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Still the Commission's Move i
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Discussing the imbroglio of the state highway
commission and the: city council over bridge
and street matters the Capital! Journal says in
''"part: x' . ,"
Oregon's highway commission is being pun
ished verbally for "delaying" action on a new
bridge across the Willamette at Salem.
Some local blasts have been aimed, at the
commission for trying to "force" the city count
til into accepting the Baldock traffic plan. Ac
cording to these vocal blasters, the commission .
' is supposedly using the bridge construction as '
a weapon to "force" the Baldock plan.
This kind of talk is ridiculous. It has no
basis in fact.
At the May meeting of the highway , com
mission, it became obvious that the exact loca-
tion of the new bridge was a matter for the
highway commission and engineer to decide.
It was a state consideration because of the high-
way routes. That was correct.
However, the state canl go ahead with one
way bridges until Salem cooperates and de
signates the respective streets in the necessary
area as one-way streets..
As In such cases, cooperation between the
state and city is essential. ' The state can't act
without the cooperation and agreement of the
city. '
Our esteemed contemporary may be looking
our way because of certain comments in the
editor's column to the effect that as far as
the bridge waj concerned it was the commis
sion's move, not the city council's, that the city
council had already acted. To confirm this let
us quote Paragraph 2 of Section I
tion adopted bys the city council
give general approval of the Baldock report:
"Far the reconstruction and maintenance of
the Center street bridge across the Willamette
river and for the construction and maintenance
of a new and additional bridge across such river
at such point north of Center street as the state
highway commission and public roads administ
raUon of the U. S. government may select, the
cost of such reconstruction and new construc
tion and necessary rights of way therefor to be
borne by the highway commission. ' " v
r "On completion of the new bridge the elty
council agrees to accept the receaunendaUea af
the highway conunlssion an the ' direction of
travel to and from each 'bridge. (Emphasis
""upplied4
There it. We1 ask the C-J what more the.
eity council can do on the bridge matter! to
expedite its construction. It can't pass sjn ordin
ance establishing one-way .traffic on bridge
streets until the new bridge is built. Ordin
ances awaiting action all relate to the rerouting'
of traffic. on Highway 99E through the city, a
matter quite Independent of building the bridge.
The state highway Commission can start the
new bridge just as soon as it is ready to move.
The Salem city council isn't holding up the
project.' ,!
COP CeU New Chairman
Republicans have named a new national chair
man Rep. Hugh Scott, who served for just over
a year,; joined the not inconsiderable company
of past chairmen, men who have, been put in,
the box and who failed uniformly (except In
1948) to "retire" the opposing team. The choice
this time fell to Guy George Gabrielson, a lawyer-industrialist
of New Jersey.
The -chairmanship has been the shuttlecock
of; contenders for the presidential nomination.
Carroll Reece of Termessewas 'Taff man.
8cott was installed by the Dewey team after
ta. nomination. Now Gabrielson is tagged as a
Taft man because he supported Taft last year.
It is time the party stopped engaging in, in
tramural" politics and organized its campaign
against its real opposition. If Gabrielson can
,do that Job, keeping free from the stinging bees
Nehru to Seek American
4Br Stewart Also
NEW DELHL India, Aug. 5
In a : few weeks the most te-
markable and probably the most
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iitisui lam - py : . , ii
liUcal leader in "; Vf
A.I. tm- . I ' A 4
the first
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ed States
5
' prospeitive vis
itor j is Pandit t
J a w aha rial
Nehru, prime
minister of India-
f Nehru's visit
Zw i 1 1 be an
Ml
event; of great Sirwart A!
Pi
import anie.
simply because the relationship
between the United States and
this enormous --country will in
large. part determine the out
wmt of the Soviet Union's
ruthless power drive ,in Asia.
The visit should also be more
interesting than most such ocra
' ainns of. state, simply because
Nehru is an extraordinarily in
teresting man.
