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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1949)
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Curiae .1M atha Big Wheat Crop Coming Up The 1949 wheat crop isn't harvested yet, much of the spring sowing hasn't yet ben done; but the department of agriculture forecasts another billion bushel crop of winter wheat, the second largest on record. The estimate is for 1,019, 686,000 bushels, which is a huge amount of heat. The record winter wheat crop in 194? was 1,008,018,000, and the 10-year average 688,606,000. If spring wheat runs to 300,000,000 bushels the total would be slightly under the 1947 record of 1,367,186,000 bushel. With 800,000,000 ample for our domestic re quirements, including seed and feed, a tremen dous surplus looms, most of which probably will be shipped abroad either on sale or gift. Already the problem of storage is faced. The congress is moving to authorize the CCC to provide additional warehousing. Elevator com panies are increasing capacity. Many farmers re providing storage for themselves. Even then it is expected that a lot of wheat will be piled outside for temporary periods. Eastern Oregon wheat men fear there still will be. 1948 grain in he bins when their new crop comes to market. A great deal of the stored wheat is held by the CCC on a loan agreement with the farmers. Since it is to trr farmers' advantage on the basis of present prices to let the government take the wheat (he escapes Storage charges that way) no one expects the rowers to redeem the wheat by paying off the oans. But the due date is not' until May 1st, and growers fear the time from then till har vest will-be too short to get the wheat out of country elevators. A great deal of it will go out by water, and the movement depends on avail ability of shipping. The government guarantee of 90 per cent of ?arity encouraged growing of wheat this year, he resulting surplus would be alarming to growers if they, did not have government price support. The present law gives a guarantee on a down-sliding scale starting in 1950; but Sec retary Brannan proposes a farm program which would do better by the farmer in the way of assuring him a good income. With big supplies of wheat still on hand and .a near-record crop in prospect It looks as though Americans wouldn't starve to death, though without government aid the growers might suf focate in their surplus. End the Bickering Chairman T. H. -Banfield of the state high way commission gave good counsel when he told Salem to quit its bickering and come to an agreement on plans for handling street and bridge problems here He cited how Salem had been pressing the commission for bridge over the Willamette, for relief on streets carrying 9E traffic; but when plans were prepared by the highway department Salem fell apart over tWommendations in the plan. And he gave the city council which attended the highway meeting in force a month In which to compose differences and arrive at an understanding for the projected improvements. We clearly have come to a point where ma jority interest will have to prevail over minor ity objections. Picking the Baldock plan apart piecemeal disposes of the whole and nothing is left. The necessities caused by steadily increas ing traffic volume force action; and the Baldock plan has the virtue of being a comprehensive one prepared by experienced engineers. If criti cisms from interests affected and perhaps hurt, are to prevail then Salem will never get a so lution of its traffic problems. In most cases we believe the fear of injury IS exaggerated. The greater diffusion of traffic and the speeding up of its flow will reduce the ills that seem to loom large in minds of some people. As far as local business is concerned the dislocation will be minor. People will still trade where they want to trade. What Salem suffers from is growing pains. Unless it is ready to strangle further growth it must adapt itself to meet the conditions cre ated by city expansion. No longer can we graze cows on the wide streets. We can't park in definitely on busy streets. Ner can we hold up by our own bickering adoption of a carefully studied plan for handling traffic through the city and across the river. . Let's get down to business in the next month and agree to. accept the Baldock plan, with the modifications recommended by the city man ager which appear to be acceptable to the high way department. That will be a move in the direction of real progress. I MEAN StS, ttSSs&Y , ., u X- The American ambassador to Britain, Lewis Douglas, caught a fishhook in his eye while out casting for trout. Fishhooks have snagged many things besides trout, but this is the first time we ever heard of a fisherman snagging his own