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Most of them have been at instigation of party lead ers, but not all of the changes have worked ut weIL The first Important change, , made about a decade ago was to representatives of both sexes as precinct committeemen and on the county and state committees. An other change was to make the chairmen and vice chairmen of the county committees to constitute the state committee. The argument for this was tnat me county oi fiHaia had to do most of the party campaign work and should make up the state committee sou an other change was to shift the dates for electing precinct committeemen from the May primaries to the November election and then move the time for organizing the county and state committees from mid summer after the primaries to a neriod following the November election. The argument for this was that there was too little time for the party to organize and stage the fall campaign. Strong opposition, to this last . cornea from the county clerks. They have to prepare sep arate party ballots for these pre cinct offices for the general, elec tion. .Often no candidates have been filed and they have to print . T - 11 m blanxs on xne oauoxs xor noons to be written in. When precinct committeemen are elected In May names or blank spaces go on the regular party ballot. This is much less expensive to tne counties. An easy solution for this would be to hold the party, election at the May primaries" but delay the reorganization until the first of the (Continued on editorial page; State Employes Back Plan to Tire Loafers' The Oregon: State Employees Association through its executive secretary, Forrest V. Stewart, Fri day expressed accord with uov. Douglas McKay's and State Treas urer Walter Pearson's request to "fire the loafers' and raise wages of other employes in the state gov ernment. A The association Is founded on the basis of working towards im provement in public serviced and is ' interested in being a part t of efficient departments, bureaus and lnsatutions,"' Stewart said. Stewart cited the difficult protn lems in recent years to obtain trained personnel. When these problems are added to a rapidly growing -state and increased de mands for service, it is remark able the efficiency achieved. Stewart said. McKay and Pearson asked the legislative salary committee Thursday to weed out Inefficient personnel and boost the salaries of the others substantially. Animal Crackers ' By WARREN GOODRICH "Your hiher was a wild, reck less sort, and quite a gambler why, A even at diced carrotsT 10 miners marooned since early hiked 11 miles from tne mine camp to the Ken Randall guest ranch at Elkhorn. Marion county court Friday authorized J. P. Hewitt, owner of the mines, to haul a caterpillar tractor from Mehama up to snow line. With this machine working from the lower road and a com pany .machine operated by the marooned men it is hoped they can be reached. Hewitt said Trippett told him the supplies "fif the snowed-in camp were nearly gone. The road to the mines is blocked by three slides and seven feet of snow. The largest of the slides is made up of snow, debris and trees and is nearly 300 yards long and piled za ieet ruga on the roadway. The otner two are about 150 feet long. They are all above Elkhorn. North Santiam Highway Open To Light Travel The North Santiam highway, from Santiam Junction to Bend, was open to traffic again today, for the first time since February IV. A slide at Hoe Rock had been cleared enough to allow one-wav traffic, according to the state high way Department. Chains are re quired now, and load limits will be imposed, officials said. It was hoped that tight" two way traffic would be possible at that point this morning. The South Santiam remained blocked by an avalanche at Cougar ridsre. 12 miles west of Hogg rock and west of the junction. The department naa received no reports as to pro gress of clearing this slide. Meanwhile, Hamman Stage lines of Salem sent its Bend-bound bus out Friday, the first one since Driver Ben Hauck had to shovel his way westward across the Cas cades on February 7. Manager Floyd Hamman said buses had only run to Idanha since then. The North Santiam road was open to two-way traffic all the way to Santiam junction, thou eh some spots were narrow. On to ward Bend, there was one-way traffic around the half-mile slide and at a few other snots to the east. Snow was Dacked and narlv 200 inches deep near the junction. Sunny weather of the Dast few days has aided road crews some- wnat out has also caused daily thawing and freezing of the snow. according to the highway deDart- ment- Heavy traffic is already block ed from the Salem side, with a 50 per cent load limit east of Me hama, allowing a gross of not more than 38,000 pounds with no more than 8,000 pounds on anv axle. Restrictions will also be im posed on westbound Vehicles from Sisters. FORMULA A LA TRUCK PORTLAND. Feb. 25-P)-Tired of preparing baby formula; in this town you can order it, just like Dottle or milk. A new company Baby's Milk Formula Service Inc. - delivers formulas, made according to each family's pre scription, to the door. Bugs, Diseases Survived Cold Weather, Tree Growers Told By LUlIe L Madsen Farm Editor. The Statesman Insects as a whole are so well insulated that the cold weather has had practically no damaging effect on them, and the same holds true of diseases. The only accom? plishment of the