He is a man of many contra
dictions. More than any other
man except Mahatma Gandni,
Nehro forced the British to re
linquish power in India. Yet his
most striking surface character
istic is his Englishness. Epen in
the baggy cotton uniform of
the Indian Independence move
ment.' he manages . to look the
perfect English gentleman,
handsome, quietly humorous,
politely .distant. Nehru went to
Harrow, and at first his acient
sounds straight English public
school. jIt is only after some
time that one senses an odd .
liquidity in' the accent, an un
dertaker of emotion and mys
ticism in the man, which are
wholly un-English, wholly ln
: dian. ,
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He shares certain superficial
characteristics with Franklin
Delano Roosevelt He has the
same dark circles under the
eyes, the, same way of holding a
cigarette in a long holder, the
aame handsomje regularity of
feature, the same resUesv en
ergy, above all the saxrw n-
Satedaf, Aucjvff 84
"Wo ror Sways 17. Wo Fear Shall A
tee"
First SUteanM. March wl
of presidential aspirants, maybe he can turn up
a winner. . j j
Some say that the republican party is fore
closing on its adventure in "me too ism." No
longer will it chant the tune But I can do it
betteij than you'l'but chart a policy of its own.
And that policy would be- tougher jthan, what
Dewey advanced and quit different from that
of thf Wilikie era. However there are plenty
of paty diehards who think Taft is a bi on the
pinkish side (public housing, federal aid to
education).
Actually Taft j Upcoming into a clearer focus
among republicans and Citizens generally. Hi
knowledge of government affairs is being re
cognized and respected, also his own intellectual
force land his courage to take a stand on issues.
As with any positive tnind (Wayne Morse for
instance at the other side of the republican
spectrum) he provokes a great deal of disagree
ment but by shjter force he has proven the lea
der of the senatj even tf the 81st congress, win
ning the knock-down and drag-out fight over
the new labor law. j J
In J952 new issues may arise and new figures.
By that time Dewey and Taft may both be re
garded as shelf worn, and even Stassen.
; No! tune now to be jockeying for position
1952 the 1950 campaign is the first order of
business. Mr. Gabrielson must address himself
to that task, and undoubtedly he wilL Primar
ily a chairman ;
of the resolu- raiser Gabrielson seems to have capacity for
on May 9 ; to
both ! jobs. The
out policies, and .the party conventions adopt
platforms. And it is quite in order now for
the Jarty factions to pipe down and give the
new chairman a chance.
Korean Women Assert Rights
.Korean womln are putting their new liberties,
to work; and using them to protect the position
of women in their country.. Their women's
associations are united in a federation and re
cently 700 members of the federation descended
on the chairman of the national assembly and
demanded that the assembly end the "shame
ful practice" of concubinage. Previously the as
sembly had defeated a bill to bar from public
office men who maintained concubines. This
stirred up the women' and prompted their pro
testi. j j
In Korea the practice of maintaining a wife
and a mistress has been fairly common, particu
larly among the more prosperous classes; and
has been openly recognized. But the women
of Korea are throwing off the shackles of the
past and demanding I equal rights. Theysay,
"If women's chastity is dear, man also jnust
keep his." It may take considerable campaign
ing but the women of Korea evidently mean
business. Besides, if the cost of living goes up
the male may find it keeps him humping to sup
port one woman, his wife.
Government workers in Greece threaten to
walk out unless their demands for a 60 per cent
Increase arc met. Evidently we are meeting with
more success in getting Greece to adopt Amer
ican ways than we had realized.
The congress is getting economy-minded. The
senate clipped $5,000,000 off the $7,600,000,000
appropriation bill for Independent offices
after granting increases of $32,000,000.
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In Florida last Sunday three baseball players
were struck by lightning and killed. Soma fans
will say there's no justice it should have been
umpires. j . r
clous charm consciously era
ployed as. an enormously effec
tive weapon of persuasion. Yet
essentially no two men could be
more different. Roosevelt was a
born politician i Nehru is ;a
politician J only by ; the accident
of history.: He is an intellectual,
an Idealist, primarily interested,
hot in the dull business of gov
ernment, but in ideas. .
When this reporter interview
ed him. for example, Nehru was
obviously bored by questions
about the immediate issues of
policy. Yet in response to a
question about the; general ' re
lationship : between ; nationalism
and communism hv Asia, he
launched into a long and bril
liant abstract discussion. (Brief
ly, he believes that when the
communists last year took up
arms against the; nationalist
government here, ini Burma and
in Indonesia, they divorced
themselves from Asiatic nation
alism, and. thus lost their su
preme opportnitv ii Asia.)
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Nehru ,suffers from he rid
dilemma of the idealist intel
lectual; the conflict between the
ideal and the reaLi He is. for
example, a convinced socialist,
Like many other socialists, he
sympathized for a j long time
with the Soviet Union's "social
ist experiment." He is also a
deeply sincere civil liberatar
ian; he spoke and wrote more
bitterly of the British suspen
sion of civil liberties than any
other aspect of British rule, f
Yet between such. ideals and
political reality in India today
there is a wide gulfj The Indian
communists have (been using
every possible technique, from
acid bombs to open insurrec
tion; to destroy the authority of
the government. In ) self-protection,
Nehru has been forced to
jail more; political prisoners than
ever the British jailed.
