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4 Statesman, Saltm, " Ore-, Monday September i 6 1954 7 ,- v v "V-s. 4 J itesmau "Vo. Faeor' Stvuys' Vs, A'o Tear JaiU Au"' Vmm first Statcsmaa. March 28, 1S31 CHAKLES A SFRAGWE, Editor and Publisher PuzUneo .ety inuruing t B limine I ottice 2W North Church Si Salem ore, tetepnone -.441 ; La l ci eo ai ine -ottoitice at lei Ur as second cUm jMttei unfler ad ot Congieg March 3, U7 Member Associated Press i lb AaauviaicO Prest U nutiefl exclusively to Ue dm . . for repuolicatH- ) - wri otwa printed la : i thk newspaper. - Portland May Lose Air Base 1 Port of Portland which owns and operates the airport has been carrying on negotiations with the Air Force respecting use of facilities at the Portland International Airport. The parties have not been able; to agree on land use there, and the matter has, come to a head with a mission that the Air Force is consider ing relocating its air defense unit somewhere else. This' may be a squeeze play of course, designed to make Port of i Portland drink whatever sour milk the Air Force has pre scribed; or it may be a definite determination to find suitable area elsewhere which would erase the present and avoid future .conflicts ' with the Port. This business of dual occu pancy of an air facility is not without its headaches, particularly when the require ments and the use's of each party keep chang ing and growing. "; Portland's extremity thus becomes Sa lem's and Hillsboro's and Redmond's oppor tunity. McNary Field at Salem wouldn't be adequate for the Air Force on the scale con templated; but there' is plenty of open space in Marion County that could be converted into an air base. For that matter, since the new planes are jet-driven ! and noisy, a lo cation somewhat distarit I from populated places is preferred lay residents. Each com munity can present its opportunities and its charms; and the decision will rest with the 'Air Force,, . j . f j .','. , Quite interesting and diverting is. the side show hassle between ; Senators Morse and Cordon oyer the airbase unsettlement Cor don's office was the one advised of the Air Force intention, and Cordon made a visit to the airport Saturday. Whereupon Morse wir ed from Washington accusing i Cordon of playing "Sir Gallahad riding to the rescue." Whereupon Cordon rejoined that he was pleased that Morse interrupted his lecture tour to show some interest in Oregon's prob lems. We recall a few years ago how the jun ior senator described working relations of the Oregon delegation, and how they cooperated in solving Oregon's problems. Ordinarily though it is Morse who is the" Sir Gallahad astride a white charger; or St. George out to slay the dreadful dragon single-handed. It is rather surprising that he yields the knight's cloak to bis .colleague. What he may have been striking' at was a reference by Cordon to his' position on the subcommittee - on ; appropriations, which of course gives him a place of great leverage. Morse said he would never try to bring poli tical pressure on the Air Force. Maybe not; but everyone knows it's an old senatorial custom. Politics not only makes strange bed fellows, but it oddly reverses the process too i when political bedfellows fall apart, as evi- I dently the Oregon senatorial delegation has. This sideshow will be more interesting than the main event between Port of Portland and the Air Force. ,; ThatjArW on Formosa Gordon Walker, chief Far Eastern corres pondent of the Christian Science Monitor, reporti on the status of the Nationalist China forces pn Formosa.He says: "No Chinese here (Taipej) today think realistically in terms of invading the mainland unless the United States jfurnishes major ground, sea and air forces.7 And for defense,' "expert military authorities think the Nationalists could hold out no 'more than a week if the U.S. Seventh Fleet were ! withdrawn! and the Reds launched, a real attack." Just why our statesmen' and ranking mil itary officerY and publicists rush down to confer with Chiang (who has done nothing but confer for years) ft something of a mystery. Chiang expects, or at least hopes, to be restored to power on the continent in the sequence of a big war between the United States j and the Reds in Russia and China; but tht U.S., Ave hope, isn't buying that, i 'About all the much-touied army on For mosa amounts to, in the opinion of Cor respondent Walker, is to enhance the "pol itical prestige of a government which seeks to fit itself somehow into a more significant anti-Communist international pattern." There We the Chiangophilcs in this country, who; want to fit U.S. policy in the Chiang pattern. The Statesman doesn't. FALL TRAINING TABLE Roads Without Turns The McMinnville News i Register says it's just going to keep on . yelling if relocated state; highways bypass the towns in its area. The jrecent ' "lecture" by this newspaper of the nepd to put the highways where they ought (to be proved of no avail. We'lJ answer this way: The highways are built primarily for the benefit of the users. When (the editor of the N-R drives a highway does he want; to wind through the often nar row i and congested business district . of the intermediate towns; or does he want to roll right along to his destination? - He'll recall, for instance the old route through Albany: a railroad crossing on 99E at the entrance to the town; two right-angled turns In close succession; then through the business district and after I that two more right-angled turns to get out of town. Now the highway s overpasses the - railroad, has welUrrjarked turnouts for Local access and .woula Ibe still better and safer if it had been builtj as a full freeway with no intersections at -grade. . . ; ! j 4 ' We repeat: these highways cost so much moneyj they should be placed where, they ought to be from the standpoint of maximum utility ifor the indefinite future, not , where local; business can sell a few more ice cream cones to tourists. The latter will always be served Isomewhere in any event. 