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4 (Soc. 1) Statesman, Salem, Or, Friday, April 30, 1954 of dDresontaiesman "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Published every morning Business offic 280 North Church St.. Salem. Ore.. Telephone 2-1441 Entered at the xwtotfice at Salem. Ore. aecond class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. Member Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use (or republication of all local news printed in this newrpapei 4iew Look' at Indochina Thursday President Eisenhower told his press conference that the United State, is not going to get into war in Indochina un less Congress declares it. '"Nixon's war'' is evidently out. And even the vice president is talking a somewhat different language than ho did when in reply to an editor's question he indicated a readiness to dispatch V. S. ground troops to Indochina IF the French pulled out. Talking to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday he de clared that the administration's policy is to avoid becoming involved in war in Indo china or elsewhere. True there is no real inconsistency between the two statements, but certainly the emphasis is different. It seems as though there is a "new look'' with relation to Indochina. First Secretary Dulles seemed ready to deliver a virtual ultimatum to Red China and rushed off to London and Paris to get the warning ap proved. The European statesmen succeeded in diverting Dulles to some post-Geneva PATO, and since then the talk of interna tional or U. S. intervention has died down. The ' nrw look" appears also to involve a "?rrnnd lnnk'' at Indochina and a realization of the risk nf being bogged down in the juneles of Southeast Asia in a cause which the enemy would belabor as a defense of European colonialism. The Statesman re joices that the administration is taking this second look. The possibility of involvement in Indo china is by no means ended. If President Eisenhower should go to Congress and rec ommend a declaration of war or ask for authority to use military force or resist Red aggression it is probable that Congress would follow his recommendation. But that is post poned for the present at least while the statesmen deliberate at the Geneva confer ence. There Frarfce and Britain are working for peace by negotiation: Dulles for peace without appeasement of the Reds; Russia and Red China for peace with as much of gain as possible. Thus Geneva may be the hinge on which the future of Asia, and of the West with respect to Asia, turns. 'To ('liaos' Marshall Dana gave an excellent review rf the history of milk price control in Ore gon in a talk to Salem Rotary club Wednes day. Dana is a member of the board of ag riculture which now determines policies in milk administration. Defending the act he made this significant statement: '"It is a des perate and rianserous thing to reduce order to chaos." Those of us who recall the "milk war" of 1931 know just what he meant by those words: and that is why we have been reluctant to see milk control go. Secretary Newbry has called on Secretary McKay to ' clarify" his power policy for the Northwest. It is in order to ask Candidate Newbry to clarify his own program on: (1) power. (2) sales tax. (3) homestead exemp tion. So far he seems just to have thrown these colored balls in the air. Peiping Radio Endorsement of Shows Indian Leader for Bv J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst j Endorsement of Prime Minister Nehru's opening speech at Colom-! ho by the Peiping Radio makes it clear whose wagon the Indian lead er is pushing in Indochina. The Communists are hardly ob- , jective commentators; the Peiping1 Radio is the official voice of the j Red government, and they don't i give out endorsements to anyone; not on their side. They particularly liked his des cription of the war as one for lib eration and against colonialism. ! The other prime minister at Co- j lombo from Pakistan. Burma, j Ceylon, and Indonesia seemed something less than enthusiastic about parts of .Nehru's proposal for a cease fire and a resolution de manding the end of a development and testing of atomic weapons. Pakistan, in particular, took issue i and appeared to be carrying the j ball for the West against Nehru. Ceylon, too, w as on the Western ! fide. j Word from the closed conference j was that action had to be post poned to permit revision of the Indian resolutions to meet objec tions. Nehru got a big boost from An thony Eden, however, when the British foreign secretary sent a message from Geneva suggesting j that the five Asiatic nations, in the: event of a cease fire, join in guar anteeing the future of Indochina, j Observers have been speculating for several days that one of Ne hru's objectives was a sort of trus teeship for Indochina under the five neighboring nations who would attempt to see that neither side could use a truce to gain control of all Indochina. That would come pretty close to establishing a situ ation in Indochina parallelling the one to which the United States agreed in Korea and one to which the French are believed willing to Igree now. In addition, from Nehru's stand point, it would give him and India their first fgrmal recognition as the leaders of Asia, outside Red China, for they would certainly dominate such an arrangement. Nobody knows how much Ne hru's actions these days are con Your Health Dt ,,"mBi An Aid to Spinal Anesthesia Ih times and conditions not so long past, the best anesthetic known was a stunning blow, or a large dose of whiskey. Not so today, for there are many types of