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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.
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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. -. - ' . !
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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
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. .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 - ,
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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.
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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
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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.
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