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if i 2rTermiAmerid Off iciaUy Mafie Part Of U.S. Constitution By Tom Williams ! WASHINGTON, Feb. 2&-JP)-The 22ncTamendment, barring future presidents from serving more than two elective terms or more than 10 years in the White House, became the law of the land Monday night. " - . N ' Utah and Nevada the 35th and 36th states to approve the amend ment voted for ratification, Nevada completing action at 7:30 p.m. lOtF . KHDODQCa In the good old days when a newspaper supported a candidate for office it went "whole hog" in its support. It loaded its news columns with puffery for its can didates and blasted the opposing candidate from all angles. It would give glowing accounts of how its favorite was welcomed at ScatteVtown and how enthusi astic his audience was at Speaker ville. And it was quite unper turbed if when the votes were counted it was discovered that he failed to carry either Speakerville or ScattertowH). The editor simply went on with his likes and his hates. Latterly our journalism has grown "objective." The standard rule is to print the news, play no favorites, show no bias in the news columns. If the newspaper wants to endorse a candidate let it do so in its editorial columns, but not slant the news in the can didate's favor. In spite of such a pious pur pose it is pretty hard for the press to get out of its old habits. The editor's enthusiasm or disgust may be infectious and spread to the news room where news is re ported and edited. To see just how "objective" and unbiased newspapers were in a hot cam paign Stanford's Institute for Journalistic Studies made a sur vey of 12 California dailies and studied word-for-word their re porting during the late senatorial campaign between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. On perfectly balanced coverage, ac cording to the Institute's test, the score would be 0 to 0. Actually the scoresheet showed 29.2 index favoring Nixon. And the worst of fenders (if news favoritism is rated bad) were the biggest news papers, those in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Hearst papers were strong for Nixon, and their news columns were loaded heav iest for him: Los Angeles Exam iner 118.9, San Francisco Call- Bulletin 96.2. The Los Angeles Times pro-Nixon index was 93.5 and that of the (Continued -on editorial page, 4.) Hen Dies After LayingNation's Largest Egg WINDHAM, N.H., Feb. 2&-JF)-The chicken that reputedly laid the nation's biggest egg an eight and one-half ouncer is dead. Farm Superintendent Carl Mc Gowan said the bird expired after delivering the giant egg today at the poultry farm of Dr. Henry F. Dearborn of Lawrence, Mass. The egg measured 10 inches around the long way and eight and one half inches arOund the middle. It was delivered by a New Hampshire Red. Leavitt C. Parsons, publisher of the magazine "Poultry Industry," said his records showed the big gest previous egg listed In this country was a bit under eight ounces. It was the product of a Rhode Island Red in 1939. The world's largest chicken egg, he said, is on display in the mu seum of curiosities of the Pasteur institute in Paris. It weighs about 11Y ounces. INSURANCE BILL PASSES WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 My A bill to provide cost-free $10,000 life insurance policies for all indi viduals on duty with the armed forces since June 27 got senate approval today. Passage was by voice vote. Animal Crackers By WARRLN COODRICH compUtning about the iat we gsti Kim wyi thi pJchjrt It bUm4." TV I I, ' SHOP TELEVJ , -'iV5- Wit v . rinsTi t I - A- three fourths majority, 36 states, was needed to make the amendment effective. It wiU not apply to President Truman,! who was specifically ex empted When Congress submitted the proposed amendment to the states in 1947. Repealed Prohibition The last amendment to the con-stitution- the 21st repealed pro hibition. It became effective Dec. 5, 1933. Utah was the j 36th state to ratify that one. Nevada's lawmakers stood by to grab for their state the; distinction of making the 22nd amendment a part of the constitution. The Nevada senate voted 16 to 1 for ratification minutes after learning: that Utah had voted to approve j The proposal to ratify cleared the Nevada assembly,: 29 to 12, early in j the afternoon. ; The vote in the Utah senate