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1 . 4 (Sec 1 Slertcsaaxu SalsxaOrsw Thurs. August 13, 1SS3 t"No Favor Sways Vs No Fear Shall Auj . From First Statesman, March 2S, ltsi , --; i -. ' . - s ' Statesman Publishing Company ' CHARLES A. SPKAG UE. Editor and Publisher , .i ' ''f ..-' v ' . Published vry morntat- Buatneaa efflc SSS f.,. North Churcb St., Slm. Of - Telephone S-8441. i Entered at th poaioffle at SaJern. Orw aa aaeend daaa matter under1 art of Congre March a. 187S. I ' Member Associated Press - -; ' y Tbi AaaocUted Preeaiia entitled ajuthiaiveJy to the aaa (or republication of ail tocal oewa printed ia " . : thla newspaper Land Board Timber Sklc Thanks to the vigilance of State Treasurer. Sig Unander the state has made a better deal in disposing of timber on land administered by the Land Board for the f benefit of the school fund; but it Is hardly accurate to" say the advantage amounted to. $84,000, the dif-, fetence between the selling price for the tim ber and the: appraised value of ilands on a proposed 'land exchange, ? : " The original proposition Was for a trade by the C D. Johnson Lumber Co. of a tradf of 1040 acres for the state-owned tracts total ing 310 acres. Competent independent ap praisers put the value of each ownership at $78,000. Unander ( suggested tailing for bids, on the timber. This was done atfad the Johnson Company offered $162,194 forithe timber, and its bidwas accepted.! However jit retains own- ership of its 1040 teres. To arrive at a correct determination of the gain the state has made by! this method it jwrould be necessary to call for bids on the timber on the company's tract, then compare valufes of the lands without the timber. This would reduce o perhaps vftpe out, the reported gain" of $84,000. The Land Board adhered to its old policy and "sold the timber only, retaining title to the land wnich will gro'w another tree crop for future sale. The mistake a former land board made on a i pine deal in Deschutes County was to sell the land along with the timber, and .that without la call for bids. One may wonder at the accuracy of an ap praisal which puts land arid timber at a value 4 of 178,000 when on bid the timber alone brings over twice that, "sum. The only explanation-is that the value of timber is what someone will pay for it. It has been a common experience in recent years to j have bids run more; than twice the appraisal. 4 .... AFL" Suspends HA j ? ; ' It remains to be seen whether the threat of ouster from the American Federation of La bor will brin'gto heel the pirates who domi T nate the waterfximt in New York through" the ; International LongsKoremen's Associa t i o n. The executive council of the Federation vot 1 ed Tuesday to suspends the ILA because it - failed to clean its own bouse;, but so farlthe ' union bosses havg indicated no intention to 1 accede to the council Vjlemands. If they.; fail, ' t to move they wil) be kicked out by the Fed ; eration at.; its convention in St. Louis next month.. -. -r M . v'' This action by( the AFL ia belated. The facts ' about the New j York waterfront have been notorious for years. The evil shapeup, bosses i sustained in popster by killings, organized theft on the docks, tributCtxacted ofvstfeve-" dore companies'- this is old stuff; 'but the T Federation shielding itself behind the local autonomy of the member unions didn't move . until the stench; got too "great for'it to stom ach. Last May pave Beck, now head of the Teamsters, took the, lead in an effort for Fed- ' eration action toward ILA reform or kicking . it" out. . i . Joe Ryan, president of. the union on one of these "lifetime"! setups, is under indictment for larceny of .union funds.. He's a tough' egg -had to be to hold office among .such a gang of murderers; j&nd he isnt'one'to cave in readily. He and: his collegaues in, power may thumb their noses at the AFL and then hope to beat the indictments. The real shapeup, however is in the form of legislation against the dock racket. New York and New "Jersey have entered into a compact designed to purge "the waterfront; and President Eisen hower has just approved,a bill to validate the compact. Unless! the 'racketeers find a way to pull the teeth in this compact their days of power and