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Tinman Denies Commitment of U-S. Troops WASHINGTON OT President Truman Wednesday denied mak ing any secret commitment to Bri tain's Prime Minister Churchill to send U. S. troops anywhere in the world. The Presidents denial came aft er the House demanded in a for mal resolution that he furnish "fall and complete Information" en any such commitments he might have made in his talks with Churchill last month. This resolution wasn't binding on Mr. Truman. Twenty-eight Democrats, mostly from the South, joined If 1 Repub licans in pushing through the re solution. 189 to 143. Backers of the resolution demanded an end to "secret diplomacy." Administra tion supporters protested in vain that the move amounted to asking the President to tell the Kremlin fust what it wants to know. In London, meanwhile. Church HI faced a similar demand for more information. Labor Party leaders decided at a caucus to renew their cross-examination of the Prime Uinister In the House af CMIIH They want to know especially Just what he meant when be told Congress that Britain would take "prompt, resolute and effective" ctian In case of a new Commun ist aggression in the Orient. Mill Requests Removal From Bankruptcy PORTLAND OP) - Willamette Piywvod. Inc., of Eugene asked the Federal Court Wednesday to remove it from bankruptcy and Itow it to reorganize. A petition signed by K. J. Mitchell, president, said the firm has drawn up new articles of m eopocatksn and has $60,000 in stock subscription. The petition ficstea assets at SS41.000 and debts at more than $370,000. The peti tion also estimated that $125,000 would be needed to put the plant back in profitable operation. The plant has been idle since De cember. Grains Fail in Effort to Rally CHICAGO VP) Grains made a valiant effort to continue the pre ceding session's rally on the board of trade Wednesday, only to fal ter under a selling flurry in the closing half hour. All cereals end ed with losses. The late weakness developed first in soybeans, wheie the March contract piuied vulnerable to li quidation. This soon spread to the rest of the list. It cut short a rally in wheat, which had acted steady all day and was moving ahead just Prior to the late expansion in sell Wheat closed lower, corn Ii- lower, oats to 1 cent low er, rye to 1 cent lower, soy beans 1Vi-3)4 lower and lard 13 to IT cents a hundred pounds lower. I Washington Mirror Columbia River Basin Plan Provides Local Man as Head By A. ROBOT SMITH WASHINGTON A Columbia stiver Basra Commission was re commended this week to President Truman by his Water Resources Policy Commisskm as one of 15 river basin commissions that would supervise further develop ment of America's water resources. The recommended commission would be empowered to plan and coordinate all projected Federal activities regarding flood control, electric power, navigation, irri gation, pollution control, fish and wildlife preservation, sedimenta tion control, recreational devel opment and bank protection in the Columbia basin. The president's advisory group recommended up to IS such river basin commissions. Each would consist of nine members, the chair man being a native of the river basin appointed by the President. Two members would be elected by si local regional amsory com mittee. Remaining members would ba appointed representatives of the Corps of Army Engineers, In f FOB FRMIUES 1 I FO fAMHJES SMALL- I I TinS LOW COST TASTE I 1 TCAI PUAStS AU I Business Phone Finn's Investment Up Earnings Off Effects of inflation and phenom enal Pacific Coast growth, on a company under rigid rate regula tion, were stressed in the 1951 annual report of The Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Company, released Monday by Mark B. Sul livan, president. Sullivan noted that the popula tion of the coast, now 15 Vs mil lion people, is expected to soar to perhaps 19 million in I960. Pacific Teleohone's earnings were less in 1951 than in 1950, even though the investment was greater, it was declared. The aver age investment was up $65,26,644 but earnings were down $738,818. Net income available for divi dends, interest and other fixed charges, in 1851, was $57,761,431 as compared with $58,548,247 In 1950. Noting that the market price of a cumnton share of Pacific Tele phone stock is lower today than in 1940, the report stated that during the same period the company's prices for service were 82 per cent behind the average price rise for other things. Since the war, the company has put 1,851,000 more telephones in service, gaining 2SSJB3 during 1951 alone, and brought total com pany telephones to 4,48249. Pacific Telephone constructed $173800000 worth of plant in 1951. There were 73549 employees on the company's payroll at the end of the year, as compared with 69.000 at the end of 1950. and less than 40000 ten years ago. Wag agreements resulted in in creased 1951 total wage costs, (in cluding employee benefits, provi sion for sea vice pensions and so cial security taxes) of over $23, 400,000 on an annual basis. Wages, benefits and provision for service pensions were 70 per cent of Pa cific Telephone's total operating