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i 4r-Sc IV-Statesman,' Satan, On, Friday, June 2S, 1853 v "iyo tavvr Sways Us No Fear Shall Awe From First Statesman. March ZS. 1S51 . Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher .PuDiisfted very norma Business offleo 2 North Church St Salem. Or.. Telephoa -W) imifi at th imtoffm at WWm class matter under act of Coructe Member Associated Press J Tb ssoctated Press is entitled exclusively to the use tor reoubitration of all Meat news oriate ta this newspaper - Give Us Time Oh, weep for this fair city rich'in soap boxes and sewers and poor in the Finer Things of Life. Ask for bread arqund here and people think you got rocks in your head . . . Anon. Carl Hall, outstanding young Salem artist, makes a severe and bitter indictment of this community in his column "images" in Wed nesday's Statesman. Salem, he says, is blind, narrow, provin cial, smug and culturally insufficient. The public rejected Renoir's Venus. The city dis continued band concerts, doesn't have a sym phony orchestra nor a municipal auditorium, and has to import most of its music and mi grate elsewhere for drama. What does Salem have? "Unthinking sport free of culture." We have ball games, soap box derbies, and hot rod racing. And further more, Salem's growth "is just business more factories, finer sewage disposal units, bigger and better business districts." Well, dry the tears. Let us not lose hope for Salem so early in the game. From the long perspective of history it would seem that this much-maligned community has only just be gun the uphill struggle to its Golden Age. Ancient Greece's Golden Age always cit ;e$ as the supreme example by the intelli ;gentsia was a long time coming. Before the Age of Pericles,' before Athens could afford the luxury of sculptors and architects of gen . ius, of poets and dramatists, and of flourish ing school and political democracy, Athens had earthier interests. The Hellenes who came to Greece in search of homes were perhaps not unlike our West ern .pioneers. They demolished an earlier ci vilization, established themselves as masters ot the land. They displayed the vigor and ag gressiveness of a virile race, and among, their first objectives was the development of com merce. The men were busy with business and warfare, exacting tribute from the weak and .bringing wealth to the public treasury as well as their own coffers. When they weren't fighting or money changing, they were hopped-up about sports. Boxing (as early as 880 BC), hariot- racing (the early form of the hot rod), discus throw ing, and foot racing these appealed to those early -Greeks. They weren't writing so much poetry then or making statues of Venus. The gentler pursuits came later, after 445 BC, after the city and the citizens felt secure and rich, and inclined to lavish money -on festivals and public buildjngs. It took the Greeks many centuries to reach that stage. Salem is only 100 years old. Just give us time to grow up. M.W. Progress Marches On Time was when the Ferry Building at the foot of San Francisco's historic Market Street was the veritable hub of the entire northern part of California. - To it from across the bay to the east and north came travellers and commuters by the thousands. There were no spectacular Golden Gate and Oakland-San Francisco Bay bridges. Ferry boats plied busily past Goat Island en route to and from Oakland and Alameda, past Alcatraz and not far from Angel Island in frequent trips to the Marin County shores,, and northward in the wide channel to Valle jo and Mare Island. Everyone who came to San Francisco entered either by a road or tram up the peninsula from the south or by Churchill Urges Unity Now By J. M. ROBERTS. JR. Associated Press News Analyst Winston Churchill has adopted , the idea that now, when the weak- ness of Russia's political position in Eastern Germany has just been so forcefully demonstrated, is the time to push for negotiations on . the unification issue. 