anesthesia that a person can have when going through an op eration or the delivery of a baby. One of the types most frequent ly used for difficult operations is spinal anesthesia. Spinal anes thesia is very advantageous to use in many cases because it causes great relaxation of the muscles, thereby giving the physician an easier field in which to work. The dangers of vomiting that occur with inhalation anesthetic agents are greatly decreased with spinal anesthesia, and there is no irritation to the lungs. This method is also used many times for persons who have colds or upper respiratory infections. In inhalation anesthesia with either ether, cyclopropane or some other drug, greater care must be taken to prevent the development of a lung complication than with spin al anesthesia. Loss of feeling is achieved by introducing a needle into the spinal canal and, through this needle, withdrawing spinal fluid and replacing it with an anes thetic agent which deadens the nerves in the spine. It thus gives relief of pain over the area where the nerves are paralyzed. One of the serious 'problems connected with this procedure is S&ull in the "Woods The sight of a human skull hanging upside down from the limb of a tree must have given' quite a shock to the trio of hunters who were ranging in woods near Crabtree over in Linn County. The skull was sus pended by a belt and below it on the ground was a pile of human bones, the rest of the skeleton. The authorities could not tell whether it was a case of suicide or murder; and there was no ready means of identifica tion. No one could look at the skull and say as did the gravedigger in "Hamlet," "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." One may speculate, however, and the easy assumption is that the young man, for such the bones indicated it was, sought out the place and took his own life. Probably he climbed out on the limb, looped the belt around his neck, attached one end around the branch and then leaped off into space and into eternity. But what went on inside that skull to prompt him to such a des perate deed is an even deeper mystery than his identity. He extinguished his life and by his choice of a site denied his body the decency of proper interment. He made him self one with the animals of the woods. The real shock is not the upside down skull, but the mental distortion which prompted self-destruction. Cordon's Record The Oregon Teamster, a labor union pub lication which is edited like a Democratic house organ, in going after Senator Cordon for his voting record, says: "Senator Cordon for years has worked quietly at Washington for his own special interests." We challenge the truth of tha statement. Cordon has been ultra-conservative in his voting, but we are not aware of any votes to serve "his own special interests." On the contrary from our observation Cordon has labored most dili gently to promote what he thought wpre the best interests of. Oregon. His votes on im portant issues may be criticized, and some of them have disappointed The Statesman, but Cordon is not serving his own special interests. The finding of the special court of inquiry studying the case of Marine Colonel Schwa ble who under pressure "confessed" to tak ing part in germ warfare in Korea seems quite sensible. No disciplinary action is rec ommended but the report declares that his false confession has "seriously impaired" his military career, as in truth it has. That is the consequence of hi? action even if the court had not held its hearings. The judg ment is tempered with mercy, but the fact of yielding to Red mental torture cannot be erased. The Travel Information division of the state highway department has gotten out an illustrated "Oregon Outdoor Guide" for the benefit of those seeking recreation in Ore gon's great outdoors. A map is keyed for identification of state parks, forest service camps, roadside picnic spots and historical markers on main highways. Not only is the folder useful for out-state tourists, long time residents will learn a lot from it, espe cially if they put it to the test in looking up likely recreation points. When Washington reporters noted that the "pood Republican cloth coat" of Mrs. Nixon which figured in her husband's 1952 tele vision speech had become a white ermine stole naturally they asked questions. Mrs. Nixon explained that she bought it while on a trip to the Far East last fall. So it wasn't a gift from a five percenter. Americans want to see the vice president's wife well dressed, and the ermine wrap will become the youth ful Mrs. Nixon. Nehru Talk Indochina Reds ditioned by his ambitions in this respect. He has referred, however, on at least one occasion to the prof it which India might make out of a successful stand as a neutral and a go-between in the conflict be tween Communism and the West ern powers. y N. Bundesen, the severe headache which fol lows the operation in many cases, due to the spinal anesthetic. Up to the present, little satisfactory treatment has been found, al though it is believed that the headache is due to the leakage of the spinal fluid from the site where the puncture was made. It has been theorized that if a sufficient amount of extra spinal fluid could be produced to re place the amount, lost due to leakage, there wouldn't be a headache problem. It has been shown that giving alcohol mixed with a sugar solu tion into a vein following the use of spinal anesthesia and after the operation has been completed, causes the centers of the brain that produce the spinal fluid to give off more fluid. Thus, the loss is replaced and the headache eliminated. This alcohol solution is given slowly. Recently, it was tried on a group of patients and results were excellent in almost all of them. Not only does the preparation serve to eliminate the headache, but it also acts to relieve the pain and liven up the spirits of the patient following surgery. QUESTION AND ANSWER J.P.S. Does eating eggs" cause hardening of the arteries? Answer: There is no evidence that eating eggs .causes harden ing of the arteries. ' iCopyright, 1954. Kin" TeatureaJ v'WBVi"'--!