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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1953)
Outgoing U.S. Treasurer Weds Newsman i WASHINGTON fJ! Mrs. Georg ia Neese Clark, the outgoing Treas ; urer of the United States, was married Saturday- night to a form er newspaper reporter who said that was "the only way to make a Republican out of her." : The bridegroom is - Andrew J. Gray. 40. former Boston Post re porter and now a partner in the ; Washington public . relations firm of T. A. Mclnerny, Inc. 7 The ceremony was performed in nearby Alexandria, Va., by Justice of the Peace Michael P, Frasca, 1 who was surprised Sunday to learn the bride was the woman whose signature has appeared on all U. S. currency printed since mid-1949 when she became the first woman treasurer. "I knew she was with the Treas ury Department," Frasca said, 'but I didn't know she was the Treasurer." t : Mrs. Clark, who wffl be 53 Tues day, is turning her job over to Mrs. Ivy B. Priest, prominent Utah Re publican, this week. Mrs. Priest was named to the post by President Eisenhower. Gray, a former publicity director for Lever Brothers, New York soap manufacturers, said he had known Mrs. Clark about a year but he wouldn't supply any details of the romance. "The only way to make a Repub lican out of Georgia was to marry iter." was his only comment. J Mrs. Clark, a divorcee and form er stock company actress, was a Democratic national committee woman from Kansas' before she came to Washington. Open 4:45 p.m. Charles Beyer Linda Christian "Happy Time" O -'" JUchard Denning Nancy Gates -TARGET HONG KONG" Continnoi Brod Crawford Claire Trevor Warner Color - "STOP! YOU'RE KILLING ME Dennis Morgan "CATTLE TOWN 1 Open ff:45 pjn. Bin Crosby "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN Ed. G. Robinson Glenn Ford "DESTROYER" . Mat. Daily From 1 P. ML: 4 ENDS TODAY! "Yankee Buccaneer A "Plymouth Adventure1 TOMORROW! At Bargain Prices! JblcfaWslno Co-Feature! ' Crackdown On Big-Tim e Crunel life Bonus Payments Top 544 Blillion World War H veterans bonus payments through Dec. 31, 1952, aggregated $44,181,072.- the State Veterans Affairs Department re ported to the legislature her over the weekend, .v",-' Participating in the bonus were 111,832 veterans and next of kin. . Approximately 130,000 claims were filed by ycterans-and sur vivors before the Dec. 1 deadline while 224 persons applied too late to meet the bonus requirements. Claims of 2190 applicants were disallowed : ; while nearly - 16,000 claims were in suspense awaiting further evidence from applicants and from military and selective service records to prove entitle ment. The average bonus -payment was approximately $400. . Eisenhower Among Qnirch Congregation - WASHINGTON fJV- President Eisenhower went to church on his first Sunday in the White House. Accompanied only, by two Se cret Service agents, the President Joined a less-than-capacity congre gation at the 9 ajn. service in the National Presbyterian Church, which he has adopted as his place of worship during his White House tenure. The pastor, the Rev. Edward I R. EUson, preached a sermon on "the transforming vision." taking his text iron Proverbs 29:18, "Where there Is no vision, the peo ple perish." He prayed that the President be granted strength and wisdom and that Washington become a city of God. Eisenhower occupied Pew Num ber 41, near the pews which Pres idents' Jackson, Polk, Pierce, Clevelrnd, Buchanan. Grant and Benjamin Harrison used. The only change made In the or der of service Sunday was that the congregation remained standing after the benediction until the pas tor escorted the President from the church. Gen. Collins . To Take Look At Korea War TOKYO m Gen. J. Lawton Collins. U. S. Army chief of staff. arrived Monday en route to Ko rea for a first hand look at the war. He told newsmen ho planned to fly on to Korea later Monday and see Gen. James A. Van Fleet, re tiring commander of the U. 8. Eighth Army. ' He was asked if Van Fleet's re tirement indicated any changes of policy of the United Nations com mand in Korea. "I can't speak about that." Col lins said, "but I do not think that It does." He added he did not believe there was "any significance one way or another" in the retirement of Van Fleet, who has long fa vored an offensive against the Communists in Korea. Collins said he has come to this war theater to "see first hand what the local situation was like." Collins- plane was met at Haneda Airport by Gen. Mark Clark. U. N. Far East commander,-and Gen. O. P. Weyland, commander of the U. S. Far East Air Forces. Collins said he 'would spend only a zew days in Korea and on his way back to the U. S. would con fer here with Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, who will take command of the Eighth Army early next month. Taylor is due in Tokyo from Wash ington Thursday or earlier. Many authorities believe there Is no reason for thinking that the Vandals resorted to objectless de struction In their great raid on Rome in 455, which modern use of the term "vandal1 implies. l Now Showing Open 8:41 SUrtinr Times 6.