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4 C5e 1) -Statesman Salem, Or. Thmsu Sept. 3, 1953 e (jDrciontatcmaau "Ao Favor Sways Us No Fear ShaU Atc" From First Statesman. March 3S, 18S1 , "- V. . Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Puoltahed very . mornlar Busumm otBeo tat . Worth Churcft St.. Salem. Or, Telepfaooa S-3441 " Entered at tba poatofflca at Salem. Or, aa conS clan matter lUMer act ax congress Member Associated Press Tba 4aaoetated Proa ia antiUad nrtnttroly to the oaa foe republication of- aA local aewa oriatetf la thla oewspape - ' Oregon and the Offshore Lands Act When Attorney General Thornton, a Dem ocrat, queried the State Board of Control, whose members all are Republicans,' on whether Oregon should join with other states in challenging the recent act of Congress yielding jurisdiction over offshore lands to adjacent states, the reply he got was some thing of a "tour de force." The board drove the ball back hard" into Thornton's corner, with five questions tagged onto- it which really invite a negative answer. The board in, its zeal, however, got off the beam in its rejoinder. It counted as a "gain" to the state not only the 676,000 acres of offshore lands but "400,000 acres under the bays and navigable streams.' While it is true the 1953 Act of Congress confirmed the state's title to the latter this was not'brought into question by the Supreme Court in the California and Texas cases. The federal gov ernment had never asserted claim! to these lands, and the administrative officials when they ; were making surveys to apply the ruling of the Supreme Court drew lines to leave under state jurisdiction lands under bays 1 and estuaries ank under navigable streams. ' J i ' The board made a minor faux pas when it declared itself "the trustee of these lands lying under the sea and under navigable waters for the common school fund of Oregon." Actually, it is the State Land Board which administers these lands as trustee for the school fund. While The Statesman believes that all off shore lands should remain under the juris diction of the federal government it thinks the state officials should labor to protect the interest of the state: If Oregon were an inland state its officials could well reason that it would fare better if offshore lands were under federal jurisdiction, in which case the royalties would go to the general treasury. As a coast state, however, Oregon may see some potential revenues from its offshore lands (though no oil has been dis- covered there yet), and favor the new law. In the past, if memory serves us accur- afely, the disposition of attorney generals of Oregon has been to line up behind the claim of states' . rights to lands, although Oregon did not join with other states as amicus curiae on the California side in the latter" battle for retaining offshore lands - which, have yielded substantial revenues from oil. 'Since the long-run advantage to Oregon " is by no means clear either, way the issue is decided, the state will do well to stay out of the litigation. The chance of overturning the congressional act seems to this paper quite slim. Anyway, enough states are joining in the legal action to make certain the law will get a court test. Pickers at Alderman Farms. on road picked 146 tons of beans "Jack and the Beanstalk" story rewritten now. udget Directive Reflects Stard Which May By JOSEPH. AND STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON An impor tant faction within the Eisen hower Administration is deter mined to Sac rifice a seri-. ' ous American defense effort in favor of a' balanced budget: Fo,r. the time be-; ing, moreover, this faction appears to have the Pres ident's back ing. These eon-. ; Jom.,,1. elusions are-; " very clearly suggested by a hitherto undisclosed and highly significant exchange of letters between the Budget Bureau, the Defense Department, and the White House. Before Congress adjourned. Budget Director Joseph Dodge sent a form letter to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, The neat of this letter was con tained in the following para graph: "The fiscal year 1955 budget will have to show further sub stantial reductions from the fiscal year 19 5 4 revised figures. These reductions will have to be at least equal -to and may have to be greater than those al ready made in the fiscal year 1954 budget" Wilson . itrwri .lm mailed over " , - the Dodge di rective for a couple of weeks, 'and then sent a reply. He point-, edly reminded Dodge that "the Congress was informed by both .the Secretary of Defense and the President that . .' . the new Joint Chiefs of Staff .would make an intensive and detailed study of all. aspects of defense . . . Until the completion of the review of the military plan by the Joint Chiefs, it would ap pear undesirable to make an estimate as to the amounts re quired..." 'K y-"7 1 British Leadership " " , We confess we are it bit mystified over a i comment by our esteemed contemporary, the Capital Journal, When it says respecting some observations by Viscount Montgomery, the victor of Alemein: ; . He also insisted upon "live and dynamic lead ership" on the political side, which', be must know though he did not say, no longer exists in his own country.