1 The Statesman. Solent, Orxjon, Sunday. February 13.
AFL Proposes
Unions Pay
State Solons
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -UPh
The AFL is - considering putting
state legislators on its payroll so
labor sympathizers can afford the
law-making jobs.
This would be part of an ex-
. tremely broad plunge into national
political affairs about to be
launched by labor's League for Po
litical Education, the American
Federation of Labor's political
arm.
Heartened by its success in help
ing elect President Truman last
fail, the league is stepping up its
national activities and planning
extensive campaigns on state and
local levels.
Details were worked out at the
AFL executive council's recent
midwinter session at Miami, Fla.
League leaders decided that
union members or people sympa
thetic with labor's aims could
have a greater voice, or even con
' trol, in state legislatures if more
such persons could be induced to
run for office.
It was recognized, however, that
the pay for state legislators is so
low in most states that labor peo
ple often cannot afford to run for
office or take time out from reg
ular jobs for lawmaking.
Thus it was proposed and vir
tually decided that the league will
help elect and thereafter augment
the salaries of legislators endorsed
by labor where they have insuf
ficient funds of their own to get
by. -
CVA PLAN OPPOSED
PORTLAND, Feb. 12--Direc-tors
of the Portland chamber of
commerce today announced opposi
tion to TV A principles for the
control of the Columbia river and
Its tributaries.
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1949
Surplus State
IncomeTax Set
At $45 Million
Surplus state income taxes, as
of June 30, 1949, will aggregate
$45,250,000, : and not in excess of
$50,000,000 as estimated by some
legislators, state tax commissioner
Earl Fisher : estimated Saturday,
Fisher's statement, placed on the
desk of the joint ways and means
committee, included the following
data:
Surplus income tax surpluses as
of July 1, 1947, including $5,000,-
000 cushion, $19,600,000.
Collections July 1 to Dec. 31,
1947, $9,150,000.
Collections calendar year 1948,
including $9,000,000 withholding.
$59,200,000.
Estimated collections January
to June 30, 1949, including $6,000,
000 withholding $37,000,000.
Total $124,000,000. i
Obligations, being offset of tax
levies of biennium, $59,700.
Surplus as of June 30, 1949, esti
mated $65,250,000.
Less cushion $5,000,000.
Net, excluding cushion, $60,250,
000. Withholding $15,000,000.
Net excluding withholding, $45,
250,000.
Search Finds
2 Youngsters
'Out for Stroll'
Two north Salem youngsters.
aged 4 and 7 years, went for an
unauthorized "stroll Saturday
morning and for more than three
hours were the objects of a city-
wide search.
Lorimer (Larry) McLaughlin, 4,
son of Mr. and Mrs. ' L. F. Mc
iaugnnn, ZU4U Market St., was
reported missing by his frantic
mother at 11:30 ajn. She said he
by OTTO J. WILSON CO.
of that thing and let
fix up my brakes"
OTTO Jo
had strayed off with a neighbor
hood chum, Billy Allan. 7.
William Exline, station KOCO
newscaster, located the pair wan-
aering along Worth Summer street
near O street Mrs. McLaughlin
had appealed to the station for
aid in locating her son.
The boys told Exline they were
not lost they were just "travel
ling." They had strayed out to
the underpass in north Salem,
rambled through that area and
were headed toward the city cen
ter when Exline spotted them.
Phone Hearing
Sessions End
Hearing on the service license
contract of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company, under
way here for several weeks, ad
journed late Friday until Febr
uary 23.
Under the proposed contract the
racuic company wouia pay 10
the American Telephone St Tele
graph company one per cent of
its gross revenues for services re
ceived. Public Utilities Commis
sioner George H. Flagg previously
rejected the contract on the ground
that the Pacific company should
pay only for service actually re
ceived and not on a gross reve
nue basis. The telephone company
then asked for a hearing.
Sam Campbell, San Francisco,
comptroller for the Pacific com
pany, was under cross-examination
most of Friday. He contended
the service charge was nominal.
The cross-examination was con
ducted by E. L. Graham, attorney
for the utilities commission, and
Marian Rushing, deputy Portland
city attorney.
Allen to Show
Film in Seattle
Reynolds Allen. Salem, pilot of
the glider which rescued survivors
of a wrecked army plane in New
Guinea's "Shangri La" in 1945
will show and discuss films of the
feat as a feature of the North
Coast Retail Hardware association
convention in Seattle Sunday
night.
Allen is attending the conven
tion as representative of the
George E. Allen Hardware com
pany where he is an associate.
BUSINESSMEN TO FLY
PORTLAND, Feb. 12-(yP-Port-
land's "flying businessmen will
take off February 19 for a tour
of Death Valley. Some 100 men
plan to go in 45 planes.
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Gun Battle, Chase Near Dallas
Climax Man's String of Crimes
DALLAS, Feb. 12 (Special) -The long criminal record of young
Lawrence Bernard Lyng of Seattle came to an end today in the
underbrush near a county road south of Dallas where he surrendered
to Polk county authorities who tracked him down after a wild
shooting chase forcckl him to abandon the stolen car he was driving.
Lyng, 21, confessed to a long
Tony Neufeldt today. He is in the
local jail booked on a forgery
which he admitted performing in
Dallas last December. He is want
ed by the FBI for a car theft, by
Portland police on a hit-and-run
episode and by other cities in the
northwest.
