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4 Thav Statesman, Salem. 4 CDtcjBtintatcBraaa -No Favor Sways Ui, No Fear Shall Awe" I Frem First Statesman. March a, 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morn int. Bu!ne office SM North Church St.. Salem, Ore, Telephone 1-8441 Catered at the poitoffice at Salem. Ore. second class matter under act of Congress March V l7t. Member Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the us . for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper i - i U. S. Chamber Pushing Grazing Bill Under the auspices of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce a conference of Western Cham bers will be held, in San Francisco on Wed nesday. According to "Washington Report,' the weekly bulletin of the U.S. Chamber two topics will be up for discussion: abuse of min ing claims on federal land and a uniform pub lic policy on grazing. On the latter matter the bulletin goes on to say: ' "Western livestock owners are seeking a uniform grazing law to end the conflict aris ing from the fact that two federal agencies control grazing on public lands, the U.S. For est Service of the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management of the Interior Department ; "Under the Taylor Grazing Act, administer ed by the Bureau, ranchers are given relative ly secure tenure on grazing lands, and some control over their management However, there is no law controlling use of grazing lands administered by the Forest Service, and permission for their use depends upon offi cial decision rather than law. "The confusion is worsened by the fact that many ranchers have permits to use both For est Service and Taylor grazing lands. The Na tional Chamber supports a single law, to be administered by a single agency, so that ranchers would have increased security of tenure and thus more incentive to improve and care for the federal range. The D'Ewart bill which encountered stiff opposition in hearings before a House com mittee some months ago sought to establish uniformity by tieLig the hands of the forest service administrators quite effectively. The U.S. Chamber got drawn into this business through its former president who is interest ed with his brother in a livestock company operating in New Mexico. This disclosure cer tainly did the Chamber and this D'Ewart bill no good. Now it seems the Chamber is still pressing for similar legislation. It is by no means certain that the Taylor grazing act is the correct answer for the gov erning of grazing landiLJts operations ought first to be reviewed beforegrazing in forest lands is bound to a "uniformity" that may fail to protect the lands for their multiple uses. When the Los Angeles County Medical As sociation sent a warning to Mayor Norris Poulson of LA a sharply worded warning of the' deadly dangers of "smog," the Ashland Tidings spoke up to invite the threatened An gelenos to move to Southern Oregon where the air is pure and free, except, as the Tid ings admits, when the valley orchardists are smudging. Of course if they came on to Salem what they would get occasionally is the puri fying breath from our paper mill. The liquor administration is making a deal to buy nearly 30 acres of land for a, ware house site in Kellogg Park, Milwaukie. Gosh, do they look for the liquor business to get THAT big in Oregon? Washington Scurrying Around Like It Was On the Eve of an All-Important Decision By Stuart Alsop WASHINGTON In the last few weeks, and" especially since the President's return from his va cation, there has been a tremen dout coming and going in Wash ington, an un dercurrent of excitment, a sense of being on the eve of great deci sions. I, Stewart A fcoi lui i nun day, the National Security Council held its most publicized meeting since it was formed. The purpose of this meeting. to consider the Soviet air atomic threat to this country was well reported. Two speeches, the first by the Sec retary of State and the second by the President served to highlight the importance of the meeting. Secretary Dulles told the United Nations that the means had been discovered to "wipe life off the surface of this planet" Aad, he added darkly, "these words can be taken literally. Presi dent Eisenhower, In his Boston speech stated that "the enemies of freedom are equipped with the most terrible weapons of destruction.