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4 The Statesmen, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Ian. 23 1S54
"No Favor Sways Us, No Fear S)ia1l Awe" f
From First Statesman, March 28, 1S51 f
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
- Published every mornlf Business office 280
North Church St., Salen Ore..- Telephone 2-2441 i
CnterM at toe joatoffic at Satem. Ore. as second
clua matter under act of Coniress March 3. 1S7S. I
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tor republication ol all local news printed in
this newspaper
Northwest Work Program
The Pacific Northwest faces a reduction of I
$21 million in funds for federal works projects
in the region under the 1955 budget proposed i
by President Eisenhower. The total of over j
$300 million remains a very substantial sum i
compared with- most previous years. All un- j
completed projects receive good-sized sums
for continuance of work. While completion
of the dam at The Dalles will be delayed!
some months, McNary dam will be finished
on schedule. Principal disappointment arises ;
from failure to recommend money for fresh
starts in Northwest power and reclamation
development. A token appropriation would;
have proven the administration intends to
fulfill the responsibility it has assumed in
Northwest river and land undertakings.
Of special interest is the increase in money
for access roads for the Bureau of Land Man
agement from the "million this year to $3 for
next." This is important for opening up
O&C timber for marketing.
i Columbia Basin spokesmen express regret;
that the allowance for extending irrigation
works in Central Washington is cut by $10
million to a mere $8.6 million. However, in
view of the farm surplus there is reason for;
slowing down opening fresh lands for intens
ive cultivation. We recall one farmer at the
Oregon Farm Bureau meeting here a few
weeks ago who reported that the new far-j
mers on the Basin project were in dire straits
unless they had a sugar beet contract. Those
growing potatoes and alfalfa were not break'
ing even.'
! The Northwesthas no particular claims for
preference over the rest of the country. It
must make some sacrifice in its desires in the
common interest of restricting expenditures.
And as the President lays out a program for
the Northwest it provides lots of work and
promises future benefits.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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a Story
Story Within
I They will be .telling the story of suppress
ing the news of the kidnaping of Leonard
Moskovitz in San Francisco at bull sessions '
of the press club for years to come, and de
bating it in editorial conferences. It became
the story within; the story, a double drama
with reporters and radiomen cast in singular
roles, namely to prevent the spread of the
news in hopes of saving the life" of the victim,
j It worked too, for Moskovitz was seized by
police, unharmed, though he had been threat
ened by his captors, j Through the conspiracy
of silence contacts were maintained between
the kidnapers and ;the Moskovitz family un
tilvpolice scouting la! district from which one
of the phone calls! came, nabbed one of the
pair in a phone booth.
The news side of i the affair is so singular
that its story makes; an interesting narrative.
We pick up the account given in the San
Francisco Chronicle and reprint it on this
page. Rare indeed; is the time when news
and radio stations iin a highly competitive
field like San Francisco, agree to suppress
news of interest and importance. Had the
tactic failed the skeptics would have had a
field day. The ruse worked; the kidnapers
were caught: the kidnaped was set free.
Read the story for yourself:
Lichty, the Safety
Valve i! !
Can Omit "Rest of World"! j
To the Editor: ;
Surely Mrs. Lord was entirely
right when she said quote:
'OREGON" and the rest of the
world. hi
I agree with her 100 per cent
For my part Oregon will be my
home for the rest of my life. I
have been happier here; than
anywhere else I have ever lived.
That goes with any angle con
cerned, viz., the people,! the
scenery unsurpassed, anywhere,
the climate and last, but not
least, the health breathing
ozone which is purer than Cali
fornia air ever could hope to be.
Chet Snyder
1647 Waller SL
IXlow News Media
Suppressed
Storv
Of S.Bf. ; Kidnaping
A falling off in sales of cigarets is attribut-
W thtf coff THIS f frat
iiWdweirtof oloWoBorbW,
ed to the current agitation over nicotine tars ag
as a cause of lung cancer. The slump prob- m
ably will be oyerebme. After all, cigarets InSluC TV
used to be called; "coffin nails" but that ' ij
didn't retard demand. Still, a person doesn t
like the idea of smoking his way into cancer.
