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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1949)
, fr-Th Cfcrt men, ftcleta, Orscoa, Wefatdrr Match t X W. FHE TWCfFISTED DRIRKK At Salem Schools THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING GOHPA7IY CTTAKTirt A. ePEAOUS, Editor cad FubSsher ae ptfflM at Satani Ortfon. a sseend eUasWiatter unfa Ml mi eoRsreas JUnH S ISTTibtlataeS ' morning xMpt Msndajr. BwUmm emee 11 S. CwiuwrcUl Salem. Ortgom. TtltpiMM S444L Sntr4 at rrcM k ssriMS .xetaatv.tr to ee aw tar nwllnllw ef a Sae M watt m aS AS Mti eaieaeatjaa. MZMBZJt PACXrtC COAST DIVBfOM Of BUMAV OT AOVCITISnfO ASvsrtUlng Saprw wtittwi WarSOftUi Oa, tmw Vara. CHI m. lu Francises, IMrelt. irrtfTW AUDIT BVXXAV OF CIBCIILATIOM By MS tta ASraatQ r ?' '8 CSts-Carrtar Crea KtewlMralnUJLA. 0 wwifh Hi mMUM. Om Tmr Barriers Down Both by legislative action and by court edict, the war - borne law against Japanese ownership of land In Oregon is dead. The Oregon opinion as handed down Tues day affects only the property right of alien Japanese, at least directly, and it definitely would serve as a barrier to any such restrictive legislation against aliens of any other single country. It does not, however, answer the ques tion whether property-right prohibitions against, all aliens would be lega but If such a case arose it is reasonable to suppose that, too, would be held unconstitutional. Years ago, the United States supreme court in several cases upheld state restrictions against alien property-holding. But not in recent times. The trend, however, appears to be in the other direction and not long ago the U. S. supremo eourt ruled it was unconstitutional for Cali fornia to single out alien Japanese to make them ineligible for certain fishing licenses. Because f thaltrend nationally, it cannot be said that Tuesday's opinion by Judge Rossman comprised contradiction to the U. S. court's stand. At least it settles a contentious question and may serve to give us pause if again we are whipped into a war against an alien government which holds no attachment to some of its na tive sons now in our midst. Rights under martial law are something else sgain. But there was no formal martial law in Oregon when the restric tive legislation was passed. It is well to have tt off the books. IiSd Cross Needs Help The final week of the 1949 Red Cross cam- Caign finds much; to be done, both within Sa m and without, i this ares is to raise the re quired amount -'; The community of Sublimity led the way. in meeting its quota and now several other sub urban districts have reached their goals. But many others are . considerably in arrears and Salem still is a third of the way from the total asked of it. Financing such humanitarian enterprises be eomes a mors difficult job as money becomes ttss in abundance but the need for it is not les sened!. As one of the major projects outside f the Community Cheat, the Red Cross has Lief uor COub I , ' "By Ralph Watson The night club camel is try ing his best to get his nose under the liquor control commission tent up here at Salem. Whether he will depends upon the senate committee o n alcoholic traf fic primarily, tj senate sec ondarily, then the hoOe, and finally, should he get past all these barriers, the governor's ultimate say so. The senate committee has had the liquor control commis sion before it 2 . . Bats WUtN since March 7 when the mala house bills containing proposed amendments to the control code were sent over, and the commit tee has been devoting a good deal of time and attention to them. The house committee, and the house, were pretty generous in their treatment of the amend ments presented to them. It pas sed house bill 42 which diverted the net liquor revenues received from sales of intoxicating liquor current appropriations for gov ernmental purposes. Ever since the creation of the liquor com- m ioi I ei Mifan iia Kae Koan earmarked for support of public, welfare. Present indications are .that this provision will be per mitted to stand, this being de 4endent upon the final decision f." of the ways and means commit j tee in snuffling its budgetary problems around. I I But house bill 42 was only in I cidental to the job on hand. The ' real business commerXced with the introduction of house bill 282, and its passage by that branch on March 12. This bill provides In its amendatory part, that any licensee of the liquor commission who, is refused a renewal of his license shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court. At the session of 1945 the one aiilitiniltn hattl nrMl against the liquor control com mission and the control code was a bill sponsored by then Rep. John 3. Hall, of Multnomah Which provided that, should the f . a. commission reiuse to grant a li cense the applicant should have the right of appeal to the circuit . court. That bill Was defeated on the ground that to grant such ap peals would clutter the dockets of the courts and rob the com mission of its control over the issuance of licenses in the begin- W. ' " 1 i it 282 is that its passage would rob the