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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1952)
Th Stat man. Salem, Ore-. rejaon "No Favor Sways Vi. No Far Shall Awt From First Ststesnun. March ZS. 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUtS, Editor and Publisher Published every morning. Business office 215 8 Commercial, Salem. Oregon. Telephone 1-2441. Catered at the poatoffice at Salem. Oregon, aa seceod class matter cadet act of congress March 8. 1871. Navy vs. Fishermen The U. S. Navy is a first-class fighting arm. But if it licks the U. S. A. Fishermen, unincor porated, it will be only after a hard battle. The Navy has picked Lake Pend Oreille in Northern Idaho for underwater explosion tests. Fishermen in that region vigorously oppose this selection. They suggest Diamond Lake in Ore gon where trout fishing has been impaired by the abundance of trash fish. That sets off Ore gon fishermen who do not want their lake mo lested. A Game Commission employe says the trash fish can be poisoned and destroyed with out harming the trout. So the battle is joined. Of all the lakes Pend Oreille ought to be the last to be chosen because it is the home of the famous Kamloops trout, largest in American waters. Surely some other lake can be found for the testing. As for Diamond Lake it is a favorite fishing spot. While the catch has been decreasing in recent years the idea of using it for underwater explosions is revolting. We have strict laws against dynamiting water in this state because of the resulting death to fish .from concussion. We just do not like the idea of killing off the fish in these famous lakes by testing explosives. But if the Game Commis sion is planning to kill off the present lake fish perhaps some plan could be agreed on be tween the Navy and the Commission if relative ly shallow Diamond Lake is suitable for the tests. Charles Stanton in the Roseburg News-Review reports the plan of the Game Commission to lower the level of Diamond Lake and pour in rotenone to kill off the trash fish. Here is his account: Diamond Lake had no fish population prior to 1913, when it was stocked with rainbow trout. Within a few years the lake became widely known tor size and number of its fish and was for many rears the largest rainbow trout egg-taking station in the world. In 1940 roach, a trash fish related to carR, was introduced by live-bait fishermen, who cap tured the minnows 'in Klamath County lakes and then dumped unused bait into Diamond Lake. Roach are extremely prolific. Within a short time tl.y began crowding out trout population. In 1946, the Game Commission reports, acquatic food in Diamond Lake amounted to 292 pounds per acre. I$ottom samples in 1951 yielded only 2.3 pounds per acre. The Commission has expended $20,50(5 Since 1946 to control the trash fish but they have multiplied faster than they could be killed. In the meantime, the take of trout from the lake declined from 37,500 in 1947 to 3.994 last year. Should poisoning the lake be attempted it will be the largest project of its kind ever under taken. To date this method of rehabilitation has been used on no lake larger than S96 acres, we re told Diamond Lake has an area of 3,000 acres. This area, of course, would be considerably re luced were the level to be dropped to 20 feet. If it is decided to construct a drainage outlet, lhat ditch must be more than 20 feet deep, much of It through solid rock, and it must extend 1,700 feet into the lake itself, and possibly another 1,000 feet outside the lake shore. Cost of the ditch alone is estimated at around $148,000. It would take tlx months to lower the lake the required 20 feet it a rate of flow not exceeding the flood stage of Lake Creek, the existing outlet, engineers report, afore rapid drainage might be dangerous to the river and to Copco's power installations. Before the experiment is made, it is possible that the lake will be thrown open to unrestricted Coincidence of Elizabeth, N. J. Air Brings Clamor Against New Br J. M. ROBERTS JR. AP News Analyst Government officials report no wave of hysteria throughout the United States among people liv ing near busy a i r p o rts. But there certainly is one in and round New York. A u t omobiles collide, ships sink and air liners crash. As long as it in volves only those who pay . their money and take their chances, the general public ac cepts it as part of life. But when three big planes crash into one small, apartment-congested area within two months, the impact is different. Newark Airport, even when It was the busiest In the world, produced only one serious com mercial crash In more than Z0 year. Then suddenly, by strange co incidence, there are three In a Public officials, already under heary pressure because of the second crash which took life and property from innocent residents, closed the field in the middle of the night without even waiting for the public clamor at dawn. Yet the chances against the Elizabeth string of crashes being stretched by one or more new enes would seem almost Incal culable. But the governor of New Jer sey, the officials of the Port of New York Authority which op erates the field, the mayor of Elizabeth were unanimous. They might know that hysteria was taking- over, bat the pressure was too great. Then It spread to Qaeens, 20 