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"No Favor Sway Vs. No Fear Shall AxoeT
From First Statesman. March 28, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Published every moraine Business office tU 8. Commercial. Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-2441.
"Entered at the postoffice at Sahua, Oregon, as secead class matter under act ol congress March S, 1S7&
A Briton for Sea Command
Winston Churchill touched a live British
nerve when he asked Prime Minister Attlee il
there was not-a British admiral capable of serv
ing as commander of sea forces for Atlantic pact
nations. Attlee's reply was rather lame, that the
choice of an American was made by the 12-na
tion defense committee, and finally agreed t
'look into the matter," at Churchill's prodding.
Twice first, lord of the admiralty, and given
credit for having the British high seas fleet mof
bilized in home waters at the outbreak of the
first world war, Churchill has an intense loyalty
to the British navy. He made the point that the
British had sunk 525 U-boats in the late war,
gainst a score of 174 for the U. S. and accused
the labor government of letting Britain be treat
ed as a stepchild. He jabbed at the Attlee gov
ernment for thus letting Britain decline in in
fluence and esteem among the nations.
It must be admitted the doughty old watchr
dog of the sea made a pretty good case. While
the British navy is no longer the exclusive mis
tress of the seas, it still is a powerful force and
well-officered and manned. As far as the Unit
ed States is concerned, since Eisenhower was
invited to serve as commander of the combined
armies this country could with good grace con
sent to giving sea command to a British admir
al. Russia's naval strength is almost entirely in
submarines which would work to best advan
tage on the sea lanes approaching Europe. In
that kind of warfare the British have the ad
vantage of longer experience.
There is also the matter of national pride. It
has been humiliating to rBritons from the Vic
torian age to see the liquidation of former em
pire, the great reduction in overseas investment,
the decline in prestige which their country has
suffered. Why not give a British admiral com
mand of the combined fleets? Running a navy
is one thing the English are competent at, ever
since they and the storm scattered the Spanish
armada of. 1588.
Institution Sale Recommended
Sale of the state blind trades school property
at Portland is recommended by the joint ways
and means committee. The buildings are nb
longer used for training of the blind in occupa
tions, and the plant definitely is surplus.
The state took over this institution about 20
years ago. It has been started under private
auspices, and later was turned over to the state.
From the time the state acquired it, operatioh
of the institution provoked controversy. Fre
quent changes in the governing board were
made, but discord continued through much of
the time.
For many years the institution was a dormi
tory for blind persons as well as a place where
trades were taught to the blind. Criticism was
made that providing custodial care for a few
blind was not the proper way of aiding them;
and Other ideas for training of the blind in oc
cupations were developed. So finally the hous
ing of blind was discontinued and later the trade
Instruction.
Blind now are aided under the public welfare
program which enables them to live in their
homes with their families. A broader program
of training is carried out to identify the blind
more directly with usual occupations. Under this
changed program it is felt the special institu
tion is no longer needed. The new arrangements
enable the state to do a better job of discharg-
Crushing Defeat of Chinese Communist Troops
In Korea Alters Entire Far Eastern Picture
Br Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23
Sobriety is a good mood in a
war, and it is too early to ring
the church ibells - f
because Lieu
tenant General
Ridgway and
the U.N. forces
have , now in
flicted a bloody
defeat on the
t v
1
js "J
dicing ui srKrr
rea. in 11 is
Imp o r tan t to
recognize that
this defeat of
the communist
offensive Is a -'l r
great and stirring event, which,
may prove to be a rnajor turn
ing point. To understand why, it
Is only necessary to consider the
unhappy position of the Sino-
Soviet high
command in
Korea.
The first
thing to under
stand is that the
c o m m u n i s t
armies have
suffered fearful
casualties. The
air force habit
of counting
vrri t r n m
lpumitlmi the air. and
making foolishly detailed claims,
ha) given rise to skepticism on
i thfa. point. Yet careful testing oi ,
the day-to-day claim, both of'
the air and ground forces, has
revealed that current casualty
estimates are, if anything, too
low. There have by now been
many such episodes as that it
Namdae, where the air force
claimed 73 enemy killed on Jan.
