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It's Our Port, Too
"It is sometimes forgotten that Portland,
though not on the ocean, is a seaport of renown."
We find that sentence in the biennial report
of the Port of Portland commission, a copy of
which was left with us by John J. Winn Jr.,
'3Sart manager.
How, true that is. We uplanders, earth-bound,
give little thought to the importance of Portland
as a world port. Instead we think of it as the
largest city in the state, a shopping and whole
sale and manufacturing center,, home of an art
museum and .symphony orchestra and several
colleges, a place to change planes or trains. We
know the city is divided by a river and are an
noyed sometimes when a drawbridge raised for
a ship blocks the crossing. Few of us living up
state have realized that Portland ranked second
in 1951 among coast ports in tonnage of its ex
ports. Los Angeles with its heavy volume of
petroleum products ranks first. Over 89 per cent
of Portland's export tonnage was dry cargo,
chiefly lumber, wheat, barley and oats.
The city of Portland didn't grow that lumber
and wheat and barley. They were grown in the
'hinterland" and transported to, Portland docks
by rail and truck and barge f or loading on
ocean-going ships. To quote from this report:
' "The port of Portland serves not only the city
. and metropolitan area of Portland, but in addi
tion, other areas. Waterborne commerce affects
' not only the counties immediately surrounding
Portland, but it is important for the develop
ment of a far wider area. The commercial, in
dustrial and farming structure of Oregon and
'smarts of Idaho and Washington are enhanced
by; the maximum use of the facilities of the
port of Portland."
In short, farmers and manufacturers over this
region have a real stake in Portland as a port.
It serves also to ; receive ocean-borne imports,
particularly petroleum products and merchan
dise. Special projects the Port commission is work
ing on include improvement of the channel to
the mouth of the Columbia to a depth of 35 ft.
and width of 500 ft., development of dry dock
facilities at Swan Island and location of indus
tries needing water transportation. The com
mission also operates the Portland International
Airport and faces a tough problem there be
cause of the rapid increase in its use. Some 700,
000 airline passengers (in, out and through)
were handled at the terminal in 1952, and this
number is expected to increase by' a million in.
a decade. The airport requires more land and
larger and better located terminal buildings.
The commission is a state body in that its
members are appointed by the governor. Its re
sponsibilities are by no means local because its
ports water arid air - serve a wide region.
Hence the tributary country is interested that
its port facilities are kept modern for efficient
and economical operation. For us in the Wil
lamette Valley particularly! it's OUR port too.
Administration Policy Seeks to Leave
Asians Fighting Asians in Korea Theatre
By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON The basic j
Administration policy is to dis- j
engage" the Western forces, and ;
I particularly tne
American for !
c e s. now tied
down in local :
' Kwars in the Far ;
' f East. For this ?
- purpose, South i
- 'Koreans are to '
be substituted j
for Americans
in the ..line in
Korea and the 1
Free Indo-Chinese
Army is to i
be powerfully
strengthened. The Asians are to
fight the Asians, insofar as pos
sible, as President Eisenhower
suggested during bis campaign.
This clearly rules out the kind
of costly and grinding local of
fensive In Korea that has been
?5Vocated by Gen. James Van
Fleet. To complete the record,
however. It must be added that
other moves against the Chinese
Communists are not yet excluded.
Ia judging the gamble in such
moves, it is wise; to remember
that the policy of the. enemy is
not absolutely
fixed. Indeed,
the most signif
' leant Soviet re
action to Presi
dent Eisenhow
ars election
clearly h 1 n t ed
mat the Krem
lin might mod
erate its Far
Castern- policy,
rather than al-
w the Far
Eastern War Jto Stewart Afaq;
widen. This was implied by the
exceedingly curious but hitherto
unremarked behavior of the So
viet Ambassador to Washington,
George N. Zarubin, immediately
following the December inter
view in which Stalin declared he
would like to meet with Presi
dent Eisenhower. '
Zambia, it must be remember
ed, is an official automaton, who
does what he is told, says wha
he Is told, and qaite probably
'JhEaks what he is told. From Sep
tember, when he presented - his
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credentials, until the Issuance of
the Stalin Interview in mld-De-
cember, this new Soviet Ambas
sador mlgrht lust as well have
been on the other side of the
moon as In Washlnrton, D. C.
