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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1952)
p Ths Stat man, SaloiB. Or-. resoti Published every morning. Business , offlcs 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Or, Telephone 2-2441. Br carrier In cities: Daily and Sunday Dairy ooiy Sunday only By mall. Sunday only (In advance) Anywhere In U. S. MfMBft on Associated Press Bsaa of Advertising tThe Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use (Pacific Coast Division) for republication 31 all local news printed In (Advertising representatives Ward -Griffith this newspaper). New York Chicago. San Francisco, Detroit. Audit Barcaa of ClrcsdaUen Portland Lousy Sports Town Portland's civic pride took a hard right to the .solar plexus in a Sunday Journal story by ex Statesman Staffer John White' who called the city ' a lousy sports town" -and said "compared with Seattle, Portland has become a slumber ing, backward village content with week-end golf, Tuesday bowling and high school football." And White has statistics and documentary evidence to prove his point. The Portland Beavers- playing in one of the ration's "crummiest stadiums," is the second -- worst-attended ball team in the Coast Lea gue; the city is "virtually without a basketball court;' it was the birthplace of professional hockey in 1914 but "it buried its old friend" in 1951 after having the poorest attendance in the league; college football in Seattle drew more fans in 1950 and 1951 than in six years of play in Portland; "as a sports town, Portland stinks." Just to show he didn't intend to gloss over the city's record, WhiU added that: Portland has done nothing with the Willam ette River except pollute it. The once-famous Portland Rowing Club is all but extinct. Base ball, football, hockey, basketball, boxing, golf it's the same story. If Portland has the facilities, it doesn't use them. If the facilities aren't there, Portland doesn't build them. If the teams are good, they don't draw well. If they aren't, they don't draw at all." ' And, as a clincher, White concludes his recital by saying that "Portland can still boast of its one major sport. The Rose festival will be back. The iff will always have flowers and pretty girls." The story comprises quite an indictment of Oregon's metropolis. The trouble Is, no one can contradict it. Doeshe same thing apply to Salem? We don't think it does, or at least to the extent it applies to Portland. But Salem lost its privately -owned Ice rink for want of patronage. It lost the state basketball tournament for lack of adequate site. It was faced with the loss of its Western Inter national Baseball team, but home - town pride and home-town money came to the rescue. It tirl doesn't support' its high school and college teams like it should. Maybe a little soul-searching along such lines , would do a comparable amount of good that we hope White's straight talk does Portland. Wf Respond to Reason There appears to be quite a sane approach to meeting the power shortage, in regard to urging voluntary curtailment, and if efforts meet with the response they deserve the Northwest should weather the emergency without more drastic measures. So many times in similar circumstances, the ry of "wolf" has come so repeatedly from ciionic viewers-with-alarm that the general public, which is all of us, has become calloused to appeals for aid. But in the case at hand, lead- Churchill Expected to Visit Eisenhower At White House Soon After Inauguration By JOSEPH ALSOP LONDON Beyond the thorny thicket of immediate problems Korea. In do-China, Iran, the uerman divi sions and the rest one can already discern an even bigger d i f f i c u lty in n -: -i . i a. path ahead. j vf Ui the present world situation,! tiivr uiaui aim I and theme President- elect! E i s e nhower's policy must be Jowph Alaop J Sns of 1 1 to maintain, to strengthen and to stabilize the Western alliance. Before he can achieve tlks aim, - the biggest question Eisen hower will have to answer is whether the Western alliance can be made economically workable. It can be said on highest au thority that the new President's old friend. Prime Minister Win ston Churchill, now means to paess this question in the White House at the earliest possible date after the inauguration. At this very moment, the prep arations for Churchill's approach to Elsenhower are coins; forward here In London, in the form of ' the sAhdlose Commonwealth - Conference, Chare hill. whose . lark of Interest In economic mat ters has always been notoriema, : has new entered the battle fee Britain's and the Common wealth's economle stability with the viror and determination he sed te reserve far shoo tins; ' wars. Prior te the present meet lne. drvm fire ef the fameas CbexchJXl mine tea stirred every Whitehall department te make the mast vtsereas and detailed preparations.' Now, with the Commonwealth leaders gathered in London, the main hope is to work out the best plan possible to "permit the pound sterling, to look the al-. mighty dollar in the eye. When this Commonwealth plan has Thursday. December 4, 1851" riiiimitlWI "No Favor Sways Us No Fear Shall Atce From First Statesman, Hire IS, 1151 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher lUBicvrnoN slates Br bsIL Dally and $ 1.45 per mo. . 