- ; - ' - 'rtT- H. - - Inside TV ... School of Comedy May Train Talent By EVE STARK HOLLYWOOD Pinky Lee or his press agents have been toy ing with a good idea for some little while. How serious he is about it we don't know. But it's in harmony with a tune we've been hum ming fnr ipars It hnils Hnwn in th miptmn nf ry"'"" VJ Jusl where will y- jr-j come irom. n naa Deuer sian sprouting some rjtf. where pretty soon or we'll wake up some year to k We'll stay on t,7-2stitJc:2il see just how He says there just ain't no new crop of comedians growing and something should be done about it. He's as correct as Ed Sullivan's manners. As jar as we know such a crop hasn't even been planted. Pinky srtggests a school o comedy, to replace the old, now dried up source uhich was comprised of vaudeville, now dead, and burlesque, nou; dying. Few networks or sponsors iri!l fake a chance on a new and untried comic and it's petting tougher and tougher jor one to find a place in which to prove himself. No Cottucs College could simply take on most any reasonably talented fellow, give him the full treatment and t:rn him out bubbling over with laughs. A real comedian is born with a funny bone of some sort and tfie sc)iool could take over from tiiere. Pinky feels that our present established comedy stars would be glad to teach at suci a school and even gratis. Our feelings along that Hue are a Utile numb. We doubt whether such ?iotables trould har the time for classes or the Jiecessary coming and goi J, even if they were so gen erously disposed. But the teaching itself presents vo real problems once the school got a start. Films of those notables in action, along v:ith less knotrn but seasoned instructors would do the trick. That the need for new entertainers is growing acute is as clear as our dear Oracle Allen is not. For every comparably new tele vision comic you name. we"ll chalk up a fistful of old timers who hark from pre-TV days. And none of yours will have the rock-bottom standing of ours, with the possible exception of Berie. Against his name we place Jessel, Benny. Hope and Abbott and Costello. You name Danny Thomas and we U'offer Skelton, Cantor, Gleason, Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye. If yours is Herb Shriner then ours will be Dennis Day, Burns and Allen. You say Pinky himself, we say Marie Wilson. Lucille Ball and Martin and Lewis. You can't say Red Buttons because he's still a risk and could take an awful tumble. You can offer Mr. Peepers against our Charlie Ruggles, Stu Erwin and Amos 'n Andy who still range wide parts of the country. You still have Larry Storch, who's tops with us but who hasn"t yet received proper recognition. (Copyright. 1954. General Features Corporation) GRIN AND BEAR "Naturally, Ym surprised end defighied to meet Junior's parents . . . Ac's been tetling me that he's the product of broke home." "RAINY DAY' - the next crop of entertainers t lind our IV screens as blank as Jackie Oleason s stare. While our own personal alarm covers the en tire field of entertainment, including the drama, Pinky is more concerned with comedy alone. his side of the fence for today and bad things are over there. IT Bv Lichty CRT (Continued from Page 1) bombing pilot armed with a map. Also lights were blazing full blast at the shipyards as workmen labored round the clock to produce ships. The peo ple complied faithfully however, and unnecessarily, because the only airplane bombing came in Curry county in daytime when a midget plane from a Japanese submarine dropped a few bombs and started a few ires in the woods. (On my desk is a fragment of one of these bombs, mounted on a wood block, sent me by Lt. Gen. Dewitt, then commanding the sixth army district). Now the style for civil de fense has changed. Instead of the blackout there is the walk out. Even the bomb cellar has been made obsolete by the deto nation of the H-bomb which blew a hole in the ocean floor 175 feet deep. And the de structive power of the bomb blast is so great that the radius of danger is greatly lengthened. The shift of attention now is to evacuation, and the hope is that enough time will be allowed be tween the warning and the bomb-drop for citizens to reach safety zones. That security of course is indefinite because no one knows where the exact tar get will be, or where a near miss may land. Evacution however is merely the expedient first response to the threat of the H-bomb. And evacuation for major cities like New York, San Francisco is not as easy a solution as for Spo kane. If nations are going to continue waging wars every quarter century or so then the whole plan of city structure will have to be altered. Already the motor car has spread out the urban concentration: the atomic age may fragment the present-day metropolis. The sensible solution of course is to avoid atomic warfare, and the very degree of the destructive- luxuriously Styled W. 368 Marion St. Libby Dam Hinges On U.S. Concession By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON Success in the litest effort to gain U. S.