was 14 to 8i pie house already had passed the measure. Since 1947 The proposed amendment has been kicking around in state leg islatures! since March, 1947, but only 24 states had voted to ratify until late last month. Ratification was completed with a rush. ; j Other states voting to ratify in the last few weeks have been Indiana, Mexico, Montana, Idaho, New Wyoming, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas and Georgia, North Carolina. (Oregon approv ed the measure in 1947). Congress specified the amend ment musi be ratified by March, 1954, to become effective. Hunters Play Hide and Seek hi Washington MONTESANO, Wash-, Feb. 26 -(JP)- Two i Seattle hunters, each convinced the other was lost, play ed hide i and seek in the Hump tulips elk hunting area north of here today. Sheriffs' officers wer searching the woods for Theodore; Bakke and Richard Fribert, who were sepa rated during a hunting trip yester day. : i Bakke reported to sheriffs of ficers last; night that his partner was missing and went back into the woods to find him. : A few hours later Fribert made his way to Montesano and reported he couldn't find Bakke. Then back he went into the woods Sheriff's officers say whichever hunter is found first will be urged to stay at home while his friend is located. ; Fry's Absence From Council Stirs Comment The absence of Alderman Dan iel J. Fry from citv council meet ings gave rise Monday; night at a council session to several ques tions. rjarliamentarv and nthr. Wise. i ! Alderman Albert HJ GU1 said he had been approached by "sev eral residents of ward 4" a tn what action the council might lane xo insure them of represen tation in the city governing bodv. Fry. ward 4's alderman, is now on a iour-montns trip? abroad. City Attorney Chris Kowit aid urre is no council ruie .or cnar ter Drovision retarding nttonH 41 l':. ance of aldermen, and that it would take a charter amendment voted by the citizens to make pos sible the appointment ; of a pro- lem aiaerman. Alderman Earl Burk suggested tnat tne council should take some action if netitinns arm rnvivX from "enough residents of that ; ward. - . The ward system in Salem is a carryover i from the rnunHi inrm of government which nmMfiH the city manager system four years ago. When the government was changed, many advocates of the new system had favored elec tion of all aldermen by the city ai large j At present most rtetitinn fmm the nublic! com In th :Mir.o di rectly, although citizens often comer wn aldermen of their own ward; on their problems. The only routine assignment by wards Is reference of all billboard ap plications ; to alderman of the ward where location is sought. Max. Mia. Preclp. 27 . traea 33 J02 -40 J2S 4 M Pnrtll i . 49 . 44 . M San Fanciac Chi car a . . New York M 44 tract FTWW1ST mm TT S I... Mill fcfjMvw U i . a day and tonight with littla changa m temperature, High today near 4S; low toaifht near 18. au rnKciriTATiorr llltl lint mf tWomtttmm V. ThiaYear- i Last Year t Normal 32-U , ; SU 100th YEAH k rui Safe Cracked, Vv :: ft . - - j v v v- If t ; n L i : b'yvfe :':f ' Two safe-crackinjr jobs l'2 miles apart In east Salem Sunday nljht were thourht possibly the work of the same burglars, according to state police and the sheriffs office. The entries were at C&K Lum ber company, Center street and Lancaster drive, where the small safe shown at left with Partner Ri chard B. Jennings was rolled into a back room, combination broken off and punched to get $150 in cash. At Lincoln school in Four Corners district, burglars tried to punch bolts into the larre safe in the principal's office, through holes drilled sometime ago when the combination failed. Principal Boyd Ilillesland (right) holds the safe handle, broken off, and tools broken in the unsuccessful at tempt. (Statesman photos.) Bill to Extend Unemployment Insurance Dies The senate Monday voted 14 to 13 to defeat a bill to give employ es of small businesses unemploy ment compensation, but approved and sent to the house other unem ployment legislation agreed on by labor and employers. The bill defeated would have extended unemployment insur ance coverage to employers of one nr more nersons. Under present state law only employers with four or more employes are cover ed by state unemployment com pensation. Other unemployment compen sation, approved 25 to 3, would: Give unemployed persons an additional $2.50 for each of their children up to four. A man now getting $25 a week, the top unem ployment benefit, would receive $35 if he has four children. Repeal the present seasonality law which declares firms seasonal individually according to their employment records. The new law would deal with seasonality on the employe basis, requiring workers to earn $750 in a quarter to be eligible for unemployment insurance. Those earning 75 per cent of their salary in any one quarter would also be ineligible. Increase maximum benefits from V of an employe's earnings in a year to 4 of his earnings. To Cut Contribution Reduce employers' contribu tions for unemployment compen sation by 10 per cent, or about $1,300,000 a year. Employers pay the entire cost of unemployment Insurance. Voting against extending un employment insurance to all workers were Senators ueuon, Coon, Day, Ellis, Gill, Hardie, Hilton, Lynch, Marsh, Musa, Par kinson, Walker, Walsh and Wil cox. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the oleomargarine industry threw th oleo Issue into an unroar by announcing that the industry will not accept a proposal to let oieo be colored a shade of : yellow slightly different than the color of butter yellow. K. C. Eldridge, Portland grocery wholesaler and oleo representa tive, said he had been informed by eastern margarine j manufac turers that they still want the or iginal bill to permit sales of col ored oleo. To Take 40 Votes This measure was defeated In the house by a 30 to 38 margin after the senate approved: it 16 to 14. It will take 40 votes to recon- tVt forme artirin i nnrl run porters of the outright Repeal say they haven't been able! to corner that many. 1 Rep. John HounselL, Hood Riv er, sponsor of the bill: to allow sales of colored oleo of a different shade than butter, was busy drafting his measure. ! The dairy interests have indi cated they will go along with HounselTs bill, believing j it pro tects the dairy and butter indus try sufficiently. Hounsell has been assured that he can gain the 40 votes necessary to ireconsider the house action on colored oleo and then get his bill passed. Committee Decision ' Milk control will make the big news in the house today. The rep resentatives will consider the ac tion of the house foods and dai rying committee, a- majority of which recommended defeat of Sen. Maurine Neubergers bill to let the voters decide whether milk control shoulcT be repealed. tsoxn the house and senate wm meet at 10 a. m. today. i jiegiiauv news also pace X) 12 PAGES Second Tried in Council Votes to Widen Mission Street Section By Robert E. Gangware City Editor, The Statesman Widening of Mission street to permit more parking facilities adjacent to Bush's pasture was authorized Monday night by Salem city council. Alderman gave their approval to a proposal by City Manager J. L. Franzen that a 50-foot-wide strip be prepared on the park side of Mission street, from Pringle creek about 1,000 feet east. This would park some 200 cars, he said. Money and equipment for the work are on hand and the project should be done now, the manager stated. The city would do the work and foot the entire bill. The curb-to-curb paved width of Mission would remain 36 feet, with the new strip graveled for two rows of parked cars just to the south of the traveled part of the street. The parking area would be near the entrance to the new Willam ette university football stadium, and would be handy for park us ers other than football crowds, Franzen said. Upon suggestion of Alderman Albert H. Gille the manager also was directed to negotiate with the state forestry department for the purchase of 2,000 two-year-old evergreens which might be plant ed in the park. Franzen reported that work will be done this spring to get two baseball diamonds and possibly a softball diamond in usable con dition at the pasture. Other city plans call for im proving a picnic area, with fire places, between the university stadium and Pringle creek this year. In addition, a playpark im provement is being put in at the southwest corner by Soroptimist club. Westside municipal park plans also were discussed when Alder man Earl Burk suggested a dirt fill for part of the park. The city manager said filling and other work would be done by the city this year and plans for a swim