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New York 59
1 Willamette river 3 feet.
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field, Salem): De
creasing cloudiness today and tonight.
Scattered light showers today. High
today 60-62; low tonight 42-44.
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Travel Letter No. 14
COLORADO SPRINGS -rThe
i distance from Dallas, Tex., to
Colorado "Springs is about 800
miles. You cross the "high plains,"
cut through the northeast corner
of New Mexico, then come north
roughly paralleling the Rockies
: through Trinidad and Pueblo. It
is a steady up-grade from altitude
466 feet to 7834 at Raton pass on
the New Mexico border.;
I Cultivation extends through
! Texas virtually to the border. The
. tilled land Is interrupted by big
f patches of waste land, rough, ero
ded, with mesquite, yucca and
i sagebrush for vegetation. But the
i broad flat plains are devoted to
dry farming: wheat and cotton
! as far west as near Amarillo,
! which is the "capital" of the Pan
i handle. In New Mexico you get
j Into mountains, the ranches be-
ing typical stock ranches.
The whole area suffers severe
! ly from drouf this year, the first
I' and worst since the dry yean of
! the 1930s. There was virtually no
1 snow and spring, has brought lit
tie rain. Instead, dry winds blow,
i rilling the air with dust and suck
i lng moisture from the ground.
Wheat is already hurt Cotton seed
Isnt planted till May but will
! ' need rains to bring it to . produ
cing thrifty plants. 1
. All this is big scale farming, the
i same as we have in eastern
! (Continued on editorial page 4)
Doctors Widen
Effort Toward
Public Service
! The Marion-Polk County Medl
: cal society, already embarked on
i program of medical service to
j all, Wednesday announced two
: innovations Resigned to establish
! still furthef 'cooperation between
the medical . profession and the
i general public.
: , The society laid:
(1) Any person requiring med-
i leal care, and who is unable to
communicate with -his physieian,
may call 3-9187 (day or night) in
order to locate him; the personnel
at this number will also provide
the names of physicians willing to
. i take emergency calls for those
patients who hay nor local family
physician. ' . - '
V (2) Any patient who has a
grievance against any physician In
the Marion-Polk County Medical
society may address a letter to the
grievance committee, in care of
Dr. Howard Kurtz president.
The society's statement said it
wished "to provide a better mut
ual understanding between
patients and physicians; misunder-
; standings in this delicate personal
relationship do occasionally oc
cur, and can best be removed by
consulting with a group of doctors
who have earned the respect of
the public and their professional
colleagues."
-s. It also said it was recognized
I that "it is our duty to?rovide . . .
: services to all, regardless of abil
ity to pay," and "to provide ser
vices at all times, including nights
and week-ends.
China
Ratifies
Russian Pact
TOKYO, Thursday, April
The Pelping radio announced to
day comrrmnist China has ratified
its 30-year treaty of "mutual aid
and amity with the Soviet union.
- The alliance binding the world's
two largest communist countries
was signed in Moscow Feb. 14 by
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky and Chou En-lai, pre
mJer and foreign minister of Red
China. , '
! The Pel Ding broadcast, monitor
ed here, said separate agreements
with Russia covering the future of
the Changchun railway, Port Ar
thur and Dairen, all in Manchuria,
also have been ratified.
Animal Crackers
I By WARREN GOODRICH
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ktt on th w!is pt your hi
Nex Tuesday. April
100th YEAR
Five Will Become Cherryland floyalty
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Five of these charminr girls will be Salem's 1959 Cherryland royal court after final selections Friday
night at the Salem high school auditorium. There they will model gowns given to them for that night
i by Salem merchants, and Judges will choose the five princesses on basis of personality, poise and
appearance. The girls are, front row, Doris Haworth, Jefferson; Patricia Kirk, St. Paul; Marlene
Hartmann, Sublimity. Second
Nancy Miller, Salem. Third row, Winona Locke, Independence; Darleen Thomas, Gervaisi and Doreen
Place, Turner. Fourth row, Vera Pantle, Woodbnrn; Wanda Nelson, Monmouth; and Donna Dunbar,
Stay ton. Top, Eva Miller, Dallas; and Dwynn Her berger, Sacred Heart academy, Salem; (Story on
page 13.)