The Stalin Interview was. of
coarse, the Kremlin's maturely
! considered public reaction to the
r November, votinjr la this country.
'r Following the Interview, the
formerly dam-like Zarubin sud
denly and somewhat astonishing
' ly began talking politics with his
. fellow Ambassadors here in
i Washington, conspicuously . in
: eluding the Ambassadors of the
; leading Western i allies. These
talks all followed about the same
: pattern.. -
Zarnbin eoaimonly opened by
referring to Stalin's 'important"
statement, which he slescribed as
, "sincere, really staeere." He ex
patiated en the tmprovement ia ,
the sitnatioB that snlxht resalt
front a resmnptioa ef East-West
neguatlons. He particslarly em-
phaiized the possibility ef a peace
la Korea, althoash at that time
Andrei VUhlnsky had jast ruth
lessly rejected India's attempt to
achieve a Korean connunise la
the TJ. N.
! Zarubin did not ignore this r e
cent event. Instead, he brushed
. the U. N. debate scornfully aside,'
Intimating that serious negotia
tions could not be carried on in
any such public market-place as
the U. N. Assembly. He remark-
ed that the Panmunjom talks had
already produced complete
agreement" about a Korean arm
- istice, except on the thorny Issue
ef the exchange of prisoners.
Without entering Into- detail, he
-predicted that the prisoner issue
- could also be compromised with
ease.
- The impression conveyed by
Zarubin was strengthened by the
lesser members of the Soviet Em
bassy staff, who sought out their
colleagues of equal rank to tell
the same story. One of the atta
1 ches even : asked his opposite
(numbers in the British and
French .? Embassies, what was
J wrong with President Eisenhow
er? Did he not wish to meet .
with Marshal Stalin? Did Eisen-
hewer really want war?"
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representatives Ward -Griffith Co
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icago. ftaa Crandaco, Detroit).
Senator Bel ton's protest against the highway
bond issues bill reflects discontent in Clackamas
County over expenditures of the highway com
mission. Canby and Oregon City are unhappy
over the construction of the Wilsonville cutoff
which will divert Salem-Portland travel from
present Highway 99E. Oregon City has two proj
ects which it wishes . to have advanced, one is
widening of the 82nd Street-Oregon City high
way which carries a heavy volume of traffic,
and the other is relief at the Oregon City-West
Linn bridge. From our observation of traffic at
this bridge at the rush hour it provides the No.
1 traffic jam in the state. Apparently the only
solution is another bridge, and finding places to
hang the ends is not easy. The commission will
have to give this situation early attention.
It looks as though the competition for per
mission to build a natural gas pipeline to serve
the Pacific Northwest will simmer down to two
concerns: Westcoast Transmission Company
which has authorization for gas from northern
Alberta, and Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co.
which has a deal for gas in the San Juan basin
at the four corners of New Mexico, Utah, Ari
zona and Nevada. The pending hearing before
the Federal Power commission should result in
some definite decision. This is the only -large
section of the country not supplied with natural
gas, and one which needs it for lack of other
fuel.
President Peron of Argentina wants union ol
his country with Chile. That would give a coun
try with 1,370,000 square miles of area and 23,
112,000 inhabitants. Their resources are rich and
diversified; and their populations are quit
progressive. Chile, however, has been more de
mocratic and it is doubtful if it would consider
union with Argentina so long as Peron is dicta
tor of that country. Since unification of Western
Europe is being urged we can't be much sur
prised if a similar step is urged elsewhere. Such
is the love of seU-determination, however, the
advocates of union find the going hard.