1 Guarantee to the Philippines The jUnitea States! does have a moral obli gation jto help defend the Philippines if they . are attacked. In 1941 the islands were still I ruled by the United States, and General Mac Arthur made good his promise, "I shall re turn," JNow they are free, but the ties are so close as the outgrowth of 50 years of tutel age; that : the United Stales will not stand aside and let the Filipinos ibe overrun. Where the foe 15 years ago was Japan, now the possible enemy is Red China,' though the latter has laid no claim to jthe islands and of course 'has none. The assurance given by Sec retary; Dulles i to the government of the Philippine Republic that "if the Philippines were, attacked, the United! States would act promptly," is one which will have the back ing of j the American people. We do have a. responsibility to the Philippines; none to For mosa or to Southeast 'Asia save as we are willing to assume. .1 Companies insuring against wind damage got another big jolt in the New England hur- -ricane. Losses are estimated as up: to $50,000, 000. Fire losses now are pretty well localized, but a hurricane cuts a wide swath and leaves a lot of wreckage in its wake, j Seni Wayne L. Morse terms the 83rd Con gress! the "worst" in history. That is merely the measure of his venom at Eisenhower and the Republican party under whose banner he was twice elected to the Senate. Communists Quietly Woo West European . Socialists in Cold War Maneuver Tactic By TOM WHITNEY (AP Foreign Staff) 1 The Communists are quietly wag ing a campaign to improve their relations with Western) European anti-Communist Socialists. They have bad considerable sue cess so far. Some Socialist leaders in Western Europe who only a few years ago were staunch allies of the United States in the cold war are now actively and vocally' op posed to policies sponsored by the U. S. government in the struggle against communism. - Take. French Socialist ' Jules Moch. Not long ago he was hated. by Moscow with a bitterness re served for very few. He was called a Fascist and an imperialist lackey and all the other names Moscow keeps for its pet hates, i Jules Moch is still in -the news these days but in a different light, A few days ago he was one of the leaders of the fraction of the Socialist Party which v o te d against the European army plan, so ardently wanted by the United. States, and helped kill it. i i ' Half the parliamentary deputies ef his party followed Moch's lead. Theirs could have been the crucial votes to put the plan through, rr In West Germany in the early v postwar period, the Kremlin de nounced Socialist leader Kurt Schu- ' macher. He did much to frustrate Communist plans to gain domina tion of the working class vote. The Russians went so far as to forge documents to try to make Schumacher out to be a Nazi Ges tapo agent Schumacher always had much to criticize in the allied occupation, but bis orientation j was basically Western. He died in 1952. , - ." . His successor as leader of this powerful opposition, party, Erich Ollenhaoer thinks, much as he did. But the political climate has changed so that the German So cialist Party now is waging a con tinuous war against policies spon sored by the U. S. State Depart ment and quite often finds itself behind policies which are support ed by the Russians. . Ml Clement Attlee, while j British Prime Minister, did much to back the United States in its stand against .Communist aggression, i ; Two years or so ago the Soviet press used every name it could apply j to Attlee and the rebel La borite Aneurin Bevan. But when Attlee, Bevan and other Labor Par ty leaders made their recent trip to Moscow and Peiping the Com i ! V VJ i ; ' tor? FraimT'i nffima Your ea,th I , . ' Dr Herman Bnndesen I i (Continued from page 1) i- ; i ' ' : i '- "r-'-';-'. ! bis old Model T the "universal car." He had many brushes with : bankers and others brusquely ; rejected toe demands of Wall Street financial houses for a share in company control just after the first world war when I the company was short of money. ! Ford shipped his cars out to deal- ers and the returns soon bailed him out trouble, i The first six months of this ' year Ford' attained the goal it I had been reaching' for, passing' : Chevrolet hi car sales,; though the race is by no , means over. Ford aggressiveness and GMC Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES munist leaders rolled out the red carpet for them. , The bouquet that Premier Ma lenkov. picked for Dr. Edith Sum merskill is symbolic of the offer being made by the Communists to Western Socialists to join in an anti-American united front with Communists and certain nationalist extremists, i. Most of the ' Western Socialists are, of course, not blind to what the. Communists are trying to do. 10 Years Ago ( Sept. . 