graft may be doomed. The trdy action of the Federation shows how urgent was the need for drastic reform on the docks of New York, Birooklyn and Jersey City. SKELETON KEY . .. - -. - i i , . Backfire ofitropcedT-HRevUion grj) JjQQ tFOD UsSj Vancouver, Wash.' is-thinking about chang ing! its name to Fort Vancouver in an attempt to toid the persistent confusion arising from the fact that the chief city of! Western Canada ha')he same namel The change would mere ly a reversion to the original name adopt ed; flhen the Hudson's Bay Company under Drohn .McLouglid moved; its headquar- . te?sithere from Astoria in 1825. Of course Vanpouver, Wash, night do what Salem, Ore. didfa' few years ago; with respect to its name-. saEe la Massachusetts.! It might wire Vancou ver," B; C. and ask it to .chaiigW Its narafto Frservilleor to Granville, its! original name -. ' 1 -1 ?Ain't science wonderful?" A bit "too won derful," reflect those speeders tagged by 'radar. What the city should install is an electronic device which will ilow down the speeding cars. ' - i ' Last week the Way Street Journal pub lished what it said was a tentative draft ot a presidential message on revising the Taft Hartley Law. The publication proved a minor sensation in labor and political circles. To a good many it looked as though it had. been drafted right in the office of Secretary, of Labor JJurkin. When Republican members of Congress saw it they set up a howl; and the White House disowned it. The secretariat there was said to-be greatly wrought up Over the "leak." ; Most of the proposed changes would have been to the advantage of labor unions. State laws banning the union shop woulobe rilled out as far as firms doingj interstate business are concerned. Union hiring halls would be sanctioned. Usef of the injunctive process in secondary boycotts would encounter delays. "Unions could not however bring up new de V.mands during the life of a contract. ' M Copies of the draft were sent to chairmen of the Senate and House committees, dealing i with labor, so it. evidently had progressed .farther than being just a working paper from the lower echelons. The next session' of Congress is supposed to get down to business dn amending the Taft-Hartley Law. Such is the bitterness of the controversy on labor law that no very important changes are apt to be made by the .present Congress, . .-' (Continued from page one) j Soviet Possession of Hydrogen Bomb Not Seen " t By JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON The right wif to understand GeorgL Mai eokov's claim to know the secret of the hydrogen bomb, is as part of a much larger whole. Even d Soviet hydrogen bomb would not be a danger to this coun try, all by itself. But, it"i ai very great danger indeed, as one part in a gigantic: machine of Soviet power whichiis now near ing completion. ' As to the specific problem of the bomb, it now seems td t - piS that no So vef test explof as threat by Itself to ' United States : ger towards the ' end of next year. Unfortunately, .however, there are excellent reasons to adjust past estimates of a relat ed Soviet effort the build-op of the Soviet Long Range Air Army, which gives meaning to Soviet atomic power. - In brief, it is now confirmed that the Soviets have - started quantity production -ef the TU 31 a big turbo-jet bomber com parable in range and other char acteristics to our ownB-36. The TU-31 will rivf the Lnnff Rinfe be fairly well Air Army what it has hereto- e s t a b nsni iore lacsea, tne capaouiiy to make round-trip attacks on Americas targets from bases on Soviet territory. - V j 1 V1( sion has occur ' red as vet. Ac cording to re4 pliable report v at any rate, no SlB W. an ;c plosion has e tip by th detection system.' : - "J What is now expected, there4 fore, is a Soviet repetition of our. own Eniwetok test of 4 10314 .Before very long, ! U the fore casters are I correct. they will try-teat a weapon like the chief hfimh nf our 1951 Eniwetok se ries.' This bomb, had a power ot - mote than 200 kilotons more than the explosive force of 200,4 OOO- tons of TNT and it con4 tained a small quantity of the! heavy hydrogen mixture which forums the core of a true hydro g$bomb.