eye. Sorry for Douglas, but at least that was a time when he caught one that didn't get away. CRT SDO0CQ3 nrmnnra (Continued from page 1) British conservatives have been running ahead of labor party candidates in local elections. Don't jump to the conclusion however that the latter will lose the national elections next month. In this country republicans still win in counties and states, but in five national elections they have lost out. Retail trade, which got off to a slow start in January and February, is accelerating. The lat er Easter this year was a factor In the delayed pick-up, as compared with one year ago. Re ports show that while customers are price con scious they buy in huge volume when they think the price is right. Consumer demand is far from satisfied. The house committee on appropriations says the problems of agriculture may become worse before they become better whereupon it ap proves a record-breaking appropriation of over $700,000,000 for the department. It looks as though appropriations will get b i g g e r and never get smaller. As the senate considers the Atlantic security pact some reference may be made to the fact that SO years ago It ratified the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war, by a vote of 85 to one. From that high point how far back the world slipped in two decades! conduits and water lines run in the channels of the "Q" flooring. For the roof a mix is made of cement, vermlculite and water, which is poured over the "Q" flooring. Vermiculite is a mineral like pumice, exceedingly light. fire-resistant. Its use instead of sand and gravel for aggregate lightens greatly the roof load and gives good insulation. Topping this will be the usual built-up felt and asphalt roofing. As to costs steel generally Is considered higher than concrete. There are some factors however, which are offsetting. One is the time element no delay for mak ing forma or waiting for concrete to set. Also steel members take up less space than concrete for equal strength. Hawkins and Roberts who hold the. property under a long-term lease are erecting the building which will be occupied by a re tail store. P. Belluschi of Port land Is the architect. Contractors are Vieako and Poet and the superintendent on the Job Is Glenn McKay. Take a look at this job as It goes up, and see how it com pares with buildings which em ploy other materials. Reoolutin' by Solonc Coots Money The Safety Valve By RaJph Watsea This is the most resolutln' legislature Oregon ever has had. Not only resolutin' but rugged. At the age of KUlpk WiUM 93. as legisla t i v a age is e h r crnlcled, 'it sat right up in bed T u e s day ' and resolved to kick the bucket tomorrow, Thursday after noon. It is very doubtful If the house believed what it was shouting about because like any well or dered household the other side of the fireside has got to go along with an idea or it just becomes an idle boast. So, we will have to see what mamma senate thinks about it before we make any bets on when to wind up the cat and put out the clock. But getting back to the r so luting. MO- far they have stacked up $312,103 worth of them, or at least that is what their face value calls for in cash of the realm, or of the taxpayers. That is the total except for one reso lution, which comes out of the roadi and highway committee and which is the most liberal and open handed one of. the bunch. It is Just marked "no limit' in the column where the cash figures are in the rest of the list. That resolution pro vides, for another "interim com mittee" to "make further stu dies of thoroughfares and ex penditures therefore the moola to come out of state highway funds with the lid off. Then there is another fairly generous proposal, which carries an appropriation of 100,000 smackers, with which "to study the natural resources of the Co lumbia river basin." It gets this from the legislative appropria tion pocket. Then there is the one which would set up a committee "to udy. examine and evaluate re quirements for appropriation of state funds." There fa only $30, 000 of pocket money set aside to make that study: which would seem to be a sort of higher curricula stuff. In the good old days, and even now, it always has seemed to a bleecherife that the practical way to evaluate the requirements for getting an appropriation was to go out and round up 31 votes in the house and 16 in the senate, and. may be, to cuddle up close to the governor when the appropriation bill got Into his office. Then there is the $15,000 job "to study improvement of pub lic school system' That sure sounds like treason with a $36. 