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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1950)
I The SltfTnTT' Sdem, Ot7una."A'nqqri3riS53' rnr tats - Wo Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" " rrm Flret SUtena. March tl. im THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Fabllshed every moraine. Easiness office Z15 & Commercial. Salem. Oregon. Telephone t-Uil. Entered at the ettofOca at Salem, Oregon, as second dam matter under act at cengress March , 1X1 Production in the USSR Korea has given a rude jolt to those accustom ed to scoffing at production of Russian indus try. Wishful thinking for years has induced wes tern reporters to apply heavy discounts to Rus sian 'claims, but the fact remains that Russia is making a success in its industrial development. According to an" article in the New" York Times an analysis of official soviet economic reports for the first half of 1950 shows that heavy industry in Russia is producing at an all time high, and that the final year of the fourth five-year plan will see overf ulfillments of goals. The output of major consumer goods is still be low that of prewar years. This indicates that Russia is still putting emphasis on armament and on development of its production plant. Here are statistics indicating the expansion of primary and heavy industry based on esti mated production in 1950: . ' Coal: 264 million metric tons compared with 166 million tons in 1940. Pig iron: 20.1 million metric -tons, against 15 million tons in 1940. - Steel: 25.1 million metric tons in 1950; 18.3 tons in 1940. Petroleum: 39 mm. tons in 1950; 31 m.m. tons in 1940. L . Tractors: 99,000 against 31,100 in 1940. The USSR will turn out only 400,000 motor vehicles this year, but that is two ana one-nan times the number in 1940. Items such as cotton cloth and shoes however are below the compar able production in 1940. , The non-agricultural labor force is estimated at 37 million this year, while in 1945 it was only 17 millioni Thus Russia is providing the labor for its mines and factories. It is not safe to depend on figures of com parative production of steel and coal and iron. Rather we need to know just how much prod- iitiv rcanaHtv is arnrta into militarv nrpnara- wv f - j e o m s tions. Our hundred, million tons of steel for ex ample has been going chiefly into goods for civilians or for peacetime uses. Korea offers the warning that we can't live In a dream world of our own superiority in Industry and m lighting. We nave competition now. and the latter won the nomination by a narrow margin. State Senator Herman Welker won the republican nomination. He doesn't need to be much good to be a whole lot better than D. Worth .Clark. Incumbent Sen. Henry Dworshak, republican, was nominated for the short term and a college professor, Claude J. Burtenshaw as named as his democratic opponent. Dworshak is pretty much of a hrdghH though not as cantankerous as Washington's Irrepressible Harry Cain. Senator Borah took his mantle with him. Associated Services All will remember the invaluable work done i by the USO for service men and women during the last war. It maintained centers adjacent to military installations for the comfort and con venience of those in the armed forces. It sup plied camp shows for their entertainment. ) The enlargement of our armed forces renews the need for such service. To meet it the As sociated Services has been formed as the suc cessor to USO. It operates on the same lines. Funds for its work will be raised by donations as was done for USO. The Oregon Chest has undertaken the fund-raising chore in Oregon and quotas will be assigned to the various coun ty chests. So remember, when the collectors come for the local chest to increase your contribution to cover this added and urgent cause. .1 Another Jailbreak A second jailbreak at the county jail, occur ing at the same place and in the same manner L" as the one a few weeks ago calls for an ex planation from the county sheriffs office. How is it that hacksaws get inside? And how is it that stronger security was not provided at jail windows? Soft iron bars do not a prison make. The initial announcement is that these es capes are dangerous criminals. If they are, and the records would so indicate, then they should be kept locked up and not allowed to get hack saws and quickly cut their way to freedom. . v We'll have a new jail in the new courthouse. Meantime we have to make the old one do; and that means closer guarding and inspection and stiffer bars at windows. The sheriffs explana tion should be followed with action. There' ve Been Some Changes Made Troops of the 13th armored division arriving for two weeks of training at Camp Cooke, Cali fornia, were surprised at some of the indoctri nation posters tacked up on barracks walls. At least one eye-catching poster