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4 See. 1) Statesman, Salem, Ore Friday Jem. 22. 1954 rtflonsMcBitta A ' ah m M -ivo aoor strays ii, no tear pr.au Atcr ' From First Statesman, March hi, 1851 ' : CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published very morning": Business office 280 North Church St.. Salem. Ore.. Telephone 2-2441 Entered at tba jostoffic at Salem, Ore. as second claa matter under act of Coneret March 3. U71. : j Member Associated Press The Associated Press U entitled excluslrely to ths use for republication of all local news printed In . . tola newspaper The Budget for 1955 I No, the 1955 federal budget Will not be in balance, not by some three billiori "dollars. But the deficit is being reduced, from around $9 billion for fiscal 1953 and an estimated $S billion for '54. The Democrats jihid the Re publicans for failing to keep their campaign promise to balance outgo with income; but the majority :of the people will feel that the bud- gei-maKers nave gone auuui iai mcj could in cutting expenditures tor the next year. Congress may do some trimming, but the total of $85.5 billion, shows i cut of $5.25 billion which is very substantial at a time when we are busy maintaining defenses, pro viding some foreign assistance, carrying a load . for agriculture and meeting the j costs of civil government in an age of inflation. Of course a budget is only ah estimate of income and outgo. It can be upset if income falls below anticipated receipts. The tax cuts already fixed for 1954; may not prove too damaging. In the past tax reductions often have served as a business stimulant and brought no actual loss in total revenues. That may happen again. j What i we .are apt to hear is j not so much demand for further reduction injexpenditures, except in general terms, but demand for in creases ;in spending for- various1 projects and causes. We venture the opinion, however, that the Eisenhower budget will prevail with mi nor alterations, because it seems to be a real istic effort toward achieving the goal of a bal anced budget. I- GRIN AND BEAR IT -'-JhV-- ! By Lichty Writing Sc Statesman Valley Editor Charles Ireland reported that the Dallas Jaycees had Josiah Wills, retired county superintendent, inscribe in hit flowing Spencer ian style of penmanship the certificates of award to Dallas citizens. s Only oldsters who went to school at the turn of the century or before recall the Spencerian style of writing with its flourishes land shad ings. It had a rival for a time in the "vertical style, an affected, artifical hand which didn't last long. Then came! the business hand, as taught and exploited by A. N. Palmer of Ce dar Rapids. It was eminently practical. Just what system is used now We do not know, but judging by the writing attempts of some grade schoolers one might think no system at all was taught: but substituting; chicken ! tracks for legible writing is not a fault limited to young sters of today. j Now that Mr. Wills has retired he might revive the old "writing schooLM In that the. "Professor came to town, advertised he was starting a class and proceeded to instruct his recruits in the art of penmanship: For him it was an art. His trademark was the bird maybe a peacock he always drew on the blackboard. That gave his talents full play, with sweeping lines, shaded like an engrav ing. The course lasted about two weeks and the "Professor" went on to the next town to pursue his vocation and draw another bird on the blackboard. Writing schools are passed now, morVs the pity. We doubt if Mr. Wills will feel the urge to go on tour with a writing school, even if his cherry orchard doesn't occupy his time in winter months. What is all the go now ii schools in fast selling, and personality courses. The "Professor" gets a much bigger take than the ones who drew those birds on the black boards in years gone by. Search Made I For Helicopter Crash Victims 1 PORT ANGELES, Wash. 4 Search continued Thursday for the bodies of three of the five Coast Guardsmen killed Wednesday when their helicopter crashed into the frigid waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. il The Coast Guard also disclosed the name of one crewman, not previously identified, was William J. Goodman of Yonkers. N. Y. His body and that of two other avia tion machinists, Robert A. Chaubin and Pete Palombini, had not been recovered. When the nose of the shattered 'copter was pulled from the water Thursday it held the bodies of lil J. W. Day and aviaUon machinist Dale Littleford. All crewmen ex cept Goodman lived in Port An geles. : The 10-pasaenger craft had been up for an hour on a