Queen of Canning Week
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Radio Hams t alee Their Hobby
Seriously, and in Large Doses
- By COXJLAD G. PKAXGE
SUH Writer. Tbc SUtesmue
One of the few groups of Salem residents not lrinjr awake these
nights wondering where its next television set is coming from is the
local radio hams.
These men (and women) breathe and live in the heady atmo
sphere of talking over great distances via radio waves. They thrive
in :aiem and have contributed greatly to the city's hobby and social
life.
According to Duane Hewitt,
secretary-treasurer of the Salem Indiana UltV JLiOSeS
Amateur Radio Club, there are - . J
Whistle Timepiece
Nancy Leaper, Lewi and Clark CoIIer senior, will reign as fcaaraiy
queen of Oregon Commercial Canning Week Oct. 25 to 3L Miss
Leaner Is shown holding the II hJUlonth can produced for Oregon
food prodnets slnco the state's canning industry started In 186S. The
container will be mounted on a plaa.no commemorating the growth
of canning into a $20 million a year basin eu In. Oregon and pre
sented to Gov. Douglas McKay at a luncheon Oct.' St.
Newsmen Offer Predictions
West U.S. Said Moving
Aivay From
Xditore notei Tbla la the aeeea4 of a eerlea of ne stories the
poUUcai ootlook at newspaper editors and political writers see It,
V 4s of now, U, ail 48 states .
S By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
NEW YORK (AVEditors and political correspondents In the
Mountain-West Coast region believe gains fey Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson
in five of 11 states have tightened the presidential race in the last six
weeks.
GenrDwight D. Eisenhower, listed early in September as leading
In 10 of the 11 states, now is conquered ahead in eight of the 11.
The, cobined view of newsmen
wrVirt rkilr nart In m corAn ml1.
October survey of political pros
pects for the Associated Press is
that Democratic nominee Steven
son nowTnlght get Utah and Wash
ington by a hairline margin if
the election were held at this time.
ma. a. Mi a. a.
switches to turn up in the survey.
The two states were regarded as
leaning slightly toward Republi-
Sncandidate Eisenhower around
bor Day.
Small Margins - -
y In Utah and Washington, as in
many other states, margins favor
ing one candidiate or the other are
so wispy as to leave the outcome
on Nov. 4 very much in doubt.
Silent voters people who have
taken no position or who prefer
not to discuss their stand could
be the decisive factor in the elec
tion, i '
Other, elements are at worktoo,
In the political cross currents
sweeping through the West:
For the most part, editors say
the rocking, socking campaign
President Truman has carried to
the whistle stops has backfired
against Stevenson. A few think
the President-got In telling blows
.on Eisenhower. :
Aided by Nixon . '
Most newsmen 'say Elsenhower
?:ot a boost from the airing of the
inancial affairs of his' vice pres
idential running mate. Sen. Rich
ard M. Nixon of California. Only
couple called the affair a "fias
co or anything of that sort.
bievenson is regarded as scor
ing with his own campaigning,
particularly with attempts to per
suade the people that Eisenhower
has surrendered the GOP rains to
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Edi
' tors in Oreeon. New Mpxfm. rnlA-
! jauu, t asiiuiguLHi ana iaano men
; tion the Eisenhower-Taft tie a
" nurting the general
.a a a. ....
nana oui peace, prospeniy, time
for a change, and all of them lump-
oa togetner witn corruption, com'
munism and Korea.
The way newsmen see things
In the West, California, Wyoming,
Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and
Oregon probably would go Repub
lican if this were election - dar.
Those six states have 54 of the 79
electoral votes for the whole area.
Oregon is believed safe for the
GOP regardless of the formal en
dorsement given Stevenson by the
state's independent Republican
senator, Wayne Morse. Morse's
action was no surmise and there
fore lacked the impact it otherwise-might
have had. As things
ed, both Stevenson and Eisen
er stock have risen as more
Oregon voters made up their
minds, but Eisenhower's rose more.
New Mexico. Idaho
Classed as doubtful but with
some advantage for" Eisenhower
are New Mexico and Idaho with
lour electoral votes each. .