Pudding River Bridge
Project Set by County
Preliminary plans to reconstruct one bridge and to accept another
were made Wednesday by Marion
The building project would be
bridge on the old Salem-Silverton
Bates Backed
By Cattlemen
For Director
By Lillie L. Madsen
Farm Editor, The Statesman'
tloyd Bates, Salem, president
of the Marion County Jersey
Cattle club, was endorsed unani
mously for western director to the
American Jersey Cattle club. ; En
dorsement came at the April meet
ing of the directors or the Ore
gon Jersey Cattle club held at
the Salem Chamber of Commerce
rooms Wednesday.
Should Bates be elected, he will
fill the place now held by Peter
Henning of i Arlington. Wash.,
whose term expires at the close
of this year. Both Clackamas and
Washington county clubs have al
ready voted their approval, direc
tors reported. Washington State
club members have indicated that
its membership would endorse!
Bates at their next meeting.: i
John Gale of Canby, reporting,
for the state club milk committee,
urged the appointment of a Jer
sey fieldman to promote a "good!
milk program". He also urged,
enforcement of a minimum butter
fft labeling law, requiring milk
and cream sold to the retail mar4
ket to carry the proper label. J
The directors favored Dale Dean
of Meadowridge Farms, Mich., as
judge for the Jersey show at tha
state fair and completed plans for
the spring shows which will open
at McMinnville on May 25 with
Polk and Yamhill holding a Joint
event. Marion county will ; hold
its show on May 29 to be followed
by Clackamas on May 30 and
Washington on May 31.
(Additional farm news on page
6.) .
cofffj: feice cut i
PORTLAND, April 12 -JP)- It
costs 2 cents less a pound for
coffee now. The price cut became
general on most brands after one
brand led off by reducing its price!
1 COAST UAGl'I
At Portland-Hollywood, rain.
At SnJ a-4. Oakland -ll
At Los Anlca 3. Sacrameato
(13 inn )
At Saa franciaco T .Saa Diego 1
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row, Martha Storrttste, Silverton;
county court.
replacement of the Pudding river
road, so it may serve as a detour
when the mam road to the south
is rebuilt this summer. The court
directed ordering of lumber for
the span.
Commissioner E. L. Rogers said
the present wood piling bridge,
152 feet long, is 18 years old and
is now subject to a five-ton load
limit.-The new bridge will also be
on piling. Construction will begin
when the lumber is delivered.
The court said it would accept
a temporary bridge, across a
slough at the east end of the new
Willamette river bridge at Inde
pendence, when Tacco Construc
tion company, contractor, is done
with it.
The firm wrote it would turn
over the span, used during con
struction, to the county for con
sideration of one dollar. However,
the county does not plan to main
tain the bridge.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Ttif Year Last Year Narmal
38.91 37.90 32.38
Politics on
Who's Running for What in the May Primaries!
(Editor's aote: Coauntata la this
writs arc made fcy or for tat candi
date without restrieUon. and tny or
may not reflect tho opinion of this
now (paper).
Today's subject:
Mark Hatfield (r)
Candidate for
State representative (Marion)
As the porter on the Pullman
said to the passenger standing on
the platform between cars, Mis-
tah, dat plat
form's to git ii
on. not to stanc
on."
Such is often i
the case with
those who have
political ambi
tions. They for
mula t e high
sounding phrases, promise
the moon, and
changa their be
Mark BntfleM
liefs to fit their audience.
Having been training in legis
lation and state government and
having worked at the grass-roots
in state-wide political campaigns,
I have no naive opinions regard
ing politics-in-action.
However, it is my earnest con
viction, , and the thing on which
A
2LS, Ds the Final (Day for Registration; Matte
the Oregon
Margaret Nicholson, Aumsville; and
Salem to Join
ii
ew Defense
1 1 n
Net Program
Salem will give itiij full official
cooperation in the nW state pro
gram of air raid Earning and
ground observation. Mayor Rob
ert L. Elfstrom said j Wednesday.
The mayor planned to consult
city officials on selection of a
local supervisor and j other mat
ters suggested by Qjov. Douglas
McKay in a letter 6 92 Oregon
mayors. The c om iri u n i c ation
reached Elfstrom yesterday.
Principal request!; j from the
governor concerned 1 deal appoint
ment of ground observation sup
ervisors and possible location and
building of observation posts.
jThe state's civil defense agency
has been reactivated! at the re
quest of Louis Johnson, U. S.
secretary of defense 1 A stand-by
force of 6,000 volunteer Oregon
citizens is sought, alping with 300
observation posts, foiir Itey warn
ing points and a filter center in
Portland.
