The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, September 21, 1952, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextV C - Statesman, Salem, Oregon; SundaT.'Soptombor 21, 1852 i Trackers' Bill ; JtfayFace:' Legal Attack :j (Story also on page one ) ' r PORTLAND The estimated Joss of tome $7,000,000 . in high . war revenues. ;if the so-called "Big Truck amendment Is adopt- ed, forms the. basis of an attack on the measure by the Oregon Good Roads Alliance. Leaders of the Alliance indicat- ' d Saturday that steps may be taken to explain more clearly . through both the ballot title and In the Voter's Pamphlet how much they figure will be lost with pas- gape of the aroenameni. " ' The amendment would elimin ate approximately $7,000,000 In tM-esent highway revenues from mileage taxes on trucks and In - fiolacin this revenue, the 1953 . Legislature would have to- add to present registration lees ana xuei taxes on all vehicles, according to . William M. Tugman, Eugene edi tor who Is one or the Alliance leaders. - - . '"Under the attorney general's "ruling on the Price Tag law. It has been Impossible to inform vot ers of the loss to the state's high way revenues, either In the form of the mice tags prepared by the Secretary of State, the Treasurer and the Governor's executive sec retary or in the impartial ttaie- ments which now precede each ballot measure. The attorney general has ruled mat, the so called price tags must show the cost to the taxpayers in volved in any measure but that you may not show any loss. In our belief, this ruling overlooks the intent of the Legislature which we feel sure was to give the voters 11 the factual information need ed to reach an intelligent voting decision. A loss of revenue can be Just mm mstlr as on increased tax and this Is particularly true as to this 1 truckers' amendment wnicn couia tie up all road user revenues ex eeit Dresent fuel taxes and stop road construction programs in- . dinitely". The Good Roads Alliance in cludes the. Oregon State Grange, Farm Bureau Federation, Assort ated Forest Industries. Associa tion of Oregon Counties, League of Oregon Cities, Oregon State aa Motor Association and numerous other groups fighting the long haul truckers. Charles A.- Sprague Is 1 chairman. Final decision as to court action will probably be taken Monday ' after further conferences rbtween Alliance 'leaders and their attor neys as to the form the legal . action should take. - Immediate hearings will be requested, j , Alliance leaders say they have been unable to take any steps til now because they had no cen tral oreanlzation until the last few weeks and are still short of funds to finance any very extensive campaign. : Tugman said: . ' There are ftwo : measures the pie should support by a yes vote and their amendment to kin tne mileage principal on which we ask a no vote. We think that the . people have a right to all informa tion which will help them to un derstand these measures. We de pend on what's in the Voter's Pam phlet." s Comets Zoom Through British Skies i , f : Editorial Viewsllke i Promises C On Sen. Nixon liousecle Vary Widely amng WlienElected By The Associated Press I : By The Associated Press Some American newspapers, in-1 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower de ducting supporters of the Repub-1 dared in St. Louis Saturday night lie an party candidates, called Sat-1 that If he is elected president his urdav for the resimatkm of Sen. I first task will be to houseclean Richard M. Nixon as the GOP 1 Washington, and he promised to vice presidential candidate. Others I ormg in "men ana women to whom adopted a wait and see" policy. low puoue moreus ore unuun The nation's press took its va- au4C 1 ried stand in editorials comment- Eisenhowers Democratic op- aa&;vu viiiwhihiii m wcuiiini7 . - - I a v f . . h OI f 18.000 from political support I xirmea xus support 01 tienrocrauc ETV f I kuewviui imuc v av.