1 . - The British Prime Minister was ; the first to reply to the appeal for action on this score addressed by ', Chancellor Adenauer of West Ger ; many to the Big Three Allies. He i went no farther than to remind J Russia in oblique 'fashion without actually marking the Kremlin in the letter of the proposals made by the Allies last September. Russia had then proposed nego- i tlations. The Allies asked if that ! meant they were willing to pro i gresj through free all German elections. The approach fell apart i Tight there. What Russia wants is a reuni t ied but neutralized Germany, i Vith avenues of Russian coercion J -and 4nfilitration remaining open. ; .The Allies -want a reunified Ger ; many free to join, as the West Germany Republic has agreed to ! do, the Western European defense program. . There is no prospect of either .'side getting what it wants. What ; Churchill has done is merely to .'suggest that Russia bring up the reunification issue again. There may. however, be a more direct Anglo-French-American move In the offing, for which Churchill's letter to Adenauer opens the way. ;;.... '"'jt'need not be predicated on the , nope of immediate accomplish ment of unification. It could hardly I' prove out. if it were. But the Allies might make an important position i al maneuver by accepting one of " the several Russian offers of nego statesman Or. ' aS nd March a. 179. West Push for German After Reds' Setback in Berlin tiation, then drive the Reds into a hole by basing their whole position on the demand for elections and establishment of a truly autono mous German state. Russia just couldn't stand that. The propaganda she has been making about unification would fall apart. Its power to confuse the mind of Europe about the need for ratification of the defense treaties would be ended. If it is true enough that such ne gotiations would themselves serve, for a time, the Russian desire to delay the treaties. But the negotia tions need not be carried on in definitely, and the i situation in Dtp hH a rii U5 TPCDQuQGbl (Continued in the GOP primaries; but I do not see it Both are conserva tive Republicans; both have serv ed in the Senate and both are now serving on the Board of Con trol. . Their personalities are different of course, and their poli tical associations; but in a two some there. would be little mud slinging and rock-throwing just an old fashioned hoss race to see which would get to the finish line first "I know of no issues' en which they would divide; for Pat terson is sure to endorse Safe Driving. ' Mrs. Lee's entry would take the contest out of a dogtrot however. She has a powerful backlog of support (women) and of opposi tion (gambling interests, et al). Portland mayors have never done well in state politics, but Dorothy served long enough as Senator to develop a statewide reputation, the Ferry . Building via boat with Fisher-: men's Wharf taking but a minor share of the water traffic on the bay. - - " -j Then came the bridges, and buses and prl-' vate cars swarmed into the city from all di rections. Ferries gradually disappeared as a means of public travehvTheir last major stand was during the 'Golden Gate - international Exposition more than a decade ago when they hauled thousands of visitors to and from man-made Treasure Island in the center of the bay. s ' . ; The myriad, of shops in the Ferry Building slipped away. It remained the focal point only for travellers ouj- or in-bound on main land trains at Oakland. Much of it fell Into the discard. Now, the building is to be remodelled for other use! And from' its second floor, a veri table marvel of scale engineering a 600-foot long molded relief map of California must be removed tounew climes or destroyed. The map, with ts 800,000 hand-carved houses and its realistic portrayal of mountains, lakes, 4 streams, roads and cities, has provided many a pleasant few minutes for the literally mil- , lions of people who have "waited over" in the Ferry Building for boats or trains.; Now it must go. But it is certainly to be hoped that it can; remain intact and available for viewers. It also might providethe nub of an idea of what could be done alone similar lines as a fascinating promotion in and for Oregon. Hazards Overlooked The fatal injuring of an SP switchman in Salem Wednesday points up a factor which has long puzzled the laymen whose knowl edge of railroading is nil but whose sense of danger is acute. The man was wedged between a loading platform and a freight car, literally crushed in a gradual squeeze as the space narrowed and the car progressed. With all the modern-day emphasis on safe ty, something seems to have been overlooked. It would seem the space between trains and platforms should provide ample room for a person. To carry the matter further, it al ways has seemed dangerous in double-track areas to have trains passing so close together that a person would have to be as rigid as a pole to escape being buffeted by one train or the other and thrown under the wheels. We suggest a new look be taken at hazards like these, and remedies sought. Queen Elizabeth went to Scotland to go through another ceremony of accession to sov ereignty. At historic St. Giles cathedral where John Knox bitterly upbraided Mary, Queen of Scots, whose son, James VI of Scotland, became James I of Great Britain and from whom