Parade
I
I
i
I pin my ambition
member of Oregon
that inefficiency in
to become a
legislature,
the legisla
tjive process lends itself only to
ineffective government.
I We cannot stress tpo much the
importance of local a
ted state gov
ernment, and the
Vital check it
should make on ou
t expanding
federal government
as it is ope-
rating in Washington today
i To make the stale and local
government a contributing and
Effective influence, we must con
stantly strive to pfnprove the
structure and operations of our
home front through the elimina
tion of waste, overlapping uneco
nomical procedure?.
As our democracy has grown
and prospered, interest groups
have girded themselves with po
litical armament and have, too
Often I think, blind4 themselves
(to the overall objective a dy
pamic, well-knitted United States,
so strong in even 'Stg weakest
link that it need have no fear
f inroads by other ways of life.
In any legislation in which I
y be fortunate enough to par-
mate. I will suboort those
measures which will benefit the
lotal population I obligated to
none, but open-minded to alL
(Tai
'W Roy
I HMtk.)
Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday. April 13. 1S50
Weather Stops'
Chinese
Pilot's
Withheld
TAIPEI, Formosa, Thursday,
April 13 -(JP)- The Chinese na
tionalists said today a Russian-
built fighter plane has been shot
down along the China coast and
its pilot captured. His nationality
was not disclosed.
A dispatch from Chushan island
said the plane was shot down
south of Shanghai Monday while
strafing nationalist guerrilla
troops operating against the Chin
ese communists on the mainland.
The dispatch added:
Downed by Guaboat
The plane was downed by a
nationalist gunboat while it was
flying with another Russian-built
fighter in strafing.
The pilot of the downed plane
parachuted and was captured and
was being taken to Chusan, na
tionalist air and naval base 100
miles southeast of Shanghai.
The nationalists j have charged
that at least some of the Russian-built
planes fighting for the
reds have been piloted by Rus
sians. Blackout Ordered .
The growing threat of red air
attacks caused the nationalists to
order a blackout at Hoihow, cap
ital of Hainan island off the south
China coast
All red efforts to establish
beachheads on Hainan have fail
ed. Nationalist authorities, how
ever, expect a big blow soon. All
possible preparations are: being
made,: nationalist sources said.
Air raid precautions also were
strengthened on the main nation
alist bulwark 100 miles off China's
southeast coast. ,
Clnld, Youth
Conference
ens Today
Child and youth problems will
get concentrated attention from
several hundred Oregon citizens
in a conference which opens today
in Salem.
The governor's state committee
on children and youth will open
the two-day meeting with a gen
eral convocation at 10 a.m. in the
house of representatives at the
capitol.
Attendance of nearly 1,000 dur
ing the conference was forecast
Wednesday as the advance guard
of conference leaders began ar
riving. Various phases of youth studies
will be discussed in separate meet
ings today and tomorrow, with
final reports to be summarized in
a closing session at 1:30 p.m. Fri
day in the house.
Headliners at the opening ses
sion today will be Dr. Martha
Branscombe, director of Elizabeth
McCormick Memorial fund, Chi
cago, 111.. Gov. Douglas McKay
and Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, chair
man of the state committee.
The Oregon conference is pre
liminary to a national conference
on the subject, called by President
Truman.
Salem's Size?
1,435 Guesses
So far. 1,435 persons have
entered The Statesman's guess
ing contest regarding Salem's
1950 census figures.
Forty-six persons have guess
ed under 40,000. Fifteen have
guessed more than 100,000.
Heaviest concentration is in tha
53,000 bracket (109 guesses) and
the 54,000 bracket (128 guess
es).; The contest is open to every
one one guess to a person. To
qualify for the $25 first prize,
S10 second prize and $5 third
prize, guesses must be la The
Statesman office before mid
night Saturday, April 15.
You can use the form on page
2 today, or write your guess
on any piece of paper.
ItH be fun to see who wins.
And it might well be someone
from outside of Salem, to.
Scores of guesses have come
from other valley towns.
Deadline Saturday, April 13.
Nativity
Op
j
Down Russian -
'Worldless' Man
Requests Asylum
The "man without a country"
had nothing on a visitor who call
ed on Gov. Douglas McKay Wed
nesday. Hugo Visnapu, a former Eston
ian, can't even call the world his
home. He may have to settle for
Mars, Mercury or a flying sau
cer. Visnapu is a displaced person
who is visiting Willamina, now
U home of another former Es
tonian, Linda Sider, whom he
plzns to marry if he can just find
a country in which to live.