ming pool at the south end of that park would be made in the future. (Additional council news on page 3.) Two More School Champions Are Named in Spelling Contest Evon Clark, 13-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Clark of route 1, box 9, Gervais, won the s p el 1 1 n g championship Ot Gervais school, Principal Vestal Matter has an nounced. T C4V. ' grader, thus won the right to par ticipate in a di-, vision competi tion of The Stat esman -KS L M X - I spelling contest . ciark at Hubbard on Wednesday, March '21. ."T z"S'. " - Second place at Gervais went to Darrell McCall, 12-year-old son of Mr.' and Mrs. C J. McCall of box 37, Gervais, and third place to Odie Hall, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Hall of Box 154, Gervais. Both Darrell and Odie are In the 7th grade. , Winners of 112 other schools will compete in the division con test at Hubbard. Evon is the first school winner in that division to be chosen. r r 1 ft afc- WUNDBD 1651 Thm Ofgoor Statesman, Satan, East Salem Improvements Scheduled at Silver Creek PORTLAND, Feb. "26 -VP)-The state highway Commission said today it will call for bids to im prove the Silver Creek area near jSalem. Overnight camping facilities will be installed at a cost of about $40,000, the commission said. Plans call for similar improve ment at the Wallowa Lake park. C. H. Armstrong, state park su perintendent, said the two parks will be provided with roads, sani tary facilities, water, electric and wood stoves, parking space and showers. . Other parks will have similar facilities later, he said. Other action today included: Plans for a caretaker's cottage and tea room at Champoeg park, submitted by Mrs. John Y. Rich ardson, Portland, were approved. A survey for ultimate location of the Pacific highway at Goshen was approved. A request for improvement of the Woodburn-Sandy secondary highway between Springwater and Estacada to facilitate log hauling was held for report. En gineers estimated the 3 miles of improvement would cost $250,000. A call for bids for construction of an $11,500 maintenance build' ing at Salem was authorized. The spelling championship of Macleay school was held today by 12-year-old Edward Moore, 8th-grade son of Mr. and Mrs. Ault Moore oi route 5, box 465, Salem, Edward was certified as the j. school winner by i his principal andt- W teacner, alts GHVia1 n m 11 f i: and thus earnedw f - the right to com- -&A - u pete with - the l Mwax mmt winners of 18 other schools in a semi-finals of The Statesman KSLM spelling contest at Keizer on March 16. j - . " Second place at" Macleay was won by Mildred Foster, 12, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Fos ter of route 9, box 462, Salem, and -tkird place j by Sue Ma gar, daughter of Mr.j and Mrs. - Fred Magar of route 5, box 442, Salem. Both Mildred and Sue are in the 7th grade. ' : The achievements of the three pupils are recognized In certifi cates of merit issued by the con- tesrs sponsors. TIT;-1 Qfaon. Tuday rbrnary 27, n a Hogg, Bennett Trctde Blows: j "i ! j '..'': - Resignation Filed month Ago Pair Scuffle After Hearing At Legislature By Lester F. Cour Staff Writer, Th Statesman Oregon's liquor squabble flared white hot Monday when Liquor Commissioner Carl W. Hogg, Sa lem, and Portland City Commis sioner J. E. Bennett exchanged blows following a legislative hear ing. The brief skirmish came at the rnnriusion of a hearing bv the senate alcoholic traffic committee on Bennetts charges that the liquor commission is sympathetic with tavern owners and has been lax in enforcing the Knox law. The fisticuffs came into play after Bennett walked over to Hogg and said "just the other day you were begging for mercy to get ma to stop exposing this liquor situ ation." "You're nothing but a cheap, publicity-seeking politician," Hogg snapped. 