Elizabeth herself is descended, she participated in a service of dedication. The symbols of the Scottish kings were borne be fore her for the first time since the accession of George IV in 1822. This extra gesture may have been to wet down the Scottish national ists who acknowledge the Queen but want a separate parliament . . . We hope the Queen doesn't have to visit all the lands making up the Commonwealth to insure her right to the throne. Vice President Tom Marshall isan earlier day of HCL (high cost of living) gained a kind of immortality for himself with his re mark that what the country needed was a good five-cent cigar. Some one might raise a clarion call today to return to the good two cent stamp for first-class lettermail. Instead we appear to be headed for a four-cent charge. That word "Salem' looked pretty nice right up there at the top of the Western Interna tional League, and even if it doesn't stay there the boys have earned a resounding vote of attendance in their next home series. It has been a long time since the Senators achieved such eminence. A Portland committee has raised $5,384 to bring an elephant from Thailand. The city's papas now can dig up that much to buy peanuts. I France -indicates that there will be j no ratification In that quarter for several months, at least, Russian propaganda or no Russian propa ' ganda. ! In fact, it is just .as well to j recognize the possibility that there 'will be no unified Western Euro pean Army at alL In the meantime, Russian weak ness throughout Eastern Europe becomes more and more apparent. It is a fundamental thing, was bqund to develop, and points to a definite end. It is time the Allies got themselves set to exploit every crack which opens, in the Iron Curtain, and far faster than they have this time. from page one) and has as well a statewide ac quaintance. So far the talk has come chiefly from her friends, for she has been away most of the time since the first of the year. What I anticipate now is a scurrying around to get her a federal job partly in order to take her out of the governor's racef Her name was mentioned for collector of customs; but that plum was pick ed by George Jameson. Eisenhow er is shaking the civil service Christnuui tree however, so more plums may be available for party faithful: It is safe to assume that both Newbry and Patterson would prefer to have Mrs. Lee safely ensconced in a good federal berth before 1954 rolls around. Meantime over in the Democra tic corral the hostlers are work ing hard to get the party mule back on its feet for 54; and Re publicans dare not take victory for granted, even in Oregon. GRIN. AND BEAR W i i . f " ...Yen coald at least say good morning te me, Flgnewton! , , rn wager yea don't Ignore the women at second breakfast 'so completely! t - - - -- --: Now that Venus is back in the sky, out of reach, the local memorial committee vis still at grips with the problem of erecting a monument to Oregon settlers. Several suggestions IVgU Uili( BlUkAkAC JSIWME come in to us and wig wag f 1 in his, mortgaged tepee playing "Don't Fence Me In," on his tom-tom, (5) A preserved piece of the original frontier, under glass, (S) A statue of the very first settler who said, "I won der if this confounded rain will ever stop, Martha," (7) A large-type relief showing Lewis Clark shaking hands with Linsey it Woolsey, (8) A statue carved from pressed cornmeal of the Lone Ranger, without whom, as every red-blooded, pioneer-minded youngster knows, the West could never have settled in the first place ... "Facts About Fossils,'' is the title of Miscellaneous Paper 3 just issued by the State Department of Geology and Miner al Industries. Other state employes are wondering whether that refers to new or old fossils, and if there is anything the paper that hasn't already been covered by the Kinsey report. State Rep. Joe (Old Age) Harvey of Portland has turned over to Atty. Gen. Robert Thornton a copy o? a letter offering a sensational new method of cleaning up in the dog races. The letter was signed by a P. W. Borne of New York City. His method is called the "Place Parlay System," and is guaranteed, i to help dog-bettors get a bite of the winning dough. Horne of fers this millionaire-maker for only $5 on a money-back guar antee. The system is described as easy to operate, fully ante mafic" (someone else starts the dogs, apparently), and doesn't require statistics like the dog's weight, ancestry, track or weather conditions. Thornton says he turned the letter over to N. Y. postal inspectors. But if he shows op at the dog tracks one of these days, well ... Horne doesn't know it, but there are already several dandy systems which dog-track followers may use to come oui aneaa ai me tracje. one home. Another is to go to the own the track. A fourth is to that's illegal ... " Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago June 26, 1943 Wallace S.