- 7 We pose the question: Does "live . and dynamic" leadership on the political side; no "longer exist in Great Britain? We are quite sure the Journal editor does not regret the passing of the "live and dynamic" leadership of the Labor party which pushed Britain headlong into socialized medicine and na tionalized many important lines of industry, including steel. True enough, the Conserva tives have not been "live and dynamic" in marching toward Socialism or even in. re versing the direction. What the Conservative leadership has done is to restore a large measure of vitality to Britain's anemic economy. Exports have risen, the trade import surplus has declined. Some 58 per cent of British imports are now free of quotas and controls and further relaxation of restrictions is contemplated. The food situation is greatly improved. Sugar goes off the ration list this month; supplies of meat are presently abundant. Britain's -gold and dollar reserves have increased nearly one-third this year and stand now at nearly $2.5 billion, well above the dangerous "low water mark." The Churchill ministry cannot claim credit for all the economic gain the London Econ omist remarked in a recent issue: "For once the stars in their courses have seemed to be on the side of a British government." But the measures imposed by R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have borne good fruit. As far as dynamic leadership in foreign affairs is concerned, Premier Sir Winston Churchill was quick to take the initiative after Stalin's death and call for a four-power conference, while our own administration studiously contemplated its navel. Signs indicate that Britain, long beleaguered at home and abroad, is trying to reassert lead ership in .a world groping for direction. And when one compares the leadership in Britain with the vacuum in France and Italy there is much to be said for stability even if it is not attended with zip and flash. uaren a. 11a. Beer at State Fair Since the repeal of prohibition in 1933 the State Fair has not permitted the sale of beer or other alcoholic beverages at the state fair grounds. Nor was it sold thefe in the years before prohibition. This year the board is reversing its policy and permitting beer to be sold. The Statesman regrets to see this reversal of long standing policy. The mere fact that sale of beer is legal does not justify the action in opening up its sale at the fair grounds. The state fair attracts thousands of visi tors, young and old, of all classes. Undoubt edly there will be many who will want to drink beer, though they have suffered no hardship from its tack in the past. But in a mixed crowd, many of whom are children, beer can easily create unwholesome condi tions. , The state already is in the liquor business operating state stores; and it is partner in the pari mutuel business. Surely it doesn't have to take on all the "vices" and license beer sales at the state fair too. the Dr-ton Monday.TThe needs to be Sacrifice U.S. With this polite but firm re joinder, round one apparently went to Wilson. Round two started when Wilson received a second letter, this time from the President himself, shortly be fore the President left on his . vacation. This letter closely fol lowed the Budget Bureau line---indeed, it was almost certainly drafted by Dodge for the Presi dent's signature. like the Dodge letter, the President's letter told Wilson to "reduce current expenditures" this being official language for stretching oat defense spending. The letter arged Wil son to "correct" those Defense Department practices which had been criticised in Congress. Finally, the Eisenhower letter also called for redactions In the forthcoming Defense budget "beyond" those Indicated for fiscal 1954." Wilson dutifully circulated this letter to top officials in the Defense Department But Wil son's famous stubborness can be a virtue, and he repeated in his covering note that the - Presi dential letter meant "no change" in Defense planning, until the new Joint Chiefs had completed their review. . To judge from his response to both letters, Wilson is more aware than be once wis of his grim responsibilities as Secre tary of Defense. At any rate. Wilson clearly lost round two, since tht President's letter un compromisingly backed the line taken by Dodge in his original directive. . It is important to understand what Defense cutbacks "beyond those indicated for fiscal 1954" would mean. The Reductions al ready made in the current de fense budget come to well over $8,000,000,000, the great bulk of this money from the Air Force. A similar reduction from the current level would mean a De fense budget of around $28,000,- 000,000. . : Defense "housekeeping" est- Sys alone keeping the me a in e arsaed forces paid and fed and clothed and transported now rnns to a hoot $22900,000,. 