miles away, where IdlewUd and LaGuardia fte'ds shared with Newark the load of early all the vast metropolitan and ..International ..air ..traffic Shifting the Newark load ran the flight total at LaGuardia to 100 aa hoar. "Close them down," demanded the chairman of the Aviation Committee of the Queens County Grand Jurors Association. Lead ers of civic and taxpayers groups. Wdn day rbroarr 13, 1952 an island of safety for no one. already opposed to the fields be cause of their nuisance to resi dents, took up the cry. The Queens Borough president was only slightly more moderate. He just wants the fields closed during the slightest unfavorable flying conditions. The mayor of Elizabeth had a slogan which was spreading like wildfire. He called the flights "an umbrella of death." It takes a mixture of human congestion, fear and dramatics to produce such a reaction. More than a million people have died on the nation's highways. Thous ands of vehicles have crashed into stores and homes, crushed pedestrians on sidewalks, and public reation to safety measures Literary Guidepost By WILLIAM GLOVER THE SWIMMING POOL, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Rine hart; $3); THE CASE OF THE CORNER COTTAGE, by Christopher Bush (Macmillan, $2.50); DEATH HAS DEEP ROOTS, by Michael Gilbert (Harper; $2.50); BEHIND THE CRIMSON BLIND, by Carter Dickson (Morrow, $2.50). Here, in the approximate order of their importance for the "must" list of mystery story en thusiasts, are four mid-winter capers. Together, they include just about every atmosphere, de vice and suspense element that has become standard and es sential fare for veteran fans. Mrs. Rinehart, senior in quality as well as time (her first thriller says 1908 on the title page), has set this puzzler down in the tarn ished mansion of a once-rich family in New York's choice Westchester County. The plot is all wrapped up in: the strange behavior of beautiful Judith, who suddenly severs the bonds ol 20 years' matrimony and exhibits symptoms of being slightly more than peculiar. Mrs. R. spins her web of suspenseful buildup with masterful aplomb. A couple of murders are Included before the solution is neatly wrapped up. Somehow, however, that keen suspense in the first portion of the volume left one reader; at least a bit unsatisfied with the later pages. tatemttau angling, permitting removal by anglers of as much of the game fish population as possible. This will not be done in 1952, however, the commission says. No Island of Safety It cost 117 lives, injuries to scores of other persons and property damage in the millions of dollars to bring in proper focus at Elizabeth, N. J., a fact that everyone knows so long as planes fly, some will fall. Now the $53,000,000 airport at nearby Ne wark is closed, and no longer do huge planes swoop over Elizabeth to land on it. Blame for the latest of the three recent tragedies is ten tatively placed on engine failure. But the initial blame was in locating an airport with runways aimed toward a populous area. It is difficult to place any onus on Newark or Elizabeth for that mistake, because the great airport consti tuted a gradual development in the tragedies which cities and the civil aeronautics board have been a long time learning a commercial airport cannot be located like a downtown de pot. Airlines take pride in publicizing that their passengers land "within five minutes of down town so-and-so," and cities have been proud of close-in facilities for air visitors. But there is no pride in Elizabeth, only pain, damage and death. It will be many years before Salem's airport ever reaches a point of traffic even remotely comparable with Newark's, and in many ways Salem's is ideally situated as were the air ports of many a city which has since grown around them. But city planners and planners of suburban areas can well keep in mind a lesson that an airport surrounded by houses is Put Things in Plain English Deliberate misleading of the electorate can not be condoned, no matter how good or bad the cause, and the Supreme Court acted prop erly in ordering that .the ballot title on a pro posed prohibition amendment for Oregon state exactly what is involved. Now, however, let's not stop there. Let's have all ballot titles present their purpose in plain English. And to project the matter even further, we see no reason why headings on proposed legislative bills should not be in plain er language, too. Federal waste? A four-page newspaper which' didn't need any wrapper at all or at least would go into a small envelope arrived at The Statesman in s heavy brown envelope measuring 12 by 16 inches. It was from the Department of the Air Force, Keesler Base, Biloxi, Miss. It comes that way every week. The government has boosted the ceiling on potatoes 20 cents a hundred pounds to cover costs of washing. We've seen many a 70-pound boy who would pay that to get out of washing. Rep. James of Pennsylvania expresses won der why the government continues to turn out $2 bills. It's probably so a body can buy a dol lar's Worth of something. Tragedies York Airports remains exasperatingly mild. Yet great masses of people shudder into protesting groups when something as unpredictable as lightning strikes nearby, and a vital service is threatened. It's a strange thing to watch. Air ports . are . needed not .farther away but nearer to the centers of cities. It is up to operators and gov ernment supervisors to see that the public is protected from them at least as much at it is protect ed from the dangers of great fires or explosions. Complete protection against any of the dangers of modern life is impos sible, the turning the clock back to the time of Indian raids wouldn't help, either. Bush's "Corner Cottage" brings out Ludvic Travers for another performance that rates up among the lean, bespectacled sleuth's most intriguing. Roving from London vaguely over Southern England, the yarn unravels the cause of the sudden death of a young and personable Travers operative, Godfrey Prial. Bush, deliberately or not, is one Of the better heirs of the Conan Doyle style, and while the old master is never suggested, you are apt to get the feeling as you read that this is the very atmosphere -in which Holmes worked and he might even have handled this very case but for the passing of a few years. "Death Has Deep Roots" is Gilbert's third contribution to the whodunit shelf. He juggles be tween France and London's Old Bailey to narrate the murder trial of a young (but not neces sarily pretty!) feminine veteran of the Resistance while the hunt for the real killers is rushed on the other side of the Channel. Dickson's Sir Henry Merrivale is on tha loose in "Crimson Blind," but the old man has been in better sleuthing form before. The locale is Tangiers and, as the jacket says, a "modern Robin Hood" who takes his loot in un cut diamonds preferably, is ranging across Europe. A fiery brunette (there's a switch in col wing!) dares H. M. to solve it all and trap the quarry in 48 hours. POSSIBLE B10CKA0E, v f AND LONG RAHCats f vW Your Health A baby's bones and tissues are soft and easily changed. This is a great boon to babies who come into the world with defects such as clubfoot. If your child Is born with a clubfoot, the thing to do is begin corrective treatment early. Such treatment can produce normal foot without the need for surgery later in life. The time to begin treatment, if it is to be most effective, is before the child is six months old. Clubfoot is one of the common est defects of children, occurring in about one in every thousand infants. It seems to appear more often in boys than girls. Most people are familiar with the turned-in look of a clubfoot. The deformed foot is bent in at the ankle, with the heel drawn up and the toes slanted down. This forces the child to walk on the side of the foot instead of on the sole. In most cases, the time for the first treatment is when the child is between one and two months old. This gives the mother enough time to recover after delivery so she can bring the baby to the physician's office for regularly weekly visits. It also permits the infant to get used to his new en vironment before a cast is placed on his leg. A series of casts will usually bring the foot to normal before the child is eight months old. The casts must be changed frequent ly, altering the foot's position little by little. The next step is a special type of splint, called R Denis Browne splint. It is fastened to a pair of very firm-soled baby shoes, and supports one foot with the other. The shoe must be exchanged on the deformed foot, so that a right clubfoot wears a left shoe. The child continues to wear the splint until he is about a year old, and is ready to stand up and walk. At this time, he begins to wear special clubfoot shoes in the daytime, and the splint is worn only at night. Ninety per cent of children with clubfoot treated by this method acquire completely nor mal feet If the treatment is start ed before they a too old. About 10 to 15 per cent of these children grin and bear it "Is ta thlak year husband In jiill lllljli I Cm Wl Ml ill .. h fallU4 S secret peUee knew - CUPID'S ASSISTANT B Herman N. Bundesen, MJ. will have relapses, but these can be corrected by repeating the same procedure. When a child does not respond to this type of treatment, a sui gi cal operation may be helpful in correcting the defect. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS B. P.: Ever since my son was one year old he shakes his head. He is very good in his studies. He is now 13 years old. Can you ad vise me? Answer: It is likely that your son is suffering from some form of nervous disorder. It may be that he has what is known as chorea or St. Vitus' dance. A complete and thorough neur ological examination is advised so that the exact cause may be determined and the proper treat ment instituted. (Copyright 1952. King Features) Hollywood By GENE HANDSAKER HOLLYWOOD The worst thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry, Holly wood's latest wonder boy be-j lieves, is thatf'v notion that aud iences have a 12 - year - old mind. ; "T h e result," says Jack Webb, "is that the in- -dustry became - glutted with . low-level junk beamed at such a mentauty. Webb pitches his radio crime drama, "Dragnet," and its com panion tejevision films, on an adult level. "I consider that I myself am average. I know there are a lot of people above me in intelligence, but I don't get the idea that there are others who are dumber. The majority of us are average people." This approach, in which Webb strives almost fanatically for realism, has made his show out standingly successful. It has won numerous radio awards, and dozens of police chiefs and sher- by Lichty la mhtsinr ... la cinch where he is! . . ." r int. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "One should always try to do his best." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "acumen"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Armament, arse nal, artilery, arrogance. 4. What does the word "urban ity" mean? 5. What Is a word beginning with ing that means "free from reserve; frank"? ANSWERS 1, Say, "One should always try to do one's best." 2. Pro nounce a-ku-men, a as in ask unstressed, u as in cube, accent second syllable. 3. Artillery. 4. Courtesy of manners; politeness. "His is a smile of exquisite ur banity." 3. Ingenuous. on Parade if fs have written letters praising its authenticity. One California sheriff uses recordings to indoc trinate rookies in good manners for cops. Webb, a 31 -year -old native of nearby Santa Monica, has gen erous ears, a broad smile, a swarthy complexion, and endless energy and enthusiasm for his work. He works seven days a week six on his new TV films, which he directs and stars in, and Sundays on his radio broadcasts. "Dragnet" was suggested by a real-life Los Angeles cop who was a technical adviser on the movie, "He Walked By Night." Webb, an ex-clothing salesman, steel mill worker, and little theater actor, played a bit in it. "There ought to be a radio pro gram to show how cops REALLY operate," the policeman said. Webb, then in radio, took the cue and promoted the program. He helps write, edit and de sign sets for the TV films. A set he was using the other day was an exact replica of a particular Los Angeles courtroom. Webb, in the starring role of Detective Sgt Joe Friday, carries a snub nosed revolver that shot many a crook for its former policeman owner. The Safety GIVES WARNING To The Editor: A word of warning to young and old. As I read the article in the daily paper this morning about the awful tragedy which happened South- East of Leba non, ure. to six teenagers, I could not help but feel the urge to write this article, for the Ore gon Statesman. The question came to me. Who is to blame for that awful accident? First I must say the parents of those young sters are to blame because they did not bring their children up in the fear and admonitation of the Lord. Secondly all the peo ple or at least the majority of the people of Oregon are to blame for voting into law to let whiskey and beer be sold at hundreds and hundereds of places teenagers will get in possesion of this awful stuff which is the ruination of all who fall prey to it. Thirdly the young folks themselves are to blame for not using common sense, driving along at reckless speed. Let us take to heart what God's holy word tells us In Gala tions 6. Be not deceived: God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap cor ruption, but he that soweth to the spirt, shall of the spirt reap I Goose Spends Night hi Jail PITTSBURGH old goose of all night in jail. (P) A 8-year-things spent a The goose and Its master, 58-year-old Ralph Hertzinger, were picked up by Pittsburgh police after a Humane Society repre sentative charged he saw the man twisting the bird s neck. Police officers thought it unsan ltary that the man and the goose share the same cell and tried to take the bird away. The goose be came enraged and started honk ing, waking up other prisoners Police returned the goose- to its master who explained: "He loves me, that's all. I raised him from an egg. Size of Dentist Draft Unknown PORTLAND (JP) The number of Oregon dentists to be drafted for military service wil be known in a few days, CoL Francis W. Mason, Oregon's deputy draft di rector, said Tuesday. In the coun try as a whole 335 will be induc ted. Col. Mason said the youngest would be called up first, in the first drafting of dentists since the Korean war began. The U. S. Army's "hex" tent has a ground cloth to keep out cold winds and seal in the warm air. E933QlX3 PCD CCD yn (Continued from page 1) and flour poured into the South for use in biscuit making. High freight rates have served to res trict this market. During depres sion years a considerable quanti ty of wheat was locally consum ed as animal feed. But with the present high price for wheat for human food or at parity support that use is greatly curtailed. National production runs at around a billion bushels of wheat a year. The exportable surplus runs around 300 million bushels, more or less. Normally in the past 20 years the world price has been lower than the domestic price. Though our population continues to increase it will be a long time before consumption catches up to production, for with improved farming methods the latter will increase save in years of adverse weather. Northwest growers have real ized their dependence on govern ment aid. They have a plan of a two-price system which would lighten the burden on govern ment. This would work some thing like the two-price system for milk, with milk for the bot tle trade commanding a higher price than factory milk. Thus wheat for human consumption would be at the higher price and wheat for animal feed at a low er price. This has the enthusi astic support of stockraisers and poultrymen who would like cheaper feeds. Another