250.000 basic school fund on tap and $23,000,0,00 more with its nose under the tent It dont sound like any $13,000 guy would know where to tackle that Job. But why go on and get all sticky with money and confused with figures? Unless we hang tight to that $5,000 baby which authorizes the expenses of the commission on Interstate coope ration. Maybe that might be enough so they could send Jack Bain up to Olympia and coax his buddy Vie Meyers into co operating enough of their sales tax money down this way to fatten up our $15,000,000 "cush ion" which seems to be in great and immediate danger of mal nutrition before the tax bills get the gubernatorial ink dry on them.1 Literary Guidepost By Beb Price LINCOLN'S SECRET ART. By Helen Nleelay (Long aaans. Green, $5) John G. Nicolay has I lived through decades of history "in the shadow of another man. f Now, through the work of his daugh ter, he emerges to historical stature in his own right, f His place in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln was his own choice; seldom has one public life been devoted So wholly to another, from the time Lincoln chose the young newspaperman as his secretary in i860, Nicolay was an ardent disciple and apos tle of Lincon. He served Lincoln through all the Civil war years; he collaborated with that other secretary-diplomant, John Hay, on the monumental Lincoln bi ography which stands today as a prime source book. The Lincoln shadow heavily overlays Nicolay's biographer. Nicolay himself would not have it otherwise. Even : so. Nicolay attains in these pages an individ uality, an appealing humaneness. a warm dignity. His letters to Therena Bates, the "girl in Illi nois" whom he married after the war, reveal a depth of percep tion, a tact and insight that are every bit his own. There is no startling historical revelation in the book. It is a story, largely, of the association of two men, Nocolay and Lin coln. But it has a freshness, de riving chiefly from Nicolay's own writings, which are here pub lished for the first time, that make it a "must" for any shelf of Lin coin! ana. Helen Nicolay has kept her own recollections and personality in the background. She has told her father's story largely in her own words, as recorded in his letters to his wife-to-be, his journals of life In the White House and his livery correspond ence with John Hay in them eslves constitute a bright epi sode of candid comment. "Lincoln's Secretary" is a warmly ; appealing story. With out realizing it we have been waiting for this book for a long time. WHAT IS THE MATTER? To the Editor: We read in the papers and hear on the radio about people want ing shorter hours, longer vaca tions, salaries raised and pen sions for some of the "big bugs" who do not need It They want larger and better schools, buses, gymnasiums, cafeterias and "what not." Please do not bother to say we do not want good schools, for I think everyone does, but a good thing can be overdone. We hear of the "white collar man" and that he should have more pay but does anyone ever think of the farmers? I know many who work from 4:30 a. m. until dark and after, with no vacations and then it is all they can do to pay their taxes and some have lost their farms and no doubt but what more will. I have heard a number of our prominent farmers say they don't know what to do, as taxes are so high and it looks like they will be higher. My husband and I are getting older and if we are lucky enough not to live too long and our land holds out and we can sell some "now and then," as we have been doing, we may get along. , but many can't. Then what will be come of them?" Perhaps they can crowd them In with the poor Navajo Indians and let them all starve together. Never was our nation on such a "spending spree." When : the farmers have to quit for lack of money to pay their taxes, how will the rest eat? Maude Porter Boone 2049 State St. Brannan Declares Farm Plan Would Give Public More WASHINGTON, April 11 -(JF) Secretary of; Agriculture Brannan said Monday that the administra tion's proposed new farm program "is an attempt to give the public more for Its money." While contending it would cost no more than present legislation, the secretary added: "Even if the dollar Investment were higher, which I doubt, It would be worth more to the nation because of the increased protec tion against surpluses, depression and unemployment." Brannan spoke on a radio net work after an appearance today before the house agriculture com mittee. Under the plan, the consumer prices of perishable commodities the great bulk of farm output would be allowed to drop to their natural levels. But if they went below a minimum return which the plan assures for farmers, then the government would pay farmers the difference. THUMB SEVERED BT AX Edna McCormick, 1085 M S. 13th st., severed her left thumb with an ax at her home Monday night. First aidmen who were called to the scene