The AFL sits closer to the high throne than
it did in recent administrations. It was the CIO
(Sidney Hillman, Walter Reuther) who seemed
to have the most drag with the Democratic ad
ministration, though old Dan Tobin of the Team
sters was a White House favorite. The CIO was
most active in the Americans for Democratic
Action, the sidearm of the new deal. With the
Labor department pretty well staffed by AFL
men the CIO feels quite left out. That's the rea
sontoo far 'left."
The Jefferson public library, notes Gladys
Shields in her column in the Jefferson Review,
has added "The Complete Book of Beauty and
Charm," and she notes "it covers everything
from good grooming to poise and self-confidence."
With that boost it should be a good circulator.
There were some curious fea
tures in these conversations. To
ne colleague, for instance, Zarn
bin declared that the Elsenhow
er administration weald be "very
strong there' are so many bix
businessmen."
There were also some suspi
cious features. For example, Za
rubin talked more in terms of an
other meeting of the French,
British, Soviet and American
Foreign Ministers than of a di
rect meeting between Stalin and
Eisenhower. Obviously for
French consumption, he repeat
ed the well-worn Soviet hint of
a German settlement as well as a
Korean settlement. There were
reasons, in short, to regard Zaru-
o regard Zaru-
bin's behavior as another diplo-
sons, because of past disappoint
ments. and because of tha increa-
. sing rigidity of modern diploma
cy, the Zarubin overtures if ov
ertures they were have as yet
led to nothing.
On Its face, nonetheless, Zara
. bials behavior would seem to
eeaflrm the report that Ambas
sador George F. Kennan sent
from Moscow before his expul
sion. Many months age, Kennan,
the alleged advocate of passive
containment, began to eapiesa the
view to the State Department
that the only way to get peace
ia Korea was to make the war
there snore costly for the enemy.
He added that the mere Intention
to do this, if it were a firm in
tention, might bring results.
The basic policy which Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles have ,
now adopted Is intended, instead,
to make the struggle In the Far
. East less costly for this country
and the West. This Is another,
very sensible, way of changing
the balance. It remains to be
.seen whether the Administration
will accept the heavy risk of
changing ; the balance still fur
ther, by simultaneously, seeking :
to increase the cost of the war to
the enemy. The answer, which
should be given soon, will be a
historic turning point.
f Copyright 1953.
. New fork Herald Tribune Inc.)
Our Washington grapevine notes that when -Willamette U
Prexy G. Herbert Smith went to Washington to-help dedicate
Oregon's statues at the U.S. Capitol he tucked into his brief case
name.
"When yea make a speech off campus," Dr. Baxter once said
to Dr. Smith, "be sure yea mention Willamette at least three j
times. So . . . in his speech wader the giant Capitol dome ia
Washington, with VP Nixon, Secry. McKay aad congressmen lis
tening. Dr. Smith told how: (1) Jason Lee "established a mission
in the valley ef the Willamette." (2) The crops they planted that
spring were "the first ef the Willamette Valley." (3) After re
turning east Jason Lee set out once aaere eav his "second trip to
the valley of the WlUamette. . . .
. !
It was bound to happen dept ... A lady named, "Mrs. A.
Oregon" of Wisconsin wrote the Oregon Highway Travel Bu
reau for tourist 'information about Oregon. And she didn't once
clear up that burning question: What the heck does that "A"
stand for? ...
Seems that baby sitters and ether teenagers In Salem have
dreamed up a fascinating new game to ease the pain ef those
long-sitting hours. They dial f oae numbers at random around X
aan. and seem to get a charge out ef dragging citizens eat ef 1
their beds at that hear. One irate resident answered the fone
twice the other early morning and got nothing but giggles aad
other sounds of Juvenile hilarity on the other end. The third time
he played It smart and let his wife answer. Fone company and
ethers say they have received similar complaints. If one ef those
citizens, who answers a fake call in the early! dawning, gets his
hands on one of those calling sitters' somebody wont be doing
ranch sitting for awhile.