(From San Francisco Chronicle);
' It can now be disclosed that
the well-kept, secret of Leonard
Moskovitz kidnaping came peri
lously close to being spilled on!
several occasions during the
three day voluntary news black
out The first near-slip occurred on
Saturday evening, and it was The
Chronicle that almost made it
An alert Chronicle reporter reA
ceived a "tip' on the fact tha
the Moskovitz family had receiv
ed a ransome note demanding
$500,000. He flashed that news
to The Chronicle office, half an
hour before the first inadver
tent, nnlice radio : broadcast at
Too Many Republican Editors! I 6:32 p.m. j
To, h Editor: . There had been r request to
Republicans . . . seem to be j keep the matter secret at that
tongue-tied, rarely writing even tfmei and The chronicle's city
a letter to the editor. ? . editor was deploying reporters
They dont need to write let-; and photographers before the
ters to editors because 'there , mce had timc t0 think about
Dy REpubi1Canv tillVr blacking out the news.
.i?JL0,?r "V?ng fOTJ.tihem- Of An extra edition of The
jluuisc nepuuuean eauurs are
A life insurance; company has a page ad
in the current magazines which is clearly
"illegal." It shows four persons and a dog
riding in the front: seat. That's no way to
prolong life.
McNeil's Island can form a California club.
Recently consigned there for durance, vile
were Vincent Hallinan. a Martinez doctor, a
Bay area manufacturer. Now a used car
dealer in San Francisco was convicted on the
same charge, of short-changing the govern
ment on his income tax. "California, here
we went."
New Episode in Accordion War
The French recaptured Thakhek, the city
on the Mekong river in Indochina which the
Vietminh had seized in a dash across Laos
in late 1953. This was just another episode
in the accordion war which has continued
for half a dozen years in Indochina. The
Statesman remarked at the time that the
Communist victory was largely one of pres
tige, that whenever the French and Vietman
forces brought up4 some reenforcements they
could erase it That has bepn done, at least
to the rescue of the terminal city on the Me
kong opposite Thailand. The Reds had aban
doned the city, just as the French did when
Reds were in sight.
This type of undulating warfare is marked
by crests and troughs, with no permanent
levelling of f of success or defeat. Apparent
ly the war will go on indefinitely. The trou
ble is, there are more natives than French
men. ; j
Sierra Madre, California offers grim proof
of the damage potential in forest and brush
fires Ten feet of mud and rocks and debris
cover some of its streets and envelop some of
its houses. The stuff came in a slide off the
adjacent mountains which were swept recent
ly with fire. With; the protective cover gone
and the root system of the vegetation burned
out there was nothing to hold the earth and
when heavy rains tame it flowed in a sticky
mess onto the levels below. Protecting forests
from fire not onlj preserves rich assets: it
prevents rapid erosion which may be highly
destructive. j
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Supporters of the gold-Bricker amendment
claim they are going back to the Constitution.
Actually they are, going back on the constitu
tion, back to the; Articles of Confederation
which proved unworkable. Bricker would cut
in all the 48 states an the determination of our
national and international policies.
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Graham Dean, editor of the Ashland Tid
ings, has a column! under the heading "On the
Sunnyside." Here in the valley such a heading
would have to be qualified with "weather per
mitting." j j I
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The star witness in the shooting of Walter
Reuther, CIO labor leader, who ran off to
Canada, now says he knows nothing about the
case. So far, though, he hasn't sent back the
$5000 the CIO gratefully presented to him for
breaking the case
Montreal city archives show that 300 years
ago fireflies .were used as substitutes for
candles. We might lay up a few gross of them
against the next .brown-out, except they are
not native to the jNorthwest
Eisenhower's 54 - 55 Budget Said Based
Precariously on Important Assumptions
By J. M. ROBERTS Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
President Eisenhower's 1954-55
budget is based, somewhat pre
cariously, on several important
assumptions.
Among them:
1 The estimate that defense
expenditures can be based on a
long-range view of ; Russian inven
tions, with substitution of weap
ons of massive retaliation, and of
tactical atomic weapons, for man
power. I I
2 A belief that business will
maintain approximately its pres
ent level and so pay present taxes.
3 A confidence that Congress
will accept the budget estimates
as bedrock, and f not insist on
greater tax reductions than pro
posed, or include expenditures
which have been omitted.
