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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1954)
6 CSoc 2) Statesman, Salem, Ore- Friday, May 21. 1954 Lad Wins $500 Prize in National Spelling Contest LI rW.. ... . . .., I H 'I 0 .Mk 6 WASHINGTON William Cashore, 14, Center Square, Pa., spelled "uncinated" and "transept" Thursday to win the $500 prize in the National Spelling Bee. The national contest is confined largely to Eastern States but is similar to the one sponsored by The Oregon Statesman of Salem, Ore. William Kelley, 11, Deering, Mo., took second and Patricia Brown, 14, Birmingham, Ala., third. Photo shows contest in Department of Commerce auditorium with Word Caller Benson Alleman (right) pronouncing for Robert Schambier, 14, Berlin, N.H. (No. 35). (AP Wirephoto.) Farm Union to Seek Change hMilk Control PORTLAND (JPi The Oregon Farmers Union saiJ Thursday it will seek to amend the state milk control law to take away the milk control board's wholesale and re tail price-fixing powers. The group's executive board also announced it will ask changes in the law to raise the minimum but terfat content of standard- milk from 3.5 to 4 per pent and to pre vent cuts in basic grade A market allotments of dairymen with quotas of less than 50 pounds. Harley Libbey, state Farmers Union president, said the proposed changes, including limitation of price-fixing authority to the pro ducer level, will aid small dairy men and reverse the downtrend in milk prices. The group unsuccessfully sought similar amendments at the last session of the Legislature. Petitions are being circulated for outright repeal of the milk control law. In 1950 three-quarters of the babies born in the United States had fathers under 35 years old. Find Reveals Loss of Safe LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Farm er Chet Axtell found a smashed safe on a deserted country road. He called Sheriff Merle Karn opp who had no reports of any safe snatching, but discovered at the scene the safe belonged to a Lincoln cafe owner. Sheriff Karnopp called Cafe Manager Tony Alesio who didnt yet know the safe was stolen. The loss was $2,500 cash and valuables. NO KIDDING CHICAGO (INS) It may not be a gag when your friend tells you he got that black eye by walking into a door. Safety engin eers for an insurance group re port that a study of 10,000 indus trial accidents shows that 6.5 per cent of the mishaps occurred v.hen persons bumped into doors, wans and other fixed objects. Seeks Place to Park His Office DALLAS, Tex. (INS) The of fice and parking problems of the founder of a Dallas delivery serv ice are 'a little different from those of most business men he sometimes has to find a place to park his office. Rip W. 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Get June Better Homes & Gardens today . . . wherever magazines are sold! large panel truck) there's a desk, letter-files, a portable typewriter, fluorescent lights, an air-conditioned unit and most gadgets found around a regulation office. g zr f Hook Into ffiis for UIIICH World to Learn U.S. Has Gospel By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK W New, far reaching steps are being taken to day to let the world know the Unit ed States has a gospel as well as gadgets. "It's a big job," said Dr. David Elton Trueblood. "Too often in the past we've been silent about the true character of Amenca." To philosopher Trueblood has gone a pioneering government as signment of exporting products not of the country's factories, but of its faiths. He is the recently appointed chief of religious information of the U. S. Information Agency. As the first man to occupy the post, he heads one of the most far-flung religious activities in the world. His job, as he sees it: "To tell the truth about us." To carry this message, the agen cy has a global network of facili ties, including: 'Great Story' A religious press service chan neled into 77 countries, religious books in 158 overseas libraries, an output of religious documentary films, and the Voice of America, with its religious broadcasts about 8 per cent of the total output. "We have a great story to tell," Trueblood said, "one hat hasn't been told often enough or well enough. We are going to do every thing we can to make it known everywhere." It concerns, he said, "not only the present vitality of our religious life," but the biblical concepts which "in great measure are the roots of our whole democracy." "It is the most important thing we have to say." Trueblood, 53, is an energetic, warm-mannered Quaker, and a leading religious scholar. His ap pointment to the new post has been hailed by major Catholic, Jewish and Protestant spokesmen. A one-time professor of religious philosophy at Stanford