li The Stcdoe nan. So! in, Cro7oa. Friday, Amrart 17, ltSl
Businessmen-
PepperOPS
7itli Queries
: Salem merchants show a "decid
ed willingness to cooperate! in the
priest cdhtrol program but have
bent as many questions to ask of
ficials as do consumers, the offi
cials 1n an OPS clinic said Thurs
day. The clinic was given by mem
bers of the Portland OPS staff.
' The reported a turnout of some
130 local merchants to get the so
lutions to SDedfic problems they
bare encountered to regulations of
the office of price stabilization.
John McCann noted that small
merchants find it difficult to ad
here strictly to regulations' but
pointed out that they are subject
to. the general rules and that record-keening
is an essential re-
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Th nemetual problems in the
meat field, according to Gilbert A.
Smoky) Stearns, are that tender
loins can't be sold, because they
cant be identified by grade, and
the restrictions on ground round.
He said the latter had been over
cane recently by allowing butch
en to sell lean ground beef (with
tat . content restricted to 12per
cent) at a price 10 cents per pound
above regular ground beef.
He pointed out the difficulty of
having a i single price for 12
months, though meat supplies are
seasonal. Depending upon compe
tition to aid in control, he said, it
r waa noted that desirable (but not
; choice) cuts of meat were gener-
; airy selling well below the ceilings
an Salem markets. He said there
I is ."very little confusion' among
: local meat dealers,
Stearns asserted that the Port-
area staff is doing continual
irch on problems encountered
k the field and forwards its una-
tnp to Washington, D. C, for con
sideration. '
i Others on the clinic staff were
Simon c. Berry, Henry P. Witt
. ad Williard & Smith, all business
men with many years of experi
ence in their specialty fields.
Red Designs
On Burma Seen
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I RANGOON -JFt Red China's
future intentions towards Burma
j revealed by reports of Bur
mass Communists receiving mili
tary training from Chinese Reds,
the pro - government Burmese
newspaper, New Light of Burma,
aid editorially. -
; These reports said the Com
munists from Burma were being
shaped into soldiers at the Chinese
town, Paoshan, 90 miles from the
Eino-Burma border,
i Recalling Red China has not re
- futed reports that the communists
Intend "liberating" . Burma within
two years, the paper said these
reports must be considered true
until Peking officially repudiates
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Italian Reverse
On Wetback Racket
' i GENOA, Italy-UP-Genoa police
have arrested Antonio Romano,
17. of Palermo, i Sicily,-, under
charges that ' he forged Mexican
visas to smuggle Italian citizens
into that country. -
When arrested ! Romano was
found in possession of three Italian
passports, with pages missing from
them. He confessed he had taken
off the pages to substitute them
with others bearing forged Mex
ican visas.
- ' A search ordered by Police in a
afilan hotel where he lived yielded
all his tools, forged rubber stamps
of - the Mexican Consulate here,
and stationery of a "Commerce
Bank of -Mexico"; on which Ro-
mano himself typed certificates
slating that Italian citizens had
funds in (Mexico.
West Coast Phone
Strikers Return
J EVERETT, Aug! 19-(AVTull re
sumption, of telephone service for
West Coast Telephone Co users
was predicted for tomorrow by
Lloyd C. Smith, business agent fdr
the International Brotherhood of
Eeetrical Workers (AFX.).
Smith, counting ballots of mem
bers on whether to accept terms
agreed on by negotiators yester
day, said tonight the vote was so
overwhelmingly in favor of, ac
ceptance and a return to work that
even absentee ballots and those
not yet counted could cot change
the trend. .
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SAN ANGELO Texas, Aug. IS At the tender age of. twe weeks, Jo
Wayne Lewie had a head ef hair that weald have made Samso
envious. His mother, Mrs. Hike Lewis, was far from pleased with
her baby's plunging sideburns. "He looks toe-shaggy," she told bar
ber Emmeti Butts, who la applying the scissors, while little Joe
howls lustily from stop a stack ef barber towels, supported by "his
father. Hike, (AP Wlrephoto to the Statesman.)