commission of discretionary judgment in refusing to renew 1 AU I miubb cua wmre op erating conduct had not warrant Ifs Fever Sways Us, N Tear thsM Atst" First gtatiis. tZMl tJ, UJ1 KXMBU or ma associate) ruti earned general support for its work both local and national, and its activities should not bo hampered by any marked curtailment in funds. In these final few days of effort, the many volunteer workers should be accorded every aid. Disinflation Recognized Reduction of margin requirements on the New York stock exchange was an inevitable result of what may be termed the period of disinflation. It was, in fact, a recognition of the new period, but the margin requirement still remains far above that of pro-control days and in no sense could be regarded as an acceptance of actual deflation. The reduction, from 70 to SO per cent, has long been sought by securities dealers and tho stock exchange. Tho market has been in tho doldrums for months, as money tightened, and tho further relaxation of requirements occa sions no surprise. Whether it will encourage much more investment buying or speculation remains to be seen. At lesst it marks a mile stone in the changing economy, in the light of what the federal reserve board called "tho general credit situation." , ' Editorial Comment Fresa Oar Ceatenporarles ... $ THOSK UNRULY BOYS AGAIN! Twice la the last week we have received writtea) reminders from citizens concerning the shameful conduct of "ornery boys" or young men. One citi zen writes: This Is to advise some boys, who aren't quite dry behind the ears as yet, cruising around town in a V-t Ford, that if they value their freedom, the writer suggests they stop making threatening remarks and go on about their business. (Driving without lights at night happens to be a serious offense.)" And a woman who does not wish to have her name revealed complained of the conduct of a rowdy gang at the westllng matches. Most boys must go through an "ornery period." There are limits and there are ways of dealing with them. The police do a pretty good job of checking the most aggravated cases. But we agree with the lady who suggests the responsibility of parents! . And we mourn, as we have mourned periodically for- years, that the woodshed seems to be out of date. (Eugene Register-Guard). Lobbyioto Face Hurdleo ed renewal. It is the old argu ment of the inchoate right of property investment versus the underlying police power of the state to control a granted privi lege. The real center of the wran gle, however, is wrapped up in house bills 390 and 477. The first contains generally! clarifying amendments to the control act, as regards definitions of licensee Issued; It revamps the license fees upward very materially and provides for their distrlbuUon to the counties and cities; and It in cludes the proposed "Master Locker" amendment which is the one real hot spot In the MIL H. B. 477 Is a sort of appendix to 390. It provides detailed defini tions of -clubs,"? "fraternal clubs" and "patriotic veterans clubs' (the latter two being dis tinguished from the first by not being required to have equipment for giving restaurant or meal service). Where the camel is trying to nose in under the tent is In sec tion 9 of HB 390, which speci fies the conditions under which a "club" may secure a "master locker" permit. This permit Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS I WANTED TO WRITE, by Ken neth Roberts Ooubledsyi $3 JO); THE WRITTEN WORD: HOW TO WRITE FOR READERS, by Gorham Mna son (CreaUve Are Press; $2.95) Munson's book is largely tech nical, and Roberts' largely auto biographical, but they reinforce each other, and will tell you what you. need to know, in so far as facts go, in order to prog ress from a blank sheet of paper to your name in print. "Most writers are made, not born," says Munson, who has taught 20 years. He defines the pieces that go to make a writer, and invites you to get to work. He's inclined to be optimistic about your chances, too. I don't know any technical; book tha't contains more sound advice. Roberts agrees thai it's a mat ter of getting to work. Noth lng's.easy: everything's difficult," he says. "Anyone who wants to write must stay on the jey every day and all day," he: claims, and this lively story of his life bears him out. i He began writing at Cornell, and graduated to the Boston Post. But newspapering wasn't his meat, he "wanted to write", and In 1917 he tried It; In that year he wrote more than 500 verses, playlets, sketches and es says, and sold two-fifths of them. tacal mi sefstteS la SM would allow the club to buy liquor of the commission, at reg ular retail prices, store it on tho club premises for resale to club members, on their purchasers permits. The original intent of the amendment was to restore the practice outlawed by Admir al Gatch, by which members of such clubs as the established golf clubs, fraternal clubs and social clubs could have their liquor bought for them instead of them having to lug It personally fte their lockers. However the night spots of Portland, and elsewhere, have moved