out real four-power control, there
can be no settlement, while the
four powers remain in Berlin.
The drawbacks of the Informal
French suggestion for i general
withdrawal from Berlin must be
immediately obvious. In. the un
likely event that Moscow agreed
to the plan, the troops of the
Western Allies would retire to
the border of the Soviet zone.
The troops of the soviet occupa
tion would retire only to the bor
der of Berlin city. In the present
state of affairs in Berlin, a neu
tral commission under the U.N.
would have the utmost difficulty '
in holding an honest election.
If such an election were held,
the Berlin communists would be
snowed under. The U-N. commis
sion would then be left presiding
over a tiny, undefended enclave
in the Soviet zone, whose anti
communist government would
constitute a permanent affront
to the Kremlin.
In these circumstances, the
temptation for the Russians to
renew their tactics of bullying
and intimidation would be. all
but irresistible. Any- manufactur
ed incident could be used as a
pretext for again closing the Ber
lin supply lines, which would
have the immediate result of
starving the city into submission,
In short, the motive of the
French proposal is obviously to
achieve what the French have
always wanted a way to retire
from the Berlin impasse "with
head high," and without any loss
of face.
On the other hand, if the plan
were offered, and rejected by
Moscow, Soiet policy would be
left without a leg to stand on.
If the Russians agreed to the
plan, a simultaneous withdrawl
from Austria might also be ar
ranged, thus solving another, al
most forgotten but extremely
acute problem. And the danger
of a Russian attack on Berlin's
independence might be consider
ably reduced by Anglo-France-American
guaranties that any in
vasion of Berlin or re-establishment
of the blockade would be
regarded as a caused belli.
There would always be doubt,
nonetheless, whether these guar
anties would be lived up to.
The new proposal, in truth, is
a measure of the pessimism of
the Western policy makers. Even
two months ago, auch a plan
would not have been seriously
considered, either in Washington
or London. Now it is being seri
ously discussed because there is
no other way out of the Ber''n
impasse excent to continue the
air lift indefinitely or to send
an ultimatum to Moscow, with
attendant heavy risk of immedi
ate war.
In the end, continuation of the
air lift will probably be the
course chosen. If it is costly in
money to us, its political cost
to the Soviet Union is almost
incalculable. But the fact will
still remain that the best inform
ed, most responsible officials on
both sides of the Atlantic are in
tensely gloomy about the world
outlook.
Copyright IMS. New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
16
Crime to Runaway Girls?
To the Editor:
Shades of Hitler.
Three girl inmates ages
years old escaped from one of
our houses of correction for
grls. After a wild chase by our
wmen they were captured,
their hands placed in handcuffs,
their legs put in chains and re
turned to the home, one by one,
I suppose for safety's sake. If
that same justice is handed out
to them at the home, no wonder
they tried to get away.
What a wonderful lesson these
children were taught, crime
does not pay. In the name of
heaven, what more serious crime
could these children have com
mitted, than was done to them,
and by the very people that
are paid to help them. As a
tax payer, I would not mind
some of my tax money being
spent for a (look see). What
about the rest of you people
that have children, who might
at some time come in for some
of this same justice?
E. S. Van Antwerp
885 South 12th St.
Salem, Oregon.
rituals. The artinn nf delegate Prefer.
to the National Inter-fraternity Communists are boycotting the
Conference in voting against election and re not on the bal-
removal of racial and religious lot. The result, therefore, will be
qualifications for membership is judged on thti relaUve size of the
voie ana mj siay - ai - name
.1 !
Undergraduate fraternal ord-r 'V I w.i 4 .v.
during3' recearstow votersjeome out, the west-
eHer,hfr iXh inS cation of theijr fight to stay and
leadership Childish initiation I. ,T,vieTization of Ber-
practices nave been outlawed.
Greater emphasis has been plac-
prevent the spvietization of Ber
lin.
ed on scholarship. Religious " ,,"uf . in " , : ' r ,n
qualifications have quietly been SYJS? tf thifr effort to
.im v,o-. it 4K endorsement pf their efforts to
"V" " 1" ' drive out the; western powers
have been ignored. Racial dis- l .iff tSJX
rriminxinn. .n Kn r. vote, and als$ the airlift which
nnval i n mwnrm aaaji s4 taai
w aaa sviiiv vew) tivt " I 4Ai4ar
widely publicized as was that too-
rf tha A mriArei artrav 'Dfrtf I
Kappa Psi, which withdrew Ycill SfrAPt
from its national body rather Tr itJJ. iUCCl
than rescind the pledge of
Negro student. This is not, we
are sure, the end of the mat
t.r Thwa ( .ni i 4 n4 .mini
and religious tolerance walking NEW YORK, Dec. 4 Wall
the campuses these days that Street had ijts December rally
will not be indefinitely denied, rolling at thej weekend.
National offices are out of step in today's (short session gains
with undergraduate sentiment, 0f fractions around 3 points
we believe, when they deny to were added to the advances of
local chapters the right to pledge the previous jthree sessions,
whomever they please. (New The market jstill has a long way
flew in 4,754 tjons of food and fuel
t! Gains ground
York Times.)
To the Editor
I wish to present some actual
figures on the cost of pensions
of $50 per month for the old
people of Oregon.
First, I would suggest to the
Pendleton East Oregonian' that
people are not necessarily sway
ed by newspaper opinions. Only
statements of facts sway us. The
newspapers have stated opin
ions and they are only opin
ions that the proposed pen
sion would require a fund of
$50,000,000 per year.
I have before me a statement
of actual expenditures by the
state welfare department at
Olympia, Wash, for the month
of September, 1948.
I am quoting now: "The num
ber of persons receiving old a?e
assistance in the state of Wash
ington is very constant month
by month and it has actually
very little change. The average
payment per person was $57.47.
Wheat Pushes
To New High
CHICAGO. Dec. 4 -(JP)- Wheat
pushed up to a new nigh since
last February while corn and oats
held barely steady on the board
of trade today. Soybeans, rye and
lard all advanced. Trading was
fairly active, although lighter
than on previous days this week.
At its high of $2.42, Decem
ber wheat sold at its best price
since Feb. 4. It is the only con
tract now on the boards which
was being traded at that time.
The seasonal high for this con
tract was $2.634, made on Jan.
16. The February 4 date was at
the start of the mid-winter price
collapse.
Wheat closed l to 1 cent high
er, corn was 4 lower to high
er, oats were 's lower to 3
higher, rye was 1 cent higher.
soybeans were 1 to 2V4 higher
and lard was 18 to 25 cents a
hundred pounds higher.
to go to recoup its post-election
losses but at least a stab in that
direction has j been made
Volume expanded on the way
up. Turnover 1 of 510,000 shares
compared with 340,000 a week
ago and was- the largest for a
two-hour session in the last
month.
The Associated Press average
of 60 stocks advanced .4 of one
point to 64.4. pie average now is
back to where it was on Nov. 23.
Of the 791 issues traded 461 ad
vanced and 125 declined
Burglar Work in
An nisville, Stay ton
Marion county sheriffs deputies
Saturday were seeking to identify
burglars who netted $9 in lootings
at Aumsville and Stayton Friday
night.
At Aumsville, the thieves took
the cash register from a service
by V. L. Roberts
The register contained the $9. ac
cording to Deputy Sheriff William
DeVall
The thieves
also entered the
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gained toothing for their efforts,! $50 Was reported missing. I
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