entitled "This is Russia one of the United Nations" applauds the Russian people, their work, their country. It pictures Russian workers, Russian soldiers, Russian children in classrooms, Russian indus try, cities and churches all in a way designed to make Americans happy to be on Russia's side in the war. If that seems puzzling, here's the explanation. The posters extolling the Soviet Union are re ferring to another war, not this one. Someone forgot to take them down when Camp Cooke was abandoned to the coastal fog and wind blown sands. They are leftovers from World War II when Russia was our great ally. Chuck Barclay, chief prop spinner and aileron adjuster at airport, suddenly noticed two suspicious-looking bottles hang ing from stakes near landing strips other day . . . Charles,' who is also Salem's civilian defense program direc tor, immediately began lookout siege on bottles ;. . . finally spied someone giving attention to them ; . turned out to be state agricultural man prepared to nab any feared Japanese bee tles or Oriental fruit fly which might sneak in t. Sn-vi. plan ; ... , . j . . Barclay says he'd bet a slip stream against a prop wash that the fellow was probably REALLY looking - or Russian beetles, the Red nosed ichneumon fly, East German potato bug or the Bulgarian blue-eyed bottle fly. -. - ' . ! . ! . ! Theft of six woman's "blousers" from .clothesline reported to police by lady according to news item Saturday morning . . . wonder if blousers are combination blouse-and-bloomers if so, women's fashions have changed more than shows on the sur face ... or did item mean "six woman's blue trousers?? anyway, not only are blousers confusing to the layman but it's difficult to understand "what any woman would want with six of them. 1 i . .Al Lightner, who frequently comes to work wearing shirts resembling his wife's pajama tops, decided to bright en up his life not long ago ... so he painted his house a lovely. baby-cheek pink trimmed in sort of a policeman's blue . . . AVs neighbors, in self defense, painted their houses in a riot of colors red, green, yellow, pink:. . . (hard to tell now whether sun is rising or setting on that street) ... not to be outdone by next door Rembrandts Al sneaked out of his house other day and (oh, peachy!) painted large lem-on-yellow polka-dots all over his blue shutters which is what his neighbors do whenever they walk past now . . if. they try to outdo AVs latest color spree he still has a few secrets weapons up his paint brush . . . such as painting his chimney purple, spraying his shrubbery gold and his lawn silver, running red, tohite and blue stripes around his house Archie Bair, Warehouse ' Foreman, Dies Archie Bair, 59, a warehouse foreman for the West Coast Beet Seed company of Salem, died Sat urday at his home at 1048 E. Mill er it. Born April 27, 1891, in Wood land, Wash., Bair moved to Ore gon with his family while still a youngster and had lived in Salem since 1936. He was married Nov. 15. 1917, in Salem, to Ruth Thomp son who survives here. During World War I, Bair served in France with the 111th infantry regiment. He was a mem ber of Marion post 661, VFW. Survivors, besides his widow. include a son, George Bair, Salem; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Oleman, Dallas, and Mrs. Lucille Eilert and Emmaline Joan Bair, both of Salem; his mother, Mrs. Maggie Bair, Salem; a brother. Edward Bair, Salem; four sisters, Mrs. Pearl Moodenbaugh, Mrs. Helen Crissel and Mrs. Leuzetta Askew, and Mrs. Alice Hanson, all in Washington; and seven grand children. Funeral services will be held at 1 pan. Monday from the How ell-Edwards chapel with the Rev. Wilmer E. Brown and the Rev. Walter S. Frederick officiating. Concluding services will be in Lincoln Memorial park in Port land. 1 vertically, andor painting his wife and children b and orange. j - , ! . ! ack At Englewood playground Parade day contest David DeLapp won third place on a vehicle which judges labeled "DeLappid ated bicycle" . . . man who welds shut county jail windows after breaks noted, while patching up after Friday's getaway, "when things get slack around the shop there s always this." Officers of the law turned back to the chapter of the 1920's down in Coos county. They raided a place in the country and found a still and seven gallons of mash. The proprietor was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail. Liauor taxes being what they are the temptation to make moonshine is strongJ The infrequency of raids however indicates that such operations in Oregon are not on any large scale. When people can buy liquor in state stores they aren't dis posed to do much business with bootleggers. No Borah Mantle Idaho democrats surely had a beggarly choice among candidates for the six-year term as Un ited States senator. Competing were the guitar -taying entertainer Glen H. Taylor, erstwhile candidate for vice president on the progressive party ticket; Compton White, north Idaho con gressman, and D. Worth- Clark, one-time U. S. senator, a rank isolationist. Disgust at Taylor proved slightly greater than contempt for Clark The U.S. navy's rule of the island of Guam ended officially on August 1 and the people of that Pacific island are now citizens of the Unit ed States with a bill of rights, representative government and an independent judiciary. Con sidering the island's strategic importance, how ever, we suppose that the navya which has gov- ernea it since aoso, is not going to pull out al together. An exchange last week ran for a top banner. 