said the thumb was chopped at the first joint. Provider of Bail Jailed, Sans Bail PORTLAND, Ore., April lt(JP) Bail bond broker Joseph Levy who has been providing bail-out funds for others for 20 years, was jailed Monday for six hours. It was his first time behind bars. Municipal Judge J. J. Quillin set the short sentence on a charge of contempt of court so that Levy could neither post bail or appeal the charge. The judge ordered court bailiff Edgar Brewer to clap Levy in the pokey after the bond broker had solicited business Just outside the court room. British Ship to Be Bombarded By A-Bomb Rays PORTSMOUTH, Eng., April 11 (Jf)- The cruiser Arethusa has ar rived here to be fitted with the instruments she will carry in Bri tain's first test of atomic bomb rays on a warship. The cruiser is to be bombarded with gamma rays, like those that radiate from an exploding atom bomb, in maneuvers soon off the Sussex coast. No bombs will be used, and there will be no crew or guinea pig animals aboard. The admir alty has declined to give the exact date of the test. Better English By D. O. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "It was none other that he." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation 01 soot 7 3. Which of these words is misspelled? Madamozelle, Ma- aonna, maelstrom. 4. What does the word "co ercive" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with la that means "exciting laughter; ridiculous"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "It was no other than he." 2. Preferred pronunciation is eo as in book. 3. Mademoiselle 4. Serving or intended to re strain by force. "They resorted AAatA(trA a at At K T t s-l 4 V .WS WAT UlftU. V. AJUUI croui. Cut in Agency Funds Advised WASHINGTON, April 12 -UP) A cut of $508,750,060 in the amount President Truman asked to run the veterans administration next year was recommended today by the house appropriations committee. The committee made the slash in sending on to the house for action a $7,578,886,231 money bill to car ry 28 so-called Independent agen cies through the year starting July l. It recommended reductions In the funds asked for nearly all of tnem. Even the atomic energy commis sion came in for a cut. but the com- commlttee asked the house to ap prove in full the approximately one-third of that agency's budget earmarked for weapons and react ors The committee said those funds go to bulwark "our first line of defense." Equipment Slated For Salem CAP Salem's civil air patrol unit will soon be supplied with a Link train er, a PT-13 for flight training, parachutes, radio and radar equip ment, it was announced Monday night. The PT-13 is to be stationed permanently at Salem and wjll be used for aerial search, cadet train ing, observation flights and brain ing of civil air patrol officers. Cadets promoted to private first class at Monday's meeting were Jackson Smithson, Gary Hisel and Floyd Ranahan. Hoover Gtes Fund Padding By Services 3 WASHINGTON, April 11 -(JP) Herbert Hoover testified Monday that the army, navy and air force are "padding" their money re quests to congress by millions of dollars. I He also accused them of ''start ling" waste and extravagance. I The former president, appearing before the senate armed services committee, cited art air force re quest for funds to build 910 fam ily homes In Alaska costing $58, 350 each. t He noted the army wanted $100,000 each to modernize 102 M-26 tanks It doesn't even navel Hoover told the committee th$t what the department of national defense needs is a good bookkeep- uig aysiein. SENIOR PLAY GIVEN HUBBARD An nut.tnnrttnV performance was given by the members of the cast in their pres entation of "Mountain Justice" by the senior class of North Marion Union high school Friday eve ning. Robert Woodward, superin tendent at NMU, directed. Moun tain music was played, before and between acts of the play. I II - HUNDREDS OF ROSE BUSHES Prices Deduced lo 50c Each $5.00 Per Dozen Climbers, Bush Rosea, Florrjtanda, & Polyanthas , EVERY ROSE BUSH REDUCED! i See Our Big; Stock of Camellias, Rhododendrons and Perennials 1 Gladiolus Bulbs Dosen 50c Flowerlne; Trees $1.25 Fruit Trees $1.00 Hedge Laurel Dosen $1.75 Shade Trees . $1.09 Grape Vines KMGHT PEARCY IIURSERY South Liberty SU S Blocks South of State Street Open Daily 9 til 5:30 Sunday, 12 tlU CKESSMAN WINS STUDY NEW YORK, April 12 -Jpy- A second Guggenheim fellowship has been awarded to iSr. Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, University of Oregon professor of Anthropology. He will use the fellowship to study the relation of early south-central Oregon cultures to those of other treas. His study will take him to Mexico. Uv;:4. L vfer STEVEIIS & son JEWELERS - SILVERSMITHS Llresley Bldg. State and Liberty