and Har vard Universities, the Methodists' Garrett Biblical Institue and Quak er Earlham College, he also is au thor of several books. In Trueblood's view, it is "im possible to tell the truth about America without including religion. To avoid it would be a distortion." But because this phase has some times been neglected, he said, some people abroad have developed notions that the country consists of "ostentatious wealth, sexy mov ies, gangsters and gunplay." He said he Communists have exploited this picture. "They've tried to give the im pression, with some success, that we are mere materialists," he said. "In some cases we've aided and abetted this by what we've said or what we've failed to say." By such failure, he added, "we could lose the struggle for men's minds. Men are not moved by any thing but ideas. Emphasis on ma terial things brings only envy and even worse, hate. 'Black Sheep "By silence on the real things, we've risked being looked on as the black sheep of nations. Too few know we are not merely concerned with bathtubs, but are also con cerned with moral integrity and prayer." As indicated by letters from abroad and trips there. Trueblood said, people want to "hear about our steady family life, honest faith and the lay religion of ordinary men and women. "There is a real hunger in many parts of the world to know this and be sure It exists." Trueblood said the truth about America has "especially to do with the dignity of the individual, with equality before the law, with equal opportunity, all of which come fun damentally from the religious basis that inspires so much of our belief and life." In the program, he said, it is essential that all religious groups are fairly represented, that "we keep a balance of our spiritual federation." Consultants of the dif ferent faiths aid in this. "I've received wonderful cooper ation," be said. "In fact this is one of the great stories we have to tell that all faiths can live side by side wihout undue struggle for power or prestige. "This is almost unbelievable in some parts of the world where they're at each other's throats." Only criticism of Trueblood's ap pointment has come from the rela tively small American Council of Christian Churches, which opposes the activities of most major churches. It objects to Trueblood's Quaker views and contends the job violates the principle of church state separation. Trueblood Neutral As for the church-state question, Trueblood said the program is not a part of "internal religious life" or churches in America. It cannot interfere, he said, or it would be a violation. "It's that simple." he added. The fact Trueblood is a Quaker, a small but highly respected faith in this country, in a way makes him like a Switzerland among na tions, a neutral. Some other ad herent might have been less re moved from the competition. Besides avoiding any hint of in terference in internal religious life, Trueblood sees two other "dangers that must be avoided." One is proselytizing people of oth er religions in other countries. "We want to strengthen what they already have by a sense of comradeship in the spiritual life here," he said. "We're not trying to make them over in the Ameri can pattern. That would be terribly out of line. We want to give them an undersanding of our practice and of the inspiration to our way of life." Eskimos Use Ice as Glass FORT WILLIAM, Ont. (AP) O. J. Weiben, Fort William air lines manager, said it gave him "quite a start" his first night on the Belcher Island in Hudson Bay to see lighted windows like a small town. In daylight he had seen nothing but a desolate waste of ice and snow. The lighted windows were in Eskimo igloos "They make their windows with a clear sheet of ice," said Weiben. With little use for white man's goods, except guns and ammuni tion, some 200 Eskimo families are spread through the 3,000-square-mile area of the islands in mid-Hudson Bay. Hex ing pre cents no problem. Within two or three hours they can "whip up an igloo." STRANGE TREASURE WASHINGTON (INS) A gla cier in the Beartooth Mountains of southern Montana carries a strange cargo in its icy depths millions of dead grasshoppers. Over the last 600 years waves of the insects attempted to migrate across the glacier. For some rea son not fully explained, they fail ed to complete the passage and were entombed in snow. Schooler's Rheumatic Remedy For the Relief Of RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, and GOUT. Relieving stiffness and swell ing in the Joints or muscles when of rheumatic or goaty origin. SCHAEFER'S Drug Store 135 N. Commercial Open Daily 7:30 AM. to S PJL Sundays 9 A.M. to 4 PJf. feV itrTA: PgYou can taste ) ENJOY 1J BENEFITS... 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