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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1951)
it II I- SnotmiaInadofStjNiclt . By Atria J. Stefnkopf f i LONDON, Dec ii-UPy-lVa Christmas and what do you suppose the British are talking about? Santa Glaus? No, the dominant topic of conversation is the "abominable snowman, the fabulous creature who is supposed to live among glaciers and avalanches, somewhere near the top of Mount Everest. He is supoosed to eat yaks or Tibetan children. So fascinated has the public $16 RFC Gives Million to U.S. Treasury WASHINGTON, Dec 24 -(P)-The treasury got a Christmas "bonus of $18,345,812 from the much i investigated reconstruction finance corporation today. Nearly hajf 'of it came from RFC loans to (private business. i Altogether, the govern menfs huge lending agency reported it has! turned over a total of more than 95 million dollars to the treasury this year. to-addition to the "bonus, the total included 75 million made in the RFC-controlled production of synthetic rubber and tin and from the J liquidation of wartime assets, and four million from liquidating assets of the old Smaller War Plants corporation. The agency reported that at the end of the fiscal year last June 20 it had 11,000 business loans outstanding. These totalled $606, 000,000. It reported 231 loans to talling $2,159,255 were written off as losses during the year. The federal agency said that since it launched a business loan program in 1934, it has granted 62,000 loans totalling $4,900,000 000. Actual disbursements were $2,400,000,000, of which $64,300,000 has been charged off as "unrecov erable." RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington told newsmen he was pretty proud" of the report for the current fiscal year, and he commented: "This is one agency that doesn't cost the government a cent." The $16,345,812 Christmas dividend to the government was made up of $7,600,000 earned on loans and $8,745,812 in a readjustment of reserves set aside for losses. 3jrmington took over as one man boss of the RFC last May af ter President Truman abolished the old five-man RFC board of di rectors following a congressional Investigation of RFC loan poli cies. ,-' Union Official Shot to Death JACKSON, Term-, Dec. 24-(J-The business agent"pf a CIO union on strike at the Be mis Bag com pany was shot to death today. Sheriff Emory O. Bruce said Lowell Simmons was shot in the face with a .38 pistol fired by Cecil Cooke, who had been dis tributing circulars urging a return to work. Simmons apparently sought out Cooke to complain about the cir culars and an argument flared, Bruce said. The union official was Standing on Cooke's porch when he was killed. Bruce said Cooke fired through a screen door. Dr. T T Lam. N.D. Dr. O. Chan, N.D DRS. CHAN . . . LAM CHINESE HERBALISTS Upstairs. 241 North Liberty Office open Saturday only. 10 a.m to 1 pjn.. S to 1 pan. Consultation. Blood pressure and urine tests arc tree of charge. Practiced since 1917. Write tor attractive gin. No obu-RaUon. become with the - abominable snowman that he is creeping into the language of office and street. The janitor says the abominable ash cans are abominably heavy. The stenographer! says her abom inable boss expects her to do some overtime and she has a no tion to tell him to peddle his abom inable papers. ; ' ' The soho song writers are wond ering what rhymes with abomin able, and the snowman is sure to get into a number of abomin able lyrics, The mild lunacy, said high brow observers, is related psycho logically to preoccupation with flag-pole sitting,- and is one of those things that sometimes comes over a nation. It was started by a serious gent leman who didn't intend to do anything of the kind. He is 44 year-old explorer Eric Ship ton, just back from ; Nepal and Tibet .where he made preparations for an attempt to climb Mount Ever est next year. He brought bactc photographs of Odd footprints, and nature lovers said they doubtless were made by the snowmen of oriental legend. j Shipton said the natives were convinced they were authentc snowman prints. Two developments kept the speculation alive today. Other members of Shipton's expedition reached London; One of the scientists. Dr. Michael Ward, said it was impossible, to tell from the prints which direction the myster ious animal was traveling. The three-toed prints were about nine inches long and! were made by a fairly heavy creature, he declared. Pope Points to Babe in Crib as Way to Peace VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24 Pope Pius XII in a Christmas Eve message today pointed to the crib of Bethlehem as the way to a longed-for peace rather than the threat In the "monstrous cruelty" of arms. But disarmament, he declared, would be an "instable guarantee of peace if it Is hot accompanied by abolition of the weapons of hate, Cupidity and of overween ing lust for prestige. The pontiff delivered his 13th Christmas Eve peace plea in re sponse to the Yuletide greetings of the College of i Cardinals. It was addressed to the Catholic faithful throughout the world and to all "those who are; one with us in faith in God. Pius made no mention of com munism by name, and once again emphasized that the church stands neutral politically in a world di vided Into two distinct and op posed' camps. But, he said, the present state of affairs demands that the church give a "frank arid sincere judg ment upon events" In this connection, obviously s p e-s king of communist-ruled countries, he said "millions are in no position to exercise their Chris tian influence for moral freedom and peace." He said the world is sharply divided in two camps that are "loath to concede to anyone any sort of liberty to maintain a posi tion of political i neutrality." But, he declared there could be no question of the church renouncing its political neutrality at the be hest of those who look upon it as a "kind of earthly power," and want it as an ally. He said he deplored more than anyone else the fmonstrous cruel ty of modern weapons" and never ceased to pray they would never be used. He questioned whether it was not superficial sentimental ity 'to make the existence and threat of those weapons "the sole r- i-3aasr- 7 ms mop your prmyn