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1950
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Omnibus Appropriation Bill
One means for obtaining greater economy in
government la urged in the presentation of an
omnibus appropriation bilL The theory is that
if this is done members will not be so apt to
jimmy more money out of the treasury for pet
projects.
We doubt if the economies realized by this
means will amount to much. Generally, the bills
submitted by the appropriations committees are
adopted without much change; and there might
even be more likelihood of log-rolling to get
increases of items in an omnibus bill than if
separate bills were submitted.
The practice varies among the states. Wash
Jggton used to have perhaps it still does a
single, general appropriation bill. Oregon's ways
and means committee submits a whole sheaf of
appropriation measures. The former certainly
hasn't been distinguished for econmy in late
years.
It isn't the form in which the appropriation
bills are dished up, but the will of the members
of the congress or legislature, which determines
what the spending will be.
ments and rummage sales, you can get by. But
after a while it isn't really fun at alL
And after a while the poor-little-rich-dish-washer,
like all the other $20-a-week drudges,
would have been dreaming of turquoise and
diamond pendants like the one she pawned, and
charge accounts at the nice shops, and for a car
instead of carefully coun ted-out busfare.
From the outside, the gilded cake sometimes
looks pretty good. Especially in wintertime.
AP Delivers the Goods
Getting the news in may be quite as hard a
problem as gathering the news. That was the
experience down at Coquille, and the AP week
ly "Log" for Oregon tells how by "triangula
tion" news was poured into Coquille. Here's the
story:
The Coquille Isolation angle brought out an
Interesting sidelight. Soon after Harris told of
the town's plight, the Portland (AP) bureau got
a message from Chicago saying that a Bloom
lngton amateur radio operator had intercepted
a message from a Coquille 'ham' telling of the
town's plight. The incident made AP national
(. Log: .
"An Oregon radio member and an Illinois
' newspaper member, 4000 miles aparU-Jeamed
-, with amateur radio operators to flash the news
" of the Isolation of Coquille, Ore., by blizzard. It
happened this way: AP station KWRO, Coquil-
le, enlisted the aid of a local ham, W7KYU, in
getting word to AP that the town and Coos
county had been hit by a crippling storm and !
that all public utilities and power were dead.
W7KYU, a mobile station, began sending. In
Illinois, H. R. Crawford, of Saybrook, picked up
the call while driving to a farm sale. He phoned
the Bloomington, 111., Pantagraph, where Dan
Miles took the story and put in a fast call for
Chicago. From then on it was clear sailing, Chi
cago filing the first story and Portland filing a
precede."
The precede, with information phoned in by
Harris, was Just ready to go when Chicr go's
i stuff arrived.
New Milk Battle Looms
Milk Administrator Ohlsen has denied Safe
way stores permission to process in its Portland
plant milk produced in the Salenvarea and then
distribute it in Salem. That is not surprising.
The administration pretty consistently has
knocked Safeway down when it has wanted to
pry a little competition in the milk business.
Safeway says it will take the matter into court,
which will mean that lawyers and judges will
have a new and prolonged wrestling match.
The administrator says he is going to protect
upstate distributors from Portland competition.
Safeway accuses him of "fostering monopoly."
The charge is true, but the administrator would
probably reply that the law itself fosters mono
poly, which it does, though whether it reaches
to the dealer level is for the courts to decide.
To one who has grown up in the atmosphere
of "free enterprise,' the administrator's ruling
seems absurd. We favor patronizing home in
dustry, but haven't approved the idea of impos
ing legal barriers to shut out neighboring com
petition. Portland-made bread, cookies come in
to Salem and local bakeries have to face the
competition. So do Portland newspapers.
Milk, though, is something different, we are
told. It's a public utility. It's also a political
headache.
If
Poor Little Rich Girl
A theme almost as recurrent as the Cinderella
or rags-to-riches plot is the bird-in-a-gilded-cage
or poor-little-rich-girl story. There was a
true-to-life example of the latter in Canada this
week.
To the captive bird, the sky outside always
looks blue. She doesn't know that sometimes
crumbs are hard to come by. To the pretty Mc
Gill university coed, the security of a $2,000,000
Inheritance meant nothing. How much better it
would be to live in a garrett and.be free!
' So she did. She ran away to Vancouver, B.C.,
and got a job as a $20-a-week dishwasher and
lived in an attic room. Her escapade didn't last
long so it must have been quite a lark like
slumming when you know you've got a warm
house and good food to return to.