-C9 - 9:09 " No Advance In Prices Eastern Oregon white iaco Hereford beei bought direct from tho ranch and hauled in our own trucks. Buy and saro at Packing Houso Wholesale) Prices. Cut ting and wrapping, smoking, curing. Fro deep frees searvicev I Custom killing. , - - ruoTinxia iom-a months to pay. oeaoaBeseaj asseaa ssoaa. Raeaooj Front Quarter. DAB!? DEH3? Half at T7holt Generals 'STialte Hands atrConference ' " :i z ' WASHINGTON Li. Gen. Anthony C (Tony) MeAnlirfe (left), hero, of: the Battlo of Bastoane, and Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief of Staff, shake hands after a planesido conference at National - Airport, Washington (Jan. 24). The huddle strengthened speculation that MeAuliffe appeared likely to succeed Li. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor as deputy chief . of staff far operations and administration. Comas is bound for Korea, on aa Inspection trip. Taylor is lea-ring maud of the Eighth Army. (AF Wh-ephete to The Statesman.) WASHINGTON President Eisenhower and Li. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor confer at the White House (Jam. 24). Taylor is leaving (Jan. 28) to take command of the U. 8, 8th Army in Korea as successor to Gen. James A. Tan Fleet, who Is retiring. (AF Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Mail Maus Kill Woman Doctor Husband, Son NAIROBI. Kenya Uti A Brit- ish woman doctor, her husband and their 6-year-old son were hacked to death on their farm Sat urday night by Mau Mau terror ists. A native servant also was killed. The Mau Maus, who have sworn to drive out the whites, attacked Roger E. G. Ruck. 37. and his wife, Esme, 32, as they strolled in their garden in pajamas after supper. Their son, Michael, was killed In his bed. Mrs. Ruck was a qualified doc tor and had treated hundreds of Africans in the dispensary she set up as Dr. De Smidt, her maiden name. The four were slashed to death Mrs. Clarence Kraft 443 N. 24th, Salem won the jackpot of $42.50 last Thursday A new dish, new jackpot starts tonight at 6:30 P. M. 'What's Ccckin' At llohlgrcn's?'1 - Broadcast over, KSLM at ' 9:30 Mon. thru Thurs. JLb. by pandas, sharp hoes used by Kikuyu tribesmen for tilling the soil. A ponce reconnaissance plane di rected ground patrols to a group of 30 Africans, who were taken into custody In connection with the quadruple slaying. Those arrested. Including some women, were in a thickly wooded gorge five miles northeast of the Ruck farm. Another group nearby scattered, but the section was cordoned off. Y Mr. ) 'C . Ms $ . . Everybody Greyhound's Boaineaamen are among the many groops who Ilka the big dis counts and savings received on a Greyhound 6-Ride Book. The book Is good in either direction between any two given Oregon points. Any member of your family can use it. Tickets good for 0 days. Big savings with the Big 61 . i- . ' . HERE'S JUST ONE TYPICAL EXAMPLES - ' f , . .5 . - Salem to Oreron City 6 One-Way Tickets Cost (Including fed. tax) Cf.C4 6-Eldo Famfly Book Costs Clo fed. tax) J.C5 for Korea. (Jan. 28) to take 11 - ADS CHALLENGED WASHINGTON l The Feder al Trade Commission (FTC) an nounced Sunday lt Is challenging advertising claims made for Ches terfield cigarettes. ' The FTC said It has filed a; com plaint against claims that Chester fields are "always milder." "bet- ter tasting," "cooler smoking" and , m uucuaui kiwi immiiWm At the present rate of consump tion, the United States would use about so billion tons of coal in the next 100 years. Serves with 6-R1DE FAMILY DOOICI Salary Scale Onlncrease, UCC Reports Karnfngs of Oregon's production workers averaged $813 a week, nearlv 15 higher last month than In December; 1K1, the State Unem ployment Compensation Commis sion reported here Saturday. . Hourly pay of S2.07 was slightly below Novembers record of 32 JO, but remained above the previous year's : comparable figure of $2. The work week also went up to an average of 39.8 hours, higher since August, 1932, "and 1.1 more than a year ago, Despite power shortages that forced! partial, letdowns in some Industries, metals, wool products and . construction firms reported longer work weeks. Logging and sawmill workers as well as those in plywood plants put in two more hours a week than the previous year, averaging 39.8 and 40.4 hours respectively. Their weekly earnings at 389.27 and $83.87 were about 10 per cent higher than in December 1951. A, like increase came from the metals group. Printing and publishing em ployes : reached a - new high of $93.44 a week, mainly because of a longer work week averaging 37.2 hours. Pay of $2.51 an hour was barely j higher than the previous month but 13 cents more than a year .before. Lesser gains were re ported ; by paper products, furni ture and fixtures, transportation and utilities. Shorter hours dropped earnings in canneries and other food -processing plants, while little change was noted in most other grows. Employes of machinery manufac turing i plants were geting $4 a week less than a year ago. averag ing only 38.4 hours a week against 41 In December, 1931. A rise in hourly pay, however. made up part of the