6 CSoc 2) Statesman, Salem, Ore- Friday, May 21. 1954
Lad Wins $500 Prize in National Spelling Contest
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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. Nichols started with a
couple of bicycles and now has
two warehouses and 60 pieces of
equipment, including a fully
eauipped mobile office in which
he works as he is being driven
from client to client
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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.
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