-x. vtiu auw . Nixon has said the money was Neslaoon during nis first cam- used to beln meet expenses of hl Paign loray into tne aoutn, wnere office. ! - i I such legislation is politically ex- The New York Herald Tribune. Wxvc a surjDorter of the Dwleht Tt. Ks-1 isasennower saia the cleanup enhower-Nlxon ticket, said Nixon I would be the first phase of a pro- should "make a formal offer, of ram ta wmc he promised also: withdrawal from the ticket" and J 5ave streamline gwernment, irr,rtw AAm 4 to decentralize it and to unify it The New York Times, which "c '"Pf' nea across jvus- also is backing the ticket, declared Z WZ ,m7, that GOP leaders should decide mf Public mention of tte whether Nlxon-r-record lSS ST matter has not! Impaired fatally Sf ?f?:JSch?l: money raised by private citizens LONDON Three British Overseas Airways Corporation Comet jets fly la form&tioa ever Batfield. Eng- una. xoaay duav jet pawengr planes are xlying IBS news a month aboat sea.aos muea ana uus total will be increased eonsUerahlv with Mtenslaa of let aervfee to Stnmioro from Colombo. CeTlon. By 1851 British Comets are scheduled to Toe flying half way around the wprld. (AP Wirephoto to Ilia M. Boyle and Guy Gabrielson as main on the GOP ticket. From the Btatesmaa. . .. Somewhat the same sort of ooin-1 - r-i;t mm -u cii ceu in mo uiuoni Hnwwpr mrrf m. rr capital where the Washington j campaign train that this is Eis- woum rjxnflgwer suppon- enhower's attitude: Nixon must er, recalled that Nixon had urged come out of the incident as "clean ine resignation in isai or William as a hound's tooth" if he Is to re- Ad Answerer Finds Mansion oblhall JustP REDWOOD CITY. Calif. UPi The woman who thought she was coming to "a California mansion' and found instead an abandoned pool hall took her two children Saturday and started back to Georgia. It was the end of a dream for Mrs. Lois Wood. 28, who came west to answer an advertisement in an Atlanta newspaper by Thom as P.' HalL 60. steel worker, for a housekeeper. HalL' who paid the train fare for Mrs. Wood and the children, took her to his homo in the aban doned pool hall. Mrs. Wood left immediately and appealed to San Mateo County authorities. Saturday, using fare sent by her parents, Mrs. Wood and the chil dren boarded a bus on the long way back to Buford, Ga. Hall's advertisement sought housekeeper for himself and his 11-year-old son to work, in a very nice home' Mrs. Woods said she took tho description to 'mean "a luxurious home in Southern California, sort of a mansion." ' - - Hall said he had planned to gradually improve the place. He declined to pay Mrs. Wood's fare home, saying that wasnt.ln the bargain. Truman Silent, But Smiling, Over Nixon Incident NEW LONDON. Conn. VPres- dent Truman exulted quietly Sat urday over the political furore In volving Republican vice presiden tial nominee Richard M. Nixon while he spent nearly four hours inspecting the Coast Guard Acad emy here. He followed the lead of Gov. Adlal Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee, in withhold ing direct comment. Aides said Truman showed ob vious pleasure over the Nixon de velopment In a campaign in which the Republicans have hit hard at disclosures of corruption In the administration. And they added the President might have much to say about it in his "whistle stop" trip starting from Washington next Saturday nignt. Road Bills Said to A billion pounds of detergents are made from petroleum every year, says the National Geographic Society. ; IEWMPISaBdlPpS Household Goods Insurance Includes not only furniture hut clothes, linens, silver, jewelry, pictures, books, toys, pots end ( pans and many ether hems. Well be filed to assist you In arriving at an insurable value by providing a free Inventory beoklet-a service of SALEM'S GENERAL OF AMERICA AGENCY. ' - -814" ' . ' "Gee." . Boise I Haxgiaa INSURANCE S73 N. Church Phone 3-911? . Salem Of!cea bu Salem. Coot Bay, Myrtle Point, Gold Boack ' Customer Parkhtg cd Our New lococBoo"" Four Newsmen Dug Up S tory national chairmen of the Demo- J facts he knows now. Eisenhower crauc ana KepuDUcan parties pe- believes Nixon did no wronff. cause oz their activities in connec-1 - Eisenhower earlier had voiced tion with RFC loans. faith In Nixon's honesty and said Nixon had said that their reslg- he was sure that when all the nations would help restore public I facts were public, they would show confidence in the federal govern- Nixon would not compromise with ment. I what is right. Applies to Him I Talks in Missouri Commented the Post: . Eisenhower, speaking to a rain- Senator Nixon was right then I thinned crowd of fewer than 3,000 and his advise is even more ap-1 at Jefferson City, used a light plicable to his own case today." touch in referring to the fact that uther newspapers showed siml- President Truman has taken lar 1 attitudes. I I number of fellow Missourians to But it was far from '"""ilmmn Washington. Many censured Nixon but with-1 You have been 1 missing some of your citizens too long, the general said. "While I realize you might be