cold weather so far as fruit trees are concerned is that it has weakened them, mak ing them more susceptible to both insects and diseases. These statements were made Friday afternoon by Sidney Jones and Adin P. Steenland, both of Oregon State college, as they spoke to more than one hundred zruit tree growers at the Salem Cham ber of Commerce. Besides the prevalent cherry fruit flyworm, a new pest, the Les ser appleworm has been found in cherries in the valley. Professor Jones said. Brown. - rot blossom blight was described as the most serious disease. More plantings of better and earlier peaches are needed in fhe Willamette valley. Dr. Quentin Zielinski, associate horticulturist at the college, told the fruit grow ers. Three new varieties recom mended by him were Red Haven. ripening between July 7 and 14; Spring Planting Is Warm Work of ff " - i " J-'" V ft Even February's sun Is a little warm when a person is out digging in the ground getting ready far spring planting. Mrs. J. G. Thornton. S7f N. Liberty si is shown above pausing for a glass of cool, Salem water while getting oat in the sun. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer) . Weather Bui eau Waxes Rhetorical over Spring By th Associated Press Soring weather stayed with and jolted even the weather bureau out of its statistical code. The official weather forecast, which never grows more lyrical than "fair-cloudy-rain," called the . A H . 1 MSI ... 11.r V is beautiful all over the place." He didn't mention Helix, which is still covered with nearly a half foot of mud from a flash flood ear ly this week. Road crews were still cleaning up that flooded Eastern Oregon section. The Willamette river began dropping again Friday after crest ing below flood stage Thursday night. The river reading Friday night was 16.7 feet at Salem. Salem residents basked in their second day of above 60-degree temperatures at 61. The temperature soared to 66 at Medford and Roseburg; 63 at Eu gene and Newport, 62 at Portland, 58 at The Dalles, 50 at a Grande, rPendleton and Bend. Early Hale Haven, July 14-24, and Hale Haven, July 20-31. AH speak ers discouraged the use of Rio Osa Gem, which they; said was "being pushed here, as unsatisfactory in the valley. Almost 300 cherry varieties are being tested at the experiment sta tion for disease resistance, but this experiment has just begun, Dr. Zielinski said. Henry Hart man, head of the de partment of agriculture, warned his listeners not to try to do with pruning what can be done more effectively" and less expensively with proper soil management. A tree heavy in foliage should not be pruned heavily if it is to pro duce fruit. Proper pruning, pro per crop thinning and proper soil management will do away with the biennial production and pro duce a good crop each year, he said. Dr. R. E. Stephenson, soils' sci entist and C. O. Rawlings, exten sion horticulturist, spoke on soils and orchard management. The meeting was arranged by N. John Hansen and D. L, Rasmus sen, county extension agents in Polk and Marion county. Rasmul sen presided. 1! r Oregon for a second day yesterday outlook at Timberline lodge "fair -.vnr,r-t1- tflnitA TK. WAaikflr Navy Plane Sets Mark by Carrying 222 Passengers SAN DIEGO, Calif, Feb. 25-JP) A navy flying boat set a passen ger - load world's record for air planes today and then broke it. The transport Caroline Mars took off at 7:10 p. ml for Alameda, Calif., with 2C2 persons aboard. This was less than three hours after it arrived from Alameda with 207 aboard 203 navy men being transferred and four crew men. There were 218 transferee pas sengers and four crew men head ing north. The estimated time of arrival at Alameda was 11:02 p.m. Navy public information officers said the aviation year book show ed the previous high was 169 per sons carried by a 12-engine German Domier plane in a flight over Lake Constance,, Switzerland, in 1929. Slips Don't Try Over, ReSSfnond Council Rules REDMOND, Feb. 25 -0F- This town will have parking meters next Monday ,and fhe city is gor ing to be tough about it. City councilmen decided against anygrace period to allow citizens to get used to the meters. Fines will be levied upon the first mis take. Max. - 1 5 - M 3a Mta. Precip. 35 .M S3 .00 35 trar 26 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago . - Nw York 52 42 .01 Willamette river 1B.7 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau McNary field. Salem 1 : Partly cloudy today and tonight. Fair Sun day. High today near M. Low tonight near 40. SALEM PRECIPITATION' (Sept. 1 tm Feb. 2) Thi Year 34.44 Lait Year 32.20 Average 3&a State $10 Auto Tax Bill Ready By Wendell Webb Managing Editor, The Statesman A move to assure quick aid for distressed districts brought a de lay in a final decision on the $15,000,000 school support meas ure Friday, but the senate wasted no time in voting 27 to 2 for repeal of the Oregon community property law. The school and property issues were the major legislative prob lems of the day. The community property bill now goes to the house. The repeal was approved on the grounds the act no longer was necessary since enactment of simi lar federal statutes. Meanwhile, a bill to levy an average annual $10 property tax on all motor vehicles was ready for introduction by Rep. Earl Hill (r) of Cushman. The tax would pro duce $6,000,000 a year, and the money would be given to cities and counties for road construction and