1.25 per mo. .10 week .50 per mo. 2.75 six 5.00 year In USA outside ers in power administrations have kept their feet on the ground, cited provable facts and figures, disclosed that voluntary curtailment of power already is easing the crisis and predicted that a further mandatory cut can be avoided if reasonable cooperation is forthcoming. This is not to picture the emergency as over. But it is to portray that cooperation is bearing fruit and to say that it should continue to bring results if we are given facts in the case and merely not continually dinged at. The cur tailment of street lighting and illuminated dec orations at this season of the year is not only unfortunate it is also a necessity. So is reduc tion in power waste from unnecessary lights, from rooms needlessly heated, from utilities left on when not essential. Individual cooperation, if combined with a reasonable break in the weather, will mitigate against a more serious time and the 20 per cent increase in power rates should encourage such cooperation even if nothing else does. There was some question at to whether to per mit fashion designer Jacques Fath to enter the country. His detention at Ellis Island was prob ably the result of pressure brought to bear by the men who have had to pay the bills for the clothes he designs for their wives. . been agreed upon, Churchill means to go to Washington and say to his former comrade in arms, "This is what we think we can do. Now how about it, Ike?" This question which Churchill will pat to Eisenhower Is maeh - more argent than most peep! suppose. By heavy sacrifice, Britain has now recovered from her third post-war economic crisis. Viewed as a business con cern. Britain is paying her way arain. Yet the fact remains that the reserves of hard cash which constitute the worldnr capital ef Britain and her Coram or -wealth are still fearfully low well under the two billion dollar figure which used te be consid ered the reekbettom minimi This means, in turn, that Brit ain and the other nations of the sterling area are almost to tally unprotected against any unfavorable jog of the world economy. Let a slight American recession reduce our dollar pur chases of British goods. Or let the price of Britain's imports rise a bit more rapidly than the price of British exports. Ruin will again stare Britain in the face. Britain's reserves today are far lower than they were in the successive crises of 1947. 1949; and 195L each ef which almost planted this country into final bankruptcy. The regmlar recur rence ef these crises baa alee produced a perilous new psy ehelegy. Still another crisis will net merely be economically dis astrous; it win also be politically catastrophic For one mere crisis is fairly certain to drive the British people to give up Chelr hard straggle to maintain them selves as a great world power and ear own chief ally. No wonder, then, that Winston Churchill has entered the un familiar ' battle ! for economic stability breathing his old war tlike fire., Yet all the great old man's courage and determination will not win this new battle if talesman Entered at the poetofflce at Salem. Ore., as second class matter uxder act of congress March 3. 1S7S. landar (in advance) la six counties 1-M per Benton. Clackamas. Linn. f- six Marlon. Polk. Yamhill). MJ year Elsewhere In Oregon US per Oregon $ 1.43 per mo. Co, Comment SISTER KENNY Sister Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse who gained fame because of her unique and suc cessful methods in treating polio. Sister Kenny de voted a lifetime to teaching . methods of repairing the ravages of this dread disease. She was a bush country nurse who served for four years with the Australian army in the first world war. In Australia army nurses are officially designated as "sisters' which carries 'the rank equal to that of first lieu tenant la the U. S. Army Nursing corps. After her service in the war, Sister Kenny went back to the bush country of Queensland and won a reputation for her treatment of polio patients. In that sparsely settled country she had no doctors to consult in emergency cases and had to do the best she could. She developed a technique of treating natives that attracted the attention of doctors in other parts of Australia. Outside her sick room in Toowoomba, 83 miles from Brisbane, some of her first polio patients walked about with little or no sign of paralysis. Her methods of treating polio vic tims by hot applications and by exercising the mus cles challenged the theories that prevailed in her time. She lived to see her technique adopted in hospi tals in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Belgium and South America. It was irony of fate that this determined woman who devoted a lifetime to teaching ways of meet ing the scourge of polio was herself a victim of paralysis because of cerebral thrombosis. Ironical--ly, after her long fight against the limb-destroying polio Sister Kenny spent her last days completely paralyzed on her right side and unable to talk. Yet she lived long enough to receive recognition for her