- j" j r: j dor Eniwetok tests had a doa. bte 'purpose 4o experiment with oet-of the very powerful atom! ic bombs that are-needed as triggers . for hydrogen bombs and to gain data on tfce hydro gen fusion reaction. A similat bomb test will justify Male ke boast. It is In .order fo the Soviets, whose biggest bomb to- date had a power ander I kilotons. Aad snch a -test will sdt; delay the Soviet over-all atomic bnild-ap, by requiring . conversion of plntoaiom reac tor! to produce large quantities of tritium, the fantastically cost ly! Very heavy hydrogen that is the most important component f a true hydrogen bomb. ' j , . - . j. . ,i 'if this is the sort of thing Jli lenkov was talking - about, tkpre is no reason to adjust past estimates of the Soviet atomic progress, which placed the be tinning of the time of real dan In addition, there are good , reasons to believe that the So viets now have the prototype of a giant jet bomber compar able to our - B-32 the most ad vanced bomber we possess. The new plane was expected to be shown, in tact, at the Moscow air show Jiat was cancelled by bad weather. If weather permits, the showing may well have taken place before these words can be printed. In any case this new plane, if its existence is con firmed, will put Soviet strategic air development almost on a par with our own. . ' Finally, to complete this pat tern of growing Soviet air -atomic strength, there are the mark ed peculiarities of the new So viet bndget, which Malenkev an nounced with snch a flourish. Malenkov chiefly emphasized the larger share of the Russian national income that is now to j be allocated to the consumer. In ' view of the extraordinary rise of Soviet national income and productivity since the end of the war, greater generosity to the mass of the population is cer tainly overdue. It should not be difficult to finance, either, since the Soviets have- largely com pleted their mostTmassive mili tary program, the' re-equipment of , their huge: ground forces. 4 Meanwhile Malenkov made no mention whatever of two fea tures of the budget which are deeply disquieting. On the one band, all the grandiose capital projects of Stalin's old age have now 1 been cancelled. For in stance, the dead dictator's heirs bare stopped construction of the canal from the Aral Sea to the Caspian Sea. and the tunnel , ' from Sakhalin, nnile the Straits - of Tartary, to the Siberian main- - land. By so doing, they have pro portionally increased -. the al ready enormous capital . funds available, for more immediate ly useful purposes, snch as the expansion of aircraft produc tion. On the other hand, "residual" expenditures have also been enormously increased, from 28.5 billion rubles, in the 1952 budg et, to no less than 73.9 billion rubles in this year's budget This special category of outlays i is nevjr itemized in the Soviet budget It is generally believed to-provide most of the finahc ' ing for the Soviet atomic effort, the .guided missile development" program, and the like. The mean ing of such an increase, com ing at this time, should not ire quire further comment The likelihood is strong that the Soviet annual investment in the atomic program, guided mis sile development and other spe cial weapon projects, now con siderably exceeds our own In vestments. Add the progress, of Soviet strategic air. Add, far ther, the Soviet build-up which ear own Chiefs of . Staff ! have held will reach a stage of acute danger in 1954. The sum of all the evidence is a f atare danger for which, at present, this conn try is making no .adequate prepa ration. . , - - I (Copyright. 19S3 ' f New York Herald Trfbuna. toe.l Better English ; : . By D. CL WnXIAMS ; 1. What is wrong 4 with this sentence? "When Hi saw him going down the street I rea lized that he didn't mind me staying -at home." 1 Z. What is the correct pronun ciation of "demise"? 3. Which one ot these words, is: misspelled? Perscribe, perse vere, personify, persecution. ? 4. What does the word timpli-, cation" mean? 1 - 5. What is a word beginning with st that means "something that rouses the mind or spirits"? ANSWERS ' L Say, "he didntimind mj staying at home." 2. Pronounce de-miz, as in sae unstressed, 1 as in size, accent second syllable 3. Prescribe. 4. Act of bringing into intubate or incriminating connection. "Your implication, is that Charles is guilty.' 