decline. - Molalla Man Advanced for Korean Duties WITH THE 45TH INFANTRY DIV. IN KOREA Ronald L. Dow, son of C L. Dow of Molalla, Ore recently was promoted to corporal while serving in orea with the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th arrival in Korea in December 1951 and captured "T Bone"' hill in June's see-saw hill battles. - Dow, a member of the 180th In fantry Regiment's Company H, en tered the Army in October 1951 and arrived in Korea last May. "A former employe of the Davis Lumber Co. in Molalla, he has been awarded the Combat Infan tryman Badge. It has been estimated that only about 7 per cent of human phy sical variations can be assigned to causes other than inheritance. rn n ' Y V LoyUDu3 ; M. MM JVJmt About a Neic State Oregon's Constitution Amended 96 Times in Past 95 Years - (Editor's Koto: Tbla Is tfc flrrt of two artlel explaining tk ra aeata f tkt prpaBts f a mot atate r tltaU , aa th rc4ar By CONRAD FRANGE ' SUff Writer, The Statesman ) ' If a group of Industrious men in the current State Legislature have their way and . if the people of the state concur Oregon will have a new constitution In a few years. v Two bills have already , been introduced calling for a constitu tional convention in 1956. This assembly would draft a new document to replace. Oregon's constitution, written in 1857. All of these steps,. ox course, would have to be ap proved by the voters. jThis matter of a new document to replace - what some lawmakers call the "museum piece" now In existence has been tossed about in several past legislative sessions. A bill Introduced in the 1951 ses sion by Sen. Richard Neuberger of Portland failed. Proponents of a new state char ter argue that the present one is clumsy, out-of-date and in some instances downright confusing. In its 95 years it has been amended 96 times. J Said "Patchwork" " The result, say some legisla tors, is "a patchwork rather than a pattern of government." Some examples of dry rot In the document, they say. Include these: Section 15 of the article on elec tions directs that votes of the peo ple "shall be given openly or viva voce (orally) ... until the legis lative assembly shall otherwise di rect." - Oregon's "bill of rights" safe guards the rights of white aliens. Non-white foreigners are not sim ilarly protected. - To save" money early conven tioners made offices of the state auditor and superintendent of in struction ex-officio duties of the Secretary of State and of the gov ernor. The legislature- was au thorized to provide later for an elective superintendent (which it did) but not an elected auditor. ' Most Change Residence i Section 5 of article VI provides in effect that the Secretary of State shall reside at the seat of government. This would appear, some say, to require the secretary to change his residency for voting and other legal purposes while holding office. . I . . Section 1 of article XTTI pro vides for- extremely low salaries for state officials ($1,500 per year for governor and for Secretary of State). This provision is still a part of the consitution oven though . THE SHED . CERAMIC STUDIO 329 Bush Street Greenware CeramU Supplies Class Instruction OPEN TUESDAY, JAN. 27th Open Today Constitution? the Supreme Court has ruled that the legislature has authority to set salaries at a higher figure. No Dnels Allowed Section 9, article II provides a penalty for giving or accepting a challenge to fight a duel. These Items, proponents say, should be . eliminated from the document. Their arguments for a new doc ument fall Into these categories: 1. From time to time individu als and enterprises "take stock" and reequip themselves for the future by revising their codes of operation. State constitutions are no exceptions because they also accumulate a lot of dead timber. 2. The Oregon constitution de clares the right of the people to alter or reform their government. 3. The present "state document provides legislative details which have no place in a constitution. Modernization Asked 4. The ; government structure should be strengthened to take into . consideration the 1 coming age of electronics and modern ac tivities. . 8. Constitutions of eight other states make the question of com plete revision an issue on the bal lots automatically at stated inter vals. Many other states' docu ments specify the exact procedure for revision. Most powerful arguments of op ponents to a constitutional assem bly Is this: Those assembling to revise the constitution would have power to make sweeping changes in the constitution always 'subjects, of course, to the vote of the people. And, opponents to an assembly say, some of these protective lights which they now enjoy un der the current constitution might be takeji away from them. (Tomorrow: Steps necessary t bring about a new constitution, cost and representation of consti tutional assembly.) i 12:30 to 9 P.M. r n O EG533Q:D3I2?. Hcrj. 1.35 YOU SliVE L4 vi fc . i w a Calf cr VThcX UJS. FedsreZy Crcdsd thzz 9 i!ic-;!i IOYj - r.1::r.:::r.3 - 7cv;n Tcrp tZZZ'SJ 0tJ 1 Q rr fi r. --f 1225 C ZZX J. TL. T7IXL2 Agent 1 K. Ciurci Hume Z-2iI3 f - - - -