routine train ing flight when its power failed and the tail rotor broke. U 'Public confidence lecms to be holding up, chief . . . creaf ft fcvyiaf hi kioh . . . rttail $atei ore fairly streag . . . office collections art rtM f awsfssa..." - Funniest out-season hunting accident we ever heard of involved a war correspondent aboard a cruiser which lurched and sent him flying into a corner atop a set of antlers someone brought aboard in a foot locker. His nether portions were punctured. Now comes the Portland bartender who was wounded when a mounted deer head fell off a wall on him. Perhaps hunting should be limited to rabbits. , If you've been thinking that state income tax return forms are confusing this year, you're partly right , . . Th4 new long form doesn't state specifically anyplace exactly how much to ..a deduct for contributions to charity I. . . The citizen taxing his strength making out his headache ... er ... his tax statement finds constant references in the long forhvto make the "standard" deduction for charitable give- First Citizen: Carl Hogg The selection committee did well when they chose Garl Hogg for recognition as Salem's First Citizen for 1853. Most any year would apply, however, for he has been' active so con tinuously during his residence in Salem that one year is like another. As President of the Chamber of Commerce for tWo years, as a leading factor in organizing the Long Range Planning Commission and working on it, as a consistent and persistent worker in the Com munity Chest, and as the guiding hand for the Salem Industrial Council Carl Hogg has rend ered yeoman service. Only onejtruly dedicat ed to the upbuilding of his community would be as generous with his time And talent and means as Carl Hogg. A license won't keep your dog from being run over, or from becoming lost if the mood strikes him. but it will aid a lot in tracing his fate and whereabouts. Besides that, a license is mandatory and it's a lot better to get it now than waiting until the rush immediately prior to the March 1 deadline. Indians Halt I Celilo Falls II Negotiations H YAKIMA, Wash. UP The Yak ima Indian NaUon Tribal Council voted early Thursday against fur ther' pow-wowlng with the Army Engineers over compensation for loss of their Celilo Falls fishing site because of the building of The Dalles dam. h A 23 million dollar settlement for the ancient Columbia River fishing site had been suggested by the government negotiator!.; The Indian Council vote came Conversion of Barn to Garden Center Gets Tenative jOkeh The Salem Garden Council's proposal to convert a barn located at Bush's Pasture into a community gardening center was given tentative approval Thursday by the city park commission but addi tional information and study of the project was requested. The council, representing 14i garden clubs, has asked for city approval to develop the Jam and surrounding area into a gardening project wmcn could be used for exhibitions and meetings by gar dening and 'allied groups. City Manager Jj L. Franzen pointed out that the barn is now used for the repair and storage of park equipment and no other building is presently available for that purpose. Maintenance Question The question of: maintenance was also raised by park commis sion members. The Garden Coun cil has indicated it will finance the initial cost of converting the barn, according to David Cam eron, president of the council, but feels the city! should main tain the project I iFinal approval will have to come from the City Council since the park commission is an advi sory board,? said Mark H. Astrup, commission chairman. Move Garage Building 1 If the plan is approved the Garden Council will move a ga rage building to connect with the barn and construct an exhibition room on the first floor, Cameron said. The second floor , would be used as a j meeting hall and for storage. Other business by the park commission included discussion of progress in developing Bush's Pasture Park. Work scheduled for completion by spring in cludes construction of trails, an entrance from High Street, park ing area fen Mission Street and a picnic grounds.! of IKa Alt4 f a Bd.pinN tknl 1 n n. . rJ aways . . . But noplace is it made; clear just , mtfi 2 am. what "standard" is . . . The tax commission ! The 4.000 'trihesmon r hin How far along the road to recognition Dick Nixon has brought the office of vice president is pretty well shown in a bill introduced by Sen. Bridges of New Hampshire providing for a vice presidential home at a cost up to $300,000. It may or may not get further than repeated proposals; in Oregon to acquire a home for the governor.; has