000 a year. This cannot be much of Faction x Defense Effort red need without greatly reduc ing force levels. A $28,000,000, 000 Defense budget would thus hardly be sufficient to keep procurement of aircraft and other "hard goods" ticking over. This is so even if unexpended balances were very heavily drawn on which would knock subsequent budgets out of kil ter. To take one example, a' $28,000,000,000 Defense Budget' would probably mean accepting an air strength level of about 85 groups, as against the 143 groups which the Joint Chiefs only last year laid down as the minimum requirement for American air strength. A Defense Budget of about $28,000,000,000. in short, simply will not permit any kind of real defense against the steadily growing Soviet air-atomic capa bility. , The Podge and- Eisenhower letters were, no doubt, more an expression of a fervent hope than a firm declaration of in tentions. Yet they suggest the kind of pressures under which the new Joint Chiefs are oper ating, as they proceed with their "new look" at our defense levels. There are, however, at least two factors which are operating against this pressure for a bal anced budget at almost any cost One factor is the Soviet hydrogen bomb, which had not been tested when the new chiefs were appointed, or when Dodge and the President wrote (heir letters to Wilson. Another . factor is a new and careful study of our strategic situation, in the light of the Soviet air atomic threat This new study, which will be considered in a forthcoming re port in this space, is the last of a series, all of which point, not to less spending j for our de fenses, but more. These two factors are certain to weigh very heavily with the - Joint Chiefs. They are also certain to weigh very heavily with Presi dent Eisenhower, on whom the awful responsibility of making the final decision rests. fOpyrifh. 13 New York Herald Tnbuna. Inc GRIN AND BEAR "...Oh, tht usual thimgs that kapptm to overy child... shWowoaf " by socrtf police when f was a ...safft to Stbtia at 7. ..too pttt tm the counter revolution whom I was ..." Inside TV . . . NewShows Readied To Replace Failures By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD A "casualty show" is one which doesn't pull a rating, and is accordingly junked by its network or sponsor. To prepare for the decline and fall of such a show, the net works develop a substitute show. When the "casualty occurs, the alternate is rushed in, like a relief pitcher who m v attempts to save the day for his team. . The too brass watch the different TV audi hm 1 fin to the same 4 sponsor feel justified for their big extra cash , outlay. Examples of last year's casualties are "Life With Liiifiri," "There's One in Every Family," and "Hollywood Opining Night," which unfortunately tried to buck the "I Love Lucy" show on another network. Curiously, Ezio Pinza, a 1951-52 casualty, will be back on the picture tubes this fall in a new situation comedy called "Bontno." This will replace the CBS' "My Hero" series, a casualty of last season. Red SkeltGn, a NBC casualty of last season, was straight away picked up by CBS for the following Fall series. . i 1 What is a casualty for one network may not necessarily be . in that class on another network Some of the casualty shows are now making more money for their sponsors on the syndicate circuit than they have as a network show. These include "Gang Busters," "The Doctor" (a casualty of last season), "Boston Blackie," and now "My Hero." Programs in various stage of development on the CBS network are "Vanity and Mrs. Fir," "Professional Father," "That's My Boy," "December Brde." "Young Love," and "The Jimmy Boyd Show." All bright hopefuls ready to step in just in case. .', n r BATON STORY: Admiral, Colonel, Sheriff, Rancherknd Mayor! They are arI honorary titles of band-lead r.r Sammy Kaye, who has been handed those tags by Nebri!ca, Ken tucky, Honolulu, Texas and Tin Pan Alley. The star of TV's "So You Want To Lead a Band," iund radio's "Sunday Serenade" started out to be a citnl engineer. His low-hurdle skill won him an athletic scholarship to Qhio University, where he excelled in football and basketball as a freshman. He soon shelved sports to band he formed. That started his phenonemal " Swing iind Sway" reign. Versatile Sammy not only makes tunes famous but, has written such songs as "Remember Pearl Harbor" and "Until Tomorrow." His poetry reading on radio led to the publica tion of a book of verse that sold 250,000 copies. Now he has authored a second. ... STARR SPECIALS: Ring Lardner'i properties were recently bought by Robert Alrich, film director. John Lardner, who will write the telepix of his father's works, has already completed the adaptation of "Liberty Hall" to serve as a pilot film for the series. .... George Jessel will emcee ABC's "Comeback," a third show for the entertainer, if he can muster the time. . . . Eddie Cantor's definition of a strewball is "One who never hangs anything up." ... "Robert Montgomery Presents," "live" from New York, will resume its new Fall series August 31. His "Summer Stock" is one of the best dramatic offerings during the vacation session. . . . Zsa Zsa Gabor, commenting on her competition, says, "She's notheeng but wan beeg spousetrap!" (Copyright 