IS, and the next day advancing
ground forces counted over .800
dead. . y.-
All ' kinds of evidence from
within China have also confirm
firmed that j combat attrition,
cold, hunger and -disease are
rapidly crippling the commun
ist armies As of January 1, the
enemy is believed to have had
rather more than 450,000 men
Batuxdar, February 2L 1951
Reporters are quite familiar with the curt
"no comment" response of public officials and
business bigwigs. But the phrase" is seeping
down the line. When a pair of burglars were
leaving a San Francisco market with $2700 in
loot a clerk tried to halt one with the question:
"Are you a customer or a holdup man?" The
reply was, "no comment." That is carrying this
"no comment" business too far.
Fisrr frozen in ice may be revived when the
ice melts, but medical history was made in Chi
cago recently when a woman was picked up
with i her extremities frozen stiff and a body
temperature of 64 degrees, and was revived in
a hospital. She will be able to talk about her
"case," and this time it wasn't an operation!
Lawmakers are forever talking about plug
ging 'loopholes in tax laws. This prompts the
question. Who left the loopholes there in the
first place?
at the front, with another 450,
000 or 500,000 men In reserve
or in the original Jump-off po
sitions on the Yalu river. This
overall total of almost a million
men is now i thought ; to be re
duced to about 600,000.
In short, the enemy has been
losing men at the "staggering
rate of 200,000 a month, and
h-s seen one-third of his whole
force melt away in this manner
in the short period? since the
new year. These appalling losses
are largely due to the fact that
Chinese and North Korean arm
ies have been fighting without
tanks, without artillery, and
without air cover.
The North! Koreans must re
call with a certain bitterness the
fact discovered from government
papers captured at Pyongyang
that the Russians made the poverty-
stricken North Korean
state pay hard cash for every
Russian weapon. The Chinese,
too, must be embittered by the
very limited help they have re
ceived froom their Russian sen
ior partners.! j
The communist commanders
tried to end their terrible losses
by launching their great offen
sive, which Was designed deci
sively to defeat the U. N. armies.
It has failed, with, even more
terrible losses. There is little
reason to believe that another
such enemy offensive could suc
ceed. There are three ways Qut for
the communist high command,
if the foregoing analysis is cor
rect. The first is to attempt a
different sort, of offensive, using
modern weapons to match ours.
Tank and artillery can be se
cured from Soviet Far Eastern
stocks. But I the , communists,
cannot bring them to the battle
field, and they cannot supply
them with fuel and ammunition,
unless they get air cover. ;
It is highly probable that the -Mig
15 jet fighters which have
appeared near the Manchurian
borders are actually flown by
Russians, despite the Chinese
markings. This is the? most ra
tional explanation of why these
ing responsibility to the blind than the old sys
tem Of a special institution for- the blind.
Truman to the Senate?
Washington gossips say that President Tru
man may choose not to run again in 1952; iu
stead he would seek a seat in the senate from
Missouri. This really would not be surprising.
He is'showing the wear and tear of the "tough
est job on earth." He enjoyed his work in the
senate, its fellowship, its lighter burden.
Only one man previously has taken a seat in
congress after serving as president, John Quin
cy Adams. Adams, who had been a U. S. senator
before being president, became a representative
in congress from a Massachusetts district after
his one term as president was over. He served
there; the remainder of his life, succumbing aft
er being stricken on the floor of the house.
There may be good basis for the speculation
as to Truman's political future. That would
make 1952 a true free-for-all.
A Newark meat packer is under indictment
for furnishing the army meat of inferior grade,
and two soldiers with him. The army has been
particular about its meat ever since the Spanish
war when Chicago packers were accused of fur
nishing "embalmed beef" on army contracts.
That scandal broke over the head of Secretary
of War Russell Alger, and the army has been
on guard ever since. Soldiers complained of too
much Spam last time, but none said it was un
wholesome just too much of it.