- He told the coun try that "there is no sacrifice no labor, no tax, no service too hard for us to bear in or der to deal with-this threat Meanwhile, plans for "Opera tion Candor have been under constant review. A "White House source" officially con firmed that the President had decided that it was time for the people to know the truth. This source even volunteered .'that' the public release of the mo tion picture of the'explosion of the . world's first hydrogen bomb was being considered. The significance of this is sug gested by the fact that the Orew Tuesday, Sept. 29,1853' We'll Just Get More Mellow The breaking of ground this week for Sa lem's new KPIC television station, and the, prospective opening next month of KOIN ' TV, Portland, signal the end of domestic un animity TV-wise in many a home. . It's been pleasant, this having no choice but whatever KPTV "had to offer. You don't want . to se the fights ?TJ.K it's fights or nothing. Or you're not interested in the 5 newscasts? Well, turn it off, then. No arguments at all. But now , And it won't be a simple matter of retiring to the bedroom with a portable TV if the living-room console is bringing in something not to your liking. ItH be some years Tef ore the average home has more than one TV set. And more years than that before you will be able to waddle out to the garage and turn on the car TV while the rest of the family enjoys its majority-rule. ' i We're not knocking TV. After all, it looks like the automobile is here to stay, too. But we can't help bemoaning a bit about the im mediacy of TV controversy over whether I Love Lucy or My Little Margie dl Godfrey is going to have the benefit of the family's attention. Life gets more complicated every day and the strains on family relationship don't ease one whit. But so long as pop loves mom and vice versa, pop will take Liberace in stride and mom will politely watch the rassles, or else, and the end result will be just a little more give and take. It'll take more than TV This is the fourth honeymoon for each in the new Rita Hayworth-Dick Hayroes tie-up. Wonder if these muchly married persons cut notches on their guns with each marital con quest Editorial Comment GRASS The Lakeview Fxaminer in its last week's issue prints a picture that is literally fascinating in the possibilities it outlines. It shows a party of Lake county people who went bn a grass tour recently. They are standing in a flat in the valley of the Chewaucan river. In the foreground is a truck. The grass tops the truck's fenders. The people standing near the truck are half hidden in the tall growth. In the distance is a band of cattle. In the rug ged phrase of the cattle country, they're "up to their bellies in tall grass." In a cattle country there is no- more beautiful sight The picture's caption says: "This stand of tall intermediate wheatgrass is part of several thou sand acres in that area which the Fremont na tional forest has converted from sage lands to flourishing pasture by clearing and reseeding methods." We complain from time to time of "big govern ment" that owns too much land in the West and we're inclined to add that government SPENDS TOO MUCH MONEY. I don't think we'll ever complain of any reasonable amount of money spent by government to make barren sagebrush lands produce grass like that Maybe some individual experiment may cost too much money to be practical. We have to remem ber that ALL experimenting is costly. But if ex periments prove that grass like that CAN BE GROWN on land that has been producing only sagebrush we can be pretty sure that American ingenuity will find some less costly way to make the grass grow. If we can get MILLIONS of acres of land that now produces only sagebrush into grass like that the economy of the West will be immensely strengthened. Frank Jenkins in Medford Mail-Tribune. mere existence of this terrify ing movie, which shows the to tal disappearance of a large is land under the bomb's impact had previously been the top pest of top secrets. Since the final decisions have not been taken, it is too early to say what manner of an imal all this laboring of moun tains may produce. But it be gins to seem that the end ' re sult may be a mouse a rather large mouse, but a mouse all the same. Obviously, all the evidence rather clearly suggested that the country was to be asked to embark on a great national ef fort to build up the defenses of the continent In fact one firm decision appears to have been taken. An attempt will be made to build an effective early warning system against air borne attack. This, system seems likely to be established on the so-called McGill line across northern Canada, with extra protection provided by radar equipped picket ships on the Pacific and Atlantic flanks. An early warning system was the first step towards an effect ive continental defense recom mended by the Project Lincoln group, and all the committees which have followed it Such a system, when complete, will provide sufficient warning for our great target cities so that evacuation, at least, may be at tempted. It will also greatly in crease the effectiveness of our totally inadequate exisiting air defense-. It will, moreover, be relatively cheap. At least for the first year, the cost of the radar installations alone should be no more than a fraction of a billion dollars. ' This will be in short, a high ly useful first step. Bat the vit al second step an all-oat pro gram to provide the country with the means to respond ef fectively to the warning