version of the two-price system was the old wheat certificate plan by which the surplus would go at the world price and the loss be distributed among all producers. With the parity program now so long in effect and wheat tied in with so many other crops it will not be easy to get Congress to break away and adopt the program favored by growers themselves. So the prospect is that government will be in the wheat business as at present for a long time to come. The statis tics quoted show the magnitude of exports of Northwest wheat and the necessity of keeping the channels open so that this sur plus can flow to consuming mar kets. EteH If news and ideas, as well as goods, are free to cross interna tional boundaries, then armed forces will most probably never do so. Arthur Hays Salzberger Valve life everlasting." This warning is written with a prayer and hope that it may bring someone or many to stop and reason with himself and change from bad to good, by an ex minister. John H. Voth 1116 Washington St. Dallas, Oregon Indian Reservation Deputy Pleads Guilty of Extortion PORTLAND tfp Darrell Cam pagna, special deputy for the In dian Service at the Klamath Res ervation, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charging a truck driver money to cross part of the Reservation. The driver was carrying Christ mas trees, and Campagna told him he was trespassing. Campagna was convicted of extortion. Less than $100 was involved. Sentencing is set for March 5. i COULTER APPOINTED PORTLAND (AVBay Coulter, Grants Pass attorney and former state representative, i Tuesday was appointed field representative for the '. League -of Oregon Cities. (Sag! Lincoln Day Talks Rebuke 'Corruption' By The Associated Press 1 Republicans in a series of Lin coin Day speeches Tuesday night raked the administration on tht "corruption" and spending issues. They promised a government of integrity and clearer thinking if returned to power. hi i Senators, representatives! ani governors led the parade of speak ars who not only lambasted th Democrats but cautioned their own party to get closer to the peo pie in the manner of the -Great Emancipator. . . : . t Candidates for the GOP presi dential nomination largely buried personal rivalries for the moment to concentrate the attack on Tru man and Roosevelt policies. i But Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia, an avowed candidate fofr the GOP presidential nomination, hit at those within his party: who would "like to turn the ;, .clock back." He mentioned no names lit a speech at Boston. c! And Sen. Duff of Pennsylvania, a backer of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, cracked down on a group of Republicans he said are engag ing in "vicious personalities! and have set up "a nation-wide organ ized campaign on the' basis of hate." ; I Duff, in a speech for . a ;part rally at Carlisle, Pa., did not name names and said I do not know who is responsible for the organic zational set-up." iji I Gov. Warren said hia iarry shouldn't be afraid of 'collective bargaining' or of 'social security.! If those within the GOP who want to turn the clock back succeed, he said, the party will be doomed to permanent minority status. j He said Republicans would "grull out the corruption and favoritism that is now shocking the nationi Bob WaterfiSld Fails to Laugh i At Jane Joke LAS VEGAS, Nev. VPy Rfefer4 ences to Jane Russell's curves pro4 voked a nightclub flareup between her husband, husky pro footballer . Bob Waterfield, and comic Beni Blue, author of the remarks. I It was disclosed Tuesday that bloodless affair took place Sunday night during Blus's comedy act at a local nightspot. . J Blue explained to reporters thaf his gags that night included one about Miss Russell's figure. , The actress and her husband were in the audience. Blue said he had invited them as his guests.- j The comic said he realized his gag was unpopular when he saW, the scowl on Waterfield's face! After the act. Blue said he left the dining room, but Waterfield, followed, accosted him and grabi bed his coat lapels. There, ac cording to Blue's account, the in--cident ended. Waterfield was not available for comment. f; -I "I was very sorry and I tried' to appologize, said Blue. Tha; comic, not a large man, added: "If he'd hit me he'd of killed me "Miss Russell said 'forget it he'll be all right," Blue added.! The comic's parting word wast "It's all Waterfield under the; bridge now." Dallas Farmer Succumbs to Heart Attack Statesman News Service DALLAS John Dalke, elderly: semi - retired farmer, collapsed dead of a heart attack following a meeting in Rickreall Tuesday af4 ternoon. m Dalke had attended a farmers! co-operative meeting at RickrealLf had left the meeting and' was. walking to his car when ha waa stricken. Polk County Corner J.I Paul Bollman pronounced him dead when he arrived on the scene a short time later. According to a cousin, Arnold; Dalke of Dallas, the deceased was I about 68 years old. He came tot Dallas about two years ago fromf Newport, Wash., where he had! farmed. Survivors Include the widow, a son at Albany and otheri children out of the state. Funeral arrangements are be- ing handled by the Bollman Fun-i eral Home. I to koop fit! !A I i r rot ct rc:a tzzzzm tin srm "Made by Htm Bakers f aajt4saaljaa4t4iitMaiiaMiMtrfJ;s