- Wharton, former state tax commissioner and ex ecutive secretary to Gov. Charles H. Martin, has been promoted to captain, USNR. Paulus Bros., of Salem, bought the prune packing plant in Roseburg. A communion set made of Oregon Myrtlewood was pre sented to Chaplain Harry Ma lone. 25 Years Ago June 26, 1928 The first six months of 1928 show building permits totalled $937,228 in Salem. A new wholesale house for Salem is the Rahn-McWhorter Paper Company on Ferry Street (In 1953 it is Zellerbach Paper Company, with Arthur Rahn manager.) New postal rates will save the Oregon . patrons of state, county, and city libraries $3500 a -year op books sent by tnaiL 40 Years Ago s June 2C, Mil At the forty-first annual re union of Oregon Pioneers in Portland this week, Salem men elected as directors included C H. Moores, N. H. Byrd and Judge P. H. D'Arcy One of the most sanitary eat ing places in the state, accord ing to State Dairy and Food Commissioner MickeL j is the Roseburg Soldier's Home. It scored 973 out of a possible 100 points. -. c . RepFrankrp. Goss of Wash ington wrote to Governor West . saying his bilL abolishing capi tal punishment was being eon sidered in many, states, hoped Oregon would enact it into law. IT By Lichty f via pony express, smoke signal ... They include ( 1 ) A pair of covered wagon tracks set in a block-long slab of concrete (poured of course by an Ore gon contractor), (2) A half-mile section of the Oregon Trial, (3) A bend of the Snake River by removing this to Marion County the Hells Canyon controversy also would be eliminated .... (4) A carving of a sobbing Indian sitting is to leave all your money at movies, instead. A third is to take a gun along and but no, Ike Retracts Nomination Of Tom Lyon WASHINGTON Lf) President Eisenhower gave up Thursday on Tom Lyon as his man to bead the U. S. Bureau of Mines. At the request of Secretary of the Interior McKay, the President withdrew Lyon's nomination from the Senate and started looking around for another candidate. Lyon, a 65 1 year old mining engi neer from Salt Lake City, told the Senate Interior Committee Tuesday that he was drawing a $5,000 a year pension from the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and that he is opposed to the mine safety law he would be expected to ad minister. A storm of senatorial criticism arose, and Lyon himself requested his nomination for the $14,800 a year job be withdrawn. Oregon, Grange Head Sued in Auto Wreck PORTLAND WV-Alfred J. Mulr head of Seattle filed a damage suit for $54,500 Wednesday against Elmer McClure, Oregon grange master. Muirhead said he was seriously injured in an automobile accident In which his car crashed with one driven by McClure. The accident occurred Jun 17 on Highway 99 south of Oregon City. SURGICAL SUPPORTS Of all kinds. "Trusses. Abdominal Sapports. r Elastle Hosiery Expert FittersPrivate Fitting; "Ask Tow Doctor" ! Capital Drug Store 4t5 State St. 'Corner of Liberty 8 and H Green Stamp Land Board Justifies Low Interest Rate PORTLAND Ul The State Land Board said Thursday that a loan made at a low interest rate was justified, y- L- ; State Sen. Richard L. Neuberger had asked the board to explain why it Jiad loaned $265,000 from the state school fund at 4 per cent interest when the going rate on the open market is three-fourths to one per cent higher. - The loan was made to Cameron Cliff of Silver Lake for a period of 28 years. State . Treasurer Sig Unander said security and not earning was the important aspect in making loans from the state school fund. The board will loan only up to 50 per Cent of appraised value while public lenders willgo as high as 80 per cent. . Another member of the board. Gov. Patterson, said the 4 per cent rate is 1 per cent higher than the state gets for most of its invest ments. Patterson added that in general state policy follows Fed eral (Land Bank rates. Neuberger, in making his in quiry, suggested fa preference for J certain borrowers Lost American Plane Spotted EDMONTON, Alta. (A An RCAF search plane has sighted a wrecked aircraft northeast of Fort Nelson, B. C. and it is presumed to be that of a light plane missing since tuesday night with three Americans aboard, the Air Force said Thursday night 1 An RCAF Dakota, one of .three search planes in the area, radioed searchmaster Fit Lt S: N. E. Beauchamp at Fort Nelson that one wing was off the grounded plane and a white arrow was laid out on the ground.