now seems unlikely to be undertak en. The reasons against such a program advanced by the high to make us leave home. So we'll just say wel come to all the new stations and programs, and prepare to drop off for a nap when we're out-voted on what's to be on. W.W est Defense Department policy makers may be briefly and ob jectively listed as follows: 1. Bar national mobilization, little more can be done to beef up our air defenses than is al ready contemplated. Much of the equipment proposed in the Lincoln Project report and sub sequent reports is still on the drawing boards or even no more than a gleam in the eyes of the scientists. To go all-out now would mean buying a lot of obsolescent equipment in or der to give the country a false sense of security. 2. Manpower, not money, is now the real limiting factor. The Air Force, like the other services, is reaching the bottom of the post-Korea manpower barrel. It is no use buying a lot of equipment if there are not enough trained men to use it 3. The proponents of an all out continental defense effort themsedves agree that the sys tem they advocate is useless against the ballistic missile. The United States hopes to have long range missiles for nuclear delivery by 1960. We must not expect that the Soviet will be far behind if behind at all Indeed, one study prepared for the Joint Chiefs establishes 1957 - 58 as the earliest likely date for the first Soviet ballist ic missiles. Therefore, it would be unwise to make a great na tional effort in a continental defense system which will be rendered obsolete soon after it is created. 1 There is no doubt a certain cogency in all three of these points. Yet they amount to ac cepting a Soviet capability .to devastate the United States in the rather near future. The fin al decision rests, bf course, with .the President As he ponders 'all the difficulties technical, fiscal, human, political he might do well to bear in mind the words of an old friend. "Sur vival," Winston Churchill re marked during the war,' "can be an end in itself. (Copyrirht 1953 Mew York Herald Tribune, Inc.) GRIT AND BEAR "YOU try 'phoning a utior, Otht...girh don't htng up $o fast am a msnl . . ." Inside TV News Digest Uses Clever Techniques BY EVE STARR NEW YORK CRITIC'S CORNER: "Assignment: Tomorrow," a one-shot presentation celebrating eight years of NBC-TV news programming, was a fascinating review of front-page happenings since 1945. Headliners, including the atomic bomb that mmmm- - devastated Hiroshima. George Bernard Shaw. r v J T1 V Z. hanced the show. ,,; f. .aZXUM news UDraries provide background for visual happenings. The second was rear screen projection, allowing narrator Fleming to integrate himself into the sequence of film smoothly. Why not a monthly, or at least semi-yearly news wrap-up? Why not NBC? RISING STARR: James Daly, new star of "Foreign In trigue," and now in Europe making the first telefilm of the new series, was named in the 1951 Daniel Blum Theater Award as "Most Promising Personality on the Broadway Stage." Daly will play "Michael Powers," correspondent for Associated News in the new series currently being filmed on location in ten European countries. RECOMMENDED The coming "Suspense' two-part pre sentation of "Othello," starring Jack Palance in the title role on October 20 and 27. Jack can be remembered for his exciting performances as the psychological killer in "Sudden Fear" and the gunman in "Shane. STARR SPOTLIGHT: Bob Waterfield makes a "pass" at TV this Fall with four pigskin shows a week . . . Mickey Spillane plans a teletnsion series based on several of his books and some original ideas . . . Harriet Nelson told son, Ricky, "It's nice for children to have pets until the pets start having children." Frank Sinatra, now in demand for a TV show, night club engagements and motion pictures, couldn't get a job last year. His Academy Award-caliber film role in "From Here to Eter nity" is responsible for his being sought after by Hollywood and New York producers. Last year, his TV spot ( CBS) op posite Milton Berle didn't pet the ratings and he was dropped. Frankie will guest on the Berle Show September 29th and the Colgate Comedy Hour with Jimmy Durante on November 1st . . . Film bit players and extras have tried unsuccessfully every day to win the "Glamour Girl" (NBC). Non-pros beat them out every time . . . Getirge Burns tells Grocho that "my wife, Grade, spends money as if it were going out of style" Copyright 1953. General Features Corp.) El (Continued from assistant a sort of "chief of staff" to the "commander-in-chief. Walter Bedell Smith is Under Secretary of State, but he holds Eisenhower's confidence be cause of his long and able service as Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war. James C Hagerty is press sec retary, a job he used to hold for Governor Dewey. He is the Steve Early for this administration; and a good one. Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, USA, ret, is the liaison man between the White House and Congress. He has to know the angles in both places, and bow to work them. Joseph M. Dodge, former banker of Detroit, now budget director, enjoys a full measure of the President s confidence. C. D. Jackson, former pub lisher of Fortune, is an ''idea man" with special responsibili ty for the US. psychological "front" Bernard M. Shanley, special counsel, is the man who worked with Martin Durkin and others on revising the T-H act He must be the man in the middle on that controversy though he may not have been i present at the New York meeting when, ac cording to Durkin, Eisenhower FREE ESTIMATES Oa Fleer Coverings NORRIS-WALKER PAINT COMPANY 1718 Froat . Phone 4-2279 Winter's Coming ... Better SEE RADIANT GLASSHEAT 1540 Fairgrounds RcL Phone 4-6263 IT By.Lichtr k Madame Chiang Kai-shek, made their brief ap pearances in film clips, all tied together by the expert head of producer-edtor-narrator, Jim Flem ing. The show proved beyond a doubt for this reviewer that there's no better fiction than fact and no better authority than history. Two imaginative techniques particularly en- First voices were dubbed from r : rr. inairy iruinau i w uue iu Page One) agreed to stand behind the 19 point revision. Robert Cutler of Boston, law yer and banker, has the spe cial assignment of work with the National Security Council: defense, atomic warfare. Gabriel Hauge came from Business Week to operate the White House seismograph on business. These are the regulars, though perhaps not all of them. Others may barge in from time to time or be invited in for consulta tion. Ther's not a "crony"- in the lot It still remains true, how ever, that when each and all of the advisers have poured their recommendations into presidential ears Eisenhower himself must make the final decision. Then is ;when he be comes a lonely man. ive offer Your requirements for a checking account ere best met at the Valley Bank where you may choose between the following services: 1. REGULAR CHECKING ACCOUIMT-for persona!, business and farm use. Low cost. Convenient. 2. BUDGET CHECKING ACCOUNT-for those who write en occasional check. No minimum balance required to avoid service charge. Ten checks for $1.00. Save time and stepshave e record of al disbursements. ( Open your checking account at Salem's home-owned bank. L the Safety Valve ; "Pm en Armor" To the Editor: That Martin Durkin has re signed from the cabinet posi tion of Secretary of La bo should surprise nobody. f there is anything surprising aoout tms aiiair tt is that Dur kin could stomach the reaction ary associations which the ap pointment brought him to as long as he did. It was obvious to me that the appointment was made with the main object to put organ ized labor behind the .eight ball or worse, ror my part i ex pected the worst when the pres ent administration took office and in some ways it is worse than I expected. Big brass, big business and most politicians are alike, incapable, congeni tally or by long and intensive cultivation, or both, of fair, much less favorable, considera tion of the rights and interests of those who toil productively. Adding insult to injury the president has designated the re actionary Nixon as his repre sentative to the A.F. of L. na tional convention. To so desig nate this insidious, implacable enemy as his emissary is a de liberate insult if not a coldly calculated stab in the back to organized labor. It is now obvious if it was not before that it behooves us of organized labor to put on all our armor. Stabs in the back are among the less of the hazards that will probably fall to our lot as long as the present ad ministration is in power. H. M. Stryker P. 0. Box 421 Salem, Oregon. Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago Sept 29, 1943 John Charles Thomas' drama tic ability as well as his thrilling voice thrilled his audience, one of the first great artists visiting Salem under the auspices of the Community Concert Association. The district of the Price Ad ministration director reported the OPA edict against extra gas oline rations for hunters. The critical tire situation precludes any easing of mileage rationing. Announcement was received of the marriage of Miss Helen Huggins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Huggins of Marsh field and Sidney Boise, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Boise, of Salem. Both graduated from the University of Oregon. 25 Years Ago Sept 29, 192S The last day of the baseball season in Salem, was called "Frisco Edwards Day." Edwards was the Senator manager and was presented with a gift Mrs. C. W. Beechler announced the engagement of her daughter Miss Carolyn Grace Lamberth to Garlen L. Simpson. Miss Lam berth is a graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon and affiliated with Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, wife of the famous inventor, pledged her aid to the republican candi date for president Herbert Hoover. 