Arizona and her four votes re
main probably Democratic, while
the 13 votes of Washington and
Utah are regarded as inclined at
, the moment toward Stevenson. -The
up and down, roller coast
er tendency in the, West seems to
have brought the region - a little
- closer to its traditional voting pat
tern. Down the years, for two de
cades, these states have stood by
, the Democratic Party in presiden-
tial elections almost as firmly as
the South. ,
; All have gone consistently Dem
ocratic from 1932 on, except Ore
gon in 1948. Colorado in 1940, and
Colorado and Wyoming in 1944.
On the, other hand, rll of the states
but Montana now have Republican
governors.
Seek Change
But despite Stevenson's appar
ent gains, editors who have been
feeling political pulses now report
deep rooted sentiment for a change
in administrations. Newsmen de
tected that same feeling in New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland and Delaware. , .
. If the election could bo run off
now, Northwest editors believe
this would be the situation in their
state - electorial votes in paren-
tneses: . m
WASHINGTON (I)
So close either Stevenson or Ei
senhower could take the prize. No
papers supporting Stevenson took
part in the survey but newsmen
feel the Democratic . nominee is
ahead by a shade, whereas Eisen
hower was rated in front by i
thin margin in September.
One editor sums up: "Many vot
ers go to bed Republicans and
arise Democrats. All are disgust
ed with corruption and taxes, but
we ve never had it so good,' "
Newsmen ascribe the slizht shift
to Stevenson to effective cam
paigning, help from Truman in
country witn many federal em
ployes, and Eisenhower' ties with
Taft, plus the possibility that Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, listed on bal
lot! as the candidate of the Chris
tian Nationalist Party, may draw
votes from Eisenhower.
In ' counties where Eisenhower
is strongest, editors cite his per
sonal popularity, a decrease in
administration popularity, boom'
e ranging Truman attacks on the
general, the Nixon incident, and
Eisenhowers own campaign swing
into the state. :
IDAHO (4)
Eisenhower has slumped, Stev
enson improved, but the state still
looks fairly sure for the GOP. Ev
en so, voters who are undecided up
to now could turn in either way.
Farm areas lean heavily toward
the general; lumbering, mining,
railroad and industrial - districts
edged toward Stevenson.
Most of the Eisenhower skidding
is expected in the State's two larg
est counties, where newsmen
slashed earlier estimates of GOP
strengtn. The, counties still are
considered overwhelmingly ' Re
publican.
- OREGON (C)
The only Western state to go
Republican four years ago looks
like a repeater, in 1952 and by
a bigger margin. -
Stevenson gains. Including those.
tnat may come irom sen. Morse's
backing, aren't shaping up as big
enough to erase the Eisenhower
advantage. But an estimated 15 to
20 per cent of the voters are on the
Amateur itaaio ciud, there are
about 80 licensed hams or ama
teur radio operators In Salem.
Of these, he guesses, about 40 are
"active." That is they do a lot
of work with their sets.
"Most of us hams handle traf
fic everyday," says Hewitt. Trans
lated that means he and other
hams are at their sets almost
every night receiving and sending
messages, local and long-distance,
for fun and necessity, by voice
and by key.
An exciting evening for Duane.
for instance, is for him to come
home from his job at Western
Electric, and get on the 'board
and start sending messages. Some
times, he says, he eats his meals
at his set, which occupies "darn
near one whole side of our bedroom."
Sets in Cars
"We even work our hobby Into
our recreation," Hewitt noted.
Some of us have sending and
receiving sets in our cars. So when
we go on picnics, for instance, we
have a great time talking from
one ear to another. And when a
ham goes deer hunting he can
always contact his family back
home with his car set."
Orval Nunn, another ardent
radio ham", is president of the Se-
lem Amateur Club. The club
meets on the second and fourth
Tuesday of each month at West
Salem Legion HalL Most of the
club's current efforts are bent to
wards setting up the state ama
teur - convention In Salem next
summer. "
Most club members are closely
plugged into the state Civil De
fense set'up. That means in the
event of any sort of an emer
gency, and especially if other lines
of. communication were clogged.
the radio hams would take to the
air. - "
Part of Defense
"These hams would be an ex
a a
iremeiy important part of our
communication set for ' necessary
messages if a disaster struck this
area," said Wallace S. Wharton.
county defense director.