Briefly, Visnapu was in a dis
placed persons camp in Germany
two years ago. The government of
Eire called him to that. country for
Crash of Superfort
Claims Lives of 13
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., April 12-)-A B-29 superfortress
plowed straight into a mountain instead of turning and killed 13 air
men near here last night.
The ship cracked up in a highly secret area of Sandia base,
which is engaged in atomic and other special weapons work. Result:
a tight security cloak on most de-
tails of the tragedy
All aboard the four-engined
bomber died in the fiery explo
sion which followed almost in
stantly. Towering flames were
visible 17 miles distant in down
town Albuquerque for more than
two hours. The bodies were burn
ed beyond recognition.
Plane and men were from the
strategic air command's 508th
bomb wing, stationed at Walker
base outside Roswell, N. M. They
had landed at Kirtland base here
and .refueled on what was official
ly labelled a navigation training
flight Authorities declined to
amplify that description of the
mission.
The superfort took off eastward
toward the Manzano- mountains
from a runway more than 10,000
feet long. Kirtland authorities
said they were unable to explain
why it did not execute a 90-degree
bank to avoid the rocky crest, as
is prescribed for all craft operat
ing from the field. Such a course
prevents takeoffs over congested
Albuquerque districts
None of the crewmen was from
the Pacific northwest
FEP Sidestep
Flayed by Taft
WASHINGTON, April 2-OP)
Immediate senate consideration of
fair employment practices legis
lation was demanded today by
republican leaders.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), speak
ing for the senate GOP policy
committee, said a democratic de
cision yesterday : to postpone ac
tion on FEPC "throws doubt oh
the good faith of the majority in
the whole civil rights program."
He told reporters that policy
committee members feel that the
delay was "inspired by demo
cratic political considerations to
postpone any action until south
ern primaries are largely out of
the way."
This was denied yesterday by
Democratic Leader Lucas of Il
linois. He said President Truman
felt it was more Important to
give right-of-way at this time to
foreign aid legislation.
First Quarter Business on Uptrend;
Industrial Expansion Slackens Pace
WASHINGTON, April 12 -;P)-The
president s council of econom
ic advisers today reported to con
gress an upturn in virtually every
business index in first-quarter
1950.
Industrial output bounced back
in March; it more than made up
khe losses of the coal strike. Home
building set a record. National in
come, which means buying power,
rose after falling in each quarter
of 1949. :
But the council's acting chair
man, Leon Keyserling, told a re
porter that the gains still fail to
show an economic growth rapid
enough to prevent a slow, year-by-year
rise in Joblessness.
"We are not getting the expan
sion in industry and investment
that we need to absorb the steady
increase in the labor force," Key
erling said. "That is a serious
problem."
PRICE
Hunt for Plane
advice in the field of plastics in
which he is an expert.
By July 16 he is supposed to re
turn to Germany but intervening
changes in displaced rx sons laws
now prohibit this move. Eire of
ficials warn he also cannot return
to Eire after the July deadline.
He is in the United States on a
temporary visa which expires May
16. On that day he must leave
this country.
Where will he go? He doesn't
know.
He asked McKay for advice.
The governor said he would noti
fy the Oregon congressional del
egation of his dilemma and ask
for help.
Invite to Quit
Race Rejected
By Pearson
State Treasurer Walter J. Pear
son Wednesday declared he would
not withdraw as a democratic
candidate for governor as de
manded recently by State Senator
Austin Flegel, another democratic
candidate.
Pearson said he was not run
ning against Flegal but against
Gov. Douglas McKay, republican
incumbent. "I am conducting my
own campaign and am not paying
attention to statements made by
democratic opponents,'' Pearson
said.
The state treasurer refused to
comment on Flegel's criticism of
his senate voting record, particu
lar in regard to private vs public
ownership of power.
Pearson believes that If elected,
he can appoint his own successor
as state treasurer and break re
publican domination of the board
of control. Flegel and several
prominent lawyers contend that
McKay would be entitled to make
the appointment before Pearsen
could be sworn Into office.
Siletz Tribe to Resume
Spring Feast Custom
PORTLAND, April 12 -VP)- The
Siletz Indian tribes will resume
their old-time spring feast custom
with a celebration In the long
house at Siletz Sunday.
It will be the first time In many
years that the Indians have held
a spring Thanksgiving feast there.