expenses, the report said. CAP Squadron Due in Salem if Interest Shown A Civil Air Patrol squadron will be organized in Salem if enough fliers are interested. W. D. Gar rett said Wednesday. Garrett, a state highway depart ment employe and a private flier, said formation of the Air Force auxiliary unit is authorized by CAP'S Portland headquarters, pro vided at least 31 men sign up for it The unit could admit as many as 100 men for training work in construction, navigation, flight, meteorology and other fields. Mrnnljei s must be over 18. The membership is civilian in charac ter and membership does not af fect a man's draft or other mili tary status, Garrett said. He asked anyone interested to notify him at 1281 Hawthorne Ave. He said a general meeting for prospective members win be a early next month. Twins occur one In 88 births. terior Department. Agriculture De partment, Federal Power Com mission. Commerce Department and U. S. Health Service. Each rhrer basin esmil ssion would be responsible to an overall Federal Board of Review, a fire man agency under the President which would coordinate into a national program the plans of the various river commissions. In LegteUtfre Fans The recommendations made Monday to the President were in the form of a draft bill to be In troduced in Congress authorizing the basin commission plan. It was the final result of a two-year study by the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, which previ ously had published a three- volume report on on America's water resources. A Columbia River Basin Com mission, if established after en actmert of such proposed legis lation, would have jurisdiction throughout the Columbia basin. It would operate under a policy of trying to assure maximum sus tained usefulness of water and land resources with the aid and cooperation of the people of the region. Advisory Boards The commission would be ad vised by local interests directly through a 25-man advisory com mittee appointed by the governors of the states whose territory lies in the basin. The governors would appoint one member each at large, as well as three each representing agriculture, business and labor, The remaining members would be representatives of local govern ments. Members of the river basin com mission would draw a salary of $15,000 and hold office six years, except the chairman whose term would be 10 years and salary fl'fOUU. CblnmbiaBasiii res Hells Canyon PORTLAND (AVA region-wide development program that made no mention of the controversial Hells Canyon dam on the Snake River was adopted Wednesday by the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee. The progr am was submitted by Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon, who revised an earlier statement to the committee to eliminate ref erence to Hells Canyon and Ice Harbor dams. McKay said after the meeting he had deleted the reference to Hells Canyon in the interest of harmony m the committee. - Gov. Len Jordan of Idaho, an oppouent of Hells Canyon, told a reporter later e felt the commit tee was not qualified to take a stand on the dam on the basis of the information it had available. "There is an area of agreement within the committee and I be lieve we should stay within it," be said. He said "wrestling matches" among members of the committee were unnecessary. "Unanimous agreement now ex ists b7 the Columbia Basin Inter -Agency Committee on a large portion of the region-wide plan for the orderly and balanced de velopment of the Columbia Basin." McKay statement said. "In a pro ject tf such magnitude, affecting so many diverse interests, and ex tending over such a vast area, it is obviously not passible or even desirable to attempt to state a complete and final plan at any specific point in the """""'"i study." Jones Stresses Responsibility Of America In return for an overflowing "cup of blessings, Americans have considerable responsibility in to day's world, Dr. William C Jones of University of Oregon toW Sa lem Rotary Club Wednesday. Jones, who was for 12 years a professor of economics at Willam ette University, declared the main responsibilities are to understand clearly what's going on in the world a world hi revolution and to "build ourselves into the causes of the world that make life worth while." People in the U. S. today are "living at the peak of human ci vilization," Jones asserted, with leisure, economic plenty, freedom of mind and freedom from disease. But the tragedy is that, while Americans have been freed eco nomically and politically by the sacrifices of their forebears, lh billion of the world's two billion people are living in want, he re minded. Pojnting out mat "we are the tonf M slaves and serfs and the common people of the past," he urged that Americans resolve that "as we have received much, we shall give much and pass on the bounties we have received, unim- Daired to those who come after. Jones held that a great hazard of the next Quarter century will be salsunderstanding in the field of social science. He decried the impugning of motives of college faculty members, stressing that "our sons and daughters will live with Communists the rest of their