This conflict between th
ideal and the real leads to Mine
strange results. Recently Nehru
risked assassination; to go to
Calcutta to hearten! the people
against the communist terror
there. Ostensibly for this puiv
csmau
is an organizer and a money-
candidates are the ones who lay
Aid for India
pose, he made one of his famous
impromptu speeches, which ire
more like soul-searching solilo
auies than political speeches.
The main theme of the speech
was Nehru's admiration for
"communist ideals."
It is this sort of thing and
there have been many similar
incidents which has led a
minority of foreign observers
here to dismiss Nehru as a weak
though brilliant man. a sort' of
Hamlet incongruously cast in
the role of political leader.
These observers credit themira--
W'-Sr.h'tS'g;:
nbie years entirely to the tough,
practical. aged . Vice-premier
Sards r Patel. It is certainly true
that if Patel were to die. the
creaking machinery; of govern
ment' in India might well break
down.
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"Yet it is also true that if
Nehjru were to die Cor be killed,
which is more likely) the heart
would go out of the new Indian
state. For since Gandhi's death,
Nehru has become a symbol, a
rallying point, a focus for In
dia's threatened and precarious
unity. This may be because,
whether or not he Is an authen
tic great man., he has at least
one; characteristic of greatness
as sensitively as a finely regu
lated barometer records the
weather. Nehru refleits the mood
of the Indian people.
That mood, like Nehru's, is
now one of inner j conflict, of
disillusion. The disillusion
springs from the fact that since
the I British quit India, the j lot
pf the Indian masses has be
come, if anything. worse i tpan
it u as, simply because there is
not enough food. That is (one
reason why Nehru is going to
the) United States. For a little
help, some surplus wheat, some
irrigation equipment, could re
verse the process of creeping
disillusion which is playing into
communist hands. And this help
should be forthcoming, unless
the! United ' States is - prepared
ultimately to see India go the
way of China. j - !
4- (Copyright, 1S.J i
If "Sfe sal
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The Safety
Valve
Should Count Blessings!
To the Editor:
I liked SC H. Merrill's letter
in Sunday's Safety Valve. He
evidently has learned the lesson
Mrs. Creigriton hasn't mastered,
thankfulness. Now she could be
a lot worse off if she really had
t0 live in a slum and she should
feel grateful for what she does
have to live in. Maybe she had
better do the visiting herself.
There are so many having less
than she does that she may get
a different viewpoint.
A wood stove isn't everything
to be desired in a range but
most farm folk and many hum
ble city dwellers are thankful
for wood to uso In it most any
morning in the year, i Mrs.
Creighton's stove pipe might
need cleaning, maybe the chim
ney isn't high enough. Inade
quate wood box? What a trifle!
Get a bigger one. I made mine
like I wanted it. Ice box stinks?
Well. I ve found no matter
whether it's an ice box or re
frigerator, it'll sure get stinky if
it isn't kept clean. Why not zet
her own hose and mower? That's
personal property and she could
take it to this home she's hop
ing for. She'd surely need those
items there as well. Nothing like
collecting a little stuff of your
Better English
By a a fniUasM i
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "The men ascended up
the hui."
2. What is the correct pro
nunciation of "numerous 'i
3. Which on of these words
is misspelled? Bugle, bufalo,
bureaucracy.
4. What does the word ."spec
ulative mean?
5. What is a word beginning
With po that means drinkable
ANSWERS
1. Omit up. Ascend means to
rise. 2. Pronounce the a as in
nit. not as ee in seen. 3. Buf
falo. 4. Given to meditation:
contemplative. "The mind of
man being by nature specula
tive." Hooker. 5. Potable.
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GRIN AND BEAR
"If yea eeoldnt be tteasaat aboat
! DOG DAYS
own so you'd have something to
move. Maybe when Mrs. Creigh
ton buys her home shell get free
hose and mower. Power; to her,
yes, I guess that's what she'd
want then, power to run the
mower. i
I'm applauding Mr. Merrill's
attitude, it's more healthful.
Marie Whealdon
Rte. 2, Box 113
Turner, Ore. i
Tittle Hoover
Board' Meets
Members of the so-called "little
Hoover commission" created by
the 1949 legislature to study reor
ganization of the state government
with a view of economies and ef
ficiency, met here Friday.