5. Stimulus. , ,i ; as much as $30,000 to j the earn paign fund, he replied; - I knew it was illegal to do that . . . probably better than anybody I have ever tailed to because, so far as I have been able to ascertain, I am the only man who has ever read the Tax Act or the Corrupt Practices Act" "Q. That is in either party, or just one?" . "A Both parties, sir. I recall very well how in thej '40 cam paign, with a ceiling of $3,000, 000 as the top amount that a political committee could spend, the Republicans spent $18,000, 000 not to elect Willkie and re ported it" Q. At least they reported it" "A. We . reported everything too. The way you do lit sir, is to organize other committees, and then each committee has a $3,000,000 limit and jrou don't -run out of $3,000,000 1 gifts un less you run out -of names." Maycock refused to give the names of the dummies he used as contributors, and when he was asked if he thought it was innocent of them to make a fake ' contribution to the party he ensweredl j "Congress has seen fit to " make politics difficult, danger ous and complex, and has made -it practically impossible to car ry on the functions of the dem ocracy in a proper manner by ,what I consider a very hypro critical law. ,1 am j referring to the Heath Act" He said a mouthful then. The. same is true with respect to the state corrupt practices law which has made hypocrites (or worse) of many candidates.. The ' terms of these laws are so rigid and their limitations; have be come so unrealistic in view of high campaigning costs that candidates or their friends are forced to resort to many devices to finance a campaign. Like other laws against sin, it will not be moderated, so spending . goes on and the spenders are never brought to book. Mayock said if it was a crime to channel contributions through names of other than the original . donors and he was convicted and sentenced to serve a week to tea days on each offense "I wont live long enough to get out of jaiL" In his frankness be has exposed part of the not-so- secret evils of our political sys tem: rewards for political fav i . ors, concealed and excessive po litical contributions. The very exposure, however, may .serve to make politicians more cau- Mrs. F.D.R. Returning To Politics Inside TV . . . 9 ! 1 TV Networks Bid ' For Theater Gornell and! Beatrice of signing Broad Martin and Ethel policy Maty Ives i Sta rs 1 kkd by his! favorite feren children are parents in confribut- U II! is being- jelt by follow telethons one xcetk, there us numerous op- unable to afford it hurti. If var an overall con there would be of. the potential tious if not more ethicaL Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES : 10 Years Ago X August 13, 1943 Sen. Charles L. McNary was speaker jat the Keizer local of the farmers Union, of which ne is a member. t American Liberator bombers, flying a round trip of more than 2500 miles from their African bases, damped 330,000 pounds ; of high explosives on .German aircraft factory at Wiener Neu stadt " r i Col. Hans Christian Adamson, member of the Rickenbr cker mission which drifted on the Pa cific for; 21 days,- spoke at the Salem Women's Club. I ; ' . . 25 Years Ago Aagust 13, 1928 Willamette, University is 84 years old today. On Aug. .13, 1844, Mrs. Chloe Wilson opened the first session of the Oregon Institute Willamette University after 1853) in frame building which cost $4000. The plot of Oakland park addi tion was approved by the city planning, and zoning commis sion. It extends from 14th Street to 19th Street v Silverton had two big blazes, a storage garage destroyed and planing mill damaged with a loss of $45,000. 40 Years Ago August IS, 1913 George Wenderoth, who has been oi$ government surveying in Alaska, is visiting here his brother Harry Wenderoth, ;fc in Salem. - ; Paul Westerland of California finished! first in the Mt. Baker marathon runners. His time was 9- hours j 33 minutes. Fjve thousand pheasants have been raised at the state pheas ant farm near. Corvallis and arc to be distributed over Oregon. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty - f a i Taw By J. M. ROBERTS. JR. Associated Press News Analyst Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is returning to politics. After eight years devoted to the United Nations, during which she did a remarkable job of keeping her skirts clear of partisanships, she's going to have a Washington headquarters again. She says this is going to be non-partisan effort, too. That is, she and the new organization she will head, called the National Is sues Committee, will not endorse candidates. At she expresses it, -the idea is to refute what she calls prevalent fear and confusion, re-define issues and see that the people get facts upon which to make sound judg ments. In announcing formation of the committee, however, she issued a statement which presumably repre sents something of a platform. It conforms very closely to the pat tern established by the Democratic members of Congress since Presi dent Eisenhower's inauguration. Top names of the committee also may be taken as some indication of the approach to facts which can bo expected from it. They include Charles F. Brannan, formerly Democratic secretary of agricul ture; Clark Clifford. White -House general counsel under the Demo crats; Walter Reuther, president of the CIO: and Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Coun cil of Economic Advisers under the Democrats. - In her statement, Mrs. Roose velt attacked those whom she ac cused of trying to wreck the inter nationalist foreign policy of both Democratic and Republican administrations. On domestic issues she took ex actly the line you would ; expect from Eleanor Roosevelt and the widow of Franklin D. Roosevelt She said talk of a controlled re cession would only lead to unem ployment and reduction of busi ness opportunity. She criticized government failure to produce a farm program In meet falling farm income. She said ground had been lost in the fields of education and health, "and nothing seems to be contemplated to improve our social . security program except to spread dismal inadequacy over more , people." She didn't amplify on these points. President Eisenhower has shown interest toward all three matterf hy raising their adminis tration to Cabinet rank and an nounced various study programs, just as he has on the farm mat ters. Although as stated above, Mrs. Roosevelt's recent years . have been spent with deliberate devotion j to non-partisanship, they have not, been non-controversiaL : Some of the civil rights issues she has support en in the United Nations contribute to the belief by Sen. . Bricker and others in Con gress that the Constitution needs to be revised to make sure that international conventions arrived at in the U. N. or elsewhere out side Congress cannot supersede the law -of the land. The finger points surely now to ward her return to at least some degree of ' the - controversially which surrounded her when she lived in the White House. ' By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD Helen Hayes, Katherine LiLue may be the CBS answer to NBC's tew way talent for their spectacular fall line-up. Merman are already on the verge of l inking with the latter network. - CBS is featuring Katherine Cornell in a 13-week dramatic teleseries starting Sept 27. This will mark Miss Cornell's first pearance on film, although Helen Hayes and Beai- trice Liuie.have guested on TV programs before. TELETORIAL: The old saying that "char ity begins at home" has taken on 4 new twist these days with the home tele-viewer givinh to practically all worthy causes lichen as entertainer. People are digging deep, and following the fine example set by their ' ing. I However, the law of diminishing returns some charities which have the misfortune or big national charity drives. List year. were three major drives via television, p. peals for local charities. 