1933, General feature Corp.) Dtp bilJUUS TPCDCDDa (Continued from page one) irrigation of the land by the water made available under this contract are not abandoned or relinquished but are reserved and retained by the United States for. the performance of this and similar contracts." This claim to control of return-flow waters has been a vex--ing question in federal-state re lations in irrigated sections. The Interior Department under Ickes was disposed to claim federal proprietorship of waters and this was vigorously resisted by landowners who claimed vested rights under state laws. jOregon ought not to fcede any part of its sovereignty over wa ters, even if they are waste or return-flow waters. The purpose of this type of water contract is to provide water from the government stor age to forward-looking farmers who can use it on their lands. It is recoenized that conditions in the Willamette Valley are so different from those in arid sections of the country that special legal devices must be employed because the landown ers here will not put their necks in the old yoke of Irrigation districts. ' - ' The method employed, how ever, is, not without risk. What the valley is apt to get is par- tial and piecemeal development Lands that may be watered at very low cost from dams or from streams "will get water while the back lands will not IT By Lichty ence ratings and yank the program whkh is being by-passed by the viewers. They then go to the hull-pen and call in a nice fresh, eager, well- developed replacement If the stand-in show keeps the viewers tuned channel, then network and earn his way by directing a" In the end we may have only spotted development in which the full use of water and land resources will not be made. What seems required is compre hensive planning and subse quent improvement according to the plan. The Salem office of the bureau has done a great deal in the way of engineering planning, but other phases of a program of irrigation ( for the valley have received t scant at tention The Willamette Rivpr Basin Commission and the Wil lamette Basin Project Commit tee ought to undertake the local end of the overall planning in cooperation with landowners. Br D. C WILLIAMS L What is wrong with this sentence? "I like all kind of movies, but nothing like as much as I do opera." i 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "regatta"? 3. What one of these words is misspelled? Bountious, luxuri ous, delirious, malnutritious. 1 ' ANSWERS . L Say. -I like all kinds of movies, but not nearly so much as Ii do opera." 2. Pronounce re-gat-a, e as ia me, first a as in at accent second syllable. 3. Bounteous. Italian, Tjto . Triesto Peace .. . 1 : 'X Seems Far Off - .j. '. -v. By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst Displays of Chauvinsim on both sides' emphasize that Italy and Yu goslavia are a long way from the negotiated peace on Trieste' which the western powers have been urg ing them to attain for more than a year. . ' Observers, however, were quick to discount the possibilities of a serious outbreak between the two nations despite the bitterness of the latest furore. British, French and American diplomats clamped down on Italy for throwing troops up to the bord er because of newspaper talk in Belgrade.- . . These diplomats have do Idea that Tito plans any overt action re garding Trieste, and they dislike any situation in which an "inci dent could make the relations be tween Italy and Yugoslavia worse than they are. ' - Zone B of the Trieste territory, separated from Italy after the war, is administered by Yugoslavia. Various decrees have tended more and more to make it a part of Yugoslavia. It lies south of the once-important port of Trieste and contains a heavy Slovene population, as well as some towns and small ports which are primarily Italian. The port area Itself, which -once served much of central Europe, is garrisoned by British and Amer ican trooDS. hut its chief rmtire force is made up primarily of Ital ians. Italian control has . " just growed" until, in every way ex cept militarily, it is for all prac tical purposes a part of Italy. Italy displayed excitement over the week-end at Belgrade talk that Tito might decide just to annex Zone B without waiting for any settlement. Yugoslavia had given the new Rome government a good oppor tunity to holler "wolf" and then proclaim "we stopped em."l Allied diplomats pointed out that Tito would hardly make a break over rocky, barren Zone B. there by running the risk of trouble with Time Flies 10 Years Ago Sept 3, 1943 British . and Canadian forces under the command of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower swept across the strait of Messina and landed on the beaches of Italy. Congressman James W. Mott. after completing a four-week schedule of visits in the first congressional division of Ore gon, returned to Washington. Donna McKinley, Shedd 4-H club girl, sold her grand cham pion, hog for $776.25, the high est per-pound ever paid for a 4-H club animal in Oregon. 