State Representative Rudie Wil
helm, Portland, was elected chair
man, and Representative Paul
Gedtles, Rose burg, secretary.
Most of the meeting was devot
ed to surveying the field prelim
inary to actual investigations. Wil-
helm said he hoped the committee
would bo able to recommend some
innovations in the state govern
ment that would result in substan
tial financial savings, j
Marion County
Health Educator
Position Changes
A change in the position of
health educator at the Marion
county department of health is due
soon when Francis Reierson, pres
ent health educator, takes a one
year leave of absence j beginning
next month.
Howard Pyfer, formerly of Seat
tle, Wash., will substitute for Kei
erson. Pyfer if in Salem now ac
quainting himself with Reierson's
duties.
Mrs. Pyfer, his wife, already has
started working for the health de
partment here as a receptionist.
Reierson will leave September
2 for Berkeley, Calif., where he
is to enter the Universijy of Call
fornia. He will study for his mas
tor's degree in public health.
Pyfer is a native of Tacoma,
Wash., having graduated from the
University of Washington. He
taught last year in Seattle schools.
He and his wife live at 1399 D st
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By Licbty
their new baby, yea should have
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Amity Man Loses
Fingers in Accident
f
AMITY Two accidents oc
curred here this week with Glenn
Patty suffering the loss of three
fingers, while working in bis shop
with a power saw; He is being
taken care of by a daughter home,
who is a nurse. Lyle Kirkwood
suffered a foot injury. Ralph
Wood is recuperating froman
emergency appendectomy.
Amity Lodge 67 and Industry
Rebekah lodge 95 held their an
nual picnic at Sorensen s, Sunday.
A no host dinner was served and
games were enjoyed by all attend
ing. Public?
Records
MAKIIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Charles Frederick Hunter, 21,
student, Eldridge, Calif., and Betty
Lou Jones, 20, telephone operator,
1934 S. Commercial st- Salem.
Dean Leroy Wolfe, 21, student,
2061 N. 5th st, and Florence Irene
Brock, 19, student, 845 Gaines st,
both of Salem.
Frederick Howard Graham, 27,
teacher. Longview, Wash, and
Dorothy Ann Hobson, 21, student.
Molalla.
CIRCUIT COURT
Lois Elaine Whelchel vs Junior
M. Welchel: Complaint for divorce
alleging desertion asks restoration
of plaintiffs maiden name of Lois
Elaine Moles. .Married July 17,
1947. at Vancouver. Wash.
Frances J. Willaby vs David Pell
Willaby: Complaint for divorce al
leging cruel and inhuman treat
ment asks custody of two minor
children. $80 total monthly sup
port money. Married Oct 22, 194S,
in Reno. Nev.
Errol W. Ross vs Fred Lockyear:
Defendant waives right to jury
trial.
American Sheet Metal Works,
Inc, vs Fred Lockyear: Defendant
waives right to Jury trial.
William R. and Corva N. Mc
Carroll vs Timberline, Inc, and
others: Plaintiffs file answer ad
mitting ahd denying.
Dorothy Young vs Arlo D.
Young: Default order for defend
ant
Lovena Denbo vs John R. Den
bo: Plaintiff granted decree of dis
missal without prejudice.
Otto Papke vs Clifton and John
Roop: Jury verdict awards plain
tiff judgment of $1,086 against de
fendant Clifton Roop.
DISTRICT COURT ;
Edward E. McEwen. Lodi, Calif.
charged with larceny, continued
for plea to August 8; held in lieu of
SL500 baiL
Kenneth Quigley, charged with
being a fugative from justice from
California on a charge of non-sup
port; ordered held until August 12
for California authorities; held in
lieu of $2,000 bait v$
Jack Henry Dykes, Stockton,
Calif, charged with larceny, con
tinued for plea to August I; held in
lieu of $1,500 bail.
Edward H. Kruegen, 958 High
land st, charged with contributing
to the delinquency of a minor and
with aiding inmates to escape from
Hillcrest school, continued for plea
to August S; held in lieu of $3,000
total bail.
MUNICIPAL COURT
' Kenneth Lewis Housley, 1180
Lee st, reckless driving, liquor in
volved; fined $150. '
Robert, S t u r m, Sacramento
Calit, driving while intoxicated:
fined $250.
. Aurelio Martinez. UJS. army. Ft
Lewis, jWaah4 charged with lar
ceny of an auto and failing to re
main at the scene of an accident;
held In lieu of $1,500 baiL
George B. Belgard, transient
charged with grand larceny on a
Portland municipal court warrant;
released to Portland authorities.