great work and honors had been heaped upon her by organizations and universities all over the world. (Tacoma News-Tribune) President-elect Eisenhower gives him a cold answer. The trouble is that the problem facing Britain and her Commonwealth is also an American problem and a Western problem. This underlying eeenomle problem ef the Western allies can be summed up in a single, simple fact. Britain and the ether Western countries new have to purchase about five billion dol lars worth mere of ear American raw materials and manufactures each year than we allow them to sell to us. Hitherto, this hoge an nual dollar gap has been poul ticed ever by various forms ef American dollar aid. What Charchchill now wants what the whole Western world new wants, in fact has been ex pressed in the slogan of Church Ill's Chancellor of the Exche quer, R. A. Butler, "trade not aid." There is no other way to give strong, permanent economic un derpinning to the Western alli ance. For this purpose the obvi ous lines of necessary American action are drastically lowering our tariff barriers, joining in a massive effort to stabilize the Western currencies and facilitat ing much heavier American, in vestment for productive pur poses overseas. As Is implied by the brilliant raw materials report ef William 8. Psiey. the hard, practical long-range interests ef the Unit ed States already Insistently de mand that we adept these elaasf- ' eal 'policies ef a great creditor nation, .x Because the Truman adminis tration was essentially a govern ment impotent to act. President Truman could not even consider ' such a radical change in Ameri ca's traditional behavior. That is another reason why we may be thankful for the decisive na tional authority which the Eisen hower administration can surely exercise if the new President so 'chooses." f (Copyright 19S2. New York Herald Tribune. Ine m 7 - ST r m . easw .ssrsi m w- av m. . m . eaa saw- - are-, j,-, .. A flying saucer story to end all flying saucer stories was frontpaged recently in the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette. Whether you're in or out your cups. this saucer yarn will wrinkle your crura ctiit for nro Afford in ff to this SUDDOSed- P 1 ly true tale, v-.., rv V USX: u was about 20 feet in diameter, translucent, and with portholes ! en the side. It didn't really ground itself bat hevered several feet in the air. Then the professor settled down fer a cozy chat with the man from space, who "spoke some English and a gibberish that sounded like Chinese." AdamskI, according to the paper, ( asked the fellow. "Is this your ship? The visitor nodded in the affirmative. 'Is K Interplanetary?" asked the prof. Another nod.; AdamskI then asks the character about the purpose of his visit to' earth. Visitor," says the article, "uses arms to indicate mush room shaped clouds associated with atomic experiments ... In dicates radiation from explosions is causing his people some con cern and fears that blasts will destroy everything." The visitor then told Adamski that hit ship came from a "mother space ship," couldn't tell what other planet he was from, refused to let the prof look inside his saucer and in dicated "no pictures of personalities right now." The prof and the space man shook hands, the space man climbed into his ma chine and took off leaving the prof standing there with nothifig but a newspaper yarn. The visitor was dressed, said Adamski, in slipper-like shoes, balloon type ski pants, long sandy hair and a "milk chocolate brown Eisenhower jacket" (a Republican?). The stranger also left a set of foot-prints with designs on them which are supposed to mean something.-P.S. The Gazette notes that the prof, when not chatting with space men, operates a curio shop where he sells pictures of flying saucers. When Gov. McKay spoke at the Kiwanis McKay Day obser vance at the Senator Hotel he praised Mrs. McKay as a true help mate. Sure enough. Just as the governor sat down MrsJVfcKay leaned over and said something to him, and the governor bound ed to his feet and belatedly thanked the club for gifts of a silver plate and flowers . . . And the governor was a little late because he went first to the Marion Hotel, thinking that the dinner was there ... In his talk McKay cracked that "Years age when I was in business in Salem I went around opening my month all th time and nobody would pay any attention. And now, even when I whisper, it makes headlines." GRIN AND BEAR IT p7 ml $ Is flue all-purpose card... is Merry Christmas, is Tear, is happy birthday ... is ttlF'HILLS AFTER kOREA - " - a fellow by the name of Prof. the desert but he carried on a sprightly con versation with the pilot of the saucer a visi tor from another planet. And the Gazette runs a foggy picture with a blob in the center of It with cutlines reading: Is this a flying saucer or a freak cloud formation?" This Prof. AdamskI, H seems, walked op to this saucer when it landed. The craft, he says, by Lichty New also good fer threatening letter.' DtP ftHDCDDCa (Continued from page one.) by Dr. Ralph Walker, former pastor of White Temple in Port land; so we attended service there this morning a rewarding experience for the sermon, the music and the privilege of meet ing Dr. Walker again. With a few hours free time yesterday afternoon we got up to see a special collection of Rembrandt's paintings at the Metropolitan Art Museum con sisting chiefly of portraits of stout Dutch burghers and stable Dutch women wearing the white ruffs of three centuries ago. And what contrast there was in visiting the Frick collection in the former Frick mansion and its annex, with its emphasis on the English school: the brilliant ladies by Gainsborough and Romney and the spacious land scapes of Turner. At both a steady stream of visitors poured through proving that where real art-' is on display the public is attracted. Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "In politics, I differ from you, and I shall direct a letter to you regarding this." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "inveigh"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Alleviate, allusion, alloted, elusion. 4. What does the word "inun date" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with pre that means "dissi pated"? ANSWERS 1. Say, 'In politics, I differ with you, and I shall write (or address) a letter to you regard ing this." 2. Pronounce as though spelled in-vay, accent second syl lable. 3. Allotted. 4.-To cover as with a flood, overflow. "Many homes were inundated when the river overflowed." 5. Profligate. Father, Son Die in Wreck KLAMATH FALLS UFi A panel truck rammed into the rear of an automobile on U. S. 97 Wednesday afternoon, killing the truck driver and his crippled son. Police iden tified the victims as Warren H. Stickney, 3i, Dorris, Calif., and David Stickney, 11, a polio victim. The accident happened 16 miles south of here, one mile north of the California state line. The car was driven by Herbert R. Koeplin, Redding, Calif., who was not injured. Police said both vehicles were traveling south, almost directly into the afternoon sun. Stickney, a salesman, apparently was blinded by the sunlight and smashed into the car. The boy was killed outright and Stickney died later in a hospital here. He for merly was police chief at Dorris, CONDON MAN INDICTED CONDON Uh The Gilliam County Grand Jury Tuesday in dicted Olen J. Mouser, 36 on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill in the Nov. 14 shooting of Bill Thompson, 55. Thompson was wounded in the mouth as be sat in a car with Mouser. France Seeks To Heal Saar Election Riff By J. M. KOBEKTS, JB. AP News Analyst France's Foreign Minister Schu- man has moved quickly in an at tempt to smooth over, as far as possible the ruffled feelin.es pro duced in Germany by Sunday's pro-French vote in the Saar. Schuman attempted to put the vote, which favored the Eaar's pro- rrench government and continua tion of economic union with France, in its proper perspective as an interim thing. He proposed that France and Gesmany go right ahead with their efforts to reach an agreement for internationalization of the area in connection with the European coal and steel community and plans for a European federation. The Adenauer government in Germany was quick to reply that France would have to give up her economic domination of the small but rich area, and there was no indication that sore points were any nearer healing. However, coming on the eve of debate in the German Bundestag on ratification of. the treaties which would provide for German rear mament in alliance with: the West ern powers, the Schuman state ment was expected to) have an appeasing impact. I The word from Bonn i was that Adenauer had enough votes to put tne proposals through. One is the agreement with the occupation powers on the forms and limits of German autonomy in what falls just barely; short of being a World War II peace treaty. Tro other brings Germany into the European Defense Community, with its pooling of armed strength under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. All of it is heavily predicated upon the theory that the nations will eventually be able to work out supranational control body with limited legislative powers to han dle the economic and military problems of cooperation; The foreign affairs and political independence of individual nations would be preserved as this "inter national parliament is now, en visioned, but eventual! complete federation is in the minds of many of its supporters. i Another fillip was given the idea, and another encouragement given the Germans, when j Holland's lower house approved a constitu tional amendment which would permit her to yield portions of her sovereignty to supranational au thority under certain conditions. The Dutch leaders.) like the French and like Adenauer, have taken advanced positions on the matter of international coopera tion and controls over since the war. 