glad to be rid of some of them, one of the reasonse why .rr. supporter of the GOP ticket, urged I am her. is to return to you PASADENA, Calif. :V- The disclosuro oz tno Nixon fund was the . result of digging br four newsoaDermen one working at I held any call for his resignation. long range, the other three on the I Others asked aa explanation and scene here. wiumeid censure. Peter Edson. NEA: columnist. The New: York Dally News, a wind of the fund. Ho said ho first heard rumors of its existence at the Republican convention in Chi cago in July. r The other three Leo Katcher. New. York Post, correspondent: Threat New Construction PORTLAND CIV-The chairman of the legislature's Highway Inter im Committee .said Saturday that road construction in Oregon would virtually stop if voters should ap prove the highway measures on the November ballot. Revenue for such construction would be cut to a. mere trickle, said State Sen. Elmo Smith, John Day, chairman of tho committee, who said he based bis estimate on an opinion prepared by C W. Enfield, chief counsel of the State Highway Department. Smith made public a 14-page op inion prepared by Enfield on the ballot measures. One la a referen dum, sending to the voters an act passed by the latest legisla ture to boost weight-mile taxes on trucks. The other la an initia tive measure to limit road taxes to registration fees and a gasollD tax: The trucking industry is spon soring the ballot measures. .The opinion said these measures would wipe out all present taxes except the fuel tax. Smith estimat ed this brings In about 29,600,000 of the total $48,825,000 now avail able for highway purposes. Under the present system-114,: 123.000 la available for highway improvement, he said. If the meas ures are approved, this would be cut to $829,000 a year, he estima ed. "From this opinion it la evident that Oregon's highway funds and construction program would be In a chaotic mess and unpredictable for .years to eome should the amendment pass. Any acts of the legislature Mn attempting to re vise the present registration fees In accordance with the provisions of the amendment would bo sub ject to court action or referen dum, Smith said. -- 1 ' ', 5 : - Load it! Latch it! Lcavo it! LOV5 IT! f t By tho World'r Oldest and Largest yUW Manufacturer of Automatic DISHWASHERS - THE NEW ".GTCHENAID" FOR YOUR HOME. Thla featare-paekad dlAwasheT vses the same powu pi sea ia td wash-arm ms&ed whka has made the Habart "KlUhenald a favorite la restaurants, hospitals aad hcfels. A washing action to superior thai It defies comparison. ie sere yew get the' most for your moaey. Etfara yon buy any c!ihvesher, ste "KIS aheaalJ at J arson's. , AsV about the plataoraiiaj sfevka, Compere K1N cheReKf fee hire for feature, and youll aoaylncad bt tha only Hiavexher far . 4 OfNkonFiiiid -. . , -. ' . f begtidng serpent Words. ",, It was the civil rights Issue which split the Democrats In the South in 1948, costing President Truman electoral votes In four normally Democratic states. Stev enson's stand on the issue has been a factor in his loss of support from several prominent Southern ers. - . Son Commissioned v On his way to Richmond from Washington, the Illinois Governor had stopped off at Quantico, Va, to speak briefly at commissioning ceremonies for 602 new Marine officers, among them his son, Adiat in. Sen. Robert A. Tart of Ohio, in commenting on the controversy over the Nexon expense account, said he regarded as ridiculous de mands that the California Senator withdraw from the ticket. " He was asked by newsmen at Cincinnati whether Nixon had violated any law or ethical code. "Absolutely not, none whatever," Taft replied, and he added he did not think the incident would have any effect on the campaign results. Nixon was heately defended his course and says criticism was started by crooks and subversives seeking to slow down his anti Communism crusade. Nixon' de nied that what he did was morally wrong". - - : An asserted that It was had come from Chairman Stephen A. MtcheU of cthe Dernocratie Na tional Committee, who said he wasnt backing down from his statement Nixon should resign from the GOP ticket. "Here's a Holy Joe that's been talking pretty big now let him put up some facts," Mitchell said. The list of 76 contributors which Smith made public contained the name of one man down for two $500 contributions. Ho was Keith Spalding, retired Pasadena busi nessman. Half a dozen others were down for $500; one- for $600 and another for $550- . . The biggest item of expenditure 1 was $6,166.60 for stationery; print ing, iauneograpning ana supplies. Travel and hotel expenses for Nixon and his aides were down for $3,430.78; radio and television expenses $2,017.79. There were lesser amounts for such things aa postage, telephone and telegraph, and extra office help. SERIES DUCAT SALE SET . BROOKLYN ID Brooklyn busi ness manager Harold Parrott an nounced Saturday the Dodgers plan of selling world series tickets. Tickets will' be sold for single games instead of the customary four game strips. Prices will be $8.00 for box seats. $6.00 for re served seats, $4.00 for standing I room and $L00 for the bleachers. Ntzon to nroduce all the far-t in I what is Tours. the case and said: I In his subsequent formal speech "We think Nixon has made a at st- Louis, he said the promised good start at returning this belly federal housecleaning, so far as it punch." - j ; involved political, appointees. Good Reputation wguia mvwve rampiew rrpaw- The Chicago Tribune, imcommit- le,?T"ami Richard Donovan, Reporter Magi ted to erthe candidate. notedTTt do" aid ding: azino staffer: and Ernest Brash- ear, Los Angeles Dally News re porter each stumbled on to it while making separate inquiries in recent weeks. When each discovered the oth- Nixon -has borne a good repu-LrfI M tH" ta .aaa- bring into government men and "He owes it to himself and his party to disclose every facet of the questioned' transaction. The Kansas City Star, an Elsen- women to whom low nubile mor als are unthinkable. Thus we will not only drive wrongdoers and their cronies out of government. We will make sure they do not get - r.T. M"1 supporter, saia II was mta government in tho first they got together and Jototiy In- awaiting an accounting by Nixon, Sac e ,?overnment m tt EJJ-rr j. , u saying its opinion would be gov- civU Righta Stand vax, ik uuuaj u.i.d- erned "by tne evidence, by aU tho It was at Richmond. Vs . that facts and by all the circumstances I Edson. In the meanwhile, talked I that have a .bearing on the case." I nartv nlatfnrm nlank on civil w Jtaon ounaay nimt. i xne uncomminea st. ixuis i'ost-1 riffbts. "He told me tho basla facts and Dispatch viewed the matter critic- "I should justly earn your con- said it was all right to use them." I 1IT ana said a basic moral prin-1 tempt if I talked one way in the Edson said Saturday in Washing-1 dple is Involved: . i I South and another way else- ton. Nixon gave him Smith's name I "-is it right for a united States I where," ho said in bis prepared to check for details. ; I senator or any otner public omciai l speecn. to work for two paymasters . .7 Smith said Edson Dhoned him Just a few hours before the other reporters arrived. Nixon was "perfectly willing to have the thing published," Edson said. The newsmen - here said Smith waa cooperative In answer ing their questions. Coyote Topped POCATELLO, Idaho V-Idaho State College converted a blocked kick into a touchdown less than half a minute .after tha rmenlnff The trio here agreed tO hold UO I HrVnff Saturday and went nn to release-of the story until Thurs- beat the College! of Idaho, 20 to 7. umj uwraoan, aiiowing ume ior The Coyotes lone score came near further . checking' and clearing I tha end nf tha firt half with with their publishers By coinci- forward passing play George Pe- 'wiuum i sut to k. c uwens gooa ior ev w xcru iw xnursaay ygja, and a touchdown. 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Jim Winters, in; the coming aoa- Katcher, Donovan and Brashear son. 1 said they learned of the fund Coach Jim Torson said Winters' about . three or four : weeks ago. grades did not I meet university All ran across a prominent Call- standards in progress toward grad- fomia Republican a "disgruntled uation. Torson also said Ben Pit- Warren man, Donovan called him zer of Salem, reserve guard last wno had been approached, for I season, also has been ruled ln- a contribution to the fund. eligible for scholastic reasons. Katcher said he found another man, an actual contributory who I Free Book on Arthritis www una canceuca cueca; i - - - , made out to the "Dana Smith- And Rheumatism Nixon fund." All declined to Eive tho names or their sources. r Polar bears In their native Arc tic spend much of their time in the sea. X . Hew to Avoid Crippling Deforaaittea An amazing newly enlarged 44- page book .entitled "Rheumatism will be sent tree to anyone wno will write for it. ! 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