maintenance. Measure Postponed Action on the school measure was postponed when the house adopted 56 to 4 a motion by Rep. Ben Day (r) of Medford that the Bill be split into two parts one calling for the additional $45 per census child ($15,000,000 a year), which would be referred to the people, and the other providing for $2,000,000 a year for two years to aid distressed school districts. The latter provision would not be referred for popular vote. Day, who opposed the combined bill when the house voted 33 to 27 Thursday against adopting an ad verse report, said he favored the split because he wanted distress ed districts to receive aid imme diately and was fearful the com bined bill would be defeated at the polls even if it passed the senate and house. It was known there was con siderable activity among younger nouse republicans before Day's proposal reached the floor. A mo tion by Rep. J. O. Johnson (r) of TIgard to cut the support amount one-tnird was defeated. Bill Boosts Benefits The senate Friday passed and sent to the governor the house approved bills boosting industrial accident benefits; lowering from 25 to 21 the age limit at Hillcrest school for girls, and increasing from $75,000 to $275,000 the state's participation in the Salem sewer system for its institutions. It also passed and sent to the house its own bill letting school districts of fer college extension- courses in high school buildings. The house, after considerable argument, passed and sent to the senate a bill approving a two- year moratorium for the measure, approved last November, barring fish traps and set nets from the Columbia river. It also approved and sent to the senate measures tightening livestock branding laws; increasing poundage fees on commercial fish; allowing cities, counties and school districts to de velop joint projects, and asking congress to maintain airports con structed during World War II. Barring action on committee re ports, neither the senate nor the house faced heavy calendars to day. The house will meet at 9:30 am., the senate a half hour later. (Additional details page S.) Phone Moving Offices Business offices of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany will open in the new quar ters at North Winter and Court streets Monday morning, H. V. Collins, district manager, announc ed Friday. Remodelling of the State street office space to provide enlarged employe quarters and operating facilities will begin following the week-end move to the new build ing. The company's plant and traf fic departments will also move into the new building at a later date. Bureau to Clear Abie-Bodied Men From Relief Rolls PORTLAND, Feb. 25 The state public welfare commission decided today to remove all single able - bodied men from relief rolls by April 1. Faced by a 17 per cent Jump In costs of general assistance, the commission adopted a policy of confining such relief to the need iest group. Welfare Administrator Loa Howard said that single, able -bodied men should be urged to seek seasonal employment, which should be more generally avail able by April. mmtm wfr ft j"" ' 1 1 t ainii i i. - mi.. ...i m m i iiiimh. hi. Y; jj j j Jjl V Jb f fi' J. f VA'M - GM CUTS ;PRWTjv ,M 7 DETROIT. Feb. 25 Prod action lunch table at the Cadillac plant Dual Rocket Reaches 250 Miles into Sky WHITE SANDS, N. M., Feb. 25 - UP) - A mother-daughter rocket combination soared 250 miles above the earth to a new world record yesterday. : Made up of a Germany V-2 which took off with the smaller American-built WAC corporal in its nose, the 15-ton projectile also reached a record top speed of 3,000 miles per hour. Actually, it was the WAC cor poral which posted both marks. It was launched in the sky from the V-2 and carried on from an unstated height. The WAC cor poral was shot by remote control. These achievements were an nounced today by Brig. Gen. Phi lip G. Blackmore, commanding of ficer at the White Sands proving ground. His disclosure was the first regarding success of two- stage rocket experiments, begun nearly a year earlier. The 250-mile altitude eclipsed a previous mark ol 114 miles at tained in the firing of another re built German V-2 here Dec. 17, 1946. A statement by General Black- more described this as the great est height "ever reached by a man-made object," and added: At the peak of the flight the rocket was for all practical pur poses outside the earth s atmos phere." The new speed mark compared with 5,300 feet a second or slightly over 3,600 miles an hour which the 1946 V-W reached in mark. Army to Double Alaska Force - WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-()-The army announced plans tonight to double its Alaskan forces and to maintain its troop strength in the Far East at the same levels of a year ago. At the same time it said U. S. army forces in Europe will be cut slightly under the deployment schedule for the fiscal year start ing July 1. , Under this schedule the army will have 127,000 men in the Far East, 13,200 in Alaska and 92,000 in Europe. All told it will have 258,000 men overseas out of a total of 677,000 allowed under the proposed new budget. Portland Newspaper Employes Ask Court Injunction End Strike PORTLAND, Feb. 23-(;P)-Eight employes of the Oregonian asked circuit court today to end the AFL pressmen's strike which has hafted publication of both daily news papers here. I The group all but one of whom work in the classified advertising department