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Big' Reciting
Drive Aimed
Valley; Girls
'Demand for women to serve In
the, women's , army corps and the
women's air force; which is seek
ing more than 70,000 women, has
brought on an Intensive recruiting
drive in Salem. M-Set. Phil Wimer
of the local armj recruiting sta-.
uon saia xnursaay. -
To rualify for enlistment in the
WACS and WATS, Wimer said a
woman must be an unmarried
high t school graduate, with no
minor dependents an' between the
ages of 18 and 34. .
The pay scale for enlisted women
is the same as that for men, Wimer
said. A private receives $75 a
month for the first four months,
after which her pay rises to $80.
Base pay increases with promo-f
tions and In accordance .with the
length of service. Food, uniforms,
lodging, and medical and dental
care are provided without cost.
Further information may be obr
tained at the recruiting offices k
the Salem post office. t Xr,
GOP Protest Blocks j
Transfer of Escorts f
WASHINGTON, Aug.
itepuoucan protest today blocked
final senate action on a biU au
thorizing the transfer of 24 de
stroyer escort vessels to six for
eign nations. Senator Hunt (D
Wyo), piloting the measure, agreed
to sidetrack it until the senate dis
posed of the $8,500,000,000 foreign
aid bill, now before the house. -
WAREHOUSE BURNS -
JUNCTION CITY, Aug. lMV
An estimated $20,000 damage re
sulted today from a fire in a sal
vage warehouse and grain storage
building here. Three Lane county
dump trucks were destroyed and
me rooi of a bouse was burned.
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UNDERSECRETARY
Francis P. Whitehalr (above)
was named by President Trunin
as Undersecretary of the Navy
succeeding Daa Kimball, elevated
to Navy Secretary post.
Pool Change Aids
Harvest Workers
Hot weather relief for Salem's
young crop harvesters will be
available through revision of
swimming pool regulations.
Present rules prevent youths un-
der'16 from using Leslie or Oling
er pools after 6 pjnn but now the
younger crop workers can swim
after 6 pan. by identifying them
selves to pool-keepers. The ar
rangement has beeni worked out
with the city parks department and
the Willamette Farm Labor coun
cil, i ,
Logger Jailed
Fined 81,385
For Overload
Bt tfc Associated
; Fines totaling $2230 have been
assessed "sxainst two truck dxiv
ers fa Oregon for operating over
loaded' logging trucks.
Held at Mciiinnvine is Okey
flamrfck, Woodland, Wash, who
Thursday pleaded guilty before
Justice of the Peace Charles Mi-
chelet at Newberg to the charge of j
being 27,000 pounds over the limit
He was fined $1,385 but war held
la jail because he was unable to
pay the fine.
, A fine; of $845 was assessed
against Virl Burgess, La Grande
log trucker,' at Pendleton Wednes
day for a 10,900. pound overload.
The fines are under a new Ore
gon law passed by the last legis
lature, provided stiff penalties for
overloading. , a
Jumping Mouse
Leaps 10 Feet
CARBONDALE, I1L The
kangaroo of the mouse world is the
meadow jumping mouse, which
can leap six feet high, or cover 10
feet In a broad jump.
This mouse. Zapus Hudsonius,
is about the size of an ordinary
field mouse, but has a tail( nearly
five inches, long and rear legs 1
and one-half inches long. They're
usually found in southern states,
but some! have moved into south
ern Illinois.
Dr. Willard M. Gersbacher, zool
ogist of Southern Illinois Univer
isty, says they are active only st
night. The Jumping thing that auto
headlights sometimes pick up on
j the road may not be a frog, but a
meauvw jumper vuig uavcuu.
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Ecuador, Siam and BrazU partici
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DARED E V I L- j0le Chit,
wood, Jr, 1, sob ef sate racing
star, does a one-leg stand ea a
midget motorcycle built by bis
father daring as exhibition at a
New York City track.
World Poetry
Contest Open
ROME-CSV-A prize of $1,000
will be awarded in the fall to the
winner of the International poetry
prize "Syracuse." Unpublished
poems in any ; European language
can compete. ! -The
works must be submitted in
six copies to The International
Poetry Association (Via Poliziano
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