1 ? I People trarst.to give, but findihemsel the luxury of giving beyond the point tc here rious "appeals" were spaced over the year xroiung ooay ana restricted to at minimum less confusion and frustration ott the pari conorsv - I : MAN BEHIND THE SCENES: William Self. 32-veafld pro ducer of Schlitx Playhouse, owes his present executive position to his good friend. Spencer Tracy. : , . . ' j H j ; Self, who started his career asani actor, toured the glittering night spots of New York with Tracy! and saw adulation! paid to successful performers. By contrast Tracy also tfok him to the drug stores and small-time bars where actors who ase ,Mat liberty" hang out It was a good object lesson for Bill III III "Nothing is more wonderful than being an! actor IF; you're a success," S pence told him. "I've shown you both sides. Weigh your chances and decide whether it's worth the gainble." Bill put his greasepaint in mothballs and decided to be an employer instead of an employee. . f. If. ;.. fj-j His first chance to show what he could do m a producer came when he shot 13 "China Smith" telefilms in 21 ays. The best thing he did was to hire two Academy Award winnerjs, cameraman Russ Harlan and film Editor George Amyt Avho formed the nucleus around which the Schlitz Playhouse production mit was built With 65 telefilms under his belt in one year, although relatively new to the business, he is now a seasoned producer. If; ; i . ; ' I ?. ; ii ; SHORT SHORTS: Laraine Day (Mts. teo Durocher) ar rives in Hollywood August 20 to begin wotk on "White Col lar Girl," which will start filming Sept. 1. The hi'sh-hvsh talk around town, since the Durochers bought a new Bel-Air home, is that "Lippy" will switch from tle Giants to giant production for films . . . Brian Aherne t ill appear as the suate Frank Case, host to show business treats foryears at' the Algonquin Hotel in New York; in h S new ttleseries, "Wayward Inn" . . . The Ozzie Nelson fami y will beja major contributing group to the lJS. Treasury thi year. They begin 40 TV shows and 28 radio show s as usual, for two sponsors' . . . Arthur Godfrey's tremendout welcomelhome bjl his fans1 after a three-month layoffs proved his unfltminished oppeat by registering a smash rating of 3 . . j! II 11 STARR BULLETINS? "Duffy's Tavern" villi be psr of your bright TV entertainment fare and soon. Ed Gardner his signed with Hal Roach Jr., to produce a 'aeries of aha If -hour comedies f filmed) based on his "Archie" character . . . Hedy Lamarr, in Rome to do TV films, has junked the whole idda she may still do "Helen of Troy" here . .. . Red Buttons tells fhe story about the Gaiety Theater and the Gaiety Delicatessen on Broadway, t Now tho theater is closed and the delicatessen is still open," said Red. "This' proves pastrami is stronger than ham.r (Copyright 1953. General features Corp.) some rights. Hastil ...btslits, ts.Vnd thai WELFARE STAFF LONDON (INS) A large staff of welfare officers is maintained on British railways i to assure amenities ' in the operation of cloak rooms, rest rooms and can teens and the proper heiting, lijbt fni ventilation of rail- Iroad properties. Franz Bakery Terminal Set To Rise Soon Construction will begin in a few days for a $43,800 Franz Bakery truck terminal at 1220 S.-20th St, according to a build ing permit for, that amount is sued Wednesday by the city en gineer's office, i The permit issued to U. S. Bakery, Inc., lists Robert L. Fors ter and Son, 2180 Wallace Rd., as builders for the structure. Forster explained that the ter minal for the Portland bakers will accomodate about 10 trucks, is to be a one-story structure 52 by 135-ft and will be finished 120 days after start of construction. Bread and pastries to be distrib uted in the Salem area will be stored in warming rooms at this terminal prior to delivery. Fors ter said. Other permits issued Wednes day by the engineer's office, in cluded Maryellen Good, re-roof dwelling, 2330 tee St, $200; Ed puincy. ' re-roof a rage. 2277 Claude St, $50 Foster and Klei- ser. erect poster Da net 332 n. Commercial St. $150. and M. W. Ash, alter dwelling, I960 Market St, $2,500. 4 WORRY INSUftAfkt ntOTtCTION Guy Jonas, Ins. 2035 Fairgrounds, Rd. Phlne 3-9431 TO BOOST PRODUCTION ST. LOUIS UH Monsanto Chem ical Co. Wednesday announced it plans to operate) a second furnace for production of elemental phos phorus at its plant between Mont pelier and Pocatello, Idaho. Wanted . j . Service Man For Auto-Marie: Heating Equipment Permanent Job! Experience Required Salem Heating & Sheet Metal Co. Day 2 X555 f Night! 41428 rani) Y.'J --- Now Isi-progress r Rj Lj U JJJ . . . th biggest shoe j sale in Salens . . ; Fa- Bu fit pedi ot tb sale in Salens . . .' Fa mous brands V . . all at exactly 2 for i the price fl!. - )! 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