"Local hams are connected with
a state-wire network of communi
cations," said Wharton. "And the
Oregon net is in turn connected
with other states, so that, if neces
sary, a message could easily be
sent from Salem to. say. Jaoan or
Jtoigiand.'
And that happens occasionally,
Hewitt will tell you. One nizht
he received a message from Japan
for a Salem woman. It was from
her husband and had been relayed
xrom nam to ham halfway around
the world until it finally hit
Salem. -
"We enjoy receiving and send.
ing these messages," said Hewitt
"It gives us good practice. Some
times people think they're bother
ing us but we don't mind. And we
can t accept money for these ser
vices either.
"We're strictly amateur." . '
Pharmacists Aided I
A-Bomb Research
WASHINGTON (Pj-Major con
tributions to the development of
atomic energy were made by two
pharmacists - working 150 years
apart, says tne American Pharma-1
ceuucai Association.
Martin H. Klaproth, pioneer
pharmacist and scientist, first
identified the element uranium in
1789. In 1939 Dr. H. A. B. Dun
ning of Baltimore, excited by the
possiouiues involved in the de-1
velopment of the theory of uran
ium fission by German scientists,
underwrote special research, at
Johns Hopkins University which
hastened development of the atom
bomb. Dunning is a life member
of the pharmaceutical association.
VISIT-CAMPAIGN
ST. PAUL (INS) -The Minne
sota Mhiing and Manufacturing
Company literally is brineuur the i
mountain to Mohammed. Top ex
ecutives are visiting company
salesman in the field as part of a
new inter-company public rela
tions, sales and educational cam
paign.
ROCKVILLE. Ind. UPi Folk
here have been arriving late to
work and for appointments re
cently and children have been tar
dy at schooL v
The Rock port Republican ex
plains everybody had depended on
a lumber company steam whistle
that could be heard all over town
at 7:30 and 8 am. daily. The town
dock has stopped long ago.
But the lumber company install
ed a new electric whistle that can't
be heard outside its immediate
neighborhood.
The Gulf Stream Is more than
6,000 miles long from the Gulf of
Mexico to the seas north of Nor
way. .
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BEST MODEL Frank A. Taylor (left). V. 8. National
Mascara; Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (center), and Karl E.
Krvmke, Jr. Wish burton Ship Model Society president. Inspect
fricate -Arabella." best m a Washlnston eonteat
WEDDING VEIL USE FOUND
GREENCASTLE. Ind. (A The
Putnam County Graphic reports a
housewife here finally found a
practical use for bed old wedding
veil. She hung it over the baby's
crib as a mosquito netting.
ELECT CORNELIUS BATESOH
REPRESENTATIVE TO THE LEGISLATURE
LETTS BE FAIR Give the 50,009 Marion Cooaty people wh
live oatside Salem at least one Representative.
For the rood of Oregon. Bateson suggests that yea vote with
334 X YES. REAPPORTIONMENT.
Oar legislature should represent not empty territory, bat
our men and women wherever they reside.
SEE BATESON'S VIEWS on the proposed liquor law, Saturday.
' . Pd. Adv, Bateson for Rep. Com D. Rand, Secty.
QEK & SBMG36
Pay by the Month
Villamotto Valley Roof Co.
Salem - Phone 3-9694
fence ' and the way they jump
could turn the election.
Some editors say Stevenson Is
on the upgrade because of the Eisenhower-Taft
association and the
general's endorsement of such con
troversial senators as Joseph R.
McCarthy of Wisconsin. Some fig
ure Eisenhower made headway as
a result of the Nixon affair and
his own stumping tour in the state.
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about our objectives.
HERE ARE THE THINGS
WE STAND FOR..;
read every word, weigh
every word... and then you'll
know that tho
TRUCKIIIG INDUSTRY EXPECTS
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