admitted it pulled a boo boo and: forgot to include the deduction , . . It's the same as last year 5 per cent ... I From nuts the mighty oak grows, etc. dept . . . When Ad Boise was chosen Salem Jr. 1st citizen the ether nite the emcee recall ed several hilarious anecdotes from Sid's past . . . Told, how, when he was a kid, Sid was working for Botlck's Market ... Hit Job one day was to grind coffee . . . There were two brands which were suppoaed to be ground separately . . . Well Sid, with a fine disregard for future coffee prices, ground everything te . gethrr . . J There followed one ef the store's largest coffee sales and the irate store manager, unaware he was speaking for hitsory, told Sid, "Next Ume I want someone with brains to do a Job around here I won't rail on you." . . . And Mrs. Mary Lord, the US' delegate who spoke here this week was the inventor of the Parker parlor game. "Elect Yourself President." . ..'. Which is nsed in lot of school social study classes to teach elective proces ses, to students who can't all be educated at Busick's . . . Red China and International Decency Secretary Dulles says that! Red China is not entitled to membership in United Nations because it doesn't respect the ("elemental de cencies of international conduct." And that is true. It arrested a United States consul, has maltreated many American citizens domiciled in China. It deigned to ignore the recognition extended its government by Great Britain and has never assigned a diplomatic representa tive to London. Finally it joined North Korea in the Korean war and was branded an ag gressor by the U.N. assembly. If and when Red China shows a disposition to observe international amenities and to re spect the principles of United Nations then its case for admission to U.N. and for recognition by the United States may be ;considered. After watching those words which 7th and 8th grade spelling contestants are expected to know, we think maybe there should be some adult classes in the subject, particularly one that would teach us to put that second "m" in accommodate, i The pilot's license Of Arthur Godfrey was suspended "in the! public interest." He still has "license" to talk and gesticulate on radio asked by the council to recommend a choice of three alternatives: the best possible settlement by negoti ation; court acUon or dropping the whole matter. 1 1 The council session was contin uing through Thursday. U. S. to Buy More Pears and TV, but for sponsor. Control he moment is without a of the "public interest" doesn't extend to speaking and acting. Except in isolated instances, it appears that worry over the impact of TV and competitive entertainment on collegiate football is need less. In 1953r attendance at more than 500 college games totalled almost 2Vz million about a 2 "per cent gain over the previous year. Russians Said Appearing to Make Effort At Future Reconciliation With Yugoslavia By TOM WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign Staff! For many months the Soviet press has been genUe in its criti cism of Tito's Yugoslav govern ment! Tito and his fellow Yugo slav Communist leaders are no longer among the chief devils of Soviet propaganda, as they were from 1948 when they broke with the Russians right up to Stalin's death. There seems no indication that any immediate healing of the breach between Belgrade and Mos 'cow is possible or even contem plated by either side. ; But it ap pears the Russians are doing; a good deal to make such a recon ciliation possible in the future. I This situation may be one im portant factor underlying the fer ment and troubles within Tito s Yugoslav Communist party, j : I i ! Dispatches from Belgrade re port i that Tito is going to purge the ranks of his party in the com ing weeks. He has already kicked out of the leadership the No. 3 man in his regime, Milovan Dji las. I : One of the charges against Dji las is that he was unduly influ enced by the West. Tito in 'at tacking Djilas indicated the Yugo slav : approachment with the West concerns foreign policy and Snot "domestic matters." ! I Certain Yugoslav officials likely would feel more comfortable in association with Russia than in their present association with! the West j The Russians have done several things indicating a change toward Yugoslavia, since Stalin's death. They abandoned the intensity of the propaganda and pressure war they had been fighting against Ti to for years. They made an ap proach for exchange of ambassa dors in the early summer. Now there is a Yugoslav ambassador In Moscow and a Soviet ambas sador in Belgrade. '' . j The Soviet press do longer pays attention to the