But well bet she would soon have learned
that- crumbs, indeed, are hard to come by and
there's always the cat or the wolf at the door
to look out for. On $20-a-week, freedom is pret
ty skimpy. It means all you can possibly afford
for housing is $5 a week which will buy a
small room in a boarding house where you wait
In line for a bath
It means coffee and doughnuts for breakfast,
coffee and a peanut-butter sandwich for lunch,
coffee and a hamburger for dinner unless you
can get a date to pick up the dinner check. And
getting a date means you have to look nice. The
steam from dishwashing will ruin your hairdo
and permanents are expensive. So are clothes.
Aiid shoes. And nylon stockings. Of course, if
you're very careful and shop the bargain base-
. At his press conference Thursday, President
Truman told reporters that Jimmy Byrnes late
ly announced candidate for governor of South
Carolina, could do as he "damn pleases." Byrnes
was the man Truman called back to Washing
ton when he succeeded to the presidency and
made him his secretary of state just at the close
of the United Nations conference in San Fran
cisco. The beautiful friendship lies like a brok
en vase.
Salem is making progress. An armored car is
now going into service. Just so those Boston
boys don't head this way.
Mouse Ignores Lighted Korean Fuse
- , By Jaaaes D. White
AP Forclan Affairs Analyst
What will happen now - In
Korea?
The house of representatives
took the lid off Thursday. It re
fused by a narrow margin to
renew economic aid to the south
ern half of the country for the
rest of the fiscal year.
The bill was beaten by 131 re
publicans, 61 democrats, and one
American labor party vote. It
was sponsored by an administra
tion whose refusal to send more
military aid to the Chinese na
tionalists has Just stirred a great
controversy. Washington reports
say bluntly that killing Korean
aid is the opposition's way of
showing disapproval of the ad
ministrations whole policy in the
Orient.
If so, Korea Is a touchy place
to start Showing it I have never
met an Oriental Korean or
otherwise who suggested that
Dr. Syngman Rhee's government
could ever have been set up, or
could have survived,; without
American help. To cut off that
help now may thus weaken
Oriental faith in America and
strengthen Oriental prejudice
against her. No such let-down?
has occurred in Europe.
-
Nowhere in the world have
American arms and economic aid
supported a government so in
timately engaged in fending off
a communist rival. Not even in
Greece, because the Greek guer
rillas never were recognized as
government, whereas the Russian-sponsored
North Korean re
gime is recognized by the com
munist powers.
Orientals moreover are highly
conscious that Korea, fresh from
Japanese vassalage, was split in
half in the first place by Russo
American rivalry and that the
sum rivalry has helped widen
tod harden the split.
When Russia ignored the
United Nations and set up a pup
pet state In the north, America
followed with the Rhee- govern
ment in the south.
What an Koreans want Is un
ity. They want It so much that
each, side favors conquering the
other to get it.
Many Koreans do not like Dr.
Rhee's methods, but these same
people now say that at this stage
of the cold war the end of Amer
ican aid to him can have a ser
ious effect on all Orientals. They
say it will prove to them, that
internal American political rows
can blast American-nurtured
hopes in all Oriental countries.
.
The simmering civil war along
the 38th parallel that divides
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A Pole Takes a Walk
At United Nations, Russia, et aL have been
doing most of the walking. A few days ago, how
ever, the representative of Poland, a Russian
satellite, tired of walking out with his commun
istic comrades, took a walk alone, and in the
opposite direction. He walked out of Poland and
into the United States.
Dr. Alexander Rudzinski, (counselor of the
Polish delegation and lately ranking delegate,
resigned his post with Poland, severed his con
nections with his government and asked asylum
as a political refugee in this country. Rudzin
ski's statement on his reasons for becoming an
expatriate reveals the crisis which confront
every lover of freedom who is caught in the
communist mesh. He explained that as a result
of USSR takeover of real authority in his native
country, "freedom has disappeared in Poland."
His effort to keep some measure of independence
for the Polish delegation failed: That was a
hard and losing fight finally becoming entirely
hopeless." He concluded that he could no longer
associate himself "with walkouts calculated to
paralyze and disrupt the United Nations."
The western powers have been 'severely cri
tical of Russiaand certain that Russia is follow
ing a disruptive course, but here we have con
firming evidence from a man who is a loyal
Pole, not a politician but a teacher of law. Thou
sands more must feel as he does. How can an
empire be sustained indefintely on a basis of
distrust and enmity?
(Continued front page 1.)
labor governments, temporized
or even aided Franco and the
United States Initiated no action
to oust this junior Mussolini.
Franco rode out the storm. The
resolution of United Nations ser
ved if anything to brace him
with his own people.