Some agitation over Albany way is reported
for creation of a union high school with Albany
as the center. If we may contribute to the dis
cussion we would offer the opinion that the
wiser course is to consolidate the area into a
single district. If the bill for a unified district
passes that will happen anyway. Albany is much
too large to have its school system divided in
administration between high and elementary
schools.
Quite a stink over sellouts of basketball play
ers to gambling touts. But when youth are hired
as athletes in violation of codes covering am
ateurism what may one expect? It's a short step
from getting wages or fancy cars in subterfuge
to taking a bribe for throwing a ball game.
Don't put all the blame on Madison Square Gar
den and the gambling fraternity.
planes have not appeared di
rectly over the battlefield. If the
enemy's air problem is to be
solved, this policy of caution
must be changed. The Kremlin
must order its Siberian air force
to enter the Korean fighting,
directly over the battlefield. In
short, the first alternative open
to the enemy is to to transform
the Korean war into a general
war.
The second alternative is for
the enemy to stay where he Is,
to go on expending his man
power at the same dreadful
rate, and to hppe for the best
It seems difficult to believe that
either the Chinese or North Ko
rean commanders will feel much
enthusiasm for this particular
choice. As for the third alter
native. It Is of course to break
contact with the United Nations
forces, and to attempt to reach
some sort of settlement.
It is entirely probable that the
choice between these three al
ternatives has already been
made. Jlao Tse-tung's reported
mission to Moscow was no doubt
undertaken precisely for the pur
pose of forcing a decision. And
it should not be overlooked that
there were some menacing hints
in Stalin's recent statement, to
the effect that! a general war
might ensue if the Western pow
ers did not knuckle under to Mao
Tse-tung's demands.
Yet the state department feels
hopeful enough: so that serious
consideration has already been
given to the form which an ac
ceptable settlement might take.
The British who have access to
Peking, have already been very
informally sounded out on the
possibilities of acting as honest
brokers in the negotiations which
might lead up to a settlement.
In short, the situation in Korea
,hs been radically-and basically
altered by the crushing defeat of
the communist offensive. And '
this in turn, for reasons which
will be examined in a forthcom
ing report, may also have radi
cally altered the: whole situation
in the Far East.
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New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
GRIN AND BEAR IT
"One inspection after another! . .
no matter how
Tempest Over
Pact's Naval
Chief Boiling
By J. M. Roberts, jr.
AP Forelxn Affairs Analyst
This little tempest aroused In
Britain over who is to command
the North Atlantic pact's naval
forces promis
es to be good.
If Americans
look at the
thing with any
think like their
normal sense of
humor, the re- V 1 '
suit won't make , - V I
much differ- 1: L
ence. The Unit
ed States has
been very lithe
for the last few
years about
asking other countries to sur
render their sovereignty in favor
of joint economic recovery and
collective security. It was easy
for us. We didn't have to sur
render anything, and if we did
Americans were running every
thing and could look after our
interests. Maybe a little wearing
of the same shoe might be good
for our souls.
Britain first had to come bor
rowing, and then she had to come
begging. A lot of those prideful
folk has just about gotten to the
point where they'd rather starve
than ask Uncle Sam for more
help.
They served under Americans
in World War II, are serving un
der Americans both ashore and
afloat in the Far East, and have
turned over their European
ground forces to Eisenhower
with god grace. Now that a job
has come along for which they
feel eminently fitted they are in
clined to want some considera
tion. Winston Churchill, who plays
second fiddle to no man in his
understanding of a friendship
for the U. S., blew up the first
gale, sending Clement Attlee's
coattails up around his neck be
fore he could fasten even one
button.
It all started when it became
known that the NATO defense
committee had chosen Admiral
William M. Fechteler, comman
der of the U. S. Atlantic fleet,
to be General Eisenhower's coun
terpart afloat Fechteler has a
good record, in Pacific combat
and administration. But he is by
no means a world figure to
whom Britain and especially
the prideful British navy can
bow without a second thought.