.
Don Dill, Secry. of State's office staffer, wasn't particular-;
ly miffed over the gas-oil price boost. But he felt things were
carried too far when he got his gasoline bill. The envelope the!
bill arrived in was minus 0 .cents postage which Don had to
pay . . . One reminder of the national Democratic regime will
stand for a long time in Republican Oregon; The Liberty Bell
replica installed recently on the Capitol grounds ( Willson Park)
notes in large letters that the bell was dedicated to the state by
the Hon. John W. Snyder, ex-secretary of the treasury.
f-kt a, gain ni"an i
V7KIIM XU DCMK II
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t I I I t
Yrf 'T1:WR-(V
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"Comrade agent la happily report that TJ. is hopelessly d! vi Jed . , ,
half would like to drop Il-bor-S cm us . . .ether half
. thinks A-bomb would be enough.'"
NO MILK, NO HAYf
a carefully prepared brief on the life of the
Rev. Jason Lee. Listeners at the dedication
ceremony were surprised that Dr. Smith did
not once mention the name of the local insti
tution which he heads and which the Rev. Mr.
Lee is credited with having founded. And yet
when he wrote his speech: Dr. Smith followed
caref ully the dictum of his predecessor at Wil
lamette Dr. Bruce Baxter, who had a hard
and fast rule on mentioning that glorious
by Lichty
(Continued from page one)
use of the water and power,
which would make it a continu
ous thins nver 100 nr 200 vear
. ."I , .'
as long as the project lasted,
That was contrary to the original
concept, at least I can say most
of us in the West, where these
Droiects wera located, holi
it t h. Tn fw TOM.Z
.
crnmeni aoes not go into making
money on the projects. They got
in to get money out of it in the 1
case of irrigation, and with in-
terest, on the power, but when
-t u Hnn. it hoinnM . h
Senator Kutchel, the new sena-
tor from Tj.iffnmia Mn
tion to a "utility type of contract
for the sale of water" in the Cen-
tral Valley project in California
which a California court had
mlaH I
- I
Veteran. t
will resist T oTirK. "
HSL1 "SKLiSJffiS
"seir water Water iTUhit to
dLoosaT and use uLir 3L
aisposai ana use under, state
Ccial i on . nZJZZ: " oumned by Stalin at Yalta. Im
S?131 lf Perialism and .intransigence b-
nuirpH TT RMTTrr.C" r I
ings with the state offices for di
version of water for its irriga
tion projects, and this provision
still stands. Mr. Nelson, the
Bureau engineer, said In his talk
before the Willamette Basin com-
w- w i-r7rTrrtrf ir, I
ing with the State Engineer.
It Is apparent from the refer
ences made that the Senate com
mitee will look with a jaundiced
eye on a proposal to legalize the
conract ; method of supplying
water. lor irrigation. At the same
timo It nmt h. r.m.mi .lerauon nao creaiea m Moscow, u
th ltMnn In , tw-
singular. Here the users of Ir-
reervohcdotxM
arm!,iH,JfS,
Sffiarn.TSgP
' n. ftLSfln i,d-
on a contractual basis with an I
annual charge.
What Is clear Is that there will
STinH t Srwr
ifn-.i3
Si?SJS L? Boislfnd
v3 !!Hlnoi
take kindly . to the old type of
Irrigation dlsWcts where, land
could be voted in against the will
they will want to draw on those
stored waters for irrigating their
crops. How to get water to those
who want it and are willing to
pay for it, In a valley with as
much diversity'as this, with con
ditions quite different from those
in the usual type of Reclamation
Bureau project, is a real puzzle.
Farmers and lawyers . and engin
eers and public officials : must
set about doing more home work
on mis pro Diem. -' -
MtMawmvaaggaafan
AXiBirwol'.rrlSl
L
Ike Relaxes ,
British Fear of
- - -S .... . . ". ' 1 S ... .