But what really inspires Ach
eson's move is a scramble for
consistency. Since the United
States maintains full diplomatic
representation with other dicta
torships and with Russia and
most of its satellites, where
police state methods of totalitar
ian governments, communist or
fascist, prevail, it was hard to
explain why Franco was kept
out in the cold. We recognized
revolutionaries in Panama, Ven
ezuela, Boliva; we keep an am
bassador in Yugoslavia and a
minister in the Dominican Re
public (so-called). Admittedly,
our policy was inconsistent
What probably is the main
spring of the latest decision is
not the pressure from Catholic
interests who have been urging
Spain's cause, nor the appeal of
the Junketing senators and con
gressmen, but the looming fact
of recognition of Communist
China. There is little doubt that
this will follow as soon as China
shows a disposition to treat our
representatives decently. But
the state department could hard
ly enter into full diplomatic re
lations with a communist gov
ernment established by revolu
tion and continue to maintain
only a charge d'affaires at Mad
rid where the falangist govern
ment was also a product of arm
ed revolution.
If we are to be "realists" in
regard to China, well have to be
"realists" in regard to Spain,
though in both cases the medi
cine has a bitter taste.
It's Raining Money in Salem,
And War Vets Have Plans for It
By John H. White
8Uff Writer. The Statesman
Snow, sleet and hail aren't the only things pouring into Salem
this week.
Ifs raining money, too, and the drizzle that started Monday, will
turn into a cloudburst during the next four months.
Life; insurance dividend checks are responsible. Those monthly
payments to the government tnat most veterans started about the
time they first got their dogtags
are paying off.
How are local veterans going to
spend this post-Christmas present
that ranges from 60 cents to
lomtheing over $500? Or will they
spend it?
A random survey Thursday in
dicated that most of them either
will bank the money or will pay
bills. Some have spent it already.
A few have special projects in
mind.
"Ill Just give it to the other
guy," said John Gottfried, food
market employe at 805 N. Capitol
it The "other guy" turned out to
be unpaid bills. Gottfried said
they'll soak up his entire check.
Calvin Chambers, 1391 Broad
way st, agreed. "Ill Just pay
bills," he said.
Bill-Payer
Another bill-payer will be Wil
liam H. Freele, army veteran who
lives at T2S Court st.
Freele, however, hesitantly add
ed that part of his expected 1225
may help finance a honeymoon
sometime in February."
Lloyd Keesling, roofer, 1330 N.
Winter St., said, "I'll Just keep on
buying food and trying to get
along. Prices today won't allow
a splurge."
A veteran who already received
his check, Robert Dickson, Salem
route 8, also already has spent it.
Dickson received a $264 payment
Wednesday. "It's tied up in con
stitution of my house," he said.
Low Serial Number
Dickson, incidentally, had a ae
rial number ending in the figure
011. The lowest final three num-
Better English
By Dl C Wllliasaa
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "I am afraid you will
have to wait"
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "ogle"?
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Marionette, mar
riage, Marseillaise, martinnet.
4. What does the word 'Inde
feasible" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with eta that means "that
which surrounds"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "I'm sorry you will
have to wait." 2. Pronounce
o-g'l, e as in no, not as in ef . 3.
Martinet. 4. Incapable of being
annualled or made void. "The
doctrine of hereditary right does
by no means imply an indefeasi
ble right to the throne." Black
stone. 5. Cincture.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Korea has this deadly back
ground: Both Korean regimes have
armies, equipped and trained to
some extent by their sponsoring
powers, America and Russia.
Both these armies now have
hard cores of young Koreans who
served under the Japanese be
fore V-J day. This has special
and dangerous meaning.
In the south these Japanese
trained soldiers were first de
mobilized, but could not find jobs
because they had worked for
Japan.
Tens of thousands of them got
into Dr. Rhee's army. There
they became the most ardent ad
vocates of a campaign to "unify
the nation" by conquering the
north. They felt it would make
them heroes.
A similar thing has happened
in the north.
The north has long been
threatening the south with in
vasion. It supports guerrilla
activity in Dr. Rhee's territory.
Meanwhile, in his army and gov
ernment, the urge to conquer the
north first, before it conquers the
south, long has been reported
from among officials clear up to
the top.
This Is the situation in Korea
upon which the house of repre
sentatives, by a narrow margin,
has turned its back.
"S, j pestering yew father with eaesUeaa, Jaaier . . . yea want te
grew fall el a saeas el aaisistferaaaiieaiT . .
bers will get the first checks.
"Right back to the government
but in the form of postal savings,"
said Clyde V. Brummell, secretary
tc the postal inspector here.