filed suit against the AFL web pressmen! asking an in junction to end the' strike. They also asked the court to compensate them1 and other em ployes for damages sustained be tween February 19 and the end of the strike. It was on February 19 that the two newspapers laid off their staffs. The pressmen had walked workers scan news of auto price rata today. Workers are not Identified. Reduction of Car Prices Accompanies Pay SOice DETROIT, Feb. 25-P-General Motors startled the auto in dustry today with a price cut tied mainly to a wage reduction' for its 273,000 production workers. The price cuts range from $10 to $40 on cart and trucks. They are effective immediately. The wage reduction commencing March 1, is two cents an hour. It is made automatically under the unique GM-CIO United Autol Workers contract that adjusts wages quarterly to the govern ment's cost of living index. Besides the hourly-rated work ers some 68,000 GM salaried em ployes lose $10 of the $40 Cost of living allowance they will receive during the next three months. Shortly before GM's price cut announcement, the UAW-CIO in announcing acceptance of the wage reduction, called for an immediate price cut. It said the Index drop indicated "that prices are on the way down. Prices Reduced Carrying out the price reduc tions, Chevrolet cut all models S10: Pontiac all models $15: Olds- mobile $15 and $20; Buick $16 to $30 and Cadillac $25 to $40. It was the first time since the war that GM has cut prices. It was also the first time In the in- dustry's volume production era j espionage work for western pow that a price cut has been coupled ers in 1938. He said I am guilty." with a waee reduction. Ford Cut Previously Two years ago, moving contrary to Industry trends. Henry Ford II announced a Drice cut of from $15 to $50. He described it was a move in Vialff Inflsttanary anirnl With- in six months, however. Ford in- creased prices. Every car maker since has raised prices three or y aeemea creaioie saia ivan four times. Only two days ago ov, who has a withered leg, was Chrysler Corp. announced in- crease ranging from $16.35 to $252. tne most recem om increase came with the introduction of new models over the last several months. They ranged from $40 to $370, although the latter figure included standardizing of automa tic transmission, which normally costs around $200. Pass to Consumers In announcing the price reduc tions General Motors President C. E. Wilson said they were resigned to pass along to consumers the savings resulting from both the downward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered i cost of certain material items." In a statement issued at UAW- CIO headquarters the price cuts were describeo as 'piddling,", and "another instance of too little, too late. "If GM had shown the same modesty in increasing prices as they now show in price reduc tions," the statement said, Mthe American people1 would not still be paying CadiUac prices to buy j Chevrolet." out the day before. The strike came after pressmen and management failed to agree on either contract terms or arbi tration methods. The Portland labor-management committee met with both sides to day, in the hope of finding com mon ground to resume negotia tions. Meanwhile the Portland Typo graphic Union local asked Its in ternational to have the newspaper closure declared a "lockout." Such an action would enable non-strik ing composing room employes to I draw lockout benefits from their union. Union Secretary A. R. Clayton said it would give printers about $55 a week. and a wage drtp ever a cafeteria (AP Wirephote to The Statesmaa). 2 Churchmen In Bulgaria By Dlmiter MUhev SOFIA. Bulgaria. Feb. 25 - UTi - i wo or 13 protestant churchmen charged with treason pleaded guil ty at the opening of the trial to- I day and said they had spied tot the United States I The others are to be called te I the stand later, one by one ine Kev. NiKoia ivaumov, a Bap- tlst minister dressed in the blacks garb of his calling, said he begaa I me Kev. ranxo mxoiov ivanov. I short, bald Methodist pastor, fol iowea mm to the stand near the ena oi tne aay s session. "I Plead guilty," he said. The voices of both were cleat and firm. (A Washington report from m source that diplomatic officials said tortured by being forced to stand unaer guara witnoui support our- i" . I 1 1 Danes Warned To Avoid Pact COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sat urday, Feb. 26-(P-The Polish le gation here warned Denmark last night through the semi-official Danish press agency to keep clear of the proposed North Atlantic- defense pact The statement, apparently an official demarche (diplomatic dec laration of intention) to Denmark, is unusual in that It has not yet been'delivered to the Danish min istry of foreign affairs.. It says Poland takes great In terest in not having the Baltic sea and its bordering countries be come basis for "imperialistic plans endangering the peaceful cooperation of Baltic states. "Enough Calls to Start a Store" :U. ,; Use of 'a two-line States man want-ad brought te sults like spring showers to a Statesman advertiser. Here was her ad: WHX PAY CASH for good used piano. Ph. 1-112. The first day it appeared she called up, "Take it out. I've had enough calls to start a second hand store." ' If you have something to sell . If you want to buy some thing ... Dial 2-2441 and ask for 'aassiied., Use . . and shop Statesman Classified Plead Guilty T