'I've never begged you for anything." Bennett then swung at Hogg and the liquor commissioner lashed out to defend himself. Sergeant-at-arms Vern Drager quickly stepped between the men and the brief skirmish ended. Hogg dropped his wrist watch and Bennett lost his during the fight, but neither man landed a solid blow. During the hearing Bennett told the committee "the Portland city council is on the verge of coming to life." He said the coun cil is now studying legislation which would set up a special com mittee to investigate tavern li cense requests in Portland. Asks Chance In Law Bennett asked the committee to change liquor laws to provide that the liquor commission would not be able to grant a license un less the request was approved first by the city council; that ap plications for tavern licenses be placed 60 days before old licenses expire, arid that cities be permit ted to increase license fees for taverns and clubs. "This committee should demand a grand jury investigation of the liquor commission, but I don't know who the culprits are." Bennett was unable to furnish any definite proof for charges he has leveled against the liquor commission during me pasi two weeks. Bennett Queried; Sen. Ben Musa, The Dalles, asked Bennett if he knew of any specific case in which the liquor commission had granted a license to a tavern or! club when the Portland council recommended against it. j "I don't know," Bennett an swered. "I've been away from council picture for 10 years. Any how, that's not jgermaine to the subject we're talking about, I know definitely that the Portland council granted licenses to a dope peddler and a former convict the other day." j (Bennett, a councilman until 1940, was re-elected last Novem ber, and began ! serving January of this year. He has also served in the Oregon house of represen tatives). M Hogg told the committee that "the liquor commission is entitled to an apology from Mr. Bennett We're on sound ground when Vit deny Bennett's charges and slurs, and well welcome any kind of investigation." j Represents Drys l Hogg declared' that Bennett was representing the ''dry" element, a fact which. Bennett admitted in a senate committee hearing lag: week. Bennett, at the time, said he favored prohibition, but would settle for stricter enforcement un til the people voted prohibition back. J I "It is unfortunate that Mr. Ben nett chooses to crucify and de grade men he doesn't know and when he doesn't have the facts," Hogg said. "You, Mr. Bennett, have destroyed! whatever good you started out to accomplish.' Sen. Sam Coon; Baker, a mem ber of the senate alcoholic traffic committee, announced he will at tempt to introduce a resolution to brand Bennett's charges against the commission as false. The reso lution was read to the committee. "All of Bennett's charges are wholly false, untrue and not back ed by competent evideleeV Coon's resolution said.! "These charges were made "by Bennett to achieve publicity and notoriety." - 1 ' We deplore the attitude of the Portland city council as expressed by Bennett," the resolution con tinued. "We deplore the--use of a committee hearing for the purpose of permitting a notorious publicity hound such as Bennett to r"e and publish unfounded state- 1SS1 PBICS Portland Official Offers Plan for Liquor Control PORTLAND, Feb. 2G-VPl-Ciij Commissioner Ormond R. Bean today recommended a program for the control and supervision of beer and liquor outlets In i'oruand. 4 Under the program, city lic enses would be supervised by an assistant to the chief license in spector, Harold V. Ennor. He would prepare data on the back ground of applicants for licenses as well as on whether or not a given area had a sufficient num ber of liquor and beer" outlets. He would make recommenda tions to Ennor and Bean, but the final say on licensing would be a matter for the council to decide, Bean said- New Croup Of Sawmill Operators Sign PORTLAND, Feb. 2 6-An other group of northwest lumber operators tonight agreed to a IVk cent pay increase for members of the AFL lumber and sawmill workers union. The group, Including eight mills in the Portland-Coast-Columbia district, signed after they were released by the lumbermen's in dustrial relations committee, an employer group. . 1 Walter Durham, JrvLIRC man ager, said that the action would have no affect on the stand of employers in western Washington; also members of the committee,! where 14,000 workers are on strike. 1 Clementis Held As Czech 'Spy' PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 27-tfn-Dr. Vlada CIemen mumsi iormer xoreign minister of Czechoslovakia, was reported by Prague newspapers early today to be under arrest on spy charges.! Clementis, .ousted from the for eign ministry last March because he had "lost faith in Stalin Hurt been missing from his home since last January. Learn to Spell! These werds win flgere In The Stalesman-KSLM Spelling Con test for prises, now . underway fer 7th and 8th grade pupils ef Marion and Polk eo on ties: future gotten ' grief hailstorm horrid imagine invent leap lodge marry mention mistake ; narrow newspaper final j former I funeral . glance Grasshopper handsome Senator Morse COP Nominates 1 rwrn inn xmU r caJ a m av a w w yra j Wayne Morse (R.