'Detroit Wins, Yanks Lose." Now that's the kind of headline we like to read, remembering of course it's the New York Yankees. v Truman to Face Policy Problem of What to Do About Prospects of New Space Satellite By Stewart Also WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 There is one fact that makes an interesting commentary on the times in which vi live. This is that a former Missouri farm boy . will . soon have to decide whether or not to create new heavenly body. W Like so many things these . days, th is sounds like so much nonsense. .Yet it is quite soberly true. Ke- searcn on uie creauoa ui an ar tificial satellite, which would circle the earth like a much ""nearer and smaller moon, was gaining speed from the other, until the third and smallest rocket was traveling at about 17,000 miles an hour at a height of around 300 miles above the surface of the earth. It would then become a true satellite, de fying the gravitational pull of the earth, provided it were pro perly aimed. This matter of aim ing is exceedingly important. If the satellite failed to maintain an approximately constant height above the earth, it would en counter the heavy friction in the lower atmosphere, which would cause It to plunge to the earth. But given the. right altitude, the right speed and the right aim, the satellite would then circle the earth at about the rate of sixteen complete circumlocutions every .24 hours, or once around . the earth in about an hour and retary of State James ForrestaL 2$? n' t w-1 j aw- not maintain a constant course i i ; . in relation to the earth, but I would be an easier project than ue atomic submarine engine now being developed, because, at least curing the experimental period, the satellite would not be occupied by humans. Thus radio activity, which kills humans, Stewart tittup tirely feasible. While "economy ruled : the day, there was no chance of moving beyond the re search stage. ; Yet now that a great rearm ament program is under way, a perfectly serious question has risen al to whether or not to move ahead into the actual en gineering phase. The expense, initially at least, would not be very treat. The best estimate is that it would cost no more than $250,000,000, or about 1 per cent of current defense expenditures, to establish the first, experiment al satellite in space. What is envisaged Is a multi staged rocket, probably designed in three stages, and chemically . fueled. The experts estimate that the middle rocket would be about the size of the German V-l with the first rocket far larger, and the third rocket, destined to be come the new satellite, of course much smaller. ' This monstrous missile would roar out into space, each rocket earth. would cover all sections of the globe, as the earth turned more slowly below it. . After perhaps two years, ac . cording to the experts, the fric tion of the very thing atmosphere at a 300-mile altitude would cause the satellite to fall to the ground. This could be avoided almost indefinitely at, say, a 400 mile altitude, since at this height 'there is almost no atmospheric friction. But this would present . a far more difficult engineering problem, and moreover, the use fulness of the satellite would be reduced by the greater distance from the earth's surface. This is because the main func tion of the satellite would be to operate as a kind of giant eye, spying on the earth below. What it saw through its telescopic and other Instruments would be tele vised or communicated in other ways down to a control center on the earth. The instruments would almost certainly be operated by an atomic storage battery. This would not present, a problem. The satellite would be exceed ingly useful for mapping (no accurate maps of the Soviet Un ion are in the possession of the Western powers), for weather prediction, and even, although this is hard to believe, for spot ting major installations and even military movement on the earth below. Eventually the satellite could be used to guide intercon tinental guided missiles. All this is no mare fantasy. The scientists who have been studying the project warn that it is not to be treated as "science