Yugoslav Emigre, anti-Tito paper issued in .Moscow. It is not even certain this is still published. An anti-Tito slogan was missing from the slogans promul gated for the anniversary of the Bolshevik revoluuon Nov. -7. The Russians gave every evi dence of. aloofness in the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugo slavia. Their press comment at tacked, but not bitterly, the posi tion of both aides to the dispute. Meanwhile considerable feeling was aroused in Yugoslavia against Italy, but also in certain degree against the position of the West era powers. The Soviets ended some of the worst forms of their discrimina tion against the Yugoslavs, such as deliberate discourtesy to Yu goslav diplomats in Moscow in protocol matters and refusal to admit Yugoslav; teams to inter - ! national competitions in Moscow. The Soviets agreed to give the Yugoslavs a leading post in the Danube i administration. ! But the Russians have not ceas ed jail attacks on the Yugoslavs. A few days ago Trud carried a typical article, "Gloomy Results and Unhappy Prospects" predict ing! economic crisis in Yugosla via. The Cominform newspaper at tacks Yugoslavia occasionally. But this is a far cry from the days when Yugoslavia was almost the only subject for this paper The Soviets seem likely to con tinue the policy of letting up the pressure against Yugoslavia. Quite possibly it is their hope that disagreements with the West will eventually bring the Yugoslav gov ernment closer to Moscow. Joy Doyal, Marion County Court secretary, recjeryed some thing of a jar the other day when she ran through the latest issue of The Secretary monthly publication of the National Secretary's Association . . . Seems the mag picked MP a ntews account of jher having shpt her .first deer during last season's ball-and-ppwder season . . . Only thing the article says Joy bagged the buck at 200 yards with -a 38 calibre pistol . . . Actually she levelled the beast with a rifle like the state hunting law says you should ... In a letter to the magazine Joy noted jhat if they don't receive her subscriptibfl payments for the; next several years they might reach herfat the state prison , . .; j ! I j I i Signs of the times . . . There's a highway sign at High and Court which reads. "Portland 51" ... A block east at Church and Court; another road sign reads. "Portland 50" . . . Nothing like those! short miles when you're In a harry ... :e i i i t M Local! dog fanciers are trying to get an obedience class started here like the one just completed in Eugene . . . It's informally called "Canine College" and teaches dogs discipline like not biting the same mailman twice ... In Eugene some of the canines were graduated "Phi Bita Kappa", and "Wagna Cum Laddie" . . . Might as well add that Salem AP-man Paul Harvey says if he had a dog he'd try to get him a collarship in the school . . . Hitch in the Salem group's plans is finding a place to! hold the class . . . Instructing the Eugene class was Lee Brant of Portland, former chief chain-and-leash man with the Army's K-9 corps ... ft PORTLAND m - The U.S. Agriculture Dept. announced Thursday it will make its second purchase of the winter of surplus pears for the school lunch pro gram. I 1 It will receive offers up to next Wednesday morning on pears for delivery between Feb. 8 and March Earlier this month the depart ment bought 52 carloads of pears in Oregon. Washington and jCali fornia. Conditions of the new pur chase are the same except j that the minimum size of Cornices is 165 Instead of 180. j f . mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Literary Guidepost Bonneville Outlines Plans For Spending PORTLAND m -i- The Bonne ville Power Administrator said Thursday this is the way it plans to spend the $35,800,000 requested by President Eisenhower in his budget message: For maintenance and operations 16.600,000, an increase of $596, 000. Administrator William A; Pearl said the boost was to permit handling 753 more miles of line and 13 new substations. For construction $30,200,000, a decrease of $8,666,000. Most of the money is for completion of trans mission lines and substations al ready approved by Congress and under construction. Carry-over construction fund to taling $1,231,000 are available, but this is not taken into account in listing plans fori newly budgeted projects. This is the break-down of re quests for construction projects in tended to get power from the dams to the load centers, totaling $24, 633,000: Grand Coulee-Columbia-Olympia, $53,000; Grand Coulee-Snohomish i XI. A ia mm. -ll-r t i r- I homish Nos. 3 and 4, $6,000,000; Bellingham substation, $324,000; Covington-Olympia, $5,000; Tacoma' tap, $30,000: The Dalles area serv ice, $2,578,000: McNary substation, $860,000; McNary-Ross, $2,913,000; Southeast Portland area service, $1,804,000; Ross-St. Johns-Bethany, $1,086,000; Upper Willamette VaK ley service, $4,428,000: Oregon City-Chemaw, $101,000: Southwest ern Oregon loop service, $194,000; Coos Bay Area service, $1,183,000; McNary-Walla Wlla. $933,000; Mc Nary-La Grande, $45,000; Spokane area service, $313,000; Hungry Horse-Hot Springs. $13,000: Hot Springs-Spokane No. 1. $11,000; system reactive facilities, $1,526, 000; main system boosters. $223. 