-indicating someone had left the wreck. - The three Americans have been identified as James Kelly of Van couver, Wash., pilot: Norval Fos-- a pilot; and D.. L. Dutton of Port land, Ore. . . The trio left Vancouver, Wash., four days ago 'on a business flight to Fairbanks, Alaska. They planned to follow the Alaska Highway north after landing Tuesday at Fort St John, B. C. Roseburg Judge to Resign; in Pubic Off ice Since 189 ROSEBURG W . Municipal Judge Ira B. "Bob" Riddle, who has held public office since 1894, wiU resign July 1. Riddle, now 82, is the son of the founder of the town of Riddle. He has been court reporter, county clerk, city attorney, city council man, and justice of the peace in his long career in public office. NEWSPAPERMAN DIES REEDSPORT OB A veteran Oregon newspaper man and jus tice of the peace here for many years, died in a hospital here Wednesday night. He was Fred Wright, 75, a native of Roseburg. SCHAEFER'S Rectal Ointment TUBE (With Applicator) Why suffer the discomfort of irritating and itching of piles? Sold Only at SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE Open Daily 7:36 A.M.-8 P. M. Sunday A. M. - 4 P. M. 115 N. Commercial TOOTH TONIGHT 9:15 P.M. SET OF SIX SAMSON STEEL OUTDOOR CHAIRS Plus:. $50 Cash GRAND PRIZE Bus Driver 9 ) Police Catcli Theft Suspects UMATILLA I A bus driver and a city - policeman teamed Thursday to. capture two men and a ; woman held on suspicion of armed; robbery. r - - Dick Bauman, Portland bus driver, arrived, at. the Wigwam Cafe at the mouth of the John Day River in Sherman County, after two men and a woman robbed Mrs. Leonard Cotton of $155. He saw them drive off. and phoned a description of their car to state police at Arlington. Sgt Curtis Bacon radioed a pick up order. It was heard ' by Walter Lipscomb, Umatilla city policeman, who blocked the high way with his car and made the arrest Sgt Bacon identified ' them " as Wayne AQen McSweeney, 39, his wife, Frances Lillian McSweeney, 33. and Frank Gordon Jr.. 28. They said they are transients. They are held in the Sherman County jaiL Ike Wished GIs Well on Last Trip By. Williamsburg WASHINGTON to President Eisenhower saw about 130 dis abled veterans off Thursday on the yacht Williamsburg's last scheduled cruise as a presidential vesseL . The yacht will be decommis sioned next Tuesday and stored in the "mothball fleet" The Presi dent is giving up the ship because he regards it, the White House has said, as "a symbol of need less luxury." , Bids are now being received for' th ! Collinson Bros, j ' . v Farm - approximately 299 acres near j West- WoodburnJ Oregon Obtain information about bidding -from , Pioneer Trust Company Ji Administrator Pioneer Trust Bldg., Salem, Oregon Tickets On ARABIAN HORSE SHOW 0 ST. PAUL RODEO O CLYDE BEATTY CIRCUS O WILLAMETTE CONCERT SERIES: O SOAP BOX' DERBY BANQUET 1 I WRITER 390 State JEWELERS . v 1 y Marshall Strawberries W Ok. Vic Villiamson-ViUiarnson Farms Hazel Gren Turn Right At totem TPofe 1 Follow Signs JV DAILY PRIZE- Award if Winner is Present! Will be Awarded JULY 3rd DEPOSIT FREE TICKETS iujDpD(g 4The"Fr1encfliest Stores iiv .Town" Free Parking at All Timet Delay Rates Worry Highway ataii ' 11. W ' PORTLAND m iThe State Highway - Commission expressed concern Thursday over the delay iu uuc3Uiijway; project, ana rising interest rates.' j. . -j - The delayed project is the Bani field Expressway, which Is to cut from the downtown area through East . Portland to the Columbia River Highway. Union Pacific rail relocation is caDedlor along much of the route. Engineers complained that the railroad company's legal staff was taking jtoo long to -respond to high way commission , proposals. The fiking interest rates .nay eat into highway funds. Fred H. Paul us, chief deputy state treasurer, reported. He said a 33 million dot lar bond issue-may have to be limited to 10-year bonds in order to keep within a 2 per cent in terest rate limit imposed by the 1953 Legislature. A 20-year limit had been planned. Previous 42 million dollar bond issues 5 were sold in bonds maturing from t to 20 years. - Unofficially a highway staff member said this might cost the state M much as tw million dol lars al year for the first few years. Chairman Ben Chandler. . Coos Bay, laid more would be learned by Jily 22, when the. commission decides whether to issue the bonds. ' I'iiilJiNM Announcements weaging invitations Speedy 24 Hour Service . V ALLY'S PRINT SHOP 1 I j Open Saturday Mssonle Bid. Phone 2-SS53 Sale Mow e June 27-2S Jury 3-4-5 ' July 1 ; Y Nov.'to Mar., 'ji July 12 '- 1 . i i ' - WIRE Dial 4-2223 All Expenses Palo. Choke 6 Wonderful vacations. N0V1 i '' - . a . v.