will U tnsuxreJ this CkristmMt with. Ow gifts you chrisk most...mmd may you enjoy them tkrougkoul tkm SVcm'fiir. BILL wniES j ! mi BISHOP S & N CLOTHIERS 456 State St. j Economy as ! - i Yule Present ' By Frank W. Yaffle AP Special Washington Sei e WASHINGTON, Dec 24 (jFV -Rep. Norblad (R-Ore)f suggested today the defense 'department give the "nation's taxpayers a 'Christ mas present by eliminating the duplication of facilities among the armed services. "Any effort to stop this needless duplicating" he told Defense Sec retary Lovett in a letter, "would be appreciated not only by mem bers of the congress but by every single taxpayer in the United States." j He said it "seems very apparent that very little Is being done" to unify and merge the three ser vices. The result, he added, is "senseless and a waste of money. As an illustration of conditions which he said he protested Nor blad said he recently watched a soldier have his identification checked by each of the services during a half hour wait at the Portland Oregon Bus stations. "This is not duplication but tri plication," the congressman wrote, "and a little effort toward merger or organization in the Portland area would have stopped this ov erlaoping and attendant expense. While in Alaska as a member of the house armed services "com mittee, Norblad continued, he saw the army and air force at one base each building its own chapel across the street from the other. He said similar duplication was proposed on the two services en listed men's clubs and non-comis-sioned officers' club. "Right here in Washington, he said, "we witness side by side op erations of absolutely duplicating facilities at Boiling and Anacostia fields, whereas if these were merged and one runway paved to join the other, both the air force and the navy would have a much better flying field and a bet ter runway," he added. He said the two fields duplicat ed control towers, fire crews, mess halls, mess crews, briefing rooms, mechanical and fueling facilities among other things. Wells Dug for Thirsty Lions KATHIAWAR PENINSULA, North India - (JP) - What will 250 lions do when they're thirsty? Saurashtra state officials are taking no chances in this drought stricken region bordering the dense Gir mountain jungles. They have sent special detachments of workmen' to dig wells for the big cats. The Gir mountains have been designated a protected area for the only extant specimens-of the Asiatic lion: Officials fear the lions may prowl into villages bor dering the jungles attacking not only domestic animals but pos sibly humans. - Workmen digging the lion wells have devised sloping approaches on one side of the wells to ease the way for the thirsty felines. Fuel Use Varies In Tractor Work LEXINGTON, Ky.--The Uni versity Of . Kentucky experiment station reports that the amount of fuel used by farm tractors varies according to the kind of work done and operating skilL Measured in gallons of kerosene or distilled per 10-hour day, the average daily consumption for dif ferent kinds of work is about as follows: Plowing, 20 gallons: disking, 20 gallons; culti packing, 12 gallons; cultivating, 15 gallons; mowing, 15 gallons; binding, 15 gallons; combining, 14 gallons; pick-up baling; 10 gallons, and drilling grauv 15 gallons. and principal consideration In the question of peace." The remedy, he asserted, "must be sought for the spiritual anemia of nations." oe Of Foe in Colo. WALSENBURG, Colo. -VPh- A female deer treually is the gentlest of creatures, which is why Ronnie Abe was . so chagrined over what a doe did to him. Abe dropped the doe with one: shot. When he walked up to it, the deer sprang up, kicked him on the left, foot and ran 40 yards before dropping again, dead. The kick, ripped. Abe's boot and left him with - a wound which required; three stitches. Bank Robber 1 Crabs $3,500 j In Spokane SPOKANE, Dec 24--A bold gunman held up the Citizens Sav ings and Loan Society bank in downtown Spokane today, stuffed? $3,500 into his pockets, and van ished down a street crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. . The gunman picked high noon for the job and walked in briskly when there were no customers and only two women employes on duty. The rest were out to lunch. Mrs. Viola Barker, a bank sec retary, said the man carried a long barreled revolver and had his hat pulled dawn over his eyes. He walked to the back of the bank, went through a small gate to get behind the counter, then started opening cash drawers. "O. K., where is it?" he asked waving the gun. Mrs. Barker and the bookkeeper, Mrs. Lillian Briggs, pointed out a drawer and' then were forced into the manag er's office. "You stay in there get back, don't fool around. I mean it," he cautioned them. Mrs. Barker said he stuffed the money into the pockets of his over coat and then walked out. She thought he got about $5,000. A later check showed the loss only $3,500, maybe a little less. Mrs. Barker was calm about the whole thing. "I've been held up twice be fore,'' she said. "This one was the easiest, though. They usually make us get down on the floor." Police had few clues to go on. The man was described as about 85 - years old,- about -feet- and weighing 145 pounds. He wore a shabby overcoat and a battered hat. ; , t EGYPT CASUALTIES AT S3 CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 24-tfVIn-terior Minister Fouad Serag el Din told parliament tonight that 93 Egyptians had been killed by Brit ish gunfire since this country 'de nounced the Anglo-Egyptian 1936 treaty last October. INDIA. JAPAN TO NEGOTIATE TOKYO, Tuesday, Dec. Negotiations leading to a separate peace treaty between Japan and India will begin sometime in Jan uary, government sources disclos ed today. Holiday GREETINGS and best wishes for the New Year Army & Navy Store 223 N. Com'l. Jl Our Christmas wish for all It? i" Af4V that the Holiday Season j i r Yv rnay hold the promise 1 1 VU- iV:N I of peace I and prosperity Ml ?iyf for the coming year. i VISTA! MARKET ) Jf C J 3095 S. Commercial 'Cf S? A r'mm k' Wishing You All A Very Merry Christmas And A 300 Game For 1952 w I s jffi UNIVERSITY BOWL J sCXSXXSS3SsUM(SXSttUSSUEaKsSa IT'S ASM - i - . .. . .-. a-. 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