Brummell, a marine corps vet
eran who lives at 1110 S. 17th st.
aooed that part of his money, an
expected szj4, might go into re
hacilitauon service for former
marines, which is one of his hob
bies. Also back to the government
will go the dividend expected by
William . Healy, assistant secre
tary of state. "I'll use it to convert
my insurance to 20-pey life," said
Healy.
Sid Simning, whose roof at his
650 Bever dr. house was crushed
by a falling fir tree last week,
won't have to look far for a
"place to put" his dividend money.
Still in Service
What about a man who still Is
in service?
M. Sgt C. J. Graziano, in charge
of Salem's marine corps recruiting
station, said heU save his $396 for
a "rainy day." He added that he
didn't refer to the type evidenced
by sleet and snow outside his win
dow. "Ill have Just about enough to
buy two packs of cigarets," said
Robert Ramage, beverage manu
facturer of 2770 Lancaster dr.
Ramage explained his insurance
was iq force but a short time.
Women veterans, too, are re
ceiving dividends from their GI
insurance. Jean Siebler, 1797
Center st, a statehouse secretary
who was a WAVE at Pensacola
and Memphis stations, expects to
start a savings account
Harriott Belcher, 727 Center st,
said she intend to buy bonds with
her dividentd and Alberta Shoe
make, Western Union cashier,
"probably will turn it back into
premiums."
"Mine's already spent," " said
William DeVau, county deputy
sheriff. "It went into a car that's
almost worn out already," the ex
army man, who expects about
$175, said.
Ed Scott another deputy and a
,"yea.r mrine. expects about
$330 and probably will save it
"The wife will decide anyway,"
he added.
One veteran may not know
what heU do with the windfall
but his wife says she does. Mrs.
Norman (Florence) Nibler, Wood
burn, said, -Well buy a new
swing rocker for our home."
Maybe Scott was right
Barber Shop
Changes Hands
Purchase of Givens barber shop
at 482 Court st by Roy Witenber
ger, Salem barber for the past four
years, was announced Friday. Wi
tenberger said he plans no imme
diate changes in the threechair
shop.
The new owner has been em
ployed with his brother, Carl, at
the Market Barber shop here. Be
fore coming to Salem he was at
Newport
E. G. Givens, who has had the
location since 1932 and had bar
ber ed in Salem since 1926, is now
a salesman at Salem Automobile
company.
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Bradley Talks
ToSolonson
Super Bomb
By Mrran Reynolds
; WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -fJP-Gen.
Omar Bradley met in secret
session today with the senate
house atomic energy committee to
discuss one of the nation's biggest
Issues the hydrogen bomb.
But after the hour and a half
conference behind locked doors no
farther clues leaked out as to
whether the United States actually
is get tins set to porduce the wea
pon pictured as possibly 1,000
times more powerful than the
present A-bomb.
It is on open secret however,
that this country is conducting ex
perimental work on the super
bomb pending a final decision by
President Truman on whether to
go ahead or to make another ef
fort to gain Russia's agreement
for international controls on all
atomic weapons.
Baaameaed by Solo
Bradley, chairman of the Joint
chiefs of staff, was summoned be
fore the joint congressional com
mittee to outline the military as
pects of the problem. He was ac
companied by Robert LeBaron,
head of the atomic energy com
mission's military liaison com
mittee. Those who attended the meet
ing maintained a tight-lipped
silence on the topics discussed.
Senator McMahon (D-Conn), the
joint committee chairman, gave
reporters this one-sentence summary:
"General Bradley and Mr. Le
Baron discussed with the com
mittee some matters pertaining to
our national defense in which, of
course, atomic matters were dis
cussed." No Comment
McMahon gave a curt "no com
ment" to a direct question as to
whether the hydrogen bomb had
been a topic. But there was no
doubt this was the subject
He did disclose, however, that
the Bradley-LeBaron report will
be the topic of many other meet
ings of the IS-man committee
which is charged with keeping
tabs on the Union's atomic; pro
gram.
Aside from the highly technical
and cost aspects of producing the
hydrogen bomb, many lawmakers
and scientists have raised the
question of the moral problems
involved.
While details of the super bomb
construction are the most closely
guarded of secrets, experts have
speculated a great deal about its
awesome oestructiveness.
Flood Threat
Eases Alon?
Mississippi
By The Associated Press
Swollen rivers in the south ard
fear of a sudden thaw in the Paci
fic northwest caused new flood
alarms Friday, but the midwestern
flood threat was about ended.
The Mississippi's crest aDDar
ently had safely passed the Birds
Point-New Madrid flood way fa
Missouri. Here 11.400 persons had
fled their homes and prepared to
lose tnetr property and crops
should the river go -higher.