Canceled Pacts
INTERPRETING T1US NEWS
By J. M. ROBERTS. JR.
' Associated Press News Analyst
President Eisenhower has made
it clear that when he spoke about
"repudiating secret . agreements'
he was actually talking about ex
plaining America's attitude on
some of them, rather than
any definitive action. j
x Other nations, particularly the
British who traditionally insist on
respect for international commit
ments. looked askance when the
President asked for congressional
repudiation of all secret agree
ments which had led to the en
slavement of peoples.
- That would have meant expung
ing the diplomatic record which
Russia has so flagrantly: violated,
and would tend to make Ameri
ca's executive agreements less val
uable in the future.
It would permit the Russians to
claim that the Western Allies had
merely considered Tehran. Yalta
and Moscow agreements as temp
orary, so why blame Russia for
repudiating them first.
It would have created 'the im
pression that the Washington ad
ministration could talk and seem
to agree on all sorts of interna
tional affairs without considering
anything binding until It had been
formalized by Senate approval.
Eisenhower said at his first press
conference as President that he byX ZUTiJ
m mna infant n..t k ana me reST UX
everything agreed upon at. such
and such a place at such and such
a time was void.
He just wants a statement from
Congress that the heart of Ameri
ca had never agreed to the enslave
ment of any people.
That's purely to assure subjected
pepples that the United States, if
an occasion to help them ever aris
es, will not be bound by the tech
nicalities which Russia has already
twisted to her own benefits.
It says particularly to Poland
that the U.S. never intended the
Yalta agreement to work out the
way it did. It is part of the long
range encouragement -regarding
eventual liberation of Eastern Eu
rope which Eisenhower and Secre
tary Dulles have so often stressed.
Congressional action on the reso
lution will of course revive the
argument over the faults of Yalta,
who was responsible, and how
much. . " j
e e e
The record shows pretty clearly
that Roosevelt and Churchill were
operating under considerable diffi
culties. They wanted to assure Rus
sian participation in .the war
against japan wnen tne war
against Germany should be over,
although it seems fairly obvious
that nothing could have been done
to keep Russia out.
But the Battle of the Bulge was
Just over, and Germany had thrown
Allies into .toght. The end
of the European war was not posi
tively in sight. NotWng could be
left undone to insure winning the
K10031 war.
R,sia troPs hd dvnced
"P17 ,Jhrou8h ste Europe
Roosevelt and Churchill could
merely rgue f8" f waj
Russia was about to do. Stalin did
mak,!! concessions, aPd.h uPP?rt
r tte estabhshment toe ; United
'JT
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www
T 1 it XL - til . wr, ,
ui id n, uuui uic onusn foreign
unice ana me American stale De-
partment suspected that Stalin had
Uotten himself in trouble with the
Politburo by being too agreeable.
therm to b notlccd
drastic change in Russian policy
cam tocreasmgly apparent.
iwa rxesKient iruman, : acung
almost entirely on his own, startled
America, British and Russian dip
lomats by Jerking the. lend-lease
rug right out from under the war
time Allies . i :.
Stalin said It might not have
been so bad If It had been done
States wanted to play that way.
Russia could double it, or words to
t effect. L
O O '
Suspicion immediately wiped out
any goodwill which wartime coop
ever W sincere gooa-
SuTT
Sg..Ew&tti
loan. , The request got bandied
tSS?'
" Sere ever . had been anything
wZTYT -...i.riri
nnmimtt nini fnr innict inn
fu"' "4
All the events of , the times seem
to boa It down to one conclusion
that the Western, diplomats Just did
not conceive of what Russia was
up to.
Bernard Baruch suggested later
that if -they went to any more con-
work first.
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Contracts for
Four By-Pass
Viaducts Let
Construction of four concrete
viaducts on the State Street-Battle
Creek unit of Salem by-pass foi
$130,580 was one of '15 construc
tion jobs awarded Wednesday by
the State Highway Commission
In Portland.