The President reached out for
a broad layer of popular support
with his proposals to give smaller
taxpayers a break with their re
turns, and to increase social se
curity benefits, f
But Congress wanted far broad
er action as the November elec
tions drew closer, and there were
immediate threats that the admin
istration would not; be able to hold
cuts, some of them already sched
uled for April, j
Not only in Congress, but among
the people, there i is considerable
nervousness over the defense pic
ture. The tendency to rely on the
President in this field where he
is particularly fitted to weigh the
estimates of his i advisers is at
least partially offset by the in
grained belief, drilled in by the
President as much as anyone else.
that this is a ; grave period in
which to live. ; j
People to whom I have talked
.want no chance-taking. Mostly,
they want the military to have
everything they ! could possibly
need. Out of the other side of
their mouths, they talk tax reduc
tion. ,' j :..,;-.r
But the one universal question
into which I have run. in recent
visits to six states and Washing
ton itself, is whether there will
be a depression.
You can't make any sense out
of these people. They quarrel
about high prices, and shudder
when prices stop climbing or drop
just a tiny bit. j
One small business woman did
better in 1953 than in her record
year of 1952, but usually good
months were bad and usually bad
months were good, and she was
upset because she couldn't figure
things out. She was pretty sure
things were going to pot
People in the lower income
brackets seem pretty sure that
they do better in periods of infla
tion, even with high prices. White
collar workers are convinced that,
whenever there is any change,
they get it in the neck.
Congressmen always think a
little pork is necessary to a good
diet Many of them will also dis
agree with the budget-makers at
points which truly effect the gen
efal welfare.
With all this confusion, the con
troversy over this new budget
promises to be furious.
Yale Theater Man
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In TV Come-down
By EVE STARR
HOLLYWOOD Strange how things happen especially in
show business. In a recent "Lucy" show, the bit -part of a waiter
was: played by Larry Dobkin. Time was when this boy wowed au-
j L a. At.- tr.i - -ni . .:au i: . 4 1 '
Qiences ai me laie ineaier wuu uia puruayai vi j
"the melancholy Dane" in a full-length version of-:
"Hamlet." Yale's plays are for invited guests and
critics only, but Larry was so good the public
demanded admission and got it Later he toured
in "Watch On the Rhine." TViewers might like to
see such talent in bigger parts.
Wonder if the great Blanche Yurka caught Tal
lulah Bankhead in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" last
week. Yurka. once a protegee of fabulous David Lii'-:K
BelascoJ was famous for her Ibsen repertoire. Al-
though She's done a few bits on TV, she ought to be at the head of
producers' lists. La Yurka probably liked TVenus! Bankhead's per
formanceas did nearly everyone who saw it It was a first for
Tallulah, and we hope there'll be more soon. I
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If not overdone, feuds are fun. No present-day TV feud
can compare to the old radio wrangle between Jack Benny and
Fred Allen. Now that the latter has hit video maybe they'll
pick up opain tehere they left off. If so, don't keep it up too
Ionp-, boys!
I Richard Carlson, the man who leads "Three Lives," takes
his pari seriously. He believes that many hotci aimed at Com'
munism do not present facts as they really ate. Carlson says
Commies are not stupid thups, and viewers are misled when
Iron Curtainers are so depicted. Viewers like Carlson's show
for its realism and entertainment ralwe. f
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I CRITIC'S CORNER: One of the most consistently good weekly
shows is TVs only musical on ice. "Frosty Frolics" has earned its
high rating through hard work and constant improvement setting
an example that many other shows should follow. With a fresh new
theme each week, music and skating numbers are developed to
match. I f i .
i Last week, we skimmed across the gleaming ice into the year
2054, with visitors from outer space (on ice skates) and predictions
of feminine finery of the future. .
i Mae zawaras can always oe countea. upon to do tne ex
treme and unusual, end, we might add, in the least amount of
hampering coverage. Tops for speed is Jerry Ray field, whose
spinning, jumping gyrations are a marvel of grace and control.
I But the highlight of the hour is the perfectly matched
team Joan and Buff McCuster. This pair seems to enjoy et-
ery moment of their effortless skating dance. It must be no
easy task for this man of muscle to toss his curvaceous partner
'around with the greatest of ease but you'd never know it.
Training and split-second cooperation does it, and they have
plenty of both. 1
! There's something fresh and wholesome about the whole show.