Traded Stolen Car
Lyng was traced to this area
when he traded a stolen car to a
dealer in North Dallas. This morn
ing the sheriffs office learned he
had been seen in rails City. Neu
feldt and a Dallas policeman. Art
Teterud. natroled the area and
came upon the Lyng car, headed
toward them, a mile southwest of
Bridgeport school. The police
stopped in the middle of the mud
djr road, and Lyng slowed down.
then gunned nis car ana out
flanked them by taking the ditch.
The officers fired several shots at
the car, trying to miss the occu
pants since Lyng was accompan
led by a Falls City youth, Jerry
Livingston, whom Neufeldt . had
recognized. One 'bullet, however,
riDDed the convertible's canvas
ton and barely missed Lyng.
Lyng suddenly stopped, left the
car and started running across a
field. He said later Livingston
had threatened to grab the wheel
and wreck them if he didn't stop.
He plunged into a creek, but was
unable to cross it because the
flood-swelled water was too deep.
He turned and ran for cover in
underbrush about 400 yards from
the road.
Meanwhile Neufeldt had radio
ed for help bringing James Born,
another policeman, and William
Ferguson, game warden. The
three started a search and Neu
feldt discovered Lyng well con
cealed in the brush but shaking
violently from his icy bath.
His current crop of offenses
started in August when he came
to Oregon from Seattle in a stolen
car. He traded cars at Redmond
and at Dallas, receiving a $200
check at Dallas as part payment
on his car.
Stayed in Falls City
He stayed with the Joe Hegge
family in Falls City for a time.
where he cashed the check, forg
ing an endorsement. He asserted
that he paid a $110 grocery bill for
the Hegges with part of the
money.
Next he went to Seattle, Port
land, Eugene and Chico, Calif.,
where he left a string of crimes,
including a hit-run accident, be
hind htm.
He returned to the Dallas area
Friday from Seattle with another
stolen car.
Salem High
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Wins Linf ield
Speech Contest
James Cooke and John Rocken
feller teamed together Saturday
to give Salem high school first
place in junior men's debate at
the Lin field College speech tour
ney. The pair won seven of eight
debates to gain first place.
Phil Ringle added another first
for Salem in varsity extempora
neous speaking. Tom Scheidel
took second in men's after dinner
speaking, Walter Friesen won
third place in men's poetry read
ing and Catherine Person took
third in women's poetry reading.
Other Salem high school speak
ers gaining the finals were Phil
Johnson, after dinner speaking;
Una Mae Grayless, humorous dec
lamation; Marilyn Foxley, wom
en's poetry reading; and Phil
Ringle, varsity impromptu speaking.
string of offenses to Deputy Sheriff
McKay Talks at
Lincoln Dinner
PORTLAND, Feb. 12-0P-Gov-ernor
Douglas McKay told a re
publican party banquet audience
L tonight that the political organiz
ation must stand lor principles,
not promises.
He said the liberal tradition es
tablished by Lincoln, whose birth
day the banquet observed, must
continue to be those of the party
in this century.
The principal speaker, Paul
Smith, San Francisco Chronicle
editor, said communism represents
reactionary ism. He said the Am
erican system con contrast
represents the true revolution in
man's fight for greater freedom
and dignity.
Lincoln Day
Speeches Aim
To Rally GOP
By the Associated Press
Republican orators sounded the
batt leery: "We can win in 1950"
in Lincoln day gatherings Satur
day from coast to coast.
The 140th anniversary of Abra
ham Lincoln's birth furnished
party leaders an opportunity to
counsel cheerfulness in adversity,
learning from defeat, and determ
ination to drive ahead to victory.
Not all the Lincoln birthday
celebrations were republican.
President Truman stood at at
tention at the impressive Lincoln
memorial in Washington as two of
his aides laid a wreath of salmon
pink gladioli at the base of the
great emancipator's statue. The
marine band played patriotic airs.
Most of the republicans' speeches
pointed toward the congressional
elections of 1950 and the presi
dential contest coming up in 1952.
House Republican Leader Jos
eph W. Martin, jr. of Massachus
etts gibed at the Truman admin
istration as a "spend-thrift gov
ernment which closed its mind
and heart to the real, practical
needs of the people."
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Hearing Asked
On Proposed
Cuts in Tariff
The Oregon congressional dele
gation has been instructed by
Salem Chamber of Commerce to
make sure an "adequate hearing"
clause is placed in proposed bills
to lower tariffs on imported farm
goods.
In a telegram message late last
week the chamber's agricultural
committee reminded the Oregon
delegation that many crop farm
ers in this area will "be hurt" if
reciprocal trade laws are enacted
without giving the farmers a
chance to be heard, according to
Homer Gouley, jr., chairman of the
committee.
"We want to make certain that
duties on foreign imported goods
such as hops, nuts, flax and fruits
are not lowered until after do
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mestic farmers have had a chance
to express themselves," Gouley
said. Similar messages also have
been sent to other chambers of
commerce in this area, he report-ed.
Anderson to Address
Banquet at Newport
Steve
Anderson, former state
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president of the Young Republi
cans, will be the principal speaker
at the annual Lincoln day banquet
at the Newport Country club to
night. !t
The banquet Is sponsored by the
Council of Republican Women and
the Lincoln county central com
mittee, l
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