At the same time the commis
sion made plans to award some
13 million dollars worth of work
in the neat three months.
The Salem by-pass project
one of five in this areawent to
Tom Lillebo of Reedsport.
Others were:
Clackamas Construct 222-foot
reinforced . concrete viaduct at
Boeckmah Road over West Port-land-Hubbard
Hiahwav. Birkmeier
ana saremal. Portland, S45.530.
Clatsop, Yamhill, Columbia, Til.
lamook, Washington, Marion and
Polk Counties Oil mat surfac
ing of 28.74 miles on 10 state high
ways, J. C Compton, McMinnvilla.
$85,288.80.
Marion Paving and widening
.85 of a mile of Mt. Angel section
of Hillsboro-Suverton Highway In
ML Angel. Warren-Northwest. Inc.,
Portland. $63,039.50.
Marion Construct four con
crete viaducts on State Street
Battle Creek unit of Salem by-pass
section of Pacific Highway, Tom
Lillebo, Reedsport, $130,580.
The commission said about seven
million dollars worth of jobs would
come up at the April 8-9 meeting,
and the rest In a meeting here
May xo-xv.
The commission heard a Clack
amas County delegation appeal for
a new bridge over the Willamette
River at Oregon City. The same
group also asked improvement of
S. E. 82d Avenue from Portland
to Oregon City and for widenina
of U, S. 99 from New Era to
Hubbard and of the Mt. Hood High
way from Sandy to Rhododendron.
A Lane County delegation asked
construction of a 1 tt-mile section
of the Fox Hollow State Second a rr
Highway to connect with" the Cres-
well-Lorane county road. "
A Yamhill County group asked
the state to take over as a second
ary highway . the 5.8-mile route
between Carlton and the Yamhill-
Newberg Highway.
The commission awarded these
projects:
Baker Rock surfacing 16.29
miles of Poker Creek-Sumpter sec
tion of Sumpter Valley Highway,
IX. if. Sussex, BeUingham, $30,800.
xuiuitnoman Remove 415 feet of
viaduct and construct 5ll feet of
viaduct on 102nd Avenue overcross
ing. reconstruction on Banfield Ex
pressway, Donald M. Drake Co.,
Portland, $188,223.25.
union Grading and paving
2.21 miles of La Grande-Island
City section of Wallowa Lake High
way, K. F. Jacobson 8c Co., Inc.,
poruand, $95,983.
Wheeler Produce 12,000 cubic
yards of crushed rock on Mitchell
Willow Creek rock production proj
ect on Ocboco Highway, Rogers
Construction Co., Portland. $34,500.
Lake Pave 7.01 miles on Fre
mont Junction-Rose Creek section
of Warner Highway 4.3 miles north
of Lake view; grade and pave a
mile -of the Lakeview section of .
the Fremont and Klamath Falls
Lakeview Highway in Lakeview;
and level .33 of a mile, shoulders
and paving on Pine Street North
in Lakeview, J. C. Compton Co.,
McMinnville. $243,975.
Coos Grading and surfacing .2
of a mile of Lower Fourmile Road
junction section of Oregon Coast
Highway, Stanton W. Payne, Eu
gene, $11,546.
Deschutes Grading 12.09 miles,
paving and oiling shoulders on .
North unit of the Bend-Lapine
section of The ' Dalles-California
Highway, Rogers Construction Co.,
Portland, $756,47L
Bids - accepted but referred to
engineers to straighten out details
Included:
Linn Widening 7.83 miles and
paving of Noble Slough-Foster sec
tion of Santiam Highway west and
east of Sweet Home, Warren North
west, Inc., ; Portland, $216,618.
CARL TENGWALD DIES "
MEDFORD (fl Carl V. Teng-
wald, 63, a member of the State
Real Estate Board and a former
chairman, suffered a heart attack
at. his home Wednesday and died.
He was prominent in military,
fraternal and civic organizations
in Medford.
The widow and three daughters
survive.
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