fiction,' but as a perfectly prac tical matter, given the necessary time and money. The navy and the air force have even taken the matter so seriously that they have been engaging in the usual jurisdictional battle - (the navy claiming that the satellite would operate in space, not air, and thus the air force has no special claim) with the result that both services have been conducting re search on , the satellite concept independently. : In the end. President Truman will inevitably order work start ed on this fantastic project, if only for an old familiar reason If we dont, the Russians wilL Especially - since the hydrogen bomb decision, the president is said to feel that the scientists are going entirely too far. It is dim cult not to sympathize with this point of view. For there is some thing oddly horrible about the idea of a heavenly body created and Installed in space by man, in order to increase his wax making efficiency. (Copyright, lasa. , Hew Toes Herald Tribune ZaeJ Clowns, Indians Win Prizes at Playgrounds Cowboys. Injuns, clowns and teddy. bears showed up at Salem playgrounds for Parade day as scores of the city's youngsters competed for prizes awarded the best-decorated floats, bicycles and wheel toys. Even Pegasus the flying horse was on hand- A "Miss Salem" was there, too, sharing honors with "Miss America" of 1962" who waved to the crowds from a scoot er. Following are the winners of Friday's judging in one-two-three order: Englewood Float Steven Baker, Tomina and Carl Slentz, Becky and Joy Minty; bicycle Joyce Hansen, Beth Needham, Carolyn Smith; tricycle Tommy Needham, Da vid Wiseley, Kay Holscher; doll buggy Carol and Carolyn iang don; must unusual Alma Lea and .Roberta Kunowsky, Ronny and Joan Wichman, David ue- Lapp; funniest Lois Mehinaii and Kay Minty, jacley tfenneu ana Marry Ann Rempfort. Bush - Bicycle Jerry Stine, Janet Franklin, Lawrence , Brittom tri- rvcle Art Case. Micxey arinon. Chucky Miller; doll buggy Molly Ann Prine, Barbara Case; scooter Joyce Franklin, Susan Hill; most unusual Mary JMien rnne, Susy Miller. Olinrer Ricvcle Mike Tompkins, Car ol Ream, Francis Ferder; flower- decorated bicycle reggy jewei, Tnot rhaneL Joan Picha; tricycle jtmmT Stinnette. Charles Gar vin. Charles Rasteier; aou dujujjt jiirtv Scott Beverly Jean Ken yon, Valerie Irene Jessop; float Billy Gile, Mike and Pat Galla gher, Robert Crist; most unusual Mary Catherin Garvin, Mary- Un Ripp, Ricxy rame. Richmond vinat Beverly Holwager, Diane r.ariion. Richard Hagner; bicycle Roberta Thrusn, tonaru xia Jackv Graber: tricycle, San ' . Ml 1 A dra Peters, Kooerc xnrun, aiuib Holwager; doll buggy Pat Sti vers, Linda Hagner, Mary Hark lin; scooter Judy Feters, George Harklin, Roenn Feters; most un usual Richard Hagner, Janie Remington, Sharon Hill. Hirhland Float Mike and Mariorie Prange, David Olson, Davy Greg Sharon Wright, Donald neea, jim my Chesley; tricycle Sandra McRea, Diana Maver, Allen Wright; doll buggy Sharon Panger, Helen Rose Prange, Mary Ann Easter; scooter Mike Sim mons, Bill Anning, Allen Mead; most unusual Lynn Schwei- gert, Pamala Rennals, Shelley Surgeon. Grant Float Billy and Carol Buck, Marlys and Corby Hann, Robin Gale; bicycle Dottie Robertson, Marlyn Reamy, Connie Reamy; tricycle Marilyn and Jerry Gooley. Sandra Trott, John Allen Schukart; doll buggy Nancy Waite. Judy Frantz. Ella Conley: scooter Paulette Talbot, Mary Smith; most unusual Roger Mulkey, Rebecca and Cheryl Sin ger, Daroid KHnge. McKinley Float mary Jane Mefford; Linda Barry, David Avison; bi cycle jlmznie Prentice, Lorna Elem, Jeanie DeCamp, Judson Dressier; doll buggy Marilyn Miller, Carol DeCamp, Sally Seem- New Red Cross Manager to Arrive Douglas Simms, new Red Cross chapter manager for Marion coun ty, is expected to arrive in; Salem Monday in time to attend the monthly, meeting of the chapter board. i Simms will assume his new posi tion Tuesday. He comes here from Koseburg. j Vagrants Jailed In Police Search For 3 Escapees Salem police officers searching for three escapees from the Mar ion county jail failed to uncover the prisoners but did return to headquarters with four transients under arrest for vagrancy. The four men were found at 2:45 a.m. Saturday sleeping in field near 13th and Fairview road. About four hours later five more vagrants were jailed after they were found sleeping in clover field just north of the Mar ion-Folk bridge in West Salem. 13QU ion ouv oinraotifc w ACTUAl CARAT SIZES The fact that we have a reputation tor fine j dio. monds is your guarantee of satisfaction.' In buying! pre. clous gems you must have confidence in your dealer. Our long years of assessing the quality of diamonds make us experts . . j end you may rely on our judge ment In offering you the finest in diamond values. DIAMONDS ffACFD MOM ! 25 IneL Fed. 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