1944 j The rigid blackout regulations which plunged Britain into dark ness five years ago were to be . relaxed this month. Churchill., proclaimed this a great boon to , morale.. i i , . i J ' - c, Popular bride-elect was Miss : Mary i Anne Owen,: whose - mar riage to Capt Henry Kortemeyer was an event of this month. - ," Young fire fighters belonging '' to the i Oregon Green guard checked 179 small blazes In Ore- 1 gon this season. They reported 28 large forest fires for jthe last , three years. l : : : i : - j 25 Years Ago j j Sept. I.192S 1 The board of directors of the Salem Business Men's: league which included a majority of leading business firms ia Salem, ! declared war on the us of trad ing stamps by local business , firms. ; First frost of tne fail was re ported from Lake Labish. Vege table plants were blackened by the cold but not killed. response have crowded Chryslef and the independents badly mis . year. Chrysler, however, is mak ing heroic moves to regain its position as No. 2 motor maker, so 1955 . will be another interest ing year in the auto world." I There's no doubt that Ford stock would quickly be grabbed up by the public. The company has bad a good though rather er ratic earnings record which is reported only sketduly. Reports indicate earnings of over $200, 000,000 last year. Since the last , war the company has invested a billion dollars in new plant with out going in debt. i Ford officials term the stock sale forecast as "mere specula tion.' Eventually, however, , the dispersal of: ibis stock would seem to be inevitable. The real question is when. When it does come a lot of hoarded cash will be laid on the barrell head for a few shares of Ford stock. j Better English r By D. C. WILLIAMS ! 1 What is wrong with this sentence? "After they got home, they divided the money among one another." ! K- 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of, "goulash? i 1.3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Catastrophe, cat schism, catapult, canasta. ' I ',4. What does the word "celes tial," mean? .j -5. What is a word beginning with ma that means "very lia beral in giving? . ANSWERS I 1. Say, "After they arrived home, they : divided the money among themselves.? 2. Pro nounce goo-lash, oo as in too, a as in ah, accent first syllable. 3. Catechism. 4. Pertaining to the spiritual heaven; divine. "The Jfcume relates of celestial be- lags." 5. Munificent GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Iff0 - X Albert Voight, Los Angeles, sailed a tiny skin canoe! through 900 miles of rough sea between Juneau, Alaska and Seattle. He planned to go all the way to New York in his frail craft, j j I 40 Years Ago ' j - Sept. C,' 1514 Robert Savage, son bf!N. Sav age of this city, returned from an extended overland hike which took him from CorvaQis over the coast range and through King's valley. Six students celebrated the birthday of Prof. Wallace Mac Murray at the Marion hotel Guests were James Crawford, Bruce McDanieL Murray Wheat, Ivan McDanieL Labin j Steeves and Wallace MacMurray. i The official bureau issued the following announcement: "The merchant cruiser Oceanic of the White Star line, was wrecked near the coast of Scotland and was a total loss. The; officers and crew were saved, , M. JUrf Use ifsL&a I assist FAR3IE2 GETS. KELP PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) Har vey Brubaker imported j 60C,000 fans workers from Phoenix, Arit, to help him with his 1954 potato crop. : The tarnx bands were ladybugs and came by plane. Brubaker figured each iladybug would eat 45 insects a day and multiply at the rate of JM'-! in the ! first 15 days. - They cat aphids, lygus, flea hoppers, small worms and their eggs. TRUE DIZZINESS HAS MANY MEDICAL CAUSES , Dizziness may be caused by a variety of things, ranging from wax in the ears to tumor of the brain. We have all at one time or another experienced the pecul iarly unpleasant sensation known as dizziness, j . This complaint needs the care ful scrutiny of a physician who can determine its seriousness and the exact cause of each particular case. , i jr i j ' l' - ' A true dizziness will give a real whirling and true sense of mo tion. True dizziness or vertigo occurs when the eyes are open and the ; person has the sensa tion, that 'he himself is in motion. The eighth or hearing nerve or its system is usually at fault when this occurs.! However when vertigo is present, the physician must give the entire body care ful scrutiny. i' - An inflammation of the eighth nerve is probably the most com mon cause for true dizziness. A loss of hearing most often accom panies these eases. It may be due to some malad justment or disease of the eyes such as imbalance of eye mus cles, improper fitting of glasses, or even glaucoma. Certain types of anemia or cen tral nervous diseases, brain tu mors, brain injuries, migraine, epilepsy, wax or; foreign bodies in the ears, or ear infection can also be at fault , . Question and Answer R.T.: What are the symptoms of heat prostration? Answer: Usually the person is listless, apprehensive, and may even go into a coma. His skin is cold and wet and he perspires profusely. Also, the blood pres sure is Usually lowered. (Copyright, 1954,. King Features) Federal Workers' Benefits Increase By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent ' j i WASHINGTON Although President Eisenhower killed the fed eral pay raise bill with a pocket veto a number of other bills to come out of the 83rd Congress have improved or increased bene fits to many government employes. -! , . 