-Ore.) said day,' "If my political party offe me a president and a platform 1952 of only Isolationist candi dates,-! will take a long walk.' ? Addressing the emergency con ference of the American Associa tion for the United Nations, Sent Morse stated, I have no intention of placing party above country. I have no patience with the philos phy of walking out of : Europe and Asia and making America a great fortress behind the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ) "All Isolationism offers Is - i war ' - y ' I He told delegates to the con ference that if the United States is to assume world leadership, the spiritual values on which this country, is based must be spread throughout the world.! , . -1 j "Instead of pouring 'grain and supplies into empty boxes to spoil, we should have poured them into the empty stomachs d , people t -TTfVl rr TTriTH rir te a mm ie r tance to Await End of ature Governor Douglas McKav ack nowledged Monday night that tm had received the resignation of uari licgg. sa.. lem as chairman ' - , of the Oregon Liquor cemmis- skm. 1 said he had re-. i ceived Hogg's re signation about a month ago, be fore the recent controversy flar ed between the liquor commis sion and Port- Cart Bacs land City Commissioner J. E. Ben nett ever the commission's handl ing of tavern licenses for the city of Portland. Hogg, a Salem appliance and furniture store owner, could not be reached for comment Monday night, but Gov. McKay said Hrgrg had given the press of private business as the reason ' for his resignation. McKay said he would accept the resignation and appoint a successor to Hogg at the con clusion cl the current legislative session. Allied Attacks Block Giinese Counterdrive TOKYO,-Tuesday, Feb. 2-UPy-Tbe impact of a 100,000-maa United Nations drive spear headed by the U. S. First Maria division appeared today to hav delayed a Chinese red counter of fensive in Korea. ' A counter-offensive by four te six Chinese armies has been ex pected. But an army spokesman -on the west-central front vaOd 100,000 Ctunese have been shifted into positions of defense. He said it would require several weeks for the Reds to re-shlfL for any drive ; against Allied forces now seeking to knock all Chinese and North Korc south of the 33th paralleL In the middle of the fighting front, the veteran marine division today seized new high ground around the war-wrecked highway hub of Hoengsong. It is in moun tainous central Korea S3 ' mllee east of Red-held SeouL ' This was the first disclosure of the First Marine division in action since its famed fighting with drawal last December from th Changjin reservoir In northeast Korea. " ? Supreme Court Refuses To Rule on Oregon Law WASHINGTON", Feb. 2 0F The supreme court today refused to rule on the validity of an Ore gon law which prohibits the tak ing of Columbia river salmon by fish traps. : Pete Anthony and other ownerf of such traps questioned the law but the high court said no sub stantial federal question wa lav volved. - Accep LegisI I, I . . i t 1 r A '- ; to 'Walk Out' if- Isolationists around the world,'' Morse said -"1 would have exchanged thee surplus foods for good wiU If J could not have obtained strategy materials or , something that we needed for them. . ; i . "We will need good will very much in the next 100 years. Aa India goes, . so will go the fr sections of Asia, so this lis time for us to come forward ana feed India.' . : "We have . to remember that throughout the world we find fbe colored masses rising and asking for a better way of Ufa. We must see to it that the colored raassef -become free and are not slaves cj a totalitarian philosophy.' . - Senator Morse, said any preci dent,- republican or democrat, t the next CO years will need 4 "point four program for devekrp ment of backward areas. "Tlr t la not a give-away program, said.-- .- - ; .- v "We nasi fcrfng ecoticinle fre? dam to aU peoples bef or we e interest them ta relidr! tUi dam," th mlcr CsZS 1 :