It was not certain how soon they
may be able to return with safety.
But as the surging crest moved
south, another 9,000 persons were
forced to leave their lowland
homes in Arkansas and Tennessee.
Army and coast guard workers
helped move new refugees to high
er ground.
Cheer filled residents of the
Illinois - Indiana - Missouri area
where living conditions, and some
times life itself, have depended for
the last week on the rivers tent
fying whims.
At Shawneetown, Illinois
where the rampaging Ohio river
forced hundreds from their homes
a state police official said Fri
day "it looks like the flood threat
is just about all cer" in southern
and eastern Illinois.
That doesnt mean everything Is
back to normal. John Rlttner, as
sistant police chief in charge of
flood zone policing, meant only
that It wont get worse, flood
waters still cover thousands of
acres of land, and refugees are be
ing cared for by the Red Cross
and volunteer workers. The com
munities of Miller City and Wil
lard, Ill in the bend of the Missis
sippi south of Cairo, were maroon
ed except for boat travel.
Vincennes, Ind which battled
the surging Wabash successfully,
relaxed as its flood threat appear
ed ended. Soldiers and national
guardsmen, who had been sand
bagging the floodwall, were to
have left the city Friday.
m n a tat v. . a
l a -duck aeaur wnicn swept i
Europe beginning in the 14th cen-1
tury was plague. ' '
Sleds Arrive
-"With Rain i
SEATTLE, Jan. 20-(if-Plagued
jy almost continuous snowfall and
i corresponding volume of de-
manos ior scarce sieas, Seattle
business houses sent rush orders
east to have a supply flown out
here.
Sixty-two arrived by air this
morning. Forty more are due to
night and several loads tomorrow.
It started raining heavily yes
terday. New Draft Plan
Leaves Control
With Congress
By Francis J. Kelly
WAXHTNCTON. Jan. 20 iTA
Congressmen today countered the
aminisxrauon s request for a
three-year extension of the peace
time draft law bv stirrestine a
compromise that would permit in-
aucuons only upon the approval ox
congress.
Sectertary of Defense Johnson
seemed a little leery of that plan,
put forward by Rep. Vinson (D
Ga), chairman of the house armed
sesvices committee before which
Johnson testified. The defense
chief said he thinks the president
ought to have the power to throw
the draft machinery into gear upon
prodama tion of an emergency.
Te Diseass Matter .
However, he nromised tn di.
cuss the matter with President
Truman Monday and sound him
out on a possible compromise.
It was aDoarettt from th tr4
of today's hearing that the com
mittee as a whole is cool toward
a flat extension of the law now
due to exnire next June so nn -
Kilday (D-Tex) told Johnson:
"I don't think you have any idea
that this committee is going to ap
prove a three-year extenxirm nt
the present law."
Kilday said, however, that he is
willing to renew the selective ser
vice program on a stand-by basis.
Johasen ToU ,
Gettine nrifif an that hniit
Chairman Vinson told Johnson:
-AH you need is a selective ser
vice system in existence, with no
one drafted without a joint reso
lution of congress."
uudious, Johnson bounced back:
"Or an emergency declared by
the president"
Presenting fh a4m in let
n .uvil m
request in a formal statement the
- - 4 . a a
uciaiav secretary naa tola the
committee that the draft law was
"One Of the deciaiv farfnra n
stopping the spread of communism
in uirope. i
He said the vr vtstanM tv.
law spurred voluntary enlistments.
(No men have been inducted un
der It for the past 19 months). He
Said that its mntinn,Hw tun..!
save precious time in the event of
a military emerffenetr n k.
failure to extend the act might be
misinterpreted abroad as a sign
w. American weaxness oi purpose.
Only about 30,000 men In ail
have been drafted since the law
W.ei bookt in the summer
of 1948.
Child Slayer
Ruled Sane
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 -V
Fred Storble, 68 convicted of mur
der In the sex slaying of his grand
daughter's 8-year-old playmate,
today was ruled nan at tn.
pf the crime and wffl be sentenced
va aeauu : ;
Sentence nf fatH f tv. .
chamber is mandatory under Call-
iiia jaw oecause a jury which
found Stroble guilty1 of murder In
the first deSTM AA rvnt hmhl.
mend life imprisonment However
uie iaw iuo requires an atuomaue
review of the case bv the tt.
supreme court
Superior Judge Charles W.
Fri eke. who ruled him sane, will
DTOOOunce mntmm nH VrtAm-m
on S treble's conviction of Strang-
uu uia nacxmg junoa Joyce Glu-
coit xo aeain last tav. 14.
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