000; general system structures, tools, studies, etc., $2,704,000. For construction of local-area facilities, the budget lists among Oregon items: Tillamook service, $470,000; North Santlam Valley, $32,000; Toledo substation addi tions, $20,000; Eugene-Reedsport service area, $126,000: Middle Fork Willamette project, $323,000; Springfield substation additions, $119,000; McKinley - Gold Beach, $59,000; Redmond voltage control, $40,000. CSSE3HE8EC3 The Safety Valve (Continued front page L) a water highway for Portland, Astoria and other river ports. The Columbia gorge serves as an open gate for transport of goods by water, rail and highway, in both directions. Portland should share in this increased volume of business; and will share if its businessmen are alert and if proper facilities are provided. Currently this announcement of NP plans at Pasco should ex cite interest in two proposals, one for improvement of dock facilities in Portland, the other for deepening the channel of the Columbia to 43 feet The former proposal is one for decision of Portland voters ' who may be asked to authorize general obli gation bonds to finance these improvements. The other de pends on the action of Congress. A special effort is being made at this session to obtain author ization for the i river channel work and initial appropriations. I was out at Swan Island Wed nesday and noticed several : freighters tied up for lack of business. Ocean shipping is in something of a slump and Amer ican ships find it hard to com pete with shipping under foreign registry. However, the current situation is only temporary. The shipping volume will increase; and the restoration of political and i economic stability around the world will stimulate expan sion of trade. Portland as the leading port of the state should Work to preserve and. if possible' Improve its position as a world port One may say that we in the Willamette Valley have no inter est in what happens at Paaoe or ' - ncu at rvruaw as rcgarus ocean trade. That isnt true. The effects of trade are not confined. sits waves spread out to flow up valleys and inlets; and this val ley wul get a business stimulant in the development of the Co lumbia Basin. , The NP announcement ought to ring a bell all over the North west. !' . .;. . "SAY IT WITH FLOWERS' FOR OREGON PIONEERS To the Editor: Where the Moores Fund is in volved, why all the hullabaloo about cold dead statuary, wheth er it is one of a long dead Scot- tish botanist or a chilly un draped French Renoir Venus? Salem likes to think of itself as alive i and growing, a city of homes and flowers in a verdant garden spot What could be more fitting and representative of the area' and its people than a living memorial with a floral theme? Anyone who has been in Victoria, B.C. well remem bers, and has been impressed by the profusion of flowers in hang ing baskets upon the lamp posts throughout the business district of that city. In addition to bas kets of this type, a floral sun dial or clock similar to those in many European cities might be planted jupon the courthouse lawn Less expense would be in volved, Salem artisans and flor ists would be employed rather than an outside sculptor. What remained of the fund would probably provide sufficient in come for perpetual mainten ance ! although perhaps the various garden clubs could com bine to assume this duty. Peoples changing tastes in flowers i could be respected, while with a statue we might be permanently burdened with a fixture that either the present or future, generations would consider a monstrosity. Oregon and Salem are striv ing to promote a tourist indus try. The casual tourist passing thru Salem would be decidedly more aware and appreciative of a general floral display distrib uted throughout the business area, and consequently more prone to linger sand spend his money, than he would be of a hunk of inanimate metal of something or someone he knew or cared nothing about isolat ed in one specific section of the city. As far as the local citixen- ry is concerned,; each