40 Years Ago Sept 29. Ill) Tessie" a stuffed Lincoln sheep and "Billy" an angora goat in the same predicament, were sent by the local Commercial club to the United States land show in Chicago. Five hundred tons of choice Polk and Marion .county pears were shipped to California, .ac cording to C. A. Park, manager of the Wallace farm near this city. The state printing board en tered into a contract by which the state was assured of the pub lication of all opinions by the Oregon Supreme court, accord ing to secretary Plimpton. : ROOFING j Lifetime Aluminum is Your Best Buy! See Your LOCAL: DEALER : FREE ESTIMATES : Willamette Aluminum Co. i Phone 2-8058 1 ... you a CHOICE of , ( M MOlM' -"W wpiWxt P' Mf0- jn nc oncsi Del Milne, manager of the Marlon Hotel, heads the general gifts division in the Sale m Com munity Chest's campaign for $149,000 which opens next week. Autumn Heat Blisters U. S. Midsection By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Early autumn heat blistered the nation's midsection Monday as brisk Southwesterly winds brought hot weather northward from the southern plains states. Record breaking temperatures were reported in cities from the southern and central plains east ward to the Mississippi Valley. Ok lahoma City, Fort Worth and Kan? sas City had 103 readings. In Tulsa it was 102, Lamoni, Iowa 101, Des Moines 99 and Chicago 91.3. In much of the country it was hot. dry and dusty. Dodge City, Kan., reported a low relative hu midity of 8 per cent, accompanied by wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour. The only rain was reported in the Pacific Northwest and parts of Florida, with a few showers fall ing in the central Rockies. Some other temperatures around the nation: Nashville, 90, New York 75. Denver 78, Yuma 88, Seattle 58, Detroit 78, Indianapolis 87 and Washington 75. Stock Market Rises Easily NEW YORk m The stock mar ket advanced easily Monday with out any startling new development to stimulate the move. Prices in many areas moved up between 1 and 2 points, and no sec tion of the market was depressed. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks climbed 80 cents at $103.30 with the industrial component of the average up 80 cents, the rail roads up $1.10, and the utilities up 20 cents. The rails made by far the biggest contribution to the ad vance of the average. Volume was up to 1,150,000 shares from Friday's unusually low 910, 000 shares, both well below aver age so far this year. Gains Posted In Grain Pits CHICAGO UPi Gains were post ed in all pits on the board of trade Monday with soybeans and wheat showing the best upturn. Wheat closed 1 Vi-2 V higher. corn H- higher, oats -l high er, rye 1 to 1 higher, soybeans 2 Vi-Z V higher and lard 5 cents lower to 30 cents a hundred pounds higher. r c PRrtAN, Sjtffr IsJIBoisG x EAST ' V. "l (?m MAD emctt 1996 Ukvm4$ ftW UNiYusnr sianchj most srw "mmtimP "pw wuenmer DoubtsEuroDG Army Strength LONDON ur Gen. Alfred Gruenther, supreme Allied com mander in Europe, - said Sundaj night that his forces would givi an excellent account of themselves but were not strong enough to with stand all-out aggression. Talking on the BBCs European Service, the American leader of Allied forces said: "Our concept for the defense of Europe is based on the existence of highly trained covering forces backed by reserve land units which could be brought into action im mediately after the outbreak of hostilities. "That shield, supported by hard hitting air forces, would give, ui the necessary cushion of time is order to mobilize our reserves. Meanwhile, our long range aii forces would conduct powerful re taliatory attacks against industrial and other vital targets. "Although our troops would givi an excellent account of themselves, we do not feel they are yet stroni enough to withstand an all out act of aggression. "That is why 'we have recom mended to the North Atlantic Council that our defense forcel should continue to be strength ened." - ; U. S. Warned Against Fear Of Depression WASHINGTON m Economist Leon Keyserling warned Sunday against a "fear psychosis" which he said could bring on a recession "or even a depression." He told a group of American Jew ish leaders that although some ups and downs may be expected by way of adjustment, America's long range economic prospects are good. "Between now and the middle of 1954." he said, "we can maintain the current level of over all econ omic activity or at worst experi ence a brief and shallow down turn. "We can avoid even this brief and shallow downturn if we recog nize that temporary softenings or readjustments in some specific seg ments of the economy can and should be counter-balanced by ex pansion in other sectors." Keyserling was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers un der former President Truman. 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