their agents up to Salem and are seeking to have the mas ter locker privilege extended to them also. Just how it Is going to end is an interesting speculation. Some folks around the capitol remem ber that Governor McKay, in his campaign, stood solidly in sup port of the original provisions and Intent of the Knox law, and remind that it is blunt and spe cific in its provision that all high powered liquor must be sold by the commission, through its state stores, to the consumer direct, and not through an agent. The war gave him a captaincy and a trip to the Far East, from which he brought back an article for the Saturday Evening Post. There followed a remunerative association with Lorimer, and numerous assignments. Guided with remarkable pati ence and pains by Booth Tark ington, he produced some of our very best historical novels ... as the reader can learn for himself in the many laudatory quotes in the appen'dix. You tniy disagree with Rob erts politically, quarrel with his opinion of Dreiser, Lewis and Faulkner.iand feel sorry that at times he $ was so much in debt that he could hardly pay the servants, i though there seems never any question of starving; you mayfcomplain that, with in structions for building a house, or cooking Italian food, a list of a year's correspondents and diary excerpts, he has made his book a catch-all. Nevertheless youll finish it with a boundless admiration for a practically in defatigable worker. And youll like personally the author, the man who, badgered by telephone bells, dance music, elevators, lawn mowers, chattering spar rows, airplanes and fireworks so noisy he donned a motorcycle helmet so that he could continue writing, produced "Rabble In Arms", "Northwest Passage" and "Oliver Wiawett." CRT U U U I U L eaer aw at eai sss bk n M n si H II J ITKD OTiEg iCantlmimA from nan 1) others, la wrestling with finan cial problems. Tho suggestions of Gov. Dover, for new taxes, meet with strenuous opposition. - The legislature is also consid ering measures relating to the direct primary, including one to give party conventions authority to recommend candidates. An other would bind delegates to national conventions to vote for the winners In the presidential preference primary, as in Ore gon. Mayor Curley Is back in as mayor after a term in a federal penitentiary and probably will be reelected next November. The city tax rates are high but the people still vote for Curley. Boston Is making sret prepa rations for the visit of Winston Churchill. The forecast la that again he will make a great ad dress. His coming overshadows other events in the three-day af fair for the inauguration of Pres. Klllian at MJ.T. There are also the address of Harold X. Stassen and panels where men of worldwide eminence will par ticipate. They are divided into: Material, Spiritual, Intellectual They should furnish a brilliant symposium on the problems of our times. I'm off for home, however, so will not be around. Liberation of Credit Boosts Stock Market NEW YORK, March 19 -Ah-People rushed to buy stocks today following news of more liberal credit terms for the purchase of securities. Individual -stocks, shot ahead from 1 to an extreme of 4 points, many to top prices for the year or more. The general level of prices rose In one of the sharpest advances of the past year. Only three times since March, 1948, has the market taken so large a stride ahead. Turnover boomed to 1,800,000 shares, a high since 2,100,000 shares changed hands on Novem ber 10. On that. date the market was pounded down in the Wake of the surprise Truman victory In the national elections. Brokerage houses reported that orders streamed in from all parts of the nation. The Associated Press average of 60 stpeks advanced a full point to 64.3, the highest level since Feb ruary 4. Jn the past year this ad vance has been topped only twice and equalled twice. More Individual stocks changed hands today than at any time since December 31. Of the 1,090 issues sold, 860 advanced and only 95 declined. Mt. States' Income Rises ALBANY, Ore, March 29 -OF) Mountain States Power company Monday reported net income of $1,339,000 for 1948 compared with $1,228,000 the year previous. Z. E. Merrill, president, said the company had spent $4,667,000 for-j improvements and expansion of the system which serves 117 coma muni ties in five states. The pro gram contemplates $4,350,000 for the same purpose in 1949. The net income was equivalent to $4.69 per share common stock as against $4.40 in 1947. Gross earnings were $9,885,000 compared with $8,440,000 a year ago. Grain Prices Work Lower CHICAGO, March 19-4P) -Grain prices worked lower in today's board of trade s est Ion, with the exception of rye which closed higher on a thin market. Corn held fairly steady during most of the session, but weakened with wheat toward the finish. At the close wheat waa to 1 iiu you IELE w Your number guides a call to you from across tho nation almost as quickly as you can walk noxt door t ' 2.Pickingyour-numberisajob for trained people. From their charts they find an available pair of wires in a cable to your neighborhood. The volume of calls carried by the central office equipment serving your number is often checked to see if it has the capacity to handle added calls. It's part of our job of making service reli able and efficient. 