Churchill said, in effect, that
Britain and British admirals,
dadgummitt, knew some things
about that part of the business,
and where did Attlee get off by
giving up every right that Brit
ain has.
Government and opposition
members alike rushed to Churc
hill's support. So did press and
public It's the kind of issue that
could inflame public imagina
tion in Britain more than all the
worries about inflation and na
tionalization which already have
made Attlee's government so un
stable. That is, of course, a part
of Churchill's thought.
The argument caught the
American state department with
its signal flags down. The navy
was silent. There may have been
even a little surprise that any
body should object to America
running everything. The U. S.
navy is more than twice as large
as Britain's probably larger
than all European navies com
bined. The NATO fleet will be
fundamentally dependent on
American production. But the U.
S. wouldn't want an argument
of that kind. She's too big for it.
It might be well to reconsider.
Too many people already think
that the current conflict is pri
marily between America and
Russia. Since the U. S. most
urgently desires not to be the
whole show, it would be just as
well if she avoided some of the
appearances of it, too.
Bettor English :
1. What Is wrong, with this sen
tence? I have never seen such an
interesting play."
2. What is the correct pronun
elation of "predecessor?
. X Which one . of these words is
misspelled? Destructible, desul-,
toriness, despondency, dissatisfied."-
--
4. What does the word "virago"
mean? -
9. What li a word beginning
lest &r :
by Lichtv
UMKIM
. the enemy won't like onr looks
neat we are ..."
Richmond Cub
Pack Holds
Dinner Fete
Many awards were presented as
80 cubs and parents joined Friday,
evening in the Blue and Gold din-'
ner for Richmond Cub pack 10, at
the Knight Memorial Congrega
tional church.
The boys from each den had
made table decorations, presented
skits and presented rose corsages
to den mothers Mrs. O. A. Olson,
Mrs. M. E. Welch, Mrs. Clifford
Jensen and Mrs, Leo McCallister.
The flag ceremony was led by
James Seely and Byron Swigart.
Arthur Krueger and Richard
Hagner were presented the Lion
award. Ronald Welch won a bear
gold arrow and Bill McCallister a
silver arrow. Steven Randall, Lar
ry Tuttle and Irvin Iverson receiv
ed wolf awards; Larry Tuttle the
gold arrow to go with it and Larry
Frad a silver arrow. Bill Sikel won
a bobcat award.
One-year service pins went to
Jim Seely, John Gimmell, Roy Ol
sen, Ronald Welch, Gordon Hum
phrey, Leonard Hagner, Arthur
Krueger, Larry Frad, Steven
Smith, David Ladd, Jerry Hage
dorn, Richard Hagner, Bruce Bir
rell. Bill McCallister and Byron
Swigart.
Valley Farm
Labor Council
Incorporates
Articles of incorporation for the
Willamette Farm Labor council, a
new organization to secure work
ers for valley harvests, were filed
Friday with Marion county clerk.
Value of corporation -owned
property was listed at $1,100, with
future income to come from mem
bership fees, dues, gifts and serv
ice charges.
Incorporators were W. Frank
Crawford, William J. Linf oot,
George B. Paulus and J. E. John
son, all of Salem, who are to serve
as directors until formal election
is conducted to name nine direc
tors representing various crops and
interests.
Aim of the organization is to
encourage residents of the area to
participate in harvest work and
to secure outside labor as well.
B-36 Vapor Trails
Seen Over Salem
Vapor trails over Salem caused
some fancy neck craning Friday,
some apprehension, some exicted
phone calls.
The streaked sky was the result
of six-motor high-speed B-38 bom
bers flying over between 10 ajn.
and the noon hour.
Salem airport observers identi
fied the craft as B-36. Associated
Press, reporting considerable in
terest in the planes over Portland,
said they were presumed to be on
training flights from Texas air
bases.
Salem Butter Maker
Awarded First Prize
First place in a butter storage
contest sponsored by Oregon Dai
ry Manufacturers association has
been won by a Salem man, Loren
Edlund.
