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
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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.
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