The musical arrangements are generally goodVt thanks to Manny
Strand, but it's, best when a series of known songs and melodies
are woven into the action. Roberta Lynn's vocals enhance almost
every! number, but unfortunately she's never seen. While back
grounds are sometimes a bit sketchy, well f orgiye, that department
because more often than not it bowls us over with an effect that
makes the number. I
(Catrrlrkt ISM, taaral ftatarM Car.)
apove using "Agitprop" or any
thing similar. They use only
facts in their editorials and are
preserving the American way
of life for us befuddled Demo
crsts. )
Robert W. Mitchell
633 Ferry SL
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lines:
"Build thee more stately
mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll.
Leave thy low-vaulted past
Let each new temple, nobler
than the last
Shut thee from heaven with
a dome more vast,
Till thou, at length art free,
Leaving thy shell by time's
unresting sea."
Perhaps the muster of so
many weapons with such great
power of destruction may serve
as such a warning against war
fare that no nation will start a
war lest it be destroyed in the
process. Prime Minister Sir
Winston Churchill with the
prescience with which his mind
has been gifted, foresaw such
a possibility in one of his re
cent speeches on world affairs.
That indeed were a consum
mation devoutly to be wished.
Now we see the Nautilus, "low
vaulted," sealed against the
deep waters. What a glorious
day it will be when humanity
can break the bonds of hate
and fear, and leave the; empty
shells of now-useless subma
rines and bombers and) battle
ships "by time's unresting sea."
Chronicle was in preparation
when Chief of Inspectors James
English telephoned to ask that
Chronicle staff men be called
away from the Moskovitz home
at 2900 Lake street j
When it became evident that
the co-operation ; of all news
media would be given, the
Chronicle extra was dismantled,
and no copy of it ever reached
the public. j
However, with i extra police
men being called to duty, and
with newspaper, radio, television
and wire service men calling
their wives to explain why they
would not be home on time,
there were bound to be leaks.
Out-of-Town Media
Out-of-town newspapers and
radio stations, who were not in
formed of the agreement among
San Francisco Bay media, were
of course, not bound by the
blackout agreement nor even in
formed of it I
A friend of the publisher of
the Salt Lake Tribune heard the
story in a local club and- tele
phoned Salt Lake. The publish
er immediately sent queries to
the Associated Press in San
Francisco and to newspapers in
Los Angeles, San Diego and Chi
cago with which he has news-
exchange agreements.
The Los Angeles, San Diego
and Chicago newspapers also
sent urgent inquiries to San
Francisco. They were informed
by telephone of the blackout
agreement and asked to cooper
ate. Of the three principal radio
networks, two informed their
New York offices of the black
out agreement and one did not.
A Demand
One network received a tip in
New York from an FBI infor
mant and immediately telephon
ed San Francisco, demanding the
facts be broadcast : It was) a
touchy few minutes, but the
New York officials were pur-
suaded to respect the agreement
. An alert teletype operator in
the San Francisco office of the .
.United j Press made a goal-line
isave on Monday; night
On the press association's
California wire which serves 69
newspapers in the State, a note
started to appear on the ma
chines in the San Francisco of
fice. It began:
"SX (code for San Francisco)
CLIENT ASKS STORY SX REAL
ESTATE OPERATOR KIDNAP
ED AND HELD . . . " r
Frank Caunt a veteran news
operator, immediately punched
his finger on the "break" but
ton, interrupting the message.
"Who's sending," Caunt mes
saged, i
"Los 'Angeles," was the an
swer. "Lay off that" Caunt ordered.
The Los Angeles answer was,
"???? '" i
Hurried Key
Holding his I finger on the
"break"? key, Caunt called over a
wire editor, who put through a
hurried call to the United Press
Los Angeles office, explaining
the situation. H I
On Sunday night Walter Wi$
chell had what was perhaps the
biggest audience of Bay Area
newsmen. The word had gone
out that Winchell had got wind
of the news, and had telephoned
out here, threatening to "break"
it He didn't though.
Since news j is a perishable
commodity that diminishes in
value most rapidly when some
one else has it ahead of you,
every one of ; the hundreds of
round-the-clock news men in on
the secret was alert to the dan
ger of a leak.;
Naturally, from copy boy to
editor, there was a lot of debate
L about whether a voluntary news
blackout was a good thing.
Some urged that it was a dan
gerous precedent to suppress
news,: and that doing so protect
ed kidnapers : as well as their
victims.
Clocks came into use in Europe
about the 13th Century although
there is evidence they were in
vented some centuries earlier.