Butter he submitted from Cur
ry's dairy here six months ago had
been stored since at Corvallis and
was taken out of storage for Judg
ing just prior to the manufactur
ers' convention this week.
Edlund is plant foreman at Cur
ly's dairy in Salem. His first prize
award is a trophy cup.
A traffic death occurs about
every 18 minutes In the United
States.
with be that means "to while
away"? . - - ; .
-j.-'- ANSWEXS r
1 1. Say, "I have never seen so
Interesting a play." 2. Pronounce
pred-e-aes-er, first and third
e's as in ear second e as in me
unstressed, fourth e as In her
unstressed, principal accent on
third syllable. X. Destructible. 4.
A turbulent;; quarrelsome wom
an. (Pronounce vir-ra-go, t as in
ia, a as in ray, as in r accent
second syllable). rHer reputation
aa a virago did not win her many
friends." 5. Beguile.
Air Pollution
Hearing
By Legislature
Increasing Interest in legislation
to curb air pollution In Oregon
probably will necessitate another
public hearing before the. senate
public health committee, chairman
Jack Lynch announced Friday. .
Lynch disclosed that proponents
of senate bill 9, designed to curb
air pollution, would meet in the
executive department here March
6 to discuss a substitute measure
drafted by utility, lumbering and
light metals interests. These in
terests are opposed to the original
measure. Senate ' bill 9 provides
machinery for abalting current air
pollution and preventing it in the
future. Opponents, objecting to
some penalty features of the meas
ure, asked permission to draft a
new bilL
"We hope to work out some bill
that will be satisfactory to all in
terests concerned," Lynch said.
Governor Douglas McKay asked
for passage of air pollution legis
lation in his message to the cur
rent legislature.
The governor more recently said
he was fearful that now industry
would compound already existing
air contamination in several parts
of the state unless satisfactory leg
islative action is taken.
The bin, as originally drafted,
also provides for some necessary
civil defense adjuncts such as a
mobile laboratory and devices to
test air purify so that presence of
dangerous radiological, bacteriolo
gical or biological particles may
readily be detected.
Eleven Bills
Signed Into
Law by McKay
Gov. Douglas McKay Friday
signed house bill 114, by Ander
son and Brady, which repeals that
part of a law requiring the state
labor commissioner to make re
ports to each legislature on the
number, social, sanitary habits.
nature of employment and earn
ings of Japanese-and Chinese.
Also signed by the governor was
house bill 37, by Greenwood and
others, increasing the salaries of
state police operatives.
Other bills signed Friday:
H.B. 105, by agricultural com
mittee relating to the importa
tion from infested areas of agri
cultural commodities host to fruit
flies and certain contagious dis
eases. H.B. 144, by Wade et al ' re
lating to common trust funds.
H.B. 149, by ways and means
committee relating .to certain
expenditures out of the state
building fund, and declaring an
emergency.
H.B. 225, by Bradeen, et al
increasing salaries of certain Grant
county officers.
H.B. 227, by Fisher, et al In
creasing salaries of certain coun
ty surveyors.
j H.B. 233, by revision of laws
committee increasing member
ship fees of members of the Ore
gon State Bar.
H.B. 323, by Goode and Card
well increasing the salaries of
certain Linn county officers.
H.B. 371. by Ohmart, et al
increasing salaries for certain Mar
ion county officers.
H.B. 372, by French, et al
increasing salaries of certain
Wheeler county officers.
Death Takes
Little Victim
Of Leukemia
Statemuta New Service
LEBANON Five - year - old
Frank Hand, the leukemia victim
who made headlines last October,
died this week in a Portland hos
pital, it was announced Friday.
The boy caught the sympathy
of the public when leukemia was
first diagnosed and there was
doubt he would live until Christ
mas. Then later he contracted a
mild case of polio.
i A Salem organization and other
groups assisted the family and
until recently hope was strong
for his recovery. Death came Tues
day. Funeral services will be at
Iola, Kan.