lives, and schools must have free dom to see that they understand these alien philosophies and how to deal with them." Fluorination of Water Sought Fmorination of Salem's water supply for beneficial dental ef fects was recommended by the Marlon-Polk Medical Society, meeting here Tuesday night. Th doctors also reported an In crease in calls to the doctors' tele phone exchange, which Is operated by the Society. The switchboard is in continuous contact with doctors or their substitutes who are listed in the Salem telephone directory. Speaker was Dr. Clare Peterson, proff Fsor of surgery at the uni versity of Oregon Medical School. Ex-Silverton Man's Wife Succumbs Statesman Newt Service STLYERTON Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Pitney have received word of the death of Mrs. D. E. Barber, 85, at Grants Pass Monday. The Barbers were enroute from White Swan, Wash., to Florida to visit members of the family. Funeral services were held at Yakima. "Vasi Wednesday. Survivors are the widower; a daughter, Mrs. Larry HiHaire of Portland, and another daughter living in Wmtermute, Fla. Pitney is a stepson of Barber, who lived at SUverton for many years. The dodo bird, a large flight less pigeon that used to live on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, became extinct during the 17th century. Board Isrno Obituaries I Xafca Wright Si 1 E. Jackson to Survived by pre o Monmouth. Jmkm Jr. and saiem; M grandchlMren; brother. Uoyd of Lake Andes. S. JKi Elsworth Mox pty. Wash Roy and Charles, both of Sioux City. Iowa: Frank of Pukuwana. S. D. Services will be held 1i?pm- Thursday. Feb. 21, in tha Virll T. Golden Chapel with the Rev. c"ar Barth officiating. Interment at Belcrest Memorial Park. XcCUNTIC LT?T S- MeOinUc. at the residence. 67 N Hieh SC. Feb 19. Survived by wife, Ina . McCUntic oi Salem; daugh ters. M--a Margaret Burnett of Med ford and Mr. Gertrude Chittester of Vancouver. Watt.; son. William F. Mc Clintte of San Louis Obispo. riif and Samvet B. McOintle of Salem; sister. Mr. Myrtle Peter of Eocene; broth ers. Clarence McClintic and John Mc Clintic. both of Eueene. and ten mul. children. Service will be held Friday. Feb 22. at 1:30 P-m. at the dough- Barrick Chapel, will officiate. xne sev. Ontar Barth CONBOY Herbert H. Conboy. hi Wapato. Wash Feb. IB. at the age of 13. Survived by wife. Mrs. Hannah Conboy of Wapato; w. nuuun tonnoy ox wapato; sons. Jacob Conboy. EofVwood, Virgil Conboy. Curtis. Kebr, irly Conboy. Las Anetes. Calif.; uirec sons, jar-oo Calif and Ea four daughters. Mrs. OUve Ward. Dow ney. Califs Mrs. Xrma Mahon. Long r. ont. Colo.; Mrs. Verda May White, Lovetand. CoJo and Mr. Mm Strav- r. Salem; two sisters. Mrs. Clara Bar- rom. wapato. aasi Mrs. Mi aacer. Teppinish. Waaku; 11 rrassdehu- aren. ana etent crest A Member at the Methodist Cbscreh. servsco wui ba held at the H Kdwards Chapel, st ia paa Friday. artel Park. COTT Mrs. Emily L. Prescott. at the rest- deeee. 1SS4 Oak St, Salem, Feb. 1. Survived by husband. Snfene T. Pres cott of Saaua: two sisters. Mrs. Percy Willi of Portland, and Mrs. J. A. Bem- Pwine of Portland, and several niece and nephew. Sericoa wul be held the CtoMhBarrtek Chapel Thursday, rest. zi. at 13 pjam. The atev. B. J BoBastd win officiato. hUiaiiU fca City View Harvey J. Hurst, lata Ttridtni of B24 S.W. Srd Ave. Portland, at a Satan ooapital Feb. SS. Announcement of serricis later by tha Qoah-Bax- ncK Chapel. John BatUner. at the residence. UN Highland Ave, Feb. SB. Survived by daughter. Mrs Stella Berardlnelll, poruana; sasts. Walter and (nudo Bat- liner, both of Salem; sisters. Mrs. Theresa Hemaner of Sydney. Neb., Mrs Mary Winkler of Albion. Neb, i Mrs. final Zuerletn of St. Csood. Minn.; brother. William ,Batiiner of Albion, and by five grandchildren. An nouncemen or services later by Vtrvil T. GoMen Chapel. Ceilings on Poles to Rise PORTLAND GPy-Price ceilings will go up 5 to 20 per cent on Douglas for and ponderosa pine poles and pilings Feb. 25. The Portland Office of Price Stabilization announced the in creases Wednesday, explaining that it was an incentive increase to encourage production. Carl Donaugh, Portland district OPS director, said poles and pil ings were needed for the aimed forces, the Bureau of Reclama tion, Bonneville Power Adminis tration. Railroads, defense Indus tries and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Man Ends life In Plastic Bag NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C uTVDeath came to George B. Johnstone in a pit" bag. ine v-year-osd store owner was found dead at bis home Tues day with the bag pulled securely over his head. It was tied about his neck and knotted. Relatives said he had been in ill health. Salom Market Quotations M Ml .70 No. 1 No. S Wholesale SI Retail (taytas to T cents ovot amytns artoe Larra AA A3 .38 Large a Medium AA J7 Medium SmmU laftxra J .32 Colored hens Colored fryers DM .- it J2 Linuiaca Valley mi Fat Dairy itjm to iaso Carter Heifers Bulls uaa to it LS-00 to 2ZM Xjm to an Veal Calve 30i to 34.00 24S0 to 30.00 SSSS to TJM rat iambi Stocks and Bonds Cosnnued bv Tho Associated Press. Feb. 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