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From The
Statesman Files
Literary Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
PERSIAN ADVENTURE, by
Anne Sinclair Mehdevi (Knopf;
13.50). ! !
In two ceremonies, in New
York and in Meshed, Anne Sin
clair, newswoman from Wichita
wed Mohammed and became
Anne Sinclair Mehdevi to us
westerners and Khanoum Mo
hamed Aga to her Iranian hus
band's countrymen. j .
In between the ceremonies,
the usual thing in New York and
a touching ritual in Mohamed's
home, come all the experiences
which add up to this "adven
ture." They began prosaically in
a Greenwich; Village basement
the young couple's first lodging.
They continued, matter of fact
on their trip to the Near East
by ship to Beirut plane to Teh
eran, and by Ford to the mother-in-law's
where she occupied a
room still western: Linoleum,
; grapejuice bottle holding drink
'ing water, pot-bellied stove
stamped U. S. Army. I
From then, on life turned
strange ! and unfamiliar, some
times as romantic and glamor
ous as H had promised to be.
About the only usual event was
a view of the shimmering Pea
cock Throne. For the rest there
were the great congeries of un
predictable relatives, from the
.father-in-law with his numerous
iwives to aunts who might be in
fants and nephews who were
bearded men. There were the
;patients carried piggy-back to
the dispensary; the custom of
jkorsL a sort of big family bed;
ithe mysteries of the chad. or; the
j eunuch in a Buick; the" bride's
i curious task of arguing for her
! dowry. I
1 However, there were the auto
jists, who must have made the
? author think she was right back
!ln New York: "It would be un
i thinkable for a driver to show
- 1 courtesy toward a pedestrian.1
f This is a most refreshing book,
(while Miss Sinclair provides
1 glimpses of people as news-
worthy as Mossadegh, she
j probes deeper and more reveal-
Singly in less publie places. Des
( 1 pite her own romance and the
romance of ancient Persia, she
remains very practical and un-starry-eyed.
This is the Midwest
looking sensibly at the Near
East; it's the facts about a fib
led land, j
10 Years Ago
Jan. 21, 1944
I Wendell Willkie announced he
would not enter the California
presidential preference pri
mary, but would enter the Wis
consin, Nebraska and Oregon
primaries.
.it.
Yee Sing, veteran Salem Chi
nese restaurateur, entertained
at a! family dinner in observ
ance; of Chinese New Year.
I Leslie Junior : high student
body held election with Bob
Goffrier in the presidents' chair,
Joy Smith, vice i president; Pat
Miller, secretary; Don Phillips,
treasurer; Phillip Blankenship,
aergeant-at-arms; Maryanae
Bonesteele, song-leader.
25 Year Ago
Jaa, 23, 192S
I Leon Trotzky and his exiled
companions made a formal pro
test and appeal to the commun
ists international tor reinstate
ment in the party. The appeal
was not printed in Russia.
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I Financial backing to provide
an additional faculty member '
and; a number of scholarships
was, promised Kimball college
by the Board of Foreign Mis
sions of the Methodist church.
I Oyer ISO members and offi
cers of the Business and Pro
fessional Women's Clubs in var
ious parts of Oregon were in at
tendance at the state meeting
in Salem. ;
40 Yean Ago
Jan. 23, 1914
Editorialrytlwilliam Reid Is
being paid $350,000 by the Port
land dock commission for two
blocks on the east side of the
river, for a city dock site. Might
have been bought for 30 cents,
half a life tune ago.
State Treasurer Thomas B
Kay announced his '. candidacy
for the Republican nomination
and re-election to the office he
now holds. "
Colonel Goethals was recent
ly tendered the police commis
sionship of New York by Mayor
Mitcneu. 1 ,
if I
Better; English
By D. C WILLIAMS
- 1. What Is wrong with . this
sentence? He was excused en
account of his youth."
z. What 4s the correct pro
nunciation of "placable"?
K3. Which one of these words
la misspelled? Hierarchy, hilar'
ious, hinderance, hickory.
4. What does the word "inad
missible'' mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with inc that means "beginning;
commencements
- ANSWEKS ,
t Say. "because of his youth.'
2. Pronotmca first syllable as
play, not as in plack. 3. Hin
drance. 4. Not worthy to be ad-
iinitted. The discussion of this
subject is inadmisahle. S. In
cipience.
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