-Cana-dian agreement that would per mit construction of Libby Dam In the upper Columbia River sys tem appears now to hinge on whether the U. S. will be willing to make an unprecedented con cession to pay substantial dol lar benefits to Canada out of the added power production attribut able to Libby. Reports are current here that Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, chair man of the Canadian section of the International Joint Commis sion, will insist on payment to Ca nada for power benefits not only at Libby Dam but at all the downstream dams whose power output would be boosted by Lib hy's vast storage reservoir. The IJC must approve the pro ject before it can be built by the Corps of Engineers. The project was placed before the IJC ini tially on Jan. 15, 1951, and after more than two years wrangling within the IJC it was withdrawn last spring by the U. S. This week Army Secretary Robert Stevens asked the State Department to resubmit the project for another round of examination. Had Been Controversial The project had been contro vrsial previously because the site chosen would cause Great North ern Railroad trackage to be flooded out and vast stands of timber of the J. Neils Lum,ber Co. to be inundated. Now the engineers have picked a new site four miles upstream, which will be less disagreeable to these par ties. The new site, however, extends the length of the reservoir 42 miles into Canada from the inter national boundary, thereby strengthening Canada's claim to certain power benefits. The res ervoir would extend 53 miles from the dam up to the border in the U. S. A demand for power benefits from all downstream projects by Canada would be unprecedented, so far as officials here know. Lib by itself would have an initial power output of some 600,000 KW, while it would increase the Time Flies: 10 Years Ago April 30, 1944 Robert A. Booth, 85, pioneer lumberman, educator and bank er, died in Eugene. He was the donor of the statue of the circuit rider on the capitol grounds. A flat denial of a charge that he is a "confirmed new dealer" was made by Wayne Morse, for mer member of the war labor board and Republican candidate for the U. S. senate. Pat Niemeyer, pharmacist's mate second class in the Waves, who has been stationed at the naval air station at Livermore, Calif., is at home on leave after ten months active duty. 25 Years Ago April 30, 1929 Spring house-cleaning reveal ed a letter, purported to have been written by Abraham Lin coln, in an old book at the home of Dr. W'illiam C. McKinley in West Virginia. The letter was dated September 4, 1864. Salem Heights will have a new modern school house as a result of a vote of 56 to 24 in favor of the new construction. It is to be ready for occupancv, next fall. With a hid of $32,829, A. E. Siewert won the award for con- ness of modern war is a power drive toward peace. First the blackout; now the walkout. What, tomorrow? Well, stick around awhile and see what the changes are. In the meantime, city dwellers, keep walking shoes and a toilet kit handy. Some day the sirens might be sounding a genuine warning. interiors harmonize L. Anderson, Box No. 446 energy-producing capacity of Grand Coulee by 300,000 KW, Chief Joseph by 190.000 KW. Mc Nary by 94,000 KW, The Dalles by 114,000 KW and BonneviUo dam by 54,000 KW, Contention Con tin ties The contention that continues to exist over Libby appears cer tain to require the IJC to con duct another series of public hearings. It held hearings once before for the old site in 1951 at Spokane, Helena, and at Nelson and Cranbrook, B. C. Not noted in government cir cles for expeditious handling of is problems, the IJC is expected to sit on the project for some time, keeping it "under consider ation." Considerable pressure is mount ing from Capitol Hill and within the administration to get some thing in the way of a new dam for the Pacific Northwest out where people can look at it and Libby is the chosen exhibit But none of this pressure can have the hoped for result until Canada is agreeable to a plan for division of the benefits' to which the region looks forward with the building of this vital project Cherry City Scouts Slate C amporee Boy Scouts from the Cherry City District will hold their an nual district camporee at Black Rock Camp near Falls City start ing this afternoon and continuing through Sunday afternoon. Patrols will be judged on their camping technique. and ability to live out of doors, according to James Kern, district executive. Judging will be done by members of the Salem chapter Order of the Arrow, an honorary camping society in the scouting program, which is conducting the campo ree. Sunday afternoon the winning patrol will receive a deer-skin in scribed by students at the Chem awa Indian School. From Tho Statesman Filts struction of the new P.E.P. ware house on North Liberty street, W. M. Hamilton, manager of the company, announced. 40 Years Ago April 30, 1914 Sam Hill, widely known road booster of Mary Hill, Wash., in vited Gov. West, Secretary of State Olcott, State Treasurer Kay and members of the high way commission to inspect the road at Spanish Hollow in Sher man county. Editorially The people of Vera Cruz like the Americans, and their money, and are en joying more prosperity and greater security than ever. They would like to have the American occupation made permanent. Hon. RufUs Mallory, one of the ablest lawyers of Oregon, died in Portland, lacking a few weeks of being 83 years old. Mallory came to Oregon in 1853 by way cf Panama. This is the Official Penslar Remedy Store For Marion County. 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