Man Found .
WitH Stolen
Salem Auto
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Edward C McEwaiw who gave
his addres as Lodi, Calif was ar
rested in McMlnnville Thursday
when he was found driving an
auto which had been reported
stolen in Salem early Wednesday
morning, f
McEwan, arrested by state po
lice, was brought to Salem by a
Marion county deputy sheriff on
a district court warrant charging
him withi larceny. He is beingH
held in the county. jail in lieu of
SU00 baiL
The auto McEwan was driving
was stolen from Charles M.
Greene, 2370 Adams st, about the
same time and in the vicinity
where the W. T. Rigdon hearse
was ; stolen and later wrecked
Wednesday.
McEwan is scheduled for ques
tioning today to see if there might
be a connection between the two
thefts.
Oregon Leads
Coasts Traffic
Toll Reduction
Oregon continues to pace the
Pacific coast states in traffic death
reduction last month as a tenta
tive count of July fatalities total
ed 21.
The month's toll brings deaths
for the year to 147, a 38 per cent
drop from 232 deaths in the first
seven months of 1948, Secretary of
State Earl T. Newbry reported.
National figures for the first
five months show only Idaho and
Maine leading Oregon In percent-
age of traffic death decreases.
Thirteen ofthe July fatalities
were on rural highways and eight
on city- streets. .
Man Admits
Taking Hearse
.Theft of a hearse owned by the
W. T. Rigdon company was ad
mitted Friday in a signed rtate
ment by Edward Charles McEwen,
32, transient, city police reported.
In his statement McEwen said
he had been picking beans north
There's a Good Reason
HOODS
for the thrifty housewife to
shop that convenient location
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FOR CANNING
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRESS $0 1 C
by WEAREVER i Z.ly
COLANDERS . -49M
CANNING FUNNEL, IPt
ALUMINUM .
COLD-PACK CANNER, $915
.Large, Enamel . Aall
Out and About tho House
DUST MOPS
Your choke, assorted sizes
STEEL CLOTHESLINE POSTS - All
welded joints, tW high, 4W cross- ;
arm, drilled to hold wire. Easy to
Install with rod at bottom to pre
vent post from twisting. $19 Hf)
Complete pair i - IZsUVI
CLOTHESLINE WIRE,
No. 20 Stranded, SCT lengths
CLOTHESPINS, Spring Type.
First quality. 3 dozen .
On these hot
drivo all .
SHOP
, i LUMBER "WWH ; - ,
.B.aBWsaBSsssssssssea" a , 1 1 I ;
of Salem and came to Town Tues
day night to visit some taverns.
The next thing I remember I
climbed into a large car in a gar
age and drove off . . . after driving
some distance I noticed a largo
tree in front of me," his statement
continued, i 1 I
The hearse was found wrecked
at Chemeketa and 24th streets
Wednesday. McEwen was arrest
ed near Dayton junction Thurs
day and returned here.
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County Buys
Land for NeW
Garbage Dump
Land for a second county-Owned
garbage disposal area was pur
chased Thursday for $7,500 by the
Marion county court
The land, secured from Oscar.
Evan, Eleanor, Roger, Allan and
Virginia Baker, includes about 43
acres just nofDrof the Macieay
cemetery on county road 851.
The disposal unit win serve the
south end of Marion county j the
court said, just as the present plant'
near Wood burn serves the north
end. A third plant may be pur
chased near Jefferson or Talbot
to serve that area.
Good roads serve the new gar
bage disposal site, which is- not
visible from the highway and Is
not close to any homes. 1
Plans for the new land include
possible sale of about half the
property which the court deems
too large and the hiring of a care
taker for the unit
Peach Supply!
Said on Rise !
The supply of peaches from
northwestern orchards is reported
Increasing but still insufficient to
meet requirements.
Thirty-pound lugs of Washing
ton Rochesters wholesaled ! this
week' at $2 and $2.50. This is 50
to 75 cents a lug under last j sea
son. ' I
Hales from California also be
gan arriving and moved at $2.65 to
$2.75 a packed lug. This is a
round 35 cents .aider a year ago.
Peaches in local orchards in the
Salem area were bringing $2.75 in
the orchards with . the customers
furnishing the boxes or paying
from 25 to 30 cents extra for the
box. Some orchard-run peaches
(second grades) could be had for
$2.50 a box.
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