'Casualty' Term Abolished by Defense Office i i WASHINGTON The De fense Department abolished Wed nesday its practice of referring to men killed, wounded or miss ing in Korea as "casualties." At the same time it eliminated the total number of casualties from its weekly battle report, although it continued to list totals for dead, wounded and missing, j The Pentagon issued a statement saying -the new policy j was adopt ed "to correct an apparent wide spread and popularly accepted im pression that 'casualty"! means 'fa tality.' " I No effort has been made to min imize the number of casualties In Korea, the statement said. It de scribed the new "report of U. S. killed, wounded, and missing" as "a further step to provide accu rate and complete information." Based on notifications to next of kin through last Friday, Amer ican casualties in the Korean fight ing stand at 127,382. This is an increase of 388 in a week. There have been 20.004 reported killed in action and 94,367 wound ed. The number reported missing totals 13.012. Here is a breakdown of casual ties by services, based on the Pentagon's latest figures: Service Increase New Total Army 240 100,054 Navy 8 1,738 Air Force 4 1.342 Marine Corps 134 24.251 Draft Test Set At Willamette A college qualification test for draft-liable men will! be given on the third floor of Waller Hall on the Willamette University campus from 8:30 sjh. to 12:30 pjn. to day. Selective Service has announced this test for men who have reg istered with the draft board and received a permit to take the test. The exam will "beglven at about 1,000 centers over the nation by the educational testing service of Princeton, N. J. Purpose is to aid in determina tion of students eligible for draft deferment. j W. R. Schiess, B.S.C. ! Doctor of Surgical Chiropody j . ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF FOOT DISORDERS AND DISEASES 1137 Sooth Commercial SL Khene 4-1414 - Salens, Ores ... Dulles Plans Probe of State i f tment WASHINGTON W John Foster Dulles, the next secretary of state. Wednesday projected a thorough investigation of the State Depart, ment but declared that "loyal serv. ants of our government have noth ing to fear." An Indication of what one of Dulles' first aerie he takes over the State ment Jan. 20 came in a st he issued after a meeti Secretary Dean rhnn Obviously aware of the impact of long-sustained Republican criticism on career diplomats and other workers whos Ivm ha will K Dulles declared the foreign serv ice - win De protected" by the Eis enhower administration "insofar a a it is sound and free of corruption." mere are, of course," be said, manr anrlei that ned tn . ha looked into very thoroughly, but th loyal servants of our government have nothing to fear." ' The reference to "corruption" and to the "angles" that will be thoroughly studied left no doubt that Dulles nlans to rake over tha department and foreign service irom top to bottom. Republican critics have assailed the denartment as ' a hotbed tA Communists or persons of Red leanings, have attacked many of its policies, and , have questioned the adeouacv of its leaders. A wholesale shakeup of top person nel here and of U.S. mission aboard is expected, under the new administration. Memorial for Murray Led By Stevenson ATLANTIC CITY Ufl Gov. Ad lai Stevenson Wednesday led CIC convention memorial services for the late CIO President Philip Mur-. ray as a behind-scenes battle raged in the choosing of Murray's suc cessor. ! i The Illinois governor, recent Democ a tic loser in the election for the nation's presidency, took occasion in his speech to urge or ganized labor to act with greater future responsibility to the country. Cautioning the CIO not to re- varrl th Rpnnhliran vfrtorv as inv sort of "disaster" j or necessarily a misfortune, Stevenson said la bor ought to continue working to ward greater gains. He said labor has won its battl for recognition and status and now is entering a new period of estab lished acceptance in America. "The bigger job of the future." he said, "is the proper exercise of organized labor's vast responsibili ty, not just to tne working man but to the country. Some of the atti tudes, habits of thought and meth ods of the past are no longer rel evant." 1 In the political scuffling in con-, vention hotel corridors on the mat ter of selecting Murray's succes sor, 45-year-old Walter Reuther, president of the CIO's big Aute Workers Union, was still regarded as a virtual cinch for the job. Allan S. Haywood, the CIO's ex ecutive vice president, told news men however he still intends to bo nominated as a candidate for the CIO presidency and force a con vention roll call Thursday betweea him and Reuther. I AFL Official Asks Funds for Portland State PORTLAND IH The Oregon State Board of Higher Education's $9,455,000 building program for the next - two years was attacked Wednesday by James T. Marr. executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation -of Labor. Marr asserted the program dia criminates against at least 1,008 students by ignoring the, needs of Portland State College. Pointing to the rapid growth of the Portland school, he called foi immediate steps' to provide addV tional facilities-for the students. The state board has outlined a $22,000,000 program to be carried out through 1959, and will ask th Legislature for more than $9,000, 000 in funds for the next two years. Marr said the' recommendations make no mention of Portland State College. Colorful TB Christmas Seals hels in two ways to n ake this Christmas cheerfuL j Honrs By Appointment i Meaw WesU Thnrs. FriU Depar A ry be vh. Depart. atement nt with