25 Years Ago Sept 3,' 192S A slight ! earthquake shock was felt at Newport The Abbey Hotel was shaken by a tremblor that lasted two or three sec onds. Dr. Estella Ford Warner was named director of the Marion ! County Child Health Demon-; stration to succeed Dr. Wm. De Klein, resigned. Olive Gatterdam of Seattle came within 220 yards of win ning $10,000 when she was beaten out for first place in the Wrigley ten-mile marathon on Lake Ontario by a New York girl. jShe won a $3,000 prize. 40 Years Ago Sept 3, 1913 Eleven aviators have' been killed since experiments were started with "heavier-than-air" machines in 1908-10 in the Scellars, HILLARY Booster Flyer Due to Land in Salem Th4 Flying, Paul Revere," 50-year -old Max Conrad, who has flown 'almost 14,000 miles in a light (lane visiting every state capital in the United States, will arrive la at McNary Field bout 4 p. m. today. , , . Reason , for the flight is to bring letters urging comprehen sive state programs for the gold en anniversary observance of the Wright brothers' flight in 1903. He will be met at the field by representatives of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the State Board ; of Aeronautics, the Civil Air Patrol and the Air Scouts. He fs to be escorted to the Capi tol Building where he will de liver scrolls to representatives of the Board of Aeronautics, CAP and Junior Chamber. A banquet in his honor will be held at 7:30 tonight at the Sen ator Hotel, to which the public is invited. Guest speaker will be Conrad, with other speakers in cluding Mayor Alfred Loucks and CoL George LaBrech, base com mander of Portland International Airport He is slated to leave Salem at 7 a. m. Friday. The . conclusion of Conrads trip is to be a non-stop flight from San Francisco to New York. America, Britain and France who have been giving him so much sup port when be already had control anyway. In order to influence the IMS elections in Italy, the western Al lies announced a policy of eventu ally giving all of Trieste back to Italy. Since then, Tito has become an any or sons and a recipient ol both i economic and military aid. But .Yugoslavia is. not as much a member of the family as former enemy Italy, which belongs to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Allied policy has switched to an at tempt to get the two countries to reconcile their own differences, Both avowed a public belief that they could do it. Negotiations showed only that both want the territory and arc politically incap able of yielding. About the best the Allies can hope for now Is to keep down the noise. From The Statesman Files- Army. In the aviation field over 333 persons were killed in 1908. George M. Cohan, well-known actor, wrs badly injured when thrown from a speeding auto mobile in New York. His daugh er Georgia, 13, was critically hurt , i W. E. McElroy, director ofj tht Portland Park Band, was awarded the contract to furnish concerts for the Oregon State Fair. Extra Earnings Savings earn sooner. Money placed' in your account the first earns fron the first of Today- ISM Announcing the association of r J with the. firm of Foley & Rising, Inc. ' 143 S. Liberty Street Salem, Oregon (Salem agents for Oregon's leading Insurance Male Psychiatric Helpers Wanted ' A shortage of male nsychiatrie attendants at Oregon State Hos pital was reported Wednesday by the State Civil Service Com mission. ' , 1 S The positions involwe the care and rehabilitation of mentally disturbed patients. Inter ested persons may contact the State Civil Service Commission for details. , ... j Steps Taken Toward State Aid for Roads- Steps forward in getting state aid for South River Road and . South 12th Street cut-off were 1 taken Wednesday during a con- 1, ference between State Highway 1 Engineer R. If. Baldock and members I of Marion County Court I ' The county court asked Bal dock if the state would take over maintenance of South 12th Street from the city limits south to its Junction with the Pacific, High way. .. i : ' ; Since the one-way traffic sys tem was adopted for Salem heavy highway truck traffic has been routed over South 12th, which is a county road. Main te nance costs on the road have soared since then, the court said. because of the pounding given it by the trucks. 0 , , . j. Baldock i said that when the East Salem bypass is completed It would take most of the truck traffic off South 12th. He agreed, however, to present the court's request to the next meeting of the State -Highway Commission. , Baldock and the court also agreed to a conference of state and Marion County engineers on the proposed site of realignment of the South Rfver Road south of Salem. .'. A proposal of long standing calls for improvement of the narrow crooked road, using state, federal and county jTunds. A "f state survey of a new right-of- way was labeled as too expensive by the county court, which ln turn offered a survey of its own. uaiaocK suggested a compromise probably could be made, .. A well fed riding camel can cover 60 to 70 miles In a day. y ! . . LATEST SAVINGS RATE 10 days of any month, that month. Steal your Extra Xarnings NOW, open your account with, Salem Federal. "SO Starts St Salem, Ore. companies) ETZEL J V