: Survivors include the parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hand of
Sodaville, and two brothers, Stan
ley, 2, and Johnny, 4.
Valley Obituary
Mary Amanda Perkins
INDEPENDENCE Funeral
services for Mary Amanda Per
kins, 78, of Independence, were
held Thursday at the Walter L.
Smith mortuary here with the
Rev. V. O. Eggebraaten in charge.
Burial was at Hill Top cemetery
near Independence.
! Mrs. Perkins, who lived in Ore
gon all of her life, was born in
New berg. She had picked hops
here each year; for the past 70
years. '
I She is survived by her husband,
William H. Perkins; four sons,
Louis Elliot, Tillamook. Irvin El
liot, Sandlake, Forest Elliot, Sut
ter. Calif, and Ralph Elliot. Port
land; four daughters, Rhoda Der
rick Sandlake, Elsie, Dallas and
Louisa Hsnnegan, Portland; and
La Verne Znmwalt. Dallas; two
brothers, Clyde Fowler, Wheat
land, and Ralph Fowler, Vernonia;
five sisters, Mrs. Jennie Manley,
Newberg, Mrs. Martin Hanson,
Gervals, Mrs. William Pope, Port
land, Mrs. Norma Bittner, Ver
nonia, and Mrs. Georgie Jones,
Portland; 83 grandchildren and 22
greatgrandchildren. .
Ad
,
equate
.Kit
Law
i ' -
for Meat
By. P
Oregon meat packers and housewives Friday asked the legisla
ture to enact an adequate meat inspection law to protect the nubile
and the packers. . . . - ,
is considering meat inspection legislation aimed at cuTblnT abuses by
KHuc iMcii wuu uitc jjccii Kuinx veai ana diseased meat.
.jacoD Munin, presiaeni or ine
Aero Meat Packing company at
Cornelius, urged adoption of a un
iform state meat inspection law.
"Recent publicity in the news
papers about slunk veal and horse
meat being sold in Portland has
hurt both the meat packing indus
try and the cattle ranchers,1 Mul
lin said.
Mrs. Clifford Basse tt, Oregon
City, .representing the League of
Women Voters, said present meat
inspection laws are "woefully in
adequate." She said the bill now in the sen
ate committee is not specific
enough and would leave too much
to the discretion of state meat in
spectors.
G.'F. Chambers, president of the
Valley Packing company in Salem,
a federally inspected plant, said
Oregon Is classed among the four
states of the nation with the poor
est meat inspection laws.
Chambers said the legislature
should set up a law which would
include specific requirements for
packing plants. He contended the
public should pay for inspection
because It is for their- protection
and state paid Inspectors would
not be obligated to plants where
they work.
Chambers pointed out that the
present state inspection law is not
compulsory' and is too casual in
nature to be "effective when ap
plied. State inspectors now make
only occasional checks of plants
which request their services.
Orrin Brown, president of the
Medford Meat company, said dis
eased cattle is being brought into
southern Oregon from California
because Oregon doesn't require
inspection and California wont
allow them to be sold. California
has a law similar to the federal
law under which the state pays
for Inspection and rigid require
ments are laid down.
Legislators
Banter Hair
Raising Story
An Associated Press news story
in Friday's Oregon Statesman
prompted a lively discussion in
the state senate . Friday morning.
Sen. Warenr, Gill, Lebanon, a
legislator with rapidly "thinning
hair." called to the attention of
Sen. Fred Lamport, Salem, who
is in the same predicament, a
Statesman yarn headlined,
"Hormone Cream Grows Hair
on Rats, Heads of Two Men."
GUI asked Senate President
Paul Patterson to appoint Lamport
and himself as- a two-man interim
committee to go east and study
the problem.
Sen. Frank Hilton. Portland, ob
jected. "I don't think we should
class Lamport and Gill with rats.
They, after all, are not rats," he
said.
Patterson came back, "I think
we should reserve our judgment
on that. Senator Hilton, until we
see whether the hair grows back
on their heads."