spring would bring change and re newed interest in flowers while a statute would long since have been taken for granted or for gotten. Pioneers! first brought flowers to Salemr to brighten up the wilderness. In their memory let's put flowers on a colorful and distinctive display in a big way. j j rJw. Taylor, ; 1484 State' St PUT QUESTION -TO VOTE To the Editor: I j I take the Statesman and like it I'm glad you took a straw vote in regard to one-way streets, which showed a little over 400 more votes opposed than for it but an Editorial ar ticle in Monday's issue sort of brushes that majority aside. sounds like their, opinion would- nt amount to much in the final outcome. I have always thought majority rule or vote amounted to something f in the United States. I'd like to see this ques tion put to a legal vote, then abide by the outcome. ... i r Rvssel R. Wood, " I SilvertoB Road. WirthtoTake Over Parks Here March 1 Dormari Not Taking State Censor Post j State Finance Department Di rector Harry Dorman will not act as a censor of state board of high er education publications, he an nounced here Thursday. : Dormari said that after Attor ney General Robert Y. Thornton ruled he must control printing at the state; institutions of higher learning he conferred with Chan cellor Charles Byrne and they reached an agreement. This conference was followed by a letter from Dorman that he would bei concerned "only in the event of j extravagance Involving bindings, papers and methods of printing.? : The conference was held last week and lasted several hours, Dorman said. By MILTON BESSER THE BEST AMERICAN SIfORT STORIES of 1953, edited : by Martha Foley. (Houghton; Mif flin; paperbound, 50 cents; hardbound $4 ) ; The authors of what Martha Foley selects as the best Ameri can short stories of 1953 aren't much concerned about fear of at omic destruction, the heartbreak of sending sons off to war and the ordinary pressures of day-o-day living. s i Martha calls this the ability of American authors to remain stea dy in a time of turmoil. But it would seem that writers at well as readers can seek escape. ; Just the same, this is an excel lent sampling of the best! short fiction of 1953 and at 50 cents in the paper back edition about the biggest bargain obtainable any where. Most of the stories are from the : literary magazines which most of us do not see. They are idistin-i ar 'shed for their fine writing. creative Imagery and artistic form. i I The compiler singles out Morn ing Sun by Mary Deasy as hav ing few rivals anywhere in: Am- encanliterature and possessing all the dimensions of a classic. This Is a powerful story of a mo ther who takes her two younger sons to watch the hanging; of the oldest brother. j I But this reviewer also liked Oreste by Henry Schultz.1 which originally appeared in the; New Mexico 'Quarterly. This little gem using mental telepathy as a theme should be read in a spot' where no interruption is possible. But it would take a good-sized blast to divert the reader's attention once be gets acquainted with Ti tus, one of the most unusual in fant prodigies anywhere. i waiter l. wirtn. Miems new: city park superintendent, will take up his duties here on March 1, Mark H. Astrup. park commis sion chairman, said Thursday. Wirth, who comes to Salem from Harrisbug, Pa., has a long and outstanding record as a park superintendent Astrup declared, "and Salem is fortunate to ob tain a man of his caliber." The of fice of park superintendent was recently created by the city couri- f cil at an annual salary of $5,000. Prior to accepting the offer here, Wirth was director of the Bureau of Parks, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a position he held from 1948 to 19&1. He has also served as park superinten dent at Tulsa, Okla., and New Ha ven. ,Conn. j He and Mrs. Wirth will drive from Harrisburg to Salem, Astrup said. i Attorney General Tells Teachers of Political Rights Educators and officers of the state system of higher education and teachers and administrative heads of the public school sys tem are subject to no restriction, state or federal, upon their poli tical activities or political party services. l This was the; recent ruling of Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton in an opinion asked by State Rep. Monroe Sweetland of Milwaukie. He also is democratic national committeeman from Ore gon, j For That Aching Back Get ; SchaeferV Liniment i For th relief ef muscular aches and patns due toi exer cise er exposure. 50c, 1.00 & 175 Schaefer's Drug Stor$ Open Dally 9:31 AJC to t PJL Sundays AJL to 4 ML 135 N. 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