4. A lot of new numbers have been added in the past few years. For today there are twice as many telephones in use on the Coast as ten years ago. All these new telephones make yours more valuable. You can reach more people... more can reach youl Yet the rates you pay remain low. A few pennies still buy a telephone call a real value in these days of high prices. cents lower, eon was unchanged to lower, oats were to lower, rye was IK to 2 cents higher, soybeans were unchanged to H lower and lard was 10 to II cents a hundredweight lower. There wasn't much action in any of the pita. Wheat recovered from a low point when it was announc ed that the government's buying price was increased a half cent at Kansas City. However this news was offset by reports of. good rains where I needed la the southwest. I3ET mm m M mti nii E HESS zT. T A I .... SALEM HIOII f CHOOL "Twirp Week" at Salem high school will be climaxed Wednesday evening when girls escort boys to "The Little Brown Jug," a Sadie Hawkins day dance. Glen Williams will play for the affair, to begin at 9 p. m. Costumes will be print dresses for the girls and levis and plaid shirts for the boys. The dating season opened Monday morning, and the girls were obliged to sing one verso of' "The Little Brown Jug" on their knees before they) could request the date. Leah Case Is general chairman for the dance. Committee chair men are: Sharon Hamilton, adver tising; Joan Barnes and Gwen Try, decorations: Donna Kipper, patrons- and patronesses; Jerry Brog, cleanup; Lois Archibald, programs; and Donna Jean Pence, refreshments Te Award Athletic Letters Letters will be awarded to Sa lem high athletes in basketball and wrestling at a school assembly Wednesday morning. Varsity basketball letters will be awarded to 12 players by Coach Harold Hauk. Lettermen are: Jim Rock, Tom Psulus, Darrell Girod, Keith Farnam, Paul Jewell, Deb Davis, George Frederickson, Art Duval, Ben Pitzer, Doug Rogers, Gordon Bacon and Gene Carver. Hank Juran, wrestling coach, will award letters to 19 grapplers. They are: Earl Eshleman, Don Brewster, John Enger, John Gun dran, Al Hageman, Cliff Hutchin son, Marvin Karn, Melvln Kara, Jack Kubishta, George Logan, Winard Moore, Tex Neufeldt, Dick Peterson, Bill Paulson, Jack Sills, Vic Schweltx, Wayne Sprlggs, Frank Yellen and Lawrence Yel len. Loren Mort, Junior varsity bas ketball coach, will award letters to the following players: Lawrence Baggett, Ferrell Covalt, Larry Chamberlain, Dick Deen, Layton Gilson, Ron Little, Dick Norton, Lawrence Scheelar, Gordon Sloan, Don Te Sella, Wayne Walling and Vera Zueske. RICHMOND SCHOOL "Animals Living in the Sea" and the "History and Evolution of Lights" were the double-theme for a Richmond assembly Tues day. The program, given by John Black's sixth grade class, was highlighted by illustrations for j i l I ! I 'i V . . - - I ' j - jr 1 ii - ii J f fS 1. Your roIc highway a pair of tiny wires fa labeled with your telephone number at this central office) distributing frame. From here, the wires lead out of the . office, through cables, to your telephone. They also go the other way-on into a special ment that has the spodfio job ' : 3. Someone calls your number. ..and, in a matter of momenta, you pick up your receiver to answer. Per haps the call is from just across the street. Perhaps it comes half-way around the earth. But your number guided it to your telephone...and no other. Seems almost like magic when you think of it.. .it's another of the little things that add up to good telephone service for you. The Pacific Telephone ) and Telegraph Company Ehi tfcfly ta rJi ttJ ted Cre i i both topics made by the students. The program was concluded with songs by the sixth grade choir. HIGHLAND SCHOOL Events In American folklore were presented by Laura Ben ton's fifth grade class during a Highland assembly Tuesday. The program featured a play telling the events of the life of Tom Sawyer. Cast of the play Included: Jack Lay, Patsy Earlywine, Billy Grelg, Jack Kinney, Tommy Bradshaw and John Rodgers. Background and scenery was deslgned-by Len ny Williams; the class painted the background and constructed the set. Traffic Plan Talk Given Opposition to the Boldock plam for a two-lane bridge across the Willamette at Marlon street was voiced Tuesday by Paul Wallace at a meeting of the Salem Junior Chamber of Commerce. Wallace, a member of the long range planning commission, told the club he favored a four-lane Division street bridge. He said it was unfortunate that many peo ple had the idea that the Baldock plan had been offered to Salem on a take or leave It basis. Un der the four-lane bridge plan tho regular two-way street trsffli would be continued. Facicry Dcnnimh ii 199 Wool Yardages 9 laches Wide Special $1.95 Yd. Kay Woolen Retail Store ts a. nth at. section of complex equip of handling your 4jf: - .4