ASSOCIATES ASSOCIATE
DALLAS. April 12 -0P)-Mrs.
Nell R. Short a census taker, call
ed every night for almost a week
at a certain house in Dallas. Fin
ally she found the occupant at
home Mrs. Hazel E. Hansen, an
other census taker.
The council's monthly report to
congress; "Economic Indicators,"
noted a March drop of 551,000 in
the number of jobseekers but said
the improvement was "seasonal."
Production of all goods and ser
vices reached an annual rate of
$258,000,000,000 in the first quar
ter, up nearly $3,000,000,000 from
late last year but not yet back
to the level of a year ago when
the skid began.
A "sharp rise" in consumer's
spendable income, or earnings af
ter Uxes, was attributed largely
to the $2,800,000,000 GI life Insur
ance refund most of which, the
council said, "was not spent in the
first quarter".
Consumer spending rose to an
all-time peak rate of 1181,000,000,
000 a year. This represented a
modest gain of $1,200,000,000 for
the quarter, and indicated that
Sure You" Cam '"V oft
No. 17
.Fighter
Soviets
Criticize
Search
By Ole Arafast
COPENHAGEN. Denmark
ril 12-P)-Fliers hunting life rafta
from a missing U.S. navy plan
spotted yellow objects and an oil
slick on the squall-flecked Baltie
sea today, but a concerted search
or ine area ended with negative
results.
At least on of tho viimr k
jects turned out to be a three-
loot-long fish storage box used by
Baltic fishermen.
Bad weather Interrupted tha
quest tonight The score or more
oi air crews planned to take off
again at dawn in the search for
traces of the plane, a four-engined
privateer that vanished with its
10 -man crew Saturday on a fligbt
from Wiesbaden, Germany to Co
penhagen. Resemblance Noted
The hunt drew newsnanor at
ticism in- Soviet Russia, whir
protested yesterday that a it
bomber of the B-29 type exchang
ed shots with a Soviet fighter over
Latvia Saturday and then headed
toward the Baltic. The theme wee
that the search was just an excuse
to conduct aerial maneuvers off
Soviet territory.
American officials have indirnt.
ed a belief the Russians might be
reierring 10 tne privateer, which
resembles a B-29 in profile. But
they said it was unarmed, that a
flight to Latvia would have been
more than 300 miles off its Wiesbaden-Copenhagen
course and that
it was under instructions to stay
away from Soviet territory. Tho
formal American answer to the
Russian protest is still awaited.
Yellow Ob JectaJSpattedw.,
U.S. air force officials were ad
vised B-17 search plane spotted
four yellow objects. Navy escape
equipment is colored yellow to
give its high visibility against dark
seas.
Mar nave Been Raft
The pilot referred to the objects
as "debris" after he landed, but
said one could have been a life
raft.
"Just before I set course for
Copenhagen," he said, "a Danish
minesweeper reached the spot and
picked up some of what I thought
was debris. The Danes reported by
radio that the first thing they pick
ed up was a wooden box, used by
fishermen for storing fish. What
happened after then, I don't know."
A Danish pilot expressed belief
the American searchers might have
been misled by a buoy marking
the deep sea burial ground of
thousands of tons of mustard gaa
the Russians dumped in the Baltie
last year.
The discovery of the fish box
raised the question whether all tho
other objects sighted might have
come from fishing boats. Optim
ism lowered at U.S. air force head
quarters in Wiesbaden.
Year Precipitation
Tops Mean in City
Even If it didn't rain another
drop from now to September L
the 1949-50 season could be con
sidered a Wetter than usual one.
Wednesday's .55 inches of rain
fall boosted the year's total te
33.91, Just .35 inches above the
mean precipitation of the past 59
years, the weatherman reported.
And there is still four and a half
months to go on the weather year.
most veterans were spending their
refund checks prudently.
The average personal Income,
after' taxes, was estimated at a
annual rate of $1,323 for every
man, woman and child. This ex
ceeded the average for boomtime
1943 by $21. Because of the slight
price decline, it represents $51
more buying power.
Only two of the major economie
indexes pointed down, but they
were important ones farm In
come, and industry's investment
in new plant and equipment.
Farmers' income was running la
February about 10 per cent bo
hind year ago.'
Outlays for industrial expansion,
a forecast based on reports by
business to the government. Is ex
pected, to run, behind 1949 by I
per cent in the first half and 11
per cent over tho full year.
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