1 j . Here is a brief rundown of the chances made in 1aw 9ffrtin9 tA- 1 : . icuuai WUI1CI9. - 1. The "use-it-or-lose-it" annual leave requirement has been mod ified, although the proposal to re turn to the previous act under which 60 days leave could be ac cumulated failed of enactment s Congress repealed the require ment that employes use up all leave over 30 days which they had accumulated or otherwise lose it As it now stands, the employe who carried over more than 30 days to this calendar year may continue to carry over that amount of leave time next year and in future years. Any employe with less than 30 days would con tinue to be subject to that time limit Also, the family of an em ploye who dies in federal serv ice will be paid in cash for all an nual leave to his credit Can Take Choice 2. .Classified employes will get full time and a half pay for over time on the first $5,060 of their basic salary. They can take their Choice' between being paid in cash or compensatory time. Employes called back to work on their own time will get at least two hours overtime. 3. Federal workers have been granted unemployment compen station, after many years of peti tioning Congress for eligibility. This becomes effective next Jan. 1, and at no cost tr the employe. Workers laid off after that date are eligible for jobless pay from the state in which they were last employed. , 4. The so-called Whitten rider. which restricted civil service pro motions and permanent appoint ments for the fast several years, was modified but not repealed. It will permit grade promotions of permanent employes on a perman ent basis, reinstatement of per manent employes on a permanent basis, qualification of some 300.- 000 indefinite employes who passed civil service competitive exams for permanent status. Plaa Approved Congress approved the Civil Ser vice Commissions" career-condi tional appointment plan whereby new appointees will be indefinites for the first three years and are automatically converted to career status after that time has elapsed. 5.; A government insurance plan, to which the federal government pays a third of the premium for each employe who wishes to parti cipate, has been launched for ; all federal workers .who do not with draw frwn the plan. r 6. Social security benefits were liberalized for the 800.000 federal employes previously covered, and 100,000 new part-tune and tempor ary employes of the post office de partment and census bureau were brought under the program. Also, the temporary increase to civil service retirees which Con gress voted several years ago has been made premanent As first enacted, however, no increase would be allowed if the total an nuity exceeded $2,160, except for added annuities purchased by the retiree. Allowances Increase 7. Incentive award allowances have been increased, so that fed eral agencies may now .give up to $5,000 to a single employe as the cash award for meritorious ser vice on its own hook, or up to $25, 000 if this is approved by the Civil Service Commission. i tv. Starting salaries for the first time since enactment of the classi fication act of 1923 can be set at discretion of the commission. This will be used to recruit em ployes for positions badly in need of filling, such as engineers and scientists. 9. The quarter-million employes who must wear uniforms on the job, such as postmen, will receive an annual allowance of up to $100 which will be tax free. MitclieU Notes Progress in Number of Jots WASHINGTON 1 J. Secretary of L a b o r Mitchell j said here he hopes America's working' peo ple "will note on this ; Labor Day thatiwe are .currently making pro gress in -providing more jobs for our; people." j M ' i i At the same time, some of the country's top anion leaders issued Labor Day messages sharply criti cal of Eisenhower administration actions on the economic front AFL president - Georse Meanv said ithe administration failed to develop a program to create jobs or increase purchasing power dur ing the recent business decline but waited fori conditions to rteht themselves.; He added: 'Only Time WiO Tell "Only time will tell what a dan gerous gamble this do nothing policy will: turn out to be." , John L. Lewis. United - Mine Workers president accused the ad ministration and Congress of "ex tending benefits to organized wealth and offering crumbs to the lower incomes workers" and of shelving plans to "reform", the Tafti Hartley. Act I CIO President Walter Reuther asserted, "in the light of our re sources andf bur needs, our na tion's unemployment is both un American, uneconomic and unnc essary." .'.! Reuther said there are 141 lab -markets with more than 6 per ce. of the working force unemploye including 45 labor surplus : are with 12 per Cent .or more une; ployment v j Confidence Expressed i ' Mitchell Vexpressed confider "That the combined efforts: of J bor,' management and the gove; ment will continue to improve c l economic situation." i ' : "You may be sure," he sa" "that the government will not rel; its efforts ; to; extend all possil help to labor and management their programs to provide, mo jobs for those who want then? American workers are better r ' materially than any other worke in the world, t Mitchell declared. 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