Maison Seeks
New Director
For Crime Lab
H. G. Maison, superintendent of
state police, Friday promised re
organization of the state crime de
tection laboratory when he finds
a new director.
Dr. Howard Richardson, director
since 1946, resigned Tuesday at a
heated legislative hearing on a
house bill to reorganize the labor
atory and transfer control from
state police to a board represent
ing all law enforcement agencies.
Maison said he has asked the
University of Oregon medical
school to supply technical help to
operate the lab until a new direc
tor is found.
"The laboratory is now oDen and
functioning, although not on a
full-scale basis, and Iin trying
hard to find a director," Maison
said.
Maison said Raphael Maiers.
chemist at the lab, was dismissed
because their is no lonaer anv
need for his job. The position is
being vacation."
DALLAS TO VOTE
DALLAS The Dallas Ceme
tery association will hold a special
election Tuesday. February 27.
from 2 to 7 pjn. at the Polk coun-
Day from the Grower and Save
Bleeding Heart Roots 75c
Crepe Myrtle $240
Xumssaka crmneniat
! Fine bushy plant with
f , flower bods
" Flowerlna Shrubs
$LD0 to $1.50
A faH Hue of Shrubs. Shads cad FruS Trees.
Ros bushes and Berry plants
ZHnGET :
375 S. liberty blks. south of
f 1
inspection
Sou
ght
ackers; Buyers
Control Board
Debates Bonds
For Recording
Gov. Douglas McKay and State
Treasurer Walter J. Pearson are
in, friendly dispute over the need
for legislation to authorize Issu
ance of bonds to expedite a build
ing program at Oregon's state in
stitutions. This developed Friday when
these officials, along with Secre
tary ! of State Eari T. Newbry,
made a tape radio recording for
release at 6 p. m. Saturday. The
three officials the build
ing program, along with civil de
fense and civil defense contracts,
as members of the state board oi
control.
Pearson disclosed that his of
fice has prepared a bill which,
if approved by the legislature,
would permit the voters to de
cide at the polls whether they fa
vor bonds, up to 1 per cent of
the assessed property value of the
state, as a means of accelerating
state institutional construction.
"I cant foresee any future time
when the state will have enough
tax revenue to complete a build
ing program that is many years
behind schedule, Pearson j told
program moderator Lawson Mc
Call. Governor McKay replied J that
highway bonds, which he advo
cates, would be self liquidating
and that the state should be care
ful to avoid a great accumulation
of debts through reliance on bonds
that are not self-liquidating. He
urged continuation on a pay-as-you-go
basis, although admitting
that the . state institutional pro
gram would not progress as rap
idly as it would if securities were
issued.
An enabling act of the type sug
gested by Pearson would prevent
delay when building materials are
again available in adequate ; sup
ply, Newbry said. He added that
"we shouldn't let .down higher
Added Funds
For Buildinir
Authorized
A Joint -ways and means sub
committee Friday approved a bill
permitting the expenditure Of an
additional $150,000 in construction
of the new state office building
in Portland. j
Original cost of the structure
was fixed at $2,200,000. Roy Mills.
board of control secretary, said the
additional SI 50,000 was required
because of adding one story to the
building after the contract; was
awarded. The buildin will be 11
stories high and is scheduled for
completion late in the current
year. It will house virtually all
branch state offices now located in
the Portland area with the excep
tion of the liquor control and game
commissions which own their
housing facilities. . J
Senator Dean Walker said he
sometimes questioned the necessity
of maintaining so many branch
state offices in Portland.
Senate Passes Nine .
Bills Without Nay Vote
Oregon's senate was in j rare
form Friday morning, passing nine
bills wothout a single dissenting,
vote and referring a 10th measure
to committee by unanimous; con
sent. I
Eight of the measures had, been
passed by the house and are now
ready for the governor's signature.
All were of a technical nature,
dealing with real estate regula
tions, credit union fees, forest re
search and workman's compensa
tion. ' f
ty courthouse for the purpose of
voting on a 1.75 mill tax levy to
maintain the former Dallas and
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